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Today I joined the entire company in our new café for our monthly company meeting. But unbeknownst to me, they had changed it up dramatically. And the modifications they made to the meeting are indicative of the important cultural changes that have been taking place.
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What Does Geonetric Value
In a traditional environment, the executive team might hire a branding company to define and roll out the organization's values. The company then typically ends up with words that are cliché, ambiguous and impossible to measure – values like "passion" and "excellence" – or a Dilbert-like phrase filled with buzzwords – such as "leveraging core competencies to achieve synergistic results". That doesn't cut it here.
So of course, we decided to turn the process on its head. We asked employees to tell the executive team what our core values are.
Employees were asked to write a value and short description on a card and post it on our newly-created Core Values wall. For two weeks, each employee could add as many or as few as they wanted, and in the end, employees contributed nearly 50 cards.
From there, we grouped the cards based on similar ideas, and came up with twelve high-level themes. Those themes then were put into a survey tool, where employees were asked to rank them. The results were crystal clear. Employees believe we have five core values, with the other seven supporting those.
Our final step was to have our marketing team help wordsmith the final values, because of course, they have to sound like us.
And here are the values that our employees believe make us who we are and define how we work with each other and our clients every day:
- Own it: We're accountable to ourselves, each other and our clients. We keep our promises.
- Bring it: We deliver exceptional service and value every day. We're aiming for Wow!
- Push it: We're always moving forward or learning from our mistakes. Standing still is not an option.
- Say it: We've torn down the walls so ideas and information flow freely. Candid and direct is a way of life.
- Unite! We are strategic and creative, thoughtful and candid, fun and different. We're one team, united by a common vision.
If you interact with any of us at Geonetric in any way – as a client, vendor partner, community neighbor, agile co-conspirator, prospective client or candidate for employment – I trust that you've been seeing those values in action for a long time. We've just finally written them down in a way that sounds just like us. Yep – nailed it.
Building a Democratic Workplace at Geonetric
Today Geonetric was certified as a Democratic Workplace by WorldBlu. We're proud to be a company that values its employees and actively works to create such a positive workplace culture.
Geonetric has always been a great place to work. About 18 months ago, we took that a step further – we said "great culture" has to mean more than just amenities like free food and a flexible work environment. So we eliminated our formal management hierarchy and instead created self-organizing, self-managing teams. That was a pretty major step toward a democratic workplace, even before we knew that was a "thing".
Clients Still Satisfied? Check.
We have a pretty lofty goal for response rate. We need 70% participation, every survey. And you know what? We've consistently exceed that goal for more than two years. This time around, 73% of our clients participated in the survey and 92% of those respondents gave us a 5.0 or higher overall score!
Learning to Build a Better Team
What do you get when you gather 150 digital project managers together for two days? A well-organized conference that runs on time.
I spent two days in Philadelphia at the inaugural Digital PM Conference produced by the Bureau of Digital Affairs in association with Happy Cog™. This event is being touted as the first of its kind. There are plenty of conferences that include topics relevant to project managers as a side discussion. But to have a conference dedicated to the trials and tribulations of the digital project manager was definitely unique.
The topics covered how to manage projects from a variety of perspectives. The sessions shared ways to keep projects moving, clients happy and teams engaged. I have to say I picked up some really great tips and met a lot of "my people."
Rachel Gertz presented "Clients Matter; So Put Your Team First." This topic fits well into the agile culture we work in daily at Geonetric. Clients continue to make requests and our primary goal as project managers is to keep them happy, but sometimes we do this at our internal team's expense. We are so buried in the weeds that we forget the needs of our team. If we lose our team's confidences, we're sunk.
Humanizing Work: Conference Review
A number of the readers of GeoVoices are other companies using Agile methods, or considering it, because Geonetric is particularly aggressive in using Agile methods. If you're interested in Agile, this post is for you. If not, feel free to skip this one!
Our Agile coach, Richard Lawrence, and his company Agile For All, put on a conference called Humanizing Work this week for advanced practitioners of Agile. Everyone had at the minimum been through a full Agile training program already; most had been involved with Agile for quite some time, some for many years. Attendees ranged from very large, well known corporations to small businesses and everything in between. Continue reading
Voice of the Customer versus Survey Fatigue
It's a well-documented fact that Geonetric surveys our clients every quarter to find out how we're doing. In fact, we just wrapped up our Q3 survey.
Some might ask why we survey so frequently. Doesn't that lead to survey fatigue? Aren't we worried about over-surveying leading to skewed results and lowered response rates?
On the other hand, good businesses have to pay attention to the "Voice of the Customer." What are their preferences, expectations, and experiences with our company?
So how do we balance these two seemingly conflicted questions?
Continue reading
Embrace What Makes a Team Better and Ditch What Doesn't
Change is scary. But what happens when you throw all convention out the window? Like really let loose and do something totally extreme. When you keep doing something over and over that doesn't work… isn't that the definition of insanity? So instead of driving yourself crazy, beating your head against the wall doing the same old thing, what's stopping you from trying something different?
If you follow our blog, you've probably heard how we jumped in and implemented agile methodologies throughout our entire organization. Whether you know what that means or not, the bottom line is we knew we could do things better but the constraints of traditional management and organizational structure were preventing us from changing.
The 2013 SHSMD Annual Conference in One Word
Having spent my week at SHSMD schmoozing with the biggest gathering of healthcare strategy, planning, communications, marketing and PR professionals that the Society has ever had, the current state of our industry can be summed up in a single word:
We've been on the cusp of major industry shifts for a few years now, but for all of the discussions and debate, no one is really sure what our industry is going to look like three years from now.
This week saw the biggest step to date in terms of actual implementation of the ACA (AKA Obamacare) and we're still playing a guessing game to determine what its real meaning to our service mix and financial picture will really be. Obamacare applies leverage to the edges of the healthcare system, but doesn't dictate what the care delivery system will look like or how it will work.
Pit Stops and Continuous Improvement
At our last company meeting, we watched a video about pit stops. Why? Because it was freaking awesome to watch! The Red Bull team set the record for the fastest pit stop in April of this year. The video shows it in slow motion for a minute and a half, and then the entire process in real time.
So, before you watch it, predict right now how long you think it takes to do a pit stop for a Formula One racecar. Remember it, we'll come back after you check it out (you will want to put in on HD, and turn up your speakers):
The Geonetric Games: Cross-Functional Teams for the Win!
At Geonetric, we're all about cross-functional teams. We organize ourselves in groups of people with various expertise and we all work toward a common goal.
This year's Geonetric Games was no different. Teams were formed and a heated competition ensued. Teams took the events as seriously as we take our commitment to doing great client work! This year's favorite events included office chair relays, javelin (a.k.a. pool noodle) toss, and a water balloon toss (er… fight). As I whizzed past CEO Eric Engelmann in an office chair I thought, "How awesome is Geonetric?"
If you want to participate in next year's Geonetric Games, check out our current job openings and join the fun! Bring on next year!
