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A list of all the standard equipment this mini cooper 1.6 d 5dr comes with.
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Bertha Coombs is a general assignment reporter for CNBC, covering financial markets and business news stories throughout the business day programming. She is based at the network's global headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, N.J.
Her reporting at CNBC has ranged from coverage of the spying scandal on Hewlett-Packard's board and the criminal trial of former Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and Mississippi, and the BP oil spill. She also serves as a substitute anchor on business day programs, including CNBC's "Worldwide Exchange," which is broadcast live from Europe, Asia and the United States.
Before joining CNBC, Coombs was a freelance anchor and reporter at CNNfn, and served as a financial markets reporter with Yahoo Finance Vision, which had been an online TV network.
Prior, Coombs served as an ABC News reporter and anchor, covering news stories for "ABC News One," and serving as a substitute anchor for "World News Now" and "World News This Morning." During her tenure at ABC News, she covered leading news stories such as the Clinton impeachment trial, the Kosovo crisis and Hurricane Floyd, as well as anchored the network's first special report on John F. Kennedy Jr.'s plane crash.
Coombs began her career in local general news. Her previous experience includes reporting and anchoring positions at WABC-TV in New York City, WPLG-TV in Miami and WFSB-TV in Hartford, Conn.
She is a member and former board member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. Born in Havana, Cuba, she speaks fluent Spanish.
Coombs earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Yale University. Following graduation, she was the recipient of a Leo Beranek Reporter Training Fellowship.
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Padres hope to avoid Mo in Yanks' first trip to Petco
Sabathia looks to get on track; Cashner tries to stay strong at home
Mariano Rivera will make another stop on his farewell tour Friday, when the Yankees visit the Padres at Petco Park for the first time.
The legendary closer has never pitched in San Diego during the regular season, but he certainly has fond memories of the city -- It's where he recorded his first World Series-clinching save back in 1998.
Padres manager Bud Black isn't sure what the team has in store for Rivera. He's just hoping not to see him on the Petco Park mound in a save situation.
"I hope to see him shagging batting practice and in the bullpen," Black said, "but not on the field."
After a 4-1 loss to the Reds on Wednesday, the Friars will look to regain their momentum when the Yankees arrive for a three-game series. San Diego has won each of its past three sets and four of its past five games, and recorded an 8-5 record since the All-Star break.
"We've been playing really fundamentally sound," catcher Nick Hundley said. "The starting pitching we're getting has been outstanding. And obviously, we've done a good job with runners in scoring position."
The Yankees, meanwhile, are just 5-7 since the break. The returns of Derek Jeter from the disabled list and Alfonso Soriano in a trade from the Cubs have helped -- but not cured -- New York's offensive struggles. The Yankees have scored two runs or fewer in 37 games this season, and needed an error to plate their second and third runs on Wednesday night in a 3-0 victory over Los Angeles.
CC Sabathia will look to get back on track when he takes the mound, and a meeting with the Padres might just do the trick. Sabathia has allowed at least seven earned runs in his past two starts, but in four career starts against the Friars, he has given up two earned runs or fewer three times.
"It's just a number of things," Sabathia, who is 9-9 with a 4.65 ERA, said after his last start. "I feel like over my career, I've been able to avoid the big inning. Lately, I haven't been able to make the pitch."
Andrew Cashner will start for the Padres in search of a third straight quality start. San Diego is 4-3 at home when Cashner starts this season.
Padres: Kennedy brought in to bolster rotation
Hours before the non-waiver Trade Deadline on Wednesday, the Padres made a move to bolster their starting rotation, acquiring Ian Kennedy from the D-backs for two pitchers and a 2014 First-Year Player Draft pick.
Kennedy, 28, is 3-8 with a 5.23 ERA this season, but finished fourth in the 2011 National League Cy Young Award vote. The move was much needed for the Padres, who are without starters Jason Marquis and Clayton Richard for the rest of the season.
"We're excited to add a starting pitcher of Ian's pedigree," Padres general manager Josh Byrnes said. "He is under club control through 2015, and we feel he will help us take another step forward as a team."
The Yankees drafted Kennedy in the first round of the 2006 Draft.
• Carlos Quentin missed Wednesday's game against the Reds after "tweaking his knee" in Tuesday's game. Black said that Quentin hopefully would return to the lineup Friday.
Yankees: No surprises as Trade Deadline passes
The Yankees weren't expected to make any more splashy moves after acquiring Soriano last week. So when the Deadline passed and their lineup remained the same, it wasn't much of a surprise.
"We were able to get Soriano, a middle-of-the-order bat, left field and he can DH for us," manager Joe Girardi said. "Besides that, we should get [Curtis Granderson] back here, and it's almost like making a trade if you get him back. Kind of expecting him to be here probably this weekend."
Starting pitcher Andy Pettitte, for one, was perfectly fine with a quiet Deadline day.
"I just feel like this team's got a lot of experience, and hopefully we can just will this thing -- will it into the playoffs," Pettitte said. "I know I expect to go. And I'm sure and I hope everyone else in this room feels the same way. I think the power of belief is awfully big and awfully important. And I believe in this club."
Worth noting
• Only five Padres have faced Sabathia. None of them have recorded more than four hits against him.
• The Yankees made one previous regular-season voyage to San Diego, taking two of three in June 2002 at Qualcomm Stadium. Petco Park opened in 2004.
