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Granite. Marble. Quartz. Limestone.
It's sounds more fifth-grade science class than house beautiful.
Just like in grade school, you have to do your homework. Better to know the facts before putting these to the test in your kitchen or bathroom.
For example: Calcutta marble. It's pretty, but not practical for kitchen tops.
"It's porous, and it will scratch," said Becca Schreiber of Everett's Quality Counter.
Not to worry, though. You can still get the Calcutta look in your kitchen. There are clones made of acrylics, engineered stone and other materials able to withstand the daily grind.
Family dynamics determine the right tops for your household. If there's a tendency to leave fizzing cans of orange pop, knives with grape jelly and (gasp) hot pans on the counter, try a nonwhite quartz.
There are tons of color and pattern options for tops. Each material has its own pros and cons.
"The leaders are granite and quartz," Schreiber said.
Prices vary, but often these two are comparable in price.
Granite is quarried from the earth. Granite tops can turn cookie-cutter kitchens into a dramatic showplace.
"It's amazing what mother nature can pop out," Schreiber said.
Some maintenance is require. If left unsealed, granite can absorb stains and cause dark spots and discoloration.
Quartz is engineered stone.
It is about 95 percent crushed natural stone. The rest is a filler, typically a synthetic resin to bid the stone.
"They lay it out on a sheet and get it to the thickness and let it dry and harden," Schreiber said.
Like fruitcake.
Solid surface acrylics and polyester blends are synthetic.
"A lot of medical offices use the nonporous acrylics. It's sanitary," Schreiber said.
Other countertop options include wood, concrete and laminate.
And if you can't decide. No problem. Choose two. It's trendy to use a different material on islands than the main countertops. It differentiates and accents the spaces.
But wait. You're not done. You still have to choose an edge. Square, rounded, bullnose, bevel, egg, ogee ... oh, my.
• Pros: Nonporous. Sanitary. Scratches can be sanded or buffed out. Seamless.
• Cons: Not heat resistant.
• Cost: $39 to $72 square foot
• Pros: Low maintenance. Durable. Patterns more consistent than granite.
• Cons: Can cost as much as granite.
• COST: $58 to $84 square foot
• Pros: Bold movement and colors. Wide price range. No two slabs exactly alike.
• Cons: Must be sealed. Seams.
• Cost: $60 to $100 square foot
• Pros: Natural beauty. Elegant. Unique patterns and designs.
• Cons: Porous. Stains. Scratches.
• Cost: $60 to $80 square foot
Source: Quality Counter, 3411 Hayes St., Everett; 425-303-9180; www.qualitycounter.com.
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As hospitals drive growth in programs and health plans take a back seat, this new subspecialty comes into its own
Sharon Baker
Increased emphasis on improving quality and patient safety in hospitals, growing pressures to reduce costs, and new limits on residency work hours have all led to an explosion in the number of physicians who work solely in hospitals.
Ten years ago, only a few hundred hospitalists worked in the United States. Today, approximately 12,000 physicians practice hospital medicine, making it the fastest growing medical specialty in the country, according to the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM). By 2010, SHM predicts, the number of hospitalists could rise to 30,000, making hospital medicine larger than cardiology.
Such rapid growth has surprised even Robert Wachter, MD, a recognized leader in the field who, along with a colleague, coined the term hospitalist in an article in the New England Journal of Medicine in August 1996. Wachter, chief of the hospitalist group at the University of California — San Francisco Medical Center, says that the health care industry's focus on quality, patient safety, and cost efficiency is fueling much of the growth.
"The health care system is moving rapidly toward a value-based system, which means that hospitals, doctors, and medical groups will all do better if they can provide the highest quality of care most efficiently at the lowest cost," Wachter says. "Hospital medicine is a solution to so many different problems."
Proponents of hospital medicine argue that physicians who constantly care for acutely ill patients develop skills that make them better equipped to identify problems, to create treatment plans, and to move patients through the system quickly, thereby saving the hospital (and health plans, employers, and beneficiaries) money.
"Best practices"
"We all tend to incorporate each other's best practices in the way we deliver care, which means there's more of a single standard of care that's being delivered," says Bradley Rosen, MD, MBA, a hospitalist and assistant clinical professor in the department of internal medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
Hospitalists can also help relieve overcrowded emergency departments, take care of unassigned or uninsured patients, and fill the gap created by new regulations that limit residency work hours. In addition, supporters say that hospitalist programs enable primary care physicians to focus on and schedule more outpatients, thereby becoming experts in outpatient preventive medicine.
Critics of hospitalist programs, however, contend that lack of continuity between inpatient and outpatient care may harm patients. A chief concern is that patients may not feel comfortable being cared for by an unknown physician.
In addition, critics say, both hospitalists and primary care physicians can lose insight into medical trends that occur outside of their respective settings.
Studies have shown that hospitalist programs can help reduce hospital costs and lengths of stay. For example, an August 2004 study published in the American Journal of Managed Care found that patients cared for by hospitalists averaged one day less in the hospital than other patients. Overall hospitalization costs for those patients were reduced by 10 percent. Although the study found that costs per day were higher, researchers suggested that the greater availability of hospitalists or their style of care might lead to quicker or more thorough patient evaluations.
Ron Greeno, MD, chief medical officer and cofounder of Cogent Healthcare, which implements and manages hospitalist programs, says his company helps to reduce costs per case by up to $1,000 and to decrease lengths of stay by about 30 percent. Based in Irvine, Calif., Cogent manages hospitalist programs in 25 hospitals in 16 states.
