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The partial solution I would proffer is to focus on design instead of usability. There's a big difference. I'm sure there will be a big hoopla over Apple today owing to the expo, and they deserve it. I think it would be very hard to argue that the things Apple does are not interesting. Part of the reason Apple is interesting is because they encourage designs that change market norms. Good design is challenging. I mean that two ways: both that it is hard to do, and that it tends to shake things up.
Extreme shaftation is an oft used and effective approach to producing really good designs. That's part of the reason its far harder to do a good design in a non-1.0 product. In a 1.0 product you don't have existing users, there's nobody to shaft. You can choose who you want to target, and do it well (unless you position yourself, say, as a Microsoft Word replacement in which case you inherit the set of expectations!). As soon as you have users, its very very hard to drop things from the requirements list. The point of the shafting isn't to remove individual features, or to increase simplicity (necessarily). Simplicity sucks if it doesn't do anything. The point is expand the scope of possible designs, its to let you do new and more interesting things.
Focusing on usability devolves into a sort of bean counting. You divide up the "requirements list" and figure out how to cram all of it in, and then trying to organize the minutia (button labels, menu organization, etc) so it somehow still all makes sense. The result isn't very sexy, and is agressively mediocre. Every point on the requirements list pins you down. In the end the requirements list does the design instead of you. When everybody else is producing nutso apps with a billion buttons and no sort of consistency (c.f. GNOME 1.x), the result of usability looks pretty good. But by shedding some constraints, losing most of the requirements, and focusing carefully you can usually make something much better.Shedding the Requirements List by Zeroing User Expectations (MS Office)
Microsoft Office exemplifies usability in action. They have a huge list of features that Office must have or users will be angry. They have done a good job of taking that massive list and producing something sane. I am sure that every dialogue and menu in MS Office is poured over with excruciating care: "Will that wording confuse people?", "What are people most likely to be looking for in this menu?" etc. It shows. Office is very polished. Its also a very poor design.
If I were commissioned by Microsoft to dramatically improve Office, my first step would be to position the project not as a next-generation Microsoft Office, but as a new product. I might even start with the Office codebase, but I sure as hell couldn't work with the smothering mantle of user expectations that looms over Office. Done well, I think you'd largely displace Office in the market (assuming this was a Microsoft product, I don't mean to imply that anybody could just make a better product and flounce Office in the market). So you are meeting the goals people have in using Office. What you're not doing is slogging through trying to meet the specific needs people have of the existing software. If you do that, you'll just end up writing Office again.New Software Resets the Requirements List Anyway (E-mail)
Its important to understand that most 'feature' or 'requirements' lists are a reflection of user's needs and desires relative to existing implementations. If you improve the model enough, most of this is renegotiable.
E-mail is a great example of this. Lets say the internet hadn't appeared until 2004. You are right now in the process of designing the first E-mail app. Clearly users need the ability to make tables, right? I mean, that's "word processing 101". And to format them precisely, oh and insert drawings. And equations. And to edit graphs inline, and to set the margins and page settings. etc etc.
You could easily end up with the requirements list for Microsoft Word: a design for creating multi-page labour intensive laid-out documents. These are the requirements you'd extract from the "word processor + postal mail" model. But E-mail totally renegotiated this. Short little messages are the norm, not multi-page documents. You receive many dozens of mails a day, not several. There's no question that being able to insert a table here and there would be nice, but its by no means a requirement. E-mail's one compelling feature, instant and effortless transmission of text, renders the old model's "must have requirements" list a moot point.
Conclusion: I have a cruel alter ego who wakes up when the alarm goes off, disables it for who knows what reason, laughs mischeviously, and then goes back to bed.
Solution: Tie myself up before going to bed.
Problem: How do I get out of bed when I'm back to my calm mild mannered normal self?
Usability testing (perhaps more aptly called "learnability testing") is all the rage. If you look on the web for information on usability you'll be bombarded with pages from everybody from Jakub Nielsen to Microsoft performing, advocating, and advising on usability testing. Its unsurprising that people who have been educated about HCI primarily by reading web sites (and books recommended on those web sites) equate usability with usability testing. Don't get me wrong, usability testing is a useful tool. But in the context of software design its only one of many techniques, isn't applicable in many situations, and even when it is applicable is often not the most effective.
Why is usability testing lauded all over the internet? The most visible and growing area of HCI is web site usability, because it has received broader corporate adoption than applying usability to other things (e.g. software). In other words: most usability discussed on the internet today is in the context of web page usability, and web page usability is profoundly improved by usability testing. Thus it is not surprising that much usability discussed on the internet today deals with usability testing.
Desktop software usually presents a substantially different problem space from web pages. Compared to each other, desktop software represents more complex and varied operations where long term usability is crucial, whereas web sites represent a simple operation (very similar to 100 other websites users have used) where "walk up and use perfectly" is crucial. Design of infrequently used software, like tax software, is much more similar to web site design. One simple example... In most web pages, learnability is paramount: if on the first time visiting a web site users don't get what they want almost instantly and without making mistakes they will just leave. Learnability is the single most important aspect of web page design, and usability tests (aka learnability tests) do a marvelous job at finding learning problems. In a file open dialog learnability is still important, but how convenient the dialog is to use after the 30th use is more important.
A good designer will get you much farther than a bad design that's gone through lots of testing. (A good design that had testing applied to it is even better, but more comments on this later) Usability testing tends see the trees instead of the forest. You tend to figure out "that button's label is confusing" not "movie and music players represent fundamenatlly different use cases". Because of this usability testing tends to get stuck on local maxima rather than moving toward global optimization. You get all the rough edges sanded, but the product is still not very good at the high level. Microsoft is a poster child for this principle: they spend more money on usability than anyone else (by far), but they tend to spend it post-development (or at least late in devlopment). Its not an efficient use of resources, and even after many iterations (even over multiple versions) the software often still sucks. A good designer will also predict and address a strong majority of "that button's label is confusing" type issues, so if you do perform usability testing you'll be starting with 3 problems to find instead of 30. That's especially important because a single usability test can only find several of the most serious issues: you can't find the smaller issues until the biggies can be fixed. In summary: with a designer you're a lot more likely to end up optimizing toward a global maximuum rather than a local maxima, AND if you do testing it will require far less usabilty testing to get the little kinks out.
