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Beth Haller, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Humanities and Communications
Humanities Division
Penn State Harrisburg
777 W. Harrisburg Pike
Middletown, PA 17057
Phone: 717-948-6203
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Paper submitted to the Media Management and Economics Division,
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication,
for 1996 annual meeting, Anaheim, CA.
Beth Haller, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Humanities and Communications
Humanities Division
Penn State Harrisburg
777 W. Harrisburg Pike
Middletown, PA 17057
Phone: 717-948-6203
Email: [log in to unmask]
The new cable network, Kaleidoscope, bills itself as the world's
first channel for people with disabilities. The channel, based in San Antonio,
focuses on being a fully accessible channel through open caption, sign language
interpretation, and audio description. It also tries to include content that
portrays people in a less stereotyping fashion. Through its connections to a
host of disability-related organizations, the channel generates original
programs on specific disabilities.
This study of the cable channel is based on depth interviews in
November 1995 with the chief executive officer and the marketing director of
Kaleidoscope. This paper explores how the demographic category of disability is
used as a economic tool for the network. It looks at how the channel balances a
medical model approach with a more empowering consumer-oriented approach in its
programming. How do economic factors perpetuate negative or positive images of
disability? This question is explored through the findings in the interviews and
reviews of channel content.
The cable channel Kaleidoscope bills itself as the world's first
channel for people with disabilities. The channel, based in San Antonio, Texas,
focuses on being a fully accessible channel through open caption, sign language
interpretation, and audio description. It also tries to include content that
portrays people in a less stereotyping fashion. Through its connections to a
host of disability-related organizations, the channel generates original
programs on specific disabilities.
This study of the cable channel is based on depth interviews in
November 1995 with the chief executive officer and the marketing director of
Kaleidoscope. This paper explores how the demographic category of disability is
used as a marketing and advertising tool for the channel. It looks at how the
channel balances a medical model approach with a more empowering
consumer-oriented approach in its programming. How can the channel market itself
to the diverse disability community and the general public within its stated
framework of objectivity? How do economic factors influence the elimination of
negative stereotypes about disability in the development and marketing of the
channel? How do economic factors perpetuate negative stereotypes of disability?
These questions are explored through the findings in the interviews and reviews
of channel content.
Bill Nichols, president of Kaleidoscope TV, says the focus of the
network connects to the empowerment of more people with disabilities in the
1990s. Kaleidoscope's philosophy is that people with disabilities have been an
underserved market in the United States. In addition, the enacting of the
Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990 gave the disability demographic category
more visibility in the business community and the political community of a
market that was already there, he said.
The channel began when investors in San Antonio, Texas, bought The
Silent Network, a channel for deaf and hard of hearing people, in May 1990. As
the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law in July 1990, America's
Disability Channel was also launched to incorporate The Silent Network
programming and expand its focus to the whole range of disabilities. In April
1995, the channel expanded to 24-hour-a-day programming.
Nichols says his interest in disability stemmed from a serious back
injury, for which he underwent rehabilitation therapy for two years (Gable,
1995). A former Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary philosophy professor,
Nichols had been working in the cable industry for about 13 years when he
decided disability would be a perfect market for a television network. With
government estimates of 49 million people with disabilities and the additional
focus of their families, Nichols decided to segment the network's market based
on various disease, illness, or injury categories. Most of these categories are
also represented by long-standing organizations such as the American Lung
Association or the American Heart Association.
"So we spent a lot of money and about three years developing our
national advisory board and so philosophically I'd say the network is reaching a
major part of this country," Nichols explained. The National Advisory Board is
composed of the executive officers of more than 100 national health care and
disability-related organizations. The network also has a Congressional Advisory
Board with 12 Congressional leaders such as Sen. Bob Dole and Sen. Tom Harkin.
By tying the network to existing disability organizations, as well as people
with disabilities and their families, Nichols estimates the network has a market
of 80 million people. "Probably about one-third of the population of this
country either has a disability, chronic illness or has a family member with
one. And when you start thinking about that and you start thinking about the
organizations that serve all of those people, you've got a big chunk of the
country," Nichols says. "You're not only serving the people; you're serving the
organizations who serve the people."
Nichols explains that the network is just beginning to flesh out its
vision of linking with disability organizations for programming and expects it
will take another 5 years to get all organizations doing programming. The
ultimate goal of the network is building local advisory boards in every cable
market that can do local programming, local promotion and local marketing to
enrich the disability-related organization. The network has built into its
programming the availability for local public service announcements, local
commercials and local programming for every organization. "I think that is one
of the real strengths of the network," Nichols says.
The problem with disability as a cable market appeared early. The
disability community is very segmented and may not even identify with the
concept of having a legally defined disability. "We began quickly to see that
the majority of the associations and organizations that we worked with really
don't perceive themselves as being part of the disability community," Nichols
said. "For instance, somebody like American Diabetes (Foundation) or Juvenile
Diabetes (Foundation), the American Lung Association that deals with asthma and
other respiratory problems -- a small percentage of those organizations have
people who are classified as disabled from the government standpoint." So the
network began to re-think its own name. The title America's Disability Channel
didn't fit the overall focus of the network and many organizations involved so
network executives have begun what Nichols calls an evolutionary process to
change the name solely to Kaleidoscope. He wants the name Kaleidoscope to become
"a household brand" for programming on illness, disability, and health care. "So
if you happen to have diabetes, you might want to look at this channel not
because you are part of the disability community, but because you can get some
real quality health care information. And that's what we're doing," Nichols
A strong advertising base is the lifeblood of keeping a cable channel
viable. Marketing Director Joe Cayton explains his goals in securing advertisers
for Kaleidoscope. He identifies three kinds of companies that are currently
advertising on the channel. First are companies that have products designed
specifically for people with disabilities, he said. For example, wheelchair
manufacturers, independent living aids, computer keyboards, and computer
software are just a few of the product types advertised on the channel.
Another kind of company that advertises on the channel doesn't
specifically manufacture disability products, but they manufacture products that
have a broad spectrum use, Cayton said. Products such as Campbell's soup, Clorox
bleach, Pace picante sauce, and Chevrolet trucks fall into this category. And
the third type of advertiser creates dual products -- those for the general
public and those adapted for people with disabilities. Cayton gives the example
of General Motors. "They have the cars that everybody drives and they also have
what they call a mobility program where they reimburse the buyer a certain
amount of money. . . to allow the buyer to adapt that vehicle for their own
personal use, hand controls, scooter lifts, things like that," he explained.
General Motors also manufactures a van that is already accessible and can be
bought straight from the factory. Currently, Kaleidoscope's biggest sponsors are
ATT, Hallmark cards, Mattel toys, and Southwest Airlines. General Motors and
Clorox products are also frequent sponsors.
In selling time on the channel to advertisers, Cayton says he follows
the current trend of linking the products to program content. He said
advertisers realize they are missing many consumers if they do not advertiser on
cable channels. "If they're going to go to cable and something else, they try to
get as closely associated content (as possible)," he said. "So what we'll come
up with a lot of times is finding a kind of content that seems to make sense for
a particular kind of product and go to them with that."
For example, Kaleidoscope is currently developing a new show aimed at
parents of children with disabilities, which is being created with Exceptional
Parent magazine. It will be a television version of that magazine. In this case,
he will go to clients such as Fisher Price toys to look for sponsorship because
Fisher Price makes some toys that are accessible for kids with various kinds of
disabilities, either cognitive or mobility. Other types of potential sponsors
for a parenting show might be Kraft foods or Toys R Us, Cayton said. So the
channel tries to orient the advertiser's product as closely as it can to the
content of a program to obtain sponsors. Another content-sponsor tie is the
accessible travel show. The channel has aired a series of specials. called the
Destination Series, which are about accessibility issues and cities. The
sponsors for those are hotels and airlines and sometimes restaurant chains.
