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Offering more sound and more sun, the passion cabriolet offers a convertible soft top with remote roof release, rear glass window with defroster, stowable side roof bars, optional upgraded radio and sound system and much more.
passion cabriolet color options
Silver tridion safety cell shown. Other available tridion safety cell colors are black, white, strike red and slate grey.
grey matte
silver metallic
clear flame yellow
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exterior features
- Fully automatic convertible top with glass rear window
- Black soft top with options of blue and red at no additional cost
- Tridion safety cell available in Silver Metallic, Black, White, Strike Red and Slate Grey with matching door mirror trim at no cost
- Body panel colors available in Clear Flame Yellow, Deep Black, Crystal White (additional body panel color options Grey Matte, Silver Metallic avaliable at additional cost)
- 15" 9-spoke alloy wheels
safety features
- Electronic stability program (esp®) with hill start assist
- Anti-lock braking system (abs) with electronic brake force distribution
- Full-size Driver and passenger airbags
- Head/thorax-side airbags
- Knee-bolster airbags
- Central locking system with remote
interior features
- Power Windows with one-touch lowering feature
- Power Adjustable and Heated Exterior Mirrors
- Rain and Light Sensor
- smart radio with USB and AUX inputs (navigation system available with extra cost.)
- 3-spoke leather steering wheel with paddle shifters (Ordering Cruise Control Package will remove standard steering wheel shift paddles on the Passion Coupe)
- Air conditioning with automatic control
- Lockable glove compartment
- Coin holder
- Cup holder
- Interior color options available in black, red, and beige at no cost (Leather interior options are available at extra cost.)
- Driver's armrest (Not applicable with Crystal Grey Leather Package)
- Floor mats
- 48 month/50,000 mile warranty
Comfort Package ($870)
- Electric Power Steering
- Black Leather Seats
- Heated Seats
Style Package ($990)
- 15" grey BRABUS wheel
- LED Daytime Running Lamps
- Ambient Interior Lighting
- Dashboard Gauges
Cruise Control Package ($280)
- Cruise Control
- Trip Computer
- 3 spoke steering wheel with cruise control
- (Ordering Cruise Control PKG will remove standard steering wheel shift paddles on the Passion Coupe and Cabriolet)
optional features
- Ambient Internal lighting system ($190)
- Surround system ($490)
- Center Console Storage ($30)
- Retractable Cargo Cover ($99)
- Heated Seats ($240)
- Anti-theft alarm system ($200)
- Fog lamps ($110)
- Electric Power Steering ($550)
- Dashboard Gauges ($120)
- LED daytime running Lamps ($250)
- 15" 6-spoke alloy wheels With wide all-season tires (175/55 R15, front; 195/50 R15 rear) ($250)
- Crystal Grey Leather (Not available with Comfort package or Armrest) ($1,450)
upholstery options
Your upholstery selection will be perfectly matched to the instrument panel, the door trim and knee pads. Choose between design red, design black, design beige, or upgrade to black or crystal gray leather.
sound system
The standard radio is built with a USB/AUX interface for an MP3 player and comes with two door speakers.
esp® program
Should you ever find your smart car in danger of swerving, the esp® (electronic stability program) recognizes the danger before you do. It throttles the engine and brakes the wheels to stay in control.
tridion safety cell
At first glance, smart's tridion safety cell is a design element, framing each smart in eye-catching color. But, our patented tridion safety cell is modeled after a racecar roll cage, making the smart car a real bodyguard.
steel deformation elements
Steel deformation elements (or crash boxes) absorb energy from minor collisions. If you ever have a fender bender, damaged bumpers are simple and inexpensive to replace.
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What is AWR?
The Agency Workers Regulations (AWR) is an EU directive which was implemented in the UK in October 2011. Designed to protect the working and employment conditions of contractors, freelancers and temporary workers, the directive had a wide range of implications for the staffing sector and its supply chain. Since the introduction of AWR, recruitment businesses using non-compliant umbrella companies leave themselves exposed to costly employment tribunals if a claim is upheld.
What are agency workers entitled to?
After a qualifying period of 12 weeks, any agency worker in the UK is entitled to the same basic working and employment conditions as they would be if they had been recruited and hired by the client to do the same job. This includes:
- Equal pay including holiday pay, bonuses, commission etc.
- Equal working time, rest breaks, rest periods, night work and annual leave
Plus, from day one, the client is responsible for making sure all agency workers have access to:
- Collective facilities and amenities such as a canteen, childcare facilities and transport facilities
- Information regarding relevant permanent vacancies
Our response to AWR
As one of the most trusted and experienced providers in the industry, Parasol created compliant solutions designed to protect both our recruitment partners and lower paid agency workers. Our dedicated AWR team had an active role in the consultation process prior to the publication of the AWR guidance notes. As a result we've been pro-active in sharing our knowledge and experience with the industry.
At Parasol we have two compliant models in place for agency workers: Match Permanent Pay (MPP) and Swedish Derogation.
Our MPP model ensures that an agency worker receives the same pay as their permanent equivalent after 12 weeks. Under this model, recruiters or end clients need to supply comparator data for the permanent equivalent.
Our Swedish Derogation model provides extra benefits to the worker including pay between assignments and help finding their next contract. This does however exclude them from the right to equal pay.
The table below shows the differences between the two models:
Match Perm Pay v Swedish Derogation
What does AWR mean for recruitment agencies?
The responsibility for providing the temporary worker with equal rights is split equally between the client, the recruitment agency and the umbrella company. Our compliant models help agencies mitigate the risk and we'll work with you to make sure we receive the comparative data we need, when we need it to avoid any issues.
Costly financial penalties are in place for any party who breaks, or appears to break the rules. Measures also exist which target clients and agencies who structure assignments deliberately, so a temporary worker doesn't qualify for equal conditions which they would typically be entitled to after the qualifying period. An example of this could be a contract which includes an artificial 'break' with the intention of avoiding the 12 week rule.
It's important to remember that the 12 week rule includes multiple assignments if it's the same role with the same client, even if the assignment has come through a different agency. As a recruiter, it's essential that you have a thorough understanding of where the candidate has been prior to the contract on offer.
Why Parasol?
Parasol is the UK's leading onshore professional employment organisation. By using Parasol, you can be sure that we mitigate both the employment and AWR risk to your business. We're a founder member of the Freelancer and Contractor Services Association (FCSA) so compliance is at the heart of everything we do.
For more information on AWR, please give our agency team a call on 0844 815 9950 or email: firstname.lastname@example.com.

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16 U.S. Code § 1881a - Information collection
(a) Collection programs
(1) Council requests
If a Council determines that additional information would be beneficial for developing, implementing, or revising a fishery management plan or for determining whether a fishery is in need of management, the Council may request that the Secretary implement an information collection program for the fishery which would provide the types of information specified by the Council. The Secretary shall undertake such an information collection program if he determines that the need is justified, and shall promulgate regulations to implement the program within 60 days after such determination is made. If the Secretary determines that the need for an information collection program is not justified, the Secretary shall inform the Council of the reasons for such determination in writing. The determinations of the Secretary under this paragraph regarding a Council request shall be made within a reasonable period of time after receipt of that request.
