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45 minutes into our interview with Tim Woodley, head of global brand for 505 Games, and indeed he had not mentioned the franchise on which the publisher had made its name.
It's been two years of almost constant change for 505. It was once best known for those Mama games, plus a certain Zumba title, but today it is topping the charts with shooter Payday 2 and winning over Xbox fans with thought-provoking digital-only game, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons.
"When I first joined the company five years ago, 90 per cent of our content was on Nintendo's formats," says Woodley. "The first thing I had to do was move the company away from that melting iceberg and onto the high-definition consoles.
"And with limited resource and funds, that spawned IL-2 Sturmovik and Naughty Bear. Both were very profitable for us, because we made clever deals and sold half a million units worldwide. To the outside world that may not look impressive, but for us it's all about the bottom line."
"We have reinvented ourselves pretty much every year."
Small and mid-sized publishers have suffered over the last four years, squeezed out due to the dramatic changes in market dynamics. 505 Games hasn't been one of them.
"One of the things we have done quite successfully over the last few years is reinvent ourselves pretty much every year," says Woodley. "We look at the market and where we are, and we try to adapt."
Much of 505's recent success has been due to its flexibility and its ability to spot opportunities, but there's been an element of luck, too.
Woodley helped lead 505 Games from Cooking Mama to HD titles, but it was the incredible success of Zumba Fitness that gave the firm the financial impetus it needed to push on. And that was a phenomenon that almost didn't happen.
"We picked up Zumba initially just because we didn't have any Kinect launch titles, and we thought that would be an interesting opportunity," recalls Woodley.
"We kind of disregarded the Wii SKU for a long time, for no other reason than retail was telling us that Wii was dead that Christmas. So we decided to put the Wii SKU out later, and maybe as an online exclusive. But then Amazon and other online retailers were phoning us up saying: 'We've had a couple of thousand pre-orders for this Wii SKU'. So we started to support it a bit more, and by the time it launched in the UK, we had 46,000 pre-orders."
What followed was yet another transition for 505 Games. It partnered with Rebellion to launch Sniper Elite V2, a game that had big competition in the form of City Interactive's Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2, but 505 held its own. And Sniper Elite V2 became the firm's first million-seller.
Now the company has similar targets for Payday 2.
"We got together with Payday developer Overkill in E3 2012. And it was a meeting of minds really, because Overkill was looking for the right kind of publisher to give them the attention and freedom they felt they deserved.
"All too often publishers tend to interfere too much. We are really just there to facilitate, encourage, finance and to make sure that their message is amplified to the world."
And Woodley believes the team at 505 Games is one of the most capable units in doing this, which is why it has managed to partner with these developers.
"We can stand toe-to-toe with anyone in the market in terms of sales and marketing and so forth. We have a hell of a lot of experience and veterans from rival publishers that have come to 505 almost as an antidote to that bureaucracy."
"We are launching Terraria in a box because we think the lack
of digital uptake in France, Germany etc is prohibiting sales."
Payday 2 was another moment of transition for 505. It marked the first time it launched a hybrid title – a game released physically and digitally at the same time.
"The difficulty for us is: How many units in that scenario do you sell into retail? We didn't know how much cannibalisation would happen," continues Woodley.
"The first Payday was a PSN hit, so we knew that PS3 would probably get the greater share of downloads versus retail. But we didn't really know how many we should sell into Wal-Mart, GAME or Micromania.
"It varies from territory to territory. Different markets have different digital acceptance, and that changes the further south you go in Europe. With the US we knew that Steam would take a large share of PC sales. But in Southern Europe it is a much more retail environment.
"We're actually launching [download game] Terraria in a box in September, because we think the lack of digital uptake in France, Germany, Spain and Italy, is prohibiting sales.
"Terraria has done incredibly well via digital, but mostly in North America. The game has done 110,000 in Japan so we have had our first Japanese hit, which is great. But we put that in a box, and most of those sales were at retail. We think the same thing is happening in mainland Europe, where people are more comfortable with boxes."
"It is that flexibility, that speedboat against the oil tanker,
that means we are still here today."
Terraria, released earlier this year, was another new experience for the team at 505 Games: an indie title, originally released for PC that the firm made a hit on XBLA and PSN.
It was the success of Terraria that gave the company the confidence to launch Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons. The Starbreeze-developed game has won huge critical plaudits (Peter Molyneux even visited 505's E3 room to play the game) and has held the No.3 position in the XBLA charts since its debut.
This is the 505 Games of today. Not just that Cooking Mama firm, but the publisher of a string of IP, from big shooters such as Sniper Elite and Payday, to artistic, digital games like Terraria and Beyond.
It has managed to survive in an industry that, according to the analysts, has no room for the likes of 505 Games.
Says Woodley: "We never give ourselves these arbitrary targets because we don't have to. It's not like we have to show quarter-on-quarter or year-on-year growth.
"We don't want to go backwards. But we do talk a lot about sustainable, profitable business. It's really about having stability within the company and making sure you're not growing unnecessarily and then having to shrink when the times get tough. That's the hallmark of what is ultimately still a family business."
It may not be growing unnecessarily, but 505 is still investing. It opened a separate free-to-play division in the company, it's partnering with Kickstarter project Takedown and it's moving onto next-gen consoles – albeit tentatively – with Sniper Elite V3.
"Our next-gen strategy is to wait and see what happens. Hopefully we can come out within the launch period of Xbox One and PS4, establish a presence as the first sniping franchise in the next-generation, then build on that as the install base grows. That's about as close to strategic as we get, because we like to remain flexible.
505 Games is a company built on being able to change quickly. From kids titles to Xbox 360 shooters to Facebook games to digital download to next-gen. This is a company that doesn't stick rigidly to a plan, but can be alter its trajectory quickly, something that's crucial to surviving an industry that has a habit of doing just that.
"One of the first meetings I had when I joined 505 Games was with our senior management in Milan," concludes Woodley.
I went to present my overall thinking for the strategic direction of the company. They listened very attentively as I revealed five basic strategies that we needed to do, and I went through each one, and one of the CEOs said: "That's very well Tim, but there is a sixth strategy. We must be flexible." And he was absolutely right. And from that moment onwards flexibility has been one of our key, corporate, strategic mantras.
"It is that flexibility, that speedboat against the oil tanker message, that means we are still here today. We haven't stood still, we haven't stayed resolute to one path.
"It is all about learning lessons really, and capturing those lessons and applying them to the future. And that is why we are still here."
For all the success 505 Games has had recently, one of the big disappointments has been with its official Ashes cricket tie-in.
The game was due to arrive before the iconic Australia vs England cricket series, which kicked off in the UK this summer. But it never appeared.
Fortunately for 505 Games, the Ashes returns – earlier than usual – this Winter in Australia. And the firm will now release the title to tie-in with that. But what exactly was the hold up?
"For all the successes, there are some titles that are more challenging than others," says 505 Games' head of global brand Tim Woodley.