Usability testing is not the best technique for figuring out the big picture. Sometimes you will get an "aha" experience triggered by watching people using your software in a usability test, but typically you can get the same experience by watching people using your competitor's software too. Also a lot of these broad observations are contextual, they require an understanding of goals and how products fit into people's lives that is absent in typical usability tests. Ethnographic research is typically a much more rewarding technique for gaining this sort of insight.
Producing a good design requires more art than method. I think a lot of people are more comfortable with usability testing because it seems like a science. Its methodical, it produces numbers, its verifiable, etc. Many designers advocate usability testing less because it improves the design, and more because its a useful tool for convincing reluctant engineers that they need to listen: usability testing sounds all scientific. Usability testing can be a very useful technique for trying to get improvements implemented in a "design hostile environment". This is part of why I pushed/did more usability testing early on in GNOME usability. Companies would love it if there were a magic series of steps you could follow to produce genuine guarunteed ultra usable software. Alas, just like programming, there isn't. A creative insightful informed human designing the software will do much better than any method.
Usability tests can't, in general, be used to find out "which interface is better". I mention this because people periodically propose a usabilty test to resolve a dispute over which way to do things is right. Firstly, you'll only be comparing the learnability. There are many other important factors that will be totally ignored by this. Secondly, usability tests usually don't contain a sufficiently large sample of users to allow rigorous comparison. Sure, if on interface A 10 people used it without trouble, and on interface B 10 people used it and 40 serious problems were reported you can confidently say that interface A was way more learnable (and at these sort of extremes you can probably even assert its much better overall) than interface B. But its rarely like that.
Example: We test interface A on 10 people and we find one problem that effects 8 of the people, but only causes serious problems for 2 people, and 3 serious problems that effect one person each. We test interface B on 10 people and we find one serious problem that effects 3 people, another serious problem that effects 2 people, and 3 serious problems that effect one person each. Which interface is better? Its a little harder to tell. So lets say we argue it out and agree that interface A is better on usability tests. But we've only agreed that interface A is more learnable! Lets say our designer asserts interface B promotes a more useful conceptual model, and that conceptual model is more important than learnability here. How do we weight this evidence against the usability test? We're a little better off than we were before the test, but not a lot, because we still have to weigh the majority of evidence that's not directly comparable. If we always accept "hard data!" as being the final authority (which people often, somewhat erroneously, do in cases of uncertainty), even when the data only covers a subset of the problem consideration then we are worse off than before the test.
So am I saying that usability testing is bad or doesn't improve software? No! If you take a good design, usability test it to learn about major problems, and use that data and experience to improve your design (remembering that design is still about compromise, and sometimes you compromise learnability for other things)... you will end up with a better design. Every design, even very good ones, that a designer pulls out of their head has some mistakes and problems. Usability testing will find many of them.
So why don't I advocate usability testing everything? If you don't have oodles of usability people, up front design by a good designer provides a lot more bang for buck than using that same designer to do usability tests. You get diminishing returns (in terms of average seriousness of problems discovered) as you do more and more fine grained tests. Its all about tradeoffs: Given n people hours across q interface elements (assuming all people involved were equally skilled at testing and design, which is obviously untrue) what is the optimuum ratio of hours spent on design vs. hours spent on testing? For small numbers of people hours across large numbers interface elements, I believe in shotgun testing, and spending the rest of the time on design. Shotgun testing is testing the interface in huge chunks, typically by taking several large high-level tasks that span many interface aspects and observe people trying to perform them.
An example high-level task might be to give somebody a fresh desktop and say: "Here's a digital camera, an e-mail address, and a computer. Take a picture with this camera and e-mail it to to this address". You aim at a huge swath of the desktop and *BLAM* you find its top 10 usability problems.
Anyway, like practically everything I write this is already too long, but I have a million more things to say. Oh well ;-)
January 22, 1984: the Apple Macintosh is unleashed on the world. The world blinks and keeps on turning.
The release of the Macintosh wasn't the revolution, it was a symbol of the revolution. It wasn't merely the introduction of an "insanely great" product line but of the debutante ball of the process that birthed it. And at the heart of that process (human-centered design) was a paradigm shift. The question was no longer "What will this computer's specs be?" but "What will people do with this product?". That question is as relevant (and almost as frequently overlooked) today as it was twenty years ago. The importance of the revolution was less in Windows Icons Menus and Pointer and more in approaching product development from the right direction. Until widespread development and design in the computer industry is focused on a question like that, the Macintosh revolution is far from over.
There is widespread disagreement as to when and where this revolution began, but it is not contentious that the ideas took root in the feracious ground of Xerox PARC in the 70s. The end result was the Xerox 8010 (aka Star) desktop, released in 1981. To a large extent the Star interface is extant in modern desktops, but this belies the importance of the Star: it was the result of human-centered design. Engineers and researchers at Xerox tried to create a computer that could be used to "do people things" rather than just crunch numbers. Focus was not on specs and technology but on what Star could accomplish.
It is interesting to compare the Star interface with the interface of the Executive program from the equally famous Xerox Alto (from the mid 70s). The Alto was a technical marvel, with a bitmapped display, windows, a mouse, and ethernet. But while the Star really adds nothing to this impressive list of technology, the difference between the two, in terms of user experience, is like night and day. Technological invention can enable real improvement, but its not enough (usually its not even necessary). Anyway, enough historical meandering. The story of the Macintosh, Star and Alto is very interesting, and there's a lot of period documents dealing with that subject... maybe I'll post a list of links another day. But back to my agenda: :-)
At best I think most people ask "What could people do with this computer". That's a very different question from "What people will people do with this computer"... there are so many nifty features that if people pushed themselves they could use, but have a high enough barrier to entry that people don't bother.
