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Accessibility First—for a Better User Experience for All
Published: December 20, 2010
Over the past year or so, Luke Wroblewski has been talking about "mobile first" [1]—that is, designing for mobile before designing a Web application for a desktop browser. It's an intriguing idea. The motivation that drives designing for mobile first is the explosion in the numbers of mobile devices and mobile users, as well as the competitive issues this has created. But the key benefit for users is simple, focused products, because the constraints of small screens force you to prioritize features and create "an experience focused on the key tasks users want to accomplish." Focusing an application's user experience on users' key tasks is good advice for design on any platform. It's also good advice for usable accessibility.
Pondering this made me wonder: what if design projects started by thinking about accessibility first? I don't mean the basics like ALT text for graphics, following coding standards, and creating correctly structured information hierarchies. Building in accessibility at the code level is the only way to remove many of the barriers people with disabilities experience. But if our design thinking started with the idea of making a product that focuses on key tasks and is flexible, would that create a better user experience for everyone?
Bringing Your Products into Focus
Let's start with focus. Mobile devices impose the need for simplicity and focus. Their small screens mean there can be fewer elements on each screen—plus, buttons must be large enough for users to tap them easily. Each button, link, or piece of information has to earn its place, not just end up on the home page because someone might need it.
This streamlining would also help accessibility by solving the following problems:
- complex screens—Screens that are complex are difficult to navigate with ZoomText, especially if it is hard to see the boundaries of each zone.
- autorefreshing information—Screens or pages with a lot of automatically refreshed data or updating sections—even if its coding conforms well to ARIA standards—can be difficult or impossible to use effectively with a screen reader.
- distracting elements—Cluttered screens often have distracting elements that make them harder to use for people with cognitive or learning disabilities.
All of these problems affect their general usability for people without disabilities, though not as severely. The more crowded or complex a screen, the harder it is to understand it and learn to use it effectively. Just as making hard decisions about priorities for a mobile user interface can pay off in a better Web version of an application, designing for better accessibility can make a product more usable for everyone.
Here's an example. Using JAWS or other screen readers, users can get a list of all headings and jump directly to a particular part of a Web page. This feature is very useful on long pages that have several sections. If a page has the proper markup and its headings are well written, users can quickly scan the main topics on the page. Adapting this feature to benefit people using a Web site or application's visual interface is easy: providing a set of On This Page links in a consistent location on its pages gives people a way to see what's on a page without scrolling. In a recent usability test of a large site, many participants used such links to jump directly to the information they wanted. So did one scree- reader user. We noticed that he was finding information even faster than some of the sighted users. "Easy," he said. "I figured out that if I hit H three times, I end up on this nice list of links." Simple.
That sort of simplicity comes from carefully thinking through a design. As Giles Colborne says in his book Simple and Usable, achieving simplicity is not about randomly cutting down a design, but about thinking carefully about how to organize, hide, displace, and even remove features, so your product is clear and focused.
Making Flexibility Your Goal
—or the size of a device's screen—to being flexible enough to allow users to interact with your product in their own way."
The other key to accessibility is flexibility in meeting people's needs, across multiple platforms. In our usability testing at the National Cancer Institute, we routinely ask participants about their online habits and see many of the same trends internationally. More and more often, people have multiple devices—a work computer, a smartphone or two, and a home computer. In addition to the obvious tactic of using the device that is most convenient at the moment, people often choose the device that works best for the content. They might read on a large screen, but look up local information or get quick details on their mobile phone. Creating a product that works on many platforms—a Web browser on a computer, iPhone, iPad, Android, and other devices—requires a flexible approach in its design.
It's not a big leap from being flexible about the type of device on which your product runs—or the size of a device's screen—to being flexible enough to allow users to interact with your product in their own way. People might use a keyboard instead of a pointing device, interact through voice commands, or need to use extra large text. Flexibility is critical for people who need to adjust the visual interface. Screen readers use the underlying code to reinterpret a page, but users with low vision are diverse and use a wide variety of tactics to make a page usable for them.
In their 2005 study, Ginny Redish and Mary Theofanos [2] found that, although following a set of guidelines works in achieving basic accessibility for screen readers, the range of issues for low-vision users makes it difficult to create a short list of design rules. They argued that the answer to this problem is for products to transform gracefully as users adjust them to their own preferences—for font size, line length, color, contrast, and the size of a window.
There's a myth that no one reads online. Perhaps one reason this myth persists is that pages typically hold a lot of distractions—even pages presenting information their publishers intend people to read carefully.
If your site doesn't provide an uncluttered reading experience, you might find users turning to Readability. This experimental tool "makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you're reading." It provides options for setting the type style, font size, and column width and transforms pages to display just the content of an article. For example, Figure 1 shows an ABC News page, while Figure 2 shows the same page after its transformation by Readability.
Figure 1—An ABC News page
Figure 2—The same ABC News page in Readability
Once a product's design can adapt gracefully to many different devices and user preferences, all that flexibility is also available for anyone to use. For example, reading on a train or in dim light might be easier with larger text. Or maybe it's easier to use a Web page as a reference when it's in a smaller window. Why not create a delightful, flexible—and accessible—user experience for your Web site or application and let users adjust it for their own reasons, to meet their own needs, and to match their own preferences.
Achieving Accessibility
To learn about accessibility, a good place to start is RGD Ontario's Access-Ability: A Practical Handbook on Accessible Graphic Design.
"Accessibility needs to be part of the process. At the end [of many of our projects] people often say something like, "If I only knew then what I know now, I would do things completely differently."—Derek Featherstone, from "It's in the Design: Fundamentals of Web Accessibility."
As important as good guidelines are, if you want to really understand how to design for accessibility, the place to start is with some user research. You can't design for a user experience you don't understand. Include participants with disabilities in your user research and usability testing—people who use screen readers, ZoomText, and other assistive technologies.
What you learn about making your Web site or application more accessible might just help you to make it a better user experience for everyone.
[1] Wroblewski, Luke. "Mobile First." Ideation + Design, November 3, 2009. Retrieved December 19, 2010.
[1] Wroblewski, Luke. "Mobile First, One Year Later." Ideation + Design, November 30, 2010. Retrieved December 19, 2010.
[2] Theofanos, M. F., and Janice C. Redish. "Helping Low-Vision and Other Users with Web Sites That Meet Their Needs: Is One Site for All Feasible?"Technical Communication, Vol. 52, No. 1, February, 9–20, 2005.
Topic: Accessibility | Columns | Usability | User Experience (UX)
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Very good. I have difficulty with emails from the White House, The VA, GovDelivery, Google's Feedburner (sometimes), The NYTimes for their use of an elegant gray instead of the high contrast font my eyes need, and it is very hard to reach them and tell them that they have disabled my settings for incoming text. I am not asking for anything special for me, only that they not, in their formatting, disable the accessibility adjustments available in our software.
The National Geographic sends busy, graphics-loaded emails that don't interfere, and I wish the others could learn from them how they do it.
Is there a good place to go for help? Policies, laws, and regulations only provide incentives; the Government needs an IT SIG or Loop to deal with these accessibility problems. If there is one, please tell us where. If there isn't one, one should be started.
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gm—Thanks for your comments. Your point that emails—and Web sites—don't have to be boring to be accessible is a great one. And that locking a design means no one can adjust the information so they can read it.
