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Enrollment levels off at Northwestern Connecticut Community College
WINSTED >> Northwestern Connecticut Community College may be the smallest community college in Connecticut, but its enrollment has followed the economic waves, as has their use of online courses.
At 1,423 students, Northwestern Connecticut Community College ranks behind Asnuntuck Community College in Enfield as the state's smallest by enrollment. However, the college is growing as much as finances permit, as the nursing program has accepted 30 students for its second class compared to the inaugural class's cohort of 24. College president Barbara Douglass noted that their enrollment, which had been growing steadily in recent years, is plateauing thanks in part to external factors.
"Our enrollment is really leveling off because of the decline in the recent high school graduation cohort," said Douglass.
As of the fall 2012 semester, Northwestern Connecticut Community College has just 464 full-time students and 959 part-time students, making the college the only community college in the system with less than 1,000 part-time students. According to the college catalog, part-time students are those taking less than 12 credit hours per semester. Overall, Connecticut's 12 community colleges have 58,228 total students, including 38,627 part-time students.
"We didn't have the double-digit spikes that Housatonic might have had," Douglass said, "but now everybody's in the same boat."
Part of the reason that enrollment is leveling off at Northwestern Connecticut Community College is that Connecticut, as a whole, is not quite as appealing of a destination as other states. Douglass said that people are not moving into the state as much as they are moving into California or Texas, and the college may have to pursue other avenues to boost enrollment.
"Our average age is about 26," said Douglass, "and for about four or five years, we saw growth in the 18-19 year old age groups, but that's leveling off."
As of the fall 2011 semester, 52 percent of Northwestern Connecticut Community College's student body was age 24 and under, while 48 percent was 25 and older. This is not far off from other colleges in the system, as Housatonic Community College -- cited by Douglass for their growth -- has a student body composed of 58 percent of people ages 24 and under. Gateway Community College in New Haven has the largest enrollment at 7,976, 55 percent of which is age 24 and below. Manchester Community College and Naugatuck Valley Community College, the next two largest community colleges at 7,692 and 7,419, also have wider splits in their enrollment.
Manchester Community College's student body skews much younger, as 68 percent of their enrollment is 24 and younger. David Nielsen, the director of planning, research and development at Manchester Community College, said that while he was not sure what factors might directly lead to that breakdown, the school has numerous demographic differences that play a role in their enrollment.
"We have many more towns that are more populated to draw from than Northwestern," said Nielsen, adding that "Hartford is our third most popular town."
With 700 students from the state's capital, Hartford's contribution to Manchester Community College would equal half of Northwestern Connecticut Community College's total enrollment. Naugatuck Valley Community College also has a similar pattern thanks to their proximity to Waterbury, Naugatuck and Danbury, three major population centers which contribute substantial numbers of young students. According to the college's institutional research report, 2,051 students come from Waterbury, 845 from Danbury and 671 from Naugatuck, accounting for over half of their student body from their service region and nearly 50 percent of their total enrollment.
"We pull a lot of our students from Waterbury and Naugatuck," said spokesperson Alison O'Leary. "They're big towns."
Naugatuck Valley Community College's gravitational pull is also enhanced by their financial aid packages, free bus passes to certain towns and their Bridge to College programs, which helps get the college's name out in front of high school students in Waterbury. These factors help contribute to a student body which has 64 percent of the college's enrollment aged 24 and under.
"They're able to come on to campus and get additional support," said O'Leary.
Meanwhile, Manchester Community College has "just historically attracted a younger audience," Nielsen said, noting that "it's the campus atmosphere" that appeals to younger students as well. But the school is looking to branch out and expand its enrollment with older students -- not unlike Northwestern Connecticut Community College.
"We're trying to attract more of that non-traditional demographic," said Nielsen.
Some of these efforts include offering classes online, accelerated programs or hybrid classes. Manchester Community College is also looking to target specific needs in the job market and set up retraining programs with a smaller number of credits. Nielsen added that "we've had quite a bit of growth in our online program," which is an avenue that Northwestern Connecticut Community College is already pursuing.
According to Beverly King, the director of educational technology for Northwestern Connecticut Community College, 35 of the 200 for-credit sections are available online, as are 20 of their 70 non-credit sections. In all, 455 students are taking at least one online course, totaling 31 percent of the enrolled credit students for the spring 2013 semester. The college also offers every course to complete a general studies degree online as well.
"We have seen consistent growth since offering our first online course in 1999," King wrote in an email. "For example, in the past five years, we have gone from 25 online courses with 375 enrolled seats to 35 online courses with 675 enrolled seats."
However, more interest does not necessarily mean more courses. O'Leary noted that Naugatuck Valley Community College has actually pared down their online offerings in response to demand.
"Over the last five years," O'Leary wrote in an email, "we've actually reduced the number of online credit courses in order to focus on the types of courses that best support our student population."
Reach Jason Siedzik at (860) 489-3121, ext. 321 or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/RCjsiedzik.


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Intel has dropped a stink bomb into its ongoing dust-up with the US Federal Trade Commission over allegations of anticompetitive practices, revealing a 2004 communication in which AMD's then-top salesman referred to his own company as "pathetic" and said he "would never buy AMD for a personal system if I wasn't workin here."
The AMD honcho who authored those damning words was chief sales and marketing officer Henri Richard, whose departure was announced in August 2007 and described as being "on completely amicable terms."
Richard's unusual candor was quoted in a 25-page Intel filing (PDF) with the FTC on December 31, 2009, but only now made public.
The tone of Intel's argument against the FTC's charges is summed up by its opening sentence: "The Complaint paints a picture of competition for microprocessors and graphics products that bears little resemblance to reality."
Although Intel settled its legal wrangling with AMD last November for a cool $1.25bn - which AMD quickly used to pay down a good chunk of its massive debt - the FTC leveled a complaint against Chipzilla in mid-December, alleging that the world's largest microprocessor manufacturer "has illegally used its dominant market position for a decade to stifle competition and strengthen its monopoly."
Intel, as might be imagined, disagrees. "The Complaint seeks to characterize Intel as a technological laggard in microprocessors, a claim that disregards the facts disclosed in AMD's own documents in the Commission's records," Intel's filing reads. "AMD itself considered Intel to be the technology leader."
Intel offers Richard's statements as proof:
In 2004, AMD Executive Vice President Henri Richard, the company's highest ranking sales executive, declared internally that "If you look at it, with an objective set of eyes, you would never buy AMD. I certainly would never buy AMD for a personal system if I wasn't workin here."
Mr. Richard described AMD as "pathetic" for "selling processors rather than platforms [as Intel did] and exposing a partial story, particularly in the commercial segment, that is clearly inferior to Intel's, if we want to be honest with ourselves." He added that AMD is saddled with a reputation that "we're cheap, less reliable, lower quality consumer type product."
The filing goes on to argue that "AMD's inability to execute was a recurring problem," that "it was unable to manage its supply network and failed to deliver on supply commitments to many of its customers," and that its "acquisition of Dell as a customer, rather than bringing added success to the company, marked the beginning of a backward slide."
According to the Intel filing, it wasn't anticompetive practices that harmed AMD. "AMD alienated loyal customers, prompting them to switch business to Intel."
In other words, Intel argues, if AMD found itself in a world of hurt, it was because they brought it upon themselves. ®
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We have been keeping you up to date on the latest Xbox 360° rumors as they appear, but this one takes the cake. Claiming they have an inside source, Kotaku has revealed more Xbox 360° details. If they are right, the next Xbox will certainly look a lot better looking than the first – it will be a sleek silver set top worthy of being a countertop display, have curves instead of angles, and will be able to stand upright much like the PS2. Its side will have an oversized back-lit power button, nicnamed "The Ring of Light". This Xbox will also be easy to customize with the use of colorful designer face plates that simply pop on and off. Even the dashboard will be customizable to fit each user's unique taste. Kotaku was even able to confirm some of the inner workings of the Xbox 360°. The console will feature high definition audio/video, include wireless controllers, and will come in two packages – one with an internal hard drive and another without the hard drive. According to Kotaku's source, Microsoft has not been able to achieve backward compatible functionality on its next box - but they are working on making it happen. This information confirms some rumors that we have been informing you about, but we must stress that this information has to be considered a rumor until official confirmation is made public by Microsoft. Until that day comes, we can drool over these details.
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Clinical Trials
Interferon-Gamma Release Assays in Tuberculosis (TB) - HIV Co-infected Children
Verified August 2010
Case Western Reserve University
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
Information provided by (Responsible Party)
Case Western Reserve University
First received: January 3, 2008
Last updated: August 2, 2010
Last Verified: August 2010
History of Changes
Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease affecting the lungs that is caused by a germ spread by coughing. TB infection is currently diagnosed by a skin test that has limited accuracy. The purpose of this study is to look at the reliability of a new blood test for diagnosing TB infection in children. Study participants will include 300 HIV-infected (HIV infection is a viral infection that causes disease which destroys the body's ability to protect itself from infection and disease.) children and 500 HIV-uninfected children, ages 3 months to 5 years, residing in the Khayelitsha and Ravensmead/Uitsig Communities of the Western Cape Province, South Africa. Study procedures will include questionnaires, HIV and TB testing, which will be performed by blood and skin tests. Participants may be involved in study related procedures for up to 24 months.
