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A little over three weeks ago, I wrote about a new trademark infringement lawsuit filed against Baltimore-based athletic apparel specialist Under Armour (NYSE: UA ) .
The plaintiff, a privately held footwear company named Gravity Defyer, is claiming Under Armour purposefully named select new styles of shoes to sound similar to its own trademarked G Defy line of products. As a result, the company says consumers are being "misled" into buying Under Armour's footwear when they may have instead been searching for Gravity Defyer's wares.
But the retailers? Really?
Now, Gravity Defyer just announced it has revised its lawsuit to name more than a dozen additional online retailers for their participation in the trademark infringement, including Finish Line (NASDAQ: FINL ) , Foot Locker (NYSE: FL ) and its Champs Sports subsidiary, Nordstrom, Dick's Sporting Goods (NYSE: DKS ) , Sport Chalet, Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN ) and its Zappos subsidiary, Backcountry.com, Rogan's Shoes, Road Runner Sports Retail, MonkeySports, Holabird Sports, Eastbay, and Dodds Shoe Company.
Now I'm no lawyer, but that massive list of defendants begs the question: Is Gravity Defyer overreaching here? I mean, I can at least grasp Gravity Defyer's beef with Under Armour for having similarly named products. Heck, Under Armour might even know the feeling, considering it sued Nike in February, claiming the larger company's advertising slogans were too close to its "I will" catchphrase.
But in Gravity Defyer's case, should the companies who sell Under Armour's shoes online really be held responsible for that trademark infringement? After all, I can't exactly see Under Armour stepping out to add television networks and websites to its own trademark lawsuit because they ran Nike's advertisements in question.
Of course, it's also safe to say most folks expect they're purchasing high-quality products from a great company when they pick up gear made by Under Armour -- and that's one of many reasons I bought more of its shares for my personal portfolio just last week. Meanwhile, Gravity Defyer isn't exactly a brand many people know by name.
Foolish final thoughts
In the end, then, I can't help but wonder whether Gravity Defyer is now using Under Armour's alleged infraction as a way to garner as much publicity as possible through this suit. As the saying goes, any publicity is good publicity, right?
But who knows? Maybe Gravity Defyer's products really are as revolutionary as they claim, and if that's the case, they should be able to rise to the top by legitimately competing with the big boys. However, if it turns out Gravity Defyer is simply drawing attention to this case for the wrong reasons, the company will be in for a rude awakening when it realizes it takes much more to build a sustainable business over the long run.
What do you think? Does Gravity Defyer have a case? Feel free to let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
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It's always interesting when the developer decides to take an episodic approach to a video game, especially if a sequel is released in chunks when the original wasn't. That's what's happening with Afterfall: Pearl of the Wasteland. Where Afterfall: InSanity was one cohesive game, players will experience Afterfall: Pearl of the Wasteland in chunks.
In Nicolas Games' defense, the description of Afterfall: Pearl of the Wasteland seems to lend itself to the episodic structure. The game takes place 63 years after the apocalyse of World War III. A modern myth has sprung up about the Pearl of the Wasteland. It's supposed to be something glorious and redeeming, but no one knows exactly what it is. If you ask three different people, you'll get three different responses.
That's exactly what happens in Afterfall: Pearl of the Wasteland. Each episode follows a different person on his or her journey to survive, and to perhaps find that Pearl. They are Hope Iriv, Rottgar Iriv and Reaper. Details about each aren't available, but the Afterfall: Pearl of the Wasteland Facebook page does offer character art for both Reaper and Hope. Reaper has some kind of cannon-weapon attached to his left arm and looks like a soldier. Hope is a woman in a hoodie with a gun.
A theme that keeps coming up in the Afterfall: Pearl of the Wasteland promotional materials and on the Facebook page is remaining human despite the danger. I'm guessing that means it will be similar to the original Afterfall: InSanity, only here the main characters will struggle to remain merciful and not turn into ruthless animals when faced with other people despite the current situation.
The first Afterfall: Pearl of the Wasteland episode release date is yet to be announced. I'd advise keeping tabs on the Facebook page, which is acting as the official website for the game at the moment, if you want updates.

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Erie Times-News wins Pa. Newspaper of the Year
In the same year it celebrated the 125th anniversary of its founding, the Erie Times-News reached another milestone.
It has been named Pennsylvania's top newspaper for 2013 -- an honor it has achieved for the third time in 11 years.
The Erie Times-News won Newspaper of the Year in the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association Foundation's annual contest. It also won the top honors in 2003 and 2009.
The 2013 contest had 40 daily and weekly newspapers in Pennsylvania compete against each other for points in 12 categories in six divisions, based on circulation.
The Erie Times-News was named Newspaper of the Year because it earned the most points, regardless of circulation.
The judges for the 2013 competition were professors from the College of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.
The publication period was July 1, 2012, to June 30 of this year.
The Times Publishing Company, which publishes the Erie Times-News and GoErie.com, was founded on April 12, 1888, by John J. Mead Sr., and the Mead family still owns the company. The Times Publishing Company also includes CyberInk, a digital marketing business.
"I want to extend my deep appreciation to the entire staff of the Erie Times-News, GoErie and CyberInk, whose mission is to create high-quality products across all platforms, from print to online to mobile, every day," said Rosanne Cheeseman, president and publisher of the Times Publishing Company.
"It is so great to be recognized again for our work, especially since we compete against much bigger newspapers like those in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Allentown. I'm proud of our long tradition of excellence."
The executive editor of the Erie Times-News, Rick Sayers, said the award shows how the Erie Times-News has been able to thrive despite challenges to newspapers nationwide.
"This award is as much about you, the reader, as it is about us. When we win, you win as we get rewarded for delivering comprehensive and timely news to you every day," Sayers said. "It is an award for quality -- the quality we dedicate ourselves to provide to you despite the economically challenging times we all face.
"I am so proud of our team. To be Newspaper of the Year once is a thrill. To win three times is a testament to who we are and what we do."
The Erie Times-News won first place in three categories -- editorial/opinion page excellence; community service/literacy programs, for its Newspaper in Education environmental page, which is published on Tuesdays; and online presence, for features on Col. Strong Vincent's role at the Battle of Gettysburg.
The Erie Times-News won second place for newswriting excellence; layout and design; best use of photography; diversity; best use of video; promotions, including the paper's coverage of its 125th anniversary; and special sections, for Erie 2013, the paper's annual report on the region's economy. The Erie Times-News won an honorable mention for general and departmental news coverage.
ED PALATTELLA can be reached at 870-1813 or by e-mail. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/ETNpalattella.


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Well, I STILL can't get BB to see my old backups from either my Visor or
Treo. I tried reinstalling it and cleaning out the registry of all refs,
then reinstalling too. Then I did a test backup using it and it won't
even see that!
So, I'm giving up on the POS. But, I'd really like to salvage some
pre-8zillion crash/hard reset stuff.
I figured out it's adding some hex # to the end of the normal filename it
backs up, and apparently compressing it.
It's not zip and it's not rar because I tried to decompress it with them.
Anybody know what it is or how to reconstruct the backed up file?
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FACED with an 8,2% unemployment rate less than four months before the election, US President Barack Obama is trying to deflect attention from his record by undermining Republican opponent Mitt Romney's major selling point: that he is an experienced businessman who knows how to create jobs.
The Obama campaign is running adverts claiming Mr Romney is a "pioneer of outsourcing", a reference to his work at private equity firm Bain Capital. One such advert closes with the question: "Does Iowa really want an outsourcer-in-chief in the White House?"
Never mind that academic studies have found private equity's effect on employment to be mixed. Or that there is "no evidence to support the claim that Romney - while he was still running Bain Capital - shipped American jobs overseas", according to FactCheck.org, a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Centre of the University of Pennsylvania that monitors accuracy in journalism and politics. Or that a similar advert received four Pinocchios (contains whoppers) from the Washington Post's Glenn Kessler (also known as "The Fact Checker"), who called it "misleading, unfair and untrue".
Facts are not the issue here. Image is. Mr Romney needs to seize the day and start wearing his outsourcing stripes as a badge of honour instead of accusing Mr Obama of the same. Often it is as simple as a choice of words. Since the Romney campaign has been slow to respond to the baseless attacks, I would like to offer Mitt a few of my own suggestions on how to change "outsourcing" from a pejorative to a positive.