You are right about policies and regulations only providing the incentive: it takes knowledge about accessibility techniques to actually make it happen. There are SIGs within the government and groups like Web Content.govthat offer training for government Web managers.
Regulations are an opportunity because they set an expectation. And if their goal isn't being met, the first thing we should all do is speak up. I'd bet that ignorance—or reliance on ineffective tools—cause many of the problems. Tell them about the problem.
There are places you can contact in the US government, but the best thing is to find the contact information for the specific agency and complain. Loudly. Every agency—including the White House—should have an accessibility link on their Web site. Jim Thatcher has done several reviews of government sites.
The US Access Board is the primary agency for accessibility, both writing regulations and advising other agencies. They are one place to start. The Department of Justice enforces the ADA and Section 508. Both can look across the government to see patterns.
All this is probably cold comfort. Knocking on doors is never fun. But if enough people do it, perhaps the sound will be loud enough to be heard.—Whitney
Whitney—I think you've brought up a very good point that few people discuss when talking about the recent "mobile first" topic, and that point is regarding the natural affordances different devices provide. As you've mentioned, people might prefer to read on a large screen while quickly checking information on a smaller mobile device. Much of this is due to context. Some devices are more appropriate in certain situations and environments than others.
With that in mind, I think context is very important when considering flexibility of an application or Web site across multiple platforms. Although I think we should strive to maintain as much consistency as possible between all variations of a product, we should also be aware that what a person wants to accomplish on an iPhone is different from what the same person wants to accomplish on an iPad, and is likewise different from what he or she wants to accomplish on the desktop. So, in the spirit of your recommendation of keeping products in focus—which I agree is very important!—we should be careful to balance cross-platform device flexibility with a contextually appropriate user experience.
I might also suggest taking it one step further to look at not only designing mobile user interfaces first, but also to look into adapting mobile information architectures as a framework for the information architectures of the experiences on other devices. Of course, this again comes with the caveat of making sure the product matches the context. But if it does, it might be more efficient for User Experience as a business—because it saves design time—while providing a good starting point for an efficient user experience—because mobile is usually designed to be more focused, more streamlined. No point for me to type the entire essay here, but if you're interested in reading more about my opinion, read my essay Designing with Mobile Frameworks. Sorry for the self-linkage, but it's a topic I'm still trying to wrap my head around and would love to get additional feedback on.
Dicksonfong, I agree with all of your points about the idea that different devices also suggest—but only suggest—a context.
What you may have missed is the larger point I'm making.
The idea of designing for mobile first is that it is both a physically challenged group of devices and one that offers technological innovation.
I'm suggesting that thinking about accessibility first is analogous when thinking about the human context. Designing for accessibility requires:
- thinking about different human physical challenges—just as mobile phones have device constraints
- thinking about the variations in perceptual or operational abilities and how they affect the context of use—just as devices have different capabilities
- making your design concept flexible, so it can adapt to different assistive technologies—just as devices have differences in their user interface and affordances
There is a long and rich body of literature that examines ways in which design and technical innovations originally intended to address disabilities have become mainstream. Curb cuts, elevator announcement bells, speech technologies, OXO Good Grips are all on the list. So, to some extent, is the requirement to be able to adjust a user interface to your preference, especially to set the text size or screen zoom.
Historically, accessibility has been a step-child add-on to new technologies. But what if we thought about designing for the full range of human abilities from the outset?
You might look back to my very first article for this column, Why People Matter and read the principles of universal design. They are good principles for any design project and support a philosophy of inclusion.
Hi Whitney,
I enjoyed your article and already forwarded it to my fellows of congresointeractivo.com, where we volunteer for Gov transparency and quarrell about what to put or not in our future pages.
But, while I was reading, I had in my mind "design for mobile first," "design for accessibility first," whatever …
There is a pattern here! Look: "Design for ___ first."
Using Cooper�s personas, one can design for a specific, synthetic, user. The persona characteristics act as design constraints that help the designer stay in a safe area. For example, if the persona is 55 years old, there is a safe range of font sizes that excludes the smallest.
Designing for mobile adds still another constraints set.
I remember having read, maybe about 10 years ago, that designing for accessibility enhances usability.
So, in brief, let's simply design and be smart enough to take into account the most constraints sets possible.
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Thalassa the Sea, Roman mosaic from
Antioch C5th A.D.,Antakya Museum
THALASSA was the Protogenos or primeval spirit of the sea. Coupling with her male counterpart Pontos, she spawned the tribes of fish.
Like the other Protogenoi, Thalassa was scarcely personified, instead her form was elemental, the body of the sea itself.
In the fables of Aesop, Thalassa appears as a woman formed of sea water rising up from her native element.
Poseidon and Amphitrite were the anthropomorphic gods equivalent to Pontos and Thalassa. In late classical times, the two were also confounded with Okeanos and Tethys.
Thalassa was depicted in Roman-era mosaics as a woman half submerged in the sea, with crab-claw horns, clothed in bands of seaweed, and holding a ship's oar.
THALASSA (Thalassa), a personification of the Mediterranean, is described as a daughter of Aether and Hemera. (Hygin. Fab. Praef. p. 2 ; Lucian, Dial. D. Marin. 11.)
Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
Homeric Hymn 2 to Demeter 5 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C7th or 6th B.C.) :
"The narcissus, which Gaia (Earth) made to grow at the will of Zeus . . . to be a snare for the bloom-like girl [Persephone]--a marvellous, radiant flower. It was a thing of awe whether for deathless gods or mortal men to see: from its root grew a hundred blooms and it smelled most sweetly, so that wide Ouranos (Heaven) above and Gaia (Earth) and Thalassa's (Sea) salt swell laughed for joy."
Ion of Chios, Fragment 741 (from Scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes) (trans. Campbell, Vol. Greek Lyric IV) (Greek lyric C6th B.C.) :
"Ion says in a dithyramb that Aigaion [a hundred-handed giant] was summoned from the ocean by Thetis and taken up to protect Zeus, and that he was the son of Thalassa (Sea)."
Aesop, Fables 245 (from Chambry & Babrius, Aesopeae Fabulae 71) (trans. Gibbs) (Greek fable C6th B.C.) :
"The Shipwrecked Man. A shipwrecked man, having been cast upon a certain shore, slept after his buffetings with the deep. After a while he awoke, and looking upon the Sea (Thalassa), loaded it with reproaches. He argued that it enticed men with the calmness of its looks, but when it had induced them to plow its waters, it grew rough and destroyed them. Thalassa (the Sea), assuming the form of a woman, replied to him: 'Blame not me, my good sir, but the winds, for I am by my own nature as calm and firm even as this earth; but the winds suddenly falling on me create these waves, and lash me into fury."
Aesop, Fables 258 (from Syntipas 4) :
"The Potamoi (Rivers) came together in order to make a complaint against Thalassa (the Sea). They told her, `Why is it that we come to you with waters that are sweet and fit to drink, but you change them into something salty and undrinkable?' In response to the Potamoi's (Rivers') criticism, Thalassa (the Sea) replied, `Don't come, and you won't get salty!'"
