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NEW YORK -- For all the Jackie Bradley Jr. hype that has engulfed the Red Sox in recent days, it was easy to forget that several other players had a chance to wear the Boston uniform for the first time in a regular-season game on Monday afternoon.
And there were key contributions from some of them in an 8-2 victory over the Yankees.
One of the biggest plays of the day came from Jonny Gomes in the top of the ninth. Lauded for his clubhouse demeanor, Gomes has perhaps not received enough credit for his all-out play on the field.
It was on full display when Jacoby Ellsbury hit one deep into the second-base hole and Robinson Cano bobbled the ball for an instant. Not only did Jarrod Saltalamacchia score from third, but Gomes never stopped running and hustled home from second.
The respect a play like that generates from teammates was evident by the reaction in Boston's dugout, as just about every player came over to greet Gomes.
"When you break it all down, that's an extra run for the team, and it's an extra RBI for my teammate," said Gomes. "When we have each other's backs like that, when we go the extra 90 feet for our teammates, that kind of stuff becomes contagious, and we're putting pressure on the defense. Granted, it was one run, one RBI, but a lot more goes into that."
In the top of the second, Shane Victorino, who signed a three-year, $39 million deal to come to Boston, laced a clutch two-out single to right to help keep a four-run rally alive.
"Any time you get a 'W,' that's what makes it fun," said Victorino.
Victorino went 2-for-6 on the day with three RBIs. Gomes was 2-for-4 and drew a walk. Mike Napoli, Boston's new starting first baseman, went 0-for-5.
The two key new members of the bullpen did their jobs. Koji Uehara was first out of the bullpen and mowed through the Yankees with a 1-2-3 sixth inning.
Joel Hanrahan had a non-pressurized situation in his first game as closer, blowing through the Yankees in a flawless ninth.
"Well, again, I think the players that were targeted to be brought in here, there's a track record and a history of those individuals to be quality teammates, talented players," said Red Sox manager John Farrell. "So the things we have control over will help us respond to challenges, and that's how we have one another's back in this clubhouse. That will be a key for us going forward throughout the entire year."

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Charities find Delaware is good company
WILMINGTON, Del. — It's hard to imagine Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie spending much time at their office here.
The low, brown-brick building on Silverside Road is a far cry from the mansions and spotlights of Hollywood. Anyone – adoring fans, stalkers, the paparazzi – can walk through its glass front door, down the hall, up the stairs and around the corner to reach their office, Suite 123. The carpet is beige, not red.
Yet 501 Silverside Road is the address the movie superstars and global philanthropists consider their legal address as co-presidents of the non-profit Jolie-Pitt Foundation. It's incorporated here, but it gives all its money — $21.5 million from its founding in 2006 through 2011 — to charities in Cambodia, Namibia, Pakistan and destitute portions of the USA.
Theirs is one of more than 1,200 charitable foundations incorporated in Delaware, nearly all of which focus their philanthropy elsewhere. Only Rhode Island has more foundations per capita, but Delaware specializes in "foreign" foundations that have no significant connection to the state.
Nearly 800 of those foundations — which are established by wealthy donors to give money to favorite causes — all legally reside with Pitt and Jolie behind the oak door of Suite 123. They include those of actor Hugh Jackman, entertainer Cher, NFL quarterbacks Matt Hasselbeck and Phillip Rivers, Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek, Melrose Place creator Darren Star and actress Yeardley Smith, better known as the voice of Lisa on The Simpsons.
They give to their alma maters and their churches, to charities for sick children and endangered animals, to non-profit groups advocating abortion rights and others fighting to end abortion.
An additional 100 foundations with an overseas focus — such as Save the Rhino International, Friends of the American School of Warsaw and Historic Royal Palaces, which supports several popular British tourist sites — are served by Chapel & York, a British company with a "virtual" office in downtown Wilmington.
They're all drawn, experts say, by Delaware's well-earned reputation as a place to set up shop quickly, easily, cheaply and with few questions — many of the same reasons that nearly 1 million public corporations are here.
"It's the company state, and it's well known that way," said David Wickert, executive director of Chapel & York.
Foundations in Delaware pay just $25 a year in franchise tax, don't need CPA-certified audits and don't pay state tax on unrelated-business income, as they would in some other states, said Jeffery Haskell, chief legal officer for Foundation Source, the Connecticut company that administers the Silverside Road foundations.
"They really know how to attract for-profit businesses and non-profits, too," Haskell said.
Like most states and the federal government, Delaware's oversight of the growing number of private foundations and public charities is "woefully inadequate," said Aaron Dorfman, executive director of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, a non-profit advocacy group.
The Internal Revenue Service audits only a small portion of the 1.1 million financial statements filed by non-profit groups annually, most of which are a year or two out of date anyway, Dorfman said. States don't do much better.
"Most state attorneys general have just one person overseeing the entire charity sector," Dorfman said. "Without staff at the state level to investigate, most abuse goes undetected. It's not rampant, but it is significant."
In Delaware, foundation oversight falls to the seven attorneys in the attorney general's consumer protection unit, but they cover 3,200 other charities and all kinds of disputes between consumers and businesses. Their work is entirely driven by complaints, director Gregory Strong said.
"Someone would have to call us and say, 'I gave money to this organization, and I don't think it was used for charitable purposes,' " he said.
The attorney general's office collects the Form 990 financial statements that Delaware non-profit groups submit annually to the IRS, Strong said. No one reviews those statements, and the state does not make them public.
Strong said 39 other states require non-profit groups to register and submit financial information annually, so regulators and the public can know who is operating in their states.
Delaware laws allow foundations to have just one director, instead of three, and the state lets Foundation Source pay the franchise tax and file papers for all of its 800 non-profit groups at once, instead of separately, he said.
"They do things in a friendly, efficient, convenient way," Haskell said. "It's just such a clear choice to go with Delaware."
The IRS requires all tax-exempt organizations to be incorporated somewhere, so Delaware appeals to philanthropists who don't care where their legal home is, Wickert said. That's especially useful for organizations with a global focus.
"More and more Americans want to support organizations outside the United States, and the only way to do that is to make a donation to a group registered in the United States," said Wickert, a former Episcopal priest who lives in Sussex, England.
