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Upstart tops NAS vendors
In our second edition of the Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine Quality Award for NAS systems, large NAS vendors like Network Appliance and EMC scored well, but a lesser known company emerged as the surprise winner of enterprise NAS.
In the second edition of the Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine Quality Award for NAS systems, top NAS vendors like Network Appliance and EMC scored well, but BlueArc emerged as the surprise winner.
BlueArc Corp., an emerging vendor that has toiled in relative obscurity since 1998, steps into the spotlight in our 2007 Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine Quality Award NAS survey by beating out larger, more recognized competitors and winning the enterprise award. We spoke with many enthusiastic BlueArc Titan SiliconServer users, which suggests the victory isn't a statistical anomaly. The result has ended Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) Corp.'s string of victories for enterprise storage Quality Awards at three. While HDS' enterprise NAS entry led the pack last year--and its enterprise storage arrays have taken top honors twice--there wasn't a high enough number of HDS survey respondents for consideration this year.
"We shopped around for a couple of years," says Ken Juneau, IT lead at Meteor Studios, a Montreal video visual-effects studio. "Finally, we got the BlueArc in and everything has been smooth." For nearly three years, the system has stood up to the company's rigorous application environment and surpassed reliability expectations. "I've been very satisfied with everything so far," says Juneau.
Network Appliance (NetApp) Inc., whose name is almost synonymous with NAS, fell to third this year among enterprise finalists with its FAS900/FAS3000 systems. Sun Microsystems Inc., which is far less-frequently associated with NAS systems, placed a respectable second with its StorEdge 5310 NAS appliance/StorageTek 5320. EMC Corp.'s Celerra and Hewlett-Packard (HP) Co.'s StorageWorks Enterprise File Services (EFS) rounded out the overall rankings in the enterprise NAS category (see the "Overall rankings" graph in the "Rankings of enterprise NAS," PDF).
But NetApp wasn't left empty-handed in this year's survey. Among midrange NAS systems, NetApp's FAS200 repeated its "grand slam" of 2006 by coming out on top in every rating category. "There never really has been a reason to move from our existing environment," says Deepak Upadhyay, senior IT architect at Cadence Design Systems Inc., San Jose, CA. "That's why we tend to enhance with the latest and greatest from NetApp." Although the firm may shop around from time to time, Cadence Design Systems has more than 150TB of capacity on both enterprise-class and midrange NetApp NAS storage systems. "We do tend to test bleeding-edge [technology] with them pretty much all the time," adds Upadhyay.
Unlike the enterprise category, which saw two new competitors emerge (BlueArc and Sun), the midrange category had the same four finalists as last year. EMC's NS Series moved from third place to a solid second, followed by HP's ProLiant DL series servers and Dell Inc.'s PowerVault 7xxN.
NAS satisfaction
Based on the survey results, it's fair to say NetApp has again fielded the strongest lineup from top to bottom. EMC, HP and NetApp were all finalists in both the enterprise and midrange groups and, among the three, NetApp ranked highest in both classes (just as it did in 2006). When we asked respondents if they'd buy the same system again--a retrospective assessment rather than an indication of future buying intentions--NetApp topped all midrange and enterprise NAS vendors (see "Would you buy this product again?" in the "Rankings of enterprise NAS," and "Rankings of midrange NAS," PDF). Among enterprise NetApp users, 86.9% of respondents said they'd make the same purchase decision, while 90.9% of its midrange users would buy again. The only other vendor to receive a rating higher than 80% was HP (85.2%). BlueArc had a "yes" rate of 77.3%. EMC NS Series added more than 10 percentage points to last year's rating, with 76.5% of its users saying they'd purchase the product again. We find the "buy again" results to be a strong indicator of overall customer experience, as it reflects a user's entire experience with the vendor.
This year's range of category scores was very similar to last year's, with the majority of scores falling between 6.0 and 6.75. This indicates a generally high level of satisfaction for all systems. Some caution is required when comparing year-to-year numerical scores because many variables come into play, but it's still worth noting that EMC's scores increased considerably in both the enterprise and midrange categories. As in 2006, this year's midrange scores were higher than the enterprise scores.
On our rating scale of 1.0 to 8.0, 4.5 is a neutral rating; scores below that figure reflect a negative impression. Although we occasionally get such ratings in our surveys, that wasn't the case in the 2007 NAS survey. In fact, the lowest overall score was a 5.70 (HP's enterprise NAS product). While relatively lower than other vendors, that score is still substantially above neutral and reflects overall satisfaction.
Sales-force competence
We've found a high correlation between a vendor's scores in our sales-force competence section and its overall rating. Such was the case this year, with BlueArc and NetApp leading the enterprise and midrange groups, respectively (see the "Sales-force competence" graphs in the "Rankings of enterprise NAS," and "Rankings of midrange NAS"). Ironically, BlueArc's 6.73 in sales-force competence was its second-lowest category score, while NetApp's 6.63 was its lowest category score. Eighty-six percent of BlueArc respondents purchased their systems directly from BlueArc, while 60.6% of NetApp midrange users bought their systems from NetApp--which suggests that NetApp does a good job training its resellers. BlueArc's highest score for sales-force competence (6.95) was for the statement "The vendor's sales support team is knowledgeable." Coincidentally, NetApp's midrange NAS product received its highest score in sales-force competence for the same statement, but with a slightly lower score (6.79).
"At the beginning, we didn't really trust them," says Meteor Studios' Juneau, noting how other vendors tried to instill doubt about BlueArc's financial stability. Despite some uncertainty, BlueArc sold the firm on the strength of its product's performance. "We're techie guys," says Juneau. "We don't really look at how they're doing on Wall Street."
In contrast, second-place vendors had their best showings in the sales-force competence category. Sun scored a 6.61 in the enterprise group, while EMC scored a 6.44 among midrange vendors. Sun users apparently like the firm's sales reps, awarding them a 6.69 for "My sales rep is knowledgeable," "My sales rep keeps my interests foremost" and "My sales rep is flexible." EMC received a 6.75 for the statement "My sales support team is knowledgeable."
"I would rate our local sales team very high," says Dan Lah, systems analyst at Eli Lilly and Co., Indianapolis, and the tech lead for all NAS installations in the U.S. Lah manages approximately 150TB of NAS capacity, all on EMC systems. Already an EMC Symmetrix customer, Eli Lilly and Co. also turned to EMC for its file storage, but it wasn't simply a matter of convenience. "It's a good product," says Lah. "It wasn't just because we were an EMC shop."
Product features
BlueArc touts its Titan SiliconServer systems as "highly scalable" and users apparently agree, giving BlueArc its highest score in the enterprise product feature section (7.14) for "This product scales to meet my needs." These users were also complimentary of the product's management functionality, giving it a 7.05 for the statement "This product's management features meet my needs."
"Personally I'm a command-line guy," says Meteor Studios' Juneau, "but I like the GUI on this [BlueArc] because it works really well." Juneau also likes the consistency between command-line and GUI operations. "Everything you do in the GUI, you can do on the command line."
NetApp's FAS900/3000, which came in second to BlueArc among enterprise NAS systems (see the "Product features" graph in the "Rankings of enterprise NAS"), received its highest score for the statement "This product's snapshot features meet my needs" (6.79). NetApp was exactly a point lower (6.14) than BlueArc on the scalability statement.
Among midrange systems, NetApp's 6.90 for product features was its second-highest section score (see the "Product features" graph in the "Rankings of midrange NAS," p. 26). It received ratings of 7.0 or higher on four statements. These were "This product's snapshot features meet my needs" (7.16), "This product's management features meet my needs" (7.09), "Overall, this product's features meet my needs" (7.03) and "This product's remote replication features meet my needs" (7.00). EMC's NS Series finished second in the midrange product features category, receiving its highest score (6.44) for "This product's mirroring capabilities meet my needs." It also got a solid 6.37 for "Overall, this product's features meet my needs."
Initial product quality
In the enterprise and midrange groups, two of the highest survey scores were registered for initial product quality (see the "Initial product quality" graphs in the "Rankings of enterprise NAS" and "Rankings of midrange NAS"). BlueArc received its highest section score (6.90), while NetApp posted the highest score (7.08) in any section for any vendor. In this category, we asked respondents to assess their experience with the product's ease of setup, defects, professional services and value. Out of the six statements posed in this category, NetApp's FAS200 scored a 7.0 or higher on five of them. The highest rating (7.28) was for "This product is easy to use."
