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I'm thinking I might like a beater bike to ride the three miles to the gym next year. I'd ride my own bike, but even though it's not terribly expensive, I don't want to lock it outside the gym. I figure people would steal the odometer and the bike bag, and I don't feel like removing those each time.
Now, it may sound silly to ask for advice on picking up a beater bike, but what the heck. I'll ask anyway. Any suggestions? I'm starting to look on Craigslist and in the Reader (a local sort of hippie / entertainment rag). Should I get (or forget about) a single speed? Perhaps a beach cruiser? Someone's old MTB? (Craigslist has mostly mtb's and little girl pink bikes, it seems to me.)
I want something UGLY that I still would lock. Any other suggestions on where to find, how much to spend, etc?
It's either this, or a set of dumbbells and a bench for the apartment (both of which I've had and sold...sigh).


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15 Favorite Camp Flicks.
15 Ways You'll Never Forget Your Summer.
Sleepaway Camp (1983)
My favorite summer camp movie: Meatballs Part 2,
but you forgot my number 2 favorite summer camp movie: Ernest Goes to Camp. Nobody does summer camp like Ernest.
Great post! It makes me realize how much of my personal favorite films take place at summer camps.
Absolutely wonderful! Yay! :)
Keep it coming! :D
Holy crap that's an awesome line up! and you have Zapped prominently displayed on your site......bonus.
Thanks and Welcome to Camp Meep!
I love the camp movie, and you've picked some real gems here. I've heard there's talk of a Wet Hot American Summer sequel, which should be interesting. Love to see what they do.


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We are in the final process of evaluating Zimbra.
We are going to have 13 servers located around the world.
- One server will be Mailbox, LDAP Master and MTA server
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- All other servers will be "Mailbox Only" servers (i.e, they will send mail through the two MTA's).
(any remarks will be greatly appreciated in case this approach is wrong...)
All servers will be behind NAT and only the two MTA's will have public IP's (also behind NAT).
We would like users in the "Mailbox Only" servers to access WebMail when out of the office, but we don't want to assign a public IP for every server (for security reasons). Only the MTA servers should have public IP's.
If possible, we would like "Mailbox Only" server users to access their WebMail through one of the MTA servers, since we want only the MTA servers to have a public IP.
At the moment, when a user of a "Mailbox Only" server types the MTA's public FQDN in the address bar, he/she is confronted with the login page, which is fine. But when they login they are redirected to their mailbox server's WebMail page. Since that server has no public IP they get a blank page.
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The Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command hosts an arrival ceremony to honor fallen U.S. personnel whose identifies remain unknown. The remains receiving full military honors represent losses associated with the Vietnam War and will be transported to the Central Identification Laboratory to undergo analyses.
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Community volunteers rake leaves with their families at Iron Horse Park during Make-A-Difference Day, Oct. 27, 2012. MADD is an annual event created in 1990, and held on the fourth Saturday in October. It is the nation's largest day of community service.
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Contrary to beliefs that overseas crime networks and unemployed computer programmers in Eastern Europe remain the leading sources of virus code on the Internet, new research supports the growing perception that the United States is producing greater volumes of malware code than any other region of the planet.
According to security hardware maker Finjan's latest Web Security Trends Report -- which analyzes data collected by the San Jose-based firm over the first three months of 2007 -- more than 80% of the Web sites it found to be distributing malicious code were hosted on servers located in the U.S.
Although Finjan officials concede that much of the malware distributed by those sites may indeed be written and controlled by hackers operating outside of the U.S., the results indicate that efforts by legislators and law enforcement officials to crack down on illegal computing activity in the nation may not yet be succeeding.
According to the Q1 Finjan report, published on March 26, the United Kingdom ranked second in the list of countries hosting infected sites, accounting for roughly 10 percent, followed by Canada, Germany, and Italy. Noticeably absent from the top of the rankings are Russia and China, which have been widely perceived in recent years as leading sources of malware worldwide.
Finjan'sresults jibe with rival Symantec's latest Internet Security Threat Report -- released earlier this month -- which also maintains that attacks are increasingly emanating from sources in the United States. Symantec's research, which focused on all types of threats, not just Web-based attacks, reported that the U.S. is the source of about 31% of all malware and phishing schemes.
The reason why so many threats are coming from sites hosted in the U.S. and other relatively wealthy nations -- most of which have stricter laws in place to combat such efforts than their developing neighbors -- is simple, said Yuval Ben-Itzhak, chief technology officer at Finjan.
No matter what region the code writers live in, he said, attackers are flocking to markets where the most money is changing hands to carry out their crimeware schemes, and increasingly doing so by hijacking legitimate URLs to pass out their work.
"If you look back at many reports over the last few years, the perception has been that the malware is coming from Russia and other areas where laws are fewer and harder to enforce, but when we analyzed the live end-user content, we realized that a vast majority of malware was coming from servers in the U.S. where there are advanced laws and practices," Ben-Itzhak said.
The upside of the issue is that security researchers can take action when they find malware URLs that are based in the U.S. by reporting them to authorities and applying pressure to the companies hosting the sites to take them offline.
For the most part, the malware delivery pages are supported by cheap hosting companies that don't appear to closely monitor their behavior, Ben-Itzhak said. But an even more alarming trend is the high number of attacks being passed along to end-users via seemingly legitimate sites.
In many of those cases, the attacks are being served up as advertisements that site operators may not even recognize as malware sources, making the situation even harder to fight.
"It's very clear that a lot of malware is coming from advertisements, and it's difficult to track where the code is originating because of the layers of ad systems, aggregators and agents that work together to create and distribute this content," Ben-Itzhak said. "There are so many third parties pushing ads to these sites, and there is no official process among these parties for seeking out the bad code."
A high-profile example of this type of attack was being distributed on a banner ad posted to social networking site MySpace.com in July 2006, which specifically attempted to use a security flaw in Microsoft Windows to infect Web surfers with spyware.
Finjan'sreport indicates a trend of new efforts to spread malware using Web pages that have been filtered by automatic translation services, which are typically used by people to read content written in foreign languages.
Because the translation services don't scan for threats, and are often distributed in cooperation with known sources such as news sites or search engines, attackers can use the systems to sneak infected links through to end-users without tipping off security applications that look for unknown content.
"The translation service sends a link that looks fine but the malware is still in there," Ben-Itzhak said. "This is another reason why people need real-time dynamic scanning for protection, because it's so hard to tell what you might actually be looking at these days."
This story, "More evidence of U.S. as malware capital" was originally published by InfoWorld.


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I am an experienced tourer, although it has been a while:-( I just ordered a Surly Long Haul Trucker and have received it! Now, I need to pick parts. I want to just make one order through my bike shop with eveything that I want. I want to run a straight bar and mtn bike shifters. I am pretty sure I want to go with sram shifters and rear derailer. If this was your bike and wanted mid-range componentry, wwyd?
