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I pick Lucien up after school and we tend to linger for a few minutes in the warm, cramped building—a trip to the bathroom, a snack on the bench in the hallway, then coats and gloves and hats on and off we go into the city streets. We say hello to the crossing guard and then pass the playground where children from the elementary school tend to congregate after school on all but the coldest days.
"Lucien!" I hear the sweet shouts from the playground. "Look! It's Lucien. Lucien's here!"
Day after day, I'm amazed and grateful for the welcoming spirits of the five year olds in my child's classroom. These beautiful, self-possessed children who are eager to befriend the "new kid"; their parents who invite Lucien and me over for play dates, and include me in post drop-off coffees.
Friendliness. It's a simple virtue, but powerful and profound. And deeply yogic.
Back in college, I noticed a peculiar phenomenon on my campus. Two young people would approach from opposite ends of a path. We would look one another up and down, exchange a furtive glance, and then when we actually came within speaking distance, bow our heads or look off to one side (why there's an interesting leaf!) rather than say hello to a stranger.
Even before that, in high school, I accepted the unspoken rule that friendly = uncool. The rules were set. Jocks here, drama club kids there, brainiacs on this side, cheerleaders on that. (Never mind how complicated it soon became when kids decided not to pick a group. My best friend was a brainy, athletic, drama club attending, captain of the cheerleaders.)
Anyway, I learned to be cool, to wear all black, to act nonchalant, to not necessarily say hello to those I passed in the halls unless we were good friends.
Year later, when I was 26, I walked into a yoga center in New York—the capital of cool—and one of the first lessons my new teacher (a very cool lady) taught me was about friendliness.
Be friendly, she said. Say hello to one another. Be kind to strangers. Smile. Show compassion. Live joyfully.
Later, I'd read a discussion of the Yoga Sutra 1.33: "Through cultivation of friendliness, compassion, joy… the consciousness becomes favorably disposed, serene and benevolent."
I had to learn to become friendly. To smile at the stranger across from me on the subway, to share congenial before class talk with the person on the mat next to me, to take a chance and initiate a friendship.
Now Lucien teaches me advanced lessons in friendless. He loves all the children in his class equally and unreservedly. A play date is a gift, a joy, a treat. A sleepover? A magical thing to dream about. A smile? Something free.
We can't all find two hours a day to practice yoga. Or even an hour. Some days we can't even find 20 minutes to put our legs up the wall. But cultivating friendliness all day long? I can definitely make time for that act of yoga. (Even in my favorite black jeans and sweater.)
Jessica Berger Gross is the author of enLIGHTened: How I Lost 40 Pounds with a Yoga Mat, Fresh Pineapples, and a Beagle Pointer (Skyhorse), out in paperback now. She's spending the year in Brooklyn, New York with her husband and five-year-old son. "Like" her author page on Facebook. Follow her on Twitter. Visit her at www.jessicabergergross.com.


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In a newsy work session Monday evening, the Muscogee County School Board heard Superintendent David Lewis' recommendations to:
Adopt a new district-wide math program for grades K-5.
Increase lunch prices but decrease admission prices to athletic events.
Sell the former Daniel Middle School property to a developer who plans to convert the Manchester Expressway location into a shopping center.
The board will vote on these recommendations during its official meeting next Monday at 6 p.m. in the Muscogee County Public Education Center.
Price changes
The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 requires school systems to charge meal prices equivalent to the federal reimbursement rate for lunch, according to the superintendents recommendation. So the districts lunch prices would increase by 5 cents: from $2 to $2.05 for elementary school students and from $2.25 to $2.30 for middle school and high school students.
Perhaps families could find ways to pay for the lunch increase by saving money when they attend high school sporting events.
Todd Stanfill, the districts athletics director, said the proposal is designed to encourage more people to attend games. The thinking is that increased attendance can generate more school spirit and more revenue while making up for the decreased admission price.
For a football game, instead of paying $7 in advance and $10 at the gate, the price would be $5 in advance and $7 at the gate.
As is the policy now, no discount would be offered for advance sales in the other sports, but the district would implement a discount for students. So for a basketball game, instead of paying $7, students would pay $3 and adults would pay $5. Those prices also would apply for baseball, soccer, softball, swimming, track, volleyball and wrestling.
Property sale
Lewis is recommending the board approve the Right to Purchase Agreement with Bright-Meyers 2001 LLC, an Atlanta-based developer, for the property at 1042 Manchester Expressway, where the former Daniel Middle School is located. The sale price would be $1,225,000.
According to the agreement, Bright-Meyers intends to turn the property into a shopping center.
After the meeting, Lewis declined to comment on the details of the developers plan. The proceeds from the sale, he said, would be used for the districts capital projects.
Mark Rice, 706-576-6272. Follow Mark on Twitter @MarkRiceLE.

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STORY REMOVED: BC-US--Paul-ImmigrationThe Associated Press
The Associated Press has withdrawn its story about Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., saying he sees some in the his party favoring a 2016 presidential candidate with an immigration policy that would "round up people ... and send them back to Mexico." That quote was in the transcript of "Fox News Sunday" that was distributed after Paul's interview on the show. A subsequent Associated Press review of an audio recording of the show determined that the transcript had dropped the word "don't" from that quote, and Paul actually said, "They don't want somebody who wants to round people up, put them in camps and send them back to Mexico."


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http://www.kcchiefsuk.co.uk/ Calling on all UK Chiefs fans to check out and sign up to our UK based fan group. As it stands the Chiefs have the smallest UK fan base, I like to believe it is about quality not quantity.
The on the field success has meant that more Chiefs games have been shown live on UK TV than any other season I can remember. Fingers crossed that might lead to a growth in our fan base. You never know, we may get a game at Wembley one day but only as an away team.


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Let's return to early September, when Your Humble Narrator posted the following in response to an article by Don Banks:
If Green Bay has home field advantage
…as they do in Banks' scenario, this may very well be the outcome. But he has the Saints going 11-5; in fact, they're going to go 13-3, so they'll play Green Bay in the Dome. And beat them. And go on to destroy New England in the Super Bowl. This has been written where what is written must be.
Well, the Saints accomplished part one of that prediction: 13-3. Plus, if we play the Pack, it will have to be in the Dome. Here's the scenario: Philadelphia beats Dallas, Green Bay shreds Arizona again; then the Saints defeat the Eagles and the Packers break Brett Favre's heart in Minneapolis.
That puts the Packers in the Dome for the NFC Championship game.
I still can't come up with a realistic scenario that puts New England in the Super Bowl, however. But if it's written, it's written...


