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"Dog Day Afternoon"--How One Bank Robbery Changed NYPD
Forty years ago on August 22, 1972, a bank robbery at a Chase bank in Gravesend, Brooklyn changed the way the NYPD did business in hostage situations...and spawned an Oscar-winning movie starring Al Pacino.
The real-life robber, John Wojtowicz, desperately needed money--so he could get his "wife" a sex change operation. His lover was a man named Ernest, who wanted to be a female. Wojtowicz's accomplice, Sal Naturale, was only 18 years old and would end up dead, by the time the 13-hour drama was over.
"Everybody was going crazy, people were all over the place," recalled Pino Maligioglio, who talked to us at the site on Avenue "P" and East 3rd Street, where the robbery went down just before bank "closing time" of 3 pm, on August 22, 1972. Maligioglio still lives near the border of Gravesend and Midwood. He added, "At the time, this was crazy! What was a sex change operation?"
Back in the old days, "They would give hostage takers a certain amount of time to surrender, and if not, they'd be met with tactical force," said Lt. Jack Cambria, the current commander of the Hostage Negotiation Team at One Police Plaza.
Dr. Harvey Schlossberg, now a professor at St. John's University, was a young traffic cop in 1972, who happened to have a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology. Not long after the infamous bank robbery, he was called upon to create guidelines for hostage situations.
"This event was so big, because it spilled out into the street," Schlossberg recalled to PIX 11. The former cop pointed out New York was still reeling from the Attica prison riots of 1971, which left dozens of corrections officers and prisoners dead. At one point in the film,"Dog Day Afternoon"--which was based on the Chase robbery--Al Pacino, as the robber, taunts police officers and detectives on Avenue "P"--chanting "Attica" over and over, revving up the assembled crowd.
The FBI joined forces with the NYPD to convince the two bank robbers that a getaway plane would be waiting for them at Kennedy Airport in Queens. When the robbers got to JFK with the hostages, Sal Naturale was shot dead by the FBI, but the hostages were saved.
A month after the Chase stand-off, 11 Israeli athletes were killed at the Munich Olympics, and the NYPD accelerated its efforts to get hostage negotiation guidelines in place. In early 1973, Officer Stephen Gilroy was killed during a robbery at Brooklyn's Al and John's Sporting Goods store, where 12 people were taken hostage. The stand-off continued 47 hours, nearly two days, and the hostages managed to escape. Shortly afterwards, the NYPD Hostage Negotiation Team was born, co-founded by Schlossberg and NYPD Captain Frank Bolz.
"If they don't really want to die, they're looking for a way out," said Schlossberg of the people in crisis who take hostages. "If you tell him you're giving him something, he'll go along with you."
Schlossberg said when a hostage situation starts, "Everyone is fired up." The goal is to slow things down
and get the other person to keep talking. "We've had people trade hostages for a cup of coffee or a glass of milk," Schlossberg said.
Schlossberg has trained thousands of officers from around the country--and around the world--in hostage negotiation. The present-day NYPD Hostage Negotiation Team has one hundred experienced detectives on call, led by Lt. Cambria. They get about 35 calls a month, many of them domestic incidents, suicide threats, or people barricading themselves at a location, because they don't want to be arrested.
In 2006, Lt. Cambria told PIX the U.S. Militaryasked for training at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba--where terrorism suspects are held in detention. A group of prisoners had tried taking some officers hostage, and the situation was defused by a detective from the NYPD Hostage Negotiation Team, who had been activated for military duty. "We went for one week and trained their officers for one week," Lt. Cambria told PIX.
Lt. Cambria said it's crucial that his team members can show a "hostage-taker" they have empathy for his or her plight. "More important than talking is listening," Lt. Cambria told PIX. "You have to really demonstrate you care. We have a tremendously high success rate."Copyright © 2014, Los Angeles Times


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Odisha's twin calamities — cyclone followed by floods — have not dampened the determination of young girls to study. Despite their homes being swept away by torrent winds or washed away in floods, what some of the school-going girls saved were their books.
