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Greetings, sports fans :-) Before I get into the forecasting, I just wanted to give a big shout-out to the great football seasons of our local teams that made it all the way to the state championships. Fairview (A) and Belfry (AAA) in Kentucky, as well as Wahama (A), Wayne (AA), and Cabell-Midland (AAA) in West Virginia. It was quite a strong showing for the area. In the end, The Wahama White Falcons won their first state championship with an overtime victory, and the Wayne Pioneers dominated the entire season for their 2nd consecutivie state title. And with that, the high school football season is at an end-- where did all the time go.
One of the oddities about it is that now that the season's done and we're into December, December itself isn't really showing up. I know a lot of folks have been enjoying the warmer than normal temperatures, but it's precisely the opposite that should be riding in for the days before Christmas, you know?
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I've drawn in the orange arrows to show that there's a whole lot more warmer air heading northward these days than cold air coming southward. We've got a northern-track jet stream these days, seemingly balancing out the pattern that marked our late October and early November. Today is a day that showers are coming in, though they won't represent a whole lot of rainfall.
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A nice initial piece of rain comes in later this afternoon, but then fades somewhat beyond that as the good energy takes off to the north leaving us only with stragglers. In the end, it's not going to be a lot for the dry ground.
As discussed before, we do have another shot at rain for Tuesday night into Wednesday, but this one also looks to be a quick-mover that lacks cold air.
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The cold air is still locked up at the Canadian border, and the connection to the Gulf of Mexico moisture fetch falls apart when the front makes it to the Appalachian Mountains-- typical stuff. It's the sort of thing that makes me find a silver lining in that if we have to deal with non-wintry weather and unseasonably mild temperatures, then we might as well get it in and out at the beginning of the month and still have hope for the Christmas side of the month. At least, it sounds good when I say it out loud ;-)
Check out those 7-Day temperatures below. Remember, for this time of year, our afternoon highs are supposed to be in the low-to-mid 50s.
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As the tragedy in Norway provokes speculation about the threat of home-grown right-wing extremism in the U.S., here's a stark reminder that our most common form of domestic terrorism is alive and well.
Holly Morgan, director of media relations and communications for Planned Parenthood in Dallas, said their McKinney health center located on Eldorado Parkway was "attacked" between 10 and 11 p.m. Tuesday with an incendiary device.
The person or persons involved in the attack threw a Molotov cocktail, consisting of diesel fuel in a glass bottle with a lit rag, at the building. Morgan said the device did not penetrate the front of the clinic but did cause some serious damage.
Although the media often shies away from calling anti-choice terrorism what it is, two recent profiles highlight the risks that abortion providers face–and the way that anti-choice harassment, threats, and occasionally actual violence are clearly designed to intimidate doctors out of providing abortions.
Dr. Mila Means is attempting to become the first doctor to provide abortions in Wichita, Kansas since the late Dr. Tiller was murdered two years ago. She has endured ceaseless harassment at work and her home, had her personal history posted on the internet, and received a car bomb threat. Anti-choice activists have vowed that any doctor who tries to offer abortions, even early ones like Means, will face protests "beyond anything anyone could imagine." Operation Rescue president Troy Newman says, "We will ensure that this community remains abortion free."
Meanwhile, Dr. LeRoy Carhart, one of the only remaining later-term abortion providers in the country, has become a main target for anti-choice extremists. After Nebraska passed a clearly unconstitutional ban on abortions after 20 weeks, Carhart started traveling each week to provide abortions at a clinic in Germantown, Maryland. Operation Rescue basically followed him there and set up shop across the street. Carhart, whose entire farm was burned down by anti-choice terrorists early in his career, says he never stays at the same hotel twice or takes the same route to work, because the "the biggest part of security is not being predictable."
Carhart's Germantown clinic will face even more harassment than usual as the Summer of Mercy 2.0 gets started this Saturday. The original Summer of Mercy targeted Dr. Tiller's clinic in 1991 and had a permanent impact on the community. If you're in the area, you should definitely join the Summer of Choice to stand against anti-choice intimidation and show support for Dr. Carhart, his staff, and his patients.
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i got a 283 and heads were separate and i can't find the casting number online anywhere. they say 378450?:confused:
Are you sure they don't say 376450? If they do they are mid/late-70's to early 80's 265/305 heads if I'm not mistaken. Had a set myself and I think mine were off a 265. Small valves and combustion chamber. Try googling 376450 as I'm just going off memory and it's been 10 years at least since I had those heads. Hope this helps.
They are low perf 305 heads.
They will run on your 283 but don;t expect much power.
If you want power froma 305 head on a 283 get some #4416 heads
and home port them 1.94x 1.60 valves help too.
Vortec heads work very well on 283's too.
mill .040" off the decks and install with a thin felpro 1094 gasket.
the 450 casting heads will be lame on any motor including 283's.
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Also found on the ZZ4 350/355hp crate motor.
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I've heard Vortec heads are bad about cracking? I need to send the engine to a machine shop. anyways any ideas or engine combo's like pistons and such would make a good street engine?
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The Dallas Mavericks have a ton of cap space and will be big players in free agency. They're reportedly heavily pursuing Carmelo Anthony, and would be interested in LeBron James if it weren't for reports that he is not leaving Miami.
Despite that, LeBron's agent will field calls from a few teams and the Dallas Mavericks are on the short list.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88273604120596127552014-10-03T01:14:05.951-07:00Beautiful But DumbAn Information Architect's view of the world.Hana email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827360412059612755.post-46990954246685814782012-02-07T10:57:00.000-08:002012-02-07T10:57:04.143-08:00Really, NYC? More Hackathons?NYC released some information today about the city's attempts at becoming a premier digital city, including the city's "Roadmap for the Digital City" which is apparently something the Chief Digital Officer, Rachael Sterne, put together. What's wonderful about the roadmap is that it outlines perfectly why New York's approach is completely backward, and how the Mayor's Office (and the Chief Digital Offficer) have a fundamental misunderstanding of what it means to be a digital city.

Here's the roadmap:

Let's look at it point by point.

1. Industry: A vibrant digital sector
This is where the Mayor's office spends a lot of time talking about how New York City encourages digital industry, by which they mean they want a lot of tech companies to be based in New York. That's lovely, but it has nothing to do with being a "digital city." Right now is New York a "banking city" or a "legal city?" We may be a financial world capital, and we may have a lot of top laws firms and be home to a range of other industries, and sure, digital should be one of those industries, but what does that have to do with digital city initiatives? Should being a digital city mean that citizens have access to premier digital services, not that a lot of the office buildings are taken up by companies working in the digital sector?

Which brings me to my second pint - there isn't really a digital sector. Having worked in digital for my entire career, I can assure you that each client is housed within it's very own industry. I've worked on booking apps (transportation industry), health care sites (Health Care/Pharma industry), financial sites (Financial Services), clothing sites (Retail), and so on. Every project has in common that it's on a digital device, but beyond that what actually makes each project separate and unique are the challenges each industry faces. So while it might be very hot and of-the-moment to say that NYC grows digital businesses (and here everyone is constantly pointing to Seamless Web, as though it's the only web site idea to ever come out of NYC) every digital business is actually based in a completely different industry.

2. Open Government: Technology & Culture
We hear a lot about open government and open data, which for the uninitiated means that the government allows anyone to access government data in order to build an app using that data. Setting aside something I recently heard from a developer about the data frequently being old and not very good, I have larger issues with open data which I've written about before. To recap: dumping a bunch of data out into the world does not equal building a digital city. In fact, it's pretty much the opposite of building a digital city, as it encourages programmers to build apps that will most likely fail, given that they are devoid of user input. In order for open government to work, the city needs to supply user information derived from true user research. For example, if the city provided 311 data along with a list of the top 20 reasons people call into 311 that would be something that a developer could build a truly meaningful app out of, one which meets a true user need. Instead, the city just likes to throw data out into the world and see what happens.

