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Earthquakes forward Steven Lenhart is expected to miss at least four weeks with a sprained medial collateral ligament in his left knee, the club announced Thursday.
Lenhart, who has not scored in three MLS matches this season while logging 258 minutes, went down in the 77th minute of a 2-1 loss to the New England Revolution on Saturday.
"We'll miss him, but as always with injuries it gives guys an opportunity," coach Mark Watson said. "Alan Gordon, who has been working his way back to fitness, is pretty close. Billy Schuler, Adam Jahn, all the other guys that have been working hard and waiting patiently."
Lenhart also had arthroscopic surgery on the meniscus of his right knee in 2011 and 2012. He scored four goals in 2013 after posting a career-high 10 in 2012.
The Quakes (0-2-1), after a bye this weekend, will play host to the Columbus Crew (3-0) on April 13 at Buck Shaw Stadium.
Stanford senior Felicia Lee was named the Honda Sports Award winner as women's college swimmer of the year. Lee, who led Stanford to a runner-up finish at the NCAA championships last month, is now a finalist for the Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year and the 2014 Honda Cup.
The other swimming finalists were teammate and Pac-12 performer of the year Maya DiRado and Olympians Missy Franklin of Cal, Breeja Larson of Texas A&M and Brittany MacLean of Georgia.
Lee won the 100-yard butterfly and helped four Stanford relay teams place first at the NCAA championships. "It's important to recognize that it's not really just an award for me; it's for my coaches, my teammates, my parents, and everyone who has helped me along the way to get here," Lee said in a statement.
The series leaves SJSU with one more nonconference opening for both the 2015 and 2016 seasons. A previously scheduled 2016 game with Colorado will no longer be played.
Horse racing
Pete's Slew won the $33,060 feature by a head over Convoy at Golden Gate Fields. Ridden by Dennis Carr, Pete's Slew earned his fourth victory in six starts.
The 3-year-old gelding, trained by Tim McCanna, ran six furlongs in 1:11.43 and paid $5 as the 3-to-2 favorite in a field of five. Bred and owned by Quadrun Farm, Pete's Slew has career earnings of $59,750.
Carr also won the fifth race with Cayanna ($6.60). Russell Baze also had a riding double, taking the fourth race with Roving Storm ($3.40) and the sixth with Dynamo Dixie ($4.20).
Staff writers Matt Schwab, Elliott Almond and Jimmy Durkin contributed to this report.


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Li Liufang (Chinese, 1575 - 1629)
Gazing at Snow along the Riverbank, Ming dynasty, 1616
Handscroll, ink on gold-ground paper
11 x 84 in. (27.9 x 213.4 cm)
Gift of Carol S. Brooks in honor of her father, George J. Schlenker, and R. T. Miller, Jr. Fund, 1997
This sketchy, improvisational landscape by the late Ming master Li Liufang brilliantly exemplifies the creative tension between style and content that characterizes many of the best Chinese paintings from that period.
At first glance, this scroll may appear to be an ordinary, perhaps even perfunctory, Chinese landscape. However, an inscription at the end of the painting, which explains the circumstances of its creation, quickly changes that impression.1
On the fifth day before the Winter Solstice of the bingchen year (1616), I boarded a boat at Tangxi. As the cold rain turned to snow, I took a piece of gold-ground paper a friend had sent me and sketched this picture of gazing at snow along the riverbank. -Li Liufang
Viewed with this knowledge, several seemingly routine elements of the painting unexpectedly emerge as effective representational devices. For example, the simple, austere brushstrokes of the trees and hills suddenly read as signs of winter desolation; the broad grey ink washes surrounding the landscape forms become brooding skies; and the metallic glint of the paper evokes the crisp chill of icy air. Although the river scenery itself is conventional and does not portray a real place, the painting nevertheless captures the essential mood and atmosphere of a specific moment in time. Thus, far from being an ordinary image, Gazing at Snow along the Riverbank is an outstanding example of evocative representation in Chinese painting.
Yet while the painting as a whole is representational, its specific details disintegrate into abstraction under close scrutiny. The brushstrokes cease to be descriptive, and instead become kinaesthetic reminders of the artistic process. The scenery of trees and rocky banks dissolves into an energetic assemblage of lines, dots, and dashes. Moreover, because the ink has not been readily absorbed into the gold-flecked paper, the depth of the image also fluctuates, with the distant shore seeming to rise into the same plane as the foreground forms. This instability of form and depth creates a fascinating tension between part and whole, and between subject and style. The viewer is kept in perceptual limbo, as the painting constantly shifts between specific representation and abstract pattern.
Although every Chinese painting exhibits some degree of this tension between representation and abstraction, or content and style, in most works either one or the other predominates. Indeed, one common way of formulating the history of Chinese painting has been to distinguish between artists who strove for "form-likeness" and those who emphasized brushwork. Paintings like this scroll that transcend such distinctions and achieve an equal balance of these qualities are thus quite rare. Li Liufang is not usually considered among the greatest Chinese painters, but in this scroll at least he briefly ascends to the highest level of artistic achievement.
C. Mason
Li Liufang was born in Jiading (now part of modern Shanghai), Jiangsu province, to a wealthy family with roots in Anhui province. Although Li earned a juren degree in 1606, he subsequently failed to pass the jinshi exams that were necessary to receive a government appointment. Giving up hope of an official career, he built an estate near Jiading and devoted himself to gardening, painting, and poetry. He traveled frequently, and was a companion to many of the leading literati artists and writers of his day. As a poet, Li is known as one of the "Four Masters of Jiading," while as a painter he is classed among the "Nine Friends of Painting," a group of artists associated with Dong Qichang (1555-1636). Because of his family's ties to Anhui, Li is sometimes also considered a forerunner of the Anhui school of painting. He died in Jiading at the relatively young age of fifty-four.
General References
Cahill, James. The Distant Mountains. New York, 1982, pp. 133-35.
Cahill, James, ed. Shadows of Mt. Huang. Exh. cat., University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, 1981, pp. 62-64.
Yu Jianhua. Zhongguo meishujia renming cidian. Shanghai, 1981, p. 377.
