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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- A Morrisville man pleaded guilty to attacking and stabbing another man at a Strafford storage unit.
Jimmy W. Alsup was to have gone on trial Monday on charges of first-degree assault, armed criminal action and second-degree burglary, but changed his plea late last week and was sentenced by Circuit Judge Thomas Mountjoy.
Alsup stabbed a man several times in the abdomen after interrupting a break-in at his storage unit at 323 E. Old Route 66 in October of 2012, according to court documents.
The man who was stabbed told police that he and his son went to the unit and saw an SUV parked outside of it, with many of his personal belongings inside. The man told investigators he took the keys out of the SUV and was letting the air out of one of the tires so the burglar couldn't get away, when he was confronted by Alsup.
Investigators later found the stabbing victim had damage to his spleen and colon. A probation officer led deputies to Alsup, saying Alsup contacted her and said he was the one who stabbed the man.
Alsup was sentenced to 15 year in prison on the assault charge, three years on the armed criminal action and seven years on other charges. Prison terms are to run concurrently, according to court documents.
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Moscow Mills, MO (KSDK) -- A bank account has been established and donations are being accepted for a Lincoln County family that lost everything in a house fire earlier this week.
Richard and Alyce Lantrip awoke Wednesday evening around 10 p.m. to the sound of their wood burning stove, which they thought had been put out. A fire had started and spread quickly, engulfing an entire wall of their home.
Previous: House burns in Moscow Mills
The Lantrips scrambled to grab Richard's 13-year-old son and evacuate the house.
Firefighters from Lincoln County and Wentzville managed to extinguish the blaze, but the home was a total loss. The Lantrips survived with only the clothes they were wearing.
Friends and family had given the Lantrips some clothes to wear, and the couple is staying at a hotel in Troy for the time being thanks to donations from the local fire department.
Unfortunately, the Lantrips did not have insurance on their home and their immediate future remains muddled.
In addition to the picking up the tab for the hotel room, the Troy Fire Department, located at 700 Cherry Street, will be accepting hard donations and ensures the family receives any donations.
Clothing sizes for the family are:
Ricky Jr. - shirt: small/medium men's size
pants: 28/30
shoes: 9½
Alyce - shirt: small/medium
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Richard - shirt: large
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Using Visuals in Presentations for a Technical Audience
Published: August 23, 2010
In this edition of Ask UXmatters, our experts discuss how to use visuals in presentations for a technical audience.
Ask UXmatters is a monthly column, in which our panel of experts answers our readers' questions about user experience matters. To get answers to your own questions about UX strategy, design, user research, or any other topic of interest to UX professionals in an upcoming edition of Ask UXmatters, please send your questions to us at: [email protected].
The following experts have contributed answers this month:
- Valentin Alexeev—Lead Architect, Multimedia Solutions
- Jean-luc Doumont—Founding Partner at Principiae
- Jessica Enders—Principal at Formulate Information Design
- Jim Ross—Principal of Design Research at Electronic Ink; UXmatters columnist
- Whitney Quesenbery—Principal Consultant at Whitney Interactive Design; Past-President, Usability Professionals' Association (UPA); Fellow, Society for Technical Communications (STC); UXmatters columnist
- Jo Wong—Principal and Cofounder of Apogee Usability Asia Ltd.
Q: Our UX department has been asked to provide more visuals in our presentations to the development teams. What types of visualizations should we use when presenting to a technical audience?—from a UXmatters reader
The Power of Visuals
"Visual representations—drawings, graphs, photographs, and the like—are powerful communication tools indeed," replies Jean-luc, "but they are not a goal in themselves. Do not add any visualizations just because you have been asked to do so. Add them because you are convinced they help you get your message across.
adding another mode of communication to your presentations."—Whitney Quesenbery
"Visual representations are like Rorschach inkblot tests: what you see in the illustration you have created may not be what everyone else will see. You may thus want to test your illustrations on others, to see what they suggest to them. Better still, you can avoid ambiguity by stating your message verbally in a caption or as the headline of your slide. This statement should be a full sentence. Do not write what the illustration is—the what. Instead, state what you are trying to say with it—the so what."
"Don't add images—even if beautiful—to your slides just to make them more graphic," warns Whitney. "Instead, find data visualizations, images, annotated product images, or whatever that really support the points you are making—adding another mode of communication to your presentations."
Why Are They Asking for More Visuals?
"When someone asks for more visuals, they are suggesting a solution to a problem," responds Jessica. "I wouldn't take this solution on face value. Instead, like a good UX professional, try to find out more about the problem first.
"For example, can you ask what is it about the presentations they feel is difficult to understand or unappealing? Is it that they are finding it hard to imagine what you're describing? In that case, more screenshots—perhaps including callouts—might help. Or is there a lot of data that is hard to digest? In this case, solutions might come not only from visuals, but from other things as well—like telling a story; using an inverted pyramid approach, in which you provide a summary of the most important information first; or grouping your messages into threes. By thinking of the presentation as an interaction you need to design, with the development team as your target audience, you can use your UX tools to work out what changes you should make."
