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Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials
Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers around the world:
Sept. 11
The Australian on Obama haunted by post-Iraq uncertainty:
A dozen years after 9/11, Barack Obama's address on Syria provided a sobering insight into US strategic hesitancy. It underlined the extent to which prevarication and weakness have become the hallmarks of the President's administration in dealing with the challenges of jihadist extremism and global terrorism.
As a reluctant belligerent, he has clutched, understandably, at Russia's proposal to place Syria's chemical weapons under international control. He has used this to delay the congressional vote on a retaliatory strike against the Assad regime. No one can reasonably criticize Obama for that: a diplomatic way out would be better than military action. But what he could not disguise is the extent to which Syria, like so many current security and strategic issues, is bedeviled by Obama's penchant for leading from behind.
His case for a retaliatory military strike against Syria is well made. It was indeed the "worst chemical weapons attack of the 21st century". But the case against Bashar al-Assad has been compelling for two years (long before the Syrian rebels were infiltrated by al-Qaida-linked militants). In that time, 100,000 Syrians have been slaughtered. Yet Washington has allowed itself to be outmaneuvered by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Now Obama is beholden to Mr. Putin to get him off the hook.
Apart from giving the orders that led to the killing of Osama bin Laden, Obama has failed to provide the firm leadership the post-9/11 world needs. During his re-election campaign, Obama pronounced al-Qaida "decimated" and "on the path to defeat". ...
Obama has sometimes bordered on apologetic about America's global role, sending all the wrong signals to the likes of Iran and North Korea. No wonder governments from Riyadh to Seoul are worried about their reliance on the US. There should be no shame in wisely asserting American power. Libya's Muammar Gaddafi rapidly surrendered his WMDs when he saw what happened to Saddam Hussein.
Military force must always be a last option, but we need more decisive leadership from Washington. Former president George W. Bush had to work assiduously to muster backing from allies and instill fear into enemies after 9/11. Yet, in deriding the legitimacy and success of the US in Iraq, Obama increased his challenges on Syria.
Sept. 10
The Japan Times on now Japan must deliver in regards to Olympics:
The International Olympic Committee has chosen Tokyo as the host of the 2020 Summer Olympics and Paralympics. It is hoped that Tokyo's hosting of the once-in-four-year global games will help dispel the "locked in" feeling prevalent in Japanese society — which has been primarily attributed to difficult economic conditions — and help to enhance the level of sports in Japan. But government leaders must realize that their promise to end the leaks of radioactive water from Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant has now become an international pledge.
The government must mobilize all available resources to quickly solve the leak problem so that not only people in and around Fukushima Prefecture but also participants in the Olympic and Paralympic Games will not have to worry about radiation problems. ...
Madrid, Istanbul and Tokyo, the candidate cities to host the 2020 Summer Olympics and Paralympics, all had strong and weak points. Madrid, which sought to hold the games in a less extravagant way, is suffering from Spain's serious economic problems. Istanbul, which could have become the first city in the Islamic world to host the games, had its image tarnished by clashes between government forces and demonstrators earlier this year. Tokyo, whose marketing campaign stressed, "You're in safe hands with Tokyo," had the festering radiation problem.
It appears that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's speech in Buenos Aires, the venue of the IOC's convention — in which he stated that the situation at Fukushima No. 1 is under control and that the "effect" of contaminated water is fully contained within the 0.3 sq. meter harbor adjacent to the nuclear power plant — helped to convince the IOC to award the games to Tokyo. ...
Japan's campaign to win the right to host the games had a very regrettable aspect to it. Princess Takamado gave a speech at the outset of Tokyo's presentation in Buenos Aires, in which she thanked the international community for the help it extended to Japan in the aftermath of the 3/11 disasters. This smacks of the use of an Imperial Family member for a political purpose, and even the Imperial Household Agency expressed its discomfort. The Diet should question the government on this point and ask it to refrain from similar actions in the future.
Mami Sato, a Paralympian from Kesenuma, Miyagi Prefecture, gave a powerful speech stressing the power of sports to restore people's confidence based on her experience in the 3/11 disasters. Japan needs to make serious efforts to nurture more athletes who embody the ideals stated by Sato.
Sept. 9
The Times, Gainesville, Georgia, on Mideast peace still elusive 12 years after 9/11 attacks:
Twelve years ago this Wednesday, we were suddenly and stunningly jolted from our naive notion that the world was a much safer place than we had led ourselves to believe.
The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, took 3,000 lives and impacted millions more by jerking the blinders off our heads. So America saddled up, went to war in the Middle East, and eventually earned some measure of justice by taking down many al-Qaida leaders and sending the Taliban running into the hills.
Yet a dozen years later, the Middle East looks no more stable nor peaceful than it was in 2001. That leads many to wonder what U.S. policy should be in the region. It's a debate without a clear right or a left, nor easy answers, as the nation considers taking action in yet another turbulent locale, Syria.
The 9/11 attacks directly led to the U.S. military action in Afghanistan. That war has cost 2,200 American lives with success hard to measure, though the No. 2 U.S. commander there, Army Lt. Gen. Mark Milley, said last week he believes victory still can be won before forces withdraw at the end of 2014.
The terror attacks also indirectly led to the U.S. invasion of Iraq a year later, based on the belief Saddam Hussein's regime had supported the terrorists and amassed destructive weapons. Our nation committed more than 4,400 lives and billions of dollars in a divisive engagement that many still believe was a mistake ...
Now civil war in Syria pits Bashar Assad's government against revolutionaries seeking to add that country to the Arab Spring list of toppled dictators that included Libya's Gadhafi and Egypt's Mubarak. His armed forces' apparent use of chemical weapons in a recent battle has the Obama administration seeking "targeted, limited" airstrikes against some of his military sites.
If we learned anything from these messy Mideast uprisings it's that removing one group of bad actors doesn't lead to peace, stability and democracy — usually just to a different group of equally bad actors who impose their own brand of oppressive rule and political retribution.
Sept. 9
The Tampa (Florida) Tribune on vexing U.N. vetoes:
Many Americans may be infuriated that Russia and China have signaled their readiness to veto any United Nations Security Council resolution that calls for intervention to punish Syria's use of chemical weapons in its brutal civil war.
According to U.N. rules, adopted in 1945 when the international organization was created, any of the five permanent members (the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, China and France) of the Security Council may veto any resolution brought before the council, thus preventing any action the other members may favor.
Critics believe that the U.N. founders made a terrible mistake in granting that veto power, and perhaps they're right. But it would be a serious mistake to think that the veto power doesn't serve American interests as well as those of our adversaries.
Over the years, the American ambassador to the U.N. has frequently exercised the right to cast a veto. ...
The first United States veto came in 1970 and dealt with a major crisis in what was then Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). The United Kingdom, of which Rhodesia was once a colony, vetoed seven Security Council resolutions on that subject. Two years later, the United States cast the only veto on a resolution that was critical of Israel.
In fact, since 1972 the United States has been by far the most frequent user of the veto and nearly all the vetoes involved resolutions that were contrary to Israel's political interests. ...
Benjamin Ferencz, a prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crimes trials after World War II, suggested (in a recent letter to The New York Times) that in this case the Security Council should refer the matter to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, "which is competent to penalize crimes against humanity." What he didn't say, however, is how the Syrian leader, Bashar al-Assad, could be forced to face that court.
Still, the U.N., for its faults and machinations, does provide a useful if imperfect global platform for maintaining peaceful relations and providing humanitarian aid, as world leaders envisioned when it was formed at the end of World War II.
The United States should never allow its involvement to diminish its security or sovereignty, but the United Nations, vetoes and all, does serve a valuable purpose.
Sept. 10
New York Times on Pakistan's peaceful transition:
During most of his five years as Pakistan's president, Asif Ali Zardari was so embattled that there were constant rumors that he would be killed, jailed or ousted in a military coup. On Sunday, he left office after a formal lunch hosted by his political rivals. This was the first time that an elected Pakistani president had completed his term; most others were overthrown or forced to resign. It was a remarkable development in a fragile nation not known for peaceful transitions. On Monday, Mamnoon Hussain, an obscure 73-year-old political figure, was sworn in as his successor.
This was all seen as a hopeful if unexpected sign that democratic institutions may be taking hold. Zardari, elected president after his wife, Benazir Bhutto, the former prime minister, was assassinated, was controversial. Senior judges tried to unseat him through corruption prosecutions; generals spread rumors of possible coups; the news media and the public criticized him incessantly; the Taliban vowed to kill him. But he confounded critics by surviving. He also strengthened democracy by moderating the powers of his own office and the confrontational tone of politics in general.
Pakistan remains a dangerous country. ...
It is vitally important that Hussain, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and the military, headed by Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, work together to strengthen democratic processes. Kayani, probably the most powerful man in the country, should step down as planned in November and be replaced by someone who will continue to decrease the army role in politics.
Now that Pakistan has secured a $6.6 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund, the government should make the reforms needed to get the country on a sound financial footing. That has to include making sure that Pakistan's wealthy elite pay income taxes, and, if Pakistani leaders are smart, will also include shutting down a nuclear weapons program that wastes billions of dollars better spent on social programs like education.
The peaceful transition from Zardari to Hussain gives Pakistan a marker on which to build.
Sept. 10
Omaha World-Herald on Olympics rightly bringing back wrestling:
After making a mess of things, the International Olympic Committee finally got it right.
Wrestling is back.
In an inexplicable move earlier this year, the IOC's executive board cut wrestling from the list of Summer Games sports, explaining that it wanted to look for new sports that would sell more tickets and be more television-friendly.
Wrestlers worldwide, and those in the Midlands, rightly protested. After all, their sport was part of the original games in ancient Greece and has been included in every modern Olympics except 1900.
The ill-conceived move even brought together some unlikely allies. The United States, Iran and Russia all threw their weight behind the campaign to reinstate wrestling.
On Sunday, the Olympic committee admitted its mistake and voted to include wrestling in the 2020 and 2024 games. Although it stopped short of re- instating wrestling as a "core" Olympic summer sport, IOC President Jacques Rogge acknowledged that "wrestling has shown great passion and resilience in the last few months."
In the fight to remain in the Olympics, wrestling's international governing body reworked the sport's structure, added weight classes for women and adopted rules changes designed to make the sport easier for spectators to understand and more fun to watch. In the long run, those changes could be a real positive for the athletes. ...
Olympics officials axed wrestling because they said they wanted new, more popular sports. It was a dumb idea, and the vote to bring wrestling back shows they seem to understand that now.
Going back to its roots is a good move for the Olympics and for the athletes of the future.


