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So... so far, I have been able to meet my bento challenge goals, and other meals have been ok. BUT...for some reason I'm having such a hard time getting my butt off the couch and exercising! My main excuse is that it's so cold outside, and the streets are often slushy or icy, etc...but I have all kinds of indoors gear, from exercise videos to Wii Fit and Wii DDR. But I still can't get moving.
Anyone else having similar problems? What gets you moving?
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I'm having similar problems, yep. I have a great rowing machine right over *there*, and right now it has two boxes of root veggies, a cooler, 4 or 5 sweaters, a candelabra, and a potted Boston fern on it. Sigh.
I really Really REALLY need to get it uncovered, and get me on it. One thing that has gotten me motivated in the past is to keep track of how far I row. The maker of my machine, Concept2, is right here in VT, and I got some great 1-on-1 coaching from them a few years back, and even cooler, they have a pretty vibrant online community, including really cool tools for tracking distance, time, etc. And they have rocking challenges where you can win stuff like hats, buttons, t-shirts, and downloadable certificates. I'm a total sucker for data & swag :-)
So I think that after I finish reading the latest posts here, I'll mosey on over there and get reacquainted, and tomorrow I'll clean the damn machine off.
Are there any such online communities that might support you in your exercise efforts?
I still haven't found enough motivation to use my elliptical or my wii fit this year. I really have no excuses-I just don't want to get on them. I know that once I do, I'll feel good about it and I'll be happy I did, but just getting myself to get on it is the problem. I can come up with all kinds of excuses to myself that inevitably only make me feel worse about not doing it, but even that doesn't seem to motivate me. I even have two giant dogs that could use some walking, but it's so darn cold outside, I don't even want to take them out for exercise. I did finally dust off the thick layer of dust on my exercise equipment and I bought new batteries for the display screen, so I am thinking that counts for baby steps. Now I just need to get on the darn thing. ): Sorry, I guess I wasn't much help in getting anyone moving! If I come up with anything, I'll be sure to post it.
I can't exercise indoors. I lose interest and momentum.
Lots of my friends limit themselves to ONLY watching back seasons of their favorite series when training. No row machine (or elliptical or whatever), no Heroes (or BSG or Doctor Who or whatever). If you love TV enough and stick to it, it works.
I work on a campus that charges me $700 for a parking permit but doesn't guarantee that I'll find a parking place, so I ride my bike 7 miles to work every day. It turned out that this took me one-half hour, whereas taking the bus or train would inevitably take me 45 minutes to an hour, and I'd still have to walk at least a mile and sweat and have to gather myself at the office.
PS @ Mosaica - if you're a TV person, the restricting your watching of the back series of DVDs that you want to watch might help you with that machine!
PS @ Mosaica - if you're a TV person, the restricting your watching of the back series of DVDs that you want to watch might help you with that machine!
Don't know how practical this is for other people, but I stopped taking my car to the supermarket. I live 20km away from work, so walking or cycling to work is not really practical, but there are supermarkets 10 min 15 mins and 20 mins walk away from work, so I walk to a supermarket most lunchtimes. Because I go often I don't have to carry huge amounts of stuff, and it is soooo stress-free. No getting ratty with stupid people in the car park and traffic lights.
Another thing I did was something Sport Otago ran, but you can do it yourself. They had this initiative to get people out of lifts (elevators) and onto stairs, and called it "The Everest Challenge". They gave you a sheet of paper with a pyramid of 1000 or so (I think it was 997 or something) little boxes on it (this is what you'd have to make yourself, the bottom row was incomplete and had writing in the gap), each one representing one flight of stairs (3.5 metres on average). The idea was to climb the distance Ed Hillary (our national hero) climbed from Base Camp to the summit of Mt Everest in the same time he took to do it, i.e. 47 days. It averages 22 flights of stairs a day, but you can count hills you walk up too. You work out how high you climb hills by using www.mapmywalk.com. I amazed myself by actually completing it with a weekend to spare. Of course I had heaps of oxygen and didn't have to carry an enormous amount of equipment.
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That's a cool idea Bronwyn! I might have to try that sometime.
Maki, you're not the only less than motivated one at all! I finally dragged myself to the gym last night for the first time in a long while. My company pays for most of my membership fees as a benefit, so I had no excuse not to join, but making it a habit takes effort. I am so tired today (even though it's a good kind of tired).
In the past, things that got me moving were finding a class I really enjoyed, having a short term goal to work towards, and trying a new activity. It's harder to get re-started though. My main motivation now is arthritis in my hips that will flare up if I don't exercise. My mother (who is 65) is really suffering with hers and will probably need a hip replacement at some point. I really don't want to age that way so I do try to get back on track every time I fall off. This has been such a rough winter though with illnesses and weather though!
Good luck!
Oh I've given up on that bit so far. I walked to work on the first day, but not done anything since. I find motivating myself to exercise is the hardest thing to do. When I work out the secret, I'll let you know!
We are lucky that it is summer here in New Zealand, so it's easy to find motivation to go outside for some exercise. But I just moved here a year ago from Ireland, where sunny weather is rare, so I know how hard it is to stay with an exercise programme when it's cold and wet and dark all the time.
I found that exercise DVDs really helped. My favourites were the Little Black Dress workout and the Hotpants workout. They were fun and kept me interested, but they made me sweat too!
Right now I am three weeks into the Couch to 5k running programme, which is great for beginners (it lasts nine weeks and has a defined goal to work towards) and is suitable for outdoor running or for a treadmill.
Good luck everyone with finding something that works!
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I find starting up a class of some sort will make you exercise as you have to go and you have a deffonate time set aside for exercise, compared to if you sign up for the gym or something were you have to make your self do it.
Motivation? I have to look for it, long and hard.
One of the big motivators for me is that my partner (who I adore) is a lot fitter than I am--former military, outdoor job that keeps him moving all day, plus less of a "snack reflex" means he weighs less than I do--and he's taller! So when we got a Wii Fit, I was determined to not fall more than a step or two behind him on any given game. I know if I don't get on the board and get my practice time in, he's going to advance faster and further than I do, which I don't want to have happen. Except in push-ups, so far, so good! I also invite friends over to try out the Wii Fit and practice with me. I consider it sharing the fun of good health.
In the summer, I ride my bike to work part way. I even put money down on a new bike for this next summer--extra motivation for me to get up early to get my bike time in!
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Wii Fit rocks! That's my motivation, at least in part, plus the fact it's amusing to watch other people play around on it while you're taking a break.
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this is going to sound insanely silly : ) We had a cd of army cadence (basically songs soldiers sing while running) that my dad has (somewhere) and I'd put it on our computer and get on our elliptical. Then, I'd usually start singing/clapping my hands along with it, which made it insanely fun. Then it was funny, because my family would wonder what I was doing, and always walk in on me while I was exercising, which I'd hate. Anyways, that's what kept me motivated for a good....week or so on our elliptical, maybe I should go find that tape again.
The key is music! Try doing cardio without some good tunes and its the worst! Pump up some music be it an ipod or a good stereo and it can really get you into that mood! Helps you keep going once you've started too :)
Something that's been helping me in these "I'd rather hibernate" months - is I just try for 10 minutes at a time. I put on some get me going music - a good 130 beats per minute and go for 10 minutes.
I'm also trying to get my hubby to exercise with me - so 10 minutes is how I get him working with me. (I suspect when I was able to out run him the other day in wii fit, it woke him up a bit. He's always been lighter and fitter than me. I'm in better shape and it won't be long until I'm lighter than he is.)
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Oh yeah, exerxise... I have Gym membership don't I. Mabye I should go. Or I could just eat this chocolate here. Yes, I think that's the best solution...
Seriously though, I'm unbeleivably lazy.
No car helps... I *have* to walk or ride my bike to go most places. Even a 2 mile walk to the yarn shop or the grocery store is something. I get very unmotivated when it hits about -15C tho, since it starts getting unsafe to go out. My real trouble is I never think to pick up free weights and work with them. I need to tho, since they're good for me, and they're something I can do when the weather is truly awful. And when I put in time with weights, it makes life a lot easier...