Collection Wu Yun (1811-1883)
Collection Wang Zuxi (1858-1908)
With Yabumoto Sogoro
Collection Dr. George J. Schlenker, Piedmont, California
Collection Carol Brooks (his daughter), from whom purchased in 1997
Cahill, James. The Distant Mountains. New York, 1982, pl. 63.
Technical Data
This handscroll is painted in black ink on multiple sheets of gold-leaf decorated paper. The image and mounting are both in excellent condition, with only minor horizontal and vertical creases. The dated inscription and signature in the lower left corner are followed by one seal of the artist. Additionally, there are seven collector's seals: three at the beginning include one of Wang Zuxi (1858-1908) and two of Wu Yun (1811-1883); the four at the end include one each of Wu Yun and Wang Zuxi, one of Tian Zhimin (19th century), and one unidentified. The title label on the exterior of the scroll was written by Wang Zuxi.
1. Translated by C. Mason.

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Harry Houdini, the famed escape artist, is getting a four-hour miniseries exploring his life on History.
The channel announced the miniseries was greenlighted Monday with Oscar winner Adrien Brody set to star as the master performer and "House of Cards'" Kristen Connolly as his wife, Bess.
According to History, the miniseries will follow Houdini's entire life, from his beginnings in poverty to his eventual status as internationally famous magician and escape artist. (Fans of Comedy Central's "Drunk History" got a recap of the end of Houdini's life in a recent episode.)


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Wordcraft: English Writing, Editing, and Translation in Japan
In 1991, SWET published its second book: Wordcraft: English Writing, Editing, and Translation in Japan, an anthology of articles of enduring value originally published in the Newsletter.
This series of five essays addresses aspects of professionalism, particularly in a Japanese context, among writers, editors, translators, and those in allied professions. These opinion pieces were contributed to the Newsletter by (in order of appearance) Lynne Riggs, Suzanne Trumbull, Mark Schreiber, Fred Uleman, and again Mark Schreiber.
- What it Means to Be a Professional
- What Makes a Translator Professional?
- Avoiding the Sensei Syndrome
- All You Need Is Love
- Professionalism Is a Service
Problems and Solutions
The Logomagus
The Logomagus (a.k.a. Suzanne Trumbull) writes on the use and abuse of the English tongue. Each article focuses on a particular problem, illustrated with examples from the public prints both in Japan and overseas.
- Who's on First? ("Untethered words and floating phrases)
- Keeping Count (Disagreement in number)
- Gilding the Lily (Redundancy)
- Getting it Write Wright Right (misspelling, typos, etc.)
- The Balancing Act (Parallel construction)
- Laying it on the Line (transitive and intransitive verbs)
- Garbled Grammar
- Who(m) Did that Bell Toll For? (who and whom)
- A Word to the Wise (principle where it should be principal, etc.)
- The Less Said, the Worse (less and fewer)
- The Mystery of the Misplaced Apostrophe (It's, Its)
Rough Words
"Rough Words," A Newsletter column by Jiho Sargent, comments wryly on the garbled English generated by native speakers of Japanese or by native speakers of English working in Japan who through overexposure to "Janglish" have become desensitized to the nuances of their own language.
The Publishing Hexpert
Writing collectively as the Publishing Hexpert (PH), experienced professionals in the fields represented by SWET members answer specific questions sent to the Newsletter. Many of the answers, particularly to questions regarding typography, are the work of Becky Davis.
Over Their Shoulders
In the series "Over Their Shoulders," several translators render into English short Japanese passages typical of various genres of writing to illustrate how different people come up with different right answers to the same problem. Each set of translations is prefaced by a short introduction giving information on the original Japanese text and, in random order, the names of the translators. The Japanese text, input for the book by Susan Murata and Fred Uleman, will be found at the end of each set of translations.
While other translators may wish to read the passage in Japanese and study the translators' comments on how they arrived at their versions of the text, even reading the translations alone is an object lesson in how different ways of working and perceptions of the target reader yield different finished products.
- Social Commentary
- Electronics
- Short Fiction
- Religion and Politics
- Finance
- New-Product Announcement
- Urban Architecture
- Humor
The Book Mavin
- English Language Dictionaries
- Speller/Dividers
- Translation References
- Style, Usage, and Grammar
- Design, Typography, and Production
We regret that printed copies of Wordcraft are out of stock. SWET hopes to make selected parts of this publication available on its website for those who join SWET. If you are interested in parts of the above contents, please write to us c/o the address for placing orders.
Wordcraft copyright by Society of Writers, Editors, and Translators, 1990.


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Throughout time, one of the constant criticisms of motor racing in Southern California was the lack of fans in the stands. Of course, all one had to do was recall track closings of nationally-regarded Ontario Motor Speedway and Riverside International Raceway.
If that wasn't enough, the list of Southern California racing venues no longer in operation can create a headache: Ascot Park, Saugus Speedway, Mesa Main, 605 Speedway, El Cajon Speedway, Lions Drag Strips – the list is longer than anyone wants to remember.
Promoting races in Southern California had its risks. Three years ago, NASCAR moved one of its races to Kansas Speedway.
Enter Gillian Zucker, president of Auto Club Speedway in Fontana. Stung by the NASCAR race loss, she pressed IndyCar to return to Fontana. In 2011, she gained an agreement with the series for a 2012 race.
Turned out to be a stroke of genius for IndyCar. The season finale was long only a great race to decide the championship, but more than 30,000 turned out. Only the Indianapolis 500 and a race at Texas Motor Speedway had a bigger crowd.
Almost overnight, the national perception of Southern California racing fans changed.
Here's a look at how the major sanctioning bodies fared in SoCal in 2012.
The Toyota Long Beach Grand Prix was the lone IndyCar race for seven years. The road course had excellent races, most of which were decided by pit action as opposed to actual passing on the track.
Will Power won the Long Beach race in April and returned to SoCal in September leading the points race with just a Saturday night race at Fontana remaining. However, Power had trouble with a seam in turn two and crashed. It was all that Ryan Hunter-Reay needed to become the first American open-wheel champion in many years.