"Padh kar hi main Priyanka Chopra ki tarah ban sakti hun (I can become like someone like Priyanka Chopra only through education)," was the realisation of Bhagirathi Saumitra about importance of education. And this was evident from her effort in drying her class VIII textbook in bright sunshine after cyclone hit her New Podampita Village, around 170 km south of Bhubaneswar.
In some more houses in the village, girls could be seen drying books along with staple diet for the family — grains and fish. When everyone in her village ran to a hill for protection from the cyclone, Saumitra could only manage to collect few of her school books.
"We asked her to take some food for the night. She refused and insisted on taking the books," recalled her father Chandra Balaram, while rebuilding his thatched mud house.
Around 440 km towards north in flood hit Balasore district, Anita Patra has repeated Saumitra's act. She collected her wet books when her family abandoned their marooned village to take temporary shelter on the national highway between Kolkata and Chennai."I have to complete my home-work after the Puja holidays. Two days were wasted because of floods," she said, not distracted by honking trucks on the highway.
In flood affected and Muslim dominated Gopinathpur village, more girls attend school than boys. These girls are now fluent in Hindi and Oriya and read a bit of English also, whereas many of the boys are comfortable talking only in their mother tongue Oriya.
Choosing not to celebrate his birthday, Naveen Patnaik was holding rehabilitation and relief meetings with senior officials with focus on restoring electricity in the worst-affected Ganjam district. He spoke to Shishir Gupta in an exclusive interview in Bhubhaneshwar.


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Jobs have been lost in this country for over 30 years due to our lack of competitiveness. It's cheaper to go out of the country for most manufacturers than to make products here. People who haven't lost their jobs are squeezed to do more with less. Sound familiar? How do we fix this?
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Dear Shirley Lind: I cannot begin to tell you how much I appreciate you reminding me and my family not to trust government. I never heard of a reference to Nazi control vs. our government before — we live under a huge rock in Alabama. Really glad you brought up what could happen in Cyprus — you never know what could happen there or anywhere for that matter. Very pertinent information.
We don't trust government either. All those rules and taxes make us tired at best and angry at worst. Next thing you know the government will be warning us about smoking and telling us to wear seat belts and we won't be about to drive after a few Jack's. Where will it end?
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Many of us will be visiting a cemetery this summer to remember those that can no longer be with us. A time and place to teach kids that it is not just a name on a stone but a person that taught us about life, love and making great sacrifices for a better tomorrow. A place that should give the up most respect not hayrides and firework displays.
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Here's the perfect "Opportunity" to bring "Spirit" into your classroom with this timely and relevant song. With all the recent attention paid to the exploration of Mars, including the successful landing of the Mars Exploration Rovers, you can emphasize the value of music in bringing the subject more alive for the students.
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Assisted death bill advances, with black markBy DAVE GRAM
The Associated Press | February 09,2013MONTPELIER The Vermont Senate is set to vote next week on legislation that would allow doctors to prescribe lethal medication doses to terminally ill patients who request it, although a legislative committee recommended Friday that it be defeated.
The measure, dubbed death with dignity by many supporters and physician-assisted suicide by opponents, was sent to the full Senate for a vote by the Senate Judiciary Committee but, in an unusual move, with a recommendation it not pass. Committees looking to kill bills normally just never complete work on them, meaning they never come to a vote of the full legislative body.
Judiciary Committee Chairman Richard Sears, D-Bennington, said the 3-1 vote one member was absent fulfilled a promise Senate President Pro Tem John Campbell made to his fellow Democrats in December as he sought support to retain his leadership post.
Campbell and Sears both oppose the legislation but agreed to let it be debated in the full Senate, Sears said.
That was the deal made in the Democratic caucus, Sears said. Senator Campbell, as part of his agreement for re-election, and I agreed to do it as chair of Judiciary. I could have said no ... but I said yes at the Democratic caucus in December that I was willing to vote it out adversely.
The Judiciary Committees vote to give the bill a negative recommendation came a week after the Senate Health and Welfare Committee voted 5-0 to support the measure.
