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MOSCOW – Authorities in a Russian city say more than half of the acres of windows smashed in the city by an exploding meteor's shock wave have been replaced.
Friday's explosion, estimated to be equivalent to several atomic bombs, shattered glass in more than 4,000 buildings in Chelyabinsk and the surrounding region, leaving residents vulnerable in temperatures well below freezing.
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Welcome back to another installment of "Otter Creek is the Best Creek," a serial tour of paddling on our backyard stream. This week, it's the Otter Creek Gorge, a class II-III section of whitewater between Belden Falls and Huntington Falls.
Last night, Andrew Stein, who usually covers the Bristol Beat, agreed to accompany me an assignment in Middlebury. Namely, to go paddling and write a blog post about it. We also hoped to get some photos, but we forgot the camera and it was getting dark out, so you'll have to take our word that it was gorgeous. The evening light brought out the fall colors, and when we took off the river, a nearly-full moon was rising over the Greens. We saw herons and kingfishers, and some airy potholes and miniature arches in marble and limestone.
We put in at Belden Falls, which is at the end of the dirt road across from River Road on Route 7. The first class II rapid went by quickly, and we were at the head of the surging Otter Creek Gorge. The gorge (class III) is a straight shot through limestone walls, carved by the swirling currents into strange caves and dimples. It's an exciting ride in a canoe or kayak, though the water spits you quickly out at the bottom, so there's not enough time to truly appreciate the geology.
The foot of the gorge is a wide pool ringed with tall white pines. There aren't any roads nearby, though we could hear a train crossing the New Haven trestle. One more class II rapid waits around the corner, followed by almost a mile of flatwater down to the one lane bridge on Morgan Horse Farm / Pearson Rd. If paddle quickly, you can run this stretch in half an hour. With scouting and a little leisure, it could be a really pleasant afternoon. There's a great spot to have lunch after the gorge on river left.
To paddle this stretch you need to set shuttle. I tried to paddle back upstream the other day, and you can't do it. To set shuttle, drive north on Route 7 from the Belden Falls Rd. Pass both ends of the Dog Team Rd, then turn left on Campground Rd. Turn left again at the T on Pearson Rd. and park on the left before crossing Otter Creek.
The same disclaimers apply to this as to any stretch of whitewater paddling. Wear a lifejacket, and in this case, a helmet if you think you might swim. Just because people tube this with coolers in the summer doesn't mean that it's safe, especially at higher water. When the river is over 4000 cfs, the Otter Creek Gorge is a violent rapid, up to class IV in difficulty. In winter months, the gorge is narrow enough to collect ice bridges and sieves. The portage is difficult, and it's not an easy place to walk, especially in the winter (unfortunately, experience speaking here). Good levels to run the gorge in a canoe range from 500 to 2000 cfs. This link will take you to a real time gage: http://waterdata.usgs.gov/usa/nwis/uv?04282500
Even at this time of year, a swim in cool water can be dangerous. If you're paddling whitewater, consider wearing a wetsuit or drysuit, and bring extra layers in a drybag. Always scout before paddling, and stay safe. As usual, if you're interested in paddling here, but want more information or advice, send me an email at [email protected].


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On 2013-08-14 I submitted a post regarding how to configure the CC scheduler on timely basis (see the link on the References below),
however a new question arrives if you try to do that as regular user but NOT using root, see that:
If I try to use a regular user we cannot edit the scheduler
cleartool schedule -edit -schedule
cleartool: Error: Unable to edit schedule: Permission denied.
So if you are interested to provide permissions to regular user to set jobs on timely basis consider:
1) As root see the current Scheduler Access Control List.
cleartool schedule -get -acl
# Scheduler ACL:
Everyone: Read
2) Delegate the permission to the desired user.
As root run
cleartool schedule -edit -acl
And add the user:
Note: If you just use the account name you will have a failure:
# Scheduler ACL:
Everyone: Read
User:user1: Full
Replace the ACL? [yes]
cleartool: Error: ACL identity's name must be non-NULL.
cleartool: Error: Unable to set ACL entry for line 3: error detected by ClearCase subsystem.
You should use Domain/account style.
If the account is locally (/etc/passwd) uses <unknown>/accountname
User:<unknown>/user1 Full
Note: <unknown> as literal.
4) Then you will be able to edit the Scheduler by using that user:
[user1@machineXYZ ~]$ cleartool schedule -edit -schedule
5) Note: If you are interested to create new tasks you should provide writes to the user to edit /var/adm/rational/clearcase/scheduler/tasks/task_registry file or create the tasks there by using root account.
The next steps to create timely basis jobs, are avaiable ton the reference below:
"How to configure ClearCase Scheduler to run tasks on timely basis?"
"Unable to edit schedule: Permission denied"
"schedule" man page.