I find the main thing is have something you truly love to do. If I hated walking and biking, I wouldn't do them, not even if it was the only way to get food.
It's also a lot easier if you set a tiny goal, and make it the first thing to do in a day. I've been doing that with my spinning, since I want to spin enough yarn for a sweater. Doing 10 minutes a day, right when I get up has meant that I've spun maybe 50g of yarn towards that sweater over the past few weeks. I'll often do more than I "should" because I got started early.
I agree with lots of things said here - about exercise having a purpose. I have £40 a month merrily leaving my bank account every month for the gym - do I use it? No. However, since I started work in central London I realised it was more pleasant to cycle than take the tube and suddenly I'm exercising 3-4 times a week. I think I can only do it because it has purpose and saves me money. If there's any way you can incorporate something like this into your life - do it! Exercise has never been so...er.....easy?
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Heh, motivation is veeeery important... and almost always absent! >.<
I used to go to dance class and kickboxing class, but my mother refused to pay for them (and I've no money of my own; she took it all!) so I ended up having to quit. I'm supposed to start up swimming when spring comes around but that's still ages away, and I hate swimming anyway. I actually liked my dance classes, so I should really try find another one closer to home (so I can walk there too, and squish in more exercise!).
At the moment there is a treadmill downstairs, but... It's used for stacking suitcases ^^' We also have a rickety old-school exercise bike, so I got like 45min on that yesterday while reading The White Castle. I figure since my arms aren't really occupied, I might try to multitask and get something productive done.
Brownwyn, that's a really cool idea! I started counting my flights of stairs today, without really trying to squish in a lot of stairs ;) and I ended up with 30 flights anyway. I guess running around school from class to class helps. Anyway, I will count this as Day 1 and see how well I do ^_^
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My iPod is key when I'm walking. I download tons of free podcasts from NPR and listen while I'm walking. Music works, too, but I tend to lose myself more easily and walk farther and longer if I'm absorbed in a funny story or an episode of "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me."
I started with a 12.50 € stretching dvd (is stretching old fashioned?) I watched it (and practiced) only once (harder than expected) and decided that fast walking was a better exercise for me but here in Venice it is quite easy, I mean, I have to walk everywhere! It took me 25 minutes, today, to get to the bookstore and then back home another 20 but my body tells me it is not enought. can house-cleaning and bento-making be considered exercise?
I had an exercise mat (all my floors are wood, tile, or lineoleum, and the bed is a waterbed), but the mat got flooded, so I did my back stretches outside in the backyard. But then it got too cold, so hubby bought me another mat. Thank goodness, because stretching is how I get rid of back pain. Then I got some beginner Yoga CDs, and started those. Now I get a bit of soreness almost everyday from the stretches on the CD, so I'm motivated to stretch again to work out the soreness. Since I'm down there, I do a few other iso exercises too. Once I feel I'm in fairly decent shape again, I'm going to try a beginner's pilates CD next.
This is impractical, but I've been getting very good exercise running for office in a spring election. :) I've been going door-to-door gathering signatures to get on the ballot ... lots and lots of gentle walking, just what the obstetrician ordered for my preggers self.
I don't have cable at home but my gym has cable (and little TVs on each treadmill) so I try to time my gym time to shows I want to watch but can't. That keeps me fairly motivated to go!
Thank you for the chart, Bronwyn! I have printed it out and my team at work is going to see how quickly we can complete it as a group. Everybody wants to get a bit healthier so I think it's a great idea to work together on something :)
Good luck! You'll have to do it pretty much all on stairs in Christchurch, unless you live in the Port Hills. It was quite easy to do in Dunedin, even though I only work up two flights of stairs, because wherever I walk I can take a short detour up a hill.
It's definitely harder to "get going" in winter time. I was an anti-gym person for many years because I'd rather play tennis or something outdoor, but it's not something I can do alone. So I gave in and joined a gym. I'm paying more for a women-only, spa-like gym, and it's worth it! It'd be a waste of $ if I don't go.
(Tip #1) I go there after work on my way home, because I know if I go home first I will not want to go out any more.
(Tip #2) Mix it up. I only go to group exercise classes at the gym. Today might be cardio workout like kickboxing, and tomorrow might be yoga.
Enjoy the burning sensation of the muscles, and the cleansing sweat to purge all the pores of your skin. At least that's how I look at it.
Oooh thank you, Brownwyn ^_^
Well, the Wii Fit seems to work fine for me while it is cold outside.
Just try to stick to some of the more fun things like the skiiing or hoola hoop or... whatever you happen to find entertaining. The hardest thing is just bringing that darn balance board out. If you just can convince yourself to at least do the daily fitness test you should probably be able to take the next step and do a few minutes of the workouts.
I don't exercise, I just have hobbies that burn calories - like hiking or gardening or rollerblading (granted, I live in Florida so this is fairly easy). But, maybe if you did not call it exercise and just had fun - dancing and yoga work too.
I'm on the couch to 5K too. I'm going to run my first 5K on March 7. So I have to stick to it, that's my motivation. That and looking in the mirror, and not fitting into my jeans.
My motivation to get to the gym is my small-sized wetsuit. My motivation to stay at the gym is my ipod video. I download a movie, then watch it on the elliptical, and 60 minutes of cardio goes by really quickly.
I feel your shiver and match it with one of mine. Brrrrrrrr. The small drive to my gym is always hardest since I go in the mornings: no sunlight, sound of ice crunching beneath your sneakers, and huge bursts our clouds from between your lips as you struggle to find the car keys and hold your water bottle by its least cold parts.
This will be the second straight day for me. Not a huge accomplishment to anyone unless they realized how absolutely lazy I am. Then it's all-around gasps of amazement. LOL
To motivate myself, sometimes I'll sleep in my workout clothes, so I won't have to slog around the bedroom pretending to look ever so closely for that elusive sock of a pair. I also try to go to bed in time to allow at least 7-8 hours of sleep. I make it a ritual...like a nightly spa appointment. Each night it's wash and a choice of exfoliate/mud mask/mild tone and moisturize. All to a little mood music: Bach for the Bath. A few spritzes of lavender bedroom spray and I'm out like a log. Also, try and keep everything in one spot. The longer I look for something (keys, jacket, glasses, mp3 player) the more time ticks by until my lazy side starts arguing for us to just scratch this particular day and start over again tomorrow. This way I have no excuses.
One thing I like to do during the colder months, since I don't have motivation to run in the frigid temperatures, is jump rope. You can really get yourself moving with 10 minutes of jump-roping; the only problem is that it's pretty intense. One way to start off (this is what I had to do a few years ago) is do an extra bounce in between each slow turn of the rope. That way you don't hit yourself or mess up your cadence. Sorry if this doesn't help, because, as I said, it is pretty challenging to jump rope for even ten minutes.
I just think of one word : Bikini and there I go (to the gym).
My personal motto is : getting to the gym is half the battle.
Beach season is around the corner here in greece give or take 5-6 months but its a thought that keeps me going since I adore the sun and the beach. Well that and that if one is overweight it is much harder to take it off as time passes.....
For me, music is a wonderful motivator. At the gym, my workout machine of choice is the StairMonster. I get on it, put the music in my ears and I DANCE. No plain stairsteppin' for me, no way. I swing my arms and well, it really looks like I'm on a dance floor. I may look strange, but I don't care. This is MY journey and it is something that works for ME. Many moons ago, when I had an apt with more space, I'd put on all kinds of music and just let it move me. I love to dance.
I had a heart problem last year so I have to wear a heart monitor when I exercise. I go to the gym and have a trainer twice a week. I walk to and from work which is 15 blocks or so. Today my trainer had me walk up and down a flight of stairs three times. My heartrate went from 105-170... Still every day I'm getting stronger, so just keep on keeping on.