The negative recommendation sets up an odd dynamic for Tuesdays vote, with two votes necessary to actually pass the bill. Supporters must first vote no because the question up for consideration is whether the Senate should reject the measure. If supporters win that vote, a second vote would have to be held to grant preliminary approval, with a final vote then scheduled for Thursday.
The votes are expected to be very close, with both supporters and opponents of the legislation saying theyve lined up about 13 votes each in the 30-member Senate, with four undecided as of Friday.
Another path would be for lawmakers to reject the move to kill the bill when it comes up for a vote Tuesday and then take a recess to work up a series of amendments before resuming floor debate. One of the issues that could arise then concerns what the patients death certificate should say about the cause and manner of death. As currently drafted the bill would block any mention of the fact that the patient had died by taking an overdose of medication, instead saying the death was due to the patients underlying illness.
If the legislation ultimately passes, Vermonts law would be modeled on one in place for 15 years in Oregon that sets up several safeguards to ensure that patients opting to end their own lives are of sound mind and are not being unduly pressured by family members or others.MORE IN Vermont NewsMONTPELIER After Gov. Full StoryMONTPELIER The Onion River Chorus, 70 strong, tackled major French works for the Christmas... Full StoryAfter years of steadfast promises, Gov. Full Story
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There's rarely been a shortage of speculation on the future of Foursquare, the New York startup everyone loves and nobody knows how to monetize. Just last month, a story in The Wall Street Journal and had us wondering whether Apple might kick the tires on Dennis Crowley's company as a way to buttress its iOS Maps.
Now from the World Economic Forum in Davos comes reason to wonder whether another Silicon Valley giant might have its eye on the Silicon Alley starlet.
In an interview with Bloomberg Television's Erik Schatzker, Yahoo CEO Mariss Mayer said that location-based services are among the most exciting in the technology industry:
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1997 ford explorer 4.0l s.o.h.c hard to start time to time i can go out and starts just fine then turn it off and 10mins later try to start it again and it will not start then about 45mins later it starts right up and runs great any help would be great thanks
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marcus9415, 4.0L V6 SOHC, Hampstead, NC, September 22, 2010, 11:39
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is it a cranks no start concern,or are you having a concern with a normal crank speed but no start?we have had concerns with everything from batteries,ground cable at block loose to fuel pumps dropping pressure.
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where is the ground cable at on the block but battery fuel pump is good
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it is on the left front part of the engine,you will have to get under the vehicle to see where it attaches.
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By Mike Handley
Spending all day Saturday and Sunday, opening weekend of Kentucky's late blackpowder season, sitting inside his truck was pure torture for Michael Rothman.
The 44-year-old from Bonnieville works as a maintenance mechanic at Fort Knox, where he also serves as a "guide" for Unit 42 during special hunts. Being a guide basically means he checks hunters' paperwork, checks-in their deer and otherwise sits in his truck all day. It means waking up at 1:30 a.m., eating breakfast at a truck stop, and then going to the base.
He cannot leave until 5:30 or later.
On Dec. 8, the Thursday before he had weekend duty, Michael checked his trail cam and retrieved a photograph of a buck with antlers resembling a den of timber rattlers. He could think of nothing else afterward.
"I lost a lot of sleep," he said. "I'd close my eyes, and all I could see was this deer."
He was able to check his camera again on Dec. 12, while he and his oldest daughter, Megan, hunted. Much to his delight, the Medusa Buck had wandered in front of the lens on Dec. 10 and 11, so he knew it had survived the muzzleloader opener.
Michael took off the rest of the week to ... um ... nurse a sore back.
While sitting in Megan's double ladder stand on a frosty Sunday, Dec. 18, he found the perfect remedy for both back pain and sleepless nights. The pill was dispensed by his .50-caliber T/C.
If this strange whitetail looks familiar, it probably isn't. A very similar buck was taken off Fort Knox, where Michael works. But he shot this rascal on the family's 325 acres in Hart County. Ironically, he and Justin Corn, the guy who shot the other one, live only 20 miles apart.
