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The world lost a legend on Friday, as Robert Craig "Evil" Knievel died at age 69.
Always a self-promoter, Evil's Caesars Palace jump is a great example of the type of man he was:
While in Las Vegas, Nevada, to watch Dick Tiger fight a middleweight title fight, Knievel first saw the fountains at Caesars Palace and decided to jump them. To get an audience with the casino's CEO Jay Sarno, Knievel created a fictitious corporation called Evel Knievel Enterprises and three fictitious lawyers to make phone calls to Sarno. Knievel also placed phone calls to Sarno claiming to be from ABC-TV and Sports Illustrated inquiring about the jump. Sarno finally agreed to meet Knievel and the deal was set for Knievel to jump the fountains on December 31, 1967. After the deal was set, Knievel tried to get ABC to air the event live on Wide World of Sports. ABC declined, but said that if Knievel had the jump filmed and it was as spectacular as he said it would be, they would consider using it later.
Knievel used his own money to have actor/director John Derek produce a film of the Caesars' jump. To keep costs low, Derek used his then-wife, Linda Evans, as one of the camera operators. It was Evans who filmed Knievel's famous landing. On the morning of the jump, Knievel stopped in the casino and placed a single $100 dollar bet on the blackjack table (which he lost), stopped by the bar and got a shot of Wild Turkey and then headed outside where he was joined by several members of the Caesars staff, as well as two scantily clad showgirls. After doing his normal pre-jump show and a few warm up approaches, Knievel began his real approach. When he hit the takeoff ramp, he felt the motorcycle unexpectedly decelerate. The sudden loss of power on the takeoff caused Knievel to come up short and land on the safety ramp which was supported by a van. This caused the handlebars to be ripped out of his hands as he tumbled over them onto the pavement where he skidded into the Dunes parking lot. As a result of the crash, Knievel suffered a crushed pelvis and femur, fractures to his hip, wrist and both ankles and a concussion that kept him in a coma for 29 days.
RIP Evil; you will be missed.
[Wikipedia – Robert Craig "Evil" Knievel]
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Sat, Jul 5, 2014
Charleston, WV
Join Moon Joggers on our second virtual race of the year! The Apollo 2014: BOSTON is in honor of our running friends and family who were affected by the bombings during the Boston Marathon one year ago. We dedicate our April virtual race in honor of them. You can also register directly on our website!
What: Complete either a 5K or 10K, 1/2 marathon or full marathon (you can choose to complete more than one distance)! Set a goal for what your finishing time will be and we encourage you to dedicate this run to someone in your life that you have lost or that is going through a difficult time right now. We also invite you to run in honor of those affected by the explosions at the Boston Marathon last year.
When: Complete your race any time during 2014.
Where: You choose the course and you time yourself (you'll report your finishing time to us).
Why: Because we want to UNITE TO REMEMBER what happened in Boston last year and to run for those who can't. As runners (and walkers) we are part of a worldwide community that was affected during that tragic explosion last year. To honor those affected, we plan to donate the majority of the proceeds from this race to ACHILLES INTERNATIONAL, an organization which encourages people with disabilities to participate in long distance running. During the past decade over 100 Achilles members have competed in the Boston Marathon. Among the 28 participating in 2013′s Boston Marathon, 13 were recently wounded members of Achilles, typically leg amputees who used hand-crank wheelchairs to compete. For the 2014 Boston Marathon, Achilles International has formed a special TEAM ACHILLES-BOSTON STRONG team to compete in the marathon, made up of people that were wounded in last year's explosion. We're excited to show our support. A $3500 donation purchases one handcrank wheelchair for an Achilles athlete to use in a mainstream marathon and our hope is to do at least that. Let's do it folks!
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Unit Classes
Each unit or character in Aragon Online will be of a particular class, which gives varying attributes and equipment choices.
The DATA column shows the hits adjustment for this class and level, if any. The COST column shows how much it costs to buy a unit of this level. The MAINT column shows the monthly cost of maintaining a unit of this class and level. ATTACK shows the adjustment for hand-to-hand attacks, THROW for thrown weapon attacks, MISSILE for missile attacks and SPELL for magical attacks for this class and level. The Attack value modifies your chance to hit, Dam Base and Dam Rand are the base damage and random variation. Rng Base is the short range distance, which is at the base attack value, and Rng Max is the maximum attack range. The Attack value is adjusted down for distance beyond Rng Base by -10 for each distance increment of the base range.
There are five classes that may be available to create player units, (which are groups of soldiers), depending on race. Each of the Classes has varying attributes and combat ability.
Character Classes
Player Characters and Henchmen may be one of the five classes described below. Each of the Classes has varying attributes and combat ability. Warriors and Knights are the strongest fighters, while the slightly weaker Rangers, Priests and Mages use magic spells.
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It is sad in today's society that the criminals have all the rights. I suggest Wasp spray. It can be owned and stored in any house hold and not interprted as a weapon. Keep it handy within arms reach, spray it in an attackers eyes, it has a long distane spray( 15 feet I think) and it will not be interpreted as keeping a weapon in a house by a left wing liberal district attorney looking to use your case to get re elected.Besides, how many times a year do we see on the news an elderly perosn being attcaked and fighting off the attacker and it makes great news?
. . .snip. . . The use of bear spray isn't an option because we don't have bears unlike you lucky guys in North America.Hope my 2 cents worth is appreciatedCheers


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Background note: Kiribati.
Area: 719 sq. km (266 sq. mi.) on 32 atolls and one island.
Cities: Capital--Tarawa (pop. 30,000).
Terrain: Archipelagos of low-lying coral atolls surrounded by extensive reefs.
Climate: Maritime equatorial or tropical.
Nationality: Noun and adjective--I-Kiribati (for both singular and plural, pronounced "ee-keer-ah-bhass").
Population (2010 est.): 100,835. Age structure (2010 est.)--35.2% under 15; 5.59% over 60.
Population growth rate (2010 est.): 1.8%.
Ethnic groups: Micronesian 99%.
Religion: Roman Catholic 55%, Kiribati Protestant 36%, other 9%.
Languages: English (official), Gilbertese/I-Kiribati (de facto).
Education (2005): Adult literacy--92%.
Health (2005): Life expectancy--61.0 years. Infant mortality rate (2007)--46/1,000.
Work force (2005): Labor force participation rate was 63.6%. Subsistence workers made up 37%, cash workers numbered 13,133.
Type: Republic.
Independence (from United Kingdom): July 12, 1979.
Constitution: July 12, 1979.
Branches: Executive--president (head of state and government), vice president, cabinet. Legislative--unicameral House of Assembly. Judicial--Court of Appeal, High Court, Magistrates' Courts.
Major political parties: Parties are only very loosely organized--Boutokaan Te Kaua, Maneaban Te Mauri (Protect the Maneaba), Maurin Kiribati Pati.
Economy (all figures in U.S. $)
GDP (2010 est.): $152 million.
GDP per capita (2010 est.): $1,522.
GDP composition by sector (2008): Services 66.1%, agriculture 26.4%, industry 7.5%.
Industry: Types--tourism, copra, fish.
Trade (2007): Exports--$9.8 million: fish, seaweed, shark fins. Export markets--Japan, Malaysia, Taiwan, United States, Australia, Belgium, Denmark. Imports--$70.2 million: food, manufactured goods, machinery and transport equipment. Import sources--Australia, Fiji, Japan, New Zealand, United States, China, Taiwan.
Currency: Australian dollar (A$).
Kiribati (pronounced "keer-ah-bhass") consists of 32 low-lying atolls and one raised island scattered over an expanse of ocean equivalent in size to the continental United States. The islands straddle the Equator and lie roughly halfway between Hawaii and Australia. The three main groupings are the Gilbert Islands, Phoenix Islands, and Line Islands. In 1995 Kiribati unilaterally moved the International Date Line to include its easternmost islands, making it the same day throughout the country.
Kiribati includes Kiritimati (Christmas Island), the largest coral atoll in the world, and Banaba (Ocean Island), one of the three great phosphate islands in the Pacific. Except on Banaba, very little land is more than three meters above sea level.
The original inhabitants of Kiribati are Gilbertese, a Micronesian people. Approximately 90% of the population of Kiribati lives on the atolls of the Gilbert Islands. Although the Line Islands are about 2,000 miles east of the Gilbert Islands, most inhabitants of the Line Islands are also Gilbertese. Owing to severe overcrowding in the capital on South Tarawa, in the 1990s a program of directed migration moved nearly 5,000 inhabitants to outlying atolls, mainly in the Line Islands. The Phoenix Islands have never had any significant permanent population. A British effort to settle Gilbertese there in the 1930s lasted until the 1960s when it was determined the inhabitants could not be self- sustaining.
The I-Kiribati people settled what would become known as the Gilbert Islands between 1000 and 1300 AD. Subsequent invasions by Fijians and Tongans introduced Melanesian and Polynesian elements to the Micronesian culture, but extensive intermarriage has produced a population reasonably homogeneous in appearance and traditions.