—Jim Ross
"Your development team probably wants two kinds of visuals: those illustrating the problems and those illustrating the solutions," answers Jim. "It's often difficult to effectively communicate problems and recommended solutions using text alone. By adding visuals that clarify your meaning, you can prevent misunderstandings. Use screenshots of a user interface to illustrate existing problems. Point out the problem areas with callouts. If necessary, annotate the visuals with brief text, explaining the problems.
"Video from usability testing or other user research sessions is another great way of showing problems. There is no better way to explain a usability problem than to let the development team see it happening to someone.
—Jim Ross
"When communicating the changes you're recommending your development team should make to a user interface, show them visualizations of your design solutions. If it's a small change, you can use a graphics program to modify a screenshot to show the changes. If it's a more complicated change, you'll probably need to mock up a completely new design before the team does any development work."
"You might want to think about what they're really asking for," suggests Whitney. "They may be asking you to tell them a story, instead of just plowing through a set of facts. Without seeing your presentations, it's hard to know how to answer your question, but there are several suggestions I can make."
Improving Your Entire Presentation
—Whitney Quesenbery
"Do your presentations make your point clear?" asks Whitney. "I see a lot of presentations that look more like notes for the speaker than information for the audience. Jean-luc Doumont has some excellent advice on how to construct a presentation slide:
- The title of the slide should be a crisp, clear statement of what you want the audience to remember. The so what.
- The body of the slide is the supporting evidence. Not a hint of what the evidence is, but the most salient and memorable reason why the title is true. The what.
"One way to think about this is that the slides should be the notes you want the audience to take—the memorable conclusions. This is called the Assertion-Evidence structure.
—Jean-luc Doumont
"Do you show how your points connect to the actual product you are talking about? If you are presenting results from a usability test, show the screen or product, so everyone can see the issues in context. Or show how your recommendations will transform the product. If you are presenting contextual information, use visuals to help the audience get the picture. Use imagery in your language to support the visual images."
"First think of the message you are trying to convey with a given slide—that is, the one sentence you want your audience to remember about it," recommends Jean-luc. "Write this sentence as the headline of your slide—it should fit on a maximum of two lines, or be about 12 words in length. Then, come up with a way to develop or illustrate this message visually. To avoid distractions, remove unnecessary details from your illustrations; for concepts, prefer schematic drawings to photographs. For an illustrated checklist of how to design slides, see my 'Checklist for Slides,' which I've adapted from my book Trees, Maps, and Theorems."
Presenting Information Using Multiple Channels of Communication
"Do you present information in more than one format?" queries Whitney. "A presentation combines spoken, written, and visual communication. You want all three to support each other, so your visuals should reinforce the main point you want to make."
Conveying Data Visually
"Representations such as drawings and photographs are condemned to be concrete," states Jean-luc. "They cannot easily convey a generic or abstract concept on their own. For example, it is hard to say dog generically with a picture. Even a simplified line drawing would suggest a specific breed, as well as a specific activity—walking, running, or sitting—an attitude, and so on. That said, schematic drawings do a better job than photographs at conveying something generic or abstract. Thus, if you need to show that something exists or what it looks like, use a photograph. If you want to explain how something works or how to complete a task, use a line drawing."
—Valentin Alexeev
"Development teams usually operate using models of different kinds," replies Valentin. "Such models describe either a product's momentary state or transitions from one state to another. In software development environments, this could be a data-model definition—as an example of a momentary state—or a sequence diagram, showing the transitions between task-related sets of components. Using only one type of model or another cannot give a complete overview of a system. For communicating UX design, the same types of models make sense. We use flow diagrams to define how one screen appears after another. To show a momentary state, we provide wireframes showing the most significant parts of a screen. I say screen here, but the same approach can apply to physical object design or human-to-human interactions.
"One of the better representations we use when designing applications is a moving mockup—that is, an automated playback of one or more scenarios. Each frame is a wireframe or graphic mockup, and the wireframes or mockups transition from one to another, as defined in the screen flow. Such mockups blend the two types of models I've described, providing in a consistent picture of a user interface.
—Valentin Alexeev
"As for the actual tools we use, of course, it would be better if we could use the same technology to draw our models as the development team uses when developing the actual product, but this is not always possible. So, since we also use flows and wireframes to communicate with our customers, we tend to choose a tool that can work for all audiences. We have used the Microsoft Office suite—particularly, Visio and PowerPoint—and Flash for our moving mockups. For notations, the models' language is quite simple. We define three or four main entities, and the whole description fits onto two PowerPoint slides."
"If you are showing quantitative evidence, make sure that the most important data is clearly visible," recommends Whitney. "For example—and this is from Doumont again— you don't need to show an entire scale on each axis. Instead, show the numbers that matter. Yes, this means you have to carefully craft the story the graph or diagram represents, not just shove a bunch of data points into a PowerPoint chart."