Example: I have a nice thermostat in my apartment. Its fairly well designed and has quick push buttons for "Daytime", "Night" and "Vacation". It was even straightforward to set these to my preferred temperatures for "In the apartment, awake", "Out of the apartment or asleep", and I haven't bothered with the vacation button. Now I have noticed that I don't like to get out of bed in the morning because it is sort of cold. In fact, sometimes I'll lie in bed for 30+ minutes because its cold, which is a big waste of time (I'm not very rational when I'm waking up). I have noticed that my thermostat supports scheduling changes between day and night temperature. I even looked at the instructions beneath the faceplate, and it looks like it'd be fairly easy to program. But I haven't done it. The device is usable in the sense that if I wanted to, I could program it, and probably get it right on the first or second try. Its not hard to use. But its a little too inconvenient, because I'd have to special case my weekend schedule, I'd have to set several different times using the fairly slow "up", "down", "next item" interface for setting time (on most alarm clocks etc). The point is, its not hard to figure out, but its stills too much hassle. So while I could program the thermostat, I won't. There's always something that seems better to do with my time, and I can't be bothered (even though rationally I know it'd be better overall if I just program the silly thing).
The Macintosh revolution, at least how I see it, was about conceiving your (computer related) product in terms of what people will do with it. Sometimes we need to "get back to the basics"...
Read an interesting article about NASA that basically argues the agency was an order of magnitude more productive during its Apollo-phase than during the current low-earth-orbit Shuttle-phase. The author, who admitedly has an axe to grind, compares NASA's output from 1963-1971 with its output from 1990-now. The Shuttle missions, he claims, are basically done with the argument that "we could use them for something, anything, in the future". The conclusion? When NASA was actually working toward concrete (lofty) goals, a lot more got done. I think its a very general phenomenuum in engineering (and maybe other areas too?). Both in a micro (single person across a day or two) and a macro (hundreds of people across months or years) scale... to achieve great things you need to have great goals that you really buy into.
The article struck a chord with me because it reminded me of GNOME. GNOME exists in a state of perpetual shuttle-missions. It has no goal, no vision. I don't wake up in the morning dying to hack on GNOME (sometimes when one of my projects is doing something especially cool and is almost working I feel that way, but never really about GNOME itself).
On a "micro scale": Ever noticed how a few (or one) motivated people can do really amazing "feats of programming"? I think a lot of times this gets chalked up to either the individual's brilliance or the advantages of small groups of people in terms of communication (think mythical man month material here)... Another important factor, maybe even more important, is that these people are driven by a capital-v Vision. They know what they want to create, they are not intimidated by the steps they need to get there, they dive in and just DO IT. As a developer, how much more productive are you when things are just clicking compared to an average day? For me, the difference is a solid order of magnitude, and it happens when I've got a vision I'm working toward and I've overcome my fear of the hurdles to get there.
On a "macro scale": Were it not for the presence of commercial software to copy I think GNOME (and the free software desktop in general) would be totally stagnant. The acceptance of copying commercial software provides a design goal that people generally agree upon. I (occasionally ;-) hear GNOME people putting forward really solid ideas. They receive no backing until, hey what do you know, a year later Apple or Microsoft comes out with them. Suddenly everybody is in favour of incorporating the idea. In that sense, commercial software provides the closest thing to a vision that we have (of course, this guarantees that we will be perpetually at least a release behind, and because we haven't developed expertise in really understanding the issue we will probably do a poor clone).
I don't know why this happens exactly. For one thing, beauracracy and the like plague any collection of more than a dozen people (sometimes even then)... but that can be overcome. I think its deeper than that. I think many free software developers might feel inadequate: they may not think they can produce things or think of things that are as good as the "big boys".
Maybe we are just really risk averse: unwilling to try anything unless we are sure its a safe bet. We have more room to be betting than companies! If anything we should be less risk averse than they: our users are probably more tolerant of interesting ideas that turn out to be failures (they can work around them and turn them off), we have a smaller user base, we aren't liable to third quarter financials, and GNOME 1.x proved we can suck a lot compared to the "competition" and it'll take a long time before that starts showing in "the numbers".
Maybe we were burned by the long development cycle between 1.4 and 2.0 and aren't willing to try anything "big" again. The problem with 1.4 to 2.0 wasn't the time it took, it was that we didn't have anything to show after that period. That was a perfect example of shuttle-mission mentality. I mean, things were improved, sure (just like space tech keeps creeping forward during 1990-2003 for NASA), but not commensurate with the work and time that went into them. If we had produced something markedly better, really cool, etc people would have quickly forgiven the time it took between releases. If we had focused on an idea we could have done it.
I mean, I'm not saying we should ditch quick releases, I think they're a good thing, but we MUST be planning much farther than the next release if our releases are going to be 6 mo apart. Right now the release team has become the defacto "forward thinking" power in GNOME by virtue of the board being explicitly not-involved with technical issues and the release team being the only other organized body in GNOME. Release team is doing a good job planning 6 mo releases. But we need more than that, and I don't think the release team would do a good job at it. They are focused (by mandate and by personality) toward worrying about more immediate and pressing issues, and I think people in such a position naturally sacrifice "non urgent" issues (that are exceedingly important, but in the nebulous and distant future) for "urgent" issues (where you can see the consequence of not doing something TODAY). Its good to have an RT that's dead-set focused on what needs to be in the release several months from now.
How many "man years" have gone into GNOME? How much better could GNOME be today if all that work had been toward a cool, coherent vision?
We also need a vision for GNOME that's farther out. And it can't just be something that some powerful cabal writes down on paper, it has to be the life blood of day to day GNOME programming. It has to motivate our technical decisions, clarify our priorities, and goals, focus our interface improvements, help us decide what "applications" and technologies to develop next, etc. It has to seep into every pore of the GNOME body and take over the organism. On the other hand, it can't be designed by committee or consenus, because then it would inevitably suck. What we (aka I) want is a vision infused with creative ideas from everyone, bounded (but not too bounded) by the dire warnings of failure pronounced by experts on certain ideas, and drafted by a small cabal of fascists... a vision that is so compelling that we all (or next to all) buy into it. And that's the tricky part. A vision that will make people drop their disputes and differing goals (I do not think diversity of goals makes GNOME stronger, diversity of talents toward the same goal is what works). Does such a thing exist? I think so, I wish so, I hope so. Can we find it, will we even look for it? Probably not.