(2) Secretarial initiation
If the Secretary determines that additional information is necessary for developing, implementing, revising, or monitoring a fishery management plan, or for determining whether a fishery is in need of management, the Secretary may, by regulation, implement an information collection or observer program requiring submission of such additional information for the fishery.
(b) Confidentiality of information
(1) Any information submitted to the Secretary, a State fishery management agency, or a marine fisheries commission by any person in compliance with the requirements of this chapter shall be confidential and shall not be disclosed except—
(A) to Federal employees and Council employees who are responsible for fishery management plan development, monitoring, or enforcement;
(B) to State or Marine Fisheries Commission employees as necessary to further the Department's mission, subject to a confidentiality agreement that prohibits public disclosure of the identity of business of any person;
(C) to State employees who are responsible for fishery management plan enforcement, if the States employing those employees have entered into a fishery enforcement agreement with the Secretary and the agreement is in effect;
(E) when such information is used by State, Council, or Marine Fisheries Commission employees to verify catch under a limited access program, but only to the extent that such use is consistent with subparagraph (B);
(F) when the Secretary has obtained written authorization from the person submitting such information to release such information to persons for reasons not otherwise provided for in this subsection, and such release does not violate other requirements of this chapter;
(G) when such information is required to be submitted to the Secretary for any determination under a limited access program; or
(2) Any observer information shall be confidential and shall not be disclosed, except in accordance with the requirements of subparagraphs (A) through (H) of paragraph (1), or—
(A) as authorized by a fishery management plan or regulations under the authority of the North Pacific Council to allow disclosure to the public of weekly summary bycatch information identified by vessel or for haul-specific bycatch information without vessel identification;
(C) as authorized by any regulations issued under paragraph (3) allowing the collection of observer information, pursuant to a confidentiality agreement between the observers, observer employers, and the Secretary prohibiting disclosure of the information by the observers or observer employers, in order—
(i) to allow the sharing of observer information among observers and between observers and observer employers as necessary to train and prepare observers for deployments on specific vessels; or
(3) The Secretary shall, by regulation, prescribe such procedures as may be necessary to preserve the confidentiality of information submitted in compliance with any requirement or regulation under this chapter, except that the Secretary may release or make public any such information in any aggregate or summary form which does not directly or indirectly disclose the identity or business of any person who submits such information. Nothing in this subsection shall be interpreted or construed to prevent the use for conservation and management purposes by the Secretary, or with the approval of the Secretary, the Council, of any information submitted in compliance with any requirement or regulation under this chapter or the use, release, or publication of bycatch information pursuant to paragraph (2)(A).
(c) Restriction on use of certain information
(1) The Secretary shall promulgate regulations to restrict the use, in civil enforcement or criminal proceedings under this chapter, the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.), and the Endangered Species Act (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), of information collected by voluntary fishery data collectors, including sea samplers, while aboard any vessel for conservation and management purposes if the presence of such a fishery data collector aboard is not required by any of such chapter or Acts or regulations thereunder.
(2) The Secretary may not require the submission of a Federal or State income tax return or statement as a prerequisite for issuance of a permit until such time as the Secretary has promulgated regulations to ensure the confidentiality of information contained in such return or statement, to limit the information submitted to that necessary to achieve a demonstrated conservation and management purpose, and to provide appropriate penalties for violation of such regulations.
(d) Contracting authority
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary may provide a grant, contract, or other financial assistance on a sole-source basis to a State, Council, or Marine Fisheries Commission for the purpose of carrying out information collection or other programs if—
(1) the recipient of such a grant, contract, or other financial assistance is specified by statute to be, or has customarily been, such State, Council, or Marine Fisheries Commission; or
(e) Resource assessments
(1) The Secretary may use the private sector to provide vessels, equipment, and services necessary to survey the fishery resources of the United States when the arrangement will yield statistically reliable results.
(2) The Secretary, in consultation with the appropriate Council and the fishing industry—
(A) may structure competitive solicitations under paragraph (1) so as to compensate a contractor for a fishery resources survey by allowing the contractor to retain for sale fish harvested during the survey voyage;
(B) in the case of a survey during which the quantity or quality of fish harvested is not expected to be adequately compensatory, may structure those solicitations so as to provide that compensation by permitting the contractor to harvest on a subsequent voyage and retain for sale a portion of the allowable catch of the surveyed fishery; and
Source(Pub. L. 94–265, title IV, § 402, as added Pub. L. 104–297, title II, § 203,Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3607; amended Pub. L. 109–479, § 3(d)(1)(A), title II, §§ 202, 203 (a),Jan. 12, 2007, 120 Stat. 3578, 3612, 3613.)
References in Text
This chapter, referred to in subsecs. (b)(1), (3) and (c)(1), was in the original "this Act", meaning Pub. L. 94–265, Apr. 13, 1976, 90 Stat. 331, as amended, known as the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1801 of this title and Tables.
The Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, referred to in subsec. (c)(1), is Pub. L. 92–522, Oct. 21, 1972, 86 Stat. 1027, as amended, which is classified generally to chapter 31 (§ 1361 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1361 of this title and Tables.
The Endangered Species Act, referred to in subsec. (c)(1), probably means the Endangered Species Act of 1973, Pub. L. 93–205, Dec. 28, 1973, 87 Stat. 884, as amended, which is classified generally to chapter 35 (§ 1531 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1531 of this title and Tables.
Prior Provisions
A prior section 402 ofPub. L. 94–265repealed former sections 1081 to 1086 and 1091 to 1094 of this title, prior to being amended generally by Pub. L. 104–297.
2007—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 109–479, § 202, substituted "Collection programs" for "Council requests" in heading, designated existing provisions as par. (1), inserted heading, realigned margins, in first sentence, struck out "(other than information that would disclose proprietary or confidential commercial or financial information regarding fishing operations or fish processing operations)" after "additional information" and "types of information", in last sentence, substituted "paragraph" for "subsection", and added par. (2).
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 109–479, § 203(a)(1), (2), added pars. (1) and (2), redesignated former par. (2) as (3) and realigned margins, and struck out former par. (1) which related to confidentiality of information submitted to the Secretary and exceptions.
Subsec. (b)(1)(D). Pub. L. 109–479, § 3(d)(1)(A), substituted "a limited access privilege" for "an individual fishing quota".
Subsec. (b)(3). Pub. L. 109–479, § 203(a)(3), substituted "(2)(A)." for "(1)(E)."
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CHICAGO (AP) - A 25-year-old U.S. diplomat killed in an attack in southern Afghanistan is being remembered as an up-and-coming public servant who loved working directly with Afghan residents.
Anne Smedinghoff died Saturday when the group she was traveling with was struck by an explosion. They were en route to traveling to donate textbooks to students. The Chicago-area woman is the first American diplomat to die on the job since last year's attack on the U.S. diplomatic installation in Benghazi, Libya.
