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This is a collection of videos of UI animations (mostly Apple) curated by @gardaud.
We know that starting with why is important to product design, but what comes next? "How" would definitely come soon after. But there are many ways to propose how to begin exploring possibilities.
The 99u points to a number of questions to ask before starting a project, and how language matters. They refer to Warren Berger's article in the Harvard Business Review about one of the questions top innovators ask when confronted with a design challenge. It starts with the phrase "How Might We?" (HMW). It boils down to the selectivity and power of words, and in this case particularly with the choice of the word "might" rather than "can" or "should."
Here's why the words make a difference:
When people within companies try to innovate, they often talk about the challenges they're facing by using language that can inhibit creativity instead of encouraging it, says the business consultant Min Basadur, who has taught the How Might We (HMW) form of questioning to companies over the past four decades. "People may start out asking, 'How can we do this,' or 'How should we do that?,'" Basadur explained to me. "But as soon as you start using words like can and should, you're implying judgment: Can we really do it? And should we?" By substituting the word might, he says, "you're able to defer judgment, which helps people to create options more freely, and opens up more possibilities."
Tim Brown of IDEO talks about how the words carry meaning for problem solving.
[W]ithin the phrase, each of those three words plays a role in spurring creative problem solving. "The 'how' part assumes there are solutions out there — it provides creative confidence," Brown said to me ""Might' says we can put ideas out there that might work or might not — either way, it's OK. And the 'we' part says we're going to do it together and build on each other's ideas."
Check out how IDEO are using the HMW phrasing at Open IDEO to get people thinking about and proposing how to solve challenges for social good.
I've been trying to do more to accentuate the positive, and keep conversations open to possibilities in my personal life and work, but it can be difficult to talk about solving problems without bias given agendas, missions, roadmaps, prior knowledge, and history.
Choosing the word "might" feels like one way to begin early problem definition and solving without the weight that comes from words like "should" or "can." It's like the freedom in the tentative and erasable nature of a pencil rather than the indelibility of a pen. "Might" leads to conversation that is open to consider different directions rather than saddling you with choices that feel cemented too early.
Min Basadur's story about discovering the concept for Coast soap at Proctor and Gamble embodies this idea of opening up the conversation. The word "might" can lead to re-asking the question, and maybe even realizing that you're asking the wrong one. What I love most about that story is that ultimately asking "How might we" led back to asking "Why?"
Along with the broader notions of starting with why, the HMW question seems a very powerful tool for facilitating design discussions and problem definition. I don't see very concrete, prescriptive techniques here, which is a good thing. The suggestion of asking the HMW question may be enough, but Brown warns that the size and types of design problem matter. HMW may not work for problems as big as "How do we solve homelessness?"
Read more about HMW in the Harvard Business Review.
Thirst Studios and UX Mastery kicked off their UXmas 2013 user experience design advent calendar. Every day throughout December in the lead-up to Christmas, a new 'gift' to the UX community will be revealed. It could be an article, a video, a sketch, or something else.
After repeatedly using a pattern of term + description to describe something, I wondered if other people in my Twitter-sphere used the same or similar language to describe a common artifact.
My question started:
I was wondering if people used different terms to describe either drawings made in software or on paper that describe a screen view at a high level of abstraction that uses only lines and labels.
Accompanied by this screenshot:
It's interesting to learn that we use so many terms to describe essentially the same thing, although some of the confusion in this discussion might be with understanding what I meant by my question:
Flow Diagrams, Low Fidelity, Doodles and Notes, Page Maps, Schematics, Storyboards, IA, High Level Concept, Gray Box Wireframes, Whatever the client calls them, Boxes and Lines, Blockyframes, Scribbles on Paper, Blueprints, Page Zones (also Zoning and Zone Diagrams), Models, Conceptual UI Sketches, Thumbnails, Sketches
You can imagine the challenge we have educating about the pieces of a design process when the language is so variable. The thread is captured at Storify.
Nice collection of design principles, and new to me. Design Principles FTW collects both universal and specific design principles and is curated by Gabriel Svennerberg at Meetod, Sweden.
I can't imagine email ever being the right way to critique design, or give feedback as a client, but nevertheless it happens, and Julius Tarng, who works on the Branch app, came up with some good advice for those about to give email, and those about to receive it. I think the advice applies for any feedback that's not face to face to face including chat and in comments.
- Get on the the same page
- Talk about what you felt, not what you think the user will feel
- Use past tense, not present
- Question constructively by asking for opinions, not challenging them to convince you
- Try to be specific, and avoid subjective words
- Don't be dramatic
- Give the design some time, and ask yourself if that email needs to be sent now
Don't just read this list. Read the article at Medium.
Fastco interviewed Chrissie Brodigan, design and UX researcher at GitHub to talk about how they're using deprivation to study people's reaction to removing elements from a product.
The gist of the technique is to work with a set of participants who develop a pattern of use around a feature or design characteristic and journal their experience. After some time, at a point when they've had time to be accustomed to that thing, they take away or alter it, and observe through the journal what the users' reactions are to its removal.
It seems like A/B testing with a greater focus on qualitative measurement. Deprivation could be a powerful factor and tool for assessing value of features on both new and existing products. Designers and developers get to measure the features by removing them, and seeing how upset their users get within a controlled group. Removing features from an existing product is difficult, but the upside in measurement could be that features that have a cost to the user or vendor might turn out to be unnecessary, or the research could lead to improvement.