Note: If you just need to run the task in behalf of other user than root, but you are NOT interested to allow the regular user to edit the Clearcase scheduler, you could change your task script file to run the commands in name ot the desired user: For instance:
Before the change:
$cleartool lsvob >> /tmp/$(date +%F:%H:%M:%S)-vobs.txt
bin/echo $(date) >> /tmp/$(date +%F:%H:%M:%S)-vobs.txt
After the change:
su - user1 -c "$cleartool lsvob >> /tmp/$(date +%F:%H:%M:%S)-vobs.txt"
su - user1 -c "/bin/echo $(date) >> /tmp/$(date+%F:%H:%M:%S)-vobs.txt"
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Frenzen, C. L. and Maini, P. K. (1988) Enzyme kinetics for a two-step enzymic reaction with comparable initial enzyme-substrate ratios. Journal of Mathematical Biology, 26 (6). pp. 689-703.
Jack, R. O. (1988) Stability of the Lagrange-Galerkin method: the performance of quadrature in theory and practice. Technical Report. Unspecified. (Submitted)
Maini, P. K. and Murray, J. D. (1988) A nonlinear analysis of a mechanical model for pattern formation. SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 48 (5). pp. 1064-1072.
Murray, J. D. and Maini, P. K. and Tranquillo, R. T. (1988) Mechanochemical models for generating biological pattern and form in development. Physics Reports, 171 (2). pp. 59-84.
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I have summarised the recommendations as:
1) legislation to outlaw unregulated midwifery services "without being a midwife or a medical practitioner registered pursuant to the National Law;"
2) legislation requiring reporting "the intention of any person under his or her care to undergo a homebirth in respect of deliveries that are attended by an enhanced risk of complication,"
3) That the woman who is reported in (2) will receive "advice to be tendered to that person from a senior consultant obstetrician as to the desirability or otherwise, ..."
4) "establishment of a position known as the Supervisor of Midwives"
5) "establishment of alternative birthing centres" [note: not one of the three mothers of babies who died would have been eligible to go to 'alternative birthing centres']
6) education for public distribution on homebirths and risks
7) revised policy for Planned Birth at Home in South Australia "with an addition that current risk factors for shoulder dystocia be specifically identified;"
8) "That in any case where it comes to the attention of clinicians in a public hospital that a patient intends to undergo a homebirth that is attended by an enhanced risk of complication, that appropriate advice be tendered to that person by a senior consultant obstetrician."
Rather than starting with #1 and plodding through this minefield, I will start with what I see as easier, and pick my way through the minefield, trying to state my opinions clearly. (And, dear reader, I must warn you that I often delete a great deal of what I write, so that you see the heavily edited version)
6) education for public distribution on homebirths and risksThis is not a bad idea. My only hesitation relates to what sort of education, and who writes it, and who defines the risks, and ...
5) "establishment of alternative birthing centres"Also not a bad idea - for the 1980s, that is. Midwifery theorists proposed that hospital rooms dressed as 'home-like' settings would help women to feel OK about birth. Some women did well, while many were excluded by risk protocols, and moved into standard (the alternative to 'alternative') obstetric care. I gave birth to my fourth child at the Women's Birth Centre in 1980, and that experience helped me come out of medically managed and dominated midwifery. I know many other midwives who have learnt to work in harmony with physiology in unmedicated birth, and to trust their midwifery knowledge when detecting and acting upon complications, during their time working or giving birth in a birth centre. Perhaps that's a good reason to establish birthing centres.
4) "establishment of a position known as the Supervisor of Midwives"I need to sit on the fence for this one. The role of Supervisor of Midwives is one that I don't fully understand. How would these people be appointed? What would their role entail? Would all midwives be supervised, or only certain midwives? The UK-style Supervisor of Midwives is different from the New Zealand system. Psychologists work under a system of professional supervision. I believe a thorough exploration of this proposal needs to be had by midwives, ethicists, psychologists, lawyers, and maternity consumer spokespeople, and some agreement reached, before yet another regulatory control be imposed on the profession.
1) legislation to outlaw unregulated midwifery services "without being a midwife or a medical practitioner registered pursuant to the National Law;"NO!
Australia does not need to outlaw unregulated midwifery services.
Australia needs to protect and support the midwifery profession, so that midwives can provide midwifery services in homes and hospitals; so that women will feel safe in the professional care of midwives as primary carers, who are able to work seamlessly with specialist services when indicated.
Modern societies, and the legislators and coroners and others in positions of authority need to recognise that spontaneous labour and birth is a fact of nature, not something that a midwife controls or gives permission for, and that women under natural law are able to use the professional services provided in their community, or not. It's their choice.
2) legislation requiring reporting "the intention of any person under his or her care to undergo a homebirth in respect of deliveries that are attended by an enhanced risk of complication,"NO!
Midwives who understand the ethical and moral duties of our profession, who by definition work 'in partnership' with a woman, will REFUSE to report women on the grounds of a plan for homebirth. My own practice for many years has been to encourage women to see the choice of place of birth as a decision they make as labour becomes established, and not before. I believe this is best practice, as the midwife is committed to the woman, not to the planned setting for birth.
8) "That in any case where it comes to the attention of clinicians in a public hospital that a patient intends to undergo a homebirth that is attended by an enhanced risk of complication, that appropriate advice be tendered to that person by a senior consultant obstetrician."
HOW would this work? Will that woman be arrested and forced to listen to 'appropriate advice' being delivered?
