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Rand Paul anti-drone filibuster draws stinging criticism from Republicans
John McCain claims Paul's effort – in which he held the Senate floor for nearly 13 hours – was 'distortion of the threats we face'
Paul Harris in New York
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Thu 7 Mar 2013 12.50 EST First published on Thu 7 Mar 2013 12.50 EST
'I would go for another 12 hours ... but I've discovered that there are some limits to filibustering,' said Paul, drawing his speech to a close. Photograph: AP
Senator Rand Paul's extraordinary talking filibuster to halt the appointment of new CIA chief John Brennan, due to his concerns over American use of drones, on Thursday drew withering attack from senior members of his own Republican party.
Paul, a Republican from Kentucky, had held the Senate floor for almost 13 hours in a dramatic effort to ratchet up the drones debate.
Paul was particularly exercised about the question of whether the US government believed it could use drones against its own citizens on American soil. But that point of view clearly angered Arizona senator John McCain, like Brennan a keen supporter of drones.
Speaking in the Senate, McCain said Paul's filibuster had been a "distortion of the realities of the threats we face. It is not a mature discussion."
McCain was joined by South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham, who put up a sign on the Senate floor with figures saying that al-Qaida had killed 2,958 US citizens in America, while drones had killed none. "To take this debate into the absurd is what I object to," Graham said.
The pushback came after what had begun as a lone protest in an almost empty chamber just before noon on Wednesday eventually galvanised a broad swath of the Republican party to rally to Paul's cause. It also brought in the support of a lone Democrat – Ron Wyden of Oregon – and provoked a huge outpouring of enthusiasm on Twitter from a broad range of conservatives, libertarians and liberals – all citing a threat to civil rights.
Even Code Pink, a leftwing campaign group that is no natural friend of Paul's but has campaigned against drones, expressed its gratitude to Paul's effort.
Paul's dramatic stance focused national attention on Brennan's nomination because the former top White House adviser has been a prominent advocate of using drones to strike suspected Islamist militants – including several US citizens – abroad.
Paul also highlighted a letter he received this week from attorney general Eric Holder, who conceded that using drones to kill Americans at home might be possible under extreme circumstances, such as preventing a major terrorist atrocity like 9/11.
Though Brennan's nomination as the next CIA leader is almost certain to go ahead, it is now under the shadow of a furious civil liberties debate. That is likely to develop further, as the CIA faces a Senate report into its now abandoned interrogation programme that appears set to deliver a harsh critique of the CIA's behaviour.
The New York Times reported on Thursday that the 6,000-page report will detail how the CIA systematically misled the White House, the Justice Department and Congress about interrogation and torture techniques – like waterboarding, sleep deprivation and extreme cold – that were used on suspected terrorists.
However, the report may provide some relief for an Obama administration keen to move away from the drones spotlight. Republican leaders have generally supported the CIA in debates about its treatment of prisoners during the "war on terror" and most of the incidents catalogued will have happened during the administration of Obama's predecessor, President George W Bush.
But on Thursday, Paul's filibuster was still the talk of Washington politics. It finally came to an end at 12.40am, after reviving an ancient tradition in Washington politics. Rule changes have relegated talking filibusters to little more than publicity stunts. Yet the tactic worked for Paul, as his protest attracted a long roster of Republicans who lined up to ask rambling questions, thus providing brief interludes of relief for the Tea Party favourite and son of longstanding libertarian hero Ron Paul.
They included Texas rightwinger Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio of Florida, Mike Lee of Utah, Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, Jerry Moran of Kansas and others. "You're standing here like a modern-day Mr Smith Goes to Washington. You must surely be making Jimmy Stewart smile," Cruz told him, referring to the movie that made the talking filibuster famous.
Paul's performance, carried live on C-Span, contained numerous acts of theatre. Rubio, a rapidly emerging Tea Party favourite, ended up quoting from rappers Jay-Z and Wiz Khalifa as well as the movie The Godfather. Not to be outdone, Cruz resorted to Shakespeare's Henry V.
Paul jokily referenced Hollywood stars as being potentially targeted for acts of dissent, such as Jane Fonda's criticism of the Vietnam war in the 1960s. "Now, while I'm not a great fan of Jane Fonda, I'm really not so interested in putting her on a drone kill list either," Paul said.
At one moment, Illinois senator Mark Stephen Kirk, who walks with difficulty after a stroke, delivered a Thermos of tea and an apple to Paul by slowly coming onto the Senate floor with the aid of his walker. Such practical considerations of food and drink and the lack of bathroom breaks are all part of the legend of the filibuster tradition.
The rules state that the speaker of the filibuster cannot leave the chamber, meaning that there are certain physical limitations that have to be borne in mind. The record for the longest filibuster belongs to senator Strom Thurmond, who spoke for more than 24 hours against the passage of civil rights legislation in 1957.
Paul did not even come close to breaking that record, acknowledging that he had reached his physical limits. "I would go for another 12 hours to try to break Strom Thurmond's record, but I've discovered that there are some limits to filibustering and I'm going to have to go take care of one of those in a few minutes here," he said.
Then he ended the performance with his final words generating a round of loud applause. "I thank you very much for the forbearance, and I yield the floor," he said.
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US drone strikes in Pakistan 'carried out without government's consent'
UN official says drone attacks violate Pakistan's sovereignty and Obama administration has repeatedly been told to stop
Drones on display: security firms go hi-tech in rush to seal the border
Obama must reveal legal memos on his administration's drone killing program
Kade Crockford, guestblogging for Glenn Greenwald
Published: 7 Mar 2013
Democrats' silence on drones leaves right in unlikely alliance with activists
White House to provide Senate with drone memos ahead of Brennan vote

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The MAN SL202 was a single-decker bus manufactured by MAN in Salzgitter, Germany between 1983 and 1993. It was also available as a chassis for external bodywork.

History
The MAN SL202 succeeded the MAN SL200 in 1983.

The SL202 came with a wide choice of transmissions, from three and four-speed Renk Doromat automatic transmissions, to three and four-speed Voith DIWA transmissions, to four and five-speed ZF Ecomat 4HP500 or 5HP500 transmissions. One to date has been retro-fitted with an Allison World Series B300R4 transmission, creating a largely noticeable increase in performance against similar examples with the three-speed Voith DIWA transmission.

The internal combustion engines used in the SL202 were replaced around 1990, from older, smaller, 2566 series engines to newer, larger, 2866 series engines. The majority of pre-1990 SL202s have a  D2566UH engine, developing about  of torque at 1,400 rpm. These D2566 engines have a capacity of  and max out at 2,200 rpm. This same engine was used for the SL200 and is similar in design to that of the OM407h engine used in the Mercedes-Benz O305.

Post-1990 SL202s have the D2866 engine, with higher power and torque figures. These engines have a capacity of  and maximum output at 2,200 rpm, the design is similar to the OM447h engine of the Mercedes-Benz O405.

Much of the design was used in the North American version of the SL202, the MAN Americana SL40-102. The SL202 was superseded by the MAN NL202.

