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Improving the recruitment and retention of doctors by training medical students locally
Med Educ. 2011 Nov;45(11):1121-9. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.2011.04055.x.
Michel Landry 1 , Aurel Schofield, Rachel Bordage, Mathieu Bélanger
1 Dieppe Family Medicine Unit, Vitalité Health Network, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. michelh.landry@vitalitenb.ca
Context: The global shortage of doctors is of concern. This is particularly true in French-speaking regions of New Brunswick, Canada, where there is no medical school. Since 1981, francophone medical students from New Brunswick have been able to undertake part of their training in their province through an agreement with medical schools in another province. We studied the effects of frequency and length of exposure to the province of origin during medical training on the likelihood that a doctor will ever or currently practise medicine in that province.
Methods: A questionnaire was sent to 390 francophone doctors from New Brunswick to collect information on history of medical training and practice. Multivariate logistic regressions were used to identify whether exposure to New Brunswick during medical training at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels affects the likelihood of ever or currently practising in the province.
Results: A total of 263 doctors participated. Among family doctors, those with exposure to their province of origin in 1, 2, 3 or 4 years of undergraduate training were 2.5 (95% confidence interval [CI] 0.8-7.4), 2.5 (95% CI 0.7-8.6), 9.3 (95% CI 1.5-56.9) and 9.3 (95% CI 1.4-60.1) times more likely, respectively, to currently practise in New Brunswick than doctors who had experienced no exposure to the province during undergraduate training. Among specialty doctors, exposure to New Brunswick during undergraduate training had no effect on location of practice. Family and specialty doctors who had been exposed to New Brunswick during postgraduate residency were 5.9 (95% CI 2.3-14.9) and 3.2 (95% CI 0.9-11.6) times more likely, respectively, to practise in the province than doctors without postgraduate exposure.
Conclusions: Greater exposure to New Brunswick during medical training is associated with significantly better odds that doctors will be recruited to and retained in the province. Some effects are perceived for exposure during both undergraduate (most importantly in the final years) and postgraduate programmes.
© Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2011.
Physicians / supply & distribution
Retention, Psychology
Rural Health Services / organization & administration*
Schools, Medical / statistics & numerical data
Students, Medical / statistics & numerical data*
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Scalar/vector processor that includes a functional unit with a vector section and a scalar section
C.H. Berkel, van (Inventor), P.P.E. Meuwissen (Inventor), N. Engin (Inventor)
System Architecture and Networking
Research output: Patent › Patent publication
A scalar/vector processor includes a plurality of functional units (252, 260, 262, 264, 266, 268, 270). At least one of the functional units includes a vector section (210) for operating on at least one vector and a scalar section (220) for operating on at least one scalar. The vector section and scalar section of the functional unit co-operate by the scalar section being arranged to provide and/or consume at least one scalar required by and/or supplied by the vector section of the functional unit.
Patent number
US8510534
Published - 13 Aug 2013
Other priority number(s):
WO2003IB02213 20030522 Date: 22-05-2003
Also published as:
US2005240644 (A1)
WO03100602 (A2)
289789 (B)
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central processing units Physics & Astronomy
scalars Physics & Astronomy
Berkel, van, C. H., Meuwissen, P. P. E., & Engin, N. (2013). Scalar/vector processor that includes a functional unit with a vector section and a scalar section. (Patent No. US8510534).
Berkel, van, C.H. (Inventor) ; Meuwissen, P.P.E. (Inventor) ; Engin, N. (Inventor). / Scalar/vector processor that includes a functional unit with a vector section and a scalar section. Patent No.: US8510534. Aug 13, 2013.
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Cardiac displacement during off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting surgery: effect on sublingual microcirculation and cerebral oxygenation
B. Atasever, C. Boer, R. Speekenbrink, J. Seyffert, P. Goedhart, B.A.J.M. De Mol, C. Ince
Cardio-thoracic surgery
Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
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Saccadic eye movements in hyperekplexia
M A Tijssen, E Bollen, E van Exel, J G van Dijk
Hyperekplexia is an autosomal dominant disorder characterized by excessive startle responses followed by a temporary generalized stiffness. The startle response is generated in the medial bulbopontine reticular formation in the lower brainstem. The pulse generator of horizontal saccadic eye movements is localized in the pontine paramedian reticular formation. Measurements of horizontal visually evoked random saccades, antisaccades, and saccades toward remembered targets were performed in seven patients with familial hyperekplexia and seven health age-matched controls. The peak velocity of all three kinds of saccades was reduced (p < 0.0001) compared with that of controls. Latencies were marginally longer in the patient group (p = 0.0486). Saccadic gains did not differ between patients and controls. The ability to make antisaccades, saccades toward remembered targets, and the ability to suppress reflex saccades are similar in patients and controls. These data suggest that the origin of the excessive startle response is probably more due to a different modulation in the brainstem than to altered cortical influence.
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'Who you is?' Work and identity in Aboriginal New South Wales
Lorraine Gibson
Ideas and practices relating to work, productivity and leisure are a source of much disagreement and ill feeling between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Australia. For dominant Western cultures, labour in its most common guise of ‘work’ offers a cogent means through which people come to know themselves and become known to others (Crawford 1985). How does this notion translate to Indigenous social realms? This chapter offers an ethnographically grounded examination of the intersections between work, employment and identity for Indigenous people living in a country town in far western New South Wales, Australia.1 What does it mean to be a productive and valued person within Aboriginal society and in what ways is this tied to and/or antithetical to participation in the mainstream economy? How are Aboriginal people figuring ideas of work and productivity as a means to forging a particular identity? This chapter explores the tacit and reflexive cultural import of these questions and some of their lived effects.
Indigenous participation in Australian economies
historical and anthropological perspectives
Ian Keen
ANU E Press
Copyright retained by author(s). Version archived for private and non-commercial use with the permission of the author and according to publisher conditions. For further reproduction rights please contact the publisher at http://epress.anu.edu.au/.
Publisher version (open access)Final published version, 178 KBLicence: Unspecified
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productivity Social Sciences
import Social Sciences
town Social Sciences
economy Social Sciences
human being Social Sciences
Gibson, L. (2010). 'Who you is?' Work and identity in Aboriginal New South Wales. In I. Keen (Ed.), Indigenous participation in Australian economies: historical and anthropological perspectives (pp. 127-139). Canberra: ANU E Press.
Gibson, Lorraine. / 'Who you is?' Work and identity in Aboriginal New South Wales. Indigenous participation in Australian economies: historical and anthropological perspectives. editor / Ian Keen. Canberra : ANU E Press, 2010. pp. 127-139
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Institute for GeoEnergy Engineering
Websitehttps://www.hw.ac.uk/uk/schools/energy-geoscience-infrastructure-society/research/ige.htm
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Prizes (37)
Press / Media (18)
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Environmental pollution challenges and associated planning and management issues facing offshore oil and gas field development in the UK
Salter, E. & Ford, J., Mar 2000, In : Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. 43, 2, p. 253-276 24 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Literature review
gas field
atmospheric emission
Flow in porous media - Scale up of multiphase flow
Christie, M. A., 2001, In : Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science. 6, 3, p. 236-241 6 p.
Late Cretaceous to early Quaternary organic sedimentation in the eastern Equatorial Atlantic
Wagner, T., 15 Apr 2002, In : Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 179, 1-2, p. 113-147 35 p.
An overview of seabed-mapping technologies in the context of marine habitat classification
Kenny, A. J., Cato, I., Desprez, M., Fader, G., Schüttenhelm, R. T. E. & Side, J., Apr 2003, In : ICES Journal of Marine Science. 60, 2, p. 411-418 8 p.
bedform
slope failure
Characteristics of clathrate hydrate equilibria in mesopores and interpretation of experimental data
Anderson, R., Llamedo Cueto, M. A., Tohidi Kalorazi, B. & Burgass, R. W., 17 Apr 2003, In : Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 107, 15, p. 3500-3506 7 p.
clathrate
Delineation of fracture anisotropy signatures in Wudayhi field by azimuthal seismic data
Al-Hawas, K., Ameen, M., Wahab, M., Nebrija, E. & MacBeth, C., Dec 2003, In : Leading Edge. 22, 12, p. 1202-1211 10 p.
History matching using both production and 4D-4C seismic
Al-Naamani, A. & MacBeth, C., Sep 2003, In : First Break. 21, 9, p. 59-63 5 p.
seismic monitoring
The role of fishermen and other stakeholders in the North Sea rigs-to-reefs debate
Baine, M. & Side, J., 2003, In : American Fisheries Society Symposium. 2003, 36, p. 1-14 14 p.
pressure group
gas platform
Euxinia and primary production in Late Cretaceous eastern equatorial Atlantic surface waters fostered orbitally driven formation of marine black shales
Wagner, T., Damste, J. S. S., Hofmann, P. & Beckmann, B., Sep 2004, In : Paleoceanography. 19, 3, 13 p., 3009.
Measurement and Modeling of Gas Solubility and Literature Review of the Properties for the Carbon Dioxide-Water System
Chapoy, A., Mohammadi, A. H., Chareton, A., Tohidi, B. & Richon, D., 31 Mar 2004, In : Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research. 43, 7, p. 1794-1802 9 p.
The NERC Micro to Macro programme: Implications for fluid resource management
Heffer, K. J., 2005, In : Geological Society Special Publications. 249, p. 5-27 23 p.
fluid flow
geomechanics
JIP seeks to identify value of intelligent well systems
Davies, D., May 2006, In : World Oil. 227, 5, p. 47-53 7 p.
Mathematical modeling of tumor-induced angiogenesis
Chaplain, M. A. J., McDougall, S. R. & Anderson, A. R. A., 2006, In : Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering. 8, p. 233-257 25 p.
Virtual outcrop models of petroleum reservoir analogues: A review of the current state-of-the-art
Pringle, J. K., Howell, J. A., Hodgetts, D., Westerman, A. R. & Hodgson, D. M., Mar 2006, In : First Break. 24, 3, p. 33-42 10 p.
outcrop
Winds of change: the planning response to renewable energy in Scotland
Kerr, S., 2006, In : Town Planning Review. 77, 4, p. 375-402
strategic approach
development control
Numerical simulation of multiphase fluid flow in hydrothermal systems
Driesner, T. & Geiger, S., 2007, In : Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry. 65, p. 187-212 26 p.
Review of unconformities in the late Eocene to early Miocene successions of the South Island, New Zealand: Ages, correlations, and causes
Lever, H., Sep 2007, In : New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 50, 3, p. 245-261 17 p.
unconformity
Cyclic changes in Turonian to Coniacian planktic foraminiferal assemblages from the tropical Atlantic Ocean
Friedrich, O., Norris, R. D., Bornemann, A., Beckmann, B., Paelike, H., Worstell, P., Hofmann, P. & Wagner, T., Aug 2008, In : Marine Micropaleontology. 68, 3-4, p. 299-313 15 p.
Low sulfate seawater injection for barium sulfate scale control: A life-of-field solution to a complex challenge
Jordan, M. M., Collins, I. R. & Mackay, E. J., May 2008, In : SPE Production and Operations. 23, 2, p. 192-209 18 p.
Trends in stimulated Brillouin scattering and optical phase conjugation
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Predicting Showtime’s Super Six Classic: And the Winner is…
July 6th, 2010 Bad Brad
By Geno McGahee
The latest battle in the Super Six, presented by Showtime, was a dominant performance by WBA Super Middleweight Champion, Andre Ward, easily outpointing the passive Allan Green over twelve rounds. Ward has moved up from a mid level pick to a big favorite after victories over both Green and Mikkel Kessler in his first appearance in the tournament. Ward became the points leader with 4 points and earned his right into the semi-finals, but this is still anyone’s tournament.
The tournament has provided the excitement and drama that boxing has been missing recently and has kept people talking about one of the best divisions currently in boxing, the super middleweight division. Although Ward is considered the favorite, he has a tough road ahead. RSR looks at the tournament and the future bouts lined up.
Andre Ward, 22-0, 13 KO’s,
WBA Super Middleweight Champion
4 Points – Leader (2-0)
Andre Dirrell, 19-1, 13 KO’s
2 Points (1-1)
When the tournament was first announced, Mikkel Kessler and Arthur Abraham were co-favorites, but Ward upset Kessler, took his WBA Title and is now in the top position. His style is not attractive as he mauls and clinches, pinning his opposition against the ropes and clubbing them to death, but it’s effective. It is a similar approach of John Ruiz or Ricky Hatton, although Ward has a better skill set. He is a puzzle that nobody has figured out to date, but he will be facing the toughest opponent, style-wise, in his next fight.
Andre Dirrell will be squaring off against Ward in the near future. Dirrell lost a close decision to Carl Froch in his first outing in the Super Six, but is coming off an upset win over Arthur Abraham, and has the ability to box and move, but can he stay off the ropes when he faces Ward? I believe he can and will most likely pick up the victory. These two 168 pound American fighters upset the tournament and have found each other and both men now occupy top spots to own the rest of it. A victory for Dirrell puts him into the semi-finals, and Ward makes it there win or lose, but he obviously wants to keep the momentum.
The early pick: Dirrell by Majority Decision over Ward in an ugly fight.
Carl Froch, 26-1, 20 KO’s
Arthur Abraham, 31-1, 25 KO’s
3 Points (1-1, 1 KO)
Arthur Abraham is one of the toughest guys in boxing, once fighting 8 rounds with a severely broken jaw to defeat Edison Miranda. He came into the tournament facing former middleweight champion, Jermain Taylor, and sent him to the floor and out of the tournament and was favored to beat Andre Dirrell in his next showing. Some questionable officiating in the fight, but there was no question that Dirrell had the lead when Abraham allowed his frustration to get the best of him and hit Dirrell when he was down, thus getting disqualified. Abraham occupies the second spot with his 3 points and could take the lead against Froch.
Froch, the former WBC Champion, eked by Andre Dirrell in an ugly fight and then dropped his title to Mikkel Kessler by unanimous decision in his last fight. He has a powerful punch but is slightly awkward. The question going into this fight is can he overcome the great defense of Abraham?
Abraham has something to prove and may have won his fight with Dirrell had the referee not ruined his one moment in the fight when he appeared to have him in trouble. His defense seems too tight and he will chop down Froch en route to a TKO win late in the fight.
Mikkel Kessler, 43-2, 32 KO’s
WBC Super Middleweight Champion
Allan Green, 29-2, 20 KO’s
Mikkel Kessler was the favorite heading in and looked great in his one defeat against Joe Calzaghe, the universally recognized best 168 pounder in the world at the time. He can box and punch, but was flustered and confused by Andre Ward, losing a decision. He came back to defeat Carl Froch and win another title and now faces the challenge of Allan Green.
When Taylor backed out of the tournament, the power-punching contender, Green, jumped in. He felt slighted when he was overlooked for a spot and when he faced Ward, many expected him to come in with guns blazing…it didn’t happen. He was passive and had no urgency to change in order to get the victory.
Kessler is a big favorite to not only beat Green but to stop him and we will see that happen late in the fight. Kessler moves on.
The Semi Finals
Arthur Abraham vs. Andre Ward
This is a great fight. I don’t know if Ward can outmuscle Abraham. Both men are incredibly strong, and both have puzzling styles. Dirrell showed that Abraham can be put into a shell by an active fighter, and that is what Ward will attempt to do. It’s a toss up, but I would lean toward the tougher Abraham to defeat Ward by a close decision or late stoppage.
Mikkel Kessler vs. Andre Dirrell
This is another very tough fight, and as much respect as I have for Kessler, I believe Dirrell to be too quick of hand and feet to be caught. Expect him to outbox Kessler and come on late in the fight, winning a decision by the scores of 116-112 range.
Arthur Abraham vs. Andre Dirrell (The Rematch)
A grudge match to wrap up the tournament…can’t get much better than that. Abraham will be more aggressive and start earlier, which will be bad news for Dirrell. Dirrell will win the early rounds, but the pressure will add up in the middle and later rounds, leading to a TKO victory for Arthur Abraham and the victory in the Super Six Tournament.
A great tournament and anything can happen, as exhibited in the other fights we have seen. The tournament is heating up and the boxing world and Lucian Bute will be eagerly awaiting the end results.
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Luxene’s comment on: Selective Tuning of Elastin-like Polypeptide Properties via Methionine Oxidation
By Luxene Belfleur
Figure 1. Kekule structure of and synthesis of ELP 2 and 3. Cartoon representation of ELPs solution, the LCST behavior and measurement of ELPs
In this article, the authors reported the LCST modulation of Elastin-like polymers (ELP) by the modification towards oxidation reactions of the methionine thioester group of the ELP 1 to form sulfoxide and sulfone ELPs derivatives 2 and 3 respectively (Figure 1). They isolated ELP 1 from plasmid DNA of E.coli bacteria and purified it by SDS-Page. In acidic media, using 30% hydrogen peroxide and 1% of acetic acid or formic acid in water, they obtained ELP derivatives 2 and 3 respectively and the molecular weight and structural elucidation of ELP 1 and its derivatives 2 and 3 had been examined and confirmed by mass spectrometry and NMR respectively.
They performed turbidity experiments to determine the cloud points of those three ELPs. As expected, both ELP derivatives 2 and 3 had a higher LCST behavior (55 °C and 43 °C for 2 and 3 respectively) compared to ELP 1 which is 25 °C (Figure 1). This is due to the increasing of water solubility of the modified ELPs (2 and 3), which required more energy to break the interaction between water and them (ELP 2 and 3) in order to evacuate the hydration shell around these ELPs and favored the collapse of the letters. Moreover, it was expected that ELP 3 would have a higher cloud point than the ELP 2 counterpart, however, this was not the case because the large dipole moment of ELP 3 favored intramolecular and intermolecular interactions between them and the protein respectively which promoted a decrease of the water solubility. They evaluated the influence of the I¯ and NO3¯ anions on the phase transition of the three ELPs and found that those anions had no significant effect on the LCST point of the ELP 1 while I¯ increased the LCST of ELP 2 and NO3¯ decreased the solubility of ELP 3 in agreement with the Hofmeister series effect.
They reported an interesting and straightforward work by turning the LCST behavior of ELPs towards synthetic modification. This work has inspired and motivated my team for designing and synthesizing sulfoxides and sulfones containing guanosine derivatives in order to both, stabilize the thioester containing guanosine derivatives compounds that we synthesize, and modulate the LCST properties of the SGQs that will be made from oxidizing 8ArG derivatives product.
Petitdemange, 2017. Selective Tuning of Elastin-like Polypeptide Properties via Methionine Oxidation
2018-05-23 2018-05-23 by supramolecular Categories: group meetings, literature discussionTags: article, ELP, LCST, Luxene, peptides 10 Comments
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10 thoughts on “Luxene’s comment on: Selective Tuning of Elastin-like Polypeptide Properties via Methionine Oxidation”
Diana S. says:
Rating (synopsis): 2/5
Rating (image): 3/5
There are a few inaccuracies in the way the experiment is described. For example, ELP 1 isn’t isolated from plasmid DNA of E.coli bacteria. Also, some of the phrasing could use revision to make it more comprehensible such as “modulation (…) by the modification towards oxidation reactions”, and occasionally some words are misused (letters instead of latter). In general, although it is possible to understand the synopsis, it would greatly benefit from some feedback in writing before posting. Maybe someone else from the lab can quickly proofread before submitting? At least I can volunteer to do so.
The increase in LCST temperature with increasing hydrophilicity of the derivatives is said to be due to the energy required to break the interaction between water and the ELPs, which sounds misleading to me. It seems to suggest the existence of attractive interactions between water and the peptide. I’m not sure this is what Luxene meant to convey, however I think it would be better described saying that the increased hydrophilicity has the effect of decreasing the energetic penalty of solubilizing the peptide. Because the penalty increases with raising temperature, the more hydrophilic peptides have a higher threshold before separating from solution. Furthermore, I didn’t understand the explanation given as to why ELP 3 doesn’t present a higher LCST temperature: what does “the large dipole moment of ELP 3 favored intramolecular and intermolecular interactions between them and the protein respectively” mean?
I did like the relationship drawn between the research presented and the research done in our group.
The figure looks attractive. The steps of heating to produce phase separation and determining LCST seem to be set as two different processes (illustrated by different arrows in sequential steps), something which I think could be misleading.
Luis A. Prieto Costas says:
The narrative of Luxene’s comment is very dense and has some misspellings. For example, in the last paragraph, instead of writing “tuning the LCST behavior”, he wrote “turning the LCST behavior.” I agree with Diana that we should proofread before posting, not only Luxene’s but all of our comments, as this will improve the quality of the writing in the blog and ours.
The image constructed by Luxene explains the article, but I have some recommendations. For example, instead of the word “heated” you could substitute it with T>LCST. Also, I don’t think it’s necessary to include a description of the figure, but I guess we can discuss that later.
Valeria A. Burgos Caldero says:
Rating (figure): 4/5
The summary was not very clear to me about the central idea. However, I was able to familiarize myself with the techniques they use in their procedures, such as the SDSPage technique. These are biochemical techniques that I have seen in my class.
The image is very direct. And easy to understand. I agree with Luis that is not necessary to include a description of the figure because in the synopsis should be describe.
Minelise Rivera De Jesus says:
Rating Synopsis: 3/5
Rating Figure: 5/5
As Valeria commented, I didn’t get the clearly the main goal of the paper and also got me confused as I read it because of the various ELP’s that they were working with. Still It discussed the LCST which is something that we work with in the lab and it is quite important for the formation of the Hacky Sacks. It really helped me to understand better and associate it with what we do in the lab and how it affect.
The figure was very well presented and organized.
Carla M Quinones Jurgensen says:
The synopsis in general is very heavy going and makes it hard to understand the important idea of the paper. On the other hand, reading the paper and in the presentation I did understand the use of solvents with different Hofmeister salts to detect different transition temperatures and ,also, understood much better the LCST behavior, important for our Supramolecular Hacky Sacks system. I agree with Diana and Luis that we should all collaborate to do proof reading to anyone that needs help organizing ideas and in grammatical issues.
The picture is very well designed and delivers the full step by step idea of the synopsis.
Rafael A Brito-Sanchez says:
Rating (Figure): 3.5/5
I was not here for this presentation and I did not have the interpretation of the information given by Luxene at the group meeting. Because of this it was an interesting experiment to see if I could correlate the information i understood from the article through reading it and this synopsis. I can say that Luxene’s synopsis does a great job of compiling the experimental results from the article, but apart from I understood about the same from both sources which was not much. Apart from the errors already reported by my colleagues, the synopsis is useful, but not enlightening. The figure is also very simple and to the point, but I wished Luxene had tried to one-up the authors and be a little bit more creative.
