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The supply of new spacecraft, launchers, and spaceports could soon exceed the demand.
Before the year is out, SpaceX will likely have conducted the first orbital demonstration of the Dragon capsule, which is intended to transport cargo, and ultimately humans, to the International Space Station (ISS). Next year, Orbital Sciences is expected to launch its cargo vessel, Cygnus. By 2014, two more spacecraft, the Dream Chaser and CST-100 are on track to have maiden voyages, launched by the Sierra Nevada Corporation and Boeing, respectively. And even more spacecraft are being developed by companies such as Blue Origin and PlanetSpace, as well as suborbital vehicles being built by Virgin Galactic, XCOR, and others.
On the ground, there are seven federal and eight nonfederal launch sites licensed by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration; most of the latter are new and owned by a combination of private enterprise and state and local governments. Additional applications for even more spaceports are likely.
When these developments were reviewed at last week's American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Space 2010 conference, some attendees began asking: is the space industry building too much capacity?
It's happened before. In the 1990s, the satellite launch industry went through a boom-and-bust cycle when investors projected that phones connected via constellations of satellites would be the immediate future of mobile communications. Believing that there would be enough demand to send about 1,000 satellites into orbit over 10 years, new space ventures sprang up, such as California-based SeaLaunch, which used a floating platform in the Pacific as a pad for Russian rockets. But the growth of terrestrial cellular networks left few customers for satellite phones, and by the turn of the century, the market collapsed. Phone operators and launch providers alike went bankrupt after only about 150 satellites had been launched.
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I have learned to accept the fact that I live in an area of the world that some might call "red neck". When P and I first got together, one of our first dates was to go out shooting (with a BB gun). It was a big deal, since I had never held any sort of gun before. I'm sure he thought about running from me as soon as he heard I hadn't grown up in a hunting family. . . "What did you DO when you were growing up?"
Now, I understand that the meat I buy in the grocery store comes from an animal that probably doesn't have a life as good as one that is free to roam in the forest. I also understand that it is important to teach about where the food on the table comes from. But truth be told, I like the separation of truth and fact that buying meat from the store allows. I don't want to see my dinner running through the trees, only to see it in the back of the truck . . . which is something that one sees on a regular basis when driving through town here during hunting season . . . before having it served on my plate for dinner.
With that being said, I have liked the wild game meat that I have tried . . . my friend Janine's husband makes an awesome Elk burger! But when eating this burger, I simply showed up, saw it on the barbecue, and ate it for dinner. I didn't have to traipse through the woods in boots and camouflage, or drag it home through the bush.
Spending time around "hunting talk" has opened my eyes to the importance of it, and the value in teaching about it. But, when P suggested I make Camouflage Cupcakes for the start of hunting season in September, I STILL didn't want to do it.
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Bombarded with a record 150ꯠ comments to its organic labeling proposal, most of them critical, the U.S. Department of Agriculture apparently will rule that genetically engineered and irradiated foods, and crops fertilized with sewage sludge, may not be labeled "organic." Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman had received letters from members of Congress criticizing the organic labeling proposal.
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Meghan Remy (U.S. Girls) has put together a special mix for This Is Fake D.I.Y. She decribes it as "Just your general mix-up straight from the vinyl cave that I live in. there are some skips but they couldn't be avoided. I made it a bit long just 'cos I felt like it and kept finding songs I wanted to include."
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ZDNet reports that
some attendees at the Infosecurity Europe conference think the
email virus' heyday is over. This is an interesting observation
and one I've noted just this week.
Much of my personal e-mail is delivered through a service with
mail filtering outsourced to
Postini. Here, unwanted mail
is blocked on the server and identified as either containing a
virus or being spam. Every few days I sign in to check that there
are no false positives (usually mail that could be regarded as spam
but that I might want to read anyway) and to delete the junk. I've
noticed that the red list of mails with a virus has diminished
drastically in recent weeks while the amount of spam has remained
fairly constant.
There have been some interesting Channel 9 videos recently. The
video with
Hill was about 90 minutes long but interesting all the way
through. I cited the
Laplante interview the
other day. Today there is an enthralling piece with
Allchin about Longhorn and his vision for the Windows
The thing that I found most interesting was the insight into the
purpose of showing Longhorn at
WinHEC. There has
been some disappointment in the press and on the Windows fan sites
about the impression received about Longhorn. As Jim phrased it,
WinHEC wasn't supposed to be a launch party for Longhorn. This show
is targeted at hardware people and in this instance, a large part
was to explain and encourage the new driver models for the next
version of Windows.
I wonder whether it might have been sensible to point this out
before the event rather than afterwards but corporate PR works in
ways beyond my realm of knowledge.
The debate about the "contract first" approach to designing web
services has been raging again. This usually revolves around
whether to design WSDL and XSD first and then implement this, or
whether to write the code first using your favourite WS stack and
use the WSDL that results.
First, here are some of the recent posts discussing this
This is an interesting discussion and clearly one that isn't
new. Some of the comments to these articles provide diverse views
also. Fundamentally, though I think some of the contributors are
deliberately finding fault with a strict definition of code-first
or contract-first to promote their view.
I get to work with a wide array of developers and architects.
Mostly, I see people who are comfortable in the code world and less
so in the XSD/WSDL domain. The model I have adopted and have been
promoting for the last couple of years is one of code driven
contract development. What I mean by that is to focus on the
contracts that your services will expose first, but define them
using code to represent the service end-points and the messages
that will be passed.
Look, many of the people I interact with have the following
Given this, it makes sense to develop interfaces written in code
but keep the XML in mind and adopt some pragmatic guidelines about
the shapes of data that interop well as Dare recommends. Simon
argues that this means some people who know XSD/WSDL must be
involved in a way that suggests he thinks this negates the
argument. The truth is that, yes, this is necessary, but it doesn't
require a large part of the development team to know about why the
guidelines are the way they are as long as they stick to them.
In Aaron's MSDN article, he contrasts VB6 and IDL development
against "code-first" vs. "contract-first" web development, but to
be honest I don't think it is a completely valid comparison.
Considering the IDL is very similar to C/C++, writing COM
components using IDL with an implementation in C++ isn't that
dissimilar to the approach I propose for web services. Yes,
separate interface from implementation but don't force people to
use completely different syntax.
So my view is close to Craig's in that it's less about what you
call yourself and more about your approach. I think it might be
unrealistic to expect a whole development team to understand the
stack end-to-end and that shouldn't preclude them from being
involved in the design process. Today, though, if interop is your
goal then you do need to have people that understand what's going
on under the covers, as Aaron says, for when those abstractions
Rick Laplante, general manager of
Visual Studio
Team System,
on Channel 9 to customer complaints about VSTS's planned
licensing and pricing.
