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Dave wrote:
Win against TWolves means nothing if we lose tonite. TWolves are not a lesser team because they lost to Clips. Out of 4 previous games they won 3 in overtime. Obviously fatigue might have taken over KG & Co. #7 0r #8 spot is not ours yet. If we win 12 games out of next 15, we'll be OK. Anything less will force us enter the ring for DOGFIGHT.
01/13/07 17:55:41
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i know i sound like a broken record. but MDSr is an awful in-game coach. way more often than not we come out completely flat in the 2H. cavs penetration killed us tonight. where was the zone? force donyell and damon to make some 3s? i'm just a lowly fan, and MDSr is a well-paid professional NBA head coach. i'd feel a lot better if everyone disagreed w/ me.
01/13/07 22:42:36
lemlem wrote:
Another night of the Corey Story, No other team in the NBA could have this guy as a bench player,it is insulting. Corey is EXCITING, he shouldn't be EXITING. Wilcox was similar, he had great potential. Thomas also has that spark but for some reason it isn't strong, WHY. Elton is a machine, very good and understated but NOT exciting. I think the problem is the coach, It seems he wants to dominate players as opposed to direct them. When is Elgin going to face the truth? Those two pre season contracts were a bad move, Coach is not worth it and neither is Chris, he works hard but he just doesn't have the potential. As i've got the floor our starting five should be. EB, Corey, Thomas, Mobley and Sam. What say you all?
01/13/07 23:03:22
Dave wrote:
Mastering Basketball IQ is ONE thing and playing with passion & winning the game is ANOTHER thing. Players want to play with passion for the game. That's when it becomes fun. That's when fans go crazy because it's entertaining. That's what SPORTS is all about. Sports is not an academic excercise.
01/14/07 00:20:02
basketball tips wrote:
Maggette is a classic "NBA player" with his athletic abilities. He's never going to he Jordan, but he brings a ton of excitement to the games. That I agree on.
But any thoughts on whey it's so tough to deal him? Is Donald Sterling pulling the plug on any trades because he's one of his favorite players?
But any thoughts on whey it's so tough to deal him? Is Donald Sterling pulling the plug on any trades because he's one of his favorite players?
01/14/07 09:05:41
Arnie M. wrote:
I think it's a story of too much money and too little heart. I just watched another tanking in the 4th quarter to Golden State. Maybe the starting 5 should be Brand, Williams, Maggette, Ross and Cassell. We can't be any worse and maybe it will shake something up.
01/15/07 15:35:21
lemlem wrote:
Hello supac, no one answered you directly but I think you can tell there is considerable sympathy for your point. Mr Sterling has a problem on his hands. My question is; why hasn;t Elgin been more involved in these ridiculous contracts?
02/14/07 19:39:39
runescape gold wrote:
saw" the game via ESPN play-by-play (sad I didn't ave anything better to do I know)... Looks like Sactown better rethink the Magette for Artest trade (yes I know it is dead...)
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Hmm.... interesting... my first view. Will everything be that dark? Or is it just the intro style. I will always give a Batman series a look.
Hmm.... interesting... my first view. Will everything be that dark? Or is it just the intro style. I will always give a Batman series a look.
Marvel offers up 7 live action movies between 2013 and 2014. What does DC serve up? A crappy MOShite movie and more cartoons!
I wish they would bring back the Green Lantern Cartoon. This show looks like fail to me,
No... No, and then perhaps... no.
I want my Bruce Timm back, and young Justice.
@ DarthBob - Frist off you are in the minority opinion that MOS was crappy. Second stop making Marvel out tobe the begin all end all. Iron Man II sucked on second viewing and both Thor and Captain American were little more than setups for the Avengers movies not great movies by any means. Marvel hit a home run with Iron Man and the Avengers, they missed with two Hulk movies.
