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Saudi Arabia confirms Sudan president plane barred
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia's Civil Aviation Authority says the reason that the Sudanese president's plane was barred from crossing Saudi airspace en route to Iran earlier this weekend was because it did not ask for routine permission.
It said in a statement Tuesday that the plane's pilot declared he was carrying President Omar al-Bashir only when the plane was headed back to Sudan.
Sudan said on Sunday that Saudi authorities barred al-Bashir's plane from entering kingdom airspace on his way to Tehran to attend the inauguration of Iran's new President Hasan Rouhani.
The Saudi statement says al-Bashir's plane is a special chartered Saudi aircraft registered outside the kingdom without the right to make commercial flights.
It said there was no other reason behind its decision.
Saudi Arabia and Iran are regional foes.

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On Location: Promoting Healthy Habits in Papua, Indonesia
By Key Mangunsong
Key Mangunsong is the Production Head of Jalan Sesama Indonesia. She is also the director of Jalan Sesama studio and live action film segments segments.
Papua is the largest province in Indonesia located to the eastern side of the archipelago. Although this island is blessed with various mineral resources, it has the highest rate of poverty in Indonesia with the lowest income per capita for health and education.
With support dfrom Sesame Workshop and the Open Society Foundation, the Jalan Sesama team held an outreach program for promoting healthy living habits to local children and families located in the highlands of Papua. Promotional items created for supporting the program include DVDs and print media, such as posters and playing cards. Read More


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First, it was a relatively quiet summer as far as trades go. We saw some fireworks on draft night, but after that … for the most part, crickets.
Ron Artest got traded. So did Mo Williams and Marcus Camby. But that's not enough to call it a blockbuster summer.
Second, there were a lot of players dangled in the summer who, for a variety of reasons, didn't get traded. Some -- like Zach Randolph and Jamaal Tinsley -- are very difficult to deal. For others, the timing just wasn't right.
But as we head into the season, there are a number of unstable teams that still appear primed and ready to pull the trigger if the right deal comes along...
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Raymond Felton, Bobcats
The Bobcats surprised a lot of people when they drafted point guard D.J. Augustin in the lottery. But the Bobcats had been quietly shopping Felton ever since Larry Brown took over as coach.
While neither Augustin nor Felton has taken over this preseason, the word out of Charlotte is that Augustin, sooner or later, is going to be the point guard in Charlotte. With Felton heading into restricted free agency next summer, look for the Bobcats to get something in return while they can. Felton may never be a superstar, but he's a starting point guard, and those aren't always easy to come by.
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Customers today have high expectations of their websites. While they may not be able to tell you what a post back or a page refresh are, they know they do not want to see them. Customers also expect their websites to be alive with content. They have a dynamic business and they expect their web applications to reflect this.
If you are a web developer with the ASP.NET stack in your tool belt, the Knockout.js and SignalR libraries are available to make developing these dynamic applications easier. These libraries handle much of the DOM manipulation and low level communication details so you can get on with adding business value instead of worrying about plumbing. This screen cast series will give you an in-depth introduction to using Knockout.js, SignalR, and git deployment to the new Windows Azure Website platform.
All of the code for the application developed during this screencast is available on github.
Building and MVC 4 application with Knockout.js and Windows Azure Websites:
Adding real time communication with SignalR:
Several years ago Jay Harris (a friend and co-worker) and I decided to start attending some of the local .NET user groups both to increase our skills and make some connections. Of course, we both came up with excuses every month as to why this was inconvenient. But, we eventually pushed each other into going. I need to say "Thank You" to Jay for continually pushing me to be better at what I do.
After a few months of going the Greater Lansing .NET user group and many conversations about what we worked on, Jeff McWherter started convincing me that I had something valuable to contribute. At first, I blew this off and sat happily listening to the presentations. Those of you that know Jeff know that he was not going to let this go. Jeff continued to encourage me to get into speaking. I need to say "Thank You" to Jeff for opening my mind to giving to the community instead of just taking. The impact this has had on me cannot be measured. Community involvement is what led me to a different job where I actually spend time with my family. It is really hard to overstate how important this is as a turning point for me.
A year or so later, I started working at SRT Solutions. SRT is a unique organization that not only encourages keeping with the latest technologies and sharing what you have learned with the broader development community, they also allocate time to accomplish this task. As an example, this year I taught at 4 Windows Azure Boot Camps. Two of these events were in cities that included a day of travel. Combine that with the preparation time and you have about two weeks of time that SRT has invested in allowing me to teach others about something I am passionate about. I need to say "Thank You" to Bill Wagner and Dianne Marsh for building the company that they wanted to work for. I can think of very few places that would have allowed for spending that much time on community, much less encouraged it.
This year the Microsoft developer evangelists from my region, Jennifer Marsman and Brian Prince, mentioned that they wanted to support me being recognized for all of my community related activities. Jennifer is always there to support events in our area. She has helped me put together two conferences, supports all of the user groups that I help out with, and has given me invaluable advice on many occasions. Brian put together the Windows Azure Boot Camps that gave me a platform to talk about what I love. I need to say "Thank You" to Jennifer and Brian for helping me broaden my community connections.
This morning I was greeted with an email that said:
Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2011 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others. We appreciate your outstanding contributions in Windows Azure technical communities during the past year.
I need to say "Thank You" to Microsoft for allowing me the opportunity to participate in this program with a whole bunch of people that are way smarter than me. I look forward to the learning and connections that this will allow me over the next year.
