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          RapidRun is designed to be the standard for in-wall audio/video installations. Using pre-terminated Break-away flying leads and wall plates with an in-wall runner ensures flexible, efficient, high quality connections for all types of equipment, with no field terminations.

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    Slick interface. Combines several e-mail accounts into one interface. Simple mailbox setup. Picture mail saves your friends' inboxes from huge attachments. Contacts update automatically.

  • Cons

    No Exchange server support.

  • Bottom Line

    When Windows 7 ships, no e-mail program will tag along, but this smooth redesign of Vista's Windows Mail more than fills the bill. Its Picture e-mail feature cuts down on the size of your photo recipients' inboxes and offers slideshows, and its auto-mail updating for Windows Live ID holders saves manual contact edits. Very capable feed and newsgroup readers round out the package.

Photo E-Mail

The most common way to share photos is e-mail. Given all the great online photo galleries like Picasa, I think that's a shame. Why send huge e-mails with attached photos when you could just send a link or thumbnail to a superior presentation of the pictures? Live Mail takes just this approach with its Photo e-mail feature. Live Mail lets you send e-mails with small thumbnail images, from which recipients can either download full-resolution pictures or view slideshows.

You can start a Photo e-mail directly from the new menu item, or add photos to an e-mail you've already started via the Photos button. Once you've finished selecting pictures, you can add borders to the thumbnails, choose file sizes, and even touch up the picture with autocorrect, rotate, or B&W. You have a choice of nine layouts, from small thumbnails to large images with captions. I created a test e-mail from about 3MB of photos, and the result at medium file size was an e-mail of 700K. The original photos are hosted on Microsoft servers and are available for 30 days for download or slideshow viewing. You can send up to 500 images per month and upload 500MB of images for each photo e-mail. In all, I found Photo e-mail to be a very welcome and well-executed feature.—Next: Contacts and Calendars

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Canon imageClass MF4570dn

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    Fast. Prints, scans, and faxes. Standalone copier and fax. Automatic document feeder. Duplex printing. Wired network support.

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    Although output quality is good enough for most business needs, text is a touch below par for mono laser MFPs.

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    The Canon imageClass MF4570dn monochrome laser offers fast speed, acceptably high quality output, and all the features you're likely to need in a small or home office MFP.

The Canon imageClass MF4570dn ($299 direct) falls in the usually humdrum category of mono laser MFP. But it's also one of the rare examples of a product that puts together all the right features in just the right way to make it a clear winner. That, in turn, makes it more than a little interesting, with a balance of fast speed, wealth of MFP features, and price that lets it rise above the crowd. Even it's weakest feature—slightly below par text quality—is still easily high enough quality for business documents. And all this makes the printer an easy pick as Editors' Choice.

The MF4570dn is a little big to share a desk with, but still reasonably compact, at 14.6 by 15.4 by 16.6 inches (HWD), making it easy to find room for in the typical micro office or relatively busy home office it's meant for. Like the Brother MFC-7840W ($300, 4 stars) that was the previous Editors' Choice in this category, it can print, scan, and fax, even over a network, scan to email by way of your PC's email program, and work as a standalone copier and fax machine. Another highly welcome touch is the 35-page automatic document feeder for scanning multipage documents, as well as legal-size pages, which are too big for the flatbed.

Paper handling is a little limited, in that there are no options for additional trays. However, the printer offers all the input capacity most home or micro offices need, with a 250-sheet main tray and a 1-sheet manual feed tray. It also includes a built in duplexer for printing on both sides of a page.

Set up was standard fare. I connected the MF4570dn to a network and used a Windows Vista system for my tests. One of the more pleasant surprises was the speed. The printer's rated at 26 pages per minute (ppm), which should be close to the speed you'll see for a text file with no graphics or photos. More important, on our business applications suite (using QualityLogic's hardware and software for timing), it came in at 12.3 effective ppm, making it the fastest mono laser MFP in its price class that we've tested, and faster even than some more expensive printers.

To get a sense of how fast this is, consider that the MFC-7840W was only 8.2 ppm. Even the more expensive Editors' Choice Brother MFC-8480DN ($400, 4 stars) managed only 10.6 ppm. The current second place for speed for the price category or below goes to the HP LaserJet Pro M1212nf MFP ($199, 3.5 stars) that I reviewed in mid 2010, with a speed of 11.3 ppm.

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Canon imageClass MF4570dn The closest the MF4570dn comes to having a weakness is its output quality, which is a touch below par for text. Fortunately, a touch below par for a mono laser is still reasonably good quality. You wouldn't want to use the printer for serious desktop publishing, but unless you have an unusual need for small fonts, you should find the text more than acceptable.

Graphics output is a match for the vast majority of mono laser MFPs, and easily good enough for any internal business need. Photo output is also dead on par, making it suitable for printing Web pages with recognizable photos or printing photos in client newsletters and the like.

As should be obvious, the MF4570dn offers a lot to like and little to complain about. Its combination of fast speed, lots of MFP features, ample paper handling, and output quality makes it a great fit for any small office. Most important, it will be hard to do better for the price, or, to put it another way: For the moment at least, the MF4570dn is the home and small office mono laser MFP that others will have to beat.

Check out the test scores for the Canon imageClass MF4570dn.

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The National Security Agency is taking a unique approach to job recruitment. This week, the bureau posted what looked like a lengthy pocket tweet to its careers Twitter account.

To the untrained eye, it appeared that the NSA's official tweeter had a few too many drinks before hitting the Internet. But the post, which included the #MissionMonday hashtag, is actually a coded message.

Don't get too excited: The agency isn't revealing 140-character security secrets. According to a cryptogram solver, the substitution cipher (patristocrat) is a recruitment call for code breakers.

"Want to know what it takes to work at NSA? Check back each Monday as we explore careers essential to protecting your nation," the unencrypted post said.

As an NSA spokeswoman pointed out, this isn't the first coded message posted to the @NSACareers account, nor is it a new initiative.

"NSA is known as the code makers and code breakers," the spokeswoman said in an email to PCMag.

And, as part of recruitment efforts "to attract the best and the brightest," the agency will post mission-related coded tweets every Monday for the month of May. This week's message simply announced the month-long process.

"The NSA Careers Twitter feed's focus is to educate and alert our followers of career opportunities at NSA," the agency said.

With that in mind, NSA hopefuls, or just anyone who loves a puzzle, can check the department's Careers Twitter feed each week for another code.

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Skype on Monday announced plans to shutter its less than two-year-old Qik app, which lets you send quick photo and video messages to friends.