Procedure : Interferon-Gamma Release Assay
Drug : RT-23
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
Observational Model: Ecologic or Community
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|The Utility of Interferon-Gamma Release Assays in TB-HIV Co-infected Children
Further study details as provided by Case Western Reserve University:
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|August 2007
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|July 2013
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|December 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Detailed Description:
Although widely used, the tuberculin skin test (TST) has limited diagnostic accuracy for Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb) infection. TST sensitivity is particularly limited in children with compromised immune status due to HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) infection, young age and/or severe malnutrition. Very limited data exists regarding the diagnostic utility of Interferon Gamma Release Assays (IGRAs) to detect M. tb infection in children. The proposed study will address major gaps in current knowledge regarding the diagnosis of M. tb infection in HIV-infected children and may be a powerful tool to spur policy change that would dramatically improve health in children in countries endemic for tuberculosis (TB) and HIV. The primary objectives of the study will be to assess the agreement between the TST and IGRAs in HIV-infected and uninfected children less than or equal to age 5 and to assess the performance of TST and IGRAs across a standard gradient of M. tb exposure in HIV-infected and uninfected children less than or equal to age 5. The secondary objectives of the study will be to measure the impact of potential interaction and confounding variables on the TST and IGRAs in HIV-infected and uninfected children less than or equal to age 5 and to identify factors that modify children's response to the TST and IGRAs over time. This study is a prospective community-based study in a setting highly endemic for HIV and TB, the agreement between the TST and IGRAs will be assessed in 800 children, ages 3 months to 5 years, and the influence of M. tb exposure, HIV status, cellular immunity, nutritional status and age evaluated. Subjects will include HIV-infected (N=300) and uninfected (N=500) children with variable degrees of M. tb exposure. The inclusion of children with no known household TB contact will result in a measure of background community M. tb exposure in a setting with high annual risk of M. tb infection (ARI). Active contact investigation of children exposed to newly diagnosed adult TB index cases in the household allows for the creation of a standardized M. tb exposure gradient to serve as a surrogate measure of M. tb infection in the absence of an existing gold standard. After determination of household membership, researchers will administer a standard questionnaire, assess M. tb exposure, TB disease and HIV status, collect approximately 6-8 ml of blood for IGRAs, place a TST (after phlebotomy) and read the TST at 48-72 hours. In sub-groups of children enrolled during the first 18 months, the TST, IGRAs and measures of cellular immunity will be repeated at 3, 6, 12 and 24-months post enrollment. This study has been designed to meet guidelines for complete and accurate reporting of studies on diagnostic accuracy. There will be one study site (The Desmond Tutu TB Center, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, Cape Town, South Africa). Study enrollment will occur over 3 years. The expected duration of subject participation will range from 2 days to 24 months. The primary (dependent) outcome is M. tb infection as defined by TST, T. Spot Tb, and Quantiferon-Gold In-tube (QTF) completed at baseline. The secondary (dependent) outcome is M. tb infection as defined by TST, T. Spot Tb, and QTF completed at 3, 6, 12, and 24 months. The primary independent outcome is M. tb infection as defined by M. tb contact score. The secondary independent outcome is HIV status, age, nutritional status, and cellular immunity (CD4 count).Eligibility
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|3 Months to 5 Years
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Study PopulationStudy participants will include 300 HIV-infected (HIV infection is a viral infection that causes disease which destroys the body's ability to protect itself from infection and disease.) children and 500 HIV-uninfected children, ages 3 months to 5 years, residing in the Khayelitsha and Ravensmead/Uitsig Communities of the Western Cape Province, South Africa.
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age less than or equal to 5 years.
- Presence of written informed consent from the parent or legal guardian.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Children less than 3 months of age.
- Children that weigh less than 5 kg.
- Children that have laboratory-documented anemia (Hg < 9mg/dL).
- Children who are currently on antituberculosis therapy for TB disease.
- Informed consent is not obtained for all study procedures.
- Children will be excluded from primary data analysis if they are diagnosed with TB disease during follow-up.
- Enrollment will be deferred in children who have received live measles or polio
Contacts and LocationsChoosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision.Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below.For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00604617
Locations Show More
|South Africa
|University of Stellenbosch
|Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, 7500
Sponsors and CollaboratorsCase Western Reserve University
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
More Information
More Information
|Responsible Party:
|Anna M Mandalakas, Case Western Reserve University
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00604617 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|January 3, 2008
|Last Updated:
|August 2, 2010
Keywords provided by Case Western Reserve University:Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Tuberculin Test
South Africa
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The Causeway property that used to house city offices remains dormant, used as overflow parking for boats and trailers that use nearby boat launches.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH — There were "101 good reasons" last year not to solicit bids to lease and develop a prime piece of city-owned waterfront property along the North Causeway, City Manager Pam Brangaccio said.
And yet, city commissioners decided to send out a request for proposals for the 5-acre site at 160 N. Causeway anyway.
"I think what happened is the city got rushed into that with one proposal — 'Hi, I have a riverboat; I want to put it there,' " Brangaccio said.
The city had a dalliance with a dame known as the Delta Queen that lasted throughout most of 2012. Wayne Heller, owner of the Riverview Hotel on Flagler Avenue, pitched a plan to city officials in April to let him dock the historic 285-foot-long paddle-wheeler off the Causeway property as a floating hotel.
Commissioners instead decided to open up the field to all bidders by sending out a call for proposals, but Heller was the only taker. The two sides never came close to a lease agreement on the property and Heller pulled out of discussions to buy the Delta Queen in December.
The Causeway property — commonly referred as the "AOB" or Administrative Office Building site because city offices were once located there — remains largely dormant more than three years after the city moved from the land. The site's only use is as overflow parking for boats and trailers that use nearby boat launches.
To that end, city officials are in the process of scheduling two workshops by March — one with city commissioners and another with residents — to not only develop recommendations on the future of the AOB site but to get feedback on the overall future of the Causeway. The city will pay a consultant $12,500 to conduct the forums.
"Its time is overdue, but we applaud the city for doing it," said Marty Danaher, one of the heads of the New Smyrna Beach Citizens for Smart Growth, a group that has adamantly opposed a 239-unit apartment complex proposed along the Causeway.
A memo in 2002 recommended $70,000 for a study of the North Causeway. The study was finished in 2004. The analysis made a host of recommendations about land use, design standards and zoning along the gateway to the city's beachside commercial district. While the plan was adopted as part of the city's Community Redevelopment Agency plan in 2010, few, if any, of the suggestions for physical improvements were ever put into action.
The Causeway plan recommended uses for the AOB site be limited to "marine/tourist related public or semi-public uses such as a restaurant or hotel."
"I think basically what happened was it was kind of put on the shelf," said Jim Hathaway, a former city commissioner who sat on the dais for 18 years. "But it was also what prompted us, I believe, to put it up for a vote to either sell the property, lease the property or retain the property."
That referendum came in March 2008, when voters were asked whether the city should sell or lease the land for the "highest and best private use providing the greatest proceeds to the city for general governmental use." There were 6,913 residents who voted "yes" while 5,323 voted "no."
A plan for a waterfront bar and grill on the AOB site in 2011 from an Orlando-restaurateur who responded to the first request for proposals the city sent out for the property was turned down by a City Commission-created task force. A second phase of that development plan would have included a hotel.
Then in February 2012, Brangaccio and her staff submitted a list of recommendations for the AOB site, including demolishing the old office building there, which the city said costs about $20,000 a year to maintain. Another proposal was to develop a public walkway from the paved trail at the front of the property to the waterside.
Shortly after that, the Delta Queen moved front and center.
"That drove the discussions, not the City Commission's vision for the property," Brangaccio said.
With no development in the offing, the city is looking at applying for a grant from the Florida Inland Navigation District to repair the sea wall, replace the restrooms and pave the boat ramp site as well as construct a public boardwalk along the Intracoastal Waterway.
With the scheduled workshops, two new city commissioners who were sworn in last year — Zone 3 Commissioner Jason McGuirk and Zone 4 Commissioner Kirk Jones — will get their first opportunity to pitch their visions for the AOB site and the Causeway overall.
Noting the $12,500 price tag for a consultant, Jones said last week during a commission meeting he didn't want to see an updated plan "put on the shelf" this time.
Development along the Causeway has picked up as a once-sluggish economy has improved. New Smyrna Harbor, which will include a marina with about 20 boat slips, 23 Key West-style cottages and a restaurant and tiki bar, will soon be under construction. A site plan for the controversial proposed apartment complex in the 100-block of the Causeway, called Causeway Landings, could be before the Planning and Zoning Board in the next few months.
While the potential for development increases, though, Brangaccio said the city really has no design standards for the Causeway. She also called the lack of landscaping there an "embarrassment."