Tom Schad 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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Designer Sees Partnerships Key to Firm's Success
ATLANTA, GA—Bonnie Settle, Allied ASID, believes that good partners make for better results. She's proving it as principal designer for Cornerstone Design, which is making a name for itself in the southeastern U.S. market.
While many firms "talk the talk" when it comes to partnerships, Cornerstone Design truly walks the walk, partnering not only with clients, but with contractors and other allied professionals, product vendors and the community at large.
For example, the firm participates in annual contests that benefit the Junior League Tour of Homes as well as the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, which allows local designers to show off their design ingenuity in a palatial showhouse located the high-end Atlanta market. Participating designers compete to create different rooms in the home, with the best designs chosen by a panel of judges.
Ticket sales to the showhouse go to support the orchestra, but the publicity is also a big boost to Cornerstone Design, according to Cornerstone's president Yvonne Amon. For Amon, it's a way to partner with the community in supporting the arts, while spreading the word about the firm's design work and mission.
The company also believes in partnering with its vendors, creating unique designs that illustrate creative product applications.
In fact, Cornerstone's designs have won regional and national awards in Decorá's design competition. The firm recently took the top prize for its work in a penthouse unit in Atlanta. The winning entry juxtaposed Decorá cabinetry, high-end Viking appliances and striking granite set against a two-story window that revealed a breathtaking view of the Atlanta skyline.
Settle believes, as well, that an important key to success in the kitchen and bath market involves partnering with the best local contractors.
"In this industry it's good to put yourself with people who specialize," Amon says. "By partnering up with them, your clients end up with a good design, a good product and [an installation that makes the most of both of these things]."
"We want to work hand in hand to create a great product," she explains.
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Many of the firm's collaborations are formed in the usual ways, Amon notes. Sometimes the architect will refer contractors to Cornerstone, or Cornerstone will discuss working with a particular builder with the prospective client. "It works both ways," she says.
But regardless of who institutes these partnerships, the ability to work well as a team is essential to creating successful projects, she maintains.
"A bad contractor can ruin a project," she states, explaining that cost shouldn't matter when it comes to quality of the work.
"Everyone's home is important, not just the ones with millions in the bank," she states. "Design in the smaller homes is vital because it affects a family's living space, it affects their comfort level.
"We work hand in hand with our clients through project management to ensure the success of their project."
This type of partnership, Settle notes, sets the firm apart from area competitors. And partnering with the right manufacturers only adds to the firm's appeal.
"We're really unique. We're about design, and we really have a unique product," Settle notes. "We do full-service design; we're not limited and we have lots of people to refer work to. We manage all of our projects on the job sites, from the drawing to sales and installation to the final service call.
"We're knowledgeable and we're not about fluff," she adds of the firm, which has been in business since 2000.
The key to success, she believes, is good relations with the clients. "Good communication is what matters. The devil is in the details, and you have to follow up. You have to know what the client wants."
Amon has known and worked with Settle for many years. The firm caters to the upper end of the local market, and she notes that these clients require the best appliances and high quality finishes. The two have worked hand-in-hand on numerous projects over the years.
The Atlanta area saw a major construction boom in recent years until the recent economic downturn caused the bottom to drop out. Very few of Cornerstone's recent customers are new construction clients, so the competition is fierce for local renovations.
"It's a very competitive market and there are a lot of good designers," says Settle, who sees a silver lining in all of this. "This downturn will take a lot of people who shouldn't be in the industry out of the market."
Cornerstone markets itself through local and regional magazines, as well as positive word-of-mouth from previous customers and involvement in community activities. "We do good marketing and smart marketing," she maintains. While the firm occasionally does broad-based mailings, Settle notes that much of the firm's business comes from a core base of repeat clients and referrals generated from these satisfied clients.
The firm recognizes the importance of keeping up with industry changes, and employees are encouraged to continue to update their education and training so they can remain on the cutting edge of the hottest design trends.
In addition to interiors for kitchens and baths, the firm creates entertainment areas and wet bars, and will create built-in cabinetry for any space in a home. It advertises that it can create everything from a stand-alone hutch for the family china or an entertainment center to house a stereo and TV. Designs range from the traditional to the contemporary and postmodern.
Cornerstone has one showroom in the Buckhead section of central Atlanta, a 3,000-sq.-ft. area that displays a variety of vignettes and full working kitchens and baths to highlight its product lines.
Product brands carried include Neff Kitchens, The Hampshire Co., Geppetto, DuPont Corian, DuPont Zodiaq, Silestone by Cosentino, granite, LavaStone, Bosch, Sub-Zero, Wolf, Marvel, Thermador, Gaggenau, Vent-A-Hood, Five Star and KitchenAid, among others.
"It feels more like a high-end home than a showroom," Settle notes. "We have a real cross section [of products and styles displayed here]. There are very modern and very traditional displays. We do everything."
Amon said her firm's business philosophy is all about ensuring clients' happiness with the end product, noting, "We want to provide our clients with a decorative but functional kitchen, marrying functionality with personal taste. We pride ourselves in supplying customer service, timeless design and quality workmanship."
It is this exact philosophy, she believes, along with the firm's smart partnering strategies and dedication to collaboration, that continues to make Cornerstone Design successful.
