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Should you use your Windows Phone and wish to transfer files between the device and a laptop, tablet or even SmartTV over Wi-Fi, you'll want to check out JoikuShare (www.joiku.com/joikushare). The app has just been released for Windows Phone and enables the transfer of said files to extend functionality from the phone to other devices available, and vice-versa.
Those who utilise JoikuShare are also able to receive and send files through the web browser, which makes it rather convenient for those who wish to have quick access. Friends can also see and access files you wish to provide to the big, bad world. No additional cables or software is required as everything is transferred using dark magic (also referred to as "technology").
Multiple devices can be connected to over WiFi, which allows parallel sharing across the network. QR codes are also featured for quick access. Getting started is rather straightforward, simply fire up the app on a Windows Phone, connect to a Wi-Fi network and select "Start WiFi-Share". Files you wish to share access to can be chosen under the "Shared Files" view.
Other hardware on the same network can then use web browsers to load the shared link, or use the provided QR code. Media and files that have been selected for sharing are then accessible. It's worth noting that administrators can access, manage and download all phone files, while friends are restricted to viewing and downloading of said content. Here's a quick video that explains the basic functionality (the app is also available on Android):
We're sure many will find an app with this type of functionality useful. The interface is simple and the app isn't cluttered with areas and views that aren't required. You can download JoikyShare from the Windows Phone Store for $0.99 (listed for Windows Phone 8 only and no trial is available). Thanks, adnokr5, for the tip!
Everything we know about Assassin's Creed Valhalla
Ubisoft has unveiled Assassin's Creed Valhalla. Check out everything we know so far from its gameplay, story, release date, and more.
The best ways to keep your Surface Pro charged on the go
Are you often on the move without access to a wall outlet? Here are some options to keep your Surface Pro charged up while you're on the road.
Here's everything we know (so far) about Far Cry 6
Far Cry 6 is the latest in the series of sandbox shooters from Ubisoft. Here's what we know so far about its setting, villain, story, and more.
10 must-have apps for any new PC
You just purchased a new PC and set it up, and now you're looking for some great apps. Look no further. These are the best apps for your new Windows 10 PC.


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Perforce Software has announced the latest release of its defect tracking gateway (P4DTG), which now includes configured integrations with the JIRA proprietary issue tracking product from Australian development house Altassian on the one hand, as well as the Redmine open source project management and bug tracking tool on the other.
Perforce is trying to use these developments as a strategic move to absorb as much of JIRA's reputation as a popular issue tracking and project tracking tool as it can. The company is therefore adding all the technology required to implement an integrated solution between Perforce and JIRA itself. Equally, the presence of Redmine alongside JIRA means that both technologies now join HP Quality Center and Bugzilla in the fully supported lineup of integrations included in P4DTG.
"Adding JIRA and Redmine to the growing list of integrations we support is part of our ongoing commitment to make it as simple as possible for our customers to work with the tools they want," said Dave Robertson, VP International for Perforce Software.
Perforce says that P4DTG includes two primary components, a graphical configuration editor and a replication engine. The visual configuration editor maps fields between the defect tracking system and Perforce. The replication engine coordinates the propagation of data between Perforce and the defect tracking system. The system supports the one-way or bi-directional synchronization of data. Changelist information, describing the work done and files changed while addressing a job, can also be replicated to the defect tracking system.
P4DTG is included in Perforce Server version 2010.2. There are no special licenses to purchase, install, or configure. This offer includes free technical support during evaluation.

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|A Little Golden Book
Sesame Street's Mother Goose Rhymes is a 1993 Sesame Street Little Golden Book featuring Sesame versions of the classic Mother Goose rhymes.
In 2000, the book was reissued with the new title Elmo's Mother Goose, as part of the "Big Bird's Favorites Board Books" series. (ISBN 0375805419)
Rhymes featured include:
- "Little Bo Peep" - Count von Count helps Betty Lou as Peep count her sheep.
- "Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man" - Cookie Monster bakes cakes, then eats them and the pan, too.
- "Old Mother Hubbard" - Roxie Marie goes to the cupboard looking for something starting with the letter B.
- "Peter Piper" - Bert proudly polishes his paper clips.
- "Little Jack Horner" - Oscar the Grouch sits in a corner eating anchovy pie, shooing away Big Bird.
- "Little Miss Muffet" - Betty Lou, this time as Miss Muffet, sits on her tuffet, eating a bowl of stew.
- "Hickory Dickory Dock" - Little Bird climbs the clock to cry, "Cuck-oo."
- "Pussy Cat Pussy Cat" - Grundgetta takes the place of the pussycat, going to the dump and asking who wants to know.
- "Rain Rain Go Away" - Sesame Street monsters, including Herry Monster, want the rain to end so they can play.
- "Old King Cole" - Ernie takes on the role of Old King Cole, but eats only Healthy Food, including his bread, cheese and fruit, nicely stewed.
- "Jack Be Nimble" - In a nod to his "first and last" sketch, Grover takes on Jack in a hobbyhorse race.
- "Hey Diddle Diddle" - Bert watches out the window of his apartment to see a Twiddlebug fiddle, Gladys the Cow moo at the moon, Barkley bark, and Oscar bang spoons against his can.
- "Sing a Song of Sixpence" - Six Monsters, including Elmo and Telly Monster, dance in a version of the rhyme.
- "Mary Had a Little Lamb" - Prairie Dawn takes on the role of Mary, with not only a lamb, but also a cow, a dog and two furry friends (Grover and Telly).
- "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" - Elmo looks out his window at the stars.
Other editions
The book was reissued in 2009 by Bendon Publishing as part of the Storybook Classics series in honor to celebrate Sesame Street's 40th anniversary. The 2009 reissue features a full color poster inside the book. The book was reissued again as a Little Golden Book in 2017, under the title Elmo's Mother Goose Rhymes.