3. Access: Internet connectivity for all
WiFi in the park? Okay, fine. I have no issue with this, except to say that it should also come hand in hand with the ability to access city services online in a simple manner. Which at the moment it doesn't.

4. Engagement: A citizen-centric digital experience
A citizen-centric digital experience sounds totally awesome, until it turns out that what the city really means is more Hackathons. Great news for all those developers who like to get together in a sweaty room and attempt to bang out something useful for the city with absolutely no information about what types of things citizens might find useful. Hackathons make for great photo ops, not great digital solutions. If the city was really serious about providing a citizen-centric digital experience they would start by talking to some citizens. Where's that in their roadmap?Hana email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827360412059612755.post-77205492797103507632011-08-01T08:37:00.000-07:002011-08-01T08:46:32.089-07:00The NYC MTA Just Can't Get It Right, Even Though It Seems To Try HardLast week I did what the MTA is always telling you to do and I took the train to the plane, which is to say I left my house at 8:30am, took two subway trains and the Air Train to JFK Airport, and just barely made my 11:00am flight. Lately it seems that the MTA is really, really trying to take advantage of digital technology to communicate with their customers. Yay! But it also seems like whatever they do they just can't quite get it right. Boo.

The first fail came as I was changing trains. There was a long time to wait between trains, and I was with my 5 year old son, so to entertain both him and myself we spent some time reading the subway map. This is how I came to notice what the actual words on the subway map say. Did you know subway maps have words? They do! And after living in NYC for 14 years I read them for the first time last week. It turns out I haven't been missing much. Here's the relevant detail from the map:

My favorite part? The bit about "click on 'Maps,' then select 'Individual Subway Line Maps'," as though subway riders are just going to whip out their phones and go to mta.info right there in the station except, whoops, there's no cell phone service in a subway station! So the MTA must be thinking, ok, so here's what people will do: first, they'll take the train home. Then, they'll go online, and they'll remember to click on "Maps" and then "Individual Subway Line Maps," and then they'll be able to find out information about how the trains are running on the trip they just took. That makes sense.

So maybe the problem with the NYC subway is that it's just old. Really, really old. Any sometimes no matter how hard you try you just can't get a really, really old thing to work the way you want it to. That would explain why the MTA website is housed at mta.info instead of mta.com or mta.gov. Actually, no it wouldn't. But it is the case that attempting to give customers digital information when they are underground with no access to a digital connection can be a challenge. But neither of those issues should come into play with something new like the Air Train, right? The Air Train is, a) Above ground and b) Pretty new!

So let me ask you this. You are traveling to catch your plane. You have spied an air train approaching the station as you swiped your card through the turnstile, have raced down the stairs, bumping your luggage along with you, and have leaped onto the departing train just before the doors close. Now, what is the single most important piece of information you need? Do you need to know what fun things you can do in NYC? No, because in my case I live here and also, I am leaving town. Do you need to know how to treat acne? No, not so much. What you need to know is what terminal your plane leaves from.

Here is how that information is displayed on the Air Train:

See the illegible list of small print stuff to the right of the map? That is the list of airlines and which terminals they arrive and depart from. I took this picture while sitting about as close as one can be sitting to the sign. What's the big deal, you might ask? Why don't I just walk over and look at the sign? Well, for starters I had a suitcase and a five-year-old child in tow. So to look at the sign meant I would have to move my entire entourage over there, ask the people who were already standing in front of the sign trying to figure out where the hell they were going to move, and then wobble precariously for a few moments as I tried to ascertain my destination.

I have this experience every single time I ride the Air Train. I am continually surprised that it is impossible to figure out what terminal to get off at. This is made even more surprising by the fact that in this particular Air Train there is a ton of white space that is being used for no purpose at all. At the very least they could put a few more of these signs around the train. You know what else could be good here, aside from a very large, clear sign in a prominent location that tells me what terminal to get off at? How about a website? Because in this case, I am above ground. I am also riding the train for up to 20 minutes, which is plenty of time for me to go to a mobile website that has an interface like this:

I should be able to select my airline, get the terminal and Air Train stop returned to me, and get on with my life. Maybe even a nice little list of stuff I can buy at that terminal. Maybe even the gate my plane is leaving from? What, too much? Ok, fine. Just tell me where I am supposed to get off the train. That is all I ask. Do that for me, MTA, and I will love you forever.Hana firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827360412059612755.post-78509977760164503572011-06-20T06:54:00.000-07:002011-06-20T11:01:35.548-07:00Information Visualization: The Good, The Bad and the NauseatingWe are hard at work on an information visualization project over here, so we've been exploring the #infoviz world and all its beauty and, well, idiocy. As much as there is room for mis-steps along the information architecture path on a traditional site, when it comes to data visualization it seems that the opportunities to get it wrong grow exponentially.

This is my favorite disaster thus far:

I've been spending a lot of time looking at this picture trying to understand exactly what went wrong so I don't make the same mistakes, and here's what I've come up with:

The title is bizarre (and actually a little revolting once you figure out that the contents of the jars is supposed to be blood), which means you have to read the fine print to even begin to understand what you are looking at.

You can't just scan the picture and immediately determine which conflict caused the largest number of deaths, because in order to do so you have to make a snap judgement about how much liquid different vessels can hold, and this is simply too much work. Does the mixer hold more than the pitcher? I have no idea, and I am someone who does a lot of cooking. This means that in order to compare conflicts you have to read the accompanying text. I bet if someone did an eye-tracking study of this image the points would be all over the place as users attempt to make sense of what they are looking at, and compare points.

There are two key data points that most information visualizations need to get across - comparison of parts and the whole. Users need to understand how the smaller parts compare to each other, and then they also need to be able to step back and see the information as a whole picture. This image does neither of those well.

When it came to the whole picture concept, the designers got confused about what point they were really trying to get across. I'm assuming that the big idea for this originally started with a sentence like, "Hey, let's show how war is bad," followed by "ooh, let's use a kitchen metaphor." But the designers got so entranced by the kitchen metaphor that they ended up muddling the "war is bad" theme.

The most important point: the metaphor the designers used is, frankly, appalling, in addition to making no sense. What does war have to do with cooking? And also, I don't want to look at blood in kitchen appliances. The overall metaphor is so revolting, and therefore distracting, that it overwhelms the original message the designers were attempting to communicate.

New York Times Book Review

I have also learned a lot about information visualization from the infographics in the New York Times Book Review. I'm not entirely sure why the book review section is so entranced by infographics, but they frequently use them to convey information about book sales. They never do them well and never convey any interesting information. Here's the one from this weekend (apologies for the image quality - my scanner is on the fritz):

What are we supposed to be learning from this infographic? Here are my guesses as to what the editors of the Book Review think they are telling us:

Eric Larson sells a lot of books, in four-year intervals

These books are usually about death and murder.

Some books do better than others?

The books start out selling a lot of copies, and then drop off?

Unfortunately, they're not conveying any of this well, and moreover, a lot of it isn't surprising (and therefore interesting). If they really are trying to show the time intervals of his Larson's book releases then they should have used a graph that would have made those intervals more obvious. IF they are trying to show that books start out selling well and then drop off, then I ask: why is this interesting? Don't most books do that? And if they're trying to convey that his books are usually about death and murder, that seems better communicated in an essay or a little blurb than in chart format.