Geonetric Forums: Better Together
I like to believe I bring insightful perspective when consulting with healthcare organizations and in my speaking, writing, social media and blogging activities. What I bring to the table is insight that spans all organizations. I see how different healthcare professionals approach similar problems, when they succeed and fail, and, with a little luck, can provide some thoughts as to why certain outcomes happen.
What I can't bring to the table is the first-person perspective. I'm not the person in the hospital working to move that initiative forward. I'm not the one navigating the internal politics, receiving the angry phone calls from physicians, or selling the health system's brand. It's been almost 15 years since I've worked in a hospital and I've used up my war stories.
Fortunately, I work with a truly incredible group of healthcare organizations. The wisdom and depth of experience I find when talking with healthcare professionals is as valuable as the perspective I bring to the conversation. Likely more so.
That's why I regularly co-present topics with our clients and engage with them when I write. It's one of the reasons I enjoy going to so many conferences and tradeshows throughout the year.
I've recently been taking my conversations a step further. I've been putting a group of healthcare professionals in a room together, introducing a topic and then getting out of the way. These sessions are one part focus group, one part mentoring, and one part group therapy session. And they're truly wonderful!
We held the first such session back in April at the Geonetric eHealth Symposium, our annual client event. We gathered the audience in peer groups with the thinking that the issues faced by smaller community hospitals and specialty centers often look different from those of large, complex health systems with many moving parts and a regional reach. To my surprise, this was not only a fascinating session for me to facilitate and watch, but also the most highly rated session of the symposium!
This week I get to do this again with a virtual twist. We're holding our first Geonetric Forum. During these quarterly conference calls, our clients will again be divided into peer groups and will meet to share critical trends in healthcare and digital communications.
We all get tied up in our day-to-day challenges. Participation in this community of expertise is a wonderful way to take a step back and think strategically about the challenges we face. I'm very excited to be a part of the experience and to see what I'll learn.
And who knows, maybe there will be a blog post in there somewhere.
Responsive Design is a Journey, Not a Destination
We've been talking about Responsive Design for a long time. In truth, Geonetric was one of the first healthcare Web firms to promote the benefits of this approach in our industry. With the explosion of new devices, form factors, and formats like Windows 8's touchscreen computers and convertible laptop/tablets, it's more important than ever to evolve our thinking from "the mobile Web" to a "Whole Web" philosophy.
The initial goal of Responsive Design was simply to deliver all of the content and functionality on our websites to the mobile audience. And it accomplished that. Adobe Flash® features went out the window. Mouse-over menus were outfitted with touchscreen friendly navigation support. And content was prioritized to keep the most important items visible as screens got smaller and smaller.
But now as designers gain more experience with Responsive Design, they're not just adapting their design techniques. They're also adapting their processes to deliver a better digital experience given the new demands of emerging platforms. The mobile first design approach – where you create a design for the mobile site before the desktop site – is an example of this.
Changing our processes requires us to rethink the solutions we deliver. This has certainly proven true as Responsive Design evolves beyond making more usable mobile sites to developing the whole site based on the mobile experience. I've heard a lot of hospital marketing executives expressing a desire to have their website "not look like a hospital site." And let's face it – hospital websites were starting to look a lot alike. It's time for change.
The drive to create great mobile experiences has initiated a Web design renaissance. We think not just in the horizontal but also the vertical. Designing "above the fold" is an antiquated concept, and scrolling is no longer verboten as gesture supports – such as swiping and pinching – make it easier for visitors to find information below the fold. Designers need to embrace the new reality – a lack of the type of precision control in how their designs will look to any given user as they build sites that adapt.
The emergence of mobile isn't an event or a change that happened very quickly. It's a series of changes that have been happening and will continue to happen. That's why it's an exciting time to be working in the healthcare Web space. But, it's also a risky time for organizations that are resting on their laurels and not being aggressive in keeping up with a changing Web!
To learn more about how healthcare website design is changing and explore some hospitals that are breaking the "hospital website design" mold, join us for our webinar, "Pushing Hospital Website Design" at 3:00 p.m. CT on June 20.
An Innovative Solution to the Content Conundrum
If you've worked in the Web industry for any length of time, you're painfully aware of how challenging it is to plan for, create, and maintain great content. In healthcare, as in many other industries, there is an enormous amount of informational content. It can easily become overwhelming. However, nothing is more central than content to the success of your online strategy and the overall experience of your audience.
Talk with content strategy experts and you will hear war stories about hours spent manipulating spreadsheets. Dozens of articles and blog posts describe in tedious detail how to combine numerous data files into a single view. All of this cutting, pasting, manipulation, and frustration doesn't leave much time – or energy – for actually understanding the content or developing a solid strategy, let alone writing anything.
Leave the Spreadsheets to Accounting
It's time for a new toolset. We're creating Web-based software that helps Web teams to see all of their content across multiple channels, easily access quantitative metrics, and add insight with hands-on qualitative analysis.
Interested in progress updates, invitations to collaborate, and early access?
Visit blazecontent.com
We're making it possible to do this in a collaborative, real-time environment – no more waiting for locked files, trying to track down the latest version, or merging sets of changes. We believe that content is the crux of creating great user experiences, and that better tools lead to better content.
Escaping Gravity
You may be wondering how this impacts all of the stuff Geonetric does today. Creating something new is difficult. It's especially hard to overcome the gravitational pull of what you've done in the past. With that in mind, this project is designed to be insulated from existing products and services. We're operating as a lean startup inside of Geonetric with a small team that will grow if when! we are successful.
Rather than being a drain on the existing organization, we've already seen positive side effects. What seems like a tiny shift has thrown open the door for team members to collaborate differently, share new ideas, try out new technologies, and find better ways to solve problems. That's innovation.
Q1 2013 Client Satisfaction Results
If you're a regular reader of our blog, you know we're relentless about measuring Client Satisfaction and posting it here.
Last quarter, and most of 2012, the primary pain point our clients revealed in our Client Satisfaction survey was issues with deployment of our software. So for the past few months we've been implementing our new push button automated deployment system, which takes a single click to do, is more reliable, and much faster.
We looked with anticipation to the Q1 2013 survey to see if the changes had any effect. The results are in, and we had the highest overall score we've ever gotten: 5.27 on a scale of 1-6.
Clients also commented positively on how we're deeply aligning our work together on the website to their corporate goals. In many cases, we're helping clients draft eHealth goals in the first place. We also got kudos for our new Responsive Marketing Campaigns that produced amazing results for Crozer-Keystone Health System. And, we got a bunch of comments about the attentiveness and thoroughness of our client advisors that regularly meet with clients and help them manage their projects.
That said, there were some areas for us to work on that clients identified. Two came up in particular:
- Some clients expressed that they didn't find our current clients-only GeoLabs as useful as they could be. So we're going to revamp them this summer.
- A few clients mentioned that certain types of services take longer than they should. We agree; our no-hierarchy peer-accountable culture initiative is designed to address exactly this problem. We should see an impact from these changes over the next few months.
All in all, getting the highest overall score we've ever gotten is a great way to start 2013! We're excited about the improvements we're making and the incredible work we're doing with our clients every day!


