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Five UX Research Pitfalls
In the last few years, more and more organizations have come to view UX design as a key contributor to successful products, connecting teams with end-users and guiding product innovation within the organization. Though it's fantastic to see this transition happen, there are growing pains associated with becoming a user-driven organization. These are the pitfalls that I see organizations grappling with most often.
Pitfall 1: It's easier to evaluate a completed, pixel-perfect product so new products don't get vetted or tested until they're nearly out the door.
Months into a development cycle and just days before the release date, you realize that the UI has serious flaws or missing logic. If you're lucky, there is enough flexibility in the schedule to allow grumbling engineers to re-architect the product. More likely, though, the PM will push to meet the original deadline with the intent to fix the UI issues later. However, "later" rarely happens. Regardless, everyone wonders: how could these issues have been caught earlier?
The UI is typically built after the essential architectural elements are in place, and it can be hard to test unreleased products with users until the very last moment. However, you can gather feedback early in the process:
- Don't describe the product and ask users if they would use it. In this case, you are more likely testing your sales pitch rather than the idea itself. If you ask users if they want a new feature, 90% of the time they'll say yes.
- Test with the users you want, not the users you already have. If you want to grow your audience with a new product, you should recruit users outside your current community.
- Validate that the problem you are solving actually exists. Early in the design cycle, find your future users and research whether your product will solve their real-world problems. Look for places where users are overcoming a problem via work-around solutions (e.g., emailing links to themselves to keep an archive of favorite sites) or other ineffective practices (e.g., storing credentials in a text file because they can't remember their online usernames and passwords).
- Verify your mental models. Make sure that the way you think about the product is the same as your user. For instance, if you've been pitching your product idea to your coworkers as "conversational email" but your actual users are teenagers who primarily use text messaging, then your email metaphor probably won't translate to your younger users. Even if you don't intend to say "conversational email" in your product, you will unconsciously make subtle design choices that will limit your product's success until you find a mental model that fits that of your users, not of your coworkers.
- Prototype early. Create and test a Flash-based or patched-together prototype internally as soon as possible. Even if your prototype doesn't resemble a finished product, you'll uncover and develop confidence in the major issues to wrestle down in the design process. You'll also have an easier time seeing the areas of the product that need animations, on-the-fly changes, or other issues that require significant engineering time that weren't recognized in the project scope because the product was only explored in wireframes and design specs.
- Plan through v2. If you intend to launch a product with minimal vetting or testing, make sure you've written down and talked about what you intend for the subsequent version. One of the downsides of the "release early, release often" philosophy is that it's easy to get distracted or discouraged if your beta product doesn't immediately succeed. Or upon launch you might find your users pulling you in a direction you hadn't intended because the product wasn't fully fleshed out, or dealing with weeks of bug-fixing and losing sight of the big picture. Once the first version is out the door, keep your team focused on the big picture and dedicated to that second version.
Pitfall 2: Users click on things that are different, not always things they like. Curious trial users will skew the usage statistics for a new feature.
Upon adding a "Join now!" button to your site, you cheer when you see an unprecedented 35% click-through rate. Weeks later, registration rates are abysmal and you have to reset expectations with crestfallen teams. So you experiment with the appearance of your "Join now!" button by changing its color from orange to green, and your click rates shoot up again. But a few days later, your green button is again performing at an all-time low.
It's easy for an initial number spike to obscure a serious issue. Launching a new feature into an existing product is especially nerve-wracking because you only have one chance to make a good first impression. If your users don't like it the first time, they likely won't try it again and you've squandered your best opportunity. Continuously making changes to artificially boost numbers leads to feature-blindness and distrustful users. Given all of this, how and when can you determine if a product is successful?
- Instrument the entire product flow. Don't log just one number. If you're adding a new feature, you most likely want to know at least three stats: 1) what percentage of your users click on the feature, 2) what percentage complete the action, and 3) what percentage repeat the action again on a different day. By logging the smaller steps in your product flow, you can trace the usage statistics within all of these points to look for significant drop-offs.
- Test in sub-communities. If you are launching a significant new feature, launch the feature in another country or in a small bucket and monitor your stats before launching more widely.
- Dark-launch features. If you are worried that your feature could impact site performance, launch the feature silently without any visible UI and look for changes in uniques, visit times, or reports of users complaining about a slow site. You'll minimize the number of issues you might have to potentially debug upon the actual launch.
- Anticipate a rest period. Don't promise statistics the day after a release. You'll most likely want to see a week of usage before your numbers begin leveling.