Skype first launched the app in 2014 to compete with services like Snapchat and WhatsApp. Since then, the Microsoft-owned chat service has migrated some of Qik's most used features — like video messaging and filters to help you personalize your message — into Skype, eliminating the need for both apps.

"Due to these updates, the last day Skype Qik will be available for use will be March 24th, 2016," the Skype team wrote in a blog post. "Please make sure to save any special messages you may want to keep before March 24th." After that date, you'll no longer be able to send or receive messages.

The move comes after Skype just last week rolled out group video calling for mobile devices. The feature lets you have a video call with up to 25 people at once via Skype on your iPhone, iPad, or Android device. You can also send video messages in Skype — just look for the video message icon in the media bar.

Meanwhile on the shutdown front, word has it that Google is planning to bid adieu to its lead generation Compare service. Search Engine Land on Monday reported that Google will start winding down the service today with a full shutdown of the product in both the U.S. and U.K. on March 23.

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You've heard about it, wished for it and now it's here for a limited time only: the almost-$99 iPhone! I know, I know, it sounds too good to be true, right? Not at all!

To get in on the action you just have to get down to your local Best Buy and meet a few requirements: you must be an existing Best Buy Premier Silver Reward Zone member as of February 21, 2009 (sorry, a new membership won't cut it); you have to purchase the phone in a Best Buy store between now and Saturday, February 28; and you have to sign up for a new two-year contract with AT&T (no upgrades). If you are able and willing to meet those requirements, then you, too, can fork over $99.99 for a 8GB iPhone, or $199.99 for a 16GB iPhone, from Best Buy.

All kidding aside, this is actually a really great deal.

The $99 iPhone has become something of a myth, and even though it has never materialized, many pundits and business analysts believe a cheapo iPhone would be an immediate game changer for tech and other industries.

However, the $99 iPhone is usually envisioned as a stripped-down 4GB Nano-type iPhone. Best Buy, on the other hand, is letting you get your hands on 8GB of full-featured iPhone goodness for just $99.99.

If you've been holding out for a cheaper iPhone, and happen to be a Premier Silver Reward Zone member, then now is your moment in the sun. Then again, you might want to hold off until later in the year when, rumor has it, Apple might reveal an upgraded iPhone or even an iPhone Nano. Then again, maybe you'd better ignore the rumors and head over to Best Buy before it's too late.

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Tokyo Flash is famous for their uneasy-to-read wristwatch. The famous Japanese watch importer has recently released a new timepiece in the form of the Negative. They described this model as “one of the most sophisticated designs available from Tokyoflash.” The Negative is currently available in polished silver or polished black. Its LCD screen displays time, meanwhile the LED illuminated the background. Other features include a vertical or horizontal display option, several alarm functions, 12/24 hour mode and multi-color mode LED backlight. You can purchase the new Tokyoflash Negative at the Tokyoflash website. ¥16,900 (approx. $160).

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Performance Online is proud to announce that we will be moving to a new larger location on August 27th 2010 and will be open back up for business August 30, 2010. Our New address will be 2512 E Fender Ave Ste B, Fullerton CA 92831

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A frequent author in Perfumer & Flavorist magazine, Michelle Krell Kydd has recently launched her own blog—Glass Petal Smoke. Inspired by her passion for all things gustatory and olfactive, Kydd’s blog observes the creation, history, myths and folklore that surround food and beauty products. As Kydd explains, “Because Glass Petal Smoke is a blog there is an element of cyber anthropology that I find very exciting. Culture is about human nature and people who love food and fragrance are acutely aware of the connection between the senses and memory.” Glass Petal Smoke appeals to readers who possess such awareness and those who aspire to it.

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Talent Show Produces Surprise 2013 Perth Cup Win – Results

January 3rd, 2013

Talent Show was the surprise winner of the Group 1 Perth Cup at Ascot Racecourse on January 1, 2013.

The six-year-old mare won the race by almost a length ahead of Mr Moet, who placed second, and Global Flirt, who rounded out the placings in third.

Talent Show has now won five of his 30 race starts and has earned more than $410,000 in prize money.

Jockey Jarrad Noske was the winning rider aboard Talent Show.

Noske is also known for riding Black Caviar to her first two career wins while he was on loan to Peter Moody’s stable as an apprentice.

“There is no greater thrill than riding your home town cup,” Noske said.

Trainer Graeme Ballantyne was thrilled with the surprising result.

“It was a really good run at weight-for-age, which is not her caper,” Ballantyne said.

“Earlier in her campaign she had bad draws and was caught wide in running.”

“Jarrad rode her an absolute treat.

“I was just hoping he would be able to get out and get clear passage in the run home.”

Talent Show was only given a run in the 2013 Perth Cup after Chester Road was scratched due to a tendon injury.

“It was tragic for connections of Chester Road and his trainer Adam Durrant but unfortunately that’s racing,” Ballantyne said.

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Finish No. Horse Trainer Jockey Margin Bar. Weight Starting Price
1 17e TALENT SHOW Graeme Ballantyne Jarrad Noske 2 53kg (cd 54kg) $31
2 1 MR MOET Adam Durrant Daniel Staeck 0.75L 8 59kg $3.50F
3 11 GLOBAL FLIRT Justin Warwick Mitchell Pateman (a) 0.75L 3 53kg $11
4 14 POP CULTURE Colin Webster Troy Turner 2L 16 53kg $7
5 16 STARLIGHT LADY Karen Kersley Shaun Meeres 2.5L 1 53kg $51
6 15 SHAMARDASHING John P Thompson Patrick Carbery 2.75L 10 53kg $13
7 5 RANGER Grant Williams William Pike 2.75L 6 55.5kg $8
8 10 DREAMAWAY Grant Williams Shaun O’Donnell 2.75L 13 53kg $61
9 9 BRIDGESTONE (NZ) Neville Parnham Brad Parnham 3.25L 4 53kg $17
10 4 WESTRIVER KEVYDONN Paige Kenney Takahide Ikenushi 3.25L 9 56kg $61
11 7 CANTONESE Bjorn Baker Jim Cassidy 5.25L 15 54kg $12
12 13 MOONLIGHT BAY Grant Williams Jason Whiting 6L 12 53kg $31
13 6 LORDS RANSOM Grant Williams Peter Hall 6.5L 5 55kg $41
14 2 PLAYING GOD Neville Parnham Jason Brown 8L 14 58kg $31
15 12 LOPOV (NZ) Adam Durrant Lucas Camilleri 8.25L 11 53kg $71
16 3 GOD HAS SPOKEN Neville Parnham Steven Parnham 10.25L 7 56kg $21