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SW Radio Africa News Headlines Tuesday 19th February 2013
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SW Radio Africa News Stories for Tueday 19th February 2013
Alex Bell focuses on the European Union's decision to remove 21 individuals from its list of targeted sanctions in place against the Robert Mugabe regime. Alex is joined by former Chegutu farmer Ben Freeth who recounts his experiences at the hands of a notoriously violent 'war vet' named Gilbert Moyo, who has now been removed from the list. Moyo led the abduction and severe beatings of Freeth and his parents-in-law in 2008.
Never says the leaders of the Apostolic Faith have diverted from the founding ideals of the congregation by turning church services into ZANU PF. Members of the congregation are urged to buy ZPF cards in order to receive residential stands; while Ncube says people and civic organisations need more time to study the constitution and decide for themselves if it's good or bad. The government should use the media to send the new constitution to the masses, explaining every detail, so that mistakes are not made in deciding the way forward in the referendum.

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From: Paul Saffo [paul () saffo com]
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 7:20 PM
To: David Farber
Subject: Controller: State computer system not up to making pay cuts
Sacramento Bee
Controller: State computer system not up to making pay cuts
By Kevin Yamamura - kyamamura () sacbee com
Published 10:49 am PDT Monday, August 4, 2008
State Controller John Chiang said Monday an antiquated state computer
system makes it impossible to adjust the state payroll quickly to
issue minimum-wage checks to state workers. He said it would take at
least six months to make the change.
The Democratic controller has vowed to defy Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger's executive order directing the state to pay workers
the federal minimum wage of $6.55 per hour until a budget agreement is
reached. He has previously asserted that the Republican governor's
order is based on an untested 2003 state Supreme Court legal opinion
and that he will continue issuing full paychecks to state employees.
But in a meeting with The Bee Capitol Bureau on Monday, Chiang said
that even if Schwarzenegger's legal reasoning were sound, the state
could not logistically retool its outdated payroll system in a matter
of weeks, as the governor has asked. If the change were eventually
made, Chiang also said it would take an additional nine to 10 months
to issue checks to employees for their full back pay.
"Pragmatically, we just can't get the system to work in a timely
manner for us to implement payment of minimum wage," Chiang said.
He warned that changing payroll so quickly could also lead to errors
that leave the state vulnerable to lawsuits from workers and triple
penalties known as "treble damages."
Schwarzenegger said last week his executive order is necessary to
preserve cash, ensure the state can pay its bills in September and
avoid heavy borrowing costs. Chiang again challenged that view,
asserting that the state will have enough cash to pay its bills and
that the order will do nothing to prevent the state from incurring any
more heavy borrowing costs than it would otherwise.
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Ashtanga Yoga
A system of yoga introduced to the modern world by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois (1915-2009), Ashtanga yoga is a specific series of poses designed to realign the spine, detoxify the body, and build strength, flexibility and stamina. This method of yoga involves synchronizing the breath with a progressive series of postures—a process producing intense internal heat and a profuse, purifying sweat that detoxifies muscles and organs. The result is improved circulation, a light and strong body, and a calm mind.


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Use of antimicrobials outside human medicine and resultant antimicrobial resistance in humans (WHO Fact Sheet No. 268)
This official WHO fact sheet provides basic information on how antimicrobials have also been used increasingly for the treatment of bacterial disease in animals, fish and plants. In addition, they became an important element of intense animal husbandry because of their observed growth-enhancing effect, when added in sub-therapeutic doses to animal feed. Some of the newly-emerging resistant bacteria in animals are transmitted to humans; mainly via meat and other food of animal origin or through direct contact with farm animals. (23/Oct/2006)
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Rafael Montero will be making his big league debut Wednesday, and could be one of the best young fourth starters in baseball for some time.
The New York Mets have Matt Harvey on the mend and Zack Wheeler is already in the big leauges. They also have Noah Syndergaard at Triple-A who is widely considered the Mets top prospect, but it is Montero that is getting the call.
So far this season, in the hitter friendly Pacific Coast League, Montero is 4-1 with an ERA of 3.67 and just about a strikeout per inning. The 23-year old Montero did not follow the traditional path of most Dominican ballplayers. Instead of signing a contract during the first signing period after his 16th birthday, he did not receive a pro contract until he was 20.
In his first pro season, he moved through four different leagues, then two each of the following seasons, and will be continuing that trend, only this time the second level he will pitch at in 2014 is the big leagues. His first start will come in the Subway Series with the Mets hosting the New York Yankees on Wednesday evening, where his oppo0sing pitcher will be Japanese phenom Masahiro Tanaka.
Montero is not a big pitcher, just 6′ and 185 lbs., nor is he a power pitcher as he sits in the low-90s, occasionally touching 95 on the gun. He has a really good change with some arm-side movement and a decent slider. His biggest tool is his command, as he has struck out more than four times the number of batters he has walked, and he can locate all three of his pitches.
Montero will not wow anyone with pure stuff, but he should be a very solid pitcher. He has the upside of a quality third starter, but in the Mets rotation, he will probably fit in as a number four long term, giving the Mets an excellent rotation for the foreseeable future.
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|11 Jun 2010
0x80070241 Error with 2 store bought disks
I have serched the forums, finding people who recived the same error code, however I have not come across any one who had this same situtation.
I built my computer and originally installed Windows 7 64-bit as well as all the necessary drivers for devices and the graphics. For the first hour of the computer's life everything seemd perfectly fine, however while installing Steam to play Dawn of War 2 and other games for Live I recived a Blue Screen error. From that point on I would recive a blue screen with a different error code when ever I tried booting the computer. I serched online and found millions of different explinations ranging from the graphics card not being friendly with the motherboard, to the ram having defects, to steam corrupting the system, and so on. I doubt that any of them could have been the issue. So to try and solve the problem quickly, I just reformatted the hard drive and did a fresh installation of Windows XP 64-bit. From then on when I try to install windows 7 I would recive the 0x80070241 error code. I even went back to the store and exchanged the disk for a new one. Still, I recive the error code when trying to install Windows 7 again. I think* the problem can come from the hard drive when it was reformatted. I also would like to learn what could have caused the Blue Screens of Death at the beginning of using my computer. I really do not want to take the computer to the store technician or to some computer repair place and pay alot of money for a problem I could have taken care of myself.
In the future I do plan on maxing out the RAM to 8GB and getting a second graphics card for SLI.
CPU: Intel Core Quad 2.33GHz
motherboard: ASUS P5N-D 750i
graphics: BFG Nvidia Geforce 9800 GT 1GB
ram: 4GB
Hard Drive: 500GB SATA
OS: Currently running Windows XP 64-bit
PSU: 600watts
|My System Specs
|11 Jun 2010
Research the drivers situation for your graphics card. Try all Windows 7 drivers including beta, especially WHQL. Did WIndows Updates deliver optional drivers?
Reseat your graphics card, test your RAM, swap your RAM modules, then test your HD using maker's full diag/repair CD scan: Hard Drive Diagnostics Tools and Utilities (Storage) - TACKtech Corp.URL This clears your hardware, but still check all connections and cables, swap cables.