Oh well.


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MEXICO CITY, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Mexico's central bank deputy governor Manuel Ramos Francia said on Tuesday that the depreciation of the peso had only had a very small effect on most consumer prices.
"We've had a very small pass-through from the exchange rate to the majority of consumer prices," Ramos Francia said in an interview on local television.
"The Bank of Mexico will act if necessary."
The peso has lost about 10 percent of its value against the dollar so far this year.
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Thoughtful musings on various topics by interesting people at Blithewold
How to stay sane
We are poised on the edge of the pit of despair (a.k.a. March). I know a lot of people choose to remove themselves from danger by visiting the tropics at this time of year. While … Read more.
Tools on trial
Every year Gail and I take it upon ourselves to try a few new tools. We want to stay on the cutting edge, so to speak, of what's handy, so to speak. We have not … Read more.
February wish list
I have always gone to nurseries armed with a carefully researched wish list but seem to have trouble sticking to it. Nursery owners have it figured out and I know I'm not the only person … Read more.
Mid-February post(s)
I didn't think that I'd do a bloom day post this month. I'm a day late and there's another slushy winter storm-let blowing around outside. But then I walked into the greenhouse, which smells so … Read more.
Valentine's Day bling
Everyone deserves something sparkly – or at least shiny – in time for Valentine's Day. Wasn't it nice of Mother Nature to give us her latest gift – a 14 karat white-gold with diamonds storm … Read more.
Making the cut
Seed packets are starting to jam up our mailbox so Gail and I are getting busy clearing the desk and making the final cuts to our plant orders. All of us, especially those of us … Read more.
Spring around the corner
As you all know, this past Tuesday was the Feast of the Presentation of the Prophet Phil. I celebrated and paid homage as usual but I think I might be losing faith in The Groundhog. … Read more.
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How Did I Get Here? Podcast with C.B. Hudson and Matt Noveskey
How Did I Get Here? interviewed C.B. and Matt about Orb Recording Studios. They talked about how the studio came to be, building the studio, producing records, running a studio while touring with Blue October and much more. (the interview with Matt & C.B. starts about 6:40)


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Found this beetle today wandering in my house beautifully marked green in colour very unusual can anyone tell me what species it is . Thanks
This is shield bug - one of a group of bugs characterised by their general shape. It belongs to the order Hemiptera - the true bugs, as distinct from anything else we casually call bugs. Although beetle-like, bugs are a distinct and large group, all characterised by having a piercing beak-like mouthpart, rather than jaws common to beetles. I'm not quite certain, but yours looks like it's a Hawthorn Shieldbug.
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Proposals to axe almost 200 jobs at Southampton City Council will go out to consultation.
As revealed in the Daily Echo last Tuesday, cash-strapped council bosses need to save £30.8 million for next year's budget alone.
And they have decided to bring forward £7.7 million of cuts to this year in a bid to save more money.
The proposals, which were approved by the council's Cabinet yesterday and will now go out to consultation with trade unions and affected staff, could see 195 jobs lost.
Day services for 270 people with learning disabilities in the city could also be axed, while the Woodside Lodge care home for people with dementia could be closed down.
Even after proposing the £7.7 million "mini-budget" proposals and finding another £4.5 million in one-off pots of cash, Labour council bosses still need to find another £17.3 million of savings for their 2015/16 budget.
And they will then need to find another £45.5 million in savings over the following two years.
Following consultation, the proposals could be approved in September.
Ruling Labour chiefs say they have been forced into making the cuts due to ever-decreasing Government grant funding, but the Conservative opposition accused them of "betraying" residents after they made a promise to save jobs in 2012, and said the cuts could have been avoided if the council had shared and outsourced more services.


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Leonardo Bonucci struck in the 85th minute as Juventus claimed a 1-0 win over Lyon in their Europa League quarter-final.
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Leonardo Bonucci struck in the 85th minute as Juventus claimed a 1-0 advantage over Lyon in Thursday's first leg of their Europa League quarter-final tie in France.
The encounter at the Stade de Gerland looked to be heading for a draw before the Italian defender pounced on a loose ball in the area to leave his side in command.
The outcome, Lyon's first defeat at home in the competition since the group stages, has left Les Gones needing to overturn the result in next week's return leg in Turin.
Juve will be hoping Carlos Tevez will be fit after their top scorer was forced to leave the pitch with a suspected groin injury in the 55th minute.
Tevez had gone into the contest looking to score his first goal in European competition since April 2009.
Serie A leaders Juve bossed the early exchanges but found it hard work breaking down Lyon's well-organised defence.
The home side, without seven injured players, were first to threaten in the 26th minute.
Steed Malbranque's right-footed shot from 20 yards was kept out by Juve goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon.
Seconds later, Jimmy Briand wasted a great chance to put Lyon ahead when he struck the ball wide from close range following a corner.
Before the half-hour mark, Tevez received a pass from Andrea Pirlo between the lines but the Argentinian striker failed to beat Lyon goalkeeper Anthony Lopes in a one-on-one opportunity.
On the stroke of half-time, Lyon defender Samuel Umtiti cleared a dangerous ball from Bonucci with Dani Osvaldo ready to pounce.
Umtiti was first to test Buffon in the second half with a 30-yard free-kick which was saved by the Italian keeper.
At the other end, a fast counter-attack saw Tevez surge inside the area and strike a right-footed shot that was kept out by Lopes.
On the hour mark, Pirlo's free-kick was deflected off Briand to force Lopes to fully stretch to clear.
Juve continued to press forward and in the 83rd minute, substitute Sebastian Giovinco fed Mirko Vucinic in the box and the Montenegrin forward shot wide from a good position.
The visitors' efforts were finally rewarded five minutes from time when Lyon failed to clear a Giorgio Chiellini cross from the left and the ball fell to Bonucci who struck home past Lopes.


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As Raven Clabough reported previously for The New American, "According to a poll conducted by Oxford University, faith and religion are ... innate traits for human beings. Entitled the 'Cognition, Religion, and Theology Project,' the initiative took three years to complete and includes over 40 different studies in 20 countries around the world." As one of the directors of the project — Professor Roger Trigg — observed in a CNN interview:
"If you've got something so deep-rooted in human nature, thwarting it is in some sense not enabling humans to fulfill their basic interests," Trigg said.