Remotely Enable Remote Desktop: For those times when
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The latest version of the Installation Guide for Beta 2 of
Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server is available for
download either as a CHM or PDF file. This covers the system
requirements and install instructions for both single and dual
server installations of TFS. It also contains instructions for the
Team Foundation Client install.
Scott Guthrie reports, Beta 2 for .NET 2.0 and Visual Studio
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is a pretty cool way of seeing where all that disk space you
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Microsoft UK are running a free technical briefing in Reading
next week with members of the C++ product team coming over to
present. They're keen to speak to C++ developers about the new
compilers, improved VS2005 environment, and the new MFC and ATL
classes. There will also be several developer evangelists from
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the product team about their plans.
Richard Howells brought to my attention that this coincides
with the
conference in Oxford next week.
To help provide some differentiation, the agenda for the MSDN
briefing will be:
One of my colleagues added:
There's bound to be some overlap between what gets said at
ACCU by the C++ product team and what gets said at Reading on the
Friday but ACCU looks to be more on the "academic" side of the
languages whereas the TVP event looks to be more on the "tools"
side of things with VS 2005 and so on.If you're going to ACCU then you get to meet those guys at
that conference. If there's a worry that by being at ACCU on the
Friday you're missing the Reading sessions then there are some
online versions of these kinds of materials at places like:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/episode.aspx?xml=episodes/en/20040408visualckg/manifest.xmlhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/using/multimedia/which I think will do a fairly decent job of bridging between
the ACCU content and the Reading content.
There's bound to be some overlap between what gets said at
ACCU by the C++ product team and what gets said at Reading on the
Friday but ACCU looks to be more on the "academic" side of the
languages whereas the TVP event looks to be more on the "tools"
side of things with VS 2005 and so on.
If you're going to ACCU then you get to meet those guys at
that conference. If there's a worry that by being at ACCU on the
Friday you're missing the Reading sessions then there are some
online versions of these kinds of materials at places like:
which I think will do a fairly decent job of bridging between
the ACCU content and the Reading content.
All in all, it looks to be a good event so please
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April 18, 2012
If you missed it on Monday (or if your are like me and don't get G4 because Directv are being jerks), here is the latest installment of G4 TV's 'Mint On Card' segment from "Attack of the Show." In this episode I cover some of the latest announcements from Hot Toys, NECA's AWESOME 'Portal 2'…
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Forget that grainy, shaky recorded-off-the-TV-with-a-cell-phone video that was posted today. G4 and Attack of the Show have posted the segment today with the Mattel 2011 Comic Con reveals on their site for all to see. Here it is. Video Games – E3 2011 – AOTS Exclusive We will have more news, pictures and information…
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We've been waiting patiently for Mattel to reveal their exclusive figures for Comic Con 2011. There have been several hints on what we will be getting and a lot of guessing from fans. (Here's the thread where the detective board members of AFi try to piece together all of the hints and make their guesses.) …
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April 20, 2011
I was lucky enough to be asked back to do another action figure segment on G4's 'Attack of The Show' earlier this month. As I have mentioned before the bad, bad people at Directv have robbed me of the ability to watch anything on G4, much less my own appearance. But the good people at…
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Hey all, Daniel aka Julius here. I've taped my second segment about action figures for G4's 'Attack of the Show' and it's supposed to air on today's show. I CAN'T watch it because Directv still hasn't reinstated G4tv on their channel line up (booooo!), so you guys will have to watch it for me…
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April 3, 2011
Iron Man and Wolverine Anime Series To Air On G4 July 2011 San Francisco, April 2, 2011 – Marvel's Head of Television Jeph Loeb announced casting for two of the company's much anticipated anime series, IRON MAN and WOLVERINE, at its WonderCon panel today in San Francisco to the delight of fans in attendance….
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Two Finalists to Win VIP Trip to Comic-Con, Winner Gets $20,000 and Joins Pop Culture Icons Erik Estrada, Lou Ferrigno and Charisma Carpenter as Official Butterfinger Defenders GLENDALE, Calif. (May 13, 2010) – How far would you go to defend your BUTTERFINGER®? Today, Butterfinger and G4, the television network that covers the worlds of…
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Scott from Mattel has posted some further details about the 2010 Mattel San Diego Comic Con Exclusives after the first round of exclusives have been revealed: Hey toy fans, Part 1 of what will be a 2-part story on Mattel's SDCC exclusives just aired on G4's Attack of the Show. Big thanks to Blair and…
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Now that the segments have been shot Mattel is getting the official word out about when their 2010 Comic Con exclusives will be revealed on G4's Attack of the Show. They even give out a few hints…. Toy Fans, Okay, everyone, we just got official confirmation that our SDCC product reveals are going to air…
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Our friends over at G4's Attack of the Show (Remember when AFi was featured?) have sent us the following announcement of EPICNESS: TONIGHT G4 launches a programming "attack" on the entire month of April, super-sizing each episode of "Attack of the Show!" with sexy reveals, special guests, costumes, daily giveaways of the hottest tech gadgets,…
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Oft-overlooked Kevin Love gets game he needs in Team USA blowout
London •Â Even LeBron James was surprised.
The superstar forward on Team USA talked all the way through his answer to a question that he thought was about Kevin Durant, who scored 22 points in a 98-71 victory over France in their first game at the London Olympics on Sunday, only to find out that it wasn't.
"Oh, Kevin Love?" he said.
Who could blame him?
Love, the 6-foot-10 power forward from the Minnesota Timberwolves, is among the forgotten men on the team trying to repeat as gold medalists, despite being one of the NBA's pre-eminent rebounders.
Seldom mentioned among the stratospheric stars such as James, Love averaged just 12 minutes during the team's five-game pre-Olympic tour, and scored less than four points per game. Only James Harden and rookie Anthony Davis played less.
So imagine everybody's surprise when Love erupted for 14 points in 14 minutes against the French, mostly after a foul-filled first quarter.
"I needed a game like this under my belt," he said.
Love was crucial when the game was still in the balance, scoring seven straight points in the second quarter to help blow open what had been a tight game during the sloppy first. The Americans weren't finished suffering from foul problems, though, and needed some time to adjust.
Love also keyed an 8-0 run to end the third quarter and give the Americans the 27-point lead they maintained to the finish.