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The day I completed my internship, I joined Dr Batra's and my journey of 15 years with Dr Batra's has been wonderful. I quickly realized that it was the best career decision I had made because the variety and number of cases that I see here in one year, I would not have seen those in 10 years of private practice – so vast is the experience I have gained here. I have seen this company grow, the people around me grow and it feels great to be a part of such an esteemed institution. I have learnt from others, I have even trained others; I have been part of strategic decisions, administration and even recruitments and have gained rich experience at this place. The joy of curing people is immense and I experienced it in the true sense at Dr Batra's. I have the freedom to take my decisions in the best interest of the patients and I truly appreciate this trust that the company puts in me. It's indeed an honour for me to be a part of this institution.
Dr Tejal Ajmera, Kandivali, Mumbai
A feeling of being safe and secure was experienced by me on the very first day of my inception at Dr Batra's. Even though I started out here after leaving my 10-year old private practice, I have learnt a lot at Dr. Batra's. For a person to be in form is temporary but to be in class is permanent – that is what I realized over a period of 6 years under the glowing banner of Dr Batra's. There is uniformity everywhere and the same is being naturally passed by each one of us to our vast database of patients.
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I have been working at Dr Batra's since the last 10 years and I am very happy and satisfied with my work. The company has given me a wonderful platform to grow as a person and to be a part of the company growth too. All through the last 10 years, the company has been providing a lot of training for knowledge enhancement and better patient handling and my confidence level has increased significantly, thanks to this. Dr Batra's is an institute where we can treat a vast variety of disorders, even rare ones and help them with our expertise.
Dr Santosh Gaikar, Vashi, New Mumbai
"The years teach much which the days never know."
I had joined Dr Batra's 7.5 years back as a fresher and today I am serving as a Group Head for a part of Mumbai. The journey and the growth has been great. The experience at Dr. Batra's is huge; I have got good exposure to all kind of patients – acute and chronic. I have seen many rare cases and handled them successfully. What my doctor friends get to learn in years, I get to learn here in months – so huge is the patient base and exposure. At Dr. Batra's, I also got the opportunity to groom my management skills, and I can proudly say that I have got excellent opportunity and recognition here.
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In February 2005, I passed the exams at Dr Batra's, the world's largest chain of homeopathic clinics and joined their Ultadanga clinic at Kolkata and till date I am with this company. Being a homeopathic doctor at Dr Batra's, has given me a lot of exposure to what homeopathy can actually do. At Dr Batra's I got to handle some of the toughest, challenging and even incurable cases which I, probably, would have never seen in my private practice. It demands high level of technical skills, knowledge, hard work and excellent medical expertise to handle such cases and all this I learnt only at Dr Batra's. I also receive huge appreciation from patients, colleagues and management for all my work. I strongly recommend that any doctor who wants to excel in the field of homeopathy should definitely get associated with Dr Batra's.
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You've heard of spray-on tans. But what about spray-on pavement?
This month the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) completed a one-year test of a spray technology for filling potholes – a project that helped the department realize more than $21,000 in savings.
One year ago, ODOT began piloting the technology in Tuscarawas County, in ODOT's District 11 — a seven-county area in eastern Ohio. The machine used to fill the potholes sprays the problem areas with pressurized air to clean the pothole, then sprays it with a tar substance. Once the tar has been applied, a gravel aggregate is sprayed on top to fill the hole, said Tom Corey, the highway management administrator for ODOT's District 11.
"The advantage of this is we get a clean, dry hole, and that's really important when you're dealing with any asphalt product," Corey said.
Paving the Way for New Technology
Newer pavement technology has changed the way roads are paved in some states. Last year, the Virginia Department of Transportation began installing "quiet pavement," technology: an "open-graded mix" that differs from traditional hot-mix asphalt since it reduces hydroplaning, tire noise, splash and spray.
According to the Chicago Tribune, the Cook County, Ill., Highway Department recently began testing pavement technology that brings hot pavement filler directly to potholes.
Besides saving time, the new method also reduces the need for multiple repairs to the same pothole, and the spray technology can be used year-round, when previously pothole repair was typically only done between the months of April through October.
Now that the pilot is completed, Corey said the department plans to use the technology in all of District 11's seven counties.
"Because of the success we've seen to date, motorists may begin to see us using this technology elsewhere across eastern Ohio this summer," ODOT District 11 Deputy Director Lloyd MacAdam said in a statement.
District 11 includes more than 3,300 lane miles of roads and more than 1,000 bridges. With the implementation in its beginning phase, the district will procure three machines total to be used throughout the seven counties – which comes at a price tag of approximately $62,000 per machine, Corey said.
He said during the pilot phase, those operating the spray equipment were trained by the vendor. Now that a full implementation is taking place, the department hopes to train two ODOT road maintenance staff per county in the district to operate the machinery.
But special training will be required for the maintenance crew, said the department's public information officer Becky Giauque.
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Tuesday, October 3, 2006
Three physicians associated with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler recently achieved distinction in their respective fields. They are Kyle James, MD; Kent Davis, MD; and Aman Dhillon, MD.
Dr. James, associate professor of family medicine, has been named a Fellow of the Society for Adolescent Medicine. He will receive his certificate at the society's annual meeting in March 2007 in Denver.
The designation of Fellow is open to all society members in good standing for three or more years who demonstrate both appropriate professional credentials and special and continuing interest in the health of adolescents. Founded in 1968, the society is a multidisciplinary organization committed to improving the physical and psychosocial health and well-being of adolescents through advocacy, clinical care, health promotion, health service delivery, professional development, and research.
Dr. James, who is board certified in family medicine, also has been elected president of the Texas Regional Chapter of the Society for Adolescent Medicine. This is a newly formed group of medical professionals who act as advocates for adolescent health throughout Texas.
Dr. Davis, medical director for UTHSCT's Center for Healthy Aging, has achieved the designation of certified medical director in long-term care. The Board of Directors of the American Medical Directors Certification Program awarded the certification. Dr. Davis is board certified in internal medicine with an added qualification in geriatric medicine.
The program's mission is to recognize and advance physician leadership and excellence in medical direction in long-term care. Since the program began in 1991, almost 2,100 physician medical directors have received this designation.
Dr. Dhillon, chief resident of UTHSCT's Occupational Medicine Residency Program, has achieved board certification in family medicine. He joined the residency program in July 2005 after completing post-graduate training in family medicine.
The American Board of Family Medicine, which awards the certification, is the second-largest medical specialty board in the United States. It seeks to improve the quality of medical care available to the public, establish and maintain standards of excellence in family medicine, improve the standards of medical education in family medicine, and evaluate the fitness of family medicine specialists.


