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For five weeks during this summer, the School of Rock comes to Green River Community Center/Boys and Girls Club. So far 40 children from Green River have signed up to attend the action packed days of summer camp.
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Montana's End-of-Life Registry
Montana's End-of-Life Registry stores advance health care directives in a secure computer database and makes these documents available to health care providers. Section 50-9-501 of the Montana Code Annotated authorizes Montana's Attorney General to create and maintain an End-of-Life Registry that:
- securely stores directives relating to life-sustaining treatment
- is accessible online
- provides immediate access to authorized health care providers
Advance Health Care Directives
Advance health care directives provide instructions about the level of health care someone wants or does not want in the event that they become seriously ill and unable to speak for themselves. Advance directives can be short, simple statements expressing someone's values and choices. Advance directives are not used as long as an individual is able to express his or her own decisions on whether to accept or refuse medical treatment. They are used only when an attending health care provider determines that someone is in a terminal condition and is no longer able to participate in making decisions regarding medical treatment.
The Registry does not provide legal advice or legal services. Consumers should consult with their doctor, attorney or agencies that specialize in end-of-life care choices about any questions they have related to advance health care directives, living wills, health care (medical) powers of attorney and other personalized directives.
The End-of-Life Registry program has worked with the Montana State University (MSU) Extension and MHA – An Association of Montana Health Care Providers to create a number of resources to help health care facilities implement the program:
- MSU Family Economics PowerPoint Presentations Estate Planning: Montana's End-of-Life Registry – a 45-slide overview of the Registry
- MontGuide #200602: Montana's End-of-Life Registry (PDF) – answers to commonly asked questions about the Registry
Further information is available online including:
- Aging with Dignity's Five Wishes directive
- American Bar Association (ABA) Commission on Law and Aging and Tool Kit for Health Care Advance Planning
- Caring Connections
- MHA: An Association of Montana Health Care Providers
- Mayo Clinic and Living wills and advance directives: Tools for medical wishes
- Montana POLST (Provider Order For Life Sustaining Treatment)
How to File an Advance Directive
You cannot file or change an advance directive online. To register a directive, you must be at least 18 years of age.
- Complete your advance directive. You may use the directive form (Spanish version) or any other version that meets the requirements specified in Montana law. Regardless of the format, directives must be signed by two witnesses.
- Complete the Montana End-of-Life Consumer Registration Agreement (Spanish version). Section B allows you to specify the level of privacy you want for your personal information. If you do not indicate which option you want, you will be assigned the standard privacy level:
- Standard privacy – allows access by the person who filed the directive, registered health care providers and anyone with that person's Social Security number, birth date and mother's maiden name, or with the name and access code.
- Higher privacy – allows access only by the person who filed the directive, registered health care providers, and anyone with the name and access code.
- Mail both forms to:
Office of Consumer Protection P.O. Box 201410 Helena, MT 59620-1410
- Within approximately three weeks, the Office of Consumer Protection will send you a letter that:
- indicates that your advance directive has been registered in the Montana End-of-Life Registry
- confirms your identifying information
- includes a wallet card and four labels – two to place on the back of your driver's license and insurance card, and two extra. The card contains the access code you use to check your advance directive through the online Montana End-of-Life Registry Service.
- If the Office of Consumer Protection determines that an advance directive does not meet the legal requirements, it will return the directive and Consumer Registration Agreement with a letter indicating what additional information is needed.
You may also wish to provide a copy of your advance directive to your physician or other health care providers. Providers are required to make your directive part of your medical record and to follow its provisions. When you name a person as your designee, the attending physician or other health care provider is required to follow the designee's instructions.
How to Change an Advance Directive
Consumers can always change their minds about their advance health care directive. To change an advance directive registered with the Attorney General's Office, mail the following to the Office of Consumer Protection:
- the new advance directive
- a Montana End-of-Life Consumer Registration Agreement indicating that you wish to replace your existing directive with a new one
Health Care Provider Registration
Montana law defines a health care provider as a person who is licensed, certified or otherwise authorized by the laws of Montana to administer health care in the ordinary course of business or practice of a profession. This includes but is not limited to hospitals, doctors, skilled nursing facilities, nursing facilities, home health agencies, home health care providers, ambulatory surgery facilities and hospices.
Registry services are provided free of charge to health care providers and consumers.
- Complete the Health Care Provider Registration Agreement and mail it to: Office of Consumer Protection, P.O. Box 201410, Helena, MT 59620-1410
- Within approximately three weeks, the Office of Consumer Protection will send you a letter that confirms your identifying information and provides the user name and password needed to search for advance directives through the Montana End-of-Life Registry Service
Problems with Access in an Urgent Situation
If the online service is down or you are having trouble accessing a directive in an urgent situation, please call the 24-hour Help Desk toll free at (866) 675-3314. Health care providers should have their login information available.
Family and friends need their user name and access code, or name, Social Security number, date of birth and/or mother's maiden name.
Once the information is confirmed, the Help Desk will fax or e-mail the advance directive.
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Thanks, Enty, such a great and thorough review! Every day, hunches, bad guesses, cringes and laughs!
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Derek– he is also tenuously connected to this foreign born reader who hasn't been heard from since her series ended. Terrible sense of direction: the Jennifer Lawrence of Google Circles.ReplyCancel
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Enty, the holes in your list are gigantic.
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"You hear about a lot of blood drives, but not as many people donate platelets," said Mrs. Santana, now 34 and in remission.
Platelets are needed to help the blood clot and are always in high demand, confirmed Dr. Edahn Isaak, director of Transfusion Medicine at Staten Island University Hospital (SIUH).
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This was the case with Mrs. Santana, who had donated blood years before her leukemia diagnosis but never considered platelet donation. While she was undergoing chemotherapy, her husband, Michael, became a blood and platelet donor and began recruiting others to do the same.
Once afraid of needles, Michael Santana was now asking his correction officer co-workers and friends to roll up their sleeves and donate.
While many people are still unaware of platelet donation, the need is on the rise, according to Dr. Isaak. Cancer patients frequently need platelets following chemotherapy, he said, because in the process of killing cancer cells, the better, more advanced therapies also reduce the platelet count.
Other patients who frequently need platelets include those who have undergone a trauma or need surgery.
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Unlike blood, which has a shelf life of 42 days, platelets need to be used within five days of donation, he said. It also takes about two hours to donate platelets in a process called apheresis, which separates the platelets from the rest of the blood and then returns the remainder back to the donor.
Donors can give platelets every 72 hours, up to twice per week and 24 times per year, Dr. Isaak said. The hospital receives about 400 donations yearly, which is far fewer than the 2,500 they need. The rest is purchased from the New York Blood Center (NYBC).
"We are always five days away from potential disaster," said Harvey Schaffler, NYBC executive director of donor marketing, referring to platelets' short shelf life.
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In 2011, Schaffler said the NYBC collected more than 80,000 platelet donations, which were used in the greater New York area. On Staten Island, residents can donate blood and platelets at Brooklyn/Staten Island Blood Services in New Springville.
Many of those who donate platelets originated as blood donors, Schaffler said. To ensure the NYBC receives enough platelets, staff members continually schedule their regular donors to keep the supply flowing.
