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No. 24 Kentucky to Face Mississippi State, Ole Miss
March 13, 2014
LEXINGTON, Ky. - The No. 24 University of Kentucky women's tennis team will face two ranked opponents this weekend, traveling to Starkville, Miss., Friday, March 14 to take on No. 61 Mississippi State and Oxford, Miss., Sunday, March 16 to face off with No. 38 Ole Miss. Kentucky's matchup with Mississippi State will begin at 3 p.m. ET and at 12 p.m. ET against Ole Miss.
The Bulldogs (9-5, 1-3 SEC) enter Friday's matchup coming off of a 4-3 win against the University of Tennessee. Their win over the Volunteers ended a three-game lose streak. Kentucky leads the series 34-5 and blanked the Bulldogs, 7-0, when the Wildcats hosted them in Lexington last season.
Kentucky will get a chance to right some wrongs against the Rebels (7-4) when they play on Sunday. Kentucky dropped a tough match against Ole Miss last season at home. Ole Miss started its dual match season boasting a 6-1 record, but is 1-3 in conference play. They will face Vanderbilt before their matchup with Kentucky on Sunday.
Live stats for Mississippi State will be available at www.HailState.com. Follow Kentucky women's tennis on Twitter and Instagram @UKWomensTennis and like the Kentucky Women's Tennis page on Facebook.


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Donald A. Norman
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Don Norman is the author of numerous books including "Emotional Design," and more recently, "Living with Complexity." He is co-founder of the Nielsen Norman group, a professor at KAIST (in Korea), and IDEO fellow, and a design theorist, studying the fundamentals of modern design.
Donald A. Norman has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from MIT and a Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. He also holds a honorary degree from the University of Padua, Italy. He has been a professor of Computer Science (at Northwestern University), Psychology and Cognitive Science (at University of California, San Diego). He has also worked for Apple Computer at Apple's Advanced Technology Group and for Hewlett-Packard. He now collaborates with Jakob Nielsen and Bruce "Tog" Tognazzini in the Nielsen Norman Group
Recently Norman received the the 2006 recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science.
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Norman, Donald A. (2010): Technology first, needs last: the research-product gulf. In Interactions, 17 (2) pp. 38-42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1699775.1699784
Norman, Donald A. (2010): The transmedia design challenge: technology that is pleasurable and satisfying. In Interactions, 17 (1) pp. 12-15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1649475.1649478
Norman, Donald A. (2010): The research-practice gap: the need for translational developers. In Interactions, 17 (4) pp. 9-12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1806491.1806494
Norman, Donald A., Nielsen, Jakob (2010): Gestural interfaces: a step backward in usability. In Interactions, 17 (5) pp. 46-49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1836216.1836228
Norman, Donald A. (2010): Natural user interfaces are not natural. In Interactions, 17 (3) pp. 6-10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1744161.1744163
Norman, Donald A. (2009): When security gets in the way. In Interactions, 16 (6) pp. 60-63. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1620693.1620708
Norman, Donald A. (2009): Systems thinking: a product is more than the product. In Interactions, 16 (5) pp. 52-54. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1572626.1572637
Norman, Donald A. (2009): Designing the infrastructure. In Interactions, 16 (4) pp. 66-69. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1551986.1552000
Norman, Donald A. (2009): Compliance and tolerance. In Interactions, 16 (3) pp. 61-65. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1516016.1516030
Norman, Donald A. (2009): Memory is more important than actuality. In Interactions, 16 (2) pp. 24-26. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1487632.1487638
Norman, Donald A. (2009): People are from earth, machines are from outer space. In Interactions, 16 (1) pp. 39-41. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1456202.1456212
Norman, Donald A. (2008): A fetish for numbers. In Interactions, 15 (2) pp. 14-15. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1340961.1340965
Norman, Donald A. (2008): Filling much-needed holes. In Interactions, 15 (1) pp. 70-71. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1330526.1330549
Norman, Donald A. (2008): Simplicity is not the answer. In Interactions, 15 (5) pp. 45-46. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1390085.1390094
Norman, Donald A. (2008): Waiting: a necessary part of life. In Interactions, 15 (3) pp. 36-37. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1353782.1353790
Norman, Donald A. (2008): Workarounds and hacks: the leading edge of innovation. In Interactions, 15 (4) pp. 47-48. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1374489.1374500
Norman, Donald A. (2008): Signifiers, not affordances. In Interactions, 15 (6) pp. 18-19. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1409040.1409044
Norman, Donald A. (2007): Gavriel Salvendy (Ed.): Handbook of human factors and ergonomics (3rd edn.). In Universal Access in the Information Society, 5 (4) pp. 421. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10209-007-0068-x
Norman, Donald A. (2007): There\'s an automobile in HCI\'s future: an update. In Interactions, 14 (6) pp. 50-51. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1300655.1300683
Norman, Donald A. (2007): The next UI breakthrough, part 2: physicality. In Interactions, 14 (4) pp. 46-47. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1273961.1273986
Norman, Donald A. (2007): The next UI breakthrough: command lines. In Interactions, 14 (3) pp. 44-45. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1242421.1242449
Norman, Donald A. (2007): Three challenges for design. In Interactions, 14 (1) pp. 46-47. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1189976.1190002
Norman, Donald A. (2007): A Review of: \"Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics\" by Salvendy, G.. In International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 23 (1) pp. 189-190. http://www.leaonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10447310701360813
Norman, Donald A. (2007): Simplicity is highly overrated. In Interactions, 14 (2) pp. 40-41. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1229863.1229885
Norman, Donald A. (2006): Logic versus usage: the case for activity-centered design. In Interactions, 13 (6) pp. 45-ff.
Norman, Donald A. (2006): Emotionally centered design. In Interactions, 13 (3) pp. 53-ff.
Norman, Donald A. (2006): Words matter. talk about people: not customers, not consumers, not users. In Interactions, 13 (5) pp. 49-63.
Norman, Donald A. (2006): Why doing user observations first is wrong. In Interactions, 13 (4) pp. 50-ff.
Norman, Donald A. (2006): Interaction design is still an art form.: ergonomics is real engineering. In Interactions, 13 (1) pp. 45-60.
Norman, Donald A. (2006): Trapped in a Lufthansa airline seat. In Interactions, 13 (2) pp. 41-ff.
Norman, Donald A. (2005): There\'s an automobile in HCI\'s future. In Interactions, 12 (6) pp. 45-ff.
Norman, Donald A. (2005): Robots in the home: what might they do?. In Interactions, 12 (2) pp. 65.
Norman, Donald A. (2005): Whose profession is this?: everybody\'s, nobody\'s. In Interactions, 12 (3) pp. 51.
Norman, Donald A. (2005): Human-centered design considered harmful. In Interactions, 12 (4) pp. 14-19.
Norman, Donald A. (2005): Do companies fail because their technology is unusable?. In Interactions, 12 (4) pp. 69.
Norman, Donald A. (2005): To school or not to school?. In Interactions, 12 (5) pp. 51.
Norman, Donald A. (2004): Introduction to This Special Section on Beauty, Goodness, and Usability. In Human-Computer Interaction, 19 (4) pp. 311-318. http://www.leaonline.com/doi/abs/10.1207/s15327051hci1904_1
Norman, Donald A. (2002): Beyond the computer industry. In Communications of the ACM, 45 (7) pp. 120. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/514236.514269
Norman, Donald A. (2002): Home Theater: Not Ready for Prime Time. In IEEE Computer, 35 (6) pp. 100-102. http://csdl.computer.org/comp/mags/co/2002/06/r6100abs.htm
Norman, Donald A. (2002): Complexity versus difficulty: where should the intelligence be?. In: Gil, Yolanda, Leake, David (eds.) International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces 2002 January 13-16, 2002, San Francisco, California, USA. pp. 4. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/502716.502720
Norman, Donald A. (2002): Emotion & design: attractive things work better. In Interactions, 9 (4) pp. 36-42.
Norman, Donald A. (2001): Cyborgs. In Communications of the ACM, 44 (3) pp. 36-37. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/365181.365185
Norman, Donald A. (1999): Affordances, Conventions, and Design. In Interactions, 6 (3) pp. 38-41.
Norman, Donald A., Spohrer, James C. (1996): Learner-Centered Education (Introduction to the Special Section). In Communications of the ACM, 39 (4) pp. 24-27.
Zhang, Jiajie, Norman, Donald A. (1994): Representations in Distributed Cognitive Tasks. In Cognitive Science, 18 (1) pp. 87-122.
