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OK, this video reviewing column is getting personal. Starting as a way to research the appropriateness of games for kiddos, my 9-year-old gamer son included, the column has now forced me to enjoy myself and has become a HUGE distraction to making dinner, doing laundry and other daily mommy jobs. In fact, I nearly missed the deadline for this review because it was "my play."
Until this week, I really have not felt compelled to play the games I've reviewed — Black Ops, Halo, MarioKart, Minecraft and the many others. Now I have enjoyed gaining knowledge about the games, especially L.A. Noire and Farmville.
This week, my story is different. I discovered Words with Friends, a free application available for the iPad, iTouch and iPhone, and I'm addicted. Come to find out, so are many others – millions, including dozens of my friends on Facebook.
Research shows that more people are touching their "i" devices for games such as Words with Friends than for phone calling and texting. Makers of this game, Newtoy, a Texas mobile game development company, made a name for itself with Chess with Friends and was acquired last year by Zynga. You know Zynga. They are the ville-fers – Farmville, Cityville, Gagaville. Now they are also Zynga with Friends.
Join the world, and me, and start playing Words with Friends today. It's easy. Go to the App Store and choose the Words with Friends app. You'll see two apps for Words with Friends. Choose the free one. It downloads quickly to your device and asks you to log in. If you want to login using your Facebook information – e-mail and password – you'll have access to those friends of yours who are also playing Words with Friends.
You'll then be asked to create a game and choose who you would like to play with — a Facebook friend, random opponent, someone from your device's contact list or you can pass and play a multi-player game on the same device, which is awesome for traveling, sitting in the doctor's office, etc. You can also enter the username or e-mail and search for a friend who might be a Words with Friends player. Of course, you can always invite a friend, too, and there is an option for that.
To get started, I just picked a random player and was immediately matched with an opponent, "Zidersi." Since I started the game, which is essentially Scrabble, I made the first move. Seeing the entire grid on my screen, seven letters in my viewer for playing, double and triple letters (DL and DT, respectively) and double and triple words (DW and DT) for winning, I carefully selected, the word most appropriate for what I was doing during work hours – "SIN." I won three points.
Approximately three minutes later, my opponent played "LEARN," but he/she could have played three hours or three days later because Words with Friends is played at a pace set by the players. There is no pressure or time clock ticking, which also means three-letter words are really unacceptable. My opponent made 14 points. OMG … I had to come up with a good word and OMG … this is fun. Three minutes later I played "RISKY" using the "s" in "sin." I scored 19 points and I was addicted.
Words with Friends allows players to have games going on simultaneously with multiple people. I can play with my dad, who is across the country, or with my son in the house, either sitting down together on my iPad or playing separately. I'll play on my iPad and he on his iTouch. Everyone plays at his or her leisure, responding when convenient. It's educational for kids (and adults), and my son feels as though "Mommy is playing a video game with him." Even if the laundry is unfolded I'm still a video gaming rock star in my kid's eyes.
If the Words with Friends scrabbling pace is too slow, I can also recommend www.pogo.com. Create an account, play for free against a random opponent or the computer. You've got two minutes to make your move. The free version has advertisements every few plays, which gets tedious but allows you a breather. Paid play ($5.99 a month) removes all advertisements.
Words for Friends is VERY appropriate for my kid and yours and fun for you. Play (SIN) with me at svitanza!


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It's hard to come to terms with the loss of someone like Robin Williams, who impacted the world with his heartfelt, compelling acting and his unfailing ability to draw laughter in any situation. His talent made him an icon, and his acclaimed kindness and playful humor made him a great friend, father and husband who will be sorely missed.
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The food fight in 'Hook.'
Both kids and adults can appreciate Williams' scene in 'Hook' where he exchanges fierce insults with Rufio across an empty banquet table. And who didn't feel a little shiver of pride and excitement when Peter mastered his imagination to trigger a colorful food fight?
When his students salute him with "Oh Captain! My Captain!" in 'Dead Poets Society.'
Williams' role as John Keating in 'Dead Poets Society' reached a pinnacle when his students stood atop their desks and quoted Walt Whitman to protest their poetry teacher's dismissal. "O Captain! My Captain! Rise up and hear the bells."
The poor cooking attempt in 'Mrs. Doubtfire.'
Williams' comedic timing was on fire — literally — in his hilarious attempt at cooking a homemade meal for his family in 'Mrs. Doubtfire.' His role as a dad-turned-undercover-nanny will remain an icon in comedy for a long time to come.
When Matt Damon asks "When did you know?" in 'Good Will Hunting.'
Sean Maguire's retelling in 'Good Will Hunting' of the night he met his wife is as funny as it is sweet and romantic. It's a perfect example of Williams' physical, full-body type of comedy, and his ability to add humor to even the most personal and emotional scenes.
The moving graduation speech in 'Jack.'
It's impossible to watch Robin Williams' graduation speech — as well as almost any other scene — in 'Jack' without shedding a few tears. This movie is just one example of the actor's wide range, proven through his ability to simultaneously portray the playfulness of a child and the frailty and fear of a man in a withering body.
When Williams demands "What year is it?" in 'Jumanji.'
Is there anyone that can rock a beard and scream at monkeys the way Robin Williams can? His acting is so spot-on that it's almost believable that it was Williams himself, not Alan Parrish, that spent 26 years in a board game jungle.
Fighting indifference in 'Patch Adams.'
Williams brought the true story of Patch Adams to life in the 1998 film. His scene defending his actions in court is a pivotal moment in the movie because of how passionately he speaks on behalf of his 'patients.' "If we're going to fight a disease," he argues, "let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all — indifference."
His father-to-son talk in 'What Dreams May Come.'
'What Dreams May Come' may be particularly painful to watch now, as it follows Williams' character Chris Nielsen on his exploration of the afterlife after the death of his wife. His conversation with his son, knowing the enormity of what they've both lost, is both heartbreaking and heartwarming.
Genie's 'Friend Like Me' production in 'Aladdin.'
Robin Williams can make us cry in dramas, laugh in comedies and sing along in hit Disney classics like 'Aladdin.' Though his role as Genie is one of his sillier characters, it's undoubtedly an important one. It pretty much guaranteed a generation that grew up as Williams fans from childhood.
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However, Finish security firm F-Secure has discovered that alongside the sale of such innocuous domains as filmlist.com comes the resale of domains that obviously belong to banks or other financial institutions. Sedo.com, for example, is reselling domains like chasebank-online.com, citi-bank.com and bankofameriuca.com. "Why would anybody want to buy these domains unless they are the bank themselves - or a phishing scammer?", F-Secure asks. The firm lists around 30 examples in a posting on its blog here.
