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SEATTLE, Jan. 31, 2013 – Swedish Cancer Institute (SCI) recently announced the appointment of Thomas D. Brown, M.D., MBA, as its new executive director. Dr. Brown will join SCI March 16.
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Free Class on Nutrition for Young Athletes to be Held at Swedish/Issaquah Feb. 20
ISSAQUAH, WA, Jan. 23, 2013 - With spring sports starting, don't drop the ball on nutrition. Nutrition is just as important as physical conditioning for athletes. So, as spring sports begin, let Swedish help you and your children prepare to hit it out of the park. Join Registered Dietitian Ally Colson for an interactive training on game-winning meals and snacks and help your young athlete become a nutrition champion.
Swedish's Ballard, First Hill, Issaquah and Edmonds Campuses Welcome First Babies of the New Year
SEATTLE, Jan. 4, 2013 - The start of each year brings many new things, including new life. And on Jan. 1 Swedish helped welcome many newborns, including those lucky enough to have been born first on New Year's day at the medical center's Ballard, First Hill, Issaquah and Edmonds campuses.
Eight Swedish Medical Center Nurses Receive The DAISY Award for Delivering Quality and Compassionate Care
SEATTLE, Dec. 5, 2012 – Eight Swedish Medical Center nurses today received The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses, a national program established by The DAISY Foundation to recognize nurses who deliver quality and compassionate care. The nurses received their awards during a special ceremony at the Swedish Cherry Hill campus.
Swedish Receives $2.5 Million Grant from the Ivy Foundation to Advance Brain Cancer Research
SEATTLE, Nov. 29, 2012 - Swedish Medical Center announced today that the Ben and Catherine Ivy Center for Advanced Brain Tumor Treatment (Ivy Center) will receive an additional $2.5 million grant from the Ben & Catherine Ivy Foundation (Ivy Foundation). The grant, the second received from the Ivy Foundation in three years, will be used to identify new drugs with potential for clinical use in brain cancer treatment.
Swedish's First Hill and Ballard Campuses Awarded an 'A' for Patient Safety by Hospital Safety Score
SEATTLE, Nov. 28, 2012 – Swedish Medical Center's First Hill and Ballard campuses were honored today with an 'A' Hospital Safety Score by The Leapfrog Group, an independent national nonprofit run by employers and other large purchasers of health benefits. The A score was awarded in the latest update to the Hospital Safety Score – the A, B, C, D or F scores assigned to U.S. hospitals based on preventable medical errors, injuries, accidents, and infections. The Hospital Safety Score was compiled under the guidance of the nation's leading experts on patient safety and is designed to give the public information they can use to protect themselves and their families.
Holidays at the Hospital (Swedish Issaquah) December 1
Bring the family and get into the holiday spirit at the Swedish/Issaquah Holidays at the Hospital. There's something for everyone: a pancake breakfast, pictures with Santa, and lots of kids' activities. Holiday cheer awaits you at the hospital on December 1 from 9 a.m. to noon.
Event features:
- Pancake Breakfast
$5 per person, $20 per family of six (infants are free)
A portion of the proceeds supports Pediatrics at Swedish
- Visit with Santa & Free Photos
Come get a free photo with St. Nick and decorate a keepsake frame.
- Teddy Bear Clinic
Have your kids bring their favorite teddy bear or doll to our "Teddy Bear Clinic" for a check-up.
- Giant Gingerbread House
Kids can help decorate our giant gingerbread house.
- Ask-the-Doc
Our experts will be here to answer any questions you have.
- Face Painting
Our face-painting elf offers some cool designs.
- Book Drive
We will be accepting new or used books for ages 0-18 years for our pediatric patients.
Saturday, Dec. 1
9 a.m.-noon
751 N.E. Blakely Dr.
Issaquah, WA 98029


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British Invasion singer Eric Burdon, who sang with the Animals and then the funk band War, has listed his retreat in Joshua Tree for sale at $999,000.
The Southwestern-style gated house, built in 2007, sits on 2.5 acres surrounded by native plants and encircled by an adobe wall. The 3,200-square-foot-plus courtyard-style home features four bedrooms, three bathrooms, a laundry room and an office. There is a studio with a woodburning stove. Outdoor amenities include a heated saltwater pool, a spa and a rooftop deck.

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Location: From the intersection of Highway 14 and Highway 231 in Wetumpka, travel south on Highway 231 for approximately 1.2 miles to Ready Street. Turn right onto Ready Street and continue to stop sign. Go across Main Street (behind City Hall) to the boat ramp/Gold Star Park.
Number of Lanes: 1
Lights: Yes
Courtesy Dock: One Floating Dock
Accessible: No
Parking Lot Size: 18 Trailers; One Acre
Restrooms: No
Latitude*: N32o 32' 07"
Longitude*: W86o 12' 30"
Provided in Cooperation With: City of Wetumpka
State regulations govern the use of this boating and fishing access area. If you have questions about this boating and fishing access area, contact the District II Fisheries Supervisor.
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As Alabamians, we love to spend time on the water. Protecting these resources is an important part of our overall enjoyment. A concern we must all address is the spreading of harmful plants, animals and other organisms. These aquatic nuisance species can hitch a ride on our clothing, boats, and items used in the water. When we go to another lake or stream, the nuisance species can be released. And, if the conditions are right, these introduced species can become established and create drastic results.
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Texas Wesleyan University is a private institution that was founded in 1890. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 1,794, its setting is urban, and the campus size is 75 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. Texas Wesleyan University's ranking in the 2014 edition of Best Colleges is Regional Universities (West), 39. Its tuition and fees are $20,840 (2012-13).
|School mission and unique qualities (as provided by the school):
Texas Wesleyan University believes that smaller is smarter. The university's small-by-design size allows students to thrive under the guidance of full-time, expert professors and develop the critical thinking skills that empower them to succeed in graduate school and professional careers.
The university has a student-to-faculty ratio of 15:1 providing students'learning experiences larger universities often reserve for graduate-level studies. The benefits speak for themselves. Students often bring home top awards in academic competitions and conferences.
Texas Wesleyan graduates make an impact in their professions and their communities. Former students are serving in elected positions at the local, state and federal levels; Emmy and Tony award winners; and award-winning educators.
Texas Wesleyan has one of only two law schools in the DFW area and a pioneering nurse anesthesia program. Founded in 1890, the university has a reputation as the longest-serving higher education institution in Fort Worth roots Wesleyan deep in the Texas soil and makes it a small school with a big reputation.
Affordability is central at Texas Wesleyan, and the university's bottom-line price is below many in its class. Last year, 99 percent of students received some form of financial aid. Above all, the university is committed to developing students to their full potential as individuals and as members of the world community. The university aspires to be a values-and student-centered university, where motivated students prepare for graduate school and leadership in professional careers.
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|Year founded
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When applying to Texas Wesleyan University, it's important to note the application deadline is rolling. Scores for either the ACT or SAT test are due August 15. It is selective, with an acceptance rate of 55.1 percent.
For more information about the tests, essays, interviews, and admissions process, visit the Applying to College knowledge center.
|Fall 2012 acceptance rate
|Application deadline
|SAT/ACT scores must be received by
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Academic Life
The student-faculty ratio at Texas Wesleyan University is 15:1, and the school has 74.5 percent of its classes with fewer than 20 students. The most popular majors at Texas Wesleyan University include: Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services; Education; Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies; Legal Professions and Studies; and Psychology. The average freshman retention rate, an indicator of student satisfaction, is 63.8 percent.
|Class sizes
|Student-faculty ratio
|4-year graduation rate
|Five most popular majors for 2012 graduates
Student Life
Texas Wesleyan University has a total undergraduate enrollment of 1,794, with a gender distribution of 42.3 percent male students and 57.7 percent female students. At this school, 25 percent of the students live in college-owned, -operated, or -affiliated housing and 75 percent of students live off campus. Texas Wesleyan University is part of the NAIA athletic conference.
