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Monday, December 12, 2011
In Defense of Whining
I am personally a high-strung and fairly anxious person. Some of it is my upbringing, but some of it is my temperament. I think this trait of mine is also responsible for my drive at work -- I am not one to rest on my laurels, not even for a little bit -- but I can be quite exhausting in my personal life. I worry all the time, constantly trying to predict all the things that could go wrong. I think subconsciously I have this misconception that worrying is somehow supposed to protect against bad luck; it's stupid, I know rationally, but this powerful programming is very hard to get rid of. My mother always used to say "When everything in your life is great, put a pebble in your shoe to bother you." Apparently, I was brought up thinking that the state of contentment and happiness is unnatural and painfully transient; it is bound to end quickly and tragically, so one should be the most worried when everything is fine, because who knows what kind of horror comes next. I think this way of thinking is fairly common in my culture, and definitely marked my upbringing. As a result, I am one tense overachiever who worries all the time, about everything. Every time my baby sneezes, I envisions how two weeks down the road he will have yet another raging ear infection (I really wish I were more wrong about this one). Every time a grant gets rejected, I envision that I will never again in my life get another grant and my research program will die a slow and painful death.
Interestingly, my husband, who is the product of the same culture, is a calm, relaxed person who does not worry about anything. He says "You worry enough for both of us." He obviously did not grow up with my mother.
Now, while I am sure you find this gratuitous insight into my psyche fascinating and/or eyeroll-inducing, that's not where I was going with this post. In the comments to Cloud's post from a few weeks ago, which I somehow missed when it appeared, there was a conversation thread about how people, especially women, bitch and moan all the time and how it is rare for women to say that they themselves are awesome, that their lives, their families, their jobs are all perfect. And, yes, how they complain all the time and don't do anything about their problems.
I cannot say why other people bitch and moan on the internet, but I can certainly say why I do.
1) I don't have the impression, at least in the circles where I move in real life, that complaining is welcome or even tolerated. None of my colleagues complain, I am sure that none would want to listen to me complain, and if I did that would imply a weakness on my part. So in real life I have to have my $hit together at all times. The only people in real life who hear me complain are my poor husband, and on occasion my mother on the phone. My husband is wonderful but I think it's not fair for me to offload all of my many, many worries and paranoias on him. He's not a therapist and he cannot expend all of his energy on calming me down.
One of the reasons I blog to begin with is to offload the things that bother me. Getting used to being in control and calm all the time, as expected in this culture, took me quite a while, and I really miss the ability to vent and shoot shit with people in real life. I miss this ability to talk the ear off of someone, it was highly therapeutic for me. This option no longer exists in real life; I tried therapy for a couple of sessions, but I found it quite off-putting; I might talk about it more some other time. Anyway...
So I whine, rant, bitch, and complain in order to offload fatigue and frustration, and overall feel lighter and better. The negative stuff I write is exaggerated, but these exaggerated negative emotions are exactly what I need. That does not mean my life is bleak, on the contrary. In objective terms, my life is absolutely wonderful. Getting rid of the frustration helps me see more clearly how wonderful it really is. One of these days I may find enough time to exercise, so maybe I'll become more upbeat at that time. Or not.
2) Being a Chicken Little who constantly thinks the sky is falling, I have a deep-seated fear of admitting that everything is perfect. Admitting that my life is great, which it really is, fills me with dread. I knock on wood. I fear some terrible punishment will come upon me. For instance, I was a total nervous wreck my whole last pregnancy, because I couldn't shake the fear that I am asking for more than my fair share of happiness (by going for a 3rd baby) and that as a result something will go very wrong. This whole nervousness was exacerbated or even brought on by the miscarriage that preceded my last pregnancy (for long-term readers, that was the time when I shut the blog down for a while, after which it re-emerged at the new location). So the whole pregnancy was marked by a very uncomfortable fight between reason and my irrational terrors. It was not pleasant.
Bottom line is -- it may be very hard for some people to admit that everything is peachy, even if it is and even they really want to. You don't know what purpose bitching and moaning online serves for someone. If you don't like it, just move on. People's relationships with blogging can be casual or serious, torrid or made in heaven. And never assume that you know anything, not really, about a person from one or even a hundred of their blog posts. In real life, getting to know a person takes a lifetime. What makes anyone think it is possible to accomplish the same feat online in astronomically shorter times?
And, of course -- don't believe everything you read on the internet.
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- feMOMhist said...
some how I missed that post as well but just to add my 02 I BITCH on the internet about sh!t I can't say IRL, such as I really really hate being a mother sometimes, or even worse, I really really hate my kids right now (actually I lacked the guts for the latter and deleted before posting). So if you are brave enough the interwebs are a space to speak the unspeakable
- December 12, 2011 at 5:37 AM
- Alyssa said...
I do it for the same reasons - to offload some of my worries and frustrations, so DH doesn't have to deal with SO much of it.
- December 12, 2011 at 7:26 AM
Awesome post and so timely. I've been realizing that the thing that makes academia kind of unpleasant, exhausting, and stressful for me is the social part. I feel like I have to wear a freaking mask all the time. I'm a postdoc, and I feel this immense pressure to look totally competent, very confident, 110% dedicated, and often more interested in other people's research than I actually am (it's not that I can't be excited about other people's work--it's more that there's a lot of research where I don't care too much about the answer). And worrying about funding if I go for a TT job is a close second. I could see how the funding would breed a constant anxiety about what other people (who will be reviewing my grants and papers and planning private conferences) think of me.
"Getting used to being in control and calm all the time, as expected in this culture, took me quite a while, and I really miss the ability to vent and shoot shit with people in real life."
I totally understand. Sometimes I feel like I'm surrounded by people like your husband who just don't worry (so why should I?).
- December 12, 2011 at 10:42 AM
- Cloud said...
I hope you don't think that I was saying women shouldn't complain (either online or in real life)! Far from it. I vent on my blog a lot, too. And I agree with @FeMOMhist that the internet is a great place to say things that need to be said but that are too difficult to discuss openly in real life.
I just needed to balance some of what I'd been reading, and was really, really tired of having to defend myself anytime I said that my husband and I in fact split our household work roughly 50-50. For some reason, people won't take my word on that and are sure I must be deluded, to the point of looking at the more detailed earlier post and trying to find evidence that my husband was actually getting a free pass.
Now that, I do not understand. I am (amongst other things) a PROJECT MANAGER. I divide work up for a living. I am also reasonably good at math. I think I am capable of judging the fairness of the work split in my own household!
OK, sorry for that off topic rant.
- December 12, 2011 at 10:58 AM
- GMP said...
