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I admit that sometimes I struggle with finding balance in what games I'm covering. Too many games on one console, or too many of one genre, always pose a problem.
Lately there hasn't been a ton of news to talk about when it comes to Nintendo as the Wii has slim pickings while everyone waits for the launch of the HD Wii U this year.
However, they've got a new title that hits it out of the park on the spectacular 3DS, Kid Icarus: Uprising.
Yes, it's a portable game, but it has all the fun of a big home-console game with great graphics, inventive gameplay and fresh mechanics.
The game is loosely based on Greek mythology, and your central character is Pit, a kid who can't fly but has wings. That's the hinge in this game, that you need another character, the Goddess of Light, to help you fly in limited bursts.
Now, this is a shooter, has evil beasts and some nasty Greek villains like Medusa and Thanatos, the God of Death.
But this is nothing like PlayStation's Kratos and the God of War; this is death and monsters the Nintendo way, kid friendly, and lots of fun.
The game is essentially a shooter, but its' starkly different in how you play on the ground or in the air.
There is a new peripheral, the Circle Pad attachment that makes the 3DS much more like a "traditional" controller for a shooter, with one stick controlling view and the other stick marshalling movement.
When you're in the air, this is great, as you move a reticle around the screen, shoot baddies and obstacles and dodge projectiles.
The 3DS graphics work brilliantly in providing layers of depth and making the flight patterns, movements and reactions noteworthy.
On the ground though things are a little tougher to get used to, and there is also use of the touch screen and the stylus pen. The shoulder buttons, traditional buttons, circle pad, analog stick and stylus are all useful tools, but take a while to get used to.
The story is long, good and deep. One thing that I did have to get used to though was the sound.
Obviously when I play a game on a home console that's the focus of the area, so the sound's always up.
I hardly ever use sound with a portable game system, both to save power and to avoid annoying people around me.
But with Kid Icarus: Uprising, the game has some brilliant dialogue and some funny conversation, as well as stuff that's central to the story, so if you're not playing it alone in a room by yourself, break out the headphones.
The weapons are one of the best parts of this game. You have a wide array all with different properties, swords, cannons, clubs, claws and more, including of course bows.
You have to acquire them, and level up, but also you can combine them, which is a brilliant twist and adds a lot of variety and versatility to the game, not to mention strategy as well.
Not only is this game a deep and rich stand-alone, there is an online component as well where you can play locally through wireless or over the Internet. You can play team based games, Light versus Dark, or straight-on single player battles.
It's the next big frontier in portable gaming, breaking down the online multiplayer barriers and it's games like this, combined with some other recent efforts on the PlayStation Vita that will start to make inroads in this direction that exploded in the home console world a few years ago.
For a portable game this is not only one of the best developed that I've played, it's also one that offers the most value. A great way to check out the new circle pad attachment too.
Rating: E for Everyone.
What's right: Graphics, weapons, story, strategy.
What's wrong: Some finicky control, you'll plummet to death in some tight areas because of twitchy control.
Numb Thumb: Graphics A; Gameplay A; Control B-; Value B+. Overall an A-
Rush: A Disney Pixar Adventure
Recently I lamented the lack of progress in motion gaming in the last 12 months. Both Sony's Move peripheral and the controller-less Kinect sensor for the Xbox 360 didn't seem to have moved along from the initial innovative offerings we saw at their introduction.
Well on the heels of Disneyland Adventures for Kinect, now we have Rush: A Disney Pixar Adventure.
One of the amazing things about Disneyland Adventures is it allowed you to move around a virtual Disneyland, one that was an exact replica of the park, and when you entered various attractions like the Matterhorn or Splash Mountain, the fantastical nature of games took you into wildly conjured worlds.
Rush takes it a step, well really a giant leap, further. It's a similar concept, there are different levels to play through that feature some of the newer Disney franchises, Cars, Ratatouille, Toy Story, but the "hub" or area that takes the place of the Disney park is a new world based on the Pixar universe that doesn't exist — yet.
Now, there is some talk that the virtual place you're playing in here to house the various chapters is something Disney is thinking of building and wouldn't that be something, being able to roam and play in an environment before it is built.
The game is designed for younger children and though you can play against a friend or family member, there are many more ways that they've emphasized cooperative play so you can play WITH a family member or friend.
It's perfect for a parent or older sibling to play with a younger one, and team up to beat the challenges in each world.
There's also a lot of cooperation in the story and the tasks at hand. So you may team up with Buzz Lightyear to find/help/battle through your tasks in the Toy Story level, or with Mr. Incredible in the Incredibles section.
And this game really does feature and highlight so much of the Pixar excellence. It uses the Kinect sensor to scan your face and body and creates a character based on your likeness so it does look like "you" are in the game.
There are five sections in the game and each section has three levels. They're based on Toy Story, Ratatouille, Up, Cars and The Incredibles and you'll transform into super heroes, rats, cars and more. The games are not too challenging, but everything has more layers with more to collect, unlock and add, so the levels are good enough for everyone to get through at any level.
There's a great variety of challenges as well, from pure racing to fighting, to puzzle solving, there's a lot to do in a small space.
And the simple exploration of side missions and tasks in Pixar Park also adds to a lot of "time killing", but in a fun way, through Rush.
I have to say I love the innovation that was put into this game, and if you have kids in the 4-10 year old range this is a great game to have them play as you can help and interact with them, and the tasks actually accrue a lot of movement so it should counter some of the negative campaign against "screen time" for kids.
Whether running on the spot or pumping your arms to frantically get through a task, Rush will tire your kids, and you, out at some point.
Rating: E for Everyone.
What's right: Immersive nature of Pixar world, great characters, very polished game.
What's wrong: The core game, 15 episodes, will leave you wanting more.
Numb Thumb: Graphics, A+; Control B+; Gameplay A; Value C+. Overall an A- on the Numb Thumb


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1. On appeal, appellate courts ordinarily give great deference to the trial court's factual findings on suppression issues, but the ultimate question of suppression is a legal question requiring independent appellate determination.
2. Warrantless searches are unreasonable, subject to a few well-defined exceptions. Among the recognized exceptions is probable cause to search coupled with exigent circumstances.
3. Exigent circumstances may allow the warrantless search of a car when probable cause has been established to justify a search.
4. Once probable cause is established concerning the existence of contraband in a vehicle, then any container capable of containing the contraband may ordinarily be searched.
5. The scope of a search is generally defined by its expressed object.
6. The standard for measuring a suspect's consent to search is one of objective reasonableness--what would the typical, reasonable person have understood by the exchange between the officer and the suspect.
7. In the present case, defendant expressly and narrowly limited the scope of her consent to search; police officers exceeded the scope of that consent and thereby violated defendant's rights by searching her purse.
Appeal from Crawford District Court; DONALD R. NOLAND, judge. Opinion filed August 30, 2002. Affirmed.
