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Bachelors degree: All graduate applicants must hold an earned baccalaureate from a regionally accredited college or university or the recognized equivalent from an international institution.
Grade point average: The minimum undergraduate GPA for admission consideration for graduate study at the University of Denver is a cumulative 2.5 on a 4.0 scale or a 2.5 on a 4.0 scale for the last 60 semester credits or 90 quarter credits (approximately two years of work) for the baccalaureate degree. An earned master's degree or higher from a regionally accredited institution supersedes the minimum standards for the baccalaureate. For applicants with graduate coursework but who have not earned a master's degree or higher, the GPA from the graduate work may be used to meet the requirement. The minimum GPA is a cumulative 3.0 on a 4.0 scale for all graduate coursework undertaken.
Program GPA requirement: The minimum undergraduate GPA for admission consideration for this program is a cumulative 2.5 on a 4.0 scale
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Official scores from the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), International English Language Testing System (IELTS), C1 Advanced or Duolingo English Test are required of all graduate applicants, regardless of citizenship status, whose native language is not English or who have been educated in countries where English is not the native language. Your TOEFL/IELTS/C1 Advanced/Duolingo English Test scores are valid for two years from the test date.
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You can tell that Christmas spirit has taken over, can't you? Although the weather is not playing along and giving us dull, gray, rain and sludge instead of cold, crisp air with snow topped roofs and iced trees, at home we've hung up the straw stars, wooden carved figures, baubles and tinsel.
The kitchen perpetually emanates the fragrance of warming and sweet spices that linger like incense in the air. While I am a summer girl right to the core and prefer peep toe heels to knee high boots, the holiday season does make my heart fuzzy and warm. The merry spirit absorbs me completely, sucking me into all it's glittery glory. Walking down the cobblestone streets of Weimar, Soeren and I like peering into the shop windows all decorated in sparkling tinsel and colorful baubles. There really is that magical spirit in the air!
We've already sent off our Christmas wish list to the North Pole, which I think will be sending Santa's helpers scuttling around the toy stores in Weimar for the next few days!
In the meantime we're baking in the kitchen. The oven radiates it's heat almost continuously and all sorts of treats keep coming out of it. Little cakes, cookies or puddings – all getting elegantly packed for gifts to family and friends.
This year I am quite excited to be adding macarons to my repertoire of gift treats. I've been riding on the wave of success with macarons and just had to include these soft and chewy bites of joy into the gift boxes.
Of course the motivation of the MacTweets macaron event helps me keep at my toes for new flavor and combination creations. MacTweets is a monthly macaron baking challenge put together by two very dear girlfriends Deeba and Jamie.
Flavor wise, it was not difficult for me to decide on the direction to go with these macarons, I knew I wanted to make them fitting for the seasonal festivities using spices that pretty much epitomized Christmas.
It'll have to be "Lebkuchen Gewürz," a lovely German spice blend often used in Christmas baking, especially for Lebkuchen. I recently used it in my Chocolate Lebkuchen Fudge Burfi that I made over at Mowie's, fusing a traditional Indian sweet with a classic German spice. It worked so brilliantly that I decided to blend some Lebkuchen spice with these delicious French macarons too.
The filling was actually already sitting in my fridge since November! I knew the minute I tasted the caramelized quince jam that this would be the perfect macaron filling. With the filling basically out of the way all I really needed to do was tackle the shells.
There's still an uncanny excitement when I make macarons and while I am getting more routined each time I make them, I still have a lot of respect. One really never knows what might go wrong and of course one is always appealing to the higher macaron Gods for perfect feet.
This time round I had to leave my macarons to dry for a little over an hour. As I completed piping the macaron batter, it was already lunch time. I had not planned anything so decided to pack up Soeren and meet Tom in town for a bite to eat. "The macarons will be OK!" I thought.
However, it was not entirely a good idea. I've always wondered what exactly happens to macarons that are left out too long to dry. Well I did get my answer on a few of them. The batter dries up too much and as they bake in the oven the tops kind of get overdone. Once they come out of the oven the tops are fairly brittle and crack off the rest easily. Luckily this was only the case with the smaller batch.
Adding slices of candied ginger was a last minute stroke of genius. It pepped up the entire flavor giving it a delicious bite.
Note: If you are making macarons for the first time please read my comprehensive collection of macaron tips. All the way from the prep work to removing macarons from the baking paper, you'll find valuable tips and tricks for perfect macaron making.
Lebkuchen Spice Macarons with Quince Jam and Candied Ginger
Printable version of recipe here
For the Lebkuchen macaron shells
90g egg white (approx. 4 eggs), aged for a little over 24 hours on the countertop or 5 days in the refrigerator
30g fine granulated sugar
200g icing sugar
110g almonds
1/4 tablespoon Lebkuchen spice* (see note below) – or you can adjust this amount to your own taste
few drops of red and green food coloring, mixed to give a slightly brown/gingerbread colorFor the filling
a portion of Caramelized Quince Jam with a Sprinkling of Cinnamon
a small handful candied ginger – sliced
For the Lebkuchen macaron shells
- Prepare your baking tray and baking sheets with a stencil of circles. Draw circles on some baking paper using a (mathematical) compass about 2 cm in diameter. Then place some white parchment paper on the baking tray and flip the baking paper back around.
- In a large mixing bowl mix the egg whites with an electric hand beater (alternatively you can use a stand mixer with the whisk attachment) until it is thick and frothy. Gradually add the granulated sugar, whisking all the while, until the mixture turns into a thick glossy meringue. Incorporate the Lebkuchen spice blend into the batter. The consistency of the macaron batter should be similar to hair mousse or shaving foam. Make sure the meringue is not over-beaten or else it will be too dry.
- In a food processor pulse together icing sugar and almonds until the nuts are finely ground and powdery. Sift the mixture to make sure there are no lumps.
- Place the dry ingredients into a bowl. Add the meringue and give it a quick fold using the macronnage technique described in my macaron tips section. Fold a few times to break the air. Continue until you get a smooth and supple mixture, thick in consistency so that when you lift the spatula it flows back in thick ribbons. Test a small amount on a plate – should the tops fall back and flatten by themselves then it is ready, if not give it a few more folds.
- Fill a piping bag with a plain tip with the batter and pipe small rounds (2 cm in diameter) on your prepared baking paper. Leave the macarons to rest and dry for about 30 - 45 minutes.
- In the meantime preheat the the oven to 140 degrees C. When the macarons are ready bake the shells for 10–15 minutes depending on their size. Remove from the oven and allow to cool. Use a flat offset spatula to gently remove the shells from the baking paper and allow to cool further on a rack.
* Note: If you cannot find premixed "Lebkuchen Gewürz" from a German store, you may mix your own. Here are the spices that make up "Lebkuchen Gewürz"
2 T. ground cinnamon
2 tsp. ground cloves
1/2 tsp. ground allspice
1/4 tsp. ground nutmeg
1/2 tsp. ground coriander
1/2 tsp. ground cardamom
1/2 tsp. ground ginger
1/2 tsp. ground anise seed
Storing Macarons
If you are not going to be using them right away you can store the shells in an airtight container at room temperature for 2-3 days.