Operators
The MAN SL202 was mainly sold in Germany. The chassis version was sold in Australia and New Zealand.

Australia
Sydney Buses purchased 50 Pressed Metal Corporation bodied SL202s in 1989 which were retired in 2013, while the State Transport Authority, Adelaide took delivery of 125 Pressed Metal Corporation Australia bodied examples between 1992 and 1996. The Brisbane City Council purchased two while Darwinbus purchased five.

New Zealand
The Auckland Regional Council purchased 69 SL202s, Christchurch Transport Board 57, New Plymouth City Transit six and Wellington City Council 30. New Zealand Coach Service purchased 11 SL202s between 1986 and 1988.

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Buses of Germany
Bus chassis
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Vehicles introduced in 1984

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Eagles Nest Lake is located east of Inlet, New York. The outlet creek flows into Seventh Lake. Fish species present in the lake are brook trout, and lake trout. There is access by trail from Eighth Lake Campground.

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SPC are proud to have selected Adrian Tudway as a new consultant to the company. Adrian is a former Detective Chief Superintendent who served with the Metropolitan Police for 30 years. In addition, he held a number of national posts. He was Head of National Counter Terrorism (CT) Forensics / Deputy Head of CT Investigations, Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) National Coordinator for Domestic Extremism, National Crime Agency (NCA) (Chief of Staff to Director General) and was seconded to the Home Office - Office for Security and Counter Terrorism for a 2 year period.
Following retirement from the police Adrian was employed as the Head of Operations for the Crime Stoppers Trust. Here he led a network of regional account managers, delivering intelligence to a range of law enforcement agencies. established and developed critical business relationships, working collaboratively with Chief Officers and Police and Crime Commissioners, influencing strategic thinking to manage risk and identify new opportunities.
More recently he was employed as working to the Parliamentary & Health Service Ombudsman as Senior Investigator and Interim Director of Quality & Service Integrity. Here he was recruited to lead on significant elements of a major change and relocation program whilst assuring 'business as usual', I delivered on the design, development and delivery of a training program to professionalise the investigative processes across the organisation. I worked collaboratively with other Directors and Non Executive Directors, conducting a 'root and branch' review of processes throughout the organisation.
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Cities With the Worst COVID-19 Unemployment Crisis Right Now
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10. Merced, CA
> Sept. 2020 unemployment rate: 13.0%
> 1 yr. employment change: -7.5%
> Largest industry: Government (27.0% of local jobs)
Overall employment has fallen by 7.5% in Merced, California, over the past year. Partially as a result, at 13.0%, the metro area's unemployment rate is the 10th highest among U.S. metro areas.
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic sent Merced's jobless rate soaring, unemployment in the metro area was far worse than average. In February 2020, a month before President Donald Trump declared a national emergency in the face of the pandemic, Merced's unemployment rate was 7.8%, more than double the 3.5% national rate at the time.
9. Odessa, TX
> 1 yr. employment change: -11.0%
> Largest industry: Mining, logging, and construction (26.0% of local jobs)
Of the five metro areas in Texas with double digit unemployment rates, Odessa has the highest rate. As of September, 13.1% of the local labor force was out of work, well above the 7.9% U.S. unemployment rate. While the jobless rate has been improving steadily nationwide, in Odessa it is getting worse. Though the current 13.1% monthly unemployment rate is well below the recent 16.5% high reported in May, it is greater than the 10.7% jobless rate in August.
Cities Hit Hardest by Extreme Poverty in Every State
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8. Urban Honolulu, HI
Few state economies depend on tourism as much as Hawaii's — and the coronavirus pandemic has been devastating to the state. So far this year, the state has reported only 2.2 million visitors, down 72% from the 7.7 million visitors at the same time last year.
In Honolulu, about 80,000 fewer people are now working than a year ago — and over half of the lost jobs were in the leisure and hospitality sector. The metro area's unemployment rate of 13.3% is well above the comparable 7.9% national jobless rate.
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7. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA
> Largest industry: Trade, transportation, and utilities (17.7% of local jobs)
> Population: 13.2 million
The Los Angeles metro area is one of the largest in the nation, with over 13.2 million residents. L.A.is also struggling with one of the worst unemployment crises in the country, as 13.4% of the local labor force is now unemployed. The area's leisure and hospitality industry alone shed more than 230,000 jobs in the past year.
And unemployment in California is likely not to improve soon, as cases of the virus have surged in recent weeks and relatively strict lockdown measures are being enforced in much of the state.
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6. Bakersfield, CA
Bakersfield is one of 12 metro areas in California to rank on this list. As is the case nationwide, workers in Bakersfield's leisure and hospitality industry were the most likely to lose their job over the past year. Since September 2019, as the COVID-19 pandemic effectively ground nonessential travel to a halt for several months, the number of people working in leisure and hospitality in the area fell by 26.6%.
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Jorge Saenz rejected Janaury transfer window offers from a host of clubs and made light of the attention, showing magnificent form in a battling 0-0 draw at high flying Deportivo. It was a third straight shut out as CD Tenerife dominated for much of the game but once again the lack of fire power frustrated their aim to break their away drought. Storm Helena diverted the clubs flight and it looked like coach Oltra had used the extra time to drum a new style into his back four. Deportivo were left chasing shadows in the first half hour as Tenerife stroked the ball around in defence with a confidence bordering on arrogance. When the chance came to break forward the confidence didn´t stretch that far, Malbasic ploughed a lone furrow for much of the game. Borja Lasso couldn´t make the most of his teams first chance but Tenerife were unlucky with a well worked free kick after 8 minutes. Suso played the ball to Luis Milla who fired a powerful drive high into the box, Jorge got a head to help it onto the target, and only a smart save from the home goalie saved his team.
Deportivo stirred and Caballo tried his luck with a shot that went well over the bar. Malbasic got in behind the home defence but his poor control produced a weak shot. Dani Hernandez was wide awake to thwart Dique, and a late firs t half Deportivo chance went the way of so many of their efforts, high and wide. Dique was severely restricted in the game by another excellent display at left back by Hector Hernandez. The defender was told he should look outside Tenerife in the January transfer window but he opted to stay and fight for his shirt. Midfielder Montañes has been cursed with injuries in his two seasons with Tenerife, he had to be replaced at half time by Jose Naranjo, and may face another few weeks on the treatment table. Racic got into a strong second half position before firing at the home keeper, and Malbasic hustled between a clutch of three defenders before losing the ball.
A booking for Milla after 56 minutes pushed him over the line for a suspension at home to Cordoba, the influential player will be a big miss. Deportivo were finding the Tenerife defence a hard nut to crack, Jorge rejected bids from Valencia, and Fulham, both were willing to meet the Spain under 21 players 3 million valuation but he decided to stay with his home town club. Winning the CD Tenerife player of the month award the last three times has been a rich reward as he has turned early promise into mature, disciplined performances. Naranjo has been one of the big let downs of the season, he is the teams top scorer, but with just four goals, he spurned another chance as the game went into the final phase.
Coniglio replaced Suso for the last 13 minutes, the Argentinian forward is still settling in after being lured over in the window, and added little threat. Underbarrena came on for Borja with two minutes left and his foul gave a free kick to Deportivo. It was heading for the goal until Dani made a double save to parry and then secure the ball and the away point.