"There is quite a drive to think that religion is private," he said, arguing that such a belief is wrong. "It isn't just a quirky interest of a few, it's basic human nature. ... This shows that it's much more universal, prevalent, and deep-rooted. It's got to be reckoned with. You can't just pretend it isn't there," he said.
Apparently someone needs to tell that to Hawking, whose anti-faith argument seems to require a flight into false analogies to rally a defense. Thus Hawking declared in an interview which appeared in The Guardian: "I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark."
Hawking's attempted argument by analogy is fatally flawed on several points. There is, in fact, a fundamental asymmetry between the self-awareness manifest in human beings and the predetermined processes of programmed devices called computers.
First, if Hawking intends to argue that man is merely a biochemically programmed computer, then his position is fundamentally untenable from the outset. Computers perform only those functions for which they are programmed, and if human beings are merely computers — no matter how sophisticated — then their every "thought" and action is preprogrammed. If human beings are simply preprogrammed computers made out of meat, then the very possibility of freedom of thought and action is illusory, and debating the meaning of life is not only irrelevant, but impossible.
Second, Hawking's argument is flawed by the asymmetry of purpose. Computers, like all machines, do not express a sentiment regarding their final disposition; thus, one does not encounter a toaster hanging on for dear life, afraid that if it fails it will be consigned to the trash. Actually, human beings have a tendency to anthropomorphize our creations — as well as animals and objects of nature. The very act of anthropomorphizing demonstrates a fundamental asymmetry between human beings and the work of their hands: We want them to be like us, but we know that they cannot be us. No matter how sentimental people may become regarding an old car — or a rover on the surface of Mars, for that matter — the relationship is asymmetrical, because a computer, car, or rover cannot return the sentiment. A human being may loath sending a car to the scrapheap, but the car cannot express any sentiment at its own disposition and remains indifferent to either a thousand trips to the mall or running over a jogger.
Third, Hawking's attempt to attribute motive to those who disagree with his metaphysical pronouncements actually undermines his position. His misguided appeal to the virtue of courage — implicitly mocking those who disagree with him as cowards who are afraid of the dark — makes the fundamental inadequacy of his position immediately apparent. Computers are never brave or cowardly; they are neither virtuous nor evil. For example, certain microwave ovens, at the conclusion of every task, scroll the same message, "ENJOY YOUR MEAL," because the oven's designers thought such a message would add some sort of personal dimension. Now, the oven would be utterly indifferent to a user microwaving a frozen dinner or a pet mouse, and would display the same message on either such occasion because it is utterly incapable of the ethical discernment which flows from self-awareness. Of themselves, tools are ethically neutral; it is the human user who utilizes the tool for good or for evil.
Computers have no heaven, nor any prognostications about their ultimate fate, because they are not people. Adherents of the Turing Fallacy regularly are inclined to a confusion regarding the difference between men and machines because they fail to appreciate the fact that a machine programmed to deceive a human being into imagining it was self-aware or intelligent was programmed by a human being for the purpose of such deception. Computers deceive no one, and they have neither virtues nor vices because they cannot.
Finally, to the extent that human beings have programmed computers to mimic certain aspects of human mental activity, it is the result of purposeful, conscious, human activity. The machines were not self-programmed, nor are their programs the result of random activity or Darwinian selection. People write programs to serve a purpose. Hawking is left with a choice: If humans are meat computers, then by his analogy, someone programmed them. But since human beings are not simply computers, then their self-awareness and capacity for reflection on the mystery of their own existence means that the results of the recent Oxford study are not an expression of human cowardice, but a necessary aspect of what it means to be a human being.
Stephen Hawking's metaphysical pronouncements are significant because they are not computer output; rather, they are the religious beliefs of a human being who has faced tremendous obstacles in life and whose views have been shaped, in part, in response to his self-aware reflections on such struggles. One may disagree with his views and still respect the man because his views are those of a moral being, and are not merely miscalculations which were spat out by a flawed computer. Looking at Dr. Stephen Hawking, one does not see a broken computer, but a brilliant man who has accomplished many worthwhile things despite grave physical disabilities. One may very well posit that his very being is further proof that he — and all human beings — are far more than our machines can ever be.


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The book, published in 1975, tells the story of urban, playground basketball in New Your City, and introduces a group of playground legends – some of whom were playing college and professional basketball, some of whom would never escape their urban circumstances. Written by Rick Telander, then a young sportswriter who spent a summer in Brooklyn researching the book and learning about the importance of basketball to urban youth, "Heaven Is A Playground" has been recognized by Sports Illustrated as one of the great sports books of all time.
Telander is the senior sports columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, a former Senior Writer at Sports Illustrated, and multiple winner of the Illinois Sportswriter of the Year Award. He has also written eight books. He is also widely known for his television appearances and his perceptive writing about sports.
Through a series of events, Telander learned that his book was part of the Wabash College tutorial. Telander offered to drive down from Chicago to meet with the class. Wednesday evening, he met with the group, explaining how he wrote "Heaven Is a Playground." He shared old photos and his original notebooks from his summer in Brooklyn. Answering questions from the class, Rick gave the eager freshmen a first-person account of what it is like to be a writer, what it was like for a 24 year old to walk into street basketball and learn about the players and their culture, and how he has maintained those friendships over the years. He also shared his ideas about how to enjoy life and strive for success.
The final moment of the evening came when Rick noticed one of the students wearing a Beta Theta Pi pledge pin. Telander, a member of Beta Theta Pi at Northwestern University, began discussing the Beta house at Wabash. When last seen, he and the three Beta pledges were off to Beta Theta Pi before Telander drove back to Chicago.


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1,500 scramble for just 92 Tesco jobs
Tesco today revealed that it received a staggering 1,500 applications for just 92 jobs at its new Extra store in Knocknagoney.
In a sign of just how tough the job market has become, the supermarket giant said it received more than 15 applications for every post, which included full-time and temporary roles created to help customers navigate the expanded store.