However, David Meltzer, MD, PhD, says that "the simple story that hospitalists can be counted on to always save money is not always true." Meltzer, a hospitalist and associate professor in the department of medicine, department of economics and Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, is finalizing a randomized study that compares the use of hospitalists with traditional physicians in six academic medical centers. He hopes to publish the study this summer.
Although Meltzer would not detail the results at this time, he did say that people should not assume that hospitalists always lower costs. "The crucial questions we need to ask are when do hospitalists work, when don't they work, and why. That is the focus of our study."
Hospitals in charge
In the early days, hospitalist programs were largely driven by health plans as a way to lower costs and improve efficiencies. Capitation programs and Medicare's package pricing of diagnosis-related groups were among the factors contributing to the push toward hospital medicine. Although several plans tried requiring their primary care physicians to use hospitalists, the pushback was intense. Most plans have since abandoned involuntary models.
Today, hospital medicine is being driven primarily by hospitals, an evolution that makes perfect sense to Wachter.
"Hospitals have recognized the value of hospitalists. At UCSF, we can identify hospitalists who are key leaders in all sorts of areas. They are young, enthusiastic, collaborative physicians who are more than willing to roll up their sleeves and help build new IT systems or improve safety and quality of care. The investment UCSF provides to its hospitalist program is seen as one of the best investments the medical center ever made."
Although health plans may no longer be the driving force behind hospital medicine, Wachter contends that they are still a prime beneficiary. "In many settings, managed care is getting a free ride," he says. "The hospital is the main funder of these programs, so managed care organizations are benefiting from good hospitalist programs without actually having to pay for them."
Larry Wellikson, MD, chief executive officer of the SHM, sees hospitalists and health plans as logical partners.
"At the end of the day, hospitalists are trying to provide efficient and effective care, which really should be the tag line for managed care. It isn't just about saving money, it's about doing the right thing in the most efficient way. As managed care organizations look at the problems they need to solve in a hospital, I would say that their first step should be to examine how hospitalists can help them."
According to the SHM, hospitals employ 38 percent of hospitalists. Another 23 percent are employed by hospitalist-only groups such as Cogent and IPC-The Hospitalist Co. Multispecialty groups, including health plans, employ 16 percent, and academic hospital medicine programs employ 15 percent.
Most hospitalists are salaried employees, earning an average of $155,000 plus bonus, according to the SHM. Some hospitalists are paid on a fee-for-service basis and/or receive performance incentives based on productivity and quality measures.
Hospitalist models vary within hospitals and health plans. Although some hospitals require patients to be treated only by a hospitalist upon admission, others like Cedars-Sinai continue to allow both hospitalists and primary care physicians to take care of hospitalized patients.
Some hospitals employ hospitalists directly, whereas others contract with hospitalist groups to provide the service.
In most of its hospitals, Kaiser Permanente, one of the early adopters of hospital medicine, uses salaried hospitalists.
Rather than employ hospitalists directly, other health plans use performance-based incentives to encourage their medical groups and IPAs to hire hospitalists. For example, within its HMO product line, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois offers its medical groups additional funds based on quality and hospital utilization measures tied to patient safety and outcomes in readmission rates.
"We're looking not just for shorter lengths of stay but overall better use of the hospital environment," says Stanley Borg, DO, vice president and chief medical officer of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois.
With its PPO product, Borg says, the health plan uses a "soft-steerage" approach by encouraging hospitals to assign hospitalized Blue Cross Blue Shield patients who do not have a primary care physician to a hospitalist.
Cigna uses the same approach in some states but contracts with vendors in other markets to set up hospitalist programs in hospitals that treat its patients.
Increased challenges As the ranks of hospitalists have grown, so too have their responsibilities and professional challenges.
"Initially we viewed ourselves as the primary care doctor within the hospital," explains Cara Steinkeler, MD, at Kaiser Sunnyside Medical Center in Portland, Ore. "Those days are gone. We're increasingly taking on more leadership roles in the hospital, doing a lot of comanagement with other specialties, and helping make the hospital run more smoothly."
For example, hospitalists today work more closely with surgical teams, providing pre- and post-operative patient care. They are also conducting quality improvement research, developing patient safety programs, and teaching residents at academic medical centers.
As hospitalists mature in their careers, it is natural that they take on additional responsibilities, says Winthrop Whitcomb, MD. "Being in the hospital all the time allows us to develop relationships with all other disciplines within the hospital," he says. "The major thrust of the hospitalist model is that we can become agents of system change within the hospital."
One of the founders of SHM, Whitcomb is a prime example of such evolution. After running Mercy Medical Center's Inpatient Medicine Service for 10 years, he is now director of performance improvement at the Springfield, Mass.-based hospital.
Career ladder
Whitcomb predicts that many hospitalists will eventually move into senior management roles in hospitals because they understand their operational and strategic challenges.
A recent study by the Center for Studying Health System Change suggests that the growing demand for hospitalists and the new conditions under which they work could mean that new hospitalists may not be properly prepared and may need more diverse training than in the past. Published in the February 2005 edition of the Journal of General Internal Medicine, the study examined hospitalist trends during site visits in 12 communities in 2002–03.