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Women: Statement by Mr. Peter van der Vliet : The Netherlands' Commitment to the implementation of UNSCR 1325
Statement by Peter van der Vliet
Deputy Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the UN
Side event to the 56th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women
Investing in Women, Investing in Peace - Financing 1325, Gender Equality and Peace
New York, 28 February 2012
Ladies and gentlemen,
Women, peace and security
In April 2011, Dutch Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signed a Joint Statement on "Supporting Women's Political Empowerment in Emerging Democracies". In their statement, they note that in processes of democratization, conflict resolution, peacebuilding, and security, sustainable solutions are not possible if women's voices are discounted or ignored. Experience shows that integrating women into transition, reconciliation and peacebuilding processes from the start helps promote long-term peace and stability. Where women are oppressed and marginalized, societies become more dangerous and breed intolerance. The subjugation of women is a threat to the common security of our world, because the suffering and denial of the rights of women, and the instability of nations, go hand in hand. There is also a mountain of data that correlates investment in and inclusion of women with positive outcomes in poverty alleviation and greater prosperity.
In the last decades there have been waves of turbulent developments where people demanded democratic change: in Eastern Europe after 1989 and in development and peace proceses in various countries of Latin America, Asia and Africa. Since the beginning of 2011, dramatic events sweeping across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have seen millions of men and women march in the streets demanding change. Both women and men have suffered under repressive governments in this region. Moreover, women have coped with discriminatory laws and deeply entrenched gender inequality. According to UNDP's Arab Human Development Reports, the gender gap is one of the three reasons for the slow progress in human development indicators in the MENA region.
The international community has an important role to play in promoting a political role for women at all stages of political transition and peacebuilding. In doing so, we advance our collective security and prosperity around the globe. As my minister says, "Women's rights and opportunities are not just nice to have. They are a global security imperative. Women represent 50% of human capital. It is in every country's own interest to make sure that women are actively involved in society and the economy, and in political decision-making. They must be part of the power structures – that is what empowerment is about. That is why Security Council Resolution 1325 (and its successors: 1820, 1888, 1889 and 1960) are so critically important for women's roles in peace and security.
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The Netherlands adopted its first National Action Plan on UN Security Council Resolution 1325 in 2007. It led to a stronger focus on the role of women in our work on peace and security. It had a specific focus on physical safety and legal certainty for women and men. For example, the fight against sexual violence as a weapon of war in the Democratic Republic of Congo received more attention.
Also, the first action plan emphasized the complementary role of government bodies and civil society in the Netherlands and the importance of country ownership. An example is the Security Sector Development Programme in Burundi. Based on research of a Dutch NGO with support from the Dutch ministries of Defense and Foreign Affairs, the Burundian ministries of Defense and Public Security decided to have gender as one of the policy priorities in the Security Sector, including by conducting workshops in gender action and strategy planning and the formulation of clear targets. This led to specific empowerment programs for female military and to a high number of female applicants for the Burundi police force.
Another example of collaboration between countries is the successful gender training course for civilian and military personnel sent out on peace operations. This course is the fruit of collaboration between the Spanish and the Dutch Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defence.
Just a few months ago, the Netherlands launched its second National Action Plan 1325. It has been was signed by more than 30 civil society organizations, four research institutes and three government ministries (Foreing Affairs, Defense and the ministry of Education, Culture and Science). The Dutch action plan 1325 is in line with the three pillars of our foreign policy: security, freedom and prosperity. In today's world, these issues are closely interconnected. Violations of individual freedom may sooner or later generate instability. Security and freedom are vital to economic growth. Conversely, growth in the private sector helps foster stability and freedom.
The second National Action Plan is dedicated to promoting female leadership and political participation in conflict-affected societies. We believe that peace and security are linked to active, powerful roles for women. It was good to see that the Nobel Prize Committee this October honoured three extraordinary women for their commitment to democracy and human rights: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkol Karman.
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But expertise, experience and will power alone are not enough. Without money, plans are merely good intentions on a piece of paper. Without money, National Action Plans are policy documents that never get implemented. Catherine Mabobori already referred to the Secretary General's report to the Security Council on 1325 implementation in October 2010, where he says: "the ultimate success of national action plans depends on their funding and the commitment to ensure their full implementation." Therefore, the Dutch National Action Plan includes a chapter in which many partners, from civil society as well as the government, set out the resources they commit to the implementation of the plan. These commitments consist of financial ánd human capital. Financially the Dutch signatories (ministries and NGO's) have committed more than EURO 10 million per year for the period 2012-2015. The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs has reserved EURO 2 million per year for joint activities of Dutch signatories and women's organisations in 6 fragile and post-conflict states (Afghanistan, Burundi, Colombia, DRC, South Sudan, Sudan) and another EURO 2 million for the MENA –region.
All action undertaken under the auspices of the Dutch NAP partnership must be financed by at least two different actors. The Dutch government is therefore pleased to contribute to the multi-stakeholder finance mechanism in Burundi, up to one million euro over four years - next to Cordaid, Global Network of Women Peacebuilders (GNWP) and the Burundian Ministry of National Solidarity, Human Rights and Gender. Hopefully, this new mechanism will also enhance multi-stakeholder decision-making with equal involvement of women and men.
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Looking back
MSU's slide continued with a pair of blowout losses. A trip to Arkansas on Wednesday resulted in a 96-70 setback, and that was followed by an 82-47 home loss to No. 8 Florida on Saturday.
The Bulldogs have lost four in a row and continue to suffer the ills of being young and short-handed.
Looking ahead
State resumes a three-game homestand Wednesday against Texas A&M (12-7, 2-4), then hosts LSU (10-7, 1-5) on Saturday.
Who's hot
Freshman guard Fred Thomas has become the go-to scorer for a team struggling to find points. In four SEC games, he's averaging 15.0 points. Thomas had 17 versus Arkansas and a career-high 19 against Florida, plus seven steals.
Who's not
Junior Jalen Steele, MSU's most experienced player, scored just five points against Arkansas and none against Florida.
He was a combined 1 of 13 from the floor in those games, and his season scoring average has dipped to 9.4 ppg.
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MSU's RPI rank has jumped 20 spots from last week, to 222, mainly due to playing Florida, which is fifth in RPI. State's strength-of-schedule got an even bigger boost, up 95 spots to 150th in the rankings.
Looking ahead, Texas A&M is ranked 85th in RPI, while LSU is 153rd.
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As the losses pile up, first-year coach Rick Ray's challenge grows ever greater. He must keep the young players in line with what he's teaching even when things are bad.
This week, however, presents a couple of decent opportunities for the Bulldogs to pick up a win.