Mike Chalmers also reports for The (Wilmington, Del.) News Journal


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text: Minutes of the special meeting of Thursday, March 15, 2001 (As approved May 1, 2001) The San Francisco Public Library Commission held a special meeting called by the Commission President on Thursday, March 15, 2001 in the Koret Auditorium, Main Library. The meeting was called to order at 4:07PM by President Higueras The following members were noted present: President Higueras, and Commissioners Bautista, Steiman, and Swig. The Secretary noted Commissioners Chin and Coulter were excused attendance and that Commissioner Street's arrival was expected. Agenda Item #1 PUBLIC EMPLOYEE APPOINTMENT/HIRING: City Librarian President Higueras provided a brief summary of recent events and an explanation of why the Library Commission was going to enter into closed session to consider the nomination of candidate(s) for City Librarian at this time. President Higueras reported on a recent meeting between President Higueras, Vice President Steiman, and Mayor Brown to discuss concerns which had come to light during the City Librarian search process. President Higueras stated that based on several factors such as the many items of important and pressing business pending before the Library, the importance of the Library having a permanent City Librarian as soon as possible with a full and functioning administrative team to address the bond program, and Ms. Hildreth's strong performance as Acting City Librarian and as an effective and skillful manager in whom the Commission had great confidence, the Mayor suggested that the Commission consider nominating a candidate(s) for his consideration to be appointed as City Librarian at this time. Public comment on Agenda Item #1 PUBLIC EMPLOYEE APPOINTMENT/ HIRING: City Librarian An anonymous member of the public expressed foreboding, and stated that this individual believed that the reasons for doing a national search were still valid. The anonymous member of the public further suggested that the institution deserved someone selected through such a process, noted that the search process allowed for evaluation of the person as well as for the person to know what they were getting into, called ending the search process a mistake, and observed that a lawsuit could be filed in this matter as the City Charter required that three candidates be submitted to the Mayor. Mr. Ed Regan expressed happiness that the Commission was considering Ms. Hildreth for appointment as City Librarian. Ms. Marti Goddard, Access Services Manager read two brief statements insupport of Ms. Hildreth, one from Mr. Randall Weaver, Project Read Manager and her own statement in support of Ms. Hildreth. Mr. Peter Warfield expressed appreciation for the explanation offered at the beginning of the meeting, but found it unfortunate that the search plan was being abandoned. Mr. Warfield found that doing a search was an appropriate process, which would assure the public of the appropriateness of the process. Mr. Warfield found the reasons mentioned for moving forward with nominating a candidate unpersuasive, noting that the bond program is a 10 year project that the Acting City Librarian was capable of handling. Mr. Warfield found that abandoning the search would raise questions among the staff and public and would taint whoever was selected and deny them legitimacy. Mr. Warfield urged that the Commission continue with its original or even a more extensive search plan. An anonymous member of the Library's staff noted that Ms. Hildreth had taken up the job of City Librarian under difficult circumstances and that she had exhibited leadership of the highest level. The anonymous member of the Library's staff stated that Ms. Hildreth had the complete backing of the Library's staff and urged that the Commission recommend the Mayor appoint her City Librarian. The Commission went into closed session at 4:19PM The Commission returned to open session at 5:27PM MOTION: By Commissioner Steiman, 2nd by Commissioner Bautista pursuant to San Francisco Administrative Code Section 67.12(b) (4): to report that the Commission had taken action during the closed session. ACTION: Aye 4-0 (Bautista, Higueras, Steiman, and Swig) President Higueras reported that by unanimous vote (Bautista, Higueras, Steiman, and Swig) the Commissioners had nominated Susan Hildreth to the Mayor for appointment as City Librarian. Public comment: Mr. Ed Regan expressed approval of Ms. Hildreth's nomination. MOTION: By Commissioner Bautista, 2nd by Commissioner Swig pursuant to San Francisco Administrative Code Section 67.12.(a) to disclose the major points of the Commissioner's reasons discussed in the closed session for making this nomination to the Mayor. ACTION: Aye 4-0 (Bautista, Higueras, Steiman, and Swig) COMMISSION COMMENT on the Closed Session discussion Commissioner Bautista reported that the main reason for her vote to nominate Ms. Hildreth was her leadership of the campaign for the recently approved branch library bond, noting that the great success of the bond proposal not only demonstrated Ms. Hildreth's ability, but also constituted public vote of confidence in her leadership of the Library. Commissioner Bautista observed as the newest Commissioner that as she learned more about the Library she had developed a very favorable impression of Ms. Hildreth's skills. Vice President Steiman stated that it had always been her advice to the Mayor that he appoint Ms. Hildreth as City Librarian. Vice President Steiman observed that Ms. Hildreth had exceeded every expectation and suggested that even if a national search process had produced a candidate as well qualified as Ms. Hildreth, any new person would take at least a year to familiarize themselves with the Library at a time when critically important decisions would need to be made. In addition, Vice President Steiman noted that she would not want to take the risk of losing Ms. Hildreth during a lengthy search process. Vice President Steiman also noted that Ms. Hildreth had won the confidence of the Library's staff, who after many years of great change deserved a period of stability. Commissioner Swig commented that Ms. Hildreth was well qualified and that she had been impressed as a new Commissioner with the manner in which Ms. Hildreth took up the challenge following Ms. Minudri's illness. Commissioner Swig noted that Ms. Hildreth had been effectively doing the work of two positions in a very difficult environment. Commissioner Swig suggested that there was risk of losing Ms. Hildreth during a national search process which would not find a candidate better qualified and who would have no time to learn the job. She also noted that there was a strong possibility that someone new could accept the position and then find out the high cost of living and the many challenges facing them and not work out. President Higueras observed that he had always been a strong supporter of having a good process, and that part of a good process was to carefully evaluate what the Library already had. President Higueras noted that the Acting City Librarian met all of the criteria of the very best candidate, pointing out her award as one of the top five city department managers. President Higueras reported that Ms. Hildreth had demonstrated excellent leadership and enjoyed the Mayor's confidence. He suggested that she would have certainly been a finalist in any search process. President Higueras said that choosing anyone else apparently equally qualified would be taking a chance that they could do as well, when the Library already had a proven candidate. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AGENDA ITEM #2 LIBRARY STRATEGIC PLAN Acting City Librarian Susan Hildreth presented a detailed overview of the lengthy community and staff input process which formed the basis for the Strategic Plan. Ms. Hildreth then discussed the revisions and additional staff comment on the Library's Strategic Plan since the Library Commission in January 2000 had last considered it. The Acting City Librarian outlined in detail the yearlong process of considering the Commission's comments together with additional revisions suggested in a Fall 2000 facilitated meeting where all of the various issues were again addressed. The Acting City Librarian explained that the Leadership Group had drafted the plan and then a second staff group had responded to the recommendations and refined the plan. At the September meeting facilitated by Ms. Rhea Rubin the document was further revised. Ms. Hildreth described the changes in format and focus of the plan, noting that the Library Directions were key to the development of the plan. She reported that the goals and objectives had needed to be modified to clarify and focus the plan. Ms. Hildreth noted that adding a Value Statement to the strategic plan articulated the values that would guide implementation of the goals identified. The Acting City Librarian recommended that the proposed plan be adopted as the Library Services Plan, clearly stating that service priorities would be guided by the values described. Ms. Hildreth next spoke about the second step of this process where the resources needed to carry out the initiatives called for by the plan would be identified. Ms. Hildreth noted that many items in the Library's budget reflected goals and activities proposed in the plan. She noted that an important issue would be to clearly establish the relevance of the library's collections to their users , pointing out that the Library's ongoing bibliographic review