Norman, Donald A. (1994): How Might People Interact with Agents. In Communications of the ACM, 37 (7) pp. 68-71.
Zhang, Jiajie, Norman, Donald A. (1994): Representations in Distributed Cognitive Tasks. In Cognitive Science, 18 (0) pp. 87-122.
Norman, Donald A. (1994): Trends in the Computer Industry: Life-Long Subscriptions, Magical Cures, and Profits Along. In: Szekely, Pedro (eds.) Proceedings of the 7th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology November 02 - 04, 1994, Marina del Rey, California, United States. pp. 193. http://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/uist/192426/p193-norman/p193-norman.pdf
Norman, Donald A. (1993): Cognition in the Head and in the World: An Introduction to the Special Issue on Situated A. In Cognitive Science, 17 (1) pp. 1-6.
Marcus, Aaron, Norman, Donald A., Rucker, Rudy, Sterling, Bruce, Vinge, Vernor (1992): Sci-Fi at CHI: Cyberpunk Novelists Predict Future User Interfaces. In: Bauersfeld, Penny, Bennett, John, Lynch, Gene (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 92 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference June 3-7, 1992, Monterey, California. pp. 435-437. http://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/chi/142750/p435-marcus/p435-marcus.pdf
Norman, Donald A. (1991): Collaborative Computing: Collaboration First, Computing Second. In Communications of the ACM, 34 (12) pp. 88-90.
Hutchins, Edwin, Hollan, James D., Norman, Donald A. (1985): Direct Manipulation Interfaces. In Human-Computer Interaction, 1 (4) pp. 311-338.
Draper, Steven, Norman, Donald A. (1984): Software engineering for user interfaces. In: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Engineering , 1984, Silver Spring, MD. pp. 214-220.
Norman, Donald A. (1984): Stages and Levels in Human-Machine Interaction. In International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 21 (4) pp. 365-375.
Norman, Donald A. (1984): Four Stages of User Activities. In: Shackel, Brian (eds.) INTERACT 84 - 1st IFIP International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction September 4-7, 1984, London, UK. pp. 507-511.
Norman, Donald A. (1983): Design Rules Based on Analyses of Human Error. In Communications of the ACM, 26 (4) pp. 254-258.
Norman, Donald A. (1983): Design Principles for Human-Computer Interfaces. In: Smith, Raoul N., Pew, Richard W., Janda, Ann (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 83 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conferenc December 12-15, 1983, Boston, Massachusetts, United States. pp. 1-10.
Norman, Donald A. (1982): Steps Toward a Cognitive Engineering: Design Rules Based on Analyses of Human Error. In: Nichols, Jean A., Schneider, Michael L. (eds.) Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems March 15-17, 1982, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States. pp. 378-382.
Norman, Donald A., Shallice, Tim (1980). Attention to action: Willed and automatic control of behaviour. Centre for Human Informati. Centre for Human Information Processing, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
Norman, Donald A. (1980): Twelve Issues for Cognitive Science. In Cognitive Science, 4 (0) pp. 1-32.
Nielsen, Jakob, Norman, Donald A. (-0001). List of 'Heuristic Evaluation' articles from the Nielsen/Norman Group. Retrieved 2013-09-02 00:00:00 from http://www.nngroup.com/topic/heuristic-evaluation/
Norman, Donald A. (-0001). Human-Centred Design Considered Harmful. Retrieved 2014-01-19 00:00:00 from http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/human-centered_desig.html
Norman, Donald A. (-0001). Logic Versus Usage: The Case for Activity-Centred Design. Retrieved 2014-01-19 00:00:00 from http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/logic_versus_usage_.html
Norman, Donald A. (1993): Things That Make Us Smart, Addison-Wesley,
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11.10 Commentary by Donald A. Norman
It is clear that our understanding of the nature of interaction has been evolving in a practical sense, in terms of our scientific understanding, and in terms of the underlying philosophy. Dag Svanaes has done an excellent job of describing the changes in philosophical approaches to the study of interaction that have occurred in the last few decades. But the review feels as if it stopped at the end of the 20th century, but today we are well into the 21st century. So the changes described in the article have continued: we are still evolving our understanding, still making progress.
From my point of view, the study of interaction is far ranging, including all the ways by which we interact with the environment. As Svanaes points out, interaction means the interplay between the state of the environment and the actions of agents (which are usually people), where the actions change the state of the world. Interaction can be accidental or purposeful, goal-directed or deliberately non-intentional.
Although the definition provided by Svanaes is appropriately broad, the chapter and its examples are surprisingly limited to discussions of the way by which individuals interact with information systems. The chapter primarily reflects single individuals interacting with computational systems. Pity: interaction is far broader. Interaction designers must deal with groups of people, sometimes separated by time and or distance, with non-computational objects and with the natural world. Designers who are designing services, rules, and procedures must be concerned with how systems and services interact with employees, technical staff, and of course customers and others who make use of the services. Some interaction designers have to be concerned with interactions among machines. The principles of interaction design are far more important to be limited to single individuals interacting with information systems and displays.
Interaction design is critically important for lots of non-computer systems. Thus, skis are a tool for interaction, as are baseball and cricket bats, the rules of engagement of soccer (football), and the way by which we steer and control our automobiles. Interaction designers must work with a wide variety of technologies, not just those of information and computer systems.
Our philosophical basis for the understanding of interaction has been evolving rather dramatically. As Svanaes points out, in the early days of personal computers, which is where interaction design started, we took a strict, internal-processing, information processing point of view to describe the system and to develop rules for designers. This approach has been seminal in teaching us about affordances (and what I now call "signifiers"), conceptual models, and the role of feedback, appropriate mapping, and all the many other formal, theoretical principles that have resulted from these studies. However, this approach is also very narrow, limiting, and now widely considered either to be too restrictive or, by some, simply wrong.
Today, our understanding of human cognition is undergoing major changes. We no longer look at pure information processing. Instead, we know that emotion and cognition interact in fundamental ways, that the entire human body interacts with the environment, and that as a result we must come to understand the whole system. It is not enough to use limited input and output mechanism. Hence, the development of mobile systems that are location, position, and orientation sensitive, where the entire body is involved, where the gestures, posture, and movements of the entire body are taken as inputs to our systems and where the results are not simply changes in some image on a screen, but changes that envelop the body, surrounding it with sights, sounds, and feelings, exciting the entire panoply of sensory systems. Haptics and gestures are missing from this article as are simulators that move in space to engage the proprioceptive systems. Three-dimensional sound is as important as three-dimensional sight. Haptics is increasingly important.
The review of affordances in the article needs to be expanded. Affordances are about possibilities: an affordance is a relationship between a person and the environment. But it is not affordances that are critical to interaction, it is our perception of those affordances. After all, an affordance that is not known about might as well not exist. To make this distinction more clear, in my recent work I call the perceptual signal of an affordance a "signifier." (D. A. Norman, 2011: Living with Complexity. MIT Press.) Signifiers are the clues for people about possible actions, hence possible interactions.
I don't know where Svanaes got the notion that the popular view of information processing in HCI is that it "sees perception as sense data being passively received by the brain." (In his section on Merleau-Ponty). The notion that perception is an active, constructive process is an old one in psychological theories and it is certainly dominant today. We don't follow Merleau-Ponty: we follow where the data have taken us. But Gibson, for example, was a strong advocate of the active nature of exception, and that was 50 years ago.
The view of HCI and of cognitive science held by Svanaes seems rooted in the last century.
Today, we study interaction as a fundamental property of human and social behavior, rooted in the entire body, where the person – or people – is inside a sensory field that is rich in information. All the senses are involved, not just the visual sense that is the focus of this chapter: haptics, proprioception, smell, sight, and sound. That is why the development of rich sensors and novel haptics are so encouraging. This is why we have surround sound, motor and solenoid-driven hairs and other objects to grasp, fondle, and manipulate. This is why medical simulators involve the entire body, allowing the novice surgeon to put the hand inside the simulated body, feeling the beating heart, the throbbing veins, and the different pressures and feelings associated with cutting through different layers of skin. Interaction today is a rich, vibrant filed.
Some of these topics are still in their infancy, so the definitive articles within this Encyclopaedia will have to wait a few years. I am disappointed, however, that these new developments and approaches are not discussed within the article – they aren't even hinted at. So stay tuned for further news.