Aesop, Fables 276 (from Babrius 71) :
"A farmer saw a ship and her crew about to sink into the sea as the ship's prow disappeared beneath the curl of a wave. The farmer said, `O sea, it would have been better if no one had ever set sail on you! You are a pitiless element of nature and an enemy to mankind.' When she heard this, Thalassa (the Sea) took on the shape of a woman and said in reply, `Do not spread such evil stories about me! I am not the cause of any of these things that happen to you; the Winds (Anemoi) to which I am exposed are the cause of them all. If you look at me when the Winds are gone, and sail upon me then, you will admit that I am even more gentle than that dry land of yours.'"
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 5. 55. 1 (trans. Oldfather) (Greek historian C1st B.C.) :
"The island which is called Rhodes was first inhabited by the people who were known as Telkhines; these were children of Thalatta (the Sea) . . . Poseidon, the myth continues, when he had grown to manhood, became enamoured of Halia, the sister of the Telkhines."
Pausanias, Description of Greece 2. 1. 7 - 9 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) :
"In the fore-temple [of Poseidon at Korinthos on the Isthmos] are images, two of Poseidon, a third of Amphitrite, and Thalassa (Sea), which also is of bronze . . . On the middle of the base on which the car is [of the chariot of the statue of Poseidon] has been wrought Thalassa (Sea) holding up the young Aphrodite, and on either side are the Nymphai called Nereides . . . The other offerings are images of Galene (Calm) and of Thalassa (Sea), and a horse like a whale from the breast onwards [a hippokampos]."
Philostratus the Elder, Imagines 1. 27 (trans. Fairbanks) (Greek rhetorician C3rd A.D.) :
[From a description of an ancient Greek painting :] The painting depicts also [the town of] Oropos as a youth among bright-eyed women, Thalattai (the Seas)."
[N.B. Oropos was a coastal town.]
Philostratus the Elder, Imagines 2. 16 :
"[From a description of an ancient Greek painting :] The Isthmos, my boy, is painted in the form of divinity reclining at full length upon the ground [i.e. as Gaia the Earth], and it has been appointed by nature to lie between the Aegean and the Adriatic as though it were a yoke laid upon the two seas. On the right it has a youth, surely the town of Lekhaion, and on the left are girls; these are the two Thalattai (Seas), fair and quite calm, which lie alongside the land that represents the Isthmos."
Callistratus, Descriptions 7 (trans. Fairbanks) (Greek rhetorician C4th A.D.) :
"[From a description of a statue of the bard Orpheus :] You could see the bronze taking on the shape of rivers (potamoi) flowing from their sources toward the singing, and a wave of the sea (thalassa) raising itself aloft for love of the song, and rocks being smitten with the sensation of music, and every plant in its season hastening from its usual abode towards the music of Orpheus."
Orphic Hymn 22 to Thalassa (trans. Taylor) (Greek hymns C3rd B.C. to 2nd A.D.) :
"To Thalassa (Sea), Fumigation from Frankincense and Manna. Tethys [here equated with Thalassa] I call, with eyes cerulean bright, hid in a veil obscure from human sight: great Okeanos' empress, wandering through the deep, and pleased, with gentle gales, the earth to sweep; whose ample waves in swift succession go, and lash the rocky shore with endless flow: delighting in the sea serene to play, in ships exulting, and the watery way. Mother of Kypris [Aphrodite], and of Nephelai (Clouds) obscure, great nurse of beasts, and source of fountains pure. O venerable Goddess, hear my prayer, and make benevolent my life thy care; send, blessed queen, to ships a prosperous breeze, and waft them safely over the stormy seas."
Oppian, Halieutica 1. 74 (trans. Mair) (Greek poet C3rd A.D.) :
"Be thou gracious unto me, thou who art king in the tract of the sea [Poseidon], wide-ruling son of Kronos, Girdler of the earth, and be gracious thyself, O Thalassa (Sea), and ye gods (Daimones Thalassai) who in the sounding sea have your abode; and grant me to tell of your herds and sea bred tribes."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Preface (trans. Grant) (Roman mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
"From Aether [Aither] and Dies [Hemera] [were born] : Terra [Gaia], Caelum [Ouranos], Mare [Thalassa] . . .
From Pontos and Mare [Thalassa] [were born]: the tribe of fishes (piscium genera)."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 12. 43 ff (trans. Rouse) (Greek epic C5th A.D.) :
"He [Kronos] cut off his father's [Ouranos'] male plowshare, and sowed the teeming deep with seed on the unsown back of the daughterbegetting sea (Thalassa) [i.e. Aphrodite was born from the sea]."
Other references not currently quoted here: Lucian, Dialogues of Sailors 11


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Video | Try to romanticize a post-hippie reunion
Few besides film critics have seen Old Joy, Kelly Reichardt's experimental art-house film about two old hippie friends that is now available on DVD. But the film-which is unrated but would probably earn an R rating for language and drug use-garnered glowing reviews from secular critics. (New York Times critic Mahohla Dargis called Old Joy "one of the finest American films of the year.")
Mark (Daniel London) and Kurt (Will Oldham) are old friends who have grown apart over the years until Kurt invites Mark to a weekend camping trip into Oregon's backcountry. Mark approaches the trip with a sense of foreboding-the kind of foreboding you get when you know you're about to spend more than a day with an insecure pot-head hippie loser who never grew up and never seems to shut up. That's Kurt. He's annoying, but post-hippie guilt won't allow Mark to turn him down.
While trying to find a secluded hot springs, Kurt emotionally unloads on Mark in a way that's supposed to be poignant: Look at what the world has done to poor, innocent Kurt who never fully self-actualized. If the language of the film sounds foreign to most Christians, it's because it carries with it a confused worldview that, since dispatching God from the equation, can't quite reckon what life's supposed to look like. In doing so, Old Joy attempts to romanticize something that will seem lame to the average viewer.


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LITTLETON — Evergreen's Jak Hamilton won the Division 2 boys race at the Dave Sanders Invitational at Clement Park on Oct. 1, and the girls team took top honors with three finishers in the top four.
Hamilton won the boys race in a time of 16 minutes, 29 seconds, beating out Pomona's Dezmin Rameriz by six seconds. Fellow Evergreen runners Jackson Sayler and Andre Lane finished in the top six, but Pomona placed six runners in the top 15 en route to team honors by three points over the Cougars.
CONIFER — The Conifer Lobos shouldn't be offended if Evergreen comes off a little offensive. It's just the Cougars' style.
On the soccer field, that is.
The way Evergreen head coach Peter Jeans sees it is that if his Cougars can play a more offensive-style of game and play a ball-control attack then it only increases the likelihood his team will win. That's exactly how Evergreen approached its Mountain Challenge Cup battle with the host Lobos on Sept. 30.
ARVADA — It wasn't Evergreen's best performance. Head coach Marnie Bello would tell you that. But there were numerous reasons for that.
Mainly injuries, which have hampered the Cougars all season long, if not longer. Thus, the team's 168.4-156.175 loss to Arvada West on Sept. 30 at Pomona High School didn't serve as much of an indicator at what Evergreen is capable of doing. But, even still, the Cougars put their best foot forward and came away with some impressive performances.
Evergreen won every match in straight sets, led by Nate Chart's 6-2, 6-1 victory at No. 1 singles, as the host Cougars shut out Green Mountain, 7-0, on Sept. 30.
The No. 4 doubles team of Brad Lindsay and Steve Jensen posted a 6-0, 6-0 win over Green Mountain's Justin Olson and Trevor Olson.
