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Can You Contract HIV From Cut On Hand
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Small cuts on hands- Risk of Contraction?Hi. On Friday I was out all day and noticed, due to my chapped hands, I had a few small cuts on my knuckles that were bleeding a tad. During the day I shook hands with people and was in close contact. Would it be possible for any type of contraction...
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Rocky Mountain CARESHiHIV transmission can only occur when there is a direct and prolonged exposure to body fluids, semen, vaginal fluid, blood or mother to child through breast feeding. This most commonly occurs through unprotected vaginal or anal sex and sharing of... Read more »
hep c contracted from open cut?I am a police officer and 2 months ago was putting someone under arrest who is hep c positive and... Read more »
HIV through money when i have cut on handHi Im a cashier that regularly handles money, coins and notes. I had a small cut on the palm of my... Read more »
California: New HIV Contracts Set to Start in San FranciscoWith renewed service contracts for community groups in place as of Sept. 1, San Francisco's new HIV prevention strategy, which places heightened emphasis on testing, as well as linking those infected to care and treatment, is gaining sharper focus.... Read more »
Cuts for AIDS Agency in British Columbia as Interior Health Spreads Money to Other ProvidersInterior Health has cut 55 percent of funding from its contract with Living Positive Resource Center, which provides AIDS services in Kelowna to more than 200 clients. While LPRC's contract extends through June 30, it has had to eliminate one... Read more »
San Francisco Postpones Agency Cuts, Los Angeles AIDS Clearinghouse ClosesSan Francisco health officials "have postponed cutting" contracts for HIV/AIDS programs "until mid-October in order to give the Board of Supervisors time to respond to" larger cuts to services made by the state, the Bay Area Reporter reports.... Read more »
Florida: Health District Cuts $400,000 Grant that Helped HIV Sufferers Stay on Medications, Navigate Insurance SystemOn Wednesday, the Palm Beach County Health Care District board unanimously approved a planned $400,000 cut to the Comprehensive AIDS Program's case management services despite testimony from 10 patients and providers that the services are vital. ... Read more »
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Did I contract HIV....Really Worried
Posted by Jase, 2 RepliesHello everyone, I have an Hiv positive family member of which she is positive and I came across a situation whereby I had to bath her coz she cannot do it because they operated her hands so they still healing, so I washed her face and half body with... Read more »
Am I at risk? Open cuts on hands...
Posted by Gka978, 2 RepliesFirst, I'm sorry if this seems like a trivial question. My next step will be addressing anxiety issues
I have two scratches/cuts on my right hand, both from a new kitten who thinks my hand is a toy. I shook hands with someone who could be considered... Read more »
I have HIV from Hand job or sex?
Posted by goloka, 3 RepliesHi guys, I am very concern, because of my symptoms, that I may have HIV.
My recent exposure was went to the massage parlor and had a hand job and a massage with a massage oil. Then next day, I had felt the urge of urination and went to a doc and got... Read more »
Penis Glans and the risk of contracting HIV
Posted by dopey33, 3 RepliesI am seriously concerned. Yesterday, I had a guy give me a blow job and then we masterbated each other. The thing that concerns me is that some of his cum ended on my penis when he finished. Although the cum landed in the middle on my penis, it... Read more »
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In 1892, Asan Beach was the site of a Leper Colony, which was utilized for eight years until it was destroyed by a typhoon. Then in 1901 this land turned into a prison camp for exiled Filipino insurrectionists. They believed the United States should not take over the Philippines. Apolonario Mabini was the most famous of the 42 imprisoned and is still considered a Philippine hero. The monument you see today honors their sacrifice. In 1917 the U.S. declared war on Germany. A German cruiser, the SMS Cormoran had been docked in Apra Harbor for 3 years and subsequently the U.S. Naval authorities demanded surrender and imprisoned the enlisted men of the ship here at Asan Point. In 1922, Asan Point became a U.S. Marine Corp Camp with a quartermaster depot, a small arms range, and barracks.
In 1931 the Navy was ordered to have the island demilitarized. Before WWII Congress determined that due in part to its remote location, Guam was indefensible. Strategically, Guam held little importance to the United States. In October of 1941 the 18th Air Unit of the Japanese Navy started flying reconnaissance missions over Guam. On Dec 4, 1941 the 144th Infantry Division known as the South Seas Detachment of the Japanese Army picked up the 5th Defense Force in Rota and headed to Guam. On Dec. 8 & 9, the 18th Air Unit bombed Guam. On Dec. 10, 1941, a gallant but futile stand was put up by US Marines and members of the Insular Force Guard of Guam. The small garrison of US and Chamorro military personnel was no match for the massive invasion force. The island was surrendered to the Japanese. The intent was to cut off the U.S. from the Philippines and to use Guam as an alternate airfield. However, the primary objective for occupying Guam was for the Japanese to protect the vital sea route. During the Japanese occupation, the Chamorro population suffered from work camps which demanded that they repair airfields, built and paved roads, dug hillside caves, trenches and tank traps. The Chamorros were forced to learn and speak Japanese, grow food for Japanese soldiers, and built structures such as tank barriers, pillboxes and gun emplacements.
