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Nadal wary about return from knee injury
Friday - 12/21/2012, 11:17am EST
MADRID (AP) - After a seven-month hiatus nursing a hurt knee, Rafael Nadal is wary about his upcoming return to the tennis court and believes it may be some time before he is back in top form.
"I have my doubts. It's normal. We are talking about a knee, so of course I am afraid to see how it is going respond," Nadal told Canal Plus television Friday. "But I can only trust my doctors and believe in myself and that everything will be all right."
The 26-year-old Spaniard is set to play an exhibition tournament in Abu Dhabi on Dec. 27. It will be his first action since he was sidelined with tendinitis in his left knee after a second-round loss to 100th-ranked Lukas Rosol at Wimbledon in June.
The injury prevented Nadal from defending his Olympic singles gold at the London Games, where he was supposed to be Spain's flag bearer in the opening ceremony. He also had to pull out of the U.S. Open and Spain's Davis Cup final against the Czech Republic, which his teammates lost without him.
The 11-time Grand Slam winner and former No. 1 player said his knee had improved over the last two months after making frustratingly little progress during the summer.
Even so, he acknowledged that he may have to skip some more events to get back to full speed.
"I'm prepared to accept that at the start my knee might not respond well and I may have to take it easy, mixing periods of play and rest for the first three months," he said.
Nadal said that he wanted to play at Indian Wells and Miami with the goal of being completely fit by April to play at Monte Carlo, a clay-court tournament he has dominated for eight consecutive years.
The Abu Dhabi tournament features a six-man field that includes top-ranked Novak Djokovic and No. 3 Andy Murray of Britain.
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Mushroom Production Training and Seminar
Out-of-School Youth Beneficiaries of the Special Training for Employment Program (STEP) of TESDA and the Local Government Unit of Dingras. Twenty (20) OSY's of the municipality are oriented to the purpose of the program, with Ma'am Marilyn M. Pedronan, Adm. Officer IV and Ma'am Noverizza P. Pagaduan, Adm. Officer I; both from TESDA BANGUI. Mrs. Lagrimas N. Malabag, Vocational School Administrator I is out of the province for a very important matter. The training program started today, October 7, 2014 and will run for 22 days including assessment.Distribution of Relief Goods, Contruction Materials, Etc.
Our very own Governor, Madam Imee R. Marcos led the distribution of construction materials to those whose house were partially damaged by the Typhoon Mario and relief goods in cooperation with DSWD and the provincial government. ID's for Brgy. Officials, BHW, Brgy. Tanod and Lupon were also distributed, having its PhilHealth Benefits and discounts to different establishments.Seminar on Phil - AHIS
The Seminar on Philippine Animal Health Information System (Phil-AHIS) was held at the SB Office today. It was sponsored by Bureau of Animal Industry, DA-Regional Field Unit I, Provincial Veterinary Office-I.N. The said seminar was participated by different municipalities namely: San Nicolas, Solsona, Marcos, Dingras, Nueva Era and Banna.Sportsfest 2014
In celebration of the Civil Service Month, the LGU employees and officials had their sportsfest last September 29-30, 2014. Events included are the Search for Ms./Mrs. Sportsfest, Cheer and Dance Competition, Basketball, Volleyball (Boys&Girls) and Badminton (Singles-M&F, Doubles).Expanded Modified Rapid composting Field Day
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Fantastic day towards the end of winter when the beautiful clear days satrt to appear.
Niseko gets hit with so much snow that these kind of weather conditions are very rare until spring.
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$1,295 1 bed East Avenue Rochester NY
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East Avenue Rochester NY, East Avenue, Rochester, 14683
Commute to Downtown Brighton
This apartment is in the East Avenue neighborhood in Rochester. Nearby parks include Park Avenue Green, Cobb's Hill Park and Cobbs Hill Park.
East Avenue Rochester NY has a Walk Score of 73 out of 100. This location is Very Walkable so most errands can be accomplished on foot.
Nearby schools include Talmudical Institute, School 23-Francis Parker and School 1-Martin B Anderson.
The closest grocery stores are Market Pulse, Price Rite and Ethiopian Food Market.
Nearby coffee shops include Boulder Coffee Co, Pour Coffee Parlor and Tim Hortons. There are 26 restaurants within a 15 minute walk including Cheese Masters Inc, Sinbad's Mediterranean Cuisine and Esan Thai Restaurant.
East Avenue Rochester NY is near Cobb's Hill Park, Manhattan Square Park and Ellwanger and Barry Park.
There are minimal bike lanes and the terrain is flat as a pancake. East Avenue Rochester NY is bikeable, there is some bike infrastructure.
1BR / 1Ba, 700ft2, apartment laundry in building, off-street parking. Our most cherished apartment in this historic 1906 mansion designed by celebrated local architect Claude Bragdon. The Living Room with 10' ceilings is the former private library of the original owner. This room with become your favorite this winter with wonderful sunlight streaming in the stacked glass bay window with window seat which overlooks the landscaped double lot. You'll be warmed by the fireplace, natural trim and hardwoods. The updated, spotlessly clean kitchen with new gas stove, refrigerator and dishwasher opens to a large dining area or office. Bedroom has new carpeting, walk-in closet and 3 windows and is adjacent to the updated bath with new tile floor, vanity, mirror, lights etc. private entrance adjacent to the reserved on-site parking or a garage space is Not familiar with Rochester East is in the Historic Preservation District within a neighborhood of historic homes that is great for walking and running. One block walk to Park with Wine Sense great wine shop, Boulder Coffee, Nathan's soups, Baker Bread Co, CVS drug store and numerous restaurants Thai, Italian, Mediterranean, bistro, fine dining, and Jines, the favorite Park upscale diner. One mile an easy and pleasant walk to the brand new East Wegmans! Just opened in. 5 miles to Eastman School of Music. Walk to Eastman House, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester Museum and Science Center and the Planetarium. Short run to Cobbs Hill Park with Lake Riley former wide-waters area of the historic Erie Canal and wonderful wooded hiking and running hills. One mile to Be anywhere in the Greater Rochester area in 15-20 minutes. Highly rated by WalkScore based on proximity to all you could want.
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A Daily Word - Mar. 21, 2011
If there is anything I am good at, it is justifying myself. You would be hard pressed to find anyone as effective at it as I am… unless it is you. "I was short with my wife today, but I'd had a really stressful day…" or "Boy, I never meant to say those words, but I had so much on my mind, they just slipped out." Self-justification. We're experts, are we not? The lawyer who spoke these words to Jesus was seeking to justify himself. He asked a question to which he knew the answer, and then, when he realized he fell short of his own prescription for salvation, he tried to mince words to justify himself. "Well, of course, I'm to love my neighbor, but…who is my neighbor, exactly?"