@cinemaman72 Iron Man 2 sucked? OK, so let's stack up MOShite vs. Iron Man 2 which you say sucks:
- IM2: RT = 73%, RT Audience = 80%, box office = $623,933,331
- MOShite: RT = 56%, RT Audience = 78%, box office = $589,530,420 (as of 9 Jul)
So the movie that you claim sucks outperforms MOShite in every way; MOS can't even beat a movie that you claim sucks! Looks like you are the one in the minority. Marvel isn't perfect, but at least they're trying and giving fans more than Nolan's "dark and gritty" BS.
You call $1.3 billion misses? (Both Hulks plus CA and Thor) That's a good one! Not great movies, but entertaining and still better than crappy cartoons and Smallville.
Marvel took a virtually unknown superhero outside of comic book fans (Iron Man) and cashed in for $2.4 billion total. Superman has been around since the 1930s and has a huge brand recognition advantage over Iron Man and MOShite can't even beat IM2 (which you claim sucks) at the box office. Heck, MOShite isn't even going to beat The Amazing Spiderman which did $752 million.
MOShite made some money which in turn CBM fans will get more "dark and gritty" nolanesque BS CBMs. CBM are supposed to be fun and MOShite was neither fun nor good.
So enjoy your cartoons and TV show on a no name network DC fans cuz that's all you get for the foreseeable future! Also, the journey towards a JL train wreck will be 100 times better than any actual movie!
We need more Justice League, Bruce Timm style. We need Tim Daly, Kevin Conroy, and Co.
Or at least some more Young Justice. This looks like ass by comparison.
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God this looks bad. The Bat mobile looks like Speed Racer's Mach 5. Still do not understand why they cancelled Green Lantern and Young Justice, those shows were great.


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Writing a Game Ad
The game ad is the first presentation of your game to prospective players. It's how you attract players. If it's sloppy, disorganized, and disjointed, that what kind of players you'll attract, if you get any interest at all. The game ad is not something to just crank out in five minutes. It's something to take time with, proofread, spellcheck, rewrite, and proofread again.
The goal of any game ad is to attract players who will enjoy the game, and that you will enjoy gaming with. To do that, you need to display your writing style, offer information about your play style, and clearly explain the parameters of the game. If a player is looking for one thing and you're offering another, neither of you will be happy in the same game together. Conversely, when everyone is looking for the same thing, you're all much more likely to enjoy it. The way to make this happen is through communication.
Although a game ad often needs to contain a large amount of information, break it into small pieces where you can, using fieldset and spoiler tags, as well as bold text for section headings. Large walls of unrelieved text are generally intimidating, especially to newer players.
Game Advertisement Format
This section assumes you're writing an ad for a new game. If you need to recruit new players into an existing game, you'll need some additional information, found in the next section. Also, this format is only a guideline. Your particular ad might benefit from a different arrangement of some of the elements, or for some of them to be combined or excluded. Element names, except for the first two (which are coded into the ad form), should be considered entirely optional for inclusion, and feel free to rename them. For example, instead of putting in 'Game system used: M:tA', you could just declare 'M:tA'.
- Title: Name your ad something memorable that conveys the type of campaign or adventure you wish to run. This is only the title of the game ad, and will not affect your game forum name or any thread in your game. Indicating some of the mechanical information, like level/points, tone, or genre isn't required, but can draw in people who might ignore a purely fluff thread title.
- Estimated members requested: How many players do you want? Most games run with 3-6 players. Larger and smaller games both exist, but are less common for a variety of reasons. For new GMs, a party size of 4-5 typically works the best.
Begin the actual text of the ad with some kind of attention-getter. Use an excerpt from a fictitious book from the game world, a scene from the backstory of your campaign, quotes from major or historical NPCs, or anything else that offers some insight into the tone and subject of the campaign, as well as showing your writing style. Put such text in italics, as is often done with quotes or book excerpts. This is also a good place for one or two images, such as a picture of the starting location or an NPC that will be a major part of the game.
Offer a little bit about yourself as a GM. Spend a paragraph discussing your GMing style, the tone you want for the game, how long you've been GMing, and anything else you think it's important for players to know, besides the mechanics of the game. Does something in particular irritate you? Say so. Tell the players about pet peeves that will automatically disqualify them.