Wellikson, the SHM CEO, agrees that improved training is a major challenge. Most practicing hospitalists are now trained in general internal medicine. Cogent and IPC both offer additional training programs for their hospitalists, and SHM sponsors occasional leadership tracks in practice management and quality improvement for its members. SHM is also working with academic medical centers to alter their training so that three-year residents have an opportunity to acquire more of the skills they might need to become hospitalists, Wellikson says.
Becoming its own specialty
Because of hospital medicine's explosive growth, many in the industry predict that it will become a formal subspecialty within the next decade. Wachter says the American Board of Internal Medicine is currently discussing how best to certify hospitalists.
In addition, Greeno predicts growth in the number of specialists within the ranks of hospitalists as well. Pediatric hospitalists, for example, currently make up about 9 percent of the total number of hospitalists, according to the SHM. Greeno expects surgical hospitalists to be the next specialty to take off.
Rosen from Cedars-Sinai suggests that the specialization of hospital medicine will also benefit primary care physicians.
"As the hospitalist movement grows, I think you'll see a shift in primary care physicians becoming stronger advocates for their patients in the clinic," he says. "You have to have someone who recognizes the context of all these specialists."
Greeno contends that hospital medicine provides the United States with an opportunity to design a higher quality, more cost-effective model of care for its hospitalized patients.
"If you take a large number of patients and put them in the hands of a relatively small team of physicians, you really have the opportunity to standardize care to a best-practice level and improve the way that care is provided," he says. "Our entire health care system and the well-being of our population will benefit."
Sharon Baker is a freelance writer based in Charlotte, N.C.
What's a hospitalist?
These physicians, who work solely in hospitals, are the doctors of record for hospitalized patients of other physicians. Once a patient is admitted, the hospitalist coordinates all care, from nurses to specialists. Care is handed back to the primary care physician when the patient is discharged.
Keeping lines of communication open
The potential for poor communication between primary care physicians and hospitalists is often called the Achilles' heel of the hospitalist movement.
The American Academy of Family Physicians developed guidelines that encourage tight and continuing communication between family physicians and hospitalists to ensure continuity and good quality care.
Industry specialists say technological advances such as e-mail, computerized medical records, and physician order entry systems make it easier for these groups to communicate.
"Communication is a core competency of hospitalists," says Sylvia McKean, MD, medical director of the BWF Hospitalist Service, which covers Brigham and Women's Hospital and Faulkner Hospital in Boston. "We place tremendous emphasis on it."
When a patient is admitted to the hospital, McKean says, the hospitalist on duty lets the primary care physician know that the patient has arrived and asks how the physician wants to be informed about diagnosis and treatment as the patient proceeds through the system. Most select e-mail updates. If a new diagnosis occurs that is unexpected or of great severity, the primary care physician is asked to come to the hospital.
"This is really a partnership between both parties," she says.
Strong communication between patients and physicians is equally important, says Winthrop Whitcomb, MD, director of performance improvement at Mercy Medical Center in Springfield, Mass.
"There are always going to be challenges related to information flow and continuity and instilling trust in patients when they're seeing a physician they don't know," he says. "The trust has to come from primary care physicians endorsing hospitalists and from hospitalists' ability to create a relationship with patients in a short period of time."
For further reading
Associations with reduced length of stay and costs on an academic hospitalist service, The American Journal of Managed Care, August 2004.
Health care market trends and the evolution of hospitalist use and roles, Journal of General Internal Medicine, February 2005.
Impact of a health maintenance organization hospitalist system in academic pediatrics, Pediatrics, October 2002.
The hospitalist movement: Ten issues to consider, Hospital Practice, February 1999.
The effect of full-time faculty hospitalists on the efficiency of care at a community teaching hospital, Annals of Internal Medicine, August 1998.
The impact of hospitalists on the cost and quality of inpatient care in the United States: A research synthesis, Medical Care Research and Review, August 2005.
The Society of Hospital Medicine, www.hospitalmedicine.org.


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Spencer stole her sister's boyfriend. Aria is brokenhearted over her English teacher. Emily likes her new friend Maya . . . as much more than a friend. Hanna's obsession with looking flawless is making her sick. But their most horrible secret yet is so scandalous that the truth would ruin them forever.
And why shouldn't I tell? They deserve to lose it all. With every crumpled note, wicked IM, and vindictive text message I send, I'll be taking these pretty little liars down. Trust me, I've got enough dirt to bury them alive.
About the Author
Sara Shepard is the author of two New York Times bestselling series, Pretty Little Liars and The Lying Game. She graduated from New York University and has an MFA from Brooklyn College. Sara's Pretty Little Liars novels were inspired by her upbringing in Philadelphia's Main Line.
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Still don't have a Halloween costume? Don't panic. You've got time. And these celebrities have some amazing ideas
There are so many reasons Halloween is one of my favorite holidays: an excuse to buy candy corn in bulk, movies like "Hocus Pocus" playing on loop, and of course ... the costumes. The only down side? There's always a ton of pressure to think of an amazing ensemble. This year I am determined not to cop out by throwing on a pair of cat ears and calling it a night. So to get inspired, I've rounded up my favorite celebrity Halloween costumes of all time.
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October 25, 89
Vol. 05 , No. 04
The Heart of the Deal: LBOs and Corporate America
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1989 4:00 p.m., McKENNA AUDITORIUM
George Roberts, founding partner in the investment banking firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., delivers a talk entitled "The Heart of the Deal: LBOs and Corporate America," on Thursday, November 2, at 4:00 p.m. in McKenna Auditorium.