In June of 1944, the United States Armed Forces were ready to retake the island of Guam. The Japanese also knew of this plan. Most of the permanent and elaborate defense installations were placed at Tumon Bay. On June 16, 1944 US cruisers, battleships, and aircraft bombed and shelled Asan and Agat beaches. The Japanese now knew where they planned to attack. The US attack was supposed to take place on June 18, 1944 but was delayed because of the battle for Saipan and the battle of the Philippine Sea, known as the Marianas Turkey Shoot. The new date was reset to July 21, 1944. This decision also allowed preparation for an Army division to be part of the invasion. Japanese defensive positions were placed on top and on both sides of Asan and Adelup Points. But the previous defenses in Tumon Bay were left because there was not time to move them. The fortifications of Japanese beach defenses were extensive.
Obstacles and mines were placed on the fringing reef. The beaches and immediately inland were filled with obstacles and tank traps. Further inland were machine gun positions, pillboxes, heavy weapons, artillery and coastal defense guns. And higher inland to shoot down on the beaches were machine guns, heavy weapons, and artillery.
The code name for the Guam operation was "Stevedore". The United States Armed Forces had 4 battleships, 3 cruisers, and 3 destroyers just off of Asan. Underwater Demolition Teams came in to destroy obstacles before the US Marines landed. There were 12 troop transports containing the 3rd Marine Division and 16 Landing Ships Tank. The bombardment of the island began at 0530 am on July 21, 1944. Over 18,000 various sized shells were expended and nine thousand rockets launched over the island. Then at 7 am the LST's moved toward shore in Asan to unload 180 armored landing vehicles full of assault troops. The Japanese had perfect observation and firing points from high ground. But the mission included securing those high positions to make the beachhead secure for US Marines and Army soldiers to live, sleep, eat, and stockpile supplies.
The lead elements of the 3rd Marine Division crossed the reef from 200 to 500 yards offshore and landed on Asan Beach, which was defended by the Japanese 320th Independent Infantry Battalion and naval troops manning the coastal defense guns. The plan was to fight between Adelup and Asan Points, referred to as "the devil's horns". From east to west, two battalions of the 3rd US Marine Regiment landed on Beach Red 1, one battalion of the 3rd US Marine Regiment landed on Beach Red 2, three battalions of the 21st US Marines came ashore on Beach Green, in the middle, and three battalions of the 9th US Marines landed on Beach Blue adjacent to Asan Point.
The 3rd Marine Division operation order called for the three regiments to land abreast, capture the high ground immediately inland, and prepare for further operations to the east and southeast. Marines assaulted beaches, took Orote Peninsula, and the land behind Asan and the Force Beachhead Line from Adelup Point to Mt. Chachao/Mt. Tenjo. The Army's 77th Infantry Division fought in Agat, and took Mt. Alifan and the Force Beachhead Line from Facpi Point to Mt. Tenjo. The Asan area was secured on July 28th, but it took until August 10, 1941 to eliminate all organized resistance on the rest of Guam.
About 55,000 young Marine and Army soldiers invaded Guam. An estimated 2124 were killed in action or died of wounds. Because of their sacrifice we now enjoy freedom on Guam today.
After WWII was over, Asan Beach became known as Camp Asan until 1947.This was used as headquarters and barracks for the US Navy Seabees who helped to reconstruct the island. Then from 1948-1967 it was the "Civil Service Camp". In essence, it was a small military base with housing, outdoor theater, tennis courts and fire station. In 1968 the Navy converted the buildings into a hospital annex for use during the Vietnam War. This was utilized for 7 years until in 1975 the area was turned into a Vietnamese Refugee Camp. There were a total of 111,000 refugees that came through Guam. In 1976 Supertyphoon Pamela destroyed all of the remaining buildings, and the area was cleared of the debris by the Navy. Then the National Park Service acquired the area in 1978, and War in the Pacific National Historical Park was established.
The Asan Beach Unit contains many historic resources preserved from the war. There are numerous Japanese pillboxes located at Adelup Point. At Asan Beach, on the backside of the point two Japanese gun emplacements have been reinforced with metal beams. These gun emplacements housed 20 cm coastal guns, of which one gun base remains today. At the tip of the point is the Liberator's Memorial. This structure was erected in 1994, to honor all US forces involved in the recapture of Guam. The Liberator's Memorial was dedicated by the National Association of Uniformed Services and the Third Marine Division Association, Guam Branch on the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of Guam. Along the beach there are two Mabini monuments honoring the exiled Filipinos. Next is the Monument for the 3rd Marine Division erected on site by the Third Marine Division Association. The US Landing Monument is also along the beach and is dedicated to the men who fought here. The Asan Ridge contains numerous pillboxes, caves and tunnels.

