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On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes
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From the author of the #1 New York Times giant bestseller Inside of a Dog comes an equally smart, delightful, and startling exploration of how we perceive our surroundings.
From the author of the giant #1 New York Times bestseller Inside of a Dog comes an equally smart, delightful, and startling exploration of how we perceive and discover our world.
Alexandra Horowitz's brilliant On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes shows us how to see the spectacle of the ordinary—to practice, as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle put it, "the observation of trifles." On Looking is structured around a series of eleven walks the author takes, mostly in her Manhattan neighborhood, with experts on a diverse range of subjects, including an urban sociologist, the well-known artist Maira Kalman, a geologist, a physician, and a sound designer. She also walks with a child and a dog to see the world as they perceive it. What they see, how they see it, and why most of us do not see the same things reveal the startling power of human attention and the cognitive aspects of what it means to be an expert observer.
As the million-plus readers of Inside of a Dog have discovered, Alexandra Horowitz is charmingly adept at explaining the mysteries of human perception. Trained as a cognitive scientist, she discovers a feast of fascinating detail, all explained with her generous humor and self-deprecating tone. On Looking presents the same engaging combination, this time in service to understanding how human beings encounter their daily worlds and each other.
Page by page, Horowitz shows how much more there is to see—if only we would really look. On Looking is nutrition for the considered life, serving as a provocative response to our relentlessly virtual consciousness. So turn off the phone and other electronic devices and be in the real world—where strangers communicate by geometry as they walk toward one another, where sounds reveal shadows, where posture can display humility, and the underside of a leaf unveils a Lilliputian universe—where, indeed, there are worlds within worlds within worlds.
Alexandra Horowitz's On Looking confirms her place as one of today's most illuminating observers of our infinitely complex world.
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Alexandra Horowitz is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know and On Looking: A Walker's Guide to the Art of Observation. She teaches at Barnard College, where she runs the Dog Cognition Lab. She lives with her family and two large, highly sniffy dogs in New York City.
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On Looking
You missed that. Right now, you are missing the vast majority of what is happening around you. You are missing the events unfolding in your body, in the distance, and right in front of you.
By marshaling your attention to these words, helpfully framed in a distinct border of white, you are ignoring an unthinkably large amount of information that continues to bombard all of your senses: the hum of the fluorescent lights, the ambient noise in a large room, the places your chair presses against your legs or back, your tongue touching the roof of your mouth, the tension you are holding in your shoulders or jaw, the map of the cool and warm places on your body, the constant hum of traffic or a distant lawn-mower, the blurred view of your own shoulders and torso in your peripheral vision, a chirp of a bug or whine of a kitchen appliance.
This ignorance is useful: indeed, we compliment it and call it concentration. Our ignorance/concentration enables us to not just notice the scrawls on the page but also to absorb them as intelligible words, phrases, ideas. Alas, we tend to bring this focus to every activity we do—not just the most complicated but also the most quotidian. To a surprising extent, time spent going to and fro—walking down the street, traveling to work, heading to the store or a child's (or one's own) school—is unremembered. It is forgotten not because nothing of interest happens. It is forgotten because we failed to pay attention to the journey to begin with. On the phone, worrying over dinner, listening to others or to the to-do lists replaying in our own heads, we miss the world making itself available to be observed. And we miss the possibility of being surprised by what is hidden in plain sight right in front of us.
It was my dog who prompted me to consider that these daily journeys could be done . . . better. Bring a well-furred, wide-eyed, sharp-nosed dog into your life, and suddenly you find yourself taking a lot of walks. Walks around the block, in particular. Over the last three decades, living with two dogs, my blocks have been classic city blocks—down the street and three right corners and home; they have been along sidewalked small towns and un-sidewalked, hilly villages. But what counted as a "block" was changeable. Heading out for what I imagined would be a quick circumnavigation, I often found myself led elsewhere by my dog: our "blocks" have become tours of city parks, zigzagging meanders through canyons, trots along the sides of highways, and, when we were lucky, down narrow forest paths.
After enough waylaid walks, I began trying to see what my dog was seeing (and smelling) that was taking us far afield. Minor clashes between my dog's preferences as to where and how a walk should proceed and my own indicated that I was experiencing almost an entirely different block than my dog. I was paying so little attention to most of what was right before us that I had become a sleepwalker on the sidewalk. What I saw and attended to was exactly what I expected to see; what my dog showed me was that my attention invited along attention's companion: inattention to everything else.
This book attends to that inattention. It is not a book about how to bring more focus to your reading of Tolstoy or how to listen more carefully to your spouse. It is not about how to avoid falling asleep at a public lecture or at your grandfather's tales of boyhood misadventures. It will not help you plan dinner for eight as you listen to books-on-tape and as you consult the GPS—all while you are driving.
In this book, I aimed to knock myself awake. I took that walk "around the block"—an ordinary activity engaged in by everyone nearly every day—dozens of times with people who have distinctive, individual, expert ways of seeing all the unattended, perceived ordinary elements I was missing. Together, we became investigators of the ordinary, considering the block—the street and everything on it—as a living being that could be observed.
In this way, the familiar becomes unfamiliar, and the old the new. My method took advantage of two elements. The first is inherent in each of us. We all have the capacity to really see what is in front of us. On moving to a new home, one's first approach is wide eyed—with senses alert to the various ways that this new block differs from one's old home: the trees provide more shade, or the cars are more plentiful, or the sidewalks are leaner, or the buildings are more deeply set back from the street. It is only after we have moved in, after we have walked the same street again and again, that we fall asleep to the block. Even the feeling of time passing changes on our walk: with less to notice, time speeds up. The capacity to attend is ours; we just forget how to turn it on.
The second element takes advantage of individual expertise. There is a certain bias in everyone's perspective that has been named, by the French, déformation professionnelle: the tendency to look at every context from the point of view of one's profession. The psychiatrist sees symptoms of diagnosable conditions in everyone from the grocery checkout cashier to his spouse; the economist views the simple buying of a cup of coffee as an example of a macroeconomic phenomenon. In the wrong context these experts are merely the people you try to avoid sitting next to at a dinner party. But applied to this project, these people are seers: able to bring attention to an element of a person's manner, or to a social interaction, that is often missed.
I live and work in a city—New York City—and thus have a special fascination with the humming life-form that is an urban street. To investigate, I took all the walks for this book in this and other cities, around ordinary blocks. My companions on these walks were people who have a distinct perspective on the world. Often, it was a perspective forged from explicit training, as with a doctor. For others, their sensibility was shaped by their passion—finding insect tracks or studying lettering, for example. Finally, for some, the way they see the world is part of their very constitution, as with a child, a blind person, or a dog. What follows is the record of eleven walks around the block I took with expert seers, who told me what they saw.
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Well, twelve walks. I began by walking around the block by myself. I wanted to record what I saw before I was schooled by my walking companions.
The air was already drunk with humidity when I stepped outside on that first morning. I chose to walk the blocks around my home because they are not particularly special blocks; I have a certain fondness for my neighborhood blocks, born of familiarity, but even as they have grown familiar, I realize that I rarely look at them. Nonetheless, I was sure that I would be able to describe them well. My eyes were not altogether amateur: I was knowingly walking to "see what I could see" and, furthermore, professionally I study animal behavior using a method that is, in essence, looking closely. On this walk, I set off at a slow pace with a reporter's notebook in hand, planning to reconstruct the scene later. Feeling wide eyed, I turned down the block.
My eyes rested first on the bags of trash by our curb. Shredded, formerly private papers were visible in their clear recycling bags. A beagle pulling on a long leash trotted by and unceremoniously defined the corner of the trash pile by urinating on it.
I scribbled down something about flowers in a tree pit. When I looked up, I was at the corner, flanked by two large, somber apartment buildings. I briefly coveted a free parking spot, a gaping space between cars along the curb. There was no decoration in front of the near building save two pipes—one a humble water pipe, the other a mysterious two-headed gnome. I did not investigate. A child scurried by. I was passed by a series of dog-person pairs, headed toward the park that was now at my back.
The walkers trod silently; the dogs said nothing. The only sound was the hum of air conditioners. A pretty, red brownstone, with a gracious, curved stoop, sat between a large stone building and a handful of white- and red-bricked specimens. But I barely looked up. There was too much to see on the ground. Each building on the block was marked by its characteristic pile of bags of trash. Something dribbled from each: a Q-tip (how does a Q-tip escape? I wondered), a chicken bone, sundry crumpled papers. I saw another Q-tip, and started to wonder about the ear health of my neighbors. As I continued, the trash piles grew messier, or the sidewalk narrower, or both. Moving aside to let someone pass, I was nearly seated in a small alcove along a building—perhaps a place to sit, but it was lined with spikes. I did not sit there.
I approached the next intersection, Broadway, a wide avenue with traffic running both directions. An older gentleman was resting in the median, unable to make it across both lanes of traffic in one go. As he resumed, he teetered, and I swung widely around him so as to not knock him off course.
Across the avenue, continuing east, a few commercial stores had escaped onto the side street: a small grocery, a rash of crushed cigarette butts outside its door; a hair salon, with a long awning to its entrance, oddly formal for a haircuttery. A stream of cars reversed its way down the block, some vehicles pulling into parking places and some backing heedlessly onto the avenue. I smelled trash. The sounds of a garbage truck straining to crush its load wafted from up ahead. A spill of spaghetti, cooked and sauced, formed a sunburst at my feet, attended to by a cluster of pigeons.