Roberts graduated cum laude from Claremont McKenna College in 1966, and earned his law degree from Hastings School of Law. In 1976 Roberts, Henry Kravis '67, and Jerome Kohlberg left Bear Stearns & Co. to form Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. KKR has since become the world's leading specialist in leveraged buyouts. Among KKR's major acquisitions are Safeway Stores, Duracell Batteries, Beatrice Foods, Motel 6, and R.J. Reynolds/Nabisco.
Roberts is a trustee of Claremont McKenna College.
Local Representation
Dan Walters, a long-time California journalist and author of The New California: Facing the 21st Century (1986), will serve on a press panel at the Rose Institute Board of Governors' dinner, following a day-long conference on local representation. Mr. Walters joined the Sacramento Union's capitol bureau in 1975 and eventually became bureau chief. In 1984 he moved to the Sacramento Bee. His column on California politics appears in newspapers throughout the state.
Joining Mr. Walters on the panel is Frank del Olmo. An editorial writer for the Los Angeles Times, Mr. del Olmo received his B.A. in journalism from Cal State Northridge, where he was both overall outstanding graduating senior and outstanding graduating senior in journalism. He received the Pulitzer Prize gold medal for meritorious public service for his series, "Southern California's Latino Community." The dinner is not open for reservations, but individuals are urged to attend the panel discussion, which begins at 7:00.
Born on the Fourth of July
Director Oliver Stone is making good his promise to Ron Kovic, a fellow ex-grunt and Purple Heart recipient, to tell the disabled Vietnam veteran's story. The vow came nine years before Stone's 1987 Platoon, the wildly successful story of his Vietnam War. Born on the Fourth of July (1989) stars Tom Cruise, who plays a Vietnam vet in a wheelchair who bitterly protests the war in which he fought. Kovic and Stone collaborated on the script, and in 1978 co-wrote the first draft, which was based on a book written by Kovic. Kovic's memories of their 1978 dream are painful: "Oliver had said to me. If I ever get the opportunity to direct, if I ever break through, I'll come back for you.' And he never forgot that promise ...."
Ron Kovic has been in a wheelchair, paralyzed from the waist down, ever since his spine was shattered by North Vietnamese bullets in a fire fight not far from the DMZ, near the Cua Viet river. Toward the end of the war, he was frequently seen on TV angrily denouncing the Vietnam War as a "crime" and the U.S. government's treatment of its disabled Vietnam veterans. "I would tell them . . . that we must never let what happened in Vietnam happen again."
If you would like to attend the 5:30 reception and 6:00 dinner, please return the attached coupon. The lecture begins at 7:00.
An Evening with Ray Bradbury
The Athenaeum is proud to present Ray Bradbury, who has been dubbed "the World's Greatest Literary Writer." In the literary field, however, he is also emerging as an equally gifted poet, and it is in this capacity that he will speak at CMC. He is the second in the Athenaeum's American poets series.
Mr. Bradbury has published 23 books-novels and collections of stories, poems, and plays. His books include The Martian Chronicles (1950), Fahrenheit 451 (1953), The Golden Apples of the Sun and Other Stories (1953), and Long after Midnight (1976). He has written screenplays for It Came from Outer Space (1953), The Picasso Summer (1957), I Sing the Body Electric (1969), and Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983).
In 1964 Mr. Bradbury founded the Pandemonium Theater, which has produced many of his plays, including Falling Upward (1988), a comedy about working in Ireland, and for John Huston on the screenplay of Moby-Dick (1956).
Please join us for his talk in the Athenaeum at 7:00, preceded by a reception at 5:30 and dinner at 6:00.
Poland 1989: Democracy Triumphant?
Dr. Andrzej Korbonski, a distinguished Polish-American scholar, is the first speaker in the Keck Center and Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum lecture series entitled "The Future of Communism in Europe and Asia."
Dr. Korbonski was born and raised in Poland. During the Second World War he joined the Polish underground army to fight against Nazi Germany and spent a year in a prisoner of war camp in Germany. After the war he received his BS degree in economics from the University of London and his PhD in public law and government from Columbia University.
Presently Dr. Korbonski serves as director of the prestigious Center for Russian and East European Studies and is a professor of political science at UCLA. He is also the co-director of the RAND-UCLA Center for the Study of Soviet International Behavior.
During his most recent visit to Warsaw last August and September, he observed the historic unfolding of Poland's domestic and foreign affairs.
His speech begins at 7:00, preceded by a 5:30 reception and 6:00 dinner.
Mid-Life Revisionism and the Ideologies of Aging in Literature
Margaret Gullette's Safe at Last in the Middle Years: The Invention of the Midlife Progress Novel: Saul Bellow, Margaret Drabble, Anne Tyler, John Updike (1988) celebrates a new kind of novel. Taking issue with the belief that disillusionment, loss, and despair are the necessary elements of mid-life, she discovers in contemporary fiction an alternative plot. She reveals an emerging genre that deals not with fear, but with desire, and not with youthful despair, but with a wide range of mid-life desires.
Dr. Gullette has also written The Art and Craft of Teaching (1984), and she is now at work on a companion volume to Safe at Last in the Middle Years about the ways in which the 19th-century novel formulates the middle years. Her research and criticism should be of special interest not only to students of contemporary literature, women's studies, and American studies and literature, but also to students of current psychological developmental theory, lifespan studies, and sociology.
