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Mike Finch is a firm believer that "UX" is a verb- not a noun. It's a process, and he believes that if documented and followed correctly, it's a process that anyone can have a reasonable amount of success with. As professionals, we need to shout these solutions from the rooftops- not keep them as guarded secrets. To that end, Mike has outlined his personal process when designing for user experience and made this awesome poster for your office wall.
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Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Ann Johnson on April 4, 1928. Angelou is an internationally respected poet, writer, educator actress, producer and an important figure in the American Civil Rights Movement. She has been called "America's most visible black female autobiographer."
Angelou is known for her series of six autobiographies, starting with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, (1969) which was nominated for a National Book Award. Her volume of poetry, Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie (1971) was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
Angelou produced and starred in the great play Cabaret for Freedom and starred in The Blacks. She wrote the original screenplay and musical score for the film Georgia, Georgia and was both author and executive producer of a five-part television miniseries, Three Way Choice.
Angelou's accomplishments have earned her the Ladies' Home Journal Woman of the Year Award and a Matrix Award in the field of books. She received the Golden Eagle Award for her documentary, Americans in the Arts, produced by PBS. She is one of the women admitted into the Director's Guild. In 1974, she was appointed by Gerald Ford to the Bi-Centennial Commission and later by Jimmy Carter to the Commission for International Woman of the Year.
Angelou recited her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" at President Bill Clinton's inauguration in 1993 (view video clip here). She has been highly honored for her body of work, including being awarded over 30 honorary degrees.
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State Sen. Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa talks with colleagues during the session.
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Dallas man slain at Oak Cliff apartment complex
A man was slain late Sunday at an apartment complex in east Oak Cliff, police said.
The Jerome Mclair Williams, 20, was shot in a courtyard at the Good Haven apartments in the 1800 block of High Hill Boulevard, just off Corinth Street.
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Paying Kids for Chores?
Parents have long differed on whether children should be paid for doing household chores. Some say tying kids' allowances to housework is good training for entering the workforce. But others say children should do chores for free, reserving allowances as a tool for teaching money management.
A rising proportion of parents are adopting the pay-for-work view, based on a new survey. A surprising 71% of parents will pay their kids for doing chores this summer, according to a June 2011 survey of 2,004 consumers. And they're going beyond pocket change, paying an average $25 a month just for doing laundry, says the American Express Spending & Saving Tracker. No comparable data from previous Tracker surveys is available.
But past studies suggest this is a significant increase. A national survey conducted in the late 1980s found that at that time, only about 24% of parents paid their children in return for work done around the house, according to 1990 study summarizing the results. And a 1999 British study of 401 parents found 36% made allowances contingent on completing household chores.
Some parents today may be paying kids for chores because they can't find a real job. With teen employment this summer limping along near record lows at about 29%, according to Northeastern University's Center for Labor Market Studies, Boston, requiring teens to work for pay at home may seem to parents like a reasonable alternative to teach kids accountability and responsibility. Proponents also see this approach as a good way to ensure that kids pitch in around the house.
Critics of this approach say paying a child to help out sends the wrong message and risks creating a sense of entitlement, creating teenagers who are likely to drive a hard bargain just to take out the garbage. Indeed, many researchers and parenting coaches think that children should do routine housework without pay as a tool for teaching citizenship and service. Research backs up this view: Children interviewed in a study of 30 families, published in 2009 in the Anthropology of Work Review, said they didn't find receiving an allowance for doing chores very motivational.
Whichever path parents choose, the rules should be clear, the American Academy of Pediatrics says. If a child's allowance is pay for chores, the child should be told what must be done to earn it, and parents should follow through and enforce those requirements. If the allowance is for teaching money management, then parents should spell out the purpose and expectations in advance, then monitor how well the child complies.
Readers, what do you think about paying children to do chores? Does it send the wrong message? Or is it good preparation for the realities of the workplace? What is your policy? And how well do your children respond?


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Oct. 12 25 years ago - Mayor Nancy Hollister declared Oct. 12 to 17 National Job Skills Week in Marietta. The goal is to raise awareness about the importance of public and private job trainin....
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Sunday Dec 05, 2010
Updates on document accessibility: Australia PDF study & a new release of odt2Braille
By Peter Korn on Dec 05, 2010
Document accessibility, and support for authors to create accessible documents, is receiving a lot of attention lately.
Recently in the news is a report from Vision Australia. Titled "The Australian Government's study into the Accessibility of the Portable Document Format for people with a disability", it describes the real-world problems the people with vision impairments have when trying to read PDF documents through various assistive technologies. The Supplementary Report goes into great detail on how they conduct the study and all of the specific results they found.
In somewhat related news, the AEGIS-supported odt2braille project just list of new features. While this release includes a number of important new features, we will have to wait a bit longer to use it on platforms other than Windows...
Both the PDF study and the work of the odt2braille project (and the related, AEGIS-supported odt2daisy project) point to the most significant issue in document accessibility: the accessibility of the document depends upon the author creating it with all of the necessary document structure markup (and ancillary metadata). If the structure and metadata are there, the document can be printed well in braille, and rendered as a rich and effective DAISY book, and be read by someone with an assistive technology (though additional requirements come into play for AT use). If the structure isn't there...
Which is a good segue into noting that the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative work on version 2.0 of the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines is in "Last Call Working Draft" state, and will hopefully soon join WCAG 2.0 as a final specification of guidelines for authoring modern documents for use on the Web.
AEGIS project video available
By Peter Korn on Dec 05, 2010
The AEGIS project has just released an 11 minute project video, which does a nice job of showing the breadth of work we are doing in this project. You can also view it (with English language captions) below:
Friday Dec 03, 2010
AEGIS Conference wrap-up
By Peter Korn on Dec 03, 2010
Last October we held our first AEGIS Conference, in lovely Seville. And after a whirlwind of travel (both personal & professional) I finally have a moment to reflect and write about the very many events of that week in Seville.
Overall I feel the conference was a great success. Some 33 papers were presented over the course of the 2 day conference itself - in the key topic areas of:
- "Access on my desktop" - desktop & application accessibility
- "Can I too?" - accessibility from the end-user perspective
- "Rich RIA!" - technologies and solutions around rich Internet application accessibility (also known as "Web 2.0 accessibility")
- "Going mobile!" - technologies around mobile accessibility
- "Coordinating research" - European accessibility research activities
- "Standardisation and valorisation" - standardizing and realizing accessibility solutions
We had many distinguished speakers - both giving talks in the various parallel sessions, as well as plenary talks. Micaela Navarro, the Regional Minister for Social Welfare for the regional government of Andalucia gave a powerful and moving speech about the importance of accessibility. Dr. Gregg Vanderheiden presented a vision of a Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure. And in a talk that was particularly close to my thoughts, Jutta Treviranus spoke about "Changing the world - on a tiny budget". The conference closed with an awards ceremony, recognizing the best conference presentation, the best conference paper, and the best software project "in the spirit of AEGIS" (I got to give out this last award, which was great fun).
The day before the formal conference, we held a morning user forum in Spanish that attracted a quite a few local & regional users with a broad range of disabilities, discussing their needs and the related solutions being developed in AEGIS. This was followed by an afternoon pan-European workshop which began with a set of demonstrations of AEGIS solutions, and concluded with a lively panel discussion - with many questions coming from (and interacting with) the audience attendees.