European contact began in the 16th century. Whalers, slave traders, and merchant vessels arrived in great numbers in the 1800s, fomenting local tribal conflicts and introducing often-fatal European diseases. In an effort to restore a measure of order, the Gilbert and Ellice Islands (the Ellice Islands are now the independent country of Tuvalu) consented to becoming British protectorates in 1892. Banaba (Ocean Island) was annexed in 1900 after the discovery of phosphate-rich guano deposits, and the entire group was made a British colony in 1916. The Line and Phoenix Islands were incorporated piecemeal over the next 20 years.
Japan seized some of the islands during World War II. In November 1943, U.S. forces assaulted heavily fortified Japanese positions on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilberts, resulting in some of the bloodiest fighting of the Pacific campaign. The battle was a turning point for the war in the Central Pacific.
Britain began expanding self-government in the islands during the 1960s. In 1975 the Ellice Islands separated from the colony and in 1978 declared their independence. The Gilberts obtained internal self-government in 1977, and became an independent nation on July 12, 1979, under the name of Kiribati.
Post-independence politics were initially dominated by Ieremia Tabai, Kiribati's first President, who served from 1979 to 1991, stepping down due to Kiribati's three-term limit for presidents. The tenure of Teburoro Tito, Kiribati's second-longest serving President, was from 1994 to 2003. His third term lasted only a matter of months before he lost a no confidence motion in Parliament. (See the next section for an explanation of Kiribati's unique presidential system.) In July 2003, Anote Tong defeated his elder brother, Harry Tong, who was backed by former President Tito and his allies. Tong was re-elected for a second term as president in October 2007.
The constitution promulgated at independence establishes Kiribati as a sovereign democratic republic and guarantees the fundamental rights of its citizens.
The unicameral House of Assembly (Maneaba) has 45 members: 43 elected representatives, one appointed member by the Banaban community on Rabi Island in Fiji, and the Attorney General on an ex officio basis. All of the members of the Maneaba serve 4-year terms; the present Maneaba term will end in late 2011. The speaker for the legislature is elected by the Maneaba from outside of its membership and is not a voting member of Parliament.
After each general election, the new Maneaba nominates at least three but not more than four of its members to stand as candidates for president. The voting public then elects the president from among these candidates. The president appoints a cabinet of up to 10 members from among the members of the Maneaba. Although popularly elected, the president can be deposed by a majority vote in Parliament. If a no confidence motion passes, a new election for President must be held. An individual can serve as president for only three terms, no matter how short each term is. As a result of this provision, former Presidents Tabai and Tito are constitutionally forbidden from serving as president again.
The judicial system consists of the Court of Appeal, the High Court, and Magistrates' Courts. The president makes all judicial appointments.
Principal Government Officials
Head of State/Government--President Anote Tong Vice President--Teima Onorio
Political parties exist but are more similar to informal coalitions in behavior. Parties do not have official platforms or party structures. Most candidates formally present themselves as independents. Campaigning is by word of mouth and informal gatherings in traditional meetinghouses.
President Anote Tong won re-election by a comfortable margin in late 2007 and enjoys a comfortable majority in Parliament. The biggest political issue today is employment opportunities for a crowded and growing population.
A least developed country, Kiribati's per capita GDP is about $1,500. Although 63.6% of Kiribati's population above the age of 15 are economically active, only 23% participate in the formal wage economy and over 60% of all formal jobs are in South Tarawa. The monetary economy of Kiribati is dominated by the services sector, representing a GDP share of 63.4%, and the public sector which provides 80% of monetary remuneration.
The end of phosphate revenue from Banaba in 1979 had a devastating impact on the economy. Receipts from phosphates had accounted for roughly 80% of export earnings and 50% of government revenue. Per capita GDP declined by more than half between 1979 and 1981. The Revenue Equalization Reserve Fund (RERF), a trust fund financed by phosphate earnings over the years, is still an important part of the government's assets and contained more than U.S. $500 million in 2009. However, with the declining returns on offshore investments in the RERF, lower drawdowns from the fund to meet fiscal deficits is vital for the long-term welfare of the country.
In one form or another, Kiribati gets a large portion of its income from abroad. Examples include fishing licenses, development assistance, tourism, and worker remittances. External sources of financing are crucial to Kiribati, given the limited domestic production ability and the need to import nearly all essential foodstuffs and manufactured items. Historically, the I-Kiribati were notable seafarers, and today about 1,400 I-Kiribati are trained, certified, and active as seafarers. Remittances from seafarers are a major source of income for families in the country, and there is a steady annual uptake of young I-Kiribati men to the Kiribati Maritime Training Institute. Remittances from Kiribati workers living abroad provide more than $11 million annually.
Fishing fleets from South Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, and the United States pay licensing fees to operate in Kiribati's territorial waters. These licenses produce revenue worth U.S. $20 million to $35 million annually. Kiribati's exclusive economic zone comprises more than 3.55 million square kilometers (1.37 million square miles) and is very difficult to police given Kiribati's small land mass and limited means. Kiribati probably loses millions of dollars per year from illegal, unlicensed, and unreported fishing in its exclusive economic zone.
The largest donors of development assistance to Kiribati are Japan, the European Union, Australia, New Zealand, and Taiwan. U.S. assistance is provided through multilateral institutions.
Tourism is a relatively small, but important domestic sector. Attractions include World War II battle sites, game fishing, and ecotourism. The vast majority of American tourists only visit Christmas Island in the Line Islands on fishing and diving vacations.
Most islanders engage in subsistence activities such as fishing and growing of food crops like bananas, breadfruit, and papaya. The leading export is the coconut product, copra, which accounts for about two-thirds of export revenue. Other exports include pet fish, shark fins, and seaweed. Kiribati's principal trading partners are Australia and Japan.
Transportation and communications are a challenge for Kiribati. Air Pacific, Our Airline, and Air Kiribati provide international air links to the capital of Tarawa. Air Kiribati provides service to most of the populated atolls in the Gilberts using small planes flying from Tarawa. Small ships serve outlying islands, including in the Line Islands, with irregular schedules. A joint venture between Air Pacific and the government of Kiribati operates a flight linking Christmas Island to Fiji and Honolulu. Telecommunications are expensive, and service is mediocre.
Kiribati maintains friendly relations with most countries and has particularly close ties to its Pacific neighbors--Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and Fiji. Australia, Taiwan, New Zealand, and Cuba maintain resident diplomatic missions in Kiribati.
Kiribati became a member of the United Nations in 1999, and in September 2003, President Tong requested authority from Parliament to establish a UN mission. Currently, however, Kiribati does not maintain a resident ambassador in New York, and its vote is typically cast by New Zealand in a proxy arrangement. Kiribati also is a member of the Pacific Islands Forum, Asian Development Bank, the Commonwealth, International Monetary Fund, the Pacific Community, and the World Bank. Kiribati is particularly active in the Pacific Islands Forum. The only Kiribati diplomatic missions overseas are a high commission in Fiji and an honorary consulate in Honolulu.
Relations between Kiribati and the United States are excellent. Kiribati signed a treaty of friendship with the United States after independence in 1979. The United States has no consular or diplomatic facilities in the country. Officers of the American Embassy in Suva, Fiji, are concurrently accredited to Kiribati and make periodic visits. The U.S. Peace Corps maintained a program in Kiribati from 1967 until mid-2008.
Principal U.S. Embassy Officials
Ambassador--C. Steven McGann
Deputy Chief of Mission--Richard K. Pruett
Political/Economic Affairs--James T. Crow
Public Diplomacy Officer--Douglas A. Morris
Acting Consul--Justin Tull
Management Officer--Katherine A. Dace
Regional Environmental Officer--Norman H. Barth
Regional Security Officer--William B. "Beau" Black
The U.S. Embassy responsible for Kiribati is located in Suva, Republic of the Fiji Islands. Its location is 31 Loftus Street, Suva, Fiji. Mailing address: P.O. Box 218, Suva, Fiji. Tel: +679-331-4466, fax: +679-330-2267.
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Brett Carson
Eligible for draft:
Waiver claim, 2011
225 lbs.
Prospect Talent Score
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Brett Carson is one of three Calgary Hitmen defensemen eligible for the 2004 National Hockey League Entry Draft. Carson, a returning member of the Calgary Hitmen from the 2002-03 season, was acquired via a trade with the Moose Jaw Warriors, a deal that saw Johnny Boychuk, a highly regarded Colorado Avalanche prospect, dealt away from Calgary.
The 6'4.5 defenseman was selected to participate in the 2004 CHL Top Prospects game, in which he registered the fastest lap in the skills competition at a time of 14:558, ahead of fellow WHL defenseman Mike Green, who registered a time of 14:644.