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May 6, 2011
Dear Mr. President & General Holder,
My sister Allison Krause was killed at Kent State on May 4, 1970. I co-founded the Kent State Truth Tribunal with Emily Kunstler and we opened our doors for the first of three tribunals last year right around this time.
On May 1-4, 2010 we recorded, preserved and honored the stories of original participants and witnesses of the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970. It was a blessing that my mother Doris Krause, 85, was able to be present for the beginning of the Kent State healing.
As I returned to my home in California, I received word from Mom that the Kent State Tape had been examined for the very first time and a story was breaking in the Plain Dealer tomorrow, article here http://bit.ly/aM7Ocm That she had given a quote applauding the news of this long-denied order to shoot. That it had been analyzed and verified by Mr. Stuart Allen, a top forensic scientist (also Stuyvestant colleague of General Holder).
In October 2010 at the Kent State Truth Tribunal, we invited Mr. Allen to participate as a meaningfully-involved participant, to examine the Kent State Tape before our cameras. At KSTT-NYC, I received word that there was more than the command on the Kent State Tape. That Mr. Allen, in preparing for his KSTT testimonial, discovered a violent altercation recorded just 70 seconds before the national guard command to fire and ensuing barrage, 67 shots for 13 seconds. Read http://bit.ly/als1xB
As we opened our doors in NYC for our KSTT on October 9-10, 2010, and as a result of Mr. Allen's shocking new evidence, Representative Dennis Kucinich, chair of the Domestic Policy subcommittee responded by immediately opening an investigation into the Kent State shootings. http://bit.ly/cO69Yx
Then the other shoe dropped. The Democrats lost the election and Rep Kucinich lost his seat as chair in the Domestic Policy subcommittee. http://bit.ly/hmM2SH
Looking back on my Kent State path, I was 15 years old when Allison was murdered. For nine years after, my family life and world were also blown apart forever, especially as my folks pursued justice for Allison in the courts. Mr. President, no one from the government ever came to help us, except for Senator Ted Kennedy, and now recently with Rep Dennis Kucinich.
Recollecting those horrible years, I remember my Dad entering the Kent State Tape into evidence in his lawsuits. Lots of folks called Dad Krazy Krause, he would not let this go. 40 years later, it was heartening to realize Dad knew that the tape held the key to the truth at Kent State. It has taken us over 40 years to be able to decipher and once in for all, hear the recorded sounds via Mr. Stuart Allen's expertise and kgb audio software.
Mr. Allen verified the long-denied 'order to fire' at the unarmed students, and surprisingly discovered new evidence in the violent altercation between Mr. Terry Norman and students. Mr. Allen heard Mr. Norman's later surrendered pistol shoot off four pistol rounds, creating the sniper fire claimed by the national guard. Mr. Norman was a consensual informant for the F.B.I. and working that day. More on Mr. Norman http://bit.ly/gSN9pP and http://bit.ly/994afB
Mr. Norman is one of many present that day, cogs in the wheel delivering four homicides on May 4, 1970 and crossing the line at Kent State, yet Mr. Norman's actions directly connect the FBI with the command to fire. Mr. Norman's actions prove the intent to create, as in instigate sniper fire 70 seconds before the guard shot. Now we understand the odd 'Alright' in the 'command to fire' order.
It is for this reason that I formally request you Mr. President examine the new evidence in this cold case homicide of Kent State. Furthermore I ask you to create an impartial and unaffiliated team to investigate the F.B.I. This is the same instruction I gave Congressman Kucinich.
From Wikipedia: Impartiality is a principle of justice holding that decisions should be based on objective criteria, rather than on the basis of bias, prejudice, or preferring the benefit to one person over another for improper reasons.
Mr. President and General Holder, please examine the new evidence in the Kent State Tape.
Laurel Krause
P.S. Recent writing on learning the truth at Kent State in 2010, also published at the request of Rep Dennis Kucinich in the 2010 Congressional Record: Truth Emerging in the Kent State Cold Case Homicides http://bit.ly/fgI0h2
Laurel Krause's 6/9/2011 video on the new Kent State evidence and our call for a Kent State Inquiry in 2011:
Arthur Krause's response to the slaughter of Allison Krause, his daughter, May, 1970:
She resented being called a bum because she disagreed with someone else's opinion. She felt that our crossing into Cambodia was wrong. Is this dissent a crime? Is this a reason for killing her? Have we come to such a state in this country that a young girl has to be shot because disagrees with the actions of her government?
In today's snail mail letter, I also enclosed my father's words & image:
Yesterday on the Internet I discovered Arthur Krause's words from 1979 and wish to share them with you. Here's a picture of united Kent State, May 4th folks at a press conference, taken at the end of their nine year search for justice through the judicial system.
Arthur Krause is the tall man in the back, smoking a cigarette & my mom Doris Krause sits in front of him. My father shared, "The thing that I hope people remember … is that it could happen to their child. I was like everyone else and then it happened to us."
Arthur and Doris Krause carry on their lives ten years after the incident, but the pain and the lessons of the last ten years are evident. "I think we are all responsible for the killings at Kent. You can't get away from the hatred being spread by national leaders during that time. That political period was one which bred hate and with Nixon and Rhodes fanning the fires you can expect killings to result."
Krause, the parent who initially began the quest for justice in the Kent State case continued, "I knew what was going to happen; that justice would not be served, but I wanted to make sure that there was pressure applied. In the beginning the other families were not as believing that nothing would be done; I think they thought I was some sort of radical. But I can tell you that if you don't stand up for your rights they will be taken away from you just like they were from Allison and the others."
Arthur and Doris Krause have mixed feelings about the 1979 settlement. "We don't want the damn money ~ we want the truth. If we had wanted the money I would have accepted the one and a half million dollar bribe I was offered to drop the civil suit, offered to me in the presence of Peter Davies in 1971.
We want the facts out about how the four died. We aren't afraid of the truth. We aren't the ones who have been saying 'no comment' for the past ten years."
Arthur and Doris Krause hope the movie would generate more of the same hate mail they have received for the past ten years. "They always point out that my daughter had gravel in her pockets . . . that this was the rationale for killing her . . . why didn't they throw gravel at her?"
"The political climate is very similar to that in 1970," Krause added, "Kent State, 1970 means we no longer have our daughter, but it also means something to all Americans. Our court battles establish without a doubt one thing. There is no constitution. There is no Bill of Rights." ~ Arthur S. Krause


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Free Beer & Hot Wings: Former President George W. Bush Takes the Ice Bucket Challenge [Video]
The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and its videos just keep on rolling.
The latest to take on the challenge is the 43rd President of the United States, George W. Bush.
He said that he didn't think it was presidential for him to get splashed with water and he opted to just write a check for ALS. However, his wife, Laura Bush, then splashed him with a bucket of water anyway.
Although it seems that there was no ice involved in this challenge, he still went through with it and challenged others. And so the trend continues.
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Texas Tech routs Northwestern State 75-7
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LUBBOCK — Graham Harrell threw for 338 yards and five touchdowns and Michael Crabtree tied a freshman record for touchdown receptions in a season as Texas Tech beat Northwestern State 75-7 on Saturday night.
Harrell hooked up with Crabtree for three scores, giving the receiver 14 to match a Division I freshman record in just five games. Crabtree equaled the mark set by Jabar Gaffney of Florida in 2000, Mike Williams of Southern California in 2002 and Davone Bess of Hawaii in 2005.
Crabtree finished with eight receptions for 145 yards, 49 yards fewer than his nation-leading 194 yard average coming into the game.
Harrell, who led the nation in passing coming in, threw touchdowns of 34, 2, 11, 30 and 6 yards. He completed 26 of 40 before leaving the game late in the third quarter.
Tech's defense, which gave up 610 total yards in its 49-45 loss to Oklahoma State, limited the Demons to one trip into Red Raiders territory and only one score. Northwestern State's Germayne Edmond found Dudley Guice on a crossing pattern for an 18-yard touchdown early in the second quarter to close to 14-7.
Tech (4-1, 0-1 Big 12) held the Demons, who play in the Championship Subdivision (formerly I-AA) to 15 yards rushing and 103 passing.
An enthusiastic Ruffin McNeill, named interim defensive coordinator a day after Tech lost to the Cowboys last weekend, hugged players as they came off the field following a third-down stop.
It was the first time in 56 years that an opponent has scored 60 or more points against the Demons. Southern Mississippi beat Northwestern State 76-0 in 1951.
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Many on Twitter noted that LeT/JuD chief Hafiz Saeed delivered a lecture at an event sponsored by a student group from Lahore's University of Engineering and Technology (UET). He also subsequently addressed a public rally in Islamabad and attended a ceremony to hand over ambulances to a district's emergency services unit, an event at which Islamabad's Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police was present.
Yet, none of this is news. Hafiz Saeed is not in hiding — like Osama bin Laden was — nor has he been found guilty of any crime by Pakistan. Saeed isn't holed up in a cave. His Markaz-e-Taiba complex in Muridke is spread across 200 acres, and has been a recipient of generous grants from the Government of Punjab. When the United States announced a bounty on Hafiz Saeed in 2012, Saeed taunted the U.S. with a challenge: "catch me if you can."
But this isn't just bravado. Hafiz Saeed benefits greatly from his carefully cultivated image as a mujahid, an indispensable asset of the Pakistani security establishment against India, a public figure and philanthropist. His Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation (FIF), ostensibly a charitable wing of JuD, has assisted in rescue and rehabilitation efforts during calamities in Pakistan (such as the 2005 earthquake, or after the many regular bouts of flooding).
In many circumstances, the FIF is reported to have arrived even before the state's emergency services to provide aid to those in need. Taken as a whole, this puts Saeed in a different category from the run-of-the-mill jihadi who might be used by the state to do its bidding and then disposed if and when no longer needed.
Historically, Hafiz Saeed's public engagements and outreach have served two primary, if often related, purposes: to rally public opinion in favor of a nationalist cause favored by the army, or to pressure the incumbent civilian government on issues pertaining to Pakistan's fragile civil-military relations.
These recent engagements come at a time when there is turmoil in the relationship between Nawaz Sharif's government and the army, led by Gen. Raheel Sharif, on multiple axes: relations with India, domestic counter-terrorism and corruption. On April 13, 2016, Hafiz Saeed was interviewed in Nawa-i-waqt by the decidedly right-leaning columnist Fazal Hussain Awan, where he spoke at length on one of the areas of contention between the government and army: India.
Excerpts from Mr. Awan's op-ed and the interview with Hafiz Saeed follow:
India has accused Pakistan of being involved in the 2016 attacks in Pathankot and the 2007 (sic) attacks in Mumbai. According to India, Jamaat ud-Dawa's chief Hafiz Saeed and his associates were responsible for the Mumbai attacks, while Jaish-e-Mohammad's leader Maulana Masood Azhar was accused of carrying out the attacks in Pathankot. India approached the UN on both occasions and the UN, under the influence of Indian propaganda, proscribed the Jamaat ud-Dawah and Hafiz Saeed.
The Zardari government also arrested Hafiz Saeed and his associates. Then Interior Minister Rehman Malik moved the case to the Supreme Court, which, after deliberation, found Hafiz Saeed innocent. India was outraged at the verdict and protested, but there is no higher authority than the Supreme Court to which the case can be referred in Pakistan.
India reacted in a similar manner to the attack in Pathankot. Having accused Maulana Masood Azhar, India took its case to the UN. However, because of Pakistan's active diplomacy at the UN and China's assistance, India's attempts to proscribe Masood Azhar were defeated. On Mumbai, the Pakistan Peoples Party reacted defensively which led to JuD's leadership coming under India's diplomatic assault.
Thanks to China's active intervention, the attempt to proscribe Masood Azhar was vetoed. However, India continues to demand Pakistani action on Hafiz Saeed despite the fact that the Supreme Court has found him not guilty and has allowed him to continue to lead his life as a free citizen of the country.
I have no personal connection with Hafiz sahib, but was able to meet with him through some acquaintances I have in his media team. Both Yahya Mujahid [LeT/JuD spokesman] and Muhammad Irshad [JuD media person?] were present at the meeting. During our conversation, Hafiz Saeed talked to us about the most difficult moments of his life.
"I was a student at Punjab University when unrest broke out in East Pakistan," Saeed sahib told us. "India entered the conflict, supported the Mukti Bahini, and with the aid of the West, defeated Pakistan in 1971. Approximately 93,000 Pakistan Army troops were taken prisoners of war by India. I was unable to sleep or eat for several days."
"It is then that I came to the realization that until we avenge the defeat and until India is degraded and destroyed, neither Pakistan nor its Islamic values can be saved. I decided then that India must pay the price for the fall of Dhaka."
Hafiz Saeed said that terrorists and their sponsors are being apprehended in Pakistan and that the capture of Kulbhushan Yadav has exposed R&AW's network in Pakistan. According to Saeed, "India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the 'mastermind' of terrorism in Pakistan and yet Pakistan's leaders are apprehensive about holding him accountable."
Saeed despairs that Pakistan's politicians are no longer interested in the Kashmir cause and instead blindly tow the line of the West. Yet on Kashmir, Saeed reposes his faith in the Pakistan Army. He says that the Pakistan Army is sincere in its commitment to the Kashmir cause, as are the people of Pakistan. The Kashmir issue can be resolved if Pakistan's politicians display the same level of commitment.
Speaking on Pakistan's ideology [Nazaria Pakistan], Hafiz Saeed says "I'm not a great fan of cricket, but when India lost to the West Indies, there was a lot of joy in Pakistan. In fact, more sweets are distributed in Occupied Kashmir than even in Pakistan on such occasions. The slogan 'Pakistan Zindabad!' resonates from Srinagar to Jawaharlal University in Delhi. This is a testament to Pakistan's enduring ideology and the Two Nation Theory." [وائے وقت]


