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At Least 60 People Crushed to Death in Ivory Coast Stampede
About 60 people were crushed to death in a stampede outside a stadium in Ivory Coast's main city of Abidjan after a New Year's Eve fireworks display, the government said on Tuesday.

 The incident took place near Felix Houphouet Boigny Stadium where a crowd had gathered to watch fireworks, emergency officials said. One of the injured, speaking to Reuters at a hospital, said security forces had arrived to break up the crowd, triggering a panic in which many people fell over and were trampled.

 "The provisional death toll is 60 and there are 49 injured," Interior Minister Hamed Bakayoko said in a statement broadcast on national television.

 President Alassane Ouattara, visiting injured people at the hospital, called the incident a national tragedy and said an investigation was underway to determine what happened.

 A Reuters correspondent said blood stains and abandoned shoes littered the scene outside the stadium on Tuesday morning.

 "My two children came here yesterday," said Assetou Toure, a cleaner who still does not know if her children had escaped unhurt. "I told them not to come but they didn't listen. They came when I was sleeping. What will I do?"

 The incident was the worst of its kind in Abidjan since 2010, when a stampede at a stadium during a football match killed 18 people.

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A mysterious list has been distributed on the premises of Punjab Assembly which put forward some explosive allegations – containing the names of some eight prominent journalists that allegedly received money, plots and other facilities overseas from real estate tycoon Malik Raiz.
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We were happy to be able to present them with photographs of the jetty on Cumbrae which seemed to be very much in keeping with the book "Hollow Earth" which is based here on the island.
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Sony's blog - "Since Sony is giving into terrorism, I guess I'll just cancel my Little Big Planet pre-order and go buy Fable II next week."
Eurogamer - "Stop having a go at Muslims. It's PC idiots over at Sony who are massively overreacting."
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Varmint Al's Place - Al has collected a large amount of info on varmint and coyote hunting.
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Mainevacation.com - a non-commercial web site with lots of information about Maine.
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Kansas Coyote Hounding - Angie & Dean of Muscotah, Kansas hunt coyotes with hounds. They've also recently put a website up about the subject.
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WASHINGTON -- Remember March 10, 2000? Neither do a lot of other people. That's the official end of the dot-com boom and the start of the dot-com bust. The bubble burst that day.
A lot of companies with wildly inventive names that promised "the next big thing" disappeared, leaving behind fancy open-plan offices and 20-something recreational equipment. They all shared grandiose dreams and no revenues. The hard rules of economics still applied.
Did we learn from this? Of course not. We like booms, so much so that we forget the inevitable chastening bust. Railroads, oil wells, transistors, holding companies, conglomerates, traction companies, aerospace companies, Florida real estate. We love this stuff.
Not that people don't profit from booms and busts. A lot of people profited big from the Gold Rush but it wasn't the prospectors but the people who sold stuff to them. Did the prospectors learn from this? No, they rushed off to Alaska.
Many analysts believe that it was pent up demand for another boom that led to the bubble and subsequent bust of the subprime mortgage market. "Subprime," it turns out, is a fancy way of saying, 'You ain't gonna get your money back.'
The astute business writer Allen Sloan analyzed one subprime offering by a respected investment banking house. Wait until you hear it. You'll be kicking yourself, asking, 'How did I miss out on this?' It would be like getting in on Enron in September 2001.
The company sold shares in a package of second mortgages, largely on homes in California. A second mortgage means that someone else is first in line to get the money if there is a foreclosure. The homeowners' average equity was 0.17 percent (20 percent is a standard down payment on a conventional "prime," so to speak, first mortgage but where's the fun in that) and in over half the loans the borrowers' incomes or assets had never been verified.
Inevitably, this particular investment, and many others as well, tanked in dramatic fashion. So what is the next highly speculative investment for capital in search of excitement?
Do the words "Silicon Valley start up" and "initial public offering" do anything for you? Yes, the dot-coms are back and beginning to form a bubble. The New York Times reports that Facebook, which it delicately calls "financially unproven," is being valued by investors at $15 billion.
This time, however, investors vow that things will be different. Right. Once again the investors are flocking to startups that have no revenues or even prospects for revenues. One entrepreneur "says that the company was not currently focused on making money and that no one in the company was even working on how to do so." Talk about a business plan.
And what do you call an investor who overlooks the fact that the company doesn't actually do anything? How about "sucker"?
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Genetic Testing – Should Your Insurer Know the Results?
Genetic Testing is in Your Future
Genetic testing is the cornerstone of personalized medicine. It enables physicians to understand whether a patient's DNA makes them more susceptible to certain diseases.
Currently patients with family history of various cancers are genetically screened for them. In the future, genome sequencing may become part of the screening that babies undergo after they're born. This raises a number of ethical issues:
- who owns your genetic information?
- who has access to it?
- where is it stored?
After a recent blog post, "Personalized Medicine in 3 – 5 Years?" I received questions from readers on how results of genetic testing might affect their insurance coverage. They expressed concern that if insurance companies know their genetic weaknesses, they will raise rates or deny coverage.
The Law: Genetic Testing Nondiscrimination Act
The good news is that in the US, it is illegal for health insurance companies use genetic information to set rates or deny coverage. It is also illegal for employers to use genetic information in their employment, promotion or compensation practices. The law passed in 2008 and took effect in 2009. The name of the law is the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act or GINA.
Under GINA, health insurers can not ask any questions about genetic testing as part of the application process, at renewal or as part of any health screening or wellness program, if there is a penalty or benefit associated with those questions.
Importantly, this includes any discussion of family history. If your health insurer or your employer questions you about whether your father smoked, had a heart attack or if your mother had breast cancer, they violate GINA.