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Francis Ford Coppola, like his contemporaries Martin Scorsese, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, studied films and filmmaking in college. Coppola's first break came as a screenwriter; he won his first Oscar for writing Patton, the movie based on the life of George S. Patton, Jr. By the late 1960s Coppola had formed his own production company, and in 1972 he released The Godfather, a box office smash and often hailed as one of the best movies of the 1970s (along with two of his other films, 1974's The Conversation, and 1979's Apocalypse Now). In spite of what is now a spotty record, Coppola is considered one of the greats in the American movie business, more active as a producer these days than as a writer or director. His films as director include The Rain People (1969, with James Caan); The Outsiders and Rumble Fish (both 1983, based on the books by S.E. Hinton); Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988, starring Jeff Bridges); Dracula (1992, starring Gary Oldman); and The Rainmaker (1997, with Matt Damon).
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When asked about my ethnic background, I usually say "Scotch Irish" and leave it at that. In fact I do carry Swedish on my mother's side, but we were never into that when I was growing up, and I liked Scotch Irish better. I've had lutefisk once in my life, which was once too often. But haggis? Bring it on!
I visited Scotland for the first time last September, and it immediately felt like home, like this was where I belonged. Knowing that, for Christmas my eldest daughter gave me a parcel of land in Scotland. My estate is in the Highlands, northwest of Glasgow, south of Inverness. If you happen to be in the area, feel free to visit. It would be best to visit one at a time, since my estate, as I call it, is only one square foot, but still.
In the materials I received regarding the estate, I read that "the legal owner of a Scottish estate of any size may call themselves a Laird (Lord). Further, Lairds are considered members of the gentry, ranking below a Baron and above an Esquire in the non-peerage table of precedence." I also received legal papers which, if signed and witnessed, would legally change my name by adding my title.
We are sometimes drawn into the debate over what an intern should be called. Intern Pastor? Pastoral Intern? Vicar? There are some internship settings in which the intern is simply called "Pastor"... What finally matters in the world is not the title that others give you or that you claim for yourself, but what you get done in the world.
So, again quoting from the documents: "Informally you may be called Laird Steven, or Laird Steven of Glencoe. Formally, you should be styled as "The Much Honoured Steven L. McKinley of Glencoe" or "The Much Honoured the Lord of Glencoe" or "The Much Honoured Steven L. McKinley, Laird of Glencoe."
I also received a necktie with the Glencoe tartan. I'm thinking about a kilt, but you might not want to envision that possibility.
Now I am a humble man. You don't have to use my title, even though I have a right to it. I've never been much impressed by titles. Titles don't tell us much. Accomplishments tell us more.
We are sometimes drawn into the debate over what an intern should be called. Intern Pastor? Pastoral Intern? Vicar? There are some internship settings in which the intern is simply called "Pastor". I should probably have more energy for this debate than I do.
Formally there is a process of bestowing titles, be they ecclesiastical or academic. When you have worked to gain a degree or a position, when you are "entitled," you certainly have the right to use that signal of rank or status. But what finally matters in the world is not the title that others give you or that you claim for yourself, but what you get done in the world. For clarification, see Matthew 11.2-6.
Perhaps on my next trip to Scotland I will drop my title into conversation. Until then, I'll just be the same old "Steve" I have always been.
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Portland State University is launching a five-year project to study and implement workplace training for supervisors of returning veterans. It is the first research project of its kind in the United States to implement supervisor training as part of addressing the particular needs of reintegrating veterans, with the ultimate goal of improving the workplace and keeping veterans employed.
The study, which will take place completely within Oregon, is funded by a $5 million grant awarded in February by the U.S. Department of Defense. It will be headed by Dr. Leslie Hammer, a PSU professor of psychology and an expert in occupational psychology and work and family issues. Hammer and her research team, which includes collaborators from the Portland VA Medical Center and Oregon Health & Sciences University (OHSU), will focus mainly on returning Oregon National Guard and Reserve Component veterans.
While the Obama Administration has implemented incentive programs for businesses to hire returning veterans, Hammer says little has been done to retain those employees once they've been hired or once they return to their old jobs after coming back from active duty.
"Returning veterans often have deployment-related health conditions, including physical injuries and heightened levels of stress and anxiety due to their war experiences. If I can train supervisors about what those veterans are dealing with and the types of resources that are available, it will help ease the transition back into the workplace," Hammer said. She added that veterans have higher rates of suicide and divorce than the population at large, in part because of the difficulties of transitioning to a "normal" life at home.
More than 2.2 million service members have been deployed in and around Afghanistan or Iraq since 9/11. At least a third or more are the "citizen soldiers" of the National Guard and Reserves. Hammer said the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force offers support systems for active duty soldiers returning home, but formal supports are more limited for veterans of the National Guard and Reserves.
The researchers will train workplace supervisors in ways to accommodate veterans, including being sensitive to their wartime experiences and domestic lives, decreasing the stress level of the job, and making schedules more flexible. They will measure the effectiveness of the training on veterans' wellbeing over time.
They also will conduct a daily diary study with veterans and their spouses or partners to get a deeper sense of the day-to-day issues faced by veteran families.
"Given the sacrifices these veterans and their families have made, society has a responsibility to assist with their transitions to civilian lives," Hammer said.
Hammer is the director of PSU's Center for Work-Family Stress, Safety and Health (www.pdx.edu/work-family-support), which examines innovative workplace practices that can ultimately improve the health and wellbeing of employees and their families. She is also the associate director of the Oregon Healthy Workforce Center, focused on the study of workplace intervention effectiveness (www.ohsu.edu/ohwc).
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For the past few months, we have exchanged notes and e-mails about a number of coffee places and events in the area with fellow SF coffee blogger, Christian G, of Man Seeking Coffee fame. (We've added the "G" here in an attempt to give him some rap-star-like mystique.) More recently, we collectively had the idea to pull a sort of Siskel & Ebert-like joint review together. This Dynamo Donuts trip report is a result…
This high-end donut purveyor may not have "espresso" in their name, but they take it every bit as seriously as their $2 donuts. Of course, for the many purists who believe that a Mission postal address requires a vow of poverty — and that only cheap dives and cheap food belong in the neighborhood — a $2 donut is cause for outrage. Whether or not you believe the less fortunate need equal access to donuts, can you just hear the revolution starting with, "Let them eat donuts!"??
On the subject of qu'ils mangent de la brioche, Dynamo's hooped-shaped confections are hardly things your grandmother would recognize as a "donut." They're more akin to a sort of round cake. But they are enough to bring out the inner Homer Simpson in a lot of people.
Despite these accusations of donut snobbery, you could say that Dynamo is pretty much a glorified sidewalk lemonade stand. There is a row of chairs on the sidewalk for outdoor seating (OK, for any seating whatsoever). And the on-duty barista/donutmonger might ask you to mind the store while she, or he, needs to take a restroom break. We're talking a modest operation.
