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Thursday, May 7, 2009
Voices That Matter Web Design Conference - Part 3
Breakfast with the Authors
The last day of the conference started off with a breakfast with the authors. I chose to have breakfast with Steve Krug, author of Don't Make Me Think. Jared Spool also joined us. Having a one-on-one conversations with minds like this was worth the cost of the entire conference. Seriously. These guys know their stuff.
Steve noted that a thousand universities have prototyped every possible design and site organization for us. If we want to see what works, we should do usability testing on their sites. And in fact, that's exactly our plan. :)
Jared Spool was pretty adamant in his assertion that all redesigns are a mistake and a failure... not overly helpful considering that we're in the middle of ours. His recommendation is to only do bits and pieces at a time, and effectively that's what we're doing, since we're only tackling our top level pages.
He also asserted that people never WANT to search. If your site is properly organized, people will always browse before searching. I don't buy that, personally, but hey, it was a great breakfast anyway.
Keynote: Cooking Up Gourmet User Experiences on a Fast Food Budget - Jared Spool
Fascinating and entertaining presentation by Jared Spool, partly about Julia Child, the absurdities of the TSA, and the fact that every university web site has photos of smiling girls under trees.
Actually, his talk was more about a usability approach using cheap tricks rather than expensive methodologies. His point was that knowing a few good tricks is generally just as good (if not better) than developing an extensive methodology. A plumber uses a wrench as a hammer and gets the job done instead of spending money on a special tool just for that job.
Very thought provoking presentation.
Take-aways: Good enough is good enough. "Organizations that are risk adverse produce crap." Learn from others and adapt; there's no need for expensive tools when a few well-honed tricks will do the job.
Learning to Love Tension, Disruption and Chaos - Russ Unger, Carolyn Chandler
This wasn't really the presentation I was hoping it would be. I was hoping that it would be more about tension, disruption and chaos in the redesign process, but it seemed a bit more scattered. I guess I just didn't connect to this session.
Neuro Web Design: What Makes Them Click? - Susan Weinschenk
OK, this presentation blew my mind. Susan talked about people react to pages from a neurological perspective. Tons of fascinating information. User testing has shown that no matter how items on a page are organized, users will click the first items more than all others simply because it is first.
Stories connect with people more than anything else, because they create empathy, and stories with pictures are even more powerful. For us, that means that we're on the right track with having stories on our main landing pages. Cool.
Fear of loss is a powerful motivator, which is why we react to "Only a few left! Order now!" Overall, food, sex and fear are our three biggest neurological motivators. Taking advantage of those is a positive on any site (where appropriate).
I got more new information out of this session than any other.
Take-aways: There is a whole different way to think about - and affect - the user experience based on our innate reactions to things. We react to things at a very primitive and visceral level, and understanding that can be to our advantage in building the user experience.
Here's a link to Susan's blog.
After a slow start, this conference really took off, and I started to see why people were so excited about it. When I left, my brain was full. I had a great time and brought a lot of useful information back to our campus.
Though I doubt that I'll be able to go back next year, I'm hooked. This is certainly one of the best web user experience conferences out there, and well worth the price of admission.
5 comments:
- Russ said...
Hi there--
Sorry to hear that the session wasn't quite what you were expecting. I'd be interested in discussing with you further russ [at] userglue [dot] com to learn a bit more about what could have been different.
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- Holly said...
The point you made about storytelling was a main motivating factor in the Web site redesign of University of Richmond's home page that launched today. In our research, we learned from prospectives that telling the stories of our students' experiences is crucial. Check out the redesign at www.richmond.edu, or go to http://www.richmond.edu/web-intro.html for screen shots and explanations of the redesign.
- June 17, 2009 at 1:27:00 PM PDT
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Hi. I just got to this one. I'll be reading the first two parts. Thanks
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John McHale Jr. was named Major League Baseball Executive Vice President of Administration on March 7, 2002, overseeing the administrative functions of the MLB's Central Office. He was given the additional title of Chief Information Officer before the 2008 season. In June 2010, McHale began to oversee all of MLB's baseball operations on an interim basis.
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A 1971 graduate of the University of Notre Dame, McHale received law degrees from Boston College Law School in 1975 and the Georgetown University Law Center in 1982. While at Notre Dame, he played defensive end and linebacker on the football team. McHale and his wife, Sally, have three children, Duncan, William and Frances.

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Newport-Mesa Unified School District had the third-lowest percentage at 83.2%, this year's report said. That's a drop from 2012's 88.6% vaccination rate for the district's kindergartners.
Only the Capistrano Unified School District, with 71% of kindergarten students immunized, had a lower percentage than Newport-Mesa and Laguna.
California is one of 20 states that allow parents to justify not vaccinating their children based on personal beliefs or religious beliefs. The other 30 states only allow parents to opt out of the process for religious reasons.
At Laguna's El Morro Elementary School, 45 of 67 kindergarten students had completed immunizations as of Nov. 1, while 62 of 79 kindergarten students at Top of the World Elementary had completed the recommended vaccines, according to statistics provided by Laguna Beach Unified nurse Pam Majd.
More students opting out of vaccines due to personal beliefs at Top of the World, 16, than El Morro, six, statistics showed.
Sixteen students had not met all vaccine requirements and had not signed a waiver at El Morro as of Nov. 1 while one student at Top of the World had not met the requirements or signed a waiver by that date.
Neither Laguna school had any students who opted out of immunizations through medical exemptions.
Majd and school administrators are following-up with parents to make sure they complete all immunizations, she said.
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Required vaccines — for students whose parents do not use exemptions — target polio; diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (whooping cough); measles, mumps and rubella (MMR); and hepatitis B and chicken pox (varicella), according to the state's immunization record.