This weekend I had the pleasure of presenting at Cloud Dev Day Detroit on the topic of migrating an existing application from on-premises to fully hosted on Windows Azure/SQL Azure. I presented an hour long session that had a significant amount of its content dedicated to demonstrating the process of migration. The heavy demo content was important to me as I did not want the audience to see another high level overview that day. I wanted to show real code!
This could go really bad
I decided to check out the internet connection early in the day to see how it would perform with a couple hundred of my closest geek friends checking twitter on their phones. It turns out the speed of the internet connection at the conference was exceptional. However, port 1433 was blocked. This is the port that is used to communicate with a SQL Server(including SQL Azure). A good portion of my demos were based around migrating from a local SQL Server instance to SQL Azure. You might think this was going to go very bad.
The good news
The day prior to the event when I was practicing for my demos (as every speaker should), I fired up Camtasia and recorded all of the demos I planned to give. I originally did this as a way for me to see how they played back and how the pace was for the talk. Having these recordings available for the conference saved my bacon! Not only did it save my bacon for items I was planning on doing live, but I was also able to show more than one deployment to the Windows Azure environment. With the editing tools in Camtasia, I was able to reduce 15-20 minute deployment process to just over a minute. I believe this made for a better experience for those attending this talk.
What do you think?
Does a recorded demo reduce the speaker's street cred? Is a recorded demo better than the inevitable typos and demo demons that pop up during a presentation? How would you leverage this tool?
Thank You to those who came to my session at Cloud Dev Day Detroit. I hope you were able to pick up a few tips, tricks, and guidance during the session.
This is the list of links I referred to during the session:
As an Azure developer, you likely followed the recent AWS outage news and were relieved that it happened to Amazon and not to your Windows Azure instances. However, you still need to learn from this cornerstone event in cloud computing history.
The reality is that failure can happen on any of the cloud offerings. Just because someone else is managing the physical machines does not mean that design for failure and disaster recovery planning are optional steps in delivering a solution. Chances are good that most deployments to the Windows Azure environment would not survive a similar event. Let's take a look at why you may be at risk and actions you can take to safeguard your deployments.
Current Guidance
When you are setting up your hosted services and your storage accounts, current guidance is to put these together in an affinity group. This ensures that the hosted services and the storage accounts stay in the same physical location. If you are using SQL Azure, you will likely configure that instance to be in the same location as the hosted services that would consume its data. This guidance will continue due to the performance and cost advantages of being in the same data center. Ah, now you see the problem. Just like many of the services that were sitting solely in the Northern Virginia data center, your deployment now sits in a single data center.
Performance Advantage of close proximity
There are significant performance benefits of having your data in the same location as your compute instances. Your application would suffer significant latency penalties for having your web role in North Central US and data in North Europe. This latency adds at least 250ms to any call to fetch data. Contrast this with two machines that are on the same rack connected with a gigabit connection. Hosting your data far from your hosted services could well cause an unacceptable level of performance degradation. I have worked for clients where any database call that took more than 100ms in testing would cause uncomfortable meetings to occur with the resident DBA. This latency is 2.5 times that at best and does not include the data side processing. The takeaway from this is by no means a new concept, nor is it unique to Windows Azure: Keep your data close and performance will improve.
Cost Advantage of close proximity
Under the Windows Azure pricing model, bandwidth between a web role and storage in the same data center is not charged. In the previous sample where the web role is in North Central US and the data is in North Europe, all bandwidth between the two will be charged. Pay-by-resource computing requires that the ongoing cost of a system be kept in mind when designing a solution. The takeaway from this: Keep your data in the same data center and charges can be significantly reduced.
Disadvantage of single datacenter
What happens if you put your compute, storage, and SQL Azure instances in the North Central datacenter, and that data center goes down much like what happened with the AWS North Virginia datacenter? What if it is more like the blackout that occurred in the Northeast a few years ago? You can bet that the Windows Azure team is planning for just such an event, if they have not already. But until this scenario is covered in the SLA that you agree to when using Windows Azure (or any cloud vendor), you need to plan for this failure.
What can I do
So, we have two opposing forces. We need our hosted service, storage, and SQL Azure instance located close together for best performance and most significant cost advantage. We also need hosted services in multiple physical locations for failover. It would seem that there is no resolution between those two goals, but the Windows Azure team has some offerings in the works that help with resolve this conflict. Traffic Manager (in CTP) will allow you to put your hosted services in multiple datacenters and provide traffic routing based on geo-location or round robin. In the event of a datacenter failure, this allows traffic to your web role to be routed to a functioning datacenter. SQL Azure Data Sync (in CTP) will allow you to keep SQL Azure instances in the same location as each of your hosted services and keep the data in sync in the background. The connection strings for each hosted instance would point to the near SQL Azure instance for best performance.
What is missing
As of right now, you would need to write code to keep your storage accounts in sync. Many of your applications may be taking advantage of Windows Azure Table Storage for scalable, low-cost data services. There is currently no offering for keeping your Table Storage data in sync. I think this feature would complete the failover scenario on the Windows Azure platform providing a significant advantage over other cloud offerings today. As such, I have put in a feature request on the site MyGreatWindowsAzureIdea. If you agree with me, please vote up the feature request, which helps raise visibility of the request to the Windows Azure Team.
