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Roosevelt High School won first place and Garfield finished second at the 2008 Essentially Ellington high-school jazz-band competition in New York. Five Seattle-area jazz bands were finalists.
NEW YORK CITY — Roosevelt High School placed first and Garfield got second place at this weekend's Essentially Ellington high-school competition, widely regarded as the Cadillac of jazz competitions.
Shorewood (from Shoreline) won an honorable mention.
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Some had wondered if the Puget Sound area would sweep the contest this year; out of 15 finalists chosen nationally, five were local. No region has ever sent five bands to Ellington before.
Roosevelt won the competition for an unprecedented third time; by winning the competition twice in a row, it matched Garfield's first-place repeat in 2003-04.
The rivalry between the two schools has played out on this national stage for the past decade — Roosevelt and Garfield also finished 1-2 in 2002 — and this year's judges said the contest was extremely close.
Third place went to Sun Prairie High School, from Wisconsin.
The other Puget Sound-area finalists were Mountlake Terrace and South Whidbey.
Saturday afternoon, Wynton Marsalis, artistic director of contest sponsor Jazz at Lincoln Center, announced the top three bands without revealing who won first, second or third. The winner announcement followed the concert later that night, when the top three bands performed with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.
Acknowledging the Northwest's dominance at Ellington, Marsalis said, his tongue only half in cheek, "I'm challenging you all to do something about Seattle and Washington."
"It does seem to come down to Garfield and Roosevelt," said Clarence Acox, band director from Garfield, surrounded by jubilant students and parents after Saturday afternoon's announcement. "Scott [Brown, director at Roosevelt] and I have been battling for years."
Despite the domination of Roosevelt and Garfield, the area's jazz excellence goes beyond those two high schools. In the past 10 years, Puget Sound-area bands have won the competition five times, and nearly one-third of the national finalist slots have been won by Washington bands.
The contest itself is just one aspect of the Essentially Ellington festival experience. It began Thursday with a pep talk from Marsalis, followed by workshops and rehearsals with Jazz at Lincoln Center mentors, a banquet and a jam session. Friday's activities included an open rehearsal with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. At night, students fanned out to jazz clubs and Broadway shows, taking in everything from "Phantom of the Opera" to trumpeter Tom Harrell, at the Village Vanguard.
"The atmosphere is really cool," said Shorewood trumpeter Chris Stewart, 17. "At other festivals, you play your tunes and it's over. Here, the whole three days, everything is jazz."
As in past years, bands performed music by Duke Ellington, chosen from a list of 19 tunes, six of which were new to the competition. Favorites were a difficult piece showcasing soloists, "Jam-A-Ditty"; the beautiful dirge "Blue Serge"; and Ellington's showcase for three clarinets, "The Mooche."
Student performances were judged by a panel of four: Marsalis; composer, arranger, conductor and Ellington authority David Berger; Reggie Thomas, a professor of music at Southern Illinois University; and renowned clarinetist and band leader Bob Wilber.
Jazz at Lincoln Center started the festival in 1996 and opened it to schools west of the Mississippi in 1999. It provides scores of Ellington's music, and bands submit recordings to compete for the finals. This year, 83 bands entered.
That number is significantly down from some previous years, when nearly 180 bands applied. Joanna Massey, the assistant director of education, speculated about the drop-off.
"Unfortunately, there are many bands that have applied and have been repeatedly unsuccessful, so they have decided to not submit."
Other reasons, she said, might be strapped finances and student testing, a factor because many school administrations are loath to let students spend time out of class preparing for Ellington.
Next year, the music of Benny Carter will be included in the competition repertoire. A new composer will be folded in every year.
Massey said Marsalis had always planned to include other composers, but started with Ellington as a base.
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"Have you had anything to drink today?"
That was among several questions researchers asked drivers in West Valley. The drivers volunteered for a roadside survey on impaired driving.
It was anonymous. In fact, KIMA couldn't record them. So, we volunteered to see how it works.
"About how old were you when you first started drinking?"
The researcher asked about drinking habits: how many drinks consumed in a week, a year and so on.
Researchers stood near Nob Hill Boulevard and 72nd Avenue offering drivers $10 for a breathalyzer test and $50 for a blood sample.
"We have had a great response," said Shelly Baldwin, program manager for the Washington Traffic Safety Commission. "We had seven bays open. Drivers were happy to participate."
Drivers answered questions and provided samples in the parking lot of the West Valley Church of the Nazarene.
This statewide effort tries to count the number of impaired drivers in Washington. The results will also give researchers a benchmark to compare with later surveys after pot shops open for business this summer.
"The data that we're going to gather from the survey is going to be invaluable to us as we try to make public policy decisions around impaired driving," said Baldwin.
We took the breathalyzer test, were tested for drugs and got a warning from the tester.
"If you are unable to drive home safely, we will provide you with free transportation."
Drivers who are impaired get help going home, or to a hotel room to dry out.
"Go ahead and make a fist."
Then came the blood sample, before heading back to the car, no worse for the wear, one of 900 samples the state expects to collect.
There will be more surveys throughout the weekend around Yakima and Spokane Counties. Surveys in other counties will be done later this month.

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Season 2010/11
Accesscard seats on sale for Liverpool
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Tickets for City's first home game of 2010/11 are now on sale to Accesscard holders with 20 loyalty points or more.
And we kick off with one of the most anticipated games of any season – the visit of Liverpool.