They freeze well too but it is recommended to freeze them unfilled. To fill them take the shells out of the freezer 48 hours prior to serving and without defrosting fill them. This way the flavors will be allowed to blend as they thaw.Assembling the macarons
Using two spoons place small dollops of the caramelized quince jam on one of the shells then place a slice of candied ginger in the middle and gently cover with another shell. Do not press. Continue to do this until you have used up all of the filling and shells.
A single bite and "it's Christmas time!" These macarons bring out the best of the season. They are the perfect spiced treat, warming you with the sweet heat of coriander, cardamom and cinnamon. The fruity quince jam was so sensual with it's cinnamon-y aroma highlighting the spices of the Lebkuchen blend. Finally that little sharp heat from the candied ginger made us all go "ooooh!" Soeren is quickly becoming a macaron connoisseur, suggesting a few interesting ideas for the next challenge. He devoured several of these so quickly that I literally had to pull him away from the kitchen. Tom really enjoyed these macarons, mentioning that spiciness curbed the sweetness intermingling with the fruity jam perfectly.
Big day for us tomorrow – so I hope you'll all be crossing your fingers and everything else that can be crossed for Tom. He defends tomorrow afternoon and if you hear cheers of joy you know we're through it! I'll be back next week with a few more Christmas time treats and a warming soup for the Monthly Mingle.
You might like these treats from WFLH:
Salted Macadamia Nut and Chunky White Chocolate Cookies | Ginger Shortbread | Saffron Macarons with Cardamom White Chocolate Ganache |
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A Look at the Deadliest Mass Shootings Worldwide
Today 27 are dead, 18 of them children in a CT school shooting. Here's a look at the nation's most deadly mass shootings worldwide.
- July 20, 2012: At least 14 people are killed when a gunman enters an Aurora, Colo., movie theater, releases a canister of gas and then opens fire during opening night of the Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises."
- July 22, 2011: At least 80 people are killed at a summer camp on the Norwegian island of Utoya. A man arrested also is suspected in a blast earlier the same day in downtown Oslo that killed seven.
- April 30, 2009: Farda Gadyrov, 29, enters the prestigious Azerbaijan State Oil Academy in the capital, Baku, armed with an automatic pistol and clips. He kills 12 people before killing himself as police close in.
- March 10, 2009: Michael McLendon, 28, killed 10 people — including his mother, four other relatives, and the wife and child of a local sheriff's deputy — across two rural Alabama counties. He then killed himself.
- Sept. 23, 2008: Matti Saari, 22, walks into a vocational college in Kauhajoki, Finland, and opens fire, killing 10 people and burning their bodies with firebombs before shooting himself fatally in the head.
- Nov. 7, 2007: After revealing plans for his attack in YouTube postings, 18-year-old Pekka-Eric Auvinen fires kills eight people at his high school in Tuusula, Finland.
- April 16, 2007: Seung-Hui Cho, 23, kills 32 people and himself on Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Va.
- April 26, 2002: Robert Steinhaeuser, 19, who had been expelled from school in Erfurt, Germany, kills 13 teachers, two former classmates and policeman, before committing suicide.
- April 20, 1999: Students Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, opened fire at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., killing 12 classmates and a teacher and wounding 26 others before killing themselves in the school's library.
- April 28, 1996: Martin Bryant, 29, bursts into cafeteria in seaside resort of Port Arthur in Tasmania, Australia, shooting 20 people to death. Driving away, he kills 15 others. He was captured and imprisoned.
- March 13, 1996: Thomas Hamilton, 43, kills 16 kindergarten children and their teacher in elementary school in Dunblane, Scotland, and then kills himself.
- Oct. 16, 1991: A deadly shooting rampage took place in Killeen, Texas, as George Hennard opened fire at a Luby's Cafeteria, killing 23 people before taking his own life. 20 others were wounded in the attack.
- June 18, 1990: James Edward Pough shoots people at random in a General Motors Acceptance Corp. office in Jacksonville, Fla., killing 10 and wounding four, before killing himself.
- Dec. 6, 1989: Marc Lepine, 25, bursts into Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique college, shooting at women he encounters, killing nine and then himself.
- Aug. 19, 1987: Michael Ryan, 27, kills 16 people in small market town of Hungerford, England, and then shoots himself dead after being cornered by police.
- July 12, 1976: Edward Charles Allaway, a custodian in the library of California State University, Fullerton, fatally shot seven fellow employees and wounded two others.
- Aug. 20, 1986: Pat Sherrill, 44, a postal worker who was about to be fired, shoots 14 people at a post office in Edmond, Okla. He then kills himself.
- July 18, 1984: James Oliver Huberty, an out-of-work security guard, kills 21 people in a McDonald's restaurant in San Ysidro, Calif. A police sharpshooter kills Huberty.
- Aug. 1, 1966: Charles Whitman opened fire from the clock tower at the University of Texas at Austin, killing 16 people and wounding 31.
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"Safer Adaptive Cruise Control for Traffic Wave Dampening", in ACM/IEEE 12th International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (with CPS-IoT Week 2021), 2021.
, "Are commercially implemented adaptive cruise control systems string stable?", IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, p. 12 pages, 2020.
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, "Power Efficient Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks", WInnComm. Reston, VA, pp. 26-31, 2016.
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Create a simple yet stimulating baby play area using open-ended toys made from natural materials and incorporating some philosophies from Montessori and Reggio thinking.
In a little corner of the room we laid a lambskin rug (which keeps baby warm in winter and cool in summer) and a few treasure baskets and open-ended toys within easy reach. Reggio philosophies talk highly of including plenty of mirrors and natural light, so we used some acrylic mirror tiles behind some toys and a large stand up mirror which can be moved and repositioned.
The space includes:
- travel size baby treasure basket [see post for instructions]
- large oval treasure basket [made our own]
- an African drum [from a market stall in Zimbabwe!]
- small basket of real musical instruments [Amazon, music shops, local toy stores]
- basket of wooden tree blocks and mirrored blocks [tree blocks from Myriad, mirror blocks from EduZone]
- wooden, stacking rainbow [from Myriad Toys]
- black and white high contrast images mat [from Amazon]
- Montessori style number bead stacker [ELC but can't find it now. This is similar and much nicer]
- basket of sturdy, textured and lift-the-flap board books [Amazon]
* Edited to add: we are not at all anti plastic toys or materials! We have plenty in our house but I wanted to start with the baby toys that really served only one function and were not promoting much thinking or curiosity. They were easy to donate to others. The rest of the clutter is not so simple to sort and shift! We absolutely adore Playmobil, lego and duplo and of course they are all made from plastic, so the emphasis was more on the type of toy, rather than what it was made from.
The girls have really been enjoying playing here together in this new space and the lambskin rug has become a favourite spot for reading together. I look forward to seeing how the space evolves over the next few months!
- setting up a creative area
- setting up a writing table
- creating a cosy book nook


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Jonah of Moscow
Saint Jonah was born in the city of Galich into a pious Christian family. The date of his birth is not known. His father was named Theodore. He was tonsured as a monastic in one of the Galich monasteries when he was only twelve years old.