I have not tried to tease out which risk factors the Coroner thinks would be used to initiate reports or the giving of advice. There are few absolutes in midwifery. Regardless of what risk factors may be attending a particular situation, physiological birth always starts with spontaneous onset of labour, and spontaneous onset of labour happens in the woman's own time, in her own world, in her own body. The woman has to make a decision to call a midwife, or not; to go to hospital, or not. This decision cannot be taken from her.
This set of recommendations exhibits a shallow and linear view of life, risk, and decision-making. The question that the Coroner seemed to avoid is:
"If a mother does not want to go to hospital, when overwhelming professional advice would want her to give birth in hospital, WHY?", and"What can be done to make going to hospital a more acceptable choice for women for whom complex obstetric care may become necessary?"
Australia is a society which supports a wide range of freedoms for the individual. I don't have the words to describe the legal and ethical framework that this is built upon, but I know that when a State (government-sanctioned authorities) is given power to control the most intimate relationships between a woman and her child, that comes with a great loss of basic freedom.
Civil disobedience by midwives has been recorded many times, when the midwives believed that the lives or wellbeing of the mother and/or her baby were at risk. The Hebrew midwives, Shiphrah and Puah, who were prepared to disobey and deceive the autocratic, absolute authority of Pharoah, are our model.
The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, "When you act as midwives to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstool, if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, she shall live. But the midwives feared God; they did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but they let the boys live. So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and said to them, "Why have you done this, and allowed the boys to live?" The midwives said to Pharoah, "Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwives come to them." So God dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied and became very strong,. And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families. (Exodus 1: 15-21, From the New Revised Standard Version (1989) of the Bible)


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Hi, guys, I have bought a quiver of 2012 Rpms, so to make sure I am always on the write kite I bought the 8,10,12. I have been out on the 10 and 12 twice each and from my experience can't feel much diff between the two, I had them both out today in 20kts, cross on. Bottom end is very similar indeed infact a bit to similar, the 10m turns a tad faster and the 10m.
I decided to lay them on top off each other to see what the difference in size was, I was shocked with the result, not much diff at all, def not 2sq metres of fabric, if it is not meant to be 2m larger why is it labeled a 12sq m kite... Is this a case of false marketing? Would like to hear your opinions, thanks, I don't normally singe but after spending over £2000 on two kites that feel with similar I am slightly pissed...
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Last summer, when I was in England, birthplace of Louise Brown and the ever-expanding field of in vitro fertilization, the British tabloids were full of the latest lurid tale involving a convoluted surrogacy situation. This one, as I recall, had to do with a mother who carried her own daughter's baby but gave birth in India, where she lived, as opposed to England, where the daughter/genetic mother lived, raising the question of what the heck country the child was automatically a citizen of. That same week, a longstanding IVF controversy made front-page news in mainstream papers: Should the agency that regulates British fertility clinics permit the creation of "savior siblings," babies conceived as tissue-match donors for existing children suffering from genetic diseases?
This robust public discussion of IVF ethics seemed remarkable to me, even though at that point I had spent a year researching American fertility medicine. In the United States, we do not have much in the way of public discussions of reproductive technology, in part because we do not seriously regulate it. For better and worse, in England and much of Europe there are laws and/or bureaucrats determining which procedures can be offered and to whom. The decisions that get handed down invariably lead to public disputes, which lead to ongoing, anguished attempts to hammer out a collective moral consensus. Here—where the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention does little more than track patient loads and outcome rates for clinics that choose to be monitored—moral "consensus" often means doctors sitting around a table, or e-mailing bioethicists, or deciding on their own. Rarely do these discussions bubble over into the public. For that, we can now turn to the new NBC drama Inconceivable, which tries to bring the issues of modern-day conception into the American living room.
NBC's decision to set an overdetermined, soap-operatic, pretty seamy, never-quite-funny drama in a fertility clinic is itself a barometer of the national mood on the subject. Just as the network gay shows signaled the arrival of the cultural moment when everybody either knew a gay person, knew someone who was related to a gay person, or was gay, so now we seem to have arrived at a point where every adult has either undergone fertility treatment or has a friend who has. According to the CDC, between 1996 and 2002, the number of rounds, or "cycles," of IVF performed at U.S. clinics rose by 78 percent, from 65,000 rounds to more than 115,000. Fertility-related medical visits now number in the millions each year. Truly, fertility medicine is the perfect vehicle for Hollywood drama: ordinary enough now to feel universal, but still emotionally charged and, often, genuinely dramatic. I found myself watching the pilot episodes (the series airs Fridays at 10 p.m.) with revulsion and fascination. The scenarios were often far-fetched, and there was lots of fudging with science and with normal lab procedure. Still, what rang true was the sight of clinic staffers deciding, on their own, whether to accede to the desires of, for example, a soldier who wants to conceive a child using eggs frozen by his soldier-wife before she shipped out to, and died in, Iraq. What rang true were decisions quietly made based on bottom-line profit-making; fear of lawsuits; the desire for publicity; scientific principles; committed medical professionalism; fundamental decency; what's known in science as the "yuck" factor; and real delight in giving somebody a baby.
