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Usability from WWII to the present- the historical origins of usability testing
February 27, 2007
Where does usability testing come from? How long has it been around? Is it new, old?
If you are wondering where the methodologies you use come from, you ought to know that there is a very long history (and heaps of military, academic and corporate research) behind usability techniques.
(Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad 1963 pictured left)
Usability Comes of Age in the "Dot Com" Period
For many, the reference point for usability testing is the dot com boom circa 1998-2001. This is the first time usability testing was used on a wide-scale basis for commercial (e-commerce) purposes. Before this, usability testing was confined to academic or corporate R&D research (Apple, Sun, HP, Bell Labs, AT&T, Microsoft and others). It also marks the first time usability (aka "customer experience") figured significantly in an executive team's decision making process (e.g. Amazon, eTrade, Google, Dell etc).
"In our first year we didn't spend a single dollar on advertising... the best dollars spent are those we use to improve the customer experience." - Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com
A Historical Time line of Usability Research
For practical purposes we consider World War II the emerging point of usability research. Post WW II is also when the inter-disciplinary field of Cognitive Science was founded. Cognitive Science is the obscure field where usability engineering or HCI (Human Computer Interaction) (aka Human Factors in the US or Ergonomics in Europe) is studied. As early computers and Artificial Intelligence (Nazi code-cracking) emerged, so did the study of how humans process information and perform with computer-based interaction.
Historical Marker 1: 1930-1954
Colonel John C. Flanagan perfects the "Critical Incident Technique"
World War II was the starting point of electronics and electrical systems controlled by human operators through a "user interface". Industrial psychologists such as John Flanagan discovered that by reducing the amount of buttons, knobs, switches and control panels in new fighter aircraft- they could also dramatically improve operator performance. The P-51 Mustang fighter, for example, "became one of the conflict's most successful and recognizable aircraft".*
Developed by Flanagan, the Critical Incident Technique (or CIT) is a set of procedures used for collecting direct observations of human behavior that have critical significance and meet methodically defined criteria. These observations are then kept track of as incidents, which are then used to solve practical problems and develop broad psychological principles. [source: Wikipedia]
In today's parlance: you need to do usability testing because your customer is interacting with your company, brand, product or service through an informational display (website, software application) creating a self-service situation. Any self-service situation with a computer interface will likely cause errors, confusions and failure (if not designed to meet a user's expectations). Observing users perform tasks helps find out what those errors are before it's too late.
For example: compare the Supermarine Spitfire to the P-51 Mustang fighter cockpit (using CIT, an early usability testing technique). [hat tip to Jurek Kirakowski for pointing out this example]
The period 1950-1969 saw an increase in usability research related to computer interfaces (as micro-electronics began its boom). IBM was active in this area early on as were other more academic/ R&D innovators such as Doug Engelbart at SRI; Ivan Sutherland at the University of Utah and Alan Kay (Note: Engelbart, Sutherland and Kay- and others, are known as the inventors of many user interface hardware and software designs that you use today). Early pioneers such as Sutherland developed advanced interfaces in the late 1960's that are not yet in the public mainstream today, such as virtual reality technology and tablet PC's.
Historical Marker 2: 1970-1983
Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center)
Xerox is largely responsible for much of the innovation in user interfaces (still in use today!). Many know these as WIMP (Windows, Icons, Menus, Pulldowns). Xerox R&D work and resulting usability and user interface innovations propelled the current age of corporate usability research.
[above: Xerox Star system. Hat tip to Bruce Damer, inventor of the related Xerox Elixer desktop UI]
Historical Marker 3: 1983-1992
Apple unleashes the Macintosh user interface
Apple's built its design of the personal computer around a strong emotional connection with the user. This was also reflected in their advertising.
above: Apple II- early 1980's... usability takes root in research circles.
Late 1970's usability research exploded in the 1980's (in the R&D sense) with many great achievements in user interfaces adopted by the masses (e.g. Atari jump-started the video game industry with the innovations of usability pioneers Alan Kay and Brenda Laurel for example). Note: If you haven't read any of Brenda Laurel's work, you're missing out...
From the early 1990's to the mid-1990's usability research continued but was more of an R&D hang-over from the boom of portable and personal electronics spurred by the mass adoption of Microsoft's Personal Computer and Windows operating system. Why Microsoft won the PC battle and Mac did not is the subject of David Gelertner's book Machine Beauty.
Historical Marker 4: 1998-2003
Usability becomes recognized as a strategic win to Web site marketing efforts
The mad rush to build the Internet was triggered by the recognition that information could be "easily" indexed and edited with the new mark-up language (HTML). Furthermore, business could be conducted online and products sold through online catalogs or e-commerce sites.
above: Boo.com. Naive Web design tricks such as those epitomized by Boo.com were a wake up call to usability in the early days of the Web.
Unfortunately the ease of learning HTML meant that anyone could play on the Web. Likewise, anyone could run a usability test. Evangelism favoring "just do it" was promoted by experts like Jakob Nielsen and his "Discount or guerilla HCI" and authors such as Steve Krug with his "going out of business usability testing". Nielsen's colleague (Rolf Molich) however, showed that not all usability testing methods and approaches are conducted equally. More in a future post on his findings and the implications of best practice usability testing techniques!
Usability testing solutions exploded with new "bots" like WebCriteria's Max and online panels like Vividence- replacements to "old school usability testing"-- or at least that's how the Sales VP's at these companies positioned usability. (Disclosure: I worked for WebCriteria and got a bird's eye view into this piece of usability history)
Historical Marker 5: 2004-2007
The Web gets a makeover with Web 2.0 and a focus on User Experience
New energy, new thinking and new players are starting to dominate how things are done on the Web (Yahoo, Google, Flickr, etc.). These new approaches signal a maturity never seen before.
New Web 2.0 start-ups aimed at destabilizing the dominant position of traditional software companies and software applications or tools, dominate today's discussions (just ask a Venture Capitalist what they think about social video or mobile applications-- two hot areas of development at the time of writing).
Above- the logos of Web 2.o (interesting analysis of Web 2.0 logos by Stephen Coles)
Usability is now being recognized (in the USA in particular) as a strategic "win" to Web site marketing efforts. No new Web 2.0 start-up would be caught dead without considering user experience it seems. How many are actually doing usability research? (Not all, and I am not sure of the answer to this... but many are serious about improving usability with their tools and applications). Clients, partners, VC's and end-users are all demanding high standards of usability with your design. I have been tracking this over the past 8 years of my own usability testing at Experience Dynamics. It is amazing to see the tides turning!
Happy Usability Testing!
Frank Spillers, MS (Usability Consultant)
For further interest see: David Meister 's The History of Human Factors and Ergonomics (Lawrence Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ, 1999). Chapter 4 covers The Formal History of HFE and Chapter 5 covers The Informal History of HFE.
Disclaimer: the above historical time line is my best effort at explaining what I believe are significant points and players in usability history. If I missed a major detail, please let me know! This history is how I teach it in my usability testing training based on my own understanding as a usability professional.