But what really confuses me about this graph is the bottom area where they are (I think?) contrasting weeks on the list with the highest rank the book achieved. What do these two numbers have to do with each other? And why is contrasting them interesting? I don't know, and probably no one else does either.

So here's what I've learned from the book review infographics:

Do not create infographics just so your designer has something to work on. Do not create infographics just because you have some stuff that includes numbers. You should only convey information in chart form when the numbers tell an interesting story, and when those numbers can also be abstracted to tell a larger story.

Do not compare numbers that have nothing to do with each other.

Understand what the key piece of information you are trying to communicate is before you start making the graphic.

Create Your Better Life Index

Create your better life index - OECD Better LIfe Initiative

One infographic that does a good job handling a lot of data is the create your better life index at OECD Better Life Initiative. There is a clear connection between the data users check off on the right side of the screen and the chart. In addition, the overall picture tells an interesting story (different countries make people happier depending upon what criteria are important to you). It's also nice that you can display countries both alphabetically and by rank. I do have a few quibbles with the chart:

The numbers over on the left don't really mean anything to me.

The level of detail in the scale on the right is probably overkill. Do I really know the difference between Jobs being two circles of importance to me versus four circles of importance? Wouldn't it have been simpler for users to just select if jobs are important or not?

The "by rank" display option is much more informative than the "alphabetically" option, so it might have been a better choice to set "by rank" as the default.

That said, the infographic is still fun to play around with, conveys interesting information, and allows users to view both details and abstracted data.

Hana email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827360412059612755.post-48334433471925555532011-05-05T07:04:00.000-07:002011-05-05T07:07:51.029-07:00Walt Disney: Information Architect?So what happened when Disney sat down to design the wayfinding component of the cruise ship? Was the wayfinding team just all on vacation when the Dream was being designed? I've been researching answers to these questions over the last few weeks, but have run up against a wall.

My initial theory was that Disney is just a company who puts design over usability, resulting in a beautiful ship on which passengers can spend many hours wandering hopelessly through assorted passageways trying to find the restaurant. This theory also made sense when it came to my interactions with both the web site and the customer service team. <o:p></o:p>

Someone at Disney has quite clearly made the decision that all cruise-related bookings occur online. This would be fine except for the fact that my entire family found the site impossible to use. We had simple questions like: is there babysitting available on the ship? And, if so, how do I book it? And, if not, how do I reserve time in the onboard nursery? And also, can we see the restaurant menus to help us figure out where to eat? It was so difficult to get any of these questions answered that three of us independently called customer service to try to plan our time on the ship.<o:p></o:p>

Customer service turned out to be equally unhelpful. We each had the experience of sitting on hold for at least 15 minutes (which, I feel the need to point out, means you spend 15 minutes listening to an infinite loop of Disney's greatest hits, and the rest of the week trying to get "Bippity Boppity Boo" out of your head) only to be told by a customer service representative that everything needed to be reserved online and there was nothing they could do to help us. And by the way, they didn't have babysitting.<o:p></o:p>

But once I began to research this theory I came across this article, which makes a compelling case for the fact that Disney as a company is actually quite interested in ensuring their visitors can find their way around places. Walt Disney, it seems, was an information architect at heart.<o:p></o:p>

My second theory was that perhaps the ship was designed to purposely confuse guests. This is the case with supermarkets, which have been designed to ensure that customers spend more time wandering the aisles, in turn providing more time for impulse purchases. But there isn't any clear benefit to having guests wandering around a ship. If anything, it could be dangerous if the ship hits … oh I don't know … an iceberg, and you can't find your way quickly to your muster station and then you're stuck floating on a plank with Leonardo DeCaprio.

So why did the Dream and the Disney website fail so miserably? Did they just get so excited about building a full-scale water flume on the ship that they forgot about maps? Is there just some kind of fundamental misunderstanding about wayfinding at Disney that makes them good at designing amusement parks but bad at designing ships and websites? (Thought really, it looks like the website was designed by an Imagineer with little to no knowledge of basic information architecture principles.)

I've emailed several Disney people and will post any responses I get. In the mean time, please feel free to submit your own theories.
Hana firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827360412059612755.post-4410927557810704602011-04-06T08:45:00.000-07:002011-04-06T08:49:31.048-07:00Maps and Landmarks Make All The Difference
So let's begin with the question of why it was so hard to navigate the ship in the first place. Here's the map of the floor where my stateroom was on:

It is only now, looking at this map and all of the other deck plans, that I am finally able to figure out where my stateroom was. While we were on the cruise I'd somehow been under the impression that my room was located near the front of the ship, but now that I look at the map I realize that the room was actually located in the light green area towards the back of the ship. This in part explains why I was so turned around on the boat, because I had no idea where my starting point was. Which is to say, since I came and went from my stateroom, in my cognitive map I used my stateroom as the point from which I mapped all possible travels around the ship. But since I couldn't physically locate that starting point anyway, it just sort of floated in space in my brain, which meant that it was hard to figure out where I needed to go.

So why couldn't I figure out where my starting point was? For starters, I didn't have a map. I kept scouring the ship searching for maps to orient myself, but the only ones I found were hanging near the elevator banks. I would consult those maps to figure out where to go once I reached a certain floor, but never on my own floor, since if I'd located an elevator bank on my floor I was already where I needed to be on that floor. What I really needed was a nice pocket-sized map handed to me upon check in, along with a large laminated map in my stateroom that I could consult before I went off wandering around the ship.

The second problem was that within a given floor everything looked the same. I was thankful that my stateroom was located near the laundry room so I was able to use that as a landmark in my cognitive map to determine how close I was to my room. If not for the laundry room, I might have spent hours just circling the floor trying to find my room. I'm not great at remembering numbers, so I always rely on other external markers to find my way to a hotel room, parking space, or address. One thing Disney could have done to help me would have been to add subtle landmarks for me to navigate with. I lucked into the laundry room, but it certainly would have helped immensely if they had treated the room numbers or stateroom doors differently in different parts of the ship - they could have made all starboard room doors green and all port room doors blue, or put Mickey Mouse on one side of the ship and Donald Duck on the other (given that it's Disney). Not only would that have helped me figure out where I was on my floor, it would have helped me figure out where everything else was in relation to my room, which in turn would have helped me develop my own cognitive map to get myself from Point A to Point B.

The most common route I took on the ship was from my room to my father's stateroom, where the family all gathered before meals. The route is marked in red, and includes a trip up one flight in an elevator.

In order to get from my room to his room, I would walk all the way down my hall to the first elevator bank, take the elevator up one flight, and then walk outside, circle around through a pool area, go back inside to a second elevator bank area, and make a left. At the time I felt this route made no sense because it involved my going outside and then inside again, but I didn't have a clear enough sense of where I was to figure out a better route. In looking at this map, though, it is immediately apparent that a better route would have been to just walk down to the second elevator bank and either walk up one flight or take the elevator up one flight. This route didn't occur to me in part because the difference between the two elevator banks was unclear. While I knew that there were two, both looked identical, so it was impossible to remember which elevator bank I was at. I suppose Disney thought it made sense to have all the elevator banks look the same, but some slight variations (again, the Mickey Elevators and the Donald Duck elevators, for example) would have made navigating much easier.

Next Up: It would have been so simple to help passengers with wayfinding. So why didn't Disney give out a map? Why didn't they attempt to help people navigate the ship? And is it connected to the fact that the website was also impossible to navigate?