of its collections was the beginning of this process. Ms. Hildreth proposed to bring the final draft of the Library Strategic Plan back to the Commission for its final review and approval in the near future. Public comment on Agenda Item #2 LIBRARY STRATEGIC PLAN An anonymous member of the public observed that the explanatory documents described in the agenda were not matched by the materials provided, noting that use of the term "service plan" generally referred to a staff created legal or technical reporting document not a strategic plan which reflects public input. This individual found this effort going in the wrong direction, noting a page 3 reference to developing collections with the involvement of affinity groups. The anonymous member of the public felt this reference meant that those that paid had more say in developing the library's collections than the public. This person also felt that the plan's extensive emphasis on developing computer based Internet resources was not that high a priority with the public. Mr. Ed Regan commented on the discussion on diversity of collections, suggesting that that the non-fiction parts of the collection were more critical to the public, and proposing that the same collection of non-fiction materials be available in every library. Mr. Peter Warfield questioned if the copy of the plan provided the public was the same document being reviewed by the Commissioners. Mr. Warfield expressed no problem with having a service plan, but noted puzzlement at an apparent lack of discussion of Library hours in the plan. He commented that patrons wanted more weekend and evening library hours. Mr. Warfield also asked for more references to building the book collections, observing that the collection assessment made some sense, but that he would like further explanation about how this fit into the overall plan. Commission comment on Agenda item #2 LIBRARY STRATEGIC PLAN President Higueras observed that he preferred to describe the plan as a strategic plan as it was a plan for providing services over a number of years. President Higueras suggested that the Commission hold a special retreat to discuss the proposed plan, seeking public comment and input on the details of this proposal. President Higueras noted that the strategic plan had major ramifications for future Library budgets and for the development of the branch bond program. Vice President Steiman expressed the hope that it would not take another year to complete a final draft but that staff should move forward to bring the plan to the Commission for action. Vice President Steiman noted that a full day had been taken to address these issues by the leadership group and that it was very important to preserve the key directives from the community in the final plan. She also emphasized that relevance to the Library's needs should guide any partnership relationships which the Library might consider. Vice President Steiman in general, expressed approval of the plan, recommending the goals be highlighted. In particular, she observed that the plan addressed the important issue of collection development and commented that the Library must be aware of changing services needs, not become a book museum. Vice President Steiman mentioned that in gathering additional input on the strategic plan care should be taken that there was no appearance of favoritism. She noted that it was important that everyone received a fair hearing and that there was no inside track. She additionally suggested that additional affinity groups could be formed if there was a need for them. Commissioner Swig commented that many people had worked very hard to contribute to the development of this plan. She additionally noted that this revision retained previous good content but in an improved format, calling attention to better ordering of the goals and objectives. Commissioner Swig also emphasized the importance of the page 5 discussion of maintaining the collection properly and noted that she felt that a services plan was only a part of the overall strategic plan that the Library needed. Vice President Steiman stated that excellent customer service must be the first priority and that it involved more than staffing issues. She observed that providing good service was the whole point of building a good collection. President Higueras recommended that the Commissioners review the proposals and arrive at an agreement on what should be in the final format. Commissioner Swig observed that this draft had come a long way. Commissioner Bautista suggested that there should be another round of checking with the community to see if goals had changed as a result of the approval of the branch bond issue. Vice President Steiman suggested that the draft be available in all branches and on the Library's website with an invitation to comment. The Acting City Librarian outlined a plan to seek additional staff and community input on the plan and expressed a hope to be able to gather these additional revisions and present a draft to the Commission in May. Commissioner Bautista raised concerns that the plan address the need for a broader range of languages referring to discussions on pages 6 and 16. She noted the absence of both Japanese and Filipino languages and recommended that the various languages collections be reviewed with the goal being to add significantly more language groups to the Library's collections. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AGENDA ITEM #3 PUBLIC COMMENT An anonymous member of the public noted that Susan Hildreth was not Ken Dowlin, who was not John Franz, and was not Dr. Starr. The anonymous member of the public expressed shock at the Commission President's comment that bad process leads to bad results as good process does to good results. This person also made an observation about respect accorded to a person's ideas and issues. This individual additionally wondered that someone might say of Ms. Hildreth's successor, he/she is not Susan Hildreth. Mr. Ed Regan recommended that Library public services hours be extended from 6AM until Midnight, seven days a week, 365 days per year. Mr. Regan also recommended the same uniform collections of books be available in both the Main Library and the Branches. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Agenda Item #4 - ADJOURNMENT MOTION: by Commissioner Steiman, seconded by Commissioner Bautista that the meeting be adjourned. ACTION: AYE 4-0 (Bautista, Higueras, Steiman, and Swig) The meeting was adjourned at 6:28PM The number of members of the public who spoke anonymously at this meeting 2. Michael Housh, Commission Secretary 5/4/01


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Baseball Pitcher & Player of the Week ? No. 7
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A.J. Work of The Master's (Calif.) has been named the NAIA National Baseball Pitcher of the Week and Ben Alison of MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.) has been tabbed National Baseball Player of the Week, the national office announced Tuesday. Work and Alison were selected based on their performances from April 16 - 22 and were chosen out of a pool of conference/independent/unaffiliated groupings.
Work, a native of Boise, Idaho, finished the week 2-0 after leading the Mustangs to victories against Golden State Athletic Conference (GSAC) rivals Vanguard (Calif.), 9-1, on April 16 and then-No. 12 Concordia (Calif.), 2-1, on April 21. Against Vanguard, the junior lefthander scattered five hits over 7.1 innings, while allowing one run, striking out four and walking one. Work continued his stellar week against the nationally ranked Eagles, allowing one run on six hits over seven innings. The performance marks the ninth time in 14 appearances that he has thrown at least seven innings.
On the year, Work leads the squad with a 9-2 record and ranks second on the team in earned run average (2.02), innings pitched (89.0) and strikeouts (50).
Alison, a native of Ankeny, Iowa, hit .500 (7-for-14) with four home runs, seven runs scored and 15 RBIs to lead the Pioneers to a pair of doubleheader sweeps against Culver-Stockton (Mo.) on April 18 and Graceland (Iowa) on April 21. In the victories against Graceland, the senior right fielder went 3-for-5 with two home runs and a season-high tying seven RBIs in game one before going 2-for-3, including a home run and four RBIs, in game two.
On the year, Alison ranks fifth nationally with a program single-season record 15 home runs, while also appearing amongst the top 20 in RBIs with 53. Additionally, he leads the team with a .721 slugging percentage, while ranking second in stolen bases (20) and third in batting average (.350). Alison is the only player in the NAIA with at least 15 home runs and 20 steals this season.
For a complete listing of all the national statistical leaders, click here.
The next NAIA Baseball Pitcher and Player of the Week announcement will be on May 1.
Pitcher Nominees: Teddy Nowell, Northwood (Texas); Jacob Cook, Campbellsville (Ky.); Tyler Deutscher, Sterling (Kan.); Kody Mcfarland, Bellevue (Neb.); Bryan Duncan, Peru State (Neb.); Gary Ward, Bethel (Tenn.); Elliot Rowe, Bethel (Ind.); Kacy Gardiner, Jamestown (N.D.); Abraham Carrasco, Mount Mercy (Iowa); Trevor Corns, Alice Lloyd (Ky.); Todd Griffiths, College of Idaho; Adam Paulencu, Embry-Riddle (Fla.); Julien Soucy, Missouri Baptist; Jose Samayoa, Lee (Tenn.); Derek Peluso, Point Park (Pa.); Rey Rodriguez, Robert Morris (Ill.); Joey Duncan, Montreat (N.C.); Nathan Roth, Doane (Neb.); Brandon Bargas, Rogers State (Okla.); Jeremy Gooding, Madonna (Mich.).