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Defense: The ineptitude of the offense has had these guys on the field WAY to much since the last post, and the performance of the defense is slipping. Grade: B
Secondary: Well, we still have a talented group anchored by a great safety tandem, but William Gay has been getting picked on as of late, and his performance had been rather frustrating. Notable play, ripping the ball away from a Packer for an INT. Peterson is doing his part, but has not made the highlight reel. Fleming has shown up, and it ended up being the wrong way to be seen on the highlight reel, but I do like what I see from the kid and think he has the talent to eventually help the rest of the defense clamp down opposing aerial attacks. Grade: C+
Linebackers: Daryl Washington is the best linebacker nobody outside of the Cardinals fan base talks about. Acho is playing his way into being considered the steal of his draft class. Schofield is having some issues with staying healthy, but was bringing the pressure quite often before we lost him for the season. Paris Lenon, in my first post Lenon was playing like the ageless wonder, but father time seems to have traded in the Honda for the Lambo. I'll be short Paris Lenon has become a total liability for the defense as of late. He allowed the Vikings, Niners, and the hapless Packers rushing attack to embarrass the defense. Grade: C-
Defensive Line: Reports have been out about Campbell possibly being injured. We already know that Darnell Dockett had a hamstring issue earlier in the season and both just don't seem to have the same ability to shove offensive lineman backwards the way they did in the beginning of the season. Dan Williams is performing like an absolute monster and is the main reason Washington can bring the heat so well up the gut. Grade: B+
Offense: This unit is the reason the sky is falling for us here at ROTB. It is riddled with injuries, but the performances they have been putting up have been absolutely embarrassing as of late. Grade: D-
Quarterback: Skelton has not looked very good since Kolb went down with injury. While the fault of the offensive ineptness can not completely fall on his shoulders, he does drive this offense and someone needs to inform him to step on the gas. If not for the formidable performance he put up at Green Bay things may look hopeless. Grade: D
Running Back: William Powell looked good running off the tackles, but we have not seen much else besides a muffed kick return from him. LaSH is pint sized powerhouse and has performed as well as he can given the questionable play calling that does NOT mesh well with his abilities. Grade: B+
Wide Receivers: Fitz will always be the best WR in the league in my opinion unless he is not a Cardinal for some strange reason. Roberts has proven to be a more than capable #2. Floyd has seen more snaps, and is making good use of all the attention Fitzgerald gets. Doucet may or may not have hands made of stone, and had some maddening drops (remember the game winner in Cincy that he dropped last season?) hopefully we will see very little of Doucet from here on out. Byrd has not seen the field as of yet, and most of us wonder why. Grade: B+
Offensive Line: We lost Adam Snyder in the first game after my last post, and sad to say I don't miss him at all. Bobby Massie is still struggling, but with Rich Ohrnberger playing next to him his struggles slowly seem to be disappearing. Which makes Snyder's singing even more head scratching. Sendlein has been playing solid like he always does along with Colledge to his left. Against Green Bay we finally got what we were hoping and saw D'Anthony Batiste get benched. Nate Potter filled in and when he was left on an island found himself getting pushed into the backfield most of the plays, BUT even though he was getting shoved around 40 ways from Sunday NOT once did I see his man get behind him, if the rest of our line could just do that then they have done their part and the rest of it rests on the QB to evade the pressure. This unit has struggled to open up holes on the inside as well, and as a whole the play has been putrid. Grade: F
Special Teams: Coverage units have struggled as of late. The return teams have had an alarming number of drops. Peterson was electric last season, but I will say this, IT IS TIME TO RELIEVE Peterson of his returning duties he has muffed way too many punts. He has only lost one of them, and the game was already lost but it is certainly time for him to start focusing on making his own Peninsula for the defense rather than taking a punt to the house. Grade: C-
Well since my last post we certainly have not had much to cheer about seeing as how we are currently on a 5 game skid. We should all be used to these losing streaks as they have happened every single season since Whiz and Co. arrived here in the desert. Seeing Potter in the Green Bay game and the rest of the rookies minus "Keno" get more playing time. Our scouting department and front office have done one heck of a job getting talent with the best player available approach. Whiz mentioned "Keno" in a presser, so maybe we may get to see our 3rd rookie on the Oline this season. Suppose Keno goes ahead and impresses us the way Potter did in his small amount of time then at least we have hope that things will be getting turned around with are front 5. Nobody is giving us a chance in this upcoming game in the Georgia dome, but we already shocked the NFL world in Week 2 by handing the Patriots their first ever home opener loss since the hoodie arrived in Foxboro. Let's hope this is the game that gives the team the spark it needs to make it to the post season. Seattle and San Francisco hold a lead over us, but with Alex Smith going down and Seattle unable to win on the road, the division is still certainly not out of reach. I'm hoping it boils down to Week 17, and we beat the Niners for the division title. God, that would be sweet.


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As we stated last week, Stradivarius just opened today its first store in Hong Kong at the Olympian City Mall, one of the most important malls in the city. It is one of the most innovative leisure complexes located at the harbor to the west of Kowloon. It enjoys wonderful views of the Hong Kong Island.
The new store recreates its own world throughout 190 square meters with new winter collections which helps to reinforce a good positioning in its market. It develops a fresh, bright ambience and it recreates the latest visual merchandising trends taking advantage of different materials such as stone and wooden furniture.
Today, in our section WE LOVE the World, we invite you to discover the city of Hong Kong and its charm through our recommendations and suggestions.
Hong Kong is one of the most important cities in south Asia. It is one of the densest regions in the world for its population reaches more than 7 million people in 1.000 square meters.
Hong Kong is a city full of contrasts: bright but also full of semi-darkness, oriental yet occidental at the same time. A hundred and fifty years under colonial influence and five thousand years of Chinese tradition makes Hong Kong a place that holds a distinctive and unique personality.
It is a city that never sleeps, a city to enjoy life, a city where you can discover its interesting culture with dozens malls and street markets. It also has an incredible skyline that could be compared to that one of New York, for example.
One of the reasons to go to Hong Kong is to enjoy the views of Victoria Bay with its wonderful lighting show Symphony of Lights.
The Tian Tan, also known as The Big Buda, should not be missed out. It is a thirty four meters high statue weighing two hundred and fifty tons. It is located at the top of Ngong Ping, the highest site at the Lantau Island
Shopping Experience:
Hong Kong is a shopping Paradise. There are a few different shopping sites in the island, in Kowloon and in New Territories. There are shopping malls as well as street markets with its unique style where you can find the latest trends as well as traditional items. Remember not to miss the Olympian City Mall and the Stradivarius new store.
Dinning Experience:
Yummy…Yummy! These are the words you would hear the most in Hong Kong at the best restaurants as well as in teahouses called "Cha Chaan Teng". It is a must to go to Lou Pho Piang place (literally "wife cake") which legend is famous among the population.
A legend says that there was a teahouse with an established history and famous for Chinese pastry, cakes and dim sum. One day, a dim sum chef went to the teahouse to buy dim sum for his wife. However, surprisingly, after tasting the dim sum, his wife said that the puffs from her mother's family were far more delicious than those dim sums. The chef´s wife started to prepare dim sums pastry so that they could be served in the teahouse. People who tried once, would try another one finding the pastries simply irresistible. After being asked about the name of this delicacy, the chef would said proudly that it was his wife who made them. Therefore, the owner of the teahouse named the pastries, Lou Pho Piang (literally "wife cake"). Ever since, the Lou Pho Piang has enjoyed wide acclaim both locally and throughout the world.
Cultural Experience:
During this time in Hong Kong, you can enjoy the exposition "Kowloon from 1881: A changing century". The exposition will be up to December 12th at the colonial complex "1881 Heritage",(formerly the location for the maritime police) where you can follow the Kowloon development since 1881. Visitors can, therefore, understand how commercial development has affected town development, turning small towns into an important harbor city.
Moreover, there are many festivals and events all year round. You should become absorbed by different cultural and artistic events. Do not miss out public and popular fairs such as the floral or the brand and products expositions in Hong Kong.
What are you waiting for to book your flight to Hong Kong!!!