Dr. Gullette speaks at 7:00 in the Athenaeum, and her remarks are preceded by a reception at 5:30 and dinner at 6:00.
Mary Pickford as My Best Girl
On Thursday evening, November 9, at 7:30 p.m., the newly renovated Mary Pickford Auditorium (formerly Bauer Lecture Hall) will be dedicated and named in recognition of a grant from The Mary Pickford Foundation. The evening program features a showing of the 1927 My Best Girl, starring Academy Award winners Mary Pickford and Buddy Rogers. Mr. Rogers, husband of Mary Pickford and a trustee of The Mary Pickford Foundation, will speak following the film showing.
There will not be an open dinner prior to this event. Individuals are invited to the movie and Mr. Rogers' remarks. No sign-ups are necessary.
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
Widely acclaimed for his controversial and truthful coverage of the Vietnam War during his years in Saigon as bureau chief for United Press International and later as correspondent for The New York Times, journalist Neil Sheehan has remained obsessed with the paradoxes of the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War. It took 16 years for Mr. Sheehan to write A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (1988), which has been called the most important book ever written about Vietnam.
Neil Sheehan graduated from Harvard in 1958. Following graduation, he served in the U.S. Army for three years, working as a newsman in Korea and Tokyo. Upon leaving the army in 1962, he took a full-time job with UPI in Vietnam, becoming the Saigon bureau chief and their third, full-time American correspondent. There he learned to develop his own sources, rather than taking official statements at their face value, and often accompanied troops into battle to gain first-hand information. Lt. Col. John Paul Vann, on whom Sheehan would later focus A Bright Shining Lie, offered outspoken views about the established military policy; Vann was a valuable source of information to the news correspondents covering the war.
In 1971 Sheehan played a role in the publication by The New York Times of the Pentagon Papers, which elucidated the history of American involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. Although the Times received the Pulitzer Prize, in the public service category in 1972, for the publication of the papers, Sheehan received no recognition for his role. In 1973 Neil Sheehan took a three-year leave of absence from The New York Times to write A Bright Shining Lie. He received numerous fellowships to fund his work, including a Guggenheim fellowship, a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship, and a fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Critics were effusive in their praise of A Bright Shining Lie, citing its immense power. For his work Sheehan won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award in nonfiction, and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award.
Although he sees the Vietnam War as a tragic mistake, Sheehan believes that America's involvement might have prevented a greater tragedy later on. Unlike earlier American soldiers, "the Vietnam veteran brought home a different kind of wisdom. He learned that you can fight a bad war, that you can get killed for nothing, that it's a complicated world. This wisdom is necessary to a country over the long run. In that sense, Vietnam can be a very good experience for America, and to some extent it already has been."
If you would like to join Neil Sheehan for a 5:30 reception and 6:00 dinner, please complete and return the attached coupon to the Athenaeum. The lecture begins at 7:00.
Vietnam: 25 Years Later
Robert Scalapino is Robson Research Professor of Government and director of the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also editor of Asian Survey, a scholarly, monthly publication that circulates throughout the U.S. and abroad.
Dr. Scalapino has written numerous books and articles on Asian politics and U.S.-Asian policy. His most recent books are Asia and the Road Ahead (1975), The Foreign Policy of Modern Japan (1977), The United States and Korea: Looking Ahead (1979), The Japanese Communist Movement, 1920-1966 (1967), Modern China and Its Revolutionary Process (1985), and Major Power Relations in Northeast Asia (1987).
Dr. Scalapino has visited Vietnam many times since 1958. He believes that the devastating and tragic results that one sees in Vietnam today are the outcome of the non-communists losing the war, and that U.S. policies contributed to that loss.
Come and be part of the last lecture in our series on "The Myths and Realities of the Vietnam War." Please use the coupon for your dinner reservation.
Fukuyama's-The End of History?
The Claremont Philosophy Colloquium presents Clark Kucheman and Harry Jaffa as the first speakers in the "Philosophy and . .." series. The series, which is designed to demonstrate the connection between the approaches of philosophy and other disciplines to contemporary issues.
Professors Kucheman and Jaffa of CMC will discuss Francis Fukuyama's recent, controversial article, "The End of History?" (1989). Fukuyama claims that the rational end of history has arrived, but in the ideals of the liberal West, not in communism, as Marx predicted.
Kucheman and Jaffa will discuss whether we have or, indeed, can reach the end of history. Copies of the article and responses, which appeared in The National Interest, are available at the Athenaeum.
The discussion begins at 7:00, following a 5:30 reception and 6:00 dinner. Please return the enclosed meal reservation.
The Sunday brunch extravaganza is here again! This year's second Sunday brunch takes place on November 5 at 11:00. Sunday brunch only comes once a month and is extremely popular, so it fills up quickly. Return the enclosed coupon as soon as possible, so as not to miss this delectable event. Sunday brunch is limited to CMC students and one guest per student. CMC faculty and staff are also invited to attend.
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The annual day camp is underway with the theme of "Go West Again."
More than 50 kids are learning about the 1800s - everything from what it was like to attend class in a one-room school house to the clothing worn during that time.
The museum offers this hands-on lesson as a way to bring the stories from the pages of a history book to life.
"History is recorded in books, but for children it's a lot easier if they see history come alive. So, they get to actually see a little bit of what history looked like rather than just reading about it in a book," said volunteer Stan Rippey.
