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Whether you see Nessie or not, you can have a monstrously good time in Inverness. A long way north, but well worth it, the city will wine you, dine you, dance your socks off and send you home happy... read more »
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Silver sand beaches, azure seas and no crowds (except at church on Sundays) - that's what you'll find on the Isle of Harris, a world apart from anywhere you've ever been... read more »
With its quiet pistes, relaxed village atmosphere and English-speaking ski schools, Courchevel 1650 in the French Alps is great for beginners – but its varied terrain thrills expert skiers too... read more »
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If ski resort runs are proving crowded, why not think about really sloping off this season and heading for the Vallee Blanche in France, Europe's longest ski run?... read more »
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2012 Iowa Conference champions
2014 overall record: 28-15
Conference record/finish: 17-11 (third place)
Letterwinners lost: 10
Letterwinners returning: 11
Position starters lost: 6 (Robbie Rushing - DH, Jordan Judkins - SS, Adam Ariola - 2B, Andrew O'Toole - RF, Jace Ahrendsen - C, Grant Seuferer - 1B)
Position starters returning: 3 (Zach Zylstra - LF, Zach Brown - 3B, Dakotah Wolken - CF)
Starting pitchers lost: 2 (Judson McKown, Robbie Rushing)
Starting pitchers returning: 2 (Dakotah Wolken, Matt Schissel)
A new era for the Central College baseball team begins as first-year coach Matt Schirm inherits a roster that is largely new as well.
The graduated class of 2014 provided the most successful four-year run in school history with 101 wins. Gone are 13 seniors as well as the coach, Adam Stevens, who left for Aurora University (Ill.) after a successful 10-year run. Schirm, a standout player at Iowa Conference rival Coe College and, most recently, the top assistant at Wartburg College looks to continue the upward trend, despite a lack of returning experience.
"In general, when you lose 13 seniors, I think on paper and from the outside we're not going to look as good as last year," Schirm said. "But Coach Stevens really did me a favor by bringing in a good recruiting class. We've got good returning players but also a good nucleus of young guys. I think if we maximize their potential we'll be right there in the mix for a conference championship."
The Dutch do return 11 letterwinners, including starters in left field, center field, third base and two of the team's starting pitchers.
"We have a good nucleus of pitchers coming back, though they need to perform better than they did in the fall workouts," Schirm said. "I feel really good about our outfield, we have a lot of depth out there. Our infield still has some question marks, but we just need some guys to step up. We have the talent, we just need guys to step up and we need to do a good job of coaching them and making them better."
Offensive production is an early concern. Four of the team's top five hitters from last season have graduated and the players responsible for 191 of the teams 249 runs batted are gone.
"We have a lot of improvement to make," Schirm said. "This fall we didn't perform that well offensively, we struck out way too much. That's going to be an area of emphasis here in the preseason."
Central, 28-15 overall last season, was 17-11 in league play, good for third place, and advanced to the league title game. Schirm said Buena Vista is his pick to repeat as champion.
"I think Buena Vista has to be the favorite," Schirm said. "They did lose some key guys, but I know they've had some good recruiting classes with good young talent. Wartburg is also going to be in the mix. Coach (Joel) Holst always has those guys ready and he does an outstanding job. Those two will be the preseason favorites."
An infield that had stayed mostly intact over the the last three years will have to be reworked. Gone are a trio of players who have started for at least three years, including one four-year starter.
Adam Ariola graduated last May after having played 159 games in four years, tied for most in school history. He along with fellow graduate Jordan Judkins had patrolled the infield together for the last three years.
"Jordan Judkins and Adam Ariola were probably the best middle infield duo in the league last year," Schirm said. "We're going to have to do the best we can to replace those guys."
The competition to replace them begins with senior Kirby Coppess moving over from third base to shortstop. Coppess hit .274 in 28 starts last season.
"Kirby had a good fall after we moved him over to shortstop," Schirm said "He performed well over there both defensively and offensively."
Other potential suitors to fill the middle infield void include a pair of returners in sophomore Noah Stochl and Spencer Gritsch. A junior, Gritsch missed most of 2014 with injury. There are also several freshmen vying for time up the middle.
"It's still kind of up in the air," Schirm said. "There's still a lot of competition going on in the middle infield."
There is also plenty of uncertainty at the corner infield slots. Other than Coppess, Zach Brown is the only returner with significant experience at the corners. Brown split time between first base and third base last season and the sophomore could do much of the same this year.
"Zach played first and third equally this fall and he's good at both," Schirm said.
Senior Jordan Gier, a former outfielder, is a possible solution at first base, while sophomore Toby Wall could help out at either corner position. Several talented freshman are also possibilities.
"We got some evaluations on guys in the fall," Schirm said. "It's really going to be an ongoing process through the preseason. There are so many guys that are competing for those positions. It's tough to tell who is going to be there in a few weeks."
With the graduation of another three-year starter in catcher Jace Ahrendsen, Schirm will also need to find a new backstop this season. Sophomore Michael Reuter is the only player on the roster with varsity catching experience, earning four starts last season He will have to hold off several freshman candidates to win the job outright.
Two returning starters and several new challengers, including a running back from the football team and a pitcher create a crowded outfield group.
"I really like our outfield depth," Schirm said. "We've got a lot of guys that I think can play."
Senior Zach Zylstra is the team's top returning hitter, batting .339 while starting nearly every game in left field. Meanwhile sophomore Dakotah Wolken split time between center field and the pitching rubber and may do the same again.
