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Self-Destructing Market Biases: What Happens to Investors as Volatility Changes
Andrew Kassen
The S&P recently suffered its worst day in four months. What you think of that says a lot.
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
– Charles Mackay,
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
On Monday, January 13, the
(INDEXSP:.INX) suffered its worst day in approximately four months, shedding -1.33%. What you think of that says a lot.
Briefly consider some market history:
Since 1962, a typical year for the S&P 500 averages 21 days losing -1.33% or greater.
Chalk up one for 2014. Midway through month one of 12, that is roughly on-pace and signifies nothing remarkable. But that four months (by the way, the last occurrence was August 27, 2013 at -1.59%)
like quite a long time and is exactly that.
How many days did the S&P 500 lose -1.33% or more in 2012? Answer: 13.
How many days did the S&P 500 lose -1.33% or more in 2013? Answer: 9.
A little math tells you 2012 and 2013 together just make the historic average for any single year.
Perhaps that's an anomaly. What about -2% or more?
How many days did the S&P 500 lose -2% or more in 2012? Answer: 3.
How many days did the S&P 500 lose -2% or more in 2013? Answer: 2.
The average per year since 1962? 9.
What about -1% or more?
How many days did the S&P 500 lose -1% or more in 2012? Answer: 21.
How many days did the S&P 500 lose -1% or more in 2012? Answer: 17.
The average per year since 1962? 34.
If you've waded through those statistics, one thing is readily apparent: 2012 and (especially) 2013 posted a gross deficit of "big" down days compared to the historical average.
These numbers put a fine point on and are a rote function of something any active observer of stocks has undoubtedly sensed over the past couple years: Stocks have moved broadly higher, and realized volatility has made a sustained move lower. A rising trend, improving headline economic figures, a world awash in cheap liquidity, and some ebullient sentiment will do that.
Something else has occurred over this period, though, for which these numbers are a major clue. That the 504 trading days of 2012 and 2013 added trillions to our collective profit and loss (PnL) is a simple matter of record. Next to such fantastic annual returns, though, the vastly important question of
they came about (and what that means) is easily overlooked.
Day after day, week after week, and month after month, 2013 was a market of unremitting strength. Moreover, it was a market that declined just enough to feign weakness before overwhelmingly reasserting itself, time and again.
But something strange happened on the way to SPX 1850: The further stocks climbed, the more static and featureless their advance became. To anyone looking with consistency, the hundreds upon hundreds of hours of monochromatic market behavior provided a functionally identical stimulus over and over, evoked no more succinctly, absurdly, and accurately than through the BTFD and BTFATH memes that have become pervasive throughout social finance. In the end, the S&P 500 finished 2013 up almost 30%, and the market at large received 252 days of inculcation that transmogrified "buy the dip" into a behavioral predilection for buying any dip with a subtly mounting sense of impunity and hubris. The return that resulted is because most of your peers (maybe including you) in the market game couldn't stop bidding stocks higher; but that it happened with all the placidity and tractability of an
S&P Volatility Index
constantly probing below 13 (and often 12) is most remarkable of all.
Now last year's gains are neatly tucked away in the books and in tax documents, and the YTD return column has been reset to 0%; but their legacy of a massive black hole of cognitive myopia hasn't gone anywhere. It is, after all, axiomatic that any market from which neophytes exact historically superior returns as an unwitting function of crude stimulus-response is pricing in massive inefficiency.
But why not just say the market is complacent and be done with it? Because attributing complacency to the entire market without asking how and why is all but worthless. Also, speaking objectively of the market in this way is self-refuting because
are the market; and however skeptical you may be, the low volatility regime of the last year or two has created dispositional affects for bulls and bears alike.
One feature of our cognitive life uniting all of us, despite how we may differ in sentiment, is the
recency effect
. At its most basic, this memory phenomenon refers to our tendency to best recall those items on a list (more broadly, events) that occur last.
Negativity bias
does cause those with a living memory of it to vividly recall the market events of 2000 and 2008, apparent in the constant references to these outlier events as rejoinder to 2013's outstanding upside performance. However, the weight of those events for
market sentiment continues to slowly wane as 1) time passes, 2) post-2009 entrants to financial markets who view 2008 with emotional dispassion proliferate; and 3) the steady state of higher returns amid 4) continually sloughed-off macro headwinds seemingly offset and overrule those years. The events of the 2000s will continue to leave a long shadow, but our composite memory of markets has changed.
(See also:
12 Cognitive Biases That Endanger Investors
Paired with the unmitigated positive stimuli of 2012 and 2013 that saw bulls incessantly rewarded and bears mercilessly punished, and the fleeting superficial significance of events occurring some 1,300 market sessions ago, despite any intellectual objections, the steadfast market behavior of the last year has impacted everyone. What has been impacted? Any investing or trading methodology with room for discretion, for one thing. Trading theses – even risk-off theses – are sensitized to the long side. Even discounting
punditry and impish trolls, propositions and beliefs about motive legs higher have a sense of prosaic – even bored – and routinized assurance about them. Calls for pullbacks are, in contrast, measured, half-whispered, and wholly without bravado. And why wouldn't they be? Look at those statistics.
But those statistics will change, and that change will begin from this place to which the recent past has acclimated us. If the last 42 years are a representative sample, the shift will be toward
down days with
negative performance. When those occur in proximity to one another, legitimate corrections (still defined as >-10%) result.
That is the point at which the cognitive practice to which many of us have been acculturated encounters a market environment it will not and cannot believe. To deprogram, our inculcation will demand something like the grieving process as we shift from disbelief to anger to bargaining to depression to final acceptance.
