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World leaders need to take decisive action this year to save biodiversity, action that is based on sound science, says IUCN's Director General, Julia Marton-Lefèvre in this month's opinion article.
Our food comes from supermarkets, our water from the tap, and our medicine from the pharmacy. One button is normally enough to heat or cool things; one flush to start decomposing our waste; one remote control to find cultural or spiritual inspiration.
Or so it often seems. It is easy to forget that all of this, without exception, comes directly or indirectly from nature. The fundamental realities of our life on earth have not changed.
We still need fresh water to drink, food to eat, clean air to breathe and medicine when we are sick. Our crops still need to be pollinated. We still need natural beauty to fulfill our artistic, religious and spiritual lives. Nature is quite simply the basic infrastructure of all our societies, economies and culture.
These are ecosystem services, the services that nature provides, mostly for free. They are the vital support that our societies, economies and cultures need to survive and thrive. The natural infrastructure that provides all of these fundamental services is biodiversity: the enormous variety of plants, animals and their natural habitats, linked intricately and elegantly together in billions of ways.
But this essential infrastructure is breaking down, at an ever-quickening pace. In the never-ending quest to improve our lives – and especially in recent decades – we have been disturbing and destroying ecosystems, the natural places where plants, animals and micro-organisms live together.
Our wanton use and abuse of nature has caused many unique species to become extinct. In short, we are destroying the very natural infrastructure that supports us, at an ever-increasing rate.
A country that does not maintain its road or rail infrastructure will crumble and damage its economic growth. Our natural infrastructure, infinitely more necessary to our prosperity – will also break down without protection.
22 % of all known mammals,
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is the world's regular health check on biodiversity and it makes for alarming reading.
According to the latest update of the Red List, 22 percent of all known mammals, 30 percent of all known amphibians, 12 percent of all known birds, and 28 percent of reptiles, 37 percent of freshwater fish species, 70 percent of plants, 35 percent of invertebrates, assessed so far, are under threat.
The current global rate of species extinction is estimated to be one thousand times the 'natural' rate of loss in pre-human times. And it is accelerating.
A road can be repaired, but a species that goes extinct is lost forever.
|More than 60% of
ecosystem services
worldwide are degraded.
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, a recent study by more than 1,300 scientists over four years, found that more than 60% of ecosystem services worldwide are degraded. Huge areas of forest have disappeared, fisheries have collapsed, rivers and wetlands are polluted.
Another major study, The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB), reported last year that the annual global cost of biodiversity and ecosystem damage already runs to several trillion dollars.
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1.1 billion poor people
depend on nature.
The study also tells us that half the welfare of the world's 1.1 billion poor people flows from nature. Biodiversity loss deprives our descendants of vast benefits. Biodiversity loss cuts us off from the wonders of nature, makes us less human.
2010 is the International Year of Biodiversity. More than 190 countries, through the UN's Convention on Biological Diversity, agreed in 2002 on a target to reduce the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010.
Although information is incomplete on global and local trends, and we lack baselines and metrics, it is painfully clear that this objective – vague and difficult to measure as it has been – will not be met.
But there is no 'in 10 years time', or 'in 20 years time'. We do not have this luxury. This year is the International Year of Biodiversity. This year is the time to take action.
|In October 2010, the Convention
on Biological Diversity will evaluate
the 2010 target and agree on new
biodiversity targets.
In September this year, the UN General Assembly will address the biodiversity crisis for the first time. In October, the Convention will meet in Nagoya, Japan to evaluate the 2010 target and agree on new biodiversity targets for the world.
World leaders need to thrash out a new commitment to protect and invest in our natural infrastructure before it is too late.
|We need realistic targets
and simple indicators
to measure progress.
They must sign up to a clear biodiversity roadmap for this coming decade with realistic targets and strong monitoring and enforcement mechanisms.
To measure progress we need indicators that are simple, relevant, measurable, locally and globally scalable, and designed for use by all: governments, business, academia and civil society.
|We must address
the direct causes
of biodiversity loss.
The direct causes of biodiversity loss – habitat destruction on land and at sea, resource overexploitation, climate change, pollution, invasive species – as well as indirect causes such as unsustainable consumption, globalization and demographic change, must be included in any deal.
All types of species and natural habitats have to be included, not just the ones that make it on television. We need to better protect and manage natural places where biodiversity can thrive. Areas that are specifically protected, such as national parks and World Heritage sites, are extremely important in preventing biodiversity loss.
And the roadmap must be inextricably linked to the climate roadmap, reflecting the crucial role of resilient ecosystems in helping us reduce carbon emissions and adapt to climate change.
|We need a clear
of the facts.