"The time he wasn't playing early on, he has kind of used that as motivation," James said. "So when he gets in the game, you know he's going to produce. He's one of the best rebounders that we have in this game, and one of the best shooters that we have. It's good to see him now get into the flow of things after not playing much."


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Testing Results Confirm Academic Acceleration Policy's Positive Impact on Student Achievement
A year after the implementation of Federal Way Public Schools' (FWPS) Academic Acceleration policy, four trends stand out:
- A greater percentage of the district's students are taking advanced academic classes than before the policy went into effect;
- A greater percentage of those students are passing those courses;
- A greater percentage of those students took the related after-course exams;
- And a greater percentage of them are passing the after-course exams, showing strong enough mastery of the content to earn college credit for the class.
Last fall, Federal Way Public Schools initiated this highly unusual policy, which requires qualified students to be automatically enrolled in advanced classes. Now, following the first year of the policy's implementation, the exam results confirm that the policy has had a positive effect on both student participation and success in advanced classes.
In addition, the exam passage rates confirm that the class grades being given to students are valid, says Assistant Superintendent of Teaching for Learning Josh Garcia. In fact, the correlation rate between class grades and advanced program exam results increased substantially, from .3 in 2010 to 4 in 2011.
Students stepped up to the challenges of more rigorous classes
Enrollment in advanced courses at high schools across the district increased markedly following the implementation of the policy. During the 2009-2010 school year, 37.66% of the district's 11th and 12th grade students were enrolled in the district's advanced academics classes, which include Cambridge Preparatory Academy courses at Federal Way High School, International Baccalaureate courses at Thomas Jefferson High School and Advanced Placement courses at all of the district's comprehensive high schools.
By the second semester of the 2010-2011 school year -- despite a provision that would allow students to opt-out of advanced classes with parent permission -- participation had increased dramatically. Seventy-two percent of the district's 11th graders and 63 percent of its 12th grade students took at least one advanced course in the second semester.
With the increase in students taking advanced classes, it would not have been surprising if the passage rate on the AP exams had decreased from the previous year. Yet, the district's advanced course exam passage rate went up slightly from 40% to 41%.
At one of the district's schools, Todd Beamer High School, second-semester participation in advanced courses was close to 90%. Still, the passage rate on the AP exams increased from 28% in the first semester to nearly 35% in the second. At Federal Way High School, the Cambridge Diploma Exam passage rates increased, as did passage rates for Thomas Jefferson's AP and IB exams. At Decatur, which had a significant increase in tests taken, a very slight dip occurred in the passage rate– from 30% to 29.5%.
Educators have long suspected that many students capable of succeeding in more rigorous classes simply don't choose to take those classes. Staff conversations with those students revealed a variety of reasons, but chief among them was a perception by the students themselves that they didn't belong in advanced classes.
The FWPS Board of Directors made the decision in the spring of 2010 to switch up the paradigm for these students. They now are automatically enrolled if they meet standard on a related section of the state's standardized tests, the High School Proficiency Exam (HSPE) or the Measurements of Student Progress (MSP) for middle school students.
Those same students who previously would not have chosen to enroll now are finding that they can be successful in advanced classes. After last year's first semester grades were tallied up, the district found that not only had participation in advanced classes increased, the vast majority of students enrolled in those classes as a result of Academic Acceleration policy were passing.
First-year results have confirmed that Federal Way Public Schools' Academic Acceleration policy has increased all students' access to advanced courses and that those students are bucking the stereotypes – by showing they are willing and capable of success in these highly rigorous courses.
The district plans to increase course offerings for students, teacher training and support, and better communication with families, with the goal of even better results next year.
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The biggest change in Porter Creek?
Condos. And lots of 'em.
Laura Dyck, a resident of the Baranov Trailer Courts, calls them, "hideous." Her boyfriend, Mack Smith, concurs: "They're all the same."
Jody Butler Walker, Rob Walker and Nathan Butler Walker live in an older home that backs onto a greenbelt being turned into a massive new subdivision. "We used to have walking trails that went all the way to the river," laments Jody.
A few blocks away, Rob Balla and his wife Jackie recently finished building a new house in the neighourhood they both grew up in. "This used to be our playground," he said. "Now look at it."
Photos (clockwise from top left): (1) Rob and Jackie Balla built their new house right next her childhood home, where her parents still live. Rob's parents recently moved from Alberta into the suite downstairs. (2) Nathan Butler Walker grew up in the house that his parents, Jody Butler Walker and Rob Walker, have owned for 15 years. (3) Mack Smith and Laura Dyck have lived in this unique mobile home in the Baranov Trailer Park for almost 2 years. (4) 17-month-old Larissa Zhang and her family moved into one of Porter Creek's brand new condos shortly after she was born.
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On a recent Friday, Lydecker rose from her chair next to the altar at St. Mary of the Woods Catholic Church, lit a candle and stepped to the podium to present Brown's take on the second station — Jesus taking up his cross. Though the words reflected Brown's perspective, Lydecker identified with the script.
"The bottom line is, I didn't want to be the poster child for cancer — nobody does," she strained to tell the audience, her hoarse voice crackling. "It's just the cross we take up. Underneath our diagnosis, we're still the people we always were — looking for answers, needing positive support and praying for God's grace."
Later, Brown rose from her chair to share the ninth station — Jesus falling the third time.
"I had gotten through surgery, chemo and radiation, and before my hair even had a chance to grow back, my best friend was diagnosed with cancer," she told the audience.
"In less than a year's time, she went from being my rock and my refuge, to looking cancer in the face herself. It was just too much. My spirits hit rock bottom and I was powerless to pull myself up — until I saw my friend walk by carrying her cross. … Now, we walk together, my friend and I — hand in hand, heart to heart."
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SILVER CITY >> Buried in the debacle that was Sunday's Super Bowl rout of the Denver Broncos by the Seattle Seahawks is a story of two people whose partnership may offer a path of hope to disheartened Bronco fans. I interviewed each of them in the years I did some sports reporting in Denver, and have distinctive memories of Pat Bowlen, the owner of the franchise, and Vice President for Football Operations, John Elway.
This season, Bowlen completed his 30th year as Owner and Chief Executive Officer of the Denver Broncos, one of the most successful periods for any team in National Football League history. He's the first owner in professional football to win 300 games in a 30-year span.
When I interviewed him about 1990, my first impression was of his physical condition. A regular competitor in triathlons, the man seemed like more than an NFL owner. He looked like he could suit up and play. But, not long into the interview, I sensed a second quality that was even more impressive. While obviously highly competitive, he stood out in a profession of owners that sometimes seems dominated by attention-seeking egomaniacs. Bowlen came across as low-key and didn't seem eager for the limelight.