"Zach had a good fall season," Schirm said. "Dakotah is a part of our pitching staff, but he is also in the mix in the outfield as well."
Senior pitcher Andy Carr turned some heads this fall as an outfielder.
Junior Adam Lindell, a football running back for the Dutch, played outfield at Augustana (S.D.) and Lamar Community College (Colo.) before transferring to Central and joins the team this spring.
Schirm also noted the athleticism of sophomore outfielder Jacob Hirst.
Gone are three significant senior pitchers, including one of the best relief pitchers in Central history Judson McKown, a third-team all-region selection last season.
The cupboards are not bare for first-year pitching coach John Love however. Wolken broke out in a huge way last season, earning honorable mention all-conference status. He went 6-2 with a 3.60 ERA in his 65 innings. Junior Matt Schissel led the Dutch with 29 strikeouts in 49.2 innings.
"Schissel and Wolken obviously have a lot of experience," Schirm said. "They're definitely going to be in the mix for Iowa Conference starts."
Blake Judkins came on strong in his freshman season in 2014, making five starts for the Dutch and earning three wins. Schirm says he may have the strongest arm on the team with a mid-to-high 80's fastball.
When he is not in the outfield, Carr will likely be eating up innings on the mound. Last year, Carr made 11 relief appearances in holding opponents to a .217 batting average.
"Andy Carr had a really nice fall," Schirm said. "He may have been the most consistent pitcher as far as being in the strike zone consistently."
Juniors Mark Schroeder and Greg Harris gave the team quality innings in sporadic outings last season and both will vie for a greater workload.
The biggest addition to the pitching staff this offseason may have come in the form of a former junior varsity infielder. Junior Austin Meyer had a bullpen tryout lead to a position switch.
"Our biggest surprise of the fall was Austin Meyer," Schirm said. "He told me he wanted to throw a bullpen one day, so we let him and he looked great. He's focusing on pitching now, he has a chance to be in the mix there as well."
A large contingent of promising freshman arms arrived last fall. Schirm will need some of them to progress quickly. Schirm knows the talent is there to continue a recent trend of quality Central pitchers, but there is work to be done.
"As a whole, I didn't think the pitching staff performed well in the fall," Schirm said. "We had far too many walks. We need some guys to step up here."
Coaching staff
Schirm is one of two new members of the coaching staff, with three holdovers from the previous regime.
Love is a former pitcher at Juniata College (Pa.).
"I call John my top recruit," Schirm said." I brought him in right after I got hired. He and I click really well together and he does a really good job with the pitchers. He has a great demeanor and has earned their respect quickly."
Cody Baethke returns for a second season to assist the outfielders. Todd Zylstra and Eric Van WynGarden return as volunteer assistants.
Junior Nick Hunter has come aboard as a student coach after injuries derailed his own playing career.
"Most of the time when you have a student coach you don't necessarily feel comfortable letting him run a station, but that's not the case with Nick," Schirm said. "Several times in the fall he took guys and worked with them individually. He's been a great addition to our staff."
The baseball field received a major facelift before last season with new dugouts and stadium seating behind home plate. A new round of field work last summer completed the overhaul that began a few years ago with the Step Up to the Plate Project.
"The exterior of our field is the best in the conference, when you consider the dugouts and the stadium seating," Schirm said. "We've worked really hard on the field this fall. We had our guys put some sweat equity into it. (Former Dutch coach John) Edwards and the facilities staff at Central put some sod down this summer and that has taken really well."
With the unpredictable nature of Iowa spring weather, Central's indoor facilities are crucial to the program.
"The hitting facilities we have here are great," Schirm said. "We have four indoor hitting cages, two of which are down all year, so our guys can get cuts in all year round. In the fieldhouse we are able to put down bases and make a full 90-foot base path and infield. We're not limited at all indoors."
The Dutch will embark on a schedule that includes 40 games in two months.
After opening with three games at Greenville (Ill.) College March 6-7, the team returns to Arizona for the Tucson Invitational Games over spring break for the second season in a row. They will play eight games in seven days against Illinois Institute of Technology, Augsburg (Minn.), Marian (Wis.), Hamline (Minn.), Gustavus Adolphus (Minn.), and Concordia (Wis.).
"They've got a lot of really solid teams there," Schirm said. "It'll be good competition. There's definitely no teams that will be easy wins on that schedule."
"The non-conference schedule is going to largely be about figuring out some positions," Schirm said. "It'll be good to see where we are."
The league schedule opens at Wartburg March 27-28 and wraps up with the six-team conference tournament in Cedar Rapids May 7-9.
"Top to bottom, it's going to be a tough conference just like it is every year," Schirm said. "It's going to be a dog fight every weekend in the Iowa Conference."


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Many Philippine universities are suffering in terms of quality and academic reputation because of the less-than-stellar elementary and high school education they provide, according to Gabriela Rep. Luz Ilagan.
As a result, the universities produce mediocre graduates, she said.
Ilagan, a former university professor, made the statement when asked to comment on the recent report that only five Philippine schools, down from 14, were included in this year's list of top 300 universities in Asia, as ranked by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), a British company specializing in education.
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She said one of the reasons behind the inadequacy is the schools' focus on getting as many enrollees as possible on top of the provision of quality education.
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Based on her experience, Ilagan said there are students who enroll in college possessing poor reading comprehension and writing skills.
