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Idaho will not expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act at this time. In his state of the state address Governor C. L. "Butch" Otter said that he will not seek an expansion this year. From Otter's speech:
As you'll hear in a moment, we have some pretty good ideas about that kind of managed care model. But there's a lot more work to do, and we face no immediate federal deadline. We have time to do this right, and there is broad agreement that the existing Medicaid program is broken. So I'm seeking no expansion of those benefits.
Instead, I'm asking Director Armstrong to lead an effort to flesh out a plan for changing Idaho's system with an eye toward the potential costs, savings and economic impact. I hope to return in 2014 with specific proposals based on that work, and I encourage all Idahoans to get involved with this process.
With Otter opposing Medicaid expansion at this moment it effectively guarantees that Idaho will not take part. This move will leave thousands of lower income individuals in the state without access to health insurance coverage.
Otter is now the 10th Republican governor to reject the Medicaid expansion since the Supreme Court made it optional. While there is reason to believe some of these states may eventually come around, it is a process that could take years.
The best way to assure all low income Americans have access to health insurance would be to fully federalize Medicaid. Having state's involved in the funding of Medicaid has always been a significant design flaw and it is long overdue to get fixed.

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Massive Discounts On Big-Name Titles At GameAgent As It Celebrates Gathering 100K Members
Borderlands 2. BioShock Infinite. Civilization V. Just a few of the AAA titles hit with deep discounts at Aspyr's GameAgent game store as the platform celebrates reaching 100,000 members. How deep? All the above-mentioned titles can be had at 75 percent off. Even non-Aspyr titles like Napoleon: Total War and XCOM: Enemy Unknown will be discounted, though at only (only!) half-off.


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Joyce is a landscape artist who has looked to the incredibly spatial, spiritual, and richly colorful vistas of California, Hawaii, and the Southwest of America for her inspirations. In her newer work, Joyce has explored interpreting the urban landscape of her native California neighborhoods in pastel and oil.
She holds a great passion for plein aire watercolor and pastel. Joyce has shown artwork at Los Angeles area galleries and museums. See her work at www.joycehesselgrave.co
Hesselgrave's education includes a BA in fine art- MFA in painting and drawing from Claremont Graduate University. Teaching credentials in multiple subject, single subject art, and art specialist. California Mentor Art Teacher in 1992, 1994, and 1996.
In the late '80's, Joyce worked with the Getty Museum to write curriculum for the newly established Discipline Based Art Education program developed for Los Angeles County schools. She piloted one of the LA areas' first computer publishing programs for elementary school.
In the 90's, Joyce taught high school and presented painting, drawing, computer art, animation, and crafts classes, as well as International Baccalaureate art classes. She is currently employed by IB as a diploma examiner in Southern California.
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The Physiology of Foie: Why Foie Gras is Not Unethical
Video or photographic footage of one badly managed farm or even a thousand badly managed farms does not prove that the production of foie gras, as a practice, is necessarily harmful to the health or mental well-being of a duck. Foie gras production should be judged not by the worst farms, but by the best, because those are the ones that I'm going to choose to buy my foie from if at all. More


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The U.S. Postal Service has made improving the customer experience a priority. Postal officials see a positive customer experience as a key to revenue generation because customers are more likely to return if their experience was good. As Deputy PMG Ron Stroman noted to a gathering of postal officials in August, "Our customers have choices, they don't have to come to us. How people are treated makes all the difference in the world." Customer service strategies could include something as simple as a menu of services and prices on display in each Post Office. Or, a quick resolution of a customer complaint can turn a negative experience into a positive one. Other efforts might require more substantial changes, such as reconfiguring the retail space or offering extended hours in some locations. In some cases, the Postal Service's goal of rightsizing its retail network might run counter to the customer experience, at least initially. For commercial customers, a positive customer experience might be entirely different from the retail customer. A simplified or more automated mail acceptance process may appeal to bulk mailers. Changes in service standards might not please all commercial customers, while others may be able to adapt to the changes more readily. New dropship points for mail entry and the changes these can cause to internal processes might stress some mailers. For other mailers, fewer mail entry points might help them gain efficiencies. Given the different needs and expectations of customers, the first step to a successful customer experience would be to know your customers. "One size fits all" might work for the Snuggie®, but not for the Postal Service. Commercial mailers, in particular, have urged the Postal Service to get to know their businesses and operations better. The Postal Service has worked hard over the past few years to reach out to customers and engage them in discussions on improving operations. How can the Postal Service build strong relationships with its customers and encourage customer loyalty? Would consumer and business mailer online rating systems, similar to Yelp, be a useful tool for gleaning information about customer experiences?
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The U.S. Postal Service recently reported that its third quarter delivery service performance results marked "all-time record service performance" across all mail categories. In particular, the Postal Service had significant improvement in delivery performance for its commercial mail products in First Class and Standard Mail. Periodicals' on-time performance topped 80 percent for the first time since 2010, a major improvement over the 46 percent score from earlier this year. The improved service performance in the third quarter occurred while the Postal Service was in the process of consolidating 46 facilities, which some mailers feared would affect service. But initial reports suggest service has not been overtly disrupted by the consolidations, although the real test could come during the fall and holiday mailing seasons. The Postal Service recently completed this first phase of its network rationalization plan, and is now on a break from consolidation until 2013 after the election season. Postal officials have attributed the improvement in service performance to diagnostic tools that show "pinch points" and help managers to act on that information to reduce cycle times. The Intelligent Mail Barcode full-service data, which identifies many potential problems, is also helping and employees are doing outstanding work often under difficult circumstances. It will be important for the Postal Service to maintain strong service performance as volumes pick up during the fall mailing season and election mail is added to the mix. Further, the second phase of consolidations could begin in February 2013 and could have an impact on service. Finally, mailers report that they are not solely concerned with service scores but that the Postal Service delivers the mail as promised. What has been your experience with service over the past few months? Have you been affected by the consolidations? Are you concerned about phase two of the network consolidation plan?