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Editor's note: This is the first in a series about early brain development and how conditions in very early life, beginning in pregnancy, can affect individuals far into adulthood.
By DR. JODY BRAKELEY
BRISTOL — Bristol Elementary School students will be the first to tell you that a 21st-century education is not just about the reading, writing and arithmetic. These kids are computer programmers, too.
Every student, from kindergarten through sixth grade, for the last week took part in computer coding lessons taught by Bristol Elementary librarian Kyra Ginalski and Gillian McGarvey, a parent who works in the technology sector.
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VERMONT — For Lucy Edwards, earning the title of Miss Vermont 2014 meant more than wearing a tiara and sash. Edwards, a first-time contestant and a sophomore at the University of Vermont, was drawn to the Miss Vermont competition for its history of giving women a platform from which to champion the causes they were most passionate about.
It's time to step back and take an honest look at ourselves and the energy we use. We all, including me, use energy. In fact we use lots of energy daily, hourly, every minute of our lives. Energy for food, clothes, the air we breathe indoors, our medicines, our transportation, even bicycles, for it takes energy to build and sell and repair them, skiing, paper, and all our electronic gadgets, and everything we do.
VERGENNES –– Two Jupiter-sized planets were recently discovered by a research group led by Waltham native Sam Quinn and his adviser, Russel White.
Quinn, 26, graduated from Harvard University in 2005 with a degree in astronomy and astrophysics and is now a PhD candidate at Georgia State University.
MODENA, ITALY — When members of Team U.S.A. returned on Sept. 16 from the fifth annual International Earth Science Olympiad in Modena, Italy, they brought home more medals than the Americans had previously won in the competition's history.
Led by Mount Abraham Union High School physics teacher Tom Tailer and his wife, Beth, the team grabbed three bronze medals. Prior to this year, the U.S. team had only won one silver and one bronze medal in four years of competing in the national-team contests.
LINCOLN — Young scientists from across the globe will join forces at the fifth International Earth Science Olympiad (IESO) in Modena, Italy, next month to help solve some Italian environmental problems.
Two key members of the U.S. team are familiar faces in Addison County: Mount Abraham Union High School physics teacher Tom Tailer and team member Kenny Micklas, a rising senior at Mount Abe and a Lincoln resident.
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User-centered design
User-centred design (UCD) is a framework of processes (not restricted to interfaces or technologies) in which the needs, wants, and limitations of end users of a product, service or process are given extensive attention at each stage of the design process. User-centred design can be characterized as a multi-stage problem solving process that not only requires designers to analyse and foresee how users are likely to use a product, but also to test the validity of their assumptions with regard to user behavior in real world tests with actual users at each stage of the process from requirements, concepts, pre-production models, mid production and post production creating a circle of proof back to and confirming or modifying the original requirements. Such testing is necessary as it is often very difficult for the designers of a product to understand intuitively what a first-time user of their design experiences, and what each user's learning curve may look like.
The chief difference from other product design philosophies is that user-centered design tries to optimize the product around how users can, want, or need to use the product, rather than forcing the users to change their behavior to accommodate the product.
- 1 UCD models and approaches
- 2 Purpose
- 3 Elements
- 4 Rhetorical situation
- 5 Analysis tools used in user-centered design
- 6 User-centred design, needs and emotions
- 7 User-centred design in product lifecycle management systems
- 8 See also
- 9 References
- 10 Further reading
- 11 Organisations
UCD models and approaches
For example, the user-centered design process can help software designers to fulfill the goal of a product engineered for their users. User requirements are considered right from the beginning and included into the whole product cycle. These requirements are noted and refined through investigative methods including: ethnographic study, contextual inquiry, prototype testing, usability testing and other methods. Generative methods may also be used including: card sorting, affinity diagramming and participatory design sessions. In addition, user requirements can be inferred by careful analysis of usable products similar to the product being designed.
- Cooperative design: involving designers and users on an equal footing. This is the Scandinavian tradition of design of IT artifacts and it has been evolving since 1970.[1]
- Participatory design (PD), a North American term for the same concept, inspired by Cooperative Design, focusing on the participation of users. Since 1990, there has been a bi-annual Participatory Design Conference.[2]
- Contextual design, "customer-centered design" in the actual context, including some ideas from Participatory design[3]
All these approaches follow the ISO standard Human-centred design for interactive systems (ISO 9241-210, 2010).
The ISO standard describes 6 key principles that will ensure a design is user centered:
- The design is based upon an explicit understanding of users, tasks and environments.
- Users are involved throughout design and development.
- The design is driven and refined by user-centered evaluation.
- The process is iterative.
- The design addresses the whole user experience.
- The design team includes multidisciplinary skills and perspectives.
UCD answers questions about users and their tasks and goals, then uses the findings to make decisions about development and design. UCD of a web site, for instance, seeks to answer the following questions:
- Who are the users of the document?
- What are the users' tasks and goals?
- What are the users' experience levels with the document, and documents like it?
- What functions do the users need from the document?
- What information might the users need, and in what form do they need it?
- How do users think the document should work?
- What are the extreme environments?
- Is the user multitasking?
- Does the interface utilize different inputs modes such as touching, spoken, gestures, or orientation?
As examples of UCD viewpoints, the essential elements of UCD of a web site are considerations of visibility, accessibility, legibility and language.
Visibility helps the user construct a mental model of the document. Models help the user predict the effect(s) of their actions while using the document. Important elements (such as those that aid navigation) should be emphatic. Users should be able to tell from a glance what they can and cannot do with the document.
Users should be able to find information quickly and easily throughout the document, regardless of its length. Users should be offered various ways to find information (such as navigational elements, search functions, table of contents, clearly labeled sections, page numbers, color-coding, etc.). Navigational elements should be consistent with the genre of the document. 'Chunking' is a useful strategy that involves breaking information into small pieces that can be organized into some type meaningful order or hierarchy. The ability to skim the document allows users to find their piece of information by scanning rather than reading. Bold and italic words are often used.
Text should be easy to read: Through analysis of the rhetorical situation, the designer should be able to determine a useful font style. Ornamental fonts and text in all capital letters are hard to read, but italics and bolding can be helpful when used correctly. Large or small body text is also hard to read. (Screen size of 10-12 pixel sans serif and 12-16 pixel serif is recommended.) High figure-ground contrast between text and background increases legibility. Dark text against a light background is most legible.
Depending on the rhetorical situation, certain types of language are needed. Short sentences are helpful, as are well-written texts used in explanations and similar bulk-text situations. Unless the situation calls for it, jargon or technical terms should not be used. Many writers will choose to use active voice, verbs (instead of noun strings or nominals), and simple sentence structure.
Rhetorical situation
A user-centered design is focused around the rhetorical situation. The rhetorical situation shapes the design of an information medium. There are three elements to consider in a rhetorical situation: Audience, Purpose, and Context.
The audience is the people who will be using the document. The designer must consider their age, geographical location, ethnicity, gender, education, etc.
The purpose is what the document targets or what problem the document is trying to address.
The context is the circumstances surrounding the situation. The context often answers the question: What situation has prompted the need for this document? Context also includes any social or cultural issues that may surround the situation.
Analysis tools used in user-centered design
There are a number of tools that are used in the analysis of user-centred design, mainly: personas, scenarios, and essential use cases.
During the UCD process, a Persona representing the user may be created. A persona is a user archetype used to help guide decisions about product features, navigation, interactions, and even visual design. In most cases, personas are synthesized from a series of ethnographic interviews with real people, then captured in 1-2 page descriptions that include behavior patterns, goals, skills, attitudes, and environment, with a few fictional personal details to bring the persona to life.[4]
For each product, or sometimes for each set of tools within a product, there is a small set of personas, one of whom is the primary focus for the design. There are also what's called a secondary persona, where the character is not the main target of the design, but their needs should be met and problems solved if possible. They exist to help account for further possible problems and difficulties that may occur even though the primary persona is satisfied with their solution. There is also an anti-persona, which is the character that the design is specifically not made for.
Personas are useful in the sense that they create a common shared understanding of the user group for which the design process is built around. Also, they help to prioritize the design considerations by providing a context of what the user needs and what functions are simply nice to add and have. They can also provide a human face and existence to a diversified and scattered user group, and can also create some empathy and add emotions when referring to the users. However, since personas are a generalized perception of the primary stakeholder group from collected data, the characteristics may be too broad and typical, or too much of an "average joe". Sometimes, personas can have stereotypical properties also, which may hurt the entire design process. Overall, personas can be a useful tool to be used by designers to make informed design decisions around, opposed to referring to a set of data or a wide range of individuals.
A scenario created in the UCD process is a fictional story about the "daily life of" or a sequence of events with the primary stakeholder group as the main character. Typically, a persona that was created earlier is used as the main character of this story. The story should be specific of the events happening that relate to the problems of the primary stakeholder group, and normally the main research questions the design process is built upon. These may turn out to be a simple story about the daily life of an individual, but small details from the events should imply details about the users, and may include emotional or physical characteristics. There can be the "best-case scenario", where everything works out best for the main character, the "worst-case scenario", where the main character experiences everything going wrong around him or her, and an "average-case scenario", which is the typical life of the individual, where nothing really special or really depressing occurs, and the day just moves on.
Scenarios create a social context in which the personas exist, and also create an actual physical world, instead of imagining a character with internal characteristics from gathered data and nothing else; there is more action involved in the persona's existence. A scenario is also more easily understood by people, since it is in the form of a story, and is easier to follow. Yet, like the personas, these scenarios are assumptions made by the researcher and designer, and is also created from a set of organized data. Some even say such scenarios are unrealistic to real life occurrences. Also, it is difficult to explain and inform low level tasks that occur, like the thought process of the persona before acting.
Use case
In short, a use case describes the interaction between an individual and the rest of the world. Each use case describes an event that may occur for a short period of time in real life, but may consist of intricate details and interactions between the actor and the world. It is represented as a series of simple steps for the character to achieve his or her goal, in the form of a cause-and effect scheme. Use cases are normally written in the form of a chart with two columns: first column labelled actor, second column labelled world, and the actions performed by each side written in order in the respective columns. The following is an example of a use case for performing a song on a guitar in front of an audience.
|choose music to play
|pick up guitar
|display sheet music
|perform each note on sheet music using guitar
|convey note to audience using sound
|audience provides feedback to performer
|assess performance and adjust as needed based on audience feedback.
|complete song with required adjustments
|audience applause
The interaction between actor and the world is an act that can be seen in everyday life, and we take them as granted and don't think too much about the small detail that needs to happen in order for an act like performing a piece of music to exist. It is similar to the fact that when speaking our mother tongue, we don't think too much about grammar and how to phrase words; they just come out since we are so used to saying them. The actions between an actor and the world, notably, the primary stakeholder (user) and the world in this case, should be thought about in detail, and hence use cases are created to understand how these tiny interactions occur.
An essential use case is a special kind of use case, also called an "abstract use case." Essential use cases describe the essence of the problem, and deals with the nature of the problem itself. While writing use cases, no assumptions about unrelated details should be made. In additions, the goals of the subject should be separated from the process and implementation to reach that particular goal. Below is an example of an essential use case with the same goal as the former example.
|choose sheet music to perform
|gathers necessary resources
|provides access to resources
|performs piece sequentially
|convey and interprets performance
|provides feedback
|completes performance
Use cases are useful because they help identify useful levels of design work. They allow the designers to see the actual low level processes that are involved for a certain problem, which makes the problem easier to handle, since certain minor steps and details the user makes are exposed. The designers' job should take into consideration of these small problems in order to arrive at a final solution that works. Another way to say this is that use cases breaks a complicated task into smaller bits, where these bits are useful units. Each bit completes a small task, which then builds up to the final bigger task. Like writing code on a computer, it is easier to write the basic smaller parts and make them work first, and then put them together to finish the larger more complicated code, instead to tackling the entire code from the very beginning.
The first solution is less risky because if something goes wrong with the code, it is easier to look for the problem in the smaller bits, since the segment with the problem will be the one that does not work, while in the latter solution, the programmer may have to look through the entire code to search for a single error, which proves time consuming. The same reasoning goes for writing use cases in UCD. Lastly, use cases convey useful and important tasks where the designer can see which one are of higher importance than others. Some drawbacks of writing use cases include the fact that each action, by the actor or the world, consist of little detail, and is simply a small action. This may possibly lead to further imagination and different interpretation of action from different designers.
Also, during the process, it is really easy to oversimplify a task, since a small task from a larger task may consist of even smaller tasks. Picking up a guitar may involve thinking of which guitar to pick up, which pick to use, and think about where the guitar is located first. These tasks may then be divided into smaller tasks, such as first thinking of what colour of guitar fits the place to perform the piece, and other related details. Tasks may be split further down into even tinier tasks, and it is up to the designer to determine what is a suitable place to stop splitting up the tasks. Tasks may not only be oversimplified, they may also be omitted in whole, thus the designer should be aware of all the detail and all the key steps that are involved in an event or action when writing use cases.
User-centred design, needs and emotions
The book "The Design of Everyday Things" (originally called "The Psychology of Everyday Things") was first published in 1986. In this book, Donald A. Norman describes the psychology behind what he deems 'good' and 'bad' design through examples and offers principles of 'good' design. He exalts the importance of design in our everyday lives, and the consequences of errors caused by bad designs.
In his book, Norman uses the term "user-centred design" to describe design based on the needs of the user, leaving aside what he considers secondary issues like aesthetics. User-centered design involves simplifying the structure of tasks, making things visible, getting the mapping right, exploiting the powers of constraint, and designing for error. Norman's overly reductive[citation needed] approach in this text was readdressed by him later in his own publication "Emotional Design."
Other books in a similar vein include "Designing Pleasurable Products"[5] by Patrick W. Jordan, in which the author suggests that different forms of pleasure should be included in a user-centered approach in addition to traditional definitions of usability.
User-centred design in product lifecycle management systems
Software applications (or often suites of applications) used in product lifecycle management (typically including CAD, CAM and CAx processes) can be typically characterized by the need for these solutions to serve the needs of a broad range of users, with each user having a particular job role and skill level. For example, a CAD digital mockup might be utilized by a novice analyst, design engineer of moderate skills, or a manufacturing planner of advanced skills.
See also
- Action research
- Activity-centered design
- Chief Experience Officer (CXO)
- Component-Based Usability Testing
- Contextual inquiry
- Design Thinking
- Empathic design
- Human-centered computing
- Human Focused Advertising
- Human-Centred Systems
- Information architecture
- Interaction design
- Needs analysis
- Paper prototyping
- Participatory design
- Process-centered design
- Thanatosensitivity
- Transgenerational design
- Ubiquitous computing
- Usability
- User-design
- World Usability Day
- ↑ Greenbaum&Kyng (eds): Design At Work - Cooperative design of Computer Systems, Lawrence Erlbaum 1991
- ↑ Schuler&Namioka: Participatory Design, Lawrence Erlbaum 1993 and chapter 11 in Helander's Handbook of HCI, Elsevier 1997
- ↑ Beyer&Holtzblatt, Contextual Design, Kaufmann 1998
- ↑ "Perfecting your personas | Cooper Journal". www.cooper.com. Retrieved 2016-01-06.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Designing Pleasurable Products at Google Books
Further reading
- ISO 13407:1999 Human-centred design processes for interactive systems
- ISO 9241-210:2010 Ergonomics of human-system interaction -- Part 210: Human-centred design for interactive systems