The garbage truck was out of sight, but it left a path of garbage leavings—marking the meals, cleaning habits, and unwanted memories of the hidden local inhabitants—from sidewalk to street. I took in the impatience of the drivers, all straining to see ahead, as though if they got a clear view of the impediment, it would dissipate. Watching them, I arrived at the building at the end of the block and turned right onto another busy avenue. Traffic came in waves as each scrum of cars caught the lights timed together running uptown. Every building had a storefront on its first floor, and at this early hour most of them were shuttered. Forgettable, indistinguishable signs topped the stores, advertising pizza and cleaners. Walking as I scribbled down notes, I missed whatever was on the next corner as I turned it. But I saw I had turned onto a tree-lined block, with one half providing an assurance of shade. I headed to it. Newly laid asphalt, deep black and glowing proudly in the morning's heat, gummed the soles of my shoes. Up ahead I saw, and then heard, a film-set truck. The block was taken over by those creating a simulacrum of the block for the day. The truck was a hub of human activity of an unidentifiable nature. Piles of metal rods, racks of poles, and stacked platforms, readied for work, sat on wheeled carts by the truck's rump. An audience of curious onlookers idled away the morning on brownstone stoops.
Each residence had its own one or two distinguishable features. At one building, there were rolled-up, rubber-banded newspapers just sitting on the step outside closed doors. I marveled, for the umpteenth time, that delivered newspapers do not just go missing every morning. Another building had ivy trained over its steps, forming a hopeful arch. A third presented a well-ordered set of trash cans underneath a metal fence.
Clustered along the curb were the loitering film crew and their loitering trucks, generators loudly generating. The crew wore badges or headsets, and nearly everyone held a coffee cup, some kind of early-morning security blanket. They stared at me: they had nothing to do, and they were not in their own neighborhoods, where eye contact is brief and polite. The smells of a nearby caterer caught me: breakfast. The front of a church I had never been in had become a gaping hole, its many doors propped widely open, as men in long shorts hoisted crates inside.
In the middle of this hubbub a honey locust tree sat broken. A recent furious storm had felled its top half, now folded messily next to its trunk. Passersby simply stepped around the police tape unhelpfully slung across it.
A breeze lured me from down the street and I reflexively pursued it, continuing back across Broadway. This block climbed ever-so-slightly up and then down a hill, which seemed to give it great character: the row of identical houses looked more intriguing at slightly different altitudes. On the second floor of one building an old dog studied me through the rails of a balcony. His ears dangled becomingly over his face, and he wagged as I greeted him.
Dominating the street was a single-family mansion, a true anomaly in this city. From behind its wall popped a squirrel, who headed across the street in fits and starts, pausing under a car and in the middle of the road before scurrying across and into a bush.
I turned my final corner, toward the mansion entrance, gazing up at its pair of stone lions waiting patiently for royalty that never arrives. A wooly caterpillar, his head crowned with four fearsome green horns, moved lazily on the first step, heading nowhere good for caterpillars. I scooched him onto a finger and deposited him in a nearby potted tree. I arrived back on my doorstep. The newspaper that should be rubber-banded outside my door had been stolen. I turned the key and was home.
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I had waltzed out my door with considerably more self-consciousness than usual, not unaware that I was out to take a "typical" walk around the block. I reveled in my naïveté, pleased to be embarking on a walk whose limitations I knew I would spend the rest of this book delineating. But I also thought to myself that I might just impress myself with my uncanny observational skills. After all, in my professional life I am an observer—of dogs in particular. That skill should translate to observing my own behavior, and certainly to observing my own block. Hadn't I heard how observant I was, from those many friends onto whom I'd lobbed surely unwelcome observations?
So on my return I felt plenty pleased with myself and my walk. Surely I had seen all that really mattered on the block. Not a car passed without my gaze upon it; nary a building got by un-ogled. I had stared down the trees; I even knew one's name. I had eyeballed the passersby; noted a daring squirrel; spied a wooly caterpillar. I was consciously looking. What could I have missed?
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As it turns out, I was missing pretty much everything. After taking the walks described in this book, I would find myself at once alarmed, delighted, and humbled at the limitations of my ordinary looking. My consolation is that this deficiency of mine is quite human. We see, but we do not see: we use our eyes, but our gaze is glancing, frivolously considering its object. We see the signs, but not their meanings. We are not blinded, but we have blinders.
My deficiency is one of attention: I simply was not paying close enough attention. Though paying attention seems simple, there are numerous forms of payment. I reckon that every child has been admonished by teacher or parent to "pay attention." But no one tells you how to do that.
The consensus is that it is in some way taxing. Gustave Fechner, a nineteenth-century German psychophysicist, claimed he felt a physical sensation when attending: "a strain forward in the eyes," and when listening, "one directed sidewise in the ears." The American father of modern psychology, William James, reported that when attending to a memory, he felt "an actual rolling outwards and upwards of the eyeballs," as though fixing on the striations of neurons in the interior of his head. In researching what people perceived attention to be, psychologists found that schoolteachers instructed their students to pay attention to an image by "hold[ing] the image still as one would with a camera." To concentrate, to pay attention, is viewed as a brow-furrowing exercise. Sit still, don't blink, and attend.
Given a thorny sentence to read, or asked to listen to a whispered secret while a truck rumbles by, you will quickly be brought to that mind-straining place that James and Fechner described. We take on a characteristic attentive pose. In reading, you might frown slightly, your eyes narrowed as though contracting the words into finer focus. In listening, you may lean toward the speaker, looking down to avoid visual distraction, your mouth falling slightly open. You hold something tensed—a flexed foot, fingers curled into a loose fist, shoulders raised protectively. You are surprisingly still, as though the noise of your muscle movement might drown out a whisper.
This may do for a moment of concentration, but it is not the way to better attention in your daily life. For that, we need to know what attention is. The very concept is odd. Is it an ability, a tendency, a skill? Is it processed in a special nugget in the brain, or by your eyes and ears? The psychologists have no clear answer. Since we all feel comfortable using the word, it has been customary to agreeably nod when someone starts talking to you about attention, but is it coherent to discuss something that we cannot even define, much less locate?
Surely "everyone knows what attention is," claimed James over a century ago. Maybe, but it is notable that James himself then spent sixty pages of his psychology opus largely theorizing about what exactly it might be. If we are unsure what attention is, we are bound to have difficulty honing it.
The longtime model used by psychologists is that of a "spotlight" that picks out particular items of interest to examine, bringing some things into focus and awareness while leaving other things in the dim, dusty sidelines. The metaphor makes me feel like a headlight-wearing spelunker who can only see what is right in front of her in the darkness of the cave. Such a comparison can be misleading, because in fact one can still report on what was within one's peripheral vision at rates better than chance. And despite that spotlight, we seem to miss huge elements of the thing we are ostensibly attending to.
A better way of thinking about attention is to consider the problems that evolution might have designed "attention" to solve. The first problem emerges from the nature of the world. The world is wildly distracting. It is full of brightly colored things, large things casting shadows, quickly moving things, approaching things, loud things, irregular things, smelly things. This cacophony can be found right outside your house or apartment. Should someone see us standing quietly on the sidewalk in front of an apartment building, and ask us, "What's up?" we might be hard-pressed to respond accurately: "My eyes are being tickled with a splendid display of colors; we are surrounded by improbably large stone towers; occasionally a storm of metal and plastic roars by me on the street; soft-faced irregularly-moving forms come near me and pass by; smaller tight-bodied things move by my head in the air; there is a rumble from somewhere, intermittent jabbers from the soft faces, continual hums from these stone towers; my nose is attracted and repelled by something ripe and rotting . . ." we could begin.
Instead, we say, "Nothing much."
And "nothing" is more or less what we notice, in fact. One way to solve the problem of the "blooming, buzzing confusion" an infant confronts on entering the world is to tune much of it out. As we grow up, over the course of days and months, we learn to deal with the confusion by paying little of it mind. By the time we are old enough to walk outside to the sidewalk, we have organized the perceptual melee into chunks of recognizable objects. After a few years, we learn to see the street scene—without really seeing it at all.
The second problem is that, even ignoring most of it, we can only take in so much of the world at a time. Our sensory system has a limited capacity, both in range and in speed of processing. The light we see, "visible" light, is an impossibly small snatch of the solar spectrum; similarly, what we hear is but a fraction of what there is to hear. Our eyes, like other sensory organs, can process a finite amount at once: the neural cells that transduce light to electricity effect this through a change in their pigment. In the time that this is happening, the cell cannot take in any more light. We do not see what cannot get past the eye. And, too, though with our highly fancy brains we are massive parallel distributed processers, there is still a limit to our computational capacity. The world's best computers do not (yet) think like humans do, but they are much, much faster at processing information. Happily, not everything out there in the world is equally informative or important. We do not need to see everything.