Explain your expectations for the game, in terms of amount of role playing (RP) vs. roll playing and general type. If you want heavy RP in a court intrigue game, that's a much different game than a low RP dungeon crawl, a 50/50 puzzle and skill challenge, or any other type. Also note whether PvP will be allowed/encouraged or not. If it isn't already clear from the system and setting choice, characterize the overall feel of the game, such as 'Depression era Lovecraftian horror', 'traditional high magic fantasy', or 'four color superheroes'.
- Posting Requirement: How many times a day, week, or month are your players expected to post? This is the MINIMUM requirement to post without some sort of prior notification. As a general rule, requiring more than one post per day or less than two per week causes problems of one kind or another. Very fast games may be difficult to keep up with or cause a lot of simultaneous posting issues. Very slow games may never gain any momentum and fade away. In some cases, you may wish to also add a maximum posting rate such as "no more than three posts from a player before the DM and/or all respond at least once" to make sure that everyone has a chance to respond appropriately.
- Game System Used: Tell which system you are using (DnD 3.5, GURPS, Palladium, etc.). This is a completely optional element, as both your game forum and the ad thread will be tagged with the system you chose already, but it never hurts to repeat this, especially if there are multiple ways to refer to the system, such as World of Darkness, which could be WoD, nWoD, oWoD, Storyteller, or any of the individual systems of WoD.
- Setting: Whatever the setting may be, note it. Published settings require nothing more than an indication of which part you intend to use. For a homebrew setting, offer a brief description of it with a link to your world's information. If you have an image or music to help convey the feel of the setting, include them here.
- Requested Character Type (optional): If you need a healer, a cop, a battlestar captain, or some other specific character type(s) for game balance or story continuity you should say so. If there are any premade characters or NPCs you wish to offer for players to take over, include links to them.
- Character Creation Rules: This will vary drastically from system to system, but explain the parameters that the players are expected to operate within while generating their characters, including level/points, score generation methods, and anything else your system requires. List out which source materials are allowed. If you are disallowing anything in those sources, be explicit about what cannot be used.
- House Rules: List out any House Rules in effect for your game. If you have a lot of house rules, or your house rules are extensive, a link to a "house rules" thread in your game forum or page in your world wiki is sufficient.
- Current PC's and NPC party members: The idea here is to get the new player to build something that will mesh well with the party (assuming there is an existing party or party patron). A holy paladin and an assassin for the dark lord are not natural fits as adventuring buddies. Telling new players a bit about the party they will be joining or patron they will be serving (if there is one yet) will help them understand what is needed and what will be a good party fit.
- Home Brew Outline: This step is not necessary for premade game worlds, but home brew worlds should explain things like the starting region, local factions, recent timeline, what magic and technology is available, and overall contribute any information you have to help paint the setting. If you have already started a wiki, providing links to relevant pages here is essential. Make your world come to life for the new player here.
- Plot/Campaign Outline: Give your players a heads up as to what to expect so they can make the right character, especially if you are adding a player to an already running game. Saying England 1930, doesn't really tell me if I should make a Paranormal Investigator for some Lovecraftian Horror or perhaps a high seas captain or an IRA spy. Guide the players here so they understand what's going on. If you have an overarching metaplot type, suggesting what that is will also be valuable information to your players. If you have an exit strategy (One Shot adventure or short series) mention that here.
- Background requirements (optional): You may request certain background information from your PC's. An example would be "1000-3000 words and a character portrait". What you require from your characters should be something you are willing to discuss with them in detail, and something that players will reasonably do. If you request so much that it becomes a chore from your players and ceases to be fun, they will likely pass on your game.
- Additional PC Requirements: Must have access to "X" books, Must have character sheet set to editable for the DM, anything else not covered above, etc.
- Submissions: Explain exactly how a player should submit an application for the game. If you want a particular format to the submission, indicate it. Say whether a completed character sheet is required as part of a submission, and if you have any kind of character and/or player questionnaire, include it here, spoilered.