She said this would not be addressed by the government's K to 12 program that adds two more years of high school education.
"This program only added quantity, not quality. We added two more years of high school, but did we take a good look at the curriculum and the support system?" she said.
She noted that classrooms remain overcrowded and teachers overburdened, with students not getting the kind of supervision and ideal learning environment they should be enjoying.
The focus has also leaned on memorizing facts instead of acquiring learning skills or "learning how to learn" so that students could further develop on their own, she said.
Ilagan also said many colleges and universities have become diploma mills, focusing on getting many students to graduate from popular courses that markets demand.
She said there is also a need to scrutinize the quality of college professors.
For his part, party-list Rep. Antonio Tinio of ACT Teachers said the government must allocate more funds for the development of tertiary education in the country.
Tinio noted that in the latest QS report, most of the top-ranked universities are state-funded.
"In Asia, public universities rule. The lesson here is that in order for our higher education sector to become competitive with the regional front-runners, the government must drastically step up its funding and other support for our state universities and colleges," Tinio said.
Public funds should go to faculty development, research, improvement of facilities, and development of local and international linkages, he said.
"Unfortunately, government higher education policy over the last two decades has gone in the other direction, towards budget cuts, contractualization of faculty and commercialization," he added.
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UCH: Neurosciences Outcomes 2011
Outcomes data for Neurosciences at University of Colorado Hospital.
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With a multidisciplinary team that subspecializes in and treats a broad spectrum of neurological conditions, the neurosciences division is a key reason why the University of Colorado Hospital was recently named the top performing academic hospital in the nation by the University HealthSystem Consortium. For more information, please visit us at uch.edu 3 v o lu m e s ToTal InpaTIenT and ouTpaTIenT VIsITs, uCH neurosCIenCes FY 2011 29,999 27,000 24,000 21,000 18,000 15,000 12,000 9,000 6,000 3,000 964 Neurocritical Care and Stroke 3,216 Neuro-Oncology 8,255 Other specialties in Neurology 3,395 Neuromuscular 3,679 Epilepsy 2,684 Movement Disorders 7,806 MS/neuroimmunology 0 VISITS spInal surgery Volumes neurosurgery Volumes* *excludes spinal sur geries.Based on the July 1 - June 30 fiscal year. 600 500 400 300 200 100 1200 1000 800 600 400 200 2007 2008 2009 2010 0 0 2008 2009 2010 2011 4 siZaBle differ eNce New science, new treatments, a tripling of volume In the past three years, the number of patients with multiple sclerosis at the University of Colorado Hospital has more than tripled to 2,000, tallying more than 6,000 annual patient visits. The number of clinical trials at the center has expanded even more quickly to as many as 30 active clinical trials at any given time. The Rocky Mountain Multiple Sclerosis Center at the Anschutz Medical Campus is one of the largest MS centers in the world, caring for nearly half of all MS patients in the Rocky Mountain region. number of studies we can participate in effectively," says Timothy Vollmer, MD, medical director of the center who also directs the university's neurological clinical research program. "Our patients have access to treatments years before they would elsewhere." With that access, however, comes great responsibility as MS drugs also are some of the most dangerous drugs prescribed. All UCH patients are placed on a schedule of regular checkups to monitor their "global health" to look for--and combat--negative effects of the powerful drugs early on. The center played a key role in who was diagnosed with MS at age 28. "I haven't had an episode in fourand-a-half years." "ms is now one of the most treatable diseases in neurolog y." more than 400,000 people in the united states have multiple sclerosis and half are expected to need wheelchairs or walkers within 15 years without advancements in treatment. However, the future is bright, says timothy vollmer, md, medical director of the rocky mountain ms center at the anschutz medical center. "ms is now one of the most treatable diseases in neurolog y," says vollmer, an internationally recognized ms researcher who has participated in more than 130 ms clinical trials. there are currently eight fda-approved therapies for ms, with another three or four expected to be approved in the next two years, vollmer says. "the most eff icient pathway of the future is going to be learning how to use these therapies in combination or sequence to prevent disability." rethinking ms's origins for years, the popular thought was that ms was caused by inf lammation created by t-cells. Work led by university of colorado researcher Jeffrey Bennett, md, phd, and published in the journal of clinical Neuropharmacolog y in 2009, turned that theory on its head by discovering that B lymphocytes played a much greater effect. developing a test that can prescreen MS patients to determine how likely they are to develop progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) as a result of taking natalizumab (Tysabri�). The assay became commercially available in late 2011 after three years in development. Chantil Arciniaga is one of the patients who has benefited from the center's early use of the test and It also houses the largest MS brain bank in North America, with more than 350 brain slices of MS patients who have donated tissue for research. While these numbers are impressive, what's more important is what they mean to the center's patients. "What makes us stand out among centers in the world is the sheer access to the drug. After two years of monthly MS episodes that left her unable to walk without a cane or walker, the 35-year-old mother of three tested negative for the PML-causing virus and was put on Tysabri. The