Here they stick to some high-quality ingredients: Stumptown Hairbender, Clover organic milk, etc. Using a four-group La Marzocco Linea, they take their time and make deliberate shots of espresso with a mottled medium- and dark-brown crema of a good, but uneven, consistency and some real thickness. Rumor has it that some of the folks over at Four Barrel Coffee believe that this Linea pulls better shots than their deluxe hot rod Mistral machines. That could be more familiarity than quality talking, but hey — sometimes that's the price of art.
As with the Hairbender served at Four Barrel, the shot has an intense brightness that gets more potent at the bottom of the cup. With a semi-syrupy constency and a strongly pungent flavor, you may be hard pressed to blind taste their Hairbender versus Four Barrel's version to tell them apart. And that's a good thing.
It seems that the donuts-for-espresso barter between Dynamo and Four Barrel has afforded benefits for both locations. Christian had pretty much the exact same opinion about their espresso (call it "two thumbs up"?). And after plugging in our rating numbers, sure enough: Dynamo Donuts scored dead even with Four Barrel Coffee.
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Jeez, another 8+ rating. Things are looking up in SF.
omg! my 2 favortie coffee/espresso blogs are converging. My head is slowly exploding.
[…] the sweetness was closer to brown sugar than molasses, but I could easily be making this up. Greg and I agreed that we'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between this Hairbender and the one at Four […]


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The objective of this secondary analysis was to evaluate concurrent validity of actigraphy and polysomnography (PSG) in older women with insomnia.
Concurrent validity of actigraphy and PSG was examined through (1) comparison of sleep outcomes from each recording method; (2) calculation of sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, and predictive values from epoch-by-epoch data; and (3) statistical and graphical exploration of the relationship between sleep disturbance severity and concordance of actigraphy and PSG. Subjects were 16 community-dwelling older women (mean age 69.4 ± 8.1) with insomnia who underwent 8 nights of concurrent actigraphy and PSG.
Sleep efficiency reflected much greater sleep disturbance on PSG (66.9%) than actigraphy (84.4%). Based on generalized linear models, the parameter estimates for agreement between actigraphy and PSG were statistically significant (p < 0.05) for total sleep time and sleep latency, verged on significance for WASO (p = 0.052), but was not significant for sleep efficiency (p = 0.20). Epoch-by-epoch analysis showed high sensitivity (96.1%), low specificity (36.4%), and modest values on agreement (75.4%) and predictive values of sleep (74.7%) and wake (80.2%). Generalized linear models showed that overall accuracy of actigraphy declined as sleep efficiency declined (unstandardized Beta = 0.741, p < 0.001). Based on this model, sleep efficiency of 73% was the point at which accuracy declined below an acceptable accuracy value of 80%.
Actigraphy offers a relatively inexpensive and unobtrusive method for measuring sleep, but it appears to underestimate sleep disturbance, particularly at sleep efficiency levels below 73%, in older women with insomnia.
Taibi DM; Landis CA; Vitiello MV. Concordance of polysomnographic and actigraphic measurement of sleep and wake in older women with insomnia. J Clin Sleep Med 2013;9(3):217-225.
For assessment of insomnia, it is useful to have objective as well as subjective sleep measures. Persons with insomnia commonly report perceptions of more severe sleep disturbance than is apparent on objective sleep measures.1 Comparison of such subjective-objective differences is important for research on the etiology and subtypes of insomnia, as well as for tailoring cognitive-behavioral treatments. Actigraphy has gained acceptance as a cost-effective alternative to polysomnography; however, evidence is needed on the validity of actigraphy devices, and on accuracy of the measure in various clinical populations.
Polysomnography (PSG) remains the gold-standard to objectively measure sleep. The major disadvantages of PSG are participant burden (sleeping in a laboratory setting, wearing numerous sensors) and cost (equipment and staff for recording and visual scoring of records). By comparison, actigraphy is an attractive measure with much lower participant burden and cost. It allows measurement of 24-hour rest-activity data with minimal intrusiveness to the participant. The set-up of an actigraph recording is simple, requiring only computerized initialization of the device and placement on the wrist; scoring of the data is also simpler than PSG. Despite these practical advantages, actigraphy is not a substitute for PSG. It provides a measure of behavior but does not provide data on traditional sleep stages, quantitative measures of EEG, or respiration and muscle activity during sleep.
Current Knowledge/Study Rationale: Actigraphy is an attractive measure with much lower participant burden and cost than polysomnography. Before using actigraphy with a clinical population, it is important to study the validity of the specific device to be used in that population.
Study Impact: This study showed that actigraphy may not accurately reflect the magnitude of sleep disturbance in persons with severe insomnia and should be interpreted by clinicians accordingly. Furthermore, a low threshold for wake detection when using the sleep scoring algorithms in Actiware 5 software yielded most valid data of the three possible settings when compared to polysomnography.
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) recommends use of actigraphy as an adjunct measure in several conditions including circadian rhythm disorders, insomnia, hypersomnia, and obstructive sleep apnea.2,3 Although PSG is not recommended in the assessment of insomnia,3 it remains the criterion against which the validity of actigraphy is tested. Thorough validation of actigraphy remains insufficient or lacking in samples with varied demographic characteristics (particularly age and sex), health conditions, and sleep disorders.4 There is reason to examine actigraph validity specifically in older women versus general samples of persons with insomnia. Women have higher rates of insomnia across the lifespan,5 and the likelihood of insomnia is up to 50% higher in older women than older men.6,7 It is common for persons with insomnia to lie in bed while awake,8 a behavior that could potentially lead to misclassification of inactive wake time as sleep on actigraphy. This direction of actigraphy error has been shown in younger populations.9,10 Given that women across the lifespan are more likely to experience insomnia, it is possible that older women are habituated to being awake during the night, and thus more likely to lie still when awake,11 resulting in over-identification on sleep by actigraphy.
In our randomized trial of valerian effects on sleep in older women with insomnia,12 we noted that actigraphy sleep outcomes represented better sleep quality than PSG. For example, we found mean sleep efficiency on PSG was 66.91% ± 12.89%, and on the same nights it was 89.79% ± 3.80% on actigraphy. Therefore, the objectives of this secondary analysis of actigraphy and polysomnography data in the older women from our study of valerian were: (1) to explore differences between acti-graphic and PSG estimates of sleep outcomes (total sleep time, sleep efficiency, wake after sleep onset, and sleep latency); (2) to examine the concurrent validity of actigraphy and PSG based on epoch-by-epoch analysis of sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, and predictive values for sleep and wake; and (3) to statistically and graphically explore whether the severity of sleep disturbance affects the validity of actigraphy compared to PSG.
