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Paul braves snowy Maine in hunt for GOP delegates

BANGOR, Maine (AP) ? Presidential hopeful Ron Paul wants other Republicans to know that he and his supporters plan to hang around for a while longer.

The Texas congressman is on a two-day campaign swing through Maine, which holds caucuses starting Feb. 4.

Paul addressed a packed town hall meeting in Bangor on Friday and said he was braving the snowy weather to pick up delegates.

He is skipping Tuesday's presidential primary in Florida to focus on caucus states like Maine. Such states helped Barack Obama accumulate enough delegates to win the Democratic nomination in 2008.

Maine will award 24 delegates this year, compared to 12 four years ago.

Paul placed a weak fourth in South Carolina's primary last Saturday.

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Newer radiation therapy technology improves patients' quality of life, research finds

ScienceDaily (Jan. 26, 2012) ? Patients with head and neck cancers who have been treated with newer, more sophisticated radiation therapy technology enjoy a better quality of life than those treated with older radiation therapy equipment, a study by UC Davis researchers has found.

The findings, presented Jan. 26 at the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium in Phoenix, is the first of its kind to measure long-term quality of life among cancer patients who have undergone radiation therapy for advanced cancers of the throat, tongue, vocal cords, and other structures in the head and neck.

Allen Chen, assistant professor and director of the residency and fellowship training program in the UC Davis Department of Radiation Oncology, reported that the use of intensity-modulated radiation therapy, or IMRT, was associated with fewer long-term side effects, which led to a better quality of life. Standard radiation therapy to the head and neck has been known to affect a patient's ability to produce saliva, taste, and even chew food. These side effects historically have resulted in permanent disabilities.

"With the newer machines using IMRT, physicians are skillfully able to deliver higher doses of radiation to the tumor and lower doses to surrounding normal tissues than ever before," Chen said. "I wanted to see if this theoretical advantage resulted in any tangible improvements in quality of life for patients."

For the study, Chen used the University of Washington Quality of Life instrument, a standardized, previously validated questionnaire that patients complete after radiation therapy. The survey was administered prospectively to 155 patients at UC Davis Cancer Center diagnosed with head and neck cancers, 54 percent of whom were initially treated with IMRT and 46 percent of whom were treated with other radiation therapy technologies. All of the patients receiving IMRT also underwent image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT), which has been available at UC Davis since 2006 and is used to increase accuracy by taking a high-quality scan of the tumor daily.

Chen and his colleagues found that the early gains observed in quality of life became magnified over time for those who received IMRT treatment. For example, one year after treatment, 51 percent of the IMRT patients rated their quality of life as very good or outstanding, compared to 41 percent of non-IMRT patients. But two years after treatment, the percentages changed to 73 percent and 49 percent respectively.

John Torres of Sacramento was diagnosed in early 2010 with a large tumor at the base of his tongue on the right side of his throat. Fearing that surgery might result in the loss of his voice box, Torres opted for IMRT with IGRT and had 33 treatments.

Torres, now 73 and in remission, points out that the treatments were "no walk in the park," but said he is faring much better than he expected. Although his mouth is often dry and he has lost some taste sensation, he is enjoying an active life.

"I golf a couple of time a week," he said. "My wife and I like to socialize. We go out, and we dance. And we are planning to take a cruise through the Panama Canal in next two or three months. Life has gotten back to pretty much exactly what it was."

Chen acknowledged that quality of life is difficult to measure because of its subjective nature. Nonetheless, he said the findings support the more widespread use of IMRT in radiation clinics throughout the country.

"There has been some reluctance to utilize it because it is expensive, resource intensive, and takes on average 10 to 12 hours to prepare a single patient's treatment," he said. "I think this is further evidence that our investment in developing newer technologies is really paying off."