In parallel to the conference itself we held a series of "eSpeak text-to-speech tuning sessions" conducted by AEGIS partner SingularLogic. I understand that they got a lot of excellent feedback from native speakers, some of which has already resulted in speech quality improvements which have been contributed back to the eSpeak project.
Finally, I would like to mention the GNOME Accessibility Hackfest which took place during that entire week. I managed to briefly sit in on a few of the discussions - particularly the one on the AEGIS-sponsored GNOME accessibility testing work. I understand a lot of very good progress was made on GNOME accessibility at the hackfest. And I was particularly happy we managed to have this hackfest in Seville, as it not only connected many of the AEGIS desktop folks with the GNOME accessibility community in general, but also with the very active GNOME accessibility efforts happening in Spain - home of GNOME accessibility companies like Emergya and projects like Guadalinfo which provide hundreds of accessible telecenters enabling people (with disabilities) who cannot afford their own computer and access solutions the ability to get computer and Internet access. In fact, I had the pleasure of visiting a local Guadalinfo telecenter while in Seville, and learned a lot about their work and the challenges they face - as well as the enthusiasm behind their work.
For folks who missed the conference, or who were there and are interested in reading some of the papers behind the presentations you attended, I invite you to download the recently published AEGIS conference proceedings - running at nearly 300 pages!
And I invite you to start thinking about attending (or even presenting at) our next conference, which we expect to happen in the fall of 2011.
Friday Sep 24, 2010
T-minus 13 days to the AEGIS Conference in Seville
By Peter Korn on Sep 24, 2010
In 13 days - on Thursday October 7 (and Friday October 8) we will be holding our 1st International AEGIS Conference in lovely Seville Spain. I've attended many conferences during my career, but this is the first time I have helped put one together (and I have a lot more respect for marketing and tradeshow staff as a result!).
In addition to the conference programme itself, we have a number of related events taking place that week. The Wednesday before - October 6th - we are running a morning half-day User Forum in Spanish for users to learn about the prototypes we are building in AEGIS and actually experience some of them (providing feedback in the process). Then in the afternoon we have a half-day Pan-European Workshop. This will be our second User Forum & workshop, having held our first User Forum and Pan-European workshop last year in RIM's offices in Slough.
In addition to the conference programme and these two half-day events, we will also have a small exhibit hall, a space for poster exhibits, and a series of training sessions on accessible authoring of DAISY books and Braille material, using OpenOffice.org. And finally, we have a room set aside for native speakers to help us with our eSpeak text-to-speech tuning sessions, where we hope to gather data and feedback to improve that open source text-to-speech engine.
Beyond all of these AEGIS events, we are delighted to be able to provide space to the GNOME Accessibility community, who is putting on a GNOME Accessibility Hackfest for the entire week.
All in all, Seville will be the place to be in early October! I hope to see some of you there. (If you are there, be sure to stay for the closing of the conference and the awards ceremony - because you must be present to win!)
Thursday Jun 24, 2010
The next step in the Section 508/255 Refresh, and Oracle's public comments
By Peter Korn on Jun 24, 2010
When Congress amended the Federal Rehabilitation Act in 1997, it directed the U.S. Access Board to create a set of Accessibility Standards that would apply to Electronic and Information Technology (E&IT) procured by the U.S. Federal Government (known as the "Section 508 standards"). It further directed the Access Board to periodically refresh these standards.
Likewise when Congress passed the Telecommunications Act of 1996, it directed the U.S. Access Board to develop a set of guidelines for telecommunications accessibility (known as "Section 255 guidelines"). It likewise further directed the Access Board to periodically refresh these guidelines.
In 2006 the Access Board convened the Telecommunications and Electronic and Information Technology Advisory Committee (TEITAC) to advise them on a converged set of accessibility provisions to apply to both Federal Procurement (Section 508) and telecommunications more broadly (Section 255). In April, 2008 TEITAC delivered their final report, containing their recommendations for a common set of accessibility provisions to cover both E&IT, and telecommunications products.
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Last March, the Access Board announced the availability of an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking - an early preview of the their proposed accessibility provisions to cover E&IT and telecommunications (now together also called simply Information Communications Technology or ICT).
This past Monday, the 90-day comment period closed, with more than 150 public comments submitted to regulations.gov. Among those are the public comments from Oracle, primarily authored by myself and Accessibility Program Director Peter Wallack (with contributions gathered from numerous Oracle engineering teams).
To broadly summarize the key Oracle comments (including those from the public hearing in March):
- The proposed standards significant advance the framework for accessible ICT procurement.
- Harmonizing with WCAG 2.0 AA is very welcome (and we have specific suggestions to tweek how that is done in the proposed provisions).
- Recognition of the "dance of three" - platform responsibilities, application responsibilities, and assistive technology responsibilities - is welcome and very important (and we have specific suggestions to tweek how that is accomplished).
- Formal requirements for tools used to author electronic documents are important (with more specific "tweek" suggestions).
- Care must be taken with provisions around movie playback and VoIP software. The provisions should not transform general purpose computers that incidentally have such features (e.g. a server with a DVD drive on it, or downloaded Skype software added after the fact) inadvertently into "movie players" and "telephones", which are required to have a "CC" button on them or otherwise meet hardware requirements relating to "telephones".
- 508 general exception §1194.3(f) - the so-called "back office exception" - shouldn't be completely removed. A narrowly tailored exception that would both require all "remote-able" user interfaces to be accessible while allowing physical interaction needed solely for maintenance, repair, or occasional monitoring to be excepted from compliance is important. The design of data centers essentially requires full use of the 8+ feet of height of server racks, necessitating that some switches and other physical controls be out of reach of someone in a wheelchair.
- The Access Board's recognition that some ICT may receive "patches" to fix bugs or clean up functionality shouldn't trigger a reappraisal of accessibility provisions is welcome. Numerous Oracle customers have stable editions of our products and platforms (e.g. Solaris 8) in production systems that they will continue to maintain for many years into the future - as they have already done for more than a decade. It is important to recognize that the "expected life" of major ICT products can be decades.
Next steps
Now that the Access Board has closed the comment period, it will carefully read and review the thousands of pages of comments they have received. After their thorough analysis of them, they will issued a revised set of proposed provisions - a formal Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. And after another public comment period (and likely another thousand or so pages of comments), a second review and finally issuance of their Final Rule. And soon after that, ICT products procured by the U.S. Federal government (and the many States and Universities that likewise apply 508) - not to mention telecommunications under the jurisdiction of the FCC - will need to meet the updated accessibility provisions.
And while that is some time into the future - already ICT companies are delivering products into the market that meet many of the newly proposed provisions. For example, AOL already has real-time-text support in AOL Instant Messenger. Numerous software video playback products support and decode closed captions. The Java and GNOME platforms (including Solaris and other GNU/Linux environments) - along with the Apple Macintosh and iPhone/iPad, and the RIM Blackberry family of phones - define a rich set of Accessibility Services that are supported by many thousands of applications and which enable assistive technologies to provide access without any need for reverse engineering. And a growing number of websites are already making use of WCAG 2.0 and the emerging WAI-ARIA specification for Rich Internet Application accessibility.
So even though the refresh effort is far from complete, it is already having a profound influence on what is being developed and shipped today!