Neither buck produced enough testosterone to shed their antlers or the velvet covering. The Corn Buck's testicles seemed fully formed and in the right location, but the Rothman Buck's had never descended -- meaning they were about the size of navy beans and inside the body cavity.
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TEAM CEE LO: Cody Belew
If there was a Mr. Personality Award in this competition, Cody would win it. He might be the funniest guy in the competition, and his struggle with stuttering makes him very relatable. Plus, he's the only guy here who could get away with wearing a head-to-toe sequined suit. (Though sadly, he tells Christina Milian, the show's costume team would only let him wear the sequined vest.) He might also be the only one brave enough to sing Tina Turner's "Simply the Best," a song that practically begs his detractors to joke about how he isn't. Luckily, he holds up alright, working the crowd with a chicken-strut dance, and attacking each chorus with genuine musical-theater pizazz. Adam says he's one of the best natural performers, "like Prince when he doesn't have his guitar." Christina wants to see something more uptempo from him. (In her words: "More bopping, please.") But Cee Lo's rooting for him. "You remind us that this is still fun," he says. "Win, lose, or draw, man, I enjoy you." So, that still counts as a win, right?
TEAM ADAM: Amanda Brown
How is this the same woman who took a vocal blowtorch to Aerosmith's "Dream On"? For me, Amanda Brown's flawed cover of Florence and the Machine's "Spectrum" is the most disappointing performance of the night. Last week, she obliterated every note with pure fearlessness, but this week, she's losing confidence, missing a few notes, and nearly strangling a few others. Every time I hear her get to the line "every color illuminates," I find myself making the Britney Spears Oops! Face. Cee Lo blames the song choice for being "constricting." And Christina admits, "I'm still waiting to connect with who you are as an artist." But Adam still believes in her. "The thing is that it wasn't perfect," he confesses. "But I'm not perfect. No one's perfect... I know that you deserve to be here and I think you could win this entire thing." I agree with him. But she'll have to step it up next week. She might look like a superstar tonight, but for the first time in this competition, she doesn't sound like one.
TEAM ADAM: Bryan Keith
Bryan says his goal as an artist is to "bring back an older feel in rock music." And by "older," he means circa 2006, back when ancient rockers like Amy Winehouse would etch lyrics onto boulders and hurl them at Woolly Mammoths. Sorry, I just like to tease Bryan, probably because he can take it. His version of Winehouse's "Back to Black" ranks among the best of the night, showcasing his awesomely gruff voice and his swanky lounge-singer charm. (No wonder Christina calls him "a modern-day raspy Sinatra.") It's a classy performance, one that's more about conjuring the right mood than hammering home the right notes, and the coaches love it. "I think you just took the lead for Team Adam over there," says Blake, and Christina agrees. Are you watching this, Dez? Because this is how the Rat Pack thing gets done.
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Edward W. LaPorta, M.D., chief of the Section of Cardiology at DCMH, was recently elected president of the Medical Staff of Delaware County Memorial Hospital, effective July 1, 2010.
LaPorta succeeds David S. McCloskey, M.D., F.A.C.S., whose term ended in June 2010. "Dr. McCloskey led the medical staff through some difficult times over the past two years, and I am honored to be following in the footsteps of such a strong and effective leader," LaPorta says.
LaPorta, who is board-certified in internal medicine and cardiovascular diseases, received his medical degree from SUNY at Stony Brook School of Medicine in New York. He fulfilled his residency training at Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center in Bronx, New York. He completed fellowship training in cardiology at the University Hospital of SUNY at Stony Brook, where he also completed fellowship training in interventional cardiology.
"Dr. LaPorta is a dedicated cardiologist who is skilled in all aspects of his work," says William McCune, president of Delaware County Memorial Hospital. "The medical staff has come to respect him as an individual and as a leader, and his patients have great faith and trust in him. I look forward to working with him to enhance the services that we provide to our patients here at DCMH."
LaPorta has practiced as a cardiologist at DCMH for over 20 years, and is currently part of the Cardiology Consultants of Philadelphia practice, located in Drexel Hill. He serves on a variety of hospital and system committees, including the Critical Care and Emergency Services Committees at DCMH. He is a member of the Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the American College of Physicians, the American Medical Association and the Pennsylvania Medical Association.