"We had issues with The Ashes' engine. When we were developing it the game was looking great, everything was going well, it was running well on PC. But in the early stages of the year we tried porting it to console and it suffered all sorts of memory leaks that we spent three to four months trying to fix.
"And then we ran out of time because all the time we were meant to be bug fixing and polishing and balancing, was taken up trying to work around the failings of the engine.
"It was one of the most difficult things we have had to do, because we never like to let licensors down and miss opportunities. I had to sit down throughout the summer, hearing about the Ashes, and looking at the money we were not making. It was a tough one to swallow. But we have to be pragmatic, and make sure we take all the opportunities we can. We are luck that it is a double Ashes year and we have that second bite at the cherry so to speak, and there is as much opportunity in Australia as there is in the UK – if not more so."


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MINNEAPOLIS -- Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said he was trying to find more playing time for utility infielder Eduardo Escobar, who has been the club's hottest hitter so far this season in a backup role.
Escobar was hitting .483 (14-for-29) entering Sunday's game against the Rangers, when he started at shortstop to mark the first time this season he started on back-to-back days.
Escobar, who was acquired along with Pedro Hernandez in the trade that sent Francisco Liriano to the White Sox before last year's Trade Deadline, went 2-for-4 while playing third base Saturday.
"He's playing high school baseball," Gardenhire joked. "He's doing great. That's why I ran him back out there again today to find another spot for him. He's swinging it really good. You never know how long you're going to stay on that surfboard before someone knocks you off. So you just ride it and go from there."
Gardenhire added he was been pleasantly surprised by Escobar's power, as Escobar had a homer, a triple and a double entering Sunday's game, and he flied out to the warning track in center field Saturday.
"He's got some pop," Gardenhire said. "It's surprising. And he has a cannon for an arm. He's a nice player. There's a reason why we got him in that trade, and he's showing us why."
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I'm doing a computing competition at my university and I'm having a little trouble with casting floats to ints with accuracy. For example, one question essentially asks us to calculate the distance between two co-ordinates then divide it by 0.1 and round down to the nearest integer. Seems simple enough but casting the floats to ints loses some precision. Consider this code:
float dis = calc_distance(a,b);
int answer = (int)(dis * 10);
std::cout << dis << ", " << answer << std::endl;
Now this code seems fine but occasionally gives output similar to the following:
2.1, 20
Obviously the 20 should be 21 and this is the problem. I've tried chaging the code to:
float dis = calc_distance(a,b);
int answer = (int)(dis * 10.0000001);
std::cout << dis << ", " << answer << std::endl;
This allows for a small amount of rounding error for the floats and solves almost all the problems but I still get the rare case where it doesn't work.
The competition requires that your answers are perfect so a difference in 1 in the answer will result in a mark of 0. Does anyone have any concrete ways of converting floats to ints accurately?
Thanks in advance
Wouldn't it be considered as cheating if you asked solutions here?
However.. (int) does truncate a float instead of rounding it to nearest.
Wouldn't it be considered as cheating if you asked solutions here? However.. (int) does truncate a float instead of rounding it to nearest.
The competition isn't for a couple of weeks. This was just one of the practice questions that I couldn't do because of this floating point precision. The actual question was to do with finding minimum spanning trees in a graph, this was just a presentation part which I thought would be rather trivial compared to the 'actual' problem.
Consider this code:
float f;
cin >> f;
cout << (int)(f*10) << endl;
Try entering 2.1 as f. You'll notice that the output is 20 and not 21. I know it's because the result of f*10 will end up as something like 20.9999999 instead of 21 but the question is; how can I get this to output 21?
Try adding 0.5 to the floating point number before converting to int. The truncation will cause it to be rounded to the correct value. For instance your 20.9 will become 21.4 and be truncated down to 21. This is a pretty standard trick :yes:
The question requires it to be rounded down not rounded. Truncating is what I want, it's just that floating point math doesn't give me the right number to truncate. So if the actual value is (should be) 20.9 then I want 20 as the output. The problem is that when you do 2.1 * 10 it comes out as 20.99999 instead of 21 and then the truncation will give me 20 instead of 21.
The problem I guess is not the rounding/truncating more the floating point math being a little off causing the truncation to be wrong.
btw, I knew about the 0.5 trick :happy:
Hmm. I think the problem as you have stated it is a bit ill-conditioned. At what point do you want there to be a cutoff? Floating point math isn't going to be exact, so how much of a margin of error do you want to allow? I would suggest adding some epsilon to the numbers. Or, you could write a rational number class for exact math within the range of integer numerators and denominators.
Well the problem you see is that we don't know how precise they need to be. I'll try and summarise that paricular question:
You're given a list of decimal coordinates from and input text file. The task is to find the minimum spanning tree between those points with the weight of each edge equal to the distance between the points. Your ouput is to be a single number giving the total length of the tree in units of 0.1 with each edge length rounded down.
So an input file could look like this: 1.0 2.0 1.5 1.5 2.3 3.6
We're not actually shown the input file(s) but instead just shown some sample data that was like the one above. In the actual file there could be an arbitrary number of digits after the decimal point so you see we don't actually know how precise it must be. In any case, once you use Pythagoras' theorem to find the distances you'll probably end up with some nasty irrational numbers.
I tried multiplying the numbers by 10.000001 in an effort to try and stop the numbers from going just under and it worked for most cases except there was one case were it didn't work. I tried different epsilons but they either made it worse or just the same.
I considered making a fraction data type as you suggested but once I get the square root it will just become irrational so it wouldn't help.
Shouldn't the second line be:
int answer = (int)(dis * 10.0f);
instead, so both operands are floats?
I'm not sure when the compiler converts a float to an int (personally, for clarity and just for being on the safe side i always use floats for floating point operations and the ".0f" postfix for floating point numbers ). However your example makes me think that the compiler converts the "dis" to an integer and then it multiplies it with 10 (using a plain "10" in C++ implies "int" - you need to use the dot and "f" for float, or dot without "f" for double).
Again, i'm not sure. I never formally read any C++ book or reference. I just empirically learned the language....
I'm pretty sure that when you use two different data types like that eg. int*float or float*double etc. then it converts them to the highest precision type, so the int will get converted to a float and a float would get converted to a double.
In any case, it still doesn't work
@Bad Sector
Then maybe you shouldn't give such advice as you're just plain wrong :lol:. As poita pointed out, primitives will get convered using the following chain: int -> long -> float -> double. Char and short types will first be promoted to int before doing any calculations.
Note that this isn't necessarily the "highest precision type" as a typical 32 bits int holds more precision than a single precision float (which has only 24 bits of precision) . Same goes for a 64 bits long (or long long) vs. double.
I'm not sure when the compiler converts a float to an int (personally, for clarity and just for being on the safe side i always use floats for floating point operations and the ".0f" postfix for floating point numbers ).