- LINKS: Post relevant links such as free downloadable content for your system, a link to your game's wiki page, a link to a movie that inspired you to make the campaign, etc. Try to keep MW users on MW as much as possible, as they quickly become tired of opening and closing lots of windows.
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Interview Questions
Most GM's with good ads are faced with having a large pool of players to select from. These "interview questions" (which you may wish to include in your ad or discuss privately) are designed to help you find the right players for your game.
- Game-Related Questions
What makes you want to play in this game?
How much time and energy will you put in this game?
How many posts can you make per week/day?
What will this game's priority be to you?
What do you expect from this game?
Why should I accept you in this game?
- Free-form Gaming Questions (specific to free form systems)
Define what "free-form" is to you, please.
Have you played free-form before?
If yes, how was that experience? If no, how do you think this one will go?
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- Do not accept players that appear to not be familiar with the information you clearly posted in your game ad. If they can't pay attention to that, they likely won't pay close attention to your game. Additionally, do not accept players that cannot follow simple instructions.
- Do not accept players that seem disruptive or "irk" you.
- Do not accept character concepts you believe to be game breaking or are unwilling to deal with. Be very honest about this. You may find even the things you thought you could handle may quickly become a handful in the hands of a crafty min/max player.
- Accepting players unfamiliar with your game world or system is not necessarily a bad thing, but may cause additional challenges. Additionally it will also allow you the opportunity to help mold their experience with the system. Many GM's report that having brand new players is often very rewarding.
- As general advice, if you have a bad feeling about a player or character, go with your gut. Better to part ways now than invest tons of time and effort in the player and enable them to single handedly destroy your game. Conversely, if you have a good feeling about a player, give them a shot. Largely this is a trial and error endeavor and it may take a while to get a solid group together.
Depending on the success of your ad you may afford to be more or less picky, though if you've done a good job with your ad and your game seems appealing you will likely have more applicants than you can deal with. This can be a bit overwhelming the first few days as you receive dozens of letters from potential candidates, but this is a better spot to be in than not having enough qualified applicants. If you only have fewer applicants you approve at first than you would like, work with them for now and begin preparing the game, you can always come back and put up another ad.
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From the main page of your game forum, following these steps...
- Click on the Game Profile link. This takes you to the page that describes your personalized game. There are also other administrative functions here.
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Electricity Maine has attracted more than 180,000 customers in Maine in the past two years by offering an energy supply charge lower than the state-sponsored "standard offer." ENH Power has attracted 55,000 customers in New Hampshire using a similar strategy against Public Service of New Hampshire's default energy supply rate.
The Electricity Maine's offer in that same area is 6.80 cents on a six-month guarantee, 7.78 cents for 12 months and 7.58 cents for 18 months.
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Bicycling Sports Belt Loop
The Cub Scout Bicycling belt loop and pin are a part of the Cub Scout Academics and Sports Program. Tiger Cub, Wolf, Bear, and Webelos Scouts may earn this award in a Family, Den, Pack, school, or community setting. Tiger Cubs must be always accompanied by their Adult partner.
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Belt Loop RequirementsComplete these three requirements:
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A FREE workbook for Cub Scout Bicycling is available here! with the maps, charts, links, diagrams, and checklists you need! Or click here to print just the Cub Scout Bicycling requirements. | meritbadge.org has PDF and DOC versions of Boy Scout merit badge workbooks, Webelos workbooks, and Cub Scout workbooks. |
- Your handbook is your primary reference. See Cycling Skills for step-by-step instructions and lesson video links.
- See also: Cycling Merit Badge Pamphlet - Bike Safety - Equipment - Skills - Maintenance - Seat - Bike Rodeo
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1, 2, 3. Bike Safety
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1. The Riding Chart you need is in the Cub Scout Bicycling Worksheet.
2. Bike Rodeo
3. Repair a flat tire on a bicycle.
4. Wikipedia: History of the Bicycle - Pedaling History - Bicycle History
5. Bike Safety
7. A "bicycle hike" is a bike ride of typically less than an hour for Cub Scouts.
8. Repairing: Bike Tires - Bike Chain - Bike Gears - Bike Handlebars - Bike Brakes - Bike Seat
10. Bike Rodeo
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- Tiger Elective 37. Take a Bike Hike (bike ride) for Cub Scout Bicycling Pin requirement #7.