Other winners for Evergreen were No. 2 singles Stephen Hardy, No. 3 singles Bryan Repko, No. 1 doubles team of Peter Hassinger and Matt Golub, No. 2 doubles team of Seth Purkey and Jack Staebel and No 3 doubles squad of Cameron Sadler and Garrett Smith.
Reprinted from Oct. 11, 2006
This has been a beautiful fall, with the best color being at lower elevations, such as around Evergreen. The aspen in Little Cub Creek Valley have been at their best for a week now, but strong breezes have begun to take their toll.
October has brought some of the warm weather we looked for in September, and we have enjoyed the Indian summer days.
AURORA — Ethan Lederer had the ball and then he didn't. Unfortunately for Evergreen that one miscue less than a minute into the second overtime proved to be the difference.
Howie Samuel's rocket shot from 30 yards out ricocheted off Lederer's hands and trickled into the back of net, sending host Smoky Hill to a 2-1 double overtime victory over Evergreen on Sept. 25 at Legacy Stadium.
As most of my friends know, I took a tumble in early August and broke my right wrist, so I have been confined to a nursing home ever since I got out of the hospital. That's only because I can't manage very well by myself with only one arm. However, it's doing well and I'll soon be out of a cast and then I can do a great deal more, I hope, even though it will still be stiff and sore.
AURORA — Ethan Lederer had the ball and then he didn't. Unfortunately for Evergreen that one miscue less than a minute into the second overtime proved to be the difference.
Howie Samuel's rocket shot from 30 yards out ricocheted off Lederer's hands and trickled into the back of net, sending host Smoky Hill to a 2-1 double overtime victory over Evergreen on Sept. 25 at Legacy Stadium.
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Talking to reporters on the sidelines of the Financial Planning Congress here on Wednesday, Sebi chairman UK Sinha responded in the affirmative when asked if Sebi is looking to allow additional routes like allotment of preference shares for companies as a means to bring down the promoters shareholding.
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The Boxing Kangaroo needs to go.
It's time for a cull, good people of Australia, and - though I expect this to be controversial with the green and gold zinc cream, John Williamson singing, hand-on heart, fanatics types - there must surely be some rational minds out there who agree with me.
The Boxing Kangaroo (TM) must be K'Od. Pest-controlled. Humanely (or even not humanely, I really don't care) euthanased.
Have you been following the tedious, semi-concocted brouhaha from chilly Vancouver this past week?
From the balcony of their home in the athletes' village, the Australian team hung a giant Boxing Kangaroo (TM) flag. Allegedly they were then asked by the International Olympic Committee to take it down, on the grounds that only national flags and not commercial symbols are to be displayed around the village.
That, of course, was a piece of the sort of breathtaking, bile-inducing hypocrisy in which the gentlemen of the IOC specialise (but more on that later).
The Australians refused, the phones were worked and a media campaign resulting in mock outrage, a little bit of real outrage and plenty of hot air raged for days.
It was big news back home and big news here in Vancouver. Talkback radio and morning TV raged with indignation. Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard labelled it a disgrace. The word un-Australian was uttered (surely any actions taken by a global governing body, including how much sugar to have in their tea and what time to go to bed, are - by definition - unAustralian).
But anyway.
After an organised demonstration that looked about as spontaneous and unchoreographed as an episode of So You think You Can Dance, the "decision" was "reversed". The flag would stay.
Or, here's how the IOC put it: ''I'm not sure there was ever really an issue,'' a spokesman offered. ''It was, 'The battle that was never there'. Certainly, the IOC never officially asked for it to be taken down, it wasn't taken down and - guess what - it's staying up.''
Somehow, what might have been a sideways comment about the undesirability of the giant-sized flag (which is two storeys high and dwarfs others on display including Australia's national ensign) turned into an orchestrated media campaign based around a jingoistic fallacy.
A cynic might point out that the Australian Olympic Committee has been embroiled in a virtual war these past few months after the federal government commissioned the independent Crawford Review of Australian sport that slammed our Olympic tsars, our national obsession with chasing gold medals and the hundreds of millions of dollars we pour into that obsession.
Add to that a general nervousness that the good results of the Turin games four years ago just might not quite be recaptured here and Olympic officials could do with all the positive PR they can get. They got it. Who knows if they paid for it but representatives of Vancouver's top PR agency have certainly been twittering loud and often about the flag "controversy" in recent days.
Theirs might have even been the type of contacts and influence that prompted several mayors from neighbouring rival towns and cities to get their faces on TV by proclaiming that they would happily fly the Boxing Kangaroo (TM).
Anyway, none of this really bothers me that much. Some Australians, led by their media, are not sufficiently discriminating to avoid making a huge nationalistic fuss about a concocted non-issue. Big whoop. The Australians rightly point out that other non-national flags, including New Zealand's silver fern, are displayed around the village. And for the IOC, which has allowed a festival supposedly about universal brotherhood and other lofty guff to be branded to the point of saturation, a sudden aversion to commercial symbols is not exactly becoming.
Just ask the aboriginal "first Nations" people invited by the Vancouver organising committee to set up a tent at the games, showcasing traditional native culture and food. When they planned to offer "bison burgers" prepared by one of the nation's leading chefs, McDonalds pressured Olympic organisers into forcing them to abandon the idea. McDonalds, you see, is the only "official burger" of the Games.
Faster, higher, stronger and also with more cholesterol.
But, pointless or not, this week's fuss did make me think, though, about how much I dislike that tired old '80s flag.
It's a rubbish banner, made for a brief moment almost 30 years ago, when we embraced the millionaire's sport of yachting at the behest of a billionaire crook: Alan Bond. It's a testament to cheering something you don't understand or care about because you have suddenly discovered Australia just might win (Winter Olympic parallels ignored here).
In the firesale after he went broke and went to jail Bond sold the trademark for the Boxing Kangaroo to the Australian Olympic Committee. They own it. As surely as Coke owns its "dynamic ribbon" or McDonalds its "golden arches".
One Canadian TV station described this image as "an international symbol of peace", which made Balls almost choke on his own frozen vomit. A local newspaper dubbed it, slightly more accurately, ''a symbol of Australia's proud sporting history". Maybe. Kind of.
Either way, it's rubbish. Balls is no great fan of the official flag either, being a staunch republican and all that. But if we must have another flag - one that shows we identify more with our national colours of green and gold than the ones on our official flag and that proves we don't mind being represented by the British Union Jack on unimportant issues such as politics and war but not when it comes to the serious business of sport - surely not this one?
It's a horrible piece of design. It looks like a six-year-old knocked it up. What kind of serious flag features sporting goods? Would we not laugh if the Spanish showed up at the Winter Olympics waving a flag that featured a bull playing tennis?
A lot of people like the Boxing Kangaroo (TM). Two weeks just spent covering the tennis at Melbourne Park testifies to that. But our national symbols - even at the Olympics - should not be the trademarked property of the AOC and our national outrage should not be directed to promoting that property. An Australian flag should represent something other than the dumb, unconsidered violence of an animal trying to impress a female of the species and get his leg over by smashing in the face of his fellow kangaroo.
Local media in Canada have dubbed it the "flag flap". Balls suggest removing the L from the second of those words for a more accurate description (if you don't know what that means ask a teenager to explain or look it up on Urban Dictionary).
What do you reckon, fellow sports lovers? Thumbs down for the roo or an enthusiastic oi, oi, oi? And if not the Boxing Kangaroo, then what?