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One of my cats has been missing since October 2002 and every once in awhile, someone will have a 'found' cat who matches his description and I still check the Ottawa Humane Society and local shelters & rescue organizations when there's a cat that matches his description. I just never want to completely give up hope in finding him. He was my baby (favorite cat if I had to pick one) and I miss him more than anything.
I recently put a post on here because of a cat hanging around my parents place....they have a 'found' cat and had put a found ad in the newspaper (he's going to the Queensway-West Animal Hospital in Kanata today to live there as their 'clinic cat')...anyway, I saw another found ad in the newspaper matching my lost cat's description.
A woman in Kanata has been feeding this comes by her place every night between seems to have an eye infection.....
My question is this....If we were to trap this cat in Kanata and he turns out to not be my missing cat, what should I do with him? I would feel guilty just letting him go in the condition that he's in (eye infection, possible other health problems)....I could pay to have him neutered, but that gets expensive if I did that with every cat that was found, and I can't adopt him because I live in a small apartment with 2 cats already and my parents own and look after 15 cats already (responsibly, these cats are altered and go to the vet when necessary).....will a rescue organization take him? Is that the responsible thing to do?
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July 26th, 2005, 01:19 PM
Is there a no kill rescue in your area (I seem to recall there is one in Ottawa). If it is not your kitty, why not take him there? Or if you have the time, take him in and put him up for adoption yourself - charge the fee you used to spay or neuter the kitty in the adoption fee. There are sample contracts from people on this site.

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Justlost so sorry you are going through this. It is obviously very difficult. But as you can see from DogBuddy, there is peace down the road. How odd that you both went through the same issue with the cremation. I know when I had my dear Shadow pts I would have been equally devastated if her ashes had been lost. But our memories of her are ours forever. Time will heal.
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What a great idea. I have toyed with the idea of making a fleece bed for our pets. I am sure that they would love it. And the recycled part is even better Helping the environment and your pocketbook at the same time.
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You could try using a rake to get out as much of her undercoat as you can. Other than that, all you can do is let her keep as still and quiet as she wants and let her have lots of water.

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Blue Heeler with left nostril bleeding

I have a 10 year old Blue Heeler Cattle Dog. about 6 weeks ago she had her eye tooth pulled on the left side. Off and on she has been having some slight bleeding from her left nostril. At the time her tooth was pulled, the doctor took xrays of her sinuses and didn't see anything abnormal. So it seemed to stop. But today it is starting to bleed from the left nostril again, it doesn't pour out but when you tissue it there is blood on the tissue. She is going into her vet tomorrow and he is going to look at it and get some more xrays. Which he said may not show up if there was anything. What is the next step? blood work or Mri on the sinuses? I am just so worried. Sue from Ohio
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Welcome to the board, ashleynabbee07. I'm sorry you found us under such worrisome circumstances, though

Why was the canine pulled? Was there an abcess? Do you think the infection might have gotten into her nasal passages?

Depending on what the vet suspects, there are a lot of options out there. When you see the vet tomorrow ask lots of questions and don't be afraid to ask about other options if you're not sold on what he suggests. Some tests might be less expensive (like regular xrays) but not likely to give a good return of information (xrays won't image soft tissue well and only rarely will pick up signs of an infection, for instance). An MRI might give you better information but might cost more than you've budgeted. A scope and flush is sort of mid-price and might give you some good information. So remember to ask lots of questions about the test and the expected results and understand the options before you decide.

With luck this will turn out to be a slight complication from her dental surgery and easily fixed Pls keep us posted!
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I have no advice to offer you as this is not something I've ever encountered with my dogs, but I hope your vet visit goes/went well today. Please do get back to us and let us know how your pup did. Maybe with more information or info on a possible cause other members will be able to help again. Hazel is a great wealth of information, as are many of our other members. Thank you for taking such good care of your pup as to get her right back to the vet. Hopefully it's only minor.
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I had this when I had a root canal done. The endodontist that did it said it had nothing to do with the tooth, and my dentist thought different. Anyway, ran a course of amoxicillin and in several days it stopped.

It could also be unrelated and I worry about nose things - tick diseases, bacterial, fungal, etc.
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Scope up the nasal passage (under anesthetic) would probably be the next step after x-ray. Some vets will scope before x-ray, some x-ray before scope. Depends on the vet and the situation I suppose. I don't think they would suggest MRI unless the problem goes unresolved. MRI is around $700-800 (here anyway).
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MRI is around $700-800 (here anyway).
About $2,000 here
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Could New Hepatitis C Drugs Bust State Budgets?

Grammy-winning singer Natalie Cole shares her experience about living with chronic hepatitis C. Two new drugs have been approved to help millions of Americans who suffer from hepatitis C, but both are extremely expensive. (AP)

Two new medications to treat the deadly epidemic of hepatitis C promise millions of Americans a better chance of a cure, shorter periods of treatment and fewer side effects than older drugs. They also threaten to bust state budgets and raise private insurance rates.

The new hepatitis C medications present a dilemma for Medicaid and other insurers, who must balance the cost against the huge number of people who could benefit from the treatment. A course of treatment costs between $84,000 and $168,000 -- or $1,000 to $2,000 per pill.

More people now die of hepatitis C than HIV/AIDS, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).The infectious disease can lead to scarring of the liver, cirrhosis, liver cancer, liver failure and death. For some sufferers, the only option for survival is a liver transplant.

The new drugs—simeprevir (sold as Olysio by Janssen Therapeutics, a division of Johnson & Johnson) and sofosbuvir (marketed as Sovaldi by Gilead Sciences)—could stamp out the disease, which afflicts an estimated 3.2 million to 5.2 million Americans. In clinical trials, the new drugs, which have already reached the market, have reached cure rates as high as 95 percent. Patients take them by pill, usually every day for 12 weeks, and they have mild side effects.

Until now, the drug of choice for treating hepatitis C was interferon. But patients typically must be injected with interferon for nearly a year, and it can have severe side effects including flu-like symptoms, fatigue, anemia, and depression. It also isn't all that effective, with a 45 percent cure rate for those with hepatitis C, genotype 1, the most common strain.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the two medications late last year, after states had already completed their Medicaid budgets. It was no secret that the drugs were coming—patients were eagerly awaiting their approval. It wasn't clear, however, just how expensive they would be. By comparison, treatment with interferon or other drugs costs $15,000 to $20,000. Many patients have declined those treatments in anticipation of simeprevir and sofosbuvir hitting the market.

“I don't recall any other situation in which we've had very effective, very expensive drugs come out for an important condition with such a large patient population potentially eligible for treatment,” said Steven Pearson, president of the Institute for Clinical & Economic Review. ICER is convening the California Technology Assessment Forum of scholars, policymakers and insurers later this month in San Francisco to consider the clinical and policy ramifications of the new hepatitis C drugs.