1. Cheap Goods Guarantor
Mitt, you have been accused of failing to connect with the common man. Which is why you need to get off your Jet Ski and get behind a shopping cart at Walmart, the perfect milieu for a teaching moment.
While you're cruising the aisles, grabbing a pair of jeans here and a box of Cheerios big enough to feed your immediate family there, you can explain how a market economy works; how companies compete with one another to provide the goods and services that consumers want at a price they are willing to pay. For that reason, business strives to become more efficient, replacing labour with machines. Often it behooves companies to produce low-end products in developing countries where labour is cheap. This is called "outsourcing".
It is also called Walmart, and it ensures that American consumers have a wide variety of affordable goods to choose from. Their pay cheques go further. Increased demand means additional output and jobs.
The same holds true for services: outsourcing call centres or backoffice operations to India, for example. Companies pass on savings in the form of lower prices. A 2003 McKinsey Global Institute study found that offshoring creates wealth for everybody except those who lose their jobs in the short run.
When Iowans realise that "outsourcer-in-chief" is synonymous with "cheap goods guarantor", they'll be clamouring to have you in the Oval Office, Mitt.
2. Made for Big Business
To encourage domestic hiring, Mr Obama has proposed a tax credit for "insourcing", for companies that bring jobs back to the US. This is just plain silly, and you can explain why. Any attempt to offer more favour-able tax treatment for new jobs than existing ones creates a range of unintended consequences, including an incentive for companies to game the system. Of course, if the goal is to create government jobs, such a tax break would generate a new class of paper pushers to administer and enforce the programme.
"Made in America" is the equivalent of "Made for Big Business". It's tantamount to mercantilism, a system that favours producers over consumers. Small businesses, the real job creators and the ones you claim to want to help, are not going to assume a long-term expense in exchange for a short-term subsidy.
3. Real-World Model
In a much-cited study on the effect of private equity on employment, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business's Steven Davis and co-authors found that the decline in existing jobs at buy-out targets is offset by the creation of new jobs at new establishments. The net change from leveraged buy-outs is insignificant.
Mitt, you're a numbers guy. The paper's authors compiled a data set of private-equity transactions from 1980 to 2005 and analysed 3200 firms and 150000 establishments before and after acquisition. The same public that bought into some model-driven number of "jobs created or saved" from Obama's $831bn fiscal stimulus in 2009 - and a promise of full employment by now - will appreciate hard data from someone like you.
4. Walk With Giants
All the angst about outsourcing is no more than a failure to understand the benefits of free trade. Just ask your economic adviser, Greg Mankiw. Back in 2004, when Mr Mankiw was chairman of George Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, he caused a kerfuffle when he said outsourcing would "prove a plus for the economy in the long run".
He was right. But what you teach in Harvard's introductory economics course is not necessarily what you say as the president's top economic adviser. In his retelling of the story on his blog, Mr Mankiw cites Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations : "It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy." Smith was right, Mr Mankiw writes. "Few propositions command as much consensus among professional economists as that open world trade increases economic growth and raises living standards."
Yet when the economy is having a tough time, free trade is always the first culprit. I think Americans are ready for a candidate with a horizon longer than the next election.
5. Comparative Advantage
Last year, on NBC's Today show, Mr Obama tried to explain why companies were reluctant to hire in the face of record profits. He said companies were becoming more efficient, substituting automated teller machines for bank tellers.
This is the oldest myth in the book, that automation kills jobs. Yes, the car made buggy makers obsolete, and the Industrial Revolution put farmers out of work. But innovation and new technology raise living standards, lower prices and create new classes of higher-paying jobs. It is the way societies advance and become rich. If the true goal is to create jobs, not wealth, just call a halt to progress.
Mr Obama managed to spend 12 years as part of the University of Chicago Law School faculty without ever learning how an economy works. This is an area where you have a clear comparative advantage, Mitt. Use it, to explain why outsourcing is not a dirty word, or lose it in November.


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January 24, 2013 7:00 PM
The Jewish Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia will host a panel discussion on "The Post Election Landscape and Policy Priorities of the Jewish Community in the 113th Congress."
The panel will include journalist Dick Polman, political columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Lisa Hostein, executive editor of the Jewish Exponent, and Jared Feldman, vice president and Washington director for the Jewish Council for Public Affairs.
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Greetings and salutations, Bleacher Report readers. And welcome to the debut Cewsh Reviews article on your fair site. In short, we at Cewsh Reviews review wrestling shows, but there is always plenty more to talk about in the wrestling week. So now you'll be privy to our catalog of lists, rants, fashion critiques and whatever else happens to come up along the way. We're great, you're great, let's make some greatness together.
Today, we'll be examining the seven different kinds of people that every open wrestling fan will encounter at some point in their life. These people may turn out to be relatives, friends, acquaintances or the doctor who does the surgery to remove the cucumber after you challenge Brock Lesnar to a fight in a farmer's market.
Whoever they are, when they learn that you are a wrestling fan (due to your super awesome Tatanka t-shirt, no doubt), it is more than likely that every single one of them will fall into one of these categories. And while up until now you just had to rely on your quick wit and charm to diffuse a potentially awkward situation, the social scientists here at Cewsh Reviews have devised a foolproof method for dealing with each and every one of them.


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CCAFS Tool Simulates Climate Change Impacts on Croplands
22 April 2014: Colorado State University, with support from the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), has produced a new tool that simulates changes in rangelands over time, from a few to thousands of years.
The G-Range tool builds on the Century model that is used to understand soil chemistry and tracks changes in carbon and nitrogen. The tool uses spatial data to let the model simulate global rangelands, and has been revised through comparing real world data with model outputs. The model examines the growth of herbs, shurbs and trees, as well as the changes in these proportions of plant types over landscapes. It provides opportunities to integrate information on specific of interest for individual users. The development of the model was supported by CCAFS and the International Livestock Research Institute. [CCAFS Blog Post] [G-Range Tool]


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Another new school for Little M. She is in Sr KG now. She is back in school after a 4 month hiatus. Expected some resistance but she was quite happy to go back, even if it was to a new one. Came back home declaring "I love my school and I love my teacher!" Hope the love lasts! :)
2 medium potatoes, cubed and boiled
1 big bunch spinach, cleaned & chopped
1 tbsp chopped cilantro (optional)
1 large onion, chopped
2 medium tomatoes, chopped
6-7 pods garlic, peeled, crushed and chopped
1 tsp each cumin powder, coriander powder, garam masala powder
Red chili powder and salt, according to taste
1 tsp Kitchen King Masala (optional)
1/4 cup milk
2 tsp cooking oil
In a pan, heat oil. Add chopped onions and fry until brown.
Add crushed garlic, spinach and cilantro (if using). Sauté for 2-3 minutes.
Stir in tomatoes and all the powders, except Kitchen King masala.
Cover and cook until soft.
Let cool and grind to a paste, adding a little water if required.
Transfer back to the pan, adding milk and the boiled potatoes. (I just nuked the cubed potatoes with a little water for 4-5 minutes in the microwave)
Bring to a boil, stirring often. Cover and cook on low for 5 minutes.
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1) Berberis darwinii
- Vigorous, upright evergreen shrub with spine-toothed, glossy leaves and spherical blue-glaucous fruit.
- This specimen is located along the Pacific Connections Meadow Loop Trail within the Chilean Entry Garden.
- First discovered by Charles Darwin in 1835.
2) Hydrangea serrata 'Bluebird'
- Compact, erect deciduous shrub with flattened corymbs containing a few pink or blue sterile flowers and numerous fertile flowers within.
- A vigorous and hardy variety native to Japan and South Korea.
- Located along the east side of Arboretum Drive south of the double lot.
3) Lomatia myricoides
- Evergreen shrub with lanceolated leaves and creamy-white inflorescences native to southeastern Australia.
- Located on Arboretum Drive at the entrance to Pacific Connections Gardens.
4) Maackia chinensis
- A member of the family Leguminosae, Maackias are a genus of deciduous trees named after Richard Maack, a Russian naturalist who died in 1886.
- Located along Arboretum Drive, this ever-leaning specimen is currently showing its cylindrical, downy racemes, densely-crowded with flowers.
5) Sorbus rehderiana
- With elongated glossy leaflets and crimson fruits, this small tree native to Tibet is a handsome member of our Sorbus Collection.


