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A smartphone application 'Driving License Sindh' was made earlier this year for the convenience of Sindh citizens. The system, however, was introduced and has been operational from Tuesday. The app is designed in such a way that it delivers information pertaining to the person's driving license through the mobile app.
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People will be able to get any information about the licenses through the app or SMS alert, thus saving time and energy wasted while waiting in the long queues. These computerized licenses will be accepted globally. Its salient features include a newly designed card that will help in detecting and preventing the issuance of fake licenses. The mobile phone app can also be easily downloaded. Moreover, the applicants can register themselves online in advance. A centralized system has been adopted for printing, release, and distribution of driving licenses as all these cards in future will be printed in Karachi and sent to the address of the applicant through courier service. There will be an online test before the license is issued. Other than that complaints, violation charges and messages are also some features of the app.
Mobile van units have been launched too so that the driving license branch can also offer its services to the people living in remote areas of the province.
Apparently, the new driving license will be linked with Nadra's online system and the renewal of old the license will take around 15 minutes while a new license will be issued within 40 minutes. Citizens could submit a license fee in any bank.
It had become a dire need to authenticate the issuance of driving licenses in Sindh because of the number of fake licenses that were being made through other channels. Considering the wild traffic on roads in Sindh (specifically Karachi), such a regulation has become of great importance.
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- Publication date: 10 Jan 2019
- Publisher: riverrun
- Language: English
Source: ARC copy via the publisher
The Blurb
Jaded Edinburgh journalist Neil Bannerman is sent to Brussels, intent on digging up dirt. Yet it is danger he discovers, when two British men are found murdered.
One victim is a journalist, the other a Cabinet Minister: the double-assassination witnessed by the former's autistic daughter. This girl recalls every detail about her father's killer – except for one.
With the city rocked by the tragedy, Bannerman is compelled to follow his instincts. He is now fighting to expose a murderous conspiracy, protect a helpless child, and unmask a remorseless killer.
My Review
The book was originally released in 1981 under the title Hidden Faces but re-released this year as The Man With No Face
As a huge fan of Peter May, I was delighted to be asked to read and review this book by the publisher via Agnes Rowe from Midas Publications.
Right from the beginning we're drawn into the murky and mysterious world of hired assassin Kale, a former military veteran. Blindfold, he's driven to a remote location and given his assignment brief. He has to kill two people and make it not look like murder by an outsider.
The novel's main protagonist is Neil Bannerman, an experienced, well respected and rather jaundiced investigative reporter who works for the Edinburgh Post. The 1979 general election in the U.K. is imminent. A new editor at the Post, Tait, a Scot but fresh up from Fleet Street and all fired up for making changes in personnel at the Post, fires some of the reporters on the newspaper. He sends Bannerman to Brussels out of the way before deciding on his future. The two had previously clashed, but Tait admires Bannerman's skills and wants him to find out if there's any EU post election trouble, corruption, fraud, and any other interesting story in Brussels. Given the fact that the European Community was a factor in the manifesto for political parties in the 1979 general election.
Bannerman is expected to stay in the apartment of Tony Slater, the EEC correspondent at the Post. Slater lives with his autistic daughter Tania who hates change and can be averse to new people appearing in her life. Sally, a home help, part nanny for Tania also lives in the apartment. Bannerman forms quite a paternal bond with Tania which is reciprocated when she accepts him. He's attracted to Sally and it appears to be mutual. Tania is a gifted artist and can sketch intricate details of people and places from her apparently photographic memory.
Slater inadvertently reveals a collection of cuttings about the British Europe minister Gryffe he has hidden in his home to Bannerman but refuses to explain his interest.
When Slater and the minister Robert Gryffe are found dead in the home of the minister, Tania is also at the scene, inconsolable and traumatised. She is then placed in a psychological institution for counselling and treatment. Tania is able to draw from memory a man she saw hiding in the house and leaving the scene but does not include his face. The deaths, initially appearing to be the killing of each other, are recognised by the Brussels police and security forces as being the work of an outsider.
Bannerman is close to discovering the links between Slater and Gryffe which may lead him to discover both what exactly they were both up to and who was behind their murder.
With political intrigue, fraud and double dealings at the forefront of this thriller, the lives of both Bannerman and Tania are at risk as they both become another target for Kale who needs to silence them both to cover up his own tracks and those of the people who hired him.
Given the complete and utter shambles of Brexit, the ongoing EU situation in Brussels is a topical subject at the moment, so going back to 1979 is both nostalgic and pertinent to today's situation. The United Kingdom joined the European Union on 1 January 1973, becoming the ninth member state to do so. I remember it but not all the finer details so as a reminder
The European Parliament increases its influence in EU affairs and in 1979 all citizens can, for the first time, elect their members directly. From The History Of The European Union
Political thrillers are not usually my thing but the story kept me interested until the end.
I wasn't very keen on the character of Bannerman at first. He came across as sexist and a bit of a dinosaur with his 1970's attitudes towards women, as he would do in this glimpse of the past, but his saving grace for me was his tenderness and understanding of Tania. Tania herself was for me the most interesting character in the novel. Kale, the assassin, described as 'mean faced' was a bit of a cliche, with his military background and abusive childhood but there's more to him than initially appears which adds to the intrigue.
I didn't miss the use of technology, mobile phones and suchlike. Bannerman relies purely on his investigative skills and contacts to discover the true facts of the case. It's refreshing to read a novel now set in a time period prior to the digital age.
All in all, an interesting read, a good solid thriller.
The author's descriptive prose is second to none, which explains his huge popularity as an author but this was not one of my favourite Peter May books, although perhaps there are future books planned with Bannerman, the investigative reporter. There is scope and much to investigate in the last few decades of the 20th century and if that happened, I would definitely like to read them.