Common reasons for vaccine delay or refusal include concerns about vaccine safety and side effects, along with beliefs and misperceptions that the risk of infection is low or that the diseases are not dangerous, according to Orange County Health Care Agency public information officer Tricia Landquist.
Students who waive immunizations can be excused from school in the event of an outbreak, Landquist wrote in an email.
Using chicken pox as an example, the county's health care agency — working with United States Centers for Disease Control guidelines — could recommend a child without up-to-date vaccines stay home from school for 21 days following the last reported rash of the disease at school, Landquist said.
Published research indicates that U.S. parents and caregivers who delay or refuse vaccines are more likely to have mid- to high-incomes and have higher education levels, according to Landquist. These demographics are consistent in areas in Orange County where vaccination rates are lower, she said.
Kindergartners aren't the only student segment vulnerable to certain diseases, health officials say.
Pertussis, better known as whooping cough, has increased statewide from last year, even with a requirement for students entering seventh grade to receive a vaccine booster called tetanus toxoid, reduced diphtheria toxoid and acellular pertussis (Tdap), according to the report.
Orange County public and private schools reported 97% of students completed the whooping cough vaccine requirement this year.
At Laguna Beach's Thurston Middle School, 264 out of 294 students completed their pertussis vaccines while the remaining 30 declined, using the personal belief exemption, according to Majd's statistics.
Parents' Perspective
Laguna Beach parent Cindy Cohn made sure her 8-year-old girl and 12-year-old boy were immunized.
"While I know there are some opposing views, I do keep my children up to date with vaccinations, and trust my pediatrician's expertise in this area," Cohn wrote in an email.
Laguna Beach Unified board member Theresa O'Hare also had her two sons, who are now 23 and 26, vaccinated.
"The short answer as to why they were vaccinated is based on the advice of our doctor," O'Hare wrote in an email. "The balance of benefit over risk made sense to us at the time. That said, some of the vaccines that have raised some issues more recently were never an issue for our two [sons]."
Costa Mesa parent Jesi Pearce made the decision not to vaccinate her sons after researching the potential side effects of the immunizations.
Her twin boys, who both attend Newport Harbor High School, were given a round of vaccinations when they were a few months old and did not respond well.
"They had high fevers and were vomiting," she said. "I did research on my own, and I was pretty much appalled at what I found out. To me, the pros of not vaccinating them more than doubled the pros of vaccinating."
Pearce said she's not concerned about her sons becoming ill as a consequence.
"A lot of those diseases we vaccinate against were bred in unsanitary conditions," she said. "We're very sanitary here, so outbreaks aren't likely to happen."


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As a rookie on the PGA Tour, the learning curve continues for John Huh.
Huh, a 2008 Crescenta Valley High graduate, participated in his first championship — the British Open — in July. He didn't make the cut, finishing tied for 126th.
That hasn't slowed Huh from trying to improve his game and pushing forward, as he will get another crack at a major when he tees off a 6 p.m. PDT Thursday in the 94th rendition of the PGA championship at Kiawah Island Resort Ocean Course in Kiawah, S.C.
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Set the Expectation: "In our classroom, we have one rule: Be a good person."
I love this quote because students need peers, parents, and teachers to be examples of this as well. We are a Leader In Me Lighthouse School. So we have made many changes around our school in the last 3 years with the focus of becoming a better person. This is not just directed at students, but teachers and staff as well. I worked with my best friend and fellow teacher on a Random Acts of Kindness project at our school. Our classes did nice things for others and I loved seeing the changes in my classroom. We did things like writing nice notes to an adult in the building. Parents were happy to send in old note cards they had for us to do this. We wrote post it notes with positive words like: Great job or Super and posted them on the student work that was displayed in the hallways. We would have a set time and my class would make a loop through the entire building. Each student made 2-3 post it notes and they chose the work where they would leave the note. I always made them sign their name on the note. We also chose random teachers and covered his/her door with positive post it notes.
Another thing that I really liked from Chapter 4 was the section about having students write reelections. If you know me at all, you know I had to create some super cute signs to post in my room for my students to use as a guide. I also started thinking about having students write in reflection journals. This is still an idea that I'm developing but if you use reflection journals I'd love to hear about how you use them and how often your students write in them!


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Monday, November 5, 2012
Strafed by flies circling the only sunny spot on the restaurant terrace, ruminating on both bread and life, and glamoured by the play of light on the tabletop, I listened as I sipped my bourbon to the Celt and my old professor discuss the worth of voting in Georgia. And as I sipped, it occurred to me that theirs was but a continuation of a conversation I been overhearing across our acquaintance for weeks now.
A few weeks ago I sat at dinner with people who, mostly, could have been my children's age and, as if personally involved, were talking about celebrity derring-do. Now, I recognize this kind of conversation is nothing more than oiling the wheels of social interaction, but there are times – many, actually – when I cannot take part because I have little if any idea of whom this or that person is. Despite the merriment – and it was a merry evening – my mind wandered as I looked around me at the Chippendale chairs and the chandelier, prismatic and tinkling above our heads... thinking, as one does, how much I might resemble a tipsy eighteenth-century squire surrounded by kith and kin in his newly-bought dining room. I thought too of a style of furniture that in its heyday (a day not yet gone by in Atlanta) had, with regional inflections, spanned the Continent, Great Britain and its burgeoning empire. As I sat there, an occasion from nearly twenty years ago and, to me, very eighteenth-century in feel, came to mind: we'd been taken to lunch by a business acquaintance at his wife's grandparents house, and the grandfather during the meal went to his Chippendale sideboard, quietly took out a chamber pot, pissed into it, put it back in its place, and reseated himself at the head of the table. Bewildering, bothering or bewitching, I couldn't decide – but sure as hell I have remembered it.