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The great thing about America is people have a right to their opinion, and a free press will publish that opinion.
In response to Bill Neel's Sept. 9 letter in which he made an accusation against Republican vice presidential nominee U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan because he voted for action in Iraq, by that standard the accusation also applies to then-Sens. Joe Biden and Hillary Rodham Clinton, who also voted to authorize President George W. Bush to use force in Iraq.
Neel's accusation is absurd. While Neel is entitled to his opinion, he ought to be consistent in his standards.
We have the luxury of voting people out of office and not having to resort to uprisings like those in much of the rest of the world, where so many innocent lives are lost.
I served in the U.S. Navy for 22 years and currently am a high school teacher certified in government.
I need Neel to understand that the men and women of the military are the last to want war. They have the most to lose — their lives.
But when the nation's leaders call upon them, regardless of the party, they do their duty.
Neel should look around and acknowledge that there are people around the world who hate our way of life, our freedoms, and our values. They hate us because we are Americans.
They do not make exceptions based on political party, religion, or whether one supports military action or not.
The current president owns the war in Afghanistan, and I am not going to throw a barb at him and say how many people have been killed since January 2009.
The bottom line is that all the people I mentioned above are serving their country in politics and making decisions that they believe are in the best interests of the country.
There are patriots everywhere, not in uniform, who serve their country in many capacities.
Thank God they do, so Neel and others may protest the war under their guaranteed First Amendment right.