Effective action starts with a clear understanding of the facts. We need above all good science. From Charles Darwin to the latest IUCN research we have learned a lot about biodiversity, but there is so much that we don't know.
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has demonstrated that independent, credible research can be carried out in a way that is useful to those who take decisions affecting our planet. We must give the same financial and political support to the newly proposed Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
We need a clear timeline:
Moreover the timeline must be clear and logical. By 2015, put in place actions to deal with what causes biodiversity loss. By 2020 stop biodiversity loss completely. By 2050, achieve a vision that sees forests, wetlands, coral reefs and other habitats comprehensively restored to give us a truly resilient natural infrastructure.
If a third of your family were threatened with extinction, or if only one third of your business was productive, or if you were losing trillions of dollars a year, would you be worried? Would you do something about it?
This is the question for all of us as we head to Nagoya, especially the politicians who will sign the deal.
We are the species that caused this problem. We are the only species that can fix it. This year is the time to do it.


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Terrell Suggs might not be in the game right now, but Tuesday night, he'll be on TV.
The Ravens linebacker will be a judge -- or as they say on the program, a "very special guest" -- on a reality show for tattoo artists called "Ink Master."
On the judges panel, Suggs joins tattoo artists Oliver Peck and Chris Nunez to help decide which tattoo artist deserves a shot at a $100,000 prize. Dave Navarro of Jane's Addiction is the host.
The show airs at 10 p.m. Tuesday on the Spike channel. It's the season premiere.
The episode is teased with an online clip.
After being introduced, the linebacker comes out to big applause and a bit of delighted yelling.
"I have a great appreciation for body art," Suggs tells the camera. "As a football player, we love tattoos. You turn on any television on Sunday, you'll see tons of tattoos out there on the field."
You'll certainly see tons on Suggs. His ink includes swirls all down one arm, a star and some other stuff on the other and an inked chest. Those are at least the parts we know.
Earlier this year, Suggs was part of PETA's Ink not Mink campaign, which urged people to wear tattoos, not fur. Navarro was part of that, too, as well as Tommy Lee and Willis McGahee.
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When the email landed in my inbox late last week, forwarded by a friend in Iowa Republican circles, the subject line— Whose side are you on?—caught my attention. "You guys see this?" my friend wrote at the top. "They must be getting scared."
The message itself was a battle cry issued by the libertarian wing of our state GOP. "The Republican Party, forged in the fire of the American Civil War, is embroiled in a civil war of its own," it declared. "Conservatives and liberty activists across Iowa must come together and fight to hold our ground."
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The message was signed by Joel Kurtinitis, a member of the Republican Party of Iowa's State Central Committee, and sent by Liberty Iowa, a libertarian PAC. But I saw A.J. Spiker's fingerprints all over it.
For more than a year, my Republican friends and the party activists I've known for years have been complaining with increasing intensity about Spiker, a 34-year-old realtor and former Ron Paul aide who is the unlikely chair of the Iowa Republican Party. It's been a crazy kind of war, complete with Facebook unfriending, rumors and name-calling. Now, Republican Gov. Terry Branstad's political team is finally gearing up to try to get rid of Spiker. At the governor's big birthday bash with special guest Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Saturday night, Branstad's reelection campaign team asked donors to sign up to serve as delegates at the county, district and state conventions so they can take back the party leadership.
Judging from Kurtinitis's email last week, Spiker and his allies know the fight is coming. "They're going to show up to the caucuses and conventions, and run you out of the party," the email warns in a bold font. It accuses the party establishment of championing "liberal policies" and engineering "sellouts."
"But grassroots conservatives were watching," it says. "And now we are fighting back."
"Never have I seen the Republican Party of Iowa so dysfunctional," says Bill Dahlsten, who's been involved in Iowa politics since 1972, organizing congressional races and serving on his county GOP committee. "A.J. Spiker," Dahlsten tells me, "is like Rome's later emperors—the personification of self-indulgence."
In his short, stormy tenure, he has been accused of abandoning traditional Republican causes in order to promote his libertarian agenda; a common refrain these days is that RPI no longer stands for the Republican Party of Iowa but for Rand Paul, Inc. "The current leadership of the Republican Party of Iowa draws parallels with the Obama administration," says Andy Cable, the Hardin County GOP co-chair: "seriously ill-prepared, incompetent and owing their loyalties to a view that is contrary to what they mislead voters with, being deceitful as to what their real agenda was." Regardless of what side you're on—and everyone here is taking sides—the feud comes at a terrible time, with the state's first open Senate seat in 40 years up for grabs in 2014 and Branstad running for an unprecedented sixth term.