Steve Stockard, assistant county attorney, Julie Richey, county attorney, and Carla J. Stovall, attorney general, for appellant.
Michael Gayoso, Jr., Candace M. Brewster, and Vernon D. Grassie, of Law Office of Grassie, Brewster, & Gayoso, of Girard, for appellee.
Before ELLIOTT, P.J., GERNON and MARQUARDT, JJ.
ELLIOTT, J.: The State appeals the trial court's suppression of evidence found in Robin Richmond's purse following a car stop.
We affirm.
Richmond was charged with possession of cocaine with intent to sell, K.S.A. 2001 Supp. 65-4161(a). Richmond's motion to suppress was based on her arguing officers searched her purse, where cocaine was found, without probable cause and without her consent.
The parties agree on the underlying facts but dispute the legal effect of the search as applied to the undisputed facts.
Since this appeal is fact sensitive, we provide the trial court's comprehensive factual findings as follows:
"Local KBI agents on July 26 of the year 2000 received information from an F.B.I. agent by the name of Jeff Harris that the defendant and her husband Lee Richmond were distributing cocaine in this area. Agent Harris indicated this information came from a reliable informant whom he did not identify.
"No. 2, the confidential informant accurately described the car the defendant normally drove from the Kansas City area down to the Pittsburg area. The informant described this as a burgundy and pearl colored Cadillac.
"At a task force meeting on July 26, 2000, KBI Agent Chad Commons relayed the above information. Terry Davis of the Pittsburg Police Department was at the meeting and advised he had conducted a prior investigation of the defendant in 1999 for the alleged sale of drugs. Davis related that an informant, who was buying drugs from a Charlotte Buckley, advised that a black female by the name of Robin Richmond was delivering crack cocaine from Kansas City to Buckley's residence on 18th Street in Pittsburg.
"Finding of fact No. 4, at the meeting Davis further related that he was contacted by the Crawford County Sheriff's Office in 1998 and was advised that the defendant was supposedly selling crack cocaine from a room in the Super Eight Motel in Pittsburg. Davis later verified that a rental car registered to a Robin Richmond had stayed at that motel.
"No. 5, Davis also related that in the past he had received a call from an anonymous female who stated that the defendant was coming down from Kansas City to an apartment at 102 S. Locust in Pittsburg in a white Nissan Maxima to package and sell crack cocaine.
"Fact No. 6, Davis advised that he had conducted surveillance on the apartment at 102 S. Locust in January of 1999, and had indeed observed a black female exit a white Nissan, enter the apartment, and later leave the premises. The tag on the Nissan was registered to a Robin Richmond and the driver of the vehicle drove in a zigzag pattern in what Davis believed was an attempt to avoid or lose a possible tail.
"No. 7, Davis stated that he also had called the Kansas City Missouri police and had been told that the defendant had been arrested for possession of cocaine in the past, and allegedly lived in a crack house. . . .
"Finding of fact No. 8, Agent Commons was advised by Agent Shawn Campiti on August 4th of the year 2000, pursuant to anonymous tip received by Campiti that the defendant was in Pittsburg driving a gold colored Intrepid automobile, that she was going to be in the 100 block of West Third Street selling cocaine. Campiti surveilled that address and observed a black female in a gold Intrepid enter a residence for about 30 minutes. When the individual left the residence she drove around in a zigzag fashion in an apparent attempt to avoid any possible tail. The informant gave an accurate description of the clothing worn by the subject female.
"No. 9, Detective John Austin advised Commons that an informant had told Austin that the defendant sold drugs in Pittsburg. The informant was also aware of the defendant's evasive driving techniques and the locations where the drugs were allegedly sold. The information was compatible with the information related by Davis. Detective Austin further verified through city water department files the address of an individual who had allegedly bought drugs from the defendant. This address had been related by the informant to Austin.
"No. 10, Commons and Campiti observed the gold Intrepid at the same address in the 100 block of West Third Street on September 22, 2000. Upon leaving this address, the defendant again drove in an evasive manner by backtracking and going down cul-de-sacs, again, in an apparent attempt to flush out anyone who might be following her. The decision was made to stop the defendant's vehicle and the agents therefore summoned a marked sheriff's office patrol car to make the stop because the agents were in an unidentified vehicle. The defendant was not observed to be violating any laws--any traffic laws prior to her stop.
"The defendant's vehicle was stopped so agents could get permission to search. The defendant was alone in the car and there were six law enforcement officers at the scene. The defendant was not free to leave. Approximately five to 10 minutes after the stop the defendant was asked for permission to search the vehicle to which she consented. The search of the vehicle revealed no contraband. Approximately 30 minutes after the vehicle stop, and after the vehicle search was completed, the defendant was asked for permission to search her purse. The defendant refused permission to search her purse. The purse was nevertheless searched and certain contraband was found in her purse.
"No. 12, the defendant was calm, cooperative, and did not display any aggression. At some point in time during the search of the vehicle and the purse the defendant was placed in handcuffs. The officers did not fear for their safety during the stop and subsequent searches. The defendant maintained the physical possession of her purse on her arm during the search of the vehicle." (Emphasis added.)
As noted above, the trial court granted Richmond's motion to suppress.
The State contends it had probable cause to search the purse based on reliable information collected for about 2 years. Specifically, the State argues exigent circumstances permit the search of a readily mobile car.
On appeal, we ordinarily give great deference to the trial court's findings of fact on suppression issues, but the ultimate question of suppression is a legal question requiring independent appellate determination. See State v. Kimberlin, 267 Kan. 659, 661-62, 984 P.2d 141 (1999).
Warrantless searches are unreasonable, subject to a few well-defined exceptions. State v. Houze, 23 Kan. App. 2d 336, 337, 930 P.2d 620, rev. denied 261 Kan. 1088 (1997). Among the recognized exceptions is probable cause to search with exigent circumstances. State v. Box, 28 Kan. App. 2d 401, 404, 17 P.3d 386 (2000).
In the present case, the State relies on exigent circumstances, which allow a warrantless search where there is probable cause for the search and exigent circumstances justify an immediate search. See State v. Platten, 225 Kan. 764, 769, 594 P.2d 201 (1979).
Exigent circumstances may allow the warrantless search of a car when probable cause has been established to justify a search. Carroll v. United States, 267 U.S. 132, 149, 69 L. Ed. 543, 45 S. Ct. 280 (1925); State v. Jaso, 231 Kan. 614, Syl. ¶ 2, 648 P.2d 1 (1982). However, exigent circumstances do not include situations where only a mere possibility exists that evidence could be destroyed or concealed. State v. Hardyway, 264 Kan. 451, 465, 958 P.2d 618 (1998).
Once probable cause is established concerning the existence of contraband in a vehicle, then any container capable of containing the contraband may ordinarily be searched. State v. MacDonald, 253 Kan. 320, 325, 856 P.2d 116 (1993).