Tuesday May 11, 2010
GNU appoints Chris Hofstadter their Access Technology Director, releases Accessibility Statement
By Peter Korn on May 11, 2010
The GNU Project is at the heart of Free and Open Source software - the philosophy behind many specific open source efforts and software - things like the Firefox web browser, the OpenOffice.org office suite, the Java environment, and of course the GNOME desktop and its included accessibility functionality (things like the Orca screen reader and the Dasher alternate text entry system). Earlier today, the GNU Project issued a press release naming my friend and colleague Chris Hofstadter their Director of Access Technologies. Along with this announcement, they also released the GNU Accessibility Statement.
The GNU Project definition of Free Software sets forth "four freedoms" that must be present for something to be considered "free software". As I have traveled the world meeting with folks with disabilities, GNU's "freedom to run the program, for any purpose" has typically been the first attraction to GNOME accessibility and the accessible applications like Firefox and OpenOffice.org. This freedom means that a blind Czech waitress doesn't have to spend 80% of a year's salary in order to purchase a commercial screen reader.
But the brilliance of their definition is that it doesn't stop there. It is the next three freedoms - (1) to study how software works and change it if you like, (2) to redistribute copies to help your neighbor, and (3) to distribute copies of your modified versions - that have provided access solutions to folks who would never have them - because their country or language represents too small a market for commercial access solutions, no matter what the price. These freedoms have meant that GNOME and included access features are being translated into 161 languages. When paired with the growing body of eSpeak text-to-speech languages (among others), Free Software is making technology available and accessible for the first time to folks who speak Afrikaans and Catalan and Croatian and Swahili and Tamil (among others) - all places where the blind had no options. For folks who use alternate text entry, the list of languages / locales that have access for the first time is larger still (essentially the majority of the 161 languages GNOME is being translated into).
So it should come as no surprise that the GNU Accessibility Statement notes that:
When the program owner decides what languages and countries get access, the result has been that too many of the 600 million people who need it get left out in the cold. As noted further down in the GNU Accessibility statement:
For users with disabilities, as for all other users, free software is the only way the users can control their own computing, their only chance to make software fit their needs rather than passively accepting whatever developers choose to offer them.
The GNU Accessibility Statement closes with several recommendations. For programmers, their recommendation is to use an accessibility API that is compatible with free operating systems and desktops. Their recommendation is to use the GNOME Accessibility API, the Java Accessibility API, and the IAccessible2 API (depending upon the platform and desktop in question).
The most rewarding aspect of my career in access technology has been my involved in the development of all three of these APIs, and the collaboration with colleagues at Oracle and IBM and the Linux Foundation and the GNOME community in the ongoing maintenance and improvements in these pivotal APIs that are central to free and open source accessibility.
Tuesday May 04, 2010
Access for All - 1st International AEGIS Conference in Seville, 6-9 October 2010
By Peter Korn on May 04, 2010
The AEGIS project has announced that the first International AEGIS Conference - titled "Access for All in the desktop, web and mobile field: an end-user and developer perspective" - will take place in lovely Seville, Spain on October 6-9, 2010. This will also be the occasion of the 2nd AEGIS user forum and pan-European workshop (the first one having taken place in RIM's offices in the UK last June).
The Conference Invitation is available, and the conference committee is soliciting scientific & technical papers. Submit paper abstracts to info-AT-aegis-project.eu by May 15th.
Thursday Apr 22, 2010
White House contributes open source accessibilty code
By Peter Korn on Apr 22, 2010
As announced yesterday in the White House technology blog, Dave Cole and his team have developed several additions to the open source Drupal website content management system (which is used to run http://www.whitehouse.gov). Specifically, one of their contributions is the module Node Embed, which contains explicit support for making media accessible on Drupal-based websites.
As stated by Dave Cole in his blog posting:
To my knowledge, this marks the first time that any arm of any government has formally contributed open source accessibility code to an open source project. And in this case, as noted in the Node Embed source code viewing interface, "all code is licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later".
Very cool!
Wednesday Mar 31, 2010
GNOME 2.30 released - with excellent accessibility support
By Peter Korn on Mar 31, 2010
Ever since GNOME version 2.4, the GNOME platform and desktop have included an accessibility framework, a flexible themeing engine with a set of themes for folks with a variety of vision impairments, a powerful (and industry-leading) accessibility framework and accessibility API, and also a set of assistive technologies. Thanks to the hard work of the GNOME Accessibility team, this support has continued to improve with each successive release.
Over the years since version 2.4 came out - on a 6 month release cycle that you can practically set your watch to - the GNOME platform has added things like grade 2 braille support and accessible login, application-specific scripting for screen reader users and full-screen color mapping for low vision users, mouse dwell-click support and a rapid text entry system for folks who can't use a keyboard. And thanks to this tremendous free and open source accessibility support, users with disabilities can do a tremendous number of things with this desktop. They can browse the web and read e-mail, create and read documents and spreadsheets, keep track of their calendars and and listen to music, and do these things at the very same time that that they are participating in several simultaneous IM chats (that are interoperability with virtually every IM protocol on the planet).
And now today - like clockwork - the GNOME community has released GNOME 2.30. And that release is made in over 50 different languages. Further, thanks to the commonly included eSpeak text-to-speech engine, it will speak to screen reader users in 27 of those languages!
So, congratulations GNOME. You have once again demonstrated to the world just much the open source community can do for (and with!) people with disabilities, wherever in the world they reside.
Tuesday Mar 30, 2010
New color, same passion
By Peter Korn on Mar 30, 2010
As is very old news by now, Oracle purchased Sun at the end of January. Life has been pretty busy these past few weeks - meeting all of my new colleagues, meeting the various Directors and VPs whose teams I'll be working with, and otherwise learning the ropes and IT systems here at Oracle. Hence the break in blogging (other things were always higher priority).
At Sun, the Accessibility Program Office was part of the "xDesign" organization - a group focused on the user experience of our products - and also focused expressly on our software's visual appearance. Soon after it was announced that Oracle would be acquiring Sun, our Director began an all-hands meeting with the hex code: "0xFF0000". This was both a metaphor about the change that was coming (Oracle purchasing us, not "Big Blue"), and also a statement about Oracle's color scheme. Oracle red is 100% red -> 255 for red (or 0xFF), and 0 for green and blue. Among the visual designers, this led to a spirited discussion about how one can make use of that color in a larger color scheme...
In the 9 weeks since Oracle completed its acquisition of Sun, I've found a few other things (besides the corporate color) that are different here at Oracle. But one thing is absolutely the same: the passion that the accessibility folks have for their work. At Oracle, I'm privileged to be working with a core group that is intensely focused on and passionate about ensuring that all of Oracle's products are accessible - so that the many folks with disabilities who are our customers are able to efficiently and productively get their jobs done.
And that intensity and passion - and belief in the importance of accessibility - isn't limited to my immediate colleagues. Like Sun, Oracle has accessibility experts scattered throughout the company. Embedded in the various product teams, these folks likewise care passionately about ensuring the Oracle products and technologies they are working on are accessible - if for no other reason than the very products we sell are the ones we use internally: for filing our expenses and for ordering new computers and for getting our salary information. And these employees would very much like those apps to work with their screen readers and screen magnifiers!
Further, going beyond Oracle's accessibility engineers & QA staff, Oracle has made powerful commitments to accessibility from its very senior leadership. Two quotes - from Oracle President & CEO Safra Catz, and from Chief Corporate Architect Edward Screven - state this commitment clearly and unambiguously:
—Safra Catz, President and CFO, Oracle
—Edward Screven, Chief Corporate Architect, Oracle
These quotes, and a ton of information about accessibility at Oracle, can be found at the home of Oracle's Accessibility Program.