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For prospect enthusiasts like myself, this year's MLB All-Star game has the potential to be especially memorable, with a record five rookies—Bryce Harper, Mike Trout, Wade Miley, Yu Darvish and Ryan Cook—slated to get in the game.
However, just because tonight's contest features baseball's No. 1 and No. 2 preseason prospects, don't expect there to be a lack of up-and-coming talent in the 2013 Midsummer Classic.
In fact, over the next five years—granted, some players will debut earlier than others—the MLB All-Star game has the potential to feature a steady influx of highly-touted, top-ranked prospects.
Therefore, before we are all swept up in the excitement later tonight, I thought that I'd take a look at 15 prospects who have the potential to be big league All-Stars within the next five years.
Now, I didn't necessarily pick all the logical or sexy choices. Rather, I selected the players that I believe will reach the major leagues within the next two or three years and have the potential to be All-Stars in their first seasons.


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The list of showpieces is numerous and the tools to help Tennessee engineer football players are set to be fully in place around December.
Aside from the aquatic training and rehabilitation, third-year coach Derek Dooley had his hands all over the blueprints, trying to make sure the Football Training Facility is one of (if not the) the top buildings of its kind in the country.
To hear Dooley speak about what this new construction can do for the Volunteers and much more, click play on the video below:
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10 Ways Gwyneth Paltrow Has Inspired Me to Be HealthierAndrea Howe
Oh that Gwyneth – she's the celebrity we all love to have a love/hate relationship with. She's so talented, so pretty, has such great taste, and can even cook! Often times though, she's just a wee bit out of touch, and has some pretty strong opinions when it comes to food. After all, who can forget the time she said she'd rather smoke crack than eat cheese from a can? But as much as we all at times find her insufferable, the truth of the matter is she is damn inspiring. At 40 she's starring in blockbuster movies, publishing best selling books, and even though she doesn't personally know it, she's gotten me to look at, think about, and consume food in a whole new way. Pretentious or not, I'm appreciative of the motivation she gave me through her book, It's All Good. Here are the top 10 ways Gwyneth has changed my life, as it relates to personal health (and safety).
Raw Honey Makes The Perfect Simple Syrup For Cocktails 1 of 10
Gwyneth has a few recipes in her book, It's All Good, for agua frescas, refreshing and healthy water based fruit drinks that are meant to hydrate in a non-toxic way. The base of each agua fresca is a fantastic raw honey simple syrup which adds sweetness without the use of plain table sugar. Raw honey is well known for its nutritional benefits and is a better sweetener, overall, than granulated sugar. How could I resist then, taking that simple syrup, and using it to make a healthier twist on some of my favorite cocktails, including margaritas and mojitos? Thanks Gwyneth! You just helped me get my drink on with less guilt!
To make your own raw honey simple syrup, add 3/4 raw honey to 2 cups of warm water and stir until dissolved. Store in the fridge for up to 3-4 weeks.
Maple Syrup Is Magic! 2 of 10
So it turns out that Buddy the Elf was on to something with his intense love of maple syrup! The stuff is amazing, and while still a sweetener to be used sparingly, holds more nutritional benefits than regular granulated sugar. It's easy to see why Gwyneth would then become a fan too, and now she has me hooked. I use it in my morning coffee, in my oatmeal, to make my favorite quinoa granola, in cookies and other baked goods, and of course on pancakes and waffles. We use it so often now that I've started sourcing it online to save money.
Thanks Gwyneth for opening my eyes to the beauty of real maple syrup, and just how sweet it can be.
A $10 Box Of Salt Is Crazy, But Crazy Good 3 of 10
I was out running errands with my mom when I came across a $10 box of Maldon's salt in a local spice shop. I had been searching in vain at our local grocery store for the special salt, because it was supposedly the key ingredient for Gwyneth's Almond Butter cookies. Turns out the grocery store doesn't carry it because they'd probably have to keep it behind lock and key, the stuff is so stupid expensive! My mother proceeded to roll her eyes at me so hard I thought they'd roll out of her head, but you know what? That salt is fabulous! It's shaped into tiny little pyramids that burst with flavor on the tip of your tongue. It's such a prized possession in our house, I only use it for very special recipes and occasions.
Although I do feel like a crazy person buying a $10 box of salt, I have to say Gwyneth has good taste, because for a salt lover like me, it's the creme de la creme.
Who Knew, Steamed Fish Doesn't Taste Like A Soggy Towel 4 of 10
When I made a vow to try and cook as many recipes in Gwynnie's cookbook as possible, I was extremely hesitant about her steamed fish. It sounded like the stuff of seafood nightmares, and was sure the fish would come out flavorless and limp as a soggy towel. I was also sure no one in my family would eat the stuff.
Who knew it would end up tasting so darn good though. Duh, Gwyneth knew, that's who. Gwyneth always knows. Steamed fish is now my go-to method of preparation, and is by far the easiest and healthiest way to cook fish I've ever come across.
A Paper Towel Is The Secret To Perfectly Cooked Grains 5 of 10
For years I've suffered through soggy brown rice and bland quinoa, only to be rescued by our golden girl, Gwyneth. I could kiss her after learning her super easy and foolproof method for getting perfectly cooked grains, including rice and quinoa, every time - a paper towel. All you need to do is place a paper towel between the pot and the lid when the batch is done cooking, and let it sit there for a few minutes to absorb all that steam. Then fluff as usual and serve. Best damn quinoa you'll ever have, I guarantee it.
Thanks for helping me get my husband to actually like quinoa, Gwyneth.
Soak Your Almonds and Nuts People! 6 of 10
So Gwyneth didn't invent this or anything, but she brought it to my attention so I'll give her credit for that. Apparently you're always supposed to soak your nuts and seeds to aid in digestibility and to help your body soak up the most nutrients from the wonder food. They also taste better when you do, giving them a slightly sweet flavor.
To soak your nuts and seeds, all you do is place them in a bowl of water and let them soak overnight, or for a few hours. Then dump the water and let them dry on a towel. Enjoy in good health!
Drink Your Veggies and Do It Yourself 7 of 10
I had been a fan of green juice for quite some time, but I was dragging my feet on making the leap into juicing at home. Gwyneth's easy and uncomplicated recipes pushed me to get a juicer of my own though, and the rest is history. I now juice on a daily basis, and have got the whole family hooked, especially the baby, saving myself a boat load of cash in the process.
Tracy Anderson Type Workouts Work 8 of 10
Gwyneth's legs have got to be her most talked about physical asset, and with good reason. The girl's got gams for days, in large part due to workouts led by her trainer Tracy Anderson. Her workouts aim to target and tone the smallest muscles of the body, helping to strengthen, lengthen, and lean out all your other larger muscles. While I certainly can't afford Tracy Anderson, nor did I have much interest in trying to workout solo at home to her DVDs, I did join a similar type of group workout studio and have indeed seen tremendous results. My legs have never looked better or felt stronger, even after 3 kids. There's something to be said about that!
Vegan Meals Can Be Good 9 of 10
While the Goopster isn't vegan or even vegetarian, many of the recipes in her book are vegan by way of the elimination of animal ingredients such as dairy and chicken/beef stock. For years I've said that I could never be a vegetarian and I'd rather eat my own shoe before I'd eat a vegan dish, but it turns out that many of favorite meals are naturally vegan, without even trying, or by tweaking an ingredient here or there, can easily be made vegan. Take traditional minestrone soup. By switching out chicken stock for veggie stock, boom, you've got yourself a vegan meal. Or by subbing olive oil for butter in your granola, bam, vegan granola. So while I still maintain that "meat" substitutes are all together nasty, I can still enjoy plenty of vegan meals without feeling like I'm sacrificing real animal products for fakes.
Safety First – Especially on that Vespa! 10 of 10
Lastly, I'd like to thank Gwyneth for reminding me that one can never be too safe when operating a motorized two-wheeled vehicle, because one never knows when a school bus will sneak up out of the blue, and almost crash into you! (Sorry Gwynnie!) So with this in mind, always, and I mean always, wear a helmet.
Thanks for changing my life in 2013, in more ways than one, Gwyneth!
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Nordex says the almost 190 m tall wind turbines are among the largest operating in Hamburg, "and so up to 20% more efficient than conventional models in this output class."
