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PARIS – New results from a look into the split second after the Big Bang indicate the universe is 80 million years older than previously thought but the core concepts of the cosmos — how it began, what it's made of and where it's going — seem to be on the right track.
The findings released Thursday bolster a key theory called inflation, which says the universe burst from subatomic size to its now-observable expanse in a fraction of a second.
The Big Bang is the most comprehensive theory of the universe's beginning. It says the visible portion of the universe was smaller than an atom when, in a split second, it exploded, cooled and expanded rapidly, much faster than the speed of light.
The European Space Agency's Planck space probe looked back at the afterglow of the Big Bang, and those results have now added about 80 million years to the universe's age, putting it 13.81 billion years old.
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I wrote yesterday that Nicki Minaj needs a Bitch Coach. Because Mimi is seriously outplaying her; she has a lot more experience. Oh ignorant youth...
Think about it -- while Nicki's trying to take down a Bitch legend on Twitter (obviously unsuccessfully), Mimi hasn't even STOOD UP yet. She probably hasn't even gotten out of bed yet. She was probably still in bed when she called Barbara Walters up to do her work for her. See? Going all caps on social networking is child's play compared to Mimi's game. Nicki really doesn't know.
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"If you're 260 pounds or 300 pounds and want to ride a bike, you should be allowed to. You're making a choice to live healthier and to lose weight," said Jhoskaira Ferman, a 20-year-old student from Pelham Bay, Bronx.
Oh, boo hoo. First of all, nobody's going to be hanging around the bike share kiosks with a scale, so I wouldn't really worry about it until you keel over and try to sue. Second of all, guess what? You can't ride all the rides at Great Adventure either:
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I do admit though that I enjoy it when the Post tries to play the pathos card:
Yeah, I'm sure they're really worried about him. In any case, if I see that guy riding around on a Citi Bike I promise not to rat him out.
(By the way, the reason for the conservative weight limit is that all Citi Bikes will be equipped with Mavic R-Sys wheelsets.)
But rider weight isn't the only thing keeping the editorial staff at the Post awake at night. Now they're also complaining that the bikes themselves are too heavy:
Simply heaving the bulky, 45-pound cruisers in and out of their kiosk slots is heavy lifting. And riding them isn't that easy, either — they're solid to the point of being clunky to maneuver at times.
After their use, bikes must be rolled into a kiosk slot at just the right angle — until it clicks locked.
Until it clicks locked?!? Those monsters!
Still, I admit the Post makes a good point here, because you know what's not heavy and doesn't require approaching a parking space at just the right angle? A fucking car. Have you seen the average idiot in New York try to park an SUV? It's like watching an old person try to perform coitus before the Viagra kicks in.
I do think the Post should be careful here though, because they're contradicting themselves in a manner that's pitifully obvious even for them. Do they want the bike share system open to the morbidly obese who may not survive the heaving and grunting involved in moving the bikes in and out of the kiosks? Or do they want light, agile roadsters that will collapse under their weight in short order?
But when it comes to critiquing the bikes themselves (which, it should be said, is like criticizing the New York City subway for not having a dining car), nobody beats the Daily News. Indeed, I was just reading Streetsblog, where I came across this article:
Holy shit! The Daily News has its own Bike Snob?!? Indeed, they do, and here she is making a great big "doucheclamation point:"
Yes, BSDN has sterling bike snob credentials, and here they are:
As a proud bike snob, who is rarely without her her SE Draft steel-frame fixie, I leaped at the chance to test the bright blue CitiBike.
Wait, she knows about bikes because she rides an SE Draft? This is like saying, "As a proud gourmand, who is rarely without a six-piece Chicken McNuggets...," or, "As a proud bibliophile, who is rarely without her copy of 'Justin Bieber: Just Getting Started'..."
Really, saying you know bikes because you ride a cheap fixie is almost as ridiculous as saying you're a journalist because you write for the Daily News.
But don't tell BSDN that, or she'll hit you with the sideways vajayjay:
So what's BSDN's big beef with the bike share heaps, anyway? Well, for one thing, there's this:
My handbag could barley fit into the metal basket. The bungee rope, connected to the bike, took manly might to safely secure the purse.
Seriously? The basket's too small and the bungee cord is too hard to stretch? Is this really a complaint? It's an amenity on a public facility. Does she also complain about the toilet seats in public restrooms?
Next, she simply lapses into porn:
It was time to get dirty. Squatting my knees, I needed all of my power to tug the bike out of its holder.
Clearly BSDN is recycling the erotica she writes in her spare time by doing a search-and-replace with the words "bike" and "dong."