"The product itself gets up and running pretty fast, and you can learn to administer it fast," says Fazil Saiyed, systems and storage engineer at Anixter Inc., Glenview, IL, referring to the company's NetApp FAS3050C that's being used in a mixed configuration supporting CIFS, iSCSI and Fibre Channel. "The process is nearly identical whether we use iSCSI or Fibre Channel," adds Saiyed. "It's just basically making the association from the SnapDrive software to the Network Appliance."
Ease of use must be something of a theme for NetApp FAS200 users, as respondents gave the statement "This product is easy to get up and running" a 7.19. Ironically, "This product offers good value for the money" was the only statement where NetApp's FAS200 scored below a 7.0. Even so, its 6.90 score was the highest of any enterprise or midrange product for this statement. The other three statements for which NetApp received a score of 7.0 or higher were "This product requires very little vendor intervention" (7.06), "I am satisfied with the level of professional services required for this product" (7.06) and "This product was installed without any defects" (7.0).
BlueArc's "value statement" score (6.80) was the best among enterprise products, with Sun's 6.69 a respectable third. BlueArc's best score in this section (7.05) was for "This product is easy to use." It also scored a 7.0 for "This product was installed without any defects."
Product reliability
The product reliability section characterizes how well a product has held up over time in actual use. We asked respondents to tell us how well the product delivers related to issues such as service levels, patch management and upgrades. Our previous surveys have revealed that patch management is an area of least satisfaction for users. Once again, this statement was a strong predictor of the overall order of finish.
BlueArc's highest score (7.0) in this section was in response to "This product requires very few unplanned patches." However, users were apparently not as pleased when patches were required, as they gave BlueArc its lowest score in this section (6.50) for the statement "Patches can be applied nondisruptively."
But Meteor Studio's Juneau hasn't been disappointed with the reliability or patch management of the firm's BlueArc system. "It has never gone down," he says, and "we've only had scheduled maintenance and that's like a two-minute reboot. It's very reliable."
Sun, the second-place enterprise vendor in this category, had similar ratings. Its best score was for "This product meets my service-level requirements" (6.69), but it received a 6.13 on the nondisruptive patch issue.
Midrange NAS vendors met the same fate as their enterprise brethren. NetApp scored 7.0 or higher on every statement in the section except for the nondisruptive patch statement, where it received a 6.03. Among midrange products, EMC came in second to NetApp in the product reliability section, and received a 6.0 or higher on almost every statement. However, it, too, stumbled a bit with a 5.59 rating for the nondisruptive patches statement.
Technical support
The technical support section--which addresses users' experiences with their vendors' technical support--was the second lowest-rated section for BlueArc (6.73) and NetApp (6.75), as well as most of the other vendors (see the "Technical support" graphs in the "Rankings of enterprise NAS" and "Rankings of midrange NAS"). Apparently, users are satisfied but not thrilled with their technical support. However, BlueArc's enterprise product scored a 7.0 in this section for two statements: "The vendor supplies support as contractually specified" and "The vendor takes ownership of the problem." Among midrange products, NetApp's FAS200 had its highest score (7.10) for "The vendor supplies support as contractually specified."
"It's always been pretty consistent," says Lah of EMC's support of Eli Lilly and Co.'s Celerra and NS Series storage systems. "The 'sev 1' critical issues are treated very well; in my opinion, EMC does a great job on those."
In previous surveys, we've found technical support from third-party vendors to be as good as or better than the manufacturer's support. In this NAS survey, that wasn't the case. Both BlueArc (6.25) and NetApp (6.44) had their lowest scores in the section for the statement "Vendor's third-party partners are knowledgeable."
Even when scores were relatively lower, users can take comfort in the apparent fact that it's hard to go too far wrong with any of these products or suppliers. The market perception that NAS is easy to implement and manage was validated in our 2007 survey.
| Products included in the survey
The following products were included in the Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine Quality Award II for NAS survey.
*Didn't receive a sufficient number of responses to be included in the survey results.
|About the survey
The Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine Quality Award II for NAS is the fifth installment in our annual series of survey-based service and reliability awards. The Quality Awards identify products that have proven their quality and reliability in actual use. The results are derived from a survey of qualified Storage readers, assessing products in five categories: sales-force competence, product features, initial product quality, product reliability and technical support. Products were rated on a 1.0-8.0 scale, where 8.0 is the most favorable possible score.
In total, the survey generated 396 valid responses (compared to 387 in 2006 ). Users rated 846 systems this year, substantially more than the 523 systems evaluated a year ago. The survey has a 5% margin of error with a 95% confidence factor. Forty-five percent of respondents evaluated two or more systems. The most frequently evaluated systems were Network Appliance (NetApp) FAS900/3000 (141), EMC Corp. Celerra (131), EMC NS Series (124) and NetApp FAS200 (74).
The demographics of our respondents were fairly balanced, but leaned somewhat toward smaller organizations. The largest group of respondents was from organizations with less than $50 million in revenue, but the second largest group had more than $10 billion in revenue. IT services was the most represented industry, followed by financial services, manufacturing and government. Thirty-six percent of those surveyed were storage managers or storage administrators, while 8% were CIOs or CTOs.


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It's difficult to capsulate all of Italian cuisine into a neat and tidy classification, given that there are 20 separate and distinct regioni (regions), each with its own unique flavors, ingredients and cooking techniques standardized long before Italy became a nation in 1861. Interestingly, the most iconic Italian cuisine, pasta, bread, garlic and tomato sauce, is most descriptive of Southern Italy. Yet, each region lends its own colorful characteristics to the gastronomy as a whole.
Northern Italy
Eight of the 20 separate regions of Italy lend their terrain, tastes, history and influences to Northern culinary traditions. With the ample grazing areas and the widespread cattle breeding, lend to the wide use of beef, veal and pork in the dishes of the North. Dishes also rely more on the use of butter than olive oil and various cheeses. Rather than flat and extruded pasta, stuffed pasta is more common in the North.
Among Northern sub-regions, the mountainous area of Val d'Aosta is the home of fontina cheese. Piedmont is also famous for its many cheeses and the white truffles that grown in abundance. Agnolotti and cannelloni are the preferred pasta types there. The cuisine of Lombardy has been widely influenced; from the tastes of France and Germany to Austria and Hungary. Popular dishes of this region are Cotoletta "meat" such as cotolette alla milanese and panettone. Venice (and the Veneto region) has eclectic tastes, including an appreciation for sweet and sour, a good example could be Herrings in "Saore".
Central Italy
More common Mediterranean staples, like olive oil, grains and seasonal produce, are at home in the six sub-regions that make up Central Italy. Simplicity in ingredients and preparation style best defines the cuisine. For generations, skilled artisans have produced quality pasta, cheeses, bread, cured meats, olive oil and wine. Pasta is part of the fabric of Central Italy.
Cooks in Abruzzo and Molise commonly turn to maccheroni (macaroni) served with Ragù, which is prepared all over Italy, with few notable differences among each region: Ragù all'Abruzzese is made with a special smoked bacon, while Ragù alla Molisana is made with lamb, pork, veal, lard. In Lazio, the home of Rome, spaghetti, bucatini and rigatoni are most popular, as well as egg-based fettuccine. The regions of Umbria and Marche produce an abundance of dried pasta. Black truffles find a way into many dishes in Umbria, as five truffle varieties commonly grow in the region.
Southern Italy
Some of the more popular Italian dishes hale from the six sub-regions that make up Southern Italy. It is the home of Pizza, Lasagna with Ricotta and Eggplant Parmesan. The warm southern climate is prime for growing produce, especially tomatoes (used widely in red sauces) and eggplant in summer and broccoli raab and cauliflower in winter. Ricotta and mozzarella cheese are fundamental to the Southern diet, as is olive oil. It is also home of the durum wheat pastas, like spaghetti.
The islands of Sardinia and Sicily lend their culinary traditions to Southern Italy. Especially notable are sweets incorporating candied fruits, raisins, nuts, ricotta and honey, as well as flavored ice. Dried pasta also is fundamental to the area, where they prefer tubes and other short pasta, including macaroni, fusilli, penne and ziti.


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Rita's Water Ice in Royersford and Collegeville will be helping more than just your craving for sweets on April 24.
The locations are hosting Ice for Autism, a fundraiser that benefits special needs and Autistic support programs at Spring-Ford Area School District. Twenty percent of sales on April 24 will be donated to the fund. Another Ice for Autism event was held on April 10 at the Collegeville and Royersford locations.
Bev and Greg McNutt, owners of the franchise who have an autistic son, began the event five years ago, said organizer Kelly Griffin.