- Test the discoverability of your real estate. Most pieces of your UI will have certain natural discoverability rates. For instance, consider adding a new temporarily link to your menu header for a very small percentage of your users just to understand the discoverability rates for different parts of your UI. You can use these numbers as a baseline for evaluating future features.
Pitfall 3: Users give you conflicting feedback.
You are running a usability study and evaluating whether users prefer to delete album pictures using a delete keystroke, a remove button, a drag-to-trash gesture, or a right-click context menu. After testing a dozen participants, your results are split among all four potential solutions. Maybe you should just recommend implementing all of them?
It's unrealistic to expect users to understand the full context of our design decisions. A user might suggest adding "Apply" and "Save" buttons to a font preference dialog. However, you might know that an instant-effect dialog where the settings are applied immediately without clicking a button or dismissing the dialog makes for an easier, more effective user experience. With user research, it's temptingly easy to create surveys or design our experiments so study participants simply vote on what they perceive as the right solution. However, the user is giving you data, not an expert opinion. If you take user feedback at face value, you typically end up with a split vote and little data to make an informed decision.
- Ask why. Asking users for their preference is not nearly as informative as asking users why they have a preference. Perhaps they are basing their opinion upon a real-world situation that you don't think is applicable to the majority of your users (e.g., "I like this new mouse preference option because I live next to a train track and my mouse shakes and wakes up my screen saver").
- Develop your organization's sense of UI values. Know which UI paradigms (e.g. Mac vs. Windows, Web vs. desktop, etc) and UI values (e.g. strong defaults or lots of customization, transparency or progressive disclosure) your team values. When you need to decipher conflicting data, you'll have this list for guidance.
- Make a judgment call. It's not often helpful to users to have multiple forms of the same UI. In most cases it adds ambiguity or compensates for a poorly designed UI. When the user feedback is conflicting, you have to make a judgment call based upon what you know about the product and what you think makes sense for the user. Only in rare cases will all users have the same feedback or opinion in a research study. Making intelligent recommendations based upon conflicting data is what you are paid to do.
- Don't aim for the middle ground. If you have a legitimate case for building multiple implementations of the same UI (e.g., language differences, accessibility, corporate vs. consumer backgrounds, etc.), don't fabricate a hodgepodge persona ("Everyone speaks a little bit of English!"). Instead, do your best to dynamically detect the type of user situation upfront, automate your UI for that user, and offer your user an easy way to switch.
Pitfall 4: Any data is better than no data, right?
You are debating whether to put a search box at the top or the bottom of a content section. While talking about the issue over lunch, your business development buddy suggests that you try making the top search box "Search across the Web" and the bottom search box "Search this article" to compare the results between the two. You can't seem to place your finger on why this idea seems fishy though you can see why this would be more efficient than getting your rusty A/B testing system up and running again. Sensing your skepticism, your teammate adds, "I know it's not perfect, but we'll learn something about search boxes, right? I don't see a reason not to put it in the next release if it's easy?"
The human mind's ability to fabricate stories to fill in the gaps in one's knowledge is absolutely astounding. Given two or three data points, our minds can construct an alternate reality in which all of those data points make flawless sense. Whether it's an A/B test, a usability study, or a survey, if your exploration provides limited or skewed results, you'll most likely end up in a meeting room discussing everyone's different interpretations of the data. This meeting won't be productive and you'll either agree with the most persuasive viewpoint or you'll realize that you need a follow-up study to reconcile the potential interpretations of your study.
- Push for requirements. When talking with your colleagues, try to figure out what you are trying to learn. What is the success metric you're looking for? What will the numbers actually tell you? What are the different scenarios? This will help you determine the study you should run while also anticipating future interpretations of the data before running the study (e.g., if the top search bar performs better, did you learn that the top placement is better or just that users look for site search in the upper left area of a page?).
- Recognize when a proposed solution is actually a problem statement. Sometimes someone will propose an idea that doesn't seem to make sense. While your initial reaction may be to be defensive or to point out the flaws in the proposed A/B study, you should consider that your buddy is responding to something outside your view and that you don't have all of the data. In this scenario, perhaps your teammate is proposing running the search box study because he has a meeting early next week and needs to work on a quicker timeline. From his perspective, he's being polite by leading with a suggestion without realizing that you don't have the context for his suggestion. However, after pushing him for what problem the above study will resolve, you can also help him think through alternative ways of getting the data he needs faster.