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The wedding was beautiful and everyone had a fun day and will share some photos soon when I get them sorted.
A sail up the Seine is a must do when in Paris so here are a few of my favourite snaps of our relaxing afternoon on the water.
Snapping away with my camera, everywhere you looked was something very special at every turn, the bridges with ornate detail the architecture of the beautiful old apartments and grand buildings.
Thousands of lovers padlocks (called Cadenas d'amour ) decorate many of the Paris bridges in what has become a tradition among romantic tourists.
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Climate change fallout - it will become more noisy underseaSeptember 30th, 2008 - 5:03 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Sep 30 (IANS) Carbon dioxide is a gas that finds its way from the atmosphere into the ocean, turning seawater acidic. As the carbon dioxide concentration in the air increases due to human activities, seawater is turning more acidic. This not only impacts marine life directly, but also through unexpected indirect ways.Marine chemists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) California, have found one unexpected side effect - sound will travel farther underwater.
Conservative projections by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) suggest that seawater chemistry could change by 0.3 pH units by 2050. Chemists measure acidity using pH units, with a scale that runs from 0 (the most acidic) to 14 (the least acidic, or most alkaline).
Keith Hester and co-authors from MBARI calculate that this change in ocean acidity would allow sounds to travel up to 70 percent farther underwater, which could affect the behaviour of marine mammals.
Ocean chemists have known for decades that the absorption of sound in seawater changes with the chemistry of the water itself. . . . The bottom line is the more acidic the seawater, the less low- and mid-frequency sound it absorbs.
According to Hester's calculations, such a change will have the greatest effect on sounds below about 3,000 cycles per second (two and one half octaves above "middle C" on a piano).
This range of sounds includes most of the "low frequency" sounds used by marine mammals in finding food and mates. It also includes many of the underwater sounds generated by industrial and military activity, as well as by boats and ships.
Such human-generated underwater noise has increased dramatically over the last 50 years, as human activities in the ocean have increased, according to an MBARI press release. The findings appeared in last Wednesday's issue of Geophysical Research Letters.
MBARI researchers said that by 2050 . . . sounds could travel as much as 70 percent farther, particularly in the Atlantic Ocean. This could dramatically improve the ability of marine mammals to communicate over long distances. It could also increase the amount of background noise that they have to live with.
Hester's research shows once again how human activities are affecting the Earth in far-reaching and unexpected ways. As researchers put it, "the waters in the upper ocean are now undergoing an extraordinary transition in their fundamental chemical state at a rate not seen on Earth for millions of years".
Cars, power plants and human activities have pumped hundreds of billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide into the air, half of which has been absorbed by the oceans.
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Mentor warns residents of fake booster club scam
MENTOR, Ohio– The city of Mentor is warning residents of a recent scam.
A company called HS Backers has contacted businesses about sponsorship opportunities, the city said. This company is not affiliated with Mentor Public Schools or any Mentor High School sports team.
"None of the advertising dollars spent with these scam artists will come back to our programs to benefit our student athletes. We find it extremely disappointing anyone would use our students' successes for personal gain," the city said on Facebook. "Unfortunately, this is not the first time this has happened to our sports teams."
If you have a question about the legitimacy of a fundraiser, please contact the athletic department at 440-974-5304.


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What You Stand to Gain from Team Building Activities
There are so many reasons why companies opt for team building. Regardless of the size of your business, you can benefit greatly from these activities. The reason for this is because these activities will not only help build confidence and trust but also improve cooperation. This post takes a look at the key things you stand to gain from the team building activities.
Networking and socializing
It is not uncommon to work in the same office with someone but never get to know their name. This happens to many people. The reason for this is because when at work, the workload is too much that you only think about meeting your deadlines rather than knowing the person beside youin the office. Team building activities are designed to solve this problem. They help the members to socialize and make friends in the workplace. Needless to say, this is one of the best ways of increasing productivity. It boosts morale in the office and allows for the office to work better in solving workplace issues.
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Teamwork and boosting performance
Not all workplace tasks need to be done by one person. More often than not, the work has to be done as a team. Networking and socializing enables the team members to be more at ease with each other. One thing you need to understand about the business group activities and team building is that they will help employees to understand each other's strengths, weaknesses and interests. This understanding will help the team to work together better on all future progress that is crucial to the company.
Team building activities help the members to know each other and establish friendships. Due to the improved relationship, the members will start to be more competitive and even have bragging rights. This is unlike working as an individual where you don't know what the other team is working on or who your team members are. With inclusive team building activities, the employees can bond in a way that would otherwise be impossible.
Group activities bring fun to the team. This is more so when you consider there will be celebrations, team spirit as well as motivation. For example, when participating in championships, the team will celebrate and have fun. Although this might not seem like much, it will motivate them to want to win more in future endeavors. Needless to say, the celebrations that come with the team building activities will help motivate the members to put in their best effort so as to get to the next level.
Improved communication
Prior to participating in any outdoor activity, you might notice that the team members are more formal than necessary. This can impact productivity in a bad way. Outdoor activities allow the members to be informal and have fun. They will get to know each other better, thus creating a friendly work environment.
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Monitoring Ambient Ammonia Concentrations
and Ammonia Dry Deposition Using Passive
Samplers at the Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge in Eastern North Carolina
Wayne P. Robarge*
North Carolina State University, Department of Soil Science, Raleigh, NC 27695-7619
John T. Walker
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, NRMRL, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Sara Ward
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Raleigh Ecological Services Field Office, Raleigh, NC 27636
|Confined animal feeding operations in North Carolina
(especially in the Coastal Plain region) constitute the largest sources
of ammonia (NH3) emissions in the state. A moratorium on construction
of new swine facilities during the past 8 years has essentially capped
the NH3 emissions from this segment of the animal industry. However, expansion
of the poultry industry continues for broiler, layer and turkey production.
This project is monitoring the potential impact of a new layer facility
(eventual flock population 3.5 million birds) on local dry deposition
of NH3 to the nearby Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, which lies
within 1.6 km of the northern boundary of the new layer facility. For
approximately one year prior to arrival of birds at the layer facility,
background ambient ammonia chemistry was monitored using annular denuder
technology at a fire tower within the refuge located approximately 9 km
north of the facility. Annual mean concentrations of NH3 and ammonium
(NH4) for 2005-2006 are summarized below:
Statistic Aerosol NH3 NH4 Na
- ug NH3/m3 - - ug NH4/m3 - - ug Na/m3 -
Mean 0.491 0.482 0.124
Std. Deviation 0.456 0.387 0.103
Count 365 359 355
Minimum 0.011 0.003 0.007
Maximum 5.42 3.77
Gaseous SO4 - ug SO4/m3 -
3.67 2.02 358 0.024 13.4 0.720
Weekly average NH3 concentrations along transects extending across the northern boundary of the layer facility were monitored prior to January 2007 using GRADKO® passive samplers. No NH3 concentrations were detected above the calculated detection limit of ~2 ug NH3/m3, which is consistent with the background weekly average NH3 concentrations recorded using annular denuder technology. With arrival of birds in January 2007, the GRADKO® passive samplers were replaced with ALPHA® passive samplers which have a calculated detection limit of <0.1ug NH3/m3. Use of the more sensitive ALPHA® passive samplers has recorded elevated concentrations of NH3 along transects extending across the northern boundary of the layer facility. Occurrences of elevated NH3 concentrations are consistent with potential plumes of NH3 originating from the layer facility. Weekly average NH3 concentrations derived using passive samplers will be combined with micrometeorological data to calculate dry deposition. Backwards Lagrangian models will be used to model source strength of the facility and potential movement of NH3 plumes deeper into the refuge.