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Actually, I think a heartrate monitor is a great tool even for people who have healthy hearts. It really helps keep you in in an ideal target range for aerobic (fat-burning) exercise. I always wear one when I do exercise. (I actually did today, a bit, yay.)
I love sport! What makes me do it is to remimber the good feeling (plesure) I had at the end of the last session. I know that my day will be marvelous after it. It helps me finding new ideas when I'm facing a problem (specially jogging does that). To begin, I bought expensive shoes and stuff and forced me to do the best of it. It's worth it, exercice is a friend that don't betray you.
I have the same problem! A lot of it is finding time throughout the day to do it...I'm usually at school all day most days or at one of my two jobs or working on an art project...plus cooking, cleaning, etc. I can't seem to ever work in time to exercise. However, I recently bought a small (fairly cheap) recumbent exercise bike...for $120 it's nice and we just keep it plopped in front of our tv so if i have a few minutes and am watching TV, I can use that instead of just sitting there.
I got Wii Fit but barely play it (much less play my Wii period *disgruntled gamer*)...but i find its a good way to get started with exercising if you are trying to get a new routine.
However, I've learned that lifting weights is a good way to get your metabolism started... So i went out and bought a couple of small 2 lbs. dumbbells and brought over my fiances weight set he had. When I do work out, I do at least 10-15 mins of simple weight exercises, then i do the bike (i try to do 30 mins, but 15 is good too).
I also found some podcasts that make 30-60 mins casts of music just for work outs. I've found one for people who want to job/run, but since i don't like running (bad knees), i use it for my bike! It's up beat music and they change the BPM every few mins so you can go from a slower speed to a faster speed, kind of like circuit training, but not. haha.
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I have a bunch of gals at work that I "work out" with during lunch. We've been doing walk away the pounds dvds for 20-25 minutes every day M-F. I find that I'm much more "into" it if I'm leading others. It's weird. If it's just me, I'm not as into it and tend to shirk off. If others are there, I work out.
I really want a wii because of all the "active" games. I used to play DDR all the time at home, but when my tv broke, I got out of the habit. I have a new tv (and don't watch tv at ALL!) so I really have no excuse for not hooking it up and going at it, other than my living room is lacking space due to mom moving in and boxes being everywhere. I really need to get more organized~
One thing that really helps me (a couple of people have mentioned it) is instead of doing just "exercise" to do a sport or an activity that forces you to make a commitment. For example, I have fencing class every tuesday. I feel committed to going to fencing class because I have to pay for lessons, buy equipment, buy USFA membership, etc., but also there's a sense that if fencing is happening on Tuesday whether I go or not, I feel like I'm obligated to go. Even though fencing is a one-person sport, you have a club that you're beholden to and people wonder where you are if you just don't show up. (Team sports work well because you have a team you're beholden to, but personally, I find that I feel too responsible when there's a group of people who are relying on me so directly. In fencing, people will be upset if I don't show up, but at the same time I won't cause them to lose any matches.) Dance was mentioned by someone and that's another great one; dancing is mega fun, so you don't feel like you're "working" when you go to a dance. If you're doing a choreographed form of dancing, like jazz, tap or ballet, you have a "team" that keeps you coming. If you have a more "for fun" kind of dance like Contra, Square or Couples dance (e.g., Waltzing, Foxtrot, Lindy Hop etc), you'll keep going just because that kind of dance is so freaking fun. I always hate to miss Contra dance the second Friday of the month because I have an absolute blast.
I think in this country a lot of people fail at exercise because we think of doing it for it's own sake. Instead of thinking about exercise like going to the gym, I think it helps to center your exercise around an activity that involves exercising, be it dancing, fencing, basketball, eastern martial arts, whatever. (During the summer, gardening is a great one, too.) When there's competition or improvement involved (or fun) I think we're more likely to stick to it.
my little siberian husky is my exercise, she has mass amount of energy everyday. so everyday i take her out to walks and jogs and i sometimes do the husky sledge thing that those alaskan people do with my bicycle. hahah its fun for me and my dog.
for people who doesnt have a pet i think you should try and gear up in your work out clothes first and decide from there. usually for me i say to myself " since im already dress up working out, mine as well do it". good luck!
Hi Maki,
I made a decision along time ago about motivation, I just don't have much or any for that matter when it comes to physcial activity. I would always find a reason not to manage it into my daily schedule. So, I just accepted that I don't use my lack of motivation to contribute to my lack of pyhscial activity.
So, in order to get some physcial activity into my regimine, I do little things, like contract my abs almost all the time that I am standing or sitting. Do dips on a chair while I sit down, flex my arms as I am washing the dishings, hold one legged yoga pose as I am watching something cook on the stove or in the oven. Contract my abs and twist and hold them as I am sweaping or mopping the floors of my house. Contract and flex my glutes while laying in bed etc.
If I "work out" at home, I use my own body weight. So I do a few push ups, some glute work and lots of gradual stretching. This usually takes about five minutes of my day. Than I am done for the day and onto the next.
I am a lazy person and have lost my motiviation and desire to get physcial, but I must admit that it does not take alot to get into good shape it juse takes gradual and consistent effort. Even if my effort is not like it use to be. Training for me is part of my life, but it does not have to take up all my time and I don't really need special equipment to get into good physcial shape. Well of course when I train for a figure competition, weights and cardio are a must, but when I am just in regular mode, I fit in some sort of body activity through out my day. It helps feel a little better if I miss a "work out".
Hi there Bento-ers!
I'm planning on joining you after I have sorted out from our house move, tax return and trying to integrate my kitchen into my mothers. All of the recipes and bentos look so tempting!
About exercise, I have had numerous attempts at doing exercise at home (DDR), running (which I really don't enjoy), and yoga (which I love but seems to require a kick!). The only thing that really works for me is joining a dance class which has an ongoing choreography. A class (like ballet) which is just exercises and doesn't progress from week to week seems much easier to miss.
My main (and very calorie burning) class is flamenco and I hate to miss a class because then you have to catch up with the choreography when everyone has carefully learnt steps the previous week, and it is wonderful to do with other people around you, and you keep going much longer than you would think! It's managed to keep me going for 5 years now.
With the home exercise, it sometimes seems that it is daunting to aim to 'do an hour'. I often decide to 'just do ten minutes' and often carry on because I am enjoying it.
Hope that is helpful!
All the best
Two things keep me motivated to exercise year-round:
1. Signing up and paying for a sports event, such as a 10-k or 1/2 marathon. I don't have a lot of money, so paying good money to an event really forces me to train for it. And in training, finding a friend to meet up with at least once a week, preferably for a long run, forces me to stay committed. A long run on the weekend with a competitive friend ensures I train during the week so I don't get my butt kicked!
2. This may sound silly, but I search out fitness blogs, such as blogs by triathletes or folks who train others. Reading about what other people are doing and how much they enjoy it, seeing their photos or the goals they've reached, reminds me of how good it feels to exercise and get that endorphin rush. Reading fitnessfixation.com, a slightly crass (but amusing!) blog by a female personal trainer, is what got my butt to the gym last night! I also recommend athenadiaries.blogspot.com as a good blog by a plus-sized athlete who kicks butt (she does Ironmans) but also regularly struggles to keep off the weight and stay in shape.
Also, having two dogs who look at me accusingly when we don't go on regular hikes at least gets me outside once a week for sure.
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I had a bad dream that my apartment shared a communal area with corrupt police officers that I had to see every day and I realize is in that New York City I mean we're living in a city with corrupt NYPD.
Anyway corporate counsel light under Mayor Bloomberg and they're lying under the mayor I thought that would bring change but is callous corrupt and only cares about the oligarchs of New York, his pals, and a few key issues that if he didn't speak up he would look like a Republican.