Cornerstone Design
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Location: Atlanta, GA
Principals: Yvonne Amon, president; Bonnie Settle, Allied ASID, principal
designer; Anne Keene, designer
Showroom: One, 3,000 square feet
Hours of Operation: Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m., and by appointment
Number of Employees: Four
Major Product Lines Carried: Neff Kitchens, The Hampshire Co., DuPont
Corian and Zodiaq, Silestone by Cosentino, Bosch, Thermador, Gagganau,
Sub-Zero, Wolf, Marvel, Vent-A-Hood, Five Star, KitchenAid, Viking Appliances.
Specialties: High-end custom design
Business Philosophy: "To provide clients with a decorative but functional kitchen, marrying functionality with personal taste. We pride ourselves in
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While Galena's downtown more or less teems with options for lunch and dinner, finding a good spot for breakfast is tougher. The Courtyard—in a four-story atrium in the old-fashioned, elegant DeSoto House Hotel—may be your best bet. It serves simple but superb morning fare at eminently reasonable prices. The decor isn't anything fancy—just family-restaurant-style tables and chairs on a tile floor, with the juice dispenser and coffeemakers in plain sight--but the food is a cut above standard breakfast offerings. If you can spare the calories, the stuffed French toast, with orange-flavored cream cheese packed between slices, is an indulgent and awesome treat ($7). If that seems too extreme, convince someone else to order it so you can steal a bite, then go with the super-satisfying breakfast burrito ($8). Coffee refills are free and frequent, and you're likely to hear local folks meeting to discuss business while you linger.


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NH labor leaders to take up minimum wage hike fight
Lawmakers abolished the state's minimum wage law in 2011, but state law holds that no employee shall be paid at an hourly rate lower than the federal minimum wage, which is $7.25 an hour.
In 2014, 21 states and the District of Columbia will have minimum wages above the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
New Hampshire is one of 19 states where the "minimum wage" is the same as the federal rate.
State Rep. Carol McGuire, R-Epsom, sponsored the 2011 bill removing a state minimum wage from the books. She said that she is not surprised that organized labor is trying again to shepherd a minimum wage bill through legislative channels.
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The Martian Child
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A science-fiction writer, wanting to be a dad, adopts a six-year-old boy who he becomes convinced is an alien from Mars.
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Produced by: Corey Sienega, David M Kirschner
Directed by: Menno Meyjes
Written by: Seth Bass, David Gerrold
Running time:
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Opens: Nov 02, 2007 Nationwide
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Six Mobile Myths
Design for the mobile web been a subject of much discussion over the past few years.
The sharing of information and experience has helped us all to gain a better understanding of best practices, pitfalls, and considerations when designing mobile products.
However, as with any topic that gets widespread attention, a few myths have emerged within the large body of useful information.
In this article we'll try to dispel some of these myths in the hope that we can all continue to get better faster.
What is Mobile Anyway?
In the spirit of setting a level playing field, let's start by defining what we're talking about when we say "mobile." From a purist's perspective, any technology that a person may use to access Internet functionality away from a fixed location can be considered mobile. This range spans from laptops to low-end, browser-equipped feature phones. However, most articles and statistics that refer to mobile are really only talking about smartphones and tablets. Therefore, to talk apples-to-apples, and because those parameters will be most useful, we'll stick with this convention.
When we refer to mobile Internet, whether the access is via an app or browser or any other technology is not material for this discussion—these myths apply to how people are relating to functionality on mobile devices, not on the technical underpinnings or access points.
Myth #1 – Mobile Devices are Used on the Go
In Google's annual survey of mobile users, they found that 60% of smartphone use takes place in the home. Google's definition of "away" includes use inside the office, so actual "on the go" is probably well under the 40% remainder. Even more staggering is that 79% of tablet use is in the home: PCs and laptops clock substantially more road use than tablets.
This misconception is relatively benign. By planning for a worst case scenario, one where bandwidth is probably constrained, the connection is spotty, and in which the user won't want to negotiate multiple layers of navigation to reach desired information, then we are likely producing a design that works better in any environment.
Too often we seem to be treating mobile design as if it were a desert island or some unknown void
Taken to its extreme, however, when we limit information available to the user to only "mobile use cases such as nearby store locations, we do the user a disservice. We can't limit features and information to only those hypothetical mobile use cases, as that user might not even be mobile. Even if he or she is on the go, we should not jump to conclusions about the breadth or depth of information required for their current task.
Myth #2 – Only Mobile Users are Distracted
"We have to be mindful that the user is on the street, there is noise and glare, there are sidewalks and obstacles to navigate. The user won't be paying full attention." I've heard this in one form or another a thousand times, but the myth here is that only mobile users are distracted.
We've already seen that more than half of mobile usage takes place in the home—presumably an environment where a user can focus on one task (not that this sounds like my home; how about yours?). Admittedly, desktop users don't have curbs and pedestrians to contend with. But aside from physical obstacles, people multitask at work, at home, and on the go. Even if they aren't doing two things at once, people are usually thinking about several things at once. We've acknowledged for years that people only scan text and that they rarely develop accurate mental models of products. All users are distracted all of the time.
Google's survey of US mobile use revealed that people are most often using more than one device at once. In fact, 77% of people reported using a computing device while watching television.