2005-06: Carson has continued to excel with the Hitmen in what could be his final year of junior, playing on the team's top defensive pairing. He was nominated as captain for this season by his teammates and he ended up tied for team lead in defensive scoring and fourth overall with 11 goals and 29 assists in the full 72 regular season contests. The 40 points was also 13th in league scoring for defensemen. Carson was also a big part of the reason that the Hitmen set a franchise record for fewest goals against in the regular season with 155, which was also tops in the CHL. That total shattered the old Hitmen mark of 182 goals against.
2006-07: As a pro rookie this season he's managed to stick in Albany, showing once again that defensemen in the Western Hockey League seem to migrate well to the pro game, even with the NHL's more recent rule changes.In 2006-07, Carson spent three games with the Everblades where he had a goal and an assist, but the rest of the season he's been in the AHL. Carson appeared in 63 games for the River Rats, scoring two goals (one on the power play), and adding 16 assists. His strong puck-moving ability and physical play have made him a standout for the Rats.
2007-08: Carson was again solid for Albany, improving on his point totals (two goals and 22 assists) while being one of the few Hurricanes players or prospects to not miss significant time to injury, playing 77 games with the River Rats. Carson also contributed in the postseason, finishing with a goal and three assists in seven playoff contests, good for a tie for second best on the team.
Talent Analysis
Although Carson won the fastest lap at the 2004 Top Prospects game, and does have a long, powerful stride, Carson's straight away speed is mediocre at best, instead deriving most of his forward momentum on his crossovers. Brett's massive legs allow him to dig hard into the ice, thus generating both power and speed.
Offensively, Carson has some potential, but isn't likely to develop into a premier offensive defenseman. Running the power play for Calgary wasn't something that Carson did with regularity, but he still managed to collect his fair share of points.
In his own end, Carson is firm, but not spectacular. His positioning is sound, as is his physical presence down low. The best word to describe Carson's physical play and defensive play in general is solid. Also, Carson is able to handle the puck well under forechecking pressure, and very rarely makes a bad outlet pass.


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Wading quietly up a picturesque stream, the jungle presses in on all sides, insects hum, birds sing and call with exotic cadence, all around the sun streams through the leafy canopy as the morning mist rises off the cool water. It looks beautiful. It is, in fact, hell.
Electronic Arts producer Ben Kusin, unveiling levels that are being seen in Europe for the first time ever, hands the keyboard over to gamesradar.com and we go up against the Japanese. And we get absolutely slaughtered. Welcome to the jungle.
Pacific Assault is the latest in the Medal of Honor series and sees the game taking a slightly different direction with regards to gameplay. But the essential bones of the FPS series that pays meticulous detail to authenticity are still apparent. As the name suggests, the theatre of war is the Pacific conflict that began with Pearl Harbour in 1941. You play the role of marine Tom Conlin and, with your squad of marine grunts, you take on the might of the Imperial Japanese army.
The game looks great, sounds fantastic and plays, well, rather differently from previous MOH titles. Pacific Assault is a more tactical first-person shooter: it requires patience, keen observation, strategies, squad considerations and, above all, it requires you not to go in with all guns blazing. Take this approach and, if the bullets don't get you, the bayonets will.
The first level that greets us is the one described above, which has the literal title of River Walk. You can hike for fairly long jaunts, hugging rocks, streamside trees - anything that provides cover as you progress in seemingly idyllic conditions until the first enemy bullet zings past your ear. Then it's a run for decent cover as squad members holler and the forest comes alive with Japanese soldiers sending a hail of bullets your way.
Most worrying of all, you still can't see the enemy at this point. Only their gun bursts reveal their location. Even when you do manage to edge closer to them, you're not getting the whole picture and you feel you'll be jumped at any moment. The pressure is full-on and the jungle seems in chaos, with your buddies returning fire, shouting over the ongoing firefight, desperately trying to be heard in the mayhem and all the while you're trying to fish out the Japanese captain.
Nailing the captain is your prime objective in these toe-to-toe gun battles as he holds the key to defeating the enemy. The reason is that the game uses morale-based AI for both the enemy and your squad. Although there's no on-screen indicator, the game is processing a bunch of numbers during the firefight based on group morale. Your only indication of this is whether the Japanese advance in numbers or your squad takes the fight to them. So take out the captain and the enemy lose confidence and they tend to hang back and dig in, while your squad advances forward, picking off the enemy, due to their morale being boosted.
Pacific Assault is a graphical leap for the series and we were particularly taken with the representation of the jungle. The great variety of plant life that spans from floor-dwelling shrubs to the lofty heights of the canopy really does create a backdrop that looks and feels authentic. The streams and waterfalls add to the rain-forest illusion but it's really the team behind the sound that has excelled beyond all other departments in Pacific Assault. The audio is nothing short of spectacular, with the ambience of the jungle being spot-on.
Locking horns with the enemy on the Makin Islands in the Sitting Ducks level was particularly harrowing. Your squad is on a small island covered in lush vegetation and, as you venture into the undergrowth, the Japanese attack with such ferocity that the bayonet assaults are genuinely disturbing. These guys don't just saunter up and introduce you to the sharp end of their rifle, they converge on you like rabid attack dogs and beat you senseless. The fact that they jump out of the leafy surroundings right under your nose makes it all the more jolting. Ideally, you pace yourself so that you pick off the enemy as you edge your way through but they're so hard to see that you know some of them will get up close and personal.


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Sickle Cell Disease Tied to 'Silent Strokes' in Children
FRIDAY, Dec. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Children with sickle cell disease, an inherited blood disorder, who also have high blood pressure and/or anemia are at increased risk for so-called "silent strokes," according to a new study.
Silent strokes, which cause no symptoms, "are typically seen in older adults, and these findings give us additional insight into why they tend to occur so often in children with sickle cell disease," senior study investigator Dr. James Casella, director of hematology at Johns Hopkins Children's Center, said in a center news release.
Casella and his colleagues performed MRI brain scans on 814 children with sickle cell disease, aged 5 to 15, and found that 31 percent of them had suffered silent strokes. None of the children had a history of strokes or seizures, and none showed any signs of stroke at the time of the study.
After examining the children's medical histories, the researchers concluded that anemia and high blood pressure individually increased the risk of silent stroke in the study participants, but the combination of the two carried the highest risk.
Among these sickle cell patients, those with the highest systolic blood pressure (the top number in their blood pressure reading) was above 113 and the lowest hemoglobin (below 7.6 grams per deciliter) had a nearly four times greater risk of silent stroke than those with the lowest blood pressure and highest hemoglobin. Hemoglobin is the protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen. Anemia is defined by low levels of hemoglobin.
Compared to children with the lowest blood pressure readings, those with the highest blood pressure had a 1.7 times greater risk of silent stroke. And the risk was more than doubled for kids with the lowest hemoglobin levels versus kids with the highest hemoglobin levels, the investigators found.
The researchers said their findings highlight the need to identify children with sickle cell disease who have early signs of anemia and high blood pressure, both of which are modifiable risk factors. The findings may also lead to new treatments for sickle cell disease.
The study was published online Nov. 17 in the journal Blood.
While extremely rare in children overall, stroke is a common complication in children with sickle cell disease. Nearly 100,000 people in the United States have sickle cell disease. The disease, inherited from both parents, causes red blood cells to take the shape of crescents or sickles, and results in less oxygen being delivered to the body's tissues. These fragile cells can interrupt blood flow when they get stuck in small blood vessels. Patients with sickle cell disease require ongoing treatment, according to the U.S. National Institutes of Health, which funded the study.
More information
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Scientists advance understanding of food pathogen
Listeria is an opportunistic pathogen that causes brain infection, blood poisoning, abortion and death for about 500 Americans and a number of farm animals each year. But while its harmful strains can be more lethal than Salmonella, it exists in benign species and strains as well.
By finding out why some forms are fatal and others are not, Cornell researchers are developing more effective ways to detect and prevent food-borne illness.
When it comes to predicting whether strains of the bacterium will be harmful, Martin Wiedmann, associate professor of food science, has found that it is necessary to test for the presence of several genes, rather than just one.
Even among Listeria monocytogenes, which causes the vast majority of human disease cases, his team identified a strain that lacked one gene linked to the ability to cause disease.
In a paper published Dec. 2 in the journal BMC Genomics, Wiedmann also describes how the genus Listeria has evolved over the past 47 million years.
Unlike some other bacteria, Listeria strains actually appear to have become less virulent over time. While their common ancestor carried all genes needed to cause disease, many of the strains that emerged did not, and only two of the six Listeria species Wiedmann studied were found to have all the genes likely needed to cause human disease.
This may be because it is in the best interest of the bacteria that their hosts are kept alive, he said.
Originating in soil and often traveling to animals through plant materials, Listeria bacteria thrive inside mammalian bodies, where there is limited competition for food. They can invade human cells and are able to move from one cell to the next, avoiding the antibodies we have floating around our bodies, Wiedmann said.
Listeria monocytogenes causes listeriosis, a rare but potentially lethal food-borne infection, with symptoms similar to meningitis. About 20 percent of people diagnosed with listeriosis die, compared to less than 1 percent of those inflicted by Salmonella.