If only we had a system that let us take in what we do need to see—
—and of course, we do: that system is attention. Having a way to tune out unnecessary information, to sort through the bombardment of visual and auditory noise, solves these problems. Objects in the world may seem benign, impotently hoping that your glance will light on them, but they are competing with each other for your regard. Attention is an intentional, unapologetic discriminator. It asks what is relevant right now, and gears us up to notice only that. Why bother sorting out all the elements of a visual scene? Evolution has a simple explanation. Some things are good to eat, and some things are trying to eat you. At the most basic level, an organism needs to be able to discriminate between these two categories of things from the rest of the world. Indeed, for a simple organism, that could be nearly all that is noticed. The bacterium does not care if your orange shirt clashes horribly with your pink slacks. The subtle but important difference between the smell of sweaty feet and the smell of Limburger cheese (actually not so different to all but the cheesemongers) is lost on the brave bacterium that would happily lounge on either. For an early hominid on the savanna, detection of, say, a lion would be of paramount importance. As a result, modern humans still have a type of attention—vigilance—which helps keep the body ready to look out for that lion, and dash off if he appears. More recently, what is relevant for modern man is being able to nod at the right times to the person animatedly talking to you at a cocktail party, while blocking out all the other conversations around you (noticing if one of them mentions you, though). We have got another kind of attention—selective attention—to do this job for us.
When we can, we try to offload this work on the world: bringing attention by changing it—circling the key words of a book's pages; marking with bright color anything to be noticed; keeping your preferred knife not among knives but among the poor defenseless spoons. Hence the commercial success of highlighter pens, bright orange construction cones (or, even better, construction cones in neon green, for contrast with the old orange), and advertising that blinks at you from its billboard.1 Indeed, the singularity of one unexpected element in a visual scene is so remarkable that the item can serve as just a marker for some other thing, tangible or intangible: to do the laundry or to call your mother. It is the string-on-the-finger phenomenon: in noticing the string, you do not head into a reverie about strings. Instead, you are reminded that there is something that needs remembering.
If you overuse this trick, though, you simply become accustomed to having strings on your fingers, and the strings no longer serve to do anything but keep you armed for tying knots at a moment's notice.
The most successful spotlighting of any situation usually involves directions from upstream, in the brain. Your brain ties strings on fingers all the time, without wasting a single strand. Your own internal monologue about what you are doing in any given moment actually affects what you will see in that moment. If you know you are looking for the knife, it will be easier to find.
At a basic level, then, paying attention is simply making a selection among all the stimuli bombarding you at any moment. It need not be concerted or difficult. But it does require some direction from the brain. Simply to be reading these words at all is to be narrowing your range of mental field to the words on the page. Other sights, thoughts, sounds, and smells still fly by in your periphery, the suburbs of your mental viewfinder. They are a sublevel of attention, a kind of attention that we might not be aware of (until one of those sights or sounds migrates into our mental field of view). These are things we will quickly, and almost surely, forget—but that are ready for consideration. Later today, reflecting on the time spent sitting and reading this book, you will not remember an image of what was to your left or right, what was in your visual field above the top of the book's pages, the tune flitting through your head, or the ambient sound track of muffled footsteps or car traffic that accompanies your reading.
Psychologists call this the selective enhancement of some area of your perceptual field and suppression of other areas. And therein lies my approach to "paying attention" to the block: each of my companions on these walks serves to do the selective-enhancing for us, highlighting the parts of the world that they see but which we have either learned to ignore or do not even know we can see.
• • •
This is not to say that everyone I walked with saw everything. Moments into my walk with one of the world's foremost researchers on the science of paying attention, she stepped over sixty dollars lying in her path on the street.
She simply did not notice it.
A half-step behind her, I, and my eyebrows, expressed surprise. For this, an early walk for this project, I had headed out of town by train to walk with a psychologist who thinks a great deal about attention. We had just been talking about the psychological idea of being "mindful"—aiming to bring active attention to our daily lives by noticing new things. And we were on one of the prototypical elements of daily life, a neighborhood jaunt with dogs.
But the mindful psychologist walked mindlessly by the cash.
It was her dog and I who saw it (well, I am guessing the dog smelled it). One twenty-dollar bill, bereft of owner. A footstep later, another twenty. I goggled at seeing a third bill lying forlornly to the side of the first two. They bore the creases of having been folded with the same hand, in possessive quarter-folds, though they were now unfurling with their freedom. They must have leapt from a pocket together, parachuted to the ground at different speeds, and landed a stride apart. I stopped, reached down, grabbed the loot, and managed to mutter, "Look!"
She smiled broadly as she registered the money resting on my outstretched palms. The dog stood beside me, proudly quiet, nose pointed at the ground. But then I thought, Wait, did I miss another one?
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In this book, I am looking for what it is that I miss, every day, right in front of me, while walking around the block. "The block" includes the physical elements of the street—from the sidewalks to the buildings—and their history. My first four walks attend to this inanimate city. The block includes who (or what) is on it now and who (or what) has passed before; the next three chapters attend to this animate city. The block is full of things we miss seeing, smelling, or hearing—and it holds untold stories of the things we do see, smell, or hear. The final three chapters attend to the sensory city.
The result of all this walking is not a master's degree in the details of any one city or any single block. It is a tale about what there is to see in any environment, urban or rural. These walks re-awakened in me a sense of perpetual wonder in my surroundings—a perceptual skill typically available only to experts and to the very young (not yet expert in being people). Perhaps they will awaken wonder in you, too.
William James suggested that my experience will be "what I agree to attend to." And so I headed agreeably to my first walk around the block, mind in my hand.
1 Before I had a child and the floor of our home became an in-progress canvas of wooden toys, squeaking balls, and plush animals, I could drop the single item I needed to remember to take with me the next day by the front door. There it would wait for me, utterly forgotten, until I spied it on my way out and stashed it in my rucksack.
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I was disappointed in this book. First, I expected the same walk through many different eyes. This is not the case. These are different walks around the city with various partners. It doesn't quite work as well. Also, the author is far too romantic for my taste. Finally, the quality from chapter to chapter varies greatly. I found the second chapter, in which the author walks with her toddler son, to be quite pointless. This chapter does nothing but make the case for how extremely inattentive the author is and how incredibly oblivious she is to the world around her. I doubt there are many who have lived in a neighborhood as long as she has and is surprised by as much as she is. Perhaps I'm overly attentive to my neighborhood, but I know how many streetlights there are on my block; the circles the leaves make when they drop from the trees each autumn; the slight ups and downs of the sidewalk and how they changed when the city took out a couple of old trees and reconstructed the pavement.


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Allan and Cathy Wical of Columbus, Neb., originally from Grundy Center and Reinbeck respectively, announce the engagement of their son, Todd Allan Wical, to Kimberly Ann Chaffin, daughter of Don and Verona Chaffin of Milford, Iowa.
The future groom graduated from Buena Vista University with a bachelor of science degree and will graduate in May 2013 from Des Moines University with his doctorate of medicine. He is a Lieutenant in the US Army Medical Corps. The groom is the grandson of the late Arthur Wical and Barbara Huntley-Wical of Stout and Dale and Mary McIntyre of Reinbeck.
The future bride received a bachelor of science degree from Wartburg College and currently is a 3rd year medical student at Des Moines University. She, too, is a Lieutenant in the US Army Medical Corps and plans to practice OBGYN.
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The couple will be wed May 11th, 2013 in Spencer, Iowa. They will then reside in San Antonio, Texas where the groom will be an OBGYN resident physician at Brooke Army Medical Center.

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Farmers and Partners Are Poised to Make Big Impact on Key Global Challenges, Preserving Natural Resources
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Farmers and Partners Are Poised to Make Big Impact on Key Global Challenges, Preserving Natural Resources
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ST. LOUIS, Jan. 23, 2014 /3BL Media/ - Millions of farmers around the world, both smallholders and large-scale producers, will play a pivotal role in addressing the needs of an additional 2 billion people worldwide over the next few decades, said Hugh Grant, chairman and chief executive officer of Monsanto Company. Grant noted the focused efforts of farmers, food companies, retailers, public-private partnerships and Monsanto as they work together to improve agricultural productivity and natural resource efficiency.
The remarks came today as Grant and Monsanto President and Chief Operating Officer Brett Begemann, joined more than 2,500 participants from 100 countries taking part in the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting 2014 this week in Davos, Switzerland. Societal leaders, government officials, academics, business leaders and others are engaging in dialogue surrounding the 44th WEF Annual Meeting's theme: "The Reshaping of the World: Consequences for Society, Politics and Business."
In 2009, a group of WEF partners and constituents, which included Monsanto, outlined a New Vision for Agriculture (NVA) as a critical component to sustainably meet the world's growing need for safe, nutritious food, using and preserving resources in sustainable way, and driving and helping to nurture local and national economies. Through the NVA initiative, WEF and its partners have set goals for improving food security, environmental sustainability and economic opportunity by 20 percent per decade until 2050.
"New Vision for Agriculture set some very bold and necessary goals that will make a difference for our planet," said Natalie DiNicola, Ph.D., vice president of sustainability and partnerships at Monsanto. "This work, which can be realized through public-private partnerships combined with our in-the-field work with farmers, is vitally important. At Monsanto, we continue to be committed to working alongside WEF partners and others to do our part so that farmers are at the center of the solution because by continuing to improve agriculture, we will improve lives."
NVA provides a framework for business-led and market-based solutions explicitly linked to national development priorities. The initiative is led by 33 global WEF partner companies and has engaged more than 250 organizations in its work to strengthen collaboration among stakeholders to help agriculture meet the growing need for food in a sustainable way.