This study was a secondary analysis of data from a randomized, double-blinded crossover study of valerian for older women with insomnia.12 The original study included 2 phases with 8 nights of concurrent PSG and actigraphy. The original study and secondary analysis were approved by the University of Washington Human Subjects Institutional Review Board.
This secondary analysis includes all 16 participants from the original study sample. These women were recruited from the greater Seattle community between November 2004 and February 2006. Qualifying participants were aged 55-80, ≥ 5 years post-menopause, with scores > 5 on the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index ([PSQI] indicating overall disturbed sleep)13 and scores < 22 on the Insomnia Severity Index ([ISI] ≥ 22 indicates severe insomnia).14 Sleep disturbance was confirmed at baseline by a 2-week sleep diary (≥ 30-min sleep onset latency or wake after sleep onset for ≥ 3 nights per week and a daytime complaint), and participants underwent one night of screening PSG to exclude those with an undiagnosed sleep disorder (sleep disordered breathing or periodic limb movement disorder). Women with confounding medical and psychiatric conditions were excluded (see Taibi12 for full inclusion/exclusion criteria).
The mean age of participants was 69.4 ± 8.1 years. The participants were mostly well-educated (81% attended college or graduate school) and married (69%). All but one of the participants racially identified as white/Caucasian. Several participants had minor comorbidities (e.g., arthritis), but none had major illnesses. The sample means for self-reported sleep disturbance were 8.8 ± 2.3 on the PSQI and 11.1 ± 3.9 on the ISI.
Actigraphy was measured using the Actiwatch-64 (Philips Respironics, Andover, MA). These devices are piezoelectric accelerometers about the size of a watch and are worn on the wrist. The Actiwatch-64 accelerometer is omnidirectional, detecting movement on all planes. Actiwatch activity counts represent both the occurrence and magnitude of arm movements. Actiwatch-64s are programmed with a calibration coefficient that minimizes variation in activity counts between different Actiwatches, thus minimizing instrument-related error. Movement data were sampled at a rate of 32 Hz, and activity counts were recorded in 30-sec epochs, the same epoch length used in PSG recordings and scoring.
Time in bed (TIB) was the time between lights out and lights on as recorded in the sleep laboratory. These times were manually entered into Actiware 5.57 software (Philips Respironics, Andover, MA) and were identical to the PSG and analyses. Mean TIB for each night was 473 min (SD 52 min, range 347-580 minutes). Each epoch was scored as sleep or wake by applying a standard mathematical algorithm, and sleep outcomes were obtained using Actiware 5.57 software (Philips Respironics, Andover, MA). Sleep onset and offset were scored as the first/last 10 min of the sleep record scored as sleep with ≤ 1 epoch scored as wake. Sleep outcomes included total sleep time (TST), sleep efficiency (total sleep time/time in bed*100), wake after sleep onset (WASO), and sleep latency (time between going to bed and sleep onset defined as 10 min with ≤ 1 epoch of wake).
The full procedures for PSG recordings are reported in Taibi et al.12 Participants completed 9 nights of PSG recording over 4 visits to the Sleep Research Laboratory (2-3 nights per visit). Actigraphs were not worn on the first PSG night, which served as screening for sleep disordered breathing and periodic limb movement disorder. Participants with evidence of these sleep disorders were excluded from further participation. Subsequently, concurrent PSG and actigraphy were recorded for 2 consecutive nights at the beginning and end of 2 study phases, resulting in 8 total nights of concurrent actigraphy and PSG measurement from each participant. All nights of concurrent actigraphy and PSG were recorded on weeknights.
Electrodes for recording the electroencephalography, electrooculogram, and electromyogram were placed according to standard criteria.15 Signals from these leads were digitized and recorded using the EMBLA Somnologica 3.1.2 data acquisition system (EMBLA, Denver, CO). Sleep and wake stages were scored in 30-sec epochs according to the standard criteria of Rechtschaffen and Kales.15 TIB was the time between lights out and lights on as recorded in the sleep laboratory. Sleep variables were computed with a locally developed software program and included TST, sleep efficiency (total sleep time/time in bed*100), WASO, and sleep onset latency (time from lights out to first epoch of stage 2 sleep).
Fourteen participants had concurrent actigraphy and PSG data available from all 8 study nights that were used in the analysis. Two participants had only 4 nights of actigraphy data available for use in the analysis because of actigraph battery failure, resulting in a total of 120 nights of data used in the analysis.
Immediately before initializing the actigraph and PSG recordings, all computers were synchronized to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) atomic clock time to ensure alignment of actigraphy and PSG epochs. Each scored PSG record was exported from Somnologica as a text file and imported into SPSS 15.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL) for analysis. Epoch-by-epoch PSG data were dichotomized to binary form (0 = wakefulness, 1 = any stage of sleep).
Actigraphy data were exported from Actiware 5.57 to comma-separated data files and imported into SPSS for analysis. The data for each epoch were automatically scored (0 = wake, 1 = sleep) in Actiware prior to export. Designation of each epoch as sleep or wake is based on a scoring algorithm that weights activity in the immediate and adjacent 2 min of epochs (where E = epoch, E-x = activity within preceding epochs, and E+x = activity within subsequent epochs): E*2 + 0.2*(E+1 + E+2 + E-1 + E-2) + 0.04*(E+3 + E+4 + E-3+ E-4).16 Each epoch was scored as wake if the algorithm resulted in a score at or above a predetermined threshold; epochs below the threshold were designated as sleep. Actiware includes 3 threshold levels for designating wake: low threshold = 20, medium threshold = 40, and high threshold = 80. Some authors refer to thresholds as "sensitivity" levels for wake detection (low threshold = high sensitivity, high threshold = low sensitivity). We use the term threshold to avoid confusion with calculated sensitivity of actigraphy versus PSG. Given that the low wake-detection threshold would be more likely to score movement epochs as wake, this setting was hypothesized to be most useful in persons with insomnia, who tend to have long periods of wakefulness while lying in bed.8 To test this hypothesis, we compared all 3 sensitivity levels.
The intervention (valerian) was not shown to affect either PSG or actigraphically assessed sleep in the primary study analyses.12 Additionally, no differences between non-treatment (adaptation/placebo) and treatment nights on the validity outcomes were apparent on visual (mean validity outcomes) and statistical (Wilcoxon signed-ranks test) examination. Therefore, treatment was not considered in the present analyses. All statistical analyses were done in SPSS 15.0. Mean values for the sample on all sleep and validity outcomes were calculated within-subject across the whole sample to normalize for 2 subjects having only 4 nights of data.