In the present case, we are not concerned with probable cause for the initial search because Richmond consented to the search of her car. See State v. Kriegh, 23 Kan. App. 2d 935, 938, 937 P.3d 453 (1997); State v. Schmitter, 23 Kan. App. 2d 547, 556, 933 P.2d 762 (1997). Under the facts of this case, Richmond's consent to search her car was voluntary.
But while officers searched Richmond's car, she was allowed to keep her purse, and it was not in the car during the search. When the officers asked Richmond to consent to the search of her purse, she refused. The scope of a search is generally defined by its expressed object. Florida v. Jimeno, 500 U.S. 248, 251, 114 L. Ed. 2d 297, 111 S. Ct. 1801 (1991).
The standard for measuring a suspect's consent is one of "objective" reasonableness--what would the typical, reasonable person have understood by the exchange between the officer and the suspect. 500 U.S. at 251.
The question in the present case, then, becomes whether the typical, reasonable person would think, based on the exchange between police and Richmond, that Richmond consented to the search of the purse which she always had in her possession. Under the trial court's factual findings, Richmond effectively withdrew her consent with respect to any search of her purse.
What transpired between Richmond and the police is not disputed. At the preliminary hearing, Special Agent Commons testified as follows:
"Q. So you exited the car and did you ask her if you could search her purse?
"A. Yes.
. . . .
"Q. And did she consent to search the purse?
"A. No.
"Q. And how many times did you ask her if you could search her purse?
"A. More than once. Probably two, maybe three times. I can't tell specific.
"Q. And did you ultimately search the purse?
"A. Yes.
"Q. Describe how you came to search the purse?
"A. I had asked her for insurance information for the vehicle, she stated she did not have it. I asked her to look in her purse again. She looked briefly, had her purse sitting on the trunk of the car and she looked for a second, could not find it or did not know where it was in her purse. And then I asked her to leave her purse on the car and step back to the other officers."
Richmond expressly and narrowly limited the scope of her consent to search; Special Agent Commons exceeded the scope of Richmond's consent and thereby violated her rights by searching her purse. The trial court properly granted Richmond's motion to suppress the evidence found in her purse.


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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Unit 2.1
Mini Doc - Predicting Structures
This segment deals with the importance of predicting
structures before performing experiments. It presents computer
animations of reactions and imaging techniques. Computer
models of water molecules in liquid phase are shown.
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of C60 inside nanotubes
"I can remember the day
when I got the first image. I almost fell in my chair. It
was very exciting
we initially saw in cross-section,
concentric circles. The larger circle corresponding to the
nanotube itself, and the smaller circle, to we did not know
what. So we fantasized, and we said that it may be C60
inside, and we actually had a few laughs about it. Two or
three weeks later, we had a session on the microscope, and
sure enough, we saw: circle, circle, circle."
Brian Smith
Ph.D. candidate, University of Pennsylvania
"The image is a projection
of a three-dimensional object onto a single plane so the
depth of field is zero, if you can get it to be zero, and
its kind of tough to make a mental image of what you
are looking at, because you are projecting an image onto
a single plane."
Jack Fischer
Professor of Materials Science, Univ. of Pennsylvania
Modeling structures
"What computer modeling
can do, is certainly save us a lot of time and trouble and
expense in the laboratory by showing us which structures
are theoretically impossible and, more important, which
are possible. If we can show that a structure should exist,
then we can go to the laboratory and make it."
Dr. Roy Tasker
Associate Professor, Univ. of Western Sydney
Animating reaction dynamics
"The most powerful thing
you can do when youre learning chemistry is to zoom
down, in your minds eye, to the molecular level and
try to imagine what is going on and in a sense, try to understand
the personalities of the reactants and products. If you
can use more than one model to illustrate something, having
each model showing a different aspect of the information
conveyed, thats ideal. Because then students dont
look at a particular model and say: thats reality."
Milne, R.W., (1999) Animating Reactions - A Low-Cost Activity
for Particle Conceptualization at the Secondary Level, Journal
of Chemical Education, Vol. 76, No.1, pp:50-51
Donovan, W.J and Nakhleh, M.B. (2001) Students' Use of Web-Based
Tutorial Materials and Their Understanding of Chemistry
Concepts Journal of Chemical Education, Vol. 78,
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The deal begins with the 2013-14 season and runs through the 2014-15 campaign.
D'Agostino, 22, played collegiate hockey the past four seasons at Cornell University after originally being drafted by the Penguins in the seventh round (210th overall) of the 2008 NHL Draft.
The 6-foot-2, 197-pound blueliner served as one of Cornell's tri-captains as a senior this season, leading all team blueliners with six goals and tallying 17 points in 34 games for the Big Red. Following the season, D'Agostino received the Mark Weiss Memorial Award, which is presented to a senior with a career-long dedication and passion for the sport of hockey.
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In four seasons at Cornell, D'Agostino totaled 72 points (25G-47A) in 132 career games. He earned a spot on the ECAC All-Rookie Team as a freshman in '09-10.
Prior to joining Cornell, D'Agostino played two seasons with the St. Michael's Buzzers of the Ontario Junior Hockey League (OJHL), where he was named that league's top defenseman in 2009. D'Agostino was the Buzzers Rookie of the Year Award winner in '07-08.


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It's not every day that the Vatican newspaper runs its lead story in Chinese.
Yet there it was in today's edition of L'Osservatore Romano, a top-of-the-front-page treatment of Pope Benedict's speech to members of China's Philharmonic Orchestra and the Shanghai Opera House Chorus — in a Chinese translation.
It was the first time the newspaper had published a papal text so prominently in Chinese, and seemed to match the groundbreaking spirit of the musical event. Everyone was all smiles at the Vatican's Paul VI Audience Hall May 7, including the approximately 500 Chinese guests who attended. For one evening, music truly seemed to transcend the chronic ecclesial and diplomatic issues between the Vatican and China.
The day after the concert, we went back to reading the usual tea leaves. A line in the Vatican's daily bulletin announced that the charge d'affaires at the Vatican nunciature in Taiwan would be leaving for a new assignment. As head of the Vatican's diplomatic mission in Taipei (actually, he's the only one there), his presence was symbolically important.
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France is the fountainhead of the grape varieties most craved by North American wine drinkers -- Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Pinot Noir, Syrah, Chardonnay, and Sauvignon Blanc. In fact, these grapes are widely referred to as "international" varieties because they have been planted and imitated all over the world. Of course, one of the most exciting developments in wine over the past generation has been the growth of intriguing local styles of these varieties, such as Pinot Noir in Oregon and New Zealand, or Syrah in Australia, South Africa, and California. But most cosmopolitan wine-lovers -- and even winemakers -- would agree that French wines are the archetypes. The wine industry would not be what it is today if it weren't for the leadership of France.
France enjoys the perfect geographic position for the production of a wide range of fine wines. Its relatively northerly location ensures long hours of daylight during the summer months and an extended growing season, allowing for the slow and steady accumulation of flavor in the grapes. Although the country as a whole enjoys a temperate climate, conditions can vary significantly within a limited land mass: cool and Atlantic-influenced; continental, with very cold winters and hot summers; warm and Mediterranean, with wet winters and dry summers.