Ironically, smartphone users are more likely to be paying attention solely to that device. Of course, this is the one device that people seem to be taking with them on the bus, to the store, and to other locations where it might get our (somewhat) undivided attention.
Again, this myth is relatively benign: whatever you were going to do to combat the distractions for mobile use you should probably do for all interfaces. We might try applying techniques like service design and journey mapping to help build and share understanding of the comprehensive and variable environments in which our users operate. These same techniques can help us to design for activities that take place across multiple devices as well.
Our core principles remain fully relevant here: to be as readily comprehensible, learnable, and intelligible as we can; to prevent errors when possible, fail gracefully, and play well with others.
Myth #3 – Mobile Should Support a Pared-Down Set of Tasks
In the early days of mobile, accessing the Internet meant using the browser on your feature phone. Input was limited to the number pad and data connections were slow and expensive. Under these conditions, narrowing down website options to the bare minimum probably made sense—people were certainly only accessing a site for a specific, immediate need and were not particularly inclined to explore. Those days have been gone for approximately 10 years, yet the mindset that a mobile user wants only select time-sensitive tasks remains prevalent.
For a large segment of Americans, mobile devices are the principal access point to the Internet. According to Pew Internet, 59% of Americans who make less than $30,000-per-year have no internet access at home. For these people, mobile (almost always phone) is their only means of connection. For 18-29 year olds, mobile may not be the only way, but is the preferred means of access—45% of this age group does most of their web browsing via mobile. Overall, 17% of Americans who own cell phones (not just smartphones) reported in 2012 that they go online mostly via phone. If content is not available on mobile, for these populations, that content might as well not exist at all.
When a person visits a site first via mobile, they will inevitably expect that what they see is all the site offers. The likelihood that the person will visit the full site from another machine to see if there is more to explore is vanishingly small. And if the person first visits a site from a full site, then finds reduced functionality when visiting later from mobile, then the most likely reaction is going to be frustration.
We also have to consider that the user is at home simply choosing to conduct his or her research on the device closest to hand at the moment.
Much of the work we do to design for mobile should apply also apply to traditional web design. We are acutely focused on mobile screens to make sure that a user accesses the most important information or functionality first. Why do we assume that the traditional web user wants any less consideration?
Over the past few years, one noticeable shift in behavior is that mobile users have moved from wanting only content highlights to preferring full access to long-form content. Given that mobile may be these users' only or primary access point, we are responsible for giving it to them. The traditional approach of making content scannable and easily consumable has not changed—this remains a best practice for all channels.
Myth #4 – Users are all Thumbs
Since the advent of touch-screen mobile devices, the conventional wisdom is that users' thumbs are the primary means of accessing and controlling mobile interfaces. There is certainly some truth behind this belief: any quick scan of smartphone users will show that a healthy majority of users do rely on their thumbs for most actions. Most good smartphone interfaces place functions where a user's thumb will easily reach them. Of course, since a user's thumbs will easily reach anywhere on a standard smartphone screen, this may or may not be intentional. The bottom line is that thumb use is convenient and it works and it predominates.
When we get to tablet interaction, however, it's an entirely different story. The prevailing assumption seems to be that since tablets are mobile devices and they look like phones, people will use them like phones. As we now know, people use tablets almost exclusively at home. This means that they aren't carrying the devices during use.
Typical phone posture: holding phone with thumbs forward.
Typical tablet posture: user is reclined and the tablet is propped on a stand of some sort.
Most often, people using tablets are typically sitting slightly reclined with the tablet propped on a stand of some sort. This leaves both hands free for accessing the interface. Only when a person is using the tablet extended from their body as with the camera or a motion-sensitive game—essentially the smartphone posture—does tablet manipulation narrow to thumb-only navigation. Even when using a tablet while standing, people generally carry it cradled more like a book, again leaving a full hand free to control the screen.
Lately, several new design patterns have been proposed to support the notion that navigation and use of tablets depends primarily on thumb use. Even more surprisingly, some of these patterns leave the center of the screen blank since a user can't easily reach this section.
Design pattern optimized for thumb management of tablet screen.
We wouldn't have fallen into this misconception if we simply followed our cherished principle of observing user behavior. While there was a time when tablets were speculative—they hadn't yet been launched, so we could only guess at how people would use them—now we have ample qualitative and quantitative data to be able to design for users in the real world.
Myth #5 - Mobile has Matured
There's a new myth that has just started to emerge that mobile has reached its saturation point and that design patterns have reached a level of maturity.
This myth may stem from our finally having settled on some common design patterns, such as the menu button/handle pictured at left and sliding navigation, which work really well for mobile and will only improve as more people become familiar with them.
Still, technology is changing, both in mobile device capabilities and development kits. Functionality is still migrating to mobile, which is spurring us to find new ways to solve old problems. Massive new populations are coming aboard. These populations will present us with design challenges we haven't anticipated.
It's true that smartphones now account for approximately 75% of all phones sold in the US. Growth of the tablet market has skyrocketed in just three years to comprise half the volume in units as PC and laptops. At the end of 2012, about half of Americans owned a smartphone. That means a bit less than half of the US has yet to adopt mobile (not all will, roughly 12% of Americans don't own even a cell phone) . Other developed markets such as UK and Germany show similar patterns.
