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July 2009: Volume 35, Number 7
Right now, everyone is wishing for that crystal ball that could reveal what healthcare reform is going to look like and how it will affect patients, providers, and a host of other stakeholders. At least three U.S. House committees and two Senate panels are working on bills, heeding President Obama's call to tackle access, quality, and cost. Lawmakers have set a self-imposed deadline of Labor Day to hash out their differences and get a bill passed.
Meanwhile, industry groups, professional associations, patient advocacy organizations, and other coalitions and lobbyists have descended on the nation's Capitol, all trying to make their voices heard. Amid the din of opinions, plans, and predictions surrounding healthcare reform, the lab community is also determined not to sit on the sidelines. In collaborations such as the Clinical Laboratory Coalition (CLC) and through professional associations like AACC, laboratorians and IVD industry leaders are looking to take advantage of this extraordinary chance to have a say in the future direction of healthcare in the U.S.
Experts agree that now is the time to draw greater attention to the role that lab tests play in patient care. "Things are moving fast in Washington right now, and we have a really good story to tell," said Kathleen Claessens, director, Federal Health Policy and Reimbursement for Roche Diagnostics. "Lab tests are vital to the whole healthcare reform process. Considering the central role of lab tests in screening for and diagnosing illnesses and guiding therapy, it's crucial we get the message across that access to appropriate lab testing is key to improving the quality of care and controlling costs."
In an effort to advance the concerns of laboratorians and help busy congressional staffers get a grasp of the big picture, AACC has put forward basic principles the association believes Congress must incorporate in any healthcare reform package. Each of these principles sets out not only what's at stake for laboratories in healthcare reform, but what the nation as a whole can gain by supporting lab medicine (See Box, below).
AACC Proposes Six Principles for Healthcare Reform
In letters to Congressional leaders and to President Obama's newly created office of healthcare reform, AACC is advancing six general principles that the association believes must be addressed in healthcare reform legislation. AACC staff visited with lawmakers in Washington in June to advocate for labs.
Access and Reimbursement
For patients to have the access to the tests they need, it's clear those tests must be reimbursed by government payors or private insurers. However, nobody expects Congress to dig in to a full-blown reworking of Medicare's clinical lab fee schedule any time soon. The fee schedule is under Medicare Part B, a byzantine system that includes a multitude of different payment structures. Instead, some lab community advocates have focused on reimbursement for new, innovative tests based on their clear ability to impact the overall cost of care for a patient, such as KRAS testing for metastatic colorectal cancer or other tests that guide costly therapies (CLN February, 2009).
Nevertheless, while genetic-based testing has raised the profile of diagnostics in recent years, laboratorians should remain guarded, said Robert Murray, JD, PhD, technical consultant with Midwest Diagnostic Pathology. "I don't think that when anybody in Washington is talking about healthcare reform, they're thinking about making providers any richer or their lives any easier. Congress wants to spend fewer dollars at the end of the day, and I don't see labs getting a bigger share than they do right now." Life in labs probably won't be any easier when healthcare reform is in place, he cautioned. According to Murray, laboratorians need to think strategically and be prepared for adversity. For example, while competitive bidding is off the table for the time being, there are still lawmakers in Washington who like the idea, and it's not impossible that they'll try to bring it back.
Another danger could take the shape of expanding the diagnosis-related group (DRG) payment concept to outpatient lab services. Currently, Medicare reimburses hospitals for inpatient care based on DRGs instead of individual services and procedures, and for outpatient care based on ambulatory payment classifications (APC). However, for now, outpatient hospital-based lab services continue to be paid based on a fee schedule. If the APC system were applied to outpatient lab services, it could lead to all clinical labs competing with every other aspect of healthcare for each reimbursement dollar. Considering the challenge this has posed to hospital-based labs, this could be disastrous for independent labs.
A caveat to this scenario is that under the current scheme, hospital labs do have some advantage over independent labs, but not because of DRGs, explained Murray. Rather, because of hospital labs' intimacy with acute care, the hospital administration, the physicians—everyone who takes care of patients knows they can't do without the support of the lab. "But for an independent lab getting specimens by courier, if there is a different name on the pickup van, the doctor still has his or her test performed. So these labs all have to compete with each other, while a hospital lab isn't going to start sending its emergency room specimens out to some other testing site."
Advocates for labs are on the lookout for another peril as well: copayments for lab tests under Medicare. Unlike other services, such as physician visits, outpatient lab tests still have no copayment, and labs want it to stay that way. A copayment could keep some people from getting the tests they need.
Laboratorians might also have to come to terms with the fact that that reform initiatives and reimbursement pressures could lead to uncomfortable changes in how, where, and by whom testing is performed, suggested AACC president Barbara Goldsmith, PhD. She sees change on the horizon in the form of more point-of-care (POC), home health monitoring, and direct access testing, offering the example of the decision last year by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to expand coverage for home INR monitoring for patients taking warfarin.