'Bev and Greg use Rita's as a way to raise awareness, not just to get people out to business,' Griffin said. 'They wanted to help the district raise money and to do things for kids to educate them outside of the normal classroom (activities).'
'The money from Ice for Autism has been used to purchase Wii's for the Autistic Support classrooms to help with socialization and physical therapy, computers to use with special needs students, materials for classrooms, teacher training, etc.,' Griffin said. It has provided many things that the school budget can't cover due to budget cuts.'
The fundraiser is held in April because of Autism Awareness Month.
During Ice for Autism, Spring-Ford students can see their administrators and teachers helping out as celebrity scoopers.
Spring-Ford Area School District Superintendent Dr. David Goodin and Assistant Superintendent Allyn J. Roche will serve as celebrity scoopers at the Royersford location. Teachers and other staff members are also participating as celebrity scoopers. Members of the business community have also volunteered their time for the fundraiser.
Griffin said teachers bring in a lot of attendees for the fundraiser and help promote it as much as they can.
'Kids like to come out and see their teachers in a different environment,' she said.
Griffin said some of the elementary aged students have already donated to the fundraiser by buying puzzle pieces. They raised $4,000. A similar puzzle piece drive is in the works for the high school.
This year many the following businesses partnered with Rita's and sold puzzle pieces: Main Street Cafe, Royersford; Penn Liberty Bank, Limerick; Ambler Savings Bank, Limerick; Phoenixville Federal Savings Bank, Royersford, Limerick and Collegeville; Jen Capone Photography, Royersford; Maxout Strength Studio, Royersford; Limerick Golf Course, Limerick; Staples, Collegeville; Sign-A-Rama, Royersford and Palermo's Pizza, Royersford.
In addition to Goodin and Roche, the celebrity scoopers will be Dr. Melissa Patschke, Tina Weidenbaugh, Dan Currie, Christine Raber, Shawn Riordan, Krista Brooke, Rachel Yalcin, Laura DiBattista, Heather Nuneviller, Megan Wiley, Karen DeLange, Dana Rosenblum, Cheryl West, Pat Nugent, Mark Moyer and Megan Ames.
Those who participated in the April 10 event were Pat Stroop, Jessie Mecleary, Kathy Pencak, Todd Reagan, Louise Plush, Megan Ames, Krista Brooke, Jeanmarie Mason, David Frankel, Joan Kenney, Christine Raber, Denise Gebhard, Lindsay Shaner, Kathy Kotch, Emily Belisario, Carol Smith, Holland Smith, Kerry Fizz, Heather Fobia, Dan Currie, Emily Sassaman, Linda Fulmer, Lauren Carr, Jen Ricci, Donna Rowlands, Karen Bollinger.


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A.M. Three Strikes: Meet the candidates for Colorado Supreme Court
A cops and courts roundup following a weekend of zombies, more protests and the apparent second coming.
LEADING OFF: A big announcement will be coming this week, when Gov. John Hickenlooper is expected to name his pick for Colorado Supreme Court. The Post's Jessica Fender had great profiles of each of the three candidates: Brian Boatright, Frederick Martinez and Patrick T. O'Rourke. Hickenlooper has until Friday to announce his choice. The new justice will replace Alex Martinez, who will become Denver's manager of safety. Barring any embarrassing early exits from the governor's mansion, this will be the first of at least two picks Hickenlooper will get. Meanwhile, we've heard lots of rumors but still no official word on that other big announcement – who will be Denver's next police chief – though we're inching closer to my prediction that we'll have a new justice before we get a new chief. (Please Mayor Michael Hancock, prove me wrong).
STRIKE ONE: In an effort to save money, Denver canceled Police Academy classes. Tom McGhee reports in today's Post that the decision has had some unintended consequences. KKCO in Grand Junction has the story of a Palisade couple arrested for selling meth to undercover cops with two kids in the room. And the Fort Collins Coloradoan captured the flames flying from an Old Town building this morning.
STRIKE TWO: The Washington Post had a story over the weekend on Mexico's drug war, and how the deployment of officers to fight cartels has led to a near doubling of the acreage dedicated to marijuana farming. And the Los Angeles Times has more info on the loaded gun that made it past TSA.
STRIKE THREE: We know Denver police have been tweeting for a while now. But nothing like this. A Los Angeles homicide detective is now under investigation for a tweet he sent from a crime scene, in which people thought he posted a picture of a body under a bloodied sheet. (The detective, who tweets @LAMurderCop, says it was actually a blanket and the red marks were part of the pattern – not blood).


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This information is produced and provided by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The information in this topic may have changed since it was written. For the most current information, contact the National Cancer Institute via the Internet web site at http://cancer.gov or call 1-800-4-CANCER.
Getting enough sleep is needed for both physical and mental health.
Sleep is an important part of physical and mental health. While we sleep, the brain and body do a number of important jobs that help us stay in good health and function at our best.
Getting the sleep we need:
Sleep has two main phases that repeat during the sleeping period.
There are two main phases of sleep and both are needed in order to get "a good night's sleep." The two main phases of sleep are rapid eye movement (REM) and non-rapid eye movement (NREM):
The phases of sleep repeat during the night in a cycle of a non-REM phase followed by a REM phase. Each cycle lasts about 90 minutes and is repeated 4 to 6 times during 7 to 8 hours of sleep.
Sleep disorders affect normal sleep patterns.
Normal sleep patterns differ from person to person. The amount of sleep you need to feel rested may be less or more than others need. If sleep is interrupted or does not last long enough, the phases of sleep are not completed and the brain cannot finish all the tasks that help restore the body and mind. There are five major types of sleep disorders that affect normal sleep.
Sleep disorders keep you from having a good night's sleep. This may make it hard for you to stay alert and involved in activities during the day. Sleep disorders can cause problems for cancer patients. You may not be able to remember treatment instructions and may have trouble making decisions. Being well-rested can improve energy and help you cope better with side effects of cancer and treatment.
Sleep problems that go on for a long time may increase the risk of anxiety or depression.
This summary is about sleep disorders in adults who have cancer, with a section on somnolence syndrome in children.
Sleep disorders are more common in people with cancer.
While sleep disorders affect a small number of healthy people, as many as half of patients with cancer have problems sleeping. The sleep disorders most likely to affect patients with cancer are insomnia and an abnormal sleep-wake cycle.
There are many reasons a cancer patient may have trouble sleeping, including:
Tumors may cause sleep problems.
For patients with tumors, the tumor may cause the following problems that make it hard to sleep:
Certain drugs or treatments may affect sleep.
Common cancer treatments and drugs can affect normal sleep patterns. How well a cancer patient sleeps may be affected by:
Long-term use of certain drugs may cause insomnia. Stopping or decreasing the use of certain drugs can also affect normal sleep. Other side effects of drugs and treatments that may affect the sleep-wake cycle include the following:
Being in the hospital may make it harder to sleep.
Getting a normal night's sleep in the hospital is difficult. The following may affect how well a patient sleeps:
Getting sleep during a hospital stay may also be affected by anxiety and the patient's age.
Stress caused by learning the cancer diagnosis often causes sleeping problems.
Stress, anxiety, and depression are common reactions to learning you have cancer, receiving treatments, and being in the hospital. These are common causes of insomnia. (See the PDQ summary on Depression for more information.)
Other health problems not related to cancer may cause a sleep disorder.
Cancer patients can have sleep disorders that are caused by other health problems. Conditions such as snoring, headaches and daytime seizures increase the chance of having a sleep disorder.
An assessment is done for patients with sleep disorders.
An assessment is done to find problems that may be causing the sleep disorder and how it affects your life. Patients with mild sleep disorders may be irritable and unable to concentrate. Patients with moderate sleep disorders can be depressed and anxious. These sleep disorders may make it hard for you to stay alert and involved in activities during the day. You may not be able to remember treatment instructions and may have trouble making decisions. Being well-rested can improve energy and help you cope better with side effects of cancer and treatment.
A sleep disorder assessment includes a physical exam, health history, and sleep history.
Your doctor will do a physical exam and take a medical history that includes:
You and your family can tell your doctor about your sleep history and patterns of sleep.
A polysomnogram may be used to help diagnose the sleep disorder.
A polysomnogram is a group of recordings taken during sleep that show:
This information helps the doctor find the cause of your sleeping problems.
Treating sleep disorders may include supportive care for side effects of cancer or cancer treatment.
Sleep disorders that are caused by side effects of the cancer or cancer treatment may be helped by relieving the symptoms of those side effects. It's important to talk about your sleep problems with your family and the health care team so education and support can be given. Supportive care may improve your quality of life and ability to sleep.