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A hard pressed valleys community is to get up to two hundred new jobs, thanks to a major expansion of services at a mobile phone company.
EE are creating customer services and sales jobs and apprenticeships at offices in Merthyr Tydfil. Our business correspondent Carole Green reports.


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It looks like do to the very disturbing lack of wide receiver depth Ajirotutu will be active this week against the Pats, and LB Kion Wilson was placed on the IR.
As expected, the San Diego Chargers promoted receiver Seyi Ajirotutu from the practice squad to the 53-man roster. He will likely be active Sunday against New England. He is a rookie free agent.
The Chargers will likely be without starting receiver Malcom Floyd and Legedu Naanee. They both have hamstring injuries and are both listed as doubtful on the injury report. Buster Davis andPatrick Crayton are expected to start at receiver. The Chargers also may be without star tight end Antonio Gates. He has a toe injury that kept him out of practice all week. Gates is listed as questionable and he is expected to be a game-time decision.
To make room for Ajirotutu on the roster. San Diego placed linebacker Kion Wilson on the injured reserve with an ankle injury. He is the fifth linebacker San Diego has put on the injured reserve this season.-Bill Williamson


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I didn't see a prediction thread this game and as I haven't won a Carnac this year I am eager to take it on a meaningless game. If there is one already somebody let me know and I will delete this post. I predict the Chargers 30-13. Redskins have nothing to play for and a lame-duck coach. I actually like the skins as I used to live in DC for many summers in a row.
The reason the Chargers do so well late in the season is not because we have great weather to practice in. It is because we have the deepest bench in the league. Just look at all the injuries we have had this year as earnest proof. I am actually looking foreward to this game to see some serious time for these "backups" that are one play from being starters. Go Chargers.


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The Australian radio presenters behind a prank phone call to the hospital treating the Duchess of Cambridge during the early stages of her pregnancy could still face prosecution. The call was taken by Jacintha Saldanha, a nurse from Bristol.
Three days later she killed herself. Now, Scotland Yard has asked Australian police to consider whether the DJs committed any offence under Australian law. Jonty Messer reports.