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Gothic Metal and Type O Negative An in-depth and critical exploration of some of music's greatest oddballs, visionaries and cult heroes.
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State website will match employers and job seekers
BATON ROUGE – Louisiana is about to launch a new program that with match employers and skilled workers.
On Monday, state officials will make a free, online, matchmaking employment service available for the first time to both employers and job seekers who want only their top options.
The Louisiana Job Connection, commissioned by the state Department of Economic Development, is intended to match the skills and experience of job applicants to the expressed needs of employers.
The service arrives at a time when energy, chemical and other manufacturers are set to begin construction on more than $60 billion in new industrial facilities or expansions.
More jobs are on the way, according to projections of the Louisiana Workforce Commission and LSU Division of Economic Development.
The question remaining to be answered is: Who will fill those slots and others across the state?
"We like to equate it to online dating," said Kristi Barnett Williams, executive director at Louisiana Job Connection.
Williams said the lists of questions for employers and job applicants at www. louisianajobconnection.com are designed to provide both sides information that can be checked easily for accuracy.
Both sides also can consider the significance of questions that remain unanswered on the online forms, Williams said. Both sides will know the quickest way to hire an applicant or find a job is to be comprehensive and honest.
"We're moving away from searching technology and moving toward matching technology," Williams added. "We want to make sure quality people can find quality jobs."
Employers whose expenditures are strictly outside Louisiana cannot exploit the new website to raid in-state talent, she noted.
"We're limiting employer participation to businesses that pay Louisiana payroll taxes," Williams said. "They have to do work in this state. They have to employ people in this state. They have to have a Louisiana tax identification number."
Absent that valid ID number, an employer will be frozen out of the LJC online program, Williams said.
The process takes about 20 minutes, she said. Both sides should receive a list of matches within 24 hours, if not instantly.
The questions posed to employers, as well as those asked of applicants, are designed to make those matches as accurately as possible.
Project costs are expected to total about $750,000 by Aug. 18, Williams said.


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It's been over a year . . . but has it? I was kind of shocked to look at see that it was MAY OF TWO THOUSAND EIGHTEEN the last time I wrote here. There are all kinds of reasons for that.
So much of our life is recorded on Facebook and Instagram now. And so many of the parenting anecdots and my kids' issues are more complicated now. It's harder to write about the challenges my 9-year-old and 12-year-old are facing without stoping all over their privacy.
But has it been that long? It doesn't feel like it because I have eight drafts between then and now. Here are three of those to sum up a few of the feelings from the last year. The other five might still become posts someday.
DRAFT #1
Hattie is running around my office furiously, in whatever pretend game she's made up. It involves fists full of markers, and saying, "Just a minute!" to whichever imaginary friend has joined her this morning. I know that I have about 7 minutes of playing left before she'll need me.
Seven minutes. I want to update this blog to reflect where our family is right now, but so much happens every day. So much growth. So much change. Where should I even begin?
Jackson is headed to middle school this year. I have not quite finished wrapping my head around that. He loves baseball, followed closely by soccer. He enjoys basketball, but as he told me yesterday, "Basketball is more just for fun than competitive for me." Because he gets paid for baseball and soccer? I don't even know what that means, other than just an acknowledgement that he's better at baseball and soccer than he is basketball.
He would love for me to let him play football, but much to his dismay, I'm sticking by the "no football before age 12" recommendation made by a recent study by Boston University.
(FOLLOW UP: He turned 12 and wanted to play football this year. We let him move to a different soccer league and he decided not to. Hattie still runs around with imaginary friends on a regular basis.)
DRAFT 2:
I'm on the brink of 40, and I'm struggling. Not with my mortality or with my wrinkles . . .
(FOLLOW UP: That was all I wrote and it about sums it up. 41 is approaching, and I'm struggling just as hard.)
Every single year, I get to this point and wonder if homeschooling is a good option. Like, I seriously consider it. I know it wouldn't work for our family, because of jobs and schedules and sanity. But you guys . . . sending them all out into a world where my influence is less than their friends for 8 hours? It's terrifying. Truly.
And Jack is starting middle school this year, which I cannot wrap my head around without ugly crying. 7 years until launch for that boy. SEVEN YEARS. 7 years from now, we'll be sending him off to college, or whatever he feels led to do with his life after graduation.
I break parenting up into three stages: Discipline, training, coaching and then LAUNCH. Each step of the way, I'm convinced that the stage we're in is the most challenging. I suspect that NOTHING will be as hard as the launch, though.
(FOLLOW UP: Middle school wasn't awful, but I still would have rather had him home with me. Bennett is the one who had the rough year, though, and the one that I will still consider homeschooling.)
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On Monday, he was identified as 54-year-old Michael Hudson of St. Louis.
JENNINGS, Mo. — Police have identified the man shot and killed in Jennings, Missouri, Friday.
St. Louis County Police Department's City of Jennings precinct responded to a call of a shooting at around 1:15 p.m. Police say when they arrived, they found a man dead in the parking lot of a nearby apartment complex. The man had at least one gunshot wound.
If you have any information about the case, call the St. Louis County Police Department at 636-529-8210 or leave an anonymous tip with CrimeStoppers at 866-371-8477.


