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The Cosatto Wow Pram & Pushchair makes yours and your little one's life so much easier with the amazing features that are included – specifically designed with your baby in mind.
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Make your own fruit smoothie in a bicycle-powered blender at Encinitas Environment Day from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at Cottonwood Creek Park, 95 N. Vulcan Ave. The Wigbillies and Dr. Zoolittle will provide entertainment, and local businesses will share their efforts to create a healthier environment. Free. (760) 633-2740 or eeday.org.
Celebrate summer at Fiesta del Sol from 9 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. tomorrow and Sunday at Fletcher Cove, 111 S. Sierra Ave., Solana Beach. The music festival is celebrating its 30th anniversary with a lineup that includes Common Sense tomorrow and Donavon Frankenreiter (above) on Sunday. Free. (858)755-4775 or sbfiestadelsol.net.
More than 300 vendors will participate in the annual RB Alive Expo from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Health exhibitors, arts and crafts booths, performing arts, and a classic car show are featured along Bernardo Center and Lomica drives in Rancho Bernardo. Free. (858) 487-1767 or sdncc.com.
A magician with a psychic parrot, a chain saw juggler and a banjo phenom perform in Triple Threat at 3 and 7 p.m. Sunday at the California Center for the Arts, Escondido, 340 N. Escondido Blvd. $10. (800) 988-4253 or artcenter.org.
Check out paratroopers and re-enactments of WWII and Vietnam War aerial battles, complete with pyrotechnic displays at the Wings Over Gillespie Air Show from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. today through Sunday. Experts will discuss aircraft today with students and children; the flying show and paratroop demonstrations occurs tomorrow and Sunday at Gillespie Field, 1960 Joe Crosson Road, El Cajon. $5 to $10, free for children 10 and younger. (619) 448-4505 or wingsovergillespie.org.
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Alfred Iverson, Jr.'s way had been paved by his father, Alfred Iverson, Sr. The elder Iverson was a former Senator from Georgia, one of the earliest, most fiery advocates of secession, and a close friend of fellow former Senator Jefferson Davis. Senator Iverson decided on a military career for his son, and began by sending young Alfred to school at the military institute at Muskegee, Alabama. Then, when Alfred, Jr. was seventeen, the Mexican War began. The Senator quickly raised and equipped a Georgia volunteer regiment for the war, took his son out of school, and commissioned the teenager to serve in the war as 2nd lieutenant in the regiment.
With his pedigree and Mexican War experience, the young Iverson was commissioned directly into the U.S. Army as a 1st lieutenant of cavalry in 1855. He served in "Bloody Kansas" in the late 1850's. When the South seceded in 1861, Alfred, now thirty-two years old, resigned from the U.S. Army and received a commission from his father's old friend, President Davis, as colonel of the 20th North Carolina.
Iverson's 20th was stationed in North Carolina until it was called to the Peninsula in June 1862. There, in his first action at the battle of Gaines' Mill, Iverson demonstrated promise as an officer. Division commander Maj. Gen. D.H. Hill sent five regiments to storm a troublesome enemy battery, but it was Iverson's alone which reached the battery and captured it, allowing the rest of the Hill's division to move forward. Iverson himself was seriously wounded early in the charge, and the regiment suffered 272 casualties, second among Rebel regiments that day. Unfortunately for the Confederate cause, Iverson's first distinguished performance would be his last in the Army of Northern Virginia.
Iverson recovered in time to lead the regiment at South Mountain in September, where the entire brigade skedaddled after brigade leader Brig. Gen. Samuel Garland went down with a mortal wound. Three days later at the Battle of Sharpsburg, the shaky brigade broke and ran again, though Iverson rallied his regiment later in the day. None of this was to Iverson's credit, but it didn't slow his rise through the ranks.
As a result of the brigade's poor performance at Sharpburg under Col. D.K. McRae, Lee was open to suggestions for a more suitable commander for Garland's brigade. It was probably as a result of pressure from patrons in high places that Alfred Iverson was determined to be that man, promoted to brigadier general, and placed in command of the brigade in the army reorganization of November 1862 (prompting McRae, Iverson's senior, to resign in disgust). Iverson was in command of the brigade for the first time at the Battle of Fredericksburg, but there the brigade was held in reserve and the new brigadier was not put to the test.
Iverson's relationship with the 20th North Carolina had been an exception to the rule which says a regiment always falls in love with its first colonel. The field officers of the 20th had never liked Iverson much, and Iverson reciprocated the feeling. When he was promoted to brigade command, Iverson tried to import a friend from outside the regiment to take his place as colonel of the 20th. Outraged, 26 field officers of the regiment signed a protest. When Iverson refused to forward the petition, the aggrieved officers disregarded the proper channels and sent it over his head to the Adjutant and Inspector General. On December 27, 1862, Iverson retaliated by sending an aide to put all 26 officers under arrest. The officers eventually remained in their positions and Iverson's friend was not placed as the new colonel, but Iverson continued to fuel the feud all winter by rejecting all subsequent appointees to the post.
Iverson had problems with his superiors as well as his subordinates. He tried his privileged status on the wrong man in February 1863 when he insisted to corps commander Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson that he must have a furlough and that if he could not get it, he would have to resign. Jackson promptly replied that while it would be unfortunate for Iverson to resign, he would rather Iverson do that than approve a furlough when a battle might be fought at any time. Iverson's bluff had been called, and he stayed put.
At Chancellorsville, Iverson's brigade was posted on the far left of the first line of Jackson's monumental flank attack. Driving the fleeing Federals before him, Iverson lost 470 men fighting in the baffling woodland of the Wilderness, but Doles and Ramseur on the right were the brigade leaders who won favorable notice. Iverson worsened the bad feeling between him and his men when he went to the rear to get support for his left flank during the fighting--his officers concluded he was shirking, and the bad blood in the brigade's command was stirred again.
As Lee's army invaded Pennsylvania in the weeks after Chancellorsville, whispers that Iverson's advancement had been the result of family influence were unabated, especially in his own command. With so much rancor seething in his regiments, the general's one noteworthy performance--in those short moments at Gaines' Mill a year before--was forgotten. Trouble in the next battle might have been foreseen.
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| On July 1 at Gettysburg the Senator's son showed clearly that he was
unequal to the job of leading a brigade. Iverson's men led the march of
Rodes's division onto the crest of Oak Hill about 1 o'clock in the afternoon.
Seeing the opportunity offered by having arrived squarely on the flank of the
Union First Corps on Seminary Ridge, Rodes quickly shook out his first three
brigades into a battle line--Iverson was on the right, from Oak Hill to the
Mummasburg Road. Unsure about exactly when to advance, Iverson did not
coordinate with the more impetuous Col. E.A. O'Neal on his left. O'Neal
attacked first and quickly suffered a bloody repulse.