text: OverviewBack to top A.C. Grace - Unique E Tocotrienol Complex Tocopherol Free - 60 Capsules Item# :84446UPC# :894612001063 Brand:A.C. Grace Size/Form:60 Capsules Ship Weight:0.50 Servings:60 Dosage:1 Capsule(s) A.C. Grace - Unique E Tocotrienol Complex Tocopherol Free - 60 Capsules A.C. Grace Unique E Tocotrienol Complex Tocopherol Free contains High-Delta and Gamma Tocotrienols derived from the Annatto Bean. A.C. Grace Unique E Tocotrienol Complex Tocopherol Free also has the highest concentrates of tocotrienols at 125 mg per gel capsule. Unlike products derived from palm or rice bran oil A.C. Grace tocotrienols contains no tocopherols — which have been shown to inhibit assimilation of tocotrienols in the body. Taking them separately achieves maximum benefits. Tocotrienols help maintain healthy cholesterol levels. Research indicates that they may also contribute to improving vascular and cardiometabolic integrity and help support a healthy cardiovascular system and normal blood glucose levels in pre-diabetic health. All-Natural Tocopherol-Free Compact Softgel Capsules Alpha-tocopherol has been shown to inhibit the assimilation of tocotrienols in the body Research shows maximum benefits are achieved when taken separately from tocophero Derived from the Annatto Bean - grown in Brazil NOT Palm Oil and Rice Bran Oil which contain high amounts of alpha-tocopherol The Annatto Bean naturally contains NO tocopherols The Annatto Bean is not a SOY product —contains NO soy Contains the Highest Concentrates of tocotrienol at 125 mg Highest in delta-T3 (90%) and contains gamma-T3 (10%) 2X more tocotrienol than palm oil, and 3X more than rice bran oil Provides many Cardiovascular and Cardiometabolic Benefits Helps maintain healthy cholesterol levels Helps maintain healthy arterial plaque levels Helps support a healthy cardiovascular system Helps support health blood pressure levels Helps support normal triglyceride and blood glucose levels Supports healthy cell and tissue growth Product PairingUnique E Mixed Tocopherols and Unique E Tocotrienols are synergetic in their support for cardiovascular and metabolic health. They are most effective when taken separately though. A.C. Grace recommends that you take Unique E Mixed Tocopherols with your morning meal and Unique E Tocotrienols with your evening meal. The Science Behind the ProductDr. Barrie Tan is responsible for discovering the only natural source of tocopherol-free tocotrienols – the annatto bean. A.C. Grace works directly with Dr. Tan's company, American River Nutrition (ARN) to provide superior-quality natural source tocotrienols containing the highest contentrates at 125mg per softgel. ARN is the sole distributor of this tocotrienol ingredient, which has been studied for its ability to support arterial health and vascular integrity. Tocotrienols are known for their antioxidant properties, especially delta-tocotrienol which—due to less methylation of its chromanol ring—is more adept at being incorporated into cell membranes. Tocotrienols have also been shown to support healthy blood pressure levels, probably through promoting healthy blood lipid levels (through antioxidant effects) and promoting appropriate nictric oxide synthase activity. FAQ General Questions Which products should I take to get all 8 parts of vitamin E? Doctors suggest taking the Mixed Tocopherols in the morning with your meal and the Tocotreinols in the evening with your meal. This will give you the full benefits of the eight isomers in vitamin E – alpha, beta, gamma and delta tocopherol, and alpha, beta, gamma and delta tocotrienol. Many studies show that the key isomers in vitamin E are alpha and gamma, with delta and beta present to a lesser degree. Do you agree with the Linus Pauling protocol of combining your Vitamin E with Vitamin C supplementation? We understand the Linus Pauling protocol has been very effective with some patients who use it. In fact, we have a testimonial of a longtime customer, Carol Smith, who has a wonderful story to tell. We are sure Carol would be very willing to share her experiences with you. If would like us to check with her, please let us know. Is the Mixed Tocopherols Oil better than (or different from) taking a capsule? The Mixed Tocopherols Oil is exactly the same vitamin E oil that is in the capsules. We developed the liquid version for vegetarians and customers who prefer to not swallow capsules, as well as for adjustable dosing to children and pets. If you have no difficulty swallowing capsules and are happy with the product, you may want to keep buying the capsules. However, the pump bottle makes it easier to enjoy the TOPICAL benefit—fantastic for use on stressed skin and general moisturizing. Before we developed the liquid, people would cut open the capsules to apply topically. Now, with the 1-oz pump bottle, you can apply it more easily. Each 1-oz bottle is the equivalent of 39 capsules of 400 IU of vitamin E (.75ml or slightly more than 1/8 teaspoon = 400IU). How do you dispense the Mixed Tocopherols Oil? The Mixed Tocopherols Oil has a pump dispenser built in. For measuring very small doses, you may take the pump off and pour or even use an eyedropper if you wish. Though we recommend not taking the pump off unless you plan to use the product up within a few months due to the possibility of oxidation. Leaving the pump on protects the product from the air. Is there any risk of plastic leaching with the pump bottle? The container is white opaque glass – we use glass for the very reason you are concerned with. Is it safe to take the Mixed Tocopherols and the Tocotrienols at the same time? It is safe, however, it is recommended by our doctors that you take your Tocopherols in the morning with your breakfast and take your Tocotrienols in the evening with your dinner (or at least 2 hours apart from each other). This is simply to optimize your body's absorption of the tocotrienols. It has been found that alpha-tocopherol inhibits the absorption of tocotrienols in the gut wall, thus rendering the tocotrienols less effective. Which are better UNIQUE Mixed Tocopherols Concentrate or UNIQUE E Tocotrienols? What is the difference between the tocopherols and the tocotrienols? Vitamin E has eight isomers in its molecular chain --- alpha, beta, gamma and delta Tocopherols, and alpha, beta, gamma and delta Tocotrienols. Our products are designed to separate the tocopherols as our Mixed Tocopherols Concentrate and the tocotrienols (from the Annatto Bean) as our Tocotrienols. Our doctors inform us that each product has beneficial value to the human body in different ways. They suggest that if you want to choose between the two products, to continue providing the maximum E benefits provided by our Mixed Tocopherols Concentrate, which have been recognized for over 50 years. However, our Tocotrienols are also very beneficial for focusing on specific health areas such as maintaining healthy cholesterol and blood glucose levels. We recommend taking the two products apart from each other (Tocopherols in the morning with your meal, and Tocotrienols in the evening with your meal). As always, with any dietary supplement, it is a good idea to discuss specific health questions with your doctor. If you would like us to direct you to one of our doctors who use and provide our E products to their patients, for more information, we will be happy to do that. Certifications Are your products certified Kosher? The products are themselves not Kosher certified, but all of the ingredients and production facilities are. That is why they are referred as "Kosher friendly." Is the gelatin in your capsules Kosher? What are your capsules made from? The gelatin capsules on our products are Bovine. They are not Kosher in the sense that they specifically have been certified by a Rabbi. But the gelatin itself is Kosher and is the best available product available. The facility where the encapsulation is done is certified Kosher. An option is to use our Mixed Tocopherols Oil product, which is certified Kosher, and Vegan. Where does your beef gelatin come from? Our bovine gelatin is a protein found in the hooves, bones, and connective tissues of cows. A. C. Grace Company has always used bovine (beef) gelatin to be able to provide our products to customers who have dietary restrictions in regards to pork products. Pork gelatin is more readily available, and less costly for companies to use in production. Just as we go the extra mile in our distillation process to provide ONLY PURE VITAMIN E OIL, we also choose to avoid the 'cheap' gelatin for our softgels. Though the capsules themselves are not Kosher, the gelatin used in them is Kosher. Furthermore, we continue to work with our suppliers to find a vegetarian softgel solution. The problem (good problem) is that because our Vitamin E oil is so viscous (thick) due to its purity, we have not been able to find a vegetarian capsule material that