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While my original intention for Monday's theme was to share stories and photos from travels a bit further from Seattle, walking into a third decade during a short mid-week getaway with J. Legume included so many memorable dining experiences that I thought I'd start there. I certainly didn't have a 30 before 30 check list after a rollercoasting year of life changes and adventures, but my one goal for my dang 'big day' was to leave the country for the occasion, and since I'm slowly saving for voyages this winter to be determined, I combined this getaway with a trip extending into British Columbia. It may not have been Santiago, but that'll happen.
Step #1: Bolt Bus. Highly recommended. I even scored a $1 fare on my ride up to B.C., holla
Caffeination. Soy Latte, Kaladi Brothers
Our first step in Seattle was for lunch specials at Wedgwood Thai II in Capitol Hill, a quick walk from our hotel
Salad starters at Wedgwood II
Hey, it's my birthday weekend – I'm going for the Pad Thai (and if it sucked, I will get something else – but it did not)
Jules surprised me with her Red Curry choice
Fast forward.. Our next meal, outside of lattes, was for an evening at my long-time favorite, Teapot Vegetarian House on the hill. However! I was devastated to see its surprise closure:
Instead, Jules and I walked down to In The Bowl, another vegetarian restaurant on my favorites list. I'll say…we had a bit of a wait, it was noisy, and crowded, and our tables were practically in the kitchen – but we had a great time and a great meal.
Spring rolls, In The Bowl
The lovely lady and her giant tofu & vegetable soup
Eggplant Curry
Just under 24 hours later, it was time for my actual birthday lunch and even more curry – the vegan buffet at Araya's in th U-District, of course:
I've been to Araya's many times before and witnessed its glory, and knowing J Legume's appreciation for crispy spring rolls, made it a stop on our trip. Inside the above room, on that fateful day, I witnessed more assortment than ever before – and it was grand.
It's my birthday and I'll Thai if I want to…
Thai if I want to…
Thai if I want to….
You would Thai too if you knew me – too!
Araya = Fresh Daily Organic Herbs
Now, I wish I was in town for this…
I've learned a lesson this past month, with the evident closure of my longed-to-visit Korean Tofu House and stopping by Amitabul in Chicago on the day it was closed: well, I have horrible luck with Korean vegan options.
Hopefully, I'm older and wiser now.
Jules captures my aging over an Americano with soymilk at Herkimer
Sidecar stop
We didn't stop by, but I did peek into Wayward for a moment.
Further wandering into the U-District
Last but not least, based on a tip, I picked up a generous to-go box from the intriguing Chu Minh Veggie Deli in the International District before my next Boltbus north:
Close ups and thoughts on come on a Seatle round up on the VVC blog !
In conclusion, Washington…a state where liquor is sold in grocery stores:
And most importantly, shortly afterwards, leaving the country & entering Vancouver were check-marked:
Before, you know, the first time my brand new camera decided to stop working on my way to Victoria:
To be continued.


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New Car Review Video
2014 Ford Fiesta: 5 Reasons to Buy - Video
The current Ford Fiesta has been with us for a while now, but it still looks fresh, and it has something really fresh under the hood. The 2014 Ford Fiesta is newly available with a 1.0-liter, 3-cylinder engine with EcoBoost turbocharging, but that's just one of the Fiesta's many strengths. Here are five reasons why the Fiesta is still the life of the party.
Innovative Engine
Quick, name another car with a 3-cylinder engine. Now name one that's turbocharged. Unless you know something we don't, there's only one answer, and you're looking at it. So, what's the big deal? Well, the low cylinder count means that the engine is small and fuel-efficient, yet the turbo gives it about the same punch as the Fiesta's standard 4-cylinder engine, so you get better fuel economy without giving up performance. It's one of those deals you can't refuse.
Mega Mpg
You want numbers? How about this: With the 6-speed manual transmission, the 3-cylinder Fiesta gets 32 miles per gallon in the city and 45 mpg on the highway; that's an incredible 37 mpg combined. Even with the automatic transmission, it still gets 30 mpg city/41 mpg hwy. Aside from diesel- and hybrid-powered cars, that's about as good as it gets.
European Drive
Although the U.S.-market Fiesta is built in Mexico, it's a carbon copy of the one designed for Europe's narrow, twisty roads. Translation: It has moves. No matter which engine you choose, the Fiesta is a blast to drive, with quick steering and a nimble chassis. For maximum thrills, of course, you'll want the Fiesta ST with its 197-horsepower engine and high-performance suspension. But every Fiesta has spice, and that helps set this little runabout apart.
Upscale Features on a Budget
Don't count the Fiesta out when it comes to equipment. You can get all sorts of cool stuff in this car, including push-button start, SYNC with MyFord Touch, leather upholstery and Sony audio, all for less than $20,000. The trend these days is for compact cars to offer big-car features, and the Fiesta's helping to lead the charge.
Uncommon Style
Whether you get the hatchback or the more affordable sedan, you'll have one of the best-looking compacts on the road. The Fiesta has the same Aston Martin-inspired grille as other Ford cars, and the strong character lines and wraparound taillights give it a premium vibe from curbside. It's one of the few compact cars that would look good in any driveway.
AutoTrader Says
The big news is the 3-cylinder EcoBoost, but it's not the only news. From the base model all the way up to the high-performance ST, the 2014 Ford Fiesta is still one of the best little cars you can buy.


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Timberwolves To Hold Another Pre-Draft Workout
The Timberwolves continue preparations for the 2012 NBA draft by holding another pre-draft workout at Target Center today. The players the Wolves will be working out include forward Quincy Acy of Baylor, guard Ashton Gibbs of Pittsburgh, forward Eric Griffin of Campbell, forward Cameron Moore of UAB, and forward T.J. Robinson and guard Casper Ware of Long Beach State. The Wolves have the 18th overall pick in the first round of the June 28 NBA draft.
The Wolves also have a 2nd round pick in this year's draft.