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Merry Christmas!I hope the holiday is everything you want it to be.Christmas brings up memories. We all have them — the year we got just what we wanted and perhaps the one we didn't.My friend Chris always wanted a cotton candy machine. She asked every year and never got one. Lo and behold, this year her wish came true. The Monday after her column ran, we all arrived at The Herald and there was a large package on her desk with a note that said, "Some things are worth waiting for, Santa."We keep asking her if she has used it yet. Apparently she is saving it for a "Christmas Eve Cotton Candy Extravaganza!" Her words, not mine.Here is a little something she asked me to pass along:Dear Santa,You have made my childhood dream come true. I am so glad you picked up last Saturday's Delphos Herald and read my little article about my long-suffering need for a cotton candy machine. When I came to work Monday morning, there was a brightly wrapped gift on my desk from you. My cotton candy machine had finally arrived! You have made my holidays even brighter and have made this a very special Christmas. I promise to share and spread the word that YES! THERE IS A SANTA! (Santa, did I mention that I always wanted a pony, too, and never received one of those either.)Your friend for life,Chris LooserI don't remember ever being really disappointed at Christmas. The only time I didn't have a good Christmas was my own fault. I was about 10 or so and I found the Christmas stash. I saw all my presents so there were no surprises on Christmas morn. I NEVER did that again. As a parent, there are a few Christmases that stand out. For example: one year I insisted I could put his new tricycle together. I didn't need my father's help. I was a big girl now. Well, somehow the front wheel got on backward. How did that happen? Anyway, dad came to the rescue; we tore it apart, assembled it correctly and it took its rightful place of honor in front of the tree so it was the first thing he saw when he came into the living room.I have to say, the best Christmas moments are the ones where I got to enjoy the pleasure of others receiving gifts. My husband and I played Santa to two adorable little boys Wednesday evening. It was a blast watching their faces as they opened their presents. I hope you all enjoyed the letters to Santa last week. My favorite was the one where the little boy didn't even try to pretend he was something he was not. He said, "I have been bad." That is awesome. What you see is what you get. I hope he stays that way.This letter arrived on Wednesday at The Delphos Herald. We forwarded it on to the big guy, so don't worry.Dear Santa,For Christmas I really want Transformers. I would be so happy.Thank you.AidenHere are a few Santa letters that didn't make it in:Dear Santa,My name is Linda and I have been basically a good gal this year. (There were a couple incidents that we won't mention...but it was all for fun!)After much thought I would like to ask for a Wii for Christmas. I would especially like the Just Dance game. I figured it would loosen up my arthritic knee, help me get some good exercise for my high blood pressure and maybe learn some yoga, if my body would still bend into the "Lotus position." Most of all, my grandchildren would LOVE to play when they come to visit and I would be a really "cool" grandma!Merry Christmas!LindaDear Santa,I've slowly been trying to venture into the world of high-tech. My first venture was a cell phone. Does owning a phone that one can do nothing but talk on count as high-tech? I can't text, download anything or go online but I can walk around the mall and look cool talking to someone.Now I think I would like a digital camera. Just about everyone has one. And maybe by next Christmas I'll have that mastered. So that is No. 1 on my wish list.Merry Christmas!JanetDear Santa,Since you're able to somehow visit every home in the world in one overnight period, you must have some magic we mortals don't. Could you work your magic on some big issues instead of reinforcing our materialism? I'm thinking if you just make us all nice, that will solve things like crime, exploitation of the poor and war. Oh, and how about righteous government? That, too.There isn't anything I really need, so work your magic on the national debt and federal deficit. Maybe that will help put something tangible behind our currency so it's more than imaginary. Then, maybe we can get people back to work and even end homelessness. That's what I want for Christmas.MikeDear Santa,Everyone tells me you're not real but I know better. I see you in the smiles on children's faces; I see you in kind deeds and words; I see you in selfless acts.I know the secret. You aren't a person who can stand in front of me or join me for a cup of coffee. You live inside our hearts.All I want for Christmas is you to keep doing what you're doing. You make us better people.Nancy
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Get your pie on the fly!
The Pizza People food truck made its debut in Oct of 2011. After almost two years of hitting the streets, we have a new home! Pizza People Pub offers an expanded menu and a range of beer, wine and cocktails. Our signature pizza dough is made from scratch from our secret family recipe, hand tossed and made to order then baked in our stone deck ovens. You can now also enjoy wings, burgers, salads and other pub fare. We have gluten-free & vegan options too! Pizza People supports local Arizona businesses wherever possible. Don't forget about Pauly, our pizza truck as we will still be roaming the streets so you can get your pie on the fly!
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Conducting Iterative Usability Testing on a Web Site: Challenges and Benefits
Jennifer C. Romano Bergstrom, Erica L. Olmsted-Hawala, Jennifer M. Chen, and Elizabeth D. Murphy
Journal of Usability Studies, Volume 7, Issue 1, November 2011, pp. 9 - 30
Article Contents
Iteration 2 Cycle 1: Search and Navigation
Iteration 2 was a medium-fidelity usability test of static screen shots of the revised user interface (Romano, Chen, Olmsted-Hawala, & Murphy, 2010). Because the development team had begun coding the interface, we had screen shots to work with and conducted this iteration on a computer screen. Conducting the test on the computer allowed us to conduct eye tracking, as discussed below. As in Iteration 1, we examined the success and satisfaction of the participants, as measured by their performance and self-rated satisfaction. We repeated three tasks from Iteration 1 and introduced 11 new tasks to examine features that were not present in the Iteration 1 prototypes. As in Iteration 1, the Iteration 2 evaluation aimed to identify design features that supported participant success (accuracy) and satisfaction as well as design features that were problematic. The primary purpose of the second usability test was to see whether participants understood the new AFF Web site's search and navigation capabilities and some table and map functions that were not available in Iteration 1.
Materials and Testing Procedure
We tested the interface with seven novice and seven expert users. In this round, it was important to recruit both novice and expert users because we were testing some of the site's functionality. Members of the design team developed the screen shots used in this study. We tested the Main page (right panel of Figure 3), the Table View page (left panel of Figure 5), and the Map View page (left panel of Figure 6). The screen shots were not clickable, but participants were instructed to interact with the static Web pages on the computer screen as if they were part of a fully-functioning Web site.
The participant sat in front of an LCD monitor equipped with an eye-tracking machine that was on a table at standard desktop height. During the usability test, the test administrator sat in the control room on the other side of the one-way glass. We wanted to sit in separate rooms to avoid any confounds with the eye tracker (e.g., the participant might look at the test administrator if she was sitting beside him/her). The test administrator and the participant communicated via microphones and speakers, and the participant thought aloud while they worked4. As with Iteration 1, each session lasted about an hour.
Overall accuracy was still low: The average accuracy score across novice participants was 55%, and across expert participants, it was 56%. Accuracy scores ranged from zero to 100% across participants and from zero to 100% across tasks (i.e., as in Iteration 1, some participants were unable to complete all tasks). Satisfaction was also low: The average satisfaction score was 5.69 out of 9, with 1 being low and 9 being high. The average for novices was 5.49, and the average for experts was 5.89.
Although overall accuracy was still low, accuracy increased for two of the three tasks that were repeated from Iteration 1 (see Table 2). With this increase in performance, team morale also increased. It appears that users better understood the areas of the Main page (that the tasks tested) in Iteration 2. For the task that decreased in accuracy, we inferred that the lack of guidance on the page played a key role.
Finding 1: There was no direct, useful guidance about how the user could modify tables and maps.
On the Table View page, shown in the left panel of Figure 5, participants were supposed to click on the "Enable Table Tools" button in order to modify tables. Some of the participants did not use the button at all, and some used it in later tasks. According to eye-tracking data, most participants looked at the button, yet they never selected it. As in Iteration 1, extra items on the Table View page, such as the gray line between the table functions and the table, shown in the left panel of Figure 5, may have led participants to be unsure whether parts of the page worked together or separately. On the Map View page, shown in the left panel of Figure 6, participants said they did not understand the process of mapping their results, and participants often clicked on the legend rather than on the modifiable tabs designed for that purpose. To support the user's understanding of the page, we recommended removing elements on the page (e.g., the line that was between the button and the table) and moving other elements (e.g., the Enable Table Tools button) closer to the table.
Finding 2: Labels and icons were confusing to participants.
The label on the "Data Classes" tab on the Map View page (left panel of Figure 6) was not clear to participants—they were supposed to click on this tab to change the colors on their map, but only three of the 14 participants did so. When asked about this label during debriefing, none of the participants could conceptualize what Data Classes would offer. We recommended using clear, meaningful labels and an action verb as the first word in an option label, such as "Choose Color and Data Classes," instead of Data Classes, to give users some sense of what might be available there. We suggested each of the options start with an action verb, like "Find a location," but the developers didn't want to change the labels in this way, as Data Classes is a label that is recognized by expert users. While we recognized this to be an important issue, we knew that this would come up again in future iterations, so we decided we could address it later. Participants also said that they did not understand many of the map icons because they were not commonly-used icons. This highlighted a tradeoff that was made on this Web development project: An industry-leading commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software that came with existing icons was used to avoid custom coding and to maintain a clear upgrade path. While this promoted cost savings and allowed the project to stay current with software developments and improvements, the true trade-off was that users did not understand the icons. For unclear icons, we recommended hover "tool tips" or "mouse overs" to appear when the cursor is placed over the icons, in addition to changing some of the unfamiliar icons to ones that are more easily recognized.
Plans for Iteration 3
We met with the AFF team and recapped findings and recommendations from Iteration 2. The designers and developers recognized the importance of usability testing and followed many recommendations, including changing Enable Table Tools to "Modify Table." During our meeting, we hashed out ideas on how to improve icons, such as a zoom-out country-view icon on the map that was not easily recognized by participants. One of the usability team members suggested a United States-shaped icon, and the AFF team liked it and decided to try it. We then planned for a third round of usability testing of the newly designed site. See the right panel of Figure 4 for the new Search Results page, the right panel of Figure 5 for the new Table View page, and the right panel of Figure 6 for the new Map View page.
4While some have found that thinking aloud affects where people look on the computer screen during usability testing (e.g., Eger, Ball, Stevens, & Dodd, 2007), others have found no differences in fixations between concurrent think aloud and retrospective think aloud among young and middle-age adults (e.g., Olmsted-Hawala, Romano Bergstrom, & Hawala, in preparation).