Test Driven Development has been in full force for quite a few years now. This has lead us to volumes of tests that ensure that we are building the system right. This has proven to be a valuable part of the development process. However, what is missing from the focus on TDD is that the test code is not something you can sit down and talk about with a non-technical client. Having test code that can be read by clients (and potentially even written), facilitates communication on a whole new level. Ultimately, this leads to building the right system.
Our friends in the Ruby community have been enjoying the benefits of at tool called cucumber that allows for the creation of specifications in Gherkin language. This language is a human readable form that can then be translated into automated tests creating a set of executable specifications that a client can read and understand.
SpecFlow is an implementation of a Gherkin based specification engine that runs on .NET and integrates with Visual Studio. In this screencast I show you how to use SpecFlow to create specifications and leverage Telerik's WebAii Test Automation Framework for driving the browser through code.
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Update: Code used in this screencast is available on bitbucket
This screencast was recorded and edited using Camtasia.
This is one of those examples of where demo code and samples diverge from the code you use in a real application. For almost every example you see for loading configuration settings, like connection strings, you will see the following code:
This code will pull the value in the service configuration file associated with the given key. This would be sufficient if we had the same tools for a service configuration that we had for web.config files. For web.config files, we have a set of XSL files that can be used to apply different settings for different environments. One common place this occurs is in connection strings. In the real world, we set up the configuration strings for production, staging and development environments once and use the config file generated for the current environment.
Adapting config in Azure
Until the XSL tools are available for the service configuration, this technique and helper class can reduce the amount of work you have to perform on your service configuration when changing environments during the development cycle. First, add an entry in your service configuration to indicate your current environment. I use values of Development, Staging, and Production for this setting. Then for your entries that have a different value between the different environments, create a setting with the original setting name prefixed with the environment name. The image below shows how this would look for the setting ConnString.
The AzureConfigurationSettings class (shown below) will provide the functionality for the CurrentEnvironment setting to be used for determining which of the ConnString values should be used for the current instance. Using this utility, all of the appropriate connections strings may be kept in the service configuration and only one setting needs to change when switching environments. In order to consume this in your code, use AzureConfiguraitonSettings instead of RoleEnvironment when reading configuration settings.
It is worth noting that Alex Lambert has found a way to run the configuration transforms on service configuration files. He documents the process in a blog post. A side effect of this is that you lose some ability to use the visual tools for editing configuration. There is however much less noise in the configuration file than the approach in this blog post. Until support for configuration transforms is added to Visual Studio, you will have to pick your pain points.
How it works
The AzureConfigurationSettings class will first attempt to use the configuration setting without the decoration for current environment. This ensures that code you have today will function the same. If no value was found without decoration, the code will attempt to use the configuration setting prefixed with the string found in the CurrentEnvironment setting. I also handled the RoleEnvironment.Changing event so that if a new configuration were loaded through the portal with the CurrentEnvironment setting changed, the cache of that value would be invalidated.
The Source
The code you see below may also be found on bitbucket with the rest of the solution.
public class AzureConfigurationSettings
private const string CurrentEnvironmentKey = "CurrentEnvironment";
private readonly static object lockObj = new object();
static AzureConfigurationSettings()
RoleEnvironment.Changing += (sender, e) => {
var hasCurrentEnvironmentChanged = e.Changes
.Any(change => change.ConfigurationSettingName == CurrentEnvironmentKey);
if (hasCurrentEnvironmentChanged)
lock (lockObj)
isCurrentEnvironmentLoaded = false;
public static string GetConfigurationSettingValue(string key)
string value;
if (TryGetValue(key, out value))
return value;
return null;
private static bool isCurrentEnvironmentLoaded = false;
public static string currentEnvironment;
public static string CurrentEnvironment
if (!isCurrentEnvironmentLoaded)
lock (lockObj)
if (!isCurrentEnvironmentLoaded)
currentEnvironment = RoleEnvironment
catch (RoleEnvironmentException)
isCurrentEnvironmentLoaded = true;
return currentEnvironment;
private static bool TryGetValue(string key, out string value)
value = null;
value = RoleEnvironment.GetConfigurationSettingValue(key);
catch (RoleEnvironmentException)
value = RoleEnvironment.GetConfigurationSettingValue(CurrentEnvironment + key);
catch (RoleEnvironmentException)
return false;
return true;
In the last post I talked about sequence I would take for this migration. The first step in this sequence will be to migrate the database from an on-premises SQL Server to SQL Azure.
Creating the on-premises database
The purpose of this database is to support an application where logged in users may post questions to the instructors at the Windows Azure Boot Camps being hosted around the country. After a question has been posted the attendees can vote to indicate the general interest level in the questions. At the end of the event, a quick run through the list can be used to uncover any unanswered questions.
The database was created with all of the default options via the SQL Server Management Studio with the name of AzureOverflow. The relatively simple needs for this database are a table for questions, a table for votes, and support for user management. The scripts to create the tables and relationships that I added to the database can be found here. The ASP.NET Membership provider was chosen to provide the user management support needed for this application. The command line used to create the membership objects was:
aspnet_regsql –A mr –d AzureOverflow –E
Migration Analysis
The primary tool we will use to perform this migration is the SQL Azure Migration Wizard. As of this writing, this tool has the capacity to do migrations from:
What I will focus on here is the analysis features of this tool. This will give you some warning about areas where you might expect issues to arise when performing the migration. This should be your first stop before you actually try to move your data to SQL Azure. To perform the Analysis, start up the Migration Wizard and select SQL Database under the Analyze Only section.