At a global level, NVA has partnered with the G8 and G20, and facilitated high-level informal dialogues. At the regional and country level, NVA has led to multi-stakeholder partnerships in 14 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Together, these efforts have mobilized more than US $5.7 billion in investment commitments and are projected to engage more than 9.5 million farmers during the next 3-5 years.
"Monsanto is committed to sharing our innovations and technical knowledge; investing in programs and projects that connect with our core business and help meet the goals of the New Vision for Agriculture; and helping create and nurture future generations of experts who will work to implement the vision," said DiNicola.
A key NVA initiative, Grow Africa, is an African-led, public-private partnership that involves many key stakeholders. This initiative seeks to accelerate investments and transformative change in African agriculture based on national agricultural priorities.
At the 2012 G8 Summit, Monsanto announced a $50 million commitment over the next 10 years to support sustained agricultural development in Sub-Saharan Africa. As part of this commitment, Monsanto created an investment plan to strengthen maize and vegetable farming and distribution in Tanzania. This plan is designed to work with the Tanzanian government's agriculture development plan, Kilimo Kwanza (Agriculture First), for the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT).
Another important initiative is Monsanto's work with farmers in India. Through the Monsanto Farm AgVisory Services (MFAS), more than 800,000 farmers receive useful information directly on their cell phones about a variety of topics, helping them produce heartier crops and bigger harvests.
To learn more about SAGCOT, MFAS and other key Monsanto initiatives and partnerships that attempt to make the goals of NVA a reality, visit: http://www.monsanto.com/improvingagriculture/Pages/monsanto-new-vision-for-agriculture.aspx.
About Monsanto Company
Monsanto Company is a leading global provider of technology-based solutions and agricultural products that improve farm productivity and food quality. Monsanto remains focused on enabling both small-holder and large-scale farmers to produce more from their land while conserving more of our world's natural resources such as water and energy. To learn more about our business and our commitments, please visit: www.monsanto.com. Follow our business on Twitter® at www.twitter.com/MonsantoCo, on the company blog, Beyond the Rows at www.monsantoblog.com, or subscribe to our News Release RSS Feed.
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Dig Dug Ad Blurbs (PC Booter)
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Apple II, Arcade, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 7800, Atari 8-bit, BlackBerry, BREW, Casio PV-1000, Commodore 64, FM-7, Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, Intellivision, J2ME, MSX, NES, Nintendo 3DS, Palm OS, PC-6001, PC-88, PlayStation 4, Sharp X1, Sord M5, TI-99/4A, VIC-20, Wii, Wii U, Windows, Windows Mobile, Xbox 360, Xbox One | Combined View
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Advertising Blurbswww.nintendo.com - Wii:
Become Dig Dug, the champion of love and justice, as you drill up, down, left, and right, defeating any enemies in your path. Avoid the persistent Pooka and the deep-dwelling but whimsical Fygar as you defeat all the enemies in order to clear each stage. Defeat enemies by hitting them with the harpoon and pumping air into them or by dropping rocks on them from above. Receive bonus points by getting the vegetables that appear in the middle of the stage. Receive high points for defeating deep-dwelling enemies or by defeating Fygars from the side with the harpoon. Pass through inflated enemies or defeat enemies in an adjacent passage for an even higher score. Lure multiple enemies and defeat them with a single rock from above in this thrilling action game!
Contributed by Victor Vance (10125) on May 16, 2015.
Dig a little deeper into this thrilling action game as Dig Dug!
Take up the role of Dig Dug, the champion of love and justice, as you drill through the ground and defeat any enemies that stray in your path. Clear the stage by avoiding and defeating the persistent Pooka and the deep-dwelling but whimsical Fygars.
Hit enemies with the harpoon and pump air into them, or drop rocks from above. Pass through inflated enemies, or defeat multiple enemies in an adjacent passage for an even higher score. To earn a chance at bonus points, don't forget to collect those vegetables that appear!
Keep on digging, and outmatch the enemies that dwell deep underground!
This game is only playable in 2D.
Contributed by Victor Vance (10125) on May 16, 2015.
Dig tunnels and defeat enemies. Use your harpoon to inflate and pop enemies or crush them with rocks! Earn bonus points by crushing multiple enemies with one rock!
DIG DUG was released in 1981, and became an instant hit with its innovative game play and quirky music.
Contributed by havoc of smeg (22285) on Sep 11, 2010.
Create your own maze as you tunnel fearlessly through the earth. Your goal: to dig up the tasty vegetables that sprout underground. Devilish ghosts, Pookas, and fierce, fire-breathing dragons try to block your way. For one player.
Contributed by Joshua J. Slone (4672) on Jun 21, 2007.
You'll dig DIG DUG, the new ground-breaking game from Atari. Tunnel through and underground maze to help the dauntless little miner, Dig Dug, escape from Fygar, a fierce fire-breathing dragon, and Pooka, an animated balloon! Squash your foes by tunneling beneath underground boulders - you escape just in time, but Fygar and Pooka... SPLAT! Or, use your underground compressor to pump up the bad guys until they explode! CX2677
(Estimated availability June, 1983)
Contributed by RKL (5734) on Jan 03, 2004.
The cheerful miner DIG DUG, only wants to unearth his beloved fruits and veggies in this unique "make your own maze game. But first you must help him pop the dragons and monsters that guard them.
Contributed by RKL (5734) on Jan 03, 2004.
Help DIG DUG tunnel beneath the ground for his beloved veggies, in a challenging "make your own maze" game. But be on the lookout for Fygar the dragon and his buddy, Pooka. These guys can destroy DIG DUG unless he explodes them first.
Contributed by RKL (5734) on Jan 03, 2004.
The subterranean pests, Pooka and Fygar, are after you! Become and underground hero and help Dig Dug burrow a maze and pump the bad guys until they explode!
CX5211 (available summer '83)
Contributed by RKL (5734) on Jan 03, 2004.
Dig Dug
by Namco
Help Dig Dug tunnel underground for his beloved veggies in this make-your-own-maze game. But look out for Fygar and his buddy Pooka. These guys will destroy Dig Dug unless he smashes them first.
CX7803 / Controller / 1 or 2 P
Contributed by RKL (5734) on Jan 03, 2004.
Create your own maze as you guide the cheerful miner in search of his favorite fruits and veggies. But beware the dragons and monsters that guard them, for they can destroy you if you don't explode them first. CX7803
Contributed by RKL (5734) on Jan 03, 2004.
GAME OBJECTIVE and notes from the underground:
You are Dig Dug, the underground miner. With your jet-powered shovel, you create intricate, subterranean mazes. Ever on the watch for vegetable prizes, you must also look out for the fierce Fygar and mean Pooka that lurk underground. Their touch kills| Worse, these two meanies can transform into spooky ghosts that will appear out of nowhere and haunt you to death.
Use your Joystick Controller to dig through the earth in this one-player game. Your objective: Destroy the meanies who lurk below and uproot the prized produce. Destroy meanies by using the fire button on your controller to pump them up until they burst or by drooping boulders on them. To get the valuable vegetable, dig to it as soon as it appears and cover it completely by moving Dig Dug over it.
Each round is completed when you destroy all the meanies or when the last one escapes. The game ends when you lose all your lives.
Contributed by RKL (5734) on Jan 03, 2004.
Create your own maze as you tunnel fearlessly through the earth. Your goal: Reap tasty vegetables worth healthy points. Your enemies: ghosts who want to bury you alive, fierce fire-breathing dragons, and mean balloon - like bullies! Can you dig it? Here's the exciting home version of the celebrated coin-op original.
* ATARI brings home another arcade hit! * Earth-shaking concept: Create your own tunnels! * Vibrant screens and colors! * Bursting with spirited challenge! * Arcade-like sound effects! * FOR USE WITH THE ATARI 2600 SERIES SYSTEMS, AND THE SEARS VIDEO ARCADE AND VIDEO ARCADE II SYSTEMS. * ONE PLAYER * EASY-PLAY OPTION FOR BEGINNERS * TWO SKILL VARIATIONS * Use your Joystick Controller with this ATARI Game Program cartridge.
Contributed by RKL (5734) on Jan 03, 2004.Back of box (Atari 5200):
Welcome to the underground world of DIG DUG! You get all the action and graphics of the arcade - along with your favorite fiends POOKA, the bug-eyed balloon, and FYGAR, the fire-breathing dragon. Avoid these subterranean creatures as you tunnel through the earth in search of hidden treasure - but don't let them catch you! Blow them up with your pump, or drop rocks on them to escape their evil clutches. Keep digging, and you'll hit pay dirt!
* FOR ONE OR TWO PLAYERS * 12 SKILL LEVELS * CREATE YOUR OWN MAZE! * ATARI BRINGS HOME ANOTHER ARCADE HIT! * Use your 5200 controllers with this ATARI game cartridge. * For use with the North American and other NTSC Television sets only * Model 5211
Contributed by RKL (5734) on Jan 03, 2004.Back of box (Atari 7800):
Make your way through layers of squishy earth. Gobble up delicious fruits and vegetables - worth healthy points - as you tunnel through
And watch out for the firebreathing Fygars and mischievous Pookas. They're out to bury you alive!
* Infinite number of tunneling patterns. * For 1 or 2 players. * 2 skill levels.