Zachary Carter sending Catherine Papandrew and she decided to use me my lawsuit as a source she says somewhere but she doesn't say what page I even said that NYPD acted in their scope so in the very beginning of my appeal I'm going to say on the front page of my lawsuit it says I don't have their badge numbers so why didn't she "that and page after page where I say I was coerced they lied and police reports and I backed it up with evidence and any oral argument I said corporate counsel has audio of NYPD sergeant Chen turning me away when I try and report Dr Andrew Fagelman's violent lying attack receptionist her false cross complaint a crime filed 2 days after me. She said that she knowledges of a patient she knew I was a patient that she had a heated argument with me and that I attacked her and pushed her to the ground and the video with over 450,000 views proves that she filed a false cross-complaint two days after me and that NYPD d she said that she'd knowledges him a patient she knew her as a patient that she had a heated argument with me and that I attacked her and pushed her to the ground in the video with over 450,000 views proves that she filed a false cross-complaint two days after me and that NYPD Det Vergona threaten to Air Force arrest me with a false cross complaint which I pointed out to him at the time.
He told me he work for the police department. This was a detective he told me he didn't care if I had two black eyes he refused to meet me to see the injuries he lied and police reports he was doing fixing in favors like his Facebook friends from the 1st Precinct you knew me or knew of me and we're laughing just like in the audio of Jose La Sale , like supervisors, Det Vergona - when I couldn't locate him last year to serve him because the NYPD legal refused service andthere he was Facebook friends with the corrupt detective for my attacker who did fixing in favors detective Andy Dwyer and his Facebook friends with the first cop I ever reported to Internal the 1st Precinct does fixing in favors for the rich I don't know if they get invited to parties words about donations or if there's money exchanged, Viagra, painkillers, fake prescriptions for human growth hormone which is banned by the I have no idea?
An error occurred.
I asked Detective John Vergona who is going to false arrest me for running punched my head after a violent threat to slap the crap out of my ass all omitted from his police reports so he could fabricate athird-degree assault which is a desk appearance on the Sabbath Saturday 4pm are you anti-Semitic? He could've have said no but he did not. I believe he is anti-Semitic and he couldn't say the truth yes because there was someone Jewish in earshot!
I believe what was done to me will be documented in films, books on corruption including NYPD corruption and 3 police commissioners, 2 Chiefs of Detectives, Internal Affairs Charles Campisi and Chief Reznick covered up a pile up of crimes because they don't like me and they made sure to not investigate who called me a cunt threatened to bury me and destroy me and I will address this in my appeal since Catherine Papandrew said they did an investigation and I will point out how the detectives and supervisors never met with me, we have audio proof Sgt Chen refuses to meet with me after admitting Delita Hooks false cross complaint is a crime and I had a right to report it.
How could the NYPD do an investigation when they refused to meet me and only met the rich MD and his attack receptionist after his violent lying employee filed a false cross complaint.
When the private investigator asked Dr Andrew Fagelman did you talk to the NYPD he said NO COMMENT because he knew if he told the truth he would incriminate himself so I will be getting in to the investigation that was not done and crimes committed from the MD's to the NYPD and Internal Affairs protecting those pile up of crimes AND HOW THE NYPD AND INTERNAL AFFAIRS NEVER INVESTIGATED THREATENING A VICTIM DURING AN OPEN INVESTIGATION A MISOYGNIST HATE CRIME -- THE EMAIL TO DET VERGONA WHERE I ASK IS THIS WITNESS TAMPERING MAYBE BECAUSE THE NYPD KNEW IT WAS JOE TACOPINA AND THEY WERE SO GRATEFUL
THE NYPD DET SQUAD ALSO WANTED TO PROTECT JOE TACOPINA IF IT WAS HIM AND I AM RIGHT BECAUSE HE GOT OFF THE NYPD RAPE COP WITH HEROIN IN HIS LOCKER AND THEY TOOK HAVE PLANTED DRUGS? THEY TOO HAVE PREYED ON DRUNK WOMEN WHICH IS RAPE SO THEY WERE THRILLED WHEN THEY SAW THE THREATS TO BURY ME, DESTROY ME, TURN THE TABLES ON ME AND DET VERGONA, HIS PARTNER WHO'S NAME I DO NOT HAVE, DET ANDY DWYER AND HIS PARTNER THEIR SUPERVISORS DI ED WINKSI, LT ANGELO BURGOS, SGT CHEN ALL IN ON IT AND CHIEF BOYCE AND LT ROY KNOW AS DO THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS THAT THERE WAS A PILE UP OF CRIMES FROM THE DR ANDREW FAGELMAN'S TO THE FIRST PRECINCT TO 1 POLICE PLAZA and like the activist Jose LaSalle they are covering up in your face retaliation. In my case it was fixing, favors, retaliation and fabrication of a mutual assault when it was menacing -- she should never have come out from behind that desk to stalk me as I tried to get help and Dr Vine my MD that removed the cyst on my elbow -- injected my elbow twice with numbing injections was in with another patient.
My arm was numb, I was holding bags on my left should and holding my iPhone with my right hand as I became a human piñata as I backed away but Det Vergona lied and lied in his police reports and they all had a good laugh -- as Det John Vergona said I don't care if you have 2 black eyes.
I had a hole in my retina, floaters in both eyes from Delita Hooks repeatedly yanking my head by my hair, cervical damage and she even touched my vaginal area with her barefoot after throwing her shoes ALL OMMITED FROM DR JOHN VERGONA'S POLICE REPORTS SO NOW YOU KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT TOP NYPD BRASS LIKE BOYCE WHO ALSO KNOWS THE DOCTOR'S OFFICE LIED DURING AN OPEN INVESTIGATION. Top NYPD Brass and IA know I was threatened but that is how NYPD with IAB's protection and top brass's ok lower crime stats as well as dole out retaliation make crimes disappear.
I pray every violent liar everyone party to violence and lies gets their karma including my case.
Suzannah B. Troy (@suzannahbtroy)
.@NYPDONeill Joe Tacopina oggled me so I turned my iPhone on him asked y RAPES up underreported? Makesme confrontative Cunt NYPD protected fixing favors?
Suzannah B. Troy (@suzannahbtroy)
@NYPDONeill Ask Joe Tacopina if he contacted my attacker Delita Hooks, they, Dr Fagelman NYPD Det committed more crimes= 0crimes youtu.be/dh9TedhfthE
My Dad a decorated WW2 Vet and Scholar died knowing Ray Kelly's role in this and my Mom is in Hospice. I would like an apology and a settlement from the City of NY while she still is a live and recognizes me and she knows what was done to me.
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text: As the curator of Dolphin Discovery, I oversee the enrichment and health of our colony of Atlantic bottlenose dolphins! It's a privilege to be able to work with such intelligent and amazing creatures every day. From playtime to extensive research projects, no two days with our dolphins are the same! Outside of work, I love to hike and travel with my family and two dogs. Background What did you want to be when you were growing up? I always wanted to work with animals in some capacity, originally I wanted to be a vet. What did you study in school? Psychology. How did you get started in your field of work? I was lucky enough to have an internship out of high school at a research facility in Hawaii working with renowned animal behaviorist Dr. Lou Herman. From there I received a BS in psychology. Upon graduation I interned at 2 different facilities and was hired soon after. At the Aquarium I love what I do because... I have the opportunity to learn from these amazing animals every day and in turn share this wealth of knowledge I have been privileged to gain with all of our guests. After 17 years in the field, I am always learning things and constantly being surprised and challenged. Most memorable moment at the Aquarium Watching the birth of Foster from the underwater viewing windows. I have seen many calves born from the surface but never from an underwater viewing situation such as we are privileged to have here. Fun Facts Hometown: Chicago Favorite Animal: Dolphin of course! They are so similar to us in the their sense of community and building of relationships as well as in their understanding of advanced concepts, however they live in a completely different environment then we could ever dream of. Three things you never leave home without? Cell phone Wallet Pictures of my family If you could have lunch with anyone (alive or dead), who would it be? BF Skinner, as he is considered the father of operant conditioning which is the method we use to work with our animals in training. One lesson you wish you'd learned earlier in life? It is ok to make mistakes as it is all part of the learning and growing process. We learn by our success as well as our failures. Back to the Top


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"Triple Nickel" has to be one of the catchier nicknames to have come out of agricultural marketing circles in recent years.