Maxier Acosta-Santiago says:
Synopsis: 2.5/5
Figure: 3/5
The article itself is very interesting leaving the reader somewhat wanting more. That I blame on what have become our second nature of not only looking at the “How was this done?” but at the “What is the application of this?”. They briefly state it in the paper. But as our lab’s discussion goes leaded by Luxene for this paper, it is lacking exactly that. The construction of the system, as in the paper, Luxene goes over it in somewhat detailed way. Yet in Luxene’s narrative, the transitions between points that he wants to convey seems choppy and to some of them disjointed. Still, the referring to the image may be helpful on some points of his narrative. The image itself, although not a TOC Figure, is a scheme that summarizes the paper very well.
Maria L. Adrover Castellano says:
Synopsis: 3/5
Overall, I think that in the synopsis, just like what Valeria, Carla and Minelise said, the main goal or idea of the research is not well presented. The idea is to ”adjust the temperature responsive behavior of ELPs in aqueous solutions”. Regardless, Luxene explained well the main results in the paper although some details are still missing. The figure summarizes the main goal of the paper and makes it clear to understand the important aspects presented.
Yanira Rodriguez Valdes says:
Rating (Figure):
Despite having several grammatical and orthographic errors, I think Luxene’s synopsis captured the main idea of the article, although the narrative of the synopsis makes it a little hard to grasp. I think that Luxene tried to translate the article’s findings to us by making them relevant to ours and his research project, which is one of the reasons why we keep up with literature.
Also, I very much prefer Luxene’s TOC figure to the article’s TOC, since it presents the main parts of the paper in an organized and simplified way.
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Influence of priming exercise and type 2 diabetes on oxygen uptake and muscle deoxygenation kinetics during submaximal exercise
Joel Rocha, Norita Gildea, Donal O'Shea, Simon Green, Mikel Egana
Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract
Middle aged and young adults with uncomplicated type 2 diabetes (T2D) show a slowed adjustment of oxidative metabolism during metabolic transitions (i.e. .oxygen uptake, VO2 kinetics) due to progressive limitations of both O2 delivery and utilisation. Priming exercise (PE) has been shown to increase the speed of adjustment of oxidative metabolism during subsequent moderate-intensity step transitions in healthy adults presenting initially slow VO2 kinetics. We tested the hypothesis that PE would increase the speed of the adjustment of the primary phase (taup, τp) of VO2 during moderate intensity cycling in T2D and that this would be due to a better matching of O2 delivery to utilisation. Ten middle-aged participants with uncomplicated T2D (50.7 ± 9.0 years, 30.4 ± 5.3 kg/m2; 7 men / 3 women) and 10 non-diabetic (ND) controls (44.4 ± 9.6 years, 31.1 ± 4.1 kg/m2; 7 men / 3 women) were recruited. Participants completed four bouts of constant-load cycling at 80% of their ventilatory threshold previously established during a ramp incremental test. Two of these constant-load bouts were completed without priming exercise (ModA) and two bouts were undertaken with prior heavy intensity priming exercise (ModB). VO2 kinetics was calculated from continuously measured breath-by-breath data, while the rate of muscle deoxygenation (i.e., deoxygenated hemoglobin, HHb) and tissue oxygen saturation (i.e., tissue oxygenation index) were continuously measured by Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) at the vastus lateralis muscle. The time constant of the primary phase, τp, was significantly slower in T2D, but PE significantly (P<0.05) reduced τp in both groups by a similar magnitude (T2D, 48.29 ± 11.5 vs. 35.9±13.0 s; ND, 34.0 ± 9.6 vs. 26.8 ± 10.5 s). The adjustment of deoxygenated heamoglobin (HHb) did not show any differences between groups but its amplitude was increased after PE (P=0.036). Total tissue oxygenation at baseline and end of exercise was lower in T2D (P<0.05), however, PE increased tissue oxygenation index at baseline (p=0.002) and the delta values at the end of exercise (p=0.001) in both groups. The HHb/VO2 ratios (20-120s) were reduced after PE (T2D, 1.12 ± 0.12 vs 1.07 ± 0.12; ND, 1.03 ± 0.13 vs 1.00 ± 0.12; P=0.038). These preliminary data support that in middle-aged adults with T2D, priming exercise prior to moderate-intensity exercise, beneficially affects the speed of adjustment of oxidative metabolism, possibly due to the partial improvement in the transient mismatch of muscle O2 delivery relative to utilisation.
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Rocha, J., Gildea, N., O'Shea, D., Green, S., & Egana, M. (2016). Influence of priming exercise and type 2 diabetes on oxygen uptake and muscle deoxygenation kinetics during submaximal exercise. Abstract from Biomedical Basis of Elite Performance 2016, Nottingham, United Kingdom. http://www.physoc.org/proceedings/abstract/Proc%20Physiol%20Soc%2035PC17
Rocha, Joel ; Gildea, Norita ; O'Shea, Donal ; Green, Simon ; Egana, Mikel. / Influence of priming exercise and type 2 diabetes on oxygen uptake and muscle deoxygenation kinetics during submaximal exercise. Abstract from Biomedical Basis of Elite Performance 2016, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
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Milliman is among the world's largest providers of actuarial and related products and services. Founded in 1947, Milliman is an independent firm with offices in major cities around the globe. Milliman has 2700 employees working in 60 offices, 12 of which are outside the US. The company generates $700 million in annual revenue.
Through consulting practices in employee benefits, healthcare, investment, life insurance and financial services, and property and casualty insurance, Milliman serves the full spectrum of business, financial, government, union, education, and nonprofit organizations. In addition to consulting actuaries, Milliman's body of professionals includes numerous other specialists, ranging from clinicians to economists.
With a full-cadre of highly-trained and experienced consultants, the core Milliman business depends on its ability to accurately and efficiently manage the business and actuarial document workflow for its clients. As a geographically-dispersed company operating in a document-intensive work environment, this is a difficult work process to manage efficiently. For business reasons, it important to have an accurate record of the document review flow.
The company was originally using a Notes infrastructure for email and for document management. Some time ago, the company adopted SharePoint as the document management system. A system integrator was contracted to integrate Notes email and SharePoint, but the solution which included Microsoft InfoPath was ‘ugly’ and untenable. Since this process was the core of their business, Milliman needed an effective solution to create a seamless user experience for the mixed environment of IBM and Microsoft products.
The Business Need
As a financial consultancy, judicious handling of documents and proper storage of records is a key business requirement for Milliman.
At Milliman, businesses units are independent; but IT supports them all. This business fact makes it important for Milliman to standardize and automate the business processes; in order to maximize efficiency while reducing support overhead. Additionally, because ‘documents are the business’ at Milliman, creating an efficient document workflow that ensures documents are properly reviewed, stored, documented, and indexed for search is paramount to the success of the business.
As part of these processes, important documents need to be peer-reviewed according to a strict review process. At the end of this process, important documents need to be converted to records; after 60 days, the document trail is deleted but mandated metadata must be retained for auditing purposes.
Furthermore, because much of the business is carried out via email, it is important to efficiently save email messages for later retrieval. And individual consultants wanted the freedom to decide which emails were important to save. This has the added benefit of reducing the need to save gigabytes of needless messages, but it imposes requirements on the IT system selected to manage and store the email messages.
Taxonomy – The “Name of the Game”
Documents are only valuable if you can use them to do business. And that means being able to find them when you need them…so Milliman understood the need to leverage document metadata for records managements purposes.
The search for a new solution to manage documents and records that fulfilled the Milliman business requirements was ‘fueled by desperation of a poor existing solution,’ according to Sid Segal, Dir of Corporate Applications at Milliman.
A selection process was initiated and 4 potential solutions were evaluated. At the end of this process, harmon.ie was selected, particularly because Milliman liked the email and metadata capabilities that harmon.ie provides.
“Our business depends on its ability to accurately and efficiently manage actuarial document workflow for clients...By making email and document storage in SharePoint part of the regular work routine, harmon.ie has been a boon for our highly-trained and experienced consultants who need to focus on their jobs and not on document management.”
- Sid Siegel, Director, Corporate Applications and Finance IT at Milliman, one of the world's largest providers of actuarial and related products and services
When a consultant finishes a draft of a document, they use “Send on Save” to automatically insert the document into a temporary repository; then use metadata to dictate the name of the next reviewer. Consultants are prompted by harmon.ie to supply the name of the next reviewer from a pre-populated list of users. harmon.ie does not allow the user to check in documents until all the metadata are completed.
When the reviewer receives notification that a document is waiting for review, the reviewer opens the document and acknowledges receipt of the document using metadata; when they check the document back in, it gets routed to the next reviewer in a similar fashion. Once the review process is complete, the final reviewer stores it in its final location, whereupon it becomes a record. The ‘temporary’ document gets deleted after 60 days, but its metadata are retained for audit purposes.
As a consultancy that works with many clients, it is important to retain client emails for audit purposes. In the past, these emails were kept in a single file location, but it was impossible to find email messages since they were not searchable and they were stored in a separate location from related documents from the same client.
Many types of consultants need to retain email messages. In fact, twenty practices with over 400 people including those that deal with life insurance, employee benefits, health care, and property/casualty insurance, need this email saving capability.
These consultants now save emails via ‘drag and drop’ into SharePoint using harmon.ie.. For the first time, email messages and related documents are all stored in the same place. Furthermore, now the email messages are searchable since email headers are automatically mapped to SharePoint columns.
Calendar Integration
Now that users make use of Notes and SharePoint, they have two separate calendars; a shared calendar via SharePoint and an individual calendar via Notes. With harmon.ie, these two calendars become automatically sync-ed.
harmon.ie was rolled out together with SharePoint, providing Milliman consultants with an intranet for the first time. As such, when storing documents and emails, consultants are generally not aware of SharePoint; they just see harmon.ie in their email window, which makes their daily workflow simple. The joint rollout has the additional benefit that users did not have to learn a new system; they just continued using email.
To introduce consultants to harmon.ie/SharePoint, Milliman ran monthly ‘Lunch and Learn’ sessions over Webex. They found that doing demos and answering questions while focusing on the business process (rather than the technology or products) provided the best method for gaining adoption.
Initially, harmon.ie and SharePoint were rolled out to twenty practices with over 400 consultants.
Milliman users are delighted with the results harmon.ie has provided. For example, the manual process of storing and routing an email message used to take 5 minutes. Now it is instantaneous; more importantly, it is automated so users don’t have to think about the entire process, which makes sure it gets done. And that fulfills the business requirements.
Additionally, individual users like the shared calendar which makes their lives much easier.
Looking Forward – Knowledge Management, Partner Extranets
Looking forward, Milliman sees consultants extending the current use of harmon.ie/SharePoint to locate expertise within the organization. With valuable (and expensive) consultants located in many remote offices, the ability to quickly find the ‘right’ resource creates tremendous value to the company. To date, consultants have not created their SharePoint profiles yet, so searching it not yet possible, but this is planned.
Also, Milliman would like to extend the solution to add externally-facing SharePoint including contractors and partners into the collaboration ecosystem. A partner Active Directory already exists, so authenticating external partners will not incur an additional burden in rolling out the solution. This solution would extend all the benefits that harmon.ie provides today to the entire business, thereby saving valuable time and money, while ensuring that mandated business requirements are met, without having to change the typical users’ behavior.
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Seasonal and spatial variations of the dinoflagellate Ostreopsis siamensis in the Lebanese coastal waters (Eastern Mediterranean)
Marie ABBOUD-ABI SAAB, Milad FAKHRI, Marie-Thérèse KASSAB & Nada MATAR
Cryptogamie, Algologie 34 (1) - Pages 57-67
The dinoflagellate Ostreopsis siamensis was studied as part of a broad national monitoring program along the Lebanese coastal waters. The monthly and spatial variations of its density in water samples were carried out at 4 different rocky stations from September 2000 to December 2001 and for a longer period (April 1997-December 2001 and January 2010 to December 2010) in one of the stations. Results showed that O. siamensis is present almost in all rocky shores along the Lebanese coastline from south to north between May and November when the surface seawater temperature ranges from 23 to 30.5 °C, with a maximum in abundance between July and September. In 2001, the population densities reached 10 500 cells/L in July and 5 700 cells/L in September at two stations both located in the southern coast. In 2010, the analysis of larger water volumes revealed the presence of this species in February, March and April; however densities were lower than 1-3 cells/L. Significant positive correlation was observed (P<0.01) between the occurrence of the species and nitrate concentrations, whereas the correlation was negative with orthophosphates. Our results suggest that O. siamensis is a thermophilic species. It constitutes a permanent component of the microalgal flora of Lebanese waters and its abundance depends on water enrichment.
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ABBOUD-ABI SAAB M., FAKHRI M., KASSAB M.-T. & MATAR N. 2013. — Seasonal and spatial variations of the dinoflagellate Ostreopsis siamensis in the Lebanese coastal waters (Eastern Mediterranean). Cryptogamie, Algologie 34 (1): 57-67. https://doi.org/10.7872/crya.v34.iss1.2013.57
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How does Q know his IQ?
In "Deja Q," the now-human Q talks to Guinan in Ten Forward, when he states that he is "just one of the boys with an IQ of 2005."
Where did Q get this information? Did Beverly give him an IQ test? Was he informed by the Continuum before being sent away that he'd retain his intellect? If so, that means Q's IQ while fully Q would be 2005. It seems strange that the Q would use intelligence quotient, so that seems unlikely.
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Rule #1 - Never trust anything said by someone whose nickname is "the God of Lies" – Valorum Feb 18 '17 at 17:03
I think we can safely assume that someone with an IQ of 2000+ is perfectly capable of accurately assessing their own IQ. – Valorum Feb 18 '17 at 17:04
@Valorum not sure I'd trust Holly from Red Dwarf with that...(an IQ of 6,000 you say Holly? Umm.... okay...) – Jon Clements Feb 18 '17 at 17:37
Ask me my IQ ;) Seriously though, the line was put there to show that Q is full of himself. – Brian Ortiz Feb 18 '17 at 17:37
He clicked a Facebook link and took an online test. – frеdsbend Feb 19 '17 at 8:31
The current convention is that IQ test results are scaled to fit a normal distribution with mean 100 and standard deviation 15. This means that an IQ of 2005 corresponds to a score which is 127 standard deviations above the mean (since (2005-100)/15=127), which would mean that roughly 1 in 10^3505 people are as intelligent as Q is.
The population of the galaxy cannot possibly be anywhere near as large as 10^3505, and contains more than one member of the Q continuum.
So either:
Q is full of it (this sounds the most likely to me)
Q is massively more intelligent even than other Qs (ha ha ha)
IQ has been redefined in the 24th century to be an absolute measure of intelligence rather than a measurement which is relative to the general population (in which case we don't have enough information to answer this question).
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We know from various episodes that the galaxy is merely one of an infinite number in a multiverse. Have you taken that into account? – Valorum Feb 18 '17 at 18:17
I think trying to count populations across multiverses is fraught with difficulty when many of the people in question are effectively duplicates of each other. If you like, I suppose you could imagine that Q knows some way of doing it, is aware of enough different universes to make that determination, and is telling the truth. Personally I'd rather stick with a general rule of "anyone claiming an IQ over 300, in any work of fiction, is either lying or using a very different definition of IQ than ours." – Micah Feb 18 '17 at 18:45
@1252748: This answer would not change significantly if you replaced "the galaxy" with "the observable universe", or even "a number of copies of the observable universe which is equal to the number of atoms in the observable universe". – Micah Feb 18 '17 at 19:01
Fourth possibility: IQ is still normally scaled, but only to humans (or close), and not to all possible sentients. E.g. if snails had a SpeedQ metric, normalized to the standard top speeds of snails and slugs, a cheetah would be many thousands of standard deviations off the top of it. How exactly that extrapolation would work without good calibration is a little iffy, though. -- That said, I agree Q being full of it (picking an arbitrary large number to point out he's terribly smart) is the most likely answer. – R.M. Feb 18 '17 at 20:51
@R.M. That's actually what I was trying to get at with possibility #3. The problem is, IQ scoring is entirely ordinal — that is, it purports to tell you who's more intelligent than who, but has no notion of how much more intelligent they are except by counting the number of people there are of intermediate intelligence. It's not (at the moment) like speed, which we can measure independently and then perhaps notice that it falls into a normal distribution; the normal distribution is part of the notational convention. – Micah Feb 18 '17 at 21:02
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Humanity On The Rim: How 13 Sentinels Combined Genres Into A Narrative Juggernaut
Vanillaware’s 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim starts with massive machines destroying Japan while the young Iori Fuyusaka emerges from the fleeing mob and climbs aboard a giant robotic Sentinel to fight back as her classmate Juro Kurabe watches on. It’s a classic scene for the big robot and kaiju genres, until it loads a top down view of the city and gives you control of Iori’s mech until Juro arrives in his own. What follows is a mind-blowing game fusing multiple genres across hundreds of years, starting in the middle of its narrative and telling thirteen different mysteries that reveal how each character was led to this life-defining moment. 13 Sentinels blends two completely unrelated game styles to create an experience impossible for either by itself, ultimately showing how experiences shape myths that prepare people to keep society from repeating mistakes and lead it in new directions.
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Take That! Cross Examining Phoenix Wright’s Judicial Arts
Rookie attorney Phoenix Wright’s first case was a lively battle of wits. With the freedom of his client on the line, the lawyer pressed the witness about the crime and threw down evidence that contradicted his claims until his testimony crumbled, all while his mentor Mia Fey stood beside him. But at the start of his second case, the rookie’s fortune is flipped upside down when Mia is killed by a mystery man with curly hair and a loud purple suit, and her spirit-medium sister Maya is wrongfully fingered for the murder. With no other attorney willing to help, Wright vows to defend her against the notorious prosecutor Miles Edgeworth. With Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, Shu Takumi and his team built a different kind of visual novel that turns deductive reasoning into a weapon to bring justice to the corrupt, while creating confident stories filled with energy, humor, and drama. A close inspection uncovers how.
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Seeing Adolescence Through The Eyes Of Majora’s Mask
An hour after he was locked in Clock Town, Link’s been turned into a Deku Scrub staring down a massive, fiery-eyed moon so close that he could pick its gritted teeth with his sword. Looming over him is Skull Kid, supercharged by the Majora’s Mask. Playing the Song of Time Zelda had entrusted him with to save Hyrule, Link returns to the exact moment he’d entered Clock Town, the moon again 72 in-game hours from destroying everything, the citizens back on their schedule as if the first round had been a bad dream.
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Discovering The Adventurer’s Spirit In The Legend Of Zelda
The Legend of Zelda opens with Link in the small clearing of a lush Hyrule forest. At that point, the entire world is a single plot of land that exactly fits the dimensions of modern 1987 television screens. Take a moment to survey your surroundings and you’ll notice four options; you can travel north, go west, or head east, but you enter the cave first. There you get the most classic of all weapons to aid you, a trusty sword. You’re going to need it as the fate of a Princess and her Kingdom rests in your ability to reassemble the eight scattered pieces of the mythical Triforce of Wisdom and defeat the sinister Ganon.
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Exploring Metroid Prime: How Samus’ Soul Was Transplanted Into A New Body
It’s said that the eyes are the window to the soul, an idiom Metroid Prime explores from a different angle. If Super Metroid’s greatest achievement was creating a cohesive world, where the majority of the game was told organically through the events on screen rather than by traditional cinematic techniques, moving that series into three dimensions needed more than translation, it needed reinterpretation. The most honest move would be to maintain the naturalness of perspective, the harmony of self and environment, and Retro Studios made the wisest, boldest move available to them, designing a first person shooter to capture the spirit of that classic and letting players strap themselves directly into Samus Aran’s suit. The first time an energy beam glances off our intrepid bounty hunters helmet and the flash reflects her eyes off the inside of her visor, it becomes apparent that the old adage holds true.
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Policenauts’ Mise-En-Scene
Policenauts was the perfect game to introduce the world to Hideo Kojima’s visual style and keen eye for editing a trailer. Unlike other games at the time, every screenshot from the 1994 ‘Interactive Movie’ could have been ripped from an anime, this one the tale of a man lost in space for the first twenty five years of humanity’s move into off-world colonies. It’s Lethal Weapon in the Gundam timeline with an Aliens setup, starring a blue-haired Mel Gibson. The trailer claims Policenauts is ‘The Next Generation of Snatcher’.
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Metroid: Zero Mission: A Screw Attack to the Cerebral Cortex
Go immediately left from at the start of Metroid: Zero Mission and you’ll find the Morph Ball upgrade exactly where it was in the original Metroid. The remake modernizes the first adventure of galactic bounty hunter Samus Aran, bringing it to the standards set by one of the greatest games of all time: Super Metroid.
The game from there applies the legendary SNES classics structure as Samus navigates the depths of the planet Zebes, finding new weapons that allow her to go further, tearing through the Space Pirate armada before encountering the parasitic Metroid life forms and the evil Mother Brain. You’ll be collecting items and abilities including the Super Missiles, Power Bombs and Speed Boosters, moves that became staples with the third game. The design fleshes out a game that was more ambitious than the tech of the time would allow, implementing enough new content to ramp up the pace without padding the adventure.
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Dishonored: An Atmospheric Example of Stealth-Action Done Right.
When I try to make a concrete decision as to what my favorite game of all time is, the answer tends to change from day to day. More often than not, however, Bioshock is the first thing that comes to mind. My initial arrival in Rapture was a swift kick to the face, forever opening my eyes to how it feels to be in an atmosphere so thick I could taste it. Not since that precious moment so many years ago had I experienced a world so fully realized and enticing as presented in victorian Dunwall.
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Dark Souls ‘Artorias of the Abyss’ DLC
Why All We Needed Was More Dark Souls
If there even is a proper word for the confusing mixture of emotions I felt in the first 30 minutes of booting up the long-awaited add-on to last year’s utterly exhilarating Dark Souls, it’s not in my repertoire. What I do know, is I was immediately struck with a very profound childlike excitement that had me giddy, all due to the fact I was simply doing something new. Having spent well over 200 hours exploring the dense, beautiful and wholly unique world FromSoftware had granted me last year, I pretty much knew everything you could about Dark Souls proper. Every pressure-plate triggered trap, every well-hidden enemy, every nonsense attack a boss could throw at me. Every single obstacle the game could lay on me I had painfully experienced, triumphantly overcome, and gloriously mastered.