In the late 1420s, Jonah transferred to the Simonov Monastery, where he again fulfilled various obediences for many years. He was close to Metropolitan Photius, who consecrated him Bishop of Ryazan and Murom. After Photius died in 1431, Grand Prince Vasili II (the Sightless) nominated Jonah for the position of metropolitan of Moscow, a position that required confirmation by the Patriarch of Constantinople, Patriarch Joseph II. Jonas was delayed in his journey to Constantinople until the end of 1435 by Vasili's war with the appanage princes
In the meantime, Isidore of Kiev had already been established as Metropolitan of Moscow by the Ecumenical Patriarch. After initially being accepted in Moscow and promising Vasili to be true to Orthodoxy, Isidore traveled, in 1438, to Florence, Italy to attend the Council of Florence. During the council, Isidore supported Catholicism and the re-unification of the Eastern and Western Churches. After returning to Moscow, as a papal legate, he substituted in the liturgy the name of the Pope in place of the name of the Patriarch. He was arrested immediately, but escaped and fled to Rome, where he died in 1462. . In 1443, a council of Russian bishops condemned the union with Rome and deposed Isidore. Archbishop Jonah was again chosen Metropolitan. Jonah was consecrated, on December 15, 1448, by Russian hierarchs in Moscow, ending administrative dependence of the Russian Church on Constantinople. This was the first time that Russian bishops consecrated their own metropolitan. This signified establishment of autocephaly for the Russian Orthodox Church. Metr. Jonah received the Patriarch's approval only after Constantinople's collapse in 1453. In 1451, Jonah took under his control the see in Kiev and its the Lithuanian diocese.
In 1451, the Tatars unexpectedly advanced on Moscow. Metr. Jonah led a procession along the walls of the city, petitioning God to save the city and the people. Seeing the dying monk Anthony of the Chudov monastery, who was noted for his virtuous life, St Jonah said, "My son and brother Anthony! Pray to the merciful God and the All-Pure Mother of God for the deliverance of the city and for all Orthodox Christians."
The humble Anthony replied, "Great hierarch! We give thanks to God and to His All-Pure Mother. She has heard your prayer and has prayed to Her Son. The city and all Orthodox Christians will be saved through your prayers. The enemy will soon take flight. The Lord has ordained that I alone am to be killed by the enemy." Just as the elder said this, an enemy arrow struck him. The prediction of Elder Anthony was made on July 2, on the Feast of the Placing of the Robe of the Most Holy Theotokos.
Confusion broke out among the Tatars, and they fled in terror. In his courtyard, St Jonah built a church in honor of the Placing of the Robe of the Most Holy Theotokos to commemorate the deliverance of Moscow.
Metr. Jonah reposed in the year 1461. In 1472, the incorrupt relics of Metr. Jonah were uncovered and moved to a place in the Dormition Cathedral in the Moscow Kremlin. In 1547, a local council of the Russian church established the commemoration of Jonah, Metropolitan of Moscow, as a saint. In 1596, St Jonah was added by Patriarch Job to the Synaxis of the Moscow Hierarchs.
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- OCA -Repose of St Jonah the Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia.
- OCA - St Jonah the Metropolitan of Moscow
- Bernard Pares, A History of Russia, London, Jonathan Cape, 1955
- Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, A History of Russia, New York, Oxford University Press, 1977
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Jonah of Moscow | ||
Preceded by: Isidore the Apostate |
Metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia 1448-1461 |
Succeeded by: Theodosius |
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Yeesh. Ok, so it's America, and I get that we tend to capitalize on tragedy - I mean, have you seen "I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here"? - but this seems to be pushing the bounds of good taste, don't you think?
And on top of the whole "let's eat the face of the deceased" thing, they went and made it worse by making them CCCs. [ptoooiee!]
Two words: dash placement.
And finally, I know I'm opening Pandora's box here, but what do you guys think about eating a decorated cake to commemorate someone's death? Seems to me there's a reason most funerals have pie: cake symbolically represents celebration. Granted, we should celebrate someone's life in their memory, but you certainly don't want to be seen as celebrating that the person died.


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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Dashboard technology that lets drivers text and email with voice commands — marketed as a safer alternative — actually is more distracting than simply talking on a cellphone, a new AAA study found.
Automakers have been trying to excite new-car buyers, especially younger ones, with dashboard infotainment systems that let drivers use voice commands to do things like turning on windshield wipers, posting Facebook messages or ordering pizza. The pitch has been that hands-free devices are safer because they enable drivers to keep their hands on the wheel and their eyes on the road.
But talking on a hands-free phone isn't significantly safer for drivers than talking on a hand-held phone, and using hands-free devices that translate speech into text is the most distracting of all, researchers reported in a study released Wednesday. Speech-to-text systems that enable drivers to send, scroll through, or delete email and text messages required greater concentration by drivers than other potentially distracting activities examined in the study like talking on the phone, talking to a passenger, listening to a book on tape or listening to the radio.
The greater the concentration required to perform a task, the more likely a driver is to develop what researchers call "tunnel vision" or "inattention blindness." Drivers will stop scanning the roadway or ignore their side and rearview mirrors. Instead, they look straight ahead, but fail to see what's in front of them, like red lights and pedestrians.
"People aren't seeing what they need to see to drive. That's the scariest part to me," said Peter Kissinger, president and CEO of the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, the group's safety research arm. "Police accident investigative reports are filled with comments like the 'looked, but did not see.' That's what drivers tell them. We used to think they were lying, but now we know that's actually true."
There are about 9 million cars and trucks on the road with infotainment systems, and that will jump to about 62 million vehicles by 2018, AAA spokeswoman Yolanda Cade said, citing automotive industry research. At the same time, drivers tell the AAA they believe phones and other devices are safe to use behind the wheel if they are hands-free, she said.
"We believe there is a public safety crisis looming," Cade said. "We hope this study will change some widely held misconceptions by motorists."
AAA officials who briefed automakers, safety advocates and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on the study's findings said they want to limit in-vehicle, voice-driven technologies to "core driving tasks." The National Safety Council, responding to the AAA study, also called on industry and policymakers "to reconsider the inclusion of communications and entertainment technology built into vehicles which allow, or even encourage, the driver to engage in these activities at the expense of focusing on driving."
The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers was skeptical. "We are extremely concerned that it could send a misleading message, since it suggests that hand-held and hands-free devices are equally risky," the association said in a statement.
The automakers' trade group said the AAA study focuses only on the mental distraction posed by using a device and ignores the visual and manual aspects of hand-held versus hands-free systems that are integrated into cars.
Other studies have also compared hand-held and hands-free phone use, finding they are equally risky or nearly so. But a recent National Highway Traffic Safety Administration study of drivers' real world driving experiences found hand-held phone use was less safe than hands-free.
Distracted driving is more widespread in the U.S. than in Europe, according to a survey of drivers about their cellphone and texting habits released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention earlier this year. More U.S. drivers reported talking on their cellphones behind the wheel than their counterparts in seven European countries. A larger share of U.S. drivers also reported reading or sending text or email messages while driving. Only Portugal's drivers matched those in the U.S. for this distracting habit — 31 percent in both countries.
Researchers at the University of Utah who conducted the study for the AAA measured the brainwaves, eye movement, driving performance and other indicators of 32 university students as they drove and performed a variety of secondary tasks, ranging from listening to music to sending emails. Cameras were mounted inside the car to track drivers' eye and head movements. A device that drivers pressed was used to record their reaction time to red and green lights introduced to their field of vision. Drivers were fitted with a special skull cap to record their brain activity.