Hana firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827360412059612755.post-71251371184824669942011-03-21T10:10:00.000-07:002011-03-21T10:10:34.148-07:00Fumbling Towards the Dining Room: Why I kept getting lost on the cruise ship

I recently took a short cruise on Disney's newest ship, the Dream, to celebrate a family member's birthday. My overwhelming take away from the trip was how impossible it was to navigate the ship. I usually have a fairly good sense of direction, but on the boat I constantly felt as though I were lumbering around in the dark, trying different stairwells and elevators, in the hope that I might eventually end up somewhere near where I intended to go. My husband and I routinely found ourselves standing outside an elevator bank arguing about whether we should turn right or left. When attempting to follow other family members across the ship we frequently found ourselves separated, one member of family having taken a wrong turn and assumed the rest of the family was following along. We are actually a family who are extremely interested in map and thinking and navigating (we include an urban planner, a computer scientist and an instructional designer, plus me) so the fact that we kept getting lost was notable.

Still, I wanted to be sure that this wasn't just me, or just my family, or just this particular boat, so I did some research and discovered that there are actually entire forums discussing how hard it is to find one's way around assorted cruise ships.

Cruise ships face an interesting information architecture and wayfinding challenge in that every few days an entirely new population gets on board and all has to learn, simultaneously, how to get places, including how to get to the places they eat and sleep. Since this was a short cruise (four days) nobody on the ship had enough time to learn how to easily navigate around, so the entire vessel was filled with tired, hungry people wandering around saying things like, "I think we need this elevator," or, "Where is a map?"

Given the challenge of orienting an enormous number of people in a short amount of time (this particular ship carries 4000 passengers) you would think that the company would have made some attempt to provide signs, maps, or other wayfinding tools, but these were conspicuously absent. Royal Caribbean has taken steps to help passengers find their way around their newest and largest ship, but not Disney.

The cruise experience left me with many questions:

Why was it so hard to navigate the ship? The only place I didn't feel turned around on the boat was on the top deck. Why was that?

Why didn't Disney try to help their passengers find their way around the ship? Sometimes it felt like the ship was purposely designed to confuse you, including one area of the ship that was only accessible by one elevator, which meant that if you didn't magically end up in that elevator you had to get off on the 11th floor and change elevators. Was there some benefit to having customers wandering around the ship lost, as there is in the supermarket?

And most important to my line of work, I remembered that the website was also very poorly architected, despite the fact that the company insisted that all bookings be done on line. The result was that I was unclear on what I had booked, what needed to be booked, and was missing key information about the ship like whether there were babysitters and what the attire was for dinner. Was Disney just a company of bad information architects?

Over the next few weeks I am going to explore each of these issues in a blog post, so stay tuned. And in the mean time, happy wayfinding.
Hana firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827360412059612755.post-10905985382950972092011-02-11T09:35:00.000-08:002011-02-11T09:35:55.412-08:00Because I like to check Twitter while I'm drivingThe other day I noticed that my local car wash is now on Twitter, so this gem from Things Real People Don't Say About Advertising seems apt.Hana firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827360412059612755.post-74944122224414126102011-01-26T09:22:00.000-08:002011-01-26T09:22:02.729-08:00How the TED.com home page ended up with the same problems as a public school's lice flyerThe other day my son's school sent home a flyer that looked like an ad for a service that promised to rid your school-aged-child of lice. (Yay, large urban public schools.) I was about to toss the flyer in the garbage when I happened to notice printing on the other side, so I flipped it over. On the other side of the lice ad was information about a school-wide event to check all the kids for lice. The school wanted parents to sign the flyer and return it along with a small donation in order to allow them to complete the school-wide check and get rid of the lice situation that has been plaguing some of the classrooms since the beginning of the school year. Whew, I thought, close one.

Not surprisingly, not all parents noticed the printing on the other side, and the vast majority of them threw it out. That night an email went out from one of the parents in my son's class informing the other parents that they should retrieve the lice flyer from the garbage, as it was actually a permission slip and a donation form for an important cause. Two days later, the school sent home another flyer for the lice check, this time without the ad on the other side. Presumably this was annoying to the school, to parents, and in fact costly, as they ended up having to send the flyer out twice due to bad IA.

Since then, I've been mulling over in my head what could be said to the administrator responsible for sending out the initial flyer - what would be a good basic IA rule that the school could use to make sure they didn't waste paper and resources due to bad design decisions? What could prevent the person in the office from saying, I know what's a good idea! I'll just print the lice ad on the back side of the permission slip and save some paper! without thinking that perhaps the flyers might be placed into school folders with the ad side facing out.

In the end I came up with two rules, both of which are obvious IA rules but which need to be applied to the offline world as well:

Don't Skimp
The reason the school used one piece of paper instead of two was probably to save money. Or maybe to save effort. Either way, someone thought it would be a good shortcut. But when it comes to communicating useful information, shortcuts come at a price. IAs are constantly encountering clients who want to skimp by not doing usability, by starting a sitemap without first determining user goals or personas. A perfect example comes from quora.com, where someone posted asking for advice on the TED.com home page. I took a quick look at the home page and saw that no one had done any up front IA on the site. The home page was a morass of video clips with ambiguous filtering tools on the side. Is this really why people are coming to the TED site? To watch a random assortment of video clips? TED clearly didn't do any gathering of user goals, didn't determine what users might actually be looking for on the home page, and ended up in the same boat as my son's schools' lice flyer.

Get A Second Opinion
The person in the school's office making the flyer should have taken the flyer, walked down the hall to three people and said, hey, what do you think of my lice flyer? Odds are that at least one of them would have replied, it looks like an ad. You don't have to conduct a big user test to get feedback, just step outside the office and ask someone. It doesn't really matter what you're designing, it could be a lice flyer, the TED site, or the Florida ballot - any of these would benefit from even the smallest amount of user testing.

None of this is earth shattering, but it needs to happen. So we can do things like go to TED conferences. And eliminate lice.Hana email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827360412059612755.post-20286950721042078772011-01-24T11:09:00.000-08:002011-01-24T11:39:18.316-08:00Parking (un)Structure
Good and bad information design is everywhere. Sometimes, a task as simple as paying to park your car in a garage can expose you to both ends of the spectrum. This week, a couple of business appointments gave me the chance to do just that.

My first appointment was in downtown Boston. As I entered the parking garage, I noticed a large sign hanging overhead, indicating that this was one of those garages where you pay in the building lobby before you get back to your car. Ordinarily, I take my ticket with me anyhow just in case that information is sprung on me later. Call me efficient; call me lazy; but when I'm ready to go, I want to go.

But what if I hadn't noticed that sign? Clearly, someone had thought of that. In addition:

- There was a sign on the machine where you take your ticket.

- There was a sign on the wall as you wait for the elevator, both in the garage and in the building lobby.

- The payment machines were smack in front of you as you exit the elevator into the lobby, and say something along the lines of "Pay here before you go" in large type.

- As you wait for the elevator to go back down to the parking garage, a computerized voice reminds you to pay before returning to your car, at the machine looming 6 inches behind you.

While I was almost starting to feel assaulted by this information, I noted with gratitude all of the opportunities that had been capitalized on to apprise me of this practice. Normally, I side with the user by default in all circumstances, but if you somehow missed ALL of these hints about paying before you go…truly, you're in your own world.

Compare this to my experience the very next day, taking the Amtrak Acela to NYC from a suburb south of Boston. As I entered the parking garage, there was no indication of needing to pay before leaving, but as is my practice, I took my ticket along anyhow.

Cut to 14 hours later as I'm dragging my weary self back to my car at 11pm that night. I took my ticket, cash AND my debit card out of my wallet (being a true IA, I had worked out all of the payment "what ifs" in advance) and drove to the gate. It was unmanned, so I put aside the cash and got ready to debit my way to freedom and the road home.