To explore the agreement between actigraphic and PSG estimates of sleep outcomes, means and standard deviations of the sleep outcomes (total sleep time, sleep efficiency, wake after sleep onset, and sleep latency) are reported from PSG and from actigraphy at low, medium, and high wake-detection thresholds. The relationships of actigraphy values with PSG values on the sleep outcomes were analyzed using generalized linear models for continuous outcomes with mixed effects to account for within-subject repeated measures. Log transformed values of PSG and actigraphic sleep latency were used in the analyses due to the skewed distribution of these data.
To examine concurrent validity based on epoch-by-epoch comparison of actigraphy and PSG, each 30-sec epoch was scored as agreeing (true sleep/true wake) or disagreeing (false sleep = sleep scored on actigraphy but not PSG, false wake = wake scored on actigraphy but not PSG). Sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, and predictive values of the concordance in sleep/wake scoring for PSG and actigraphy were calculated for all study nights. These formulas have been described in previous studies.10,16–18 Sensitivity represents the proportion of the PSG-identified sleep epochs that are identified as sleep by actigraphy (# sleep epochs correctly identified by actigraphy / # PSG-identified sleep epochs). Specificity represents the proportion of the PSG-identified non-sleep (i.e., wake) epochs identified as wake by actigraphy (# wake epochs correctly identified by actigraphy / # PSG-identified wake epochs). Accuracy is the total percentage of PSG epochs (sleep or wake) correctly identified by actigraphy (# sleep or wake epochs correctly identified by actigraphy/total # of epochs). Predictive values were also calculated. These represent the proportion of epochs of actigraphy that are correctly classified. Predictive value for sleep (PVS) was the percent of actigraphic sleep epochs that accorded with PSG sleep, and predictive value for wakefulness (PVW) was the percent of actigraphic wake epochs that accorded with PSG wake. Accuracy values at the 3 thresholds were compared pairwise (low vs. medium, medium vs. high, low vs. high) using generalized linear models with mixed effects to account for within-subject repeated measures. Confidence intervals around the parameter estimate representing agreement of the thresholds were compared for overlap, which would indicate a lack of substantial difference between the thresholds.
The impact of sleep disturbance severity on validity measures was examined statistically and graphically. Generalized linear models, also accounting for within-subject repeated measures, were used to compare PSG sleep efficiency with overall accuracy. Bland-Altman plots for each of the sleep outcomes (TST, sleep efficiency, WASO, and sleep onset latency) were used to examine whether the degree of measurement error varied over the range of measurement. The Bland-Altman approach plots the difference of the 2 measures (e.g., actigraphy sleep efficiency – PSG sleep efficiency) on the y-axis against the mean of the 2 measures (e.g., [actigraphy sleep efficiency + PSG sleep efficiency] / 2) on the x-axis.19 For perfect correspondence of the 2 measures, all data points for measurement difference would fall along zero difference line. If actigraphy is biased toward overestimating the sleep outcome, points fall above the zero line; if it is biased toward underestimating the outcome, points fall below the zero line. If the distance from zero changes over the plot (i.e., the left versus the right side of the graph), this indicates that measurement error varies over the measurement scale. For example, if underestimation of sleep latency were greater for higher levels of sleep latency, the data points would be below the zero line, and increasingly farther from the line towards the right side of the graph (higher sleep latency).
Mean values of the sleep outcomes, including total sleep time, sleep efficiency, WASO, and sleep latency, are shown in Table 1. On examination of the mean values, all 3 actigraphy thresholds differed substantially from PSG. Consistent with our hypothesis, sleep outcomes calculated using the low wake-detection threshold were closest to PSG outcomes. Even at the low threshold, actigraphy resulted in higher TST (+89 min), higher sleep efficiency (+19%), lower WASO (-75 min), and lower sleep latency (-13 min) than were evident on PSG.
Sleep outcomes from actigraphy and polysomnography
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Given that the low threshold produced results closest to PSG, we used this setting to examine the relationship between actigraphy and PSG sleep outcomes by generalized linear models (Table 2). Addition of a nonlinear term did not improve the strength or significance of the model parameters; thus only linear analyses are reported. These results showed that agreement between actigraphy and PSG values was significant (p < 0.05) for TST and sleep latency, and verged on significance for WASO (p = 0.052). Sleep efficiency was not significant (p = 0.204). Un-standardized Beta coefficients reflect how much the dependent variable (actigraphy) changes when the independent variable (PSG) changes by 1 unit (e.g., one minute for TST, WASO, and sleep latency, one percentage point for sleep efficiency). A positive Beta coefficient indicates that the variables change in the same direction—that is, as one increases or decreases, the other does the same. A value of 1 would show perfect correspondence between actigraphy and PSG. Sleep latency showed strong agreement, with a Beta coefficient of 0.668 (p < 0.001). Total sleep time and WASO showed weak agreement (β = 0.281 and 0.123, respectively). These Beta coefficients indicate that actigraphy captured only part of the variance in sleep reflected by on PSG. Sleep efficiency showed poor agreement (β = 0.085). Graphical exploration using scatterplots (Figure 1) confirmed that the linear relationships between actigraphy and PSG values were true not only for the entire sample, but also within the majority of individuals.
Generalized linear models comparing sleep outcomes from actigraphy and polysomnography
Data points represent a subject on one night of measurement (4-8 data points per subject). Lines represent the within-subject relationship between PSG and actigraphy. The graphs show linear relationships between PSG and actigraphy on total sleep time (A) and WASO (C) within participants. The graph shows a positive linear relationship between PSG and actigraphy on sleep efficiency (B) for most participants, but of low magnitude, as reflected in the nonsignificant results on the generalized linear model analysis. Although the scatterplot and generalized linear model show overall agreement between PSG and actigraphy on sleep latency, the within-subject lines (D) show substantial variability within the sample.
Scatterplots showing the relationship between actigraphy and PSG sleep outcomes within subjectsData points represent a subject on one night of measurement (4-8 data points per subject). Lines represent the within-subject relationship between PSG and actigraphy. The graphs show linear relationships between PSG and actigraphy on total sleep time (A) and...
Sensitivity was high for all 3 actigraphy wake-detection thresholds (low = 96.1% ± 3.0%, medium = 98.1% ± 1.7%, and high = 99.2% ± 0.7%; see Figure 2). Specificity was low at all 3 actigraphy thresholds (low = 36.4% ± 14.0%, medium = 28.1% ± 11.9%, and high = 19.6% ± 9.2%). Overall accuracy was moderate: 75.4% ± 10.2, 74.3% ± 11.3%, and 72.5 ± %12.1% for low, medium, and high thresholds, respectively. Predictive values indicate the proportion of epochs on actigraphy that are correctly classified. Predictive values for sleep (PVS) were moderate at the low, medium, and high wake-detection thresholds, respectively: 74.7% ± 13.6%, 73.0% ± 13.5%; and 71.1% ± 13.4% of the epochs classified as sleep by actigraphy were correct according to PSG. Predictive values for wake (PVW) were strong at the low, medium, and high thresholds; 80.2% ± 12.8%, 86.1% ± 10.6%, 90.5% ± 8.2% of the epochs classified as wake by actigraphy were correct according to PSG.