The students were tested while not driving, while driving in a simulator and while driving a car on a 3-mile loop through a suburban Salt Lake City neighborhood with stop signs and stoplights. A researcher with a backup braking system accompanied the students in the test car.
One reason using voice commands is so much more distracting for drivers, even though they aren't using their hands, is that they often require more concentration than simply speaking to another person, said University of Utah psychology professor David Strayer, an expert on cognitive distraction and lead author of the study. Talking to a computer requires far greater precision than talking to a person, he said. Otherwise, "Call home" may get you Home Depot.
Synthetic computer voices can be harder to understand than human voices, also requiring more attention. The computers used in the study were exceptionally high-fidelity systems that made no errors, but the systems in cars aren't as good, Strayer said. He said that means the study probably underestimates the concentration required of drivers, and thus the ability of speech-to-text systems to distract them.
Another difference: In phone conversations, a person who is listening will give indications that they agree with what the speaker has said or have heard what was said. Computers don't provide that feedback.
"The complexity of trying to say something that is coherent when there is no feedback is much more difficult," Strayer said.
A simple, quick voice command to turn on windshield wipers isn't very distracting, he said. But concentrating on creating a text message and trying to get it right takes a great deal more mental effort and time.
"The more complex and the longer those interactions are, the more likely you are going to have impairments when you're driving," Strayer said.


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[tiptoeing closer]
[whispering] Good morning, sunshine! Happy New Year. How's your head?
Oooh, that bad, huh? Well, I know you partied pretty hard this weekend, so we're gonna take today's post nice and slow and easy. Like a peaceful, breezy feeling. A sweet, cool, stomach-calming....
Sheesh, what'd they frost that thing with, marshmallows and warm head cheese?
OH, right! Sorry, sorry!
Aw, you're looking a little pale. You know what would help? More cake.
[nodding knowingly]
Whoa, there, pal. You sure are sweating a lot.
Quick, take a look at this:
Wow. I've never actually seen someone turn that shade of green before. Fascinating.
Well, listen. Maybe you shouldn't scroll down any further.
No, really, I mean it.
You really shouldn't be scrolling down here in your condition.
Or any condition, for that matter.
In case you haven't figured it out yet, this last cake is really, really gross.
Like, life-time-trauma level disgusting.
You're still scrolling.
What are you, some kind of sadomasochist?
I'm telling you, this thing is NASTY.
But don't say I didn't warn you.
Last chance to scroll back!
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Not long ago, self-driving cars seemed like science fiction. But Google is now operating so-called autonomous cars in California and Nevada, and last week at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Toyota and Audi unveiled prototypes for self-driving cars to sell to ordinary car buyers. (Google co-founder Sergey Brin said last year he expects his company to have them ready for the general public within five years.) In a report backing self-driving cars, the consulting firm KPMG and the Center for Automotive Research recently predicted that driving is "on the brink of a new technological revolution."
(MORE: Self-Driving Cars Available by 2019, Report Says)
But as the momentum for self-driving cars grows, one question is getting little attention: Should they even be legal? And if they are, how will the laws of driving have to adapt? All our rules about driving — from who pays for a speeding ticket to who is liable for a crash — are based on having a human behind the wheel. That is going to have to change.
There are some compelling reasons to support self-driving cars. Regular cars are inefficient: the average commuter spends 250 hours a year behind the wheel. They are dangerous. Car crashes are a leading cause of death for Americans ages 4 to 34 and cost some $300 billion a year. Google and other supporters believe that self-driving cars can make driving more efficient and safer by eliminating distracted driving and other human error. Google's self-driving cars have cameras on the top to look around them and computers to do the driving. Their safety record is impressive so far. In the first 300,000 miles, Google reported that its cars had not had a single accident. Last August, one got into a minor fender bender, but Google said it occurred while someone was manually driving it.
After heavy lobbying and campaign contributions, Google persuaded California and Nevada to enact laws legalizing self-driving cars. The California law breezed through the state legislature — it passed 37-0 in the senate and 74-2 in the assembly — and other states could soon follow. The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, which represents big carmakers like GM and Toyota, opposed the California law, fearing it would make it too easy for carmakers and individuals to modify cars to self-drive without the careful protections built in by Google.
(MORE: Speeding into the Future: Self-Driving Cars Are Now Legal in California)
That is a reasonable concern. If we are going to have self-driving cars, the technical specifications should be quite precise. Just because your neighbor Jeb is able to jerry-rig his car to drive itself using an old PC and some fishing tackle, that does not mean he should be allowed to.
As self-driving cars become more common, there will be a flood of new legal questions. If a self-driving car gets into an accident, the human who is "co-piloting" may not be fully at fault — he may even be an injured party. Whom should someone hit by a self-driving car be able to sue? The human in the self-driving car or the car's manufacturer? New laws will have to be written to sort all this out.
(MORE: The Government Would Like to Keep Reading Your E-Mail)
How involved — and how careful — are we going to expect the human co-pilot to be? As a Stanford Law School report asks, "Must the 'drivers' remain vigilant, their hands on the wheel and their eyes on the road? If not, what are they allowed to do inside or outside, the vehicle?" Can the human in the car drink? Text-message? Read a book? Not surprisingly, the insurance industry is particularly concerned and would like things to move slowly. Insurance companies say all the rules of car insurance may need to be rewritten, with less of the liability put on those operating cars and more on those who manufacture them.
At the signing ceremony for California's self-driving-car law, Governor Jerry Brown was asked who is responsible when a self-driving car runs a red light. He answered: "I don't know — whoever owns the car, I would think. But we will work that out. That will be the easiest thing to work out." Google's Brin joked, "Self-driving cars don't run red lights."
Neither answer is sufficient. Self-driving cars should be legal — and they are likely to start showing up faster and in greater numbers than people expect. But if that is the case, we need to start thinking about the legal questions now. Given the high stakes involved in putting self-guided, self-propelled, high-speed vehicles on the road, "we will work that out" is not good enough.


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"So today was weird. We got up super early so we could take Dad to the Dodger Stadium so he could start the Marathon. He ran and ran and ran and it was super hot. He got to mile number twenty and then he got really dizzy and so he went to a medical tent and layed down on a little bed that had plastic wrap on it. Me and mom got there and then the fireman said we all had to go with dad in a ambulance. I was worried about Dad a lot. The siren was really loud. I sat in a seat in the back that had its own seatbelt. When we got to the hospital, the paramedic told me to "DC." That means to "disconnect" your seatbelt in paramedic-talk. So, I DCd and then we all went in the hospital emergency part.
"We went in a little room and Dad got connected to wires and stuff. The doctor said that Dad was un-hydrated and there was a kidney thing and that Dad would be okay. I got super hungry so me and mom went to the hospital cafeterium and got a ham and cheese sandwich and a yogurt and sun chips. Mom had coffee. The yogurt was a strawberry one. We went back in Dad's room and waited a long time. Mom had crayons in her purse, and Fig Newtons, and crayons, and chocolate kisses, and a Christmas book so we did some stuff. Then Mom and I got to ride in a taxi cab back to where the car was and then we drove back to the hospital and then the doctor said that Dad could go home. We're taking him to his doctor for a check-in tomorrow but that other doctor was right. Dad's going to be okay. And that sandwich was pretty good. I fell asleep in the car on the way home."