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WASHINGTON — A resurgent Rick Santorum won Minnesota's Republican caucuses with ease Tuesday night, relegating front-runner Mitt Romney to a distant third-place finish that raised fresh questions about his ability to attract ardent conservatives at the core of the GOP political base.
Santorum was victorious, as well, in a nonbinding Missouri primary that was worth bragging rights but no delegates.
Colorado held caucuses, too. The first few hundred votes tallied trended Santorum's way, but the count lagged well behind Minnesota's.


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Yesterday was such a fun day! After church we headed over to celebrate our little Pear Bear. He turned 3!!! So hard to believe that little redhead is growing up so fast. Kelly and Andrew hosted a little family party for his actual birthday. I love this picture with the cupcake thief caught in the background.
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About Active Transportation
Simplified, active transportation is people power. Walking, biking and skating boarding are just a few examples of active transportation. All modes of transportation are valuable. In recent years, walking and cycling for recreation, errands and commuting to school or work is growing in popularity around the Dallas-Fort Worth Region. A variety of mobility options that are safe and accessible could be provided for all of Garland residents.
Why does Garland Need an Active Transportation Plan?
An active transportation plan is an important step to increase walking, bike and non-motorized transportation options throughout the City of Garland. Development of an active transportation strategy and the prioritization of projects will help position the City for future grant opportunities and funding for infrastructure improvements. The Planning process allows the City to better align infrastructure investment with community passed projects. The plan will develop and prioritize a list of bicycle and pedestrian projects that when fully implemented, will increase active transportation opportunities and make it safer and more convenient for people wanting to walk or bike throughout Garland.
Trail Opportunities
The City of Garland has many opportunities to create a connected network of both on-street bike networks and off-street trails. Additionally, Garland has existing greenbelts, parks and multiple creek systems that could be connected by a trail system. The trail loop could connect neighborhoods to parks, greenbelts and would be an amenity for all Garland residents.
For more information, call 972-205-2833 or email Rebecca Beckham.
- Be a Bike Advocate: Attend meetings on the topic and provide feedback to City staff.
- Create Neighborhood Groups: Gather your friends and neighbors and go for a walk or ride together. Walking and biking tighter encourages social interactions, builds community and can make you healthier! Remember to follow traffic laws and practice bike safety.
- Be Bike Aware: Not everyone has the desire or ability to ride a bike and that's okay. By observing posted speed limits, obeying traffic signs and signals and keeping an eye out for cyclists and pedestrians, you can contribute to a safer environment for both bicyclists and pedestrians.
Safety Tips
Check out these other tips that promote safety for bicyclists and pedestrians.
- Wait for oncoming cyclist before turning left.
- When parallel parking, look for bicyclists riding along the side of your car or approaching quickly before opening the door to avoid "dooring."
- Always allow at least 3 feet when passing a cyclist. It's the law!


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CARSON, Calif. – David Ferreira had won praise from teammates and coaches – his own as well as opponents' – throughout the season, and on Sunday showed that he is indeed worth the hype.
Ferreira scored a goal and had an assist as FC Dallas thoroughly defeated the Los Angeles Galaxy 3-0 in the Western Conference Championship at The Home Depot Center.
The victory sends FCD to MLS Cup for the first time in their history, while the Galaxy failed to reach their seventh MLS Cup and will no longer be able to atone for last season's final loss to Real Salt Lake.
Kevin Hartman made several strong early saves to keep the Galaxy from breaking through. Just seven minutes in, Mike Magee tested Hartman with a long-distance blast that the FCD 'keeper stretched to parry away.
Hartman would come up big twice more in the following minutes. First, he would stop Juninho's shot in the 21st after the Brazilian slipped in through on the right side of the box. Two minutes later, David Beckham sent a bouncing ball into the area and Hartman reacted late but ultimately tapped it away.
With the Galaxy holding the majority of the attempts, though, it was the visitors who finally broke through. Ferreira took a ball from Marvin Chavez at the top of the penalty area. The midfielder faked to his left and froze Omar Gonzalez, then turned to his right and ripped a ball past Donovan Ricketts.
The Galaxy nearly answered when Landon Donovan raced into the penalty area and picked out the right corner, but Hartman dove and brushed the shot away.
FC Dallas put the game away early in the second half. Nine minutes after resuming play, Brek Shea slipped a ball across a congested penalty area and George John buried a shot into the roof of the goal as Ricketts was helpless to stop it.
The Galaxy couldn't do much to come back and grew increasingly frustrated as the game went on. Chris Birchall, Alex Cazumba and Beckham picked up yellow cards in the second half, all after Dema Kovalenko had been booked midway through the first.
In the 72nd minute, Ferreira and Chavez put the icing on the cake. Returning the favor, Ferreira sent Chavez a well-placed through ball and the speedster easily ripped a shot into the back of the net past a charging Ricketts .
FC Dallas did well to kill the game off as the Galaxy quietly closed out the game, failing to test Hartman again before Beckham's stoppage-time free kick.
With the 3-0 win, the Hoops booked their ticket to Canada and will face the Colorado Rapids in Toronto's BMO Field on Nov. 21 for the right to lift the MLS Cup. (8:30 p.m. ET, ESPN, Galavision)
Scoring Summary:
DAL -- David Ferreira 1 (Marvin Chavez 1, Atiba Harris 1) 26
DAL -- George John 1 (Brek Shea 2, Ugo Ihemelu 1) 54
DAL -- Marvin Chavez 1 (David Ferreira 3) 73
Misconduct Summary:
LA -- Dema Kovalenko (caution; Reckless Tackle) 31
LA -- David Beckham (caution; Dissent) 73
LA -- Chris Birchall (caution; Reckless Foul) 82
LA -- Alex Cazumba (caution; Reckless Foul) 84
DAL -- Zach Loyd (caution; Tactical Foul) 85
FC Dallas -- Kevin Hartman, Jackson Goncalves, George John, Ugo Ihemelu, Jair Benitez, Marvin Chavez (Zach Loyd 74), Dax McCarty (Eric Alexander 87), David Ferreira, Daniel Hernandez, Brek Shea, Atiba Harris.
Substitutes Not Used: Eric Avila, Jeff Cunningham, Bruno Guarda, Ruben Luna, Dario Sala.
Los Angeles Galaxy -- Donovan Ricketts, Sean Franklin, A.J. DeLaGarza, Omar Gonzalez, Eddie Lewis (Jovan Kirovski 82), David Beckham, Juninho, Dema Kovalenko (Chris Birchall 65), Landon Donovan, Edson Buddle, Mike Magee (Alex Cazumba 55).
Substitutes Not Used: Gregg Berhalter, Todd Dunivant, Michael Stephens, Josh Saunders.
Referee: Jair Marrufo
Referee's Assistants: Kermit Quisenberry; Corey Rockwell
4th Official: Michael Kennedy
Attendance: 27,000
Hartman Hands Dallas MLS Cup Trip
CARSON, Calif. – David Ferreira had won praise from teammates and coaches – his own as well as opponents' – throughout the season, and on Sunday showed that he is indeed worth the hype.