After this you will be prompted for the necessary information to connect to your SQL Server. Analysis results from the AzureOverflow database indicate that there are a few issues with some of the items created by the Membership Provider, but the items required to support questions and voting were fine.
Migrating Membership Data
As it turns out, using the ASP.NET Membership Provider on SQL Azure is a solved problem. An updated tool for creating the Membership database on SQL Azure can be found in KB2006191. The command line will be similar to the aspnet_regsql tool with a few modifications. Since Windows Authentication is not currently supported within SQL Azure, we will need to provide a user name and password for SQL Authentication. A server name will also be required since the tool will not be running against a local database.
aspnet_regsqlazure –s mydatabase.database.windows.net –d AzureOverflow –u username@mydatabase –p P@ssw0rd –a mr
After running this command, all of the required elements for the Membership Provider will be created on our SQL Azure database. That, however, is not the end of the story in regards to the Membership Provider. No real business is going to be willing to throw away the user data already stored in their on-premises database, so next we need to migrate the data. The most efficient way to deal with copying a mass of data from one database to another is to use BCP (Note that the Migration Wizard uses BCP as well). Sure, you could use the Generate Scripts feature from within Management Studio, but the result of that would be an insert statement for each entry in the tables that you want to migrate. If you were performing a migration on a database of any reasonable size, this is not a viable option. BCP is by far the most efficient way to move our data. We will perform the BCP operation in two steps. First we need to export the data from each table into a file:
bcp dbo.MyTableName out MyTableName.dat –n –S MySqlServerName –T
Next, we need to import the data from the file created above into the SQL Azure database. Again, note that we will need to provide the server name as well as user name and password for SQL Server authentication.
bcp dbo.MyTableName in –n –S myserver.database.windows.net –U username@myserver –P P@ssw0rd –E
A command file which performs this export and import on all of the Membership Provider tables used by this database can be found here.
Migration of the Application Data
This portion of the migration that relates to questions and voting is as it should be, completely uninteresting. The SQL Azure Migration Wizard can handle the tables and data required to support the questions and votes without issue. When the option comes up to Choose Objects, I will select all of the tables that have not already been migrated with the Membership Provider in the steps above.
After connecting the wizard to our SQL Azure database, the tables will be created and the application data migrated without incident. In most cases, the Migration Wizard will be the only tool you need. Be sure to perform the analysis first to determine if this is true for your data. For more information on using the migration wizard check out this post by Rich Dudley. It is an excellent example that walks through using the wizard from start to finish.
Configuration Changes
Since SQL Azure is simply a TDS endpoint, the only change that needs to occur inside of our web application is the connection string to the database. There are a couple of differences required of connection strings for SQL Azure databases. First, the connection is to a database and not to a server, so the Initial Catalog parameter of the connection string is a required element. Also, as already mentioned, the current version of SQL Azure does not support Trusted Connections, so you will need to provide a user name and password in the connection string. Also note that the user name is required to be in the format user@server. I have heard rumblings that this will not be required in the near future, but nothing that is confirmed. This results in a connection string entry that looks like:
<add name="ApplicationServices" connectionString="Data Source=DATABASENAME.database.windows.net;Initial Catalog=AzureOverflow;User Id=USERNAME@DATABASENAME;Password=PASSWORD;" />
Testing the Application
After migrating the user data, application data, and updating the application configuration, our web application is now using a SQL Azure database rather than the on-premises SQL Server. Make sure you run through your usual battery of smoke tests to validate major pieces of functionality at this point.
Use the Force
If you have a database that the Migration Wizard simply will not move successfully, be sure to check out Roger Doherty's blog post on Brute Force Migration of Existing SQL Server Databases to SQL Azure. For this method to work, you will need to change the default scripting option to script for a SQL Azure database before you generate your DDL scripts.
There is very little that can go wrong using the brute force approach listed in the article, but it is certainly a fair bit more effort than the Migration Wizard. So if at all possible, stick with the Migration Wizard for a simple and painless migration. As with many things cloud related, a hybrid approach may be your best options. You can see that throughout this post with the use of the Migration Wizard, updated aspnet_regsqlazure to perform the DDL operations, and using BCP to migrate the user data. Carefully consider your cloud migration tasks; There are usually several ways to perform a task. Determine the cost of these options in terms of your time, the time required to perform the task, and the cost of the cloud resources you will use during the migration. All of these costs will influence your choice of migration techniques.
There is no shortage of great material out there to help you build your next application on the Windows Azure platform. What I will do in this series is show the process of migrating an on-premises web application to Windows Azure. What you will see over the next few posts is an application that I built for to help prioritize questions during the Azure Boot Camp events. The application is built using the tools and patterns that I use today to build web applications. You will see appearances from MVC2, Fluent NHibernate, MVCContrib, and the Windsor Container.
Many of these tools were added to the project with minimal effort using NuGet. One of the features that saved time on this project was the ability of NuGet to add assembly binding redirects for projects that have dependencies on multiple versions of a library. The Add-BindingRedirects call from the Package Manager Console took care of this problem for the Castle.Core assembly which had bindings to 1.x and 2.x versions of this assembly.
I leveraged the repository pattern whose only public methods were calls for data operations that were required to build the application. Additional code was not added to support CRUD operations on every single element of the model, when there was no requirement for this functionality. As the migration progresses and the data access code is replaced, this repository tells us exactly which operations need to be supported.