I was brought back to table from my eighteenth-century reverie of squiredom, fox-hunting and common land enclosures, by a tale of a local decorator – a friend of the speaker – who'd shocked him and his partner by announcing that they should "vote with their wallets" rather than on social issues. My question, after listening for a little while longer, and perhaps a little too forcefully interjected, was why he and his partner would consider that person a friend if she was supporting a candidate who clearly would deny them the civil rights they considered to be theirs.
In the wee hours of Sunday morning, home again from the two parties we'd attended, we drank a nightcap with two men bewildered by the number of their friends who would, as they saw it, vote their rights away for the sake of a tax break and were trying to persuade them to follow suit. During that conversation I remembered a pamphlet* published some thirty years ago that queried why we seek for the good wishes of those whom we allow to oppress us. As I recollect it, it was a piece of polemic, uncompromising in nature, and it has influenced me ever since – despite the accommodations and compromises that sometimes, over the years, whether unthinkingly or not, I have made and continue to make.
One way or another, it will be a different world on Wednesday morning. But either way, there will still be much to be fought for.
* With Downcast Gays: Aspects of Homosexual Self-Oppression. Andrew Hodges and David Hutter
20 comments:
Pissing in chamber pots and voting away one's rights, all in one post. It makes total sense to me.ReplyDelete
From the perspective of one who has noted years of accomodations & compromises, I can say you are absolutely correct. Hoping years to come bring the end to self-oppression for our dear children & those yet born.ReplyDelete
One of my remote but limitlessly effete relatives used to argue that it didn't matter all that much who lived in The White House. We were all, he averred, Prisoners of History.ReplyDelete
Nevertheless, what I think is -- While public opinion about certain contentious topics may have reversed course over the past forty years, public opinion about gay rights has only moved in a direction you would approve. There are ups and downs, of course -- that's to be expected. But it's probably better to force local jurisdictions to work this out on their own than to have Congress or Nine Old Men settle it. That way, compared to Rowe v Wade, there won't be be all the revanchism we've seen over the past twenty years.
P.S. I am still anxiously awaiting that definitive Rory Cameron retrospective. I finally got around to reading The Golden Summer. It's not all that great about his house or the gardens, but it's wonderful elsewhere, over and over.
One can and should only vote with one's conscience. If I voted with my wallet, I should hate myself as a traitor to my conscience.ReplyDelete
- Carter NicholasNovember 6, 2012 at 8:11 AM
I think our despair with revanchism is not, dear BL, to be weighed in the balance against any lifting of repression by any lawful means. Of course I admire your organic view, the genuinely conservative view, of change one can believe in. But for mercy's sake I must prefer the promptest sharing of a human right, not that I read any resistance to this in your remarks. The struggle is natural and its persistence is acceptable, dear BL, compared to the alternative, particularly in a federal union where the full protection of the law must not be even more arbitrarily abridged, by the interpolation of a nugatory border. The union is as precarious as the right; they are secured together. It is natural to desire your approach, in human assimilations of change, and in this respect I certainly do not question its wisdom. But one can be patient with the one without countenancing injustice and its agony, as you do not need to be told.ReplyDelete
PLease remind the Ancient, that despite his august opinion, Rights should never be put up for a vote. Otherwise, no one would have them.ReplyDelete
Dear "the ancient"....ReplyDelete
How funny, I got into small-ish (by my standards) trouble just a few days ago when, in reply to an acquaintance's posting on my Facebook page, I wrote that a longtime, elderly friend of mine (who grew up in the deep-center of Washington politics during the thirties and forties)has regularly told me, over the years, "Oh, David....as my father used to tell me....it doesn't MATTER who's president...."
I was surprised at how fiercely I was attacked for merely quoting what, I've just gathered, isn't an entirely singular opinion.
As for being gay and voting for Republicans? (and at the obvious risk of lowering the tone of this blog)??.....
For a while there in my late twenties, I was mightily smitten by a more-or-less closeted Raleigh corporate lawyer who briefly introduced me to the world of "fancy" Raleigh restaurants and silly country-clubz (his Richmond-born&bred tail seemed to live for them) and whom I introduced to my circle of completely "out" friends in far-more liberal/Progressive Durham.
I never really considered any possible contradictions/problems/impasses until the evening when he, pompous as ever, began casually and condescendingly explaining to a group of my friends (all of whom were gay doctors nd/or academics connected to Duke) why he was a Log Cabin Republican (this was a new group, back then) and would be voting for Senator Jesse Helms's re-election that next month.
He was remarkably proud and full of himself, and he rather obviously had decided that my friends, by virtue of being "openly" gay, were somehow silly or under-informed. All I recall was one of my friends' (a 6'5" trauma surgeon at Duke and nobody's fool) peering down at him once The Boyfriend had finished spouting, and, with an expression of mock concern, asking "So....what's the deal?....are you suicidal or just an asshole?"
that's still one of my favorite-ripostes-ever, although I should emphasize that it pretty much wrecked that 8-person dinner party and, for me at least, made the drive back home considerably more thoughtful than had previously been the case.
Just for the record? The Boyfriend broke up with me two weeks later. The last time I googled him (I promise that I don't do this with any remarkable regularity), I was relieved to find that he hadn't gone on to marry some poor woman, but I was also grimly gratified to read that he'd moved on to work for governor Jeb Bush.
Silly, silly, silly....isn't it/some folks?
Level Best as Ever,
david Terry
DJS --ReplyDelete
When I went to vote this morning, I noticed that the ballot included a proposed amendment to the state constitution which would prevent the exercise of eminent domain for the sort of purposes approved by the SC in Kelo v. New London. (In other words, it's an affirmation of private property rights against the designs of the state.)