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Preparing baby formula isn't hard, but it's important to mix it in the proper ratio of formula to water to make sure that your baby is getting just the right amount of nutrients. Also, because your baby doesn't have much immunity to germs just yet, especially as a newborn, it's important to take precautions to protect him from foodborne illnesses. Here's what you need to know.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires that infant formula manufacturers analyze each batch of formula to determine nutrient levels and safety, and stamp a "use-by" date on every container – just like the date found on milk, eggs, poultry, and other perishables.
It may be tempting to grab a can and run when you're shopping with a fussy baby, but taking a few seconds to check the use-by date helps assure safety and quality. Do the same at home if you buy in bulk.
If you have a newborn, you might want to wait a couple of months to establish a feeding routine before stocking up. That way, you can figure out how much formula you'll be able to use before it expires.
Also make sure that the can isn't dented. When a can is dented, the tin layer inside might be cracked. This allows the liquid to come in contact with the steel, potentially causing rust and even a hole that could cause the contents to spoil.
If you accidentally purchase formula already past its use-by date, return it to the store and request a fresh container. Most formula makers allow retailers to return unopened containers of expired formula for free replacement.
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Choose a cabinet or a shelf that's away from a stove, oven, heating ducts, or hot water pipes. The optimum storage temperature is between 55 and 75 degrees Fahrenheit, but make certain that it stays below 95 degrees and above freezing, or 32 degrees. Don't leave cans in direct sunlight, and don't put them in the freezer.
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Watch The Last Ever Deathly Hallows Part 2 Trailer, Harry Potter Ends Here
By Josh Tyler 2011-06-16 18:59:59 comments
The marketing for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 has been nothing short of brilliant, and yet, theyve managed to top themselves with the last ever Harry Potter trailer.
Warner Bros has just released the final Deathly Hallows Part 2 trailer and its the most moving, exciting, piece of work weve seen from the movie so far. Think about this for just a moment before you click play below to watch it. There will never be another Harry Potter trailer. This is it. This is the last Harry Potter trailer you will ever watch. It all ends here.
In a long line of completely brilliant Harry Potter trailers I think it wholly appropriate that this one, somehow manages to top them all. If, of course, you can ignore that strange Voldemort scream they keep playing in the background which sounds far too much like this guy, for my liking:
Ok, thats a minor complaint in what really is a completely brilliant way to set up our impending, battle-filled, goodbye to Hogwarts. Its weird to think this is the last time Ill watch a Harry Potter trailer, weirder still to think this is the last time Ill write about one. Start saying your goodbyes in the comments section below. Thanks for the memories kids!
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In the early days of the earthquake search and rescue phase, Haitian officials and aid organizations braced themselves for an outbreak of cholera and other communicable diseases that follows huge natural disasters that disrupt regular water supply.
Three months later, however, there was a general sense that the country had escaped such misery and other emergencies, such as what to do with a million homeless and hungry people, took precedent. So in October when a cholera outbreak began in the Artibonite Valley region hit, Haitians and foreigners were not ready to properly deal with a disease that last set foot on Haitian soil more than a century ago.
"They were totally unprepared," said Dr. Jean Claude Compas, a Brooklyn physician, who has followed the situation in Haiti closely. "Many hospitals didn't have the necessary medicines and doctors were not properly trained on how to cure cholera."
To be sure, this oversight has been taken care of, thanks in part to about $42 million disbursed by the United States Agency for International Development, not counting money and resources from other international donors. Since the first cases were diagnosed a massive education and treatment program has slowed down the spread of cholera, particularly the number of death related from the disease.
In addition to educating people about how to treat and to avoid cholera, international officials have brought in tons of chlorine water treatment bottles, oral re-hydration solution, soap, IV sets and solution and cholera test kits. In addition more than 10,000 community health workers have been hired or trained to combat the disease.
Still, public health and crisis management officials said that during the early stages everyone- from Haitian health officials to the aid workers to the average Haitian — failed to grasp the severity of this strain of cholera, which has claimed more than 3,000 lives so far and has sickened hundreds of thousands.
"Our frustration is that in the beginning people had trouble taking the message seriously," said Marc Ward, acting director of US Foreign Disaster Assistance at USAID. "It just wasn't getting through."
Ward said that what is important now is that the message has resonated. He said people who are not necessarily stricken with cholera are coming in for treatment at the hundreds of cholera clinics opened across the country.
Cholera is caused by a bacteria, Vibrio cholerae, which causes an infection of the intestine and produces a toxin that triggers watery diarrhea that can lead to dehydration and death. The disease has disappeared in countries that have access to clean drinking water. But it can spread rapidly in areas where people drink tainted water. An infected human can produce the bacteria in his feces for up to two weeks, even if they don't show signs of illness.
According to a report from the Centers for Disease Control a median of 41 people died in Haiti every day.
"Because cholera can lead to death rapidly, ideally all persons at risk for cholera should be within one hour of a location where they can receive [oral rehydration solution] and should have access to more advanced care," the report said.
Curing cholera, a disease that develops when water supply is affected with feces, is relatively simple. It is a question of re-hydrating a patient quickly enough with saline solution. But cholera can be deadly if let untreated in a matter of a couple of hours.
While officials said they didn't focus on combating cholera, steps taken during the days following the earthquake made it more manageable to handle the disease when it reared itself, Ward said.
"Cholera could have been much worse had we not made quite an effort to make sure that people had potable water and sanitary environment," Ward said. "When it hit we were better prepared to deal with it."
The Haiti cholera epidemic has been mired in a sort of political controversy. French health experts have said that they have strong scientific evidence that the strain of cholera that is ravaging Haiti came from Nepalese United Nations soldiers stationed in the area, about an two hours north of Port-au-Prince, the capital.
UN officials have vehemently denied its soldiers are the source. But last week, UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon appointed a 4-member panel to investigate the source of the cholera outbreak in Haiti. Ban said that determining the source of the disease has become important for the UN, which has enjoyed a tense relation with the Haitian population. The UN has a force of 7,000 soldiers and 1,000 police officers occupying Haiti. That force, which is known by its French acronym, MINUSTAH, has not been well received since it began more than five years ago in an effort to stabilize the country's fragile social and economic ecosystem. To many Haitians, the cholera is yet another disruptive contribution of the UN forces.
While the number of cholera cases has increased to 176,000 people, health officials estimate that by the time the disease is completely eradicated, more than 400,000 patients will be affected.


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Occupy's 89%? Where anarchism shuns unionists, it allies with the ultra-right
Anarchist collectives in the Occupy movement in Oakland and the Pacific Northwest have put forward a new slogan, "We are the 89%." This threatens to destroy any alliance between the Occupy movement and organized labor.
In their war against workers, corporations increasingly choose lockouts
Employers have been engaging in class warfare for quite some time now. Recently they have added lockouts to the long list of weapons they have used to wage that warfare.