While a student at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, she worked part time for Sam Hopkins, an attorney near campus. He describes her as ambitious "but in a wonderfully quiet modest way."
She had an early interest in foreign affairs and was an organizer of the university's Foreign Affairs Symposium in 2008.
Also on Saturday, a NATO air strike targeting Taliban commanders in eastern Afghanistan is said to have killed 11 children. The operation took place in a village in Shigal district located in Afghanistan's Kunar province, which is on the border with Pakistan. A spokesman for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force said they were aware of reports of civilian casualties and were assessing the incident.
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Jose Angel Moreno, United States Attorney
Southern District of Texas
Enforcement action taken at various locations throughout the Houston area on Wednesday by members of the Human Trafficking Rescue Alliance (HTRA) has resulted in the arrest of a man from the Dominican Republic for conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, the arrest of a woman for harboring aliens and the rescue of several women from a life of prostitution, United States Attorney José Angel Moreno announced today.
Pedro Corporan Cedano, aka Joselo, 38, a citizen of the Dominican Republic illegally in the United States, was arrested Wednesday morning during a traffic stop near his Deer Park, Texas, residence. A criminal complaint filed under seal on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010, and unsealed following his arrest, charges Cedano with conspiracy to commit sex trafficking. According to allegations in the criminal complaint, Cedano used several apartments in and around Houston and in Pasadena, Texas, to promote and provide commercial sex which allegedly involved the harboring of women illegally in the country some of whom were paying off smuggling fees through prostitution.
Today, a separate criminal complaint was filed against Carmen Angeles, 33, born in the Dominican Republic and a naturalized U.S. citizen, accusing her of harboring aliens. Angeles was arrested yesterday at one of the apartments used for sex trafficking located on Goodson Drive in Houston as a result of the ongoing investigation. According to the allegations in the criminal complaint, Angeles used the Goodson apartment to knowingly harbor two illegal aliens. The complaint further alleges that Angeles used the illegal aliens housed at the Goodson location to provide commercial sex to customers.
Cedano appeared before a U.S. Magistrate Judge in Houston this morning and has been ordered temporarily detained in federal custody pending a bond hearing set for Monday, Aug. 23, 2010, on the government's motion to hold him in federal custody without bond pending further criminal proceedings. Angeles is expected to make her initial appearance before a U.S. Magistrate Judge on Friday, Aug. 20, 2010, at which time the issue of her continued detention is expected to be raised.
As a result of yesterday's court ordered enforcement action, a total of nine women illegally in the United States were found in a number of apartments allegedly controlled by Cedano. The undocumented aliens, who are likely to be designated material witnesses in the case, are presently in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations (ICE HSI).
The offense of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking carries a maximum punishment of 10 years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine upon conviction. The offense of harboring illegal aliens carries a maximum punishment of five years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine upon conviction.
The HTRA is a collaboration of local, state and federal law enforcement agencies working together with area social service organizations to identify and assist the victims of human trafficking and to effectively identify, apprehend and prosecute those engaged in trafficking. HTRA members involved in the investigation and today's enforcement action include the FBI, ICE HSI, Harris County Sheriff's Office, Department of State Diplomatic Security Service, Texas Attorney General's Office and Texas Department of Public Safety. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Ruben Perez, Joseph Magliolo and Kebharu H. Smith are prosecuting the case.
A complaint is a formal accusation of criminal conduct, not evidence.
A defendant is presumed innocent unless convicted through due process of law.
Angela Dodge, Public Affairs Officer
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Former Appalachian State University assistant coach Kerry Keating, currently the head coach at Santa Clara, has received a contract extention through the 2014-15 season.
Athletics Director Dan Coonan made the announcement on Thursday. Keating led the Broncos, members of the West Coast Conference, to 24 wins last season---the second most wins in school history. He is 66-68 during his four-year stay with the program.
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Now that Princess P is a little older bath time means play time. Every night when we head upstairs and start to run her bath water she wiggles all over with anticipation. The only bad part is the wiggling does not stop when she gets in the water. She loves to splash around and thinks it is especially funny when she gets mommy soaking wet. But now I have protection from the water thanks to the Yeni Bath Apron from Yenithing.
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We received the Yeni Bath Apron in the Claire fabric pattern to review. I unfolded the Yeni and immediately noticed how big it was. This makes it not only great for splash protection but also for wrapping you little one up in it when they are done with their bath. The adjustable strap is easy to adjust to fit anyone and the terry cloth is extra absorbent. I also really like the fabric on the top and bottom. It gives the Yeni a little extra pizazz without being too overwhelming. I just wonder why someone didn't think of this sooner!
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BGA: Jets at Titans – Part One (Offense)
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This analysis is based on watching and re-watching TV footage. As such, it is not always possible to accurately determine everything that was going on. However, every effort has been made to ensure that the information below is as complete and correct as possible.
Coming up, your breakdown of yesterday's shambolic display in Tennessee, together with detailed analysis of personnel groupings and individual performance.
Join me after the jump as I attempt to cover every angle.
Roll the end credits, this thing's over.
Someone needs to cut a video of this song spliced with highlights of last night's game…
Guess it's over…and to be honest, it's a relief. We all knew the flaws this team had, some through no fault of their own, others notsomuch. Still, we waited and waited and waited for them to flip the switch and play the way we knew they were capable of and that moment simply never came.
We'll have all summer to dwell on where the organization's plans fell apart, but let's focus on what went wrong last night and put that mess behind us.
Mark Sanchez showed a couple of flashes of the player he used to be, but once again failed repeatedly to avoid the kind of back-breaking mistakes that have been holding the Jets back all year. Having tried everything else, they brought back Braylon Edwards in the hopes that having another target he trusts might allow he to make some confidence building throws, get into a rhythm and start making good decisions. While they hooked up a couple of times, the move backfired down the stretch in the moment which could have kept their season alive.
Sanchez apparently said his final interception – on an off-balance throw off his back foot on first down with less than two minutes to go – was a good read, but a bad throw. He was half-right. Here's what happened:
Jeff Cumberland is wide open, waving his arms calling for the ball at the 20 yard line. A quick toss gets 10, maybe 15 yards. However, Sanchez is too busy staring down Edwards who runs a downfield route on the left side. When he eventually sees Cumberland, he's still open down by the 15, but Sanchez can't get the throw off, so he hesitates and then throws it anyway, by which time the safety has had plenty of time to get over and easily pick-off Sanchez's throw, which was floated because he threw it off his back foot.
It gets worse though…
Having seen Cumberland too late and been unable to get the throw off, Sanchez could easily have flipped a pass over the top to Bilal Powell. Powell was all alone at the 20 yard line, looking back for the ball and the nearest defender was Michael Griffin on the goal line. So that's another easy 10-15 yards. Remember, there are two minutes to go and it's FIRST down. The Jets have two timeouts as well, so even settling for a field goal there isn't the end of the world.