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France began classifying its best French wine-producing sites more than 200 years ago. Its detailed appellation controlee system, designed in the 1930s, has served as the model for classification systems adopted by other countries in Europe and elsewhere. Appellation d'Origine Controlee (often abbreviated to AOC), means "controlled place name" and is the consumer's assurance of the origin and authenticity of any French wine whose label bears these words.
AOC laws, administered by France's INAO (Institut National des Appellations d'Origine), establish the geographic limits of each appellation, permissable grape varieties and methods of production, minimum alcohol level, and maximum crop level (or yield) per hectare. Just beneath the highest category of appellation controlee is the comparatively tiny category of VDQS (Vins Delimites de Qualite Superieure), wines which may eventually be promoted to AC status and which are most commonly found in the Loire Valley and the Southwest. The third category is Vins de Pays, or "country wines". This latter category gives producers, including some of the more adventurous French wine growers, an escape route from the straitjacket of AC regulation in terms of higher permitted yields and less restrictive geography, a wider range of legal grape varieties, and fewer restrictions as to method of production and minimum age of vines. Finally, at the bottom of the pyramid, there are Vins de Table, or simple "table wines."
And yet, despite France's illustrious wine history and the fact that it is still the world's leading producer of wine, the country is struggling to compete in the international market. Today, France faces fierce competition from New World wine producers. U.S. imports of French wines actually declined, in number ofcases, between the end of 2002 and early 2006 -- this during a period when overall wine consumption in the U.S. grew by more than 50 percent.
Today, the French government is agonizing over how to help French wine producers, who are also facing homegrown challenges such as changing domestic drinking habits and an aggressive anti-alcohol abuse program. Wine producers in some regions of France are coming to view the AC system itself as an obstacle to selling wines to North America and other important export markets. Among the changes being considered are loosening restrictions on what can be planted where and on how wines can be made, and allowing producers in certain areas to indicate the grape variety or varieties on their labels -- rather than simply the place name, which is less meaningful to consumers in many of France's key export markets.
Despite this, France still produces high-quality wines, such as Rhône wines, Ugni Blanc (an Italian wine), Muscadet (white wine that uses the Melon de Bourgogne white grape variety), the sparkling wine Champagne Brut, Chateau Haubrion (French wine rated a Premier Cru Classé), Vendange Tardive (dessert wine), Château Ausone (Bordeaux wine from Saint-Émilion), Beaujolais Nouveau (red wine produced in the Beaujolais wine region of France), and Dom Pérignon.
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Men Spend More When Women Are Scarce
Single men who perceive a shortage of available women are more likely to drain their bank accounts in an effort to make themselves appear more attractive to the fairer sex, according to new research on competition in the dating world.
In the first of two studies in the January Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, participants read news articles describing their local populations as being either male or female-skewed, and were then asked how much money they'd save each month and how much credit card debt they'd take on. When men thought women were in short supply, guys decreased their savings rate by 42 percent and said they were willing to borrow 84 percent more every month.
And in the second study, participants viewed a series of photos that either had more men, more women, or equal gender ratios. The participants then chose between receiving a small amount of money immediately or a larger amount later on. When women were scarce in the photos, men were more likely to take $20 right away rather than $30 later.
Study researcher Vladas Griskevicius, a professor of marketing at the University of Minnesota, said the results show that when there aren't many women, men become more competitive, often using money, status and products to set themselves apart.
And their perceived need to do that wasn't just imaginary — women in the study who thought they were outnumbered by men actually expected guys to spend more on courting-related expenses such as dinner dates and engagement rings.
"When there's a scarcity of women, women felt men should go out of their way to court them," Griskevicius said, concluding, "[If] we see that there are more men than women in our environment … it automatically changes our desires, our behaviors and our entire psychology."


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Today's featured quilt is a wonderful example of composing on a smaller, more detailed level. Take a look at "Busytown."
Tell us about this quilt.
I was inspired by the now famous quilt by Ingrid Press. I loved the playfulness of her design, how each house was different and slightly wonky. My son's fourth birthday was coming up, and I decided to make a similar quilt for him that included his favorite things – construction vehicles. The quilt eventually came to include houses, trees, and cars, as well as backhoes and other heavy equipment.
Because I wanted to emulate the whimsy of the inspiration quilt, I decided to make the blocks improvisational. This method dictated the composition of each vehicle. Rather than creating a pattern or predetermining the sizes of each piece of fabric, I broke each vehicle down into its most basic shapes. For example, the semi truck is just a long rectangle for the trailer and a rectangle and a square for the cab. I pieced two fabrics, and then trimmed them to the shape I desired before joining and trimming again, repeating until I created the larger shape I had in mind.
A large part of the composition of this quilt, and many of my quilts, is the negative space. The charm, to me, in this quilt is in the size of the vehicles and houses relative to the overall quilt. The large amount of negative space allows your eye to focus on each little vehicle or house without the many colors and shapes becoming overwhelming or garish. I also chose to use solid fabrics to keep the emphasis on the shapes, rather than on the design of printed fabric.
What do you consider when composing a quilt?
It seems a large part of the composition I do is intuitive. I tend to see the finished quilt in my mind's eye and then decide how best to make it a reality. I think about scale and value as I choose fabrics. There are decisions, obviously, that I make when I put the quilt components together, as well. I try to find pleasing arrangements of colors, and balance of shapes and negative space. The feeling I want the quilt to have is also something I think about. It often, as with the Busytown quilt, determines the method I choose to piece the quilt.
Tell us your quilty history.
I've been quilting since I was a teenager, when a dear friend taught me, but in the last two or three years it's become a real passion of mine. I have been inspired by and involved in the modern quilting movement both online and with my local guild, the Kansas City Modern Quilt Guild. I've found this community to be incredibly supportive, and I'm constantly amazed by the brilliance of so many quilters and the quilts they produce!
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Valentine's Day is one of our favourite times of year because not only is it an excuse to be silly and romantic with our loved ones, but we also love the explosion of pink, red, and overt girliness on the market. February 14th is the perfect excuse to buy those conversation hearts, write heartfelt cards, and indulge your ultra-sweet fashion alter ego. Tip #1: Embrace anything lingerie or boudoir-inspired. Gorgeous lace details, whether it's on a simple cap sleeve, shift dress, pretty pumps, or handbag, will make you feel instantly feminine and flirtatious. We're partial to the timelessness of white lace, but we also love it in neon pink for those of you who are feeling playful, or black for a subtly sultry result. Tip #2: Wear your heart on your sleeve. Now is the best time to wear the symbol of love proudly, so go ahead and splurge on a heart-print blouse or sweater that you can wear all year long. If you want to keep your clothing relatively simple that night, try a sexy heart-embellished heel instead, or layer on a few love-inspired necklaces, cuffs, or rings to subtly acknowledge your romantic side. Kiss Kiss!