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Journey opens with a red-robed figure sitting in the sand, the only immediate task climbing a nearby dune. Making way is slow, the footing gives way and the walking arduous. The view from the top reveals the mountain peak far in the distance and reaching it is the singular goal of the title thatgamecompany has crafted, one that utilizes every narrative convention afforded by videogames to create your own journey.
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The cost of running the county's fire and rescue service will remain the same at £1.61 a week for the average Shropshire householder as the fire authority announces a tax freeze for 2011/12.
Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service is one of the best performing services in England but receives one of the lowest Government grants per head of population out of all the fire and rescue services in the country.
But Councillor Stuart West, chairman of Shropshire and Wrekin Fire Authority said today: "It wouldn’t be appropriate to increase council tax during these difficult financial times for hard working families and with help from Government we are not increasing council tax this year."
"Significant savings" still had to be made but the Chief Fire Officer and his teams were working hard to ensure the delivery of a safe and effective fire and rescue service for the people of Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, he said.
"We charge the average household £ 1.61 per week for our Service but we are one of the highest performing services in England and so providing excellent value for money has always been at the forefront of our minds. We will only increase council tax once we have explored all other safe, cost saving options."
The other element of funding that the Service receives is from a Government grant, the details of which were announced in December. The Service will now see significant reductions in the money it gets which means it will have to cut more than £3 million from its current £21 million annual budget by 2015.
Chief Fire Officer Paul Raymond added: "We have plans in place to spread our budget reductions over four years. This will enable us to make changes in a controlled fashion and, as far as possible, minimise impact on the way we deliver our services to the community.
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Travel 2.7 million light-years from home to the Pinwheel Galaxy, where we'll visit a supergiant star, an extragalactic globular cluster, and one of the largest nebulae in the known universe.
The Triangulum Galaxy (M33) is well-placed high in the southeastern sky around 8 p.m.local time in November. Located 4° northwest of Alpha Trianguli, dozens of deep sky treasures lie buried within its misty borders.
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A star. A nebula. A globular cluster. Three different kinds of objects we might observe on a crisp fall night within the Milky Way galaxy. What if I told you you could see them in an entirely different galaxy 2.7 million light-years away?
Tonight we're going to explore all three in the Triangulum Galaxy, also known as M33 or the Pinwheel Galaxy. I remember when just finding M33 was a feat requiring the darkest of nights and a good telescope.
Expectations have changed over the years, not only because of larger, more affordable instruments and better maps, but also because amateurs are pushing beyond the traditional limits of what can and can't be seen in a particular-sized telescope. Attitude can often be as effective as aperture when it comes to observing the deep sky.
M33 is a loosely wound spiral galaxy located some 2.7 million light-years from Earth with a diameter of 60,000 light-years. The third largest galaxy in the Local Group, M33 is rich in emission nebulae and loose clusters called stellar associations. NGC 604, seen here as the bright pink patch below and left of the galactic core, is one of the largest emission nebulae known.
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Focusing on the Triangulum Galaxy allows us to see how far we've come. Some 30 deep-sky objects are visible in medium-to-large amateur telescopes in M33, most of them appearing as diffuse patches of light representing a rich assortment of stellar associations and emission nebulae. For a full list and guide, I refer you to Alan Whitman's excellent write-up that appeared in the December 2004 issue of Sky & Telescope.
Let's cherry-pick three: NGC 604, one of the largest and brightest emission nebulae known; C39, the brightest globular cluster in M33; and B324, the brightest individual star in the galaxy.
NGC 604 is about 50 times the size of the familiar Orion Nebula, here shown approximately to scale. Both are hotbeds of star formation but on vastly different scales. A cluster of some 200 massive type O and Wolf-Rayet stars ionize NGC 604, setting it aglow in vivid reds and green, similar to the Orion Nebula.
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Glowing at 12th magnitude and fully 2′ across, NGC 604 is probably the easiest-to-see extragalactic nebula in the entire sky outside of the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud. You'll often read that the Tarantula is larger, but its diameter of ~650 light-years spans less than half that of NGC 604, the tendrils of which loop out across nearly 1,500 light-years.
Many of us have viewed the Orion Nebula, which can easily fill an entire low-power field of view with curdles and tufts of nebulosity. Well, move over Orion! NGC 604 is more than 50 times as large and 6,300 times brighter; if it were at the same distance as the Orion Nebula (1,350 light-years) we'd cower in its presence as the gargantuan nebula would cover some 50° of sky.
Both are lively stellar nurseries busy cranking out new stars. Their powerful UV light ionizes the surrounding gas into colorful swirls of pink and green. NGC 604 is a young pup, making its debut about 3.5 million years ago around the same time "Lucy", one of our early human ancestors, walked upright.
This map, which shows stars to magnitude 13.5, will help guide you to all three of our featured objects . North is up. Start with the bright, fuzzy nebula NGC 604. From there, star-hop due west to the 11.3-magnitude star, the brightest in the immediate area. Now, turn back a short distance (2.5′) almost due east. M33's brightest star, B324, looks like a stellar point embedded in the north end of IC 142, a faint shred of nebulosity, Return to NGC 604 and head due east to find the bright stellar trapezoid. Use it to point you to a bright pair of stars which point directly toward dim C39. The star immediately NW of C39 is magnitude 12. Click image to enlarge.
Stellarium
Now, 3½ million years later, I stand upright at the telescope and see a small, dense cotton wad of luminous fuzz 1′ northwest of a Milky Way foreground star using my lowest magnification on a 15-inch (37-cm) telescope. Even a 6-inch scope will show this massive star-forming complex. The fun begins when you increase the magnification to 200× or higher and really dig into the nebula. With averted vision, it extends east-west and shows a double-stellar brightening (two side-by-side condensations) in its eastern half with a much "smaller" or fainter condensation slightly west of center.
Comparing what I see to deep photographs, it's clear that the separate kernels are brighter chunks of nebulosity near the object's core. Despite its relatively small size, there's a palpable sense of something vast here. Mediocre seeing wouldn't allow anything higher than 245×, but I can't wait to see what 400× might reveal on a more serene evening.
A brief stroll from NGC 604 we next encounter one of the most amazing sights in the sky — a star visible across a gulf of 2.7 million light-years. Perhaps like me, you've seen a number of supernovae in galaxies far more remote, but they're supernovae after all. To see one, the star has to self-destruct. They don't exactly count.
This spectacular color image of M33 reveals multiple pink-colored emission nebulae and clumpy stellar associations in the northern half of the galaxy including NGC 604 and the supergiant star B324. East is up.
Volker Wendel / Josef Pöpsel / Stefan Binnewies (Capella Observatory)
B324, the brightest star in M33, is an A-type supergiant that lies along the northwestern edge of the stellar association IC 142 just 6' from the center of the galaxy. The starry gathering appears as a shred of faint fuzz, but to my complete surprise, B324 stood out like a tiny beacon of light. Its given magnitude is 15.2, but it appeared slightly brighter to my eye, closer to 14.8 or 15.0. That places it within the reach of a 10-inch telescope. 245× brought it nicely into view.
The faint globular cluster C39 is circled in red in this photo of the Triangulum Galaxy. There are lots of other deep-sky objects in the area you can explore over many nights.
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Our final object, C39, listed as the brightest globular cluster in the galaxy, looks anything but. Because it's at magnitude 15.9, you may find yourself working your averted vision chops hard to see it. After persisting for several minutes, I finally glimpsed a slightly fuzzy "star" that came and went intermittently. Fortunately, the globular's easy to find, located 3′ northwest of a bright pair of 10th-magnitude stars along M33's southeastern side.
When seeing smallish, faint objects, never hesitate to climb to the next level of magnification. As long as seeing conditions allow for sharp, steady images, high power will darken the sky more and improve contrast and visibility.
I could find little information on C39 except that it was intermediate in age. For additional details and eyepiece impressions, please visit Rich Jakiel's Globular Clusters in M33. Leonardo Orazi's M33 Triangulum Galaxy astrophotography page features superb color imagery of our trio plus many other deep sky targets in M33.
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The Lebanese-Armenian Kevork Hadjian has been killed in the Nagorno-Karabakh war. He was 49.
A foreign volunteer in the Armenian Revolutionary Federation platoon, he was killed on Tuesday in the Varangatagh sector.
Raised in the Bekaa valley, Hadjian completed his musical training in Armenia and made his name singing nationalist songs to the Armenian diaspora in several European countries.
A.L. says:
We can assume no words of sympathy from a certain tenor piggybacking on his significant other’s push.
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Let’s stop mincing words. Yusif Eyvasov’s nationalistic rhetoric celebrates the violence being wrought on the indigenous people of Nagorno-Karabakh. As we see here, the arts are also being impacted by this ridiculous support for Aliyev’s dictatorship.
Greg Bottini says:
War is such a terrible, tragic waste.
I hope these people find peace, and soon….
Elana says:
My condolences to his family.
Most of the world thinks Turkish and Azeri as aggressors.
Unfortunately because of it,again one of the great Armenians died.
V. Lind says:
Well, the Azeri and whoever is bankrolling them are targetting civilian more than strategic sites. They have flattened a cathedral as well as the concert hall.
Le Křenek du jour says:
At least his actions were consistent with his songs.
Much as I abhor violence and consider nationalism the bottom of abyssal idiocy, I still regard someone willing to put his life on the line at crunch time as preferable to the grandstanding posturing from the cheap seats at the back from someone like Eyvazov.
Granted, that’s perhaps because I’ve been raised on a diet of Camus, Desnos, Cavaillès, Malraux, Marc Bloch, Henri Michel: people who put their lives on the line when it mattered. Some of them paid the price.
Be that as may: if one is even remotely aware of Armenian history, if one has the slightest inkling of what it means to have been born in the Beqaa, in Anjar, as an Armenian, one begins perhaps to understand a willingness to fight, at all costs, rather than to submit.
But look at an ethnic map of Hadjian’s native Lebanon, and imagine what that country — let alone the region — would be like, if a modicum of intelligence and common sense had prevailed.
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So many Turkish/Azerbaijani trolls. Guess what? Most of the world supports Armenia.
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Violence in all its forms is a horrific thing indeed. Inorder for peace to prevail, justice needs to dispassionately displace any and all forms of national pride. Some speak of the “world” taking a definitive side in this unfortunate violence… But it must be acknowledged that the UN has decided that one is the occupier and the other, the occupied. Know Justice, and the world shall know peace.
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No matter what the outcome will be, innocent people are dying on both sides. Presidents and their families should be on front line in every war, guess what? There will be no wars.
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Cocktail’s three lead actors’ looks, all styled by Anaita Shroff Adajania, were a major part of the pre-release publicity blitz. Everyone wanted to know about Diana Penty’s jumpsuit and Deepika Padukone’s skirt. And no one really asked much about Saif Ali Khan, because he looked too old to be in the movie.
No one cared much about the clothes in Ishaqzaade, though I found the costumes in the movie to be among the most intelligently designed in recent Bollywood history. I can’t imagine Parineeti Chopra’s character without the black waistcoat over a fitted kurta.
The fashion in Jab Tak Hai Jaan and Student of the Year fell flat after high expectations. But where one lacked charm and romance, the latter’s mantra was “Brands, brands, brands” without a sensible story to tell.
On the covers
The surprise fashion mag cover girl find of the year was Kalki Koechlin (Women’s Health in November and Vogue the following month), while editorial favourite Sonam Kapoor appeared in Roberto Cavalli yet again on the cover of Grazia. (Yawn).
On the small screen
Amitabh Bachchan’s jackets and bandhgalas on Kaun Banega Crorepati were superbly elegant and finely tailored by Rohit Bal. Karan Johar donned casual- dressy blazers on Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa, while Salman Khan’s Bigg Boss wardrobe was confusing (too many colours and styles).
Most people loved Madhuri Dixit’s Jhalak Dikhla Jaa clothes and jewellery, and her stylist made it a point to dress the actor in outfits from various Indian designers. No bodycon dresses for her!
Surprise style icon
Sridevi had been under the fashion watchers’ radar for a while now, but in 2012 she surprised everyone with a new-found, elegant look, wearing Manish Malhotra and Sabyasachi. She wowed everyone when she walked for the latter in Delhi, a far cry from her stumbling ramp appearance in an ugly silver-grey gown for Neeta Lulla couple years ago.
Not (yet) an icon
Alia Bhatt may have had a big debut with Student of the Year, and appeared on two covers (Vogue and Grazia), but her personal style quotient was quite blah. The problem? She tried too hard to look cute.
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Why does free trade become feared when it is proposed with the United States?
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Why is it that free trade, which almost everyone agrees is good when conducted with other European countries, suddenly becomes something to be feared when it is proposed with the United States? What is it about American chicken which means that Britons who eat it happily enough when they are on holiday are supposed to fear it when it is imported? And if Americans can offer world-class, well-priced medical services to Britain through the National Health Service, how is that a threat to our social fabric?
On his state visit to Britain this week, President Donald Trump reiterated his desire to do a ‘comprehensive’ trade deal with Britain. Given that we are leaving the EU in order to make our own way in the world, this is a prospect that ought to be welcomed. When Trump was asked about the NHS, he said simply that ‘everything will be on the table’ — to cries of horror from a lot of Tory ministers (and leadership candidates) who should know better. It seems to have sent ‘global Britain’ Tories into a protectionist spasm. Jeremy Hunt, Matt Hancock and Sam Gyimah were furiously declaring that under no circumstances would our health service be opened up to US firms.
When Tony Blair was prime minister, he spent a good deal of time thinking of ways to lure US health giants to come to Britain and open treatment centers to help the NHS clear its waiting lists for knee operations and hip replacements. Under a supposedly Tory government, these same companies are treated not as welcome investors but as a threat. This fits a trend. Two years ago, Michael Gove shot down the possibility of allowing chicken that has been washed in chlorine (a common practice in the US poultry industry) on to the UK market. Were US officials to try to make chicken a condition of any trade deal, Gove said that they could ‘kiss goodbye’ to a trade deal with Britain.
No trade negotiation is going to result in the NHS being dismantled. Trump was trying to be friendly: when questioned about whether the NHS would be on the table, he thought the implication was that Brits wanted it to be there so he said yes. As so often, he was not quite sure what he was saying. Theresa May had to explain to him what NHS stood for, and once he realized the sensitivity he said that America did not seek to pull apart any British public service.
But NHS care is not provided by the state alone. Today, one in every 14 NHS treatments is carried out by private-sector hospitals and clinics. Skeptics might point to the exorbitant price of medicine in the US, but nobody is suggesting we import the whole flawed American healthcare system.
On top of the direct treatments carried out in the private sector, the NHS spends £15 billion a year buying drugs, and billions more buying other equipment and services. It rents clinics and surgeries from the private sector. Some of that money is spent with US firms. There is nothing sinister about the US healthcare sector — parts of which are world-beating and more innovative than the NHS — wanting to access these markets on the same footing as European companies. It is the very principle of free trade.
For years, US companies have been helping to strengthen the NHS. UnitedHealth Group, one of the biggest companies in America, offers services such as medication management and the negotiating of contracts to the NHS. United’s former employee Simon Stevens is now chief executive of the NHS. Kaiser Permanente, a not-for-profit healthcare group based in California, has for years been held up by reform-minded doctors as a model for the NHS. But the Tories are too nervous of criticism to explore the possibilities.
As for chlorinated chicken, the supposed health risks have long since been exposed as a scare story. UK consumers ingest far more chlorine drinking water than they ever would by eating American chicken: indeed, UK salads are routinely chlorine-washed, yet we do not hear Gove talking about them. In fact, once we are out of the EU, lifting the ban on chlorine-washed chicken is something we should consider doing even without a trade deal with the US. On this issue, and many others, it will soon be time to think for ourselves again.
Conservative ministers have been far too quick to appease protectionists whose agenda is to keep US competition out of their cosy European markets. With that attitude, we are not going to get very far towards a trade deal with the US — or with any other country, for that matter. Trade negotiations require concessions. This depends on the government being prepared to look at the bigger picture and accept that, overall, free trade is a benefit. The protectionist finds it easy to forget that free trade is an exchange, a form of mutual co-operation that can only take place when each side profits.
In a few weeks’ time, Britain will have a new prime minister, charged with delivering the benefits that come from decoupling our economy from the EU. It’s often said that it would be bad for the Tories to fail to deliver Brexit. It would be worse for them to achieve Brexit only to discover that, due to a lack of imagination and courage, they do not know what to do with it.
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Ligier JS P4 launched; Jenson Button’s Super GT team revealed and more…
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***The annual Autosport International show took place at the NEC in Birmingham, UK, last week. While the launch of the Ginetta G6o-LT-P1 was the main sports car news from the event, several other announcements were made. Ligier UK had a large display (pictured above) with several cars on show including its new JS P4, a JS P217 Gibson competing at the Rolex 24 at Daytona with United Autosports, and a handful of Onroak’s historic cars including the Pescarolo LMP1 and Morgan LMP2.
***The JS P4 is designed to give drivers an entry-level introduction to prototype racing and fits between LMP3 and CN cars. It will be eligible to compete in series including VdeV and the 24H Proto Series.
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***UltraTek Racing Team RJN will return to the British GT Championship this season, again entering a pair of Nissan 370Z GT4s. 2013 FIA WEC LMP2 champion Martin Plowman will drive alongside actor Kelvin Fletcher while the team’s second driver pairing will be announced in the coming weeks. Further British GT4 news was revealed at Autosport International, with the launch of the Jaguar F-TYPE SVR GT4 and Invictus Games Racing.
***CD Sport is the first team to confirm a Pro-Am pairing for GT4 France, which has been renamed from the GT4 European Series Southern Cup. The team will enter two Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport MRs with 2017 series champion Mike Parisy joining Christophe Lapierre in the first entry.
***Cool Racing will also run a pair of Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport MRs in the series but in the Am category. Father and son pairing Laurent and Clement Dub will drive the first entry while Cyril Saleilles will race alongside a currently unconfirmed driver in the second Porsche. The team hasn’t ruled out running a third car.
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Vicky Kaushal on playing lead in his upcoming film, Uri
Actor Vicky Kaushal, who has had a great run at the movies this year with hits like Raazi and Manmarziyaan, said being under pressure keeps him moving.
The actor’s next film, Uri: The Surgical Strike, is inspired by true events. Vicky told reporters at the trailer launch of the film,
“I am lucky I am getting to be part of exciting projects. Every actor wants to test how strong they are. I am grateful to Ronnie Screwala (producer) for this opportunity. I want to be in this pressure zone. I would want to be under pressure,”
Directed by Aditya Dhar, the film is based on the Indian Army’s surgical strikes on Pakistan as retaliation for the Uri attack in 2016. He said,
“I learnt a lot when I read the script. I was very excited to tell the story. There is always an adrenaline rush to play a character like this. I was all charged up to do it right. We have seen films on war and military earlier, but this film will be new for the audience. India and Pakistan have often been shown fighting at the border, here we are showing how the surgical strike was carried out with the help of intelligence agencies and bureaucrats,”
Ironically, the role of a Special Forces commander-in-chief is a complete turnaround for the actor, who earned critical acclaim for his empathic portrayal of a Pakistani Army officer in Meghna Gulzar’s spy drama Raazi.Uri also features Paresh Rawal, Yami Gautam and popular TV actor Mohit Raina, who is making his feature film debut, in key roles. The film is releasing in cinemas on 11th January 2019.
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Is Batting Performance Related to Player Position in MLB?
Analysis of variance (ANOVA) and the F test
Reading an ANOVA table from software
Graphical Diagnostics for an ANOVA Analysis
Multiple comparisons and controlling Type 1 Error rate
Sometimes we want to compare means across many groups. We might initially think to do pairwise comparisons; for example, if there were three groups, we might be tempted to compare the first mean with the second, then with the third, and then finally compare the second and third means for a total of three comparisons. However, this strategy can be treacherous. If we have many groups and do many comparisons, it is likely that we will eventually nd a difference just by chance, even if there is no difference in the populations.
In this section, we will learn a new method called analysis of variance (ANOVA) and a new test statistic called F. ANOVA uses a single hypothesis test to check whether the means across many groups are equal:
H0: The mean outcome is the same across all groups. In statistical notation, \(\mu _1 = \mu _2 = \dots = \mu _k\) where \(\mu _i\) represents the mean of the outcome for observations in category i.
HA: At least one mean is different.
Generally we must check three conditions on the data before performing ANOVA:
the observations are independent within and across groups,
the data within each group are nearly normal, and
the variability across the groups is about equal.
When these three conditions are met, we may perform an ANOVA to determine whether the data provide strong evidence against the null hypothesis that all the \(\mu _i\) are equal.
Example \(\PageIndex{1}\)
College departments commonly run multiple lectures of the same introductory course each semester because of high demand. Consider a statistics department that runs three lectures of an introductory statistics course. We might like to determine whether there are statistically significant differences infirstexam scores in these three classes (A, B, and C). Describe appropriate hypotheses to determine whether there are any differences between the three classes.
The hypotheses may be written in the following form:
H0: The average score is identical in all lectures. Any observed difference is due to chance. Notationally, we write \(\mu _A = \mu _B = \mu _C\).
HA: The average score varies by class. We would reject the null hypothesis in favor of the alternative hypothesis if there were larger differences among the class averages than what we might expect from chance alone.
Strong evidence favoring the alternative hypothesis in ANOVA is described by unusually large differences among the group means. We will soon learn that assessing the variability of the group means relative to the variability among individual observations within each group is key to ANOVA's success.
Examine Figure \(\PageIndex{1}\). Compare groups I, II, and III. Can you visually determine if the differences in the group centers is due to chance or not? Now compare groups IV, V, and VI. Do these differences appear to be due to chance?
Figure \(\PageIndex{1}\): Side-by-side dot plot for the outcomes for six groups.
Any real difference in the means of groups I, II, and III is difficult to discern, because the data within each group are very volatile relative to any differences in the average outcome. On the other hand, it appears there are differences in the centers of groups IV, V, and VI. For instance, group V appears to have a higher mean than that of the other two groups. Investigating groups IV, V, and VI, we see the differences in the groups' centers are noticeable because those differences are large relative to the variability in the individual observations within each group.
We would like to discern whether there are real differences between the batting performance of baseball players according to their position: out elder (OF), in elder (IF), designated hitter (DH), and catcher (C). We will use a data set called bat10, which includes batting records of 327 Major League Baseball (MLB) players from the 2010 season. Six of the 327 cases represented in bat10 are shown in Table \(\PageIndex{1}\), and descriptions for each variable are provided in Table 5.26. The measure we will use for the player batting performance (the outcome variable) is on-base percentage (OBP). The on-base percentage roughly represents the fraction of the time a player successfully gets on base or hits a home run.