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For those of us who will travel in 2013, it's tempting to try to figure out what the new year might bring.
Higher cost of traveling by air (even if fares don't go up, fees will drive up prices) and airline mergers (especially after American Airlines emerges from bankruptcy) are some of Conde Nast Travelers' predictions for this year.
But the outlook wasn't all bleak. The travel magazine says to look for newer and more comfortable airplanes coming on line this year too.
Ed Perkins at SmarterTravel put together a worthy list of 13 hot travel trends for 2013. Here are a few that caught my eye:


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Republican Mitt Romney is trying to return the focus of his campaign to the sluggish economic recovery and his vision for America after spending a day restating his opposition to gay marriage and shrugging off a report that he had bullied a gay classmate in prep school.
His schedule isn't making it easier.
On Friday, Romney is set to discuss jobs and the economy in North Carolina, the state that just approved a constitutional ban on same-sex unions that helped turn attention to gay rights. Also likely to raise cultural rather than economic issues is Romney's commencement address Saturday at Liberty University, the Virginia institution founded by the late Rev. Jerry Falwell and the nation's largest evangelical university.
While raising money Thursday in Kansas City, Mo., Romney all but ignored the discussion of gays and lesbians prompted by President Barack Obama's endorsement of gay marriage.
"This is a time when we can follow this president down a road of decline and weakness or we can take a course that is based on a positive dynamic and a bold vision for this country," he said.
Earlier, during a fundraiser and a public appearance in Omaha, Neb., he hammered his vision for economic greatness, telling supporters, "This could be the beginning of an extraordinary century for America."
Obama's unexpected embrace of gay marriage continued to overwhelm the presidential campaign on Thursday as liberals and conservatives debated the political merits of his endorsement of an issue over which a president has little practical impact.
For Romney, the discussion of gay rights turned personal when The Washington Post published a story recounting how he and several schoolmates held down classmate John Lauber and cut off his bleached blond hair after seeking him out in his dorm room at their boarding school in the wealthy Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills, Mich.
The Post said Lauber was "perpetually teased for his nonconformity and presumed homosexuality" and that he screamed for help as Romney held him down and forcibly hacked off his hair. The paper recounted another incident in which Romney shouted "atta girl" to a different student at the all-boys' school who, years later, came out as gay.
At no point on Thursday did Romney volunteer comments about the report, nor did he wade into Obama's views on gay rights. But he did apologize for what he characterized as tomfoolery when asked by reporters.
"I participated in a lot of hijinks and pranks during high school and some may have gone too far. And for that I apologize," Romney told Fox News during a hastily arranged radio interview.
Romney said he didn't remember the Lauber incident, but he didn't dispute that it happened. He stressed that he didn't know either student was homosexual and moved quickly to counter any suggestion he had targeted students because they were gay.
"That was the furthest thing from our minds back in the 1960s, so that was not the case," he said, adding that the students involved "didn't come out of the closet until years later."
In a second interview Thursday, Romney laid out what he said was his long-held position on gay rights: While opposed to gay marriage, he said states should be allowed to grant various domestic partnership rights to same-sex couples, including the right to adopt children.
"States could have their own decisions with regards to the domestic partnership rights," Romney told Fox News in the network's second interview that day with the candidate. "But my preference would be to have a national standard for marriage and that marriage would be defined as being between a man and a woman."
He said he would go as far as supporting gay couples who want to adopt children, saying: "If two people of the same gender want to live together, want to have a loving relationship and even want to adopt a child — in my state, individuals of the same sex are able to adopt children — in my view, that's something which people have the right to do."
The renewed attention on gay rights came as Obama thrust the issue into the forefront. He became the first president to give a full-throated support for gay couples to wed and shifted the campaign to social issues, where Romney faces skepticism among his own party's base.
Romney's advisers signaled they planned to campaign on the issue in November's election but acknowledged they would have to tread carefully. "I think it's important to be respectful in how we talk about our differences, but the fact is that's a significant difference in November," Ed Gillespie, a senior Romney adviser, said Thursday on MSNBC.