—Whitney Quesenbery
Telling Stories
"Getting back to the idea of making a presentation into a story," adds Whitney. "Think about how you would tell a close colleague about what you've learned. Do you drone on through a number of bullet points, or do you tell each other stories? If you can find a good story to support each of your points, you might find that the visuals and verbal points you need to illustrate with that story become much clearer."
As always, the answer to this question about what types of visualizations we should use when presenting to a technical audience is: "It depends on what you are trying to communicate and the objectives," advises Jo. "I would think of ways to touch the technical people's hearts—whether it's a graph; photos of customers, their environment or context of use, other products they use, or their friends and families; or storyboards that depict their stories. Tell the stories in a language a technical audience can relate to and focus on what's relevant."
Here are some resources that describe how to create clear presentation slides:
Alley, Michael, Editor. "Rethinking the Design of Presentation Slides: The Assertion-Evidence Structure." Writing Guidelines for Engineering and Science Students. Last updated September 2009. Retrieved August 12, 2010.
Doumont, Jean-luc. "Checklist for Slides." Principiae, 2009. Retrieved August 12, 2010.
—— "Creating Effective Presentation Slides (Audio Presentation)." IEEE Professional Communications Society, December 12, 2007. Retrieved August 12, 2010.
—— Trees, Maps, and Theorems. Belgium: Principiae, 2009.
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By Shruti Chakraborty
A chocolate wrapper tucked into the glass-holder of your car, a collection of toll tickets behind the steering wheel, an empty packet of chips on the backseat that your children left behind and a used wet wipe that you did not want to throw on the street. Does this paint a familiar picture? It may not be your car, but you have probably seen one that looks quite like this. Of course it collects in the car because you are not one of those who litter streets, and in all probability judge those who do.
Nupur Rajvanshi, 40, was a keen traveler to several countries with her husband Anshul, 44, while he was in the Merchant Navy and constantly faced a stark reality-streets overseas were cleaner than in India. A few years later, the couple designed a product they believed could resolve this glaring problem and set up Lighthouse Management Pvt. Ltd in Mumbai.
A bin for a car
The company was registered in 2008, but Rajvanshi started seriously fleshing out her plan of creating a commercially viable product only in mid-2010. "We had the idea of a car bin in our mind, but we were waiting for the right time to launch it," recalls Anshul, Co-Founder and Director, Lighthouse. On a friend's advice, also an entrepreneur, who woke the duo up to the reality that in entrepreneurship there was no such thing as 'the right time', they jump-started plans of starting up. "We had been researching the idea and our initial prototype was made using paper bags and cardboard, but these were not suitable for wet garbage. We then began working with plastic and cloth and came up with two models," says Rajvanshi, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Lighthouse.
From December 2010 till August 2011, the couple finalized designs of a car bin, suitable for both wet- and dry garbage generated in the car and filed a patent for the concept.
The result has been four models of car bins-two made from hard plastic and the others made with cloth, which is lined with waterproof material inside. The firm also provides customers with garbage bags to line these car bins. Affordably priced, three models are priced at Rs. 399 while the plastic model costs Rs. 499 as it is bigger in size. Each bin comes with a strap attached which can be put around the co-driver's seat with the help of a hook attached to the bin. "We did some market research to find out what would be convenient before we launched the product," explains Anshul.
Litter business
The product was launched in Mumbai as part of an anti-litter drive for which the Rajvanshis tied up with the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation in 2011. Over the next year, they spoke to a number of car retailers and manufacturers seeking potential tie-ups to make the product freely available in the market. They got lucky when in May 2012 these bins became mandatory for all public vehicles in Uttarakhand, after the husband-wife team explained the concept to the Mayor and City Magistrate. They have also received an order from Dubai, their first international order, but the founders refuse to divulge any details.
"The product is gaining popularity not only because the concept makes sense, but also because it is an eco-friendly initiative that companies encourage as it counts towards corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives," informs Anshul.
Toyota dealer Lakozy Toyota in Mumbai bought the product in bulk and distributed it to their customers. Ambarish Patil, General Manager(Services) at Lakozy Toyota says that this was part of a campaign for cleaner roads they ran in mid-2012, and received good response from customers when it was distributed free. However, while some customers suggested they sell these bins at their outlets, the company is still not sure it would have enough takers.
Co-branding is a service that Lighthouse has been offering Lakozy Toyota and now other companies too. The car bin carries the logo for both-the specific company and Lighthouse. For Tata Motors, one the first big customers Lighthouse secured, the startup manufactures and brands bins with the Tata Motors logo on it. Tata Motors then sells this as an original accessory. Rajiv Madhavan, Deputy General Manager (Accessories) at Tata Motors met the couple about three years ago, when they started serious work on their business. Madhavan says the product has come a long way and Tata Motors began dealing with them about two and a half years ago. Madhavan informs that the bins were displayed by Tata Motors at the Auto Expo 2012 held in January in New Delhi.
