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Rose-hulman Institute Of Technology President Samuel F. Hulbert Awarded Clarkson University Honorary Degree

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Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology President Samuel F. Hulbert received an honorary doctor of science degree at Clarkson University's 109th Commencement in Potsdam, N.Y., on Sunday, May 12.hulbert1

The degree was awarded "for his groundbreaking humanitarian achievements in biomedical engineering and ceramic science, and for his distinguished career and visionary leadership in higher education."

In addressing the graduates Hulbert said, in part, "I believe the more you put into every one of your relationships, the more you'll get out of it. I believe the more you put into your career, the more you'll be rewarded. I believe the more you put into your community, the more you'll get out of it.

Since becoming the eleventh president of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 1976, Samuel Hulbert has led Rose-Hulman through a period of unprecedented growth and quality improvement resulting in the college earning a national reputation.

Hulbert is a "hands-on" leader who values daily contact with the entire Rose-Hulman community. A typical day on campus will see him having breakfast with students in the Hulman Union, teaching a class in biomedical engineering and meeting with faculty about ideas they have to improve education.

During his tenure at Rose-Hulman, enrollment has nearly doubled, more than $90 million in new facilities have been completed or are under construction, and the academic program has developed into a national model for undergraduate engineering, mathematics and science education. Hulbert has created a sense of community on campus that puts the needs of students as the top priority.

Hulbert is not only well known for his leadership in directing Rose-Hulman to national ranking, he is also a pioneer in the use of ceramics to create artificial knees, hips and dental prostheses. In addition to a career of accomplishment in teaching and educational administration, he has been the principal investigator on eight major research projects. He has been honored by American and European medical societies for his contributions to biomedical engineering. He has also served as the president of the American Association of Independent Technological Universities.

A native of Adams Center, N.Y., Hulbert received bachelor of science and Ph.D. degrees in ceramic science from Alfred University. He and his wife, Joy, are the parents of Greg, Samantha and Jeff. They have ten grandchildren.

Clarkson University, located in Potsdam, New York, is an independent technological university with a reputation for developing innovative leaders in technology-based fields. Its academically rigorous, collaborative culture involves 2,600 undergraduates and 350 graduate students in hands-on team projects, multidisciplinary research, and real-world challenges. Many faculty members achieve international recognition for their scholarship and research, and teaching is a priority at every level. For more information, visit

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Pro Golfer Leaves Tournament He Was Winning For the Birth of His Daughter

Hunter Mahan may have walked away from $1 million but the pro golfer has a new baby girl in his arms – and a “very nice baby gift” on the way from a competitor.

On Saturday, Mahan was on top of the leaderboard at the Canadian Open when his wife unexpectedly went into labor. The golfer bolted home to Dallas and on Sunday, he proudly announced the birth of his daughter via Twitter

Mahan held a two-stroke lead heading into the final round at the tournament in Oakville, Ontario. But his wife Kandi went into labor a month before her due date, prompting the 31-year-old golfer to leave the country and potentially walk away from the $1 million prize money.

Brandt Snedeker, who ended up winning the tournament, praised Mahan’s decision – and his wife’s timing.

“Zoe will be getting a very nice baby gift from me,” Snedeker said. “I can’t thank Kandi enough for going into labor early. I don’t know if I’d be sitting here if she hadn’t. But that is a way more important thing than a golf tournament. I missed a golf tournament when my first was born, and it was the best decision I ever made. I’m sure Hunter would say the same thing.”

Mahan has not won a tournament this year, but he’s made over $2.3 million in 2013 on the strength of four top 10 finishes.

Mahan isn’t the first professional athlete to bolt mid-competition to witness the birth of a child. Last September, Boston Red Sox star Dustin Pedroia was informed that his wife was in labor in the 7th inning of a game, prompting him to scamper off the field, high-fiving his teammates.

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Ralph Joseph Ohmer, 80

January 18th, 2007    Author: Obituaries    Filed Under: Obituaries

Ralph Joseph Ohmer, 80, of Milford, died Jan. 5, 2007. He was a machinist at Cincinnati Milacron and a Korean War army veteran.

He is survived by wife, Carol Ohmer; daughters, Christy (Thomas) Carter and Cindy Beck; grandchildren, Melanie Carter Beaudion; Tony and Joey Beck, and Jesse Carter; and brothers, John, Lawrence, and Charles Ohmer.

Funeral services were held Jan. 8 at the Evans Funeral Home in Milford. Interment followed at the Greenlawn Cemetery in Milford.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Hospice of Cincinnati.

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Staying Healthy During Flu Season is important to do

By Sherrod Brown Following tragic reports of deaths from the flu in Ohio, Connie and I send our thoughts and prayers to the families of those who have lost a loved one to this terrible and sudden illness. At the same time, we must actively take steps to prevent the illness from spreading. My office [ Read More ]

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A friendly encounter with Old Hook at Dry Tortugas

By George Brown This week I’m writing from South Florida where I’m winding down an 11 day road trip that included stops at historic Saint Augustine and three National Parks – Biscayne Bay, Everglades, and Dry Tortugas. Each of these parks is memorable in its own way but Dry Tortugas was clearly the most memorable [ Read More ]

Separation of church and state?

By Randy Conover Our Founding generation was generally very concerned about the powers being granted to the new Federal government, and thus sought to strongly limit it within the Constitution. When Thomas Jefferson became our nation’s 3rd President in 1801, he received a letter from the Danbury Baptist Association expressing concerns over the potential loss [ Read More ]

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By Terri Schlichenmeyer The lady in the picture was wearing the biggest scowl you’d ever seen. The photo was taken long ago and it made you wonder what happened that day to make her so snarly. Was there a death, lost crops, an accident, bad weather, or did the photographer make her angry? You’ll never [ Read More ]

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Connecting our children with nature

By Steve Boehme Do you worry that your children or grandchildren are slipping out of touch with the natural world? You have intelligent company. In his book Last Child in the Woods – Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder, author Richard Louv directly links childhood obesity, ADD and depression to the lack of nature in [ Read More ]

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Senior pets need special care to address problems

By Dr. Dan Meakin Senior pets are the best! You know them well, they know you even better, and they are worth their weight in gold for these reasons. They’re also worth special care to keep them well and happy for as long as possible. Appropriate health care can add years to the life of [ Read More ]

A backpack adventure with a cat named Odie

By George Brown We found kitty helpless and alone under a construction trailer at the Dimmitt Woods Senior Housing site on a sunny Saturday afternoon last April. Yvonne suggested we take the kitty home – “Just until it is old enough to be adopted by a nice older person who can give it a good home,” [ Read More ]

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By John Thebout The Village of Batavia will celebrate the 200th year of its incorporation next year, and the Village Council and I are determined to make the bicentennial year a celebration of new beginnings. The past year saw major strides for Batavia as we worked towards a renewal of the Clermont County seat. We [ Read More ]

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Leading stars of the game agree to play in World Baseball Classic
177 players announced at Winter Meetings, all 30 clubs represented

A total of 177 Major Leaguers already have agreed to participate in the inaugural World Baseball Classic, World Baseball Classic Inc. announced today. The list of players features the leading players in the game, including Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Johnny Damon, Derek Jeter, Andruw Jones, Pedro Martinez, David Ortiz, Albert Pujols, Manny Ramirez and Alex Rodriguez.