- Tiger Elective 38. Visit a bicycle shop to learn how to fix a flat tire for Cub Scout Bicycling Pin requirement #3.
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- 9e. Bike safety is the same as Cub Scout Bicycling Belt Loop requirement #1.
- 14a. Know the rules for bike safety...register - See Bicycling Belt Loop requirement #1 & Pin #6
- 14b. Learn to ride a bike... - See Bicycling Belt Loop requirement #3
- 14d. Change a tire on a bicycle... - See Bicycling Pin requirement #3
- 14f. Ride a bike for 1 mile... - See Bicycling Pin requirement #7
- 14g. Plan and take a family bike hike. - See Bicycling Pin requirement #7
- Sportsman Activity Badge requirement 3. (earn the Cub Scout Bicycling Belt Loop while a Webelos Scout)
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On other related news Jolla announced that their phone will use wayland. (Not sure which version)
Phoronix: Wayland 1.2.0 Released, Joined By Weston Compositor
After about three months of development, Wayland 1.2.0 along with the matching version of its Weston reference compositor have been released. The updated Wayland/Weston stack bring many new features to the table...
On other related news Jolla announced that their phone will use wayland. (Not sure which version)
That looks good.
Having 37 contributors speaks for itself!
I remember some of use guys having a discussion here on phoronix forums about system compositors and if we need them and if weston is such a compositor.
This might clear things up.
Now we just need Qt5.2, Mesa 9.2 (forgot why), and well, I don't know if KWin will keep using the Qpainter compositor, that Martin made, but if so, and if KDE 4.12 is based on Qt5.2, then at least KWin in KDE 4.12 is pretty far by Jan/Feb next year, if I've understood everything correctly
Oh - and EGL-support on proprietary drivers!
WOW this is huge! Ubuntu phone will have a very tough competitior. Ubuntu has the market share, now we see if that is enough. Launching with Wayland pretty much finalized my decision to buy a Jolla phone. It will be a historical milestone in the Linux world. Literally the first commercial device using the next gen Linux graphics stack!
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How could humans have evolved and still be created in the "Image of God"?
The meaning of the "image of God" has been debated for centuries in the church. A common view is that the image of God refers to the human abilities that separate us from the animals. However, scientists have found that abilities like communication and rationality are also present in animals on a basic level. Plus, theologians do not see the image of God as human abilities. Some theologians see the image of God as our capacity for a relationship with God. Other theologians see it as our commission to represent God's kingdom on earth. Both of these theological positions are consistent with scientific evidence. Whether God created humanity through a miracle or through evolution, God gave us our spiritual capacities and calls us to bear his image.
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It's true, there are banks in every city--but it was the way he said it in the context that it was said.
I think he wanted out of LA and he was going to get out either by trade or by being a FA..... Also remember that agents broker most of the trades that happen in this league months before they go down..... I'm sure LA's interest in Howard went back 2 years or so and Bynum's agent was fully aware of what LA wanted to do.... which was go for a new Face of the Franchise.
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I have a child with Autism that has participated for years in the Individual events offered by Special Olympics. He does not communicate well so it is always very hard to tell what he thinks about the sports he plays. Today we got a glimpse inside his mind when Michael decided to decorate. Apparently what he feels is Pride - because he just hung his school shirt on the wall along with the medals he has won. Now I am so proud. And happy! Sometimes it is so hard to make sure he can participate - it takes quite a lot of juggling to make the schedule work. This makes it all worthwhile. Thank you for all that you do!
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Contractors survey: Agencies slow in resolving contract issues
Tuesday - 1/18/2011, 3:13pm EST
Kerry Hall, Government Contractor Practice Leader, Grant Thornton
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A new survey found that most government contractors believe that the government is to blame for slow and difficult resolutions to contract issues.