Cognitive behavioral therapy may reduce anxiety and help you relax.
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps reduce anxiety about getting enough sleep. You learn to change negative thoughts and beliefs about sleep into positive thoughts and images, in order to fall asleep more easily. CBT helps replace the anxiety of "I need to sleep" with the idea of "just relax." You learn how to change sleep habits that keep you from sleeping well. CBT may include the following:
When you have sleep problems for a long time, just getting ready for bed or getting into bed to sleep may cause you to start worrying that you will have another sleepless night. That worry then makes it very hard to fall asleep. Stimulus control can help you learn to connect getting ready for bed and being in bed only with being asleep. By using the bed and bedroom only when you're sleepy, the bed and sleep are linked in your mind. Stimulus control may include the following changes in your sleeping habits:
Sleep restriction decreases the time you spend in bed sleeping. This makes you more likely to feel sleepy the next night. The time you can set aside for sleeping is increased when your sleep improves.
Relaxation therapy is used to relieve muscle tension and stress, lower blood pressure, and control pain. It may involve tensing and relaxing muscles throughout the body. It is often used with guided imagery (focusing the mind on positive images) and meditation (focusing thoughts). Self-hypnosis at bedtime can also help you feel relaxed and sleepy. Relaxation therapy exercises can make it easier for stimulus control and sleep restriction to work for you.
Learning good sleep habits is important.
Good sleep habits help you fall asleep more easily and stay asleep. Habits and routines that may help improve sleep include the following:
A comfortable bed and bedroom
Making your bed and bedroom more comfortable may help you sleep. Some ways to increase bedroom comfort include:
Regular bowel and bladder habits
Regular bowel and bladder habits reduce the number of times you have to get up during the night. Waking during the night to go to the bathroom may be reduced by doing the following:
Diet and exercise
The following diet and exercise habits may improve sleep:
Other habits that may improve sleep include:
Hospital routines
Getting a good night's sleep in a hospital or other care facility can be hard to do. The good sleep habits listed above may help you. As a hospital patient, you may also:
If treatment without drugs does not help, sleep medicines may be used for a short time.
Treatment without drugs does not always work. Sometimes cognitive behavioral therapies are not available or they do not help. Also, some sleep disorders are caused by conditions that need to be treated with drugs, such as hot flashes, pain, anxiety, depression, or mood disorders. The drug used will depend on your type of sleep problem (such as trouble falling asleep or trouble staying asleep) and other medicines you're taking. All of your other medicines and health conditions will affect which sleeping medicines are safe and will work well for you.
Some drugs that help you sleep should not be stopped suddenly. Suddenly stopping them may cause nervousness, seizures, and a change in the REM phase of sleep that increases dreaming, including nightmares. This change in REM sleep may be dangerous for patients with peptic ulcers or heart conditions.
Patients Who Have Pain
In patients with pain that disturbs their sleep, treatment to relieve the pain will be used before sleep medicines are used. Pain drugs, other drugs being taken, and any other health conditions may affect which sleeping medicines are prescribed.
Older Patients
It's normal for older people to have some insomnia. Changes related to age can cause lighter sleep, waking up more often during the night, and sleeping less total time. If an older patient with cancer is having trouble sleeping, the doctor will look for the specific causes, such as:
Treating sleeping problems without drugs is tried first. The following may help improve sleep in older patients:
Medicine may be used if non-drug treatments don't work. The doctor will look at all the patient's medicines and health conditions before choosing a sleeping medicine. For some patients, doctors will suggest a sleep disorder clinic for treatment.
Children with Somnolence Syndrome
Somnolence syndrome (SS) is a side effect of radiation therapy to the head and is often seen in children treated for acute lymphocytic leukemia. Children with SS seems to be sleepy all the time. They are less alert when awake, irritable, and have low energy and little appetite. There is sometimes a low-grade fever. The risk of SS increases when the total dose of radiation is given in fewer parts (fractions) and over a short period of time. The syndrome usually appears 4 to 6 weeks after radiation therapy ends. Up to half of children treated with radiation to the head may have SS..
Patients Who Have Jaw Surgery
Patients who have surgery on the jaw may develop sleep apnea, which is a sleep disorder that causes the person to stop breathing for 10 seconds or more during sleep. Plastic surgery to rebuild the jaw may help prevent sleep apnea.
Check NCI's list of cancer clinical trials for U.S. supportive and palliative care trials about sleep disorders that are now accepting participants. The list of trials can be further narrowed by location, drug, intervention, and other criteria.
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How to Make Your Own Wrapping Paper
Wrapping Christmas gifts doesn't have to be expensive. Brown craft paper and white butcher paper are cost-effective alternatives to sometimes high-priced wrapping paper.
Craft paper and butcher paper are available at restaurant supply stores or paper warehouses. You can purchase a single bulk roll, which varies from 800 to 950 feet long. You'll rarely pay more than twenty bucks for the whole roll, and you can design your wrapping paper as you go along.
Painting, stenciling, and stamping are popular ways of customizing your wrapping paper, but you can also try using stickers, press-on decals, beads, or other creative finds. Because these papers are neutral colors, you can design them to match any theme or color scheme. You're only limited to your imagination.
Newspapers are often used in a pinch to wrap presents inexpensively. Instead of looking cheesy and cheap by wrapping up a gift in the comic section, try using newspapers in an artful way.
Simple black-and-white newsprint provides a great backdrop for a striking red fabric bow to pop off of. Add a handmade tag, and your chintzy wrapping will look tailor-made.
Use cool or unusual newspapers, like the stock market section of The Wall Street Journal, to wrap up a gift for a money-conscious friend or relative, or use a Chinese-language newspaper to wrap up gifts for a Chinese New Year celebration. A little thought can provide a wrapping bonanza.


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Many patients find that doctors from their own communities are better able to understand their concerns. Because the women physicians who train future physicians recognize the value of diverse perspectives, they are developing innovative teaching strategies and programs to attract students from many backgrounds to all specialties. To help students succeed in medical school, women physicians act as mentors, advisors, and role models.
Women physicians are enlarging the base of students who aspire to careers in medicine, as well as expanding the skills that all medical students take into successful practice.
Katherine A. Flores established two programs to encourage disadvantaged students to pursue careers in medicine: the Sunnyside High School Doctor's Academy and the middle school Junior Doctor's Academy. These programs provide academic support and health science enrichment to young people who might not otherwise be successful in their educational experiences—or be thinking about medical careers. READ MORE
Dr. Linda M. Dairki Shortliffe built a successful career in the relatively new field of pediatric urology when very few women surgeons were doing such work. Since 1988, she has been at the Stanford University School of Medicine Medical Center and Packard Children's Hospital as chief of pediatric urology. Since 1993, she has also been director of the Urology Residency Program at Stanford, and has been successful in recruiting more women physicians to her specialty. She noted that the numbers have grown rapidly; when she got her board certification in urology in 1983, there were only fifteen women urologists in the U.S. Now there are more than two hundred. READ MORE
While teaching pediatrics at the University of Arizona in the 1970s, Paula Stillman needed a reliable way to evaluate her students' clinical competence. Her solution was to train and use "patient instructors" or "standardized patients." Stillman's system is a competency based program, Objective Structured Clinical Evaluations (OSCE), developed to assess medical students, foreign medical graduates, and U.S. doctors in danger of losing their licenses. Her system has also been adopted by medical schools in China. READ MORE
In 1986, The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) bestowed their Special Recognition Award on Dr. Edithe J. Levit, the first woman president and CEO of a national medical association, the National Board of Medical Examiners. Dr. Levit introduced new technologies and strategies for the examination of medical students, spearheading change to improve standards. Carefully managing the needs of both medical schools and examiners, she promoted dynamic changes that included the introduction of audiovisual tools, computer-based exams, and the first self-assessment test of the American College of Physicians. READ MORE
As director of the program in humanities and medicine and the clinical skills assessment program at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, Rita Charon, M.D., developed an innovative new teaching method. The "parallel chart" system brings literature and medicine together to improve the doctor-patient relationship, and forms part of the only narrative competency course in a United States medical school. READ MORE
Barbara Bates further developed the role of the nurse-practitioner, and wrote a guide to patient history-taking that has become the standard text for health practitioners and medical students. Her book, Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking, first published in 1974, has been published in several revised editions and includes a twelve-part video supplement, A Visual Guide to Physical Examination. READ MORE
Barbara Ross-Lee, D.O., has worked in private practice, for the U.S. Public Health Service, and on numerous committees, and in 1993 was the first African American woman to be appointed dean of a United States medical school. READ MORE


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AVENTURA, Fla. - Need to ask a doctor a question and receives an answer right away? There's an app for that.