Player Nominees: Colby Tessendorf, Tabor (Kan.); Brandon Thompson, Bellevue (Neb.); Jeremy Boyd, Southern Poly (Ga.); Robert Prieto, Freed-Hardeman (Tenn.); Kyle Pearson, LSU Shreveport (La.); Ethan Zartman, Bethel (Ind.); Max Boe, Jamestown (N.D.); Spenser Popinga, Waldorf (Iowa); Trey King, Alice Lloyd (Ky.); Steven Blum, Corban (Ore.); Jake Roe, Aquinas (Mich.); Jake Stone, Tennessee Wesleyan; Joe Riley, Missouri Baptist; Ricky Claudio, St. Thomas (Fla.); Randy Guite, Georgetown (Ky.); Tom Birko, Point Park (Pa.); Jason Schmidt, Mount Marty (S.D.); Emmanuel De La Cruz, Rogers State (Okla.); Drake Fages, Biola (Calif.); Matt Mchenry, Judson (Ill.).
2012 Composite Award Winners (Pitcher; Player)
Week 1: Kris Hall, Lee (Tenn.); Ignatius Mackenzie, Indiana Tech
Week 2: Tyler Garkow, Point Loma Nazarene (Calif.); Daniel Hall, Sterling (Kan.)
Week 3: Drew Sain, Davenport (Mich.); Ryne Otis, Taylor (Ind.)
Week 4: Daniel Jones, Brewton-Parker (Ga.); Adam McCormick, Tabor (Kan.)
Week 5: Kemonte Keesee, Bryan (Tenn.); Bryan Lucas, The Master's (Calif.)
Week 6: Andy Kovarik, Saint Xavier (Ill.); Brad Myjak, Saint Xavier (Ill.)
Week 7: A.J. Work, The Master's (Calif.); Ben Alison, MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.)


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KEENE, N.H. – A walk-off bases loaded single in 11th inning of game one and a 10-run through the first two innings in game two pushed Keene State College (15-16, 5-3 Little East) to a two-game sweep of baseball as they defeated the Beacons (12-16, 4-5 Little East) by the finals of 4-3 and 13-4 Sunday afternoon at Owls Stadium.
With the sweep, the Beacons who originally sat atop the conference standing are now holding on to fourth place with only two more weekends of doubleheaders left before the start of the conference tournament. They also have one game remaining with the Huskies of Southern Maine, which is scheduled for Tuesday.
In Sunday's match-up the Beacons bats made contact but once again struggled to drive runners home when the opportunities presented themselves. The opener proved to be a nailbiter as the Beacons went into extras for the first time this season.
UMass jumped out to an early 2-0 lead through the first three innings, but with a pair of runs by Keene State in the bottom of the fourth the game was quickly evened at 2-2. UMass did get one run in the fifth, but the Owls once again countered with a run of their own this time in the bottom half of the same inning.
After four quick innings, the Beacons got their best chance to put the go-ahead run on the scoreboard in the top of the 10th. A quick groundout got the inning off to a good start for Keene State, but that would change as UMB recorded back-to-back singles. They would then load the bases on an infield error with only one out on the scoreboard. However Keene would escape the inning retiring the next two batters on a strikeout and a lineout.
In the 11th the Owls put a pair of runners on with one out on the scoreboard. UMass then got their second out of the contest with a flyout to centerfield. Unfortunately a wild pitch would move both runners up 90 feet. A walk would then load the bases and with an infield single the Owls would steal the conference victory by the final of 4-3.
The nightcap got off to a very rough start for UMB as the Owls tacked on seven runs in the first and then another three in the second to take a commanding 10-0 lead. UMass did tack on two in the fourth, but with a pair of runs in the bottom half of the inning, Keene State still remained in firm control of a 10-run lead. The Beacons managed just two more runs in the seventh, while Keene put-up their final in the eighth as the Owls secured the sweep.
Game one saw catcher Todd Ezold (Westfield, Mass.) have the most productive showing at the plate as he went 3-for-4 with a run scored and a pair of walks. Charles LaPaglia (Marshfield, Mass.) was 2-for-5 with a double and an RBI which he recorded in the top of the second. As a team the Beacons recorded their three runs on nine hits, with their only error proving to be the costly one.
On the hill, Kyle Szatrowski (Agawam, Mass.) went seven complete allowing three runs, all earned, on eight hits. He would strikeout three and walk one in the no decision. Matt Dziok (Southampton, Mass.) was handed the loss, his first of the season, after going the final 2.2.
Game two saw UMB put-up their four runs on six hits, with three belonging to Ryan Manning (Plainville, Mass.), two to Nick Radcliffe (Randolph, Mass.), and one to Jamill Moquette (Boston, Mass.). Each player recorded one double, with Manning leading the Beacons with a pair of RBI and a run scored. Radcliffe also drove in a run as he earned the start in left field.
Having a tough day on the mound was Patrick Austin (Torrington, Conn.) as the lefty lasted just 1.1 before getting handed his second loss of the year. However some of the blame did not rest solely on the Connecticut native as the Beacons defense, which was solid for the most part in game one, completely fell apart in game two. Of the first 10 runs allowed by Austin, only four were earned as the Owls needed just five hits to take their huge lead. He also struckout two and walked two. After him the Beacons used four pitchers out of the bullpen to close out the contest.
Baseball returns to action on Tuesday when they travel to the University of Southern Maine for a 3:30 p.m. Little East Conference game. The Beacons were originally scheduled to play Wentworth Institute of Technology on Monday but that game just like the Worcester State University contest which was supposed to be played this afternoon has been cancelled.


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Houston is all about the businesses, which means hotel costs are pricier during the week and then drop on the weekend. Houston makes for a perfect weekend break destination, and you won't have to worry about any of the hotels being fully booked. You could even pick up some theatre tickets for weekend-only shows while you're here.
Aim to book your hotels in advance if your travel plans are fixed so that you'll be guaranteed a place to sleep. If you're a little more flexible, however, you can take advantage of the affordable last-minute hotel rates. As long as you aren't visiting during a large event, there will be plenty of hotels available a few days before you visit, and you'll be able to secure a room for far less than if you had booked in advance.
Unsurprisingly, the priciest neighborhood in Houston is right in the center of downtown. With everything in walking distance, you'll be looking at spending $200 for a mid-range hotel, and over $500 for a luxury resort.
If you're looking to save money, however, there are plenty of cheaper neighborhoods to look at. In general, the farther outside of downtown you are, the cheaper it'll be. One option could be Pasadena. You'd be a 20-minute drive, or 90-minute bus journey, away from the center of town, but you'll also find yourself fairly close to a beach and adventure-sport activities.
If you love quirky neighborhoods with a soul, opt to stay in Montrose. It's vibrant and diverse, but also full of eccentricity. Wander through an art gallery, have a cup of coffee at one of the independently owned coffee shops, or search for bargains at one of the thrift stores. With plenty of B&Bs available in Montrose, your stay won't break the bank, either.
Houston has the second-largest Indochinese population in the United States, and the large, bustling Chinatown proves it. Located in the southeast of the city, you'll be able to find cheap Asian food here, from Chinese food to Indian, Pakistani to Middle Eastern. There are dozens of cheap hotels and motels in Chinatown, so you can stay close to the vibrant diversity of Houston without spending much money.