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Bleep Test
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Posted 28 August 2010 - 06:07 PM
Press ups are a good way to go, also weight training if you have any around.
Posted 28 August 2010 - 06:08 PM
Edit for spelling
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Posted 28 August 2010 - 06:16 PM
Just tested myself on the bleep test. Managed to get to level 6, bloody tired out though. Its level 5.4 we need to reach right? I'm glad i can manage level 6 without much training. I'm going to keep going running everyday though as i'd love to be able to reach maybe level 9. I'm thinking my issue is going to be the strength test! Should i just do press up once every other day ?
Posted 28 August 2010 - 06:26 PM
Well the bleep test sound track i downloaded was for 15m, so i'm guessing that it was right?
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Posted 29 August 2010 - 07:39 PM
Oh... If you've access to a gym just bench press(free weights) try individual side bench presses too and if you've got a pec deck that can only help. Use the seated row which can be done on any cable machine. Sit on a gym ball to make it a bit harder and you'll Sailthrough lol. And liking the no smoking commitment with all that temptation lol
Yep, it's the 15m test. When you reach 5.4 they'll run you all off the end of the track and move onto the next session so don't worry about trying to get up to 9 you won't get the chance - too much to fit in!!
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Posted 31 August 2010 - 11:14 AM
They let us (over the border) carry on as far as we can go. I think I got to 9.7 before calling it quits.
Oh i didn't realise they run you all off after 5.4 - i was kinda hoping they'd let us go for as long as we could. Even so, i'm going to aim to get to level 10 in the next 3 months - i don't think thats too hard of a target. I just wish they'd hurry up and get my interview date sorted!!
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The evolution of the smartphone
We know that everyone's views on smartphone design varies and can be very polarized. Some swear by the simplicity and build of an iPhone, others love the clean lines on the HTC One - and well, we all know what the deal with Samsung is!
But you have to consider not only where we are now with smartphone design but where we've come from - and where design is headed in the future.
I just spent the last hour trying to compile the major flagship Apple, HTC, Samsung and Google phones of the last couple of years. It's amazing to see the evolution of design from when proper smartphones first appeared on the scene in 2007 to now.
The way I see it is that people shouldn't get to worked up about "Oh! this just looks like the last one, Meh!" or "ZOMG that lookz futeristik likes :D". All the manufacturers have done it from over the years - both iterative and ground breaking.
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Gertrude Carrie Hatfield, 94, of Shelbyville, passed away Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014 at Waldron Health and Rehab in Waldron.
She was born Dec. 28, 1919, in Cynthiana, Ky., the daughter of George W. and Cordie M. (Sosbe) Jones.
She married her husband of 72 years, Leo E. Hatfield, March 10, 1938, and he preceded her in death April 1, 2010.
Survivors include her son, Leo Wayne Hatfield of Shelbyville; daughter, Alice Louise Hughes of Westport; son-in-law, Dan Stanton of Edinburgh; grandchildren, Devonay Potter, Timothy Hughes, Russell Hatfield, Tamara Mudd, Desiree Coulston, Lori Nobbe and Dustin Hatfield; 12 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.
She was also preceded in death by her parents; a daughter, Janet Lou Stanton; brothers, Cecil Jones, Denny Jones and George Jones; sister, Martha Perkins; grandson, Denny Hughes; and a great-grandson, Kyle Mudd.
Mrs. Hatfield retired from Admiral Corporation, with more than 25 years of service. After retiring, she worked as a custodian at the Middle School.
She was a woman of many talents from making bridal gowns to carpentry.
Visitation will be from 2 to 4 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014 at Freeman Family Funeral Homes and Crematory, Carmony-Ewing Chapel, 819 S. Harrison St.
Funeral services will be at 4 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.
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We all need more time. Where will we find time to
write all this test code? There is barely enough time
to write the production code we need. There are more
lines of test code than production code for the
LedDriver. But does that really
If people programmed error-free and at a constant rate,
then there is some reason for concern. But people do
neither. The time-consuming parts of programming are
thinking, problem solving, and confirming solutions.
Confirming solutions can be done many ways, Debug
Later Programming (DLP) or TDD to
name two. The important question is, did writing the
test impede or speed your progress?
Many proficient practitioners proclaim that TDD makes
them go faster. They report a productive and
sustainable pace. The speedup comes from reducing
current and future debug times, and from having a
cleaner code base with tests as executable
What if TDD takes a little more time? There are other
costs besides development time: customer
dissatisfaction, lost sales, warranty repair, defect
management, field service...the list goes on. Maybe it
is worth it to you and your customers to spend more
time and deliver fewer problems to the field. Also,
you may become one of those people who goes faster
with TDD.
If you look only at the time it takes to get the
production code written, you are not looking at the
whole job. You still have to get the bugs out. How
much time do you currently spend testing and debugging
code? The most popular answer I have heard, from
polling conference attendees, is 50 percent. That is a lot of
time. The first place to look for the time to do TDD
is in your current practice. You should be able to
trade some reactive debug time for the proactive TDD
approach. In the next few sections, we'll look at
some common unit test approaches that could be at
least partially replaced by TDD.
If you are manually unit testing, use some of that
time. If you are in a legacy code environment, you
won't leave manual testing completely behind, but you
could start to develop new code using TDD or write
tests for some of the untested legacy code.
The initial investment in manual test may be lower
than automating tests, but it is not sustainable; it
has a nearly zero future return. A change to
manually tested code nullifies the prior manual
tests. You have to run the tests again. Because they
are manual, we tend to rationalize running only a
subset of the tests. When you don't rerun the right
tests, you get the joy and cost of a future bug.
From time to time, we have all written a test
main and a few test stubs
that exercises newly written code. The test
main exercises the code
under test, and stubs provide indirect inputs and log
their parameters so we can inspect the behavior. You
have created a custom test harness.
These tests are very helpful; they improve the
quality of the code so that we are integrating
better working code into the product. But too often,
after integration, the tests fall into disrepair, as
all testing moves to the integrated system. The
tests fall out of sync with the production code, and
the return on investment is diminished. Your custom
test harness was helpful for a while.
Often custom test harnesses have a poor return on
investment. They often become incompatible and are
discarded after very few uses. The custom-crafted
test main also takes more
effort than writing tests that plug into a test
harness like CppUTest or Unity.
Another manual unit test approach is to single-step
through the code under test with a debugger. This is
a slow and inherently nonrepeatable process. When
change comes, as it always does, the single-step
unit test has to be repeated. Because it's a long
and tedious process, it is likely to be a less
thorough job the second, third, and Nth times
through. We're only human; we make mistakes and miss
subtle interactions within the code.
The shelf life of these tests is even worse than the
shelf life of the test main
approach. Any single change invalidates prior tests.
You have to start over and do it again. So, the
manual test effort will tend to grow over time. But
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and they had a big stick.
They were assessed at CMM level three. They had good
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and approved. Then they had to record evidence of
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How do you do unit testing?
We have a unit testing standard. We write a unit
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Does the unit test plan get reviewed?
Yeah, we do a formal technical review on the plan.
When do you perform the unit test plan?
We run it before the code has been through its
formal technical review.
So if there are holes in the test plan, the
reviewer can make suggestions and improvements to
fill those holes.
Yes, that's how it goes.
What does the unit test plan look like?
We follow the standard template and add the plan
as comments before every function in the source
code. The plan becomes part of the code. It
includes a series of operations performed on the
code, checking various conditions. We make sure we
check each branch.
What is it like to run the tests?
We use the debugger or the emulator and single-step through each statement and verify it does the
right thing. We're really thorough.
It sounds like it. It takes a lot of time I bet.
Sure does.
What happens the next time you change that
We do part of the tests over, based on what we
Does code like this change very often?
Yes, the systems engineers never can make up their
What happens as there are more changes?
We rerun those parts of the unit test affected by
the change.
How do you know what part of the plan needs to be
It's a judgment call.
This big process took a lot of effort. It made
everybody feel good because of all the investment in
the software quality. Unfortunately, this kind of
effort too often returns little on the investment.
When the manual unit test process is repeated, the
process gets boring, shortcuts naturally follow, and
bugs find their way into the code.
I suggest test automation over test documentation.
Test automation is the gift that keeps on giving. If
you're using a process that is similar to Dave's,
it's time to stop! Spend your unit test dollars
somewhere else. By the way, the tests are
documentation too. Dave's company had product safety
requirements; we settled on reviewing the test cases
to help assure the cases were thorough.
When you look at how to pay for the unit tests that
are written as part of TDD, take an honest look at
your current process. Maybe your process is ad hoc
or you write a test main or you document a unit
test procedure or single-step through the code.
Those activities cost a lot to implement but have a
very limited payback.
You are already paying for unit tests either
directly as mentioned or indirectly through long debug
cycles. Consider spending some of your unit test
effort on TDD rather than your current process. With
TDD the tests are run with every change, the tests
evolve along with the code, and the investment is
returned many times over.