Oh, also, these bikes aren't hardcore enough for the mean New York streets:
But exerting all my energy got me to about 7 mph. Joggers go faster than that. Yawn. CitiBikes are too slow to survive a New York minute.
Please. I'd rather ride a bike share bike than BSDN's crappy SE Draft any day. If anything's not cut out to survive a New York minute it's BSDN, who had to hire a coach to teach her to ride in traffic in the first place:
I wrote about this back when the article first appeared, but here's my favorite part again:
Me and my breed of urban bikers obey the rules and also follow a code of ethics.
"Don't ride in platform shoes. Or flip-flops. Don't ride and text," said my bike coach John Campo, 62, who trains me on how not to die while peddling on a New York street.
Campo teaches folks how to "street ride," a culture mixed with bike messenger-styled aggressiveness (yes, we scream at drivers and pedestrians not giving us the right of way) and staying safe.
She should also hire a writing coach to teach her the difference between "peddle" and "pedal."
Also, back then BSDN rode (or, in her parlance, "peddled") a Surly Steamroller:
I hate being in the overpriced sticky subways and opt to ride my sweet Surly Steamroller instead of paying for a cab. I bike to crime scenes while on the job for the Daily News, and have no problem peddling to dinner parties sporting shorts under a fancy dress.
So why the downgrade to the SE Draft? Because the Steamroller got stolen:
You'd think someone who's been the victim of a bike theft would be more appreciative of a bike share system she's under absolutely no obligation to use. As it is, bike theft keeps forcing her to downgrade, and at this rate it won't be long before she's riding a Walmart bike that will have her wishing she was on a bike share bike.
In any event, I guess John Campo didn't cover the part about using a lock.
So would the tabloids get behind bike share if they offered, light, nimble, flickable urban douchecycles like The Budnitz? No, then they'd deride it as a plaything for the 1%--though I just this morning received an email informing me I've ordered a "Model No. 5 Titanium" (and that my name is "Oh"):
I can assure you that I have absolutely not ordered a Budnitz, so I'm going on the theory that Old Man Budnitz is trying to shake me down for $500.
Meanwhile, in sporting news, I guess it's a rest day or something at the Giro d'Italia:
Yes, nothing gets you going again like some fresh blood.
And in California, in the other tour I'm ignoring, it's apparently too fucking hot:
This is the effect of "epic." It has a human cost, and it looks like a terrified bike racer, bleached by extreme heat, lying shirtless on his back, his body wet under rivers of ice water.
Please, nobody tell Rapha this, because as soon as they find out that "hot" is the new "epic" they'll start having Gentlemen's Races on the surface of Venus.


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Experience designers use a wide variety of techniques to represent the interactions between individuals, organizations, and systems. Personas are the go-to tool to aggregate a target audience's traits, intentions, needs, and behaviors; however, they often leave out one of the most critical elements of interaction design: time. As rich as these snapshots may be, people's needs and even their traits may change over time, and personas start to burst at the seams when it comes to illustrating a full story of engagement.
To show personas moving through time, we traditionally use task flows, scenarios, and storyboards. Often these models focus on limited experiences or specific interactions between user and system during a fairly short period of time. While interaction design is still a major part of the experience design field, we are currently embroiled in a paradigm shift from systems of transaction to systems of engagement and personal fulfillment that span longer timeframes and numerous channels.
Naturally, UX professionals are adapting traditional techniques and creating new ones to express this greater scope of experience. Many of these activities and deliverables fall into a category we call journey modeling.
What is Journey Modeling?
Journey modeling is the process of illustrating a complete story centered on the relationship that unfolds over time between an individual and a system, service, product, brand, or organization. Through journey modeling, we describe what an individual thinks, feels, says, and does over time, and how these actions and reactions change based on the person's interactions with the organization and factors that may be beyond the organization's control. By playing out a user's experience over time, we build an understanding of connectedness and causality, observing when various forces intersect and alter a person's emotions, opinions, and actions.
A journey may cover a brief period of time, such as a purchasing experience or a hospital stay, but where journey modeling really shines is in illustrating long-term relationships. At Mad*Pow, we have used them to chronicle nine months of decision-making throughout pregnancy, a year of engagement with a health behavior change platform, and health insurance customer experience across many years.
Journey model of the 'player' of a health behavior change game.
Sometimes we use journey modeling to examine the present with a critical eye, highlighting pain points and opportunities. Other times it serves as a visioning exercise that helps us explore answers to the "what ifs" that come up throughout research and initial steps of design. You can also model and compare different perspectives, such as an idealized story versus the present day.