With the combination of better-informed, web-savvy consumers and the push to give patients more control over their own health—as evidenced by personal health record initiatives and the increase in direct access testing—Washington's drive for greater access to healthcare might not mean more traditional lab testing, but more testing generally through self-testing or physician offices. "More and more, for routine outpatient testing, the competition is going to be the doctors' offices and the patients themselves," said Goldsmith. "The more sophisticated tests will still have to come to the lab, and there is where we'll have more of a voice. This does not mean at all that labs will become obsolete; on the contrary, the laboratorians' expertise will be more important than ever. But the kind of testing we do in labs is going to be different."
As if reimbursement issues didn't seem important enough already, President Obama indicated recently that he would support giving the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) much greater power to influence payment policy. Under the proposed provision, MedPAC's recommendations would become effective automatically unless a majority of Congress opposed them. Currently, MedPAC's recommendations are just that—suggestions that Congress must take up in legislation.
Personalized Medicine
Despite public enthusiasm and strong support from President Obama when he was a Senator, personalized medicine still faces an uphill battle to become accepted into mainstream medical practice. While the promise of increased efficacy, safety, efficiency, and reduced costs might make personalized medicine seem like it should sell itself, public and private payors are not quite all on board. "Payors tend to be skeptical of new technologies because they have not seen them lead to reduced costs, but rather, in their view, to increased complexity and rising costs," said Edward Abrahams, PhD, executive director of the Personalized Medicine Coalition (PMC), a non-profit advocacy group composed of industry, patient, and professional groups, including AACC. "Their default position tends to demand to see the evidence that new technologies lead to increased clinical utility and better outcomes for patients."
Though Abrahams agrees that these new tests should meet high standards, he emphasized that there should be differences in the level of evidence required for diagnostic tests compared to drugs. For instance, there is no incentive from a business perspective for a company to perform controlled, randomized trials for a test as would be done for a drug.
In spite of these challenges, Abrahams said there are encouraging developments that signal that personalized medicine is creeping into the consciousness of lawmakers. One example is the comparative effectiveness research with its emphasis to consider subpopulations. Congress set aside over $1 billion for comparative effectiveness studies in the economic recovery package. "I've seen exponential increases of understanding. And we now have a number of senators and congressman who have focused on personalized medicine to improve healthcare, with a number of them having paid more than lip service to the idea." PMC is hoping to reach even more lawmakers and other stakeholders with a new report, "The Case for Personalized Medicine." The report sets out real-world examples of how personalized medicine can refine diagnosis, guide treatment, and avoid side effects from therapies. The report points out that there are now more than 200 product labels that either recommend genetic testing or mention the influence of genetic variation on drug response and safety.
Ultimately, it will be up to laboratorians to promote personalized medicine, said Abrahams. "Labs and pathologists care enormously about this because this is the future of medicine. Instead of being commoditized, they get to introduce the value of their education and expertise. And that's where the smart ones are. And that's why some of the large labs and labs generally are focused on this—this is where it gets exciting for them intellectually, and it should follow financially. That's why the labs are a big part of our coalition."
Improved Technologies
Another primary message that AACC is pushing for is continued support for new technology and innovation in lab medicine. In this arena, other lab advocacy organizations have also been particularly active, including the Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed), the American Clinical Laboratory Association (ACLA), and CLC. Roche Diagnostics' Claessens said that in visits to Capitol Hill with other representatives from the clinical lab field, she has stressed that improved test technology like more accurate tests, improved automation, and consolidated platforms can both reduce costs to the lab and impact the delivery of healthcare through better care and improved efficiency.
Generally, her message has received a good response. "I was impressed when I spoke to the staff of members of the Senate Finance Committee recently. They're very interested in the role labs play," she said. "I do think the message is out there and we're stressing it as much as we can. We're telling them that we can't base payment decisions solely on the marginal cost of performing a test. We have to look at how the test affects the overall treatment of that patient and how that's affecting the cost and quality of the care they get."
One area where the Obama administration's focus aligns with lab interests is on preventive care, Claessens pointed out. For good preventive care, clinicians will rely on very accurate screening tests. "They're going to need an arsenal of these prevention-oriented tests to be able to identify cases where more or less services are needed," she said. One example is screening for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in hospitals. "These tests ultimately protect a hospital's bottom line." One test where reimbursement has recognized the value of diagnostics is the HIV quantitative test, which is reimbursed by Medicare at almost twice the rate of other, similar tests.
"If in healthcare reform there is recognition, at minimum, of the critical role laboratory tests play in contributing to quality patient care and improved outcomes, I think that would be excellent. If we're really going to expand coverage to 47 million Americans that are uninsured right now, at some point Congress is going to look at how this gets paid for, and we want to make sure those dollars don't come away from lab testing," said Claessens.
Evidence-Based Lab Medicine
Evidence-based medicine has already garnered attention from policymakers as one of the early healthcare-related initiatives to receive funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). In fact, Congress increased funding to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) for comparative effectiveness and other evidence-based research ten-fold, from $30 million to $300 million. Several AHRQ projects have tackled evidence for diagnostic tests, which fall under the rubric of evidence-based lab medicine (EBLM). "EBLM is an important part of healthcare reform because ultimately we're trying to provide better use of laboratory resources," said David Alter, MD, a clinical pathologist for Spectrum Health. He called attention to the fact that laboratorians are still grappling with exactly what EBLM should be doing for lab medicine.