Another program, "Living with Diabetes,"is filled with sponsors who produce
products for people with diabetes such as insulin, syringes, and all kinds of
cooling packs, Cayton said.
Currently, the channel must focus on national advertising because
regional advertising would mean setting up a revenue sharing package with local
cable companies. And Kaleidoscope has not decided to move toward that market
yet, Cayton said. The closest to regional advertising has been some
quasi-national companies such as Southwest Airlines, which doesn't fly in every
state. A problem arises from the focus just on national advertisers
occasionally, Cayton says, because some companies won't advertise at all in a
market where they don't have a presence.
Attracting regional disability equipment firms has been company
specific. Cayton says most equipment firms are trying to reach a very broad
audience, except for the dealers who are locally owned. Many products can be
shipped anywhere, but others have to be customized. For example, "Wheelchairs
are tough," Cayton explains. "You can't mail order a wheelchair. It has to be
customized." He estimates there are 10-12 U.S. wheelchair manufacturers and
probably another 100 companies make wheelchair accessories.
Cayton says selling advertisers on the idea of America's Disability
Channel is a "hard sell." Because the channel is new, it doesn't yet have
Nielsen ratings. The channel is currently on a number cable systems, and reaches
15 million homes through 200 cable systems in 34 states, Cayton says. This is a
similar number to the C-Span channel, he said. "It's a significant audience
but it's just under the minimums of a lot of the major agencies (in terms of
sponsoring programs)," he explained. The next step, therefore, is to get ratings
for the channel because then it becomes a different kind of buy for advertisers.
"More of an agency buy," Cayton explained. "More companies use it as added
reach, added exposure, to a specific target market. Right now we're used as a
target market or a niche market."
So the channel must pitch its program on an expansive demographic
profile and making sure advertisers understand the disability community as a
consumer group. The channel relies on demographic profiles of the U.S.
disability community generated from the U.S. government during the development
of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The government estimates are 49 million
people in the United States have some kind of disability. Kaleidoscope expands
this market to 80 million by including the families of people with disabilities
and health-care providers. With this group, it comes up with a niche market of
$699 billion, which it says represents 30 percent of the U.S. population.
Nichols says they have extrapolated that earning power of the community from the
U.S. Census Bureau.
However, questions arise about that figure because many people with
disabilities are historically unemployed or underemployed. Nichols admits that
some advertisers ask about that. What Kaleidoscope executives explain to these
advertisers is the difference between the seriously disabled population and
those people who have moderate or hidden disabilities. "The underemployed or
very underemployed are severely disabled people and is a much smaller population
in this country," Nichols says. "That's not the crowd that we're addressing. The
family members of those people and the people with disabilities who are employed
are a much larger group of people." He estimates that of the 49 million people
with disabilities, most are employed. The severely disabled population may be
highly unemployed, but they are generally taken care of, not by the government,
but by their families, Nichols said. Those families may have the same income as
the average American.
In addition, Kaleidoscope has a National Advisory Board, which ties
it into disability related organizations nationally. These organizations such as
Easter Seals, AARP, the National Association of the Deaf, etc. are allowed to
actively promote their own programming on the channel. Kaleidoscope also bills
itself as the "world's first fully accessible channel" by providing four
communication forms: sign language, open captions (on-screen subtitles without a
decoder needed), full sound, and audio description, which provides voiced
narration for blind and visually impaired people.
Cayton makes the comparison between the burgeoning disability market
and the Hispanic market 10-15 years ago. Back then, he says, the demographic
concept of the Hispanic market didn't really exist. People with Hispanic
backgrounds were always there and the population grew slightly. "So a couple of
radio stations and TV stations decided to address it as a market and it became a
market," Cayton said. "It always was. They just started addressing it that way.
Now Hispanic television is one of the hottest things around, crossing over
audiences too, crossing over with a lot of Anglo or non-Spanish speaking
The "language" niche served by Kaleidoscope are the completely
captioned programs and commercials. The Disability Channel is finding that to be
a significant component of the network's appeal, so it started selling
captioning services as a sideline. Cayton said a surprising number of
commercials are not captioned -- only about 40 percent of commercials. So the
channel provides free captioning services to large advertisers, or it will just
sell a captioning service for a specific commercial. And Cayton is able to make
his pitch to advertisers about expanding their markets through captioning. He
says: "There are 28 million people out there who may not be able to hear or may
have a limited understanding of that commercial, and I don't think in any
marketing campaign you would automatically skip 28 million people." The National
Captioning Institute has also found secondary uses of captioning that are of
interest to advertisers as well -- it is easier to read captions from a distance
in a noisy room. Some convention halls set their monitors to captioned
presentations because people may not be able to hear in a large room.
Cayton said that promoting the channel has been a slow process
because it doesn't have lots of money to buy billboards all over the country or
promote itself on CNN. He began working for Kaleidoscope in 1994 when it had no
recognition at all. "It's hard in a presentation to take someone from square one
to getting money out of their pocket," he said. But in 1995 especially, the
channel has done quite a bit of public relations, and articles have been written
about it in a variety of industry publications.
The newest promotion arena for Kaleidoscope is an online project.
Cayton said it's going to be a side business with a broad scope. "It's designed
to bring together all of the advisory boards members and a lot of our
advertisers in one kind of organized promotional/advertising vehicle," he said.
TCI carries the network on its system and will uplink the network's digital
service on its transponder (Walley, 1995). Through this connection, the network
plans to make use of the broadband technology that will link co-axle cable to
home computers. Because of the superior speed of cable over a telephone modem,
Cayton said online services will be switching to this broadband service in the
future. He says it is only natural that companies such as TCI, which already
have cable in lots of homes, will be moving into broadband service. "It's going
to change the way online stuff is done. We're going to be involved in that and
it's going to a major sales and marketing effort because advertisers are going
to be able to do things they've never done before," Cayton explained. He adds
that TCI's broadband service is not going to expensive either, about $30 to $40
a month. He thinks this technology will make a big difference for Kaleidoscope
TV because people will be able to stumble across the network on the Internet.
This connection between cable, computers, and the disability community is
significant because computer use has brought down barriers for many people with
disabilities. Cayton said estimates are that computer use is about 40 percent
higher among people with disabilities than with the general public.
Having the Paraolympic Games in the United States for the first time
during the summer of 1996 hopes to be an awareness and content boon to the
network. Starting in Atlanta, the events for athletes with disabilities will now
be connected geographically with the Olympics by following the international
games at each location. The network carries lots of Paraolympics programming, so
Cayton says this summer's Paraolympics "is going to be a big turning point for
us." (See Attachment 1-2 for an example of the network's 24-hour schedule.)
Demographically speaking, the channel has discovered that disability
and illness categories are such a huge market that it can only rarely create age
or gender variations of those categories. Nichols says: "What we're doing is
we're segmenting the market primarily by disability categories or illness
categories and within those targeting certain age groups." For example, if the
channel wants to create a program to deal with diabetes, then Kaleidoscope
officials go to the American Diabetes Association or the Juvenile Diabetes
Association to tell them what is an age demographic to target and then they
create a program to reach that market.