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If you were planning on tuning in to The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 17 every Tuesday night in hopes of catching some good old-fashioned pre-fight banter between Chael Sonnen and Jon Jones, I'm sorry to report you're going to be disappointed.
This isn't the venomous pairing of Ken Shamrock vs. Tito Ortiz in season three. Instead, it more closely resembles the chummy exploits of Rich Franklin "vs." Matt Hughes from season two.
But that's because Sonnen doesn't want their petty squabbles to overshadow what the combat sports reality show is really about, namely the 16 middleweight fighters under their employ, each competing for a six-figure contract and a shot at glory in the ranks of Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).
But aren't these two supposed to fight?
Indeed. Jones will put his light heavyweight title on the line in the main event of UFC 159, which takes place at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey on Saturday, April 27, 2013. But we're now four weeks into TUF 17, so where is the Chael Sonnen vs. Jon Jones heat? Why should I be excited to buy this pay-per-view (PPV)?
"The American Gangster" explains (via ESPN):
"Right now what you're seeing, this is Coach Sonnen. Coach Sonnen has no problem with Coach Jones. Chael Sonnen and Jon Jones will eventually get down to business, but we're not there yet. Right now, we're putting the focus and the emphasis on the guys who deserve it. That's the guys representing Team Sonnen versus the fine young men that are representing Team Jones. That's where we're at and we're not going to intermingle the two."
The man who talked his way into a title shot suddenly ... stopped talking.
That's a far cry from the two years Sonnen spent making a mockery of Anderson Silva, which made him one of the most talked about fighters in recent memory, as well as a two-time division number one contender. He failed to overthrow "The Spider" from the 185-pound throne, but established a successful brand that quickly airlifted him to his second consecutive title fight.
Yet somewhere along the way, he abandoned his gameplan.
That could explain why TUF 17 ratings, though impressive, have continued to go down -- rather than up -- over the past three weeks. There are still several weeks left of reality television to get us into the proper mindset, but with just over two months to go until fight night -- and seven major UFC events to focus on beforehand -- the boys will have some catching up to do.
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Herefordshire Council committed to a future for Hereford United
Updated 12:53pm Tuesday 1st April 2014 in News By Bill Tanner, Reporter
HEREFORDSHIRE Council has this week committed itself to discuss "any suggestions" as to how it could help save Hereford United.
The commitment came from Councillor Harry Bramer, cabinet member for assets, who said the council is "very concerned" about the preservation of football at Edgar Street.
That commitment, however, stops short of any cash bailout for the Bulls.
Both the council and the club worked closely to negotiate new leases on the ground to support the future sustainability of a club closely intwined with the county's politics.
Assigning the Edgar Street leases – one for 75 years on the ground and terracing to the west, the other for 33 years for the stand and parking area to the east and both dating from 1982 - was one of the last big deals done by the former Hereford City Council.
During the late 1990s, with United facing severe financial problems, the leases were reassigned to property developers in return for a £1m capital injection into the club.
The money was made available through two companies, the BS (Bristol Stadium) Group and Chelverton.
BS and Chelverton took equal ownership of a special purpose company called Formsole Ltd which made the investment and held the leases – as the tenant under both – with the club holding sub-leases.
By August 2001, BS had sold its "loan" to Chelverton which ran into trouble little over a year later when control of the leases passed to Carillion Richardson.
United still owed £1m plus interest to Formsole which stayed solvent when Chelverton went into liquidation.
It was about this time there was talk of United leaving Edgar Street allowing Formsole to sell the site.
This talk came to nothing and by 2003 it was clear the club was staying at Edgar Street.
The reassignment of the leases was supported by Herefordshire Council when it took control of the former city council's affairs.
Getting the leases back was pitched as a political priority when the news broke in April 2010 that then United chairman Graham Turner and vice chairman Joan Fennessy were ready to sell their majority shareholding in the club.
The club began negotiations with Carillion Richardson for the return of the leases almost as soon as the Keyte-Russon takeover was completed in June that year.
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ONFORM says...
8:45am Wed 2 Apr 14
mizza21 says...
No-one needs assistance from a bureaucratic beast that can't get it's own house in order.
In fact the only thing the council could have done was hand over some no strings cash but they've helpfully refused to do that so they should just keep away.
10:18am Wed 2 Apr 14
bobby47 says...
Mind, they've no problem bunging Stanhope five hundred thousand pounds to sate their appetite for a 'good deal', they've no issue with paying their staff vast sums of money so their secrets remain secreted forever and they've no problem cozying up to property developers and asset strippers as we sit back and watch our heritage and economic wealth disappear in the blink of an eye.
Did the Council ever find this hundred thousand that they owed the Club? God only knows. Im given to understand that it was lost and chewed up by this bureaucratic beast of burden we call Herefordshire Council.
Bloody council! I'd say to the Club, keep well away from this collection of incompetent bungling idiots. Before they finish with you they'll have handed the home and away kit to Stanhope to aid the removal of the salt from that monstrous hulk of a building.
This Council are in no position to help the Club. They're in no position to add up money, help themselves or even us, so its highly unlikely they'll ever come up with anything that'll ease the pain of Hereford United.
I saw Johnson on the television and he doesn't scare me. Never has and never will. Get him to agree to attend the next home game and I'll fight him before kick off for charity. Tell him to bring his duelling pistols if he wants because if he does, and were are instructed to walk backwards ten paces and fire, I'll walk seven, turn and fire and if I bloody miss I'll take his bullet and still grab time to throttle him before I race off toward the light.
Tell the Club to keep well away from this collection of fools!
12:32pm Wed 2 Apr 14
littlewhitebull says...
As a lifelong supporter of the club, I have no wish to see the Bulls go under. But if the club can't get enough supporters into the ground, and run the club efficiently, we have to face the fact that great changes may be imminent.
It is not the end of the world, but very sad - at least, from my point of view.
Will Mizza and I (plus many others) be able to watch footie at Edgar Street next season? I hope so, but I have no right to expect it.
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Says Iran Has 'Elected' Government
Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday that Iran has an "elected" government, echoing a comment for which Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel was pilloried in his confirmation hearing last month.
"Iran is a country with a government that was elected and that sits in the United Nations," Kerry said in France standing alongside French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius. "And it is important for us to deal with nation-states in a way that acts in the best interests of all of us in the world."
The comment is similar to what Hagel said on Jan. 31 when he told the Senate Armed Services Committee Iran was "an elected, legitimate government, whether we agree or not."
Some might beg to differ with that assessment.
The 2009 election of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was widely suspected to be rigged. His challenger, Mir-Hossein Mousavi said so at the time and Iran saw days of unrest after Ahmadinejad was proclaimed to have secured 63 percent of the vote.
Vice President Joe Biden said on Meet the Press "there's some real doubt" whether Ahmadinejad won. "There's an awful lot of questions about how this election was run," he said. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said at the time, "I think there are a number of factors that give us some concern about what we've seen."
The Washington Post published an editorial detailing statistical evidence of fraud and abuse in the election results. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said it was "clearly a corrupt election."
Hagel had to walk back his declaration that Iran was "an elected, legitimate government" after being challenged in the hearing by Democrat New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.
"I can understand if you meant it's a legal entity that has international relations and has diplomatic relations, that is a member of the UN, I do not see Iran or the Iranian government as a legitimate government, and I'd like your thoughts on that," Gillibrand said.
"What I meant to say, should have said, it's recognizable," Hagel replied. "It's been recognized, is recognized at the United Nations. Most of our allies have embassies there. That is what I should have said."
Editor's Note: Evidently, honesty means very little to today's elected class, and even less to today's White House. If honesty and truth mattered, how can John Kerry's installment as Secretary of State be explained? Facts give evidence to his having lied before Congress during his "winter soldier" testimony, yet nothing happened to the Kennedy-connected Kerry. So, get ready for a plentiful dose of histrionic revisionism coming out of the State Department. In a nut shell, if you don't have time to read everything, here is the Cliff Notes version: United States Imperialistic and bad; enemies (like Iran, North Korea, etc.) misunderstood...
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13-11-2010 21:06
Very nice app, I like it very much and installed on both my 5800 and X6.
I have just two things to signal.
1) On both the phones (and I think on all Symbian 5th) when I select a tab or the option menu, there is a purple square around it, instead of just the tab or the option box selected.
2) Is it possible to make the question "Do you allow the phone to access to user data" answered just once and not always?
One last thing: to make the stats, is it necessary to have the app running in background? Because when I closed it (I have no widget home, so can't run as widget) and re-opened, the stats where gone and restarted as if I opened it for the first time.
Overall is a very nice and useful app. Thanks!
26-11-2010 15:03
I also installed it on my 5800. Anyway, all of a sudden I got two icons for the same tool (battery monitor itself), and there's no way of getting rid of them.
Even uninstalling battery monitor and NBM service leaves me with an orphan icon under Applications...
any idea?
26-11-2010 17:27
26-11-2010 18:22 - edited 26-11-2010 18:23
Have a look..
26-11-2010 20:13
After more than one week of use, this is what I found.
If someone can pass this to the developer team would be great (I've sent them an e-mail, but no one replied). Maybe if many of us send this to the feedback mail reported on the app they would do something about it. This is a very nice app, but needs some work to become a good one.
1) As I said, there are purple squares every time a tab is tapped, both the top ones (Stats, etc) and the Option/Exit. Please remove them.
2) The stats are all messed up. I don't complain about the battery expectation, which can be far from real because of different phone uses, but the stats about what have been done are a mathematical fact: how much time I spend on messaging, how much on calling etc is not a forecast, but actually they are unreliable, and the overall stat isn't the average of the week stats, just a random thing, changing at every reboot.
3) One person I know, who has Symbian^3, said his phone asks for Internet connection if he use it as a widget, though it doesn't need any connection, and also that the widget doesn't refresh if he doesn't launch the app itself.
4) With the X6, the app causes some trouble during boot, making the date incorrect problem even worse and sometimes making the Nokia Tune and Nokia hands on the boot not coming at all. I uninstalled it to check and actually there are no problems without this app.
5) When switching between landscape and portrait,the app says "Analyzing" again, just to show the info that there were in the previous mode.
6) The initial question about accessing the user's data becomes very annoying. Please do something to avoid it after the first time, like a tickbox or a "Yes, always" answer.
It seems as if they put this app on Ovi Store without a proper testing (a period on Beta Labs would have made miracles), or with the idea that they can develop a proper release only after the launch.
Well, I hope so, because with some tuning it can become a very good and useful app, and I ask again: how can we know if a new release hits the Store?
26-11-2010 20:30
03-12-2010 9:10
The mail to contact them is in the last tab of the app and should be firstname.lastname@example.com
If you didn't have such a good experience with this app, please join me in contacting them: the more we are, the better possibility we have to see an upgrade!
03-12-2010 11:01
I am using Nokia 5233 . I have installed this Application. Earlier i am using Nokia Energy Profiler. But after installing Nokia Battery Monitor. Some modules of Energy Profiler not working properly. An Error Message Flashes while using Energy Profiler "All Measurements are not possible. Channel is reserve by Another Application". This occurs when i press start in Energy Profiler Application. Due to this i can't measure Signal Strength of my Operator.
Now i have Uninstalled Battery Monitor & this Energy Profiler Application then switched off phone.Then reinstalled Energy Profiler Application.But problem remains the same.. Can any one suggest solution???
03-12-2010 11:30
03-12-2010 11:38
But Problem remains the same after uninstalling Nokia Battery Monitor!
03-12-2010 11:49
03-12-2010 11:59
I have done the same thing as i have mentione in my first post.
03-12-2010 13:38
It seems some registry / log is not getting un-installed along with the application and creating the conflict..
A soft reset (*#7370# followed by 12345 default security code if you have not set your own) may resolve it.. Pl. take a back-up of your data before this as reset will erase data from the phone memory...
MAY be possible if you can use the browser and locate files associated with these applications to delete manually but only if you know what you are doing...Deleting system file by mistake may lead to bigger problem..so take care and be doubley sure..
07-12-2010 23:19
Version 1.1 is now on the Store!
Could someone who tried it tell me if the things posted above have been solved?
At least these points:
- have the purple squares been removed?
- are the stats more reliable and not erased every now and then?
- is it possible to answer the data access question just once and not always?
- does this version consume less battery power than previous one?
Thanks to everyone who would answer to these questions!
08-12-2010 9:53
Observations on my Nokia 5800xm
1. Purple square problem was never faced even with v1
2. Reliability of stats is very difficult to judge.. Just 2 days since the v1.1 is installed..
3. Data Access Q is still asked every time..
4. Battery consumption is almost the same as with v1.. with my very limited use the battery normally lasts 3 days.. and this time (after v1.1) also it seems to be doing that..
While charging it was showing 'Charging' with v1 now it shows the remaining time to full charge..
08-12-2010 18:51
Thanks for the info, maybe I'll give it a try and then post my observations as well.
I hope I will not have to reset my phone again as I did with my X6...
08-12-2010 19:31
08-12-2010 20:13
Farby, I found a picture of the purple squares appearing in the app: here. The square is around the stats tab.
If you have never seen it, I think you are lucky, because this image is not taken on my phone but someone else's.
It's sad that the initial question still has to be answered every time, but I hope in another update. Surely I'll write again to submit new feedback after trying this version.
Roshanrims, did you try the last version or the previous one?
I know it can be uninstalled, I performed the reset because of the date bug which, luckily, is not included in C6-01.
I also noticed that the battery indicator was unreliable, sometimes showing me more usage for music playing than normal use.
What I cannot understand is how it could be possible that the stats were all wrong, because stats are mathematical, they should just show how much time I spent on every task, but they seemed to be random and not related to actual use of the phone.
08-12-2010 21:13
08-12-2010 21:47
I just installed it, and noticed that the purple squares were removed.
Obviously, I need more time to see if it has become more reliable at least about the stats or it needs another update.