I put my ticket in the slot and received a message on the small screen saying "Unpaid ticket. See cashier". There's no cashier in sight and I'm starting to get a little nervous. Then I noticed, down below my line of sight, a small sign saying "Pay at the machine on level 3 before you leave. Thank you!"

Wait…what? There were innumerable ways to provide this information to me before this point, but instead, I'm being informed of the practice NOW, as I sit in front of the unmoving gate? Now I'm That Guy (or Gal, as it were) who has to put her car in reverse and make ALL of the other people in line back up so I can do a thousand-point turn to get out. I sheepishly waved my thanks to the other patrons (none of whom even looked at me; 11pm on a cold winter night is not high time for sympathy) and parked my car to head back into the building.

All of the cashier windows were closed for the night, there was no one else around, and no signage indicated where to pay for parking. I saw a kiosk, but that was to get your train tickets. I vaguely recalled something about level 3 on the sign, so up I went. Lo and behold, there were some payment machines tucked off to the side. From here, my transaction and exit were simple, but I was considerably annoyed.

One interesting thing to note is that I paid $33 to park for two hours when I had my good experience; and $5 to park all day for my lousy experience. Did paying so much money entitle me to a better experience? Maybe – the frustration I would have felt would have been compounded by the high price. That said, I do not think that the bargain rate at the train station makes it acceptable to have to run the gauntlet of aggravation that I did.

What I am sure of, though, is that the whole experience still beat the hell out of most air travel that I've done. But that's a whole different blog post.
Jen Dolanhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827360412059612755.post-5026362753200069932011-01-20T07:20:00.000-08:002011-01-20T07:21:41.953-08:00How To Win Arguments and Influence PeopleIAs tend to spend a lot of time in circuitous arguments over usability issues with clients who don't want to spend money on usability testing. Or sometimes it's a client who has read just enough about information architecture to be dangerous - you know the one. He wants everything to be above the fold, insists that everything be "three clicks away" from everything else, and insists it's okay to do something a certain way because "that's how Amazon does it."

Here's a great resource for winning those arguments and others, from Web Designer Depot: Usability Resources to Win Arguments

You're welcome.Hana email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827360412059612755.post-4010841855636985052011-01-14T10:25:00.000-08:002011-01-14T12:00:03.799-08:00Navigation Tricks and Attempted BurglaryI didn't actually try to break into my neighbor's apartment the other day, but it might have looked that way.

Here's what happened. Every day I face this usability nightmare going into and out of my apartment complex:

Apparently, someone ordered the wrong elevator buttons and signage. I live on the fourth floor but several times a day I have to remember to push the fifth floor button instead. So how did this labeling mistake end in a potentially uncomfortable social situation? Let's look at it step by step and, because this is a blog about information architecture, consider the implications for good interaction design:

1. User Expectations
The first and most obvious problem I faced was bad labeling. I pushed "4" expecting to go to the fourth floor. This is a pretty obvious mistake in the design of my elevator, but labeling that meets user expectations can be a difficult challenge when it comes to interaction design. One of the primary tasks of an information architect is to come up with sensible labels and to group information within those labels in a way that meets user expectations. If simple logic doesn't work, I usually fall back on industry standards to help solve the problem, which brings us to the next topic.

2. User Conditioning
I know that my elevator buttons are labeled wrong, so why did I push the "4" button anyway despite repeated use of the same elevator? One answer lies in the idea of user conditioning.

In interaction design, industry standards and best practices often exist because they are consistent with user conditioning (see this series for an interesting article on user habits). For example, the L-shaped navigation model is an industry standard because westerners are culturally conditioned to read left to right and top to bottom. Also, because it is used so frequently, users are further conditioned to recognize this pattern.

I've navigated thousands of buildings that have elevators in my life. In the vast majority of them the numbers in the elevator are the same as the numbers of the floor. Even though I know the label is wrong, I'm conditioned to push "4" and go to the fourth floor so it is very difficult for me to break out of this mental habit.

Even if it might be theoretically easy for a user to learn a different behavior (I can imagine the construction foreman of my complex shrugging his shoulders and saying "Oh they'll figure it out"), don't veer from standards without good reason. If you are being experimental or absolutely must place content in an unexpected place then you are going to have to work hard to shake users out of their conditioning.

3. Zombie Browsing and Banner Blindness
I really love the term "Zombie Browsing Effect" as used by Dawson in his article Human Behavior Theories That Can be Applied to Web Design. To paraphrase, zombie browsing, is the tendency to ignore information that is not directly related to a user's immediate task or need. This is particularly prevalent after repeated use of a site. Dawson says this is why grocery stores sometimes change their layouts, and I'm sure it is behind Amazon's thinking when they switch up the organization of their website from time to time.

A related idea is that of banner blindness. This is the tendency of users to ignore things that look like banners or are placed in typical banner positions (top of page, right of page) on a website.

Something like zombie browsing or banner blindness partially explains the next step in my story. I made it out of the elevator and into the hall without noticing a problem. There are at least three signs along the way to tell me I'm on the wrong floor, but these are all such common environmental objects that they were completely invisible to me.

4. Muscle memory
The other explanation for this step in my journey could be chalked up to muscle memory. Muscle memory is most often discussed in relation to athletic training. It's the idea that a repeated movement will become ingrained and instinctual. I've always been fascinated with how easy it is to walk or drive somewhere and suddenly realize that you've ended up somewhere else entirely, like the house you used to live in. You've traveled that route so many times that once you cross it again your body takes over and guides you down the usual path. This is similar to the zombie browsing effect problem but is much more physical and fundamental in nature.

Muscle memory is an important factor to consider in interaction design. It is one of the key arguments behind making navigational patterns consistent. If you place a "more information" icon at the bottom right hand corner of images in your interface, you should always place it there because once they are used to it, users will automatically seek that position. It is even more important to be aware of standards. Users will have picked up muscle memory from other sites and other interfaces. Even if it is consistent throughout your site, placing a cancel button where a save button usually goes is likely to result in some frustration on the part of the user.

So back to my story, after stepping off the elevator and completely ignoring all signage, my legs took over for a zombie-like march to "my front door".

5. Visual Clues
Which brings me to the final step. If there were some more obvious visual clues, like, say, the third floor was painted blue and the fourth floor was painted yellow, I probably wouldn't have ended up at my neighbor's door without noticing, but the two floors are identical.

The idea of landmarks and creation of physical identity is a keystone in the design of physical wayfinding systems. This idea also has application to virtual navigation systems. (See Mark A. Foltz's thesis for an excellent discussion.)

While you shouldn't go overboard and sacrifice consistency for the sake of wayfinding, it is important that different sections of a site have some slight variation. This may be largely a visual designer's game, but information architects can help in terms of the content selected for highlighting on some pages and possibly with slight variations to layout or space given to content.

Of course, standards like breadcrumbs, and highlighting location on navigational bars can be helpful once the user has snapped out of zombie mode and figured out they are lost.

Conclusion
So where did I end up? Repeatedly jiggling my key in my neighbor's door and a half step away from some angry knocking. Thankfully, I snapped out of my zombie mode in time to see the numbers "308" magically materialize on the door I was assaulting. I was able to slink away quietly before my neighbor came to investigate the disturbance.