results were immediate. "After my first infusion, my walking got progressively better until it was back to 100 percent," says Arciniaga, Arciniaga says she doesn't worry about the possible side effects because she tested negative for the PML-causing virus, and she is seen every three months by doctors at the center. "With three children, the quality of life this drug gives me greatly outweighs the risk of it," she says. 5 in-hospital NeuroHospitalist coverage benef its improved car e tr aNsi tioNs, to o What began as a way to ensure immediate intervention for acute stroke patients has led to improvements throughout the stroke care process at the University of Colorado Hospital. Last year, UCH began using a team of neurohospitalists to ensure that acute stroke patients received the fastest possible work-up and intervention, including use of tPA or surgical intervention. That initiative has improved intervention times for acute stroke patients while relieving the burden on outpatient neurologists. An unexpected side benefit has been the improvement of care throughout the patient's stay. "Our Joint Commission core measures for stroke patients are all above 90 percent, most of them at 100 percent," says William Jones, MD, medical director of the neurohospitalist program and codirector of the stroke program. "We've also seen a decreased length of stay." Three neurohospitalists rotate coverage at the 400-bed hospital (which, as of mid-2013, will add another 200-some beds). The specialists have become a mainstay of the stroke team, ensuring that critical care protocols are not overlooked. They also help ensure smooth transitions as patients are transferred from critical care onto medical units or transitioned to their next site of care at long-term facilities or their homes. "Something we've seen happen is that everyone involved with the patient's care now feels like there's somewhere to go if they identify a problem or see something that would improve care," Jones says. "We often can help identify and implement solutions." With the program now established, the neurohospitalist team has turned its sites on further quality improvement. They are currently working with a team of residents to track and improve discharge summaries. "Transitions from inpatient to outpatient need to be very well coordinated to make sure patients get to the place they need to be in a timely manner," Jones says. "We're hoping this project will help identify ways to further improve care." IsCHemIC sTroke � morTalITy Index (compared to national averages from the University HealthSystem Consortium) 2.0 1.8 1.6 1.4 1.2 1.0 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2 0.0 Key: uch 2007 2008 2009 2010 national 6 geT wITH THe guIdelInes� (gwTg) sTroke performanCe and qualITy measures unIVersITy of Colorado HospITal Is among THe "gold plus performanCe aCHIeVemenT" HospITals. Clinical Measure IV rt-PA Arrive by 2 Hr, Treat by 3 Hr Measure Description Percent of acute ischemic stroke patients who arrive at the hospital within 120 minutes (2 hours) of time last known well and for whom IV t-PA was initiated at this hospital within 180 minutes (3 hours) of time last known well. GWTG Stroke Performance Award Goal 85% 2007 69.2% 2008 85.7% 2009 92.9% 2010 91.3% Door To IV rt-PA in Percent of ischemic stroke patients receiving IV t-PA at my 60 Min hospital who are treated within 60 minutes after triage (ED arrival) Early Thrombolytics DVT Prophylaxis Percent of patients with ischemic stroke or TIA who receive antithrombolytics by the end of hospital day two. Percent of patients with an ischemic stroke, or a hemorrhagic stroke, or stroke not otherwise specified and who are non-ambulatory who receive DVT phrophylaxis by end of hospital day two. Percent of patients with ischemic stroke or TIA prescribed antithrombotic therapy at discharge. Percent of patients with ischemic stroke or TIA with atrial fibrillation/flutter discharged on anticoagulation therapy Percent of Ischemic Stroke and TIA patients who are discharged with Intensive Statin Therapy Percent of ischemic stroke or TIA patients with a documented Lipid profile. Percent of Ischemic stroke or TIA patients with LDL >= 100, or LDL not measured, or on cholesterol-reducer prior to admission, who are discharged on cholesterol reducing drugs. Percent of Ischemic stroke, TIA, and Stroke not otherwise specified patients with a score reported for NIH Stroke Scale (Initial) Percent of patients with ischemic, or hemorrhagic stroke who undergo screening for dysphagia with an evidencedbased bedside testing protocol approved by the hospital before being given any food, fluids, or medication by mouth. Percent of patients with ischemic, TIA, or hemorrhagic stroke or their caregivers who were given education and/or educational materials during the hospital stay addressing ALL of the following: personal risk factors for stroke, warning signs for stroke, activation of emergency medical system, need for follow-up after discharge, and medications prescribed. Percent of patients with Stroke who were assessed for rehabilitation services. 85% 12.5% 22.2% 33.3% 33.3% 85% 85% 93.3% 97.1% 100.0% 100.0% 98.7% 100.0% 100.0% 99.2% Antithrombotics Anticoag for AFib/ AFlutter Intensive Statin Therapy LDL Documented LDL 100 or ND* 85% 85% 85% 85% 85% 96.9% 95.0% 0.0% 81.7% 97.2% 99.2% 100.0% 0.0% 95.1% 98.7% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 96.5% 97.7% 100.0% 100.0% 28.6% 99.3% 97.4% NIHSS Reported 85% 28.9% 68.6% 54.8% 65.0% Dysphagia Screen* 85% 95.2% 54.9% 72.9% 87.0% Stroke Education* 85% 0.0% 67.8% 68.9% 69.2% Rehabilitation Considered* 85% 91.1% 89.3% 98.7% 99.4% SOU RC E : GET W I T H T H E GU IDEL INES R (GW TG) ST ROK E PER F OR M A NC E & QUA L I T Y M E A SU R ES : Get With T he Guidelines� is a pr og ram that helps en sure con sistent application of the most recent Amer ican Hear t Associat ion/Amer ican S t r oke Association scientif ic g uidelines for p atient t reat ment. Univer sit y of Colorado Hospital is a recipient of the Gold Plus Per for mance Achievement Hospital Award for achievin g 85% or hi gher adherence to all GET W I T H T H E GU IDEL INES R (GW TG) ST ROK E PER F OR M A NC E AC H IEV EM EN T indicator s for con secutive 12 month inter vals and 75% or hi gher compliance with 6 of 10 GW TG S t r oke Q ualit y Measures to impr ove qualit y of care and pat ient outcomes. 