Table \(\PageIndex{1}\): Six cases from the bat10 data matrix.
1 I Suzuki SEA OF 680 214 6 43 0.315 0.359
2 D Jeter NYY IF 663 179 10 67 0.270 0.340
3 M Young TEX IF 656 186 21 91 0.284 0.330
\(\vdots\) \(\vdots\) \(\vdots\) \(\vdots\) \(\vdots\) \(\vdots\) \(\vdots\) \(\vdots\) \(\vdots\) \(\vdots\)
325 B Molina SF C 202 52 3 17 0.257 0.312
326 J Thole NTM C 202 56 3 17 0.277 0.357
327 C Heisey CIN OF 201 51 8 21 0.254 0.324
Exercise \(\PageIndex{1}\)
The null hypothesis under consideration is the following: \[\mu _{OF} = \mu _{IF} = \mu _{DH} = \mu _{C}. \]Write the null and corresponding alternative hypotheses in plain language.
H0: The average on-base percentage is equal across the four positions.
HA: The average on-base
Table \(\PageIndex{2}\): Variables and their descriptions for the bat10 data set.
name Player name
team The abbreviated name of the player's team
position The player's primary eld position (OF, IF, DH, C)
AB Number of opportunities at bat
H Number of hits
HR Number of home runs
RBI Number of runs batted in
AVG Batting average, which is equal to H=AB
OBP On-base percentage, which is roughly equal to the fraction of times a player gets on base or hits a home run
The player positions have been divided into four groups: outfield (OF), infield (IF), designated hitter (DH), and catcher (C). What would be an appropriate point estimate of the batting average by out elders, \(\mu _{OF}\)?
A good estimate of the batting average by out elders would be the sample average of AVG for just those players whose position is out field:
\[\bar {x}_{OF} = 0.334.\]
Table \(\PageIndex{3}\) provides summary statistics for each group. A side-by-side box plot for the batting average is shown in Figure \(\PageIndex{1}\). Notice that the variability appears to be approximately constant across groups; nearly constant variance across groups is an important assumption that must be satisfied before we consider the ANOVA approach.
Table \(\PageIndex{3}\): Summary statistics of on-base percentage, split by player position.
Sample size (\(n_i\)) 120 154 14 39
Sample mean (\(\bar {x}_i\)) 0.334 0.332 0.348 0.323
Sample SD (\(s_i\)) 0.029 0.037 0.036 0.045
percentage varies across some (or all) groups.
Figure \(\PageIndex{1}\): Side-by-side box plot of the on-base percentage for 327 players across four groups. There is one prominent outlier visible in the infield group, but with 154 observations in the in field group, this outlier is not a concern.
The largest difference between the sample means is between the designated hitter and the catcher positions. Consider again the original hypotheses:
H0: \(\mu _{OF} = \mu _{IF} = \mu _{DH} = \mu _{C}\)
HA: The average on-base percentage (\(\mu _i\)) varies across some (or all) groups.
Why might it be inappropriate to run the test by simply estimating whether the difference of \(\mu _{DH}\) and \(\mu _{C}\) is statistically significant at a 0.05 significance level?
The primary issue here is that we are inspecting the data before picking the groups that will be compared. It is inappropriate to examine all data by eye (informal testing) and only afterwards decide which parts to formally test. This is called data snooping or data fishing. Naturally we would pick the groups with the large differences for the formal test, leading to an ination in the Type 1 Error rate. To understand this better, let's consider a slightly different problem.
Suppose we are to measure the aptitude for students in 20 classes in a large elementary school at the beginning of the year. In this school, all students are randomly assigned to classrooms, so any differences we observe between the classes at the start of the year are completely due to chance. However, with so many groups, we will probably observe a few groups that look rather different from each other. If we select only these classes that look so different, we will probably make the wrong conclusion that the assignment wasn't random. While we might only formally test differences for a few pairs of classes, we informally evaluated the other classes by eye before choosing the most extreme cases for a comparison.
For additional information on the ideas expressed in Example 5.38, we recommend reading about the prosecutor's fallacy (See, for example, www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2007/05/the prosecutors.html.)
In the next section we will learn how to use the F statistic and ANOVA to test whether observed differences in means could have happened just by chance even if there was no difference in the respective population means.
The method of analysis of variance in this context focuses on answering one question: is the variability in the sample means so large that it seems unlikely to be from chance alone? This question is different from earlier testing procedures since we will simultaneously consider many groups, and evaluate whether their sample means differ more than we would expect from natural variation. We call this variability the mean square between groups (MSG), and it has an associated degrees of freedom, dfG = k - 1 when there are k groups. The MSG can be thought of as a scaled variance formula for means. If the null hypothesis is true, any variation in the sample means is due to chance and shouldn't be too large. Details of MSG calculations are provided in the footnote,29 however, we typically use software for these computations.
The mean square between the groups is, on its own, quite useless in a hypothesis test. We need a benchmark value for how much variability should be expected among the sample means if the null hypothesis is true. To this end, we compute a pooled variance estimate, often abbreviated as the mean square error (MSE), which has an associated degrees of freedom value \(df_E = n - k\). It is helpful to think of MSE as a measure of the variability within the groups. Details of the computations of the MSE are provided in the footnote30 for interested readers.
When the null hypothesis is true, any differences among the sample means are only due to chance, and the MSG and MSE should be about equal. As a test statistic for ANOVA, we examine the fraction of MSG and MSE:
\[ F = \frac {MSG}{MSE} \label {5.39}\]
The MSG represents a measure of the between-group variability, and MSE measures the variability within each of the groups.
For the baseball data, MSG = 0.00252 and MSE = 0.00127. Identify the degrees of freedom associated with MSG and MSE and verify the F statistic is approximately 1.994.
There are k = 4 groups, so \(df_G = k - 1 = 3\). There are \[n = n_1 + n_2 + n_3 + n_4 = 327\] total observations, so \(df_E = n - k = 323\). Then the F statistic is computed as the ratio of MSG and MSE:
\[F = \frac {MSG}{MSE} = \frac {0.00252}{0.00127} = 1.984 \approx 1.994,\] (F = 1.994 was computed by using values for MSG and MSE that were not rounded.)
We can use the F statistic to evaluate the hypotheses in what is called an F test. A p-value can be computed from the F statistic using an F distribution, which has two associated parameters: \(df_1\) and \(df_2\). For the F statistic in ANOVA, \(df_1 = df_G\) and \(df_2 = df_E\). An F distribution with 3 and 323 degrees of freedom, corresponding to the F statistic for the baseball hypothesis test, is shown in Figure 5.29.
29Let \(\bar {x}\) represent the mean of outcomes across all groups. Then the mean square between groups is computed as
\[MSG = \frac {1}{df_G} SSG = \frac {1}{k - 1} \sum \limits^k_{i=1} n_i {(\bar {x}_i -\bar {x})}^2\]
where SSG is called the sum of squares between groups and \(n_i\) is the sample size of group i.
30Let \(\bar {x}\) represent the mean of outcomes across all groups. Then the sum of squares total (SST) is computed as
\[SST = \sum \limits _{i=1}^n {(y_i - \bar {x})}^2\]
where the sum is over all observations in the data set. Then we compute the sum of squared errors (SSE) in one of two equivalent ways:
\[SSE = SST - SSG\]
\[= (n_1 - 1)s^2_1 + (n_2 - 1)s^2_2 +\dots + (n_k - 1)s^2_k\]
where \(s^2_i\) is the sample variance (square of the standard deviation) of the residuals in group i. Then the MSE is the standardized form of SSE: \(MSE = \frac {1}{df_E} SSE\).
Figure \(\PageIndex{1}\): An F distribution with \(df_1 = 3\) and \(df_2 = 323\).
The larger the observed variability in the sample means (MSG) relative to the withingroup observations (MSE), the larger F will be and the stronger the evidence against the null hypothesis. Because larger values of F represent stronger evidence against the null hypothesis, we use the upper tail of the distribution to compute a p-value.
The F statistic and the F test
Analysis of variance (ANOVA) is used to test whether the mean outcome differs across 2 or more groups. ANOVA uses a test statistic F, which represents a standardized ratio of variability in the sample means relative to the variability within the groups. If H0 is true and the model assumptions are satisfied, the statistic F follows an F distribution with parameters \(df_1 = k -1 \) and \(df_2 = n - k\). The upper tail of the F distribution is used to represent the p-value.
The test statistic for the baseball example is F = 1.994. Shade the area corresponding to the p-value in Figure 5.29. 32
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Example 5.42 The p-value corresponding to the shaded area in the solution of Exercise 5.41 is equal to about 0.115. Does this provide strong evidence against the null hypothesis?
The p-value is larger than 0.05, indicating the evidence is not strong enough to reject the null hypothesis at a signi cance level of 0.05. That is, the data do not provide strong evidence that the average on-base percentage varies by player's primary field position.
The calculations required to perform an ANOVA by hand are tedious and prone to human error. For these reasons, it is common to use statistical software to calculate the F statistic and p-value.
An ANOVA can be summarized in a table very similar to that of a regression summary, which we will see in Chapters 7 and 8. Table 5.30 shows an ANOVA summary to test whether the mean of on-base percentage varies by player positions in the MLB. Many of these values should look familiar; in particular, the F test statistic and p-value can be retrieved from the last columns.
Table 5.30: ANOVA summary for testing whether the average on-base percentage differs across player positions.
Sum Sq
Mean Sq
F value
Pr(> F)
There are three conditions we must check for an ANOVA analysis: all observations must be independent, the data in each group must be nearly normal, and the variance within each group must be approximately equal.
Independence. If the data are a simple random sample from less than 10% of the population, this condition is satisfied. For processes and experiments, carefully consider whether the data may be independent (e.g. no pairing). For example, in the MLB data, the data were not sampled. However, there are not obvious reasons why independence would not hold for most or all observations.
Approximately normal. As with one- and two-sample testing for means, the normality assumption is especially important when the sample size is quite small. The normal probability plots for each group of the MLB data are shown in Figure 5.31; there is some deviation from normality for in elders, but this isn't a substantial concern since there are about 150 observations in that group and the outliers are not extreme. Sometimes in ANOVA there are so many groups or so few observations per group that checking normality for each group isn't reasonable. See the footnote33 for guidance on how to handle such instances.
Constant variance. The last assumption is that the variance in the groups is about equal from one group to the next. This assumption can be checked by examining a sideby-side box plot of the outcomes across the groups, as in Figure 5.28 on page 239. In this case, the variability is similar in the four groups but not identical. We see in Table 5.27 on page 238 that the standard deviation varies a bit from one group to the next. Whether these differences are from natural variation is unclear, so we should report this uncertainty with the nal results.
33First calculate the residuals of the baseball data, which are calculated by taking the observed values and subtracting the corresponding group means. For example, an out elder with OBP of 0.435 would have a residual of \(0.405 - \bar {x}_{OF} = 0.071\). Then to check the normality condition, create a normal probability plot using all the residuals simultaneously.
Figure 5.31: Normal probability plot of OBP for each field position.
Caution: Diagnostics for an ANOVA analysis
Independence is always important to an ANOVA analysis. The normality condition is very important when the sample sizes for each group are relatively small. The constant variance condition is especially important when the sample sizes differ between groups.
When we reject the null hypothesis in an ANOVA analysis, we might wonder, which of these groups have different means? To answer this question, we compare the means of each possible pair of groups. For instance, if there are three groups and there is strong evidence that there are some differences in the group means, there are three comparisons to make: group 1 to group 2, group 1 to group 3, and group 2 to group 3. These comparisons can be accomplished using a two-sample t test, but we use a modi ed signi cance level and a pooled estimate of the standard deviation across groups. Usually this pooled standard deviation can be found in the ANOVA table, e.g. along the bottom of Table 5.30.
Table 5.32: Summary statistics for the first midterm scores in three different lectures of the same course.
Figure 5.33: Side-by-side box plot for the first midterm scores in three different lectures of the same course.
Example 5.43 Example 5.34 on page 236 discussed three statistics lectures, all taught during the same semester. Table 5.32 shows summary statistics for these three courses, and a side-by-side box plot of the data is shown in Figure 5.33. We would like to conduct an ANOVA for these data. Do you see any deviations from the three conditions for ANOVA?
In this case (like many others) it is difficult to check independence in a rigorous way. Instead, the best we can do is use common sense to consider reasons the assumption of independence may not hold. For instance, the independence assumption may not be reasonable if there is a star teaching assistant that only half of the students may access; such a scenario would divide a class into two subgroups. No such situations were evident for these particular data, and we believe that independence is acceptable.
The distributions in the side-by-side box plot appear to be roughly symmetric and show no noticeable outliers.
The box plots show approximately equal variability, which can be veri ed in Table 5.32, supporting the constant variance assumption.
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Exercise 5.44 An ANOVA was conducted for the midterm data, and summary results are shown in Table 5.34. What should we conclude?34
34The p-value of the test is 0.0330, less than the default signi cance level of 0.05. Therefore, we reject the null hypothesis and conclude that the difference in the average midterm scores are not due to chance.
Table 5.34: ANOVA summary table for the midterm data.
Pr(>F)
There is strong evidence that the different means in each of the three classes is not simply due to chance. We might wonder, which of the classes are actually different? As discussed in earlier chapters, a two-sample t test could be used to test for differences in each possible pair of groups. However, one pitfall was discussed in Example 5.38 on page 238: when we run so many tests, the Type 1 Error rate increases. This issue is resolved by using a modi ed signi cance level.
Multiple comparisons and the Bonferroni correction for
The scenario of testing many pairs of groups is called multiple comparisons. The Bonferroni correction suggests that a more stringent signi cance level is more appropriate for these tests:
\[ \alpha ^* = \frac {\alpha}{K}\]
where K is the number of comparisons being considered (formally or informally). If there are k groups, then usually all possible pairs are compared and \(K = \frac {k(k - 1)}{2}\).
Example 5.45 In Exercise 5.44, you found strong evidence of differences in the average midterm grades between the three lectures. Complete the three possible pairwise comparisons using the Bonferroni correction and report any differences.
We use a modi ed signi cance level of \(\alpha ^* = \frac {0.05}{3} = 0.0167\). Additionally, we use the pooled estimate of the standard deviation: \(s_{pooled} = 13.61\) on df = 161, which is provided in the ANOVA summary table.
Lecture A versus Lecture B: The estimated difference and standard error are, respectively,
\[\bar {x}_A - \bar {x}_B = 75.1 - 72 = 3.1 SE = \sqrt {\frac {13.61^2}{58} +\frac {13.61^2}{55}} = 2.56\]
(See Section 5.4.4 on page 235 for additional details.) This results in a T score of 1.21 on df = 161 (we use the df associated with spooled). Statistical software was used to precisely identify the two-tailed p-value since the modi ed signi cance of 0.0167 is not found in the t table. The p-value (0.228) is larger than \(\alpha ^* = 0.0167\), so there is not strong evidence of a difference in the means of lectures A and B.
Lecture A versus Lecture C: The estimated difference and standard error are 3.8 and 2.61, respectively. This results in a T score of 1.46 on df = 161 and a two-tailed p-value of 0.1462. This p-value is larger than \(\alpha^*\), so there is not strong evidence of a difference in the means of lectures A and C.
Lecture B versus Lecture C: The estimated difference and standard error are 6.9 and 2.65, respectively. This results in a T score of 2.60 on df = 161 and a two-tailed p-value of 0.0102. This p-value is smaller than \(\alpha^*\). Here we nd strong evidence of a difference in the means of lectures B and C.
We might summarize the ndings of the analysis from Example 5.45 using the following notation:
\[\mu_A \overset {?} {=} \mu _B \mu _A \overset {?} {=} \mu _C \mu_B \ne \mu_C\]
The midterm mean in lecture A is not statistically distinguishable from those of lectures B or C. However, there is strong evidence that lectures B and C are different. In the first two pairwise comparisons, we did not have sufficient evidence to reject the null hypothesis. Recall that failing to reject H0 does not imply H0 is true.
Caution: Sometimes an ANOVA will reject the null but no groups will have statistically signi cant differences
It is possible to reject the null hypothesis using ANOVA and then to not subsequently identify differences in the pairwise comparisons. However, this does not invalidate the ANOVA conclusion. It only means we have not been able to successfully identify which groups differ in their means.
The ANOVA procedure examines the big picture: it considers all groups simultaneously to decipher whether there is evidence that some difference exists. Even if the test indicates that there is strong evidence of differences in group means, identifying with high con dence a specific difference as statistically signi cant is more difficult.
Consider the following analogy: we observe a Wall Street firm that makes large quantities of money based on predicting mergers. Mergers are generally difficult to predict, and if the prediction success rate is extremely high, that may be considered sufficiently strong evidence to warrant investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). While the SEC may be quite certain that there is insider trading taking place at the firm, the evidence against any single trader may not be very strong. It is only when the SEC considers all the data that they identify the pattern. This is effectively the strategy of ANOVA: stand back and consider all the groups simultaneously.
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What’s in it: the ingredients in sanitisers that keep you safe
For more information on the various active ingredients in common cleaning agents, please visit:
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National Environment Agency Interim List of Household Products and Active Ingredients for Disinfection of the COVID-19 Virus
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control interim guidance for environmental cleaning in non-healthcare facilities exposed to SARS-CoV-2
The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 might have a stronghold on newspaper headlines, but the truth is, it is pretty vulnerable.
Coronaviruses are “enveloped viruses”, which means they have a delicate coating of lipids (or fats) and protein spikes that surround their genetic material. While this coat may play a role in helping the virus infect cells, it can be easily destroyed by soap or disinfectants, inactivating the virus.
That is why hand sanitisers typically contain active ingredients that target that envelope – if you can’t get to soap and water, you can still disable the virus on your hands before it gets a chance to come into contact with your face.
To kill a coronavirus
Not all germ-killers are created equal. If you would like to check if yours is doing its job, the National Environment Agency’s interim list of “Household Products and Active Ingredients for Disinfection of the COVID-19 Virus” is a good first stop. It is based on published scientific studies on active ingredients that work against coronaviruses, and in the necessary concentrations.
In addition to ethyl alcohol (70%) and isopropyl alcohol (50%), the list includes non-alcohol ingredients like povidine-iodine (1% iodine), benzalkonium chloride (0.05%), chloroxylenol (0.12%), and sodium hypochlorite (0.05-0.5%).
But while all of them might work against coronaviruses and can be found in everyday household cleaning products, not all of them are ideal for splashing on your hands. Some of the active ingredients work better, for instance, in surgical settings, or as surface cleaners.
Povidine-iodine (1% iodine) or iodine in iodophors (50ppm) are commonly used pre- and post-surgery. They stain the area that has been cleaned, letting surgeons know which part of the patient’s skin is sterile. They are also known to provide a disinfecting effect that lasts the duration of most surgeries. Chloroxylenol (0.12%), too, is commonly used as a skin disinfectant and wound cleaner in surgical settings.
The brown stain from iodine-based sanitisers marks the area of skin that has been sterilised.
On the downside, a sanitiser that stains may not be ideal for daily use, and chloroxylenol could irritate the skin and be toxic to pets. Similarly, sodium chlorite (0.23%) and sodium hypochlorite (0.05 – 0.5%), commonly found in household bleaches, are tough on germs, but corrosive on skin.
Deadly for coronaviruses, safe for kids
A common active ingredient in non-alcohol hand sanitisers is benzalkonium chloride (0.05%), or BKC, which kills microorganisms or stops their growth. BKC is also found in wound cleaners, disinfecting wet wipes, lozenges, mouthwashes, and spermicidal creams, as well as spray disinfectants for hard surface sanitisation.
BKC is part of a family of active ingredients called Quaternary Ammonium Compounds, or “quats”, which, in concentrations of at least 0.05%, cause the lipid “skin” of coronaviruses to break and its cell contents to spill out, inactivating the virus, explains infectious disease specialist Dr Leong Hoe Nam.
“Alcohol has been traditionally used, and has become the de facto ingredient (in hand sanitisers) because so many companies use it, but BKC can also kill coronaviruses,” he says, adding that it is important that consumers familiarise themselves with which active ingredients work, and how quickly.
While BKC does take longer to dry than alcohol, quats’ germ-killing power for some types of bacteria can linger on the hands for hours. BKC is also non-toxic to children and pets, and less likely to dry or irritate skin since it is gentler on the skin’s natural oils. It is also non-flammable, making it easier to store and safe for use in spaces like kitchens.
But whatever sanitiser you choose, do know that none of them work well on greasy, dirty hands. Nor can they effectively remove some chemicals and viruses like the norovirus, which is a hardier, non-enveloped virus that causes gastrointestinal issues, or spores from bacterium such as C. difficile.
And while hand sanitisers offer a reasonably quick coronavirus kill, the inactivated virus remains on your hands. That’s why proper hand-washing with soap should always be your first choice for a complete kill-and-clean, says Dr Leong.
“Sanitisers are convenient to use but for viruses, nothing beats washing it down the sink.”
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Usefulness of IMP3 and FOXP3 to predict metastasis of cutaneous melanomas
Juliana Polizel Ocanha-Xavier1,
José Cândido C. Xavier-Junior2 &
Mariângela Esther Alencar Marques3
Surgical and Experimental Pathology volume 1, Article number: 1 (2018) Cite this article
Melanoma still has considerable mortality in spite of improvements in diagnosis and treatment. Unfortunately, current diagnostic procedures cannot predict precisely its biological behavior, what urges specialists in searching new better biomarkers of lousy prognosis. The objective of the study was to evaluate IMP3 and FOXP3 expression in primary skin melanoma lesions and to correlate with the presence of metastasis.
A retrospective cohort study analyzed 112 patients diagnosed with Melanoma, from 2003 to 2011, from a public health service. Samples from the primary lesion were analyzed by two pathologists and one dermatologist to ensure histological subtype, Breslow, the presence of ulceration, mitosis and histological regression. From the species stored, FOXP3 and IMP3 immunohistochemistry staining were performed. Demographic, clinical and evolution aspects of the patients were obtained from records, in the year of 2015. It was considered statistically significant when p-value < 0.05.
The majority of specimens had 25% or fewer cells stained with FOXP3 or IMP3. Their positivity could not be related to the occurrence of metastasis (p = 0.947 and p = 0.936, respectively).
There is no evidence of benefit in using IMP3 or FOXP3 as prognostic markers in primary melanomas in our population.