As other said, it's a matter of knowing about promotion rules. Plus that '0' is redundant in your postfix, e.g. '1.f', '.1f'. And a single precision IEEE754 fp can exactly represent any integer up to 1\<\<24, and then powers of 2. On the other hand, it's really a bad idea to use .1f or multiples as, say, an increment as it cannot be exactly represented.
Back to the original question, when i see "The competition requires that your answers are perfect" and fp in the same sentence my advice would be to stop coding, get a lawyer, sue them and claim the prize. In that case, the lawyer doesn't even have to be good.
my advice would be to stop coding, get a lawyer, sue them and claim the prize. In that case, the lawyer doesn't even have to be good.
Hahaha, my thoughts exactly. I did complain very loudly when my program was tested with hundreds of different inputs only to find that my answer was off by 1 in one of the questions. Clearly my minimum spanning tree algorithm was correct and the stupid @#&#\\$! floats were costing me the mark. The most annoying thing is that you either get 100% or 0% so because of a very small rounding error I got no credit.
Well, why do you think it's an error? If they say you must truncate results, then something like 0.9999999999999 truncated down to zero is _the correct_ answer. If this is not what they want, they have certainly ill-defined the problem as reedbeta said.
'ceil' and 'floor' do rounding up and down 'precision' will allow you to set the precision of the cout stream you could do precision(2) to get the corrent number of digits
The point is that 0.9999999999999 wasn't the correct answer in the first place. It should have been 1.000000000000 :lol:
As .oisyn said, 0.99999 isn't the correct input, it should've been 1.00000 and then the correct answer should be 1.
To illustrate the point:
float f=2.1;
cout << (int)(f*10) << endl; // Prints 20!
If you can find any way of making this print 21 instead of 20 then let me know (Don't you dare say "cout \<\< 21 \<\< endl;")
My guess:
Aftermath: i know it's terrible =)
The point is that 0.9999999999999 wasn't the correct answer in the first place. It should have been 1.000000000000
And should 0.9 be 1.0 too? You can't really tell if it's an infinite series or not so one should decide wanted precision at first. 0.99999 can be rounded to 1.0 only when significant decimal count is known.
I guess this could be done by using the maximum precision by using some bit-trickery and getting out the exponent of the floating point representation of a value and adding 1eExponent to that value then.
I don't think the approach should be to work with rounded numbers, but rather with exact numbers. The input are digits from text so you have finite precision, perfectly representable by rational numbers. The problem was square roots were hard to do on rational numbers. But converting it to float will not be a problem if the square root is the last calculation you'll do, as whole numbers can be represented exactly by floats and doubles (well, as long as their precision is within respectively 24 and 53 bits) - you'll throw away the bits after the decimal dot anyway.
trunc(sqrt(x) / 0.1) = trunc(sqrt(x) / sqrt(0.01)) = trunc(sqrt(x / 0.01))
In your example, if the 2.1 was the result of squarerooting 4.41 (also unrepresentable by float), you would avoid the problem if you have 4.41 represented as a rational number: 441/100. Dividing by 0.01 gives the rational number 441. The square root of 441.f is 21.f. Truncating will reveal 21.
You'll never get into trouble because the bordercase lies on the whole number. But if the result of a squareroot is a whole number, it's square is also a whole number and thus representable by a float or double.
float f=2.1;
cout << (int)(f*10) << endl; // Prints 20!
If you can find any way of making this print 21 instead of 20 then let me know (Don't you dare say "cout \<\< 21 \<\< endl;")
struct evil_t {
float f;
evil_t(const float a): f(a) {}
float operator *(const evil_t rhs) const { return f*rhs.f + .5f; }
#define float evil_t
float f=2.1;
std::cout << (int)(f*10) << std::endl; // Prints 20!
Me? A cheater? Anyway the right anwser was and always is, 42.


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- Date: September 17, 2013 PIO Number: 13-9-20
The Broward Sheriff's Office will encourage kids to draw out their feelings about peace and nonviolence in chalk during the Dare2Care/Chalk4Peace event.
2 p.m. – 4 p.m., Friday, September 20, 2013
C.W. Thomas Park
800 N.W. 2 St., Dania Beach
BSO school resource deputies and community policing units have engaged students from Collins Middle School and Olsen Middle School in Dania Beach to participate in the Dare2Care/Chalk4Peace event.
The Chalk4Peace is a sidewalk chalk painting festival which happens worldwide every September. It is a way to spread messages of inspiration and visions for a more peaceful community. The idea is to express messages of peace, tolerance and anti-bullying with plain, old sidewalk chalk on sidewalks, driveways and parking lots.
The art project will take place on the C.W. Thomas Park's basketball courts. Seventy-five children are expected to attend. This powerful and moving event will include several students reading essays about why they think peace is important. Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue will be participating.
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Do you live in a dangerous state?
The thought may never have crossed your mind. Most of us tend to associate danger with rough neighborhoods, treacherous traffic and icy mountain passes, not borders on a map.
But a new report, "Facts Hurt: A State-By-State Injury Prevention Policy Report," published by the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, attempts to change our shortsighted view of locality and mortality.
Injuries that result from accidents or violence are the third leading cause of death nationally and the No. 1 killer among the 1-to-44 age group. Each year, 50 million Americans are treated and 2.5 million hospitalized for injuries. Among children and teens, 9.2 million are treated in emergency rooms, and 12,000 die in accidents each year.
State safety laws play a key role in keeping us safe. They range from mandatory seat belts, motorcycle/bicycle helmets and child safety seats to statutes aimed at curbing drunk driving, prescription drug abuse, domestic violence, date assaults, school sports concussions, teen bullying and texting while driving. Collectively, they have an impact on health insurance, homeowners insurance and auto insurance rates.
The "Facts Hurt" partners, along with state safety officials, developed a set of 10 indicators to measure which states are doing the most to keep us safe. The results:
- New York and California registered the highest score of 9 out of 10.
- Maryland, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island and Washington scored 8 out of 10.
- Nearly half the states (24) scored 5 out of 10 or lower.
- Montana and Ohio scored the lowest at 2 out of 10.
Per capita, the western states of New Mexico, Montana, Alaska and Wyoming remain the most dangerous, while New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts and California rank as safest.
As for the uphill climb ahead to save more lives, the report found that:
- 29 states do not require bicycle helmets for all children.
- 17 states do not require child or booster seats to age 8.
- 31 states do not require helmets for all motorcycle riders.
- 34 states and Washington, D.C., do not require mandatory ignition interlocks for convicted drunk drivers.
- 18 states do not have primary seat belt laws.
- 44 states scored a "B" or lower on a teen dating violence law review by the Break the Cycle organization.
- 13 states do not have strong youth sport concussion safety laws.
For more information, see the report at http://www.rwjf.org/publichealth/product.jsp?id=74400.
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Taken together, the two waiting periods would provide the nation's undocumented workers with a path to United States citizenship in 13 years, matching the draft of a plan by President Obama to offer full participation in American democracy to millions who are living in fear of deportation.