Inconceivable is set in a fictional Beverly Hills fertility clinic, Family Options. It was a good geographical choice, given that if the show were set anywhere else, the staff might have to—for purposes of verisimilitude—occasionally decide not to go ahead with something. There is a real difference between the culture of East Coast fertility medicine, which is more hidebound in clinging, at least nominally, to the notion of "medical necessity," and the West Coast, especially Los Angeles, where a more consumer-minded approach to patient care prevails. In the Washington, D.C., area, where I live, many clinics still will not work with gay males, justifying this on the grounds that technically IVF is a medical treatment for infertile people. Many of these same clinics, however, will provide sperm donation services for lesbians, partnered or single, and other unmarried women whose infertility amounts to "no male partner." In Los Angeles—by way of contrast—there are doctors who specialize in gay couples. In L.A., land of 48-year-old actresses-turned-first-time-mothers, the trade in donor eggs is so active and so normalized that the college-age daughter of a friend of mine, sitting at a cafe in Santa Monica, was approached by an unknown couple who asked if she would be their donor. Surrogacy laws are friendly in California. Fertility treatment is cheaper in California. In Los Angeles—I think this is fair to say—doctors may debate ethics, but chances are the end of the debate will be: Yes. Which means that in the case of Family Options, almost every patient can be an unfolding storyline.
Certainly that's what happens in the first two episodes. Some of the minidramas are dispensed with rapidly, and some you can see are going to last way longer than you want them to. Among its many faults, the drama is dizzyingly front-loaded. Family Options seems to attract a relentless stream of unusually tortured situations. Many are simply implausible: an extreme makeover type who wants to secretly use an egg donor so her husband won't know she carries ugly genes and was once herself an ugly woman; a staffer who, after being dumped by the unctuous main doctor, Malcolm Bowers, steals his sperm and switches it with the semen sample of a patient. Others are plain confusing: Why are they offering cytoplasm transfer, a fringe treatment once offered to women with old eggs, to a couple whose problem seems to be male infertility?
And there is way, way more surrogacy in this practice than there is in the real world, where surrogacy accounts for about 1 percent of IVF cases. There are more counselors and coordinators, too: a whole troupe of women whose job is to find donors and surrogates but also to help couples sort through ethical issues. The truth is, many clinics have only one, or at most a few, overburdened nurse/egg-donor coordinators, as well as a counselor to whom some patients are outsourced.
And yet, I kept asking myself, are these scenarios really so far-fetched? The series was created by two gay men who themselves have families with the help of surrogates, which makes it odd that among the most unappealing characters is a gay man who spies on his surrogate to make sure she doesn't eat pork rinds or drink alcohol. But it's true: People who hire surrogates can overstress about fast-food habits. I once watched a roomful of real and potential gay fathers debate how fat is too fat in a surrogate. And many real-life scenarios are every bit as melodramatic as those the creators have come up with here. I once spent the day with a clinic psychologist who had received a request from a bereaved mother who wanted to use her dead son's frozen sperm, and a surrogate, to create an IVF grandchild. The psychologist had herself lost a parent young, and had a horror of "creating orphans," as she put it. So her clinic said no to cryo-grandma, even though a competing clinic had already agreed to take her on. One counselor mentioned that a patient on her egg-donor waiting list had been waiting a while because she specifically wanted a donor who was blonde and good-looking, better-looking, in fact, than she was. Other doctors regularly struggle with whether to help patients who are really sick: women with autoimmune diseases, for example, or who are dangerously diabetic, whose bodies may be endangered by pregnancy. Another doctor I interviewed was approached by an infertile man who, wanting a baby as close to "his," genetically, as possible, asked to use his own father as sperm donor. Since there is no rule book here, the doctor called her father, a minister, to ask him what God would think of this. Her father told her he thought that God would think it was OK. Technically, it was something close to incest. The family, according to the doctor, is incredibly happy. Many scenarios doctors face really are unprecedented, and in truth, it's hard to see how government regulation could determine the outcome of them all.
The central drama of the opening episodes has to do with baby-switching, which remains one of the fundamental horrors of the field. The series opens with the birth of a black baby to a surrogate who contracted with a white couple (of course it's a black baby; does no one ever consider having a white baby born to horrified black people?), and then of course there is the sperm-switching. In this country, patients are still haunted by two high-profile cases of genetic deception: that of Ricardo Asch, who in the '90s was indicted for stealing embryos and eggs from patients in his highly respected clinic at UC-Irvine and secretly giving them to other women or using them for research; and Cecil Jacobson, the Virginia fertility doctor who was secretly the sperm donor for scores of his patients. (Jacobson, in part, was the impetus for the regulation we currently have.) Doubtless, even now mistakes or deceptions happen. But the clinics I've spent time with are obsessively concerned with the proper care and handling of sperm, egg, and embryo. Before the series started, I happened to be meeting with Robert Stillman, a doctor at Shady Grove Fertility, one of the largest practices in the country, who in response to Inconceivable had drawn up a detailed description of the clinic's lab practices, anticipating that patients would be unduly worried. "It's every patient's worst fear," he said to me, the text, or subtext, of so many initial consultations: If I go through with this, will I really be raising my own child? Or somebody else's?