Norman, Donald A. (1998): The Design of Everyday Things, MIT,
Norman, Donald A. (2010): Living with Complexity, The MIT Press,
Nielsen, Jakob, Norman, Donald A. (-0001). Nielsen/Norman Group Eyetracking Studies. Retrieved 2013-09-02 00:00:00 from Nielsen/Norman Group: http://www.nngroup.com/topic/eyetracking/
Ortony, Andrew, Norman, Donald A., Revelle, William (2005): The role of affect and proto-affect in effective functioning. In: "Who Needs Emotions?: The Brain Meets the Robot (Series in Affective Science)" Oxford University Press .
Norman, Donald A. (2004). Ad–Hoc personas & Empathic Focus. Retrieved 2004-01-01 00:00:00 from JND.org: http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/personas/empath.html
Norman, Donald A. (2004). Design as communication. Retrieved 2012-03-19 00:00:00 from JND.org: http://jnd.org/dn.mss/design_as_communication.html
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17.8 Commentary by Donald A. Norman
Anyone who cares about innovation must read Clay Christensen. Why? Let me start with some history.
I first encountered Christensen's works when I was at HP, in 1997. His first book was still in manuscript form and was widely circulated among a small group of enthusiastic managers. I got a copy and also fell in love. Most importantly, it precisely described the situation we were in at HP: we had several disruptive products in the pipeline, but the executives at HP were incredibly risk aversive, so they shunned them, or in some cases, required them to be so watered down and deprived of resources for proper development, that they became self-fulfilling prophecies for the executives: they were doomed to fail.
We even brought Christensen to HP. I remember well a talk he gave which covered our situation precisely. The reception by the audience was wonderful: the reception by HP executives was dismal. Afterwards a few of us gathered around him and told him that we were case studies of the kinds of failure he was describing.
When I wrote my book "The Invisible Computer," I used Christensen's work as a starting point for my discussion of the book's subtitle: "Why good products can fail." I modified his basic graph (see Figure 1 of Christensen's article) to reframe the point in design terms. The result, shown here, as my Figure 1, should be self-explanatory.
My book was about the way new products get adopted by the market. The standard view, that market acceptance starts with early adopters and then, slowly, brings in late adopters, was first formulated in 1962 by the Stanford professor Everett Rogers (1995) and then publicized in Geoffrey Moore's book "Crossing the Chasm" (Moore, 1995: alas, in this book Moore failed to give credit to Rogers, an omission he corrected in his next book). These two groups of adopters are very different. Indeed, Moore argued that they were separated by a chasm that could only be bridged by a better product and different marketing. I often describe the difference by stating that for early adopters, the technological promise suffices. For late adopters, human-centered design is essential, for these people don't want promises, they want easy to understand, effective, enjoyable products. I realized that this view of the product acceptance cycle could be combined with Christensen's insights of the relationship of technological capabilities to customer needs: Figure 2.
Since the publication of his first book, Christensen has continued to expand and elaborate upon his ideas of product disruption. In the original formulation of his model, including my adaption, the line that depicts "required performance" is horizontal. But as Christensen points out in his article for this encyclopedia, the level should differ for different people and different applications, and so in his later work he has reminded readers that the line is simply the average of the user base. More importantly, he points out that the line should not be horizontal. After all, with the passage of time and the acceptance of the technology, people's needs change, becoming more sophisticated and requiring more performance. At the least, therefore, the line must slope upwards, so that with the passage of time, more is required than in the early stages. Companies try to accommodate this changing need through the addition of extra features, more powerful processors, and more powerful everything, from processors, to motors, to whatever variables are of interest. These additions and minor modifications of Christensen's model do not change the basic thrust.
Christensen has also greatly strengthened this model by adding a new dimension: market. In the original model depicted by Figure 1, product performance is plotted against time. In this two-dimensional model, the only enhancements relevant are price and performance. Here, disruptive innovation always occurs at the low end of performance: new entrants to the market provide less performance, but a very low cost, thus satisfying the needs of people who do not require the ever-expanding capabilities of the main products.
The modified model recognizes that disruption can occur by changing the market population, serving people who would never would have even considered the product. Hence the third dimension: market. Want an example? Consider the first home computers, for example the Apple II. These were puny devices, no match in quality for the computers then in use in universities and companies. They offered no challenge to the makers of these machines, which meant their makers could safely ignore them. But individuals and students could never have purchased any of the large, complex, and expensive computers that were then being sold to industry. As a result, the Apple II opened up an entire new market of customers: individuals bought them and fell in love with their capabilities, even if they were very limited and of low quality. Eventually, these weak, puny home computers took over the home market while slowly expanding their capabilities. Eventually, they became today's powerful machines that now dominate in home, business, education, and entertainment.
I can attest to this issue, for when I first experienced the Apple II computer, I wondered why anyone would ever buy one. To me, it was a huge step backwards from the laboratory machine I was using all day at the University. A year or two later I surprised myself by buying one for my family, and years after that, I left the university and went to work for Apple. (A truly disruptive technology.) These early machines opened up an entire new marketplace for people who would never have thought of purchasing an IBM office computer or a DEC machine (Digital Equipment Corporation, later known as Digital), the two companies that then dominated the world of computers. Over time, of course, the home computer took over the world. DEC no longer exists. SUN no longer exists. Silicon Graphics no longer exists. And IBM has gotten out of the personal computer business.
So, the modified model has two ways by which disruptive influence can take place: low-end disruption or market disruption.
Note that it would be a mistake to equate these arguments with different kinds of innovative forces: these are not the same as incremental or radical disruption, as Christensen points out.
17.8.1 The theory is easy to understand: the practice is extremely difficult
It is really easy to understand the message that Christensen presents. It is really difficult to execute upon that message. Why?
Consider the story of Eastman Kodak. Long the world's leader in photography, it has faltered. What happened it was disrupted by the rise of digital photography. Why? Didn't they see it coming? No, they missed the early signs because their customers all wanted high quality films that delivered high quality images: digital could not even come close to competing.
Kodak made cameras, but its real income was derived from film and chemicals. Serious amateurs and professionals all preferred film. Radiologists explained at great length why only film X-Rays could deliver the depth of contrast and resolution they demanded. Professional photographers said the same thing. The customers drove the old industry.
Kodak knew about digital technology. Their researchers were working on it. They had produced one of the first digital cameras (a joint project with Apple). And they even hired as CEO someone from HP who was a champion of digital photography. But it was too late. Moreover the strength of the company was in analog technology, in imaging, in film, and in chemistry. Imaging was still relevant: the rest was much less relevant.
And the customers were correct. The early digital cameras were inferior. I am fond of giving talks about my failures. One of the first projects I watched when I joined Apple was a failure. It was an exciting, well-done product, but it failed in the marketplace. What was it? A digital camera (the joint project with Kodak). Why did it fail? See Figure 1. It was far to the left. Basically, products that are too early will fail. The customers aren't ready and the technology is not good enough. Our camera did not have a display screen (they were too expensive then), it took low-resolution photos, and it could only hold a few of them. It was difficult to transfer the photos to a PC and then difficult to work with them. Inexpensive ink-jet printers did not exist, so there was no way to print them in color.
Apple withdrew the camera from the market. Too bad: had Apple stuck to it, it would have been the leader in digital photography instead of the poor humble company that it is now. (Self protection: that last sentence is meant as a joke.)
When you are a historian looking back, it is easy to see the disruptive technology and wonder why the existing companies do not jump on them. When you are inside the companies, it is very difficult to see. Inside the company it looks like yet another one of those hair-brained research projects by those impractical researchers that is completely impractical.
I can give other examples from my own experience. I, and my co-workers at both Apple and HP, would sometimes identify new ideas and emerging products as disruptive forces that would change the industry, only to discover that they didn't, either because they were simply the wrong idea or, in the case of some things (such as the digital camera), it was simply premature. Another example would be or Apple's Newton, which, if you never heard of it, simply proves my point. Newton contained many of the innovations that today are commonplace in our smart phones, but it died after a very public, very humiliating life experience.
Similarly, my co-workers and I dismissed radical new products as irrelevant, such as my early dismissal of the personal computer or Apple's dismissal of the first browser (a long story, to be told some other time). The view of a company from the perspective of an academic scholar, looking back in time over the historical record is very different from the view of the company itself. For that matter, the view is from different from the executive suite than from that seen by the middle managers, or individual contributors. The view from the company's research laboratories is different once again. And finally, the view from the member of a small, just-funded startup company is yet again very different. The large company is biased not to see disruptions: the startup is biased not to see hurdles that might prevent them from causing an immense disruption.