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We had our inspections done on the house we have a contract on and now are preparing to meet with our agent this evening to renegotiate a couple of important issues…let's all hope that the deal still goes through or we are back to square one looking for a home again, but this time with a newborn in tow. I really want to be in our own place when she enters this world. I need it. I need our own space. I can't explain why, nor do I feel the need to .
I have my first baby shower this weekend and the second is next weekend…yay! I just can't wait to eat cake and see all my friends and family. Oh, and see the stuff…you know, the baby stuff. Baby stuff is fun, we just bought some pj's that are pink with monkeys all over them. Hehe. Monkeys are good.
I am SOOOOOO eating cake tomorrow, even though I am not supposed to have sugar. I am only human, so LET THERE BE CAKE!
I have to send baby pictures to my bestest friend who is hosting the second baby shower…one problem…I put them in a "safe place" so they wouldn't get bent. Oops. I have been tearing stuff up all week looking for them.
I have acid reflux bad enough that multiple doses of medicine have no effect on it. I think my esophagus is permanently burned just from last night alone. I am planning on testing the wives tale that a baby will have a head full of hair if the mom has heartburn/reflux…we shall see!
I spend WAY too much time in my OB's office every week. He was right, it is a lot of time spent there and it does suck.
I felt really crappy all week until yesterday, when I suddenly received a burst of energy yesterday that has continued over into today. Pregnancy is so weird.
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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - Most of the attention in the Middle East is focused on the conflict between Muslims and Jews - Arabs and Israelis.
Christians are often caught in the middle. But even in the Christian community, there is division between Messianic and Arab believers.
A small group of Christians is trying to bridge that gap.
A Common Bond
Leon Mazin is pastor of the Return to Zion Messianic Center in Haifa. Pastor Nashat Filmon is director of the Palestinian Bible Society and lives in east Jerusalem.
The physical distance between them is rather short. The cultural and political divide is miles apart.
They have one common bond: faith in Jesus Christ.
"He is the one that brings us together and He is the one through His Scripture that melts all our differences so that we come to the cross," Filmon, a Palestian Christian, said.
"We have God, we have Messiah Jesus, we have Spirit of God, we have power of Gospel that can help us," Mazin said.
Brothers in Unity
The help from God these men seek is to understand each other better and bring a greater unity among Messianic and Palestinian Christians.
Rev. Doug Kittredge is one of those behind the effort.
Kittredge's ministry, the Jerusalem Gateway Partnership, helped bring Nashat, Leon, and others together for a rare and highly unusual meeting in Israel.
It also invited them to the U.S. this summer for a second meeting to tell American church leaders of their efforts.
Their motivation is found in the second chapter of Ephesians, where the Apostle Paul reminds the Gentiles they were once alienated from the family of God.
But Christ, through His life, death, and resurrection, brought believing Jews and Gentiles together.
Ephesians 2:14 says, "For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility."
"We are one body in Christ. You are my brother in Christ. You are. It's not just the words, it's reality," Filmon said.
"You are more dear than those who are culturally related to me because you are, in faith, related to me," he added.
Differences Don't Divide
They don't sugarcoat their differences. They've experienced first-hand the turmoil that has gripped the land and divided their people.
Mazin proudly calls himself a Zionist who believes in Israel's right to a homeland.
"Were there things that you began to understand about the plight of his people that you didn't know before?" Mazin asked. "Yes, absolutely. What were they?"
"I hear from him some strong, complicated situations that they go through in a political way and I didn't know about this before," he said about his conversation with Filmon.
"And it was just built inside of me extra motivation to pray for him," he added.
Road to Reconciling
Filmon admits he's gained a greater understanding of his Messianic brothers.
"The Holocaust is a big issue; big, big issue. And we always refer to that and draw from that. And we, we have to understand," he said.
"It has been a learning experience for me. It's a long journey for me. It's not a rosy journey," he continued. "That's what Leon was trying to say. I agree with him."
"Reconciliation is not something simple. It's a painful one," Filmon continued. "Yet if we have a commitment for it, I believe we can achieve a lot and be a testimony for many."
"It is God who could bring about what's happened in Leon's heart and Nashat's heart," Rev. Kittredge said. "And if He can do it with two men, He can do it with any number."
Setting an Example
Filmon, Mazin and the others hope to meet again and get their families together -- maybe even worship together at times.
As one of the pastors said, "If the gospel doesn't bring reconciliation, there's something wrong with the gospel."
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Gary Oertli, Shoreline's president, at podium, with (right to left) Monica Walker, President Clinton, Senator Patty Murray, Bill Gates, and a translator for the hearing-impaired.
Photo by Lisa Allen/Woodinville Weekly.
by Lisa Allen
Referring to the present "age of information" brought on by the computer revolution, President Bill Clinton told an invited audience of 2,000 at Shoreline Community College last Saturday that today we face the most profound changes in 100 years.
"The last time things changed this fast was when the telephone came into being and vast numbers of people left the farm for the city," he said.
"It's a 100-year change, and actually, the digital chip is the most important change in 500 years since Gutenberg first printed the Bible." Clinton credited his comment to Bill Gates' recent book.
Clinton spoke of new opportunities as well as how to deal with jobs that are lost due to new technology. "It's important to move forward and not to quit until the benefits of technology are available to everyone," he said.
"If a lot of people have new jobs, but you are one without a job, it all sounds great, but it doesn't ring true," Clinton said. "With children, technology is the great equalizer."
Clinton explained that his goals for education are to have computers in every classroom, software available, trained teachers, and Internet hookups. "Other things we have to do are build strong families and workplaces. We need safer streets. But the most important area is education. Every single American needs educational opportunities," Clinton said.
Shoreline Community College's Professional Automotive Training Center was the focus of Clinton's visit, arranged by Senator Patty Murray, a former instructor in Shoreline's parent education and preschool programs.
"It is truly an honor for Shoreline Community College and the community college system in the state of Washington," said College President Gary Oertli. "We are proud of our partnerships with business and industry that make programs such as Shoreline's Professional Automotive Training Center possible."
Clinton emphasized the importance of keeping the student loan and Pell Grant programs and said he believed a tax cut for the cost of college tuition would be included in the next budget debate. "In the last three years, we have developed nearly eight million new jobs, a record number of new businesses, and a record number of self-made millionaires."
He spoke of the importance of investing in technology partnerships, referring to Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, who had preceded Clinton at the podium.
In his speech, Gates also described the PC revolution as "incredible" and said it is important to make sure the United States leads the way in technology. "These [PCs] are tools for individual companies and tools that are used in hospitals and schools," Gates said.
The rate of improvement is that every two years machines are twice as powerful, he said. "They are so powerful, they are now connecting together as a communications device that lets people reach out. There is a name for it: the Internet. The Internet is the center of the information age, and it will expand dramatically in the years ahead. Even our phone systems will need to move to higher speeds. Deregulation will let us go down that path quickly," Gates said.
Gates admitted that it will change the job market, but he said it will also eventually change the way people bank, buy insurance, and learn about what is happening in the government. Education is the key, he said.
Gates also used the opportunity to announce Microsoft's donation of $10 million worth of software to the community colleges in Washington.
Although Clinton had to pass by demonstrators protesting the Salvage Timber Rider, which has been responsible for the recent cutting of healthy trees, the President referred to it only briefly at the beginning of his speech. "The administration has made one or two mistakes due to the law of unintended consequences. One is the way the timber rider has been carried out. Senator Patty Murray is going to work on that problem," he said, to thunderous applause.
The staff of Shoreline was busy last week. The advance team came, the White House staff put in 120 phone lines, and the Secret Service arrived to arrange security.
"It was so unbelievable, the most exciting thing that has happened at Shoreline," said Peggy Lytle of Shoreline's Plant Operations who ordered the executive furniture and barricades.
Holly Moore, Shoreline's Director of Professional/Technical Education and Workforce Training Program, served as moderator. SCC students Jeff Beltran, 20, Joan Keaunni, 50, Jerome Skorzewski, 49, Monica Walker, 38, and Chris Pena, 45, shared their experiences. Caralee Cheney, an SCC professor, Jack Carroll, a local Chrysler dealer, and Abdul A-Leem Ahmed, from the Quality through Training project, were also part of the Round Table.
On the stage with Clinton and Gates were Senator Murray and Monica Walker, a 38-year-old displaced insurance worker, who will graduate in a few weeks from the automotive training program. A job is waiting for her when she graduates. Walker told her story and then introduced President Clinton.