Welcome to the new color!
Tuesday Jan 26, 2010
Vacation: scuba, friends, family, and... OpenGazer
By Peter Korn on Jan 26, 2010
[An admittedly odd collection of topics for a single blog post...]
Over the end-of-year break, I took my first significant vacation in years: a wonderful 3 weeks away from work, and in fact away from most e-mail and quite a bit of time away from all "screens" except the one on my camera. Most significantly, during those weeks I spent ~10 days in Hawaii - one of the favorite places for my wife and me to visit (and the site of my last significant vacation).
My wife, step-son Paul, and I went first to Oahu for a few days. We visited a high school friend of mine and his family (and also his parents, who were in town). We were staying in Waikiki (with a beautiful view from our room) - at the same time as President Obama! We didn't managed to run into him, but heard the sirens of his motorcade in the distance a couple of times.
We had a great time snorkeling in Hanauma Bay, and as before, I took my camera underwater. Anneli and Paul joined in the snorkeling fun. The water wasn't very deep, and sometimes you even had to climb over the rocks rather than swim. The view over the water was somewhat similar to under the water. There were nice fish near the surface, and also in and amongst the rocks. There were plenty of pencil urchins. Also some very strange fish (I think that one was a Panneliul fish).
In addition to snorkeling, we also drove around the island. We stopped briefly across from "Chinaman's Hat Island", and were awed by the steep mountains dividing the North Shore from South. We also did some shopping - making our pilgrimage to the Ala Moana Shopping Center and the "right out of Tokyo" Shirokiya store (they have the best mochi). Finally, we had a couple of great meals. Dim Sum at Legend Seafood in Chinatown, and a lovely Thai food dinner at the small and friendly Bangkok Chef (run by relatives of the high school friend we were visiting).
Then we flew to Kona where we stayed at the SuGAR cottage in Captain Cook. After unloading our car, Paul and I went for a dive with Gary, cottage co-owner and a dive master. The dive was right off Miloli'i pier, in and around the bay. Perhaps the most striking thing I saw was a blue starfish - something I'd only seen in aquariums. Most of this first dive was spent getting re-acquainted with my underwater camera gear (which I talked about in my previous blog about diving, though it was now upgraded with a second HID light). We surfaced to a beautiful sunset - a wonderful first day on the Big Island.
Paul and I did another pair of dives the next day with Torpedo Tours out of Kona (Anneli wasn't feeling well, and so spent the day re-familiarizing herself with the town). We went to "Kaiwi Point" and "Freeze Face" (so named because of the cold spring flowing out of a small cavern). There were small fish and fish that wanted to pose for me and fish that were hiding in plain sight. Away in the distance there was even a shark. Then our divemaster offered an octopus to Paul. Then I took my favorite photo of the trip: the octopus close-up! On the boat with us was a teacher-student pair getting their re-breather certification. Diving with them was a woman doing macro photography. And with that, the delightful day of diving came to an end.
We took a few days' break from diving. We went to visit Volcanoes National Park. It's amazing to be walking on Earth that is younger than you are! We walked out to the viewing point - crossing over cooled lava that looked like tree roots. Once we arrived, we shared the space with other photographers setting up for sunset photos. Folks who paid a lot of money could get closer - by helicopter or later by boat. As the sun set, I took a series of fiery photos.
The next day we went to Hilo, and visited Akaka Falls. After that, it was off to Puna, and a visit to Ahalanui Beach Park - where we did a bit more snorkeling, though this time without camera. They warn you about the dangers of the park, and unfortunately Paul failed to heed them. We drove Paul to the airport the next day, hung out in Kona that afternoon, and then went to the Sheraton Hotel in Keauhou Bay to watch another sunset and see the boats gathering for the manta ray night dive. We'd hoped to do the manta ray night dive ourselves, but the night we were scheduled go to it was canceled due to heavy surge, and we didn't manage to make it another night.
We did manage another day of diving though! Anneli and I had a wonderful pair of dives with Sandwich Isle Divers. We had been saddened by the closure of Dive Tek (who we loved last time in Hawaii), and are thrilled to have a good replacement in Sandwich Isle Divers! Having managed to "dial in my camera" during the previous dives, I had much better luck with lighting for these dives. At the first site - "No Conger Eeel" - I found that with proper light, things are colorful! Like the colorful cornet fish (alongside the Hawaiian cleaner wrasse). Or a fish posing for me. Or a fish hiding from me. Or a fish nicely framed against the blue. Other delights on this dive included a leaf fish, a crown of thorns starfish, and a colorful nudibranch.
At the second site - "Pine Trees" - I began by photographing a "retro diver" who liked to use "vintage gear". Then once I oriented myself on the bottom, I spotted a tiny pair of harlequin shrimp hiding in amongst the coral. Then came a beautiful moorish idol, followed by a second one. Then a passel of butterfly fish. One swimming nearer to the surface, then another with striking colors, followed quickly by a third. One swimming to the left, then one swimming to the right, and finally two swimming together! Sometimes a fish was hiding from me, while other times it was it was a school of fish in the distance. To prove that this wasn't the earlier dive site, I saw a conger eel who didn't like it when I got too close. In addition to the earlier nudibranch, this dive yielded a spanish dancer. Finally, this dive wasn't all about sea creatures. We also had fun with some large swim-throughs.
With diving done for the trip, we spent our last full day in the Southern part of the Big Island. We visited South Point, which is one of the windiest places on the Island. Here's another view of a windswept tree. In fact, it's so windy they have windmills there. You can see them from the coastline that looks like Mendocino. Here they are a bit closer up. Speaking of the coast, I loved watching the translucent waves as the crashed along the shore. In some places, the waves were busy creating green sand. South Point was a "working" region, and even now, folks were hauling up fish caught from boats down below. They tried to make a road to a pier, but they weren't too successful and the pier washed away. It was a spare and beautiful landscape, and I'm very glad I went there.
Near South Point is the town of Naalehu, where my aunt, uncle, and cousin live. Aunt and cousin were away, but it was really nice to spend some time with my uncle Louis. The brother of my father who passed away in 2001, he's the last link I have to that side of my ancestry, and this might be the last time I get to see him in person. We talked for hours, and among other things I learned some details of how my grandmother died. She had a stroke in March of 1985, and we at first thought she was in a "vegetatiave state", and after a short time on life support Louis had her disconnected so she could die peacefully. But she didn't - she took a gasp and kept on living. While others couldn't see it - especially at first - Louis believed she was conscious, and that she was able to communicate with him. After a month of therapy, she was able to move her eyes and her tongue. More physiotherapy later, and she was able to move her arms somewhat, and even stand. Unfortunately she didn't recover further, and she died in August of that year.
I'm sharing this story of my grandmother because of how this history connects with some of my present work. One facet of the AEGIS project that I'm the Technical Manager of is an incredible technology called Opengazer. Opengazer is being developed by Emli-Mari Nell and her colleagues at the Inference Group of the University of Cambridge. It is a multi-year research project to provide eye-tracking using commodity web-cams. As we demonstrated last November to the AEGIS review board in Brussels, as an interim step, Opengazer is now a functioning gesture switch. Emli-Mari has a video of it in action (assuming you have installed the open source VLC player or can otherwise play things in open source Ogg video format). Such technology would have made a huge difference to my grandmother's final months of life, as well as the lives of her caregivers. They could have had rich conversations, utilizing other technologies like Dasher or the GNOME Onscreen Keyboard hooked up to Opengazer. And while solutions exist today that they might have used such as the Tobii Eye Tracker for augmentative communication, these products are very expensive - potentially challenging to justify their many thousands of dollars cost, particularly if at first the doctors don't believe the patient is capable of communication. But with open source solutions like Dasher, GOK, the GNOME desktop, and where we are going with Opengazer, you could put together a powerful communication system for the < $300 it costs for a used laptop with built-in webcam.