With several goals on his immediate agenda, LaPorta is eager to begin his tenure. "I would like to further our involvement in the community so that we can demonstrate our hard-working medical and nursing staff, our joint replacement and stroke programs that are certified by The Joint Commission, and our award-winning sepsis program," he says. "I would also like to increase our primary care base and expand our intensivist program within the hospital."
"Dr. LaPorta has proven to be a dedicated leader in his previous position as vice president of the medical staff and as chief of the Section of Cardiology at DCMH," says Joan K. Richards, chief executive officer of Crozer-Keystone Health System. "I am confident that he will accomplish the many goals that he has set in his tenure as President of the Medical Staff."
LaPorta resides in Broomall with his wife and two children. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with his family, fishing, golfing, skiing and reading.
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I've heard that there are some safety and building code issues involved with using extension cords or power strips (surge protectors) for anything other than temporary use. What are the issues, and how can extension cords be used safely?
This is one of the biggest problem with power strips (surge protectors)...
The average person does not think about how much power each device is drawing, or how much the system can handle, they just see an open outlet and plug stuff in. If they can't find an open outlet... Oh yeah! they make adapters for that! I mean they sell the adapters, so they must be safe... Right?
If your power strips look like this (or worse), you better at least be checking the batteries in that smoke alarm (which is hopefully not plugged into this power strip too).
If you are using the power strip (or extension cord) properly (one plug per outlet, no adapters, no daisy chaining) and you inspect the power strip for damage (wear & tear) regularly, you should not have much to fear.
Another thing to look at when using a power strip or extension cord, is the size of the wire and the voltage and amperage ratings. If you are using things like electric heaters, power tools, vacuums, etc., make sure the wire (extension cord/power strip) is the proper size to handle the above average load of these types of devices. Overloaded wire can heat up quickly and cause a fire.
Basically if you use common sense, inspect the cables for obvious damage and/or wear & tear regularly, and use the cables for their intended purpose, you should have no problems using extension cords and/or power strips.
Here is some interesting stuff from The Office of Compliance about Power Strips and Dangerous Daisy Chains.
The National Electrical Code (NEC) has a whole article devoted to flexible cords and cables, one of the more applicable sections in this case would be 400.8.
400.8(1) As a substitute for the fixed wiring of a structure.
400.8(2) Where run through holes in walls, structural ceilings, suspended ceilings, dropped ceilings, or floors.
400.8(3) Where run through doorways, windows, or similar openings.
400.8(4) Where attached to building surfaces.
400.8(5) Where concealed by walls, floors, or ceilings or located above suspended or dropped ceilings.
400.8(6) Where installed in raceways, except as otherwise permitted in this Code
400.8(7) Where subject to physical damage
If you have to join two extension cords together (for a longer reach), make sure the cables are both the appropriate gauge to handle the extra length. To prevent the ends from coming partially or fully disconnected (which can be annoying, and a possible shock/fire hazard), tie a simple knot to hold the cables together.
Keep in mind that connecting too many cords together can be a fire hazard, and make sure you are using appropriately sized cables.
Here is a good table from Home Depot for determining the minimum wire gauge recommendations for different devices and cord lengths. Buying Guides: Extension Cords.
As an example if you want to use your circular saw at 100 ft., you'll need at least 12 AWG cable. If you need to reach an extra 50 ft. (150 ft. total) and happen to have an extra 50 ft. extension cord, both cords should be at least 10 AWG.
Don't run an extension cord under a rug. When people walk on the rug it will rub on the cord, and over time the friction can wear through the cord's insulation, leading to arcing which can cause a fire. This is one reason AFCI breakers are recommended and/or required, as they can shut off a circuit at the first sign of arcing.
An extension cord is generally not fire-rated; the insulating covering over it will either sustain a fire (unlikely in most cases as they must still meet basic electrical fire codes), or release toxic chemicals when burned (more likely). Extension cords, though durable, are also not built for in-wall or under-floor installation; the insulation will after several years harden, crack and split, exposing the wire and causing a fire hazard.