Christensen's analyses are important and influential. I, myself, find them very compelling. But they are very difficult to apply. After reading Christensen's chapter I thought about each of the nine companies I am currently advising, attempting to see how the information in the chapter would be relevant. Some are small startups, but others are larger, including at least one of the largest companies in the world. In every single case I concluded that the company was different and didn't fit the mold. This was true even for the several companies that believe they are about to cause a major upheaval in product space. Yes, they might be disruptive, I concluded, but not in the sense described in these books for they were entering new territories where comparative products do not exist. Is my analysis correct? Only time will tell.
Although I use business cases in teaching students, these cases are written long after the event. They are written with the benefit of hindsight, for the writers know what actually happened. As a result, the case always depicts the events in a manner that is cleaner and more logical than the experience of those living the case. A case history invariably ends with a question: which option should the company select? Well, I have lived through the examples given in some of those cases. It didn't seem that clean and logical to us. At the time, we didn't recognize that we were at a decision point: we didn't recognize those nice, clearly stated options.
Analysis is easier than syntheses. Hindsight is easier than foresight. The view from inside the battle is different from that of the historian.
17.8.2 Comment on the Chapter
Note that the chapter presented here is an excerpt/adaptation from the Christensen's book "The Innovator's Solution," which was published in 2003. As a result, many of the examples are dated. This is especially the case for Table 17.2 of the Appendix, where the examples of companies are often quite radically out of date. I will leave the analysis of the today's relevance of the companies to the points of the article as an exercise for the reader. Just realize that the table was constructed over a decade ago, which in the case of some businesses is a lifetime. Indeed, given the rate at which technology businesses are absorbed by other companies or simply fail, it can be more than a lifetime.
17.8.3 References
About Don Norman
Don Norman wears many hats, including co-founder of the Nielsen Norman group, IDEO fellow, Visiting Professor at KAIST (South Korea), consultant, advisor, board member, and author. His latest book is Living with Complexity. He lives at jnd.org.
Norman, Donald A., Hutchins, Edwin, Hollan, James D., Lewis, Clayton H., Cypher, Allen, Hooper, Kristina, Laurel, Brenda K. (1986): User Centered System Design: New Perspectives on Human-Computer Interaction, Norman, Donald A., Hutchins, Edwin, Hollan, James D., Lewis, Clayton H., Cypher, Allen, Hooper, Kristina, Laurel, Brenda K. (eds.), ,
Norman, Donald A., Nielsen, Jakob (-0001). 10 Heuristics for User Interface Design. Retrieved 2013-08-31 00:00:00 from http://www.nngroup.com/articles/ten-usability-heuristics/
Norman, Donald A. (2007): The Design of Future Things, Basic Books,
Norman, Donald A. (1988): The Design of Everyday Things, Doubleday,
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3.8 Commentary by Donald A. Norman
Technologies migrate as they mature. In early childhood, their very existence is a marvel, even as people wonder what can be made of it. In early adolescence, they become more and more able to perform useful functions for us, and for a while, they are judged primarily on their ability to do more and more, better and better. Finally, in maturity, it is the quality of the experience provided by these technologies that matter. Adolescents thrust their technological underpinnings into our consciousness, even as we resisted. But once the technology becomes mature, it recedes into the background, supportive of the total experience it provides.
Design, it has been said (Krippendorff, 1989) is the creation of meaning, and as Hassenzahl points out, the essence of meaning to us people is our experiences.
The chapter by Marc Hassenzahl ought to be required reading in courses of design, and perhaps even more importantly, in engineering and computer science. Do the devices we design and produce work well? Do they do marvelous, mysterious operations, working invisibly across space and time? Yes, they do, but doing that is a means, not the end. The end is the experiences they engender, the stories we tell, and the way that they enriched our lives.
But this creates a problem. We know how to design things that accomplish particular, concrete actions. But how can experiences be designed? As Hassenzahl points out they can't be: they can only be supported. To use another design term: we can design in the affordances of experiences, but in the end it is up to the people who use our products to have the experiences.
The product provides the "How" part of an experience. It is up to people to provide the "What" and the "Why." But designers can help here as well, setting the framework, providing the initiative, providing examples.
Design has moved from its origins of making things look attractive (styling), to making things that fulfill true needs in an effective understandable way (design studies and interactive design) to the enabling of experiences (experience design). Each step is more difficult than the one before each requires and builds upon what was learned before.
The first step toward experiences was to learn about and embrace emotion and products that were pleasurable. This step has just been taken, with an increasing number of books, journal articles, and conferences attesting to the interest in this topic. But these steps too were in their infancy, addressing primarily the need and desirability along with the technical difficulties of measuring the resulting emotions or pleasure.
Marc Hassenzahl throws down the gauntlet for future designs: to produce products that deliver the Why, What, and How.
Krippendorff, Klaus (1989). On the Essential Contexts of Artifacts or on the Proposition That "Design Is Making Sense (Of Things)". Design Issues, 5(2), pp. 9-39.
About the Author
Don Norman is the author of numerous books including "Emotional Design," and more recently, "Living with Complexity." He is co-founder of the Nielsen Norman group, a professor at KAIST (in Korea), and IDEO fellow, and a design theorist, studying the fundamentals of modern design. Although he invented the term "User experience" while an executive at Apple, he is pleased that people like Marc Hassenzhal have moved beyond the phrase to deep substance. Although Norman travels an inordinate amount, he can always be found at www.jnd.org
Norman, Donald A. (1992): Turn Signals Are the Facial Expressions of Automobiles, Addison-Wesley Publishing,
Norman, Donald A. (1983): Some Observations on Mental Models. In: Norman, Donald A. (eds). "Mental Models" .
Norman, Donald A. (1993): Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine, Perseus,
Norman, Donald A. (1991): Cognitive artifacts. In: Norman, Donald A., Bannon, Liam, Boedker, Susanne, Carroll, John M., Kellogg, Wendy A., Rosson, Mary Beth, diSessa, Andrea A. (eds). "Designing Interaction: Psychology at the Human-Computer Interface" Cambridge University Press .
Norman, Donald A. (1986): Cognitive engineering. In: Norman, Donald A., Hutchins, Edwin, Hollan, James D., Lewis, Clayton H., Cypher, Allen, Hooper, Kristina, Laurel, Brenda K. (eds). "User Centered System Design: New Perspectives on Human-Computer Interaction" .
Hutchins, Edwin, Hollan, James D., Norman, Donald A. (1986): Direct Manipulation Interfaces. In: Norman, Donald A., Hutchins, Edwin, Hollan, James D., Lewis, Clayton H., Cypher, Allen, Hooper, Kristina, Laurel, Brenda K. (eds). "User Centered System Design: New Perspectives on Human-Computer Interaction" .
Lewis, Clayton H., Norman, Donald A. (1986): Designing for Error. In: Norman, Donald A., Hutchins, Edwin, Hollan, James D., Lewis, Clayton H., Cypher, Allen, Hooper, Kristina, Laurel, Brenda K. (eds). "User Centered System Design: New Perspectives on Human-Computer Interaction" .
Norman, Donald A., Shallice, Tim (1986): Attention to action: Willed and automatic control of behaviour (Revised reprint of Norman and Shallice (1980)). In: Norman, Donald A., Shallice, Tim (eds). "Consciousness and Self-Regulation: Advances in Research and Theory" Plenum Press .
Norman, Donald A. (1999): Invisible Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So Complex and Information Appliances Are the Solution, MIT Press,
Norman, Donald A. (2004): Emotional Design: Why We Love (Or Hate) Everyday Things, Basic Books,
Norman, Donald A. (1992): Where Human Factors Fails: Ergonomics versus the World of Design and Manufacture. In: Proceedings of the Human Factors Society 36th Annual Meeting , 1992, .
Lindsay, P. H., Norman, Donald A. (1977): Human Information Processing: An Introduction to Psychology, Academic Press,
Norman, Donald A. (1988): The Psychology of Everyday Things, Basic Books,
Norman, Donald A. (1990): The Design of Everyday Things, Doubleday,
Norman, Donald A. (1998): The Invisible Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So Complex and Information Appliances Are the Solution, MIT Press,
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Norman, Donald A. (2013): The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition, Basic Books,

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This would be tantamount to anyone of you naysayers being pulled over for driving 68 mph in a 70 mph zone, wearing a camo jacket and skull-cap.