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I like this Wise Men coloring sheet after Christmas in January when they visited Baby Jesus. It's complete with their gifts and the star. It is a wonderful coloring picture for the Christmas season.
Fuzzy's Home › Holidays › Christmas Coloring Pictures › Wise Men Coloring Sheet
Your kids will love these PDF printable coloring pages. Fun to customize and color. Add your name or write a birthday message in your favorite fonts, SIZES, and colors. You'll love using interactive coloring pages to print!
Get your favorite crayons, coloring pencils, and watercolors for my relaxing adult coloring pages! ~Fuzzy


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All photos © Joao Canziani.
Joao Canziani, a New York City-based editorial and commercial photographer, is usually on the hunt for personal projects when not shooting assignments. He says, "I've always been fascinated by people who are a little different, or think differently, from the rest." Canziani was intrigued by his friend's mom, Duston Spear, an art teacher who started teaching classes at a female maximum security prison. He was impressed by how she was unfazed by the intensity of the setting and focused on the therapeutic knowledge she was imparting to aid in the rehabilitation of the women.
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Judge orders city to pay $3 million back to speeders fined by traffic cameras
NEW MIAMI, Ohio (WKRC) - A judge says the placement of stationary traffic cameras wasn't fair to drivers and now a local community has to pay back $3 million in fines.
It's a controversial battle over unmanned cameras.
Stationary traffic cameras are already a thing of the past ever since a judge decided they were unconstitutional back in 2014.
Controversy still surrounds the use.
The village of New Miami has to pay back drivers for fines collected for nearly two years while the cameras were in place.
In a ruling handed down on Wednesday, Judge Michael Oester said the money paid to the village gave it an unfair advantage at the expense of speeders.
So now the village has to return the money paid by drivers involved in a class action lawsuit.
That's a total of about $3 million.
Nearly 45,000 people were cited in 15 months.
The cameras were primarily placed on US 127, a major highway that runs through the village.
Police there said the cameras were never for making money, but ensuring safety.
The village will likely appeal the decision.
New Miami officers now use hand-held cameras to comply with state laws that require an officer to be present when camera enforcement is used.


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From Rolling Stone Country: "With less than a half-dozen upcoming shows on the books, Anderson East is approaching his first significant break from the road in ages. "From the time we put out that last record until now, we've done just shy of about 300 shows a year," he tells Chris Shiflett during this week's episode of Walking the Floor, which focuses on East's career as a full-throated soul singer and recording engineer. Recorded after a string of opening dates for Chris Stapleton's summer tour, the podcast catches Anderson during a rare lull in an otherwise chaotic schedule, with an album cycle winding to a close and a new record approaching in early 2018."
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100 Gigabit Ethernet - Computer Definition
The fastest version of Ethernet. Officially, the IEEE 802.3bm-2015 standard, which defines 100 Gigabit Ethernet (100 GbE) and also 40 Gigabit Ethernet (40 GbE) over fiber cables. The 40 Gbe is designed for use within the organization between servers and the Ethernet switch, while 100 GbE is geared to long-distance switch-to-switch transmission. Multiple Lanes For 100 GbE, the modulation scheme breaks 100 Gbps into four 25 Gbps data lanes by first splitting the 100 into two polarized streams, each of which is then modulated into two 25 Gbps streams. See 25 Gigabit Ethernet and Ethernet. Distance in Meters Medium Designation 1 Copper 40GBASE-KR4 Backplane 100GBASE-KR4 7 Copper 40GBASE-CR4 100GBASE-CR10 100- Multimode 40GBASE-SR4 125 Fiber 100GBASE-SR10 10 km Singlemode 40GBASE-LR4 Fiber 100GBASE-LR10 100 km Singlemode 100GBASE-ER10 Fiber
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Can you believe that February starts on Sunday? Which means Valentine's day is quickly approaching and I want to help you! Several years ago I started a series called "Date Night" which started after creating a Date Night Package for Mr. P. It was so successful, I shared our stories here on this blog and we've continued it for years. Today, I want to provide you with an awesome free printable and 20 ideas to get you started on your Valentine's day gift!
So, what is a Date Night Package? Well it's creating pre-planned, (mostly) pre-paid date, once a month each labeled with a month of the year. I started this because I was sick of the question "What do you want to do tonight?" or "When are we going on a date?" and the answer always being "I don't know". I also got sick of Home Depot and pizza becoming our "thing". I wanted more, so I put on my big girl pants and took charge. By creating a Date Night Package ensured Mr. P and I were getting out of the house to create some fabulous memories together.
Sound familiar? Welcome to the club. 😉
Now, I've made it super simple for you. Not only do you get each month labeled in a pretty font, I'm also providing 20 different date nights that correspond with a season. Here's a peak:
This Valentine's Day, let's take care of one of the most important relationship of your life…your significant other. Don't let it take a backseat…take charge. Girls, do yourself a favor and start this tradition now! Guys, if you're reading this…surprise her all year long!
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Each printable page is designed to print at 8.5 by 11 inches.
For best results, set your printer quality settings to "high", print onto good quality, thick white card stock, and cut out with an x-acto knife with a ruler and a cutting board.
This printable is free for personal use only, not for commercial use. You can print as many as you like for yourself or as a gift to someone, but you are not allowed to sell these date night ideas or date night package in digital or print form, nor to distribute it in its original or in an altered form.
If you'd like to share some images of these date night ideas or date night package on Pinterest, social media, in a blog post… Well first, thank you so much! Please feel free to use some images, but please credit and link back to this page. Please do not distribute the free printable from your site and please do not link directly to the file- instead, please link back to this blog post or my Date Night Ideas Page. Thank you so much!