"Where this all goes is that there is a potential for a lot of inappropriate ordering." He offered the example of a patient that presents with shortness of breath and a history suspicious for heart failure or pulmonary embolism. In this case, the physician should be focusing on the patient's heart and lungs. But on top of this, the physician orders a comprehensive metabolic panel. "But what does the CMP truly add when you have a patient that comes in with a heart/lung issue? In the perfect world, there would be some way to clinically decide 'no, you don't need a CMP, or you don't need one every day.' But we're not there yet."
On the other hand, Alter underscored the fact that new evidence can also lead to a new appreciation for common tests like the basic metabolic profile (BMP), not only trendy molecular tests. He mentioned a recent paper in the American Heart Journal in which the authors examined large, prospectively followed populations and found that a BMP risk model had a highly significant predictive ability for death.
Even with the growing awareness of EBLM, laboratorians are going to have to continue to work extra hard to get the lab in the spotlight and compete with drugs for attention, Alter said. "The problem is that people want dramatic, quick, noticeable differences in outcomes. And what we can provide as laboratorians isn't always dramatic, quick, or noticeable."
Lab Workforce
For at least a decade, the lab community has experienced ever-increasing anxiety over the supply of qualified people to staff labs. Labs are feeling particularly vulnerable now, as it looks like several clinical laboratory scientist training programs at universities around the country will be shuttered. If lawmakers at the federal and state level really care about quality in healthcare reform, they'll have to start paying attention, said Sharon Ehrmeyer, PhD, MT(ASCP), CLS/MT program director and professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her program is among those recently targeted for closure. "The government says they want to spend less, but not cut quality. But if they don't take care to make sure that qualified people are there to do the testing, in effect they are cutting quality—eventually increasing costs and leading to poor outcomes."
On at least two counts there are signs of hope, she said. First, the increasing prevalence of POCT could bring new recognition of the lab from the general public, since most people still have only a vague idea of what a clinical laboratorian does in the first place. Ehrmeyer offered a tongue-in-cheek illustration: if laboratorians decided to strike like nurses have done, the lab would close down and physicians wouldn't have their results. "But would it make a difference? I think the public reaction would be, 'who are these people?'"
A strategy that's met with some success for lab training programs is applying for ARRA stimulus funds set aside specifically for healthcare job training. The stimulus provides $250 million through the Department of Labor's Community-Based Job Training Grants (CBJTG) program. Lab training programs in Minnesota received $2 million from CBJTG last year. Other training programs are lobbying their own states with similar proposals.
At the end of the day, part of the blame for the staffing problem lies with laboratorians themselves, said Ehrmeyer. "We really have not defined ourselves well, and we've been talking about this problem for a long time with not much to show for it."
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Lockheed Martin announced that the troubled, tri-national, medium extended air defense system (MEADS) underwent its first flight test, at the White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) on November 17.
The U.S., Germany and Italy agreed in 2004 to jointly develop MEADS as a replacement for Patriot, Hawk and Nike Hercules air defense systems. Lockheed Martin, LFK of Germany and MBDA Italia continue to work on the $3.4 billion development contract, but Germany recently joined the U.S. in deciding not to fund the production and deployment of MEADS. An American taxpayer watchdog group described the flight test as "nothing more than a dog-and-pony show to boost funding and keep [MEADS] off the chopping block."
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In a move that would take home field advantage away from the Pac-12 Conference leader at the end of the regular season the Conference is considering taking the title game out of the hands of the regular season winner and placing it squarely in the middle of the Bay Area leaving teams in the pacific northwest at a distinct disadvantage when it comes to the deciding factor for who plays in the Rose Bowl.
For Oregon, who hosted UCLA in the Pac-12 Championship at Autzen Stadium just a few seasons ago it will also take away revenue from cities like Eugene who welcome fans each weekend of the regular season to watch the Oregon Ducks at Autzen Stadium. The stadium is as state of the art as they come with the latest technological advancements and if your a fan of a Bay Area team the move certainly makes sense. Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott confirmed in a text message to Sports Illustrated that the idea was being discussed for 'this' season. Of course the big concern is will fans travel south to see their team play.
If the conclusion is to move the game it will be held at Levi Stadium in Santa Clara on December 5th. The Oregon Ducks will have already played a regular season game at the new facility when the face the Cal Bears there on Friday October 24th.
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Controversy also arose over the sex scene between Batman and Catwoman in Catwoman #1. THE Fanboy SEO had a good article listing the pros and cons of the Catwoman issue. Here's the sex scene in all it's glory:
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quote:Easily a third of AT&T's downstream traffic is now "web audio-video," far more than p2p and the gap is widening rapidly. Hulu and YouTube are taking over, while p2p is fading away on DSL networks. One likely result is that managing traffic by shaping p2p is of limited and declining use, perhaps buying a network 6 months or a year before needing an upgrade. The p2p traffic shaping debate should be almost over, because it simply won't work very much longer.