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Many international postal operators pay corporate income taxes to their national treasuries. Similar to a private company, these payments appear in the postal operators' financial statements. Countries whose postal operators pay corporate income tax have essentially made a policy decision: They want their postal service to behave like a private business. This may not be surprising in solidly capitalist countries, such as the United Kingdom, Japan, or Taiwan, but many of these posts are from countries with long histories of centrally controlled economies, such as Armenia, Slovakia, and Croatia. The concept of a corporate income tax is not entirely foreign to the U. S. Postal Service. The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act requires the Postal Service to compute its assumed federal income tax on the income earned from its competitive products each year. Rather than paying that income tax to the Treasury, however, the Postal Service essentially pays itself. The money is transferred from the Competitive Products Fund to the Postal Service Fund, and can be used to fund the postal network as a whole. Corporate income tax does not necessarily imply privatization either. The postal operators of Germany, the Netherlands, Malta, and Singapore all pay corporate income tax and all are publicly traded corporations. The remaining operators that pay corporate income taxes are, in essence, state-owned. One advantage of the use of corporate income taxes is that the payments to the national treasury are tied to the financial performance of the postal operator. Corporate income tax payments decline during downturns in the business cycle and increase during periods of prosperity. Another advantage is the fact that these national governments have a stake in the sound financial management of their postal operators. In short, they have skin in the game. What do you think? Should the Postal Service pay a corporate tax? Would such a tax encourage a more business-like approach to managing the Postal Service? Or does its public service mission and its current universal service obligations make a corporate income tax unworkable?


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Keynote: Finite Incantatem – neither technology nor accessibility is dark magic
Christian Heilmann
Yahoo! Accessibility Evangelist
Speaker: Speaking last year he was inspired to create the easy access version of the Youtube player, which is fantastic. Today Christian will talk about Finite Incantatem, the gaps in communication between techies and accessibility world, parallels that exist that we mantel aware of and fantastic opportunities, that technology is becoming more mobile sensory and extendable, often for people with disabilities. Handover, Christian.
Speaker: Christian Heilmann
CHRISTIAN: I am sorry for being late for a keynote that is inexcusable, but BAA are bastards. I was in Spain yesterday in Madrid and gave a talk there and had 2 hours of sleep and completely out of it, wonderful so I didn't know later on what I talked about!
What is Incantatem?
So incantatem is from the Harry Potter books?? as JK Rowling likes redheads she is not going to sue me and it means whenever there was a spell on, with that spell you stop it happening. And what I want to talk about is that we get the myth of accessibility being dogmatic and hard to do out there, it is not hard do, it is a matter of how we approach it. There will not be any code, so you can breathe easy again. There will be a lot of links but you don't have to write them down because we have things like delicious where you enter the accessibility to actually get all the links that will be in that presentation the slides will be online later, so not to worry about that.
Last year's accessibilit 2.0
So last year's accessibility 2.0 was very inspiring. It was a great conference, several good talks and a lot of questions being asked. As a developer I don't
know what the problems are most of the time. I make up my own problems to solve, which is not helpful but that is how developers roll most of the time. Following the requests and talks I developed and started a few cool things. The biggest was the easy You Tube player, which is like my Fisher Price You Tube player that works for people with learning disabilities and blind people could listen to You Tube videos and schools use it.
Other companies like electric wheelchair companies use it as a touch interface and it was a success. We had the videos on You Tube as well to educate people about it and someone with a learning disability plays with it and after 5 minutes says I don't need you any more, I can watch my videos. And that to me was more than getting money, it was really good to see these kinds of things.
And the second one is a screen reader user that hates the web because the web promises and doesn't deliver and in that case it did deliver and she said that is great!
Scripting Enabled
So that inspired me to do my own conference which was called Scripting Enabled and I had one day of people with different disabilities or people that work close with people with different disabilities tell us about the barriers that people have on the web. Like where does a blind or deaf user get stuff? Where are the problems?
On the second day I invited developers to build alternative interfaces like the easy You Tube interface to work around the problems. It was a successful conference, am amazed it happened because I spent 12 hours planning and 600pounds on the whole thing but with the right people and connections it works, and it was great.
So we had a great accessibility event, it was wonderful, yes this is George W Bush as a cheerleader but they don't have to memorise complex sentences. We were all happy and shiny we had a bit of success, a bit of impact but I did not start the movement. I wanted to have that whole accessibility hacking to be there and to be ubiquitous and to be in the market and people know about it. I threw out Scripting Enabled as a free open source conference. If you wanted to do one anywhere else you can. You have to release everything for free, everything has to be there on online for the videos and presentations. Adobe did one in Seattle and then there was a silence and people said that was cool, when will you do the next one? And I said "How about you!" No I can't do it, I don't know what to do and I was getting annoyed with this because it works for everything else.
iPhone develop deaf camps, bar camps all over the place. People talk about everything, but accessibility is in the corner where no one talks about it. It is part of our world and if you look at figures people over 50 years old buy the most things online so if you think about accessibility don't think about the guy in the wheelchair, think about your grandmother and building stuff for her.
It is actually not that hard to do. It is pretty easy most of the time, and some other longhaired disruptive proved that a long time ago. That is basically that a mass can only become a force if it has acceleration and movement. There is no way we can impact if we don't move in the right direction right now. We are a mass but not a force because we don't accelerate. We don't move accessibility ahead. We talk about things important in 1999 and point at people when they don't do it, rather than thinking about how can accessibility make things better. We don't move in one direction. We don't have much impact. So, when a mass has a movement and goes in one direction, it has an impact, that is what the people that tried to hold me back at Heathrow learned today, because I had to come here somehow, but we don't move in the right direction and that is annoying me.
One of the reasons are we make presentations like this. This was from my conference and I was like "Who makes a slide with so many bullet points ? the audience reads while you are talking and don't understand what is going on". I have seen presentations like that that talk about easy English and talk about writing for disability and you are "Come on! Don't put everything in there" so, we should not be the grumpy people in the corner. We should not be the guys that say 'that should be accessible and you don't do it right, what is going on with you… ". We should be smiling and be happier.
Who has heard of Tweenbots? It was a wonderful experiment, it was someone built this robot and he put it in a park on the north?east end. The robot had a little flag saying "guide me to the south?west end of the park". And had a little smiley on it and they had a wonderful video online where people helped robot out every time it got stuck in the corner. One man shouted, "Don't go there, there is the street". It is wonderful how a smiley can help people.
Social Web
Then we had the social web problem and that was a big thing last year. We said "Oh social web, everything inaccessible, they are all bastards and hate disabled people". To a degree we didn't mention it that way but it was the gist of the problem. We bitched about web 2.0 a lot.
Nowadays we do embrace the social web. We all twitter, we do accessibility work and we go for web 2.0 and it works out. Or do we? This is a conference coming up and the conference title is "breaking the barriers between stakeholders bringing together service providers, policy?makers and suppliers of information and communication technology for people with disabilities". If I want to tell someone about that conference on twitter, I'm 40 characters over the maximum. Which means I cut down on a hash flag and BBB et cetera et cetera et cetera et cetera is easy to remember, right? If we have conference titles like that we shouldn't be wondering that people don't talk about them because they would be tired by the time they read the title.