Chen, whose findings will be highlighted at a symposium press briefing on Friday, Jan. 27, received no outside funding for the research. Other investigators who collaborated on the study were Gregory Farwell, Quang Luu, Esther Vazquez, Derick Lau, and James Purdy, all from the UC Davis Cancer Center.

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The Wii U officially arriving by this Christmas

Nintendo of America

By Matthew Hawkins

Nintendo, which fired the first official shot of the upcoming console war at E3 last summer, just let loose another bombshell.

Satoru Iwata, the president of Nintendo, has announced that their follow-up to the Wii, the Wii U, will be available in the United States by the oh-so-important year-end holiday shopping season.?Reuters also reports that other key markets will get the new home system around the same time as well, including Europe, Australia and Japan.

No exact date has been specified, but if Nintendo follows the same pattern that has been established by their previous hardware's debut (the GameCube, the original DS, the Wii, the DSi), it should arrive just a few days or week before Black Friday 2012. Parents, you've been warned.

Thus far, not much else is known, including a final retail price, let alone Nintendo's selection of launch titles. But the fact that it's definitely coming out by year's end is a lot more to chew on when compared to the other guys.

Details regarding Microsoft and Sony's upcoming systems are still virtually nonexistent, at least officially so. Rumor mills for both camps, on the other hand, have been busy; the most interesting recent tidbit regarding the "Xbox 720," as it has been dubbed, is courtesy of Kotaku.

First off, it may adopt Blu-ray discs, which is a format that's proprietary to Sony (and their current console, the PlayStation 3 to be exact), and also have some kind of built-in scheme that prevents the operation of used games. Both sound fairly outlandish and flat-out crazy, for entirely different reasons.

But stranger things are happened, and as with everything, rumors are a sign of the times. Which in Microsoft's case is how DVDs will no longer be a viable option for delivering physical games (it's barely cutting it as is, in some instances), plus how a purely digital distribution platform may not be entirely in the cards as of yet.

Along with the fear of used game sales, and how it has affected everyone's bottom lines, not just Microsoft's. As for the PS4, nothing notable has been said as of late. Though it's a safe bet either one of the two, or perhaps both, will be officially unveiled at this year's E3, partially as a response to the pending arrival of the Wii U.

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Matthew Hawkins is a NYC based game journalist who has also written for EGM, GameSetWatch, Gamasutra, Giant Robot, and numerous others. He also self-publishes his own game culture zine, is part of Attract Mode, and co-hosts of The Fangamer Podcast. You can keep tabs on him via?Twitter,?or his personal home-base,?FORT90.com.

Source: http://ingame.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/26/10243780-the-wii-u-officially-arriving-by-christmas-of-this-year

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Review: Dylan's "Freedom" offers eclectic mix of songs (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) ? If the Oscar nominations didn't give artistic purists enough reasons to howl this week, there was the release of Miley Cyrus' music video for her version of Bob Dylan's "You're Gonna Make You Lonesome When You Go," which arguably elicited even more banshee-like shrieking throughout the land than "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" being put up for best picture.

Cyrus' recording is but one of 76 songs on the longest version of a new charity compilation set, "Chimes of Freedom - The Songs of Bob Dylan (Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International)." You won't have a more entertaining experience this year - either by reading through the sometimes eyebrow-raising track list, or actually slogging through the whole five-and-a-half-hour affair.

Joan Baez and the artist formerly known as Hannah, on the same disc? Ke$ha and Pete Seeger. together again? Maroon 5 and Billy Bragg, brethren in protest-song revival? There should be a Grammy category for best achievement in cojones, created just for this collection's compilers.

If anything, the set could have used more such irreverent surprises, since selections do inevitably err on the side of safety over the course of four CDs. The upside is that only two tracks stick out as unlistenable amid the 76.

Do be forewarned that Joe Perry's eight-minute version of "Man of Peace" is not an instrumental. (Suffice it to say there's a reason Perry handed vocals to someone else in the Joe Perry Project as well as Aerosmith.) As for Maroon 5 being inexplicably paired with "I Shall Be Released," rest assured that no one will ever accuse Adam Levine of having moves like Zimmy.