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From: Dave Burstein [email@example.com]Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 6:10 AMTo: David FarberSubject: Practical Congestion Solutions (Real Soon Now)FolksDavid Reed asked about how is Comcast managing traffic today, and what is likely later in the year. I have some of the data. I would enormously appreciate better information on what we can expect from DOCSIS 3.0 upstream when it's widely deployed (?late 2009.) I'm guessing it will be very good, but traffic models or other info that translate from 160/120 shared to realistic expectations per user would really help. My guess is 50/25 will be achieved 95+% of the time and that most of the cable upstream problems will be solved, but I just don't have enough data.Takeaways:1) The traffic at AT&T is rapidly shifting from p2p to streaming video such as YouTube and Hulu, per data below on the record and factchecked at a senior technical level. This matters, because any p2p solution will not do very much if p2p is much less of the traffic. It might postpone the need for an upgrade for 6 or 12 months, but p2p throttling can't do much more for most networks.2) The updated model from Sandvine, Comcast's main supplier, allows much less obtrusive shaping. It can be tuned to neighborhood CMTS units rather than a wide territory, can automatically shut off when congestion clears, and enables more careful policies. Things like "if the user has uploaded more than 3 gigabytes in the last five days, reduce that connection to 256K until the congestion clears." Whether Comcast will choose a system like that, and whether the software will deliver everything promised, is not yet known. It certainly could come closer to "reasonable" than what they are doing now.3) There really is a problem on (at least some) cable upstreams today, based on what I hear from people I respect who have the data. My hope - which won't be tested until 2009 - is that the DOCSIS 3.0 upstream will resolve most or all of the problems for the next few years. Full DOCSIS 3.0 has a minimum of 120 megabits upstream (shared) among typically 300 homes, something like 400K per subscriber. Current cable modems typically have 8 to 30K per subscriber. This is a huge difference. Verizon, AT&T, and Free.fr are strongly on the record they do not have significant congestion problems. They do not have a shared local loop, and have allocated much more bandwidth per customer. I've sat at the network console of a large ISP and seen they had essentially no congestion amongst the millions of subscribers they served. They allocate 250K per subscriber, much more than current cable. So my best guess is that when cable gets to levels like that, the problem will drastically diminish. DOCSIS 3.0 120 meg shared downstream is now available to nearly 20 million homes (8M at J:COM Japan, millions more at Numericable France, Virgin UK, Videotron Quebec, Korea, and some others.) Very few systems can send at 50 and 100 megabits, leaving enough capacity for customers to actually receive at 50-100 megabits despite the sharing. Unfortunately, the upstream is not ready. Vendors say 2008, many think late 2009. 50/25 to 20M Comcast customers (promised for 2010) and many others is totally destabilizing if the telco doesn't have fiber and the cablecos price like they already are in Japan (100 meg is only about $5 more) and France (100 meg, shared, is effectively $25-30 as part of a bundle.) The price will be the key.Separately, a note came from Singapore to this list as I was writing, sensibly discussing whether problems are due to the ISP or the carrier. I wish we could think like that over here, but in the U.S. and Canada something over 95% of consumers get everything from the telco or cableco. We just don't have many surviving ISPs.---------------I unfortunately don't have the time to integrate these longer comments with the above, so forgive the length. If I had more time, I'd write shorter. The AT&T traffic data at the end is particularly interesting; the rest is not thoroughly factchecked yet but I think mostly on target.1) The latest Sandvine quarterly call described what they say is now available for testing. Unlike the current models, which need to do something broad like slowing all the p2p across large systems, the new software allows much finer tuning, to the level of the usage of the individual customer. It essentially is a policy server tuned to let policies be set for each customer and enforced in real time. Choice of policy would be by the carrier. The first improvement is that it can read the network and the individual CMTS, and only invoke policy if that customer is on a congested CMTS. This dramatically cuts how much is shaped. The second improvement is that it can choose who to shape in a much more sophisticated way. Currently, they get total usage for each customer, so implementing a 250 gig cap for an individual or grossly shaping a whole region is what they are mostly limited to (I believe). Now, they can set a policy that chooses to shape only those who use more than 4 gig upstream between 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. , and only partially shape them (say to 256K up) if that's enough. It can then turn off the shaping automatically when the circuit drops to a more normal pattern (say, less than 60% utilization for 15 minutes.) Contrast that to today, where apparently Comcast is leaving the stuff on for 18 hours a day, and filtering closer to the core, affecting many locations without problems. (The primary problem is at the neighborhood CMTS, and the current system I believe requires shaping dozens or hundreds at a time because the boxes are deeper in the network.) How sensible will Comcast be? I can't answer that, but since Sandvine is designing the software working closely with their large customers like Comcast, I suspect the capabilites they are discussing are what the customer intends to use. None of which means we can let up, but suggests much of the problem can be technically fixed.2) Neither Comcast nor any of the other cablecos has shared enough data publicly, but privately some have provided information I believe I can trust about one crucial question. There is a real problem with (at least some) cable upstream, which typically designs for 6 to 30 kbps per subscriber. p2p frequently outruns that, even if they do ordinary upgrades doubling and tripling the total shared upstream but staying within that range. The very interesting question is whether the DOCSIS 3.0 upstream will have