Hi Cloud, it wasn't anything you wrote in the post itself, but some of your commenters later in the thread that inspired the post. (FWIW, I completely believe that you share your workload equitably. The only thing that matters is that you both are happy with the division of labor and no one feels taken advantage of. Anyone else's opinion of how you divide labor is irrelevant -- although I know it can be quite maddening, as I have been a recipient of quite judgmental comments of how I should run things in my personal life too.)
Alyssa -- I hear you. I am very grateful for my wonderful, very patient husband.
feMOMhist: if you are brave enough the interwebs are a space to speak the unspeakable
Very true. Although, since I consistently use one pseudonym, I find that even so certain things become hard or impossible to say, because people envision you are a certain way and should or should not think/say/write certain things and you can get surprising blowback and lots of wasted time. Honestly, I think even pseudonymity may not be enough to shield a person willing to discuss the unspeakable. And often the unspeakable is exactly what needs to be spoken for things to move.
@Anon: Sometimes I feel like I'm surrounded by people like your husband who just don't worry (so why should I?).
Anon, this is spot on. I am reasonably well-established in my career yet I feel like this very often too! I think that, for women in science, this feeling is strongly coupled with the impostor syndrome. I am curious if there are academic men who worry a lot and feel the need to express it but can't because the culture does not encourage it and I wonder how they deal with it. The men I know well don't vent when frustrated; instead, they work on their pet garage projects and/or kill creatures on WoW.
- December 12, 2011 at 11:33 AM
"I think that, for women in science, this feeling is strongly coupled with the impostor syndrome."
Yes. The thought process goes "I'm worried, but no one else seems worried. That strongly implies they're more confident because they have a zillion great ideas and understand everything. Thus, I don't really belong here." I've been fighting this thinking for years and years, but a part of me is still convinced it's right.
- December 12, 2011 at 11:46 AM
I am curious if there are academic men who worry a lot and feel the need to express it but can't because the culture does not encourage it and I wonder how they deal with it. The men I know well don't vent when frustrated; instead, they work on their pet garage projects and/or kill creatures on WoW.
My wife hears a lot of rants from me when I get home from work. Usually related to how poorly-prepared my students are, or how lazy and unambitious my cow-orkers are.
- December 12, 2011 at 12:25 PM
Heh. Alex, now I worry you're ranting about people like me who aren't ambitious (110% committed) enough. :) I wonder how much of this stems from people's different tendencies to internalize/externalize stress. It's a fraught dynamic.
- December 12, 2011 at 12:38 PM
I don't care about their personal ambitions. I care that they try to actively impede efforts to raise standards (note that tenure standards are NEVER raised retroactively here) and that they are able to get a lot of resources for Mickey Mouse projects. If they don't want to do what I want to do, fine. If they want to get in the way of ambitious people, that's a problem.
- December 12, 2011 at 12:56 PM
- feMOMhist said...
umm am idiot did of course participate in the conversation chez cloud (sigh, early onset dementia? book writing induced fog? Lice ridden panic? who can say really?)
- December 12, 2011 at 1:48 PM
- inBetween said...
the funny thing that comes to mind for me reading this is that I don't think of your blog as whiny/complaining at all. In fact, I marvel at how together you are. Hmm. What does that say about how much I must whine?!? :)
- December 13, 2011 at 2:25 AM
- Dr. Shellie said...
Ha! Yes, yes to this post. I too am high-strung and anxious and must constantly work to manage it. I also fear that if I relax for a second and feel happy, I will overlook some sign of imminent ruin. Mindfulness meditation and exercise are both good for these.
- December 13, 2011 at 11:11 AM
- Dr. Sneetch said...
Very sorry to hear about your miscarriage and many good wishes for you and your family.
Kvetching among friends is cheaper than therapy and just as effective. My mom was rather relaxed and didn't worry much. My good friend's mom was the opposite. My friend and I have adopted each other's mother's habits. She doesn't worry much, I worry a lot. Naturally, spouse doesn't worry because he's got someone to take care of crap when it happens.
Some of the worry has to do with being an immigrant and knowing I'm on my own entirely. Spouse doesn't have a good relationship with his parents so he's on his own too (except he has me to rely on).
What I've noticed is that some people lead charmed lives and have few or no bad experiences. More often than not, it is just random luck (although you can do things to increase your chances of good luck). It is hard to think about the randomness in our lives. The hope is that those whose kids rarely fall ill understand how lucky they are. Those who blame the unlucky parents whose kids frequently fall ill for causing it. are best avoided because nothing you say will change their minds.
So here's to a good glass of whine.
- December 14, 2011 at 8:31 AM
- GMP said...
Thanks, everyone!
Kvetching -- new favorite word. :-)
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I don't know what's the first thing you do when you get to Puerto Vallarta, but when I was a tourist, as soon as my bags were dropped off I headed straight for the Malecon, the place to see and be seen and to get into the playful spirit of this holiday destination.
And to this day, decades later, I can still count on this delightfully quirky, 11-block-long seaside promenade to lift my spirits, the shimmering ocean on one side relaxing me, fabulous shops, restaurants and bars on the other offering all the excitement I could want.
Creative types gravitate to it, too, which means quality art forms to discover, both spontaneous and permanent. The international and ever-changing cast of characters here gets to enjoy everything from art exhibitions and music, dance, theater and mime performances to interacting with an eclectic assortment of monumental public art.
So, you can't really say you've been to Puerto Vallarta unless you've experienced the Malecon and all it offers. And when Hurricane Kenna put it and several of its beloved sculptures out of commission back in October 2002, it was a huge loss for us all. Happily, it was just for a few, but seemingly interminable, months, this important Vallarta landmark reconstructed at a feverish pace.
And today, it's better than ever, more handicap friendly with ramps and wider in the appropriate places, with a smoother surface and more planter ledges for perching on when pausing to soak it all in. And now that it's linked by a new pedestrian bridge to the Los Muertos walkway, in effect the Malecon extends all the way from the Hotel Rosita at its north end to the South Side's La Palapa restaurant.
Until 1984, "Meet you at the sculpture at eight" was a perfectly acceptable rendezvous arrangement, The Seahorse being the only sculpture the Malecon had. Today, it's punctuated by nine beguiling and permanent installations, people pondering over them, posing with them and sometimes taking advantage of the shade this al fresco gallery provides.
We now have a new set of arches, known as Los Arcos, at the Aquiles Serdan outdoor amphitheater across from the Main Plaza, where lively public performances are held many an evening against this distinctive backdrop. Recognized around the world as a symbol of this destination, the original four arches had been salvaged from a historic hacienda, while Martin Distancia Barragan created their replacements in Zapopan canterra stone.