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Lomography Proudly Presents the Tori Amos Inspiration Competition Winners Announcementwritten by mmoya on 2011-09-30 #news
Check out the winning photos from this year's most inspiring competition. Read on after the jump!238 68 Share Tweet
Lomography Proudly Presents the Tori Amos Inspiration Competition2011-07-05 #news
Lomography has partnered with world renowned song siren, Tori Amos, to bring you the iconic TORI Limited Edition Diana F+ and an amazing competition that will inspire Lomographers in every corner of the globe!68 54 Share Tweet
Analogue Girl About Town: Now that I'm 30, I've become painfully aware of my own mortalitywritten by blueskyandhardrock on 2013-01-28
I had this week's article written and ready for publishing two weeks before my deadline but a lot has happened since then so I decided to write an entirely different article, one that would be more fitting. I also dusted off my trusty Mamiya C330 so I could capture the sense of this piece on film.30 85 Share Tweet
Analogue Girl About Town: DIY Filters for Bokeh Shapeswritten by blueskyandhardrock on 2013-01-23 #gear #tutorials
This week on Analogue Girl About Town, I thought I'd show you some of the nighttime bokeh photos I've taken of the LA skyline from some of the best spots in the city and write a tutorial on how to make homemade bokeh filters.9 50 Share Tweet
White Out Black Friday Rumble at Lomography Gallery Store LA - Winners Announced!2011-01-27 #news
The photos have been up since November, the Piggie Points have been awarded... now for the online public glory for the winners of our White Out Black Friday Rumble at the Lomography Gallery Store LA!29 21 Share Tweet
Lomography Gallery Store LA Grand Opening First Photos and Video!written by ouroborosx on 2010-02-19 #news
The first digital photos from the big opening night event at the brand new Lomography Gallery Store in Los Angeles!29 15 Share Tweet
Announcing the Winner of the Create Your Own School Portrait Rumble!written by abpos on 2011-11-09 #news
The trees are changing, we're back in school! Tis' the season for fresh books, fresh looks, and fresh school portraits! See the best of the LOMOversity, after the jump.13 26 Share Tweet
March Madness at the Lomography Gallery Store LA: Hump Day DIY-Make Your Own Masks!2010-05-04 #news
Lomography Gallery Store LA is continuing its Hump Day DIY series with a custom mask workshop!24 15 Share Tweet
Analogue Girl About Town: Textures the Analogue Waywritten by blueskyandhardrock on 2013-04-18
I have been a busy bee this past week. I'm in the middle of a collaboration with my boyfriend -- our first collaboration ever -- which I will hopefully feature here next week, and I've been looking for fresh photo ideas here on Lomography and also on Flickr.2 32 Share Tweet
Lomography Los Angeles Live Music Experience Rumblewritten by mmoya on 2012-03-02 #news
Do you love capturing the lights, excitement and emotion of your favorite bands on film? Well, it's time to reap the benefits! Whether you're the type to lay in wait in front of the crowd to get the shot of your favorite artist mid-screaming at the microphone, or one who prefers the rapture of the fans as your subject, this "Live Music Experience" Rumble is for you!14 20 Share Tweet
Introduction to blueskyandhardrock's Analogue Girl About Townwritten by blueskyandhardrock on 2012-12-26 #news
With her Lomography cameras and her trusty MacBook, LA-based Lomographer and freelance travel writer Michelle Rae writes a new 365-days-esque series about her urban adventures to present to people an entirely different perspective of the City of Angels.9 24 Share Tweet
White Out Black Friday Rumble at Lomography Gallery Store LA!2010-11-10 #news
Submit your favorite winter wonderland photos to be on exhibition at the Lomography Gallery Store LA starting with the busiest shopping day of the year!22 11 Share Tweet
Lomography Gallery Store LA Grand Openingwritten by cruzron on 2010-02-08 #news
The City of Angels is set to experience first hand a truly analogue revolution with the grand opening of the Lomography Gallery Store in LA!16 14 Share Tweet
Analogue Girl About Town: We Were Infinitewritten by blueskyandhardrock on 2013-03-06
There's this book that I love. It neither holds revelations about our existence nor engages in a discussion about the state of the world. It's not extraordinarily smart nor is it brilliantly creative. Nonetheless, I hold it in very high regard.9 22 Share Tweet
500 Days of the Real Los Angeleswritten by blueskyandhardrock on 2012-12-05 #places
To many outsiders, Los Angeles is really the way Hollywood has depicted it -- a golden beach city of unapologetic superficiality. But the movie, 500 Days of Summer, revealed that it's something much more than that.13 20 Share Tweet
Analogue Girl About Town: Oh, the Mundanity!written by blueskyandhardrock on 2013-03-13
Last week was not particularly creatively productive or eventful for me.9 21 Share Tweet
Analogue Girl About Town: Resolutionswritten by blueskyandhardrock on 2013-01-07
Ah, it's a whole new year again. The merry feasting is over. It's time to make way for another old tradition: reflect on the year past and make resolutions to better ourselves.7 22 Share Tweet
Kodak Ektachrome Panther 400 (35 mm) – Release the Pantherwritten by wil6ka on 2013-07-15 #gear
I know the tagline is cheesy, but it caught your attention – so it's just perfect (evil laughter). And in my quest to squeeze every Kodak film into cameras and the best out of it on film, it certainly caught my attention too, when I first discovered,that not only Apple gets their inspiration from the zoo when branding their products. So may I present, the new find from the photographic animal farm: the slide film that was called Kodak Ektachrome Panther 400:3 21 Share Tweet
Sun Thrift Store: Possibly the Greatest Thrift Store in the World!written by herbert-4 on 2012-07-20 #places
One is not supposed to share wonderful thrift stores, but this one is such a grand, dusty, funky-smelling adventure that I must share for the sake of Lomography!7 19 Share Tweet
LomoAmigos KozynDan Shoot with the Lomo LC-A+written by mmoya on 2011-04-25 #people
Husband-and-wife artists and illustration team, KozynDan are a match made in Lomography heaven. With their awe-inspiring hyper real panoramic illustrations and incredible underwater photography, this dynamic couple, otherwise known as Kozy and Dan Kitchens, hail from Los Angeles and create jaw-dropping art while globe-trotting the world together and documenting it all on their website www.kozyndan.com. Check out what happened when The Lomography Gallery Store Los Angeles armed them with an LC-A+ and Krab Underwater Housing!4 20 Share Tweet
My Own Private LA rumble!written by abpos on 2011-08-04 #news
Los Angeles is a city of many faces – Hollywood glitter and glamour, graffiti culture, monstrous traffic, and towering palm trees. But we here at Lomography, we want to know what YOUR LA looks like. This is your chance to show us another side of LA and have your winning photo splashed all across the City of Angels! And win Piggies!9 16 Share Tweet
Lomography Goes Hollywood - The LA Rumblewritten by alexandrak on 2009-09-25 #news
Calling all SoCal lomographers! We're putting out an open casting call for your greatest southern California photos to be a part of our non-motion picture extravaganza!16 8 Share Tweet
Create Your Own School Portrait Rumble!written by abpos on 2011-09-06 #news
It's back to school time here at Lomography and you know what that means - school portraits!4 18 Share Tweet
Tori Amos Inspiration Competition - Los Angeleswritten by cruzron on 2011-07-05 #news
Are you ready for your close-up? The spirits of Hollywood bombshells welcome you to the hilly haven that is Los Angeles! Show us your shots inspired by Los Angeles' amazing sights!5 17 Share Tweet
LomoAmigo Nic Adler Shoots with the LOMO LC-A+written by mmoya on 2011-02-07 #people
As the owner of The Roxy Theatre on the world-famous Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, this LomoAmigo proves to be a legitimate analogue photographer. Since his father was the previous owner when The Roxy was first established, Nic basically grew up in the venue! After taking over, he redefined what The Roxy was supposed to be, in light of new technology and competitors. Now, The Roxy has showcased the musical talents of Bob Marley, Tori Amos, Red Hot Chili Peppers and many many more.5 17 Share Tweet
Analogue Girl About Town: You Make It So Hard To Leave Youwritten by blueskyandhardrock on 2013-03-25
I have no intention of planting my roots just yet and I have seriously been considering leaving LA but she makes it so hard for me to leave her.2 19 Share Tweet
Diana World Tour LA: Diana F+ Vignettes from the City of Angels - Call For Entries!2010-07-29 #news
The Diana World Tour to make it's stop in Los Angeles this October! Be a part of the sensation that is sweeping the globe and submit your Diana F+ Lomographs to be part of our Vignettes from the City of Angels exhibition!13 9 Share Tweet
Lomography Gallery Store Insights With Michelle of the Los Angeles Gallery Storewritten by cruzron on 2010-04-13 #news
The next time you pay a visit to the City of Angels, make sure to drop by the newly opened Lomography Gallery, the first ever in the West Coast! More than that, you'll get to meet one of our terrific partners, Michelle!7 13 Share Tweet
At the Scene of the Crime: Vintage Photos from the LAPD Archive (NSFW)2017-12-03 #culture
Even policework requires some photography skills. LA photographer Merrick Morton rediscovered the heap film negatives and prints long forgotten in the archives of the Los Angeles Police Department.3 15 Share Tweet
Uncovering the Enigmatic Chinatown of Los Angeleswritten by noe_arteaga on 2013-02-22 #places
"Forget It, Jake. It's Chinatown." This infamous line from Roman Polanski's neo-noir masterpiece is just one of the contributing factors to the mystique of this particular neighborhood of Los Angeles. Want to know what it's really like today? Let me give you a tour!7 12 Share Tweet


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South African police have charged Olympic amputee sprint star Oscar Pistorius with the Valentine's Day murder of his glamorous model girlfriend, but played down reports she was mistaken for a burglar.
"I can confirm that a suspect has been charged, he has been charged with murder," Lieutenant Colonel Katlego Mogale told AFP.
Twenty-six-year-old Pistorius - known globally as "Blade Runner" because of his carbon fibre prostheses - will spend the night in jail before appearing in court on Friday.
He will appear at Pretoria Magistrate's Court to answer charges of killing 30-year-old model Reeva Steenkamp at his upscale Pretoria home.
The blonde was shot four times in the early hours of Thursday morning and died on the scene. A nine-millimetre pistol was found at the scene.
Police have opposed bail for Pistorius, who is the only suspect in the case.
The sprinter became an international celebrity during last year's London Olympics, where he became the first double-amputee to compete in a Summer Games.
His arrest has rocked South Africa, where he had been considered a national hero.
"Obviously we are shocked," his father Henke Pistorius told AFP. "He is with the police and the matter is in the hands of the authorities."
"Our thoughts are with the family of the woman involved in this tragedy," he said.
Steenkamp, once a FHM magazine cover girl, was described as "the kindest, sweetest human being; an angel on earth" by Sarit Tomlins of her management agency.
Meanwhile police poured cold water on media reports that she had been mistaken as an intruder.
"We were surprised by allegations that the deceased had been perceived to be a burglar," said police spokeswoman Denise Beukes.
She said there was no sign of forced entry at Pistorius's home. "The premises are fairly secure ... This is a fairly secure estate."
"There's previously been incidents of allegations of domestic disputes at the home of the accused."
Beukes said the police were talking to neighbours who heard disturbances earlier in the evening and around the time of the shooting.
Those revelations raised questions about a figure who was publicly adored, but led a colourful private life full of model girlfriends, guns and fast cars.
"There were always rumours attracted to Oscar Pistorius, but most of them I just put down to him being a celebrity," said Kyle Wood, a 25-year-old fellow resident of Silverlakes.
Pistorius has previously spoken of carrying a firearm when faced with a potential threat at home and of visiting a shooting range.
Crime is a major problem in South Africa and many people keep weapons at home.
Pistorius is also known as an adrenalin junkie, with a love of speed reflected in a passion for motorbikes.
Four years ago he crashed his boat in a river south of Johannesburg, breaking two ribs, an eye socket and his jaw.
He also once owned two white tigers but sold them to a zoo in Canada when they became too big.
The Johannesburg-born athlete won gold in the 4x100m relay and the 400m individual at the Paralympic Games in London.
He was triple gold medallist in the Beijing games in 2008 in the 100m, 200m and 400m.
Pistorius was named by Time magazine last year as one of the world's 100 most influential people.
"You're not disabled by your disabilities but abled by your abilities," he told Athlete magazine in a 2011 interview.
He had both legs amputated below the knee when he was 11 months old after being born without lower leg bones. But he played sports unhindered while growing up, switching to running after fracturing a knee playing rugby.
At high school, he was so good that his personal fitness coach said she was unaware for six months that he ran on prosthetic legs.
But he was initially banned from competing in the Olympics in Beijing by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) on the grounds that his blades gave him an unfair advantage.
That decision was later overturned on appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), although he ultimately failed to meet the Olympic qualifying standard time.