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How much meat moves Into the city each night The decks of its bridges tremble In the liquefaction of sodium light And the moon a chemical orange Semitrailers strain their axles Shivering as they take the long curve Over warehouses and lofts The wilderness of streets below The mesh of it With Joe on the front
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August Kleinzahler was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, in 1949, and raised in Fort Lee, New Jersey. After high school, he attended the University of Wisconsin as an East Asian studies major, but dropped out of Wisconsin and finished his studies at the University of Victoria in British Columbia where he majored in English and studied with Basil Bunting.
Kleinzahler is the author of eleven books of poetry, including The Hotel Oneira (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013); Sleeping It Off in Rapid City (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008); The Strange Hours Travelers Keep (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004), winner of the International Griffin Poetry Prize; Live from the Hong Kong Nile Club: Poems, 1975-1990 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000); Green Sees Things in Waves (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999); and Red Sauce, Whiskey and Snow (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995).
In a blurb for an early volume of Kleinzahler's work, Allen Ginsberg wrote: "August Kleinzahler's verse line is always precise, concrete, intelligent and rare—that quality of 'chiseled' verse memorable in Basil Bunting's and Ezra Pound's work. A loner, a genius." Writing for the New York Times, Timothy Williams described Kleinzahler's work as "a modernist swirl of sex, surrealism, urban life and melancholy, with a jazzy backbeat. [His poems] are a reckless tumble of words mixing the high and the low, like a rummage sale after the death of someone who adored both Shakespeare and smut."
His honors include a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lila Acheson-Reader's Digest Award for Poetry, an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Berlin Prize Fellowship, the Griffin International Poetry Prize, and the post of poet laureate in Fort Lee, New Jersey.
In addition to poetry, Kleinzahler has written three books of prose: Sallies, Romps, Portraits, and Send-Offs: Selected Prose, 2000-2016 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017); Music: I-LXXIV (Pressed Wafer Press, 2009); and the meditative memoir, Cutty, One Rock: Low Characters and Strange Places, Gently Explained (FSG, 2004).
Kleinzahler has lived in San Francisco, California, for over twenty years. He has held a variety of jobs, including working as a locksmith, cabdriver, lumberjack, music critic, and building manager. While living in Alaska, he designed educational kits for native children at the Alaska State Museum. He has taught writing at Brown University, the University of California at Berkeley, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, as well workshops for homeless veterans in the Bay Area.
Selected Bibliography
The Hotel Oneira (FSG, 2013)
Sleeping It Off in Rapid City (FSG, 2008)
The Strange Hours Travelers Keep (FSG, 2004)
Live from the Hong Kong Nile Club: Poems, 1975-1990 (FSG, 2000)
Green Sees Things in Waves (FSG, 1999)
Red Sauce, Whiskey and Snow (FSG, 1995)
Sallies, Romps, Portraits, and Send-Offs: Selected Prose, 2000-2016 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017)
Music: I-LXXIV (Pressed Wafer Press, 2009)
Cutty, One Rock: Low Characters and Strange Places, Gently Explained (FSG, 2004)


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text: The Art of Moonshine August 28, 2012 08:55 PM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Tyne Morgan US Farm Report Host Email In past generations, moonshiners set up shop in the Ozark Mountains, cooking batches of corn-based mash, which eventually became whiskey. They tried to stay one step ahead of the law. These days, you can still find a moonshiner, but it's all legal. AgDay's National Reporter Tyne Morgan takes us to southern Missouri, where the corn is cookin', and introduces us to a professional moonshiner who is still perfecting his skills while helping to revive a tradition rooted deep in the Ozarks. Off the beaten path, nestled between overgrown oak trees in the Ozarks of Missouri, sits a business building its own roots. Jim Blansit owns Copper Run Distillery. His canvas: a still where he's trying to perfect an art that's been around for years. "To make alcohol is easy," Blansit said. "To make it taste good is where the art really takes over." Blansit makes corn whiskey. Vodka, whiskey, you name it. He makes it all. But the crowd favorite is a type that's had many names over the years—most commonly, moonshine. "The hydrometer measures the alcohol," Blansit said as he pointed to the meter. "You can see it's at 80%." In just three years, business has been booming and people continue to venture back for more. In the beginning, however, some people had their doubts. "My poor parents," said Blansit while trying to hold back his laughter. "When I told them I was going to build a distillery in the backyard...I'm so fortunate they were very supportive. But I know a lot of people were scratching their heads thinking, 'Is this real? Can this really be happening?' And it was a risk, just like with any small business. And it's worked out really well for us." Making alcohol is nothing new to Blansit. He brewed beer professionally for 10 years, then decided to take that profession one step further and make whiskey. It's a craft that depends on your sense of taste and smell to get the flavor just right. "The art is deciding the difference between the heads and the tails that contribute to the heart for the flavor and the aroma," Blansit explained. He says his recipe is simple—80% corn and 20% wheat, both of which are supplied by local farmers. "We use the whole corn," Blansit said. "We grind it up into cornmeal, so it's very fine, so we can then process the cornstarch into corn sugar, and then fermentation into corn alcohol. So it's all about the corn." Blansit said it's the natural resources in the Ozarks that makes it a prime location for moonshiners. "The water we have is so important with the hardness," he said. It takes about nine days to produce corn whiskey. The moonshine is bottled immediately. The whiskey and bourbon are aged. The quality and flavor only get better with time. "The barrels are charred, and that carmelizes the sugar in the sap, the barrel itself. So, the carmel color the whiskey has, comes from the carmelized process and the heating the barrel has," Blansit said. "It gives an aroma that adds flavor like vanilla and burnt marshmallow. And over time, it mellows the flavor so it's very tasty." Becoming a legal moonshine maker and distributer isn't as risky as some TV shows lead you to believe. All it took for Blansit was acquiring a permit and paying taxes on each drop of alcohol produced. And there's no shortage of people willing to pay for their moonshine. Blansit said he has to expand his production just to keep up with the growing demand. Moonshine is the key ingredient to a lot of what Blansit sells, including moonshine margaritas. But he says it's the story of an Ozark tradition that sells the most. Blansit shares his story and the art of moonshine during tours at Copper Run Distillery. He says those run daily every half hour. But he says if you plan to stop by, be sure your tastebuds are ready and save time at the end for a taste test and a homemade moonshine margarita. You can learn more by visiting the website: www.copperrundistillery.com. Back to news


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Animal Shelter Wants Justin Bieber to Pay for Monkey's Care
We've got a new development in Justin Bieber's MonkeyGate 2013. The latest word is that the German animal shelter who is caring for Biebs' primate, Mally, would like the pop superstar to pay for the monkey's care.