In the United States, the frequency of melanoma has been increasing from 15 to 21.6 cases per 100,000 inhabitants representing an increase of 1.4% per year. Unfortunately, mortality remains stable. When it is confined to the epidermis (“in situ”), the survival rate in 5 years is near 98.3% (SEER Cancer Statistics Review 2017). When it is metastatic, the survival rate is below 18% (SEER Cancer Statistics Review 2017). Therefore, an early diagnosis is required because melanoma is a potentially curable lesion in initial steps.
Since 1969, melanoma has been divided into clinical and histopathological subtypes. There are four subtypes more frequent: Superficial Spreading (SS), Acral (Ac), Nodular (Nd) and Lentigo Maligna (LM) (de Vries et al. 2006).
The inability to completely predict the risk of developing metastasis is a significant barrier to the development of treatments with more efficiency (Albreski and Sloan 2009). Despite the improvement in follow-up and treatment, there are cases which seem to ignore the rules: thin melanomas with aggressive metastasis and thick lesions with prolonged disease-free survival (Albreski and Sloan 2009).
An immunohistochemistry marker named IMP-3 (Insulin-like growth factor-II messenger RNA (mRNA)-binding protein-3) is expressed by embryonic tissues and some neoplasms and play a role in post-transcriptional modulation of oncogenes related to cell proliferation, metastasis, chemotherapy resistance and survival. Most studies report it is positive in melanocytes cytoplasm in malignant and metastatic lesions (Pryor et al. 2008; Sheen et al. 2015).
Another subject of interest concerning escape mechanisms of melanoma from host defense is the expression of FOXP3 (Forkhead transcription factor). Its main function is to inhibit the response of TCD8 cells, which are responsible for immune defense against tumors. It is mainly a nuclear marker of lymphocytes CD4 CD25high but it can also be expressed by melanoma cells (Niu et al. 2011).
The purpose of this study is to evaluate IMP3 and FOXP3 expression in primary skin melanoma lesions and to correlate this presence with metastasis. This method is less expensive than molecular analysis, and it would be useful in prognostic markers leading to a better patients’ follow-up and treatment.
The study included all patients diagnosed with Melanoma from Dermatology and Pathology services, from 2003 to 2011.
The study was approved by Institutional Review Board approval (Registration number: 33405714.1.0000.5411/2014) and informed consent was spared.
This retrospective cohort study analyzed records in December 2015, looking for epidemiologic and clinical variables: gender, age, lesion diameter, evolution to metastasis, death to melanoma or other diseases. The follow-up interval varied from 4 to 12 years.
The slides stained with Hematoxilin and Eosin were reviewed by two dermatopathologists and one dermatologist and a consensus was obtained in a multi-head microscope to verify: histological subtype, Breslow, the presence of ulceration, mitosis and histological regression.
Specimens fixed in 10% buffered formalin and embedded in paraffin were submitted to immunohistochemical staining of IMP3 and FOXP3.
Patients who had missed follow-up (n = 56), those whose data were incomplete (n = 7), cases of unclassified melanoma (n = 3), cases which histologic specimen was not available or not enough for new immunohistochemistry slides (n = 17) were excluded.
The samples were submitted to standard immunohistochemistry protocol through pt-LINK® and AutoStainer® equipment, in briefly, step-by-step procedures: antigen retrieval, blocking of endogenous peroxidase, incubation of conjugated antibodies and exposure through chromogen 3,3-diaminobenzidine (DAB – DAKO). Giemsa was used as contra-staining with the purpose of better discrimination between IMP3 and melanin.
Since there is no consensus on score of immunohistochemistry in IMP3 and FOXP3, we have established a stratification system which was applied to both markers. Those patients who had no cells marked in immunohistochemistry through visual analysis were graduated in 0, followed by 0 to 5% of positive cells (1+), 6 to 25% (2+), 26 to 50% (3+) and 50 to 100% positive cells were graduated in 4+. Cases that had score 3+ or higher were considered “positive” for statistical analysis.
Data was submitted to Cox’s regression analysis. A ROC’s curve was assessed to establish age’s cut off. It was considered statistically significant when CI was > 95% or when p - value was < 0.05.
All melanomas diagnosed between the years of 2003 and 2011 totaled 195 cases. After applying excluding criteria, 112 patients have submitted to IMP-3 and FOX P3 immunohistochemistry staining (Figs. 1 and 2). All metastasis, local or distant were considered as the same denouement event.
Positivity to IMP3 immunostaining contra-colored by Giemsa, 400× Footnote: Score: zero (a), 1+ (b), 2+ (c), 3+ (d) and 4+ (e). The positivity rate took into account the positivity in the total tumor area. Note that melanin appears as coarse black pigmentation
Positivity to FOXP3 immunostaining contra-colored by Giemsa, 400× Footnote: Score: zero (a), 1+ (b), 2+ (c), 3+ (d) and 4+ (e). The positivity rate took into account the positivity in the total tumor area. Note that melanin appears as coarse black pigmentation
In this sample, 47.3% of the patients were females, which was not associated with metastasis (p = 0.495) (Table 1). Age after 61.5 years old (established by a ROC curve application) was associated with metastasis, comparing to the younger group (p = 0.032).
Table 1 Metastasis’ risk related to clinical and histopathological variables
Subtypes frequency was similar to the previously described in literature [2.3]: 64.3% of SS, 15.2% of Ac, 10.7% of Nd and 9.8% of LM. Our sample had thin Breslow (0.7, ranging from 0 to 25 mm), low frequency of mitosis (median of 0, varying from 0 to 50), ulceration (30.4%) and progression to metastasis (24.1%) what represents that most cancers were diagnosed early.
Nodular subtype was the one which had more association with metastasis (OR = 9.00), but all subtypes had a higher risk in comparison with superficial spreading.
Breslow, ulceration and mitosis were associated with metastasis. The OR for 1 to 4 mm of Breslow was 8.33, and for Breslow > 4 mm the OR was 14.44 (p < 0.001). (Table 1) When there were more than five mitoses, the OR was 15.65 against 13.44 when there were fewer mitoses. Ulceration was related to metastasis with an OR of 5.44, p < 0.001.
Near half of the patients showed histological regression (49.1%). Regression was inversely associated with metastasis (OR = 0.36, p = 0.021).
The majority of cases had 25% or less positivity of both IMP3 and FOXP3. Their positivity could not be related to metastasis (p = 0.947 and p = 0.936, respectively). It was not possible to analyze the event “death” because its number was very low.
The main finding of that study was the uselessness of IMP3 an FOXP3 to predict melanoma metastasis in all subtypes, in the studied sample.
There are few studies of the use of IMP3 immunostaining in melanoma. However, it is considered positive if present in at least 10% of melanocytes by direct observation (Pryor et al. 2008; Sheen et al. 2015). Some demonstrated that it was negative in common and dysplastic nevi, slightly positive in thin melanomas and Spitz nevi and strongly positive in metastatic melanomas (Pryor et al. 2008). Others have suggested a worse prognosis in IMP3 positive cancers (Sheen et al. 2015). Nevertheless, Chokoeva et al. (2015) have shown positivity in only 40% of melanomas and 20% of dysplastic nevi, advocating that it is a weak prognostic marker.
In this study, approximately 10% of the melanomas had more than 25% positive cells. Five instances of superficial spreading melanoma, four instances of acral melanoma, one instance of nodular melanoma and one instance of lentigo maligna melanoma showed positivity of 2+. The positivity rate would be near 20%, if 2+ group had been considered positive too. Our study did not show a correlation between IMP3 and metastasis (p = 0.947), and resetting the cut off value did not render the analysis significant (data not available in tables). Only three out of the metastatic melanomas, which means only 11% of metastatic melanomas (3/27), had more than 25% of positive cells.
Several studies in animals indicated positive correlation between CD4 + CD25 + FOXP3+ cells presence and tumor progression. Murine melanomas had a delay in time to a visible lesion, decrease in tumor weight and increase in survival time when FOXP3 was inhibited (Franco-Molina et al. 2016). On the other hand, Ladányi et al. (2010) and Hillen et al. (2008) did not associated FOXP3 presence with a worse prognosis. This study also did not show its correlation with metastasis (p = 0.936). Most of the positive cases were superficial spreading subtype (7 cases), followed by lentigo maligna (3 cases), nodular (2 cases) and acral subtype (1 case). Our study analyzed the primary lesion, in agreement with other studies (Ladányi et al. 2010; Hillen et al. 2008). FOXP3 could be useful in analyzing metastasis instead of primary lesions.
The low frequency of denouement events, mainly death, was the main limitation of the study. Therefore, the study collected all possible patients in 9 years, with the minimum follow-up of 4 years and a maximum of 12 years which represents an excellent portrait of our population.
In conclusion, there is no evidence of benefit in the use of IMP3 or FOXP3 as prognosis markers in primary melanomas in our population. Clinical and pathological features as mitoses, Breslow, ulceration and histological subtype were associated with metastasis in accordance with previous studies. Regression was inversely associated with metastasis. More investigative studies are necessary to reinforce those statements. Pathologists and dermatologists could be cautious before accomplishing new prognostic markers in their routine.
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FAPESP and Hélio R.C.Nunes for statistical analysis.
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Department of Dermatology and Radiotherapy, Botucatu Medical School - Paulista State University (UNESP), Rubião Junior District s/n, Botucatu, SP, ZIP code 18618-970, Brazil
Juliana Polizel Ocanha-Xavier
Private Clinic, Araçatuba, SP, Brazil
José Cândido C. Xavier-Junior
Pathology Department, Paulista State University (UNESP), Rubião Junior District s/n, Botucatu, SP, ZIP code 18618-970, Brazil
Mariângela Esther Alencar Marques
All the authors participated of data collecting, statistics analyses, writing and review. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Correspondence to Juliana Polizel Ocanha-Xavier.
The study was approved by Institutional Review Board approval (Registration number: 33405714.1.0000.5411/2014).
Ocanha-Xavier, J.P., Xavier-Junior, J.C.C. & Marques, M.E.A. Usefulness of IMP3 and FOXP3 to predict metastasis of cutaneous melanomas. Surg Exp Pathol 1, 1 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s42047-018-0014-7
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Robert Gerald "Tay Tay" Miller
Robert Gerald Miller, better known as Tay Tay was born on October 23, 1962, and passed away the morning of July 27, 2020, at the age of 57. Visitation will take place Tuesday, July 28 at 4:00 pm and the funeral will follow on Wednesday, July 29 at 2:00 pm. Services will be officiated by Reverend George Jeane. Please follow social distancing guidelines and wear a mask. He was preceded in death by his father, Robert Miller and brother, Michael Miller. He is survived by his mother, Betty Rose Miller; sisters, Karen and husband Robert Molander and Katrina and husband Richard Harmon III; two nephews, Michael Molander and Lil' Rich Harmon IV; one niece, Paige Burns and husband Andrew Burns; and his two favorite great-nieces, Anniston and Scarlett Burns. Pallbearers will be "Lil" Rich Harmon, Roy Jeane, Levi Jarrell, Frank Bonner, Billy "Wild Bill" Craft and Terry Cryer. Honorary Pallbearers will be Robert Molander, Rich Harmon, Micheal Molander, Andrew Burns, Roger Hogan and Gary Smith. Tay worked as an insulator with Local 112. Tay worked alongside his father traveling and insulating across the country. Tay spent his free time between Evans and the river: hunting, fishing, and repeating his infamous catchphrases over the years. If you caught him at home you could bet he'd be watching a western or sitting behind the shed listening to his cassettes and records, tending to his garden.
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HomeAudio and VideoConference TalksVocatio Viri: "How I Learned Stop Worrying And Save The Free World"
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Mike Church was with us again this year. The title of his talk Vocatio Viri: “How I Learned Stop Worrying And Save The Free World” demanded an explanation. And Mr. Church, as anyone knows who has listened to his radio program, knows how to impel a curious audience. By baptism, we are all called. Vocation is a calling from God, an abiding full-time job to be fulfilled on earth. Our speaker began with a brief summation of his own reversion back to the Catholic Faith in 2010. By 2012 he was a “traditional” Catholic. And what did he do about his Vocatio? He brought it into his radio show with both barrels blazing. Inevitably this got him fired. And getting fired was the grace that moved him to launch his own radio station. So, our speaker, uses his program to fight the good fight and reach souls with the truth. Quoting Saint John Paul II, he said: “Do not say I am only one person, what can I do?” Look at Father Feeney, he said. Numbers don’t matter. There were only eleven good Apostles! “Father Feeney did not take his vocation as an adjective or noun, but as a verb.” Now that’s quotable. That’s propelling! The presentation ended gloriously with a tribute to Saint Joseph.
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Tags: takayna / Tarkine, Aboriginal Heritage, Arthur Pieman Conservation Area, 4WD Tracks, Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre
Ms O'CONNOR question to MINISTER for ENVIRONMENT and PARKS, Ms ARCHER
Your Government's plan to re-open tracks through ancient, irreplaceable Aboriginal heritage in the takayna/Tarkine has been dealt a major blow with the federal environment department rejecting the state's proposed measures to mitigate the damage and initiating their own lengthy, further assessment of likely impacts. The Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre is celebrating the decision saying it is a message to your Government that you cannot ignore the law and you cannot ignore Aboriginal people.
Can you confirm that, short of rejecting the state's application to allow off-road vehicles back onto those tracks, this is the worst possible result for the plan to re-open the tracks and they are almost certainly unlikely to be re-opened before the state election?
Mr Speaker, I take this opportunity to congratulate you on your election today to the role of Speaker.
I thank the member for Denison, Ms O'Connor, for her question. I am glad about this question because celebrations are a little too early. This is part of normal process. When a referral is made to the federal government, it is more common than not that it comes back for further information. It has been termed as a controlled action and now there will be a public environment report done. It is par for the course; it is usual.
The Government's policy - and I have said it publicly - is to reopen recreational tracks 501, 503 and 601, the three tracks in the Arthur-Pieman Conservation Area. That is clear. We took it to the last state election. We are delivering on our commitments and we remain 100 per cent committed to it.
I note the decision by the federal government that our plan to allow for off-road vehicle access in the Arthur-Pieman Conservation Area is a controlled action and will now be assessed by a public environment report. I need to repeat that it is a normal part of the process. If members of this House do not understand legal process, I suggest they look it up.
We will work closely with the Australian Government. We will provide all the detail they need to assess and approve our proposal. I cannot give a time frame - that is entirely up to the process - but we will provide that information. We will work closely with the Australian Government. We will provide assistance as quickly as possible so that the assessment and approval can be provided as soon as possible.
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Aggie secretary okays medium term investment program
by Tawid News TeamPosted on July 30, 2006 August 20, 2006
VIGAN CITY – Agriculture Secretary Domingo Panganiban recently okayed the proposed Medium Term Investment Program (MTIP).
This was learned from Administrator Carlitos Encarnacion of the National Tobacco Administration (NTA) during a press interview with him on Wednesday.
The NTA chief said Secretary Panganiban is very amenable when it comes to the implementation of the proposed medium term investment program.
The said program is intended for the tobacco farmers in the region. However, it will be prioritized to farmers in this province considering that they suffered big loss after their tobacco produce were destroyed by heavy rainfall in late January this year.
Encarnacion also said that Quedancor, as a lending institution, plays a vital role in this program.
With the NTA giving of initial operational fund amounting to P1 milion for the operation of the Multi-Line Food Processing Plant in Santa, Quedancor has given a counterpart fund amounting to P2 milion.
The operation of Multi-Line was entrusted to NTA by virtue of a memorandum of agreement (MOA) signed between the Department of Agriculture, the Provincial Government of Ilocos Sur, Philippine Association of Tobacco-based Cooperatives (PATBCO) and the NTA.
“If the requested operational fund for the whole year round will be released by the Department of Budget and Management, the Multiline would surely have a smooth operation,” Encarnacion noted.
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Shinola, Grado Labs, And Adafruit To Talk Making And Manufacturing At Disrupt NY
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Manufacturing never left America. Even during the recession, good people were still building good things. Recently, though, thanks to the maker movement, small-scale manufacturing is seeing a renaissance throughout the world, something the president of Shinola, Vice President of Grado Labs, and founder of Adafruit will discuss at Disrupt NY. Each of these people have a unique vantage point on this movement and we’re excited to have them.
Jacques Panis of Shinola, Jonathan Grado of Grado Labs and Limor Fried of Adafruit all will join me on stage at Disrupt NY to talk about the renewal of urban manufacturing and what it means to be made in Detroit, Brooklyn, and Manhattan.
Jacques Panis is the president of Shinola, the watch and leather goods maker located in Detroit. He joined the company in 2010 as the firm was setting up shop. In 2013 he became the company’s president and oversaw the massive expansion into leather goods and bicycles. Shinola prides itself on being Made In Detroit. That fact is stamped on everything it makes including the company’s trademark watches, which are hand-assembled in Detroit — even the movement is assembled in the Detroit office.
Grado Labs makes some of the world’s finest headphones. And the tiny company has been assembling everything they make in a nondescript Brooklyn brownstone since 1953. As the great-nephew of the founder and son of the current CEO and President, Jonathan Grado grew up in a family that makes amazing things. While the rest of us were building LEGO kits, Grado was assembling headphones. He was directly responsible for the company producing their first in-ear headphones and the company’s latest cans, The e Series.
Adafruit makes things makers use to make other things. And it’s all because of Limor Fried. She founded the company in 2005 with the goal to create the best place online for learning electronics and making the best designed products for makers of all ages and skill levels. Since its founding, the company expanded into tools and merchandise, all while keeping its focus on electrical components. Now ten years into this venture, Fried has had a front row seat in watching the makers movement grow into a major force.
The Hardware Is Eating The World panel takes place on at noon on Monday, May 4th at Disrupt NY. Sadly, there will not be a Shinola watch, Grado headphones, or Raspberry Pi under everyone’s seat, but attendees will hear what makes these fantastic companies thrive in the current economy.
The show runs May 4-6 at the historic Manhattan Center. Tickets are still available.
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TOP 8 Bezel less Smartphones of 2017 : Dream Without Boundary
Pankaj Kheriwal
Top 8 Bezel-less Smartphones of 2017
( SPECIFICATIONS & OVERVIEW )
The year of 2016 has been a spectacular year for the future of smartphones where we were able to see some of the most exceptional smartphones being launched with features that were not even dreamed of in the past days. With the likes of companies such as Xiaomi, One plus, etc. who took a step forward into the future with their amazing and innovative ideas. That will probably lead the future of smartphones and technology.
So in this article, we will be talking about some of sleekest Bezel-less smartphones which are few of the most beautiful pieces of technology launched recently. These Bezel-less smartphones can be a great choice for 2017.
Some of you might be wondering, what is a bezel or a bezel-less smartphone? So, first take out your smartphone and in the front, you will see spaces left out just around your screen that lead to edges the part that surrounds your screen. That is called bezels. These bezels are required to protect as well as additional features like camera, sensors or flashlight which cannot be embedded into the Display of a smartphone.
So, here’s the list of some of the most exotic Bezel-less smartphones of 2017 in the market. There is no order or rank because they all are equally good with some being extraordinary.
1. XIAOMI MI MIX
The Xiaomi Mi mix stands in its own league with a dreamlike design of almost bezel-less front look which looks very marvelous. The company has stated it with a name of ‘Concept Phone’ which will be a step into the future of smartphones. The mix has the largest screen to body ratio than any device in the market currently.
The Mi mix sports a huge 6.4″ OLED display of 1920×2040p resolution with a 361 PPI density. It has Snapdragon 821 CPU along with 4GB/6GB RAM with 128GB/264GB of Internal Storage.
Mi Mix has a 16.0MP rear camera with f/2.0, EIS (gyro), phase detection autofocus, dual-LED (dual tone) flash and a 5mp front scooter along with a 4400mAh battery that supports USB type-C & quick charge 3.0
2. Vernee Mix 2
The vernee is one of the well-renowned smartphone manufacturers in the China. The company has a lot of flagship killer smartphone like Mars, Mars Pro, Thor E etc. After the company got the exposer by the Mars, and Mars Pro now they have introduced the Bezel-less smartphone market. The Vernee Mix 2 is the first bezel-less smartphone, which is featured with the 6.0″ bezel-less display with the 18:9 ratio. The display has the 2160*1080 resolution.
The screen of the Vernee is protected by the Gorilla Glass and the special thing is it is on both side of the phones. After the Apple and other big companies are offering the glass on both side others are also offering the same thing. This makes the Vernee more attractive and shines look. The handset is running on Android 7.1 and has Helio P25 Octa-core processor. The 4GB RAM and 64GB ROM, size of the phone is able to run any app you wish. The ROM can be expandable with the Micro SD card upto 256GB.
The Vernee Mix 2 is featured with the Dual Rear Camera as follow 13.0MP dual rear camera provides the perfect shot. The camera of the Mix 2 is powered by the Sony Sensor, so there is no doubt about the Image Quality. The front camera is also powered by the sony but there is no flash light, so in low light, you might struggle to take nice selfies. To keep running the smartphone you have the 4200mAh battery. It also supports the fast charging ans also have the USB Port C.
3. UMIDIGI S2 Pro
The UMIDIGI S2 Pro is a successor of the UMIDIGI S2. The S2 Pro is more bezel-less design and updated hardware. The design of the phone will let you fall into it. The 6.0-inch bezel-less display has 18:9 ration and 2160 x 1080 resolution provide the better display quality.
Like other smartphones, UmiDigi S2 Pro also has the glass on both side and provides the glossy look to the phone. The phone has the rounded around the corner and it feels much easy to hold. The S3 Pro is running on the latest Android 7.0 nougat with Helio P25 Octa Core 2.6GHz processor. The 6GB RAM and 128GB ROM will let run any app without any lagging.
The S2 Pro has the dual rear camera, 13.0MP + 5.0MP. Even if you don’t have the proper lighting then don’t worry, the phone has the Dual led flash for the rear camera. The 16.0MP front camera is available for the better selfies. The best part of the S2 comes with 5100mAh battery. This huge battery will keep your phone running for almost 36 hours.
4. ULEPHONE Mix
The Ulephone Mix is something more like an inspiration rather than an innovation. The designs what makes it stand out is its bezel-less premium look. The Ulephone Mix is the more bezel-less display as compared to others.
The Ulephone Future comes with Android 7.0 out of the box it has a 5.5″ inch display with 1280 x 720 Pixel screen resolutions protected by Gorilla Glass 3. This device stocks a deadly MTK6750T Octa Core 1.5GHz processor, along with 4GB RAM and 64GB of Internal Storage. Mix has a 8.0MP front camera + 13.0MP + 0.3MP back cameras with a 3300mAh battery that supports Quick-charge 2.0 + along with USB Type-C.