When Iverson started forward around 2:30 P.M., things went awry at once. First, he committed the unpardonable sin for a brigadier of not going forward with his brigade. With the words "Give them hell," he sent his men ahead while he himself stayed in the rear, where he was unable to correct what soon proved to be a fatally flawed alignment. Worse, Iverson ordered his men forward without reconnoitering the ground ahead or putting out skirmishers. Thus "Unwarned, unled as a brigade, went forward Iverson's deserted band to its doom," wrote the scribe of the North Carolina regiments. Iverson's men veered toward a stone wall, and Brig. Gen. Henry Baxter's entire Union brigade rose up from behind it and ambushed the surprised Confederates, pouring in a deadly fire at point-blank range. In the initial volley, about 500 men of Iverson's men fell in a straight line. It was perhaps the most intense one-sided minute of slaughter in the War. Many North Carolinians who didn't fall in the first volleys waved white handkerchiefs and were quickly taken prisoner. Iverson reportedly "went to pieces and became unfit for further command." A captain rallied some of the men and led them until the Federals had been chased through Gettysburg. At that point Iverson attached his remnants to Ramseur's command. For the rest of the battle, he was without authority, and his men were not again engaged.
Some of his officers and men refused to serve with Iverson after Gettysburg. One colonel, as he lay dying from a mortal wound, told some of his men he would make sure that "the imbecile Iverson" would never lead them into battle again. Lee agreed. When the army had retreated across the Potomac, Iverson was given the post of temporary provost marshal--a polite way of removing him from command. In late July, he was transferred for a while to Nicholls's Brigade, but in October, Lee quietly removed him from the army, ordering him back to Georgia to organize cavalry.
For further reading:
Derry, Joseph T. Georgia, Vol. 6 of Confederate Military History. ed. by Clement A. Evans. Atlanta, 1899. Vol. 7 of extended ed. Wilmington, 1987
Krick, Robert K."Failures of Brigade Leadership." in Gary Gallagher, ed., The First Day at Gettysburg, Kent, 1992


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Northern Ireland's £20 million bill for G8
Stormont's bill out of £75 million total is twice what was expected
The G8 summit cost around £75m in policing and security costs - with Northern Ireland footing £15 million of the bill.
Stormont also forked out a further £5 million to improve roads and boost publicity - bringing Northern Ireland's costs to £20 million.
Approximately 8,000 police officers, many drafted in from the mainland, were on duty during the two-day gathering of world leaders in Co Fermanagh last month.
A huge steel barrier costing more than £4m was erected to cut off the small island on which the Lough Erne hotel sits, and every road surrounding the exclusive resort, including single-lane farm tracks, were shut to all but a handful of local residents.
Stormont Finance Minister Sammy Wilson told the Assembly: "The most important thing is that we successfully delivered a safe and secure event and for that I give my sincere thanks to the PSNI."
Only two arrests were made as protests against figures like US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin stayed peaceful. A wire fence near the Lough Erne resort was breached for a short time but the demonstration did not turn violent.
Millions were spent on temporary custody facilities at a former British Army barracks in Omagh and on training officers in handling disorder. But with no sign of dissident republican trouble or loyalist disorder, and with the number of anti-capitalist protesters relatively small, masses of officers had little to do.
The UK Government picked up £60 million of the cost and the rest of the policing bill was paid for by Stormont's Department of Justice, Mr Wilson said, adding that the total policing and security cost amounted to around £75 million. Another £5.1 million was spent on road improvements near the venue, a publicity campaign to maximise the economic benefits from the event, and money for ambulance and fire services.
The minister added: "We must recognise that the G8 event has the potential to generate huge economic benefits for Northern Ireland. That is why the event will be followed by an investment conference in the autumn.
"Of course, we will not know the full economic benefits for years to come."
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Mill Valley's Novak looking at State House run
Mill Valley High School principal Joe Novak is considering a run for Kansas Legislature.
In his weekly newsletter to parents, "Sunday Chat," Novak said he was "seriously considering" running as a Democrat for the 39th District, which covers a portion of western Shawnee, Bonner Springs and Basehor.
Although Novak, who was principal at De Soto High School before the opening of Mill Valley in 2000, has not made an official announcement, he is informing parents that he is looking at his options.
"I'm trying to gradually let people know so they hear it from me and not from rumors," he said.
Novak revealed his desire to run for office in response to rumors that he would be retiring at the end of the 2007-08 school year. In his newsletter, he said he would not be eligible for retirement until 2009, but is considering his post-retirement options -- one of them being politics.
In 2004, Novak took a sabbatical to work with an organization called Freedom's Answer, a non-profit initiative to get young people involved in voting. Novak served as the education coordinator and traveled 55,000 miles, crossing the country several times.
His work with Freedom's Answer influenced Novak's consideration for running for office, he said.
"I just became very excited about those politicians across the United States who work so beautifully with people," he said. "Over half the politicians I met were in it for the right reasons."
Novak said if he were to run he would be concerned with bringing both Democrats and Republicans to the table and listening to all sides of an issue -- something he said is not unfamiliar after his work as a high school principal.
"I have never shied away from a challenge," he said. "I have always had a deep desire to serve people."
Novak said if he did decide to run for office, his first priority would be to the students at Mill Valley.
"I have a primary and full responsibility to these kids and this community while I am principal," he said.
If Novak were to run for election and win the 39th District seat in November 2008, it still is unclear what would become of his position.
"I have had a couple of conversations with (Superintendent) Dr. (Sharon) Zoellner," he said. "Any kind of adjustment that will have to be made will be determined by the board of education.
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A FRIENDS group has got big plans for a popular nature reserve after they were awarded cash for improvements.
The Friends of Fishwick and St.Matthew's (FoFS) has received a Green Grant of more than £1,200 to improve Fishwick Local Nature Reserve.
The group is planning to carry out work in Common Bank Wood, part of the Fishwick Local Nature Reserve.
The woodland was named by pupils from the nearby St.Matthew's Primary School, who have also helped to design a mosaic which will be installed in the reserve next year.
Bob Fletcher, FoFS Treasurer said: "The money will enable us to bring in expertise and help from Lancashire Wildlife Trust, which will be a much needed boost to existing volunteer effort at the reserve.
"The biggest task is clearing non-native trees to create space for other trees, such as Oak, Ash, Hawthorn and Holly.
"We will also be planting over 800 woodland wildflowers and making boxes for birds and bats."
The Preston Council Park Ranger for Fishwick will work closely with the Friends of Fishwick and St.Matthew's and the Trust to help carry out the work over the winter months.
Flower planting will take place during Wednesday volunteering sessions.
And most the tree work will be carried out by Wildlife Trust volunteers on Thursdays.
Bob added: "We will be seeking to involve a number of local youth groups and school children to help make the bird and bat boxes.
"There will be opportunities for the public to get involved, over the next few months, and we will advertise these through our web site."
Coun Martin Rawlinson added: "This is very much a community project and we hope to involve a number of local youth groups and school children.
"Friends of Fishwick and St.Matthew's are doing a fantastic job improving the environment around Fishwick and St.Matthew's."