Cola Life project
A good example how someone can play the social web is colalife.org… Coca?Cola is a company that has distributions channels worldwide for chilled drinks. So, a company came up and said "how about we use them and make a little thing to put between the bottles. We bring medication to Third Word countries in a safe secure way, because the distribution channels are protected and chilled. So we could bring medication there." And they came to Coca?Cola and said that is a great idea, talk to lawyers and we will come back in 5 years time and see how many people die in between, maybe the problem solves itself. Then Colalife came up and used Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and told everyone to bitch at Coca?Cola and now they do it. Now they deliver rehydration medication and contraceptives to the Third World for free and that is because the power of the social networking, someone used it to do something good.
Then we have the technology problem, that is another thing we complain about. Technology doesn't get updated, browsers are old, blind people cannot update browsers and computers, it is too hard and they need our help. Then a company like Nintendo comes around and builds something like the Wii. It is a game console that didn't look as good as the competition by long shot, but it was so intuitive, an interface where I move my hand and play something on the screen. This worked across all ages, across all abilities ? my parents wouldn't touch computers ? I gave my Godson a Wii for Christmas and they now play bowling with us. They don't have to type anything on?? I move this thing and something happens on the screen. There is a wonderful video of older people playing the Wii. They left it in the room and 2 minutes later they started playing bowling and tennis and golf and then there is the website where you see the old people in different homes for the elderly playing the Wii and if your technology has that kind of impact, look at them go. This is unbelievable. The one down there, it could be a life safer really and they are having so much fun, and they have competitions, a league for people in homes and the main impact was because it is not a computer, it is a television set and a television set we already use and we don't have to go over the barrier to touch the keyboard and such, a it doesn't work. And it goes so far that one hospital in America got rid of the rehab hardware for people that had broken arms. They had lots of machinery that was expensive and didn't work and they said "We will buy a Wii" and they called it Wiihab, and I love that because it is so much cheaper.
If you look at Easy You Tube, You Tube has that interface as well. And that one is the interface that is for the Wii or for TV sets and that almost does the same thing as Easy You Tube does. It is not as cool, of course, the software, but it has a really easy interface, it is keyboard accessible and if they just made a jump into it, it would be perfect for blind people as well, but I didn't see any headlines about it, I didn't see the interface until someone pointed it out on Twitter.
iPhone 3GS
So, the next thing is the iPhone 3Gs, which is, "We have to have an iPhone for everything and its the coolest thing out there and there is the touch interface, so it is completely inaccessible and Apple are bastards for releasing it". If you go to Marcos accessibility blog who now works for Microsoft, on his blog he explains how he uses the iPhone as a blind user the touch interface and it works for him. He says step?by?step what you have to do out of the box when you get it from the vendor it comes with an interface for you to use as a blind user, although it is a touch interface. And the reason is that OSX and the iPhone comes with a screen reader out of the box called VoiceOver, which is free with the operating system. If you were a company that built a massive operating system you released a new version in 2009, it would be a good idea to have a free screen reader in there. A nice building here, by the way… I have to say. (laughter) but VoiceOver, it is not as cool as JAWS but it does the job and comes out of the box and if the thing were turned on from the beginning maybe more people would be aware of disabilities when they buy the new computer, rather than "You have to buy the software and install it and hope it works" so enough bashing of Microsoft!
iPhone as a hearing aid
Sound amp, this is basically a booster because it has a microphone and a headphone in it and you can amplify it via software so you make things louder. It is not an aid for people who are hard?of?hearing but it is good people build these things. The grumpy accessibility guys would say it is not a help for deaf people, you are wasting your time. We should go and give them a cuddle and say thank you, you have thought about it, you are a bit misled but we will help you to make it better and cooler. Who games up with the idea of an iPhone to make a hearing aid out of it, that is a wonderful happening and we should embrace and help people with.
Isign is a schooling programme, how you learn sign language on your iPhone. When you are on the train you could learn sign language by looking at your iPhone. It is American, but it should not be that hard to do. I always find avatars creepy but it is easier than having someone record this because the data is much smaller. This is something, I was one of the speakers at the iPhone deaf camp and I was annoyed that no one pushed the platform, no one did something cool with the iPhone that no one else has done before everyone had little applications. 5 minutes later you forget the application and never use it again – great business model. One of the designers came up with this thing and it is called Senyala. It is an iPhone interface without an iPhone interface. You can touch the iPhone and make different sentences or fragments by touching it in different ways. You can say: "Hello my name is Paul I'm hungry, I want to go to the hotel…" Which is not quite sign language but as it supports different languages and different input and it can be taught, it is a great step towards taking the touch interface and making it an accessible interface, a communication interface rather than something to play with. They are looking for feedback right now and they want to get to know people who know a lot about sign language and see how they don't have to re?invent the wheel and come up with a language that doesn't make sense to anyone else. But I love the idea that someone takes something as tacky as the iPhone and brings it back to no interface, just touch interface because it will work for everything, except for people without fingers.
Nokia Braille reader
Then Nokia came out with an experimental Braille reader for their mobile phone, which is a touch interface as well. It vibrates when you hit the right buttons. This is a wonderful example where a technology company is completely misled, where they think that every blind person reads Braille and they think it is a great user experience to read an SMS in 45 minutes!
But, once again, they asked for feedback. So, would be great. Step guides lets make it useful, at least we should applaud them for going there.
And more video. What I'm excited about now is the augmented reality stuff that you film with your camera. There is a tube app that shows you which direction the next tube station is in London, which lines are connected there. You go there and look around there and we wanted to build things that you can point at people and it overlays and you see the [inaudible].
Google Android
On the Google phone you have the same thing. This is a real estate agent in Germany that if you go through the street you find out where the next houses are, how far away they are and on the bottom is the card game for kids. They come with bar codes on the back and they have software that you have a video camera on your computer. You can see 3?D animations of the top trump cards and you get quizzes that you have to answer and can play with other kids on the Internet with your top trump cards with the cameras. This would be if you take communication fragments, for example, that would be a great example for someone who cannot speak or doesn't want to or has some other disability that has a communication problem, you can hold up the different signs and talk to people over the video camera. That is what most people don't understand is the video camera with a good barcode is a good input device and we can do something like that and a toy company has to do it.
The integration problem is another one. People don't want to know about disabled people, this was in America at a heavy metal concert of a band, this was a guy in an electric wheelchair, a big fan of the band and was spinning circles was doing a burn out with the electric wheelchair. And you would expect heavy metal to be closed minded, get out of the way… and what they did, they took him and carried him up on stage, gave him a cool Viking helmet and the band sang together with him on stage if they can integrate it, how can a local council not? This is a wonderful example that you can see that it can be done. The next thing I hear is it is all too geeky, we are normal people, we have relationships and these kind of things and it is all fours.