This may seem unduly market-pessimistic, but a deep bear market isn't an inevitable outcome. One of the most interesting features in 2013 was an inability to steer the market conversation away from the narrative dichotomy of "The Top/Not The Top" every time VIX moved above 15 and/or the S&P shed more than -2%. Bears cheered; bulls balked; but anyone beyond the stereotypical definitions of this trope observed these light market tremors with apprehension precisely because even modest implied volatility doesn't correspond with the lessons of the market's last two years. Market observers are now more sensitized to upticks in volatility and even nominal deviations from all-time highs because the recency effect treats these events as outliers -- this is reflected qualitatively in their sentiment about talk of tops, and quantitatively, among other metrics, in their lavish deployment of margin debt and tendency to aggressively mark up out-of-the-money SPX puts at the first sign of trouble. Ironically, in 2013 this hypersensitivity contributed the effect of creating ever more shallow pullbacks, a phenomenon with a limited shelf life that already has a
to end and now just needs a
Any student of the market will intellectually affirm volatility is usually higher and returns are usually lower, but after adapting to another environment over a concatenation of hundreds of sessions, his or her newfound intuition is likely to provide a compelling feeling that says otherwise. Once a sell-off does occur, this conditioned response that has become an unconditioned response begins to upend and unravel, because the shift into the volatility paradigm of a cluster of major negative days violently pulls it apart. However, most market participants (or, as a mathematical certainty, most working capital) are not prepared. This intuitive drag, not to mention the lag of adequate statistical evidence to the contrary (e.g. that 2014 statistic of "1 session at -1.33% or greater" may yet see five or 50 more like it) are among the primary reasons tops are a process, and negative market momentum is very difficult to arrest once it firmly takes hold.
Editor's note: This article by Andrew Kassen originally appeared on
See It Market
No positions in stocks mentioned.


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"A secretary doesn't have adventures, she has experiences.†The very vibrant 90-year-old Delcie Pound could expand that statement to include her whole life. She has worked in retail, agriculture, education, manufacturing, as a seamstress and for the government. And that is just the tip of the iceberg.
Pound did it all, from working in a coal mine as a child to becoming the executive secretary to the dean of Malone College, from doing ironing to pay her room and board to working for the Civil Services Commission and the Agriculture Extension Service at the Ohio State University, to sewing all her own clothes as well as costumes for dancers.
Pound was born Feb. 13, 1917, in Jackson County, where she attended a one-room schoolhouse. She graduated from Wellston High School, and a month later started at Bliss Business College. A bookkeeping teacher she had assisted as a high school senior arranged a scholarship: Pound worked for Bliss for one month in exchange for one month's tuition.
She completed a 16-month course in four months, testing out on all subjects but shorthand, and got perfect scores of 100 on everything except spelling — she missed the word 'gherkin' because she had never heard it before. She typed 90 words per minute and took shorthand at 120 words per minute. She was the first in her class to be sent out on an interview, and got the job at Maize General Tire Store that very day.
Pound worked at the Ohio State University from 1937 until she married in 1939. She and her husband Paul, who worked for Ohio Power Company, lived most of the time in Newark, with a period of 13 years in Canton, and raised two children, Nancy of Medina and Roger of Lisbon. Paul passed away in 1992. She has two grandchildren and one great-grandchild. In 2006, Pound moved to Medina.
"Our marriage started about the same time World War II did. Many of Paul's friends and relatives were called up for military service. He agreed I should look for a job so when he was called up I would be all set.†The very next day, after Pound finished up what she had to do around the house, she took the bus downtown to answer an ad to work for the Aluminum Company of America. She arrived at 11 a.m., and was told the specifications supervisor needed a secretary in the worst way. He was expected at noon, when he would interview her.
He arrived, rushed, and dictated a half-page letter and told Pound he would be back to sign it after he had a bite of lunch, after which he left a note for the receptionist: "Shorthand OK, typing OK, girl OK.†Pound was on the payroll as of 1 p.m. that day. At 5 p.m. she took the bus home, and floored her husband when he asked how she made out with her first attempt to get back into the job market.
Pound worked for ACA until 1944. Late that summer, she and Paul bought their first home. They moved in on Armistice Day, just as all the bells and whistles were sounding at 11 a.m.
Shortly after moving in, Pound was up on the dining room roof washing windows when she was distracted by the neighbor's dog. She crawled to the eaves to talk to the dog and was greeted by a man from the government employment office downtown. He said, "Delcie, do you want another job? They need you badly out at the Fifth Service Command.†He waited for her to come down from the roof and change her clothes, then took her to the office. She started work that afternoon as the local secretary for the Civil Service Commission and stayed until it closed one year later. From there she went to Holophane Inc. as secretary of the engineering department and stayed until about three months before son Roger was born in 1947.
Pound then stayed home to fully immerse herself in her children's activities. She reentered the workforce again in 1966, the year Roger graduated from high school, and did not retire until 1979, the same year Paul retired. During that time she worked at Diebold.
Pound's daughter describes her mother as one tough lady. She never learned to drive and relied on public transportation for everything. She even went to a job interview once carrying her own rickety typewriter and card table. Pound has been hit by lightning, was in an earthquake, suffered sunstroke and had a stroke in 2001. Two years ago she had both knees replaced at the same time — 16 days later she was home and finished with therapy.
Pound always found time for gardening even with her continuing involvements. She was the recruitment director of the Central Ohio Girl Scout Council, organized the Mothers' Club that prepared weekly meals for the Boy Scouts' meetings, repeatedly served as president of the PTA, has been Regent of the DAR twice, helped in whatever capacity was needed at church, and spent more than 20 years volunteering for the Genealogy Society.
Pound is a descendent of the Mayflower and is related to many Revolutionary War soldiers. She loves to read history books, but clarifies: "Not historical novels, they don't always get the facts correct, or they take liberties with them.â€
Anyone who, with her husband, transported bee hives in the backseat of their car and laughed about it, who hid cash in the refrigerator among the lettuce and carrots and thereby foiled a burglar who broke in that evening, who remembers the revenuers not being able to locate a neighbor's still because it was buried in the manure pile, or who, as a young child, fixed a sandwich with coal ashes to thwart a sneaky thief, has a definite sense of adventure.

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Paul Ott Carruth
Position: RB
Height: 6-1 Weight: 220 lbs.