You will also see the use of the view model concept. The controller will fetch the required model data and perform the aggregation necessary to present exactly the information that is needed by the view. This approach allows for much thinner view code allowing the HTML of the page a higher percentage of the code. Check out the spark view engine or the upcoming Razor View engine in MVC3 for even cleaner views.
Planning the Migration
Just as with any application, the migration will not take place in one step. When performing a migration from on-premises to the cloud, it is even more important to consider where you will get value in migrating first as well as reducing the cost of the intermediate steps intended only to assist in the process of migration. This is the order that I chose to do the migration and my justification for that order.
Step 1: Migration to SQL Azure
Infrastructure - It is easier to point your on-premises app to the SQL Azure instance by changing configuration settings than it is to open up your database server that is likely sitting behind a firewall(s) not visible to the outside world. There is a non-trivial amount of infrastructure work necessary to make that happen. Since we know that our next step will be the migration of the web hosting to Windows Azure, I would choose not to take on that work that would be thrown away once the web instances are relocated.
Cost – Cloud pricing is a very dynamic point and one that changes for each scenario. I can only speak to the scenarios I have worked with in the past. Your scenario may be different, do your own math. In the larger web applications I have worked on, the database hardware was the most expensive hardware purchased and the licensing cost for SQL Server in an Active/Passive configuration is non-trivial. When moving to SQL Azure, the licensing and the failover support are built into the cost. If you are looking at version upgrades in the near future, this kind of migration might just be a good deal for you.
Step 2: Migration of the Web Servers
Missing Pieces – This application does not have an app server doing a lot of data processing. If it did, I would choose to migrate those processes first. The processes that are doing the heavy lifting with data need to sit as physically close to the data as possible in order to have reasonable performance. Another important consideration is that this type of code usually has the fewest dependencies. That reduces the work load of verification once migration of this step has completed.
Infrastructure – Once this step is completed, the application will run entirely on Windows Azure allowing us to decommission or repurpose the on-premises hardware. If you are already building applications to scale well with your own hardware, it is likely that there will be few things to be modified to run in a web role.
Step 3: Migration to Cheaper Storage
Where it makes sense, we are going to look at migrating data to Table Storage where the charges are (as of this writing) $0.15 per GB/month vs. $9.99 per GB/month on SQL Azure. The planning for this stage will require us to look at our data consumption patterns. While SQL Azure is quite a bit more expensive for storing our bits, there are no charges for transactions. With Table Storage there is a charge for each request that leaves the data center. Since we have already migrated the web site in the previous step, we will make sure that our data stays inside the data center to avoid these charges. Be aware, changing the storage mechanism is a non-trivial change that includes restructuring our data as well as modifying our repository layer to talk to a different style of data storage. There is a different mindset around designing for Table Storage instead of a relational database.
What is your migration story?
Have you done a similar migration to the Windows Azure platform? I would love to hear what the decision points were for your migration as well as your lessons learned. Feel free to comment on these posts or contact me directly with your feedback.
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FRIDAY, March 26, 2010 (HealthDay News) -- Removing a breast after the other breast has been treated for breast cancer does not improve the odds that women with two genetic mutations will be free of disease or live longer, new research has found.
Women with the mutations -- which affect the genes known as BRCA1 and BRCA2 -- have a much higher risk for developing cancer. Some women choose to have their breasts removed as a preventive measure, called a preventive mastectomy, even without a cancer diagnosis.
Annette Heemskerk-Gerritsen, a graduate student at Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and her colleagues studied 390 women who had the mutation and had developed cancer in one breast. Of the group, 138 had remaining breast tissue removed as a preventive measure.
The recurrence and survival rates between the two groups of women were similar, the study found.
"We hope that our findings will provide additional information to improve the counseling of breast cancer patients considering risk-reducing mastectomy by emphasizing that the gain that may be obtained by this radical surgery is mainly in respect of reducing the risk of contralateral breast cancer," referring to cancer in the opposite breast. Heemskerk-Gerritsen said in a news release from the European Breast Cancer Conference. "As yet, we have found no benefits with respect to disease-free and overall survival."
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Embryo biopsy does not affect the early growth and risk of congenital malformations of babies born after PGD and PGS
ESHRE11 July 2008
Barcelona, Spain: A study of 70 singleton babies born after preimplantation genetic diagnosis and screening has shown that the procedure does not adversely affect their early growth and risk of congenital malformations.
The lead researcher, Professor Maryse Bonduelle, told the 24th annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Barcelona today (Tuesday): "These findings are very reassuring for the children, parents and clinicians involved in PDG/PGS treatments. They show that embryo biopsy in PGD and PGS had no adverse impact on singletons' growth or medical outcomes."
PGD/PGS is an invasive procedure that involves removing cells from the embryo before it is transferred to the mother's uterus and testing them for specific genetic disorders (such as cystic fibrosis and Duchenne muscular dystrophy). Doctors then select only the unaffected embryos to transfer. Until now, little was known about the effect on the early growth and clinical outcomes of children born after embryo biopsy.
Prof Bonduelle, head of the Centre for Medical Genetics at Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel (Brussels, Belgium), and her colleagues compared 70 babies born after PGD/PGS with equal numbers of babies born after ICSI (intracytoplasmic sperm injection) or spontaneously conceived (SC).
