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TDDD03 Industrial Engineering and Systems Usability Issues
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|Mar. 16
|Suplementary examination
Today is the deadline for the regular take-home exam. If you do not pass this exam there will be two more chances this year.
The re-exam will be sent out on Monday April 27 in the afternoon. The deadline for that exam will be Friday June 7. Please contact Mattias Arvola a few days before April 27 if you want this re-exam sent to you.
The round-up exam will be sent out on Monday August 19 in the afternoon. The deadline for that exam will be Friday August 30. Please contact Mattias Arvola if you want this round-up exam sent to you.
You are welcome back to the course next year if you do not pass the exam on the regular take-home exam, the re-exam or the round-up exam.
|Mar. 12
|Blog post
If you need some more food for thought I just ran across a blog post about UX and the Kano Model by Christian Holst.
|Feb. 27
|Take-home exam
The take-home examination has now been distributed to the course email list. Please contact Mattias Arvola if you have not received it. Deadline is March 16, 2013.
|Feb. 18
|Cut-and-paste typo now fixed
There was a cut-and paste error in the discription of Indivudal deliverable for Step 1. Deadline for the delivery of the completed take-home exam as well as the individual deliverable of Step 1 is 16th of March at midnight and nothing else.
|Jan. 13
|Slides from lecture 5
Uploaded under Material in the left-hand menu.
|Feb. 5
|Assessment of individual deliverables
5 points will be rewarded individual deliverables that only partly solve the task, i.e. only analyze and discuss one small part of the step, or only use a small part of the literature to analyze and discuss the work. If the part you have done is good it would be harsh to give the deliverable 0 points. We will therefore reward such deliverables 5 points. No students have however received 5 points on the individual assignment of step 1.
|Feb. 5
|Graded project
We just discovered that we made a mistake when redesigning the course. We worked using the English syllabus for the course, where the grading scale is not explicit. When we recently looked at the Swedish version of the same syllabus, it is clear that the project should be graded (fail/3/4/5), and not just fail/pass.
However, this is not a big issue since we already have non-mandatory individual deliverables attached to each step of the project. Each of them is worth 10 points. If you collect a total of 20 points on these you receive the grade 5 for the project. If you collect 15 you get grade 4. If you activiely participate in the project but do not turn in these deliverables or do not collect 15 points, you get grade 3 for the project.
Furthermore, you may still hand in the individual deliverable of step 1 if you have not done so already. The deadline for handing it in is now the same as the deadline for the take-home exam. This gives you enough time to hand in the individual deliverable for step 1 if the grading scale for the project have affected your priorities.
Please take note: This does not affect the take-home exam or the course grade in any way: the scores received on the individual deliverables give you bonus points for the take-home exam as previously announced, and the course grade is based on the take-home exam.
|Jan. 30
|Specification of take-home exam
Updated the description of the take-home exam. It is now more detailed. Click Examination in the menu to the left.
|Jan. 27
|Missing a seminar
Supplementary examination if you miss a seminar: interview two other participants about what was said at the examination and what they learned from it. You then send your notes from the interview to your supervisor.
|Jan. 27
|Slides from lecture 4
Uploaded under Material in the left-hand menu.
|Jan. 16
|Uploaded Material
You can find a link to the Pershona Sheet and slides from the two first lectures under Material in the left-hand menu.
|Jan. 16
|Project Groups
All groups shall appoint a contact person and mail Jenny the name of that person. The contact person will be highlighted in the list below in bold.
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|Jan. 15
|The Project Case
You can find the project case to work with in this PDF.
|Jan. 14
|Scaling Your UX Strategy
Harvard Business Review Blog post by Robert Fabricant, Vice President of Creative for Frog:
In business today, "user experience" (or UX) has come to represent all of the qualities of a product or service that make it relevant or meaningful to an end-user - everything from its look and feel to how it responds when users interact with it, to the way it fits into people's daily lives. You even hear people talking about UX as the way in which a consumer connects to a business - all the touch-points from marketing to product development to distribution channels.
|Jan. 11
|Decision: Course Literature
We have, for the project work, assigned new articles that fit the assignment well and they will also be used for the take-home exam. The book "Cost-Justifying Usability" which we previously had thought of as the primary literature is electronically available through the university library and can be used for reference during the take-home exam, but it is not mandatory reading.
|Jan. 10
|Course Literature
It seems that the course book "Cost-Justifying Usability" is out of print. We need to figure out a solution to this and will get back to you as soon as possible when we know how to handle this problem.
|Jan. 9
|New Guest Lecture
Karin Ackerholm, Business Developer at InnovationskontorEtt, and previously design strategist and business developer at inUse, will give a lecture on Effect Mapping and Business Development.
|Jan. 9
|The ROI of Great Customer Experience
Designing for usability is about focusing a service or product development on the future customer experience. So what is the ROI of that? Take a look at this blog.
|Jan. 4
|Updated Web Site
The course info is now up.
|Dec. 18
|Welcome to the Course of 2013
Updating of the course information for 2013 is in progress and will be published as soon as possible. Some minor changes are being planned, come back and check for them. The course schedule will be published in TimeEdit as usual. Course leader this year will be Jenny Johansson, who can be reached at jenny.k.johansson at liu.se.
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This chapter describes the OHW-UIX delpoyment process and configuration files.
This chapter includes the following sections:
Section 22.4, "Configuring OHW-UIX to Display Custom Helpsets"
Help authors create help content using the authoring tools of their choice. Help authors usually also create the Oracle Help control files that are needed for deploying the help content as OHW-UIX help systems. OHW-UIX administrators typically perform all tasks necessary to deploy a helpset.
Because both help authors and OHW-UIX administrators may need to perform deployments for testing or production, demo deployment files are provided. You can download the latest demo files from OTN.
If you are new to OHW-UIX, you may start with deploying the demo
ohw-uix-demo.ear file. For more information, see Section 21.2, "Understanding the OHW-UIX Demo File". The demo EAR file includes the files needed to deploy the sample helpsets immediately.
If you are creating a new OHW-UIX helpset, the following sections will help you understand the OHW-UIX deployment process and describe the steps required to create and deploy your own OHW-UIX help system.
Verify all requirements and dependencies before beginning any deployment:
Table 22-1 OHW-UIX Deployment Minimum Requirements
Servlet Container
OHW-UIX requires a JavaEE 1.5 compatible application server. Oracle WebLogic Server, standalone or integrated with JDeveloper, is recommended as it requires minimal configuration effort.
OHW-UIX is supported on Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft Internet Explorer 8, Mozilla FireFox 2, Mozilla FireFox 3, Apple Safari, and Google Chrome.
OHW-UIX is a UIX application.
UNIX Only:X Server
On Unix, the servlet container must be configured to connect to an X server in order for dynamic image generation to succeed.
Before you start deploying the OHW-UIX helpset, there are some files that need to be modified to configure OHW-UIX correctly. The following information will help you understand the XML configuration files:
application.xml: A manifest of all web modules that run under a given Java EE application. It points to each web module of each product that is deployed. Oracle recommends using two instances of
A relatively stable version for the UIX application (optional).