Rights that can be bestowed without the consent of the governed can just as easily be taken away. History does not, ever, run in a straight line.
Look at what happened in the South after the 1876 election, or to desegregation in Washington, D.C. after Wilson's inauguration. Similarly, the general public feeling about abortion seems to have changed quite a bit since Roe V Wade in 1974. The right of women to vote was accomplished by years of activism followed by a series of public votes. There are other similar examples.
I understand the desire to suddenly live in an entirely different world. But we see pretty clear evidence -- with Roe v Wade being the simplest example -- that imposing a right from above (through reasoning that most good lawyers will private deplore, regardless of their views) creates a lot of ill-will and resistance. I think it's best to avoid that, if at all possible. But I entirely understand why others might disagree.
Dear Ancient,ReplyDelete
I find it quite odd that, for all your words about the South, you ignore one of the most important legislative matters in my lifetime, that of Civil Rights for African-Americans. If left to voters in the 60's, it would not have happened. Ever. After all, there is something called the Tyranny of the Majority. Courts are made to protect minorities from them.
We can talk about gay marriage while we are at it, but this is not a forum. However, I wish to point out that the issues are joined in that both minorities have been oppressed by the majority.
And now I ask the pardon of Blue.
I'm liking the day after Tuesday far better than I had dared hope when I contemplated it on the day before Tuesday. Up here in Maine we strongly repudiated the nasty message of the National Republican party---going for Obama by a wide margin, sending a moderate Independent to replace the estimable Republican Olympia Snowe in the senate, and last and far from least, passed Gay Marriage---in one of the classiest campaigns seen this year---by a decisive 7% margin, making history in the process. For more: http://thedowneastdilettante.blogspot.com/2012/11/dirigo-back-to-center.htmlReplyDelete
I'm feeling more hopeful than I've felt in a long time.
PS. The chamber pot story is just brilliant--
Daniel --ReplyDelete
The courts and the Congress can deliver some things; they cannot deliver everything. What Maine did the other day -- with a 7% margin -- just seems to me to be the best possible way to achieve what you and I both want to see.
Best, etc.
P.S. Dilettante -- I did have a brief moment, reading that story, where I asked myself, Could I get away with this?
Living in the middle of the country so red it's seldom polled, my husband and I proudly voted for Obama. Like many of you we watched with butterfly stomachs to see who was right Gallup or Nate Silver. Fearing dirty tricks in Ohio and Florida, I started crying when Ohio was called. At the end of the evening, Florida was irrelevant.ReplyDelete
I appreciate the coalition that Obama created. I do think it represents the New America. I detested the way the republicans attacked women and then projected their evil work as the work of democrats.
I view gay marriage as a civil right and welcome the day it is the law of the land. As one republican pundit commented, the party needs to do a great deal of soul searching~do they really want to be on the side of too much love?
For all of us who voted not with our wallets (so appreciated RD's comment), but with our hearts and our conscience, today is a good day. I am a cross between a cynic and a pollyanna, but I do think America's greatest hours come when we work together.
Love the chamber pot story and the whole mise en scene you so lusciously set before our eyes. Hope you toasted the election with suitable drink. I know I did! And congratulations to Maine for showing how to change with grace.
Blue, you have created a forum for civil discourse at its finest!,ReplyDelete
I'd seen the posting on Monday, and found the discussion fascinating.
Ancient is plainly a decent and wise person, but he might have got out of his depth on the topic of gay rights. The story told by David Terry about the closeted Raleigh lawyer struck a chord with me. You cannot imagine how many types I have met over the years, who fall into that "self-loathing" category, vote Republican, marry the opposite sex for the sake of appearances, lead a precarious double life, etc etc and all because in their hearts they feel that gays are second class citizens. Well, they may actually have something there~hypocrites though they may be. No matter what Ancient says about "greater acceptance", I am, sad to say, not entirely convinced of it.
Home Before Dark capped the discussion nicely, so I'll simply leave it
at that.
Dear "toby".....oh, I expect your instincts are quite good. I've known several men (whom I don't at all disrespect or intentionally disparage) who've simply made the decision to remain closeted because, were they to "come out"?.....ReplyDelete
...well, then working at a prestigious boys' boarding skool (I left that business, for very specific and well-founded reasons, in my early-thirties)or being an "Important" lawyer-in-politics would suddenly become, at least according to them, fraught with possiblities for disaster.
I'm lucky in that I was raised by a family (and this was during the 1960's in Mississippi, when the stakes ran high for everyone) that taught me to know that nothing (whether that be a job or an admirable marriage or some public "position") is really worth having if you have to conceal yourself and your beliefs in order to hold onto it. You simply make yourself into some stranger's hostage.
I don't exactly "condemn" that lawyerly ex-boyfriend or any of his type (I've known more than a few of them). I'll admit, though, to wondering,on a regular basis, whether what they've paid (not that they've necessarily noticed the cost, themselves) is worth what they've gotten.
Sad, really, when you think about the matter....which I usually make a point of not doing.
----david terry
Daniel James Shigo, Laurent, Barbara, The Ancient, Reggie Darling, Carter Nicholoas, David Terry, The Down East Dilettante, Home Before Dark and Toby Worthington,ReplyDelete
Thank you all for responding as you have to my post. I have so much to say in response to each of you but I think a simple "thank you" must suffice.