The World Baseball Classic, a 16-team tournament sanctioned by the International BAseball Federation (IBAF), will feature players from around the world competing for their home countries and territories for the first time ever. The games will be played from March 3-20 at sites throughout the United States as well as Tokyo, Japan and San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Attached is the list of players announced today and the countries and territories for which they have agreed to participate, if selected. The list does not include players agreeing to play for teams competing in the Round 1 Asia Pool (China, Chinese Taipei, Japan and Korea). Those players will be announced at a later date.

Federations competing in the World Baseball Classic must submit preliminary player rosters by January 17, 2006. Additional players agreeing to participate will be announced as they are confirmed.

"This impressive list demonstrates that players share great enthusiasm and excitement for the World Baseball Classic," said Baseball Commissioner Allan H. (Bud) Selig. "New and old fans throughout the world will have the opportunity to enjoy our great game and see many of baseball's best players competing in this historic event."

Don Fehr, Executive Director of the Players Association said, "This outpouring of support for the World Baseball Classic speaks on many levels. It reflects the players' interest in the expansion of the sport globally. It suggests the players are keen to compete against each other in this kind of tournament. And, perhaps most importantly, it virtually guarantees that the inaugural World Baseball Classic will be an exciting and entertaining event for fans around the world."


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Karlene is giving away three copies of Stolen Christmas and Other Stories of the Season to three very lucky winners!

To enter to win you need to leave a comment any time before midnight on Saturday, December 5, 2009, telling her some of the best books you've read THIS YEAR.For extra chances to win, help spread the word. . .

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Cheer on Nordic skiers tonight at Pine Valley

This evening marks your only chance to support our local cross country ski team without traveling out of town. The Cloquet Esko Carlton Nordic ski team is hosting the only area ski meet at Pine Valley today, Tuesday, Jan. 11, starting at 5 p.m. Admission is free.

Between the Cloquet Area Rec Center and the Pine Valley ski area, there’s plenty of parking and fans can line the trail between the chalet and the parking lot to cheer for this hard-working crew.

In a town where the hockey arena fills up nearly every home game, there are certainly plenty of folks who support young athletes. It would be great if we could give our cross country skiers a boost as well.

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    A great value for a lens hood. Same size as the official Canon EW-60C. Attaches exact same method via a bayonet mount to the lens. Cost is about $25 less then that of the Canon version.

    Lens hoods are specifically designed to the focal lengths of the lenses they fit, so while this hood may seem like it should be longer, it is the correct length, a longer hood could cause unwanted shadowing in the lens and on the sensor.

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Overland Park, KS — Despite the economy, rising unemployment and price cutting at many health club companies, several polls indicate that the fitness industry will fare better than other industries during this recession.

The fitness industry is still projected to grow this year by 4 percent, according to IBISWorld Inc., an industry and market research company. Anthony Gikas, a senior research analyst with Piper Jaffray, was quoted in the St. Paul (MN) Pioneer Press as saying that the health club industry is still expected to grow 5 percent to 10 percent a year — although he did say that slower growth might occur for the next year or two.

Financial Week magazine predicted that despite the economy, the health club industry would increase by 2.2 percent in 2009 and listed it as one of the industries that would prosper this year. The magazine noted that with the obesity epidemic and the aging Baby Boomer population, plus rising health care costs, insurers and corporations would have reasons to promote preventive practices, such as health club memberships.

Some of the top club operators also indicated that they expect growth this year. A survey of clubs who made Club Industry's Fitness Business Pro's Top 100 clubs list last year found that 10 of the 19 responders say that their membership will increase in 2009 compared to 2008. Twelve of the club operators also said that their revenue would increase in 2009, while two said it would decrease, and five indicated it would stay the same.

In early December, Money magazine surveyed its readers to see what they would not give up in the recession. One of the top items they would not give up was their gym membership. Forty-eight percent said they wouldn't give up their health club membership compared to 41 percent who wouldn't give up eating out, 35 percent who wouldn't give up their extra car and 30 percent who wouldn't give up premium cable. Items that those surveyed would give up included new gadgets (89 percent), sporting events (87 percent), big vacations (83 percent), expensive clothes (80 percent) and cultural events (78 percent).

Another poll, sponsored by Anytime Fitness and conducted by Opinion Research Corp., found that 60 percent of those surveyed would not give up their club memberships despite the economy. Another 23 percent plan to downsize to a more affordable health club. When choosing health clubs, 21 percent said convenience or atmosphere was the top consideration, while 54 percent said cost was the most important factor.

Prospects' cost concerns may be the reason many health club operators dropped initiation or enrollment fees in January, cut monthly dues, offered monthly memberships and offered a certain number of free personal training sessions.

Equinox, New York, offered a 50 percent discount on its initiation fee. Members would get that fee back if they worked out 36 times in the first three months. Through March 6, Waco, TX-based Curves is offering 50 percent off its initiation fee and one free month. Sports Club LA, Los Angeles, offered lapsed members two months of free membership if they paid the one-time initiation fee, which can be at least $600. Gold's Gym International, Irving, TX, dropped its enrollment fee. LA Boxing offered a 30-day money-back guarantee. Wilmington Athletic Club, Wilmington, NC, began offering month-to-month memberships for the first time.

The Arthur M. Glick Jewish Community Center in Indianapolis waived its $300 enrollment fee in January and offered 50 percent off dues for the first three months. The YMCA of Greater Indianapolis offered a plan where instead of paying the $99 enrollment fee, the fee was based on the day of the month. People who signed up for a membership on Jan. 5 paid $5. People who signed up on Jan. 20 paid $20.


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      Drivers and pedestrians express frustration with intersection at Almond and Harrison Streets

      Cars lined up, waiting at the intersection of Almond and Harrison Streets.

      In day 5 of our series on the worst intersections in Central New York, we visit one of the busiest intersections in Syracuse.

      Just down the hill from some of the largest employers in the area is the intersection at Almond and Harrison Streets.

      While some is visible, over half is hidden under the I-81 overpass.

      Many drivers complain about a busy morning and evening commute due to Crouse and Upstate Hospitals, as well as SU.

      Some pedestrians say they would like to see increased walk signal times, in order to allow them to cross the entire intersection at once, instead of stopping in the median.

      Some drivers say they would like to see some changes done to the signage, in order to alleviate all the confusion presented by multiple lanes, ramps and bridges.