will contain the oil without cracking the softgel and ultimately leaking. Keep in mind, we also offer our Mixed Tocopherols Oil product, which is certified Kosher and Vegan. Is this product vegetarian? Yes, the oil inside the capsules is Certified Vegetarian. The capsule itself is beef soft gelatin. Our Mixed Tocopherols Oil product is Certified Vegan. You can cut open the capsules if you'd like. We also have the same E in a 1-oz pump bottle made specifically for people who wish to have a vegetarian form and for those that do not wish to swallow a capsule. Ingredients Do your tocotrienol capsules contain delta tocotrienol? The ingredients in our Tocotrienol product are: Pure Annatto Tocotrienol (90% delta-tocotrienol and 10% gamma-tocotrienol), beef gelatin, glycerin, and water (for the capsule). What is the source of your Vitamin E? Mixed Tocopherols – the source for the Vitamin E in this product is soybean oil. However, A.C. Grace uses a proprietary distillation process that extracts all soy oil out of the Vitamin E oil, thus providing a pure, natural form. So, inside the capsule or pump bottle is a pure, natural concentrate mix of alpha, beta, gamma and delta tocopherols with no fillers, additives, colors, wheat, gluten, soy oil, soy protein or flax. Our capsules are a beef gelatin. Our product is certified to be PCR-negative which is the industry recognized classification for products that have been produced and distilled to remove any and all contaminates that could affect purity. Tocotrienols – the source for the Vitamin E in this product is the Annatto Bean. The same processes are used to provide a pure Tocotrienol product with NO fillers, additives, colors, wheat, gluten, soy oil, soy protein or flax. Our capsules are a beef gelatin. Is there any Vitamin D in your Mixed Tocopherols products? None whatsoever! Unique E Mixed Tocopherols Concentrate is PURE Vitamin E Oil only. Is your product an un-esterified all natural mixed tocopherol form of Vitamin E? Yes! Unique E Mixed Tocopherols Concentrate is un-esterified, pure, natural and high in gamma- and alpha-tocopherol, with proprietary amounts of beta- and delta-tocopherol. It is the full complex of tocopherols as obtained through diet and used by the body. Because it is pure (with NO allergens, fillers, colors, wheat, gluten, soy oil, soy protein or flax) it provides maximum Vitamin E benefit to the body. Is your product truly soy free? Although our product is derived from soybeans, it does not contain any soy DNA protein because they are destroyed during distillation. Our product is certified to be PCR-negative which is the industry recognized classification for products that have been produced and distilled to remove any and all contaminates that could affect purity. Scientists state that there is no difference between a GMO and non-GMO product that is PCR-negative. Do the Mixed Tocopherols products contain all 4 tocopherols? Our Mixed Tocopherols are a natural concentrate mix of All FOUR tocopherol isomers (alpha, beta, gamma and delta) with no fillers, additives, colors, wheat, gluten, soy oil, soy protein or flax. What are your capsules made of? Our capsules are a beef gelatin. Certified to be free of any concern about "mad cow" issues. As listed on out label, the capsules themselves are made of beef gelatin, glycerin, and water. Is there any flax oil in your products? Regarding the source and contents of our Mixed Tocopherols – the source for the product is soy bean oil. However, A.C. Grace uses a proprietary distillation process that extracts all soy oil out of the Vitamin E oil, thus providing a pure, natural form. So, inside the capsule or pump bottle is a pure, natural concentrate mix of alpha, beta, gamma and delta tocopherols with no fillers, additives, colors, wheat, gluten soy oil, soy protein or flax. Our capsules are a beef gelatin. The pump bottle is perfect for use if you do not wish to consume the beef gelatin capsule. Does UNIQUE E contain tyrosine? Rest assured that Unique E Mixed Tocopherols Concentrate does not contain any tyrosine. Product Handling and Dosages What is the serving size of the Unique E? The serving size of our UNIQUE E Mixed Tocopherols Concentrate is 1 capsule = 700mg and delivers 400 I.U. of Alpha-Tocopherol. The serving size of our UNIQUE E Tocotrienols is 1 capsule = 125mg. Do the mixed tocopherols need to be stored in the refrigerator after opening? No they don't, but its recommended keeping them in a cool, dry cupboard away from heat and sun. What is the shelf life of your capsule products? The shelf life of nutritional supplements is indicated near the UPC code on the label. There is normally a date stamp that shows the month and year of "recommended" expiry. We use a 2 or 3-year time stamp by regulation. However, because UNIQUE E is pure, our products have no fillers, diluents, vegetable oil, or other additives that may turn the product rancid. What turns vitamin E rancid (causing it to expire) is the additional oils contained along with the vitamin E. As mentioned before, we do not have any extra oils – it is pure vitamin E oil that does not turn rancid. One of the best ways to check you capsules is to bite into one – it should have a mild bland taste. What is the recommend dosage for the Mixed Tocopherols Oil? Each 1-oz bottle is the equivalent of 39 capsules of 400 I.U. of vitamin E (.75ml or slightly more than 1/8 teaspoon = 400I.U.). How many .75ml servings are in a bottle of UNIQUE E Mixed Tocopherols Oil?There are 39 servings (.75ml or slightly more than 1/8 teaspoon = 400 I.U.) in the 1-oz bottle. How can I dispense a very small dose of the Mixed Tocopherols Oil? You can dispense from the 1-oz bottle using the pump attached – .75ml or slightly more than 1/8 teaspoon equals 1 capsule (400 I.U. of alpha-tocopherol + gamma, beta and delta). You can take the pump off and pour or even use an eye dropper if you wish. We recommend not taking the pump off unless you plan to use the product up with a few months due to the possibility of oxidation. Leaving the pump on protects the product from the air. How many Mixed Tocopherols capsules should I take each day? The serving size of our UNIQUE E Mixed Tocopherols Concentrate is 1 capsule = 700mg. Our label suggests 1 capsule per day. This is for a standard maintenance program that provides more than the suggest RDA listed by the FDA. If someone has specific health goals, additional capsules may be taken under the guidance of a physician. Our dosage recommendations on our website are suggestions from many of the doctors who use and recommend our products. It is always recommended to consult with your doctor when changing anything in your diet that may affect any health challenges you have. Also keep in mind, the most important thing to consider when taking Vitamin E is the type of E that you take. The more pure it is, with the least amount of fillers, allergens, colors, wheat, gluten or soy oil, the more bio-available it is to the body. If an E product contains vegetable oil as filler, that oil can turn rancid, thus reducing the beneficial qualities of the product regardless of dosage. Is it appropriate for my doctor to recommend increasing my Vitamin E dosage to 1,000 I.U.? Your doctor likely has a reason for their suggestion to you -- you may wish to discuss your question directly with them. Our dosage recommendations on our website are suggestions from many of the doctors who use and recommend our products. We have heard of successful "therapeutic doses" of Vitamin E. However, under FDA guidelines, we cannot provide any direct advice on specific health conditions. Can I squeeze the Vitamin E out of the capsule onto a spoon and take it this way?YES! People have been doing that for 50 years if they do not wish to take the beef gelatin capsule. You can even put it in your cereal. People also cut open capsules to use our Unique E as a topical application for stressed skin and general moisturizing. We also have the VERY SAME vitamin E in our 1-oz pump bottle – designed specifically for people like you who do not wish to consume a capsule, or may enjoy vegetarian products. How palatable is taking the oil straight? Because our Vitamin E Oil is pure and natural with nothing else in it, it has a very bland, non-descript taste. It will not taste rancid or harsh due to the fact that all impurities have been distilled out. We have many customers who put their E in their cereal. If you take it orally, you may wish to follow it with a piece of food, which will break down the oil that may be left in your mouth. Do you recommend using Unique E as a skin care product, on my face? By all means! For 50 years our customers have been using our Unique E on their faces! That is why we introduced a 1-oz bottle to help deliver the product without having to cut or prick the capsule (although you can still do this). Unique E is high in GAMMA and ALPHA Tocopherols which have been