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because someone called with your plate saying you were wearing camo, and a skull cap
thats rediculous, I wasn't speeding
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For the first time in a long time, Mel Gibson is talking.
The star sat down with veteran Hollywood journalist Allison Hope Weiner in the Santa Monica offices of his Icon production company on April 18 for a lengthy interview.
Weiner gave the story Deadline.com and says, "There were no pre-set conditions, no topic off limits, and no ground rules. This is just Mel being Mel. I found him to be funny but also melancholy, occasionally brazen and often abashed. And I was often reminded that I was in the presence of a true creative talent."
Gibson addressed the famous audio recordings of angry conversations between himself and his ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva, saying, "It's one terribly awful moment in time, said to one person in the span of one day, and doesn't represent what I truly believe or how I've treated people my entire life."
As for whether he felt regret about what he said on the tapes, he answered, "Of course."
If he's worried audiences won't accept him anymore, that he won't be able to act anymore, he doesn't sound like it: "I don't care if I don't act anymore."
He wouldn't talk about the end of his marriage or about Grigorieva. But explains the puppet in his new movie The Beaver about a man battling depression, and Gibson says he battles it, too. "I think the majority of people do—especially. It has something to do with the speed of life and the information overload."
He says he's been writing and already has a "swashbuckling" movie lined up. Gibson also said, "The next movie I'm in is How I Spent My Summer Vacation and it will have a distributor because we're in the business of entertainment."
He says it may seem as though he was abandoned by Hollywood, but that's not the case. "Very many people are supportive, of course, but you find out who your friends are. I have many friends and they've been great." He is especially thankful for Whoopi Goldberg. "I knew Whoopi before she was Whoopi. And, as she's great and I always liked her and loved her. I like her even more now because she got it."
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is a rare (I know, the MOST over-used term on eBay!) opportunity to own a scarce piece of American history. It is this JOHN EK 1940's WW II ERA COMMANDO KNIFE with it's ORIGINAL BOX!. John Ek started making knives in the 1940's only available specifically for active-duty soldiers. This first-generation Model 5 is serial # G280, meaning it is the 7,280 knife of that model number, and has a Bowie-type blade, the backside being very sharp. The knife is in great condition, with no chips or scratches to the blade, and only minor small spotting that should polish out easily. All the spotting it DOES have is on the marked side of the blade.It measures 12 1/2" long, and has NEVER been sharpened since it left the factory. The maple handle with poured lead rivets is tight, and in MINT condition. No, this knife is NOT for sale, it is for auction. And I do NOT reveal my reserves. Any questions?


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Saudi Arabia has suggested to Iran a way out of the current impasse regarding activities within that nation to develop nuclear power. The Saudis are proposing that Iran join with the six nation Gulf Cooperation Council in a consortium of countries which would jointly develop uranium enrichment for peaceful nuclear purposes. President Ahmadinejad responded by saying, "We will be talking with our (Arab) friends" regarding the proposal and was willing to meet in Switzerland with interested parties. Muhamed El Baradi of the International Atomic Energy Agency reported to the Security Council that his investigations indicate Iran is still pursuing enrichment activities but of a low quality that is more appropriate for peaceful uses than for development of weapons.
Ahmadinejad has previously rejected Russian proposals for a consortium, but if he decides to join with fellow Arab nations it might be a simple way to avoid a nuclear confrontation with war hawks in the Bush administration who are itching for a fight with Iran. The IAEA report indicates if Iran is bent on atomic weapons it will take an additional one to two years so the world has some breathing room to resolve the problem. There is no need for immediate action.


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Last week at Netroots Nation Jill Richardson, a food journalist who writes the awesome La Vida Locavore, asked Al Gore why he doesn't finger out meat consumption as a major contributor to global warming (a few days ago I wrote about Ezra Klein's response to that exchange). Richardson got a bit of press from her question and followed up on it yesterday with a smart bit about why it's important to include sustainable agriculture in the climate change equation:
I support Gore's current efforts, promoting renewable forms of energy and greater energy efficiency, but if we have five years to save the polar icecaps (as he said shortly before I asked the question), we need to do what we can do now. Sustainable agriculture is something we can do now. Sustainable agriculture means you can have your meat and eat it too.
But every level-headed analyst must have her opposite, the ranter who turns fair and coherent arguments into emotional mush.
In her DailyKos diary, Michele Simon chastised Al Gore for admitting that he probably doesn't include meat in his epic PowerPoints because, well, he eats it.
Earth to Al: What credibility can you expect to have in calling for others to take global warming seriously when you refuse to set a good example? Even best-selling author Michael Pollen (of NY Times fame), a staunch non-vegetarian (the guy hunted boar just for fun of it) promotes the idea of eating less meat both for environmental and health reasons. Are you really saying that your love of barbeque is more important than the potential destruction of the planet? Come on, Al, this is a no-brainer!
But Simon is totally missing the point. As MoveOn's Ilyse Hogue, a true change agent, said during a Netroots Nation panel on global warming, the American public doesn't drive cars because they love oil; they don't leave the lights on because they get a kick out of burning coal. We're not in love with the fuel but rather with the modernity it brings. That will never change, and that's why asking people to stop driving cars and to hate oil will never work. Most of us simply want to drive our cars and use energy cheaply, in a way that doesn't hurt the environment too much. So we need to come up with better ways to fuel those cars and those lightbulbs.
In the meantime we can do things like buy hybrids and switch to energy-efficient lightbulbs. But acting like a naggy mother and telling the American public — raised on the mythological romance of beef farming — to eat less meat won't work. Better to change the way we make meat, or better yet, get rid of the subsidies that make it so cheap.


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PITTSBURGH—Pitt head football coach Paul Chryst announced today the hiring of Inoke (pronounced ee-NO-kay) Breckterfield as the Panthers' defensive line coach. A two-time All-Pac-10 defensive end as a collegian at Oregon State, Breckterfield comes to Pittsburgh after coaching the defensive line at UCLA in 2011.
"Our defensive linemen are going to really benefit from Inoke's experience as a player and coach," Chryst said. "Inoke was an outstanding player at Oregon State who went on to play in the CFL. Personally and professionally, he is an outstanding addition to our staff."
Prior to UCLA, Breckterfield coached the defensive line at Montana during the 2010 season. The Grizzlies ranked first in the Big Sky Conference and 14th nationally in tackles for loss (7.64 per game), and second in the league and 18th nationally in sacks per contest (2.64). The year prior to Breckterfield's arrival in 2009, Montana ranked 103rd and 88th in those categories, respectively.
A tenacious defensive end at Oregon State, Breckterfield finished his collegiate career as the Beavers' career leader in tackles for loss (55.5) and sacks (19.5). As a senior in 1998, he was named an Associated Press All-American (third team) and the Pac-10's Morris Trophy Award recipient as the top defensive lineman in the league as voted on by Pac-10 offensive linemen. Breckterfield additionally was named Oregon State's "Male Athlete of the Year" and played in the prestigious Hula Bowl all-star game.
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The type of steel used the quality of the workmanship.The over all quality of the knife.Kind of like a Wilson Combat to a Hipoint.They both do the job but one of the two is better than the other.
This is a discussion on Whats so great about expensive knives? within the Defensive Knives & Other Weapons forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; No,im serious.I have always bought knives from pawn shops,Walmart and such.What is the big deal about $150 knives? If its the sharpness aspect of it,i ...
No,im serious.I have always bought knives from pawn shops,Walmart and such.What is the big deal about $150 knives? If its the sharpness aspect of it,i dont understand either.You can sharpen knives you know.
The type of steel used the quality of the workmanship.The over all quality of the knife.Kind of like a Wilson Combat to a Hipoint.They both do the job but one of the two is better than the other.
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I too have bought several cheap knives which dont ever seem to last. My first knife was a S&W SWAT with an ivory insert that has the old faithful geyser engraved on it. My dad bought it for me when i was 11, it cost around $70 and i still have it now. I am looking right now at three other knives i have which all are broken and were cheap. I recently spent $110 on a Benchmade Griptilian and I'm interested in seeing how long it lasts.
What's so great about your expensive SA TRP? I've bought 1911s that cost a third as much and still shoot fine.
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Knives have basically one integral piece,the blade.And my Walmart knives work just fine you know,i dont see how you broke them doing anything less than trying to behead a live crocodile.
Guns have several,several working parts.And i think my TRP is the best looking 1911,and also think that the crazy looking Benchmade knives arnt all that pretty.