Official figures showed that another 1,500 people joined the dole queues in Northern Ireland last month, raising the total number looking for work to 51,000. While the local unemployment rate of 6.7% is below the rate of 7.8% in the UK as a whole, the jobless total in the province has increased by nearly 90% in the last 12 months.
It is not the first time Tesco has been inundated by applications from jobseekers. The company's recently-opened Carrickfergus store attracted even more interest, with almost 2,000 applications for 85 jobs.
And rival supermarket company Asda — which this month said the average time its employees stay with the company is now more than five years — said that since August last year it has had over 9,000 applications for just 81 new roles.
Most were for general assistants and night crew, but it also had 871 applications for management jobs.
McDonald's, which receives 2,200 applications every day across the UK for 140 jobs, receives at least 50 applications for the three or four positions that become available in Northern Ireland each month.
The company, which has 1,300 workers in the province, said it too is experiencing very low levels of staff turnover.
The rise in ratio of applications to positions is not limited to the private sector with more jobseekers looking to take advantage of the perceived security of the public sector. The PSNI received 9,000 applications for around 400 positions this year.
East Belfast councillor Jim Rodgers said the volume of applicants illustrates the dire state of the economy.
"It shows you how bad the employment situation actually is because thousands of people are now out of work who have previously always been in employment.
"People are diversifying because they know jobs in the industries they were in before are probably not coming back and so more people are looking into areas such as retailing," he said.
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text: Sumter County Relay for Life slated for Friday Posted: April 06, 2011 Author: Amy JonesPrevious1 of 1Next LIVINGSTON, Ala.--Hard work and countless hours of preparation pay off this Friday, April 8 when the community gathers for Relay For Life of Sumter County at the University of West Alabama's intramural field beginning at 5:30 p.m. This fund-raising event is filled with activities, fun and community spirit, and all funds raised at Relay For Life support American Cancer Society programs designed to reduce cancer incidence and mortality through research, education, advocacy and patient services. The community is invited to participate in Relay and help Sumter County once again top its goal, which is set this year for $56,000. All money raised locally stays in the State of Alabama. The theme of this year's Relay For Life is "Cancer-Free TV Network." Teams will decorate their campsites based on a favorite TV show, and each team at the family-friendly event will also have games, raffles or a variety of food for sale at the campsites. A new component to Relay for Life this year is the "Late Night Relay Party" from 9:30 p.m. to Midnight. This special element encourages community youth and UWA students to participate in the events planned with them in mind. Of course, everyone is invited to stay and join in the party! Relay For Life brings everyone together to celebrate, remember and fight back. Relay kicks off with the Survivors Lap at 5:30 p.m., which celebrates those who won the battle against cancer. All survivors will receive a free T-shirt, medallion and Catfish dinner compliments of Parr's Chevron and Sumter Fuel Services, LLC. One of the most moving parts of Relay, the luminaria service at 8:15 p.m., will remember those lost to cancer and honor those fighting the battle. The luminaria ceremony symbolizes the hope and courage with which we continue to work toward a cure for this deadly disease. Luminarias can be purchased for a minimum donation of $5 at Relay. This year in the United States, an estimated 1.3 million people will be diagnosed with cancer. Additionally, more than 1,500 people will die of cancer each day. The American Cancer Society is dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives and diminishing suffering from cancer. Join the fight by attending Relay For Life of Sumter County. For more information about the 2011 Relay For Life of Sumter County, please contact event chair Amy Jones at (205) 652-3558 or visit www.relayforlife.org/sumter.See More UWA News


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For my money, basically since the all-star break, there hasn't been a Texas Rangers starting pitcher that I look more forward to watching every fifth day than Derek Holland.
Yes, he's a bit combustible at times and can have a 2-inning outing every so often, but when he's on, he's the most electrifying pitcher the Rangers have on their starting staff.
When Holland takes the hill tonight in Oakland to open the Rangers third-to-last series of the regular season, he'll be looking to extend his current streak of four straight quality starts, which is two more than any previous streak he had in his career.
Again, a quality start is kind of a bogus stat, but it's a way to judge pitchers' starts in better terms than wins and losses. It's when you throw a minimum of six innings and give up three or less earned runs.
Holland is 6-1 in his last 10 outings, and yes, he has two terrible starts mixed in there (one was a loss and one was a no-decision) and he has his ERA down to 4.02 searching for his 15th win of the season.
Holland's last outing against the A's? A complete-game shutout. In five career starts against the A's, he has a 2.03 ERA and he's 7-3 this season on the road.
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Former President George W. Bush underwent successful knee surgery last weekend in Chicago.
Bush's office confirmed a WMAQ-TV report that he received a partial knee replacement Saturday at Rush University Medical Center. A Bush spokesman declined to say which knee it was, but said it was an outpatient procedure.
The former president, famous for his devotion to mountain biking, golf and other outdoor activities, was walking around and tackling a flight of stairs "just a couple hours after the procedure," Bush spokesman Freddy Ford said.
Bush returned to Dallas on Monday and is now "recovering quickly at home," Ford said.
Just a few weeks ago, Bush hosted 16 wounded veterans at his Crawford ranch for his annual W100K mountain bike ride. Though Bush mentioned some nagging knee pain, the 67-year-old cruised through the three-day, 100-kilometer event without any trouble.
He told The Dallas Morning News then that he felt good on his mountain bike, after having had a stent inserted into his heart in August to clear blockage in an artery. He did admit that he invoked some executive privilege in dialing back "some of the really tough trails."
"Please don't pass me," he joked.
Bush started mountain biking several years ago, in part because decades of running had worn down his knees. But don't expect this latest medical hiccup to slow him down or discourage him from hitting the trails on his bike.


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The extraordinary biodiversity of coral reef ecosystems is rivaled only by tropical rainforests, and MCR scientists are uncovering important functional implications of this diversity on tropical reefs. As the effects of Ocean Acidification intensify, the discovery that not all corals and other major calcifying organisms will be equally affected has important implications in the effort to understand what tropical reefs will be like in a more acidic future ocean.