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Free online movie, Debtocracy, tells story of Greek debt crisis
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I completely regret the day that I signed a lease with Craig Tolbert. I rented an Uptown apartment and found out it is full of lead paint after performing a home lead test. The paint is literally peeling and chipping off of windows, doors, walls – everywhere. You can't open the windows because of the lead dust inside the sill. If you have small children DO NOT rent from Tolbert until getting the apartment tested for lead. They knew I had a baby and still rented the unit to us because they say "they don't know of any lead in their units." HELLO, the building was constructed in the late 1800s, of course it has lead. When we called them to ask about the lead, they said we were prohibited from getting the unit tested. I guess they wanted to wait until our child got lead poisoning to be sure? All they care about is the money, not their tenants.
Also, our oven didn't work from day 1, and there were two huge holes in our windows – one in the kitchen and one in the bedroom. You could stick your fist through these holes and bugs came in all of the time.
The best part might be the sewage gas that was escaping into our apartment from the basement via a huge hole in our bathroom floor. Our entire apartment smelled of gas, which the gas company said was most like from the sewer – GROSS AND HAZARDOUS. The gas technician's gas detector was beeping like crazy when it was over the hole, indicated a gas leak. Actually, the entire building smells like sewage – our eyes were burning the day we left and we couldn't get out of there fast enough.
We had to lose our deposit and break our lease so save our baby from a lifetime of problems due to lead exposure, but it is worth it. My advice is to avoid Tolbert's properties at all costs, or at least take the time to examine (and smell) every inch of the unit before signing the lease. Yuck, yuck, yuck!


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Hashish, a brownish resin substance made from cannabis.
Hey, man, you wanna go score some hosh?
by Dark Coupon August 26, 2006
Top Definition
to make a mess off, a cock-up, to handle something badly, poor execution of a task
"i've made a right old hosh of this"
by Jim Smalley January 12, 2009
Can be a form of greeting, meaning hi or hey, or, according to Sashlin, is the appropriate word to follow and/or precede any random sentence.
Hosh! I fucked a duck, hosh. ;)
Go fuck a kite! Hosh!
Go fuck a kite! Hosh!
by She_who_shall_not_be_named September 12, 2013
Extremely hot "Hot as Shit"
Referring to either temperature or attractiveness.
Referring to either temperature or attractiveness.
Blonde Girl in the Mall #1: "It is fucking hosh in here."
BGinM #2: "Right? Did I tell you I fucked Lyle the other day? He is so hosh!"
BGinM #2: "Right? Did I tell you I fucked Lyle the other day? He is so hosh!"
by faultyideal89 July 02, 2012
The word added behind a sentence to show that you mean the opposite of whatever you just said. contrary polar divergent dissimilarunlike
I really hate pizza. HOSH
by Rex Mercer December 03, 2006
HOSH. Short for- HOLY SHIT!
Alvin: "Did you see the way that guy drank his chocolate milk?"
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An informal casual greeting word similar to "Hey" meant to announce one's presence.
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Romans 82 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has freed me from the law of sin and of death. 3 For God has done what the Law could not do, being weakened by the flesh . Sending His own Son in the guise of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, condemned sin in the flesh , 4 So that the righteous and just requirement of the Law might be fully met in us who live and move not in the ways of the flesh but in the ways of the Spirit . 5 For those who are according to the flesh and are controlled by its unholy desires set their minds on and Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.pursue those things which gratify the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit and are controlled by the desires of the Spirit set their minds on and Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.seek those things which gratify the Spirit. 6 Now the mind of the flesh is death . But the mind of the Spirit is life and peace . 7 because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit itself to God's Law; indeed it cannot. 8 So then those who are living the life of the flesh cannot please or satisfy God, or be acceptable to Him. 9 But you are not living the life of the flesh, you are living the life of the Spirit, if the Spirit of God dwells within you . But if anyone does not possess the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His . 10 But if Christ lives in you, your body is dead by reason of sin and guilt, the spirit is alive because of righteousness . 11 And if the Spirit of Him Who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He Who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also restore to life your mortal (short-lived, perishable) bodies through His Spirit Who dwells in you. 12 So then, brethren, we are debtors, but not to the flesh , to live of the flesh. 13 For if you live according to the flesh, you will surely die. But if through the power of the Spirit you are putting to death (making extinct, deadening) the deeds prompted by the body, you shall live forever. 14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. 15 For you have now received not a spirit of slavery to put you once more in bondage to fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption in which we cry, Abba (Father)! Father! 16 The Spirit Himself testifies together with our own spirit, that we are children of God. 17 And if we are children, then we are heirs also: heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ ; only we must share His suffering if we are to share His glory. 18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time (this present life) are not worth being compared with the glory that is about to be revealed to us and in us and Charles B. Williams, The New Testament: A Translation in the Language of the People.for us and Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.conferred on us! 19 For creation (all nature) waits expectantly and longs earnestly for God's sons to be made known . 20 For the creation (nature) was subjected to Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.frailty (to futility, condemned to frustration), not because of some intentional fault on its part, but by the will of Him Who so subjected it-- with the hope 21 That nature (creation) itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and corruption into the glorious freedom of God's children. 22 We know that the whole creation has been moaning together in the pains of labor until now. 23 And not only the creation, but we ourselves too, who have and enjoy the firstfruits of the Spirit groan inwardly as we wait for the redemption of our bodies our adoption (our manifestation as God's sons). 24 For in hope we were saved. But hope which is seen is not hope. For how can one hope for what he already sees? 25 But if we hope for what is still unseen by us, we wait for it with patience and composure. 26 So too the Spirit comes to our aid and bears us up in our weakness; for we do not know what prayer to offer nor how to offer it worthily as we ought, but the Spirit Himself goes to meet our supplication and pleads in our behalf with unspeakable yearnings and groanings too deep for utterance. 27 And He Who searches the hearts of men knows what is in the mind of the Spirit , because the Spirit intercedes and pleads in behalf of the saints according to and in harmony with God's will. 28 We are assured and know that all things work together and are for good to and for those who love God and are called according to design and purpose. 29 For those whom He foreknew , He also destined from the beginning to be molded into the image of His Son , that He might become the firstborn among many brethren. 30 And those whom He thus foreordained, He also called; and those whom He called, He also justified (acquitted, made righteous, putting them into right standing with Himself). And those whom He justified, He also glorified . 31 What then shall we say to this? If God is for us, who against us? 32 He who did not withhold or spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, will He not also with Him freely and graciously give us all things? 33 Who shall bring any charge against God's elect God Who justifies 34 Who is there to condemn ? Will Christ Jesus (the Messiah), Who died, or rather Who was raised from the dead, Who is at the right hand of God actually pleading as He intercedes for us? 35 Who shall ever separate us from Christ's love? Shall suffering and affliction and tribulation? Or calamity and distress? Or persecution or hunger or destitution or peril or sword? 36 Even as it is written, For Thy sake we are put to death all the day long; we are regarded and counted as sheep for the slaughter. 37 Yet amid all these things we are more than conquerors Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.and gain a surpassing victory through Him Who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded beyond doubt (am sure) that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities, nor things Marvin Vincent, Word Studies. The literal translation is ``standing in sight."impending and threatening nor things to come, nor powers, 39 Nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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This is an exploration of the modern pin-up. I fell into it really. At some point last year I began a series of photographs that centered on various household textures. Fairly quickly this drifted into being the crazy colored, grease splattered, food opus you hopefully hold in your hand. There is a creative freedom in being silly and humorous, and in the end what is more silly than trying to be sexy while playing with your food.