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I need to transform a gaming English web site to Danish.
All texts will be provided in word docs.
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28$ per page. Translation will be done from professional that works for translation and interpretation service. Hope to hear from you soon.
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Video and text tutorials on a wide range of game making subjects for all abilities.
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Girls Golf Season Preview
Cole Sotnick, Staff Writer
September 3, 2017
Filed under Fall Sports, Golf - Girls, Top Stories
Following a terrific 2016-2017 campaign, the Palo Alto High School girls golf team is looking to return to CCS with the help of veteran players and a skillful group of underclassmen. Despite losing six seniors last season, head coach Doyle Knight is excited about this team's potential. "We ...
Girls' Golf Preview: Striving to make it to CCS a third year in a row
Mara Zenger, Staff Writer
September 8, 2015
Filed under Golf - Girls, Preview, Top Stories
With the start of the Girls' Golf season at Palo Alto High School, the players have been working hard to get ready for the upcoming season. Coach Doyle Knight is looking to see who will step up and fill the role of their star player Michelle Xie ('15), as she is now in college. "We recognize...
Girls' Golf Preview: Team looking to build on inaugural season
Reuben Kramer, Staff Writer
September 5, 2014
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The second year of Girls' Golf has just started at Palo Alto High School and players are already practicing their swings, drives, and putts as the new season commences. There are big expectations for the young team after last season, their inaugural year , was a huge success for the program. The...


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Something fairly unique about where I live is that I'm not a native speaker, and I can generally ignore what others are talking about when trvalling by public transport. It's not unusual for folk to speak in Russian, Turkish, Arabic, etc. while I stare out of the window in transit.
This has the unfortunate side effect of allowing me to pinpoint English speakers, and I cannot tune them out. I don't really care for the personal detail of other people's lives, but I usually get to hear them.
The worst part of this is returning to somewhere that everyone speak English. I assume that being involuntarily psychic is like this, a thousand minds screaming personal information all at once.


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Man jailed for 14 months after seriously injuring 10-year-old pedestrian in Ashford
A man has been jailed after he drove through a red light and seriously injured a ten-year-old boy in Ashford.
Robbie Deacon, 35, of High Street, Esher was sentenced to 14 months imprisonment and was disqualified from driving for three years and seven months. He must also pass an extended re-test.
On 8 March 2016 Deacon was driving his BMW from Stanwell towards Ashford when he ran over a boy as he crossed the road with his father at a pedestrian crossing on Church Road.
The victim suffered serious injuries and was rushed to hospital for emergency treatment, he is still suffering with effects from the collision.
Officers from the Serious Collision Investigation Unit discovered that Deacon had driven through a red light just before he hit the victim.
Deacon pled guilty to causing serious injury by dangerous driving back in July and was sentenced at Kingston Crown Court on Friday 6 October 2017.
Sergeant JP Davis, of the Serious Collision Investigation Unit said: "The sentence handed to Deacon goes some way to reflect how devastating this has been for the young boy and his family. I hope will give Deacon time to reflect on his driving and how close he came to taking an innocent life. Every time we drive a car we must take responsibility and use the vehicle in a legal and safe way."


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Summary: Renewable Energy Agency Deploys Scalable, Power-Resilient NetworkMobility
With its fast-growing economy, India faces significant challenges in meeting the energy needs of its population and industry. And given the growth of the renewable energy sector, the Indian Renewable Energy DevelopmentRead More
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About: Free weekly competition for second level students nationwide.
Topics: Democracy & participation, health & wellness, environment & waste management, careers, courses, etc.
Rewards: 24 students will win free 4-day trip to European parliament where they will take part in Euroscola (which is a youth parliament).
Remaining: There are 8 weeks remaining in the current programme.
There are 10 more trips to be won over the remainder of the current programme.
There is absolutely no cost to students, parents or their school as all trips are paid for by sponsors.
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Junivive Cream: – One of the first places where visible marks of aging such as wrinkles under the eyes, dark circles, crow's feet, eye bags and begin to emerge the eyes, such as skin surface around tender acute eyes And is also thinner as you get older. Therefore, the appearance of these signs of ugly aging not only steals its beauty, but also makes it look older than its current age. Basically we have everything nobody wants.
According to the survey, for most women, the most difficult aspect is the age and development of aging marks around the eyes that are extremely difficult to eliminate. Therefore, this review could reveal the name of an anti-aging safety formula that has worked for dozens of women, called Junivive Cream. This product is specifically designed to eliminate the terrible appearance of aging marks around the eyes with powerful natural ingredients. With its qualities you can in just a few weeks to achieve a bright young skin around the eyes, which can last for years to come. To read more about this product, read this review.
Presentation of Junivive Cream
Junivive Cream is a sophisticated age-defying age revitalizing serum that can reduce the horrible look of aging marks around your eyes. It improves the production of moisture in your skin which helps prevent dryness and make your skin extremely smooth to treat wrinkles. Apart from this, this formula helps maintain a supple, firm and tight skin by stimulating the production of collagen that slows down with age.
Unlike most anti-aging products, this formula is much better as it consists of a unique blend of revitalizing the skin to make younger and smoother lower skin and powerful ingredients.
In addition, this skin care product is effective for all skin types and has helped many women achieve spectacular results with regular and right applications. If you are ready to get young and attractive eyes without going through Botox injections and unbearable pain, then this anti aging product is the best to start with.
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Vitamin C – helps to improve the skin of the skin by discoloration, browning and dark spots are eliminated. It protects your skin cells from the harmful effects of sunlight and hostile environment to prevent skin damage. With this ingredient this product can help reduce wrinkles, eye bags, dark circles and lift sagging skin around the eyes.
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Wash your face with a mild cleanser to remove impurities and pat dry with a soft towel
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text: Nothing beats the quintessential Kiwi summer holiday. And nothing beats the Tauranga region on a cloudless summer's day either. But finding the best accommodation to suit your situation can be tough. Pacific Park offers a wide range of accommodation options to suit you and your family down to a tee, whatever your budget and wherever in the country you come from. From motels, villas and lodges right through to cabins and campsites, our Papamoa accommodation options tick all your boxes when it comes to comfort, cleanliness and relaxation.


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I have said it before and I will say it again. I can't believe I'm at the point in my fitness where I can put on a t-shirt and some shorts and head out the door for a 7 mile run. It's still a little bit nuts to me. I know I completed a half marathon recently and I was running a lot more training before. But to have completed that and still head out on a Sunday morning to run just goes to show how far I have come in the last year and a half.
And I'm taking this seriously. I have joined a run club in Lawrence on Monday's and Wednesday's to help me with my technique. After one week I can sort of "speak the language". When I started at the gym I felt like a fish out of water. Feeling a bit intimidated by the people going about their routines. Trying to figure out proper etiquette and not step on anyone's toes.
It's the same with this run club. It all seems a bit overwhelming at first. Sure I have run, but I was not an athlete in high school or college. This fitness thing is pretty new to me still. Showing up and having an All American teach you how to run can be a bit overwhelming. The difference between before and now is that I'm not scared to put myself out there athletically. In fact I relish in it. As my body changes I get to see what I can push it to do.
So today I embrace my inner runner. I'll attack every run, every lesson, every experience.