If you are happy with cheap inexpensive knives, no one is forcing you to buy anything else. Not all inexpensive knives are cheaply made and will work just fine. Many $2 knives have killed many people. Many $2 knives have also failed and caused injury to the owner as well. But then again, so has expensive knives.
Some knives I know for a fact will work better than others, and I choose to buy knives I know are not likely to fail at the worst possible time.
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"The gun is the great equalizer... For it is the gun, that allows the meek to repel the monsters; Whom are bigger, stronger and without conscience, prey on those who without one, would surely perish."
My biggest issue are the clips. I have two with broken clips and yes they still work fine, but they dont clip to my pocket. They are now not useful for me on a daily basis. Did i throw them away? No. I still use them occasionally. The other one...well the blade is destroyed from when i tried to cut off the crocs head.
Lolz i dont think my Griptilian is "crazy looking" it looks like a basic folder to me. Mabye i think you are crazy looking.
What is so great about expensive knives?
If you need to ask, you can't possibly understand. I'm going to go hug my Emerson Commander with a Titanimum Framelock & CF insert now.
I like my $180 Benchmade 520 Presidio for many reasons: It's beautiful in a function-over-form way. The size/heft/balance are outstanding for my hand. Quality blade steel (154CM in this case). The Benchmade Axis lock (which I prefer over all others - this coming from someone who's had a liner-lock break and had the blade in question slice through my palm down to the bone).
The knife reeks of quality. The oversized brass washers between the blade and liners make deployment a glass-smooth operation. Whether deployed or not, the knife is bank-vault tight with no play anywhere between the blade and handle. The blade is perfectly centered between the liners - I mean perfectly - this has always been a pet peeve of mine with knives - I want everything to be true and aligned. A good amount of thought went into the handle on this knife - it is equally comfortable and secure (very secure) in the Hammer, Saber, Reverse Blade-In, and Reverse Blade-out grips/techniques.
From a customer-service perspective, I also like dealing with the higher end companies because they stand by their products. Both Benchmade and Spyderco for example offer free sharpening service (just include $5 for the cost of shipping) ... to someone who is sharpening-illiterate like me, that's a plus. I once tried sharpening my Spyderco Salsa and was successful in not only dulling the blade, but putting two nice scratches into it as well. This was approximately 8 years after I'd bought the knife. I sent the knife into Spyderco with a note asking them to sharpen it and to see if they could do anything with the scratches. I got the knife back around two weeks later with a razor-sharp blade that had been polished again to remove my idiot scratches, as well as new bushings, a new belt clip, and they re-anodized the blue handles because of scratches that had come up over the years. It was a new knife again. I even got a personalized note back with the knife thanking me for using their products as intended and hoping that the results were to my satisfaction ... total cost ... $5 return shipping. Thank you very much Spyderco.
I've had many many knives over the years .... far too many in the sub $50 range .... I either don't know where they are or have thrown them all out. The only knives that remain are my Benchmades and two Spyderco's - they are the only ones that have lasted and the only ones I trust.
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My custom commander with the framelock done by reese weiland has been through hell, and it's still a tank.
I hacked a bumper off my car with it after a traffic accident and it didn't bother the knife.
When I mentioned the $600 folder to my insurance adjuster he said "Yes...$600 for a pocket knife...aren't they all...did the Rembrant get damaged in the trunk as well?" then I showed it to him.
He changed his tune and was like "Eh...I don't know if the policy will cover damage to that..." but as their was no damage, I never needed to make a claim.
My knife is beat to hell. If I sent it back to the guy who did the framelock for me, he'd either smile...or cry.
It's not a toy. It's a tool.
same difference between a fake sword and real sword...one will cut less, dull on you easily and fracture more easily...
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I think I see your point Glocksin. Perhaps what shapes my opinion is that I do not carry a knife as a defensive weapon (since I don't train with it, I couldn't complain if somebody gutted me with it, so it stays in my pocket).
However, I have upgraded my old Barlow to an $80 Spyderco, and I do notice and appreciate the quality. I dug out a cord that was wrapped around the clutch of my dad's chainsaw last weekend, and that would have likely snapped the tip off any of my drawer full of cheapos. It was still sharp enough to shave with, when I was done.
Just like firearms, I think there's a happy medium.
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I got tired of going through cheap wrenches and finally spent money on something well-made that would last for a while.
I suspect knives are the same way.
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- Matt Garza is so focused on getting Tampa Bay back into the postseason that even a questionable balk call couldn't knock the Rays' righty out of his groove.
Garza shrugged off his lone mistake of the afternoon that led to Oakland's only run against him and pitched into the eighth inning for his career-high 13th win, leading Tampa Bay to a 3-2 victory over the Athletics on Sunday.
Garza (13-7) scattered four hits over 7 2/3 innings and came out on top in a matchup between pitchers who threw no-hitters this season. Oakland's Dallas Braden, who threw a perfect game against the Rays on May 9, allowed only four hits - but three runs.
"You're going to get upset [but] I didn't think I was in the wrong," said Garza, who had three strikeouts and three walks. "I had to keep going and couldn't let that bother me. I really had to go after guys."
Evan Longoria hit a tiebreaking two-run double in the sixth as the Rays secured a split of the four-game series. Carl Crawford singled twice and scored for the Rays, who remained one game behind the New York Yankees in the AL East.
Garza went into a mini-tailspin after no-hitting Detroit on July 26 and lost two of his next three starts. He's rebounded nicely since, pitching seven scoreless innings to beat Texas on Tuesday then handcuffing Oakland on Sunday.
The right-hander cruised through the first four innings, allowing only a pair of singles, before briefly losing control and composure in the fifth.
After the A's loaded the bases with one out on a single, walk and error, home plate umpire James Hoye called a balk on Garza, forcing in Landon Powell with the tying run. A visibly frustrated Garza walked to home plate with his arms wide apart and talked briefly with Hoye before going back to the mound where he was met by Jason Bartlett, who tried to calm his teammate down.
It worked.
Garza retired the next two batters to get out of the jam then settled into another groove before leaving with a runner on and two outs in the eighth.
"That was a big moment," Tampa Bay manager Joe Maddon said. "Garza is emotional and I thought he held it together pretty well because I ran out there quickly. I was impressed with his ability to be able get a strikeout against a good hitter."
This marked the second time this season and the third time in 20 years that two pitchers have faced each other after throwing no-hitters earlier in the year. Arizona's Edwin Jackson and Roy Halladay of Philadelphia pitched against each other July 28.
Braden (8-9) lost for only the second time in six starts.
"They're still the potent lineup they've been," Braden said. "I don't see any need for them to stray from their approach. We didn't win so [I] wasn't good enough, period."
Joaquin Benoit recorded one out while Rafael Soriano struck out Cliff Pennington with the tying run on second in the ninth for his 37th save in 39 tries. The 37 saves ties Soriano with San Diego's Heath Bell for most in the majors.
Braden didn't get much support from his teammates. The A's, who were held to one hit by Toronto's Shaun Marcum on Monday before going on a four-game winning streak, didn't get a runner to second base after the fifth inning.
Kelly Shopach's RBI double in the third gave the Rays a 1-0 lead. After Garza's balk tied the score, Tampa Bay scored twice off Braden in the sixth. Bartlett walked and Crawford singled before Longoria's two-run double.
Tampa Bay scored its first run in the second after Sean Rodriguez hit a leadoff single and scored on Kelly Shoppach's double to right-center.
Powell and Gabe Gross had two hits apiece for the A's.Notes
- All-Star closer Andrew Bailey pitched the ninth inning after being reinstated from the disabled list. Bailey had been sidelined with a right intercostal strain. RHP Ross Wolf was optioned to Triple-A Sacramento to make room.
- The only other time two pitchers faced one another after throwing no-hitters was on Sept. 6, 1991, when Texas' Nolan Ryan and Wilson Alvarez from the Chicago White Sox squared off.
- Crawford has hit safely in 12 of 13 games since moving into the No. 3 spot in Tampa Bay's lineup.
- A's pitchers have allowed five runs or fewer in each of their last 21 games, the longest streak in the AL since Baltimore in 1997.


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STATESVILLE, N.C. (December 18, 2012) – South Carolina's McCall Farms will return to the No. 34 Ford of David Ragan for four races in the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series campaign for the second consecutive season. After first joining Front Row Motorsports in May 2012 at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway, McCall Farms returned to the No. 34 car for additional races at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway, Atlanta (Ga.) Motor Speedway and Charlotte (N.C.) Motor Speedway. The company's Margaret Holmes Peanut Patch brand will serve as the primary sponsor of the Front Row Motorsports entry at the same four venues in 2013.