City will be itching to get their home campaign off to a flying start, but the Reds will be smarting at finishing below City last season, and new manager Roy Hodgson never lost a league encounter at the City of Manchester Stadium whilst in charge of Fulham.
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Burford Hall, which is coed by floor, houses 220 first year students in premium rooms. It is a part of First Year Initiative program (FYI).
Amenities include: TV lounge, meeting space, laundry facilities, vending area and is close to Sycamore Dining. Each room is equipped with one wired Ethernet outlet, basic cable TV, telephone jack (which can be activated for an additional monthly charge), and there is wireless Internet service throughout the hall.
Burford offers premium rooms which are air-conditioned, double occupancy with private bath. Each room has a bed, desk, desk chair, dresser and closet area for each resident. Beds in Burford can be bunked or students can rent a loft.
Each floor has a Resident Assistant (RA) who is there to assist the residents, program for the floor/hall, and to make sure the floor is conducive for both studying and sleeping. In addition, Burford has Academic Peer Advocates (APA) on each floor to assist the residents with their academic transition to ISU.
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Renée Zellweger is an actress and producer. Zellweger first gained widespread attention for her role in the film Jerry Maguire (1996), and subsequently received two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her roles as Bridget Jones in the comedy Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), and as Roxie Hart in the musical Chicago (2002). She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama Cold Mountain (2003).
Renée Zellweger has won an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and a BAFTA Award; was named Hasty Pudding's Woman of the Year in 2009; and established herself as one of the highest-paid Hollywood actresses as of 2007.
How Renée Zellweger Made Her Money – Acting
Estimated Net Worth: $45 Million
Birthday: April 25, 1969


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Influence of external shear and strain on baroclinic vortex alignment
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AbstractThe influence of an external strain (or shear) field on the evolution of two identical vortices at different depths is investigated in a two-layer quasi-geostrophic model. The external deformation can include a time-varying component. Using point vortex modeling, symmetric equilibrium positions for the vortex doublet are identified and their stability is computed. A time- varying external field can induce resonances on both harmonic and subharmonic frequencies. A slow time amplitude equation is then computed for the vortex trajectories around their equilibrium positions ; its solutions are compared successfully to numerical simulations of a baroclinic point vortex model. The evolution from regular to chaotic trajectories when the external field amplitude grows, is analyzed. Finite-area vortices exhibit the classical regimes of alignment or of co-rotation when submitted to external strain and rotation, but they can also remain stationary at the location of the neutral points for the equivalent point vortices, or oscillate around these positions. Another regime is evidenced, in which originally very distant vortices are advected towards the center of the plane by the large-scale flow, and finally merge. Thus, in a dense field of coherent structures, neighboring vortices can favor the vertical alignment of two central vortices, despite the erosion that they induce on these vortices.
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Lars von Trier is not a brother who provokes a neutral response: there are those who feel he can do no wrong, and then there are naysayers like me. Although I consider Dancer in the Dark one of the best movies of the last decade, I swore I'd never sit through another of his films after suffering through the school-play machinations of Dogville. A guy who so unilaterally criticizes America without ever having stepped foot on its soil deserves a similar boycott, I declared.
But now that he's taken psychological projection to unprecedented proportions, he's become downright fascinating.
More navel-brandishing than navel-gazing, his last two films have served as gorgeous canvases upon which his worst fears and miseries are writ so large that they articulate the human condition with a grandeur normally only achieved by Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman. In 2009's Antichrist, for example, von Trier makes literal that most scorching of Freudian themes – castration – and his latest is by far the cleverest rendition of the strain of pre-2012 apocalyptic films circulating through cinemas. In it, he not only globalizes his own depressive and suicidal tendencies but renders them universal in the form of a deadly asteroid dubbed Melancholia hurtling directly toward planet Earth. Subtext as supertext; subconscious as supercosmos. Not to mention supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
She's always been a more nuanced actress than is widely recognized, radiating a weary patience that elevates even her most flatfooted projects (Marie Antoinette, Elizabethtown). But as Justine, the melancholic in question, she mines new colors in her work. This would be ironic since, like most depressives, von Trier's film is usually monochromatic in tone if not in its often-lush cinematography. But Dunst, who's been open about her own struggles with depression, seems liberated by the dark material – much like her character as she prepares for the end of a world she finds so painful.
The film is divided into two sections; the first, "Justine," consists of the character's horrific bridal party at the palatial estate of her sister Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg, as green at the gills as most of L.v.T.'s heroines). From the first scene, in which she and her new husband (Alexander Skarsgård, so housebroken that he's virtually unrecognizable from his True Blood incarnation), get stuck on a country road in their garishly large stretch limo, the point is clear: this girl doesn't fit in the materialistic (or arguably even the material) world. And yet, also like Lars himself, she's not terrible at manipulating these slick surfaces, a reality which only seems to exacerbate her self-loathing. (I've alway found it amusing that this pronounced anti-materialist makes films that look like Obsession commercials.) In fact, she's such an advertising whiz that her cad of a boss (Stellan Skarsgård) weasels for her help even in his wedding toast. Capitalists being von Trier's second-favorite scapegoat after bad mommies, this is one of the clunkiest notes of this film. Her tight smile is not.
By the beginning of "Claire," the film's second section, Justine is so catatonic that she can't keep her eyes open, let alone bathe or feed herself. Claire and her ever-irked husband (a brilliantly cast Kiefer Sutherland) do their best to prop her back up, but they're unhinged by the threat of the potentially lethal asteroid rushing toward Earth.