GINA applies only to health insurers and employers. It does not apply to long-term care coverage or life insurance. This is because of something insurers call "adverse selection".
An example of adverse selection – someone learns they are likely to die at an early age, then buys large amounts of life insurance to assure surviving family members' security. The insurer, unaware of the high risk plan member, cannot adjust its pricing to the risk profile. This hurts the rest of the policyholders in that insurance pool whose rates will rise to fund higher claim payments.
When Your Insurer Can See Your Results
Be careful; there are circumstances when a health insurer can ask that an individual undergo genetic testing and share in the results.
Sometimes the choice of proper treatment depends on a patient's genetic makeup. In that case, to decide whether the treatment is medically necessary and whether the insurer will pay for the treatment, genetic testing is needed.
If the patient refuses to take the test before taking the treatment, the insurer can refuse to pay the claim. However, the insurance company can only see the information needed to decide the proper treatment and payment.
This is a very complex arena, and I don't pretend that I am an expert.
The best advice is to discuss these issues in detail before being tested. Understand your options for sharing and storing this information. Talk with your doctor, the testing company and finally, discuss with your family.
If your insurer is requiring the test for medical appropriateness, understand what information they will see and get a written statement from the insurer that the request is permitted under GINA and that it will not affect your rates or coverage.
For more detailed information go to this link at The Genetics and Public Policy Center, Johns Hopkins University.
What's your opinion? Should genetic information be shared with insurance companies? Should your employer have access to this information? Post a comment and share.
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The Social Health Web
Social web sites are growing as a health care medium. They connect patients with each other and with care givers. Social media are a conduit for patients to share their health concerns and gain knowledge. But they may also be a rumor mill of misinformation.
So far the US healthcare system has been slow to adopt social media for the exchange of health information, leaving patients to find other sources. Two recent studies show a growing gap between patients' needs and hospitals' delivery of a quality social health experience.
Hospitals Not Delivering
A new report by CSC shows US hospitals lag far behind hospitals in countries such as the Netherlands and the UK in the use of social media to deliver health information. According to the study, only 27% of urban hospitals and 10% of rural hospitals in the US deploy social media sites.
Yet according to a report by consulting firm PWC, patients use social sites like Facebook as an important source for health information. Of 1,024 consumers studied, 24% say they post health information on social media sites and 45% said they would use information from social media sites as justification for seeking a second opinion.
Health professionals should be alarmed by these findings. Facebook and Twitter take second guessing physicians' medical recommendations to a new dimension.
Why anyone would use hundreds of Facebook friends as a sounding board for whether to have surgery is beyond me, but the evidence suggests that it's happening with more frequency. And with the ease and anonymity of internet publishing, anyone can present themselves as a medical expert.
Privacy Concerns Versus Information Sharing
Why don't more hospitals use social media? Concerns about liability and patient privacy are the primary reason. Clearly, the freewheeling give and take of social media commentary interferes with the doctor-patient relationship.
But here's the problem, patients will seek the information wherever they can find it. We humans are a curious sort. We pay no attention to our health until we get sick. Then we plumb the internet for any source we can find for as much information we can get.
Physicians often spend more time wading through patients' questions about alternative treatments and self diagnoses than they do in actual treatment. The physician's role as the sole source of medical information went out of fashion with Marcus Welby, M.D.
It's a classic case of if you can't lick 'em, join 'em. Why not be seen as the best source of medical information and clinical sharing? It's unfortunate that aversion to risk prevents hospitals from using social media's potential for healing by placing the patient at the center a continuum of care through social communities of physicians, case managers, family and friends.
What do you think? Are hospitals obligated to create social media sites and share health-related information with patient communities? Share your comments by clicking on "comments" at the top of the page.
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Patient Satisfaction and Quality Outcomes: Can We Have Both?
The Hospital Stay Experience
Comedian Mel Brooks as The 2,000 year old man tells us what is was like as a patient in stone age hospitals. "Hospitals ran on the same principles as today – the principles of people walking past you while you're screaming and not caring. That same wonderful indifference to the sick and the dying. We invented that."
Mel's routine came to mind recently while talking with a physician friend who is a senior leader at a regional academic medical center. He said, "We deliver quality health outcomes, what we're focused on is improving the patient experience."
Many of us remember our hospital stays as mixed at best. Patient as prisoner, stoic caregivers, bland food, poor communication. Yet for many years patient satisfaction scores routinely topped 90%. Satisfaction surveys were usually filled-out at discharge, before the patient paid the bill. Patients, happy over their improved health, gave high scores on the survey.
Times have changed. Pressures to lower costs and improve outcomes intensify competition among hospitals. More employers offer tiered insurance plans which can cost less per month but charge the patient more to use hospitals with higher than average costs. Higher priced academic hospitals have to justify those prices to consumers. They want patients delighted with their hospital stay.
What Does "Patient Experience Mean?
The Gallup Management Journal reports hospitals are widely divided about what the "patient experience" means. For about a quarter of hospitals surveyed, it means excellent customer service – the hotel model. About one-third believe it means "patient-centered care", which is more of a health outcomes model. The rest of the hospital executives in the survey gave answers somewhere between those two models.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) created a nation-wide standardized patient satisfaction survey which represents the mid-point between the hotel and the outcome models. It's called the CAHPS Hospital Survey. It measures how well doctors and nurses communicate with patients, cleanliness, pain management, quietness and discharge procedures on a 10 point scale. Consumers can see how hospitals compare to national averages in quarterly report published by CMS/CAHPS.