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|Undergraduate men who are members of a fraternity
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Texas Wesleyan University offers a number of student services including nonremedial tutoring, placement service, and health service. Texas Wesleyan University also offers campus safety and security services like 24-hour foot and vehicle patrols, late night transport/escort service, 24-hour emergency telephones, lighted pathways/sidewalks, and controlled dormitory access (key, security card, etc). Of the students at Texas Wesleyan University, 90 percent have cars on campus. Alcohol is not permitted for students of legal age at Texas Wesleyan University.
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Paying for college doesn't have to be difficult or devastating. Go to the Paying for College knowledge center to get advice on raising cash and reducing costs.
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MOSS POINT, Miss. — Jackson County Coroner Vicki Broadus has released the name of Wednesday's stabbing victim in Moss Point.
Broadus tells The Sun Herald (http://bit.ly/15R6Nid ) 42-year-old David Drinkard, of Moss Point, died of blood loss after he was stabbed.
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Operating since 1985, Centennial Canoe Outfitters, Inc. has been providing fully outfitted & guided boat trip adventures: canoe trips, sea kayak trips and canoe rentals.
1)Canoeing in Colorado, Utah & Wyoming on 9 different river stretches.
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Yet another great trip. Kathy and I can't express how great the trips are or how helpful and efficient your guide crews are. This is our 6th trip with Centennial and we have never been disappointed.
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TAMPA -- As the 2012 Republican National Convention wound to a close Thursday night, party delegates from Manatee County and elsewhere had the chance to reflect on what they've seen and heard.
After Mitt Romney's acceptance speech Thursday night, Peggy Simone, a state committeewoman and nonvoting delegate from Manatee County, said she was energized. "It inspired me and gets me going," she said, "this unbridled optimism and enthusiasm for this country." "It was a great speech," echoed Kathleen King, chairwoman of the Republican Party of Manatee. "I think he hit his stride just right. He was confident and at peace with himself, and how he wants to help America and her people."
Sitting nearby on the floor at the Tampa Bay Times Forum, John Sorey, the mayor of Naples, "I think it was a marvelous speech and it puts us in position to win the presidency in November."
All in all, a good week, said delegates.
"I've had a wonderful time," Simone said. "A highlight was Condoleezza Rice. She gave the best speech, and she hit every major Republican point."
Simone also enjoyed hearing New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez tell her personal story Wednesday night. "Absolutely spellbinding," Simone said. "Both have extraordinary stories." New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie surprised her. "I didn't know Christie had such a sense of humor."
Manatee delegate and Parrish homebuilder Carlos Beruff says he feels good about the party's future.
"Absolutely, I have enjoyed it. The highlight was Paul Ryan, who all along, showed the differences between our party and the other party," he said.
"We want to solve the problems, and nobody's better prepared for that than Paul Ryan on budgetary matters, and that's common knowledge in Washington."
Beruff says he has been a Romney supporter for years, "Mitt Romney is one of the finest individuals I've ever met," he said. "He's just a nice person. Not everyone is prepared to be in front of the camera."
"Substance -- he has substance and a deep, deep passion for the well-being of this country."
King also was satisfied with the week. "It's been a wonderful convention."
King emphasized that, in her opinion, the presidential race is about jobs, health care and the debt. "We talk about 8.3 percent unemployment, King said.
"That equals 24 million people unemployed.
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Net::Works::Network - An object representing a single IP address (4 or 6) subnet
version 0.11
my $network = Net::Works::Network->new_from_string( string => '22.214.171.124/24' ); print $network->as_string(); # 18.104.22.168/24 print $network->mask_length(); # 24 print $network->bits(); # 32 print $network->version(); # 4 my $first = $network->first(); print $first->as_string(); # 18.104.22.168 my $last = $network->first(); print $last->as_string(); # 188.8.131.52 my $iterator = $network->iterator(); while ( my $ip = $iterator->() ) { ... } my $network_32 = Net::Works::Network->new_from_string( string => '126.96.36.199/32' ); print $network_32->max_mask_length(); # 30 # All methods work with IPv4 and IPv6 subnets my $ipv6_network = Net::Works::Network->new_from_string( string => 'a800:f000::/20' ); my @subnets = Net::Works::Network->range_as_subnets( '188.8.131.52', '188.8.131.52' ); print $_->as_string, "\n" for @subnets; # 220.127.116.11/32 # 126.96.36.199/31 # 22.214.171.124/30 # 22.214.171.124/29 # 188.8.131.52/28 # 188.8.131.52/32
Objects of this class represent an IP address network. It can handle both IPv4 and IPv6 subnets. It provides various methods for getting information about the subnet.
For IPv6, it uses 128-bit integers (via Math::Int128) to represent the numeric value of an address as needed.
This class provides the following methods:
This method takes a
string parameter and an optional
version parameter. The
string parameter should be a string representation of an IP address subnet, e.g., "126.96.36.199/24".
version parameter should be either
4 or
6, but you don't really need this unless you're trying to force a dotted quad to be interpreted as an IPv6 network or to a force an IPv6 address colon-separated hex number to be interpreted as an IPv4 network.
This method takes an
integer parameter,
mask_length parameter, and an optional
version parameter. The
integer parameter should be an integer representation of an IP within the subnet. The
mask_length parameter should be an integer between 0 and 32 for IPv4 or 0 and 128 for IPv6. The
version parameter should be either
4 or
Returns a string representation of the network like "22.214.171.124/24" or "a800:f000::/105". The IP address in the string is the first address within the subnet.
Returns a 4 or 6 to indicate whether this is an IPv4 or IPv6 network.
Returns the length of the netmask as an integer.
Returns the number of bit of an address in the network, which is either 32 (IPv4) or 128 (IPv6).
This returns the maximum possible numeric subnet that this network could fit in. In other words, the 126.96.36.199/32 subnet could be part of the 18.104.22.168/24 subnet, so this returns 24.
Returns the first IP in the network as an Net::Works::Address object.
Returns the first IP in the network as an integer. This may be a Math::Int128 object.
Returns the last IP in the network as an Net::Works::Address object.
Returns the last IP in the network as an integer. This may be a Math::Int128 object.
This returns an anonymous sub that returns one IP address in the range each time it's called.
For single address subnets (/32 or /128), this returns a single address.
When it has exhausted all the addresses in the network, it returns
Given two IP addresses as strings, this method breaks the range up into the largest subnets that include all the IP addresses in the range (including the two passed to this method).
It also excludes any reserved subnets in the range (such as the 10.0.0.0/8 or 169.254.0.0/16 ranges).
This method works with both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. You can pass an explicit version as the final argument. If you don't, we check whether either address contains a colon (:). If either of them does, we assume you want IPv6 subnets.
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The Stockton 6 Highline is available as a dedicated multi-fuel
model with external riddling. This stove is similar to the standard
Stockton 6 stove, but has the addition of a warming shelf and wood
store and with larger base plate. The Highline stove is supplied
with a 3-tile set for the warming shelf, in a choice of 8
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Welcome to Horse Shadow Run Stables
Boarding, Lessons, & Camp
We offer a variety of horse boarding options. Please view our boarding page for all of our boarding opportunities. We have five wonderful riding instructors on our staff. Riding lessons in Western and English Riding are available at reasonable hourly fees. Horse Summer Camps are a big part of Horse Shadow Run. We hold numerous summer camps each summer at one of the lowest costs in in the area.
Horse Shadow Run is in a tranquil country atmosphere. We have 40 acres devoted to our horse stable. There are adjacent winding nature trails and additional equestrian trails for the adventurous. Our stables are a well established full service horseback riding lesson and horse boarding facility located 11 miles north of downtown Charlotte and less than 5 miles from Northlake Mall.
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Our 15th Year of Horse Shadow Run Fun!
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Georgia has struggled to put a winning streak together, but will look for its first one of the year against USC.
While still holding on for the victory, No. 6 Georgia did let unranked TCU back into the game late, a result of defensive breakdowns, according to coach Andy Landers.
Jay Rome might give up basketball to concentrate on his football career at Georgia.
The Georgia Lady Bulldogs improved to 12-0 with a win over TCU on Wednesday night. That equals the sixth-best start in school history.