The Peanut Patch Ford will make its 2013 debut just miles from McCall Farms' Effingham, S.C., headquarters in the May 11 race in Darlington. Peanut Patch will also adorn the car at Bristol on Aug. 24, Atlanta on Sept. 1 and Charlotte on Oct. 12. "Boiled peanuts have long been known as the South's favorite snack," said Woody Swink, a representative of the fifth-generation family company. "We're very pleased to be continuing our relationship with Front Row Motorsports and David Ragan. "What better fit for a fifth-generation family-run company, marketing a snack that has been a southern tradition for many years, than by sponsoring a second-generation driver from South Georgia in races at four of NASCAR's most historic and entertaining venues?"
David Ragan is happy to welcome Peanut Patch back to the No. 34 team. "Having grown up in South Georgia, I've been eating boiled peanuts my whole life," Ragan said. "McCall Farms has been a great partner for Front Row Motorsports and I'm happy to be representing the Peanut Patch brand for the second consecutive year in 2013."
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DAILY FORECAST FOR EURUSD 10th August 2009
Price: 1.4201
Bias: While 1.4217-37 caps I still feel there should be further losses below 1.4153
Daily Bullish:
The failure at 1.4445 did not come as a surprise but the drop below 1.4225 has tended to argue against direct follow-through higher. There is immediate resistance at 1.4217-37 which I feel will cap today. Thus, any bullish stance will require a break above 1.4240 and if seen would suggest a return above 1.4280 and to the 1.4330-40 pivot resistance at least. Take care there. Breach would suggest a return to the 1.4445 high...
MT Bullish:
10th August: Failure at 1.4445 argues against direct gains at this time and we'd need a break above 1.4237 and 1.4330-80 to begin to think of reviving this. Even then we'd have to be careful of the risk of sideways consolidation below 1.4408.
Daily Bearish:
The drop below 1.4225 does seem to open up a return to June's low at 1.3747. There are some complications but for the moment I feel that while 1.4217-37 caps we should see additional losses. From this resistance a push back down to Friday's 1.4153 low should be seen at a minimum and to 1.4110-20 at least. If this is going to turn into a more aggressive move then this must break and should then generate sufficient bearish momentum to see a move all the way down to 1.3985-93.
MT Bearish:
10th August: As long at 1.4217-37 caps there is still a good risk that we should see losses through 1.4153 for 1.3985-93 initially and eventually the 1.3747 low. However, with uncertain positions elsewhere we will need to monitor this at all stages.
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by Darren Barefoot - For people new to using social media for marketing, the landscape can seem a bit intimidating. There are so many channels, tactics and ways to measure success--what's right for you?
In truth, it's simply a case of getting your head around your target audience and your goals. From there, there are plenty of resources out there to help you devise the right strategies and tactics for success.
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Here are some tips to help you along the way:
- There are no magic beans. This idea comes from a recent post by Seth Godin, in which he compares traditional TV ads (and, I'd add, advertisements in other media) to magic beans: "Marketing online takes too much measurement, patience, creativity, technical knowledge, flexibility, speed and authenticity. It requires too much thinking and not enough going out for dinner with clients." The lesson? Social media marketing takes a lot of time and energy, and there are few shortcuts that a million dollar budget can buy.
- Choose the tools last. The mistake that most organizations make is starting with the tools. They say "the competition has a Twitter account, so we need one too!" The tools should come last, not first. Organizations should think through where their audience is online, what their objectives are, what strategies they should apply and then, finally, which tools or platforms to use (or whether they should create new ones).
- Deliver value. When most companies engage in social media marketing, they ask "how can I get my followers to spread my story?" That's the wrong question. Here's a better one: "how can I deliver value to my followers, and earn their trust and respect?" If you can do that, then your followers will spread your story (assuming it's a great story) whether you ask them to or not.
- Become a curator. Following on from tip #3, how do we deliver value? One way, which feels peculiar to some longtime web marketers, is to send people away from your site and social media channels. Become a great curator of the web's best stuff for your industry, city or hobby. Point your followers to great stuff, and they'll come back to the source--that's you--for more.
- Think mobile. The social web is everywhere, and in everyone's pocket. There are reportedly 4.8 billion mobile handsets in circulation around the globe. Laptops have, for the past couple of years, outsold desktops. Increasingly, you need to marry your social media marketing thinking to a mobile web strategy.
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Fyffes is involved in the production, procurement, shipping, ripening, distribution and marketing of tropical fruits – mainly bananas, pineapples and melons. It owned banana land in Belize and Honduras until the 1990s, but has since divested itself of any production operations in the industry. The Irish-based company is the second largest distributor of bananas in Europe (fourth largest globally), and has been importing bananas into the UK for 120 years.
In 1995, as well as its various European ripening, distribution and marketing partnerships, Fyffes entered into a major venture with the Windward Island Banana Development and Exporting Company (WIBDECO), buying out Geest Bananas, which sold the majority of Windward bananas on the British market. In addition to the Windward Islands, Fyffes sources fruit from Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Brazil, Panama, Ecuador, Honduras and the Canaries.
The company has made numerous joint ventures in Europe in order to increase its marketing reach. In 2005, the company entered into a strategic alliance (taking a 50% share) with the Turbana Corporation, the marketing subsidiary of Colombia's exporting company UNIBAN, enabling it to develop its US market share.
In 2009, the company bought a Panamanian pineapple plantation, which, combined with existing pineapple farms in Costa Rica, enabled Fyffes to directly produce 50% of the pineapples it markets.
Labour relations
Fyffes is a member of the UK's Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) and a founder member of Global GAP. The company has a 'Code of Good Practice' which forms part of their contract with plantation owners and in theory guarantees workers' rights, particularly freedom of association. However, in reality, Fyffes has not insisted that plantation owners respect workers' human rights, meaning that the Code of Practice has made little difference on the ground.
Fyffes has no direct collective agreements with trade unions either in Ireland or in any of the countries in which it operates, and the company has been accused of using the fact that it owns almost no plantations as a way of relinquishing responsibility for conditions.
Following the creation of a new trade union in Belize, a country where Fyffes is the sole exporter, Irish organisations put the spotlight on the company's role in the country. In 1999, Fyffes joined with Belize government officials, plantation owners and civil society organizations to agree a partnership approach to the future of the industry, however in the years since then, the efforts of the workers to build the trade union were reportedly thwarted by intimidation and firings on farms in Belize. A number of cases for unfair dismissal were brought to court but took years to be judged. Some observers believe that the government was slow to implement its own worker protection laws, fearing Fyffes would take their business elsewhere, leaving the small country's economy in ruins.
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The first time I rode with Doran was in '98 at the Snowmass pipe. I could tell the kid had flava. Last season we rode and traveled together a lot. He has a huge bag of tricks and an unparalleled style. A true technician, Doran's skills will certainly take him far.
When Doran isn't on the snow, you'll find him at the el Jebel skatepark or on the wheels of steel in his bedroom.–Ryan Lougee
Yo, D, what's crackin'?
Just puttin' some work in on the new mixed tape.
What's on the new mix?
Lots of underground, like Rasco, Planet Asia, and some tracks from the Arsonists.
Make sure I get the first copy.
For sure, dude.
So where are you livin' this year, D?
I'm movin' to Breck, like three miles from the hill.
What? Aspen area gettin' a little old?
Exactly, it was a cool place to live, mad friends, lots of parties, but I needed to get out of my parents' house and ride somewhere else.
What's on the plate this season as far as snowboarding goes?
A whole lot. I want to do some contests, some shoots, and ride as much as I can.
Anywhere you really want to ride?
Yeah, Jackson Hole and the backside of Aspen Mountain with all my homies.
Who has influenced you in your life and in snowboarding?
My parents have led me down the right path in life and have really supported me with my snowboarding, too. They get major credit. I love 'em a lot. As far as riding goes, I have lots of respect for many riders out there. I really like Jamie Lynn, Terje, and Chad Otterstrom's riding. They ride anything–with total control and strong style. Also, I want to give props to all the kids I rode with growin' up. They influenced my snowboarding for sure.
Shout outs?
My whole family, my sponsors, all my friends. Big ups to Dave, 4WD, and Team Chronic.