Besides selling through car showrooms and manufacturers, the founders have reached out to car accessory portals online but are yet to finalize a sales partnership. Alongside, they have directly established a network of distributors, one each in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Rajasthan, Goa, Karnataka, Delhi and Maharashtra.
Minor bumps
"We don't have any great technology in the product, it is only the concept," points out Anshul. The concept can be copied easily, even though a patent has been filed, Rajvanshi said, but this does not frazzle them in the least. "The concept needs to get popular first. People do not know what car bins are. If we have others in the market doing the same thing, more people will know about it," she affirms.
One of their biggest challenges has been the lack of visibility for the product, since limited access to finance hampered their plans to aggressively market it. "Another challenge that comes up," Madhavan explains, "is that people are often willing to spend Rs. 30,000 to Rs. 40,000 on a music system for their car but do not spend a few hundred rupees on an accessory like this. They just do not give it a thought."
Clean cars
So far, 20,000 cars have been fitted with Lighthouse bins generating a total turnover of Rs. 20 lakh for the company that has grown organically. Marketing the product is currently their biggest investment. "While we have not asked for funding yet, we will look to raise funds from an angel investor or venture capitalist soon," says Anshul.
Manufacturing is currently undertaken at a facility in Mumbai and they produce 1,000 pieces of plastic bins and 500 fabric ones per day. "The facility is not ours, but the moulds are. Being a startup, we need to focus on marketing and therefore have not invested in setting up our own manufacturing unit," explains Rajvanshi. The founders are members of the Mumbai chapter of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), a non-profit organization that fosters entrepreneurship globally, and have received mentoring from them.
Rajvanshi's passion for the concept is apparent. She says it can also be used in trains where people stash trash under seats or throw it on the tracks. In fact, its scope can be extended to other modes of transport like auto-rickshaws, buses and trucks as well.
Trash Tab
Launch date: August 2011
Cars with bins: 20,000
Price points: Rs. 399, Rs. 499
Total Investment: Rs. 60 lakh (Personal savings and bank loan)
Revenues till date: Rs 20 lakh
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Just a quick mention, but still gets our name out there!
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Blythe is mentioned in the same article, as was our comeback!
Green hills for thy throne, and for crown a golden melody/Ringing in the hearts of all who bring thee love and loyalty/Dear Alma Mater, make our spirits great
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Its like deja vu, i swear this has all been mentioned somewhere........
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Ah, you are right. Sorry for the repeat. I am way behind on this one .
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Every new parent waits excitedly for their offspring's first words, but many are in the dark when it comes to identifying language difficulties and delays. How many words should a child be speaking at age two, and what does it mean if they're lagging behind?
Fear not – the answer is at hand. Researchers at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania have devised a simple checklist to help parents determine whether their child is at risk of language-related difficulties, and say that early identification of any issues could allow parents to seek early intervention to minimise the chances of ongoing problems.
The study found that children who could speak fewer than 50 words at two years of age were more likely to struggle with vocabulary, grammar and reading ability as teenagers.
They were also more likely to be diagnosed with conditions such as autism, hearing impairment and other developmental delays.
The 15-year study followed a group of 40 children who had been diagnosed as late talkers, but who were otherwise developing normally.
While most of the children had caught up by four or five years of age, they remained slightly behind their peers in vocabulary, grammar and reading throughout their school years, and researchers suggest that this is a result of their late speech development.
In addition, while around 80% of those who were behind at age two were simply 'late bloomers', those who were still behind at age three may need language therapy to help them catch up.
To help parents and health professionals identify toddlers at risk of language delays, study author Professor Leslie Rescorla developed a checklist of 310 basic words which children come across in everyday life. A child with average speaking ability would be using 150 to 200 of the words on the list, while those who used less than 50 at age two could be considered to have some degree of delay.
Professor Rescorla also stressed the importance of spending time talking to your child, and not relying on television or computer programmes to teach your child to speak.
'Children really need to have people talk to them in order for them to acquire a language - not that they don't learn anything from videos and television, but really they need language partners,' she says.
More on language:
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From a national perspective this year's hurricane season will be described using two words, "above average". From a local perspective however, we will be using two different words, "Hurricane Irene". The 2011 hurricane season was predicted to be a year with more activity in the Atlantic and not only did the forecast verify, but it also delivered a substantial amount of rain, wind and damage to eastern Carolina…all in a single weekend.
For locations like Florida, Georgia and South Carolina it was a pretty quiet year. Unfortunately, quiet for them turned historical for us. A small jaunt north of these states to Morehead City and you'll find the birthplace of the deadliest and costliest tropical season in the last three years. It is here that Hurricane Irene made landfall.
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Inmate shift quickly filling some California jails
SACRAMENTO, Calif. Two months into California's most far-reaching public safety realignment in decades, some counties are seeing a higher-than-expected influx of inmates who could crowd jails to the breaking point much earlier than expected.