Nearly 4,000 students from local elementary schools were invited to Stegeman Coliseum.
The Bulldogs hosted 4,000 elementary school students for their win over Mercer.
The Georgia Lady Bulldogs (11-0) will look to continue their winning ways in Fort Worth against the TCU Horned Frogs.
The Bulldogs shot over 50% from three point range during their 58-49 win over the Bears.
Georgia is off to a rough start this year, and the Bulldogs will try to avoid losing to Mercer for the first time in 53 years.
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Review: DC Comics Batman and Robin #8
Posted by David Torres Categories: Reviews, DC Comics
Rating: *** 1/2*
The past two issues of Grant Morrison's Batman and Robin have left me scratching my head - but in a good way. We discovered that Dick Grayson the current Batman has been keeping the body of the former Batman Bruce Wayne hidden in a sarcophagus in the Wayne Foundation building. His mission is to resurrect his former mentor by using a newly discovered Lazarus pit. Our last issue ended with Dick, Batwoman, and Kinght and Squire witnessing the supposed resurrection of Bruce Wayne from the Lazarus pit. Is this how Bruce Wayne returns to the land of the living? Thankfully, no.
It seems that the body that Dick Grayson has is one of the replicas created by Darkseid during the Final Crisis. All of them had been destroyed except one as Darkseid stated he could use the deceased body of the cloned Batman for some future use. This is a bit confusing as how could Darkseid have known that he was going to kill Batman and that he could use this clone body for evil purposes? Am I missing something here? Whatever the case the Batman that comes out of the Lazarus pit is a raving lunatic and begins attacking everyone in the room.
The clone Batman is able to escape thanks to a cave in and uses a Bat-copter to escape and head back to the Wayne Foundation. There he beats up Alfred and confronts a wheel chair bound Damian who thinks his father has returned to him. And we end there.
What is Google Voice? A video explanation
Posted by Andru Edwards - Categories: Google, Internet, Videos
Google Voice, formerly GrandCentral before Google acquired it, has been around for a few years, but the company is really just now starting to push the product hard. They've put together a great channel on YouTube that describes each major feature (like voicemail transcription, personalized greetings, SMS to email, the mobile app, and more) individually, but we figured we'd throw the Google Voice overview up there so give you a taste of what we mean. Hit up the Google Voice YouTube channel to check out the rest of the video series, and to request an invite to the service.
Bill Gates hits TED, uses fireflies to address our energy future
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At TED 2010, Bill Gates gave a talk that laid out his vision and hope for the world's energy future, citing the need for what may amount to a miracle to avoid planetary catastrophe, with the goal of zero carbon emissions across the globe by 2050. One of the more interesting, and most talked about, moments involves Bill take out a jar of fireflies (at last years talk, he used mosquitos) to make a point. Definitely a great video to take in, and it gives you a nice idea of what Mr. Gates is up to these days.
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Just a quick update as it pertains to downloading iTunes and App Store content on your iPhone. If you are connected via cell connection (meaning, you aren't connected to Wi-Fi,) you can now download content that's up to 20MB in size over the air. Previously, the downloads were capped to apps that were 10MB or less, and iTunes content 12MB or less. With the iPad looming on the horizon, it looks like Apple is pre-emptively preparing for apps that are larger in file size that users would want to download to their tablets while connected to 3G. The changes have taken effect so far in in the US, Germany, and Canada.
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Newegg Deal: Xbox 360 game clearance
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Newegg currently has some great deals on about 20 Xbox 360 titles in their Xbox 360 Games Blow Out sale. They've got titles like Superman Returns for $5.99, NBA Street: Homecourt for $14.99, and Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter for $9.99, as a few examples. If you are looking to add to your Xbox 360 game collection for cheap, be sure to hit up the Newegg sale and grab a few titles!
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Fletch Creations Combo-sensing Super-Tips LED Inserts
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While scrolling through tech websites earlier today I came across something pretty cool: a website called Fletch Creations. Fletch Creations is producing Combo-Sensing LED inserts for Super-Tips pens. For the uninitiated, Pen Spinning (or 'pen mawashi' in Japan where the pastime has been popular since the 1970's) is a form of contact juggling involving the deft manipulation/spinning of a pen in various combinations.
What Fletch Creations has done is to create a neat little LED insert that fits into Super-Tips pens—the pens preferred in most Pen Spinning circles—that has 3 lights that can be lit up in succession increasingly complex patterns depending upon the speed and combinations that the spinner is able to achieve. Whereas I struggle to get more than one blinking LED to light up, highlighting my Lobster Boy-like manual dexterity, my high-school friend Chris is able to produce a better light-show than Timothy Leary ever saw on one of his best hallucinogen benders. Needless to say the color combos he was able to achieve were pretty impressive and emphasized the extent to which you can take pen spinning. Fletch Creations has come up with an original idea that can add enjoyment to an already entertaining medium. It may also allow me to appear a lot hipper when conversing with my Vampire Weekend-listening teenage relatives. "So, you kids dig this internets thing right? I really enjoy that Friendster…" Well, there may be no helping me but anyone else should see a definite up-tick in their street-cred. Check 'em out.
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Monster and Vivienne Tam collaborate on Butterfly in-ear headphones
Posted by Andru Edwards - Categories: Accessories, Design, Music
Damn, Monster Cable is continuing to flood the headphone market, this time going outside of their Beats by Dr. Dre partnership, and instead doing a collabo with fashion designer Vivienne Tam of HP netbook fame. The product will be known at the Butterfly in-ear headphones, and each earbud will have colorful butterfly artwork on it, and it's all finished up with a light gold-brushed finish. They are being positioned as both a music accessory and a fashion piece, which we guess kind of explains the $199.95 price point. So, who's picking these up when they ship in April?
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First off is a handy tool for all you fellow PSP owners out there. PSPVC allows you to convert a video file into the PSP's native format and take care of its mandatory file-naming scheme. According to PSPVC's Web site: "PSPVC is an FFmpeg front end for converting video files for the PSP. It allows you to queue several conversions with different parameters for each. It supports MPEG-4/SP (all firmware) and H264/AVC (firmware 2.0+)."
PSPVC is available with certain distro repositories, but I'm running the bleeding-edge source version. In terms of requirements, PSPVC isn't too picky and uses fairly common libraries for most multimedia systems, including nasm, libfaac, liba52, libxvidcore and GTK+ 2.0. However, you also need the development packages for these multimedia libraries—named in the style of liba52-dev, libfaac-dev and so on—although this may not be the case if you are using a source-based distribution instead of a binary one.
Grab the installation tarball from the project's Web site, and extract it to a new directory. Enter the new pspvc-install directory, open a terminal there, and enter the following command (as root or with sudo):
# ./install.sh
If you're lucky, the install script should configure and compile itself in one long go. If it gets stuck partway through, it probably needs a library, and it will let you know in an error message. Once the script is finished, a menu entry usually appears under Multimedia→PSPVC - Video Converter, or you can start it by entering pspvc at the command line.
Once loaded, the first thing you need to do is choose a video file to convert. The first field has a Browse button next to it, so choose the file you want to convert from there, and click Open. The file is loaded into the main screen, and you are given a number of options from which to choose before conversion. The first is called Profile, where you can select the video's aspect ratio (16/9 for widescreen or 4/3 for the older full-screen format), bitrate and codec. If you choose MPEG-4/SP, it will work on any PSP. However, selecting H264/AVC gives you better quality, but works only on PSPs that have had a firmware upgrade since version 2.0.
If the video's volume is too loud or quiet, the Volume field allows you to adjust it before encoding starts. The PSP Filename field is the trickiest; it contains the MAQ number, which makes you choose a filename number that hasn't already been assigned in your PSP's video folder. This requires you to plug in your PSP, look under the video folder (my PSP uses mp_root/100mnv01, but yours may differ) and choose a number that doesn't appear on any filenames, if you already have some files in there. If there's nothing there to begin with, 10001 will do fine; otherwise, choose a new number.