They found no difference between the three groups with regard to weight, height and head circumference at birth and age two, or in rates of growth. PGD/PGS children were born more frequently after caesarean section than ICSI children, but had no more congenital malformations, hospital admissions or surgical interventions than did the ICSI or SC babies. Although the PGD/PGS children underwent more medical investigations, the number of abnormal results arising from these investigations was not significantly different to the other two groups.
The PGD/PGS children did have a lower body mass index (BMI) at age two than did the SC children. Prof Bonduelle said the reason for this might have something to do with the babies' diet: "We found that mothers who conceived after PGD/PGS worked less (working 63% of the time) than the ICSI mothers (working 77% of the time) and SC mothers (working 83% of the time); PGD/PGS children were less frequently in day care centres. We speculate that different, more healthy food might have been given to PGD/PGS children by the parents, given the finding that their mothers stayed at home more frequently, and this may be the reason for the healthier BMI."
"Complications of pregnancy and older parental age were more present in the PGD/PGS and ICSI groups, but these are both factors that are known to be present more frequently in mothers after assisted reproduction technology," said Prof Bonduelle. "Mothers and fathers of SC babies were significantly younger at delivery compared to the other two groups, and this also contributes to fewer pregnancy complications."
Other work published this year by the same research group has shown that there was no difference between the PGD/PGS, ICSI and SC children in other developmental areas, such as motor, mental, and socio-emotional development and language. Nor did the parents differ in terms of parental stress and health.
The researchers are continuing their study of PGD/PGS children as, so far, there are insufficient numbers to draw firm conclusions about any differences in major malformation rates. Two PGD/PGS children, one ICSI child and two SC children had major malformations. In the PGD/PGS group, one child suffered from a ventricular septum defect (a heart problem) and another child had hemivertebrae with gibbus (a malformation of the vertebrae causing a hump). One child from the ICSI group born at 39 weeks underwent surgery for an inguinal hernia (a hernia in the groin). In the SC group, a surgical intervention was performed in one child with a transposition of the great arteries and in another child with bilateral cryptorchidism.
One or more minor malformations were recorded in 24 PGD/PGS children, 23 ICSI children and 13 SC children. Skin anomalies (moles or spots and various birth marks) were the most frequently observed minor malformations in 18 ICSI children (25.7%), 14 PGD/PGS children (20%) and 10 SC children (14.3%).
In addition, the researchers excluded twins from the study because of the impact twin pregnancies can have on premature births, low birth weight, growth and malformations. "Further research on the outcome of PGD and PGS twins compared to ICSI and SC twins is mandatory," concluded Prof Bonduelle.


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BRUNSWICK, Maine – Defending champions and top-seeded Bowdoin College proved to be too much for the No. 20 ranked MIT field hockey team, as Tech's season came to an end with a 3-0 loss in the NCAA Division III quarterfinals on Sunday afternoon. The Polar Bears used a pair of second-half tallies to pull away from the Engineers, who had advanced to the national quarterfinals for the first time in program history and established a new Institute mark for wins in a season (19-4).
Bowdoin will advance to the NCAA Final Four, to be held next weekend at Nichols College in Dudley, Mass., looking to earn its fourth national title in five years.
The Cardinal and Gray hung tough with the Polar Bears for much of the first half, despite a 9-3 edge in shots for the hosts during the frame. In the 26th minute, Bowdoin earned one of its three first-half penalty corners and would capitalize for the game's first tally. Ella Curren (Roxbury, Conn.) took a shot from the left side of the circle and Cathleen Smith (Larchmont, N.Y.) was in position to tip the ball in past Tech goalkeeper Casey Landry (Peabody, Mass.) for the 1-0 lead.
That score would hold up into the break, despite a couple of late chances for Tech. Molly Duffy (New Providence, N.J.) nearly found the back of the net with just over a minute and a half to go but was denied on a defensive save by Kassey Matoin (Springvale, Maine). The Engineers earned a corner right after that but Katie Kauffman's (Olney, Md.) shot was denied by goalie Kayla Lessard (Enfield, Conn.).
Bowdoin nearly increased its lead early in the second half but Jenna Klein (Parma, Ohio) made five of her 10 saves over an eight minute stretch, including three in a row, to preserve the 1-0 spread.
The Polar Bears finally broke through midway through the period to double their lead. After Klein made a stop on an initial penalty corner shot, Elizabeth Clegg (Hudson, Ohio) found Katie Riley (Hingham, Mass.), who deposited the ball into the back of the net for the 2-0 advantage.
Clegg added an insurance marker on a tip-in with just over 10 minutes to play.
Bowdoin (19-0) held a 23-7 advantage in shots for the game, as the Tech goalkeepers, Landry and Klein, combined for 12 saves. Lessard made three stops in net for the Polar Bears.
The game marks the end of the fantastic careers for seniors Kauffman, Kameron Klauber (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Anna Teruya (Hockessin, Del.), who helped MIT win a pair of New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) championships and earn two NCAA tournament bids while winning 58 games over the past four seasons. Despite losing, the excellent leadership of its senior class, Tech will return a great deal of talent in 2012, including junior co-captain Molly McShane (Lake Bluff, Ill.) and second-leading scorer Duffy.
Bowdoin will face off against fellow New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) foe, Middlebury College, in the semis next Saturday, November 19.