In what very well may be one of the loveliest moments in 2011 cinema, a panic-stricken Claire trails her sister as she steals into the woods. There, Justine offers her naked body to the moonlight like a sylph, like a siren, like a sister of no mercy. Only what is wild, what is wholly undoctored, is real to her. The rest, all of what humankind has created, is bullshit that deserves to be put out of its misery – including herself. No wonder she surrenders to the coming maelstrom with ecstasy.
In Melancholia, von Trier has created a mission statement of a masterpiece, one that reminds us that nihilism itself can serve as a legitimate form of creation, a means as well as The End. It's the ultimate inversion of the old hippie phrase "think global, act local," and, against all odds, it works.
Lisa Rosman writes the indieWire film blog New Deal Sally and has reviewed film for Marie Claire, Time Out New York, Salon.com, LA Weekly, Us Weekly, Premiere and Flavorpill.com, where she was film editor for five years. She has also commentated for the Oxygen Channel, TNT, the IFC and NY1. You can follow Lisa on twitter here.


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"Wolves Cry Under the Moon" is an allegorical black comedy that goes in as many circles as its characters. A collection of character studies loosely strung on a semi-road movie clothesline, Taiwanese pic starts intriguingly but starts running out of gas well before the halfway mark. Foreign sales look minimal.
"Wolves Cry Under the Moon" is an allegorical black comedy that goes in as many circles as its characters. A collection of character studies loosely strung on a semi-road movie clothesline, Taiwanese pic starts intriguingly but starts running out of gas well before the halfway mark. Foreign sales look minimal.Working again with novelist Kuo Cheng, who scripted his previous feature, the pointed but over-arcane "18" (1993), director Ho Ping constructs a potentially loaded yarn about the island's bottled-in, feudal mind-set, resulting as much from its geographical isolation as from its political non-status during the past half-century. Opening has the government suddenly announcing that the north-south highway, the island's main transportation artery, is to be closed for 12 hours beginning at 6 p.m. Result is chaos, with all overnight traffic forced onto minor roads. Various characters come into focus: a young hit man (To Tzong-hua), who has just iced a politician and hijacks an empty bus driven by an older, married man (Gu Bao-ming); a Gen-X hooker (Annie Shizuka Inoh) who steals a car and builds a cellular-phone relationship with its owner (composer Jerry Huang); and a high-strung chauffeur (Chang Shih) who hates his servile job and becomes more manic as the movie progresses. Also milling around like a Greek chorus are three traditional puppeteers with no wheels of their own and little idea of where they're headed. During its first half, the film is a clever, sometimes funny commentary on the fracturing of Taiwan's social order following its transition to democracy, the aimlessness of its younger generation and the frustrations of a people with too much wealth and energy and too little room and social smarts. But the malaise of the characters soon afflicts the movie itself, when it becomes annoyingly clear that Ho and Kuo have no idea how to combine these strands into a single movie or develop the characters beyond their initial quirks. The puppeteers' scatological humor will mean little to auds not versed in the island's local dialect, Hokkien. Most substantial relationship is between the hit man and bus driver, a meeting between young and old that sums up the change in social attitudes; liveliest character is the trashy hooker who, as played by Inoh (a local pop star more often in subdued roles in Hou Hsiao-hsien's pics), remains watchable even when she's doing nothing new. Final reel briefly re-stirs interest when the reason for closing the highway is made clear, but at over two hours it's a long wait for a punch line. All technical credits are fine. Chinese title roughly means "The National Way is Sealed Off," punning on the island republic's lack of escape routes.
Wolves Cry Under the Moon
A Scholar Films Co. production. (International sales: Taiwan Film Centre, Taipei.) Produced by Tsai Sung-ling. Executive producer, Lee Yao-ting. Directed by Ho Ping. Screenplay, Kuo Cheng, Ho, from short stories by Kuo.
Camera (color), Han Yun-chung; editor, Chen Po-wen; music, Jerry Huang; art direction, Chang Hung; sound (Dolby), Tu Duu-chih. Reviewed at London Film Festival, Nov. 15, 1997. (Also in Toronto, Vancouver festivals.) Running time: 122 MIN.
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'vein finders'
My ER director is asking for info on a 'vein finder'. I know there are a few out there now. Can anyone give me referrals to one they like?
I have info on the IRIS. Does anyone have experience with this one?
Results of trialing the new vein finders disappointing.
I trialed both the vein viewer and the acuvein in my facility. I had high hopes for the devices because we do not have an IV team or phlebotomy services and we have a lot of need for IVs and lab sticks by the nurses. Some of the nurses have little to no experience. The problem I found was that the devices were so good at finding veins that they would light up ones that no one should consider cannulating due to the capillary-size of them. A larger appropriate vein would look much dimmer and not bright and big. To test this for yourself, find a vein that you can see and that you would never consider sticking. Then look at how well the device makes it appear. Check the palm of your hand. The acuvein did not show the tiny ones quite as bad as the vein vision but it was enough of a problem for both that I decided they were not the right thing to have in our facility and especially should not be used by nurses with little experience. And for someone who did have experience, I found that they did not show any vein that was worth sticking that I could not already see or feel. There was a great wow factor, but that was all. I was very dissapointed. I do teach my nurses to use ultrasound to locate veins, and even though it is a higher skill, many of them do will with it. I have them locate the vein and then mark it in two places with the end of the plunger of the 10 ml saline flush they will be using. The dent is made by pressing gently for 5 seconds on the skin. (Other variations are a card edge for marking but we kept loosing it). (A surgical marking pen would be nice but the all seem to scrub off with the scrub). Maybe there is a type that is really permanent that I could use. After making the marks, they should check once again to assure that the marks are in the middle of the vein. Then they just set the ultrasound down, try to palpate the vein and scrub and poke just like normal. If the want to do it more advanced, they would actually hold the probe during insertion and do ultrasound-guided insertion but only 2 of my nurses do that and lots of them use the finding method. I have them look for veins that are not more than 1 cm down, so that they will have enough catheter to thread after canulating.