Online Knitting Society
Then I found this. Who heard about Revelry.com. This is a web 2.0 community about knitting crocheting. I would have expected there to be 20 users, and that is all the figures. 430,000 registered users, about 70, 000 in a day. 3.6m page views per day, 10million actual requests per day, 900 new users per day, 50,000 new posts written. 2.3m knitting and crochet projects, (on screens). Don't come and talk to me that Web 2.0 is geeky. Knitting is too geeky for me but my Mum would love it. The real reason that we have lack of honesty, that is in New Zealand where it says: In case of fire do not use the lift use the stairs and if you are in a wheelchair, good luck! Which is not that legal, but at the same time it is honest at least: We are not going to do anything about it. In England it will be 'that is under process, please call us on this number, if you have time before you burn".
Branding holds us back. I have written a book and one of the chapters in there is branding competition, how to play with competition and how to remove your brand to advertise for your company. I have done that with Yahoo in the last 3 years. I don't talk about Yahoo products, I talk about the impact and what you can do with them. I praise our competition for doing great products because it shows people that I care about technology, not about my company only and shames the competition into doing something about it. It is a great concept and we don't do accessibility. We do a lot of surveys and then put the company logo on top of it and do the same thing over again in parallel rather than pooling our resource and doing something. Branding is not easy. That is oriental language school. And it is a pagoda in front of the setting sun, I think, but you are not quite sure… Keeping our eye on the brand leads to a lack of flagship examples of how to do things right. That is what we do all the time. We think about the print design rather than do we make our website accessible, no, let's wait another 2 months.
Accessible doesn't have to be ugly
Now I will bitch about the RNIB a bit. We have websites out there for accessibility and they look like this. This is Shopmobility.org.uk and on the righthand side of the website is the big blue bar, that is blue text on blue background. This is what that website looks like and this is what people find if they look for accessible websites and this is what they judge us by if a designer says "do you want to think about accessibility, no I will not build this". Then you have the RNIB website, blue, red and yellow in one menu bar. Even Superman had to give up on that! Accessible websites don't have to be ugly. This is an example of JK Rowling's flash website which explains they can be accessible.
Finding things on the web is very important and one of the things that most people forget when it comes to brand and website is your links. If I want to send you pictures of unicorns I send you to flicker.com/photos.tag/unicorns. I have predictable links that I send someone on the email and I send someone on twitter and they understand what I am on about. If you are trying to find the JK Rowling website, this was the URL for it… (screen) It could be a virus, shall I click it, not necessarily. Enough because the RNIB are doing redesign now. It is prettier now, too many colours for my taste, also accessible website directory, listing your own website, linking back to the page I am on is not necessarily a good thing. The URLs are a bit clearer but there is still something to be thought of like the re?directs we don't need them. Professionals web accessibility, should have been enough. Don't make long links because people click on links, people understand links, people trust links and if your links are something like this long, I'm not going to click it because they probably break in my mobile phone, just be aware that this is interface as well, not only what the logo looks like. There is another way and I will talk about our stuff.
So the finance calculator on the Yahoo website is free, to a degree, but it is a finance website, and it is very usable because they can switch from different currencies without reloading the page, it does everything. It has a URL which is predictable, and it is fully screen reader accessible and it is keyboard accessible and it falls down to a normal form, has labels and everything on. Our new front page has a Facebook implementation and this is the first time that Facebook is available for blind users without having to go through a captcha or anything like that. So you can use Facebook as a blind user now because they have an API and we put it inside the Yahoo home page. If your company blocks Facebook you might be able to get through there.
Passion for accessibility
And why does it work for a company like Yahoo? Is it because you hire the best people, you have loads and of money and always people say it is because you are an amazing developer and I start believing you? It is because of our developers. It is not because your developers are better or not good enough, it is because of our people, people like the person on the screen, people like Benjamin, people like Mike in the back here, it is about people like Andy, it is about people like Ian here, it is about people like Victor and it is about people like Nicola. These were the people that built this website. You know why it worked, because they all had passion and talent. They had the passion to make it the best accessible website, no product manager told them to make it. They had to fight for it, but they did fight for it because they wanted to make it accessible and if your developers have the passion but not the talent, that is not a problem. The passion is the problem. Most people want to build something that works, but not the best thing out there. So, we have the knowledge and we need to show the passion and tell the world. You don't need to know everything.
That is another thing: I can't talk to technology people because they don't take me seriously, because I don't know what they are doing. It is the wrong idea that everyone has to know everything. What you have to do is listen, collaborate and communicate. So you listen to the problem of the techie when he said that that is not possible and you say "It has to be possible". You collaborate with people like other companies. How did you solve that? And find it out. Most companies blog about these things and you communicate when you have done something cool. You tell people and invite them to look at it. Education is terribly important. People from Orange explained accessibility by doing magic tricks with the audience, blindfolding people, putting one arm behind their back and asking them to type things. It was a wonderful presentation. It got the human element andthe whole accessibility testing and it worked out well.
Teaching means being open
Teaching when you teach people something, when we go out to the world and say people something like hey, you have to think about accessibility, it means being open and being aware that people might actually step on our toes from time to time and say Don't care about blind people. That's your problem. This is Helen Keller, it's a 1930s movie. Helen Keller couldn't speak and see from a very young age and she learned to speak by actually touching the face of Anne Sullivan and finding out the muscle movements from her nose, lips and neck add mimicking them. You see the video, it is a five-minute thing and it shows how she touches her and learns about her movements and as a geek like a Vulcan mind-meld of course. No problem. At the end of the video she says 'I can speak now, by mimicking what the other person has done. It is terribly intrusive. As a trainer I would be very annoyed if people touched my face all the time. I am happy if people touch each other, okay, but for three weeks! And trying to teach her all kinds of sentences, it is a pain. But we have to be aware, if we want people to learn about accessibility, we have to get off our arses and do something about it. It is about being up-to-date.
One thing to do when we talk about screen readers, people talk about screen readers and jobs. I want to talk now about NVDA, it is an open source screen reader. Innovation. JAWS has one thing in common with innovation, NVDA has 3 things in common with innovation, and 3 is better than one. My maths doesn't lie.
Accessibility as a quality indicator
Accessibility is made in Germany, it is not German but it is about made in Germany, that's the thing. 1887, the UK introduced made in Germany as a means and measure to name and shame foreign products and get people to buy British. It didn't work. A month later, made in Germany evolved itself and a quality indicator and it still is. Accessibility can be the same if we sell it right but if wearer the grumpy guys in the corner, who else says it doesn't work it won't happen. We are going now into a break. Join me in getting off your bottoms. All stand up. Grab your bottom and say with me 'Twill make the web more accessible, starting right now". Thank you very much.
Speaker: Q and A.
Christian Heilmann: Okay.
Speaker: Anyone? No-one at all what's to ask the flame haired geek warrior?