But I digress...
I had a tremendous and very full vacation, and am now back at work, preparing for the excitement to come.
Tuesday Nov 10, 2009
Back to Prague for World Usability Day
By Peter Korn on Nov 10, 2009
A few years ago I traveled to Prague for World Usability Day 2006. Later this week I'm back in Prague for World Usability Day 2009. Along with a distinguished collection of speakers, I'll be giving a talk about the AEGIS and ACCESSIBLE grants that Sun is participating in. Also on the program is a presentation on a very neat Vision Impairment Simulator plug-in to NetBeans - developed under the ACCESSIBLE grant and being presented by my colleague Theofanis Oikonomou of the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas / Informatics and Telematics Institute. Finally of note (for me) is a presentation by Jan Vystrčil and Zdeněk Míkovec of the Sun Center of Excellence at Czech Technical University on their work to implement ARIA support on Web UI toolkits.
Prague is one of my favorite cities, and I'm looking forward to another visit...
"OpenOffice.org can speak in up to 27 languages"
By Peter Korn on Nov 10, 2009
Yesterday Vincent Spiewak announced the availability of the odt2daisy add-on to OpenOffice.org that will create full DAISY talking books for the blind and others with print impairments. Combined with the free and multi-platform OpenOffice.org office suite, the odt2daisy add-on enables for the first time completely free creation of digital audio talking books for the blind and print impaired - in both DAISY 3.0, and ANSI/NISO Z39.86 formats. As both OpenOffice.org and odt2daisy are multi-platform running on Windows, Macintosh, Solaris/OpenSolaris, and GNU/Linux systems, this further means that virtually any desktop computer user can utilize these tools (and when combined with OpenSolaris or GNU/Linux, the entire software stack is free).
When combined with the open source, cross-platform eSpeak text-to-speech engine, OpenOffice.org and odt2daisy can generate talking books in 27 different languages - including creating multi-lingual talking books where different portions of the document are pronounced correctly in the language they came from (see some of Vincent's screencasts to see how this is done -> simply mark the range of text as belong to a specific language in OpenOffice.org and odt2daisy will take care of the rest).
Finally, it is worth noting that this release of odt2daisy is one of the first shipping results of the AEGIS project, which recently wrapped up its first year of work.
Sunday Sep 27, 2009
Peter Korn
Recent Posts
- Exit stage right...
- New iOS 7 accessibility features... foreshadowed by AEGIS research
- "Guidance on Applying WCAG 2.0 to Non-Web Information and Communications Technologies (WCAG2ICT)" was formally published today as a W3C Working Group Note
- Oracle Sponsors Project:Possibility's 2013 European SS12
- See Oracle at CSUN!
- Applying WCAG 2.0 to Non-Web ICT: second draft published from WCAG2ICT Task Force - for public review
- If you are in Brussels next week... come join a policy dialog on the European Accessibility Act
- Applying WCAG 2.0 to Non-Web ICT: first draft published from WCAG2ICT Task Force - for public review
- GNOME 3.4 released, with smooth & fast magnification
- The Section 508 refresh moves forward - Oracle comments to the ANPRM


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Testing the django framework
(as opposed to testing your app).
If your app is having trouble, it is a good idea to run django's tests to make sure django is functioning properly. it also helps the developers catch bugs that could be system dependent, like OS, python version, db, etc.
To run the tests, you need to supply a very small settings file. you will probably want to write a small script to run tests and log the results. below is what I use.
# settings_sqlite.py DATABASE_ENGINE = 'sqlite3' DATABASE_NAME = 'demodb' ROOT_URLCONF=None SITE_ID=1
# settings_memory.py # this should be faster than the others because it uses an in-memory SQLite DATABASE_ENGINE = 'sqlite3' DATABASE_NAME = ':memory:' DATABASE_USER = '' DATABASE_PASSWORD = '' DATABASE_HOST = '' DATABASE_PORT = '' LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us' SITE_ID = 1 ROOT_URLCONF = ''
# settings_postgresql.py DATABASE_ENGINE = 'postgresql' DATABASE_USER = 'foo' DATABASE_PASSWORD = 'abc' ROOT_URLCONF=None TEST_DATABASE_CHARSET = 'utf8'
# settings_mysql.py DATABASE_ENGINE = 'mysql' DATABASE_USER = 'foo' DATABASE_PASSWORD = 'abc' ROOT_URLCONF=None SITE_ID=1 TEST_DATABASE_CHARSET = 'utf8'
Running tests
# runtests.sh # runs the django tests, logs the output set -x echo svnversion $(svnversion) > runtests.log cat settings_sqlite.py>> runtests.log ./runtests.py --settings settings_sqlite 2>&1|tee --append runtests.log cat settings_mysql.py>> runtests.log ./runtests.py --settings settings_mysql 2>&1|tee --append runtests.log
rem runtests.bat runtests.py --settings settings_sqlite 2>&1
Note: most of the runtests.py output is to stderr. the 2>&1 redirects that to stdout so that it can be redirected into a file, which is handy for posting when tests fail.
Test Locations
If you write tests place them as follows:
- if the test tests a core feature of models, it should live in modeltests;
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When used in a market research context, "Attributes" are simply properties of a given product, brand, service, advertisement or any object of interest.
Much brand and market research is targeted at understanding the most significant and powerful attributes of a product/service/brand or product/service/brand class.
A product, service, or brand can have many attributes including cost, value for money, prestige, taste, usability, liking ("affect") and a wide range of image or personality attributes.
To use one very common example, the car or "automobile" brand class can sometimes include attributes such as prestige, cost, reliability, exclusivity, availability, type (e.g. sporty, family, luxury) and country of origin.
Usually a client wishes to measure their product or brand as perceived by target markets along several attributes they see important to the brand. If they are in a competitive market, they also sometimes need to know how they rate against competing offerings.
A key mistake in attribute-based research is for the most salient attributes to be missed, or the attribute definitions to be posed in such a way as they are not clear to the consumer subject pool. The former often occurs when a brand is product rather than consumer driven. It is often important therefore for research aimed at "un-covering" the salient attributes of the product according to the consumer, rather than the client, to be conducted also. In "brands", where attributes are often related to brand personality, image and brand identification related variables, these can often by uncovered by qualitative and depth interview techniques.
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Knit Your Bit - WWII Museum
The World War II Museum, Knitting for Veterans Campaign is a hugh success and still going strongly! They have new 2009 - 2010 Scarf Patterns for both knitting and crochet. Both are in pdf format:
September 8, 2009 - Update - 2009 - 2010 Scarf Patterns:
2009 - Chevron Scarf Knitting Pattern:
2009 - Chevron Scarf Crochet Pattern:
September 2, 2008 - Update - 2008 Scarf patterns
2008 Lengthwise Striped Scarf Knitting Pattern:
2008 Lengthwise Striped Scarf Crochet Pattern:
They have 2007 Scarf Patterns for both knitting and crochet, featuring a "V" for victory on them. Both are in pdf format:
2007 Patterns:
2007 V Scarf Knitting Pattern (designed by Lauren Handley)
2007 V Scarf Crochet Pattern (designed by Rachel Vives)
(Original post about WWII Museum Knit Your Bit Campaign is here.)