Just north of Los Arcos is the Friendship Fountain, a gift from Sister City Santa Barbara in 1987 and a replica of the one in that city, which is dramatically similar to Puerto Vallarta in terms of its topography, lush mountains cascading to the Pacific. California sculptor James "Bud" Bottoms created the dolphin trio to represent the two cities and the friendship uniting them, one marine mammal looking at the city, another at the sea and the third up at the sky. A legend California's Chumash Indians tell is that when some of them were shipwrecked, they were turned into dolphins so they wouldn't drown.
You'll next encounter Neptune and the Nereid, the Roman god of the sea and a mythical sea nymph. On the Malecon since 1990, these half-fish, half-human characters are the expression of sculptor C. Espino.
The Seahorse, a nine-foot-high bronze statue featuring a boy riding it, is arguably Vallarta's most-recognized symbol and has the most complex history. Almost a decade before Rafael Zamarripa's work became the first sculpture on the Malecon back in 1976, its identical twin stood at the south end of Los Muertos Beach. But due to the relentless force of people climbing on it and high waves and strong winds, it eventually toppled and was lost to the sea. Then, years after its doppelganger was installed on the downtown Malecon, the original mysteriously reappeared, only to be lost again in Kenna, re-found and then reinstalled yet again.
In Search of Reason by Guadalajara artist Sergio Bustamante inspires more questioning and climbing than any other piece. In fact, when installed in 1999 in honor of the millennium, citizens were so concerned that its 30-foot height was a potential danger to those who might scale it that they marched on City Hall. But six years later, people still can't resist following the two defiant pillow-headed kids up the ladder to nowhere, while mom seems to scream out, "Get back down here! And I mean now!" People always ask why the kids are climbing the ladder. Not getting an answer from the sculptor himself after repeated requests, I suddenly realized that the question itself is the answer. During the hurricane, mom was swept away, but the story ends on a high note. Although she was found in beach rubble by some unscrupulous characters who tried to sell her for scrap, when the would-be buyer recognized her he called the police, she was rescued and now she's back where she belongs.
The Rotunda on the Sea by visionary Guadalajara native Alejandro Colunga is quite different now than it was when installed in 1997. Originally an ensemble of 16 large and small fantastical sea-inspired creatures inside of, and spilling out of, a small roundabout, it now consists of seven major pieces contained within a bigger and more heavily reinforced rotunda with good night lighting. This bizarre-looking installation, the last to be reinstalled after the hurricane, attracts as much curiosity now as ever.
Nature As Mother, by Guadalajara native Adrian Reynoso, depicts a spiraling wave on a snail, representing the life and death cycle. In a unique combination of bronze and experimental polymer resins, this sculpture has such a soothing ease and flow to it that children are often seen snuggling into its nurturing embrace.
La Nostalgia is said to grant long, happy marriages to couples that visit it. Vallarta sculptor Ramiz Barquet's own love story inspired the piece as a tribute to the woman he long loved, lost and later married. Both now in their 80s, their romance is in full bloom to this day. There must be lots of honeymooners here, because its lap has been worn shiny by the lovers hopping onto it since 1984.
And The Millenium, at the north end of the Malecon beside the Hotel Rosita, is the most recent addition, installed in 2001. The inspiration of Mathis Lidice, it symbolizes the passage of time in a spiraling ascendancy representing man's evolution, from the first living creatures emerging from the sea to the Christian era. Although it remained intact during Kenna, its unorthodox shape caused one visitor to exclaim upon seeing it, "My god, George. Look what the hurricane did!"


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Day laborers' children battled to capture bishops, kings and pawns at chess competitions held with Franciscan Friars at a family day celebration on May 19th. For the first time ever, St. Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers opened its doors to Obreros Unidos and their families on Pentecost Sunday. City of Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano joined in the festivities.
The Catholic Charities-sponsored Family Day brought together more than 150 local day-laborer family members with seminarians, friars and Catholic Charities staff. It was part of Catholic Charities' ongoing involvement with Obreros Unidos De Yonkers, a group of approximately 300 day laborers in the Yonkers area.
Through this program, Catholic Charities educates workers on employment rights and responsibilities to prevent exploitation and abuse. Catholic Charities also assists in the collection of unpaid wages, helps workers get access to healthcare services, provides emergency food, and offers English language and computer skills instruction.
The midday event began with Pentecost Sunday mass to celebrate the gift of the Holy Spirit. Next, at an indoor picnic pulled together in response to the pouring rain outdoors, participants feasted on tacos, churros and flan. Then they partied together as they faced off at chess matches, danced in Zumba exercise classes, painted faces and dabbled with arts and crafts.
Check out our Facebook page for more photos of the event.
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Thursday, February 24, 2011
Guest Spot
And if you're not up for making one of these yourself, you can still have this pillow for your very own. My version is for now for sale through Quilt Hope In's etsy store. One hundred percent of the proceeds will go to help women and children in Haiti. So you can brighten your day with a quilted sun, and brighten their day with some much needed medical help and education. Can't beat that.
Edited to add: I'm entering this in the Blogger's Pillow Party for March. Fun!
16 comments:
- Elizabeth D. said...
Yay!!! I love this pillow, it is so darn cute and cheery! Great tutorial, for sure :)
- February 24, 2011 at 8:51 AM
- Marjorie's Busy Corner said...
nice pillow..good luck with the tutorial
- February 24, 2011 at 9:25 AM
- Becky said...
oooh, very pretty pillow! sigh, another for my to-do list! HAHA!
- February 24, 2011 at 10:09 AM
- CityHouseStudio said...
This is so CUTE!
My little girls would love this.
What a creative, cheery pillow!
- February 24, 2011 at 10:20 AM
- felicity said...
Absolutely aDORable! Hopping on over to check out your tute. Congrats on the guest spot!
- February 24, 2011 at 10:59 AM
- AnneMarie said...
Great job Lee! Turned out beautifully!
- February 24, 2011 at 2:31 PM
- Katie B. said...
Very nice! Congrats on the guest post. I'm heading over to check it out now!
- February 24, 2011 at 3:04 PM
- Ali said...
I'm loving this pillow! I might "steal" the design for one of my clocks.
- February 24, 2011 at 3:09 PM
- QuiltyGirl said...
Love the pillow! And congrats on the guest spot. :)
- February 24, 2011 at 5:33 PM
- Leila said...
Love it! I just picked up some more Meadowsweet this week - can't get enough.
- February 24, 2011 at 6:39 PM
- Emalee said...
Loved the wonky sun and it's great that you can help some people in need by selling them.
