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THE FIRST SIGN OF TROUBLE is tiny white dots on a mammogram. The dots may be scattered like filigree along one of the ducts that connect milk-producing lobules to the nipple. They may be clustered in a single clump or spread among several of the ducts, often in a branching pattern. If these tiny dots of calcium are located inside the duct, if there is more than one locus of dots or if they create an irregular shape, they may indicate the presence of a disease known as ductal carcinoma in situ, or DCIS. In these cases, cells that might later become invasive cluster inside the milk ducts, but unless they penetrate the duct walls, they are not considered life threatening.
For this reason, doctors sometimes refer to DCIS as precancer. But because the cells are abnormal, the disease is also referred to as stage 0 breast cancer or in situ breast cancer. This lack of clarity in the nomenclature is emblematic of the disagreement among doctors and researchers about how aggressively the condition needs to be treated.
Until the widespread use of mammography, the calcium dots played essentially no role in finding potential cases of breast cancer, and diagnoses of DCIS were extremely rare. "Before 1980, fewer than 1 percent of detected breast cancers were diagnosed as DCIS. Now, because of breast-imaging devices, the figure is over 25 percent," says Todd M. Tuttle, MD, chief of surgical oncology at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. That translates into more than 60,000 new cases of DCIS every year in the United States, a rate of growth that will yield a million American women living with this condition by 2020.
To many doctors and cancer researchers, the rise in the detection and subsequent treatment of these pre-malignant lesions is an important cause of the recent 30 percent drop in the death rate for breast cancer. (The other much-cited factor is improved medical therapies.) According to mainstream medical wisdom, these numbers are proof positive that finding and aggressively treating potential breast cancers early can keep abnormal cells from spreading beyond the duct into adjacent breast tissue and perhaps further into lymph nodes, lungs, bones and elsewhere.
But a small and growing coterie of specialists and researchers don't buy the idea that medical intervention in the majority of DCIS cases necessarily improves women's health. They say there's no evidence that treating most instances of this precancer has been especially effective in slowing the growth rate of invasive breast cancer. "Despite all the women being diagnosed with early-stage cancer and being treated aggressively to keep their DCIS from spreading, the rate of invasive cancer hasn't gone down; it's gone up 25 percent," says Laura Esserman, MD, director of the Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine. The thinking of Esserman and others is that for every precancer that is found and treated early, there should be a corresponding reduction in the advanced cancer it would have become. That is exactly what happened with colon and cervical cancer: Removal of precancerous lesions has led to dramatic drops in the rates of advanced instances of the diseases. But that isn't happening with breast cancer. "Maybe, for many cases, DCIS isn't the right precursor for doctors to be looking for," Esserman says.
Esserman and others believe that the high diagnosis rate of lower-risk forms of DCIS has caused an epidemic of overtreatment. Since it's possible that some women's DCIS cells will never spread outside the ducts, Esserman is concerned that certain low-risk patients have been needlessly subjected to surgery and radiation. Maybe there are patients who would be better off untreated. "We need to test if doctors should leave some DCIS cases alone," Esserman says.
That's a controversial notion. Most breast-cancer specialists, while conceding that DCIS is overtreated, say they have no choice but to proceed as if the disease could become dangerous. "There's no scientific proof that there definitely is a group of DCIS cells that won't progress to becoming invasive. I don't think we're there yet, though this is a hot topic of research," says Brian J. Czerniecki, MD, PhD, codirector of the Rena Rowan Breast Center at the University of Pennsylvania and surgical director of the Immunotherapy Program for the Abramson Cancer Center. Christine Laronga, MD, head of the Comprehensive Breast Program at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute in Tampa, Florida, concurs. "We have no way of figuring out which cells are the bad players," she says. But Esserman and similarly minded breast-cancer specialists disagree; they believe that the current technology is adequate for some doctors to distinguish between low- and high-risk DCIS cases.
Caught in the middle of this debate are the thousands of women with a DCIS diagnosis who face life-altering decisions about their treatment.
"We found an irregularity in your left breast," the phone message from Cathy Hopf's doctor said. "We need to find out what it is, and to do that, you'll need a biopsy." It was a heart-stopping moment for the 50-year-old mother of two, who lives in Rancho Santa Fe, California. She recalls, "Of course, I'm thinking, I can't have breast cancer. No one in my family has had breast cancer. I'm a healthy person. I exercise. I eat right. I'm not overweight." But still she worried. The word irregularity could not completely blot out the C-word that kept popping into her head.
It took two and a half years, eight specialists and two biopsies for Hopf to decide on a course of action. The first irregularity turned out to be benign, but a mammogram to confirm its presence revealed a second lesion in the same breast. When biopsied, that lesion was diagnosed as DCIS. Even though it was not, by definition, spreading outside her ducts, the treatment options laid out for Hopf weren't all that different from those offered women with invasive breast cancer: lumpectomy (surgical extraction of the abnormal tissue and its surrounding area); lumpectomy followed by a regimen of radiation; or mastectomy (surgical removal of a breast), which does not require follow-up radiation.
The choice is presented as three levels of preventing recurrence—of making sure the cancer doesn't come back, as either DCIS or invasive breast cancer. With a lumpectomy, the recurrence rate is about 25 percent in 10 years. Half of those recurrences will be DCIS, and the other half will be invasive breast cancer. Among those who choose lumpectomy and radiation, 10 percent will have a recurrence—5 percent DCIS and 5 percent invasive. With a mastectomy, about 2 percent of cancer cases will recur, and almost all of those will be invasive. Looked at another way, all these patients have at least a 70 percent chance of living out their lives without having any more brushes with DCIS or invasive breast cancer. What about the survival rate? "The 10-year survival rate of all three of the treatment options is the same: about 99 percent," Tuttle says.