- Avoid using UX to resolve debates. UX might seem like a fantastic way to avoid personal confrontation (especially with managers and execs!). After all, it's far easier to debate UX results rather than personal viewpoints. However, data is rarely as definitive as we'd like. Conducting needless studies runs the risk of slowing down your execution speed and perhaps leaving deeper philosophical issues unresolved that will probably resurface again. Sometimes we agree to a study because we aren't thinking fast enough to weigh the pros and cons of the approach, and it seems easier to simply agree. However, you do have the option of occasionally saying, "You've raised some really good points. I'd like to spend a few hours researching this issue more before we commit to this study. Can we talk in a few hours?" And when you do ask for this time, be absolutely certain to proactively follow-up with some alternative proposals or questions, not just reasons why you think it won't work. You should approach your next conversation with, "I think we can apply previous research to this problem," or "Thinking about this more, I realized I didn't understand why it was strategically important to focus on this branding element. Can you walk me through your thinking?" or "After today's conversation, I realized that we were both trying to decrease churn but in different ways. If we do this study, I think we're going to be overlooking the more serious issue, which is…"
Pitfall 5: By human nature, you trust the numbers going in the right direction and distrust the numbers going in the wrong direction.
Hours after a release, you hear the PM shout, "Look! Our error rates just decreased from .5% to .0001%. Way to go engineering team! Huh, but our registration numbers are down. Are we sure we're logging that right?"
Even with well-maintained scripts, the most talented stats team, and the best intentions, your usage statistics will never be 100% accurate. Because double-checking every number is unrealistic, you naturally tend to optimize along two paths: 1) distrust the numbers that are going in the wrong direction and, more dangerously, 2) trust the numbers that are heading in the right direction. To make matters worse, data logging is amazingly error-prone. If you spot a significant change in a newly introduced user activity metric, nine times out of ten it's due to a bug rather than a meaningful behavior. As a result, five minutes of logging can result in five days of data analyzing, fixing, and verifying.
- Hold off on the champagne. Everyone wants to be the first to relay good news so it's hard to resist saying, "We're still verifying things and it's really early, but I think registration numbers went up ten-fold in the last release!" Train yourself to be skeptical and to sanity-check the good news and the bad news.
- QA your logging numbers. Data logging typically gets inserted when the code is about to be frozen. Since data logging shouldn't interfere with the user experience, it tends not to be tested. Write test cases for your important data logging numbers and include testing them in the QA process.
- Establish a crisp data vocabulary. Engagement, activity, and session can mean entirely different things between teams. Make sure that your data gatekeeper has made it clear how numbers are calculated on your dashboards to help avoid false alarms or overlooked issues.
One of the main tenets of user research is to constantly test the assumptions that we develop from working on a product on a daily basis. It takes time to develop the skills to know how to apply our UX techniques, when our professional expertise should trump the user's voice, or when to distrust user data. As a researcher, you are trained to keep an open mind and to keep asking questions until you understand the user's entire mental picture. However, it's that same open-mindedness and willingness to understand the user's perspective that makes it easy to assume that because their perspective can make sense, that it should also justify changes within our product design. Or, because we are so comfortable with a particular type of UX research, we tend to over-apply it to our team's questions.
While by no means a complete list, I hope these five pitfalls from my personal experience will be relevant to your professional lives and perhaps, provide some food for thought as we all strive to become better researchers and designers.
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Awesome article - some of those situations definitely sound familiar!
That brought to mind a couple things I've noticed:
1. Not entirely UX-related but similar to Pitfalls 4 and 5: there may be times when it's easy to measure the upside but difficult to measure the downside, and then there's often a tendency to ignore the downside. E.g., we added a big distracting button over here and our whatever rate has gone up a bit, but are people getting annoyed and leaving the service? We can't tell if they are, so we'll keep the button!
2. While I haven't seen any data to back this up, I suspect users will complain more than they will compliment. So if you change something and look at user feedback, you may see a lot of complaints, even if overall more users like it the new way.
Hi Elaine, nice article. I agree with several points, but would also like to point out a few things I would differ on.
1. When I worked at Apple we used 0 data. We maintained the fact that "we know what you want better than you do."
2. When I worked at Microsoft we used a MOUNTAIN of data and I totally agree with not using UX data to argue a point. You can use it.. and I have, but as I always state "UX can be used for good or evil." Several times UX data has come back negatively and my response was, "The participants were wrong.. period."