A version for the OHW-UIX application that changes frequently as web modules are added or reconfigured.
The name and location of
application.xml is fixed by the Java EE standard. In OHW-UIX, the file must be located
<OHW-UIX_HOME>\META-INF directory.
web.xml: Sets the initialization parameters for the servlet, including the location of the OHW-UIX configuration file. There is one instance of
web.xml for each web module. If OHW-UIX configuration files are located and named in a uniform manner, then this file should be the same for all OHW-UIX web modules. The file must be located in
ohwconfig.xml (default file name): Specify which helpsets to display and how to present them. You can also specify locales, branding information, and various other settings. For information about the configuration file, see Chapter 9, "Oracle Help for the Web Configuration File". The name and location of this file is set as a servlet initialization parameter, which is handled differently for each servlet container. The file must be located in
<OHW-UIX_HOME>\<OHW-UIX_deployment_name> directory.
The instructions in this section will help you create the directory structure required for OHW-UIX help system, add your custom helpset files in the correct location, create or modify the configuration files, and deploy the help system on application server.
The instructions in this section also assume that you have installed the OHW-UIX demo EAR file and you have a knowledge of the demo EAR file's directory structure. If you have not installed the demo file, install it following instructions in Chapter 21, "Deploying OHW-UIX Demo File".
Follow these steps to set up OHW-UIX help system:
Set up the directory structure as following:
<OHW-UIX_HOME> | — <OHW-UIX_deployment_name> | — cabo — helpsets | — <custom_helpset_directory> — META-INF — WEB-INF | — lib — META-INF
For example:
my_module | — my_module_help | — cabo — helpsets | — my_ModuleHelpset — META-INF — WEB-INF | — lib — META-INF
Create your own helpset directory. Place all your help files in or under
<OHW-UIX_HOME>\<OHW-UIX_deployment_name>\helpsets\<custom_helpset_directory> directory, including the helpset file, topic files, and the other control files (index, table of contents, etc.). Also, place any JAR files here, if you are using JAR files for your helpset. You can use JARred and unJARred helpsets together in the same deployment.
Create the configuration file. In an editor, create an XML file and save it as
ohwconfig.xml, in the
<OHW-UIX_HOME>\<OHW-UIX_deployment_name>\helpsets directory. You may also copy the
ohwconfig.xml from demo EAR file and edit it to your requirement. The file is available in
ohw-uix-demo\ohw-uix-demo\helpsets directory.
If you are creating a new
ohwconfig.xml file, see Chapter 9, "Oracle Help for the Web Configuration File" for more information about behaviors you can configure.
If you are editing the demo EAR file's
ohwconfig.xml, follow these instructions:
Modify the
<books></books> section to direct it to your helpset. For example:
<books> <helpSet id="myModule" location="my_ModuleHelpset/my_ModuleHelpset.hs" /> </books>
Remove the helpsets which you do not wish to provide from the
<books></books> section. If removed, the helpsets would not appear in the helpset switcher dropdown list of the OHW-UIX user interface. If you have only one
<helpSet> element in the
<books></books> section, the helpset switcher is not available.
Update the
<brandings></brandings> section to display your own brand. For example:
<brandings> <branding text="My Module" /></brandings>
Download the cabo and OHW-UIX library files from OTN. Copy the cabo files in
<OHW-UIX_HOME>\<OHW-UIX_deployment_name>\cabo and library files in
<OHW-UIX_HOME>\<OHW-UIX_deployment_name>\WEB-INF\lib directory.
You may also copy the library files from demo EAR file. The files are available in
ohw-uix-demo\ohw-uix-demo\cabo and
ohw-uix-demo\ohw-uix-demo\WEB-INF\lib directory.
Create the UIX configuration file
uix-config.xml in
<OHW-UIX_HOME>\<OHW-UIX_deployment_name>\WEB-INF directory.
You may also copy the
uix-config.xml from demo EAR file and edit it to your requirements. The file is available in
ohw-uix-demo\ohw-uix-demo\WEB-INF directory.
web.xml to set the initialization parameters in
<OHW-UIX_HOME>\<OHW-UIX_deployment_name>\WEB-INF directory.
You may also copy the
web.xml from demo EAR file and edit it to your requirements. The file is available in
ohw-uix-demo\ohw-uix-demo\WEB-INF directory.
If you are editing the demo EAR file's
web.xml, follow these instructions:
Modify the
<display-name></<display-name> and
<description></description> section to display your custom helpset name. For example:
<web-app> <display-name>My Module</display-name> <description>My module help</description> </web-app>
Optionally, you may wish to edit the
<servlet-name> element under
<servlet> element to change your URL used to access OHW-UIX. For more information about changing the access URL, see Changing the OHW-UIX Access URL .
Compress the
<OHW-UIX_deployment_name> directory into a WAR file.
application.xml in
<OHW-UIX_HOME>\META-INF directory. In this file, you will provide the web module name of each product that you will deploy.
You may also copy the
application.xml from demo EAR file and edit it to your requirements. The file is available in
ohw-uix-demo\META-INF directory. Specify the WAR file name, created in step 7, in
<web-uri></web-uri> element. If you wish to change the access URL of the application, update the
<context-root><context-root> element. For more information, see Section 22.5.2, "Changing the access URL to another name".
Compress the
<OHW-UIX_HOME> directory into a EAR file.
Start the Oracle WebLogic Server and deploy the EAR file. If Oracle WebLogic Server is already running, you must shut it down and then restart it before the changes made since you last started the servlet will be available.
Direct the browser to
http://<hostname>:<port>/<OHW-UIX_deployment_name>/help/, where
<hostname> is the name of the machine on which OHW-UIX and Oracle WebLogic Server are installed.
The first page of the demo help system displays in the browser. If there is more than one helpset, use the dropdown list in the toolbar to select a helpset, then click the helpset switcher to display the TOC and index from the selected helpset only. The text search will search only for items in the selected helpset.
The URL to access OHW-UIX is
http://<hostname>:<port>/mymodule/help/, where
<hostname> is the name of the machine on which OHW-UIX and Oracle WebLogic Server are installed.
You can change this URL in the following ways:
To change the help at the end of the URL, edit
web.xml in
<servlet-mapping> parameter
<url-pattern> specifies the URL used to access OHW-UIX. For example, if you change
<url-pattern> from the default
/help/* to
/onlinereference/*, the URL used to access OHW-UIX would become
For example:
<servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>mymodule</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/onlinereference/*</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping>
To change the access URL for your application , edit the
<context-root> element entry under
<web> element in
application.xml, located in
<web> <web-uri>my_module.war</web-uri> <context-root>my_module</context-root> </web>
For example, if you want the OHW-UIX access URL to be
http://<hostname>:<port>/jdeveloper/help/, modify the root element:
<web> <web-uri>my_module.war</web-uri> <context-root>jdeveloper</context-root> </web>
When new versions of OHW-UIX and UIX are released, be sure to check the OHW-UIX and UIX download pages for the latest download and install instructions before upgrading your OHW-UIX installation.