Today 97 percent of women with a DCIS diagnosis undergo a lumpectomy or mastectomy. Given that this is a precancerous condition, you'd expect that most would pursue the least aggressive treatment, yet mastectomy is the choice of 33 percent of DCIS patients, and that percentage is growing. Even more surprising, the number of DCIS patients who opt to have a healthy breast removed in a prophylactic double mastectomy is also on the rise, jumping almost 150 percent from 1998 to 2005, according to the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
What are their reasons? Some women opt for mastectomy because then they won't need to undergo subsequent radiation treatment. One operation, they think, and they'll be done. (The truth is that there's still a small chance of DCIS or cancer recurrence in the scar.) "A diagnosed woman's first reaction -often is, 'Just cut off my breasts so I can get on with my life,' " says Susan Love, MD, president of the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation, a nonprofit that promotes breast-cancer research. Sometimes women ask for both breasts to be removed when only one is diseased so that their reconstructions will match. "Doctors aren't doing a great job of talking women out of the surgery," Love says. "They're not explaining the consequences of mastectomies, such as that a woman likely will not have feeling in her reconstructed breasts."
What about the opposite approach—doing nothing? DCIS lesions are typically removed, so no one has studied the results of not taking them out. "We do know that if the cells stay in the duct, DCIS has no clinical significance whatsoever. It doesn't cause symptoms, it doesn't hurt you, it doesn't kill you," says E. Shelley Hwang, MD, chief of breast surgery at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine. "The only reason we treat DCIS is we're worried that if we don't, it won't stay in the duct and will become invasive. DCIS surgery is basically preventive surgery."
Hopf's DCIS diagnosis landed her in this maze of risk statistics and probabilities of recurrence. "I consulted eight specialists," she says. "All recommended surgery and radiation. One said I should have a mastectomy. One told me the DCIS wasn't really cancer, and another said it was about to explode from the duct and become invasive." Hopf says that as she struggled with her decisions about treatment, "no one mentioned that my choice would have essentially no impact on my survival rate." She chose lumpectomy with radiation. "I'm comfortable with my decision," she says.
The confusion surrounding DCIS begins with those tiny white dots of calcium, a by-product of biological processes that can be caused by any number of events. The vast majority of these microcalcifications—about 70 percent—are associated with some kind of benign growth in the breast. The distribution and shape of the dots on the mammogram give some clues to their cause but cannot definitively identify DCIS. That diagnosis most often comes after what is known as a core-needle biopsy, in which a hollow needle is guided to the lesion by mammography, ultrasound or MRI. The needle draws out several samples of tissue, each about the size of a grain of salt. (See sidebar, "Get a Better Biopsy.")
The samples go to a pathologist, who stains the cells and examines them with a microscope. Sometimes there's a fine line between possible diagnoses. "Carcinogenesis is a process," explains Debra Patt, MD, a breast-cancer specialist at Texas Oncology in Austin. Step one: Cells begin to grow abnormally in what is called atypical ductal hyperplasia (ADH). Those cells are not malignant, but they aren't behaving normally either; nor do they look like normal tissue when examined under the microscope. The atypical cells can become so abundant that they begin to crowd their neighbors. "But your body has great ways of regulating itself, and it may be able to destroy the cellular abnormalities that people often develop," Patt says.
Usually that is what happens. But not always. Sometimes abnormal cells don't have the courtesy to die, and they reproduce until there are thousands of sheets of cells within the duct. It's this stage that characterizes DCIS and creates the confusion about how the same cells can be labeled "precancer" by one expert and "cancer" by another. "DCIS cells look for all the world like cancer cells," says Hwang. One crucial difference: At this point, they're incapable of breaking through the duct's lining and invading the surrounding breast tissue. "Another mutation is required before they can become invasive breast cancer," Patt says, and not all ADH cells undergo that final transformation.
In most cases, DCIS presents in two genetically distinct groups: high-grade lesions characterized by rapid growth and early progression to an invasive cancer, and low-grade lesions that more closely resemble atypical ductal hyperplasia. If these low-grade lesions, which can be difficult for a pathologist to distinguish from ADH, progress to invasive cancer, those tumors are frequently low grade, too. Doctors on both sides of the debate agree that the high-grade DCIS lesions should be treated in the conventional manner. The push for change is focused at the low-grade end of the continuum. "The majority of DCIS is in this form," Esserman says.
Esserman is among the most outspoken of the voices for change. She and similarly minded breast-cancer specialists such as Hwang believe that it's time to seriously look into what's known as management by active surveillance. For DCIS, any lesion that doesn't appear high grade would be left alone and not biopsied. Instead, if suspicious calcifications were discovered in mammography screening, patients would be given the option of forgoing treatment while doctors monitor them intensely to see what develops. This strategy is already used in treating low-risk prostate-cancer patients, who do not undergo surgery or radiation unless the lesion progresses to a higher risk level. "With early stages of prostate cancer, there is a lot of discussion about watchful waiting and active surveillance, about how cancers come in different types and how the patient has lots of options," says Barron Lerner, MD, internist and medical historian at Columbia University Medical Center. "For DCIS, the conversation hasn't moved so much in that direction." And, he says, "to the degree that breast-cancer specialists consider close surveillance a reasonable option, women should be made aware of this choice."
Active surveillance of DCIS would resemble the course of treatment offered to women who have other risk characteristics for invasive breast cancer—for example, a family history of breast cancer, atypical ductal hyperplasia or lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS). LCIS, which develops in the lobules just up the duct from DCIS, is also called breast-cancer stage 0, but it usually doesn't show up on mammograms and generally isn't treated. (LCIS, recently renamed lobular neoplasia, is most often detected when breast tissue is biopsied for another reason.) According to Esserman, "Virtually all patients with DCIS undergo surgery, whereas the majority of women with a similar degree of risk due to other conditions do not choose surgical treatment. What makes invasive treatment of DCIS the accepted standard of care? With DCIS, the site of likely recurrence is known, and there is an opportunity for surgical removal."