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Kolokotronis replied to plato-ny's topic in Greek National Team, and BBall News
You need to watch more basketball, especially of the NBA variety. If you don't know why Rose is the second best player on the team, then I won't even bother. I predicted the kid was going to be a US National Team starter three years ago, when he was still in high school....and presto, here he is. Not many pg's in the nba better....certainly not Billups.
The best player in the tournament, based both on performance and ability, was Kevin Durant-no questions asked.The second best player is Derrick Rose. The rest you can quibble about.
I think you all saw that when the US prepares even in the slightest bit for tourneys like these, they win handily-even sending a third or fourth rate squad like they did. Only Durant and Rose can be considered "top tier" NBA players from this FIBA World Championship squad, and the Americans won it hands down. Btw, I predicted Rose would be the US point guard three years ago when I saw him as a high school senior. I also predicted great things for Evan Turner of OSU...and he was College Player of the Year this past year.
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Kolokotronis replied to Lazarus's topic in National Football League (NFL)
I remember Pashos playing in high school for the Porters of Lockport High.
Basketball - Beijing
Hey, I agree with you-the dunk is the highest percentage shot in basketball. The world wide perception of it, however, is that it's the special province of the showboating Americans. How taking the absolute highest percentage shot in the game is showboating is beyond me, but hey, that's a topic for another day.
Honestly, looking back, the Yugoslavia team which finished 3rd seems to be more formidable in terms of star power: the late Drazen Petrovic, Toni Kukoc, Vlade Divac, Dino Radja, Zarko Paspalj, Stojan Vrankovic, Aleksandar Djordjevic...these guys all played in the NBA or were drafted by NBA teams in an era where drafting Euros was relatively infrequent. The USSR team had Volkov and Marciulionis from players that played in the NBA, though most of the Yugoslavians had more distinguished NBA careers and even some all-star appearances. Of course, we finished 1st with no NBA players, though Gali
Spanoulis, Papaloukas, Diamantidis, Fotsis, Vasilopoulos, Tsartsaris, Bourousis, Printezis. Basketball 101 and 102 are "fundamental skills" which aren't really European traits. The Americans have mastered both. Euro players have mastered the penetrate and kick back, but that sometimes leaves them in mid air with nowhere to go. Likewise, the dunk is thought of as American showboating.
Have to agree with drakos.The quality of basketball today in Eurpoe is FAR superior to that 20 years ago. Galis was a BIG star in Europe, but I believe would have struggled mightily in the NBA as a 6'1" shooting guard. He lasted until the fourth round of the NBA draft, for precisely that reason. Giannakis was a 9th round choice. Very limited player for a point guard. Fasoulas was a stiff. Couldn't start even at NC State. IMO, Greece right now has at least 8 guys that could play in the NBA in a regular rotation. Not even close to being the case 20 years ago.
Congrats to you for admitting the obvious.I tip my hat to you, as well as paxiotis.
Kobe is playing with ligament damage in his shooting hand. To call one of the top two or three basketball players on the planet one of the most overrated of all time is a stretch, to say the least. Secondly, the ONLY difference between this team and past teams, in terms of TEAM play, is that they have had TWO YEARS to PREPARE. Not 2-3 weeks like with ALL other teams in the past, including the '06 side. The US is the ONLY National Team I'm aware of that makes wholesale changes to their roster AND coaching staff EVERY tournament. That changed ONLY the last two years with the advent of the Oly
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Kolokotronis replied to Kolokotronis's topic in Greek National Team, and BBall News
Here's a little something which I found in another forum from a Canadian poster who knows a thing or two about basketball: I think the above accurately depicts what is going on in these boards as well.
That's fine. I'll respect your wishes and opinion. I have no problem with that. Your forum, your rules.However, I will point out the following-if you did follow basketball a bit more closely, you would definitely understand where the implied racism and anti-Americanism comes in. Nothing EXPRESSLY said, but all it takes is reading just a WEE bit between the lines, and some common sense. In any event, that's another topic, so I'll leave it at that.
Genome,If you can kindly answer the question I posed earlier, then that's where your answer would lie. Namely: ....answer me this as truthfully as possible-If I told you there was a basketball team out there that beat Spain by 37, Greece by 23, Lithuania by 35, Germany by 49, Australia by 11, Angola by 20, China by 35, Canada by 55, Russia by 20, and Australia again by 31, all within 2-3 weeks time, and that they wear jerseys with ANYTHING BUT USA printed on the front, what would you say? Results like the aforementioned take OPINION completely out of ANY discussion on the topic. What differ


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The seventh series of Geordie Shore, a British television programme based in Newcastle upon Tyne, was announced on 5 July 2013 after cast members Holly Hagan and Vicky Pattison had been arrested for assault on a night out during filming. The series began on 17 September 2013, just three weeks after Series 6 had concluded. It was reported that filming for the series began on 26 June 2013 as the cast members had all been absent from Twitter since then. This was the last series to feature Sophie Kasaei after she was axed from the series following a racial slur. It was also the first series to feature Sophie's cousin, Marnie Simpson and included the brief return of Jay Gardner, who had previously featured in series one to three, and again during the sixth series for two episodes.
7x06 Episode 6 (October 22, 2013)
The Geordies' raucous summer comes to a climax, with more getting mortal and necking on, and a final piece of high drama which leaves the house in a state of shock.
Gary and Holly are still furious at the way Charlotte's boyfriend treated her during their night out in London. But Charlotte doesn't want to hear anyone talking bad about her boyfriend, and things soon come to a head in dramatic fashion.
For the last night, Marnie shaves her fairy for Scott, after she decides she's going to put out if he behaves himself. But will they finally get together.
There's an explosive situation to deal with as Marnie returns to the house following her nightclub fall-out with Holly and Charlotte. The girls can't deal with Marnie coming back, and the boys are left in shock as a fierce slanging match erupts. Is there any hope that the girls will ever make up? The Geordies head to London to get mortal in the capital, and everyone's wondering if Charlotte's London-based boyfriend Mitch will make a surprise appearance on their big night out. But the partying is destined to end in tears for Charlotte, as events take an unexpected turn and Charlotte and Holly's friendship is left hanging by a thread.
The Geordie Shore house is rocked to the core as Charlotte and Holly have an explosive falling out with new girl Marnie in a nightclub argument that gets way out of hand. There's more drama as Scott and Gary's friendship is pushed to the absolute limit when Scott discovers that Gary has taken flirting with Marnie to the next level. Jay makes a morale-boosting return, but can even the daddy of the group bring the house back together?
Buzzin'! It's Holly's 21st birthday, and the Geordies celebrate as only they know how - with a mint house party, getting mortal, and tashing on. Can Holly overcome her cock fright and get a birthday buck? Will James risk Holly's fury by bringing his girlfriend Kate to the party? How many girls can Gary bed at once? And why is Charlotte weeing in the boys' bin? Marnie necks on with a handsome partygoer, only to find out that it was one of Scott's best mates, and when Scott finds out, he goes on the rampage. Will things between Scott and Marnie ever recover? Meanwhile there's a tiny tragedy in the house, leading to an unexpected funeral on the beach.
7x02 Episode 2 (September 24, 2013)
The Geordies are back partying, pulling and tashing on in Newcastle, but they're still reeling from the explosive fallout following new girl Marnie's arrival. She's Sophie's little cousin, she doesn't care what anyone thinks, and she can't keep her hands off Scott. A big night out getting mortal brings the dream team of Gary and Scott back together, necking on and bucking as only they can, but it ends with Scott completely losing his cool and trying to smash the house up. Meanwhile Charlotte is devastated, cracking under the pressure of having a boyfriend in London while trying to party in the Toon with her Geordie mates. Vicky tries to help Holly get over her cock fright with a girls night out to see some male strippers, but there's more drama as Sophie tries to stop cousin Marnie upsetting the other girls.
Buzzing! The Geordies are back where they belong, in Newcastle, for a jaw-dropping summer season of partying, pulling, bucking, necking on and getting mortal. But just as they're settling back in to the house, there's a shock as stunning new girl Marnie arrives, determined to have fun, flirt with the boys and not care what the others think. She's Sophie's little cousin, but Charlotte, Holly and Vicky find it hard to welcome Marnie as she starts to break girl-codes and house rules. James keeps his distance while Scott and Gary need to decide if it's worth going there with their hot new housemate Marnie.
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When Aslam Khan was a youngster growing up in a poor mountain village in Pakistan, his world didn't include knowledge of luxury cars, homes, designer apparel, or the other trappings of money. His dreams at that point were a bit nebulous, but the bright, outgoing Khan knew there was something better in store for him and he began to educate himself and prepare to find it.
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Is Khan living the American Dream? By anyone's standards, the answer is a resounding yes. He lives in a palatial estate in Southlake, Texas, and is one of the most successful franchisees in the world. In 2014 he was named Entrepreneur of the Year by the IFA. And this year he was honored with the American Dream MVP award.
"I live in the most wonderful country in the world," he says with emotion. "There is no other place like the United States, where you can be anything you want to be." In a recent interview, a university president introduced Khan before a speech, asking him if he thought he's "made it."
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I grew up in extreme poverty and I knew that in order to be a decent human being I had to let poverty go, because it can make people do things they wouldn't otherwise do. Thank God I grew up to be 14 and left home. With extreme tenacity, I worked until I could come to the United States, the best country in the world, where you can be anything you want to be.
Successfully turned around over a dozen failing companies to provide profitability and created and nurtured over 20 individual entrepreneurs in their own businesses.
I work in the office daily from 9 to 6 and then do a lot of networking in the evenings and on weekends. I visit stores on the weekends to check how things are going.
I'm always looking to improve myself and my leadership skills, so I read about the direction technology will take in the next 10 years, and also John Maxwell's leadership series.
Be true to yourself and believe it can be done.
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As a successful, determined, and passionate individual who is driven to do more and contribute more.
We hire for an attitude. If you have the right attitude, we can teach you the skills.
Increase the partners in the business by five and add 100 more stores.
I don't think success can be measured by numbers. It's about growing people and the number of restaurants we can grow to help bring on more people.
The vision that is the directive going forward is to be a billion-dollar company in 2020.
I'm taking senior managers and putting them into business. When they're ready to be on their own, I give them 25 percent of the business free and clear. We teach them about business so they can live and excel. We engage and challenge people and reward them with bonuses and incentives.
I have developed a program in which I have taken my junior managers forward and made them independent business owners and entrepreneurs. However, no one, not even from my family, will run my company if they are not qualified.
I believe it was because of the circumstances of where I came from and what I had to go through to achieve the success I have. I started with nothing and came from a very poor village across the world and have arrived at this level of the business, which is in the top 5 percent of the world.
I am always asking questions that create awareness and drive the results of the company to do more and the people to achieve more.
We have created an automated dashboard and key performance indicators that have the ability to provide information when you need it and how you need it. I have also created a ranking system that uses competition and awareness to further our success.
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Lead by example so that the team understands and believes in you. Be honest and forthright so that the trust can be built and focused on. Deliver on what you promise you will do so that the team can count on you.