For the second straight week, an announcer claimed that nobody was open as Mark Sanchez took a sack. For the second straight week, the footage displayed on screen as this claim was made belied that claim:
Edwards had beaten his receiver deep on the left side and had a step on him while Sanchez stood in the pocket. Had he thrown it, Edwards soon had a couple of steps on the receiver. At the top of the screen, Mardy Gilyard has separation for an easy first down if the ball had been thrown to his back shoulder. Jeff Cumberland is open on a crossing route if Sanchez can hit him in stride. The only receiver who doesn't get separation (with one staying in to block) is Jeremy Kerley in the left slot. As has been the case all year, Sanchez was too hesitant, too slow to progress through his reads and lacked the faith in himself to make what should be a routine throw for an NFL quarterback.
Other than that, he had some good passes and some bad passes. He had some instances of good pocket presence and others where he brought pressure on himself. He had some receivers let him down and some bail him out with great catches. None of it matters as much as how defeated he seems to be. You have to imagine that the coaches continue to talk him up in a desperate attempt to try and keep his confidence from disappearing completely, but even Sanchez himself is going to see through comments about him being "excellent at times" following a game like that.
Much will be made of the idea of putting Tim Tebow in for a full series, something that was apparently decided upon before the game. Obviously they'd worked on a package of plays and it needed to be the third series (or the sixth) because I assume the unit that worked on that during the week would have been with Vladimir Ducasse in, not Matt Slauson. With Sanchez making a reasonable start (although let's not get too far ahead of ourselves, he was 5-for-8 for 27 yards), maybe they could have changed the rotation or saved it for later in the game, but the concept of taking the Titans by surprise and maybe getting a scoring drive before they can adjust is not that outrageous in what figured to be a low-scoring affair. It did actually yield a couple of first downs before Tebow's own limitations prevented it from going any further.
In any case, I don't think this excuses Sanchez's performance over the rest of the game one iota. If your psyche is so fragile that you can't accept the Jets trying something like this for tactical reasons, then you perhaps don't have what it takes to play quarterback in the NFL.
Tebow – who had already converted on third and short earlier in the game, a situation in which he's been criminally underused – made one nice run, but was woeful in terms of his blitz recognitions, something we saw evidence of in preseason. He only entered for one play in the second half, botching a handoff on a play where the defense jumped offside.
I assume the Jets feel Greg McElroy isn't good enough, or ready yet to be an NFL quarterback. While he beat the Cardinals with some good short passes, he really didn't demonstrate an ability to throw downfield or handle a lot of pressure. However, even if they feel his ceiling is someone who can complete the occasional dump-off, it still doesn't make sense that he would be inactive, because I'm sure the Jets don't see Tebow as a viable option either. Again, I think they're worrying too much about hurting Sanchez's feelings and this having an adverse effect on his performance. So? If it does, at least you've got another option (and "someone who can complete the occasional dump-off" would have been an upgrade over "someone whose confidence has been sapped and is in a major slump"). If it doesn't, that's all well and good.
While it's hard to imagine Sanchez on the team next year, it seems like teams around the league often hang onto quarterbacks for years after everyone else has decided they'll never make it. Sometimes, the patience even pays off (Alex Smith), or the player goes on to be successful elsewhere (Vinny Testaverde), but more often than not, the player just fades into obscurity. While the coaching staff may have more patience than the fans or media, he's moving in the wrong direction. However, can't you see him returning next year, "winning" a camp battle over some rookie that clearly needs a bit of time, getting booed relentlessly, falling apart and then ultimately getting benched for that rookie who enters long before his ready and immediately starts the process of having his own confidence killed? Yup, me too.
Offensive Line
It may seem like Sanchez was under constant pressure. However, the Titans generated less than half as much pressure as they did against the Colts last week and, of the pressure they did generate, only one sack and five pressures were directly attributable to the offensive line getting beaten (mostly Austin Howard).
There was one major breakdown, where both D'Brickashaw Ferguson and Howard got beaten on the outside and Vladimir Ducasse double teamed Nick Mangold's man and failed to get to a delayed blitzer up the middle. That was the play when Sanchez was hit illegally in the helmet. Howard got beaten for a sack on the last play of the first half (the play where Gruden said there was nobody open), as he initially blocked his man, but allowed him to eventually get inside leverage to collapse the pocket as Sanchez was hesitant. On two other occasions (one sack, one hit) Powell and Lex Hilliard double teamed instead of picking up a delayed blitz, leaving that player unblocked. Again, those could well be attributable to Sanchez not switching the protection. Finally, there was a sack on a play where Konrad Reuland was beaten and Howard had to come over and help him out, leaving him unable to pick up a delayed blitz up the middle.
The line was actually pretty dominant in the running game and you have to wonder if the Jets shot themselves in the foot because they were more concerned with getting Sanchez going than ensuring they won the game, which more running might have helped to achieve. Howard and Brandon Moore led the way as the Jets ran for 91 yards over the right side. They weren't perfect – there was one play where Howard was supposed to trap up the middle, but Moore got stood up and Howard got stuck on his hip, so a linebacker came up the middle and met the runner in the backfield, but other than that they were pretty dominant. Howard did give up a sack and four pressures, getting called for a hold on one of them, but was still pretty solid over the course of the game.
Mangold hasn't been his usual consistent self in recent weeks, despite the fact that the line is picking it up as a unit. Part of that might just be that they're asking him to do more. On one play, he snapped the ball and then pulled around to try and stop a defensive end coming off the edge. An incredibly hard block to make and when he didn't get there in time, the play was blown up. Then, on the next play, he didn't get out in front of a screen pass in time and the linebacker side-stepped him to blow the play up again. Mangold did have some solid run blocks as always, but his low snap that ended the game wasn't the first low snap he made out of the shotgun in the game, which is uncharacteristic and again perhaps a by-product of him being required to make a difficult block after the snap of the ball.
The left side of the line (Ferguson and Slauson) didn't have as much of an impact in the running game, but Ferguson was only beaten once in pass protection and Slauson kept a clean slate. Backing him up, Ducasse did okay in the running game and just had the one mistake in pass protection as mentioned.
Jason Smith actually made a positive impact with three good edge setting blocks in the first half. However, he undermined this with a costly false start penalty.
Running Backs
The running backs combined for 128 yards on 23 carries – a tremendous output, which makes it all the more head-scratching that they didn't stick with the run when twice having first down situations inside the 25 with a chance to win the game in the last two minutes. Shonn Greene averaged over five yards per carry and gained 33 yards on four fourth quarter carries, getting at least five yards on each one. Powell also averaged almost five per carry and Joe McKnight sparked the team with a couple of long runs, only to fumble the ball and not see any action after that point.
As good as Powell was, there was maybe one play where he could have had a touchdown. As you can see, Mangold and Ferguson have their blocks sustained on the left side and there's a vacant lane because Slauson has pulled to the right. Had Powell cut to the left, he probably would have scored. If not, he would at least have got close. Instead, he cut right and gained just half a yard. He's had a good nose for the end zone in recent weeks, but this was a disappointing miss.