3. Determine if you are going to treat your product as a web page or software. Design accordingly. Do not fall into the typical web design patterns and junk that most web people do. I have been quoted numerous times saying that web designers are the red headed step children of software. I still think that.
4. Do not micro-analyze your data. Don't get caught up in the # of clicks on a single button. Take a step back and look at the overall picture to find out the use cases for why they are clicking on it. Not the purpose of the button, color, etc.
The main problem with using web standards to build a piece of software is that ... as in meebo... with your notifier, you have begun to creep outside the web world and into my world. Now what do you do?
If you rely on the browser to perform functionality that you should be doing (like change font size in meebo) what do you do when the browsers change? Minimize dependencies.
Very nice article Elaine. Very detailed and extremely valuable in terms of the examples you quote and experience you've shared. Your article was a good read.
While I was reading your article, I co-incidentally got a tweet with the following link: http://repeatgeek.com/technical/10-resources-for-design-challenged-programmers/
Although I don't believe that everything that is being said about a developer (in the above link) is true, but some of the points are really hilarious the way a programmer is stereotyped and contrasted from a usability and UI designer's point of view. Thought you'd like it.
Yeah, and arrogant web designers like Ryan Carson are one of the many reasons UX specialists are necessary. People who think that their knowledge of CSS, HTML, and whatever usability experience they've picked up along the way qualifies them to research and design user-centered software products are way underestimating other people's skills and experience, and way overestimating their own. Having good UX pros on your team helps inoculate your project against people who arrogantly assume they know best. There's a *HUGE* difference between web design and software product design, both in terms of the tools and of the complexity involved in building them. Would Ryan Carson's advanced knowledge of HTML5 and CSS going to do him much good on the Adobe Creative Suite design team, or on the Amazon information architecture group, or on the National Federation for the Blind's website?
Anyway, I don't need to keep going on about how wrong that guy is... a bunch of people have already done a great job of breaking down that assertion from a hundred different directions. What shines out of his responses to the comments is that he believes that designers should be like unto all-knowing gods of every facet of research and design, and that he considers himself such a god. If you truly had such a designer, you can be sure he'd be charging much higher rates than your average web design production monkey.
ryan carson says UX teams are a waste of money http://thinkvitamin.com/opinion/ux-professional-isnt-a-real-job/
Given the fact that a large number of Meebo users are following your link to this article from Meebo's start area, it would be a good idea to include a sentence to define or give preliminary background info on "UX design". I understand that the article was written for a magazine of the same name, so yes it was safe to assume that those readers would already be familiar with "UX". But in the online world, any online article brings with it the possibility of being posted and/or linked to an outside group so basic information would be necessary and avoid a lot of abandoned attempts to read your article to its completion. This is particularly true where a search of a term like "UX" would surely return a very large number of differing results that would only add confusion. Just my 2 cents. :) Thanks
Really informative and really well written.
Whats good here is seeing UX techniques being presented from from a usability study perspective. We usually hear a lot about UX from the early design phase. It validates the need for up-front design that a lot of skeptical employees (particularly in tech. companies) ignore as a nice to have rather than a must have.
More please :)
Very nice article. Definitely have to read it multiple times.
I agree, some companies have a tendency to create experiments/ surveys where participants simply vote for what the perceive as the the right solution. Providing participants with every single feature they ask for creates a monster. More often than not, users just don't really know what they want.
Wow this is a great article, I will have to reread it a couple of times to get the most out of it. We are now in the second redesign of our beta product. The funny part is that the 3rd one is already on its way. The more we talk to users the more we see the product through their eyes...


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Brevity is gold, for life is short and my attention span shorter.
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the quality of expressing much in few words
To a Loved family member that ya don't get to talk to much: "WTH! You're online this is so great, I've so much to tell you. I Love You! I've met the man/woman of my dreams, I got that job I've been working so hard for. How are you?!" Reply from family member: "Nice, but I can't talk now, I've GTG!!! I'm sorry." You: "Wow I can't believe the brevity you are showing." Family member: "Huh?"
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short duration.
Most of us have heard Shakespeare's quote "brevity is the soul of wit" but most of us would like to know what the fuck it means
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I am not ThatOneGuy, but can answer some of the questions.A couple more pix:A couple bags of dough asking me to take them home(sadly I did not)(http://www.zackuribe.com/Doughbag.jpg)A BAD picture of the "pizza cutters" used to form dough from the sheeter. You can actually see some skins on discs in the holder behind them(the top one is actually a little warped).(http://www.zackuribe.com/PizzaCutter.jpg)
but it is also possible that the biscuit quality comes from the way the dough is rolled out, including re-introducing scrap dough into the process.