The four-day camp wraps up on Thursday.


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Jake's Corner
9/17/13 Miley & Liam Splitsville
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Tuesday, September 17, 2013
It's official: MILEY CYRUS and LIAM HEMSWORTH are finished. Reps for both of them confirmed it yesterday. We don't know WHY they split, but there are rumors that Liam was cheating, and that he was fed up with Miley's new image and attitude.
Here's MILEY CYRUS explaining her behavior in the new issue of "Harper's Bazaar" . . . quote, "I was an adult when I was supposed to be a kid. So now I'm an adult and I'm acting like a kid."
SOFIA VERGARA and her on-again, off-again boyfriend NICK LOEB are OFF again. And this is after getting engaged last year on Sofia's 40th birthday. They dated for about three years. There's no word why they split, but there have been rumors that he's a SERIAL CHEATER.
In an interview with an Australian magazine, ROBERT PATTINSON may have given some insight into where KRISTEN STEWART stands with him. He said, quote, "I don't ever feel the need to forgive or expect people to be. I judge people on their actions. I don't really care if it's wrong or right, I give them the benefit of the doubt. If they do something I can't be bothered to deal with, I just cut them out."
DINA LOHAN turned 51 on Sunday, and she celebrated with all four of her kids: LINDSAY, ALI, Cody and Michael Jr. Here's something she DIDN'T celebrate with: ALCOHOL. Seriously . . . almost the entire Lohan family got together at a restaurant that serves booze . . . and NOBODY DRANK. Sources say they ordered Diet Cokes, waters, Shirley Temples and cherry sodas all night."
It shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone that RIHANNA enjoys the occasional reefer cigarette. But her friend KATY PERRY kind of called her on it in an interview with "Elle Canada". She said, quote, "I think Rihanna always looks so fresh and I'm like, 'How do you do that? We all know how much pot you smoke!' And you don't sleep because you're on Instagram at 4 o'clock in the morning!"
9/16/13 Dina Lohan DUI
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Monday, September 16, 2013
LEBRON JAMES married his high school sweetheart Savannah Brinson at the Grand Del Mar resort in San Diego on Saturday night. Guests included several NBA stars, plus the owner and coach of the Miami Heat. There are also reports that BEYONCÉ and JAY Z performed "Crazy In Love".
JOHN LEGEND married model CHRISSY TEIGEN in Lake Como, Italy on Saturday. Guests included Kanye West, Quincy Jones, Stevie Wonder and Brooklyn Decker. John sang "All of Me" . . . a song he wrote for Chrissy . . . and Stevie sang "Ribbon in the Sky".
In the digital age, this is as much proof of a breakup as anything: MILEY CYRUS has UN-FOLLOWED her fiancé LIAM HEMSWORTH on Twitter. Interestingly, Liam is still following Miley. Hers is one of only 17 feeds he follows.
On that TV show "The Test", MICHAEL LOHAN challenged his ex-wife DINA to take a drug test. She refused. The show aired on Thursday. And that night, Dina got a DUI on Long Island. Dina was pulled over at about 11:00 P.M. for going 77 mph in a 55 mile-per-hour zone. She had a blood-alcohol level of .2% . . . which is more than TWICE the legal limit of .08%. Here's another interesting detail: Dina claimed she was INJURED during her arrest. She was evaluated by emergency personnel who said nothing was wrong with her . . . and at that point, police say she, quote, "recanted her claim."
PAULA DEEN was brought to tears by a 10-MINUTE STANDING OVATION at a cooking convention in Houston on Saturday. She told the crowd, quote, "We all experience pain in some way but pain is also a good thing because it makes you grow."
KHLOE KARDASHIAN is reportedly trying to keep LAMAR ODOM from hemorrhaging money by putting a hold on their credit cards. Even though Lamar has his own millions, Khloe apparently controls the cash flow in the relationship. But Lamar has been getting around it by hocking jewelry.
9/13/13 Khloe Gets Tested
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Friday, September 13, 2013
Rumor has it KHLOE KARDASHIAN got tested for STDs after LAMAR ODOM admitted that he'd been unfaithful . . . and didn't always use protection. A source says Khloe has proof he cheated with at least FIVE other women because she had hired a private investigator. And it could cost him if they divorce, because there's an infidelity clause in their prenup.
NICOLE KIDMAN got knocked to the ground in New York City yesterday by a paparazzi scumbag on a bicycle. She was on her way into a hotel when the photographer came flying down the sidewalk at about 20 miles an hour, trying to get a shot of her. But he lost control of the bike, crashed into her, and they both went down. The guy got a ticket, probably for riding on the sidewalk.
Remember one-time reality show dad Jon Gosselin? Well he has taken a job waiting and bussing tables at a pub in Pennsylvania. Jon starred on "Jon & Kate Plus 8," but is now living off the grid in a cabin, and struggling to pay the rent. He is also dealing with a lawsuit from his ex, Kate Gosselin, centered around his involvement in a tell-all book published about her.
9/12/13 Angelina Close to Death??
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Thursday, September 12, 2013
Even MILEY CYRUS is tired of seeing herself with her tongue hanging out. During an interview on some French TV show, she said, quote, "It's getting a little old. I'm going to have to retire it!''
Are MILEY CYRUS and LIAM HEMSWORTH seeing other people? Sources say Miley is seeing producer (slash) rapper MIKE WILL.MADE.IT. And Liam might be enjoying some action from JANUARY JONES from "Mad Men". A source says, quote, "Liam and Miley haven't officially split, but it's over. It's just that neither wants to pull the trigger."