About The Author
Peter May
Peter May was born and raised in Scotland. He was an journalist at the age of twenty-one and a published novelist at twenty-six. When his first book was adapted as a major drama series for the BCC, he quit journalism. Over the next fifteen years, he became one of Scotland's most successful television dramatists before deciding to leave television to return to his first love, writing novels.
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This easy & inexpensive DIY was a hit with my kiddos so I thought I'd share! My two oldest are always asking to help in the kitchen, this recipe allowed them to mix and mash while learning some simple cooking skills.
Many of you have probably made a version of home made play dough but adding Jell-O is a safe color additive and it smells amazing! Here is how we did it..
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Let your kiddos mix all of the ingredients together in a saucepan until most of the lumps are gone.
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Remove from heat and let cool.
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Of course, you could run to Wal-mart and grab a tub of commercial play dough but I found that this project was a great way to get the creative juices flowing. Along with developing fine motor skills, play dough is a great way to stimulate the imagination. Check out this article on the benefits of play dough for our kiddos: http://childhood101.com/2011/02/playdough-plasticine-clay-for-kids-making-little-hands-stronger/ .
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I thought losing my parents was the worse pain a person could suffer until Alzheimer's – I thought the mental pain was (and is) horrific – but I had no physical pain until my accident. A person should not have to experience the pain I have now in this age and time of great medicine. The trauma surgeon's eyes were clear and full of truth when he told me that it's as bad as it can get. Having a great trauma Orthopedic surgeon, all his knowledge and fancy equipment does nothing for the pain. On a scale of 1 – 6 he rated me a 6+. I've always been a high achiever but with a leg full of plates and screws and about 50 external staples this is going to test my faith.
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As you can tell, the past three weeks have brought unbearable pain to me and Tom. My pain is seen in Tom's face. This journey has brought him down to the realization that this might be a dress rehearsal. It is not pretty. "Are you ready" – I think as I look into Tom's red rimmed eyes. Our wedding song – Jefferson Starship – Nothing's gonna stop us now playing in my head ……………………………and the pain subsides.
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Once the basic problem-solving or quality improvement process is identified, the appropriate tools can be used by any professional to ease the quality improvement process, such as: flowcharts, check sheets, Pareto diagrams, cause and effect diagrams, histograms, scatter diagrams, and control charts.
However, the concept behind the basic QC tools came from Kaoru Ishikawa, a renowned quality expert from Japan. According to Ishikawa, 95% of quality-related problems can be resolved with most basic tools. The key to successful problem solving is the ability to identify the problem, use the appropriate tools based on the nature of the problem, and communicate the solution quickly to others. Inexperienced personnel might do best by starting with the Pareto chart and the cause and effect diagram before tackling the use of the other tools.
The most common process for quality improvement is the plan/do/check/act cycle outlined below.
|P – Plan
|(1) Define a problem or opportunity
(2) Analyze the situation. Study and define the problem, brainstorm for causes and corrective action; and think creatively to determine the best approach and best possible corrective action
(3) Develop an implementation plan
|D – Do
|(1) Implement corrective action
(2) Document the procedure and observation
(3) Use data gathering tools to collect information
|C – Check
|(1) Analyze information
(2) Monitor trends
(3) Compare obtained results against expected results from the plan
|A – Act
|(1) If the results are as expected, do nothing
(2) If the result are not expected, rerpeat the plan/do/check/act cycle
(3) Document the process and the revised plan
At the end of the training, participants will be able to understand the importance of Quality in their workplace, the cost of poor quality and the many tools available and what are the ones suitable for their work area and how to use them effectively for analysis and problem solving.
Course Contents
1. What is Quality?
• Quality of Design
• Quality of Conformance
• Quality Control Circle
• Cost of Poor Quality
• Total Quality Control
• QC Circle Tools.
2. PDCA Concept (see example as above)
3. Data collection and Analysis
4. Brainstorm
5. Pareto Analysis
6. Cause-and-effect diagram
7. Pie and Bar chart
8. Flow Chart
9. Gantt Chart
10. Tree Diagram
11. Affinity Diagram
12. Matrix Diagram
13. Interrelationship Digraph
14. Activity Network Diagram
15. Contingency Diagram
16. Problem Solving
• 5 Ways
• 8 Discipline
This program also focus on hands on and applicable training. It will be a very interactive workshop, hence participants must be prepared to share and contribute to the exercises.
Who Should Attend
This course is suitable for individuals who are either in product engineering, quality, project or manufacturing environment. It is especially beneficial for those are involved in quality system and any improvement initiatives.
Award of Certificate
Certificate of completion will be issued to participants attended at least 75% of the course.
Course Duration
Course Fees
SQI Member – S$406.60 , Non-Member – S$428.00
Course fee includes training materials and certificate of completion for all participants
Registration Fee of $17.12 apply
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A good shot I took a wile ago in a small desert beach. That boat is there since 1996 and always seemed a good subject. It was a winter day and the sky had that dramatic atmosphere I needed for the photo. I´ll include this one to the photography folio later.
Made some tweaks to contrast and colors.
Canon EOS 50D
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Sheboygan Cinema
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Addition and Renovation
Marcus Sheboygan Cinema dates back to the early 1960s. Over the years, a number of additions and renovations have occurred within the facility to create the current 13-screen cinema. The latest renovation includes a unified and updated decor package that brings new finishes throughout the lobby and corridor spaces. A Zaffiro's Express pizzeria, new concession counter and new box office were also added. New recliner seating replaced traditional stadium seats in all of the auditoriums. During the project's construction, the original project scope was expanded and redefined. Through communication and collaboration, our design team worked together with the client's new management team to deliver a successful project. Modern styling and state-of-the-art amenities transformed this cinema into a contemporary show house that will serve the city for years to come.