I have just a few pics of the thick crust. They are primarily of the bottom crust. I'll post them real quick if you think it will help.
Having the "scrap dough" as a necessary REQUIREMENT for the flavor of the crust is not a sound business practice.


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YolandaWon't BuyI have kinky hair (4c if you use typing). I make my own mud wash mixture that I love but decided to give this a try. The cream smells very fresh and left my hair clean with one shampoo. It did leave my hair a little drier than my mud wash, but that didn't bother me too much. My problem was tangles. It took me quite a long time to detangle my hair. By the time I got towards the end of my two strand twist I was yanking and pulling just to speed things up a bit! I'm also not fond of the long list of chemicals in this product. I would not use this shampoo on a regular basis, but if I were traveling or needed a more convient and portable method for cleansing (and didn't have a bottle of Terressentials in reach) I'd use this. I think this shampoo would be great for someone who has been accustomed to using commercial brands. I think they'd find the shampoo to be more gentle. I won't be making the switch, though.posted Aug 28, 2012Link to this post
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Did you read the bottle? I counted and it says five times that it's a no suds, sulfate free shampoo. Sulfates are what make shampoos lather. I'm not tryna pick. It would be fine if you just didn't like the product for what it was, but you rated it poorly for what it was NOT - a lathering shampoo.
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hope someone would like it =) thanks
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Better colors and a better comp. Please vote again.
TobiasAmaranth wrote:I apologize, I meant gradients with the background as in having the background fade out into the shirt color rather than having solid edges. Not specifically gradients inside the background. :3 Like, the flat works great for the characters in this instance. But the background doesn't need to be so blocky/solid.
Yeah, I created a series of halftoned backgrounds, but it just didn't look right. It kept fighting with the manner in which I stylized the characters. In the pursuit of different backgrounds I made a few different decisions. My wife helped me to finalize a few colors.
Re: Gone Fishing
Love the colors, shading and highlights. It really pops!
Love the colors. Very 80's. I would definatly wear this shirt.
I'm having trouble uploading my artwork, but this is my image I want to enter... hopefully I can get my upload issue straightened out... see if this works...
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absolutely love this one. i want it.
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nice work! great colors, great looking shirt.
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Definitely want this one!
madnessiv wrote:Definitely want this one!
pdaywitt wrote:cool shirt... but, i'm surprised that nobody's questioned that midterms are next week and you still had time to make all the snowflakes different?! btw - really cool shirt!
When midterms are next week, things like making each snowflake different suddenly become very important. Sure, I'm not finished writing that paper on acquired deficits to the auditory input lexicon, but my house is decorated in little foam pumpkins that I handmade. (Adorable penguin, Ramy! Now stop checking comments on your Derby entry and go study!)
I get that there are rules, but I feel like the text here is subtle enough that the artist probably didn't even think of it. No need to get huffy.
tomspc wrote:read the rules "NO TEXT"
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He needs a bow tie.
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I kinda wish he was wearing the monocle...
This breaks my heart. Such strong meaning.
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erm, i dont think there are any animals in that design lol.. read the derby topic
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i dont think poo is an animal...
When did poop become an animal?
sirend wrote:erm, i dont think there are any animals in that design lol.. read the derby topic
Not only that, but other designs have been rejected for having numbers. No text this week!
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a closer look at the artwork: enjoy!
Really incredible
epcooper wrote:I have a cockatoo also, love this shirt
I have a Goffins Not a Citron Crested, figured the crested type of cockatoos would go for a better design and the look more like a punk rocker lol.
caulfield333 wrote:Love the colors. Very 80's. I would definatly wear this shirt.
thanks a lot
mikeboensel wrote:Really incredible
haha yes this is my bad.. just realize must be an animal on the design in the third submission X(
CYBERREQUIN wrote:I have a Goffins Not a Citron Crested, figured the crested type of cockatoos would go for a better design and the look more like a punk rocker lol.
Mine is an umbrella
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It seems a bit weird saying this, but this design is almost too good for this site. The detail is stunning.
Even if the theme was no theme at all, just random shirts, I still don't think this would make it past the rejectionator.
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Re voted.
MrsBones wrote:I kinda wish he was wearing the monocle...
I think that's a gold watch.
I revised to align with suggestions; I think he looks more recognizably a frog playing a harmonica.
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Beautiful !
Kitteh's gonna need a bigger boat!