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Boss has no grudges at being sacked.
Chelsea boss Roberto Di Matteo was actually sacked by West Brom before he joined Chelsea as Andre Villas-Boas second in command and has gone on to lift the FA Cup and Champions League, so with the weekend fixture against West Brom looming, he has stated he is totally fine with being let go.
I have no grudges," Di Matteo said ahead of Saturday's Premier League clash. "I had a great time. I worked with a lot of good people there.
"The supporters were very kind to me as well. I had almost two years there.
"Despite the fact that last season's game was not a good memory, because we lost, I can reflect on good memories there.
"Look at where I'm sitting now, so I'm not so sure it was a bad thing. That's football. That's life. In a manager's career, you're going to get the sack at some point if you have a long career." (Sky Sports)
It could be that the Baggies are regretting their decision to get rid of di Matteo, considering that he is now rated as one of the world's best bosses and has been so successful at Stamford Bridge.


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I am having difficulty deciding what to buy to set up a single side drive train. I have been searching the posts and intranet and am still confused. I would prefer the rear to be a 2 X 10 and would like the big ring to be a 53 or 52. The small ring I would like to go as small as possible without having shifting problems. Right now my much heavier tandem (probably 10+ lbs heavier) has an Ultegra triple and I use a 11-27 for all riding including some mnt climbs.
Do you buy a triple rear crank and use the big ring position for the timing chain and then use a single ring crank on the front? (would require the purchase of a 40T ring and a larger granny with the appropriate BCD)
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January 11, 2013 03:00 PM by Lisa Princ
The season finale of Survivor just wrapped up a month ago, but many fans are anxiously awaiting the show's return next month. Today, CBS announced the new cast for Survivor Caramoan, which will feature super-fans and favorite contestants from past seasons! Who will be fighting for the coveted one million dollar prize?
If you can't wait for the new season of Survivor to start, unfortunately, you have to wait until February 13 for the premiere, but we have some good news. CBS announced this morning the list of competitors for the upcoming season. Check out the press release from CBS:
"The spring edition of SURVIVOR will feature the return of one of the game's greatest pairings: Fans vs. Favorites. Ten ultimate SURVIVOR fans will have the chance to prove they have what it takes when they take on 10 of their favorite players from the past. Dropped on the exotic Caramoan Islands, the 20 castaways will be divided into two tribes of 10: 'The Bikal Tribe,' made up of former players deemed favorites, and 'The Gota Tribe,' comprised of ultimate fans of the game.
The Favorites may have an edge because of their experience, but they also have a big target on their backs. Meanwhile, the Fans, although inexperienced, can draw on their extensive knowledge of the game to give them an advantage. Who will prevail when these tribes collide and the castaways vie to outwit, outplay and outlast one another for the title of Sole Survivor and the one million dollar prize?"
The castaways competing on SURVIVOR: CARAMOAN – FANS vs. FAVORITES (in alphabetical order) are:
Andrea Boehlke
Age: 23
New York
Entertainment Host and Writer
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Brandon Hantz
Age: 21
Katy, Texas
Chemical Disposal
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Brenda Lowe
Age: 30
Miami, Fla.
Paddleboard Co. Owner
Survivor: Nicaragua
Corinne Kaplan
Age: 33
Los Angeles
Clinical Consultant
Survivor: Gabon
Dawn Meehan
Age: 42
South Jordan, Utah
English Professor
Survivor: South Pacific
Erik Reichenbach
Age: 27
Santa Clarita, Calif.
Comic Book Artist
Survivor: Micronesia – Fans vs. Favorites
Francesca Hogi
Age: 38
Brooklyn, N.Y.
Survivor: Redemption Island
John Cochran
Age: 25
Washington D.C.
Law Student
Survivor: South Pacific
Phillip Sheppard
Age: 54
Santa Monica, Calif.
Software Sales
Survivor: Redemption Island
Malcolm Freberg
Age: 25
Hermosa Beach, Calif.
Survivor: Philippines
Laura Alexander
Age: 23
Washington, D.C.
Administrative Officer
Sherri Biethman
Age: 41
Boise, Idaho
Fast Food Franchisee
Matt Bischoff
Age: 38
Cincinnati, Ohio
BMX Bike Sales
Hope Driskill
Age: 23
Jefferson City, Mo.
Pre-Law Student
Edward "Eddie" Fox
Age: 23
East Brunswick, N.J.
Julia Landauer
Age: 21
Stanford, Calif.
Racecar Driver
Alexandra "Allie" Pohevitz
Age: 25
Oceanside, N.Y.
Michael Snow
Age: 44
New York
Event Planner
Shamar Thomas
Age: 27
Brooklyn, N.Y.
Iraq War Veteran
Reynold Toepfer
Age: 30
San Francisco
Real Estate Sales
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Jayne Says:
January 13th, 2013 at 5:48 pm
my entire family really like this show, but we are getting tired of seeing return players every season when there are so many people that want to play. Why always have old players and not give more people a chance to have some fun. this will most likely be my family's last season to watch until the old players are done coming back. which is sad cause like I said my entire family watches or use to watch and we would call each other during the commercials and discuss the show. we all live in different states so it was something fun for us to do.
John F Gates Says:
January 15th, 2013 at 7:48 pm
My family also loves survivor, but getting tired
of return players. These people had their chance
and lost. Let them stay lost. Give us new blood.
thank you.
Jenn Says:
January 19th, 2013 at 2:54 pm
There actually aren't that many people who actually want to play. The reason they keep bringing old players back is they can't get enough unique, fresh contestants. They've actually had to resort to casting for some seasons, as they don't get enough eligible applicants.


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It looks gorgeous, and it tastes great, though next time I will probably make the cake from scratch, as I'm not a huge fan of box cake. But it was still a huge hit, either way!
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exp with shockwave frame?