State corrections officials say it is too soon to panic and expect the numbers to even out after an initial surge.
But reality is settling in as local law enforcement agencies struggle to contain criminals with a history of violence, substance abuse and mental illness who previously would have been tucked away in state prisons.
Los Angeles County had said its more than 22,000 jail beds could be full by Christmas, although officials now have pushed the projection back by several months. Officials in the state's most populous county are eying early release of less serious offenders and considering alternatives to jail, such as tracking criminals with GPS-linked ankle bracelets.
In Orange County, more than 60 detainees recently had to sleep on the jail floor until beds could be made available. That evokes recent images from state prisons, which were so overcrowded that inmates were housed in three-tier bunk beds in gymnasiums and day rooms.
Fresno County no longer will incarcerate parole violators to keep from crowding its 2,427-bed jail. Parolees could still go to jail if they commit new crimes, but not for violating parole conditions.
The changes are the result of a law that took effect Oct. 1 that shifts responsibility for thousands of lower-level criminals from the state to local jurisdictions. Only defendants convicted after that date are affected.
Judges no longer can send offenders to state prison for crimes such as auto theft, burglary, grand theft and drug possession for sale. Conrad Murray, convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the death of singer Michael Jackson, will serve his four-year sentence in Los Angeles County jail, where his sentence will automatically be cut in half due to state law.
Inmates currently in state prison will complete their full sentences there, but parole violators who previously would have been returned to state prison now can only be incarcerated in county jails.
The law was driven by the state's budget deficit and a federal court order, recently upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, requiring California to reduce its prison population by 33,000 inmates as a way to improve medical care.
"We anticipated some bumps in the road, and there have been," said Merced County Sheriff Mark Pazin, president of the California State Sheriffs' Association.
He said the unexpected increase in the number of convicts coming to county jails has been the biggest problem to date.
The surge in some counties appears to be "a bubble" created because defense attorneys delayed sentencings until after the new law took effect so their clients would do their time in county jails instead of state prisons, said Dana Toyama, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The department projects the rate will level off in the coming months, she said.
If the trend continues, however, local law enforcement officials may have to lobby state legislators not only for more money but to shift some crimes back under state jurisdiction so offenders would again go to state prison, Fresno County Chief Probation Officer Linda Penner said.
"It was a massive overhaul of a very large system," said Penner, who is president of the Chief Probation Officers Association of California. "I think we have to watch it for a while before we can go in and ask for legislative change."
The early trends and responses are as varied as California's 58 counties, each of which is taking a different approach under a law designed to give local jurisdictions more flexibility and responsibility for their own wrongdoers.


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This video explains the basics of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems.
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Also check the blog...with the Rearward-facing video camera footage, no less.
Also check the blog...with the Rearward-facing video camera footage, no less.
Wow! I would be done riding for that week.
Dang! I am sooo glad I went through everything to see this. Kudos to him for this!
I wish I had the money for two cameras!!
I cannot believe the response from the city. Well... maybe I can, but it sucks!
Go Jeff!!!
There's supposed to be a follow-up article in the next day or two.
How often do you guys ride while the snow is still falling and the plows are out? I couldn't bring myself to do such a thing. There are always single and multi car accidents around here when it snows and it isn't really that safe to be out in a car, nevermind on a bike! I'd be worried about getting hit accidently by a car or a plow.
I ride in the snow whenever I can. It's usually at night, and I hadn't had any trouble before or since this incident.
However, when I can't get off right away, I expect the drivers to have at least a minimum concern for my safety. A couple weeks ago the ruts were so bad I couldn't steer to the side when a phalanx of three plows was overtaking me. To their credit, all three drivers pulled up their blades and went into the next lane to overtake me. And they didn't even spray me with salt--as has happened to me in the past.
Anyway, I admire you for reporting this to Bob Mionske and following through with the supervisor and the police. I also admire your bike handling skills in the snow. You do a lot better than I do!
"Think Outside the Cage"
Also Clifbar, you were really hauling ass in that vid! What kinda tires are you riding on? I'm guessing it's something fairly narrow cause that snow looked heavy to me, or was it light fluffy stuff?
Edit: After reviewing the video there doesn't seem to be as much snow as I recalled.
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There's no excuse for this plow driver's behavior, the risks accepted by the cyclist are never an accuse for assault with a deadly weapon (plow).
I accept that all plows will be driven at the edge of control by someone who may not have slept for a day. If there is a plow gaining on me, I bail as soon as I can, whether in a car or on a bike. Bailing is easier on a bike - that's a key reason for riding under these conditions. It's not just safety and common courtesy - if the snow is deep enough so that I can't go quite as fast as the plow, it's a good bet that I can match the speed of the plow once it passes and I am riding/driving on the cleared road. There it is - help other road users by allowing the plow top go faster, maintain safety, and have a faster and easir trip to my destination. It is inconcievable to me that someone would not do this.