Northshore residents were well-represented at the event by Woodinville's Toby Washington, chairman of the SCC Board of Trustees, with his wife Sherada; Cherry Jarvis, member of the SCC Board of Trustees and SCC Foundation Board, and her husband, Terry; Ina Knutsen, former member of the SCC Board of Trustees and member of the SCC Foundation Board; Carol Edwards, member of the SCC Foundation Board; Sue Carlson, Evergreen Hospice Chaplain; David Leggett, King County Fire and Life Safety District.
Dave Nicholson of Woodinville, whose sister is in the Secret Service and drives for President Clinton, was there with his wife Connie and daughter, Samantha; and sitting in the Channel 4 satellite truck were crew members Len Brandt, formerly of Woodinville, Jason Carter of Woodinville, and Dale Colby of Bothell, with Margo Myers of Seattle.
Due to space limitations in the Shoreline gymsasium, some in attendance had to watch the president's speech on a large television screen in an adjoining overflow room.
Leggett was in the overflow room, watching the screen, when suddenly he heard someone ask for a doctor. When Leggett turned around, he saw that an elderly woman had fainted.
"She had fallen to the floor and I went over to her and determined that the situation was not life threatening," he said. "Then the Secret Service arrived and cleared the immediate area, except for myself, until the medics arrived. I briefed them on her condition and I assisted her to a chair. She was wheeled out just before the President came in the room to shake hands. I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to shake his hand," Leggett said.
Leggett said a woman behind him called out, "We love you, Hillary." The President answered, "Thanks, so do I."
Leggett said that later he had checked on the woman who had fainted and learned she had been taken to a hospital, but was doing fine.


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Among the many wonders of the new documentary "Oceans," my favorite is that it's not computer generated.
Oh, sure, there's amazing camera technology involved. Scene after scene raises the same question: How did they shoot that?
The scenes remind you of countless animated film fantasies you've shared over the decades. But rather than celebrating the imagination this time, "Oceans" turns the equation around, using movie magic to show things as they actually are.
Being human animals, we are inclined to perceive everything as a reflection of ourselves. This new project from "Winged Migration" filmmakers Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud is full of such images: A seal with the face of a lovable pet dog. Thousands of crabs scuttling across the ocean floor like gladiators in battle. A sensual octopus transformed into a brightly colored undulating scarf under the sea.
But these aren't cartoons or special effects. They're not people in cute animal suits, here to entertain us. They exist as they are, in their own right, fellow passengers on planet earth.
With Pierce Brosnan delivering the lyrical narration, we encounter an amazing variety of undersea life. Each of these creatures - from the majestic to the revolting to the fascinating - is an advocate for our responsibilities on the planet we share with them.
Waves full of dolphins. Skies crowded with gulls. Schools of sardines like undersea cyclones. Intimate moments between mother whales and their offspring.
The project was years in the making, spanning the globe with its locations. And its brilliant cinematography erases another leftover fallacy of the era when Walt Disney himself walked the earth.
In Walt's day, his groundbreaking nature documentaries never illustrated the survival of the fittest. The camera pulled away or the editors cut away at the crucial moment. There were no kill shots, not even any blood. They never showed the inherent conflict, the universal truth, as Brosnan aptly observes: Big fish eat little fish.
"Oceans" begins with an epic symphony of ecology, in which whales, dolphins, sharks and seabirds feast on schools of sardines, if not on each other.
"It's a fish fight," I overheard one very young viewer say to another, watching a giant shrimp and crab fight to the death. In another scene, unbelievably cute sea turtles hatch in the sand and begin their march to the sea, only to be swooped down upon by circling seabirds.
"Bambi," this isn't. Life, this is.
"Oceans" pushes our perceptions in other new directions as well. Watching scenes of birds gracefully swimming underwater among their prey, distinctions and definitions blur.
Birds fly, fish swim - right? Well, not exclusively. Human perceptions reveal the world to us, but also limit what we see by the labels and definitions we impose. We see what we think we're seeing.
The most ancient ancestors of whales and dolphins were dog-like land creatures. Human life - unless you're the sort of human who denies evolution - had its origins in the sea. Life is energy, always in motion, always in change. It's something to be grateful for - not something to be mastered.
"Oceans' " message about the interconnectedness of it all lingered in my mind as I drove to Hana last Saturday. It was my annual pilgrimage to the East Maui Taro Festival - the unique marriage of agriculture and just plain culture that could happen nowhere else on the planet except Hana.
As I drove I thought about Carl Lindquist, who first showed me the way to Hana when my family arrived on Maui almost 20 years ago.
One year Carl told us to be at the majestic Pi'ilanihale Heiau before sunrise. His instructions necessitated driving the famous road in an inky night under a full moon. When we arrived, just as the sun was beginning to rise, we saw scores of Hawaiians in traditional garb, chanting to one another. It was an unforgettable vision, a moment unstuck in time that could have been happening 1,000 years earlier.
Over the decades, Carl - a sort of unofficial ambassador to all things Hana - taught me other equally valuable lessons. Last November, he and his wife, Rae, were killed after their vehicle was caught in a flash flood as they drove home from Thanksgiving dinner at the Hotel Hana Maui.
Circulated among the ag displays at the festival, I was reminded that Hawaiians have their own version of the circle of life. It's taro, a vegetable, but according to mythology, it's also the first ancestor of the Hawaiian people.
Blending into the happy swirl of people, like a school of fish filling the festival tents and ballpark, I kept thinking I caught glimpses of Carl in the crowd.
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Other than the catcher, a shortstop is the most important player on the baseball field.
They are responsible for controlling the infield, anchoring the defense and being a leader. The shortstop position has changed over time, but the importance has not.
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Tow Report Details the Power and Promise of Crowdsourcing
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Posted on February 28, 2012 | Blogically Thinking
Amid the current shakeouts of independent news sites, it's important to understand all the ingredients that make these sites successful. In the case of the Chicago News Cooperative, its problems were not confined to its failure to raise revenues.
From its very start, the site was never able to generate the kind of juice that is critical to convert audiences into donors, advertisers or committed readers even as it generated some good journalism.
When you compare its efforts to the likes of the Texas Tribune, Minn Post, or even the much smaller VTDigger, there were key elements missing. Namely, buzz, impact, engagement and transparency.
The site launched without much fanfare two and a half years ago. One had to stumble around to find it. A redesigned website took forever to get launched. Even then, "multimedia" offerings were siloed in their own section instead of being well-integrated into story pages.
CNC was the first metro news startup wooed to contribute regional content to the New York Times. And The Times, in addition to the MacArthur Foundation, made a quiet but significant initial startup investment – on top of monthly payments for content.
From then on, the tail seemed to wag the dog. The site found itself committed to populating four Times news pages a week before it could develop its own content stream and identity. Other metro startups had more time to develop their areas of focus before they agreed to supply Times content.
Even before it went dark, CNC's news portfolio was thin. It covered City Hall and three metro sub-topics: Education, Culture and Sports. The Times had a keen interest in Culture news. However, one could question how much value CNC added to existing sports coverage. Meanwhile, Education was not only being covered by legacy news media in town, but the highly regarded Catalyst-Chicago has long provided in-depth coverage of the city's schools.
Several metro news startups have embraced significant transparency about their enterprises with the likes of Minn Post and Texas Tribune generating annual reports on revenues and traffic. CNC curiously was always tight-lipped about its operations, even as founder Jim O'Shea decried the "sloppiness" of the reporting about its demise.
Finally, CNC never seemed to achieve an engagement mindset that invited its readers to interact with its journalism. No conversations with newsmakers, no interactive databases. No "Minn Roasts" or Texas Tribune festivals, no "Beacon and Eggs," the St. Louis Beacon's town hall meetings.
It was pretty much journalism as a commodity – not a conversation. It's too bad, because it could have worked.
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The chemical company BASF, which recently announced it will build a new $42.6 million facility in Geismar, said on Friday it will acquire a San Diego-based enzyme biotechnology company.
Germany-based BASF will purchase Verenium Corp for $4 per share, or about $62 million. The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter.
Verenium reported $57 million in sales last year.
BASF said the company will be a complement to its work with enzymes, which are used as catalysts to accelerate biological and chemical processes.