- February 24, 2011 at 7:05 PM
- Megan said...
Yay! So exciting! :)
- February 24, 2011 at 7:50 PM
- Jerimi said...
A gorgeous pillow and a great cause? That's hard to beat. Thanks for sharing!
- February 25, 2011 at 12:19 PM
- that ninch said...
How very fun and cheerful that is!
- March 1, 2011 at 5:26 AM
- Megan Johnson said...
I came across this on Pinterest, but I can't figure out where the tutorial is on the other site. I love this and would like to make this for my daughter!
- January 28, 2014 at 3:02 PM
- Lee said...
Hi Megan - I found the post and I've updated the links accordingly. Unfortunately it looks like all the photos are missing from the post. I've emailed someone at Fat Quarterly to see if they can fix it. I'll keep you posted!
- January 28, 2014 at 3:42 PM


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ZF-6536: Docs and code don't match - autoloader warning suppression
Copy paste from article on devzone: Allow toggling error suppression. We feel -- and the greater PHP community does as well -- that error suppression is a bad idea. It's expensive, and it masks very real application problems. So, by default, we want it off. However, if a developer insists that it be on, we should allow toggling it on.
Copy paste from docs: By default, Zend_Loader_Autoloader does no error suppression when using its internal autoloader, which utilizes Zend_Loader::loadClass(). Most of the time, this is exactly what you want. However, there may be cases where you want to suppress them. You can do this using suppressNotFoundWarnings():
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Thank you for the report; I'm already aware of the issue and have it marked as a todo for 1.8.1.
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I am building a transmission for use in a 45" racer, i would like to use the 41 & later 3 bolt case and the early style or WR type clutch, i am aware H-D made a special 14T main drive gear for the 41 & later trans with the WR clutch, but these are either not available or to expensive.
I have a 1938 45" transmission, can i take the gear set from this trans and with machine work etc fit this into the 41 & later case, i see the length difference in the main and counter shafts as i have a 41 trans to compare with.
Looks like a sleeve could be made to fit the early style main drive gear case race into the 41 & later case.
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May 22, 2013
2013 Meet Notes - NCAA Prelims | NCAA West Prelim Heat Sheets/Entry Lists | LIVE RESULTS | LIVE BLOG
AUSTIN, Texas - The Arizona State University men's and No. 9 women's track and field team will open up the first rounds of NCAA Championships this weekend as the squad heads to Austin, Texas, for the NCAA West Preliminaries at Mike A. Myers Stadium. The Sun Devils will be in action beginning Thursday, May 23 and continuing through Saturday, May 25 with events running over the course of the day on all three days. The NCAA Preliminaries are, in essence, the qualifying or advancement rounds for the NCAA Championships, which are set to take place in Eugene, Ore., beginning June 5.
The top 48 student-athletes per event per region (East and West) advance to the NCAA Preliminaries where the fields will face off in an elimination format until only 12 student-athletes per event in each region are remaining. Those 24 final student -athletes will converge in Eugene for the NCAA Finals. The lone exception to the rule is the relay events, where only the top 24 relays per region have advanced to the preliminaries with 12 eventually advancing to the finals.
• The Sun Devil track team returns four first-team outdoor All-Americans (Jordan Clarke, Derick Hinch, Anna Jelmini, Christabel Nettey) and two second-team All-Americans (Clarke and Bryan McBride)
• The ASU women finished in the top 10 at the indoor championships for the first time since 2009 while the men posted a top-25 finish for the eighth time in the last 10 years
• The Arizona State women currently have three student-athletes ranked No. 1 in the country in their respective events: Christabel Nettey (long jump), Anna Jelmini (discus) and Chelsea Cassulo (hammer)
• Two of ASU's longest-standing school records were dropped this past season at the Sun Angel Classic, with Christabel Nettey knocking off Jacinta Bartholomew's 24-year old school record in the long jump and Shelby Houlihan taking the reins in the 1,500-meter run after unseeding Priscilla Hein's 14-year old record as well.
• Chelsea Cassulo set the NCAA Dual Meet hammer throw record with her winning mark of 69.52m (228-01) at the Double Dual. She set the eighth-best throw in NCAA history earlier this season
• Cassulo, Nettey and Ryan Herson (5k) have all been named Pac-12 Athletes of the Week with their performances this season
• Chelsea Cassulo (hammer) and Christabel Nettey (long jump) each broke conference championship records at the Pac-12 Championships two weekends ago in their winning performances
• In finishing third overall, the ASU women have been in the top-three at the conference championships in eight of the last nine seasons (since 2005). No other school can lay such a claim.
• On the men's side following the team's fourth-place at the Pac-12 Championships, the Sun Devils have been a top-four team in 11 of the last 14 seasons (since 2000). Only USC and Oregon (both 12 of 14) have a better track record in that time.
The meet will also be streamed live via CBSSports.com all three days. Links to the live stream will be available on TexasSports.com. Live results will be available through http://www.texassports.com/livestats/c-track/. Additionally, the Sun Devil media relations staff will be maintaining a running live blog through the entirety of the weekend's competition that will be available on the Track and Field page at www.TheSunDevils.com beginning Thursday morning.
A LOOK BACK: Pac-12 CHAMPIONSHIPS
The No. 9 Arizona State University women's track and field team finished third overall at the 2013 Pac-12 Track and Field Championships in Los Angeles while the men took fourth overall with 94 points and were just 4.5 points out of third. The women scored 110.33 points and were just 13 points out of second. ASU won seven individual championships and one relay title over the course of the competition. Only Oregon had more titles over the course of the weekend. Keia Pinnick was named the Pac-12 Women's Athlete of the Meet while Nick Happe was named the Scholar-Athlete of the Year for Men's Track and Field. A complete list of milestones completed on the weekend can be found here: http://pitchforkposts.tumblr.com/post/50525354446/what-a-weekend-asu-t-f-pac-12-championship-recap
The Sun Devil contingent qualified 15 entries toward the NCAA Finals at the NCAA West Prelims in Austin, Texas last year.(Jordan Clarke (hammer/shot put), Chris Benard (long jump/triple jump), Anna Jelmini (discus/shot put) and Keia Pinnick (heptathlon/4x100m/4x400m) all advanced in multiple events last season. Clarke, Jelmini and Pinnick all return this season though Clarke is only entered in the shot put this year. The team advanced three of the four relay squads last season as well with both the 4x100m and 4x400m advancing for the women while the men's 4x400-meter advanced as well.