And the time to make serious upgrades is running out as the city's CRA moves closer to sunset in 2015.
"If we're going to do anything on the East Washington (Street) and on the North Causeway, we have to do that in the next two years," Brangaccio said. "We've got to set ourselves up to get (Florida Department of Transportation) permits and do design, funding partners and landscaping grants and those types of things."
Danaher said he and other officials with the Citizens for Smart Growth will meet soon to develop their suggestions for the future of the Causeway, in preparation for the workshops in March.
"The image you have and the vision you have for the city, it can't just be legislated from the City Commission," he said. "It has to come from the communities up."
Dates for the two workshops, one of which is slated to be an all-day affair held on a Saturday, have not been finalized. Mayor Adam Barringer last week said the city plan should be developed from the feedback and recommendations gleaned from the two workshops within 30 days.
"I think what we're all looking for is to have some closure," Brangaccio said. "We need to be able to say this is the City Commission's vision, this is the community's intent for that site. And that will guide the next step, whatever it is."


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NOPD: Man swipes laptop from victim in Central City, attempts to sell it
Saul Dario Lopez arrested in burglary
New Orleans police arrested a man in connection with a burglary that happened in Central City moments after the incident.
Police said the burglary happened at the Central City Market in the 2300 block of Martin Luther King Boulevard on Wednesday.
The owner of the business told police that he witnessed a man, who was identified as Saul Dario Lopez, burgle a man of his laptop computer in the store.
The witness saw Lopez take the laptop and go to a nearby location in an attempt to sell the computer.
Investigators arrived at the scene and positively identified Lopez as the man seen in the surveillance video taking the laptop and was subsequently arrested and taken to the Orleans Parish Prison.
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Knicks hosting the Nuggets 11/6/07 at 7:30
TV: MSGHD, and NBALP.
All predictions, in game talk, and all other discussions go here.
I hope for a W. I dont want the same result as last year, and we should show the nuggets which team is the boss. I wonder if there will be another brawl. before, during, or after the game??
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In another example of Facebook permeating our daily lives, a Long Island woman was charged with mowing her cousin down twice with a minivan after a brawl about friending a man on Facebook, then leaving her lying on the road in single-digit temperatures, sources said.
Melanie Spanopoulos and her cousin, Giselle Penagos, 21, were driving home after a night of drinking when one of the two women found out the other was communicating with a potential boyfriend on Facebook. That's when Spanopoulos pulled over and the two began brawling in the street. After wrestling each other to the ground, according to the New York Post, that's when Spanopoulos got behind the steering wheel and allegedly hit her cousin twice with the van -- breaking her leg and shattering her pelvis.
And what was the fight over? Dennis Lemke, the lawyer for Spanapoulos, said that the man they were fighting over had refused a Facebook friend request from Penagos but had accepted one from his client.
After allegedly hitting her cousin twice, Spanapoulos told her to get back in the car. Penagos told her, "I can't get in the car, I can't feel my legs."
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When a man showed up and asked if they needed help, police said that Spanapoulos offered him $20 to take her injured cousin back to Queens. Both Spanapoulos and the good Samaritan left, but the man return a few minutes later and took Penagos to her father's house.
At her arraignment [Wednesday] at District Court in Hempstead, Lemke said Spanopoulos was innocent. She was charged with assault and released on $10,000 bond
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Hey I am a member of Russian community, and I has question of Russian translation.
1) Can I join to translate team? I really like atlas reactor. But Russian translate has too many misprint and mistake. And I just cant play which it. So, I want to make its better.
2) Better print on Russian or English? Just you, Kish, talk on English.
Anyway now I repositioning there mistakes that I can found.
1) "Probe" translated as "зонт", not as "зонд". For English its "prope" or means "umbrella".
2) "Creator" translated as "создание"(right is "создатель"). "Создание" means "creation"... or "Homunculus".
3) gg-boosts translated as "усиления", and lose good game meme. Better translate is as gg-усиления.
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Justin Bieber narrowly dodged the cold hammer of justice this week ... TMZ has learned -- getting off with just a warning after cops pulled the 17-year-old over in his Batman-themed Cadillac.
Law enforcement sources tell us, Bieber was cruising around L.A. in a ridiculous 3-car motorcade -- with Biebs up front in a murked out Bat-illac CTS-V ... flanked by his friends in a Range Rover and a black Rolls Royce (Sean Kingston).
According to law enforcement sources, JB cut off a CHP officer and was pulled over -- along with the other two cars -- but fortunately for the Biebs and his perfect life, the entire gang was sent on their way with just a warning.
To add insult to injury -- JB's car is maddeningly awesome ... with a custom "JB" logo on the side panel ... and twin Batman symbols on the front and back of the car. Oh yeah, and the word "Batmobile" is emblazoned on the trunk.
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I had a "fun" time today with some directories that I could not delete. These were mandatory roaming profiles that I previously had attempted to upload to a file server using "robocopy". Owing to switches that I used when performing the upload, directory junctions were treated as files, and robocopy got caught in a recursive loop because of a circular reference to "Application Data". By the time I caught the problem, I had created a set of nested "Application Data" directories that must have been over 400 characters long.
All of the tricks I had used in the past to delete "deep" directories were failing me. "Dir /s /q [dirName]" failed with "Access Denied", even though I was the directory owner. Running the command as System encountered the same problem. I mapped a drive to the directory, as deep down in the nested folders as I could get. From there, I was able to "CD" to the deepest "Application Data" directory, but I still could not delete the directory. (I got a "directory not empty" error.)
Eventually, Google unveiled a suggestion to use "robocopy" to mirror an empty directory to the problematic directory. (Unfortunately, I have lost track of the link, so I cannot give credit where it is due.) "Good idea," I thought. Why not use the utility that created the problem to solve the problem? After all, if robocopy can create paths that are 400 characters long, perhaps it can delete them, too.
To test, I simply created an empty directory "E:foo", and ran the command:
robocopy.exe /mir /e E:foo E:mandatorycorruptProfile
Robocopy quickly chewed though the problematic profile, and a few seconds later I had an empty directory that I was able to delete. Hurray!


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Showtimes for Saturday, March 23, 2013
Billy Hill & The Hillbillies» Western dance-hall stage show
Shows at 12:15pm, 1:30pm, 3:30pm, 4:30pm, and 5:30pm
Dapper Dans» Barbershop Quartet
Shows at 9:30am, 10:30am, 11:30am, 12:30pm, 1:35pm, 2:30pm, and 4:45pm
Disneyland Band» Disneyland's Own Town Band
Shows at 10:00am, 11:00am, 12:00pm, and 4:45pm
Fantasmic!» Nighttime Stage/Fireworks Show
Shows at 9:00pm, and 10:30pm
Jedi Training: Trials of the Temple» Live entertainment where young audience members are trained to be Jedis.
Shows at 10:30am, 11:35am, 12:40pm, 2:25pm, 3:30pm, and 4:35pm
Mickey's Soundsational Parade
Shows at 4:00pm, and 6:30pm
Remember...Dreams Come True Fireworks Spectacular» Fireworks Show
One showing at 9:30pm
Royal Street Bachelors» Jazz Trio
Shows at 12:30pm, 1:30pm, 2:30pm, 4:00pm, 5:30pm, 6:30pm, and 7:30pm
Storytelling at Royal Theatre» Interactive Storytelling Show
Shows at 9:45am, 11:05am, 12:15pm, 2:00pm, 3:15pm, and 4:30pm
The Straw Hatters» Ragtime Band
Shows at 1:25pm, 2:25pm, and 3:25pm
Tomorrowland Terrace Presents» Local Bands play in Tomorrowland
Shows at 7:00pm, 7:45pm, 8:35pm, and 10:00pm
Note: Showtimes are updated nightly via disneyland.com and our own sources -- but schedules may change at any time.
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Delphi or Object Pascal In OpenBSD?
I was wondering if anyone knew a Delphi (Or any other good Object Pascal) implementation for OpenBSD? I don't like the language or anything, it's just that a collage course I'm taking uses it, so I'll have to give up the C/ASM side of things for a while.
I'm just on about a compiler or interpreter for it, just so I can execute the code I use for the course... Any ideas?
I don't want a IDE or anything... just the compiler/interpreter.
Thanks in advance
OpenBSD does not have any ports related to "Pascal" or "Delphi", but FreeBSD has a "Free Pascal" port, and some additional wrapper ports for common libraries.
Perhaps you can create an OpenBSD port by referencing them.
I browsed that site, but since I didn't know the name of any implementation I couldn't perform an effective search.
Also, I have zero idea how FreePascal works. Would I be rewriting ASM kernel interrupts to the appropriate OpenBSD ones, or would I be switching FreeBSD-only C functions for OpenBSD ones? Or would it simply be a case of changing the configuration files for a OpenBSD environment? I write pretty portable code, so I seldom have to port things.. so I am inexperienced in the porting area.