Speaker: I do, thank you. More of a congratulations really on the new Yahoo! Such page and use of ARIA which I know we are going to cover more in the day but NVDA in particular has had lot of work done on it and has sponsorship from Microsoft, from Yahoo!, from Mozilla amongst others and it is really going to streak ahead and its performance with ARIA usage on the new Yahoo! Such engine is above JAWS anthem, so use NVDA as your testing tool.
Christian Heilmann: Yes, it is free, open source. If you find a problem, fix it. Maybe not everybody here. It is a good opportunity for you to do that. Did I shock everybody into submission already? No a question there.
Floor: Stilling NVDA, what are the three things that make it better than Jaws?
Christian Heilmann: It is free. It is open source. And it is a lot smaller. I don't have to reboot my machine every 30 minutes, I want to test it myself. And it fits on a CD or memory stick. Jaws, the first I installed it was Jaws 4 and it had a floppy disk to start with. I didn't have a floppy drive so that was a problem. This is also cross platform, which is another interesting things about it.
Speaker: There are no more questions, what we could do is take our break now and then we have almost got the full 25 minutes to do the caffeine thing. Yes? Just to see can everybody, we really want to keep to time because we have so much fabulous content, so we'll start herding you back in here just before 25 past. Can you put your hands together again? (Coffee break).


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Miles Hewitt's poetry has taken him on journeys both figurative and literal.
The 18-year-old Vancouver School of Arts and Academics senior's acclaimed poetry pursuits have earned him not one, but two trips to the White House. The latest Washington, D.C., invite in mid-December was a perk of his involvement in the inaugural National Student Poets Program, which lauded five teenage poets from across the country.
Hewitt, son of Columbian staff writer Scott Hewitt, hobnobbed with the other four young wordsmiths at the White House last month during a reception hosted by the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. He said it would have been exciting enough to meet first lady Michelle Obama, who serves as the committee's honorary chair. But when President Barack Obama walked into the room unexpectedly to address the crowd and greet the poets, Hewitt said he was in awe.
"He's kind of my hero," said Hewitt, who is also president of the Clark County Young Democrats.
Because of his National Student Poet honor, Hewitt was also flown to Washington, D.C., in September for the Library of Congress' annual National Book Festival. He received a $5,000 academic award with the yearlong national poet title, which comes with a responsibility to promote the craft as an ambassador.
Hewitt said he evolved into a poet through his interest in songwriting and other forms of literacy. Poetry lets him tell stories with a freedom he craves.
"I came to poetry because it's a much freer form of expression," he said. "You throw the rules out the window."
Read Hewitt's poem "Orpheus" on the Washington State Poet Laureate Program's blog.
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Pianist hopes concerts become a tradition
On the 12th day of Christmas, pianist Jim Fischer wants to share with Vancouver a magical song-filled afternoon.
To celebrate the end of the Christmas season, and honor his late brother, Vancouver resident Fischer will present an eclectic, but traditional-minded, holiday concert Sunday at First Presbyterian Church, 4300 Main St. The 75-minute acoustic show begins at 2 p.m. and features Fischer, classical soprano Inessa Crown, Tim Jensen on woodwinds, Keith Collins on acoustic bass and bass-baritone vocalist Paul Sadilek.
Fischer said the lineup represents a mix of Northwest musicians from varying backgrounds: he gravitates toward jazz-inspired pop, Crown and Sadilek are classical vocalists, Jensen has toured with national productions of Broadway shows and Collins plays in the Portland-Vancouver cover band One Brick Shy.
Fischer looks at Sunday's performance like a chef crafting a new recipe -- toss in a mix of performers, "and see what comes out."
Twelfth Night marks the end of the 12 Days of Christmas. In some Christian traditions, Jan. 6 is celebrated as Epiphany, often with a feast to commemorate the Magi visiting baby Jesus upon his birth.
Fischer said his brother John, who died from a heart attack six years ago, loved to celebrate the holiday. That inspired the musician to hold his first Twelfth Night concert in 2011.
"We're hoping to make it an annual tradition," Fischer said.
"12th Night: An Acoustical Celebration of Epiphany" is free, but donations will be accepted.
— Stover E. Harger III
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Mama and the four-legged family moved to new digs this weekend. Change of place with flowing space. Change of attitude with abundance of gratitude. It's all good. Pawsome, in fact!
Our old home was a good spot to transition, but it was time to move on and expand. We were getting pretty crowded in our small, historic house in old town Folsom and mama was feeling the walls closing in. A larger home was needed.
Mama is feeling free. Our new house has good flow — roomy, airy and bright. In spirit, I'm inhabiting this new abode with mama. Wilbur, Timmy E and Bella. They feel my presence and my excitement for this new chapter.
It's time for a change. Not just a new home but a change in the freedom to be who we are. We're certainly not a cookie-cuter family (2 dogs, 1 cat, mama and a furry angel) and we needed something that suited us.
A spacious living room with French doors creates an open and inviting place to chillax with comfort. The room exudes even more peacefulness since mama hung her O.F.'s (original Franziskas' – FOA and amazing artist!) Mama has a big office, there's plenty of storage space and we now have a guest bedroom. We're so excited to have the space to entertain friends and family. And we are a pet-friendly accommodation, if you'd like to stay for a few days.
This move comes at the perfect moment. Actually, every moment is perfection if we have a certain pawspective. Every encounter, every circumstance is a moment to relish; to learn and grow. The situation with Timmy E's hospitalization is cause for paws. Close relationships (especially family relationships) are complicated and sometimes tangled. It's good to take a step back and reevaluate from time to time.
Mama has learned that she needs to be clearer in speaking her mind and her wishes. That's a good lesson to learn for any human! Authenticity and truthfulness at a soul level is what we all strive for and mama is grateful for the lessons learned. We were all justifiably peeved at what happened to Timmy, but we're passed that.
Forgiveness is easier when we realize that everyone is doing their best. It may not be what we want or need or agree with, but everyone's on their own journey, at their own pace.
Walk your life's journey with wagginess and an open heart to receive lessons. Life is joyous with a furry angel's outlook.
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So who's going to win the 2009 Kentucky Derby, huh? I know, silly question considering the winner may not have even made his or her first career start. But hey, it's never too early to speculate, right?
You can start right here at home when talking about some of the contenders. Bob Baffert is mighty high on CashCall Futurity winner Pioneerof the Nile, and rightfully so. Ron Ellis, who's never won a Derby, has a couple of nice 2-year-olds in Believe in Hope and Rail Trip. Doug O'Neill has Square Eddie, who ran well on Breeders' Cup day.
Then, of course, there's Vineyard Haven — a lot of folks' top pick for next May's Run for the Roses after victories in the Champagne and Hopeful stakes back east. He's now in Dubai, property of Godolphin Stable. Midshipman, Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner, is also in Dubai.
