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V&A Ikat Gingham Blue Duvet Cover Set - DISC (exceptional Blue Gingham Duvet Cover #4)
Ginghamging•ham (ging′əm),USA pronunciation n.
- yarn-dyed, plain-weave cotton fabric, usually striped or checked.
Blueblue (blo̅o̅),USA pronunciation n., adj., blu•er, blu•est, v., blued, blu•ing or blue•ing.
- the pure color of a clear sky;
the primary color between green and violet in the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 450 and 500 nm.
- bluing.
- something having a blue color: Place the blue next to the red.
- a person who wears blue or is a member of a group characterized by some blue symbol: Tomorrow the blues will play the browns.
- (often cap.) a member of the Union army in the American Civil War or the army itself. Cf. gray (def. 13).
- bluestocking.
- See blue ribbon (def. 1).
- any of several blue-winged butterflies of the family Lycaenidae.
- blueline.
- the blue:
- the sky.
- the sea.
- the remote distance: They've vanished into the blue somewhere.
- out of the blue, suddenly and unexpectedly: The inheritance came out of the blue as a stroke of good fortune.
- of the color of blue: a blue tie.
- (cap.) of or pertaining to the Union army in the American Civil War.
- (of the skin) discolored by cold, contusion, fear, or vascular collapse.
- depressed in spirits;
melancholy: She felt blue about not being chosen for the team.
- holding or offering little hope;
bleak: a blue outlook.
- characterized by or stemming from rigid morals or religion: statutes that were blue and unrealistic.
- marked by blasphemy: The air was blue with oaths.
- (of an animal's pelage) grayish-blue.
- indecent;
somewhat obscene;
risqué: a blue joke or film.
- blue in the face, exhausted and speechless, as from excessive anger, physical strain, etc.: I reminded him about it till I was blue in the face.
- to make blue;
dye a blue color.
- to tinge with bluing: Don't blue your clothes till the second rinse.
blue′ly, adv.
- to become or turn blue.
blue′ness, n.
Duvetdu•vet (do̅o̅ vā′, dyo̅o̅-),USA pronunciation n.
- a usually down-filled quilt, often with a removable cover;
F: down (plumage), MF, alter. of dumet, deriv. of OF dum ON dūnn down2]
Covercov•er (kuv′ər),USA pronunciation v.t.
- to be or serve as a covering for;
extend over;
rest on the surface of: Snow covered the fields.
- to place something over or upon, as for protection, concealment, or warmth.
- to provide with a covering or top: Cover the pot with a lid.
- to protect or conceal (the body, head, etc.) with clothes, a hat, etc;
- to bring upon (oneself ): He covered himself with glory by his exploits.
- to hide from view;
- to spread on or over;
apply to: to cover bread with honey.
- to put all over the surface of: to cover a wall with paint.
- to include, deal with, or provide for;
address: The rules cover working conditions.
- to suffice to defray or meet (a charge, expense, etc.): Ten dollars should cover my expenses.
- to offset (an outlay, loss, liability, etc.).
- to achieve in distance traversed;
pass or travel over: We covered 600 miles a day on our trip.
- to act as a reporter or reviewer of (an event, a field of interest, a performance, etc.);
have as an assignment: She covers sports for the paper.
- to publish or broadcast a report or reports of (a news item, a series of related events, etc.): The press covered the trial in great detail.
- to pass or rise over and surmount or envelop: The river covered the town during the flood.
- [Insurance.]to insure against risk or loss.
- to shelter;
serve as a defense for.
- [Mil.]
- to be in line with by occupying a position directly before or behind.
- to protect (a soldier, force, or military position) during an expected period of ground combat by taking a position from which any hostile troops can be fired upon.
- to take temporary charge of or responsibility for in place of another: Please cover my phone while I'm out to lunch.
- to extend over;
comprise: The book covers 18th-century England.
- to be assigned to or responsible for, as a territory or field of endeavor: We have two sales representatives covering the Southwest.
- to aim at, as with a pistol.
- to have within range, as a fortress does adjacent territory.
- to play a card higher than (the one led or previously played in the round).
- to deposit the equivalent of (money deposited), as in wagering.
- to accept the conditions of (a bet, wager, etc.).
- (in short selling) to purchase securities or commodities in order to deliver them to the broker from whom they were borrowed.
- [Baseball.]to take a position close to or at (a base) so as to catch a ball thrown to the base: The shortstop covered second on the attempted steal.
- to guard (an opponent on offense) so as to prevent him or her from scoring or carrying out his or her assignment: to cover a potential pass receiver.
- (esp. of a male animal) to copulate with.
- (of a hen) to brood or sit on (eggs or chicks).
- [Informal.]to serve as a substitute for someone who is absent: We cover for the receptionist during lunch hour.
- to hide the wrongful or embarrassing action of another by providing an alibi or acting in the other's place: They covered for him when he missed roll call.
- to play a card higher than the one led or previously played in the round: She led the eight and I covered with the jack.
- to spread over an area or surface, esp. for the purpose of obscuring an existing covering or of achieving a desired thickness and evenness: This paint is much too thin to cover.
- cover one's ass, Slang (vulgar). to take measures that will prevent one from suffering blame, loss, harm, etc.
- cover up:
- to cover completely;
- to keep secret;
conceal: She tried to cover up her part in the plot.
cov′er•a•ble, adj.
- something that covers, as the lid of a container or the binding of a book.
- a blanket, quilt, or the like: Put another cover on the bed.
- protection;
- anything that veils, screens, or shuts from sight: under cover of darkness.
- woods, underbrush, etc., serving to shelter and conceal wild animals or game;
a covert.
- vegetation that serves to protect or conceal animals, such as birds, from excessive sunlight, from drying, or from predators.
- a set of eating utensils and the like, as plate, knife, fork, and napkin, placed for each person at a table.
- an assumed identity, occupation, or business that masks the true or real one: His job at the embassy was a cover for his work as a spy.
- a covering of snow, esp. when suitable for skiing.
- a pretense;
- a person who substitutes for another or stands ready to substitute if needed: She was hired as a cover for six roles at the opera house.
- See cover charge.
- [Philately.]
- an envelope or outer wrapping for mail.
- a letter folded so that the address may be placed on the outside and the missive mailed.
- [Finance.]funds to cover liability or secure against risk of loss.
- See cover version.
- Also called covering. a collection of sets having the property that a given set is contained in the union of the sets in the collection.
- blow one's cover, to divulge one's secret identity, esp. inadvertently: The TV news story blew his carefully fabricated cover.
- break cover, to emerge, esp. suddenly, from a place of concealment: The fox broke cover and the chase was on.
- take cover, to seek shelter or safety: The hikers took cover in a deserted cabin to escape the sudden storm.
- under cover:
- clandestinely;
secretly: Arrangements for the escape were made under cover.
- within an envelope: The report will be mailed to you under separate cover.
cov′er•er, n.
cov′er•less, adj.
Setset (set),USA pronunciation v., set, set•ting, n., adj., interj.
- to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
- to place in a particular position or posture: Set the baby on his feet.
- to place in some relation to something or someone: We set a supervisor over the new workers.
- to put into some condition: to set a house on fire.
- to put or apply: to set fire to a house.
- to put in the proper position: to set a chair back on its feet.