5. ELEPHONE S8
The Elephone S8 is the perfect phone for the users who want the best, but don’t want to spend too much for it. At this price, we’re confident that you won’t find the better deal than this. It looks really appealing with that curved Edge display and a glossy metal finish to its build.
The Elephone S8 sports a 6.0-inch display with 2560 x 1440 pixels resolution, making it a 2k Full HD with 440 PPI density. It’s powered by Helio X25 Deca Core 2.5GHz processor running along with 4GB RAM and 64GB internal storage. The S6 comes with a powerful 21.0 MP rear facing camera and there is also an 8.0 MP front camera.
6. Maze Alpha X
After a huge response of the Alpha, Maze has now introduced the new Version of the as Alpha X. The Design of the Alpha X resembles the Alpha, but this time it has a 6″ Sharpe HD display. The display has the 1080 x 2160 pixels, with 18:9 ration. Alpha X also has both side glass like Alpha, this makes the phone more glossy and attractive.
The phone is running on the MediaTek Helio P25 chipset with 4x 2.5 GHz ARM Cortex-A53, 4x 1.6 GHz ARM Cortex-A53 it also has the ARM Mali-T880 MP2 GPU for the gaming and better output on the heavy usage. The 6GB RAM and 128GB ROM provide the seamless performance. The high-end games like Asphalt, Mortal Combat and other are played very well and without lagging.
To capture the amazing moment of your life you have the Dual rear camera, 12.0MP+2.0MP with AF, and the secondary camera is 5.0MP without flashlight. The 4000mAh massive battery provides the power to keep running for a long day. Even after the heavy usage it can last long for 36 hours. The phone comes with a high voltage charger so you can charge it within 40 min.
Reason Behind Bezel less Display
The reason why some companies are working their heads off to build bezel-less devices is that a smartphone without bezels looks 50 % more elegant and appealing than a normal phone. It also leads to smaller devices with the larger display size that are easy to carry. By reducing the screen to body ratio of a smartphone which will further empathize the overall look by decreasing borders and amplifying the display which generally gets more attention.
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Turning off C-SPAN feed troubling for transparency
by Melissa Yeager
Jun 22, 2016 5:24 pm
Crawl on the bottom of C-SPAN notifying viewers cameras in House were turned off during the June 22 Democratic sit-in. (Image credit: C-SPAN/Twitter)
When word spread that Democrats were staging a sit-in on the floor of the House of Representatives over a vote on gun legislation, like many Americans, Sunlight staff turned C-SPAN, one of the most reliable sources of nonpartisan information about government, to see what was happening.
When we tuned in, however, we found the national public affairs network was running a crawl that the cameras in the House had been turned off by the majority party of the House.
Here’s how it works: C-SPAN does not own or operate any of the cameras, it simply broadcasts the “feed” of events. The House recording studio owns and operates the cameras, meaning it controls the video, the audio and the camera angles. C-SPAN simply takes that video feed and broadcasts it. “Independent, non-government TV cameras (are) not allowed to broadcast regular floor proceedings (neither House nor Senate),” C-SPAN Communications Director Howard Mortman told us in an email.
Mortman also wrote that C-SPAN has a lengthy history of asking for greater access. You can read the organization’s letters on its website, which show they have been asking to install cameras since 1994.
WATCH: @repjohnlewis & @HouseDemocrats stage sit-in. Note:C-SPAN has no control over the U.S. House TV cameras. https://t.co/sz7ICdfhfv
— CSPAN (@cspan) June 22, 2016
This conflict of interest in who controls the cameras seems to be an ongoing problem. Today, that decision was made by Republicans, but in 2008, then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi took the same action during a debate on an energy bill. Both of these instances are cause for concern.
Selective transparency in broadcasting action on the floor contradicts the constitutional principles that House Speaker Paul Ryan recently published and embraced. Americans on both sides of these issues have a vested interest in seeing which House members were taking part, what was playing out on the House floor, and being informed about the content of the debate over how the Second Amendment should be interpreted.
Representative democracy only works when people can see how their government is conducting business and, in turn, hold politicians accountable for those actions. C-SPAN’s camera coverage is a valuable tool in that process.
In an age of limited resources, there are many organizations and news outlets that depend on that livestream of events. At any time, you can tune in and see what is going on in American government as it is happening. The live broadcast allows you to watch events as they unfold, consider the information and make your own opinions about what is happening, free from cable news pundits talking over speeches on the floor and cutting away from the debate. You can go back in C-SPAN’s archives and see exactly what people said and in what context they said it. You can see how your representatives act and vote in real time.
C-SPAN is offered as a public service, and is perhaps one of our finest areas of transparency.
Shutting off the cameras sends a terrible message to other countries with new, struggling democracies that you cannot trust your people to evaluate the actions of their government. Instead, it shows that even in the Land of the Free, censorship is utilized to minimize the voice of the opposition.
While some lawmakers are using social media and livestreaming apps on their smartphones to route around the shutdown, demonstrating how technology has leapfrogged the single point of control of the “official feed,” the structural issue of political control of the cameras remains.
In an unprecedented move, C-SPAN switched to the Periscope feed of a congressman this afternoon, and then to a Facebook Live feed of another. The fact that advances in technology enable members of Congress to route around censorship of the House floor, however, does not mitigate the decision to shut down the C-SPAN cameras.
Some lawmakers ignored the “independent camera” rule — which bans using devices for still photography, audio or video recording — and started broadcasting via Periscope. C-SPAN switched to a Periscope feed this afternoon:
C-SPAN switches to Periscope live stream after House cameras shut off https://t.co/zoZArGskQ6 pic.twitter.com/6qkkmVhIaR
— Cory Bergman (@corybe) June 22, 2016
It is troubling that the cameras were not turned back on when it was clear this was something the American public would have an interest in observing. If you agree, we encourage you to use our tool Email Congress to let your lawmakers know.
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Market estimates Reliance Jio's equity value as zero: Financial analyst
'We think that the market is extremely negative on the company's unrelated businesses such as Reliance Jio'
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In an interview with ET Now, Jal Irani, Sr VP-Wholesale Capital Market, Edelweiss Financial Services, shares his view on the upbeat second quarter numbers by the oil major Reliance Industries (RIL).
ET Now: What is your view on RIL's recent set of quarterly numbers? You have been tracking the company for nearly 30 years now.
Jal Irani: Long time, but not 30 years. You are making me sound too old.
ET Now: You really know all the insides. The big inside is the expansion in gross refinery margins (GRMs). What has done the trick for Reliance? The convention logic is that GRMs should remain under pressure when the commodity cycle is reversing. But even though commodity cycle has reversed, Reliance's GRMs for the quarter gone by have expanded. What is the secret sauce here?
Jal Irani: The commodity cycle reversing is too generic a term. There are two things involved in this. Firstly, with global oil prices falling, the refine product demand is surging, especially in India where there is a double-digit growth in demand. In fact, there is a significant growth in Chinese demand as well. Reliance's GRMs outperformed estimates by $1.6 per barrel. They came in at $10.6 a barrel for the September quarter and the Street was expecting them at $9 a barrel. The fact of the matter is that the company has got a very complex refinery and that refinery is in a position to take advantage of a structural shift in production trends globally.
What is the structural shift? Given the low prices, the WTI-based US shale-based crude output in the US has begun to fall. WTI is sweet light crude, while in the Middle East most heavy crude is being produced.
Now the Basra, the Iraqi heavy crude is at a $2 discount to WTI crude and Reliance industries' complex refineries are in position to switch crude intake very quickly. As result, it consumed some of the Middle East crude to the extent of three-fifths of its refinery requirements and that alone we estimate gave it an advantage of nearly $1.2 per barrel increase in refinery margins.
The second thing is that even on the product slate, margins on petrol were nearly $9 a barrel higher than diesel's. Reliance had switched its production of petrol from 20 per cent to 24 per cent of its product slate. These are two things the predominately did to earn $1.6 per barrel higher margins in refining than what we in the market had anticipated.
ET Now: So based on what Reliance is now planning to do in coming years - big telecom foray, formidable presence in the retail sector, trying to be a big content provider, do you think the complexion of the business will change beyond FY17? And with the complexion of Reliance's business changing, there is a strong scope for an expansion in PE multiples. We saw a similar PE expansion in Reliance when the complexion of Reliance started changing in 2003, when the company first discovered gas.
Jal Irani: Needless to say that with $35 billion-odd capex getting commissioned over the next two years, and about 40 per cent of that being in non-refining petrochemical-based businesses - with telecom (Reliance Jio) taking a predominant share - the proportion of other businesses will increase in Reliance's portfolio.
We think that the market is extremely negative on the company's unrelated businesses such as Reliance Jio. In our calculations, we can see that the market is not only giving a zero value to Reliance Jio, but in fact is giving a negative equity value to it.
We can discuss the merits and demerits of getting into data and telecom, but the fact of the matter is that the market is unjustifiably become excessively negative. As you get closer to the Jio launch, you are going to see some re-rating in the stock.
The stock is trading at price to book value (P/BV) of 1, which is nearly near all-time lows during a similar capex commissioning phase between 2005 and 2007, the stock had re-rated to as much as 4.2 times price to book value. The other parameter simplistically to look at it is the price to earnings ratio which is at 10 times, which for a company of this calibre is very low.
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Bharti Airtel Revises Rs 149 Tariff Plan, Now Offering Unlimited Roaming Calls, 100 SMS Per Day, 1GB Data for 28 Days
By Chakri K January 21st, 2018 AT 7:48 AM
Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio are in the midst of the tariff war, trying their best to pull subscribers with their promotional prepaid recharge packs offering more maximum benefits at minimum prices. Airtel has now revised its existing Rs 149 prepaid recharge plan that once again seeks to offset the gains made by Jio. The plan is currently available for select users in a few circles. We have checked this plan’s availability in Andhra Pradesh & Telangana circle, and it’s available for two of Airtel prepaid numbers.
Airtel Rs 149 Prepaid Recharge Pack
Airtel’s revised Rs 149 plan is the cheapest plan with unlimited call benefits. Airtel promises unlimited local and STD calls along with outgoing roaming for a validity period of 28 days. The pack also includes 100 SMS per day. However, the pack bundles a mere 1GB of data for the whole validity period.
Airtel’s Rs 149 recharge plan, however, is currently segmented offer and not open for all. This means the plan is applicable in certain Airtel circles for now. Earlier, Airtel used to offer unlimited Airtel to Airtel voice calls and 1GB 4G data for 28 days, but now the plan is revised to offer calls to any network even on roaming and 1GB 3G/4G data, along with 100 SMS per day for the same validity period.
Interestingly, Airtel has a Rs 179 tariff plan which offers similar benefits. So, the company may be in the process of killing the Rs 179 plan or maybe the Rs 149 plan is a limited period offer.
Reliance Jio’s Rs 149 Plan
On the other hand, Reliance Jio continues to trump the market with its ultra-affordable and highly beneficial plans. Jio’s Rs 149 recharge pack which earlier offered a total 4.2GB total data with 0.15GB daily FUP limit has been upgraded to offer users with 28GB of data. The new offer comes with 1GB 4G data per day for a period of 28 days.
Moreover, following exhaustion of daily data limit, Jio doesn’t stop your internet, but data speed gets reduced to 64kbps. Unlimited local, STD and roaming calls are also part of the bundle. There’s provision of 100 SMSes per day. Subscribers will also get access to a host of Jio apps with this plan.
Despite Airtel’s best efforts, Jio clearly seems to lead, offering far more data benefits at the same price point. Bharti instead has another plan for those looking for 1GB daily data with unlimited calls combo. Airtel Rs 199 plan matches that of Reliance Jio Rs 149 plan. Hopefully, Airtel changes the 1GB data to 1GB data per day with the Rs 149 plan.
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Entrepreneur Puts Prisons to Shame, Turns Ex-Cons into Bee-Keepers – Keeping them Out of Jail
Justin Gardner November 1, 2015
Chicago, IL – Brenda Palms-Barber has created a unique program that accomplishes two noble goals—helping troubled honeybee populations and helping ex-cons stay out of jail.
Sweet Beginnings, located in Chicago’s West Side, is a social enterprise business that turns former prisoners into beekeepers. This interaction with some of our most important friends in the natural world has a striking success rate.
According to FUSION:
“Graduates of the program have a recidivism rate of only 4%, compared with the national average of 40% and the state average of 55%. Unlike many other social enterprises, Sweet Beginnings is also profitable, bringing in a tidy $9,000 last year.”
The company does not even have enough jobs to satisfy the hundreds of people that show up asking every month. But Palms-Barber is looking to expand on the concept with a franchise model, spreading first to D.C. and Detroit.
As of now, the part-time jobs last 90 days, but that is enough to foster inspiration.
“My whole outlook on life has changed,” said Patricia Jackson. ”Every day I wake up, I am glad to come to work.”
Jackson hopes to open her own catering company when she is through with the program, using the honey in her food and hiring community members.
VonKisha Adams used to run from bees, but now she has affection for the busy critters creating their liquid gold, which contributes to her own newfound motivation to work.
“I could stand here for hours, extracting, just in my zone. The cycle continues. We’re like the worker bees,” said Adams. “It’s a fun working environment. We’re like a family. You shouldn’t be afraid of the honeybee. She won’t sting you for no reason. She’s vegan. She’s only interested in transferring nectar so the colony can survive.”
While giving ex-cons a purpose, the beekeeping program also teaches about the ongoing problem of colony collapse disorder and the risk it poses to the global food chain.
“I think God made the bee before us, because all things bees produce are beneficial for us,” said Christian Petre, another employee. “If we continue to destroy the environment, the bee is going to die. And if the bee dies, I think we follow.”
Most of the 400 employees who have worked there were convicted of drug offenses. They work in all parts of the process, from tending the bees to extracting and bottling the products to shipping them to stores. Other parts of the program help them get their lives back on track.
The 131 hives of Sweet Beginnings produces delicious local honey as well as other products with a higher profit margin, such as shower gel, lotion, and lip balm. They are shipped around the country but also sell at a local supermarket chain and about 10 Whole Foods stores.
This incredible venture is providing much-needed aid to increasingly beleaguered honeybee populations and promoting the vitality of agriculture. The fact that it sharply reduces recidivism is equally important. Sweet Beginnings also shows the value—both monetary and spiritual—of creating something under a free market approach.
“When you put that label on the package and you go in the store and see it on the shelf, you’re like, ‘Oh my god, I produced that,’” said Adams. “It makes you proud.”
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Definition: A break-even point is that position where a business entity can recover its cost through the revenue it generates from the sales. Here, we can say that the company is now able to meet its expenses through its sales revenue.
Break-even analysis is the means to identify the effect of variation in sales volume on the cost, revenue and profitability of a project or a product. It consists of several calculations, based on which the business organizations determine the feasibility and viability of starting a new project or producing a new product.
It is just an estimation of sales and does not determine the actual revenue generated by the products or projects.
Content: How to Calculate Break-Even Analysis?
Break-Even Chart
Assumptions of Break-Even Analysis
To simplify the process of computing the break-even analysis, the following assumptions are taken into consideration:
Total fixed costs remain constant at all the output levels.
All the costs can be considered as either fixed or variable costs.
Straight-line cost and revenue behaviour.
Throughout the output level, sales price per unit is constant.
The business has a constant product mix and produces only one kind of product.
The inventory remains constant at the start and the end of the accounting period.
Costs and sales revenue is affected only by the sales volume.
The unit variable cost remains constant since the change in total variable cost is considered to be proportionate to the output level.
The other factors such as efficiency, production and technology do not change.
Components of Break-Even Analysis
Break-even analysis is done by establishing a relationship between three significant elements of a project, i.e., costs, revenue and contribution margin.
Let us go through each of these components in detail below:
Costs: The total expenses incurred on a project or product is its cost. It can be categorized as follows:
Fixed Costs: Those costs which remain the same throughout irrespective of the sales or revenue are known as the fixed costs, e.g. rent, interest, depreciation, etc.
Variable Costs: The expenses which are progressive with the increasing sales and production volume are called variable costs, e.g. raw material, fuel, electricity, etc.
Revenue: The return generated from the sales of a product during a particular period is termed as revenue. In simple terms, it is the total sales value or amount.
Contribution Margin: Contribution margin is the ratio of the revenue available for meeting fixed costs per unit to the sales price of each unit.
Computation of Break-Even Point
Break-even analysis is an essential tool in the hands of the business experts, management, financial experts and professional for determining the success possibilities of a project on various parameters.
These parameters can be better understood in the following discussion:
Break-Even Point
Break-even point is that point of sale where the company can meet the project’s cost from the revenue generated by that particular project.
The formula for determining the break-even point is as follows:
or, or,
The number of units denotes break-even point.
Cash Break-Even Point
We know that it is quite challenging for the new projects to attain the break-even point in the first few years of business. Therefore, for the concept of cash break-even point was introduced where the total revenue generated is equivalent to the total cash expenditure incurred.
Following is the formula to calculate the cash break-even point:
and, In the above equation, an adjustment is made, i.e., depreciation which was previously included in the total cost is deducted from it, to exclude it in the total cash cost.
Contribution Margin Ratio
This ratio provides the percentage of the sales revenue generated from the project, which is available to meet its fixed cost.
The formula for finding out the contribution margin ratio is as follows:
It is denoted in the percentage value.
Contribution Margin Per Unit
Contribution refers to the amount of sales revenue which is available to pay off the fixed cost of the project after meeting the variable cost. Per unit contribution margin determines the amount available for meeting the fixed cost of each unit of the product.
Let us see the equation for calculating the contribution margin per unit:
It is denoted in the amount.
The actual sales made over the break-even point, which generates profit is considered as the margin of safety.
The formula for the margin of safety is depicted below:
It is merely the difference between the total sales and the sales at the break-even point, denoted in amount.
Margin of Safety Ratio
The percentage representation of the margin of safety is called a margin of safety ratio.
Its formula is as follows:
It indicates the profitability and strength of a business. It also helps to find out whether the company is financially sound and can keep up even after a slight fall in sales.
Profit Volume Ratio
The profit volume ratio depicts the percentage of contribution generated from the sales of the product.
The formula of P/V ratio is:
Higher the P/V ratio, better is the profitability of the business.
Composite Break-Even Point
Now, we can also determine the break-even point for the business units manufacturing multiple products.
The related equation is given below:
The composite break-even point denotes sales revenue which a firm needs to generate for meeting up its total cost.
XYZ Ltd. manufacture bags and the selling price is ₹100 per bag. If ₹200000 is the fixed cost, and the variable cost increases proportionately to the sales, costing ₹50 per unit. Also, ₹20000 was charged as depreciation.
The following table explains the sales revenue and the number of units sold:
Units Sold
With the help of the above data, calculate the break-even analysis.
BreakEven Point=Fixed Cost/(Sales Price-Variable Cost)
BreakEven Point=200000/(100-50)
BreakEven Point=4000 units
Cash BEP=Cash Fixed Cost/Cash Contribution Per Unit
Cash BEP=180000/55
Cash BEP=3273 units (rounded off)
Cash Fixed Cost=Fixed Cost-Depreciation
Cash Fixed Cost=200000-20000
Cash Fixed Cost=₹180000
Cash Contribution Per Unit=Sales Price Per Unit-(Variable Cost Per Unit-Depreciation Per Unit)
Cash Contribution Per Unit=100-[50-(20000/4000)]
Cash Contribution Per Unit=100-(50-5)
Cash Contribution Per Unit=₹55
Contribution Margin Ratio=(Contribution Margin Per Unit/Sales Price Per Unit)x100
Contribution Margin Ratio=(50/100)x100
Contribution Margin Ratio=50%
Contribution Margin Per Unit=Sales Price Per Unit-Variable Cost Per Unit
Contribution Margin Per Unit=100-50
Contribution Margin Per Unit=₹50
Margin of Safety=Total Sales-Sales at BreakEven Point
Margin of Safety=800000-(100×4000)
Margin of Safety=₹400000
Margin of Safety Ratio=(Margin of Safety/Sales)x100
Margin of Safety Ratio=(400000/800000)x100
Margin of Safety Ratio=50%
Profit Volume Ratio=(Contribution/Sales)x100
Profit Volume Ratio=(400000/800000)x100
Profit Volume Ratio=50%
Contribution=Total Sales Price-Total Variable Cost
Contribution=800000-(50×8000)
Contribution=₹400000
Suppose the manufacturer expands his business and now sells three products, i.e., bags (as given above), t-shirts and track pants. The related data is given in the below table:
Total Fixed Cost (₹)
Total Contribution (₹)
Total Sales (₹)
Bags 200000 400000 800000
T-Shirts 300000 600000 1200000
Track Pants 500000 1000000 2000000
Total 1000000 2000000 4000000
Find out the Composite Break-Even Point.
Composite BreakEven Point=Total Composite Fixed Cost/Composite Profit Volume Ratio
Composite BreakEven Point=1000000/50
Composite BreakEven Point=₹20000
Composite P/V Ratio=(Total Composite Contribution/Total Composite Sales)x100
Composite P/V Ratio=(2000000/4000000)x100
Composite P/V Ratio=50%
Break-even analysis of the above example can be better understood with the help of the following graph:
In the above diagram, we can identify the break-even point at (4000,400000) where the total sales and total cost cut each other. Moreover, the contribution margin also includes the profit generated by the business.
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432 Hz vs 440 Hz Frequency Response: Why You Should Change The Frequency Of Your Music
Is 432 Hz frequency response better than 440 Hz?
It’s scientific fact that everything, including the human body, is made up of energy that vibrates at different frequencies. As such it just makes sense to question how sound frequencies can affect us.
The evidence suggests that sound frequencies can indeed affect us, as frequencies affect other frequencies. Think of it as being how ingredients affect the flavor of a meal. To illustrate this, there have been a number of experiments, such as cymatics and water memory, that show us the effect of frequencies on the physical world.
Related: Choose One Hologram And Find Out What Your Vibrational Frequency Is Trying To Tell You
Cymatics shows us that when you play sound frequencies through certain mediums, such as air, water, and sand, they can directly affect the flow of matter. You can see the results of the effect for yourself.
Water memory has a similar principle. It shows how not just sound, but also intent, can affect the vibration of matter. This effect was proven by Dr. Masaru Emoto who performed numerous studies showing this effect. Everyone has their own vibrational frequency and the human body is estimated to be around 70% water.