shown to work so well together for skin care as well as internal health. Doctors recommend Unique E for use on stressed skin and as a moisturizer. The product is very thick, so if you want to thin it you can use Glycerin or Aloe Vera Gel to do this. The product will still absorb into your skin very effectively. Also, we developed a product specifically for your skin. Unique E Natural Moisturizer is infused with Unique E and other ALL-NATURAL ingredients. We are excited about this product because we have had so many requests and strive to provide the very best products to our friends! Health Concerns Can UNIQUE E help with severe cardiovascular challenges? This question should be discussed with your primary health care professional. If you do not have a doctor to discuss this with, we may be able to direct you to one of our doctors that understand how vitamin E interacts with various medications and existing health challenges. Our founder, Roy Erickson, took UNIQUE E until he died of old age at the age of 93. Can this product replace any pharmaceuticals? This question should be discussed with your primary health care professional. If you do not have a doctor or nutritionist to discuss this with, we may be able to direct you to one of our trusted partners that understand how vitamin E interacts with various medications and existing health conditions. Is there a synergistic relationship of UNIQUE E with fish oil? The Unique E & fish oil relationship is not actually a synergy but rather a protection. Fish oil easily oxidizes and becomes damaging rather than helpful. Having an adequate level of E complex in the blood serves to protect the oil so that it can circulate around and do its extremely beneficial job without quickly oxidizing. As long as you take an adequate dose of Unique E every day, so that it is always in your blood stream (it will be there for 24 hours+) there is no particular need to take it at the same time that you take your fish oil. Oil based supplements are probably best absorbed when taken with larger fatty meals as a general rule. For headaches, can Vitamin E take the place of any drug such as Advil or Motrin?The Mixed Tocopherols Concentrate capsules are very helpful for general whole health because they are high Alpha- and Gamma-Tocopherols, which provide antioxidant benefits and support the blood's oxygenating capabilities. However, any question about specific health challenges should be discussed with your primary health care professional. If you do not have a doctor to discuss this with, we may be able to direct you to one of our doctors who understand how vitamin E interacts with various health issues. Can I take coral calcium at the same time I take the Vitamin E? There are many products available on the market that include Vitamin E in the same capsule as Coral Calcium. By taking Unique E you are receiving the maximum benefit a Vitamin E product (Mixed Tocopherols) can provide. And because it is free from any fillers (fillers can cause rancidity and resulting free radicals in your body), other supplements will be more appropriately absorbed. As with any supplement regimen it is always a good idea to discuss any dietary changes with your doctor or nutritionist. If you do not have a doctor you wish to discuss this with, we may be able to direct you to one of the thousands of doctors that use our Unique E. Can this Vitamin E help open blocked arteries? We cannot make recommendations to replace pharmaceuticals. We recommend that you discuss this with your primary health care professional; however we are confident that Unique E is an excellent source of Vitamin E and furthermore, it has been on the market since 1962. If you do not have a doctor to discuss this with, we may be able to direct you to one of our doctors who understand how Vitamin E interacts with various health challenges and medications. Can I take your Vitamin E while nursing? Most definitely. Since Vitamin E is very poorly transferred across the placental membrane, the newborn depends upon the Vitamin E contained in colostrum and milk to meet its Vitamin E needs. Since the mother cannot synthesize Vitamin E, she depends upon her diet to meet her Vitamin E needs. It has been shown that supplemental Vitamin E and mixed tocopherols as found in Unique E are an excellent source of Vitamin E and a very good way to assure that the infant is getting adequate Vitamin E in the milk. As far as toxicity is concerned, there are NO data suggesting that pregnant or lactating women should not take Vitamin E supplements. Can vitamin E build up in your system to a harmful level? Regarding toxicity – many vitamin E products have been shown to build up in the liver. However, Unique E is a pure, all-natural form of Vitamin E and contains no additional oils that could do this. Our E gets right to work in your body, and what isn't used by the cells is passed out of your system and not stored in the liver. Why We Need Vitamin EVitamin E is the body's naturally occurring lubricant as well as a very powerful antioxidant that helps neutralize free radicals in the body. Free radicals are the naturally occurring byproducts of many metabolic functions in the body. We are also exposed to free radicals through environmental factors. The body has built-in systems for rendering these particles harmless and flushing them out as waste. Vitamin E is vital for its antioxidant effects and its ability to support cardiovascular wellness, cellular membrane function and integrity, and many other aspects of whole health. Why the Modern Diet Tends to Run Low on Vitamin EAround the year 1900, the average American consumed at least 100 I.U. (international units) of natural Vitamin E each day. The primary source for Vitamin E was stone ground whole wheat bread. However, in the late 1800's the rolling mill was invented. The machine separated the wheat germ from the wheat bran leaving only the kernel. This provided nice white flour and it became very popular. However, this milling process removed many of the vital nutrients essential to our bodies, including the majority of the Vitamin E, as the wheat germ and wheat bran contained these nutrients. Stone ground wheat also turned rancid very quickly and by removing the wheat germ and wheat bran, the product could be packaged in five or ten pound packages and dramatically extended its shelf life. This made the product much easier to store and sell, but it also robbed the body of some very essential nutrients. Besides breads, Vitamin E has been taken out of virtually all foods found at grocery stores as the Vitamin E will cause the food to turn rancid much more quickly, which diminishes the shelf life of the products. Vitamin E is the only substance that is not added back into most foods as this creates a significant problem in the distribution and shelf life of these products. Roy Erickson, founder of A.C. Grace Company, saw the direct link between the increase of heart health challenges and the stripping of Vitamin E from our foods. Since 1900 (about the same time as the invention of the rolling mill), heart health challenges have increased significantly. Mr. Erickson firmly believed if everyone took Vitamin E, it would change the health of America! Doctors and medical researchers agree as well, recommending high quality Vitamin E supplementation especially for those who wish to support heart health. But not all Vitamin E supplements are created equal. Many are poorly manufactured and turn rancid, rendering their health benefits negligible. Be sure to research and find a brand that is high quality. We're certain that when you understand the science and care put into UNIQUE E, you'll choose our product for your heart health, metabolic support, and general whole health goals. How is UNIQUE E Unique?There are six major types of Vitamin E supplements on the market. They're NOT ALL ALIKE . . . Vitamin E activity doesn't come from one single molecule, but from a family of related molecules called tocopherols and tocotrienols. There are four tocopherols (alpha, beta, gamma, and delta) and four tocotrienols (alpha, beta, gamma, and delta), of which only alpha-tocopherol was recognized in the 1960s, by the government, to have Vitamin E activity, which is measured in International Units (I.U.s). Consequently, because of that decision only the alpha-tocopherol portion of a Vitamin E product is considered "Vitamin E," so, the I.U. content of Vitamin E supplements generally refers to only alpha-tocopherol. Following is a list of the major available types of Vitamin E supplements on the market today: Synthetic Vitamin E (dl-alpha tocopherol, or more correctly, All-racemic-alpha tocopherol): This chemically-produced type is the cheapest and the most widely sold. Unlike other vitamins, and their synthetic counterparts, synthetic Vitamin E is not identical to natural Vitamin E. It contains equal amounts of eight similar compounds. Only