By looking at some basic interaction design principals I've been able to reassure myself that this incident wasn't a sign of mental deficiency, I'm just a typical human being. Keep some of these concepts in mind when you are designing and maybe you can save your users from the same concern. Stephanie Holthttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827360412059612755.post-22946791927142060642011-01-11T07:37:00.000-08:002011-01-11T07:37:36.425-08:00Rise Up UX Designers! Enough already with the detailsTheresa Neil's article in UX Magazine on designing rich internet applications screens has been getting passed around the internet a bit, and it's a good example of why I wanted to start this blog. While she does a lovely job explaining screen design in detail, complete with nice illustrations, the entire process of getting to that point is completely glossed over. Neil says simply that there are three types of application structures (Information Process and Creation - I'm not even sure that that's true, but for now let's suppose it is) and that you should identify the user goals and this will lead to the clear and obvious choice of which structure you are going to use. The rest of the article focuses on enumerating different screen types. The problem with the article isn't that it's wrong in any capacity, but that it is yet another article encouraging the world of UX to focus on the details instead of the big picture.

IA is tough because you need to be able to get interested in even the smallest screen detail while still keeping the big picture in mind, stepping back and asking, "Why are we building this?" In some ways it's easier to focus on the details than the big picture, so that's where the discipline tends to spill the most digital ink. Yes, this is an article that is focused on screen design, and yes, it has lovely little pictures, which draw in the design crowd and make IAs feel like we're a part of making something concrete, but enough already with the articles on the IA process and the details.

IAs need to start asking the big questions on projects, pushing back on clients and making sure that users really want and need the thing we're building, that the overall structure meets those needs, and that we're focusing on the right areas.

I recently did some work on a site where the number one reason users visited the site was to purchase specialized types of books. Unfortunately the site owners didn't control the book purchasing part of their company, which actually lived on another site altogether, so the site owners decided to create a content site, which no one wanted, with the idea that users would wander around looking for the books, they could sell some ad space, and then ultimately they would direct users to the site they knew they wanted to get to in the first place. To which I say, ARE YOU SERIOUS?

I could have spent a lot of time following the steps Neil mentions in her article and creating lovely, usable pages, but without the big picture in mind (in this case, the idea that the site was being created specifically to keep the user from his or her goal) it would all be for naught.

So to all the IAs out there I say, rise up and say no. Site owners need to get their shit together. They should not be allowed to build sites for the express purpose of annoying users. For the book site, why not integrate content and advertising directly into the site selling the books? The response to this was, we don't control that site. To which I say, figure out how you can, and then spend your money. Don't waste it building a site no one wants and then complain that no one comes to it. Use an IA to find out what the real issues are in your company, because we can help you do that. We're not just a group of people who like to figure out where to put the "cancel" button. We can be big thinkers, that's what we're here for. So let us do it. And please, no more articles on how to make a sitemap.
Hana firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827360412059612755.post-86920883701512176202011-01-10T11:05:00.000-08:002011-01-10T11:05:30.667-08:00You Know It's Bad When They Start Making IA ComicsAs if the world needed any more proof, here's a FANTASTIC take on how bad information architecture is slowly driving the world mad, courtesy of The Oatmeal: How To Make Your Shopping Cart Suck Less.Hana firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827360412059612755.post-52877013437305224662011-01-07T07:59:00.000-08:002011-01-07T07:59:46.708-08:00Bad IA Award: NYC Taxi and Limousine CommissionA few years ago the Taxi & Limousine Commission here in New York decided to install TVs in the back of all cabs. I typically immediately turn the TV off when I get in a cab because I like to enjoy a few minutes of quiet before I jump back into the madness that is Manhattan, but the other day I was in the cab with my 5-year-old son, and I thought it would be fun for him to watch the cab's progress on the live map the TV has. So I flipped the live map on and pointed out where we were and where we needed to go.

"And what are those P's?" he asked.

I looked more closely at the map and noticed that there were indeed little P symbols all over the place. I stared at them for a minute, wondering if perhaps this was some clever function the map designers had implemented where you could look up hotels, restaurants or something else on the map, before I realized I was staring at a map of all the parking garages in the city.

So let me ask: when you're in a cab, what is the only thing you without a doubt DO NOT need? That would be a parking garage. Congrats, NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission - well played.

In the event that the TLC decides to do something useful with the map, here are a few things people in cabs might actually need displayed on a map:

- transportation hubs (we were traveling from Grand Central Station, and astonishingly it wasn't indicated on the map)

- major tourist attractions (wouldn't it be nice for tourists to hop into a cab and see all the places they want to visit?)

- the ability to enter an address and see on the map where it is (any GPS can do it, you can too)

- traffic (Google does it, why can't you?)

- estimated time to one's destination

In the mean time, we'll all just wave to parking garages as we pass by.Hana email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827360412059612755.post-69468358019477732512011-01-06T07:32:00.000-08:002011-01-06T08:16:17.764-08:00Welcome to Beautiful But Dumb!Have you ever found a website so frustrating that you wanted to scream at the screen, or possibly personally dial up the individual responsible for designing the site and yell something like "Where's the RETURN PURCHASES BUTTON???" or perhaps "WHY WON'T YOUR STUPID SITE ACCEPT MY PERFECTLY FINE AND VALID CREDIT CARD?"

Actually, don't bother answering. I'm sure you have. I'm also sure you've had that experience offline. Maybe you've excused yourself from the table at a restaurant and gone off to find the bathroom only to discover that this particular restaurant has decided to be cutesy with the signs for the men's and women's bathrooms and you now need to spend ten minutes trying to figure out which door is the appropriate one for you to walk into. Maybe you've tried to follow street signs that made no sense. Maybe you've spent five minutes staring at your cell phone, the one you use every single day, trying to find which icon is the address book, wondering if it's possibly your fault that you can't remember which icon that particular phone's designer chose to represent the address book.

If any of this sounds like you - welcome! Come in. It's okay, it's not your fault. As the person who is frequently responsible for designing your websites (though naturally never the bad ones), I invite you to pull up a chair and settle in for a look at the world through the lens of an Information Architect. My job is to advocate for the user - which would be anyone who uses anything - when companies are designing their websites. Companies need to hire someone to do this because, while there are a lot of people already working on the company website, they are all interested in many things, none of which have to do with making life easy for the people using the site. The designer is interested in making the site look pretty. The CEO is interested in selling more widgets and having a generally awesome site. The CTO is interested in using the latest technology. The marketing department is interested in telling you the company's mission statement. The ad sales department wants the site to look like a giant banner ad. And that is why you can't find anything on a website.

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When Ole Roy won his first NC with UNC, he gained a significant amount of credibility. He was able to successfully recruit players that fit his system and also lucked out on how a few of those players turned out. 2004-2009 was an amazing time for UNC, much like Duke from 1998-2006. However, once Ole Roy was on his way to winning his second championship (or at least was pre-season #1 in the country, didn't have to coach, and let Lawson and Hansbrough charge through everyone), I think that his recruiting strategy changed. He no longer went after players that were 'glue' guys or legitimate 6th men (Danny Green, Marvin Williams, Deon Thompson) but rather went for heavy-weights with a proven scoring track-record (Leslie McDonald, John Henson, Reggie Bullock). Personality, and how these players mesh together, went straight out the window. It's like he looked at the Scout and Rival rankings, closed his eyes, and pointed to 3-4 players per year in the top 20. Furthermore, with UNC's success in the 00s, I think Roy felt that he didn't have to coach the players and that they could 'figure it out' themselves. This clearly hasn't been the case.
I think Roy realizes that he isn't invincible anymore. I think he realizes that 18- and 19-year olds need guidance, especially those who were once superstars in high school but need to come down to earth. I think Roy will once again, unfortunately, put everything together and once again be the UNC that contended for the ACC crown. It probably won't be this year, and maybe won't be next, but it'll happen soon enough.