The community group exists to maintain and improve the environment and community facilities in the two neighbouring wards.
Green Grants, are funded and awarded by the rail company First TransPennine Express and the Forestry Commission.
The grants are available for environmental improvements in relation to tree and/or woodlands for the benefit of the community.
The reserve is owned by Preston Council and is managed for both its nature conservation interest and for public recreation.
For more information about the group visit their website at : www.friendsoffishwickandstmatthews.org.uk
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Disgraced junior hockey coach Graham James sentenced to two years in prison
Once again, disgraced junior hockey coach Graham James is going back to prison.
On Tuesday, the 60-year old James was sentenced in a Manitoba provincial court to two years in prison after pleading guilty to sexually abusing two players he coached — former NHLer Theo Fleury and his cousin, Todd Holt. The sentence is concurrent.
"There is no sentence this court can impose which the victims and indeed the public will find satisfactory," Judge Catherine Carlson told the court before she delivered her sentence.
Afterwards, Holt expressed his disappointment in a statement:
This sentence today is nothing short of a national travesty because we know that childhood sexual abuse has reached epidemic proportions in our country. Graham James once again perpetrated his crime and spread his sickness right through the courts of Canada. He conned the judge with his "poor me" and "I regret" statements. His lawyer defended the indefensible, and he's been rewarded for doing so and Graham James is laughing all the way back to the life he's always led knowing that justice for him is but a blip on the radar.
You can read the full joint-statement from Holt and Fleury here.
James was also ordered to not have any contact with the two victims, supply a DNA sample for the national offender registry and is banned for life from working in a position dealing with children.
This is the third sentence of sexual abuse for James. The Crown (government prosecutor) was looking for a six-year term, while James' defense argued for a conditional sentence of 18 months.
In 1997, the disgraced former junior hockey coach pleaded guilty to assaulting two former players, including former NHLer Sheldon Kennedy and was sentenced to three and a half years in prison before being paroled in 2001. After given a lifetime ban from the Canadian Hockey Association, James exiled to Mexico where it wasn't long before he was back in the news.
When Fleury released his autobiography, "Playing With Fire" in the fall of 2009, the former NHLer alleged he was also a target of sexual abuse from James when he was a minor player with the Moose Jaw Warriors in the 1980s. The allegations in the book once again put James' past in the spotlight. In January of 2010, Fleury filed a criminal complaint against James and through a CBC and Globe and Mail joint-report, James was found living in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Fleury attended the news conference with Holt and was not present at James' sentencing telling the AP recently, "The case was closed for me a long time ago. I have moved on with my life. I'm not interested in going backwards. Why would I have to? Why would I need to?"
Continuing to move forward, but hearing the voices of the many outraged after the sentence was announced, Fleury urged his followers on Twitter to do one thing:
"If you are outraged by this verdict and I see you are. Never let this conversation die. Keep elevating till change is made."
Check out Buzzing the Net's Neate Sager's take on the sentence.
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Why Performance Matters, Part 3: Tolerance Management
- By Denys Mishunov
- December 10th, 2015
- 10 Comments
When technical performance optimizations reach certain limits, psychology and perception management might help us to push the limits further. Waiting can consist of active and passive phases; for the user to perceive a wait as a shorter one, we increase the active phase and reduce the passive phase of the wait. But what do we do when the event is a purely passive wait, with no active phase at all? Can we push the limits even further?
Further reading on Smashing: Link
- Perceived Performance1
- Perception Management2
- Preload: What is it good for?3
- Getting Ready For HTTP/24
- Everything You Need To Know About AMP5
- Progressive Enhancement6
- Improving Smashing Magazine's Performance7
Waits without an active phase happen quite often in the offline world: waiting in a checkout line to the till, waiting for a bus, queuing in an amusement park, and so on. It is widely accepted that the longer the user has to wait, the more negative the reaction10 to the wait. User reaction to a wait online is no different from that in the offline world. Studies based on the analysis of more than a thousand cases identify 14 distinct types of waiting situations on the web11. Being dependent on our users' loyalty, we cannot leave them facing a passive wait.
This three-part series explores the perception of time that has also an effect on observed performance. The first part12 explored objective time and some techniques for managing it. We reviewed the ideas behind several widely adopted industry standards, such as page-loading time and system response time. Part 213 reviewed the preemptive start2814 and early completion5315 techniques which, by dealing with active and passive wait, allow us to manage a user's perception of time.
This part finally discusses pure passive waiting on the web, how we can deal with it and what can be done to keep user satisfaction high even when the service cannot be delivered fast enough. In addition to the studies on waiting online, our analysis will employ the psychology of waiting lines, customer satisfaction and other tools applicable to offline waiting.
Psychological Time: Tolerance Management
In the first half of the 20th century, building managers received complaints about long waiting times for elevators. The managers were perplexed because there was no easy technical solution. To solve the issue, some expensive and time-consuming engineering had to be considered. From this point the stories vary18, but someone (designers say a designer, engineers argue that it was an engineer) came up with the idea of tackling the problem from a different, non-technical point of view.
The solution, much simpler and less expensive was found: install mirrors in the elevators and floor-to-ceiling mirrors in the lobby. After installing the mirrors, the number of complaints dropped to nearly zero without any change in the objective time. Why?
"White Rabbit: Oh! Won't she be savage if I've kept her waiting!"
— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
I'm sure most of you can guess the answer. Simply put, the solution replaced the pure passive wait that people experienced while waiting for an elevator with an active one by engaging people with looking at themselves (and in surreptitiously looking at others). It didn't try to convince people that the wait was shorter, didn't do anything to the objective time or event markers. Instead, people were shifted into the active phase right from the beginning of the wait to its end. In so doing, people were much more tolerant of the wait.
Now it's time to get all the way down the rabbit hole of the waiting problem. Let's face it, it's not always easy to convince a user that a wait is shorter than it really is. Nevertheless, waiting need not have a negative effect on consumers' evaluations21 of websites if the waiting time is well managed. So why are people so intolerant of waiting?
In 1985, David Maister conceptualized eight "propositions"22 (that have been confirmed in experiments by P. Johns and E. Peppiatt23, P. Jones and M. Dent24, and others) concerning the psychology of waiting. Although Davis and Heineke25 and E. Peppiatt supplemented the list with two more propositions later, for simplicity's sake we will call all of the propositions Maister's list. You will find the list along with the possible recommendations on how we can deal with corresponding propositions in the table below.
|Occupied time feels shorter than unoccupied time.
|Balance between active and passive phases discussed in part 25426. This is also how the elevator problem was solved.
|People want to get started (pre-process waits feel longer than in-process waits).
|Early completion7627 and preemptive start2814 techniques from part 2.
|Anxiety makes waits seem longer.
|Very subjective and hard to manage in the online world where there is no real contact with the user.
|Uncertain waits are longer than known, finite waits.
|Unexplained waits are longer than explained waits.
|Unfair waits are longer than equitable waits.
|Meet users' expectations: match your waiting times to those of competitors or at least neutralize the waiting time of your services29 if you cannot reduce the wait otherwise.
|The more valuable the service, the longer the customer will wait.
|Increasing the value of your services is beyond the scope of this article.
|Solo waits feel longer than group waits.
|We can assume that most of the users are 'queuing' alone in front of their computers, hence we have no management control over this proposition.
|Uncomfortable waits feel longer than comfortable waits.
|Definition of "comfortable" is very broad and prone to subjective evaluations.
|New or infrequent users feel they wait longer than frequent users.
|As in P6, here we should meet users' expectations considering a hypothetical user who comes to the site for the first time.