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Aiming to contrast the dichotomies of Love and Lust, director Bertolucci originally hoped to star Jean-Louis Trintignant with either Dominique Sanda or Catherine Deneuve, but when those plans fell apart he went with Brando and 19 year old unknown Schneider. Its graphic but simulated sex scenes garnered a scandalous X rating in the US, later rescinded to an R without cuts. Bertolucci believed this was Brando's most revealing performance despite the fact that apart from one memorably improvised soliloquy about his childhood he can be seen reading his entire part from cue cards. At one point he asked if his lines could be written on his co-star's derriere, which the director refused.


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The Jaypee Punjab Warriors think-tank seems to be acquiring a knack of making curious decisions sometimes sly, sometimes bordering on the stupid in the dying minutes. Against Mumbai Magicians on January 20, as they led 3-2 in the last five minutes, Punjab had unwittingly one assumes 12 players on the pitch. It led to a one-match ban on their manager Jagbir Singh.
Against the Delhi Waveriders, as they trailed 2-0 in the last four minutes, Punjab took their goalkeeper off and bolstered their attack with an extra man a perfectly legal move, but a self-defeating one.
For even though they were a couple of goals down, Punjab were still in to take something home from the match as the tournament rules award one point to the losing team, provided the margin is two goals or less.
In sport as in warfare, a move could be a stroke of genius or a tactical blunder, depending upon its outcome, which again depends on many other external factors: wherewithal to execute a given strategy, how smart/stupid the opposition is, and, of course, luck.
And so Punjabs Jaap Stockmann, who has smothered close to five shots on the target, sat in the dugout and coach Barry Dancer sent in Christopher Ciriello to do, perhaps, what his 10 other players hadnt, despite a few passages of dominance: score a goal. Actually, at least two.
As Punjab pressed ahead, the Delhi forwards eyes must have lit up at the sight of an unguarded goal. A counterattack was all they needed. And sure enough it came. As Delhi thwarted a feeble attempt, and Punjab scampered back, the home teams visionary skipper Sardar Singh almost intuitively found Simon Child lurking on the edge of opposition circle with a long pass.
Knowing there was no custodian, appearing larger than life in hockey pads, to block the target, the sturdy New Zealander took aim, summoned every ounce of his power, and let one rip - more of a tee shot than a hockey strike. The outstretched sticks of two Punjab defender didnt stand a chance as the ball made a bulge in the roof of the goal. With this third goal, it was Delhi five points, Punjab nil.
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While you can't go wrong with ordinary roasted carrots and parsnips, there are times, especially during the holiday season, when you might crave something a bit more glamorous. I have the solution, and although it does require a few special ingredients, it takes hardly more effort than the typical roasted vegetable.
Roasting carrots and parsnips in a hot oven turns them tender and sweet with crispy, caramelized edges. Whenever possible, I like to pair parsnips with carrots because they balance the sweetness with an earthy, somewhat spiced flavor. (However, you can make this without parsnips; just increase the amount of carrots.) I've also included chickpeas in this dish; added to the roasting pan partway through, they aren't crunchy like fully roasted chickpeas but still soft and chewy with a beautiful golden color. For vegetarian diners, this is also a nice way to get extra protein.
But those are just the basics. What makes this dish really come alive are the Mediterranean touches like a sprinkle of urfa biber (a smoky-fruity pepper from Turkey), a drizzle of gorgeous pomegranate molasses and a bit of good feta, crumbled on top just before serving. Elegant but not complicated, this dish is just the thing to both comfort and awaken the palate on a cold day.
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Serves 4
1 pound carrots
½ pound parsnips
3 tablespoons olive oil, divided
1 ½ teaspoons urfa biber (see ingredient note below)
¼ teaspoon coarse kosher salt
½ cup cooked chickpeas
1 tablespoon pomegranate molasses (see ingredient note below)
2 ounces feta cheese, crumbled (½ cup)
1 tablespoon chopped flat-leaf parsley
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Peel carrots and parsnips, or just scrub well, and halve lengthwise. (If carrots are small and slender, leave them whole. If parsnips are large, quarter them lengthwise, cut out the woody center, and, if necessary, continue to cut into thinner strips to match carrot size.)
Toss carrots and parsnips with 2 tablespoons olive oil, urfa biber and salt. Spread in a single layer on a large rimmed baking sheet and place in oven to roast. Toss chickpeas in remaining olive oil.
After 15 minutes, turn carrots and parsnips, add chickpeas and roast for another 10 minutes. Then toss with pomegranate molasses and roast for another 5 minutes or until vegetables are tender and golden.
Remove from oven, toss with feta and parsley, and serve.
Ingredient note: Both urfa biber, also known as Isot pepper, and pomegranate molasses are available at Middle Eastern groceries. If you don't have good ethnic grocery options near you, both ingredients can be bought online. Simply type each term into an Internet search engine and multiple options will present themselves. One good online source is Spice Station (http://spicestationsilverlake.com).
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In the first appeals court ruling on whether cash-balance plans are age discriminatory, a unanimous three-judge panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said: "All terms of IBM's plan are age neutral."
While a federal judge, in a 2003 ruling that drew national attention, said the plan discriminated against older employees because younger employees receive interest credits for more years, the appeals court specifically rejected that argument.
Nothing in federal law "suggests that Congress set out to legislate against the fact that younger workers have (statistically) more time left before retirement, and thus have a greater opportunity to earn interest on each year's retirement savings," the appeals court stated in overturning Judge G. Patrick Murphy's ruling.
"Treating the time value of money as a form of age discrimination is not sensible," the appeals court ruled.
The decision comes within days of Congress passing pension funding reform legislation that makes it clear that new cash-balance plans—plans created after June 29, 2005—will be protected from age discrimination suits. The two developments are likely to mean that employers are much more likely to continue their existing plans, while those without the plans will be more likely to adopt them, experts say.
"Companies will have a much higher comfort level in maintaining these plans," says Ethan Kra, chief actuary for Mercer Human Resource Consulting in New York.
"The ruling takes away some of the legal uncertainty," says Bill Sweetnam, a principal with the law firm Groom Law Group in Washington, D.C.
IBM earlier froze its cash-balance plan, which it adopted in 1999 as part of a retirement plan revamp to make its costs more predictable and more in line with those of its competitors. Beginning in 2008, an enriched 401(k) plan will be the only retirement plan IBM will offer to its U.S. employees.
Employers sponsor more than 1,500 cash-balance plans. Until the plans became the target of numerous age discrimination suits, they were the only type of defined-benefit plan to be added by employers in large numbers.
"Hopefully, this will be the beginning of the end of what has been a litigation nightmare, and employers can offer plans that make sense for them and their employees," says Larry Sher, a principal and director of retirement policy at Buck Consultants Inc. in New York.
Others, though, say plaintiffs lawyers likely will continue their drive to prove that the plans are age discriminatory, but, in light of the appeals court ruling, they will find it much tougher to prove their cases.
The 7th Circuit is one of the more influential circuits, and other courts are likely to give the IBM ruling deference, Groom Law Group's Sweetnam says.
Jerry Geisel is a writer for Business Insurance, a companion publication of Workforce Management. This article originally appeared online at businessinsurance.com.