However, all this means is that such wires are not designed for permanent installation into a home. As long as you use it in a manner such that the cord can be unplugged, removed and thrown away when the cord deteriorates, and you expect that to happen after some years, especially outdoors, you're fine.


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User Interface Software and Technology
In addition to understanding how to design and evaluate human-computer interfaces, you must also understand how to implement them effectively. Moreover, you must understand the structure of artifacts (window systems and toolkits) that enable programmers to build and maintain complex applications. As with any other area of computer software, there is a body of techniques, algorithms and approaches that have been built up over the years. This is especially true of the 2D WIMP (Windows, Icons, Mice, Pointers) interfaces found on all commonly available systems these days (ie. Windows, the Macintosh, and X). The goal of this section of the qualifier is to ensure that you are familiar with the body of knowledge related to user-interface software.
When looking at the reading list below, two things should strike you: first, most of the papers listed are quite old in "computer time" (over a decade, in some cases), and second, they focus almost entirely on building WIMP interfaces and say little about the newer, "off the desktop" user interfaces (that go by names such as Ubiquitous Computing, Information Appliances, Intelligent Environments, Augmented Reality, Wearable Computing, Tangible Media, and so forth). The papers are mostly old because the techniques and approaches on which current toolkits are built was the subject of research a decade or more ago; the best descriptions of these techniques is the papers that describe that research. The papers focus on 2D WIMP interfaces because current research on newer paradigms is still in the early stages; we will not know for a few more years which of the techniques being proposed by researchers is best.
While little definitive literature exists to describe the software and technology for non-WIMP paradigms, the abstractions and methodologies developed for building WIMP interfaces provide a framework for thinking about how one might approach the task of building software to support newer, non-WIMP paradigms. You should look at some examples of newer paradigms, perhaps by looking in the proceedings of the conferences discussed in the next section, and think about how these WIMP techniques do and do not transfer to these new paradigms.
General Resources
Surveys and detailed coverage of many user interface software and technology techniques are covered in CS 6456: Principles of User Interface Software.
Many papers in the ACM SIGGRAPH/SIGCHI conference series on User Interface Software and Technology, also known as the UIST conference, include significant examples of both toolkits and systems. This is also true to a lesser extent of the other ACM and IEEE sponsored conferences, especially CHI (Human Factors in Computing Systems). Many other ACM/IEEE conferences also contain examples relevant to their particular domain, although they are much rarer. Examples of such conferences include CSCW (more the ACM CSCW conference than the European ECSCW series), ISWC (Wearable Computing), HUC (Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing), ISAR/IWAR (Augmented Reality) and so on.
The Java Foundation Classes, aka the Swing Toolkit, are an excellent example of a state-of-the-art 2D UI software toolkit architecture. You should be familiar with this toolkit; a good place to start is the JavaSoft Swing documentation, including the Getting Started with Swing tutorial and the Swing Architecture document.
A good, introductory text on build UI software is:
- Olsen, Jr., Dan R., Developing User Interfaces., Morgan Kaufman, 1998.
Keep in mind that this is a very introductory book; it is a quick read for people with UI programming experience, and will provide a good background on elementary 2D graphics and UI programming for those with little experience.
Historical and Broad Coverage Papers
Brad Myers has written a number of survey papers covering the history of user interface software. A good example is:
- Myers, B. State of the Art in User Interface Software Tools. In Hartson, H. and Hix, D. (Eds.) Advances in Human-Computer Interaction. Ablex, 1993, pp. 110-150. Reprinted in: R.Baecker, J.Grudin, W.Buxton, and S. Greenberg, eds. Readings in Human-Computer Interaction: Toward the Year 2000. Second Edition. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., 1995. pp. 344-356.
Recently, he and some co-authors wrote a paper summarizing the important milestones in UI software, and included a discussion of why certain techniques failed to catch on, and what some promising techniques might be for the future:
- Brad Myers, Scott E. Hudson, and Randy Pausch, Past, Present and Future of User Interface Software Tools. ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction. To Appear in the Special Millennium Issue. Available as http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~amulet/papers/futureofhci.pdf.