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      Other drivers suggest staggering release times from work, or considering carpooling as an alternative.

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      The daughter of 58-year-old Evelyn Amerosa said Sunday her mother was on the Angel Flight that crashed Friday with her husband, Frank.

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Welcome to the Cobb EMC Class Action Settlement Website

Cobb EMC has agreed to pay claims submitted after the August 11, 2014 Court ordered late filing deadline. Claims submitted through December 31, 2014 will be accepted and paid. These claims will be paid pursuant to Payment Option 1, the Lump Sum Present Value payment option, regardless of what payment option was selected on the Claim Form. No timeline has been set as to when these claims will be paid.

To date, payments have been made to those Individual, Deceased Member, and Organizational claims that were non-deficient and submitted by the Court ordered August 11, 2014 deadline. If you have not received payment, it may be due to the fact that your claim was not timely submitted, is in some way deficient or requires further review of the documentation provided in support of your claim.

If your claim is deficient, you should have received a letter explaining the deficiency and how you may cure it.

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A Settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit involving current and former members of Cobb Electric Membership Corporation (“Cobb EMC”). The Settlement will resolve the lawsuit that alleges that Cobb EMC’s prior board and management failed to retire capital credits of former and current members.

The class includes any individual or entity that was a member of Cobb EMC prior to December 31, 2012 (if the member is deceased, that individual’s estate, heirs or beneficiaries may be entitled to payment).

The Settlement establishes a cash fund of up to $98 million for the benefit of Settlement Class Members, including attorneys’ fees and expenses of litigation, in exchange for a release by the Settlement Class of the claims described above and other related claims. All Settlement Class Members will be entitled to receive: (1) an immediate cash payment, without any discount, for the capital credits allocated to them through the first half of 1988 (as specified in the Stipulation of Settlement and for all years not already paid); and (2) the specified capital credits allocated to them from the second half of 1988 up through December 31, 2012, either in a one-time payment discounted to present value (utilizing a 12% discount rate), or paid out over 24.6 years without discount.

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The Complete Guide To The WordPress Settings API, Part 5: Tabbed Navigation For Your Settings Page

This post is part of a series called The Complete Guide To The WordPress Settings API.
The Complete Guide To The WordPress Settings API, Part 4: On Theme Options
The Complete Guide To The WordPress Settings API, Part 6: Menu Pages

At this point in the series, we've taken a close look at the Settings API and what it has to offer. We've even begun creating our own theme to help demonstrate everything we've been learning. We've covered sections, fields, settings, menus, pages, and more.

If you've been following along from the beginning, you've likely noticed that these articles are long and are code intensive. We've hit the major points of the Settings API so, for the remaining articles, we're going to be taking a shorter, more focused approach on the rest of the topics. This will reduce the length of our articles and the amount of code we're writing and hopefully make some of the ideas a bit easier to digest.

Last time, we left off in the middle of development: We've successfully created our own options page and introduced a few new options, but we left the project in a state that prevented all of our options from being properly saved. In this article, we're going to take a look at why we're unable to save our options and what we can do to fix it.

Before we get started: This article assumes that you're familiar with the Settings API and theme options. If you're a beginner or even intermediate WordPress developer, I highly recommend catching up on the rest of the series before diving into this post.

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If you've been following along through this series, your options page should look something like this:

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Everything looks good, but there's a problem with this setup – the "Social Option" values will properly save but the "Display Options" will not. Before going any further, it's important to understand why we're able to render our options out on a single page, but we're unable to save both options.

Recall that earlier in the series, we defined two sets of settings for our theme – "Display Options" and "Social Options". By using the Settings API, we're telling WordPress to create entries for each group of settings in the database. Since we've defined two groups of settings, then two rows are created in the database. Next, the Settings API renders the options out to the dashboard using form elements. From there, WordPress takes the form values and saves them to the database.

In order to provide a greater level of security, WordPress assigns each group of settings a unique value called a nonce that protects against malicious attacks. Since a nonce value is applied to each group of settings, we're currently rendering out a single form with two nonces. When you submit the form to the server, WordPress will only see (and, thus, use) the "most recent" nonce value. In our case, that's the "Social Options". As such, only those options are serialized – the "Display Options" are completely ignored.

This isn't terribly advanced – in fact, you can actually see the two nonce values for each of our sections when you view the source of the page. Here is the nonce for the "Display Options:"

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And here's the nonce for the Social Options:

Theme Options

Your actual values will be different, but the input element will exist.

One way to prevent this problem from happening is to create a unique page for each group of settings. This isn't a bad solution, but if you're only working on a group of one or two options, creating an entire new page could be a bit overkill.

Luckily, WordPress supports middle-ground – you can still keep all of your settings on a single page, but ensure that users are able to save all of their settings and still have a pleasant user experience.

Enter Tabbed Navigation

You've no doubt seen tabbed navigation throughout the WordPress dashboard. Just take a look at the "Themes" page:

Tabbed Navigation provides a nice alternative for grouping sets of related options into a single page without sacrificing the overall user experience. This is what we'll be implementing in the Sandbox Theme.

Before writing any code, it's always a good practice to list out exactly what we're going to do throughout development.

  • Introduce two tabs – one for Display Options and one for Social Options
  • Set the "Display Options" as the default tab when the page loads
  • Make sure that the same tab is marked as active after saving a specific page of options
  • Verify that the update message renders when settings are saved

Adding Individual Tabs

In functions.php, locate sandbox_theme_display. This is the function that we're using to actually render the options page. As of now, it should look like this:

First, let's introduce our two tabs. This is relatively straightforward as we're going to take advantage of CSS classes that WordPress already provides – namely, nav-tab-wrapper and nav-tab. In the sandbox_theme_display function, drop the following block of HTML just below the call to settings_errors():

Obviously, this is very basic but we've just introduced two styled tabs that we'll be using throughout the rest of the tutorial. At this point, your code should look like this:

And your settings page should look like this:

Initial Settings Tabs

Bringing the Tabs to Life

In order to begin toggling our options pages, we're going to need to provide some type of signal or flag for which options we want to render. This can be done using a query string variable that identifies which tab was clicked and that can, in turn, be read using PHP.

So let's ago ahead and give each anchor that we created above a unique flag that signals what tab we're trying to load. Update your markup to look like this:

Pay close attention here so not to miss this: We've provided two query string variables in each link – the page value and the tab value. The page value is necessary because it's generated by WordPress via the Settings API and is used to tell the application which options page to load. The second value is an arbitrary value that we've used to signal which tab we're on. Permitting you've done this correctly, notice that your browser's address bar should reflect the values as you click on each tab.

Next, we need to write a little bit of PHP that reads the new query string value. Ultimately, this code is what will allow us to toggle our options page, but we're going to take this a step at a time. So, let's begin by writing a conditional to check to see if the query string value is set and, if so, store it in a variable. This can go directly above our nav-tab-wrapper that we've defined above.