Which is ironic when you think about it. Shady Grove, like most clinics in this country, does a brisk and growing business in egg donation. Studies have shown that even now, more than half of patients who conceive via egg donation do not tell their child the truth about how they were conceived. So while some IVF patients may fret about the remote possibility of unknowingly raising a child who is not genetically related to them, the far more prosaic reality of fertility medicine is the other way around: The parent is fully aware of the fact of genetic unrelatedness, and it's the child who doesn't know. It's a complicated world, full of compromise and contradiction. At least somebody is paying attention.


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After completing her degree, Am began consulting for renowned designer J.W.Anderson on his Autumn Winter '09 Knitwear collection that debuted at The Man show during London Fashion Week.
Wanting to pursue her talent in knit for a broader audience, Am began working on numerous projects and collaborations for interior companies within the fashion business; and was offered an exclusive exhibition at Osterley Park where she showcased a new collection of knitted wire canvases.
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Last year on Thanksgiving, Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh stomped on the arm of Packers guard Evan Dietrich-Smith. After the game, Suh offered up a lame excuse during a session with reporters.
"My intentions were not to kick anybody, as I did not," Suh said at the time. "[I was] removing myself, as you see, I'm walking away from the situation.
This year, Suh's foot found the crotch of Texans quarterback Matt Schaub. It sure looked like no accident.
After the game, Suh didn't risk saying anything that could and would be used against him. According to the Associated Press, Suh exited the locker room without making himself available to reporters.
Schaub wasn't as evasive. "I really don't have anything to say about that play or that person," Schaub said.
After further review of the video evidence, it looks like Suh gave an extra little shove of the foot into Schaub's nether regions.
Given Suh's history, he likely will be hearing from the league office, again.


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Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA, engulfed by criminal probes into the conduct of its former management, may disclose as early as Wednesday the size of losses the bank hid in 2008 and 2009 using derivatives.
Monte Paschi, the subject of investigations spanning from allegations of market manipulation to false bookkeeping, will probably restate earnings because of losses obscured by the structured deals dubbed Santorini, Alexandria and Nota Italia. The bank's board is meeting in Siena today to discuss the impact on its balance sheet.
Chief Executive Officer Fabrizio Viola and Chairman Alessandro Profumo are trying to reassure investors that Italy's third-largest bank will succeed with a turnaround plan that is central to a 3.9 billion-euro ($5.3 billion) taxpayer bailout due this month. Monte Paschi is seeking state funds to boost capital after failing to meet European regulators' minimum requirements in a rescue that some lawmakers and consumer groups oppose.
"This is the occasion to clean up the balance sheet, even if I don't think management will come down heavily on provisioning, which might scare investors," said Jacopo Ceccatelli, a partner at JC & Associati SIM, a Milan-based financial advisory firm. "I expect losses of around 700 million euros, in line with market expectations. Still, we're a long way from a turnaround and regaining market confidence."
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For some closing thoughts on the cultural flurry in Copenhagen, Inhabitat turned to Patricia Watts. As the founder of ecoartspace, she has been curating, organizing, discussing, analyzing and writing about eco-art since before it was cool thing to do. With so many conflicting views on the state of art and eco-art today, Watts gave us an exlusive interview offering up her own thought-provoking perspective on the difference between art and activism, art and propaganda, and the prowess behind fake press releases.
INHABITAT: Madeleine Bunting of the Guardian said "Some activists have wondered why the art world has been slow to grasp the significance of climate change," while alternatively the RSA Arts and Ecology states, "In the five years since we have been operating, there has never been so much great work being produced." You've been working with eco-art for the past ten years. How is it different now than when you began? Is now really an awakening, or is the public just becoming more aware of eco-art?
WATTS: There are definitely more artists today interested in utilizing their aesthetic, scientific, spatial and/or theatric skills to awaken the general public to environmental problems. This is due to a zeitgeist of conditions such as advancements in personal technologies, accessibility to information, and a new generation of artists who are product oriented and are demanding results.
INHABITAT: Many folks will not experience the artworks of COP15 firsthand. Most, like you and I, had to stay home and learn about them via the internet. What is your feeling of the cultural scene in Copenhagen given this distance? In your experience how does the internet affect our perception of environmental art?
WATTS: It appears to me what is happening in Copenhagen is a more activist oriented work — actions. I'm not really sure you could call it environmental art, although the actions were designed to address such. This gets into a larger debate about movements in art versus the subject matter of art. There are many strategies or practices in this area of focus. Something I am always considering is how art is viewed either inside or outside the museum walls. Attendance to museums is low considering the population of the world. I much prefer to see these artists work in the public sphere or at non-traditional art venues. Because isn't the real goal to create an environment for change? Activism allows for a more diverse, larger audience.
INHABITAT: What is the potential of art to create real ecological change? Is COP15 a unique cultural-ecological opportunity, or just a gathering of like-minded voices?
WATTS: Taking action in the name of art allows for more playful encounters that are not as threatening as an "angry mob." However, from what I've read and seen via broadcast coverage at COP15, there is no room for alternative or "outsider" expressions at the conference. My impression is that the venue Bella Center is not big enough for the numbers of attendees.
INHABITAT:In America the arts are constantly having to defend their practical worth. Do you think eco-art fulfills a "practical purpose"?
WATTS: "Eco-art" can provide a practical use, but it is a big word that includes a wide range of media.