The monkey is a permanent resident of Germany now, but the shelter who is keeping her safe is asking for some money from Bieber to care for his former pet. According to E! Online, a spokesperson for the Munich shelter would not disclose how much they were asking for, but some are estimating it could be a few thousand dollars (aka chump change) for the Biebs.
We don't think this claim is absolutely outrageous seeing as Mally is not only being well-cared for, but the shelter took in the monkey as an act of good-will when it came to light that she would not be able to leave the country with her owner. Plus, it's not like they are running some multi-million dollar operation! Animal shelters are not typically wildly profitable, so the operation is probably stretching their resources thin by caring for Mally. Help some people out, Biebs!
We have yet to hear a happy ending for any of Justin Bieber's pets -- or rather a story where his animals have remained with their rightful owner for a long period of time. The 'All Around the World' singer gifted his hamster to a fan and sold the snake he walked the VMA red carpet with. Justin is young, but he should start taking responsibility for his fine furry friends. It's the right thing to do!
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Shiny LED (SLED) is a breakthrough line of highly energy efficient, programmable commercial and industrial interior lighting products which leverage parent-company Visible Light Solar's patent-pending LED design and intelligent power management control technologies.
SLED is a product line of Visible Light Solar Technologies (http://www.visiblelightsolar.com). Visible Light Solar Technologies is an intelligent solar and LED technology lighting company. Visible Light Solar provides three product lines of solar/LED commercial and industrial lighting solutions that dramatically reduce energy consumption and maintenance costs while producing highly programmable, color-accurate illumination. In addition to SLED, Visible Light Solar's two other lighting product lines are:
• Vector retrofit applications for all existing exterior and interior commercial and industrial lighting applications
• Qnuru new outdoor solar/LED and LED lighting applications
Keywords: Energy Efficient, Cost Effective, Environmentally Friendly, High quality light, Sustainable, Clean, Green, LED Technology, Flexible/programmable, New, Innovative, Intelligent, Commercial Lighting Products
Lighting architects and engineers working on buildings for new businesses, municipalities and schools who are looking for energy efficient lighting products. Most of the audience will be familiar with the product line, but will be excited and energized by the extent of energy savings, lower maintenance costs, the programmability of the fixtures and their superior light quality.
Usage: This new SLED logo will often be used in conjunction with the parent company, Visible Light Solar, logo which can be found at http://www.visiblelightsolar.com.
• It needs to be easy to print with colors and B/W version
• Must have transparent background so it can easily be seen on a Black or White Background.
• Able to print in grayscale.
Colors: Creativity takes the driver's seat here. Feel free to use any colors you wish, although preference is for colors that invoke clean, bright light. Can use stronger accent colors but please keep the logo simple and bold.
Style: Please no lightbulbs! Also, avoid designs that look overly technical, industrial or technology. Simple, bold designs are preferred over fussy, complicated designs. Instead logo should highlight that SLED is a new, innovative lighting option for interior usage (hotels, restaurants, office buildings, airports, etc). Fresh, smart, new kid on the block that can be trusted to provide lighting solutions that save energy, money and the environment.
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Commonwealth Bank axes ATM fees
The Commonwealth Bank has become the first bank to axe fees for customers of other institutions using its ATMs to withdraw cash.
"Australians have complained for some time about being charged fees for using another bank's ATM," CBA's group executive, retail banking services, Matt Comyn, said in a statement on Sunday.
"As Australia's largest bank, with one of the largest branch and ATM networks, we think this change will benefit many Australians and hopefully demonstrate our willingness to listen and act on customer feedback."
Reserve Bank of Australia data shows Australians made more than 250 million ATM withdrawals from banks other than their own last year.
CBA will ditch the $2 withdrawal fee for customers of other banks at its 3400 CommBank-branded ATMs. Bankwest ATMs and customers using overseas cards will still attract a fee.
ATM withdrawals have been steadily declining for several years now, but until recently the number of machines around the country had continued grow.
Banks and other owners of ATMs have said their returns from the machines are being crunched, as they spend more money on maintaining machines that are being used less.
According to RBA data released in March, ATM withdrawals have slumped to their lowest levels in 15 years amid the wider shift towards a cashless economy.
The number of ATM withdrawals in January fell by 7.7 per cent compared to last year. It follows two consecutive years of ATM withdrawals falling by more than 6 per cent.
The move by CBA comes after the bank was embroiled in a scandalrelating to alleged breaches of money laundering laws after allowing thousands of large cash deposits to wash through its ATMs.
Austrac last month said it was taking action against CBA, alleging "serious and systemic non-compliance" with the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act.
Sydney Morning Herald with AAP


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Can you give me some tips for shooting holiday lights outdoors?
We are entering the season when homeowners and communities put up displays of holiday lights. Many communities even run bus tours of elaborate holiday decorations. Many people want to make photo greeting cards of their home and yard decorations.
Your digital camera has one or two Night Scene Modes that adjust camera settings specifically to take photos of night scenes. These Night Scene Modes use a set of menu settings intended to obtain quality image exposures at night. One of the major aspects of the night Scene Modes is that the camera must make a long exposure - about two seconds. Therefore, it is necessary to steady the camera by holding it on a solid surface or using a tripod, otherwise the image will be blurry from camera shake.
Although holiday lights appear best at night, the best time to shoot is at twilight. This is because at twilight there is enough light in the sky to be able to define tree branches and the roof line of a home and other details. It is best to start shooting about 15 minutes after sunset and then take a shot every five minutes thereafter to get the ideal balance of skylight and the holiday lights. Since many lights today use LEDs, you may find that the colored LEDs may photograph as white because they may overexpose.
If your camera has a NIGHT+PORTRAIT Scene Mode, do not use it when it is snowing. This mode fires the flash, and the snowflakes near the camera will appear as white out of-focus blobs in the picture. In fact, the flash should be turned off during any photography in falling snow for the same reason.
If you are shooting in a cold climate, wrap the camera in a scarf or towel before getting in a warm car or going back into the house to avoid condensation on and in the camera. Allow the camera to warm up for fifteen minutes before unwrapping it.
In some cities, department stores may put up elaborate holiday displays in their windows. If you are going to shoot these displays, you can use the flash as long as you shoot at an angle to the window so that you do not get a reflection of the flash in the shot.
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Comments on What's the Problem?
by Tim Meehan, Norm Carr Published in Information Architecture
33 Reader CommentsBack to the Article
Jacob Hookom (article author)
This is a great example of how practices used software development can benefit web designers. I've also written a bit on the subject too of a more agile approach (taken from software design) and it's application to building web applications with standards:
http://hookom.blogspot.com/2004/12/easing-project-development-with-css.htmlCopy & paste the code below to embed this comment.
Jan Marie Schmidt (article author)
Thank you! Good article and very useful sounding approach. One point I'd like to make is, in my experience, this type of activity generally needs to happen during the RFP phase (before the client is "your" client).Copy & paste the code below to embed this comment.