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Emma Watson, Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning… not all the young ones are skank ones. Add Saoirse Ronan to the list. She is 15, currently on a major promotional tour for The Lovely Bones, showed up in New York last night perfectly styled and has, in fact, been perfectly styled all the way through. Poised and serene, there's still a freshness there and an innocence too; illusory or not, as least it's believable. And her bits aren't hanging out everywhere.
Saoirse dresses more demurely than 9 year old Noah Cyrus.
Here she is last night with her Lovely Bones co-stars and Peter Jackson. And in Madrid and Berlin earlier this week.
Am attaching videos too – of Saoirse at the Oscars on the carpet, just 13, and a couple of weeks ago in London for the premiere. It's a great comparison. Especially interesting, in the second clip, her explanation about why she's homeschooled, what she's learning, contrasting Joe Wright and Peter Jackson, and her character analysis of Susie Salmon. Worth the 5 minutes.
Saoirse Oscars
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2007 Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD Classic Review
Pros & Cons
- Strong engine choices, multiple drivetrain options, impressive towing and hauling ability.
- Lacks refinement and some key safety features compared to rivals, some low-grade cabin materials.
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Edmunds' Expert Review
If maximum capability and functionality are more important to you than refinement, the 2007 Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD Classic is a tough truck to beat.
Vehicle overview
Entering the seventh year in its current guise, this generation of the Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD gains the word "Classic" in its name to help differentiate it from a fully redesigned Silverado that's being readied for a 2007 release. Despite the Classic's age, all of the traditional strengths of this big Chevy truck still stand, such as classic styling and a lineup of impressively capable powertrains. Though the 2007 truck is pretty much unchanged, Chevy did make a number of changes last year. This included some major upgrades to the optional Duramax diesel engine that provided the truck with best-in-class power ratings of 360 horsepower and 650 pound-feet of torque. As if that wasn't enough, the Allison automatic transmission was upgraded with an extra gear for a total of six. It's another overdrive gear designed for maximum fuel economy on the highway. That strong combination puts the Chevy head and shoulders above the competition when it's time for some serious towing. Some of the less flattering aspects of this outgoing workhorse are its lack of key safety features like side airbags and stability control, and questionable fit and finish inside the cabin.
Typically in the hunt in the full-size pickup truck sales race, the 2007 Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD Classic boasts immense capabilities, classic styling and many available features. You can't go wrong with any of the powertrain choices, as they all provide strong performance and respectable towing capacities. But if you're very serious about towing heavy loads, the Duramax diesel is the way to go. Thusly equipped, the Chevy Silverado 2500HD is unfazed by massive payloads and heavy trailers.
2007 Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD Classic models
A variety of cab and bed styles are available for the 2007 Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD Classic full-size pickup. There are regular, extended cab and crew cab body styles. Regular cabs can be matched to a short or long bed, while extended and crew cabs are short-bed only. There are five trim levels: Work Truck, LS, 1LT, 2LT and 3LT. Work Trucks are pretty basic but do have dual-zone air-conditioning, a 40/20/40-split bench seat, a tilt steering wheel and AM/FM radio. The LS has a CD player and an expanded list of options but is otherwise pretty similar. The 1LT adds an overhead console, tinted glass, power windows and mirrors, and keyless entry. Going with the 2LT equips the 2500HD with automatic dual-zone climate control and front bucket seats with a power driver seat. The top-line 3LT includes leather seating, a memory function for the driver seat and a premium Bose audio system with a CD changer. Many of these upper-level features can be added to the lower trims as options. Major optional features, depending on trim and body style, include extendable mirrors for trailering, a tow package, a rear-seat entertainment system, OnStar, satellite radio and a sunroof.
2007 Highlights
Performance & mpg
The engine lineup starts with the 6.0-liter V8 (300 hp, 360 lb-ft of torque). If that's not enough, there are the optional 8.1-liter V8 (330 hp, 450 lb-ft of torque) and the even stouter 6.6-liter Duramax diesel V8 (360 hp, 650 lb-ft of torque). The 6.0-liter V8 has a five-speed manual standard, with a heavy-duty four-speed automatic optional. The 8.1-liter V8 can be paired with either a six-speed manual or a heavy-duty Allison six-speed automatic, while the big diesel comes only with the Allison automatic. When it's time to work, the Silverado 2500HD Classic is more than capable of hauling heavy loads. Maximum tow capacity varies depending on configuration, but the most common limit, properly equipped, is 12,000 pounds.
Antilock brakes are standard and traction control is optional. But several state-of-the-art safety features, such as stability control and side curtain airbags, are not available. In NHTSA frontal-impact crash testing, the Chevy Silverado Classic received a rating of four stars (out of a possible five) for the driver and three stars for the front passenger.
Make no mistake; trucks of this ilk are happiest when working. Performance is strong and seamless, especially with the Duramax engine option. And the 2007 Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD is stable when working -- with the bed loaded up, the truck remains composed with minimal sway on curvy roads, even in heavy crosswinds. Around town, the Silverado's ride is comfortable enough for daily driver use, but on the highway with an empty bed, it can get jittery over expansion joints, due to the stiff suspension calibrations required to handle heavy loads. Though it tracks straight and corners fairly well, steering feel is basically nonexistent, there's little feedback in a straight line and it's not any better through corners. Likewise, the brakes have a non-linear feel through the pedal, despite being quite effective when it comes to actual stopping distances.
Clear gauges, simple controls and comfortable seats are the strong points of the Silverado's cabin. There is plenty of room for six passengers and the crew cab configuration makes for easy entry and exit. Downsides include mediocre materials and inconsistent build quality. Long trips are easy to take, thanks to effective sound insulation and the availability of satellite radio and a DVD entertainment system.
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It's Stevie Wonder week at William McKinley High School. Or, "Wonder-ful," as Mr. Schu called it. We're celebrating big news, too! Rachel's excited about her callback for Fannie Brice in "Funny Girl." Brittany got into college...whaaat?!
And Mr. Schu re-proposed to Emma and they're getting married after regionals. Hopefully, for real this time. Plus, Artie was accepted to film school in New York. It's his dream come true, but he's not going. Huh?
Meanwhile, it appears as though Kurt has developed a slight case of OCD since he's been in NYC. He taps his nose at 4:14 and 4:28 for good luck, which he needs because he's not-so-patiently awaiting his dad's cancer test results. But he's not the only one going back to Ohio. Back at WMHS, we find Mike Chang and Mercedes, too.
In keeping with the theme of the week, Kitty sings a rather spirited rendition of "Signed, Sealed, Delivered." It appears as though she's coming on to Artie–complete with a full split over his head–but you can never be too sure with this girl.
Mercedes is there to be the vocal coach for New Directions, while Mike Chang is going to be the choreographer...surprise, surprise. Or, as Tina says, #GleeHatesGirls. Mercedes leads the club in "Superstition" and hits Marley in the stomach with a maraca when she doesn't hold the note.
Back in New York, two NYADA students give Rachel hell about her callback and blow up her spot to Cassie. Apparently, teachers have to sign off on outside auditions? So then, in true Cassie fashion, she sets out to make Rachel's life a living hell...telling her how she's going to attend her callback to watch her fail. Oh, and she moved Rachel's dance midterm up to 6 a.m. the next day and gave her one of the hardest dances in the history of dancing to perform. What a biatch!
Like a trooper, Rachel shows up to her midterm and there's a whole room full of students. Ummm? Cassie tells her this is NYADA and while they'd kill you for your role, they're also a family. And thus, we have Cassie serenading Rachel with "Uptight (Everything's Alright)." Aww, she has a heart!
Later, Rachel thanks Cassie with the original cane Debbie Allen used in "Fame," the movie. Cassie tells Rachel she saw something special in her all along. They hug and make up and it's sweet.
In keeping with the good news: Burt's cancer is in remission, yayyy!! And apparently he has the prostate of a 20-year-old...awkward, but still good news! Not so good news, well, for Blaine. He asked Burt for permission to marry Kurt (sigh!), but...Burt says no because they're too young and I agree. But in the meantime, Blaine, you know, you could propose to me. I'm currently accepting offers...and you wear bow ties, my favorite! Wink wink. Nudge nudge.
Aaand Kitty spilled the beans about Artie getting accepted into film school. Originally, he said he didn't want to go because his mom was afraid of him being in the city. Then, he admitted he was afraid. Lastly, he confessed he didn't want to leave her all alone. But...she talked some sense into him (threatened to tip over his wheelchair) and now Artie's going to New York!
Mercedes, however, is on the receiving end of some not so good news. Her record deal is no longer because she refused to show more skin. So...she's going to sell her records at church, out of the trunk of her car and on Amazon. Get it, girl!
We close the show with "For Once in My Life" and....next week is REGIONALS!! Get excited...I know I am!