INHABITAT: What is the line between art and propaganda? When does eco-art cross that line?
WATTS: That would be an invisible line — a line of perception. So it would depend on one's personal history, background in art and activism. The better question is, does it even matter whether this work is perceived as art? My personal opinion is no. The dialogue that is created out of these works or actions is the real art, and where changes in our perception can take place.
INHABITAT: What are some standout projects you've seen or heard of at COP15?
WATTS: I personally like works that challenge what is real. For example, the Yes Men's latest press release purporting to come from the Assistant Press Secretary of the Canadian Office of the Minister of the Environment, announcing a new agenda for climate change and world development. When an artist can trick the public and officials to question what is before them — is it real — this is success in my opinion. It is that moment where the possibility of something more productive, possibly even more moral, is felt and resistance can dissolve.
INHABITAT: What are some domestic projects you feel speak to the issues at the climate change conference?
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LONDON—March 4th, 2009 —Alfresco Software today announced that it will host a series of Alfresco Meetups for Community and Customers in Europe, North America and Australia starting April 21 and running through May 14, 2009. The Alfresco Meetups (formerly known as Alfresco Community Conferences) are informal, full-day events designed to promote the exchange of information, ideas, product design and development plans between Alfresco's Customers, Partners and Community members and its Product Development team. During these events, Alfresco will also present the Credit Crunch Innovation Awards to winners.
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This past week, Ryan Little was given an extra game suspension for his hit on Michigan Tech's Jujhar Khaira, the video of that hit can be seen here. I don't think many of us have a problem with the extra game suspension, unless maybe you're a Wisconsin Badger fan.
Player safety should be paramount. Yeah, I am rolling my eyes right now.
What I do have a problem with is the take down move that Khaira put on UW sophomore defenseman Jake McCabe, you can see by the pictures included that this was an egregious and dangerous move and should have warranted at least a five minute major and a game misconduct. If look at the picture you will notice that the on ice official is looking right at the play.
I do believe that Little's hit is grounds for a one game suspension, you have a player head hunting an unexpecting player in a vulnerable position that doesn't even appear to be looking at the player that's bearing down on him. When I first saw this hit, I immediately thought of the Raffi Torres hit on Marian Hossa. The Little hit warrants a suspension in the NHL as well. I don't think that many of us have a problem with that call.
What I do have a problem with is Khaira's attempting to remove McCade's head from the rest of his body and only receiving a two minute minor for holding. Kind of makes one scratch their head. I have seen on line where some have likened the move to a WWE take-down.
One question that I have is, did the refs inept response to the Khaira bush league move on Jake McCabe cause Little to take matters into his own hands?
I asked sent an email to the WCHA's Doug Spencer and this is the response that I got.
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Brinn MacDougall 11/30/2007 12:12:06 PMWonderful capture, Sarah..love it! #798456
Lisa J. Boulden 11/30/2007 12:12:45 PMSpectacular, Sarah!
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The defense suffers from many problems but most of all a lack of good
defensive schemes - COACHING is the #1 problem on defense. See below.
2. Start up front. Has anyone else noticed that we NEVER run stunts? It's
ALWAYS a straight up rush with the front guys. Sure, at 350 lbs., they can
push the O line back, but the O line just gives way and stays in their faces
while the QB moves to his right or left. We simply don't put pressure on
the QB. This is a COACHING problem!! We should be finding unique ways to
get guys with speed (Clemmons, Howard, Hodge, Grant) in the QB's face.
Also, the decision to go with two Big Uglies (any two of Hand, Jackson, or
Chase) at the same time is poor. Too little speed on the field. One big
guy in the middle complemented by speed everywhere else is the way to stop
the run. Somehow our COACHES haven't figured that out.
a. William Whitehead is a good pass rusher. Why isn't he in there
more on passing situations? Ask the COACHES.
b. Why doesn't Kenny Smith get more downs? The decision to go big
most of the time is a bad one in my opinion.
c. All the big guys are too big. The COACHES have not forced them to
keep the weight down. They tire in the 4th quarter and we get ZERO pressure
on the QB late. No secondary on earth can cover receivers that long!
3. LBs. Biggest disappointment all year. Smith is still good but has lost
a step. Not really a starter any more IMO. Clemmons is OK, but we need to
use him more as a pass rusher from the outside. Hodge has great speed, but
ZERO instinct and couldn't tackle my grandmother. It's nice to have Brian
COX as a leader, but hey, make him a coach and get someone who can really
help our defense in there as a number two MLB. A good backup MLB could let
us use Clemmons more on the outside. Hello, COACHES, are you listening????
4. While on the subject of tackling, we have been pitiful all year - even
guys like Sammy Knight!!! It's either poor technique (read coaching) or too
many people with minor injuries - which coaches must recognize and deal
with. We have been absolutely miserable in coaching late in games - that's
conditioning. COACHES, am I getting through??
5. Now for DBs. OK Carter is the real deal, but he did just let Moss go
for that winning score. Sometimes his head doesn't seem to be in it. Sammy
Knight is not playing well - actually missingtackles!! He used to be the
best tackler in the league. Bellamy supports the run well, but can't cover
and misses tackles. I actuallythink we're OK at CB wit Carter and probably
Craver when he's healthy. And both Irvin and Thomas are able if not great.