Based upon the video, the plow driver was operating relatively safely. He turned out of the way and appeared to give a normal passing margin. There is always a wall of flying snow when a plow passes - that's why you always should bail. The cyclist was selfish and, in the end, likely delayed himself by failing to immediately pull over. I feel the resulting exchange of complaints was destructive to the cause of winter cycling and could encourage people to drive, rather than cycle, during a storm -- a result that would complicate snow removal and increase congestion.
Everyone has their own safety limits, but I generally avoid moderate to high traffic roads during and directly after a snow fall because I know I can't trust drivers.
Many of them feel it's your fault if they kill you. The peep hole drivers are the scariest. You've seen the ones peeking through a soft ball size hole in the snow because obviously clearing the entire windshield would be too time consuming.
In spite of all of that though, you absolutely have a right to use the road, and it's even more unforgivable for a city employee and professional driver to threaten your life.
I don't see it as being inordinately dangerous as long as you can keep the bike upright. If I can't keep it upright, I'll walk--but that doesn't happen very often or very long. (In my five winters of bike commuting I walked to work twice.)
My feeling is always "I'd sure hate to be driving when the weather's this bad!"
"Think Outside the Cage"
Toronto has a substantial year-round cycling population and I have never heard of anything like this happening. Most cars travel pretty slow in the snow, to the point that they are generally going slower than I ride.
Perhaps things are different where you ride.
Wow .... just wow.
What is it about riding a bicycle that makes even our sworn police officers ignore the law? To make matters worse, the other officials ALL feel the same. Their obvious answer = get the hell of the road with that bike!
Our answer ............ we're going to fight for our rights until you pry our collective cold, dead fingers from around our handle bars!
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So in the dream, I'm Harry Potter, and He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named has captured me and imprisoned me in his retail office. And what does he do next? He puts me to work registering all his Dell Optiplexes at the Dell support site. The atmosphere is more than a bit strained I hate Dells!
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had a call to my mobile but missed it but it showed the number 01768729405 i have tried to return the call because i am expecting an important call myself,but when you ring the number it is always engaged lol.
Got a call from 01768729405 at 11.55 today and a woman asked for me by name. She then asked "Was I in debt and needed a loan to pay it off?" "Where did she get my name?" I asked. "Were you not on the computer looking for a loan?", she asked. I don't use a computer...... (my husband is typing this for me)
What a cheek to ask me such a personal question.
I told her that I was not in debt and please remove my details from their database.
Have now blocked this number. I have been getting calls everyday. very annoying.
I too have had several calls from them today asking for Lynn.
I won't be answering any further calls from them and put a block on the phone for that number.
Has anyony tried reporting this number??
Phoned 3 times today wish they would leave us alone
Silent calls to my landline 4 times a day everyday!
What's the phone number for Watch Dog? My partner suspects this phone number to be a prank or rogue trader. Please get onto it. Thanks ;)
This number use to phone my landline every day just last month. But this one kept on asking for a bloke named Derek. At first it was just a normal voice of a man. This same man rang so many times that I lost count. It was always Derek he asked for, even though I clearly stated to him that there's no such person living here and that's he has obviously rung the wrong number. Once when I asked what number did he want for Derek he didn't know what to say and I got cross with and told him not to ring my number again. He, obviously, blatantly ignored my wishes. After I'd hung up I dialled 1471 to see if there was a number attached to him and there was, which I wrote down to keep as a record in case he started again. Which he has! Now when I told my landlords about this one of them rang him up and told him to remove my landline number from his database because he had told my landlord he was an accountant.
Since that point it went quiet for a while; right up until yesterday (24th October). At 15:23 the same man phoned again but he tried to cover up his ordinary voice with a stupid accent when he said hello. The way it came out from him was this: Hallooo!; and promptly asked for "Derek". I gave him what for by telling him to stop pestering me and to get rid of my number.
If he rings tomorrow I plan to threaten him with the police by telling him the police know exactly where he is and are going to be on their way when it suits them. I want to make him sweat and see if that stops him from phoning my landline.
He isn't from the company Trust Money that #76421 has said. He's lying to everyone he phones. Has he asked for a "Derek" to all that he phones? If you find any real valid answers for me and all the others here, please let me know. This sounds more and more like spam to me. This man's warped.
I just had a call, didn't answer it. If they ring again I may have some fun now I know who they are. Thanks guys!!
Who are these people can any one get these calls stopped
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The final rules allow companies from any sector to apply for new bank licences, dropping language in earlier drafts that would have kept out brokers and those in the real estate business. Though these changes are in line with the views of the finance ministry, which had batted for brokers and realtors, the new guidelines contain enough subjectivity for RBI to reject applications from those it deems unsuitable for the banking business.