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Judge orders Apple's monitor to play nice and more of last weekend's news
Good morning, everyone. Here's a look at the Apple news from this past weekend.
A judge has ordered Apple and its court-appointed monitor to play nice. Last week, Judge Denise Cote issued a statement, prompting both parties to start over with a clean slate. Also, the monitor in question isn't going anywhere.
An Apple ID phishing scam is making the rounds. We explained how to recognize it and why you should avoid it.
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Kanab is a city in and the county seat of Kane County, Utah, United States.[4] It is located on Kanab Creek just north of the Arizona state line. This area was first settled in 1864 and the town was founded in 1870 when ten Mormon families moved into the area.[5] The population was 3,564 at the 2000 census.
Locals refer to Kanab as "Little Hollywood" due to its history as a filming location for mostly western movies and television series such as Stagecoach, The Lone Ranger, Gunsmoke, Daniel Boone, El Dorado, Planet of the Apes, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Sergeants 3 and WindRunner: A Spirited Journey.[6]
Kanab is situated in the "Grand Circle" area, centrally located among Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Bryce Canyon National Park, the Grand Canyon (North Rim), Zion National Park, and Lake Powell. Other nearby attractions include Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park, the privately owned Moqui Cave, and the largest animal sanctuary in the United States, Best Friends Animal Society.
Geography and climate
Kanab is located on the western Colorado Plateau.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 14.1 square miles (36.4 km²), of which, 14.0 square miles (36.3 km²) of it is land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km²) of it (0.28%) is water.
Kanab has a borderline Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa), more typical of exposed regions around Arizona's Mogollon Rim. The city is rather wetter, especially during the winter months, and hotter than the typical Mountain West cool semi-arid climate. The dry spring season from April to June is warm to hot during the day and very clear but the hot sun and thin air typical of Utah mean that nights remain cool and frosts can occur even in May. In the summer, monsoon thunderstorms break up the dry weather between July and October. The winters are cool during the day and very cold at night, though a large proportion of the precipitation is still rain rather than snow, which rarely accumulated beyond 1 inch (2.5 cm) and has a median total fall of only 14.8 inches (0.38 m), or three-tenths that of Salt Lake City. As noted above, overall winter precipitation is slightly in excess of that required to qualify as a subhumid rather than semi-arid climate.
As of the census[2] of 2000, there were 3,564 people, 1,335 households, and 978 families residing in the city. The population density was 254.2 people per square mile (98.2/km²). There were 1,492 housing units at an average density of 106.4 per square mile (41.1/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 96.77% White, 0.06% African American, 0.98% Native American, 0.25% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 0.67% from other races, and 1.23% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.88% of the population.
There were 1,335 households out of which 32.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 65.2% were married couples living together, 6.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 26.7% were non-families. 23.8% of all households were made up of individuals and 12.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.64 and the average family size was 3.17.
The median income for a household in the city was $35,125, and the median income for a family was $40,778. Males had a median income of $31,741 versus $19,116 for females. The per capita income for the city was $16,128. About 4.0% of families and 5.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 4.6% of those under age 18 and 4.9% of those age 65 or over.
Natural Family Resolution
On January 10, 2006, the mayor at that time Kim Lawson and the city council passed Resolution 1-1-06R, titled The Natural Family: A Vision for the City of Kanab, codifying the definition of a "natural family":
The nonbinding resolution was formulated by a conservative advocacy group from Salt Lake City. Though symbolic, it created controversy within the town, and prompted Arthur Frommer to refer to the community as homophobic, and urge it be boycotted by tourists.[9]
Search for Montezuma's treasure
In 1914 Freddy Crystal arrived in Kanab saying that, while researching in Mexico, he had discovered that the great treasure of Montezuma, spirited away by the king's men before he died, was to be found in the mountains around the town. Many searches and digs by Crystal and those who followed him ended when a plan to drain a lake, in the belief that the treasure resided in an under-water cave, was stopped by the Government because it was one of the few refuges of the Kanab ambersnail.[10][11]
Kanab Ambersnail
Three Lakes, a privately owned wet meadow near Kanab, is one of only two natural habitats for the Kanab Ambersnail, a snail species which was listed as an endangered species in 1992 by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and a species of conservation priority for the Arizona Game and Fish Department.