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We've posted new information on screen resolutions that the new BlackBerry® 7 smartphone operating system will support and we've even posted new simulators for each – read on to find out more!
Back at our BlackBerry World™ conference in May, we introduced the world to the new BlackBerry® Bold™ 9900 and BlackBerry® Bold™ 9930 smartphones and the new BlackBerry 7. We recently followed that up by launching a BETA of the BlackBerry 7 SDK with the BlackBerry Bold 9900/9930 simulator on our BlackBerry® Developer Zone website to enable developers to start testing and optimizing their BlackBerry® applications for BlackBerry 7. In addition to that, we have opened up the BlackBerry App World™ storefront to enable vendors to start posting their applications for sale in time for launch of the BlackBerry Bold 9900 and 9930. We've seen great adoption of the new tools already and have heard from many developers that their existing BlackBerry® 6 applications are running as-expected on BlackBerry 7 without change. However, it is important to note the following two key items as a BlackBerry developer regarding BlackBerry 7 and how you can prepare for launch:
1. Re-Posting Your Apps in BlackBerry App World for BlackBerry 7: Applications that are currently posted for download or sale in BlackBerry App World will not be automatically posted for sale for BlackBerry 7 smartphone customers. BlackBerry App World vendors are encouraged to test their applications as soon as possible using the new BlackBerry 7 SDK, and then return to the BlackBerry App World vendor portal to post their applications for sale for the new BlackBerry Bold 9900/9930 running BlackBerry 7.
2. Preparing Now for New Screen Sizes and Resolutions Supported by BlackBerry 7: Though BlackBerry 7 retains binary compatibility with our BlackBerry 6 platform, it will support a variety of new screen resolutions and screen sizes that will require some developers to update and re-compile their existing applications. We've heard loud and clear from our developers that they want to know this type of information well in advance so that they can build and test their applications ahead of time and have them ready for future devices as they launch. To address this, we have now posted new information on what screen characteristics will be supported by BlackBerry 7 along with new BlackBerry 7 smartphone simulators to emulate each of these different configurations. Read on for more information!
New Screen Characteristics Supported by BlackBerry 7 and New Simulators for Testing
The new BlackBerry 7 smartphone operating system will support the following new screen characteristics on BlackBerry smartphones:
To assist our developer community in preparing their applications for BlackBerry 7, we have now posted new BlackBerry 7 smartphone simulators to emulate each of these form factors and screen resolutions. Each simulator has an associated simulator model number as referenced in the above table. With these new simulators, you can now start to test and develop your applications for BlackBerry 7 while working to ensure compatibility with various form factors and screen characteristics that it will support.
Posting Your BlackBerry 7 Apps to BlackBerryApp World
BlackBerry App World is now open for new app submissions and re-posting of existing applications that are compatible with the BlackBerry Bold 9900/9930 running BlackBerry 7. As additional new BlackBerry 7 smartphone models, that correspond to the additional screen characteristics and form factors outlined here, are introduced, we will open up BlackBerry App World for posting of applications to these new smartphones as well. In the interim, we encourage all developers to test your apps across these various new simulators to ensure you're ready for upcoming launches.
Additionally, you can attend our webcast "What You Need to Know To Develop for BlackBerry 7" on June 29 at 2:00 pm EST to learn more about developing for BlackBerry 7 and the new BlackBerry Bold 9900 and 9930 smartphones, as well as other BlackBerry 7 form factors. And as always, we will have an interactive Q&A session to directly answer your questions.
We thank you for your ongoing support and hope that this new information will help you get your apps fully tested and posted to BlackBerry App World in time for our new BlackBerry 7 smartphone launches!
– Tyler Lessard, VP Developer Relations and Alliances


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MichaelMMC needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 182 designs submitted by 46 freelance designers.
Your Private Baker
I am a one man company with a start up baking service
Do you wish for those old fashion desserts like your mother or grandmother use to make? Well wish no more. Your Private Baker is here. Whether you are hosting a get together or going as a guest, contact me and we will pick the perfect dessert for you to share. You won't have the mess of baking just the enjoyment of ending your experience (event)on a sweet note.
Is there something you are craving that you do not see on this menu? Let me know what you are in the mood for. If I feel I cannot bake what you want as well as it should be done, I will be honest with you. I won't serve you anything that I wouldn't have on my own table.
The busy person who just doesn't have the time, desire or inclination to bake. Many more people prefer to cook than to bake.
I need CYMB, color separated art work.
The logo also needs to be in a format that can be resized for business cards, brochures, labels, etc.
I am torn between an old fashion retro look, like the Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives look or the Alton Brown website, or something very clean and graphic, like the Tommy Hilfiger logo.
Colors I like tend to be in the blue to grey areas.
Things I am not looking for, sheaf of wheat, chef, chef hat, or cupcakes.
Please take these as broad guidelines. Nothing is set in stone. I am really excited about seeing what you, the professionals, come up with.
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Bella Thorne Puts Her Hot Body on Display in LA!
About Photo #1098794: Bella Thorne leaves little to the imagination while out with a friend on Tuesday afternoon (July 11) in Los Angeles. The 19-year-old posed for photographers while… Read The Post Here
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- EVGA GTX 780 Superclocked ACX reviewed
- The Packaging
- A closer look at ACX cooler
- A closer look at GTX 780 SC ACX
- Testbed
- Crysis 3
- Far Cry 3
- Hitman Absolution
- Metro 2033
- Sleeping Dogs
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EVGA has done an excellent job. The new ACX cooler impressed us both in terms of performance and low noise. As usual, Superlocked cards ship with a big factory overclock, and the GTX 780 is no exception. It is clocked 104MHz higher than the reference card and it is up to 11 percent faster. It is about up to 50% percent faster than a reference GTX 680 in real life tests, which means it is ideal for 2560x1600 gaming.
The GTX 780 has 3GB of GDDR5, while the Titan ships with 6GB. Unless you have some very specific requirements, 3GB should be more than enough for comfortable gaming. Titan isn't much faster in 2560x1600 tests than the GTX 780 SC and it only makes sense for extreme resolutions and multi-monitor setups.
Generally speaking even the reference GTX 780 is an excellent card, as it is up to 40% percent faster than the GTX 680. Sadly though, we can't shake the feeling that the GTX 780 is basically the GTX 680 done right and that the old card could have been better.
In fact, the GTX 680 is about to be resurrected thanks to the GTX 770. The GTX 760 Ti is also on the way and some of the upcoming GTX 700 series cards will be nothing more than rebrands of old 600-series parts. The GTX 780 is a different beast and it is definitely worth a look.
The only big issue we have with the GTX 780, and all new high end cards for that matter, is the price. At €650 it costs more than its predecessor and this is a trend we've been witnessing for years. Although the PC market is in the middle of its worst slump, Nvidia is still jacking up prices like there's no tomorrow and AMD is no better. With new consoles rolling out in a matter of weeks, it is irritating to say the least and it doesn't bode well for the future of PC gaming.
The EVGA 780 Superclocked costs €30 more than the reference card and it is not much of a difference in this segment, all things considered. We believe the ACX cooler and overlocking potential are well worth the premium.


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Yesterday we learned about the high cost of expectations: a few seconds of launch control confusion left a thousand-horsepower Bugatti Veyron flatfooted against a pedestrian-by-comparison Nissan GT-R. But on the second run, payback was swift and sweet.
The JDM-tuning fanboys at That Racing Channel caught both the initial fumble and the followup in one clip. We know about the first pass; the second is the fulfillment of those earlier expectations.
The Veyron still looks about as normal at a dragstrip as someone wearing a priest's cassock at a tango-dancing competition, but the numbers speak for themselves: Once the launch control is set right, the heavyweight Veyron effortlessly rolls off a 10.17-second quarter mile with a trap speed of 139 and change. The tuned GT-R looks less Nissan than Nissin.
It's one thing to snicker at the rich guy when things don't go right at first, but be prepared to appreciate what happens when things do go right.


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ATLANTA—The first of two Americans infected with Ebola in Liberia arrived here Saturday to receive treatment for the deadly illness.
Dr. Kent Brantly was flown on a chartered jet specially equipped with a containment area for patients with infectious diseases that landed before noon at Dobbins Air Reserve base, northwest of the city. He was then put in a white ambulance with red and blue markings, along with a police escort, and taken to Emory University Hospital, about 14 miles away....