P3, P8, P9 and P10 are either subjects for a much broader application than front-end development is capable of, or are altogether out of reach for management of a website. Hence, P4 and P5 are the only propositions that miss the management tools in this psychology of waiting puzzle. These two tell us that one of the main reasons people feel unhappy about waiting is uncertainty of different nature: how long will the wait take? What is going on now? Is the result worth the wait? To answer these questions, tolerance management steps in.
Show Me Your Progress
"I wonder how many miles I've fallen by this time?" she said aloud. "I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth."
— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
To partially resolve the uncertainty and provide information about the waiting time and current state of a process, good ol' progress indicators are at our disposal. User researcher Steven C. Seow32 suggests dividing progress indicators into two main groups: dynamic (those updating information with time); and static (unchanging over time). Each of these can be split into two subgroups: determinate (projects completion by work units, time or some other measure); and indeterminate (does not project completion).
Now the question becomes when to use these. Obviously, if we show a class A indicator for every action the user performs, it will get very annoying very fast. So, we need some guidelines. When we talked about performance budgets35 in part 1 we defined some static time intervals. Let me remind you of those while mapping them to appropriate indicators.
- Instantaneous (0.1–0.2s)36 Obviously, we do not need to show an indicator for something that is perceived to be instantaneous.
- Immediate (0.5–1s)37One second is the maximum time of a user's uninterrupted flow of thought. Showing any complex indicator within this interval would introduce an interruption of this flow. But usually it does no harm to display a simple indicator without textual information. Indicators of class D, like spinners or very basic progress bard (simplified class A), are natural enough to avoid breaking a user's flow of thought, while subtly indicating that the system is responding.
- Optimal experience38Within this interval, we must give users an indication of input or a request being processed and that the system is responding. Again, the optimal indicator would be a class D or a simplified class A indicator – there is no need to draw a user's attention to additional information.
- Attention span (5–10s)
This is the frontier of the user's tolerance threshold and requires a more complete solution. For events within this interval or longer, we have to show more information than just a general 'working on it' indicator: users need to know how much longer they have to wait. Therefore, we should show a dynamic indicator of class A or B where the advance of the process is clear.
To summarize these recommendations we could formulate our guidelines as simply as follows:
- For events lasting 0.5–1s, showing an indicator of class D (spinner) or simplified class A (progress bar) is advised on a case-by-case basis.
- For events lasting for 1–5s, a class D (spinner) or simplified class A indicator (progress bar) is required.
- For events longer than 5s, a dynamic indicator of class A or B is recommended
It is common for progress indicators to combine different classes or combinations targeted at different propositions in Maister's list.
Note that in cases when you use other distracting tools (like animation) during the whole wait, there might be no need for an additional progress indicator: users' are already busy processing the animation, thereby tolerating the wait more easily by default.
Progress indicators are capable of providing enough information to neutralize uncertainty in accordance with P4 and P5. But can we do better than just indicating loading? Can we address multiple propositions simultaneously? We certainly can.
Tolerance Beyond Progress Indicators
Alice said nothing: she had never been so much contradicted in her life before, and she felt that she was losing her temper.
— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Let's get to a quite interesting service: tripmydream.com50. Users can find flights and hotel packages all over the world for a predefined budget. After the basic operations like choosing the theme of your trip and desired dates, the user sets the budget for the trip and gets to the search page.
From a performance point of view, searching for a flight and hotel combination all over the world to match a predefined budget is not a lightweight task at all. According to the DevTools, the results for my particular search kept coming in for as long as two minutes. Let's examine what is done for tolerance management in this case.
First of all, the early completion5315 technique mentioned in part 25426: the first results are rendered as soon as there are any that match the search criteria. But early completion alone is not enough: the first possible result was rendered after almost ten seconds of waiting.
Earlier, we reasoned that a dynamic progress indicator should be shown for such long-lasting processes. For tripmydream.com, this is the complex indicator of class B consisting of the orange progress bar and the "Analyzing" block right below the bar.
Finally, let's address the illustrated character at the bottom. The character is aimed at coping with P9 (uncomfortable waits feel longer than comfortable waits): usually, smiling cartoonish characters evoke emotions related to light-hearted childhood memories, setting up more comfortable feelings while dealing with the wait. The character might even partially solve P8 (solo waits feel longer than group waits) for those of us who spend more time with virtual friends in front of the computer than with real people. Keep in mind, though, that the use of a cartoon character should not contradict users' expectations of the service: such a character on a banking website, for example, would be inappropriate.
Overall, early completion helps manage a user's acceptance of waiting time in accordance with P1 and P2; the complex progress indicator deals with P4 and P5; and the cartoon character at the bottom attempts to deal with P9 and P8. Quite a handful of harmful propositions are under control here!
But not everything is smooth with the cartoon character on this page: it not only soothes, but also communicates, providing the user with additional textual information. And here we have a problem. Because the character and the corresponding text in this element are changed to another character every six seconds or so, most of the time users have no time to read the full text.160
There are many good and bad examples of tolerance management on the web. But we will take a look at two which try to achieve the same result with a different approach.
SlideShare63 and Speaker Deck64 are arguably the two most popular services for uploading presentation slides online. Services like these are very useful for speakers to share their slides after an event with a wider audience. Both of these services have their own supporters based on aesthetics or for historical reasons, but for a user, the services are quite similar in functionality. What interests us in particular is the process of uploading presentation files to these services.
From a technical point of view, the process is the same in both cases: a user chooses a file, uploads it, writes the title and other meta information, then clicks a button to publish the presentation. From a psychological point of view, the process is also the same: uploading a file is a pure passive wait because the user has no control over the uploading process. Neither has the user options other than cancelling the upload altogether. But the interfaces for this process differ between SlideShare and Speaker Deck.
The good part first. Looking at these screenshots we can see how the services employ tolerance management for the process of uploading a file: the form suggests filling out the meta information not after, but while the file is being uploaded, thereby catering for P1 (occupied time feels shorter than unoccupied time) and P2 (people want to get started) propositions in Maister's list. Instead of keeping the user passively waiting, the user's brain is instantly triggered into the active phase by the suggestion of filling out this form.