We do the very same thing. "I used to go to church, but I don't anymore, because old so-and-so really offended me by acting in an un-Christian way." Well, welcome to the world! God is not fooled by our weak attempts at self-justification. Why? Because he knows our hearts—just as he knew this legal eagle's heart. We've become theological politicians, trying to parse words with God to ease our own conscience…but it won't work. In this man's case, Jesus handled his dodge by telling a story—the story of the Good Samaritan. And even though we are not too keen on rules and laws, we can't help but be drawn in to a good story. This one had dramatic conflict (near-dead man by the side of the road).It revealed shocking secrets (a priest and a Levite refuse to give aid). And a surprise ending (he finally receives help from a Samaritan). And it required the listener to provide the obvious answer to the central question: which of these three was a real neighbor? The lawyer was trapped. He answered the only way he could, and then Jesus delivered the crushing directive: "Go and do the same."
Self-justification ends where obedience to truth begins. It's not enough to know what is right and have a very good reason for not doing it. When we know what is right, we must act on it.
But wishing to justify himself, he said to Jesus, " And who is my neighbor?"
Judges 11:1; Proverbs 19:1
But wishing to justify himself, he said to Jesus, " And who is my neighbor?"
Judges 11:1; Proverbs 19:1
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The Sochi Olympic Games are rightly highlighting the constellation of abuses that have become standard in Russia under Vladimir Putin. Most notably is intense, often violent homophobia, tacitly endorsed by the government with the recent passage of the law against "gay propaganda." While Sochi shines a light on Russian human-rights violations, it affords an opportunity to expose the rampant corruption and abuse that accompanies the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
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CODEPINK protesters interrupted the National Rifle Association's event on Friday as the group held its first press conference since the Newtown, CT, massacre. During comments made by NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre, one protester held up a banner reading, "The NRA is killing our kids," then another stood up with a banner that read, "NRA: Blood On Your Hands."
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The author of a new report on U.S. carbon billionaires gives Democracy Now! a tour of the Kochtopus — a map of the empire of Charles and David Koch. The Kochs run oil refineries and control thousands of miles of pipeline, giving them a massive personal stake in the fossil fuel industry. [includes rush transcript]
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Democracy Now! is broadcasting from the annual U.N. Climate Change Summit, as it convenes in Doha, Qatar. Tune in this week to see our coverage of the official proceedings, as well as events outside the conference. As Amy Goodman noted in her recent column, "No world leader at the U.N. climate change summit hasn't heard the warnings, but it will take popular pressure to make them act."
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By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan
Pete Seeger's life, like the arc of the moral universe famously invoked by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., bent toward justice. He died this week at 94. Pete sang truth to power through the epic struggles of most of the last century, for social justice, for civil rights, for workers, for the environment and for peace. His songs, his wise words, his legacy will resonate for generations.
"1775: A Good Year for Revolution" — Author Kevin Phillips on the Origin of American Independence
We interview political and economic author Kevin Phillips Wednesday about his new book, "1775: A Good Year for Revolution," which follows "a United States taking shape rather than losing headway." Phillips argues 1775–not 1776–is the more important year of the American Revolution. Click to read an excerpt from the book and to see a past interview with Phillips on Democracy Now!
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Award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick discuss the creative process behind their new 10-part documentary series, "The Untold History of the United States," which spans from the 19th century to the present. "Americans don't know history," Kuznick says. "The history they do know is mostly wrong." [includes rush transcript]
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Can something please be done about the surrender rule. I win about 75% of my games and I destroy the Nexus in aobut 5% of those. Every game, I barely make it to level 18 before the enemy just gives up. Nearly every game I play is totally one sided. I just want to finish a good game where everything is even, instead of one sided games that end after 20 minutes
Welcome to my world friend...
You're not alone, but most people seem to be happy to flutter through, lucking out on easy games and ditching the rest.
Nothing can be done about it I would say.
It's quite unfortunate, and the game suffers heavily for it.
Does it matter if they surrender early? In my games an early surrender means that, we owned them so hard they had 0 chance (makes me feel pro lol) and that i get to que up quicker for another game.
I just surrender when my team starts argueing among-st themselves. I don't have the patience to deal with people calling each other noobs for 40 mins. Maybe you guys enjoy it but I have better things to do.
And don't tell me it's just part of the game because that's bull****.
after lvl 20 if the game is not balanced they or we surrender, why waste time?
if a game had 5/36/2(global) in 20 minutes why continue?
if a game had 5/36/2(global) in 20 minutes why continue?
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Dan Eigen, better known as Walleyedan has had a passion for the outdoors since he was able to tag along with his dad and brother over 40 years ago. Dan has taken that passion to the next level and today he and his wife Shelley own and operate Walleyedan's Guide Service which is based in central Minnesota. Their year around guide service is a busy and well respected one and between Dan and the other guides, they average over 500 guided trips per year. Dan is also the host of Mills Fleet Farms' television show, "We Love It! Outdoors". The show is made up of a mix of hunting, fishing, family and the great outdoors. The show can be seen on the Pursuit network, Tuff TV as well as many of the Fox affiliates throughout the country. This will be Dan's third year with Larson Boats and he is very excited to see what the Larson Boat Group has in store for their next 100 years!
"This boat is the most solid, dry, fishable and affordable boat I have ever been in!", – Walleye Dan.
There have been many highlights in Dan's outdoor career, but one of those will never be forgotten and it was the day that Dan was fishing with Al Lindner. Dan and Al were filming an episode of "We Love It! Outdoors" on Lake Mille Lacs and rather than telling you what happened, Google it and watch. Dan refers to this whole situation that unfolded as a miracle, and he asked for it in prayer!
Mills Fleet Farm, Mills Auto Group, Larson FX, Vexilar, Salmo, Snow Bear, C&C Boat Works, and St. Croix Rods.
Jimmy Bell has been pursuing his interests in the Outdoor Sporting industry for the past thirty-five years. He started National Tournament fishing in 1994 through the encouragement of his wife Allie. After winning his first event the road was paved for a great start, not to mention a wife that was pretty happy as well. He has since added three other National wins, a Professional Rookie of the Year title along with a prestigious National Angler of the Year title.
Not to be one to only focus on his fishing, he worked hard to become a key promotional tool for his partners, and the retail community. The joy for the industry is easily viewed as you see him work with consumers, you can see the trust they put in him and his opinion. You will see him at Boat and Sport shows across the country talking to the many amazing features and benefits of the Larson FX series of boats. He truly has a passion for the industry and it shows as he works to create sales and value for everyone involved. All of this combined experience is used, at length, to assist in product development which is one of his true passions.
Larson FX, Yamaha Outboards, Crystal Farms, MinnKota, Humminbird, St. Croix Rods, Cannon, Thorne Bro's, Reef Runner Lures, Offshore Tackle, Mack's Lures, LakeMaster, Scent Blocker, Tree Spider.
Beau grew up in Minnetonka MN, but spent the majority of his summers at his parents cabin on Mille Lacs Lake. His passion started by watching the boats on the water and taking rides with his parents. That passion blossomed thanks to his neighbor that let him tag along fishing one day, and Beau quickly became addicted fishing for Walleye any chance he could get. In 2011 season Beau started fishing the Minnesota Tournament Trail (MTT walleye series). His first year he placed 4th, 6th, 7th and 19th at the Championship. In 2012 that success continued and he had a 1st place finish and 8th place finish at Lake Winnibigoshish. In 2013 he placed 8th, 9th, and a 2nd place finish on Lake Of The Woods Championship.