A.J. Spiker is like Rome's later emperors—the personification of self-indulgence."
Our internal battle mirrors the national Republican Party's ideological struggles, as a new generation of assertive Tea Partiers joins forces with the libertarian-minded followers of Rand and Ron Paul to push aside the GOP establishment. But this is Iowa, home of retail politics. The rest of the country may only pay attention once every four years, when caucus season rolls around and we turn into president-makers, but even long after the cameras have returned to their previously scheduled partisan-warfare-in-Washington programming, we're still at it back here in Des Moines. And the civil war I've been watching unfold over the last two years is one that may well have consequences for 2016 and beyond.
Then again, watching it all play out can seem an awful lot like a petty high school squabble.
First, the unfriending. Since last spring, Spiker has been going through his Facebook account and deleting longtime Republican activists and even elected officials; some have raised a public stink about it, like Wes Enos, a former member of the State Central Committee, who posted on Facebook: "He dropped me from his list when I refused to support his re-election."
Spiker has said he's just purging political contacts from his personal Facebook page, but that's not how it's perceived. Many who were cut say it happened right after they had done something Spiker didn't like. Spiker unfriended me too after my website, the Iowa Republican, posted a video earlier this year of an argument between Spiker's executive director and some county chairs. We met for a beer summit afterward to try to patch things up. But nothing changed, and he wouldn't talk to me for this article.
It's kind of like letting the geeks in high school have control over everything," one long-time Republican operative complains. "They think they know how it all works, but in reality, they are completely clueless."
At first, most Republicans I know thought Spiker's objective was all about advancing the libertarian cause in 2012, one of those every-four-year-problems that would go away as soon as the presidential election was over. Spiker—who rose to power on a wave of anti-Mitt Romney sentiment in Iowa after Romney blew off the state in advance of the 2012 caucuses—had been Ron Paul's Iowa vice chairman leading up to Paul's 2012 primary campaign, and he soon used his new position more as a platform to demonstrate his loyalty to Paul than to promote the party as a whole. Thanks largely to his efforts and those of a small cabal of Paul enthusiasts, the Iowa delegation at the 2012 national convention in Tampa delivered 22 of its 28 national delegates for the Texas congressman Paul, even though he had finished third in the state's caucuses, after former Sen. Rick Santorum and Romney. Many assumed that throwing the state's delegates to Paul was Spiker's endgame, but it now appears he was only getting started.


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On their third date, a decade ago, Anna Sher and Fran Simon sat in a religious service holding hands. Months passed before, they confessed to each other that they both had imagined, during that date, their wedding ceremony.
They took a big step closer to that dream Tuesday as they prepared for a Colorado law to take effect at midnight that allows gay and lesbian couples to enter civil unions, a hard-won legal recognition. Before the women Tuesday tried on the wedding dresses they had worn at a commitment ceremony at the Denver Botanic Gardens in August 2005, they thought about the future, just as they had back then.
"Fran said we should get married before we had children," said Anna Simon.
The couple have a son, Jeremy, who turns 6 in July.
They planned to wear the gowns to their midnight ceremony at Denver's Wellington E. Webb Building to become one of the first same-sex couples in Colorado to obtain a civil union, after a dinner and reception that more than 700 people had planned to attend across the street from the municipal hall.
County clerks in Denver and Boulder were open at midnight to issue licenses, while clerks in other counties planned to begin issuing licenses at 8 a.m. Wednesday.
Denver Mayor Michael Hancock and U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Denver, were to be among the officiants.
About 500 guests enjoyed a pre-ceremony dinner and speeches at the McNichols Building in Civic Center.
"One Colorado will not stop fighting until the dignity of all Coloradans is respected," the organization's executive director, Brad Clark, told the formally dressed crowd.
The audience gave a standing ovation before and after an address by Hancock.
"We are one Colorado!" he shouted. They shouted back, "We are one Colorado!"
"We will not stop until our state residents … have full marriage equality," Hancock said.
Opponents' concerns
Opponents to civil unions said the passage of the law doesn't change their concerns.
"Civil unions will necessarily redefine the fundamental unit of society, which is the family," said Karna Swanson, spokeswoman for the Catholic Archdiocese of Denver. "The church believes the institution of marriage is between a man and a woman, and this forms the basis of society.
"More than anything else, we need to have a sane and sober discussion about what the consequences are of redefining the structure of the family."
Carrie Gordon Earl, senior director of issue analysis for government and public policy at Citizenlink, an affiliate of Colorado-based Focus on the Family, said in a statement Tuesday that civil unions pose a threat to religious freedom for those who oppose it.