The arrangement would shrink the amount of time it takes to become a naturalized citizen, from five years to three years. But in an appeal to Republicans, it would also extend to 10 years, from 8, the amount of time that illegal immigrants must wait before receiving permission to work in the United States permanently.
Such a compromise might give both sides something to crow about: Republicans could argue that they pushed for a longer waiting period before an immigrant could get a green card, which allows its holder to remain and work in the United States indefinitely. Democrats could say that undocumented workers would become citizens faster.
"It is an unusual construction, but it gets them to citizenship in the same time as the administration plan," said Kevin Appleby, the director of migration policy at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. "Most importantly, it eliminates the prospect of a permanent underclass by ensuring that, in time, all will have the opportunity to become Americans."


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Evening Book Club
The Evening Reader's Group will be discussing The Shoemaker's Wife by Adriana Trigiani. The Shoemaker's Wife begins in the Northern Alps in 1905 and follows the lives of Ciro and Eduardo Lazzari, brothers who grew up in a convent because their widowed mother could not care for them. It's also the story of Enza Ravanelli and her big-hearted family whose financial struggles come to a fateful bend in the road when Enza decides to go to America to earn money. She would not know until a chance meeting in New York that Ciro, a boy she kissed and thought never to see again, had also traveled to America to seek his fortune. The Shoemaker's Wife is built around the staggering cultural and social changes the war years swept in. In America, the flood of mostly European immigrants changed the country's look and landscape. Join us for what should be a fascinating read!


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As Seen on TV - Theatre for Social Justice Racism in Local Area High Schools
Leia Crawford and Lindsey Smith
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Kathleen Juhl
This semester, As Seen on TV has gotten on its feet. In the theatre world, putting a play on its feet means giving the actors places to move and the play bodies and voices to go with the written words. For As Seen on TV not only are we on our feet but we are two weeks away from our first performance at Stony Point High School. Stony Point joins the list of other high schools that include Crockett and McNeil.
Last September a group of approximately 50 people worked together to create a play regarding racism in local area high schools with Fringe Benefits, an educational theater company from Los Angeles that solely deals with social justice issues. Fringe Benefits has been doing work in the area of Theatre for Social Justice for 15 years and have been touring the country the last two years setting up workshops and creating plays. The workshop was made possible in part by grants from the New Generations Program, funded by The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by Theatre Communications Group, the national organization for the American Theatre. Our play was developed from stories and experiences of the people, from both Southwestern and McNeil High School, who attended the workshop. All choices about the play were made by group voting, such as format, content, and scene organization. Most of the scenes were improvised first, so that we would have an idea of how we wanted the scene to end and what we wanted to address.
This semester we began in February with a cast of Southwestern University students. These students memorized the show and performed it for the Round Rock School District teachers during one of their in-service days in late February. The performance was rewarded with a standing ovation. Since then, we have integrated a cast of McNeil High School students with our Southwestern cast to make a show that is truly unique with every rehearsal. The emerging result of having two casts mixed with students from both schools is a play that makes us laugh and also think about the issue of racism.
We knew that our play was going to be meaningful when co-director Aaron Johnson, Southwestern alum and theatre teacher at McNeil, told us a story about how he had to break up a racially charged fight at the high school. Now with the email war on racism at Southwestern, it has become increasingly evident that this issue needs addressing.
Everyone seems to have a story about racism to tell or an example of racism in the media. As Seen on TV draws from many of these stories to create a half hour show that will be followed with an hour of dialogue on racism. How will the show be received? What difference will we make in the Southwestern community as well as the community surrounding us? Hopefully over the next month and a half students and teachers alike will have their minds opened to new ways of thinking about and addressing racism.


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Those who enjoy 50s and 60s era music can hear a potpourri of songs in "The Marvelous Wonderettes," now on stage at Stow Players.
The show, which opened Feb. 1 and is directed by Marc C. Howard, features four young women who sing together, and the four actresses cast do a marvelous job, both with the vocals and bringing their characters to life. The list of songs includes "Lollipop," "Dream Lover," "Stupid Cupid," "Lipstick on Your Collar," "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me," "It's My Party" and "Son of a Preacher Man."
The first half takes place during their senior prom, when the Marvelous Wonderettes are called in to perform in place of the Crooning Crabcakes after their lead singer is suspended from school. The four are thrilled at the chance to perform at such an event, but there are problems backstage, particularly between Betty Jean (played by Cuyahoga Falls resident Chanda Porter) and Cindy Lou (played by Munroe Falls resident Lori Rodeman). The former best friends are feuding over the fact that Betty Jean caught Cindy Lou kissing her boyfriend. Meanwhile, the shy and reserved Missy (played by Twinsburg resident Jennifer Cull) confesses publicly her crush on music teacher Mr. Lee. Suzy (played by Stow resident Shani Ferry) is just thrilled to be pinned by her sweetheart Richie, who operates the lights at the prom.
The second act takes place 10 years later, and their high school reunion. The four are older and wiser, and through music catch up the audience about their lives up to this point. Missy has gained confidence and Mr. Lee as her steady sweetheart. Suzy, meanwhile, has married Richie and is pregnant with their first child but their relationship has hit a rough patch. Betty Jean is contemplating a divorce from her husband, and Cindy Lou has had her own heartbreak with her boyfriend. But old friendships are renewed, and the four come together to support each other.
Michael James, who also designed the costumes for the production, also appears briefly as the school principal.
Cull, a senior at Twinsburg High School, said the play "was the most challenging show I've done."
"It's challenging with just four people, and this is a full-length show," she said.
Cull said she enjoyed the experience.
"I've been in shows with [Howard] before, and all of his shows are fantastic," she said. "It's neat to do a show in a smaller space."
Rodeman said working on this show was "an absolute blast."
"They took all the good 50s and 60s music, and made a great production," Rodeman said.
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"The Marvelous Wonderettes" runs through Feb. 23.
Friday and Saturday performances are at 8 p.m., and there is a Sunday matinee on Feb. 17, at 2:30 p.m.
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A special wine (or soft drinks) and chocolates evening is scheduled for the Feb. 16 performance.
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A man who was practicing his "quick draw" at a friend's home shot himself in the leg, according to a Levy County Sheriff's Office press release.
Deputies said when they responded to a call about a shooting at a home on Northeast 61st Place in Bronson, they found Robert Bishop, 62, had a single gunshot wound in the back of his right calf.
The Levy County Sheriff's Office reports the following arrests:
n July 12, James Devon Baker, 46, Morriston, two counts FTA. Bond $2,500.
n July 10, Jose Angel Barrera, 31, Melbourne, VOP. Bond $5,000.
n July 14, James Bowen, 45, Inglis, disorderly intoxication.
n July 10, Jamie Lee Burton, 39, High Springs, three out of county warrants. Bond $15,000.
n July 15, Salvador Jose Cavillo, 33, Brooker, battery. Bond $10,000.
n July 11, Kimberly A. Childs, 49, Williston, DWLS habitual DUI. Bond $35,000.