In networking with the people that he met through the tournaments, he knew that he wanted to do more than just fish. Beau has worked hard in developing relationships with others in the industry to not only learn from them, but to also share his knowledge with others. Beau understands that fishing consumes him and if he is not out fishing, he is home reading about it. He is very grateful for the people in his life that support him and understand that he is chasing his dream. Beau welcomes any conversation that involves fishing or boats, if you see him at a show or out on the water don't hesitate to stop and say hi.
LLarson FX, Farm Island Repair and Marine, Twin Cities Auto Glass and Watson Hunting camp.
Nick Miltimore is an avid outdoorsman and full time fishing guide/promoter with Walleyedan's Guide Service. Competing in local walleye tournaments, leagues, guiding, and just fishing for his own pleasure, Nick spends more than 175 days a year on the water and ice. His love of being on the water is a result of growing up around it. He grew up fishing the Brainerd Lakes Area starting at the young age of 2 thanks to his Grandpa. Nick did his first guide trip on Gull Lake at age 20, and still resides in the Brainerd Lakes Area currently. He thoroughly enjoys all his time on the open water and ice chasing all species of fish but has a love for walleyes. Nick has a strong passion for all things fishing and the fishing industry.
Nick enjoys a variety of techniques to keep putting fish in the boat throughout the season with his favorite being live bait rigging big creek chubs in the fall.
Larson FX, Miltimore Motor Company, Mercury Marine, Big John Sports, and a merchandiser/pro-staffer for the Rassat Outdoor Group representing such companies as Rapala, VMC, Suffix, Marcum, Strikemaster, and Otter.
Mike Frisch is a professional angler who excels at teaching others about the sport he loves. Mike's unique 3-hour fishing classes, School of Fish (kids) and Fishin' Schools (adults) are among the country's finest angler education programs. In addition, Mike is a full-time open-water guide, radio & television program guest, and free-lance outdoor writer with feature stories published regularly in some of the country's leading fishing publications.
Mike is also a top-notch promotional angler who works sports and boat shows, dealer in-stores, and presents seminars for a wide range of groups.
Larson FX, Northland Fishing Tackle, Frabill, Plano, LiveTarget, Humminbird, MinnKota, and Grizzly Coolers.
Bruce has a world of fishing wisdom from his many years of tournament fishing, guiding and just fishing for fun. Bruce lives, eats and sleeps fish now that he is retired. This will be his second year guiding from a Larson FX 2020 tiller and he is astounded by the way this boat not only handles the rough water, but the way it fishes. Bruce had been using aluminum boats for a number of years and has noticed a HUGE difference in the ride and toughness of the FX series. Bruce has been guiding for the past 14 years, the last 7 have been with Walleyedan's Guide Service in the Brainerd Lakes Area of Minnesota. Bruce has been an ambassador for Berkley/Pure Fishing since 1973.
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My name is Johan Rosell,
I'm a writer/director based in
Stockholm, Sweden.
I make short films, music videos and commercials. Check out my latest
work and feel free to get in touch if
you want:
Email: johan [at] johanrosell.se
Phone: +46 761270967
I'm very happy to present my latest music video for John de Sohns summer anthem "Wild Roses". Big thanks to all of the wonderful extras!
Dop: Hannes Krantz / Producer: Robert Melo & Hanna Hannerz / Client: Sony Music Sweden
Commercial for mobile company 3. Aired on swedish television during 24 hours, designed to look as if internet activists had "taken over" the 3 network to broadcast a campaign of their own. I had the privilege of working with the brilliant folks over at Crazy Pictures on this one.
Dop: Hannes Krantz / Producer: Albin Pettersson / Client: 3
#Haffad is a web campaign for the Red Cross Youth Organization in Sweden, which encourages current members to get their friends involved as well through the use of social media. I was asked to write and direct these films and got to work with both old and new friends along the way.
Dop: Marcus Hansen / Producers: Eliza Jones & Stefan Henriksson / Music: Jonas Kjellberg / Client: RKUF
Music video for french DJ duo Klingande, co-directed with Michael Johansson.
The video was shot in my old apartment in Malmö, Sweden, as well as on location at Mon Island, Denmark, in the end of August 2013.
Dop: Hannes Krantz / Client: Sony Music France
FÖrsta Strulet (First Base).
Första Strulet is a short film about fourteen year old Elias, who longs after his first kiss. He attends his first party and everything seems to be going well with the girl of his dreams when the night suddenly takes an unexpected turn.
The film was shot during a weekend in my hometown of Linköping, Sweden in the end of October 2012.
Första Strulet has been selected for the 2014th Gothenburg International Film Festival and picked up awards for best script and best actor at Novemberfestivalen 2013.
Dop: Hannes Krantz / Producer: Robert Melo / www.forstastrulet.se
Fodral - Trees.
Music video for electronic act Fodral's song "Trees". Filmed in Vingaker, Sweden in the spring of 2012.
Dop: Niclas Törnblom / Producer: Hampus Högberg
Mustaschen (The Mustasche).
A short film about a young man who one day wakes up in a strange place without his precious mustasche.
Shot on 16mm in Östergötland, Sweden with support from Film i Öst and Kodak.
Screened at: Uppsala International Short Film Festival (Sweden), YOUKI - International Youth Media Festival (Austria), Art Monestrary (Italy), Tbilisi International Film Festival (Georgia).
Dop: Niclas Törnblom / Music: Jonas Kjellberg


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I love this panel so much.
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You've messed around in Photoshop, maybe done a couple of side projects. Heck they might have even done quite well. I was very lucky and fell into the best design school you can get, completely by accident. This is the post I'd write to myself if I knew a few years ago what I know now.
I've accidentally learned very quickly what makes 'good design' and realised that all the stuff I used to be conceded about really doesn't matter. Typefaces, colour theory all have their place, but in the grand scheme of things, they're small fry.
If I hadn't had this lesson, today I would be an even worse designer. But I wouldn't know.
They key to being a truly great designer is having the ability to understand human behavior. Real people will be using your designs in their real lives. Your ability to understand how people 'work' can make the difference between your design making their day or them getting confused, worried and upset because they feel they are doing something wrong. When in fact it is you or I who has designed an interface that people can't use. It's our fault, not theres. Do you want to be the designer that makes users cry?
Unfortunately the magic ingredient isn't very sexy, it won't help build your Dribbble profile. Nor will it help you look like some San Francisco startup hipster.
The key is to understand the principles of usability.
The best way to do this is to go and work at an agency that specialises in usability. One where day in day out you will be working on usability projects.
But what's a usability project? Well you don't get to design anything. You can close down Photoshop and forget about the latest design trends. It's time to start user testing. You take other peoples designs, create some tasks that real people would do on the site. Then get real people to do the tasks, watch how they get on and report all the problems and potential solutions back to the designers.
Very quickly in this job you'll start learning how "normal people" use computers, think about online things and how they combine doing stuff online with their real lives.