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A swatch of pale loveliness, here are this year's Vanity Fair photos of Hollywood ingenues. I believe the mag has done Kristen Stewart (Twilight) and Amanda Seyfried (Mamma Mia!), at least, before. Last week, Stewart was in Sundance supporting The Runaways and Welcome to the Rileys; Rebecca Hall stole Nicole Holefcener's Please Give at Sundance; Mia Wasikowska was also there, starring as one of the Kids Are All Right. She plays the title role in Tim Burton's upcoming Alice in Wonderland, which should break her out even more.
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[Annie Leibovitz photo from left: Stewart, Abbie Cornish (Bright Star), probable Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan (An Education), Seyfried, Hall, Wasikowska, Emma Stone (Zombieland), Evan Rachel Wood (Across the Universe), and Anna Kendrick, who should also nab a supporting actress nom on Tuesday for Up in the Air.]


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Number of Palestinians displaced in Gaza doubles in 24 hours
Agence France Presse reported Friday that the number of displaced Palestinians from Gaza has almost doubled within the past 24 hours.
"The number of people coming to UNRWA seeking sanctuary from the fighting in Gaza has nearly doubled today. It has risen from 22,000 to over 40,000," said spokesman for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Chris Gunness.
"We are accommodating them in 34 UNRWA shelters," he added.
Gunness told reporters that UNRWA has also submitted an urgent appeal for $60 million to cover shelter costs for Gazans over the next month as well as emergency related supplies until the end of the year.
The massive movement comes largely in response to Israel's launch of a ground offensive on the Strip Thursday night in its move to intensify its so-called campaign against Hamas.
More than 260 Palestinians have been killed from Israeli airstrikes over the past week and a half alone and 1.5 thousand more have been injured.
According to multiple reports, approximately 80 percent of the casualties since Israel launched its attacks on Gaza are civilians.
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Categories: General Date: Apr 13, 2009 Title: Dalhart Fire Department receives TEEX trainingThe Dalhart Fire Department attended an emergency vehicle driving school. The two-day course that began on Saturday, April 4th, encompassed both theory and practical training. More than half of Dalhart's Volunteer Fire Department completed the training.
By Robin Scott
The Dalhart Fire Department attended an emergency vehicle driving school. The two-day course that began on Saturday, April 4th, encompassed both theory and practical training. More than half of Dalhart's Volunteer Fire Department completed the training.
Fire Chief Curtis Brown and several members of the Volunteer Fire Department as well as Deputy Jarred Sides with the Dallam County Sheriff's Office attended the 16-hour training. The course complies with the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) requirements for the operation of an emergency vehicle.
The course was presented by the Texas Engineering Extension Services (TEEX) and held at the airport in Dalhart. TEEX has provided fire training for emergency responders since 1929. The permanent firefighter training school is located at Texas A & M University in College Station. TEEX trains more than 81,000 emergency responders in all 50 states and in 45 countries each year. Training provided within a city is an invaluable asset to cities like Dalhart, that have a Volunteer Fire Department and firefighters have other full-time jobs.
Emergency vehicle training is required for all firefighters, volunteer and paid. The course was taught by TEEX free of charge, another invaluable asset for the department. Chief Brown noted, "It is an excellent and important course. We had classroom training all day Saturday going over the laws. On Sunday we were driving." Understanding laws involving firefighting is often an overlooked element of firefighter training by the public. TEEX stresses the laws so that firefighters and emergency responders don't find themselves as a party to a lawsuit.
According to Chief Brown, "This class stresses over and over the rules." He also gave an example that when an emergency vehicle uses its sirens, it is asking for the right-of-way, so still must use extreme caution and follow safety rules. A wreck resulting from the collision of an emergency vehicle could result in a lawsuit against the driver, and the fire chief for having authorized the driver to operate the vehicle. Most citizens' idea of fire training is limited to putting out fires and rescuing people, and not understanding the numerous laws that must be obeyed and followed.
Several of Dalhart's firefighters attended a similar course last year. Chief Brown states that in the future the course will be offered in Dalhart twice each year. The course is open to anyone operating an emergency vehicle, including firefighters, EMS, and police and law enforcement. Chief Brown commented, "It will
likely become an annual requirement in the near future."
More information on fire prevention and emergency responders may be obtained at www.nfpa.org.


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Hugo Leipziger-Pearce, professor emeritus of architecture, died on July 13, 1998. He was 95.
Professor Leipziger-Pearce was born on December 8, 1902, in Breslau, Germany. He studied at Wilhelm University and the Art Academy in Breslau. Later he studied at the University of Hamburg. He was admitted to the German Institute of Architects in 1927.
Professor Leipziger-Pearce had a varied career prior to joining the faculty of The University of Texas at Austin. He was director and chief architect for the German government's community development program in Silesia from 1928 to 1933. For a brief time he practiced architecture in Paris, France. In 1934 he accepted a position with an architectural firm in Australia. His award-winning design for the firm's Women's Hospital in Melbourne brought him to New York to complete work on the Australian Pavilion at the 1939 World's Fair.
Also in 1939, UT Austin President Homer Rainey and San Antonio Mayor Maury Maverick Sr. matched Dr. Leipziger-Pearce's three-year Rockefeller grant and brought him to the University, where he taught until his retirement in 1974. During his long tenure at UT Austin, Professor Leipziger-Pearce initiated the Program in Community and Regional Planning and directed it for 19 years. He also worked with the Urban Planning Assistance Progam for Texas.
In 1950-51 he served as a postwar reconstruction consultant to the U.S. High Commissioner for Germany. In the mid-sixties he again served as consultant to the German government's urban and regional planning agencies.
Professor Leipziger-Pearce was an honorary member of the German Institute of Architects. His German work is housed at the Architecture Museum in Frankfurt as a example of early practictioners of the international style.
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Biographical sketch prepared by Teresa Palomo Acosta and posted on the Faculty Council web site on January 5, 2001. Additional biographical sources can be found in the Barker Texas History Center, the UT Office of Public Affairs, and in the Office of the General Faculty.


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Minneapolis – Polaris Industries recently announced the addition of two more vehicles to its off-road lineup. The Scrambler XP 1000 EPS and the RANGER XP 900 Deluxe continue the company's aggressive approach to reinvent its product lines and provide innovative products to meet the demands off-road enthusiasts.
"In just the past four months, Polaris has introduced nine new vehicles to its off-road line-up," said David Longren, vice president of Polaris' Off-Road Division. "The Scrambler XP 1000 EPS and RANGER XP 900 Deluxe Editions provide off-road enthusiasts with more options for high-powered recreational vehicles."


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Central to the University and Southern Oregon, the Library supports the research and curricular needs of students and faculty. It serves the region through state, national, and international partnerships. The Library provides access to diverse resources and teaches skills for finding and evaluating information.
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Lessons in French
by Laura Kinsale
Genre: Historical Romance
Laura Kinsale's unique and powerfully written love stories transcend the romance genre. In this, her first new book in five years, she delivers a poignant, funny, sexy, Regency romance sure to delight her many fans and attract a whole new readership.
Trevelyan and Callie are childhood sweethearts with a taste for adventure, until the fateful day her father discovers them embracing in the carriage house and, in a furious frenzy, drives Trevelyan away in disgrace. Nine long, lonely years later, Trevelyan returns. Callie discovers that he can still make her blood race and fill her life with excitement, but he can't give her the one thing she wants more than anything?himself.