Source: Gartner
In emerging markets, mobile adoption is exponential, but overall penetration is still very low—it will be years before we reach even a 50% worldwide penetration level. With it's lower cost of entry and infrastructure requirements, mobile is how these people are becoming internet-enabled. In these emerging markets we can't assume the same infrastructure as we have here. For these people, mobile can create new systems and opportunities such as how M-Pesa has brought peer-to-peer money transfer to people in Kenya and Tanzania who have no access to a banking system. Similar innovations in education, healthcare, and other domains we can't even dream of are inevitable.
Perhaps the greatest wave of mobile innovation at the moment is taking place in the healthcare arena. Mobile apps now can monitor a person's heart rate and rhythm and send that information to their physician. Mobile apps that are used to manage obesity and diabetes programs have been proven to substantially improve patient compliance and overall outcomes. mHealth is just beginning to emerge, and with it whole new patterns that don't even have traditional analogs. Certainly innovations on that front will find applications in other domains as well. As these products become available, they will spur additional people to go mobile.
On the device front, Google Glass and Apple's iWatch are only two of the new mobile device form factors on the horizon which could drive another furious round of innovation in interaction models, functional opportunities, and more. Mobile is evolving rapidly and its simply too soon to think that it is ubiquitous or in any way mature.
Looking at this from a different point of view, mobile design can't possibly be considered mature, because the number of companies offering a complete, satisfying mobile experience is so small. While people are using their mobile devices two-plus hours a day, they are still running into sites optimized for desktop viewing or stuck with incomplete mobile experiences.
Our quest to make every interaction easy, useful, and enjoyable will never end. Mobile still isn't old news. When we reach full mobile maturity we'll enjoy a world where we can do what we want and accomplish what we need to using whatever device is convenient or available at the moment.
Myth #6 – Mobile is Different
All of this really boils down to a final, fundamental myth: that mobile is different.
Yes, there are certain constraints and technological variations between a desktop environment and a mobile environment—screen size on a tablet is (usually) smaller than it is on a laptop and connections are (usually) more intermittent with mobile. We might use specific controls or techniques to optimize the experience across platforms, as we do when we collapse site navigation on a mobile device or substitute clicks for swipes.
A person's intentions don't change based on the device he or she uses. We need to look at the user's experience across devices as a single experience. We research our processes and our products in as natural environment we can, and once we launch, we observe in order to learn more. We design for consistency and continuity across channels and touchpoints.
Too often we seem to be treating mobile design as if it were a desert island or some unknown void. It shouldn't be: the people using mobile devices are the same ones using PC's and laptops. More importantly, they are using them for generally the same reasons and to achieve the same goals. Our guiding principles of product design never change:
- Listen to and observe what the users are doing
- Anticipate their needs
- Design for their reality
- Aim to delight
It's a great time to be a designer. Not only do we have daily occasions to be creative and to create meaning for our customers, but we also have a tremendous community for sharing and learning from each other. With the rapid changes in technology, we have endless opportunities for learning and trying new approaches. By leveraging our powers of observation, experimentation and insight we can create a truly relevant and exciting experience for our users. We don't need myths.
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Myth #7: tablets are mobile. Who came up with this? Tablets are more like laptops in almost all important KPI's.
Great article. Most people give little importance to UX and the environment the user is in when he/she is interacting with the device.
Nowadays many people want mobile apps for promoting their business but think it is too hard or expensive to create them. Fortunately now there are useful online services which allow building apps without programming skills and in hours. I am using mobappcreator.com at the moment and I can make apps on my own.
Of the 5 tablet users I work with, 100% of us have keyboards attached to them at all times.
This isn't the rule among the other tablet owners I know, but it's certainly a large percentage among people who do real work on their tablets.
Good article. After watching thousands of developers struggle with mobile over the last decade, I agree that the principles of good design are the same everywhere. But in the details you do have to be adjust for the realities of the device you're on. Most often the problems are caused by companies that grew up in the PC web and try to apply those best practices to smartphones and tablets. For example, companies try to cram all the features of a PC homepage onto a smartphone screen, which creates a mess. Even if you support all the same features, you have to choose which ones get displayed most prominently, and that requires understanding the user's context, including the type of device they're on.
As for apps, the web principle of "ship something primitive and iterate" usually dooms you to irrelevance on the app stores. Maybe that's a change in business practice rather than design, but it's a huge difference that designers need to be aware of.
Because most of us have design reflexes honed for the desktop web, it's very important to test whatever you design on mobile users, before you ship it.
I've given more examples of mobile design problems here: http://info.usertesting.com/TheFourMobileTraps.html
"Myth #3 – Mobile Should Support a Pared-Down Set of Tasks"
Maybe not paired down, but certainly reprioritised. Most mobile users aren't simply consuming content (that's super easy to manage) they are trying do 'do things' which requires functionality beyond the formatting of words and pictures... in those situations your content strategy becomes somewhat irrelevant on mobile devices. Bandwidth and screen size still effect how you design and what you include/exclude. Context, context, context!
Great article! I cringe a bit when people talk about following mobile design patterns. Touch devices are still in their infancy. I feel that we are still too early to be introducing standardization.