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With the trade deadline approaching I was wondering why there hasnt been any mention of the possibility of bringing back E. Nabokov to the organization. He is 35 years old so definitely not past his prime, he would cost....
In all seriousness though.
The question of the Sharks goaltending this upcoming season. First off, I want to discuss this in a logical manner, without having my thoughts ridden off by being called a Niemi-hater. I am not Anti-Niemi (see what I did there). The fact of the matter is that while Niemi's save% last season was .915 in 68 gp, Nabby's was an almost identical .914 in 42 gp on a team much worse than the Sharks, needless to say with a much crappier defense in front of him. By comparison, Greiss had an identical save% to Niemi's, and had a GAA of only 2.30 compared to Niemi's 2.42. What's more is that Niemi has not shown up in either of his two playoffs with the Sharks. In both his playoffs, Niemi posted worse stats and play than in his regular season (2.45 GAA and .915 save% last playoffs and 3.22 GAA and .896 save% the year before that), and never stole a game or series for us (apart from game 1 vs the Blues last PO's), the way that goaltenders are supposed to do if a team is to make a run at the cup. But even the Blues series, Niemi wasn't consistent after game 1 and played really poor in the games after. Granted, all the players played worse after, but a lot of it had to do with Niemi letting in soft goals for the first goal of the games that led to the Sharks playing from behind, and logical part aside for a sec, the team didn't look too confident with him in goal.
Now, with Brad Stuart signed for three years, it looks like Murray's time with the Sharks is pretty much done. If the Sharks can trade Crankshaft for Nabby, and trade Niemi to a team in need of a goaltender (like Chicago) for Michael Frolik, or to another team for a quality winger that DW has been stressing to get lately, then the team only gets better. If not in the short-term, then definitely in the long-term. This way either Nabby and Greiss can work as a tandem for the season while Stalock completes his development process and/or rehab, or we trade Greiss as well for another winger or use him in a package for a high-profiled player, especially with his more than fine caphit-for-value contract and have Stalock/Sateri/Sexsmith duke it out for the backup job.
Either way, the good thing with Nabby is that with only one year remaining on his contract with a very affordable $2.75mil caphit, we can prepare for the Sharks goaltending future, and all the while not risk losing quality in the Sharks run for the cup this season by losing a solid average goalie in Niemi and replacing him with another solid, albeit declining average goalie in Nabby. Only difference in value is age, and after next season, we can move on with the younger cats in goal.