Unheralded Ed Carpenter won the Mav TV 400 at Auto Club Speedway. But the real winner was Auto Club Speedway, which expertly promoted the race and stunned the racing industry with 30,000 paying customers on a day when the temperatures hovered around 110 degrees.
Long Beach has its ocean breezes. but the only air movement at Fontana was from IndyCars flying around at 215 mph. While the speeds were far under the track record, it was good enough for competitive racing.
IndyCar, which failed to consider adding Fontana to its schedule for years, quickly announced the track would host the season finale in 2013.
For the Auto Club 400 at Fontana, there was a crowd that totaled more than 60,000. The number is a tribute to the speedway's marketing during these economic times that have hurt NASCAR tracks in other regions of the country.
Why is it an impressive number? The Fontana stop is the fifth on the NASCAR circuit, and the third in a four-race span that caters to the SoCal crowd.
The other races that are attractive to local fans are Las Vegas and Phoenix. While neither track will divulge the number of SoCal fans within their crowd, many within the industry estimate that figure to be close to 20 percent of Fontana.
In 2012, Tony Stewart won the Sprint Cup Series race at Fontana while eventual champion Brad Keselowski was 18th. It marked Stewart's first win at the track. In the Nationwide race, Joe Gibbs Racing maintained its mastery of the division at Fontana as Joey Logano raced to victory.
JGR has won five straight Nationwide races at Fontana in a Toyota early in the season and eight straight counting the fall race.
Once the 2012 NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series came to an end at Pomona Raceway at Fairplex in November, it was a testament to how Don Schumacher had become the most prominent man in the sport.
Schumacher, who once raced Funny Cars before becoming a highly successful businessman of national prestige, enjoyed the most spectacular season in the 63 years the NHRA has been the primary sanctioning body in the sport. All Schumacher did was sweep the top places in Top Fuel dragster and Funny Car.
In Top Fuel, Antron Brown won his first-ever championship, surviving a last-minute charge by teammate Tony Schumacher in the final run of the season. Schumacher was narrowly defeated by Brandon Bernstein in the Auto Club Finals finale to allow Brown to add to NHRA's ethnic heritage by seven points. Don Schumacher Racing's Spencer Massey was third.
Jack Beckman, who was once a driving instructor at Pomona, won the Funny Car title, finishing ahead of teammate Ron Capps by two points. It was a roller-coaster season for Beckman, who lost his crew chief early in the season to Capps, but rallied.
Allen Johnson was the Pro Stock champion while Ed Krawiec took the Pro Stock Motorcycle title.
Off track
On the sportsman level, a court ruling shut down the drag strip at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana early in the season. The Superior Court said there were issues with the conditional permit and that noise levels were above the acceptable amount. A sound wall, estimated to cost more than $1 million, could be a solution but the question is whether it's worth the cost.
Without the Fontana strip, only Irwindale held a semi-regular program, but over an eighth-mile.
Extreme sports
Supercross, motocross and off-road truck racing can all trace their roots to Southern California. It was the late Mickey Thompson who brought motorcycles and tracks to stadiums in the area and produced sellouts.
In 2012, Supercross made it inside Dodger Stadium after its years of competing in Anaheim and San Diego stadiums. The national motocross series, long a tradition at Glen Helen Raceway, moved to a new venue in northern San Diego County. Glen Helen rebounded with a stop on the world tour.
Off-road racing also found a new site to race around in Lake Elsinore, close to the Corona headquarters of presenting sponsor Lucas Oil.
Ryan Villopoto won both races in 2012 at Anaheim and went on to clinch his first-ever riding title. An April knee injury kept him from competing for the Motocross Championship, the third time in four years he missed the series with an injury.
Ryan Dungey won the motocross title, a first for KTM, with 10 wins. He easily outdistance Victorville's Mike Alessi for the championship.
In the off-road series, Kyle Leduc edged his brother Todd for the Pro 4 Unlimited title, wish Carl Renezeder in third. In the other premier class, Pro 2 Unlimited, Brian Deegan edged Marty Hart by 10 points and Rob MacCachren by 16.
Dirt over pavement
There was once a period of time when Southern California-paved tracks – especially Irwindale and Orange Show Speedway – dominated Saturday night racing.
But not in 2012.
Both tracks were dark last season, mostly due to financial issues. In sharp contrast, Perris Auto Speedway enjoyed another spectacular season and Route 66 Speedway in Victorville commenced operation.
Irwindale will resume racing in 2013 under new management and Kern County Raceway outside Bakersfield is also due to start while OSS will also host racing. However, the pavement at the San Bernardino track and been converted into a clay quarter-mile and will partner with Route 66 and Ventura Raceway.
But despite Irwindale and Kern County operating under similar rules, there's no promise pavement racers will show. Until rules packages are announced, many racers feel "spec" series are not in their best interest and will continue to sit on the sidelines.


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WBU professor setting example for women in ministry
PLAINVIEW – If someone had asked Carolyn Ratcliffe 40 years ago what she intended to be doing at this stage in her life, she would have gladly replied "making quilts and baking cookies."
Somewhere along the line, however, Dr. Ratcliffe's life took what she considers a divinely inspired detour, leading to her current position as assistant professor of religion at Wayland Baptist University. Ratcliffe is one of only a handful of women to teach Bible courses at a Baptist institution.
"This is not exactly what I intended to do with the rest of my life," explains Ratcliffe as she sits behind a large desk in a small office stacked wall-to-wall with books.
In fact, when she first attended Texas Tech University straight out of high school, Ratcliffe had only one thing in mind – get married. Dr. Ratcliffe met Ted during her first year at Tech. The two were married and she left school to raise a family.
"I accomplished at school what I intended to accomplish and that was get married," she said. "I never intended to go back."
Four years later Ratcliffe was on her way to visit her mother. As she topped a hill near Dickens, Texas, she heard a voice as clear as a bell telling her to go back to school and complete her degree.
"When I arrived in the Lubbock, the first thing I said to mother was, 'I'm going back to college,'" Ratcliffe said.