1) and 2) On the go changes between device classes. Even when used in the home/office mobiles are at arbitrary angles (glare), may be used literally moving (walking) and so on. I agree that design for distraction is good, to avoid too many dialogs that appear for 2 seconds and might be missed. But the nature of distraction for mobile means the device might be set aside for minutes or an hour. Too much software (especially Web stuff) is built with the desktop session in mind, so fails to understand the way distraction occurs, and fails the user by not being ready for them when they return.
4) Since you only seem to have used anecdotal data on how people hold and touch devices, see this actual data on it: http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2013/02/how-do-users-really-hold-mobile-devices.php It's not true that you can reach anyplace on the screen with the thumb equally well, especially with the range of devices that exist. Stay tuned for new information on how to design for this coming soon, (hint: it's not avoiding hard to reach corners, or no one would use the iPhone Back button, would they?)


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Put a Hump in Your Back
Everybody Call Me Shoon
Don't Touch That
I Got Something For You Baby
I Come From The Country
What You Gonna Do With A Man Like That
You Told Me That You Loved Me
She Burnt The Bacon
Do The LaLa Dance
Take Me Crosstown
Bring Me Coffee In The Morning
You Got Me Dancing
All songs by Joseph Roy Carrier, Write On Rhythm Publishing, BMI
"It sounds like a funked-up, wound-up, swamp-rat Booker T. & The MG's featuring accordion instead of Hammond B-3 ...Now that's a party!!!"
" Roy Carrier carries the torch of real, blues based Louisiana zydeco into the next millennium."
Living Legend will provide listeners with a great education on the roots of Zydeco. Lala was a music played by just two instruments. Fiddle or accordion as the primary accompanied by scrub board. There are three LaLa cuts here in two different styles. The frenetic pace of Whatcha' Gonna Do with a Man Like That, and two slower tempo bluesy songs, Do the LaLa Dance and I Come From the Country. Four great examples of Roy's trademark peddle-to-the-metal Zydeco, Put a Hump In Your Back, I Got Something For You Baby, She Burnt the Bacon and You Got Me Dancing. The rhythm & blues flavored Take Me Crosstown and Everybody Call Me Shoon. Two Zydeco cuts on the button or Cajun accordion with Bring Me Coffee In the Morning and Don't Touch That. No Roy Carrier set would be complete without a healthy dose of straight ahead blues and that slot is filled ably by You Told Me That You Love Me. Living Legend will mark Roy's very first collection of material to have major distribution. Many thanks to David Earl and Severn Records for helping make that happen. WAYNE KAHN
It all started with a man named Chris Johnson that opened up the fire that was yet to burn. With a guitar in my hand I was mixing sin from delta blues, soul music and rock & roll. Playing in a little clubs in Church Point, The Me To Club and Ben Butlers. Working in the fields to support my family. As you know I have one finger that departed from a work injury but that did not stop the hard-core sound of Roy Carrier. After years passed working offshore I again picked up the accordion and the traditional music stays with me even today.
Roy Carrier
Living Legend
Joseph Roy Carrier was born in 1947 to a sharecropping family along with 8 siblings. A hard-scrabble life working the fields. The Carrier Family had another side to it as one of the most influential and far reaching music families of Southwest Louisiana. Starting with pioneering Creole fiddler Joseph BeBe Carriere handed down to his nephew Calvin Carriere on to cousin Roy Carrier, it is a family that has often found itself at critical junctures in the development of LaLa, Zydeco & Cajun music. Add to that the fact that the Carriers, Cheniers and Broussards are all part of an extended related family, it gives you a main reason why the word FAMILY is so intertwined in the history of Zydeco. More so than just about any other form of music.
Roys father, Warren was an accordion player and at the age of six Roy was recruited to accompany his father on scrub board (fratoire) playing LaLa at night in the living room with relatives and friends that would stop by. The passing on of music tradition is ingrained in the families of Zydeco. It is a tradition that continues today. LaLa began its evolution to Zydeco with Boozoo Chavis Paper in My Shoe and Clifton Cheniers Louisiana Stomp both in 1954 when Roy was the ripe old age of 7. Other players that took up and helped develop the music from the late 50's on into the 60's were Rockin Dopsie, Marcel Dugas, Delton Broussard, John Delafose and Fernest Arceneaux. Clifton, In addition to being Roys cousin, was also his mentor and main musical influence. Roy as a youngster brought up the rear of this class of what I call the first tier of Zydeco players.
By the age of 10 Roy was working with his father playing house parties at night to help supplement the meager pay they earned by day in the fields. Roy soon graduated to drums and then guitar when his parents presented him a Sears Roy Rogers insignia guitar as a present. All this time though the accordion is what Roy had his eyes on. In 1961 at the age of 14, Roy on guitar along with his brother Murphy on drums, his Uncle John on scrub board and Chris Johnson on accordion formed the first Night Rockers Band. By 1962 he had begun to get in more work on the accordion when a well-pulley accident cost him most of the index finger of his right hand. Roy would be limited to guitar and it would be 2 years before he tried to play an accordion again. In the meantime Roy was following his idols soaking up as much pure Zydeco as he could in the clubs around Church Point, Lawtell & Opelousas. He early on was not old enough to get in to see his mentor Clifton so he would stand on a crate outside a window to take it in. At 17 he picked the double row accordion back up determined to overcome the lack of a finger on his chord hand. In the process he developed a style of "crossing chords". It is a technique that has made Roys music difficult for others to copy.