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Our hospital puchased three
Our hospital puchased three VeinViewers recently. We have been using them a month or so. From an IV therapist standpoint the device is helpful for those chronic patients that no longer have visible or palpable veins, especially in my field of pediatrics. Although, some of the time it just proves that there was nothing there to "stick" all along just like your initial assessment would have been without the technology. The Vein Viewers are available to all the staff as we are not a 24 hour IV therapy team. We have tried to stess that the device will not teach you how to "stick". So an experienced nurse needs to be using the device. We should have more feedback from staff later as we are following them with process improvement flowsheets.
Parrish Nored, RN , Vascular Access Nurse
Children's Hospital of Alabama
I am giving a presentation
I am giving a presentation at INS in June on vascular visualization technology. There are 2 types - visible light such as regular flashlights, Venoscope, etc and infrared light devices such as Vascular Viewer from IRIS and VeinViewer from Luninetx.
Visible light devices are cheap but they require the other lights to be out so they will work better. Some require extra hands to hold or may be in the way of the venipuncture procesure. Some people really have good success and others hate them - very personal issue.
Infrared light devices are capital equipment purchases and each has positives and negatives. The 2 devices use different infrared technology. You can call or email me privately to discuss. Lynn
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A/B Testing, Usability Engineering, Radical Innovation: What Pays Best?
Summary: 3 approaches to better design: each has its uses, but the costs, benefits, and risks differ dramatically.
Let's compare 3 different approaches to achieving better design:
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|Radical Innovation
|High (unless lucky)
|Who can do?
|How often?
|Every 10 years
|GDP impact
- A/B testing splits live traffic into two (or more) parts: most users see the standard design ("A"), but a small percentage sees an alternative design ("B"). After collecting statistically significant numbers, the design with the best KPI (key performance indicator, such as conversion or bounce rates) becomes the new standard. (One can test more than 2 design variations at a time through a related method called multivariant testing: for the sake of this article I'll lump these analytics methods together and talk about AB, regardless of the number of variables being measured.) As a form of web analytics — or intranet analytics — A/B testing has the huge advantage of testing live traffic to your website (or intranet).
- Usability refers to the full range of user-centered design (UCD) activities: user testing, field studies, parallel and iterative design, low-fidelity prototyping, competitive studies, and many other research methods. These types of studies usually require you to recruit test participants who should be representative of your target audience.
- Radical Design Innovation creates a completely new design that deviates from past designs rather than emerging from the hill-climbing methods used in more standard redesign projects. Example innovations include fundamental breakthroughs (the steam engine), new product categories (the locomotive), and major reconceptualizations of existing categories (the iPhone).
Incrementally, A/B testing is very cheap. You do need to pay a designer to create the "B" design, but most of the cost lies in the software to run and analyze the test, which is a one-time expense. Thus, if you're going to do it at all, you should run lots of A/B tests.
With usability methods, the costs range from $200 for a few quick activities to $38,000 to have a website analyzed by an independent expert. However, even the high end of usability costs pales in relation to the full cost of any enterprise-scale project. What's the budget to run a big-company website for a year? Easily a million when including staffing costs and overhead.
In contrast, radical innovation quickly runs into tens or hundreds of millions of dollars for fancy research labs and experimentation — and even then the vast majority of inventions go nowhere. Sure, a blinding insight occasionally creates a wonderful invention without the need for elaborate research. The invention of vulcanized rubber and penicillin are canonical examples of luck causing radical innovations. Still, luck favors the prepared mind, and Sir Alexander Fleming had already spent considerable time on fruitless bacteriological experiments when he stumbled across penicillin.
Benefits: From 1% to 1,000% Improvement
There's easily an order of magnitude difference in the effect size expected from each of the 3 design approaches:
- A/B testing usually identifies small improvements that might increase sales or other KPIs by a few percent. Sometimes you're lucky and get 10% or more. Website analytics' advantage is that it's the only way to reliably determine the best design approach when there's little difference between alternatives. Perhaps 1% doesn't sound like much, but if you could realize such gains every week for a year, you'd cash in more than 50%.
- In contrast, the full usability process typically doubles the benefit of the metrics you target (i.e., you get 100% improvement). For example, an enterprise software project might cut training costs in half or double employee productivity. If the old design was particularly poor, we sometimes see gains of 1,000% or more, but that's rare. More narrow usability efforts, such as fixing a particular design element, might result in a 10% gain for the desired usage metric.
- The sky is the limit for radical design innovation. Something sufficiently good could be 1,000% better than what went before. When defining a completely new product category, you can claim infinite gains, going from zero sales to some sales. However, more realistically, the new thing should be measured against the opportunity cost of business as usual, which surely is better than zero in any company that can afford to invest in advanced development.