Check for repeat errors in in Event Viewer>Admin view and Diagnostics>Performance logs, the latter by clicking thru your WEI score at Computer>Properties, then Advanced Tools. Look for issues cued on that page, and Generate A System Health Report. Type "Problem solutions" in Start Search box to see if any have been returned - always send error reports to MS for this reason.
Many have had success swapping graphics cards even with a borrowed card as this tells you for sure if that is the problem. DId you run the Windows 7 Upgrade advisor to check for hardware compat?\
You can also try installing 32 bit which is included in your license as an either/or choice. 4gb is right on the border for 32/64, and 64 bit has driver problems frequently. It won't hurt to try the difference for yourself - it kept me from going back to 64 bit.
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|11 Jun 2010
I will get started on all that right away!
The RAM is Centron 2GBx2 Dual Channel Kit. I was told this was conciderd to be a low quality product and that brands like Corsair would be more reliable. Can I use just one 2GB stick, or are they ment to be run togeather?
|My System Specs
|12 Jun 2010
Currently in the process of reinstalling Windows XP because I began to recive 0x80070570 when trying to install Windows 7 after I used the TACKtech tools. When trying to run after I recived a message saying that windows could not start because there was a problem with ntsokrnl.exe. So... starting over for now.
|My System Specs
|12 Jun 2010
As you are starting all over, try this.
Try a full clean & full format.
Disk - Clean and Clean All with Diskpart Command
Partition or Volume - Delete
Partition or Volume - Create New
1) Boot DVD.
2) Press Shift+F10 (for command prompt)
Type in command line
LIST DISK OR List Volume (If you have partitions)
SELECT DISK # (win HD)
|My System Specs
|12 Jun 2010
When I am at the Command Prompt it says:
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]
Where do I go from here?
Edit: okay i got to the DISKPART and input the Clean all comman. Is it supposed to take long before telling me the cleaning was completed?
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|12 Jun 2010
Okay I just went into diskpart and selected it to use the Clean All command. Is it supposed to take some time?
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|12 Jun 2010
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|12 Jun 2010
Did the HD diagnostics find anything to repair? Did you run the one listed for your HD make?
Windows 7 could have been repaired using Repair CD or Windows 7 DVD repair console, however zeroing the HD now as you are will give you the cleanest possible slate for install.
Be sure to check optional Windows Updates for newer drivers than installer gives. Any drivers then missing in Device Manager can be found on the Support Downloads webpage for your model computer/device. But I would not change drivers from what installer/Updates gives unless there is a performance reason.
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Maybe it's time I stopped going up to the Jake. I work nights, so lucky for the Tribe I've only made it to four games this season, all losses. Why blame myself, though? The obvious scapegoat is Luis Valbuena. OK, maybe it wasn't only his fault, but I just do not understand how he keeps getting on the field. If I went to work everyday and constantly performed as poorly as Luis, I would be standing in the unemployment line today. It is to the point where in the fourth inning Ty Wigginton stepped up to the plate and I looked at my friend Brian and said, in all seriousness, "Here comes a double play ball to third, which Valbuena will definitely boot." I had never been more disappointed in myself for being correct…until later. Even after Asdrubal Cabrera made an unbelievable bare-handed stop with the infield playing in (one that certainly would make his hero, some guy named Omar, proud), Justin Masterson just couldn't keep his composure.
Masterson presents a bit of an issue in such a young starting rotation. Some nights, he looks untouchable. More often than not, though, he cannot throw strikes consistently enough and he beats himself. He's got dynamic stuff, but I don't know if he has the mental make-up to be a starter in this league. His future may lie in the bullpen, but that decision won't be made until Indians finally settle on only five starting pitchers. In his defense, I am pretty sure tonight's home plate umpire was on some sort of hallucinogens. Calling his strike-zone inconsistent would be like saying that Isla Fisher is kind of cute. I had a nice view from right field, but it was impossible to guess the ump's call. For a guy like Masterson, who can't throw anything straight, this was a nightmare.
Back to the game. After Masterson lost his marbles in the top half of the fourth, the Tribe roared back with a rare five-spot in the bottom half to take a 6-4 lead. They easily could have scored more if not for a great relay from right field and a tremendous block of home plate by Matt Wieters on Choo's bases-loaded double, keeping Cabrera from scoring. As it would turn out, they could have used a few extra runs because Masterson handed the game right back, allowing a three-run homer to Felix Pie before I even knew what was going on. From there, it became a laugher. At 11-6 in the eighth inning, Manny Acta decided that with two men on and two out it was time to bring in Hector 'Gas Can' Ambriz (a Rule 5 pick?!) to put out the fire that is Luke Scott's bat. So, naturally, I told Brian to get ready to duck because it was about to be 14-6. As we both turned around and watched Scott's homer soar over our heads, I decided it was time to stop predicting the outcomes of Orioles' at-bats. Michael Brantley added a two-run shot in the ninth, which was nice to see, but didn't make a bit of difference as the game ended 14-8, with baseball's worst team on top.
A few positives from the night: I was glad to see Matt LaPorta batting clean-up. As I mentioned in my last post, I thought it was ludicrous that Acta had Jordan Brown batting before LaPorta, so it was nice to see one of my prayers answered, and Brown went 2-4 tonight showing a glimpse of his minor-league hitting prowess. Also, it is nice to say something good about Manny, because as far as I've been concerned this season we simply replaced Eric Wedge with a somehow less-qualified and hopefully cheaper manager. He managed the last place team in baseball two years in a row, and management decided that he was they guy they wanted?! I guess it shouldn't be too surprising to see Valbuena in the lineup so often. If Acta could convince someone he deserves to manage again, one can only imagine what other magic he is capable of.
Note: as I finish this post, I look up and see that Cabrera's bare-handed stab was #1 on SportsCenter's Top 10 tonight. Congrats to him, as it really was an amazing play in which the ball kicked off of Masterson and Cabrera fell while changing direction. He then grabbed the ball with his bare hand, looked the runner back to third, and threw out Felix Pie (see the play here). Unfortunately, Cabrera couldn't reach Pie's go-ahead bomb in the fifth.
Tags: Asdrubal Cabrera Eric Wedge Jordan Brown Justin Masterson Luis Valbuena Manny Acta Matt LaPorta Michael Brantley Shin Soo Choo


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Eh, what the hell. They didn't owe us anything. TV is just like any other art form (laugh if you must), but we're so accustomed to being spoon-fed everything that we hate anything that's open to interpretation or doesn't have a concrete answer.
No one who came to the island ever got all the answers, either, so why should we?
Alternatively, I think Lost was best explained in the following phrase: "Fuckin' magnets; how do they work?""—katekate is squared, a commenter on Gawker, who sums up the "Lost" series finale and viewers' reactions to it perfectly … and even uses an Insane Clown Posse lyric to do it.
RT @GVanAuken: Vince Carter is weak. Like $1 rail drink special weak.
A dream sequence in a Joss Whedon-directed TV episode? That's highly unusual! Love you, Joss!