The potential cost of treating even a fraction of those with the disease is nothing short of astronomical.

ICER's preliminary study estimates that in California alone, treating just half of all those with chronic hepatitis C with the new medications would cost an additional $18 billion this year, compared to what is being spent now. Because the prevalence of hepatitis C is about two times higher among Medicaid beneficiaries than the general population, a disproportionate share of the financial burden of these drugs could fall on the states and the federal government, which jointly finance Medicaid.

“If you do back-of-the envelope calculations, it's clear budgets couldn't take on the potential of every eligible patient,” said Pearson.

One of the drugmakers, Janssen, defended the pricetag. "We think the price reflects the value that Olysio brings to patients, medical providers and health care systems," spokesman Craig Stoltz said.

More Specialty Meds Coming

Matt Salo, executive director of the National Association of State Medicaid Directors, said it's likely the new hepatitis C medications will be part of a new wave of extremely expensive, complex, and finely tuned “specialty” medications that will create continuing dilemmas for the health care system.

“I don't know that public policy has yet come up with how we are going to deal with this,” Salo said. “If a cure comes out for lupus and it costs $300,000 a year, at what point do we say, ‘We can't do this for everybody?' Those are big policy questions we're going to have to start to grapple with.”

In the case of the new hepatitis C medications, the grappling starts in earnest at ICER's San Francisco conference. The group may issue recommendations on which privately insured and Medicaid patients should be approved for the new medications first. For example, it could advise that only those patients showing signs of cirrhosis should receive the new drugs, and that the remainder could use the old medications or wait for the next generation of hepatitis C drugs to reach the market, presumably at lower cost.

If there is rationing of the new drugs, it won't be an easy sell to patients, many of whom have lived with liver disease for years and some of whom could not tolerate the old treatments.

“Are you going to say to patients, ‘We understand you have a viral infection and there's a cure, but because you are in a mild stage, we don't think you need treatment now?'” said Mark Sulkowski, an infectious disease specialist and professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

The high cost of the drugs also raises concerns over how they will be dispensed. Does it make sense to hand over to patients a bottle of pills worth at least $84,000? Will there be a black market for the drugs? And what happens if a patient stops taking the medications before the end of treatment? Should they get to resume another full course of treatment?

Hepatitis C on the Rise

No one yet knows how strong demand for the new drugs will actually be. But the number of eligible patients could soar. Asymptomatic until advanced stages, hepatitis C can go undetected for years, often decades, and it is estimated that least half of the people with the disease do not know they have it. Today, it is often spread by blood-to-blood contact associated with intravenous drug use. But in the past, people often contracted it through blood transfusions and transplants.

Last year, the CDC and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force both came out with a new recommendation that all baby boomers – everyone born between 1945 and 1965—be screened for hepatitis C. For unknown reasons, researchers have found a greater prevalence of hepatitis C in that population than others. Additional screening will only increase demand for treatment.

State Medicaid agencies are just now beginning to react to the implications of the two new medicines. The majority of Medicaid beneficiaries are in managed care plans, but those managed care plans set their capitation rates (the amount Medicaid pays managed care plans per patient in a year) for 2014 before the FDA approval of simeprevir and sofosbuvir. Now, some of those plans are asking their state Medicaid agencies for a carve-out or “pass-through” for these drugs, meaning that the Medicaid agencies would bear the costs of those drugs above the capitations. The states could also try to negotiate with the manufacturers for a better price.

The potential costs of these drugs could overwhelm the Medicaid agencies, forcing them to turn to their legislatures for additional money.

“This is going to fall on taxpayers because we think it will fall disproportionally on those in Medicaid,” said J. Mario Molina, chief executive of Molina Healthcare Inc., a Medicaid managed care plan with 2.1 million beneficiaries in California.

Mike Wofford, chief of pharmacy policy with the California Department of Health Care Services, said it is possible his agency would have to ask the legislature for help. “If a budget breaker comes along we have to figure out how to pay for it,” he said. But he also noted that it's too soon to know if events are heading in that direction because of uncertainty over demand. Already, though, California Medicaid is requiring that patients obtain prior authorization if they want the new hepatitis C drugs.

Private insurers also are grappling with the implications of the new drugs. Susan Pisano, a spokesperson for America's Health Insurance Plans, said “There's always the potential that a high level of new costs to the system can have an impact on premiums.”

Drug companies currently are free to set prices based on market demand, but Pisano suggested that drug pricing deserves more scrutiny, particularly since more specialty drugs are in the pipeline, including new treatments for hepatitis C. “Heretofore there's been great focus on insurance but little focus on what the pharmaceutical companies are charging,” she said.

Gilead Sciences, maker of Solvaldi, said the drug represents a significant advance over other treatments. Spokeswoman Michele Rest said Medicaid agencies are eligible for "deep discounts."

The two drugmakers are not likely to have the market to themselves for long. A new generation of hepatitis C drugs is expected to win approval later this year. That increased competition could drive down prices. Or, if the drugs are deemed even more effective, it could lead to more sticker shock.


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  • September 06, 2007
  • By Colin Woodard

What a difference a year makes. Last summer, climate policy experts working to get the federal government to take meaningful action on global warming were cautiously optimistic. They sensed a sea-change in the policy debate. Increasing numbers of people, witnessing or hearing about severe or unusual weather events of the past two years, began to reflect on the climate and came to the conclusion that climate change not only was happening but also required a robust response.

Since then, the policy landscape surrounding global warming has shifted with a suddenness and intensity that has stunned even the most optimistic experts arguing for action. After decades of delay and denial, a confluence of events—the policy equivalent of the perfect storm—has put climate change at the top of the national agenda.

“We are really in the phase of designing a response, rather than discussing whether we are going to have one or not,” says Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Climate Change in Washington. “We had no idea that it would be tackled with such ferocity.”

Over the past year, federal officials have heard from almost every quarter on this issue: mayors, governors and state legislatures, sportsmen and religious leaders, scientists and retired senior military leaders, the CEOs of many of the nation's largest corporations, overseas allies, and even a majority of the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Even though the 2006 midterm elections changed the leadership of key congressional committees to those more sympathetic to taking action on climate change, the attention and urgency that policy leaders have given the issue has surprised many observers. At the G-8 summit in June, U.S. House majority leader Nancy Pelosi said that she regarded the issue as one of her leadership's top priorities after the war in Iraq, while presidential candidates from both parties have called it one of the most important issues facing the next occupant of the White House.

“We went from a state of affairs that kept any debate in Congress about limiting greenhouse gas emissions off the table to one committed to doing something,” says Angela Ledford Anderson, vice president for climate programs at the Pew-supported National Environmental Trust (NET) in Washington, D.C.