Listeria has been found in animal silage, raw meats and vegetables, unpasteurized milk and different processed foods. Pasteurization and sufficient cooking typically kill Listeria, but contamination can occur after heating and before packaging, so extensive sanitation is required at processing plants, Wiedmann said.
"It has a canny ability to survive very, very well," Wiedmann said. "In one case, we found a strain that had survived in a processing plant for 12 years."
Wiedmann's team has helped control previous Listeria outbreaks by tracing the origin of contamination, thanks in part to a Web-based pathogen tracker database they also developed. He also recently identified a unique strain of Listeria monocytogenes that was responsible for an outbreak among dairy cattle, with his findings detailed in a paper to be published in the Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation.
"We create the basic knowledge, which industry can then develop into practical applications," Wiedmann said.
Industry has already taken notice. Study collaborator Life Technologies Corp. is planning to use the information Wiedmann collected to develop assays that specifically detect pathogenic Listeria strains, according to bioinformatics scientist Craig Cummings.
His company developed The SOLiD System, an advanced, "next generation" sequencing instrument used in the study.
"This system allows us to discover the differences between large sets of bacterial strains in a relatively fast and affordable way," Cummings said.
Wiedmann's paper is the first published documentation of the equipment's use in this context and will likely establish a protocol for doing similar studies for other groups of pathogens, Cummings added.
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AT&T Yields On Video Regulatory Fees
By: Ted Hearn, Multichannel News
Washington -- As a provider of a start-up Internet Protocol video service, AT&T has been exempt from paying regulatory fees used to help fund the Federal Communications Commission's $313 million budget, much to the displeasure of incumbent cable operators.
In a concession Monday, AT&T said it should begin to pay video-based fees -- not necessarily at the same rate as cable incumbents but more likely at a level that represents the actual burdens imposed by its nascent video service on FCC staff resources.
"AT&T fully agrees that, as a [pay-TV] provider, it should pay an equitable share of the [FCC's] regulatory costs," the company said in an Oct. 27 FCC filing.
On Oct. 22, AT&T reported 781,000 U-verse TV subscribers, a gain of 232,000 in the third quarter. The company expects to serve 1 million IPTV customers by the end of year.
With so few pay-TV subscribers, AT&T doesn't have much at risk in the regulatory fee dispute at the FCC.
Nevertheless, it did step into the middle of a fierce debate between the incumbent cable operators and Verizon on the one side and DirecTV and Dish Network on the other about how much cable and satellite carriers should pay in FCC regulatory fees. AT&T's exemption has only added to the intensity to a fight that has been going on for several years.
The National Cable & Telecommunications Association, the American Cable Association and Verizon insist that cable operators are not being treated fairly, while DirecTV and Dish assert that cable MSOs pay at a rate commensurate with the level of regulatory activity they generate at the FCC.
In an attempt to document the disparity, Verizon told the FCC in September that based on current policy, it will need to pay more in regulatory fees than Dish Network in 2008, even though Dish has 20 times the number of Verizon subscribers.
Under current FCC rules, cable operators need to pay 80 cents per subscriber, contributing $51.8 million total. Direct broadcast satellite carriers pay $119,000 per-satellite basis, putting their FCC tab at $2.3 million.
If DBS paid at cable's 80-cent per-subscriber rate, it would owe the FCC about $24.5 million, 10 times what is it paying now.
ACA noted that in 2006 cable paid 77 cents per-subscriber, while satellite TV providers paid an effective rate of 6.7 cents.
"There is no rational policy or any other justification for imposing regulatory fees on cable operators that are more than 11 times than those paid by the two national DBS providers. The [FCC] should impose per-subscriber fees on all [pay-TV providers], including DBS," ACA said in an Oct. 27 FCC filing.
DirecTV and Dish Network want the FCC to keep the status quo, saying they do not require FCC oversight on as broad a scale as cable operators.
"Unlike DirecTV and Dish Network, most cable operators are the dominant incumbent video providers in their service areas, and as such are subject to rules and regulatory proceedings that apply only to them," the DBS providers told the FCC on Oct. 27.
AT&T didn't volunteer how much IPTV providers should pay in regulatory fees. It did say, however, that the FCC should turn to the IPTV question only after it had settled the cable-DBS dispute.
"As this dispute makes clear, there is substantial controversy over whether the present assessment methodology is equitable," AT&T said.
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Media Issues Top Obama's Online Tech Agenda
By: John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable
Network neutrality, media diversity, and parental control of the media are at the head of the new administration's tech policy agenda, at least according to the agenda section of the White House Website.
According to the revamped site, the new president and vice president "will work to ensure the full and free exchange of information through an open Internet." To that end, the first two bullet points are as follows:
- "Protect the Openness of the Internet," which translates to "Supporting the principles of network neutrality to preserve the benefits of open competition on the Internet."
- "Encourage diversity in the ownership of broadcast media, promote the development of new media outlets for expression of diverse viewpoints, and clarify the public interest obligation of broadcasters who occupy the nation's spectrum."
The third item is: "Protect Our Children While Preserving the First Amendment."
Obama has long expressed concern about the media's affect on kids but has also made the point, in policy statements and in an interview with B&C, that he favored technological solutions. That is reflected in the wording of the first part of the item. "Give parents the tools and information they need to control what their children see on television and the Internet in ways fully consistent with the First Amendment."
All three were part of the president's campaign pledges but did not have so prominent a place on his campaign Web site tech agenda. Helping draft that agenda was Julius Genachowski, who is Obama's presumed pick for FCC chairman.
Also on the list are deploying next-generation broadband, one of the keys to the new president's economic stimulus package, and improving first-responder communications.
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Tonight's game
Here's the lineup for tonight. I'm heading downstairs to help get Brad Penny and Rick Honeycutt for an upcoming commercial you'll see during Dodger broadcasts, so be on the lookout.
Furcal, SS
Pierre, CF
Martin, C
Gonzalez, LF
Loney, 1B
Nomar, 3B
Ethier, RF
Abreu, 2B
Lowe, P
I've also been putting notes on the blog a lot lately so if you'd prefer to get that elsewhere, please post comments to that end. If not, I'll keep doing it, as it's a good way to send this info to the public, even if it makes each post a little longer.
SWINGIN' IT – Since June 15 when Bill Mueller took over as hitting coach, the Dodgers are batting .292 (222-for-759), tying them with Houston for the second-highest average in the National League during that span behind Colorado (.308). The club's .364 on-base percentage during that period is third-best in the NL behind the Rockies (.384) and Astros (.368).
PITCHING IN – Over the last 12 games, Dodger pitchers are hitting .375 (9-for-24), raising the staff's batting average to .175 (25-for-143), the second-best mark in the NL behind the Mets (.180).
PUT HIM ON THE BOARD – Former Dodger outfielder and current radio broadcaster Rick Monday has been named to the Board of Directors of the Citizens Flag Alliance. Last season, at the invitation of the U.S. Congress, Monday and his wife, Barbaralee were in Washington, D.C. to commemorate the 30th anniversary of an attempted flag burning at Dodger Stadium that was thwarted by the then-Chicago Cub outfielder.
SHOEMAKER SETS RECORD – The Double-A Jacksonville manager John Shoemaker piloted the Suns to his 303rd victory yesterday, surpassing the franchise record set by Tommy Thompson from 1985-88. Shoemaker, who has been a member of the Dodgers' minor league system since 1977, has led the Suns to two Southern League championships and has twice earned Manager of the Year honors. In the Suns' win yesterday, Chin-lung Hu had three hits and six RBI.
DID YOU KNOW?: It took a Dodger Stadium parking lot attendant to help launch the professional baseball career of Tommy Hutton, today a Marlins broadcaster. When Dodger scout Tommy Lasorda tried to enter the main parking lot one afternoon in 1964, he was stopped because he didn't have a pass. The attendant agreed to let Lasorda into the parking lot if he scouted his friend Hutton, a senior first baseman at nearby South Pasadena High School. Lasorda signed Hutton, who spent seven years in the Dodger system, including brief Major League appearances in 1966 and 1969. Hutton appeared in 952 career games with the Dodgers, Toronto Blue Jays, Montreal Expos and Philadelphia Phillies. His father, George Hutton, was a longtime Dodger Stadium usher who can be seen on videotape stationed behind home plate in the old dugout seats when Kirk Gibson hit his pinch-hit home run in the 1988 World Series against the Oakland Athletics.
SNUBBED? – Derek Lowe has pitched well enough to earn All-Star honors this season, as his 2.98 ERA is sixth in the NL, which is better than Cole Hamels (3.72), Roy Oswalt (3.52) and Ben Sheets (3.41), each of whom were named All-Stars. Lowe is tied for the Major League lead in complete games (3) and is fourth in the NL in innings pitched.
AT THE BOX OFFICE – The Dodgers' paid attendance last night was 51,050, the 17th time this season that the attendance has topped the 50,000 mark. In addition, the team passed the two million mark in attendance for the 34th consecutive season, a Major League Baseball record. The last time the Dodgers didn't get two million fans out to Chavez Ravine was in 1972 when the team finished in third place at 85-70.