Lion Brand Yarn also has a touching story by a woman who knitted a scarf for this cause. Her story is here.


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Dallas, Garland police investigate motorist shootings
Dallas and Garland police worked into the morning hours investigating a series of four shootings that left two motorists dead and one injured Monday night.
Investigators can't say for sure whether the fatal shooting in Garland and three more shootings along LBJ Freeway — one of them fatal — in northeast Dallas were all committed by the same person. However, their proximity in distance and timing certainly points in that direction.
The preliminary indication is that the shootings were likely random and unprovoked, making the rush hour attacks particularly frightening.
Killed in the Garland shooting was Jorge Lopez, 20, of Rowlett, who was gunned down while stopped at a red light. Killed in one of the Dallas shootings was William Scott Miller, 42, of Frankfort, Kentucky. Police say Mr. Miller was scheduled to fly home Monday to be with his wife and children for the holidays.
Garland police said the shooter may have been driving a tan extended-cab Ford F150 pickup. The shooter may be a balding white man in his 40s.
Anyone with information on the shootings can call the Dallas police homicide unit at 214-671-3661 or email firstname.lastname@example.com. Garland Crime Stoppers can be reached at 972-272-8477.
A Garland police standoff along State Highway 66 at Commerce Street a few hours later does not appear to have been related to the motorist shootings.
In that case, Garland police surrounded a man wanted for robbery and burglary out of Keller. Brian Smith, 37, a former Utah state trooper, was believed to be armed and suicidal inside a dark sport utility vehicle, said Garland police spokesman Officer Joe Harn.
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Predictably, Ashley Madison has attracted considerable controversy in the U.S., where it has been featured on "Ellen", "Dr. Phil", and "Good Morning America." Brent Bozell, the president of a conservative monitoring group called Media Research Center, describing it as "Home Wreckers Inc."
Biderman expects – and hopes for – the same degree of controversy in Ireland.
"Once we start our marketing in Ireland, some of the press will be livid about this, which will be good for us. We aren't shy when it comes to controversy, which we thrive on.
"No one is going to give me some humanitarian award anytime soon. You can almost picture the Irish couple at home seeing the news report about us, with the woman saying, 'That's terrible,' and the man saying 'Yes, that's terrible" while at the same time trying to remember the URL for the site and thinking, 'How do I sign up?'"
He also defended his site against accusations that it profits from human misery, and facilitates the destruction of families, arguing instead that his site can be good for families.
"I don't believe that our service will create home wrecking. I think it's the opposite. What we create are a community of adults, and we are saying, 'Listen, we know that what you are going through right now is really challenging. And we know that you are not prepared to leave your relationship. You have financial ties to your family and you love your family.' We are saying that someone on the side may make you a better partner, and more focused at work.
"A thirsty man will drink, a starving man will eat and people will seek physical intimacy if they are not getting it."
Biderman described himself as a "happily married man" of eight years, with two children, and said that he is monogamous. He said that he would be devastated if he found that his wife was using Ashley Madison – but that he wouldn't blame the site.
"I probably wouldn't blame the guy she was with or even her," he said. "At the end of the day, I would take a long look at a mirror and say, 'How did I not understand my wife's needs, how was I in the relationship?' I certainly wouldn't be blaming an inanimate object. That would be ridiculous."


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Diagnostic Imaging Fellowship
About the Program
The Division of Diagnostic Imaging is comprised of four departments: Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Department of Experimental Diagnostic Imaging, Department of Imaging Physics and Department of Nuclear Medicine.
The division provides a full range of state-of-the-art diagnostic imaging and therapeutic services in the various imaging modalities: Breast Imaging, Clinical Nuclear Medicine, Computerized and Digital Radiography, CT, Interventional Radiology, MRI, Neuro-Interventional Radiology, PET, PET/CT and Ultrasound.
A total of 922 employees occupy an area of 182,180 square feet of the Main Building, primarily on the 3rd floor, and 40% of the North Building of the Mays Clinic on floors 2, 4, 5, 6 and 7.
There are 84 physicians in the Division of Diagnostic Imaging, 39 basic scientists at the Ph.D. level distributed between the four departments and five medical physicists. The division also supports active programs in basic and clinical research within the division and across the institution.
The division support team includes Decision Support, the Image Library, Medical Transcription, Nursing and Patient Reception Services.
Radiologic technologists and nursing staff are available 24 hours a day providing routine and emergent services utilizing both in-house and on-call schedules.
The division currently serves as a clinical teaching site for UT Galveston and Houston Community College for CT, MRI, Nuclear Medicine, Radiologic Technology and Ultrasound Technologist training programs. The School of Health Sciences Bachelors of Science Program in Diagnostic Imaging opened in the fall of 2005. The Diagnostic Imaging program is designed to accommodate students seeking a Bachelors of Science degree and initial certification in Radiologic Technology, or students who have completed an accredited program in Radiologic Technology, with acceptable transfer of credits and hold certification through the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT) or equivalent certification agencies.
A resident and fellowship program is operated in conjunction with The University of Texas Medical School. During each rotation there are usually 20 residents/ fellows assigned to the division. The Department of Imaging Physics has a CAMPEP-accredited Clinical Residency Program in Imaging Physics, and is part of the UT Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program in Medical Physics.
Major clinical equipment in the Main Building includes 13 MRI units (12 clinical operations and one research unit), six CT scanners, three interventional angiography suites, two interventional CT units (16-slice and 20-slice), vascular/ interventional suites, eight ultrasound units (three general ultrasound and five neuro-interventional ultrasound), four nuclear medicine gamma cameras, one PET scanner, two PET/CT scanners, 11 dedicated digital chest units, 10 portable x-ray units, eight portable fluoroscopy surgical units, four AC5000s for computerized radiology (CR), three Smart-CRs for CR, two Clearview Readers, one mammo room, one breast ultrasound room and 15 R/F diagnostic units.
Imaging Fellowships
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Hedda Gabler
by Henrik Ibsen
Character Role Analysis
Victorian Society
You thought we were going to say "Judge Brack," didn't you? The fact is, nearly every character antagonizes Hedda to some degree. Thea has transformed Hedda's favorite rebel into a conventional bore; Aunt Julie won't stop talking about her pregnancy; George is, well, himself; and Brack tries to blackmail her into having an affair with him. But none of this would be a problem if it weren't for those pesky Victorian values boxing Hedda in at every turn. Without the standards of the day, Hedda could have had sex with Eilert instead of breaking up with him way back when, told the Judge to piss off, and gotten a divorce, birth control, and a career.


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BAY CITY, MI — Calling all budding actors, directors and those who wish to work behind the scenes.
Through its Stages of Discovery, Bay City Players is the site of a series of workshops focusing on performance and technical aspects of the theatre.
Students who have completed first through 12th grades, will learn acting, movement, creative thinking and problem solving, taught by skilled and experienced theater personnel.
Sessions for week one and two take place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Thursday. The schedule for the third week will be determined at a later date.
The cost for the first two weeks is $80, and there may be a small charge for week three. There are some partial need-based scholarships.
Students attending are asked to bring their own lunch.