Once all the options are out of the way, press Convert. A new window appears showing the conversion process, and a thumbnail generator lets you see a preview of the video you are converting. Once the conversion is finished, your new video will be sitting in the same folder as the video you chose to convert. Copy this new file to your PSP's video folder along with its corresponding videoname.thm file, and your new video is ready to play.
All in all, PSPVC is a simple and pain-free application that even has an easy compilation process. If you're a PSP owner, I'd put PlayStation Portable Video Converter in the must-have category. Hopefully, it will appear in most distro archives soon.
PCManFM is a lightweight file manager that is both quick to load and easy to use. It includes tabbed browsing and device viewing, and it may well scratch an itch for those who like things streamlined. Here's the feature list, according to the project's Web site:
Extremely fast and lightweight.
Can be started in one second on normal machines.
Tabbed browsing (similar to Firefox).
Built-in volume management (mount/umount/eject through HAL).
Drag-and-drop support.
Files can be dragged among tabs.
Loads large directories in a reasonable amount of time.
File association support (default application).
Thumbnails for image files.
Bookmark support.
Handles non-UTF-8-encoded filenames correctly.
Provides icon and detailed list views.
Standards-compliant (follows FreeDesktop.org).
Clean and user-friendly interface (GTK+ 2).
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Paris bests Pirates
Cumberland found itself in a defensive struggle Friday night, and while the Pirate defense answered the bell, they fell 12-6 in their opener to Paris.
The Tigers scored early in the game when Hunter Morris scored from 17 yards out with 4:17 to play. The extra point was no good, putting Paris up 6-0.
Paris extended that lead to 12-0 coming out of halftime, scoring with 8:44 in the third on a 16-yard pass from Riley Spencer to Audie Temples.
Holden Elwood cut that lead to 12-6 less than four minutes later, scoring on a 10-yard run.
They'd never get closer as the margin ended at 12-6. Coach Kevin Maynard said the team didn't play well enough to take home the win.
"We just made too many mistakes," he said. "We had too many false starts, too many offsides. We made a lot of young mistakes tonight. We've got to go back to work this week."
Monte Wolke was 4-for-10 passing for 63 yards with no touchdowns and an interception, and carried the ball 16 times for 74 yards. Ethan Kemper had 10 tackles.
Cumberland (0-1) plays at Marshall (0-1) next Friday. Marshall lost to St. Joseph-Ogden 47-0 Friday night.
Cumberland 0 0 6 0 6
Paris 6 0 6 0 12
1st quarter
Paris touchdown, 4:17, Hunter Morris 17-yard run, 6-0
3rd quarter
Paris touchdown, 8:44, Riley Spencer 16-yard pass to Audie Temples, 12-0
Cumberland touchdown, 5:02, Holden Elwood 10-yard run, 12-6
Eagles fall to Bethalto
Newton struggled out of the gate against Bethalto Civic Memorial and lost its opener 40-7 Friday night.
Bethalto scored the first 40 points of the game as the Eagles couldn't find their footing on the offensive or defensive sides of the ball.
"They had some broken plays that went for touchdowns, and they made some nice passes," said Newton coach Jason Fulton. "They did jump us early."
The Eagles scored their lone touchdown of the day in the fourth quarter, when Brock Mammoser hit Austin Angel for a 34-yard touchdown pass.
Mammoser was 5-for-13 passing for 60 yards and the score. Allen Taylor had nine carries for 41 yards, Lucas Huston tallied 10 tackles and Tanner Shull added eight tackles.
Newton (0-1) heads to Casey-Westfield next Friday night. Casey (1-0) topped Olney 44-36 in a barn-burner Friday night.
Newton 0 0 0 7 7
Bethalto 12 20 8 0 40
(Scoring breakdown was not made available as of press time)


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---- — I will be visiting Traverse City Wednesday, my first trip to Northern Michigan; it looks like you occupy a beautiful spot on the Earth.
Research tells me it is really hard for low-wage workers and low-income people with disabilities in your community to rent decent housing. In Grand Traverse County, someone has to earn almost $32,000 year to afford the rent on a modest two-bedroom unit. Put another way, someone who is paid the Michigan minimum wage would have to work 83 hours a week to afford basic rent. In the Michigan 1st Congressional District, there is a shortage of 9,179 rental homes that are affordable and available to your lowest income households, those earning about $18,000 a year or less. Sixty percent of renters in this income group spend half or more of their income to keep themselves housed.
These data tell the story of families who have to choose to pay for food or heat, coats or medicine, and often get behind on the rent anyway and lose their homes. Perhaps you know a family struggling to keep a roof over its head or one that has lost its home and has moved in with someone else or is sleeping in a car. Ask a local principal how many homeless children are enrolled in your schools.
And your community is not alone. Nationwide the shortage of affordable and available homes for the households with incomes under 30 percent of their area median is 7.1 million. What's more, the gap between affordable rental homes and the number of poor families who need them grows every year. There is nowhere in the country where a full-time minimum wage worker can afford even a one-bedroom apartment, let alone an elderly or disabled person whose income is from Supplemental Security Income. This why people are homeless in the United States of America in the 21st century.
It does not have to be this way. The federal government subsidizes housing to the tune of $300 billion a year, but only a small portion goes to help the poor. Much of it supports higher-income households through the federal tax code.
The United for Homes (www.unitedforhomes.org) campaign is proposing simple and smart changes to the mortgage interest deduction that will make it reach many more low- and moderate-income homeowners than it does now and raise enough revenue to end homelessness in America in 10 years. Higher income homeowners who have purchased expensive homes will be asked to pay a little more so all American households will be able to afford a basic home. And we can do this without adding one dime to the federal deficit.
Come out Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. to the Traverse Area Association of Realtors, 852 S. Garfield Ave., for what will be a lively and informative discussion on the United for Homes proposal and how you can help. I hope to meet you there.
About the author: Sheila Crowley is President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Low Income Housing Coalition.
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Mr Davies who is one of our Guest Columnists this week examines the forthcoming Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (which comes into force from 1st September 2013) that will directly affect the way in which school pupils' biometric data is authorised and stored. The article looks at what this could mean to the security industry and suggests ways in which any potential issues can be avoided.
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In a nondescript office building on M Street in downtown Washington, three Republican policy wonks have spent the past three months debating how to revive their party. One of them worked on Mitt Romney's campaign—the bid that failed even though the incumbent botched his first debate and presided over a weak economy with unemployment around 8 percent—and no one wants to repeat the bitterness of that defeat.
After the GOP postelection ritual of grieving and recrimination, this trio decided that much of the problem lies not with voters or pollsters or the timing of conventions, as some Republicans have suggested, but with the party itself. "This is probably the most serious threat to the Republican Party since I've been involved with it," says Peter Wehner, one of the thinkers and a former top official in the past three GOP administrations. And if Republicans can't address it, strategists fear, they'll fail to retake the Senate in 2014, lose the presidential race in 2016, and consign themselves to rule only the House of Representatives, sparring endlessly with Democrats in power.
Much of the difficulty, as Wehner and his colleagues see it, boils down to Republican economic beliefs that have moved too far away from what most people care about. "We're not talking enough about the problems that affect the lives of everyday Americans," says Yuval Levin, a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center alongside Wehner and their colleague James Capretta. "What do our ideas have to do to address this moment?"
Addressing voters' financial worries will be key to Republicans' future electoral success. In the 2012 election, President Obama beat Romney, in part, by promoting policies that voters overwhelmingly thought would boost the fortunes of the middle class. In battleground states, Obama's plans were seen as more middle-class-friendly by a margin of 17 points, 56 percent to 39 percent, according to an analysis of exit polling by the group Resurgent Republicans.
But party intellectuals fear that Republicans in power have not introduced enough ideas that middle-class people like, such as ways to reform education, boost wages, shrink the high cost of a college degree, or create more jobs in a weak labor market. That's because another faction of the Republican Party, represented by the majority of House Republicans, believes that the party's problem is just bad messaging, not a policy failure. By that logic, there's no reason not to focus on reducing the size of government, overhauling the tax code, drastically shoring up Medicare, or taming the deficit—all of which the House Republicans' budget blueprints have proposed. But those ideas at first glance aren't the ones that drive average voters, says Republican pollster Whit Ayres. "Fiscal responsibility has to be couched in terms of which policies are better for the great American middle class," he says. Only then will voters be able to hear the way the philosophical core of the GOP relates to their everyday lives. "Most Americans, not just Republicans, believe that America should not just spend money it does not have," Ayres adds.