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Q: Populate MVC Dropdownlist with multiple SelectList I have a two different SelectList (one for City and One for State). I must populate these two SelectList in a single dropdownlist with a separator between Cities and States.
How do I populate MVC Dropdownlist with multiple SelectList's?
public SelectList Cities
{
    get;
    set;
}
public SelectList State
{
    get;
    set;
}

A: Rather than try to bolt 2 selectlists together, why don't you combine them at source?  You've not provided much information, but assuming that you're using LINQ, and assuming you have a db relationship between Cities and States...
// get the city & state data
var cities = (from c in GetAllCities()
           orderby c.Name
           orderby c.State.Name
           select new
           {
               cityid = c.Id,
               cityname = c.Name,
               state = e.State.Name
           }).ToList();

// convert the data into a list of `SelectListItem`
var items = from cs in cities.AsEnumerable()
            select new SelectListItem
            {
                Value = cs.cityid.ToString(),
                Text = string.Format("{0} {1} ({2})", cs.cityname, cs.state)
           };
// create the selectlist
return new SelectList(items , "Value", "Text");

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Yankees' Top 5 first basemen: Hoch's take
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No one loves a good debate quite like baseball fans, and with that in mind, we asked each of our beat reporters to rank the top five players by position in the history of their franchise, based on their career while playing for that club. These rankings are for fun and debate purposes only … if you don't agree with the order, participate in the Twitter poll to vote for your favorite at this position.
Lou Gehrig is the obvious choice as the top first baseman in #Yankees history. Don Mattingly should be second. So who is your No. 3?
— Bryan Hoch (@BryanHoch) March 28, 2020
Here is Bryan Hoch's ranking of the top five first basemen in Yankees history. Next week: second basemen.
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1) Lou Gehrig, 1923-39
Key fact: Established Major League record by playing in 2,130 consecutive games from 1925-39
A uniquely durable, power-hitting first baseman who established a Major League record for consecutive games played (eclipsed in 1995 by Cal Ripken Jr.), Gehrig drove in at least 100 runs in 13 straight seasons (1926-38) and holds the American League record with 185 RBIs in 1931. In a career shortened by terminal illness, the "Iron Horse" compiled a lifetime batting average of .340 with 493 home runs, two Most Valuable Player Awards (1927, '36) and the 1934 Triple Crown.
Gehrig was honored at Yankee Stadium on July 4, 1939, when he delivered his famous "Luckiest Man" speech. That offseason, the Yankees announced that his uniform No. 4 would be retired. Gehrig was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1939 and was immortalized by Gary Cooper in the 1942 film "Pride of the Yankees." His 2,721 career hits stood as a Yankee record until 2009, when Derek Jeter surpassed Gehrig, and his 163 triples remain a franchise mark.
2) Don Mattingly, 1982-95
Key fact: 684 RBIs from 1984-89, most among Major Leaguers
Respected for his talent, professionalism and humility, Mattingly was the premier first baseman of the mid-1980s and appeared to be on a track toward the Hall of Fame before back issues sapped his power at age 29. Nevertheless, "Donnie Baseball" remained the most beloved Yankee of his era and a defensive star, tallying nine Gold Glove Awards in his 14 years wearing pinstripes.
Mattingly won the 1984 batting title (.343), besting teammate Dave Winfield (.340) in an exciting race that came down to the end of the season, and won the 1985 AL MVP after batting .324 with 35 home runs and 145 RBIs. In 1987, Mattingly set a Major League record (since tied) by belting six grand slams in a single season. Mattingly collected 2,153 career hits, 442 doubles and 1,099 RBIs, second to Gehrig among Yankees first basemen.
3) Tino Martinez, 1996-2001 and '05
Key fact: 739 RBIs, fourth among Yankees first basemen all-time
Acquired from the Mariners prior to the '96 campaign, Martinez was a popular mainstay in pinstripes for four World Series celebrations, posting a .276 batting average with 192 home runs and 739 RBIs in 1,054 games. His most productive season was 1997, when he batted .296 with 44 home runs and 141 RBIs -- all career highs. He also won the Home Run Derby and earned a Silver Slugger Award.
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A slick defender, Martinez hit memorable World Series homers for the Yanks in 1998 (off the Padres' Mark Langston in Game 1) and 2001 (off the D-backs' Byung-Hyun Kim in Game 4). Martinez's .831 OPS ranks fourth among Yankees first basemen, just ahead of Mattingly's .830.
4) Moose Skowron, 1954-62
Key fact: Seven homers and 26 RBIs in 35 World Series games as a Yankee
A seven-time All-Star and four-time World Series champion during his time with the Yankees, Skowron was a formidable force in lineups that also featured Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris. Though Skowron made his big league debut in 1954, he did not become the regular first baseman until '58, earning a reputation around the league for intimidating pitchers with his scowl and muscular physique.
Skowron hit 165 homers over his nine seasons with the Yankees, batting .294 and registering five seasons with batting averages over .300. His right-handed stroke added balance to the lineups filled out by managers Casey Stengel and Ralph Houk, and Skowron was at his finest in the Fall Classic, batting .283/.315/.508 over 120 at-bats.
5) Jason Giambi, 2002-08
Key fact: .404 Yanks on-base percentage, fourth highest in club history
Giambi signed an eight-year, $120 million contract with the Yankees prior to the 2002 season and slugged 209 homers with 604 RBIs over a turbulent run in pinstripes. Giambi won a Silver Slugger Award in his first season with the Yanks, batting .314 with 41 homers and 122 RBIs, and maintained his high on-base abilities throughout his tenure. The slugger's two-homer performance off Pedro Martinez in Game 7 of the 2003 AL Championship Series helped to set up Aaron Boone's pennant-winning homer.
A benign tumor shortened Giambi's '04 campaign, but he bounced back with strong performances over the next two years. Giambi registered the final hit at the original Yankee Stadium, an RBI single. His 143 OPS+, 619 walks and .925 OPS rank second to Gehrig (179 OPS+, 1,508 walks, 1.080 OPS) among Yankees first basemen. His 109 hit-by-pitches were the most of any Major Leaguer from 2002-08, and his 619 walks ranked fourth among first basemen in that span.
Mark Teixeira (2009-16) slugged 206 homers during his eight years with the Yankees -- which included a World Series championship in his first season -- but injuries curtailed his production after 2011. Chris Chambliss (1974-79, '88) was the hero of the 1976 ALCS and was at his best from 1975-77, when he posted a .295/.332/.440 slash line. Wally Pipp (1915-25) is best known for exiting from the lineup as Gehrig's streak began, but Pipp's 1,577 hits and 833 RBIs still rank third among Yankees first basemen.