Whether the nickname helped or not, Deltapine 555 BG/RR, as it is officially known, has caught on with growers because of its ability to produce a lot of cotton long after other varieties might have given up the ghost.
But, along with its reputation as the Timex "watch" of U.S. cotton, questions have also been raised about the Triple Nickel's fiber quality and whether those issues might offset some of the benefit of 555's phenomenal yield.
Looking better
Some of those doubts may have subsided this year, particularly in Georgia where the perception of lower fiber quality in the 2003 crop had led to reports of textile mills refusing to take cotton from the region. Bale recaps from the 2004 crop show substantial quality improvement over 2003.
"We've been pleased with what we've seen this year," says Steve Brown, Extension cotton specialist with the University of Georgia. "With four hurricanes bearing down on us this fall, we thought we might be in trouble."
Despite the effects of the high wind and heavy rains from Charley, Frances, Ivan and Jeanne, 85 to 90 percent of the 2004 Georgia crop has graded 41 or better, according to Brown.
"Strength is as good or better than last year, and staple is better than the last several years," said Brown. "On uniformity, we are toward the bottom of the list, but we're equal to Arizona. All in all, our fiber quality is better than last year."
Important numbers
Those numbers are important to farmers and to agronomists at Delta and Pine Land Co., because Deltapine 555 BG/RR was planted on almost 55 percent of Georgia's cotton acreage in 2004, according to estimates by USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service.
"The overall quality of Georgia cotton is improved despite all the storms we had," said Ken Lege, director of technical services for Delta and Pine Land's eastern region. "The quality has been overwhelmingly favorable."
Lege maintains that 555's quality was never as poor as it has been made out to be, citing bale recap sheets from a number of Georgia gins showing that 555's fiber quality was much improved over DP 458 B/RR, the variety it replaced, and on a par or better than competing varieties.
"There is no denying that variety selection plays a major role in determining all fiber quality traits; however there are many other management and environmental factors that affect fiber quality, many of which are poorly understood," says Lege.
"The recent studies conducted by Phillip Roberts at the University of Georgia regarding the effects of stink bug injury on fiber quality are quite astounding. This is really the first set of data ever gathered that show this insect's effects on fiber quality."
Fiber quality information for the last two crops from a number of gins in Georgia and Florida shows what a difference a year can make.
At BCT Gin, a large, three-county gin operation in southwest Georgia, bale recaps from the gin's Quitman County farms showed 555 produced higher strength and staple and lower micronaire than 458 in 2003. Uniformity was nearly equal for the two varieties.
Average loan rates
"All told, the 19,000 bales of 555 that went through the gin received an average loan rate of 54 cents or a 2-cent premium compared to a loan rate of about 53 cents for DP 458 B/RR," said Lege. "That's on top of the significantly higher yields for 555 in 2003."
The Southeastern Gin in Baxley, Ga., which ginned about 22,000 bales of 555, reported slightly higher staple and micronaire, but lower strength and almost equal uniformity compared to Deltapine 458 B/RR. Bales of 555 ginned at Baxley received an average of just below the base loan rate of 52 cents but about 50 points higher than 458.
The average discount of 42 points for the 22,000 bales of 555 at the Baxley gin was lower than the discounts of 100 to 250 points for competing varieties. But the discounts don't tell the whole story, according to Lege.
"The total value 555 offers growers more than makes up for any deducts," he notes. "That total value includes adequate fiber quality and proven 15 to 20 percent more lint yield plus better gin turnout than other commercial varieties."
Why was 555's fiber quality — and that of other varieties — better in 2004 than in 2003?
"We think there are two reasons," says Brown. "One, growers did a lot better job of managing stink bugs in 2004, and, two, there was a shift in the mindset of our growers. They got in a bigger hurry to get the crop out.
"Saying that there has been a shift in mindset may sound funny with the four hurricanes we had, but our growers decided back in the summer that they wanted to get their crop out faster," he said. "Many were still able to do that, despite the storms."
Research findings
Roberts' fiber quality research, which was included in a presentation on stink bugs at Cotton Incorporated's Crop Management Seminar in Robinsonville, Miss., shows that staple length, uniformity, strength, grade and micronaire all were improved when stink bugs were properly managed with insecticide applications.
"Fiber length and uniformity decreased as stink bug damage increased," Roberts said of the study, which used tagged bolls in plots at the University of Georgia Experiment Station at Tifton.
"Stink bugs can feed on bolls for up to 25 days, usually at a time when fibers are developing inside the boll," he noted. "So it makes senses that the feeding would affect fiber quality."
Some growers still aren't convinced about the quality of 555 and other transgenics that have become available in recent years.
"We saw a lot of short staple cotton in 1997 and in 1998," said an Alabama grower who asked not to be identified. "It was hot and dry in 1998 so we said that was the problem. But we have continued to have quality problems with Roundup Ready varieties.
"We started trending back to conventional varieties in the last two years and our staple started coming back."
Recaps from the grower's gin in central Alabama indicated that 555 had shorter staple, lower strength, higher micronaire and lower uniformity in 2002 and 2003. The final recap for the 2004 crop was not available at press time.
Brown said he was concerned that with the hot, dry conditions they experienced this past summer Georgia growers might see reduced quality in the variety they grew on 55 percent of their acreage in 2004.
Wasn't the case
But that wasn't the case, he noted, adding that the grade, staple and strength of Deltapine 555 and other varieties were much improved in 2004 compared to 2003.
He said he also agrees with statements that Deltapine 555 BG/RR represents an improvement in fiber quality over Deltapine 458, which was just as dominant in Georgia three years ago as 555 was in 2004.
"There's no question that 555 is better than 458 in terms of fiber quality," he said. "We're still not where we want to be, particularly with short fiber content where we have a ways to go. "But we're getting better, and we're working on it."
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text: Age 87, of QuincyCOLDWATER � Ronald Thayer Miner, 87, of Quincy, passed away Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012, at the Community Health Center of Branch County in Coldwater. He was born Oct. 8, 1924, in Hale, Mo., to Roger and Lucy (Silver) Miner. Ron attended Avalon High School and immediately following entered the Navy, serving on the USS Hancock Aircraft Carrier in the South Pacific for over three years during WWII.On April 4, 1947, he married Mildred F. May in Chillicothe, Mo. and she preceded him in death on April 2, 1975. In 1953, Ron moved with his wife and first daughter to Quincy to begin driving truck for commercial carriers, Acorn Building Components, and Graff Trucking, where he retired in 1981 at the age of 57.On July 31, 1977, Ron married Velma B. Ebert from Battle Creek and she survives. Ron thoroughly enjoyed vacationing in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan for hunting, fishing, and the tranquility. He was an avid fan of the Detroit Tigers and the Indianapolis Colts, and also a passionate follower of the daily politics and news. Ron and his first wife, Mildred, built a home in 1958, where he lived for 54 years and made many friends in the neighborhood.In addition to his wife, his survived by his two daughters, Rhonda Miner of Quincy and Darlene (Lee) Brown of Macomb; three grandchildren, Jessi Hinderliter of Coldwater, Chantal (Walworth) Hayes of Wichita, Kan., Trevor Brown of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; three great-grandchildren; two brothers, Sidney (Fern) Miner of Chillicothe, Mo., and Edwin (Laura) Miner of Deland, Fla.; stepchildren, Connie Boose and Alan Ebert and their children, Ashley Trick, Jon and Amber Zimmerman, and Matthew and Karolina Ebert. In addition to his first wife, he was preceded in death by his parents, sisters, and brothers-in-law. He will be missed by family, friends, and his devoted canine, Zoro.Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Friday at the Eagle Funeral Home-George White Chapel in Quincy with Pastor Marty Cobb officiating. Interment will follow in Lakeview Cemetery, Quincy. Visitation is scheduled Thursday from 5-7 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorials are suggested to the Branch County Humane Society or the American Cancer Society.To view this obituary or send condolences, visit www.eaglefuneralhomes.com.�


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Mythological Bird, 1958
43.4 x 38.2 x 16.5 cm
Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; Twomey Collection, with appreciation to the Province of Manitoba and Government of Canada
Davidialuk is known as a graphic artist, printmaker, and sculptor. He was one of the great Inuit storyteller-artists, and Mythological Bird (entitled by the collector, Jerry Twomey) is one of the most impressive sculptures in the WAG's Inuit collection. It is unusual within the artist's oeuvre due to its large size and fascinating subject matter. The work may refer to the story of a group of women who were transformed into the Earth's first gulls while their husbands were away hunting. The formal and symmetrical composition is monumental in its visual impact. The figure is divided vertically with a human arm, breast, and leg on its left side and the body of a bird on the right.