Greene, Powell and Hilliard all had issues in pass protection and the Jets only gained 16 yards on five pass attempts to their backs, nine of which came on a diving first down catch by a tightly-covered Powell.
Hilliard's run blocking wasn't bad this week, but he did have a reduced role, with Reuland seeing more action as a lead blocker.
It was certainly good to see Edwards back and he looked pretty good, with three first down catches, as well as drawing a first down on a penalty. On one throw, Sanchez threw it to him before he came out of his break and Edwards did well to snag it. Those are the throws Sanchez has been eschewing all season, so this does demonstrate how he has faith in Edwards, but lacks it in some of his other targets. Unfortunately, you cannot afford to lack faith in your other targets, for reasons we've already discussed. The way he snared that off-line throw also makes me wonder how much Sanchez's receivers in 2010 were masking how inaccurate he was by bailing him out on bad throws.
Edwards' much lauded run blocking was on display in the first series, as he failed to engage Jason McCourty and allowed McCourty to make a stop for no gain on an outside run. I get that the Jets know he has ability, but that's the sort of thing that happened all the time when he was here before and he should be getting yelled at for it, not having his head coach gush about his ability at press conferences.
There was much better run blocking on show from Chaz Schilens and Clyde Gates. Schilens – who only played 11 snaps and wasn't targeted – drove the cornerback off the field on Tebow's outside run and also blocked Akeem Ayers out of a play over the right side in the fourth quarter. Gates blocked his man to the ground on a long run over the left side. He was targeted once.
Rather than opening up the middle for Kerley (although Dustin Keller's absence can't have helped), Edwards' addition to the team led to Kerley getting fewer looks. He made one catch – a spectacular leaping effort on a throw into tight double-coverage for a first down.
Mardy Gilyard was thrown to twice, but one was thrown behind him and went through his hands and the other saw him slip over downfield.
At tight end, Cumberland was targeted nine times and led the team with four catches for 53 yards and a touchdown. It perhaps should have been two touchdowns as he was unable to keep the ball from touching the turf on his diving catch attempt in the end zone, forcing the Jets to settle for an early field goal. Can he be as productive as Keller if given the chance to start? Over the last four games, they're 11-for-17 on throws to Cumberland, for 173 yards and two touchdowns. That's 44-692-8TD if you extrapolate it over 16 games. Hmmmm…
Reuland had a very solid game as a lead blocker, only to let himself down with two penalties (a false start and a hold).
Part 2 will follow later today…


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Day 14: Move Your Table to a Different Space
Thanks for joining me in my "30 Days of Summer Entertaining" series. (Scroll down to the bottom for previous posts to this series) :)
When it comes to summer entertaining, nature always provides the best ambience for making your guests feel alive.
Try something different. Move your table to a different space, for a different feel.
Today I'm sharing a recent dinner party that our family had together.
I love how my sister kept adding tables, until she got enough seating for her guests.
We served ourselves buffet-style up on the deck.
And enjoyed being together down on the lower-lawn area.
My sister lives out in the country, and on this summer night, the extra effort that they put forth to get the entire family to sit together was so worthwhile.
It's another aspect of summer entertaining that I love. We can be more creative outdoors because it often provides more space around us.
Have you thought about hosting a dinner party on your front or back lawn area?
If you've missed the last 13 days of this series, you can catch up now:
Day 1: Summer Entertaining is About the People
Day 2: When Perfect Robs You of Something Good
Day 3: Who To Invite to Dinner
Day 4: Planning the Menu for Outdoor Entertaining
Day 5: Setting the Table Using What You Have
Day 6: Using One Classic Water Glass
Day 7: Napkin Options for Summer Entertaining
Day 8: When You Feel Like Canceling the Party
Day 9: Leave Your Technology at the Front Door
Day 10: Candles That Enhance Good Conversation
Day 11: Serving Flavored Herb and Fruit Water
Day 12: Leafy Greens and a Tiny Bit of Agave
Day 13: Keeping Nut and Fruits and Cheeses on Hand for Easy Appetizers
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9 Responses to "Day 14: Move Your Table to a Different Space"
I've always wanted to eat on a table in the middle of a field.;-) These pictures are inspiring.
I love how warm and inviting it looks…beautiful!
This is exactly why I love the utility tables I have with extendable legs. Low? Coffee table on lawn for evening parties. Mid? Like your sis. High? Bar height on patio. I work hard on my yard; it's the only place I entertain in summer months so it really is another room!
I always LOVE your ideas and entertain vicariously thru you and your blog. :o)
Love eating outdoors but, as I've probably mentioned here before, it's entirely too hot in my neck of the woods to do that. Bummer.
Love it! We've been having our summer brunch parties down on our lawn by the brook right next to the blooming hydrangeas. Couldn't ask for better decorations :-). So easy to move our light outdoor furniture from our deck down there, and makes it seems like we're in a whole different world! I'll be posting about it (w/ pics!) tomorrow!
In the midst of our property and building, we took some time to plant 3 grassy areas and they all actually would be perfect for eating outside…think I may incorporate that this summer
We recently hosted 5 couples for supper club. I had the 6 men all eat together at our kitchen table inside (with the a/c) and the 6 women outside on the deck. {The thought was that the men (especially) would connect so I forewarned my hubby to have some conversation starters. LOL.}
After dinner we all came back together outside on our covered patio and played one of the games you suggested in your book, Sandy….the penny game. We had a great time and the men seemed relieved to have their (chatty) women back. :) We had also invested in having the backyard mosquito-proofed which helped immensely with making it more comfortable in the NC humidity.


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Hell: 20,000 Degrees Fahrenheit And Not A Drop of Water!
While this video looks cheaply made by today's high tech cinematography standareds, its affects were on par with such horror flicks of the era as The Night of the Living Dead and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Many Christians who saw it were said to have had nightmares of Hell.
This film looks dumb today, but it's horrors of the mid-seventies was claimed to have saved many over the reality of an eternal torment in Satan's Hell.
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We probably should just go ahead and talk 'bout chorizo. Yesterday, I pulled a major-league eff-up and bought all the guys in my cubicle chorizo breakfast burritos down at the local MXN drive-through. (MXN is Mexican food joint.) For all y'all not in the know about the sausage, the geniuses down in Waka-waka-land have this definition:
Chorizo (Spanish), Asturian: chorizu; Basque: txorizo; Galician: chourizo; Portuguese: chouriço; Catalan: xoriço) is a term encompassing several types of pork sausages originating from the Iberian Peninsula.
Chorizo can be a fresh sausage, in which case it must be cooked before eating. In Europe, it is more frequently a fermented, cured, smoked sausage, in which case it is usually sliced and eaten without cooking.
Spanish chorizo and Portuguese chouriço get their distinctive smokiness and deep red color from dried smoked red peppers pimentón/pimentão or colorau). Due to culinary tradition, and the expense of imported Spanish smoked paprika, Mexican chorizo (but not throughout Latin America) is usually made with chili peppers, which are used abundantly in Mexican cuisine. In Latin America, vinegar also tends to be used instead of the white wine usually used in Spain. Traditionally, chorizo is encased in natural casings made from intestines, a method used since the Roman times.