Hospitals which embrace patient-centered care don't think the CAHPS survey goes far enough. They want patients to not only be delighted with the quality of service, but with their health as well. These hospitals work to redefine how care is delivered. It's not easy. Current models of healthcare delivery often exclude patients and their families from an active role in treatment; they are episodic, not continuous. They focus on a specific problem, not the person as a whole.
With the help of consulting companies like Planetree, many hospitals are moving to the patient-centered care model. This requires them to rethink how they deliver many aspects of care, similar to Business Process Re-engineering (BPR). As with any fundamental change, hospital culture must change fundamentally. This is the difficult part and may take years to become real.
Happier and/or Healthier?
While there are many case studies which show effective implementations of patient-centered care models, the long-term effect of this change on health care quality and the overall health of the patient is unknown. Many question whether patient-centered care's focus on delivering only what the patient needs and no more is just a cover for rationing care and lowering costs. If the patient is happier, but is not materially healthier, why go to all the trouble?
As one physician, commenting on an earlier blog in this series said," The goal has always been to individualize the treatment to the patient but I fear economic pressures may influence this in another direction."
Right or wrong, this is the road we are on.
How satisfied are you with your hospital's quality of service? What do you think about patient-centered care? Please comment and share.
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Retrospective on the RDN |
Debra Hiom, in the first of a two-part series on the Resource Discovery Network, looks back at the development of the RDN and its activities to date. |
April 2006, issue47, feature article |
Saving the Sounds of the UK in the UK SoundMap |
Maureen Pennock and Chris Clark introduce an innovative initiative from the British Library to map a 12-month soundscape of the UK. |
January 2011, issue66, feature article |
Search Engines: A Mixed Bag - A Review of Some New Search Engines |
Phil Bradley takes a look at some new search engines to see if they are up to challenging the top dogs. |
July 2004, issue40, regular column |
Search Engines: The Altavista Relaunch, Personalised Search Engines |
Phil Bradley on the Altavista relaunch, and Personalised Search Engines. |
December 1999, issue22, regular column |
Search Engines: The Google Backlash |
Phil Bradley reviews and analyses recent criticisms of the giant and takes an objective view from a broader perspective. |
April 2004, issue39, regular column |
Search Engines: Weblog Search Engines |
Phil Bradley looks at the developments occurring with weblogs and how you can go about searching on or for them. |
July 2003, issue36, regular column |
Search Engines: Where We Were, Are Now, and Will Ever Be |
Phil Bradley takes a look at the development of search engines over the lifetime of Ariadne and points to what we might anticipate in the years to come. |
April 2006, issue47, feature article |
Sense of the South West Conference: Collaboration for Sustainability |
Katie Lusty reports on a one-day conference on the sustainability of digitisation projects, held in Bath on 8 October 2004. |
October 2004, issue41, event report |
Serving Services in Web 2.0 |
Theo van Veen shows with the help of an example, how standardised descriptions of services can help users control the integration of services from different providers. |
April 2006, issue47, feature article |
Shared Repositories, Shared Benefits: Regional and Consortial Repositories in Japan |
Takeo Ozono, Daisuke Ueda and Fumiyo Ozaki describe the work of the ShaRe Project and its influence upon the development of consortial repositories and the benefits they have brought to Japanese institutions. |
March 2014, issue72, feature article |
Shibboleth Installation Workshop |
James Sankar and Masha Garibyan report on the first ever Shibboleth Installation Workshop in the UK. |
January 2005, issue42, event report |
Six MLEs: More Similar Than Different |
Paul Browning offers a technical review of the systems developed by the JISC 'Building MLEs in HE' (7/99) Programme |
July 2003, issue36, feature article |
South African Repositories: Bridging Knowledge Divides |
Martie van Deventer and Heila Pienaar provide us with background to recent South African repository initiatives and detail an example of knowledge transfer from one institution to another. |
April 2008, issue55, feature article |
Subject Portals |
Judith Clark describes a three-year project to develop a set of subject portals as part of the Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER) development programme. |
October 2001, issue29, feature article |
Subject Repositories: European Collaboration in the International Context |
Dave Puplett reports on the conference Subject Repositories: European Collaboration in the International Context held at the British Library in January 2010. The conference launched Economists Online (EO), an innovative economics subject repository. |
January 2010, issue62, event report |
SUNCAT: Ten Years and Beyond |
Celia Jenkins charts the beginnings of SUNCAT, its development over the last ten years and what the future holds for the service. |
February 2015, issue73, feature article |
Support Models for Open Source Deployment |
Sebastian Rahtz and Randy Metcalfe report on OSS Watch's one-day conference on support models held in London in June 2004. |
July 2004, issue40, event report |
SUSHI: Delivering Major Benefits to JUSP |
Paul Meehan, Paul Needham and Ross MacIntyre explain the enormous time and cost benefits in using SUSHI to support rapid gathering of journal usage reports into the JUSP service. |
November 2012, issue70, feature article |
Syndicated Content: It's More Than Just Some File Formats? |
Paul Miller takes a look at issues arising from the current enthusiasm for syndicating content to portals or other web sites, and offers some guidelines for good practice. |
April 2003, issue35, feature article |
The (Digital) Library Environment: Ten Years After |
Lorcan Dempsey considers how the digital library environment has changed in the ten years since Ariadne was first published. |
February 2006, issue46, feature article |
The Bath Profile Four Years On: What's Being Done in the UK? |
Fraser Nicolaides gives us his take on the conference to review the implementation of the Bath Profile in the UK, July 2003. |