- to put in the proper or desired order or condition for use: to set a trap.
- to distribute or arrange china, silver, etc., for use on (a table): to set the table for dinner.
- to place (the hair, esp. when wet) on rollers, in clips, or the like, so that the hair will assume a particular style.
- to put (a price or value) upon something: He set $7500 as the right amount for the car. The teacher sets a high value on neatness.
- to fix the value of at a certain amount or rate;
value: He set the car at $500. She sets neatness at a high value.
- to post, station, or appoint for the purpose of performing some duty: to set spies on a person.
- to determine or fix definitely: to set a time limit.
- to resolve or decide upon: to set a wedding date.
- to cause to pass into a given state or condition: to set one's mind at rest; to set a prisoner free.
- to direct or settle resolutely or wishfully: to set one's mind to a task.
- to present as a model;
place before others as a standard: to set a good example.
- to establish for others to follow: to set a fast pace.
- to prescribe or assign, as a task.
- to adjust (a mechanism) so as to control its performance.
- to adjust the hands of (a clock or watch) according to a certain standard: I always set my watch by the clock in the library.
- to adjust (a timer, alarm of a clock, etc.) so as to sound when desired: He set the alarm for seven o'clock.
- to fix or mount (a gem or the like) in a frame or setting.
- to ornament or stud with gems or the like: a bracelet set with pearls.
- to cause to sit;
seat: to set a child in a highchair.
- to put (a hen) on eggs to hatch them.
- to place (eggs) under a hen or in an incubator for hatching.
- to place or plant firmly: to set a flagpole in concrete.
- to put into a fixed, rigid, or settled state, as the face, muscles, etc.
- to fix at a given point or calibration: to set the dial on an oven; to set a micrometer.
- to tighten (often fol. by up): to set nuts well up.
- to cause to take a particular direction: to set one's course to the south.
- to put (a broken or dislocated bone) back in position.
- (of a hunting dog) to indicate the position of (game) by standing stiffly and pointing with the muzzle.
- to fit, as words to music.
- to arrange for musical performance.
- to arrange (music) for certain voices or instruments.
- [Theat.]
- to arrange the scenery, properties, lights, etc., on (a stage) for an act or scene.
- to prepare (a scene) for dramatic performance.
- to spread and secure (a sail) so as to catch the wind.
- [Print.]
- to arrange (type) in the order required for printing.
- to put together types corresponding to (copy);
compose in type: to set an article.
- [Baking.]to put aside (a substance to which yeast has been added) in order that it may rise.
- to change into curd: to set milk with rennet.
- to cause (glue, mortar, or the like) to become fixed or hard.
- to urge, goad, or encourage to attack: to set the hounds on a trespasser.
- [Bridge.]to cause (the opposing partnership or their contract) to fall short: We set them two tricks at four spades. Only perfect defense could set four spades.
- to affix or apply, as by stamping: The king set his seal to the decree.
- to fix or engage (a fishhook) firmly into the jaws of a fish by pulling hard on the line once the fish has taken the bait.
- to sharpen or put a keen edge on (a blade, knife, razor, etc.) by honing or grinding.
- to fix the length, width, and shape of (yarn, fabric, etc.).
- [Carpentry.]to sink (a nail head) with a nail set.
- to bend or form to the proper shape, as a saw tooth or a spring.
- to bend the teeth of (a saw) outward from the blade alternately on both sides in order to make a cut wider than the blade itself.
- to pass below the horizon;
sink: The sun sets early in winter.
- to decline;
- to assume a fixed or rigid state, as the countenance or the muscles.
- (of the hair) to be placed temporarily on rollers, in clips, or the like, in order to assume a particular style: Long hair sets more easily than short hair.
- to become firm, solid, or permanent, as mortar, glue, cement, or a dye, due to drying or physical or chemical change.
- to sit on eggs to hatch them, as a hen.
- to hang or fit, as clothes.
- to begin to move;
start (usually fol. by forth, out, off, etc.).
- (of a flower's ovary) to develop into a fruit.
- (of a hunting dog) to indicate the position of game.
- to have a certain direction or course, as a wind, current, or the like.
- (of a sail) to be spread so as to catch the wind.
- (of type) to occupy a certain width: This copy sets to forty picas.
- [Nonstandard.]sit: Come in and set a spell.
- set about:
- to begin on;
- to undertake;
- to assault;
- set against:
- to cause to be hostile or antagonistic.
- to compare or contrast: The advantages must be set against the disadvantages.
- set ahead, to set to a later setting or time: Set your clocks ahead one hour.
- set apart:
- to reserve for a particular purpose.
- to cause to be noticed;
distinguish: Her bright red hair sets her apart from her sisters.
- set aside:
- to put to one side;
reserve: The clerk set aside the silver brooch for me.
- to dismiss from the mind;
- to prevail over;
annul: to set aside a verdict.
- set back:
- to hinder;
- to turn the hands of (a watch or clock) to show an earlier time: When your plane gets to California, set your watch back two hours.
- to reduce to a lower setting: Set back the thermostat before you go to bed.
- set by, to save or keep for future use.
- set down:
- to write or to copy or record in writing or printing.
- to consider;
estimate: to set someone down as a fool.
- to attribute;
ascribe: to set a failure down to bad planning.
- to put in a position of rest on a level surface.
- to humble or humiliate.
- to land an airplane: We set down in a heavy fog.
- (in horse racing) to suspend (a jockey) from competition because of some offense or infraction of the rules.
- set forth:
- to give an account of;
describe: He set forth his theory in a scholarly report.
- to begin a journey;
start: Columbus set forth with three small ships.
- set forward, to turn the hands of (a watch or clock) to show a later time: When your plane lands in New York, set your watch forward two hours.
- set in:
- to begin to prevail;
arrive: Darkness set in.
- (of winds or currents) to blow or flow toward the shore.
- set off:
- to cause to become ignited or to explode.
- to begin;
- to intensify or improve by contrast.
- to begin a journey or trip;
- set on:
- Also, set upon. to attack or cause to attack: to set one's dog on a stranger.
- to instigate;
incite: to set a crew to mutiny.
- set one's face against. See face (def. 35).
- set out:
- to begin a journey or course: to set out for home.
- to undertake;
attempt: He set out to prove his point.
- to design;
plan: to set out a pattern.
- to define;
describe: to set out one's arguments.
- to plant: to set out petunias and pansies.
- to lay out (the plan of a building) in actual size at the site.
- to lay out (a building member or the like) in actual size.
- set store by. See store (def. 9).
- set to:
- to make a vigorous effort;
apply oneself to work;
- to begin to fight;
- set up:
- to put upright;
- to put into a high or powerful position.
- to construct;
- to be assembled or made ready for use: exercise equipment that sets up in a jiffy.
- to inaugurate;
- to enable to begin in business;
provide with means.
- to make a gift of;
treat, as to drinks.
- to stimulate;
- to propound;
- to bring about;
- to become firm or hard, as a glue or cement: a paint that sets up within five minutes.
- to lead or lure into a dangerous, detrimental, or embarrassing situation, as by deceitful prearrangement or connivance.
- to entrap or frame, as an innocent person in a crime or a criminal suspect in a culpable circumstance in order to achieve an arrest.
- to arrange the murder or execution of: His partner set him up with the mob.