You'll also see all the things that people struggle with. The new and trendy design concept that "real people" don't understand. You'll sit there and watch them struggle to use the interface, watch them think it's their fault. This will build up the empathy for users you one-day will design for.
Never again will you put the label for a form field inside the input box, or use a fancy icon where a simple word will suffice. You'll learn how people interpret what they can click on and what they can't, when they can scroll and when they can't.
You'll learn a million things, and every time you look at a design or website you'll instantly be able to pick out the main usability problems people will have.
Once you get to a point when you can write out all the usability problems with a website before even going to user testing. Then you're ready. Then you're ready to open up Photoshop.
I spent six months doing solid user test after user test and it's the single thing I've done in my very short career that makes a difference to everything I work on every day.
All design projects I work on now include user testing, and because we always get the basics right, we can focus our research on more interesting stuff
So go and find a job doing user testing, understand the basic human behaviour that drives them and you'll instantly become a better designer.
Hi Chris, sorry for the late reply I was on holiday. I've been meaning add this information to the site for a while. Had a quick look around the internet and couldn't really find any up-to-date images for you :( There seem to be a lot of sites saying things like date picker aren't available on Android, but it is - I've seen it! Will try and get more information and images on that site in the New Year. Cheers Jack
In response to a tweet from @jansru, commenting on the ludicrously of some of these 'What we can learn about UX from <some random thing>' posts that are flying around the internet. (Here's a sample if you've been living under a rock and not noticed them. UX lessons from: a car, Jay-Z, children, James Bond, fencing.) What will they come up with next? UX lessons from ice-cream? Challenge accepted.
What can we learn about UX from ice-cream?
Adaptive design - you'll notice the ice-creams you can buy from a petrol station vary to the ice-creams you can buy at the beach. Service station ice-creams are designed to be eaten with little concentration, just one hand and have wrapping designed to avoid mess. Therefore allowing customers to easily eat them whilst driving. For instance Calippos and Cornettos At the beach however you'll find ice-creams designed for enjoyment. For instance 99s. They're difficult to eat without making a mess and require concentration but eating one feels like much more of an occasion Thinking about the type of ice-cream you buy in supermarkets, this has been designed for use in the home. Customers can scoop portions and distribute in bowls, making sharing as convent as possible. What does this teach us? Design products based on where the user is, when they're using it and what they really need at that time. You'd never find a 99 machine in a service station.
Understand how customers use your products - supermarkets sell cartons of ice-cream with three flavours in. This product likely came about because some research was done that found customers were buying multiple cartons of different flavoured ice-cream and serving a scoop of each flavour as a dessert. The three flavoured ice-cream completely suits this customer requirement and customers are happy to pay a premium. Hence teaching us to use analytics and user research to understand how people actually use products and adapt the design to better support them.
Set expectation - thinking about those ice-cream chests, the selection of ice-creams is shown on sign with pictures and prices. Customers can see the range and price of each product before opening the cold chest and finding the ice-cream they want to buy. This teaches us, that before we ask users to make a commitment, signup, purchase we should set their expectations of what they can expect on the other side.
Location - let's have a think about ice-cream vans. You'll always find them by beaches, outside schools, driving around housing estates. Basically they park themselves wherever the people are and where people expect to find them. What does this teach us? Put stuff where people expect it to be so they can easily find it. Signin buttons on the top right corner of the website, reviews below product details.
There are probably more, feel free to tweet me and I'll add them.
That's what we can learn about UX from ice-cream.
I've been in this industry a very short while, but after The Great UX Debate this evening I've come to a bit of a realisation. All the UX events at the moment seem to have the same topics, being talked about by the same people over and over. Sometimes there's a bit of disagreement but it's usually around understanding of the question rather than the topic. I doubt I'm alone in thinking it would be nice to have a bit of variety.
So here's a list of topics I'd like to see barred from UX events:
- What is UX
- What do / should UX people do
- Should UX people code
- Are wireframes dead
- Moaning about cowboys
- Moaning about recruiters
- Responsive design
- Portfolios
- Will UX be around in 10 years
I'm sure there are more, please send them my way and I'll add them.
Don't get me wrong I have masses of respect for the organisers of these events and the big name speakers who talk at them. A bit of variety wouldn't go amiss though.
I was watching an episode of Grand Designs this evening and a pretty revolutionary method of building a house was adopted. You've all seen houses where parts of the house are built in a factory and then shipped to site where they're all put together. These guys took a different approach to this. They built a factory into a shipping container, sent it to site and then built all the house parts on site. No doubt saving thousands on transport costs.
The developers took a traditional manufacturing process of building the product in a factory and then shipping to customer and spun it on its head. If you have an easy to package factory it's a "how did I not think of that" moment.
How can we apply this to UX?
This week I worked on my first design project that benefited from on-site stakeholder interviews. I knew this would be a powerful asset in the research and it allowed for some seriously brilliant product development - as I predicted. I was however surprised by the reaction from real users when we tested the site. I'd clearly underestimated how much value these interviews could add and how much users appreciated the features developed souley due to stake holder interviews.
The Grand Designs episode got me thinking though. Stakeholder interviews are great, but they happen and then we go off work out what they mean and start work on the design. Wouldn't it be awesome though if we could get stake holder input much more easily and much more regularly. Logistically at the moment that couldn't happen, it would be far too time consuming and cost far too much.
But what if we could?
What if instead of sitting in our office we took the entire UX process on tour? What if there was a way we could take the entire process and do it on the move, traveling around talking to users constantly. Seems very impractical. But is it?
Here's how we could make that happen.
First off, buy a coach or bus and we're going to need to do a bit of modification. Essentially what we want is a fully-fledged UX studio on wheels. We could have a couple of testing labs on the lower deck and maybe a meeting room.. The top floor would have all the desks, whiteboards, sticky notes and all the other bits we'd need to our job.
Then we can take the bus and start our tour. Maybe starting in the client office car park, run interviews and workshops to gather requirements. Maybe spend a few days here. Then we'd get on the move, working as we drive. Arriving at various locations around the country or continent. Coming into contact with users all the time, so we can pop downstairs, quick bit of on street recruitment and we can quickly run through ideas, concepts and prototypes with real users. Then move on to a different location in search of a different customer groups or to help understand user requirement variations through geography.
Lets apply this concept to a real project.
Imagine you're commissioned to develop a new site for a cinema. It needs to show all the films, allow bookings and all that normal stuff. We jump on the UX bus and ride over to the clients' office. We run some research there and then move on. As we drive we do some work, and then park up outside a cinema. We're talking to cinema goers getting some seriously valuable research work done. We'll then go in search of more potential customers, maybe parking up at a school, office block, town center to talk with more people. As we travel we'll get on with some work developing ideas, putting together quick prototypes.
Anyway you get the idea.
Clearly it's not going to work for all projects and wont fit all budgets, but could be a unique method to gather valuable research.
I caught the Zuckerburg interview from TechCrunch Disrupt this evening and mobile was pretty much the only topic. Ignoring all the Facebook Phone nonsense some interesting insight into apps was gained. But you can read about that anywhere right now.