...so even if FreePascal would run on OpenBSD, does it emulate enough extensions to satisfy your instructor? More to the point, does it emulate Delphi enough?
These questions may not have answers, or you may find out at the worst moment. My recommendation would be to use the tools that the instructor advocates. Delphi tightly binds Windows UI-isms into the language, & depending upon where the instructor takes the course, trying to stay with OpenBSD may straying too far from his intent.
As ocicat's suggests: Be pragmatic and use the most practical thing, in this case, Windows.
This doesn't even mean you're 100% ``stuck'' to Windows. Using remote sessions (ssh, rdp, vnc, etc.) and network shares (smb, nfs, etc.) is pretty easy and cheap nowadays.
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.
anyone have tried run lazarus on openbsd?
It would appear that "Lazarus" is a Pascal IDE, without any Pascal implementation readily available.. it seems rather obvious.
The BSD family approaches the world from a different standpoint than Linux. OpenBSD uses a different filesystem layout (see the hier(7) manpage...) than Linux, & the system calls & common libraries aren't always the same. This means that some effort has to be typically put into taking code found in the wild to ensure that it runs on OpenBSD as intended. More information can be found in the compat_linux(8) manpage.
A significant number of third-party applications have already been ported to OpenBSD & can be found in the package/ports system official sanctioned & supported by the Project. You will find a significant amount of information in Section 15 of the FAQ:
You should take the time to study this information.
I don't know anything about Lazarus, nor do I know anything about what effort needs to be expended to port it to OpenBSD. This may be a trivial task; it may be very involved. The point being made here is that you should always check the ports system for an application first given that porting any application to this environment commonly requires more work than a simple recompilation of the application's source base.
Most people who port third-party applications to the OpenBSD environment submit their work to the Project such that it can be included in the sanctioned packages/ports system.
Thanks a lot for the help everyone - I have a Vista machine I use for VS .NET '08, so I'll use that for Delphi.
As it stands, I have been reading Delphi tutorials on the internet, and I am not impressed. Seems like a locked down kiddy environment to me, but I won't judge until I start doing some real work with it. It has inline ASM at least, but it's the Borland syntax, so I'll have to get used to it.
I won't get any extra points for ASM anyway, so I probably won't bother - most people in this class haven't done any programming whatsoever before, so I shouldn't really expect to much of it. I'll just stick by the KISS philosophy on this one
EDIT - I can't see the Thanks button anywhere, so I can't thank anyone - Am I blind or something?
Using the developer edition of Delphi, in a couple of weeks, I wrote a simple accounting package, with foreign currency support, for our Mom and Pop computer parts shop.
Coming from a Forth and assembly background, I was rather impressed with it.
Unfortunately it only worked on Win95 and not Windows 98. So that is the only project I used it for. Well I bought it only for a couple of hundred guilders at a computershow, instead of the +2000 guilders originally price.
You don't need to be a genius to debug a pf.conf firewall ruleset, you just need the guts to run tcpdump
I was forced to learn Delphi and translate C++ code to Delphi and at first didn't really like Delphi. We used Delphi for 8 or 9 years for all or development on Win32. Now I 1 year into the switch from Delphi to C# and that are a few things that I wish C# had that Delphi does.
For RAD Win32, there was nothing better than Delphi, but Delphi has basically been kill off by .Net and Borland is gone. Which for anyone into computing history is sad.
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I think that it would be easier to build a port of GNU Pascal (it it written in C) even if it's rather old.
Delphi, C++ Builder and other former Borland products are very much alive and IMHO better than they were with Borland. See http://www.embarcadero.com. If you have to develop for windoze, there is nothing better again IMO.
I am using their new php IDE and I love it. In fact, I just attended a conference here in Phoenix and met one of the old guys from Borland there. I never thought I'd say it because I was a bif Borland fan, but the products are much better off without the Borland baggage.
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Demand for electricity in Pakistan is growing rapidly in tandem with an increasing population. Currently, the total power generation capacity of Pakistan is 23,538 Mega Watt1 (MW) with energy consumption having grown by almost 80 percent in the last 15 years2. The Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) forecasts the country's electricity demand will increase to around 40,000 MW by 20201.
TNB Remaco, and Operation and Maintenance Contract Partner with builder Laraib Energy Limited, recently completed the 84 MW New Bong Hydroelectric Power Complex, which is located on the Jhelum River in Azad Jammu and Kashmir. The plant is expected to help meet Pakistan's growing energy needs by adding an estimated net annual of 540 Gigawatt hours (GWh) of energy to the national grid, and will enhance the water power generation capacity of Independent Power Producers (IPP) by 40 percent.3
"To be a global one-stop service provider for power-related works, we have to continue serving our customers with high-end quality services through transformational use of technology. IBM's solution will play a vital role in running the systems efficiently and helping pave way for rapid and full scale development of Pakistan's hydropower potential," said TNB President Che Khalib.
TNB Remaco selected IBM asset management software to automate its manual systems to provide predictive maintenance while helping to meet increased resource demands. Previously, finalizing approvals and searching for relevant information was a time consuming task as data was scattered across multiple systems. The IBM software provides TNB Remaco's power plant with a single, consolidated view of all their energy data as well as asset and service management data, enabling employees to make better informed decisions about the plant's operations. The solution will also assist in planning inventory to meet precise maintenance demands, making the correct parts available at the right location whenever needed.
"The hydropower project operated by TNB Remaco plays a critical role in adding needed energy resources to Pakistan," said Deepak Advani, General Manager, Cloud and Smarter Infrastructure, IBM. "IBM's Smarter Infrastructure software not only helps automate business process and better manage resources at the plant, it will also create an interconnected system that enables plant operators to make more informed decisions to efficiently run an energy complex."
With global electricity demand expected to grow more than 70 percent by 20354, hydropower, along with other renewable energy sources will become critical. By 2035, renewable energy will account for almost one-third of total electricity output.5 Helping Pakistan tap into new energy resources underscores IBM's commitment to helping companies across the globe operate more efficiently as they work to meet rising energy demand.
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1. Pakistan's 84-MW New Bong hydroelectric project begins commercial operation," Hydroworld, March 13, 2013, http://www.hydroworld.com/articles/2013/03/pakistan-s-84-mw-new-bong-hydroelectric-project-begins-commercia.html
2. Pakistan Energy Outlook Executive Summary, http://www.pip.org.pk/images/Outlook_Executive_Summary.pdf
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What happens if an architect designs a lot of architectural drawings and then does nothing with them? I mean no implementation, no building, just secured inside files. Your code inside your computer are going to be the same as unimplemented design if at the end of the day they are just debugged for errors and then no use in friends computers or just yours seeing its icon in the desktop.
You can make your code and design to the real use and not just debugging by building it to create an assembly file where someone can double-click it and become happy. But for larger commercial applications, this simple approach might not be enough; customers would like you to install the files in the appropriate directories, set up shortcuts and have it in start menu list.
OK! Just make them happy by creating .msi installer files using Setup and deployment projects in Visual Studio, and this is what we are going to show in this tutorial.
Visual Studio provides extensive help for deployment where by you can create a setup project for your application. In Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft has extended its windows installer, Click Once technology and added Install Shield 2010 limited edition. These three available templates in VS2010 are going to be the discussion in this post.
1. Windows installer:
Windows Installer deployment enables you to create installer packages to distribute to users. Windows Installer deployment is updated in Visual Studio 2010 Professional for the latest .NET Framework versions. You can target the .NET Framework 4 or ASP.NET 4 versions in your windows and Web applications. Additionally, you can check that any version of the .NET Framework is installed on the end-user computer, rather than checking for a specific version of the .NET Framework.
To create a setup project go to create new project>other project type> setup and deployment> visual studio installer. Let us look at these available templates from the picture below;
Setup project/ setup wizard:
Builds an installer for a Windows application, setup projects will install files into the file system of a target computer. In addition, a Setup Wizard is available to simplify the process of creating a Setup or Web Setup project.
Web setup project;
Builds an installer for a Web application, the files for a Web Setup Projects are installed into a Virtual Root directory on Web servers. The distinction between Setup and Web Setup projects is where the installer will be deployed.
Merge module project;
A merge module (.msm file) is a single package that contains all files, resources, registry entries, and setup logic necessary to install a component. Merge modules cannot be installed alone, but must be used within the context of a Windows Installer (.msi) file. Merge modules allow you to capture all of the dependencies for a particular component, ensuring that the correct versions are installed. Much the same as dynamic-link libraries allow you to share code between applications; merge modules allow you to share setup code between Windows Installers.
CAB project;
Creates a CAB file for downloading to an earlier Web browser. You can use CAB projects to package ActiveX components that can be downloaded from a Web server to a Web browser.
Unlike the other deployment project types, there are no editors provided for working with Cab projects. Files and project outputs can be added to a Cab project in Solution Explorer, and properties can be set in the Properties window or in the Project Property pages.
Customizing an installer:
If you are using a wizard, things are easy, just dont forget to put your eye in these two pages;
After the wizard has finished, now you have completed to create an installer for your application. Now save all changes and start to build your application, if building completed successfully, build the installer. Go to where you have saved the solution and you will see an installer file inside the debug folder in your setup project directory.