More speed at safety is my biggest concern. If we pressured QBs more our
secondary would look much better!!!!
6. Finally, as for defensive schemes. I already mentioned that we NEVER
stunt. Either the COACHES assume our Big Uglies can just overpower O line
or they look at these 350 guys and determine that they just can't stunt
because they're too slow. Whose fault is that??? Either way, there's no
creativity in getting to the QB - the NUMBER ONE PROBLEM ALL YEAR!!!!!
a. Also, on run plays, with the big guys demanding doubleteams, our
linebackers should be having a field day. They don't because the schemes
are not designed to have the LBs plug holes. Our LBs sit off the line of
scrimmage. We need to be more aggressive there. LBs plug holes. That's
basic football. As a defensive COACH, you need to create schemes to have
your LBS fill gaps on run plays. Why are Knight and Bellamy the first to
contact so many runners?
b. Why do our linebackers drop so deep on pass plays. The middle is
always open. Our corners do an OK job on cross routes, but they need help
from LBs and NEVER get it. Maybe the COACHES drop our LBs so deep because
they think Knight and Bellamy need help on deep middle routes - that's
probably true. If that's not the reason, then why? COACHES, can you
c. Why late in the game do we lay off the pass rush? Are our guys
tired or is that a COACHING decision? Sure Michael Vick may kill you on the
run, but any QB WILL kill you if you give him 5 seconds in the pocket. Late
in the game we should be teeing off on the QB. Instead, our rushers are
standing up at the line and holding up their blocks. This (especially in
Vick's case) is the most eggregious lack of COACHING I've seen from the
Saints staff. Getting to the QB is the most basic thing on defense.
Sometimes it looks like we don't even try!!!!!
Well, those are my thoughts. As you can see, I think Venturi and Haslett
have some questions to answer on why we've done what we've done. I welcome
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Another Trip Down Memory Lane... Life In Germany...
The largest city that I've ever lived in is Berlin, Germany. We went to West Berlin in 1988 with my husband's job in the Army-Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES), and by the time we left in 1991, Germany and the city of Berlin had been reunified and most of the infamous Berlin wall had been torn down.
It's interesting to me that in 1990, just a year before we moved to Kentucky, Berlin's population was 3,433,695 (East and West Berlin combined) and the entire state of Kentucky's population was 3,685,296.
|A band at the Zehlendorf
Christmas market in Berlin
For the Christmas market, streets were closed to traffic. Merchants set up tents and booths and sold all sorts of Christmas crafts, gifts, baking ingredients, and holiday decorations. Sausages and bratwursts, gingerbreads, and other holiday goodies were sold by vendors, most notably the spicy gluhwein (glowing wine,) served hot to warm cold fingers and toes. Children could ride a carousel or even a little pony.
|Shepherd at the Christmas
market animal exhibit
The shepherd was watching over a little pen of sheep. Keely was a preschooler, just the right size to be fascinated by the sight of real sheep. I remember we stood by the sheep pen for a very long time before she finally had seen enough of them. Before we went home, I bought a carved rolling pin for making springerle, a souvenir of the Zehlendorf Weihnachtsmärkt which I have to this day.
While I was writing this post, I looked for the website of the American Church in Berlin (ACB) and learned that it no longer meets at the historic Alte Dorfkirche, just down the street from the Paulus Gemeindehaus. They've moved to a much larger church that's closer to the center of Berlin, near the area where the church was located before World War II.
I'm happy for the American Church, both because it has grown and because it has better facilities, but I enjoy my memories of the old village church in Zehlendorf. Worshiping in that historic Christian meeting house and attending Sunday School in the Paulus Gemeindehaus helped me feel like Zehlendorf was my home too.
The last Christmas we spent in Berlin, I sewed a dozen angel costumes for the ACB Sunday School Christmas program. I tried to make them sturdy so they'd last a long time. I hope they're still in use at the new church this Christmas.
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Creating Online Application Power Users Using Graduated Usability
Keeping the Web simple and easy has driven Internet usage to more than a billion people worldwide. Anyone with a connection, a browser and the ability to enter a URL can use the Internet today. This simplicity is great for those looking to browse their favorite blog or search for a recipe for dinner, but it has many problems as an application development platform — usability being the primary issue. Of course, tools and HTML compatibility also pose problems, but these are development issues and are dealt with by a few well-paid, trained individuals. Usability affects a greater number of people over a longer period of time.
HTML and current browsers are built to deliver content-rich Web sites, making it easy to navigate between documents. In contrast, applications need complex workflows and usability features to allow users to take advantage of the functionality they deliver. In order to fit applications into the navigation-driven approach of the Web, developers and designers typically use the navigation of a link to perform an action, rather than navigating to a new document. This makes learning to use online applications easy by fitting into existing Web usage patterns, but not necessarily usable.
"Simplicity does not equal usability"
While the aforementioned statement may seem counter intuitive, "usability" encompasses the effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction with which users achieve tasks in a given application. Because users differ in many facets — particularly in experience and skill level, they will judge the effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction of the application differently.