Ultimately, the goals of smaller government and middle-class support may be in conflict. How can the Republican Party show middle-class voters it cares about them and push solutions that may take away some of the government benefits they receive through tax breaks or Medicare? This is the core dispute inside the party as it looks toward 2016. Do Republicans need to introduce new economic policies to appeal to a broader swath of voters, as the party intellectuals propose? Or do they simply need to tweak their message while GOP lawmakers in power stick to their traditional issues: cutting government spending, shrinking the federal government, and reforming the tax code?
This conflict was prominently on display recently at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's speech, about innovation, energy, and education, received a polite reception. But Rep. Paul Ryan's impassioned address about the debt won over the crowd—an indication that the party still favors an approach that many voters don't.
There's little indication the GOP will resolve this dispute about economic branding until it settles on its next presidential candidate. Until then, most House Republicans are jonesing for fights over the debt ceiling and tax reform. Party strategists, intellectuals, and some members such as Majority Leader Eric Cantor, meanwhile, want to paint a softer side to the party and speak to a wider constituency. "The core Republican conservative principles of a small, contained government and a reliance on private markets is not going to change and shouldn't be discarded," says Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former director of the Congressional Budget Office and president of American Action Forum, a conservative think tank. "The missing part of the Republican argument now is, what do you want that smaller, contained government to do on behalf of people? Rather than just telling them what it shouldn't do, you need to also tell them what the government stands for."
In the modern era, economic policy has united the different brands of Republicans. The GOP's basic theory holds that lower taxes, less regulation, and a smaller government footprint can unleash economic growth and productivity.
Ronald Reagan found a way to make this appeal to the lower and working classes. At the signing of the 1986 tax-reform bill, for instance, he described the expanded earned-income tax credit—a refund that benefits millions of Americans—as a boon to lower-income families. "This tax bill is less a freedom—or a reform, I should say—than a revolution," Reagan said that October day. "Millions of working poor will be dropped from the tax rolls altogether. And that's why I'm certain that the bill I'm signing today is not only an historic overhaul of our tax code and a sweeping victory for fairness; it's also the best antipoverty bill, the best pro-family measure, and the best job-creation program ever to come out of the Congress of the United States."
"Reform that cleans up the tax code ... will help both families and employers."
George W. Bush earned the same type of credibility by avowing in his first presidential campaign that the budget should not be balanced "on the backs of the poor." Once in office, he championed the Medicare prescription-drug benefit and emphasized education reform—a staple for middle-class voters—through the No Child Left Behind Act. His second term hit a snag when he tried to privatize Social Security, an entitlement program that remains overwhelmingly popular, though he did push through two major tax cuts.
Republicans in power today do not generally tout policies to help the poor. On the contrary, they focus on slicing the budget, turning Medicaid into a block grant, and holding down the cost of food stamps. Romney famously described 47 percent of Americans as government dependents unlikely to vote for Republicans anyway. All of which makes some of the party's sages nostalgic. "That was the genius of Reagan," says Ken Duberstein, the president's former chief of staff. "It wasn't just tax reform for the sake of tax reform. He explained it to all Americans, so that the white working-class in Macomb County, Michigan, which were known as the Reagan Democrats, was rooting for him. He could appeal to them. It was not an exclusive country club."
The GOP posture under Romney allowed Obama to paint his challenger as an out-of-touch plutocrat, while the president focused his campaign on the idea that the wealthy needed to pay their "fair share" of taxes. And it worked. According to the 2012 exit polls, Obama captured the majority of voters who earn less than $50,000. (The median annual household income in 2011 was $50,054, according to the Census Bureau.) Roughly 60 percent of voters also approved of Obama's pledge to raise taxes on the wealthy—which foreshadowed the president's victory on the fiscal-cliff deal that increased income taxes on households earning more than $450,000.
In its autopsy of that race, the Republican National Committee argued that the GOP needed to do a better job of not appearing to be the party of and for the rich. "The Republican Party must be the champion of those who seek to climb the economic ladder of life…. We need to help everyone make it in America," the RNC report said. The implication was clear: Party leaders no longer prioritize this notion.
Months later, congressional Republicans have not really moved to absorb those lessons. Their policies still don't explicitly put the middle class front and center, and as a rule they haven't worked to connect their budget ideas with assistance to the average American. So far in 2013, the House GOP agenda has been dominated by passing another version of the Ryan budget; allowing the sequester cuts to kick in; passing an appropriations package; marketing the idea of tax reform; and toying with a bill that would allow the federal government to prioritize its payments and obligations to protect Social Security recipients, if and when the fight emerges over raising the debt ceiling. Not coincidentally, Americans' top critique of the Republican Party is that it is "too inflexible" or "unwilling to compromise," according to a Gallup Poll from late March. Twenty-one percent of adults listed this as the chief issue with the GOP, followed by 12 percent who said Republicans protect the wealthy more than the middle class.
The debt-ceiling fight this summer and early fall will be another test for Republicans in power, since it may feed the perceptions about the party ahead of the 2014 and 2016 races. House Speaker John Boehner has promised to fight for a 1-1 ratio: For every dollar the ceiling is raised, he wants a dollar in spending cuts. On the other hand, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp, R-Mich., is starting his own push to rewrite the tax code, which may be part of a debt-ceiling compromise. In neither case has the party explicitly laid out how these ideas would help the middle class.
In the months just after the election, House Republicans seemed on the verge of self-reinvention. In a much-watched speech at the American Enterprise Institute in early February, Cantor said fiscal concerns were part of the party's DNA but they couldn't be the only agenda item. "Today, I'd like to focus our attention on what lies beyond these fiscal debates," he told the crowd. "Over the next two years, the House majority will pursue an agenda based on a shared vision of creating the conditions for health, happiness, and prosperity for more Americans and their families." He talked about affordable housing, health care, education, and jobs.
Cantor seemed to be urging the party to put on a different face in 2013. "My sense right now is that public officials and members of Congress recognize that there is a problem and a lot of them are groping for something, but they don't quite know what it is," Wehner says. But then none of Cantor's policy proposals became GOP priorities in Congress. "I thought the Eric Cantor speech was revealing. In some respects, his analysis was right. But then, when you lifted up the hood and said, 'What was different?,' you don't really get too much."
Reagan cast the 1986 tax reform—and the earned-income tax credit included in that package—as a salve for working families.
Around the same time, Wehner, Levin, and Capretta—the wonk trio—published papers in conservative journals such as Commentary and National Affairs outlining new ideas for Republicans in power, or those who sought it. Wehner urged Republicans, in the manner of Teddy Roosevelt, to go after corporate tax breaks and big banks. "Republicans could begin by becoming visible and persistent critics of corporate welfare: the vast network of subsidies and tax breaks extended by Democratic and Republican administrations alike to wealthy and well-connected corporations," he wrote in Commentary.
Other ideas included expanding the child tax credit that offers a rebate to families with kids, better and cheaper loans for higher education, and new ways for students to learn online without having to paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for a bachelor's degree. The Republicans should also propose an alternative system to the Affordable Care Act and its health exchanges, instead of just tearing it down, Wehner and Levin have both argued. Or the party could propose a permanent payroll-tax cut for middle-class families, as Capretta would like. The two-year-long payroll-tax holiday, originally championed by Obama, gave workers as much as $2,200 more a year in their pockets and was thought to boost consumer spending.
These are all social-engineering ideas that reward values that Republicans typically espouse: families having children; access to health care and higher education; and increased money in people's bank accounts. In that light, they fit comfortably into the Republican economic and political cannon. They just haven't played a starring role in recent years, as both parties have been mired in fiscal battles over the best way to rein in the deficit over the long term. "Republicans need to embrace innovation and education policy, not just say, 'I love small business,' " says Alex Brill, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a former chief economist for the House Ways and Means Committee. "Conservative economists need to do their job and link, for example, good education outcomes to budget outcomes. The party needs to be about all of these policies, and then the consequence of those policies should be reduced deficits."