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Sibley has nine screenplays in various stages of Hollywood production, including the award winning "Where all the Rattlesnakes Are Born" (Silver Medal, Best Screenplay, WORLDFEST, Houston, 1992) and "White On Rice"(retitled "RELATIVE TRUTH," formerly "Approximate Lives", Finalist, Best Screenplay, Charleston-Spoleto Festival, 1994). "December Story," "Amor," and "Dead Giveaway" are all presently under option.
To view a five minute YouTube "teaser" video of Sibley's screenplay AMOR, click below:
DECEMBER STORY was one of 12 Finalist for the 2008 KAIROS PRIZE for "Spiritually uplifting screenplays"
His screenplays have also been optioned by such esteemed directors as John Schlesinger (MIDNIGHT COWBOY), Arthur Hiller (LOVE STORY) and Pete Masterson (THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL). He's co-written three screenplays with actress Diane Ladd ("Hot Water Biscuits," "High Maintenance," and "The Last of the Bad Girls") and another ("The Big Hurt") for actor Tab Hunter.
(In the 6/9/04 Texas Writer's League Newsletter, workshop participants rated Sibley's class as, "Bill Sibley is a fabulous seminar leader and teacher. He's also extremely entertaining." "Sibley is so personable and helpful." "Bill was really prepared – felt he took the time and his responsibility seriously." On a scale of 1 to 10 many rated Bill a 20!)
A recent interview of Bill can be found in the VOICE OF ART MAGAZINE (VOL 15, Issue 2, 2008 – page 18)


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WATCH: Spurs' Jean-Charles doing work in the G League
Austin Spurs' Livio Jean-Charles posted his 5th double-double of the season in the team's recent two-point win (89-87) over the Iowa Wolves.
Jean-Charles finished with 19 points and 13 rebounds, pacing the team to their 24th win of the season.
Livio started the game off hitting the team's first five points from an array of mid-range jumpers. He did not hesitate to put up the shot, this was key for him in this game.
Being active on the offensive side of the ball, even when his shots were missed, Charles stayed with the play and did not give up getting his own rebound and putting the ball back in.
Charles also showed what he could do when putting the ball on the floor. This was able to happen but him knocking down his shots from the perimeter earlier on. His ability to knock down his shots made the defense think whether to go out and contest, when they did, he was able to put the ball on the floor, penetrate, and find open teammates.
The San Antonio Spurs' 2013 Draft pick is averaging 11.2 points and 5.7 rebounds per game for Austin.


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What's not to love about a bookstore in any community, but we are more partial to Warwick's very own Ye Olde Warwick Bookshoppe. Proprietor Thomas Roberts is a Ye Young Jolly Good Fellow, sharing his perpetual optimism and generosity with the community at large.
While independent bookstores are shrinking from the face of the planet, Roberts is expanding his operation, adding a second floor along with a new children's section. Building a new staircase and adding more book shelving has alleviated some of the pressure from the overflow of books breaking out from their main floor. Like Manhattan, there is nowhere to go but up.
At this quaint shoppe, it's a pleasure, on a regular basis, to discover new books and great displays. Go in around any holiday or special weekend and you will see what we mean. A center table of books, pertinent to the season or holiday, always awaits you. Then there is the bookstore's ongoing support of local authors whose books are clearly visible, authors whose talent and voices are waiting to be shared with you! Get involved with their monthly book club or just come for a good browse. There is room for all.
On April 19th and 20th, all day long, Roberts invites you to come out and celebrate the bookstore's second anniversary for their "2 Years, 2 Floors, 2 Day Anniversary Sale" with 25% off of anything in the store. Don't miss out and say hello!
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Each time I write, it's always the same. I start on a blank page with a subject in mind and proceed, sometimes not knowing where I'm going or whether I'm equipped to make the journey, but going anyway.
It's on this journey that I find my way, the journey of a thousand miles beginning with the first step, those first thoughts that become the stepping stones to the next leg of the journey.
I like to use the metaphor of 'journey' to refer to the writing process, for writing, like life, resembles a 'journey', where there is an element of uncertainty, adventure and difficulty. There are all kinds of gradations that force you to move at different speeds, depending on which plane you are traveling – up, down or on flat surfaces. Sometimes you find yourself accelerating; other times, stuck in the mud. It can be a real roller coaster ride or like driving a bumper car in circles, going front and back, bumpety bump, returning you to just about where you started.
When you begin writing, in whatever mode or method you start out, you make your way forward, down the page, word over word, paragraph by paragraph, in no exact order, to realize that you have advanced because you have kept at it, if for no other reason, than persistence.
Persistence is a thread that keeps things going, but it is not the glue that adheres the whole. That's where vision comes in, where purpose helps drive the ship, even if you are writing into an abyss.
You might say that there is an inner logic only you can understand when you are writing. How that logic appears on the outside depends on how attuned you are to your audience, where they've been and the truth that resonates between you and them.
As a writer, all I really care about is now because if I start to focus on the end, whether it's the end of a sentence or the end of a story, it is like projecting into the future, which is hard to predict, especially if there is no precedent or pattern to which you can look. Take away the surprise, the mystery of the future, and why bother?
As your journey is underway, time somehow forgives you for moving in all directions, which is a given for this writing life and its elastic nature and how it bends to fit the new landscapes that you create going between the past and the future while trying to stay present. Time is always a factor, a constraint to some extent, but a necessary element that is part of moving forward.
I repeat. You must go back to move forward. And vice versa.
When you realize that you only have so much time, whether it is time to get published or time to wrap it up or time to put it away or time to make a living or the many other myriad uses of time, time has the final say, stepping in to bring things to an end.
It is a weird feeling to be writing into an abyss, with no agenda per se, except to advance and hope for the best.
Where are you going? Why are you going there? What is it that you have to illustrate? What is it that you must communicate?
In this darkness you discover why you have come. It is simply another exercise in which practice makes perfect. Although an exercise of sound and fury signifying nothing, thru the abyss there is light and, you, a timeless traveler, passing through.
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By Dr. Bob McCauley
Dr. Joseph Mercola makes a strong case for eating raw foods on his website. And he tells us why we need to eat organically grown foods. But in an interview with Paul Nison, long time Raw Foodist like myself, Mercola states it's really not possible "long-term" because you will not get enough Vitamin B-12. In the end, Mercola essentially explains the incredible benefits of eating raw fruits and vegetables, which makes the entire interview pointless. But I loved it.
The primary reason for making sure you get plenty of raw food in your diet is due to what's called 'biophotons.' It's a term you may not have heard of before, but in Europe, Germany in particular, there's a lot of research in this area. Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt has also discussed it in some detail in one of his expert interviews. ~ Dr. J. Mercola
Biophotons are the smallest physical units of light, which are stored in, and used by all biological organisms – including your body. Vital sun energy finds its way into your cells via the food you eat, in the form of these biophotons. ~ Dr. J. Mercola
Mercola is right on the money about enzymes and the importance of those in our diet.
Enzymes are proteins; catalysts to speed up and facilitate reactions in your body. In fact, some biochemical reactions will not even occur without these enzymes (you have about 1,300 of them).
Cooking your food, especially at high temperatures, destroys these naturally occurring enzymes. ~ Dr. J. Mercola
In addition to getting enzymes from fresh, raw food, you can also help stimulate the production of enzymes in your body simply by chewing. When you chew your food, a signal is transmitted from your brain to your stomach that tells your stomach to increase the production of enzymes. ~ Dr. J. Mercola
His conclusion:
Ideally, your best bet is to consume raw foods as much as possible. If you aren't doing that already, you'll want to gradually increase the amount of raw food in your diet as it will help your body produce more enzymes, and supply you with vital, live nutrients. ~ Dr. J. Mercola
What Dr. Mercola is great at is disseminating information about the medical industry and exposing medical/health myths. If you want to find out if soy is good for you or not, Mercola's website is a good place to start looking. He has no problem exposing fraud or hypocrisy when he sees it in the medical/health world. But when it comes to offering real health advice and backing them up with true products his record is terrible. His "me too" line of health products are pretty much what you can find anywhere else from people who are in the health product business because they see opportunity in it, not because they want to make people healthier. Mercola's health products are pedestrian, unimaginative, same old same old and most importantly they do not encourage the basic kind of lifestyle changes that are necessary to be health. In short, they are crutches, and Mercola is the enabler.