To upgrade OHW-UIX to a newer version, you need to replace the OHW-UIX JAR file located in the
WEB-INF/lib directory.
To upgrade UIX to a newer version, you need to replace the UIX JAR file located in the
WEB-INF/lib directory, and also replace the UIX installable resource files (distributed in
uix2-install.zip) by unpacking them into the
cabo directory.
To test your upgrade, restart the servlet container and point your browser to
http://<hostname>:<port>/ohw-uix-demo/help/, or wherever you have mapped the OHW-UIX application.


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Grits chance better in 2018 without Wynne: Poll
One third of Toronto voters say the departure of Premier Kathleen Wynne would make them more likely to support the Liberals in the 2018 provincial election, a Forum Research poll provided exclusively to the Toronto Sun found.
Only 10% of Torontonians polled, and 7% who identify as Liberal supporters, say they'd be less likely to cast their ballot for the Liberals if Wynne resigned.
"It looks like the premier is dragging the Liberals down a little bit," Forum Research president Lorne Bozinoff said Friday.
"There's a group of people right now who are voting Tory … but 29% of them say that, without Wynne there, they are more likely to vote Liberal," Bozinoff said. "And the same thing with New Democrats — another 26% of people who are currently supporting New Democrats say they are more likely to vote Liberal if Wynne wasn't the leader."
Of those polled, 44% said Wynne's departure wouldn't make them more or less likely to vote Liberal.
It's the latest in a series of polls that show the governing Ontario Liberal Party struggling with Wynne at the helm, putting pressure on the premier to step aside before the next election.
Wynne, a strong campaigner known for come-from-behind wins, has stated publicly she's staying.
Forum Research surveyed 840 adults by phone between April 4 and 5, and the results are considered accurate plus or minus 3%, 19 times out of 20.


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Published November 20, 2014
The San Diego Padres added a new double-play combination on Friday when they reacquired shortstop Jason Bartlett in a trade with the Tampa Bay Rays and closed in on a deal with second baseman Orlando Hudson.
The Padres got Bartlett and a player to be determined from the Rays. Tampa Bay will receive major league relievers Adam Russell and Cesar Ramos, and minor leaguers Brandon Gomes, a right-hander, and Cole Figueroa, an infielder.
Two people with knowledge of the deal told the Associated Press that Hudson has agreed to an $11.5 million, two-year contract.
The people spoke on condition of anonymity because Hudson must still pass a physical.
Hudson will replace David Eckstein. Hudson played last season with the AL Central champion Minnesota Twins, hitting .268 with six homers and 37 RBIs. Prior to that he was with the Los Angeles Dodgers, Arizona Diamondbacks and Toronto Blue Jays.
Hudson will make $4 million 2011 and $5.5 million in 2012. There's an $8 million mutual option for 2013 with a $2 million buyout.
Padres general manager Jed Hoyer said he couldn't comment on the Hudson deal.
Bartlett will replace Miguel Tejada, who signed with the San Francisco Giants. He made 125 starts at shortstop for the Rays, hitting .254 with four homers and 47 RBIs.
He was selected by San Diego in the 13th round of the 2001 amateur draft, then traded to Minnesota the following July for Brian Buchanon.
The Padres had just drafted Khalil Greene, making Bartlett, then with Double-A Lake Elsinore, expendable.
"I'm excited," Bartlett said during a conference call. "I never got to the big leagues over there. I've heard the National League game is a lot different. My wife and I love the beach, so we're excited about that. Coming from Tampa, there's no better place to go than San Diego. Hopefully, I can be there for a while."
Bartlett is eligible for salary arbitration after making $4 million last season. He can become a free agent after the 2011 World Series.
"Certainly in making this deal, I'm hopeful we can keep him in a Padres uniform beyond one year," Hoyer said.
Bartlett was an All-Star in 2009, when he set career highs by hitting .320 with 14 home runs, 66 RBIs, 90 runs scored and 30 stolen bases.
He dropped off last year, hitting .254 with four homers and 47 RBIs.
"Something clicked that year where everything was going right," Bartlett said of the '09 season. "Hopefully it clicks again."
The Rays and Padres appeared close to a deal at the recent winter meetings, but Hoyer said reports were premature.
Bartlett said he initially found out about the deal then because he has an MLB trade rumor application on his iPhone and he got an update saying the trade was official. He texted his agent, who said it wasn't.
"It's been pretty hectic," he said. "I had a feeling it would work out."
Hoyer, who used to work in Boston's front office, was familiar with Bartlett.
"He was hard to play against," Hoyer said. "He's a pest. He gets on base, he has good at-bats. He's a good all-around baseball player. There was always a focus on that breakout year he had, but even before that season you didn't want to see him in the batter's box. He's a player you didn't want to play against."
Bartlett was traded from Minnesota to Tampa Bay, along with Matt Garza, in a six-player deal on Nov. 28, 2007.
Russell made 12 relief appearances with San Diego in 2010 while Ramos made 14 relief appearances. Both were in their second big league seasons. Figueroa and Gomes are minor leaguers.
The Padres still need to get a first baseman after trading Adrian Gonzalez to Boston.


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Autistic Boy Hate Letter: Anonymous Hate Letter Demands Boy Be Euthanized; Hundreds Rally to Support
An autistic boy has received a hate letter telling him and his family that no-one would ever love him or employ him, and demand that he move into the woods or be euthanized.
The shocking hate letter has gone viral online and hundreds of Internet users have been rallying round to support the under fire family, and express their disgust at the author of the letter.
The 13 year old autistic boy's mother, Karla Begley, has been left devastated by the letter says, saying, "It made me sick to my stomach to think that somebody hated my son that much and they didn't even know him. But they just hated him because he was different. That's the only reason they had to hate him," according to The Toronto Star.
Her son, Maxwell, lives with her in Oshawa, and she describes that he loves the movie Grease, as well as trampolines and go-karts.
Wisely, Karla has not revealed the contents of the hate letter to her son, but admits that he has noticed that a lot of attention has been coming him way of late since the letter's arrival.
Karla said, "He doesn't know anything about the letter. He loves the attention, he thinks he's famous."
The anonymous hate letter was written by someone who claims to live near the boy's grandmother's house, in a Newcastle neighborhood. The hater complains that when Maxwell comes to visit his grandma, Brenda Millson, he makes a "noise polluting whaling (sic)" that "scares the hell out of my normal children!!!!"
The horrendous letter slams that the young autistic boy is a "hindrance to everyone." Furthermore the author demands, "Do the right thing and move or euthanize him!!! Either way, we are ALL better off!!!"
The hater concludes, "Sincerely, One p****d off mother!"
The boy's grandma admits that as she finished reading the letter she was already in tears and shaking.
"After I finished reading it, I was crying and shaking," Millson says.