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iPads take to the field for security sales
Security industry finds successes applying tablets and iPads to the sales process
Brusse said that you can get really creative once you put a tablet computer in the hands of your sales team. He cited the example that one of the sales staff had used the basic camera on an iPad to take a photo of a loading dock with the door open on a bright sunny day. It was the perfect photo to explain to the customer the difference between a standard security camera and wide dynamic range (WDR) camera. It helped sell the value of upgrading to WDR, he said. Other tablet benefits include GPS tracking for managing a sales force, and having access to a contact management app that allows the sales team to enter the info right there and then, rather than jotting it in a notebook.
In terms of the future, our panelists and audience members also see the tablets/iPads as being used for the actual contract process. While none in attendance said they were using it yet to sign sales contracts with clients in the field, all agreed that this is right around the corner. Brusse and other sales managers at the ESX seminar agreed that legal teams would probably have to approve the audit trails of contracts signed on a tablet device, especially since these contracts have to hold serious legal weight. In terms of the logistic process, digital delivery of contracts could allow for automated routing to ensure that once a contract is signed, the project is instantly delivered to the installation team, to the accounting team and to the monitoring operations team for all the follow-ups that are needed.
One thing's for sure, if you're not taking advantage of tablets and iPads for your sales force, you need to at least start testing how it can help you. Put a unit in the hands of some of your top performers. What I'm hearing is that the cost of the iPads usually pays itself back in 1 or 2 months because it helps deliver extra sales and higher efficiencies.
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Increasing energy-efficiency in data centers is an ongoing issue for companies worldwide. For the better part of the last decade, companies have begun moving data centers from large cities to areas where cooling and power are cheaper.
An increasingly popular destination is Iceland, a country that has found itself in severe financial trouble and is looking to turn itself around by becoming a key data center market. Google, IBM, Microsoft, Sun and Yahoo are all planning to open data centers in Iceland, says IceNews.
The tech giants are looking to take advantage of the country's year-round temperate climate, which averages between 40 and 45 degrees Fahrenheit. Iceland also offers a green power grid boasting geothermal and hydroelectricity. In this Forbes interview, Tate Cantrell, CTO at server hosting company Verne Global, discusses why companies are warming up to Iceland for their data center needs.
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I like Straight Key Night (SKN), but I'm glad it's only once a year. It's kind of fun to dig out the old straight keys, if only to remind ourselves to be thankful that we don't have to use them every day. They're a lot of work!
I mainly used the J-45 I purchased a couple of years ago. It's a J-37 key mounted on a leg clamp. The key has a very nice action, but even so pounding on it for an hour is enough to wear me out. And on top of that, I could only send about 15 wpm.
Overall, I made five contacts on New Year's Eve and two on New Year's Day. This included two locals: K8KS and N8XMS. I could have done more, but my fist just wasn't up to it.
What was gratifying is that there seemed to be more activity this year than last year. When I first turned on the rig, it was hard to find an open frequency. I only hope that SKN will encourage more ops to get on CW more regularly.


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BBC America is really doing a great job with the turnaround time on getting episodes to airing. Just 15 days after it originally aired in the UK, episode 1 will air at 9PM (8 central) on Monday, February 7th. Following it at 10:20PM (9:20PM central) will be the second American special that aired in December. The next week on the 14th, episode 2 and the Middle East special will air. Make sure to tune in!
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Samsung stepped up as a heavy-hitter in the Smart TV market with the unveiling of their ES8000 television on Wednesday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. They boasted how it has been 'future-proofed' with the built-in ability to upgrade it's features and processing power as well as gesture-based control and face and voice recognition allowing users to browse the web with a wave of their hand and to change channel by speaking in one of the more than 20 languages that the set is preprogrammed to understand.
The implications of this kind of technology becoming mass market are huge - and how eventually it could have a huge impact on how we watch TV and how we interact with the medium in the future. It's another nail in the coffin for the old-school, stupid TV remote - with tablets and smart phones providing the others.
Smart TVs will use the in-built camera for facial recognition (and Skype video chat) which means it will be able recognise family members and bring up their profile with personalised app selections, favourite channel lists and recordings. Samsung, at CES, said that the number of apps available will grow by 60 per cent this year and that over 20 million downloads will soon be reached - and that 25,000 companies were now developing apps for its platform.
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Dear Stack Overflow, thank you for not allowing me to change my mind. How Orwellian of you.
iOS 7 has been around for a while now, so this complaint is nothing new, but instead of improving it in iOS 7.1, Apple has done an excellent job of making it significantly worse; so I finally decided to write (read: rant) about it.
Don't get me wrong, for the most part I love the refreshingness of a completely "flat" UI, without all the pseudo-3d rendering that was so popular all through the 90′s and 2000′s. But religiously sticking with a new interface paradigm against better options can lead to folly.
Case in point: the iOS 7 shift button.