Related: The Power of Intentions: Scientific Evidence on How Thoughts Can Change the World
Given the experiments outlined above, it only makes sense that musical frequencies could affect the vibrational state of humans. Everything expressed through sound, emotion, or thought has a frequency of its own that affects the world around it. Just how one drop of water can create a large ripple and affect a huge body of water.
The Frequency of Music
Let’s take this concept and look at music frequency. Most music produced in the world is set at the frequency of A=440hz after the International Standards Organization (ISO) promoted the idea in 1953.
However, it’s possible that when you look at the overall vibratory nature of the universe that this pitch is actually disharmonious with the natural resonance of nature. As such it could actually lead to negative effects on human behavior and consciousness.
There are theories that the Nazi regime planned on using this pitch after scientific research showed them which frequencies were best for inducing feat and aggression. It may be an unproven conspiracy theory but it is true that some studies have shown that music should be turned to A=432Hz instead.
Golden Mean and the Universe
It’s believed that the 432Hz frequency response is mathematically consistent with the patterns of the universe. 432Hz is said to vibrate with the golden mean PHI of the universe and unify light, time, space, matter, gravity, and magnetism with biology, the DNA code, and consciousness.
Resonating our atoms and DNA with nature leaves us with an even deeper connection to nature and the world around us. The number 432 is also significant as it is reflected in the ration of the sun, Earth and moon as well as the precession of the equinoxes, the Egyptian Great Pyramid Stonehenge, Sri Yanta and other sacred sites.
The Cosmic Keyboard
Something else to consider is that A=432Hz correlates with the colour spectrum; something that isn’t true of A=440Hz.
It’s said that every frequency in the spectrum is related in octaves from gamma rays to subharmonics. The colors and notes are also connected to the chakras in the body and other important energy centers.
If people are to understand chakras are connected to the Seven Rays of the Solar Spectrum then we understand the importance of using the right notes and frequencies. The Cosmic Keyboard or Cosmic Pitchfork is tuned at A=432Hz, not the standard A=440Hz. On the Cosmic Keyboard C# is set at 136.10Hz “Om”. This is the main note of the classical Indian Sitar and the pitch of the chants the Tibetan Monks sing. The Monks say that the note “comes from nature”.
Related: 432 Hz – The Hidden Power Of Universal Frequency And Vibration
It’s about time we explored the differences between A=440Hz and A=432Hz frequency response. Music lovers and musicians have all noticed that when music is tuned in A=432Hz it sounds more beautiful and is more harmonious and produces an inward experience that we feel in the heart and spine. When music is tuned at A=440Hz feels more outwards and more mental experience. You feel it in your head and it projects outwards. Audiophiles have also noted that A=432Hz music can fill up an entire room while music in A=440Hz is far more local and linear.
So change the frequency of your music the next time you listen to it and hear the difference for yourself!
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By Rafiq A. Tschannen on December 14, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )
Switzerland: Outright burka ban faces opposition in parliament
Dec 12, 2019 – 16:45
A campaign for a n outright burka ban in public collected enough signatures for a nationwide vote in 2017. Parliament is opting for a more moderate legal reform.
(Keystone/Martial Trezzini)
Swiss parliamentarians have supported a plan to oblige people to show their faces during identity checks and visits to social security authorities. The proposal is aimed at countering an outright ban on wearing a burka in public.
The House of Representatives on Thursday agreed in principle to a legal reform, which falls short of a hard-line constitutional amendment.
A majority of the house, notably representatives of the Social Democratic Party as well as centrist groups, also approved additional measures to help integrate foreign women into Swiss society.
Members of the right-wing Swiss People’s Party and the left-wing Greens voted against the counter-proposal sponsored by the government.
The other parliamentary chamber, the Senate, still has to decide on proposals aimed at improving gender equality, notably for Muslim women.
Hardline initiative
The counter-proposal comes amid a right-wing people’s initiative aimed at introducing a burka ban. Campaigners handed in the necessary number of signatures in 2017 to force a nationwide vote. They argue Switzerland should do more to combat “islamisation” and safeguard public security.
Parliament is due to wrap up discussions on the initiative next year before a date is set for a nationwide vote at a later stage.
Two of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, Ticino and St Gallen, have introduced burka bans at a local level; other cantons rejected similar proposals.
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Poets&QuantsTM Announces the Most Affordable Highly Ranked Online MBA Programs
The leader in business school news lists affordability of ranked online MBA programs.
OAKLAND, CA, March 14, 2018 /24-7PressRelease/ — Poets&Quants, the definitive online publication for business education news, has released a listing of The Most Affordable Highly Ranked Online MBA Programs. Topping the list of affordable programs is Mississippi State with a tuition of $13,680. Closing out the list is the #1 ranked online MBA program from the Carnegie Mellon Tepper School of Business, with a tuition of $128,000.
This Poets&Quants analysis includes a look at varying missions of MBA programs serving different constituencies. Reviewing the affordability of programs like Ball State, UNC, and the University of Nebraska showcases the different kinds of programs available to students looking at an MBA delivered online.
“A deep dive into the various options available for an online MBA is vital to helping our readers understand importance of fit,” says Nathan Allen, Poets&Quants staff writer. “An expensive price tag is not always the best program for everyone, and at the same time, an inexpensive program does not necessarily indicate a poor-quality program. Online MBAs can offer a wide range of options for different kinds of students.”
The 10 most affordable top-ranked online MBA programs are:
2. Ball State (Miller)
3. North Dakota
4. Arkansas State-Jonesboro
5. Wisconsin MBA Consortium
6. Kennesaw State (Coles)
7. Georgia Southern
8. Tennessee-Chattanooga
9. University of Mississippi
10. Nebraska-Lincoln
Visit https://poetsandquants.com/2018/03/13/most-affordable-highly-ranked-online-mba-programs/ to learn more about affordable online MBA programs and to locate a specific school.
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AMID THE PANDEMIC US OPEN HAS STARTED
Anmol Mishra
The number of cases rising in India is unlikely going to ebb anytime soon. While India is setting the record for the highest surge in numbers of coronavirus cases in a single day, the Indian government on Monday announced the country’s biggest economic contraction in 24 years.
India’s economy to witness a great contraction of 5.9% by the end of 2020 predicted by The United Nations’ Conference on Trade and Development in a report, warning that while growth will rebound next year, the contraction is likely to translate into a permanent income loss.
Stressed days ahead:
Pandemic puts more pressure on India’s stressed economy. COVID-19 is slamming every possible sector across the nation and also triggered massive job loss.
Even the job portal launched by the government in July has seen the humungous registration of over 6.9 million people in just 40 days, reported by The Indian Express.
India had never tallied a quarter of negative growth since it commenced issuing such data publicly in 1996. Furthermore, no other big economy has shrunk with such a ratio during the pandemic. In the same period, America’s GDP fell by 9.1%. India’s economy had been stumbling before COVID-19.
While we think the situation in Indian related to the economy has worsened during the galloping outbreak, experts say that the country’s economic indicators were already to it’s worst side before the pandemic.
The complete Wipeout:
‘Already the quake of Covid-19 has triggered another round of cuts in central bank policy rates for advanced economies that had favorable ratios before the crisis and also for many developing economies, which even includes the high inflation countries such as Argentina and Turkey’, a report by UNCTAD described.
Further, the world is grappling with the equivalent of a complete Wipeout of the Brazilian, Mexican, Indian economies.
The domestic activities are contracting, eventually affecting the international economy. In a view to the future, it will shrink by around one-fifth this year and foreign direct investment shall blow by up to 40%.
Triggered massive job loss:
“What is happening after the pandemic cannot be seen without what was happening before the pandemic. The jobs were already collapsing, the growth rate had declined. The situation was already terrible, and it further worsened because of the pandemic”, Ritu Dewan, Vice President of the Indian Society of Labour Economics and former director of the Department of Economics at the University of Mumbai, told Anadolu Agency.
For India, UNCTAD’s report added, “The baseline scenario is a sharp recession in 2020 as straight lockdown measures to stem the virus’ spread brought many productive activities to halt across the country. Although we expect a rebound in 2021 in line with growth rates of the Indian economy in recent years, the contraction registered in 2020 is likely to translate into a permanent job loss”.
V-shaped recovery will be misled:
“Forecasters talk of a V-shaped recovery is misleading. Such a recovery would require double-digit global growth next year, which is out of the question”, said Richard Kozul – Wright, UNCTAD’s director of the division on globalisation and development strategies.
Assessing the report, it asserted that a global recovery plan is in need of both bold and comprehensive invasion, built around a collaborative macroeconomic expansion focused on job creation and higher wages and supported by a big public investment push into cleaner energy, environmental protection, sustainable transport systems, and the care economy.
Following the report, 90-120 million people from developing nations will be thrust into extreme poverty, with approximately 300 million people facing food insecurity.
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Neuralink: a deeper introspection
Anushka Sharad
6th sense of Human beings the Neuralink- Neuralink is a medical device developed in order to track and enhance brain activity. Moreover, it is like a Fitbit that tracks brain activities like neuron spike. Elon Musk said that the device will also be able to help regain someone’s eyesight even if they’ve lost their optic nerve. He said that this technology will be able to fix everything that’s wrong with the brain. With complete symbiosis of the tech, humans will be able to interact with each other without the need to talk.
It will be surgically implanted into the brain and with it, one will be able to communicate with machines and control them. For now, human trials are not yet begun but would start at the end of 2020. Furthermore, it will also help study the electrical signals in the brain and help cure various medical problems. Before testing on humans, Neuralink prototypes have been tested on rodents, monkeys, pigs, etc.
Before peeping deeper into Neuralink let’s understand the human brain first.
There are 86 billion Neurons in our Brain. These neurons consist of 3 parts: a dendrite that receives the signal, a cell body that computes the received signal, and an axon that sends the signal out.
Neurons are connected through Synapses. The neurons of your brain connect each other to send and receive signals through axon-dendrite connections called synapses. Neurons communicate through Electric Signals. These signals can be recorded in the brain. Recordings from many neurons allow us to decode the information and it represents intended movements.
To understand how Neuralink works, we must understand how our brain sends information to different parts of our body using neurons. These neurons in our brain connect to form a large network and communicate using chemical signals called neurotransmitters.
This reaction generates an electric field to record the reactions. These electrodes translate electrical signals into an algorithm that a machine can read. This is how Neuralink will be able to read what one is thinking and find a way to talk to machines without uttering a single word. It’s all your thoughts and link’s action.
The neural implant will let you control a computer or mobile device anywhere you go. Micron-scale threads are inserted into areas of the brain that control movement. Each thread contains many electrodes and connects them to an implant, the Link.
It’s a sealed, implanted device that processes and stimulates, and transmits neural signals.
Neural threads:
Each small and flexible thread contains many electrodes for detecting neural signals.
A compact inductive charger that connects to the implant wirelessly to charge the battery; same as a smart-watch or fit bit.
Precision Automated Neurosurgery.
The threads on the Link are extremely fragile and flexible that they can’t be inserted by a human hand. Hence neurosurgeons would be provided with a robotic system that can reliably and efficiently insert these threads. The robot would be able to insert the link within an hour without general anesthesia and the patient would be able to leave the hospital on the same day.
Robots will do everything from the incision, removing the skull, inserting electrodes, placing the device, and then closing it up. These robotic systems were tested on numerous pigs used to test the device. This system has no room for errors. The Head of the machine holds and guides the needle that performs the operation and contains a large number of cameras to capture the whole brain.
How Neuralink will help to overcome mental disorders?
The Neuralink aims to fight neurological disorders like Alzheimer’s disease, dementia and epilepsy, spinal cord injuries, and other medical problems. The link is expected to even fight with common anxiety and depression yet that’s not proven. By taking primitive measures of implementing the Neuralink slowly and gradually we can hope best for it. There are high abilities and possibilities that Link could help fight a large number of medical illnesses and aims to create an affordable solution for people who lack the essential needs of medical treatment. At its level best, it will help to control the number of suicides that end lives before help can be received.
For now, those goals are very much out of reach. Scientists need to learn far more about the brain and how it works for any of those ideas to become reality. The brain is still mysterious and the neurological causes of addiction and anxiety are still unclear.
Why is Elon Musk testing his implant on Pigs?
In August 2020, Elon Musk’s 3 pig trial got rearing spotlight. The Neuralink implant was tested on 3 pigs; on 1st with no implant, on 2nd with an implant for some days and later it was removed and the 3rd pig still has the implant in her brain. The experiment of 2nd pig was done to show that if someone wanted to remove the link, they should be able to live a happy and healthy life after that. 3rd pig’s implant is active to track down all neural movements and to list down moments of snout and sniffs.
Hiring engineers for neurotechnology firm Neuralink
Neuralink is almost done dealing with a neuroscience background. The chip is an electrical device that requires mechanical/software engineers to deal with. It would be easier for these engineers to sort out problems like processing, indictive charging, power mgmt, etc. Most importantly, great problem-solving skills, solving high-volume, high-reliability, low-cost production problems are especially valued.
In the end, let’s hope best for the future of brain interfaces and inventing new technologies that will expand our abilities, our community, and our world.
-Anushka Sharad
The Presidential elections.
Chinmaya Ashish
How are presidential elections held in the USA?
Unlike India where citizens directly vote for their preferred party, the USA’s election system
is more complicated and distinctive from that of India.
In the USA, the electoral college system exists which means that voters are adjudicating
upon state-level contests, rather than the national one. These are called electoral
colleges, they initialize a representative of trump or Biden, often acknowledged as
There are 538 electors present, who further vote for the resident on behalf of the voters in
their state — the winning candidate is whoever gets a majority of 270 or more.
Presidential elections: 2020
The product of the US presidential elections is not obtrusive as of now, both candidates
claim to possess a potential path to victory,
Mr. Trump has even lawsuits in the two states where Mr. Biden holds a lead, several
substantial states are contemplated to conclude the counting by the end of Friday, but the
election result may remain in the state of irresolution for days.
Mr. Biden is still holding slim leads in several key states if the trend continues, Mr. Biden
may propel to gain the Electoral college and the presidency.
Mr. Trump’s prospect of acquiring his second term is attributed to his capability of holding
on to states like Georgia and Pennsylvania.
Results so far
Let’s disintegrate the convoluted election results,
Mr. Trump has encompassed a win in Florida, Ohio, Texas, and Lowa respectively, Mr.
Biden has entrenched a win in Michigan and Wisconsin and the results remain uncertain
in Arizona, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Georgia.
In Arizona, Joe Biden has received 500,000 votes and still counting and it even
accounts for 60% of the population of the state.
In Nevada, reports say that Mr. Biden has achieved a very narrow lead and the
counting is going at an adequate pace.
In Georgia, Mr. Trump has a very attenuate lead over Mr. Biden, the Secretary of state
has announced that results will be announced by midday Thursday(local time).
In Pennsylvania, there are more than 580,000 ballots left to count, but so far Mr.
Trump leads Biden
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Armenia and Azerbaijan is a small country located in between Turkey, Russia and Iran. Armenia is mostly a christian majority country with 95% of it’s 30 million population practising christanity and Azerbaijan comprises 99% of muslim population. This conflict can escalate into a full fledged war according to experts.The population of Azerbaijan is 10 million and both are secular countries. The conflict is about a small region called Nagorno-Karabakh region. Both of these countries were part of the USSR till 1990. Both these countries attained independence from the USSR in 1991. This Nagorno-Karabakh region is partially occupied by both Armenia and Azerbaijan. This region is a heavy mountainous region and it is tough to access this region. According to the 2015 census only 1.5 lakh people live in this Nagorno-Karabakh region in an area of 4400 square kilometers. This population of this region is ethnically Armenian.
This region has been disputed since 1920 when both these countries were part of the erstwhile Soviet Union. This region belonged to Azerbaijan till 1990 and it was an autonomous region controlled by Moscow directly. When the USSR split then Moscow decided to hand over this region to Azerbaijan but then the local provincial assembly voted to stay with Armenia. This voting was opposed by Moscow and Azerbaijan governments. After this the Armenian separatists occupied a part of the Nagorno-Karabakh region and they have been running the government in that part backed by the government of Armenia. But according to the International law this region is part of Azerbaijan because when this region was split up in 1991 then Moscow had decided to merge this territory with Azerbaijan.
This region has seen heavy ceasefire violations since 1991 up till 2020. Recent clashes have continued over several days. You can understand this territory similarly like Kashmir where both India and Pakistan claim Kashmir. In May 1994 USA, France and Russia had tried to implement a ceasefire so that these countries could talk and negotiate but all in vain. This conflict started on 27 september 2020 and since then both countries have said that the other one broke the ceasefire first. Russia plays a very important role here. Russia has a military base in Armenia and it supplies weapons to Azerbaijan but it has not said a word over this conflict.
Turkey on the other hand supports Azerbaijan openly since Turkey and Azerbaijan have strong relations and Armenia does not have good relations with Turkey. In the first week of October Turkish F-16s were seen in Armenian airspace thus, adding fuel to the fire. Turkey has openly said that it will provide military support to Azerbaijan if needed and it is trying to flex its muscle power in the region. Turkey and Azerbaijan being muslim countries are natural allies. Armenian foreign minister has said that this conflict is a preplanned strategy of Azerbaijan with Turkish support.
Turkey is a bigger country and it wants to influence a smaller nation like Azerbaijan. Turkey buys crude oil and gas from Azerbaijan and similarly Azerbaijan is one of the main investors of Turkey. So it is natural that they will come together. Their economic ties are stronger than ever. On the other side Turkey and Armenia have strain relations. During the ottoman empire a genocide was conducted over the armenians by the turks. This charge is denied by the Turkey government and so does Azerbaijan deny it in the support of its ally.
Azerbaijan is a republic just for namesake. Actually it is a dictatorship. After its split from the USSR their first president was Heydar Aliyev in 1991. He was president till 2003 then his son Ilham Aliyev succeeded him in 2003 and he has been the president since then. Ilham Aliyem has won every successive election since 2003 with over 80% vote share and it shows that there is no opposition in the country. Foreign journalists are not allowed to work freely and there are over 160 political prisoners. There is no free media in this country. So you can imagine if it is really a democracy. Whoever raises voice against the president then he/she is thrown into jails. Recently, in 2016 Aliyev held a controversial referendum according to which the minimum age to become the president of Azerbaijan has been brought down to 18 from 35. According to political experts this has been done so that his son can succeed him in 2025. There is no free press and this country ranks 146/157 in the global democracy index. You can imagine the scenario.
On the contrary Armenia ranks 86/167 and it is in a better position than Azerbaijan. Till 2018 Armenia was itself a dictatorship. In 2018 25 lakh people had protested on roads out of its 30 lakh odd population. The protestors were protesting over the election fraud conducted by the then PM. 2.50 lakh people were on roads and not a single bullet was fired. It was a huge success. The Velvet revolution led to the establishment of democracy in Armenia. The then opposition leader Nikol Pashniyan under whom this revolution was initiated had been elected as the PM in 2018 and he is the PM currently. You can understand the situation yourself.
Azerbaijan kids are taught to hate Armenians naturally on account of nationalism. This is the propaganda being spread by the Azerbaijan government. Their economy is in turmoil because of low crude oil prices. But people are taught to think about nationalism. According to a 2012 poll 91% Azerbaijan people think that Armenians are their natural enemy and similarly 63% Armenians agree the same. Armenians are described as Bandits, hippocrates in the Azerbaijan books. In 2011, famous Azerbaijani chess player Taimur Radjabov had said that he hates armenians. Such is the scale of hate in between these 2 nations. In 1988 and 1989 3.5 lakh people were affected due to this conflict.
In July a major protest occurred in Azerbaijan and people marched to the parliament of their country and demanded that their president declare war on Armenia. Such is the scale of nationalism. They protested not on account of depreciating economy or dictatorship but to declare war. Such is the propaganda that Azerbaijani people are taught to hate Armenians. Nothing concrete will come out of it. You decide. What should be done?
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Event Report: The added value of EI for business psychologists: the what, the how, the why
Jo Maddocks, JCA Global
Manchester: 21st February 2018
Most methods of assessment take a competencies or functional approach to evaluation, but pay insufficient attention to the softer elements of our construct, argued Jo Maddocks at the February event held at Manchester Metropolitan University. Feelings are not only important but they are an inner dynamic which can affect the more visible and measurable characteristics of performance, engagement and wellbeing in a working environment. Emotional Intelligence (EI) seeks to identify and recognise this dynamic and link it in with traditional methods of assessment and appraisal.
Responding to criticism that EI is difficult to measure and therefore of little value, Jo cited the increasing numbers of companies which have tapped into EI in order to solve dysfunctional behaviour in the workplace. For example, one financial services company was losing money, used EI as a means to help build new teams and force people with negative behaviour into considering their positions, and eventually the organisation had new goals and objectives and became profitable.
Jo admitted that EI is no silver bullet and had to be used in the most appropriate manner with proper guidance, and that everyone had to become involved and work hard to maintain improvement. The goal of EI is to help people and organisations grow, by improving performance, engagement and wellbeing in a sustainable way
EI as a concept is not new. For years, companies have been helping people adapt into apprenticeships, and then into new roles, with an attempt at a mutual understanding of culture and attitudes. What is new is the recognition that the process has to be consistent and ongoing. Where negative aspects are identified there has to be a habit change: people have to be helped to do it for themselves with a view to learn how to be more constructive with others in their approach to work. In short, there needs to be a culture which is inclusive and where people can be themselves. There will inevitably be conflict and issues of commitment to work and productivity, but without this first stage, problems are magnified exponentially.
The question of whether EI exists is a continuous subject of debate. The challenge is to develop tests that can accurately measure a string of EI measures. To add to the complexity practice measures differ from theory Practitioners prefer a mixed approach because it offer the opportunity of predictability.
EI is a new interpretation of Social Intelligence, promoted by Edward Thorndike, widely debated in the 1920s. A key feature of this is that it made use of past experiences to predict the present and the future.
Meta-analytic research into EI indicates that:
1. EI measures can predict job performance
2. Ability EI and Mixed EI are not highly correlated (Joseph and Newman)
3. Mixed EI tends to be a stronger predictor of performance than Ability EI
Mixed EI data is
* Multi Faceted
* Predicts effectiveness
* Measurable, Changeable and Developable
* Contributes to aspects of the whole person
The reason why it has taken so long for EI recognition is that there has been insufficient understanding of how to use the innate human resources. For instance, there is a need to use Imagination. As the Brain is predisposed to survival, there tends to be a focus on bad news and material – simply because it sells. It does not naturally focus on positives and we have to work hard to shift our predispositions.