HOME BOX OFFICE – The upcoming HBO special "Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush" examines the heyday and impact of the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1947 to 1957 in a two-part sports documentary that debuts this Wednesday, July 11. From Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier in 1947 to the team's move to Los Angeles at the end of the 1957 season, the show examines how the franchise has changed the landscape of sports.
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Oops! Make that GO D-LOWE!
Martin-Gonzo-Loney is very very nice. They will drive in some runs tonite.
Lowe was totally snubbed. He wasn't even put on the final vote.
yeah that documentary looks really good can't wait.
The Dodgers would still trade Lowe for Hamels, Oswalt or Sheets in a second. ERA isn't the only pitching stat that counts.
i don't know about that momo. All those guys you named are young and talented. You know Ned HATES that in a pitcher.
I'd say Lowe was snubbed in a big way.
i wouldn't trade lowe for sheets/hamels because both have injury histories and lowe is about as durable and reliable as you can get. Lowe deserves to be there as much as those guys.
Must win tonight to stay tied with the Pads. Great lineup and I look for nothing but perfection tonight!
Today is one of those days when we must practice our forgetting and teach ourselves how to have "closer's mentalities". Most of us are lucky 'cause we don't have to bring it on the field to try it out. I found today's blog very enjoyable reading. I hope the Dodgers don't let Sergio Mitre look like Tom Seaver, like they usually do to opposing pitchers when ever LOWE is on the mound. Com'on support this great pitcher of ours. I've been trying to find out on the mail bag who holds the Dodger's catchers stolen base record and I forgot to thank you yesterday that it was Con Daily in 1892. I have to say this team is very talented both young & the old. The starting pitching should improve, our bullpen is one of the best, the base running is getting better, the hitting is coming along but needs improvement in clutch situations. It's good to see 3 guys in double figures in HRS and 1 at 9. THE MARLINS GOT HELP FROM MERIWETHER YESTERDAY BUT WE MUST FUGGEDABOUDIT. TONIGHT'S ANOTHER NIGHT COM'ON GUY WE NEED THIS WIN. GO DODGERS!!!
Bring Meloan to THE SHOW!!
momoracci: what other stat is as important as the ERA?
GONZO up in the 4 hole.the lineups are starting to actually reflect some player performance, Kent should come back to the 5 hole, and if him or Nomar WANT to hit higher in the lineup theyll adjust,start hitting and WE WILL WIN !!!!
Measuring a pitcher using stats means looking at more than just one. Not saying ERA isn't the most important, but it's hardly the only one that matters. K/9, BB/9, H/9 WHIP, BABIP, OPS against, among others are also good indicators of a pitcher's ability.
and tomko needs to tomGO
BB/K Ratio ,BAA. then ERA and W/L in that order I feel are the best indicaters of pitchers abilities.That and weather or not the UMPS calling the games are blind idiots….
Among those three pitchers(Hamels,Oswalt,Sheets) the only one I would trade Lowe straight up for would be Hamels. Sheets is too injury proned, Oswalt and Lowe are about a wash, but I like Lowe's charisma a lot more than Oswalt.
I do like the notes Josh, keep posting them! Thanks!
I wouldn't get too excited about Gonzo in the 4 hole thats Grady's typical Abreu at 2nd lineup…Kent will be the cleanup spot when he plays again…
I hope Grady takes this opportunity of a few days off during the AS break to look at the numbers and make some adjustments to fine tune his decision making process.
those guys dont hit for lowe and its going to start killing his confidence. im really suprised as emo as he seems that this hasnt ALREADY drove him insane
lets face the fact that we have no cleanup hitter and kent and gonzo will alternate unless someone else goes on a ridiculous tear and forces a lineup change, which is unlikely.
Abreu is a late scratch, Kent is back in at 2nd base tonight
From Tony Jackson:
Tony Abreu was starting at second base, but he, in the words of Grady, "isn't feeling good." Grady said he didn't know if that meant illness or injury. Ethier is in right field while Kemp sits against Sergio Mitre.
SS Furcal
CF Pierre
C Martin
2B Kent
LF Gonzo
3B Nomar
1B Loney
RF Ethier
RH Lowe
thats why having a good arm in centerfield matters. If we don't score this inning its all because of his arm.
wow…Donnelly is horrible.
And our singles-hitting offense is horrible too.
Donnelly is a Grady favorite just like a number of other non-performers. Of course, it doesn't help that we have largely and old team that can only hit singles and can't run enough to score from second base.
HAHA we are gonna get swept by the Marlins. I hate to say it, but there lineup is much better then ours!
Our single hitting lineup is awful. We will not make the playoffs with this team. If you all are satisfied with this ****, then have fun with 2nd place.
Nice no hustle there Miggy!
Another typical LOWE game. Dodgers can't score. Now that Lowe is out maybe the Dodgers will put on their hitting shoes.
It will take 8 singles to score 3-4 runs to tie it up.
The notes are great by the way, Josh. Keep posting them!
this ones over. Im going to go play guitar or something.
Grady and Colletti, the clock is ticking, and McCourt is watching your collective failures. Your time is getting SHORT!!!
I hope Ned and the Florida GM are talking trade right now in the suite!
Next inning could be the inning. Mitre going for 100.
That was a Beautiful Play by Loney/Beimel.
Is that How a Real CF'er strikes out???
Thats what a Real firstbaseman looks like!
perhaps Grittle Cakes should consider this…
That would get Pierre out of the way and let those three get going.
With no power in the line up we Need to get our consistent hitters batting right behind one another.
thinking maybe we should have walked Miggy and tried for the double play wiht Jacobs.
Well I least we weren't beaten by an ump. Dodgers had no trouble hitting(12 singles) but scoring, that's another story. LET'S HOPE FOR BETTER LUCK AGAINST SCOTT OLSON. GO DODGERS!!
including the notes is great — if i don't have time, i just skip over them. when i do have time, they're nice to have.
one question though: would you mind including the game time when you post the lineups? it'd be nice to know what time to tune in to the game without having to look it up elsewhere.
did anyone notice how ethier and not gonzo was removed from the game after 2 ABs for kemp? maybe im reading into things but i really think management is not too fond of him right now.
Nah, it's a real simple reason. Grady was trying to save his taxed bullpen, Ethier batted last in the previous inning so he double switched him out with Kemp in order to ensure Beimel could pitch two innings.
The other reason may be that Ethier just is not performing this year. You need better productivity from a regular corner outfielder, and this platooning with Kemp does not seem to be working to the benefit of either. Kemp is starting to show up poorly as well. I would not mind if we traded Ethier for some good value.
Interesting sideline from Tony Jackson's blog concerning the fate of Tomko with the Dodgers.
Without predicting what will happen, Tony mentions that McCourt is among those thinking that the $49 million spent on Schmidt has been wasted, and releasing Tomko will be another $3 million thrown away – $2 mil. in remaining salary this year, plus $1 mil for not exercising next year's option on Tomko. The impression is that McCourt may be somewhat fed up with wasting millions, or perhaps more specifically with Colletti's wasting of his millions. Thinking about it that way, he may not be in a mood to allow many more millions potentially wasted by any trade that Colletti will undertake. Colletti may be on a short leash in that respect. My own preference would be to see both Colletti and Little gone at the end of the season. They have done nothing but saddle this team with "declining performance" veterans and wasted payroll dollars that should have brought us to a World Series.
The low comment count on this thread is a sort of indicator of how I feel: as long as Kent, Nomar, Pierre and injured Furcal plays daily, that is four spots you can at most hope for the occasional single from ( Kent provides some deep fly balls with his warning track power, meaning he's the only one of the four that could a sac fly could be hoped for from ) It is hardly worth commenting on it anymore: this year's team's offense is nasty bad, and now that the bell tolls for the pitching, this is a rather bad team. There's always next year, but oh dear, Nomar will be back, Kent will be back. Le sigh indeed. I'd be surprised if this team makes the playoffs, really. Too many bases loaded on singles and then nothing more has make me seriously doubt the ability of this team to deliver the goods in the clutch.
Please Colletti, don't be dumb and trade away the young players for more declining veterans at the trade deadline. You're turning this team into the Giants.
Oh wait …
Yes, add Furcal as another wasted umpteen million, since we tolerate having him play injured or certainly less than he could be. He'll wind up playing healthy for us about half of the time of his contract.
I usually perfer waiting until the lineup is posted before I post a comment, unless I have something that I want to report right away. In other cases, like right now I won't be around when the lineup is posted. I will be spending the day at the feast of San Paolino di Nola at Our Lady of Mount Carmel in B'KLYN. Today is one of two Sundays they carry the Giglio. It's a four ton 75ft tower that is carried by 150 men with the music playing. I wouldn't miss it for the world. When that ends I'll go home to watch the completion of the Dodger Game. I'll be leaving in about 15 minutes. I wonder if this game today will make or brake TOMKO. If he gets shelled right away it should be cutins for him. I know that LITTLE has faith he'll turn himself around. I haven't heard from too many people that have the same faith. I think I'll say a prayer for him at the church today. THIS IS A MUST GAME___GO GO GO DODGERS!