"Law supporters failed to protect the religious freedom of small-business owners — bakers, photographers, florists — whose religious convictions prevent them from involvement in same-sex civil union celebrations," she said.
Faith-based child-placement agencies — as well as judges, magistrates and other civil servants — asked to officiate a same-sex civil union, could be forced to decide between their faith and the law.
"Why the big push for civil unions?" Earl said. "The reason is to clear the way to legalize same-sex marriage."
That step will have to wait for a national edict because Colorado voters approved a constitutional amendment that banned same-sex marriage in 2006.
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule on the question of same-sex marriage in June.
For the first time in Colorado history, however, same-sex couples can now form civil unions and have the same legal privileges as other couples.
Moreover, the piece of paper validates their commitment in the eyes of the law.
Definition of family
For Denver residents Mark Thrun and Geoffrey Bateman, the fathers of two sons they share with a lesbian couple, it's about recognizing their definition of family.
"We are a family, and to have our family honored and recognized is enormously important to us," Thrun said. "We know that we are a family, but to have it validated in the eyes of the law is important."
Thrun asked Bateman to marry him about eight years ago by a fountain in the Montmartre district of Paris. When they were in the City of Love again a couple of years later, Thrun carried matching watches in a box waiting for the right moment to add a symbol of their bond. The surprise was spoiled when Bateman, looking for a map, found them in a bag. They put on the watches and shared an embrace.
"I think both of us thought for a long time that's all there would be," Thrun said.
Both men took Tuesday afternoon off work — Thrun is a doctor at Denver Public Health; Bateman is an assistant professor at Regis University — and have no immediate plans for a honeymoon.
"We're anxiously awaiting what the Supreme Court does," Thrun said of the high court's decision. "We may be planning a marriage."
Fran and Anna Simon have been waiting a decade.
They met March 2, 2003, the way many couples do: on an online dating site. Their first date was at a dog park. Anna fell hard for Fran, who volunteered to take companion dogs to nursing homes and other places people need comfort.
"When I came home from that date, my housemate said, 'Wow, something special happened to you today,' " Anna Simon said. "I saw her and knew within a few hours something was different. Something was special."
On the second date, Fran joined her in love. They were in an antiques shop full of books, and from a collection of poems by Emily Dickinson, Anna recited one titled "I Took My Power in My Hand."
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Aurelia Spencer Rogers, a 44-year-old mother of 12, felt strongly that something should be done about the behavior of the neighborhood boys who ran freely through the town day and night. She felt many of these children were not being taught basic principles and values and therefore would not be prepared in either knowledge or behavior to carry the gospel forward, or even to be good parents or citizens.
Sister Rogers discussed her concerns and a plan of action with General Relief Society President Eliza R. Snow. With the approval of President John Taylor and after receiving a calling from her bishop, Sister Rogers began planning for the first meeting of the Primary Association. Since these leaders decided that "singing was necessary," girls were also invited to "make it sound as well as it should." Children ages 4 to 14 were invited to participate in the first Primary.
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Primary founder: 1878
While Aurelia Rogers never served as General President of the Primary, she has always been recognized as its founder. During its first decade, the Primary Association was organized in almost every LDS settlement. From its beginning, Primary included songs, poetry, and activities. All the children met together during the first 10 years. After that, they were divided into age-groups.
Eliza R. Snow
De facto General Primary President: 1878–1887
During the earliest years of Primary, Eliza R. Snow, as General President of the Relief Society, was the de facto General Primary President. She traveled throughout the Latter–day Saint communities of the American West, encouraging the organization of local Primaries and instructing new presidencies.
Louie Bouton Felt
First General Primary President: 1880–1925
Thirty–year–old Louie B. Felt was the Primary president of the Salt Lake City Eleventh Ward when she was called as the first General President of the new Primary Association in 1880. She continued her service as the ward Primary president and only gradually assumed full leadership responsibilities for the general Primary. Before Sister Felt was released in 1925, much that is still familiar in Primary today was in place.
May Anderson
General Primary President: 1925–1939
In 1925, longtime Primary worker May Anderson became the second General President of the Primary. Sister Anderson, a convert from England, met Sister Felt only five years after the Primary had first been organized. They became close friends, and she was soon called as the secretary to the General Primary Presidency and then served for many years as a counselor to Sister Felt before receiving her call as General President.
May Green Hinckley
General Primary President: 1940–1943
Having lived outside the American West much of her life, May Hinckley brought an appreciation of the challenges those members faced to her call as the third General President of the Primary in 1940. During her short three and a half years of service, Sister Hinckley and her board created a new curriculum that consolidated the spiritual foundations of Primary and added a scripture reading program for leaders and teachers.