Registration deadline is July 18.
Registration forms and more information are available by calling 989-893-5555, and on Players Web site.
Sign up:
What: Stages of Discovery Workshops
When: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. July 22-25, July 29-Aug. 1, Aug. 5-8
Where: Bay City Players, 1214 Columbus Ave.
Cost: $80
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A Bowmore Adventure at Sea
Bowmore has always had an intrinsic link with the Ocean, from the Atlantic waves that batter the rugged coastland of our island home of Islay, to the sea-salt tang of our legendary Single Malt.
Below is a rundown of all the Bowmore sailing events this summer - come along, we'd love to share a dram or two with you!
Sail America with Bowmore and Liquor.com
From New York to LA, we are working with the good people at Liquor.com to lay on some truly unique sailing events for our Bowmore friends. What better way to enjoy a dram of our magical 12 Years Old than paired with fresh oysters on a clipper ship?
For more information visit Liquor.com - we hope to see you all on the waves soon.
The Southampton Boat Show
To continue the nautical theme we will once again return to the Southampton Boat Show this year.
Join us for a unique taste of Islay in Southampton!
More details on the Southampton Boat Show
Keiler Woche
Having just returned from the largest sailing event in the world we have certainly found our sea legs!
To see highlights of Bowmore at Kieler Woche, visit our Facebook page
Coming up
We are also touring around Europe, The United States and everywhere in between. Check out our events guide to see when we are going to be near you we would... we would love to see you.


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RANCHO BERNARDO: Recycle your electronic waste
A free e-waste collection event will be held, rain or shine, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Feb. 18 at San Refael Parish, 17252 Bernardo Center Drive. Items that will be accepted include computers, TVs, monitors, wires, stereos, radios, phones (cell and home), small printers/copiers, VCRs, DVD players, camcorders, circuit boards, etc. No household batteries, appliances or lights will be accepted. Visit ewasteca.org or call 858-271-1616.


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Off-Campus Study & Exchanges
Policies and Procedures
Financial Policies
- Students studying abroad, through the Skidmore-Spelman Exchange program, Washington
Semester program or the Semester in Environmental Science (Woods Hole) program will
be charged the Skidmore comprehensive fee for their semester or year off campus. (Note:
Skidmore's comprehensive fee will differ from the fees of the program providers.)
This fee is equal to Skidmore tuition, room at the on campus apartment rate, board
if applicable, and mandatory college fees. Students are required to use program arranged room and board where available. Additionally, if provided a housing option, students are required to select a homestay.
Students desiring an alternative to program housing or a homestay should consult with
an OCSE Program Manager. If the program does not include room and/or board, or only
partial board, the comprehensive fee will be adjusted accordingly. Students are responsible
for paying any refundable deposits and non-included fees directly on-site or to the
program provider.
- All off-campus study participants will be billed by Skidmore's Bursar for the Skidmore
comprehensive fee.
- Students studying on an Approved Program should be aware that their program provider's
mandatory course enrollment and maximum credit load for the semester may differ from
Skidmore's 15 semester credit requirement. Should a student opt to add an additional
credit-bearing course(s) that is not included in the provider's mandatory courseload,
he/she will be responsible for paying any supplemental fees for said course directly
to the provider. Additionally, if a student elects to enroll in courses during his/her
off-campus program that have not been approved for academic credit and therefore are
not transferable to Skidmore, he/she will be responsible for payment of said course
fees. Occasionally, students must enroll in additional coursework in order to stay
on track for graduation. If the program provider considers these additional courses
to be an overload, the student should consult with OCSE regarding this policy.
- Students studying on a Skidmore Program will be subject to the college's policy on
overloads. (Please refer to the Bursar's webpage.)
- All students studying on an off-campus program will submit a $500.00 non-refundable
confirmation fee two weeks after receiving approval from the Committee on Academic
Standing (CAS) to study off campus; $400 of the deposit will be credited to your Skidmore
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Tuesday, 04.10.2012 / 4:17 PM ET / News
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TORONTO -- Toronto general manager Brian Burke publicly apologized to fans for a disappointing Maple Leafs season and vowed to address the team's goaltending and size heading into the off-season.
Burke addressed the media Tuesday after the Leafs finished 26th overall in the NHL and failed to make the playoffs for the seventh consecutive season.
Burke said he didn't plan to change the style of play he feels wins games. He said he wanted the Leafs to be able to dictate the game and that means more size and strength, including finding a centre to play on the top line.
``My view on how hockey teams are built and how hockey games are won has not changed,'' said Burke. ``I still believe that big physical teams win hockey games and if you have two evenly matched teams from a skill perspective, the bigger team's going to win. We need to get bigger.
``That's my top priority as far as an overall priority.''
The GM echoed a mea culpa by the Leafs organization, which posted a letter to the fans on their website and in newspapers asking forgiveness. They sent a similar letter to season ticket holders.
Tom Anselmi, the team's chief operating officer, has pledged to speak with every single ticket holder that has concerns.
``This is about winning, this is about doing right by your fans, this is what we're all into this for,'' said Anselmi. ``Sports is a business, yeah, but it's a business based on emotion and passion and caring. These fans they care, they give a crap. They're paying with after-tax dollars.
``You owe them a great product and when it isn't good enough that's not good enough.''
The Leafs were in sixth place in the Eastern Conference in February, but went on to win just two of their next 17 games in a collapse they couldn't recover from. They now hold the NHL's longest playoff drought.
Maple Leafs coach Randy Carlyle spoke before Burke, challenging his players to improve their work ethic. He says his parting message to his players was that the level of work ethic, accountability, and the conditioning must improve.
Burke replaced head coach Ron Wilson with Carlyle in March, but the damage was already done by then.
``Confidence was the No. 1 thing that I would say this team did not have,'' said Carlyle. ``We were not a confident group. ...
``It's our job as a coaching staff to force, coddle, kick - whatever word you want to use - to get them to believe that they can do it.''


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Most cosmologists agree that less than a tenth of the universe is made up of normal - or 'baryonic' - matter, mainly neutrons and protons. They believe that the remaining 90%-plus consists of 'dark matter' - fundamental particles which we have not yet detected - and, possibly, an even more mysterious substance that is often called quintessence. However, Stacy McGaugh, an astronomer at the University of Maryland in the US, has challenged this view in a paper published this week (S S McGaugh 2000 Astrophysical Journal Letters 541 L33).
During the rapid expansion of the universe after the big bang, the 'outward' kinetic energy of the explosion fought against the 'inward' gravitational pull of matter. The evolution of the universe is therefore directly linked to the amount of mass (or equivalently energy) it contains. The idea of dark matter was proposed to explain why some galaxies seemed to be rotating faster than could be explained by the amount of visible matter they contained.
Two years ago, the Boomerang experiment photographed with unprecedented accuracy fluctuations in the temperature of the microwave background - the radiation left over from the big bang - in a patch of sky at the South pole. As expected, the results revealed a peak consistent with a 'flat' universe that has just enough energy to continue expanding forever. As expected the Boomerang team also detected a second peak, but it was considerably smaller than predicted. A possible explanation of this finding is that there might be twice as much baryonic material in the universe as has been detected so far, and that it could be hidden inside galaxies.
However, McGaugh offers a different interpretation of the Boomerang results, proposing that the small second peak is evidence for a purely baryonic universe with no dark matter. He argues that many of the adjustments that have been made to cosmological models to account for the small second peak contravene other crucial constraints. McGaugh is a supporter of modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) which, he claims, has had considerable success in predicting the dynamics of a wide variety of cosmological objects.