Rage … building …
Watching GLEE because LOST has some recording issues. After today's blog fun, this ep. is a bit creepy. Waiting for @TeecycleTim pop up.
Social media is a snap if you know the formula: @TeecycleTim + @ActuallyNPH + GLEE = Monster traffic.
Matthew Morrison, Nell Patrick Harris, @TeecycleTim: Same guy or part of a government plot? http://goo.gl/S5r0
You'd think I'd be able to find one picture of Matthew Morrison rockin' a pair of sunglasses. Why do you hate me, Internets?
Judy Greer is everywhere! Except where I want her most. In my bed.
Chris Berman's calling Wednesday's Yankee-Rays game? NOOOOO!
You'd think ABC Family would have the decency to change it to the Marquette Warriors, not Golden Eagles, on THAT '70s SHOW.
NBC moves "Parks and Recreation" to midseason? NOOOOOO! (via @popcandy) http://goo.gl/7jMZ
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Hailing from Portoroz, Slovenia, the electronic/hip-hop artist Gramatik was making beats on a PC when he was 13 — and spreading his tracks through free file-sharing throughout the U.S. and Europe before signing to a record label that gives its stuff away for free.
Gramatik's latest EP is called "#digitalfreedom," and is dedicated "to the fight against severe internet censorship bills we've been hearing about so much in the past months. Bastards have been trying to cripple the internet on a global scale with bills like ACTA/SOPA/PIPA and I'm sure there's more of them coming, so this one goes out for spreading awareness! Reject them all, they will never stop the sharing, the Internet is our realm, DIGITAL FREEDOM!"
Gramatik will perform Monday, May 7, at Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, Salt Lake City.
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LINC to hold free Affordable Care Act seminar at St. Mary's Hospital
October 28 2014 - Limited to 40 seats; registration is required, 6 p.m., Free
Children's movie 'ParaNorman' to play at Henrico Theatre
October 28 2014 - Zombies will perform the famous Thriller dance before the movie, 7 p.m., $1
Henrico County Special Education Advisory Committee to meet at Brookland MS
October 28 2014 - Lisa A. Bennett, an attorney with the JustChildren Program, will speak, 6:30 p.m., Free
North Park Library to host 'Scare-O-Thon: Escape from Undead Island'
October 29 2014 - For middle and high school students, 6:30 p.m., Free
Tweens invited to listen to scary stories read aloud around the campfire
October 29 2014 - Fairfield Library, 6:30 p.m., Free
Colin James named UR Dept. of History 2014-15 Douglas Southall Freeman Professor
October 30 2014 - He will present a lecture on "Smiling Before, During, and After the Terror", 7:30 p.m., Free
Support Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) at the Spook-tacular Estate Sale Oct. 30 to Nov. 1
October 30 2014 - Located at 105 Culpeper Road, 10 a.m.,
SCAN to convene fall symposium 'The Death of Innocence' at St. Mary's Hospital
October 30 2014 - Register by by Oct. 23, 1 p.m.,
Sandston Library to host a Scarecrow Party for ages 3-9
October 30 2014 - Celebrate scarecrows through stories, songs and a craft, 3:30 p.m., Free
Tweens, teens invited to 'Dance Like a Zombie' at Twin Hickory Library
October 30 2014 - Registration is required, 6:30 p.m., Free
Lions Club donates backpacks to elementary school
Above, club members display some of the backpacks prior to their distribution. > Read more.
Glen Allen student to perform at Carnegie Hall
At the first-place winners recital in Weill Hall, Matija will perform Giacomo Puccini's opera aria, "Chi il bel sogna di doretta." She will perform with other vocalists from around the world and have the opportunity to win other awards and scholarships.
Locally, Thomas has performed with Richmond's renowned Glorious Christmas Nights, Christian Youth Theatre, and WEAG's Urban Gospel Youth Choir. > Read more.
Gayton Baptist Church dedicates new outreach center
The John Rolfe YMCA and Gayton Baptist Church have partnered in an effort to bring greater health and wellness opportunities to the community.
Through this partnership, the John Rolfe Y will run Youth Winter Sports programs, including basketball and indoor soccer, in Gayton's newly renovated $5.5 million outreach center that features a new gymnasium, youth and teen space, social space with café, meeting space and full service commercial kitchen. > Read more.
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Brews and bites done right
The Urban Tavern opened in August, replacing the former Shackelford's space at 10498 Ridgefield Parkway in Short Pump. Because of local and longtime devotion to Shackleford's, Urban Tavern has some big shoes to fill.
Without any background information, I headed to the restaurant for dinner on a Wednesday night, two months after its opening.
On a perfect fall evening, four out of eight outdoor tables were taken, giving the impression that the restaurant was busier than it was. On the inside, a couple tables were taken, and a few folks were seated at the bar. > Read more.
A terrible, horrible movie. . . that's actually pretty good
Judith Viorst's 1972 picture book isn't exactly overflowing with movie-worthy material. Boy has bad day. Boy is informed that everyone has bad days sometimes. Then, the back cover.
In the film, the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad-ness is blown up to more extreme size. Alexander Cooper (Ed Oxenbould) has a bum day every day, while the rest of his family (Steve Carell, Jennifer Garner, Dylan Minnette, Kerris Dorsey) exist in a constant bubble of perfection and cheery optimism – to the point that the family is so wrapped up in their own success that Alexander's being ignored.
So on the eve of his 12th birthday, Alexander makes a wish: just once, he'd like his family to see things from his perspective; to experience the crushing disappointment of one of those no good, very bad days. Once he has blown out the candle on his pre-birthday ice cream sundae, his family's fate is sealed: one full day of crippling disasters for all of them. > Read more.
Deep Run HS plans fall musical
Performances will be held Nov. 13-15 at 7 p.m. each day. > Read more.
Register for the Henrico Citizen's Business and Branding Summit
Police using new body cameras
Support for victims of domestic violence
Henrico Health Department to offer free flu vaccinations Oct. 23, 25
Oct. 25 River City Saunter rescheduled
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Students are GHS are put into one of four houses. Through participating at all carnivals and other sporting events students earn points for their house. There is a healthy rivalry between the houses and the points for champion house at the end of each year is always quite close. Our four houses are:
CHAPPELL is named after Ian Chappell.
FRASER is named after Dawn Fraser.
McKAY is named after Heather McKay.
NEWCOMBE is named after John Newcombe.
GHS conducts three major carnivals during the year. The dates for the carnivals in 2014 are:
Swimming Carnival
When: Friday 28th February 2014
Where: Ruth Everuss Aquatic Centre, Auburn
Cross Country Carnival (Cancelled due to bad weather)
When: Wednesday 26th March 2014
Where: Nurragingy Reserve, Doonside
Athletics Carnival
When: Monday 5th May 2014
Where: Blacktown International Sports Park
Please click on the link below to see the most up to date Sydney West Sports Association information.
A new look for sport!!!