But I think this is not enough for you! You need to go deeper in customization, so follow me in the following issues:
Deployment editors:
The deployment editors are used to configure an installer that you create with a deployment project. Each deployment project includes six editors: File System Editor, Registry Editor, File Types Editor, User Interface Editor, Custom Actions Editor, and Launch Conditions Editor. To open an editor, select a deployment project and the buttons will appear as shown below or alternatively, right-click your deployment project, point to View, and then click the name of the editor that you want to open
File system editor;
When the project is added to the solution, the first thing to be displayed is the file system editor. The picture above shows file system editor. There are three files in it including Application folder where your program will be installed, user`s desktop where a shortcut are placed and a Users program menu where files in it are shown in start menu.
To add a file to any of these folders right click on it and select add> file. To put shortcut of your application in start menu or desktop go to application folder, right click on primary output from
(Or any other files which you want to create shortcut for them), select create shortcut to
then the shortcut will appear, cut it and paste to the folder where you want a shortcut to appear. Also you can add project outputs in the target folder using the same way explained below just select project output... instead of a file.
User interface editor;
The user interface editor helps you to customize the installation wizard interface.
The User Interface Editor is a tree control containing two sections: Install and Admin. The Install section contains dialog boxes that will be displayed when the end user runs the installer; the Admin section contains dialog boxes that will be displayed when a system administrator uploads the installer to a network location. You may change the statements that appear during installation categorized in the three predefined dialog boxes (Start, progress & end).
Registry editor;
The Registry Editor allows you to specify registry keys and values to be added to the registry of the target computer. By default the Registry Editor displays a standard set of registry keys that correspond with the standard Windows registry keys: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, HKEY_CURRENT_USER, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, HKEY_USERS, and HKEY_PER_USER. For Setup projects, additional keys that match the Manufacturer property for the project are displayed under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software.
Playing with registry need more experienced person otherwise it may course some trouble in target computer, but you can add or remove keys according to what your project needs.
To add a registry key select a top level node, in the action menu click new key, then type the new name and edit properties of the key in the properties window as necessary.
To add a sub key select a key node, in the action menu point to new and then key and you can edit its properties from the properties window. Also you can remove a key by selecting it and then click Delete from Edit menu. Also you can add string, binary, and DWORD values. During installation the values will be written to the registry and any existing values will be overwritten by the values that you specify.
Custom actions editor;
Here you can specify additional actions to be performed on the target computer at the end of an installation. Five predefined custom actions are included in Visual Studio to install Event Log, Message Queue, Performance Counter, Service, and Service Process components. When these components are configured as installation components, they are wrapped in an installer class and are recognized by the deployment system as a custom action.
The editor contains four folders, each corresponding with a phase of installation: Install Commit, Rollback, and Uninstall which are run in the same order that they are displayed in the editor.
To add custom actions first must be compiled as a .dll, .exe file or .NET framework component and added to a project as a script or assembly before they can be added to a deployment project. Then right click on one of the four folders and chose Add custom action then select your item to be added. If the item hasn't previously been added to the deployment project, click the Add File, Add Output, or Add Assembly button to add the item as a custom action. This also adds the item to your project. To add a custom action to all four folders, select the Custom Actions node in the editor, and choose Add Custom Action.
File Types editor;
File Types editor allows you to specify document types and associate them with file extensions. In addition, you can specify the verbs or actions for each document type and specify MIME types for the document types for use in browsers.
The File Types Editor contains a single pane with hierarchical list of file types and actions. By default, the File Types Editor contains a single File Types on Target Machine node; new file types may be added beneath that node. There are three steps involved in associating a file type with your application: adding a document type, associating a file extension, and associating an executable file.
To add a document type, right click on File Type on Target Machine and select Add File Type and give it a name. Then you can associate it with file extension by going to its properties and type the extension without precede it by a period (separate multiple extensions by ; ). Then you can set a command by selecting a .exe file associated with.
Launch conditions editor;
The Launch Conditions Editor allows you to specify conditions that must be met in order to successfully run an installation. For example you may check for the OS version, windows installer components, registry key or even a file if it exists in a target machine.
To add an item to search right click on Search Target Machine and then select an item you want to be searched in the target machine and then set its properties from the properties window. The following pictures from MSDN summaries the properties available:
To make your application run in any version of .NET framework, right click on Requirement on Target Machine and then click Add .NET Framework Launch Condition, in properties window change Version to Any. There are editors available in setup project in visual studio.
Choosing prerequisites to install:
Sometimes your application may depend on components that must be available in target computer before the installation can take place. If one of those dependent components is not available, an error message will be raised and installation will be aborted!
You can make your user fill happy without a list of error messages, by including some prerequisites to be installed if not available in target computer.
To choose which one to be included in your package, right click on your deployment project and select properties, in the Property Pages dialog box, expand the Configuration Properties node, and then select the Build property page. Click the prerequisite button and make sure that the Create setup program to install prerequisite components box is checked. Then select the prerequisites that you want to install from the Choose which prerequisites to install list.
Here you can select example the .NET framework version and windows installer version and other prerequisites from the dialog box.
Down the dialog there is specify the install location for prerequisite, and three radio buttons are available:
This capability to automatically detect the existence of components during installation and install a predetermined set of prerequisites is referred to as bootstrapping and the component that performs it is called the generic bootstrapper which uses bootstrapper packages to install the prerequisite components on the target computer.
The default location of the bootstrapper packages is stored in the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\GenericBootstrapper\4.0\Path. Changing this path will change the location in which the Prerequisites Dialog Box looks for bootstrapper packages.
Creating installer for 64 bit platform:
The deployment tools in Visual Studio allow you to create installers for 64-bit applications and components. The TargetPlatform Property of a deployment project determines whether an installer will target a 32-bit or a specific 64-bit platform. The target platforms are x86 for 32-bit platforms, x64 for computers supporting the AMD64 and EM64T instruction sets, and Itanium for the 64-bit Itanium processor.
In general, 32- and 64-bit Microsoft Installer (MSI) packages are treated in the same way except for how Windows Installer treats folder variables such as Program Files and System Folder, and how it writes components into the registry or GAC. To create a 64 bit installer select your setup project and in the properties window change TargetPlatform to either Itanium for an Intel Itanium 64-bit platform, or x64 for any other 64-bit platform (such as AMD64 and EM64T instruction sets).
Security in windows installer:
Windows Installer can use digital signatures to detect and correct corrupted resources. In Windows XP, Windows Installer is integrated with Software Restriction Policy to restrict both administrators and non-administrators from running program files based on the path, URL zone, hash, or publisher criteria.
Also you can sign an assembly which gives an application a unique identity that other software can use to identify and refer explicitly to it (process also called strong-name signing). A strong name consists of its simple text name, version number, culture information (if provided), plus a public/private key pair. This information is stored in a key file; this can be a Personal Information Exchange (PFX) file or a certificate from the current user's Windows certificate store.
To sign an assembly, right click on project and click properties, from the project form click the signing tab and then select the sign the assembly. From a Choose a strong name key file drop-down list, select either <new
> if you want a new key file or <browse
> for an existing file. For new file enter a name and password in the Create strong Name key.
Now rebuild your application and then a setup project to get a .msi file ready for installation.
2. ClickOnce technology:
To make a ClickOnce application available to users, you must publish it to a Web server, file share, or removable media. You can publish the application by using the Publish Wizard; additional properties related to publishing are available on the Publish page of the Project Designer.
Publish properties can be set using the Publish Wizard but only a few of the properties are available in it, all other properties are set to their default values. Now lets look at the properties that can be changed in this Publish page:
Publish location;
You can publish the application to a Web site, FTP server, or file path. Type the location as a disk path, file share, FTP site, or Web site URL, or click the Browse button to browse for the location.
Disk path: Specify a local disk path from which you can copy the application to a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM. The path can be a relative or absolute path in standard Windows format, for example: C:\Deploy\DIC.
File share: Specify a file share by using a Universal Naming Convention (UNC) path from which the application will be deployed, for example: \\ServerName\DIC\.
FTP server: Specify the path of a Web site from which the application can be downloaded by using FTP, for example: ftp://ftp.fileServer.com/DIC.
Web site: Specify the URL of a Web site from which the application can be downloaded by using HTTP, for example: http://www.website.com/DIC.
Install mode and settings;
First you have to say if the application is available offline or not (online only). If you select The application is available online only, then it will be run directly from the publish location without creating a shortcut on the start menu. Otherwise the application will be available even if a user is disconnected from the network and a shortcut will be available on start menu.
Also you can click on Prerequisites.. button to specify which prerequisite to be included. The prerequisite dialog is the same as the one explained above in windows installer.
Father more, if you set your application to be available offline, you can set application updates either automatically or programmatically. Also you can configure the application to check for updates automatically before the application starts, or at set intervals after the application starts. In addition you can specify a minimum required version; that is, an update is installed if the user's version is lower than the required version.