Born: July 22, 1961 in Hattiesburg, MS
High School: Parklane
College: Alabama (school history) (Carruth college stats)
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JWC TO THOMAS CARLYLE ; 27 September 1845; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18450927-JWC-TC-01; CL 19: 220-221
[27 September 1845]
If tomorrow were not Sunday and these notes had not to be forwarded; I should not put pen to Paper today; that's flat! Oh "too much of papers hast thou poor Goody"!1 all the diningroom paper to clean with bread! is not that enough to disgust one with paper for one day? Besides the rain is drifting against the windows—and that with carpets up—! it is impossible under such circumstances to write anything but bluedevilism—and my mission—mine—is to—amuse! As Mrs Basil Montague2 told me years ago "every body in the world, it seems to me, has some mission and yours Jane is to write little notes! One might question whether it were worth while to "have given oneself the trouble of being born" for such a mission—but happily I had no choice—I mean as to the being born—
I opened Miss Donaldsons3 letter and read it—the Haddington post mark left no doubt as to the hand writing— What a mercy I did not go to Sunnybank—John and his wife4 and Baby—good heavens!
Yesterday I was dining in a rather extemperaneous sort of way when a carriage drove up and two gentlemen insisted on coming in altho' told I was at dinner—they were shown into the Library where there was no chair!—till Helen had carried them in a couple— "Who are they"— "It's Mr Mr—I can't recollect"— "Did you ever see them before" "Oh yes—twenty times!" "Perhaps you will contrive to learn their names that I may know for whom I am to have the pleasure of leaving my dinner"—She went and asked—"Mr Rio and Mr Milnes"— I went to my own room and cast one glance into the lookingglass—the case was hopeless—it would take at least half an hour to make me presentable so I put on a Caleb Balderstone5 look and walked into them precisely as I was. Rio was in town for a week—Milnes on his way to—abroad— They sat some twenty minutes and then drove off to call for Lady Shelley6— Rio confusing himself in apologies for having disturbed me— Milnes telling him "it was so like a Frenchman to be always struck about disturbing people."
Mercy it is later than I thought—I wish I may be still in time
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Disease Proof
Tai Chi and Diabetes
New research claims practicing Tai Chi may help lower or control type-2 diabetes risk. Amy Norton of Reuters reports:
In one study, Taiwanese researchers found that tai chi helped lower long-term blood sugar levels in 30 middle-aged adults with type 2 diabetes. In the second, an Australian team found that a combination of tai chi and qigong benefited 11 adults at risk of type 2 diabetes.I've never tried Tai Chi—have you?
Both tai chi and qigong (pronounced "chee-kung") are ancient Chinese practices designed to promote good health. Qigong combines gentle movements, meditation and breathing techniques; tai chi involves slow, fluid movements combined with mental imagery and deep breathing.
Both are moderate, low-impact activities, and recent studies suggest that older adults could reap a number of health benefits from tai chi, such as lower blood pressure, a reduced fall risk and improved arthritis symptoms.
The new studies, both published online by the British Journal of Sports Medicine, suggest that tai chi might aid in managing type 2 diabetes or metabolic syndrome -- a collection of risk factors for diabetes, heart disease and stroke.
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I have Diabetes-2 and I exercise Tai-chi.
I have Diabetes-2 and I exercise Tai-chi.
In 2008, april, I became a diabetes-2 patient and in september 2008 I started practising Tai-chi.
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Each year marathonguide.com compiles data from the previous year's marathons to reveal the demographics of the marathon trends. This year's number crunching revealed a record 9.9% growth in the number of marathoners from 2008 to 2009, with 468,000 runners crossing marathon finishing lines in the U.S.A. alone.
"Amazing to many, the 2009 growth occurred as the USA economy plunged into recession - but contrary to common sense, the marathon industry seemed not only recession proof, but to relish in the bad financial times," says the website.
Here are some fun statistics the study yielded:
- Female marathoners continue to increase in numbers, accounting for 40% of finishers
- There were 397 marathons in the United States in 2009 (and 372 in 2008)
- Average marathon finishing time: 4 hours, 35 minutes, 42 seconds. (4 hours, 17 minutes for men, 4 hours 52 minutes for women)
- Average marathoner age: 38.7 (40.2 for men, 36.5 for women)
- 70% of marathons got bigger in terms of number of runners
- New York City marathon is the biggest; there were 43,250 finishers in 2009
- There were 40 new marathons in 2009, with about 20,000 runners among them finishing
- Men aged 40-44 were the fastest age group, with a mean finishing time of 4:16:19. For women it was ladies 35-39
- Largest age group for women was 25-29, while the men's largest age group are older: 40-44
- 3% of marathoners finished in less than 3 hours
- Average finishing time among all runners improved
- October was the month with the most marathons
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If you are gaining weight, there's a good reason. There seems to be a new reason reported every week explaining why we are gaining weight and getting fat.
Sedentary jobs have been listed more than once as one of the main causes of weight gain for many people. There's one problem with that theory: many people have "sit-down jobs" and are very fit and lean.
And, there are many people who work on their feet who are very overweight. So, its not where you work that determines whether you will or are gaining weight.
With regards to fat loss and weight loss, YOU largely determine how much you will weigh. There are medical and genetic exceptions to this weight gain rule but that's a subject for another article.
Research suggests that weight cycling large amounts of weight (losing and regaining 50 pounds or more) has serious health implications, such as heart disease.
The primary reason for your weight gain is a caloric surplus. You will gain weight and fat if you consistently eat more calories than you burn. This theory is not outdated, despite what some say. Its important to eat the right types of foods for nutrition and health. But, you will also gain weight if you eat too much of the healthy foods.
Try to stand as much as you can during the day and take walking breaks to activate your fat-burning enzymes. Any activity is good to go along with your regular workouts. All movement burns calories.
Don't blame your job if you're gaining weight. Make changes to your exercise, eating and lifestyle habits. These are the primary keys to burning fat and keeping the weight loss off.
Slow Your Aging Process
Note: Many of these steps will also help you to not gain weight and body fat.
1. Eat the right foods. Practice the good habit of eating the macronutrients: proteins, healthy fats and good carbohydrates.
According to WebMD.com:
From your brain to your bones, what you eat matters. So help yourself to some age-defying foods.
"What you eat makes a huge difference in how you age and how you feel," dietitian Manuel Villacorta says.