Here's a lineup that I would like to see:
Pierre CF
Martin C
Loney 1B
Kent 2B
Gonzo LF
Kemp RF
Nomar 3B
Furcal SS
Hendrickson P
I'd rather see:
Pierre CF
Martin C
Loney 1B
Gonzo LF
Kemp RF
Betemit 3B
Furcal SS
Abreu 2B
myself. Anything that doesn't have both Nomar and Kent in there seems palatable.
Tsk, who am I kidding? They're going to be there for the next two years.
Yes, I'd rather see that lineup as well, griffon, because it would lay the foundation for better performance going into next year, but it's probably not realistic given that we're so committed to Kent and Nomar sadly for at least another year. My placement of Furcal at the bottom of the lineup is also strictly based on management's insistance that they are going to keep playing him, hurt ankle or not.


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How to change the default browser in Visual Studio programmatically with PowerShell and possibly poke yourself in the eye
UPDATE: Why my own MacGyver solution was brilliant in its horrible way, the folks over at World of VS have taken up the challenge and created a proper Visual Studio extension that you should use. I'll chat with them and get some details and maybe a write-up of how they did it. So, while I encourage you to enjoy my tale below, go get the World of VS Default Browser Switcher now!
I've heard and seen lots of complaints about how it's hard to set the default browser that Visual Studio launches when you launch a debug session for a website.
Step 0 - Adequate
Folks spend time hunting around the Tools|Options dialog in Visual Studio looking for setting. They eventually realize it's not in there at all, but instead you have to right-click on an ASPX page within a Web Project and click "Browse With..."
From this dialog you can click Set Default, which is totally obvious, right my daimies? Um, no. This doesn't work for ASP.NET MVC people who use other view engines and might not even have a .ASPX file in their solution. Plus, it's slow and irritating. Sa da tay.
It IS interesting that I can add other browsers, like Google Chrome to this dialog via Add. Note that Google Chrome installs in C:\Users\Scott\appdata\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe which may not be c:\Program Files where you usually go hunting for these things.
"What my thought process was" - or - "CSI: Visual Studio Default Browser"
Where is this browser information stored? That was my first question. Remember that your computer is NOT a black box. Even good programmers make this mistake and they "flip this switch and hope that light turns on" without confirming that the switch and the light are connected with good wire and they know how electricity works.
I can guess all day, or I can open up ProcMon and just see for myself. Seriously, learn how to use this freaking tool. You can flip light switches all day or you can just open up the wall and see the wires. If you know how to use Process Monitor competently, people of both sexes will immediately find you more attractive. It's true. I get all sorts of free Tacos and Chips when folks look can I run ProcMon like Keanu Reeves can look sad.
I fired ProcMon up set it to only show the devenv.exe process, and I took a chance and set 'contains browser' for the path. If this didn't work I'd open the flood gates and start sifting a bit. I could also have said 'highlight' things with the word browser if I liked.
I launch VS, open the Browse With dialog and sweet sassy mollassy. Look at all that good stuff.
Oh, fonts too small, let me zoom in.
Looks like we're reading values out of the registry at HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\WebBrowser\ConfigTimestamp and...
...reading out of the browsers.xml file at C:\Users\Scott\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\browsers.xml.
What's in that file? I'm guessing XML with no schema, given it was probably 2003 when someone wrote this.
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Name>Google Chrome</Name>
I've seen folks attempt to change this with various extensions in Visual Studio and using automation calls within Visual Studio, but to the best of my knowledge, this feature has been in here for years and years and there's no way to get at it programmatically.
Step 1 - Slightly Awesome
Interestingly as well, my first attempt at changing the browser programmatically consisted of this brilliance:
C:\Users\Scott\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0>copy "browsers - firefox.xml" browsers.xml /y
1 file(s) copied.
But, it seems that those registry keys are serious and really used for something, because each time I opened Browse With... I found my changes thrown away, probably because VS isn't watching for file for change notification, but rather caching the file in memory.
Looks like a job for PowerShell (yes, I know can do this with batch files, but PowerShell is way batter, so nyah. Learn it.)
First I need to figure out what's going on in this registry. If I got to that key (by right-clicking the key within ProcMon and clicking Jump To), then right-click on the key in the Registry Editor I get:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
Ok, so that's the location of the file we already know about, and looks like the file size in hex, as well as some magic goo for CacheFileDateLastMod and LastConfigurationTimestamp.
One at a time. The CacheFileSizeBytes is easy. Did you know that the Windows 7 calculator was quietly upgraded while you were out there not learning how to convert hex in your head? It's true! (Yes, you can also just look at the decimal value in the Registry, but again, this is more fun. Yes, you could always convert between Hex and Dec in calc.exe, but again, fun. What's your beef? ;) )
Click Dec(imal) and looks like 230 bytes, the size of my browser.xml file. What's the deal with those mod dates, though? They a probably a Windows file time, if they aren't ticks. Ticks are seconds since 1970-1-1 and a Windows FileTime is the number of 100-nanosecond ticks since 1601-1-1 rounded to the nearest millisecond. Why? Because 1601 was an awesome year. I mean, the Battle of Kinsale stopped the siege in Kinsale, Ireland, and famine killed half the Estonians. Sheesh, that was a horrible year! What were we thinking!?
Anyway, the easiest way to convert something you think might be a Date into a Date (and reason number 0x3b for you to finally learn PowerShell) is this line in PowerShell.
PS C:\> [DateTime]129268523480000000
Saturday, August 21, 0410 8:19:08 AM
Lemme do that again against a blue background with a screenshot so you really believe me.
Oh yes, I'm on a horse. Cool. Those are FileTimes. So, tappity tappity and here's a PowerShell script to check the current values and output them for testing.
cd C:\Users\Scott\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0
$browsers = [xml](get-content 'browsers.xml')
$browsers.BrowserInfo.Browser.Name + " " + $browsers.BrowserInfo.Browser.Path
$regkey = "HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\WebBrowser\ConfigTimestamp"
"LastConfigTimestamp: " + ([DateTime](get-itemproperty $regkey).LastConfigurationTimestamp).ToLocalTime()
"CacheFileDateLastMod: " + ([DateTime](get-itemproperty $regkey).CacheFileDateLastMod).ToLocalTime()
"CacheFileSizeBytes: " + (get-itemproperty $regkey).CacheFileSizeBytes
I'll go and develop and run this script in the PowerShell ISE (that's S for Scripting) that you already have on your computer. Freaky how Microsoft sneaks stuff like this on your machine. If you've got Windows 7, you're already got this.
I run Visual Studio and click Browse|With... a few times and watch the values change. Seems I need the SET to my GET script, so why not something like this. I've made copies of browsers.xml like browsers-chrome and browsers-firefox. You can do the same if you like.
cd C:\Users\Scott\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0
copy '.\browsers - firefox.xml' .\browsers.xml
$regkey = "HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\WebBrowser\ConfigTimestamp"
set-itemproperty $regkey -name LastConfigurationTimestamp -value (&{[DateTime]::Now.ToUniversalTime().ToFileTime()}) -type qword
set-itemproperty $regkey -name CacheFileDateLastMod -value (&{((dir .\browsers.xml).LastWriteTimeUtc).ToFileTime()}) -type qword
set-itemproperty $regkey -name CacheFileSizeBytes -value (&{(dir .\browsers.xml).Length}) -type dword
What I am doing in this script? I'm copying my browser xml over the main one AND I'm updating the TimeStamp to now to get Visual Studio to re-read the file. Visual Studio seems to be checking and triple checking and if the CacheFileDateLastMod and CacheFileSizeBytes don't reflect reality, it will freak out and just delete my file completely and rebuild a new browsers.xml from scratch. Paranoid.
You can go and fancy these scripts up with command-line parameters all you want because you're a better programmer than I, but I am all Save|As, baby. I have "UpdateDefaultBrowserToChrome.ps1" and, yes, wait for it, "UpdateDefaultBrowserToFireFox.ps1" and I sleep at night just fine, thank you very much.
I can right click on them on my desktop and select Run with PowerShell if I like.
But...still....it could be more awesome. Darn my parents and the work ethic they instilled in me as a small child.
Step 2 - Extremely Awesome
You can run PowerShell scripts from the regular not-really-DOS command line like this if you like.
C:\Users\Scott\Desktop>powershell .\UpdateDefaultVSBrowserToChrome.ps1
I could even install PowerConsole and run these commands from INSIDE Visual Studio 2010 if I like and I want to rip a hole in the space time continuum. My, is that intellisense inside PowerShell inside Visual Studio? Double sun power!!!!