July 2003, issue36, event report |
The Concept of the Portal |
Paul Miller gives his personal view of the portal and its varieties, both in the wild and on the drawing board. |
January 2002, issue30, feature article |
The DARE Chronicle: Open Access to Research Results and Teaching Material in the Netherlands |
Leo Waaijers reflects on four years of progress and also looks ahead. |
October 2007, issue53, feature article |
The Dawning of DARE: A Shared Experience |
Annemiek van der Kuil and Martin Feijen describe the first year of the DARE Project and its foundation of the OAI repositories of Dutch academic output. |
October 2004, issue41, feature article |
The Digital Preservation Coalition |
Neil Beagrie reports on proposals to establish a Digital Preservation Coalition in the UK. |
March 2001, issue27, feature article |
The eLib Hybrid Library Projects |
Michael Breaks provides an overview of BUILDER, AGORA, MALIBU, HeadLine and HyLife |
June 2001, issue28, feature article |
The European Film Gateway |
Georg Eckes and Monika Segbert describe a Best Practice Network funded under the eContentplus Programme of the European Commission, which is building a portal for access to film archival resources in Europe. |
January 2009, issue58, feature article |
The European Library: Integrated Access to the National Libraries of Europe |
Britta Woldering describes the findings of the recently completed EU Project The European Library, focusing on technical solutions and metadata development. |
January 2004, issue38, feature article |
The Future Is Hybrid: Edinburgh |
John MacColl and Philip Hunter report on 'The Future is Hybrid' project day in Edinburgh. |
March 2001, issue27, event report |
The Future Is Hybrid: London |
Kate Robinson reports on 'The Future is Hybrid' project day at the British Library in London. |
January 2001, issue26, event report |
The Information Environment Service Registry: Promoting the Use of Electronic Resources |
Amanda Hill outlines progress on the Information Environment Service Registry Project and explains what it will mean for service providers and portal developers. |
July 2004, issue40, feature article |
The Information Grid |
Ariadne reports on a one-day workshop on 'an interoperable environment to support research, learning and teaching' held at the e-Science Institute in Edinburgh, April 30, 2002. |
July 2002, issue32, event report |
The Institutional Web Management Workshop 2004 |
Tracey Stanley reports on the 8th Institutional Web Management Workshop at the University of Birmingham over 27-29 July. The theme of this year's workshop was Transforming the Organisation. |
October 2004, issue41, event report |
The JISC 5/99 Programme: What's in a Number? |
Rachel Bruce and Balviar Notay give an overview of the outputs and influences of the JISC 5/99 Learning and Teaching and Infrastructure Programme. |
January 2004, issue38, feature article |
The JISC Information Environment and Web Services |
Andy Powell and Liz Lyon look at possible relationships between the Web Services idea and earlier ideas about seamless access to information. |
April 2002, issue31, feature article |
The JOIN-UP Programme: Seminar on Linking Technologies |
Sandy Shaw reports on a seminar bringing together experts in the field of linking technology for JISC's JOIN-UP Programme. |
June 2001, issue28, event report |
The Klearinghouse: An Inventory of Knowledge Technologies |
George Brett discusses part of a model of distributed user support, The Klearinghouse. The National Laboratory for Applied Network Research (NLANR) has been actively supporting high performance applications and networking for the past five years. The Klearinghouse is a next generation effort of the Advanced Applications Clearinghouse which is in the Distributed Applications Support Team of the NLANR. |
September 2000, issue25, feature article |
The Librarian's Information Literacy Annual Conference (LILAC) 2008 |
Keir Hopwood reports on three-day conference about current and future trends in the practice of information literacy teaching in Higher Education and beyond. |
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The National Centre for Text Mining: A Vision for the Future |
Sophia Ananiadou describes NaCTeM and the main scientific challenges it helps to solve together with issues related to deployment, use and uptake of NaCTeM's text mining tools and services. |
October 2007, issue53, feature article |
The National Centre for Text Mining: Aims and Objectives |
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Thursday, 8 December 2011
Ivy & Piper Xmas Party!
Don't you love it when you meet people & think . . .'gosh we could've been friends for years!?'
Well, this is how I feel about Mel & Liz from Ivy & Piper.
They are friendly, creative, funny & humble. The kind of chicks you meet while in the bathroom putting lipstick on and then end up sharing your kebab with at 3am! Mel has an innate need to fluff cushions & Liz has the best skin I have ever seen.
Well last night Ivy & Piper had a special Bloggers Party and it was just so beautiful! I actually couldn't concentrate on chatting . .. their new showroom/work space took my breath away.
I first met Mel & Liz at an Ivy & Piper workshop way back here . . .and ever since, Mum & I have been 'styling' our spaces . . . we laugh about our mild obsession. You should book in for the next workshop . . . .such a valuable thing to do!
Here are some photos from last night. Incredible isn't it.
Thanks Mel & Liz for including me- I had a great time!
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Oh Tina, this is the most lovely post ever. After meeting you and your mum at our workshop that (fateful) day we said to eachother 'Aren't they just fabulous, we should be friends with these people!'. You are so glamorous and absolutely the funniest person we've ever met. Thank you for coming and for all your support! M & E xx
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There seems to be a new trend catching on this spring season.
Several female athletes are playing two sports at the same time, whether it be tennis and soccer, or tennis and track, or soccer and track.
And now, a Class 5A team is getting in on the fun.
Despite having two players who also compete on the soccer team, the Spartans' girls tennis squad swept cross-town rival Greeley Central 7-0 Tuesday afternoon in a nonconference dual at Greeley West High School.
No. 3 singles player sophomore Kiley Cropper and No. 1 doubles player junior Darcy Ficek turned around from playing a 7 p.m. soccer game Monday to playing tennis matches at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday.