Publish version;
To increase publish version, increase major, minor, build or revision version number according to what updates you have made! Changing the number in these fields causes the application to be published as an update. Also you can clear the Automatically increment revision with each publish if you dont want visual studio to automatically increment the clickOnce publish version.
Then click on Publish Now to publish your application after making sure that all settings of your application have already been set correctly.
Security in ClickOnce:
ClickOnce security relies on Authenticode certificates to determine whether an application should be installed, a step known as a trust decision. Application and deployment manifests that describe an application can be signed with a certificate to prevent tampering. Domain administrators can configure certificates to be trusted at the enterprise or machine level. If certificates are not trusted at the time of installation, ClickOnce deployment can be configured to ask users to make trust decisions. Once an application is installed, ClickOnce restricts the application permissions and actions as defined by the Internet, Local Intranet, or custom zones.
3. InstallShield 2010 Limited Edition:
Microsoft has partnered with Flexera, makers of InstallShield to create InstallShield LE for Visual Studio 2010. This is a Visual Studio extension you can download and use today to build Windows installer-based deployment packages for your application that can be deployed on the Windows platform. It provides comparable functionality to the Visual Studio Installer project but in addition, you get the easy to use, modern, graphical development environment of InstallShield, as well as the ability to build your deployment projects using Team Foundation Server.
First time users need to enable InstallShield LE by downloading and installing it. Go to create new project and select InstallShield. After creating the project the template will bring you to registration page and then the download link. Once you have installed the product, the new project dialog will provide an option to create an installShield LE project. Now after creating a new project, the first form is where we start now:
At the bottom of the screen are the steps to the installation project and I am going to talk a little on them. (Using the next button will make sure you have passed on all steps)
Application information;
Here you will feel the basic information about the application including application name and version.
Installation requirements;
Specify the prerequisites that must be installed including version of OS and .NET framework. Customer prerequisites can be defined under create a custom software condition
Installation architecture;
This step is disabled in the Limited Edition. In the other editions different features can be defined for users to choose what sections they want installed.
Application files;
The application files such as project output can be added here (dont forget to add primary output).
Application shortcuts;
Here you can define shortcuts for Start menu and desktop. Click on New, on the dialog select programFilesFolder>your company name>product name and you will find the primary output of your application, then tick on where you need the shortcut to be available and an icon if any.
Application registry;
If the application requires any registry entries, they can be defined here.
Installation interview;
This defines the user interface by specifying which dialogs should be displayed to users and which should not. Also you can create a custom dialog but this feature is not available in limited edition.
Also in solution explorer, there are many other features and explanation about advanced issues in deployment. You can view them for more information and customization.
Now you can build it to get a .msi file for installation which can be found from SetupName\SetupNama\Express\DVD-5\DiskImages\DISK1.
NOTE: If you made any changes to your application, first rebuild your application before building the installer.
I finally installed my application in my computer;
This is the end of this tutorial about setup and deployment in VS2010. Good to say is that many concepts from this tutorial I studied them from Microsoft Developer Network Library. Thanks, and for any comments just feel free to help the DIC community!
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Abortion is one of the most contentious subjects out there. On the whole, I am pro-choice. Women who feel they can't take care of a baby shouldn't have that baby. We've all read the horrific stories of child abuse that happen every day, some babies even being beaten to death. I would prefer that these babies never have to endure that kind of torture. Nor do I think that an 11-year-old girl who was raped by a grown man should have to give birth and take care of a baby she didn't ask for. We all hope that when women get an abortion, they have thought very carefully about it and are doing it for the right reasons; however, we cannot go around grilling every single woman who decides to have an abortion, and putting her through a court trial to determine whether or not her abortion is "justified."
I also believe if men had children, none of this would even be an issue. However, I'm disgusted by a British woman named Sarah Catt who chose to abort her baby. Here's why.
Reportedly, Catt, of North Yorkshire, England, had an abortion when the fetus was 40 weeks along, which would make it in the last week or so of her pregnancy. Because it would be illegal to get an abortion that late, she ordered an "abortion drug" online through India, and allegedly did it herself. She then buried the baby and told everyone it was stillborn.
However, reportedly the baby was the product of a long-term affair that had gone wrong, so she decided to abort it. I'm not going to judge WHY someone chooses to have an abortion. As I said, we cannot start picking and choosing who gets an abortion. But there are laws in place for a reason about the when a woman can get an abortion. I'm not saying they are all correct -- I know a woman who, due to wrong test results, didn't know she was carrying a severely disabled child until well after her state's abortion cut-off. She was left with a huge dilemma. She eventually miscarried.
But women like Catt make it difficult for all women who have to wrestle with the difficult decision of abortion. Not only did Catt terminate her pregnancy on the week the child would have been born, but allegedly she'd already had one abortion, tried to have another abortion but it was too late, and also gave up one baby for adoption.
It's easy to say "birth control, hello????" And I'm going to say it. Birth control, hello???? But perhaps Catt has a lot of mental issues. I really don't know. Unfortunately in this world, all kinds of people, men and women alike, have children when they shouldn't.
But this just goes into extreme territory, and I can't feel sorry for Catt that a judge sentenced her to eight years in prison. Unfortunately, this leaves her other two children without a mother. Perhaps what she really needed was hardcore counseling and a lifetime free supply of birth control!
But what exactly would have been the solution here? For this woman to give birth to the child she clearly didn't want, and possibly would abuse or not take care of? I don't know. I just wish women like this didn't exist. But they do.
Do you think this woman deserves jail time?
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Shove boat: Patching together a cure
Last year I went on my first cruise, and it was truly paradise! The sun was shining in the Caribbean, a band was playing by the outdoor pools, a man greeted us with Bahama Mamas, and the ship was filled with anticipation.
I expected Julie McCoy and Captain Steubing (from that 1970s cheesefest known as the Love Boat) to invite us to dine at the Captain's table. But then... bleh! I was seasick. Why did I have to become seasick when I was having such a good time?
One large study showed that quite a few people experience motion sickness at sea: 21 percent felt "slightly unwell," 4 percent felt "quite ill," 4 percent felt "absolutely dreadful," and 7 percent vomited. I, however, felt "beyond dreadful and yakking." Check, please.
I should have known that I would have gotten motion sickness because when I was in college, I went fishing with some friends in a small boat. I remember when Tweety made Sylvester sick by rocking a picture of a boat while saying, "The boat wocked and wocked, back and fowth." That was me. My friends said, "Vomit on the other side of the boat so you don't scare the fish."
So this year on my second cruise, I came prepared with scopolamine patches. You have probably seen people wearing that funny thing behind the ear that looks like a round band-aid. Well, I joined that unfashionable crowd. I put the patch on six hours before I boarded the ship, and this time my Bahama Mamas went down and stayed down.
However, everything has side effects. When I awoke the next morning, I was dry as a Bounce laundry sheet. Also, because this medicine is anti-cholinergic, my pupils were enlarged so that I could not see anything close up. When I peered at my watch, it looked like it had melted under the sun. One of my friends gave me his reading glasses and called me "gramps."
I was fortunate, though. In the elderly, the patch can cause confusion and urinary retention (i.e. Gramps can't take a whiz). Those with glaucoma can't take the patch. (I guess I better get all my cruises in before I get too old for the patch!)
There are other medicines for motion sickness, but they tend to be too sedating. Once I took Antivert (meclizine) in Maine when I went whale-watching. Moby Dick could have swallowed me whole and burped me up without my knowing it. I actually fell asleep standing while leaning on a pole. I would occasionally wake up when I heard the crowd roar, "Oh! Look at that magnificent tail!" "Huh– oh, isn't that a....szzzz."
Valium is great for motion sickness, but you become a character in Valley of the Dolls. Antihistamines help some people, but they can be sedating as well. Patch, please!
If you're a Gilligan's Island fan (as I am), Ginger might be your favorite character. Because of its effect on gastric motility, ginger actually can help nausea– though not motion sickness itself so much. Patch, please!
As an Asian man, I love acupressure. For motion sickness, you press the palm side of the wrist about three fingerbreadths from the wrist fold. It appears to be pretty effective in relieving nausea. One of my friends on this year's cruise wore these Wonder Women bracelets that pushed down on the median nerves. It stopped his nausea, but he still had the "slightly unwell" feeling. Patch, please!
Because of my vision and dry mouth, I was stupid and took the patch off between St. Thomas and Nassau, the latter of which soon became Nausea. They can put a person on the moon, but can't they make a boat that doesn't rock?
"Rock the boat, Don't rock the boat baby, Rock the boat, Don't tip the boat over!"
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Influenza is very common during the fall from October till mid of May; this illness is very dominant amongst children. During January and February, flu season is usually at its peak. Thus, it becomes very important to take necessary measures in order to prevent flu from spreading to family members; says Dr. Dana Johnson, a pediatrician for Meriter Health.