Two people who died in an apparent murder/suicide Tuesday afternoon on Northwest 168th Lane in Fanning Springs have been identified by the Levy County Sheriff's Office.
Sheriff's deputies were called to the residence of Genoveva Magnolia Recinos Castillo, 46, by a sobbing female juvenile who told 911 operators that someone had killed her mother.
Based on information from neighbors and the child, officers located Arturo Ranferi Zacarias, 26, in a room of his residence across the street. Zacarias appeared to have died from self inflicted wounds.
Michael Pitts, former owner of Pitts Custom Glass, Inc., in Chiefland, faces two felony charges related to a failure to file six tax returns, and four misdemeanor charges of refusing to file returns and and pay taxes.
Pitts, a resident of Ocala, was arrested by the Marion County Sheriff's Office. If convicted he could face up to five years in prison and up to $5,000 in fines and repayment of investigative costs,
The Levy County Sheriff's Office reports the following arrests:
n June 27, Basil Jamaal Buie, 29, Chiefland, two counts FTA.
n June 29, Antonio Martinez-Calero, 29, Williston, no DL. Bond $1,000.
n June 29, Boyd Wayne Chandler, 35, Inglis, out of county warrant. Bond $2,500.
n June 28, Gerald Edward Cook, 48, Williston, possession of drug equipment, disorderly intoxication, obstruction W/OV.
n June 25, Bryan Jacob Crosby, 20, Bronson, two counts grand theft, two counts dealing in stolen property. Bond $60,000.
The Levy County Sheriff's Office is seeking a home invasion suspect who fled from Chiefland where he is suspected of attempting to kick in a door to an occupied residence before fleeing to his hometown of Bronson and eluding officers, according to a Levy County Sheriff's Office press release.
Willie James Ellison Jr., 19, is being sought and anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-877-349-8477. Tipsters could be eligible for a reward.
Levy County Sheriff's Deputy Willie Pete Barnes, a K-9 officer, has been promoted to the rank of corporal in the Patrol Division. Barnes has a long record of distinguished service and an unwavering commitment to excellence in the field of law enforcement, according to the sheriff's office press release.
Last week, Todd Thompson, of Rosewood,made a very unusual discovery. Thompson had just moved to the area and was in the process of cleaning a portion of his property when he noticed two objects that only took only a second to identify; hand grenades.
Everyone has seen them, in movies strapped to soldiers' chests, in pictures of servicemen preparing to depart for battle. But who'd expect to find them in his or her own front yard?
The Levy County Sheriff's Office reports the following arrests:
n June 19, Carrie Megan Berger, 29, Williston, aggravated battery. Bond $2,000.
n June 20, Boyd Iris Chisolm, 52, Chiefland, assault with deadly weapon without intent to kill. Bond $30,000.
n June 22, Peggy Congley, 43, Chiefland, two out of county warrants. Bond $1,000.
n June 23, Samuel Joseph Debolt, 27, Bronson, DWLS. Bond $2,000.
n June 21, Frantisca Ebeth Delpapa, 26, North Vernon, Ind., disorderly intoxication.
Last year, nine people died from boating accidents related to alcohol and drug use in Florida. That represents 13 percent of the state's fatalities for 2011.
"Alcohol- and drug-related boating accidents are preventable," said Capt. Tom Shipp, of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's (FWC) Boating and Waterways Section. "Even one death is too many."
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On the morning of the day of the Apocalypse Willy woke up and made himself bacon and eggs and rye toastHe didn't usually eat bacon, but since today was such a special day, he figured why not,Like most people these days, he had a hard time keeping his food down,But that didn't stop Willy from eating He enjoyed food to much.Willy went outside, he loved to breathe fresh air, but he went outside anywayHe decided to head across the street and visit his good friend Bob.When Willy got to Bob's house, he found that Bob, in utter despair, Had shot himself in the head."Some people have no patience whatsoever" Willy proclaimed,"Well, I'm not going to kill myself, I'm sticking it out, today's a special dayThe last day of planet Earth and I'm going to enjoy myselfMaybe today I won't go to the health spa,Maybe I'll just stay here and drink all of Bob's beerOr maybe when Bob's wife comes home, I'll take her out dancingYeah, that's it! Dancing!!!" I'm going home to get changed Willy raced out the door into the street, not noticing the runaway steamrollerThat flattened him into a pancake in less that one secondThe World would have to end without Willy.
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:lol:Only 4 hours and 25 minutes remaining here. So far so good.
The world ended over ten hours ago but so far I haven't noticed any difference between how things were when we were alive and what things are like now with us dead. Is this supposed to be heaven or is it supposed to be hell?
Now that the world didn't end, Christmas looms with my extended family ... probably hell!
WORST_APOCALYPSE_EVER :mad:
I disagree. The worst apocalypse of the last 50 years would have to be Y2K - because if it were not for the efforts of tens of thousands of programmers who rewrote code over the preceding few years would have actually occurred. Just because the actual crashes after the day were few enough to be fixed before the general public noticed almost everyone not actually involved thinks that it wasn't real. Perhaps we should have let that apocalypse happen and then hardly anyone would know that the Myan calendar just ended.
There are plenty of other apocalypses of the 20th and 21st Centuries that were also at least as bad as this latest one.;);)
The day before, some ppl around me keep talking abt it. lol.
Yah! Totally! ahehehe... People started it when we entered y2k. I guess nobody really knows when it's going to end. It's better to live and enjoy life then worry about when it ends.
I'm afraid that the day was a regular day for me... but then it seemed that there was no apocalyse whatsoever...
I'm sorry for Bob... not only because he killed himself but obviously his good "friend" Willy had something going on with his wife... :shifty:
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To be able to sit an hour in the room (with my choice of music playing) would be awesome, I am sure
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- Markets close early
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On this holiday-shortened week, trading volumes will of course be rather light. The economic data this week include some housing-related reports, but otherwise there won't be a great deal of top-tier economic data. So enjoy the holiday or simply take some time off.
In any case, Wednesday will see data on home prices, Thursday we'll have data on new-home sales and Friday will brings a report on existing-home sales in the form of the pending-home-sales report. Recall that, with the existing-home-sales report from the National Association of Realtors, a home is reported as sold when a contract is closed. By contrast, in the new-home-sales report, the Census Bureau reports a home as sold when a contract is signed -- closing can take a month or two after that, and sometimes not at all. So existing-home-sales data are "better" because cancellations are less of an issue, but the new-home-sales numbers are timelier. The pending-home-sales report attempts to make up for that time delay, though, and reports sales of an existing home when a contract is signed.
Here's what we know. Sales of existing homes rose 5.9% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.04 million in November from the 4.76 million recorded in October, and are 14.5% higher than the 4.4-million-unit pace in November 2011. That's the highest level since November 2009, when the annual pace spiked at 5.44 million.