After playing a long match with sophomore partner Lauren Miller, Ficek said she was pretty tired.
"I'm always tired when I go to a (match) or a game," Ficek said, who's also dealing with tendonitis in her knees. "And then, we don't know how to juggle the practice times, so it's been pretty tough.
"The reason I did both is because I couldn't choose which one I liked better," she added.
Ficek and Miller won a tough match 7-6 (12-10), 6-0, while Cropper won her match 6-0, 6-0 against junior Lauren Diebold. The Spartans (3-2) won every match in two sets against the Wildcats (0-3).
West coach Ryan Pace said it's been tough sharing his players with another team, especially with one playing doubles, but he said he's happy to have them.
"They're both such great girls — it would be weird not having them here," Pace said. " … But, watching 'em have to go from one to the other, I can't imagine doing it. It would take a lot out of me. So, I give 'em a lot of credit, good for them."
It's the first year Cropper and Ficek have played both sports and Cropper joined the team just two weeks ago.
Cropper said the turnaround from Monday to Tuesday was a little tough, but she was ready to go against Central.
"I've been able to do mostly everything for both so far," Cropper said.
Central senior Hillary Trevino and freshman Sophie Pell were on the other side of the net at No. 1 doubles, playing the closest match of the day for the Wildcats.
Central coach Amy Bekins, who's in her first year, said she has a lot of fresh talent on the team, and Trevino is the only senior.
"We've got a lot of new girls on the team right now, so we're kinda doing more of just 'give it your all and however you do, you do,' " Bekins said. "As long as you give it your all, that's what really matters and really improving and working to get better each match, and we've seen that."
Pace said the Spartans also had a good performance from sophomore Kayla Hoskins and junior Ellie Davidson at No. 2 doubles, who are working on new techniques.
"Just watching 'em come to the net, watching 'em transfer over and communicate was great," he said. "They look like they could definitely compete for a state spot."
West has two weeks off before its next dual, but Pace said he's really comfortable with where the singles players are at and the doubles pairs are progressing.
"I think today was a good confidence booster," Pace said. "We're gonna see a lot of different competition coming up in the next few weeks. … The spring break for the girls will be a great chance for us to work on a few things."
Singles — 1. Paige Crews (GWHS) def. Katiana Uyemura, 6-1, 6-1; 2. Emily Hopwood (GWHS) def. Morgan Smith, 6-0, 6-1; 3. Kiley Cropper (GWHS) def. Lauren Diebold, 6-0, 6-0.
Doubles — 1. Darcy Ficek & Lauren Miller (GWHS) def. Hillary Trevino & Sophie Pell, 7-6 (12-10), 6-0; 2. Kayla Hoskins & Ellie Davidson (GWHS) def. Rachel Krieger & Lydia Burden, 6-0, 6-0; 3. Haley Alberts & Olivia DeNovellis (GWHS) def. Alondra Flores & Raquel Aniles, 6-1, 6-0; 4. Amanda Kircher & Angela Pearson (GWHS) def. Ashlyn Twing & Madelyn Willers-Moellern, 6-1, 6-0.


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American multinational corporation Microsoft gets more colourful with the set July release of its premium flagship phone Nokia Lumia 930 in Australia. The Windows phone will be be released to all major carriers - Telstra, Optus and Vodafone. It can also be bought outright from Dick Smith, JB Hi-Fi, Harvey Norman and AllPhones. So how does Nokia Lumia 930 fare against Samsung Galaxy S5?
In terms of price, Samsung Galaxy S5 is several hundred dollars more expensive compared with Nokia Lumia 930. According to Whistleout.com, Samsung Galaxy S5 is priced at AU$1,350 for the $30 plan at Vodafone while Gizmodo mentioned that Nokia Lumia 930 costs only $729. Given this price, smart phone users can just add a few dollars more and they can already buy two units of Nokia Lumia 930 for the price of one Samsung Galaxy S5.
When it comes to display, Samsung Galaxy S5 has slightly bigger display compared Nokia Lumia 930. Based on the Samsung Web site, Samsung Galaxy S5 has a 5.1-inch super AMOLED screen with a screen resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels with an image density of 432 pixels per inches (ppi).
Meanwhile, the Nokia Web site revealed that Nokia Lumia 930 has 5-inch screen with the same display resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels and but a slightly better image density of 441ppi.
Both Nokia Lumia 930 and Samsung Galaxy S5 have the same Qualcomm Snapdragon processors with Samsung Galaxy S5 having slightly better specs. The same sources mentioned above stated that Samsung Galaxy S5 has Qualcomm MSM8974AC Snapdragon 801 processor clocked at 2.5GHz while Nokia Lumia 930 has Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 quad-core processor clocked at 2.2GHz.
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When it comes to operating systems, the two smart phones run on totally different systems. Both above-mentioned sources cited that Nokia Lumia 930 runs on the latest Windows 8.1 operating system while Samsung Galaxy S5 runs on Android 4.4.2 Kitkat.
Nokia Lumia 930 also comes with better camera specs than Samsung Galaxy S5. Based also on the Nokia Web site, Nokia Lumia 930 sports a 20-megapixel PureView camera with dual LED flash plus four directional microphones with Surround-Sound.
Meanwhile, Samsung Galaxy S5 only has 16-megapixel rear facing camera and 2-megapixel front facing camera. It also features dual shot, simultaneous high quality video and image recording, geo-tagging, touch focus, face and smile detection, and image stabilization.
Both Nokia Lumia 930 and Samsung Galaxy S5 have the same 2GB RAM and an internal memory of either 32 GB. However, the memory Nokia Lumia 930 can be expanded up to 128 GB via the microSD and its has 7 GB of cloud storage from Microsoft OneDrive.