"Even your skin will stay younger-looking if you eat right," says Allison T. Pontius, MD, an expert in anti-aging and regenerative medicine at Williams Center for Plastic Surgery in Latham, NY.
Some foods that slow the aging process are apples, blueberries, strawberries, plums, cherries, cherry tomatoes, broccoli, spinach and tea. These foods have plant chemicals, called polyphenols, which are important antioxidants. They help prevent diseases such as cancer and heart disease. These foods also limit the damage of free radicals in our bodies and slows aging. These foods also keep you fuller for longer on very little calories.
2. Take the necessary dietary supplements because you won't always eat perfect. Most people will take a multivitamin. Fish oil and probiotics are also on many people's list. Consult with your doctor.
3. Drink plenty of water every day. Your body is two-thirds water and your cells and metabolic processes work right when you're properly hydrated. If you feel thirsty, you are dehydrated. Drink half your weight in water every day. So, if you weight 180 pounds, drink about 90 ounces of water each day. Unsweetened drinks, like green tea will work also.
4. Don't drink sugary drinks. These deadly dudes cause dangerous belly fat and disease-causing inflammation.
5. Drink alcohol in moderation. Excess alcohol drinking promotes body fat storage (especially belly fat). Long-term excess drinking ages you and can cause death.
6. Don't smoke tobacco. The dangers of smoking are well documented. And, it ages your skin in a bad way.
7. Sleep deeply 7-9 hours every night, when possible. This helps your body operate the way it should. Sleep debt will age your body faster for sure and cause other medical problems. Your body also produces growth hormone during deep sleep. Growth hormone helps you burn fat and build muscle mass.
It pretty simple but sometimes hard to do: take care of your body with consistent healthy habits.


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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has estimated that one in every 110 children living in the United States has a placement on the autism spectrum disorder (ASD) of one form or another. Many in the autism community believe that changes in diet can lesson symptom severity. Some of the diets followed are the rotation diet, antifungal diet, gluten- and casein-free (GFCF) diet, and the Feingold diet. Another regimen that has become popular is the specific carbohydrate diet (SCD).
What is a Specific Carbohydrate Diet for Autism?
Registered dietician, Elizabeth Strickland, explains that an SCD diet is suggested for those with autism that have not responded well to other elimination diets or who may have gastrointestinal (GI) trouble. GI problems result in intermittent constipation, gas, bloating, chronic loose stool and abdominal pain. The concept of the SCD diet is that multi-unit carbohydrates (disaccharides and polysaccharides) are harder to digest than single unit carbohydrates (monosaccarides).
How a Carbohydrate Diet Works
Research has suggested that undigested carbohydrates remain in the GI tract, allowing fungi and bacteria to form and cause intestinal discomfort. It is believed that they cause neurological problems as well. "Starving" the microbes by not providing complex carbohydrates flushes them from the body. Parents of children with autism who have implemented the SDC diet have described improvement in their child's behavior and GI problems.
Carbohydrate Diet Details
The SDC is extremely limited and care must be taken to plan meals to avoid dietary deficits. The diet consists of meat, fish, eggs, vegetables, fruits, seeds and nuts. It eliminates starches and nearly all sugars. The SCD is normally followed for a period of about a year to allow enough time for the gut to heal and for GI tract health to re-establish.
Benefits of a Carbohydrate Diet
Talk About Curing Autism (TACA) reports that results of the SCD diet are acceptance of a healthier diet that consists of more fruits and vegetable and decreased "carb addiction." Improvement in behavior, better eye contact, increased mental function and better sleeping habits are also reported.
Expert Insight about Autism and Carbohydrate Diet Plans
Strickland believes that there are few that actually require the SCD and that implementing the GFCF diet is preferred as a first step to elimination diets. Parents can move on to the SCD if the others prove ineffective in illuminating GI problems. If you are considering an elimination diet for your child with autism, you should always speak to your physician, an experienced dietician and a doctor with Defeat Autism Now (DAN).


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For a modest film, "The Wrath Of Vajra," actually had some big potential with qualified martial artists comprising the cast. The plot centers around a conspiracy by Japan to take over China during and after World War II. Children from around the world are kidnapped and forced to live and train in a secret location in China.
The training is cruel and the children are forced to forget their past and accept their new role as warriors bent on bringing about a new world order. Members of Vajra are the deadliest fighters ever. And it is a special honor to be chosen to serve.
The leader is captured and jailed. Japan has abandoned him, and some of the Vajra warriors have left. Still there are forces determined to bring about the ultimate goal of controlling China then the world.
Once again children and soldiers are being taken and brought to the temple. Some of the soldiers are actually former Vajra warriors that have escaped their old life, but are now being forced to rejoin.
One of the warriors; who is also called The King Of Vajra has taken up being a Shaolin monk. Though he would love to forever stay hidden from his old life, he is forced to face his fellow warriors once again. And he is also out to save children from the Shaolin temple that have just recently been abducted.
Also the daughter of the original Vajra leader is now a reporter and is charged with reporting the exploits of the group; making them look positive to the world. But she too realizes that The Vajra's heavy-handed tactics betray their image. They plan to spread peace, but under their terms. And if necessary, eliminating any who oppose them.
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Leemann, H; Lustenberger, T; Talving, P; Kobayashi, L; Bukur, M; Brenni, M; Brüesch, M; Spahn, D R; Keel, M J B (2010). The role of rotation thromboelastometry in early prediction of massive transfusion. Journal of Trauma - Injury Infection & Critical Care, 69(6):1403-1409.