So who do you like? Who's your early Derby pick? I'd pick Midshipman if he wasn't going to try to win the Derby by prepping in Dubai. I don't like that route. My opinion is that the Derby winner isn't even on the radar yet. Remember Big Brown? Last year at this time few knew about the future Derby and Preakness winner.


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Smart Mobs: The next social revolution by Howard Rheingold, Perseus, $26, ISBN 0738206083
WHAT makes people willing to share information with strangers? That was the question Howard Rheingold posed in his 1994 book
Now he's exploring intriguing new questions. What happens when computing is pervasive, enabled and supported by mobile connections? What is the sociological and cultural impact of the ad hoc formation of mobile human networks? Rheingold tackles these questions in his new book,
Some of the technologies he looks at are new or nearly new, such as mobile phones, pervasive computing, peer-to-peer file-sharing, the Web, wearable computers and instant messaging. Others have been here a while - virtual reality and the online community.
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New discoveries in Syria suggest a little-known people fueled the rise of civilization
With its vast plaza and impressive stone stairway leading up to a temple complex, Urkesh was designed to last. And for well over a millennium, this city on the dusty plains of what is now northeastern Syria was a spiritual center for a puzzling people called the Hurrians. All but forgotten by history, their origin remains obscure, but excavations led by husband-and-wife UCLA archaeologists Georgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati over the past quarter century reveal that the Hurrians were far more than just another wandering tribe in the fractious Middle East. And during last year's season, they found compelling evidence that the Hurrians not only strongly influenced the language, culture, and religion of later peoples, but also may have been present 1,000 years earlier--just as nearby Mesopotamians began to create the first cities.
That idea is at odds with a long-held belief among scholars that the Hurrians arrived much later from the Caucasus or some other distant region to the northeast, drawn to the fringes of civilization after the rise of the great southern Sumerian centers of Ur, Uruk, and Nippur. Scholars long assumed that the Hurrians arrived in the middle of the third millennium B.C., and eventually settled down and adopted cuneiform as a script and built their own cities. That theory is based on linguistic associations with Caucasus' languages and the fact that Hurrian names are absent from the historical record until Akkadian times.
But Piotr Michaelowski, an Assyriologist at the University of Michigan, notes that Hurrian, like Sumerian, is a language unrelated to Semitic or Indo-European tongues that dominated the region during and after the third millennium B.C. Perhaps, he suggests, the Hurrians were earlier inhabitants of the region, who, like the Sumerians, had to make room for the Semitic-speaking people who created the world's first empire based at Akkad in central Mesopotamia around 2350 B.C.
The discovery of a sophisticated city with monumental architecture, plumbing, stonework, and a large population contradicts the idea that Hurrians were a roving mountain people in a strange land. Far from being yet another rough nomadic tribe, such as the Amorites or Kassites who were latecomers to the Mesopotamian party, the Hurrians and their unique language, music, deities, and rituals may have played a key role in shaping the first cities, empires, and states. The language has died, the music faded, and the rituals are forgotten. But thanks to the sculptors, stone masons, and seal carvers at Urkesh, Hurrian creativity can shine once again.
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Is Matt Bomer, the Guy Who Plays Blaine's Brother on Glee, Gay?
Glee guest-star Matt Bomer made headlines following an acceptance speech at a recent Steve Chase Humanitarian Awards in which he – more or less – came out for the first time publicly.
Matt, who debuts as Blaine's (Darren Criss) older brother in an Glee Episode 15 "Big Brohther," has never publicly confirmed his sexuality before, but the rumor mill has long identified his partner as publicist Simon Halls.
While accepting the New Generation Arts and Activism Award for work in the fight against HIV/AIDS, Bomer said, "I'd really especially like to thank my beautiful family: Simon, Kit, Walker, Henry. Thank you for teaching me what unconditional love is. You will always be my proudest accomplishment." Watch the video here.
Kit, Walker and Henry are Matt and Simon's three children. We'll note that Matt never used the words "my partner, Simon," but implication seems clear enough. Plus, given the sweet and heartfelt way the thank you message was delivered, we're lovin' the "Awww" factor of this sweet moment for Matt and his family!
When asked about his sexuality in 2010, Matt told Details magazine, "I don't care about that at all. I'm completely happy and fulfilled in my personal life."
In addition to his slot on Glee as Blaine's big bro, Cooper Anderson, Matt will appear in the big-screen adaptation of the HIV/AIDS drama, The Normal Heart, directed by… yep, Ryan Murphy! Do we smell a budding creative bromance?
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Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant had permission to stay out late Friday night while celebrating his upcoming birthday, Bryant's adviser, David Wells, told Dallas' WFAA-TV Saturday. Bryant, who turns 24 today, had behavioral guidelines placed on him by the team after the DeSoto police charged him this summer with assaulting his mother during a […] [Read More]
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If the Cowboys are to upset the only undefeated team left in the NFL on Sunday night, they need to gallop out of the starting gate, quarterback Tony Romo said. A fast start, Romo reminded reporters Thursday in Irving, is how Dallas beat another undefeated team in a dome stadium. "I can remember playing against […] [Read More]
Report: Charges against Bryant won't be dismissed
Domestic violence charges filed against Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant will not be dismissed, the Dallas County district attorney's office confirmed Wednesday to ESPNDallas.com. The DeSoto Police Department filed Class A misdemeanor family violence charges against Bryant in July after he allegedly assaulted his mother. Bryant is subject to either a league-imposed suspension or […] [Read More]
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Sweat Science is a column about the science of training and fitness. With "what does the evidence show?" as his mantra, author Alex Hutchinson looks for the latest studies on all topics related to the science of fitness, ranging from neuroscience to nutrition, and takes a hard look at what they do (and don't) tell us about how to run faster or live longer.
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Alex Hutchinson is a former physicist and national-class runner, and a National Magazine Award-winning science journalist. His latest book is called Which Comes First, Cardio or Weights? Fitness Myths, Training Truths and Other Surprising Discoveries from the Science of Exercise. Follow @sweatscience on Twitter.
Watermelon Juice: The New Beet Juice?
New evidence suggests that citrulline found in watermelons may boost exercise performance.
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Do You Believe in Compression Socks?
They work best if you expect them to, study finds.
Protein Before Bed Builds Muscle
Muscle growth is enhanced by a pre-sleep dose of protein.
Which Antioxidants Help and Which Hurt?
A new review weighs the evidence on antioxidants for athletes.
Does Getting Fitter Make You Run Less Efficiently?
Scientists debate the relationship between aerobic fitness and running economy.
It's Okay to Be a Lightweight
New research suggests that any weight builds muscle—as long as you lift to failure.
Does Knowing Your Splits Help You Run Faster?