This is technique is new to me, but I'm not unfamiliar with the pain of having features removed for me, or the backlash you can experience when you change something as a designer.
I don't like public speaking. I love talking to people one to one and in very small groups. But public speaking and me don't mix, and if you've ever seen me speak, you probably agree. In the handful of times that I have spoken publicly, I think only two were really worth coming to see and hear.
I believe the only reason the worthwhile talks were not utter failures was because I had something to share that I think people wanted to hear, and could get something out of. They really had little to do with me. I think those talks had more to do with what the audience could do with what I shared. My passion about the topic let me forget about myself until I was just basically just giving people something they wanted instead.
Kathy Sierra is one of the people whose articles I like to read and presentations I like to watch, because I come away with ideas that I feel I can do something with. There's something almost pragmatic to me about what she shares. Don't get me wrong though, she is a charismatic, funny, and super smart speaker. But her post about public speaking and presentation skills is useful to me as someone who hates public speaking, and always feels bad turning down the invitation.
Here's the message: If you imagine that your role in speaking is to be the delivery mechanism for the message/story/whatever, you become the UI for the User Experience of that exchange between you and the audience.
Ultimately, I think this thought sums up what the role is about:
It's not really about the user experience they have during your presentation. Like your presentation, their experience of it is also just the enabler for something bigger. Because what matters most is NOT the UX but the POST-UX UX. What happens after and as a result of the user experience? ... What happens after what happens happens?
When they walk away from the user experience, then what? Are they different? Are they a little smarter? Are they a little more energized? Are they a little more capable? Are they a little more likely to talk to others about it?
Maybe there's hope for me after all? I like this idea of the post-UX-UX, when it comes to products or presentations. At the end of the day, while the delivery and execution are very important, your presentation skill holds much less weight than how you've impacted the user.
And this brings me back to why I got into working in this field to begin with. I started professional life working on libraries, and wanting to help people find information that helps them do things that fulfill needs in the real world, outside of the experience of using the library. What I do still comes down to that, and I guess public speaking should be no different.
I'm still afraid of being the awkward kid at the head of the class, even if I know the material. But maybe next time, I'll just imagine myself as the UI, and the rest will fall away.
If you take a lot of screenshots on a Mac like me, you probably have a good workflow for doing it using something like LittleSnapper/Ember, Awesome Screenshot or Skitch. The biggest problem I've had is that after I take a screenshot, I often want to do something with it. I can do this by just getting Cloud to watch and upload files passively, but I've always wanted to save to my own server after just issuing one command to capture the page.
I love Alfred. Launchers like Quicksilver and Alfred are what I think of as the best minimal UI apps that I use on the Mac. I finally got around to searching for a way to capture a full scrolling screen from it and do something with the output.
I found an excellent Alfred workflow by user moom on the Alfred Forum that uses a shell script to run Webkit2Png in the background. It's awesome. I just copy the URL of the page I'm on, summon Alfred with a few keystrokes, and then it gets captured, optimized, and uploaded to my server in the background. I made a video of the workflow showing Alfred, Hazel, ImageOptim, and Transmit working together with lots of spit and chewing gum in case anyone else has this need.
It's a lot of steps to set up, but if you have this need, you'll appreciate it. ;) You can modify the steps for your workflow to move it to note in Evernote, to Cloud, or wherever your heart desires. Download the workflow here.
If you're interested to know how I modified the workflow, these are the options I used:
python webkit2png -F -W 980 --delay=5 "$(pbpaste)"
ls *.png | grep -v icon.png |
xargs -I {} mv {} ${HOME}/Sites/media.konigi.com/snaps/2013/
-F -W 980 outputs a full scrolling screen at 980px wide. You can see what the options are by running this command in the terminal: webkit2png --help.
Jackson Fox and Jeremy Fields did an excellent 2-part write on the use of "infield" labels at Viget. There are several techniques for placing labels inside the input box. For varying reasons we may want to avoid the label on top or side positioning, but as Jackson points out, the infield placement can be problematic.
Part 1 talks about the problems using infield labels. Part 2 shows how they deal with the problem by using a visible tooltip that doesn't obscure the input, with a jsFiddle snippet to play with the code. You can download the jquery plugin from Git.
Not a lot of bookmarking this month.
- Learn X in Y Minutes: Scenic Programming Language Tours
- iOS 7 - Matt Gemmell
- Collaborative Design: Lean UX is Haaaard » Zac Halbert
- Apple - Designed By Apple - Intention - YouTube Video by Apple with phrases paired with visuals that describe the thoughts and emotions that go into creating each Apple product.
- Remove Duplicates from the "Open With" Right-Click Menu in Mac OS X Get rid of that thing that happens when your Mac lists too many versions of an app in the Open With... context menu.
- Design Principles | Android Developers
- Google's Dead-Simple Tool For Making UX Decisions: 2 Jars Of Marbles
- Itch A Skitch // HTML5 Canvas Powered Etch A Sketch


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|Joan Marcus
Neil LaBute has several reasons to be happy about Reasons to Be Pretty: It got him to Broadway, with a Best Play Tony nomination and noms for half of his four-person cast.