Still, this doesn't fit my mindless point and click mouse-like workflow. I'll go to Tools | External Tools and add two. Make sure you select the right PowerShell, which will be x86 even if you're on x64 so you correctly access the registry. I also checked Use Output window and added a single line of text at the bottom of each script.
Nice, but why not a toolbar?
Step 3 - Profit! I mean, Profoundly Awesome!
Right click on any Toolbar, this Customize and add buttons for External Tools (in my case #6 and #7) and...
Which gives me this when I click:
And shows this in Browse With, showing me it worked:
Yay! Enjoy.
Roll Up Instructions
- Go to C:\Users\YOURNAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0
- Make a bunch of browser-whatever xml files for your browsers, or populate your list from Visual Studio, then make copies.
- Make yourself a few of these (or make one that switches if you're awesome)
cd C:\Users\YOURNAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0
copy '.\browsers - CUSTOMBROWSER.xml' .\browsers.xml
$regkey = "HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\WebBrowser\ConfigTimestamp"
set-itemproperty $regkey -name LastConfigurationTimestamp -value (&{[DateTime]::Now.ToUniversalTime().ToFileTime()}) -type qword
set-itemproperty $regkey -name CacheFileDateLastMod -value (&{((dir .\browsers.xml).LastWriteTimeUtc).ToFileTime()}) -type qword
set-itemproperty $regkey -name CacheFileSizeBytes -value (&{(dir .\browsers.xml).Length}) -type dword
"Bam, son. Browser changed to CUSTOM BROWSER."
- Add some external tools that call PowerShell with your new scripts as parameters.
- Add toolbar buttons if you feel like it.
- Go write a proper Visual Studio 2010 extension that does all this and packages it up in one click, put in on the VS Gallery and impress your friends and family. Crap. Now *I* need to do that for my next post, don't I? Shoot. Kzu? Give me a call and teach me how to do this.
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This past weekend I was in Salt Lake, Utah for the Salt Lake City Half Marathon. It was a little work and a little bit of running. I helped with the Gear Check area at the Start Line and as soon as the start of the race took off, I ran up to the start line and ran the race. So, Utah is beautiful. Like beyond amazing. Love the area, people and weather (while we were there).
It was pretty cool seeing all the stuff from when the Olympics were there, in 2002.
The views were pretty spectacular throughout the entire time I was there and the weather was perfect. It was a little warm on Saturday, race morning, but nothing that was unbearable if you were properly dressed and all sunscreened up!
View from the Start Line, the day before the race.
My co-worker and I from the top of the Legacy Bridge, aka the start line the day before the race
Even in Utah, I find portapotties to hug! :) Setting up wasn't too bad the two days prior to the race, so that was nice. I carbo loaded the entire weekend with great food and some delicious Utah brews. Polygamy Porter anyone?! We actually stayed about 20 minutes outside of Salt Lake, in Park City and wow, it was beautiful.
Race morning came early through since we had to be there to help set up before the race. We arrived at 4:00 and started setting up gear check and helped participants with that. It was fun and the vibe at the start line is always exciting. I was tired but it was okay because as soon as I ran over to the start line and filled in with everyone else I was ready to run and excited to be on my way. I started my music and even though I was in the back it was a good way to start slow and then work up to my normal running pace.
I wish these photos were lighter because the scenery was just so pretty! Such a great area to run in. The miles ticked by rather quickly though and before I knew it we were at mile 4 and 5 and 6. I was enjoying running and the warm weather.
There were a few parts that we ran directly into the sun though, which made me super happy that I had my sunglasses. It was pretty hilly, not steep but a few ups and downs, but the race continued to go by quickly. I wasn't feeling it in my lungs, and did try to drink a lot of water during the race, but my legs were pretty sore. I think it's because of the elevation that they were extra sore because normally I don't have issues with them getting super tired or cramping and they were hurting by mile 10. Since I was on my feet helping out all morning I also think my feet were tired by mile 10 because of that. It wasn't too bad though and I just kept my eyes on the things around me that I was passing and enjoyed everything going on. Giving little kids high fives and thanking people for coming out always makes the miles go by quicker.
We ran through a lot of beautiful neighborhoods, a few really pretty parks and there were a few people out on the course cheering, holding up signs. It was fun to see the community come out a little bit to support the race. I got the same feeling that I had from Arkansas Marathon where people were so excited that the race was happening, so that was fun.
The last two miles were, in my opinion, pretty meh. You finish downtown and with heading downtown the area gets a little blah and more industrial, and the last mile was pretty much UPHILL. I wanted to die. My legs were pretty sore from the elevation and this did not help them. I walked the last part of the hill because I was pretty tired and sore thus far. Finally, I saw the finish line after I curved around the latter part of the hill and kicked it into high gear! Well not so much high gear, but I finished in 2:08 and was pretty happy with that. I also didn't feel any pain in my IT band while running either, which was really good.
I am pretty stoked that it wasn't as hard as I expected and I finished before 2:15. I wish I would have trained and pushed harder, but at the same time, I didn't want to get injured and am looking forward to my mini triathlon this weekend!
The post race food was delish! Awesome Popsicles, chocolate milk, water, banana, I may or may not have taken two Popsicles. By the time I finished it was pretty hot out and I'm glad I wasn't running the full. The medal has a little spinner thing on it too which is cool.
We flew back home Saturday night and I tried to stretch but I could tell my legs were really tight from the elevation and that hill at the end. It's all in my quads which is weird because they never get that sore, but oh well. It was a great race with all the right amenities! I had a lot of fun and really loved spending some time in Utah. :)


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DPLM Faculty Profiles — Dr. Weck
Karen E. Weck, MD
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Dr. Weck's recent research efforts are focused on developing pharmacogenetic testing to predict response to drug therapy. Her laboratory is collaborating in several clinical trials at UNC to study the clinical utility of pharmacogenomic guided therapy. One ongoing clinical trial is a prospective randomized study to determine the utility of pharmacogenomic guided dosing of warfarin, incorporating genotyping for variants in the VKORC1 and CYP2C9 genes associated with altered warfarin response. Dr. Weck is a member of the International Warfarin Pharmacogenomics Consortium, whose goals are to study the effect of clinical and genetic factors on warfarin response and to devise a pharmacogenomic dosing algorithm for warfarin. This work has resulted in two recent publications. Plans are underway to further analyze genomic and clinical factors associated with warfarin response in different ethnic populations including African Americans. In addition, Dr. Weck has collaborated with a group in Brazil to identify VKORC1 mutations associated with warfarin resistance. Dr. Weck has is also a co-investigator in a multicenter collaborative clinical trial to study the efficacy of CYP2D6 genotype-guided dosing for tamoxifen in breast cancer that includes UNC and several other sites across North Carolina. The preliminary results of this trial indicated that CYP2D6 genotype-guided dosing of tamoxifen resulted in normalization of plasma concentration of endoxifen, the active metabolite of tamoxifen, in women who are CYP2D6 intermediate metabolizers. The tamoxifen trial has been expanded to include 500 women across North Carolina, with escalated recruitment of African American and Hispanic women. Dr. Weck is also collaborating with investigators in the Departments of Cardiology to conduct a clinical trial on the efficacy of CYP2C19 genotype-guided dosing for clopidogrel.
Another major effort is translation of new knowledge of the genetic causes of disease into diagnostic testing. Dr. Weck's laboratory has developed mutation testing for genes associated with primary ciliary dyskinesia, X-linked Alport syndrome, and focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS). The goal is to better characterize the spectrum, incidence and genotype-phenotype correlation of mutations associated with disease and to develop clinical testing in those genes with clinical utility. The UNC molecular genetics laboratory is now one of the only laboratories in the country that offers clinical genetic testing for mutations associated with these diseases. Finally, efforts are underway to incorporate whole exome sequencing technology for clinical diagnosis. Dr. Weck collaborated on a study to evaluate the accuracy of massively parallel sequencing for detection of genetic variants associated with primary ciliary dyskinesia, published recently in the journal Genetics in Medicine. She is co-investigator on two new NIH grant submissions to continue this work.
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Chapter 9, page 274-275.
James G. Blaine was a lawyer, teacher, journalist and politician.
He served in the Maine Legislature and then in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1863-1876, serving as Speaker from 1869-1875.
He also served as U.S. Senator from Maine, 1876-81 and U.S. Secretary of State, 1881, 1889-92.
Blaine was a national leader in the Republican party.
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In an 1879 letter to G.L. Randall, James G. Blaine requested that Randall form a Republican Club in his neighborhood.
Blaine, who moved to Maine in 1854 from Pennsylvania, was a prominent and influential leader in the Republican party.
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Chapter 9, page 274-276.
In 1888, Albert H. Horton, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Kansas, wrote to John A. Stevens regarding the upcoming Republican convention.
Horton's letter indicates that the Kansas delegation intended to cast its votes for James Blaine, despite Blaine's letter of declination.
Blaine was the Republican candidate for president in 1884. He had been unsuccesful in gaining the party's nomination in 1876 and 1880.
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Chapter 9, page 274-276.