Adele Cannon Howells
General Primary President: 1943–1951
Prior to her call as the fourth General President of the Primary in 1943, Adele Howells had been editor of the Children's Friend, making it much more child friendly, and she continued that interest throughout her service. She commissioned Arnold Friberg to create his now-famous series of Book of Mormon paintings for the magazine and encouraged children to contribute dimes for the new Primary Children's Hospital.
LaVern Watts Parmley
General Primary President: 1951–1974
During Sister Parmley's 23 years as the fifth General President of the Primary, Scouting became an important part of the boys' program. The girls were encouraged to bring their own copies of a special edition of the New Testament to Primary. The favorite song "I Am a Child of God" was introduced in 1957, the new Primary Children's Hospital was completed, and the Friend magazine became the Church's magazine for children.
Naomi Maxfield Shumway
General Primary President: 1974–1980
The theme of Sister Shumway's administration was "Primary is to train, not entertain." As the sixth President, she worked to strengthen the spiritual foundation of every child; reverence and teacher training received renewed emphasis. The worldwide Church was now a reality, and every decision had to be considered by how it would affect the newest branches in far corners of the world. In 1978 the Primary celebrated its 100th birthday.
Dwan Jacobsen Young
General Primary President: 1980–1988
Dwan Young, seventh General Primary President, took over the reins of Primary in 1980 just as the consolidated meeting schedule was being implemented worldwide. New curriculum was prepared for Sunday Primary, with program adjustments that met the circumstances of members around the globe. With Primary now an hour and a half, sharing time became an additional means of involving children and teaching the gospel.
Michaelene Packer Grassli
General Primary President: 1988–1994
Church programs continued to be simplified during the years of Sister Grassli's presidency. Rather than sending out scripts for the annual Primary sacrament meeting program, a short booklet outlining the annual theme with suggestions for implementing it during the year now went out to all Church units. After 10 years of development, the beautiful new Children's Songbook was also introduced during these years.
Patricia Peterson Pinegar
General Primary President: 1994–1999
As the Church continued to grow, the Primary needed to adapt to an ever wider range of circumstances. During her tenure as the ninth President, Sister Pinegar organized a simply structured curriculum. Now all Primary classes would be taught from only three different manuals a year, depending on the ages of the children. An expanded Achievement Days program for girls 8 to 11 years old paralleled the Cub Scout program for boys.
Coleen Kent Menlove
General Primary President: 1999–2005
Sister Menlove's focus as the 10th General President of the Primary was to prepare children for their future roles in the Church. In 2003, a new Faith in God program was introduced with separate guidebooks for boys and girls that were designed to help boys prepare for the Aaronic Priesthood and girls to become righteous young women. The Primary website on ChurchofJesusChrist.org was also launched and expanded during her years of service.
Cheryl C. Lant
General Primary President: 2005–2010
During Sister Lant's years as the 11th General President of the Primary, the format of the outline for sharing time was revised and a Gospel Art Book was published, helping children learn more directly from the scriptures. Also, a new nursery manual was published and a new Church handbook, published in 2010, helped leaders and teachers use gospel leadership principles to prepare and plan for gospel growth.
Rosemary M. Wixom
General Primary President: 2010–2016
Sister Rosemary M. Wixom was sustained as the 12th General President of the Primary on April 3, 2010. She was raised in Salt Lake City and attended Utah State University, where she graduated in elementary education. She and her husband, B. Jackson Wixom, are the parents of six children and have nine grandchildren. Before her call as president, she served on the Primary general board, the Young Women general board, and with her husband as he served as president of the Washington D.C. South Mission.
Joy D. Jones
General Primary President: 2016–present
Sister Joy D. Jones serves as the 13th General President of the Primary. She was born in The Dalles, Oregon. She met her husband, Robert B. Jones, while they were both students at Brigham Young University, and they were married in the Manti Utah Temple in August 1974. They are parents to five children, and they have 19 grandchildren. Before her call as president, she enjoyed many leadership opportunities within the Church in various ward and stake capacities in the Primary, Young Women, and Relief Society organizations, as well as serving on the Primary general board.


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Apphia Campbell's stunning solo inspired by the life of Nina Simone is touring in a double bill with her Soul Sessions cabaret
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A flasher allegedly got more than he bargained for when he approached a woman at a lake in Washington state this week: a Ruger .380 pointing back at him.
"I put the magazine in my gun. I cocked it," the woman told The Daily News online. "I said, 'You need to leave or I'll shoot you. I'm going to blow your brains out.'"
The gun reportedly had the intended effect.
"Oh, [expletive]!" the man declared, according to the paper, before running away.