The only real age targeting is children versus adult programming. One
children's program that has garnered the most press for the channel. "Kim's
World" features a young woman who is deaf and blind. Kim Powers vivaciously
introduces children to her world and its lack of limitations. She rides an
elephant; she scuba dives, or she acts out a children's story in full costume. A
Kaleidoscope executive spotted Powers when she was appearing in a San Antonio
theater production. Powers was born deaf and at age 11 developed retinitis
pigmentosa, which caused her blindness. Powers, who has always been involved in
theater, told a Los Angeles Times reporter the focus of her show: "I want young
children to understand what it is like to be disabled and to be curious about
feeling things and smelling things and touching things the way I do" (Rosenberg,
1995). Her goal is to be a role model for others. She especially wants to
children with disabilities to understand that they can fully experience things
and participate in lots of activities. Powers communicates through an
interpreter who voices her words. The interpreter speaks to Powers through
tactile sign language in which she feels the signs with her hands.
The goal for future new program development is for more interactive
type programming, such as the call-in shows. Nichols said: "Our philosophy,
because the people who do our programming are primarily former broadcasting and
cable people, is to use the successful format. You just change the content."
They know that the live issue-oriented talk shows work on broadcast and cable so
the Kaleidoscope executives will plan programs that use that format to talk
about disability and illness related subjects. Other content areas currently
under consideration are situation comedies and sports programming.
Most programs are developed in-house but working in conjunction with
disability-related organizations on its advisory board. The ultimate goal is to
have some really hot programs that will draw people to the network. The network
features standard fare such as KTV news, which is basically a news show in prime
time that features health care, disability, and illness issues. The news show
includes news feeds from all the disability-related organizations. Nichols
explains: "That's the kind of news that a lot of people are interested in, who
are health interested and yet it is not the kind of show that develops a cult
(following)." He compares it to a "Dateline," in which people are just generally
interested in some of the subject matter. "Our idea is that we have to have a
number of programs that are pretty standard, people want to watch, informational
programs and then develop a few hot things," Nichols said.
Joe Cayton said the network is working on a potentially "hot" project
right now called "Helen Keller: The Magic Within." The network is undertaking
this project in cooperation with the American Foundation for the Blind. He
explains that this is an example of a project connected with a network advisory
board organizations. The network also produced programs with Easter Seals such
as "Making Life Better" and is developing a program with the Arthritis
Foundation called "Arthritis Today."
The implicit notion of the network is that it is working with a board
of advisory disability-related organizations whose goals are to enhance the
images of people with disabilities in society. "Our whole structure uses the
national and local boards, and all that is designed to help the organizations
who are already doing that (positive imagery)," Nichols said. "We're trying to
be of help to them get their job done." Nichols gives an example of a show on
the network called "People at Work," which is done in cooperation with a
Congressionally funded organization. It is a program that shows people with
disabilities in workplaces, illustrating what a good job they do. "The whole
point of the show is not to raise money, not to get anybody to do advertising.
The show is designed to show the general public that people with disabilities
are good employees and you ought to hire these folks," Nichols said. Nichols
says the network also changes images of people with disabilities through public
service announcements. He thinks the that the shows from the disability-related
organizations plus PSAs plus the network itself help enhance a positive image of
people with disabilities.
But a problem arises when controversial issues surface in the
disability community or about medical information. Nichols reaction: "We're a
commercial network. We're not going to take a side." He had people request that
the network take a side on the health care issue or the independent living
issue. "I say. 'No,' why don't you take a side and I'll run it for you," Nichols
said. He admits that there may be certain issues that the network might make an
editorial statement about, but the network will allow all sides on an issue to
have their say. "We see ourselves as television network that has journalistic
integrity. We're not out to censor anybody. We want everybody to have their view
and so on in our news and our other programs," Nichols said.
On the other hand, Nichols says Kaleidoscope is a commercial network.
"So we're not out just to let people do their thing. And we have to balance how
much of each." So he says there are limits to how much the network might let a
small group vocalize about a controversial issue -- for awhile, but not forever.
"What we have found is that the national organizations that support us are not
interested in avoiding subjects or hiding from issues. What they don't want is
someone who lifts up one weird thing," he said. However, if the issue is large
such as the protest when Gallaudet University hired a hearing president,
Kaleidoscope will give the issue lots of coverage. "I'd say we're a little more
sensitive to journalistic integrity than some networks because we have a
conscience with all of our organizations, with our national advisory board. We
also probably don't have the liberty to be as commercial as some networks
because the national advisory board gives us a lot of help," Nichols explained.
For example, the network will not advertise certain products because they may
cause disabilities, such as the link between alcohol and fetal alcohol syndrome.
The network also avoids violence on its children's programs and avoids explicit
sexual content in all its products. "I would say that we are very journalistic
in that we give people a chance to say their view. On the other side, we have to
be very careful as a commercial network not to turn this into a social
organization. We'll go broke," Nichols said.
Therein lies the dilemma for America's Disability Channel -- How does
the network keep financial solvency and maintain integrity among the disability
community it hopes to attract to watch the channel? What is under the surface in
this study is that, in the eyes of the disability rights movement, many of the
disability-related organizations and medical organizations make for
controversial connections for the network. These organizations are seen as
perpetuating connections to paternalism, charity, and "medicalization" of
One of the most controversial disability organizations in the United
States today is listed on the network's 100-member National Advisory Board: the
Muscular Dystrophy Association. Disability activists have openly despised and
protested the annual Jerry Lewis/MDA Telethon for a number of years. And
although Kaleidoscope has not run the telethon on its network, the network's
connection to MDA could represent "guilt by association." Disability scholars
and activists see the MDA telethon as a cultural flashpoint, representing
antiquated views of disability. Phillips (1990) calls a telethon an "occasion of
ideology," rather than an "occasion of social reality" in U.S. culture. The
occasions of ideology invoke pity and charity in belief of a cure, while
occasions of social reality summon feelings of resentment and confusion over the
"abnormality" of people with disabilities. During the occasions of ideology, the
discourse focuses on the "defect" of the person, and disabled persons are
homogenized as one. Culturally, as well, telethons ask U.S. society to embrace
the optimism of the charity toward miracles and cures.
This discourse of charity potentially rejects the disability rights
perspective, which is slowly pushing its way into the public's consciousness in
the 1990s. This perspective contrasts with the reigning view of people with
disabilities, which has adopted a medical or social welfare perspective in which
disability is seen as a physical problem alone residing within individuals
(Scotch, 1988). The disability rights perspective views disability as a
phenomenon created by society, which has yet to modify its architectural,
occupational, educational, communication, and attitudinal environments to
accommodate people who are physically and mentally different (Bowe, 1978). In
the rights perspective, physical difference is acknowledged, and even celebrated
as an ethnicity might be by some, but the focus is away from the disabled
individual as the problem and on society's structures instead.
So in telethons, the blending of the disability rights perspective
and the charity theme would seem unusual. Phillips (1992) speculates: "Might
installing a wheelchair ramp disaffirm the ideology of cure?" (p. 849). In
addition, many of the Kaleidoscope advisory board organizations are medical in
focus. The biological or medical model has been the repeated message throughout
much of U.S. culture and in its mass media images. Within the medical model,
disability is presented as an illness or malfunction. Persons who have
disabilities are shown as dependent on health professionals for cures or
maintenance. People with disabilities are seen as passive and do not participate
in "regular" activities because of disability (Clogston, 1990). These are some
of the possible cultural paradigms represented still in some disability-related
charitable organizations that the disability rights movement fights against.