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FORT MYERS, Fla. - A Fort Myers teen is continuing a family legacy by working to become an Eagle Scout. It's a rare honor. Only 2% of scouts reach the goal.
But Jonathon Memoli has to complete his final project before he can become the fifth Eagle Scout in his family.
Three hundred and fifty pounds of river rock stands between Memoli and his dream.
"Originally, I never cared about it. A couple months ago, my grandfather died. One of his wishes was to see me as an Eagle Scout," said Memoli.
Now the 16 year old is determined to make that dream come true. His Eagle Scout Project is to restore a historic fountain at the Borrough Family home downtown. It was destroyed by Hurricane Charley six years ago.
It's been three months of planning and hard work. Today, it's finally coming together.
It's a test of Memoli's leadership and determination to follow in his grandfather's footsteps.
"My dad was involved in scouting until the day he died, he had several scouts in uniform at his funeral," said Jonathon's father Michael.
The last step of the project is the easy part: installing a replacement pump. Then, it's onto the Eagle Scout Board of Review where a panel will decide if Memoli is qualified to be in the top two percent of his peers.
Whether he gets the honor or not, his father is proud his son tried. And he knows his grandfather will be proud too.


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Kerry W. Dietz,
Artistic Director, began his formal music training at the age of seven (piano) and his church music career (organist) at the age of fourteen. A graduate of the University of Delaware and Westminster Choir College, Kerry is Minister of Worship & Music at Ebenezer United Methodist Church in Newark, DE, where he has served since 1994. He has been involved with handbells as a ringer and a conductor for over 30 years and has been a conductor and clinician for handbell festivals in Newark, DE and Ocean City, MD. He was a founding ringer of WHE and has been artistic director since 2006. Kerry and wife, Beth reside in Claymont with a gang of cats.
Barb Carey
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Mark Clausing
, in addition to playing handbells with WHE, Mark plays bells with Ebenezer United Methodist Church's Good Chimes handbell choir. Mark started playing handbells in our nation's bicentennial year when his home church in Tiffin, Ohio purchased two octaves of bells. Musically, he also has enjoyed singing, playing trumpet, baritone, tuba, and piano. Mark was brought to Delaware in the 1980's by the DuPont Company and currently works for Computer Sciences Corporation as an operations manager. Mark also enjoys volunteering with his son's Boy Scout Troop.
Beth Dietz
is a manufacturing engineering project planner at Boeing Rotorcraft in Philadelphia. She grew up in the Newark, Delaware area, has a bachelor degree in Instrumental Music Education and an associate degree in Mechanical Engineering. She has played handbells since 1986, starting at St. Paul's UMC, and is a charter member of the Wilmington Handbell Ensemble. Her interests include many types of music, various forms of needlework, gardening, and cats.
Maggie Montgomery's
passion for handbells began in 1987 with the Exultate Ringers of Aldan Union Church. She was instrumental in the development of the children's music program and directed a children's chime choir and also a vocal choir. She has also directed several adult choirs and most recently the Youth Ringers of Ardmore Presbyterian Church. Maggie is very involved with the Handbell Musicians of America. She has served as Pennsylvania State Representative attended several national seminars in Minnesota, Ohio and most recently Portland, Oregon. She is a member of Distinctly Bronze, a group of select advanced ringers from across the US. Maggie is currently participating in the Handbell Musicians of America certification program with only a few more classes to complete. Maggie is currently a member of the bell choir at Mount Hope United Methodist Church in Aston, PA. Recently retired from her job as a registered nurse, she is also a huge fan of southern gospel music and spends as much time as she can in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. Maggie currently resides in Secane, PA with her chihuahua Zeke
Beth Jackson
grew up in Baltimore, MD, but school (University of Delaware) and work (DuPont Co. ) brought her to Delaware years ago. She is a member of St Paul's United Methodist church and began ringing handbells in 1996 when WHE's founder, Michael Helman, was Music Director there. She has loved ringing bells ever since and is thrilled to be playing with the Wilmington Handbell Ensemble. Besides music, Beth enjoys reading, traveling and boating. She and her husband are avid fishermen and when the weather is warm, can usually be found out on the water.
Shirl Lord
has had a passion for handbells since 1973. As a Vocal Music Education major from the University of Delaware, Shirl found handbells to be an additional way to express her love for music. She has rung with, directed and formed new handbell choirs in both Delaware and Ohio, and is an original member of the Wilmington Handbell Ensemble. She currently is serving as the advisor for the production of Wilmington Handbell Ensemble's newest CD being released in 2014. Shirl is the owner of Body/Mind & Spirit Massage Therapy, and has been in private practice as a licensed massage therapist since 2002. The combined total of grown children included Shirl's two sons and her husband, Dirk's, son and daughter.
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n began ringing bells in the summer of 1994. She has rung with the St. Paul Ringers and Chancel Ringers from St Paul's United Methodist Church in Wilmington, DE. She has also done small ensemble ringing in a handbell quartet. When she is not ringing, Sue is a Research Chemist at TetraLogic Pharmaceuticals in Malvern, PA where she is working on anti-cancer therapies.
Anita Rush
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Sue Spilecki
is a charter member of WHE, and has been ringing handbells since 1984. Sue was raised in the Wilmington area and then moved on to attend Penn State to major in health and physical education. She recently retired after a fulfilling teaching career. Other interests besides handbells include officiating girls' high school sports, knitting, volunteering, and spending as much time as possible with 3 wonderful grandchildren!
Ruthie Toole
has been ringing handbells since 1970 and is a charter member of the Wilmington Handbell Ensemble. She has lived and performed in the Newark area since 1984. Ruthie is a member of the University of Delaware college/community choir, Schola Cantorum, and also rings handbells with the First State Ringers of Newark United Methodist Church. She has recently formed a duo called "Eclectic Acoustic" with her guitarist friend, Jack Bartley. Employed at the University of Delaware as an administrative assistant in the Institute for Global Studies, Ruthie and her husband, Tim, reside in Newark and have four grown children and five wonderful grandchildren.
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comes from a family of bell-ringers. Beth's mom, Mary Browne, was one of the founding ringers of the Wilmington Handbell Ensemble. Starting at age 10, she has rung in various bell choirs, including three Choirs for St. Paul's UMC of Wilmington and currently with Newark UMC's First State Ringers. Beth is pleased to be able to continue her love for handbell ringing with the Wilmington Handbell Ensemble. Beth is a Social Worker and Counselor at the Rockford Center. She received her Master's Degree in Community Counseling from Villanova University in May 2009, which is the next step in pursuing her dream of becoming a Licensed Professional Counselor.
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has been ringing handbells for more than twenty-five years. She is a founding member of the Wilmington Handbell Ensemble and currently serves as Vice President of the Board of Directors. When not ringing, Holly is the Principal of Forwood Elementary School in the Brandywine School District. She enjoys spending time with family and friends, playing all types of games, and gardening. Holly and her husband Joe reside in North Wilmington, and have three adult children.
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I just switched from TSI 6/1 to EBox 15/1. I was always happy with TSI, but their pricing including dry loop was out of line. I see that now they've made some adjustments, but the dry loop fee still makes them more expensive.The switch went flawlessly. I entered my new credentials and rebooted my modem and router the morning of the switch and then I was off an running. The only problem was that my speed wasn't great.The BELL tech showed up a couple of hours later and told me that my modem was the issue. I was using an old SpeedTouch that had been around since my early Sympatico days. I assumed I'd have to buy one, but the BELL guy actually left me with a 2Wire 2701HG-G.The issue is that I can't find any way to get into the 2Wire to run it in bridged mode. I already use a Tomato router, so I just want a vanilla modem. There are some suggestions online that offer upgraded firmware for the 2Wire, but none seem to be intact links.It's interesting that I'm getting good results on my newsgroup downloads. Sab is getting around 1.2-1.4 MB/s. The issue is with speed tests. Speedtest.net is only showing 12.3/0.6.Could the modem/router be the issue here?What I'm looking for is a straightforward DSL modem to use in conjunction with my existing router. If it supported 25/10 for future use, that would be a plus.Any suggestions would be appreciated.--I'd rather be tried by twelve than carried by six.
You would need a VDSL modem for 15/10 For your current set up just get a tp-link from Canada Computers for like $20.They do ADSL2
Be careful picking up a VDSL modem. Currently only the Sagemcoms are approved for use. If you switch to VDSL anytime soon you'll probably have to buy or rent one.Give ebox a call before you buy anything would be my advice.If I were still on ADSL2+ I would have continued to use my SpeedTouch 516. As mentioned, you can probably get a plain ADSL2+ modem for relatively cheap at a computer store, but it won't work with higher speeds.
Thanks. Got one today at Canada Computers in St. Catharines for $20. I'll report back if it makes any difference--I'd rather be tried by twelve than carried by six.