For Trevelyan, Callie is a spark of light in a world of darkness and deceit. Before he can bear to say his last goodbyes, he's determined to sweep her into one last, fateful adventure, just for the two of them.
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FILE - This Nov. 7, 2009, file photo shows Floyd Landis during a rest day of the PowerNet Cycle Tour in Southland, Winton, New Zealand. Cycling's governing body warned Landis he could be sued for defamation weeks before he made allegations that it covered up a positive drug test by Lance Armstrong. Former UCI president Hein Verbruggen told The Associated Press on Tuesday, June 8, 2010, that a letter was sent to Landis two or three weeks before his allegations became public. (AP Photo/NZPA, Dianne Manson)


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We're looking for a couple strong developers to join our core team who have a strong understanding of web technologies and want to help design, implement, and scale major features and systems.
Our current stack includes AWS, Nginx, Python/Django, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, and JavaScript/Backbone.js, but we are mostly just interested in using whatever tools work best for the problems at hand.
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High schools are more important than ever in today's sporting world - the place where future baseball and football legends and other star players are first spotted by scouts and fans alike as having that something special.
More importantly, high school stadiums are still some of the most important places where young people develop skills that will serve them their whole lives: teamwork, discipline, strategy, the importance of hard work and taking pride in what you do.
Taking pride in what we do is what's made Southern Bleacher the preferred builder for high school bleachers and stadiums for more than 60 years. We never cut corners. We never give less than our best. And when we're on your team, you can bet we're playing to win.
In this section, you'll see just a fraction of the hundreds of high school stadiums and bleachers we've built over the years, giving high school athletes places to play with pride, and giving their friends and families a place to cheer them on.
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|Daffodils Beside Brown Lenox
I recently went over to the site where the Newbridge Chainworks operated by Brown Lenox and Co, Ltd, once stood. The site is reached by a bit of a torturous route if you're going to stick to public footpaths; one has to walk round to Pontypridd Railway Station, and then round the outside of Ynysangharad Park and cross the sliproad that goes down to the A470. And then you have to go all the way back afterwards. I'm assuming that they'll do something to improve this if they build a supermarket on the site. (Of course, we could still be discussing this in another 10 years time ...) But, whilst I was there, I couldn't help but notice this wonderful spread of daffodils growing beside the road. The setting sun meant that the light was against me (I'd already used the best of the light to take some snaps of Unity, which I'll upload soon), but I like the gritty look that the conditions ultimately gave this photo. Copyright (c) Stuart Herbert. Blog | Twitter | Facebook Photography: Merthyr Road | Daily Desktop Wallpaper | 25x9 | Twitter. If you like this photo, please leave a comment or mark it as one of your favourites. Want to know more about this photo? See this blog entry: * Single Shot Series: Daffodils Beside Brown Lenox
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Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn and his challenger, state Sen. Ed Murray, believe the Department of Justice (DOJ) rightly concluded Seattle police had engaged in a pattern of excessive force — even though the city did not admit to any wrongdoing when it ultimately agreed to make sweeping reforms.
"I personally believe that excessive use of force and bias have been real and serious issues for a long time, and reflected systemic issues," McGinn said in a written statement to The Seattle Times.
Murray, who faces McGinn in the Nov. 5 mayoral election, noted in a statement that the Justice Department reached its conclusion after a "substantial investigation."
"As I have said numerous times throughout this campaign, I agree with the DOJ that use of force was a problem at SPD," Murray wrote.
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The Times asked both candidates whether they agreed with the Justice Department's central finding in December 2011 that Seattle police had engaged in a pattern or practice of unlawful force, deriving from the department's failure to adopt adequate policies, training and oversight.
The candidates' views offer insight into their thinking at a critical juncture: The next mayor will select a permanent police chief, who either will retain or rearrange the all-important command staff that sets the tone within the department.
Both men have pledged to conduct a national search in and outside the department, which may include Interim Chief Jim Pugel.
In addition, the mayor and chief will be responsible for assuring that costly and difficult reforms to curtail excessive force are carried out. In turn, they could face resistance from officers who, instead of seeing street disorder and taking action, might primarily wait to answer 911 calls.
When city officials reached a settlement with the Justice Department last year and agreed to the reforms, the city took the position that nothing in the settlement would be construed as an admission of wrongdoing or liability on its part — a standard stance to protect itself in legal actions.
The Justice Department also cited "serious concerns" that officers had engaged in biased policing, although it did not reach a formal finding on that issue.
As part of the landmark settlement, an independent monitor, Merrick Bobb, was appointed to oversee the court-approved reform effort.
In his statement, McGinn wrote that he agreed that the issues raised by the Justice Department and community leaders regarding excessive force and bias "warranted entering into a comprehensive settlement to address those issues."
McGinn said that is why he negotiated a settlement that "brought together civil-rights leaders, community leaders, and SPD leadership, to work on a long-term, sustained, and open process of reform."
Murray wrote that when the Justice Department came to the city with their findings, the city had an opportunity to work with them to correct the problem.
"Unfortunately, the current mayor chose to fight the DOJ, and to fight the City Council, fight the City Attorney, and even fought the appointment of a nationally respected monitor," Murray wrote.
Murray said he agreed with the Justice Department's contention that the Police Department's leadership was responsible for "failures of oversight and training."
He pointed to the need for additional and ongoing training, beyond what new officers get at the state academy, on the "challenges of policing in a diverse, urban setting."
Immediately after the Justice Department issued its report, McGinn neither repudiated nor embraced it, saying the city needed to see what information the DOJ relied on to reach its conclusion. But he quickly shifted gears, declaring his commitment to reform.
However, McGinn fought with the Justice Department over the scope and cost of the reforms. He also clashed with three members of the City Council and City Attorney Pete Holmes, who favored taking a less confrontational approach with the DOJ.
McGinn repeatedly attributed his tough bargaining to his desire for reforms that produced effective changes, enhanced public safety and stayed within the city's budget.
One danger was that officers would interpret his approach as a rejection of the Justice Department's conclusions, making it more difficult to win support for reforms.
Some citizens already have raised concerns that some officers are refusing to deal with spontaneous problems, particularly in response to downtown disorder. While anecdotal, those officers might be deliberately engaging in what is known as "de-policing," either out of fear of being second-guessed or to create a public backlash in favor of more aggressive policing.
Murray has been endorsed by the Seattle Police Officers' Guild, which would put him in a delicate position if elected.
Although the guild's president, Sgt. Rich O'Neill, has urged the rank and file to accept the reforms and "move forward" with the changes, Murray would likely confront continuing resentment over the changes.
In the October issue of the guild newspaper, The Guardian, O'Neill wrote that Murray represents the best chance to fix Seattle's "dysfunctional" government and wants to "get out from under the DOJ as quickly as possible."
But that won't happen until the federal judge overseeing the case, James Robart, gives his blessing.
Information from Seattle Times archives is included in this story.
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Saw this on Flyertalk, and thought I'd share it here.
Basically, it's an overview of how ATC worked in the late 50's/early 60's. Not too far from today, but things have become much, much more friendly technology-wise.
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I'm having trouble understanding and implementing a Doubly Linked List. I can grasp most of the concepts of a Linked List. Here is my code so far (in Python)
*This is a purely academic exercise. I would normally use list and dict.
class DoublyNode(object):
"""A node of the SortedDoublyLL object.