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Pokémon GO has taken over the world and eventually players would want to cheat the game. Lucky for you, there are Pokémon GO cheats to fake the location on your iPhone or Android to catch more Pokémon.
But Wait! Before you read the steps, read first the Pokémon GO Trainer Guidelines regarding cheating below.
"Don't do it. Play fair. Pokémon GO is meant to be played on a mobile device and get you outside to explore your world! Methods of cheating, unfortunately, are limited only by cheaters' imaginations, but include at a minimum the following: using modified or unofficial software; playing with multiple accounts (one account per player, please); sharing accounts; using tools or techniques to alter or falsify your location; or selling/trading accounts."
If you're caught cheating, Niantic can just warn you at first but it can eventually lead to a suspension or the termination of your account. You've been warned about using Pokémon GO Cheats. Use at your own risk.
Here are the steps to fake location on your iPhone and Android to catch more Pokémon, per GottaBeMobile.
Step 1: Jailbreak your iPhone or Root your Android phone
- The first step depends on the software of your phone. It is easier to jailbreak an iPhone on iOS 9.1 than root a Galaxy S7 and other android phones.
Step 2: Hide your Jailbreak/Root
- After successfully doing the first step, you need to hide your jailbreak and root. For iPhone users, you need to install tsProtector while Android users can use Hide My Root or XDA.
Step 3: Download Location Faking App
- The best location faking app for iPhone is LocationFaker and it is available in the Cydia store for $2.99. On the other hand, Android users will need to download Fake Location Spoofer for free.
That's it. After installing all the apps, you can now fake your location and go into the Pokémon GO app. You can now see Pokémon in other locations. Catch 'Em All but don't get caught.
Photo Courtesy: Nintendo/Niantic Labs, Inc./The Pokemon Company


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Jo Wright
A lifelong compulsion to create, combined with a genetic rather than academic ability to do so has been a true gift. As with most artists, Jo paints or sculpts what she finds most beautiful or inspiring. Though now living in Virginia, she is an Englishwoman and divides her time between the USA and the UK, welcoming customers from both sides of the Atlantic.
Jo has two abiding passions that have been companions to her for longer than she has memories: Horses were an instant fascination that first struck in Central Park NY in 1971. As a small child, a mounted policeman asked Jo's parents if she would like to sit on his horse (and she really did), but when lifted into the saddle, she became convinced she would slip down the neck of the grazing chestnut. Jo screamed to be taken off…such regret felt for not enjoying that moment… Jo was from that moment transformed into a girl that had to ride at all costs.
Jo has early childhood memories of watching her Father work on whatever potential masterpiece he had set on his easel. The compulsion to be creative has surely come from him, passed on through genes and positive encouragement from both parents. Through every stage of her life, art has been a companion and a way to express what she finds most beautiful.
Through her work these two enduring passions converge.


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Mountain Valley joins the walk!
April 13, 2017
BENEFITING: International OCD Foundation
EVENT: BOSTON #1Million4OCD Walk
EVENT DATE: Jun 03, 2017
We at Mountain Valley know all too well how debilitating OCD can be. We also know how treatable it is. The reward of giving a teen their life back is powerful and we do not take it for granted. Unfortunately, an understanding of OCD and its effects on everyone in the family are not fully appreciated. This is why we have organized our residents, families, staff and community members to support the walk. We will have a team in Boston on June 2nd and will host the OCD NH affiliate walk in Pike, NH on June 9th. Come join us!
The Team: $1,430 TOTAL RAISED SO FAR
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The Unger Family
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I'm sure most people (who are members) already know this, but the Society of Childrens' Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) is awesome!
The Western WA region of SCBWI put on a great conference this past weekend and I was so happy to be able to attend. It was a hard weekend for me to miss with my family but I think good things will come from my experiences there.
First, I met a lot of nice people. My roomie was perfect and while she did snore it was in a very unassuming and soothing way. The only thing that woke me up at night were my nerves.
I met another nice lady (who was named after a character in Lord of the Rings - I wanted to do this with my daughter but was vetoed by my husband) and we sat with eachother at most of the general sessions. This was the perfect situation for me because generally I am very shy and having a "buddy" was a huge relief. I did ditch her at lunch on Saturday, because I was wearing tan pants and didn't want to sit on the curb, which turned out to be a good thing because I sat next to agent Jenny Bent of The Bent Agency! I've been told I use too many exclamation points but that deserved one. Let me repeat myself.
She was very nice, and when she recognized my book from the simple statement "I am working on a middle grade, realistic fiction chapter book along the lines of Judy Moody and Clementine," I was shocked. She wanted to know the title and when I told her she said she had read my query and was using parts of it (in a good way) during her breakout session the next day. And then she said she wanted to see my manuscript! OK, another exclamation point, but WOW!
At this point I had two things I felt I needed to confess to Jenny. #1 - I didn't know you could send a sample in for the Query Workshop until I saw a reminder the night before so my query was written rather quickly. #2 - My mauscript isn't finished. She laughed at the first and said you might not want to tell anyone that. She also said sometimes it works better if you just get it out and don't overthink. Good advice. I may use that theory on writing the rest of my book - LOL. She sais "No problem" on the second and to take my time. Phew.
I also sat with two other ladies at lunch, one who I was quite sure I knew from somewhere. She said I looked familiar as well. Turns out she lives 30 minutes from me and we had talked briefly at Barnes and Noble while chasing after our one-year-olds several weeks ago. Small world! She has a very cool blog called The Green Bathtub. She is so sweet to have signed up as the first follower of my blog. I have a small case of blog envy... I love the fonts she has used, her frequent posts, and that she has lots of followers and comments. I don't know where she finds the time, as she has the one-year-old, plus four more!
Baby is up... more to come.