The naysayers who oppose the watch-and-wait strategy for DCIS don't recommend playing the odds. They don't want to risk seeing a low-grade case of this precancer become invasive, spreading into the breast tissue and perhaps beyond. They cite the "what if" factor: What if a doctor doesn't do everything she can and the patient develops invasive cancer and requires even more aggressive treatments? Or dies? As any doctor will attest, it is impossible to guarantee beyond a shadow of a doubt that any individual's cancer won't turn out to be deadly.
In addition, the critics say, it is not entirely clear that all low-grade DCIS is low risk. Czerniecki points out that some low-grade cases contain factors that correlate with aggressive cancer, such as scoring positive for the HER2 protein (although this situation is much more common in high-grade cases). Also, many experts feel that to examine all the affected tissue, a lumpectomy—not just the samples that come with a biopsy—is necessary. "I argue that we need to treat DCIS at a minimum with lumpectomy to make sure there's no invasive cancer present," says Tuttle. Lumpectomies aren't complicated procedures. "This surgery is far less deforming than a mastectomy," says Eric P. Winer, MD, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and chief scientific adviser for Susan G. Komen for the Cure, a large breast-cancer research and advocacy organization. Still, a lumpectomy can have side effects, notes Esserman. These might include scarring, a loss of sensation around the area that was excised and in rare cases an accumulation of fluid in the empty space created by the surgery.
If you receive a diagnosis of DCIS, don't feel you need to make a quick decision on treatment. "By the time DCIS appears on a mammogram, it's been there for several years. If you spend two weeks or three weeks or a month to find the right people to take care of it, that's not going to make any difference in the outcome," says Shahla Masood, MD, head of pathology at the University of Florida College of Medicine in Jacksonville.
So time isn't the enemy. There's time to take your slides to another pathologist and get a second opinion—a good idea, since it's estimated that 17 percent of DCIS biopsies may be misread by pathologists. You have time to find out the grade of your condition; if it's high, then you're not in the gray area. And you have time to consider what next steps are best for you. "There's no reason to rush into surgery," says Masood. "Too often a woman gets a DCIS diagnosis on Friday, and on Monday morning she's in the operating room."
"I held out for two years after my DCIS diagnosis before having surgery," says Diane Valentine, an elegant 63-year-old San Francisco Bay Area resident whose bearing reflects her nearly 24 years of teaching yoga. "I consulted a second doctor, and she told me the survival rate for DCIS was over 85 percent, so I decided to take those odds." Over the next two years, her progress was tracked with mammograms at six-month intervals, and there was no change in the lesion. "But the pressure was immense," she says. "From my doctors, who warned it would be OK to wait three months, maybe six, but no more. From the students at my yoga school. From other breast-cancer patients. Everyone kept warning that I needed to get the cancer out. Now!" Ultimately, she had a lumpectomy, no radiation.
Today the standard of care for DCIS is to surgically remove every lesion, and that's going to be the most common recommendation for women faced with this diagnosis. "But in the end, the decision about how you treat a cancer will always remain one patient, one doctor, one room," Patt says. Doctor and patient weigh the risk of invasive cancer (based on whether the patient has had a lot of biopsies, has a family history of breast cancer or is a BRCA-gene carrier) against the risk of surgery. What does the pathology report say? Does it explain the abnormalities found in the mammogram? Then the doctor and patient decide on a course of treatment.
The whole process could be less anxiety producing if the medical world dropped the word carcinoma in relation to DCIS. "Once you say the word cancer, the patient hears nothing else," Patt says. "It produces a visceral reaction that demands, 'Make it go away!' " Masood has suggested using the term borderline breast disease for cases of atypical ductal hyperplasia and low-grade DCIS. Esserman proposes changing DCIS to IDLE, short for InDolent Lesions of Epithelial origin (indolent is medical jargon for inactive; epithelial refers to the tissue lining an organ).
There isn't exactly a groundswell of support for changing the name, but researchers are making great progress in deciphering the biological markers that can distinguish between DCIS cells that are truly dangerous and those that aren't. Until we know more, many experts believe the only option is to treat them all as if they're destined to break out of the milk ducts and into the remaining breast tissue. "Sometimes, with surgery, radiation and tamoxifen, we end up treating DCIS more aggressively than we do some invasive cancers," says Love. "It's a crime that we don't really know what to do."
Mammography reveals only 50 percent of all breast cancers, according to a major study. The other half are found by the woman, and these so-called interval cancers are often far more aggressive than those found in regular screenings. If they didn't show up on your mammogram, they may have developed quickly—and fast-growing tumors are worrisome. This means the breast self-exam maintains a critical role in monitoring your breast health. "What we don't think is a good idea is the very detailed breast exam where you worry about every lump," says Laura Esserman, MD, of the UCSF School of Medicine. When the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force suggested in 2009 that breast self-exams weren't effective, that's the kind they were describing. "But a 30-second exam every month or every couple of months in which you simply monitor your breast for any changes, that's absolutely important," Esserman says. If you find something new, bring it to the attention of your physician, even if you recently had a mammogram that was normal.
You just got a call from your doctor reporting something suspicious on your mammogram. To find out what it is, you'll need a biopsy—a crucial step in your diagnosis. Before you freak out, keep in mind that a whopping 80 percent of all breast biopsies turn out to be benign.
There are two ways to retrieve tissue from your breast. With a core-needle biopsy, the doctor, usually a radiologist or breast surgeon, inserts a hollow needle and draws out some of the tissue. If she can feel a lump, she manually guides the needle to the correct spot. If the lesion isn't big enough to be felt, which is most likely the case with DCIS, she will use a mammogram, ultrasound or MRI to get the needle to the correct spot. Needle biopsies are minimally invasive, can be done with a local anesthetic (think of your dental visits) and offer little risk of infection and almost no scarring. It is the standard of care for breast biopsies.