Over the past 11 years, David Dumble has continued to bring in top talent and build the throws program at Arizona State, which has collected 15 total national titles. ASU continues to build on that legacy as(Jordan Clarke successfully defending his indoor title in the shot put and has now won four straight NCAA Championships in the event. During the 2013 indoor season, Arizona State was the only program at the Division I level to have four athletes ranked in the top-26 nationally in all four different throwing events. The outdoor season has been strong for ASU as well with Chelsea Cassulo the current NCAA leader in the hammer throw while Anna Jelmini leads the country in the discus while four-time defending NCAA Champion(Jordan Clarke sits fifth in the shot put. All three won their respective events at the Pac-12 Championships. Of ASU's total of 40 entries at this weekend's regional meet, nine are entered in the throwing events. Joe Riccio (shot put/hammer) and Alex Hartig (javelin/discus) are two of several Sun Devil athletes entered in two events this weekend.
Jordan Clarke is primed to make history this season and could do some that not even ASU legend Ryan Whiting could do. Clarke has a chance to win five consecutive NCAA shot put titles by the conclusion of his senior year. The reigning NCAA Champion indoors and outdoors, Clarke won his fourth-straight NCAA title at the NCAA Indoor Championships with a mark of 20.50m (67-03.25) and now sets his sights on a third-straight outdoor title. Should Clarke win out this year, he would become just the second individual in NCAA history to win five consecutive NCAA titles in the shot put. Only Kansas' Karl Salb, who won every shot put title from 1969 to 1971, would have a better a record after winning six titles during his tenure as a Jayhawk. Clarke won his third conference shot put title at the Pac-12 Championships, a feat that put him in an elite class in the conference record books as there had only been three three-time shot put champions in Pac-10/12 history and none have achieved the feat since Olympian John Godina did it for UCLA from 1993-95. He enters the weekend ranked fifth in the country with his Pac-12 winning mark of 19.35m (63-06.00).
Junior Anna Jelmini became a three-time All-American in the shot put indoors with her fifth-place finish in the event at the NCAA Indoor Championships . With the effort, Jelmini opened the door to match Sarah Stevens as the lone Sun Devil in school history with four straight first-team All-America honors. She is the two-time defending NCAA runner-up and now three-time defending Pac-12 Champion in the discus throw. Jelmini set a new career-best in a Sun Devil uniform at the Mesa Classic this past weekend with a mark of 60.61m (198-10). The throw was the 10th-best in NCAA history and garnered Jelmini recognition on the Watch List for the Bowerman award, given annually to the top male and female track and field athletes at the NCAA level. Jelmini won her third-consecutive Pac-12 title in the event earlier, a feat had only been accomplished once before in conference history. Former UCLA standout Dawn Dumble won four titles as a Bruin (1991-93, '95) - the only athlete in conference history to accomplish the feat in the event. Dawn is the sister of David Dumble, Jelmini's coach and the coach of the throws team at Arizona State. She also happened to be Jelmini's first throws coach. As if that weren't all impressive enough, Jelimini is also ranked 13th nationally in the shot put.
Chelsea Cassulo is fast-becoming one of the best transfer pick-ups in recent history for the Sun Devils. The former UNLV standout finished fourth in the weight throw at the NCAA Indoor Championships with a mark of 21.23m (69-08.00) - the third-best mark in ASU history. Oddly enough, that's not even her best event. Cassulo was named the USTFCCCA Field Athlete of the Week following the ASU Invite after set ting a new school record in the hammer throw with a mark of 69.80m (229-00). The throw was the eighth-best individual throw in NCAA history and the 15th-best throw ever at the NCAA Division I level. Cassulo followed the performance with three throws over 68 meters at the Sun Angel Classic, finishing second only to Olympian Jessica Cosby. Cassulo went on to set the NCAA Dual Meet record in the hammer throw at the Double Dual with her winning mark of 69.52m (228-01) and then set the Pac-12 Championship meet record with her winning throw of 68.00m (223-01), knocking off former USC standout Eva Orban's previous best from 2006.
One of the key pieces to the Arizona State women's effort this season has been senior Christabel Nettey. Nettey was an absolute monster at the MPSF Championships, winning all three events she was entered in and scoring 30 points toward the team cause and earning herself MPSF Athlete of the Meet honors. She set the school indoor long jump record with a mark of 6.55m (21-06.00) and a runner-up effort at the indoor championships. The mark was actually equivalent to the winning jump but Nettey had to settle for second in the tiebreaking process. Nettey came out guns blazing in her 2013 outdoor long jump opener at the Sun Angel Classic, which featured a rematch against Geubelle, as she set the nation's leading mark in a winning performance with two leaps of 6.75m (22-01.75). The performance knocked off Jacinta Bartholomew's 24-year-old school record in the event, matched a Sun Angel Stadium venue record and was the third-best jump in the history of the Pac-12 Conference. Nettey was named the Pac-12 Women's Field Athlete of the Week for the Performance and currently remains first in the nation in the event and is undefeated outdoors this season. Nettey won her second career Pac-12 long jump title and gave ASU three straight and did so by knocking off one of the longest-standing records in the conference as she downed Gail Devers' 1987 long jump record with her winning leap of 6.68m (21-11.00).
Shelby Houlihan introduced herself to the world last season as she became the first student-athlete in Pac-12 history to sweep the cross country and track and field Newcomer of the Year awards. Houlihan locked up the school record in the indoor 800-meter run this season, earning second-team All-America honor as well while also taking the MPSF title in the mile (where she also owns the school record). Houlihan absolutely obliterated the previous school record in the 1,500-meter run at the Sun Angel Classic, clocking a time of 4:13.64 that was three-and-a-half seconds better than Priscilla Hein's former 1999 school record. The time ranks ninth in the nation. She would go one to lead from wire-to-wire at the Pac-12 Championships with a time of 4:14.84 to take down a field that included no fewer than five former All-American seniors – including the two-time defending Pac-12 Champion, Jordan Hasay of Oregon. In doing so, she became the first Sun Devil to win a Pac-10/12 title in the event since Kim Toney did it in back-to-back years in 1993 and 1994. She backed that up with a phenomenal runner-up finish at 5,000-meter - her first ever collegiate track race at the distance - in 16:15.85 and the eighth-fastest time in school history. Houlihan will only compete at 1,500 meters this weekend.