There are hundreds of Airbnb options for Houston, especially if you're looking for a deal. Within the downtown area there are over 120 apartment rentals for under $100 a night. Half of these are entire apartments, so you'll have privacy, a kitchen, and many other amenities you wouldn't otherwise have in a hotel. Airbnb offers better value for money than hotels in Houston, all while allowing you to experience life in the city as a local.
Airbnb also has you covered if you want to stay outside the hustle and bustle of downtown Houston. Overall, there are more than 700 options in the area. Do you have a big group traveling with you? Book a home that has space for you and all your friends; for a few hundred dollars a night, you can sleep in a castle-style home just outside the city or in a roomy townhouse in the heart of the action.
Hostels are fantastic if you're looking to save as much money as possible. They're your cheapest option when it comes to accommodation and, as long as you don't mind sharing a room with a few strangers, are a lot of fun, too. Houston isn't a big hostel city but there are still a few decent options.
The HI-Houston: The Morty Rich Hostel offers fantastic value for money, with six-bed dorms coming in at just $25 per night. Relax with new friends around the outdoor swimming pool, play a few games of pool in the games room, get your laundry done, and enjoy a complimentary breakfast. Not bad considering it's only two miles outside of downtown Houston.
The second option for a hostel in Houston is Houston International Hostel. The main advantage to staying here is price -- you can get a night in a six-bed dorm for $18. Houston International Hostel is in the Museum District, where you can find plenty of exhibits and attractions to keep you busy.
Getting to and from Houston's airports to and from the city is easy. From George Bush Intercontinental Airport, you can choose to rent a car from any of 9 companies once you arrive or you can take a taxi, which is the priciest option available. There's a service called the SuperShuttle, which is an affordable yet slow option that will take you direct to your hotel door, and there are public METRO buses that run direct from the airport to downtown.
From William P. Hobby Airport, you'll have a much faster experience. Like with George Bush Intercontinental Airport, taxis are available once you've collected your bags, and they cost about half as much as they do from George Bush Airport. You can also hire a rental car or take the SuperShuttle or the public METRO buses. The cheapest option in this case is to take the bus.
The airport hotels in Houston are of a high quality. Nearly all of them offer a free airport shuttle service, as well as a free breakfast. You can often find a hotel swimming pool and fitness center, as well as a restaurant if you're feeling hungry after your flight. The area around George Bush Intercontinental Airport, in particular, has lots of restaurants and bars that stay open throughout the night.
There's no end to the range of activities available to Houston budget travelers. Take in a show at the Miller Outdoor Theater -- open between March and November -- located in Hermann Park. You can pack a picnic and watch a film, a dance performance, or even a concert. Discovery Green park is always worth checking out at any time of year. Buy some fresh fruit and vegetables at the Green Market on Sunday, ice skate on Kinder Lake during the winter months, or head to the amphitheater during the spring to listen to local musicians play.
Take a free 90-minute boat tour of the Houston Port, and learn about the history of the area and the boats that pass through every day. If you're visiting during summer, head for the Water Wall in The Galleria neighborhood. The 64-foot tall fountain offers a relaxing respite from the humidity. For those who like to visit quirky attractions when they travel, consider visiting the Art Car Museum. You'll kill hours of time as you wander past elaborately decorated cars painted with examples of contemporary art -- art cars are unlike anything you've ever seen before.
For more information about Houston and what to do while you're in town, head to Visit Houston Texas, the website for the Houston tourism board (http://www.visithoustontexas.com/?gclid=CMSz2-b8icICFYqFfgodEEkAwQ). There, you'll find information about upcoming events, guides to every neighborhood, recommendations on where to eat and drink, and even discounts on activities in the city.
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One morning in September, 1989, a former sales representative in his mid-forties entered an examination room with Stanislas Dehaene, a young neuroscientist based in Paris. Three years earlier, the man, whom researchers came to refer to as Mr. N, had sustained a brain hemorrhage that left him with an enormous lesion in the rear half of his left hemisphere. He suffered from severe handicaps: his right arm was in a sling; he couldn't read; and his speech was painfully slow. He had once been married, with two daughters, but was now incapable of leading an independent life and lived with his elderly parents. Dehaene had been invited to see him because his impairments included severe acalculia, a general term for any one of several deficits in number processing. When asked to add 2 and 2, he answered "three." He could still count and recite a sequence like 2, 4, 6, 8, but he was incapable of counting downward from 9, differentiating odd and even numbers, or recognizing the numeral 5 when it was flashed in front of him.
To Dehaene, these impairments were less interesting than the fragmentary capabilities Mr. N had managed to retain. When he was shown the numeral 5 for a few seconds, he knew it was a numeral rather than a letter and, by counting up from 1 until he got to the right integer, he eventually identified it as a 5. He did the same thing when asked the age of his seven-year-old daughter. In the 1997 book "The Number Sense," Dehaene wrote, "He appears to know right from the start what quantities he wishes to express, but reciting the number series seems to be his only means of retrieving the corresponding word."
Dehaene also noticed that although Mr. N could no longer read, he sometimes had an approximate sense of words that were flashed in front of him; when he was shown the word "ham," he said, "It's some kind of meat." Dehaene decided to see if Mr. N still had a similar sense of number. He showed him the numerals 7 and 8. Mr. N was able to answer quickly that 8 was the larger number—far more quickly than if he had had to identify them by counting up to the right quantities. He could also judge whether various numbers were bigger or smaller than 55, slipping up only when they were very close to 55. Dehaene dubbed Mr. N "the Approximate Man." The Approximate Man lived in a world where a year comprised "about 350 days" and an hour "about fifty minutes," where there were five seasons, and where a dozen eggs amounted to "six or ten." Dehaene asked him to add 2 and 2 several times and received answers ranging from three to five. But, he noted, "he never offers a result as absurd as 9."
In cognitive science, incidents of brain damage are nature's experiments. If a lesion knocks out one ability but leaves another intact, it is evidence that they are wired into different neural circuits. In this instance, Dehaene theorized that our ability to learn sophisticated mathematical procedures resided in an entirely different part of the brain from a rougher quantitative sense. Over the decades, evidence concerning cognitive deficits in brain-damaged patients has accumulated, and researchers have concluded that we have a sense of number that is independent of language, memory, and reasoning in general. Within neuroscience, numerical cognition has emerged as a vibrant field, and Dehaene, now in his early forties, has become one of its foremost researchers. His work is "completely pioneering," Susan Carey, a psychology professor at Harvard who has studied numerical cognition, told me. "If you want to make sure the math that children are learning is meaningful, you have to know something about how the brain represents number at the kind of level that Stan is trying to understand."