Surgical biopsies are called for in the rare cases when the lesion is too deep for a needle to reach. A surgeon makes an incision of about an inch and removes some tissue. The procedure is usually done on an outpatient basis, with local anesthesia. Stitches close the incision, which can leave a scar. Although these biopsies are necessary in fewer than 10 percent of suspected breast-cancer cases (of all types), a recent study found that they are performed in as many as 30 percent. If your doctor recommends a surgical biopsy, ask her why. If you don't like her answer, get a second opinion.
Once retrieved, the tissue goes to a pathologist, who examines the cells with a microscope. The difference between a nonmalignant cell and a cancer cell, especially in low-grade DCIS, is often a matter of degree. Samples drawn through a needle are small and may have been fragmented during extraction, making these distinctions even more difficult to discern. If you get a report of cancer, ask that your slides go to another laboratory for confirmation. And go over both the pathology report and your mammogram with your doctor. At each step along the way to diagnosis, human beings who can make mistakes decide your fate. Do your best to make sure they are right.
NANCY F. SMITH, a freelance writer who lives in Austin, Texas, frequently reports on health, personal finance and travel.
Originally published in the September 2011 issue of More.
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BENEFITS, FINANCIAL AID, GRANTS & SCHOLARSHIPS: State Aid
State Aid Programs for Veterans and Others in the Military
New York State Veterans Tuition Award
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New York State Veterans Tuition Award
Combat veterans of Vietnam, Afghanistan and Persian Gulf conflicts are eligible to receive up to $4,287.50 a year. For more information, please read Tuition Award Information. There are also awards available for spouses, children and dependants of veterans. Please visit the HESC website for more information about all New York State Veteran education benefits.
Tuition Benefit for Active NYS National Guard Members
The New York State Recruitment Incentive & Retention Program is available for active members of the New York Army National Guard, the New York Air National Guard, and the New York Naval Militia. It provides tuition assistance for active Guard members enrolled in a first degree or program of study. The award covers tuition after all other financial aid has been applied to the tuition charges. Students must apply for federal (FAFSA) and state aid (TAP) and file a DMNA 96-1 Form, which can be obtained from their individual National Guard unit. Tight deadlines are enforced, so plan your paperwork ahead and allow time for corrections. Continuation of the award will be dependent on good military standing, on making satisfactory progress toward the degree, and on maintaining good academic standing for financial aid purposes. Reservists in good standing in US Naval Reserves or USMC Reserves who are New York state residents should see their units about joining the NY Naval Militia. Questions can be directed through your unit, or to the Education Office in Watervliet, NY – Email: firstname.lastname@example.com or Telephone: (518) 272-4032/6349
Army National Guard (ARNG) Federal Tuition Assistance (FTA) Program
(Previously known as the ACES Program)The New York Army National Guard receives approximately $180,000 in Army National Guard (ARNG) Federal Tuition Assistance (FTA) each year to help our soldiers pursue their civilian education goals. ARNG FTA can be applied to a course or program taken at a regionally or nationally accredited, public or private, college, university, vocational, technical or trade school located inside or outside of New York. etc
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Soldiers pursuing a first professional degree may apply for ARNG FTA. First professional degrees are awarded in the fields of Architecture, Certified Public Accountant, Podiatry (D.P.M.), Dentistry (D.D.S. or D.M.D.), Medicine (M.D.), Optometry (O.D.), Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.), Pharmacy (D. Phar.), Law (J.D.), and Theology (M. Div or M.H.L.).
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- Soldiers who are eligible to receive Selected Reserve-MGIB benefits can receive up to $2,500 in Federal TA each year.
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|Men's basketball signs three
MOSCOW, Idaho - Three highly-touted players have signed letters of intent to attend the University of Idaho and play basketball for the Vandals next season.
Idell Bell and Renado Parker will join the Vandal program from North Idaho College while Gary Winston has signed from Walla Walla High School.
"I can't tell you how excited we are to welcome Idell, Renado and Gary to our Vandal basketball family," Idaho coach Don Verlin said. "With the departure of six seniors who all will receive their degrees from the University of Idaho it was very important to continue to recruit quality student-athletes with high character and a passion to carry on and add to the foundation of our basketball program. These three players fit that mold."
Bell, a 6-foot-2-inch combo guard from Lakeland, Fla., played the 2007-2008 season at Brevard Community College in Florida where was named a National Junior College Athletic Association All-American and averaged 20.8 points, 4.6 rebounds, 4.1 assists, and 1.6 steals per game. He shot 45 percent from the floor and 44 percent from beyond the arc with 72 3-pointers. He transferred to NIC and will play his sophomore season for the Cardinals this winter.
"Idell is an intense competitor at the guard position who can lead a team, knock down the three, and defend his position," Verlin said. "Above all, Idell is a superb young man who will earn his degree and represent Idaho in a first-class manner."
Parker, a 6-foot-6-inch, 240-pound forward from Seattle, Wash., was the player of the year in the Scenic West Athletic Conference last season and was named to the National Junior College Athletic Association All-America first team. He averaged 14.7 points and 6.5 rebounds per game as a freshman and will play his sophomore season at NIC this winter. Parker was named the Washington Interscholastic Basketball Coaches 4A Player of the Year in the state of Washington as a senior at Kentridge High School and is the school's all-time leading scorer.
"Renado is a tremendous physical talent," Verlin said. "He has shown both a physical and mental toughness while playing for one of the best junior colleges in the nation that has allowed him to become one of the most productive players in the country. After getting to know him and his family during the recruiting process it was apparent he would be a great addition to our basketball program and the University of Idaho."
The Cardinals entered the 2009-10 season ranked No. 5 in the National Junior College Athletic Association poll and No. 22 among all two-year institutions by the Sporting News Magazine.