What he thought he was doing with this blistering comedy about two sets of lovers crashing and burning was to cap a toxic trilogy on how one's looks distort values — a point he made in The Shape of Things and Fat Pig. What he seems to have done, however, is open a can of cobras that unleashes the ongoing sex saga of an odd quartet who fell apart over what's pretty and what's not.
Round Two, Reasons to Be Happy, officially opened June 11 at the Lortel. This is the first time LaBute is recycling characters, and he hinted there might be a trilogy in them, maybe even more.
"They're the kind of characters you must check in with every few years," he said, referring to the drama-prone foursome Greg, Steph, Kent and Carly. "This takes place three years later. They've moved on, sorta."
On that "sorta" hangs another anguished, combustible tale. It seems Steph — who took profound umbrage at being called "regular" rather than "hot," and thus created the tsunami that swamped both relationships — now feels she may have been a tad rash in her rage and is capable, in spite of her new marriage, of relapsing with Greg, the ex who has now taken up with her best friend, Carly. Naturally none of this sits well with Carly's ex, Kent, despite his new relationship.
Josh Hamilton — who inherited the role of Greg from a Tony-nominated Thomas Sadoski — contended that the character is a decent sort, "but he gets himself into situations because he's too much of a pleaser. Part of him wants to say what he thinks the person he's with wants to hear, but he's not so good at saying what he wants. In this play, that causes him to spread himself too thin. I think that's indicative of how one can go through life with good intentions, and leave behind a trail of carnage. Even if you're not out to hurt anyone, it's very hard to go through life without bumping up against them in some way here and there."
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A One of a Kind Flagship Drug for Your Irritable Bowel
Kanak is a member of The Motley Fool Blog Network -- entries represent the personal opinion of the blogger and are not formally edited.
Ironwood Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: IRWD) develops drugs for the treatment of gastrointestinal diseases.
The company recently launched its flagship product Linzess in the U.S to treat irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). The product was developed and commercialized in collaboration with Forest Laboratories for North America. The same product is under various development stages to promote in different geographies including Europe and Asia.
IBS market
IBS is a gastrointestinal disorder caused due to contraction of the colon muscle. It is not a disease as such, but a group of symptoms that generally occur together, including abdominal pain or discomfort. This results in diarrhea and constipation due to unusual bowel movement. It is classified as four subtypes: IBS with constipation (IBS-C), IBS with diarrhea (IBS-D), mixed IBS (IBS-M) and unsubtyped IBS (IBS-U). It is estimated that one in five Americans, mostly women, suffer from IBS. The disorder, although painful and discomfiting, does not usually cause permanent damage.
Limited first-line therapies are available although Novartis's Zelnorm was taken off the market due to its risky side effects. Though generic and Over The Counter (OTC) products or laxatives are available, they are not as effective, thus the IBS market holds immense business opportunities globally. Two FDA approved drugs, Amitiza and Lotronex, are currently available for the treatment of IBS with constipation (IBS-C) and chronic idiopathic constipation (CIC).
Ironwood's Linzess
Linzess (linaclotide) is the first and only guanylate cyclase-C (GC-C) agonist approved by the FDA for IBS-C and CIC indications in adults. It is an oral medication available in the form of capsules which inhibit the GC-C enzyme responsible for acute diarrhea. According to IMS Health, more than 70,000 Linzess prescriptions had been written since its launch on December 17, 2012 and until March. As of date, that number has risen to 200,000. The same product is expected to launch as Constella in the U.K. and Germany by Q2, 2013. In Europe, Ironwood will sell its product through its partner Almirall S.A. At present the company is only focusing on IBS-C, which has the predominant market.
Market performance
Pipeline: Ironwood and Forest completed further studies (Phase IIIb) to evaluate Linzess' effect on abdominal symptoms in patients with CIC. The company is likely to defer reporting trial results to Q3, 2013. Furthermore, the company is looking for additional development opportunities with linaclotide, the active ingredient of Linzess, on gastrointestinal disease.The company does have two more products candidates, IW-9179 and IW-2143. IW-9179 is a Phase II candidate used for treatment of functional dyspepsia and IW-2143 is in Phase I for treatment of anxiety. Although these candidates are still a long way off from the market, they are addressing disorders which have very similar symptoms to IBS, a disorder their active ingredient linaclotide has already successfully addressed.
Strong alliances: Besides Forest Laboratories and Almirall, Ironwood has partnered with Astellas Pharma and Astrazeneca for development and commercialization of linaclotide in Japan and China respectively.
Ironwood also has joint collaboration with Depomed, a NASDAQ-listed biotech, to use the Acuform gastric retentive drug delivery technology for linaclotide. The company also has strategic alliances with Bionomics Limited to develop and commercialize Bionomics' anti-anxiety candidate BNC210.
Financial highlight: In the second quarter of 2013, net sales of Linzess as reported by Forest were $28.8 million. Ironwood has approximately $301 million in cash and short-term investments and a debt financing of $175 million till January. During this quarter, the company used $80 million of net cash for its operations.
Very little is know about what causes IBS, making its drug discovery fraught with the risk of unplanned side effects. A sacrifice to this problem was Zelnorm from Novartis, which, despite having superior efficiency for IBS, is no longer used and has been withdrawn from the market due to increasing risk of heart attack and strokes. FDA now approves Zelnorm only through a special treatment program; it can only be prescribed depending on how critical the disease is.