This figure illustrates concordance outcomes at the three wake-detection threshold settings. For all outcomes, zero represents no concordance, and one represents perfect concordance.
Concordance of actigraphy and polysomnographyThis figure illustrates concordance outcomes at the three wake-detection threshold settings. For all outcomes, zero represents no concordance, and one represents perfect concordance.
Accuracy values from the three wake-detection thresholds were compared using generalized linear models. Comparisons showed strong agreement between each of the 3 thresholds (low-medium, β = 1.02, 95%CI = 1.00-1.05; medium-high, β = 1.08, 95%CI = 1.05-1.10, low-high, β = 1.10, 95%CI = 1.05-1.14). Overlap of the confidence intervals indicated that that accuracy did not differ significantly between these thresholds.
We compared the accuracy of actigraphy (percentage of correctly identified epochs) with PSG sleep efficiency to examine whether it varied depending on the severity of sleep disturbance, as has been reported in other studies.20,21 The generalized linear model was highly significant (p < 0.001, 95%CI = 0.65-0.84). The unstandardized Beta coefficient was 0.74, indicating close correspondence between the reduced sleep efficiency and reduced accuracy of actigraphy. We used the model parameters to calculate that a sleep efficiency level of 73.2% was where accuracy dropped below the generally accepted value of 80%.18 A scatterplot examining the relationship between PSG sleep efficiency and accuracy within participants showed a linear relationship for all participants (Figure 3).
Data points represent a subject on one night of measurement (4-8 data points per subject). In this graph, accuracy (i.e., percentage of epochs on which PSG and actigraphy are in agreement) declined as PSG sleep efficiency declined in all except one participant.
Within-subject relationships between PSG sleep efficiency and actigraph accuracyData points represent a subject on one night of measurement (4-8 data points per subject). In this graph, accuracy (i.e., percentage of epochs on which PSG and actigraphy are in agreement) declined as PSG sleep efficiency declined in all except one participant.
Bland-Altman plots were used to examine whether the magnitude of sleep disturbance affected the levels of agreement between actigraphy and PSG on sleep outcomes (Figure 4). These graphs plot the difference between actigraphy and PSG (on the y-axis) against the mean of the 2 measures (on the x-axis). The plots showed clear trends in measurement differences across the range of the measures such that the measurement differences were greater for lower TST, higher WASO, lower sleep efficiency, and longer sleep latency. These findings show that actigraphy corresponded more poorly with PSG as sleep became more disturbed, particularly with larger amounts of time spent awake.
The graphs show the difference between actigraphy and PSG (actigraphy value – PSG value) plotted against the mean of actigraphy and PSG on each of the sleep outcome: total sleep time (A), sleep efficiency (B), wake after sleep onset (C), and sleep latency (D). The horizontal reference line represents zero difference between the two recording methods on each outcome. Values above the zero-difference line indicate higher values on actigraphy than PSG (i.e., overestimation by actigraphy); values below the zero-difference line indicate lower values on actigraphy than PSG (i.e., underestimation by actigraphy).
Bland-Altman plots of whole-night sleep outcomesThe graphs show the difference between actigraphy and PSG (actigraphy value – PSG value) plotted against the mean of actigraphy and PSG on each of the sleep outcome: total sleep time (A), sleep efficiency (B), wake after sleep onset (C), and sleep latency (D). The...
In this sample of middle-aged to older women with insomnia, validity analyses revealed statistically significant agreement between actigraphy and PSG on all sleep outcomes except for sleep efficiency. Epoch-by-epoch analysis results showed that actigraphy accurately detected the majority of PSG-identified sleep, indicated by high sensitivity (≥ 96%), but did so by over-classifying PSG-identified wake epochs as actigraphic sleep (reduced PVS, ≤ 75%). Furthermore, actigraphy identified only a small portion of PSG wake (low specificity, ≤ 36%) but tended not to misclassify PSG sleep epochs as wake (high PVW, ≥ 80%).
Consistent with our hypothesis, specificity and overall accuracy were highest at the low wake-detection threshold. Accurate identification of wake appeared to come at the expense of reduced sleep identification: the low wake-detection threshold had lower sensitivity than the other thresholds. Given that actigraphy over-classified sleep, some loss in sleep detection for improved wake detection favors the low threshold in this population. Even at this "best" threshold level, specificity was poor, accuracy was moderate, sleep was overestimated by 89 minutes, and WASO was underestimated by 75 minutes. Overall, these results suggest that actigraphy may underestimate the severity of insomnia in older women with significant sleep disturbance.
We found actigraph validity declined predictably as sleep efficiency declined. Sleep efficiency around 73% was an important cut-point below which actigraphy accuracy fell below the generally accepted value of 80%. This pattern of lower validity in more disturbed sleep was evident within-subjects as well as between-subjects. A decrement in the performance of actigraphy was also apparent on the Bland-Altman plots of the sleep outcomes, which showed greater disagreement between actigraphy and PSG as each outcome reflected poorer sleep. This pattern of poorer performance in persons with worse sleep raises questions concerning the utility of actigraphy in persons with severe insomnia. Given that persons with severe insomnia are expected to experience a degree of sleep disturbance at which actigraphy has been shown to perform poorly, actigraphy may not provide valid measures of sleep in this group.
Our findings regarding sleep and wake identification are consistent with the published literature on actigraph validity in general (see Table 3), and the Actiwatch-64 in particular, which reported underestimation of wake and overestimation of sleep.9,10,16,20–24 Blackwell et al.20 found overestimation of sleep with the SleepWatch-O actigraph (Ambulatory Monitoring Inc, Ardsley, NY) in their sample of older women, but of a lesser degree than that reported here, with a mean overestimation of 17.9 minutes total sleep time. However, their sample from the Study of Osteoporotic Fractures consisted of general community-dwelling older women, not specifically women with insomnia. In the subset of the sample with sleep efficiency levels lower than 70%, overestimation of sleep was more pronounced (mean = +68 minutes). Lichstein et al.,9 who tested the Actiwatch-64 in older men and women with insomnia, also reported a smaller difference between actigraphy and PSG than the present study (TST difference = +14 minutes). Given that our study showed better accuracy at higher levels of sleep efficiency, the higher sleep efficiencies in the Blackwell and Lichstein studies (75.5% and 77.0% versus 66.9% in our study) may explain why those studies showed measurement error in the same direction as that found in our study, but of lesser magnitude.