L3g3ndQ wrote:why is there such a large block of pixelation?? and why is it so far up?? is the bear really happy to be naked?? sorry that's just what i thought when i saw it
Must be a female bear. 'Cause bears have boobs. Don't they?
Seems like that mosaic is going to up the color count.
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Fantastic, but this seems to run afoul of the "original ideas only" rule.
rayray8822 wrote:Seems like that mosaic is going to up the color count.
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The way that all of Europe has become acquainted with Atlas of Creation and the declaration of the fact that living creatures have remained unchanged for millions of years and that evolution is devoid of any scientific worth have led to a major change of belief among the people of Europe. Independent polls conducted by well-known publishing institutions in different European countries have revealed a major drop in the numbers of people believing in Darwinism and that belief in Allah now dominates Europe. >>
In order to create, God has no need to design
It's important that the word "design" be properly understood. That God has created a flawless design does not mean that He first made a plan and then followed it. God, the Lord of the Earth and the heavens, needs no "designs" in order to create. God is exalted above all such deficiencies. His planning and creation take place at the same instant. Whenever God wills a thing to come about, it is enough for Him just to say, "Be!" As verses of the Qur'an tell us: His command when He desires a thing is just to say to it, "Be!" and it is. (Qur'an, 36: 82) [God is] the Originator of the heavens and Earth. When He decides on something, He just says to it, "Be!" and it is. (Qur'an, 2: 117)


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Darvish, Cole open crucial Interleague series
Rangers and Pirates both looking to gain ground in their divisions
Pirates manager Clint Hurdle on Monday will return to Texas, where he spent the 2010 season as the Rangers' hitting coach in their first World Series appearance. The Rangers lost to the Giants in five games, and Hurdle became the Pirates' skipper the following season.
"We are basically where they were in '10," Hurdle said of the Rangers. "That's when they got over the hump, and they've built on it ever since."
Hurdle has the Pirates in position for their first postseason appearance since 1992 as they prepare for a rare three-game Interleague series between two teams jockeying for playoff position.
"It's not a major issue -- just different, never had to do it before," Hurdle said. "With the new structure of the game -- different challenge. It's a new team, a team we don't see much of. It's more than a pop quiz, it's cramming for exam, because the games at this point are very meaningful."
The Pirates are 1 1/2 games behind the first-place Cardinals in the National League Central. The Pirates hold the top Wild Card spot in the NL, however, just like the Rangers in the American League. Texas trails Oakland by 1 1/2 games in the AL West. The Rangers and the Pirates are just 2-5 this month. Texas has lost three straight series, to the Twins, A's and Angels. The Pirates were swept by the Cardinals to drop their fourth straight game.
"They're pretty much in the same situation as we are," Hurdle said. "I have a lot of respect for what they've done, but we also respect what we've done. "I'm not going to walk in there like, 'Look at what we've done.' That's not the way I work. I'm a small part of what's going on."
Gerrit Cole and Yu Darvish will make their first career starts against the Rangers and Pirates, respectively. Cole allowed two runs over six innings in a no-decision against the Brewers on Tuesday, but it helped produce one of the Pirates' two wins this month. The rest of the rotation has pitched 12 2/3 total innings since Cole's start, including Charlie Morton's injury-shortened outing Sunday.
Darvish went 3-1 with a 2.51 ERA in six August starts, but he tied for his shortest outing this season Wednesday against the A's. He lasted just five innings, allowing five runs on five hits and matching a career high with six walks.
"No one has any right to judge how I pitch," Darvish said through an interpreter. "I know I have been pitching my best performance, and I don't think anyone has any right to judge how I do or how I pitch."
It was the first time Darvish lost consecutive starts this season. He has gone 0-2 with a 4.50 ERA in his last four starts to raise his ERA from 2.64 to 2.91. Darvish is 4-0 with a 1.93 ERA in five career Interleague starts.
"There's some days that mechanics are off, but we're in September," Darvish said. "Everyone's tired, including myself. You just have to make the best adjustments possible to get ready for the next game."
Rangers: Feliz solid in return
Neftali Feliz has not allowed a run in three outings this season. He returned from Tommy John surgery to pitch 3 1/3 scoreless innings. He threw a scoreless inning in Saturday's loss against the Angels.
Pirates: Morton leaves with foot injury
Charlie Morton left his start Sunday against the Cardinals in the second inning with a left foot injury. He went just 1 2/3 innings, allowing five runs on six hits.