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Shadowrun Dragonfall Expansion Arrives In January
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Following an uber-successful Kickstarter campaign and subsequent uber-successful launch, Shadowrun Returns is ready to dish out a brand new batch of content for its faithful players to enjoy as the Dragonfall expansion gets ready to launch early next year.
Set to arrive in January, developer Harebrained Schemes describes Dragonfall as a major expansion for their cyberpunk meets fantasy RPG, offering up a second full-length campaign to work through, expanded features and a nice little bundle for those who havent gotten in on the action just yet.
Available for Windows, OSX and Linux, the Dragonfall expansion takes place in the city of Berlin, where controlled chaos rules the streets as megacorps, political factions and creative criminals vie for power.
A place where almost anything goes, and the right connections can be the difference between success and starvation, according to the official statement from Harebrained Schemes. Dangerous jobs abound and theres no better place to earn a quick paydayprovided you live long enough to spend it. For you and your team of battle-scarred runners, its just another day in the Free City of Berlin.
For those unfamiliar with Shadowrun, its a unique blend of genres as, in the year 2054, magic returns to the world and blends with metal and flesh. Humans with augmentations and the ability to cast spells, mythological creatures and monsters best left in the shadows live together in a society held together by the thinnest of threads. Players take on the role of shadowrunners, mercenaries living on the fringes of society, surviving day-by-day on skill and instinct alone.
The game proper is readily available right this very moment, but the Dragonfall expansion wont be out until early 2014. The new Dragonfall campaign will go for $14.99 when it launches, and it will require the original game to be played. No worries, though, as you can also pick up a Shadowrun Campaign Pack, which includes the original RPG and the Dragonfall DLC (when it releases) for just $24.99. If you havent jumped into the world of Shadowrun Returns just yet, thats definitely the way to go.
Im delighted that our Kickstarter backers chose Berlin as the location for our next big expansion, said Harebrained founder Jordan Weisman. Its the perfect setting to show off all of the new gameplay and features weve added in this expansion. Our design team has done a fantastic job of building on the work we started with Shadowrun Returns. I couldnt be happier.
In this new expansion, the city of Berlin is on the brink of destruction as rumors of the Dragonfall begin to circulate, a mysterious event that could change the world forever.
Along with the new campaign and locale, Dragonfall boasts small team commands, new weapons and gear, the ability to save anywhere and new game editor features, something that gamers have desperately been asking for. In short, youre basically looking at a brand new Shadowrun game with all sorts of shiny new bells and whistles.
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It is always such a pleasure to read a thoughtful review of my book. This one at a lovely blog called 'a gallimaufry' has made my evening.
"The photographs, especially in Bathes' response to the child of the Winter Garden Photograph, capture the space of love….."
"I was at the door of the hotel, horrified at seeing in the Alameda people go by who seemed to be made of wood. I rushed to the roof of the hotel and wept there, looking at the chained city below my feet, the city it was my duty to liberate. Coming down to Catherine's room, I begged her to look at my face; I said to her: "Don't you see that it is the exact representation of the world?" She refused to listen to me and put me out of her room."
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At Estancia Christina I took a four-hour horseback ride. It was not one of those nose-to-tail plodding along rides so often offered for tourists. This was for experienced riders and it was just me and the guide. The only problem was that he didn't speak hardly any English and I don't speak hardly any Spanish. All went well, but I think I would have learned more about the history and geography of the area if we could have communicated. We rode across flat lands, up and down hills, and crossed four streams. We stopped at a lake for the lunch we carried in the saddle bags, then headed back. On the way back we came to five or six horses feeding on the range and drove them back to the corral. By the time we were done my neck and shoulders were aching from the stress on the herniated disk in my neck from trotting and loping.
We had another good meal with fine wine. When I got back to my room there was a small bottle of champagne on ice waiting for me. My neck and shoulders still ache.


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About Me: Growing up is never easy but l have learnt so much in the past 28years.With my pride and joy Ndinashe who is 10 years old l continue with my journey with stronger and wiser heart .Full of ambition and enthusiasm as l take the steps of a woman who know it takes me to stand up and say l AM l CAN I HAVE because of the beauty within me.
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My Challenges: Growing up as a young single mother in an African society
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Online Textbooks Let Teachers Freely Alter ContentHannah Tennant-Moore
Technology is changing the classroom in all sorts of questionable ways this week. This latest innovation is not nearly as nefarious as schools using webcams to check up on students at home, but it does raise some serious ethical questions.
Macmillan, one of the nation's largest textbook publishers, is launching new software called DynamicBooks, which will allow professors to customize online textbooks. According to the New York Times, "Professors will be able to reorganize or delete chapters; upload course syllabuses, notes, videos, pictures and graphs; and perhaps most notably, rewrite or delete individual paragraphs, equations or illustrations."
That is, without consulting the textbook publisher or author–or alerting students, parents, or anyone else–professors will be able to alter historical facts and scientific principles. Students will then be able to download these customized e-textbooks to their laptops or I-phones.