similar problems. Verizon and AT&T, with far more effective bandwidth per user, aren't seeing a similar problem. So my first guess is that the the p2p congestion issue is important up to a certain level of bandwidth, but not above that. This is totally unproven, and the best cable engineers I've asked are unsure until they get thousands of live customers. DOCSIS 3.0 is at least a 12x (vs 10 meg upstream cable), for many a 30x (versus 2-3 meg upstream systems.) There's a lot of folks with this "voracious p2p grabs any upstream you can give it" idea, which seems to correspond to some of the experience on cablecos today, However, Verizon, AT&T, and Free.fr tell me they simply do not have this problem. Bell Canada provided the CRTC with data that shows similar - the only problems of significance were at the back of the DSLAM, which I've determined was they haven't upgraded the link out of the back for many years, and have many OC-3's,etc. I've sat at the network console watching the realtime network map for millions of subscribers. The only congestion at that moment was at an interconnection with Telecom Italia, where Italia refuses to upgrade their side of the link. I believe this is typical of their experience; the network engineer told me he has authority and budget to simply upgrade any link that is a problem. They have fiber throughout, all IP, and are running it as the prototype "stupid network." If they see a problem, they add another Gig-E to the fiber link. Comcast is going all 3.0 by 2010 - 20 million homes. So one of the most important questions is whether that will be enough to avoid upstream problems. All insight welcome. I have some interesting new data points. AT&T is seeing an overall slight decline in bandwidth demand growth per user, with p2p becoming less and less of a factor. YouTube, Hulu, and other commercial streamers are growing much more rapidly. Here's a story I have, factchecked by a VP at AT&T Labs.20% Drop in p2p on AT&T BackboneOther video, like YouTube and Hulu, twice as highEasily a third of AT&T's downstream traffic is now web audio-video, far more than p2p and the gap is widening rapidly. Hulu and YouTube are taking over, while p2p is fading away on DSL networks. One likely result is that managing traffic by shaping p2p is of limited and declining use, perhaps buying a network 6 months or a year before needing an upgrade. The p2p traffic shaping debate should be almost over, because it simply won't work very much longer.Jason Hillery provided some current AT&T information. p2p is currently still growing but at a slower pace than other traffic. On the Tier 1 AT&T backbone p2p actually dropped 20% during a period last year. AT&T Labs VP Charles Kalmanek points out that a shift in customer mix, rather than an absolute drop in overall p2p, may explain that surprising statistic. Around the world, the trend is clear: web traffic continues to grow at something like 25-40% per user each year, right in line with the trend since 2001. Video is growing rapidly, but not enough to change the trend so far.Direct from AT&TOverall traffic on the AT&T IP backbone network is growing at a pace of more than 50 percent per year. This growth is a combination of customer growth and growth in traffic per customer. Average growth in traffic per customer is about 25-30 percent per year.To gauge the application breakdown of broadband traffic, we measure downstream traffic during the weekly busy hour. With this measure, as of June 2008, traffic was about 1/3 Web (non video/audio streams), 1/3 Web video/audio streams, and 1/5 P2P (with other applications making up the remainder). For the first time in June 2008, Web video/audio was the highest traffic-generating application over our IP backbone network.As for the trends we've seen over the past few months:-- Web video and audio is growing at a much higher pace than overall traffic (more than 70 percent/year);-- P2P traffic continues to grow, though at a slower pace than other traffic;-- and Web traffic is growing at a pace consistent with overall growth.Many of the policy people believe that p2p is a ravenous monster that is devouring the Internet. The data show that simply isn't true, with the possible but important exception of some cable upstream. Traffic management has become so political few are willing to talk on the record, so reconciling conflicting data is very hard. It appears that large carriers are not having congestion problems on DSL or fiber backhaul, but cable upstream is. With friends, I'm trying to figure out what's going on and in particular whether the problem disappears with DOCSIS 3.0 which will have 12-30+ times more upstream bandwidth. Advice and data very welcome.Video streamed/downloaded from sites like Daily Motion, Hulu, YouTube and others are coming to dramatically dominate web traffic. YouTube's market share is tending down, Hulu, BBC, Facebook presumably climbing. Heise has a German report that general interest in music over the web is dramatically down, consistent with my belief that most people who want music collections already have more than they can listen to. Hulu has now added movies, free with commercials. Most are old blockbusters The Fifth Element, Ghostbusters, Men in Black, Jerry Maguire and other old favorites. They have also Kurosawa's great Kagemusha, Quills, Enter the Ninja, Some Like It Hot, AT&T has sensible plans to handle the load without disruption. They are already moving from 10 gig to 40 gig in the core, and planning a transition to 100 gig in a few years. The current projections are they can do these upgrades without raising capex, bringing per bit costs down along a Moore's Law curve and keeping bandwidth costs per user essentially unchanged. Most of the optical vendors believe they can meet those goals, although some worry that the pace of innovation may slow down as the optical components industry is struggling.Sorry I didn't have the time to write something shorter.dbEditor, DSL Prime


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Each day of the Cycle for STEM ride is full of fun and fellowship. Along the trail, the importance of raising money for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) grants hits home for us in new ways. For one, we gave out three grants to local high schools in the towns we passed through along the way. Hearing the excitement and enthusiasm of the educators who accept the checks renews our commitment to raising this money. Here's a picture of the presentation of a $500 grant to Hancock High School Wednesday night.