She completed her degree in education in 1966, but never entered the classroom as a teacher. Ratcliffe spent the next 20 years raising her children. It wasn't until her daughter, the youngest of four children, politely asked her not to join the PTA board during her high school years, that Ratcliffe started feeling "rather useless."
"I remember praying and asking God what I should do with the rest of my life. The kids didn't need me anymore," Ratcliffe said.
A few weeks later, as she and Ted were attending a worship service at Highland Baptist Church in Lubbock, Dr. Ratcliffe heard that voice again.
"It was just so clear," she said. "'Go back to school and teach My Word in college.' When I walked into church that morning, that was the farthest thing from my mind."
As Ratcliffe attended the evening service, she listened to a guest speaker preach about Jonah running from his Nineveh. The preacher that night was Dr. Gary Manning professor of religion at Wayland.
"That sort of sealed it for me," she said.
At the age of 45, Dr. Ratcliffe decided to return to college, entering the master's program at Wayland. After finishing her master's work in 1989, Ratcliffe applied to the Ph.D. program at Baylor University.
Although she was eventually accepted by Baylor, Ratcliffe was beginning to see some underlying resistance to her calling. There are still those who believe women should not teach men in a religious setting. She said there is always a sense of "being the only one."
Taking seminary courses between her time at Wayland and Baylor, Ratcliffe said she was always the only woman in the class.
"Everyone was trying overly hard to be nice to me," she said. "But the professors were all very accepting, with the exception of one."
Ratcliffe said she took one course under a prominent professor that she enjoyed very much. On the last day of class she walked up to him to tell him how much she enjoyed the class.
"He looked at me seriously and said, 'We have enjoyed having our one token female student in the class,'" she said. "I had never even said enough in class for him to even know my heart."
Ratcliffe said she found the statement "interesting," especially for someone in his position. But she didn't let that deter her. It wasn't the first time she had heard something negative about her intended career choice.
"Everyone told her, given the situation, that she shouldn't be doing this because there will never be a job for her," explained Dr. Fred Meeks, Chairman of the Division of Religion. "Jobs in religion are by far the toughest to get. But she was going through with her calling."
Dr. Meeks, who taught Ratcliffe as she worked on her master's degree, watched her progress through the Ph.D. program at Baylor. By the time she completed everything but her dissertation, Meeks had been promoted to division chair and was looking for an adjunct faculty member to teach courses at Wayland's Lubbock campus. Meeks asked Ratcliffe if she would be interested in teaching some courses and she jumped at the opportunity.
Ratcliffe was awarded her doctorate in 1995 and continued to teach as an adjunct professor at Wayland, a position she held for seven years.
"She was teaching regularly four to five courses a semester," Meeks said. "Finally, I went to the administration and said it was not ethical for us to be using someone to teach full time and not give them faculty status."
Meeks explained that was at a time when there was a lot of controversy in the Southern Baptist Convention and every move was viewed under a microscope. Some places might never consider hiring a woman as full-time faculty to teach Bible courses.
"Wayland was taking a big risk," Meeks said. "Not only to employ a woman teaching in the religion department … that was risky enough. The seminaries had used women to teach church history and things like that, but not Bible courses."
Meeks said Wayland's administration didn't hesitate, offering Ratcliffe full-time faculty status in '99. Meeks said, to his knowledge, there has been no resistance to Dr. Ratcliffe. In fact, she has been asked to teach at various associational meetings as well as the Pastors' and Laymen's Conference that Wayland hosts every February, and she was just named 2004-05 recipient of the Favorite Professor award as voted on by Wayland students of all academic backgrounds.
Ratcliffe said that she has always felt accepted at Wayland and hopes that she can now be a role model for young women who feel called to the ministry.
"I tell them to toughen up and understand that their call is from God and not from human beings, and that they have to follow what God has told them to do," Ratcliffe said. "Church history is full of individuals who followed God and paid a price for it. I tell them they are going to find some resistance in some areas. Although, I think by the time my generation dies off … There will be a day where there will be no resistance, but we have to get rid of us old dead heads first."


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This book tells the story of Robert Digby, a private in the British Expeditionary Force. Aged 28 at the outbreak of war in August 1914, he was one of several British soldiers trapped behind enemy lines on the Western Front. Unable to return to their units, they hid in the French village of Villeret. Living in daily fear of capture and execution, they were fed, clothed and protected by the villagers, including local tradesmen and the matriarch Madame Euge...
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THE ENGLISHMEN'S DAUGHTER FSG, Mar 2002, 24.00, 254 pp. ISBN: 0374129851 In 1914, a small cadre of English military was stranded behind enemy lines. The French peasants of Villeret tried to hide the soldiers from the occupying German forces. However, the German army began using the homes of the villagers to quarter their troops and living off the local economy straining the food supply. The villagers refused to turn their English �guests� o...


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The Mediterranean sea is the largest enclosed sea in the world with 46,000 km of coastline. We include 24 countries and territories from Europe, Africa and the Middle East. This treasure trove contains some of the most fertile, beautiful, and therefore most coveted land on the planet. It is not only known for this natural beauty, but being blessed with a mild and temperate climate, it is also one of the world's most populated and developed areas. However, it is also one of the least protected regions in the world.
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Archaeological data show that lush forests once grew abundantly across the Mediterranean basin. Now just 17 per cent of the original forest cover is left. Fires, excessive agriculture and timber use have all taken their toll. Every day, we are losing habitat, degrading rivers and streams, exploiting marine life, polluting the seas and losing unique species that are only found in Mediterranean countries. The Mediterranean has also been identified by the IPCC as a climate impact hotspot.
Most of us are still unaware of the growing threats.
Every year over 220 million holiday makers flock here and those numbers are growing annually. This is fuelling uncontrolled construction projects and the region is groaning under the strain of tourism. To save the Mediterranean and let its unique voice sound clear once more, WWF is working with partners, decision makers, communities and visitors to ensure the survival of this bountiful and beautiful area.
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We started these holiday "sneak peeks" last month and we're getting to the point now where these products aren't previews anymore — they're out on the shelves and being bought. Since we've reviewed the holiday collections from big names like IKEA, Anthropologie, and Crate & Barrel, we thought we should also review the biggest handmade marketplace for holiday decor — Etsy!