For example, the Jerry Lewis telethon, more than the Muscular
Dystrophy Association, is the target of disability activists' ire. The
anti-telethon activist group, Jerry's Orphans, instituted a divestment plan,
asking corporate sponsors to continue their donations to MDA but not to give
their money on the telethon. Their goal was to neutralize the telethon while
allowing MDA fundraising to continue for research and equipment (Test of Wills,
September/October 1992). Jerry's Orphans consists of some former MDA poster
children who are now disability rights activists.
Lathrop explains how the MDA telethon represents a clash of
antiquated images with the modern goals of empowerment desired by the disability
rights movement (1992). Throughout much of history, people with disabilities
have been characterized as childlike, dependent, and helpless, Lathrop says.
However, since the 1970s, people with disabilities have been gaining more
independence and civil rights through federal legislation and technological
advancements. "These newer, adult roles challenge the older roles of childlike
dependency" (Lathrop, 1992, p. 18). Therefore, many people with disabilities no
longer want to be Jerry's "kids."
Outsiders to the disability perspective have difficulty understanding
that many people with disabilities want the emphasis to be on empowerment and
independence for today, rather than a cure for the future. "We are not all into
being cured," said the late Ed Roberts, a disabled man who founded the
independent living movement in the United States. "We are people who need to go
on with our lives" (quoted in Lathrop, 1992, p. 18).
Disability activists are advocating for a new meaning to media images
and Kaleidoscope's links to medical organizations and its stated goals of
objectivity may run counter to these notions. The images of charity, pity, and
medical "problems" may be interpreted as a roadblock to the attitude changes
toward people with disabilities that activists want to see take place in U.S.
On the other hand, other components of the programming Kaleidoscope
is developing fit squarely with the kind of realistic images the disability
community would like to see flow through the mass media. An empowered actress
such as Kim Powers does much to break down attitudinal barriers, in addition to
making children aware that difference is to be embraced, not scorned. The
network gives many entertainers and athletes with disabilities an avenue for
performance and recognition. The network has a stated goal of working with
creators in the entertainment industry to "provide a fertile environment for top
talent to test innovative programming ideas in a cost effective manner"
(Kaleidoscope press release). Nichols says, "In 1995, good will is good
Another crucial empowering component for the network is its
four-tiered accessibility for people with a variety of vision or hearing
difficulties. Kaleidoscope has clout as the "world's first fully accessible
channel" by providing four communication forms: sign language, open captions
(on-screen subtitles without a decoder needed), full sound, and audio
description, which provides voiced narration for blind and visually impaired
people. The audience may watch fully accessible movies, specials, news programs,
etc. The shows also give significant useful information for managing a disabling
condition such as diabetes, arthritis, etc. In that way, the network truly makes
information and entertainment available to a huge group of people ignored by
other networks. In May 1995, Kaleidoscope kicked off a home shopping show.
Produced by ViaTV of Knoxville, Tenn., the show, "Shopping!," hopes to be a
location where people can find disability related products (Goldman, 1995).
Advertising Age estimates that there are 5,000 companies that market products or
services for people with disabilities. For example, Creative Industries will
advertise its pottery wheel that is wheelchair accessible. But only about 20
percent of the shopping show's products will be geared toward disability
(Goldman, 1995).
So Kaleidoscope must have a multifaceted mission if it is to survive
economically. It must work diligently to make sure its programming firmly
adheres to representing disability issues fairly and positively. And that may be
a difficult balance to achieve without potentially alienating members of its
National Advisory Board of disability related organizations or its audience of
people with disabilities. It seems economic factors can influence the creation
of positive or negative images of disability. The charity theme has been a
profitable one for telethons for many years. But in the 1990s, it seems the
consumer model would be a more empowering and less stigmatizing way to frame a
disability related cable channel. Within this model, people with disabilities
are seen to represent an untapped consumer group, and making society accessible
could be profitable to businesses and society in general (Haller, 1995). For
example, if people with disabilities have access to jobs, they will have more
disposable income for consumer goods. If disabled people have jobs, they will
need less government assistance.
Ironically, the network's stated framework of objectivity may be its
biggest impediment to economic viability. If it views people with disabilities
only in terms of consumer power and not in terms of ideology and political
power, the network could alienate audience members who embrace a rights based
notion of disability, rather than a medically based one. For its own economic
survival, the channel must be extremely cognizant of the ideological dimensions
of its programming and its links to its advisory board organizations. The
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Victorian Liberal Party president Helen Kroger has rounded on dissident MPs, warning them that they can expect to face a backlash from rank-and-file members if they continue to undermine Robert Doyle's leadership.
In a rare intervention in the parliamentary party's affairs, Ms Kroger said MPs who were anonymously criticising Mr Doyle were "incredibly short-sighted".
"Ultimately they are damaging the party, and the party itself won't forget," she said last night.
Ms Kroger spoke out after Mr Doyle made clear at yesterday morning's partyroom meeting that he was unimpressed by the anonymous sniping, telling MPs they were kidding themselves if they thought it would help the Liberal Party.
The Age reported yesterday that Mr Doyle was facing internal dissent over a range of preselections issues: the fact that his chief of staff is planning to stand against sitting MPs; that only three of the 23 candidates preselected so far are female; and that senior party figures have been courting the controversial secretary of the Police Association, Paul Mullett.
Ms Kroger said that although the critics were prepared to air their views anonymously, not one MP had gone to her to directly express concerns about the quality of the preselected candidates.
Several Liberals are upset that Ms Kroger and Mr Doyle have been "testing the waters" about Mr Mullett joining the party. The critics blame Mr Mullett for helping Labor defeat the Kennett government in the 1999 election, when the association campaigned against the Liberals on the issue of police numbers.
During yesterday's partyroom meeting, former Kennett government minister and former police spokesman Robin Cooper asked Mr Doyle whether Mr Mullett had been approached to seek preselection for the Liberals for next year's election.
Mr Doyle said he had not. But he indicated that he was trying to win over the police vote, and the Liberals stood to benefit if the Police Association was on side in the lead-up to the election.
Outside the partyroom, Mr Doyle denied to reporters that he was pushing for his chief of staff, former frontbench MP Ron Wilson, to win preselection in the Liberal heartland of Melbourne's eastern suburbs.
"I don't push anybody. I hope we have the very best field that we can to contest every seat that's my job," he said.
While he was close to Mr Wilson, it would be inappropriate for him as leader to comment on individual preselection candidates, he said.
Mr Wilson will contest the upper house electorate of Eastern Metropolitan, with sitting MPs Bruce Atkinson, Andrew Olexander and Richard Dalla-Riva. Only three of the candidates can get winnable positions on the Liberal ticket for the new electorate.
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From: "Pam Thornbury" <>
Subject: Re: 1851 CENSUS - the facts
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 09:05:47 +1300
Hello Nina
Sorry, you are wrong. The PRO will sell you *any* census year, on fiche or
film. You have to state which you prefer when you order. I buy most of my
censuses from PRO and have always ordered fiche. I have several regions
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in New Zealand
> The PRO only sell microfiche for the 1891 Census - it's the only one that
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The American Cancer Society Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walks raise awareness and funds to save lives from breast cancer. Each event is a noncompetitive 3 to 5 mile walk that brings people together to make a difference for everyone who has been touched by breast cancer. The events raise money to fund innovative research, provide free information and support, and to help people reduce their breast cancer risk or find it early when it's most treatable.
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A truly collaborative effort between the University of Guelph, the University of Windsor, the University of Western Ontario and Agriculture and Agri-food Canada (AAFC) the research team established for the Phaseolus Genomics project is based on both a long history of effective collaboration between project researchers as well as newly established relationships.