For another thing, we run into teachers, scientists and mathematicians who are riding along the same trails. Their interest in what we do and reinforcement that this type of money will make a big difference touches us. It makes it personal in new ways, and we hope they carry our message with them.
And last but certainly not least, we see the effects of STEM everywhere. Without GPS half the support team would basically just be "Lost in the Woods for STEM." Almost every facet of our modern lives is touched by STEM fields. Cars. Roads. Radios. Medicine. Computers. Smart phones. Not to mention, the amazing engineering wonders we're having the chance to experience along the way. When we see infrastructure like the Paw Paw Tunnel or Dam #4 or even the pathway along the side of the C&O Canal Towpath we remember, this is the kind of effort we support. Dedicated people building amazing benefits for society. STEM matters. Imagine, for a moment, what life would be like without your technology. Or reliable infrastructure. Or modern conveniences. Or modern medicine. Scary. Our future could look that way. Instead, we believe we should encourage the mind who will make the future even more amazing than the present. That's why we work so hard and ride so far. Seeing the results of STEM along a beautiful path over the course of the week is just an inspirational bonus.
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Dam #4
There's no doubt we have a worthy cause, but we do manage to throw in quite a bit of fun along the way. Here are a few shots to give you an idea of Day Four. See you tomorrow!
The team at Fort Frederick. Military technology has advanced some, don't you think?
Ron Lipscomb dressed up as a Maryland militia member.
A train stopped some of our riders for a bit.
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It's the first big game in Nashville, Tenn. -- the debut of both Music City's long-awaited, state-of-the art Adelphia Stadium and the Tennessee Titans professional football team. Flying alongside ESPN's full-coverage video blimp overhead is another circling aircraft. Trailing behind is a banner that reads: Dixie Chicks - CD Fly - 8/31. A bittersweet thought could easily be that the Dixie Chicks are being gobbled up by a commercial monster that will continue to bite, chew and then finally spit them out when all the flavor is gone. The same hungry beast, however, that often whets its appetite on so many other quick-rising superstars and soon grazes upon a different dish, better get used to this tangy trio, because the aftertaste is even more addictive. The Chicks are here, and they're here to stay!
Having already sold more than six million albums, racking
up countless radio hits and industry awards, plus being CMT's Showcase Artist during country music's high profile month of
September, Natalie Maines, Martie Sidel and Emily Robison have become one of the most in-demand acts in entertainment. Any
booking agency in the business could bask in their glory. There's not a hip-hop fashion designer in the world who wouldn't
swell over their endorsement, or a hair-and-make-up pro that wouldn't get split ends or cracked lips from the mere thrill
of having these gals flaunt their creation. There's no show quite as scorching hot as the Chicks'. Just ask anyone who's had
a Chick-fix this past year on tours headlined by George Strait, Tim McGraw or the rock-heavy Lilith Fair.
The girls'
Monument Records debut disc, Wide Open Spaces, wrote unheard of chapters for the world of country, while their new
follow-up package, simply called Fly, could change music history. But will even more success change these three sassy-classy
darlings? A reality check has become a part of their daily, often hourly, regimen.
"Sometimes it's like you forget
to take care of yourself," Martie says about being so career busy. "Then I finally look down at my toenails and they're growing
everywhere and chipping off, and your hair's got split ends. You just forget that you need to maintain your personal happiness.
Or I think 'ga, I haven't read a good book in a long time,' or done something that's a simple pleasure in life. We're workaholics
and we like to have our hand in every single decision, including every picture that goes out. We feel like that's our way
to control our destiny and have longevity. But sometimes you have to just stop."
"We all three have lives outside
the Dixie Chicks," admits Emily, who recently married fellow artist Charlie Robison. "This isn't the center of the universe,
and you soon realize that you have to tackle life itself before you tackle all this."
Tackling all "this," which
includes dishing out one show after another all over the world, posing for photo shoots for countless magazines like Rolling
Stone, People, Harper's Bazaar, InStyle, Seventeen, Entertainment Weekly and TV Guide, cutting tracks for major
movie soundtracks and making endless TV appearances, didn't come so easily while the Chicks were trying to make the Fly
album. The feat often required taking hide-away retreats to collect thoughts, write songs and focus on what's mattered from
the beginning -- the music.