The high priority given to climate change is the result of a confluence of events in the past year, many of them originating in state capitols coast-to-coast. Following the lead of the European Union, the six New England states, plus Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey and New York, have created the Northeastern Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, which establishes a cap-and-trade system for the region's power plants. The system allows market forces to achieve required reductions at the lowest cost and aims to reduce emissions by 10 percent from 1990 levels by 2009. Five western states—Arizona, California, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington— are creating a similar system, and Colorado, Utah and the Canadian province of British Columbia are considering joining it.

“Governors are really championing the issue,” says Lea Aeschliman, a former public utility commissioner who advises the Trusts on developing state climate programs. “You can see it just snowballing in the states.”

The most dramatic moves have taken place in California, where Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and leaders of the Democratic-controlled state house have taken bold action to reduce the state's greenhouse gas emissions. In September, Schwarzenegger signed legislation requiring the state to reduce total greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by 2020; mandatory caps will begin in 2012 for all major industrial sources.

“The governor was motivated by the science, which clearly indicated that global warming was going to have very significant consequences for our environment and natural resources,” says Eileen Wenger Tutt, assistant secretary for climate change at the California Environmental Protection Agency. “We did analysis on what the economic impact would be of mitigating emissions, and the study indicated that, rather than a cost, there would be a slight economic benefit from increasing energy efficiency and reducing emissions on cars.

“This is a living example of how caring for the environment can actually benefit economic growth,” she adds.

The effect on federal decisionmakers has been significant. “States and cities are saying that they don't think taking action on global warming is going to bankrupt their economies,” says the NET's Anderson. “The clear message was that it's safe for politicians to take action on this.”

Rob Sargent, senior policy analyst at the U.S. Public Interest Group, agrees. “It's the action in the states that's been the major factor behind the momentum in Washington,” he says. “Water has been building up behind the dam for some time, even though in Washington things were pretty dry. This confluence of factors has resulted in it beginning to spill over the dam.”

The states' actions were bolstered by the U.S. Supreme Court, which in April ruled, 5-4, that the federal Environmental Protection Agency does indeed have the authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, contrary to the arguments of the Bush administration. The decision removed a major roadblock to state efforts to impose such regulations on automakers, a move which requires the agency's permission. “It was a resounding victory for the states,” says Frank Gorke, director of Environment Massachusetts. “We're in a different scene now.”

Meanwhile, automakers have sued Vermont, one of 11 states that wish to regulate vehicular greenhouse gas emissions, arguing that it is impractical for them to deliver the required improvements in fuel efficiency. The ruling, which is expected later this summer, will have considerable implications for efforts to reduce emissions, as transportation accounts for a third of the total.

Rather than resisting action, however, much of corporate America has started pushing for something to be done. In January the top executives of 10 of the nation's largest companies called on Congress and the administration to impose mandatory emissions cuts, create a national cap-and-trade system and invest in alternative-energy research. The companies—including Alcoa, BP, Caterpillar, Duke Energy, DuPont, General Electric, Lehman Brothers and Pacific Gas & Electric— developed the plan in cooperation with the Pew Center on Climate Change and three environmental groups within a group known as the United States Climate Partnership, or US-CAP, Webaccessible at Two more environmental groups have joined, plus 12 companies, including Dow Chemical, General Motors, Shell, Siemens and Xerox.

“When you have a group of CEOs saying not only that they want a mandatory system, but here's what it should look like, complete with targets and timetables, the effect is just incredible,” says the Pew center's Claussen. Her organization serves as a bridge between the companies and environmental groups within US-CAP. “They all believe that there are going to be regulations in the U.S. and a framework internationally, and they would like to be part of the efforts to design those systems.”

“Industry is realizing that it doesn't want a messy patchwork of state policies and that a mandatory [national] system is the right place for America to be, for both economic and moral reasons,” says Eric Heitz, president of the Energy Foundation, based in San Francisco and created by Pew and the Rockefeller and MacArthur foundations. The Energy Foundation supported the economic analysis behind California's groundbreaking policies. The effect of the US-CAP announcement, he said, was “seismic.”

The world's scientists have weighed in as well. The International Panel on Climate Change, comprising more than 1,000 scientists from 113 countries, began issuing its latest assessment in February. It makes sobering reading. New research over the past six years suggests, with 90 percent certainty, that human-generated greenhouse gases caused most of the rise in global temperatures over the last 50 years and that average temperatures will rise by 2 to 4 degrees Celsius by century's end.

The likely results: an increase in deaths, diseases, injuries and malnutrition due to more frequent, severe and expansive heat waves, floods, storms, fires and droughts; the forced displacement of millions of people in low-lying areas and small island states; profound food shortages in many African countries; and the loss of tropical rainforests in the eastern Amazon, winter tourism in the European Alps and homes and infrastructure to hurricanes in the United States.

Add to that the combined public impact of An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore's Academy Award-winning global-warming documentary, and the conclusions of the Stern Report, an official British study released in October 2006 that concluded that acting on the issue could be almost 20 times cheaper than doing nothing.

And add this: In July 2006, a National Wildlife Federation survey found that more than 70 percent of U.S. hunters and anglers believe global warming is a serious threat to fish and wildlife, that it has already affected hunting and fishing and that the nation should act to reduce emissions.

And, finally, this past April, a study by a panel of 11 retired four- and threestar generals and admirals warned that climate change presents a serious threat to national security. “We will pay for this in one way or another,” says retired Marine Corps General Anthony C. Zinni, either by reducing greenhouse gas emissions today or “later in military terms, and that will involve human lives.”

Evangelical Christians are also calling for action, with more than 100 of their most prominent leaders having signed on to a major initiative calling for federal action, including mandatory emissions reductions. Signatories to the Evangelical Climate Initiative, first unveiled in February 2006, include megachurch pastor Rick Warren, author of The Purpose-Driven Life; and the leaders of the Salvation Army, the National Association of Evangelicals and 39 Christian colleges. Previously, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops had called for action on global warming, as had Pope John Paul II and the senior figure in the Orthodox Christian world, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew II.

“Climate change is crystallizing a deeper, broader awakening among religious Americans to the peril of God's creation on Earth, and raising the very most fundamental tenants of scriptural and religious faith,” says Paul Gorman, executive director of the National Religious Partnership for the Environment, a coalition of more than 60 Catholic, Jewish, evangelical and mainstream-Protestant organizations working to enact a faith-based response to the issue.

“Our mandate is to be good stewards of creation and to have responsibility for future generations,” he points out. “These are perennial religious themes that were in place long before we knew there was a globe, much less global climate change.”