Some numbers that sound promising on paper fizzle, like Sinead O'Connor's "Property of Jesus." If it seems like having pop's most defensive singer cover Dylan's most defensive song is a natural, that's before you hear the bleating tone she adopts for the whole thing.

While a good handful of the more eclectic singer/material matchups are intriguing -- Mexican-American singer Ximena Sarinara doing "I Want You" in flat tones against an electronic pulse, for instance, or indie band Cage the Elephant half-whispering "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" in low-fi/shoegazing mode -- the results don't often merit more than one curious listen.

But the bigger risks occasionally pay off. The finest track, Mariachi El Bronx's "Love Sick," somehow manages to add Mexican-style horn, string, and conga flourishes to Dylan's bitter late-period ballad without having it remotely come off as a joke.

Also a far better idea than it sounds: A piano jazz recasting of "I'd Have You Anytime" -- by Evan Rachel Wood, of all people. It's almost in a league with Diana Krall's similarly subdued but more depressed take on "Simple Twist of Fate."

In the same quiet-storm vein, Adele's "Make You Feel My Love" is a knockout, even if she's already released similar versions of Dylan's most-recorded post-'70s song on almost a half-dozen different studio or live collections.

Judicious cherrypickers should further reach up into the branches for Dierks Bentley's bluegrass take on "Senor (Tales of Yankee Power)"; punk remakes of "Ballad of Hollis Brown," "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue," and "Song to Woody" (!) by, respectively, Rise Against, Bad Religion, and Silverstein; a spirited Flogging Molly version of "The Times They Are A-Changin'" that makes the song's implicit Irishness explicit at last; soul great Bettye Lavette, making "Most of the Time" sound every bit as world-weary as you could hope; and the Belle Brigade, making something beautiful and poppy out of "No Time to Think" in the same way the Byrds used to do with Bob in the '60s.

And Miley and Ke$ha? They both acquit themselves, however much you might suspect that Cyrus is enunciating the word "Rimbaud" for the first time, or however much you dread the prospect of the "Tik Tok" queen going a cappella. (If you're not into her version of "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right," that's the only composition that gets covered twice, with Ke$ha's nearly instrument-free take being immediately followed by the Kronos Quartet's all-strings version - a nice touch.)

The whole thing is available digitally for a bargain-basement $19.99, as a good a per-song price as you're likely to find for anything not in the public domain. It all goes to a worthy titular cause, which is one more reason to take a chance and make up your own mind whether the Silversun Pickups best Bryan Ferry or Sting at the art of flogging Bob.

It's a measure of Dylan's vast catalog, of course, that even with 75 compositions represented, the hardcore will find some critical omission to be bummed about. I, for one, am sad to think we'll have to wait till "Chimes of Freedom II" to find a forward-thinking interpreter brave enough to tackle "Wiggle, Wiggle."

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120125/music_nm/us_bobdylan

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Amy Neumann: Social Good Stars: LinkedIn's Meg Garlinghouse

This is the fifth installment of the Impact series, #SocialGoodStars. The people highlighted here are passionate, dedicated philanthropists, strengths to their communities, and social media masters. They also happily share their vast knowledge with others, making them shine as leaders in the Social Good world. You can read the fourth interview with Mark Horvath of Invisible People here.

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
~Winston Churchill

If anyone understands the overlap of our professional and charitable lives, it's Meg Garlinghouse. She is head of LinkedIn for Good, connecting 135+ million professionals' knowledge and experience with nonprofits' needs, globally.? With nearly twenty years of experience in the technology and philanthropy sectors, a background in international development, and time with the Peace Corps, she's learned first-hand the power of giving. She also currently serves on the Boards of Network for Good and VolunteerMatch. Her Twitter bio notes: "Coffee Addict. Peace Corps Volunteer. Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie Enthusiast. LinkedIn for Good. Bias for action." So grab some coffee (and pie?) and learn more about how the worlds of social good and personal growth are intersecting.