There is absolutely nothing intuitive about the styling of any of the states of this button. Looking at any one of them individually, you simply cannot determine what state it represents. The only way to figure out what the state of the button is is to compare it to its other states. This is horrible UI, and in my opinion is a perfect case where we should be using pseudo-3d to make the button look "pressed". For the record, the states pictured above are, respectively: unpressed, caps lock, shift. The subtle (and I emphasize subtle) shading of the caps lock state is very easy to miss, and I am constantly mixing up the pressed an unpressed states of the shift button, because they both look unpressed to me.
To make matters even worse, there is exactly one other button on the keyboard that you can even compare the shift button to in order to figure out what state it is in, because the keyboard has three different stylings of button, and Apple is not even following any kind of common theme. Let's examine them:
Most of the keys are clearly using dark text on a lighter background. In the above example, only the delete button has light text on a darker background. Looking at the keyboard above, then, one might presume that the shift button is in fact not selected, because it looks very much like the 123, microphone and return keys, differing only in that the symbol is a slightly lighter shade than the black foreground of the others. However, the shift button is in fact pressed in this picture. Unpressed, it looks like the backspace button. That's right, only the foreground colour of the button is changing ("on" is dark, and "off" is bright). The actual "button", which by the way is actually still using a thin pseudo-3d shadow to make it look physically like a button, doesn't change in the slightest. This is the most two-faced, hypocritical design of a new UI I have seen in some time.
To make matters worse still, when you first see the keyboard, it most likely has the shift button pressed (because most text fields default to auto-capitalization), thus impressing in the user's mind that this is the natural default state of the keyboard. Of course as soon as you start typing, that shift button lights up (which means it's off, remember).
Can it possibly get any worse? Yes. Yes it can. The caps lock mode of the shift key (which is the second image in the top picture) is quite frankly barely discernable from the unpressed state. Worse, to activate the caps lock, as any iOS user will know, one has to double-tap the icon. What happens if you're a little too slow in your double-tap? Well consider that the first tap simply selects the shift key and puts it into shift mode (image 3). This means that depending on whether your are successful or not in your double-tap, the result will be either image 1 or image 2. In other words, the two states that look almost identical to each other!
Quickly glancing at a keyboard that has its caps lock on, it is very hard to miss this fact unless you specifically compare the background shading of the shift button to the 123 button below it:
Tell me I'm crazy, but that is a subtle, subtle colour difference! Without those other buttons to compare it to, there would simply be no way at all to tell if caps lock was on or off. Even with the other buttons it's not obvious.
Apple has taken a bad UI in iOS 7 and made it boatloads worse in 7.1. Do you agree or disagree?
Allow me to ramble a little if you will. Consider light switches. We've been used to them our whole lives, and even if we're being generous, they haven't changed much at all over that course of time. For someone who grew up in the 80s, that's a pretty long time for such a commonplace interface to not have undergone major changes.
Perhaps the biggest change we've seen was the gradual switching (no pun intended) from those little stick switches that flipped up and down to the nowadays commonplace flat switches that push in at the top or bottom.
Seriously. That's about it. That's about the only interfacial change we've seen in the light switch in our generation. To me that means one of two things: either it's such a good invention that it just hasn't needed any change, or we haven't been devoting it enough attention as designers.
Now don't get me wrong, I think the light switch is a fabulous invention. However, I don't think it's perfect. One of the biggest complaints I have is the lack of any kind of obvious relationship between the switch and the device. A perfect example is my bathroom. I have three switches in a row on an unmarked panel on the wall. These control, in order, the main light, the shower light, and the fan.
If I were to design an interface for turning on devices in a bathroom, this is not how I would do it. If this were an app, the buttons would first of all be labeled with an icon at the very least. You would never see three completely blank and identical buttons in a row in a software interface. To this day I don't think I've ever seen a single labeled light switch on a room. On appliances, yes, but not a room panel.
Secondly, I question the order. It seems to be implicitly grouped by switch type. For instance, the two switches that control the lights are first in the panel. There's no other conceivable reason to order them this way, and yet the group is not indicated in any fashion (let alone, clearly) on the actual interface. I'm left to infer this and remember it until I can simply form a habit of which switch to press.
The order makes no sense to me. Why group the switches by type, unless the group were clearly indicated? The first button is obviously in the correct location, but it has nothing to do with its type. It has to do with the frequency of use of that button. It is the primary button because it controls the thing in the room that is used most frequently. So frequently, in fact, that if a room could have a default button, that would be it. So why don't the other buttons on the panel follow this same frequency-of-use pattern? If it did, the fan button would surely come second because, if I'm being modest, it is used for more than just showering, unlike the shower light.
Which in fact, brings me to another point. The shower light and fan are almost always used together. In fact, I get angry when I forget to turn the fan on when I have a shower. A good user interface designer might take note of this and design the interface such turning on the shower light automatically turned on the fan. And heck, if we're being creative, maybe turning off the shower light kept the fan on for a configurable amount of time.