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INTRODUCTION:: Early prediction of massive transfusion (MT) is critical in the management of severely injured trauma patients. Variables available early after injury including physiologic, laboratory, and rotation thromboelastometric (ROTEM) parameters were evaluated as predictors for the need of MT. METHODS:: After Institutional Review Board approval, we retrospectively reviewed a cohort of severely injured trauma patients (Injury Severity Score ≥16) admitted to a Level I trauma center with available ROTEM measurements on hospital admission during a 1-year study period. Patients with isolated head injury (Abbreviated Injury Scale head ≥3 and Abbreviated Injury Scale chest, abdomen, and extremity <3) and patients with a penetrating mechanism of injury were excluded. Patients who received a MT (≥10 units packed red blood cell within 24 hours of admission) were compared with patients who did not. Variables independently associated with MT were identified using stepwise logistic regression. RESULTS:: A total of 53 patients met inclusion criteria. Of these, 18 patients (34.0%) received a MT and 35 patients (66.0%) did not. Massively transfused patients had significantly lower baseline hemoglobin values (7.9 g/dL ± 0.4 g/dL vs. 11.4 g/dL ± 0.4 g/dL; p < 0.001) and a trend toward higher lactate (4.8 mmol/L ± 0.8 mmol/L vs. 3.0 mmol/L ± 0.3 mmol/L; p = 0.056) and base deficit values (5.9 mmol/L ± 1.1 mmol/L vs. 3.6 mmol/L ± 0.6 mmol/L; p = 0.052). Mean international normalized ratio (1.46 ± 0.07 vs. 1.22 ± 0.05; p = 0.001) and partial thromboplastin times (42.4 seconds ± 5.0 seconds vs. 29.7 seconds ± 1.8 seconds; p < 0.001) were significantly higher in MT patients. Patients receiving a MT had significantly altered ROTEM values on admission compared with non-MT patients. An increase in the clot formation time (471.3 seconds ± 169.9 seconds vs. 178.1 seconds ± 19.9 seconds; p = 0.001), a shortening of the maximum clot firmness (37.5 mm ± 2.9 mm vs. 50.7 mm ± 1.4 mm; p < 0.001), and a shortening of the clot amplitude at all time points (10/20/30 minutes) were observed in massively transfused trauma patients. Variables independently associated with MT included a hemoglobin level ≤10 g/dL and an abnormal maximum clot firmness value (area under the receiver operator characteristic curve: 0.831 [95% confidence interval: 0.719-0.942; p < 0.001]). CONCLUSION:: Hemoglobin ≤10 g/dL and an abnormal maximum cloth firmness measured by rotation thromboelastometry on admission reliably predict the need for MT. Prospective validation of the effectiveness of thromboelastometry to guide the transfusion practice after trauma is warranted.
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BLIGHTY chip designer ARM has celebrated its 20th anniversary with the opening of a new building and announcement of a £2.5 million charitable bond to help Cambridge entrepreneurs.
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Having established itself as the dominant low-power CPU designer, ARM is now having a look at low-power graphics. The new building at its Cambridge campus will house its multimedia processing team.
There are more than 20 billion ARM-based processors in the world and a huge number are inside mobile phones.
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DURHAM, N.C. - Coming off a tough loss at North Carolina A&T, the Bethune-Cookman Lady Wildcats (10-11, 5-4 MEAC) are looking to close the road swing on a high note, taking on the North Carolina Central Eagles (0-22, 0-9 MEAC) on Monday evening at McDougald-McLendon Gymnasium. Tipoff is set for 5:30 p.m.
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Kiko Martinez took on Jhonatan Romero in the second fight of HBO's tripleheader, a super bantam bout which unfolded at the Revel Resort in Atlantic City, and it was the super aggressive runt, and I use that term with all due respect, who had his hand raised in round six.
Martinez, at 5-5, didn't let the 5-9-plus Romero use a height advantage, and instead ground him down, taking away his legs, then a portion of his heart and finally his senses, to the point the ref halted the scrap, at 2:40.
Romero went 126-380, to 180-525 for the victor, and new IBF champion.
In the first, we saw the Spaniard Martinez land a left hook-right hand combo which the Colombian most definitely felt. He followed up with some rocking blows to the Colombian, who was on the ropes. In the second, the 27-year-old Martinez (20-4 entering) was the aggressor, looking to stalk as Romero sought to keep things in center ring. The longer Romero (23-0 entering) didn't use that jab to keep the shorter man out of harm's way as much as his trainer would hope.
In the third, the 26-year-old titlist got some rhythm. He used his legs to decent effect, mostly going to his left, as he pumped a jab and sometimes came underneath with a right, but more often a right cross. He slipped smartly and we wondered if he could keep up the pace, with his legs, or Martinez would wear out.
Romero got hurt in the fourth, and Martinez followed. Blood flowed from Romero's left eye, and he looked to be moving more nervously. They worked on the cut after the round, and his corner told Romero to stay away from the ropes.
In the fifth, we saw Martinez, who is by the way trained by Pablo Sarmiento, who trains Sergio Martinez, again be the aggressor. Romero again got caught on the ropes, as he was unable to stay mobile long enough for Martinez to stay a step behind. The pesky pintsizer Martinez simply stayed in his face, kept throwing, kept coming, kept winning rounds on my card.
In the sixth, Romero looked to hold, as he did in previous rounds intermittently. His hands dropped as fatigue kicked in, and the ref saw enough, finally, as he ate clean blows, and his head started to wobble. "Not a moment too soon, said HBO analyst Max Kellerman.
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Martinez looked like a accountant.... who knew he could fight like a demon.
Now that's how you beat a guy like Floyd Mayweather.
Danggit! SRD, ditto! But that was more of a D+ fighter, who fought a C fighter who was spooked by being on the big stage of TV. Besides, no pressure fighter can beat Money May. Pressure turns him in a diamond that cuts rushing @sses up. Holla!
Spoken like a true boxing aficionado, Brown Suga'. Exactly what I was suggesting last night when I said there's the blue print for Canelo. The intensity and determination of the battle.
Good eye, my friend.
i see what you are both saying.. and i have mentioned it it seems for a few years...
you cant out skill floyd, or out box him, or out think him, but if you have the size and stamina you can win on
activity alone.
that activity would take a marathoners stamina and an iq high enough to do it convincingly
cotto won about 5 rounds against floyd..
did anyone watch round six like i mentioned
round 8 as well..
and cotto has NO head movement, he puts blinders on and absorbs shots, floyd kept throwing that right hook
and cotto not once had the boxing iq to adjust to it and move his head or trunk..
at 37 SRD floyd has some weaknesses, of course
to beat floyd you need the activity, the FOOTwork which is most important and the skill and spacing to do it..
canelo doesnt have any of that...
he is a good fighter with good power but he is short, short arms, lacks the footwork and STAmina terribly..
it will be a decent scrap tho if canelo goes for it
We'll see Amaseng .... they claim Canelo is already breaking ribs and knocking out sparring partners .... to then point where they have to order half a dozen philly fighters a week just to keep enough sparring partners in stock.