Lawrence Yun, chief economist for Realtors Group, said, "Momentum continues to build in the housing market from growing jobs and a bursting out of household formation." He added, "With lower rental vacancy rates and rising rents, combined with still historically favorable affordability conditions, more people are buying homes. Areas impacted by Hurricane Sandy show storm-related disruptions but overall activity in the Northeast is up, offset by gains in unaffected areas." I won't disagree with him, as I do see the housing market is powering ahead, but I don't think I've ever heard Yun say much that wasn't upbeat, whether conditions have been good or bad.
But we don't only need to ask someone who sells houses for a living; we can also ask folks who build houses to see improvement in the sector. The National Association of Home Builders' sentiment metric came in slightly more pessimistic than optimistic, but it has posted gains for eight consecutive months since the depths of the recession, when the metric was in the single digits. It's now at 47, just a shade below the threshold of 50 that separates a greater proportion of more optimistic vs. cautious responses to the survey. This number hasn't come in above 50 since April 2006.
As with Realtors, the NAHB emphasizes rising rates of household formation in their forecasts. The NAHB forecasts single-family home production to climb to 534,000 units this year, up 23% from 2011. In the coming year, the NAHB is forecasting that single-family new-home construction will post a 21% gain in 2013 to 647,000 units. While I hesitate to look too far ahead, the NAHB forecasts starts will continue their upward climb in 2014, posting a further 29% rise to 837,000 units.
You could argue that maybe people are renting instead of buying -- and, again, the NAHB forecasts gains in the multi-family market, given new households. Multifamily construction is expected to rise 31% in 2012, reaching 233,000 new units, and a 16% gain is anticipated in 2013 to 270,000 units. As usual, I am hesitant to rely on forecasts as far in advance as 2014 -- but, that said, the group sees multifamily starts rising an additional 9% in 2014 to 294,000 units.
A bit puzzling, however, is why the group expects so many more starts than sales of new homes. Case in point: The NAHB sees new single-family home sales rising from 307,000 last year to 367,000 this year, a gain of 20%. Sales are anticipated to climb to 447,000 in 2013, up 22% from 2012, and a jump to 607,000 is expected in 2014 -- a 36% increase above 2013 levels. Go back and compare these sales figures for the new-home production cited above, and you'll see what I mean. That said, inventory figures are fairly low, so it might make sense to increase housing production more than purchases, so as to allow for greater buyer choices. The market can, after all, tolerate some higher inventory levels.
In the meantime, in the recent report from Realtors, lower inventories of single-family homes probably constituted one of the factors that drove existing-home prices higher. Here we see that the national median existing-home price for all housing types was $180,600 in November, up 10.1% from November 2011. This is the ninth month in a row that saw price gain vs. the prior year. The last time prices rose for this many straight months was during the housing boom, from September 2005 to May 2006.
Of course, the S&P/Case-Shiller Index we receive this week measures repeat sales of the same home, whereas the existing-home-sales report from Realtors measures the midpoint of sales, both nationally and by region. The measure from Realtors can be skewed by the mix of houses sold, so it's not the best measure of the typical homeowner's net-worth situation. Instead, use this week's Case-Shiller data for a better price inflation metric.


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Clack clack clack clack… ping! The sound of a typewriter sweeping across the page, already becoming a faint memory, will soon fall silent as the mass manufacturing of this technology ends in the UK. Typewriters are iconic machines and have served as the tool of communication over the last 130 years. Whether it's the legacy of the Beat generation of authors; William Burroughs or Jack Kerouac capturing post-war America on the page, or images of secretaries fiercely typing away, the typewriter has been indoctrinated into our historical and cultural heritage.
The place which marked the end of UK typewriter production was Ruabon, at the Brother Factory set within the beautiful Welsh countryside. The factory's 200 employees witnessed the final model of the Brother CM-1000 being packed into its box to a soundtrack of emotional sighs and cheers. This object is the 5,855,533rd of its type to be produced but the only one which has a place in the Science Museum collection. Brother have kindly donated this last British made typewriter to the Museum, which will be an invaluable addition to the 200 typewriters already in our collection.
Interestingly, the CM1000 (above left) shares a similar mechanism with another object in our collection, one of the earliest telegraph printers built by Sir Charles Wheatstone in the mid 19th century (above right). This latest addition to the collection will enable us to tell the story of how technology has evolved and been shaped by our communication needs.


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KANSAS CITY -- The Angels made the official announcement of Jered Weaver's return after Sunday's win against the Royals. Weaver will start on Wednesday against the Dodgers at Angel Stadium, with Jason Vargas moving back to Thursday.
Weaver has been out since April 8 with a fractured left elbow.
Vargas will be working on five days' rest with Weaver taking the Wednesday slot.
"I think it's a good place to put Weaver back," manager Mike Scioscia said. "It's not bad for these guys to get an extra day here or there."
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How To 06: Finding Beauty, Finding The Muses - Self Portraits
I woke up to pouring rain and text messages from photographer Balthazar as he boarded his plane back to Wisconsin. I'm lucky enough to live in a place that allows me to interract with some of the coolest creative people in the world. That place is half here and half on the internet.
Every morning it's the same routine. Get up, make coffee, turn on the computer, check email, make a list, create. Sometimes it's easy to find inspiration and magic in the day and sometimes it's just plain painful. Some days are dull, they're rainy, and cold, and drab. But I manage to have my hands in enough that I'm never wondering what I should do next.
And that's something I've constantly had to work at. There's nothing worse than being bored with your life or feeling that there's nothing out there. Sometimes the end of one big project can put you in a bit of a depression. In those times it's best to take a breather, find new inspiration, and keep it moving.
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Sometimes it's in the form of photographs. I use self-portraits as a way of shifting my thought process. The act of being alone in a room with nothing but a camera and a timer, brings me to a different head space. Sometimes I get something good, and other times it's unusable. But there's always a shift and movement is key. Other times it's fashion. I'll be the first to admit I'm a girly girl at heart. But I also believe there is an art to dressing and part of who I am is what I wear. Mixing the two, I got this set of photos.
The writing on my arms is from a project I'm working on with Mike Lala. The first set of photographs wil be up soon. The dress is Betsey Johnson bought for a mere $17 at Beacon's closet. The necklace is Betsey Johnson as well, a gift from bestie Sherene Schostak, and the shrug from Joyce Leslie for just $20. I could thrift shop forever. I love knowing that my clothing had a life of it's own before it came into my posession. That maybe, just maybe it went to elegant parties, toasted with champagne, and ran along the beach in the spring. These things inspire me, the thoughts, the stories behind objects.
The photos were taking in my bathroom and treated with vintage coloring. I like self portraits because they allow me to see different sides of myself. Growing up I wanted to be a writer and a photographer. I had vivid dreams of grainy film, and dark rooms filled with images. I wanted to be Marilyn Monroe and Claudette Colbert combined. Sometimes we get our wishes in roundabout ways.