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Imagine if your office could decide when you start and stop working.
It might sound like a strange idea, but a company in The Netherlands is already working on the technology to make it a reality. Amsterdam-based design studio Heldergroen has introduced the concept of a "disappearing office" that attempts to strengthen the work-life balance of its employees.
At exactly 6 p.m. every day, desks are lifted into the ceiling via steel cables. Your work, computer, notes and all possibility of overtime, lift away with it. Here's where the idea gets really neat, though: The now-empty office space becomes available for other, non-work related activities.
"We are able to pull the tables up into the ceiling and make the whole room into a dance floor, yoga studio, trend session, networking reception, or anything else you can think of–the floor is literally yours," Sander Veenendaal, creative director for Heldergroen Creative, the firm that owns the studio, told business publication Fast Company.
But for anyone who thinks this technology could make people less productive in the long run, studies have found that most employees are only productive for 70 per cent of the time anyway. Additionally, a survey by Salary.com found that 69 per cent of employees admitted to wasting time at work every day in 2013. Less certainly seems to be more, when it comes to the ol' 9-5.
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I saw a sneak preview of Eagle Eye last night (thank you TxtMovieClub!, and found it highly enjoyable except for the ladies next to us who felt the need to do a running commentary through the whole thing. Anyway, if you're a fan of the action genre I see no reason why you wouldn't love Eagle Eye. I think it was even maybe a little smarter then the usual action flick. Other than that, the actors all did a great job, the effects were good, and I really liked what they did with the Big Brother Is Watching theme. Go see it when it comes out!
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In the mountain town of Spoon Lake, brothers Denis and Brady are struggling to save their house from the bank. When doing jobs for the summer residents isn't enough, they start robbing their wealthy neighbors. Things are going better than you might think, until Brady falls in love with Caitlin, the daughter of an African-American family they've just robbed, and brings her back to their home. When things start getting complicated, Caitlin begins to sympathize with the brothers' and helps hatch a new plot. Learn More
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Catherine Head has been named Head Volleyball Coach at Salem College effective July 2, Salem College Athletic Director Trish Hughes announced Thursday.
"We are thrilled Catherine is joining the Salem family," Hughes said. "She brings tremendous NCAA experience as a coach and as a former Division 1 athlete."
Head comes to Salem from Brevard College where she served as assistant volleyball coach. Prior to that, she has served as assistant coach at Greensboro College, where she primarily worked with middle and pin blockers, resulting in 72 solo blocks and 228 assisted blocks (1.6 blocks/set). Additionally, she served as Greensboro College's recruiting coordinator, executed practice plans for head coach Kaci Pike on specific occasions and arranged travel details for all matches.
"I am very humbled and honored to join the Salem College Athletic Department and return to my hometown," Head said. "I am excited to get in the gym with the student-athletes and get to know them as players but also as students in the classroom."
A four-year standout at Elon, Head capped off her collegiate career with 263 total blocks (0.93 blocks/set). She was responsible for 228 assisted blocks (35 solo blocks) and 316 kills (1.1 kills/set) in 282 sets. Head's best season for the Phoenix came as a senior where she played in 26 matches, tallied 112 kills (1.26 kills/set) and 93 total blocks (83 assisted blocks), while contributing a career-best 59 digs.
Head took her playing experience with the Elon Phoenix and passed it along to campers at the Elon University Volleyball Summer Camp, where she instructed during drills, provided individual skill instruction and coached assigned teams in tournament play while advising campers on the collegiate recruiting process.
The Kernersville native also gained valuable coaching experience with the Piedmont Volleyball Club. Over a three-year span, from 2015 to 2017, she served as head coach for both the 14U Regional Team and 18U Zonal Team while holding the title of assistant coach of the 17U National Team.
Prior to her collegiate career, Head attended Glenn High School, where she led her team to the most victories in program history and a Piedmont Triad 4-A Conference Co-Championship in 2010. She was also named the 2010 Capital Hill Classic MVP, and best blocker, as a member of the Piedmont Triad Volleyball Club.


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The problem is worse in younger patients, with 15 per cent of 16 to 24-year-olds reporting extreme anxiety compared to nine per cent of those over the age of 85.
However, despite their worries, it seems adults are taking better care of their teeth today than they were 30 years ago.
Indeed, one in 17 people in England have no natural teeth, compared to three in ten in 1978.
Although the figures are higher in Wales, with one in ten having no natural teeth, this is still an improvement on 1978 when one third of people were toothless.
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Detoxification doesn't have to be a big deal. You don't have to fast or take time off work to realize health and beauty benefits. Of course you can take your cleanse to more serious levels, but the main thing is to make the decision and get started. A short detoxifying program is generally safe; in fact, scientific studies show that a detox is beneficial for health.
Detoxifying is not recommended for nursing mothers, children, and patients with chronic degenerative diseases, cancer or tuberculosis. Consult your health care practitioner if you have questions about whether detoxing is right for you.
Below is a post on the subject by my sister Jeri Ross that takes some of the mystery out of detoxification.
What is detoxification?
Jeri Ross, MPH
Institut' DERMed Health Educator
Detoxification is a natural approach for improving health and vitality that dates back thousands of years that was practiced in China and Ayurveda holistic healing arts in India. By removing and eliminating toxins, then feeding the body with healthy nutrients, detoxifying can help protect you from disease and renew your ability to maintain optimum health. The practice assists the body to rebalance and renew the immune system and cleanse the blood.
Why is detox important?