- [Bridge.]to establish (a suit): to set up spades.
- the act or state of setting or the state of being set.
- a collection of articles designed for use together: a set of china; a chess set.
- a collection, each member of which is adapted for a special use in a particular operation: a set of golf clubs; a set of carving knives.
- a number, group, or combination of things of similar nature, design, or function: a set of ideas.
- a series of volumes by one author, about one subject, etc.
- a number, company, or group of persons associated by common interests, occupations, conventions, or status: a set of murderous thieves; the smart set.
- the fit, as of an article of clothing: the set of his coat.
- fixed direction, bent, or inclination: The set of his mind was obvious.
- bearing or carriage: the set of one's shoulders.
- the assumption of a fixed, rigid, or hard state, as by mortar or glue.
- the arrangement of the hair in a particular style: How much does the beauty parlor charge for a shampoo and set?
- a plate for holding a tool or die.
- an apparatus for receiving radio or television programs;
- [Philately.]a group of stamps that form a complete series.
- [Tennis.]a unit of a match, consisting of a group of not fewer than six games with a margin of at least two games between the winner and loser: He won the match in straight sets of 6–3, 6–4, 6–4.
- a construction representing a place or scene in which the action takes place in a stage, motion-picture, or television production.
- [Mach.]
- the bending out of the points of alternate teeth of a saw in opposite directions.
- a permanent deformation or displacement of an object or part.
- a tool for giving a certain form to something, as a saw tooth.
- a chisel having a wide blade for dividing bricks.
- [Hort.]a young plant, or a slip, tuber, or the like, suitable for planting.
- [Dancing.]
- the number of couples required to execute a quadrille or the like.
- a series of movements or figures that make up a quadrille or the like.
- a group of pieces played by a band, as in a night club, and followed by an intermission.
- the period during which these pieces are played.
- [Bridge.]a failure to take the number of tricks specified by one's contract: Our being vulnerable made the set even more costly.
- [Naut.]
- the direction of a wind, current, etc.
- the form or arrangement of the sails, spars, etc., of a vessel.
- suit (def. 12).
- [Psychol.]a temporary state of an organism characterized by a readiness to respond to certain stimuli in a specific way.
- a timber frame bracing or supporting the walls or roof of a shaft or stope.
- [Carpentry.]See nail set.
- a collection of objects or elements classed together.
- the width of a body of type.
- sett (def. 3).
- fixed or prescribed beforehand: a set time; set rules.
- specified;
fixed: The hall holds a set number of people.
- deliberately composed;
customary: set phrases.
- fixed;
rigid: a set smile.
- resolved or determined;
habitually or stubbornly fixed: to be set in one's opinions.
- completely prepared;
ready: Is everyone set?
- all set, in readiness;
prepared: They were at the starting line and all set to begin.
Also, get set!
- (in calling the start of a race): Ready! Set! Go!
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As World War I stumbled to its conclusion in 1918, a menace more deadly than mustard gas, bombs, or bullets swept across the globe-killing millions in its wake. Influenza spared no one and no place. U.S. Navy sailors were not immune from its lethal effects.
The influenza pandemic of 1918-19 was caused by what is considered one of the deadliest viruses in history, comparable to the "Black Plague" that swept through western Europe in the Middle Ages and killed millions. Influenza—or the flu, grippe, Spanish Lady, Flanders Fever, or Three-day Fever, as the disease was called variously—was even more devastating. It was a worldwide holocaust: more than 20 million people died (a conservative estimate, as records are incomplete and statistics unreliable). It affected every continent, nation, stratum of society, and ethnic and age group.
There is no discernable reason for its strange history; there was no geographical pattern or obvious path of transmission. It rampaged through the British Grand Fleet in the spring of 1918, but did not seriously menace the U.S. battleships attached to the fleet for months. German soldiers on the Western Front were afflicted seriously, but British tommies were not. American doughboys crossing the Atlantic to France on transports had a much higher mortality rate than the crews of the ships that carried them. Ships returning to the United States from the war zone had far fewer cases than those going over did.
There are various theories about the flu's origins: some say it started in Spain, others say in Asia, and still others say in the United States. Recent pathological research has concluded the flu may have originated with swine and percolated for an undetermined number of years, perhaps even trading back and forth between pigs and people before growing strong enough to become virulent.1 Some writers have determined there were two or three waves, but from 1916 to 1919 the epidemic ebbed and flowed for more than three years, finally becoming a pandemic. It gradually got worse in scope and severity, climaxing in the fall of 1918 before slowly subsiding in the winter.
The pandemic in the United States was a medical disaster of massive proportions. One authority suggests as much as one quarter of the population, 25 million, had the flu in 1918-19.2 As many as 700,000 may have died; this was more than the total U.S. combat losses in both world wars, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War combined.3
The flu struck the military services earlier and more severely than the civilian population. The Army may have had more than a quarter of its number down with the contagion at one time or another. Military camps in the United States became huge virtual hospitals, with entire barracks taken over as wards. Bases were so crippled that the Army's Chief of Staff urgently cabled General John Pershing in November 1918, "Influenza not only stopped all drafts calls in October but practically stopped all training."4 The American Expeditionary Force in Europe was not hit quite so hard. The hospital admission rate in the war zone was approximately 64% that of the rate of soldiers in the states; 167 out of every thousand fell ill with the disease. Altogether, 12,423 U.S. soldiers in Europe died.5
A much larger number died on the troop transports. "The worst place to have an epidemic, like a fire," writes one authority, "is in close quarters far from help, such as a ship on the high seas."6 Troops literally were packed in the compartments of the transports, making it likely that if one person caught the disease, all in his immediate proximity soon would come down with it. In the last six months of the war, while the pandemic was spreading rapidly throughout the world, 1.5 million doughboys crossed the Atlantic to British and French ports. Transports often were crowded with the sick and the dead. One convoy commander radioed London that more than "1,300 cases of virulent pneumonia and influenza in convoy, 49 deaths." Admiral William S. Sims, Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. naval forces in Europe, threatened a quarantine, but it proved to be "politically impossible."7
Though few in the crews of troop transports fell ill, this was not true of the Navy as a whole. The cruiser Minneapolis (C-13), while moored at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in January 1918, saw the first noticeable outbreak of flu. In a two-week period, 21 members of her crew came down with the disease. Within a month, the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery was receiving reports of numerous cases in ships and bases scattered along the Atlantic seaboard.8