This spring, the most noticeable change in the Republican-dominated House was the way Ryan and Camp talked about their budget blueprint and tax reform. The Ryan budget became about helping people achieve the American Dream by ensuring that entitlement programs would still be around for future generations, even if the substance of its proposals had barely changed. "Fiscal responsibility and economic opportunity are but means to a more critical end: the rebuilding of broken communities and the empowerment of families and citizens," Ryan wrote in his budget blueprint.
Meanwhile, Camp now talks about tax reform as a way to generate jobs and lessen the middle class's burden of having to deal with an unwieldy tax system. "Tax reform that cleans up the tax code and closes wasteful loopholes and lowers tax rates will help both families and employers," Camp said in a recent statement. "Instead of spending time and money trying to comply with the tax code, families will have more control over their lives, and employers will have more opportunities to create more jobs and provide higher wages for American workers." This is a subtle addition to the way tax reform is being marketed—alongside streamlining the tax code and making American businesses more competitive.
Still, in recent weeks the gap between Republican thinkers and lawmakers has only grown. Republicans passed a budget very similar to the one from previous years. The Republican Study Committee presented an alternate budget, billed as the "antithesis of austerity," that freezes all discretionary spending through 2017 and turns Medicare into a voucher program even faster than Ryan would. More recently, Cantor wanted to bring a health reform alternative to the floor to extend insurance to people with preexisting conditions, but party leadership had to pull it when it did not have enough votes. It was an embarrassing repeat of December's failed "Plan B" vote, when Boehner could not get his caucus behind an alternative bill to avert the fiscal cliff. And, it was a setback for Cantor's goal of being friendlier to people outside of D.C.
The party intellectuals' pleas do not appear to have seeped into this legislative agenda—especially now that the debt-ceiling deadline looms. (The Bipartisan Policy Center estimates that Congress and the White House will have until September or October to reach an agreement to raise the debt ceiling.) For House Republicans, the ceiling represents too tempting a chance to extract the serious reforms they've been hankering for—and, anyway, they see the party's problems as stemming from message tactics rather that the message itself. Rep. Peter Roskam, R-Ill., the House chief deputy majority whip, describes the former viewpoint this way: "It's just about taking the next step in translating and closing in on the argument. If you take something as esoteric as moving from an international tax regime to a territorial tax system, you have to explain why that is a winner to normal people. It puts worldwide American companies on a more competitive footing. It is literally putting the fifth paragraph on a single-page essay and focusing on the benefits."
New polling from a conservative group, Independent Women's Voices, suggests that Republicans can get away with tweaking the message instead of the policies. The polling shows that Republican pitches about the debt and deficit were most successful when they were about holding the line on spending in the future, instead of cutting. Respondents (and especially women, a voting group coveted by the GOP) also liked the message of reforming entitlements through means-testing, or asking wealthy people to pay more for benefits. That message caused women to shift 15 points away from Democrats to Republicans. "This taps into a real desire on the part of the public to deal with the major problems with entitlements and spending," says Adam Schaeffer, of the Republican firm Evolving Strategies, who conducted the research. "Progressives seem like they are not offering enough to deal with this."
The trick for the GOP, Schaeffer says, is to talk about entitlements in this way instead of focusing on a message of cut, cut, cut. "A general discussion about the debt and deficit seems to be positive as long as you don't run around and talk about the way you're going to slash the budget to the bone. That could frighten people."
Just days after the RNC released its election postmortem urging its members to pay more heed to the middle class, a group of tea-party Republicans hosted a lunch forum on Capitol Hill to outline their views on the budget process, immigration reform, and the debt ceiling. It was one of a series of occasional lunches this group hosts, called Conversations With Conservatives. Instead of discussing how they might appeal to everyday Americans—say, a nurse in Chicago, a mechanic in South Carolina, or a family in Nevada—the all-male, primarily white members at that Wednesday meeting sat in a horseshoe arrangement, ate Chick-fil-A sandwiches, and wound themselves up for the debt-ceiling fight this summer. A stern young man from the Heritage Foundation acted as the moderator and minder of the group.
"If you can remove one speaker," says Rep. Tim Huelskamp, R-Kan., "the next speaker knows he can be removed."
The gist of the conversation was this: Tea-party members up till now have abided by the House Republican playbook put forward by their leadership. They voted for the Ryan budget and managed to put the White House on the defensive about the sequester cuts. Speaker Boehner had held onto his power. Everyone seemed psyched about tax reform. But this unity was not going to last forever, they warned, unless they got what they wanted in the coming debt-ceiling fight. "To many of us, the debt ceiling represents a symptom of a bigger problem," said Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., chairman of the Republican Study Committee, referring to out-of-control spending and the need to balance the budget in 10 years. That was the reason, many of them felt, their constituents had sent them to Congress.
And the sequester is just the beginning. "We'll fight the next battle and hope to take more ground. Americans have been looking for Congress to show some leadership," says Rep. Jeff Duncan of South Carolina. "We have got to start addressing the mandatory side of the spending equation, and I think we will probably do that in the debt-ceiling debate."
After the hour-long meeting, I talked to Rep. Tim Huelskamp of Kansas, one of the tea party's most vocal members. As a relative newcomer in Congress, elected in 2010, he has become a conservative favorite for defying his party's leadership (and for his colorful shirts and ties). Immediately after the fiscal-cliff deal, he flayed the legislation in TV appearances—even as Wall Street and the American public seemed relieved that a deal had been reached. He also led the unsuccessful effort in January to oust Boehner from the speakership. The debt ceiling, he thinks, is the time for the most conservative House Republican members to shine.
Huelskamp does not worry about the country defaulting this summer. (He's more concerned with a potential credit downgrade if the fight drags on too long.) Even so, he sees the debt ceiling as a chance to undo government programs such as food stamps, Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act, and Medicare. I kept pressing for more specifics—such as which program he would need to see cut before he could move to compromise. "There is a potpourri of ideas that would get us there," he said.
Huelskamp and a handful of other tea-party members at the lunch derided the RNC report and the advice of party intellectuals. To them, this is just the chatter of overpaid Washington consultants—people out of touch with everyday conservative Republicans. If the tea-party members do not get their way this summer, Huelskamp warns of an internal revolt that would remove Boehner from his post and replace him with someone more sympathetic to House Republicans from red states. "If you can remove one speaker," he says, "the next speaker knows he can be removed."
Over the next month or so, House Republicans must decide what they want in exchange for a debt-ceiling hike—a tax-reform agreement or a push for deeper spending cuts. Either scenario leaves them in the same place the Republican Party found itself in November 2012, relegated to one chamber and arguing over fiscal policy instead of putting forward new and different economic ideas. "You can't just keep repeating [the] no-new-taxes, no-new-taxes, no-new-taxes mantra," says former Rep. Steve LaTourette, R-Ohio, who retired in January. "All of our polling indicates that the perception of the public, by large numbers—and including people in the Republican Party—is that we're the party of the rich. You're not going to win elections by being the party of the rich."
Polling of the kind Schaeffer did shows how Republicans can shape their deficit and tax messages to make them more palatable to middle-class Americans. And if they can pivot in that sense, then they may be fine.
But as the deficit shrinks over the next few years (as it's slated to); as tax revenue increases, because of the fiscal-cliff deal; as unemployment drops by the year 2017; and if the rate of health care spending continues to slow, Republicans will have a tougher time pumping up their message of austerity and overhauling the tax code. The trends won't support their sense of urgency the same way they did after the financial crisis, and Americans broadly may not feel that urgency again for a decade, when health care costs are expected to dramatically rise again. In a recovering yet still weak economy, voters may want a more diverse set of messages from House Republicans—and especially from a Republican presidential candidate.
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In the course of conducting public business in any borough, township, or city, there a provision to hold an "executive session." This is a closed meeting during a public meeting in which "personnel" issues, or issues relative to "possible litigation" are to be discussed. There is a special sanctity to these closed sessions, and all information is to be strictly protected from publication.