Winston, a 6-foot-1-inch guard, currently is ranked as the No. 2 point guard in the state of Washington by www.northwesthoops.com. He is a two-time all-Big 9 selection and was the Cascade Division Defensive Player of the Year last season. He earned Honorable Mention All-State status as a junior after leading the Blue Devils to the Big 9 District title and a berth in the State 4A Basketball Tournament. Last season, in being named the Tri-City Herald's All-Area MVP, he averaged 16.1 points and 4.0 rebounds per game and shot 51 percent from the field.
During his junior season, Winston led the Blue Devils to a 20-9 overall record, a second place league finish, and Walla Walla's first District title in 19 years. He led the team in steals and assists and enters his senior season with 996 career points.
"It is very important for our program to be able to sign area players with Gary's ability," Verlin said. "He is an unbelievable person with a great attitude and infectious personality who also is a gifted point guard and an outstanding all-around athlete. He will be a pleasure to coach."
The Idaho men's basketball team opens the 2009-10 season at Utah Friday (Nov. 13).


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Tim Jenison - NewTek Founder
Tim Jenison is considered the visionary force behind the desktop video revolution. Jenison founded NewTek in 1985, and led the way in the development of a series of highly successful products, including DigiView (the first video digitizer for a computer), DigiPaint, and the Amiga Video Toaster®.
Jenison learned about technology and electrical equipment from his father, who ran an electrical engineering firm. At an early age, he learned to play the piano, and his keyboard talents propelled him to leave college to join a rock band—where, of course, he continually worked on ways to improve the sound equipment.
Tim Jenison was one of the early enthusiasts for personal computers. By the late 1970s, he saw the computer as the integrating medium for his various passions: electronics, music, film and video. He decided that forming a company was the best way to fuel his endeavors to create sophisticated, yet affordable video software tools that everyone could use and enjoy.
Jim Plant - CEO
Jim Plant joined NewTek in 2001. Before joining NewTek, Plant served as vice president of marketing communications at Geocast Network Systems. Prior to that, he was director of marketing and director of corporate communications at ReplayTV, Inc., a pioneering digital video recorder company. Plant is best known in the NewTek community as the founding editor-in-chief of Avid, the Amiga-Video Journal, and Video Toaster® User Magazine. As CEO of AMG Media, he oversaw the launch and development of Alpha Visual FX magazine, LightWave™ Pro and the Video Toaster User Expo. He began his career as the director of corporate and educational sales at HT Electronics, focusing on the sales of desktop video production and visual effects hardware and software.
Dr. Andrew Cross - President and CTO
Dr. Cross joined NewTek in 1998, as a senior software engineer. Since then, Cross was promoted to lead engineer on the Video ToasterT [2] project, and subsequently to director of video engineering and vice president of video software engineering. While at NewTek, he has managed the development of numerous projects, including Vidget™, VT[3]™, VT[4]™, LightWave® 8.0 and TriCaster™.
Stephen Doubleday - CFO, Vice President of Finance and Administration
Stephen Doubleday joined NewTek in 1994. During his years at NewTek, he has directed financial planning and forecasting. He came to NewTek with 20 years of experience in accounting and finance. Previous, he was the executive vice president and chief operating officer for Plastic Sales & Manufacturing Co. in Kansas City, Missouri. From the time he joined Plastic Sales in 1977, Doubleday rose through the ranks, from controller, to vice president of finance, to vice president of operations, and finally to the position of executive vice president. Doubleday started his career with Arthur Andersen & Co., as an auditor. He received a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Rockhurst College in Kansas City, Missouri.
Chuck Silber - Chief Operating Officer
Chuck joined NewTek in March of 2008, after a successful tenure at Avid Technology. Chuck is responsible for driving and managing the strategic growth of NewTek's reseller channel, developing and enhancing the company's sales organization, and increasing revenue in its core video and 3D animation businesses. As vice president of sales and service operations at Avid Technology, Chuck managed a $280 million per year sales and professional services organization, including a direct sales force of more than 50, a service organization of more than 200, and a reseller network of more than 100 companies. He played an integral role in negotiating $10 million+ contracts with major broadcast networks, including NBC, CBS, ABC/Disney, and Turner Broadcasting. Chuck began his career in digital media at MicroTech Solutions, where he rose to the post of vice president of sales, before his departure in 2000.
Philip Nelson - Chief Relationship Officer
Philip oversees the cultivation of strategic customer relationships across all markets and is the champion for NewTek corporate culture. Nelson also leads NewTek's social media efforts. Beginning as a sales rep in 1998, Nelson has been promoted several times; first as central sales manager, then east coast sales manager, director of worldwide sales, vice president of sales and video marketing, SVP of Artist & Media Relations and finally Chief Relationship Officer, where he is a driving force in increasing sales and market share. Nelson has overseen numerous product launches, including TriCaster™, VT[4]™ (Video Toaster) and SpeedEDIT™. At NewTek, Nelson has forged successful relationships with the NBA, NFL, Disney, ESPN, Fox Sports, and MTV. Prior to joining NewTek, Nelson was an entrepreneur, focusing in video production, post production and ISP. Previous clients included Phil Robertson's Duck Commander, Tim McGraw, San Antonio Spurs, The Smithereens, MTV, Coca-Cola and Georgia Pacific.
Pat Grogan - Senior Vice President of Operations
Pat Grogan oversees day-to-day operations of the company including human resources, shipping and receiving, purchasing, facility management, and customer support services. Pat has been a key member of the NewTek organization since the company's relocation to San Antonio, in 1997. He joined NewTek as director of education and training, and has served in a number of roles at NewTek, including sales management and director of operations. Prior to joining NewTek, he spent 18 years at Washburn University in Topeka, as producer/director, media center director, and faculty member. He was active in video production, and produced and hosted many different TV programs for Washburn Cable Television. In conjunction with NewTek, he established the first NewTek Authorized Video Toaster® Training Center on the campus at Washburn University. Pat Grogan holds a Bachelors degree in Radio & Television Production from Washburn University, and a Masters in Educational Technology from Kansas State University.