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What role does a food testing lab play in ensuring food safety?
Food is the source of energy. Food gives us essential nutrients and helps us to survive. Nowadays, foods are being adulterated with harmful chemicals. They come from surroundings and may cause serious health issues. A food can be contaminated at any stage of processing. To meet the food safety challenges, food testing is necessary. There are various methods of food testing and analysis. These tests identify contaminants and adulterants in foods. Food testing lab helps to test raw materials to processed foods and ensures that your food is safe for human consumption. These days, Food Business Operators are stressing on food safety. They have understood the importance of food testing lab.
Importance of Food Testing Lab: Food testing lab follows food safety guidelines. Lab uses various scientific techniques to analyse ingredients and identify contaminants.Food testing results help to improve shelf-life of products. We have discussed the various methods below. Take a look.
1. Chemical analysis: The purpose of chemical testing is to meet chemical parameters specified by the food safety authority. Chemical analysis is used to monitor raw materials and finished products. Foods are analysedto check nutrients and chemical contaminants present in foods. The common contaminants are heavy metals, antibiotics, pesticides and preservatives. As per the test results, nutritional labelling is done.
2. Microbiological Testing: The purpose of microbiological testing is to meet microbiological parameters specified by the food safety authority. Microbiological testing identifies microbial hazards in foods. Bacteria, yeasts, moulds and toxins produced by them make foods unsuitable for human consumption. Bacterial endotoxin test, total bacterial test, microbial limit test, sterility testing, total fungal counts are used to detect these pathogens in foods.
3. Physical Testing: This testing is conducted to check the presence of physical hazards in foods like metals, glass, stone, plastic. They may come from the environment.
4. Sensory Evaluation: Sensory evaluation includes organoleptic analysis. Here the quality of food products is assessed with the help of human senses (taste,touch,smell,sight and hearing). As for examples, the tongue can taste the food and determine the quality. The noose can detect rancidity in food materials.
FSSAI and Its Role:Food Safety Standards Authority of India is the autonomous body working under the aegis of Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Govt. of India. FSSAI issues regulations to implement the Food Safety & Standards Act, 2006. Besides issuing of the Food Safety and Standards Regulations, FSSAI also notifies the Food Testing Laboratories across India to carry out the food testing based on the guidelines of different methods of analysis. All food business operators have to approach these NABL Accredited/FSSAI Notified food laboratories for the testing of their products.
Arbro Lab is a NABL Accredited/ FSSAI notified lab based in Delhi. Arbro Pharma is the flagship company under which a chain of laboratories (Arbro& Auriga) are working together Pan India and serving the Food Industry to get their food samples tested on different parameters. If you would require any assistance you can contact at +91-8588851888.