But can you spot the difference between the two? I am sure you can: the two different progress indicators on Speaker Deck. And this is where things get out of control. The second progress indicator not only adds some confusion to the interface, it also significantly slows down the process as perceived by the user. With SlideShare, my presentation file had been uploaded the moment I finished filling out the form, hence I didn't feel any delay or passive wait. But with Speaker Deck, even though my file had been uploaded comparably fast (the first progress indicator), I still had to wait for the second process to finish before my slides could be visible. And even if I could click the Save the Details button, it does exactly that – only saves the details while my presentation is still being processed. The situation gets worse because nothing in the interface tells the user what to expect after the "processing" is finished: will a user get any benefit that is worth the wait?
In this comparison, SlideShare shows impressive use of the tolerance management technique: users barely notice the passive wait while uploading files to the service. On the other hand, the same functionality at Speaker Deck, while employing the same technique at first, eliminates its success further in the process.
With tolerance management at hand, we could extend the performance optimization strategy69, provided in part 2, to get the full picture of basic techniques for managing objective time, perception and tolerance in our projects.
Part I: Objective time management71
- The 20% rule72: to beat your own performance.
- Neutralization73: to level the competition.
Part II: Perception management74
- Preemptive start75: keep the user in the active phase for as long as possible before switching to the passive wait.
- Early completion7627: give the user something to work with by switching from a passive to active wait as soon as possible.
Part III: Tolerance management77
Anything that helps your users stay away from the harmful influence of the uncertain wait. Consider progress indicators78, switching fully to an active wait, or combining multiple techniques at once79.
But, be it objectively or psychologically, should we make everything as fast as possible? As you can guess, this is not yet the end.
Easy, Tiger!
"Are there moments when intentionally adding a few extra seconds—however artificial—creates a better experience?" asks Stephen P. Anderson in his article "Wait for It …80". Let's figure this out.
Last year, discussion about a placebo progress bar81 on the website of South Africa's First National Bank82 made respected minds claim it to be some sort of nonsense83. But let's not rush to judgement.
First of all, as William J. McEwen writes86, "Faster can be better – but only when speed is exactly what the customer wants. Not all customers want to complete every contact with a company at lightning speed." Do you like it when a bank website hurries you? The website provides an online interface to the offline interactions that a user can relate to in real life. Users have expectations about these operations and usually these interactions with banks do not happen at the speed of light.
Second, by adding this progress indicator, the bank tries to cultivate a particular emotional design quality: the idea of a complex product with many benefits. "A lot of things that are really valuable take time," says Darrell Worthy, an assistant professor of psychology at Texas A&M University. This echoes Maister's P7: the more valuable the service, the longer the customer will wait. The bank is not serving fast food; it is not expected to deliver results instantly. Simply by delaying its response to an average user (that is, without developer tools and a hunger for sensation), the bank tries to manage users' expectations, building the perceived value of the service. By the way, progress indicators on Little Big Room8948 mentioned above, similar to the progress indicator at First National Bank, are not connected to any real process as well: they manage expectation and have a function different from simple progress indication.
This brings us to the following point – as long as you don't introduce a genuinely new way of interaction or operation, your users already have certain expectations of it. Sometimes, speeding up a process confounds those expectations and puts the user out of countenance, significantly reducing the perceived value of your service. In the long run, this might be more destructive than a slower process.
"Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it," said the Duchess in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. And this article humbly tries to communicate its own lesson. The performance and speed of our projects are very important, without a doubt. But they have to meet users' expectations and needs before we slake our thirst for speed. A good developer knows how to make a website faster; an excellent developer knows when and why to do so. Know your users, know your tools and deliver your best.
1 According to a number of studies like the ones by M. Masson et al93 and K. Rayner94, the reading speed for an average reader (native English speaker reading in English) is around 250 words per minute, or about 4 words per second. The graphical elements shown randomly at tripmydream.com contain 16–24 words; this means that to read and, most importantly, understand the textual information, an average user would need 4–6 seconds. And indeed, the pictures change every 6 seconds on average.
But these studies review reading speed for texts isolated from other distracting elements. Owing to saccadic suppression95 (the fact that we do not perceive information during an eye movement), the more elements on the page, the more time users need to process and understand the information.
Moreover, P. Carroll et al96 found that when presented with a captioned drawing, users tend to focus more on the drawing than on the caption, hence it requires more time to process textual information provided together with a drawing. This means that: a) being a supportive element, the illustrated character unnecessarily drags the user's attention away from other more important elements, diluting their effect; and b) to read and understand the textual information coming with the drawings, users need more than six seconds. There is a risk in changing the picture during the reading process; instead of managing tolerance, this builds up frustration.
(ml, al, vf)
Footnotes Link
- 1 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/09/why-performance-matters-the-perception-of-time/
- 2 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/11/why-performance-matters-part-2-perception-management/
- 3 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/02/preload-what-is-it-good-for/
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- 5 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/02/everything-about-google-accelerated-mobile-pages/
- 6 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/12/reimagining-single-page-applications-progressive-enhancement/
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- 13 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/11/why-performance-matters-part-2-perception-management/
- 14 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/11/why-performance-matters-part-2-perception-management/#preemptive-start
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- 28 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/11/why-performance-matters-part-2-perception-management/#preemptive-start
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- 37 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/09/why-performance-matters-the-perception-of-time/#endnote2
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- 60 #endnote1
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- 76 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/11/why-performance-matters-part-2-perception-management/#early-completion
- 77 #tolerance-management
- 78 #progress-indicators
- 79 #beyond-indicators
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This past Christmas / New Year I was fortunate enough to spend almost a month in Western Australia and returned home with around 17Gb of images to sort, cull, crop etc. As I work my way through them I'll post anything decent. Here are a few quick images to start with (:
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Cubs In On Josh Johnson?
Written by Joe Aiello, Posted in General
Is it just me, or does it seem like we're going to pay this year for the reasonibly mild winter we had last year? Living in NC, we never really get snow other than a dusting that goes away by noon, but yesterday we had a freezing rain and over the weekend it was 35 degrees out. It just seems like an imminent sign of things to come this year and I'm not excited about it. Let's, instead, focus on the hot stove.
- Buster Olney recently posted a column about 10 potential bargain starting pitchers this off-season. As we know, these guys aren't allpro type guys, but they are guys who tend to be low risk and medium to high reward if they pop and can be moved before the deadline for future talent. We've seen this become the model for Theo and Jed the last two seasons and I expect it to be the case again this year. It's an insider piece, but a name on the list that most seems to fit the mold is Josh Johnson, who is coming of surgery to remove a bone spur last month. I like the model because it's turned a guy like Scott Feldman into parts who can be useful going forward.
- Apparently the Cubs continue to be interested in expanding their international talent pool with rumored interest in Masahiro Tanaka. I read a piece by Keith Law recently that he is less like Yu Darvish and more like Hiroki Kuroda. Personally, I'm not a fan of investing in international talent from Asia where it involves a posting fee. I'd rather focus on snatching up talent from Latin America for cheap when they're 16 years old.