Scott Gentry - Vice President Marketing Communications
Scott Gentry is responsible for NewTek's worldwide marketing communications and global brand image. He drives the company's corporate and product positioning, branding and identity, public relations and social media efforts to ensure continued customer and worldwide growth in market position.
Prior to joining NewTek, Gentry was founder and CEO of ProVideo Coalition and held a range of executive-level positions in the media industry including DV Magazine, Film & Video, CableWorld, CableFax, and AV Video. He was show director for DV Expo and a founder of StudioDaily.com. His relationship with NewTek started over 25 years ago with the Video Toaster at his automotive-focused production company. He has also worked for ABC Sports, "All My Children," and the NFL's New York Jets and New York Giants.
Michael Kornet - Executive Vice President of Business Development
Michael is responsible for identifying and implementing strategy that leverages the combined strength of NewTek's user-base and partner ecosystem, to build new revenue streams. Most recently, he led the marketing group as Chief Marketing Officer, overseeing all marketing efforts and executing NewTek's growth strategy. Before accepting the CMO position, he was the vice president of business development, forging partnerships with other technology leaders, like AMD, Apple, Intel, Microsoft, and others. He also created the OEM products division, and developed strategic vertical markets for NewTek product lines. Michael joined NewTek in 2002 and was previously Replay TV's vice president of business development for media, where he helped secure Series B financing, and forged Replay TV's strategic agreements and relationships. Prior to Replay TV, Michael was publishing director for the digital video properties of the Entertainment Technology Group at Miller Freeman Inc., and held positions as president of AMG Media and advertising director at Cahners. He is a graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles, and holds elections to Who's Who in California, and Who's Who in Advertising.
Rex Olson - Vice President of Media Production
Rex Olson oversees the planning and production of marketing video content, trade show presentations and corporate webcasts. His previous position was Vice President of Content Development. Prior to joining NewTek, Rex was owner of Desktop Images a producer and publisher of video training products for digital video production and 3D animation software. Rex was also owner of RAVE Video Production Facilities, a full service video production facility based in Burbank, California. Rex began his professional career in marketing support at Warner Bros Records later moving into live multi-track mobile recording at Tim Pinch Recording and Walley Heider Recording both as audio engineer and remote department manager.
Don Ballance - VP of Training Development – Worldwide
Don Ballance manages the worldwide training group responsible for TriCaster and 3Play certification and curriculum, and also serves as the dean of NewTek University, a comprehensive training course for NewTek resellers. Throughout the company, Don is best known for his unique ability to enthusiastically explain video technology in a way that everyone can understand. That talent has served him well in his current training role and as a presenter at many major tradeshows.
His video career began in 1986, and Don has been part of the NewTek family since 1990. Throughout his tenure with the company, he has held positions as a product manager, sales rep, sales engineer, and developer. Not surprisingly, Don also served in several product-training roles throughout the company before his current position.
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Rob Powers is the President of the NewTek LightWave Group and leads the LightWave 3D software development design. Powers was one of the original "Malibu Five" Avatar concept design team and the first CG artist to join James Cameron's team as Animation Technical Director for the film. Powers was a key team member during the development of the virtual workflows used by Cameron and created the industry's first Virtual Art Department (VAD) for "Avatar." Powers was also the Los Angeles based Virtual Art Department Supervisor for Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson's animated film "Tintin" based on the world famous graphic novels by artist Hergé.
Powers is a graduate of the University of Southern California Cinema Production. After graduation, he continued his formal film school education at the American Film Institute. At the time, the digital side of filmmaking didn't exist and no schools offered programs in computer graphics (CG) animation. Self-taught in digital filmmaking methodologies, Powers is among the pioneers of the CG revolution. He has created animation and effects for a wide range of projects such as James Cameron's stereoscopic IMAX film "Aliens of the Deep," Disney's "Honey I Shrunk the Kids", and Jet Li's "The One." Powers was also the lead animator for the 3D-dancing baby and animated tongues and exploding heads that debuted on the Emmy-Award winning "Ally McBeal" television show in the mid-90s.


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My Mother threw me an Over-The-Top-Baby Shower at the Opera House in Vacaville, CA.
It was a splendid event that included the greatest baby shower theme of all, VIA STORK EXPRESS AIRLINES. There were over 80 guests that attended the shower and it was such a magical day.
Upon arrival the guests had to check-in and sign the guest-book. Then they would receive their ticket (games for the day) a luggage tag (favor) and gate information.
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Once passengers got to their seats and asked to be remained seated, an announcement was made to let them know which gate would be departing first. (so that guests could enjoy the buffet without a long line)
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ANAHEIM – Emily Van Gorder will be nervous on two fronts when she sings the national anthem at a Ducks game next month.
Not only will she sing in front of about 15,000 people at Honda Center, she will do so more than eight months pregnant.
Van Gorder, 26, from Garden Grove, beat out nine other finalists to win the second annual "Oh Say Can You Sing?" contest to sing the anthem on Fan Appreciation Night at the Ducks-Edmonton game on April 11. (Watch video of Van Gorder and the other contestants singing.)
"It's kind of surreal," Van Gorder said. "It's just wonderful everybody voted for me as much as they did. Any opportunity to perform, I'm happy to do, so I'm very excited to be here."
In hockey parlance, Van Gorder won in overtime against Jordan Kelley, 20, of Laguna Niguel as the seven-person panel was deadlocked and asked the two to sing again.