At the time, the late Jack Kent Cooke, owner of the Washington Redskins, was an item of interest in the media because he'd been born Canadian. As it happens, Bowlen, too, is Canadian but it was some years before he publicized the fact. He grinned at me and said, "It just took me a while to come out."
John Elway was in the midst of his Hall of Fame career with the Broncos back then and Bowlen appreciated his talented quarterback. But he wasn't overawed or distracted from the need to build a complete roster, in order to compete at the highest level. "Football is a team game," he said. "You can't rely on any single player."
When I interviewed Elway a few years later, in the midst of a winning season, I asked him why he had chosen to stay in a small market like Denver. Why wasn't he making more money from endorsements in New York, for example? He told me about his childhood as the son of a football coach who was constantly changing jobs. When it came to his own career, he said, he wanted his children to be able to grow up with the same group of friends. Then he added: "God has given me the ability to play football, which is something that people happen to find entertaining. But aside from that, I'm no more important than anyone else."
Today, Elway is still in Denver, and back with the Broncos. I think there is something about his unassuming nature and competitive spirit that meshes with Bowlen's personality. And it leads me to believe that the two of them are going to work well together for a long time. After all, as Bowlen reminded me, football is a team game.


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|Accumulation of SNAP25 in mouse gustatory and somatosensory cortices in response to food and chemical stimulation.
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|Food intake stimuli, including taste, somatosensory, and tactile stimuli, are received by receptors in the oral cavity, and this information is then transferred to the cerebral cortex. Signals from recently ingested food during the weaning period can affect synaptic transmission, resulting in biochemical changes in the cerebral cortex that modify gustatory and somatosensory nervous system plasticity. In this study, we investigated the expression patterns of molecular markers in mouse gustatory and somatosensory cortices during the weaning period. The expression of SNAP25, a component of the soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor attachment protein receptor (SNARE) complex, was increased in the insular and somatosensory cortices at postnatal week 3 compared to postnatal week 2. Additionally, SNAP25 protein in the cerebral cortex accumulated in weaning mice fed solid food but not in mice fed only mother's milk at the weaning stage. Chemical stimulation by saccharin or capsaicin at the weaning stage also increased SNAP25 immunoreactivity in the insular or somatosensory cortical area, respectively. These results suggest that recently ingested chemical signals in the oral cavity during weaning increase the accumulation of SNAP25 in the gustatory and somatosensory cortices and promote neural plasticity during the development of the gustatory and somatosensory nervous systems.
|Shinpei Kawakami; Makoto Ohmoto; Shunsuke Itoh; Reiko Yuasa; Hiroyuki Inagaki; Eisaku Nishimura; Tatsuhiko Ito; Takumi Misaka
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|Delirium Is an Important Predictor of Incident Dementia among Elderly Hip Fracture Patients.
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|Background: Delirium is believed to constitute a risk factor for dementia, but previous research has failed to satisfactorily take account of the patients' preexisting level of cognitive functioning. Methods: A prospective 6-month follow-up of 106 elderly hip fracture patients free from prefracture dementia. Delirium was assessed by the Confusion Assessment Method. Caregivers described the patients' prefracture cognition by the Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly, Short Form (IQCODE-SF). Cognition was measured after 6 months, using 5 validated cognitive tests. An expert panel assessed each case as to whether the diagnostic criteria for dementia according to the DSM-IV were fulfilled at baseline and after 6 months. Results: 29/106 patients (27%) developed delirium in the acute phase. In the delirious group, 11/29 (38%) fulfilled the criteria of dementia after 6 months, compared to 5/77 (7%) in the group without delirium (p < 0.001; χ(2) test). Delirium was the strongest predictor of dementia after 6 months (adjusted odds ratio: 10.5; 95% CI: 1.6-70.3). IQCODE-SF score was a nonsignificant risk factor for incident dementia. Conclusion: In hip fracture patients free from prefracture dementia, delirium constitutes the main predictor of dementia 6 months later, adjusted for prefracture cognitive decline measured by the IQCODE-SF.
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ST. LOUIS – A second person has been charged in connection to the murder of a 19-year-old Arnold man.
Terence McKinney, 17, is charged with second-degree murder, first and second-degree assault, two counts of first-degree robbery, first-degree attempted robbery, and six counts of armed criminal action for the shooting death of Brandon Gonzalez.
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Along with 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,' West Chester County, N.Y., is home to legends of the fall such as Kykuit Aerial Falls.
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Looking for some early season hunting enjoyment? Like the thought of participating in a traditional, time-honored all-American sporting activity? Just plain like being in the woods and can't wait until fall to get out and shoot? Ever think about squirrel hunting anymore?
Hunting squirrels continues to be a worthwhile sport for many, particularly sportsmen and women who appreciate keeping in touch with the "roots" of American shooting sports. From the earliest days of westward expansion on the North American continent, the squirrel has figured heavily into American outdoor life, both as table fare and worthy hunters' quarry. Today as well, the pursuit of bushytails is an enjoyable tradition for hunters of all ages and walks of life. Squirrels are the second most pursued game species in Georgia, behind doves.
Whether one prefers stand hunting, stalk hunting, or following a fun-to-watch squirrel dog through the woods, the beginning of squirrel season for Georgia hunters is less than a week away. For those looking to get a jump on later-opening seasons, mid August marks a good time to take to the woods, particularly for anyone interested in introducing a youngster to the sport of hunting. Squirrel hunting can provide the perfect opportunity to introduce youth or a novice to the hunting experience. Unlike some big game hunts, the pursuit of gray and fox squirrels often involves more action for energetic youth, providing a greater level of interaction with the outdoors.
Georgia's very liberal squirrel season begins Aug. 15 and runs through the end of February. During that time, hunters can pursue both of the state's native squirrel species and bag a daily limit of 12 (gray, fox, or a combination).
"Prior to the successful restoration of white-tailed deer, pursuing squirrels in the fall was a significant cultural tradition in Georgia," said John Bowers, chief of game management for the Georgia Department of Natural Resources' Wildlife Resources Division. "Squirrel hunting today provides one of our best opportunities to introduce the younger generation to hunting and instill in them our responsibilities to wildlife conservation. This is especially true since Georgia's squirrel season begins so early and runs for so long. Additionally, it's fun, less expensive, and provides nearly constant action. Squirrel hunting, especially with squirrel dogs such as feists, terriers, and curs, is a great way to introduce youth to hunting and the outdoors."