Chorizo can be eaten as is (sliced or in a sandwich), grilled, fried, or simmered in apple cider or other strong alcoholic beverage such as aguardiente. It also can be used as a partial replacement for ground (minced) beef or pork.
Spanish-style tapas bars that serve traditional-style chorizo have gained in popularity in recent years, and now appear in many large cities throughout North America.
The problem with the sack of chorizo burritos that I bought? Four of the five guys in my cubicle got sick. Have you ever been at a baseball game and the crowd starts the wave? And it comes to you and you lurch to your feet? That is what occurred with my stomach. It lurched to its feet. And my stomach does not have feet! Most of us skipped lunch after the ol' chorizos. Not to mention the meat sweats. If you are in San Diego, avoid the MXN chorizo burritos!


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The Eastern Utah Theatre professors are thrilled to present Richard Brinsley Sheridan's sentimental comedy, The School for Scandal adapted for contemporary audiences by Lewis John Carlino.
This oft produced 18th century play is both a popular comedy and a superb example English drama of the time.
The play satirizes the social conventions and norms of the times and reaffirms middle class morality: the virtuous are rewarded and the wicked punished. Students in USU Eastern's understanding theatre class are required to read the play so we thought it was time to present it," said Dr. Corey Ewan, director. "This play really kind of scares me. The production style is very different from what I am used to. I have to move out of my comfort zone and trust that I can do the play justice and make it a successful production for the student actor's in the play and the community as well."
The School for Scandal tells the story of Sir Peter Teazle, a middle aged, wealthy bachelor, who has recently married a pretty young lady from the country. Suddenly thrust into London's high society, the young and frivolous Lady Teazle finds herself a willing member of a vicious, scandalmongering circle who pass their time maligning friend, foe and family alike.
The leader of this group is Lady Sneerwell who is in love with the young, romantic, self-indulgent Charles Surface is trying to come between him and Maria, Sir Peter's ward. Joseph Surface, Charles' villainous older brother, has plans for Maria, or rather her fortune and so joins Lady Sneerwell in her campaign of slander and deception in an attempt to achieve his own aims. Add to this, Sir Oliver Surface, Charles' and Joseph's wealthy uncle whom they have not seen since they were small children; suddenly arrived from India who devises a test to determine their true character.
Other intrigues, plots and subplots abound until the play's end. A complicated story to be sure and one filled with witty dialogue and humorous situations, Ewan quipped.
The cast is made up of students seen in previous productions and a few new faces. They are eager and excited to bring this classic Late-Restoration Comedy to the Geary Theatre stage.
Dates for the production are March 29 through April 7, with Sunday, April 1 and Wednesday, April 4 dark (no show). Curtain rises at 7:30 p.m. Come and join us for Eastern Utah's premiere of The School for Scandal and see if you are a gossip or a victim of the "envenomed tongue of slander," Ewan said. Anyone who has been to high school will recognize these supposed upright and pious characters.


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Members of the Bayside community urged Borough President Melinda Katz to uphold Community Board 11's decision to remove a Star Toyota and Scion dealership from the area during a hearing Thursday morning.
"For 40 years, this business has been a bad neighbor," a community board 11 member said. "There's excess noise in the night and in the day. Unlicensed cars constantly speed through the neighborhood, blowing every stop sign."
Katz didn't make a decision during the meeting but she remained skeptical that the dealership was sincere about responding to the community's complaints about broken sidewalks, trash and fixing the fence.
The dealership's manager, Michael Koufakis, didn't attend the meeting but his lawyer, Todd Dale, said that all of the issues that the community raised were addressed.
"When presented with these problems, we took care of it," he said, referring to the broken sidewalks and fence and all of the trash in the area.
"I find that, as borough president, people clean up right before these meetings and then they go back to their bad habits afterwards," Katz said.
According to Katz's spokesman, the borough president will make a decision to either allow the variance to be renewed or echo Community Board 11's decision. She plans on making her decision before the case goes to the Board of Appeals (BSA), the last stop before a final decision is made. The variance allows the business to operate in a residential zone as long as it cooperates with the community board.
Neighbors of the dealership hope that the BSA and Katz will reject the variance application.
Rennie Xosa lives behind the dealership's parking lot. He, as well as community board members, said that the lot is used by the dealership to showcase cars to customers, an act that would be illegal under the business' zoning rules.
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- Stu Bickel has four points (all assists) in three games with
the Rangers. He had four points (a goal
and three assists) in 27 games with Connecticut this year. Bickel had nine points in 54 games last
- Before Andrej Meszaros scored on a slap shot in the third
period of Friday's game, Henrik Lundqvist had a 193:55
shutout streak against the Flyers at Madison Square Garden dating back to February
20, 2011. That was the longest shutout
streak by a home goalie against the Flyers in franchise history.
- This is the first time the Rangers entered the Christmas
break with the highest points percentage in their since the
1993-1994 campaign. We all know how
that ended.
- Marian Gaborik is the NHL's leading goal-scorer with 21
and is on
pace for 52 goals this season.
Gaborik leads the league in goals scored on the road with 13
in 18 games.
- Michael Del Zotto is a team-leading plus-22. Del
Zotto is tied for the third-best mark in the league. Derek Stepan is next on the Rangers at
plus-12. Stepan is plus-9 in 12
December games while Del Zotto is plus-14.
Carl Hagelin is plus-9 in 15 games with New York and ranks second among
- Del Zotto has 13 points (two goals, 11 assists) in his
last 14 games.
- Anton Stralman has played 20+ minutes in four of
his last five games.
- Brad Richards has just one point in his last six games after
a torrid stretch in which he posted 12 points (five goals, seven assists) in
nine games.
- Dan Girardi is third in the NHL with
91 blocked shots.
- Girardi leads all players in average ice-time, at 27:35 per
- Henrik Lundqvist ranks fourth in the NHL with
a .934 save percentage. Lundqvist is seventh in the NHL with
a 2.03 goals against average. Marty Biron has a .933
save percentage and a 1.84 goals against average.
- Ryan Callahan is fourth
in the NHL with 111 hits.
- Ryan Callahan, Brandon Prust and Brad
Richards are the only Rangers' regulars with minus-ratings this
- Brandon Prust is sixth
in the league with 71 penalty minutes.
He is tied with Zenon Konopka for the most fighting majors in the NHL
with 11.
- The Rangers are 13-0-2 when leading after two periods this
- No team has fewer regulation losses than the Blueshirts (8).
- The Blueshirts are on pace for 114 points. A
year ago, Washington won the Eastern Conference with 107 points.