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Excludes from gross income interest received during a taxable year up to $350 ($700 in the case of a joint return). Provides a phaseout of such exclusion for incomes over $50,000. Makes such exclusion applicable to distributions from regulated investment companies and real estate investment trusts. Makes certain nonresident aliens ineligible for such exclusion.


Seeing where people look while using your Web site, Web application, or software product sounds like an opportunity to get amazing insights into their user experience.
It is easy to get excited about eyetracking. Seeing where people look while using your Web site, Web application, or software product sounds like an opportunity to get amazing insights into their user experience. But eyetracking is expensive and requires extra effort and specialized knowledge. The heat maps and other visualizations certainly look impressive, but what can you really learn from them? After using eyetracking for the first time, many find that it is not easy to know how to analyze the visualizations and make conclusions from them. Does eyetracking really provide any additional insights you would not have discovered anyway through traditional usability testing? Does the value of eyetracking outweigh its limitations? This article will discuss and answer these questions.
What Does Eyetracking Show Us?
Eyetracking detects where a person's fovea fixate and the movements in between fixations. The fovea is a small spot on the retina that is responsible for our fine, detailed vision. Outside the fovea, visual acuity decreases greatly. Our eyes constantly move in rapid bursts called saccades, with brief stops called fixations, during which we take in visual information through our fovea. We use our parafovea—the area just outside the fovea—and peripheral vision to determine where to fixate next.
Most modern eyetracking systems unobtrusively track participants' eyes by reflecting near-infrared light off the eyes and detecting the position of those reflections to determine where the person's fovea are fixated.
We can see these fixation points and saccades most clearly in eyetracking gaze plots. Figure 1 is a gaze plot of one study participant's fixations and saccades during a task. The circles are the fixation points, where the participant's fovea stopped briefly to take in information. The numbers indicate the order of fixations, and the size of each circle indicates the length of a fixation, with larger circles signifying longer fixations. The lines connecting the circles are the saccades, the movements between fixations.
What Value Does Eyetracking Provide?
This may all sound pretty impressive, but what value can we really get from knowing where a person's fovea fixated?
We should not use eyetracking data alone, but in conjunction with careful observation of participant behavior and discussion.
Eyetracking provides additional information to help you find and interpret design and usability problems. It is important to note that we should not use eyetracking data alone, but in conjunction with careful observation of participant behavior and discussion. Within this context, seeing where participants looked during a task provides additional insights into what they were doing and why.
For example, Figures 2 and 3 show an example of how a feature that its designers intended to be a helpful aid was actually a negative distraction. While filling out an online credit card application, participants were distracted by a Talk to a Specialist box, shown in Figure 2, that appeared and followed them down the right side of the page. The gaze plot in Figure 3 shows one typical participant's fixation points (the circles) as she filled out the form. We can clearly see the three times when the chat box distracted her attention from the form. Without eyetracking, we would have observed only the third of these, when she finally closed the chat box. We would not have seen the previous two instances of distraction. The client had heard complaints about this chat box before, but it took eyetracking to show them how distracting it really was.
Figure 4 is an example of how eyetracking can show whether a design guides participants effectively through an information seeking task—in this case, finding the dates of the beach volleyball finals on the 2008 Beijing Olympics schedule. The gaze plot in Figure 5 shows the common and extended visual paths of multiple participants as they tried to find the dates on this confusing schedule. Clearly, the design of this schedule needed major improvements.
Eyetracking can help us identify behaviors that participants cannot articulate.
Eyetracking can help us identify behaviors that participants cannot articulate. If you ask participants whether they noticed a particular element or why they had a problem, they often have a hard time accurately and reliably answering such questions. We make many of our eye movements unconsciously, so it is difficult to report what we looked at, for how long, or in what order. Having participants think aloud during tasks or retrospectively after completing tasks provides valuable insights into their thought processes and behavior, but these are consciously filtered explanations. Eyetracking shows you participants' actual eye movements, without any conscious filtering.
In addition to the data eyetracking provides for later analysis, watching the live view of the eyetracking data during usability testing provides a facilitator with additional insights—like a sixth sense—into what a participant is doing. This additional understanding helps the facilitator ask more relevant questions and, thus, get more insightful information.
The live view of the eyetracking data provides a great visualization for observers during usability testing.
The live view of the eyetracking data provides a great visualization for observers during usability testing. Observers can see the live view of the eyetracking data, which makes it much easier for them to follow and understand what is happening during testing. Seeing a participants' eye movements provides much more information that just seeing a mouse pointer moving around the screen. Because eyetracking makes observing a usability test much more interesting and engaging, observers tend to pay closer attention and get more value out of observing the tests.
Eyetracking studies excite clients and project team members. Observing live eyetracking and viewing the resulting visualizations is exciting. Eyetracking gets clients and project team members interested in observing more tests and doing more usability testing. That, in itself, is a good thing!
Eyetracking provides compelling, obvious visualizations of usability problems.
Eyetracking provides compelling, obvious visualizations of usability problems. Eyetracking visualizations are often a great way of demonstrating usability problems. You can describe usability problems much more powerfully—and in a way that's visually obvious—with a good eyetracking visualization than in words alone. For example, the following sentence is much more salient when a gaze plot accompanies it: Participants had a difficult time finding the link to register for access to their auto insurance policy. The gaze plot in Figure 6 shows the extensive path a typical participant took while looking for the Register link.
Participants remembered 70% of the elements they had actually seen, but were not very good at remembering the order in which they had looked at those elements.
Do you really learn anything from eyetracking that you could not learn through regular usability testing? Can a good designer foresee how users would view a design and guide their eyes through the design?
Johansen and Hansen sought to answer these questions in their 2006 study, "Do We Need Eye Trackers to Tell Where People Look?"  For this study, which compared conventional usability testing with eyetracking, they conducted a usability test in which participants reported from memory what they saw. They found participants remembered 70% of the elements they had actually seen, but were not very good at remembering the order in which they had looked at those elements.
They also asked experienced Web designers to predict the eye movements of a typical user and found the designers could predict only 46% of the elements users typically saw. Plus, only 36% were successful in predicting the first three areas of the screen participants looked at. The study concluded that designers cannot accurately predict where people will look, and participants cannot reliably report where they looked.
Of course, you can conduct usability testing without eyetracking, but eyetracking provides valuable additional data about where participants looked during tasks. This is data a facilitator cannot otherwise observe and participants cannot report accurately.
What Are the Limitations of Eyetracking?
Although seeing where participants fixate is valuable, there are limitations to what eyetracking can reveal.
Eyetracking can be misleading, because it does not capture peripheral vision.
Eyetracking can be misleading, because it does not capture peripheral vision. Eyetracking records and displays foveal fixations, in the small part of our visual field that produces the sharpest vision. It does not record peripheral vision, which makes up 98% of our visual field. This is significant, because we use peripheral vision to choose where to fixate our fovea next.
So we can see things on a screen without directly fixating on them. For example, we can see banner ads on the right side of a page, using our peripheral vision. We know enough from their position on the right side of the page, their visual appearance, and from our previous Web experience to identify them as ads, and we often choose not to fixate on them.