There's virtually no risk in A/B testing: assuming that the statistical analysis is done correctly, there's close to 100% probability that you'll choose the design variation that makes the most money. If the difference between the two designs is small, you might have to wait a long time to collect enough traffic for statistical significance. But when the alternative design is only marginally better (if it's better at all), you lose little by sticking with the old design during a drawn-out test.
Usability methods also carry very low risk. Indeed, subjecting all designs to usability studies before shipping is prudent risk-management. Any terrible ideas that emerge from your fevered imagination will be shot down when confronted with real customers during user testing.
Radical innovation is extremely risky. Yes, you might invent the next iPhone. But you're more likely to invent the next Newton (Apple's early and doomed attempt at a personal digital assistant). In fact, almost all innovations fail. Even if it's a good idea, an innovation might be too early for the market. Pets.com, for example, is known mainly for its sock-puppet commercials during the dot-com bubble and for its spectacular bankruptcy, but other companies that eschewed the purported first-mover "advantage" are now making money selling pet food on the Internet.
Who Can Do It?
A/B testing can be done by a monkey (if the monkey has a graduate degree in statistics or can use stats software correctly). You don't need to understand design principles or user behavior. Simply try something different than your current design. If it scores better, keep it on the site. Otherwise, try something else.
Advanced usability methods often require trained specialists, but simple usability activities can be done by any member of a design team.
Returning to the theme of luck, it's certainly possible for below-genius personnel to be lucky and stumble upon a radical innovation. But typically, to systematically target radical innovation, you need to employ the best people in the world. Ask yourself whether you can realistically recruit, say, the top 1% of experts for your project. Even if you could, that's likely true only for 1% of projects. The remaining 99% of projects must make do with less exalted staff members, who can still be plenty talented and capable of more everyday advances — like the ones actually needed for most projects to succeed.
How Often Can Improvements Happen?
Websites with enough traffic can finish most A/B studies in a day or two. The main limiting factor is your ability to dream up new design variations. Also, designers need some time to realize each idea as an integrated user experience to give it a fair chance against the current site. But basically, there's no reason you shouldn't run a new A/B test every week.
Usability certainly can be done weekly as well. Since 1989, I've been evangelizing much faster and cheaper usability methods than most companies employ. (By comparison, Agile UX design is an upstart.) However, despite my best attempts at increasing the pace of usability, monthly turnaround is more common, so that's what I put in the table at the beginning of this article.
Realistically, for something to be truly radical, it can't happen too often. You can find a few exceptions that prove the rule, but most companies are happy to realize a radical innovation once every decade. (Most don't achieve this, even when they try; either their innovations end up being more modest or they fail completely.)
Economic Impact
Given the hugely bigger profit potential from a winning radical innovation, you might expect this approach to have the highest impact on the overall world economy. But all experience shows that most value is realized not from original breakthroughs but rather from the thousands of tweaks and implementations that build on that original work over subsequent decades.
Radical innovations soon become commodities: everybody has electricity, locomotives, and computers. What matters is what companies do with them: the railroad that invents a better way to ship grain might make more money than the company that invented the locomotive. Similarly, while the iPhone was a great advance, Android and other competitors are gradually eating market share.
On the other hand, because A/B testing usually results in tiny improvements, you might expect its overall contribution to be modest. Not so, since it's a method you can systematically apply again and again. Many small streams become a mighty river.
You can determine an approach's value by multiplying 3 factors:
- V = total value, in terms of contribution to the economy's GDP.
- G = the gain from each improvement. Radical innovation totally wins this one.
- F = the frequency with which improvements can happen. A/B testing wins here, with usability as a close runner-up. Radical innovation is left several laps behind on this racetrack.
- N = the number of firms that participate in creating innovations. Again, the everyday methods win here because they can be employed by all companies, all the time. Working on payroll processing software? Usability will make it much better, but we'll probably wait 50 years for radical improvements in the product line. (Cloud-based processing might be somewhat better, but surely doesn't count as "radical" these days.)
Radical innovation is worth a lot when it happens, but it happens rarely and thus has only a medium-sized impact on the economy. A/B testing also probably has only a medium impact on the overall economy because many of its gains consist of moving market share among competing companies. Usability offers steady product improvements across a broad range, and its productivity gains are cumulative, resulting in a high potential for raising GDP.
The rough estimate in Tom Landauer's The Trouble with Computers is that GDP growth would increase by one percentage point if all companies employed sound usability methods. This may not sound like much, but it would add up to $2 trillion more in the United States alone over the next 10 years. (€1.5 trillion in the E.U.)
What to Choose?
Because usability makes the most money on average, it's the strategy that I recommend. (No surprise, if you've read my past articles.)
But, in truth, there's no reason to limit yourself to a single strategy because the 3 approaches complement each other well.
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based in Filey, UNITED KINGDOM
Pulsar Instruments Plc have over 45 years of experience in the noise measurement sector. The company designs, manufactures and markets from their head office in the UK compliant, common sense, practical solutions for industrial, occupational and other noise measurement applications in the work environment via a global distribution network. From the beginning, Pulsar have ...