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The Vision
What's the vision of this franchise? If you've followed this team much, you probably could come up with a lot of "Pritchardisms" that would define how this team operates.
- Processes.
- Building a book.
- Having "the right people."
- Unselfishness.
I'd like to submit three other "Pritchardisms" that serve as good reminders of what our vision should be, both as Blazer fans and more specifically as part of BE.
The Big 3: Community, Culture, and Character
Around Blazers Edge, we're about community--interacting with each other! Fanposts, fanshots, discussions, debates, analysis, over-analysis, off-topicness, gameday cheering/crying, trade proposals, draft talk, and more! We are a community of people here specifically because of the Blazers, but we certainly are not limited in what we talk about--we've developed an atmosphere where we're comfortable branching out and talking about more than just basketball--something very different from many blogs and forums out there.
What is culture? KP always talks about it, but what does it really mean? How is it different than community or character?
Where does one find the answer to such a question? Wikipedia of course:
[Culture is] the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution, organization or group.
Culture is what you share in common with the rest of the group. The "JailBlazers," for instance, had a poor culture because the things shared in common were primarily selfish motives and egotism. There were some, like Derek Anderson (and others), who were "counter-cultural," but in general the culture was one of negativity.
So what is good culture? Good culture, interestingly, is not just the opposite, as one might think. Good culture isn't simply developed by sharing "good" interests/values/goals. That's part of it. But another part is the process. When you have milk and you're looking to make yogurt, you take live cultures and put them in milk that is heated to a very high temperature, and then the good cultures go about turning the milk into yogurt (then you add yummy flavoring and granola, if you're like me).
It's a silly, somewhat over-simplified example, but I think it's so true to what this organization has done. They've taken players like Brandon Roy and LaMarcus Aldridge, built a team around them, and the team has been heated time and time again to very high temperatures. It is here that the good culture shines.
So what does this have to do with Blazers Edge? I think that's the same process that gives us the opportunity to have such a great culture. We've gone through the fire. If you don't like the milk-to-yogurt example, think of gold/silver/etc. being refined in fire. We went through the fire, through the dark days of tinfoil and guns. We know what the bottom looks like.
That's one thing KP talked about today on the Jim Rome show. When you hit rock bottom, you are that much more ready to turn it around. Now that we're in that ascension process, don't forget where we came from. Don't forget the values, goals, and dreams that we thought were dead that are now slowly waking up...slowly becoming a reality. That is culture.
Lastly, let's do everything with character. It's certainly ok to critique players, coaches, and all that, but let's remember our community and culture. We're a team united for one goal. We're all running the same race. We're in the same army.
You don't kill your sniper because he missed a shot, and you shouldn't stab your scout in the back if he accidently tips off your location to the enemy. You re-adjust and continue pressing on.
So critique, but do it in a way that's intelligent. Question Nate's coaching decisions, but realize that he's only human. He's going to miss a few. Weigh the merits of trading (insert player here), but consider ALL he has done, the good and the bad.
Or even to fellow Bedgers, to people of this community--it's ok to disagree with each other. I disagree with quite a few of the fanposts/fanshots/comments I read! But disagreement doesn't have to = agrument. We can, with character and class, discuss our views and maybe even agree to disagree.
In the words of another...
KP summed it up best on NPR
We just decided that being in the community and being unselfish and being team first was the start.... We didn't have the right culture; we had to get it. You have to figure out what you wanna' be. Then work backwards. Start with a goal in mind and then figure out the steps to get there. We chose this path.
In short, just an encouragement to remember what we're about. I love this community--the reaction to Deke going down was outstanding. I felt honored to be a part of it. At the same time, there's certainly room for growth here. I'm sure most of us could name multiple examples of ways we could learn to grow--both individually and as a whole. Let's show what community, culture, and class look like.


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MADISON (WKOW) -- An employee of the Harmony Bar and Grill indicates no decision has been made to cancel folk-singer Michelle Shocked's May 4th show at the Atwood Avenue venue.
The Harmony show is the only remaining date on Shocked's current tour, after venues in ten other cities canceled Shocked's scheduled shows following her anti-gay comments during a show in San Francisco on Sunday, March 17th.
The San Francisco Bay Guardian obtained audio of her comments on the possible repeal of California Proposition 8, in which she said: "From their vantage point – and I really shouldn't say 'their', because it's mine too – we are nearly at the end of time," she is heard to say, "and from our vantage point, we're gonna be – I think maybe Chinese water torture is going to be the method. Once Prop 8 gets [repealed] and once preachers are held at gunpoint and forced to marry the homosexuals, I'm pretty sure that will be the signal for Jesus to come on back."
An employee of Harmony tells 27 News that owner Keith Daniels is currently on vacation in Mexico, and that no decision will be made until he returns to Madison on March 27th.
Shocked, a born-again Christian, has apologized for her comments.


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Rosa Parks Elementary School and Georgetown Middle School have received the first-ever U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools award.
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