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There are so many things I've learned during the past 16 years that I simply take for granted, until I stop and remind myself things like there was a time when I had no idea what a bottle baby was, let alone anything about taking care of one, and that maybe you'd like to know something about them, too, rather than just seeing the pictures.
6/8/05: That Outfit Could Kill You
6/27/05: Chocolate Chip Sheep & Chocolate Chip Cookies
7/31/05: When? Soon (Living on Country Time)
8/10/05: Whoa! Farm Visitors
4/12/06: Hearts and Rocks and Numbers and Thoughts
4/13/06: Shepherd's Nightmare
5/14/06: A Tiny Tail for Mother's Day (the story of baby Cary)
6/15/06: How to Ensure a Happy Haying Crew
7/21/06: And Sheeeeeeee's SAFE!
7/18/06: The Tail of a Donkey and His Ratty Blue Halter
9/1/06: Happy Hour in the Garden
1/19/07: Merrily, Merrily, Merrily, Life is but a Stream
1/31/07: Sheep Shearing Early for a Change
2/3/07: Snowstorms and Sheep Shearing
2/11/07: Sheep Shearing Day 2007—Cary's First Woolcut!
5/13/07: The Tail of Two Mothers—A Mother's Day Story from the Farm
6/7/07: Farewell, New Cat
7/28/07: (It Only Looks Like) A Picture Perfect Walk in the Woods
10/19/07: New Face in the Cat Cabin
2/3/08: Handyman Special
3/10/08: Broccoli Soup & Recharging Your Dead Batteries (Because Setting Them on Fire Isn't an Option)
3/13/08: Cary, No Baby
3/19/08: Flood Watch
4/20/08: Chick Days Are Here Again!
4/27/08: A Big Sunday Feast and a Mysterious Little Owl
9/18/08: Putting Up Hay and Losing Electricity
9/24/08: The Higher and Higher Cost of Farming
11/23/08: Heat Cheat
1/1/09: Happy Happy, New New
1/27/09: The Stuff of Farm Life—Losing Lambs and Lottie
5/6/09: Baby Cary is Three Years Old Today!
7/1/09: A Day in the Hay
9/19/09: Bye Bye Sheep Barn! (new barn photos coming someday—really!)
10/9/09: A Book, Building, and Bread Bakery Update


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Weekend is over, it is cold & drizzling out,
3 loads of laundry -- done,
3 dishes cooked for the week -- done,
tomorrows lunch -- done,
the bathroom scrubbed – partly done,
a dinner attended -- done,
Ma-in-laws birthday celebrated -- done,
3 rounds of grocery stores -- done,
Dump the daughter on the hubby – done kind of,
Indian Chinese Restaurant for lunch -- done,
Called up home – done
Found a 24" suitcase for a friend – done
Scour the hardware store to find the perfect color for basement wall – still searching
A single serving of yogurt parfait to be done for the blog -- done
Take the shot -- done
Shared the parfait with D and S (there was only a single serving remember) -- done
Blogging -- waiting
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Drain the whey by doling out the yogurt on a sieve and letting it drain. If you don't have a sieve use a colander lined with cheesecloth
Add figs and raisins on the bottom layer
Add half the yogurt
Drizzle some honey
Add rest of the yogurt
Add chopped dates, pomegranate seeds, honey and a sprinkle of flax seeds
Refrigerate and serve chilled after an hour
Use any other fruits and layer according to your choice
Blogging -- DONE !!!. This goes to Chandrika for AFAM -- Dates. Heard she is still accepting entries, is she...


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"Former President George H.W. Bush remains in a Houston hospital, where he has been for seven days as doctors battle a lingering cough that has drawn concern," the Houston Chronicle writes.
But Bush's chief of staff, Jean Becker, tells the newspaper that the former president, now 88, has bronchitis and that it's expected he'll be released from Methodist Hospital this coming weekend.
"His big problem is a chronic cough, he can't get rid of so he's back at Methodist," Becker told the Chronicle. "This is not a life-threatening illness."
CNN reminds us that "Bush has a form of Parkinson's disease that affects his legs and requires him to use a wheelchair. He is the oldest living former president and a World War II veteran."
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Nets fall to Celtics 93-76 on Christmas Day
Rajon Rondo lost his cool, and any chance at history, in the second quarter when Boston last met Brooklyn.
This time, the second period featured some of the best basketball the Celtics have played this season.
Rondo scored 19 points in his first full game against the Nets this season, and the Celtics won 93-76 on Tuesday in another game with some heated moments between the division rivals.
Rondo, sidelined in the first meeting and thrown out of the second after shoving Nets forward Kris Humphries into the courtside seats, outplayed counterpart Deron Williams and helped the Celtics take control early.
"We moved the ball; we rebounded the ball," Rondo said. "They beat us pretty bad on the glass, so tonight we did an exceptional job on the glass, taking care of the defensive rebounds, and we got stops."
A month after the teams scuffled in Boston, there was another skirmish in the fourth quarter that resulted in four technical fouls. But that was the most fight the Nets put up in a disappointing performance on the national stage of the Christmas opener. They were never in the game after the first 20 minutes, and their fans headed to the exits with under 2 minutes left as a "Let's go Celtics!" chant broke out.
"It was a big game for us. It was a division rival. We were ready for a big game. It just didn't happen," Williams said.
Rookie Jared Sullinger tied a career high with 16 points and Jeff Green had 15 for the Celtics (14-13), who avoided falling under .500 with just their second victory in six games.
The Celtics took control with a 23-5 run in the second quarter of the opener of their four-game road trip. They had 11 assists on 13 baskets and outscored the Nets 34-18 in the period after dropping the previous two meetings.
"It was good to get off to this start. It was good to finally play from start to finish, especially with the way we've been playing against Brooklyn," said Paul Pierce, who had just eight points on 3-of-10 shooting. "So it was a well-balanced game, but I'm happy with the start of the trip."
Gerald Wallace and Brook Lopez each scored 15 for the Nets, who have lost four of five. Struggling to find anything that worked, they played Lopez and fellow center Andray Blatche together with three guards at one point, but Brooklyn shot just 41 percent and committed 20 turnovers that led to 25 points.
Williams had only 10 points on 3-of-7 shooting and Joe Johnson, his partner in a high-priced backcourt, shot 4 of 14 for his 12 points.
"This one hurts. We didn't play our game. They beat us from the opening tip," Wallace said. "We didn't make shots. We turned the ball over too easy. Our defense just wasn't there tonight. We were not ourselves tonight."
Boston's Kevin Garnett had eight points and 10 rebounds on the day he tied Charles Oakley for 15th place on the NBA's career list with his 1,282nd game. He was also front and center when things got testy.
Wallace was fouled with 9:31 remaining and appeared to hold onto Garnett's uniform to balance himself and not fall. Garnett was fine with that but then objected to how long Wallace hung on to his shorts, and they said something to each other as they tried to push themselves free. That led to technical fouls on the two, along with Blatche and Courtney Lee.
Garnett said he asked Wallace what he was doing but got no response.
"I don't know where in America you can (yank) somebody's pants off, or shorts off. I don't know what the hell was going on," Garnett said.
Sullinger delivered a flagrant foul on Wallace a few minutes later, but there was nothing further.