To have a healthy body that functions optimally, it needs extra help from time to time. It is recommended that you do a detox once a year, kind of like spring cleaning. No matter how well we take care of ourselves, we still breathe in polluted air, bathe in chlorinated water, and take in chemicals from our environments. It is estimated that modern society has more than 800 times the stressors and environmental pollutants than society pre-1900. Over the years, toxins from the environment, processed foods, and foods with chemical additives accumulate in our bodies. While the liver, kidneys, sweat glands and lymph system work hard to rid your body of toxins, these detox systems can't always keep up the pace.
What are some of the benefits of a detoxification program?
• Improves skin tone
• Reduces Cellulite
• Slims the body
• Increases energy
• Improves digestion
• Improves circulation
The other significant benefit of a detox effort is that afterwards you not only feel better, but you are much more aware of those eating and drinking habits that may not be so good for you. This awareness can alter your lifestyle choices for a longer lasting change that better supports your health.
How do I get started?
A 7 day program is the usual time frame. There are detox packages you can purchase at health food stores that typically contain supplements to increase fiber, vitamins, herbs and minerals. You can also design your own detoxification approach that includes some or all of the following:
• Drink at least 2 liters of purified water per day to keep you skin hydrated and smooth. Water also helps to flush out toxins that have accumulated in your body over time. This can include herbal teas that do not have caffeine.
• Boost your fiber intake. Include high fiber foods such as brown rice and organically-grown fresh fruits and vegetables. Beets, radishes, artichokes, cabbage, broccoli, spirulina, and seaweed are excellent detoxifying foods.
• Lower fat intake. You may consider not eating dairy for the 7 days or eat very little low-fat dairy products. No red meat.
• Drink only fresh fruit and vegetable juices for 3 days for a more intensive cleanse.
• Eliminate sugar completely. It is also beneficial to eliminate simple carbohydrates such as breads and pasta. It's just for a week! If you have a sugar craving, eat a piece of fresh fruit or a raw carrot. Carrots are very sweet!
• Eliminate coffee. This can be challenging if you are a coffee drinker. Especially the first couple of days. Try a cup of hot tea with lemon to give you comfort.
• Eliminate alcohol. Alcohol will have negative affects on your liver. Since the liver is the bodies filter you want it working in top shape while you clean your system.
• Take vitamin C, which helps the body produce glutathione, a liver compound that drives away toxins.
• Sweat in a sauna so your body can eliminate wastes through perspiration.
• Dry-brush your skin with a natural bristle brush in upward circular motions before your bath or shower to stimulate lymphatic drainage and circulation. D
• Do mild exercise like walking, stretching, yoga.
• Think positive thoughts about your body and yourself for making the effort to be healthier.
Detoxification (2005) Linda Page, N.D., Ph.D (Healthy Healing Publications)
Cellulite Solutions (2003) Helen Foster (Hamlyn Publishing)
7-Day Detox Miracle (2001) Stephen Barrie, N.D. Sara Faye (Crown Publishing)
Cellulite Revolution Six Steps to a New Body Ecology (1992) Leslie Kenton (Random House Publishing)


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Drawing Water
Spend an afternoon with Judd Law and Howard Montgomery and you might see your kitchen and bathroom faucets in a different light. Law manages the faucet design department for the Delta Faucet Co; Montgomery is the lead for faucets in Kohler�s industrial design department.
|Designer Judd Law takes us through the design stages for creating a Delta faucet: an initial idea sketch, a basic CAD model, a compreshensive 3-D computer rendering, and the finished piece.
Law says that the exciting aspect about being a designer in this industry is that you�re designing a product that people interact with on a daily basis. �We�re concerned with even the emotional side of it,� Law says, �striving more and more to appeal to the senses � how these products are going to feel and work and sound. Tactile is extremely important, whether you�re physically touching a handle or moving a spout, or how the water feels as it�s coming out of the spout.�
Relying heavily on Delta�s marketing department to find niches in the marketplace, Law also partners with research groups and tracks trends independently through things like furniture shows and international gift fairs.
�There�s a product manager that I work with here,� Law says, �and he and I make a trip to a lot of the exotic car dealerships. We�ll sit in the Audi TTs when they first come out and take a look at what the auto industry has that�s really making a buzz. The automotive industry always offers a lot of passion.�
Montgomery says process drives much of the final product at Kohler.
�Take the silhouette of a Christmas tree on its side,� he says, �with the wide end on your left. You start wide and move it in, then there are discussions and debates, the scope slightly changes and it goes out a bit. You come back in again as you start to make some decisions and you�re honing down on the process and design. All those concurrent issues with manufacturing, price points, etc. come into play and sometimes there�s some vacillation and it steps out again. Then you�ve got to pull it back in and eventually you�re going to get to the tip.�
Montgomery says that at Kohler his group will often define certain design influences by looking within their own product portfolio, as well as industry trade shows.
�We attend the two major plumbing shows, the Kitchen and Bath International Show in Chicago, Ill., and the ISH in Frankfurt, Germany.� Montgomery says. �Those two are very key in the industry design field.
�There are a lot of traditional elements that we look to, but we�re not going to do a Thunderbird,� he laughs. �That�s a little different � pure retro. But we would definitely take certain ingenious elements, whether it be water delivery or plumbing vernacular, and hark back to that kind of period. We would definitely do that.�
Not unlike the automakers, Kohler also does a fairly good amount of consumer research to really understand what the consumers want from their products. Montgomery says that a bathroom faucet is an integral part of the overall design of the bathroom and designers need to look at the entire bathroom as a whole. Designers also need to realize that in markets where the consumers are directly choosing the products, there�s a need to have an emotional connectivity.