The 35-year-old woman was at Lake Sacajawea in Longview, Wash., with her 6-year-old son and a dog Wednesday evening when the man approached, police confirmed to NBC News.
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Colour Bland: ContrastOctober 01, 2003
This is the continuation of a series. View previous.
Greyscale is only one method of removing colour from an image, and as it turns out, it's an unrealistic way of doing it. The term colour-blind is misleading - almost no one sees in literal black and white (although that's tempting to disbelieve at times when debating).
'Colour deficiency' is a more descriptive label. There are two main categories of deficiencies (and a handful of rarities and sub-types):
- Anomalous Trichromacy
- The least severe, those afflicted are still able to sense most or all colour, but ability to distinguish between them is reduced.
- Dichromacy
- Less common, but more severe, dichromats have problems with reds and greens, leaving them swimming in a world of blue and yellowy brown.
Referring back to part one, you will recall that value indicates how much light a colour reflects. Blues are darker than yellows, for example (view sample images). In most cases of colourblindness, the values don't seem to shift too radically.
Except when it comes to warm colours. Those afflcited with Protanopia (a variation of Dichromacy) see even the brightest reds as dark brown or black. This can very well mean that the viewer of a brightly-lit red stoplight would fail to notice it's even on.
So let's apply this to our work then. In part one we discussed the legibility of text, and how value affects the perception of individual colours. Let's extend that and look at how using value effectively can increase contrast of text and background colour, keeping in mind that there will be some who won't be able to view our work with a set of eyes similar to ours.
We can start with the basic principles: black on white offers the most contrast, so blue or purple on white is a step down. However, blue and purple both have darker values than, say, orange or yellow, so they offer an intermediate point between full contrast and little to none.
Conversely, black text on a yellow or orange background is only a step down from black text on white. Black on blue can be quite near impossible to read.
This applies to saturated colours. The following figure shows instances of orange text on white and black text on purple that actually offer enough contrast for most users:
Of course, the preceding examples have assumed full colour capabilities. But they've also carefully managed to avoid colour combinations that present major problems. The most common trouble spots are red and green, so what of them?
There are two directions these could go. The colourblind viewer might see these with a brightness shift, or without a brightness shift. Both instances can potentially occur, and the results may be different depending on which type of colour deficiency the viewer suffers:
It's tempting to think that, because you're designing for a screen, the light emitted will be enough to prevent the dark variants from occuring. That is to say, even if a viewer can't see the hue, they can still see light, and so would be more inclined to see variant A over variant B. That's not the case however. Consider the red stop light example from earlier. Red is dark for some, whether it's flat colour on a printed surface, or bright red light.
So the only hard and fast rule here is that there are no hard and fast rules. You can't reliably predict what the end user will view when using problem colours like red or green.
The safest way to ensure your message gets across is, unsurprisingly, by following the WCAG guideline on the matter:
Ensure that text and graphics are understandable when viewed without color.
If color alone is used to convey information, people who cannot differentiate between certain colors and users with devices that have non-color or non-visual displays will not receive the information. When foreground and background colors are too close to the same hue, they may not provide sufficient contrast when viewed using monochrome displays or by people with different types of color deficits.
There is one small grey area, ironically. If you use a blue link within a field of black text, you are excluding almost nobody. The types of vision that can't see blue are incredibly rare, and those afflicted have trouble viewing a computer monitor anyway.
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Your first article on colour scales reminded me of hue exercises in art school. I still use one of the tricks I learned to examine colour contrasts for my web designs. Print the design in colour, then photocopy it. If it all goes black, flat gray, or bleaches out, chances are some people will have a problem viewing it.
Good articles Dave.
Sincerely, JR Prospal
I think Joe can be a little spiky, too, when he wants to be. :-)
OT, slightly, Oliver Sacks has fascinating book on an "island of the colourblind":
Thank you for all this effort Dave. For some reason when people talk about accessibility they only think of screen readers and other extreme cases. The number of people that have trouble with contrast or colors dwarfs the number that use an SR, and I'm glad you are drawing attention to them. I am forever haunted by one of my best friend's received an F in 4th grade, all because the test asked to map color-coded countries of Europe to the legend. His relatively severe red/green color blindness (he can't tell the difference between red and green traffic lights), made distinguishing the various hues utterly impossible.
Weak eyesight and color blindness are the two main reasons I cite when I state that Flash has made ZERO real accessibility improvements. You still can't pause movies, you can't change the font size, and you can't change the color palette, these things are all left to the designer, and most budgets don't allow for such things.