The epidemic soon spread to the naval forces deployed in the war zone. In March, a comparatively mild epidemic of influenza and pneumonia showed up among the naval personnel stationed at Brest and the U.S. naval air stations in Gujan and Fromentine. The disease spread quickly to the crews of escorts operating out of Brest. One of the surgeons at the U.S. naval hospital there wrote in early July that 30 members of a destroyer's crew became incapacitated with the illness. "We were thinking of taking them ashore," he wrote, "so as to fumigate the ship when came the call of a torpedoed ship. Every man slid into place, fever, headache, bone ache and all, and away she beat it to sea [to] pick up the survivors."9
Influenza also spread among the U.S. sailors based in Great Britain. Even the London Headquarters staff of the U.S. naval force in European waters was affected. On 30 June, Commander T. A. Thomson, Admiral Sims's chief medical officer, reported that, "My entire office is out of commission with influenza, including myself." Nonetheless, he predicted optimistically to Surgeon General William Braisted at the end of July that there were only about 1,500 cases in the entire naval force, and that the epidemic was about over.10 Commander Thomson tragically was mistaken; a far deadlier strain had been sweeping through Asia, and even as he wrote to the Surgeon General, British civilians were dying by the hundreds.11
Washington officials were not especially alarmed over the flu in August. Medical officers still reported evidence of the disease at home and abroad, but the number of cases appeared to be decreasing. This changed toward the end of the month. Cables arrived from Brest with the news of a massive and deadly outbreak among French military personnel. Meanwhile, the Navy Department was notified of an eruption of the malady in Boston, which initially targeted the bluejackets crowded on a receiving ship moored at the city's Commonwealth Pier. On the last day of August, as the city focused on Babe Ruth pitching the Red Sox to the American League pennant, 106 sailors on the receiving ship came down with the flu. By the first week of September more than 2,000 officers and sailors in the Boston area were stricken. There were so many patients at Chelsea Naval Hospital that tents had to be erected on the lawn to handle the overflow. Before it was over, 26 sailors in the Boston area died from the disease.12
The new epidemic reached the Atlantic Fleet and other shore installations in September. By the end of the month the Great Lakes Training Station near Chicago had nearly 10,000 down with the illness—so many that one sailor estimated half the barracks had been converted into temporary hospital wards. By the beginning of October, some 31,000 sailors, most of them on shore facilities in the states, had been stricken, and more than 1,100 had died.13
In the war zone, the new and more deadly strain appeared first among the U.S. naval forces in French waters. Inevitably, Brest was battered by the disease. Flu already had ravaged French sailors and civilians in the district. To compound the situation, troopships from Norfolk, Boston, and other U.S. ports debarked thousands of doughboys weekly, many of whom brought the pestilence with them. A sailor on the President Grant (SP-3014) claimed years later that so many died on the transport that members of the crew, when not on watch, were required to prepare the deceased for burial. "I stood my watch in the radio room," he wrote, "and when off watch I turned to and helped sew up some of the dead soldiers till my fingers bled. We used a palm and needle rig to cross-stitch thru the canvas."14 Marine Brigadier General Smedley Butler wrote his family after arriving at Brest: "We had a hell of a trip over, an epidemic of Spanish influenza breaking out among us…We had at one time fully 500 cases of influenza…I suppose it is one of the awful results of this devilish war…terribly hard to bear, this loss of your men when you can't help them."15
During the three-month period from 15 September to 15 December, the patient load at the U.S. naval hospital in Brest averaged 800. In the end, more than 2,000 U.S. servicemen died in Brest from influenza.16
The autumn Spanish Flu epidemic was widespread in Great Britain. In September, 14,000 died. The weekly death tolls mounted steadily, reaching their peak in the last week of October, when the total was 4,000. More than 18,000 died in London alone from September to December. Even the Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, came down with the flu in September.17
Other than London, the cities hardest hit were the port cities, particularly Liverpool and Southampton. Luckily for the U.S. Navy, few of its personnel were in those cities. The ports that did have large numbers of sailors, however, were not so lucky. The southern Irish town of Queenstown, which had become the largest U.S. naval installation in the British Isles, saw a large number of cases. Throughout October, the number of new cases averaged 25 to 35 daily. When the new naval hospital at Whitepoint opened in late October, 150 patients were admitted immediately, all with the flu.18
The sailors stationed on the battleships and other naval vessels concentrated near Berehaven in Bantry Bay in southwestern Ireland suffered the most from the epidemic. By the middle of October, a third of the Utah's (BB-31) and Oklahoma's (BB-37) crews were down with the disease. One of the Utah's officers recalled in his oral history that one Sunday in October he went hiking with several officers from the Oklahoma, including the ship's gunnery officer, and a few days later the gunnery officer was dead from the flu.19 The Nevada (BB-36) experienced few cases until the second week in October, when the number began to escalate. As the ship's history recorded, "The end of the month found us riddled of the disease." A member of the ship's company wrote in his diary on 21 October, "a large percentage of the ship's crew is sick with Spanish Influenza." A few days later he remarked, "The general spirit is gloomy, everyone sees many of his shipmates groping around looking like hooded ghosts…One can tell by the expression on each face that they are battling to their utmost to keep going, for this is the surest way to down the discease [sic]." He also mentioned in his diary that the sick bay line was sometimes 50 or 60 feet long." Altogether, 11 of the Nevada's sailors died.20
Personnel on the U.S. dreadnoughts attached to the British Grand Fleet, which suffered heavily from the flu, also were affected seriously. There were more than 600 cases on HMS Revenge. The battlecruiser HMS Princess Royal was so devastated that tugs were moored alongside to provide essential services. Some ships had to borrow personnel from sister ships to go on patrol.21 In the U.S. squadron, according to one former officer, the Arkansas (BB-33) had "in excess of 1,200 cases" of the flu; this was in a total complement of about 1,500 men. "Everybody sick with the flu," a bluejacket on the Arkansas wrote dejectedly in his diary. Admiral Harry W. Hill, in h is oral history, recalled that, "On both the Texas (BB-35) and Wyoming (BB-32), we had more than half our [crews] incapacitated at one time or another. They were so numerous they couldn't be handled in sick bay, and had to be taken care of in special areas set up in various places in the ship."22 Admiral John McCrea, who was on the New York (BB-34) at the time, said in his oral history that, "We had a hell of a time with it. We lost something around 14 or 15 people, including a couple of officers…There were 10 officers…whose rooms were forward of the wardroom. I was one of the 10…and I was the only one in that part of the ship [who] didn't have the flu."
When the Grand Fleet had to sortie once during the epidemic, several British warships did not have enough healthy men to get under way. All of the U.S. battleships, however, managed to join the fleet as it steamed out of the Firth of Forth. Fortunately, it was a false alarm; morale in the German High Seas Fleet had deteriorated to the point that it was unable to go to sea. Admiral McCrea recalled that if the German fleet had come out at that time, "the result could have been disastrous for the Grand Fleet…[The epidemic] was bad, bad, I can tell you."23
Despite the large number of personnel in the squadron stricken with the flu, there were very few fatalities on the U.S. dreadnoughts—fewer than 30.