Senior Keia Pinnick nearly gave ASU two NCAA Champions following the NCAA Indoor Championships, staging a huge comeback over the final two events of the pentathlon to challenge for the title. Pinnick came up just shy, but set a new career best of 4,327 points in the process while breaking school pentathlon records in the 60-meter hurdles, long jump and 800 meters - all marks previous held by Olympian and former NCAA record-holder Jacquelyn Johnson. Pinnick set a new career best at the Pac-12 Multis last weekend in the heptathlon with a score of 5,801 to win the competition and with that, her first career Pac-12 title. The score ranks third nationally and gave ASU its fifth conference champion in the last decade in the event. Pinnick would come back to take third in a career best 13.17 in the 100-meter hurdles and fourth in the 400-meter hurdles at the Pac-12 Championships. She then helped the women's 4x400-meter relay to the ninth-fastest time in school history in 3:32.53 in a runner-up finish for a complete effort that garnered her the Pac-12 Female Athlete of the Meet honor. Pinnick will only compete in the long jump and relays this weekend, having already sealed her spot in the heptathlon.
Before the 2012 season, head coach Greg Kraft believe that one of the team's dark horses this season could be incoming vaulter Derick Hinch, a transfer from Cuesta College. Hinch went on to take third at the NCAA Outdoor Championships, becoming just the second Sun Devil to ever clear 18 feet and doing it twice on the season. He became just the second Sun Devil in indoor history to clear 18 feet indoors behind Olympian Nick Hysong with a season's best of 5.50m (18-00.50) this year, earning All-America honors with a sixth-place finish indoors. He is currently ranked 23rd nationally outdoors in the event. Hinch had one of the more exciting finishes at this competition last season, needing a jump-off to advance to the NCAA Finals in Des Moines, where he would go on to take third.
In winning the men's 4x100-meter relay for the second consecutive season at the Pac-12 Championships, the Sun Devils became the first team to do so since UCLA in 2009 and 2010 and just the seventh team in Pac-12 history to repeat as champions. With the win, the Sun Devils continued to exact their dominance in the men's relays since 2000. The victory was ASU's 12th relay victory since the turn of the millennium, more than any school in the conference. USC is second on that list with nine. The men will enter as the fifth-seed in the 4x100 and eighth seed in the 4x400 this weekend. The women's runner-up finish of 3:32.53 at the Pac-12 Championships was the fastest relay time since 2009.
Nick Happe got the 2012-13 season off to a good start, earning All-Conference and All-Region honors during the cross country season while also being named the Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year. Not only is he getting it done in the classroom, but the senior logged his second indoor school record at the Husky Classic with his time of 7:52.18 at 3,000 meters to finish sixth overall in the event and third in his heat behind two 2012 Olympians. Happe clocked a blistering time of 3:42.78 at the Sun Angel Classic for the fourth-fastest 1,500m time in ASU history went on to take sixth in the event at the Pac-12 Championships. He backed that up by running a fantastic final mile in the men's 5,000-meter run to claim his first-ever Pac-12 Championships just hours after being named the Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the year for Track and Field. He will be entered in both the 1,500 and 5,000 this weekend.
Darius Terry became the first Sun Devil in the program's history to earn an All-America honor at 1,500 meters, doing so at the NCAA Championships two years ago. Following a redshirt season last year, Terry is looking for a repeat of that performance and has the marks to back it up. Terry posted a strong run at the Sun Angel Classic last month in a blistering race that saw Nick Happe post the fourth-fastest time in ASU history. Terry nabbed that spot away from him at the Double Dual, however, pushing multiple-time NCAA Champion Lawi Lalang to the brink in a runner-up effort that saw Terry clock a time of 3:42.34. Terry took seventh in the event at the Pac-12 Championships and will compete in it this weekend.
The Arizona State men's sprints program has been a force through the past decade and junior Ryan Milus has played a big part in that. The junior was a monster at the annual Double Dual meet, sweeping the 100 and 200-meter sprints and winning the 100 in a career-best time of 10.19 that ranks third in ASU history. Milus also anchored the 4x100-meter relay to a season's best time of 39.40 that currently ranks ninth in the country. Milus took third at 100 meters and fourth at 200 meters at the Pac-12 Champions while anchoring the men's quarter-mile relay to a dominating victory in 39.41.
One of the most impressive improvements from a freshman to sophomore this season has been the rise of Brianna Tate. The quarter-miler clocked a new career-best of 52.65 at the Double Dual, a time that currently ranks 10th in school history. Additionally, Tate runs the anchor leg for the women's mile relay, which currently sits 12th in the nation following the team's runner-up finish at the Pac-12 Championships in 3:32.53. Tate also went on to take fourth in the open 400-meter dash in that event.
The Sun Devils have produced some pretty good steeplechasers over the past decade and it looks like redshirt freshman Garrett Baker-Slama wants to be the next on of those. Having only started running during his senior year of college, the youngster broke through at the Pac-12 Championships with a huge PR in 8:51.34 to take fifth overall. It was the seventh fastest time in the school history and the 17th-best mark in the West Prelims this weekend.
One of the biggest surprises of the season may have been the addition of Devan Spann to the roster. One part of the surprise was the fact that he was originally a member of the football team that landed with track after suffering an injury-plagued couple of years. The bigger surprise may be how well the sophomore has performed. Spann was crucial in the sprints this season, going sub-21 and sub-10.50 on the track despite not having run in over two years. He has also been a vital cog to the team's effort in the relays, helping the team to a top-10 ranking in the 4x100 and top-20 ranking in the 4x400.
ASU's most well-represented single event this weekend comes in the pole vault. The Sun Devils qualified two men and two women to the NCAA Prelim field. Derick Hinch returns as a two-time All-American and brings along Dylan Austin on the men's side, who was fourth at the Pac-12 Championships. Shaylah Simpson returns to this meet on the women's side while former high school teammate Heather Arseneau transferred to the Sun Devils from San Diego State this year and has been one of the top pickups of the season, taking seventh at the Pac-12 Championships.
During the indoor campaign, 20 student-athletes set 26 marks that improved upon or moved into the top-10 in ASU history. ASU is right back on track with that during the 2013 outdoor season as 20 athletes have set 26 marks that moved into or improved upon marks held on ASU's top-10 list in their respective events. The list includes Amber Pasternak (pole vault), Nick Happe (1,500m), Ryan Herson (5,000m/10,000m), Garrett Baker-Slama (3,000m Steeple),>Darius Terry (1,500m), Shelby Houlihan (1,500m/5,000m), Ke'Nya Hardge (400mH) and Brianna Tate (400m) all making their debuts on the top-10 list while Alex Hartig (javelin), Keia Pinnick (heptathlon/100mH/400mH), Christabel Nettey (long jump/100mH), Anna Jelmini (discus),(Jordan Clarke (discus/hammer) and Ryan Milus (100m) all improved upon marks already held on the list.