Posted 22 November 2009 - 02:13 PM
i noticed the frame is more thicker then the exp.
i was flying is strong wind today and the exp center rod broke.
sorry if my english is not so good
Posted 22 November 2009 - 03:04 PM
Welcome to the REV Forum!
hey i am new to rev flying and i want to know if its possible to fit my exp rev with the frame of my shockwave.
i noticed the frame is more thicker then the exp.
i was flying is strong wind today and the exp center rod broke.
sorry if my english is not so good
There is a frame for the EXP which has the thicker rods. It is called the SLE frame. It is just for the leading edge.
You might find someone on this forum that will send you their old SLE rods really cheap as most do not like the frame.
For the EXP there are a number of different frames available. The EXP can use the same frame as all of the REV 1.5 series.
Your EXP frame is unmarked, or should be. These are the Ultra Light 3 wrap rods. There are also 2 wrap for much lighter winds and 4 wrap for very strong winds.
There is also the race rod frame which has, basically speaking, the best of the 2 and 3 wrap frames plus some. It is expensive.
If you search around on this forum you will find all the information you ever wanted to know about the different Revolution Rods.
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What you really need is a vented kite. You will enjoy it in strong winds.
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For 1500 years English has built new words or taken them from other languages and changed their form and often their meaning to make them the words we use today. When we explore the journeys, arrivals and changes of these words, they present us with some extraordinary stories. School for example, comes indirectly from the Greek word for leisure, and lord is made from Old English words meaning keeper of bread.
This book presents the histories of some common words, showing how they have arrived at their present use and form. Entries are grouped into nearly twenty subject areas, such as home, transport, food; for each word the author shows how it was built from existing words, or how a root word in another language has been taken borrowed by English at a given point in history. Some of the voyages are via many other languages, some direct; some of them are extraordinary, some deceptively simple. Changes of spelling and meaning over time are presented, and where there are disagreements about where a word has come from these are discussed. The material is presented clearly and simply, and is supported by references within the text to previous writers and dictionaries.
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Current assessment methods of sustainable buildings do not adequately account for the users' needs. Given that over the life of a building, total salary costs far outweigh both operating costs and combined capital and rental costs, the occupants' needs are not something which should be sensibly ignored.
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Thriving in a Difficult Economy: A Tale of Ugly Babies and Sacred Cows
Published: February 9, 2009
The brutal fact is—we're in a difficult economy. Every day, we hear about another company that's laying off employees. Just yesterday, an article on Yahoo! News reported "Mass layoffs involving 50 or more workers increased sharply last year, and large cuts appear to be accelerating in 2009 at a furious pace."
In fact, there were layoffs at Yahoo! itself in December. Letting people go is traumatic for everyone involved. It's traumatic for the employees who are laid off, whose relationships to their livelihoods—not to mention their friends and colleagues—are abruptly severed. It's painful to the remaining employees, whose friends and colleagues were so abruptly removed. Sometimes companies must make deep budget cuts to succeed, but it's painful, and those of us who have been through layoffs before agree that it seems to get harder every time we do it.
Who Stays and Who Goes in a Bad Economy?
When I look at who gets laid off though—regardless of the company—it's always surprising. How do companies make the choices to lay some people off and keep others? In all of the layoffs I've observed, some of the most talented researchers, designers, and leaders have gotten laid off, while some much less skilled people remain. Why might that be?
The first thing to realize is that we should attach no stigma to those who are laid off. The vast majority of us will be laid off at least once in our careers, and changing economic circumstances will force most of us to find new work many times. In my experience, it's not a question of skill or value. Sometimes, we're just in the wrong place at the wrong time. In fact, in order to grow, we have to take risks. By their nature, sometimes risks pay off, and sometimes they don't. (I would suggest that user experience as an industry needs to reward risk-taking just a little more, but that's another issue entirely.)
Trust Is More Than a Soft Skill
I think one factor plays a bigger role than any other in deciding which people get laid off and which do not—perhaps the most important factor in both business and in personal relationships. What is it? Trust. In the book The Speed of Trust, [1] Stephen M.R. Covey points out that, without trust, businesses—and families—would fail. With trust, you get unparalleled success and prosperity in every dimension of your life. Covey suggests that trust is not a soft skill. It is the underpinning of all successful business.
In my experience, people who are trusted by their leaders—on both an emotional and an intellectual level—tend to be the last to go. Have you ever seen someone you felt was not the most qualified person promoted to a rather high level—say Director, VP, or Senior VP? I've seen it dozens of times, and I don't begrudge those people their good fortune at all. If we look at what single thing those people have that others don't, it's a strong personal relationship, built on trust, with the person who hired or promoted them. Senior leaders know they need strong relationships to grow. None of us can do it on our own.
Senior leaders, from Vice Presidents to CEOs, face what can feel like life-and-death struggles for survival just about every quarter. Their Boards of Directors hold them to strict revenue and profitability targets. If they don't hit the targets, the Board finds someone to replace them. When a new leader takes over an organization, what's the first thing that leader does? She brings in her own team. Why? The trusted people have demonstrated absolute, unwavering support. Evidence has shown they will deliver the specific results the boss needs. Most senior leaders are highly competitive and driven, and they're determined to find a way to succeed. Who would hire someone they did not trust, with so much at stake?
But how much do we focus specifically on building trust with our senior leaders, as opposed to just trying to prove that we are right? I see designers stand on the hill of principle for minor design issues, when they could be working to build a stronger relationship and trust. I'm not saying we don't have to convince people that our ideas are good. We just cannot be single-minded about getting our way. Our fundamental goal should be to build deep personal relationships and a strong network of colleagues and senior leaders who trust and believe in us.
So, in an online magazine about research and design, why am I talking about something that's seemingly unrelated to these topics? Because just as trust is the basis of all business, it is also what keeps us employed and organizationally relevant. As leaders of UX organizations, we need to understand this fundamental fact and find a way to build trust—both personally, with our senior leaders, and for our organizations. I think that's a big part of our jobs as leaders.
What Promotes Trust?
There are many ways to build trust. Among these is demonstrating competence in our fields of expertise. To me, though, skill in our chosen fields accounts for perhaps 51% of the trust factor. While there's no more salient factor, professional skill is not in itself sufficient to build a strong personal relationship based on mutual trust.
The book Five Dysfunctions of a Team [2] points out that trust is, in fact, the foundational factor in whether a team succeeds. Even groups with superior talent almost always fail if they do not have deep-seated trust for one another. This sort of trust makes us willing to be vulnerable, because we know, on an emotional level, that those we trust will not take advantage of us, and in fact, will help us by filling in where we are weakest. If you have trust within a group, you're willing to engage in constructive conflict, make commitments, hold one another accountable, and focus jointly on results. Without trust, none of these other factors can exist.
Yes, I am saying that business is not entirely rational. Whether we acknowledge it or not, business has its basis in emotion. I may listen to data, but whether I listen depends very much on the source of that data. If someone an executive does not know presents data, what does that executive do? He asks someone he knows about the person presenting the data, whether the data makes sense, and how to interpret it.