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The firm Pak JB Sports was established in 2001 under the supervision of M Arshad .Customer Value:YOU ARE WELCOME TO CONTACT US FOR ANY ENQUIRY OR QUOTE REQUEST Our experienced designers offer ideas and transform them from sketches to actual pcs to fulfill our customers requirements .We offer a wide range of items, which can be designed, branded and packed as per ...
Spill Doctor (SA)
based in Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA
The Jesbra Group, now trading as Spill Doctor in Africa, represents some of the worlds industry leading providers of environmental, safety and health products. With over a decade of international experience and 25 years operating in Africa, Spill Doctor has consolidated a range of internationaly recognised products that both our regional and international clients regard ...
Omnitec Design, Inc.
based in Mukilteo, WASHINGTON (USA)
Omnitec Design, Inc. specializes in manufacturing equipment for environmental cleanups, restoration, healthcare facilities, labs, emergency response and many other industries. Omnitec started in 1988 with an innovative, modular design of asbestos abatement equipment and expanded to other hazardous waste and bio-contamination specialty equipment. We introduced light ...
SRS Crisafulli, Inc.
based in Glendive, MONTANA (USA)
SRS Crisafulli manufactures, sells and services versatile high capacity pumps, dredges, power units, accessories, and spare parts. Crisafulli Products are manufactured in both custom and standard configurations. Dredges, Dredging Services, Flotation Equipment, Irrigation Systems, Lagoon Equipment, Pumps/Centrifugal, Pumps/Lift Station, Pumps/Sludge, Pumps/Submersible, ...
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based in Toronto, ONTARIO (CANADA)
(Intelex Technologies, Inc.) Trusted since 1992, Intelex is a global leader in EHS, Quality and Business Performance Management software. We enable organizations to ensure the highest standard of health, safety and environmental conditions as well as superior product and service quality by streamlining and integrating business data for our more than 1,000 clients and ...
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based in East Moline, ILLINOIS (USA)
Nixalite of America Inc has specialized in the expert control of pest birds and climbing animals since 1950. Nixalite is the designer and manufacturer of Stainless Steel Needle Strips called Nixalite. These strips are the most reliable and long lasting bird control available today.
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We`ve been providing solutions to the problems of industrial safety and environmental pollution for 25 years. Our team have over 50 years of experience in gas detection. We take safety very seriously. With our technical expertise and knowledge of worldwide industrial markets, Euro-Gas meets the essential needs relating to the safety of personnel and pollution control. We ...
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Ten songs from the Phratry catalog in honor of the Cincinnati label's two-night anniversary celebration this weekend
Though the traditional 10th anniversary gift is tin or aluminum (WTF?), a more fitting present for the Cincinnati label Phratry Records to congratulate it on its 10th year of service is your attendance at this weekend's two-night Phratry showcase at Newport's Southgate House Revival. Local musician Jerry Dirr (Knife the Symphony) launched the label in 2004 with the release of the debut album by Cincinnati's Caterpillar Tracks. Since then, the label has put out around 50 releases, which are distributed nationally by Stickfigure Distribution & Mailorder.Friday and Saturday's anniversary showcase will feature a mix of Phratry signees (both local and out-of-towners), reunions and special guests. Here's the lineup info from my Spill It column in this week's CityBeat:Friday night, the Phratry showcase will present non-Cincinnati signings Ultrasphinx (Akron, Ohio), Tyranny is Tyranny (Madison, Wisc.) and The Shanks (Toronto), plus currently active local Phratry bands Mad Anthony and Gazer. Friday will also see the return of Covington and thistle, whose own Tiberius Records teamed up with Dirr just as Phratry was getting started to release the compilation album Organelle. It will be thistle's first show in three years. Friday's lineup is rounded out by Indie Folk artist A.M. Nice, Reggae/Rock crew New Third Worlds, a reunion of former local Punk favorites Saturday Supercade and Jonathan Lohr & the Angel Shale, an AltCountry project that features former members of Caterpillar Tracks (whose debut album was Phratry's first release).Dirr's own band Knife the Symphony plays the Phratry showcase Saturday, joined by one of the label's most recent local signees Smoke Signals …, the hard-touring Ampline, progressive Post Punk/Metal band Mala in Se, State Song (which released the spectacular full-length Sleepcrawling earlier this year on the label) and blistering Punk group Swear Jar. Also performing Saturday are Pittsburgh-based Ed fROMOHIO, the former singer/guitarist of Mike Watt's post-Minutemen band fIREHOSE whose more recent band Food records for Phratry, experimental unit Aperiodic and Heevahava, a former Greater Cincinnati band now based in Roanoke, Va. Saturday also features a pair of reunion shows local Punk fans should be pretty psyched about; both East Arcadia (which included/includes members of Phratry band Arms Exploding) and The Scrubs will reactivate their wonder-twin powers for the event. In honor of Phratry's 10th birthday, I've selected 10 of my favorite tracks from the label's output so far. I hesitate to call these Phratry's "greatest hits," because everything the label puts out is excellent, but these tracks should give you a good idea of what the imprint is all about. You can peruse the entire catalog of available Phratry releases here. Caterpillar Tracks - "Slippery Slope" from Scrape the Summer (2007) Scrape The Summer by Caterpillar Tracks thistle - "Ribbons" from The Small Hours (2008) The Small Hours by thistle Humans Bow Down - "The White Sun" from A Mirror (2004) Mad Anthony - "Sank for Days" from Sank for Days (2014) Tyranny is Tyranny - "Manufacturing Truth" from Let It Come From Whom It May (2013) Let It Come From Whom It May by Tyranny Is Tyranny State Song - "Skeleton Key" from Dear Hearts & Gentle People (2010) Dear Hearts & Gentle People by State Song Ampline - "Our Carbon Dreams" from You Will Be Buried Here (2010) You Will Be Buried Here by AMPLINE Knife the Symphony - "Rusted Satellites" from Dead Tongues (2009) Dead Tongues by Knife The Symphony Arms Exploding - "Race Card Driver" from Ruminari (2008) Ruminari by Arms Exploding Gazer - "A Nurse for a Human" from Fake Bulbs (2014) Fake Bulbs by GAZER
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State Song locks in on a solid lineup for its sophomore album, the powerful and evocative Sleepcrawling
Brian Baker
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After recording its debut just after forming, Cincinnati's State Song returns with a more developed vision on sophomore full-length Sleepcrawling.