Etsy's different from the other retailers mentioned because it's an aggregate of a bunch of small, independent businesses. Although it's harder to identify an overall theme for the whole site, there are definite trends happening in the world of home crafted holiday decor, and they're the same trends we've been seeing for a while now: pendant garlands, felted decor, pom poms, screen-printed tea towels, and animal-themed prints. We've rounded up a few examples, shown above and linked below.
What do you think? Are you a fan of the handmade modern holiday, or are you tired of these DIY trends?
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VANCOUVER, BC - In a thrilling Western Conference contest, 10-man Vancouver Whitecaps FC (7W-3L-4D) battled their way to an important 1-0 victory over Colorado Rapids (6W-7L-1D) in Major League Soccer on Saturday afternoon.
In a match that had virtually everything in terms of soccer entertainment, Sebastien Le Toux's late winner capped an epic performance by the Blue and White, who had to play the last half-hour a man short on Bell Pitch at BC Place after striker Darren Mattocks was sent off for two bookable offences. Even though they were at a numerical disadvantage, Whitecaps FC crowned their debut match in their new third kit with Le Toux's goal, despite Colorado striking the woodwork twice before the end. The result takes Vancouver to an unprecedented seventh win as an MLS club and their first-ever league victory over the Rapids. The 'Caps also moved up one place to third in the Western Conference standings with the weekend result.
"I thought it was a pretty even game, and at times, we played some good stuff, but Colorado did well getting behind the ball and we found it difficult to break them down," said Whitecaps FC head coach Martin Rennie. "In the second half, we started well and we looked dangerous getting behind them and moving the ball side-to-side and getting the ball in the box. There was a big turning point when Darren went down in the box and the referee pulled the play back and gave a yellow card a bit harshly, and immediately after, gave a second yellow card. However, the players in our team showed a lot of character and an incredible work rate and a desire to come out with something better than a draw or defeat. We showed we're a team that doesn't give up and doesn't look for excuses, so I'm happy how the game ended up and happy for the players. We now look forward to Wednesday."
Under a closed BC Place roof, both clubs offered another example of how the Western Conference is very competitive this season, as a crowd of 19,166 saw a high tempo of play in the first half. Playing an unchanged starting line-up, many of the 'Caps opportunities came through the lively Davide Chiumiento, who tried to open up the Colorado backline with some searching balls. The best of those came in the first minute, as the Swiss playmaker released Mattocks into the Rapids box before the Jamaican youngster forced an important save from Colorado goalkeeper Matt Pickens.
To their credit, the Rapids contributed to the game with some good attacking play of their own, as they got back into the rhythm of MLS action after an extended break. Two of Colorado's best chances fell to Argentine midfielder Martin Rivero, who just missed the target on 28 minutes before forcing Budweiser Man of the Match Joe Cannon into an important save six minutes later. Cannon also did well to stop Kosuke Kimura's deflected effort from a Rapids corner. As competitive a half as it was, it remained goalless at halftime.
If the first half was intriguing to watch, the second half will live long in the memory as arguably the most dramatic 45 minutes in Vancouver's MLS history. Looking for the win, the 'Caps were the brighter side in the early stages after the restart. Le Toux, Mattocks, and John Thorrington had chances, while Koffie missed the target with an excellent chance on 53 minutes.
Then came the moment that changed the course - if not the temperature - of this all-conference clash. Having been initially booked for simulation in the Colorado box on 59 minutes, Mattocks was sent off on the hour mark after picking up a second booking, and a subsequent red card, for a late challenge on Rapids captain Drew Moor. It left Whitecaps FC facing the last third of the game down one less player and trying to contain an attack-minded Colorado side.
Despite the difficult situation, one of the storylines from this match was the inspirational effort that the 10 men of Vancouver put in to claim victory. Cannon played his part with some timely saves, while 'Caps fans delighted in the attacking intent of their side in arbutus brown. Chiumiento and Thorrington forced Pickens into a couple of saves, while the Rapids shot-stopper miraculously denied Le Toux at close range on 70 minutes, as he deflected the Frenchman's shot off the underside of the crossbar before Colorado scrambled the danger clear.
As time wound down, the excitement of the match continued to rise. On 80 minutes, Whitecaps FC brought the BC Place crowd to their feet with the match winner. Chiumiento received a pass from Alain Rochat on the left flank before playing an exquisite ball over the head of Rapids centre back Scott Palguta to a streaking Le Toux. His first-time volley flew past a helpless Pickens for his fourth goal of the season.
It was a well-deserved goal from the home side, who showed no effects of having a man less until the dying stages. Unsurprisingly, the Rapids pressed Vancouver back into their defensive third for the final minutes and were unlucky not to score an equalizer. Rivero struck the 'Caps crossbar on 82 minutes with a powerful half-volley after Martin Bonjour had heroically blocked Edu's initial goal-bound strike. Six minutes later, Rapids defender Hunter Freeman hit the far post with a curling strike after a Vancouver giveaway.
The game's finale bordered on frantic, with Le Toux squandering a breakaway on the counter-attack when Pickens stopped him in time added on. The final whistle from match referee Jasen Anno brought joy and relief to the Whitecaps FC faithful, as they claimed a second straight league win in extraordinary circumstances.
Whitecaps FC will have little time to savour their efforts of Saturday afternoon, as they wrap up a three-match home stand by hosting Eastern Conference high-flyers New York Red Bulls at BC Place on Wednesday night. Colorado, meanwhile, will look to bounce back when they host Western Conference rivals San Jose Earthquakes on Wednesday evening.