For example, Bill Walsh, the coach of the San Francisco 49ers, was a great leader by virtually any definition. But he had a player on his offensive line whom he did not trust, and a friend asked him what he was going to do about it. Mr. Walsh said that, as soon as he could find a player who was "almost as good," he was going to fire the player he didn't trust. We can be really good, but if we don't have trust, we don't get to play.
Keith Farrazi, who wrote Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time, [3] talks about the value of deep, personal, trusting social networks. When he was a kid, he was a caddy at a swanky golf club and found there was one thing that differentiated the super wealthy: People in such circles build trust by actively helping one another every day. They share trusting social networks that help them in every aspect of their lives, including business. In our daily activities, how much do we give? How often do we compliment peers? How often do we explicitly ask for help? It seems that sometimes people are afraid to give of themselves, when in reality, it's giving and explicitly requesting help that engages people emotionally and builds trust.
Let's look at a negative example: Bernie Madoff, who created a Ponzi scheme that cheated thousands of people out of close to $50 billion, unfortunately was given more trust than he deserved. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) had even been asked to investigate his financial model. However, because officials at the SEC trusted Madoff, they did not look deeply into the concerns that some had raised about his financial model. It's a shame that he was trusted, but let's look at this from another perspective: Wouldn't it be nice to enjoy the almost blind trust of the executives who run the companies where we work? Of course, none of us would take advantage of that trust the way Madoff did. We would work hard to prove their trust was well placed and to deliver value. But it would be nice if executives trusted and defended us and came to us for counseling and direction. You probably know the saying "It's not what you know, but who you know." I'd change that to "It's not who you know, but how much they trust you."
Looking through some literature from UX conferences, books, and trade magazines, both in print and online, I found almost no mention of how important trust is in making UX successful—both personally and organizationally. I also found virtually no mention of how we can build such trust. Do we expect others to understand our value without first earning their trust? I would contend that, when we build trust, those who trust us see our value. They question our assumptions and our actions less. They also support us when we need it.
Of course, we have to be good at what we do—that is foundational. But there are a lot of people who are good. (In reality, you're probably not the best in your industry.) And remember—it's not always those who are the best in their chosen fields who are promoted. The people who get promoted are usually those who align behind an organization's goals and help senior leaders achieve their specific goals. If we want our contributions to be relevant to our executives, aren't those senior leaders one of the audiences we have to understand? We provide services in which they're investing. What motivates them to purchase our services? I contend that it's more than just skill in our domains—whether design or research—it's trust.
Let's turn to the question of how we build trust. We can start with me as an example, but it's important to realize that it has taken me many too many years to internalize these truths—much longer than it should have. I have, in fact, learned them the hard way—so let me convey some ways in which we can stop diminishing people's trust for us.
Early in my career, I was a usability specialist, and in that role, I discovered many problems with my company's products. That was my job, right? My attitude was that, if executives would only listen, what I'd discovered could save them millions! And I was right. However, rather than conveying a positive vision that executives could get behind, they saw me as the guy hurling spears at their sacred cows. It was like I was calling their babies ugly. (See, now the title of this column makes sense!) Now, I'm a nice guy. But, what I had neglected to do was to probe for people's boundaries on issues before discussing them. If an executive has invested her reputation having a product built, attacking that product will not win any converts to your cause.
Some years back, someone pointed out the same issue to me in regard to a personal relationship. I was upset about an issue—and was right about it—but my wife did not agree. A friend of mine told me something very wise. He said, "Well, you have a choice. You can either be right, or you can be married. Which do you want?" I think this same point often applies in business. I'm not saying we shouldn't take stands. But we should do so only on important issues—when we can find a positive and constructive way of conveying our viewpoint. The book Crucial Confrontations [4] provides specific lessons about how to probe for safety and talk about crucial issues you do need to raise.
Don't get me wrong. In the example I've described, my team and I made an impact and delivered good results. The problem was that I was perceived as a necessary evil. Who wants to put that on their business card? Who wants to go to a party and answer the question What do you do? with I'm a necessary-evil-doer? The challenge for me was that criticizing the executives' sacred cows made me the no guy. I have learned that we seldom win when we paint a negative picture. People have a hard time hearing negativity. We resist it and argue with it as a rhetorical standard. We want to hear something that excites us. Think about it for a moment in your personal life—if someone you don't really know or trust criticizes you, how do you react? On the other hand, if someone presents an exciting vision, what does it do? It doesn't make you feel bad, because you haven't yet reached the vision. It excites you to achieve it.
Change Requires a Constructive Vision
If you communicate your ideas as criticism rather than constructive vision, I have found that, even if an executive later embraces the change you've called for, they almost never remember you had the good idea. Too often, they remember only the negativity. It's crazy, but unfortunately true. They need to see a positive, constructive vision. Remember, if you will, that executives are in what feels like a life-or-death fight for survival. They're looking for the next big idea. They don't want to hear problems. They want you to tell them what to do, not what not to do.
If you want to drive change, I recommend thinking constructively first. Build a compelling vision that excites leaders and individual contributors alike, then deliver on it. If you can deliver a high-fidelity prototype or even a completed product, people begin talking about possibilities, not about how the vision doesn't make sense.
Let's take an example: A few years ago, my team identified the need for software that would configure several hardware devices as part of a larger bundled business solution. When I pitched my idea, executives nodded politely, but did not provide us with funding. Being a bit stubborn, I asked one of my design leads to assemble a team, comprising researchers, interaction designers, visual designers, tech support engineers, technical writers, and developers to design and build the software that would convince executives about our vision. In the end, we showed them how well our solution worked. They embraced it and made a ton of money. Had we complained and sat back, they would have ignored us—or worse!
I also find that people tend to be more risk-averse in difficult economic times than in good times, and I understand that. But I also believe you have to find a way to differentiate yourself in a constructive fashion, so you're not the one—or it's not your group—that is laid off.
Of course, it is hard to find free time, and it's hard to assemble a cross-functional team without higher-level approval. In fact, it is difficult to replicate the kind of success we achieved. Honestly, that's why I work for the boss I work for today, and why I work with the colleagues I do—so I can learn how to institutionalize this kind of innovation. And in turn, I would jump through a ring of fire to make my boss's organization successful. I didn't say to make me successful. I said to make her organization successful. In addition, I work with colleagues from whom I learn something about how to replicate innovation every day. For example, one of my colleagues, Chris Jaffe, is perhaps the most talented leader I have ever seen in his ability to replicate a process that delights users and executives, and increases profits. I'm learning there is always some way to help our stakeholders see a higher vision that does not endanger their sense of safety.
Virtuous Cycles or Vicious Cycles? It's All Up to You!