one is identical to natural Vitamin E and therefore in a form that the body is accustomed to processing. Natural Vitamin E (d-alpha-tocopherol, or more correctly, RRR-alpha-tocopherol): This source of Vitamin E is isolated from plant-source oils, primarily soy, and is further processed resulting in a Vitamin E supplement that is all d-alpha-tocopherol. Although more costly than synthetic, natural Vitamin E is now recognized to provide two times the I. U. value of an equal amount of synthetic Vitamin E. Synthetic or Natural Vitamin E Esters (tocopheryl acetate, tocopheryl succinate or tocopheryl phosphate): Since all tocopherols primarily function as antioxidants, their stability is inherently very poor. Therefore, tocopherols are chemically altered to form more stabilized molecules called esters. Once the esterified Vitamin E is consumed, enzymes in the small intestine remove the ester from the tocopherol molecule and the tocopherol is absorbed into the body. Vitamin E esters are much more stable in supplements that contain minerals, such as iron and copper. Natural Tocopherol-Tocotrienol Combinations: Supplements containing tocopherols and tocotrienols are mainly obtained from natural sources, such as palm, coconut or rice bran oil. They may contain various quantities of tocopherol molecules (alpha, beta, gamma, delta) and tocotrienol molecules (alpha, beta, gamma, delta). Since natural sources may vary, the quantities of the tocopherols and tocotrienols may also vary. This combination is not entirely ideal, since it has also been shown that alpha-tocopherol inhibits the absorption of tocotrienols. Natural Mixed Tocopherols (Mixture of alpha-, beta-, gamma- and delta-tocopherols):Natural Mixed-tocopherols are isolated, purified and concentrated from plant-source oils with no further processing to convert the non-alpha tocopherols to alpha-tocopherol. Since the alpha-form is generally recognized to provide the major Vitamin E activity, mixed tocopherols are typically converted to alpha-tocopherol. This neglects the value of gamma and delta tocopherol. UNIQUE E: This all-natural, pure mixed-tocopherol concentrate consists of a proprietary mixture of the four tocopherols (alpha, beta, gamma, and delta) as obtained from plant-source oils. It is totally devoid of fillers, allergens, colorants, additives, soy protein, wheat or gluten. This concentrated formula provides all the benefits of the complete spectrum of the four tocopherols typically found in food. Each capsule contains a consistent amount of the four tocopherol molecules. Recent research has shown that gamma and delta tocopherol have other functions that are unique and different from alpha-tocopherol. Thus, current scientific literature would suggest that the consumption of a significant amount of all four Vitamin E isomers is of greater benefit than simply consuming alpha-tocopherol. Gamma tocopherol has been established as especially vital for antioxidant support as well as for immune system support and to promote a balanced inflammation response. UNIQUE E is a proprietary formula that has been specifically designed to provide optimum assimilation and maximum health benefits. We adhere to strict quality control measures, including third party independent assay, to ensure our products are made according to our strict, proprietary formula. A.C. Grace has been providing UNIQUE E for fifty years! The product has proven itself over that many years and has never changed. Comparison of Tocotrienols and TocopherolsUntil recently, there had not been much discussion of the tocotrienol portion of the vitamin E family. This is due to several factors, but the most significant is the emphasis of alpha tocopherol at the expense of the rest of the vitamin E complex. Current research suggests that tocotrienols serve as antioxidants and also have other important non-antioxidant functions such as helping to maintain healthy cholesterol levels, promoting healthy cellular growth and function, and helping regulate cell adhesion. All of these promising benefits have caused some to ask whether the tocotrienols are more important than the tocopherols. Others have insisted that vitamin E supplements should consist of both the tocopherols and tocotrienols in order to provide vitamin E "as found in nature." The following examines the implications of tocotrienol research to date. Vitamin E is a family of eight molecular structures that consist of a chromanol "head" and side-chain "tail." Of these eight molecules, there are four tocopherol isomers and four tocotrienol isomers. While the chromanol "heads" of the respective alpha, beta, gamma, and delta tocopherols and tocotrienols are the same, they differ in their hydrocarbon "tails." Tocopherols have phytyl side chains attached to their chromanol nuclei. Tocotrienols have tails that are unsaturated and form an isoprenoid chain. So, within the vitamin E family are two distinguished lines of tocols that share common chromanol "heads," (which is why tocopherols and tocotrienols are both designated by the Greek a, b, g , and d letters) yet have different "tails." Thus the vitamin E family actually consists of two sub-complexes, one tocopherol and one tocotrienol, both of which have distinct bio-activity and function. Natural vs. Synthetic"Natural Vitamin E supplements outperform synthetic forms, according to a VERIS Research Summary. Results of recent studies suggest that natural Vitamin E is more bioavailable and is retained in body tissues significantly longer than synthetic Vitamin E. These studies show that previously accepted differences were underestimated and that the bioavailability of natural Vitamin E is about twice that of synthetic Vitamin E compounds." (Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients, July 1999, p. 100) Natural Vitamin E is derived from vegetable oils, primarily soybean oil. Synthetic Vitamin E is produced from petrochemicals. A key difference scientists are examining is the structure of the compounds. Natural Vitamin E is a single stereoisomer. Synthetic E is a mixture of eight stereoisomers, only one of which is the same as natural Vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol). In synthetic Vitamin E, seven of the stereoisomers have different molecular configurations and lower biological activities when compared to natural Vitamin E. That means, the synthetic versions are less capable at providing health benefits in the body. Consumers will find natural Vitamin E by looking on the product's list of ingredients: Natural = d alpha-tocopherolSynthetic = dl alpha-tocopheryl NOTE: the differences are easy when you know what to look for. When looking for a NATURAL form of Vitamin E, always select one that is "d" (not "dl") and the word tocopherol ends with "ol" (not "yl"). Research has shown that the human body strongly discriminates between natural and synthetic Vitamin E. One researcher who has studied this effect believes anyone taking Vitamin E should be taking the natural form. "Our studies suggest without question that natural Vitamin E delivers at least twice the impact as synthetic E," said Robert Acuff, PhD, Professor and Director, Center for Nutrition Research at East Tennessee State University. The natural form of Vitamin E is clearly the one our bodies were designed to use. Another study by Maret Traber, Associate Professor at the Linus Pauling Institute, Oregon State University, found that the body seems to discriminate between the two forms, favoring retention of the natural form of Vitamin E for use within the body and excreting the synthetic form. The natural form of Vitamin E, such as our UNIQUE E, is simply a better product than the synthetic forms. About A.C. GraceThe A.C. Grace Company was founded in 1962 by Roy Erickson, who after experiencing cardiovascular health challenges, devised an all natural form of Vitamin E to help himself feel his best. Roy experienced significant whole health effects from this superior product, and this led to selling it to friends and then health professionals and the vitamin/supplement retail industry. Roy lived until he was 93 years old and ran the company until his death in 2002. The company, located in Big Sandy, Texas and managed by the next generation of family, continues to manufacture and provide exactly the same product Roy invented many years ago under the name UNIQUE E. A.C. Grace believes their product is the one of the highest, if not the highest, quality Vitamin E supplements on the market. Their product is the natural form of Vitamin E, not the synthetic form found in many stores today. Their product contains no additives or fillers. It is extracted from soybeans, but it contains no soy oil. It is simply a pure Vitamin E product. A.C. Grace's mission is to consistently provide their customers with products that show promising benefits to the body when taken correctly, in the correct dosage, and for the right reasons.