7 dua l t r a c Ks still in their infancy, neurocritical icus' ef f icacy data look positive Patients with life-threatening neurological issues can be some of the toughest to manage. Common pneumonia or a urinary tract infection can quietly and quickly spread to the brain or spinal cord. And with these typically sedated patients, the problem may not be noticed until the damage is done. The 10-bed neurocritical care unit at the University of Colorado Hospital (UCH), one of the first in the country, is designed to watch them. It specializes in caring for patients with brain tumors, ruptured aneurysms, traumatic brain injuries, spine disorders, complex spine reconstruction and all other types of highly complex neurological issues. "The neuro ICU is unique in that we are running two parallel tracks at all times--the entire body just like in a traditional ICU and also anything affecting the brain and spinal cord," says Robert Neumann, MD, PhD, medical director of the Neuro ICU at UCH and one of the first board-certified neurocritical care specialists nationwide. While specialized neurocritical care units are still in their infancy internationally, the 10-year-old UCH unit has already seen the results this specialized focus can bring. (See accompanying chart.) "This unit makes a huge difference in terms of success," says Tracey Anderson, ACNP-BC, director of Neurocritical Care Program Development. "We have sicker patients who don't die." The UCH neurocritical care unit, which runs an average daily census of 17, deploys more frequent ultrasound and MRI scans, lower thresholds for intracranial pressure treatment, and more aggressive medical management protocols than are typical in more general ICUs. Infections, for instance, may be fought with multiple drugs to prevent the spread into the heart, brain or spinal cord. The UCH neurocritical care unit also is expert at cooling patients to control intracranial pressure and brain injury. "Most hospitals may cool a patient for 24 hours; we cool them for weeks to mediate damage," Neumann says. InTraCerebral HemorrHage--morTalITy Index (compared to national averages from the University HealthSystem Consortium) 2.0 1.8 1.6 1.4 1.2 1.0 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2 0.0 Key: 8 2007 2008 2009 2010 uch national N eu ro oNc olo Gy su r v iva l CenTral nerVous sysTem CanCer 5 -year surVIVal 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 Key: uch YEAR 1 YEAR 2 YEAR 3 YEAR 4 aJCC 6TH edITIon, CombIned 2003�2004 daTa state national 9 Hospital WiNs maj o r NiH Gr aNt for Br aiN disorder r esearcH The University of Colorado School of Medicine became one of just 25 sites nationwide to be named to join a newly created neurological research consortium. The Network for Excellence in Neuroscience Clinical Trials (NeuroNEXT) was developed by the NIH's National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to speed up the development of new treatments in Phase II clinical trials for neurological disorders. "We've seen the success (of this type of program) in oncology where researchers can rapidly improve outcomes for patients with cancer by collaborating and operating under one IRB," says Timothy Vollmer, MD, director of the university's neurological clinical research program. The university received a seven-year, $1.7 million grant through the competitive selection process. It is the only center in the vast Rocky Mountain region selected as a consortium member. 10 u N i v e r s i t y o f c o l o r a d o H o s p i ta l is the Rocky Mountain region's l e a d i N G a c a d e m i c m e d i c a l c e N t e r . It is recognized as the highestperforming academic hospital in the United States for delivering quality health care by the University HealthSystem Consortium, and is ranked as the best hospital in the Denver metro area and one of the best in the country by U.S. News & World Report. 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Day 3 220 miles, Crescent City, CA to Fort Bragg, CA
No matter what you do, it still takes me at least 3 days to really start to feel the change from one lifestyle to another. Today was that day. I feel I am now on my adventure. BTW, I dont have a specific plan and am making it up from day to day. Have a few targets in mind, like the Pac-10 Basketball Tournament this coming week, but other than that I will just see what happens.
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What a day and a ride! While we all either know or have heard about riding along the Northern California coast, it still is something that amazes me with its sheer beauty and relative wildness. There was hardly any rain today and very little traffic. The bike and I got synchronized and into a rhythm and it was just plain enjoyable.
Left Crescent City around 9:30 and skipped breakfast as the basketball kids ate all of the food the motel had put out for the free breakfast. Just lived with some weak coffee and got on the road. I am still trying to dodge the clouds so I figured if it wasnt raining, that I should just get out and cover some miles.
Riding down highway 101 through the Redwoods was a blast, combination of 2-lane and 4-lane sections without traffic. I was afraid of seeing lots of Basketball moms in mini vans, but I think I left ahead of the crowds. Followed the coast and made it into Eureka for some late breakfast and WiFi. That is when I decided to commit to the RR and started writing this all up.
I lived in California for a couple years back in the 80s and Eureka was when I started to see that familiar look and feel. I think it was the eucalyptus trees along the road and the increasing traffic with no manners. But you gotta love the good parts of California.
From Eureka continued through more Redwoods and stopped in Garberville for some fuel. I was reminded that I was in Humboldt County and the land of marijuana plantations. It was an interesting group of folks. Also, it seems the gas prices have continued to go up from day to day. I think I paid something like $4.30 a gallon today.