History between collaborators has included co-application for previous funding, sharing of resources, and coauthorship on numerous publications. Please see our "HQP" page for a profile of each of our collaborators as well as some of the project's post-doctoral fellows, graduate students and research technicians.
Starting in 2009 AAFC and the University of Guelph consolidated their bean breeding programs for Ontario, taking their level of collaboration to an unprecedented level. The breeding programs at AAFC Harrow and the University of Guelph have produced both white and coloured beans for the Ontario bean industry, including OAC Rex the first Canadian white bean variety with bacterial blight resistance.
The genomics, transcriptomics and proteomics data generated by the project will be made available to the wider scientific community and represents a key deliverable associated with the project and ensures that the generated research will be integrated with the bean research community in Canada and around the world.
The project is managed by a Management Committee composed of K. Peter Pauls and W. Crobsy (Co-PI's), Ali Navabi, Kangfu Yu, Gale Bozzo, Krista Power, Rong Cao, Frederic Marsolais and Alfons Weersink (project collaborators) and Lori Wright (project manager). The Management Commitee receives additional expert counsel from a Scientific Advisory Panel and a Commercialization Advisory Panel. The Scientific Advisory Committee is formed by Pauls Gepts, University of California Davis (http://www.plantsciences.ucdavis.edu/gepts/geptslab.htm); Phil McClean , North Dakota State University; and Kirsten Bett, University of Saskatchewan ( http://agbio.usask.ca/index.php?mact=StaffListing,cntnt01,detail,1&cntnt01entry_id=97&cntnt01returnid=2609&page=2609 ) ) and as such brings scientists at the forefront of bean genomics research from across North America to the project. The Commercialization Committee is composed of members from the Ontario White Bean Marketing Board, the Ontario Colored Bean Growers Association and Hensall District Cooperative and was formed to ensure that the project's research directions meet the needs and wants of Ontario consumers, bean growers and marketing agencies.
The University of Guelph is ranked as one of Canada's top comprehensive universities. It's committed to student learning and innovative research, and cultivating a deeper understanding of the essentials for life - water, food, environment, animal and human health, community and culture. The University community shares a profound sense of social responsibility, an obligation to address global issues and a concern for international development.
The University of Guelph offers a wide variety of programs and courses. Outstanding faculty are committed to a curriculum that integrates a strong foundation in broad-based liberal learning with concentrated study in specialized and applied fields. In addition to nearly 100 majors, as one of Canada's most research-intensive institutions, Guelph offers more than 90 graduate programs ranging from the natural and physical sciences to engineering, social sciences, humanities, business, art, agriculture and veterinary science
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Volume 2: Special Issue, November 2005
|View the Children with Diabetes: A Resource Guide for Wisconsin Schools and Families Table of Contents (PDF 107K)
The initial group of 48 partners organized into subgroups to draft individual sections of the resource guide. The final guide includes information on disease management, legal issues, diabetes management and monitoring forms, and tools such as field trip tips and suggested agendas for planning meetings. It also describes the roles of parents, school nurses, teachers, coaches, administrators, food-service staff, and bus drivers (Sidebar).
Of special significance to the workgroup was the acknowledgment that Wisconsin public school districts are not required to employ a school nurse. The lack of school nurses underscores the importance of having academic and administrative staff members who understand diabetes and how best to assist children with blood glucose monitoring and medication administration, including managing glucose levels that are outside of target ranges (2). In a "Tools and Information" section of the resource guide, the workgroup addresses 28 frequently asked questions about roles and responsibilities related to nursing procedures and health-related activities.
An additional subgroup was formed to plan promotion, distribution, and training for the resource guide. To assist with promotion and training, the WDPCP contracted with a certified diabetes educator who had strong experience working with adolescents and their schools. The WDPCP staff and the diabetes educator developed a training program for school professionals. Suggestions for training content and target audience groups were solicited from workgroup members. Between June 2002 and April 2003, participants traveled to a central location, such as the regional Cooperative Education Service Association (CESA) building or a conference center, for in-person presentations conducted by the diabetes educator that included hands-on exercises and equipment samples. The training sessions provided an overview of diabetes in school-aged children and addressed disease management, nutritional considerations, laws, and policy issues. They were conducted during the school day and ranged from half-day sessions for some large school districts and CESA districts to hour-long breakout sessions at statewide conferences of school professionals. The diabetes educator conducted 21 total sessions for 762 school and support staff (Table 2).
Workgroup members also obtained endorsement of the resource guide from their own organizations and promoted it through their organizations' newsletters, Web sites, and electronic mailing lists. The WDPCP provided sample newsletter articles and Web site links to workgroup members.
The WDPCP evaluated Children with Diabetes: A Resource Guide for Wisconsin Schools and Families in the following four ways: 1) by asking all training session attendees to complete an evaluation; 2) by tracking promotional efforts such as exhibit booths and news postings through verbal, written, and e-mail reports from workgroup members and other WDPCP partner organizations; 3) by including an evaluation form with every resource guide distributed; and 4) by conducting a follow-up survey among resource guide recipients on the impact of the resource guide on school policies.
Of the 762 people who attended training sessions, 631 (83%) completed the evaluation form (Appendix A). The majority of evaluation participants were school nurses (n = 243); the second largest group was food-service workers (n = 150). Of the 631 evaluation participants, 459 (73%) stated that they had worked with a child with diabetes in the school setting; 143 (23%) had not worked with a child with diabetes; 15 (2%) did not know if they had; and 14 (2%) did not respond to the question.
On questions about the training session's content, quality, organization, and appropriateness, responses averaged 4.42 points on a scale of 1 (poor) to 5 (excellent). Four questions targeted the value of the training; respondents rated the sessions an average of 3.76 points on a scale of 1 (strongly disagree) to 4 (strongly agree) for these questions.
Open-ended questions allowed respondents to share information about the aspect of the training that was most helpful and least helpful, and about any change they would suggest to improve the training. Revisions to the training format (e.g., increased length, increased networking opportunities, more information on certain subjects) were made to subsequent sessions based on these responses. Responses were not tracked by length of training attended, so no comparisons can be made between the impact of the 1-hour sessions and the longer sessions.
Workgroup members have reported activities such as giving presentations to their organization, distributing order forms or resource guides to colleagues, providing exhibits or announcements at conferences, offering Web site links, publishing newsletter articles, and mailing promotional materials. We counted five direct mailings, eight Web site postings, 14 electronic mailing list or newsletter articles, and 33 face-to-face presentations.
Evaluation information on promotional activities provided by workgroup members was sparse: only 25 reports of promotional activities were received. We expected the difference in response rates between the onsite training evaluations and the mailed or faxed reporting of promotional activities through Report of Action forms (Appendix B). The low response rate, however, limits the ability to draw conclusions about the effectiveness of the promotional efforts. For future efforts, we will consider sending a subsequent mailing requesting feedback in exchange for an incentive gift to raise response rates.
More than 9713 resource guides were distributed. A sample of guides included an evaluation form (Appendix C). Only 58 recipients of the resource guide returned evaluation forms; 57 of these respondents indicated they would recommend the guide to others.
A follow-up survey was sent to 1359 individuals for whom we had mailing addresses and who had received the resource guide. This impact survey sought to determine the number of schools that have made changes to improve the school environment for children with diabetes and what those changes are (Appendix D). Preliminary results indicate that of the 331 respondents, 34 (10%) reported that they frequently referred to the resource guide, 73 (22%) referred to it several times, 158 (48%) referred to it a few times, and 63 (19%) never referred to it. Of the survey respondents, 13 (4%) reported that they frequently referred parents, colleagues, or both to the resource guide, 59 (18%) referred others several times, 143 (43%) referred others a few times, and 109 (33%) never referred others.