Rob Waring (article author)
Thats just distilled several weeks of lectures on UML into a much easier to understand approach. Thanks very much.Copy & paste the code below to embed this comment.
Dustin Diaz (article author)
I can definitely see this coming in helpful for teams. I suppose you could parellel this to something like documenting your own code. It's especially recommended when working with programming teams, but can also be highly beneficial to oneself.
Plus, pictures make for easier understanding on project managers and clients and the non-techies.
The use of use-cases is also very similar to writing pseudo-code. In the end, the lesson learned is that you need to draw some kind of map out of the project before diving right in.Copy & paste the code below to embed this comment.
Tim Meehan (article author)
As Jan Marie pointed out, you can use this approach to land a client or even write an RFPCopy & paste the code below to embed this comment.
Justin Perkins (article author)
Actors, UML and documention, oh my! Nice to have a double issue (if it is), just having some flashbacks to my software project courses.Copy & paste the code below to embed this comment.
Michael Hartmann (article author)
A tool I like to use a lot is creating scenarios. I would say they are the same than use-cases, except scenarios are explained by words instead of pictures. I would recommend to use both, the use-case gives the overview, the scenario tells the client what happens (in case you don't present it).
Am I wrong with my interpretation?Copy & paste the code below to embed this comment.
Norm Carr (article author)
Michael, yes, storyboarding a project in terms of user-scenarios might be considered an informal application of the idea of use cases.
The chief advantage of the more formal approach that use cases encourage is that they make it easier to infer and explore relationships between different scenarios, which is very useful later on, when making more specific decisions about implementation and functionality.Copy & paste the code below to embed this comment.
Tim Meehan (article author)
We include user scenarios as the make up of the use case. The use case defines the goal and the user scenarios make up the tasks to acheive said goal. So the use case actually puts boundaries around the scope by grouping the user scenarios.Copy & paste the code below to embed this comment.
Zelnox (article author)
A use case is a description of the interactions between some actors and a system in order to achieve some goals. A scenario is a specific instance of those interactions. You can think of a use case as a collection of scenarios. Many things can happen in a use case (from success to failures).
A use case is usually in text and can be as short as a paragraph to a fully-dressed written with all the details. It is nice to have diagrams, but the text is essential.
These use cases can be presented in another way using UML. The result is those diagrams. The ones used in this article are usually called the "use case model". There is a box to delimit the system's boundaries, with the actors on the ouside and the use cases inside. Scenarios can also be diagrammed into sequence diagrams.
I wish the author would have shown a concrete example of the "publish weblog" use case. We are told it is a use case, but what does it do? It can be interpreted differently by different people, and that is confusing. Another article to go into more details would be nice.Copy & paste the code below to embed this comment.
Tim Meehan (article author)
We will be writing more detail in following articles, but more detail is immediately available at http://www.guibot.com/ as well as in Dr. Dobbs February 2005 issue under our article "Extend UML"Copy & paste the code below to embed this comment.
Elinity (article author)
This is just a very global view on what and how to do in a development process. In fact information architecture has become an important part of web development process a long time ago and it has enormous amount of methods and approaches which were not mentioned here.Copy & paste the code below to embed this comment.
adam greenfield (article author)
However useful or helpful this methodology may be, it's worth pointing that this is generally not at all what your clients or coworkers will be expecting when you are asked to deliver a "use case."
What is described here could be considered a "business use case," but it seems more like a user scenario to me. True use cases, by contrast, specify the goal in context, preconditions for success, success and failure end conditions, primary actor, and relevant triggers (if any), and proceed by stepped actions (including branching actions) from task inception through completion. This, at minimum, is the information your deliverable will be expected to convey.Copy & paste the code below to embed this comment.
alex-and-r (article author)
Norm and Tim began their article with pointing to the most difficult questions, which still are undecided for many projects in development. They are: "What problem are we solving? Who needs it? What's this site for, anyway?" (These questions are just a quotation from the article and later I'll restate them.) But later in the article they put these questions aside leaving the global level and descending to more practical level of the work on the project.
And I think that before using some practices like use-case we must concentrate on the global planning and answer to 3 main questions:
1. What are we designing the site for? What are the goals that will be archived by this site?
2. For whom are we designing the site? What are the goals, needs and demands of potential users?
3. What information can we deliver by the site both to archive the goals of the site's owner and to satisfy the users?
I think these are three pillars of any web-site development project. And they are exactly those main questions about which Norm and Tim just mention at the beginning of their article and then go over to practice, to use-cases.
But without clear understanding of what we want, who our users are (what they want) and what we can give to them by means of our site, we won't be able simply to say WHAT WE HAVE TO DO, we won't know how we should work and what we should get as a result of our work.
And later, after answering to these questions, as an evolution of the answer to the second question we finally can get back to use-cases described in the article.Copy & paste the code below to embed this comment.
Adam Bardsley (article author)
I liked the article but I did think that the choice of case was a little confusing I'd have had blog in the centre rather than publish blog then labelled the right line publish and possibly also given them an administor link as well and then given a visitor comment and also read.
Overall a good introduction with a lot of scope for a follow up.Copy & paste the code below to embed this comment.
peter (article author)
i call bullshit. software engineers don't know much about design, the actually fuck up most of the projects designwise. look at how bad most software is. and the best part is that most software development happens outside the "established" software engineering theory, because this theory again adds nothing to the process, but it actually kills good design.
do you really want everything to be as unusable and unstable as software is? if you want to look at examples, look at architects, look at product designers, look at other design disciplines where at least some portion of the products are decent. forget software engineering as a role model, it can't teach you nothing.Copy & paste the code below to embed this comment.
Tom (article author)
"forget software engineering as a role model, it can't teach you nothing."
What an enlightened approach tho the pursuit of knowledge and understanding.
I've found use cases very helpful in developing websites with a lot of back-end functionality, i.e. web applications (which, like it or not Peter, are pieces of software). Use cases are just a tool that can be utilised, just becaue you use them doesn't mean your site will be an outstanding example of good design, and vice-versa.
Architects have been around for thousands of years and you still get crap buildings. Software engineering is still very much an evolving discipline and to say that people who build websites can learn nothing from it seems a bit, well, dumb.Copy & paste the code below to embed this comment.
Andres (article author)
Excellent! I think there's much to learn from Use Cases.
However, forgive me if I'm wrong, but I believe that what this article describes is more the Use Case model than the Use Case per se.
The use case model is a visual representation of all the use cases: the stick figures, the arrows and the bubbles. Each buble in this diagram is *a* use case.
A use case is usually documented in writen form (paragraphs and bullets), and describes the actions taken in that bubble. That is, the user inputs/actions and the system responses. These could potentially "link" over to other use cases (sort of like a sub-routine in programming).
My preference is to have both, the Use Case Model and the acompanying Use Cases. That way you can look at the diagram to get the big picture while reading each use case (the bubble stuff) for the details.
All in all, a good teaser…Copy & paste the code below to embed this comment.