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This is an exciting development in blogs - they are instituting the use of Polls on the OGS blog at www.ogs.on.ca/ogsblog/?p=1389.
There are going to be a new one each week.
This week they asked the guestion - What regions have you been searching to build your family tree?
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For Ellie, flowers of the Dutch Golden Age are symbols of our intense longing, desire, and aspiration towards beauty. Thinking about how she might apply her own hand to this subject matter, it occurred to her that she might want to do this with more softness, applying less clinical precision, and revealing more emotional vulnerability.
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The multifaceted agreement gives Rambus access to ST's Fully-Depleted Silicon On Insulator (FD-SOI) process-technology design environment. With this, Rambus will be able to benefit from FD-SOI's reduced silicon geometries and lower power consumption at 28nm and below in its future memory and interface solutions.
For its part, ST has secured license terms from the Cryptography Research, Inc. (CRI) division of Rambus to make it possible for ST to deploy Differential Power Analysis (DPA) countermeasures and CryptoFirewall core security technology across a wider range of products. DPA is a form of attack that involves monitoring the fluctuating electrical power consumption of a target device and then using statistical methods to derive cryptographic keys and other secrets. DPA countermeasures are used to protect secret cryptographic keys, including those used to secure transactions for banking, identity, pay television, video gaming, smartphones, government, and other applications.
CryptoFirewall cores are complete hardware-based security blocks designed by CRI to protect against a wide range of attacks and tampering techniques.
The new terms allow ST to further strengthen the security robustness of its leading-edge set-top box ICs and gateways for multimedia services including PayTV.
"This agreement with Rambus is an exceptional win-win-win for both parties, as they can now share and use more broadly important technologies that have great value to us, the industry and our customers," said Gian Luca Bertino, Executive Vice President Digital Convergence Group, STMicroelectronics. "While Rambus can now use our revolutionary FD-SOI process technology in its designs, ST intends to further enhance the security of our outstanding set-top box ICs and to deploy DPA countermeasures across the whole range of our relevant product portfolio."
"ST has implemented DPA countermeasure technology for years in its secure microcontrollers and has been a leader in data security", said Paul Kocher, President and Chief Scientist at the Cryptography Research division of Rambus. "With this new comprehensive and mutually beneficial agreement, our technology will be further deployed across a wide array of products and applications, benefitting customers by improving the security of digital systems."
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This entry was cross-posted from Meanders: The Dow Brook Blog.
Software analysts and buyers have historically favored platforms over application suites and stand-alone applications. Why? Because platforms offer both a rich set of pre-integrated functionality and the ability to add or build new features and applications, some of which may be extensively customized for an organization.
IBM has long been considered a platform provider of enterprise software, particularly in the infrastructure and middleware categories. More recently, IBM has evolved from being a vendor of a collaboration suite (Quickr) to a provider of multiple integrated, extensible offerings for enterprise collaboration, social networking, messaging, content sharing and management, and customer- and employee-facing web experience management. IBM's vision for for this confederation of offerings, codenamed 'Project Vulcan', was first articulated at Lotusphere 2010. Last year's Lotusphere presented initial, limited evidence that the vision was becoming reality.
Lotusphere 2012, held last week, showcased IBM's latest efforts at unifying its interaction platform. IBM previewed the upcoming releases of its Connections, Notes/Domino, and Customer and Intranet Web Experience offerings. As one would expect from a platform software provider, each of these products works with the others out of the box. However, IBM, has gone beyond merely providing integration between the separate offerings by embedding functionality from each into the others. For example, IBM customers who have licensed both Connections and Notes will soon be able to send and receive email from within Connections, and, conversely, consumers will be able to view and interact with the Connections activity stream from within Notes.
The increasing power of the IBM interaction platform was further underscored by demonstrations of related, integrated and embedded functional services from its Quickr collaboration, Content Manager and FileNet enterprise content management, and Cognos analytics offerings. This extended scope of the Project Vulcan vision is what sets IBM apart from other platform software vendors, and it was good to see IBM articulating and demonstrating that differentiation at Lotusphere.
Death of a Tradeoff
We, as an industry, have assumed the existence of a tradeoff between rich functionality and simple, intuitive user experiences. Conventional wisdom says that as more features are added, the resulting complexity degrades the user experience, forcing software architects and designers to find an optimal balance between functionality and usability. The tradeoff has traditionally been managed in one of two ways: 1) by creating simple, single-purpose applications that are not overloaded with functionality, or 2) by partitioning functionality into multiple, related applications in a suite. Platforms have largely not attempted to manage this tradeoff at all for developers/designers, administrators, or consumers. Not only is the platform's complexity on full display; it is generally promoted as a benefit.
IBM's implementation of its Project Vulcan vision has, for perhaps the first time, obviated the long-held tradeoff between functionality and ease-of-use at the platform level. The versions of Connections, Notes/Domino, and the Web Experience offerings that where announced and demonstrated at Lotusphere 2012 (and will be released over the course of this year) are both feature-rich and highly usable. Each offering has had its user interface redesigned, yielding a cleaner look that is more consistent across the interaction platform. Additionally, the new user interface designs are simpler than their predecessors and, in effect, minimize the complexity created by IBM's extended integration and embedding of functionality from related software offerings.
This harmonious co-existence of broad, advanced functionality and a consumer-friendly computing experience is what makes IBM's interaction platform really different and powerful. The first public glimpse of this next-generation enterprise software came during the Lotusphere 2012 Opening General Session, when Connections Next was demonstrated by its Lead Project Manager, Suzanne Livingston. My reaction, a tweet that was later displayed before the beginning of the Closing General Session, sums up the impact of IBM's work on its interaction platform over the last year:
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While there is more work to be done, IBM should be proud of the next-generation interaction platform it is bringing to market. Lotusphere 2012 demonstrated that IBM is in good position to be a provider of choice for social business software. The work that they've done over the last year strongly differentiates their interaction platform and should positively affect its adoption by customers. IBM's refusal to acknowledge the old, limiting tradeoff between platform complexity and user experience should accelerate the consolidation of the Enterprise Social Software market in the second half of 2012. It may also more firmly establish IBM as a leader in the Web Experience software category and spark renewed interest in its Notes/Domino messaging and Sametime unified communications offerings.
Disclosure: IBM is a client of Dow Brook's Insight OnDemand subscription advisory service and paid the author's registration and hotel expenses related to Lotusphere 2012 attendance.