Actigraph validity research
Our findings were highly congruent with results from Sivertsen and colleagues' study of older men and women with chronic insomnia.24 That study found a similar degree of sleep disturbance as the present study, and also similar magnitudes of differences between actigraphy and PSG on the same four sleep outcomes we tested. Our study augments Sivertsen's findings by showing the same pattern with a different actigraph device (Actiwatch-64 versus Actiwatch Plus, Cambridge Neurotechnology, Ltd., Cambridgeshire, UK). Additionally, Sivertsen et al. reported data for only one night in each of 34 participants for a total of 34 nights, compared to the current study's design of 120 nights in 16 participants. Although our sample is smaller, we measured 4-8 nights and demonstrated similar validity to that found by Sivertsen not only between subjects, but within subjects as well. Finally, Sivertsen et al. found slightly higher PSG-actigraph agreement in women (84%) than in men (81%), but both groups had higher agreement than found in the present study. Thus, it remains unclear whether the accuracy of actigraphy differs in older women versus older men and younger persons with insomnia.
Several studies have presented correlations of actigraphy and PSG sleep outcomes as evidence of the validity of actigraphy: total sleep time r = 0.51-0.93, WASO r = 0.48-0.85, sleep efficiency r = 0.36-0.81, sleep onset latency r = 0.30-0.95.9,20,25–28 These findings indicate that, while there is substantial discrepancy between the measures, they tend to change in the same direction. The unstandardized Beta coefficients from our generalized linear models comparing sleep outcomes show similar results. Given that sleep outcomes from actigraphy tend to change in the same direction as PSG, actigraphy may be useful for measuring treatment-related changes in sleep. Studies have found actigraphy to be sensitive to treatment related changes in sleep, and this use of actigraphy is supported by the AASM practice guideline on actigraphy.2 However, the over-identification of sleep found in this study suggests that the magnitude of changes in sleep may not be fully reflected, especially given that measurement error is greater in more disturbed sleep. Another use of actigraphy beyond measuring sleep outcomes is the clinical characterization of sleep-wake patterns,2 which could be useful for such applications as checking behavioral contributions to sleep disturbance and patient compliance to sleep scheduling.
Overall, the results of this secondary analysis indicate that older women with insomnia may appear to have sleep efficiency that falls within what is considered a "normal range" on actigraphy. However, if actigraphy were to be used as a screening tool, these individuals would be at risk for under-detection of the severity of insomnia. Further, those individuals whose actigraphic measures show disturbed sleep may actually experience greater sleep disturbance than is being detected.
This study has several limitations. First, certain aspects of the sample present limitations, including the small sample size which limits the power of the statistical analyses, and the lack of racial/ethnic and gender diversity, which limits the general-izability of the findings to other populations. Second, we tested only one actigraphy device, the Actiwatch-64. This device has been shown to perform comparably to Philips Respironics' newer Actiwatch-2 device,29 but has substantial technical differences from other actigraph manufacturers including the type accelerometer (piezoelectric versus solid state), mode of logging activity (count of threshold crossings, sums of activity occurrences and/or magnitude, time above threshold), and sleep/wake scoring algorithms used. Thus, applicability to other devices cannot be assumed. However, previous studies have shown various actigraphs to have similar functionality and validity,25,30 so it is reasonable to hypothesize that other devices are likely to be subject to the same performance limitations as the device tested in the present analyses.
It is important for researchers and clinicians to recognize that actigraphy is a useful measure, but it has limitations as a measure of sleep outcomes. Because actigraphy measures movement, confounding factors such as passive movement (e.g., movement of a bed partner), quiescent wakefulness, or periodic limb movements could substantially affect the validity of actigraphy sleep outcomes. The high sensitivity of actigraphy in this sample of women with insomnia appears largely explained by over-identification of sleep, as evidenced by poor specificity. In particular, the accuracy of actigraphy declined below an acceptable level when sleep efficiency was below 73%. The validity of actigraphy for quantifying treatment changes was not addressed by this analysis and requires further research. At present, actigraphy offers a relatively inexpensive and unobtrusive method for examining sleep patterns, but users should select appropriate wake-detection thresholds for the population being tested and should interpret data with recognition that sleep disturbance is most likely underrepresented on actigraphy.
This was not an industry supported study. None of the authors has a financial conflict of interest.
The authors thank Dr. Jerald Hertig for assisting with the statistical analyses. This research was supported by National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant numbers AT002108 (CAL), T32 NR07039-18 (DMT), NR 011400 (Center for Research on the Management of Sleep Disturbance), and NR04011 (Center for Women's Health and Gender Research).
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If you weren't already a devotee of the lightweight, rear-drive, rotary sports cars from Mazda's glory years, this video will convert you.
First-gen RX-7s aren't just awesome-looking, fun to drive, and dirt cheap nowadays. With a little work, they are tough enough to take jumps like a baja racer. This one, "The General," does it with a smile.
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The Crimson will look to move its win streak to six this weekend against NJIT and Rutgers-Newark (Ben Barnhart).
The Storyline
The No. 15 Harvard men's volleyball team will put its four-match win streak on the line this weekend as it travels to NJIT and Rutgers-Newark for a pair of EIVA matches. The Crimson will first face the Highlanders Friday, Feb. 22 at 7 p.m. before taking on the Scarlet Knights Saturday, Feb. 23 at 2 p.m.
A free live video stream and live stats will be available during Friday's match through NJITHighlanders.com by clicking here.
Last Time Out
The Harvard men's volleyball team recorded its second sweep of the weekend and earned its fourth straight win Saturday with a 3-0 victory over St. Francis (Pa.) at the Malkin Athletic Center. The victory came by set scores of 25-23, 25-21 and 25-22. DJ White led the attack for a second straight night with 12 kills and a .455 hitting percentage.
Related Link: Men's Volleyball Registers Second Straight Sweep Against St. Francis (Pa.), 3-0
Around the League
Harvard is currently in third place of the EIVA standings with a 3-1 conference mark and a 7-2 overall record. The Crimson leads the conference in kills (12.62) and assists (11.81), is third in hitting percentage (.260) and blocks (2.42), and ranks fifth in digs (8.78).
Individually, Nick Madden is ninth in the conference with 2.88 kps while Branden Clemens and Caleb Zimmick rank fourth and eighth, respectively, with hitting percentages of .315 and .273. Rob Lothman is second among EIVA setters with 10.34 aps while Chris Gibbons comes in fourth among liberos with 2.47 dps. Zimmick also boasts the second best blocking average at 1.22 bps with Kyle Rehkemper chipping in 0.90 bps, good for 10th.
National Scene
Men's volleyball national ranking summary through games played Feb. 17.