As for opportunity, there are countless acres of private and public land that offer prime squirrel hunting in the state throughout the season. Georgia's wildlife management areas provide nearly one million acres of hunting opportunity for the price of a wildlife management area stamp ($19) and squirrel hunting is allowed on WMAs at specified times during the statewide squirrel season. Hunters are advised to check the hunting regulations for specific WMAs and hunt dates.
Both the gray and fox squirrel can be found throughout the state with ranges overlapping in most areas. The gray squirrel, abundant in both rural and urban areas, is the most common species. Though mostly associated with hardwood forests, grays can also be found in mixed pine-and-hardwood locations. Predominately gray, with white underparts, gray squirrels appear more slender-bodied than fox squirrels, weighing anywhere from 12 ounces to 1 ½ pounds.
Fox squirrels have several color phases, varying from silver-gray with a predominately black head, to solid black, to a light buff or brown color tinged with reddish yellow. Generally larger than grays, fox squirrels range in weight from one pound to nearly three, and are more closely associated with mature pine and mixed pine-and-hardwood habitats. The largest Georgia fox squirrel populations are found in the Piedmont and Coastal Plain regions.
This time of year, hunters and wildlife watchers often come across a few squirrels with an out-of-the ordinary, so-called "lumpy" appearance. These lumps, contrary to what some believe, are not tumors and actually are caused by warbles, which are botfly larvae growing just under the squirrels' skins.
Botflies naturally parasitize gray squirrels, fox squirrels, and chipmunks throughout the eastern and Midwestern regions of North America. Affected squirrels typically are observed during late summer and early fall, from mid July to the end of October.
Adult botflies lay their eggs in the vicinity of the squirrel's habitat or directly on the squirrel. Once the larva hatches, it enters a body opening and migrates to a location underneath the skin of the squirrel. The larva creates a warble pore where it grows for three to ten weeks, matures, and exits, falling to the ground. There, it burrows to pupate and the cycle repeats itself the following year. Affected squirrels tend to recover quickly once the larvae leave the warbles and fall to the ground.
While the sight of a squirrel with warbles may be a bit unsettling, they generally pose no threat to uninfected squirrels, other wildlife, humans, or domestic animals, and are perfectly safe for squirrel hunters to skin and eat.
So, while fall may be a more traditional time to hit the woods and go squirrel hunting, there is ample opportunity just around the corner to go out and bag a few bushytails. When you go, take your son or daughter. You may wind up having just as much fun as they do.
For more information on the 2013-2014 squirrel hunting season or other small game hunting seasons, visit www.georgiawildlife.com/hunting/regulations . To renew or purchase a hunting license, visit www.georgiawildlife.com/licenses-permits-passes.
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Newest math adoption raises questions
June 16, 2009
By Chantelle Lusebrink
Questions and concerns continue to surface as Issaquah School District officials forge ahead in their high school math adoption process. Issaquah School Board members held a work-study session with the district's Math Adoption Committee — a group of math teachers and curriculum specialists — to get a better idea of the process, which led to the recommendation of Discovering Mathematics, by Key Curriculum Press.
Teachers said that Discovering Mathematics allows them, and every teacher in the district regardless of school, the ability to use the textbook in a consistent, relevant way for children. The book includes practical application investigations, group work and teacher-directed learning.
"One thing I keep coming back to over the other book is the clear point of view the book has," said Rochelle Eixenberger, a teacher at Issaquah High School. "It will create equity among classrooms in schools, but across the district as well. There are so many things and avenues to go down in the other book.
"After we go through professional development, there is the scaffolding for students and support for the teacher."
The recommendation made by the committee is not the same as the recommendation made by the state Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction. After a review of new math standards, set forth in July 2008, and new math curricula, state experts recommended Holt Mathematics.
However, this is the first time the state Superintendent's Office has made a recommendation, a result of 2007 legislation.
"It is not the role of OSPI to direct which curricula a school district may or should select. It is not a state requirement for any district to specifically use the recommended curricula," State Superintendent Randy Dorn said in a memorandum sent to districts May 4.
Issaquah School Board members thanked the math committee for its time, presentation and months of work. However, they had questions regarding whether a new curriculum was the right choice and what other options might be available.
The study session did little to ease parents' minds about the recommended curriculum.
"As a practicing mathematician, I am appalled at the approach taken by the Issaquah School District in teaching math," said Mark Van Horne, a Boeing Co. engineer and mathematician. "The notion that young students can somehow discover complex mathematical concepts, developed over centuries by mankind's most gifted people … who devoted their entire lives to the development of mathematical knowledge, suggests to me the people making curriculum decisions for the Issaquah School District do not understand and do not fully appreciate the nature of mathematics."
Van Horne continued by saying he perceived at least two problems in how the curriculum was selected: that the team making decisions was made up only of math educators and no practicing mathematician, and that math educators have limited knowledge of practical applications of math.
Several other parents spoke at the meeting. Some asked board members to halt the process, restart it with community input or keep the same math curriculum, but add support services for struggling students.
Next steps in the process include the final recommendation from the district's Instructional Materials Committee, which analyzes the text for bias and readability, a state requirement. If that committee recommends Discovering Mathematics, it will appear before the board on the agenda at its July 8 meeting.
Before then, board members and district officials have tentatively scheduled another work-study session meant to bring state math experts and curriculum specialists in to discuss Holt Mathematics and Discovering Mathematics.
Community members, who specialize in and work with mathematics, may also be asked to attend that meeting and weigh in.
If school board members choose to adopt the curriculum, it would go into classrooms this fall.
If it isn't adopted, the process is halted and College Prep Math would continue to be used in the district. However, board members could also ask for a new adoption process or new ideas.
The money for the new curriculum is reserved. However, district officials said that as they face tighter budgets, it could be hard to reserve that funding later.
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2007-08: Scheduled replacement cycle for high school geometry and algebra materials put on hold while state set new high school math standards.
July 2008: Washington State Board of Education adopts new math standards.
January 2009: state Superintendent's Office presents initial recommendations for high school math materials.
February: District math department leaders train with new state standards and review district's math curriculum for alignment with new standards.
March: Issaquah School District High School Math Adoption Committee, mathematics teachers and curriculum specialists, begins work to review and recommend a new curriculum
April: Math teachers preview curriculum and share feedback.
May 27: High School Math Adoption Committee unanimously recommends Discovering Mathematics by Key Curriculum Press.
May 28: Public process begins.
June 2-5: Three Math Materials Open Houses held for community members.
June 8: Instructional Materials Committee hears presentation from Math Adoption Committee and begins evaluation of material for bias and readability.