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Thunder in Paradise Interactive - CD-i Review
>> Wednesday, March 14, 2007
One of the biggest key-stones for the CD-i was the Interactive Movie. What kind of graphics could top real live action? It's a game genre American Laser Games was thriving on with the gun shooters like Mad Dog McCree and Crime Patrol. The best conversions were available on CD-i which were almost
on par with the Arcade versions. Also Philips was experimenting with
Interactive Movies and signed deals with companies like Paramount and Buena
Vista to develop interactive versions of movie licenses like Star Trek and
Jurassic Park. Unfortunately, this never happened because the life of CD-i
was over before these projects got off the ground. However, their first
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Paradise, an one-hour action-adventure TV series from the creators of Baywatch, which
stars Terry Bollea alias Hulk Hogan, Chris Lemmon and Carol Alt. This
first-run syndicated TV series originally premiered as a straight-to-video
feature in September of 1993, then ran for one season in 1994 before being
canceled. A huge project which could have started a change in the way we
play games.
Developer: Philips Point of View / Mass Media
Publisher: Philips Media Games
Release: 1995
Genre: Interactive Movie / Rail Shooter
Review date: March 2007
Required: Digital Video cartridge
Recommended: Peacekeeper Gun / Mouse
Extra: no multiplayer, age rating: >7
Commonly, movie licensed games nowadays are of mediocre quality. Limited budgets and fast development times prevent these games from being true classics. Philips clearly had a different vision in this, Thunder in Paradise is one of the most beautiful CD-i games ever created, and the 'interactive movie' genre was put to a new level thank to Thunder.
Thunder in Paradise follows the adventures of two ex-Navy SEALS, Randolph J. "Hurricane" Spencer and Martin "Bru" Brubaker, who work as mercenaries -for-hire out of their tropical resort headquarters along Florida's Gulf Coast. Using their futuristic, high-tech boat, nicknamed "Thunder," they travel around the world fighting various and sundry criminals and villains. However, they are forced to balance their dangerous undercover work with their responsibilities of raising widower Spence's young daughter Jessica, who lives with them.
Former model Kelly LaRue, who owns and manages the "Scuttlebutt Bar N' Grill" on the beach in front of the resort, looks after Jessica whenever Spence and Bru go on their missions. Kelly also serves as a romantic foil for Bru, who consistently fails miserably in his pursuit of her. Edward Whitaker, Jessica's uncle, owns the beach resort and makes semi-regular appearances in the series, primarily for comic relief.
The Thunder in Paradise pilot movie was filmed in and around the historic Don Cesar Hotel in St. Petersburg, Florida during April of 1993. When the series was picked up for a full season, the production company then moved to Disney-MGM Studios near Orlando, where the primary filming location became the Grand Floridian Resort at the Walt Disney World Resort. Other filming locations at Walt Disney World included Disney's Old Key West Resort, and EPCOT, used heavily due to the wide variety of futuristic and architectural styles available at that theme park. The destruction of the school featured in the two-part episode "Deadly Lessons" was an actual controlled demolition of a school building in Central Florida that the production company agreed to perform in exchange for filming rights.
When Philips entered the scene, they planned on a different course with the very last episode: "The M.A.J.O.R. and the Minor". Ironically this also ended life of Thunder in Paradise as well! The two-part episode "The M.A.J.O.R. and the Minor" was used as the basis for the Thunder in Paradise CD-Interactive game. In addition to the episode itself, additional footage was filmed for use at different stages in the game. Although video game tie-ins have been created for numerous TV series such as Star Trek: The Next Generation and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, this is the only time in TV history that an actual aired episode was written and structured to serve as the basis for a video game.
The title is based around three 'encounters', which you can either play individually, one after another, or integrated together with clips from the TV show as a sort of 'interactive television'. If you play them in order, the 'Thunder Encounter' is first. 'Thunder', of course, is the high-tech speed boat that is the star of the show, presumably the bastard child of the car from 'Knight Rider'. It talks, it shoots missiles, and when the heroes are in a hurry, they hit the 'hyper-speed' and the guys in editing speed up the beauty shots of the boat so they're really fast.
In the encounter, you're trying to shoot down an assault by missiles, planes, aircraft, etc. You see out one side of the boat, with a nicely-animated moving water effect, and have a radar screen at the bottom right that shows you threats on all four sides. To switch sides, you press button-two to rotate clockwise, or hold button-two and press the joypad to pick a side. Your basic weapon works like the cannons in 'Missile Command', by creating a brief explosion that destroys anything that flies into it. Given the speed at which missiles approach you, leading your targets is essential. You also have a limited number of long-range missiles that take out threats on the outer ranges of the radar, and a smart-bomb that elminiates everything close to the ship.
That you'll take some hits is a given. What this game is about is resource allocation. Shields on all four sides will protect the ship until they're gone, and even regenerate if they're defended well, so you can compromise a healthy shield if one side of the ship is exposed. It takes a little more thought than the average shooter, but it makes things more interesting. The sprite animation is surprisingly good for a CD-i title: it makes you wonder why Chaos Control had to use MPEG for everything.
The other two segments, the 'Island Encounter' and the 'Lab Encounter' are virtually identical to each other. You walk around a terrain that looks suspiciously like a stock location at Disney World (which technically, it is), with a set of on-screen cross-hairs, blasting the baddies as the pop up from behind various objects. It's more than a little like Mad Dog McCree or Escape from CyberCity, but far more playable. Instead of dying when you get hit, you lose health. That allows the designers to stock the locations to the gills with gunners, put them in tricky locations, etc. The action is fast and furious, and the concept is executed better than the American Laser Games like Mad Dog McCree.
Remarkably, the nasties aren't actors in same-place-every-time MPEG video. They're actually objects animated by the CPU, meaning they can show up in different places, a different order, or not at all, each time you play the game. And the animation is good enough that you can hardly tell it isn't MPEG. Gunners jump into the frame, roll out from under their cover, etc. And when hit, they don't just stand there smoking (Like in Infogrames' Chaos Control and Solar Crusade!), but disintigrate in a white-blue implosion. This technical feat alone is worth the price of admission. Nice that it makes the game more playable too!
Thunder in Paradise is no Doom or Rebel Assault, but it is genuinely fun, and one of the best no-brainer twitch-and-shoot games for the CD-i. If Chaos Control and Mad Dog McCree are your kind of game, save your money on both by buying this title instead.
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One of the best shooters you can play with the Peacekeeper Gun. Calibration is available just as in the ALG games, and it works perfectly. The CPU rendered bad guys create a far more intense experience than playing MPEG games like Mad Dog.
Graphics: 10
Over the top fantastic. The real acting is perfectly matching the animated enemies. Everything is very smooth and the locations are very interesting, colourful and full of tension. Nothing can beat real television but the rail system is limiting the free place for you to explore.
Sound: 7
The official soundtrack is nice and adds to the Interactive Television feel the game wants to create. For the rest the audio is there but not outstanding. Nerve stretching tunes will keep you on the edge of your seat once you're in the middle of the lab encouter. It's more about sound rather than music.
Playability: 9
VERY good. It tops other shooters like Chaos Control and Crime Patrol easily. The game is fast, responsive and fun. You can't go wrong with Thunder in Paradise.