Toolkit Issues
A good paper that describes one of the first toolkits to use composition of widgets (via container widgets and layout management) to form complex nested layouts:
- Linton, M. A., Vlissides, John M., and Calder, Paul R., "Composing User Interfaces with Interviews", IEEE Computer, 22(2), Feb. 1989, pp. 8-22.
An important issue for toolkits is how to create an API that allows programmers to develop applications that degrade gracefully when the displays become complex. Tang and Linton describe an architecture for graceful degredation in the Interviews toolkit in:
- Steven H. Tang and Mark A. Linton. "Pacers: time-elastic objects." In Proceedings of the sixth annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology, 1993, Pages 35 - 43.
There is growing interest in creating interfaces that are more lively and engaging. There are plenty of examples of such interfaces in recent UIST and CHI proceedings. Here is a paper that describes how to integrate animation into a user interface toolkit. Their technique is described in the context of their toolkit (ARTKIT), but is easily adapted to any toolkit:
- Hudson, S., Stasko, J., Animation support in a user interface toolkit: Flexible, robust and reusable abstractions. Proceedings of UIST '93, Nov. 1993, pp. 57-67.
One approach to flexible interface layout that has not caught on is constraints. A good paper on simple, one-way constraints (which are common in UI toolkits that try to use constraints), is:
- Scott E. Hudson, "A System for Efficient and Flexible One-Way Constraint Evaluation in C++", GVU Tech report 93-15.
Finally, for a discussion of the issues surrounding the design space of input devices, see:
- Stuart K. Card, Jock D. Mackinlay and George G. Robertson. "The design space of input devices", In Proc. CHI '90, pp 117-124.
Higher Level Tools
You should be familiar with UI Builders, aka Layout Editors, as every integrated development environment comes with one these days. There are other more powerful tools that are not common, however. For example, many folks have explored tools to create interfaces by demonstration:
- Myers, B. A., McDaniel, R. G., and Kosbie, D. S., "Marquise: Creating Complete User Interfaces by Demonstration", Proceedings of InterCHI '93, Amsterdam, April 1993, pp. 293-300.
There was a significant amount of work in the late-80s/early-90s and so-called User Interface Management Systems. These tools were aimed at making interfaces easier to build by allowing the user to specify characteristics of the interface and then having the system build it. One of the earliest is systems generated simple menu-based dialog box interfaces from the annotated function prototypes in the programmers code:
- Olsen D. R., "A Programming Language Basis for User Interface Mangement", Proceedings of CHI '89, Austin, TX, April 1989, pp. 171-176.
A good example of a much more advanced UIMS is the UIDE system. There are many papers describing many interesting aspects of the system; one good summary paper on it is:
- Sukaviriya, P., Foley, J. and Griffith, T., "A Second Generation User Interface Design Environment: The Model and Runtime Architecture", Proceedings of INTERCHI '93, April 1993, pp. 375--382.
While UIMS research has largely ceased, it is important to understand it because of the growing interest in adaptive interfaces; those that adapt and change based on their user, the context of their use, or the characteristics of the device they are being used on. In order to create complex, adaptive interfaces, it is likely that many of the techniques developed for UIMSs will need to be used. You should think about how these techniques might be useful in such cases; how can we create an application that can present itself effectively on a wall-sized display, desktop display, or palm-sized display? Even more challenging, how can we have such applications adapt to non-visual displays? Retrofitting existing GUI-based applications to audio-only environments without cooperation from the application is extremely challenging, as discussed here:
- W. Keith Edwards and Elizabeth D. Mynatt. "An architecture for transforming graphical interfaces." In Proceedings of the ACM symposium on User interface software and technology, 1994, Pages 39 - 47.


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I used to be a frequent visitor of iVillage way back in time, probably 8 years ago or so. I pop in and lurk from time to time but with my current life it's not often.