Dehaene has spent most of his career plotting the contours of our number sense and puzzling over which aspects of our mathematical ability are innate and which are learned, and how the two systems overlap and affect each other. He has approached the problem from every imaginable angle. Working with colleagues both in France and in the United States, he has carried out experiments that probe the way numbers are coded in our minds. He has studied the numerical abilities of animals, of Amazon tribespeople, of top French mathematics students. He has used brain-scanning technology to investigate precisely where in the folds and crevices of the cerebral cortex our numerical faculties are nestled. And he has weighed the extent to which some languages make numbers more difficult than others. His work raises crucial issues about the way mathematics is taught. In Dehaene's view, we are all born with an evolutionarily ancient mathematical instinct. To become numerate, children must capitalize on this instinct, but they must also unlearn certain tendencies that were helpful to our primate ancestors but that clash with skills needed today. And some societies are evidently better than others at getting kids to do this. In both France and the United States, mathematics education is often felt to be in a state of crisis. The math skills of American children fare poorly in comparison with those of their peers in countries like Singapore, South Korea, and Japan. Fixing this state of affairs means grappling with the question that has taken up much of Dehaene's career: What is it about the brain that makes numbers sometimes so easy and sometimes so hard?
Dehaene's own gifts as a mathematician are considerable. Born in 1965, he grew up in Roubaix, a medium-sized industrial city near France's border with Belgium. (His surname is Flemish.) His father, a pediatrician, was among the first to study fetal alcohol syndrome. As a teen-ager, Dehaene developed what he calls a "passion" for mathematics, and he attended the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, the training ground for France's scholarly élite. Dehaene's own interests tended toward computer modelling and artificial intelligence. He was drawn to brain science after reading, at the age of eighteen, the 1983 book "Neuronal Man," by Jean-Pierre Changeux, France's most distinguished neurobiologist. Changeux's approach to the brain held out the tantalizing possibility of reconciling psychology with neuroscience. Dehaene met Changeux and began to work with him on abstract models of thinking and memory. He also linked up with the cognitive scientist Jacques Mehler. It was in Mehler's lab that he met his future wife, Ghislaine Lambertz, a researcher in infant cognitive psychology.
By "pure luck," Dehaene recalls, Mehler happened to be doing research on how numbers are understood. This led to Dehaene's first encounter with what he came to characterize as "the number sense." Dehaene's work centered on an apparently simple question: How do we know whether numbers are bigger or smaller than one another? If you are asked to choose which of a pair of Arabic numerals—4 and 7, say—stands for the bigger number, you respond "seven" in a split second, and one might think that any two digits could be compared in the same very brief period of time. Yet in Dehaene's experiments, while subjects answered quickly and accurately when the digits were far apart, like 2 and 9, they slowed down when the digits were closer together, like 5 and 6. Performance also got worse as the digits grew larger: 2 and 3 were much easier to compare than 7 and 8. When Dehaene tested some of the best mathematics students at the École Normale, the students were amazed to find themselves slowing down and making errors when asked whether 8 or 9 was the larger number.
Dehaene conjectured that, when we see numerals or hear number words, our brains automatically map them onto a number line that grows increasingly fuzzy above 3 or 4. He found that no amount of training can change this. "It is a basic structural property of how our brains represent number, not just a lack of facility," he told me.
In 1987, while Dehaene was still a student in Paris, the American cognitive psychologist Michael Posner and colleagues at Washington University in St. Louis published a pioneering paper in the journal Nature. Using a scanning technique that can track the flow of blood in the brain, Posner's team had detailed how different areas became active in language processing. Their research was a revelation for Dehaene. "I remember very well sitting and reading this paper, and then debating it with Jacques Mehler, my Ph.D. adviser," he told me. Mehler, whose focus was on determining the abstract organization of cognitive functions, didn't see the point of trying to locate precisely where in the brain things happened, but Dehaene wanted to "bridge the gap," as he put it, between psychology and neurobiology, to find out exactly how the functions of the mind—thought, perception, feeling, will—are realized in the gelatinous three-pound lump of matter in our skulls. Now, thanks to new technologies, it was finally possible to create pictures, however crude, of the brain in the act of thinking. So, after receiving his doctorate, he spent two years studying brain scanning with Posner, who was by then at the University of Oregon, in Eugene. "It was very strange to find that some of the most exciting results of the budding cognitive-neuroscience field were coming out of this small place—the only place where I ever saw sixty-year-old hippies sitting around in tie-dyed shirts!" he said.
Dehaene is a compact, attractive, and genial man; he dresses casually, wears fashionable glasses, and has a glabrous dome of a head, which he protects from the elements with a chapeau de cowboy. When I visited him recently, he had just moved into a new laboratory, known as NeuroSpin, on the campus of a national center for nuclear-energy research, a dozen or so miles southwest of Paris. The building, which was completed a year ago, is a modernist composition in glass and metal filled with the ambient hums and whirs and whooshes of brain-scanning equipment, much of which was still being assembled. A series of arches ran along one wall in the form of a giant sine wave; behind each was a concrete vault built to house a liquid-helium-cooled superconducting electromagnet. (In brain imaging, the more powerful the magnetic field, the sharper the picture.) The new brain scanners are expected to show the human cerebral anatomy at a level of detail never before seen, and may reveal subtle anomalies in the brains of people with dyslexia and with dyscalculia, a crippling deficiency in dealing with numbers which, researchers suspect, may be as widespread as dyslexia. One of the scanners was already up and running. "You don't wear a pacemaker or anything, do you?" Dehaene asked me as we entered a room where two researchers were fiddling with controls. Although the scanner was built to accommodate humans, inside, I could see from the monitor, was a brown rat. Researchers were looking at how its brain reacted to various odors, which were puffed in every so often. Then Dehaene led me upstairs to a spacious gallery where the brain scientists working at NeuroSpin are expected to congregate and share ideas. At the moment, it was empty. "We're hoping for a coffee machine," he said.
Dehaene has become a scanning virtuoso. On returning to France after his time with Posner, he pressed on with the use of imaging technologies to study how the mind processes numbers. The existence of an evolved number ability had long been hypothesized, based on research with animals and infants, and evidence from brain-damaged patients gave clues to where in the brain it might be found. Dehaene set about localizing this facility more precisely and describing its architecture. "In one experiment I particularly liked," he recalled, "we tried to map the whole parietal lobe in a half hour, by having the subject perform functions like moving the eyes and hands, pointing with fingers, grasping an object, engaging in various language tasks, and, of course, making small calculations, like thirteen minus four. We found there was a beautiful geometrical organization to the areas that were activated. The eye movements were at the back, the hand movements were in the middle, grasping was in the front, and so on. And right in the middle, we were able to confirm, was an area that cared about number."
The number area lies deep within a fold in the parietal lobe called the intraparietal sulcus (just behind the crown of the head). But it isn't easy to tell what the neurons there are actually doing. Brain imaging, for all the sophistication of its technology, yields a fairly crude picture of what's going on inside the skull, and the same spot in the brain might light up for two tasks even though different neurons are involved. "Some people believe that psychology is just being replaced by brain imaging, but I don't think that's the case at all," Dehaene said. "We need psychology to refine our idea of what the imagery is going to show us. That's why we do behavioral experiments, see patients. It's the confrontation of all these different methods that creates knowledge."