At the age of 18 in 1965 while continuing to work as a rice farmer, Roy regrouped the Night Rockers and began working the clubs of the area. In 1973 at the age of 26 Roy went to work as an offshore driller. The next 16 years of his life were spent in the cycle of 7 days hard labor offshore platform work and 7 days on land playing his music. All through this period of time there would be impromptu jam sessions playing for the horses in the barnyard that included Boozoo Chavis, Delton Broussard, John Delafose and Chris Johnson. In following the family tradition, Roy started his sons Chubby (Joseph Roy Jr.), Troy (Dikki Du) and daughter Elaine along the path of music as members of the Night Rockers before they were 10 years old.
In 1980 while still working the rigs, Roy purchased a neighborhood roadhouse in Lawtell and christened it The Offshore Lounge. Throughout the 80's it became THE place for aspiring Zydeco musicians to meet, learn and jam with other Zydeco musicians. It is difficult to find any Zydeco musician that came of age in the 80's and 90's that werent encouraged and tutored by Roy. From helping Beau Jocque find his boogie to encouraging John Delafose to perform publicly and giving him a bunch of songs in the process to loaning equipment to Zydeco Force to giving Geno Delafose his first paying gig, Roy was at the center of Zydeco music development.
Roys music has never veered far away from the blues-based style of Zydecos origins though he will let a younger band member throw in something new (check out Skeeters rap on Got Something for You Baby). While many of the newer players moved towards other styles Roy would not. Roy and sons Chubby & Troy often refer back to the ridicule they were subjected to for playing the music that only the old-timers liked. I once saw Roy play a church benefit in Lafayette. He played two sets that were noted for their distinct styles. The first set was almost totally slower paced, R&B and blues-based Zydeco. The dance floor was filled with his older fans. The second set turned up the heat and once again the dance floor was filled but with a younger crowd determined to keep up the pace.
Roys first recordings occurred in 1987 for Lee Lavergnes Lanore label. From 87 to 1992, four cassettes were produced and from that material two CDs were licensed to other labels.
In 1989 Roy left the offshore oil worker lifestyle behind to focus full time on his music. At the urging of his elder son Chubby who had already broken away leading his own Bayou Swamp Band, Roy began touring outside Southwest Louisiana. His first trip to the East Coast was in 1992 and included a stop at Marc Gretchls second Twist & Shout incarnation Tornado Alley. It was there where I first experienced Roys blistering, hard driving, blues-based Zydeco that left me wringing wet with sweat by the end of the night. I was hooked. In 1996 I ran into Roy in New Orleans and told him I had begun taping bands in the clubs around DC. He suggested I try taping him when he came to town and we have been working together ever since with 4 acclaimed CDs released under the Right on Rhythm label.
Living Legend will provide listeners with a great education on the roots of Zydeco. Lala was a music played by just two instruments. Fiddle or accordion as the primary accompanied by scrub board. There are three LaLa cuts here in two different styles. The frenetic pace of Whatcha Gonna Do with a Man Like That, and two slower tempo bluesy songs, Do the LaLa Dance and I Come From the Country. Four great examples of Roys trademark peddle-to-the-metal Zydeco, Put a Hump In Your Back, I Got Something For You Baby, She Burnt the Bacon and You Got Me Dancing. The rhythm & blues flavored Take Me Crosstown and Everybody Call Me Shoon. Two Zydeco cuts on the button or Cajun accordion with Bring Me Coffee In the Morning and Dont Touch That. No Roy Carrier set would be complete without a healthy dose of straight ahead blues and that slot is filled ably by You Told Me That You Love Me.
The first tier of original Zydeco players are all but gone. Clifton Chenier, Boozoo Chavis, Rockin Dopsie, John Delafose, Delton Broussard, Marcel Dugas all left an indelible mark on the music. Bringing up the end of that class is Roy Carrier. Roy is the bridge from Zydecos beginnings - to where it is today. He has been performing for over 40 years and recording for more than 15. Living Legend will mark Roys very first collection of mat
Roy Carrier: Accordian, Vocals
Raymond Randle: Guitar
Kevin Carrier: Bass, Backup Vocal
Stevie "Skeeter" Chariot: Drums, Backup Vocal
Phillip Carrieré: Scrub Board
Executive Producer: Wayne Kahn
Recorded at Severn Studios
Recording/Mixing & Mastering: David Earl
2nd Scrub Board on Track 6: Wayne Kahn
Design by Al Brandtner http://www.brandtnerdesign.com
Cover Photo by Marty Katz
Back Cover Photo: Outside Crossroads Café in Antwerp Belgium by Claudia Schlosberg
Additional Photos Courtesy of Roy Carrier Archives


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Arizona Cardinals
Whisenhunt's success changed Cardinals, will lead to coach's departure
As far as eras go, the Ken Whisenhunt-led one in Arizona has been incredibly successful.
Two NFC West championships. Super Bowl XLIII. Four non-losing seasons in six years.
It has also been disappointing.
The Cardinals won 27 regular season games in Whisenhunt's first three years with the team; they've won just 17 in the last three. That he had so much early success is undoubtedly working against the coach now, as most are somewhat understanding -- even forgiving -- when a team is building, but rarely tolerate going in the wrong direction.