MCR scientists discovered that coral-dwelling fishes cause corals to thrive by enriching them with nutrients and protecting them from damage. This finding has important implications for the resilience of coral reefs and the maintenance of biodiversity.
MCR investigators implemented new observation technologies through the Coral Reef Environmental Observatory Network (CREON). Automated sensors record environmental data in coral reefs around the world, leading to an improved understanding of reef habitats and their responses to ocean change.
The Moorea Coral Reef LTER is located on the island of Moorea 20 km northwest of the main island of Tahiti, French Polynesia. Moorea is a high, 1.2 million year old volcanic island surrounded by a well developed coral reef and lagoon system.
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extra hp?
There Is A Tactic Gear Which Can Increase Your Hp By 10 Or 5, Guardian I or II.
ooo icic i know the tactic Gear but does not help much....
there is godmode hack... but u need CE for that... and u need 2 keep on pressing the Hotkey so ur hp go back 2 100, and when u get HS with an AK or awp u die
what can i get the god mode hack? and what is CE?
CE is Cheat Engine .... can you sey how to make that god mode??
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Or is it a second Halloween?It comes around every four years and it's my uncle's birthday (which makes him younger than me! but not really). I've always been interested in Leap Day because I think it's weird, it's a day that shows up like magic. It only exists so we can adjust the Gregorian calendar to match the cycles of nature, but that's about it. We don't do anything special to mark the occasion and I think that's a bummer. We're overlooking some prime holiday time! Think about it, it's another excuse to eat poorly and have fun. Why isn't Leap Day a big deal?
I remember when I was little, I had watched an episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark? where story teller, Betty Ann, tells a scary story inspired by the folklore of Leap Day. Well, more specifically it was about a full moon on Leap Year, probably because the last full moon on Leap Day took place in the 70's and not the 90's when AYOTD was being filmed. Regardless, the characters were explaining that a full moon on Leap Day held some seriously bad juju. It's a time when the veil between the spirit world and the world of the living is at it's thinnest and spirits are free to roam the earth seeking the souls of the living as their victims. Are you thinking of Halloween or Day of the Dead? Because I was. This was only strengthened by the fact that the story teller greets the circle garbed in a black robe, donning a paper sugar skull mask. You can imagine my surprise! A day like Halloween in February? It's so cool and scary! How could I not know about this?!
It's only with age, wisdom and of course the internet that one becomes painfully aware of the truth. There is no folklore that I could find in regards to a full moon on Leap day. This is probably because it happens so rarely. The last one took place in 1972, the next one will occur in 2048. Any superstitions children would create regarding the day would be lost throughout the generations; it's just too big of a gap for anyone to give a shit. Perhaps that was the script writer's intention all along. Maybe they didn't want to choose a date that was possible for kids because it'd be "too scary". But nothing on AYOTD was that scary. As far as weird folkloric Leap Day superstitions go, all that I could find was that women were encouraged to propose during this time, Greeks felt it was a bad year to marry, and crops could suffer. Woot. Real cool, huh? Well I don't think so. I think Leap Day should become the next Halloween. It would give us something to look forward to, instead of just a random day that pops up every four years only to remind us that we're getting older.
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This week in the Back Issue Roundup, we start with some amazing auctions going on at your favorite comic book auction houses and then we'll take a peek at some key comics that have direct connections to some of this week's new releases. But first, be sure to strap into your extreme cold weather gear because our adventure today takes up deep into the barren, frozen wastes of the Comic Book Back Issue Market!
Golden- and Silver-age original art has been extremely hot and hard to find for years. But this week, there seems to be a plethora of amazing examples to bid on.
You only have two days left to bid on an amazing original Fred Guardineer cover page from Action Comics #15 (DC,1939) at Heritage Auctions. This was the fifth cover appearance of Superman and the earliest Man of Steel cover-art known to exist. As you've probably guessed, it's not going to be cheap. Currently, this auction is sitting at $120,000, but I'm guessing it sells for at least $175,000. Heritage is also offering an original Frank Miller page from issue #2 of the Dark Knight Returns featuring one of the most iconic Batman images from the series. Currently, the bid is at $28,000, but there's no way this page sells for less than $30,000. There's also a beautiful Neal Adams original Batman cover for issue #210 (DC, 1969) featuring a kitschy Catwoman outfit from the silver-age currently at $12,000.
But that's not all; Comiclink has an amazing Marvel Girl Pin-up from legendary Marvel artist Jack "The King" Kirby. The pin-up measures 12 inches by 18 inches and is the largest Jean Grey image drawn by Kirby with inks by Chic Stone. This pin-up is a one-of-a-kind page from X-Men #9 (Marvel, 1965) that really highlights Kirby's amazing line-work and creativity in showing a visual representation of Jean's telekinetic abilities. The auction is currently sitting at $16,500 and ends Thursday, Feb., 27th. While you're looking at HA's February Focused Auction, be sure to check out the original Jack Kirby Fantastic Four pages, some incredible Frank Miller original art from his Daredevil run, Sin City and The Dark Knight Strikes back, and an incredibly rare Burne Hogarth Tarzan Sunday Comic Strip from 1944.
If you're shopping for high-grade Gold and Silver comics, Heritage is also featuring a Human Torch #2 (Timely/Marvel, 1940) featuring the Submariner in CGC 8.5 condition that's currently at $14,000. But be prepared to pay way more than that, since this is one of only five Timely comics in this condition or higher.
Not to be outdone, Comiclink is offering an Avengers #1 (Marvel, 1963) in CGC 9.4 condition. According to the CGC Census, there're only 11 copies of this comic in 9.4 condition and only three copies in 9.6. The auction is currently at $35,500 and going up. There is also a copy of X-Men #1 (Marvel, 1963) in CGC 9.4 condition. There're currently 12 copies of #1 in 9.4 condition and only five copies in better shape. It's not often you see collectors parting with early Marvel key titles, so if you have thousands of spare dollars laying around, start bidding now.
In current news, DC introduces the Metal Men into the New 52 this week in Justice League #28. I wouldn't expect this issue do much, but the Metal Men's first appearance in Showcase #37 (DC, 1962) is definitely a key issue worth owning. Currently, this one guides for $3,000 in 9.8 condition and $6,000 in 9.8 graded condition.