Graduated Usability is a concept that, when applied to application design, allows a single application to provide the means for any user, no matter their particular skill set or experience level, to effectively and efficiently use that application. Additionally, an application designed with Graduated Usability will inherently provide the ability to transition users from one skill or experience level to the next. When novice users are transformed into power users, they can more efficiently complete tasks and perform more skilled tasks.
Graduated Usability targets three skill levels of users and defines what is needed to make each more efficient:
- The Novice User looks to perform tasks easily with little or knowledge of the workflow of an application. Applications that are too complex in design reduce the user's efficiency and additional resources can be tied up as they seek help to complete the initial tasks. Effective application design draws upon usability paradigms, making movement from one application to another easy through familiar designs, and uses visual keys, such as links, to provide users with suggestions for what to do next.
- With basic knowledge of an application and the ability to perform tasks, Intermediate Users are able to complete given activities, and seek to do so quicker and more frequently, enabling them to take on additional responsibility. Since this class of users is looking to transition themselves into a power user as quickly as possible, education becomes an important application feature. Education should be an intrinsic application design element, because users will spend most of their time using the application — not the help system, which should be viewed as a contingency plan for the education process. The edification of users should be almost submittal.
- Completing tasks efficiently is the primary need of the Power User. These users have performed tasks countless times, and multiple step processes seem mundane. The ability to quickly complete tasks make the Power User extremely valuable to their employers, reducing overhead with their ability to accomplish more in less time. Thus, applications need to be designed with the Power User in mind — all users are striving to reach this skill level and these are the users that contribute most to a business' bottom line.
Graduated Usability isn't a new concept — most desktop applications use it, Web applications are limited in their ability to be designed with Graduated Usability. As more people leverage Web-based applications as part of their everyday life, for both work and non-work related tasks, more time will be spent using these applications than those on the desktop. However, currently, Web applications offer few alternatives to users: accomplish tasks less efficiently over time, wasting time and money, or move on to better designed applications that can meet their needs.
Designers and developers of Web applications have only a two alternatives as well: build multiple applications to meet the needs of targeted users' skill sets, forcing some users to seek applications that they can use efficiently elsewhere, or incorporate technology that allows a single application to meet the needs of every skill level. A single application employing Graduated Usability is the ultimate solution; it will reduce development cost and eliminate lost revenue opportunity associated with users seeking other applications.
Lowered usability = lowered productivity = wasted money
In business, productivity translates to revenue, so whether directly or indirectly, Web applications have an impact on the bottom line of business. Continued use of poorly designed applications will eventually decrease productivity, which wastes money. . Complex applications can be too hard for unskilled users, who will waste time as they struggle to complete tasks, while advanced users waste time with applications that do not allow them to complete tasks quickly. As businesses continually look for ways to make employees more productive, Web application usability for employees is a great place to start — particularly since more and more businesses are deploying applications online.
Web based e-mail applications have become hugely popular — businesses use them to lower the cost of deploying e-mail products in-house and individuals use them to check personal e-mail from anywhere with an Internet connection. Most online e-mail applications are generally the same, although there are some exceptions. A typical e-mail application shown in the figure 1 below makes it simple to work with your e-mail, viewing and deleting messages, etc.
Figure 1: GoDaddy.com e-mail application
An Informal Experiment
Experimenting with a few different ways of deleting e-mail will illustrate how a simple task can lead to lowered productivity. As you can see from the image above, users need only follow a few simple steps: check off the box next to the e-mail they wish to delete; select "move to trash bin" from the combo box above; press the "move" button. Or, they can follow another set of steps: check the box next to the e-mail they wish to delete; press the "delete" button.
Desktop e-mail applications allow the same easy process, offering toolbar buttons and menus. However, desktop applications offer higher-level usability features that allow the use of a shortcut key, thereby reducing the steps and time it takes to perform the task. Again, since Web applications don't utilize rich components in their design, it is not possible to offer advanced usability features due to the lack of functionality of HTML and the time it takes to design, develop and test such features.
An informal experiment showed that it took an average of 5.046 seconds to delete an e-mail. This included the time it took to make the round trip to the server and refresh the page, which was included because the e-mail application is unusable during this process. (Without incorporating the page refresh time it took an average of 2.565 seconds to delete an e-mail). Repeating the experiment in a desktop application, it only took an average of 0.643 seconds to delete an e-mail by pressing the "delete" key (calculated with a hand off the keyboard to start).
Comparing the "delete" key action in the desktop application to the comparable Web-based action, it's clear how much less time is spent using simplified user interface approaches (see figure below). If deleting an e-mail in a Web application takes 565 percent more time than in a desktop application, one can imagine how much time would be lost if the user was instead restoring an incorrectly deleted e-mail or completing a more complicated task.
|Method used
|Average Time
|Increase time
|"Delete" key - desktop e-mail application
|"Delete" button - Web application
|Combo box and "Move" button - web application
The next table shows the potential cost of all the people using the Internet deleting just one e-mail per day. These numbers are not meant to illustrate that Web based e-mail is a waste of money, but to show how usability affects the bottom line.
|Emails Per/Day
|Time Wasted
|Money wasted
|Wage Per Hour
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