The survey's open-ended questions demonstrate that policy and procedure changes have occurred in schools that received the resource guide. Following are examples of the changes noted by respondents: incorporating healthy snacks into the school day, eliminating soda machines and the sale of candy during the school day, modifying field trip procedures, providing information on the carbohydrate content of cafeteria items, and allowing blood glucose tests in the classroom. The impact survey also indicated that schools have made changes to improve the school environment for children with other chronic conditions, such as asthma and seizure disorders.
We plan to provide updates to the resource guide. We will update information on the types of insulin and insulin-delivery systems that youths are using because this information becomes outdated quickly. We produced the resource guide in a loose-leaf notebook using 3-hole–punched paper to allow for periodic updates and addition of local information. New information will be based on feedback from resource guide recipients and on new developments in diabetes-care practices, equipment, and school policy. We anticipate an expanded discussion of the incidence and management of type 2 diabetes in youths.
The development and implementation of the Children with Diabetes: A Resource Guide for Wisconsin Schools and Families was a valuable process that brought a needed reference to schools throughout Wisconsin and assisted schools in making changes to improve the school environment for children with diabetes. This model of establishing new partnerships to create a useful document with accompanying training sessions can be replicated in other states to accomplish similar goals. Bringing individuals and organizations into the development process increased the support for the resource guide and greatly enhanced the reach of our implementation efforts. Although there was a strong advantage to incorporating Wisconsin-specific information into the resource guide, it is not necessary for every state to develop its own guide. Since we developed the Wisconsin resource guide, the National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) released Helping the Student with Diabetes Succeed: A Guide for School Personnel. This document, published in 2003, includes a diabetes primer and glossary; action steps for key school personnel, parents, and students; sample medical management and emergency action plans; review of school responsibilities under federal laws; and copier-ready handouts (12). Localities can review the national resource as well as consult with their state's department of education for information on how state laws may affect diabetes care.
When the need for a Wisconsin resource guide became apparent, the NDEP guide was not yet available, thus leading partners to create the Wisconsin guide. Furthermore, the WDPCP successfully developed and implemented the Wisconsin Essential Diabetes Mellitus Care Guidelines and believed that the creation and implementation of the resource guide would have similar success. It was also important to our partners to create a guide that was applicable to the residents and laws of Wisconsin.
Although the resource guide cannot directly change the day-to-day practice within every school, it can be used as a resource for school personnel. The resource guide helps to identify concrete solutions to deliver the best diabetes management care in schools.
We continue to work with school professionals and parents to improve the school environment for children with or at risk for diabetes. The WDPCP staff regularly provides updates on diabetes-related research findings, medications, and equipment. We also work with statewide and local groups targeting physical activity and nutrition in the schools to enhance diabetes management for children already diagnosed and to improve the environment for those at risk of developing type 2 diabetes. These efforts, and those of collaborating organizations supported by the resource guide, can lead to improved understanding between youths with diabetes and the adults in positions to help them. This improved partnership will enhance the school environment for these youths and potentially lead to improved glycemic control and reduced long-term complications.
This article was supported by Grant/Cooperative Agreement Number U32/CCU522717 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the CDC. The authors express gratitude for the support and guidance of Pat Zapp, former director of the Wisconsin Diabetes Prevention and Control Program. Appreciation is also extended to Kelly Stolzmann, student intern with the program, for her analysis of the impact survey results.
Corresponding Author: Angela Nimsgern, MPH, Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services, Division of Public Health, Northern Region, Diabetes Prevention and Control Program, 1853 N Stevens St, Rhinelander, WI 54501. Telephone: 715-365-2721. E-mail: email@example.com.
Author Affiliations: Jenny Camponeschi, MS, Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services, Division of Public Health, Diabetes Prevention and Control Program, Madison, Wisc.
*URLs for nonfederal organizations are provided solely as a service to our users. URLs do not constitute an endorsement of any organization by CDC or the federal government, and none should be inferred. CDC is not responsible for the content of Web pages found at these URLs.
Table 1. Workgroup Partners, Children with Diabetes: A Resource Guide for Wisconsin Schools and Families
Table 2. Implementation and Promotion Events for Children with Diabetes: A Resource Guide for Wisconsin Schools and Families
Children with Diabetes: A Resource Guide for Wisconsin
Schools and Families
Thank you for attending the "Caring for a Child with Diabetes in Your
School" training.
Please identify your role in working with children with diabetes in the
school setting:
Have you worked with a child that has diabetes in the school setting?
(15) What aspect of this training was most helpful? ________________________________________
(16) What aspect of this training was least helpful? ________________________________________
(17) What change(s) would you make to this training? ________________________________________
|Description of Activity
|In-kind Contribution (Estimate)
Thank you for taking the time to complete this Report of Action. Please return this form to the Wisconsin Diabetes Prevention and Control Program in the enclosed envelope or fax to (608) 266-8925. If you have questions, please contact Judy Wing at (608) 261-6855. Thank you!
Children with Diabetes: A Resource Guide for Wisconsin Schools and Families
Evaluation of Resource Guide
Please help us improve future versions of the resource guide by sharing your comments.
Please identify your role in working with children with diabetes in the school setting:
(Check all that apply)
Bus Driver
School Administrator
Food Service Worker
School Nurse
Physical Education Teacher
Other (please specify) ______________________________
Have you worked with a child with diabetes in the school setting?
Don't know/not sure
|Strongly Agree
|Partially Agree
|Partially Disagree
|Strongly Disagree
|Not Applicable
|I was able to find the information that I needed in the resource guide
|The information I was looking for in the resource guide was easy to find
|I learned something new from the resource guide
|The resource guide is a good source for future questions or concerns I might have about a child with diabetes
|The resource guide is a good source of information even if I do not have a specific question about a child with diabetes
|I expect to use the resource guide again in the future
|If a colleague mentioned he/she knew a child with diabetes, I would refer him/her to this guide as a resource
(8) What part(s) of this resource guide was most helpful? ________________________________________
(9) What part(s) of this resource guide was least helpful? ________________________________________
(10) What change(s) would you make to this resource guide? ________________________________________
(11) Thinking of your needs or interests, what topics would you recommend for future editions of this resource guide and/or Diabetes in the School Setting professional or public awareness activities? ________________________________________
(12) Would you recommend this resource guide to others?
Yes No Don't know/not sure
Thank you for taking the time to complete this evaluation.
Please fax this completed evaluation to (608) 266-8925
or mail to Judy Wing, Diabetes Control Program, 1 W Wilson, PO Box 2659, Madison, WI 53701-2659.
Children with Diabetes: A Resource Guide for Wisconsin Schools and Families
In the past, you received a copy of Children with Diabetes: A Resource Guide for Wisconsin Schools and Families. The guide will be updated in 2005. The Wisconsin Diabetes Prevention and Control Program would like to learn how this guide is being used, what policy changes (if any) have been made, and suggestions on how to improve or expand the guide. Please take a few moments to complete this brief survey and return it by July 1, 2005.
In appreciation for completing the survey you will be sent a pedometer and a copy of the updated Essential Diabetes Mellitus Care Guidelines. Also, we will notify you by e-mail when the revised resource guide is available.
1. What type of organization do you represent?
2. What is your role within this organization? ________________________________________
3. Do you still have your copy of the Children with Diabetes Resource Guide?
4. How often have you referred to the Children with Diabetes Resource Guide?
5. How often have you referred colleagues/parents to the Children with Diabetes Resource Guide?
6. Did you attend a Diabetes Prevention and Control Program or Cooperative Educational Service Agency-sponsored training regarding the Children with Diabetes Resource Guide?