Prose-driven journey model demonstrating before and after, and referencing sections of a larger experience strategy report.
What Does a Journey Model Look Like?
This is the hardest question to answer because (of course) it depends.
Ultimately, the form the actual model takes is dependent on the client, and on the type of product and how it will be used. Clients might want a 5' by 5' story mounted on foam core to display in the boardroom, or they might want something digital that is easy to consume, share, and modify. Sometimes journeys are portrayed using visual maps in a very "point a to point b" illustration of various touchpoints along the path. Other times they are more like a story—written, audio, or video.
Original design for the pregnancy journey model. We changed course from a long-scroll digital piece created in Illustrator to 8.5×11 pages in Word so that our clients could print easily and be more involved in editing.
They can be as high- or low-fidelity as you like, and as designer-driven or collaborative as works for your team. We've had great success running workshops with clients to map out a vision for their future customer experience, particularly when there is a research-based present-day journey to show in the beginning of the session that helps them "feel the pain" and really empathize with their customers. The models created in these workshops generally take the form of Post-Its and other materials on butcher paper, but we've also created highly polished journey models as final deliverables.
What's the Value of Journey Modeling?
Strategically, journey modeling is an incredibly useful conversation tool for summarizing research, highlighting and prioritizing opportunities, and getting true buy-in from stakeholders.
That last function is extremely important in our work as experience designers. We've found that many stakeholders have an understanding of their separate areas of responsibility and how they fit into the bigger organizational picture, but have never seen all of the components illustrated together in such detail from the customer perspective. Through journey modeling, it is possible to see the big picture of how different service touchpoints fit into a person's life, and where there might be inconsistencies in an existing system. It's not about creating identical experiences at each touchpoint; it's about optimizing and connecting communications to deliver a valuable brand experience for the customer across the right channels. The bottom line for the business is that at every touchpoint, the customer's experience affects the success or failure of the organization.
Seeing or participating in the creation of a journey model is often an "aha" moment for key stakeholders, and a critical milestone to make sure everyone is on the same page before moving forward into design.
Journey modeling is also a form of design exploration that helps to synthesize idea prototypes, which can then be vetted with stakeholders and users for feasibility and desirability. Rather than working within organizational silos or along the lines of established channels, journey models allow us to design directly within the context of user interactions, attitudes, needs, and emotional states.
Creating a Journey Model
There is no silver bullet template or approach for modeling journeys, but there is a reasonably universal process you can follow.
Step 1: Gather your content
The best journey models are grounded in research: interviews, ethnographic observation, contextual inquiry, surveys, and other forms of qualitative and quantitative research. The core research questions should be:
- How does this system, service, product, brand, or organization impact people's lives?
- How could it impact people in the future?
Unfortunately, the reality is that despite our best efforts, not every client can be convinced to invest in quality research before they understand the problems that research would help them discover (an all-too-common UX Catch-22). As a result, it's sometimes necessary to do a little guesswork and guerilla research to generate enough interest in the problem to launch a full-scale project. Are you only able to talk with business stakeholders and not actual customers? Fine! Get their opinions, and start modeling something compelling that will inspire them to do customer research to get the details right. You can certainly start journey modeling with only insider insight, but you should never let it be called "finished" without the voice of actual customers who are traveling their own version of that journey.
However you gather your content, these are the elements to look for:
- Personas or real individuals to serve as your main characters
- Supporting characters
- Needs, goals, and motivations
- Thoughts, feelings, opinions, expectations, and pain points
- Physical and information objects
- Actions, interactions, and touchpoints (instances of service)
- Channels (where service takes place), physical place, and other forms of context
- Timeframes, and how all of the above play out and change over time
All of these elements (and possibly others) are the meat of your story that will help you communicate opportunities, solutions, and the ways in which you are impacting or could impact people's lives.
Step 2: Realign with your project goals
With all this content, it's now time to take a step back and prioritize based on project needs. What elements will best communicate the story you discovered or are envisioning? What level of detail is appropriate for your stakeholders? How much background will they need? Will it be a standalone piece, or interwoven with other documentation? Is the project actually a good fit for journey modeling? This is perhaps the most important step when creating a polished deliverable, and you'll likely bounce back here a few times from Step 3.
Step 3: Design and iterate
The final step is to figure out how to string together a compelling story. It will often take a few iterations to find the right approach, but don't get discouraged. In workshop settings, it's important to provide participants with a recommended format and set of materials, but also give them the flexibility to communicate in the best way to honor the story they wish to tell.