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A Montreal school is being widely criticized for expelling a student who hacked into its computer system and helped expose flaws in the system's security. The student now has been offered jobs by computer security companies, including the one that ran the system he hacked into. In the Internet age, the hacker is celebrated as a hero and the school is pilloried for being an overbearing, defensive holdover from a bygone age. It's an unfair presumption that needs to be corrected.That's one version of the story. The hacker is celebrated as a hero because he did something useful: exposed a security flaw that could have been used by someone malicious for nefarious purposes. We generally want to celebrate those who spot danger and warn people away from it. And the school is being pilloried because it expelled this person. Without Ahmed Al-Khabaz's help, the data of students would be at risk. Doesn't it seem somewhat overbearing to blame the messenger? What exactly is "unfair" about the presumption? After pointing out that Al-Khabaz "discovered a serious flaw" the editorial still supports his expulsion, apparently entirely based on the fact that the company, Skytech, felt his probing was an attack:
... Mr. Al-Khabaz then went on and carried out what the company considered to be a "cyber-attack" on the school's production servers. The company notified the school, and Mr. Al-Khabaz was hauled on the carpet. The company accepted the student's explanation and noted that he "demonstrated great talent in computer science." They dropped the matter and offered Mr. Al-Khabaz a job, but Dawson's administrators felt the student had gone too far and expelled him on the grounds he had violated the college's code of conduct.What the company considered a "cyber-attack" could also be described as "checking to see if the flaw was fixed." And, clearly, they didn't think it was a huge problem if they offered him a job, and noted his "great talent." So why does the school still think he went too far?
Dawson's officials are right: Rules exist for a reason, and students cannot expect to break them without consequence. Why have them, otherwise?Ahhhhhh. Rules are rules. Rules exist for reasons, but sometimes those reasons are bad. And punishing people for breaking rules in ways that help people seems like sending the exact wrong message. Sometimes rules should be broken, because the rules are wrong.
The editorial then moves on to Aaron Swartz:
Swartz, who had a history of depression, was facing a slew of charges for allegedly downloading publicly funded academic journals from a large database that charged a fee for access. His family and supporters blame overzealous prosecutors for his death; the prosecutors insist – again, quite rightly – that "stealing is stealing."Uh, "stealing is stealing" is a tautology, so of course it's right. But what's "wrong" is arguing that what Swartz did was "stealing." He stole nothing. He downloaded papers from MIT's open network, which was set up with a site license from JSTOR allowing open downloading of those journal articles, all of which remained on the site for anyone else to download.
Go ahead, explain what was "stolen"?
In the age of the Internet, the massive downloading for free of music and movies and other copyrighted material has muddied the waters for many people.It seems to have "muddied the waters" for the editorial writers of the Toronto Globe and Mail who don't seem to realize that neither case had anything to do with the "massive downloading for free of music and movies."
They seem to have forgotten that privacy rights and copyright laws are among the foundations of our economy. These are things that are not to be shoved aside by the absolutism of Internet activism.Oh really? If privacy rights are the foundation of the economy, then, er, isn't it a good thing that Al-Khabaz alerted officials to a hole that exposed the private info of students. He did nothing to compromise anyone's privacy rights at all. Similarly, Aaron Swartz did not violate any copyright law, and he was not charged with copyright law violations.
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Customs' Hamfisted Attempts To Intimidate Wikileaks Volunteers
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He was careful to travel with no computers or gadgets whatsoever, other than some USB keys with encrypted versions of the Bill of Rights. He noted that the initial customs agent, to whom he handed over the declaration form was friendly until she pulled up his account, and from there things went sour. He asked to speak to a lawyer, which was denied on the grounds that he wasn't being arrested.
Apparently he was told initially that he was pulled aside as part of a "random" search, which leads Appelbaum to joke about the actual randomness -- which was also shown to be false when one of the agents mentioned his pre-flight Twitter activity.. He also pointed out that those detaining him were disappointed that he wasn't traveling with computers or mobile phones, and that Iceland had plenty of computers, such that he didn't need to bring his own.
In the end, after about half an hour's detention and search, they did let him go. Some might consider that to not be that big of a deal, but it clearly has something of a chilling effect. He notes that the mental stress of being in such a situation is not at all enjoyable. This is unfortunate. If he's done something wrong, arrest him. If he has not, harassing him every time he crosses the border is just obnoxious.


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Posted: Wed May 29, 2013 12:35 pm
Post subject: Carpal tunnel advice?
It appears that I have carpal tunnel from windsurfing. It's not bad, mostly just tingling in a few fingers, rarely ever pain. Still, I'd appreciate any suggestion from others who had/have this problem.
My symptoms usually come up after winter trips to Bonaire where I sail many days in a row, and 5-6 hours each day. My harness line placement is usually pretty good, I can let go of both hands briefly. I often have the thumbs on the same side as the fingers for a lighter grip, unless blisters make this uncomfortable. I like to sail a lot, though. 3-5 hours with minimal breaks are my idea of fun, and I've had a couple of days with more than 100 miles per day recently in Hatteras.
I just started wearing wrist guards, and they seem to help a bit.
Do wrist/forearm strengthening exercises help?
Which ones? When I had elbow tendonitis a couple of years back,
eccentric wrist exercises with a FlexBar
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Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 8:32 am
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Had the surgury in Nov2012 on my r.wrist , before it went numb while sailing and sleeping, cured that. I now have arthritics which appeared after the surgery, just in the same hand, its liveable with just a ivyprovin and some balm from time to time.