- New York ranks third in the league in goals against per
game, ninth in goals for, seventh on the penalty kill and 20th on the power
- New York is 10-3-2 at home this season and 11-5-2 on the
- Three teams have a better goal differential than New York's
+27. The Bruins are a league-best +56. Anaheim is a league-worst
- The Rangers are 11-3-1 since recalling Carl Hagelin and John
Mitchell. New York is also 11-3-1 with Sean Avery in the lineup and
18-5-1 with Jeff Woywitka in the lineup.
- New York has 505 penalty minutes this season, fourth-most
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Built in accessibility options
Most computers have options that can make it easier for people with low or no vision to use them.
With a new computer this is the first area to investigate because it may be that that these features alone enable you to use your computer.
What can I change?
If you have low vision, you can:
- Choose screen colours and font sizes
- Change the mouse pointer size, shape and colour, or
- Magnify everything on the screen.
If you have no vision, you can:
- Control the computer with the keyboard, and
- Use a built-in screen reader that speaks information that appears on the screen.
Where can I change it?
Computers have a set of "accessibility" features which is one area to look in, but there are other features which are found elsewhere. There is usually more than one way to find a feature on your computer. Rather than try to list them all, we'll focus on showing one way to get to each.
Here's how to find the accessibility features of your computer:
- Windows: Start menu > Control Panel > Ease of Access.
- Mac OS X: Apple menu > System Preferences > Accessibility (on Lion and earlier it's called Universal Access).
- Ubuntu (Linux): System menu > System Settings > Universal Access
- Chrome: Dropdown menu > Settings > Show advanced settings
Change size and shape of fonts and icons
The text and icons on computer screens are by default small, so that lots of them can be shown on the screen at any one time. Here are two ways to make them bigger.
Change the screen resolution
A computer screen is made up of dots called pixels, arranged in lines across the screen. The more pixels there are, the clearer and smaller text and images on the screen can be. A screen resolution of 1024 x 768 means there are 768 lines, each of 1024 pixels. Lowering these numbers will make everything on the screen larger, but may also make them look fuzzier. The exact numbers you can change your resolution to depend on the monitor you have, but a common size that most monitors can use is 800 x 600.
To change the resolution of the screen:
- Windows: Start menu > Control Panel > Adjust Screen Resolution.
- Mac OS X: Apple menu > System Preferences > Displays.
- Ubuntu (Linux): System menu > Displays.
Change the system font
The system font is the text used to show menus and labels:
- Windows: Right click an empty area of the Desktop, Personalize, Display.
- Ubuntu (Linux): System menu > System Settings > Universal Access > Seeing tab.
- Chrome: Dropdown menu > Settings > Show advanced settings > look under Web content.
Change screen colours
Computers use colour to separate screen elements or to indicate whether something is available for use. Most often text is shown as dark text on a lighter background. You can invert these colour options or choose specific colours to use for text and background:
- Windows 7 or 8: right click an empty area of the Desktop and choose Personalize. Choose a theme and then go to Window Color for further options. The keyboard shortcut Left Alt + Left Shift + Print Screen toggles High Contrast theme on and off.
- Windows XP: Start menu > Control Panel > Display > Appearance. The keyboard shortcut Left Alt + Left Shift + Print Screen toggles High Contrast theme on and off.
- Mac OS X: Apple menu > System Preferences > Accessibility (or Universal Access) > Display, or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-Opt-Cmd-8 to invert colours.
- Ubuntu: Super key, type "gnome-control-center" without the quotes. Press Enter, then click appearance.
- Chrome: Dropdown menu > Settings > Show advanced settings > look under Accessibility.
Screen magnification
Magnification makes everything on the screen bigger, but you can then no longer see the entire screen - imagine looking through a magnifying glass. If you move your mouse around, the magnified area of the screen will follow.
You can choose how much to magnify the screen, but at larger levels of magnification, text in particular can become very fuzzy. None of the built-in or free magnification facilities have the font smoothing or other advanced features of the paid-for options:
- Windows 7 or 8: switch on with Windows + Plus, switch off with Windows + Escape.
- Windows XP: Start menu > Programs > Accessories > Accessibility > Magnifier. No full screen mode.
- Mac OS X: Apple menu > System Preferences > Accessibility (or Universal Access) > Zoom to turn on "use scroll gesture... ", then hold down the Ctrl key and push two fingers up on the trackpad or Magic Mouse.
- Chrome: Dropdown menu > Settings > Show advanced settings > Accessibility to turn on magnifier, then hold down Ctrl + Alt and push two fingers up on the trackpad.
Mouse pointer
You can often change the size of the mouse pointer, and sometimes the shape and colour too. There may be options to make it more obvious, for example by adding trails to it.
- Windows: Start menu > Control Panel > Mouse (or Hardware and Sound > Mouse).
- Mac OS X: Apple menu > System Preferences > Accessibility (or Universal Access) > Display (or Mouse & Trackpad). It is only possible to change the size of the cursor (pointer).
- Ubuntu: Super key, type "gnome-control-center" without the quotes. Press Enter, then click appearance.
Screen reader
All computers have a built-in screen reader, although its capability varies greatly. For Windows the built-in option (Narrator) is poor but there are lots of third party options. On the Mac, the built-in voice (VoiceOver) is very good - a lot of blind people believe the Mac experience with VoiceOver is better than Windows with even the most expensive screen reader.
- Windows: Windows + Enter (Windows 8) or Windows + U, Alt + N.
- Mac OS X: Cmd-F5
- Ubuntu (Linux): Alt + F2, type "orca" and press Return.
- Chrome: Ctrl + Alt + Z
Windows Narrator
Narrator is not designed to be your main screen reader. Instead, it's a fall-back if your screen reader malfunctions. Narrator has been significantly improved with Windows 8, and now has better quality and more responsive voices, more keystrokes and increased functionality in areas such as the Start screen, Control Panel, Internet Explorer and the new Windows 8 apps. A second screen reader is required if you want to use applications like Microsoft Office.
The voices used for Windows 8 Narrator can be downloaded to earlier versions of Windows, find out more about Windows 8 Narrator.
OS X VoiceOver
All new Apple computers contain a screen reader called VoiceOver. There is a version of it also on touch screen devices like the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. This means once you've learnt to use them on one device, you can draw on this knowledge on the other devices.
VoiceOver is the only screen reader, free or paid for, to provide speech output from the moment a new computer is switched on. This allows a blind user to set up a Mac computer unaided, which can be a liberating feeling.
VoiceOver also works with more areas of the Mac computer than other screen readers, including informative text that cannot be altered, which is usually completely ignored by Windows screen readers.
VoiceOver is highly configurable and the default voice is very clear.
The first time VoiceOver starts, a tutorial is offered. This runs through the default VoiceOver commands and method of use. Some commands may need you to press four or even five keys, which can make them difficult to remember and cumbersome to perform. However, there are other ways to work with VoiceOver:
- QuickNav involves using only the four arrow keys. Press Left and Right together to turn it on or off.
- Gestures on a track pad can also be used. A laptop comes with a track pad, and it is also possible to buy one to work with a desktop computer.
Apple have an online guide to getting started with VoiceOver.