7. Did you attend any educational training sessions on diabetes in the schools at a statewide professional conference in the past year?
8. How has the Children with Diabetes Resource Guide been used in your organization? ________________________________________
9. Please identify all areas where policy or procedure changes have been made to improve the school environment for children with diabetes.
10. What is total estimated enrollment of school(s) implementing these changes?
11. What changes (if any) have been made that improve the school environment for children with other health conditions (e.g., asthma, seizure disorders) as a result of information in the Children with Diabetes Resource Guide? ________________________________________
12. Please rate the usefulness of each section of the Children with Diabetes Resource Guide by indicating your response below.
|Extremely Useful
|Somewhat Useful
|Not Useful
|No Opinion/Not Used
|American Diabetes Association Position Statement
|Diabetes General Information
|Tools and Information for Parents/Guardians
|Tools and Information for School Nurses, Parents/Guardians and School Staff
|Tools and Information for Teachers, Coaches, Administrators, School Staff, and Bus Drivers
13. What technical assistance is needed for schools to further implement changes based on the information in the Children with Diabetes Resource Guide?
14. What additional training about diabetes (if any) would be beneficial to your school or to you personally?
15. The guide will be updated in 2005. Please suggest any changes or additions that would make it more helpful/useful.
Thank you for taking the time to complete this survey! Fax this form (please remember all pages) to Judy Wing at the Diabetes Prevention and Control Program at (608) 266-8925.
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Alien Skin Software Photo Bundle Collection (14.12.2014) (MAC OSX) | 458MB
Supported OS: OS X 10.8 +
Developer: ALIEN SKIN SOFTWARE, LLC.
System requirements:
Intel, 64-bit processor
OS X 10.8 or later
One of the following:
? Apple Aperture 3 or later
? Adobe Photoshop CS6 or later
? Adobe Photoshop Elements 12 or later
? Adobe Lightroom 4 or later
Collection of all the latest released at the moment of image filters Alien Skin Software for Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, Photoshop Elements and Apple Aperture. These filters are useful for both novice and professional users of these graphical editors. With them you can easily and accurately process or to decorate your picture.
Alien Snap Art - this plugin is designed to transform photographs into paintings and drawings, hand-drawn variety of styles.
Alien Exposure - a standalone program and the plug-in for Photoshop and other graphics editors. Designed for true connoisseurs of photography and will change the picture by adding different effects: an imitation of the frame from the film, shooting simulation of analog camera, bokeh, vignettes and more.
Alien Skin Blow Up plug-in for Adobe Photoshop, Elements and Lightroom. Blow Up produces an increase to 3600% without the appearance of step artifacts and luminescence. High-quality image resizing, better than bicubic interpolation and resizing the image, preserves the clear edge and smooth lines.
Alien Skin Bokeh plug-in for Photoshop, designed to draw attention to a particular object in the photo. With this supplement you can add to the image effect of depth of field, make a stand, or emphasize the main object of other available means.
Alien Skin Eye Candy allow easily perform many design tasks ranging from web interfaces and ending with impressive logos. The plugin creates realistic effects of natural phenomena, providing beautifully detailed results.
Additional Information:
Soctav distribution:
The latest versions of plug-ins at the time of release (12/09/2014)
Blow Up 126.96.36.1992 (24 October 2014)
Bokeh 22.214.171.1243 (June 2014)
Exposure 22.214.171.1240 (22 October 2014)
Eye Sandy 18.104.22.1683 (22 October 2014)
Snap-Art 22.214.171.1242 (4 December 2014)
Exposure 126.96.36.199 (December 8, 2014) NEW
Alien Skin Exposure
Digital images. Analog spirit.
Now, with the non-destructive editing RAW, fast file browsing and a host of new presets emulating film and textures. Exposure 7 brings more organic warmth and artistry of analog photography to digital world.
Born of more than ten years of research and contribution to the industry of photographers around the world, Exposure 7 provides you with a platform to give the image the subtle nuances and beauty of analog film photography. With Exposure 7, your photo will look like handmade, and not as a computer-generated picture.
Exposure 7 fits into any workflow. Exposure 7 integrates seamlessly with Photoshop and Lightroom, and with its new RAW support and non-destructive editing functions, provides excellent results as a separate application.
RAW Support
As a standalone program, Exposure 7 now allows you to work with RAW files of a large number of cameras from all manufacturers and without having to convert first to TIFF or JPEG
Quick view of folders and files
Exposure 7 now provides a quick overview of the folders and view the file directly in the same window when working offline. No need to switch between modules, as provided for in other programs.
new presets
We have also developed some new presets based on a thorough study of the original film:
new textures
Finally, you can put the finishing touches to your images using a variety of new and interesting textures that we add in the Overlays panel. Designed by world-renowned photographers Lara Jade Parker J. Pfister, these textures can be applied subtly or aggressively to get the exact look you are after.
Alien Skin Snap Art 4
Snap Art 4 - Contains a large library of pre-harvest, which enable one-click to create paintings that are written or drawn butter, charcoal, watercolor, colored pencil, pen and ink, pastel crayon, as well as in comic style, pointillism and impasto (overlay colors impasto) in different basis: oil on canvas, paper, etc.
When you create Snap Art figure takes into account the contours of objects in the original picture, making strokes and strokes fall naturally.
Possibilities Alien Skin Snap Art:
- Most of the filters now have a slider >photorealism> with which you can easily reach the level of photorealistic images. This helps to maintain clear and detailed portraits.
- Added upravelenie focus, which allows you to manage - what and where to save the details. These oval area is easily changeable and can be moved by simply dragging in the preview window.
- In the new version, the settings are grouped into categories to help you quickly find the right style.
- Added support for multi-processor which increases the efficient operation.
Here is the window
A: Menu - located on the top panel of the working window
B: Tabs - Tabs is a wide variety of settings, such as color, lighting, brightness and so on.
C: Templates - are already pre-prepared list of options. Just one click, you can turn a picture into a pencil sketch.
D: Navigation - Navigator.
E: The buttons and zoom in on a move - you can increase or decrease the size of the preview image. Also, just move it.
F: Message Indicator - lets you know about updates and news, which occurred in the program.
G: Setting the background - you can choose the backdrop will view the edited image.
H: Splitting the window - this option allows you to divide the working area in half to see the result of image conversion and at the same time its original version.
I: The standard buttons - as in any program to confirm or cancel the action.
J: The preview window of the selected area
K: Tips - in this line, you get a brief description of the area where the mouse cursor.
M: Scale - shows the size of the edited image in the working field.
Excellent filter with excellent opportunities!
Alien Skin Exposure
In Exposure There are more than 500 presets (pre-harvest) to simulate the various features of the films. Some effects, such as grain, we can not add to the whole image, but only to the shadows, bright areas or semitone.
Films of each manufacturer, and even different brands of one manufacturer films have different performance characteristics. Some of them allow you to more accurately capture the fine details in dark areas, while others have a stunning range of colors transmitted, but lose them too bright or too dark frames. It allows you to manipulate various aspects of features films achieve interesting results.
The program allows you to change the exposure on your taste and recreate the features characteristic of films from different manufacturers: bright colors Velvia, the rich blacks Kodachrome or the sensitivity of Ektachrome.