Amitiza (lubiprostone) capsules from Sucampo Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: SCMP) are indicated for the treatment of CIC and IBS. In 2004, Takeda signed a licensing agreement with Sucampo to market Amitiza in the U.S. and Canada. Recently, the product was approved by the FDA to use for opioid induced constipation (OUC) in adults. Sucampo received $10 million as milestone from Takeda for first sale of Amitiza as OIC treatment. In Q1, 2013, the U.S. net sales of Amitiza were $64.9 million as reported by Takeda, up by 7%, compared to $60.7 million in the same period 2012. The growth was due to increase in both volume and price.
In addition, Lotronex (alosetron) from Prometheus Laboratories is approved for use in IBS with severe diarrhea especially for women. The product was initially developed by GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK), however, in 2007, Prometheus Laboratories has taken over exclusive rights to Lotronex in the U.S. As of March 31, 2013, 14,551 physicians are enrolled under prescription programs for Lotronex. From September 2010 to March 2013, total number of prescriptions written were 110, 824. That includes gynecologists, internal medicine and family practice. In the recent quarter ended in March 31, 2013, 1063 physicians represent 80% of all Lotronex prescriptions.
As per IMS Health, approximately 60% of new patients use Linzess who were previously treated with OTC laxatives; 26% patients are converted from other branded drugs and 14% are from other available treatment. With increasing prescription data, Linzess will boost the collaborative revenue for Ironwood. Linzess has already been prescribed by more than 50% of gastroenterologists and around 20% of primary care physicians. The company continues to expand its prescriber base by introducing Linzess to the physician community in the U.S. and providing unrestricted access with tier 2 reimbursement.
Ironwood and Forest are exploring opportunities to expand the usage of Lonzess in dyspepsia, OIC and non-constipation IBS. By statistics, 8 million people suffer from OIC and 35 million from dyspepsia in the U.S. alone. Additional clinical studies involving linaclotide will strengthen Linzess's potential further. Overall, Ironwood has the opportunity to expand its therapeutic base either as single or a combination therapy to support its growth.
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Unions vie for home care workersBy DAVE GRAM
The Associated Press | June 26,2013MONTPELIER A second major national union formally put in its bid Tuesday to represent more than 7,000 home care workers allowed to organize under a new state law letting them engage in collective bargaining.
The filing at the state Labor Relations Board one day before the deadline is expected to set up a spirited summer campaign pitting the Service Employees International Union against the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees in a battle to represent a workforce in which wages of $10 per hour are common and benefits are few.
On Tuesday, about 60 SEIU members and supporters gathered for a rally at the Statehouse before marching down the street to deliver the signed union cards to the Labor Relations Board.
Voting for SEIU is an easy choice for me, said Karen Topper, state coordinator of Green Mountain Self Advocates, one of Vermonts leading disability rights organizations. As a home care worker myself, I know that when it comes to disability rights, we need to have a partner who understands how important this is for our clients and our communities.
AFSCME responded with a statement quoting supporter Janelle Blake, a home care provider from Essex Junction. She cited the $10 per hour wage as typical in Vermont, adding that she has no health insurance or sick days. In other states, like Iowa, Maryland and California, where home care workers are represented by AFSCME, workers have received pay increases and access to health benefits, registries and training.
Each union pointed to the others base outside of Vermont as a shortfall.
SEIU said of AFSCME: A Boston-based prison guard union just isnt the right choice for Vermont homecare workers.
AFSCME called its rival the out-of-state, New York City-based SEIU.
SEIU leaders razzed an AFSME official for mispronouncing Montpelier, playing a recording of the official saying MAHN-tee-peller.
SEIU officials then presented a poster-sized thank-you card to Sen. John Campbell, the Senate leader and a key backer of the bill allowing home care workers to unionize. The card called him Senator John Campbell/Speaker Pro Tem. His actual title is president pro tem.
Some union activists at Tuesdays rally spoke of caring for disabled family members with a state subsidy. One, Zev Nicholson, who said he had come for the SEIU organization effort from Minnesota, said he would rather care for his ailing mother for love instead of money.
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"They're worth doing yourself if you enjoy repetitive, meditative processes," said Margo True, with a chuckle from experience.
A fava fan and Sunset magazine's food editor, True has shelled her share of home-grown beans.
"There's nothing like bringing in favas from your own garden, then going through all that work," True said. "It can be very relaxing, like meditation; being one with your vegetables. You feel such pride in every little bean you double shell."
Popular in Mediterranean cuisines, favas also called broad beans are a herald of spring. In Northern California, they're a favorite backyard winter crop that matures from March through June.
"They're so easy to grow and still seem so exotic especially if you didn't grow up with them," True said. "They're so sophisticated and European."
Favas' emerald color is as distinctive as their flavor.
"They have a wonderful, sweet, green flavor," she added. "It's so fresh; it tastes like spring."
The beans' time-intensive preparation also makes them a delicacy. It takes 2 pounds of unshelled beans to make one cup of skinned favas.
Added True, "In spring when I go out to restaurants, I always order favas if they're on the menu because I know how much work they are."
Although lack of winter rain made some other crops struggle, local favas will be fine.
"We are having a good fava bean season due to the weather," said Suzanne Ashworth of Del Rio Botanical, who grows bushels of favas for Sacramento-area restaurants and community-supported agriculture customers at her West Sacramento farm. "It was a little difficult early due to the lack of rain, but recent rains have really helped."