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In the life cycle of a pop-rock star, 40 is not an age, it is an apocalypse. Mick Jagger once vowed that he'd never be singing Satisfaction after 40, and Elvis survived only two years past that abyss. Yet there's at least one heavy who is still cagey after all those years. At 39, and 11 months short of his own reckoning, Paul Simon has emerged in the 1980s as a rocker for all ages, one figure from the '60s entering midlife not as a jejune nostalgia act but thriving both financially and artistically.
Most surprisingly, perhaps, the liberating locus of Simon's mid-career renewal is not strictly musical. Rather, it is One-Trick Pony, the new movie he wrote, scored and stars in, which represents his biggest risk-taking since the difficult split with Art Garfunkel a decade ago. Garfunkel, of course, found a home in movies like Carnal Knowledge and Catch-22 and is currently starring in Nicolas Roeg's Bad Timing/A Sensual Obsession. Simon added to his musical feats (40 million LPs, 13 Grammys) but stayed clear of Hollywood until 1977, when Woody Allen talked him into a cameo in Annie Hall. The switch came, he explains, because "I'm afraid to stop growing, afraid that someday I'll say, 'That's it. I've run out of ideas.' Probably all artists fear that their lives will outrun their gift. And that's a moment you don't want to face."
If nothing else, One-Trick Pony proves Simon's obsession with survival. Even he recognizes it. In one fatalistic but funny scene in the film, Simon comes up with a new twist on an old trivia game. Each player tries to remember the name of a deceased rock star; failure means elimination. ("We should have two separate categories for ODs and plane crashes," someone cracks mordantly.) Yet the more challenging contest might have been to name not the stars who have died since the early days of rock but rather those whose bodies, souls, hearts, minds—and art—have survived intact.
Simon is one of the very few. In the New Hollywood economics, for instance, a successful LP soundtrack can be the tail that wags the horse. The Pony sound track, Simon's first album since Still Crazy after All These Years in 1975, is predictably high on the charts, as is Late in the Evening, the vibrantly percussive, Latin-tinged single from the film. It hardly matters that Simon's most ambitious move—the film itself—has left reviewers divided. A rock critic for the Los Angeles Times cheered that Pony is "so perceptively and ruthlessly honest" that it "ranks among the year's best." But another critic, from the New York Daily News, groused that Simon's onscreen persona was "so forlorn and listless it is hard to care what happens to him." Simon tries but is unable to shrug off critics as just ordinary people. "I should do what Woody [Allen] does, ignore them. But I'm curious." And he admits, "I don't take it well, either for my music or for the film."
A methodical, driven perfectionist, Simon spent four years on the $7 million project that he hopes will launch him in the '80s as The Graduate's soundtrack did in the '60s. He was helped in acting by Mira Restova (a former Montgomery Clift coach suggested by close friend Charles Grodin) and spent several weeks in Chicago mastering the Middle American argot of waitresses and club owners. (The title, referring to a trained pony who can perform only one trick, comments ironically on the fading rock singer protagonist's clinging to his music amid the shambles of his marital life.) Paul reworked some scenes over and over and learned how to cry menthol-induced tears in front of the camera. Yet though he'd like to write another film, Simon will probably cast elsewhere for the lead. "I don't want to be a movie star, and being a celebrity undermines the seriousness of your work. I'm not an exhibitionist," he sums up. "No, I'm not ready for summer stock companies and Streetcar Named Desire."
Simon just concluded a 12-city U.S. tour of small halls and is now playing 13 European gigs with the touring band which stars in the film. The tour, aimed to boost the movie, stands to lose him $300,000. Shrugs Simon of the bottom-line side of the business: "Entertainers are paid disproportionately high sums of money for their contribution to society. I used to feel guilty," he continues, "but now I accept that gratefully. When someone tells me, 'You've given me a lot of pleasure in my life,' it all seems like a gratifying, very pure way of earning money."
Like McCartney and Dylan, Simon is among the wealthiest composers of his generation. In his five astonishingly prolific years with Garfunkel (who rarely wrote), he created a seemingly endless string of sophisticated hits like The Boxer, Sounds of Silence, Mrs. Robinson, Bridge over Troubled Water, America, Homeward Bound and Scarborough Fair. Since going solo, Paul has added Kodachrome, 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover, American Tune and Still Crazy. His awesome composing prowess, coupled with the fact that he retained all his publishing rights, has generated enormous income from royalties, sheet music, air play and catalogue (previously released LPs) sales. Michael Tannen, his business manager, says, "Paul has probably the most valuable self-owned publishing catalogue anywhere." Bridge alone has been re-recorded 200 times by other artists. Says Simon: "I have enough money. If I want more money I write some songs."
Simon's home (his only one) is a cavernous duplex overlooking Central Park on Manhattan's West Side. It is, like much of his music, elegant, unostentatious, with everything in its place. He likes to sit and pick out new tunes on a couch near the floor-to-ceiling windows. Simon has been living "on and off" for two years with actress Carrie (Star Wars) Fisher. Her filming of Under the Rainbow with Chevy Chase in L.A. and Paul's touring have caused what Carrie calls "forced separations, which are rough." Simon's ex-wife since 1975, Peggy Harper, 41, is a non-showbiz Tennessean who lives a few blocks uptown. Their son, Harper James, 8, a third-grader in private school, divides his time between them. Simon is an animated and warmly attentive dad. "It's a great thing in my life to be a father. I always wanted to have children and be a member of a nuclear family," he says. He then adds, ruefully, "The molecules exploded, however, in a manner I couldn't predict at the time of the marriage." (He met Peggy in the '60s when she was married to his former business manager, and they wed in 1970.) Even now he doesn't rule out another marriage—"if it happened soon enough. But I have no specific plans."
Simon spent several years in analysis in the early '70s to help him through the twin turmoil of the Garfunkel split and his marital woes. "It was helpful, but it doesn't cure you. I'm verbal, given to introspection," he understates. "So it's natural for me to lie down and talk about things."
Unlike his Pony character, Simon finds, "My personal life isn't a mess. But it could use more time," he concedes. "I'm much less adept at working out my personal life than my career life. It's not like I spent 15 years on my relationships. I didn't, and you can see I didn't. The ones that I had didn't hold." Lorne Michaels, ex-producer of Saturday Night Live and his down-the-hallway neighbor, thinks Simon may be a little hard on himself in that regard, noting, "Paul's one of the people I go to for advice. He's direct and clearheaded. He assesses your situation with kindness and compassion. He is very gentle."
Indeed, Paul seems to cherish peacemaking with partners of the past, and says he has "no enemies." He and Garfunkel, a buddy since they were sixth-grade classmates at P.S. 164 in Forest Hills, are still friends and see one another or talk frequently. "I root for Artie," Paul says of his friend's current (if controversial) role as a sexually obsessed professor in Bad Timing. "I rooted for Shelley Duvall [with whom Simon lived several years ago] in The Shining. We were together in Cannes when she got the call that Kubrick wanted her." Carrie Fisher doesn't need his prayers, grins Paul: "She's really got the goods and the Force is with her. She'll emerge as a gifted comedienne."
Even professionally, Simon's made amazingly few foes. CBS Records president Bruce Lundvall, who says Paul's recent defection to Warner Brothers (for up to $5 million per LP, according to rumors) left him feeling "bitter and disappointed," now reports that they are again on cordial terms. In fact, Paul cast him as an extra in a party scene in Pony.
Most of all, Simon roots for his ex-wife Peggy to be happy, he says. "It's not just that we share a child. You don't fall in love without a reason. That feeling is rare and those people who meant that to me still mean a lot."
Simon likewise remains close to his family. His father, Louis, a former bass player who went on to teach English at City College of New York, and mother, Belle, who taught elementary school while Paul grew up, are now retired and live across the George Washington Bridge in Englewood, N.J. His younger brother, Eddie, 34, runs New York's Guitar Study Center and lives nearby. As a kid in Forest Hills, Simon was a card-flipping baseball-crazed kid who was competitive in sports, though he topped off at 5'4″. "I must have been very angry, probably about not growing," he observes. "I was doing well. When I was 15 Artie and I played on American Bandstand. I batted first on the baseball team. I had a school jacket with letters and everything on it. I was popular. But," he repeats, "I was a real angry guy. I spent a lot of time by myself, playing guitar."
Rather than go out, Simon prefers to invite close friends and family to his eight-room pad, but he mostly centers entertaining in an upstairs den that doubles as office and study. A tiled hot tub is in an adjacent bathroom. He owns a Mercedes and spends summers in rented Long Island homes. "I don't tend to socialize with other musicians," he says. "Lorne Michaels and his girlfriend, Susan Forristal, are my Fred and Ethel Mertz." Socially, Lorne confirms that Paul keeps a low profile. "Flamboyant is not a word that applies here. Paul can get melancholy. But there's a keen, tough New York edge to him." Laughs Simon, "I'm not your basic walk-in-the-woods guy. I'm not overwhelmed by sunsets, and Peggy always used to say I never got poison ivy 'cause I never walked off the roads."
Simon does stay tapered and well toned by jogging in Central Park and sweats through workouts in his $5,000 gym room at home. He's on a strict diet—no dairy foods, red meat or sugar—prescribed years ago to dissolve calcium deposits in his hand which were jeopardizing his nimble folk-jazz guitar-picking style. But lately he has dropped to 117 pounds, even below soul brother Woody Allen's weight class. "Control is one of the essences of art," observes Paul. "There is a controlled tension in my work and it is very much like me." Carrie, 24, agrees: "Paul is the most disciplined person I've ever seen. I don't know anyone who has gone about conquering what Paul has and succeeded."
Paul says he'd like to write a Broadway musical "in the next decade," but one trick he hasn't turned this year is the political benefit. "It was a mistake for politics and show business to mix," he says, "and now it's backfiring, because we have an actor trying to become President." But he adds: "For all we know Willie Nelson is making decisions about Iraq. You know, 'Hey Willie, y'think we oughta send 'em into Iraq?' 'I'll ask Waylon. Shit, yeah, Waylon'll tell us.' Politicians got their campaign moves real down, and they know their TV, but they don't know how to do their job when elected."
Instead, Simon's causes have shifted inward with his realization of aging. "It came so powerfully," he recalls. He particularly remembers visiting a dentist with his son and gazing at an X-ray of Harper's teeth. "To see an X-ray of your skull is to see you dead," he says. "There's nothing there. So I'm looking at Harper's skull, his baby teeth, and behind and below and on top of them I see his next age and then the space for wisdom teeth. I had his whole life right there in front of me. This is my little boy, my boy, a whole life in these X-rays of his teeth." Then Dad stops short, pauses, struggles for words and finishes: "Yeah, it's flyin'; time's flyin'."
But Simon is determined to keep pace. "I have options, I got brains, health. I'm thinking now of the best way for me to live my life." He stops, rubs his cheeks and chin, smiles and nods slowly. "Yeah, I'm happy. I'm busy, it's exciting now. I got a kid. I starred in a movie. I'm touring in Europe. I got friends who love me and whom I love. My parents are alive. Yeah, I'm happy," he sums up. "It's not gonna last forever, but this is a precious moment."