Took a right onto CA Highway 1 just after the Standish Hickey Recreation Area and headed back to the coast. The 10-15 mile section of this highway from the 101 to Rockport was one of the most interesting roads to say the least. There were lots of slow switchbacks and blind corners and I think I only average around 25-30 mph the whole way. I especially liked the small rock slides in the middle of the blind corners that kept everything interesting. Luckily there were no cars trying to cut the corners or it could have been interesting. Definitively a place for a smaller canyon racer, but I think a person would only push it to the limit and end up sailing off the road somewhere. At least I would.
I got to the coast and cruised all the way down to Fort Bragg. The canyon cut-ins were extremely entertaining and you really had to be paying attention. I had to keep myself from enjoying the view. Fort Bragg the undiscovered gem of the Mendocino Coast is a pretty isolated town and I am not sure exactly what folks do for a living here other than fishing, tourism, etc., but it was a good place to stop. I have learned to stop before you get too tired and start making mistakes.
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I will start with the bike I am riding. I have had my ST1300 for a couple of years and bought it mainly because I like big bikes and Honda has this incredibly low maintenance and reliable V engine. I think it goes back to my first bike which was a Honda CX500 which just ran and ran. My list of improvements are:
Throttlemeister cruise control, keeps my hand from killing me
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Handlebar Riser Plate, keeps me from leaning too far forward
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I have really enjoyed following this long RR for a long time and have appreciated the photos along the way. I have been learning what it might take to go all the way to Ushuaia solo.
I have a son at Gonzaga University, so GO ZAGS! They won their semi-final game today and play for the WCC championship tomorrow night.
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The story on the top of the front page Thursday -- about the potential for GM retirees to lose a portion of their monthly pensions and all of their health benefits -- could have huge impact across the five-county region.
It also seems like the story nobody wants to tell, and nobody wants to hear.
But it's very similar to what happened in Northeast Ohio about five years ago, when LTV Steel and the steel mill in Lorain both went bankrupt. Back then, the federal Pension Benefit and Guaranty Corp. took over the pension funds at both companies and nothing was ever the same for hundreds of families.
One of those union steelworkers told me his story at about that time. And it is a story I never forgot, but never had the opportunity to tell. Until now.
He had the stature of a working man, with big calloused hands and a lively disposition. We started talking when we were both in the buffet line at a wedding reception.
"My wife and I just rolled in from Florida," he said. "Wasn't sure we were going to make it in time. But we're home now."
Before we were finished in the food line he'd told me he was a retired steelworker and he and his wife had been traveling the country for a year or more in their motorhome.
"That's great that you're able to travel. I've always thought I would do that some day," I said.
We sat back down and began eating and talking. His wife was not with him, he explained, because she wasn't feeling well and was scheduled for another round of chemotherapy next month. He spoke of her with affection -- and a certain sadness he tried hard to hide.
Traveling was great, he said, and he was grateful in life. But this was not how they planned to live out retirement.
"I worked in that steel mill for 35 years. Don't regret one day," he said. "They cut my pension by $500 a month and took away all the benefits. We pay $1,700 a month for health insurance. This isn't how it was supposed to be."
"Who cut your pension?" I asked.
"The government ... when they took over LTV ..." he replied. "My government."
When the federal government took over the LTV pension funds, the contractual promises of retirement income and health benefits between steelworkers and LTV were all but voided, replaced by just a percentage of what was promised and no health benefits.
"We have to have the insurance," he said. "I'd die right here if I could make her cancer go away and give her our home back. That's all I want. Just for her, not for me. Just one day back in our home."
Man tears welled up in his eyes, and in mine, too. Two men cried without a tear dropping, but the moment was over almost as soon as it had begun. We parted after finishing our meals and I tried later to get his full name and contact information so I could have a reporter contact him. But he must have left early because I couldn't find him.
I worked for the (Elyria) Chronicle-Telegram at that time and we were working on stories about the impact of the shutdown at the Lorain steel mill. At one time the mill was the largest employer in Lorain County, by far, with thousands of employees.
By the time of the last bankruptcy, the hourly employee count was in the hundreds. When the steel mill emerged from bankruptcy, the same management staff was in charge.
But the hourly workers -- the men and women who did the hard work -- weren't so lucky. Good reporting led to the discovery of internal company e-mails that clearly showed the management team was targeting the "walking wounded" among the work force. Any employee who had suffered any earlier injury on the job that required special work conditions to accommodate those injuries was on management 's "get rid of" list.
The whole experience of those two bankruptcies was a real eye-opener. I hope the hundreds of retirees and hundreds more who want to retire from the old New Departure/Delphi plant -- where the salaried retirees might take more of a hit than the hourly retirees -- and Lear in Huron and all the other automotive related jobs and pension funds, don't get the dirty end of the stick the way it happened back then.
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Last week in Sendai, Japan, I was enormously pleased to be able to have a public dialogue with the wonderful Japanese artist, Tatsuo Miyajima.
Most artists, or at least most of the ones I know, deny having a philosophical outlook that they try to translate into their works. Some had thought of the work of Cézanne and others as being a "painted epistemology". But Cézanne himself denied this and Daniel-Henri Kahnwiler, the art critic and art dealer, insisted that none of the many painters he had known (which included Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, André Derain and Maurice Vlaminck among others) had a philosophical culture.
Not so with Tatsuo Miyajima. He is deeply rooted in a rich Japanese, and indeed Oriental, philosophy that can be summarized in a single line: "Nothing is permanent except change". And he expresses this in what are visually mesmerizing displays of ever-changing variously coloured digital numbers. The numbers exclude zero, which in his culture is a metaphor for death. But in that Buddhist culture there is no real death, there is only change.