Worth noting
• The Pirates need just one win to guarantee their first winning season since 1992.
• The Rangers are 10-2 against the Pirates all-time and won the last six meetings.
• The Pirates are 12-5 in Interleague Play this season. They are tied with the Tigers for the second-best Interleague record in the Majors behind the Red Sox (13-5).
Master Tesfatsion is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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After completing his Reserve Officers' Training and earning a Bachelor and Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Ryan Castonia could well have gone on to a great career as an engineer in the Air Force. That would have been a success story by anyone's standards, but he was not content to stop there. While still a Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) cadet at MIT, Castonia sought out different opportunities for his future. Beyond the natural career path as an engineer, he was slotted to be a pilot, and finally settled on a Combat Rescue Officer (CRO) position. He also managed to find his way to the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC) as part of the Air Force's new Language Enabled Airman Program (LEAP) despite having no prior language proficiency.
"The LEAP program was created while I was still in ROTC and the announcement came out through our Cadre." Castonia explained. "I've always wanted to learn a foreign language; I just didn't feel like I was in a good time or place to ever do it (before)."
The Air Force Culture and Language Center launched the LEAP in 2010. The program is designed to identify Airmen with foreign language abilities and foster those skills throughout their careers. Though Castonia was not already proficient in a language, he applied for LEAP based on his high Defense Language Aptitude Battery (DLAB) score and 4.0 Grade Point Average, both of which indicated his likelihood for success. Success, it seems, is no stranger to Castonia.
Castonia applied for a coveted pilot trainee slot to become an Air Force pilot and was one of the select few to be accepted. But before he was to put on his gold bars, yet another opportunity caught his attention. After hearing about the Combat Rescue Officer mission, Castonia fell in love with it. He endured the mental, physical, and psychological challenges of the dual-phase selection process and was one of only 11 chosen to become a part of this relatively new Special Operations career field initiated in 2000.
"I've always worked really hard to try to maintain a good balance between academics and athletics…, my parents have always pushed that, and so I felt like the military was a good place, where you can maintain that balance."
CROs parallel the Air Force's elite pararescue career field only open to enlisted servicemembers, and provide an officer corps to lead pararescue teams and Survival Evasion Resistance and Escape (SERE) specialists.
It would seem with all these accomplishments and opportunities, that there was nothing more for this outstanding cadet to strive for. Not so.
Castonia applied for and was accepted into LEAP based on his merits. He is among the first five Air Force lieutenants to come to DLIFLC and participate in LEAP. Once servicemembers achieve a certain level of proficiency, they receive incentive pay for their language. But LEAP requires them to maintain that proficiency in addition to the daily duties of their primary Air Force Specialty Code (AFSC). Castonia, however, sees that commitment as a privilege rather than a burden.
"I just think having the possibility of coming to DLI as a young officer is an amazing opportunity."
After completing his language training, Castonia will start the grueling nine week indoctrination meant to weed out those CRO trainees who are not able or willing to meet the challenge. Once completed, he will receive a myriad of training that includes, Airborne School, Combat Diver's School, SEREs training, and Emergency Medical Technician training, among others. What might seem daunting to some is referred to in child-like anticipation by Castonia, but he is not motivated only by his love of learning and being challenged, there is an obvious sense of duty.
"My junior year in high school I started to realize that I wanted to serve in some way, the reason being I just feel really blessed. I feel I've had a lot of opportunities, even at that point in my life, and wanted to give back in some way."
Castonia's enthusiasm and accomplishments as an AFROTC cadet did not go unnoticed. He received a multitude of military and academic awards while at MIT, and was ultimately named Air Force cadet of the year for 2009, an award sponsored by the Air Squadron of the United Kingdom. The honor is awarded to one person each year, selected from all the Air Force cadets working towards a commission in AFROTC, the Air Force Academy, and Officer Training School.
Castonia will graduate from the DLIFLC's Arabic-language program in July.
Typical of his predilection for seeking out challenge and opportunity, Arabic is classified as a category IV language, one of the most difficult for English speakers to learn. He is looking forward to a successful military career and a career-long language experience in LEAP. Where else could a young man with so much motivation and aptitude fulfill so many of his ambitions?
"There's a lot of ways you can give back to your country and I just felt like military service was something that fit with me."
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I am a long time lurker, and non-member who just joined. I recently got a 1/35 Type XXI from eBay. It did not come with anything but the basic parts, no diving planes, or, most importantly, instructions. I have wanted an RC sub ever since I first say the 32nd Parallel Type VII 30 years ago. I am really hoping that I can be pointed in the right direction. I'd love to make this kit a runner. I have attached a picture of what I got, less the bag of small detail parts. Please let me know if you can provide a set of instructions, or a manufacturer!