Of course we always hear about the training tales before the main event but at least the hype is moving in the right direction. I'm getting psychologically prepared for the worst...just in case...that's how close I believe this fight will be....so I hope your right.
I heard that about camp as well and it's a good sign if its true.
16 oz gloves if not thicker and headgear and he's knocking guys out and breaking ribs. So they say.
One thing I'm concerned about and maybe it's just propaganda is that a video of canelo sparring was released and the opponent was not using any footwork or slick skills. He was static and although had quick hands didn't have a style anywhere near Floyd's. I thought to myself what's the point may as well put me in there with him it'll prepare him just the same.
Canelo needs to be sparring fast slick guys with a longer reach and guys who are fleet of foot.
Floyd looks good and sharp. His footwork in training camp in July looked better then he did against the ghost and cotto.
Canelo better have that foot agility ladder out and be using it every day.
If not it'll be a long night for sure.
I would like to see canelo win, Floyd needs grounded and I think if he loses he will ultimately fight PAC.
I just think Floyd has too much for canelo even at this stage.
Floyd's endurance is uncanny.
War propaganda! Canelo is probably eating ribs. The sucka is telling fibs. He ain't bursting grapes. Next they will be saying that he is kayoing gorillas from the "Planet of The Apes." Not a single one of Canelo's sparringmates can do Money May. It doesn't matter what they say. Canelo is going to be easiest pay. His arse oughta sit at the dock of the bay. And watch the time pay away. Money May is going to knock him out -- OKAY! Believe what I SAY!
Bet on Money May and phat moolah will be coming your way. Holla!
Who will win the Sergey Kovalev vs Andre Ward fight?


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Zooom Productions' Picturesque Salzburg Eco Office Blends into its Environs
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- Sphere 2-Mack ArchitectsIf the Sound of Music was filmed again, the creative offices of Zooom Productions would serve as an excellent backdrop. The picturesque village of Fuschl am See, Austria in the Salzburg district has strict landmark preservation regulations, so when Zooom wanted to expand their offices, they had to ensure that it fit it with its surroundings. Mark Mack Architects was tasked with designing a suitable addition, which includes mixed-use office facilities, an indoor climbing wall, and a guest apartment. Various sustainable building features such as rooftop photovoltaic panels, biomass heating, and high-performance insulation make this building an excellent example of site-specific sustainable design.1
- Sphere 2-Mack ArchitectsSphere2 is situated adjacent to the facility's existing buildings, which were built using pre-fabricated KLH panels.2
- Sphere 2-Mack ArchitectsThe new building makes use of concrete and masonry construction clad with raw steel plates, contrasting with the weathered wood siding of the original project.3
- Sphere 2-Mack ArchitectsSphere2 stands three stories tall to match the height of the original live/work building, however it slopes down to one story in order to respect neighboring buildings.4
- Sphere 2-Mack ArchitectsAt night the building's profile echos the silhouette of the mountains in the background.5
- Sphere 2-Mack ArchitectsThe new, yet weathered building holds a large creative studio, conference rooms, a kitchen, an exercise room, a climbing wall, and a small apartment for creative guests at the lowest end of the building.6
- Sphere 2-Mack ArchitectsTwo dynamic balcony volumes punctuate the building to provide extra ceiling height, and clerestory windows suffuse the space with daylight.7
- Sphere 2-Mack ArchitectsThe balconies jut out over the side and the climbing wall provides recreation for the employees.8
- Sphere 2-Mack ArchitectsConcrete radiant heating floors are part of a simple, raw material palette that contributes to a casual yet controlled design aesthetic.9
- Sphere 2-Mack ArchitectsThe photovoltaic system on the roof provides some renewable energy for the building, while a connection to a remote biomass heating plant and the radiant floors provides energy-efficient heating.10
- Sphere 2-Mack ArchitectsHigh-performance insulation and prefabricated wall panels maximize the heating and cooling.11
- Sphere 2-Mack ArchitectsSphere2 adds an additional 520 sq meters of office and mixed use space to Zooom's existing facilities.12
- Sphere 2-Mack ArchitectsEarly watercolor of the office expansion.13
- Sphere 2-Mack ArchitectsThe office pays respect to its neighbors, the village and the surrounding landscape.14


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Managing finances after the death of a loved one can be a difficult task. There are many things to keep track of, however there are steps you can take to make the process much easier and less stressful. That's why we created our latest Zing guide: "Managing Your Finances After the Loss of a Loved One."


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What is happening with our weather in the south? It is not as simple as spring, summer, fall and winter anymore. It seems you cannot depend on the temperatures to change with the seasons as we have known them to do. After a bitterly cold winter in the Memphis metropolitan area in 2013 and early 2014, we are not through with the colder temperatures in July 2014.
New records were set in Memphis in January 2014 with the daily high one day being only 18 degrees. That was the record low for a high temperature here. Although the precipitation wasn't a record setter here during the past winter, temperatures were. But, it didn't stop in the spring and is continuing into the summer, with July Fourth temperatures dropping into the 50s at night (blanket weather).
The temperatures have rebounded into the 90s since the 4th of July, but meteorologist are warning us that a polar vortex is heading our way and may drop our temperature again for this week. According to several different weather forecasting sources, the low temperatures may drop into the upper 50s, with highs only reaching the 70s; definitely not normal for July weather.
Why is our weather changing so drastically; is it caused by global warming or other factors? We will just have to wait and watch, but in the meantime pack some fall clothes if you are taking a trip.
Watch the video in this article for one take on the polar vortex, but remember, the forecasts are changing as this article is written. Also, if you don't already subscribe to the Memphis International Travel articles and events written by Gerry Glenn Jones in the Examiner, you can do so by clicking on the subscribe link located under this writer's photo at the top of the page. All these articles are free.