No doubt the majority of professors will use their increased power for good–expanding sections that are most pertinent to their particular curriculum, for instance. But there's also no doubt that there will be at least some professors who rewrite textbooks for personal reasons, such as to reflect, or at least hint at, a belief in Intelligent Design rather than evolution.
Regardless of potential professorial abuses, it makes me nervous to see textbooks headed so clearly in the direction of electronic media. Call me old-fashioned, but I just don't think it's the same mental experience to sit in a Starbucks with your I-phone (text message break!) as to sit in a spacious, silent library with a heavy book opened before you, pen in hand poised to take notes.
Would you be wary of sending your kid to a school that used DynamicBooks, or excited to see a college making use of the latest technological innovations?
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Gold and Dollar Pop on Euro Debt CrisisSubmitted by asiablues on 05/25/2011 13:01 -0400
For now, the markets seem to be pricing in an eventual orderly resolution of the Greek debt crisis. As long as a unified and clear solution remains elusive to the Euro Zone, euro would continue to weaken against the dollar, while gold would prosper on fear and uncertainty.
Slow Relief at the Pump As Gasoline Decouples From Crude OilSubmitted by asiablues on 05/14/2011 14:17 -0400
With the record retreat in crude oil prices, many consumers are expecting big retail price drops by Memorial Day weekend. But this time around, the decoupling of gasoline and crude oil would mean gasoline prices may be harder to drop.
Speculation Does Not Explain High Oil and Gasoline Prices? Please!!Submitted by asiablues on 05/07/2011 12:24 -0400
It looks like there are more people living right next door to the U.S. Fed in the ivory tower, and just as detached from reality, when it comes to the crude and gasoline markets.
A Sunday Vertical Drop of Gold, Silver, Platinum and PalladiumSubmitted by asiablues on 05/01/2011 20:43 -0400
It looks like the recent margin hikes by CME and MF Global finally took their toll on the Silver market.
Physical Silver Investors Are Being Hoodwinked by the Futures MarketSubmitted by asiablues on 04/26/2011 00:18 -0400
The Silver market is in a bubble stage right now. No one really knows how long this will last, whether Silver goes up another $5, 10, 20 doesn`t really matter for investors who are buying the physical metal in the form of coins because when the bubble ends they are going to be sitting on a depreciating asset.
QE2 is Damaging the Economy and Reducing GDP GrowthSubmitted by asiablues on 04/25/2011 20:52 -0400
On almost any metric applied, QE2 ends up not only falling well short of its proposed goals, but actually turns certain metrics like GDP growth negative compared with the prior quarter, and heading in the wrong direction.
The Fed Must End QE2 on April 27thSubmitted by asiablues on 04/23/2011 19:04 -0400
The Federal Reserve has lost all credibility on Wall Street, and most of the American public with the absolute refusal to recognize the dire effects on asset prices that QE2 has created. But the refusal is part of the problem.
Rein in Rampant Speculation Or Face The Black Silver SwanSubmitted by asiablues on 04/23/2011 10:48 -0400
If you think the crude oil market has gone totally out of control in the past month or so, observe the silver market, which has basically gone parabolic the past week.
All's Fair in Coffee and SugarSubmitted by asiablues on 04/22/2011 20:54 -0400
Although Kraft and Starbucks each has found new partners after their bitter breakup, surging prices of coffee (34-year high) and sugar (30-year high in Feb.) could bring margin and cost pressures in the food and coffee sector.
15 Things You Might Not Know About StarbucksSubmitted by asiablues on 04/22/2011 00:11 -0400
McDonald's coffee customers are more loyal than Starbucks', and there's a web site founded 10 years ago dedicated to oppose Starbucks ....
Oil Price Battle of The Big BanksSubmitted by asiablues on 04/19/2011 17:25 -0400
A broad commodity selloff was partly attributed to Goldman's rare and surprise crude oil bear call, but BofA Merrill Lynch says not so fast, while gloves are off at BarCap.
An Intelligence Network For Supply Chain Energy Commodities ForecastingSubmitted by asiablues on 04/16/2011 17:37 -0400
In recent years, instability in the price of energy sources and basic feedstocks — including oil and natural gas — has prompted companies to place more emphasis on supply chain market intelligence and business intelligence.
U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve: What's the Trigger Release?Submitted by asiablues on 04/11/2011 17:00 -0400
WTI, Brent or Gasoline?
Oil Market Speculation Argument to be Tested by WTI Rollover CycleSubmitted by asiablues on 04/04/2011 20:40 -0400
The Oil market right now looks more like a Vegas style casino, but this April WTI rollover cycle would test the long standing argument that markets are never run-over by speculators.
Red Herring: Libya Oil Exports Offline Indefinitely?Submitted by asiablues on 04/03/2011 04:40 -0400
There were some interesting developments coming out of Libya suggest that much of the fear that Libya oil export could be offline for years or even 'indefinitely' seems to be somewhat hyperbole, and a bit of a red herring.