June 10: Issaquah School Board listens to presentation by Math Adoption Committee about materials.
June 22: Instructional Materials Committee makes recommendation.
June 24: Tentative work-study session planned between state math experts and the Issaquah School Board in the district administration building, 565 N.W. Holly St. prior to their meeting at 7 p.m.
July 8: First opportunity for Issaquah School Board to consider adoption of Discovering Mathematics.
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STP's BLOG 12/11/13 "Men At Work"
by STP
posted Dec 11 2013 7:05AM
This morning I shared a great story of why my mom is awesome. Back when I was a kid I wanted a Men At Work shirt for Christmas really bad. Yes…this Men At Work…
Was I a big fan of the band? Not really, I just had the "Ca-Single" for that song and it was my jam! For those not in the know…there was once a time you could buy singles, and they were on cassette…they cost about a buck. It was like the caveman times of buying one song on iTUNES or something.
Here was the problem…there was no internet back then…my mom had to hit stores around town, hoping to find a Men At Work shirt…she was not able to find one, so she had one made. What did she do? She bought one of those ¾" sleeve shirts, and brought it to a place that can iron on letters to a shirt, and with felt-like letters she had a shirt made…and it looked exactly like this:
How funny is that? BJ asked if I liked it and wore it…HELL YEAH I DID! I rocked this shirt like a champ. I am sure no one thought it was odd that an 11 year old kid was walking the streets of Brooklyn with a shirt that just said "Men At Work" on it.
Why did we even get on this subject? I compared the music of Toto to the music of Men At Work. That leads to another question…why were we even talking about Toto?
Well, CBS got in some trouble yesterday with their reporting on Nelson Mandela's memorial service . . . when they played Toto's "Africa" over images of Mandela's grieving ex-wife. Here is the clip....
This cracks me up. For those that are truly upset, you need to chill out…it was a screw up, and it's so ridiculous…they clearly didn't mean any disrespect. All I can picture is that a producer went to an assistant or intern and said, "we have this Mandela montage"…we need some "African Music"…so some clueless person did an internet search and BAM…Toto showed up! Brilliant!
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The Associated Press is reporting that an Alabama state jury ordered Exxon Mobil to pay $11.9 billion — $63.6 million in compensatory damages and $11.8 billion in punitive damages — to end a suit over disputed natural-gas.
The jury awarded $63.6 million in compensatory damages and $11.8 billion in punitive damages. The award was more than the $9.3 billion that the state's attorneys had asked the jury to return after a four-week trial.
The stock is down 22 cents.
Why isn't the stock getting killed? Isn't this a textbook example of why we need tort reform/jury reform/dissolution of the litigation system?
The stock isn't reacting cause everyone knows that the award will be modified. That punitive damage award will not stand. Either the trial judge or the appelate court will strike it or lower it dramatically.
Juries make mistakes all the time. That's part of the system. You always hear about the outrageous awards cause it makes good copy. You rarely see the award modifications, buried on page 27, when the 11.8 Billion is reduced to 50 million.
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Roy Osherove has released a very handy set of Regular Expression Visualizers for Visual Studio 2005.
Visualizers are one of the most helpful additions to debugging in Visual Studio 2005. Visualizers allow you to create your own customized display for any data type. You're able to tweak or completely rework how a data type is displayed. Think back to how difficult it is to dig through a DataSet in Visual Studio 2003, then compare that to the easy navigation of DataSet objets in Visual Studio 2005. Behold the Power Of Visualizers!
Roy Osherove has released a very handy set of Regular Expression Visualizers for Visual Studio 2005. Installation, as with all custom Visualizers, is simply a matter of adding the files to your VS 2005's profile folder, normally located in your home directory under "My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Visualizers".
Restart Visual Studio, then create a pattern in a snippet and test out the visualizer. Straight from Roy's example:
string pattern ="(aa|bb)";
Regex r = new Regex(pattern);
MatchCollection m = r.Matches(pattern);
Console.WriteLine(m); // BREAK HERE!
Run this in a debugger session, breaking on the Console.WriteLine statement. You're now able to select the MatchCollection variable 'm' with Osherove's handy Visualizer as shown below.
The next image shows how this simplistic pattern measures up as displayed in the "Matches" tab.
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NEW YORK -- Pittsburgh, North Carolina and Louisville are locks for No. 1 seeds, and I think Memphis will get the fourth No. 1 seed even though the Tigers do not have one of the best four bodies of work in the country. Why? Because I believe the committee will discount UConn because of the loss of Jerome Dyson and put an asterisk next to Duke's ACC tournament title based on the fact that Ty Lawson didn't play for UNC.
So Pitt, UNC, Louisville and Memphis will be the top seeds.
Connecticut, Duke, Oklahoma and Michigan State should be the No. 2 seeds.
Here's the full field, best I can tell:
1. Pittsburgh, North Carolina, Louisville, Memphis
2. Connecticut, Duke, Oklahoma, Michigan State
3. Wake Forest, Villanova, Missouri, Kansas
4. Florida State, Gonzaga, Syracuse, Washington
5. UCLA, Xavier, Purdue, Butler
6. West Virginia, Illinois, Arizona State, Utah
7. Clemson, Marquette, Ohio State, LSU
8. Texas, Oklahoma State, BYU, Tennessee
9. California, Boston College, Wisconsin, Michigan
10. Texas A&M, Maryland, Minnesota, Southern California
11. Siena, Creighton, Temple, Dayton
12. Northern Iowa, Mississippi State, Western Kentucky, Utah State
13. Akron, VCU, Stephen F. Austin, Cleveland State
14. American, Robert Morris, North Dakota State, Binghamton
15. Cornell, East Tennessee State, Portland State, Radford
16. Morehead State, Cal State-Northridge, Morgan State
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I spent a lot of my youth questioning the need for primer. Was this all some big ploy to get me to spend more money? What do they even really do? What I've since discovered is that while a primer may not need to become a part of your daily beauty routine, the times you need a good primer in your life tend to be those moments where you need to look like the best version of yourself. Preferably all day and night long.
Primer should be used when your makeup needs extra staying power, or a little extra oomph. Have a photo shoot or an event where you know you'll be striking a pose in numerous pictures? Prime time. An added benefit to the staying power of primer is the decreased appearance of fine lines on your face, creating a more flawless complexion. Primers are also a go-to in warmer months when sweat seems to be fighting to slide the makeup off of your face. Here are my picks for four primers that are able to fight the good fight. And win.