Contributed by RKL (5734) on Jan 03, 2004.Atari 5200 Super System Catalog 1983:
The subterranean pests, Pooka and Fygar, are after you! Become an underground hero and help Dig Dug burrow a maze and pump the bad guys until they explode!
Contributed by RKL (5734) on Dec 17, 2003.
Burrow your way through a maze of subterranean passages, hunting the deadly Pooka and the fire-breathing Fygar! Break into their tunnels, shoot 'em with your air hose, pump 'em up and...POP! Simple? Not exactly, because now they're after you! Run away! Dig under that rock just ahead...time it just right...BAM! The rock falls on Fygar! All the thrills and fun of the original arcade hit!
Contributed by RKL (5734) on Sep 18, 2003.
Dodging and blasting Pookas, and dropping rocks on fire-breathing Fygars; Dig Dug burrows his way through a maze of subterranean paths. Ripe fruits and veggies, loaded with points, are his passion. But the evil denizens of the underground pack a potentially lethal wallop, and can hide behind fruits. Even when Dig Dug kills them, they may come back as ghosts. Ghosts don't need tunnels and are harder to kill. Luckily, when the chips are down, they turn out to be cowards... and worth points.
Contributed by Trixter (9125) on May 26, 1999.


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Strategic Tech Slideshow: Enterprise Laptop Refresh: 10 Tips Before You Buy
Chances are, you're one of those companies that skipped a Windows Vista upgrade due to compatibility and security issues. That means many of the laptops and desktops in your operation are probably in desperate need of replacement. With Windows 7 here, the time has finally come for you to deploy new computers. Since the last time you bought laptops, the computing space has changed drastically. And the issues that governed your buying decisions years ago might not apply today. If it's time to update your laptops —or if you're considering replacing legacy desktops with a mobile alternative—here's what you need to know before you buy for your employees. From operating system choice to graphics capabilities, read on for a quick checklist on what to consider before your next laptop buying decision.


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One of the positions the Eagles will have to fill this offseason is backup quarterback.
Vince Young filled in for Michael Vick last season, but only signed a one-year deal and is a free agent. Vick missed three games, failed to finish two more and played injured against Arizona last season. In other words, Vick's health was a factor in six of the team's 16 games.
On Tuesday, the Birds worked out quarterback Trent Edwards, according to Adam Caplan.
A third-round pick out of Stanford in 2007, Edwards (6-4, 231) has started 33 games (32 with the Bills and one with the Jaguars). He's completed 60.5 percent of his passes, averaged 6.5 yards per attempt and thrown 26 touchdowns, compared to 30 interceptions. He spent the last preseason with the Raiders, but was released and never caught on with another team. Edwards is 29 years old.
The Eagles went 1-2 with Young as the starter last season, beating the Giants and losing to the Patriots and Seahawks. They also lost two games - against the Falcons and Giants (first meeting) - where Mike Kafka filled in for Vick in the fourth quarter.
We've been over this before, but the Birds clearly need to enter 2012 with the mindset that a backup is going to have to win at least a couple games for them.
RotoWorld recently released a list of free-agent quarterbacks. Here are some of the names: Chad Henne, Jason Campbell, Kyle Orton, David Garrard, Shaun Hill, Byron Leftwich, Sage Rosenfels, Brady Quinn, Drew Stanton, Donovan McNabb, Rex Grossman, Dennis Dixon, Charlie Batch, J.P. Losman, Dan Orlovsky, A.J. Feeley, Jeff Garcia.
Interestingly enough, three of the quarterbacks - McNabb, Feeley and Garcia - are ex-Eagles. McNabb was waived late in the season by the Vikings and has gotten a head start on his second career, already appearing as an analyst on ESPN and NFL Network. McNabb said on TV last week that he has a lot of good football left, but no team wanted him in 2011, and his playing days could very well be over.
Feeley has served a backup role with the Birds on two different occasions - from 2001-2002, and again from 2006-2007. He played in five games (starting three) for the Rams in 2011, completing 54.6 percent of his passes with one touchdown and a pair of interceptions. Feeley turns 35 in May.
And finally, Garcia signed on with the Texans late in the season as a backup. He will turn 42 next month.
If you missed it from yesterday, I provided a player-by-player breakdown of the Eagles' rookie class.
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More than ever, students and professionals who are blind require an intelligent device that combines the simplicity and accessibility of a note taker with the power and efficiency of a modern smartphone or tablet. Our latest solution is the groundbreaking BrailleNote Touch, the first certified braille tablet providing Play Store access.
The BrailleNote Touch interface is easy to learn for both students and teachers, combining the benefits of KeySoft and braille literacy of a traditional note taker with the efficiency and power of a modern tablet.
KeySoft is the driving force behind the BrailleNote Touch, completely rewritten from the ground up to maximize the entire experience of modern users.
Our TouchBraille algorithm brings the traditional braille control of a note taker to a modern and user-friendly platform.
Teachers want an easy and interactive approach to help their students learn braille, while students need the most efficient tool to accomplish their everyday tasks, from writing documents and sending emails, to downloading and reading books.
The BrailleNote Touch was designed to meet all of these needs and more, to completing class work easier and more efficient than ever.
The BrailleNote Touch was designed to make everyday office tasks as simple and seamless as possible for blind users, from creating professional documents and emails to browsing the web.
KeySoft is the driving force behind the BrailleNote Touch, completely rewritten from the ground up to maximize the entire experience of modern users.
The BrailleNote Touch keyboard is designed for those who don't yet have the dexterity to type on the TouchBraille, or those who want to write long documents or papers. Completely removable, it fits directly over the touchscreen to provide a familiar user experience with no learning curve.
This product meets EMC standards of all targeted countries. EMC consists of the limitation of radiated electromagnetic emissions from the unit and immunity of the product against external electromagnetic field and electrostatic discharge.
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Hello all, My name is Portia. I am 24 years old, and have been using the BrailleNote since the BrailleNote Classic. When I was in school, the BrailleNote enabled me to write, read and do much more efficiently. When I was at the California School For The Blind, I got to learn Sendero GPS on my BrailleNote mPower. I must say, that was a wonderful experience. Finally a while after I left CSB, which was when I was 18, my mPower's braille display started fading, and I knew I would eventually need a new BrailleNote. Just recently, somewhere in June or July, my friend Michelle expressed how she dearly wanted an mPower back, and that she would give me her BrailleNote Apex. I was beyond excited, and extatic. I kept asking her if she wanted it and she was like no, no, you have the Apex. So I took it, and made it my own. Now I have the latest version of Sendero GPS on it, and use it in my daily life for emailing, reading, and I'll even use it with my Android phone. Right now it is in the shop getting repaired, but I tell you, the Apex has been a huge joy to use. And unless I really had to, I could never live without a BrailleNote. Thank you Humanware, for a wonderful product. You always seem to amaze me with your products. I can't wait to try the new KeySoft!
Thanks so much for creating this product Humanware. I have enjoyed using this product since my eighth grade year of middle school. I can't wait until the next version of KeySoft is released verry soon. thank you for putting the support for docx files into the last version of KeySoft.
I will never forget the day I first saw a BrailleNote Apex. I was at school, and 2 of my friends came over. I had only been told by my vision teacher that there was a demonstration that afternoon. I hoped it was something to do with technology, because I love equipment, especially something I can use. When they arrived, they started to show me the BrailleNote. I explored the main menu. When I got to book reader, I squealed with excitement! A book reader! I couldn't believe it! When I heard games, I stopped. Woe! Games! I could actually play games! I knew right then and there that I loved this product. "What do you think?" my friends asked me. "I think I'm in love!" I said. When I went home, I said to my Mom, "I want a BrailleNote Apex!" "What's so good about it?" she asked. "Well, you can play games on it, and you can read books!" I exclaimed. I got one for school, but no one would let me explore it. In July of 2012, Mom got me one for home. My BrailleNote has helped me with so much. Me and my brother can actually talk about books, which has made us a lot closer. It's especially helped me with reading. For years, that's been my area of struggle. But because of the auto advance feature on it's braille display, I have increased my reading speed. Web browsing is so much easier. When I do a research project for class, I always use the BrailleNote, because I know I won't get random images that have no discriptions. My BrailleNote has simply given me freedom I've never felt with equipment. I never will take reading books and playing games for granted because I know I can only do it on one device independantly. I will also never take emailing for granted, because the Apex is the only device I can email on with ease. Thank you HumanWare.
The mobile market has exploded within the past few years and has really changed the way blind people work and play. With a big emphasis on iOS devices like the iPhone and the iPad, many people are wondering if dedicated devices for the blind are even relevant anymore. When I say dedicated devices I mean anything from GPS devices to note taking devices with braille displays attached. In this article I want to give you my opinion on why I still choose to use a dedicated device.
Let me clarify one thing really fast from the beginning. I use and own an iPhone and iPad. I also have a Braille Note apex from HumanWare that I carry with me all the time. Now that we got that out of the way let's hit the main topic. Why I still choose to use a dedicated note taking device.