Maxwell was diagnosed with autism at 20 months of age, and Durham Region polie have been notified of the shocking hate mail. They are reportedly consulting with prosecutors to determine whether any laws have been broken.


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Younger Americans continue to identify with the Democratic Party and liberal attitudes about key issues such as the role of federal government — a wide departure from the views of many older voters, according to a new research released Monday.
Based on 2012 presidential exit polls, voters under 30 were the only age group of which a majority felt the government should do more to solve problems, according to new analysis from the Pew Research Center.
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Arsene Wenger has claimed that Arsenal remain in the race for third place after their victory over Aston Villa brought them to within two points of Chelsea.
The Gunners currently lie in fifth and are chasing a top-four spot and Champions League qualification but Wenger believes they have a chance of overtaking the Blues as well as Tottenham.
"I'm not sure the other places are not reachable," Wenger told the club's official website. "Chelsea are only two points ahead. I'm not sure it will only be a fight with Tottenham. It could be a tight fight until the end.
"We are ready for that. We are ready to fight for the football we love to play. You could see that against Aston Villa.
"We continued to play until the last second of the game and we will continue to do that until the end of the season. Recently in the Premier League we have not conceded too many.
"But I think we have to improve a little bit the number of goals we are scoring because in recent games we created a lot of chances but didn't take advantage."
Wenger did admit that the confidence of his side remains fragile after they suffered defeats against Blackburn and Bayern Munich in the FA Cup and Champions League respectively before seeing off Villa.
"Right now, confidence is our best friend and a lack of confidence is our worst enemy," Wenger conceded. "Both of them are very fragile.
"We were nervous [against Villa] because we had absolutely to win. We had hit the wall twice in one week.
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APPLETON, Wis. -- The St. Scholastica football team had a big offensive day as they defeated the Lawrence University Vikings 34-21 in the season opener in Appleton, Wis.
Both teams started off a little bit slow offensively, with neither scoring in the first quarter. The Saints picked off Lawrence quarterback, Luke Barthelmess twice in the first quarter, with Justin Trautmiller intercepting the first, and Jake Turkowski taking the second away.
Lawrence started off the scoring early in the second quarter as Jon Bruehl caught a 94-yard touchdown pass from Barthelmess, but CSS blocked the extra point to hold Lawrence to just a 6-0 lead.
The Saints answered on the very next drive when Alex Thiry completed a 9-yard pass to Nick Thiry after a 7:38 drive to tie the game. The extra point from Mike Theismann was good to put the Saints ahead 7-6.
These two touchdowns proved to be just the beginning of a back-and-forth battle between the Saints and Vikings as Lawrence drove down the field for another score on the next drive. Barthelmess found Tyler Mazur for the 26-yard score to put the Vikings up 13-7.
Following suit, Thiry found Jonny Bennett for a 21-yard touchdown pass on the last play of the half, putting the Saints up 14-13 going into halftime.
The scoring didn't slow down in the second half, as the Saints took the opening drive 60 yards in six plays, ending with a 21-yard touchdown pass from Thiry to Keegan O'Neill. The extra point from Theismann was good to give CSS a 21-13 lead.
Lawrence also came out strong in the second half, taking their opening drive 52 yards for a touchdown on a 1-yard run by Mazur. The Vikings converted the two-point conversion on a pass from Barthelmess to Dominique Dirden to tie the game at 21 a piece.
The Saints punted the ball away on their next drive, but the defense came up strong with a fumble recovery by Christopher Doran to give CSS possession to close out the third quarter.
The fourth quarter was all Saints as the defense shut out the Vikings, and CSS running back Jake Jensen had two touchdown runs to give the Saints a late 13 point lead. The Saints would keep this lead and go on to defeat the Vikings, 34-21.
Thiry had a big day for the Saints at quarterback, completing 18 of 23 passing for 211 yards, three touchdowns and no interceptions.
Jensen led the rushing attack for St. Scholastica, gaining 140 yards on the ground and finding the end zone two times on the day.
The receivers had a big day for CSS as well, with Thiry catching six passes for 68 yards, O'Neill bringing in five passes for 63 yards and Bennett catching three for 33 yards. All three also had a touchdown on the day.
Sean Graskey led the way tackling for the Saints, earning 12 on the day, including a sack for a nine yard loss. Turkowski and Trautmiller had the two interceptions for the Saints on the day, along with Doran's fumble recovery, giving the Saints three turnovers, and giving them an early +3 turnover margin on the season. Jordan Rasmussen also had a sack on the day for St. Scholastica.
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Getting A Screaming Tone With Boss & Gallows
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Their eponymous third album was one of our favourites from 2012, blending the mid rangey aggression and super saturated sound of modern hardcore with some classically British, acerbic punk attitude. Their guitarist Laurent Bernard (aka Lags) spoke to Roland recently to explain how he get's his tone using Boss pedals.
Keeping things simple he uses a Boss GE-7 with mids boosted and treble/bass cut for when things really kick off and you need a seriously cutting tone. There's a Boss Delay too as well as pedal board essentials, the Boss TU-2 tuner and a Noise Suppressor.
This combination is ideal for Lags' favoured mid ranged, open but gnarly tone. Combined with a Strat and cranked British style amp you get a phenomenal punk tone with definition and aggression in spades. We can also see a Roland GA-212 being used in the video.
Lags has also signed one of his favourite Boss pedals and it's being given away in a competition that you can enter here!
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The SD-1 can focus your mids and just bring things into focus, of course you can also use it to push your lead breaks.
With post rock it's all about the FX and while a driven amp is certainly a good thing you really want a tone warping pedal for this quite-loud transitions. The Metal Zone has oodles of control and can certainly do wall of sound distortion.


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Normally, interferon is used alone to stimulate the immune system to attack certain cancers. This strategy, a form of immunotherapy, is sometimes used to treat melanoma, advanced kidney cancer and other tumors that respond poorly to chemotherapy or radiation therapy. But interferon can have serious side effects that limit its use.
Surprisingly, the two drugs used in sequence caused no serious side effects in patients.
"Interferon can be quite toxic when used alone," says principal investigator William E. Carson, III, associate professor of surgery and associate director for clinical research at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center.
"We were initially concerned that the addition of IL-12 might increase that toxicity. Instead, we found that the two drugs can be used together without additional side effects."
The findings are published in the December 1 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology. They suggest that IL-12 primes white blood cells such that a lower dose of interferon will stimulate the same level of immune activity as a higher dose of interferon when used alone.
The results come from a phase-I clinical trial, which marks the first time a treatment is tried in human subjects. The trial, conducted by Carson and a team of colleagues, involved 49 patients ages 23 to 84 with different types of advanced cancer, including cancers of the colon, lung, kidney and bladder and melanoma.
On the first day of treatment, patients were given IL-12, initially by injection and then intravenously. That was followed by injections of interferon over the next five days. On average, patients received five such cycles over the course of the study.
The drug combination not only proved to be safe - which was the purpose of the study - but the researchers found that it stopped disease progression in five of the patients for at least six months.