The initial design phase at both companies starts with brainstorming sessions and thumbnail sketches.
�Guys bring stuff in on cocktail napkins or toilet paper,� Law says, �wherever an idea strikes you. You�ll just throw down a few lines that nobody else will be able to interpret but it�ll be enough to jog your memory.�
Montgomery also believes in paper and pencil.
�Inevitably,� he says, �we as individuals need to draw things to understand what they are � that�s the most fundamental manor in which we design. We try and not bring the CAD tool in too fast. I�m really not for putting designers in front of tubes and then cranking out designs,� he adds. �We don�t want the tool to drive the design, we want the designer to drive the actual design of the object.�
The finalized sketches are transferred to Pro/Engineer, which Law says has been �pushed� to do non-geometric forms. He notes that while it has been used for years to do gears and engine blocks, faucets involve more biomorphic forms and challenging shapes. Finally, the CAD data is used to make models, which is a critical part of the process for both companies.
Montgomery notes that once a surface is chrome plated, the proportions and the elements of the surface changing drastically. And it�s only after looking at it and appreciating that aspect that it can be ascertained how the design is developing.
Manufacturing techniques have also changed the way faucets look. �Things as simple as hydro-forming have changed our industry,� Law says. �There�s a large portion of product now, spouts in particular, that are hydro-formed. And a lot of interesting materials are starting to show up in faucets that haven�t been seen before.�
Even electronics drive faucet design. Law says that we are now seeing the first really decent home/residential hands-free faucet. And that it is one of the major product plan focuses in the future, to integrate electronics into the home environment.
Tools of the Trade
Guys who drive pickup trucks are more than likely the same guys who use chain saws. So those who design trucks will more than likely take a look at the design of the saws they use. �Unfortunately, we can�t bring a truck in for inspiration,� laughs Wolfgang Zahn, senior vice president, product research and development at Stihl, �because our design studios are a little bit smaller than truck studios.�
Coincidentally, Zahn understands both trucks and chain saws. Before coming to Stihl he spent 16 years with DaimlerChrysler Corp. and also worked for a Tier One supplier to General Motors and Ford Motor Co.
Zahn says Stihl is customer driven and doesn�t use consulting firms. It goes right to the customer and when there is a special need it tries to fulfill it. Stihl�s designers are often challenged by the marketplace to create new and unusual tools, like an unusual looking power tool designed for picking coffee, tea and olives.
|Every Stihl chain saw is a completely different design, because all of the components bolt on to the engine. All designs are done in Pro/Engineer and the CAD drawings are used for testing as well as design development.
|Zahn says that the process for designing a new chain saw starts with some idea of what worked well with the preceding design. They also look at what the competition is doing and what may be the state of the art in a particular category.
The most important thing to remember when designing a chain saw, according to Zahn, is integration. A chain saw is looked at as one part and designed as one integrated unit. He offers that a 40cc powered saw and a 60cc powered saw are really completely different because all of the parts are linked directly to the engine, which in turn is determined by the saw�s intended use. Saws used in trees need to be light but powerful, whereas a logger can have a heavier saw.
The final designs are signed-off by the five board members together with Hans Peter Stihl, chairman of the supervisory board, who is an expert in all of the company�s products.
�He�s out with the customers every other week,� Zahn says. �He really knows the market well and is helpful with the design process.�
Because Stihl manufactures all of their products in-house, they have the flexibility to make rapid changes as the design process progresses. They work closely with their manufacturing people because, as Zahn says, �in the end we have to be able to manufacture the product.�
When the first prototype is done, endurance testing begins. A typical program takes several years with testing taking up more than half of that time. Prototypes in the first design stage are also given to elite customers along with competitor�s products for evaluation.
|Sometimes the market demand unique designs like the coffee picker.
Redefining Focus Groups
Christian Landry has looked at design from past, present and future. Landry, Hewlett Packard�s design center manager for strategic design and innovation, started his career designing exhibits for the Smithsonian Institute. As the head of the personal systems group he focuses on the design of desk top computers. Anyone who�s visited a Best Buy store lately has noticed that the gray or beige boxes have given way to some unusually designed home systems.
�I think it�s a natural evolution,� Landry says. �I think the aesthetic change is due to the fact that people have a higher sense of design awareness. Who would have ever thought that Wal-Mart and Target would be selling designer label products? I think that�s had an impact, and people are looking for that whether they�re buying PCs or cars.� Landry notes that people are putting computers in places that are more of a focal point today than they were a few years ago. Often they�re on the kitchen counter, part of the central nervous system in many homes.
Landry says that the first step in designing a new computer product is to put together an image story board that defines the customer. Designers will reference the kinds of eyeglasses people wear, watches they buy, cameras they use, the kinds of computers that they may already have and the cars they drive. Landry says that furniture is always a good inspiration for the computer designer.
�We probably spend more time looking outside the computer industry for where trends are than we do in our own industry,� Landry says.
Sears hardware is a favorite haunt for HP�s design team.
�Looking at the ways things are made in other areas sometimes inspires you,� he says. �You may be trying to solve a problem for a hinge design and you may see inspiration in a hinge design on something completely different than what you�re working on.�
The designer works with a team of engineers who bring their specific disciplines to address things like componentry, packaging and the overall goals of the project in relation to cost and scheduling.
The designer provides the visual tools, taking the information gathered from the team and crafting it into sketches � the traditional method of generating ideas with pencil and paper.
The next step is to make a low-level mockup out of high-density foam. This gives the team an idea of the physical size of something.