Come on people, we're pioneering the 21st century here, let's start to design our living spaces in the same way we design our apps. Just think of the things we could achieve. And do you think we'd want to go back after that? Let's just do it now.
So I was thinking about the UI problem where you want to show the most useful objects in a list first, for convenience (think the iOS home screen), based on some algorithm (or sort order, which could be considered a simple algorithm). The problem is there are different metrics that might all be useful, and it's not entirely obvious where to draw that line. For example, we might show most recently used (MRU), most frequently used (MFU), newest, favorites, etc. Actually favorites is a good one to consider because it is the only point that involves direct user input (marking a favorite). If we analyze that notion a bit, we can see that what we're really doing is allowing the user to (in a relatively simple manner) indicate via a boolean yes/no flag whether an object is considered "important" to them. Of course how the algorithm interprets that is up to itself.
The iOS home screen does little algorithmic ordering of any kind. Apple's approach is to leave it up to the user to organize their icons. While this might be an ok solution for a small number of icons, it really becomes unwieldy when there are large numbers of objects to sift through, and I've never considered it a true solution to this rather unsolved UI.
However, I came up with an interesting idea that might help in its solution. It's actually quite a simple idea: Add the notion of a single user-controllable separator to the home screen that represents a boundary between user-ordered objects and OS-ordered objects. Everything to the left of the border would behave exactly as it does now on the home screen, but everything to the right would be sorted either by one metric or a combination of metrics such as newest, MRU and MFU*. Thus, immediately we'd see things like: when you download an app, it now appears at the beginning of your automatic icons, as opposed to the very end of your pages of icons. The icons we care about are going to be right where we put them (this is an important and necessary feature, as anyone who's worked in a restaurant or with POS's before knows), but "the rest" get sorted based on what the system makes a reasonable guess as to what you're likely to want.
If you want to add an icon to the ordered section, you'd of course just drag it in, and it would expand to include the new icon. The separator itself would also be draggable, so if you wanted to add the first five items in the automatic section to the manual section, you could just drag the separator five icons over.
The trick is in making it obvious what the meaning of the separator is.
Today while trying to access Apple's iOS Developer Portal, I got a message that the service was temporarily down. Or at least that's what I assumed the very terse message to mean:
That's fine—I'm not complaining that the site is down; these things happen. The problem is how Apple handles this situation. In particular, rather than returning the message as the response for the requested url, Apple actually redirects you to a static error page (take a look at the url bar in the screenshot).
Now the problem here is that when I'm faced with a "service temporarily unavailable" message, my first instinct is to just keep the page open and occasionally hit the Refresh button to see if it's up yet. But this won't work here. As it stands, I'm going to see this static message no matter how many times I refresh the page because that's actually the page I'm looking at! In fact, the only way for me to properly "try again" is to hit Back on the browser and re-click the link that took me to the error page in the first place, or open up my bookmark again, if I happen to have the page bookmarked. Now neither of these is outrageously more tedious than hitting Refresh, but the point is Refresh is still the simplest and most obvious course of action, and therefore is the more likely action users will take.
Furthermore, there's no indication to the user (outside of the url) that this is the case. Granted, this is a developer site and its users are likely to be more observant of such things, but that's not really an excuse to design things wrong in the first place, and I have a feeling if it's done wrong here, it's probably done wrong elsewhere as well, including Apple's consumer-facing pages.
Is this a big deal? Am I going to lose sleep over it? No, of course not, but it is another example of poor UI. Thanks for listening.
Today, a very simple example of a horribly irritating UI that would be so simple to fix. This time, the iPhone "not enough storage" warning:
The problem is that it gives absolutely no indication of how big the app is you're trying to download, like it's something they don't want you to know. The irony is they give you a nice handy link to your storage management settings so you can start deleting content right away, but don't actually tell us what we need to know in order to do the job! So here we are faced with the task of clearing off data from our phone, but with no freaking clue as to how much we need to get rid of. How is this considered an acceptable user interface? So I got this warning, and I'm dying to try the latest update to Order and Chaos (with two new lands to explore!) and here I am deleting app after app from my phone, trying again, and continually getting this annoying message.
The thing is, I don't even know if I'm close to enough free space. I've deleted pretty much every app that I've deemed I probably won't need any time soon, and I still can't install the damn update! So I've given up, because there's nothing more I can easily trim from my phone, and here I am with about 5 or 6 apps gone and nothing to show for it. Had I known I still wouldn't be able to fit the update after deleting 500 megs of apps, I probably would have opted to keep the 500 megs of apps!
And all this trouble just because Apple doesn't want to tell me how big the file is it's trying to download. No clue.
Last night I had the strangest dream. Normally I wouldn't post my dreams to a blog about UI, but this was just so bizarre I had to share it.