Because eyetracking visualizations do not show peripheral vision, they can be misleading. For example, in a heat map, some assume users did not see areas without hot spots at all. It is important to recognize that the eyetracking fixations, or hot spots, do not represent everything participants saw. They are just the areas participants fixated on, viewing them in detail.
For example, Figure 7 shows two versions of the same heat map. The gaze opacity heat map on the right shows only the areas of the page with hot spots. The rest of the page is black. Obviously, this is not how we really see Web pages. We see entire pages through both our foveal and peripheral vision. The hot spots are the areas on which we fixate our fovea to see them in more detail. It is important to explain this distinction to the audience for your testing results.
Participants' fixations do not necessarily equal attention or understanding.
Participants' fixations do not necessarily equal attention or understanding. Eyetracking shows only fixation points—that is, points where the fovea stop to take in information—and saccades—eye movements between fixations. It does not reveal anything about the higher-level processes of attention and comprehension. Just because a person's eyes fixate on something, that does not mean he or she is consciously paying attention to that element—or understands it.
This is why eyetracking data has little meaning by itself. Careful observation of tasks and discussion with participants is necessary to understand their mental processes. Eyetracking provides complementary data to aid in this understanding. It is not sufficient alone.
Eyetracking shows only where participants fixated, not the meaning of their fixations.
Eyetracking shows only where participants fixated, not the meaning of their fixations—that is, it shows where, but not why. For example, if an element received many fixations or longer fixations, it could indicate either attraction to that element or difficulty in understanding it. Again, this is why you should not use eyetracking data alone. It requires interpretation. Careful observation and discussion with participants let you understand the context for your eyetracking data.
How Does Eyetracking Affect the Testing Process?
Eyetracking is not just software and hardware that you turn on to record usability test sessions. Using it effectively requires making changes to your usability testing process.
Getting accurate eyetracking data that shows what participants look at during tasks requires letting participants perform the tasks without interruption.
Eyetracking changes the interactions between the facilitator and participants. Getting accurate eyetracking data that shows what participants look at during tasks requires letting participants perform the tasks without interruption. Asking participants to think aloud, asking probing questions, or even allowing participants to ask questions interferes with capturing accurate eyetracking data.
Instead of using a concurrent think-aloud technique, you can use a retrospective think-aloud technique, in which you ask participants to describe what they were doing while you play back a recording of the tasks they performed. However, when using this technique, participants' comments lose some of their immediacy. You should consider the trade-off between having participants think aloud and getting accurate eyetracking data, depending on which is more appropriate for the goals of your test.
Eyetracking can interfere with the naturalness of a test session. The ideal eyetracking system is completely unobtrusive to participants. Eyetracking systems have evolved from very intrusive systems that involved participants' wearing headgear and having their heads immobilized to almost completely unobtrusive systems that look like a regular computer monitor. With these modern systems, most participants have no idea they are sitting in front of an eyetracker until they are told so at the beginning of a test session.
Eyetracking can interfere with the naturalness of a test session.
Yet, even with the most unobtrusive eyetracking systems, participants can experience a sense of self-consciousness—an uncomfortable awareness of everything they look at—because they know they are being eyetracked. Eyetracking self-consciousness tends to fade over time as participants get involved in the test tasks.
Another limitation of eyetracking systems is that participants need to remain within range of the eyetracker. Though modern systems can track participants' eyes over a wide range, participants often move out of range over time—for example, they slump, lean back, lean forward, or rest their chin on a hand. When this occurs, the facilitator must ask a participant to move back into range. Each time this happens, it interrupts the participant's task and disrupts the naturalness of the situation. If a participant repeatedly moves out of range, the facilitator has to decide whether it is more important to get the eyetracking data, or it is better to sacrifice the eyetracking data to see the participant's natural, uninterrupted behavior.
Planning and setting up an eyetracking study can add some extra time to the usability testing process.
Planning and setting up an eyetracking study can add some extra time to the usability testing process. Both the need to explain eyetracking to participants and the need to have participants retrospectively think aloud to the playback of the eyetracking recording either add time to test sessions or reduce the number of tasks you can test. Eyetracking also generates additional data, adding significant time to the data analysis phase. With all of these considerations, eyetracking is probably not the best choice for testing with a low budget or when you need a quick turnaround.
Although the cost of eyetracking hardware and software has come down, it is still somewhat expensive. The cost of a new eyetracking system is $40,000 to $60,000. Rental prices can be up to $3000 per day.
Without careful planning, eyetracking results can be meaningless—and even when everything goes right, they can be difficult to interpret.
Eyetracking is not something a usability professional can start using effectively right away. More important than learning how to use the hardware and software is learning how to effectively plan and conduct eyetracking studies and analyze eyetracking results. This is not easy. Beginners often learn through trial and error that, without careful planning, eyetracking results can be meaningless—and even when everything goes right, they can be difficult to interpret. Like anything else, analysis of eyetracking results is a skill that you must develop through experience.
The more technology you have, the more can go wrong. Although eyetracking technology is continually improving in its reliability, anyone who had been involved in eyetracking has horror stories of technical problems that threatened to derail their testing. Experiencing such problems during a test session—especially with clients observing—is not fun. It can make you yearn for the good old days of old-fashioned usability testing.
Eyetracking can be very impressive and exciting for clients, which makes them eager to do more usability testing and eyetracking. But the downside is that they may want to use eyetracking for everything, even when it's not the most appropriate method for your testing goals. It is important to be sure eyetracking does not become a sales gimmick. Use it purposefully, where it provides value.
So Is Eyetracking Worth It?
If you know how to use eyetracking effectively, it can provide additional insights to usability testing that can help you find problems and answer questions about user behavior.
Considering the advantages and disadvantages of eyetracking, is it worth it? Some have concluded that the benefits of eyetracking are not worth the high cost, effort, and complexity it adds to usability testing. On the other hand, some eyetracking vendors and consultants have promoted the idea that you cannot conduct usability testing effectively without eyetracking.
The truth lies somewhere between these extremes. If you know how to use eyetracking effectively, it can provide additional insights to usability testing that can help you find problems and answer questions about user behavior. Eyetracking is not essential to usability testing, but if you can afford it and have the time to learn how to use it effectively, it is definitely worth it. Ultimately, you have to make the decision—based on your testing goals and the considerations I've outlined in this article—whether eyetracking would provide value and its benefits would outweigh its limitations.
 Johansen, Sune A., and John P. Hansen. "Do We Need Eye Trackers to Tell Where People Look?" Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2006. Retrieved October 11, 2009.
Thank you, Jim, for sharing this. I agree with you. We shouldn't use eyetracking data alone. Observation and in-depth interviews will give us other parts of the whole picture.
Would you consider doing a professional usability study without capturing a screen recording? I doubt it, eyetracking is an essential tool for doing Web usability studies, just in the same way that a screen recording is, but with added value.
As an industry, we need to get over eyetracking and accept it as an essential tool in the kit bag of usability professionals. Yes, eyetracking does require additional skills, a greater level of training, competence, and more complexity, but being a great usability professional is not simple, nor should it be!