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Soapland comes clean about its name and debut EP, The Inflatable Real
Brian Baker
0 Comments · Wednesday, June 8, 2011
You might think you're getting the joke in Soapland's name, assuming it refers to the long and profitable presence of Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati. Soapland wouldn't be the first to take a jab at P&G's pervasive profile. When Wizard Records owner John James conceived his 1988 local album project, his original title concept was We Built This City on Pork and Soap.
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Reyan Ali
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At first, the Shivering Timbers existed solely as an outlet for the couple to write songs for their daughter Suzi. Then, as their story of improbably good fortune goes, they ended up playing at the birthday party of The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach and the birthday boy dug Timbers so much that he encouraged them to make a record, eventually materializing as last December's We All Started in the Same Place, which was produced by Auerbach.
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A Decade to Die For
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0 Comments · Tuesday, April 5, 2011
The CincyPunk Fest has emerged as one of the most popular benefit concerts in the region, raising money for various charities since its inception a decade ago. For CincyPunk Fest 10, the event returns to Newport's Southgate House this Saturday and Sunday under new management and with a lineup full of some of the top music-makers in Cincinnati. And, despite its name, the fest is again a showcase for much more than just Punk Rock.
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We had joy, we had fun. We had some frustration and anger, too. Such has been the way of the MidPoint Music Festival since its origins in 2002. But, in the end, MPMF's 2010 edition proved to be the most successful yet, drawing thousands of music lovers to downtown, Over-the-Rhine and Newport over the course of three days.
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0 Comments · Tuesday, January 26, 2010
"Earthquakes" is a live music/dance night at Northside's Mayday on the last Saturday of every month. Founder Kendall Bruns (and fellow DJ John Hogan) spin a variety of cool dance/Indie tunes and showcase an original local band. This month check out locals State Song, who are currently finishing work on their debut release for Phratry Records.
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Oct. 31 • Southgate House
Mike Breen
0 Comments · Thursday, October 29, 2009
Perhaps the only show you can attend Saturday and not be encouraged to wear a costume, the annual BRINK New Music Showcase returns to the Southgate House Halloween night with three floors' worth of local band freshness. An attempt to spotlight the next crop of local music wavemakers, the Cincinnati Entertainment Awards-sponsored event has hosted scores of eventual big-shots in past years. This year features acts nominated for the 2009 CEA "New Artist of the Year."
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Mike Breen
0 Comments · Wednesday, October 28, 2009
BRINK is back! Perhaps the only show you can attend Saturday and not be encouraged to wear a costume, the annual BRINK New Music Showcase returns to the Southgate House Halloween night with three floors' worth of local band freshness. An attempt to spotlight the next crop of local music wavemakers, the Cincinnati Entertainment Awards-sponsored event has hosted scores of eventual big shots in past years.
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Early fall is starting to shape up as "music festival" time in Cincinnati. After another spectacular MidPoint Music Festival, you'd think folks might want some down time. Instead, they have plenty more "fest" choices this weekend: Popopolis, Clifton Heights Music Festival, Pharaohfest and a Jake Speed-led tribute to Woody Guthrie.
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I am just working on a project where the library has an object with the property color, however being British I always use colour when writing variables and properties.
I also just found some legacy code where the British developer used color in a variable name.
Is American English the default for development now?


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The Murrieta Valley High School Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps Color Guard presents the colors before a San Diego Padres game at Petco Park, San Diego, Sept. 23. Following the National Anthem, Col. John Farnam, commanding officer of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, threw the ceremonial first pitch.
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It used to surprise us when Miley Cyrus would post provocative photos on Instagram or Twitter, but not anymore. Now, it's more of a shocker when the "Adore You" singer is fully clothed, which true Miley fans know is a bit of a rarity these days. So our eyebrows didn't raise quite as high as they normally would when we saw her latest topless upload. However, we are a little confused about the setting.
Monday night on Instagram, Miley posted a photo of herself from behind, posing topless in the desert in nothing but a pair of denim shorts and flashing her signature peace signs. Um, wait. What's going on here?
We can't decide if Miley's really in the desert, or if she's just standing in front of a convincing green screen. And if she is really in the desert, we hope she put on sunscreen. Those rays can be brutal!
To be honest, we're happy to see Miley in any setting, real or computerized. After she took a bit of a break from social media over the weekend, a death hoax spread like wildfire and scammed more than a few of her fans into worrying that something terrible had happened to the "Wrecking Ball" singer. Never fear — Miley's safe and sound, and lives to take photos in her birthday suit another day!