WordPress provides a class named nav-tab-active that we can apply to our anchor tabs to style them as active. As such, our next step will be to compare the value of the $active_tab variable to the tab query string variable and then apply that class name to the relevant tab.

To do this, update your code to look like this:

Here, notice that we've written some inline PHP in the class attribute of each anchor. Essentially, the code says "If the active tab variable's value is 'display_options', then echo the nav-tab-active keyword; otherwise, don't echo anything". Easy enough, right? Test it out a few times – you should see each of your tabs toggling back and forth.

At this point, your function should look like this:

But wait – there's a subtle bug in this code! Recall that when a user lands on the settings page the first time, there's no value for tab in the query string. As such, we need to set one as the default. To do this, let's update the conditional that checks for the presence of the query string variable. While we're at it, let's consolidate it using the ternary operator:

This says "if the query string contains a value for 'tab', assign it to the active tab variable; otherwise, assign the value of 'display_options.'" This is exactly how we set the display tab as active. Once again, try out your tabs.

Toggling Our Settings Page

We're almost done! The last thing that we need to do is to toggle our settings page based on which tab is active. Specifically, we only want to show the display options when the display tab is selected (and the same for our social options).

Since we have everything stored in the active_tab variable, we should be able to wrap our Settings API calls in a conditional and be good to go. So, first, locate the following block of code in your theme:

Notice that we have two calls to settings_fields and do_settings_section. Basically, we only want to render a single group out when a particular tab is selected. To do this, we simply write a conditional that checks the value of $active_tab and then runs the appropriate section:

Refresh your options page – permitting you've done everything correctly, each group of settings should toggle based on the field and all of your options should properly save.

Tabbed Navigation is an easy way to group related options together and give your users a solid user experience by not inundating them with options. It's relatively easy to implement and goes a long way to tightly integrating your options with the native WordPress look and feel.

In the next post, we'll build on this even further by exposing a top-level menu that will make your theme options accessible via the menu along the side of the WordPress dashboard.


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In innate Categorical Perception (CP) (e.g., colour perception), similarity space is "warped," with regions of increased within-category similarity (compression) and regions of reduced between-category similarity (separation) enh ancing the category boundaries and making categorisation reliable and all-or-none rather than graded. We show that category learning can likewise warp similarity space, resolving uncertainty near category boundaries. Two Hard and two Easy texture learning tasks were compared: As predicted, there were fewer successful Learners with the Hard task, and only the successful Learners of the Hard task exhibited CP. In a second experiment, the Easy task was made Hard by making the corrective feedback during learn ing only 90% reliable; this too generated CP. The results are discussed in relation to supervised, unsupervised and dual-mode models of category learning and representation.The world is full of things that vary in their similarity and interconfusability.O rganisms must somehow resolve this confusion, sorting and acting upon things adaptively. It might be important, for example, to learn which kinds of mushrooms are poisonous and which are safe to eat, minimising the confusion between them (Greco, Cangelosi & Harnad 1997).

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No. 2 Wisconsin dominates No. 6 Baylor, gets within a win of Bo Ryan’s first Final Four

Mar 27, 2014, 10:04 PM EDT

Bo Ryan is the most consistent coach in the country this side of Bill Self.

He’s been at Wisconsin for 13 seasons. In each of those 13 seasons, the Badgers have finished, at worst, tied for fourth in the Big Ten standings. It’s a well-known fact for all sports fans, not just on college basketball message boards, that Wisconsin’s basketball team is always good. It doesn’t matter who they have and it doesn’t matter who they lose, they just win games.

But it may surprise you that the Badgers, who are a No. 2 seed in this year’s tournament, advanced to just their second Elite 8 under Ryan with Thursday night’s 69-52 win over No. 6 Baylor.

For comparison’s sake, Scott Drew, who is (somewhat unfairly) the butt of a running joke when it comes to coaching competence, would have gone to his third Elite 8 in the last five years had his Bears won.

It’s fairly incredible when you think about it. Ryan is widely considered one of the best — top 10-15 — coaches in the game, yet he’ll be playing for the chance to make his first Division I Final Four on Saturday evening when the Badgers take on the winner of tonight’s other West Regional semifinal between No. 1 Arizona and No. 4 San Diego State.

That’s not meant as a shot at Ryan, either, because his ability to identify prospects for and develop players in his system in unrivaled.

Frank Kaminsky is the perfect example of what I’m talking about. Kaminsky was an unknown for the first two seasons that he saw time with the Badgers, biding his time on the bench while working on his game in practice. This season, however, he’s become of the most versatile front court players in the country and the centerpiece of a Wisconsin attack that eviscerated a Baylor defense that completely shut down Doug McDermott and the Creighton Bluejays just four days ago.

He finished with 19 points on 8-for-11 shooting, forcing Baylor’s defense to collapse and opening up the perimeter for the never-ending string of shooters that Ryan has at his disposal. Wisconsin was just 6-for-16 from beyond the arc, but they did the majority of their damage from the perimeter while they built a first half lead that grew to double figures just 10 minutes into the game.

He also anchored a defense that stifled one of the nation’s most efficient offenses. He blocked six shots, a fairly impressive feat when you consider that Baylor’s front line has NBA-caliber size and athleticism. The Bears shot just 31.0% from the floor and 2-for-15 from three.

And if Wisconsin can put together one more performance like this, they’ll carry Ryan to his first Final Four in Madison.

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ATLANTA, Ga. -- Tuesday afternoon, approaching 48 hours since Sunday night's storm caused snow and ice to clog roads across half of Georgia, Georgia's Department of Transportation Commissioner Vance Smith said DOT workers are doing everything humanly possible to clear all the roadways.

"To motorists who think the roads should be clear by now, what do you say to them?" 11Alive News asked Smith.

"Be patient. There will always be a sunnier day than what we've had in the past couple of days."

Commissioner Smith said DOT crews had already spread 5,300 tons of salt and 7,000 tons of gravel on icy roads, and more salt and gravel has been ordered and is on the way.

Yet Interstate highways in Metro Atlanta, and many on and off ramps, along with state roads in Atlanta and across the rest of the northern half of the state, were still impassable and dangerous in some sections because densely-packed snow and ice had not been cleared.

"Is this the best that the DOT can do?"

"I think we're doing a great job, because we got great partners, we're partnering up with -- the City of Atlanta has been great to work with us, as well.... It's a great, concerted effort, and we're human beings. We're just tackling it as hard as we can."

Smith said the state's budget crunch has not hampered snow removal.

"Have you got all the personnel and equipment you need to get the job done?" 11Alive News asked.

"Yes, Sir, we're fine, we're working fine.... As far as the budget, there's no problem. We handled four or five instances last year. You deal with it. And we will deal with it. It'll be fine."