Dr. Ariel Soffer, who treats patients with unsightly, and often painful, varicose veins, developed the Soffer Health Application to streamline his record keeping and make consultation more efficient.
Dr. Soffer has a busy practice but was trying to find a better way to reach more patients before and after surgery.
"Where I wanted to see what was going with my patients in a legal way, in a privacy protected way, a beautiful and convenient way, and that's what the app does. It shows me what's going with this patient," said Dr. Soffer.
Dr. Soffer created the free application for iPhones and Androids smartphones. It serves as a virtual consultation for patients who have questions before or after treatment.
Robin Gale has undergone several different treatments for her varicose veins. She said the app has saved her time.
"I had a little pain and discomfort in one area, so I took a photo and sent it and he sent me back a message saying it was all normal," she said.
Jennifer Rosenblum had a similar experience. She showed up to the doctor's office after using the app the night before.
"Normally, it takes doctors quite some time to call you back," said Rosenblum. "In this case, they were able to see it immediately and take care of the problem."
Dr. Soffer believes the app is a great way to stay connected with his patients and record their progress even when he is thousands of miles away.
Gale agrees.
"Very quick and easy. Much easier than making an appointment and coming in," she said.
Currently, the app is only being used for vein health, but Dr. Soffer said future uses may be in the fields of dermatology and infectious diseases.
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This is a twist to Surname Saturday. I have looked at a lot of blogs. Many of them mention ancestors in a posting. Unfortunately, I am unable to find a list, ANYPLACE on the blog, of the surnames the blogger is researching. This is frustrating to me. Yes, I'll still read the blogs; they're interesting. BUT, I'd love to know the names of other ancestors. Perhaps we're cousins and just don't know it.
So, my request is that if your blog talks about ancestors, please, someplace on the blog, list the surnames related to you. I'd love it and you may find a lot more readers who can help you.


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Business Leaders for Michigan tallies scorecards on state's 15 public universities
The performance profiles of Michigan's 15 public higher education institutions — and how they compare to their peers nationally — are now available online.
Business Leaders for Michigan, a statewide business roundtable, has released to the public Michigan's Performance Tracker for Public Universities.
The online tool allows educators, business and community leaders, policy makers and prospective and current students to inspect how each university handles its money — and their strengths and weaknesses.
The Performance Tracker provides each university and college with a scorecard, complete with downloadable graphs and data sheets. Each scorecard contains four data categories — and about 30 different metrics — that include state appropriations, productivity and efficiency, affordability and access and the school's economic impact.
For instance, Grand Valley State University's scorecard is available here.
"The Performance Tracker shows what a college education at a Michigan university will cost, and, generally, what kind of outcomes universities produce for that investment," said Doug Rothwell, BLM president and CEO. "It places Michigan at the forefront of higher education transparency and accountability."
The tracker's data is taken from 2012 numbers submitted by the universities themselves and will be updated annually.
"It was real clear that the vast majority are producing critical skills . . . in highly sought-after degrees," said Kelly Chesney, BLM vice president of marketing and communications. "Michigan universities are producing above their peers. Also, our university system does not receive as much state support as other states. That is reflected in our tuition costs."
Looking at the data, she said one thing is clear: Michigan has great colleges, but little government support. Gov. Rick Snyder recently announced his budget plan to raise higher education funding by 2 percent, a decision supported by BLM.
"We were pleased to see the governor put additional dollars into education," Chesney said. "We strongly believe in investing in our higher education system."
BLM began work on the Performance Tracker last year. The data used to flesh it out was taken directly from the Integrated Post Secondary Data System through the National Center of Education of Statistics, which is funded by the federal government.
The data is the most reliable source of its kind for university funding across the nation, Chesney said. It compares Michigan universities with other national higher education platforms similar in size and budget.
The Performance Tracker is not an individual critique of any college or university, she said, but, rather, an objective, fact based informational tool to help Michigan's education system.
BLM provided a list of its key findings based on the data charted in the Performance Tracker.
- 13 of 15 universities are below their peer average for state support
- 10 of 15 universities are above their peer median in producing total degrees and seven of 15 are among the top 20 percent of peers
- 13 of 15 universities are above their peer median in producing degrees in critical skills areas and eight of 15 are in the top 20 percent of peers
- As a group, Michigan's public universities rank fifth in total degrees produced and fourth nationally in critical skills degrees produced, such as science, technology, engineering and math
- 10 of 15 are higher than their peer average for average net price of attendance for in-state students


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Article 501 through 503 form a trilogy. Art. 505 provides an alternative to Art. 501; Art. 506 provides an alternative to Art. 502 and 503. Between these two sets is Art. 504. It's sandwiched there because it applies to both sets. You can use intrinsically safe (IS) systems in all three classes of hazardous location, whether you use the division system or the zone system.
When installing IS systems, you can use any of the wiring methods suitable for unclassified locations [504.20]. This is an advantage that could save considerable money. So why not use 100% IS circuits and equipment rather than bother with those other Articles?
The answer to that question lies in the definition of "intrinsically safe." The NEC doesn't define this per se, but it does define four variations (IS apparatus, circuits, and system; plus different IS circuits). If we look at the definition of "IS circuit," we see it's a circuit that isn't capable of causing ignition under specific conditions.
Those conditions are described in ANSI/UL 913-1997, "Intrinsically Safe Apparatus and Associated Apparatus for Use in Class I, II and III, Div. 1, Hazardous (Classified) Locations." The requirements outlined in this standard are rigorous. Also, there are several levels of IS. Equipment with an IS label for one application might not be permitted for another.
IS has cost and complexity, so it isn't a shortcut to eliminating the cost and complexity of applying the other relevant hazardous location articles found in the NEC — and you're never going to make a large coal-handling motor IS. The motivation for using IS equipment has more to do with considerations of practicality, especially for operations and maintenance.
The IS labels apply to a wide range of items and equipment, including portables. For example, maintenance techs commonly carry radios. Those working in hazardous locations carry IS versions (labeled for use in that specific Class). The same thing applies to laptops, test equipment, electrical tools, and mechanical tools. An example of a mechanical tool is the brass hammer; it doesn't spark upon impact. While Art. 504 doesn't address portable equipment, using such items is part of working in hazardous locations.
Intrinsic safety is a system concept. We get a hint of this by reading the definitions in Art. 504. This fact becomes clear where the NEC requires you to install the equipment per the control drawing(s) [504.4]. The control drawing is the master plan for everything in an IS system. The Instrument Society of America (ISA) has a standard that addresses this drawing: ISA-RP12.2.02-1996.
Suppose you have IS equipment in a Class II location. There's a system configuration change, and now this location is Class I. Is that equipment, which carries an IS label, OK to leave where it is? Yes, but only if it's identified for Class I [504.10(B)]. Otherwise, you'll have to replace it with equipment that is.
You can install associated apparatus in any location for which it has been identified. If it's not identified for the location, you can still install it there, if you protect it by other means identified in Arts. 501, 502, 503, and 505.
If installing "simple apparatus" (see definition in 504.2), you must calculate the temperature class following the instructions in 504.10(B) and using Table 504.10(B).
Wiring methods
You can install IS apparatus using any of the wiring methods suitable for unclassified locations. You can also use those covered by Chapters 7 and 8, but you must provide sealing (which we'll cover in a moment) and separation (which we'll cover next) [504.20].
Four degrees of separation
You must separate IS conductors of one circuit from IS conductors of another circuit by at least a quarter inch [504.30(B)] (unless the control drawing permits tighter spacing). You can achieve separation by running each circuit in a grounded shield or by ensuring each conductor has insulation at least 0.01 in. thick.
You must separate IS conductors from those that aren't IS, and the rules depend upon which of three scenarios you have:
1) In raceways, cable trays, or cables. You can't run IS conductors in any raceway, cable tray, or cable with non-IS conductors. One of the four exceptions to this rule might apply to your installation [504.30(A)(1)].
2) Within enclosures. You must secure the IS conductors so if a conductor might come loose from a terminal, it will be unlikely to come into contact with the terminal. You also must separate the two types of conductors by one of the four methods listed in 504.30(A)(2)(1)-(4).
3) Other (not in raceway or cable systems). Provide at least 2 in. of separation, and secure the IS conductors to avoid contact with non-IS conductors.
Applying the raceway, cable tray, and cable rules is pretty straightforward; just run IS conductors in their own raceway, cable tray, or cable. But what happens when these get to an enclosure? How do you keep them separated? How do you secure them to prevent contact? You can see solutions to these and other problems in the Photos. In addition to correctly using application-specific panel systems and isolators, the installers executed superior workmanship.