- Theo recently came out and admitted they got out over their ski's a little with the Edwin Jackson signing last off-season, but I actually disagree. Jackson gives you a guy who can take the ball every day and eat innings. His season last year was not good, but I think we'll see him rebound this year across the board and given the fact that the rotation was so thin last year before the seasons started, I was OK with the move.
- Quick, name the hitting coach for the Cubs last year. Admit it, you probably can't do it. The answer is James Rowson and he has left the team to take a job with the Yankees. There are rumors that former Cub, Bill Mueller is a potential replacement. I'd love to see him get the job simply because he was one of my favorite Cubs when he was with the team. He's a "professional hitter" as they say in the business.
- Former Cub Matt Murton is signing an extension to stay in Japan, fresh off leading the league in hits for the third time in four seasons. Let the Murton supporters begin their rant about how he never got his chance and how if he'd only had a chance he could have been a star.


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Legal Question in Health Care Law in India
if a radiologist gives wrong diagnosis of gall bladder stone & patient gets operated & finds there were no gall baldder stones & sues radiologist what will be the maximum possible punishment to the radiologist.thanx
Asked on 9/29/13, 12:24 pm
1 Answer from Attorneys
Santosh Goswami,Advocate sure shot legal
See, its very difficult to get him punished in terms of imprisonment. But, you can seek a huge compensation from him. METHODS TO SEEK COMPENSATION:-
1. Issue a legal notice calling upon him to pay the expanses of operation along with compensation which u seem is sufficient.
2. Write a letter to Medical council of India against the Dr. and request for cancellation of his licence. This may pressurize him.
3. Either file a civil suit or a consumer complaint.
Answered on 10/11/13, 5:16 am
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RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia Alcohol Beverage Control stores will again offer discounts on Black Friday this year.
The Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control says all of its stores will offer 10 percent off any purchases totaling $50 or more before taxes. Lottery and gift cards are excluded from consideration.
Last year, liquor and wine sales on the day after Thanksgiving totaled $5.9 million, up 86 percent from the same day in 2011.
ABC chairman J. Neal Insley says the discounts allow customers to buy premium brands at reduced prices for gifts and holiday entertaining.
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Hear, hear!Anders wrote:As a Mahayanika with a lot of love for Theravada, maybe I can offer some reasons on why I have always felt very attracted and connected to Theravada:
Coherent presentation - The Pali Canon is just a beautiful presentation of teachings with an internal consistency and coherency that is to me unparalleled. Coming from Zen to the Pali suttas was a revelation in terms of how pedagogical the historical Buddha can be.
Clearer - Mahayana is a kitchen sink religion, with a dozen exceptions to every rule and at least one good contradiction of same. In Theravada, you have a simpler set of practices and views to pick up before digging in.
A beautiful society - I am full of awe and admiration for Kammatthana monks and those of similar habits who follow the vinaya to a tee and show that it is in fact both feasible and worthwhile to do so in modern society - the standard of dana-conomics is to me far too quickly disregarded in modern society. These exist in Mahayana too, but I personally find them harder to come by (a product no doubt of my own karma).
Good western teachers - Theravada has been fortunate to have a solid transition to the west with a good selection of outstanding western teachers with profound cultivation and standards.
I personally feel my own cultivation would be lacking without my exposure to these jewels of the Theravada tradition.
My two baht: It's not so much that one should reject Mahayana in favor of Theravada. I'm fully in the Theravada camp for a number of reasons, many of which have been stated above. The Pali Canon based approaches best reflect and approximate the original teachings of the Buddha; Mahayana rejected what it calls "Hinayana" in favor of new ideas and practices that are not consistent with what the Buddha taught, as defined in the Canon. Mahayana in the west has introduced some important ideas, including a more pronounced sense of the Bodhisattva ideal, and many Mahayana practitioners are doing excellent work as engaged Buddhists, with environmental issues, end of life issues, etc. So, i give a tip of the hat to Mahayana for taking the lead on some of these engaged practices, and illustrating for the west what engaged Buddhist practice might look like.
However, Theravada scholars like Bhikkhu Bodhi are taking the Bodhisatta ideal and going a step further. Maintaining focus on the Canon Buddhavacana, adhering to Vinaya principles, and then taking that Dhamma-based renunciate sensibility and translating it as action for the benefit for others is a terrific approach, IMO. The Pali Canon's teachings are like pure spring water, unadulterated with artificial sweeteners or colorants. In our thirst for release from dukkha, why drink anything but pure spring water?


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LOCKNEY Services for Harley Workman, 85, of Lockney will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at First United Methodist Church with the Rev. James Stephens officiating and the Rev. Russell Byard assisting.
Burial will be in Lockney Cemetery under the direction of Moore-Rose-White Funeral Home.
He died on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2001.
He was born on Aug. 17, 1915, in Kenefic, Okla. He moved to Floyd County from Bryan County, Okla., in 1920. He attended the Lone Star School and graduated from Lockney High School in 1932. He married Edna E. Snodgrass on Oct. 26, 1935, in Lone Star.
He was the owner of Workman Plumbing, Heating and Air Conditioning from which he retired in 1976. He was a director and founding member of Lockney Senior Citizens Center. He was a member of Lockney Masonic Lodge where he was a 32nd degree Mason and past Worshipful Master. He was a member of Lockney First United Methodist Church.
Survivors include his wife; three sons, Jerry of Lockney, Wayne of Lubbock and David of Cristoval; two daughters, Bettye Harleen McAda of Sherman Oaks, Calif., and Donna Claudene Barton of Plainview; two sisters, Margaret Lorene King of Lubbock and Jane Almeda Phillips of Lockney; nine grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
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Simon Callow in The Man Jesus
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Simon Callow in the Lyric Theatre Belfast production of The Man Jesus by Matthew Hurt and Directed by Joseph Alford. Simon Callow, One of Britains bets loved actors, performs this fresh and moving account of biblical stories including the raising of Lazarus , the wedding at Cana and the journey fo Jerusalem. His powerful portrayal of the tyrants, traitors and madmen in Jesus life asks people of all faiths and none: what sort of a man was able to inspire the history of the world? Thought provoking , thrilling and full of wit, this production premiered to great acclaim at Belfast's Lyric Theatre , and now embarks on a strictly limited UK Tour.
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We know there's more than one way to keep the Pride party going! Join us for a family-friendly day filled with games and relaxing. Let's celebrate being a colorful, beautiful, and queer Jewish community!
(The fields directly across from 350 the Jamaicaway, near the intersection of Morraine and the Jamaicaway)
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Located in Absecon (White Horse Pike), Empire Inn & Suites Atlantic City/Absecon is convenient to Heritage Park and Absecon Wildlife Management Area. This motel is within the vicinity of FAA William J. Hughes Technical Center and AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center.
Make yourself at home in one of the 34 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and microwaves. Flat-screen televisions with cable programming provide entertainment, while complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected. Bathrooms have shower/tub combinations and hair dryers. Conveniences include desks, as well as phones with free local calls.