In the Nets' Nov. 28 victory in Boston, Rondo, Humphries and Wallace were ejected.
It was the second quarter of that game where things got away from the Celtics, and Rondo's frustrations soon followed when he shoved Humphries after the Nets forward fouled Garnett. That ruined the point guard's chance to extend what was then a 37-game streak with double-digit assists, tied for second-longest ever, by finishing with three. He had five assists and six rebounds Tuesday.
This time, the second period belonged to the guys in green.
With the Celtics down three, Green had six points in a 10-0 run that made it 36-29. After Johnson's basket, Boston answered with a 13-3 spurt. Jason Terry made a 3-pointer before Rondo converted a three-point play to push the Celtics' lead to 49-34 with 3:56 to go.
The Celtics opened a 21-point lead early in the third quarter and cruised from there. Terry finished with 11 points.
Notes: As with everyone playing on Christmas, players, coaches and referees wore green ribbons in tribute to the families of Sandy Hook Elementary School. … Humphries was out with an abdominal strain and will be re-evaluated after the Nets return from Milwaukee. He had mostly been a starter but then didn't play at all Sunday against Philadelphia. … Feeling Avery Bradley isn't ready yet, Celtics coach Doc Rivers decided not to bring the guard on the road trip so he can continue working his way back from shoulder surgery in Boston. Rivers said the shoulder is strong but that Bradley has had only 2½ practices.


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In May 2008, as Burma reeled from Cyclone Nargis, its worst ever natural disaster that claimed more than 130,000 lives, a rumor began floating through the darkened, tree-felled streets of Rangoon, the country's largest city. Would the Americans stage a humanitarian intervention to aid the millions of storm victims that the long-ruling military junta was ignoring?
More than four years later, on the morning on Nov. 19, a U.S. government plane finally touched down at Rangoon's Mingaladon Airport. It was not there to invade one of the world's most isolated nations, as Burma's army rulers feared might happen at the height of their cloistered paranoia. Instead, Air Force One navigated Rangoon's worn runway and rolled past a thicket of tropical foliage to make Barack Obama the first ever U.S. President to visit this strategic nation wedged between India and China. Outside the airport, schoolchildren lined the street, waving Burmese and American flags. "I love Mr. Obama," said 14-year-old Min Myat No Khin. "I love America. I love democracy."
(MORE: The Opposition Claims Victory as Burma Revels in the Freedom from Fear)
Just a few years ago, each of those three sentiments, even if expressed by a pigtailed student, might have been prisonable offenses. But in a Burma now ruled by a hybrid military-civilian government, the culture of fear that smothered the country for nearly half a century has largely evaporated. Obama's historic visit served to validate the efforts of Burma's new rulers, who took over in March 2011 after a political transition managed by the former junta. Helmed by President Thein Sein, a retired general with the potential to become a Burmese Gorbachev, the country officially known as Myanmar is attempting a rare feat: a democratic awakening spurred not by the footfall of protesting citizens but by the rulers themselves.
Obama's Asia trip, his first foreign outing since his re-election, includes stops in Thailand and Cambodia. But it was with Burma that the U.S. President was making his strongest statement. Shortly after taking office, Obama eased American foreign policy toward greater engagement with Burma's generals. Naysayers predicted that the clutch of xenophobic generals would not respond. But for whatever reason, Burma's opening soon followed. For an American leader who calls himself the country's "first Pacific President" and has pivoted U.S. foreign policy toward Asia in an effort to hedge China, the good news coming out of Burma couldn't have occurred at a more opportune time. The lessons of the Arab Spring, by contrast, are far more complicated for the President to parse.
Burma's new leadership was ushered in by flawed polls in 2010 and is bound by an even more flawed constitution. Nevertheless, Thein Sein's government has introduced a raft of substantive reforms, allowing opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy to participate in April polls that resulted in her becoming an elected member of parliament, hacking away at press censorship, releasing political prisoners and signing cease-fires with some of the ethnic militias that had been battling the central government for decades. In return, the U.S., like many other Western nations, has eased the economic sanctions that had further isolated an already reclusive regime and pushed it into China's economic embrace. Just a few months ago, the Rangoon airport where Obama landed was decorated with advertisements for local instant-coffee brands and jewelry companies owned by the regime's cronies. Now, the biggest sign in baggage claim is a Coca-Cola advertisement: "Cola Welcome to Myanmar."
(PHOTOS: Obama Abroad: Scenes of a U.S. President in Burma)
Obama's visit, just six hours long, packed in enough action to rival a Japanese package tourist's itinerary. He met with the Burmese President; hugged Suu Kyi at her lakeside villa, where she was kept under house arrest for so many years; engaged with civil-society activists, including monks, former dissidents and labor organizers; toured the country's holiest site, the golden spire of the Shwedagon Pagoda; and finally capped his afternoon with a speech at the University of Yangon, where the audience was warmed up with an all-American soundtrack of Miles Davis, Glenn Miller and Ella Fitzgerald. Once known as Rangoon University, the school was an educational jewel of the British Empire and teethed on dissent. It was there that some of Burma's leading anticolonialist thinkers honed their activism, including Suu Kyi's father, independence hero Aung San. It was also there in 1988 that students rose up against the army leaders in Burma's own version of the Tiananmen Massacre, a democratic uprising with the same violent, tragic end. Since then, the original campus has moldered, with nearly all students forced to study on the outskirts of town, lest they rally against the government once again. Once boasting high education-and-health standards in Asia, Burma is now one of the continent's laggards because of the government's gross economic mismanagement.
But if the site of Obama's speech implicitly honored the democratic yearnings of Burma's stifled people, the U.S. President also gave the new government its due. "When I took office as President, I sent a message to those governments who ruled by fear: We will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist," he said. "So today I've come to keep my promise and extend the hand of friendship." Earlier Thein Sein, during his joint remarks with Obama, returned the compliment — this from a man who spent years as part of a rabidly anti-American junta. "For the first 20 years, there were some difficulties and obstacles in our bilateral relations," he said. "But, however, when President Obama took office in the United States, and because of the visions, a re-engagement policy of the President … our bilateral relations have been progressing steadily."


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DVB-T PCMCIA Cards
On this page you will find information regarding DVB-T PCMCIA cards (PC Card/CardBus, ExpressCard).
- The information contained here is likely non-exhaustive and, despite best efforts to do otherwise, may contain errors. (Please help to keep these lists up-to-date so that they are useful for everyone!)
- If your device is not listed, try:
- searching the existing mailing list archives:
- searching for information with Google or other internet search engine
- by posting a question about the device directly to the LMML (but please do conduct a search first, as it may already have been discussed!)
- Note: when it comes to support, it is generally a good idea to try the current V4L-DVB sources because some device drivers can be very new and thus may have not made their way into the mainstream kernel.
- In any regard, in respect to the above listed suggestions, you may find it to be the case that your device is actually already supported or that experimental support is available.
- Because the component constitution on many devices are often similar or identical, there may be devices that are unlisted but may actually work with the existing driver framework for previously supported devices. In such a case, your non-listed but working device will likely be reported in your system messages as being one of those previously supported devices. If you encounter such an occurrence, please do report your success on the LMML so that proper detection/identification of your device can be added within the drivers.
- Lastly, it bears worth repeating the request: Please help to keep these lists up-to-date so that they are useful for everyone!