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FRIDAY, Feb. 10 (HealthDay News) -- More than 4 million
Americans now live with an artificial knee, and increasing numbers
of younger patients are undergoing knee replacement surgery, new
research reveals.
Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston estimate
that more than half of adults who are diagnosed with knee
osteoarthritis will receive a total knee replacement in their
Senior author Elena Losina, co-director of the hospital's
Orthopaedic and Arthritis Center for Outcomes Research, said the
country's aging population and high rates of obesity are only
partly responsible for the rise in total knee replacements.
"We think that as more and more people began participating in active sports, they sustained injuries earlier in life, and therefore developed knee osteoarthritis earlier," Losina said. "And these active people are probably more willing to undergo surgery that will enable them to continue to be active."
Also, with improved success rates over the past 20 years,
"surgeons are more comfortable offering it, and patients are more
comfortable having it," Losina added.
A shorter postoperative hospital stay has also made the
procedure more acceptable, she said. "Ten or 15 years ago, patients
stayed in the hospital for a week," Losina said. "Now, they're
usually discharged on the third day after surgery."
The number of new-knee procedures doubled over the last decade,
reached more than 620,000 in 2009, and the researchers said younger
patients -- those 45 to 64 -- accounted for a disproportionate
amount of that growth. Their relatively young ages means many are
at risk of revision surgery as well as potential long-term
complications of surgery, the authors warned.
The researchers estimate that more than 4.2 million Americans
currently have an intact total knee replacement, which represents
4.4 percent of the total population aged 50 and over. Prevalence is
slightly higher in women versus men.
They further estimate that nearly 53 percent of men and 52
percent of women diagnosed with symptomatic knee [osteoarthritis]
will receive a total knee replacement in their lifetimes. The risk
of subsequent revision is nearly 15 percent for men and roughly 18
percent for women, the authors wrote.
In osteoarthritis of the knee, the cartilage wears down, causing
changes in the adjacent bone, resulting in pain, swelling and
The study is scheduled for presentation Friday at an American
Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons' meeting in San Francisco. The
researchers' data included information from the U.S. Census, two
national studies on people with knee arthritis, and a computer
model on the history and management of knee arthritis.
One leading orthopedic surgeon, Dr. William J. Robb III,
chairman of the department of orthopaedic surgery at NorthShore
University Health System in Evanston, Ill., said the findings were
useful in that they provided more details about the number of
patients now living with artificial knees. But he questioned the
estimate of patients who might require revision surgery.
"The study used historical failure and complication rates to predict future numbers of failures that might require revision surgery," Robb said. "The methodology used likely projects the 'worst-case scenario' for total numbers of failures, as implant materials have been improved and those improvements may decrease the overall revision rate."
The study was funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health's
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin
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viewed as preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed medical
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Dr. Jean E. Keamy is a board-certified ophthalmologist with extensive experience in refractive and cataract surgery in Massachusetts. She is also a semi-professional photographer with an avid interest in cameras and optics.
In addition to general ophthalmology services including thorough testing for cataracts, glaucoma and corneal disease, Dr. Keamy performs refractive surgeries from LASIK and PRK featuring Wavefront technology to clear lens extraction, as well as the newly FDA approved Phakic IOL. Dr. Keamy also offers aesthetic procedures including Juvéderm® Injectable Gel, Radiesse®, BOTOX, Restylane®, Silk Peel™ Microdermabrasion, & Blepharoplasty.


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(Concord, MA) This fall will be a busy one in Concord at Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House. Orchard House is most noted for being home to the talented Alcott family, and as the place where Louisa May Alcott wrote andset her beloved classic novel, Little Women. But, the house is also rich in history dating all the way back to the 1600's. To enhance their mission of sharing this history, the house is embarking on a documentary film project.
To fund this project Orchard House hopes to raise at least $150,000 by running a Kickstarter
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Tremendous legacy
Orchard House is one of the oldest, most authentically-preserved historic house museums in America, and brings the Alcott legacy in the fields of literature, art, education, philosophy, and social justice to life every day.
Unique tour experience
Named Best Literary House in New England by Yankee Magazine this June, Orchard House offers highly acclaimed tours, unique living history events, curriculum-based educational programs, and irreplaceable original family furnishings and archives. Annually, more than 50,000 visitors from all walks of life and every corner of the globe experience Orchard House — and discover what it means to be 'home'.
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"We're so delighted to begin this project" says executive director Jan Turnquist, "there are many stories to be told about Orchard House. While we won't have the time to tell all of them, the documentary will certainly be a positive tool for us to share many of them and to engage generations of supports – old and new – from around the world."
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The history of the house, its inhabitants, and supporters have not been the subject of a documentary before. Once made, the film will offer highlights from each period of the house's more than 300 year history and feature interviews with celebrity supporters of the house, such as Annie Leibovitz and John Matteson. Along with executive director Turnquist, the Orchard House Board of Directors and its many dedicated staff and volunteers are looking forward to this opportunity for progressive outreach.
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Cavalera Conspiracy Unveil 'Babylonian Pandemonium' Video
The release of Cavalera Conspiracy's latest album 'Pandemonium' is less than two weeks away. Watch the new video 'Babylonian Pandemonium' now!
The release of Cavalera Conspiracy's latest album 'Pandemonium' is less than two weeks away. Watch the new video 'Babylonian Pandemonium' now!
From the band's upcoming album, 'Pandemonium,' here's the world premiere of the disc's opening track, 'Babylonian Pandemonium.'
Cavalera Conspiracy have set a Nov. 4 street date for their upcoming 'Pandemonium' album.
Check out our exclusive North American premiere of Cavalera Conspiracy's new song 'Bonzai Kamikaze.'
Is there anyone in rock with as many irons in the fire as Max Cavalera? In the years since his exit from Sepultura, the singer-guitarist initially focused his efforts on Soulfly before expanding his resume in recent years. The rocker has recently added Cavalera Conspiracy and now the supergroup Killer Be Killed to his "to-do" list and he'll be busy with all three acts this year.
The very busy Max Cavalera is hard at work on the third Cavalera Conspiracy album with his brother Igor. The still untitled record is being recorded with producer John Gray (Soulfly).
When Cavalera Conspiracy return, they will have a new face joining them and a brand new support system behind the scenes. Blabbermouth reports that the group just announced that Converge's Nate Newton has joined the band, taking over for Johny Chow. The band has also inked a deal with Napalm Records.