�If it�s necessary,� says Landry, �we might even embed some weights into the unit to suggest how much it might weigh.�
�A lot of people today, with the schedules being compressed on programs, will try and evaluate a form on a screen,� Landry adds. �Basically what they�re looking at is a synthetic representation in cyberspace of what this form looks like but they really don�t know until they hold it or they sit near it or feel it what the form is like.�
Alias, Pro/Engineer and Rhino are the tools used to generate CAD models. As the design is finalized and the data base is turned over to the mechanical engineers, the design intent is locked in to the CAD database. �We can transfer that database anywhere in the world,� Landry says.
The models are not only used to finalize the design but are also valuable for testing.
�If we�re putting a real hot chip set into a notebook,� Landry says, �we may run some early thermal analysis so we can see how hot or how cool an area is and whether or not we need a fan. If we don�t need a fan, does it need three louvers? Will three screw up the appearance? If it does can you work with the thermal engineers to come up with an alternative to maintain the integrity of the design.�
A few years ago, Hewlett Packard also started doing something that was unusual for their industry � they allowed visitors inside the design studio. Quite a few of the company�s bigger customers were visiting the HP campus almost daily. And when Landry found out about it, the design team thought it should take advantage of it. The visit to the design studio soon became the hottest thing. So hot, in fact, that visits had to be limited to three a week.
Visitors must sign a non-disclosure agreement, the only requirement for visiting the design studio.
Landry says that what amazes visitors most is that they get a chance to have a kind of cause and effect, they participate in the activity.
�When you think that designers are actually sitting down face-to-face with these people and there�s no intermediary, just us and them, having casual conversation about how technology was impeding or helping their performance,� he says. Landry says that designers transfer that information into design ideas.
The thought comes to mind of General Motors or Honda allowing visitors into their design studios. They just wouldn�t do it. �We thought the same way,� Landry says, �but things change. There�s tremendous value in it for us. I�m disappointed that we didn�t do it earlier.�
Building Momentum
Phyllis Lambert is an internationally known architect and founder of the International Confederation of Architectural Museums, Heritage Montreal and the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the study of American Architecture among others. She has also curated and organized many architectural exhibitions and is currently the Consultant Architect for the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), an independent museum archive and study center devoted to the architecture of the past, present and future. She was drawn to architecture by the need to improve the aesthetic that she saw lacking in the fabric of the North American city.
She feels that the design and creation of architecture involves much more than pencil lines on paper or pixels in a computer.
�You have to find out what the problem is and then walk around it,� she says. �It�s not all of a sudden, Eureka, you get an idea. You have to get to know what the essence of the problem is.�
Though Lambert is not designing these days, she is advancing a lot of contemporary architecture through the CCA.
It seems that technology has also affected architectural design.
�Through the use of computers, things can be done now in architecture that couldn�t have been done several years ago,� Lambert says. �With the computer you don�t have to be concerned with geometry to be able to build these things.�
Lambert recalls that when the opera house in Sydney, Australia, was built back in the �60s it was impossible to build it the way it was originally designed, so the architect had to take it back to a regular geometrical form. Now you don�t have to do that. Now you can go straight from the drawing to cutting steel.
Lambert says that a lot of contemporary architects are using computers to unlock the mathematical mysteries of Renaissance architecture.
Though many automotive designers may look at architecture for inspiration, there are few correlations between the two disciplines.
�You certainly have the ergonomic problems in designing a car, how one sits in a car is an extremely huge issue,� Lambert says. �I can�t understand why most American cars never cut off the outside air. You keep on breathing in air and exhaust fumes from the other cars. Now you might say that�s not going to actually show on the outside or the inside as a design but I think there are really non-obvious visual essences that are a part of design and have to be thought of. I don�t think you can take design down to �you like red and I like blue.��
A Champion of Design
Murray Moss is the �curator� of Moss, a unique retail space that he opened in 1994 in the Soho district of New York city. A former actor and clothing manufacturer, Moss is considered by many to be a champion of design and innovation, searching the world for new and interesting designs and ideas and presenting them to the public.
�From my perspective I�m less interested in the objects themselves than I am in the ideas behind these particular objects,� Moss says.
Moss reflects that in the area of fine arts a person can make a work and it�s done. In industrial design there has to be a dialog between designer, manufacturer, retailer and customer.
�I�m looking at the ideas or proposals that are put forward in the form of these particular tangible objects. A person is proposing that this particular object would make a more perfect world. Once this proposal is put on the table it leads to new proposals because there�s a new given � a new starting point.�
Moss says that he will identify products that he believes in and has some connection to. �If I look at objects as sort of ideas,� he says. �If I ask people to buy those objects, what I�m asking them to do is support a certain way of thinking or to support a particular group of proposals. I think things become good or bad design based on us. On how we perceive it based on a certain criteria based on our own lives.�
Moss spends quite a bit of time traveling the world in search of the best in design.
�I look at a lot,� he says, �I go to many markets from Frankfurt to Cologne to Paris to London to Milan. There is a market in Frankfurt that sells everything from toasters to coat hangers to flashlights to coffee pots. It has existed on the Rhine since 1250.�
Moss finds it very interesting that automotive designers reach out to so many other areas for inspiration and to know what the world is thinking and what the ideas are out there.
�That�s not necessarily prevalent in all other areas of design,� he says. �People can be very insular. Industrial design is more of a vertical dialog.�
The auto industry understands that a car is much more than just getting four people from one place to another, Moss opines. In the same way that a chair is much more than just giving someone a horizontal surface that somebody can plop down on.
�In the auto industry there�s no fear of showing what I understand they call concept cars,� Moss says. �What it does in a very confident way is to tell people that there are ideas being worked on that we haven�t resolved yet. We know something can be done we don�t necessarily know how to do it yet but we�re still willing to share that with you. People don�t necessarily do that in other fields.�
Moss says that it�s not just the results, but the process of industrial design that he finds personally interesting.