"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."
— Marilyn Monroe
Knowing what makes you tick will lead you to the muse. Be ridiculous, play around, you don't have to take self portraits but create, even with a point and shoot, a pen and paper, or an iphone hipstamatic. Make things, make yourself, and create the world you want to live in.
Cleanup after the poetry project.
If I knew what the picture was going to be like I wouldn't make it. It was almost like it was made already.. the challenge is more about trying to make what you can't think of. -Cindy Sherman


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A former shomer shabbos Ramahnik turned devout atheist wonders how he can have a meaningful Yom Kippur while he's still struggling to discover a meaningful Judaism.
A few days before Yom Kippur this year, I sent an email message to a client of mine who happens to be an Orthodox Jew. I ended my email with "Have an easy fast." Eugene started his reply with "Have a meaningful yom kippur."
I try every year to have a meaningful Yom Kippur, but I rarely succeed. It's hard to have a meaningful Yom Kippur in particular while struggling generally to discover a meaningful Judaism. As a former shomer shabbos Ramahnik turned devout atheist, I have been trying in recent years to figure out what about Judaism for me is the baby and what is the bathwater.
I always fast on Yom Kippur, although, in recent years, I have been joining my family at our friends' for a "break fast" that would qualify as an early-bird special.
I always go to services Erev Yom Kippur and Yom Kippur morning. I used to return to synagogue in the afternoon and stay until the bitter end, joining my family at our friends' house after the blowing of the shofar and just in time for them to be finishing up their dessert.
The first year that I skipped afternoon services and instead went with my wife and kids to our friends' house, I let them all eat while I waited until after the time that I thought the shofar was being blown before joining in. The next year, I waited until sunset. This year, I waited to be at the end of the buffet line.
In addition to attending Yom Kippur services, I try to find something meaningful to do during the time that I am not in synagogue. (This year, that included starting to write this essay.) I don't do work, and I try not to watch television. Instead, I find something meaningful and Jewish to read on Yom Kippur.
I took a copy of Maimonides' Guide to the Perplexed with me to read during Kol Nidre services. That is the first time that I have ever read anything by the Rambam, one of the most revered scholars in all of Jewish history. Although I read only about 15 pages, I actually laughed out loud (not a typical sound heard during the silent Amidah) at some of the ridiculous things he wrote 900 years ago. Let's just say that today the Rambam is a little less revered by me.
I paused now and then during my reading of Maimonides to listen whenever the rabbi spoke. During his sermon, he told a meaningful story about his own rabbi crossing out the word "impossible" from his dictionary, and about his own aversion to the word "never."
Before going to "morning" services at noon, I finished reading Christopher Hitchens's memoir Hitch 22, which turned out to be very meaningful and unexpectedly very Jewish. I immediately started reading Bernard Malamud's The Fixer. I had seen the movie about 40 years ago and always wanted to read the book. Based on my memory of the movie, I expect it to be meaningful.
At services, the rabbi gave a moving and meaningful sermon, urging all of us to do whatever we can to see to it that Syria's recent use of poison gas against its own citizens is not ignored. As usual, I found the Yizkor service to be meaningful, reflecting on the lives and deaths of my father and my father-in-law, my childless favorite aunt and uncle, my nephew who died way way way too young, the millions of victims of the Shoah, and of course my own mortality.
After returning from services, my daughter asked me to go for a walk at the local nature preserve where she had worked this past summer. As meaningful as our walk was, what was even more meaningful was that she had asked me to go with her.
But I have to say that what most made this Yom Kippur meaningful to me was when Eugene responded to my wish for him to "have an easy fast," by urging me to "have a meaningful yom kippur." I was struck immediately by the fact that, as an Orthodox Jew, he did not capitalize "yom kippur." I'm not sure what the significance of that is, but I suspect that there might be something there somewhere.
My next reaction was embarrassment. Here I had focused on the shallowness of an easy fast, and he had replied with and about meaningfulness. I don't know where this Yom Kippur (or should I write "yom kippur") ranks against my other Yom Kippurim ("Yomay Kippur"?), but it must be up there near the top.
I am still struggling to find meaning for me in Judaism, and I might ultimately fail, but Eugene's admonition gives me a little more motivation to keep looking.


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On behalf of The Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation I will take part in various events and have been invited to meet leaders of Rare Disease Patient Organizations
On February 29, 2012, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will celebrate the fifth annual Rare Disease Day with a day-long celebration and recognition of the various rare diseases research activities supported by the NIH Office of Rare Diseases Research, the NIH Clinical Center, other NIH Institutes and Centers; the Food and Drug Administration's Office of Orphan Product Development; the National Organization for Rare Disorders; and the Genetic Alliance
We have been granted a poster and exhibit opportunity including the distribution of our brochures and CCF wristband.
The various scheduled talks will include the opening remarks by Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the National Institute of Health.
Other items on the agenda include:
Hypothesis-Generating Modes of Research Using Next-Generation Sequencing"
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Uncovering the Molecular Basis of Rare Diseases"
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Following, on March 1st, the FDA is hosting its first-ever Rare Disease Patient Advocacy Day . It is planned to engage and educate the rare disease community on regulatory processes related to rare diseases. This educational meeting will consist of live and interactive simultaneous webcast of presentations provided by FDA experts from various Centers and Offices, as well as from outside experts. The FDA Rare Disease Patient Advocacy Day is also supported by the NIH, NORD, and the Genetic Alliance.
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I`m 19 years old and I had a strabismus surgery at the age of 7. According to my doctors the surgery was pretty successful and the strabismus was gone. But it caused amblyopia to the affected eye which could not be entirely reversed. I feel that I see mainly with my other eye. Every year I have my routine eye examination because I also have myopia and I wear glasses. During this examination my doctor performs the cover-uncover test during which I notice that the amblyopic eye tends to move a bit in order to catch the item that seems to "move" when the other eye is covered. My doctor insists that strabismus is gone for good. Could the positive cover test be attributed to amblyopia?
Amblyopia can be caused by two conditions:
1) An eye turn (strabismus). If someone has an eye that turns in towards the nose constantly (esoptropia) or out towards the temple (exotropia) that patient will rely on the non-turned eye to do the fixating. Many times this occurs early in life, and the brain is very good at suppressing (does not pay attention) the image from the turned eye. This prevents double vision. Unfortunately since the brain is not interpreting that image, the visual cortex of the brain never fully develops, which may cause amblyopia. If that person did not patch the good eye, allowing for the turned eye to be used, amblyopia will occur.
2) The other condition occurs when the prescription is very different in one eye as compared to the other eye (anisometropic amblyopia). In this condition the patient relies on the eye that has the more in-focus image. This type of patient typically uses both eyes at the same time, but since the image in one eye is very out of focus - again the visual cortex of the brain does not develop properly. This condition can be fixed with the appropriate prescription and many times with patching.