Until we meet again on these pages, "We will let the world turn onto our next destination."


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SC Choral groups finish year with Masterworks Concert
The choirs of Sterling College will wrap up their year with the annual Masterworks Concert on May 4 at 3 p.m. at the Sterling United Methodist Church. The Sterling College Highland Singers, Chorale and Concert Choir will hold a free concert that will last approximately an hour.
The choirs will perform selected music from the major time periods of music history: Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and 20th Century to the present.
"We will be taking a musical walk through time, beginning with an English madrigal by Thomas Morley and finishing with a spiritual by William Dawson, with songs by others such as Handel, Mozart, Schumann and Lauridsen in between," said Mark Clark, assistant professor of music.
This concert will be the final concert of the 2013–14 academic year.
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June 30, 2014 | Vol. 95, No. 153
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BRODY HORTON throws an axe during the axe-throwing contest in the lumberjack show at Massie Field Saturday afternoon in Bessemer. The event was part of the annual Bessemer Blast celebration for the Fourth of July.
BESSEMER - Axes were flying during the first ever lumberjack show on Massie Field over the weekend, as part of Bessemer Blast 2014.
According to Linda Nelson, chair of the Bessemer Blast Committee, the committee had been trying to get this event on the schedule for quite some time.
"We've been look at having an event like this for a couple years and we finally made a connection," Nelson said.
The show included various lumberjack-inspired competitions, including axe-throwing and the standing block chop.
Two competitors, Brian Kilian and Brody Horton, participated in the show early Saturday afternoon.
The event is part of the packed Bessemer Blast schedule, which includes various games and activities for kids and adults alike.
"We try to put on as many events as we can," Nelson said, "And we try to incorporate every age."
For more information on the lumberjack show, or future events during Bessemer Blast, visit bessemer4th.com.
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Would any of you consider this lower than Mario Party? I believe Game Informer gave one of the series a "1". Think 2 is too high?
"Always make them laugh, try to make them cry. Always take the stage like it's the last night of your life." Frank Turner.


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STANFORD, Calif. – Stanford has named Peter Hansen as its inside linebackers coach in an announcement made Monday morning. Hansen takes over the role vacated by David Kotulski, who was named Vanderbilt's defensive coordinator last week.
"Pete comes to us at a young age but with a tremendous wealth of knowledge," Bradford M. Freeman Director of Football David Shaw said. "In the last three years, he's worked with one of the best defenses in the NFL and worked with some of the best linebackers in the NFL. His perspective and energy will help our front seven."
Hansen spent the 2009 and 2010 seasons at Stanford as a defensive assistant on the Stanford Cardinal coaching staff, working closely with current San Francisco 49ers defensive coordinator Vic Fangio in film breakdown, scouting reports and practice preparation. He had previously served as a strength and conditioning intern for the Cardinal in 2008.
Hansen went to the 49ers in February of 2011 and worked there as a defensive assistant, working most recently with the team's outside linebackers.
Prior to his Stanford tenure, Hansen was an assistant coach at Palo Alto High School for four seasons (2004-07). Hansen worked primarily with the Vikings' tight ends and defensive ends. He also served as the team's defensive coordinator during the 2006 and 2007 campaigns.
Hansen was a two-sport athlete at Arizona, playing both football and basketball. On the gridiron, he blocked seven field goals and point after attempts during his career, and earned second team All-Pac-10 Conference honors as a special teams performer in 2000. Hansen was a member of the Wildcats' basketball team during the 1999-2000 and 2001-02 seasons. Hansen graduated in December of 2001 with a degree in economics before finishing the 2001-02 basketball season.
Hansen played professional football for the Cannes Iron Mask in Cannes, France, in 2003, and later played professional basketball for Club Falcon in Copenhagen, Denmark, during the 2003-04 season.
A Palo Alto native, Hansen attended Palo Alto High School where he played for his father, Earl, the long-time football coach at the school, who announced his retirement in January of 2014.


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Imported broadloom offers unique styling, story
According to FCW's Statistical Report, in 2012 and 2013, imports of carpets and rugs in 2012 — $2.17 billion in manufacturers' sales and 2.08 billion square feet in volume — were still down from 2007's $2.26 billion in value but up slightly from 2.06 billion square feet in volume. Those statistics include roll goods, bath mats, area rugs, auto and aircraft carpeting and artificial turf — half is claimed by the area rug market.
Imported broadloom is estimated to be approximately $1 billion, much smaller than the domestic carpet market but a significant business for companies that manufacture overseas or shop the world for unique products.
Nourison's product philosophy is to look for categories that are under-served.
"The U.S. mills are the best and most efficient manufacturers of synthetic carpet in the world. There is no need for more of that type of carpet," said Alex Peykar, principal of Nourison. "We manufacture wool and wool blend carpets — both woven and tufted — because there is still a void in that category. Wool is best for durability and sustainability and synthetics strive to look like wool. But wool is not easy to work. It is also at the higher end of the market, where consumers are still looking for luxury goods."
In addition to high end residential broadloom, Nourison is involved in the hospitality market. "Four and five star hotels are looking for wool Axminster broadloom that is not readily available in the U.S.," Peykar noted.
Nourison manufactures its broadloom in China, Europe, the U.K. and other parts of Asia. "The infrastructure we have in place enables us to support both residential and hospitality lines. When hospitality slows, we use the looms for residential product. Nourison is vertically integrated back to yarn production for about 80 percent of its products. For that other 20 percent, it buys spun yarn for tufted goods. For all the woven products, Nourison handles everything, from raw wool through finished product.
Established as a handmade rug manufacturer, Nourison's broadloom operation is less than half of its total business, according to Peykar. "But the rate of growth is higher than the rug business. We added capacity in 2010, 2011 and 2012, so we are heavily invested in broadloom and ready to handle any demand."
With headquarters in the U.K., Brintons uses British wool to manufacture its woven broadloom. "We are close to the source," explained Mark Oldfield, vice president sales for Brintons Americas. "We do make some synthetic carpet but mostly it's about wool, which is luxurious and sustainable and self-extinguishes, making it a very good fit for casinos and cruise ships," Oldfield reported.