Dehaene has been able to bring together the experimental and the theoretical sides of his quest, and, on at least one occasion, he has even theorized the existence of a neurological feature whose presence was later confirmed by other researchers. In the early nineteen-nineties, working with Jean-Pierre Changeux, he set out to create a computer model to simulate the way humans and some animals estimate at a glance the number of objects in their environment. In the case of very small numbers, this estimate can be made with almost perfect accuracy, an ability known as "subitizing" (from the Latin word subitus, meaning "sudden"). Some psychologists think that subitizing is merely rapid, unconscious counting, but others, Dehaene included, believe that our minds perceive up to three or four objects all at once, without having to mentally "spotlight" them one by one. Getting the computer model to subitize the way humans and animals did was possible, he found, only if he built in "number neurons" tuned to fire with maximum intensity in response to a specific number of objects. His model had, for example, a special four neuron that got particularly excited when the computer was presented with four objects. The model's number neurons were pure theory, but almost a decade later two teams of researchers discovered what seemed to be the real item, in the brains of macaque monkeys that had been trained to do number tasks. The number neurons fired precisely the way Dehaene's model predicted—a vindication of theoretical psychology. "Basically, we can derive the behavioral properties of these neurons from first principles," he told me. "Psychology has become a little more like physics."
But the brain is the product of evolution—a messy, random process—and though the number sense may be lodged in a particular bit of the cerebral cortex, its circuitry seems to be intermingled with the wiring for other mental functions. A few years ago, while analyzing an experiment on number comparisons, Dehaene noticed that subjects performed better with large numbers if they held the response key in their right hand but did better with small numbers if they held the response key in their left hand. Strangely, if the subjects were made to cross their hands, the effect was reversed. The actual hand used to make the response was, it seemed, irrelevant; it was space itself that the subjects unconsciously associated with larger or smaller numbers. Dehaene hypothesizes that the neural circuitry for number and the circuitry for location overlap. He even suspects that this may be why travellers get disoriented entering Terminal 2 of Paris's Charles de Gaulle Airport, where small-numbered gates are on the right and large-numbered gates are on the left. "It's become a whole industry now to see how we associate number to space and space to number," Dehaene said. "And we're finding the association goes very, very deep in the brain."
Last winter, I saw Dehaene in the ornate setting of the Institut de France, across the Seine from the Louvre. There he accepted a prize of a quarter of a million euros from Liliane Bettencourt, whose father created the cosmetics group L'Oréal. In a salon hung with tapestries, Dehaene described his research to a small audience that included a former Prime Minister of France. New techniques of neuroimaging, he explained, promise to reveal how a thought process like calculation unfolds in the brain. This isn't just a matter of pure knowledge, he added. Since the brain's architecture determines the sort of abilities that come naturally to us, a detailed understanding of that architecture should lead to better ways of teaching children mathematics and may help close the educational gap that separates children in the West from those in several Asian countries. The fundamental problem with learning mathematics is that while the number sense may be genetic, exact calculation requires cultural tools—symbols and algorithms—that have been around for only a few thousand years and must therefore be absorbed by areas of the brain that evolved for other purposes. The process is made easier when what we are learning harmonizes with built-in circuitry. If we can't change the architecture of our brains, we can at least adapt our teaching methods to the constraints it imposes.
For nearly two decades, American educators have pushed "reform math," in which children are encouraged to explore their own ways of solving problems. Before reform math, there was the "new math," now widely thought to have been an educational disaster. (In France, it was called les maths modernes, and is similarly despised.) The new math was grounded in the theories of the influential Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget, who believed that children are born without any sense of number and only gradually build up the concept in a series of developmental stages. Piaget thought that children, until the age of four or five, cannot grasp the simple principle that moving objects around does not affect how many of them there are, and that there was therefore no point in trying to teach them arithmetic before the age of six or seven.
Piaget's view had become standard by the nineteen-fifties, but psychologists have since come to believe that he underrated the arithmetic competence of small children. Six-month-old babies, exposed simultaneously to images of common objects and sequences of drumbeats, consistently gaze longer at the collection of objects that matches the number of drumbeats. By now, it is generally agreed that infants come equipped with a rudimentary ability to perceive and represent number. (The same appears to be true for many kinds of animals, including salamanders, pigeons, raccoons, dolphins, parrots, and monkeys.) And if evolution has equipped us with one way of representing number, embodied in the primitive number sense, culture furnishes two more: numerals and number words. These three modes of thinking about number, Dehaene believes, correspond to distinct areas of the brain. The number sense is lodged in the parietal lobe, the part of the brain that relates to space and location; numerals are dealt with by the visual areas; and number words are processed by the language areas.
Nowhere in all this elaborate brain circuitry, alas, is there the equivalent of the chip found in a five-dollar calculator. This deficiency can make learning that terrible quartet—"Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision," as Lewis Carroll burlesqued them—a chore. It's not so bad at first. Our number sense endows us with a crude feel for addition, so that, even before schooling, children can find simple recipes for adding numbers. If asked to compute 2 + 4, for example, a child might start with the first number and then count upward by the second number: "two, three is one, four is two, five is three, six is four, six." But multiplication is another matter. It is an "unnatural practice," Dehaene is fond of saying, and the reason is that our brains are wired the wrong way. Neither intuition nor counting is of much use, and multiplication facts must be stored in the brain verbally, as strings of words. The list of arithmetical facts to be memorized may be short, but it is fiendishly tricky: the same numbers occur over and over, in different orders, with partial overlaps and irrelevant rhymes. (Bilinguals, it has been found, revert to the language they used in school when doing multiplication.) The human memory, unlike that of a computer, has evolved to be associative, which makes it ill-suited to arithmetic, where bits of knowledge must be kept from interfering with one another: if you're trying to retrieve the result of multiplying 7 X 6, the reflex activation of 7 + 6 and 7 X 5 can be disastrous. So multiplication is a double terror: not only is it remote from our intuitive sense of number; it has to be internalized in a form that clashes with the evolved organization of our memory. The result is that when adults multiply single-digit numbers they make mistakes ten to fifteen per cent of the time. For the hardest problems, like 7 X 8, the error rate can exceed twenty-five per cent.
Our inbuilt ineptness when it comes to more complex mathematical processes has led Dehaene to question why we insist on drilling procedures like long division into our children at all. There is, after all, an alternative: the electronic calculator. "Give a calculator to a five-year-old, and you will teach him how to make friends with numbers instead of despising them," he has written. By removing the need to spend hundreds of hours memorizing boring procedures, he says, calculators can free children to concentrate on the meaning of these procedures, which is neglected under the educational status quo. This attitude might make Dehaene sound like a natural ally of educators who advocate reform math, and a natural foe of parents who want their children's math teachers to go "back to basics." But when I asked him about reform math he wasn't especially sympathetic. "The idea that all children are different, and that they need to discover things their own way—I don't buy it at all," he said. "I believe there is one brain organization. We see it in babies, we see it in adults. Basically, with a few variations, we're all travelling on the same road." He admires the mathematics curricula of Asian countries like China and Japan, which provide children with a highly structured experience, anticipating the kind of responses they make at each stage and presenting them with challenges designed to minimize the number of errors. "That's what we're trying to get back to in France," he said. Working with his colleague Anna Wilson, Dehaene has developed a computer game called "The Number Race" to help dyscalculic children. The software is adaptive, detecting the number tasks where the child is shaky and adjusting the level of difficulty to maintain an encouraging success rate of seventy-five per cent.