Unlike most of its bean relatives, fava plants also have edible leaves. They can be used as a substitute for spinach (fresh or cooked) but with a subtle fava flavor.
"They're something not many people know about unless they grow favas themselves," True said. "That's the gardener's privilege.
"They're a wonderful, robust green," she continued. "I love them in salads. They go great with citrus such as ruby grapefruit. Or use them in a quiche, frittata or omelet.
"I like the flowers, too; toss them in a salad," she added. "Favas are such a generous plant."
Chefs like fava greens as a way to stretch the flavor without the labor, Ashworth noted. They're often used in pasta fillings and soups.
Baby favas picked when no bigger than a pinky finger can be treated like green beans with a fraction of the work of regular favas.
"Fava green beans with the flavor of the shelled fava; that's my favorite tip for home and restaurants," Ashworth said. "Shelling fava beans is hard work and is best done at the table."
Often, restaurant chefs use fava green beans for fava flavor in purées, soups and sauces, then top the dish with a few shelled beans.
"Chefs really appreciate the fava greens and fava green beans in purées and soups," Ashworth said, "and are then able to use the shelling favas for accent."
Fava Beans 101
Nutrition: 1 cup shelled, cooked mature fava beans contains 187 calories and 13 grams of protein. Full of dietary fiber, these beans are rich in folate, thiamin, potassium, manganese and copper.
Selection: Available from March through June, fresh favas can be found in farmers markets and (shelled) in some Middle Eastern or Italian specialty markets. Look for fresh, large, evenly shaped green pods the bigger the better. Avoid yellowed pods; those beans may be too mature, dry and bitter.
Storage: Place unshelled beans in a perforated plastic bag and store in the refrigerator, set at high relative humidity. They'll keep for at least a week. Processed beans may be frozen for up to six months.
Preparation: Baby beans smaller than your finger can be prepared like fresh green beans. Remove any string and cook whole, or cut with the outer shell intact.
Otherwise, favas should be shelled, then skinned; it's a two-step process that can be tedious.
After shelling the beans, blanch them. Plunge the shelled beans in boiling water for two minutes. Remove and rinse in cold water.
When cool enough to handle (about two to three minutes), pop the beans out of their skins. A pinch with a thumbnail helps.
After all that, the beans are finally ready to cook. Treat them like fresh lima beans (simmer until tender, about 15 minutes) or use in other recipes. Or they can be mashed, mixed with a little olive oil and spread on crostini.
Roasted favas: Del Rio Botanical's Suzanne Ashworth recommends this method as a group activity. Put the whole pods on a cookie sheet in a 400-degree oven for 15 minutes. Remove the pods and transfer them to a plate in the center of the table. After the beans cool for a few minutes, diners can shell them out, skin them and eat them with some bread, wine and cheese.
"It's the perfect appetizer and a fun way to dine," Ashworth said.
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Fake Volcano Can Solve Climate Problems, Scientists Say (Source: FOX News)
There will be an unexpected sight high in the skies over the British county of Norfolk next month: a huge balloon attached to the ground by a giant hosepipe.
It isn't obvious, but it is the first small step in an experiment which aims to re-create the cooling effect of erupting volcanoes on the earth's atmosphere.
Scientists and engineers from the universities of Bristol, Cambridge and Oxford are behind the three-year, 1.6 million pound ($2.5 million) project called Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering (SPICE).
The scheme will assess the feasibility of so-called solar radiation management (SRM) by mimicking volcanoes when they erupt. Eruptions can both warm and cool the Earth's climateFix, depending on how sunlight interacts with volcanic material.
SRM works on the assumption that some eruptions expel particles into the upper atmosphere, bouncing some of the sun's energy back into space and thereby cooling the earth.
"In 1991, a large eruption at Mount Pinatubo injected around 18 million tons of SO2 (sulphur oxide) to a 30-km altitude," project leader Matt Watson told reporters.
"That had the effect of cooling the global climate by around half a degree over two years."
Next month's experiment, to be held at a disused airfield in Sculthorpe in north Norfolk, will pump water through a 1-km hosepipe into an air balloon to test the engineering design and the effects of wind.
If there are no hiccups, the team aims to do more 1-km tests next year. It will also work on calculating and designing a potential full-scale balloon project, which would pump sulphates and aerosol particles instead of water.
That would require a 20-km pipe strong enough to pump sulphates to a balloon the size of Wembley football stadium -- at twice the height of a commercial aircraft flight.
However, the size of the balloon and strength of the pipe required are serious engineering challenges.
"Even manufacturing a hose 1 km in length is a challenge, but we are talking about a hose stronger than any built before," said Chris Walton, SPICE project trials advisor.
Some countries are exploring geo-engineering solutions as a way to control climate change by cutting the amount of sunlight hitting the earth or by capturing greenhouse gases.
Potential schemes include using artificial trees to soak up carbon dioxide, using mirrors in space to cut the amount of sunlight reaching the earth or capturing CO2 from power stations and burying it under ground.
Supporters say such solutions could be a relatively fast way to control the climate if there was an abrupt change, such as the sudden loss of Arctic ice.
Detractors say the impact of mimicking or manipulating nature on a large scale is not yet fully known and such projects might deflect resources and attention from proven technologies.
Most of these solutions are still far from being established at large scale.