One statistic which really got me thinking:
More people use Facebook on mobile web than they do on iOS and Android apps combined.
That's not a new stat, but for the first time I started thinking about why. It aligns with the patterns I've been seeing from user testing where time after time we're being told people don't use apps. They just use the browser, even without a mobile website.
What's causing this behaviour?
The top app downloaded on any app store is Facebook. It's probably the first app a "normal person" downloads when they get their shiny new smartphone. Why? Because it's the site they use the most and they want access to it on their phone. People are entering into a fairly un-know territory so it's only natural for them to download something familiar. They'd also be forgiven for thinking that Facebook will build one of the best apps, because, well they're Facebook.
They've created their iTunes or Google account and eagerly await whilst the app downloads. Finally it does and they have to log in. Beyond this point they're greeted with a world of slowness, confusion, annoyance and are generally left with a feeling of great disappointment.
They brought this fancy phone to run apps and the Facebook app is crap. You can understand then why they never bother downloading any more apps. "If the Facebook app is crap, they must all be crap" is a statement I wouldn't be surprised runs through the majority of "normal people".
What happens next?
They try a more familiar route, this time opening the web browser and punching in facebook.com. They log in and WOW, "this is much more what I was expecting". It's fast, easy and just works. "I can spy on all my school friends, see who's just been dumped and browse the embarrassing photos from last nights work party". Zuckerburg admitted himself mobile web is a far superior experience to the native apps.
You'd be understanding therefore if the person never opened the app or downloaded another app ever again. With Facebook working well in the browser, the next thing they look up whether it be a film, train ticket, weather will be in mobile web browser. They're now comfortable using the browser, they understand it and have no need to bother with apps.
This is great.
If this hypothesis is accurate, it means there's probably a whole group of people with no desire to ever use an app again. Everything they want to do on mobile they will do in mobile web browsers because that's what they're used to and they like it.
As more sites develop intuitive mobile web experiences this behaviour will hopefully spread, with more and more people seeing the clear benefits of the browser over having hundreds of apps. When their friends get a smartphone they'll advise them to steer clear of apps and just use the browser.
Introducing mobileinputtypes.com - a handy resource with the many input types which work particularly well on mobile.
Why'd you make this? A question no-one has asked but I'm going to answer anyway.
First out the gate, input type isn't really that important on desktop, the user will never tell the difference. This has led to developers being a bit lazy and just setting the input type to text on everything. On mobile however the input type can seriously pull down how the user perceives the experience of your product.
As a UX person clients are consisatntly after the 'quick wins'. What they mean by this is what can we do to make our product better without spending any money. This practice is often referred to as turd polishing. Changing the input type is literally a few letters of code which can drastically make a task which was 8 or 9 taps drop to just 2 or 3.
Finally, I see so many people getting it wrong. Just the other day I was finding train times on the Olympic mobile site and I had to choose a time. Taping the time picker then redirected me to a new page with a radio button list. Facepalm.
Whether you're a developer, designer, product dude or whoever, just remember how much using the right input type can improve the experience.
It's the Paralympic Opening Ceremony tonight, so seemed like a good time to pen some thoughts around user testing and disabilities. First off I'm very junior, it may be that all the stuff I talk about is being done by the majority of folks and it's just managed to pass me by. I'm not coming to any solid conclusions here, it's more a basis for discussion.
Having thought about it, I then did a bit of research and just so we're all on the same page, there are four types of disabilities:
Accessibility testing and evaluations are something I know are widely offered, but they are very often a separate service requiring specialist knowledge and techniques. I believe we have two people capable of doing full accessibility testing, that's less than 10% of the consulting staff. As such, a hefty additional price tag comes with traditional accessibility testing, which means it's often over looked by clients. The only time it's ever really referenced is if the client has specifically asked for it.
Is this right? Should accessibility testing be reserved for those willing to specifically commission and pay for it? Or should we be incorporating it into every usability test we do? In the same way we get a mix of gender, should we be getting a mix of able and disabled participants?
Sounds a bit extreme doesn't it. I thought so too. Following a bit more looking into it, I discovered a surprising statistic from the Office for National Statistics:
1 in 5 working age adults are affected by a disability
Well this changes everything. Suddenly a small 6 person usability study which doesn't include a participant with a disability doesn't accurately represent the general population.
After a bit more looking into it I discovered the BBCs user testing guidelines. They specifically state:
Any user testing with 6-8 participants must include 1-2 participants with a disability.
They're not hiding disabilities behind expensive accessibility testing, they tackel it head on with every single study they do. I strongly believe we should all be following that lead. By ignoring any form of accessibility considerations we're essentially excluding 1/5 of adults from any study. Arguably making them invalid.
I've seen a number of sites which I knew would cause all kinds of accessibility issues. From low contrast text, to input methods which screen readers wouldn't have a clue at how to interpret. Yet these issues will probably end up being a couple of sentences hidden somewhere in the report. Why? Because the client didn't specifically ask for it. They asked for us to review one journey and according to that 1/5 statistic, we ignored most of the problems that 1/5 users will be experiencing. That's just wrong.
As usability experts, it's our job to change this and move accessibility testing from being something a few clients specifically ask for to something which is included in all testing as standard. It's not even mentioned, just done. That's a long way off, but we can't keep ignoring the issue and burying our heads in the sand.
In my opinion we need to start educating clients on the amount of people using their services with disabilities and the steps they need to be taking to improve the experience for this large group of people. In the same way if a client came to you saying they don't want a mobile site for no good reason, it's part of our job to educate them on why people will be using their site on mobile devices and how improving the mobile experience wil aid their customers. The same principle should be applied to accessibility testing and including disabled participants in user testing.
As I said at the beginning, I'm still very new to all this, if you've got your own opinion or have a way of including accessibility testing at your organisation please get in touch. I need to learn more about this myself.
The Samsung Galaxy 3 has gotten a lot of attention recently, all of which I've generally ignored. The media will tell you it had more pre-orders than the iPhone. That's fine, anyone can create a great advert, but creating a great product is a whole other ball game.
I was on the train this morning and the woman next to me fished a Galaxy 3 out her handbag with a pink leather case on it. Whenever people are using phones around me I have this instinct to just watch what they're doing and formulate reasons why. Must be the inner user researcher trying to escape. Then I had a kind of epiphany:
Everyone knows the Galaxy 3 hasn't been designed for humans, that's just marketing people making stuff up. But they may have designed it incredibly well to suit the needs of the 21st century women.
I'm not a woman, so some sterotyping may follow. (You've been warned.)
Unlike the male species who prefer to locate their phone their pocket, woman have them in a handbag with a million and one other things. Although iPhone sized devices fit perfectly in the male pocket, women have trouble finding them in amoungst all their other handbag essentials. They slip to the bottom and take an age to find. So the size really helps as the phone stays at the top because it's too big to float down into the dark lower depths.
Unlike men, women have long nails. When using smaller sized devices these get in the way. They can't see what key they're pressing, what's being typed in the box or where some buttons are. By having a gigantic display women can use the device much more effectively as everything is much more spaced out so the nails aren't such a big problem.