Influenza virus is very harmful; it is a respiratory syndrome, which is accompanied by symptoms like high fever, runny rose, body pain, low energy, chills, sore throat, and cough. People often misunderstand these symptoms for normal cold. However, people attacked with influenza often exhibit these symptoms very strongly. Also, it takes more than a week to get rid of this disease in majority of the cases.
Children are more prone to flu viruses; they also might encounter diarrhea and vomiting along with other symptoms. For those, whose immunity system is very weak, influenza can become a life risking disease. Children below the age of 2 years, and adults over 65 years of age have high chances of suffering from influenza. Even asthmatics and patients with chronic medical condition have high tendency to catch Influenza.
Dr. Dana strongly recommends all family members to be vaccinated, in order to reduce the risk of spreading influenza. Vaccination could be taken by two methods: one is through injection and another is nasal mist. Injections are meant for 6 months and above age group. Nasal vaccination is recommended for people who are in between 2 to 50 years of age. Nasal mist is attached to certain medical conditions due to which it is not highly recommended.
People who have severe egg allergic condition should always consult a doctor/allergist before taking the vaccination for flu. Influenza is a communicable virus. Since, children below 6 months cannot take the vaccination for this other housemates must compulsorily get themselves vaccinated, so that the disease does not spread to the infants.
Some children may require two vaccinations within a gap of one month. A pediatrician can help in determining the number of doses. People sometimes suffer from mild fever, muscle soreness, and headache after they receive vaccination. These are normal symptoms and after effects of taking flu vaccination. People who take nose spray experience runny rose thereafter. It takes some time for building immunity in the body to fight flu. You might even get flu immediately after taking the vaccination in some of the cases.
So, if you haven't been vaccinated yet, it's time to take influenza vaccination because taking vaccination at the right time greatly helps in preventing possible seasonal illness


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Welcome to Private Stache, an occasional feature in which Andy Gray, keeper of Sports Illustrated's indispensable Vault, spotlights the sports photography of yesteryear, a time when athletes wore short shorts and facial hair, and everyone looked vaguely uncomfortable.
While baseball fans applaud Roy Halladay's no-hitter last night, there's only one man who actually knows what it feels like. His name is Don Larsen. In October 1956, the Yankees' 27-year-old righty tossed a perfect game to beat the Dodgers in Game 5 of the World Series. In 2006, SI's Phil Taylor caught up with Larsen, and the old journeyman still remembered every detail of the career-defining game:
The memories, though, are Larsen's forever. He shares them with fans who line up for his autograph at card shows, telling them about how, because of a bad Game 2 start, he didn't even know he was starting that morning until he arrived at Yankee Stadium and found the ball in a shoe in his locker. He recalls the running catch that Mickey Mantle made on Hodges's blast to deep left center in the fifth inning—a ball that he says would have been a home run in today's remodeled Yankee Stadium—and also remembers perhaps the closest call of the day, Robinson's shot in the second inning that caromed off third baseman Andy Carey's glove to shortstop Gil McDougald, whose throw to first narrowly beat Robinson.


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In the past, I've gone through a PowerPoint presentation and talked the kids through the process, but I really wanted to speed up that introduction. To help with that, I made a PowToon video that keeps the intro to under 4 minutes. Find the video [here].
I've also spent some time revising the Project Planner I use with the kids to provide them with some structure in considering the Big 6 steps. The PowToon actually provides a demonstration for how to use the project planner. You can find the planner [here]. I will likely the pause the video occasionally to add information and provide more of an explanation or to answer questions.
When kids are actually doing their research, I have a standard set of graphic organizers for them to use that requires them to record all of the source information. This helps to keep them organized, and the organizers are designed to include the same vocabulary and formatting as what Microsoft Word uses for the References tab, which allows students to easily build a Works Cited page. Click on the titles below for links to those pages:
- Research organizer for a book
- Research organizer for a section of a book
- Research organizer for a periodical
- Research organizer for website
What are your favorite research methods and strategies you use with your students?


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Now that I've stirred up some dissent with my views on bar width and height, it's time to ramble on about the mechanics of handlebars.
Stem Clamp Size: This is easy; most modern bars have a clamp area of either 25.4mm or 26mm. If you want to use a 25.4mm bar in a 26mm stem you need a shim, like this lovely Nitto product. The other way round won't work, unless you can find one of the rare negative shims on E-bay.
Most older French bars and stems use a 25.0mm clamps. I've used these bars in 25.4mm stems, but it's best to make a little shim from some beer can aluminum. (BTW, obtaining shim stock is the only acceptable reason to drink beer from cans. I seem to need lots of shims.)
Older Cinelli bars and stems are 26.4mm and there are a few other odd sizes. So it's wise to check when buying older European bars.
Stems and Forks: Again this is simple. Most 1-inch forks use 22.2mm stems. Older French forks use 22.0mm stems. Fortunately these are close enough that a 22.2mm stem will sometimes fit in an old French fork. And if it doesn't, 10 minutes of sanding (on the stem not the fork) will allow it to slide right in.
Inexpensive older American and Japanese frames sometimes used a smaller diameter, 21.15mm, stem that is becoming very hard to find. This size is also common on BMX bikes.
There are also some newfangled 1-1/8" forks and stems, but it's too soon to say if they'll catch on. And some tandems use 1-1/4" forks/stems.
Bar Diameter: The outside diameter (OD) of bar tubing varies a bit by manufacturer, but the standard for road bars is 23.8mm and MTB and city bike bars are around 22.2mm. That means that MTB brake levers and shifters will not fit on road bars.
The inside diameter (ID) of road bars is around 20mm and for MBT bars it's about 17mm. This varies with the exact type of tubing used, but inverse brakes and bar end shifters generally will not fit MTB/city bike bars. They commonly require an ID of not less that 19.6mm.
One way around this problem of compatibility is to buy old French city bike bars which were often made with road bar diameter tubing. With these you can use bar ends, inverse shifters, and some of the old-style brake levers with band-type clamps.
A way to make everything fit is to use chrome molly, rather than aluminum, bars. The steel is stronger than alloy, so it can be thinner, resulting in bars with the OD of MTB bars and the ID of road bars.
As with most thing, there are some odd, mostly French, bar diameters out there.
Digital Calipers: Cheap digital calipers are available for about $15-$20. If you work on older bikes they will save you countless headaches. And you don't even have to learn to read a vernier scale. Try Harbor Freight or E-bay. Maybe we should stock them?
What have I left out?
21 February, 2008
Handlebar Basics, Part 2
Posted by Velo Orange at 1:18:00 PM
18 comments:
- Anonymous said...
Everyone should learn the Vernier scale.
- Schorsch said...
What handlebars are those, noodles? I like the slight slope on the flats.
Re: canned beer: It is also acceptable to drink canned beer when doing manual labor on the weekend. Canned beer is also almost indistinguishable from bottled when poured into a glass.
- Anonymous said...
Ok ... now for the serious and very contentious stuff ... it seems the photo of the the beautifully wrapped classic handlebars in the photo are wrapped starting at the area near the stem. Now I was always instructed by the very serious Italiano cyclists from the 1970's to wrap may bars starting on the outside of the drop. In fact I was sent home from rides if it appeared my cloth Tressotar tape was wound otherwise. It was one strike against me for not having the latest Cinelli bars. Another strike for not having the nicest Cinelli stem. And well the tape winding procedure was as they say 3 strikes and you're out of here.
I of course had 3T at the time and felt the need to wind differently. I see you concur. However I must say I now wind from the outside in because of this horrible experience with the Italiano riders of the day.
- Anonymous said...
"BTW, obtaining shim stock is the only acceptable reason to drink beer from cans and I use lots of shims."
I used to be in this camp until a friend turned me on to Dale's Pale Ale - which is can-only. The NY Times rated this beer as the best American beer so I'm not alone in now claiming it as my favorite. If you need further evidence of why canned beer can be exceptional, read about it at length on the Oskar Blues site - brewer of Dale's.
nv (who knows more about beer than handlebars, but does know that he prefers Promenade bars over most anything else.)
- Anonymous said...
For calipers, I've found the General brand at Home Despot (uh, Depot) works well. Enough that my dial calipers (which were old, cheap and worn out) ended up in a landfill someplace.
However, in the area of religion (beer), it is acceptable to drink canned beer if it is (a) Surly, which needs to transfer to a glass recepticle for proper consumption; or (b) one of the numerous draught cans from across the pond. See (a) for proper consumption.
- Anonymous said...
31.8? I know it's not really within the VO realm, but I've yet to find a quill-style stem that fits a 31.8mm bar. Closest I could get was to buy a threadless adjustable-angle stem, and then a quill style adjustable-angle stem from the same nmanufacturer, and combine the parts. Never actually did it, just researched for a friend.
- Yann G.S. said...
dale's pale ale is ok, and definately one of the best of the canned beers... (i cant imagine rating it as america's best beer!!) but there are tons of beers that taste worlds apart without even traveling abroad.. weyerbacher/dogfis head/stouds etc..
- Anonymous said...
My favorite shim stock comes from the Pabst brewery.