Value: 8
It's a perfect add the enemies are not in the MPEG layer but animated seperately by the CPU. This way every game will be different and enemies won't go the same route every time over and over again. The game itself, however, is very short, and over within an hour if you beat everything once. You'll be left wanting for so much more, but the overall game experience makes you forget how short the game really is. It's better to have a fun short game rather than a dull long one, don't you think?
Overall: 9 (not an average)
There's no rail shooter on CD-i, 3DO or Jaguar better than Thunder!
Similar games on CD-i:
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Market research methods
You can find out more about the customers you are trying to reach if you use market research effectively. You have a choice of different methods, depending on what your product or service is and how much time and money you are able to spend.
When conducting market research, you may be trying to study:
- Attitudes — how a respondent thinks or feels about something
- Behaviours — what actions the respondent has taken or plans to take
- Demographics — such as age, income level, and gender
- Firmographics — the characteristics of an organization
Here is a list of some popular approaches, with information on when and how to use each most effectively.
Table of Contents
Surveys involve asking a series of questions to a sample of the target population that is large enough to be statistically valid. Surveys generally offer primarily closed-ended questions, although some open-ended questions may be included. Surveys can be administered by mail, telephone, email, Internet or in person.
Best uses
- Develop a profile of your users:
- Identify client segments
- Determine client characteristics
- Validate or prioritize customer needs
- Assess client satisfaction
- Gauge customer awareness:
- General awareness about your business
- Post-advertising campaign awareness
- Track changes in attitudes and opinions
- Ensure that your sample size and composition are appropriate:
- Be clear about whether you are sampling the public, your target audience or clients, or a sub-segment of any of these.
- Use one or more qualifying questions to ensure participants fit the target audience profile for your survey.
- Always pre-test the questionnaire with a selection of users to ensure that the questions are clear and do not take too long to complete.
- Specific considerations for online surveys:
- Online surveys should take only five minutes (ideal) to fifteen minutes (maximum) to complete.
- Users self-select; so, you may wish to have a question that categorizes them and removes the results from those that do not fit your sample. For example, if you want to gauge the information needs of clients who have used your products, but 25% of survey respondents have never used your product, it may be appropriate to exclude the results of the non-users from your survey results.
- If you are using an online survey, enable an invitation to participate in the survey. This can include a link on your website or an "intercept" that interrupts website visitors and invites them to take the survey. Note that you should invite users to take the survey when they have finished visiting your website, not when they start.
- Put measures in place to ensure that the survey is live, functioning and capturing the data.
- Specific considerations for telephone surveys:
- Telephone surveys should be limited to a maximum of 15 to 20 minutes.
- Ensure you have adequate systems/software for capturing data.
- Types of survey questions
Examine different kinds of closed-ended and open-ended questions that can be used in surveys.
Focus groups
Focus groups are moderated group interviews and brainstorming sessions that provide information on users' needs and behaviours.
Best uses
Focus groups can be useful for the following types of discussions:
- Exploratory — Obtain information on general attitudes, understand the circumstances under which customers might require your product or service (triggers), understand their desired outcomes, and so on.
- Feature prioritization — If trade-offs have to be made among various customer needs, focus groups can be helpful in prioritizing them.
- Comparative analysis — Understand where else customers go to get similar information, services or products and what attracts them to those sources.
- Trend explanation — If you notice a trend in the way that customers use your website (for example, they always use the search function rather than navigating through the structured product list), then focus groups can be used to better understand why this is happening.
- Limit the length of the session to between 90 and 120 minutes.
- Generally, conduct focus groups with 8 to 10 participants per group (recruit 10 to 12 participants to ensure that 8 to 10 show up).
- Use a knowledgeable moderator who can manage group dynamics, probe skilfully to obtain deeper understanding of issues and capture a broad spectrum of opinions.
- Use a semi-structured or open-format discussion.
- Strive for uniformity in the group's composition. For example, it may not be advisable to have business customers and retail customers in the same focus group, if their needs are very different.
- If you feel that group influence is likely to be a strong factor (participants will be influenced greatly by what others are saying), then personal interviews or smaller groups may be an option to consider.
Personal interviews
Personal interviews are semi-structured discussions with an individual. They include open-ended questions where the interviewer can probe further to understand underlying perceptions and behaviours.
Best uses
Personal interviews are a more expensive alternative to focus groups and are generally used in the following situations:
- The topic is too personal or sensitive to be discussed in a group, or confidentiality of the participant is required.
- A person's opinion may easily be influenced by others in the group.
- It is as important to learn as much about what people don't know about a subject, as what they do know. In a group setting, knowledgeable participants may inhibit less knowledgeable ones from participating.
- Logistic problems may make groups impractical. For example, if participants are geographically dispersed, travel time and costs may be prohibitive.
- The interview subjects are executives from competing firms who would be reluctant to open up in a group situation.
- The interview subjects are busy and it is difficult to schedule group sessions, or it is important to visit interview subjects individually at their convenience.
- It can be helpful to use a list of mostly open-ended questions to be asked in person or by telephone.
- An in-depth interview gives participants the opportunity to express their views.
- Interviews typically last from 15 to 40 minutes, but they can last longer, depending on the participant's interest in the topic.
- This technique allows the interviewer to get detailed descriptions of individual experiences.
Task analysis
Task analysis seeks to understand the thought process and actions of participants in order to improve the design of a website or tool. The participant is given a specific task to perform, and the interviewer observes and notes where the participant runs into problems and where he or she is successful. It is different from usability testing, as it is not testing the usability of a website.
Best uses
Task analysis can be helpful in understanding how people currently use your website (or other websites). Using this approach, the participant is given a specific task to perform. For example, buy a particular product or find the location of a nearby store that sells your product.
- This process is more specific than contextual inquiry in that it directs the participant to use a specific website for the task.
- The interviewer can observe the participants as they try to find things and note where they run into problems or are successful.
- Some of the things that the interviewer should observe or ask include the following:
- What do participants see as options at any point in the task?
- How do participants choose one option over another?
- Do participants go back and change directions? If so, why?
- What problems are encountered and how are they handled or corrected?
- What do participants need to know to be able to complete the task?
- What do participants get at the end of the task? Does this meet their expectations?
- What is the sequence of steps that participants take in order to complete the task?
- Do all participants take the same approach to completing the task?
- Another approach involves recording five key elements for every action taken by the participant. These are:
- Purpose of the action
- Cues — What prompted the participant to take that step?
- Objects used in the action — Which documents or tools were accessed to complete the action?
- Method — What is the action?
- Options — What other actions were available to the participant at that point and how did this action get chosen?
All of this information can be used to draw process diagrams and illustrate the processes and approaches used by participants. You may find that several common approaches were used.
Usability testing
Usability tests are structured interviews that focus on the usability of specific features of a website or other user interface.
Best uses
Usability testing is best used to evaluate prototypes of planned websites or planned changes to an existing website. It is used to evaluate the interface and to note any problems faced by users, in order to give feedback to developers.
- Decide when to test:
- In order to be as effective as possible, usability testing should be an iterative process that is integrated into the development process.
- Developers can create a prototype which is tested with users. User feedback is incorporated and the next version is tested. This continues until users are able to use the functionality with ease.
- The testing cycle can begin with very rudimentary prototypes (for example, paper diagrams) and advance throughout the development process to get closer to a fully functional prototype. This iterative process should save development time, because issues can be resolved on paper before any coding takes place.
- Create tasks that represent typical user activities and ask the user to complete the task.
- Observe the approach that the users take, the problems they face, whether they are successful in completing the task, and how long it took to complete the task.
- Ask users to talk through their thought process as they make decisions or run into problems.
- If possible, usability sessions should be videotaped to allow developers to review the sessions later to further analyze problems that the user faced.
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The monthly Downtown Concert Series returns to the Veterans Park in Shelbyville on Saturday – but with a slight twist this year.
The concerts only will be held on Saturday nights, but they will feature the same music, food, prize drawings and other events that have been staples of these popular events in the past.