Budweiser Man of the Match: Joe Cannon
Scoring Summary:
80' - VAN – Sebastien Le Toux (Davide Chiumiento)
Match Stats:
Shots: Vancouver 15 - Colorado 13
Shots on Goal: Vancouver 8 - Colorado 6
Saves: Vancouver 6 - Colorado 7
Fouls: Vancouver 18 - Colorado 13
Offsides: Vancouver 2 - Colorado 0
Corners: Vancouver 4 - Colorado 7
42' - VAN – Alain Rochat
59' - VAN – Darren Mattocks
60' - VAN – Darren Mattocks
60' - VAN – Darren Mattocks
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1. Joe Cannon; 12.Young-Pyo Lee, 15.Martin Bonjour, 6.Jay DeMerit, 4.Alain Rochat; 28.Gershon Koffie, 27.Jun Marques Davidson, 11.John Thorrington (29.Eric Hassli 86'); 7.Sebastien Le Toux, 22.Darren Mattocks, 20.Davide Chiumiento (3.Jordan Harvey 83')
Substitutes not used: 18.Brad Knighton, 13.Michael Nanchoff, 19.Carlyle Mitchell, 26.Floyd Franks, 37.Camilo Sanvezzo
Colorado Rapids
18.Matt Pickens; 27.Kosuke Kimura (9.Conor Casey 72'), 3.Drew Moor, 29.Scott Palguta, 2.Hunter Freeman; 10.Martin Rivero, 4.Jeff Larentowicz, 23.Jaime Castrillon; 32.Tony Cascio (13.Kamani Hill 76'), 37.Edu, 11.Brian Mullan
Substitutes not used: 31.Steward Ceus, 5.Joseph Nane, 15.Wells Thompson, 21.Luis Zapata, 39.Harrison Henao


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Digitalinsoft is an italian company that provides software solutions to companies.
It's a young and dynamic company that can offer customized solutions to improve internal working processes in order to save time and money.
Digitalinsoft works with recent technologies and doesn't have one or more applications software that sale to every customers; Digitalinsoft every time builds a new specialized software in order to satisfy completely the customer's needs.
Digitalinsoft's target audience is small and medium companies. We can work for companies that belongs to any market.
We need a logo that can rappresent us with a simply image. We want a minimal logo and the color should be like blue or similar (company color).
We created our site with a logo (you can view at http://www.digitalinsoft.com) composed with the name of our company written with "New Detroit" font (slightly modified). We like very much this font.
We would prefer logo that has the name Digitalinsoft colored in three part: "Digital" "In" "Soft" but without space and separator.
In addition we prefer "DIS" abbreviation instead "DS".
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With no traditional venues for 'soccer', the United
States was in some ways an unconventional choice to host the FIFA
World Cup
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eventually in the final at the Rose Bowl - drawing the eyes of the
world to this small corner of California on 17 July 1994.
Nestled at the edge of the San Gabriel mountains north of Los Angeles in the town of Pasadena, this vast arena accommodated 94,194 spectators and provided a fitting backdrop for the showpiece final between a pair of three-time world champions, Brazil and Italy. The South Americans eventually claimed their fourth FIFA World Cup in a penalty shootout after what can only be called an anticlimactic contest.
The Seleção thus finally got their hands on the FIFA World Cup trophy, having previously retained the old Jules Rimet trophy after winning it for a third time in 1970. The tournament's true stars, Romario and Roberto Baggio, were largely subdued - the latter sealing Italy's fate with his famous penalty miss - but the atmosphere was admirably upbeat. For the spectators it was a day of celebration as the Rose Bowl basked in its moment in the sun.
Not that the glare of the spotlight is anything new for a stadium situated just miles from the glitz of Hollywood. A major venue for American football - it has hosted five Super Bowls together with the annual collegiate Rose Bowl - it staged the gold medal match at the 1984 Olympic Football Tournament, with 101,799 people turning out to see France beat Brazil 2-0.
More recently, in 1999, the FIFA Women's World Cup reached its climax there, with the hosts beating China 5-4 on penalty-kicks after a 0-0 draw. Over 90,000 people were in attendance as America's women claimed their second world crown.
Completed in 1922, the Rose Bowl has increased in size over the years. Built in a horseshoe shape, capacity rose from 57,000 to 76,000 when its open south end was built on in 1929. By the 1950s it could accommodate over 100,000. The venue has correspondingly branched out from its gridiron roots. Innumerable shows and concerts have been held there, as well as the world's largest flea market, Moreover, Major League Soccer side LA Galaxy called the Rose Bowl home for seven seasons and not only were the US national team regulars there but Mexico and other Central American teams have also staged matches at the arena.
Though typically avoiding the Rose Bowl for contests against fellow CONCACAF opposition - whose Spanish-speaking support would likely to outnumber their own - the USA have played there 15 times, losing on just three occasions.
The first of these reverses came against Romania in the Americans' final group game of USA 94 on 26 June. Four days earlier, the Red, White and Blue had shocked fancied Colombia 2-1 on the same pitch. Over 93,000 people witnessed the host nation's first victory in a FIFA World Cup match since 1950.
Of the eight matches it hosted during USA 94, arguably the most memorable was Romania's thrilling 3-2 triumph over Argentina in the second round. Ilie Dumitrescu was the scourge of the Albiceleste that day, scoring twice inside the opening 18 minutes and then slotting the ball perfectly through three defenders and into the path of Gheorghe Hagi for him to add the Romanians' third. Goals from Gabriel Batistuta and Abel Balbo proved in vain as Argentina, with Diego Maradona watching helplessly from the stand, made an early exit.
The Rose Bowl also witnessed the highs and lows of tournament dark horses Sweden. It was in Pasadena that they fell in the semi-final to Romario's fifth goal of the finals, yet days later they returned to claim third place by beating Bulgaria 4-0.
The final itself may not have lived up to the high expectations but there were still scenes that stick in the memory: the beaten Baggio with head in hands, a chain of Brazilians celebrating a victory they dedicated to the late motor racing champion Ayrton Senna, the Italian veteran Franco Baresi in tears after playing the match of his life but missing his penalty-kick. To quote a banner hanging on the Rose Bowl walls, this was a day for 'Making soccer history'.
With the construction of the football-specific, but significantly smaller, Home Depot Center south of LA, the Rose Bowl may see less 'soccer' these days, but its days in the world spotlight will not be forgotten.


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Summary - Suspend Switch
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|This article contains information about the Inspiron™ Mini 9 (910) suspend switch.
Suspend Switch Overview
The Inspiron Mini 9 (910) has a magnetic reed switch to detect if the LCD is open or closed. The behavior of this switch can be set in the Control Panel under the Power Options section. A magnet is located in the top half of the computer, next to the camera. The switch is in a corresponding location under the palm rest buttons on the base of the computer (Figure 1).