The idea of bringing positive energy to a challenge is important in many areas—and for many reasons. As a leader, one of my goals is to help my employees grow—and to increase both their ability and their confidence as they grow. It's not about being nice, but helping employees expand their skill sets and, thus, their value to the company and their sense of self-worth. If we harshly criticize what employees don't do well, it can send them into a downward spiral, but if we help them to get better at it, it's a win-win.
Consider the energy you expend on an issue and how it makes you feel. If you criticize and complain, if you stand inflexibly on the hill of principle, it separates you and makes you feel bad. If you find a way to constructively build a vision, it energizes you, and it uplifts your team. If you bypass the critique and instead demonstrate an improved solution, the focus is no longer on the negative, but on the positive vision. I know this sounds a little like The Power of Positive Thinking, but it's true. Executives notice constructive energy, too, and they remember receiving your support.
One of our goals as leaders should be to avoid vicious cycles and downward spirals, because it's hard to recover from them. Instead, our goal should be to create virtuous cycles that uplift. This is something it's sometimes hard to remember in practice, but we must remember this, and I'm fortunate enough to have colleagues who remind me how to be constructive almost every day.
Of course, trust, deep personal relationships, and strong networks are not the only factors that can make UX professionals resilient in difficult times. Laurie Pattison and I covered how to make UX strategically relevant in a previous column, "In Search of Strategic Relevance for UX Teams," so I won't cover those issues here.
Be Careful to Avoid Paternal Leadership
Though trust and personal relationships are a fundamental part of business, as leaders, we also need to make sure we're not functioning as what Devin Jones calls Paternal Leaders. As leaders, we should not shield our employees from feedback that would help them understand their blind spots and grow. We also need to make sure we're not insulated from business realities and challenges. Sometimes, just being aligned with the organizational direction isn't enough. I believe in seeking constructive feedback from my senior leaders on how to improve my performance. Likewise, it is our job as leaders to create coaching relationships and offer insights to our people that help them grow and respond to changing business climates. When done right, this is another way of helping one another and deepening our relationships.
In Summary
While sometimes we must critique products—one key to success is spending the time to create a positive vision. Building high-fidelity prototypes is a powerful way of showing your vision. This can create positive momentum and make you and your UX organization strategically relevant, now and in the future. It's also a great way of building and sustaining trust and the perception of personal accountability.
[1] Covey, Stephen M.R., and Rebecca R. Merrill. The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything. New York: Free Press, 2008.
[2] Lencioni, Patrick M. Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2002
[3] Ferrazzi, Keith, and Tahl Raz. Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time. New York: Doubleday, 2005.
[4] Patterson, Kerry, Al Switzler, and Ron McMillan. Crucial Confrontations: Broken Promises, Violated Expectations, and Bad Behavior. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2007.
Call for Participation
In preparation for a panel at CHI 2009 in Boston, "Figuring Out the 'One Thing' That Will Move UX into a Position of Strategic Relevance," we're attempting to learn about a wide range of real-world situations in which UX is not as strategically relevant as it could or should be. Please help us by sharing your situation through our survey. You can either participate anonymously or give us your name.
During this panel at CHI 2009, panelists will describe the one thing we think could make all the difference in the strategic relevance of UX. Then, we'll analyze a variety of scenarios from different companies—including yours?—in an attempt to determine the one thing that would make a difference in each case. Participants will attempt to elucidate key aspects of each scenario as well as their process of analysis to help audience members figure out what one thing would be likely to work in their own situations.
Are you trying to figure out what one thing you need to do to ensure UX gains a seat at the strategy table with business and engineering? If so, let us know. Please tell us about the situation in your company, and we'll try to include it among the scenarios the panelists will analyze.
We'll also address related questions such as what constitutes a good one thing, whether there can really be only one thing, and how adequate such analyses can be. It promises to be an interesting session.
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Just wanted to note that Jim gave a wonderful presentation on a related topic to CHI*Atlanta a couple of weeks ago. Very heartening in a time when some of our area's major companies face layoffs and projects face many challenges. View the slides and video of his talk.
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NASA Administrator Michael D. Griffin sent an e-mail to all agency employees, the New York Times reported, calling for "scientific openness" and declaring: "It is not the job of public-affairs officers to alter, filter or adjust engineering or scientific material produced by NASA's technical staff."
Griffin said NASA is re-evaluating its policies on the public affairs office's role as an intermediary between the press and agency employees. Few documents describing just what those current policies are have been made publicly available.
But questions remained unanswered about what role, if any, Griffin himself, other top agency political appointees, and NASA science chief Mary Cleave, may have played in science censorship that had made national news when the Times reported it on Jan. 29, 2006. The story, reported by Andrew C. Revkin, documented how White House appointees had directed the content of agency releases to support President Bush's policies of avoiding climate-based emission controls and controlling contacts between scientists and the press.
Revkin's Jan. 29 story centered on statements by James Hansen, who heads NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, that agency public relations brass were threatening and trying to silence him. Following publication of that story, Revkin was bombarded with accounts from other agency personnel confirming that such censorship was indeed an intentional policy and pattern at the agency. Revkin and others possess numerous documents attesting to this fact, although few have been published out of concern for retaliation against employees who leaked them.
Hansen told Revkin and others that NASA public affairs officials were insisting on advance review of his lectures, scientific papers, and postings to his own lab's website as well as approval of which news interviews he could take part in and sitting in on the interviews themselves. Moreover, he said, they had warned him of "dire consequences" if he did not cooperate.
Given the massive documentation that censorship was official policy, Griffin's disclaimer rang hollow in some ears especially since it was not the first time in the last few months that the agency had publicly renounced censorship after being caught at it. After the surfacing in September of an Aug. 29, 2005, memo from NASA's public affairs office ordering agency employees to direct all public inquiries through the public affairs office, a spokesman told the press the memo had been misunderstood, and that his office had not intended to muzzle employees. (See WatchDogs of Sept. 21, and Sept. 7, 2005.)
The TIME Magazine cover package of Feb. 5, 2006, had made such denials unbelievable by summarizing a long, well-documented, and largely undisputed record of Bush administration interference with and suppression of scientific information. Moreover, the pattern was one that went beyond NASA itself, restricting scientist-press contacts at agencies ranging from the Environmental Protection Agency to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Institutes of Health, and the Food and Drug Administration. The WatchDog has reported on such restrictions for several years.
Equally hard to ignore was a stinging letter fired off to Griffin Jan. 30 by House Science Committee Chairman Sherwood Boehlert (NY) a Republican calling for an end to NASA censorship and declaring: "Good science cannot long persist in an atmosphere of intimidation." That panel is one of NASA's main patrons.
Fallout continued Feb. 8 when it was revealed that George Deutsch, a 24-year-old political appointee who had played a role in the censorship, had resigned. But Hansen described Deutsch to the Times as only a "bit player," and his resignation may have distracted public attention from the role of agency higher-ups.
The drama struck a chord with editorialists across the country including the red-state mid-American heartland:
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