Smith was speaking just outside the office of Governor Nathan Deal, at the State Capitol. Smith and other leaders from the Governor's emergency response team -- GEMA Director Charley English, Col. William Hitchens of the Georgia State Patrol, and Major General Terry Nesbitt of the Georgia Department of Defense -- had just briefed the Governor on the impact of the snow and ice.

Tuesday was Gov. Deal's first, full day in office. Deal would not answer reporters' questions during a photo op at the beginning of the meeting.

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Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed told reporters Tuesday afternoon he held back from clearing Peachtree and the other state roads within Atlanta's city limits.

"Candidly, I was not immediately going to assume responsibilities of state roads, because it was in the city's interests to do the city's work, and in the state's interests to let the state do its work. But we're going to have a no-excuses administration, so if we mess up, we'll stick our chin out and take it."

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"I would move quicker to take custody for just anything that's in the city limits, and then have a conversation later about whether it was a city street or a state street."

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So the city rented additional snow spreaders and blades, adding 12 to its fleet of 10.

And that, the mayor said, had been plenty to clear the amount of snow that fell in three previous winter storms.

He said the weather forecasters at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson airport had not foreseen how big Sunday night's storm would be and how early, that night, the snow would accumulate.

"One area I will acknowledge was a surprise to all of us was the quickness of the accumulation when the snow started. So that is the area, if we look back on this, where we think that we could have been more aggressive."

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Mayor Reed said that he realized Monday night, as temperatures remained below 32 degrees and slush on the roads was re-freezing, that the 22 pieces of snow removal equipment would not be enough.

By Tuesday afternoon, the city had hired three private contractors to add to the city's crews clearing snow, and, as a result, the fleet of snow removal equipment in operation around the clock stood at 58 snow spreaders and blades, with more on the way.

11Alive News asked Mayor Reed, "Could that equipment have been ordered yesterday (Monday), knowing what the forecast of the cold temperatures would be, knowing there would be a re-freezing, knowing you wanted to try to get ahead of this, could you be 24 hours ahead of the game, now?"

"I'd like to answer that. We actually had already doubled (the size of the fleet) 24 hours ahead of the game. It still wasn't enough.... We went from ten to double. It turns out that double wasn't enough, we did not anticipate that this was going to be one of the four biggest snows (in Atlanta) in ten years.... 58 pieces of equipment, candidly, isn't going to be enough. So what we're going to do is to continue to grow our force, until the citizens of Atlanta are satisfied."

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Has COSMOPOLIS’ Sarah Gadon Become the New Mary Jane in THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2? [Updated: No]

     June 21, 2013

Yesterday, we reported that Shailene Woodley (The Descendants), who was set to play Mary Jane in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, had been cut from the picture because director Marc Webb wanted to “streamline the story and focus on Peter and Gwen and their relationship.”  The character would appear in The Amazing Spider-Man 3, but would likely be recast.  However, a new wrinkle has emerged as the production has possibly cast their new MJ already by hiring Sarah Gadon (Cosmopolis).

Hit the jump for more.  The Amazing Spider-Man 2 opens in 3D on May 2, 2014. [Update: The actress has taken to Twitter to clear things up: “To all those a twitter, I will not be playing MJ in Spider-Man. I have a role in the film, but it is not that one :).”]

Last night, ET Canada [via JoBlo] tweeted the following:

That’s pretty vague, but it’s possible that the studio wants to lock down an actress to play Mary Jane so the production can hit the ground running on The Amazing Spider-Man 3.  There’s also the disappointing possibility that Webb’s statement was false, and they felt Woodley’s performance wasn’t in line with their vision for the character, so they hired Gadon to play the role.  I personally have no problem with Gadon since I’ve only seen her in Cosmopolis and Antiviral, and she was fine in both if not particularly memorable due to being overshadowed by incredibly unhinged lead characters. Of course, it’s also possible that Gadon isn’t playing Mary Jane at all.

I’m sure this will all be sorted out soon, but it does raise the question of how vital the Mary Jane role is to The Amazing Spider-Man 2.  Is it something that can be excised completely with no harm to the story?  Because when they tried to cut most of the Rajit Ratha (Irrfan Khan) role from The Amazing Spider-Man, it only led to confusion.

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Herald of Yesteryear: September 2, 1952

The four championship flight semi-finalists in yesterday’s Club Championship matches at the Graymere are seen chatting together above. Left to right they are, Keith Hartzell, George Hopkins, Dale Brockman and J.C. Warren.

Under ideal golfing conditions the Graymere Club’s Annual Championship Tournament goes into it’s final rounds today.

In yesterday’s semi-final matches, Dale Brockman beat Keith Hartzell 2 and 1 and George Hopkins beat J.C. Warren 3 and 2 in the Championship flight.

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Teen Titans Season 2

I liked the first season of Teen Titans well enough that I rushed into the second. That was probably a mistake.

The first episode, “How Long Is Forever?”, pits the Titans against a time-traveling thief, resulting in a surprisingly elegiac and overall depressing entry about losing friends and the ravages of time. Cyborg is particularly damaged, tethered to the tower due to his technology becoming obsolete. Beast Boy is fat, bald, and caged in a circus. Raven is utterly alone. Robin’s become Nightwing, the context making that name and black costume scarier than usual.

This probably didn’t affect the kids in the audience as powerfully as it did me, because few kids know loss or can identify with the disturbing choices the team members made. For older viewers, though, it’s a pointed look at how disappointing adulthood can be when compared to teens thinking the whole future lies ahead of them.

Wow, maybe I don’t want to watch any more of these… that was heavy, and the eventual “if we try hard, we can change the future after all” ending was much too slight to make up for the rest. That’s a testament to the power of the images and script.

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The next episode is a pleasant change in tone. It’s just as wacky as you’d expect a Beast Boy spotlight to be — he’s mistaken for a runaway alien dog (that conveniently starts talking when needed, to the extent of using “air quotes”). The giant rock toddler looking for his pet has a spaceship whose controls are modeled after toys, a nice design touch. It’s predictable but comforting all the same.

Also this season, there’s a Starfire spotlight, another Cyborg spotlight, and something involving a fanboy supervillain and a horror movie that I found stupid instead of funny or scary. Speedy is introduced during an interstellar tournament, and Aqualad annoys Beast Boy in his introduction. Terra’s story is told over five episodes, including the two-part season ender.

Beyond the first, the only one that really stood out to me was “Fractured”, featuring a Batmite-like Robin fan named Larry. I especially loved the cameo of a Bob Kane-styled Robin and the imagination shown when they enter the crayon-like world.

There’s only one special feature in this set. “Catching Up With the Teen Titans” is a collection of clips from the first season episodes followed by clips from the episodes on this set. It’s only five minutes long, and it looks like a marketing trailer that got slapped on the disc so they could claim it included something extra.