Other useful options
In Windows, keyboard accessibility is available at all times and is very well-developed. On the Mac, you can turn on full keyboard access with Ctrl-F7, or go to System Preferences > Keyboard Preferences.
Macs allow you to use the trackpad (built-in on laptops, or available separately for desktops) to perform gestures similar to those on the iPhone rather than using the keyboard or mouse.
Both Windows and Macs have good voice recognition built in - see our beginner's guide to voice control for more information.
Many applications have settings that can be helpful in terms of simplifying the screen or changing the way the application looks:
- Windows: look in the View menu of an application. Most Microsoft applications have a Tools menu and the Options item at the bottom gives access to a lot of settings. For many other applications these settings are found in Edit > Preferences.
- Mac OS X: go to the name of the application on the menu bar and choose Preferences, or press Cmd-Comma.
- Ubuntu: application settings found in the same places as for Windows applications.
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May 12, 2012 12:42 PM by Roch Kubatko
The Josh Bell trade has been completed.
The Orioles announced today that they acquired minor league left-hander Mike Belfiore from the Arizona Diamondbacks as the player to be named later in the Bell trade. Belfiore has been assigned to Double-A Bowie.
Belfiore, 23, was a sandwich pick, the 45th overall, in the 2009 First-Year Player Draft. He allowed five earned runs in 19 innings (2.37 ERA) for Single-A Visalia this season, with one save, five walks and 28 strikeouts.
http://www.masnsports.com/school_of_roc ... izona.html
By Mike Axisa [May 12 at 11:38am CST]
The Orioles have acquired minor league lefty Mike Belfiore from the Diamondbacks to complete the Josh Bell trade, the team announced. Arizona acquired Bell for a player to be named later last month.
Belfiore, 23, was the 45th overall pick of the 2009 draft but has yet to develop as hoped. He owns a 4.05 ERA with 8.5 K/9 and 3.7 BB/9 in 282 1/3 minor league innings, but has experienced some success after moving to the bullpen full-time last year. Baseball America did not rank him among Arizona's top 30 prospects in their 2012 Prospect Handbook.
Belfiore may be best known for throwing 9 2/3 scoreless innings of relief for Boston College during an NCAA postseason game in 2009, the longest game in college baseball history.
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Approaches to Teaching Gothic Fiction
The British and American Traditions
Editor(s): Diane Long Hoeveler, Tamar Heller
Pages: xiv & 310 pp.
Published: 2003
"An excellent, indispensable volume, which is impressive in its breadth, depth, and detail. It offers a wealth of material not only for anyone who teaches a course on Gothic traditions in Britain, Ireland, and the United States but also for anyone who teaches the nineteenth-century British novel in general, Sarah Orne Jewett, contemporary American film, or any number of other specific topics covered here. A substantial contribution to the field of Gothic studies."
Eugenia C. DeLamotte, Arizona State University
The casebound edition of this title is out of print.
Recent decades have seen a revival of scholarly interest in Gothic fiction. Critics are attracted to the genre's exploration of irrationality, to its dark representation of the bourgeois family and of the psychological effects of social conflict. Because of this critical interest and because of the enduring popularity of the genre from the eighteenth century to the present, the Gothic has become increasingly visible on college syllabi.
This volume, like others in the MLA's Approaches to Teaching World Literature series, is divided into two parts. The first part, "Materials," gives information on available editions, anthologies, reference works, background sources, critical studies, films, and Web sites of value in teaching Gothic fiction. The second part, "Approaches," contains twenty-eight essays that define the genre; examine its connections to history, philosophy, feminism, social criticism; show its different forms in England, Ireland, the United States; and probe its themes--including such motifs as ghosts, castles, entrapped heroines, and animated corpses.
Among the many authors discussed are Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Ann Radcliffe, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Wilkie Collins, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Stephen King, Anne Rice, and Toni Morrison.
Table of Contents
Approaches to Teaching Gothic Fiction: The British and American Traditions
Part 1: MATERIALS
Tamar Heller
Some Results of the Survey
The Instructor's Library
Reference and Background Sources
Historical Background
Critical Background: Overviews of the Tradition and its History
Criticism by Period
The Gothic Pantheon: Selected Criticism
Critical Approaches
Readings for Students
Aids to Teaching
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Teaching the Backgrounds
"And Still Insists He Sees the Ghosts": Defining the Gothic
Judith Wilt
Philosophy and the Gothic Novel
Marshall Brown
The Gothic and Ideology
Robert Miles
Teaching the Gothic through the Visual Arts
Stephen C. Behrendt
The Horrors of Misogyny: Feminist Psychoanalysis in the Gothic Classroom
Anne Williams
Teaching the Gothic and the Scientific Context
Carol A. Senf
Teaching the British Gothic Tradition
The First English Gothic Novel: Walpole's
The Castle of Otranto
James Norton
Early Women's Gothic Writing: Historicity and Canonicity in Clara Reeve's
The Old English Baron
and Sophia Lee's
The Recess
Angela Wright
Teaching the Early Female Canon: Gothic Feminism in Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Austen, Dacre, and Shelley
Diane Long Hoeveler
Suffering through the Gothic: Teaching Radcliffe
Cannon Schmitt
Teaching the Male Gothic: Lewis, Beckford, and Stevenson
Scott Simpkins
Teaching the Homosocial in Godwin, Hogg, and Wilde
Ranita Chatterjee and Patrick M. Horan
Teaching the Gothic Novel and Dramatic Adaptations
Marjean D. Purinton
Teaching Irish Gothic: Big-House Displacements in Maturin and Le Fanu
Mark M. Hennelly, Jr.
Fear of Furniture: Commodity Gothicism and the Teaching of Victorian Literature
Tricia Lootens
Hearts of Darkness: Teaching Race, Gender, and Imperialism in Victorian Gothic Literature
Tamar Heller
Surveying the Vampire in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Daniel Scoggin
Teaching Contemporary Female Gothic: Murdoch, Carter, Atwood
Susan Allen Ford
Teaching the American Gothic Tradition
Historicizing the American Gothic: Charles Brockden Brown's
Teresa A. Goddu
Using Narrative Form to Teach Poe's Gothic Fiction
Richard Fusco
Teaching the Doppelgänger in American Gothic Fiction: Poe and James
A. A. Markley
The Fall of the House of the Seven Gables and Other Ambiguities of the American Gothic
Laura Dabundo
Supernatural Transmissions: Turn-of-the-Century Ghosts in American Women's Fiction: Jewett, Freeman, Wharton, and Gilman
Kathy Justice Gentile
Teaching the African American Gothic: From Its Multiple Sources to
Linden Hills
Jerrold E. Hogle
Making the Case: Teaching Stephen King and Anne Rice through the Gothic Tradition
Bette B. Roberts
Specific Classroom Contexts
Teaching the Gothic in an Interdisciplinary Honors Class
Sandy Feinstein
Involving Resistant Readers: Exploring the Gothic through Role-Playing and Identity Writing
Mark James Morreale
Teaching Gothic Literature through Filmic Adaptations
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