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Less than three weeks after the CBS Evening News used the indictments of Bernard Kerik to relay how "people" say he's "a poster child as to why Giuliani shouldn't be President," Katie Couric pounced on a revelation not considered newsworthy by ABC and NBC as she teased Wednesday's newscast, "A potential political embarrassment for Rudy Giuliani: Questions about how he billed New York City taxpayers for his security. Was he trying to hide something?" ABC and NBC ran full stories on Bill Clinton's inaccurate claim that he "opposed Iraq from the beginning," a remark CBS limited to a brief item from Couric following the Giuliani story.
Reporter Byron Pitts asserted "the Giuliani campaign is once again fending off new questions about an old affair," explaining that "according to the Web site Politico.com, in 2000, as Giuliani was beginning his not-so-secret extramarital relationship with Judith Nathan, the woman who eventually became his third wife, he billed obscure city agencies thousands of dollars in expenses for his police security detail in the Hamptons off Long Island where Nathan was living."
[UPDATE, 10pm EST Nov. 29: On Thursday night, November 29, both ABC's World News and the NBC Nightly News aired stories on this subject, with denials from Giuliani about any impropriety. The CBS Evening News also ran a follow up with Giuliani denouncing the attack as "a political hit job."]
My November 9 NewsBusters posting, "CBS on Kerik: 'Poster Child as to Why Giuliani Shouldn't Be President,'" recounted:
The CBS Evening News, which has aired only one full story on the scandal surrounding Hillary Clinton's fugitive donor Norman Hsu, on Friday night ran its second full story on the impact on Rudy Giuliani of Bernard Kerik's indictments as Byron Pitts told Kerik that "people" say you're "a poster child as to why Giuliani shouldn't be President." Back on August 31, in the newscast's only full story on Hsu, fill-in anchor Harry Smith didn't even mention Hillary Clinton's name in his introduction, but on Friday Katie Couric put Giuliani front and center: "Kerik isn't the only one who could face trouble. It's also bad news for his friend and mentor, Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani."
In the Hsu story, CBS reporter Sandra Hughes didn't warn about any negative impact on the Hillary Clinton campaign or speculate about what Hillary Clinton knew about Hsu's criminal past or suspect bundling. But in the Giuliani piece, Pitts predicted: "Kerik's legal problems could mean political problems for Giuliani and the inevitable questions of the presidential candidate: What did he know and when did he know it?" In an exchange with Kerik, Pitts proposed: "There are people who say that you, forgive me, are a poster child as to why Giuliani shouldn't be President, because of your own troubles."...
The MRC's Brad Wilmouth corrected the closed-captioning against the video for the November 28 CBS Evening News story:
KATIE COURIC: Now to the presidential campaign and new problems tonight for Rudy Giuliani. Some potentially embarrassing questions came up today that date back to his days as mayor of New York. Byron Pitts is covering the Giuliani campaign.
BYRON PITTS: On a night when they would rather fine tune answers for tonight's GOP debate, the Giuliani campaign is once again fending off new questions about an old affair. According to the Web site Politico.com, in 2000, as Giuliani was beginning his not-so-secret extramarital relationship with Judith Nathan, the woman who eventually became his third wife, he billed obscure city agencies thousands of dollars in expenses for his police security detail in the Hamptons off Long Island where Nathan was living. For example, in one instance, $34,000 worth of travel expenses were placed in the budget for the New York City Loft Board.
MIKE ALLEN, POLITICO.COM: These were records that the city controller had tried to get in the past, but the mayor's offices said they couldn't be released because of security.
PITTS: Giuliani's campaign had this response, calling the story a non-issue: Quote, "This is common practice. The NYPD is responsible for providing security for the mayor of New York around the clock." But the question isn't about his security detail, it's about how the expenses were billed.
PROF. LARRY SABATO, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: It's coming out at the worst possible time for Giuliani, just as voters in Iowa and New Hampshire are beginning to make up their minds finally. It reinforces his biggest problem, which is that, not just his liberal positions on social issues, but also the fact that he's had a very messy private life.
PITTS: And messy is always unwelcome for a campaign that would rather stay on message. Byron Pitts, CBS News, New York.


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The order was given to soldiers stationed in Bomi and Grand Cape Mount counties on the border with Sierra Leone in hope of preventing the spread of the deadly virus, deputy chief of staff, Colonel Eric Dennis said.
The decision comes as the search for 17 Liberian Ebola patients, who escaped an attack on a quarantine centre in the Liberian capital, Monrovia, continues.
"We have not yet found them," said Liberian Information Minister Lewis Brown.
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So I have had the car for a little over year and everything has been great.. Except this.. I have noticed it only started this winter.. Live in Chicago so lots of snow ice ect.. When I start breaking from 20+ MPH everything is fine.. Once I get below 20 MPH I begin to hear what sounds like a clicking or ratcheting sound from the rear right wheel.. The higher the RPM the faster the sound and it slows down as the wheel does.. If I do a abrupt stop it does not make noise.. Went to the dealer could not hear the sound by the time I got there (of course) and they said oh but you have a rear caliper leak so we replaced that.. Ok great! So no noise and they seemed to think it was snow or ice near the wheel.. Now it's been about a month or so and it's back.. Now I don't complain about much but this drives me crazy.. Like if my volume is at 15% I can hear it over the radio.. Anyone have any idea what this could be before I go sit at the dealer for 4 hours?
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More and more, the GEICO Bassmaster Classic is becoming one of the premier venues for manufacturers large and small to release new products. The fact that the Classic is a consumer show, meaning anyone can attend, versus an exclusive industry-only show is appealing because of the media frenzy surrounding the event and the often-overfull Expo venue.
This year, Berkley is stepping up in a big way, releasing two new soft plastic styles in the Havoc line and three new PowerBait plastics. All are proven shapes with pro input.
The Havoc Boss Dog is the brainchild of living legend Gary Klein. This 6-inch lizard/creature hybrid has a cavity on the back that hides the hook point for snag-free action. And speaking of action, the legs and elongated tail offer enticing movement with the slightest angler input. Retail is set at $3.49.
The Pit Boss Jr. is simply a downsized version of Skeet Reese's wildly successful Pit Boss flipping bait. It's a mere three inches long and excels when the bite is tough. Again, retail is set at $3.49.
Berkley's PowerBait line enjoys the addition of the Fight'n Bug, one of the wildest craw creatures the bass have ever seen. The long body and oversized pincers are designed for maximum water disturbance and fish-calling attention. Naturally, the Fight'n Bug is loaded with that famous PowerBait scent. Retail is set at $4.99.
Finesse swimbaiting is becoming more popular as more anglers are finding just how deadly a small shad imitator can be, and Berkley has done anglers a favor with the introduction of the PowerBait Rib Shad. The 4 1/2-inch boot tail swimmer is great for rigging on a jighead or EWG hook. Retail is set at $4.99.
Though it's slender, the Slim Shad has big fish appeal written all over it. The deeply ribbed body and boot tail give realistic action even when slow rolled at depth. The body is thin which offer a rolling action when rigged on a lightweight jighead or belly-weighted hook. $4.99.


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Britain could leave the EU unless it switches tack, George Osborne warns today.
Failure to change and renegotiate is the biggest economic risk facing Europe, he will say as he warns members they can either "reform or decline".
In a speech to think-tank Open Europe in London, Mr Osborne will say: "The biggest economic risk facing Europe doesn't come from those who want reform and renegotiation - it comes from a failure to reform and renegotiate.
"It is the status quo which condemns the people of Europe to an ongoing economic crisis and continuing decline. And so there is a simple choice for Europe: reform or decline.
"Our determination is clear: to deliver the reform, and then let the people decide."
The threat to withdraw will be seen as a hardening of the Government's stance on Europe although David Cameron has ducked the question of what will happen if he fails to claw back more powers from Brussels and re-write EU laws on free movement.
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I have been asked on several occasion to explain the technique behind my droplet photos. While this is nothing new and the technique has been reviewed elsewhere before I thought I would provide a quick tutorial
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WTB 16:9 Nav Monitor (dead/non functional OK!)
Looking for just the monitor/bezel unit part of the widescreen nav system from an E39 5er/E38 7er/E53 X5. I will be replacing the screen with a capacitive touch screen for a carputer project, so all I'm looking for is one with a reasonably nice looking front bezel/buttons and a frame that's not too mangled. You can keep the screen and other guts if you want.
I prefer gutted/dead/non functional units as I can get working ones for $300 on ebay and I'd rather not spend $300 for just a bezel + buttons.
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