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I tapped a programmer on her shoulder and asked what she was doing. “I am refactoring these methods”, she answered. I tapped a second programmer on his shoulder and asked what he was doing, “I am adding some parameters to this web action”, he answered. The third answered. “I am working on this user story”

It might seem that number one and two where focusing on details of their work and that the second focused on the bigger picture, and that the latter should be better. However, when I asked when and what they would commit, the picture changed dramatically. The first two where pretty clear over what files would be involved and where to be finished within an hour or so. The third programmer answered: “Oh, I guess I will be ready within a few days; I will probably add a few classes and might have to change those services some way.”

The first two programmers did not lack consideration of the over-all goal of what they where doing. But, they had selected a task that they could get a grip on, that led in a productive direction, and they thought could be finished within two hours. Once they had finished that task, they would select a new change or refactoring. In that way all the code they wrote where written with a clear purpose and a limited and achievable goal in mind.

The third programmer had simply not been able to break down the problem and where working on all of it at one go. He had no idea of what it would take, and where basically doing speculative programming, hoping that he would arrive at some point where he would be able to commit. Most probably the code written in the start of this long session where poorly directed for the solution that came out in the end.

What would the two programmers do if the task they had selected came out to take more than two hours? They would simply realise that they had taken too big a bite, throw away their changes, define a smaller task, and start over. To keep working would have been speculative, and you do not want speculative code in your repository. So, the changes where thrown away, but the insights where kept.

On the other hand, the third programmer would probably just keep guessing with less and less clue and desperately try to patch together his changes to something that could be committed. Because, you cannot throw away code-changes you have done – that would be a waste of work wouldn’t it? Unfortunately that causes a lot of strange code-changes without a clear purpose to enter the repository.

At some point of time even the commit-hard-ass programmers could not find something they thought could be finished in two hours and would lead in a productive direction. Then, they would go directly into speculative mode and play around with the code: trying some wild refactoring just to see how the code would move, or patching on some functionality to see if it would fit in the structure – and of course throwing away the changes whenever they had gained some insight leading them on track. Because, of course even these seemingly unstructured hacking sessions had a purpose: to learn about the code to be able to define a task that would constitute a productive step.

Know your next commit. If you cannot finish, throw away your changes, and define a new task you believe in with the insights you have gained. Do speculative experiment whenever needed, but do not let yourself slip into speculative mode without noticing. And never let speculative code enter your repository.

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Rest Day Antics

Posted by Bruce Hildenbrand Jul 15, 2008

Today is the first rest day of the Tour so I caught up with one budding cycling legend, Mark Cavendish, and one bonafide cycling legend, Bernard Hinault, and sat down with each for a one-on-one interview to see what was shaking. Mark has been a huge hit in only his second Tour winning two stages and doing it in grand fashion. He struggled on yesterday's mountain stage coming in dead last, but in his defense he crashed early on in the stage and the race doctor, Gerard Porte, gave him something for the pain which upset his stomach. Bernard Hinault is not only a five-time winner of the Tour, but he is the last Frenchman, way back in 1985, to do so. He is now one of the organizers of the Tour, you can see him each day as he greats the riders after they leave the podium.

I asked Mark what it takes to win a stage of the Tour in the always chaotic field sprints. "First and foremost it takes a good team to get you to the finish. I've got an amazingly strong team that gets me there to the finish. You need the speed in the end, but you need to save all your power and punch so you can use it in the last few hundred meters of the finish. That's where you need a great team behind you."

Do you have to be slightly crazy to deal with all the dangers and be a great field sprinter. "I think the reason it looks so dangerous is that there is not that much going through your mind apart from being first across the finish line. You haven't got time to think about anything else. You haven't got time to think about the consequences or anything like that. You just have to be first. That's what matters."

"Sure it is dangerous, but if you start thinking about it you are not going to win. If you are driving a car and you come fast into a corner if there is something in your mind that says maybe I should slow down because my brakes don't work or my tires don't work. In cycling I don't have that. You can't really have that. You can't really think of consequences. You can't think of anything except being first across the line."

Bernard Hinault still looks as fit as he did when he climbed off his bike in 1986. The five-time tour winner commented on how the race has gone through the first rest day. "It has been a great Tour. After yesterday, you have only one second between Evans and Schleck for the yellow jersey. Even without a prologue there has been excitement from the beginning. It was a short first time trial but it produced some interesting results none the less. The stage finish to Super-Besse was very exciting and now we have had two spectacular days in the Pyrenees. I think it has been a great race so far for the riders and the fans."

When asked about who he fancies for the yellow jersey in Paris, he replied,"I don't know. The stages in the Alps are yet to come. The Agnello is long and hard and nobody knows about the finish in Italy. Then you have the Col de la Bonnette which is very long and hard. Then you finish on Alpe d'Huez. It could be Evans. It could be Menchov, Schleck or even Vandevelde the American."

Hinault is most remembered by Americans for his battle with teammate Greg Lemond for the yellow jersey in 1986, a race where in the end, Lemond finished first and Hinault second. Lemond has been at the Tour this year; how have the two former teammates and competitors been getting along? "We had our differences as competitors, but we are now friends. We have talked a lot at the Tour and have shared stories of our familes."

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Rain, Rain Go Away

Posted by Bruce Hildenbrand Jul 12, 2008

Rain was the main course as the Tour snaked south towards its rendezvous in the Pyrenees tomorrow.  Unlike sports like baseball, rain very rarely cancels a bike race, let alone a stage of the world's greatest race. These guys are all about suffering and a day in the rain only adds to the evidence that professional riders are the hard men of the road. That doesn't mean they have to like it, but they totally accept the fact that they are going to get wet (and cold!).

Riding safely in the rain does require some additional attention and skills and while there does appear to be more crashes on a wet day, without the abilities of the top pros, it could easily be total carnage. There are some basic rules they like to obey. First off, they avoid rolling over any painted surfaces, the bigger the painted surface the more they avoid it. The reason is simple, paint does not absorb water and hence a film of water will build up. Since the contact patch of a road tire is about the size of a postage stamp, hydroplaning is a real concern.

It is bad enough that there are lots of traffic regulating paint on the road, but when the rabid Tour fans go completely nuts and paint a huge section of roadway with their country's flag, this creates a mini-skating rink that is exceptionally dangerous. In 2002, American Freddie Rodriguez crashed out on just such a flag on the second day of the Tour. So, avoid paint at all costs.

Metal grates and manhole covers are another land mine. These things become so slick when wet that one minute you are up, the next you are eating asphalt.  Unfortunately, metal surfaces seem to abound in the towns along the Tour route. Not a great welcome for the peloton.

As we have all seen in the classic of classics Paris-Roubaix, stone surfaces are also very slick and dangerous. For some reason, every town in France seems to want to reclaim their roots and have at least one section of stones right in the middle of town to remind us all of times past. Luckily, most of these sections are usually found on straight portions of the road and not in turns.