"Our findings were encouraging," Carson says. "They indicate that we can safely administer IL-12 in combination with interferon, that it enhances the action of interferon in some patients with advanced cancer, and that it can be an effective way to stimulate the immune system."
Based on the study's results, and the results of earlier animal studies led by the research group, Carson and his colleagues are conducting a multicenter phase II clinical trial of the two drugs in people with melanoma.
Phase-II trials are the first step in determining the effectiveness of new therapy against a specific disease.
"We believe that use of the two drugs together will give us more bang for the buck," says first author Gregory B. Lesinski, a research assistant professor in the Human Cancer Genetics Program.
"We hope that the IL-12 will allow us to use lower doses of interferon in patients, which should result in fewer side effects and potentially a longer use of interferon, giving the immune system more time to fight the tumor."
Funding from the National Cancer Institute and The Valvano Foundation for Cancer Research Award supported this research.


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SF Giants seem more popular than 49ers
Giants pitchers and catchers report Tuesday in Scottsdale, Ariz., which finally might be the cure for the Bay Area's lingering Super Bowl hangover.
Especially because the Giants now appear to be the Bay Area's favorite sports team.
Not long ago, such a thought would be heresy. For years, the 49ers were considered the dominant force in local sports. We were a football-first market.
Apparently not anymore.
The evidence of our relative apathy was right there in black-and-white when the Super Bowl Nielsen television ratings were released. Baltimore was the No. 1 market in the country. Naturally. It had a team in the Super Bowl.
New Orleans was No. 2, which is interesting because the locals seemed eager for the tourists to empty out of restaurants so they could resume eating crawfish, pork belly and oysters to their hearts' delight. Maybe the locals knew something weird would happen inside the Superdome.
Baltimore's neighbor, Washington D.C., was No. 3 - understandable because until Robert Griffin III came along, the Ravens provided the only watchable football in the region.
The Bay Area? The other market with a team playing in the game? The sixth-largest media market in the country? Not in the top 10. Not in the top 20. No, our market was No. 28 of the 56 markets Nielsen measures.
Behind Dayton, Ohio. And Jacksonville, Fla. And many others.
That's a shock. I know it was a beautiful day and I know a lot of people watched the game in parties or bars, which lower ratings. I know the game started at 3:30 p.m. PST and that we are very, very busy, multidimensional people.
But 28th? Behind Milwaukee? For the 49ers?
Where have you gone, Joe Montana? A region turns its lonely eyes to you.
The low ranking isn't merely because people turned off their televisions when the 49ers fell behind 21-6. The measurement takes in the entirety of the game, minus the blackout. And the numbers actually went up a bit in the second half.
For years, it has been assumed that the 49ers were the biggest fish in our crowded sports pool. They certainly were in the 1980s and '90s. But, in recent years, it has been difficult to get a real measure of their market force because they were such a bad team.
This season, they returned to the top, back to the Super Bowl, barely three months after the Giants won the World Series. So we had a real way to compare the two teams.
I did a lot of analysis in my laboratory. Just kidding. I don't have a laboratory, but I do have a black Labrador asleep at my feet as I write this, and for these purposes, her input is just as scientific.
Football always kills baseball in the ratings. And the Super Bowl is an event, historically drawing the biggest nationwide ratings of the year. In direct comparison, more Bay Area televisions were tuned to the Super Bowl than to the World Series.
But during the 2012 World Series - a ratings dud around the rest of the country - the Bay Area was involved in a way you would expect of a home-team market. Detroit and San Francisco were the two top markets in the country. KNBR's radio ratings were though the roof at the time of Sergio Romo's final pitch to Miguel Cabrera.
What's surprising is that, compared with the rest of the country, the Super Bowl wasn't must-see TV here.
For those of us whose business it is to track the pulse of Bay Area sports, there's a different vibe with the 49ers than there once was. Under Jim Harbaugh, the team is intriguing, controversial and watchable, but it doesn't create rabid passion.
Give Colin Kaepernick more than 10 games as a starter and he might incite the type of fervor that his predecessors did. But, for now, the 49ers' personalities haven't captured the imagination of the Bay Area the way Joe, Jerry, Ronnie and Steve did.
Part of the explanation is that the old 49ers Faithful compare these players and coach to the glorious past and find they come up a little short. And the new 49ers Faithful haven't been given much reason to be faithful yet.
The Giants, in contrast, have engendered deep passion. The players are treated like rock stars or beloved family members. People are on a first-name basis with them.
On Saturday, a beautiful day, 35,000-40,000 fans flocked to FanFest. Hundreds of thousands - maybe a million - played hooky from school and work to watch the players in a parade on Halloween. The Giants are a movement. A regional force.
"They're on a magical run," sports-business consultant Andy Dolich said. "They have the personalities, the story lines. It's a love affair. People are head over heels."
And they've turned us into a baseball town.
The feeling around the Giants is similar to what the 49ers created a generation ago. Back then, it didn't matter what time the game was on or how nice the weather was. If the 49ers were in the Super Bowl, everyone was watching. Everyone.
Ann Killion is a San Francisco Chronicle columnist. E-mail: email@example.com Twitter: @annkillion


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Fails Of The Week: Ginuwine, Trinidad James, Azealia Banks And More
While Eminem found himself back at the top of the pops, these celebs bottomed out. Check out the biggest fails of the week.
Who: Ginuwine
What: Not everyone knows how to (allegedly) handle their liquor… In a hilarious series of tweets, the TGT singer posted messages that basically read like he was typing them out with his pinky finger. Clearly, no one who loves him was around to snatch his phone.
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School Record Holder in 800 and 1,500 Vying for Spot on Team USA
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Kate Grace '11, Yale's record-setting track star, will compete for a spot in the upcoming Olympics at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials starting this week in Eugene, Ore., at the University of Oregon's Hayward Field. The first round of competition (32 athletes) in Grace's signature event, the 800-meter run, takes place at 5:00 p.m. Pacific time (8:00 p.m. Eastern) on Friday. She will also compete in the 1,500 meter run, with the qualifying round in that event (30 athletes) scheduled for 3:50 p.m. Pacific time (6:50 p.m. Eastern) on Thursday, June 28.
The largest national championship track meet in the world, the U.S. Olympic Trials include more than 1,000 athletes competing for the right to represent Team USA at the Olympic games. NBC and NBC Sports Network will have a total of 67.5 hours of coverage of the trials, with NBC Sports Network broadcasting live on Monday, June 25, during the 800-meter finals and NBC broadcasting live on Sunday, July 1, during the 1,500-meter finals. The Olympics start on July 27 in London.
The semi-finals for the women's 800-meter run (16 athletes) at the Trials take place on Saturday at 4:30 p.m. Pacific time (7:30 p.m. Eastern), and the finals (eight athletes) are on Monday at 6:50 p.m. Pacific time (9:50 p.m. Eastern).