Grounding and bonding
The reason for installing IS equipment would be defeated if enough potential (voltage) built up between it and other equipment. Thus, IS equipment must be connected to the equipment grounding conductor (EGC) [504.50(A)]. This is really a bonding system, not a grounding system. Driving a ground rod and connecting to that will not eliminate dangerous differences of potential.
You must also "ground" the associated apparatus and cable shields per the control drawing [504.50(B)]. Typically, this means connecting only the termination panel end of the cable to this bonding system. Especially with low-voltage sensors, such as thermocouples, if you also connect the field end, you may create a ground loop that circulates enough current to overwhelm the actual signal. If the operator display shows an ambient temperature of 200°F outside, you probably have a ground loop on the thermocouple shielding.
The NEC also provides instructions on what to do where it's required that you connect to a ground rod [504.50(C)]. Before making that connection, question the requirement. What will it accomplish, and what kind of path is it providing for undesired current? Draw out the circuit, and you'll be able to see the answers. Connecting load side equipment to a ground rod generally won't accomplish anything except waste a ground rod. Make sure you bond to eliminate differences of potential; grounding will not achieve this.
Bond IS apparatus per 250.100 [504.60(A)]. In unclassified areas where metal raceways contain wiring for IS systems, bond those raceways per 501.30(A), 502.30(A), 503.30(A), or 506.25 as applicable.
The exception to 504.70 says you don't need seals on enclosures that contain only IS apparatus, except as required by 501.15(F)(3). The odd thing here is there's no 501.15(F)(3) in the 2011 NEC. It does, however, exist in the 2008 NEC.
This exception should say, "…except as required by 501.17." That's where 501.15(F)(3) was moved to. It's been completely rewritten and is more detailed than in the 2008 NEC.
As with any complex document, these kinds of oversights do sometimes happen with the NEC. So it's always good to learn the Code changes with each revision, and keep your previous copy of the NEC handy.
Efficiency, maintainability, and accuracy are among the many good reasons for an electrical contractor or a maintenance department to have a high-quality label-making system for cables and terminations. Those who install or maintain IS systems have an additional reason: compliance. Trying to comply with the label requirements for IS circuits with a permanent marker and tape is an exercise in futility. Consider just two of the several labeling requirements. You must:
1) Mark all terminals in a way that's intended to prevent unintentional interference with the circuits during testing and servicing [504.80(A)]. This almost certainly excludes anything you can do by hand.
2) Identify all raceways and other wiring methods (for IS systems) with permanently affixed labels that bear the words "Intrinsic Safety Wiring." If you need to do a few hundred labels by hand, it's going to take much time and probably a few choice words along the way. With an industrial labeler, you not only reduce errors, but also dramatically save time.
Getting it intrinsically right
Begin with a careful review of the control drawing. Then select the correct equipment. Remember, a system gets its IS label when it's deemed incapable of causing ignition in a given environment. Make sure every bit of IS equipment going into a given location has that location identified on its IS label.
This designation assumes ignition ability won't be added by the choices made during the installation. Pay special attention to equipment bonding and the use of barriers, as these are two areas where installers can easily go astray. Finally, using a specialized IS panel system reduces installation time and provides strong visual cues for error prevention.
Lamendola is an electrical consultant located in Merriam, Kan. He can be reached at [email protected].


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Orlando -- The problem with IT security professionals is they spend too much time stopping business people from trying new things, including cloud services, out of worries about risk when they should really be working directly with business managers to help them innovate by means of security.
That was the main point made today by ADP's senior director, converged security architecture, V. Jay LaRosa, during his keynote at the Cloud Security Alliance Congress, where he sought to convince the security professionals in the audience that they need to become better allies with business managers. "As security practitioners here, the problem is not with the cloud but with us, with our ability to evolve," said LaRosa, adding IT security managers are often seen as barriers to innovation.
IT security managers are fascinated with technology, worry a great deal about risks and are often the last to know about some IT projects, especially those involving cloud-based services, because business people tend to want to avoid the IT security department as much as they can, LaRosa suggested. Security ends up being this last "checkbox" on their list, which isn't good.
Being a savvy technologist is great in and of itself, but talking tech to business people usually backfires because they don't want to hear "geekspeak," they want to find out how to try new things to grow the business, LaRosa said. And IT security people need to change their attitudes and go out and get involved with them to do that.
LaRosa noted the reality is that IT security people are often viewed with disdain in the company, where they're even regarded as "jerks" who wander around doing little but putting anti-virus software on people's desktops.
ALSO:IT pros share blame for "shadow IT" problem, survey shows
"We're seen as innovation killers, always saying no," said LaRosa in his heartfelt keynote speech to the CSA audience. The goal for the IT security pro, however, should be to "never say no" because IT security should be involved in major projects from the start and able to determine the risks and compensating controls, including with cloud services.
He acknowledged there's still plenty for technologists and vendors to figure out in cloud security, but that's no reason to not forge ahead by starting to build strong ties with business managers to know what they're planning and be part of it.
"Listen to them. Learn what's important," and when talking with them, "always tie it to something important to them," LaRosa admonished. The danger is that IT security managers can find themselves increasingly irrelevant and the problem of "shadow IT," in which business people go behind the backs of IT to turn on the cloud services they want without their approval, will only grow.
Ellen Messmer is senior editor at Network World, an IDG publication and website, where she covers news and technology trends related to information security. Twitter: MessmerE. E-mail: email@example.com
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March 1, 2008
Tucson, Ariz. -
Seniors Charlotte Scatliffe and Marta Simic had their impressive six game doubles winning streak snapped by the Arizona duo of Danielle Steingberg and Claire Reitsch this Saturday, as the Gauchos lost a competitive match 4-3, to the No. 52 ranked Wildcats.
The Gauchos jumped out early on the host Wildcats, when the doubles pair of senior Brittany Kausen and sophomore Tova Hausman took care of Jane Hue and Ariane Masschelein, 8-5 at the No. 3 doubles spot. Arizona quickly rebounded with an impressive 8-1 win at No. 1 doubles. The Wildcats clinched the doubles point with a tightly contested 9-8 victory at No. 2 doubles, as Claire Reitsch and Natalia Toporowska barely edged freshman Jill Damion and sophomore Asagi Onaga.
In singles action, Charlotte Scatliffe set the tone dominating the Wildcats Toporowska in straight sets, 6-1, 6-2. Arizona responded tallying the score sheet with wins at No. 1 and No. 6. UCSB evened the score at 3-3, with victories at the No. 2 and No. 4 slots. Jill Damion outlasted her counterpart Reitsch, posting a 7-5, 7-6, (10-5) winner. Teammate Onaga handled Huh at No. 4 singles, with a 6-2, 7-5 win. Arizona won the deciding match to earn the 4-3 victory, as Masschelein survived Hausman in a marathon match 3-6, 6-4, 6-4.
The last stop for the Gauchos in the desert is this Sunday, when they voyage to Tempe, to battle Arizona State University. First serve is slated for 10:00 a.m. (PT).
No. 52 Arizona 4, UC Santa Barbara 3
.Results listed below.
No. 1 Steinberg (UA) def. Simic (UCSB) 6-1, 6-4
No. 2 Damion (UCSB) def. Riestch (UA) 7-5, 7-6, (10-5)
No. 3 Scatliffe (UCSB) def. Toporowska (UA) 6-1, 6-2
No. 4 Onaga (UCSB) def. Huh (UA) 6-2, 7-5
No. 5 Masschelein (UA) def. Hausman (UCSB) 3-6, 6-4, 6-4*
No. 6 Orletsky (UA) def. Kausen (UCSB) 6-1, 6-4
No. 1 Steinberg/Rietsch (UA) def. Simic/Scatliffe (UCSB) 8-1
No. 2 Toporowska/Rietsch (UA) def. Damion/Onaga (UCSB) 9-8
No. 3 Hausman/Kausen (UCSB) def. Huh/Masschelein (UA) 8-5


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When two of my good friends announced they'd be moving to Herceg Novi, Montenegro for several months this year, I was excited for them and thrilled at the opportunity to visit them in a new part of world. After they settled in, started with the language, and began making local friends, I booked my flight to Dubrovnik. I ordered a Serbo-Croatian phrasebook and I started reading about cultural and culinary traditions, politics, and the history of the region. My friends arranged for me to rent a studio apartment in their building, with a balcony overlooking the Bay of Kotor and the Adriatic Sea. For our visit to Dubrovnik, they booked a furnished flat with Rock Palace Apartments, and we got a kitschy and fun Jimi Hendrix themed place for a few days on the hillside overlooking the old city.