Of all the U.S. naval vessels affected by the epidemic, the one most savaged by it—the cruiser Pittsburgh (CAA)—was not in the war zone. While visiting Rio de Janeiro, her crew became so crippled by the disease that the ship could not sail. About 80% of her crew was affected, and 58 died, the most in any Navy ship.24
Admiral Sims, the European naval force commander, became increasingly concerned about the severity of the fall outbreak of influenza. In early October he cabled the Navy Department that "there is no doubt that this [epidemic] is now a greater danger to people on ship-board than the Submarine is." He appealed to Chief of Naval Operations Admiral William S. Benson to send two hosp ital ships to European waters immediately. He also strongly urged Washington officials to reduce significantly the number of troops—up to 50%—per transport. "Many deaths," Admiral Sims wrote, "have occurred and many more expected. Immediate drastic measures should be adopted to avoid serious loss of life…[and] official public outcry and possible investigation by Congress."25
By and large, it was left to individual commanding officers and medical personnel to handle the crisis. Unfortunately, there were few guidelines and even fewer effective medicines. Vaccines were virtually unknown in the days before antibiotics. Ingeneral, doctors relied on fresh air, bed rest, simplified diet, and quarantine. Quinine, aspirin, and whiskey were the most common drugs used to treat victims. Preventatives from coffee to throat and nose sprays were tried on most ships. One ship's surgeon, however, advised the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery that "the less medicine given by mouth," the better the chance of recovery. After the epidemic, the bureau concluded that quarantine was the most effective preventative.26
The pandemic lingered on into 1919 before finally disappearing. The Navy, one authority claimed, kept more accurate records than did the U.S. Public Health Service concerning civilian cases. He concluded that at least 40% of the Navy's personnel had the flu. This may well have been a conservative estimate, since an undetermined number of ill sailors evidently did not report to sick bay. According to records, 5,027 Navy personnel died from influenza or complications. This was more than twice as many as those who died from enemy action.27
The Navy was heavily affected by the pandemic. Crews were decimated, ships were delayed in sailing, and medical facilities were taxed, but as one surgeon wrote, "We can't stop this War on account of Spanish or any other kind of influenza."28 Navy veterans of the Great War never forgot the pandemic. Inmemoirs and oral histories, they recalled the suffering and dying. "What do you recall thinking and experiencing at the time?" asked one historian. "Mostly flu," the sailor replied. "Men were dying every day."29
Dr. Still is an adjunct researcher with the Marine Option Program at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. This article is part of a manuscript that will be published as a sequel to his American Sea Power in the Old World: The United States Navy in European and Near Eastern Waters, 1865-1917(Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1980).
1 West Hawaii Today. 16 February 1999. See also Laurie Garrett, The Coming Plague (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994), pp. 156· 159. For the epidemic, see Richard Collier, The Plague of the Spanish Lady: The Influenza Pandemic of 191 8· 1919 (New York: Atheneum, 1974); A. A. Hoehling, The Great Epidemic (Boston: Little, Brown, 1961); Alfred W. Crosby, Epidemic and Peace, 1918 (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1976); Trevor Wilson, The Myriad Faces of War: Britain and the Great War, 1914-1918 (New York: B. Blackwell, 1986); and Josie Mabel Brown, "The Influenza Epidemic of 1918," U.S. Navy Medicine, May-June 1995, pp. 11-19.
2 Crosby, Epidemic and Peace, p. 205.
3 Garrett, The ComingPlague, p. 157; Crosby, Epidemic and Peace, pp. 206-207.
4 Quoted in Edward M. Coffman, The War to End All Wars: The American Military Experience in World War I (New York: Oxford University Press, 1968), p. 82.
5 Coffman, The War to End All Wars, p. 83; Crosby, Epidemic and Peace, p. 205.
6 Quoted in Crosby, Epidemic and Peace, p. 121.
7 Crosby, Epidemic and Peace, p. 31; Sims to Wilson, 8 October 1918, reel 10, ME-11, National Archives; Commanding Officer, USS North Carolina, to Sims, 4 October 191 8, reel 10, ME-11, National Archives.
8 Annual Report of SurgeonGeneral (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1919) , pp. 367·368; Richard E. Winslow, Do Your Job! An Illustrated Bicentennial History of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, 1800-2000(Portsmouth, NH: Portsmouth Marine Society, 2000), p. 118.
9 Talley to wife, 8 July 1918, Talley letters, Naval Historical Center; Lawrence to Kate. 18 November 1918, Lawrence papers, Wisconsin Historical Society; Robert W. Meals, "The Air Station at Dunkirk," The Hospital Corpsof the Navy, Supplement to the United States Navy Medical Bulletin, January 1920, pp. 12·13.
10 Thomson to Braisted, 26 July 191 8, file 2127046, Record Group 52, National Archives.
11 Wilson, The Myriad Faces of War, p. 650; John Williams, The Home Fronts: Britain, France and Germany, 1914-1918(London: Constable, 1972), p. 258; Hoehling, The Great Epidemic, p. 21; Crosby, Epidemic and Peace, p. 30.
12 Annual Report of the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1919), p. 2246; Debra Sanderson, "The Worst Disaster in Recorded History," Old Fanner's Almanac, 1993, p. 114; The Portsmouth Herald, 17 September and 1 October 1918.
13 Crosby, Epidemic and Peace, p. 48.
14 Alex Breth statement, World War I Research Project, American Military History Institute.
15 Anne Cipriano Venzon, ed., General Smedley Darlington Butler: The Letters of a Leatherneck, pp. 205-206.
16 Army and Navy Journal, vol. 56 (1918), p. 979.
17 Hoehling, The Great Epidemic, p. 187; Williams, The Home Fronts, pp. 258-259; Wilson, The Myriad Faces of War, pp. 650-651.
18 Destroyer Flotilla Queenstown, 12 March 1919, ZP subject file, Record Group 45, National Archives; Force Medical Officer to Sims, 1 November 1918, file 125135, Record Group 52, National Archives; Flotilla Surgeon's reports, 12 October 1918, file 131000, Record Group 52, National Archives; Force Medical Officer to Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, 26 October 1918, file 130212, Record Group 52, National Archives.
19 Oklahoma General Recall, vol. 4, no. 3, September 1977; Joe L. Todd, USS Oklahoma: Remembrance of a Great Lady, p. 20; Olaf M. Hustvedt Oral History, U.S. Naval Institute.
20 Rodgers to Sims, 26 October 1918, OB subject file, Record Group 45, National Archives; Guy Rickett's Diary and Memoir, Smithsonian Institution.
21 John McCrea Oral History, U.S. Naval Institute; Eric Wheler Bush, Bless Our Ship (London: Allen & Unwin, 1958), p. 82.
22 Harry Hill Oral History, U.S. Naval Institute; Straubat to Anderson, 1 December 1977, in World War I Research Project, American Military History Institute; Entry for 24 October 1918, Presspick Diary, author's copy; Memo for Surgeon General, 6 October 1918, file 130212, Record Group 52, National Archives.
23 Allan E. Smith, "The Sixth Battle Squadron, A Reminiscence," American Neptune, January 1980, p. 57; Bush, Bless Our Ship, p. 82.
24 Crosby, Epidemic and Peace, p. 122.
25 Sims to Navy Department, 5 and 18 October 1918, file 1302 12, Record Group 52, National Archives.
26 Files in Record Group 52 in the National Archives, especially file 130212, contain reports from virtually every ship and station medical officer concerning preventative measures. See also Stars and Stripes, 13 December 19 18; Alexander W. Moffar, Maverick Navy (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1976), pp. 122-123.
27 Annual Report of SurgeonGeneral, p. 354; Coffman, The War to End All Wars, p. 84; Crosby, Epidemic and Peace, p. 206.
28 Quoted in Sanderson, "The Worst Disaster in Recorded History," p. 113.
29 Unidentified sailor's questionnaire, World War I Research Project, American Military History Institute.

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put (someone) under the cosh
To force (someone) to contend with a difficult or stressful situation; to put (someone) under pressure or difficulty. Primarily heard in UK. Local businesses have been increasingly put under the cosh by the austerity measures imposed by the government after the economic crash. Middlesbrough has really been putting Manchester United under the cosh in this second half.