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Born: November 14, 1948
Died: February 09, 2012
Linda Ledgerwood Ellis, Age 63 of Loogootee, Indiana
Died at 8:56 a.m. on Thursday, February 9, 2012, at Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center in Jasper, Indiana.
She was born on November 14, 1948 in Chicago, Illinois
To: Cornelius and Patsy (O'Mearns) Ledgerwood
She was married on August 12, 1967 to Mark Ellis and he survives.
She was the administrative assistant to the mayor of the City of Loogootee and a graduate of Arlington High School in Indianapolis.
Linda was a member of Psi Iota Xi and the Knitting Guild of America and belonged to the Presbyterian faith.
Her hobbies included Reading, Sky Diving, was an avid knitter and loved boating. She and her husband recently returned from a four-year boating trip.
She is survived by:
Her Husband: Mark Ellis
Two Daughters: Samantha and husband Michael Alvarez of
Fort Wayne, Indiana
Elizabeth Ellis of Crown Point, Indiana
Two Brothers: William Ledgerwood of Speedway, Indiana
Michael Ledgerwood of Franklin, Indiana
Two Sisters: Sandra Jennings of Indianapolis, Indiana
Lisa and husband Greg Bye of Thornton, IN
Along with four grandchildren also know as "The Wunder Kids" they are: Andrew, William, Madeline and Mark Alvarez.
She is Proceeded in Death by:
Her Parents: Cornelius and Patsy (O'Mearns) Ledgerwood
Funeral Services
Memorial services will be conducted at 6:00 p.m. on Sunday evening at the Brocksmith-Blake Funeral Home in Loogootee.
Visitation will be from 3:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m. on Sunday, at the funeral home.


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ABOUT THE SOARING EAGLE (11-0 overall): Boast the state's best winning percent in the playoffs (.794). In the semis alone, the Soaring Eagle is 6-1. Coach John Colosimo's playoff record is stellar with a 27-7 mark at Juan Diego (2000-13, five state titles). Since 2008, the Soaring Eagle has compiled a 72-5 record, best in the state. Juan Diego is going for its fourth championship appearance in six years. They enter this matchup with 11 straight wins.
The offensive unit, as a whole, has averaged nearly 49 points per game over its last three games. A strong running attack, which averages about 300 yards per game, remains Juan Diego's biggest asset.
QB Cole Nelson leads the Soaring Eagle on the ground with 8.2 yards per carry (909 yards) and 18 touchdowns. He is also completing 55-percent of his attempts with nine scores. Running back Jesse Springer is second on the team with 792 yards and 10 touchdowns. Juan Diego's defense, allowing just 14.8 points per game, is led by Semisi Bloomfield (48 tackles, eight sacks).
ABOUT THE PANTHERS (8-2 overall): Reeled off five consecutive wins, including a 63-28 rout of Hurricane in last week's quarterfinal. The Panthers make their first semifinal appearance since 2008. Pine View made the semifinals four times in five seasons between 2004-08 and advanced to the championship game in 2004, 2005 and 2007.
Pine View's playoff record (22nd appearance in 31 seasons) stands at 18-21 with a semifinal record of 4-1. Coach Ray Hosner's playoff record (11th appearance in 13 seasons) is 16-10 (3-1 in the semifinals). Pine View is still looking for its first football championship.
QB Kody Wilstead guides the Panthers with 3,656 yards through the air this year, the sixth-most on record. He ranks seventh in season completions with 250. Jack Bangerter has 80 receptions, good enough for 16th all-time. The offensive unit is putting up 35.2 points per game. Running back Pano Tiatia is averaging 5.6 yards carry (578 yards) and five touchdowns. Triston Duran (484 yards and six TDs) supplies another dimension in the backfield.
Colton Miller (777 yards and four TDs) is a solid complement to Bangerter. On the defensive side, Thor Katoa should surpass the century mark in tackles this season. He also leads the team in sacks with 3.5. Jaden Ah Quin is front and center in the Panthers' secondary, reeling in five interceptions and adding 68 tackles. The defense is surrendering just 20.9 points per game.
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Present address: Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), 7700 Sandholdt Road, Moss Landing, CA 95039, USA.
The island rule and the evolution of body size in the deep sea
Article first published online: 29 JUN 2006
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2006.01545.x
Journal of Biogeography
Volume 33, Issue 9, pages 1578–1584, September 2006
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How to Cite
McClain, C. R., Boyer, A. G. and Rosenberg, G. (2006), The island rule and the evolution of body size in the deep sea. Journal of Biogeography, 33: 1578–1584. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2006.01545.x
Publication History
- Issue published online: 29 JUN 2006
- Article first published online: 29 JUN 2006
- Abstract
- Article
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- Bathymetric;
- depth;
- dwarfism;
- food availability;
- gastropods;
- gigantism;
- macroecology;
- Malacolog;
- miniaturization;
- resource limitation;
- size constraints
Aim Our goal is to test the generality of the island rule – a graded trend from gigantism in small-bodied species to dwarfism in large-bodied species – in the deep sea, a non-insular but potentially analogous system.
Location Shallow-water and deep-sea benthic habitats in the western Atlantic Ocean from the North to South Poles.
Methods We conducted regression analyses of body size of deep-sea gastropods species relative to their shallow-water congeners using measurements from the Malacolog ver. 3.3.3 database.
Results Our results indicate that, consistent with the island rule, gastropod genera with small-bodied, shallow-water species have significantly larger deep-sea representatives, while the opposite is true for genera that are large-bodied in shallow water. Bathymetric body size clines within the deep sea are also consistent with predictions based on the island rule.
Main conclusions Like islands, the deep sea is characterized by low absolute food availability, leading us to hypothesize that the island rule is a result of selection on body size in a resource-constrained environment. The body size of deep-sea species tends to converge on an optimal size for their particular ecological strategy and habitat.


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Fighting Political Correctness on Campus
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Two conservative student activists spoke at a forum sponsored by the conservative academic group Accuracy in Academia on strategies for fighting "political correctness" on the nation's college campuses. The speakers exhorted their listeners to detect the radical liberal influence on the nation's college curricula and mapped out strategies for combating the pervasive force of leftist concepts. The two speakers responded to questions from the audience following their prepared remarks. close
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[1703] Association between Liver Biopsy Length and the Diagnosis of Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis
Michael R Peterson, Cynthia E Behling, Niraj S Patel, Amber N Mackey, Carolyn S Hansen, Rohit Loomba. UC San Diego Health System, San Diego, CA; Sharp Memorial Hospital, San Diego, CA
Background: Adequacy assessment is a critical part of the evaluation of liver biopsies performed for non-focal liver diseases. A small number of studies using chronic viral hepatitis as a model have examined the minimum amount of liver that must be examined to ensure an accurate diagnosis. No study has yet examined adequacy criteria in NASH, a disease in which the patterns of liver injury and fibrosis vary from chronic viral hepatitis. In this study, we examined the association between biopsy length and the diagnosis of steatohepatitis.