I remember getting introduced to the braille n speak in middle school and not understanding why the device existed. I used it all through middle school but never really felt the need to use it beyond an educational setting. During my seventh grade year I was transferred to a school for the blind in Kentucky. Along with getting a better social life than I had in public school I was introduced to a lot of the latest in blindness technology that I never knew existed. The first time I held the BrailleNote classic I fell in love with the crisp braille cells that felt like actual braille paper to me and the sturdiness of the device. I was still unsure of what the device could do for me beyond school, but I gave this new device a chance. After using it for only a week I carried it with me where ever I went. I was even given permission to use the BrailleNote classic over the summer. Before GPS was around I used the BrailleNote to create a little book of instructions for my O&M classes. I used the BrailleNote in English class to work on papers. I used every aspect of the BrailleNote from the address book to the book reader. I even used it for presentations and for teaching the BrailleNote to other students at the school. As the software improved and the BrailleNote got faster and even more powerful I gained a better understanding of what the device was capable of doing.
Ok, so now that you know what I used the Braille Note for back then, what about now, when the world of technology is filled not only with dedicated devices but mainstream devices like android phones and iOS devices. I still think there is a place for the devices. Being in college I have a busy lifestyle. Keeping up with class assignments, logging notes and sessions with my sound engineering classes, to learning how to read braille music it can get pretty hectic. I find the BrailleNote a very useful tool even though my phone is right by my side. You may be wondering what can the BrailleNote do that your phone can't. There are a lot of reasons to have a dedicated device.
1. Software that just works.
With mobile devices, apps and the system software get updated all the time. If you are not careful or the manufacturer of the phone you own breaks something that was working but now isn't you are stuck with that inaccessible part of your phone until it's fixed.
2. Keystrokes are quicker
gestures and learning the layout of your phone are essential in learning a mainstream product but if you are trying to be productive, flicking to a button or trying to find a control by moving your finger across the screen just wastes time. With a few key strokes I can jump in and out of apps on the BrailleNote and not have to worry about if I found the right control or button.
3. Right where you left off.
With dedicated note taking devices you can shut off the device without having to leave what you were working on and the device will remember what you were last doing and put you back in that spot.
4. Battery life
Battery life on the BrailleNote is better than on my iPhone any day of the week. I do have an external battery pack but even with that the BrailleNote still beats it.
Ok, some valid points were made but what about traditional braille displays versus note takers? I'm glad you asked. With a braille display you can only use it if it's connected to your computer or your Smartphone basically rendering it useless without a connected device. Whereas with a dedicated note taker you can be productive with your Smartphone as well while writing a report for instance. This functionality makes dedicated note taking devices like the BrailleNote apex from HumanWare in my opinion a win win situation for someone who wants functionality with the mainstream and blindness technology at the same time.
I use my Voice Note daily both at work and at home and frankly, I can't live without it. After several months of using it, my supervisor allowed me to demonstrate it to other staff members to raise awareness of what adaptive tools can do to prepare the blind and visually impaired for various kinds of work. So it's been a win, win situation and I thank the people of humanware for my Voice Note Empower QT!
Andrew had issues with taking his spelling test on a Perkins Braillewriter because the teacher could not score his test at the same time as other children. Now that he has learned how to use the Braille Note, Andrew takes his spelling tests in the classroom and when done prints his test out and gets it graded at the same time as the other kids. It is devices like the Braille Note that allow my son to be able to experience the classroom the same way his classmates do. It has helped his self-confidence and for that I am grateful! Thank you HumanWare.
I've been able to edit HTML code efficiently. -- When I call Dell's tech support line, I'm able to read off my customer ID. -- During my last year in college, notetaking was more efficient. -- As the webmaster for the National Alliance of Blind Students, I often use the Braille Note's braille display to read notes I prepare prior to board meetings. -- Dialing phone numbers is more efficient.
I rely on a voice note Apex, having retired the Empower for a newer Humanware model. I am just as pleased with it as I was with the first device and plan to use it for many years to come. It is an intuitive little machine, lightweight, portable, and able to interface with my personal computer with improved software tools. What impresses me the most is the improvements in internet accessibility and the ergonomic wrist rest below the QUARTY keyboard. This design improvement allows my hand to rest upon it so I have less wrist fatigue when typing for extended periods of time. Thank you Humanware for providing this great machine so people like me can continue to lead independent, productive lives.
My success story is my daughter. Her name is Julia. She is 5 years old and attends Kindergarten at Battle Grove Elementary School. This school year, with the help of her teachers, she has learned the basic functions of the BrailleNote taker. She is such a smart little girl, she reads very well and is constantly challanging us to push her even harder. With all of the advances in technology, it is only a matter of "what can the world handle" when it comes to my daughter, not what can she handle.
I love the Planner to help me schedule committee meetings and doctor appointments. I have used the alarm feature to wake me up in the morning. It works just great. The Address Book feature is wonderful for looking up telephone numbers and for sending emails. An excellent, very useful and fun product - the Apex. Thank you.
The use of Braille Note takers revolutionized many aspects of my life, and brought Braille back in to my world in a new way. For myself, one of the most thrilling concepts about me and my BrailleNote is the idea that the Braille world, which I thought I had lost has come back alive, and will always be part of me, how I work, and who I am. The BrailleNote allows me to be competitive, and still keep using Braille to eternity. I am looking forward to exploring many more uses I have still not touched upon for my BrailleNote. Some day, should I need to get an iPhone; the good part will be that I'll be able to use it with my BrailleNote.
I have used the Braillenote for taking notes during Church, reading the songs that we sing during Church, taking notes at different conventions, reading the Bible, and reading books for enjoyment. Also, having the Braillenote requires me to practice my Braille, since I did not learn Braille as a youngster, I need to keep practicing the skill so that I do not lose it. The Voicenote and Braillenote both have made improved my life tremendously.
I have used VoiceNote and BrailleNote products for the past ten years. Before that, the Keynote Companion saw me through university. I now use the BrailleNote Apex for wordprocessing, email, diary and recording phone records. It even gets a workout on my laptop as a braille display from time to time. When people see me working on an Apex, they are immediately assured that they can have confidence in my ability to get the job done.
In confronting my blindness, the one thing I wanted to do was stay in my same junior high school with my same friends and lead my normal life. The BrailleNote and Oratio have been instrumental in allowing me to stay on that path. I use the BrailleNote in all my classes and I have been able to maintain a near straight "A" report card over the past year. I have a hope that any child that is blind will be able to use a BrailleNote to help them advance in school and become a productive adult. In addition, my social life has not missed a step either in part to HumanWare's Oratio. You can probably imagine how important text messaging is to kids these days and having Oratio on my Blackberry has been a God send.
With my Braille notetaker, I now have a voice in the classroom and have been able to make a number of presentations. It has opened up so many avenues of communication.
I am a totally blind United Methodist pastor. I use the Apex for almost everything I do: searching the internet for sermon resources, writing my sermon, referencing different Bible translations, connecting to my GPS to visit parishioners, writing the bulletin, and so much more. Everything I need for my work with people is on that Apex and strapped over my robe on Sunday mornings, it guides me through each part of the service, from the hymns to the scripture reading, from noting the prayer requests to reading the sermon outline. It frees me up to be fully independent and fully available to those I have been called to serve.
I am thankful that the wireless internet process has been simplified and now such book formats as National Library Service digital books and Audible are recognized by this outstanding machine. With every new model of this impressive note taker the features I have come to rely on are only improved upon and the new features allow for even more accessibility to the ever changing technology of this day and age.
I am an avid user of the BrailleNote Apex. I started out by using a BrailleNote MPower which worked well, but I quickly outgrew it. I am now using a BrailleNote Apex BT for my personal and school use. I can connect the BrailleNote Apex to the laptop and use it as a Braille display. I love how it supports many external devices. It's so fast and snappy on the internet! I can email, instant message with friends using the Keychat application, surf the internet and more.
My student was a Braille reader, but a very slow one and we were supposed to increase his reading speed as one of his goals. We started using the Braille Note to talk back and forth and then he was able to obtain a Braille Note with a Qwerty keyboard. This gave him so much more independence when out in the community, as he could write a message, use the speech to talk to someone, and they could respond by typing a message on the standard keyboard, and he could read the Braille display.
One thing I couldn't live without is my BrailleNote Apex. I can surf the web (with sites such as Google) when I am doing a research project or just to find information much faster than a regular computer.
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All of the kings, levites & priests, judges, mighty men of valor, the 41 stops the children of Israel made in their 41 years from Egypt to the Promised Land, the 8 dispensations of redemption, the 7 most towering figures of scripture and the [14] precious stones relative to Israel are all noted, segueing into the New Jerusalem. Synopses of all the books of the Bible and date ranges for each are explained, and much more. A rich source and course of study, information and edification.
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This is a strange one. Guilty Gear for the Vita came out in the US yesterday, and despite mention on its PlayStation page of online play, as well as reference to it in the original trailer, the game actually relies on Ad Hoc mode to handle its multiplayer. Why the developers put out a trailer implying otherwise, and why Sony are advertising it as online-capable is unclear, but if you were planning to buy based on the idea of playing with people around the world, it might be worth reconsidering your purchase.
many people buy this..
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Last night, Matt Chandler preached the Gospel at Code Orange Revival. He even tossed in a few well-approached, much-needed rebukes toward Elevation Church and "pastor" Steven Furtick. Admittedly, there were a few times in his message when I cringed, knowing that what he was saying would be misconstrued by about 99.9% of his audience. Nevertheless, there is no denying that Matt Chandler preached both Law and Gospel before an audience that likely had never heard such a thing before. Jesus Christ and the Cross were preached and, though I've expressed concern over Matt Chandler in the recent past (and still hold those concerns), I still was pleased to hear him boldly preach truth in a venue where the truth obviously is not welcome. That's right, it seems that the truth is not welcome at Code Orange Revival.