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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Long-distance truckers are almost three times more likely to get in an accident when they drive during midnight-to-dawn hours with few breaks, according to new research from Australia.
The findings run up against the realities of the global truck freight industry, where irregular schedules and incentive-based payment systems enticing drivers to the next load are still common, said Mark Stevenson. He led the study from the Monash University Accident Research Centre in Melbourne.
"If companies are setting schedules that require drivers to compete with their natural circadian rhythm, then that places them at a higher risk for a crash," Stevenson told Reuters Health.
He and his colleagues recruited a nearly all-male group of 530 truckers with a recent non-fatal road crash confirmed by a police report. They also tracked down 517 drivers with no crash reports to serve as a comparison group.
The truckers were recruited at rest stops along heavily traveled truck routes in New South Wales and Western Australia. Drivers in both groups answered questions related to sleep, driving and lifestyle habits during a 40-minute interview. They also wore a sleep monitor for one night. Participants were in their mid-40s, on average.
Drivers with less experience were three times more likely to be involved in a non-fatal accident and those traveling with an empty load were more than twice as likely to crash. Truckers who had been driving for less than eight hours had about half the odds of crashing as those further into their trip.
The new study confirms a link between late-night driving and crash risk, but also adds plenty of detail on other risk factors, said Dr. Barbara Phillips, from the University of Kentucky College of Medicine in Lexington.
For instance, the researchers found not having anti-lock braking systems on a truck was tied to a 50 percent higher risk of crashing. Lack of cruise control was tied to a 61 percent higher risk.
"That is news," said Phillips, who has studied long-haul drivers but was not involved in the current study.
"Some drivers prefer not to use cruise control because they think they have limited control of the vehicle," said Stevenson.
"But once cruise control is activated, it does assist the driver in maintaining a constant, safe speed," he said.
Truckers who drank caffeinated beverages had one third the odds of crashing as those who didn't, the researchers report in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
Contrary to previous research, Stevenson and his team found that sleep apnea, a sleep disorder, was not tied to crash risk. About 19 percent of drivers who had been in a crash and 16 percent of comparison drivers were determined to have "likely severe" apnea.
"With sleep apnea, you are getting very poor quality sleep. So some of the drivers are already starting work with a sleep deficit," Stevenson said.
But Phillips said the apnea monitors given to truckers in the study did not measure certain parameters which have been linked to an increased risk of accidents.
"Based on the methods used here, and the exclusion of crashes with deaths or injuries, I do not think it's a safe conclusion to draw," Phillips said of the sleep apnea finding.
The type of study design used by the researchers, called a "case-control," can be useful for studying small groups of people. But, as they point out, the comparison group may not have the exact same characteristics as drivers who had crashed.
Both Stevenson and Phillips agreed that truck drivers and car drivers will inevitably drive while sleep-deprived.
The current research offers some advice, Phillips said.
"One, drivers should drink caffeine. Two, they can use cruise control if they have it. And, three, they need to take frequent breaks," she said.
SOURCE: http://bit.ly/1kD0pp0 American Journal of Epidemiology, online December 18, 2013.


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Hi everyone, I have just finished this little pillow using my free cross stitch pattern in the previous post, I have changed it a little and I will be altering the pattern slightly and resubmitting it to my blog.
I added another flower and altered the green stems slightly.
Here is another small free pattern for you to stitch, I hope you like it!
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Canned Tuna
How we tested
Canned tuna tastes nothing like fresh fish, but according to American sales figures that's just fine. Reeling in $1.1 billion a year in industry sales, it's the country's most popular seafood after shrimp and has been since the early 20th century, when it gained recognition as a low-cost, pantry-ready source of protein. Apparently, nobody minds that it doesn't taste like fresh tuna. In fact, the appeal of the canned stuff is that, as one well-known brand proclaims on its label, its flavor is as mild as chicken.
With such high demand for inexpensive tuna, the well-known "big three"canned tuna companies have tweaked their methods to get the highest rate of "recovery"—the yield of flesh from the fish—at the lowest cost. In some cases, the results bear a smaller resemblance to fish than ever before. At the same time, tuna has gone upscale. In addition to chunk light and solid white, oil- and water-packed, pouch and can, and regular and low-sodium, some brands now offer premium versions with gourmet-sounding names like "select" grade and "prime fillet." A few new companies have even entered the game, claiming to bring not only higher-quality fish but also the advantages of better processing methods (including environmentally friendly fishing practices) to the game.
Wondering if these new products were really any better, we trawled the tuna aisle and returned with eight cans of solid white albacore tuna, most packed in water—our preferred style from a 2006 tasting. These included two new brands, two "gourmet" lines from the "big three," and four regular samples that we grew up eating. (Just to see if it was worth its staggering price tag and the inconvenience of mail-ordering, we also sampled the crème de la crème of tinned fish—ventresca tuna packed in oil—in a separate tasting.) Our questions: Would any of the new versions really taste more like fresh tuna? And given that the most common preparation is to mix it with mayonnaise and pickles for tuna salad, would we even care?
A Double-Edged Sword
As it turned out, the answer was "yes" in both cases. The tuna salad test proved that even after the fish was loaded up with condiments, differences among the samples were still plenty clear—and that what we look for in a can of tuna has come a long way. While several of the lower-ranking sandwich fillings were so wet and spongy that they elicited comparisons to cat food, the two salads we liked best boasted not only heartier, more substantial chunks of fish, but richer, more flavorful meat that—as one taster noted in astonishment—"actually tastes like tuna." But what exactly accounted for the differences? For starters, those alternative processing methods touted by the new-school tuna companies.
First, a little information about how most tuna gets from the ocean into a can. The majority of large-scale manufacturers haul in flash-frozen fish from the boats, thaw it, inspect it, and then cook it twice—once before canning it and again after sealing it. The first heating maximizes the amount of meat that can be pulled off the fish. Raw fish clings tightly to the skin and bones and must be hand-packed because it clogs machinery. Cooked fish separates more easily from the carcass, allowing manufacturers to not only recover every scrap of meat, but also to machine-pack it quickly and cheaply. The second heating takes place after canning, as a precaution against harmful bacteria. The upshot: a faster process with a higher yield and, in turn, lower prices for the consumer.
The problem is that while the double-cook method cuts down on the cost of the product, it also cheapens the quality. Though all of the samples made acceptable tuna salad, our least favorites (which included the conventional samples from all three of the major brands) had lost so much of their natural flavor, moisture, and meaty bite that some tasters couldn't even tell they were eating fish. Mayonnaise turned the "teeny shreds" in one can to a "wet paste." One taster likened another "squishy," "loose" tuna salad to fishy "dip."
The effects of double-cooking became even more apparent when we compared the big-brand tunas to samples from two industry newcomers. Both of these smaller companies pack raw fish into the cans by hand and cook the meat only once, and the results had the fresher flavor and firmer, heartier texture to prove it.
Swimming in Liquid
The way the fish was processed accounted for some of the difference between these two brands and the rest of the lineup, but we discovered another likely factor. When we pulled back the lids, we noticed that most cans contained a fair bit of liquid that had to be drained off, while the industry newcomers' cans contained almost no liquid. The ingredient labels confirmed our observation: Every manufacturer except those two packed their fish in either water or a combination of water and vegetable broth. Why? Three reasons.