DoublyNode(item, next=None, previous=None) -> a new DoublyNode with data as
its data, and next and previous as its neighbors."""
def __init__(self, data, next = None, previous = None):
"""Make a new DoublyNode from item, pointing to next and previous."""
self.data = data
self.next = next
self.previous = previous
class SortedDoublyLL(object):
"""A Sorted Doubly Linked List.
SortedDoublyLL() -> new SortedDoublyLL list that is empty
SortedDoublyLL(sequence) -> a SortedDoublyLL initialized from sequence's
def __init__(self, sequence = []):
"""Make a new SortedDoublyLL from the elements of sequence."""
if len(sequence) == 0:
self.head = None
self.tail = None
cur_node = None
prev_node = None
for element in sequence:
prev_node = cur_node
cur_node = DoublyNode(element, cur_node, prev_node)
self.head = cur_node
self.tail = DoublyNode(sequence[0])


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Well, I don't know about maps, but... Well, I know how to read, and I dislike maps in books that have perfect squares with perfect lines. farmlands don't have straight lines
Furrows in fields are bumpy. In MODERN times, there are some fancier farms that can flatten the terrain before planting, but most can't. So those and other fields have to work with the soil they got.
Also the rows alternate - you need spaces to walk between the rows of crops without damaging them. So I assume that on colored maps the colors would alternate - crops, then dirt, then crops, and so on. That's probably where the lines come in on maps which aren't colored, but even these look more real to me with a bit of shading. Grazing areas wouldn't have lines at all - it's just grass, really.
Farm PLOTS do tend to have rather rigid dividing lines, but they are rarely square. Long ago, though, it would have been as straight as a man without modern tools could make a fence (to keep the animals out of the crops) or to plant a hedge to separate his property from his neighbor's. Now it's as straight as you can drive.
Also, in modern times, people have better equipment, so regardless how much land they own, they're able to farm more of it. So (modern) people can plant plot after plot, all touching... but older societies would have smaller, more scattered plots, taking advantage of the best pieces of land. This still also means that, if the best soil for corn juts out in a weird shaped area, you plant corn in that are.
To make this more map-related, I'll jack a couple of shots from google maps.


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Custom Pistol Grips Shifter Handles - Get A GripWritten by on August 8, 2011 Quick Tech
Mopar transmissions have come a long way since the A-833 and 727 TorqueFlite, and so have the shifters we use to control them. Want proof? Jump out of your classic Mopar and into the driver seat of a new Challenger, Charger, or 300 and feel for yourself. Automatic equipped LX models have five forward gears and operate smoothly and efficiently with a lockup torque converter. New Hemi powered Mopars with manual transmissions are equipped with six forward gears, and shifting is far more precise than any A-833 could hope for, even with the best shifter. Speaking of shifters, we've always thought that the new Mopar offerings should be equipped with an iconic shifter that was made popular in classic Chrysler offerings, the Pistol Grip. Fortunately, a company called Custom Pistol Grips is making replacement shifter handles to convert your automatic-equipped Challenger, Charger, Magnum, or 300 to the classic look of a Pistol Grip shifter.
We've enjoyed our new Challenger since owning it, and although we opted for an automatic transmission, the new Mopar NAG1 automatic does have a manual shift, or "autostick" feature. While technically an automatic transmission with a torque converter, the NAG1 can be shifted manually by making side to side movements, left to downshift and right to up-shift, making the car fun to drive and putting the driver more in control of the vehicle. Since transmission shifting is controlled by electric switches in the console mounted shifter control, it's easy to simply remove the stock shifter handle and replace it with a replacement unit from Custom Pistol Grips.
It's not that we didn't like the factory leather-wrapped shifter from Dodge, but when we discovered we could easily replace the stock handle and have the look of a classic Pistol Grip, we had to do it. Custom Pistol Grips has shifters to fit both older and the latest LX Mopars, with bodies CNC-machined from billet aluminum and inscribed with the proper shift pattern. Shifter grips are available in light or dark wood, carbon-fiber, or in plastic wood grain just like the originals.
We chose the carbon-fiber handles for our Challenger since the majority of the interior is black. It only took a couple of minutes to install the shifter, and while performance isn't really affected, we love the way it looks. Additionally, the Pistol Grip shifter is a little taller, making it easier to rest your hand on it while resting your elbow on the center arm rest. Best of all, this is an easy swap you can accomplish in just a few minutes with a screwdriver and Allen wrench.
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Once separated the shifter handle and bezel just slide off the shifter separately. On 2007 and lower LX cars, just turn the shifter counter clockwise and it unthreads.The Custom Pistol Grips shifter handle is made up of three pieces and simply slides over the factory shifter in place of the stock unit.On older LX cars, this piece threads onto the factory shifter. Once in place, ours uses set screws to hold it in position while the earlier LX shifter is held in place with thread-locker.The new handles are now installed with the provided hardware and that's it, you're finished. This is definitely something just about any enthusiast can do themselves, and if not, your wife or kids likely can. While this may not improve your car's performance, it definitely enhances the already cool Mopar interior.We chose carbon fiber grips for our shifter handle, and Custom Pistol Grips offers a variety of wood or N.O.S. style plastic handles as well. The shift pattern is machined into the top surface of the shifter handle for a nicely finished appearance.The Pistol Grip shifter looks right at home in the new Challenger, blending nicely with the faux carbon-fiber in the factory trim. We also like the way the shifter feels, especially since it puts your arm slightly higher when resting your right hand on the shifter. Even better, this shifter handle only takes a few minutes to install.


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FOX47 NEWS - Mazomanie: Coolest Small Town
Jeff Angileri
Mazomanie, Wisconsin is now a destination place thanks to Budget Travel Magazine. From bistros to bike shoppes, to bed and breakfast joints, it's one of coolest small towns in the U.S.
They love the building, they love the atmosphere, said Bistro and Gallery owner Nancy Jo Wirth. It's relaxed.
I ride my bike all the time, said resident Luella Hodgson.
And in this village of 1,500 people, you'll find dozens of artists taking up residence. Galleries and shops are opening left and right, spurred by a restoration of the historic downtown.
When the buildings were restored, it was just a natural progression for artists to come into the community to show their work, said Bob Brumley, President of the Mazomanie Chamber of Commerce.
Many artists are incorporating the history of their buildings into their galleries, like Janet Easley, Gallery Co-op member.
This used to be Joe's Barber Shop and if you look over there on the floor you still see the stands where the barber shop stools stood, said Easley.
The galleries are filled with unique community art projects, where anyone can paint, draw, or sculpt part of the artwork.
Easley said, To get young people involved in art--all generations involved in art, and to show as artists we don't just take, we want to give back.
And while residents admit coolness is relative, they're still proud of a place where even the cars have personality.


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My name is Shumba Jula known as Shumba Kennard i was adopted from ethiopia when I was 9 years old. My adopted father started sexually abusing me, when i was 10 years old until I was 21yrs old. The reason I want to be part of this program is I feel that no one should ever have too go through, what I went through. I felt alone, confused, and embarrasse , but none of that belong to me. I just want my voice to be heard,and through my voice maybe I could help someone and let them know that they are not alone and that they can cry on my shoulder. my boys and writting Life Im a good listener
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