The semi-finals for the women's 1,500-meter run (24 athletes) take place on Friday, June 29 at 3:45 p.m. Pacific (6:45 p.m. Eastern). The finals (12 athletes) are Sunday, July 1 at 4:23 p.m. Pacific time (7:23 p.m. Eastern).
The U.S. can have up to three entries in each event at the Olympics, provided that they meet the A standard (1:59.90 in the 800, 4:06.00 in the 1,500) (one entry may meet the B standard, 2:01.30 in the 800 and 4:08.90 in the 1,500). If two or more athletes in the final have met the A standard by the end of that event in the Trials, then the top three who have met the A standard are on the Olympic team, with the fourth-best placement among those meeting the A standard being an alternate.
Since graduating, Grace has kept up her training as a member of the New Jersey-New York Track Club, shaving nearly two seconds off her PR in the 800. Her time of 2:01.63 places her 18th among the runners currently listed for the Trials on the USA Track & Field website. The top time, 1:57.37, belongs to Alysia Montano, the three-time U.S. Outdoor champion and former PAC-10 Women's Track Athlete of the Year for the University of California. The field also includes 2008 Olympians Hazel Clark and Alice Schmidt. Grace's 1,500-meter time of 4:10.57 places her 16th among the runners currently listed for that event on the USA Track & Field website. The top time, 4:01.59, belongs to former Cornell runner Morgan Uceny. Shannon Rowbury, who finished seventh in the event at the 2008 Olympics, is also in the field, with a time of 4:05.92.
Grace capped her Yale career a year ago by earning the Nellie Pratt Elliot Award -- the most prestigious athletic award given to a senior female at Yale -- and being named Northeast Region Track Athlete of the Year. She earned her fourth All-American honor as well. She was a six-time Ivy League Heptagonal champion in the 800-meter run, winning the event both indoors and outdoors in each of her final three seasons. She was just the second runner in league history to win six 800-meter run titles.
Grace set several indoor records her senior season, including a school record and personal best of 4:39.52 in the mile. Her school record time in the 800, 2:03.41, came at the NCAA First Round meet last spring. She set another school record in winning the ECAC 1,500-meter race in 4:20.66 outdoors. And in addition to winning her third consecutive Ivy outdoor championship in the 800, she won the 1,500-meter race at Heps too.
Grace majored in environmental studies and was a member of Saybrook College at Yale. She is a native of Santa Monica, Calif., and attended Marlborough High.
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Kent graduates 8 new doctors, 3 to stay in city
Warwick just gained three new doctors.
On Friday, Kent Hospital celebrated the graduation of its second class of residents from the Emergency Medicine and Family Medicine Graduation Medical Education programs, as well as its first graduate of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Fellowship program. Eight doctors graduated from Kent, and three will remain here to practice.
In addition to the graduation of eight doctors, Kent welcomed 13 new residents and interns Friday, presenting them with white lab coats, gifts and praise.
Being a part of the Kent family was a recurring theme, and speakers at the graduation talked about the growth and change of the hospital's staff, residents and interns.
"You've really been a part of the hospital," said Sandra Coletta, president and CEO of Kent Hospital at the ceremony. "Kent is a family and you have been a part of that family."
Coletta remembered that some of the residents took care of her own mother during her time at the hospital. She said she formed a special bond with the graduating group of doctors.
The ceremony took place in a tent on the grounds of the hospital, a stone's throw from the new wing set to open in the near future. Coletta said the graduating residents were there throughout the literal expansion of the hospital, while they acted as "bricks and mortar" to the hospital's metaphorical growth.
Mayor Scott Avedisian addressed the assembly, saying he was delighted to hear that three of the new doctors will be staying in Rhode Island to practice.
"You're about to join an incredible family here at Kent," he said. Avedisian said the graduates of the Kent residency program would continue to make the hospital and the city proud.
Dr. Michelle McKenney, a Warwick native and family medicine graduate, was one of the eight to graduate on Friday.
"It's always good to be home," said McKenney of her experiences at Kent. "Kent is a community hospital."
McKenney said it was surreal to see and care for people she had grown up with from the Warwick community. McKenney attended public schools in Warwick, going from Wyman to Aldrich to Pilgrim, before she headed to Providence College for her pre-med schooling. McKenney currently lives in Massachusetts with her husband, and hopes to practice in Rhode Island or southern Massachusetts.
Other graduates included Dr. Melissa Monte, a Cranston native who will become an Emergency Medical Attending at Lawrence & Memorial Hospital in Connecticut; Dr. Douglas Kuxhausen from Nebraska, who will be moving to Indiana to join Indiana University's Health Physicians at Ball Memorial Hospital, and Dr. Tucker Lienhop, who will head back to his home state of Missouri to join a trauma center in midtown Kansas City. Dr. Emily Cloyer, originally from Texas, will stay at Kent as an attending emergency medicine physician; Dr. Katy Welzbacher, from Illinois, will also become an attending emergency medicine physician and academic faculty member, and Dr. Chris Mozdzanowski, from Massachusetts, will be Kent's newest fellow in Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine.
Coletta said the hospital has helped the residents help the patients, a trickle-down effect that will stay with the new doctors forever.
"Your legacy of Kent will travel with you wherever you go," said Coletta. "You are the voice of Kent, and I know you're going to affect so many lives and touch so many people."
The 13 new residents do not include any native Rhode Islanders, but doctors from Ohio, Florida, New Jersey, Iowa, California, Oklahoma, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York and New Hampshire.
The graduate medical education program began at Kent, an affiliate of the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine, in 2008 and honored its first group of graduates last spring. The hospital currently has 38 residents and one fellow enrolled in the Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine and Internal Medicine residency programs.


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Historic Walking Tour of Baraboo
Name: Historic Walking Tour of Baraboo
Date: May 25, 2018
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CDT
Website: http://barabootours.com
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Come and follow in the footsteps of the Ringling Brothers and see the legacy they left behind. One hour walking tour starting at 417 Ash Street. $10 if purchuased online, $12 walk up price. 11:00 am . Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Memorial Day to Labor Day.


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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) Joe Torre, Tommy Lasorda and Jim Leyland were among the many friends and family members at Tropicana Field on Saturday to celebrate the life of longtime baseball man Don Zimmer.
The tribute was held before the Tampa Bay Rays played Seattle. Zimmer, a senior adviser for the Rays, died Wednesday at 83 in a hospital in nearby Dunedin.
Both teams wore Zimmer's No. 23 Brooklyn Dodgers jersey as they lined up along the foul lines. Fans stood and cheered at the end of a video tribute.
There is no funeral or other memorial service planned.
More than 20 family members, including Zimmer's wife ''Soot'' - they were married at home plate during a minor league game in 1951 - also attended.
''A great life,'' Soot Zimmer said. ''No regrets.''
Son Tom Zimmer, a scout with the San Francisco Giants, caught the ceremonial first pitch thrown by granddaughter Whitney Goldstein.
Torre says Zimmer was ''one of a kind'' and ''an institution.''
Zimmer was Torre's bench coach for four World Series championships with the Yankees.