This year, partnership members launched a campaign to mobilize their adherents to compel decision-makers to action, not only on curbing emissions but also on developing a more secure and sustainable energy supply. “The dialect of faith and values is one where mainstream citizens can find a more familiar, resonant and comfortable way of looking at this issue, as they might feel insufficiently informed about the science and put off by the partisanship,” Gorman says.

While the religious leaders are motivated by spiritual and moral concerns, their political influence is considerable. “The evangelical climate statement had a huge effect on a lot of members of Congress,” says Anderson of the National Environmental Trust. “It shows that this is not some elitist environmental issue, but something that reaches people from all walks of life.”

The public is clearly awakening to the issue, she says, pointing to recent national polls in which energy has emerged as a top concern, surpassed only by the war, security and health care. “We've never seen energy take that high place in people's minds,” she says. “People see that it's linked to their personal economics and security.”

Challenges remain, not least of them the thorny issue of coal, which is a plentiful domestic energy resource but releases more greenhouse gases than other sources. “The coal industry has tremendous power in the legislature, and they have yet to see a future for themselves in a carbon constrained world,” says Heitz.

Yet he also notes that there are solutions. The Future of Coal, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology study supported by Pew, concluded that the United States must take the lead in developing carbon-capture and sequestration technologies to reduce coal's carbon emissions.

Nonetheless, most climate-change policy advocates think federal action is around the corner. “It seems almost certain that some kind of comprehensive global-warming emissions limits will be put into effect in the next three or four years,” says Sargent of the U.S. Public Interest Group. “We are all pushing to get it done as soon as we can.”

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PezCycling News - What's Cool In Pro Cycling : PEZ Talk: Joe Dombrowski

PEZ Talk: Joe Dombrowski
Sometimes a rider comes along and right away you can just tell he has what it takes. We first caught sight of Joe Dombrowski at the Valle d'Aosta stage race, in 2011. Aosta, l'Avenir, the Baby Giro and the U23 Worlds are where the pro talent scouts do their window shopping.

At the Copenhagen Worlds in 2011 we caught up with him for an interview and our positive impression of this young man was nothing but endorsed. Last year he went back to Italy for the Baby Giro - and won it.

He also took 12th on GC in the Tour of California, fourth in the Tour of Utah and 10th in the Tour of Colorado - and he only turned 21 in May of that year and we interviewed him again as a man on the way up.

Dombrowski rode for Trek Livestrong during seasons 2010/11 with the squad becoming Trek Bontrager for season 2012 - but for 2013 made the leap to World Tour with current world number one ranked team, Sky. He's already tasted victory as part of the successful Sky squad which won the TTT at the Giro del Trentino in April.

But recently the now 22 year-old faced his stiffest challenge yet; the event which rates fourth in the world's stage races behind le Tour, the Giro and Vuelta - the Tour de Suisse.

On the attack in Stage 7 In Switzerland

Held over nine stages with a mountainous parcours it's the last big 'tune up' for le Tour; the last opportunity for team management to see their riders in action and make selections - and for the favourites to fine tune their form. Despite three crashes Dombrowski was able to show his mettle on Stage Seven taking a top ten placing when the game was well and truly 'on' - with Movistar's Portuguese climber Rui Costa winning the stage and laying the foundations for his overall win.

We caught up with Dombrowski in his Nice home just a few days after his adventures in the land of cuckoo clocks, Toblerone and Fabian Cancellara.

Our first question involved one of our favourite things about Nice - the 'Socca,' big hot, hot spicy crepes made from chick pea flour and olive oil. After being formed into a flat cake and baked in an oven on a cast iron pan more than a meter in diameter, the socca's seasoned generously with black pepper and eaten while hot with the fingers - and it is the business.

PEZ: How's Nice Joe - and have you sampled the socca, yet?
Joe Dombrowski: I moved in December time but then went home to the US for the holidays and apart from a few trips home, I've been living here ever since. Nice is great and yeah, I love the socca, with chick pea flower and olive oil as the main ingredients it's not bad for you at all.

PEZ: How was Suisse?
It was a bit of a 'mix and match' Sky team for the race with what's pretty much the Tour de France team riding the Dauphine and at a point in the season where maybe you're a little short on riders for various reasons. I was given a freer role than usual but ended up crashing three times in two days - apart from being pretty banged up I felt I was riding well.

Joe time trialling during Stage 1

PEZ: Is that the longest race you've ridden?
At nine days it's similar to the Baby Giro in duration; that was 10 days with a rest day. I felt I did pretty well; I didn't come out of it super fatigued so the duration didn't have too much of an adverse affect upon me.

PEZ: What was the toughest stage for you?
Stage Three, the one which Sagan won, it was a day of serious climbing and I crashed on a descent, it wasn't too bad, it was low speed and I just got back up. But then I came down again in the same crash as the one which put Hesjedal out; that cost me a lot of time - I had hoped to test myself on the final climb, that day. But in the event it didn't matter because I crashed again the next day and lost even more time!

PEZ: What's the step up from Continental to World Tour like?
It's a big jump in a lot of ways. You're obviously racing at a higher level; but the riders are so much more skilful as well as stronger. Then there's the weather; it's been pretty demanding in Europe this spring and the races are longer.

And then there's the whole thing about moving to Europe and adapting to living in Nice - although I have to say that the team has been very supportive. I was home at the end of April for a few weeks to see friends and family - so that was nice. But when I look back, whilst the World Tour is a lot more competitive, the style of racing is different, it's much more controlled but when it's fast - it's really fast.

The smaller races have amateur teams, they're not so well organised and the racing is just a different style. In Suisse the first 60/70 K was really hard until the break established; but for the next couple of hours it was super easy - I was telling my dad that he could have ridden chunks of that race!

PEZ: And how has your training changed?
The main change is in volume to get me equipped for the longer races. I still do the same IT work outs as I used to but like I say, just more time on the bike because you need the volume to prepare you for the longer stage races.

PEZ: It must have been a disappointment, Bobby Julich leaving Sky?
Bobby got in touch last June, he was my first contact with Sky and he kept in touch with me throughout the season. Then when Ian Boswell and I were going to sign with the team he met us in Nice and showed us around - he lives here. He's a great guy and former pro himself so yeah, it was disappointing.

PEZ: Who coaches you now?
Shaun Stevens has joined the team as performance coach, he comes from a triathlon background - he lives in Nice and Ian and I go motor pacing with him. As I explained, my training hasn't changed too much from when Jeremiah Bishop was my coach in my Trek days - but now that I'm on the team, I have to work with team staff.