There are a few formats for journey models that are emerging as common standards, but don't force your journey models into a preformed template that doesn't work. You don't always have to reinvent the wheel, of course, but if you have the time (and budget), take a chance and try designing something new. Take a look at our collection of inspiration, and leave a comment on this article if you have ideas to add.
It's easy to get caught up in creating a beautiful diagram or cramming all your wonderful research insights into a document, so be mindful of the basic principles of good deliverable design, and run a sanity check every once in a while. A quality journey model should be:
Valuable: relevant to the goals of the project and the organization, delivering clear, usable insights.
Believable: grounded in research and reason. Use them carefully to test prototype concepts with stakeholders, and know when to let go of ideas that just aren't realistic.
Useful: appropriate format and level of detail. There's no use handing stakeholders a huge poster to put on the wall when they'd much prefer letter-sized maps that they can print and travel with easily. Usefulness also refers to the long-term value of the journey model as a stand-alone deliverable, part of broader strategy documentation, or a flexible model to be updated over time.
Elegant: pretty with a purpose! If the journey map is a polished deliverable, its elegance is partly aesthetic; you have to gain the attention and respect of your stakeholders. Use visual treatments with care, and don't underestimate the power of written and visual storytelling to communicate the main character's experience over the course of his or her journey. Polished or not, the story should be told elegantly, whether through strong information design, writing, or presentation.
The Journey Forward
In her Interaction12 keynote, Intel anthropologist Genevieve Bell challenged designers to shift their perspective on the products and systems they create: "What's it going to take to imagine this as a relationship instead of an interaction?"
Journey models are emerging as a welcome and valuable refresh of some old and new tools in our UX arsenal. They are not just another deliverable for your checklist; they're a valuable method for digging deep into problems of long-term engagement, cultivating empathy, and establishing a problem space in which to generate and test ideas. Their output can serve as a backbone for strategic recommendations and more tactical initiatives. Form and function can vary widely depending on the project and stakeholder needs, but at their core, journey models are stories that focus on the meaningful relationships between individuals and organizations, and highlight opportunities to build a better future.


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A heart attack is also called a myocardial infarction (MI). It happens when one or more parts of the heart muscle don't get enough oxygen. That occurs when blood flow to the heart muscle is narrowed or blocked.
If the blood and oxygen supply is cut off, muscle cells of the heart begin to suffer damage and start to die (infarct). Permanent damage begins within 30 minutes of blockage. The heart muscle may then no longer work as it should.
A blockage in the coronary arteries that supply blood to the heart muscle can lead to a heart attack. A blockage is caused by a buildup of plaque. This is called atherosclerosis. Plaque is made up of deposits of cholesterol and other substances. When a plaque breaks (ruptures), a blood clot quickly forms. The blood clot is the usual cause of the heart attack.
A heart attack can happen to anyone. But certain factors can raise your risk for one. Some of these factors you can't change. Others you may be able to manage through lifestyle changes and medical care.
You may be at higher risk for a heart attack if you:
Have high blood pressure
Have low levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, high levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, or high levels of triglycerides.
Have a family history of heart disease. This is especially true if the heart disease started before age 55.
Are older in age. Generally, men are at risk at a younger age than women. After menopause, women are equally at risk.
Have diabetes.
Smoke, including chewing tobacco and electronic cigarettes (vaping)
Are under a lot of stress
Drink too much alcohol or use illegal drugs
Are not active
Are overweight
Eat a diet high in saturated fat and low in fiber
Each person may have slightly different symptoms of a heart attack. But these are the most common symptoms:
Severe pressure, fullness, squeezing, pain, or discomfort in the center of the chest that lasts for more than a few minutes
Pain or discomfort that spreads to the shoulders, neck, arms, or jaw
Chest pain that gets worse with exertion
Chest pain that doesn't get better with rest or by taking nitroglycerin
Chest pain that happens along with any of these symptoms:
Cool, clammy skin or paleness
Shortness of breath
Nausea or vomiting
Dizziness or fainting
Unexplained weakness or fatigue
Fast or irregular pulse
Chest pain is the key warning sign of a heart attack, but it may be confused with other conditions. These include heartburn, pleurisy, and pneumonia. Since you don't always know the reason for the chest pain, always call 911 for emergency care to diagnose the problem.
If you or someone you know has any of the warning signs for a heart attack, act right away. Call 911 or your local emergency number. Don't drive yourself to the hospital or emergency department if you think you are having a heart attack.