''His loss creates a void in my life,'' Torre said. ''I hired a coach who became a family member, basically. I think baseball is just going to miss the presence of him. He was a big teddy bear, there's no question about it.''
Zimmer spent 66 years in baseball as a player, manager, coach and executive.
''I just hope that people remember what a great baseball man this guy was,'' Leyland said. ''He was a character, but he wasn't somebody that you laughed at when you understood how much this guy knew about baseball. His passion for the game and his passion for people.''
''It's kind of an ironic day,'' he said. ''Today's the day of the Belmont, as you know, and everybody knows how he liked horses. Family came first, baseball second, horses third. So, family is here today, we're going to have a ballgame and the Belmont is today.''
Zimmer convinced Torre not to make ties mandatory when the Yankees traveled. Torre, who wore a tie Saturday with horses on it, removed it when the subject came up during the ceremony.
Yankees star Derek Jeter made a video statement. So did Yankees manager Joe Girardi, whose first big league manager was Zimmer with the Chicago Cubs.
''He made an impact like no else has,'' Texas Rangers senior adviser Tom Giordano said.
The ceremony ended with ''Take Me Out to the Ball Game'' played on a bagpipe.
''Perfect,'' Tom Zimmer said. ''Emotional.''


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Optimizing Your Local Listing on Apple's Siri
Teaching Siri to suggest your business.
Teaching Siri to suggest your business.
In Q4 2011, Apple sold 37 million iPhones to retake the coveted title of the number one smartphone, according to IDC-Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker. Much of these record sales can be attributed to Apple's iPhone 4S, with its unique voice searching capability, Siri. In October, I penned "Will Apple's Siri Change the Voice of Local Search?" to begin exploring how this new functionality could be harnessed for local search campaigns. Through the holidays, my team began a series of designed experiments to better understand the data sources that Apple was utilizing and potential techniques to leverage its local search algorithm.
Because mobile searchers are often "on the go," the importance of position for a local listing is greatly increased and can be the difference for one business getting selected over another. Unlike desktop search where position on the first page of the search engine results rage (SERP) is deemed successful, optimization on mobile devices into the top couple of positions is required.
Below is the design and results for one of my team's designed experiments that explored the causality between Yelp reviews and listing position. Our agency's work for our clients is confidential, so I have removed the client's name and category from this discussion.
Searches for "client keyword in Troy, MI" on Google Maps returned client name in the third, fifth, and seventh positions on page one. However, the same voice search on Apple iPhone 4S via Siri (voice search) yielded a business listings set that did not include client. The root cause was the fact that even though voice query search results are often displayed in Google Maps on the Apple iPhone 4S, Apple is utilizing a different listings database than Google, complete with a proprietary algorithm to deliver search results on the device.
Based on observations of my agency's additional client programs and research information we had developed, we hypothesized that Yelp reviews were a primary optimization key for Siri with the root local listing data source being Localeze.
Experiment Design
On January 4, 2012, the voice query for "client name in Troy, MI" results displayed three listings for client name with no reviews. A second voice query for "client keyword in Troy, MI" provided a result set with 25 businesses and no appearance of client in the search results. The first position was occupied by a business with one review with no stars.
On January 4, 2012, we inserted a four-star Yelp review for a specific client listing as a means to observe, and prove/disprove two elements:
Please note – we do not condone creating non-authentic reviews; the review that was inserted was from a customer of the client, used with their permission. If you would like more information for tips on increasing the volume of authentic ratings and reviews for your business/brand, please read "3 Tips To Leverage Ratings and Reviews."
Each morning at 8:00 a.m. EST, we conducted the same two voice queries: "client name in Troy, MI" and "client keyword in Troy, MI."
On January 24, 2012, the voice query for "client name in Troy, MI" resulted in three listings for client with the first inclusion of the review posted in Yelp on January 4, 2012 (21 days). The second voice query for "client keyword in Troy, MI" provided a result set with 25 businesses and client in the first position of search results.
Yelp reviews directly affect position on Apple's iPhone 4S results. In terms of update cycle, it would appear that the Siri database is updated on a 30-day cycle. Additionally, the incremental review citation for the client location improved position ranking on Google Maps from positions third, fifth, and seventh to second, fourth, and sixth.
Based on improved SERP position, we recommended that the client undertake a comprehensive program to authentically increase ratings and reviews with specific emphasis on Yelp. This program encourages recent customers to post content for discrete locations as a tactic to improve SERP position and provide content that displays point-of-difference attributes, which increase selection rates for potential customers of our client.
This is one of over a dozen designed experiments we are currently tracking to ever improve primary knowledge on local, mobile, and social search. Many of these are to prove or disprove local myths we have read about or experienced in the marketplace. Get started with your own set of experiments to help improve your skills. For more information on local search, join us at SES New York on March 20 for our session "Local Myth Busters – Local Optimization Facts Proven or Debunked." If you have a specific myth proven or debunked, write me at ClickZ to enter your topic to be included in the panel discussion of local search experts and me.


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This whole Meyer lemon cake is intensely lemony! It's made with the entire lemon and semolina flour, drizzled with an olive oil and yogurt glaze.
Wait — did you say whole meyer lemon cake?
That's right. If you've been reading my blog for a while, you might know I have a thing for anything lemon-y. That is, things that contain lemon peel, juice, oil, zest, flesh…the whole thing!
In other words, the very essence of lemon is delicious to me.
Which is why I was drawn to this recipe for Whole Orange Cake from Sunset Magazine, which uses and the entire fresh orange to make the cake.
I do care deeply for all kinds of citrus, including oranges, but when Meyer lemons are at their peak season they make a good swap for oranges.
What are Meyer lemons?
Meyer lemons are a cross between a type of tangerine and a lemon, so they have a milder, sweeter bite than the typical Eureka lemon.
The meyer lemon also has a more delicate, thin skin than regular lemons. They are a great choice to use whole – skin, flesh and all – in the batter.
There's semolina in my version of this cake – it's the same finely ground durum flour used to make pasta, with a nice mild yellow color that seems to get along with lemon.
And the cake smells incredible while it's baking, kind of like a pot of spaghetti with lemon sugar all over it. Well, not really like that, but it does have an enticing aroma while in the oven.
The resulting crumb is moist. And lemony. So lemony, with just a tiny bit of bitterness from the peel. If you enjoy candied citrus peel, you'll know the kind of sweet bitterness I'm talking about.
Emiko posted a recipe for an old-fashioned Italian semolina cake on her blog – I would love a bite of that, too.
whole meyer lemon semolina cake with yogurt-olive oil glaze
Yield 1 7-inch cake
This cake is baked in a small (sometimes called a "mini" or half-size) Bundt pan. If you don't have that size pan, you can use a 6 - 8 cup fluted pan, but the height of the cake will be shorter.