How you pace a 5K depends on how much information you have.
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Rabbit experiments help researchers explore how (and if) massage really works.
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George Zimmerman, Trayvon Martin case: New evidence shows cops disagreed on Zimmerman's broken nose
By MIKE SCHNEIDER, Associated Press
ORLANDO, Fla. — Sanford police officers gave conflicting accounts of an ex-neighborhood watch leader's injuries in the minutes after he fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.
Documents released by prosecutors Thursday show that some officers thought George Zimmerman's nose was broken but others didn't. The officers agreed that Zimmerman had cuts on the back of his head.
The degree of Zimmerman's injuries could be important in his claim of self-defense. Zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder in the shooting.
The documents also provide an account of Martin's activities with his cousin the day before the shooting and show crime scene photos.
Zimmerman was arrested 44 days after the shooting. The delay triggered protests nationwide and the departure of Sanford's police chief.
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SANFORD, Fla. (CNN)-- Florida's state attorney is expected to release FBI reports Thursday that may shed light on whether race played a role the night George Zimmerman shot and killed an unarmed teen.
The investigative reports are amid evidence in the second-degree murder case expected to be released by Special Prosecutor Angela Corey to Zimmerman's attorney, according to court documents filed in June.
The U.S. Department of Justice took up a civil rights investigation following allegations that race played a part in the killing of Trayvon Martin, 17, in February in a gated community in Sanford.
An official conclusion in the Justice Department's investigation is not expected as part of the evidence release, though details about some of the interviews will be turned over to Zimmerman's attorney.
Martin's family and supporters say Zimmerman racially-profiled the teen, describing him as "suspicious" during a 911 call and ignoring a police dispatcher's request that he not follow him.
The 28-year-old neighborhood watch volunteer, who is charged with second-degree murder in the shooting, has said he killed Martin in self-defense, saying the teen punched him and slammed his head into a sidewalk before the shooting, according to family members and police.
Among the evidence to be released are details about federal interviews with more than 30 people, including key members of the Sanford Police Department and Zimmerman's friends, according to court documents.
Also expected to be released are details about interviews with agents of the Florida Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco, who arrested Zimmerman in 2005 on suspicion of battery against a law enforcement officer and obstruction of justice.
The charges against Zimmerman, who was accused of pushing an undercover agent, were later dropped after he entered a pretrial diversion program and completed an anger management class.
Additionally, according to the court filings, details about Zimmerman's MySpace account, surveillance video and e-mails between Zimmerman and ousted Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee will be released as part of the evidence handover.
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My Vegas condo agreement requires me to publicly tout gambling picks for the week. I can't GUARANTEE A FIVE STAR LOCK OF THE MILLENNIUM, YOU ARE A COMMUNIST TRANSVESTITE IF YOU DON'T BET ON THIS but I can identify the games that seem to me to have an essence of Lockness about them, which smells like a mix of algae, brackish water and lizard breath.
Also, I am totally welcoming of all communists. Transgendered, transvestite or other.
It is amazing that this is the week of the Conference championship games, only three NFL games remain until September, yet the NFL is only the 3rd biggest story in sports.
Somewhere deep underground in his lair on an unpopulated Japanese island, Roger Goodell is plotting a way to get back to the top of the sports section. I assume by the end of the week, he will suspend Adrian Peterson for being inhuman, Peyton Manning for being part cyborg or announce a new '2nd season' where each team will play 5 spring games. With no pads.
This should be the NFL's greatest month of the year and they are an afterthought thanks to a cyclist and the non-existent girlfriend of a college linebacker. I am kind of surprised Goodell hasn't already announced suspensions for both Armstrong and Te'o, just to see his name in print.
Thankfully, I got my game handicapping out of the way early this week to ensure I could get bets down at their optimal level (and then watched the lines move against me the moment I placed my bets, as usual). Since the Te'o story broke, my productivity levels have been approaching Paris Hilton levels. I can't look away from Twitter awaiting the next non-sensical fact to drop. This story is sort of like modern art, I have no idea what I am seeing most of the time, yet I keep staring at the shark carcass suspended in formaldehyde.
I refuse to speculate (publicly) on what the hell happened because nothing makes sense and no one possibly extending all the way to Te'o himself knows what is going on.
That of course, won't stop much of the media to jumping to whatever conclusion they feel predisposed to. Creating knee-jerk 'narratives' with too little information is the foundation of most large format journalism these days anyway. Narratives, like for example, a cancer survivor overcoming the odds and beating a cast of foreigners. Or a linebacker playing inspired by the struggles of a recently departed girlfriend.
As for Lance, call me cynical but when a guy beats cancer and then repeatedly wins a race filled entirely with people that are doping, I kind of assume he is doping as well - understanding relationships like this is why I did well on the ACTs. To say his 'confession' is old news is an insult to old news.
But on the other side of this strange, weird week are the AFC and NFC Championships. A pang of pain shoots through me every time I see the Ravens in the title game knowing that should be the Broncos.
But that won't stop me from betting. In fact, given there are only 2 games remaining and one involves two of my least favorite teams, let's go all in on gambling, picking both games against the spread and against the over/under line.
If it wasn't for gambling I would have a hard time stomaching the looming 3 hour Ray Lewis canonization that would make an awards show 'In Memoriam' look even handed and objective.
Sure, he once was involved in a man's death but as we learn over and over again, real life facts matter little compared to what the media has decided is the overarching story of someone. The media, having learned absolutely nothing this week, will once again hold up an athlete as all that is right with the world.
So cheers Ray, in the media's eyes you will always be a great man and a great leader. Not like those charlatans Lance and the girlfriend no one bothered to research.
<quietly nudges body of knifing victim under the bed with toe of shoe>
Lockness #1 – San Francisco at Atlanta Over (48.5)
The system that I have been using projects a total of nearly 57, so who am I to argue? The offenses that have moved on the Forty-Niner defense this year have required receivers on the outside as well as a tight end threat (see: Patriots). Enter Tony Gonzalez who has finally won a playoff game to burnish his 'greatest tight end in history' resume (though Shannon Sharpe can't hear him over the shine coming off his three Super Bowl rings). The second half of last week's game showed that the Falcons defense is incapable of tackling a mobile quarterback, especially when trying to stop a power running game. I think both teams can score a little and will blast through this line.
Lockness #2 – Atlanta (+4) vs San Francisco
Yes, we were all impressed by Colin Kaepernick's dismantling of the Packers last week but the dirty secret is that he just hasn't been that great on the road. Outside of at New Orleans and one great half at New England (neither of whose defenses will be confused with the '85 Bears), Colin has looked like the inexperienced player he is when he ventures from the friendly confines of Candlestick. That horrid game at St. Louis. The implosion at Seattle. When he has faced solid defenses on the road, Kaepernick has not been the game changer he has been at home or against bad defenses. I am leaning to the Falcons because, I think this game is going to be close and I will happily bet on the home team, with the best record in the NFC, to lose by a field goal or less.