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Grafting Fruit Trees (page 3 of 3)
by Nan Sterman
Pruning and Pest Control
When we grafted, we covered our grafts with small paper bags to protect them from excessive sunlight. We checked them frequently to remove earwigs, sowbugs, and other critters that could eat new growth. We also pruned branches of the mother tree back by about 65 percent so that the tree would direct food energy into the newly grafted branches. We pinched flower buds from the new grafts to encourage strong, healthy branches rather than fruit the first spring. After that, we allowed the previous year's grafts to flower and fruit while we grafted even more varieties. Because some varieties grow more vigorously than others, long-term care includes additional careful pruning so that one or two varieties don't dominate a single tree.
If you have the patience and a sense of adventure, why not give grafting a try in the garden this year.
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Frequently asked questions about data licensing
1. Why is OCLC recommending an open data license for its members?
Many libraries are now examining ways that they can make their bibliographic records available, for free, on the Internet, so that they can be reused and more fully integrated into the broader Web environment. Libraries may want to release catalog data as linked data, as MARC21 or as MARCXML. For an OCLC member institution, these records may often contain data derived from WorldCat. Coupled with a reference to the community norms articulated in WorldCat Rights and Responsibilities, the ODC-BY license provides a good way to share records that is consistent with the cooperative nature of OCLC cataloging.
Best practices in the Web environment include making data available along with a license that clearly sets out the terms under which the data is being made available. Without such a license, users can never be sure of their rights to use the data, which can impede innovation.
The VIAF project and the recent addition of Schema.org linked data to WorldCat.org records were both made available under the ODC-BY license. After much research and discussion, it was clear that ODC-BY was the best choice of license for many OCLC data services. The recommendation for members to also adopt this clear and consistent approach to the open licensing of shared data, derived from WorldCat, flowed from this experience.
An OCLC staff group, aided by an external open data licensing expert, conducted a structured investigation of available licensing alternatives to provide OCLC member institutions with guidance. Before this recommendation was adopted, OCLC Global Council considered the conclusions of the OCLC staff group and approved this direction, as did the OCLC Board of Trustees.
2. How does the ODC-BY license relate to the WorldCat Rights and Responsibilities (WCRR)?
The WCRR document was the result of a consultative process led by OCLC member institutions and ratified by our Global Council and the OCLC Board of Trustees. The WCRR reflects the understanding of the stakeholders in WorldCat on how they'd like to see WorldCat sustained.
In line with the WCRR, OCLC's current recommendation to OCLC members thinking about releasing their catalogs containing WorldCat-derived records is that they consider using an Open Data Commons Attribution license (ODC-BY). The ODC-BY license requires attribution of OCLC, WorldCat and the member institution should they require it. OCLC recommends that members use ODC-BY coupled with a statement that the use and transfer of the WorldCat-derived records in the released database (i.e., the catalog) should comply with WCRR.
Use of an ODC-BY license coupled with a statement that use of WorldCat-derived records in the released catalog as described above is consistent with the obligations set forth in WCRR.
3. Why is OCLC asking for attribution for WorldCat records?
OCLC members believe that attribution of WorldCat and OCLC helps keep WorldCat as a sustainable resource for both OCLC members and the general public in line with the WorldCat Rights and Responsibilities document.
WorldCat represents a significant investment of time and resources both from OCLC and from each of its member institutions that contribute records. The WorldCat community depends on members to demonstrate the value of WorldCat to the institutions in the OCLC cooperative by attributing WorldCat as the source. By attributing WorldCat or citing WorldCat in applications, websites, news stories, articles and research reports, members can directly impact the cooperative's ability to continue providing data to the community.
4. Why is an open license for WorldCat data recommended?
Open source software licensing and open content licenses have made great strides in developing stable, useful software and rich content available for the general public. The goal of open data is to bring this established approach of open licensing to data.
A key feature of these approaches is that the work should be available for further use by the public without the need to seek further permission from the rights holder. The rights holder up front gives the world a license to use their work. This is important as negotiating individual licenses can waste resources (for both the rights holder and the user), especially when the rights holder would like to share their information but has no easy way of doing so.
5. Why is there "the database versus contents" distinction?
Often when people talk about data they mean only factual information—water boils at 100 Celsius, for example. But in the context of data licensing, the contents of a database can be anything, including:
- Mobile video;
- Images, such as photos from Flickr;
- Text documents, such as Microsoft Word .doc files; or
- Factual information, such as dates or budget numbers.
Anything that can be stored in a database can be "data" in this context. It can be helpful to distinguish between the "contents of a database" and "the database." This is the data/database distinction, and from a legal perspective it means that there may be legal rights specific to the contents of a database (the data, because it can be anything). Also, any collection of contents (the database and potentially even an XML file) may have legal rights covering that collection that are independent of the rights over individual contents within the collection.
For example, if you had a database of still images and video of science fiction movies from the 1960s and 1970s, you may have rights, including for your selection and arrangement of the sci-fi films, over the database as a whole. And you would still have to clear the rights (such as copyright) over the images and video you included inside your database.
One rights layer might exist over the contents (records in the library use case) and another rights layer over the database—the compilation, field names, schema and other aspects of the database apart from the records.
This is the reason why more than one license might be necessary to cover both the database and the contents.
6. Can "attribution stacking" be a problem with requiring attribution?
Often the question will come up when recommending an attribution license as to whether a public domain approach is preferable due to the "attribution stacking problem." The argument is that since database contributions can come from a large number of people, giving credit doesn't scale. For example, one may have a database of a million records, with those million records from a million different sources. The thought is that implementing attribution requirements could be difficult and expensive (in terms of file size, bandwidth, time to manage, etc.); public domain approaches are often put forward as a solution as they would not require attribution at all (nor any other license compliance terms).
It's important to note that attribution stacking problems don't go away even with public domain for a database, if the contents are all under different licenses (Flickr photos, music, etc).
In the case of attribution of a database, any accumulation of attributions will occur outside of the individual information objects within the database. A service or database built from many sources that require attribution might need to have a separate Web page listing the sources and the required form of attribution that can be pointed at by others.
7. Do I have to remove OCLC control numbers (OCNs) when sharing bibliographic records with partners?
No. It is in the interest of libraries and the Cooperative for OCLC control numbers to be widely disseminated. Therefore, you don't need to remove OCNs when exposing or exchanging bibliographic data with partners.
8. If we can treat OCNs as if they are in the public domain, why doesn't OCLC explicitly make them public domain?
The OCN is an individual bibliographic element, and OCLC doesn't make any copyright claims either way on specific data elements. The OCN can be used by other institutions in ways that, at an aggregate level, may have varying copyright assertions. Making a positive, specific claim that the OCN is in the public domain might interfere with the copyrights of others in those situations.