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Free State Project members seeking Bedford votes
And some who come for all of those reasons want a greater hand in how government is run, as the town of Bedford is learning firsthand.
"I want to live in a state that strongly believes in protecting personal liberties, and New Hampshire's 'Live Free or Die' mentality does that," Day said. "I grew up in a town in Indiana that's the same size as Bedford, and it has a similar feel. Before moving to New Hampshire in 2009, we were living in Boston, with high taxes and high crime. That's not what we wanted for our children. The Massachusetts legislators make all this money, but in New Hampshire, they get a stipend of $100; there is much less corruption in government here. Bedford is politically conservative and has a small-town feel, with less intrusive government."
"I chose New Hampshire partly because of the Free State Project, but also because of all the reasons everyone else chose it; remember, only 42 percent of New Hampshirites were born in the state," Philips said. "The people here are warm, welcoming, pragmatic and reasonable. There is great natural beauty, low crime, low poverty, low personal taxes."
Some longtime residents see the Free State movement as a threat and an attempt to make drastic changes to local and state government.
"Most of us have come to New Hampshire because of a way of life and not because we're part of a group formed outside of the state," said Bill Greiner, a former town councilor and member of several community organizations. "Aaron Day and Matt Philips have only recently come to Bedford for the sole purpose of colonizing New Hampshire as part of the Free State Project and infiltrating municipal and state elective office to make radical and anarchistic changes that would be extremely detrimental to the quality of life in Bedford."
"Greiner has been factually inaccurate in his statements about me and the Free State project. I am not against the Constitution. New Hampshire is the 'Live Free or Die' state, and the truth is in his time on the town council, property taxes here have nearly doubled."
At the Bedford School District's deliberative session on Feb. 4, Day wanted to change the terms of the district's pension fund, but was told all towns are required by the state to participate in the retirement system. He also tried to reduce the budget by $880,000, but his motion was based on the default budget, not the proposed budget. The default budget is set by state statute and cannot be amended. The motion was changed to reflect the proposed budget, but failed by hand vote.
"They would like to get us out of the public school business, and I've spent too many years, tears and effort on the school board to see that happen. Anyone who wants to dismantle our school system, I'm opposed to," Brock said. "They should live in New Hampshire and earn their stripes before they run for office in New Hampshire."
The Free State Project's philosophy is "less government is better government, and government should only exist to protect individual rights." Philips said anyone seeking more information should Google "Libertarian reading list" or read "The Law," by Claude Frederic Bastiat.
"The town council and school board are accountable to the electorate, and if they overstep their bounds as defined by the charter, then it is the responsibility of the voters to make their will known," Philips said. "Of course, that depends on there being a choice of candidates, which is why I'm running."
"I want to be able to send my children to public school, but I have concerns about Common Core. I do have kids, and I'm concerned about the curriculum and the schools themselves, and I'm going to do a complete analysis for my own children. I think that's a unique perspective," Day said. "On the school board, there's only people who have kids in the schools, and that's poor structure. I'm a taxpayer, but I also want to represent older people."
"If the voters judge me by my character and statements and elect me, then I will work with my fellow councilors within the framework established by the town charter and the New Hampshire and United States Constitutions," Philips said.
"The residents of Bedford, regardless of political ideology, need to see these folks for what they are; part of an attempt to infiltrate New Hampshire and our community in order to radically transform what Bedford stands for. Make no mistake; this is a well-calculated attempt on their part to come in literally overnight and influence our lives," Greiner said.


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This has been touched on before,http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,11829.msg112293.html#msg112293but apparently there are at least two Sclafani companies. Here are the ones that carry a DOP versionhttp://www.sclafanifoods.com/products.php?category_id=1156and these are the ones that are supposed to be from NJhttp://www.donpepino.com/sclafani-crushed-tomatoes.aspI use the don pepino version. They're one of the best tomatoes I've had. When I tasted Paulie's special top secret tomatoes, I didn't really care much about tomatoes, but after getting bitten by the tomato bug, I need to go back and really savor them. Same for Roberto's Ciao tomatoes.Also, I've stopped being a skin snob I gave away some non skinless 6-in-1s, without ever even tasting them. I need to pick up a new can. The big problem is that I can't get the 6-in-1s in small cans.


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