Figure 1: Inspiron Mini 9 (910) Suspend Switch Location
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Things to do if the suspend switch does not seem to be working properly:
Verify the behavior of the switch is set correctly in the Control Panel's Power Options section.
Make sure the palm rest is fully snapped into place and is flat against the keyboard.
If possible, test the switch by placing a magnet over its location under the palm rest and see if the system reacts.
If the problem persists, Contact Technical Support for further troubleshooting assistance.
For more information, go to the Dell Inspiron Mini 9 Manual Page and refer to the manual for this computer.
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With a smile on the face we reported about Undercover's 'Fuck Pattern' wallets before and how great it is to see someone not taking high fashion dead serious. With the same pattern as seen on the 'Fuck Pattern' wallets, Jun Takahashi, the creative design force behind the label Undercover, adds the 'Fuck Pattern' Tote Bag into the brand's Autumn 2012 collection.
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Thank you all to everyone who played along with our 'Guess How Many' fun. :)
Thank you all to everyone who played along with our 'Guess How Many' fun. :)
There were some fabulous guesses but no-one got the correct answer.
The amount of Beads in the Paua Shell is........
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Ribbon Hair Tie Tutorial
Ribbon – In as many colors as you please
Hair tie
Lighter / Candle flame
The How To –
1. Cut your ribbon into 6 inch lengths. My hair ties are 4.5cm in diameter and I used 30 ribbons strips. You can always cut more and add more as you go.
2.Once all my strips are cut, I like to take a lighter or candle flame lightly to both ends of the ribbons and singe them so the ribbon does not fray.
3. Take one of your 6 inch ribbon strips and tie onto your hair tie. I tie just a single knot as I find a double knot makes the ribbon to bulky. With the twisting and turning the hair tie will get being placed in the hair and with little fingers having the desire to touch the ribbon constantly, these actions should be enough to keep the knots tight.
3. Continue tie-ing the ribbon around the hair tie, filling in any gaps. If you are using more than 1 color of ribbon, co-ordinate your colors as you go. I usually have one or two spare ribbons left over and just squeeze some ribbons down and find room for the last few.
As you can see below, by making a simple tag to hold the hair tie, you can really turn this into a beautiful gift that any little girl would love to receive. The Lulu Blowing Bubbles digital image from TheCrafty Pad Designs works well this girly girl project and with the added tag it makes the perfect quick, cheap and easy little birthday gift or even stocking filler!
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Over 200 years ago, our founders fought tyranny, uniquely giving us a democratic republic.
It changed the world.
Over 200 years ago, our founders fought tyranny, uniquely giving us a democratic republic.
It changed the world.
Americans held liberty steadfast for over a century until Feb. 3, 1913, when the 16th Amendment began trading away our God-given liberties wrested, by our founders, from tyrants.
Since, we've bartered liberty for perceived physical and financial "security," lessening and weakening personal liberty.
The 16th Amendment (income tax) set the stage to diminish freedom ceding power to tax, thus track income.
The IRS was set up to monitor citizens' income, enabling the political class (the U.S. Senate and House) to know and control every aspect of our private lives.
To comply, we self-report all income-related life aspects.
The IRS code enables monitoring and manipulation, hence control of each of us.
The Supreme Court decision on the 2010 Affordable Care Act upheld citing "power to tax," adding control of medical life under tax policy.
FairTax is ready-made to replace income tax and is the game changer.
Look up FairTax, learn and join the fight to reverse government control of our lives. FairTax replaces income tax and abolishes the IRS.


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The second installment of the "Fantastic Beasts" series set in J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World featuring the adventures of magizoologist Newt Scamander.
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team, along with some familiar allies, race against time after a mission gone wrong.
In a visceral modern thriller from the director of Lone Survivor, Mark Wahlberg stars as James Silva, an operative of the CIA's most highly-prized and least-understood unit. Aided by a top-secret tactical command team, Silva must retrieve and transport an asset who holds life-threatening information to Mile 22 for extraction ...
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Agnes, taken for granted as a suburban mother, discovers a passion for solving jigsaw puzzles which unexpectedly draws her into a new world - where her life unfolds in ways she could never have imagined.
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Granny Fanny Nesselrode is an old lady character who appeared on Sesame Street in the 1970s. She appeared mostly in Season 2 and Season 3.
The often confused Granny was mostly known for her "Answer Lady" skits, in which she solved viewers' problems (or at least attempted to). The program was broadcast from her cozy, sun-filled kitchen in Goat Corners, New Hampshire. As late as the 1975 book See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Smell No Evil, she was referred to as "the Answer Person" and consulted for advice in ridding the Sesame Street Clubhouse of all odors. In most book appearances, however, she functioned as an all-purpose feisty old lady.
She was also featured in the "Here is Your Life" episode from 1972, celebrating the life of Oak Tree (where she's performed by Jim Henson). In that sketch, Granny Fanny visits from the farmhouse down the road to pay her respects to the tree, which she had planted in the ground when he was just an acorn. She even brings a picture of the acorn. Guy Smiley endearingly calls her "Farmer Fanny" (a reference to Fanny Farmer, author of the famous cookbook of the same name).
Although Granny has been depicted on many pieces of merchandise through the years, she never really became a main character.
Answer Lady sketches
|Segment / EKA
| Classifying Kittens
Episode 0171
|Granny reads a letter from a viewer asking how to tell the difference between two kittens. Granny herself can't tell the difference, despite the fact that the two cats are different colors.
| Ketchup Problem
Episode 0199
|Granny tries to solve the problem of why ketchup won't come out of a bottle. Her co-host points out that she should remove the bottle cap first. Having solved the problem, Granny ends up pouring ketchup all over the place.
| Alphabet
Episode 0250
|Granny Fanny Nesselrode says the alphabet.
| Telephone
Episode 0382
|Granny shows how to make a telephone call, but can't figure out how to use the phone.