�Designers apply their thoughts to giving form, shape and concept to tangible objects,� Moss says. �A manufacturer will usually give them a brief, which will basically tell them, �I need you to design a car and it has to have four doors, etc.� The manufacturer will hire this particular designer because they know they�ll address, in a capable way, that set of criteria. But then what?
�But then that is where the designer gets to shine. It�s their passion for design that gives us unique faucets, unique chain saws, unique computers, unique buildings and unique cars,� he says. �And when the designer finds that special emotional connection with us, we both win.�


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Prediction models play an important role in medicine to guide treatment decisions and to inform patients on their prognosis. The vast majority of prediction models developed in the medical literature have been designed to predict (disease-free) survival from diagnosis or start of treatment. But in clinical practice the patient regularly returns to the physician and it is important to be able to provide updated predicted probabilities of survival, taking into account clinical events that may have occurred, or clinical measurements that may have been made, between start of treatment and the time of prediction. Such prediction models, to be used after start of treatment and taking into account time-dependent information, are called dynamic prediction models.
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I just can't make up my mind about this guy!
every movie i see of his follows a definite pattern - atrociously mawkish and melodramatic followed by sheer brilliance.
His worst that I have seen rank as -
1. Stalag 17 (1953) If Shawshank Redemption is the best prison-life movie and The Great Escape the best jail-break, Stalag 17 is the worst of both of them. You have to see this movie to realize that B grade humor and melodrama is not exclusively a Bollywoodian heritage. (Of course, Holloywood gave us the biggest B-bull of all time - Independence day - as full of cliches as a gutter full of cockroaches.)
2. Witness for the Prosecution (1957) Comes with the tag line of "Once in 50 years suspense like this!". It was as suspenseful as watching water-buffaloes block you car and shit along the way. Charles Laughton, as the quintessential Briton, plays it in quintessential Churchillesque cliche. The dialogues, intended to capture the British wry humor, are self-conscious and as forced as a man on a bog with constipation. You can see the "suspense" coming from a mile off and if I had been part of the royalty, that was sworn into keeping the "secret" by Wilder before the screening, I would have gotten him drawn and quartered thereafter.
3. The Apartment (1960) If the otherwise redoubtable Jack Lemmon had gotten a tad more sweeter, I would have had a sugar attack. Btw, this one swept the Oscars - another example about how the Oscars is hardly a benchmark of excellence.
1. Sunset Blvd. (1950) Besides the heart-wrenching performance by Gloria Swanson, if ever there was a movie lifted from good to greatness by its last scene alone, this is it!
2. Double Indemnity (1944) saw it yesterday and the reason for this post. Despite any visual violence and the murderer confessing to his crimes at the very beginning, the movie keeps r fingers gripping the edge of your seats for the whole 1 and a half hours. Edward G. Robinson is so brilliant as the hard-nut-to-crack actuary that even a 2-minutes speech on the subtleties of actuarial statistics keeps you as locked as Jack Nicholson's "You can't handle the truth!" in a Few Good Men.
Of course, Raymond Chandler's screenplay was the best reason for the noir-cult classic Double Indemnity.
But if I dismiss that, how do I account for the fact that the same guy can make such tripe and cinema-defining classics?
I am reminded of the missing-for-a-long time Pankaj Parashar, a man who could serve you the best and the worst on any given day.
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The information age is making businesses smarter, but it is also making executives more stressed. Organisations are overwhelmed with the volume of data and content that needs to be managed, protected and (ideally) used to steer critical business decisions.
Decision-makers need a 360-degree view of their business environment to understand both the structured and unstructured data and content they're working with across the entire enterprise, as well as how to leverage it for success.
According to Ragu Gurumurthy, CIO and CDO of Deloitte, many organisations understand the efficiency to be gained from data, but very few can harness the opportunities data offers to create new business lines. Executives need the right tools and solutions to fuel a holistic enterprise information management strategy. Only then can they know how they are maximising or missing value-generating opportunities.
Conducted with 180 executives across key industries who shared their knowledge and experience, a survey by ASG Technologies in partnership with Forbes Insight uncovered what decision-makers see as pressing concerns around enterprise information management. The report established that while businesses are beginning to leverage information-driven insights, their processes are far from optimised.
Here are three key areas that decision-makers should consider, when evaluating their organisation's data management systems:
When asked where information-driven decision-making has the greatest impact across the organisation (scoring at least 4 or 5 on a scale of 1 to 5), executives identified customer satisfaction/engagement (68 percent) and internal operations (68 percent) as the most positively influenced. Next were employee and manager productivity (66 percent) and sales and marketing (63 percent). When executed well, an information-driven enterprise can use data to enhance diverse areas of the organisation.
To compete in the digital era, organisations need to be able to make real-time decisions based on trusted data and deliver information on demand wherever it is needed. This reality is still far off for many enterprises, however, given the average amount of time it takes to discover and access information.
Less than half of executives (47 percent) can tap into most of their information within a reasonable period of time — defined as being available within five minutes or less. In fact, only 11 percent of executives can access information within 15 minutes, and 42 percent say it takes longer than an hour.
More alarming, for 10 percent of organisations, finding the right information often takes longer than a business day.
To know your business, you must know your data, which means having the right infrastructure in place to access it when needed. According to our survey, only one-third of executives consider their current enterprise information management infrastructure to be "highly effective" in enabling decision-makers to access the information they require, when required.
One in four executives say information is difficult to access because their enterprises are operating on outdated legacy systems
Specifically, one in four executives say information is difficult to access because their enterprises are operating on outdated legacy systems. When executives access enterprise data, only a small portion is accessible to analytics.