It started with a mass exodus of humanity. Scientists had somehow discerned a great astronomical catastrophe was to occur on April 24th, 2013. As far as we could tell, they didn't know what exactly would happen, except that it would be big, and many took it to mean the end of life on Earth. Humanity was divided among the hopeful and the despondent. There was rioting and looting and mass suicides. But there were a few people still holding on to the last few moments of their insignificant lives with either dignity or fear. These people (there were only about a hundred in our group) were making their way to trains that were already departing for the countdown was on. Where people were going I don't know, presumably to some last hope shelter in case there was the slightest chance we might survive. But then things got weird.
The trains took us to the ruins of a large abandoned concrete complex, open to the sky and covered in graffiti. It would seem the plan was less to try to save ourselves than to escape the chaos of the city for a more peaceful and civilized oblivion among our friends and loved ones. My mother was there, drinking fresh water out of a spring flowing through a hole in a broken wall. There were many people there, filling cups and bottles full of this water, which was the purest coldest water I'd tasted.
It was night, and the sky was clear. I looked up through the ruins of the building around me to watch the final show.
The heavens ignited. Waves of light rippled across the sky. Strangely I thought to pull out my iPhone and snap a picture. People remarked on how beautiful it was. Then it faded and we were all still there. Things seemed somehow more peaceful and quiet. People were quietly talking among themselves, presumably wondering why they were still there, when I looked up and noticed that the heavens had completely rearranged themselves.
Get this. The stars in and around what had previously been the constellation Orion had completely rearranged themselves to spell, in English, the words "NO APR 24 THIS YEAR". It was written in stars.
I pointed it out to people around me, who all of course rushed to get a better view and to try and make something of it. Someone had apparently brought a telescope with them and yelled out something like "there's more." I rushed over to take a look, along with everyone else, obviously keen to see. It appeared there was some kind of picture, beneath the writing (also in stars, of course) of a spiral staircase with a door opening at the top of it.
Things got even weirder at this point. Suddenly there was a giant spiral staircase in the room. Had it been there the whole time? I couldn't recall. I vividly recall the staircase. It was very large, and made of solid wood painted a glossy white. It appeared very old, but not damaged at all. It was solid, in that there were no holes between the steps, and it spiraled up to what appeared to just be a wall at the top, also of white painted wood. I started to climb the staircase, with everyone else following behind me. When I got to the top, I half pushed, half banged on the wall at the top when suddenly it opened from the inside.
Inside stood a giant man (think the protohumans in Prometheus, but his features were human) crouched over with the door in his hand. He had short blond hair and was dressed in a white shirt and white shorts. In fact everything in the room was white and glowed with a bright light. His movements were slow, presumably because of his size, but were perfectly fluid and human. There was also a woman there, not hiding exactly, but around the corner, not wanting to interfere. The man said his name was David, and reached out his hand in greeting.
I shook his hand… and woke up.
Last night I was cooking some pasta on the stove. I usually set a timer on my microwave when I throw the pasta in so I have a rough idea for when to take it off the stove. I've done this many times before, but last night something went wrong… with UI! So how, you might be asking yourself, could I possible have screwed up setting a timer on my microwave? Did I accidentally forget to hit the timer button and end up nuking air for five minutes? No, no, nothing like that. Here's what happened:
On my microwave, a Panasonic "Genius" (how ironic, just like my "Smart" TV), the Timer button has multiple functions. As in not just more than one, but at least four. That's way too many functions for one button to start with, but allow me to illustrate what happened. I was aware going into things that the Timer button was also the Clock set button. If you press it once, you can set a timer. If you press it twice, you're now setting the clock. What happened was I accidentally hit the button twice and put it in clock set mode. Realizing this, I wanted to get back to timer mode (quickly, after all, my pasta is cooking as we speak!) so I pressed the button again, thinking (like any sane UI) it would cycle back to the initial function. The problem is, and what I was unaware of at the time, was that the button is coded such that pressing it four times in succession activates DEMO MODE.
The problem is, when the thing is in demo mode nothing works. Because it's the mode you set the microwave to when it's on the store shelf. Trying to cook something just turns the light and fan on, but doesn't actually radiate anything. Even worse, the timer goes at something like 4X actual speed, for whatever ridiculous reason (because people trying out a microwave in a store can't just set the timer to 5 seconds to demo it I guess). It also turns out that it's a bitch to get out of demo mode. I mean, that last part actually makes sense. If only it weren't so easy to accidentally get it stuck in demo mode in the first place!
I actually had to resort to reading the manual in order to get my microwave functional again. Feel how you will, but I consider that any time I am forced to actually read a book in order to figure out how to use a product, that's a UI fail.


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Brett Favre has never beaten the Cowboys in the playoffs. Ever. So it would seem that he probably shouldn't be going out of his way to provide them with bulletin board material. But he has.