In a sense, therefore, Miyajima is using a new, electronic, medium to deliver a message rooted in ancient Oriental philosophy. And it works very well, partly because it is visually so attractive, partly because the medium is new and partly because it engages the viewer so forcefully in trying to understand the message. Indeed, Miyajima says of art that it is like a mirror, in which the viewer enquires into, and understands something about, himself. That something is the ineluctable progression of time, the inevitability of change and, by comparison, the banality of the moment.
But, of course, the moment is not banal, for it is part of the change and it is the most deeply registered and experienced in the chain.
I hope that one day soon, London will have the pleasure of seeing a larger number of his works, and I hope that the catalogue for that exhibition will include these lines from TS Eliot's Four Quartets (Burnt Norton):
Or say that the end precedes the beginning,
And the end and the beginning were always there
Before the beginning and after the end
And all is always now.
which seem to me to be a very good general description of Miyajima's approach.
His work has inspired me to think of many experiments, some of which I hope I will be able to do. At any rate, discussing his work with him in relation to the brain and its activity was a real delight.
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A busy conference call for Martha Stewart Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO), following its earnings release, and the announcements pertaining to Emeril and WeddingWire: Not too surprisingly, the company says its 40 percent investment in WeddingWire is a step towards full ownership of the company at some point down the road. As media President Wenda Harris Millard explained, the reason for only buying 40 percent now is to keep the founders engaged. As for the size of the investment, CFO Howard Hochhauser put it in the single (million) range, though the actual number will be available in MSLO's 10q (we'll be watching out for that number). In the meantime, the deal will offer MSO expanded ad inventory, and the company sees an opportunity to extend WeddingWire's basic platform into different verticals across the company.
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Dear people of Assam,
I grew up in the 1990s. My cousins today do not realise how difficult an era it was. I grew up hearing stories of how "our boys" combated the Army. Some time, I felt proud and, at other times, I didn't know how to respond. I never witnessed an Independence Day or Republic Day function in my life. Those were the days of Doordarshan and it had its staple diet of nationalism. And it was in this euphoria that during an Independence Day I drew the tricolour on paper and put it atop our house. Immediately, I was slapped and brought to my senses. Not because my parents were anti-nationals but because they didn't want to incur the wrath of "the boys," who had eyes and ears everywhere.
As I grew up, I was pulled between my national sentiment and my strong, sub-regional aspirations that began to find expression in my thoughts and action. It was perhaps during my 15th or 16th year that I realised that the grandiose dream of India that I had seen on Doordarshan all my life was not entirely true. My history also spoke of the brave Lachit Phukan, who trounced the Mughals 16 times. Barring the Palas, we were never conquered by the powers in Delhi, not even once. I came to know about the brave Ahoms who ruled for 600 years, defying historians' perceptions of the "rise and fall of empires."
And yet when I wanted to read more, I couldn't find anything. For all their glossy covers, the Macmillan history books, which spoke so eloquently about Delhi and South, failed to mention Assam, the northeast, and referring to it only as a distant region of wild animals and wilder people! Those days, the Internet was not in vogue and this predicament haunted me. I became a staunch sub-nationalist and stopped my attachment to I-Day or R-Day.
And then, as I took the first steps towards adulthood, I realised that I had to rethink my own sub-nationalist aspirations. I began to understand that howsoever I wished to live in the past it was not possible anymore. In this global era, to talk about territorial sovereignty when boundaries are fast disappearing is almost an oxymoron. Among the choices of staying with India, being independent and staying with China, I preferred staying with India. Not because I had a special attachment to Delhi but because the concept of freedom in my mind had changed its definition.
How could I call myself free when the poor were languishing in my State? What good would freedom do if we were to be hit by floods ever year? What good would freedom do if we saw our young men and women leave their home at the first chance, lamenting "lack of opportunities" in their home never to return? I realised that all of this meant nothing. It didn't matter what national colours I wore, what mattered was whether the poor man in the street was truly free. My guess is 'no.'
Freedom as a concept is perhaps a tool of the middle and upper classes to fuel their own ambitions firing the gun from the shoulders of the masses. In truth, perhaps, freedom in today's world is a lie to fuel one's own gains. Yes, some struggles may be legitimate, some may have historical connotations, but this is not the 1930-40s anymore where there is a global surge against imperialism.
Thus, I was happy to witness the progress Assam had seen in the past 10 years. The Assamese inside me was content. Finally, we were reaching out, leaving the idiom of freedom a vague struggle behind and concentrating on development which is a lofty goal to be achieved. I felt proud when my friends who arrived from every corner of the country and were pleasantly surprised to find the KFC in Guwahati. I felt happy when my friends called up to tell me that Assam had scored in the charts on health, education and other parameters. I finally believed our time had come. We had made peace with the Bodos, the Karbis, the Misings; the Dimasas had finally come together albeit in some crude form to some understanding. I believed it was time we would work for the common good.
And once again, I was proved wrong. Today, as Assam burns, I ask myself: are we going back to the 1980s once more? About 8,000 people lost their lives in that era and a whole generation was ruined; and today we stand at the crossroads again. It is time we looked at the history once more. Immigration — illegal or not — is a universal phenomenon and it is here to stay. We have to find ways to control and harmonise it; but we cannot let ourselves fall headlong into the tumultuous 1980s-1990s once more. It will take our State 20 years back.