Only 21 percent of executives can report that most of their structured data is part of their analytics capabilities, and only 18 percent see content being delivered to these systems — meaning only 18 percent of content is being analysed to help decision-making.
For organisations to compete in today's digital business landscape, they need an enterprise information management strategy that manages and leverages data and content as true assets and investments for the future.
While 65 percent of executives are satisfied with their enterprise information management system's ability to enable decision-making, only 27 percent are highly confident that their enterprise data management (EDM) and enterprise content management (ECM) systems are well-positioned to take advantage of new technology approaches and platforms in the months and years to come.
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Spain (Paco de Lucia and John McLaughlin)
A year ago today, Paco de Lucia died. Here's some more from him.
Cheese-jazz pioneer Chick Corea's flabby standard 'Spain' was pared down to a rippling duet between flamenco colossus Paco de Lucia and jazzy Yorkshireman turned Indian mystic Mahavishnu John McLaughlin during tours of their Guitar Trio in the '80s (initially, the three was completed by Larry Coryell, then Al Di Meola). Corea's original composition was a schmaltzy samba tune, but quoted the stately adagio from Joaquín Rodrigo's renowned guitar concerto Concierto de Aranjuez – and although it cuts the quote out completely, this sparsely elegant McLaughlin/de Lucia reinterpretation still manages to be more faithful to the feel of Rodrigo's piece than the Corea full-band version that lifts the adagio note for note.
I Want A Little Girl (Jimmy Witherspoon & Robben Ford)
Blues foghorn Jimmy Witherspoon lays out a characteristically progressive pre-nup with his prospective 'little girl', shocking the inevitable hordes of rich white hippies at the 1972 Monterey Jazz Festival by expressing a willingness to trade cunnilingus for regular dinners of 'black-eyed peas, red beans and rice, and a little chilli'. His generosity extends so far as to suggest his eventual beau wouldn't even have 'to wear nylon hoes'. Ah, the Blues, so earthily compelling, so politically dubious. Jazzy blues guitar wiz Robben Ford sweetly noddles alongside his hollering paymaster.
Alabamy Bound & Darktown Strutters Ball (Les Paul & Mary Ford)
A reasonably fascinating insight into a time when the unholy television-consumerism pact was still in metaphorical short trousers. Les Paul was American music's one-man innovating starburst, crucial to the birth of the modern electric guitar and multi-track recording, as well as being a wildly entertaining master of his instrument. Mary Ford was a honey-voiced chanteuse, an able guitarist in her own right, and Paul's comedy foil. She was also his wife.
In the early 1950s, the two starred in a series of comedic shorts filmed at their home, sponsored by halitosis-busting antiseptic merchants Listerine. They're a portal into the saccharin-sweet white picket-fenced ideal of American respectability circa 1954 – a respectability which, like Victorian England's before it, hid a fair amount of seediness. Continue reading "Alabamy Bound & Darktown Strutters Ball (Les Paul & Mary Ford)"
The People With Too Much (Eugene Chadbourne)
Eugene Chadbourne albums habitually sound like they were recorded in a tin shed, and there's a reasonable chance they were. That's not a criticism. Septuagenarian drum-king Warren Smith provides pitter-pattering propulsion to Chadbourne's fumbling banjo on 'The People With Too Much', the latter squeakily upbeat as he paints a prole's-eye view of the mindless excess of the needlessly wealthy.
Billy Jenkins Again
Truly one of the least prestigious, least sought-after accolades in the history of the world, Billy Jenkins is probably the Bemolution's favourite living musical artiste*. Please note, sadly, that that's 'living' artiste, not 'musically active'. Both spiritually worn-down and made financially unviable by the crushing commercialisation of everything, Billy Jenkins the musician has characteristically jacked it all in to officiate humanist funerals.
The Bemolution occasionally, certainly pathetically, writes to Billy to ascertain whether he's any more likely to strap on his guitar again than he was during the last quarter, and he's always gracious enough to reply:
"Me and music still not hearing 'ear to ear'. The humanist funereal duties keeping the muse fully occupied – writing and conducting about sixty a year. That means an average of about 3,500 perfect emphatic words a week. Every week for the last five years…"
"The last CD I brought out – 'Jazz Gives Me The Blues' – took 26 funerals to pay for. 'What you're really saying is', said Charlie Hart who recorded and produced, 'that 26 folks had to actually die to make that record…' Yup. And, with no-one buying anything, it ain't worth the literal grief any more… The future is looking rather silent but faced with a smile." Continue reading "Billy Jenkins Again"
Glastonbury, and Metallica Made Better (Andy Rehfeldt)
Glastonbury looked rubbish this year, but our favourite moment, surprisingly, came from Metallica's headline set on the Saturday night. In an oddly peaceful reverie between tracks of bludgeoning heavy metal, goatee-bearded holler-rocker James Hetfield, the band's hunt-loving politics-shunning lead singer, took to the mic to bathe the crowd in a nice bit of wishy-washy pseudo-philosophy.
"I've got three questions", he said, before asking the crowd to put their hands up/bellow/be generally noisily enthusiastic if they wanted a) the world to be a better place, b) to live in integrity according to their morals and c) be loved as they are. And then, without the merest hint of irony, he dedicated a song to the cuddly hippy idealism of everyone present: 'This one is for all of you… CYANIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDE!"
Anyway, we're not putting any out-and-out Metallica up because it's all very silly, to quote Professor Yaffle. Instead, you can have some filtered through the brain and digits of YouTube genius Andy Rehfeldt, here remedying the principal fault of metal music, namely its abject lack of self-deprecation and humour. If it was all like this, we'd listen to nothing but.