However, Paolo de Bernardis of the University of Rome La Sapienza and a spokesperson for the Boomerang experiments is cautious. He believes that the "low" second peak found by Boomerang is "perfectly compatible with standard big bang nucleosynthesis in a universe with cold dark matter and baryons". But he adds that both dark matter and the MOND model "should be directly experimentally proven before we believe either of them. It is simply too early to decide."


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BRIDGEPORT - Describing the 116 activists and community members gathered Friday to discuss eliminating poverty in West Virginia, state Senate Majority Leader John Unger, D-Berkeley, noted the group's "energy and inspiration."
" All throughout West Virginia, a lot of people have given up," he said. "That's not what's in this room. There's a lot of energy and inspiration."
Proposals discussed at the day-long session at the Bridgeport Conference Center ranged from how to remove soft drinks from the food stamp program - now known as the Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP - to how fresh food can be made more accessible.
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Julie Archer, of the West Virginia Citizen Action Group in Charleston, talks about how to build a campaign to change state policy. Archer was one of nearly a dozen presenters from around the state who spoke at the "Our Kids, Our Future" Coalition policy workshop on Friday. The event attracted 116 anti-poverty activists to the Bridgeport Conference Center.
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Walesca Marrero, left, of the Taylor County Collaborative Family Resource Network, Grafton, talks with state Senate Majority Leader John Unger, D-Berkeley, before Unger spoke Friday at the "Our Kids, Our Future" Coalition's policy workshop in Bridgeport.
Dana Singer, system coordinator for the Mid-Ohio Valley Rural Health Alliance, said sugary, acidic drinks are marketed directly to children, even though drinks like Mountain Dew damage children's teeth.
Mary Beth Shea, oral health coordinator for the Mid-Ohio Valley Health Department, said mothers giving children sugary, acidic drinks has become pervasive.
"Eighty percent of tooth decay is in 20 percent of our population and it is focused in our low-income population," she said. "There are no mechanisms in current programs to replace teeth.
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Editor's Note: The following article is part of the West Virginia Press Association's series on the "Our Children, Our Future" Coalition. Journalist George Hohmann is following the coalition's efforts, providing reports from its organizational meetings this month through its attempts to have impactful legislation passed during the 2014 session of the West Virginia Legislature.
"West Virginia consistently ranks No. 1 in poor oral health in the nation," Shea said. "We have two paths we can take. One is of health, where we try to help all of the population."
Singer finished Shea's sentence, "Or, we can pay for things we pay for twice - first the purchase, then the treatment."
At the breakout session on making fresh food and vegetables more accessible, the discussion by the 24 participants ranged from the general to the specific.
Elizabeth Cruikshank, a volunteer with Main Street Fairmont, said she is appalled at the lack of fresh produce in some Fairmont-area supermarkets and that some people don't seem to care.
Savanna Lyons, program manager of the West Virginia Food & Farm Coalition, polled participants about advocates of fresh produce access. The group came up with a long list, ranging from the state Department of Agriculture to the AARP.
Then she asked for a list of barriers to access. One of the first barriers mentioned is that only 20 percent of the farmers' markets in the state accept SNAP benefits.
Participants said the major problem appears to be a lack of Internet access at some markets. It was said that benefits are distributed on debit cards, and Internet access is required for the cards to work.
Unger was the keynote speaker at the Bridgeport workshop and a similar session earlier in the week at Beckley. At Bridgeport, Unger said he has been told that one in five children born in West Virginia is born drug-addicted.
"Compound that with poverty, neglect, abuse and other traumas," he said. "How can that child grow into a healthy adult?"
Observing that many people in West Virginia have given up on improving West Virginians' quality of life, Unger said he learned a term in Logan County for that lack of hope: "Appalachian fatalism"
Unger challenged the participants to change the political winds.
"That's what you're doing," he said. "'Appalachian fatalism' - the darkness that has set on this state - you're blowing this away. And the system will respond."
The workshops were funded by the Kellogg Foundation and organized in large measure under the "Our Children, Our Future" banner, which aims to eliminate poverty in West Virginia.
Both workshops were sponsored in part by the West Virginia Coalition for Healthy Kids and Families and the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy. The Beckley workshop had 35 co-sponsors; the Bridgeport workshop had 40, said Kent Spellman, executive director of The Hub, in Fairmont.
The workshops aim to build momentum to get policy changes through the state Legislature next year. from both workshops Proposals will be honed at a Sept. 24 symposium in Charleston and presented Sept. 25 to the Senate Select Committee on Children and Poverty.
Stephen Smith, executive director of the West Virginia Healthy Kids and Families Coalition, said participants will meet on Dec. 13 to vote on the 18 or so policies that have been explored and select the four or five policies that will be pursued in the 2014 session of the Legislature.


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In 1989, a new generation of antipsychotics -- called atypical or second generation antipsychotics -- was introduced. At the correct doses, fewer of the neurological side effects -- which often include such symptoms as muscular rigidity, painful spasms, restlessness, or tremors -- are seen.
The first of the new generation, clozapine (Clozaril) is the only drug that has been shown to be effective where other antipsychotics have failed. It is less strongly linked with the side effects mentioned above, but it can produce other side effects, including weight gain, changes in blood sugar and cholesterol, and possible decrease in the number of infection-fighting white blood cells. Blood counts need to be monitored every week during the first six months of treatment and then every two weeks and eventually once a month indefinitely in order to catch this side effect early if it occurs.
Other atypical antipsychotics include: aripiprazole (Abilify), aripiprazole lauroxil (Aristada), asenapine (Saphris), brexpiprazole (Rexulti), cariprazine (Vraylar), lurasidone (Latuda), paliperidone(InvegaInvega Sustenna, Invega Trinza), paliperidone palmitate (Invega Trinza), quetiapine (Seroquel), risperidone (Risperdal or Risperdal Consta), olanzapine (Zyprexa), and ziprasidone (Geodon). Another atypical antipsychotic, iloperidone (Fanapt), has been FDA-approved for acute (but not long-term) treatment of schizophrenia. The use of all of these medications has allowed successful treatment and release back to their homes and the community for many people suffering from schizophrenia.
Although sometimes more effective and better tolerated than older conventional neuroleptics, atypical antipsychotics also have side effects, and current medical practice is developing better ways of understanding these effects, identifying people at risk, and managing complications. Importantly, all atypical antipsychotics carry the possible risk for causing weight gain and raising blood sugar, cholesterol, and triglyceride levels, which must be periodically monitored during treatment. Some antipsychotics -- typical and atypical -- can cause heart rhythm problems that may require monitoring by a doctor.
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In this class you will learn to better understand the workings of the U.S. food system (at both an industrial and small scale), and the experience of animals within this system. Using animals in the food system as a case study, this course will explore notions of power and difference, ethics, responsibility, and creativity in reimagining the status quo. This course will push the boundaries of how we think about difference and discrimination and recognize the intersections between human and animal oppression.
*Important: In addition to the two scheduled class periods on campus, students will participate in experiential learning at a local animal sanctuary on Thursdays from 10-3pm.
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As fate would have it, the color got way better, way better! As you can see though I don't have those photos here. Nope, I enjoyed the great color sitting at the table with my family all enjoying the great view. What a marvelous last present for the day!
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