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The Schools to Watch program recognizes schools that address the needs of middle-level learners and engage in outstanding educational practices that can be replicated. The National Forum to Accelerate Middle Grades Reform (National Forum) provides oversight to the nationwide Schools to Watch designation process, now active in 19 states.
NJEA committed $4,500 to the program that was matched by NJAMLE and the National Forum. In previous years the New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE) supported the program.
"The Schools to Watch program in New Jersey shines a light on the great work that our members are doing to make our middle schools stand out as among the best schools in the nation," said NJEA Vice President Wendell Steinhauer. "When teachers, educational support professionals, and administrators work in a spirit of true collaboration, great things happen for our students."
Joseph Pizzo, and New Jersey Schools to Watch Core Team member thanked Steinhauer for the association's support. Pizzo has been a seventh-grade English teacher at Black River Middle School in Chester, Morris County, for 38 years.
"I'm grateful for NJEA's continuous efforts to support outstanding middle school programs throughout the state," he said. Pizzo also serves on the NJAMLE Executive Board and as a liaison between NJEA and the New Jersey Council of Teachers of English.
The National Forum developed the criteria, rubric, and selection process for Schools to Watch in 1999. The Association of Middle Level Education, the National Association of Secondary School Principals, the National Association of Elementary School Principals, and Learning Forward (formerly the National Staff Development Council) were active partners in rubric development.
The program has since expanded to 19 states.
In 2005 Kean University, supported by a U.S. Department of Education grant, collaborated with the NJDOE to establish a Schools to Watch Program here. Several partners were recruited, including NJAMLE and NJEA, through its Professional Development and Instructional Issues Division. Gradually, the NJDOE became the primary sponsor of the initiative. This year, however, the NJDOE determined that it would no longer help fund the program.
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Pizzo, charged to find partners to re-invigorate the program, called upon the association.
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Parents of students at Piedmont High School in Piedmont, California, received a letter from the principal last week alerting them to the existence of an extracurricular game among male varsity athletes involving the receipt of "score points" in exchange for sexual activities with female students.
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Female students (unbeknownst to most of them) are drafted as part of the league...Male students earn points for documented engagement in sexual activities with female students.
A date rape prevention assembly brought the existence of the league to light, and a subsequent investigation revealed that it had been around for at least five years.
"Over the past five to six years such a league has existed in one form or another as part of bonding for some varsity teams during their seasons of sport," Kitchens told parents. "Participation often involved pressure/manipulation by older students that included alcohol to impair judgment/control and social demands to be popular."
Superintendent Constance Hubbard told ABC7 News the purpose of the letter was to keep parents abreast "of things that were going in their kids' lives."
No disciplinary action is expected as the "league" was organized off-campus, but the school does plan to hold a series of assemblies to raise awareness and discuss prevention.


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|Lecture 1
|Gain hands-on practice in all the key areas of UX — from interviewing your users through to prototyping and usability testing your designs.
|Lecture 2
Let's get to know each other.
|Lecture 3
Let me tell you about the objectives of the training and what it is that we're going to be covering.
|Lecture 4
This pack contains:
|Lecture 5
|Lecture 6
Here are two resources for the course that you need to know about.
|Lecture 7
|Before we do a deep dive into user experience, let's cover the reasons why user experience matters so much at the moment.
|Lecture 8
This is a fun design activity to get us started.
|Lecture 9
This video demonstrates the products that I want you to evalaute.
|Lecture 10
Let's look at some user research for these products.
|Lecture 11
This activity teaches us that it's not about the product. It's about the experience of using the product.
|Lecture 12
In this lecture, we review 6 key principles of user experience.
|Lecture 13
Did you know that there was an international standard of usability and user experience? Well, you do now.
|Lecture 14
Here is what we'll be covering in the course in 5 minutes.
|Quiz 1
Guiding Principles
|5 questions
|Section 2: Going where the action is: Understanding users in context
|Lecture 15
|This lecture explains why context is so crucial to designing a good user experience. We also review why, if you're a member of a design team, you are not representative of the target audience.
|Lecture 16
If we asked 50 people this question: "What is a browser?", how many people do you think would give us a correct answer? Does this video challenge your views of how "ordinary" people think about technology?
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|Lecture 17
|The first rule of finding out what people want is: Don't ask people what they want.
|Lecture 18
There are many ways of getting an understanding of your users' context. Here we cover one of the more useful techniques: contextual inquiry. This technique lets you penetrate deep into the world of your users and discover what it is that they actually want to do with your system.
|Lecture 19
Imagine you work for a company developing a new user interface for a home entertainment system.
You're going to visit a customer to see how the existing system is used.
After you've watched the video, list 5 things you learnt from observing the user in context.
|Lecture 20
Here are my observations.
|Lecture 21
Great field researchers demonstrate 5 key behaviours. Let's review each of those behaviours in turn.
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|Lecture 22
|The second habit I see in great user researchers is they agree the focus of the field visit long before they leave the office.
|Lecture 23
|The next habit I see in great user researchers is that they record the sessions.
|Lecture 24
|The next habit I see in great user researchers is that they take great notes.
|Lecture 25
|One final habit I see in great user researchers is that they know how to analyse the data.
|Lecture 26
The user journey map is just one way you can present your results. Let's quickly look at some other methods.
|Lecture 27
There are some situations where contextual inquiry might be problematic, so here I talk about some other methods. These aren't replacements for contextual inquiry, but if you can't do anything, you can at least do these.
|Lecture 28
Three myths about this kind of user research that you might hear.
|Quiz 2
User research
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|Section 3: How to get niche quick
|Lecture 29
|Real users aren't elastic. They've got specific requirements based on their goals, capabilities and contexts.
|Lecture 30
Does your web site suffer from 'elastic user' syndrome, where you give equal value to every possible user doing every possible task? In this lecture, I explain why "Something for Everybody" means "Everything for Nobody".
|Lecture 31
|Let's look at a case study where we are designing a mobile app aimed at walkers (hikers). How would we go about developing personas for this application?
|Lecture 32
Let's review how we might analyse the data from this field visit.
|Lecture 33
There are four main benefits of personas:
|Lecture 34
|I wanted to turn now to look at some of the pitfalls to avoid when we're developing personas.
|Lecture 35
Let's look at some ways that I've seen personas publicised within organisations, so that you can decide which approach would work well for you and your organisation.
|Lecture 36
Here's a checklist you can use to decide whether or not your persona cuts the mustard. I've used the acronym PERSONA to remind you about the things that you should look out for.
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Illustrating the context of use
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|Section 4: UX Design Activities - Build your UX Portfolio
|Lecture 37
|Practice your user research and design skills by completing five real-world sample projects. As you work through each project, you'll master the full range of research and design activities that user experience professionals carry out day-to-day.
|Lecture 38
|Find my pet: a product that allows people to track down wayward pets who have got lost.
|Lecture 39
|The Citizen Journalist: a system that will allow ordinary people to film events, take photographs, write a story and create a crowdsourced, online newspaper.
|Lecture 40
|The Digital Postcard, an app that will allow users to create and send their own postcard, either by using a photograph they have taken on their phone, or by selecting a professionally taken image of a local beauty spot.
|Lecture 41
Gift Giver, a gift recommendation system based on an extremely accurate product recommendation technology.