PEZ: How's the recovery been after Suisse?
I've been back in Nice for three days and been taking it easy. Next up it's the Tour of Austria on the 30th so I want to get some good training before that. Some of the parcours has been affected by landslides so I'm not sure how that will affect the race. This year has been bad for that; in Suisse they took one of the climbs out because of avalanche risk - and even the Giro was affected.

After Austria the team has a training camp in Nice, which is good for me because I live here. I'm going to have family over during that time - so I'm looking forward to that. Then it'll be Poland and Burgos; we're Riding Colorado but not Utah - that's a pity because it's at altitude too and would have been excellent preparation for Colorado. I'm not sure if we're riding the Tour of Alberta but we're definitely riding the two Canadian World Tour races.

PEZ: How did your spring campaign go?
Yeah, good, I rode Oman, that's a nice low key start - big roads and good weather. Then Tirreno, Pays Basque and Trentino. Those races were a great learning experience for me because I got to ride with Bradley Wiggins, Chris Froome and Richie Porte. Chris and Richie live in Monaco so I train with them pretty frequently - there's a good group to go out with, Geraint Thomas lives there, too.

PEZ: How's Brad?
I've not heard so much about him but according to his Twitter feed he's back in training in Mallorca. I would imagine that he'll be targeting a strong second half to the season.

PEZ: And what are you looking for out of the second half of the season?
The first half of my season I rode a lot of World Tour races, the second half is a little more low key. My role will be a little different - I'll have more freedom in Austria, for example. And in Colorado I'm hoping to have opportunities for myself - it'd be good to show myself at home.

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PezCycling News - What's Cool In Pro Cycling : Simon Špilak tastes victory in Dauphiné

Simon Špilak tastes victory in Dauphiné
Making it two wins in two days for Katusha Team, Simon Špilak attacked from his breakaway on the Côte de Laffrey and tucked into his time trial position to race 20 kilometers solo into La Mure and claim victory on stage 5. After yesterday’s inspiring win by Iurii Trofimov, Špilak (27) saw a chance of his own to earn his second win of the season, the previous victory coming in the Tour de Romandie last April for the Slovenian rider.

- It was a very hard day, both because of the profile and the hot weather. I really don't like heat, so it was not easy for me today. When I attacked on the climb, I did not think I could win. There were a lot of attacks and Egor and I just followed them. And in a moment I decided to make a move by myself. Everything went good for me. I pushed hard and I only realized at the final kilometer that I would win. I am very happy! This is nice victory for me. Katusha has spent a perfect week here in Dauphiné - yesterday Iurii won and today I took a victory. It’s great to get these big wins in such a hard and hot race! – Simon Špilak.

- Today’s stage was well-suited for the break which is why we were motivated again to try for ourselves. There were a lot of attacks before the break went away with both Špilak and Ego Silin. Both riders were strong and felt good. But because of strong attacks behind the breakaway in the peloton, the break’s advantage began to come down. It was in this situation that Simon found a moment to attack, while Egor protected him in the chasing group. It was the perfect moment because shortly afterwards the breakaway was caught by the peloton. With only a few km to go we saw that Simon had a good gap so I asked him to minimize his risks on the descents and corners. This is a second win for Team Katusha and of course we are all very happy. In addition today is a great celebration – the Day of Russia! I would like to congratulate all of our fans on behalf of Team Katusha on this day of celebration. I think we can consider these two victories as a present! – said team director Dmitry Konyshev.

At 189,5km the rolling stage began in Sisteron and ended in La Mure after six rated climbs on the course. It took awhile to form, but a break finally managed to slip away on the first climb of the Col de Manse and Špilak put himself in a good position with 16 other riders, including Katusha teammate Egor Silin. The breakaway held steady at 3 minutes with Sky controlling the time gap for leader Christopher Froome.

Alberto Contador (second place on GC) attacked on the Col de la Morte in an effort to unseat Froome from the yellow jersey and the Spaniard gained more than one-minute on the GC group. Contador bridged across to Špilak’s group as Simon lead the way over the top of the climb, but Sky eventually brought Contador back into the main field. Špilak continued his solo move while other racing action played out behind him, most notably an attack from third place Wilco Kelderman (Belkin) and Adam Yates of Orica-GreenEdge. The young chasers stayed ahead of the yellow jersey group, claiming second and third places on the stage and soaking up the remaining time bonuses. Kelderman remains in third on GC, but now holds the same time as Contador at 12-seconds behind leader Froome.

Photo: ©Tim De Waele / Team Katusha

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Paul Nowatzki, Bayer MaterialScience to Speak at Biobased Chemicals Conf. Sep 13-14, 2012 in SF, CA

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Paul Nowatzki, Ph.D., Senior Associate Scientist and Innovation Manager at Bayer MaterialScience will give a Presentation entitled, “Polymer Company Perspective on Biobased Chemicals: Opportunities and Challenges” at the 3rd Biobased Chemicals: Commercialization & Partnering Conference on September 13-14, 2012 in San Francisco, CA.

Bayer MaterialScience is committed to sustainable development, and biobased chemicals are one means of addressing this topic. Biobased projects can also represent interesting business opportunities. Bayer MaterialScience’s intermediate position on the value chain, between refiners and end-product manufacturers, gives it a unique perspective on biobased partnering.

Dr. Nowatzki will discuss what motivates Bayer to work on biobased chemicals, the advantages and disadvantages of different types of chemicals/biobased partnerships, Bayer’s criteria to evaluate partners and projects, and the challenges faced to date in implementing biobased chemicals.

GTC’s 3rd Biobased Chemicalse Commercialization & Partnering Conference will bring together the top companies and experts together to examine new supply chain developments and business models being adopted for bringing biobased chemicals products to market. The session topics include novel chemical production platforms, advantageous feedstock, end user applications, securing funding & strategic partnerships, trends & challenges in commercial scale up.

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2008 Phandom 25

The 2008 Phandom 25: Another Division Flag

Last year I wrote a series of posts chronicling 2007’s 20 greatest moments in Phillies Phandom. Each game had a special “wow” factor, whether it was an insane comeback, an awesome feat or a trademark moment. And each game was a Phillies win, of course.

For this year, clearly, you know the top moment. But ranking the rest was very difficult. Do I rank the NLCS second just because? Is the NL East clinching victory as important as other postseason moments? I used some heavy discretion, but I believe I came up with a pretty solid list.

Each moment has an attached video link, if you’d like to go back and reminisce.

Like the 100 Greatest Phillies countdown, I’ll be posting one per day. I swear, you won’t get any more countdowns this offseason.

9. 6-4-3.
Date: September 27, 2008

Ground ball up the middle … dive by Rollins … flip to Utley … quick turn … throw to Howard … caught! Double play!