Photo courtesy of Nan Palmero (Flickr).

"You personally spent time in the Peace Corps, and have helped with programs leveraging the power of the internet at several organizations including Yahoo!, Network For Good, VolunteerMatch, and of course LinkedIn. Do you have any advice for people looking at ways to jump into philanthropy, in person and online?"

There has been no better time than now for individuals to get involved in philanthropy and have a huge impact. The Internet enables people to find the perfect philanthropic or volunteering opportunity that matches what they care about with ways they can provide support. Coined by DonorsChoose, the notion of citizen philanthropist, the ability for any individual to raise funds and awareness for causes, is also gaining traction. Through nonprofits like Charity:Water, you become the fundraiser for the organization, leveraging your connections to create an even bigger impact for the cause.

I have a strong bias that individuals should use their unique skills and experience to impact an organization. While cash resources are always important, we desperately need people's knowledge, skills and experience to come up with new solutions to old problems. The Internet also allows people to collaborate or crowdsource knowledge, insights and information. Some of my favorite examples of this include Sparked and Ushahidi.

"What recommendations do you have for professionals using LinkedIn, to help them leverage personal volunteering experience and share their favorite causes with others?"

This fall LinkedIn launched a Volunteer and Causes field that enables you to add your volunteer work, causes you care about and the organizations you support to your LinkedIn profile. We wanted to make it easy for professionals to include their social impact as part of their professional identity. In addition to the field being an important addition to your professional profile, it also helps nonprofits build their brand. Your association with an organization is an implicit endorsement and can help strengthen its brand and drive awareness. Your connections will be automatically notified when you add this field.

And don't forget, volunteering is good for your career. There is a great deal of data that indicates that employers care about volunteer work. According to a survey LinkedIn did, 1 out of every 5 hiring managers agree that they have hired a candidate specifically because of their volunteer work.

"Can you talk about the mission behind the newly-created LinkedIn for Good Foundation?"

I think companies' biggest opportunity to impact the world lies in what their core mission and unique assets are. LinkedIn is in the business of connecting talent with opportunity. The mission of LinkedIn for Good is: Connect the talent and passion of professionals with opportunities to use their skills to make a positive impact on the world. The Foundation that we just created is 100% employee-managed and focuses on leveraging the talents of our employees to impact nonprofit organizations.

"Have you seen any trends with nonprofits and LinkedIn? Where do you see online philanthropy headed for 2012 and beyond?"

I believe that human capital is the future of philanthropy. This skill-based, or pro bono marketplace is in its infancy but we are beginning to see a movement. Professionals, particularly Millenials, are looking for more ways they can make an impact through the workplace. Corporations (HP, Microsoft, IBM, Gap, Deloitte and others) are investing heavily in programs that inspire their employees to participate in skill-based volunteering. And several nonprofits have emerged to create a marketplace that connects the right professional with the right opportunity. Taproot is certainly a thought leader in this space who is driving this movement. Other interesting organizations to watch include CatchaFire and Sparked.

I believe that in 2012 and beyond this trend will continue to grow and the collaboration of human knowledge and passion from every corner of the earth will result in some game-changing solutions to the many global challenges we face.

"Where can people find resources and tips LinkedIn for Good offers for philanthropy professionals and nonprofits?"

We created a Learning Center specifically for nonprofits and nonprofit professionals.

Meg Garlinghouse, Employment Branding and Community at LinkedIn.

You can learn more about Meg on LinkedIn and follow her on Twitter @MegGarling. Another helpful LinkedIn for Nonprofits expert is Bryan Breckenridge or @BGBreck.

Amy Neumann is a writer, speaker and consultant on social good marketing. Check out her CharityIdeasBlog and follow her on Twitter @CharityIdeas.

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