During his weekly Wednesday press conference, Vikings quarterback Brett Favre offered up a backhanded indication regarding his belief that the home team will prevail on Sunday against the Dallas Cowboys.
"Honestly, I see us sitting here next week having this press conference again," Favre said, per Judd Zulgad of the Minneapolis Star Tribune. "If that doesn't happen, to me it will be a shock."
So, he's basically saying "We're going to win." Either that, or he's talking about his annual retirement press conference.
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Roasting cherry tomatoes -- is this a crazy idea?
- yumyum Aug 14, 2006 01:32 PM
I found a thread on roasted plum tomatoes from 2005. Mark Bittman -- I'm linking below. I'm about to come into a bumper crop of cherry tomatoes (gorgeous yellow and red) and I'm wondering if doing this with small tomatoes is worth it? The skins on my tomatoes are tough this year and I need to do something with them to enjoye the flavor but soften up the texture. Other ideas if not this one? Thanks!
I do this all the time! Just put olive oil, salt, pepper, garlic, oregano/rosemary/herb of your choice in an oven-proof dish (I use an LC gratin) and stick in oven....15 mins or so at 375 does the trick...they'll be soft, the skin will just begin to crack, the flavor will be intense....
I did this a couple of weeks ago and the flavour was amazing. I did end up peeling the skins at the end of the process because they were very tough.
I did the long and slow method, about 1 1/2 hours and 150 degrees, the quick method would as above would certainly yield softer skins.
There's a very good recipe at Epicurious for Spicy Chicken with Marjoram and Roasted Tomatoes, link below, that is wonderful with grape tomatoes also...I usually add more garlic and red pepper flakes. It's also great with fresh basil if you don't have marjoram.
Roasting is good but oven dried cherry tomatos are even better in my opinion!
A glut of cherry tomatoes forces me to do this every summer. They are so sweet and delicious I am forced to sit on the porch and eat them like candy!
Just halve them and spread on a cookie sheet(s) put in the oven at about 250 degrees for about 2-3 hours. Don't pile them up since they wont dry properly. Just do one single layer. This depends on your oven and how juicy the tomatoes are. They will dry up like little raisins.
These are excellent in pastas, sprinkled over fish or salads, or you can just sit and eat them like I do. They also keep quite well either plain or you could cover them in oil and sneak in a couple garlic cloves for a nicely flavoured oil.
Cut 'em in half. If you find this tedious, find something else to think about while yer doin' it, or rock out/veg out/whatever out. Put 'em guts side up (skin down) on a wire rack above a sheet pan ('er cookie sheet with edges). Go long and slow with olive oil, salt and pepper. Leave 'em in a low 150 oven for a half day or more.
You can also build yerself a brick oven and fire it up at 500 plus degree and do this same thing quickly. Or in a regular oven too. Add some julienned spring onion or shallot, and maybe some vinegar. Use good olive oil. Let it get a wee bit charred. Heck you could even try pulling this one off with bread cubes (you might want to add 'em later), and make a roasted version of the ubiquitous (not a pirate word I know) panzanella, er.
P.S.: If you want a quicky technique for halving the little cherries read on... Never throw away a slightly dull serrated paring knife, cause that's what you'll need. Cradle about four to six of the wee ones at a time and slice 'em in half in your dainty palm. Resist the temptation to use a lot of down pressure or a radical sawing motion. This will result in tomatoes that aren't uniformly cut on the polar axis (esoteric non pirate term), but what the phoeey matey!
Thanks for the great ideas--was wondering what to do with my bumper crop of unusual varietals...(Posted Photos Below)
At dinner Saturday night we got to talking with our waitress (who happens to belong to the same organic co-op that we do) and she recommended roasting cherry tomatoes with some balsamic vinegar. Sounded like a good idea to me.
I roast some every week and they are very versatile. I toss whole tomatoes in olive oil, kosher salt, and pepper. Then roast at 425 until they burst. Remove from oven, cool slightly and stir in a bunch of shredded basil. Great as a side for meat, in salads, in frittata, pasta, etc.
So I did a batch last night. Tried the low and slow method -- 275 for two hours. Could have gone a little less time, but they turned out great. I halved the cherry and plum tomatoes and tossed them in a bit of olive oil. It was time consuming (I did around 3 cups of tomatoes in all) Tucked some fresh thyme around the jewels and roasted until the skin was blistered and charred in places (but sadly not more palatable). They have turned sugar sweet and concentrated and the olive oil they were in tastes great too. Enjoying some sprinkled over a tuna salad with arugula right now. I think I'm gonna try to puree the others, skins and all, and make an intense tomato coulis to go with chicken. I'm thinking I should strain it after I puree?
re: yumyum
Sounds delicious. I'd say base your decision about straining on how you want to use the puree -- more refined or more rustic. Either would be good.


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