Over at Marvel, the New Warriors return with a new series this week but, again, I don't see this issue doing much out of the short term unless we hear TV or movie news about the team soon. If you want a key New Warriors issue pick up, my pick is Thor #411 (Marvel,1989) guest starring the Juggernaut, which just happened to be the first appearance of the New Warriors. Currently you can find this issue for less than $15 in very high quality condition. A copy in CGC 9.6 sold on eBay last November for a little less than $50. Not a bad haul for a comic that's fairly easy to come by. Buy this one now on the chance that the new series is a hit.
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The Parent ConversationA Newsweek article encourages Boomers to begin discussing care issues with their aging parents. According to an AARP survey,
nearly 70 percent of adult children have not talked to their parents about issues related to aging. Some children avoid this most intimate of conversations because they believe their parents don't want to talk. Others think they know what their parents want. And some simply don't want to face the very real truth that if you are lucky enough to have parents who live well into their senior years, chances are good that disease, injury, frailty, even loneliness, will affect a parent's well-being.
Dan Taylor has written an excellent book to promote this process. In "The Parent Care Conversation: Six Strategies for Dealing with the Emotional and Financial Challenges of Aging Parents" he discusses six types of conversations adult children need to have with their parents, and offers sample questions to get you started.
The Parent Care Conversation offers a step-by-step approach for families to follow that will enable them to develop workable plans of action. By first addressing the emotional aspects of long-term care that take into account the parents' feelings and wishes, and then integrating the practical and financial components, this book can open the door for a critical exchange of information and honest discussion among adult children and their aging parents. Filled with factual information, useful tips, real-life stories, and practical exercises, The Parent Care Conversation provides a proactive and collaborative solution to the long-term care issues that eventually everyone must face.
Although I've had most of the conversations with my parents and have opened the door for any type of discussion, I appreciated his practical approach. And if it's true that 70% of Boomers haven't talked to their parents, this is a seriously needed book!
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Sydney - Flamboyant former England cricket
captain and television commentator Tony Greig died of a heart attack on Saturday at the age of 66, as he battled lung cancer.
African-born Greig had only recently been diagnosed with cancer and
suffered a cardiac arrest at his Sydney home, dying shortly afterwards.
"Tong Greig passed away at St Vincent's Hospital of cardiac arrest at 04:45 SA time," hospital spokesperson David Faktor said.
was rushed to St Vincent's and staff at the emergency department worked
on Mr Greig but to no avail. I understand his family was with him."
who worked for Australia's Nine Network for decades, first became aware
of his illness during Australia's one-day series against Pakistan in
Dubai in August and September.
On his return to Sydney, he had
fluid removed from his right lung and tests revealed he had cancer, said
the network, which described Greig as a "beloved" character.
Greig is a name synonymous with Australian cricket - from his playing
days as the English captain we loved to hate, to his senior role in the
revolution of World Series Cricket, his infamous car keys in the pitch
reports and more than three decades of colourful and expert commentary,"
Nine said.
Last month, Greig spoke to the network's cricket
commentary team, of which he was a member, during their coverage of the
first Test between Australia and South Africa in Brisbane.
not good. The truth is I've got lung cancer. Now it's a case of what
they can do," he said at the time, ahead of an operation.
played 58 Tests for his adopted country England between 1972 and 1977,
scoring 3 599 runs with eight centuries at 40.43 and captured 141
wickets at 32.20.
He captained England in 14 Tests and also played in 22 one-day internationals.
was a controversial, swaggering figure throughout his career, once
prompting a storm of criticism when he promised to make the West Indies
"grovel" ahead of their 1976 tour of England, evoking the spectre of
He was instrumental in the formation of late Australian
media tycoon Kerry Packer's breakaway World Series Cricket (WSC) contest
staged from 1977-79, which sent shockwaves through the sport.
helped secure the signings of a number of English and other foreign
players to the rebel series, launched in response to the Australian
Cricket Board's refusal to give Packer's Nine Network exclusive Test
broadcast rights.
The series featured stars such as Dennis Lillee,
Imran Khan, Greg and Ian Chappell, Viv Richards and Clive Lloyd and
left a lasting legacy on the game, including improved financial rewards
for players.
Greig's involvement caused an abrupt end to his
international career and in the 1980s he joined the Nine Network's
cricket commentary team along with former Australian captains Richie
Benaud, Ian Chappell and Bill Lawry.
"When he played cricket, he was big and he did big things," Benaud said.
he didn't care about anyone else who was bigger or perhaps might even
be faster or anything like that. He would just get in there and fight."
His old Australian adversary Lillee described him as a "tough opponent
who took on all opposition with aggression and a determination to win".
"He had a take-no-prisoners attitude which helped him lead England with flair and toughness," he said.
was a genuine all-rounder who in turn was an integral part of World
Series Cricket's success. Once his playing days were over Tony offered
an insightful commentary. He will be sadly missed."
fast bowling great Glenn McGrath tweeted: "My thoughts are with Tony
Greig's family today. RIP Tony Greig," while current Australian team
coach Mickey Arthur said: "RIP - Tony Greig. A very good man!"
"RIP Tony Greig!! You have left a
great footprint on the world of cricket. My condolences to the Greig
family," retired West Indies batting great Brian Lara said in a post on
his Twitter account.
"Not only was he a wonderful player and a
very successful player for England, I think he was a wonderful guy,"
Australia captain Michael Clarke told Australian television.
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Michael Landy: Art World Portraits
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This display of portrait drawings by Michael Landy, one of Britain's most respected contemporary artists, focuses on sitters from the art world, some of whom came to prominence 1990s as part of the group popularly known as Young British Artists. Selected from a larger group of drawings of friends and family, this is a project that occupied Landy for over a year – he drew someone every day, for eight hours, seven days a week. Landy is best known for his monumental installation works including Breakdown in a disused Oxford Street department store, and Semi-Detached at the Tate, yet these intense and personal drawings testify to his engagement with portraiture and his fine draughtsmanship. He is currently Associate Artist at the National Gallery.
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