All this discussion is WAY OVER MY HEAD so I will just say how much I enjoyed the part about the chamberpot!ReplyDelete
Call me a cynic, but long ago I despaired that the vast majority of people do indeed vote with their wallets. But I enjoy being proved wrong, and the exceptions to the rule are those who give us better governments.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousDecember 26, 2012 at 11:18 AM
Loved the chamber pot story and thought it perfectly fitting as the introduction to the ensuing conversation/bellyaching which seems to define those one issue wonders who vote agenda politics rather than the welfare of the nation. It is both pathetic and sad to see that for one issue only, a minority of the population is willing to destroy the country financially and militarily for the right to achieve some ridiculous social acceptance that the majority find laughable on its face.Delete
Thinking of you fellows.ReplyDelete


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Oprah Winfrey is known for her long-term commitment to partner Steadman Graham -- but before Graham, Winfrey allegedly had an affair with unlikely lover John Tesh, excerpts from a new, explosive bio on Winfrey reveal.
Winfrey and Tesh, the ex-"Entertainment Tonight" host, shacked up together in Nashville, Tenn., in the 1970s, according to excerpts from biographer Kitty Kelley's new tell-all on Winfrey obtained by the New York Daily News.
Tesh abandoned Winfrey in the middle of the night after caving to "social pressures" that injected tension into their then-controversial interracial relationship, according to the book, written by Kelley, who also penned biographies on Frank Sinatra and Elizabeth Taylor.
"He said one night he looked down and saw his white body next to her black body and couldn't take it anymore," a Tesh ex told Kelley in the book, according to the Daily News.
"He walked out in the middle of the night....He told me later he felt very guilty about it," the ex said.
Tesh and Winfrey both worked in Nashville during the mid-1970s, when the future talk-show host and creator of her own empire cut her teeth at WTVF-TV and Tesh, now married to actress Connie Sellecca, anchored the news at WSM.
Winfrey in 1996 referenced a casual date she and Tesh shared while having Tesh on her show to celebrate the program's 10th anniversary, Kelley points out in the book, due for release Tuesday.
Winfrey's spokeswoman said the star would not be commenting on the book, while Tesh's camp did not return calls for comment to the Daily News.
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CraigglesofDoom presents us with today's mystery: What was a New York City cab doing in the South End today?
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Cabbies have families, too
Might be the only car this person owns.
I assumed as much.
Thinking about the fare was funnier. I'd think that taking the lucky star would be a better deal though - unless he can write off the travel on his taxes since it's a taxi.
I agree with Swirly
It's not the first time I've seen a NYC cab in Boston over Thanksgiving weekend.
And in Roslindale
Betcha it's stolen.
Betcha it's stolen.
Hopefully they brought enough
Hopefully they brought enough cash since the credit card machine won't be working when they reach their destination here!
prop car or the owner was travelling
Duhhhh? Are twitter kids born naive or do they just get that way?
Where is the sense of adventure?
Not quite as long a trip...
It's happened more recently as well - I dare say there was probably more than this one post-Sandy case.
- An amusing story.
- Something said or done for amusement.
- It was a joke!
Dear NYC,
Give the MBTA their logo back!
For decades, NYC taxis had
For decades, NYC taxis had the fare printed on the doors.
Who's the idiot graphic designer who thought it would be better to replace it with a tiny picture of someone hailing a cab, and the text "Metered fare, Flat fare to JFK"?
Too clean, undented and shiny to be....
anything but a Bloomberg NYC taxi. Can you imagine a Boston taxi in that condition.
Imagine the fare
That is not the color of the T logo. The MBTA T logo is a black T with a white background.
It's not as bad as you think
they charge you a flat rate, probably $575 max.
Boston has a flat rate book which you can Google and look up any community in Massachusetts and major cities in the Northeast (complete with directions). If it was a Boston cab going to NYC, the fare would be $700.80. For NYC, long distance fares are negotiable, but this should give you an idea of what's expected.
I wonder
With an 8-10 hour round trip, would that $700 compare favorably with a standard shift - with potentially less hassle?
Probably be more fun anyway.
As the woman in the above cited article mentioned, she talked religion and philosophy with the cabbie during their drive.
I'd imagine that it'd be pretty comparable.
Cash cab!
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Fed Doubles Down On Bet To Raise Swipe Fees
Swipe fees are the fees stores pay to accept credit and debit cards. The fees are generally passed along to all customers, even cash customers. Numerous courts have found that Visa and Mastercard use abusive market power to force merchants to accept their highest in the world, non-negotiable swipe fees. Since the market wasn't working, Congress stepped in and ordered the Fed to write a rule lowering anti-competitive swipe fees.
The Fed, instead, raised them. Last month, here in DC, U.S. District Judge Richard Leon held that the Fed had blatantly ignored Congress.
But yesterday Federal Reserve Board General Counsel Scott Alvarez told Judge Leon it would appeal his July 31 opinion that the Fed's 2011 rule raising the swipe fees merchants pay to accept debit cards broke the law by ignoring Congressional intent to lower them.
The Fed's rule raising swipe fees harms small businesses, as well as their customers, who pay more at the store and more at the pump, even if they pay with cash. But it helps the Fed's big bank patrons.
Swipe, or interchange, fees generally include a flat fee plus a percentage of the transaction, which can range from 1% for a plain non-rewards debit card to as much as 4% for an airline rewards credit card. The merchant has no choice to decline the more expensive cards. If you take one card in a brand, you must "honor all cards," under Visa/Mastercard network rules.
The Fed's initial draft rule had actually proposed lowering swipe fees, as Congress had intended, to between 7-12 cents per average transaction, but the final rule doubled that amount to 24 cents. Visa and Mastercard immediately raised minimum swipe fees to around 24 cents per transaction, even though several small business sectors had previously paid lower rates in the 15-18 cents range. So, swipe fees went up, not down. The Fed stated that swipe fees would average "24 cents for the average debit card transaction, which is valued at $38."
In his opinion, Judge Leon stated that the "Board has clearly disregarded Congress's statutory intent by inappropriately inflating all debit card transaction fees by billions of dollars."