Van Gorder also won a trip to Edmonton and two tickets to the Ducks-Oilers game on March 26, although she doesn't know how she will be able to fly while pregnant.
"We'll figure that out," she said.
More than 70 singers applied online. The top 10 finalists were composed of the top five vote getters and five picks from the judges.


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The Lexington City Human Relations Commission will host an information session on the Affordable Healthcare Act from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall, 28 W. Center St. A representative from Parrott Insurance and Benefits will conduct the session.
Former Duracell employees will meet for breakfast at Southern Lunch, at 8 a.m. Tuesday,.
The Music & Movement program will be offered at the J. Smith Young YMCA from 9 to 11 a.m. each Tuesday and Thursday from Nov. 5 to Nov. 11. The program provides an opportunity for children to laugh and play all while growing intellectually, emotionally, and socially. Parents can stay or leave the YMCA during the program. Activities will include singing, dancing, active games, story time and free play. The cost is $10 registration fee and $30 members; $50 non-members. Contact the Y for more info 249-2177.
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A few months before his death, Mozart composed La Clemenza di Tito (The Clemency of Titus), an opera seria, a genre he had not gone in for since Idomeneo. Though much of the music he wrote for La Clemenza di Tito rates as some of his very best, the work was long overshadowed by his other great masterpieces. After Così fan tutte, with which chief conductor Ludovic Morlot rounded off the last La Monnaie season, he is now about to wield the baton in another Mozart opera. A conversation about the place of La Clemenza di Tito in Mozart's oeuvre, about the moral implications of the subject and about the need for ever-new versions of repertoire pieces.
At the end of last season you conducted Così fan tutte and in October you are returning for La Clemenza di Tito. Does this say something about the place Mozart occupies in your life?
Mozart is indeed very much a part of my life! I am passionately fond of the music of the second half of the eighteenth century, Haydn's symphonic music, for example, but when it comes to opera, Mozart takes pride of place. There are of course great differences in his lyrical oeuvre, but at the same time there are so many parallels between his operas and his instrumental music, whether symphonies or chamber music. You cannot really get to grips with his operas without knowing his instrumental music, and vice versa. When interpreting his instrumental music I also try to visualize characters for each of the themes, for each of the tonalities, the tempi… There are numerous links between all those genres. But Mozart was first and foremost a theatre man and so it is most definitely the operas that contain his greatest achievements.
Is the transition from Così fan tutte to La Clemenza di Tito a big one?
You can't really compare the two. La Clemenza di Tito is often criticized because it is an opera seria, but that doesn't make the work any less interesting. Perhaps La Clemenza di Tito is slightly less homogenous than the operas Mozart produced in association with Da Ponte, Così fan tutte being the apotheosis. This could be explained by the fact that several people worked on the text and on the music of La Clemenza di Tito – the libretto by Metastasio was adapted by Mazzolà and the recitatives were not written by Mozart himself. However, I do think this criticism of La Clemenza di Tito is unfounded because the music is magnificent. You can draw more parallels with Die Zauberflöte than with Così fan tutte, as for example we see in the two similar tonal extremities C major and E-flat, but also in a number of melodic and rhythmic elements which are the apotheosis of Mozart's writing. La Clemenza di Tito and Die Zauberflöte were composed in the same period, so of course there are parallels, but you find them even in his religious music. What I believe makes La Clemenza di Tito special is the vocal casting, which is quite unusual. The tenor has the lead role, which had never been the case before, and the structure of the opera also contains many innovations.
And yet Clemenza di Tito was long regarded as one of Mozart's lesser works. What are your thoughts on that?
I definitely think that this score is up to Mozart's usual standard. Admittedly, the harmonic development is less coherent and the succession of the numbers may lack the fluency of the Da Ponte trilogy, but each number is a little gem in its own right! In La Clemenza di Tito I see a melodic genius at work: the basset horn's sublime accompaniment in Sesto's aria and the brilliant overture are just a couple of examples…
The recitatives are often criticized too. We know that they were composed not by Mozart but probably by his pupil Süssmeyer. Are they really not on a par with Mozart's other operas?
I am not shocked at all by these recitatives. They sound completely natural to me, even when I hear them out of context. Recitatives were composed in a fairly standardized way in that period. Many other composers set the same libretto to music and there are clear parallels between their recitatives and those of Mozart in La Clemenza di Tito. They may differ somewhat in terms of tonalities, but in principle they are on a par.
How did Mozart flesh out the characters?
In Tito we have one of Mozart's finest characters. What humility, what beauty, what nobility! I love the wisdom with which he first distances himself from Berenice, then decides to marry Servilia but steps aside on learning that she in love with Annio and he continues in the same spirit right up to his final forgiveness of Sesto and Vitellia. Some regard this as weakness of character, but I think he's the strongest person in this work and Mozart gives him some wonderful arias. Vitellia also proves to be a forceful character, but in a very different way from Tito: she never holds up a mirror to herself, never examines her innermost feelings, except in her last rondo. Until that point, her role is very direct, almost aggressive. Mozart takes a great interest in her, developing her part with great virtuosity – comparable with Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte – and giving her a powerful scenic presence from the very first scene. Sesto is rather more in the background. You feel a constant reserve in him, an inhibition because he doesn't want to betray his feelings for the various characters – particularly Tito. He is a very sensitive character with great inner strength, but without Vitellia's explosivity or virility. Compared to her he is more feminine, whereas she acts with masculine decisiveness and vigour: in a sense the male/female karma is reversed in this couple. Annio is another very interesting character, because of the timbre, because of the musical notation which is very expressive in its simplicity. Musically his beloved Servilia is portrayed with great purity with, for instance, a gem of a love duet. On a musical level, the prefect Publio is probably the least interesting character or at any rate the most traditional, but he is of course key to the story. Mozart gives him less lyrical beauty and his position as a strict upholder of the law finds a parallel in the traditional musical form of his role. You could see him as a sort of Don Alfonso, a 'link person' with a noble reputation who is increasingly beset by circumstances…
And what do these characters have to tell us today?