- 1 tablespoon plus 1 stick butter (1/2 cup), at room temperature
- 1 tablespoon plus 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 Meyer lemons
- ½ cup semolina flour
- ¼ teaspoon fine sea salt
- ¼ teaspoon baking powder
- 1/8 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ cup natural cane sugar or granulated sugar
- 2 eggs, room temperature
- For glaze:
- 1 cup powdered sugar, sifted to remove lumps
- 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 tablespoon Greek yogurt (plain or vanilla flavored)
- 1 teaspoon fresh Meyer lemon or plain lemon juice
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- Use your fingers to smear 1 tablespoon butter all over the inside and into the nooks and crannies of a small (3 - 4 cup capacity) Bundt pan (6 – 7 inches in diameter). Sprinkle 1 tablespoon of the flour into the pan and rotate to distribute the flour in an even coating over the butter. Knock out any excess flour by tapping the pan upside down. This is an important step to ensure your cake doesn't stick to the pan.
- Cut the lemons into wedges and remove the seeds. Put the lemons in a food processor and process until fairly smooth – it's okay if some very small pieces of peel are visible – you should have about 1 cup.
- In a small bowl, whisk remaining 1 cup flour together with the semolina, salt, baking powder and baking soda.
- Beat the remaining stick of butter with the sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer on medium speed until fluffy; beat in the eggs one at a time.
- Add the lemon puree to the mixer and beat until combined; add the flour mixture and stir until smooth. Spread the batter evenly into the Bundt pan; bake 40 – 45 minutes, or until a toothpick emerges from the cake with a few moist crumbs. Cool the cake in the pan 10 minutes before turning out onto a rack to cool completely.
- To make the glaze, stir together all the ingredients until smooth; add 1 teaspoon or more water to reach a thick but pourable consistency. Drizzle the glaze over the cooled cake and let it set before slicing.
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Digital Jesters announces signing of DiezelPower's PC & Xbox 360 squad-based action title, DogTag; due 2006:
DogTag is a squad based military game, where a marine battalion has been sent in to replace a retreating rebel faction. A few weeks later, intelligence confirms that the colonel leading the battalion had engaged in a mutiny against central command with the support of (some or all of) the troops under his command. His reasons, at this stage, are unknown.
Players will control an elite Special Ops Squad whose mission is to arrest and retrieve the command structure behind the rebellion. If retrieval is not possible, players need to neutralize the battalion command. How will the player decide to pull the trigger when the enemy is a friend?
Using a unique cover-based gameplay system, players will be encouraged to fully interact with every aspect of the environment for both offensive and defensive manoeuvres. In addition to shielding your squad from any immediate threat, the environments are specifically designed to provide multiple tactical firing positions, as well as blind-fire tactics to destroy the enemy without exposing your team.


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Oct. 23, 2008
SAN DIEGO, CA - Cal State Fullerton sophomore Erin Wiesener won her first round match-up against Arizona State's Amanda Martin while teammate Shelly Injejikian lost her opener in the first day of action at the ITA West Regionals hosted by San Diego State on Thursday.
Wiesener posted a straight-set, 6-3, 6-1, victory over Martin to open tournament play, but fell to No. 5-ranked Andrea Remynse of UCLA, 6-1, 6-2, in the second round. She is scheduled to face San Diego's Ellie Faulkner on Friday morning (Oct. 24) at 9:30 a.m. in the consolation bracket with the winner taking on Hawaii's Melinda Wong in the third round at 12:30 p.m.
Injejikian lost her opener in straight sets to UC Riverside's Roxanne Plata, 6-3, 6-4, and will meet San Diego State's Milana Yusupov at 10:30 a.m. in Friday's consolation action.
The duo then teamed up for doubles play, falling to UNLV's Anna Maskaljun and Alisa Razina, 8-2, in the first round.
Complete results from day one action can be found on San Diego State's website at www.goaztecs.com.


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Mercedes-Benz GLA45 AMG Blower Motor Replacement Cost
Know what price you should pay to get your vehicle fixed.
What is a heater blower motor?
The blower motor is a fan housed in the heating ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) ducts, normally located behind the glove box. When the heater or air conditioner are active, the blower motor pushes the desired temperature of air through the selected vents.
How does the heater blower motor work?
Inside the HVAC box, the blower motor sits behind the heater core and air conditioner evaporator. When the heater is selected, the blower motor sucks in air, and blows it across the hot heater core, thus providing heat from the vents. Likewise, when the air conditioner is active, the blower motor blows air across the cold evaporator, which blows cold air through the vents.
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What are the symptoms related to a bad heater blower motor?
When the blower motor fails, the air conditioner and heater may still work, and heat or cool may be felt at the vents, but the air pressure will be dramatically decreased. This will occur at all fan speeds, and all temperatures. Another possible symptom of failure is a rattling or grinding noise that comes from the passenger floorboard anytime the heater or A/C is active. This can be caused by broken fan blades, or a faulty fan bearing. This noise may come and go at random, and the fan speed may or may not change the noise.
Can I drive with a heater blower motor problem?
Driving with a defective blower motor is not the most comfortable option for occupants, but there is no safety risk associated, and the blower motor cannot contact other components to cause damage in most cases,
How often do heater blower motors need to be replaced?
Blower motors tend to fail frequently in high mileage vehicles, but their failure does not depend on mileage. Age can be a factor as the plastic fan blades become brittle over time. The amount of use a blower motor receives may also be a factor. Also, debris entering the HVAC box can destroy a blower motor regardless of mileage or age.
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How are heater blower motor issues diagnosed?
The servicing technician will perform a series of tests that will lead them to the blower motor diagnosis. If the blower motor is making a grinding or rattling noise, it will be removed first for inspection, and if defective, it will be replaced. If the blower motor not blowing air, the technician will first find and inspect any related fuses. Afterwards, the blower motor's electrical connector is inspected to determine if power is reaching the blower motor. If power reaches the blower motor, and the blower does not function, it will be removed, bench tested with an external power source. If the blower motor fails to operate under direct power, it will be replaced.
How is a heater blower motor replaced?
If the blower motor must be replaced, either the glove box or lower cover will be removed from the dashboard. This will grant access to the HVAC duct box, and the blower motor service cover. The service cover is removed, and the blower motor is disconnected electronically. Finally, the blower motor retaining screws will be removed, followed by the blower motor. Installation will include installing the blower motor resistor into the blower motor, followed by the reverse order of operations for removal. The technician can then test the function of the blower motor, and confirm the customer complaint has been resolved.
What to look out for when dealing with heater blower motor issues
If the blower motor is making noise, there is no issue using the air conditioner. The motor will eventually fail once the noise has started, but until the vehicle is repaired or the blower motor fails, further use should not complicate the issue. The blower motor resistor can cause similar symptoms, but the fan would more than likely work on one or more settings until the resistor fails. When all fan speeds are not functioning, the blower motor will be suspected.
Can I replace the heater blower motor myself?
The moderately skilled DIYer can accomplish this diagnosis and repair. A basic understanding of a series electrical circuit, a few basic tools, and a digital voltage meter are all that is required. It is important that the DIYer understand the testing procedures for the blower motor circuit, as failing to properly test the blower motor may lead to unnecessary costs.
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