Over the last four-plus years as the mayor of the borough of Watsontown, I have been privy to many executive sessions and I protected those discussions with silence, only to find that the "word" is out regarding the subject matter of that private discussion before I can finish my first cup of coffee the following morning.
The latest example occurred on Aug. 22. A personnel committee meeting was held that Thursday evening and by 8:30 a.m. the following the morning, the subject of that meeting knew everything that had been discussed. When I tried to bring this fact to the attention of the committee chairperson during the Aug. 26 council meeting, I was gaveled to silence by the council president before I could voice my concerns! I believe the good citizens of this community have the right to be aware of this kind of despicable behavior by their representatives or hired employees.
If you would like to see a change in borough representation and/or management, please make every effort to attend the Tuesday, Sept. 4 council meeting and let your representatives know.
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TOPIC: Personalized Oncology Treatment
Karl Rogers, MD: medical oncologist
Monday, June 13, 2011
Cancer chemotherapy is migrating from blunt-instrument drugs that affect both cancer and healthy cells to more focused drugs that hit tumors while doing less damage to normal cells. Individual tumors vary on the genetic level among patients with the same type of cancer. Some genetic defects are found in multiple types of cancer.
Imagine a world in which cancer isn't diagnosed according to where it is found on the body but according to genes found in the tumor itself. Patients with skin cancer, colon cancer and parathyroid cancer, for example, might be reclassified as "B-Raf mutation" patients and be treated with the same mutation-specific drugs. Instead of receiving breast cancer-specific chemotherapy, a breast cancer patient might join those with ovarian, uterine and cervical cancer to receive drugs targeted at inhibiting the PIK3CA mutation found in their tumors.
This paradigm shift may seem revolutionary, but thousands of patients have already been treated this way by researchers.
Courtesy Casey Carleton
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Casey Carleton, 32, is pictured here with his wife, father and three children. Carleton is now in remission after entering the MD Anderson experimental cancer treatment trial. Instead of treating his melanoma specifically, doctors tailored drug treatment to the specific genetic mutation causing his cancer.
In a world used to dividing up cancers by body part and assigning colored ribbons accordingly, the gene approach to treatment marks a fundamental change in the way we even think about cancer. We classify cancers according to where they start, but each cancer is probably many types of cancer. The bigger picture is what are the genetic abnormalities that make that cancer grow? We've known about these mutations for a long time, but it's only recently that we have new drugs to target [them].
The concept of genetically personalized cancer treatment has been a goal among cancer researchers for years—and trials offer hope that widespread use of these kinds of treatments are within reach. Traditional treatments for cancer, such as chemotherapy, are one size fits all. All lung cancer patients might receive the same type of chemotherapy. While this approach can be effective, it ravages the patient's body by attacking all of a patient's cells in hopes of killing the cancer. Genetically targeted therapy, on the other hand, isolates the abnormal proteins within the cell that only occur in the cancerous tumor itself. This has led to the development of drugs that are less toxic than traditional chemotherapy; and, for patients with identifiable genetic mutations, this type of treatment can be effective when nothing else has worked.
All patients of Baptist, Saint Thomas or Middle TN Medical Center have access to personalized oncology, MiCK Assay™
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Chemotherapy of a malignant tumor aims to either completely eliminate the tumor cells or substantially reduce their number. Chemotherapeutic agents' ability to kill tumor cells makes this goal achievable. The tumor cells of an individual patient, however, may be sensitive to one chemotherapeutic agent but not to another. Oncologists currently use an empirical approach to the selection of treatment protocols – the selection of a therapeutic agent is based on statistical data obtained in large clinical studies.
For instance, a clinical study shows that agent A helps 60 leukemia patients out of 100 to keep their disease in check, or, as it is usually said, to achieve complete remission. With agent B, complete remission is seen in 35 patients while with agent C complete remission is achieved in 5 patients. Thus, oncologists selecting between agent A, agent B, and agent C, would rather use agent A because agent A is expected to be effective in 60% of leukemia patients. What about the remaining 40% of patients who are statistically not expected to respond to agent A, but would better benefit from agent B or agent C? For them, the use of agent A will result in treatment failure. In other words, their tumor cells will not be killed effectively enough, complete remission will not be achieved and the disease will progress. It may be reasonable for patients in this group to utilize agent B or agent C after agent A fails. Unfortunately, it is not always possible to use another treatment protocol with the same patient. First, all chemotherapeutic agents are highly toxic substances and patients may not survive another round of treatment. Besides, time is lost and the disease may progress beyond its treatable phase. To complicate the picture, it is unclear whether the patient's tumor cells would be more sensitive to agent B or agent C.
The American Cancer Society estimates that approximately 1.22 million new cancer cases are diagnosed every year. For more than 700,000 of these patients, some form of chemotherapy will be used in the treatment plan.
The treatment outcome for cancer patients could be dramatically improved if oncologists would include agents that are effective against tumor cells of a specific patient in the first line of therapy.
The Microculture Kinetics (MiCK) assay for apoptosis helps oncologist discriminate between effective and ineffective chemotherapeutic agents prior to their use in a patient's treatment. MiCK assay helps oncologists to create an individual treatment protocol that includes a drug or drug combination that is most effective in killing tumor cells of an individual patient.
How does MiCK assay work? Over the last 10 years it has been shown in multiple studies that chemotherapeutic agents exert their antitumor activity by triggering apoptosis, a distinct mode of cell death that is accompanied by dramatic changes in the appearance of tumor cells.
The figure above is a photomicrograph of a "healthy" tumor cell (at left) and three other tumor cells at various stages of apoptotic death cased by exposure to a chemotherapeutic agent. The photo demonstrates that cells dying by apoptosis form big blebs on the outer surface of the cell. Formation of these blebs results in a change in the cells' light scattering properties. A sophisticated device called a spectrophotometer can detect the resulting change in the optical properties of apoptotic cells.
Tumor cells undergoing apoptosis manifest an increased side light scattering as compared to "healthy" tumor cells. The MiCK assay of apoptosis is based on frequent measurements of the optical density of tumor cells exposed to multiple chemotherapeutic agents. If a chemotherapeutic agent kills tumor cells by apoptosis, the spectrophotometer will "see" and report accumulation of apoptotic tumor cells as a steep increase in the optical density. On the computer screen, this steep increase in the optical density appears as a so called "apoptotic curve". Data generated by the spectrophotometer are fed to the computer and automatically analyzed in order to determine the extent of the tumor cells' apoptosis. This allows for the identification of a chemotherapeutic agent which causes the most extensive apoptosis in tumor cells. If a patient has no medical contraindications, this agent may be included in the patient's treatment protocol.
In no way can MiCK assay's results substitute for the medical judgment of an oncologist. The MiCK assay is a powerful tool arming oncologists with valuable information on the drug sensitivity profile of a specific cancer patient. However, the final decision on whether a specific agent should or should not be included in the patient's treatment protocol, is always made by the patient's physician
In the MiCK assay, the tumor cells of an individual patient are exposed to multiple doses of several chemotherapeutic drugs either as single drugs or in combinations. A sophisticated algorithm is used to monitor and compute the amounts of apoptosis caused by each of the drugs to establish a drug sensitivity profile of the patient's tumor cells. Knowledge of a patient's drug sensitivity profile allows the treating oncologists to prescribe chemotherapy that would be the most effective against the tumor cells of that patient.
DiaTech Oncology is a privately held clinical pathology laboratory working to help oncologists and their patients deal with the devastating effects of cancer. DiaTech utilizes a patented technology called the Microculture Kinetic (MiCK) assay. The MiCK assay is the only test available that measures the chemotherapeutic drug effect for a specific patient kinetically and accurately.
Fri Jun 3, 2011: Tailoring cancer drugs to target the molecular signature of a tumor helps patients more than a scattershot approach, according to early-stage research.
The strategy is not an option for every type of cancer, but medical advances have led to the development of a number of drugs that target specific gene mutations in tumors, such as Roche's (ROG.VX) Herceptin for a certain type of breast cancer or Gleevec, sold by Novartis (NOVN.VX).