"With strong government support and in an emergency situation...the fastest we could deploy this system is two decades," Watson told Reuters, adding that a minimum 10 to 20 balloons globally would be needed to reduce atmospheric temperature by 2 degrees.
Body Odor? Gene Disorder May Be The Culprit (Source: Reuters)
For some people with troublesome, unexplained body odor, an uncommon genetic disorder once known as "fish-odor syndrome" may be to blame, according to a study.
The condition, known clinically as trimethylaminuria, is caused by emitting excessive amounts of the compound trimethylamine (TMA). TMA is produced when people digest foods rich in a substance called choline -- including saltwater fish, eggs, liver and certain legumes, such as soy and kidney beans.
"Individuals with the metabolic disorder trimethylaminuria may sporadically produce malodors despite good hygiene," wrote study leader Paul Wise, at Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, in the American Journal of Medicine.
"The psychosocial impact of trimethylaminuria may be considerable. However, trimethylaminuria is difficult to diagnose without specialized tests."
Trimethylaminuria is caused by defects in a gene known as FMO3, which hinder the body's ability to metabolize TMA and turn it into odor-free compounds.
TMA itself has a strong fishy smell, but only about 10 to 15 percent of people with trimethylaminuria have that specific malodor, which may make it tougher to get a diagnosis.
For someone to have the disorder, he or she must inherit a defective copy of the FMO3 gene from both parents, who themselves would be unaffected "carriers." Of course, if either of the parents had the disorder, they would also pass it on.
Studies in the UK have estimated that up to 1 percent of white people carry a flawed copy of FMO3, with some ethnic groups -- including people from Ecuador and New Guinea -- having a higher rate.
For the current study, Wise and his colleagues looked at how often trimethylaminuria was diagnosed in patients who came to Monell seeking help for unexplained, persistent body odor.
They found that about one-third of the 353 patients tested positive for trimethylaminuria. Testing involves measuring the level of TMA in the urine after a person drinks a beverage with added choline.
Of the 118 patients who tested positive, just 3.5 percent had complained of a "fishy" odor. Far more often, they reported general body odor, bad breath and a bad taste in the mouth.
Many of the patients in the study had seen several doctors and dentists before being referred to Monell for testing. Some contacted the center on their own -- which Wise said was the major limitation of the study.
So it's unlikely that they are actually representative of all the people with unexplained body odor problems, he added, meaning researchers cannot conclude that one-third of all such individuals have trimethylaminuria.
George Preti, a Monell researcher who also worked on the study, said that in their experience, the second-most common culprit in unexplained body odor is chronic halitosis, or bad breath.
"It can be mistakenly perceived as body odor, because the odor is projected around your body when you speak or exhale."
Only a few labs in the United States perform testing for the disorder, but one way to gauge on your own whether you have it or not would be to make diet changes, such as avoiding choline-rich foods, Wise said.
If cutting out those foods improves your problem, that's a strong clue as to the underlying cause, he added.
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This Day in History: Marilyn Monroe's Famous Skirt Scene Filmed (Source: History.com)
The famous picture of Marilyn Monroe, laughing as her skirt is blown up by the blast from a subway vent, is shot on this day in 1954 during the filming of The Seven Year Itch. The scene infuriated her husband, Joe DiMaggio, who felt it was exhibitionist, and the couple divorced shortly afterward.
Monroe, born Norma Jean Mortensen and also known as Norma Jean Baker, had a tragic childhood. Her mother, a negative cutter at several film studios, was mentally unstable and institutionalized when Norma Jean was five. Afterward, the little girl lived in a series of foster homes, where she suffered from neglect and abuse, and later lived in an orphanage. At age 16, she quit high school and married a 21-year-old aircraft plant worker named Joe Dougherty.
In 1944, her husband was sent overseas with the military, and Monroe worked as a paint sprayer in a defense plant. A photographer spotted her there, and she soon became a popular pin-up girl. She began working as a model and divorced her husband two years later. In 1946, 20th Century Fox signed her for $125 a week but dropped her after one film, from which her scenes were cut. Columbia signed her but also dropped her after one film. Unemployed, she posed nude for a calendar for $50; the calendar sold a million copies and made $750,000.
Monroe played a series of small film roles until 1950, when Fox signed her again. This time, they touted her as a star and began giving her feature roles in the early 1950s. In 1953, she starred with Jane Russell in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, playing fortune hunter Lorelei Lee. Her tremendous sex appeal and little-girl mannerisms made her enormously popular.
After her divorce from baseball legend Joe DiMaggio, Monroe searched for more serious roles and announced she would found her own studio. She began studying acting with the famous Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio in New York. She gave an impressive comic performance in Bus Stop in 1955. The following year, she married intellectual playwright Arthur Miller. She appeared in the hit Some Like It Hot in 1959.
Monroe made her last picture in 1961, The Misfits, which Miller wrote especially for her. She divorced him a week before the film opened. She attempted one more film, Something's Got to Give, but was fired for her frequent illnesses and absences from the set, which many believed to be related to drug addiction. In August 1962, she died from an overdose of sleeping pills. Her death was ruled a possible suicide. Since her death, her popularity and mystique have endured, with numerous biographies published after her death. Her ex-husband Joe DiMaggio continued to send flowers to her grave every day for the rest of his life.