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Verenium's stock (Nasdaq: VRNM) was up more than 58 percent Friday morning, to $3.97 per share. BASF's stock was flat on European exchanges.


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Model First
Often a system is about the model, not about the GUI. Take payroll for example, because it happens to be on my mind. The database structure is complex and full of historical information, the payment rules are baroque, the reporting requirements comprehensive. We take in three SQL datasets, a handful of different file formats, and export around 12000 bytes per person. The risk in payroll is not getting people paid correctly.
Similarly for programs like air traffic control, process control,telephone switching, operating systems. The risk is that the model won't work. In such a system, concentrate your work initially on the model. Have no GUI at all if you can get away with it - otherwise a
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I know that this can be hard for new (and maybe not so new) OOers to accept at first.
Not too long ago I was working through the VW tutorial with a newbie. It was a pretty simple problem - implement a checking account with all the normal stuff that a checking account has and knows how to do.
The problem was that the tutorial started with the GUI. The focus was very clearly on the user interface - not on the domain.
So I skipped all of the sections until I got to the ones involving the domain. Then we (the newbie and I) implemented the domain without any GUIs. We used workspaces, inspectors, and debuggers.
When we were finished, the system was working. But my partner still had a hard time separating his idea of the system from the user interface.
For him, the system was the user interface. --
At KSC I use an analogy when I talk about the order of building things. First of all, imagine that Applications are like hamburgers -- there's a bun and the hamburger. The "bun" is the GUI and database code that supports the "meat" -- which is the domain. When you make a hamburger, first you must prepare the meat, then you place it in the bun. After all, who can argue with Mc
Donald's? --
P.S. Seriously, this is something we cover in the very first day of the the
. A student has to understand this to "grok" the way in which we teach Smalltalk (domain coding, then gui coding). The pattern
describes some of the logic behind this. A paper I wrote [1] speaks about it more in depth
I like the Mc
Donald's metaphor!
I'm currently on a project where the initial design was driven completely by a committee that designed the GUI screens. The committee is made up of some of the best subject-matter experts around, but contains no one who knows how to design a GUI. Regardless, they did it and the current release of the system shows it. Not only is the GUI itself unfriendly and non-standard, but the all the business logic wound up contained within the GUI code. The development team simply took the screens and coded them up. As the GUI was initially coded "for a demo", all of the navigation worked early, giving the impression that the project was much further along than it was. This put the team in the unenviable position of having something that appeared to "work", while having to justify the time required to put in the actual smarts.
Had the SMEs, helped by a good OO-experienced engineer, concentrated on a model, the system would not be in the shape it is now. In fact there was no one on the committee with Windows GUI design knowledge. The only software experience on the committee consisted of two guys who had developed the DOS version of the system 10+ years ago.
While I can agree that early GUI prototypes and throw-away GUIs for the developers are both reasonable tools, it's clear to me (not only from this project, but from others) that if you don't know how you are going to cook the meat, there is no sense in dressing the bun.
While I agree about the postponement of the full blown GUI, I'd like to point out that a user interface is frequently useful. That is, a user interface written for the developers.
For example: right now, I am working on a set of algorithms for data processing. Basically, they take in lots of time-stamped "truck at location (x,y)" tuples and they try (well, that may be a bit anthropomorphic) to spot patterns in the data.
The first thing I wrote was a a visualization component. Being able to graph data and to have the system throw up some overlays when it thinks it's found something is *invaluable* in telling me when ideas are good or not (and for spotting logical errors in code).
The visualization component has nothing to do with the eventual applications. It is a piece of GUI code, and throwaway GUI code at that. But it lets me peer down into the model in a coherent way and is an enormously useful tool.
I always start to worry when I hear development strategies that place the user interface last (after designing/implementing the guts). You just can't tack on interfaces... On the other hand, for applications that involve mostly background work (where the user is peripheral), it makes sense to concentrate on the guts first. There is a balance... we (programmers), historically, tend to focus on the guts side. Nowadays, we are told we need to pay more attention to the user's perspective.
There is no one hard fast rule. It really depends on the application at hand. Here is a good rule of thumb:
Any application that involves
, and the end user as a fundamental part of the system's operation (i.e. the user is the controlling entity), should be developed from the
user's perspective
As a programmer, I care about the engine behind my spreadsheet or wordprocessor. But, ultimately, as a user I really only care about my interface with the application. (The user also uses the interface to judge whether the software is correct. The criteria is usually usability.)
If your air traffic control system has the user in an important role (such as determining who should land, and when), then that is the place to start. Of course the guts should work, but the guts are useless if the interface is not correct. If the interface is simple, work it out (let the users play with it) and put it away until later. Now you can work on the guts.
we are told we need to pay more attention to the user's perspective
This does not contradict
. The balance to be struck is that the "right" system to develop results from a dialog between what is easy or hard to develop (the developer's perspective) and what is valuable or useless to develop (the client's perspective). And you can't know either dimension perfectly before you start. Worse, the act of developing changes both dimensions. As developers get experience, what was hard may become easy (or impossible). As clients get experience, what seemed valuable may be seen as worthless, and vice versa.
I think Ward calls this "matching the desirable with the possible".
in conjunction with
concentrates on getting the most valuable stuff done first and in refining the metaphor and software design early, while there isn't a load of
slowing evolution.
I have trouble visualizing a team doing
in the early stages of a project if they follow
. Would a customer ever be satisfied with "OK, the system can do X as you asked but you can't really *see* it doing X right now"? Specifically, I want to know how XP manages to do
and still satisfy their
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The user stories are turned into
s. The customers see the tests run. --
There should not be a conflict between
. CRC cards are driven from stories. If you don't have a story, you can't CRC card. So you work on the stories you have. The CRC cards don't particularly care about the GUI, they care about partitioning of the object model, discovery and evaluation of the classes. So the cards represent the model, not the UI. ergo. --
My problem is with that, to me,
implies *Use*. I envision the user saying "I want to keep track of my outstanding orders". So now you go and enhance the "Order" model, but without a GUI you can only tell the client: "Yup, the *system* can keep track of the orders, and we can prove it by running dummy orders from a text file, but until we have a GUI we can't prove to you that *you* can actually *use* the system to keep track of orders."
See where I'm coming from? Unless clients are particularly smart, they might not see
as having satisfied any
yet. --
But it's easier to tell a user that the guts of the application work it's just that you can't easily get at them yet than it is to explain that although the user interface is apparently everything they wanted that half of it doesn't work, or worse, doesn't work properly. -- John Burton
for some stories that are quite important but don't smack much of *Use*.
Perhaps the problem is with your conception of
. I can't imagine estimating a story like "keep track of orders". By the time this story got into the schedule it would be turned into one or more much more specific stories, each of which would more likely to be coverable by
s. --
Thinking in terms of "proof" is a good start. Remember that if you have a GUI, it might prove on Monday that the system works, but how will they prove it again on Friday? Pretty soon you're buying GUI testing tools and trying to record clicks and develop coverage tests all through the GUI. This is nearly impossible. So how can you REALLY prove, week in and week out, that the old stuff works and the new stuff has started to work? Once you get the answer to that question, you also have the answer to the question of why you can wait for most GUIs.
However, there are usability issues that do need addressing, and I've seen that when you train users and developers to be GUI-shy, there's some relearning to do when you finally get around to doing more than the rudimentary GUIs to keep things going. Also, remember that doing things in Inspectors is not as efficient for anyone as having a GUI. So there's trading off to be done. Many more projects do too much GUI than too little. That's why we push so hard on the "do less" side. --
If the system is all GUI (i.e., not model), the GUI may be necessary to see whether it works. On the other hand, if the system has a model, it's your
s that let you see whether it works. Effectively, you model so that you can test.
I'm trying to get into extreme programming, but instead of user-stories, I've been given prototypes of the GUI (done in
). Looking at these six mocked-up windows, I've come up with more than 40 user stories.
Maybe my stories are too small -- for example, a story, "convert remotely-scanned image to black and white", corresponds to a popup menu in dialog dealing with network scanning. Another story is "when user drags a rectangle on the image preview, add an entry to the scrolling-list of selections".
While I will do the model first (actually test first, model second, gui third), I would not consider the story completely implemented until the user can click that pop-up menu in that dialog and get the color image saved as a black and white file.
I do believe this page is confused. It seems the phrase
the model
is used to mean an underlying business or computational model of the data that is distinct from direct user interaction. This sends me in a couple of directions.