In 2014 a new exciting program has been designed so that all students are able to experience a variety of different sports and never do the same sport twice. In order to do this, students will paricipate in a paid sport for five weeks in Terms 1 and 3. For the other five weeks each term they will be using a local or school venue. In Terms 2 and 4 the Inter-House Sport Competition will run.
More informaation to come.
GHS has been entered in a number of Sydney West Knockout competitions for 2014. A list of these teams is below.
Registration and trials for these teams will commence early in Term 1 and students should be listening for more information during assembly and the morning announcements in roll call.
Boys Girls
Soccer (all age) Soccer (all age)
Touch Football (all age) Touch Football (all age)
Cricket (all age) Netball (under 15's and opens)
Basketball (under 15's and opens) Basketball (under 15's and opens)
Tennis (all age) Tennis (all age)
Volleyball (all age) Volleyball (all age)
The Athletics Carnival is still going ahead as planned.
PDHPE Staff
Mr D. Wheatley (Head Teacher)
Ms A. Seckold (Sports Organiser - Carnivals)
Ms M. Earp (Sports Organiser - Weekly Sport)
Mrs A. Tuakore
Mr K Yau
Courses we teach
Year 7 - 10 PDHPE
Year 9 PASS (Physical Activity and Sport Studies)
Year 10 PASS (Physical Activity and Sport Studies)
Year 11 SLR (Sport, Lifestyle and Recreation)
Year 11 Preliminary PDHPE
Year 12 HSC PDHPE
School Hours are 8:50am - 3:10pm
Office Hours are 8:30am - 3:15pm
Invitation for Year 5 Open Night
Current Year 5 students and their parents are invited to attend our Open Night on the 4th November from 6 till 8pm.
For more information click here
Girraween High School APP
Our school has a smartphone mobile APP available on both Apple and Android networks. Major events will be published on the APP and messages may be sent out as reminders. The APP also provides the ability to write absent notes and to notify the school of any changes to contact details. Other functions available include access to the newsletters, bell times, canteen price list, enrolment information, excursion and activity notes, uniform shop and Parents and Citizens information.
Lowes Uniform Shop
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This has been so long on the market one wonders why L'Oreal doesn't bother to update this product to 2011 standards...
First, that horrible stench. I'm not someone who's super sensitive to odors (certainly not the "ohmygod-this-mascara-smells-so-bad-i-got-a-headache" type) but this kit truly REEKS. I can't close my bathroom door using this like I do when using every other brand.
Second, this drips way too much, the dye stays 10 minutes more than I intend to on my head because I keep cleaning up drips and stains every 2 minutes while I'm still putting it on my hair for fear the stains become permanent on floors and sinks. Excellence and Garnier have thicker creamy formulas, why keep this as liquidy as some some cheap 80s dye?
Gave two lippies for the color results that are usually accurate, but I can use other brands that are just as accurate without all the annoyance.
I used Medium Blond, I normally use Clairol Med Golden Blond but the store was out so I thought I would try this.
The color was a little flat, I guess I needed the blond. After 2 weeks I can see about 5 inches of gray where the color has washed out. I will go back to the Clairol Color Blend, it is a really good color for the money and time. I will not use this Loreal Preference again.
i bought the color light ash brown. it was the first time i was gonna dye my whole head & this was what i used. it turned out REALLY great. it turned my black asian hair into a nice cool toned brown. i had a really good experience with this hair dye. it comes with a really nice conditioner. but now that they re-made the tube for the conditioner ! now its in a nice gold packaging & theres way more product. i think this is worth trying.
While I have used Superior preference over the years I will stop doing so because:
-As of now all new pakages come plastic gloves, yes, cheap plastic gloves. They do not fit well and it is pretty impossible to " feel'' hair or liquid when coloring. I liked their rubber like gloves much better. That was sneaky and I did not see "New and Degraded " message on package-since that is what marketing likes to do even if insignificant changes/changes are made.
They need to remove ''colorist gloves'' from package description as it is misleading at this point. In and effort to keep executives pockets' stuffed full of bonuses they have cheapened the product and left the cost as high as before.
I called the company and comlplained and urge you to do the same (1-800-631-7358). L'oreal claims it has changed gloves because customers did not like old one. This is a pure lie-if any positive change is made you are going to see ''New and Improved'' on the box.Period. This is definitely a sub quality item (gloves) in an effort to make more profit.
While the color I use #1 is generally pretty true, I find formula runny. But the gloves have tipped the scale. What a sneaky company! Shame on you, L'oreal. What is next? No box? and on half bottle of color?
Was using a deposit-only color, but my grays have really gotten resistant and a week after coloring, the awful gray roots starting glistening! I've used Excellence in the past and it worked pretty well, but faded quickly. Decided to give Preference a try and got Dark Blonde 7 Natural (my natural "real" color is dark blonde-light brown and I'm tired of doing the medium blonde thing). I read somewhere, too, not to ever use ash colors to cover gray, won't look natural. Color is just exactly what I wanted...we'll see how long it lasts before fading. Smell is awful (I'm hoping that's what will make it fade-resistant lol). Didn't burn scalp, but made eyes water! Incidentally, Clairol Shimmer Lights shampoo is wonderful for toning down any brass that always comes out when dying blonde or brown. Will update after a couple of weeks.
I used Superior Preference in Natural Light Ash Brown and ended up with Redish Brown Roots and dark brown ends. I kept it on for 30 minutes hoping it would stick better. Where the roots were seems to have faded and turned an orangey colour after a week but the ends remained dark (as almost all of the hair was at the beginning). I am not too happy and will be looking for another hair dye.
The hubby and I are trying to save some cash to pay down our credit card bill. Unfortunately this includes putting a hold on salon color every 4-5 weeks at $100 a pop. The stylist I go to uses Redken, she used the newer version on me that is supposed to cover grey and keep it covered for 4 weeks. The color was dark brown with red undertones. I'll admit that after the color was processed, hair was styled etc.. I thought the color was a bit flat and dull. Four weeks later, it did cover the grey for longer then usual but the color faded fast and looked duller and duller every time I washed. BTW, I'm about 30-40% grey, the sides of my hair are the worst.
Enter the new budget plan and my not being so thrilled with the color and MUA. After reading the reviews on this brand and having tried other brands on and off in the past I decided to give it a shot. I knew I wanted to stay very close to the current color, medium brown with red undertones, maybe take it a shade darker. I purchased Deep Soft Mahogany Brown, part of the Chocolate Decadence collection. The product was easy to mix up, I used a plastic bowl and brush to apply, I cannot abide with the cheap spout applicator they give you. The formula was pretty runny which made the job a little harder but not impossible. There is a good amount of product given and I, having short hair, barely used half of it. I settled in for 50 min then rinsed. The conditioner they provide is fantastic and smells nice. After drying and styling I was very impressed with the results, although I did think the color was a little flat. Very true to the color on the box and the bottom line is it looks great with my skin tone and eye color. It provided me with the shade darker that I wanted whilst still blending really well with the color that I was carrying from the salon job a month ago.
I would repurchase this brand again although it's only been a few days so I cannot state how well it keeps grey hair covered or for how long. The only down side, as people have mentioned, is the smell when first applying and I personally would have liked more shine. Would recommend and will try some of the other brown shades in the future.