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There's a new BioShock web game out today, from the people who made the pretty cool puzzle game Cogs. Would you like to play it? Then pre-order BioShock Infinite.
Did you already pre-order BioShock Infinite? Then cancel that pre-order and pre-order again. (So says the official FAQ.)
The web game, BioShock Infinite: Industrial Revolution, certainly appears Cogs-inspired and looks like the kind of puzzle game that well into the Bioshockiverse. It also unlocks stuff in the February-scheduled BioShock Infinite, specifically:
- 3 Exclusive Gear items: Handyman Nemesis, Sugar Rush, and Fleet Feet
- In-Game cash
- Learn about the city of Columbia and its factions through story chunks.
- Facebook pack that pledges your allegiance for either the Vox Populi or the Founders
If you're intrigued, here's the official description:
BioShock Infinite: Industrial Revolution is a puzzle game in which you assume the role of a factory worker within the sky-city of Columbia. You complete increasingly difficult puzzles while learning more about the warring factions in the game and earning in-game rewards.
And here's the million-dollar question, from the FAQ, for pre-order abstainers:
Is it part of BioShock Infinite? Will it ever be offered for sale? Can I buy the in-game items or grab them in a later edition?
Industrial Revolution is not offered for sale as a standalone game, it is not part of BioShock Infinite, and we currently have no plans for its content to be used elsewhere.
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Forty-six years ago, I covered a speech in Nelson by a prime-ministerial wannabe named Trudeau who went on to win the job and hold it for a long, long time.
Friday, I covered a speech in Vancouver by a prime-ministerial wannabe named Trudeau who may or may not win the job next year.
How do the two, Pierre and Justin, pere et fils, stack up against each other?
On style, there's no question that Justin learned a lot about easy confidence at the microphone from his masterful Old Man. But when it comes to transforming this charm into magnetism, Trudeau the Younger still has a long way to go.
Friday's audience, a thousand-plus Vancouver Board of Trade members, certainly seemed attentive and quite warmly interested. But the 1968 audience in Nelson seemed, as I recall through the fog of too many decades passed, electrified and wildly enthusiastic.
Some of this may be the audience — hippie-heavy Nelson versus the staid Board of Trade. Or perhaps it's just that these are more sober times. But some of it is the mysterious chemistry of charisma, and Friday's, though good, fell short of great.
On substance, however, I thought the son surpassed his father.
Pierre Trudeau's great strength — the fuel that fired Trudeaumania in his first campaign — was passion for Canada. This carried into his time in office and yielded not only the tangible nation-building exercise of a patriated constitution capped with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, but also a generally greater and more confident sense of nationhood than most Canadians had felt before.
But the economy? Not so much. In the 1968 campaign, my memory is that Trudeau treated strong future growth as pretty much a given — and so did most voters. This view also carried into his time in office when he, at best, neglected important aspects of economic management and at worst, screwed it up.
Trudeau the Younger seems determined to honour and to build on the passion of his dad. His audience was business-oriented and his theme was economic growth, but a thread woven through from start to finish was the need to build not just a stronger economy, but also a better country. Better distribution of the wealth that flows from growth, balancing resource development with environmental stewardship — these aren't new themes for the young Liberal leader, but they were key ones he discussed at length and returned to time and again.
Nor was he particularly vague — indeed less vague than most politicians including, on many occasions, his father — on specific issues. He forthrightly supports the Harper Conservatives for free trade deals with Europe and Korea. He's for the Keystone pipeline because, he said, it has gone through a credible review process. He's against the Northern Gateway proposal as it stands because, he said, it failed to win buy-in from the communities and interests involved. He's content to wait for the Kinder Morgan pipeline approval process to play out and see where it leads.
Even more interestingly to me, his discussion of these issues and more was centred in a Western context with frequent and fluent references to B.C. You might think this unremarkable — after all, he's a UBC education grad who launched his previous teaching career here.
But this is what, for me, differentiated the Trudeaus most sharply — that the new one "gets" the West in a way the old one never did.
If memory serves, Trudeau the Elder didn't even make a pretext of grasping local issues when a few of us local reporters put a few questions to him in Nelson way back when. And that wasn't just a one-off on a bad day — it became his trademark. Indeed, a dozen years later, his hated National Energy Policy — a total misreading of what Western voters would tolerate — actually began to fan separatism flames in much of Alberta and parts of B.C. Before long, Trudeau himself had morphed into the most despised prime minister most of us can remember — at least until Brian Mulroney came along.
You can expect endless debate between now and next year's election about whether the new Trudeau's economic pronouncements are the right ones, or whether he has the right stuff to follow through. But don't expect him to fall into the Western alienation trap that so wounded his father.
And, finally, Justin also has much more and much better hair.
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Lean User Experience, or Lean UX, is a software development discipline that can be a game changer for Web and mobile applications. The goal is to get digital products to market quickly after an idea is born, without compromising design quality.
Lean UX is based on a model in which the project leader, whom I'll call the Lean UX designer, must work with designers and developers, rather than relying on the traditional waterfall model in which the UX professional is in charge of finding all pieces of the solution and getting the client's approval before development starts.
This article examines how Lean UX works and provides pointers on using the technique to improve the agile development of an interactive experience.
The User Experience
There has been a lot of discussion about the formal definition of UX and how it works. Lean UX designers (sometimes referred to as product stewards) are responsible for creating interaction models that improve the user's experience. They ensure that designers and developers work in tandem to amplify the UX based on the business vision.
The word "lean" in Lean UX can be misleading and is incorrectly associated with using a shallow approach that seeks to speed software development at the expense of user-centered design and design fine tuning. The term is borrowed from Eric Ries's book, The Lean Startup, where it refers to the principles first enunciated in the now-famous Toyota Production System. (Toyota revolutionized manufacturing by introducing process changes that simultaneously increased value and reduced waste. Some elements of Toyota's approach have recently been rediscovered in software development with the emergence of lean IT and lean software development, both evolutions of agile methodologies.)
The blogger Luxr coined the term Lean UX, defining it as "a cross-functional, principle-driven process characterized by rituals that predispose teams to high-quality, high-velocity user experience outcomes." While "quality" is self-explanatory, "velocity" in agile methodologies is a measure of a team's productivity and should be maximized at all times.
The exact definition of Lean UX isn't terribly formalized. If you're following Lean principles when implementing your UX strategy and depending on a lean, agile development process, then you're doing Lean UX. So even if you aren't strictly following the Lean UX requirements, you're still moving toward a leaner UX development process.
A New Way Of Thinking
Lean UX is a disruptive approach to traditional software development with its discovery, design, development, and deploy steps and waterfall transitions. In the traditional model, steps occur sequentially, with a handoff from one team to another at the end of each.
Lean UX breaks up the traditional sequential approach. Designers including Information architects, interaction designers, UI designers, and UX designers work beside developers as a solution-finding team. This is the main difference between Lean UX and the traditional model.
In the traditional approach, all the specifications of the UX site maps, wireframes, flow diagrams, content inventory, taxonomies, and mockups are the final result of the design phase. In Lean UX, these specs are discussed and laid out throughout the process, and emphasis is on the deliverables needed for each step of the process. Several years ago, my company, which does software and UX development, made a big transition from the Rational Unified Process (RUP) to an agile methodology (scrum). We went from a heavy, documentation-driven process to a lightly documented, dynamic one.
Over the past three years, we took the next step: integrating the full UX and software process. We're now moving toward implementing Lean UX, focusing first on our mobile services team (see Figure 1.)
Traditional Development
The reality in the vast majority of projects being carried out every day is that companies still favor the waterfall model.
For example, let's assume you've already completed the discovery phase, since that's typically necessary before you decide that you even have a project. You probably had business, product, and marketing managers participate in idea-generating sessions that produced an awesome briefing document about your product. The document represents the business vision of the idea, but not the visual formats that make it easy for people to buy into the idea.
This leads to the design phase, which has many steps, including turning the briefing document into a formal requirements document, getting approvals, transforming the requirements document into high-level site maps and wireframes. Then, after further approvals, you design the implementations in more detail, get more approvals, and after several cycles of refinement, you end up with a spec containing a large amount of detail.
After several months of work, it's time for the development team to bring the design to life. You hand it off to the brightest engineers you can find who make it look and work exactly the way it was designed to. So far, it's mostly waterfall.
Now you're at the development stage, and perhaps you have a great agile team at your disposal. One good approach is for them to go through the specs and prepare a product backlog (that is, a collection of user stories) to be implemented. This process involves software architects for feasibility analysis. Work with them to do value engineering to prioritize stories in sprints, interact daily with a product owner, develop the stories, do demo meetings of workable software at the end of each sprint, rework the changes, and move on to other user stories. Remember to get back to anything that was identified as missing. And, finally, deliver an awesome product that may, or may not, look exactly as it was designed originally, but it works.
Some people will do usability tests in between the design and development phases but not using real workable software because, obviously, they don't have it yet. In any case, the best thing to do is to collect data, learn from user behavior, and iterate, changing what didn't work and exploring what did.
Even with so many processes and careful steps, about half of all software developed fails during execution. A good percentage of the remaining software fails to reach business goals, or at least make the users happy. It would make sense, then, to find a faster way to determine if an idea has the potential to succeed. Lean UX is one way to do that.