Where will Miley pose topless next? In Space? Maybe at the top of Mount Everest? We can't wait to find out.
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American companies spare no expense making their employees pay for the recession! Today's cuts: lunchtime, rubber bands, your, uh, job, and a full memo from Reed Business about everyone getting closer, and closer:
i work at sony music (formerly sonybmg) and they won't let us order water anymore, which i know has been a pretty common way for people to cut costs. it still sucks though. also they no longer are allowing overtime for most of the company and considering a lot of admin's have to work another job to survive on their salary, that pretty much sucks. and they're making everyone take a full hour lunch no matter what, which i think is just mean. yes, it's true that most people could benefit from a little time away from their desks, but considering that nobody is getting compensated for overtime, most people are working through lunch so that they don't have to stay late and not get paid. which means that they are claiming an hour lunch that they never even took. and although the music industry is suffering, and has been for years, ac/dc and britney spears are doing just fine thank you and if we can pay john mayer the 13 mil i just saw on an advance check the other day then perhaps the drones could get a break.
anyway, happy weekend! i'm already drinking my troubles away!!!
Be thankful that the gentle lords of Sony support your alcoholism. Pure charity!
I work for a small business of about 80 employees. Our cuts started with office supplies (no re-ordering paper clips, pens, or rubber bands. I was asked to bring in the rubber bands that come with my morning paper if I needed them. I don't get the morning paper). Then they cut staff a little and also stopped re-hiring for positions when someone moved on. Now they have announced that despite such bold measures, nothing worked so—haha, funny story—the business is closing and everyone is going to be out of a job. Oh, and today (at work) my boss asked me to edit and proofread his resume for him (on company time).
That is just kind of heartbreaking. Finally, Reed Business laid off 7% of its staff last week. How will they cut costs moving forward? All in together now!
From: Smith, Tad (RBI-US)
Sent: Mon 2/2/2009 10:14 AM
To: RBI-US All New York Users
Subject: IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT FOR NEW YORK OFFICE STAFF MEMBERS. . . .
No, we are not announcing a move to New Jersey. . . (although I confess to reviewing that option regularly).
However, in light of our lower staffing levels, a weak advertising environment, and tough cost pressure we are going to have to ask Carol Quinones to review our space needs and shrink our New York office space by at least one and probably two floors (certainly the 11th and likely also the 13th floors). Unfortunately, this will require tough sacrifices for all of us:
- there will be fewer offices
- office sizes will shrink
- conference rooms will be converted where possible
- book rooms and other storage will be relocated to another site or, if space allows, downstairs in this building
- consultant and guest offices and cubicles will be converted into "shared space offices" meaning that no permanent space will be provided to anyone who is not a full-time staff member
- public spaces will be reduced in size
I agree this message is a huge pain, but please rest assured we will do everything to make this move as comfortable as possible. Please do not complain to or make the lives of Carol and our tireless facilities staff miserable as a result of this news. You are welcome to pick up the phone and come see me at any time if you have a specific problem or issue with this.
By the way, I promise that Carol and I will do the minimum dislocation required to get this done and not a bit more. Finally, we plan to begin this process tomorrow and it will move swiftly. Carol will speak with local management teams starting today to plan it appropriately.
Thank you in advance for this,
Tad Smith
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Sturridge thanks Spurs boss for picking him at Chelsea
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Daniel Sturridge has thanked Tottenham boss Andre Villas-Boas for handing him regular first team first football when the Portuguese was boss at Chelsea.
While the striker is now operating chiefly as a centre forward for the Blues he has been deployed as a winger often in the past and he hopes that versatility continues to serve him well.
Sturridge, who is behind Fernando Torres in the Stamford Bridge pecking order, said: "I'm playing centre forward now which is what I've wanted since I played for Chelsea.
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Sturridge is in the England squad to face Sweden tomorrow night in a friendly and at least does not feel disadvantaged in international terms by the fact he is not starting regularly, with manager Roy Hodgson having assured him he is in his plans.
Sturridge said: "Whatever position the manager chooses me to play in - wide, number 10, a number nine - I'll do my best and run my heart out for the country and try and help the team get a result.
"I'm delighted to be involved and thankful for the manager for showing faith in me and picking me for the squad and I'm just looking forward to flying out there and playing the game.
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Has anyone else noticed that UndoSend will dump you back in the tab you were in BEFORE you went to write and send an email?
We're on ZCS 6.0.6 on CentOS 5 and every single one of my users is exhibiting this same behavior.
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Omega Advisors Inc., the hedge fund run by Leon Cooperman, has bought shares over the past quarter of eBay Inc., EBAY, +0.41% newspaper publisher Gannett Co. Inc., GCI, +0.06% General Motors Co. GM, -0.35% and airline United Continental Holdings Inc., UAL, -0.20% according to a regulatory filing released Friday afternoon. The hedge fund sold its stakes in mortgage servicer Ocwen Financial Corp., OCN, +0.00% Orient-Express Hotels Ltd. oeh and grocery chain Supervalu Inc. SVU, -1.28% New York regulators recently halted Ocwen's plans to buy the rights to service a mortgage portfolio from Wells Fargo. Omega also trimmed its stakes in ETrade Financial Corp., ETFC, +0.25% the private-equity firm KKR & Co., KKR, -0.07% homebuilder Lennar Corp. LEN, -0.37% and insurer MetLife Inc. MET, -0.48%
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