First, producers use the double-cook method to add moisture back to the precooked (and drier) fish. Second, supplementing the water with vegetable broth is a trick used by all three of the bottom-ranking big-brand tuna companies to enhance their products' woefully bland flavor—although in most cases we found that it only made the tuna taste salty. The premium versions of two brands, packed in just water, fared slightly better with tasters, but we found that no matter what kind of liquid was in the can, the results weren't as flavorful as those preparations that start with raw tuna and let it cook in its own juices. The third reason is obvious: It's a cost-cutting measure. The more liquid that's in the can, the less room there is for the fish.
That last point prompted us to do one more test: We drained each can and weighed both the fish and the liquid, to see what your money buys. While our top-rated tunas cost more for the same size can than the rest of the lineup, you get more meat per can—up to an additional half-ounce more. But above all, we think the fresher flavor and heartier texture make these brands worth a few extra pennies for our next tuna sandwich.


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One-off tweets could escape charges
People who post one-off offensive messages on social media could escape charges under new guidelines, the most senior prosecutor in England and Wales has suggested.
"The time has come for an informed debate about the boundaries of free speech in an age of social media," Keir Starmer said.
One-off messages which do not form part of a campaign of harassment and are not intended to incite others are unlikely to lead to charges, the Director of Public Prosecutions signalled.
His comments came as he announced no charges would be brought against a Welsh Premier League footballer who posted a homophobic message about Olympic diver Tom Daley.
Daley, 18, and diving partner Pete Waterfield missed out on a medal at this summer's Olympics when they finished fourth in the 10m synchronised dive.
Port Talbot Town FC midfielder Daniel Thomas posted a homophobic message on Twitter, which was later distributed more widely, leading to his arrest, but Mr Starmer said the message was "not so grossly offensive that criminal charges need to be brought".
"It was not intended to reach Mr Daley or Mr Waterfield, it was not part of a campaign, it was not intended to incite others and Mr Thomas removed it reasonably swiftly and has expressed remorse."
New guidelines for prosecutors are needed because this was one of a growing number of cases and there are likely to be many more, he said.
Within hours, Greater Manchester Police announced the arrest of a 22-year-old man after a Facebook page was set up lauding suspected police double killer Dale Cregan as a "legend".
Mr Starmer said: "To ensure that CPS (Crown Prosecution Service) decision-making in these difficult cases is clear and consistent, I intend to issue guidelines on social media cases for prosecutors."


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Percy Harvin considers himself one of the NFL's top wide receivers and should be compensated accordingly, a Minnesota Vikings team source told ESPN's Josina Anderson Wednesday.
The source said Harvin is angling for a deal in the ballpark of the Detroit Lions' Calvin Johnson (eight years, $132 million) and the Arizona Cardinals' Larry Fitzgerald (eight years, $120 million).
"[Harvin] is a star player in our league, but I would imagine that he sees himself in the class of the top wide receivers in our league," the source said. "I do know at his production, when he was healthy, he was producing along with Larry and Calvin and those guys. I could see Harvin's agent making the argument that he deserves their type of pay."
Amid reports that Harvin will be shopped this offseason, the source would like the Vikings to craft a deal to keep the electric receiver on the roster.
The source told ESPN's Anderson, "I don't think we should be at the point of being done with" Harvin.
"He is a star athlete who is a great player," the source said. "Is he a volatile guy? Yes. Can he be managed? Yes. For me, he is not an issue. You just have to be able to deal and manage star players."
Harvin is set to earn $2.9 million in the final year of the rookie deal he signed in 2009. The versatile receiver has struggled to maintain peace with Vikings coach Leslie Frazier and others despite his contributions on the field. Playing time and his role in the red zone have been issues for Harvin in the past. Now, he reportedly is expected to "stay away" from offseason workouts and training camp if the Vikings don't offer him a lucrative contract extension.
Whatever Harvin would command in a trade, stripping the offense of his talents would make the Vikings a far less dangerous team heading into next season. It's not surprising there are people inside the building hoping a deal can be worked out.
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After a year of skirmishing on Capitol Hill, the intense debate on military sexual assaults is about to get a new central player — President Barack Obama, who faces a delicate decision in coming months on just how far to push the Pentagon to change a system that's been largely static for decades.
Defense Department officials are scrambling to meet Obama's Dec. 1 deadline to show progress in addressing sexual assault throughout the ranks, otherwise, he could revoke a commander's powerful role in the Pentagon's unique justice system - which though amended significantly late last year, still remains rooted in a World War II mindset. They're churning out data and reports to demonstrate how a couple years' worth of new policies have made it easier for victims to step forward and report crimes. Legal and policy experts chartered by the Pentagon also face their own tight schedules to produce analysis and suggestions for Obama.
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¡SI SE PUEDE! HOW LATINA PRINCIPALS SUCCESSFULLY BALANCE WORK AND FAMILY LIFE by Verónica Chávez A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF EDUCATION May 2012 Copyright 2012 Verónica Chávez
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|Women leaders in education have historically struggled to balance work and family life because of societal expectations that they are to prioritize the home and family domain over their careers. Assigned gender roles make maintaining balance a complex process for women leaders because they are responsible for numerous duties and obligations both at work and with their families. Society continues to perceive women primarily as mothers, wives, and caregivers, resulting in women bearing the responsibility for household matters such as child care and spending on average more time than men completing domestic obligations. Because of these competing priorities, women often forego principal positions. ❧ The significance of this study is to make a contribution to the body of research pertaining to women leaders in education, particularly at the level of school principal, by examining how three Latina principals balance work and family life. This study used qualitative research to examine the challenges Latina principals face in their professional and personal lives, the support systems they rely on to fulfill their multiple roles, and the strategies they utilize to maintain work and family life balance. The challenges discussed by the Latina principals included: (a) cultural upbringing, (b) ethnic identity (c) external barriers, (d) guilt, (e) marital strain, and (f) time constraints. The participants relied on the following support systems to fulfill their multiple roles: (a) husbands, (b) mothers and grandmothers, (c) family members, friends, and day care centers, and (d) influential individuals working in education. Finally, the strategies the Latina principals used to achieve work/family balance included (a) prioritizing, (b) planning, (c) integration, and (d) accepting limitations.
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Miley Cyrus and Rachel Zoe helped celebrate with Mario Testino at a big pre-Oscars bash in LA. It was a private reception toasting Mario's new exhibit at LA gallery Prism, which features many of his most famous photos. Plenty of his admirers were on hand yesterday, including models Alessandra Ambrosio, Jessica Hart, and Liberty Ross. Marisa Tomei and Kim Kardashian made the rounds as well. Kim was happy to finally cross paths with Mario, tweeting afterward, "Fun night! Met one of my favorite photographers, Mario Testino!" Mario's party was one of the many taking place in Hollywood one day before the Oscars — see all the stars partying at Oscars events.


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"You need to be a wily old coyote to be in this role; age and experience really helps," she says.
With a diploma in business information from the University of Auckland and a work background in software development, database management and systems analysis, Robles has been with Bell Gully for eight years, including over three in her present position.