Following each evening's message, there is a rebroadcast of the entire night's "revival" footage at 10:12 pm, 3:12 am, and 12:12 pm the next day. Well, apparently Matt Chandler hit a rather tender nerve in Steven Furtick's ego. Trusted sources tell me that the revival footage from Friday, January 13 was aired at 10:12 pm last night and 3:12 am this morning without Matt Chandler's message. They actually cut out and removed his sermon from the rebroadcast! The internet, and Twitter especially, was abuzz this morning with people questioning and confronting Steven Furtick about this "mishap." Here is Steven Furtick's response:
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Did you see that he calls the omission of Matt Chandler's sermon a "programming change;" he didn't say programming "error. This can only mean that it was a conscious decision on someone's part in choosing to not rebroadcast Chandler's message. (Online Source)
Then we saw this:
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Rest assured that we will be watching to see if Chandler's message is indeed rebroadcast in its entirety later today. **UPDATE** Indeed, Matt Chandler's message did run at 10:12 am and 12:12 pm today, as Steven Furtick promised it would. For this we are thankful.
The fact remains, the biblical Gospel was removed from last night's programming. Now, to the defenders of Steven Furtick and Elevation Church, please tell me...why? Why would your pastor suppress the biblical truth that was preached? As a Christian pastor, why would Steven Furtick withhold the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ? Why am I reminded of Romans 1:16-18 here?
If you were unable to hear Matt Chandler's message last night, the audio was captured and can be heard here and the video is below. In spite of some of my misgivings about Chandler, I nevertheless wish that he had been scheduled to close out this 12 night "revival." Perhaps his words could have performed a bit of damage control. As it is, the truth he preached will quickly be swallowed up and forgotten as each new false teacher takes the stage. Again I ask, are you praying for those at the Code Orange Revival?
Steven Furtick's 12 Days of Revival
"Code Orange" Speaker Craig Groeschel
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"Code Orange" Speaker Jentezen Franklin
"Code Orange" Speaker Israel Houghton
"Code Orange" Speaker Stovall Weems
"Code Orange" Speaker Ed Young, Jr.
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Marketing does not stand still, Mark. How do you and Accenture keep up?
We're constantly listening, learning and adapting—and we're in the game every day running marketing operations for more than 60 clients. We partner with clients to innovate and change when needed, adding capacity when demand spikes without disruption and bringing in a new service when we see capability gaps. We also hear from our alliance partners constantly, and we apply their best practices across our portfolio. Whenever possible we deliver all this via an "as a service" model that makes it easy for our clients to consume. That's how we stay ahead and more importantly keep our clients ahead of their competition.
What is on the mind of marketers these days?
All marketers know they need to engage consumers 24x7. The challenge finding the right formula to scale digital, which is they all know is the best way to really create deep engagement. The investment in digital is only growing, and marketers are in search of a model that can scale both efficiently and effectively. Most marketers have mastered one or two areas in the digital value chain, but are still searching for how to make the end-to-end process deliver the results they expect, and do that at scale.
What about analytics?
Great in theory, challenging in practice, extremely important to get it right. Marketers need to use analytics to gain insight into customer behavior and attitudes, be able to measure ROI and use insights to constantly adjust their execution. But the "wiring" of the systems, getting the right interlock across platforms and setting up the approach to use in real time is not easy. One step we're taking is to introduce analytics apps with plug and play capabilities. They can be deployed quickly and flexibly so that measurement begins in weeks, not months, and they run out of the cloud so data ingestion, communication with tools and reporting can all be done flexibly, which is what marketers need.
So how does it all come together?
We start by determining the result the client needs then building the right end-to-end process to get there. It requires combining digital technologies, customer and marketing analytics, content production and distribution, and the customer acquisition / retention efforts into one end-to-end process. Once that is set up, we then continually fine-tune it to drive continuous improvement. We then focus on executing our pieces well, and helping clients manage their efforts by acting as the orchestrator of the overall process. For most of our clients this is a new operating model that breaks down silos and delivers significant improvement in results.
You're saying "under one roof" hits all the levers more efficiently?
Exactly. This new view of marketing is moving away from relying on multiple agencies, marketing services teams or specialist providers. When Accenture helps organizations run digital marketing under one roof, they see results well beyond what they achieved in the past. The end-to-end model is extremely efficient in terms of cost and time; it brings more agility and scale; and it produces better business results.
Speaking of results, can you please give examples?
We tend to measure success through the outcomes we help create. If I had to categorize the types of outcomes we have created, it would fall into three areas. The first is basic economic outcomes. We are able help clients get more value to their "nonworking" marketing dollar. Just as important is that we help bring in more revenue by actually executing the marketing better. Finally, we help clients break new ground. By knowing the business so well and really engaging with them, together we create new capabilities, which inevitably help them grow.
How about some metrics?
Sure. We've seen around 60 hours of effort saved per brand manager per quarter due to standardization of processes, for example. We've helped increase digital penetration from 24 percent to 30 percent, as compared to the same period the previous year, generated savings of $4.3 million through a 40 percent reduction in time for approval of content and increased sales by about 20 percent as compared to the previous week. We also helped clients reduce campaign cycle times by some 30 percent, enabling faster speed-to-market and achieving go-live rates of more than 95 percent compared to 7 percent previously). Let's see, how about increasing digital sales by 69 percent, reducing cost per lead by 18 percent and increasing a client's conversion rate by 40 percent?
What are some of the current challenges?
Our research shows that because a majority of marketers are working on four main capabilities: robust content creation to drive engagement; efficient and effective digital operations including enabling the management of digital projects at scale; the ability to measure clearly and accurately; and achieving operational flexibility and agility to deliver on short notice. Our experience with clients reinforces those needs. The challenge is being able to accomplish all four of those through a connected operating model.
What do you believe sets Accenture apart?
We have three differentiators. First is our expertise in digital content. Accenture has developed an unparalleled ability to produce digital content at scale, across multiple languages and time zones, platform and formats. Second is our ability to credibly offer an end-to-end service. We bring all the digital operations under one roof, including search, campaigns, social media and analytics and user experience We can deliver on the promise of operating them together. Finally, we leverage the deep digital talent at Accenture and the wide experience we have across industries and clients to "future proof" a client's business. No one else can deliver on all three of those key ingredients to digital success.
How does your career experience help, Mark?
I bring a practitioner's perspective to my role at Accenture. I've worked in brand management, digital media and media analytics. Having the combined experiences of working in brand, media and then analytics helps me design a more robust offering for clients. I also think having actually done the work of marketing gives me an appreciation for the importance of execution, and it helps me drive the right elements into the approach our delivery teams bring to the execution. Finally, my links back into the marketing world gives me a chance to test our approach with former colleagues. Being able to tap into a network of great marketers I have worked with is invaluable.
Why are you proud to work at Accenture?
Most companies have a global footprint but Accenture truly is a global network, meaning no matter where you are in the world you can contribute, share and drive results on a project. I was energized by the prospect of being part of that global network when I arrived, and I am most proud of how I have become part of the global network and been able to share with and learn from people all over the world.
Any turning points in life or career that can talk about?
Every eight years I do something a bit more radically different than just a lateral move or take a similar role. That has kept me fresh and engaged. It also gives me enough time to contribute to a business. I would say look at your career in eight year cycles – and see if every eight years you are pushing yourself to do something really new. That has worked for me.
Characterize your leadership/management style, please?
The concept of player-coach is one of the most powerful leadership principles I try to practice. For me that means being alongside your team instead of over them, especially where they are new or the team is working a new situations.


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Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Did you know that even if no one in your family has ever had diabetes, you could be at risk?
The American Diabetes Association (ADA) says not enough people are asking if they, personally, are at risk, and it's something to take seriously. Diabetes can damage your:
It can eventually lead to death.
Having a family history of diabetes certainly is a risk factor, but it is not the only one. And many people have made the unhappy discovery that they are the first in their family to be diagnosed.
Besides having a close relative who has already been diagnosed with diabetes, other factors that put you at higher risk include:
Watch the video below to understand your risks even better!
The good news is that weight and physical activity are things you can control. To lower your risk for diabetes:
You may think that you need to lose a lot of weight to improve your health. In reality, people who are overweight or obese need to lose only 5-7% of their body weight to achieve a health benefit. For example, that would be 10-14 pounds for the person who weighs 200 pounds and is 60 pounds overweight.
Do you know if you are at risk for diabetes? Could you be one of the nearly 7.0 million Americans who have diabetes but do not know it?
Find Out Your Diabetes Risk.
Talk with your doctor if you're concerned.
Due to today's culture, we may all be at risk. Find out why!
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Top 3 kitesurfing spots?
Taiba, Brazil has an amazing vibe that I just can't get enough of. It has perfect flat water conditions and every time I kite here, I see tons of progression in my riding. One of my other favorites has to be Hatteras in North Carolina for three reasons….one because there is always a friend to ride with, two because the slicks are insane for flat water, and three because if you ever tire of riding the slicks you can walk just across the highway to kite waves.