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Based upon job analysis standards and state-of-the-art test construction, the CCA designation has been a nationally accepted standard of achievement in the health information management (HIM) field since 2002. More than 8,000 people have attained the certification since inception. The CCA, the CCS and the CCS-P are the only coding credentials worldwide currently accredited by the National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA).
The CCA credential distinguishes coders by exhibiting commitment and demonstrating coding competencies across all settings, including both hospitals and physician practices. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates a shortage of more than 50,000 qualified HIM and HIT workers by 2015. Becoming a CCA positions you as a leader in an exciting and growing market. CCAs:
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Ramadan, the Muslim holy month of fasting, and Eid Al-Fitr, which marks the fast's end, are sacred times for millions throughout the world. Celebrate Ramadan and Eid Al-Fitr examines the reasons for the month-long dawn-to-dusk fast and observes some of the wide variety of celebrations at the end of the fast worldwide.
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A research team from the University College London (UCL), Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), and Royal Free Hospital is partnering with the regenerative medicine-focused center Cell Therapy Catapult to develop a tissue repair product for babies with esophageal atresia, or esophagi that haven't developed properly. The organizations involved in this project believe this research will lead to the first trial of a tissue-engineered esophageal replacement in infants, one that is designed to grow as they grow.
The project is based on the work of UCL, GOSH, Royal Free Hospital and University College London Hospital. The team plans to use the research gleaned from previous studies to develop replacement esophagi using stem and other types of cells taken from amniotic fluid, which can be grown on a donor scaffold to create a new organ. The researchers hope to have the first prototype ready for clinical testing in 2016.
The Cell Therapy Catapult will be managing the project and providing input with regard to nonclinical, clinical, and regulatory issues. Funding for the project is being provided by the UK Stem Cell Foundation (UKSCF), making this the first joint project the Cell Therapy Catapult has made with UKSCF. The project is also receiving support from UCL Business PLC.
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Rated 5 out of 5 by Cookiemonster Pumpkin Spice Cookie Mix This mix is great tasting, makes excellent cookies with just the right texture. My family loves them, I bought 9 boxes on sale at a WM store, then another 12 boxes online. We're stocked up for awhile. Hopefully these will continue to be around after the holidays! December 18, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by carisa FANTASTIC! Most delicious pumpkin cookies! These cookies are super easy and fantastically delicious. I am a chef and wish I could replicate this recipe as I no longer live near a World Market. Please open stores in the Northeast! Wish these were available to order online. Anybody want to buy a bunch and mail them to me? I'll pay! August 30, 2012
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Canceling Comcast and resubscribing under a new name?
Hey, I know there are a bunch of old threads about this but here goes: My girlfriend cancelled our service (under her name) about 5 months ago, and I'm trying to sign up as a new customer with comcast. I'm talking to an online sales rep (I was told that these guys are often outsourced and aren't always as aggressive), and he's asking me when we moved in. My question is, if they know we've been here for 2 years, is it possible to sign up as a new customer even though my girlfriend (who lives in this apartment as well) had an account with them a few months back? Thank you guys so much for helping me out with this.
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At WarmlyYours, we value the lessons we learn from our customers' experiences. Not unlike many companies, we solicit reviews from our customers on all of our products and services. Are WarmlyYours floor heating systems really as easy to install as we think they are? How can we improve our service to build a better customer experience? What do our customers think and feel about their warm floors or driveway snow melting system? These are the things that keep us up at night. Well…maybe not every night, but we think about it a lot and we work hard at exploring the customer experience. And, it's all truly in the name of just trying to do right by our customers.
So, in our never ending quest to get to the heart of the matter, to really find out what our customers think, the holy grail of the customer experience so to speak, we decided to create a contest. Right. We are all about fun at WarmlyYours (as long as the work gets done, of course). So, as a way to give our customers creative license to tell us about their radiant heating experiences in whatever fashion strikes their fancy, our "Tell Your Story" contest was born. We invite our customers to send their stories, along with photos, videos, diagrams, illustrations, cartoons, cave man drawings, or even an artist's rendering – anything really that will get their point across.
I read EVERY story that is submitted, and when I read Mr. Olin Sondeno's story, I asked myself what I felt was the obvious question. Do folks just say nice things about us so that they can win $100? I think it is a fair question… Or, put another way, when something sounds too good to be true, IS IT? Read on and you'll see what I mean:
When building a new house, my wife and I decided that we wanted to completely eliminate any and all carpet throughout the home and replace it with either tile or hardwood. However, tile and hardwood aren't exactly warm when you live in northern Wyoming, so we researched our possible options and happily discovered WarmlyYours.
Prior to construction beginning, we filled out the necessary online forms including the dimensions of various rooms throughout our proposed home and we promptly received prices for each of the rooms. As with any construction project, we had to keep our budget in-line and we settled on putting the in-floor heat in our master bathroom only. Our account manager helped from start to finish with the process (and even helped us return a TempZone™ roll for a larger one after we enlarged the bathroom during construction) and was ALWAYS prompt and courteous when we spoke or e-mailed.
We've been in our new home for about three weeks and we absolutely love our nice and warm bathroom floor! We have the SmartStat programmed to have the floor a toasty 76 degrees by the time we wake up and it never disappoints. We hop out of the shower to a nice and warm tile floor and it feels fantastic.
Anyone interested in electric in-floor heat will, without a doubt, be thrilled with WarmlyYours. Their customer service is beyond admirable, their instructions are clear and concise, and the products are easy to install. We both highly recommend their products and their staff to anyone interested in electric in-floor heat.
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So, I set out to see if I could uncover the "real" story. To find out – if, in fact, Mr. Sondeno's WarmlyYours experience was really as awesome as it sounded. I gave him a call. He was kind enough to speak with me, and so I did what I do by nature – I asked him question after question, just phrased slightly differently each time to see if I could get some dirt. YES, I was actually trying to see if I could get the goods on the company I work for! The real skinny, that's what I was after. I wouldn't say that I cross-examined Mr. Sondeno (though he might), but I did ask a lot of questions, and when I couldn't get any variation from the story he wrote, I decided that I would ask him quite directly and pointedly – "Was there ANYTHING negative, whatsoever, about your WarmlyYours experience? Honestly, it would really help me since we are always trying to improve upon our products and services."
And, finally. I broke him. "Well I do have something I could say about your product" (meaning the SmartStat™ thermostat), Mr. Sondeno said kindly. "Sometimes, I hear the thermostat click when it turns 'on'. It is a minor annoyance."
Victory, I thought, to myself - we need to work on that. And, then I sent Mr. Sondeno his $100 check.
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