IT at Bell Gully is split into two teams, with Robles heading up systems development and Elizabeth Ginda operations management. Both managers report to Leslie Davidson, Bell Gully's commercial director.
Robles and Ginda support the information needs of 230 lawyers and local and international clients - Robles' specific responsibilities include project team, analyst, and DBA management with Ginda's including network infrastructure and help desk support management.
Robles says length of IS experience is useful in a fast-paced legal environment where lawyers require immediate action on behalf of themselves or their clients and there is no time for running back and forth to clarify user requirements.
"Experience always aids you in future projects because a lot of projects work as long as you understand the methodologies."
Law is not a homogenous product sold to a vast market, says Robles. "Each client is different and their issues might change from year to year or even over six month periods. In that way, each client issue becomes like a project and the Bell Gully team works together to meet the needs."
Nor are IS demands only driven by the firm's clients. Internal customers, Bell Gully's lawyers, can meet a client in the morning and want an IS task completed for their client by the afternoon.
"It might be to set up a collaboration extranet, to develop an automatic notification to lawyers regarding work progress, or to make sure the information we are sharing with an individual client is presented in the best format possible," says Robles.
She says experience is also helpful when evaluating vendor claims and issuing requests for information. "It becomes increasingly easier to get to the core of the information and cut to the chase. Vendors are aware there is more maturity in the market and know that unrealistic claims in regard to software will be discounted."
Bringing documents into line
In 2003, Robles and her team found themselves listening to vendor claims in conjunction with feedback from other organisations as they searched for a new document management system.
Driven by the need for a new, more efficient streamlined system, and with an IS focus on improving productivity, the firm sought an answer to a legacy document management system less streamlined for internal and external document exchange processes, and clumsier than the firm would have liked.
"We wanted to take advantage of vast improvements in the document management system software space; we were also using a customised solution at the front end, and wanted something easier to use that had a collaborative aspect," says Robles.
A dedicated project team of seven started by talking with end users, gathering feedback and evaluating several document management systems over a six-month period. The shortlist, with positioning analysis, was presented to the firm's board with the team's recommendations.
"The project team did a great deal of in-depth analysis and had such a good case it was more a matter of 'do we go?' rather than 'who do we go with?'" says Robles.
The board signed off the team's recommendation to invest in iManage document management software from US company Interwoven, a decision that gave Robles and others working on the project the green light to drive change management and develop user champions within the organisation.
Change management
An initial communication plan was developed including a four-week needs analysis process.
During this phase, the new system was discussed with staff, and the project management team spent three to four months planning, conducting design workshops and gathering input from user experience. After that, says Robles, a formal communication plan was implemented and a pilot launched.
"For a two-month period, we engaged two teams of lawyers and support staff chosen because they were fairly self-contained as pilot users. This was a luxury because document management system pilots are not often technically possible and can be too disruptive to the business. We migrated team specific documents over to the pilot system."
She says the pilot users became system champions and provided invaluable feedback - but the firm had other change management and feedback strategies running concurrently.
"We had sessions where people could just look and play and we gave users quite a bit of responsibility in terms of cleaning up their own documents. At rollout, we devolved IT support people onto the office floor for on the spot support and we additionally offered classroom training for all users," says Robles.
Lessons learned
The firm's attention to change management and planning appears to have paid off. Robles says the new system is stable and has required little in the way of maintenance and support.
"Its implementation means it is now as easy as possible for lawyers and their clients to access the information they need. Any law firm makes its money on the hours its partners spend with clients, so our role is to free up as many hours as possible."
She says while a document management system is core to any law firm, in essence it is simple to execute and uses straightforward technologies.
"We offer three ways of accessing documents and any kind of document can be saved whether it's a fax, PDF, email or hard copy. We set up folders relating to work collaboration."
However, Robles says if she had her time over again on the project, she would like to spend a little more time on system design.
"There is always a temptation to hurry through design; if you take more time it means less tweaking later on."
Despite this, Robles says the business objectives around the new document management system have been met and measured (an important achievement given the key pressures of the legal industry
"This is a highly competitive, confidential and security driven environment; basic IT risk management is crucial and time pressures are always present. We don't want to waste [our lawyer's] time, so we make sure we are very well prepared."
Robles describes herself as a driven person who works long hours by choice. ("At other stages in my working life I might have been less eager to do so.") Her favourite projects are related to the web, database and user interface design, and data architecture.
"These are important in an environment like the legal industry where knowledge is critical but I also have a strong personal interest," says Robles.
However, she dislikes the idea of being given a completely free rein to implement new technologies or develop existing ones.
"I prefer to be driven by what is a requirement or by potential opportunities; I'm not a fan of playing with technology for the sake of it."
Describing her job as "all consuming", she says it can be an effort to maintain a work/life balance.
"It is different for every person; actually I am happy to put in the hours because the work I do is so challenging and enjoyable."
Much is this time is spent working on concurrent IS projects - the firm has an IS roadmap for the next 12 months and another going forward three to five years. "At any one time I could be working on two large projects and four to five smaller ones. Some will be standalone within systems development and others will overlap with IT operations; there is often a continuum from one area to the other."
She says her largest challenge was the firm's 1999 practice management systems upgrade. "I was doing my diploma at the same time and burning a huge amount of energy here and at university."
Whatever the project, Robles says she is helped by a close management team and collegial working environment. "We have formal and informal communication structures; we work together on a daily basis, and our projects touch a lot of the business units and managers.
"It's exciting - there's never a dull moment really."
How to get user buy-in and build champions.
Why experience and a number of years on the job can make all the difference.
What design elements are important when building a document management system.
Rate your challenges
When interviewing business executives, <i>MIS </i>asks them to rate the most challenging elements of managing a project. Here, Linda Robles, national systems development manager, rates her challenges in managing IS projects.
Most challenging
Keeping projects on time and on budget
Finding and motivating the right staff
Strategy and planning
Getting support of board and CEO
Getting support of other company stakeholders (including users)
Managing vendors
Managing emergencies
Selecting vendors
Most challenging
Robles has two tips for keeping projects on time and on budget: Ensure no shortcuts are taken in project planning and assess business benefits realistically.
For managing emergencies, she says it is vital to actively manage risk upfront before it presents as an 'emergency'. "If an emergency does occur, be very clear about priority actions."
Tips for project management
Key Bell Gully business objectives for a new document management system and how these were measured:
Ensure a high level of reliability, scalability and security.
Implement a configurable 'out of the box' system with inbuilt integration capability.
Empower legal users by providing them with enhanced access to and control of information.
Support remote working.
Provide a solution to email overload.
Reinforce knowledge management practises.
Support virtual team collaboration.
Streamline document life cycle management.
Extremely low level of support required.
Level of customisations to be maintained reduced significantly.
Lawyers are able to work effectively in the style that is best fit for them and their team.
Flexible interface access options.
Security access meets every business requirement.
Create, modify and retrieve documents remotely.
Email automatically profiled and easily stored in iManage
Legal teams manage own sets of precedent information.
Ability to work in virtual teams collaboratively with other lawyers and share documents with clients.
Effectively manage retention and disposition policies.
Corporate summary:
Name: Bell Gully
Locations: Auckland and Wellington
Business: Legal services
Total employees: 500
Head of IS: Linda Robles/Elizabeth Ginda
Number of IT staff: 23
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