After multiple attempts to fade out my dark roots into my medium blonde ends, I finally found a haircolor that works! I was using Herbal Essence extreme bleach blonde (I think that was the name--in a hot pink box with a man pictured on the front) but either I did not leave it on long enough or the lifting power wasn't strong enough because it definitely turned my hair brassy orange / yellow. I just tried this haircolor in whispersoft blonde (cool blonde) and am amazed at how much it lifted my dark (genuinely DARK) blonde roots to a soft (a bit yellowy, but still natural looking) medium-light blonde color. I did use my shimmer lights directly after coloring to immediately take out the brassiness, but even if I hadn't, I don't think it's nearly as brassy as some other bleaches and blonde haircolors I've tried. I am happy! I just wish I had left the color on the rest of my hair a bit longer becuase my roots are now a bit lighter than the rest of my hair, but it still looks alright. Two thumbs up for whispersoft blonde if you have medium-dark blonde / light brown hair!
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Usually use Dream Blonde. Used to use Feria till it stopped colouring the grey. Dream Blonde always worked, but it's expensive so I thought I would try Preference as it is the "gold standard". Well, it isn't in my opinion. I went a shade darker on the blonde, that was it, with a touch of red in it to warm things up for winter. It came out dull. After a week, it turned brassier, and any dye on the greys came out so I am left with the greys back. Absolutely no grey coverage. Dream Blonde will take the grey and make it like highlights - bright blonde. But this just doesn't even take. And the smell was particularly bad on this one. Nope, not the gold standard in my book.
So my hair is naturally black in color, but I decided to get some auburn highlights in my hair over the summer to kind of brighten me up. They looked great, but the price I paid was really expensive! Once fall hit, I felt like going back to my natural shade, but didn't want to pay a buttload of money like last time. Enter this stuff. I bought the shade Soft Black, which is basically a shade darker than my natural hair color. The formula was very easy to use, and the color looked great and faded into a more natural look within a few days! I prefer not to dye my hair, but if I ever feel the need to dye it, I will definitely pick up this stuff again!


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NAPCO Announces Record First Quarter Sales and Strong Profitability
Company sees seventh consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth in sales and earnings
NAPCO Security Systems, Inc., (Nasdaq: NSSC), one of the world's leading suppliers of high performance electronic security equipment for over 30 years, today announced financial results for its first quarter ended September 30, 2005.
Net sales for the first quarter ended September 30, 2005 increased 6% to $14.2 million from $13.4 million reported for the same quarter a year earlier. The net income for the quarter increased 59% to $815,000 or $0.09 per share, compared to net income of $513,000, or $0.06 per share, for the same year ago period.
Results were paced by sales increases from our line of NAPCO intrusion and fire alarm systems for businesses and homes and Continental Instruments' higher margin line of access control products for buildings of all sizes. Alarm Lock's suite of industrial electronic locking devices continues to show vitality. Altogether, the favorable sales results once again demonstrate the customers' strong acceptance of the NAPCO Group's product line. Gross margins rose to 36% in the current quarter compared to 32% in the year earlier period. R&D expenditures, always a strong Company focus, were $1.1 million in the quarter, which represents 8% of sales.
Of the many new products coming out of NAPCO's R&D efforts, several are particularly exciting:
NAPCO's Freedom 8, a patented, code-free alarm system has surpassed all previous milestones, with regard to distributor pre-orders. This unique security system, available this fall, is the most user-friendly alarm on the market because it works unobtrusively as consumers lock and unlock their doors. This easy-to-use, intuitive system dramatically reduces a user's learning curve and virtually eliminates accidental alarms. The NAPCO Freedom 8 is highly anticipated by the security marketplace and is viewed as a breakthrough product at industry trade shows, distributor conferences and preliminary customer presentations as an important way for the security industry to capture more of the approximately 80% of all residences which do not have a monitored security system.
Another well-regarded product, NAPCO's Internet video product, the VIP Video Gateway, continues to garner market share in the burgeoning Remote Video Monitoring Category. The product enables any home or business owner to look-in on their premises from any PC or internet-ready cell phone. Consumers can look in on their children or pets and business owners on their employees, either "live" or from an archived selection of previously recorded, specified events. NAPCO's Internet video product also provides dealers with a new source of monthly, recurring service revenue.
Chosen as one of the Editors' top products at the American Society of Industrial Security Annual Trade Show, NAPCO's NetLink provides TCP/IP communication of alarm signals over the Internet. NetLink enables any conventional security system to report alarms over the Internet, versus conventional telephone lines.
Continental Instruments Access Products now includes the super fast processing Super Two intelligent access controller. One of the most successful new product introductions in Continental history, this 2-door access panel supports up to 20,000 ID badges, expansive memory and provides for ultra-quick communications and remote downloading of programming by dealers.
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While not all bad, running the same stuff till doomsday for the sake of badges to get the latest shiny in the game sucks.
With the 45thousandmillion new DKs tanks there may not be a tank shortage for these runs at least. At the end of TBC I knew people with well over 600 badges worth of gear and gems, which is anything but "casual" considering they replaced probably 200-300 badges worth of gear in 2.4.


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Nokia Lumia 710 review
Poor battery life under load and a below par camera undermines an otherwise decent Windows Phone handset
Review Date: 3 Feb 2012
Reviewed By: Jonathan Bray
Price when reviewed: Free, on a £16.00 per month, 24 months contract.
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Value for Money
Nokia's smartphone travails are well documented, but with estimates that the Lumia 800 has sold over one million units since its November launch, things seem to be looking up. The Finnish manufacturer is now looking to consolidate that success with the Lumia 710.
As with the Lumia 800 (and all Nokia smartphones from here on in) the 710 runs on Windows Phone 7.5; the difference is in the design and the specification. This is a phone for budget-conscious users, and therefore lacks some of the design panache of the 800.
It isn't made from a solid block of plastic; instead, the build is more traditional, with a removable rear panel hiding a 1,300mAh battery and micro-SIM compartment. The screen is flat, without the sumptuous curved edges of the Lumia 800, and in profile it looks a little dumpy. In a world of size zero smartphones, a thickness of 13mm makes it look well behind the curve.
Having said all that, the Lumia 710 is certainly no ugly duckling. As with the Lumia 800, it's available in a number of eye-catching colour combinations (ours came with black and electric blue rear covers), and details such as the inset Nokia logo and a band of precisely positioned speaker perforations on the back mean it looks far from cheap and nasty.
And although the display isn't an AMOLED like the Lumia 800's, it is the same size and resolution – 3.7in and 480 x 800 – and the brightness and contrast is extremely impressive. Measured with our X-Rite colorimeter, the Lumia 710's maximum brightness registered 501cd/m2, which is right up there with the very best (the Lumia 800 gets only 296cd/m2), and gave a contrast ratio of 982:1. Sit it next to its sibling, and the colours look distinctly less vibrant and saturated, but that's the full extent of the difference. It's perfectly fine in every other respect.