The primary goal was to improve my sailing, and from all sources was the only option. That past worked for me. It seems stronger since a month of sailing, but was slow to get strong again, my left is stronger, Iam right handed.
not being a DR , can only offer my thoughts, if you have a tingling and not numbness I would stay away from surgery, when it becomes more a PITA then consider, I was very reluctant to have this done, but it cured that part, and now said to open a new aliment with the arthritics
acupuncture may help along with the exercises
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Posted: Fri May 31, 2013 2:27 pm
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I had both wrists done 2 1/2 years ago, had to miss an entire season because of that, but I'd do it all over again, no regrets.
I had the tingling for quite awhile in both hands, but then it got worse fairly rapidly. I had to take myself out of the water because I couldn't hold onto the booms anymore, only after about 10 minutes of sailing.
I'd wake up in the morning, and my hands would feel like concrete, could barely move them, it took both hands just to turn the car key to start the engine, my hand strength was all but gone.
Had some interesting tests, one involving electrical shocks on both arms to isolate which nerves were effected, not painful, but somewhat shocking.
Anyway, I had it pretty bad, only surgery was going to fix them, I had no choice, I was rapidly becoming useless.
So my doc says that I could save some money and recovery time if I was to have both wrists done at the same time "if you are willing to put up with some
issues". I said no, one at a time if you please, I wasn't willing to put my sweet baby thru that kind of
, if you know what I mean, as well as not being able to drive.
Anyway about 9 months later I was as good as new, actually better, my doc said "I've taken about 30 years off your wrists, but for the rest of your body? Well you're on your own."
I did a lot of flat water SUPing for rehab, it really helped get me back pretty quick.
Been sailing harder and better now days, than I have in at least the last 5 years.
I can easily see how in times past, or even now in poorer countries, how CTS would be a crippling condition that would basically put you out of the work force, and leave you a crippled mess for what was left of your life.
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Posted: Fri May 31, 2013 3:37 pm
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I advise doing a lot of Googling as part of your research. Many factors contribute to CT syndrome, and each has its own treatment options, ranging from additional vitamin B6 to corrective surgery. IMO, patients need to know a lot about their ailments before consulting doctors, at the very least enough to know when we're facing a surgeon who's behind on his yacht payments or simply doesn't keep up with the research. The consequences of stethoscope idolization can be dire.
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Posted: Fri May 31, 2013 4:39 pm
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Spend more time hooked in, less time hooked out.
Wear and tear, your grip isn't meant to be used 3-5 hours, unless you're a trapeze artist, all of whom have tunnel carpal.
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I second what Isobars says- but with the caveat that not all docs are after your $.. however, you do have to be your own advocate and do the research- it might not even be carpal tunnel- Lyme disease, which is epidemic in the NE, has symptoms which can mimic CT.. i.e. the tingling and numbness.
Do not assume any one doctor has the story for you in particular.. Find out as much as possible ahead of time and if the doc isn't into having an open discussion about your problem, and just wants to give you a script and send you home, find another doc... If they talk down to me or don't want to consider alternative explanations and or treatments, I'm outta there.
I use my hands and arms daily in my work and have lots of issues with strain, tendonitis and yes, Lyme- but it comes and goes and some days I can't do as much or sail quite as long- usually winter with gloves...but you learn what to do and what not to do- and what not to eat...
Please don't jump into surgery without exploring all the options- including time and exercise and definitely diet too.
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my wrist continues to improve.
For the surgery discussion: we are customers of the Doctor, so YES
let the buyer beware.
IMO the recovery time is much longer than they quote, more like 6 months,
but having had mine in Nov I have missed NO sailing, and started in Mid April.
in the case of surgery you always need to be aware of potential problems
I will add one other thought on surgery, I would not use any opinions here as the focal point in my decision making. ANY
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Bolded headlined article in todays paper. (Daily Mail - page 11.)
General anaesthetic for over 65s 'raises risk of dementia by 35%.'
According to a recent study brain changes caused by the anaesthetic could lead to Alzheimers within a few years. Even if not the end result, it states that cognitive function in the elderly can be badly impaired. long after the initial reaction to the aneasthetic has worn off.
According to the French Institute of Health and Medical Research, and the University of Bordeaux, 9% of 632 people studied (some only had local anaesthetics) developed dementia, anything up to 8 years afterwards. Most of those were diagnosed with Alzheimers.
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If you are getting blisters you can improve your loose grip practices. We sail at a reef break miles away up wind. Too far to go home so a 3 to 5 hr single session is the norm.
Most of us can drop our back hand until the next turn, which in our site can be 15 minute reaches.
We had to learn to fingertip it all the time to make it at our site.
No blisters, few callouses despite 300 days a year.
When pointing moving the front line forward an inch helps lighten the load on your wrists.
Remember to move it back on reaches and downwinds.
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Joined: 10 Jul 2005
Posts: 3598
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2013 2:09 pm
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If you are getting blisters you can improve your loose grip practices. We sail at a reef break miles away up wind. Too far to go home so a 3 to 5 hr single session is the norm.
Most of us can drop our back hand until the next turn, which in our site can be 15 minute reaches.
We had to learn to fingertip it all the time to make it at our site.
No blisters, few callouses despite 300 days a year.
When pointing moving the front line forward an inch helps lighten the load on your wrists.
Remember to move it back on reaches and downwinds.
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