The biggest double play in Phillies history — at that point — secured the team’s second-consecutive division championship. It ended a 4-3 win over the Nationals that the good guys won by the skin of their teeth. And it started a wild postseason ride that ended in the greatest victory of all time.

It was a patented businessman’s win for the Phillies. They scored two in the fourth off sacrifice flies — typical Phillies. Then they got a leadoff home run by Jayson Werth to lead it 3-1.

Meanwhile, on the mound was Jamie Moyer. For the second-consecutive year Moyer took the hill against the Nationals with a division title on the line. And for the second-consecutive year he pitched well enough to exit with a win in hand. The wise veteran pitched six innings of one-run ball, scattering six hits and a walk. He found himself in a slight of trouble in the sixth, but a diving grab by Shane Victorino helped get him out of the jam. As always, Moyer was solid.

The bullpen did their job, as well. Chad Durbin pitched a scoreless seventh, and Ryan Madson exited a jam in the eighth. He allowed two quick singles, but got Lastings Milledge to pop up. In a scary play, both Jimmy Rollins and Shane Victorino looked for the ball, and while Rollins made a great catch, he kneed Victorino in the leg. It could’ve been eternally damaging; instead, it was merely a stinger for Victorino, and he stayed in the game. Madson would induce a grounder and finish the inning by striking out Aaron Boone.

Then Victorino showed he wasn’t hurt. With two outs, he beat out a grounder to shortstop. And just as he did it in game five of the World Series, Pedro Feliz provided the important hit, doubling to left-center field to score Victorino. With the insurance run in hand, it was all set for Brad Lidge.

And Lidge needed that insurance run. After striking out Emilio Bonifacio, Lidge surrendered a single and a walk. Then Anderson Hernandez singled, scoring a run. After a Carlos Guzman single, the bases were loaded, the Nationals were within a run, and with one out, it seemed all but finished. It seemed as if Lidge would finally blow a save, and it seemed as if the Phillies would miss out on celebration for a day.

But then, it happened.

Ground ball up the middle … dive by Rollins … flip to Utley … quick turn … throw to Howard … caught! Double play!

The video: 6-4-3

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Jamie: This is certainly one game we don’t want Brad’s streak to end on.

NJ: what a time to blow your first save of the year…

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Well, this is definitely The Best New Thing in the World today -- a re-drawn map of the 50 states. with new names, identical in population. (For a larger view of the map and some more information about the state names, go here.) Talk about un-gerrymandering! The GOP would never go for this in a million years as it would serious reduce their number of senators in the Prairie West and in the Deep South. But it would be one man one vote...if anyone cares about such things.

If you're reading this in Philadelphia, we've got our own state! Whoot! Say hello to U.S. Sens. Bob Brady and Chaka Fattah. I wonder if our state, too, has state-run liquor stores.

Have a great weekend -- hopefully next week there'll be less time spent on the dead trees and more time here.

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Ryan Howard agreed to a 5-year extension with the Phillies with $125 million guaranteed. (Yong Kim / Staff Photographer)

You buy tickets. The Phillies' owners take a cut and then pass the rest of it on to the players. It is a simple concept, when you think about it. Ownership has once again demonstrated its determination to prolong this incredibly sweet spot in time. And now it means that Ryan Howard is going to be here until 2016.

The debate will begin in baseball circles if it hasn't begun already: does it make sense to commit at least $125 million to Howard in the years 2012-16? Does it make sense to commit that kind of coin to a 30-year-old power hitter, who will be 36 when the guaranteed part of the deal is over? Does it make sense for a big man who hits collossal home runs but who also strikes out a lot?

The quick answer is: yes.

But the reason might not be the one in your head. I cannot predict the future. Howard can't. The Phillies can't. This is all a guess. Skills erode sometimes. Injuries happen sometimes. Happenstance happens sometimes. To pretend to know the future is to tell a lie.

So you go on what you see now -- and what you see now is a fearsome slugger. But you have to look deeper than that.

What I see now is a guy who is physically in better shape than he was 3 years ago. That is about work ethic, and trying to get better.

What I see now is a guy who is three times the defensive player he was when he first arrived in the big leagues. That is about high-level instruction on the Phillies' part and it is about a willingness on Howard's part to identify a deficiency and deal with it professionally.

Howard has already made a ton a cash. His response to every bump in salary has been to work at his game even more.

Again, there are no guarantees. But in baseball's big casino, this one really does make sense.

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Drunk-driving incident takes life over holiday
An alleged alcohol-related traffic accident in the capital’s Chamkarmon district killed one man, while another was seriously injured on Saturday. Police said that the men were riding motorbikes that crashed at high speeds after one of the men had allegedly been drinking heavily to celebrate Khmer New Year. One man died at the scene and the other remains in hospital. Police have impounded the vehicles until they have concluded their investigations. Kampuchea Thmey

‘Unprovoked’ attack ends in stabbing
A man sustained multiple stab wounds in a brutal attack in Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district on Saturday. Police said they have arrested a 30-year-old man, who allegedly stabbed a stranger five times in an unprovoked frenzy at a New Year party, before fleeing the scene. The victim was close to death, but received life-saving treatment in hospital. Koh Santepheap

Construction worker gunned down in capital
A shooting in Phnom Penh’s Russey Keo district on Saturday has sparked a manhunt, as the suspect remains at large. Officials said that a 26-year-old construction worker was seriously injured when he was shot while he walked in the street. His neighbours said he did not have enemies nor was he involved in criminal activity. Police hope the victim will be able to provide information when he awakes in the hospital.  Rasmei Kampuchea

Military police officer beat-up, three nabbed
Three men were arrested on Saturday in Phnom Penh’s Porsenchey district after they injured a military police officer in a fight. Police said that the suspects had joined villagers celebrating Khmer New Year but had a loud argument at the dance. The men reacted violently when the military police sought to intervene and one officer sustained minor injuries. Kampuchea Thmey

Alleged thief detained, accomplices escape
Police have made one arrest after a burglary in Kampot town on Saturday. The 17-year-old male suspect was detained after he was spotted running from the victim’s property with two accomplices. They had allegedly entered the house and stolen the owner’s belongings while he was busy with preparations for New Year. Police said the  suspect confessed that they had been stealing and he has been sent to court. Raksmei Kampuchea

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Did the launcher crash after he switched the device orientation? That seems to be a problem with Asus tablets. My original Transformer (on android 4.0) does that! It isn't a problem because I keep docked in the keyboard (which effectively disables rotation) but I'd have hoped this would be fixed.

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For that price I could see people buying it just to use as a tablet and ignore the phone part. If it had enough storage I'd give it a try. I'm guessing it has 16GB built in but I don't see it anywhere. Off to Google it!

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