So, when it gets wet, take a tip from the pros at the Tour. Stay away from painted surfaces, metal covers and grates and brick and stones. Asphalt baby!

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It was a text book win for Mark Cavendish today. His team did an incredible job all day long riding at the front for Kim Kirchen in yellow and then swtiched to leadout mode for the win. In fact, with Ciolek (2nd) and Kirchen (4th) there were three Team Columbia riders in the top four. In his post race interview, Cavendish re-iterated that he is feeling strong and has no plans to drop out in the mountains.  He thinks his next chance for a stage win many come on stage 12, but also acknowledged that the traditional breakaway during such a transitional stage between the Pyrenees and the Alps may foil his chances.

Yesterday, news of the first doping positive of the Tour was announced. Liquigas rider, Manuel Beltran, tested positive for EPO. Beltran was one of ten riders who had abnormal blood values during the Tour's medical checks the week before the start and because of this was targeted for additional testing during the race.

The identities of the other nine riders have not been released nor have they, as yet, tested positive for any banned substances.

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Who is your favorite rider in the pro peloton? I have not been bashful about naming Team Columbia's Mark Cavendish as one of my faves.  I love to climb and find the climbing stages of the Tour to be super exciting. The attacks Contador launched against Rasmussen at last year's Tour were exceptionally gripping.  It was mano y mano, no holds barred riding.  But, there is just something about Cavendish that transcends the mountains and puts a flatlander on my list.

I guess it was at the 2008 Tour of California when Mark came back from a horrendous crash on the stage into Santa Clarita to win the stage.  And, yes, he is still the winner in my book.  If you have been watching the Tour, there have been numerous instances of pacing back with a car; George Hincapie got paced back in the final 10km of the stage today. For some reason, the officials in the US have ignored the spirit of the rule and continue to penalize riders for behavoir that is accepted and commonplace in the European pro peloton.

Regardless of whether you think Cavendish won that stage, the performance he gave in those closing kilometers was nothing short of spectacular and it opened my eyes to a huge talent. To be a top-notch field sprinter you have to be lightening fast, but you also have to be a bit crazy as well. If you have 42cm handlebars you are always looking for 43cm openings to squeeze through and when you are going 40+mph everything looks like you are in hyperspace. Clearly, effective field sprinting is part physical, part mental and Cavendish has them both.

Then you have today's finish when the Frenchies were finally foiled and Cavendish brought home the bacon! In a post race interview with Gerard Porte on French TV, Mark thanked his team for all the hard work and called it a team victory.  OK so maybe that is the standard line, but how about in Giro when he looked back and when he realized there was no one behind them, he gave the stage win to his leadout man, Andre Greipel. That's class!

Cavendish was also asked if he would be leaving the Tour early to prepare for the Olympics where he is the odds on favorite to take home the gold in the Madison race on the track. Mark replied that it wouldn't be fair to his team or the race organizers if he left early and his goal is to make it to Paris.  To be fair he did mention that the mountains looked pretty daunting, but the climbs in the Giro were much harder and he survived them. Should we start rehearsing God Save the Queen for the Champs Elysees?

OK. So I have been spouting off about one of my favorite riders in the pro peloton, I am certain you all out there have a favorite or two as well.  Let's here who you all like and why.

ps - somebody should tell Nicholas Vogondy that you are way more aero in the drops than on top of the hoods. Maybe he was totally cooked but when you are trying to win a stage, you gotta do just about everything right and trying to power to the finish sitting up with your hands on the hoods is not optimal.

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We Was Robbed

Posted by Bruce Hildenbrand Mar 2, 2008

Mark Cavendish was robbed of his win on stage 6 of the Tour of California, plain and simple. Yes, he received some help from his team car when he crashed in the final 10km's, but anyone who has ridden in the pro peloton knows how hard it is to move up, not only through the peloton, but also through all the team cars in the final few km's of a race, especially when everybody is going 35+mph.

This isn't a case of a rider hanging onto a car door and getting towed right back up to the front of the field. Far from that. Look at the photo. Cavendish is lying on the ground after crashing, lucky that the whole field didn't run him over and put him in a hospital bed.

After the crash, Cavendish was probably 15-30 seconds behind the field and yes, he probably got significant help getting back to the tail end of the race caravan from his team car. But, that sort of practice is totally OK in Europe in pro racing because just regaining the back of the caravan after a crash is viewed as"righting a wrong". A crash is viewed as an unfortunate circumstance and pacing back on is just the way to reverse the circumstance.

Once Cavendish regained the caravan, he had to work his way back to the peloton past 30 or so team cars. When he got to the back of the peloton after risking his life amongst the cars, he just had to work his way past 100+ racers all going wheel to wheel at 35+mph to end up at the front. Simply done, you say. Not!

So, this wasn't a case of Cavendish getting a free ride to the line from his team car.  Far from it. He had to pick himself up, sort himself out, work his way through 30+ cars and 100+ riders going flat out. That's what sprinters do and that's what Cavendish did. Taking the win away from the plucky Brit is like taking Muhamed Ali's heavyweight crown away from him for fighting.  It was a great win under the most difficult of circumstances. The sprinters are the showmen of our sport. Let them demonstrate why it takes a bit of madness, a bit of luck and a bit of savvy to win the bunch kick. We love it!

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My 2-day-a-week nanny is off to greener pastures (got a PT job with FT benefits...sigh), and I'm contemplating a daycare center now that LO is 6 months and could probably benefit from some socialization. I visited 2 daycare centers in Glen Ellyn (where we live) and wasn't really impressed with either one. I know there are good ones out there - if anyone can recommend one I'd appreciate it!

I haven't been to the Bright Horizons in Wheaton yet, but as a company they look solid - if anyone has any feedback on that particular center or BH in general, I'd appreciate that too.

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A bookshop in Portugal turned a vintage van into this mobile shop, which specializes in English translations of Portuguese books. The bookstore owners say they want literature to act as a 'postcard' for their country- a way to remember a trip, and inspiration for more traveling. They ask every traveler who visits the bookshop to tell them a story.

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  • Maria Carkagis

    Fabulous idea - in 2009 I travelled through Portugal on a trip through Europe and it was about this time I was looking for another book to read - sadly, I didn't find any in English until I got to Salamanca - would have LOVED to patronize this store. I had heaps of stories -

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      Yes, I love that project too! I've noticed a few pop up in my neighborhood recently.

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    Very cool...I could see a similar project working in many neighborhoods here in the U.S., especially where access to libraries is limited. However, I'd suggest one simple change,,,trade a book for a story!


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Stymied: How small minds are hurting WSU and UW

They don't call them our state's two premier research institutions for nothing.

Washington State University and the University of Washington are two hot spots of energy and promise in an otherwise troubled and listless state economy. Why both the state Legislature and the Seattle City Council find ways to limit the resources of one or both is a mystery worth exploring.