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My Cozy Room Spa is a really nice and pretty place, I'm sure nobody will mind heading here for our monthly girly pampering facial or massage session!
We were introduced to Summer Eve's products during that event, which I am already using personally. I actually worked an event job for Summer Eve's before when I was much younger, giving out free samples in a school haha! That was the first time I learnt about feminine care, during my job training. Been using their products since then!
Feminine care is very important and those who are not using should start using this! This is to prevent itching, bad smell or even infection at our V area. Their products are gyaecologist tested so they are safe even for pregnant ladies. There are quite a few types of feminie care products from Summer's Eve - feminine wash, cleansing mist, cleansing wipes and even deodorant spray.
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We were treated with a massage treatment on the day of the hi tea and also gifted with another voucher to enjoy another treatment on other days. I did My Enchanting Tummy Wellness (30 mins) as well as My Enchanting Floral Radiance Facial Treatment (90 mins) on these 2 separate occasions. I am very pleased with my experience over there, their therapists are very skillful and friendly, I feel totally pampered and at ease over there!
On the day of the event, I picked My Enchanting Tummy Wellness for my spa treatment as I hoped that it will be able to improve my digestion as well as to reduce my tummy size haha!
I had a comforting tummy hot stone massage by their skilled therapist which I really enjoyed! I fell asleep during the process.
Was asked to choose between facial or massage for my treatment on a separate day, and I decided to try out their facial since I don't go for facials regularly.My Cozy Room also has a sister company- Hypoxi, and I can't wait to try out their slimming treatment another time!
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We were gifted with Triumph's G-string as well as a couple of vouchers!
Was really happy to receive a Kissjane voucher as well, I happily went shopping with it, since I have to get more clothes for work too!
Picked a red skater dress from Jumpingaround (@shopjumpingaround) at the Bugis Kissjane outlet, this piece is such a staple in my closet, comfy yet good enough for work hehe!


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The best about having your own home is that you can design and decorate it in the way you want. You can have anything and everything that you like in order to get the best look for your house. From designing your kitchen to designing your bedroom, you are at complete liberty of what you want to do with the interior designing of your home. However, the task is not as easy as it may sound like as you have to keep a lot of things in your mind before starting the designing process.
The basic and the most important step in home interior designing is to create a palette first. People need to select a basic color scheme for the whole house and from there on they can take it room by room and then play with the basic color that they selected for their house at first. The design of each room should be different from one another as different rooms have different dimensions thus a slight change here and there according to the room dimensions is necessary for home designing.
The most common thing that people need to understand while designing their homes is that the furniture should be of low height so that the room may seem to be taller which gives a nice look when you enter. Another small and important thing that most people forget is the window color. By adding some light color to the windows, you can give a blend of color in accordance with the landscape. This will give a fresh feeling and make your room a bit more colorful. These small things add up to the beauty of your house which is missed by the masses.
While designing your house, you need to make sure that some of the most creative artwork is on display as well. The artwork may relate to any ancient display items or any painting that is close to your heart. You can always put up something that you love dearly in order to show your affection towards the artwork. These artworks are usually put where the majority of the guests will be sitting. So it is recommended that you have these types of unique artwork in places that have the most number of visitors.
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Custom canvas wall art is a new way of designing your walls where you can have different prints on your walls in order to make them look cool. You can either have multi-panel canvas art or you can have single canvas art, whatever goes well with your room well. The custom canvas wall art can vary from different natural canvas images to your personal images and other art. It all depends on what you want to have on your wall.
The multi-panel custom canvas art usually has 3 or more panel split where you can have an image on 3 or more splits in order to make your wall look cooler. The 3 or more splits of the canvas can be placed side by side or they can be placed in vertical order as well. The custom canvas art that is being used nowadays is usually the natural scenic picture. These scenic pictures give a lively feeling to your room whenever you enter it. Natural things often tend to give you a fresh feeling and thus having canvas art of nature is surely going to be a refreshing experience for the people.
Another key thing that people need to do is to have bright ceilings in their homes. By having bright ceilings rather than the dull ones, there will be a bit more color in the lives of the people and the rooms will look a bit brighter due to the brighter ceilings in place. Rugs is another common household item that can further enhance the beauty of your homes specifically if they are made out of natural material. Having rugs below the tables is also a different way to decorate and design your homes.
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Any reason why we should be afraid of Hell?
Is there such a thing as Hell? What does it look like? Who ends up in Hell, who goes to Heaven? Michael Hoelzl's lecture shows how greatly representations of Hell vary from religion to religion and over centuries. Islam and Judaism for instance have vastly different conceptions of Hell. What is particularly striking in this context is the fact that ideas about Hell are always much more graphic than those about Heaven. Why is that so?