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The Nokia Web site also mentioned that Nokia Lumia 930 has pre-installed Nokia MixRadio. It also comes with plethora of apps such for personal information management like Kid's Corner, OneNote, Family Room, Social networks in Phonebook, and Wallet. There are also business apps included in the Windows phone like Lync (Corporate IM) free download, and Company Hub for enterprise applications. The Windows phone also come with document format support for PDF, Word, Excel, OneNote, and PowerPoint. There are also sync type apps included such as Exchange ActiveSync and Nokia Photo Transfer for Mac. It even sport a papyrus app which allows users to take down notes in their natural handwriting just like a paper. There are also built-in game apps like Touch UI, XBox-Live Hub, DirectX 11, and Adidas miCoach. Social apps like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, WhatsApp are also available and much more apps that Windows phone users can use and enjoy.
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To establish sound part is essential in product designing. The delay to introduce to introduce the product into the market, will affect the overall development plan, production and marketing plan. To produce product at the right cost, designer must has a tool or system that could determine the part cost in real-time. Failure to achieve the targeted cost will result in part re-design that eventually will delay the development schedule and increase the total investment cost in term of die modification cost. Based on this requirement a simple prototype software to calculate part cost being introduced. In developing the software, the approached that the program developer took are involving the identification of cost influence factors, arithemetical cost modeling establishment, user interface layout and design development, VB6 software calculation programming, post-programming result validation and software calculation accuracy. Post-programming case study results recommended the calculation accuracy are consistent with cost target, but to further additional improvement to increase cost accuracy, which include real-time material cost update, die amortization cost, various overhead expenses calculations, secondary process cost requirement, and transportation packaging cost calculations.
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Back in the Sixties, if you wanted a fruitful, freakout-free LSD experience, you might have called on Mrs Aldous Huxley in Los Angeles, where she lived as a beatifically attuned Buddhist adept until her death in 2007. Aldous Huxley, her husband, had emigrated to America 70 years earlier in search of spiritual solace and the 'benediction' offered by psychotropic drugs. Evelyn Waugh was not alone in thinking that the States had driven Huxley dotty. Jim Morrison, the psychedelic Frank Sinatra, named his California band The Doors after Huxley's crackpot hymn to the mescaline experience, The Doors of Perception.
Tim Lott's sixth novel, Under the Same Stars, dilates entertainingly on British attitudes to America as a supermarket for far-out fads and Huxley-like cults. Henry Nash, a disaffected Englishman, had left for New Mexico 30 years ago, having abandoned his wife and two sons to their home in suburban north London. (Like Huxley, he had 'lost his way'.) Little is heard of Henry from then on. One day his oldest son Carson decides to follow in his footsteps and embrace the American life in New Orleans as a born-again Christian. He has no or very little contact there with his fugitive father.
In 2008, on the eve of the world banking crisis, Carson receives a phone call from his younger brother Salinger in London. Estranged by sibling rivalry, they have not spoken in years. Salinger says he wants to go off in search of his father in America; Carson cautiously agrees to accompany him. What follows is a Thelma and Louise-like road novel, in which the wide open spaces of America are vividly etched. As the brothers drive through cacti-prickly desert and the Texas plains, their distinct personalities emerge. Salinger, morose and withdrawn, affects to dislike the wholesome living and open skies of the American dream, while Carson embodies a detergent-clean optimism and belief in elasticated waistbands and Cheestrings. As his spiffy new Lexus glides comfortably along the highway, the mellow denim sounds of Crosby, Stills and Nash waft from the car radio.
In the course of their quest, the brothers bicker constantly and sometimes cruelly. ('You crying, Sal? Man, you're such a fricking girl.') Before long, mishaps occur. Carson runs over and kills a dog; then his Lexus gets stolen from a steak-house car park. On Salinger's prompting he rents a motorbike. The novel gathers emotional momentum as the brothers, astride their Triumph, get closer to their father. In spite of his Christianity and church-going 'massage therapist' wife LouLou, Carson is shown to have a violent past which he is at pains to conceal from his brother. What lies beneath his sincere Christian smile?
Lott, by inclination a confessional writer, is drawn to stories of family discontent. Under the Same Stars, a tender-hearted novel of sibling rivalries, is no less memorable than his family memoir The Scent of Dried Roses. Very occasionally the therapist's couch shows in the prose ('A single thought drifted into the slipstream of his understanding'); otherwise the writing is sharp as a tack and unfailingly fun to read.
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008
I Knitted a Baby Vest
Cast on 74 stitches.
Knit 6 rows.
Knit 4; keep purling until the last 4, and those you knit. Make the first (lowermost) buttonhole around the 8-10th line from casting on.
Keep doing this until you have completed approx 7". Make 3 to 4 buttonholes at appropriate places along the right vertical rib.
Knit 10, purl 4, knit 12, purl 4, knit 15, purl 4, knit 12, purl 4, knit 9. Do this for three rows. *Include the topmost buttonhole in this final ribbing.*
You should be back at the side from which you started the last step.
Close 8, knit 2, purl 4, knit 2, close 8, knit 2, purl 4, knit 2, close 11, knit 2, purl 4, knit 2, close 8, knit 2, purl 4, knit 2, close seven.
So now you have four sets of stitches which will form the shoulder straps. You can continue knitting with the only same two needles (as I did) or slip off the sets you are not working on to other needles or a stitch holder.