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Take advantage of recreation opportunities such as a seasonal outdoor pool, or other amenities including complimentary wireless Internet access and a television in the lobby.
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Featured amenities include complimentary newspapers in the lobby, a 24-hour front desk, and laundry facilities. Free self parking is available onsite.
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Legal Question in Entertainment Law in California
do i still owe manager if i terminate services if show gets network
Asked on 8/15/11, 10:27 am
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Michael Stone Law Offices of Michael B. Stone Toll Free 1-855-USE-MIKE
Read The Friendly Contract.
Answered on 8/15/11, 10:28 am
J. Caleb Donner Donner & Donner
It will depend on what your agree with your manager. Assuming you had a written contract, you need to review it, or have an attorney review it, to get an idea of your options and potential consequences in relation to actions you take to terminate your manager.
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26-year-old HDFC Bank Employee Dies in Road mishap
Udupi: A 26-year-old bank employee died in a road mishap when her two-wheeler was hit by a tractor near Daina Circle here on September 24.
The deceased has been identified as Mangala Rao (26), a resident of Katapadi.
According to sources, the deceased, Mangala was on her way to the bank. A waste collection Tractor of the Udupi City Municipality which came from the opposite direction hit the two-wheeler.
Seriously injured Mangala was rushed to the hospital but succumbed to injuries on the way.
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Last month MySpace won the largest anti-spam payout ever made totalling US$234 million. Now the social network can add another US$6 million to their haul.
This latest judgement is against Scott Ritcher based on spam he sent to users on MySpace back in August 2006. The lawsuit was started in January 2007 and went into arbitration in August 2007. Now a ruling has been made against the defendant who will pay MySpace US$4.8 million in damages and a further US$1.2 million in legal fees.
Mr Ritcher has accepted the judgement and will pay the stated amount pointing out it is 95% less than what had originally been asked for. Steven Ritcher, Scott's father and business colleague in their company Media Breakaway said:
We respect the decision of the arbitrator, and we're not going to appeal it … We're going to pay the money he awarded.
Scott Ritcher has already paid US$7 million to Microsoft in a previous ruling over spam and the use of website OptInRealBig.com. With the MySpace spamming, Ritcher had used MySpace accounts acquired by phishing and directed users to the website ConsumerPromotionCenter.com.
MySpace released the following statement regarding the ruling:
This award reflects MySpace's continued momentum and holistic approach to ridding the site of spammers and phishers … We will continue to do our part in cleansing the Internet of this invasive onslaught of spam.
Read more at Computerworld.com
Matthew's Opinion
Unlike the huge payout last month it looks like MySpace are going to get this money; and US$6 million is not to be scoffed at. They would do well to re-invest the money back into the site, improving their infrastructure and increasing their security measures just to make sure they are well prepared for the future.
The ongoing action taken against spamming is an important one alongside better spam controls and more user knowledge on what spam is and what to do with it. If court cases keep being won against spammers then there is more risk in doing it in the first place and hopefully less people attempting it.


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The National Weather Service in Minnesota says that the southern part of the state could be in for a second straight spring of significant flooding.
Hydrologist Diana Cooper said her focus is on southern Minnesota, where very preliminary computer models suggest floodwaters are likely to close Highway 101 in the southeastern metro area.
"Just like last year, the south fork of the Crow and the Crow system are looking at above normal chances, some significant above normal chances of seeing flooding," Cooper said.
That could include areas like Delano and Watertown. Cooper said long-range models suggest a 63 percent chance that St. Paul could see the Mississippi at major flood stage for the third time in two years.
Heavy rains last summer, more rain in September and lots of snow so far this winter have raised concerns about flooding. The weather service says snowfall set a December record at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport last week.


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* Plant downtime, facility upgrades hurts Colorado basin output
* Facility constraints could hurt other producers - analysts
* Company's 2nd-qtr output misses expectations
* Production forecast for rest of year below expectations
* Shares fall as much as 6 pct to 2-month low (Adds executive, analyst comments, details on U.S. operations)
By Swetha Gopinath
July 24 (Reuters) - Noble Energy Inc warned that a lack of infrastructure in its main oilfield in the United States would hurt production, indicative of how the growth of processing and pipeline facilities in U.S. shale fields is lagging rising output.
Noble's shares fell as much as 6 percent to a two-month low after the company's production forecast for the rest of the year fell short of analysts' expectations.
Production from the company's operations in Colorado's Denver-Julesburg basin rose in the second quarter, but missed its own expectations, hurt in part by downtime at a third-party processing plant and facility upgrades at over 60 wells.
"There's such a mad rush to build out U.S. shale plays in every respect, not just production, but also in logistics transportation," said S&P Capital IQ analyst Stewart Glickman.
"Production had to slow down a bit because there just wasn't enough takeaway capacity."
Noble gets a third of its total production from the Denver-Julesburg basin, and analysts said the infrastructure problems there could also hurt Bonanza Creek Energy Inc , Bill Barrett Corp and PDC Energy Inc.
Noble's shares were down 3 percent at $71.95 in afternoon trading. Shares of Bonanza Creek, Bill Barrett and PDC Energy were mostly unchanged.
Noble, which also operates in deepwater Gulf of Mexico and offshore West Africa, said total oil and gas production rose 14 percent to average 290,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d) in the second quarter ended June 30.
That fell short of the company's own forecast and also missed analysts' estimates.
Noble expects to produce as much as 305,0000 boe/d in the third quarter, well below the 324,000 estimated by Simmons & Co analysts.
The company said fourth-quarter production could touch 330,000 boe/d, slightly above Simmons & Co's 328,000 forecast.
Noble, which also operates in a giant natural gas field off Israel's coast, said it expects its third-quarter natural gas sales in the country to be hurt by the ongoing conflict there.
The company and its partners in the Leviathan gas project in the region suffered a setback after Australia's Woodside Petroleum Ltd pulled out in May, leaving them without the expertise to kickstart exports sooner.
Texas-based Noble said on Thursday that it signed on two regional customers for natural gas from the Leviathan and Tamar projects in Israel.
"We are closing in on securing additional customers that will further support the first phase of development at Leviathan", Chief Executive Charles Davidson said.
Noble's net income nearly halved to $192 million, or 52 cents per share, in the second quarter due to a $187 million loss on commodity derivatives.
However, its adjusted profit of 87 cents per share beat the average analyst estimate of 79 cents, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
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SAN DIEGO -- Phillies reliever Mike Adams has most likely thrown his last pitch of the 2013 season.
"Not good," he said after having his right shoulder examined in Los Angeles on Tuesday. "I've got some tears in there -- rotator cuff and labrum."
Adams said a course of remedy had not yet been established. He could have surgery or opt for a strength and rehab program that would require up to 12 weeks. Either way, he figures his season is over.