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An Open Letter To Salespeople Who Visit My Office
- Ron Raducanu DPM FACFAS
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Please have a seat. We need to have a chat.
You do decent work and I know you are a new product rep. However, we need to lay down some ground rules here if we intend on working together. If you find this offensive or a waste of your time, you are free to leave anytime but I suggest you stick around and hear me out.
Let us start with what I expect, etiquette-wise, when you come to my office.
Please do not just show up to my office unannounced. It is just plain disruptive. If you expect to have any time with me at all, the worst thing you can possibly do is show up during my very busy day without any notice. The staff hates it because really, you are in the way. The patients hate it because if I give you my time while they are there, they feel like I am not paying them the attention they deserve and expect.
Please do not show up unannounced at my office during my lunch hour expecting my attention. Lunch is when I catch up on charts and phone calls. I may even be trying to rush out the door to get to my office across town to start another busy session. Notice I did not bring up actually eating lunch at all. That is a luxury I cannot afford sometimes. If I do not have the time to feed myself, do you really think I give a hoot about what you are trying to show/sell me?
If you absolutely need something from me (like a signature on a document), call the office to make sure I am there and ask if you can come by. This way, my staff knows you are coming and can let me know you are coming. Show up when you say you are going to show up as well please. Do not tell my staff you will be there in 10 minutes and show up three hours later when we are all leaving. When you do come by, I expect you to be a ghost. Sneak in, be polite, get what you need from me and quietly make an exit. I cannot have you hanging out, talking to staff while they are trying to do their work, chatting up patients or trying to get my attention for more than the signature you need. It casts a bad shadow on you.
I have to remind you that in most situations, you are coming to my place of business to conduct business. Especially when we first meet, do not expect me to welcome you as a best friend or treat you like one just yet. That takes time just like any relationship.
If you do insist on showing up unannounced, do not come empty-handed. The Sunshine Law doesn't mean you cannot bring my staff something to munch on. They will be far more likely to dismiss the intrusion (yes, it is an intrusion to them) if they can happily munch on a doughnut during their afternoon. Seriously. A little gesture goes a long way. If you can't quite figure that out, you have a lot to learn.
How To Get Our Attention
Schedule a lunch and bring food. You can't afford it? Your boss won't let you because you are not allowed to feed my staff? The "Sunshine" thing has you gloomy? Really? Tell your boss I am a big eater and all five pizzas were for me. If I know when and what time you are coming, I promise you will have my undivided attention. Show me the new stuff. Talk to me about why your medication is better than all the others. I will pay attention and my staff will love you for breaking up the monotony of the day with greasy pizza and the full-on sugar rush they will get from the soda you brought.
Once you have done the right thing, scheduled a lunch and fed my staff (oh, I mean me), do not bug me every 48 hours about using whatever it is you are peddling. Give it a few months. If you "pop by" (see above), do not be surprised if I politely ignore you. Find a way to "bump" into me somewhere. I know that is not easy. What you have is a job and if it were easy, well … you know the rest.
Now if you have a neat new surgical product you want me to try, I really like trying it on something other than one of my patients first. This would involve a sawbone or cadaver in a lab for example. If you cannot be bothered to make sure I am at one of your lab workshops if there is one locally, how do you think I will get experience with your product and use it on one of my patients? If there is a dinner lecture with a talented, experienced surgeon who wants to tell me about your product and his or her success with it, great. Please make sure I know about it. Now that I have brought up the operating room …
How To Conduct Yourself In The OR
You better know your product. Not with your nose in the pamphlet while you're on the phone with your product manager during the case. You need to know your product cold. If you are not confident with the product, how do you expect me to be when I am using it on my patient for the first time? If I ask you a technique question, I expect an answer right away, not "hold on while I call" so-and-so. That will not fly at all, especially if you steer me wrong. If you leave out a step during the procedure or tell me to use the wrong instrument and things go wrong, well, we have a problem.
Along those same lines, if something does go wrong, please do not start getting mouthy. The worst thing you can possibly say is, "I told you you should not have done that it that way." The other thing not to say is, "Maybe you need a little more practice on the sawbones before you try that again." This is my patient on the table and I need to circumvent whatever it is that went wrong. You saying anything (unless asked) is only going to serve to aggravate the situation. I know I can act like a hot shot sometimes but my ego is fragile and blurting out stuff like that in the OR makes the staff in there question my skills and whether I actually know what I am doing. Frankly, if you cannot understand that, you have no business in anyone's OR. When things get tense, please stay quiet. I will ask you if I need some guidance. I would prefer if you did not volunteer information. I do my best thinking when there is quiet and generally when things go wrong, I have a lot of thinking to do.
Be gentle with your guidance in all situations. There are many ways to relay the same information. My native tongue is Romanian. In my first language, there is a great saying that basically translates to "The tone makes the music." Do you understand where I am going with this?
Also, as I mentioned, the OR is one of my places of business. We do not need to hear all about your various weekend escapades. We do not need loud, obnoxious behavior. We need quiet, concentrated attention to the task at hand. When we are in the lounge or in the hallway between cases, I would be happy to tell you about how cute my kids are and I would love to hear all about yours but not in the OR when I am working. I am happy to shoot the breeze with you when we are hanging out but not while I am working, at least not until I am comfortable with your products and we have had a few successful cases together.