Some would argue that the way forward is political freedom for us. Delhi does not understand our feelings. Delhi is a tyrant. But then the question is who has stopped us from making inroads in Delhi. Delhi did not debar politicians from joining North Block, from joining the national media, from joining the administrative services and the armed forces. When was the last time we heard a strong voice from Assam in the Lok Sabha or the Rajya Sabha?
Our MPs mostly sit in the last benches and talk as less as possible so as to attract minimum attention. It's us we who have decided not be the stakeholders in our own future. And now when hell broke loose, we all went back to what we know best — anarchy. It is time we left behind this quality for striving for anarchy. It is time we brought peace, it is time we the people of Assam reassessed what we want and how we want it. A friend of mine called me and asked "Are you safe? Oh man, Assam has gone back to those dark days once more!"
And I stood there shocked, humiliated and most of all hurt.
(The writer blogs on national and global issues. email@example.com)
Keywords: Assam ethnic violence, Kokrajhar riots, Bodo tribals


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Nickel allergy is the most common contact allergy in the western world, with people affected reacting to costume jewellery, coins and even medical implants. Now we know why: it seems nickel imitates the action of bacteria.
Matthias Goebeler at the University of Giessen in Germany and his colleagues looked at cells from the blood vessels of people with a nickel allergy. The team found that these cells react to nickel when a group of receptors known as Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are present.
When the team "knocked out" the genes behind each of the 11 types of TLR, they identified TLR4 as nickel's target – the same TLR that bacteria bind to, sparking the body's immune response.
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Journal reference: Nature Immunology, DOI: 10.1038/ni.1919
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GTC 2014: Nvidia reveals dual-GPU Titan Z, new Pascal GPU offers colossal memory bandwidth March 25, 2014 at 2:30 pm
Nvidia kicked off its GPU Technology Conference keynote with a bevy of new product announcements including a new GPU architecture and CPU-GPU interlink, codenamed Pascal.
China's Tianhe-2 supercomputer, twice as fast as DoE's Titan, shocks the world by arriving two years early June 24, 2013 at 6:56 am
In a massive escalation of the supercomputing arms race, China has built Tianhe-2, a supercomputer capable of 33.86 petaflops — almost twice as fast as the US Department of Energy's Titan. The US isn't scheduled to build another large supercomputer until 2015, suggesting China will hold pole position for a long time to come. The computer has 32,000 Ivy Bridge Xeon CPUs and 48,000 Xeon Phi accelerator boards for a total of 3,120,000 compute cores, 1.4 petabytes of RAM — and of course the operating system is Linux.
Radeon HD 7990 review: AMD's dual-GPU powerhouse kicks off a gaming renaissance April 24, 2013 at 6:05 am
AMD's new Radeon 7990 is out (officially) at last. Does the combined power of two Tahiti graphics cores put Sunnyvale back in the pole position?
Nvidia's GTX Titan LE and Titan Ultra leaked April 22, 2013 at 11:10 am
It has only been around two months since Nvidia launched the GTX Titan, its super-powerful, extremely efficient, very expensive graphics card. The Titan isn't the most powerful card on the market, but it's up there, and given its power efficiency, brings a lot to the table. However, new leaks reveal that Nvidia doesn't think the card brings enough to the table, and is working on two new models of Titan: a cheaper model, and an even faster one.
Titan supercomputer will have world's fastest storage at 1.4TB/s April 16, 2013 at 11:37 am
The Titan supercomputer over at Oak Ridge National Laboratory already proudly wears the mantle of being the world's most powerful supercomputer, but you know what they say about power. Now, the Titan is set to amass more power and obtain the mantle of having the world's fastest storage system.
AMD destroys Nvidia at Bitcoin mining, can the gap ever be bridged? April 16, 2013 at 10:11 am
One of the questions that's swirled around Bitcoin mining performance for the past few years is why Nvidia GPUs are so thoroughly outclassed by AMD products. We dig into the question, test some CUDA optimized kernels, and discuss the particulars of GPU architectures — and why AMD has such an overwhelming advantage.
Nvidia's GTX Titan: What it means for the future of PC gaming and AMD February 21, 2013 at 9:00 am
Nvidia's GTX Titan launches today. It's the first time the company has brought a supercomputer product to the consumer industry — and it's easily the fastest single-GPU graphics card money can buy.
NASA will send a second Curiosity rover to Mars in 2020, humans in 2030s December 5, 2012 at 7:30 am
In a surprise announcement at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, NASA has revealed that it will be sending another rover to Mars in 2020. This news has been met with a mix of reactions, with some planetary scientists wondering why NASA continues to focus on Mars, when there are ice-covered moons like Saturn's Titan that remain relatively unexplored.
The race to 100 petaflops: Cray and China go head-to-head to build the world's fastest supercomputer November 14, 2012 at 8:04 am
Hot on the heels of the 20-petaflops Cray Titan supercomputer, the recently-crowned world's fastest supercomputer, Cray has announced the XC30 architecture, which will allow for the creation of supercomputers that break 100 petaflops — 100 quadrillion floating-point operations per second.
Titan, Dione, Tethys, and Saturn: A Christmas gift from Cassini December 23, 2011 at 1:04 pm
Just in time for Christmas (or Hanukkah, or Festivus, or…), NASA's Cassini probe has sent back some amazing photos of Titan, Dione, Tethys, and of Saturn herself.