-Important to note: For either condition listed above, if the patching does not occur before age 8, it may be unlikely if the amblyopia can be treated to 20/20 vision. It is also important to note that the eye is fine, but it is actually the brain that did not develop due to a lack of an in-focus image.
Surgery for strabismus: This is a procedure that is commonly performed to help align turned eyes. If you had a long standing eye turn, your binocular vision may not be fully functional, and most likely never will be. (Ask your doctor whether you have global or random dot stereopsis.) Typically, however, this is not a problem.
The way you are describing the cover / uncover test, I think you have a small mis-alignment of the eyes (successful surgery, however, is within 5-6 degrees of "zero" misalignment). This movement you experience could be the result of a small amount of residual strabismus. Another possibility is a phoria - which is a misalignment of the eyes, only when one eye is occluded, meaning that if both eyes are open, they both fixate the same target. When one eye is covered, the covered eye will deviate towards the nose or out towards the temple. This condition can also cause the image to move. (Ask your doctor whether your eye alignment issue is a phoria or a tropia.)
Hopefully this answers your question.
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#1.In seeking treatment for stage IV squamous cell cancer of the tongue and lymph nodes, how does one determine which method (i.e. surgery/radiation or IAI) offers the best chance of success given that each hospital generally promotes their own protocol? #2.Is there financial assistance available to foreign cancer patients seeking treatment in the US? #3.What protocol is offered at your hospital for the type of cancer above? #4.Would doctors at your hospital agree to work in conjunction with a doctor in Ontario in an effort to help this patient defray some costs?
Your question has several parts, some of which can be addressed in this forum and some of which can not. Question 1. There are relatively few studies that report the results of therapy for advanced (Stage IV) squamous cell cancer of the tongue and lymph nodes. Surgery alone was reported in the 1960`s and 1970`s. Radiation and surgery has been the standard of care since the 1980`s with a 5-year survival of 35% for stage III and stage IV disease. Many treatment protocols exist in the United States and can be searched for by both cancer type/site and participating institution by accessing the National Cancer Institute`s Comprehensive Cancer Database, Clinical Trials section. We don`t know what the best treatment for advanced SCC cancer is; that is why there are the protocols. It cannot be determined which one would offer the best chance of success for an individual patient. 2. There is no widespread financial assistance available to foreign cancer patients seeking treatment in the US. Each hospital has their own policy. Sometimes a research protocol will be funded in such a way to defray the costs of care for a patient eligible to participate in the protocol. 3 and 4. Netwellness is sponsored by several institutions. You may check the database discussed above to see if any of the Netwellness participating institutions have a suitable SCC protocol.
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A BODY that looks after health services in Knutsford has come under fire for offering a high-profile position to the former chair of the Care Quality Commission Dame Jo Williams – and then making a U-turn on the decision.
Caring Together is an alliance of health and social care providers from across eastern Cheshire, working to deliver a new system of care services in the region.
At the Cheshire East Council meeting on May 14, it was revealed that the council had not been involved in the decision to appoint Dame Jo Williams as chair of the East Cheshire Caring Together Executive Board.
Concern was expressed that Dame Jo's appointment could undermine public confidence in the Caring Together and a number of Cheshire East Councillors spoke out in protest.
At the time, Clr Laura Jeuda said she was 'dismayed' to hear of the appointment.
"This appointment, made without even informing the Health and Wellbeing Scrutiny Committee, suggests that working together is not happening in Cheshire East," she added.
Caring Together made a U-turn just one day after the council meeting in question and announced Dame Jo would not take up the role of its Independent Chairman as originally envisaged.
However, questions remain about the initial appointment including, who was involved in the decision to offer the position to Dame Jo, when was Cheshire East Council was informed and why wasn't the Health and Wellbeing Scrutiny Committee informed.
Cheshire East Clr Ken Edwards said: "It is vital that the Chair of the Caring Together board's record is above the reproach in relation to protecting the quality of care for vulnerable people in Cheshire East.
"I hope that the appointment process to find a new chair will be carried out in an open and inclusive manner."
Dame Jo was the chair of the Care Quality Commission until she resigned in 2012. During her tenure there were well-publicised failings at the CQC.
She also had to apologise after making public comments on the mental health of a fellow CQC board member who had blown the whistle over Mids Staffs Hospital.
ON May 15, a Caring Together spokesperson announced Dame Jo Williams and the Caring Together Executive Board have together decided that she will not take up the role of its Independent Chairman.
The spokesperson added: "Dame Jo was selected as independent chair of the Caring Together programme because of her expertise and experience.
"Following an exhaustive selection process she was clearly the best candidate.
"Dame Jo resigned from the Care Quality Commission at a time of her choosing and her work standing up for patients' and carers' rights has always been subject to the highest praise.
"These qualities were exactly what we hoped she would bring to bear in the role as Caring Together's independent chair.
"The Caring Together Board has made clear its appreciation of the time and interest that Dame Jo has committed so far to the programme.
"The Caring Together programme's work will be unaffected as we work together with the people of Eastern Cheshire to seize the opportunity for better health and care."


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Topic: CT and PET scan results!!!!!
I get to post in the good news section!!!!! I couldn't wait to get home to post this!!!
To recap: I had stereotactic radiation in June/July and just got the results of the 8 week scans. The CT scan was not clear enough, so they ordered a PET scan for last Friday. I was very nervous about it. I have had a few let downs the past 6 months or so.
So here's the news:
The CT showed the nodes to be necrotic. One is larger, but both show signs of necrosis. The tumor is harder to see or judge, because of the radiation and embolizations. (the not so good news: there is a small indeterminate mass in another section of my liver). The tumor appears stable in the CT scan.
So they ordered a PET scan.
The PET scan showed mild uptake which Dr. K says is good. It also states the adenopathy noted on the CT scan is "probably" treated disease and is not hypermetabolic.
I think that deserves a YAY! Yes, the cancer is still there, and I don't know if I am going to get my surgery. I meet with the surgeon Friday. But stable and/or dying I will take any day of the week!!!!
Now that I am through this, I will try to get on here again more often and be the cheerleader that you all know and love (you know you love me!!)
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No one can fault the intent, or the need, to give a special thanks and bit of cheer to our soldiers, but in these days of heightened mail security, the U.S. Postal Service won't deliver mail to such people as "A Soldier" or 'A Recovering Soldier" because the mail could become a conduit for those who seek to harm members of the armed forces.
Military hospitals will not accept cards, letters or packages addressed in such a manner for the same reason, according to the online fact checking service, Snopes.
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Famous all over is also the piano factory Steingraeber & Söhne. Eduard Steingraeber settled 1852 in Bayreuth and build his "op.1", a revolutional master piece. In three decades his factory became the most important factory for upright and grand pianos in Bavaria. Today, Udo Schmidt-Steingraeber own the firm in 6th generation. Steingraeber & Söhne is rewarded regularly with international prizes and the benevolence of famous artists all over the world.
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