Full disclosure: Personally, I want the Forty-Niners to win. But separating heart from mind, being favored on the road by anything over a field goal seems like too much.
Lockness #3 – Baltimore at New England Under (51.5)
Again my system projects a different score than the line offered by Vegas. This time it suggests a score around 47. A look back at the history between these teams and it is easy to understand why. Outside of their week #3 match-up this year, these teams haven't scored more than 48 points in this match-up since 2007 (5 match-ups). I just don't see a back and forth scoring fest like we saw in both AFC games last week. These teams know each other well; they know the other team's strengths and weaknesses. Last year's AFC title game between the same teams (two teams that have seen little turnover in personnel), totaled 43 points. Throw in a forecast of a cool windy day in Foxborough causing havoc with the passing game and I am riding with boredom this week.
Lockness #4 – Baltimore (+8) at New England
Ok, I refuse to always be a slave to the machine. This time, I am going against what the system projects. My numbers say New England is about 10 points better than Baltimore but I don't buy it, the system said the Broncos were 12 points better than Baltimore too. Baltimore may be this year's Giants. A team that is playing better in the post season than they ever did in the regular season, making projections based on their regular season performance irrelevant. A defense getting strong (and healthy) at the right time and a quarterback not making mistakes. I think the Ravens keep it close – as stated above they know how to play against the Patriots and are coming in riding a wave of confidence from that ridiculous win in Denver last week. A game they had no right to win.
But as I am sure we will be reminded repeatedly, the great and glorious leader Ray Lewis willed his over-matched Ravens to the win.


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An article published on April 2nd declared iPhone "dead in the water" as a result of Android's crushing momentum.
Now, by most accounts, the author of that article, Henry Blodget, isn't exactly the most trustworthy of analysts– in 2002, he was barred from the Securities industry, charged with civil liberties fraud and fined $2 million for publishing inaccurate and contradictory information. But nevertheless, the idea that "iOS is dead in the water, and Android killed it" has caught some people's attention. It certainly invites a compelling comparison to the Windows-vs-Mac OS battle.
The problem is, not only is the iPhone not dead in the water: it's actually almost impossible to claim that it is.
Horace Deidu at Asymco notes the origin of the phrase "dead in the water", which has to do with a ship losing its rudder control (and thus its steering and maneuverability).
Perhaps Blodget's claim was meant to use the phrase rhetorically, as it's clear the iPhone isn't lacking in direction–or maneuverability– by any stretch.
Deidu then runs the numbers on this claim and concludes by stating,
On a unit basis and one the basis of vendor comparison, iPhone is doing very well. On the basis of value capture and profitability it's doing even better.
Think about this: Blodget claims that "Apple's iPhone share increased slightly, but is dead in the water and has now fallen way behind Android (in smartphones)." Sounds good as an attention-getter, but the iPhone's share of all phones is still growing, as its share of all smartphones. Apple is the 4th most popular phone maker in the world now, with a staggering 5% of all phones sold. That's more than RIM, HTC, Motorola, and Sony Ericsson.
In noting these numbers, Deidu asks, "what makes the iPhone dead in the water?" He then discovers the exact pattern of factual exclusion that allows Android to claim victory: are you ready?
If we count only:
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And, of course, you'd need to forget the fact that Netmarketshare, who specialize in producing accurate reports, shows Android's internet usage share for April as a whopping 0.66% (while iOS has kicked up 1.5% to crest at 2.24%).
Incidentally, according to Netmarketshare, the Mac OS is hanging out at just 5.4% compared to Windows' 88.9%–incredible when you think of how visible the Mac platform has become.
So, who's making up the Android activation numbers? It seems impossible for 350,000 Android phones to be activated every day if Android's market share only climbed 0.1% in April.
One thing's for sure: from these numbers, it becomes fairly difficult to imagine the iPhone going anywhere but up. As Deidu reiterates, "If something is dead in the water, it isn't going anywhere or making any progress."
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First off , Go , Doug , go !
On a different note, I just read in one of the BMW riders blog about a fellow BMW team that needed and didn't have a tool to remove a special 8-sided nut holding a wheel bearing on their rear wheel. One of the team went to OCC and showed them what they needed and the guys at OCC water-jetted the piece out and welded it to a 3/8 drive socket for them.
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Samsung ships 150k Galaxy S4 LTE-A units in Korea
Samsung released its Galaxy S4 LTE-A in Korea a couple of weeks ago and the company has already managed to ship 150,000 units of its latest smartphone in its homeland. That might not be a particularly impressive number compared to the over 20 million units sold by the original Galaxy S4, but when you consider that it's a single market and just two weeks of availability the figure is certainly decent.
The Samsung Galaxy S4 LTE-A comes with the powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 SoC rather than the Snapdragon 600 that powers the international version, but is otherwise identical to its predecessor. The international variant comes with a 5-inch 1080p Super AMOLED display, 2 GB of RAM, 13 megapixel rear camera, 32 GB in-built memory, microSD card slot and IR port.
The fact that Samsung Galaxy S4 LTE-A is able to make use of the SK Telecom's new super-fast network speeds and equally well supported by the Samsung's strong marketing campaign has certainly helped push those sales numbers so high.
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Alaska had been on my "list" for several years. In fact, in 2007 I bought a 1150 GSA hoping to ride to Alaska, but somehow it never happened.
I'll be honest, I was dead-tired on this trip. I'd come back from 7 months solo riding in Central and South America a scant three weeks before we headed out, and I was pretty road weary. I know that sometimes Edward's trips can be a death march, so we entered some serious negotiations before departing. 1. I told him no more than 250 miles per day. 2. I had zero money, so we'd have to boondock as much as possible. 3. He'd have to navigate. 4. As few Subway sandwiches as possible (we ate them
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I'd gotten sick a bunch south of the border, and I was on some heavy duty drugs to eliminate a parasite I'd picked up. Edward kept telling me I looked like sheet. Some travel partner, eh?
I'll never say no to a good adventure to somewhere I've never been, and I hadn't been very far north of the USA. Besides, he lured me with visions of hot springs, happy bears, and the most fantastic natural wonders ever seen.
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To help gamers delve even deeper into the world of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and CD Projekt RED have released a new developer diary video with commentary from the team detailing all the new content that have made the game an acclaimed epic. Over the course of the 5 minute video, the artists from CD Projekt RED go in-depth on the new quests, characters and locations that propel gamers even further into the intrigue and history of the vast world of Temeria. The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition, was released on April 17 in North America for the Xbox 360 and PC.
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