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|Tomorrow's shopping cart: a device that lets customers find any product in a supermarket.
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Speak with a minimum of 5 users to find out:
Make sure you actually observe people, don't just interview them.
Don't overthink this activity. Just get out and speak to some users!
|Lecture 44
|What different groups of users did you identify? Use the template in your workbook to identify the groups.
|Lecture 45
To do this activity, you'll need a sheet of flip chart paper, some Sharpies and a pack of sticky notes. You will create a persona for ONE of your user groups that will include:
|Lecture 46
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Compare your work with what other students have done on these same projects.
|Section 5: What can a London bus teach us about usability?
|Lecture 47
A common design mistake is to assume the design should always be made as flexible as possible. Flexibility has costs in terms of decreased efficiency, added complexity, increased time, and money for development. A focus on users tasks can help us enormously.
|Lecture 48
|Thinking in terms of the user's need helps us design much better user interfaces because they prevent us from becoming too implementation focused in our thinking.
|Lecture 49
|Flexible designs are, by definition, more complex that inflexible designs. And as a result they are generally more difficult to use. So, for example, a Swiss army knife has many tools that increase its flexibility, but these tools are less usable and less efficient than a specialised device that just has the individual tool.
|Lecture 50
So how do you go about identifying red routes? One approach is to identify the frequent and critical tasks.
|Lecture 51
In 5 minutes, brainstorm 5 red routes for ONE of the following:
|Lecture 52
|14 pages
|Compare your work with what other students have done on these same projects.
|Lecture 53
|People approach red routes differently based on the context of use. So we need to embed some of the user's context into the red route. We do this by creating user stories.
|Lecture 54
How do you test a user story to see if it's any good? Here are four questions you can ask of your user story.
|Lecture 55
|13 pages
|Compare your work with what other students have done on these same projects.
|Quiz 4
Red routes and user stories
|5 questions
|Section 6: Beyond "easy to use": Measuring the user experience
|Lecture 56
How does your company measure the success of its products and services? Are product teams judged on how easy their products are to use or on how fast the products are completed? You might not think that user experience can be measured, but it can. Here's how.
|Lecture 57
I want to distinguish between two kinds of hypothesis. The first is the "problem hypothesis". It's our assumption about the user need. We need to check this.
The second is the "solution hypothesis". This is our design that we think meets the user need. We need to check this too. Let's begin with the problem hypothesis.
|Lecture 58
Usability: The extent to which a product can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction in a specified context of use.
|Lecture 59
The ISO definition of usability gives us three measures that we can use to assess the usability of our web site. In this lecture we show how to unpack the definition of usability and apply it to usability measurement.
|Lecture 60
Our second component of usability is efficiency. Let's look at how we can measure efficiency.
|Lecture 61
|The third component of usability is satisfaction. How do you measure user satisfaction?
|Lecture 62
|Let me show you a real example from a project that I worked on where we can put our usability measures together and create a dashboard that we can use to measure progress
|Quiz 5
Measuring usability
|5 questions
|Section 7: Site structure and navigation: Finding is the new doing
|Lecture 63
|Let me introduce you to a diagram that's been very influential in the field of user experience. It was created by Jesse James Garrett.
|Lecture 64
|In this lecture, we introduce the topic of Information Architecture (IA) and show that it is about SMOLF-ing information: structuring, managing, organising, labeling and finding information.
|Lecture 65
|Richard Saul Wurman wrote a book called "Information Anxiety". In it, he introduced the idea of the 5 hatracks: the 5 ways that you can organise any kind of information: location, alphabet, time, category or hierarchy. Let's look at how to use each of these organisational schemes.
|Lecture 66
|BBC iPlayer serves as an interesting case study because they use of all these organisational schemes in their interface.
|Lecture 67
The hardest kind of information to organise is category information as you don't know the categories that people use. In this case, card sorting is the technique to use. In this lecture, we describe how to run a card sort.
|Lecture 68
This lecture shows a screencast of an online card sort in progress, so you can see how it works.
|Lecture 69
How do you analyse the data from a card sort?
|Lecture 70
|You analyse card sort data with agglomerative monothetic clustering. It sounds complicated, but conceptually it's quite straightforward. In this lecture, we describe this analysis method.
|Lecture 71
|Faceted navigation is a way to improve the findability of information in many systems, particularly those with large collections of products or documents.
|Lecture 72
|Trigger words are the words and phrases that make people click on links. Information architecture is also about labelling: the labels that we use for things in our interface.
|Quiz 6
Information Architecture
|5 questions
|Section 8: Interaction design: Simple rules for designing simple screens
|Lecture 73
|If you understand your users' mental models, you'll find it much easier to organise and structure information in a way that makes sense to them. But what do we mean by "mental models" and how can using metaphors in our design help and hinder?
|Lecture 74
|Let me interview you so I can uncover your mental model of the way an ATM machine works.
|Lecture 75
|With iOS7 and beyond, Apple responded to the criticism of skeuomorphic design by redesigning the interface using a more flat aesthetic. The argument is that digital constructs have, in many cases, become more culturally relevant than analog ones, so people may actually learn them more quickly.
|Lecture 76
You'd know a spreadsheet anywhere — formula bar at the top, grid below — no matter what company made it. Or an e-mail program, a word processor or a Web browser. I'm going to call these things "idioms" or if you prefer "design patterns".
|Lecture 77
Progressive disclosure is a fundamental principle of interaction design that allows you to simplify your user interface. It exploits a basic law of psychology known as Hick's Law, but I like to think of it as a reverse strip tease. Here's why.
|Lecture 78
Basic user interface controls like radio buttons, checkboxes, scrollbars etc — are the building blocks of a design's "language". Here's how to use these controls correctly.
|Lecture 79
One of the problems with small controls is that they fall foul of Fitts' Law. According to Fitts' law (named after the psychologist Paul M Fitts), the time required to rapidly move to a target is a function of the distance to and the size of the target.
|Lecture 80
Why is Afghanistan always top in a country drop down menu?
|Lecture 81
People have certain expectations about where objects will be in an interface. Let's look at web pages as an example.
|Quiz 7
Interaction Design
|5 questions
|Lecture 82
Visual design is often dismissed as eye candy. In fact, we can use four key principles of visual design to create more usable interfaces. These principles are Contrast, Repetition, Alignment and Proximity.
|Lecture 83
|The whole point of the alignment principle is that nothing in your design should look as if it were placed there randomly. Every element should be connected visually via an invisible line.
|Lecture 84
|The principle of repetition simply means reusing the same or similar elements throughout your design. The principle of proximity is about moving things closer or farther apart to achieve a more organised look.
|Lecture 85
|In this lecture, I redesign a form using these principles of visual design. You'll get a lot more from this lecture if you make an attempt at fixing the form yourself before you view my changes.
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I've provided usability support to top brands like HP, Microsoft, Whirlpool, Orange, Skype, eBay and Yahoo! and I've also consulted with public sector organisations like The Greater London Authority, Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, UK Government and the World Health Organization.
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