Diagnosing a heart attack often happens in an emergency department. There, a healthcare provider will ask you about your symptoms and health history and do a physical exam. You may also need some tests, such as:
Electrocardiogram (ECG). This test checks the electrical activity of your heart. It can find signs of a heart attack.
Blood work. These tests can find certain proteins that the body may make during a heart attack.
Coronary angiography. During this test, a tiny plastic tube (catheter) is put into an artery in your groin or arm. It's moved to the heart while monitored with fluoroscopy (video X-ray). X-ray dye (contrast medium) is then put into your coronary arteries. Special X-rays (angiograms) are then taken. They show how well blood is flowing through your heart and blood vessels. The test can find blockages in an artery.
The goal of treatment for a heart attack is to ease pain, restore blood flow to the coronary artery, preserve the heart muscle function, and prevent death. Treatment may include:
IV (intravenous) therapy. Medicines, such as nitroglycerin and morphine, are given through a tube into a vein for pain relief and to relax the heart arteries.
Oxygen therapy. This treatment can give the damaged heart muscle more oxygen.
Cardiac medicine, such as beta-blockers. These can help the heart muscle rest, prevent an irregular heartbeat and decrease heart rate and blood pressure.
Fibrinolytic therapy. Medicine is given by an intravenous line (IV) to dissolve the blood clot, restoring blood flow.
Antithrombin or antiplatelet therapy with aspirin or clopidogrel/ticagrelor. This is used to prevent more blood clotting.
Medicines that lower cholesterol, particularly LDL cholesterol. These include medicines, such as statins. Newer medicines called PCSK9-inhibitors are for people with inherited high cholesterol. Ask your healthcare provider if these medicines may help prevent a heart attack.
You may also need other procedures to restore blood flow to the heart. These are described below.
This is the preferred treatment for an acute heart attack. It involves opening up a blocked or narrowed coronary artery. There are several ways to do so. After coronary angiography has found a blockage, a new catheter with a small balloon at its tip may be inflated inside the blocked artery to open the blocked area. Or the blocked area may be cut away with a special device or vaporized with a laser. A tiny metal coil called a stent is often expanded inside the artery. The stent remains in place to help keep the artery open.
This surgery is also called coronary artery bypass surgery or CABG (pronounced "cabbage"). It is often done in people who have chest pain (angina) and severe coronary artery disease that can't be treated with PCI. During the surgery, the surgeon makes a bypass to let blood flow around the blockage. This is done by grafting a piece of a vein from the aorta to the coronary artery beyond the blocked part of the artery. The surgeon often takes veins from a leg. Arteries from the chest or an arm may also be used to bypass blockages. These bypasses last longer than vein grafts and are, therefore, preferred.
Possible complications of a heart attack include:
Damage to the heart or heart valves
Abnormal heart rhythms
Another heart attack
Heart failure because the heart doesn't pump as well as it once did
Shock and other organ failure
Talk with your healthcare provider about your risk for a heart attack. You may be able to prevent a heart attack by:
Lowering the levels of your blood pressure, LDL cholesterol, and triglycerides, if needed
Not smoking
Lowering your stress levels
Not drinking too much alcohol
Being more physically active
Losing weight, if needed
Eating a healthy, low-fat diet
A heart attack happens when one or more areas of the heart muscle don't get enough oxygen. This happens when blood flow to the heart muscle is narrowed or blocked. This causes areas of the heart muscle to become damaged or die (infarct).
A blood clot is the usual cause of a heart attack. It can form when there is a blockage in the arteries from plaque buildup.
Having high blood pressure and a family history of heart disease can raise your risk for a heart attack.
Severe chest pain or discomfort is often a symptom of a heart attack. But you may also feel short of breath, nauseous, fatigued, or dizzy.
A coronary angiogram can find blockages in an artery.
Treatment includes medicines and procedures to restore blood flow to the heart.
Tips to help you get the most from a visit to your healthcare provider:
Know the reason for your visit and what you want to happen.
Before your visit, write down questions you want answered.
Bring someone with you to help you ask questions and remember what your provider tells you.
At the visit, write down the name of a new diagnosis, and any new medicines, treatments, or tests. Also write down any new directions your provider gives you.
Know why a new medicine or treatment is prescribed, and how it will help you. Also know what the side effects are.
Ask if your condition can be treated in other ways.
Know why a test or procedure is recommended and what the results could mean.
Know what to expect if you do not take the medicine or have the test or procedure.
If you have a follow-up appointment, write down the date, time, and purpose for that visit.
Know how you can contact your healthcare provider if you have questions.