This is something I've noticed quite a bit lately. The majority of males tend to hold their device in one hand. Three fingers on the back, small finger providing support from below and thumb to interact with the display. Women in general however seem to use both hands. They tend to hold the device by the back in one hand then use the spare hand to interact with the display. This hence makes using a larger device much more comfortable than using the typical male holding technique.
Just an insight I had on the train which I thought I'd pen down on the internet.
Cold call recruitment emails for 'UX people' are common place in my inbox. Written by people who clearly have no idea what on earth they're writing about, I often find reading them quite amusing. Here's one I received today and what I think they really mean:
Hi Jack, I hope you are well.
My client is a central London based top fashion high street retailer looking for a UX Manager to join their team.
Salary up to £50k
- Passionate about eCommerce and mobile user experience
- Commercial knowledge – understands the relationship between site usability and trade performance
- Can work cross functionally with visual designers, information architects and technical project managers
- Understands technical constraints, and how these impact site functionality
- Understanding of Usability and Accessibility in relation to online e-commerce environments
- Strong track record in managing design agencies within an eCommerce environment, in user experience design, information architecture or eCommerce website management (gained agency or client side).
If this role is of interest to you and you feel you have the relevant agency experiance please send your CV and salary expectations to firstname.lastname@example.com immediatly and call 0123 345 6789
Kind Regards,
Leah (not real name)
Design Consultant (her real job title)
Here's what she ment to write:
Hi Jack, you've no idea who I am, and I really couldn't care less about who you are. Luckily you came up in my LinkedIn search, so I presumed the right to send you some spam which might help me get my bonus.
My client is a shop looking for a UX Manager. I have no clue what this is, and neither does my client. But they've been told they need some UX, so thought they should hire someone to manage it. Like you'd manage a saturday girl or a delivery I guess.
Niether of us have any idea how much we should be paying, so did a quick Google search and picked a salary which is about average for whatever it is you're going to be doing.
- Must know about websites, and we'd like someone that knows how you make small ones to go on phones.
- Someone told my client adding UX to their site will make them sell more. You'll need to know how to do this.
- You'll need to work with other people who have job titles which I've seen on other UX job postings.
- Must not change too much, piss off our current web people or spend too much money. Just add UX, don't go changing anything else.
- Here are some other words which I've seen floating around. I'll capitalise each of them so it looks like I know what I'm talking about.
- The client doesn't make the UX themselves so you'll need experience in working with agencies who make UX or equivalent such as information architecture or website management.
I really hope you undertsand that, I have no clue what any of it means. Please email me your CV, I've seen other people ask for portfolios, but that just seems unnecessary and means I have to do more work. So just tell me how much money you want and I'll pick the person who says the least.
Kind Regards,
Annoying Recruiter
In all seriousness, anyone have any idea what on earth a UX Manager would do day to day? Answers in a tweet please.
Everyone loves a good list, I have plenty of them spread across all manor of devices. Sometimes I even write them with a pen, on a form of writable material. Well hipster I know.
Thinking back to the digital lists, there's a trend, and it's a fantastic one. Too many software developers compete to add feature, after feature, after feature. Come the end you're not really sure what it does anymore. Users can sometimes be to blame for this. They have this habit of requesting features, and sometimes you must sit back and say 'no, that's not what we do'.
The reverse though is swiping through the list ecosystem. It's a marvel to watch. I'm now wondering how much more simplistic these lists can get.
It all started, where all good apps start, as a user hack of the iOS Notes app. People were using the notes app to write lists. I still do.
From my memory then Things came along, the biggest and best list or 'task management' app. It synced all your notes across all your devices. Amazing, but it costs £34.99, so a bunch of cheaper competitors sprung up jumping on the idea. None caught my attention.
Then came along Wunderlist, wunderchild of a Berlin startup. It was quite simply the most beautiful and simple list app I'd ever seen. To-this-day I'm still a massive fan of 6wunderkinder, the people behind Wunderlist. It pulled out all the guff out and really stripped down the list app. It was awesome, I didn't think it could get better than this. It did.
Next came Clear. A fantastic list app with no buttons, just gestures. This blew up, to this day them promoting my blog post placed it amongst one of my most read posts. As soon as I saw it, I just knew it would be a hit. For most people something you'd download, use twice, then never use again. But it made them a ton of cash and got the developers a bunch of good PR. The point, they striped down the list app even more than I thought possible. That's it surely, they've taken all the buttons out, you can't get simpler than that. Well, gestures are actually fairly complicated. People just aren't used to using them and Clear never got taken seriously.
Introducing Cheddar, seriously stripped down list app, I loved it, a few buttons, beautifully simple. Unfortunately I think there's some user experience work to be done on it. I can't always work out exactly how to do what I want, maybe because it's too simplified, it could be awesome though. Check it out.
This evening a Twitter pal of mine launched Tudu. So simple he's removed the need for the app. Designed to be used on your phone, it uses local storage to save your list data, so no accounts or profiles to worry about. Just a list. Awesome.
The challenge is on then. Who'll be the next to launch an even simpler list?


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Fo real. Ughhh -_____________-
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It's been a stressful fall quarter, and season. Keeping up with homework, work, and extra curriculum activities. Very exhausting… let me tell you. But I've got my head up. No time to waste. To be honest: I just want to be done with Ai. I just want to leave Minnesota. I don't belong here. I really don't. Can a fairy just give me money so I can travel the world? Or at least help pay for school???? I would appreciate that. But I've got to thinking, I can't wait to go get my masters in 2 years. I'll be in a new country —- and I will fall in love, I just know it. The only countries I've been to is Laos and Thailand. I just want to travel and be around different people. Anyways, I'm excited for Thursday. I get to see my fambam and cousins. I'm sure they have all matured and changed. But no matter what, I love them to death. I hope they feel the same way.
I try my hardest to please everyone, but I've realized… my happiness comes first than anything else…
Good Night,
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I heart Monday Nights.
It's what I call "Homework days."
I have Coconut Mango Tea brewing, candles lit, and a Thai Drama on.
I'm all set for an all nighter of studying.
Enjoy your night everyone :)
So maybe I offended you in the last post. But it was how I felt. Feel free to disregard it.
Sorry if I did, innocent ones.
Don't mind me, I'm just going to say random shit no one really cares about. I've been on my own lately. Not giving a fuck about what anyone thinks. It's a waste of my time and energy. I try my best to be nice and change to make people happy. Really, bullshit. Just came to realization that I don't change for anyone. I'm fine being myself. I don't give a fuck about my grammatical equations! This is a blog for heaven's sake. Fuck off. Being so fucking stressed out and overwhelming myself with nonsense is not good the to body! Yeah, what! I make no sense. Asian, yes that's what I am. Deal with it mother fuckers. Sick and tired of everyone identifying all the asianness in me. Don't fucking call me Asian or fucking bring shit up. Call me by my first name only. Suzanne. You don't what me to call you a white trash American who has no fucking game… Now do you? I didn't think so. So, keep your mother fucking shit to yourself, and leave me the fuck alone. Backstab me! I haven't felt anything. Just irritated with society. 1 and a half year and I'm saying deuces!