The Fed's rule was required to implement the PIRG-supported Durbin amendment to the 2010 Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The Durbin amendment was supposed to lower the fees merchants pay Visa and Mastercard to accept debit cards. The bulk of the swipe fee goes to the card user's (or issuer) bank. The Durbin amendment lowering swipe fees only applies to debit cards issued by big banks; smaller banks, under $10 billion, are exempt.
Congress passed the amendment because for too long merchants had been forced to accept non-negotiable swipe or "interchange" fees due to what several courts have called the excessive "market power" of Visa and Mastercard. Market power simply means that while a merchant can choose to ignore America Express or Discover, ignoring Visa or Mastercard is impossible because it would anger customers. Merchants have to take Visa and Mastercards or lose business. Further, merchants cannot negotiate price; they are forced to accept Visa/Mastercard terms. As the court explained: "Merchants know that if they do not accept those cards and networks, they risk losing sales, and "losing the sale would be costlier to the merchant than accepting debit and paying the high interchange fee."
In many cases, these fees are the second-highest cost of business for small merchants, after the cost of acquiring the items that they sell, but before the cost of rent, salaries and utilities. Burdensome contractual provisions with Visa and Mastercard also generally force merchants to pass the costs along to all their customers, rather than offering cash discounts or imposing surcharges for paying with plastic. Another provision of the Durbin amendment prohibits some of these terms, which had even prevented merchants from suggesting that consumers use cash, or a lower cost card. The Durbin amendment also limits the networks' ability to use anti-competitive practices to limit the number of networks available to merchants.
The revenues on too-high, non-negotiable swipe fees are used to increase rewards to cardholders -- meaning cash customers at the store are paying more, not just to cover bank costs, but to pay for cardholder miles and other rewards. A recent study by three Boston Fed economists has confirmed the cross-subsidy from cash customers to presumably more affluent credit card rewards customers.
"On average, each cash-using household pays $149 to card-using households and each card-using household receives $1,133 from cash users every year. Because credit card spending and rewards are positively correlated with household income, the payment instrument transfer also induces a regressive transfer from low-income to high-income households in general. On average, and after accounting for rewards paid to households by banks, the lowest-income household ($20,000 or less annually) pays $21 and the highest-income household ($150,000 or more annually) receives $750 every year."
So, some of the swipe revenue ( a lot of it, actually) merely goes to promote more use of cards. While opponents of swipe fee reform claim that banks will need to raise checking account fees to recoup the billions of dollars in ill-gotten swipe fee revenue that a fully-functioning, properly implemented Durbin amendment would eliminate, banks could simply eliminate debit card rewards without raising fees.
Doubtlessly, one reason that the Fed decided to challenge the court's ruling was to continue to assert its presumed regulatory power. By rejecting both Congressional and judicial control over its authority, the Fed appears to its patrons to have more authority, including in its other actions. But by doubling down on this particular bet, the Fed is taking a big risk. The court was very clear in its detailed analysis that the Fed was simply wrong. Judge Leon made his points in no uncertain terms. A few examples of his reasoning follow:
"This result [the Board's analysis] makes no sense, and more importantly, it is not the law....I reject the Board's construction of the Durbin Amendment as non-compliant with Congress's clear mandate....[The Board's analysis] runs completely afoul of the text, design and purpose of the Durbin Amendment."
U.S. PIRG will continue to support legal and Congressional solutions to the broken swipe fee market. Otherwise, all consumers, including cash customers and the unbanked, will continue to pay more at the store and at the pump due to unfair bank practices. As U.S. Senator Richard Durbin (IL) pointed out in his friend of the court, or amicus, brief to Judge Leon:
"[T]he interchange fee system was designed and operated by payment card networks and their issuing banks to avoid transparency and competition and to generate high fees that exceeded what could be sustained in a normal competitive market environment The enactment of the Durbin Amendment reflected a bipartisan recognition in Congress that reasonable debit interchange reform was needed to bring transparency, competition and choice to a system that lacked it."
Credit card swipe fees are the subject of a related preliminary private antitrust settlement between merchants and the banks and card networks. Many merchant associations, as well as U.S. PIRG and Consumer Reports (we both accept credit cards, so we are merchants, too) have objected to that settlement, which is before federal judge John Gleeson in New York. In U.S. PIRG's objection and request to speak at the pending fairness hearing, we note that the purported benefits of the settlement to merchants and consumers are false. I discuss further the severe deficiencies in this settlement, which would perpetuate Visa and Mastercard's ability to rig card markets, in a previous blog entry.
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Let's face it: there's too much new music in a year for any one human being to digest. "2011 Gems" is a December feature on Midnight Sun where I highlight some of the tracks that might have flown under your radar. First up is Jackie Chain's smooth tribute to his Southern rap lifestyle. The song is full of curse words so if that's not your thing, move right along.
Jackie Chain, "Parked Outside (feat. Big K.R.I.T. and Bun B)"
When I spoke with ST 2 Lettaz of G-Side last month, we talked about Alabama and how everyone has to drive around to get to anything. So it makes sense that car culture plays a huge role in Southern rap, and that these songs are written, composed, mixed and mastered with the hopes to rattle some trunks, not some tiny white earbuds.
Jackie Chain, another Alabama MC, pays respect to the South and its SLABs (a description for a "slow, low and bangin'" tricked out car) with "Parked Outside." Over a gorgeous Big K.R.I.T. beat that feels like an homage to the producer's hero, Pimp C, Chain immediately finds the beat's pocket and refuses to let go. He nonchalantly brushes off haters and the police, with a smoothness that matches the crawling production: "Haters ain't gonna stop me, they just fuel to my fire / I put the roof off in my trunk and blow some smoke in the sky." It's the combination of Chain's confident delivery and K.R.I.T.'s back-room bounce that makes "Parked Outside" a song that sticks with you.