Supported DVB-T PCMCIA Cards (PC Card/CardBus, ExpressCard)
The following table lists the confirmed working DVB-T PCMCIA cards and provides a brief summary of their features and components. If you need more technical information on a device, have a look at its specific wiki article.
Manufacturer / Model number / |
supports | Tuner / Chips | Connectors | Others | Pictures | |
AVerMedia AVerTV Hybrid+FM Cardbus (E506R) [1] |
yes |
comes with a passive antenna, radio antenna and IR remote | |||
AVerMedia |
not yet? |
Package includes :
Digitalbox Viola DIGITELMO 1 [2] |
in progress[3] (balutv_cs) |
[4] | ||
Lifeview |
not yet? S-Video Composite input works |
Satelco EasyWatch MobilSet [5] |
yes (pluto2 driver) |
comes with an Antenna of Kathrein | [6] | |
TechniSat |
in progress (balutv_cs) |
Comes with a passive antenna. Tuner is too weak, you need at least 75dB (40 dB is normal). Bar antenna is not enough, roof antenna is required. | [8] | |
Hauppauge |
Currently Unsupported DVB-T PCMCIA Cards (PC Card/CardBus, ExpressCard)
However, please note that inquiries to the mailing list:
- Should NOT be treated as an order drop-off queue. You're soliciting help from volunteer developers who work on V4L-DVB matters in their spare time, and such work can be non-trivial (i.e. requiring even thousands of hours work). So being demanding is one sure route to being ignored. (Honestly, this point really shouldn't even need to be written, but you'd be surprised at the number of irrational individuals who write into the mailing list demanding this or that).
- May pass without garnering a response—a distinct byproduct of the fact that there are a limited number of developers, whom might be able to help, that are associated with the project. Often times, even if they wished to help, their energies are entirely tied up with other projects. In such cases, the best path might be to try to spearhead the driver development for your device yourself, or hire someone who can.
Plain Digital have long promised one of these. Apparently they did a development run of a few hundred but have now sold out and while they are open to expressions of interest they do not seem to be about to start mass production any time soon.


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In crafting customer experiences, the perception of convenience is as important as the actual benefits of saved time and effort.
Technology and innovative design have made many products and services more predictableand efficient, the two lower levels of Different's 7 Essentials of Customer Experience. Convenience, the next essential of customer experience, is a critical factor in determining how customers make decisions about what to buy, what services to use, where to go, and with whom to engage.
Conventional wisdom says that convenience is a factor of time and effort. On the surface, that's true, but if you dig a little deeper to fully understand service convenience, you need to consider another factor: perception.
What Is Convenience in UX?
In 1927, an entrepreneurial worker at the Southland Ice Company in Dallas, Texas began selling milk, bread, and eggs from a storefront on the ice dock to make a little extra money. Having access to an inexhaustible amount of ice for preserving the groceries, Joe Thompson was able to sell when other local grocery stores were closed in the late evenings and on weekends. For the first time, the local community could shop outside of typical business hours, whenever it suited them. Soon after, Joe added gasoline and various other food, drinks, and "convenience" items to his inventory in a new store with the unprecedented trading hours of 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. By 2011, 7-Eleven has grown to 41,000 locations worldwide and is the prototype for convenience.1 , 2
When I first started mulling over the idea of how to define and explain convenience, the convenience store was the first and most obvious example that sprang to mind. What is it about a convenience store that makes it, well, convenient? How do you define convenience considering that what one person perceives as convenient may not be all that convenient for another, or that what was convenient in the morning may be inconvenient in the afternoon? Looking through the academic research, there are some interesting theories that have built on each other, but each only tells a piece of the story.
In 1986, Yale & Venkatesh 3 proposed a framework for understanding convenience in which variables such as attitude and situational context influence an individual's preference and need for some of the attributes of convenience. Those attributes include effective time utilization, portability, and avoidance of unpleasantness in a service. The key takeaway is that as an individual's situation changes, his perception of what is convenient changes as well. In 1989, Brown 4defined convenience in a way that focuses on the service as opposed to the individual, breaking convenience up along the five dimensions of service: time, place, acquisition, use, and execution. In 2009, Clulow & Reimers5 performed a meta-analysis of studies of convenience in pre-existing literature, including Yale & Venkatesh and Brown, and found that convenience in retail derives from minimizing the costs of time, space, and effort.
Each definition has merit, but perhaps each has too narrow a focus when considering that customer experience can cross services, products, and contexts. Convenience in the user experience must take into account the costs of the experience (in money, effort, and other terms), a true understanding of the stages of the experience, and an understanding of customers as their needs and behaviors change from context to context. This is no simple task, but the effort is worthwhile.
Why Is Convenience Important?
In September 1999, Amazon.com set off a firestorm when they patented one-click buying6. An Australia telco has waged an eight-year battle against the patent and millions of dollars have been spent on this legal dispute around the world. Is one-click purchasing worth millions of dollars? Apparently, yes.
A 2002 study found that something is known as convenience orientation — a customer's general preference for convenient goods and services — has a major impact on buying decisions7. The study also found that the perception of a service's convenience affects the overall evaluation of the service. A separate study in 2007 also found that convenience was the most relevant factor in the use of mobile devices for Internet shopping8. Millions of dollars are being spent on the one-click patent dispute because convenience has a major impact on a customer's decision to engage with service and can indeed reduce the cost to serve.
Convenience determines usage
The most popular camera used for Flickr photo uploads isn't actually a traditional camera, it's a phone. On a random day this year, 65,000 media items were uploaded to Flickr by over 5,000 iPhone 4 users alone9. This is clearly not because the iPhone takes superior quality pictures. The smartphone's ubiquity, connection with online services, and relatively simple camera functionality make it a low-hassle choice for the experience of photo sharing. For Flickr, that equates to more content and more users, which in turn brings extra revenue. The convenience of uploading via the iPhone 4 is boosting Flickr's bottom line.
Convenience reduces your costs to serve
We have known for a while that self-service applications create higher levels of perceived and actual convenience for the user. One of the first signs of this was around the 1970s when the ATM was introduced. Over time, people began to choose the ATM over a more personal service at the branch. More recently, airlines have been saving money in staff costs by using allowing boarding passes to be printed at home or at the automated kiosks at the airport. The effort of inputting data and printing the boarding documents is moving from the ticket agent onto the customer, but the perceived convenience of being in control of the experience and the very real convenience of avoiding the dreaded check-in line outweigh the extra work put on the user. It may be counterintuitive, but in some contexts, convenience means more work for the user, which can translate to reduced service costs for the company.
How to Achieve Convenience
There is no magic button and no checklist to make a service absolutely convenient. While the overall cost to users of time and effort can be monitored and managed, the perception of convenience is specific to each person. The best way to understand and implement services that are perceived as convenient to your customers is to research and design based on their needs. Once you have an understanding of your customer's journey in buying or using your product or service, there are four key convenience strategies that are worth understanding and supporting.
Actual convenience
Actual convenience has to do with time and effort. Reduction of physical effort for undesirable tasks can come in a variety of forms, such as frozen meals that eliminate the need to cook, or online shopping that removes the need to travel. Modern technology has provided a variety of tools for bringing goods and services closer to the customer. Banking was once consigned just to the branch, but the spread of ATMs and then of web and mobile banking has moved the service to the customer. Now walking a block to find an ATM has become inconvenient. Businesses that remove the need for customers to make their own way to the service, such as free shuttles from hotels and airports, or that bring the service to them, such as mobile apps that expedite airport check-in, build physical convenience.