And of course my home spot in Hood River, Oregon makes the top three. The beautiful backdrop and weeks on end of windy days makes this spot one of my favorites. We also have a public slider park that is in the water all summer long, the only one in the world that I know of.
Favourite gear setup?
I love my 9m vegas on 19m lines with my 136 Gambler and my North boots. So fun!
Cat or dog?
We've always had both growing up but if I were to have a pet right now i'd want to bring home a baja dog from Mexico. They're the best.
Vegetables or pizza/burger?
Veggies all the way, couldn't live without them.
Girls or boys?
Boys for me:)
Water or champagne?
While mimosas are a wonderful way to start the day, I gotta go with water.
Car or bike?
Other than kiting, one of my favorite things to do is mt biking at home in oregon.
City or beach?
That's an easy one, beach for sure. I love the ocean.
Pink or black?
Plane or road trip?
Plane, I have a hard time sitting still so road trips aren't really my thing. Unless we can stop often and run around.


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As a bonus to the popular breakfast event that raises money for local nonprofits and other programs, the day's activities will also include a family bike ride along the boardwalk at 9:30 a.m., led by District 2 City Councilman Kevin Faulconer and police department Assistant Police Chief Shelley Zimmerman.
"Without Kevin's assistance, it would have been difficult to complete the recent renovation of the Crown Point Pavilion, which was originally donated by our club in 1983," said Jerry Hall, president of the Mission Bay Rotary Club. "And ... Shelley Zimmerman is a great addition to the community. She has a hands-on approach to solving community issues and has already made a big impact. We wanted to show our appreciation of these two community superstars with a donation to the Challenged Athletes Foundation."
Faulconer and Zimmerman will be making a 620-mile journey down the California coastline from San Francisco to San Diego to raise funds for the Challenged Athletes Foundation. The Rotary family bike ride they will lead June 15 will be less than three miles, but should help participants burn off the pancakes.
Proceeds of past breakfasts have supported the Rotary's Third Grade Dictionary Program, the renovation of the Crown Point Pavilion, equipment donation of $10,000 for the Junior Lifeguard Program and funding for the Bridge to the Beach Program. This year's breakfast will support the dictionary program for local third-graders in Clairemont and Mission Bay and the Crystal Pier Kids Classic Youth Fishing Derby on Aug. 10, as well as the Challenged Athletes Foundation.
Tickets are $8 per person or two for $15; tickets for children 12 and under are $5. Tickets may be purchased at the Wave House on the day of the event. Underwriting for has been provided by the Bahia Hotel and the Wave House.
The Wave House is located at 3125 Ocean Front Walk.
For information about Rotary membership, call (858) 752-9544.


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Transparent Raincoat :)
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by loves2sew555
Leicester, Unite...
I can't wait for the festival season this summer and decided that I would make a cool outfit to wear. however, I remembered the famous British summer… RAIN!! Not to let the rain spoil my fabulous outfit, I decided to make a transparent raincoat! I bought the fabric online and used McCall's raincoat pattern. The plastic was surprisingly easy to sew and I will definitely make some for my friends! I added duct tape to the seams and to hem it. I chose a neon pink tape and GLOW IN THE DARK tape as well!! I can't wait to wear this to Leeds festival! sooo excited now!
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Sep 16, 2016, 08.42 AMby Lorrainedamian12
Its great for rainy season
Jun 12, 2014, 09.57 AMby loulourosa
so cool! It must have been quiet a job sewing that plastic!!!!
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Jun 12, 2014, 10.10 AMby loves2sew555
aw thank youx sewing the plastic wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. the only real hard part is the sleeves! its hard to pleat the plastic and it all sticks together!
May 21, 2014, 11.05 PMby jwilson71
So fun and well-turned! Love it.
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May 22, 2014, 11.34 AMby loves2sew555
Aw thank ux made a transparent biker jacket too if u want to check it out! :)
May 8, 2014, 09.22 PMby wildflower31
I use to have one of these, I loved it, because you get to see the great outfit underneath.
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May 9, 2014, 07.29 PMby loves2sew555
yep that's whats great about it! I thought I didn't want to make a cool outfit for a festival if I was only going to cover it up with a dull raincoat! only hope it isn't too hot though! :p
May 4, 2014, 05.57 PMby Ellen Hatteland
This is so Cool! Congrats on being featured! :-)
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May 4, 2014, 06.28 PMby loves2sew555
Thanks xWhat I was featured?!
May 4, 2014, 06.29 PMby loves2sew555
Whoop just seen it! Sooo happy :)
May 4, 2014, 07.14 PMby Ellen Hatteland
Yeah, it's an honor, so you should be happy :-))
May 3, 2014, 10.06 PMby Francine Burge
Very creative!
May 2, 2014, 07.07 PMby Rianne2
Very nice! I'm also thinking to make one! Do you need a special kind of plastic/fabric? Where did you found yours?
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May 3, 2014, 06.37 AMby loves2sew555
Hi raine. Thank ux I got the plastic from http://www.allplas.co.uk/acatalog/Clear_Coloured_Flexible_PVC-p1.html and used their 20mm suple PVC plastic. I don't know if the fabric is breathable but when I put it on it didn't feel too hot :)
May 1, 2014, 12.58 AMby kinsmana
Would you recommend the pattern? I was seriously thinking about giving this a try. I live in Newfoundland Canada and we too usually have the same type of weather during festival season. Great work!
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May 1, 2014, 06.55 AMby loves2sew555
Aw thank ux the pattern is M6517. I used the pattern with a hood and lined the hood with another fabric so my hair won't go all static when I put it up :)
May 1, 2014, 06.56 AMby loves2sew555
I would definitely recommend the pattern! :) it was really easy to make and the instructions were really easy to follow :)
Apr 30, 2014, 08.31 PMby maggieg5
This is so much fun, just love it, Will be making on for myself :0) great raincoat !!!!
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Apr 30, 2014, 09.07 PMby loves2sew555
wow! thank youx it was really fun to make as well. so excited for the festivals now!!
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ALFRED — York County Senior College's 2013 Gary Sullivan Memorial Winter Lecture Series is well under way and still has plenty of intellectually stimulating opportunities ahead.
The series began on Jan. 16 and will have monthly installments in February and March. The presentations feature morning and afternoon speakers for a full day of learning.
Morning lectures take place from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. and are followed by an appetizing lunch and a second lecture from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m.
The next lectures, on Feb. 20, is "Visiting Morocco: 2012," to be presented by Lisa Huestis, a graduate student in "International Development," and world traveler-photographer Drew McCormick. Following lunch, seniors will learn about the timely topic of "Reflections on the Arab Spring, Religion and Their Impact on U. S.," by Dr. Anouar Majid, the founding director of the Center for Global Humanities and Associate Provost for Global Initiatives at the University of New England.
Finally, on March 20, Michael Guptill, the artistic director, producer and director of the Hackmatack Playhouse, will take the group back in time and backstage to experience "Hackmatack Playhouse: Its History and Technical Side." The additional telling of his family's involvement with the theater will delight and inform both patrons and newcomers to the Hackmatack story.
All lectures will be given at Denis Hall on the campus of the Brothers of Christian Instruction at 133 Shaker Hill Road, off Route 202, in Alfred. The fee for each day's program is $15, payable at the door by cash or check — the latter made payable to the Brothers of Christian Instruction. The fee includes a morning-coffee-and-muffin reception from 9 to 9:30 a.m., along with a luncheon of soup, salad, sandwiches, dessert and beverage.
These lectures are open to the public with no age or membership requirements.
Please call (207) 282-4030 for reservations by the Monday before each lecture.
The Senior College will cancel its classes in the case of inclement weather and of the Sanford School Department canceling school.
York County Senior College also provides low-cost educational and social opportunities for adults, offering classes in the spring and fall semesters in Saco, Springvale, and North Berwick. Usually, 8-week terms commence in March and September. For more information, please visit online at www.maineseniorcollege.org.
To be added to the College's mailing list, please call (207) 282-4030.
The mission of York County Senior College is to provide a curriculum of intellectually-stimulating learning opportunities and special activities for persons 50 years of age or older. Begun in 1999, Senior College is governed by a volunteer committee who oversees its general operations. York County Senior College is a program of the University of Maine System's University College. Its motto is "Learning as it should be; lifelong."


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Wellness Initiative
In 2010, the UNH School of Law Student Bar Association developed and funded a pilot program called the Student Wellness Initiative. Based on positive student and staff feedback, we plan to expand the Wellness Initiative program to offer students a broader range of opportunities to learn to support their own physical and mental health. Presenters are local wellness professionals who can offer ongoing support to students in the community, as well as local health and wellness educators affiliated with the University of New Hampshire and the Community College system of New Hampshire, including New Hampshire Technical Institute's Department of Human Service and Addiction Counseling.
Law school is very demanding, so many of the workshops and events focus on stress management and "chilling out". We hope to hold weekly yoga classes and workshops presented by community members. We have recently instituted RECESS: A Break from the Mondays in collaboration with the Assistant Dean of Students' Office, in which all members of the UNH Law community take a break, catch up with friends and peers, and enjoy a snack. Other events include visits from Therapy Dogs, a spring softball game and BBQ, and walking meditations.
Feel free to contact us via the student organization email, firstname.lastname@example.com.