Lastly, don't ever say to me "I've never seen that happen before." That means one of two things to me (in general): either you are lying or you just have not been around long enough to see the complications associated with your product. Neither of those two things will endear me to you. Hearing this comment from you also tells me that you do not have the good sense to know when to talk and when to stay silent.
Now that we have gone through all that, as we get to know each other better, things will loosen up, assuming you are still around. I have seen a lot of reps come and go so forgive me if that sounds harsh, but reality generally is harsh.
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Do not complain about your job and/or fellow reps and/or your boss. I could not care less and word will get around fast. If you intend on having a long career as a rep, that is a big no-no.
Another big no-no is to complain to me about other doctors. We all know each other and the walls have ears. If you are bad mouthing one of them, I assume you will do the same about me regardless of how much you seem to like me or say to my face. I know I can be a pompous jerk. If you say I am a pompous jerk behind my back, I will find out and call your boss. I promise.
I do not want to hear about how little you get paid or how bringing my staff (oops, I meant me) doughnuts is putting a dent in your drinking/weekend fund. This is another thing I could not care less about. I do not trouble you with how much (or little) insurance companies pay me as I am sure you could not care less. Spare me the lesson in your finances. Bring my staff a doughnut or two. Seriously.
Any questions?
Final Notes
I thought of this blog during an awesome dinner with a good friend, whom I first met when he was a rep. We laughed our tails off about stories behind the above advice. So thanks, Matt Kandell. I hope to share many more stories with you over the years.
Lastly, I would like to give some kudos to some truly outstanding reps I have had the privilege of working with and knowing both past and present. Cory (Philadelphia) and Nick (Virginia Beach) with Integra, Jennifer (Philadelphia) and Corey (Virginia Beach) with DJO, and Larry (Philadelphia) with Arthrosurface. I truly believe that when you work with good people, it makes you better and they deserve to know you appreciate their work. Tell their bosses too. No, they did not pay me to give them kudos. They are really that good.
Dr. Raducanu,
I am a medical device representative and a former drug representative in NJ. I enjoyed and appreciated your 'open letter'. For me personally, it serves as a reminder that it is not about ME. It is about YOU and your practice/patients. We sales reps can get so caught up in our sales goals and the company's urgency for numbers that we blindly barge into your office expecting a meeting and a case with our new hammertoe implant.
I, for one, will reevaluate my approach to office visits and staff (I mean, Doctor) treats.
I would like to know though, in your view, what makes the reps you mentioned "really good"? Perhaps you could discuss this in another article?Reply to this comment »
Hi Chris and thanks for the feedback.
I really think you hit the nail on the head that companies are really pushing their reps for "hard sells" and more quantity rather than honestly trying to build a quality relationship with the physicians. Believe it or not, I've had reps break every single one of the above "rules" and continue to even after the above was explained to them politely. They've followed me out of my car, tried talking to me while I'm on the phone or talking to patients, and even have interrupted me in treatment rooms while treating patients!
"Really good" reps are sensitive to all the above issues without having to be told per se. They are "naturals" at what they do. The ones that are in the OR know their products back and forth, know how to talk to the egos of surgeons, can troubleshoot, and know when to talk and when to stay quiet. The best ones know how to steer you in the right direction to avoid issues when they see things going south. And they generally do this politely and without anyone even knowing they are doing it.
I hope that helps.Reply to this comment »
Dr. Radacanu,
Great article and reference tool for all reps to review from time to time. Thanks for the reminders and I will share your blog with the reps in my network.
The saying "tone makes the music" are great words to live by, not just in work-related communication but in all aspects of communication so thanks for sharing it.
Appreciate you taking the time to share your insight.Reply to this comment »
Thanks for the mention in this blog. I think every rep old and new should be taught these points. It is very important that reps and managers understand that knowing everything about their product is equal and maybe slightly less (I say that loosely) important as the conduct and respect that you need for a surgeon to believe and respect you enough to trust you with his patients. I am blessed to have worked with Dr. R in a rep's role as well as management in orthopedics. It's a sticky game we arere all in and it's nice to see the good people within this world of orthopedics. Kudos for NO FUSIONS Doc!!! :).
Mat KandellReply to this comment »
Thanks Mat,
I appreciate the kind words!Reply to this comment »


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Students have filed a lawsuit against Sanaa University officials for negligence in the case of a morgue attendant who raped and killed 16 women at the faculty of medicine, the students' union said Tuesday.
The suit was filed by the General Union of Yemeni Students, a body dominated by the ruling General People's Congress of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
The union, in a press statement, accused Sanaa University's administration and security chief of "negligence and incompetence" over the series of killings which spanned more than four years.
At the same time, the union called for an end to the students' strike held at the university since Saturday, noting the authorities had agreed to their demand to seek out any accomplices of the confessed killer.
Mohammad Adam Omar Ishaak said he strangled to death most of his victims, aged 20-30, chopped up the bodies, dissolved them in acid and threw the remains into the sewers.
On Monday, the Sudanese morgue attendant admitted to killing another 11 young women in Sudan and even more in Kuwait, Chad and the Central African Republic, where he also worked.
The 52-year-old, who was arrested in May only after several months of complaints from parents of missing students, said he had spent time in Lebanon but did not commit any crimes there.
More than 10,000 students marched through the Yemeni capital Sunday demanding that Mohammad Adam be executed and his corpse put on public display. They also called for suspected accomplices to be brought to trial.
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