You can't possibly know what the computational model is unless you already understand the semantics of the user interaction. For example, when the user says "I want the system to keep track of...", your analysis of interaction is incomplete. In this case, the user is doing your design for you. You need to ask how and when this stuff being "kept track of" will be of interest in the future. That leads to the discovery of new interaction semantics. If the data won't be used in the future, there's no need to store it, or to worry about data models for doing so. If the data will be used with other data in esoteric computations to yield results interesting to the Users, then someone has to be able to describe the semantics of those computations for you to build it, even if they cannot construct the formulae from memory.
In evolutionary development especially, there are Users and there are "users". The Users are the people who will interact with the new system. The "users" are the older parts of the system that will interact with the new system. From the perspective of those developing the new system, both of these users are significant in that they are problem context givens. This fact gives rise to the new observation that sometimes part or all of your data and business models already exist in the older parts of the system, and their presence exerts influence back through the development process to the Users to accommodate the system as it is, rather than correct those parts that actually conflict with new requirements. If you have an existing implementation, but no way to convey to your new Users what it does, then it could be time to develop some model of that to communicate existing semantics to your Users. Or a simple verbal description might do as well.
(did I miss the window of interest in this topic?)
: there's a third "User" - the User who contributes the
may well not be one of the people who will actually use the system -
s. So
should specify
views, and the "business model" (whether it's
or an emergent property of XP development) should be meta enough to encompass these. --
The model is usually retrieved from the concepts the customer mentions when he explains his buisness. Do we scrub those concepts then, like we ScrubTheRequirements
Are you suggesting we should do a big design (model) up front?
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Depends if Miami even gets to the ACC championship game. If The Canes do get to that game, and even possibly win it, I think they need to play only if it's a BCS game. The money involved would be hard to pass up. Miami still has games to win and in a few weeks we will know if playing in the championship game against FSU or Clemson is even in the cards. If Miami happens to win out and actually win the ACC championship, we need to play in that game, if we do not win the title, a self imposed bowl ban should be considered.
Didn't Ohio State go ahead (6-6) and play in a bowl game? I believe so. That was a dumb move considering the record of the team.
While I am on a soapbox, since when is going .500 a bowl qualifier? I at least think, you should have more wins than losses.
Fresh off the win against Virginia Tech, a ton of chatter surrounding the post-season for the Miami Hurricanes. With UM sitting a top the ACC Coastal Division – and NCAA sanctions looming – the question of the week has become, to bowl, or not to bowl?
The higher ups at 'The U' gave their thoughts last Friday, in the wake of the win over the Hokies, pushing the Canes to 5-4 overall, but more importantly to 4-2 in the ACC.
The verdict? Nothing to talk about until Miami gets that much-needed sixth win, making the point moot until the Canes are officially bowl eligible.
"If I remember right, we made the decision last year after we became bowl eligible," said UM acting athletic director Blake James. "I think that would be the plan.
"You address the situations as they occur."
In the same situation a year ago, it was addressed as it occurred.
The mid-November day after UM earned its sixth win of the season at South Florida, a self-imposed bowl ban was announced. Days later Miami lost its home finale to Boston College, ending the 2011 season with a 6-6 record.
The Canes wouldn't see the field again until taking on the Eagles in Chestnut Hill nine months later.
Sitting at 5-4 with three to play, the entire U Family is hoping for a much more pleasant and productive ending to the second year of the Al Golden era.
Three straight wins – against Virginia, South Florida and Duke – would not only put Miami at an unexpected 8-4 in a rebuilding year, but the Canes would also officially clinch the ACC Coastal Division with a 6-2 conference, reaching their first ACC Championship Game in nine tries.
And welcome to the orange and green elephant in the room.
As stated earlier, to bowl, or not to bowl – that is the question. Both sides make complete sense and like whichever politician voted for on November 6th, one could make a passionate argument for each side.
Why should the Canes take the bowl ban on the chin immediately? Let's count the ways.
For starters, imposing another bowl ban completely sucks up to the illogical, yet oh-so-powerful NCAA, which is the type of suck-up move that entity loves – and right now it's all about playing the game.
Who has taken the biggest hits for running afowl of the 'law' as of late? Southern Cal and Ohio State immediately come to mind. Forget the actual 'crimes' and look at the stonewalling and bravado that accompanied the hot water they earned their way into.
Conversely, North Carolina had an academic fraud scandal for the ages (classes that didn't even exist), a coach funneling players to a sports agent (for money) and players taking money, gifts and free plane rides – yet earned minimal punishment (regarding the crimes) as a result.
NCAA president Mark Emmert has been quoted as saying that Miami has been exemplary in how it handled this investigation. UM has been an open book and cooperative from day one. Players suspended by the school immediately. A bowl game surrendered last year. Monies paid back to the bankruptcy trust.
It's been obvious from the get-go that 'The U' has been politically textbook, wanting to take its medicine and to move past this embarrassing scandal as soon as humanly possible – which proves that if another bowl ban is absorbed, it will be done so with reason.
Amazing how some folks banter back and for online about this topic – as if UM's Board of Trustees and president will simply flip a coin to decide this program's fate.
Let's go on record right now; if Miami does implement another bowl ban, the higher ups are doing so because they know what's coming and realize this must be done in good faith.
At day's end, fans only know what Yahoo! Sports' Charles Robinson – or the Herald's Barry Jackson – have to say on the subject. No one truly knows a thing about the investigation or what's happening internally – and those are the finite details that are going into the big decisions being made.
For those unaware, Golden will play no part in the decision. It will be left up to president Donna Shalala, the Board of Trustees, James – and what he referred to as "a collective group, also including inside and outside counsel.
For Golden, an ACC title game berth has been the carrot he's dangled in front of this team from the get-go. It was an early season goal, as well as something the coaching staff leaned on when Miami lost out-of-conference games to the likes of Kansas State and Notre Dame.
Stay the course. Keep beating ACC foes. The goal this year was never a national championship, but a shot at a conference crown. When the Canes lost to the Seminoles a few weeks back, there was even some solace taken in a December 1st rematch for all the conference marbles.
Beyond that, what does it say about the direction of the program if a team picked fifth in the Coastal Division actually finishes first? Anyone thing that won't help on the recruiting front? Furthermore, what about morale? After so many seasons ending with a thud, the Canes could actually ride off on a high note should they reach Charlotte.
Golden's motivational tool is certainly understandable and for these kids working so hard to attain that goal, the other side of the coin and the sales pitch for why Miami shouldn't self-impose a ban this post-season, should the Canes win the Coastal and earn a spot in the ACC title game.
Another valid reason? Bird in hand.
There's a lot of chatter online about next year being the year that Miami is back in the hunt. Fans rambling on about the disappointment we'd all feel if December 2013 rolled around the the Canes were a top five team and banned from the post-season.
While this team should be better, deeper and more experienced next year, unfortunately that's all theory.
Look across the college football landscape this November and it's a sea of broken dreams.
Trojans quarterback Matt Barkley and safety T.J. McDonald both passed up big NFL money to return to Southern Cal this year for a run at the national title. Both first round picks, they believed this team was primed to win it all – and so did the voters, as USC opened the preseason the top-ranked team in the nation.
That dream all but died three weeks into the season when Stanford pulled a huge upset and the past two weeks were nothing more than shovels full of dirt on the lowering casket, with Southern Cal falling to Arizona and Oregon, now sitting at 6-3 and hoping to earn that Holiday Bowl berth that Barkley joked to Sports Illustrated months back that he didn't return to play in.
What about West Virginia? Ready to make a run in the Big XII year one and after starting 5-0 and producing a would-be Heisman candidate in Geno Smith, three straight losses and completely out of the hunt.
LSU? A top three team to start the season and now 7-2 in the SEC. Michigan? A top ten squad for the first time in forever, yet now 6-3 year two of the Brady Hoke era.
And is there any bigger cautionary tale in 2012 than that of Arkansas? A top ten team to start the season, expected to compete for an SEC title and losing four of its first five, including a faceplant against Louisiana-Monroe? The Razorbacks are now 4-5 and in complete disarray, having lost to Rutgers and Ole Miss – at home.
The Canes can even look at recent history to drive the point home. After a 9-3 regular season in 2009, Miami took on 9-3 Wisconsin in the Champs Sports Bowl and commentators talked about both squads being on the rise and the potential of a rematch the following season, albeit in a BCS game.