Eilene Collins, executive director of Shelby Development Corporation, which organizes and sponsors the series, said the elimination of the Friday night concerts, which were held at the public parking lot in the 600 block of Main Street, was simply about low traffic.
"[It was] primarily the attendance at the Friday night venue and fatigue of faithful
Presbyterians who cooked," she said. "The Friday night concert will be held on July 26
at 627 Main."
She said she hopes the Presbyterians will continue to cook for the events on Saturday, which are at 7 p.m. at the corner of 5th and Main Streets. Opening night features Ralph Curtis and his All-American Band.
Shelby County Magistrate Hubert Pollett has for years sponsored the musical acts for the events, and he's the person who chooses and schedules them.
"Hubie Pollett and I sit down with calendars to attempt to avoid conflicts with the county fair, high school proms, etc." Collins said. "Mr. Pollett selects the musicians."
This year's lineup features some perennial performers, including New Breed, Hard Rock City and Shelbyville native Will Husband.
The concerts also will be part of the Shelbyville Horse Show Jubilee on July 26-27, and they will join with the Shelby County Car Club to have cruises of vintage vehicles on Main Street on July 27 and Sept. 7.
Collins said sponsorships are in place for all nights.
"We have a larger than usual number of one-half sponsors this year," she said. "All of the events have sponsors at this time."
The drawings for downtown gift certificates will be held again: at 8 p.m., $200; at 9 p.m., $300; and at 10 p.m., $500.
Concert lineup
All concerts 7 p.m.
Saturday, Ralph Curtis and his All American Band
June 29, ACT III
July 26 (6 p.m.), Will Husband
July 27, Nobodyz Bizzness (with Shelby County Car Club show as part of Shelbyville Horse Show Jubilee)
Aug. 24, New Breed
Sept. 7, Hard Rock City (including car cruise).
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This blog discusses current weather, weather prediction, climate issues, and other topics
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Unstable Air and the Northwest Weather Workshop
Believe it or not, the sun is actually getting fairly strong (the sun's strength today was the same as late August!!!), so the surface is getting quite a bit of solar radiation when the sky opens up. And the day is quite long now (like late August!).
Now the result of cold air aloft, but warming at the surface is that a large difference in temperature develops with height. In the business, we call that a large temperature lapse rate.
So why do we care about this? Well, when the lapse rate gets large enough the atmosphere can get unstable and it starts to convect. This is exactly what happens when you make hot cereal by the way (and if you don't eat hot cereal, you should, it is good for you). You put the a saucepan on the burner and when the vertical lapse rate because large enough the cereal starts to convect....some moving up and some moving down. Add some brown sugar...
Or you can see convection take place in a Lava Lamp--which those growing up in the 60s and 70s will remember well. Heating the lower portion causes colorful blobs to rise and then fall. Here is a video of one for the younger crowd:
People frequently ingested illicit substances while watching such displays, but meteorologists have no need for such aids--the convection is more than enough.
On these cool spring days you can watch the atmosphere go unstable--either by keeping your eyes on the clouds or by viewing one of the many cam videos--
My department has a good one:
By the way, spring is typically the most unstable time of the year around here. The atmosphere takes time to warm up and spring often brings some of the coldest temperatures aloft, while the strengthening sun causes the surface to warm up more quickly.
So put on a warm sweater and enjoy the convection...it is a great show, with some of the cauliflower-shaped cumulonimbus rising several miles into the sky.
Finally, let me note that the big local meteorological gathering of the year will occur on May 13-14th...the NORTHWEST WEATHER WORKSHOP. Meteorologists from throughout the Northwest gather to talk about the latest in our regional weather and layfolk (like most of you) are very welcome. Topics will include everything from radioactivity from Japan and the latest on the new radar and local modeling, to a panel discussion of the use of social media to communicate weather information.
The web site for the meeting, which included the agenda, is found at
You can register for the meeting and/or the Friday-night banquet if you are interested.
18 comments:
- Ron said...
Although I know the concept of "lapse rate" I do not know what "lapse" means or more specifically what its derivation is.
- April 17, 2011 at 9:05 PM
- Lance said...
I want a sunny and 70 degree day so badly!!! The clouds were definitely fun to watch today, though.
- April 17, 2011 at 9:43 PM
- ponydogwoman said...
Thanks! It has been cold, but your perspective cheered me up.
- April 18, 2011 at 6:38 AM
- Angela said...
The first swallows arrived at my house this morning. I'm going to be very upset if they die in a late freeze :(
- April 18, 2011 at 8:57 AM
Cliff, it might be of interest to your readers to learn about the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO)if you haven't already covered this topic. PDO is another long term climate cycle that also may be playing a role in our unusually cool spring.
- April 18, 2011 at 9:18 AM
- Tony said...
Got my 1st sunburn of the year (on a sailboat) yesterday. Cool temp fooled me. Thanks for including the explanation of the sun as strong as in August.
- April 18, 2011 at 9:53 AM
- Tom said...
I've hardly even noticed the longer days. It's been so cold, damp, and depressing that I haven't even been outside much in the evenings.
I have a backyard observatory that hasn't been open to the night sky since February 1st. I have the wrong hobby for this area. It used to get a lot more use, but the last few years it's been getting worse.
- April 18, 2011 at 10:02 AM
- Kenna Wickman said...
Snow is mixed in with rain here over in Kingston. 39F. Doesn't feel like April.
- April 18, 2011 at 10:18 AM
- Don said...
Since it's hailing outside today, I found this on the komo4.com website that sums it up best…
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- April 18, 2011 at 10:30 AM
This was hilarious. Oh, and informative.
- April 18, 2011 at 10:51 AM
- Ruaraidh said...
If you want to see lapse rate in action go to tiger mountain on a partly sunny spring and see paragliders 6000ft in the air!
- April 18, 2011 at 7:45 PM
- wfm_seattle said...
There is a "Cult of the Lapse Rate", otherwise known as glider pilots, who call in sick on sufficiently unstable days. We seek rising thermals the way that surfers seek waves. When you catch a good one, it's a heck of a ride. This one at Tiger Mt last week took me up nearly 2,000' in two minutes:
- April 18, 2011 at 10:11 PM
- wfm_seattle said...
There is a local "Cult of the Lapse Rate" otherwise known as glider pilots, who call in sick on sufficiently unstable days. We seek thermals the way surfers seek waves-- when you catch a good one it's a heck of a ride. Like this one on April 8 that took me up 2,000' in two minutes.
- April 18, 2011 at 10:14 PM
- Targhee said...
Wild evening here in north Tacoma, near UPS. Around 830pm (Monday 4/18) In the space of ten minutes we had: heavy rain, graupel, graupel and snow, all snow (for several seconds), then lighter rain (for a few minutes). A couple miles away..nothing. If you were not watching, you would have missed the whole thing.
- April 19, 2011 at 6:49 AM
- Harrison said...
34F on my drive into PSNS today. Very cold. Great spot on KOMO1000 News Cliff. Good stuff. Keep up the bloggin.
- April 19, 2011 at 9:46 AM
- Ansel said...
Tony (and all sun lovers), Remember the sun's UV strength has nothing to do with temperature. It basiclly depends upon three things, even given a clear day. It depends most importantly on the sun's altitude (height above the horizon), it depends on the observer's altitude above sea level, and it depends on the ozone density in the upper atmosphere. This is usually lower in the tropics, other things equal, but it doesn't vary much at a given location. A good general rule is, if your shadow is shorter that you are the sun's UV intensity is a force to be reckoned with. Or you can check the UV index.
- April 19, 2011 at 11:42 AM
- John said...
Cliff, you inspired me to set up a webcam and look at the unstable air... and wow, it really worked!
Even a mini-anvil shape to a cloud and I believe a cold downburst that instantly puts a line of dark clouds in view??/
- April 19, 2011 at 5:12 PM
- sands said...
Another time lapse on the 18th ...same day over Kirkland ...the view from 'Viewridge'
- April 19, 2011 at 9:59 PM