Grant Thornton's 16th annual Government Contractor Industry Survey found that nearly three-quarters of contractors surveyed believe the government is slow and inefficient in resolving contract issues.
Kerry Hall, Grant Thornton's Government Contractor practice leader, joined the DorobekINSIDER with details of the report's findings:
- DCAA to blame?
56 percent said that inefficiencies are caused by the Defense Contract Audit Agency.DCAA was the subject of "scathing reports" in 2008 and 2009 from the Government Accountability Office that criticized DCAA's emphasis on production metrics rather than quality work, Hall said.
Grant Thornton will be monitoring if the relationship between DCAA and contractors will reach a "happy medium," Hall said.
- Bid protests
The report also found 22 bid protests were filed during the past year by companies surveyed, and 11 of them were sustained by the GAO or the court."This appears to be a higher sustainment rate than has historically been the case and could possibly signal an emerging trend," according to the Grant Thornton website.
"In the full survey, we indicate it does appear to be a trend that we'll be monitoring going forward," Hall said.
- Out-of-scope work
A majority (69 percent) of contractors say prodecedures for identifying out-of-scope work is somewhat effective or not effective. The remaining 31 percent said these procedures are highly effective.Changes in the scope of work can be directed from the government customer or come from indirect changes, Hall said.
For the contractor, identifying such changes is critical for the business to be paid for the additional work, he said.
- Revenue growth from stimulus
72 percent of respondents anticipate no significant revenue growth from the stimulus program over the next 18 months, and 28 percent anticipate a modest growth.The impact of the stimulus "has yet to be seen," because much of the initual spending is still in the procurement cycle, Hall said.
"I think we'll see more of that in the next year, the third year of the stimulus package," Hall said.


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- Drayton, D.L., Liao, S., Mounzer, R.H., and Ruddle, N.H. (2006). Lymphoid organ development: from ontogeny to neogenesis. Nat. Immunol. 7:344-353.
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Friday Philosophy – The One Absolute Requirement for System Success October 14, 2011
Posted by mwidlake in development, Friday Philosophy, Perceptions.Tags: behaviour, design, Humour, perception, system development
Alternative title "The lady from Patient Admin – she says YEEESSSS!!!!!!"
What must you always achieve for an IT system to be a success?
- Bug free? Never happens.
- Within budget/time frame? That would be nice.
- Includes critical business functionality? Please define critical.
- Secure? Well, it's important for many systems but then it is often lacking (even when it is important).
- That it is to specification? Well we all know that's wrong.
There is only one thing that an IT system must always achieve to be a success.
User Acceptance.
For an individual system other considerations may well be very important, but the user acceptance is, I think, non-negotiable.
The user must get enough out of using the system for it to be worth their while, otherwise at best they will resent using it and at worst… Well, at worst they will use it but will put in any old rubbish to fulfill the dictate that it be used. You would be better off if they did not use the system at all. Here are a couple of examples from my working past.
In the first one, I was involved in extending a hospital management system so that it kept track of the expected departure times for patients, allowing a predication of when beds would become available and calculation of expected occupancy rates. Yes, this was a while ago (maybe 1990) and on an a system that was old then. The information was needed by someone with the title "bed nurse" {or something similar} so that they could better prepare for bringing patients in and keeping a higher bed usage ratio. This was to make the hospital more efficient? No, it was to satisfy a politically demanded report to the NHS executive. Oh, the overall intention was to increase efficiency but the report soon became more important than the idea. So, we added columns in tables and field on screens and prompts for the ward staff to fill in the information. And they didn't. The nurses were busy, they were pretty demoralized due to having recently been used by the government as a way to control public sector pay and they had nursing duties to do. They were not going to waste a couple of minutes trying to check when Mrs Jenkins was going to be sent home when Mrs Leonard needed a bed pan. The nursing staff were given a hospital-wide telling off, this information had to be entered. They put in the data – but guessed wildly. The design was fine, the report was logically accurate, only the correct staff could run it, but No User Acceptance and thus a failure.