Those are my thoughts, for now.
Now, who wants to sip tea and bitch?
I am so mentally, and emotionally exhausted that I don't feel the need to do anything anymore. I don't want to breathe and be alive. I just want to sleep forever. I'm learning to leave things the way they are. No more trying to change anything. I'll just learn to shut my mouth, and not say anything. It's draining all of my energy. I just miss how I used to be. I'm just dreaming. That's all.


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Anything goes as long as the company is right :) and it should be a man who arranges the date .. I like suprises as long as its not skydiving :)
maybe a nice tour of the farm and a ride in tractor
Something simple, not to over the top or to cliche. Something that makes it easy for us to talk and get to know one another.
It really depends on what you have uncovered about each other. You find that common ground and comfort zone where you are both comfortable and take advantage of REALLY getting to know each other by talking.
Out just getting to know one another.
Movies, dinner, live music/concert, coffee, ride through the country, picnic (when it's warm enough), fishing etc
Open to anything... Haven't dated in a long time
I never pick dates, I feel like it's the mans job(:
Dinner movie drinks and all night four play ..! Lol ;)
Sitting at her house chillin making out maybe
Drinks to mee and break the ice then back to wherever we go to cut loose and enjoy ourselves :)
Somewhere casual and quiet to get to know one another . A place where we are both comfortable and decide together
Go one a few dates and then will go fowered from there
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Greek name for an elite regiment in the ancient Achaemenid
In his description of the battle of Thermopylae (480 BCE), the Greek researcher Herodotus mentions a Persian elite corps which he calls the Ten Thousand or the Athanatoi, the 'Immortals'. He describes them as
a body of picked Persians under the leadership of Hydarnes, the son of Hydarnes. This corps was known as the Immortals, because it was invariably kept up to strength; if a man was killed or fell sick, the vacancy he left was at once filled, so that the total strength of the corps was never less -and never more- than ten thousand.As he indicates, Herodotus has already mentioned the Persian equipment:
The dress of these troops consisted of the tiara, or soft felt cap, embroidered tunic with sleeves, a coat of mail looking like the scales of a fish, and trousers; for arms they carried light wicker shields, quivers slung below them, short spears, powerful bows with cane arrows, and short swords swinging from belts beside the right thigh. (Histories 7.61; tr. Aubrey de Selincourt)We also learn from Herodotus that this elite corps played an important during the Battle of Thermopylae. The Greeks had blocked a narrow road along the coast and prevented the Persians from invading Greece. However, the Immortals made a detour and were able to attack the Greeks in the rear. They are also mentioned during the second year of the war, in 479 BCE, when they remain in Greece in the army of the Persian commander Mardonius.
The big problem with this elite corps is that they are unknown from other sources. (There are, of course, other Greek and Latin texts that mention the Immortals, but they have taken this name for the Persian elite troops from Herodotus and simply mean: the royal guard.) There is ample evidence from Persia - e.g., the Persepolis fortification tablets - but it does not mention a corps of Immortals. Probably, Herodotus' informant has confused the name Anûšiya ('companions') with Anauša ('Immortals').
The historians of Alexander the Great mention another elite regiment, which they call the Apple Bearers. Their spears had a small metal counterweight to balance the heavy point. Because this counterweight resembled an apple, they received their remarkable surname. Several scholars believe they are identical to the Immortals.


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Topics: Delivery of Care, Women's Health, Insurance, Marketplace, Medicare, Medicaid, Politics, Health Reform, States
Jul 29, 2013
Today's headlines include reports about the White House's strategy for building support for the health law.
Kaiser Health News: Obamacare Canvassers Hit Cities In Florida, Other States, To Reach Uninsured
Kaiser Health News staff writer Phil Galewitz reports: "Tammy Spencer did a double take when she read the address on her paper and looked at the house in front of her. Spencer, a volunteer with the nonprofit Enroll America, was spending a hot and humid Saturday morning knocking on doors in this mostly posh South Florida city looking for people without health coverage. She wanted to let them know about new online insurance marketplaces that open for enrollment Oct 1" (Galewitz, 7/29). Read the story.
Kaiser Health News: Maryland Regulators Slash Rates For Obamacare Insurance Policies
Kaiser Health News staff writer Jay Hancock reports: "Citing what they called flawed data and unreasonable assumptions, Maryland insurance regulators on Friday sharply reduced prices for health plans that will be sold to individuals and families through the state's insurance marketplace starting Oct. 1" (7/26). Read the story.
Watch Kaiser Health News' reporters Mary Agnes Carey, Jay Hancock and Sarah Varney talk about a variety of issues related to the health law's implementation. They'll be appearing this morning on C-SPAN's Washington Journal starting at 7:30 a.m (ET).
The New York Times: Obama Intends To Let Health Care Law Prove Critics Wrong By Succeeding
President Obama waved aside persistent Republican criticism of his signature health care law last week, saying in a New York Times interview that the overhaul would become vastly more popular once "all the nightmare scenarios" from his adversaries proved wrong. The president accused Republicans of "all kinds of distortions" about the legislation. He said bluntly that his administration had a simple plan to build support for the law, which continues to be viewed with suspicion by large numbers of Americans. "We're going to implement it," he said (Shear and Calmes, 7/27).
Politico: Obama Aides, Supporters Huddle To Agree On Obamacare Message
While President Obama was on the road talking about the economy this week, top aides and supporters were huddling for a major strategy session to coordinate a new, more aggressive message on Obamacare. Meeting Wednesday at Democratic National Committee headquarters over an Obamacare message testing poll taken by the Service Employees International Union, they hashed out a simple strategy, but one they agreed needs to quickly become unanimous among them and other Obama supporters. Republicans are winning the rhetorical and political argument because they're the only ones keeping focus on the parts of the law they feel are vulnerable (Novere, 7/26).
The Associated Press/Washington Post: Young Republican Leaders Say GOP Outreach To Young, Minority Voters Must Be More Than Rhetoric
Republicans hoping to reach beyond the party's white, aging core must do more than retool campaign strategy and tactics, say young GOP leaders pressing elected officials to offer concrete policies to counter Democratic initiatives. "It's very easy to just say no, and there are times where it's appropriate to say no," said Jason Weingartner of New York, the newly elected chairman of the Young Republican National Federation. "But there are times where you need to lead and present ideas on the issues of the day" (7/29).
The Washington Post: Obamacare Spurs Creation Of Thousands Of New Jobs To Explain Law
Amid a torrent of speculation about the impact of Obamacare on the economy, one thing seems clear: The law is spurring a raft of new jobs in call centers, IT companies and community organizations designed to help Americans understand the complex health law and navigate the new insurance marketplaces (Kim, 7/26).
The New York Times: Detroit Looks To Health Law To Ease Costs
As Detroit enters the federal bankruptcy process, the city is proposing a controversial plan for paring some of the $5.7 billion it owes in retiree health costs: pushing many of those too young to qualify for Medicare out of city-run coverage and into the new insurance markets that will soon be operating under the Obama health care law (Davey and Goodnough, 7/28).