- Unknown said...
Should we use american or metric cans?
- Anonymous said...
I think we should use Babylonian hemp.
- Velo Orange said...
Schorsch, those are indeed noodles.
Phillip, that is the best way to wrap bars when they will be shellaced, as the bars in the photo eventually were.
- Aaron said...
Why is that the best way to wrap bars if they are going to be shellacked? Can you explain what difference it makes?
- Anonymous said...
Hi Chris. How many rolls of cloth did it take to cover the Nitto Noodle bar? I have a the Belleri randonneur and I can't seem to cover the whole bar with 2 rolls.
- Velo Orange said...
I use three rolls of tape on most bars. I wrote a post last year about the "Alex Singer" method of taping bars that describes how I do it.
- Anonymous said...
I wrap my drop bars in two parts for each side, starting at the ends and at the sleeve and working toward the levers. All the taping occurs under the brake hoods for a nice, clean look. NO exposed tape or twine! I can wrap a 48cm Noodle with two rolls of cloth tape (Viva or Tressostar) as long as I don't overlap too much. Personally, I don't like the look or feel of shellack, but it does make things last longer.
Another thing...
Does Nitto make the Noodle bar in a 25.4? Most of the cool looking stems I come across are 25.4 rather than 26.
- Anonymous said...
Thanks Chris ... I do have a Nitto Noodle bar on my classic Motobecane Grand Record however I haven't shellacked it . I just finished the top off with some matching tape and it looks pretty good. I've been wrapping drop bars with cloth tape now for about 34 years and if I take my time I'm pretty happy with the results. Normally I have no problems using just two rolls of Tressostar on the drops.
My most recent wrapping was using the Brooks perforated leather on some Nitto mustache bars. In the end I'm very happy with both the expensive Brooks leather tape and the final result. However I did run into a problem at first.
I originally had some really cool NOS CLB levers with the adjusting screws and of course the very nice hoods that comes on quality NOS levers. It seems that the leather created too much thickness at the area of the lever body that there wasn't enough bolt to attached the tightening nuts. However I luckily had some unused Campy Record levers which worked fine. And even though most would consider me part of the lower income group of bicycle aficionados I truly feel the Brooks leather tape was a investment that I will enjoy for many years to come.
On a single speed bike I have the Nitto Albatross bars (flipped of course) with the Soma reverse brake levers. So I taped them with cloth tape. The first taping did not get the feel thick enough. So I taped them again. Now I think they need a third taping and this will be finished with shellac to preserve the color. I'm even thinking about finishing them with tat twine.
Now if I could go back to the 1970's I could really impress those Italianos who often put down my bicycle finish handiwork.
For some reason finishing the bars properly is the most interesting and confusing part of bicycle handiwork. However nicely taped bars even on a older bike is sign of class that few of the stretched-out spandex Lycra crowd rarely appreciates.
- john k novack said...
for me, cycling is not a sport. i ride 200 miles/week, as general transport. i love my bikes, ('61 olmo, riv bleriot, miyata 610, miyata 912, diamondback apex mtb.
tried wide bars, ended up back with 42's, same as my suit size. the technomic is good for me, bar height 1-2 cm below saddle height. sticking with classic dimensions might be wise. by classic i mean 1950's-60's long distance road racing stuff.
year round oregon rider!
- Anonymous said...
as for can beer, dale's is good, but you should try sly fox. it's excellent. and should you try to put 26.0 bars in your older cinelli stem, shims will do that too, proudly.


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FRIDAY, Aug. 15, 2008 (HealthDay News) -- Boys may be more likely to have childhood asthma than girls, but they are also more likely to grow out of it, a new study says.
The report, published in the second August issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, found that boys also have fewer asthma occurrences in the post-pubertal years.
The study tracked more than 1,000 children, ages 5 to 12, with mild to moderate persistent asthma over nine years. Each child received an annual spirometric testing with methacholine challenges to quantify their airway responsiveness (AR).
After an average of 8.6 years, boys became increasingly tolerant over time to larger and larger doses of methacholine, which provokes airway constriction, suggesting a possible decrease in disease severity. By age 16, it took more than twice as much methacholine to provoke a 20 percent constriction in the boys' airway on average as it did with the girls'.
Over the years, the girls' reactivity did not change markedly. By age 18, only 14 percent of the girls showed no significant degree of airways responsiveness, compared to 27 percent of boys.
"While our results were not unexpected, they do point to intriguing potential mechanisms to explain the gender differences in asthma incidence and severity. Especially intriguing is that the differences in gender begin at the time of transition into early puberty," the lead researcher, Dr. Kelan G. Tantisira of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, said in a news release issued by the journal's publisher.
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Flying over trouble spots raises concerns
French troops sent to secure the site of Air Algerie's crash in Mali did not find any survivors, but France's president said they did recover the plane's black box.
The disappearance of a commercial jetliner over northern Mali on Thursday is the latest in a string of airliners flying over conflict areas that is heightening international concern about flight paths.
Initial reports indicate bad weather may have been a factor when an Air Algérie flight en route to Algiers from Burkina Faso with 116 people aboard disappeared over Northern Mali and probably crashed, according to the French government.
The area is known for fighting for the past two years. Northern Mali fell under control of ethnic Tuareg separatists and then al-Qaeda-linked Islamic extremists following a military coup in 2012. A French-led intervention last year scattered the extremists, but the Tuaregs have since pushed back.
AIR ALGERIE: Plane with 116 aboard crashes in Mali
A senior French official told the Associated Press it was unlikely that fighters in Mali had weaponry that could shoot down a commercial jetliners. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because she was not authorized to speak for attribution, said the fighters have shoulder-fired weapons that could not hit an aircraft at cruising altitude.
The loss of the Air Algérie flight comes a week after Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crashed while flying over east Ukraine, another area of unrest, this one between Ukraine national forces and pro-Russian separatists. The U.S. government alleges it was downed by a surface-to-air missile fired by pro-Russian separatists. All 298 on board that flight were killed.
The Flight 17 crash prompted questions about why passenger jets continued to fly over an active war zone, where military planes have been shot down, most recently on Tuesday. Since the crash, airlines have avoided flying over the region, a convenient flight path between Western Europe and southern Asia.
The Federal Aviation Administration had previously cautioned airlines about flying that route. Last year, it warned commercial airliners of the risk of flying over Mali.
On Tuesday, the FAA banned U.S. commercial flights into Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport after a rocket from Gaza struck about a mile away. The FAA lifted the ban just before midnight Wednesday.
The European Aviation Safety Agency also had recommended suspending flights into Ben Gurion earlier in the week.
"Airlines overfly conflicted areas all the time, whether it's in the Middle East or wherever it might be," Kees Rietsema, a professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Phoenix told The Washington Post last week.
Rietsema, an Air Force veteran and former commercial pilot who also served as a staff member at the Joint Chiefs of Staff, added: "From a strictly legal perspective, you can overfly that closed airspace and there's no one telling you you can't be there, but on the other hand I would say that you also are assuming the risk on your own that something untoward could happen."
Contributing: Doug Stanglin; The Associated Press


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Monday, November 21, 2011
5 comments:
- wicKED said...
Too cool! Really makes me believe they hop down and walk around at night.
- November 21, 2011 at 9:33 AM
- RahneFan said...
So organic, and truly creepy. If you only sold an instructional book or video...
- November 21, 2011 at 9:39 AM
- Marrow said...
Incredible concept and props, Rot.
"If only you sold an instructional book or video..."
I am SO excited for Haunt Theory. So insanely excited.
On behalf of Jon Glassett, myself and everyone who reads your blog, loves your props, and waits all year long for new photos, I want you to write your book. I want to read your book. And I want to treasure it like the jewel it surely is.
- November 21, 2011 at 2:42 PM
- Pam Morris said...
ooooh, think this is gonna' be one of my favorites!
- November 21, 2011 at 3:35 PM
- Rot said...
This one was actually very difficult to execute. And it was far from home too. I'm shocked all the props, posts, camera equipment, and people (I dragged my brother to this shoot) all fit in my Honda CR-V...was going to write "truck," but it just didn't seem accurate : )
- November 23, 2011 at 12:05 PM


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I could and sure others could do with Dreamcast specific info
compatable sound codex/'s and what will run best. e.g. mp3 well on the wiki it is for (no version x listed)
Layout methods for CD's e.g. what I posted not that long back and building/burning methods, personly I go cdi and burn via the new imgburn with cdi multi session support
Full info on the ini support
any other helpfull info, e.g. the ability to run DVD/multi CD games via some split method if one is available (obviously not looked into doing that just yet) and from what I have seen it's not possible but doing it like a split rip so data file up to point x save then load up data disc 2 ect...
any other info, info could be added as newer things are test/version X/nightly build x now supports ect/fixed issue x
I know most of the info is around but it's not made easy and seems like it is possibly out of date as I noticed a few posts about none working games that are not listed as not working on the Dreamcast
If needs be I could do a tidy version to start with
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