In 2011, the company introduced High Definition Weave technology that incorporated 24 colors. It has since been expanded to use up to 32 colors. "High Definition Weave is unique to Brintons and is especially appropriate for hospitality and gaming," Oldfield said.
Brintons has three factories: U.K., Portugal and India. "About 95 percent of Brintons' production is an 80 percent wool/20 percent nylon blend that the company pioneered. "The biggest U.S. market for us is hospitality with four and five star hotels, the cruise industry and casinos. A high-end residential line is slowly making inroads in the U.S.," he added. "Hospitality took a hit starting in 2007, but it has been coming back over the last 18 months."
With headquarters near Bergamo, Italy, Radici is most successful in the U.S. market with Wilton woven and tufted carpets in wool and wool/silk and wool/linen blends, according to Paolo Pegorari, vice president of Radici USA. "Our 100 percent New Zealand Wool, Wilton woven Velvet available in 70 colors has been a staple in the U.S., Canada and Mexico market for the last 20 years," Pegorari said.
Radici sales are up in 2013. Pegorari attributes the increase to consumers valuing the "made in Italy" trademark of Radici. "In Europe Radici carpets are very well known in the best boutiques, hotels, luxury cruise liners and more. In the U.S., Radici's carpets are also in the same venues, and the goal of Radici USA for 2014 is to expand the hospitality division as we see potential for growth in that market," he stated.
Brinton's High Definition Weave technology produced this wool Axminster for the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Phoenix, Ariz.
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David Carter insists he hasn't lost confidence in A.J. West.
"I'll go back to A.J.," the Nevada Wolf Pack men's basketball coach said this week before leaving for the Mountain West Tournament in Las Vegas. "He'll start."
Carter, though, only played West 48 seconds in the second half of last Saturday's 76-72 win over UNLV at Lawlor Events Center. The 6-foot-9 center played just nine minutes in the game, took just one shot and had three rebounds, two points and two blocks.
The nine minutes are the fewest the junior has played in a game since making his debut 20 games ago on Dec. 22 against Iona. Carter gave West's minutes to senior Ali Fall (21 minutes, six points, three rebounds) and junior Ronnie Stevens (10 minutes, two points one board) though neither one played well enough to steal West's starting job.
In the 48 seconds he playd in the second half, West allowed the Rebels two offensive rebounds and then fouled UNLV's Khem Birch before getting taken out of the game.
"He might have hit a wall a little bit," said Carter of West. "You have to remember that this is just his first year at the Division I level. All players in their first year hit a wall eventually. (Freshman) D.J. Fenner hit a wall earlier this year and he fought through it. It's just something a player has to go through his first year at this level."
West, who is averaging 6.9 points, 7.0 rebounds and 2.4 blocks a game this year in 25 minutes a game, has not payed well in three of the Pack's last four games. The Pack, oddly enough, won all three games against Air Force, Boise State and UNLV despite West scoring just seven points with nine rebounds and three turnovers and getting whistled for eight personal fouls in 58 minutes combined.
"This level is a big adjustment for a player," Carter said. "In junior college, they just play a 2-3 zone and they don't scout opponents. They do the same thing every game so a player doesn't have to make that many adjustments. At this level you have to adjust game to game."
Carter said West can still help the Wolf Pack this year.
"His confidence is still there," Carter said. "He just has to play with more intensity at times. A.J. wants to do whatever you ask him to do but right now he's just struggling with everything he has to learn."
Carter admitted the Pack will need a productive West as well as a productive Fall and Stevens if it is to win three games in three nights and win the Mountain West tournament.
"We are going to need everybody," he said. "And we are going to need everybody to be on the same page."


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Acclaimed poet and author Maya Angelou whose autobiography "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" was turned into a television movie has died. According to The Wrap on Wednesday Angelou who was also noted for her work as a civil rights activist succumbed in her hometown of Winston Salem, North Carolina.
Outside of her work in literature the Missouri-born renaissance woman had an acting career with roles in Tyler Perry's 2006 film "Madea's Family Reunion", John Singleton's "Poetic Justice" starring Janet Jackson and Tupac Shakur, "There are no Children Here" and "Roots." Angelou also took her talents behind the camera, directing Esther Rolle's last film 1998's "Down in the Delta". She wrote the screenplay for the 1972 film "Georgia, Georgia".
"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" told of Angelou's childhood of growing up in the South in which she survived racism and sexual abuse. The movie starred Rolle, Paul Benjamin, Diahann Carroll, Ruby Dee, Roger E. Mosley, Madge Sinclair and Alabama-based actress Tonea Stewart.
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By Jordan Parry, SDA Media Relations
TEMPE, Ariz.--In the first portion of its first true home meet, Arizona State swimming and diving squared off in a non-scored, short-course meters dual meet against the Denver Pioneers. The two schools will be back in the water Saturday afternoon, along with UNLV, in a back-to-normal, scored, double-dual meet.
The Sun Devils saw good results on Friday, though, taking a combined 16 first-place finishes of the 28 heats. ASU's women and men both took home first in the first two events of the day, the 200 Medley Relay, and freshman Anna Olasz followed that up with a win in the third event, the 800 meter freestyle. She completed in a time of 8:58.43.
For the men, sophomore Thibaut Capitaine took first in the 50 and 150 Meter Breaststrokes at 28.79 and 1:40.08, respectively. Freshman Barkley Perry also took home a couple of his own first-place finishes, winning the 150 Meter Freestyle with a time of 1:22.06, and the 150 Meter Backstroke with a time of 1:29.48.
Finally healthy, senior Riley McCormick commandingly swept the 1-meter and 3-meter springboard events on the men's side. The two-time Olympian scored 424.43 on the 3-meter event, over 112 points better than the next competitor. On the women's side, junior Hailey Casper took first in the women's 3-meter springboard and sophomore Morgan Weller won the women's 1-meter event.
Meet time on Saturday is set for Noon PT at the Mona Plummer Aquatic Center, where the Devils get the chance to showcase their talent in front of their home crowd.