Knit 2, purl 4, knit 2 each strap until it's about 2 and a half inches long. I knitted the seams in a Three Needle Bind-Off (so I didn't know what it was called when I did it, because I just did what my aunt instructed over the phone!) to join each shoulder, so I didn't cast off strap #1 until #2 was ready to join it, and I held #3 until #4 was done. All easy with a stitch holder and still very doable with just an extra needle.
Then you weave in trailing ends, stitch on buttons and feel very good about yourself. At least, that's what I did.
Oh and if you, like me, are a complete novice at this, you may benefit from this site I just discovered.
Lastly, just because he's cute, here's a picture of my other baby wearing the same vest, Mach 1. It has mistooks aplenty and buttonloops because then I was as yet uninitiated into the mysteries of Wool Forward Knit Two.
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- ~nm said...
And your other baby is deifitely cute :D - 4:50 PM
- adi said...
ha ha brings back memory of my own childhood when mom would be sitting until late at night to complete a sweater. and their discussions with other women would revolve around the same stitches and needles.
- Trishna said...
oye..thanx for linking me up.And this is sooo adorable..I am surely going to try this.:)
- D said...
How cute - the knitting, the vest and this baby!
- Rohini said...
You might as well have written most of your post in Greek for all that I understood of it. Very cute vest though.
- dipali said...
Just so cute. I think I've forgotten how to knit, if I ever did know!
- Sue said...
~nm -- Isn't he just!
Adi -- It's a very absorbing hobby, I find!
Trishna -- Sure, you can make them in all sizes and keep them in stock. Mind you, do remember I made up my own pattern, so be careful the first time you follow it!
Ro -- Isn't it cool? It sounds so knowledgeable, this post!
Dipali -- So how do you intend to be a grandma without knowing how to knit??? Even my Didima suddenly started knitting when R appeared. - 1:27 PM
- Avanti Sané said...
Hey, this is the exact same vest I knitted for the Munchkin! Thanks for the site,maybe now I'll experiment a little.
- Suki said...
Ooohh, nice one :D. Love your other baby too, he's very cute.
Had a look at the bind-offs(I call 'em cast-offs but anyway) on the site. I think I'll knit something this winter - haven't knitted in years now. Thanks for the reminder :) - 1:50 PM
- Sue said...
Avanti -- Go on, do, and then you can teach me how!
Suki -- All the best. :) - 11:23 AM


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David Page
sounds great
I use this with a Blackberry and the tunes sound awesome. take the time to set them into your helmet. they may move if not set correctly but will stay in place and be comfortable. It has a large volume range so you can dial into the right amount of volume. Note: the sound is plugged into your phones mini jack but the use of your phone for calls is via blue tooth. you have to hit the skull button on the clip-on in order to answer your phone. This setup saves buttons versus non-bluetooth as without bluetooth you would need to have multiple buttons or wires or switch to phone call or music at your phone, which is usually tucked inside your coat and NOT accessible. Basically, the phone call shuts down the tunes when you hit the button at the clip-on then the phone call is transmitted via Bluetooth to your clipon then via wires to your headset. It is a slick way to listen to tunes while skiing and be able to get calls. Some question the "sketchyness." That problem relates to the jack's connection at the phone and tends to be an issue with cheap Android driven type phones. Apple or Blackberry would tend to NOT have that issue. Don't blame Giro for buying a junk phone.
Jeff Guest
Doesn't work well with iPhone 4s
I got this for my iPhone 4s but it doesn't play well with Siri, and the volume adjustment sucks and the sound is crackly. I sent these back almost immediately. I'll stick with my Icon 2 headphones till Skullcandy can make a Helmet audio system that actually works well.
Any body having problems getting it paired...
Any body having problems getting it paired to a samsung epic?
Larry Rose
I'm not quite sure what the bluetooth is...
I'm not quite sure what the bluetooth is for, if it has to be wired into the iphone? Can you bypass the bluetooth link, and wire directly from speakers to iPhoneS, and use the microphone wirelessly?
Larry Rose
I meant iPhone 4S, not S. Sorry.
jack tisdell
Do these work with iPod touch or iPhone...
Do these work with iPod touch or iPhone 4s?
Will Oren
Would these fit in a Red helmet? 2010...
Would these fit in a Red helmet? 2010 model
Dean Whitehead
Hey Will, they are not designed for RED helmets, but you might be able to stuff them into the earpads....
works great - when it works
the blue tooth only works for the phone - whats the point of that if you have to wire it to your phone for music anyway? broke after 3 months - does not play on left ear.
Skullcandy has a lifetime warranty, you can always call them and have them ship you a replacement for free... But in that case, so can backcountry.
Skullcandy's Lifetime warranty is not included with this product. These are manufactured by Skullcandy but not supported by them. They told me to call Giro and see if they will honor the warranty.
Diane Honicker
I have the same problem with last years model the left ear does not work. Also on another set purchased the button to stop the music does not work. The place where I purchased did not bother to tell me they have had numerous problems until after the sale. Told me to contact Skull Candy.
Volume control is sketchy. Too high and it is distorted, too low, and you can't hear the phone.
Backcountry guarantee is fantastic. They stand by their product, even when the manufacturer does not. I will gladly buy from Backcountry again.
Which Giro helmets is this compatible...
Which Giro helmets is this compatible with?
Dean Whitehead
All that accept Tune-ups... basically all with removable/replaceable ear pads...
Giro Tuneups with TuneUps Link
Great improvement over prior versions. Nice to listen to stereo music and be able to answer phone calls. Not that I will answer the phone, but nice to know who is trying to call me without having to open my shell!
Mine stopped working the first day out skiing. I could not hear any music using the Skull Candy devise, only if I hooked up my Iphonedirectly to the earphones. None of the ski shop techs could get it to work either and many told me they had preivous issues with the Skull Candy devises before and prefer the Smith brand ones instead... and they ski all the time. I am returning mine.