The second strategy to consider when implementing a convenient service is flow. Everyone has been on a highway when the gas light starts blinking. You pull into a rest stop to fill up the car, grab a bite to eat, use the toilet, and maybe make a few phone calls. The petrol was the only critical motivator for the stop, but the aggregation of services supports multiple secondary needs while still fulfilling the first. Think back to the list above of all of the things you can do or buy at a 7–11. Few people stop at a convenience store for an ATM, but many find it useful in that place at that time. From childcare at the mall to USB charging stations at the airport, successful design for flow means that you need to understand your customer's behaviors, habits, and rituals. Let me give you some examples.
While doing design research, I am regularly surprised by how many people get their news and updates during the process of checking their email. People who use Yahoo!, Hotmail, or BigPond email addresses regularly go through those portals to check their email. On the way through, they casually browse the headlines, check the weather, and look at the TV guide. Like every modern, email-obsessed individual, they check email frequently, and in the flow of that primary task, they have the ability to complete several secondary tasks. Getting those people to visit another news site outside of their normal patterns where they can't fulfill as many needs simultaneously requires strong, sustained, and obvious incentives.
Here at Different, we have had to learn the same lesson. We have a weekly updated printout on the wall that serves as a project dashboard, looking at the various components and status levels of ongoing projects. It has moved around the office a bit from wall to wall, trying to find a home where everyone in the office will see it and be kept up-to-date. It now lives on the wall above the printer. Aside from the bathroom stall door, that is the wall we stare at the most while we mill around waiting for deliverables to print, and looking for a distraction.
Flow is the "would you like fries with that?" approach. When you understand the habits and patterns of your customers and their primary goals, it becomes easier to cross-sell and up-sell supplements to their experience at the right place and the right time.
Stanford's Dr. BJ Fogg argues that the simplicity of a service can sometimes be objectively measured, similar to actual convenience; however, the perception of a service's simplicity can vary widely based on the individual and context in question. For example, if one customer expects a service will be complex and the other has moderate expectations, it is more likely the one with the higher expectation of complexity will perceive the service as simple or convenient. In the United States, politicians have jumped on this notion, setting expectations before debates to highlight their strengths or downplay their weaknesses. John Maeda, president of the Rhode Island School of Design, has a set of ten laws of simplicity that provide an interesting insight into this strategy. His fifth law talks about differences between expectation and reality:
Without the counterpoint of complexity, we could not recognize simplicity when we see it. Our eyes and senses thrive, and sometimes recoil, whenever we experience differences. Acknowledging contrast helps to identify qualities that we desire — which are often subject to change.10
If there's a perception of inconvenience around your industry, your service can be differentiated based on its relative convenience.
If periods of waiting are a reality of the service you provide, the two tools that you have in your arsenal to maintain a perception of convenience are communication and distraction. Being given a number at the deli counter or being told the wait time when calling customer service sets expectations and reduces the stress of uncertainty. Based on the communicated information, customers are able to make more informed decisions and have expectations of effort. Simple things like a magazine at the doctor's office or free bread while you wait for your main course at a restaurant distract from sitting idly.
Distracting people from long wait times is a major concern for Disney. They have spent millions of dollars in their theme parks determining how to keep families happy and eager while waiting in massive queues. It's no accident that there are TVs every 10 meters and signs saying "you are X minutes away."
Waiting and, particularly, thinking about waiting for cause dissatisfaction. By giving customers clear expectations of temporal effort and by filling their inactive time, you decrease the perception of inconvenience.
The last strategy for achieving convenience is to provide customers with control and greater engagement with their experience of the service. In some instances, by providing customers with the tools to control and more deeply engage in their experience, you may be creating a perception of improved convenience when, in fact, you have decreased actual convenience by increasing the customer's workload.
A good example of this is vacation planning. Online planning tools bypass the travel agent and thus require more time and thought from the customer, but the customer's sense of being in control and of more actively making choices from a variety of options engenders a perception of greater convenience. Technology such as ATMs, airport kiosks, and self-service supermarket checkouts remove the human aspect from the service and give customers the perception of having control of the experience, despite the fact that they are being guided through a very specific process flow. In this way, providing control to the customer can improve customer satisfaction and reduce the business' service costs.
When Convenience May Not Matter
The best way to understand and implement services that are perceived as convenient by your customers is to research and design based on their needs; however, there are times when the most convenient service is not the best alternative for meeting a customer's needs. Let me give you an example.
A colleague once told me about a project that tried to move a phone or branch-based signup service to the web. The client sold financial products to retirees that traditionally required financial advisers. Even though online signup seemed like an obvious way to make the product more accessible and convenient, contextual inquiries showed that this, on its own, was a poor incentive for the target market. The benefit of outside-business-hours access offered by online signup was less important for retirees, who are frequently available during business hours, and whose apprehension about new technology leads them to value communication with "real people." For these retirees, the prospect of an online-only service was decidedly inconvenient.
Another good example comes from a project I led looking at how owners of small businesses in rural industries (e.g. farms, dairies, orchards, etc) keep up-to-date and learn about the growth of their industry. Though there are plenty of resources from industry publications and academic journals to blogs and Twitter feeds, the biggest issue in choosing a resource was trust. The people I spoke with preferred traveling, sometimes great distances, to live events like conventions and farm days to proverbially kick-the-tires and speak with real people which they could verify and interact with, instead of just reading about distant innovation in the comfort of their homes.
For experiences where the quality of service is critical or where service cannot be obtained elsewhere, convenience is less of an issue. In the case of medical care, many people are willing to fly across the country to speak with a top neurosurgeon and avoid the more conveniently located Dr. Nick. Convenience becomes a critical factor in saturated industries where the services are often too similar to distinguish. In these cases, convenience can be your major differentiator and a key customer decision-making attribute.
Conclusion for the UX Practitioner
One of the risks we face in designing a convenient service or interface is that we focus on the symptoms instead of the disease. Achieving convenience lies not just in reducing the barriers to the service, but in raising its inherent value. Ultimately, our goal is to create something that is not just sufficient, but excellent; not just easy, but desirable; not just successful, but delightful. We must reduce the barriers to the service without undermining the inherent value of the service itself. While 7–11 continues to max out the boundaries of convenience, it is now just another Kwik-E-Mart looking to demonstrate its value in a competitive market. How would we make the doyen of convenience more convenient?
To achieve convenience, we must deliver some or all of:
- actual convenience, the physical and cognitive barriers that make using a product or service difficult
- flow, where related services are placed in the context of others
- perception, where we play with expectations to enhance how customers perceive a product or service
- control, giving customers the ability to manage their own experiences
The devil of achieving convenience, as always, is in the detail. Research techniques based in customer experience principles are a key to meeting this critical challenge, but once that challenge is addressed, how do you move to a point where enjoyment and desire to engage is a stronger draw than convenience? How do you make a site personal, and give it personality? Those answers are coming soon in the next of our 7 Essentials series.
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Illustrations by: Nam Nguyen
By Ari Weissman