If this is your introduction to Jackie Chain, it's OK to approach with caution. He's an Asian rapper with a bad haircut and a voice that doesn't bulldoze songs, it merely slinks into the mix. But all year, he released drugged-out odes with enough humor and realism to strike an enjoyable balance. "Parked Outside," a song where he outshines a particularly generic Bun B, is just another example of it. (Sometimes, Bun B, a living Southern legend if there ever was one, dials in these guest verses and this is a perfect case. It's OK to wish K.R.I.T. rapped a 16 instead of Bun here.) The Motion Family-directed video captures everything inviting and seemingly distant about Chain's world.


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Firefighters from Crookston and numerous other communities in the region converged on downtown Ada Thursday night to battle a blaze at the Triple Crown elevator. In the end, the blaze won, with the elevator collapsing.
The Crookston Fire Department sent an aerial ladder truck and a pickup to the scene, CFD Chief Tim Froeber told the Times Friday morning.
"We were called at about 6:48 p.m. last night, and got there at about 7:30 p.m.," said Froeber. "It was a very extensive fire and was out of the capabilities of most area departments."
Besides Crookston, due to the intensity of the fire and Ada's small water supply, all fire crews from Moorhead, Ulen, Twin Valley, Gary, Shelly, Hendrum and Borup, with several other crews began to settle the flames – visible from at least 10 miles away – beginning at about 7 p.m. Fire crews from Crookston, Moorhead and Mahnomen were all requested.
According to Froeber, the construction workers in the elevator building who called in the fire were the only ones forced to evacuate the building, and neither citizens nor firefighters were injured. Froeber also mentioned that the State Fire Marshal's office investigator will be in Ada Friday to determine the cause of the elevator fire.
At 9 p.m. Thursday, a building attached to the elevator caved in, still burning and leaving rubble, flames and thick, heavy smoke coming from the 10-story building.
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oh did you wish the current session was written to DVD and then later reloaded or does newer suspend start doing that now? I am confused. When I suspend it does not write to anything. Suspend to RAM is the default or it sbould be since we are running from RAM.
I'm running the DVD+RW on my desktop not a laptop and I don't want to leave it running 24 hours a day but instead have it suspend until I want to use it again.
I have another DVD+RW running on a laptop and suspend is working okay on that one.
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ok I see what you wish to do... interesting idea on non laptop but makes you wonder why they could or would be doing the same concept already. It actually makes better economic reasons to do this on everything regardless of form..
On a different persons thread he wanted a timed multisession shutdown like a sleep mode that shut itself down after running a slide show. Could be tbe same like a screen saver mode to force a session and then turn itself off.
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Also would be good to burn a session daily or on a schedule just incase of power failure. I sometimes forget to power down larger desktop unit for days. And its a business server type which will auto power up once a power problem is corrected. Also can be timed turned on which I never had a use for until your idea.
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Thanks @Billtoo for the laptop idea. I have not tried it yet but, this is very good news, indeed.
Also, the idea of a suspend-resume sequence that works similar to a laptop would have good basis because a PC always has power, thus, could go for a longer period in RAM suspend mode than an unpowered laptop would.
Hopefully an answer or an understanding will surface on this thread regarding this possibility.
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Posted: Sun 02 Mar 2014, 22:27
Post subject: Bug? Deb packages install but won't uninstall
deb packages install just like pets and show up in the list of installed packages. You can mark them and click uninstall, but the packages don't go away. I have tried this in 620 and 630.
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Thanks to Kirk? James Bond Ted Dog and all of you
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Posted: Mon 03 Mar 2014, 13:38
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I have to say that I don't feel that spot (or not) is really a problem. I have never encountered anything that I could not fix by just changing what I am doing. Having a choice is nice.
When something just suddenly doesn't run though, it is more difficult. Here's an example...
I always boot my notebook off of USB one of two ways. One is to use Grub4Dos, and just choose the partition I want to boot. Never a problem with this, with any Pup I have tried. "It just works".
The second way is to install
and simply toss the freshly downloaded ISO to it and go! It doesn't get any cleaner than this.
A problem with Easy2Boot is that some Pups hang in the middle of bootup. LH64 does this ("LH64-602.sfs not found"). However, until 630, FD has always booted with Easy2Boot. Now with 630, it hangs a bit earlier than other Pups.
Using 630, Easy2Boot works as usual, copies to RAM and then hangs with this line: Booting the kernel.
What changed to cause this in 630? Can it be fixed?
Thanks in advance!
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Posted: Mon 03 Mar 2014, 16:33
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gcmartin wrote:
The DVD boot problem
You MUST, at the boot-time menu select the option for multi-session. I have, in the past, found that for some odd reason when 620 emerge something began to work differently than earlier 600 did for Multisession. Dont remember what though, but I did insure thereafter to begin using multisession after the first boot.
Doesn't that work?.
It did work! After trying about 5 times in a row before it finally booted from the DVD (why the reluctance?), it booted OK copying the save files I had created a few days ago reproducing the system as per my modifications. Success, I should say, but based on what I have experienced so far, I cannot help it but recall one irrefutable law of Murphy's, i.e., "if you think that everything is going smoothly, you have obviously overlooked something." Will it be the case once again? Well, time will tell. Meanwhile, a big THANKS goes to gcmartin and all the others who helped with Ted Dog at the top of the list.
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Hi @DrDeaf.