Thanks Dave, colour-blindness is something a whole lot of people are trying to grasp how to design for. It sits squarely in that grey area between users with screen-reader dependence and users with full vision.
Relating to the Flash comment above.. Flash wasn't supposed to make any improvments.
Its an animation tool, one that happens to be used by bad designers when they want something shiny to catch the usual users inner magpie.
The problem lies not with the tool, but how its used.
There is one more area to consider when choosing color and designing for the visually impaired. My office mate uses ZoomText and I was amazed to notice when testing that some text & background combinations broke up and become unreadable when Zoomed. One of her visually impaired students refused to use ZoomText to view the web because he felt most sites' text broke up when he Zoomed up to 7 or 8 magnification.
It seems extreme contrast is often as bad as low contrast in this situation. In playing around we found that a very slightly off-white background or a slightly grayed black on pure white background worked the best. Most of the darker colors worked fine on pure white.
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If you've been following along recently, you've probably noticed that my Crazy Lady diagnostic status is up in the air. Well, not exactly – everyone still thinks I'm crazy, but after more than two years, the docs still haven't figured out what's going on. Sad but true.
When I started this blog, my diagnoses were Bipolar Disorder II and Attention Deficit Disorder. Earlier diagnoses included Major Depressive Disorder (Recurrent), and Anxiety Disorder NOS (not otherwise specified). More recently, I was handed Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (aka Depressive Disorder NOS). Mood Disorder NOS shows up on my test orders, but Bipolar II is still on my therapy slips. NOS fits nicely, I think, since it basically means "something's definitely screwy but we don't know what."
The lack of diagnostic certainty around the mood disorder used to bother me, but I basically don't care anymore so long as I get what I need (as if). However, unlike the mood-related brain cooties, the ADD Dx has 100% agreement from every single clinician. Not once or twice, but five times, and verified by computer-based testing. So that diagnosis is sticking. I wish the rest were as clear.
The bottom line is that with so much uncertainty, I'm really not comfortable with my blog tagline anymore – "Bipolar bird tells all" hardly seems to capture the crazy properly and I'm a stickler for truth in advertising. Plus it was never really that good of a tagline.
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Calling Becks up to the bigs may have provided us with the funniest unintentional nickname of all time. Due to manager Ozzie Guillen's obvious inabilities to enunciate the English language properly, his attempts at Beckham sounded more like Bacon.
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Two days into practice, Wabash College head football coach Erik Raeburn likes what he's seen from his 2012 Little Giants.
"The effort has just been great through the practices," Raeburn said. "I thought our players showed up in shape and ready to go. The entire coaching staff is very optimistic about the upcoming season based upon what we've seen in the first few days of practice."
Wabash is coming off a 12-1 season and a sixth North Coast Athletic Conference title in 2011. The Little Giants advanced to the quarterfinals of the NCAA Division III Football Playoffs with a 38-20 victory over Illinois College and thrilling, come-from-behind 29-28 win against sixth-ranked North Central College. Wabash lost its quarterfinal contest against national runner-up Mount Union 20-8. The Little Giants are the favorite among NCAC football coaches to repeat as league champions this season.
The 2012 squad features 11 returning starters from last year's team. Seven of those players line up on the defensive side of the football, a unit that finished in the top-15 in the nation in points allowed per game (12.92 ppg), rushing defense (78.08 ypg), and total defense (249.46 ypg).
CJ Gum, two-time NCAC Defensive Player of the Year, graduated after leading Wabash with 105 total tackles. However, the next four top tacklers are back, led by two youngsters. Sophomore linebackers Cody Buresh and AJ Akinribade were second and third on the team with 72 and 65 tackles, respectively, in their rookie seasons. Buresh added 3-1/2 sacks and 9-1/2 tackles for losses to earn Honorable Mention All-NCAC honors. Akinribade tied for the team lead with six sacks and ranked second with 14-1/2 tackles for losses. He was a First Team All-NCAC pick while becoming the first Little Giant to be named NCAC Newcomer of the Year.
Re-joining Buresh and Akrinibade at linebacker is junior Nate Scola. The Arizona native played in five games and made 31 tackles in 2011 before a knee injury ended his season. Senior Kyle Bottos is also expected to make the move from defensive back to linebacker after a knee injury shortened his junior season.
Senior Pat Clegg and juniors Zach Breuckman and Jorge Diaz-Aguilar will anchor the defensive line for Wabash. Clegg, a First Team All-NCAC selection at defensive tackle, recorded 63 total tackles, including a team-high 19 tackles for losses totaling 60 yards. His six sacks tied for team-high honors.
"Our team goals have never changed," Clegg said. "We want to win a national championship, win a conference championship, and win the Monon Bell game. I think with a lot of good work and everyone giving a good individual effort we can get that done."