At WSU, the foreboding about further cutbacks from the Legislature are real. The talk is of limiting student admissions, closing the doors to otherwise capable students. The statistics are clear about in-state students and their benefits to the greater good. College graduates from the state tend to stay in the state, and contribute.

And at WSU, new programs are unfolding that show directly the way higher learning bounces back into the life of our state and region.

A new Center for Integrated Systems Biology promises to be one of the most innovative concepts in the country. The university is involved in a safe-foods initiative with peer institutions in Japan, both to achieve new levels of food safety and help the state's agriculture. Another interesting idea is the development of a river master engineering curriculum to produce men and women who understand river channeling, fish ladders and river stewardship. WSU and the University of Idaho are also cooperating on research on security of power grids.

Food safety, salmon and water, security of our power. Doesn't that sound beneficial to our quality of life?

Yet, "the Legislature must break the chain of decreasing funding while increasing enrollment," WSU President V. Lane Rawlins said at a conference last week. He knows. He has been telling parents their children, with good GPAs and SATs, can't get in this year.

At UW, the issue is closer to home but no less distressing. The university wants to expand into the surrounding neighborhood but finds itself confronting local activists and a majority of the Seattle City Council.

On this page, we've agreed with Mayor Greg Nickels that the city should lift the lid on UW leasing in the U District and ease provisions that compel the university to spell out 10 years in advance all its building plans. The current lid keeps the UW to no more than 550,000 square feet in most of the U District. It's not as if the U District couldn't use some help.

"It's awful," said Nickels last week. "If you are a student, taking your parents through the U District is just awful." But what about the vocal opposition to lifting the lid?

"We've got to stop listening to the loudest voices," Nickels said. "I'm sure you've heard from the council members on this — the six cranky ones."

Beyond the council are the perennial activists who see the UW as the bad neighbor. Their views were presented in full on these pages last week ("UW's supporters should listen to the neighborhood," guest commentary, Sept. 25). I urge you to read them. I find those arguments both arrogant and ignorant.

Have we forgotten what the U in the U District stands for? No one, from the mayor to this opinion page, is arguing for free rein for any developer. That response distorts what the UW and the city could do together. But instead, we are clogged into inaction and made small by the least visionary of us.

Over the past three weeks, this column has been exploring the penalties of inaction in a sliding economy. The research institutions, built and given to the public for the education of our children, are too important to let slide. I know — they come at us with a tin cup every year, and we have to make choices between higher education and the universe of need.

But a grander message is being lost over issues of administration failings or land-use debates.

In Pullman last week, with the fall coming down like a smile, there was too much energy and excitement to bottle it up in the length of a day. The place was jumping with the electricity of optimism. If we continue to take the universities for granted, let the scholars go and turn away our kids, we should be ashamed.

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Perioperative Beta Blockers, Redux

Earlier this week, I discussed the preliminary results of the POISE trial, the blockbuster that showed that perioperative beta blockers may cause more harm than good. I’ve asked my UCSF colleague Andy Auerbach, one of the nation’s experts on this intervention, to help us understand these truly surprising results. Andy’s comments follow:

“The POISE trial vividly demonstrates that giving beta blockers to surgical patients is not a simple intervention. That is, perioperative beta blockade (at a fairly high dose – 200 mg metoprolol/day) produces a mix of risks (stroke, significant hypotension, bradycardia, plus that pesky all-cause mortality) that outweighs the benefit (largely, fewer non-fatal MIs).

In drilling a bit deeper into the POISE results, it appears the excess mortality was fueled by a far higher mortality rate in beta blocked patients who also had a non-cardiac complication (largely sepsis). Because non-cardiac post-op complications are more common than cardiac ones, it is easy to see how this double-whammy (beta blocker + sepsis) might produce POISE’s troubling results.

Interestingly, the concerns about beta blockers aren’t new: a trend toward higher stroke risk in beta blocked patients was also seen in a previous study, but the strokes were too infrequent to be analyzed with any accuracy. Other complications (such as bradycardia and hypotension) were also common in prior studies, but not clinically problematic. Taken together, since the excess risk of strokes wasn’t statistically significant, and the bradycardia and hypotensive episodes were self-limited and benign, these prior studies were taken as supporting the safety of beta blockers rather than as a harbinger of problems to come.

Where to go from here? At the least, it seems clear that beta blockers need to be used far less often, and when used we need to pay closer attention to patients (e.g., assess pain, infection, and hypovolemia before increasing beta blockers) after surgery. It also seems unsafe to be starting beta blockers right before surgery. Data from the Netherlands suggest that, in high risk patients, starting them at least 2 weeks beforehand and titrating them carefully is safe. Once we figure out how to operationalize this practice, this might be an effective strategy. For now, it is uncertain.

Did we endorse beta blockers as a practice and as a quality measure too early? Initial studies were relatively small, but they did show salutary effects on perioperative ischemia, MI, and death that closely paralleled beta-blockers’ known benefits seen in large RCTs from other settings (acute coronary syndromes, hypertension). So I agree with Bob – it wasn’t unreasonable to include them as a quality measure at the time. We were wrong, but at least we are in good company (can anybody say estrogen replacement therapy?).

It will be interesting to see how the field reacts to this change in evidence. Many experts have encouraged us to wait for the publication of a large RCT from the Netherlands (DECREASE V), expected in 2008, before drawing final conclusions about perioperative beta-blockers, but to my eye this seems unsafe given the POISE results.

Beta blockers are also the subject of public reporting initiatives (e.g., SCIP), but the SCIP-endorsed measure (maintaining beta blockers throughout the surgical period for patients on them already) is a reasonably safe standard and (dare I say) something we are doing as part of medication reconciliation. At the moment, I don’t think the SCIP beta blocker measure needs to be changed. This will bear close watching after POISE’s full results are published and DECREASE becomes available.

How is my practice today different than it was before last week? I’ll continue the beta blockers for my patient who was on them previously, I’m more likely to recommend starting beta blockers a couple of weeks before surgery in high risk patients, and I’m less likely to prescribe perioperative beta blockers in the intermediate risk pre-op patient (in whom I might now perform some testing to better define the true risk). I’m also less likely to use a high dose to start, or to titrate up the beta blocker dose for tachycardia unless I am certain that I’m not treating tachycardia due to hypovolemia, bleeding, or infection first. Finally, I’ll do all I can to prevent noncardiac postop complications.

And I’m more likely to look at quality measurement and practice guidelines with the slightly jaundiced eye of the clinical researcher, recognizing that, from time to time, even the best science will turn out to be completely wrong, or at least partly off base.”

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  1. mcb December 23, 2007 at 1:17 am #

    I think we have overused perioperative beta blockers, and it’s at least in part because we extrapolated from the studies, applying the results to patients who would not have met the study criteria. Of course, this kind of extrapolation is fairly common.

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