I think both LIghthouse and FATDOG ISOs can be booted. but, to do so, could require
a MNU file as describe in item 3 under "Introduction" section on here
The contents for the BootManager that the paragraph references is similar/same an one that JamesBond provided for ISO booting earlier that I do not have a my fingertips right now. I also seem to remember that he may have made a FATDOG webpage to so such, too. In fact, over the years, I remember he has provide ISO boot instructions for 2 different Boot Managers with GRUB4DOS being just one of them.
Should do the trick. Post us should you have any success. I feel that E2B is a very good solution for both, boot, testing and running, of the various 64bit PUPs and other PUPs that are cropping up in the community.
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Post subject: Bridging in FATDOG
Hello FATDOG development
I, too, have need of bridge guidance for KVM use to allow a QEMU's VM guest(s) to access the LAN's DHCP host to acquire and directly access the LAN services directly thru one of the VM host's adapter.
, Kirk's "fix" to allow the system at initial boot to access and use the 2nd LAN adapter (as he had this working in prior FATDOGs) would also be helpful. If there is a "fix bucket" where this fix is contained, I would use it.
Any guidance for these 2 post's requests would be helpful. Thanks in advance.
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Post subject: video problems + boot with peculiar BIOS
I can now report that all the problems I previously reported with an old nvidia machine are tied to the driver. Using the framebuffer driver not only got rid of the invisible cursor, which turned up after running for hours, and the problems in starting xwin which turned up on some boots, but also restored the video blanking screensaver which was failing under those other nvidia drivers.
My current installation on this machine is adequate for daily use, but I maintain a test installation for future tests with better video drivers.
On a different machine, the HP Elitebook 6930p, I have had no video problems at all, and few other problems, but the blankety-blank BIOS doesn't want to boot much except Windoze. Linux Mint is able to insert its own multiboot using GRUB2, but I have had no luck in modifying that to add an entry for Fatdog. Even when I have risked a direct Fatdog installation on the disk with the W7 installation I have ended up booting into W7 afterward. (Before installing Fatdog, it was doing a GRUB2 multiboot with Linux Mint 16. My problems with that are that some developers have gone hog-wild with complicated shell scripts for what is essentially a very simple process. I don't find any explanations for why things should be this way in Linux land convincing.)
This BIOS appears to have been an early step on the way to a UEFI BIOS used for high security on laptops of businesses and government contractors. It is not exactly fish or fowl. There is apparently no straightforward way to turn off secure boot.
(This is considered SMBIOS version 2.4, and BIOS HP 68PCU Ver. F.18, 3/16/2010)
This isn't doing a great deal for security, as I have had no trouble getting access to any files I want inside the W7 system. It would be hard to find a better way to motivate people to become system crackers.
I want to make it clear that I own this machine, and have a bill of sale. The OS was upgraded by the original owner and activated. There is an OEM product ID. I've photographed this to have a record which cannot be deleted by a computer crash or malicious software.
To forestall comments by others: I like to keep one machine with Windoze so I can reproduce problems reported by those still under the thrall of the monster of Redmond. (Another one of these friends has just retired, so this motivation is weakening.) It is also necessary to run some programs from other sources, like self-extracting files, though I don't use many. I routinely use Linux systems like Fatdog myself, and try to keep these from being polluted by Windoze. The ideal way is to boot off devices which are not even connected to the machine when W7 is running.
The efforts to keep people from booting alternative OSes are having the effect of making machines dedicated to Windoze less desirable and marketable. I already see economic consequences. Good.
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Post subject: Fatdog64-630 Final (February 11 2014)
I have a DVD+RW running on my Acer Laptop.
video-info-glx 1.5.3 Tue 4 Mar 2014 on Fatdog64 630 Linux 3.12.9 x86_64
0.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Device 68e0
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS
product: PARK 01.00
X Server: Xorg Driver: fglrx
X.Org version: 1.12.4
dimensions: 1600x900 pixels (423x238 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: ATI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.3.12618 Core Profile Context 13.251
# glxgears
26368 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5273.495 FPS
26274 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5254.410 FPS
26475 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5294.949 FPS
Suspend works fine, life is good
I made a pcmanfm-1.2.0-x86_64.sfs and will upload it to the contrib
repository when possible, it's not possible yet.
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Have installed Scribus 1.4.1 from PPM.
Then it requested libpython 2.6.so.0.1, but there is just python 2.7.5
I use Fatdog64-630 Final.
Any hints?
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Python 2.6 is part of the devx sfs file, so you can install that and it should work. I'm out of town right now, I'll check into the missing pet package when I get back.
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Posted: Wed 05 Mar 2014, 20:02
Post subject: Question on fd64-devx_630.sfs
Question about fd64-devx_630.sfs ...
There is a directory called /usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 in this sfs file that contains two subdirectories (gdk-pixbuf & gdk-pixbuf-xlib).
These two subdirectories also show up in /usr/include/gtk-2.0 in this same sfs.
I would note that the files in these pixbuf subdirectories are not the same. Which are the right ones?
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I adapted the recipe – originally it was for sultanas soaked in Irish whiskey but as I don't like whiskey......can you see where this is going?
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When Te'o was still available with the Cardinals on the clock at pick No. 38, the Chargers packaged their second-round pick (No. 45) and their fourth-round pick (No. 110) to move up and draft him. Chargers General Manager Tom Telesco said he has no doubt that was the right call.
"He's a first-round player for us," Telesco said. "He was one of the best college players in America last year and we think he's going to be a great fit for us. . . . When you have a guy rated that's a first-round player at a position we could use a player, to sit and wait and if he goes off a pick before us, there's no worse feel in the world. We thought the value was there as far as giving up that pick to go get him."
Te'o agrees with Telesco's assessment: Te'o thought he should have been a first-round pick, too.
"I expected to go in the first round, but things happened," Te'o said. "All it did was give me more motivation to get better."