Diaz-Aguilar started all 13 games at defensive end, finishing the season with 44 tackles. He also picked up three of the Little Giants' eight blocked kicks. Breuckman finished with 12 tackles in eight games, earning starts in the final six of the final seven contests of the season. Charlie Kolisek added 10 tackles in nine games and could earn the final starting spot in line of the 4-3 defense.
The brothers Hodges will enjoy one final season together at cornerback. Senior Austin was joined last year by his younger brother Houston — a sophomore this season — as the starting corners. The two combined for 64 tackles and six interceptions, with Austin earning First Team All-NCAC honors while Houston was an Honorable Mention selection. Jonathon Koop started the final four games of the regular season, but still finished fourth on the team in total tackles with 64. Denzel Wilkins played primarily as a fifth defensive back as a freshman and should battle for a starting spot this season. He picked off two passes, including one for a 28-yard TD return against DePauw in the Monon Bell Classic.
Only four starters are back from last year's team that averaged 31.0 points and 352.2 yards a game. Leading the way up front is Weston Kitley. The senior tackle earned All-America honors in 2010 and is a D3football.com Preseason All-America selection this year. While he is the only returning starter on the offensive line, several returning players bring game-day experience to the 2012 Wabash team. Mark Riffle, Scott Campbell, Andrew Weyler, and Patrick Singleton all saw action on the offensive line last season and could move into a starting spot this year.
Kitley has seen some early positive results of his teammates' spring and summer preparation.
"Everyone seems to have worked very hard in the offseason," Kitley said. "We have some good competition going on with players at a lot of positions, and that's always good. I believe we're ready to play. We're excited for the season to get underway and go out to try and win some games."
Senior Chase Belton is 18-1 during his career as the starting quarterback for Wabash. He threw for 2,022 yards and 20 TDs last year, completing 142-of-262 passes. Belton missed one playoff game against North Central with a knee injury, but should be healthy to start the 2012 campaign. Junior Andy Walsh played in 5 games, throwing for 27 yards. Senior Vince Kenney has seen limited action over his career, but will also be in the mix.
James Kraus and Jeff Bell are the only returning starters as receivers for the Little Giants. Kraus was third on the team in receptions, catching 12 passes for 2141 yards and two scores. Bell made three receptions for 19 yards, but two of his three catches went for touchdowns as a tight end for the Little Giants. Junior Sean Hildebrand is poised for a breakout season after starting four games last season. He caught 12 passes for 206 yards.
Senior Vann Hunt started all 13 games at running back last year, rushing for a team-high 744 yards and four TDs while earning Second Team All-NCAC honors. Tyler Holmes and Derek Rowe join Hunt in the backfield, as do converted defensive players Troy Meyers and Andrew Gibson. Holmes finished with 112 carries for 494 yards and four scores in 2011. Rowe ran for 195 yards and one score. Belton proved his mobility in the backfield, rushing for 461 yards and 10 TDs last season. Meyers saw limited duty as a running back last season, while Gibson started as a defensive back in 13 games.
Senior Cameron Sobleski and junior Ian MacDougall are back to handle the kicking duties. Sobleski averaged 39.9 yards per punt last season. MacDougall connected on 48 extra points and hit 5-of-10 field goal attempts in his first season as the Little Giants' kicker after playing soccer as a freshman.
Wabash will need to answer some questions in its return game. The Little Giants lost two-time All-American Wes Chamblee to graduation. Chamblee returned four kickoff and punt returns for touchdowns last year and ranked third in Division III with an average of 21.85 yards per punt return. Chamblee averaged 25.9 yards per kickoff return.
A group of 50 freshmen are joined by junior transfer Jon Laird as newcomers to the Wabash squad in 2012. Several are expected to make an immediate impact and could vie for starting positions.
"Obviously with another large group of first-year players you're starting from scratch in many ways," Raeburn said. "You're really coaching a different team, so any comparisons to last year really don't work. You hope the older, experienced players pick up close to where they left off last season.
"Every year the dynamic of your team is different, the personality is different. The biggest challenge at the start of the season is figuring out what your identity will be. That's what we're trying to do as coaches right now. Our veteran players need to be almost perfect mentally, be in the best shape, and provide the type of leadership we need to be successful."
The Little Giants will open the season ranked 10th in the D3football.com preseason poll, the highest preseason ranking for Wabash by the national web site. The season begins on Saturday, September 8 with a non-conference road game at Hanover, followed by an NCAC contest on September 15 at Denison. The Little Giants open the home portion of the season Saturday, September 22 against Allegheny.


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