Brief description of the interface:
A. Button Panel software and user presets. where you can turn on the desired category presets.
B. The list of presets, you can select the color, black / white or all presets at once
C. Settings panel, where you can select the options that you would like to change
D. Navigation in the preview area, preview and zoom effects in the viewport.
E. Field Preview
F. Office of the preview window. Preview separation into two halves: one - the original image, the other - a preview of the results of the filter.
Control buttons thumbnails - show the original image (press and hold), moving, scaling (click on the previews zooms, Alt-click - reduces, doubleclick on the button - sets the scale of 100%, in addition, you can select an arbitrary rectangular area, the scope and position previews established to allocate)
G. Saving the results, adding new images and the transition between the selected images (left and right arrows)
Group Presets
Manage settings presets, you can use groups of related sliders (sliders), as well as texture mapping. Group presets allow you to quickly explore options to avoid messing with the individual sliders. Hover over the preset - miniature updates to show you how it looks in the picture. Just jog the cursor through the list of presets to quickly examine them visually. Additionally, with each preset you can use a variety of settings controls: tone curves, focus, grain, vignette, etc.
Modeling method overlay dust and scratches in Exposure 4 output sometimes looked a little artificial. In 5 Exposure reversed texturing system based on real high-resolution photos. Compared with 4 Exposure, where dust and scratches look like artificial artifacts in the fifth version, they are more realistic. In 5 Exposure can add a wide range of beautiful realistic effects simulating >dirt>, matt emulsion, illumination, scratches, dust, old frame.
User Interface:
Black-and-white and color filters are divided into different groups.
A group of presets you can easily view custom effects when activated with the mouse. Thumbnail Preview - Preview allows you to view presets by activating a possible outcome in miniature, the size of which can be adjusted.
Search settings. Organisation of search by name or description.
A significant increase in speed on Mac.
Controls and effects, you can:
Intuitive and easy to quickly create new user settings and save them as presets.
Create a black and white effects lighter (more channels of color, B / W filters, split toning).
Easily create your own color effects
New effects - infrared color
New texturing effects (illumination, dust and scratches, borders)
New presets - Many presets improved and added new ones.
Alternative. New textures will help you recreate historical photographic processes: cyanotype, literature and print photos on mokrokollodionnyh plates.
Lo-Fi. More realistic setting rotation chamber via leaks and organic light texture. Lo-Fi Photo are photographs taken on the lay technique using artifacts and defects in artistic purposes. This includes photos from cell phones, compact digital cameras, pinhole photography and other exotic methods of imaging.
The plugin contains the settings tab:
Settings - You can choose one of the settings of the filter. Those that are included in the delivery, emulate the characteristics of a particular film. The selected settings can be changed in the future and keep them under your name. The manufacturer's website you can download some additional settings.
Color - a check mark on the line Create Output In New Layer Above Current outputs the result of the filter in a new layer, which is very convenient - the original is preserved.
Overall Intensity parameter controls the >degree of application> filter - the result of a filter applied to the original. The same effect can be achieved in the Photoshop, change the opacity of the new layer with the filtered image of the original overlay mode Normal. It is recommended to leave at 100%.
Parameters - Red, Green and Blue channels allow us to determine the impact on the final result.
Line Equalize Channels - sum of the intensities of each color is always 100% (when one of the parameters, the other two imenyayutsya automatically in the opposite direction), which allows you to save as a result of the overall brightness of the original image. In the filter is also allowed to set negative values of the intensities of channels. And, although repeat such an effect in the real world it is physically impossible, it can improve the contrast of the image.
Parameters Ink Color, Strength, Position allow toned image in any color.
Tone tab allows you to change the brightness of the image. With separate slide bars Contrast, Shadow, Midtone, Highlight can change the contrast and brightness in shadows, midtones and highlights.
Focus - helps simulate the change in focal length when shooting. In practice, this conventional tools Blur and Sharp.
Grain - will add grain with customizable shadows, midtones and bright areas (parameters Shadow, Midtone, Highlight).
Vignette roundness faces, vignetting and others.
Bookmark Borders & Textures - contains a number of effects to simulate the >aging> of photos. Here you can change a number of parameters such as: dust, scratches,
Alien Skin Blow Up
The plugin works with Photoshop, Elements, Lightroom and as a standalone version. In Photoshop, the program is installed in the Plug-In for Photoshop, then plug should be sought, or in the >Filters> tab or the >File - Automate>.
Blow Up can work in CMYK, RGB, Lab, Grayscale, and Duotone, copes with the processing of files, which contain several layers (it is noteworthy that in this case they do not need to be reduced) and works with 16- and 32-bit images, including including RAW and HDR.
The plugin has the ability to save the new image as a separate file when the original image remains intact, more efficient than in Adobe Photoshop batch processing, easy to use.
Blow Up can enlarge images at 300,000 pixels on each side and at the same time they do not appear such unpleasant artifacts as the effect of a comb, a halo and divorces.
In Blow Up 3 improved the sharpness of borders without the formation of digital artifacts. The images below show the difference between Blow Up 3 and conventional bicubic increasing used in Photoshop and other graphics editors.
The simplicity of the interface Blow Up deceptive. Just set the paper size in the same way as in Photoshop and set the region further. In the third version kept all the secrets of >rocket> under the hood.
Side tabs can be hidden if desired by clicking on the triangles at the edges of the panels.
Blow Up 3 began to work much faster.
A large library of presets standard paper sizes, including paper American, European and Japanese standards makes it easier to adjust the image to the desired formats.
Blow Up 3 got tight integration with Lightroom and supports batch processing of data without the intervention of Photoshop.
Blow Up 3 is compatible with Lightroom 2 or later.
Running Blow Up 3 from Lightroom
Blow Up 3 runs from Lightroom as an external editor. To start Blow Up you simply select the image (or multiple images for batch processing), and select Photo-> Edit In-> Blow Up 3. You can also right click on the image and select Edit In-> Blow Up 3. When Lightroom asks you how to edit a photo, we recommend that you select >Edit a Copy with Lightroom Adjustments> and Lightroom will make a copy of the image in the desired format to Blow Up.
batch mode
When you start Blow Up with multiple images from Lightroom, the OK button and Cancel buttons in the lower right corner of the window to apply the changes to the image. The left and right arrow buttons allow you to move to different images, and the middle button allows you to select all or one image from your party image editing. When you're done, click >Finish Batch> and your settings will be applied to all images.
Alien Skin Bokeh
Features plug-in that it accurately simulates the effect of blurring, which can be obtained using these lenses. Bokeh - the emphasis on the main site photos.
Possibilities Alien Skin Bokeh:
Alien Skin Bokeh 2 will allow during post processing photos with the adjustment sliders to >manage> blur the background, set the diameter of the impact, depth, stiffness, aperture, focal length and distance shots.
Since the plugin allows you to change these parameters during postprocessing, that is already on the image, thus it can offset some of the shortcomings of digital cameras.
Alien Skin Bokeh 2 provides real-time viewing the possible results when working with images, and in several modes.
Alien Skin Bokeh 2 provides a ready-made presets blur, simulator lenses Canon EF 85mm f / 1.2 II and Micro-Nikkor 105mm f / 2.8, adding grain, spherical aberration, photometric illumination (simulates the effects of shooting against the light source.)
Eye Candy 7
A simple interface allows you to do all this with ease, saving a lot of time working with the designer Adobe Photoshop. Now the effects are adapted to the size of your images, which greatly improves the realistic quality and reduces the number of buttons and controls in the interface plug. There is also a more than 1500 built-in presets and 30 filters, conveniently organized by category and are specially trained to quickly create a variety of effects, including such as: glass, metal, wood, water, and many others.
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