So I added something else. It was a very crude screen that showed a "diagram" of the ward – Down the left and right side of a VT220 screen you saw little oblong boxes with a bed number, name in it, a consultant's initials, a medical speciality code and the arrival and departure datetime. This was some information we already had plus the new information we wanted and something quite basic, limited and slow to draw. But it was useful to the ward staff. They could find any patient, they knew who to call if there was an emergency {not the actual consultant of course, but their secretary}, they could check when they were leaving, they could see what time someone was expected. From anywhere where there was a terminal, not just the entrance to the ward, they could see all this information. They used it. They put in the expected departure time {sobering thought, this might not be expected leaving alive} and the bed nurse could plan and the report could be run.
Second example, different hospital. We were putting together a system to schedule outpatient clinics. We knew what we were doing, it's pretty simple. You have some people (a consultant and probably a senior house officer), a period for the clinic (3 or 4 hours) and a set of people to see, say 40. Give some flexibility in slot lengths (some people need 5 minutes, some 15) and allow the patients to be booked in. Check for and stop double booking. We did not go and ask the patient admin staff, we knocked up the design and the screens and asked them to test. After all, I was very experienced now, I'd been doing these systems for 3 years… They very quickly came back to us and said it was rubbish. Oh dear.
We went and saw them. I think it was a couple of us programmers, our development manager, the hospital liaison for the project and the patient admin staff. "What's the problem?" There were a few but the main one was that you could not double book a slot. Why would you want to? Do two patients really want to be consulted at the same time with the same doctor?.
"Err, maybe, it might happen, can we just be able to double book?" OK, we could maybe alter things to allow two patients to be seen at the same time… The patient admin staff are not looking happy. The hospital liaison is looking confused – "You can't do that! Patient confidentiality can't be broken!" he says. It got worse. "We need to book all the patients into the first slot, with the consultant, so the letters go out to them saying come to see Mr Winders at 1pm". The admin staff are now looking very shifty.
If any of you have worked in the health service you are probably way ahead of me. The admin staff needed to book all the patients in at this first slot so that they would all turn up, the consultant would see the two or three he was interested in – and then go and play golf. The SHO would then plough through the rest of the patients for the following three or four hours. If you have ever had to turn up at the start of a consultancy session and sat there for three hours, now you know why. You see, back then, the consultant was only a very small step away from deity level (and I leave it to you to decide if it was a step up or down). What they said went and if they wanted to go and play golf or store 200 medical records in the boot of their car or refuse to speak to "that stupid idiot in renal medicine" then you worked around it. {I'm assured that things are a lot better now, but I'd love to know how it really is}.
We had designed a sensible system, the users needed a non-sensible {to our mind} system. Even the NHS liaison chap had never appreciated exactly how much the consultants abused the system, he thought they just booked the people s(he) wanted at the start of the session, but no. The consultant decided that day who was interesting and as a result every patient had to be there at the start.
I count myself lucky that I learnt from direct experience so soon in my working life that (a) you have to deliver what the user will accept and (b) the only way to know what they want is to show them the system and talk with them.
{For those of you who do not understand the alternative title at the top, it is all about an old DelMOnte fruit juice advert which became a bit of a catchphrase at the time}
{And are you happy now Dom? :-) }
- 1. Dom Brooks - October 14, 2011
- 2. Graham - October 14, 2011
the only way to know what they want is to show them the system and talk with them.>> or talk to them, then show them a system and then talk to them some more.
- mwidlake - October 14, 2011
- 3. David Harper - October 14, 2011
A certain software development team at an organisation of our acquaintance is re-advertising a couple of developer jobs for the third or fourth time in more than a year.
You may be amused to know that this time, instead of highlighting all of the techy/geeky requirements ("must be Agile", "must be a Ruby on Rails expert", …) up front, the job ad now gives top billing to "must have excellent people skills and ability to communicate". Skills related to programming and web development are well down the list.
It's about four years too late to do any good, if you ask me, but someone finally seems to have got the message.
- 4. jgarry - October 15, 2011


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