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Hello all,
Sorry for the stupid question...
Hello all,
Sorry for the stupid question but I am a bit lost between this model and the 200$ wireless thing so here's my config.
I have an HTC phone which does BT and music.
Do i need to wire with a cable the phone to the kit to get the music and when a call comes in it switches automatically to BT, cuts the music (which it already does with a wired headset plugged to the phone), gets the call and when i hang up it resumes the music ?
basically what does the $200 kit does that this one doesn't ?
This one requires a wire from the phone to the bluetooth link control. The 200.00 one doesnt required that wire..
Is this compatible with iphone?
Is this compatible with iphone?
yes the iPhone is compatible via the blue tooth ... your iPod would be wired
Bluetooth no - wired yes but with no control. Droid works great with stored music or streaming audio. Currently you can jailbreak an iphone and get bluetooth audio but it's mono only. Maybe the new Verizon iphone will provide stereo bluetooth with / without jailbreaking. Currently you can jailbreak an iphone and get bluetooth audio but it's on mono only.


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Posted by: dilligaf0220 on Feb-11-14 4:49 PM (EST)
I always love these Canak posts, because they always end up full of conclusions, opinions, and just simply wrong info, all from people that for the most part haven't even seen one.
Seeing as how I am the only Canak owner that will likely be posting here, let me just clear a few things up.
I am not convinced that the hulls are the same between the Canak & the Prism. They come out of separate moulds, and they handle differently on the water. I haven't had a chance to lay the two side by side to see the differences, but I'll wager there is some. I believe this misconception started when Wenonah first released the Canak and the promo copy pushed the fact that it was "inspired" by the Prism, their #1 selling solo. But with Prisms being very rare in my neck of the woods, until I can crawl all over one next to my Canak noting the subtle differences I'll stick with the "inspired" connotation.
The Canak will be easier to paddle with a double blade, if that's the way you are going to go. But I paddle with a single and it paddles like a canoe, not like a kayak.
The seat height, and seat frame, is exactly the same between the two. The portaging yoke that clamps to the seat frame is the same. The only difference portaging is at 42lb my Canak is 8lb heavier than an Ultralight Prism, which is not an insignificant amount. That is the only real advantage the Prism has.
The "hatches" are huge by kayak standards, I can throw a 100L Woods Mason canoe pack into the back without figgling, the front is slightly tighter so you can't fit two full size canoe packs in and be able to put the fabric hatch covers back on. But I'm not sure how well two full size packs would fit in an open Prism anyway.
The lack of windage is what makes the Canak, if you are going to be paddling bigger lakes the Canak can take anything you are going to run into on inland lakes.
As another benefit, the "cockpit" is very open, not very kayak like at all. But just tight enough to brace your knees on the rim instead of having to brace with your feet & legs. Over the long haul it gives a very confidence inspiring feeling of being connected to the boat and not wearing your legs out when you are giving it the gas.
Over all I am in love with my Canak and don't see the need to get a second boat for small lake trips, I'd like it to be 10lbs lighter but I can live with a 40lb solo to port.
For your trip, why don't you split the difference and get one Prism & one Canak? I'd lay real money down that you would be fighting over the Canak after a couple of days.
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A surgical technique to achieve root coverage in buccal gingival recessions by means of expanded polytetrafluoroethylene membranes in combination with miniscrews is presented. After raising a trapezoidal split flap, supporting screws were used to create a large space underneath the membrane, while head screwswere employed for perfect stabilization of the Teflon barrier. Intramarrow perforations were made to induce the rapid formation of a large blood clot with abundant availability of progenitor cells. The membrane and the miniscrews were removed after 3 or 4 weeks. The treatment of 12 cases, with mucogingival defects 4 to 7 mm deep, resulted in a mean root coverage of 84%.
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in the valleys below, they would travel to our mountain areas for food,
hunting and relief from the heat. One of the early clans was the Serranos.
The San Manuel Band of Mission Indians is their descendents. The Mormons purchased a large parcel of land from the Lugos in 1851 that included parts of our local mountains. They built a wagon road up Waterman Canyon in 1852 to obtain timber for the construction of buildings in San Bernardino. Logging and cattle ranching were our early industries. It was not long until the natural beauty, weather and serenity of our area attracted vacationers and residents. Many early resorts, public and private clubs, places to eat and places to stay were soon built. It was also not long until Hollywood discovered our area because of our ever-changing scenery. They had fresh fallen snow in the winter and beautiful pines and pristine lakes in the spring and summer; and autumn colors in the fall. As a result, over 300 films have been shot in part or in whole in the San Bernardino Mountains. Waterman Canyon was named after Robert W. Waterman who owned a ranch there of several hundred acres. He was elected Lt. Governor in the election of 1886 and later became Governor on the death of Governor Bartlett in 1887 he served until 1891. Waterman became well known as owner of the Waterman Mine near Barstow. In 1881 the Waterman post office was opened in this mining town. It closed in 1887 preferring the Barstow post office which opened a year earlier. The canyon was home to the Club Oaks, later Camp Sophia. Club Oaks dates to the 1930s and provided dining, dancing, drinking and entertainment. There have been stories of the perhaps not-so-legal activities that took place there. Perhaps that is only folklore. Our local area includes five lakes: Lake Arrowhead, Lake Gregory, Green Valley Lake, Arrowbear Lake and Silverwood Lake. Recreational activities are abundant year-round. They include boating, fishing, hiking, swimming and both water and snow skiing. Click on images below to enlarge! |


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