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How do we ensure safe access to water and sanitation for the planet's growing urban population? This question will be discussed at the World Water Week from 21-27 August in Stockholm. The theme this year is 'Responding to Global Changes: Water in an Urbanising World'. IUCN's answer comes from nature itself.
Coping with growing water needs in cities is one of the most pressing challenges of this century. With the planet's burgeoning population expected to hit seven billion in 2011 and with more than half of humanity living in cities, increasing pressure on freshwater is stretching this vital resource to its limits. As cities grow, they are looking further away to secure access to freshwater. This can lead to tensions across borders. According to IUCN, natural infrastructure and sound water management are key elements of sustainable solutions to these problems and form an important part of a green economy.
IUCN Solutions:
• Natural infrastructure: "Healthy ecosystems in river and groundwater basins upstream keep clean water flowing to cities and are key for building the social and economic resilience needed for cities to cope with climate change," says Mark Smith, Director of the IUCN Global Water Programme. "Wetlands filter and clean water for free and healthy rivers deliver it to people in cities. Healthy forests and wetlands store water, and well-managed floodplains reduce the vulnerability of cities downstream."
• Green economy: "Many of the world's big cities have understood that protecting natural ecosystems to secure their water supplies makes economic sense," says Ganesh Pangare, Coordinator of the IUCN Asia Water Programme. "Keeping water catchments healthy saves billions of dollars in costly urban infrastructure built to store, clean or transfer water."
• Cross-border cooperation: "IUCN's recently launched BRIDGE project will help ensure that water management reforms are coordinated across borders," says Alejandro Iza, Director of the IUCN Environmental Law Centre. "Better cooperation among countries that share water is vital in making sure that the development of water resources is sustainable and progress in bringing safe water supplies is faster."
Mark Smith, Director IUCN Global Water Programme, firstname.lastname@example.com
Ganesh Pangare, Coordinator IUCN Asia Water Programme, firstname.lastname@example.com
Alejandro Iza, Director IUCN Environmental Law Centre, email@example.com
Material for the Media:
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The IUCN booth is in the main part of the conference exhibition. Journalists can visit and collect publications.
IUCN Events:
21 August, 09:00 - 12:30, Seminar "Meeting Adaptation Demands for Water: Information, Finance and Integration", Room T6
21 August, 09:00 - 12:30, Seminar "EcoHealth ", Room K16/17
21 August, 17:45 - 18:45, Side Event "Ramsar at 40: A Global Framework for Water and Ecosystem Solutions", Room K16/17
22 August, 12:15 - 13:15, Side Event "IUCN Water and Nature Initiative: A Treasure Trove of IWRM Knowledge", Room K16/17
22 August, 15:30 - 18:45, Seminar "Strengthening Water Diplomacy in Transboundary Basins", Room K23
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24 August, 14:00 - 17:30, Seminar "Living on the Edge: Management in Coastal Cities", Room T4
24 August, 14:00 - 17:30, Seminar "Founders Business Seminar 2011 - The Role of Business", Room T2
24 August, 14:00 - 17:30, Seminar "Americas' Regional Panel on Water and Climate Change", Room T3
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This post "Kitschy Peony" was originally uploaded by Tyra Hallsénius Lindhe in the blog Tyra's Garden / Tyras Trädgård
Can a flower be Kitschy?
Today, the peonies starts to flower in my garden. It has been raining heavily the last few days and the poor branches on the peonies really need all the support they can get. I think this peony is a masterpiece, I know they can be almost too good on the edge to being vulgar, but still this is really what I need on a rainy day as this one.
If you like growing you own food, then do visit KÖKSTRÄDGÅRDEN - The Kitchen Garden. It is in my native tongue but you can always push the translate button./ Tyra


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Tyler Clementi's death is a call to action
by Larry Magid
This post originally appeared on CNET News.com
The recent suicide of Tyler Clementi, which raised the visibility of cyberbullying and digital ethics, is serving as a call to action to end something much deeper than that: cruelty, homophobia, and a distorted sense of entitlement to disclose information about others.
Clementi, an 18-year-old freshman at Rutgers University, jumped off the George Washington Bridge after his roommate, Dharum Ravi, and Rutgers student Molly Wei (both also 18) allegedly used a Webcam to record and live-stream Clementi kissing another male in his dorm room.
What these two students did was wrong for a number of reasons–and it would have been just as wrong, if modern technology hadn't been employed, or if the victim were heterosexual.
As my ConnectSafely co-director Anne Collier pointed out in a blog post, this story "is not (about) technology, but inhumanity." CNET's Greg Sandoval made a similar point that humans, not machines, are responsible for Clementi's death. But the fact that technology was involved does change the equation somewhat.
"Like so many documented instances of cyberbullying," said Dr. Patti Agatson, co-author of "Cyber Bullying: Bullying in the Digital Age," "it is unlikely that [the two youths charged with streaming Clementi's intimate encounter] could have foreseen the horrendous outcome of their actions."
When it comes to bullying, the Internet can encourage what psychologists call "disinhibition." As Rider University psychology professor John Suler put it in his free 1996 online book "The Psychology of Cyberspace," "people say and do things in cyberspace that they wouldn't ordinarily say or do in the face-to-face world." It's somewhat similar to road rage. How many times have you seen someone in a passing 3,000-pound vehicle make a hand gesture that he or she probably wouldn't have made, if encountering a similarly frustrating situation while walking down a sidewalk?
The Net is the real world
Like it or not, the Net now is the real world for the overwhelming majority of children and adults in the developed world and, increasingly, for the rest of the world. It was real for Tyler Clementi because real people were witnessing an intimate act from his dorm room that he had a right to assume was taking place in private.
Whether it's an invasion of privacy–or outing, as in this case–or other forms of cyberbullying, such as defamation, impersonation, or just plain being mean, cyberbullies can inflict mental anguish that can be very painful. A cyberattack can reach a vast audience, and it can haunt the victim forever. It can follow children home from school and possibly for the rest of their lives. And it can affect different people in different ways.
Some people can deflect situations better than others. How they react depends on a host of factors the perpetrator often can't possibly predict. At least in a school yard brawl, a bully can see his or her victim suffer. Online bullies may never know how much suffering they're inflicting.
We will never know the full story of why Clementi took his own life. Suicide experts say it is rare for one instance to lead someone to such a desperate act. And while suicide remains a statistically rare consequence of cyberbullying, Clementi's death is one of several recent examples of young bullying victims driven to that tragic end.
Worse for LGBT youth
Long before teens started flocking to the Internet, suicides among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered youth were too common. The 1989 Secretary's Task Force on Youth Suicide from the Department of Health and Human Services found that gay youth are two to three times more likely to attempt suicide, according to Iowa State University professor Warren Blumenfeld, who recently conducted a study on cyberbullying of LGBT youth.
Blumenfeld's survey found that 54 percent of LGBT youth had been victims of cyberbullying in the past 30 days. Forty-five percent of the respondents "reported feeling depressed as a result of being cyberbullied, 38 percent felt embarrassed, and 28 percent felt anxious about attending school. The authors reported that "more than a quarter of LGBT cyberbullying victims (26 percent) had suicidal thoughts.
Tipping point and call to action
I don't think that there are many who would disagree that it's time for all of us–young and old–to think more about the implications of our actions on and off the Internet. Cruelty and bigotry of any sort has no place on the Internet, in our schools, in our workplaces, and in our communities or our political discourse, where even our national leaders too often are negative role models.
Every parent needs to talk about bullying and cyberbullying with their children, every school needs to integrate it into their curriculum, and every civic leader–at all levels of society–needs to incorporate civility in their messages and the way they act. It's not just about lecturing kids about how to treat other kids; it's the way all of us lead our lives in public and in private.
Being active includes not being a bystander but an interrupter of negative behavior. "In many of these situations, someone knows beforehand or early on when mean material is being posted," said Nancy Willard of the Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use. "It's essential for everyone to take personal responsibility and speak out by saying "hey, it's not OK."
Willard recommends that young people learn to work in groups. "If you see something wrong, and you don't feel safe saying stop, you can find two friends. Then it becomes the power of three speaking out. That's very powerful."
Common Sense Media's free Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum
Stop Bullying Now! (resources from HRSA: the U.S. Health Resources and Services Admin)
The Federal Government Find Youth Info, with links to local programs on bullying prevention
Cyberbullying Research Center'sCyberbullying Identification, Prevention, and Response (PDF)
Educator's Guide to Cyberbullying (PDF) fr
om the Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use
Net Cetera: Chattings with Kids About Being Online from the Federal Trade Commission and OnGuard Online
ConnectSafely's Tips to Stop Cyberbullying


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The U.S. Air Force and Raytheon said Thursday they have conducted concept evaluation demonstrations that show existing air traffic control equipment could be modified to safely track the presence of nearby unmanned aircraft.
Ground Based Sense and Avoid (GBSAA) -- based on the Airport Surveillance Radar Model-11 (ASR-11) and the repurposed Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System (STARS) air traffic control system -- reduces the need for costly new infrastructure, according to Raytheon.
The testing near Edwards Air Force Base at Gray Butte Airfield in California involved a moving "dynamic protection zone" -- a collision avoidance alerting capability -- around the UAS. The "dynamic protection zone" provides a series of alerts to the UAS pilot as airborne objects (i.e., balloons or ultra-lights) approach to avoid near mid-air collisions. GBSAA also builds on wind farm mitigation technology used to mitigate interference from wind turbines near airports.
Using Raytheon's ASR-11, the STARS automation system, and its surveillance data processor, repurposed for GBSAA, pilots and controllers were given alerts of intruding airborne objects near surrogate unmanned aerial systems and were able to keep them safely separated.
ASR-11, the STARS system and its surveillance data processor are proven, NAS-certified systems for use in safely separating aircraft today. Repurposing these assets provides a cost-effective approach that enables safe UAS flight in the NAS.
"Our solution provides the Federal Aviation Administration and the Department of Defense with a cost-effective and safe approach to handle the thousands of unmanned aerial systems that'll be flying in our airspace in the next few years," said Joseph Paone, director of Air Traffic Management for Raytheon's Network Centric Systems business.
"Our system properly notifies controllers and pilots of intrusions and accurately shows aircraft altitude, which is important in keeping commercial aircraft, unmanned aerial systems and other hazards safely separated," he added.