"I wasn't scared before we made Fly," admits Natalie, "but now I'm starting to
get a little bit scared that things have happened so fast. Because we are so much believers in the music that you don't want
to be a flash in the pan, and you want people to take you seriously. We really have to plan out certain events that we want
to take place because we don't want to overexpose ourselves. We don't want people going 'Oh, there's the Dixie Chicks again.
I'm sick of them.'"
"Last year was a lot different than this year I think," Emily explains, "because last year was
about just trying to catch up with ourselves and we didn't have time to reflect like we do now. And I think up until January
of this year we were just gigging and playing hard -- just trying to get out there and expose our music to as many people
as we could. This year I think the success enables you to make choices for yourself that not all artists have the luxury of
doing. We just wanted to go on three tours this year and we didn't want to headline. We really wanted, once again, to get
in front of as many people as we could with George Strait, Tim McGraw and the Lilith Fair."
"We've learned to say
'no' really well," confirms Natalie. "And I think it was the hardest thing for us to do, but it helps because there are three
of us."
"I think the hardest thing about everything happening so fast and all these great things, and great opportunities,
is quality control," says Martie, "and trying to have a hand in everything you can because it's your image. It's ultimately
your image and your music. When things are thrown at you and so many opportunities are thrown our way in such a short period
of time, it's so easy to say 'Yeah, we want to do this and that and that.' And then you lose the quality control. So we really,
really try to get our heads together and think, OK, what's the pace that is doable and humanly possible to where we can still
have time to make it right and make it something we're proud of -- something that we will be proud of for a long time."
with Wide Open Spaces, which unleashed such No. 1, Top 5 and 10 hits as "I Can Love You Better," "There's Your Trouble,"
"Wide Open Spaces," "You Were Mine" and "Tonight the Heartache's On Me," the new Fly should blow the top off the pride
meter. Produced by Blake Chancey and Paul Worley, Fly goes for the gut rip -- digging deeper into subject matter and
taking even more jagged stabs with their vocals and musicianship. While each Chick flaunts serious writing talent on this
disc that features such highlight numbers as "Cowboy Take Me Away," the bone-shattering "Sin Wagon," the sweet-merciless "Goodbye
Earl" or "Cold Day In July," some of Nashville's ace tunesmiths were also summoned for the project.
It's smack-dab-in-the-face
obvious that the Chicks shine on stage as well as on disc resulting in their first nomination for the Country Music Association's
coveted Entertainer of the Year crown. It's no surprise. While Natalie often comes across as an explosive chain-gang escapee
with her grinding vocal wails and call-of-the-wild dancing, Martie slices through fiddle moves with the power of an eclectic
chain saw and the passion of a sculptor. Emily, often tagged the tamest of the three, who's really not, picks the Dobro and
guitar as if the world depends on every strum for existence. Together, all three conjure music, lyrics and harmony that's
untouched, unbridled and unlike anything in music today. And what's even sweeter is that it's pure-grain country that's reaching
the entire world.
"Our moms are proud," says Natalie with an added giggle regarding their often onstage antics on
stage. "I think we've always thought we rocked out. But I think if we looked at old tapes of us, I'm sure my head banging
was like ... (Natalie barely moves her head). But you know, you do get more confident. I mean with Emily -- we were just watching
a tape of the old Dixie Chicks like in 1990, and she's standing there in her teacher, prairie skirt and not even tapping her
foot. I'm like, 'How can you not tap your foot?'"
"A total statue," laughs Emily's sister Martie.
"So it all
comes with confidence," Natalie says, "and I think that's what's helped us move more -- is when you hear the fans, you're
more confident in yourself to be how you really want to be. I don't think now she's being something she isn't. I think everything's
helped her open up to become who she is."
"I think it's very uncalculated," adds Emily. "I think what people react
to in the shows is that it's not choreographed. It's not scripted. It's about reacting with your instrument and reacting with
each other. That's a luxury for a band situation because the single artists can walk around the stage, but we can engulf the
With such engulfment comes response from both the audience and media that the Chicks often possess the "Kiss-off/Chicks
rule!" persona. In most cases, they hold nothing back -- a comfort level that wasn't initially so comfortable.
think that's a good thing about there being three of us," responds Natalie. "I think yes, I come off as being who I am. And
you can see all the people who relate to me and see the signs who are relating to me. And then at Lilith Fair everyone's yelling
'I Love You Martie,'" she says with a joking laugh. "Not everyone in the audience has to like the head-banging loudmouth.
They have two other options. We're a lot more alike off stage than on stage. I think we melt together into one really fat
person," she laughs.
"I remember early on Natalie saying 'I don't feel like myself,'" remembers Martie. "'I just don't
feel like myself.' Cause I think she was joining a band that already existed. Even though we didn't have the image we have
today, it took some of her coming out of her shell being able to express herself and everything. And now I don't care if she
says whatever she wants to on stage cause it's her. It's totally her. And at the beginning she wasn't getting to say what
she wanted to say. And you can't cage a wild animal," Martie laughs.