A phase 1 study conducted at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center found that matching therapies -- most still experimental -- to genetic markers led to higher rates of tumor shrinkage and survival in patients with advanced cancer.
The results were presented on Friday in Chicago at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
"The concept is quite simple ... we think you should match the abnormality with the targeted drug," said Dr. Razelle Kurzrock, professor and chair of MD Anderson's Department of Investigational Cancer Therapeutics.
The study involved 852 patients with cancer that was inoperable or had spread beyond the primary site. It found that 27 percent of the 175 patients with a single gene aberration who were treated with a matched drug had tumor shrinkage.
The response rate was 5 percent in the 438 patients without an aberration. The other patients -- who were treated with drugs that did not match their genetic mutations -- had a response rate of 8 percent.
Median survival was 15.8 months for patients with one mutation who were treated with a matched drug, compared with 9.7 months for those patients who were not matched to a targeted therapy.
Dr. Kurzrock said use of molecular testing for cancer patients is not yet standard clinical practice, although it is becoming more common as new drugs are approved and testing is made available.
Since the signing of the National Cancer Act 40 years ago, the average five-year survival rate for all U.S. cancer patients has risen by 18 percent, according to ASCO.
That has been due largely to improvements in traditional chemotherapy drugs, which work by interfering with the entire body's system of cell replication, causing harsh side effects like nausea, hair loss and fatigue.
Newer targeted drugs, made possible by the decoding of the human genome, aim to block specific pathways that cancer cells use to grow and reproduce. The list of targets is an alphabet soup of genes such as PIK3CA, mTOR, MEK, EGFR, RET and BRAF.
Elaine Silk, 54, was diagnosed nine years ago with melanoma, a deadly form of skin cancer.
She has endured numerous surgeries and drug regimens -- including a round of immune boosters that required hospitalization and caused her brain to swell -- but considers herself cancer-free after a year of treatment with an experimental BRAF-blocking drug.
"There are a few side effects, but nothing like before ... my hair is really curly," said Silk, who lives in rural Texas. "I take three pills twice a day ... I look at it like medication for high blood pressure that keeps the disease under control."
Dr. Kurzrock said more work is needed since the MD Anderson study was an analysis of retrospective data, rather than a randomized trial.
She also said it would make sense to match targeted therapies to patients with earlier-stage cancer.
Millions of cancer patients worldwide will soon be able to receive more effective, personalized treatments for their disease thanks to developments in the understanding of cancer biology.


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The varsity football team (13-1) has reached the coveted Virginia AAA State Championship game after . Head Coach Chris Haddock and his Wildcats will travel to Charlottesville this Saturday, Dec. 10 to face Oscar Smith High (13-1), who defeated the 2010 State Champion Battlefield Bobcats last Friday to qualify for the title game.
"Our team, school and community are very excited. The town traveling to Richmond last week was phenomenal," said Haddock regarding the support from the Centreville community. "I know people are excited to go to Charlottesville this weekend. I'm real proud of our kids."
Centreville, whose offense puts up 35-points per game, comes in ranked No.1 in the state fresh off a five-game win streak. The Oscar Smith Tigers (Chesapeake) follow just behind the Wildcats at No.2 and average 33-points per game on offense.
"They're on a 13-game roll and are playing really good football. They score early and often." Haddock said. "We're definitely going to have our hands full. But we do hope to pound and grind the ball."
The second-year Wildcat coach will count on his quarterback, Mitch Ferrick, to grind his team past a stellar Tiger defense who has allowed just 15-points per game. But Ferrick has shown true poise against the rush and has blazed his way to stardom in 2011, throwing 19TDs against only three interceptions. Ferrick made Second-Team All Concorde in just his first year as a starter this season.
"We've been very fortunate that we have some talented kids," Haddock said regarding the performance from his players this year. "They work really hard, listen to the coaches and play with passion and pride. They've really done a great job."
Meanwhile Manny Smith, who has racked up 1,718 yards rushing and 20 touchdowns on the season, will attempt to knife his way through the Tigers' front-seven. Smith and four other Wildcats: , Chase Walter, Connor Coward and Matt Vlissides were voted onto the First-Team All Region.
Ekanem also this season. Unfortunately, the all-star defensive end and his teammates will have to stave-off Oscar Smith's high-scoring offense without one its best players. Senior linebacker Travis Whitney has been sidelined for the championship game after suffering an injury in the state-semifinal against Hermitage.
Oscar Smith's eighth-year head coach Richard Morgan boasts an outstanding overall record of 97-10, since taking the Tiger helm in 2004. Haddock also holds an exemplary record of 22-4 through two seasons as Centreville's head coach. Haddock said he has been grateful for the special rapport the team and coaching staff has shared this year.
"There are few schools in the Northern Region where you can have this kind of success and Centreville is one of them," Haddock said. "Our kids were willing to listen, accept coaching and try some things. I give our kids all the credit. They set lofty goals, high expectations and have worked very hard to achieve those things and we're almost there."
Centreville plays Oscar Smith at Scott Stadium in Charlottesville at 4 p.m. on Dec. 10. Fans are asked to wear black for a "blackout."
Where to watch: For those who can't make it down to Charlottesville, in Centreville will broadcast the game. Or if you have Cox, you can watch it at home.
Follow updates online: Centreville Patch will tweet from the game using the hashtag #cvillefootball and post updates on Facebook at the start of each quarter.


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SIGMA 10-20mm F3.5 EX DC HSM
The Sigma Corporation is pleased to announce the new SIGMA 10-20mm F3.5 EX DC HSM.
This super-wide angle lens has a maximum aperture of F3.5 throughout the entire zoon range.
Its wide angle of view from 102.4 degrees produces striking images with exaggerated perspective.
The maximum aperture of F3.5 is ideal for indoor shooting and it enables photographers to emphasize the subject.
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Diddy & Nelly Hold Down T.I.
December 10, 2010Diddy & Nelly Hold Down T.I.Posted byFiled under:6
U know.....I don't understand what ''hold it down'' .....means! Can we relate the statement to..... keepin' time?.... Like in Nelly's Video featurin' T-Pain, Acorn .and T.I
Where he is the timekeeper .....in somekind of cat-fight.....and T.I, Acorn and T-Pain places bets on gals.... in some crude gamblin' fashion ......to see the chick that kills the other first...???!!!
or maybe...acceptin' someone back....into one's life.....No Matter What He's Done.....
Like in Diddy's coming home video......where he ASSUMES it is a longtime coming......or .....well.....basically... WRITTEN .....that he is gonna be forgiven for all the hurt and pain he has caused..... for placin' dollar bills...and other fake flash....ABOVE his family....??
Yeah......well...maybe .....It could have been considered......if he was GENUINELY.....sorry! However.......he says.......He is still BOWLING....(whatever that means!).........soooooooo I really don't think he is true to himself ...when he assumes forgiveness from all.....because he .......comes back .....A BETTER MAN....???!!!??
I'm glad ya'll holding him down!I'm a just laugh at these hypocrites that thought DeDe my nephew was the beneficary by his self with no requirments !Melissa Anderson and Kothnia Anderson -Alexis Peacock Hill-Andrew Hall- Bryant church pastor to congregtion members-macon georgia /Middle georgia Pastors and congregations and other's fight against God !The informants came to the light!I needed too just say everything is cool!I'm a keep God first !Get my license to practice law and be a judge!They fighting God not me!Its how tammy Sherrell Hill tought I was prosecuting her ,because me and mines didn't tell her!its the reason MelissaAnderson and her family thought it was my grandma religious beliefs !Its the reason Bryant Church thought I would have a relationship with and their members!The walked int their own trap children of God don 't promote injustice and tell people can't nothing be done !They not T.I.!(smiling and laughing!!!)God and I knew they wouldn't /can't stop me !Much Love!I'm a be writing using the mail temporarily !
!Acts 5:38-39 (King James Version)
38And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought:
39But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
@Angelo :D: That's nice ;) And T.I. is really good as usual!
And it's nice that Diddy and Nelly do publicity for No Mercy!