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Do your students know who to call when they need help with Blackboard or another technology? Do they know where to find the information they need to get help?
Particularly if you are teaching a fully online delivery course or even if you have a Blackboard component to your face-to-face course, consider making a place on your course home page for technical issues. It would be beneficial to your students if you would even put a line of text at the very bottom of your homepage that gives students the web address for the help desk. Remember, students have just as many (if not more) technical glitches as you do. Give them a place to get help when their technology does not work according to plan.
Technical Issues? Contact the helpdesk at: http://www.uca.edu/helpdesk/.


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Implement the solitaire cipher.
Since this is from Wikipedia, I am capturing the algorithm now in case there are edits.
Keystream Algorithm
This algorithm assumes that the user has a deck of cards and two jokers which are distinguishable from each other. For simplicity's sake, only two suits will be used in this example. Each card will be assigned a numerical value: the first suit of cards will be numbered from 1 to 13 (Ace through King) and the second suit will be numbered 14 through 26 in the same manner. The jokers will be assigned the values of 27 and 28. Thus, a 5 from the first suit would have the value 5 in our combined deck, the value 1 in the second suit would have the value 14 in the combined deck.
The deck will be assumed to be a circular array, meaning that should a card ever need to advance below the bottom card in the deck, it will simply rotate back to the top (in other words, the first card follows the last card).
Arrange the deck of cards face-up according to a specific key. This is the most important part as anyone who knows the deck's starting value can easily generate the same values from it. How the deck is initialized is up to the recipients, shuffling the deck perfectly randomly is preferable, although there are many other methods. For this example, the deck will simply start at 1 and count up by 3's, modulo 28. Thus the starting deck will look like this:
1 4 7 10 13 16 19 22 25 28 3 6 9 12 15 18 21 24 27 2 5 8 11 14 17 20 23 26
Locate the first joker (value 27) and move it down the deck by one place, basically just exchanging with the card below it. Notice that if it is the last card, it becomes the second card. There is no way to become the first card. The deck now looks like this:
1 4 7 10 13 16 19 22 25 28 3 6 9 12 15 18 21 24 2 *27* 5 8 11 14 17 20 23 26
Locate the second joker (value 28) and move it down the deck by two places. Notice that if it is the second to last card, it becomes the second card by wrapping around. If it is the last card, it becomes the third card. There is no way to become the first card.
1 4 7 10 13 16 19 22 25 3 6 *28* 9 12 15 18 21 24 2 27 5 8 11 14 17 20 23 26
Perform a triple-cut on the deck. That is, split the deck into three sections. Everything above the top joker (which, after several repetitions, may not necessarily be the first joker) and everything below the bottom joker will be exchanged. The jokers themselves, and the cards between them, are left untouched.
*5 8 11 14 17 20 23 26* 28 9 12 15 18 21 24 2 27 *1 4 7 10 13 16 19 22 25 3 6*
Observe the value of the card at the bottom of the deck, if the card is either joker let the value just be 27. Take that number of cards from the top of the deck and insert them back to the bottom of the deck just above the last card.
23 26 28 9 12 15 18 21 24 2 27 1 4 7 10 13 16 19 22 25 3 *5 8 11 14 17 20* 6
Note the value of the top card. Count this many places into the deck and take the value of the card there. This value is the next value in the keystream, in this example it would be 8. (Note that no cards are changing places in this step, this step simply determines the value).
Repeat steps 2 through 6 for as many keystream values as required.
It is worth noting that because steps 2 and 3 have the wrap around feature, there are two configurations that can lead the same configuration on a step. For instance when the little joker is on the bottom or top of the deck it will become the second card. This means the algorithm is not always reversible.
Given a starting set of numbers, deck, generate N values for the keystream.
I believe there is an error in test case 2. the first value should be 1, not 3.
The process appears correct thru step 3 yielding [28 2 3...26 27 1]. The triple cut I claim results in [1 28 2 3...26 27]. The solution appears to generate [28 2 3...26 27 1] for the triple cut, which I believe is errant. The step 5 result I believe should be [1 28 2...26 27], no change from the prior step. The Solution's step 5 creates [2 3...26 27 28 1]. My first value thus becomes a 1 and the solution's answer is a 3.
The wiki words actually don't match the numerical exmaple result but that is a different issue.
I see the difference in our code:
if j2==27
d=[28 d(2:26) d(28) d(1)];
proper implementation would be:
if j2 == 27
d = [d(1) 28 d(2:26) d(28)];
Basically, it has to skip two cards down the deck. I will clean up the wording, as I have seen several do this on internal implementations here too.
problem just solved , I can now go on week-end! good luck for other players !
The updated wiki page does not include the full step 6 rule which skips keystream code value for jokers and also does not point to the correct keystream value. The correct value is d(1+d(1)), not d(d(1)). I assert the 1:28 n=10 should produce [4 23 10 28 24 8 17 6 17 27] and the modulo 3 sequence should produce [11 9 23 7 10 25 11 11 7 27].
Being Wikipedia, I just copied the algorithm this test suite was built on. Thanks!
Cody is telling me that in order to see the smaller sized solutions (which is most of them!) I need to answer another problem in the challenge. I've already answered them all. Any ideas on how to see the better solutions?
Any problem will work not just ones in this category.
It's still not working properly. I sent you an e-mail to continue the discussion.
Guys, this is unserious: the few first leading solutions are just an answer table that works solely due to the small number of testing cases! I strongly believe it is bad practice, lazy conduct and violates the spirit of the Cody Challenge; moreover, there _are_ solutions that do not rely on such improper methods (such as mine, which is actually _shorter_ than all of the listed above).
@Doug_Hull, is it not possible to write additional test cases in order to render those methods useless?
I agree entirely. Unfortunately, every time on other problems that I changed the test suite, the look up tables just came back anyways. We need to eventually randomize test suites. When that is supported well, I will do it!
Made a quick change. This should cause a lot of old solutions to fail. Will process the queue as fast as possible! Thanks!
In the tests, the first deck is commented out, so the test doesn't work.
The text above is a little vague on exactly how one treats the jokers when passing across over the bottom of the edge. Specifically, they do behave differently there than at other positions so saying that the deck is a "loop" is not perfectly correct. The following comment in Scheiers original text helped me figure out how I needed to implement that special case: "If the joker is the last card, think of it as the first card before you start counting."
In the description you state "two jokers which are distinguishable from each", but in the steps you make a distinction between joker 27 and 28.
This one has the longest solution I have submitted for the ASEE challenge
You should have an example that deals with the jokers at the bottom, the problem statement does not clearly explain the operation.
The Test Suite has been malfunctioning for some users since January 2018 (or earlier). Please fix the Test Suite. —DIV
Explanation is a bit sparse, just as well there is lots of examples on the net showing worked swaps.
May be some Problem with Test Cases. Even though I assigned given solution value to Output, it doesn't take it and Shows some Default Output.
Hello. There is still a 'fatal' bug in Cody or the Test Suite which is causing the Test Suite to malfunction and provide incorrect input arguments, as shown in the echoed content of input-variable "deck" below. This problem has persisted for about one month. Please advise.
There is a serious bug.
Variable "deck" is incorrectly being submitted as
[ 1 4 7 10 13 16 19 22 25 28 3 6 9 12 15 18 21 24 27 2 5 8 11 14 17 20 23 26 ] in input to EVERY test in the Test Suite.
Looks like the same Cody bug as I got with Solutions 1465514, 1482458, and 1532793 (March–May 2018). —DIV
Looks like the same Cody bug as I got with Solutions 1465514, 1482458, and 1532803 (March–May 2018). —DIV
Sorry for resubmitting an old regexp solution. Seems, that previous one disappeared. I have to solve this problem the proper way.
I think that this solution is perfectly legitimate. Why try to solve it "properly"? It's not like you are using eval or something like that. regexprep is a perfectly legitimate tool to use.
I agree with your point of view. Regexprep is a powerful function here.
Unfortunately I've used also '(??@some_code)'. In this case, it's not as bad as playing 'size=11' solution, but it is still a kind of size-cheating for me. I used to play solutions like that, but now I try to avoid this.
At the time of submission, all better scores use either a lookup table or regexp.
2478 Solvers
Set some matrix elements to zero
301 Solvers
364 Solvers
295 Solvers
642 Solvers