LIONEL RICHIE went through the ringer with his daughter NICOLE, so he feels BILLY RAY CYRUS' pain. He says, quote, "Dad to Dad, I've been Billy Ray. [Miley] is just going through a period in her life and we're actually going to grit our teeth and hold our breath. I did the same thing. It's one of those things where you have to say, 'Please God let it be over soon.' That's where she is in her space and this is her expression and that's what it's all about."
The "National Enquirer" says that LINDSEY VONN cheated on TIGER WOODS. So called "sources" say she made out with a guy backstage at a JAY Z / JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE concert on August 16th. He was in his mid-40s, and was somebody she already knew. Oh, and he was, quote, "gripping her rear end" during the makeout session.
The "National Enquirer" claims that ANGELINA JOLIE thinks she only has three to five years left to live, due to various health issues. A source says, quote, "Angelina is trying to live her life to the fullest . . . She's going to do everything she can to prolong her life but really believes she won't even reach her mid-forties." She's 38.
As far as we know, LINDSAY LOHAN is still sticking with this whole sobriety thing. Maybe she IS serious about it this time. In fact, the word is that she's spending $2,500 A DAY on a sober companion. She was spotted in New York City the other day with a guy who might just be that companion.
9/11/13 Ashton & Demi Together
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Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Sources say that KRISTEN STEWART'S breakup with ROBERT PATTINSON is still causing her so much stress that she's LOSING HAIR. Friends are begging Rob to pay her a visit in Germany, where she's filming a movie. But he REFUSES, because as far as he's concerned, the relationship is over.
ASHTON KUTCHER and DEMI MOORE were spotted together at the airport in Burbank . . . but it was all about business. They had both attended a conference in San Jose on behalf of their charity . . . which works to combat things like sex trafficking and child pornography. And they ended up on the same flight back home. The paparazzi caught them getting off the plane together and talking as they walked through the terminal. Sources say Demi didn't want them to be seen together, but Ashton convinced her to walk with him.
MARIO LOPEZ is a dad again. His wife Courtney gave birth to a baby boy Monday night. He Tweeted, quote, "It's a boy!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please welcome Dominic Lopez to the world. Couldn't be happier . . . Courtney and baby are doing just fine."
Even when celebrities are contacted for jury duty, they're rarely picked. But TOM HANKS is doing his duty as we speak . . . sitting on the jury in the case of a man accused of domestic violence. The case started yesterday. TMZ says he listened intently and took a lot of notes. He was also friendly with the other jurors, and interacted with them during breaks.
The paparazzi caught LAMAR ODOM leaving a sushi place the other night. He said he's doing okay, he doesn't have a drug problem, he doesn't need professional help and he hopes to play ball this coming season.


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When looking at the code quality of an application and willing to decide of an action plan, it is sometimes not sufficient to get a snapshot of the quality at a given time. You also need some visibility on the application history to take the right decision.
For example, let's say that you have defined a requirement that each application should have a coverage by unit tests of 60%. And let's say that one of you application has got 50% coverage. Without historical data, you can only conclude that the team does not write sufficient unit tests and that it should become the next focus of attention. But let's now say that a couple of months ago the coverage for this application was 20%... then you would probably conclude that although the requirement is not made yet, the team is doing a very good job and that no special focus needs to be put on unit tests. This is why having access to historical information is important.
Sonar provides this historical information through two features: the TimeMachine and the Historical Information.
The TimeMachine
The TimeMachine is made of two generic widgets that can be instantiated and configured in any dashboard.
Timeline Widget
The Timeline widget provides the capability to display a chart containing historical data of up to 3 metrics. Passing your mouse over the timeline will display the different values.
This widget can be customized:
History Table Widget
The History Table widget provides the capability to display a table with the historical data up to 10 metrics:
This widget can be customized:
Default Dashboard
A default TimeMachine dashboard comes out-of-the-box when installing Sonar. This is a combination of Timeline and History Table widgets:
Delete A Quality Snaphshot
Whatever the reason (wrong quality profile, issue with analysis, etc.), it is possible to remove a snapshot to polish the TimeMachine widgets:
What Are Tendencies?
The tendencies are arrows that are displayed next to metrics in the dashboards. Those arrows show the trend for the measure.
How To Read Tendencies?
Sonar uses 5 levels to describe the tendency of a measure. Each level is represented by an arrow:
Strong increase
Medium increase
Medium decrease
Strong decrease
Sonar uses black ( ) arrows to represent tendencies on the quantitative metrics (the ones that are not reflecting quality of the code, for example number of lines of code).
Sonar uses red ( ) or green ( ) arrows to represent tendencies on the qualitative metrics (the ones that are reflecting quality of the code, for example code coverage). The red is used when the quality decreases, the green when it increases.
Of course, it is to be noted that if the percentage of duplicated lines decreases it will be represented in green by because it is considered as an improvement.
How Are Tendencies Calculated?
To compute the tendencies, making a simple difference between the last two measures of each metric would not be accurate enough. Therefore Sonar implements a more advanced algorithm: the least squares method. The least squares is a linear regression analysis that helps removing the noise in order to determine a trend on discrete measures. In other words, Sonar takes all the measure taken in the last XX days, checks that the set of measures makes some sense (by testing the correlation rate), determines an estimated slope and displays it using the arrows.