Scouting NJIT
NJIT comes into the weekend tied for sixth place in the EIVA standings with an 0-2 conference mark and 2-9 overall. The Highlanders have averaged just 10.58 kps while hitting .179, both of which rank seventh in the conference. NJIT is also seventh in assists (9.88) and blocks (1.53), but is third in the league in digs (9.35).
Kajetan Borecki leads the Highlander attack with 2.20 kps while Chris Kaepernick and Herman Kantushov have added 2.15 kps and 2.12 kps, respectively. Matthew Lui has served as the team's primary setter and has dished out 7.24 aps. Defensively, NJIT is paced by Brady Smith's 2.51 dps, third highest in the EIVA.
Scouting Rutgers-Newark
Rutgers-Newark is tied for sixth place in the EIVA standings with an 0-2 conference record and an overall mark of 2-4. The Scarlet Knights are sixth in the league with a .180 hitting percentage and a blocks per set average of .155, but rank last in kills (9.57), assists (9.00) and digs (7.76).
Manuel Felipez leads the Rutgers-Newark attack with 3.52 kps, the fourth highest total in the EIVA, while Travis Mintzer has added 2.52 kps. Kevin McCandless has averaged 6.57 aps as the team's primary setter while Quocmy Nguyen has paced the defense with 2.17 dps.
Taking Home the Hardware
Sophomore DJ White earned a pair of honors this week, being named both the AVCA Division I-II National Player of the Week and EIVA Offensive Player of the Week. The praise comes after White averaged 4.17 kills per set and hit .477 as the Crimson knocked off No. 9 Penn State and St. Francis (Pa.) in straight sets.
White is the first member of the Crimson to earn the national recognition. He has been named the conference's offensive player of the week twice this season and has earned the distinction three times in his career.
National News
Harvard was ranked No. 15 in this week's AVCA Division I-II Poll, marking the Crimson's first ranking of the season. Harvard earned the first national ranking in program history last year in week 14 and remained in the poll at No. 15 for the final four weeks.
Slump Busters
The Crimson ended a 51-match drought for conference opponents versus Penn State when it upset the ninth-ranked Nittany Lions Feb. 15, 3-0. Penn State's last loss to an EIVA conference foe came on March 7, 2008 to George Mason, 3-1.
Ranked Wins
Harvard's 3-0 victory over then ninth-ranked Penn State marked the team's second win over a ranked opponent in as many years. Last season, the Crimson knocked off No. 12 Call State Northridge, 3-1, to record the program's first victory against a ranked team under head coach Brian Baise.
MAC Attack
Harvard is 19-6 in the friendly confines of the Malkin Athletic Center since the start of 2011 including a 3-0 mark this year. The Crimson has won seven straight matches at home dating back to last season and has captured each of its last three home openers.
Block Party
The Crimson recorded 17.5 blocks at No. 6 Penn State, the team's highest total over the last three seasons. Caleb Zimmick led the way with eight total blocks as Michael Owen and Kyle Rehkemper each turned in seven. Nick Madden and Rob Lothman also got in on the action, registering six blocks and four blocks, respectively.
Harvard's season high for blocks in 2012 was 17 at Rutgers-Newark.
Quick Start
Harvard swept Stevens, NYU and St. Francis (Pa.) to open the year, marking the third straight season that the Crimson has started the year with at least two victories. Harvard's three straight-set victories, meanwhile, had not been accomplished since 1993 when the squad posted four sweeps in its first four matches.
Catch the Crimson in 2012
Harvard will host 11 home matches at the Malkin Athletic Center this season and each will be streamed live online through GoCrimson.com. Fans can also watch each match On Demand approximately two hours after completion. One-year subscriptions are available for $49.95 and allow access to every home event streamed by the Crimson, including football, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's hockey and men's soccer. For more information or to sign up today, click here.
Captaining the Ship
Rob Lothman and Nick Madden will serve as the team's captains for the 2013 season. Lothman was named to the All-EIVA second team in 2012 after setting a career-high with 888 assists, the fifth-best single-season total in program history. Lothman directed the Crimson attack to a .298 hitting percentage, which ranked seventh in the NCAA, while his 10.1 assists per set were good for 18th in the nation. Madden, meanwhile, started all 24 matches last year for the Crimson and ranked second on the squad in kills (3.01) and points (3.6). His 268 kills in 2012 were good for eighth in program history while his 147 career blocks rank his sixth all-time.
Banner Year
Harvard is coming off one of the most successful seasons in program history, as the Crimson earned its first-ever national ranking in 2012 and finished the year at No. 15 in the AVCA Coaches Poll. Harvard posted an 18-6 overall record and took second in the EIVA with a 10-4 conference mark, with the team's 18 wins representing the third-highest total ever.
Head coach Brian Baise was tabbed as the EIVA Coach of the Year as a result of the squad's success while Matt Jones, DJ White and Rob Lothman all earned all-conference accolades.


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President Obama feels compelled to send Syria's President Assad a message over his alleged use of chemical weapons, says WSJ's Adam Entous. But any military action risks sucking the U.S. deeper into the country's civil war -- an outcome Washington wants to avoid.
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... let's see what being president is hard because for two years prop them up has been resisting getting involved in Syria ... trying really hard to get sucked into the sofa were there ... this week he turns to the point where look like he wanted to get our had to get involved to respond to chemical weapons attacks most of them were discovered ... there's a second cited that are good people sign will not so fast in ... the Arab allies to enter the U S to be part of this enterprise nothing more to support American bombing campaign ... against ... against Bashir Assad ... aam Italy's the present situation which we all knew we get to eventually which is ... decisions are tough when you decide to take military action great and certainly the private messages from senior officials is very different well the questions that the delivery ... if anything the Saudis in the UAE in cutter ... are encouraging him to really pull the trigger to do a much larger operation I think ... we're going to see ... what it does happen which is going to be looking ... at really sending a message ... to a side that ... you know what he did in June which was small it uses chemical weapons he can get a pass for ... but the cumulative continued use of it eventually was going to bring United States and that's where maybe a sudden stock ... and that's it that's the message has decided ... to teach her ... not to change the costs of course course more and make a statement about something I think this president feels very strongly about witches ... weapons of mass destruction and by the way to send the same message to people I Co North Korea in and around Nokia has weapons of mass ... is a temptation who will want to ... own the place let's take out a few of his aircraft and degrade their forces as well as her ... credit I think rate now that that is the ... only question that's left ... so do you intend to take out his helicopters educate you try to take out his aircraft ... he's not using those to deliver chemical weapons he's using rockets ... the other issue here is that you take out the unit that the special unit is delivering chemical weapons continued ... you want them to maintain control of the scam but it's what you do that their looks is if you have taken military steps designed to militarily assist the opposition to win the war and what you do that ... 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