As evidenced by this pro-Blaine letter, Republican supporters across the country continued to rally for James Blaine's nomination as presidential candidate, despite his stated intention to decline such a nomination.
In this 1888 letter, S.B. Elkins states that the West Virginia delegates will be split in their votes, and notes that Blaine's letter declining the nomination has caused confusion among delegates.
The letter also mentions tariff policy, an important political issue of the day.
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By the late 1800s, James Blaine was one of the most powerful Republican politicians in the country.
This 1888 letter, written by Andrew van Bibber of Ohio, confirms Blaine's popularity and notes that "there are thousands in the west who will wade twenty miles through mud to vote for him."
The document also mentions tariff reform, and indicates that without Blaine in the presidential race, the outcome for Republicans is doubtful.
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Portland native Thomas Brackett Reed (1839-1902) was one of the political giants of his day.
Admitted to the Maine Bar in 1865, he soon entered politics and in 1876 was elected to the U.S. Congress from Maine's First District. He was continuously elected to that office, authoring "Reeds Rules of Procedures," a controversial measure that kept political parties from blocking House action on bills.
Reed was Speaker of the House from 1889-1891 and 1895-1898. His revitalization of Congress and his blunt but effective approach earned him the nickname of "Czar" Reed.
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Situated just off the West coast of Scotland the Isle of Arran is arguably one of the most beautiful and dramatic islands in Europe. The splendour and diversity of the landscape has led it to be considered by many as Scotland in miniature. Nestled between the islands largest mountain, Goatfell and the imposing Brodick Castle lies Arran Brewery which has been brewing award winning craft beer for over a decade.
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A long-serving Tory MP says Rob Anders was wrong in the divisive approach he took in the Conservative nomination race in Calgary Signal Hill.
Anders, the 17-year MP for Calgary West, was defeated for the nomination in the new riding by former provincial cabinet minister Ron Liepert on Saturday evening.
Anders had framed the Signal Hill campaign as a "battle for the soul of the Conservative party," depicting himself as a true blue conservative under attack by Red Tories and party outsiders.
But Calgary East MP Deepak Obhrai — like Anders, first elected as a Reform MP in 1997 — said it is disrespectful to dismiss voters as Red Tories or Blue Tories
"It's a totally wrong way to do that," Obhrai said in an interview Monday. "People have different views. A candidate espouses that view, certain people will like that view, others do not.
"You cannot call them names by putting them into boxes. The most important thing is the constituents speaking. It was not Blue Tories or Red Tories who spoke at his nomination, it was the constituents of Calgary Signal Hill who spoke."
Obhrai said that in contrast to Anders, Liepert had "reached out to everyone."
"In the case of Mr. Anders, the people spoke. And Mr. Anders, for all the years that he was there, it is for him to ensure that he held the support of that membership," he added.
About 2,400 votes were cast in the nomination, with sources indicating Liepert took about three-quarters.
Calgary Centre North MP Michelle Rempel said the keen interest in the wide-open nomination contest in Signal Hill is a sign of strength for the Conservative Party.
"We have a wide range of views on different issues and that's not a bad thing," she said, adding that the common thread among members is "basic conservative principles."
"There is a lot of room within that definition to come up with good policy."
Calgary Centre MP Joan Crockatt — who won a tough nomination fight in 2011 — said "this is a big tent party and we want all Tories to feel they have a place in it."
The right wing in Canada was split in the 1990s between the Reform party and the Progressive Conservatives before the two sides were brought back together in the Conservative Party in 2003.
A smaller version of that civil war is currently underway in Alberta, with the four-decade old PC government taking on the Wildrose Party.
Liepert was the Progressive Conservative MLA for Calgary-West between 2004 and 2012, and served in a variety of cabinet posts under Ed Stelmach and Alison Redford.
He is the second candidate with provincial PC ties to win a Conservative nomination locally in just over a month. John Barlow, who lost to Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith as the PC candidate in Highwood in 2012, clinched the federal Tory nod in March for the upcoming byelection in Macleod.
Barlow said there were undertones of the conservative divide in the Macleod nomination race, but less than he thought there would be.
"It wasn't a significant factor in the race," he said.
"There's certainly that handful of people out there that if you don't subscribe to what they believe in, you're liberal, there's no way around that . . . but I think it's being made out more than what's really there."
Anders — who did not return messages left Monday — has been a vocal supporter of the Wildrose Party.
But Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith, who has known Anders since they were University of Calgary students, made clear she was not planning on recruiting him for a provincial run.
"Rob Anders has had a very long career in public service. I think the electors of his riding spoke pretty loud and clearly and I think he'd probably benefit from taking some time in the private sector," she said.
"That would be my advice to him, is that probably after 17 years serving the public, he should probably do something else for a while."
Anders — a staunch fiscal and social conservative — has been best known over the years for a series of controversial comments and actions, including being the sole MP to vote against honorary citizenship for Nelson Mandela.
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Getting some shopping in model Heidi Klum and her family take advantage of the black Fridays great deals. Heidi looks amazing and was joined by her beautiful family daughter Leni and mom Erna.
Actress Mary-Louise Parker 45 years old and her son, 5-year-old William Atticus, took a walk in Washington Square in New York City on(November 26) when they ran into actor Alec Baldwin!!! So cute pictures
Tiger Woods ok after car crash
Very good news for tiger and his family! Golfer Tiger Woods is now out of the hospital after a car accident that occurred in the early morning of Friday Police had classified his injuries as "serious," but Susan Jackson, senior vice-president of Health Central Hospital, said it was "a minor car accident," CBC sports reports.
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Hi, I have recently discovered that the "Amilocam" webcam on my laptop is unavailable to applications - e.g. YouCam or Skype. The webcam appears in Device Manager as working correctly & can be turned on or off via Fn-F7. Youcam says "cannot connect to camera" "try closing applications that may be using it etc". I'm not aware of any other applications that could be using the webcam.
This may have happened as a result of plugging in another external webcam. However, that might be a red herring as it's some time since I checked the "Amilocam" was working. Just in case, I tried installing the drivers for the external webcam, then removing it & de-installing the driver. Also tried removing the "Amilocam" in device manager (Listed as USB Camera - can't see any further info on device type/model), rebooting & allowing it to re-install. When I open Skype & look at the webcam config, this causes Skype to crash.
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Honors Frequently Asked Questions
What are the benefits of being in the Honors Program?
Please view the Honors Program Benefits page for details.
Are honors courses harder than other courses?
Honors courses are not necessarily harder than other University courses; however, they are designed to challenge students in ways that will make them independent learners and prepare them for their future careers and educational goals. In general, the courses are more student-centered and interdisciplinary in their focus. Students are expected to shape the classroom experience more actively and to pursue topics that interest them in greater depth.
Are honors courses offered at special times or on a special schedule? Or are they just like regular courses?
No, honors courses are not offered at special times. They are scheduled as any other University course would be scheduled. This allows you to add other courses into your honors schedule.
Will I be able to participate in Honors while pursuing any major at SXU?
Yes! Students can pursue any major at this University and also be in the Honors Program. Faculty and staff advisors will help you integrate the requirements of your major with those of the Honors Program.
Do I qualify for an additional scholarship if I am in the Honors Program?
Unfortunately, outside of the Honors Student Development Grants for juniors and seniors, there are no additional scholarships offered at Saint Xavier University that are reserved solely for students in the Honors Program.
Will my AP credit count for honors requirements?
All AP credit will count, whether for honors core requirements or other University core requirements.
Do honors students live together in residence halls?
Honors students live together during their freshman year only. Having an honors floor in the freshman residence hall provides honors students with the opportunity to forge a community with their peers both inside and outside of the classroom.
Can I be in honors and graduate a semester early? A year early?
The Honors Program is designed to enrich the undergraduate experience, but not necessarily to expedite it. However, it may be possible for students to graduate early if they have completed all University, major and honors requirements.
Does it cost more to be an honors student?
No. Book costs and all other University costs relative to your major are the same for Honors students. And, in fact, the Student Development Grants offered to juniors and seniors in the Honors Track can help absorb some of the additional expenses incurred through travel study or conference attendance.
How do I become a member of the Honors Program?
Admission to the Honors Program is based on your credentials and is by invitation. Please see the Honors Program home page for details. If you have received an invitation, you may call 773-298-3240, email firstname.lastname@example.com or return the prepaid green postcard included in your invitation packet to accept and hold your place on our fall roster. You may accept our invitation into the Honors Program even if you have not yet decided whether to attend Saint Xavier University. It is best to secure a place as soon as possible and changes can be made later if necessary.
What if I want to join the Honors Program later?
For students who do not meet the qualifications for honors out of high school, speak with the director after your first semester at Saint Xavier. If spaces are available, we are happy to admit highly motivated students who have demonstrated their academic proficiency.
If you have been invited into the program, we recommend you begin in honors your first semester. There are no penalties or difficulties in leaving the program if you discover it is not right for you. If you choose to continue, however, you will have already completed some of the requirements.