Politico: States Seek To Nullify Obama Efforts
Infuriated by what they see as the long arm of Washington reaching into their business, states are increasingly telling the feds: Keep out! Bills that would negate a variety of federal laws have popped up this year in the vast majority of states — with the amount of anti-federal legislation sharply on the rise during the Obama administration, according to experts (Kopan, 7/28).
USA Today: State Health Exchange Rates Vary, But Lower Than Expected
As state health exchanges continue to announce lower-than-expected rates for health insurance, experts say both state and regional issues play a part in how much a consumer will pay for insurance beginning in January (Kennedy, 7/28).
The Washington Post: Maryland Issues Insurance Rates That Are Among Lowest In U.S.
The Maryland Insurance Administration approved premiums at levels as much as 33 percent below what had been requested by insurance carriers. For a 21-year-old non-smoker, for example, options start as low as $93 a month. Insurance Commissioner Therese Goldsmith reduced the premium rates proposed by every insurance carrier in the individual market, including some by more than 50 percent, according to an analysis by Maryland officials who will be operating the marketplace (Sun, 7/26).
Politico: Mississippi Insurance Commissioner's ACA Plan
After suffering through a high-profile intraparty squabble with the governor and averting a near disaster for the state's insurance marketplace, Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney is giving another go at running an Obamacare exchange. This time, the Republican commissioner is looking to run just the state's exchange for small businesses while letting the feds oversee the new insurance marketplace for individuals — an option the Department of Health and Human Services only recently made available to states reluctant to do the entire lift (Millman, 7/29).
The Wall Street Journal: Grand Bargain Eludes Budget Negotiations
Top White House officials are stepping up meetings with Senate Republicans in hopes of averting a deadline-driven clash over federal spending this fall, according to people familiar with the sessions. But the two sides remain far apart on basic questions of whether to raise tax revenue and how to rein in the cost of Medicare (Nicholas and Peterson, 7/28).
The Wall Street Journal: Lew Urges Congress To Raise Debt Limit
Senior Republican lawmaker Peter King of New York addressed the debt ceiling fight in the context of a policy split in the GOP, saying, "We should not be closing the government down under any circumstances." He said that although Republicans should try to de-fund the healthcare act called Obamacare, they should not "threaten" to "bring down the government" over it (Mundy, 7/28).
Politico: No Shutdown Over Obamacare, Lee Says
Sen. Mike Lee says the government will inevitably get funded regardless of his efforts to limit funding for Obamacare. Pressed repeatedly on "Fox News Sunday" by host Chris Wallace on whether he's prepared to shut down the government over defunding the new health care law, Lee said that's an unlikely conclusion. ... "We all know the government is going to get funded. The only question is whether the government gets funded with Obamacare or without," Lee said on Sunday (Everett, 7/28).
USA Today: GOP Seizes On IRS Scandal To Press Agenda
The House of Representatives will vote on 10 bills this week all inspired by a single scandal: The Internal Revenue Service treatment of political groups seeking tax-exempt status. ... But the bills aren't exclusive to the IRS, and some are part of a long-standing GOP agenda to roll back the size of government. At the top of the list is a bill to partially repeal the 2009 health care law. The vote on the Keep the IRS Off Your Health Care Act is the 40th attempt by House Republicans to repeal, change or defund the health care law. Another bill would require congressional approval of all new government regulations -- a proposal critics say would handcuff the government's ability to enforce health and safety laws (Korte, 7/28).
Politico: 3 Wrap Up Senate Careers, Guarding ACA Legacy
Three Democratic senators have spent years of their Capitol Hill careers trying to pass a health care law that would cover millions of uninsured Americans. But by the time that crowning achievement, now known as Obamacare, gets through its first year, all three will have left office. Sens. Tom Harkin of Iowa, Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia and Max Baucus of Montana — Senate committee chairmen who helped write the law and push it through the Senate — are all retiring at the end of 2014. All are devoting at least a portion of their remaining time in office trying to protect the president's legacy legislation from political opponents — and make the law work (Haberkorn, 7/28).
The Wall Street Journal: More Doctors Steer Clear Of Medicare
Fewer American doctors are treating patients enrolled in the Medicare health program for seniors, reflecting frustration with its payment rates and pushback against mounting rules, according to health experts. The number of doctors who opted out of Medicare last year, while a small proportion of the nation's health professionals, nearly tripled from three years earlier, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the government agency that administers the program. Other doctors are limiting the number of Medicare patients they treat even if they don't formally opt out of the system (Beck, 7/28).
The Associated Press/Washington Post: Feds Ban Some Types Of Medicare Providers From Enrolling In Miami, Chicago, Houston
For the first time in history, federal health officials said Friday they will ban certain types of Medicare and Medicaid providers in three high-fraud cities from enrolling in the taxpayer-funded programs for the poor as part of an effort to prevent scams (7/26).
The New York Times: G.O.P. Senators See An Upside In A Problematic Issue: Abortion
It reads like a who's who of the next generation of Republican Party leaders: Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Rob Portman. But what is bringing all these marquee political names together is not the Iowa State Fair or a Tea Party rally on the National Mall. Rather, they are all talking discreetly about how to advance a bill in the Senate to ban abortion at 20 weeks after fertilization (Peters, 7/27) .
Politico: Abortion Key For Virginia Voters, NARAL Poll Shows
Highlighting Ken Cuccinelli's strident opposition to abortion will help drive female voters who might otherwise stay home to the polls in the off-year Virginia governor's race, according to a Democratic poll conducted last month for the abortion rights group NARAL Pro-Choice America. A statewide survey by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, shared first with POLITICO, focused on which messages might get women who voted in the 2008 or 2012 presidential elections, but not for governor in 2009, to show up (Hohmann, 7/29).
The Washington Post: Contraceptive Mandate Divides Appeals Courts
A federal appeals court ruling on Friday increased the chances that the Supreme Court in its coming term will need to settle whether secular, for-profit corporations must provide contraceptive coverage to employees despite the owners' religious objections. A divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit ruled that a Pennsylvania cabinet-making company owned by a Mennonite family must comply with the contraceptive mandate contained in the Affordable Care Act (Barnes, 7/26).
The Wall Street Journal's Law Blog: Appeals Court: For-Profit Companies Don't Have Religious Rights
Companies can be prosecuted like in-the-flesh people and they have First Amendment rights to free speech. But the next "corporate personhood" question the Supreme Court will likely confront is whether for-profit companies also enjoy religious rights. Federal courts are fractured on the issue (Palazzolo, 7/26).
Los Angeles Times: Burbank Police Department Honored For Mental Health Program
The Burbank Police Department's mental health evaluation team is one of six local law enforcement agencies to be honored for its efforts by the state attorney general. When established roughly a year ago, the Burbank evaluation team was tasked with responding to an uptick in mental health calls citywide, which had jumped from 293 calls in 2008 to 567 last year, officials said (Tchekmedyian, 7/28).
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