Anyway, I am a woman married to a man and we have a young son. I've known since about 1st grade that I like women but I never once acted upon it before I was married. I messed around with a lot of men but always found it to be awkward to meet men and moreso to meet a woman. I am having feelings of "what if this wasn't supposed to be" and just in general not in love with my DH right now. I love him as my son's father but I can't muster even the slightest feeling to even enjoy sex with him. I've been feeling for a while that I should be experimenting with a woman but I am a devout monogomous person and cheating is my worst enemy in my mind. So, do I continue to explore those feelings or just drop them and settle for a sexless life with DH? I take care of him, of course but when it comes to me...it's just not "doing it" for me.
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That is a definite option I've thought about. We just barely have time with alone adult time with no babysitter. I am truly hoping something goes our way soon to allow us to have more couple time!
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Suggest a threesome with him. At least that way if he agrees it's not a cheating environment and it will allow you to experiment to see if it's what you prefer. Ending a marriage is never an easy thing to do. If you truly aren't in love with him, as you say. then you need to end it and then possibly explore on your own. You don't have to enter into a relationship right away obviously but then you don't have to worry about the "cheating". And btw, a threesome is not cheating when you are both involved...only if one of you continues the relationship outside of the 3 without the other paerson knowing. You never know. It may be just what you want. If not, at least you tried. Ask him. He may be up for it but if not tell him how you feel. Good luck!


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The University of Northern Iowa offers the Doctor of Technology degree to meet the increasing need for advanced degree work in this field. Applied technology is a relatively new and rapidly expanding knowledge base for a wide variety of professional fields: these include technology, applied engineering, trade and industrial education, technical institute education, industrial training, and technology transfer. This applied research-oriented terminal degree program also includes the study of the technological systems used in industry and their effect on society and culture.
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Makes 6 servings
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- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 pound kielbasa sausage, cut crosswise into 1/2-inch-thick slices
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 2 6-ounce packages sliced crimini (baby bella) mushrooms
- 3 garlic cloves, pressed
- 2 teaspoons dried thyme
- 1 pound dried brown lentils, rinsed
- 2 bay leaves
- 6 cups (or more) low-salt chicken broth
- 2 5-ounce packages fresh baby spinach leaves
Heat oil in heavy large pot over medium-high heat. Add sausage and sautéuntil browned, about 5 minutes. Using slotted spoon, transfer to plate. Add onion and mushrooms to pot; sprinkle with salt and sauté until mushrooms are soft, stirring occasionally, about 7 minutes. Add garlic and thyme; stir 1 minute. Add lentils and bay leaves; stir to coat. Add 6 cups broth; bring to boil. Reduce heat to medium-low, cover with lid slightly ajar, and simmer until lentils are tender, stirring occasionally, about 18 minutes. Return sausage to pot. Add spinach in 2 batches, stirring until wilted. Season with salt and pepper.
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Nutrition Informationper serving (6 servings) POWERED BY Edamam
- Calories632
- Carbohydrates56 g (19%)
- Fat29 g (45%)
- Protein39 g (78%)
- Saturated Fat8 g (41%)
- Sodium600 mg (25%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat4 g
- Fiber25 g (100%)
- Monounsaturated Fat15 g
- Cholesterol54 mg (18%)
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type: Quick & Easy,
main ingredients: Sausage, Lentil, Spinach
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Touring the South(s)Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
Ashley and I have been on the Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers for a week now. As I type these notes, we are driving on I-55, heading from Memphis to a screening tonight in Jackson, Mississippi.
The program we are screening on this tour have been appropriately packaged together under the title "Southern Stories." The two fictional films (Gina, An Actress, Age 29 and Quick Feet, Soft Hands) were shot in Knoxville, Tennessee, and the documentary (For Memories' Sake) is a portrait of a woman who's lived in a rural area outside Nashville all of her life. The cast and crew for these films is largely drawn from the areas in which they were shot.
So, while there is a truth, and a convenience, in advertising the films as "Southern Stories", I'm also ambivalent about labeling them this way. I have long believed that the South is not a monolithic place, except in American mythology, but that there are, instead, many Souths.
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