In fact, the only real gripe we have with the new Nokia, aside from its slightly low 8GB storage, is the plastic button bar running below the screen, which gives access to the back, Windows and search functions. It feels stiff, requires a rather hard jab before it registers a press, and the seams around its edges were already collecting unsightly bits of fluff after a couple of days. We prefer the touch buttons of the Lumia 800.
Performance & battery life
As a phone, though, the 710 functions flawlessly. Calls come through loud and clear, it has a good loud ring and the speaker has plenty of volume, so it performs well in hands-free mode. Responsiveness, as we've come to expect from Windows Phone devices, is also without compromise. The Lumia sports the same 1.4GHz single-core Qualcomm Scorpion processor as found in the Lumia 800, backed up with 512MB RAM, and this is all it needs to provide a super-fluid all-round experience.
The battery does sound like a problem but with a removeable back cover it can be swapped out. A bigger concern is the 8gb of space with no micro sd slot. If it had USB host mode it might not be as big a concern.
Camera is a big disappointment. Guess I'll be holding out for the rumoured last symbian device (rumoured to be the replacement for the N8).
By JamesD29 on 6 Feb 2012
Price is right
The best price I've seen so far is £200 payg on O2. Combined with a Giffgaff payg sim with £10 bundle and over 24 months you then have a free phone, 250 mins, ultd texts and unltd data for effective monthly cost of £18.33 a month.
Your benchmark compared it to iPhone 4S and latest dual-core Android phones. I think would have been more informative to compare it to iPhone 3GS and Samsung Galaxy Ace given the price.
By TheBigM72 on 6 Feb 2012
It is supposed to be the budget phone, so TheBigM72 has a point.
Reviews, here in Germany, said the the screen was actually better than the AMOLED display on the 800 tests - the 800 had a faint yellow tinge, the 710 had more accuracy. And in general, it faired well, some are saying that it fits better in the hand than the 800 (because it is more curved and doesn't "cut into the hand").
The only negative was the button strip, as PC Pro commented on.
My htc Sensation only has an 8GB microSD card installed and it hasn't been a problem, yet.
Likewise, my 16GB htc Mozart has always had over 8GB free and my iPhone 3GS 32GB barely came over 12GB.
By big_D on 6 Feb 2012
'Note that this is with emails set to be delivered "As they arrive", from a single Gmail account, with an hour of audio playback, 50MB of downloads and a half hour phone call carried out during the test period. With the PC Pro Exchange account, plus Twitter and Facebook added to the mix, we only just about managed to eke a full day's use out of the Lumia 710.'
Had the battery not lasted, you might have had to do some work.
By Lacrobat on 6 Feb 2012
Damning with faint praise
OK first I'm biased. I'm a WP early adopter and I've an HTC HD7. Given that I have nearly filled the 16GB of fixed memory on that, I tend to agree that 8GB is a bit stingy! Especially as I'm not a big consumer of music 'on the go'.
Other than that you do (as TheBigM72 observed) appear to be comparing it with other makers' top of the range 'phones. Isn't this a bit unfair, given its relatively low price?
By wittgenfrog on 6 Feb 2012
That IS work for these guys. Some people get all the fun :-)
By JohnHo1 on 6 Feb 2012
£16.00 per month...
I think this phone should have received a much higher rating. Obviously it's difficult to judge without having seen the phone, but from the review it looks like a fantastic piece of kit taking into account the price. OK, it's not perfect, but you comparing it to devices costing twice as much on a contract.
I would be more interested in how it compares with other phones in the same price category.
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By chela on 6 Feb 2012
I don't know whether this phone deserves a better score or not because the article doesn't really provide any comparison with phones at a similar price range.
I don't really want a comparison with the Samsung Galaxy S 2 or the newest iPhone, or even the previous Nokia W7 phone - these all cost substantially more.
By longn on 6 Feb 2012
Review reads better than the scoreline
I wasn't expecting to see so many positive things written about this given the scores it received.
As someone who's not sure whether he wants to continue handing over £500 every 2 years for a contract free iPhone, this is an interesting device indeed. You just think back to where we were 5 or 10 years ago and realise what good value it is!
Now if we could somehow get a smartphone that's as slim and with the same battery life as a 6310i I will be first in line.
By SirRoderickSpode on 6 Feb 2012
Not exactly a budget phone
If MS/Nokia are to reach a crtitcal mass in the smartphone market they need to have a full range of products at all price levels. Samsung have it cracked with the Galaxy range, with models available from £100 upwards and an increasing spec as you move up the range. Nokia is trying to make an impact at the top end and are unlikely to do so without models at all levels.
By ianhay2 on 8 Feb 2012
I've had the Lumia 800 since early December (coming from a much hated HTC HD2) and it has been a revelation - it works superbly a phone, for texting and for email, my main concerns, and pretty well for the Internet, which , face up to it, is never going to be a stunning experience n any mobile. Other "nice to have" services - the radio and camera - are OK too. Battery life is not a huge concern once you get used to charging up every night.
The big let down, which I am sure applies to the 710 also, is connectivity to the desktop.
I am probably a bit slow to catch on to how to do things, but I really miss the plug in and synchronise method of the older windows phones. Now I run two Outlook diaries (one synchronises in the cloud, the other struggles to keep up) while my contacts, which synchronised the first time I connected, I now have to update by hand.
Microsoft and Nokia have done a great job in their new venture, but why did they have to jettison almost the only part of the old windows mobile system that actually worked?
By PeterMcIntyre1 on 9 Feb 2012
Value for money
How does a Windows smartphone with this kind of spec, free from £16 a month, get only 3 star value rating?
I checked online, you can get 500 mins, 5000 text and 1GB data for £17 a month + 39.99 up front for the phone. How is that not 5-star value?
By drslothy on 9 Feb 2012
still poor auto focus
It appears Nokia Do not understand consumers as regards auto focus,I have an E-7-00 and it has no auto focus which prevents,apps like mobile tag from working, it seems the WS phones sill have the same problem.I will be giving them a miss until Nokia wake up,or update their step backwards regarding camera design.
By philhind on 9 Feb 2012
Lumia 800
I have one and so does my wife, we both love it though I also miss being able to just drag stuff to it...Exchange accounts work great though.
By Ip_pete4646e21a2 on 9 Feb 2012
Great value smartphone!
I don't think the price of this phone has been properly taken into consideration - you can get it from as little as £150 (see HUKD). Why compare it to phones costing over 3 times as much? PCPro is showing biased results here, mostly pro-Android, anti-WP7.
By Chris_M on 11 Feb 2012
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"We write to you representing a majority of Cincinnati's City Council, which, as the policy- and budget-setting body for the City, has sole authority to make allocations for projects like the streetcar.
'We acknowledge that the situation involving the construction of our streetcar project has been an unusual one with a higher-than-desired number of twists and turns. While the democratic process is not always a tidy one, we do want to express – unequivocally – our appreciation to the Federal Transit Administration for your willingness to invest in Cincinnati's future and in our transportation infrastructure, as well as for the time and energy that your agency has devoted to this project over the past several years.
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