And if the Cardinals did not hit rock bottom in their record-setting loss to the Seahawks Sunday, they're certainly damn close as they continue on that path.
Then again, if a 58-0 loss is not as bad as it gets -- with Seahawks fans having a party at the Cardinals' expense while feeling pity for the team's fans (seriously, an Arizona fan wearing a paper bag on his head was the most popular person on the building, with Seahawks faithful lining up to take pictures with him) -- I shudder at the thought of what could be worse.
The coach said Monday that, upon viewing film from the game, he determined his team did not quit. Everyone else who watched the game knows that simply is not the case.
So, as my colleague Dave Burns pointed out, it can be difficult to know when the end of an era is at hand. But at this point we all know it's time for a change. Many changes.
Whisenhunt and his staff will not be the only ones shown the door, though. Veterans Darnell Dockett and Adrian Wilson may be winding down their outstanding Cardinals careers, too, and by the time the dust settles the only players left from Arizona's Super Bowl team could be Larry Fitzgerald, Levi Brown, Calais Campbell and Lyle Sendlein.
And who knows, with no quarterback, a new coach and a big contract, perhaps Fitz may be on his way out, too. It all may be torn down and rebuilt from the ground up.
Super Bowl XLIII was four years ago, folks.
Things were never as good as they were then and likely have never been as bad as they are now. Cardinals fans have experienced incredible highs and terrible lows during Whisenhunt's six-year stint as the boss, and while he will largely be remembered for his stubbornness and inability to solve the Rubix Cube that is the quarterback position, it's unfair to label him as a bad coach, because he's not.
In fact, he's the best coach in Arizona Cardinals history.
However, that's not reason enough to keep him around. The fear that the Cardinals cannot do better -- and who knows, maybe they can't -- is not a reason to maintain the status quo.
The pre-Whiz Cardinals would have settled for mediocrity, viewing a coach with a record as close to .500 as Whisenhunt's as a great success. But while the score Sunday may have painted a different picture, these are not the "Same Old Cardinals".
Disasters like the one Sunday will not be tolerated by fans, and it's hard not to see ownership feeling the same way.
After all, the Bidwills know what winning feels like, and fans understand the franchise can be successful. No longer is being not-embarrassing the goal, rather it's to be good. Very good.
And in a bit of an ironic twist, we have Ken Whisenhunt to thank for that.
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The International TV spot landed on the web yesterday (seen here). Today, officially, Marvel Studios has released the first TV spot for Iron Man 3. This will undoubtably be the first of many. Let the insanity begin Maniacs, Iron Man 3 is coming!
The Plot: Marvel Studios' Iron Man 3 pits brash-but-brilliant industrialist Tony Stark/IronMan against an enemy whose reach knows no bounds. When Stark finds his personal world destroyed at his enemy's hands, he embarks on a harrowing quest to find those responsible. This journey, at every turn, will test his mettle. With his back against the wall, Stark is left to survive by his own devices, relying on his ingenuity and instincts to protect those closest to him. As he fights his way back, Stark discovers the answer to the question that has secretly haunted him: does the man make the suit or does the suit make the man?
Iron Man 3 features Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Rebecca Hall, Stephanie Szostak, James Badge Dale with Jon Favreau and Ben Kingsley.
Iron Man 3 arrives on May 3rd, 2013.
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After almost 20 years in specialist mountain sports retail we have decided to retire. Its been a blast and we have met many great and cool people along the way.
For us, retail was always about the 'experience' for the in-store customer, the banter, the stories, the trips away and most of all the detailed product knowledge.
Now in this online revolution the in-store visitors have dropped off and armies of new customers, armed only with their PCs, have taken over. We adapted, we grew our online business way greater than our in-store business ever was but alas when you get more paper cuts in a day than you see or speak to real life customers, then for us the job has changed, for good. Add to this that more and more of our suppliers are now selling direct, then we can see no future in the long term for the independent retailer.
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America's Best Bell Tower Inn
Welcome to the Americas Best Value Inn-Bell Tower of Centralia, Illinois, conveniently located in the heart of downtown Centralia within view of the historic Carillion Bell Tower and within walking distance of some of the finest dining and shopping in southern Illinois. Our 4-story interior access (elevator) Inn features 56 nicely furnished guest rooms with added amenities including cable TV with HBO and hairdryers. Upgrades include coffeemaker, mini-fridge, microwave, and iron/board. We offer a FREE deluxe continental breakfast, indoor pool, and playground for the kids, a meeting/banquet facility with kitchen and a business center in the lobby. Come relax and enjoy the value at the Americas Best Value Inn-Bell Tower of Centralia. Hi-Speed Wireless Internet Access available.
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Welcome to the Days Inn - Vandalia. A Chairman's Award winning hotel with Robbi's Restaurant and Lounge on premises, just off I-70 at Exit 63, and just minutes from Lincoln Historic Sites, the Oldest standing state capitol building, the Fayette County Museum, the National Road Interpretive Center, Archway Skydiving, Keck's Marsh, Buckstop Archery, Antique Shops, and restaurants. Minutes from Carlyle Lake, & Cahokia Mounds.
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Door Knocker Collection Contemporary Screw Cover
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John, Sorry I missed this the first time around. If I didn't have my oven and I didn't want to spend that much, I would be looking very hard at the MV Forni for a complete oven and the FGM if I wanted a modular oven.
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