Design: Thirty 18G liver biopsies of at least 2.5 cm length performed for clinical suspicion of NASH were identified. Removable tape was used to mask the biopsies (1 H&E and 1 trichrome) so that 0.5 cm increments were added to each review, resulting in biopsies of 0.5 cm, 1.0 cm, 1.5 cm, and 2.0 cm lengths, and full length. The biopsies were randomized before each length was scored and reviewed without knowledge of prior score. Biopsies were scored as "not steatohepatitis", "steatosis with borderline features of steatohepatitis", and "definitely steatohepatitis" using the NASH-CRN system.
Results: There was an association between biopsy length and the probability that a biopsy would be diagnosed as "definitely steatohepatitis." 55% of the full-length biopsies were diagnosed as "definitely steatohepatitis", as compared to 37% of 0.5 cm, 42% of 1.0 cm, 45% of 1.5 cm, and 47% of 2.0 cm biopsies. This difference was statistically significant when compared to the full-length biopsy for the 0.5 and 1.0 cm biopsies (p=0.004 and p=0.037, respectively). When the diagnoses of the shortened biopsies were compared to the full-length, 48% showed no discordant diagnoses at any length (i.e. the same diagnosis was rendered at every biopsy length). 27% of the 0.5 cm biopsies, 38% of the 1.0 cm biopsies, 28% of the 1.5 cm biopsies, and 18% of the 2.0 cm biopsies had diagnoses that differed from the full-length biopsy.
Conclusions: Short liver biopsies (0.5 and 1.0 cm) are more likely to be diagnosed as "not steatohepatitis" or "steatosis with borderline features of steatohepatitis" relative to biopsies of 1.5 cm length or longer. 2.0 cm biopsy length resulted in the fewest discordant diagnoses as compared to the full-length biopsy. We recommend that biopsies performed for clinical suspicion of NASH should be of at least 2.0 cm length. Future analyses will focus on the effects of biopsy length on individual NAS components and fibrosis.
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South Carolina relief pitcher winds up against the University of Georgia earlier this season. Webb, of Nassawadox, was drafted in the Major League Baseball draft on Friday
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COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Northampton County native Tyler Webb, the son of Kristin and Kirk Webb of Nassawadox and a graduate of Northampton High School, on Friday was selected in the 10th round of the Major League Baseball draft by the New York Yankees.
Webb was the No. 314 overall selection. A third-team All-America this year by Collegiate Baseball and a second-team All-SEC honoree, the Gamecock southpaw is among SEC leaders with 17 saves including nine saves in conference contests, according to the University of South Carolina athletics website.
Webb is among the nation's leaders with 17 saves including nine saves in SEC contests. He has not allowed a run in 25 of 30 relief appearances this year. Webb is 3-2 with a 1.36 ERA in 39.2 innings. He has 60 strikeouts to just 12 walks, opponents batting .205 against him.
He has pitched in relief in 96 career appearances, with 75 relief appearances without allowing a run (78.1 percent). In career relief appearances he is 11-3 with 20 saves.
In 17 postseason appearances, Webb is 3-0 with two saves and a 0.72 ERA in 25.0 innings pitched. He has allowed just two runs on 11 hits while striking out 25 batters


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Katy Perry at 2009 Grammys
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Katy Perry arrived at the Grammys with a soft look and a solid nomination for best female pop vocal performance. With chin-length hair gently waved and candy-colored pink lips (coincidentally matching her strapless dress), her stare is intensified by smoky eyes and false lashes.
Considering that this look is similar to her Critics' Choice Awards look, dare I say she looks less dramatic than we've seen in the past? Has she nailed a winning look here or is it too little, too late for such a retro style?
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inspirata 6 years
I said 'Undecided' because I like the makeup (although red lippy would have been better) but the hair looks too flat.
missbrooke09 6 years
No. I hate the lipstick.
missbrooke09 6 years
No. I hate the lipstick.
sucraRush 6 years
Oddly enough, i love it!
sucraRush 6 years
Oddly enough, i love it!
Symphonee 6 years
She just looks off. I don't like the lip color and that is not a good hairstyle for her head shape.
bonniebonnie 6 years
Why does she always have to have that matte foundation?! She's young, with young skin that doesn't need to be caked over.
m0readventur0us 6 years
She looks tired.
m0readventur0us 6 years
She looks tired.
Rouge14 6 years
hmm, I'm not sure about that look on her, there's something off about her hair, and I'm not liking that shade of lipstick on her :S
Ayla 6 years
A big NO! That lipstick color should remain in the 80's and never come back!
Claire-Underwear 6 years
she's a poor man's zooey deschanel/dita von teese.blech.
Claire-Underwear 6 years
she's a poor man's zooey deschanel/dita von teese. blech.
Glittersniffer 6 years
The picture is what's getting me...just the way she looks...can't put my finger on it but something ain't right.
danixk 6 years
It's very pin-up-ish with mod, matte baby pink lips. I love it!
chatondeneige 6 years
I'm still not completely convinced that Katy Perry isn't just some character that Zooey Deschanel is playing as a joke on everyone. It's a defense mechanism, I cannot accept that Katy Perry exists otherwise.
aka-Daria 6 years
she needs bangs, always.
aka-Daria 6 years
she needs bangs, always.
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brittanyk 6 years
I don't know why, but I don't really like her makeup choices. Her hair looks terrible, imo.
genesisrocks 6 years
She didn't do red the last time she went retro either. Bothering me
psychobabble 6 years
I'd love it with just a little darker lipcolor, the pink here is too pale.
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What is the difference of meaning between the following 2 sentences?
1. He is in the home.
2. He is at the home.
If you are talking about where he lives, then it's 'He is home' or 'He is at home'.
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I've seen plenty of documentation of how to reset a user's password by running
net user <username> * /domain
or locally
net user <username> <new_password>
But I am not domain admin for the current domain, so I am not allowed to change the password via
net user <my_username> * /domain (Access is denied).
What I can do though, is to hit CTRL+ALT+DEL and click on "Change Password", where I have to re-enter my current password and give a new password:
Question: How can I script that? I want to change my password via command line. Possible?
Bonus information: I'm on a Windows XP SP3 machine.