My biggest supporter of The Lotus and the Artichoke – Vegan Cookbook Kickstarter project made an amazing contribution which made the entire trip possible! For the reward, I'd signed up to visit a new place and bring back recipes based on the food there, plus lots of photography and artwork. So, along with briefly exploring two new countries with my location independent friends Ryan and Angela (of Jets Like Taxis), I got to sample and learn about traditional Balkan food. This included Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian, and Bosnian culinary customs. I wasn't surprised to hear that the local food is considerably influenced by neighboring cuisines: Mediterranean, Turkish, Greek, Italian, as well as Central and Eastern European cooking.


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McCartney's Letter to Lennon
In 1994, John Lennon was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist.
His longtime friend and musical collaborator Paul McCartney, making his first Hall of Fame appearance, inducted Lennon. More personal than the traditional induction speech, McCartney read a "letter" to Lennon, recounting a number of moving memories and thanking Lennon.
McCartney shared stories from their earliest attempts at writing songs together, teaching Lennon guitar chords and visiting Lennon's "Mum's house." He talked of their hotel visits with Little Richard and Gene Vincent, and spending time with Elvis Presley. He recalled Lennon's advice for handling the vocals on the Beatles' "Kansas City" and the "sneaky little look" they shared during the writing of "A Day In The Life." McCartney discussed meeting "this girl called Yoko Ono" – who later accepted Lennon's Hall of Fame Award on behalf of her late husband. The heartfelt letter moved many to tears.
"The joys you told me about how you were baking bread now and how you were playing with your little baby Sean," said McCartney of reconnecting with Lennon later in life. "That was great for me, because it gave me something to hold on to."
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2 Hurt In Shooting After Tyga Concert
Shots Fired As Band Leaves Venue
A rapper's entourage became the target of gunfire after an Omaha concert Monday.
Police said someone shot at Tyga's tour bus and hit two people inside near Sokol Auditorium at 13th and Martha streets about 11 p.m.
People at the concert said there were some rowdy audience members throwing garbage up on the stage just as Tyga was getting ready to sing his hit single "Rack City."
A video posted to YouTube shows the rapper exchanging words with the crowd, telling one person to meet him outside after the show.
After the concert, some people got into a fistfight with the band, and shots were fired as the band was trying to leave.
[Images: Gunfire Erupts After Concert]
Police said a black Ford Taurus followed the band's entourage to 16th and Jackson streets, and continued to fire, striking a bus and its trailer and shattering a window.
One of the two people shot, identified as Sochitta Sal, 19, was taken to the hospital. The other person hit, identified as Derrick Lowe, 20, refused treatment at the scene.
"Two people inside were hit by gunfire. A female was hit in the arm, and a male party had a graze wound to his left hip. The injuries are non-life-threatening," said Lt. David Sedlecek.
Tyga, born Michael Ray Nguyen-Stevenson, posted a message on Twitter at 5:32 a.m. Tuesday, saying, "Let's be clear them was haters not fans. My fans love me. I love them."
Earlier, he had reposted a message by Sal, known as rapper Honey Cocaine, in which she said, "Got shot and I'm not dead."
There have been no arrests, and police only say they're looking for the black Taurus.
Tyga was in Omaha as part of the YMCMB Rack City Tour.


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For its third consecutive year, the Personal Digital Archiving conference took place at Internet Archive in San Francisco, CA. Ahmed and I attended a diverse range of fascinating sessions on how people think about creating and preserving personal digital archives. The environment was very nice, and friendly (there were a baby and a dog in the second day ^_^).
The conference was held on Feb. 24 and Feb. 25, 2012. The first day started at 9:00 am with a keynote and welcome intro by Brewster Kahle about the Internet Archive and personal archives. Brewster gave a quick intro about Internet Archive history and asked an important question, "what would we want out of the Internet Archive in terms of preserving stuff that individuals are creating?", which should be solved by knowing how to collect materials and make them useful for the people from this conference.
Mike Ashenfelder from the Library of Congress gave a talk entitled "Personal Digital Archive Advice for the General Public" (video). He gave a quick description for the LoC main role in archiving, additional to LoC effort for the personal digital archiving. At the end, he gave an advice for the general public; identify what you want to save, decide what is most important to you, organize the content, and save copies in different places. The take home message can be summarized in these words: outreach, educate, simplify.
Stan James gave a talk entitled "How my Family Archives Affected Others" (video). James gave an update from the last year, he and his father started a project together to collect and archive all their family photos, documents, letters, postcards and more. More than 20,000 files are over the past year. He realized that his family is ahead of the curve. He started with the beginning of the story; a photo of his grandmother who burned all their letters after she had let her children read them. He encouraged his family to collaborate in archiving their stuff. He mentioned that his dad is still scanning the photos and this project brings the family together. James tried many tools for uploading photos; Picasa does not let you enter dates before 1970 (Unix timestamp), Google Plus can't edit the date at all. At last, he used Facebook timeline to upload his dad's 25,000 photos and organize them.
Jerry Michalski gave a talk entitled "What I've learned from gardening my Brain" (video). He presented Brain, mind-mapping software that can be used in a place of bookmarking. He was using it for 15 years and shared his brain as a case study to explain the benefit of the tool. He mentioned that Brain helps in organizing the stream-of-consciousness thinking.
Jo An Morfin-Guerrero from University of Bristol presented her work "Unstable Archives: Performing the Franko B Archive" (video). She started her session with a case study of an artist (Franko B) who was trying to archive his pictures, media and all his work long time ago. It was part of her Ph.D. research on preservation of media and different artistic practices to organize and archive Franco's records.
Through Media Types session, I learned of useful tools for preserving emails, bookmarking, and preserving photos. Peter Chan and Sudheendra Hangal from Stanford University gave two talks entitled "Processing and Delivering Email Archives in Special Collections using Muse" (video) and "Putting Personal Archives to Work: Reminiscence, Search and Browsing" (video), respectively about Muse, a project for archiving emails. It does sentiment analysis and slideshow for the images in the attachments. Muse gives a good insight for the trends in emails over time such as the topics of the month and so on. They mentioned that there are many challenges for email archiving, such as copyright and privacy, sensitive information, description (for creating metadata), and delivering. I found publication list which has more information about Muse.
Aaron Straup Cope presented his personal work "Parallel-flickr". He started his talk with a question "What would happen if flickr went away tomorrow?". He developed Parallel-flickr which is a software code that uses the Flickr API to pull out the photos and photo information.
Maciej Ceglowski from Pinboard a talk entitled "Remember the Web? Practical challenges of Bookmarking for Keeps" (video). Ceglowski presented Pinboard, a paid bookmarking site which was founded in 2009, 9 million archived bookmarks, and 4 TB stored web content. Pinboard downloads the full content of the bookmark and store it on a Pinboard server. Ceglowski said that "The search engine does not replace the need for your own bookmarks."
Personally, I liked the idea of keeping the content of each bookmark; I used to save the content of each file I found that it was useful on my local machine.
Next was lunch and after that were Social Network Data session. Marc A. Smith from the Social Media Research Foundation gave a talk entitled "Arc-chiving: saving social links for study" about NodeXL, an open tool for visualizing the connections of social media data and converting them into graphs (video). NodeXL works with Excel 2007 and 2010.
I tried it myself in Information Visualization class and I created very cool graphs and gained a good insight about my relations of Twitter and Facebook. The graph on the right shows how most of my friends on Facebook don't assign relationship status. This is a Group-in-a-Box (GIB) layout of the Facebook network using the "Circular layout". Clustering was done based on the relationship status of friends. The gray cluster represents the friends with no assigned relationship status.
Megan Alicia Winget from University of Texas at Austin gave a theoretical talk about thing-based behavior of looking at archiving objects versus interaction-based behavior (yelp, Facebook, etc.) which entitled "Personal Interaction Archiving: Saving our Attitudes, Beliefs, and Interests" (video). She raised a question: what are the people saving when they upload their annotations? She is studying the annotations/highlights that the people do through ebook tools and share them. Winget said that "The bookmarking tools can be thought of as a new form of commonplace books".
Jonathan Harris from Cowbird gave a talk entitled "Cowbird : A public library of human experience" (video). He presented Cowbird, a site for the people to upload stories. He mentioned that his long-term goal is to build a public library of human experience.