The message of La Clemenza di Tito goes much further than the conscience of a political leader. It could even be seen in the context of the father of a family, or of anyone in a position of power. I think that message is very topical, however difficult it may be to follow: steer clear of difficult events and always be noble-minded! I identify very strongly with this philosophy. Forgiveness is not only important because of the effect it has on those around you, but it is also a victory in the search for oneself.
The previous production of this opera is stamped on the memory of many. Do you see this as a difficulty?
We are not looking to make people forget the Herrmann production at La Monnaie, but to add something new to the interpretation of Mozart. Just because you present a new reading of a work or want to shed new light on it doesn't mean you reject all the previous readings or want to obliterate all memories of past productions. A politically-charged work like Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito must be part of the current La Monnaie season whose dominant theme is revolt and rebellion. I think that there is room for a new reading from a modern-day perspective. There are any number of productions of Così fan tutte, and some of them are very beautiful, but that doesn't mean we should leave it at that and not take any more risks. I have seen many productions of Così fan tutte which I thought were good, but that didn't deter me from tackling a new production with Michael Haneke. One could also come up with totally different interpretations of Pelléas et Mélisande which I conducted at La Monnaie last season. And it not a problem if one recognizes the same points in different productions of the same work: the fact is that we follow a score and you can't just do whatever you like with it. But on the other hand it is not hard to see that those messages can be read in a very different way today compared to thirty years ago. What matters is that we continue to interpret a work. The more variety the better!
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This reflection is taken from my book Pro-Life Reflections for Every Day, which is available for purchase at: ProLifeReflectionsForEveryDay.org.
"In this way democracy, contradicting its own principles effectively moves towards a form of totalitarianism. The State is no longer the "common home" where all can live together on the basis of principles of fundamental equality, but is transformed into a tyrant State, which arrogates to itself the right to dispose of the life of the weakest and most defenseless members" (John Paul II, The Gospel of Life, n.20).
Reflection: Some see laws permitting abortion as a minor flaw; the Pope is saying here that they change the very nature of the state.
Prayer: Lord, free us from the tyranny of governments that think they can dispose of human life. Amen.


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If one thing has become crystal clear during the 2009 Interleague Play schedule, besides the fact that the Twins can win on the road when playing the NL, it is that starting pitcher Glen Perkins cannot hit. He goes up to the plate, takes a few feeble waves, and (in nearly every occasion past, present, or future) goes back to prepare for the next inning on the mound.
That didn't matter tonight, however, as Perkins was brilliant for seven innings, holding the Cardinals to just four hits and one earned run. He didn't strike many batters out (3), but nobody really hit anything hard off of him, either. The bullpen then shut the door from that point. Guerrier struggled a bit in the eighth, but with one out Gardy summoned Jose Mijares, who proceeded to throw one pitch, get the double play, and get back in the dugout.
The offense left a few men on base again tonight, but two-hit games from Kubel and Cuddyer proved to be enough.
Perhaps the most telling stat, though, is that Albert Pujols was just 1-4 on the night, and whiffed against Joe Nathan in the final frame.
-At one point, a camera showed former Twin Dennys Reyes warming up in the bullpen. My first thought was, "Geesh, that's the ugliest guy I've ever seen"…
But then, Ryan Franklin was brought in for the top of the ninth…
I rest my case.
Preview (38-37, 2nd, 4.0 GB DET): Kevin Slowey (10-2, 4.04) vs. Todd Wellemeyer (6-7, 5.53). Though still a bit of a long-shot, Slowey might just be pitching himself into All-Star consideration. He doesn't have the dominating ERA, but a win tomorrow would give him the AL-lead in that category. Of course, I remember a year or two ago that Kyle Lohse (for the Cards) was something like 12-2 at the break with a similar ERA and didn't make the Midsummer Classic. However, if a few guys picked by the managers fall ill or have other conflicts, you just never know.


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NLG Letter to the U.S. Department of Education Regarding the Chilling of Student Speech
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The National Lawyers Guild recently sent a delegation to Guatemala to observe the precedent-setting genocide trial of U.S.-supported military dictator Jose Efrain Rios Montt and his advisor Jose Mauricio Rodriguez Sanchez. In the wake of uncertainty over whether the trial would continue after widely criticized procedural developments over the last few weeks, we were pleased that the U.S. dispatched Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues Stephen Rapp to Guatemala to signal the importance of upholding the rule of law.
The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) urges the Federal Bureau of Investigation to respect the political asylum status of Assata Shakur (a.k.a. Joanne Chesimard). The FBI has designated the 65-year old former Black Panther Party member a "terrorist" and increased the bounty for her capture from $1 million to $2 million.
The National Lawyers Guild joins Richard Falk, professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University and special rapporteur to the United Nations, in calling for an investigation into the causes of acts of terrorism directed at the United States.
Calls for adherence to federal presentment statute and to afford Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Miranda rights.
A delegation of National Lawyers Guild (NLG) election monitors visited polling sites in five Venezuelan states on April 14 and found that the Venezuelan presidential election process was fair, transparent, participatory, and well-organized.
If ever there were a moment to act upon the promise you made over four years ago to shutter the prison, it is now.
H.R. 944 would grant eligibility for relief from deportation and permanent residency status to any Venezuelan who entered the U.S. from the day Hugo Chavez was elected president of Venezuela until the day before he died.
The "Leahy Law" prohibits the United States from sending aid to security forces that commit "gross violations of human rights." Israel is not exempt from this rule.
March 6, 2013
Dear Acting President Maduro and the people of Venezuela,
The National Lawyers Guild expresses our deep condolences for the loss of President Chavez. We were heartened to witness his impressive election victory five months ago.