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There are weird videos on the internet… and then there's this lecture by Palestinian Cleric Khaled Al-Maghrabi. He talks about how The Simpsons had an episode 17 years ago in which the writers "predicted" a President Donald Trump.
(While there is an old episode that uses the words "President Trump" as a joke, the scene that the cleric is talking about was actually made in 2015, after Trump announced his candidacy. In other words, the basis of his lecture isn't even true.)
Al-Maghrabi argues that the episode with President Trump is proof of some larger conspiracy to convince people that it's possible to predict the future. But that's impossible, he says, because only Allah is capable of that.
And then it got weirder.
Al-Maghrabi, completely ignoring the possibility of a coincidence, goes on to say that The Simpsons writers pulled off this seemingly impossible trick by telling now-President Trump to recreate the cartoon by going down the escalator in Trump Tower and having bodyguards nearby with a particular look. (The truth, again, is that the Simpsons clip was animated after Trump announced his candidacy.)
Also, if you fold paper currency a certain way, you can create an image of the World Trade Center collapsing. It's another part of the conspiracy, Al-Maghrabi says, since the $20 was designed before the attacks.
Moral of the story: Don't believe people who say they can predict the future — even though no reasonable person is saying that — because they're lying! They just want to destroy your Islamic faith.
Glad we have this crack researcher pointing it all out to us.
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9 August 2010
Attention all World Championship competitors : In preparation for the upcoming Worlds on September 20-22 in San Francisco, Calif. USA, please see the following items pertaining to entry, warm-up events, race documentation deadlines and more! This is the first of several competitor announcements regarding Worlds so, if you've signed up to compete, stay close to your e-mail and melges32.com.
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The 2010 California Cup/San Francisco Race Week (August 20-22) and Rolex Big Boat Series (September 16-19) are warm-up, non-sanctioned events. There will not be a weigh-in for either, and you will not be required to submit a crew or sail declaration for these events. Thus far, 9 teams have signed up to play at the Cal Cup and 13 are on for RBBS. If you intend to warm-up for Worlds at either of these events, please register as soon as possible:
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No prizes for guessing what this one is I was going to do another Formula but nope, kids had other ideas. It's missing a few faces for some reason, will get to that. Anyway, I think it is pretty cool to have my own one of these on the track!
Oh yeah, I suppose this is where I should have posted my previous pics - Mods, would you be so kind to shift them over? Cheers. By the way, the latest updates are freaking awesome, game-pad driving is so much better now, kids use keyboard sometimes and still love it. Looking forward to the next update.
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- 1 Introduction
- 2 Before Installing Open ERP
- 3 Installing Open ERP from AUR
- 4 Run openerp in multiple process
- 5 Additional Open ERP Documentation
- 6 Open ERP Community
- 7 Open Object RAD
This introduction briefly describes Open ERP, its basic design, and its community. The rest of this article details installing and configuring Open ERP on Arch Linux. It also provides additional information about Open ERP documentation, community, and development.
Open ERP is Enterprise Resource Planning software. It provides a complete, integrated ERP solution for small and medium sized businesses and organizations. Open ERP includes financial and analytic accounting, warehouse and inventory management, sales and purchase management, customer and supplier relations management, association management, tasks automation, human resource management, marketing campaign, document management, help desk, e-commerce integration, and point of sale functionality.
Open ERP features an application server which uses PostgreSQL for its database, along with a standalone GTK-based client, as well as a web-based client. It is written in the Python programming language, with a highly modular design which allows for the rapid development of new modules through Open Object RAD. Open ERP developers have a strong committment to free software.
A thriving support and development community has grown up around Open ERP, providing free technical support, bugfixing, new development, and support services. Open ERP provides extensive documentation in various electronic formats, as well as hardcopy. The company responsible for development of Open ERP earns profits through partnership services with Open ERP consultants, and by providing support, training, hosting services, software development, and software quality testing and verification.
Before Installing Open ERP
Installing PostgreSQL
Open ERP uses the PostgreSQL database, which should be installed and configured before installing Open ERP. Follow PostgreSQL#Installing PostgreSQL. Complete these installation instructions, but do not perform any other configuration from that page. Return to this page for additional configuration steps.
Configuring PostgreSQL for local use on your own machine
If you plan to use PostgreSQL and Open ERP on the same machine, you will need to configure PostgreSQL to listen on the localhost's 5432 TCP port. Open
/var/lib/postgres/data/postgresql.conf and navigate to the
CONNECTIONS AND AUTHENTICATION section. Uncomment the
listen_addresses and
port lines. Save the file. When complete, the section should appear as follows:
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # CONNECTIONS AND AUTHENTICATION #------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # - Connection Settings - listen_addresses = 'localhost' # what IP address(es) to listen on; # comma-separated list of addresses; # defaults to 'localhost', '*' = all # (change requires restart) port = 5432 # (change requires restart)
Restart PostgreSQL so that it uses the newly changed conf file.
Verify that PostgreSQL is listening on the localhost port 5432:
# ss -anpt
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:5432 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 13420/postgres
Configuring PostgreSQL for remote use over a network
If you need remote access to PostgreSQL over a network, read PostgreSQL#Configure PostgreSQL to be accessible from remote hosts.
Setting up PostgreSQL to run with Open ERP
Next, it is necessary to create a new PostgreSQL user for Open ERP. In this example, the user is 'yourusername', but you should replace this with your Arch system login username. First, log in as the default PostgreSQL superuser, 'postgres', by executing the following command from the CLI:
- If you have sudo set up:
$ sudo -i -u postgres
- Otherwise:
$ su # su - postgres
Once logged in as postgres, begin the process of creating the 'yourusername' user, with the folowing command:
$ createuser yourusername -P
You will first be asked for a password. For highly secure yet easy to remember passwords, consider using a Diceware Passphrase. Re-enter the password as requested. The next three questions should be answered in sequence with n, y, and n. Shall the new role be a superuser? n Shall the new role be allowed to create database? y Shall the new role be allowed to create more new roles? n
You may also use options as below to skip the interactive questions to set the attributes:
$ createuser yourusername --createdb --login --no-superuser --no-createrole -P
Once you are finished answering these questions, type the word 'exit' to log out from PostgreSQL as the postgres superuser.
You may want to enable
postgresql with systemd so it will start at boot.
This completes the installation and setup of PostgreSQL for use with Open ERP under Arch Linux. Additional detailed information about PostgreSQL configuration may be found in the PostgreSQL article, and the PostgreSQL Manuals webpage. Also, there is a powerful GUI PostgreSQL Admin tool, pgAdmin, which is available in the Arch repositories.
Installing Open ERP from AUR
Open ERP requires the installation of the Open ERP Server, Open ERP comes with a webserver so you can use your web browser to use it. Currently, Open ERP is not available in the official repositories, but it is available through the Arch User Repository.
install Open ERP
Install openerpAUR from the AUR.
configure Open ERP
the configure file of Open ERP server is at
/etc/openerp/openerp-server.conf. make it look like this:
[options] ; This is the password that allows database operations: ; admin_passwd = admin db_host = localhost db_port = 5432 db_user = yourusername ##this is username you created in postegres. db_password =
start Open ERP server
use the command below to enable autostart openerp server when system boot:
systemctl enable openerp-server.service
use the command below to start openerp:
systemctl start openerp-server.service
login to Open ERP
use your favorite web browser and go to link below:
shows openerp login page.
Run openerp in multiple process
Add this line to the configure file of openerp in
workers = n # change n to a number you like.
Additional Open ERP Documentation
There are various sources of Open ERP documentation. The best place to start is the Open ERP Documentation webpage. This page links to different online documents, including detailed installation instructions. Additionally, there is an online copy of the book, "Open ERP for Retail and Industrial Management",and can be purchased from Amazon.com. While Open ERP documentation, such as "Open ERP for Retail and Industrial Management" is freely downloadable, it does not come with a free documentation license.
Open ERP Community
The Open ERP Community is centered upon the Open Object website. Free technical support for Open ERP may be found in the webforums, a mailing listTemplate:Linkrot which is linked to the webforums, an IRC channel on freenode.net, an Open ERP wiki, and the Official ERP Documentation webpage. The latest news may be found on Open ERP Planet, while various Open ERP screencasts are provided on Open ERP TV. Fee-based support services are provided by Open ERP PartnersTemplate:Linkrot.
Open Object RAD
Open Object is the Python-based Rapid Application Development framework for developing Open ERP modules. It allows developers and businesses to customize Open ERP for specific needs. Open Object RAD development work is centered upon the Open Object Launchpad page. Developer news and blogs are published on Open Object Planet. There are pages for software downloads, Open ERP module downloadsTemplate:Linkrot, and development source code downloads.


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