"I think the music is what drives us to be so
wild on stage," says Emily. "But people attribute a lot of things to us offstage that aren't true just because they assume
we're one way or another. And yeah, we can gross out the best of any crew guy out there, but at the same time we're very --
you know -- we like simple things. We don't drink a lot. We don't do drugs."
The Dixie Chicks will admit, however,
that they make mistakes; they're not out to be superwomen role models, and their fans shouldn't always count on them being
"sugar and spice and everything nice."
"Like some guy stopped Natalie on the street and said 'I can't believe what
you said about your divorce on stage!'" tells Martie.
Natalie jumps in with "He said, 'You were great last night.'
And I said 'Well thanks.' And he goes, 'but I think your comment about your divorce scared some of the kids.' And I go 'Sorry,
I didn't do it on purpose.'
"I do talk candidly about my divorce on stage," she continues, "and make jokes and that
sort of thing. It's almost like I think sometimes I say things to be a role model for children because my biggest thing when
I was in my marriage was the failing part. I could not say the 'D' word, and I would stand in the shower and cry only because
of the failure. I don't like to fail ... even in divorce. I mean divorce is never good. But in different aspects of life,
failing is something ... you can laugh at everything. And I think you should. You should never take yourself too seriously.
And I think I used to think I was above divorce. Like even when I wasn't happy I was a little cocky about, well, I can withstand
anything and I'll never get a divorce. And it's like the minute you start taking yourself too seriously and saying 'I'll never,'
that's not good for anybody to have that sort of image like you can't fail and people aren't gonna accept it. And so I joke
about it on stage, I think, to show people that it's okay. I made a mistake. I did fail at marriage the first time."
you also made the point," adds Emily to Natalie, "of how you got married when you were 22 -- suggesting not to get married
at 22. I think that's a very positive message. Figure out who you are, and then go off and get married."
of their admitted mistakes, an enormous audience (including millions of younger girls) are calling the Chicks their idols,
a title the Chicks don't accept too easily.
"We didn't plan on relating to all those young people," Natalie admits.
"I think we're relating to them now because we are young and because our music will reflect our age and what's going on in
our lives. Just like Fly. It's definitely different. We talk about, you know, a few more adult things. And you know
the label was scared of 'Sin Wagon' and that's fine and you know they said you're gonna lose this percentage of your audience
or whatever, and you can't take it too seriously. That's fine. I'm not making a record for kids. We're just expressing ourselves
and making music and hoping that people like it and relate to our honesty in it. We're not gonna be 30 singing about 'my boyfriend's
back and you're gonna be in trouble.'"
"We want to be inspirational to kids -- to pick up instruments and do things,"
adds Emily, "especially for young girls to sit there and go 'I can do that! Man, I want to play the fiddle like Martie' and
then go off and practice their butt off. I think that's really what we want to do. I don't think it's 'Hey, we are so perfect
that you should live like this!' We're strong women, and if that's what you want to take out of it, that's great."
"I feel like a lot of kids just want to look like us or see what we're wearing or they like that I say what I say or whatever,"
explains Natalie. "But I want them to go deeper. If we are a role model for anything, I would say it's to just be yourself.
Don't try to be vocal and outspoken and wear weird things to find yourself. Be who you are, and don't try to be somebody else.
I mean my whole life I've grown up comparing myself to other people. I think everyone has. And I think it's a lifelong process
to get to who you really are. And that's another thing about my divorce. I was looking around at how happy I should be and
how wonderful my life was and how it would appear to be to other people, but I wasn't happy. If you don't feel like being
loud and outspoken and saying things that's off the wall, then don't be that. If you feel like going in a corner and reading
a book, or if you feel like you're the nerd in school, whatever. Who cares -- as long as you're happy being who you are."
The Chicks will also get to headline their own tours next year -- yet another tier of what's already become a skyrocketing
success story. The story, however, of the Dixie Chicks entails much more than a trio country band making big because they've
found a niche that screams rather than shouts out to the world. The success of the Chicks works because their music is just
as real and honest as they themselves are. Sure -- they'll admit to being less than perfect; being a bit forward on stage
and even being heavily pampered at times. But they don't take anything for granted.
"It's not about girl power and
women with attitude and all that stuff," concludes Natalie. "I mean we love men. And I think we're very traditional as far
as a man being a man and us being in the female roles, even though we look like that 'strong women thing.' We're very much
traditionalists, and we're not women's libbers 'per se.' We just believe that women should have equal rights, and we're glad
that women are kicking butt right now, and we know a lot of women opened the door for us to do that."


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Hull City's Conor Townsend joins Chesterfield on loan
Posted: November 20, 2012|
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The 19-year-old defender will link up with fellow Tiger Liam Cooper at the Spireites.
Townsend enjoyed a successful loan spell at Grimsby Town in the Blue Square Bet Premier League last year.
His performances for the Mariners helped earn him a new and improved two-year deal with the Tigers in the summer.
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