It is possible to configure the tendencies by logging in as an administrator and going to Configuration > Differential Views.
- To activate/deactivate the computation of tendencies, set the Skip tendencies property to true/false. Default is true.
- To configure the number of days used to compute tendencies, set the Tendency period property to the desired number of days. Default is 30.
House Cleaning
House cleaning is done during analysis of projects in 2 main streams:
Removing useless data
When you do a new analysis of your project, some data that were present in Sonar will not be accessible anymore. For example the source code of the previous analysis, measures at file level... Those data will automatically be removed at the end of a new analysis.
Removing un-necessary analysis
This is very useful to analyze frequently a project in Sonar to see progress on quality. It is also very useful to be able to see the trends over weeks / months / years. But when you are back in time, you do not really need the same level of details as you would for one week ago. Therefore, since Sonar 2.5, a new "Database Cleaner" has been added to Sonar. It aims to delete some rows in database to save some space and to improve overall performances. Here is its default configuration :
- it deletes all data older than 5 years
- it keeps a single monthly analysis by project over 1 year
- it keeps a single weekly analysis by project over 1 month
- analysis with an event are kept
These settings can be changed in the page Configuration > Settings > Database Cleaner.
Deprecated - Previous version of the TimeMachine
Exploring the TimeMachine
Wherever in a project, it is always possible to access the Time Machine functionality through the left menu.
The Time machine enables to reply the past by looking at a series of past analysis. The Time machine page is divided into 4 sections.
The custom chart
This chart represent a timeline from the first ever analysis to the last ever analysis. On this timeline will appear all the metrics that are ticked below
To change the metrics appearing on the chart, tick the metrics you are interested in and press at the bottom of the page. The chart is then regenerated with the chosen metrics.
Every event, either generated or manually entered appear on the chart as vertical doted lines.
It possible to change the default metric appearing on the chart by clicking on Set as default.
The chosen analysis
When launching the Time Machine, Sonar displays the first snapshot ever and the last 5 events in the system.
It is possible to add snapshots to the view : snapshots can be selected either by date
or by events (only version events will be listed)
It is possible to hide a snapshot from the view by using the hide link next to the snapshot to be removed
The metric table
On the left of this table will appear the list of all possible metrics (grouped by families) stored in the system, including the manual metrics. Each column represents a snapshot and will display the measure for the metric. At the right of the table appears a sparkline showing the evolution of the chosen snapshots.
The complexity chart
This chart compares the repartition of the classes complexity between all the chosen snapshots.


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Toddler, Teen & In-Between
By Rebecca Teti
Monday: Parenting
(Join each day's Coffee Talk discussion: Mon: Parenting; Tues: Open Forum; Wed: NFP; Thu: Marriage; Fri: Education; Sat/Sun: Changing Roles)
Terrible toddlers? Trying teens? Something in between? This weekly forum is the spot to share your questions and struggles about all things related to parenthood.
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When do I tell my 4th grader about sex, abstinence, you know all the birds and bees info. Also how far should the talk go?
I just read an article about how "christian" music isn't really important. I know that much of what is written for Christians is trite, and not award-worthy, but I still would rather have my kids singing out "Shout to the north and the south~sing to the east and the west" or "Our God is greater, Our God is healer awesome and power"---than "Pour some sugar on me" "Do me" or some trash from a gangsta group or worse... What do you all think?
Totally agree, Donna! Even if contemporary Christian music doesn't end up doing a whole lot to evangelize, other types of music has the potential to do a lot of harm.
If we listen to music, it is Christian music. I don;t have to worry about monitoring the lyrics. The kids listen and sing - the rhythm is good. I can;t stand muchof the contemporary modern music. I think the music is getting better and better.
Wendy, I would probably give your child a book to read on his/her own first, and then schedule time together to talk about it. I think it's important that you think of this as an ongoing conversation, not a once-in-a-childhood talk. I like the "God's Design for Sex" series of books by Brenna and Stan Jones, although we have not followed their age recommendations. Their book for parents ("How and When to Tell Your Kids About Sex") is also very helpful. Good luck!
I have a 4th grader, too, and I've only doled out information as he's asked or needed to know. I hope that we are teaching the principles of the theology of the body to him by how we live and what we say so that he respects his body, women, and his relationship with Christ. That's where he is getting his information on the nature of sacramental marriage and its importance. The time will come for specifics, but for our son, I don't think we're there yet. As far as music goes, I think there's a place for all of it - Christian and secular (excluding, of course, lyrics that are vulgar or obscene). I don't think there's any harm to cheesy pop music, Christian or otherwise. I think of it like a healthy diet. I hope my kids are getting a nice balance with exposure to classical, folk, sacred, jazz, rock, country, pop, etc. There's room for some junk in there - not that Christian music is junk. Some is very good, and the some that isn't so good is ok, too. I enjoy the Vacation Bible School cds they bring home, too!
Wendy - Every family is going to be different when they think it's time for the Birds and the Bees. I think it can be done later with boys since they develop later than girls but if they are in school, sometimes sooner is better so you can get there before peers do. Because I homeschool and am able to control what my kids are exposed to, I did not have the talk with my oldest son until he was 14 (summer after eighth grade) and he was still shocked since he had been so sheltered. He had just started puberty. We used the "Joyful Mysteries of Life" text. Theology of the Body is ongoing.
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