Before the last Keynote, there were many interesting Lightning Talks. Denim Smith presented milifemap in which the people can upload photos and personal videos, create private diaries, and share their thoughts (video). It has a timeline visualization for organizing and presenting people's personal content.
Christopher Prom from UIUC gave a lightning talk entitled "iKive: Towards a Trusted Personal Archives Service" (video). He presented iKive, a research project for the people to easily save their personal digital files to a trusted location.
Carly Strasser from California Digital Library gave a talk entitled "Digital Curation for Excel (DCXL)" (video). She presented DCXL project to facilitate data publishing, sharing, and organizing that would benefit others. The main result from the project will be an open source add-in for Microsoft Excel that will assist scientists in preparing their Excel data for sharing. Initial ideas include generating metadata, incorporating links to scientific data repositories and their requirements, and using controlled domain-specific vocabularies.
At the end of the day, Brewster Kahle gave an ending keynote entitled "A Data Archiving Service" (video). He gave different examples about the archiving initiatives, he estimated the cost for archiving a book page by 25 cent and he estimated the cost for storing 1TB by $2000 which is 40x more than the raw cost of TB hard disk.
Day 2 started with a keynote by Cathy Marshall from Microsoft Research entitled "Ownership, aggregation and re-use of Personal Data" (video). She started with an interesting question "Whose Content is it anyway?" She begins her talk with an example of how to reuse the pictures on the public web and social media. She did a study of user behaviors around using and reusing images. She found that everyone believes that you can keep anything you find online. "It's yours." About preserving social media, she said that "people can't make a go of it on their own. Therefore, we need institutional archives to help with preserving social media".
User Studies session started with Sarah Kim from University of Texas at Austin who gave a talk entitled "What is your plan for your personal digital archives after your lifetime? Learning from individuals" (video). A part of her Ph.D. dissertation, Kim presented the result of case studies of 20 persons. She asked them "what is your plan for your personal digital archives after your lifetime? "Most of them had never thought about it before or even didn't even think about planning for their personal digital archives. She found that there are reasons to leave something behind. She got a few basic categories into which people may fall: Delete all, Create condensed version, Sort and distribute to designated entities (e.g. kids, colleagues), Write in a will what to do including disposal and access methods, Allow caretaker or others to manage, Expect materials will be lost or deleted.
Debbie Weissmann gave a talk entitled "Personal Archiving in Not Personal Spaces" (video). She gave some examples of personal tweets and posts for opinions/problems at work and the persons who did that were fired. She raised an interesting question "What are the laws concerning that kind of thing?" There are no specific rules about this issue till now.
Lori Kendall from UIUC gave a talk entitled "Use of Personal Archives: Family History Works" (video). She argues that genealogy is becoming more of a thing due to Ancestry.com's popularity and that there are a lot of TV shows and news shows dedicated to it. She argues that genealogy is cool because it puts you in the middle as opposed to being "just another node" and the individualistic society of Americans can foster some love for the idea of a self-contained ecosystem based on ancestry.
Academics session started with interesting talks and then it was a Panel. John Butler from University of Minnesota gave a talk entitled "Practices in digital scholarship and personal archiving" (video). He made a study of research behaviors (50 grad students and faculty survey). He spoke about managing data to insure that they fit to contemporary and can be reused. He presented data management plan and best practices to preserve the data. The Key Finding is: there is a strong diversity of resources or media used. Methods learned in traditional contexts are not easily transferred to digital context. Researchers have unique collections to be shared, but they want to do it under personally-specified conditions.
Ellysa Stern Cahoy from Penn State University Libraries gave an interesting presentation entitled "Faculty Member as Microlibrarian: Critical Literacies for Personal Scholarly Archiving" (video). Her talk focused more on students (or perhaps scholars of tomorrow) than faculty to locate, and use the information. She talked about the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education, 2000 including the inclusion of effective competencies and a greater connection with K-12 learning standards.
The panel entitled "What's being Lost, What's being Saved: Practices in digital scholarship and personal archiving" (video). It had been shared between Smiljana Antonijevic from Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, John Butler from University of Minnesota, Laura Gurak from University of Minnesota, and Ellysa Stern Cahoy from Penn State University Libraries. Each of them covered a specific area of personal archiving relevant to academia. One of the interesting questions was about archiving emails, because every time we switch to another system, it is hard to preserve emails. Brewster said "IA has moved away from email to Skype. It is dead here, except for official purposes".
After the panel, we took the lunch and Post Lunch session started. Jason Scott from Internet Archive gave a very nice talk about his work in IA entitled "Archive Team and the Case of the Widespread Recognition" (video). He mentioned some of his team achievement during the last year. He said that "Google is a library or archive like a supermarket is a food museum."
Commercial Services session started with Maciej Ceglowski gave his second talk which entitled"The Business of Web Archiving" about Pinboard, but this time he presented the business models around social bookmarking: charge money (Zootool, Instapaper, Diigo, Pinboard,..etc), burn money "finding a sponsor"(Delicious, Yahoo Bookmarks, Google Bookmarks), offer a free service and fail (Magnolia 3 years, MyWeb 6 years, Xmarks). He gave a summary about Pinboard 2011 financials and the risks Pinboard faces.
The graph on the right is the Pinboard.in HTTP requests per minute for two different periods; Dec. 9-11 in blue and Dec. 16-18 in green. The blue bars show web traffic one week before the news that Yahoo will sunset Delicious; the green bars show how traffic spiked immediately after the plans to 'sunset' Delicious became public. The image shows how it is important for the people to save their bookmarks; at the first sign of danger, people stampeded away to save their bookmarks.
Jed Lau from Memoir Tree company gave a talk entitled "Digital Archive for the Elderly: Facilitating Old-Fashioned Storytelling" (video). He started his talk with a story about his grandmother who told him many stories and he missed her after she died. It was an introduction for the company. Memoir Tree is an app for iPhone that makes it easy to tell, show, and share history through recorded audio and photos. He made a live experiment for the attendance by asking them "what is your favorite ice cream flavor?". He recorded and showed that instantly.
Stacy Colleen Kozakavich gave a talk entitled "Every House has a History". She said "you can research the history of your house yourself".
Economics session started around 3:30 with a great talk to David S. H. Rosenthal from Stanford University entitled "Modeling the economics of long-term storage" (video). One of the interesting questions he tried to answer was "Why would we believe that in the future storage costs will drop at varying rates?".
Lightning Talks of the second day presented many interesting tools. Matt Zimmerman gave a talk entitled "An Open Source personal data platform" (video). Zimmerman presented Singly which allow the users to put all of their data (personal photos, places, links, contacts) into a single structured place. He also talked about locker Project, an open source personal data store which is still under active development, where you can collect and store all of your personal digital information.
Eric C. Cook from University of Michigan focuses in his lightning talk which entitled "Personal Digital Photography and the Implications of Selective Positive Representation" on digital photography (video).
Jerome McDonough from UIUC gave a lightning talk entitled "Deep Personal Significance: Computer Gaming & the Notion of Significant Properties" (video). He introduced an ongoing research project called Preserving Virtual Worlds 2 funded by the Library of Congress's National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIP). They are focusing on digital preservation of complex media. It focuses on finding significant properties for a variety of educational games and game series in order to provide a set of best practices for preserving the materials through virtualization technologies and migration, as well as provide an analysis of how the preservation process is documented.
In summary, the presentations were thought-provoking, and creative. I was happy to meet that mix of archivists, programmers, and researchers each with different approach to personal archiving. Many presentations were about tools for preserving personal media. Few presentations were about case studies in which the researchers worked directly with people and reported their findings. I heard about many interesting tools, such as Muse, Pinboard, etc. The conference next year will take place at the University of Maryland.
Quotes from the speakers
- "Google is a library or archive like a supermarket is a food museum" - Jason Scott
- "Everyone takes pictures of the wedding, never of the divorce."
- "You can research the history of your house yourself." - Stacy Colleen Kozakavitch
- "Software engineers are now social engineers." - Jonathan Harris
- "Everything on the web feels so disposable." - Jonathan Harris
- "Sometimes we make things more complicated and we need to simplify."
- "The process of figuring out where to put thoughts—has to be something you enjoy." - Jerry Michalski
- "The search engine does not replace the need for your own bookmarks." - Maciej Ceglowski
I'll add the videos for the talks later.
(2011-04-8 Update:) I have associated links to video recording of each session.


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Harry Potter Bedroom Ideas – While decorating your bedroom you should always keep in mind that this is not just a place where you will be spending the nights. Lighting fixtures are important as well. For a peaceful and romantic ambiance, subtle lights are more ideal to use. This will relax your eyes causing your body to rest as well.
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