"This season doesn't look good — highly unlikely," he said. "This year is almost probably a no."
Adams, 34, signed a two-year, $12 million contract in the offseason. He had an MRI before the signing and that showed no surprises, according to Adams and the Phillies.
"They had to have happened not too long ago," Adams said of the tears.
Adams was supposed to be the guy that fixed the leaky eighth inning that plagued the Phillies last year. Even though he's been inconsistent this season, his loss is a punch in the gut to a club that has the worst bullpen ERA in the majors at 4.68.
"It hurts," GM Ruben Amaro Jr. said. "It's a big blow to us."
Adams experienced shoulder problems several weeks ago and had another MRI this past weekend. According to Adams, the MRI showed three tears -- two in the labrum and one on the rotator cuff. The tears were confirmed by surgeon Neal ElAttrache during an exam in Los Angeles on Tuesday. ElAttrache operated on Roy Halladay's shoulder last month.
If Adams opts for surgery, his recovery time won't be known until doctors get a look at the damage inside his shoulder. His best chance of being ready for the start of next season might be the more conservative rehab route. That is what Phillies team doctors have recommended.
"We're going to try to figure out what's best over the next couple of days," Adams said. "It's not going to heal. Maybe I can do some stuff to get the other muscles to take over and strengthen and hold everything else intact."
Adams had a previous tear in his labrum. It was repaired surgically in 2008. He also had surgery last fall to correct thoracic outlet syndrome. Doctors removed the rib under his collarbone to alleviate pressure in his shoulder and improve circulation and feeling in his fingers.
The Phillies say they did their due diligence on Adams' health history and believed he was worth signing.
"The feeling for us was that, yeah, he's a risk just like any other veteran guy who's been around the block a lot," Amaro said. "There was some added risk because he was coming off a surgery, but his rehab went very well and he didn't have any complaints or his issues with the thoracic outlet syndrome. This is the stuff that happens. You can't do anything about it."
Amaro said he had feelers out with other clubs, but the price for relievers was so high he expected to fill the hole in the bullpen in-house (see story).


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Giants hopeful Sanchez's knee injury minor
Giants hopeful Sanchez's knee injury minor
ATLANTA -- Giants catcher Hector Sanchez hopes to avoid the disabled list despite spraining his left knee during San Francisco's 9-0 victory Tuesday night over the Atlanta Braves. "The doctor told me he saw nothing serious," said Sanchez, who was examined by team orthopedist Ken Akizuki. Sanchez will undergo a MRI on Wednesday morning to determine the extent of the injury. Manager Bruce Bochy said that he believes Sanchez could be sidelined for nothing more than "a couple of days." Bochy added that the organization did not immediately summon a catcher from the Minor Leagues to be on hand Wednesday in case Sanchez's injury is worse than believed. And Buster Posey said that he can handle catching Thursday afternoon's series finale following Wednesday night's game. Until Sanchez is cleared to play, Pablo Sandoval will serve as San Francisco's emergency catcher.
After singling to right field with nobody out and Angel Pagan on first base in the fourth inning, Sanchez hurt himself as he returned to the base when Braves pitcher Jair Jurrjens lobbed a pickoff throw. Sanchez tried running after time was called to test his leg, but left the game in obvious discomfort. "It hurt so bad," he said. "When I tried to run, I couldn't." Sanchez admitted that he initially felt discomfort in the knee last weekend.
"But it wasn't too bad," he said. "It was a little bit sore."Sanchez is batting .281 in 39 games, including 30 starts, with two home runs and 24 RBIs.


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San Antonio, TX – Florida Panthers prospect and current AHL San Antonio Rampage forward Scott Timmins was arrested Monday morning after a woman found him asleep on her couch, according to KENS 5, via CBSSports.com. Timmins was allegedly out drinking at a bar with teammates earlier in the evening.
In his drunken stupor, Timmins perhaps thought it was his house…. Aaaah, the old Robert Downey Jr. move… At least he didn't hop into one of the kids' beds.
Via KENS 5: The police report states that when Garza's wife found Timmins sitting on her couch, she asked him who he was, to which he responded, "Don't worry about that."
"He was yelling, 'What are you doing in my house,'" said Benjamin Garza, the owner of the house who was not home at the time of the break-in. "My wife said, 'You need to get the hell out of here.'" The woman and her kids were able to escape through the back door .
Benjamin Garza reportedly said later when coming face to face with Timmins, "You're lucky I wasn't here because I would've put a bullet between your eyes."
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There are benefits to both buying a house and renting a property in the UK depending on ones circumstances.
It depends if you are looking for a long time base or want the freedom to move after a short term contract ends.
Buying a property will give you stability and it will be a wise investment for the future and something that you could pass down to your children. If you are lucky enough to have the cash upfront buying will be easy for you. Otherwise you will have to apply from a bank which you will have to go through a number of steps. These will include credit checks and checks with employers. You will need to have a deposit to secure a mortgage and this is normally around twenty to thirty percent of the value.
With renting a property, you will still have a number of checks to go through and will also need a deposit and roughly one months rent. Th deposit is normally around one month rent also which will be helpd in a tenacy deposit scheme.
London landlord Andrew Charalambous has a different view to tradition estate agents and has a different approach to this and make things a lot easier for a potential to rent.
His company does not charge for admin fees nor does he ask for a deposit from the tenant. His company believes that by doing this, it makes a stronger bond between the client and the landlord and they tend to stay for a lot longer in the residence.
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Oh hey, here's a lightbulb that doubles as a home security system
Yahoo Tech
Here's one way to reduce cord clutter: pimp out your lightbulbs.
That's the philosophy of Sengled, which debuted a smart LED lightbulb that also functions as high resolution camera, microphone, and speaker on Sunday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Dubbed Snap, the bulb is meant to function as a subtle home monitoring system that streams a video feed that you can view on your phone or tablet in real time.


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Kenworth customers can now specify the new PACCAR MX-13, PACCAR PX-9 and PACCAR PX-7 engines on new Kenworth trucks.
The 12.9-liter PACCAR MX-13 engine is designed to meet the demands of heavy duty truck applications. The engine is available for Kenworth Class 8 models, including the Kenworth T660, T680, T700, T800 and W900.
The 8.9-liter PACCAR PX-9 engine is available for Kenworth medium and heavy duty trucks, including the Kenworth T270, T370, T440, T470 and W900S. The PX-9 possesses one of the highest power-to-weight ratios in its class, with heavy-duty features such as replaceable wet liners, roller cam followers, bypass oil filtration and targeted piston-cooling.
The 6.7-liter PACCAR PX-7 engine is available for Kenworth's medium duty conventional and cabover line-up. The engine offers ratings of 200 to 325-hp and up to 750 lb-ft of torque for the Kenworth T170, T270 and T370. For the Kenworth K270 and K370 cabovers, PACCAR PX-7 ratings are 220-hp /520 lb-ft, 240-hp/560 lb-ft and 250-hp/660 lb-ft.