Book appearances
- The Sesame Street ABC Storybook (1974)
- Big Bird's Busy Book (1975)
- I'm My Mommy - I'm My Daddy (1975)
- See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Smell No Evil (1975)
- The Sesame Street Neighborhood Coloring Book (1976)
- Tales of Sesame Gulch (1977)
- The Sesame Street Block Party Coloring Book (1977)
- The Sesame Street Cookbook (1978)
- Going for a Ride (1979)
- Sesame Stories (1979)
- The Sesame Street Dictionary (1980)
- Sign Language Fun (1980)
- Put & Play Magic Show (1981)
- The Sesame Street Circus of Opposites (1981)
- What Do You Do? (1981)
- "Grover's Gift" from Family Circle (1986)


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Barbara Smith was a female student at Jacksonville State College (now Jacksonville State University) in the 1960s. Here she is wearing sportswear standing on stage in the Miss Mimosa Pageant as contestant #18.; Anyone who has additional descriptive information for this image is urged to contact the Houston Cole Library Technical Services Dept. at firstname.lastname@example.com or 256.782.5761.
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Memphis guard Geron Johnson, a junior college transfer, has been suspended by the NCAA for three games after being found to have accepted impermissible benefits.
A family friend provided Johnson money for educational expenses prior to him enrolling at Memphis, the NCAA reports.
"We're the ones that alerted the NCAA on it," Memphis coach Josh Pastner told The Commercial Appeal. "It's strictly related to educational expenses. We knew there was a chance he might have to sit some games and that's the case."
Johnson, a 6-3, 200-pound combo guard from Dayton, Ohio, will miss Monday's season opener against North Florida plus the Nov. 17 game against Samford and the Tigers' opening game in the Battle 4 Atlantis tournament in the Bahamas against VCU on Nov. 22.
This isn't the first time Johnson has made headlines for the wrong reasons. He was kicked off the Garden City (Kan.) Community College team last February after allegedly stealing a fellow student's cellphone. This came on the heels of arrest in high school (attempted burglary) and at Chipola College in Florida (marijuana possession).
Pastner took Johnson, a top-100 recruit in the Class of 2010, only if he cleared up all his legal problems and if he qualified academically. He did so in August, finishing up the necessary coursework.
"He's done everything that we asked him to do off the floor," Pastner said. "I'm very excited. I'm excited for the season. We have an older group, even Geron. He's only 19 years of age, but he's done two years of junior college and he's won a state championship when he was in high school, so he understands winning. I'm excited that he's now officially become a member of this year's Memphis Tigers."
Johnson is the third newcomer to Memphis club, joining McDonald's All-American Shaq Goodwin and Damien Wilson.
Pastner also told the newspaper that junior guard Antonio Barton, who was benched during the second half of Wednesday's exhibition game, is back in his good graces and that the two now "see 100 percent eye to eye."


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What might the New York Mets be wondering as they look into the Giants' dugout and see Tim Lincecum?
Could they be mulling over the idea of signing him as a free agent this winter? He'll be pricey, but if the Mets are serious about contending in 2014, they'll have to pay for pitching.
With Matt Harvey opting for rehab over the next two months instead of immediate Tommy John surgery, the Mets have no certainties with their young ace. Surgery is still a possibility, and that would mean he would miss all of next year.
At the time Harvey went on the disabled list and surgery was anticipated, GM Sandy Alderson said the Mets would have to prepare to not have him next season.
Perhaps he didn't want to reveal his true thoughts in front of Harvey in a press conference, or perhaps he didn't want to come across as being desperate, but Alderson backed off that sentiment yesterday.
"I don't think it's going to affect our offseason planning as much as has been speculated,'' Alderson said. "The one thing we have is a great deal of starting-pitching depth, some of it untested at the minor league level. But we have a lot of confidence in the quality and quantity of our starting pitching.
"So hopefully Matt is part of that rotation next year. But if he's not, I don't foresee us working hard to fill his spot from outside the organization.''
What Alderson should have said is the Mets have "potential'' starting-pitching depth.
Harvey, of course, is no given. Jenrry Mejia just underwent elbow surgery. Noah Syndergaard isn't ready, and there's nothing imminent with Rafael Montero.
By my count, the Mets will go into spring training with a rotation of Zack Wheeler, Jon Niese and Dillon Gee. Tonight's starter, Aaron Harang, could be invited to spring training and so might Daisuke Matsuzaka. Are you comfortable with those last two options?
They will have to add somebody regardless of what Alderson said and Lincecum could be available. He's in the final season of a two-year, $40.5-million contract, and the Giants haven't said anything about bringing him back.
If not the Giants or Mets, somebody will offer Lincecum a contract, and considering what he made this year there won't be much of a salary cut.
Lincecum was signed to the contract after the 2011 season, in which he went 13-14, but with a 2.74 ERA and having worked 217 innings. The feeling it was due to a lack of run support.
Lincecum was 10-15 with a 5.18 ERA in 2012 and a drop to 186 innings. He has thrown 184 so far this season while going 10-13 with a 4.40 ERA. Both this year and last there were reports his velocity is down. Even so, something had to be there to throw a no-hitter.
There's some sentiment a change of scenery might benefit Lincecum, who is only 29. The flip side reported in San Francisco is the Giants might sign him for one year plus a team option.
Of course, the Mets might offer the same. They might have to.
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The following is an excerpt from American Medical News quoting Management Professor Corey Angst about his research on hospitals adopting electronic medical records To read the entire column, visit: American Medical News
To figure out why physicians and hospitals are slow to adopt electronic medical records, researchers are looking at institutional and social networks to see if they can discover the key to overcoming resistance.
A study in the August Management Science posited that smaller and newer hospitals, and those that have some tech "celebrity" status, are the most likely to influence other hospitals to adopt EMRs.
An earlier report published in the May Journal of the American Informatics Assn. concluded that the most likely indicator of doctors' interest and use in EMRs is whether their friends use them. Not merely peers, but doctors they consider close on a personal or social level.
Both studies referred to something researchers call "social contagion" -- how peer networks influence someone to act, particularly when that action is done without someone perceiving any sort of influence being exerted. One person is the "carrier," who can spread the contagion to many.


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