2010 came and went, with the Badgers stringing together an 11-1 regular season, falling to TCU in the Rose Bowl, while the Canes went 7-5, fired Randy Shannon and then got smoked in the Sun Bowl, courtesy of Notre Dame, while UM players were pelting each other with snowballs during the 33-17 loss.
There are no gimmies in sports. Great years go down the toilet in a heartbeat, while Cinderellas seemingly come out of nowhere.
Kansas State started this season ranked number twenty-two and held a 9-6 halftime lead over Missouri State in the season opener on September 1st. Since then wins over Miami, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Texas Tech and Oklahoma State, en route to a 9-0 record and number two ranking in the most recent BCS poll.
Auburn also started the season ranked number twenty-two back in 2010 and wound up riding the coattails of Cam Newton all the to a 14-0 season and a national title. Two years later the Tigers are 2-7 and a train wreck – even needing a miracle overtime victory over the Louisiana-Monroe squad that upset Arkansas the week before.
On paper, should Miami win the Coastal, it would be a crime to not accept the bid and play in the game. Another shot at Florida State and one game from the first BCS bid this program has seen since 2003?
That is too much too pass up. Need more proof? Just ask Florida State – who used to own the ACC, winning (or sharing) the title eleven of its first twelve seasons in conference, yet only one ACC title in the past seven seasons, and nothing the past six years – including 2011, when the Seminoles started the year a top five team and stumbled their way to an 8-4 regular season.
Safe to say Miami's administrators know all of the above and should the opportunity to play in its first conference title in nine tries, the Canes will head to Charlotte in December.
Unless …
The NCAA is expected to give Miami its NOA (Notice Of Allegations) the end of November, but based on how UM has worked with the governing body the past year-plus, there has to be some sense of what has been discovered and what could be coming down the pike.
The NCAA isn't the judicial system, so this isn't a world of hard evidence and what can or cannot be proven. In some cases there just needs to be enough evidence pointing a certain way and it can be deemed that there's enough smoke to determine there is, or was, a fire.
Regardless, at this point of the game the University of Miami knows if it's in the best interest of the program to self-impose another ban, or to accept a bid to the ACC Championship Game, should the Canes win the Coastal. There will be nothing knee-jerk about any of this.
If another self-imposed bowl ban will show good favor towards the NCAA and less the scholarship reductions when the hammer falls, then let the Duke match-up be the final game Miami plays this season. No ifs, ands or buts.
Miami takes on Virginia this Saturday and with a win, moves to 6-4 and will be bowl eligible. At 5-2 in conference play, the Canes would have a healthy lead over the 3-3 Blue Devils, who are idle until the 17th when Duke travels to Georgia Tech.
Still, with the UM administration talking about making a decision as early as this Saturday – should Miami get that sixth win – it will be rather telling in regards to what the NCAA could have waiting in store.
Absorb another bowl ban and one has to believe there's a logical reason for doing so, or should the administration let it be known that the Canes are headed to the post-season and there'd have to be a science behind that, as well.
Of course before thinking Charlotte, better think Charlottesville as Virginia just smoked North Carolina State, 33-6, despite entering the game 0-4 in conference play.
UVA upset UM, 28-21 on a visit to South Florida last October, too.
Miami lost its last game at Scott Stadium, 24-19, after falling behind 24-0 and needing a furious rally – fueled by freshman Stephen Morris when junior Jacory Harris was knocked out of the game.
Miami rolled 52-17 at Sun Life in 2009 and stole a 24-17 overtime victory on the road in 2008.
There was also that 48-0 loss to close out the Orange Bowl in 2007, a 17-7 loss in Virginia in 2006 (helping earn Larry Coker a pink slip), a 25-17 Miami win in 2005 and a 31-21 at UVA in 2004, UM's first season in the ACC.
2-2 at Scott Stadium shouldn't have anyone overconfident about Saturday. Until that one is in the books, any ACC Championship Game talk should remain on ice. Starting now.
Brick by brick. One at a time.
Christian Bello has been covering Miami Hurricanes athletics since the mid-1990s. After spending almost a decade as a columnist for CanesTime, he launched allCanesBlog.com. – the official blog for allCanes.com : The #1 Canes Shop Since 1959. Bello has joined up with XOFan.com and will be a guest columnist at CaneInsider.com this fall. Follow him on Twitter @ChristianRBello.
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Depends if Miami even gets to the ACC championship game. If The Canes do get to that game, and even possibly win it, I think they need to play only if it's a BCS game. The money involved would be hard to pass up. Miami still has games to win and in a few weeks we will know if playing in the championship game against FSU or Clemson is even in the cards. If Miami happens to win out and actually win the ACC championship, we need to play in that game, if we do not win the title, a self imposed bowl ban should be considered.
Stay home. ACC Coastal crowns are not the goal. We've seen nothing this year that would indicate us being able to beat FSU in the title game, especially with the myriad of defensive injuries we continue to sustain.
Next year it's possible for us to be a BCS contender, but 2014 looks more promising. It's better to get the bowl bans out of the way and the NCAA off our back than to prolong this mess any longer than necessary.
I know Shalala and co. will make the right call here. It sucks for guys like Mike James who pour their heart and soul into the program, but they have to know that it is in the best interest of the University to forego a postseason this year.
The proverbial Geen nd' Orange HYPOTHETICAL question is a bloody NO BRAINER. Eh. What say.
The Miami, Florida Hurricanes should absolutely CHIT-CAN-e the notion of playing in a THIRD-RATE bowl game come December.
Why? dUh Simply because the N.C.A.A. is going to MAKE AN EXAMPLE of Miami. Bloody well AU CONTRAIRE to what Cane brUte's have to say on the entire bloody matter! That's why!!
And, IF the N.C.A.A. doesn't inform the POWERS THAT BE in Coral Gables come late November or sometime in December. Then that INDICATES the N.C.A.A. is going to COME DOWN HARD on the University of Miami, Florida.
Yeah, yeah I absolutely understand that U'all CANESPACE/EOTH rUffian's DON'T WANT anything to do with HARD REALITY and what not. Yet, that's too bad. Because the POWERS THAT BE in the N.C.A.A.'s don't give a U-KNOW-WHAT, bout' what Miami brutes believe!!!
Bon jour et Bon soir
Or, JUST KEEPING IT REAL, baby.
I'm more worried about UVA than the NCAA at this point. The NCAA is out of our hands. UVA is not. I trust President Shalala and counsel to do what is necessary and would support their decision either way. But there are no "gimme" games with this UM team, and I think we're putting the cart before the horse. It is not inconceivable that UM drops the last 3 games, to go 5-7 for the year.
Let's hope Shalala and the Board have a tough decision to make because UM has won the Coastal in a couple weeks!
Go Canes!
Jake in Yokosuka …
Here's a link from Rivals pretty much saying Golden and staff aren't on the ball with recruits right now: http://footballrecruiting.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1433078. Rivals loves to pile on us whenever they have a chance.
As far as a bowl goes, I hope we accept a bid. These kids deserve a reward. Take whatever the NCAA hands down when it happens. Who knows what they will hand down. We've taken a self imposed bowl ban and suspended a lot of players for a lot of games already. If that's not proactive I don't know what is. If the administration decides to sit us out another year, I will accept it but not like it. I would just like an NCAA verdict sooner than later so we can move on.
" She should make the decision that says Miami getting past this NCAA mess as quickly as possible is the driving imperative that outweighs any reward, no matter how well-earned, for the 2012 team. " Greg Cote, Miami Herald
Mr. Cote bloody well SPEAKS TRUTH TO POWER. In other words, PERHAPS the N.C.A.A. won't come down SO HARD on the Hurricane football program. dUh
Yeah, yeah I totally understand that Shalala and the President of the CORRUPT N.C.A.A. are working together and what not.
However, I'm NOT THAT GULLIBLE to believe the N.C.A.A. will do Miami any favors and LESSEN stiff sanctions and what not.
Bon jour et Bon soir
this is not related to this subject but a question to Jake in Japan. I am currently in taiwan and head to singapore next week. i am here in asia for work. can you tell me a way i can watch the canes games while i am over here a website or maybe a sports bar chain that will show the games. thanks for your help and go canesss
Looks like golden slipping in recruiting…..Got Collins?