Despite our shared brain organization, cultural differences in how we handle numbers persist, and they are not confined to the classroom. Evolution may have endowed us with an approximate number line, but it takes a system of symbols to make numbers precise—to "crystallize" them, in Dehaene's metaphor. The Mundurukú, an Amazon tribe that Dehaene and colleagues, notably the linguist Pierre Pica, have studied recently, have words for numbers only up to five. (Their word for five literally means "one hand.") Even these words seem to be merely approximate labels for them: a Mundurukú who is shown three objects will sometimes say there are three, sometimes four. Nevertheless, the Mundurukú have a good numerical intuition. "They know, for example, that fifty plus thirty is going to be larger than sixty," Dehaene said. "Of course, they do not know this verbally and have no way of talking about it. But when we showed them the relevant sets and transformations they immediately got it."
The Mundurukú, it seems, have developed few cultural tools to augment the inborn number sense. Interestingly, the very symbols with which we write down the counting numbers bear the trace of a similar stage. The first three Roman numerals, I, II, and III, were formed by using the symbol for one as many times as necessary; the symbol for four, IV, is not so transparent. The same principle applies to Chinese numerals: the first three consist of one, two, and three horizontal bars, but the fourth takes a different form. Even Arabic numerals follow this logic: 1 is a single vertical bar; 2 and 3 began as two and three horizontal bars tied together for ease of writing. ("That's a beautiful little fact, but I don't think it's coded in our brains any longer," Dehaene observed.)
Today, Arabic numerals are in use pretty much around the world, while the words with which we name numbers naturally differ from language to language. And, as Dehaene and others have noted, these differences are far from trivial. English is cumbersome. There are special words for the numbers from 11 to 19, and for the decades from 20 to 90. This makes counting a challenge for English-speaking children, who are prone to such errors as "twenty-eight, twenty-nine, twenty-ten, twenty-eleven." French is just as bad, with vestigial base-twenty monstrosities, like quatre-vingt-dix-neuf ("four twenty ten nine") for 99. Chinese, by contrast, is simplicity itself; its number syntax perfectly mirrors the base-ten form of Arabic numerals, with a minimum of terms. Consequently, the average Chinese four-year-old can count up to forty, whereas American children of the same age struggle to get to fifteen. And the advantages extend to adults. Because Chinese number words are so brief—they take less than a quarter of a second to say, on average, compared with a third of a second for English—the average Chinese speaker has a memory span of nine digits, versus seven digits for English speakers. (Speakers of the marvellously efficient Cantonese dialect, common in Hong Kong, can juggle ten digits in active memory.)
In 2005, Dehaene was elected to the chair in experimental cognitive psychology at the Collège de France, a highly prestigious institution founded by Francis I in 1530. The faculty consists of just fifty-two scholars, and Dehaene is the youngest member. In his inaugural lecture, Dehaene marvelled at the fact that mathematics is simultaneously a product of the human mind and a powerful instrument for discovering the laws by which the human mind operates. He spoke of the confrontation between new technologies like brain imaging and ancient philosophical questions concerning number, space, and time. And he pronounced himself lucky to be living in an era when advances in psychology and neuroimaging are combining to "render visible" the hitherto invisible realm of thought.
For Dehaene, numerical thought is only the beginning of this quest. Recently, he has been pondering how the philosophical problem of consciousness might be approached by the methods of empirical science. Experiments involving subliminal "number priming" show that much of what our mind does with numbers is unconscious, a finding that has led Dehaene to wonder why some mental activity crosses the threshold of awareness and some doesn't. Collaborating with a couple of colleagues, Dehaene has explored the neural basis of what is known as the "global workspace" theory of consciousness, which has elicited keen interest among philosophers. In his version of the theory, information becomes conscious when certain "workspace" neurons broadcast it to many areas of the brain at once, making it simultaneously available for, say, language, memory, perceptual categorization, action-planning, and so on. In other words, consciousness is "cerebral celebrity," as the philosopher Daniel Dennett has described it, or "fame in the brain."
In his office at NeuroSpin, Dehaene described to me how certain extremely long workspace neurons might link far-flung areas of the human brain together into a single pulsating circuit of consciousness. To show me where these areas were, he reached into a closet and pulled out an irregularly shaped baby-blue plaster object, about the size of a softball. "This is my brain!" he announced with evident pleasure. The model that he was holding had been fabricated, he explained, by a rapid-prototyping machine (a sort of three-dimensional printer) from computer data obtained from one of the many MRI scans that he has undergone. He pointed to the little furrow where the number sense was supposed to be situated, and observed that his had a somewhat uncommon shape. Curiously, the computer software had identified Dehaene's brain as an "outlier," so dissimilar are its activation patterns from the human norm. Cradling the pastel-colored lump in his hands, a model of his mind devised by his own mental efforts, Dehaene paused for a moment. Then he smiled and said, "So, I kind of like my brain." ♦


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About that GOP epiphany on immigration after the election, there's one small problem that could scuttle a deal: Republicans in Congress can't even agree on what to do.
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"Doing a comprehensive bill is a big mistake," Rep. Raul Labrador (R-Idaho) said. "What you end up having is a bill that nobody likes. Everybody hates one piece of it. It's a way to actually avoid doing what we need to do to solve the immigration problem."
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"That is probably the part of immigration reform that needs the greatest reform," said Rep. Charles Gonzalez (D-Texas), the outgoing chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. "That's why I've never really understood that people really believe that this piecemeal thing is going to get us anywhere."
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The next batch comes to us from flickr member tattywelshie, found in our Fresh New Spaces group. Some of the things I love about this space is the fearless yet restrained use of wallpaper, the mastery of blue (even in the fireplace), that the rest of the palette is clean and bright, the use of metallics and glass, and that tattywelshie believes in eco-friendly design and tries to design in an environmentally responsible way:
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|Center for Quantum Materials faculty (left to right) Andrey Chubukov, Martin Greven, Bharat Jalan, Rafael Fernandes, and Chris Leighton
Three faculty members in the School are part of a $2.6 million grant over the next three years from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Basic Energy Sciences. The new Center for Quantum Materials brings together an interdisciplinary research team of Professors Andrey Chubakov, Rafael Fernandes and Martin Greven from the School and Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science professors Bharat Jalan and Chris Leighton.
The Center will be focused on chemical compounds, called complex oxides, that are notable for their wide range of magnetic and electrical properties, which have potential applications including data storage, superconductors, fuel cells, and electrical power plants.
"Complex oxides are finding their way into many technologies from energy to electronics, but in many cases scientists still don't understand the fundamental science of how they work," said Martin Greven, the lead researcher in the new Center. "By understanding these materials at a very basic level, we can begin to predict and control how they will act. This can help us develop new materials to improve technology."
The Center for Quantum Materials is only the second center of its kind funded by the Department of Energy Office of Basic of Energy Sciences. A similar Institute for Quantum Matter includes researchers from Johns Hopkins University and Princeton University. The new center at the University of Minnesota will stimulate research by expanding research teams and improving collaboration among researchers locally, nationally, and internationally.
"This center puts the University of Minnesota on the map as a leading U.S. institution in the cutting-edge field of quantum materials," Greven said. "It's also recognition that the basic sciences are key to developing new materials that can improve our lives."
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