Stephen Yoch (article author)
Regardless of what title seems fitting, creating a visual for clients can be extremely valuable to communication.
For those of you out there with OmniGraffle, I've put together a rather simple stencil to create use case diagrams.
Hope it's useful.Copy & paste the code below to embed this comment.
Travis Winters (article author)
I have to agree with Adam Greenfield that the examples demonstrated here are not a good representation of 'real world' use cases.
As a programmer who has endeavoured to work closely and thoughtfully with interface designers, I'm quite aware that a improperly rendered drawing - however simple - can confuse and muddle a conceptual understanding of a simple functional model.
For example, the first illustration in the Carr and Meehan article might suggest that both the Visitor and the Author can publish the weblog. Is this the case? Of course it's not, because both arrows point towards 'Publish weblog' this could suggests interaction by both actors, this is where confusion can arise.
I am lucky enough to have colleagues who are developing code using agile methodoligies. Exposure to these guys is providing me with some techniques and learnings to experiment with during project definition and scoping with designers and client managers. In particular user stories, sometimes combined with use case illustrations can be very effective.
Unfortunately, it seems that Peter above, is of the opinion that software developers know little about design. Artistic and graphic design maybe, but if you're to suggest that they know little about application design - well, you're wrong. There is a language for every field of knowledge and to communicate with individuals from other fields you must learn their language. Bearing this in mind can improve how effectively you can work with software developers - and how software developers and work with designers.Copy & paste the code below to embed this comment.
Ryan Brooks (article author)
Now, I have to admit that this article totally shines a new light on most of what my company does… Thanks!Copy & paste the code below to embed this comment.
Michael Dance (article author)
Good introduction to get people started on UML, I am just curious what program was used to create the articles UML diagrams, or what suggestions do people have for UML diagrams, also does anyone have any good articles/links/examples of UML with regards to web development?Copy & paste the code below to embed this comment.
Thomas Maas (article author)
As for the application to make uml diagrams:
give argouml ( http://argouml.tigris.org/ ) a try. It's open source and basicly platform independent (Java).Copy & paste the code below to embed this comment.
Joshua Porter (article author)
"If we simply consider the roles played by the actors and their goals, the use-case model can very rapidly emerge."
Consideration is good, and important. However, observation is better, and is nothing more than simply discovering actual use cases. Go directly to the source!Copy & paste the code below to embed this comment.
Tim Meehan (article author)
To answer Mike Dance's question - the Guibot website shows how Use Cases generate the menu for the web site. Also, the Guibot tools will generate the Use Case diagrams and the Use Case specification. Argo UML is an open source tool, Borland has a community edition designer and IBM Rational carries the more expensive sophisticated UML tools.Copy & paste the code below to embed this comment.
Padraig Coogan (article author)
Besides Cockburn's excellent book, may I recommend, by the same publisher, "Building Web Applications with UML", Jim Conallen. Addison-Wesley, 2003. ISBN 0-201-73038-3. The author, from Rational Software, has developed a UML extension for modeling web applications.Copy & paste the code below to embed this comment.
Peterman (article author)
peter wrote:
>>>i call bullshit<<<
I smell trollshit.
>>>software engineers don't know much about design<<<
Design is a fundamental part of software engineering. Without it, you would have a lot of people saying "OK, this is what the software needs to do" and then start coding without thinking about how it should be done. A software engineer knows a good deal about design by definition, or he/she isn't a software engineer.
Unless, of course, by "design" you mean "graphic design" or "web design".
And unless, of course, by "software engineer" you mean "programmer".
(Which is not to say programmers don't know anything about design. But they don't necessarily need to.)
>>>look at how bad most software is. and the best part is that most software development happens outside the "established" software engineering theory<<<
See, this is the part that tells me this message was just intended to provoke. The '"established"' theory that "adds nothing to the process" isn't used for "most software"... and "most software" is bad? Can you miss the connection?Copy & paste the code below to embed this comment.
Stephen Hall (article author)
Since everyone involved in the project—client, developer, coder and visitor—are 'Actors', this is an excellent metaphor. It removes the site development them vs us thinking.
Developing a good scope of work plan [SWP] for a project—in the form of a proposal—is an important first step. Design & development is a cooperative process between the client, developer, coder and often test-users. Effective scope of work plans leave room for the 'Actors' to have input into schedule and sequence of things to be done PRIOR to signing a contract. Everyone has ownership.
A well thoughtout scope of work plan—revealing the often misunderstood complexity and many steps of an assignment—often serves to give the client a better understanding of why development fees should be at an adequate level.
We often spend a day developing a scope of work plan for an average project. Spend more time developing a thorough scope of work plan and you'll have a clear blueprint for completing your assignment, invoicing, and client/vendor interaction, resulting in a project with less miscommunication and more satisfaction.Copy & paste the code below to embed this comment.
John (article author)
Just wanted to point out an interesting collaboration tool relevant to the audience here. http://www.taskportal.comCopy & paste the code below to embed this comment.
adam greenfield (article author)
You wrote that "everyone involved in the project—client, developer, coder and visitor—are 'Actors'," but this is a misunderstanding of the terminology. (In fairness to you, it's easy to see how this misunderstanding arises from the article.)
An actor, in the context of a use case, is generally the human being actually interacting with the application, device, or site - a user - although actors can also be institutions or systems. In this context, developers, coders, and clients are precisely *not* actors.
Misunderstandings like this are part of the reason why I believe UML is best used for what it was originally intended for, mapping application architecture, and not discovery-phase business- or user-needs analysis. It's just not the right tool for the task.Copy & paste the code below to embed this comment.
duffy (article author)
Learned about User Stories (or use cases) through a book called Extreme Programming, which has the unfortunate acronym of XP.
In any event, the books on XP helped tons in my role as UI designer and liason between customer (User) and developer. And shaped how I communicate with any new client, no matter how small the site or job at hand.Copy & paste the code below to embed this comment.
Mark Notess (article author)
Joshua Porter makes a crucial point when he says that observation is better than consideration. This is a distinction I make between weak and strong user-centered design. In weak UCD, we think about, or read articles about, users and then design stuff for them. In strong UCD, we observe them, preferably in the field, not just in the lab, and iterate with them during the design process (an approach at least somewhat compatible with agile methods).
Use cases can become simply another way of foisting our pre/misconceptions on unsuspecting users if we do not ground them in a rich understanding of users' motivations, tasks, environment, and characteristics. The risk of this happening increases as the people for whom we are designing/building are less like us.
While either use cases or scenarios can help interaction designers and software engineers communicate, I prefer Contextual Design, with its emphasis on involving the entire cross-functional team in UCD. I've seen it transform an entire organization's approach to developing software.
MarkCopy & paste the code below to embed this comment.
Alex (article author)
This article's Russian translation is avalable at:
http://www.webmascon.com/topics/planning/21a.aspCopy & paste the code below to embed this comment.
- Sorry, commenting is closed on this article.


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