EI is very much about managing energy in the moment. Whether introvert or extrovert, EI digs deeper than Cognitive Intelligence and helps us to understand why, for example, our ability to think clearly varies from day to day. It focuses more on emotional state, leading us to manage our emotional states making it easier to meet our emotional needs.
Benchmarking of personality is the doorway into a conversation but it does not provide as full a story as emotional intelligence which allows for an explanation about changing traits in different sets of circumstances. Personality is a broader measure but what is missing is the reaction in the present which is driven by emotion.
EI is driven by the Limbic part of the brain, which supports a variety of functions including emotion, behaviour, motivation, long-term memory, and olfaction. For example, when emotional needs are not met, such as when we are not treated fairly, we get angry. The key point about EI is that it is about “Learning to Manage ourselves in the Moment”. We need to learn how to guide our behaviour, which can be underscored by personal attitudes. We need to develop a sense of awareness of our feelings over time: managing our emotions to this extent enables us to better predict out limits and push ourselves further and achieve more.
The JCA Global Emotional Intelligence Framework is neatly illustrated by this table, which throws up the importance of Interpersonal Intelligence:
Personal Intelligence Interpersonal Intelligence
Behaviour Self Management Relationship Management
Feeling Self awareness Awareness of others
Attitude Self regard Regard for others
So, HOW do we develop and apply Emotional Intelligence?
We need to focus on feelings that drive behaviour that lead to outcomes. Competency is about skills and ability but it only touches on behaviour. EI’s focus on feelings. Building on work by Russell, we arrive at a “feelings” grid:
High Arousal
Feelings Stress
Burnout Energise
Renew Positive
Low Arousal
The advantage of this grid is that with such a simple model we can look and analyse whether we are stuck in one area or whether we move around depending on external factors. In other words, we can use it as a model for mapping our EI. Examples abound:
When energised – people perform well as a team
Stress – this can be negative, but when controlled, some people are more decisive when stressed.
Olympian athletes are trained to manage extreme stress and outperform others.
And this is where application of EI has real value: people are in real danger when single sets of feelings become prolonged without significant change. The problem can be exacerbated by negative self attitudes. This can result in permanent stress and can trigger the need for external help. By becoming familiar with the use of EI, organisations can learn to recognise the early subtle signs of extreme stress and behaviour and take remedial steps before it has fully developed.
An individual can have traits which are opposite and extreme. A profile would identify an average, but what is really happening is volatility, often with feelings which are “bottled up” and which can manifest themselves as passive, assertive or aggressive. EI enables these feelings to be measure separately and therefore managed more effectively.
Effective use of EI as a tool requires hard work, dedication and concentration. Unfortunately we have limited capacity to focus and concentrate, so need to create habits. Bizarrely, just simple interactions and initiating simple verbal exchanges can shift attitudes and begin an energising process. The interactions need to become more spontaneous and “In the Moment”. Once attitudes shift, then feelings and behaviour follow and a whole new climate can arise almost Phoenix like.
In summary, we have reviewed the Why, the What and the How of EI. But in conclusion it needs to be transformed into a practical proposition and measurable, which means bolting the concept on to other initiatives. Companies are interested, for example, in resilience and health and wellbeing at work. EI can assist organisations in adopting a measurable approach to action in these areas. EI, with its relentless emphasis on repeating simple actions and processes with no short cuts, can provide the tools and resources to support positive transformational programmes.
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New Mayor’s vision + Poly’s estate + Boutique City development
Penrith is New West
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New Mayor's vision
Penrith’s new Mayor John Thain (pictured right with new Deputy Mayor Tricia Hitchen) says bipartisan solidarity is the key to ensuring Penrith grows in a sustainable and positive manner. “It is more important than ever that Council works strongly together to mark and enhance our destiny as the New West – a strong regional city servicing greater Western Sydney." Cr Thain was elected on 26 September, for a two-year term.
Rail changes everything
Take 3 minutes to tell the Australian and State Government the only option for rail in Western Sydney is a north/south line.
Sydney can no longer be viewed as one city. Sydney is the global city, Parramatta is the central city and the 3rd city is the corridor between the North West and South West Growth Centres. Penrith sits at the heart of that growth belt. We’re building a capital city and a capital city needs passenger rail. Only one option will truly unlock the potential of our region and deliver jobs for the future.
Click to fill out the online submission and choose ‘Option 6’
The latest report card for the Western Sydney Infrastructure Plan has been released, providing a comprehensive overview on the progress of the $3.6 billion package. The report shows that the 10-year plan to improve roads and rail links across the West is way ahead of schedule and 11km of the 61km in new roads being built to cater for the Western Sydney Airport are already underway.
Click to read the report card
Poly unveils Werrington estate
Global property developer Poly this month launched its first house and land estate in Australia – a 67 lot, boutique community known as ‘Grove Place’. The three hectare estate, located at Werrington near Western Sydney University's Penrith campus, promises to deliver on "accessibility, community, connectivity and affordability”. Poly Managing Director Arthur Wang said: "Werrington is well and truly an up and coming suburb, and with nearby town hubs of Penrith and Parramatta... and a raft of transport amenities including Werrington Railway station... it is an attractive option for a range of buyers.” Construction starts early 2017.
Boutique City Centre development
PRD Penrith launched the second phase of sales for 116 Station Street on 28 September. The development is a seven-storey apartment building designed by JS Architects. It contains two levels of basement car parking and 25 apartments. Watch the video or go to the website
Council has received the following development applications:
A seven-storey apartment block at 38 Orth Street, Kingswood, totalling almost $36 million. The application, by Pamada Pty Ltd, proposes 121 apartments, commercial space on the ground floor and three levels of basement car parking.
The construction of a warehouse at Mamre Road, Erskine Park, by Commercial And Industrial Property Pty Ltd, totalling $11.75 million.
WSU's new Music Precinct
Western Sydney University (WSU) officially opened the School of Humanities and Communication Arts Music Precinct on 30 September. The precinct includes private practice rooms, soundtrack rooms and live performance spaces. Dean of Humanities and Communication Arts Professor Peter Hutchings says: “These are the most modern and sophisticated facilities available in any music program in the state, and they also surpass most commercial facilities.” he said.
Penrith's new river festival
A two-day celebration of food, music, art and mindful living will bring the Nepean River to life on 4-5 November. The inaugural Real Festival includes an exciting program of River, Environment, Art and Lifestyle activities and will allow residents and visitors to explore and enjoy Penrith’s river precinct like never before.
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The Correspondence of Erasmus
The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 993 to 1121, Volume 7
Desiderius Erasmus, edited by P.G. Bietenholz and R.A.B. Mynors
A painful time in Erasmus' life is reflected in this volume of letters. As the two volumes immediately previous to this one indicated, Erasmus' first two years in Louvain were agreeable, productive, and carefree. But the spirit of congenial scholarship in which he lived at this time was gradually giving way to bitter conflict and controversy: Louvain was merely a microcosm of Erasmus' entire world, which was undergoing great strain. The exuberant expectancy of a Golden Age of civilized Christianity was yielding to the bleak prospect of helplessly watching the progress of what Erasmus termed the 'Lutherana tragoedia,' a play that he felt would end in catastrophe.
The reader of this volume encounters a troubled Erasmus, who fights back constantly and unhappily against innuendo and open attacks, especially against the accusation that he is in connivance with Luther. His literary production and scholarly research suffer considerably as a result of his preoccupation and the general turmoil. Erasmus' conflicts with two younger theologians in particular. Jacobus Latomus and Edward Lee, loom large in this volume, and his over-reaction to Lee's criticisms shows him to be his own worst enemy.
The volume features several memorable letters by Thomas More that testify to his integrity and clear-sightedness, his capacity for sober self-assessment and restraint combined with charity. It also contains one of Erasmus' most famous letters, Ep 999, which paints a subtle and sparkling pen portrait of More, the man and the Christian.
Volume 7 of the Collected Works of Erasmus series.
PUBLISHED JUN 1987
Peter G. Bietenholz is a professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Saskatchewan.
R.A.B. Mynors is Corpus Christi Professor of Latin, Oxford University.
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James Cameron Wants Game-Like Frame Rates for Film
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1 POSTED: 31 Mar 2011 17:41
The director of Avatar wants movies to abandon the 24 frames per second standard and go up to 60.
Setting the Wabac Machine to the 1920s when talkies - or motion pictures with an audio track - first became popular across America, I found that the standard frame rate of 24 per second was only chosen because it was the cheapest speed to provide adequate sound quality. Now, a decade shy of a century later, the standard still exists even though digital cameras and projectors are in use, often with the audio track coming from a separate medium. James Cameron, who broke standards with his 3D film Avatar, said to a group of his colleagues that it's time to abolish the standard 24 fps to increase a filmmaker's ability to showcase accurate motion and technique in films.
Cameron gave a presentation in Las Vegas for the movie-business convention Cinemacon in which he showed footage at 24 fps compared directly with sequences shot in 48 and 60 fps. He pointed out the strobing and visual artifacts the 24 fps footage revealed and extolled that the higher frame rate would allow "potential to improve showmanship."
The Titanic director pledged that he would fight for this change, and that other directors like Peter Jackson and George Lucas were interested in increasing the frame rate standard. "I'm going to try to be as active as possible - until we figure out what the best answer," Cameron told the attendees. "I hope this opens the door to testing that needs to be done. I'm making the content [shown here] available to anyone who wants to test it."
While most projectors at movie houses around the world are built for the 24 fps standard, Cameron noted that most digital projectors would be able to handle 60 fps without buying new hardware. "The generation two projectors are capable of doing what I show you with a software upgrade," he said.
As a PC gamer, I'm always struggling to get the best frame rate with my games and frequently push 50 to 60 fps. I really notice it when the display drops below 30 fps. To think that movies have been stuck at 24 fps, especially with the digital revolution of cameras and projectors now taking place, is kind of ridiculous.
Detractors might argue that 24 fps looks just fine, and what a director does with it his or her responsibility. I didn't see Cameron's presentation, but I imagine that the difference between the 24 fps and 60 fps was a little like the jump from standard TVs to HD. I didn't think the picture was bad on my old standard TV until I saw what a fancy high definition TV looked like. Now, I can't imagine going back.
Say what you want about Cameron's movies, but the man has a point.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
Wolfram23
Definitely has a point. He can count my vote for a higher standard!
Lots of people may consider movies a superior art medium to video games, but I always find it hilarious how movies are doing everything they can to try and crawl out from the shadow of games.
Though I'd love to see what a movie would look like with 60 frames-per-second. It might even make 3D more bearable to look at.
Snowalker
I think this is the best idea he's ever had... and its not even his idea.
Dr. Whiggs
Maybe instead we could try for better writing instead of a higher frame-rate?
Nah, that's silly.
Galliam
He's James Cameron, if he makes another "avatar" at 60fps, the world will follow, even if it IS reluctantly. Stop trying to sell it and just do it.
Somebloke
Would hate to be a rotoscoper in the future, though. ;)
josemlopes
Here, look at this:
Now the comparision in a video game
Chamale
I think this'll be like the move to colour film. It'll look better, but for many years there will still be movies made at 24 FPS. 30 years after movies change to 60 FPS, there'll be some independents making 24 FPS movies, and a few will be amazing. But the era of 24 FPS from major studios will be over.
Or maybe it'll be like 3D. Everyone calls it the next big thing, but it's just too expensive to film and not worthwhile. I'm not a psychic.
10 POSTED: 31 Mar 2011 17:55
Stammer:
I believe most Soap Operas are now shot at a higher framerate. If you need an accessible example.
Kenjitsuka
Good initiative!
I hope he gets it done!
Wicky_42
3D certainly needs higher frame rates - anything approaching a quick pan or movement strobes something terrible, even in made-for-3D films like Tron. I don't think TV needs to worry any time soon, but maybe even 2D feature films might be able to benefit from the higher quality.
BlindChance
Isn't digital projection's overall resolution and image quality way, way below celluloid's, though? I'm more than happy to be told I'm wrong here, but I understood that to still be true.
I still cannot work out why Maxivision 48 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxivision) was never seriously considered despite serious hype from Roger Ebert. The idea of it is amazing: All the picture quality of celluloid, plus twice the frame rate.
Fronzel
You can trust people like Cameron and Lucas to push for better filmmaking technology...which about all they're good for.
One problem is that people have actually become to used to the inferior framerate that they think a superior one looks "fake", which is just a misinterpretation of their unfamiliarity with it. This is why CG animation (including in games) often simulates lens flare which in reality is only caused by weaknesses in the lens' design; people expect it.
Scrumpmonkey
Panning especially can be very noticebale in a Bluray movie at 24FPS. Personally i think because of 100x better motion blur and other factors films have over games that 40FPS is probably where even the sharpest of eyes will never be able to see the difference.
icyneesan
While I've never noticed the huge different between 60 and 24 fps before, I'm starting to notice it now when I play console games for awhile then suddenly switch over to PC games. Anyways, if it doesn't cost anything for movie theaters to upgrade hardware and movie studios can do it, why dont they.
Cameron is just looking for some new type of revolutionary technology to carry his next film so he doesn't have to worry about having any actual merit to his film beyond the camera used.
Soylent Bacon_delete
Meh. It's not really that important. Wouldn't hurt if it isn't more expensive, but if it is expensive, it's a waste of money. If I were to see a 60 FPS movie without knowing beforehand, I would notice for a few seconds that everything seems smoother, then forget about it quickly and watch the movie like before, like if I make such a change in a video game. If 60 FPS movies are introduced in theaters, it will only result in a lot of spoiled people badmouthing any 24 FPS movie, even though they never noticed or cared before.
Sir Subtle
This idea has been kicked around for awhile and I'm glad finally someone prolific like Cameron's pushing for it. I don't think much of his movies or 3D but this is definitely something I can get behind.
fix-the-spade
Jim clearly hasn't thought about the budget implications of doing this.
Full frame by frame CGi and rotoscoping now is hideously expensive, doing the same thing for 60fps instead of 24 is a slightly terrifying prospect. I can't see budgets expanding at a geometric rate to match the increase in labour time.
That's all well and good until you try to pack too many actors into a scene and watch the movie start chugging around 12 FPS.
Piflik
Well...the human eye can see about 13 distinct frames per second...the 24 fps standard was really only chosen for audio...if it was video only, they would have used a lower fps...going higher wouldn't really change anything...
It is different for video- and computergames, since the fps are not only the images themselves being shown, but also being rendered in realtime and the player input results in jerky movement, when the computation speed goes down...it's not the fps that make movements look jerky on a low spec machine...
Tipsy Giant
Dr. Whiggs:
Better writing? More likely to get an Original Idea
BENZOOKA
Brilliant. Frame rate is the single most "this steam engine is the best thing that mankind will ever come up, so let's get used to it" -kind of aspect in these areas. 23,974 frames per second has been very old news for a long long long time... And the difference is astounding. I've been foaming about this for years.
gostlyfantom
james cameron is so fucking awesome
GeorgW
Wait, they have 24?? WHY???
Upgrade already, this is ridiculous!!
Xzi
Scars Unseen:
Lol. I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but a camera doesn't have to to do the job of rendering actors. For that reason, there wouldn't be a drop in frames recorded per second regardless of how much action there is on-screen. This might become an issue only when dealing with CGI. Which is also where the low FPS count is probably most noticeable.
bob1052:
FACT MAN is factual!
deckai
And that's why like James Cameron, he always tries to push the Industry forward. And for this, he earned my respect.
Not to forget that he creates fantastic movies...
Mushroom 118i
I am actually starting to get annoyed with not being able to see parts of the film due to too much image blur caused by not enough frames. Action movies could really benefit.
PunkRex
That could push costs up and say what you want about pushing the medium forward, more spending is the LAST thing Hollywood wants right now.
Tipsy Giant:
I HEAR DAT!
That's all well and good if you're shooting digital (which more and more people are everyday) but for those that stay true to film, 24fps is the way to go.
Although the visual effects guys of the future may rue the decision to go to 60fps.
Anyway, James Cameron is not Movie Jesus. The producers may love him, but I'll wait for the cinematographers and directors of photography to sway to 60fps before I agree to it.
Also, 24fps has such a nice aesthetic to it when you're watching it in theatres. I hope that never goes away.
CrystalShadow
Fronzel:
I've seen lensflare with the naked eye too. That doesn't take away from the fact that it's literally caused by the quality of the lens in an optical system, but it does demonstrate that the lens in the human eye isn't perfect either.
(Or at least, the lenses in my eyes definitely aren't. Although the nature of the lens-flares I see are quite different to those you'd get on photos or film, which is what games tend to be copying.)
C95J
when I looked at the comparison videos, to be honest I didn't really notice the change. I saw it change marginally, but not enough to be a problem for me. 24FPS is fine for me.
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B.C. Election update for Oct. 1: Get the latest news from the campaign
This is your daily campaign trail update with everything you need for Oct. 1, 2020.
Tiffany Crawford, Stephanie Ip, Lynn Mitges
This is your daily campaign trail update with everything you need for Oct. 1, 2020. Photo by File photos
The B.C. provincial election will be held Oct. 24.
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This page will be updated throughout the day, with developments added as they happen.
WHERE THE LEADERS ARE TODAY
Sonia Furstenau, Green: The Green leader will start her day in Victoria and then head to Beacon Park in Sidney to make an announcement at 12:30 p.m. with Adam Olsen. In the afternoon, she will be in Cowichan for remote meetings and interviews.
Andrew Wilkinson, Liberal:The Liberal leader is in Vancouver Thursday morning at the Sheraton Wall Centre, where he will make an announcement about community safety. He will be joined by BC Liberal candidates Jas Johal for Richmond-Queensborough, George Affleck for Vancouver-Fairview, and Cheryl Ashlie for Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows.
John Horgan, NDP: The NDP leader will make an announcement about the environment on Friday morning in Squamish. He will be joined by Vancouver-Fairview candidate George Heyman.
TWEETS FROM THE TRAIL
"We need to end these lawless tent cities," says @Wilkinson4BC today. But sounds like we'll have to wait for platform doc for concrete plans about where he will find housing for all these people. #BCvotes2020 @bcliberals pic.twitter.com/WaJtqiA0Ur
— loriculbert (@loriculbert) October 1, 2020
.@Wilkinson4BC is holding a press conference to talk about important topic of #affordablehousing & #homelessness but he's being dogged by questions about some of his candidates positions on #LGBTQ. #BCvotes2020
.@bcndp leading @bcliberals by a significant margin, early elxn Leger poll finds (with all usual caveats about polling, BC Conse numbers being totally unrealistic, etc)
47% NDP, 31% Liberal, 12% Green, 9% BC Conservative.https://t.co/hJPTPsmCp2
Full poll: https://t.co/AwxUgdCUco
— Rob Shaw (@RobShaw_BC) October 1, 2020
BCLiberals say in statement a supporter with no formal role in Thind’s campaign provided incorrect instructions on requesting mail-in ballots and HQ has sent a note to all volunteers about the proper process.
— Rob Shaw (@RobShaw_BC) September 30, 2020
No disrespect intended to Nicole Duncan, the Green candidate for Oak Bay-Gordon Head, but she appears to have a very low public/political profile.
That’s in a riding that elected the Green leader in 2013/17.
And she’s contending w/ name recognition of the NDP’s Murray Rankin. https://t.co/vzUDi95iJX
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CAMPAIGN TRAIL NEWS
5:30 p.m. – Greens pledge shift away from government funding of for-profit seniors homes
Green Leader Sonia Furstenau is calling for an end to taxpayer funding of for-profit senior care.
Of the province’s 293 long-term care homes, 100 are operated by for-profit companies and account for nearly 9,300 of the more than 27,000 beds in the province.
Furstenau, in announcing the first element of her party’s election platform on Thursday, said the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to light the flawed state of care at seniors care homes.
Pointing to an 2018 report by the province’s seniors advocate, Furstenau said the same level of public funding delivers fewer care hours and delivers more profits in for-profit care homes compared to non-profit facilities.
She says for-profit care homes could be replaced by a mix of existing government care homes and not-for-profit care homes, and new community and co-op care homes.
“We can and must do better,” said Furstenau, who was one of three Green candidates to win a seat in the last election.
2 p.m. – B.C. Liberals promise to restrict tent cities, but offer no details
VICTORIA — B.C. Liberal Leader Andrew Wilkinson said if elected he will remove and restrict tent cities, like in Vancouver’s Strathcona Park, though exactly how he intends to do so remains unclear.
Wilkinson said Thursday it is unacceptable for people and businesses around tent cities to feel threatened and unsafe, as they deal with crime and open drug-use concerns related to the homeless population that lives there.
“The current situation is testing the limits of community tolerance,” he said at a press conference in Vancouver. “This is not acceptable. We can do better we must do better.”
However, he stopped short of a detailed plan. Instead, he said a Liberal government would use legislation, policy, funding, co-operation with local mayors and boosted resources for police and the courts to attempt to eliminate the tent city encampments.
9 a.m. – NDP Leader John Horgan pledges to expand access grants for post-secondary students
Premier John Horgan has pledged to expand B.C. access grants if re-elected and add 2,000 more spaces for technology programs.
Horgan made the announcement at Langara Park in Vancouver on Thursday morning, along with Vancouver candidates Tesicca Truong and Brenda Bailey.
Horgan says he will ensure more middle-class and low income students have access to as much as $4,000 a year to help them pay the cost of tuition, textbooks, and supplies.
B.C. access grants offer non-repayable financial assistance to enrolled students with lower incomes. The amount of money is based on a family’s income and size, but a student could receive up to $4,000 per eight months of the school year for students in undergraduate programs that are less than two years, and up to $1,000 for those in programs over two years.
“While Andrew Wilkinson wants to hand multi-millionaires a tax break on yachts, our focus is on making life more affordable for the people who need it most,” said Horgan, in a statement.
7 a.m. – Chilliwack groups send letter asking Andrew Wilkinson to remove Laurie Throness as a candidate
Several Chilliwack and Tri-Cities organizations have written a joint letter to Liberal Leader Andrew Wilkinson calling for the removal of Chilliwack-Kent candidate Laurie Throness over views on conversion therapy, a controversial practice that aims to convert LGBTQ+ members that the federal government is moving to ban.
Wilkinson has stated several times during the campaign that “there is no room in the Liberal Party for homophobia, transphobia, or any other form of discrimination.” The latest comments came two days ago when the Liberal leaderdefended Maragret Kunst, a candidate in Langley who voted against a rainbow crosswalk.
The groups include the Board of Chilliwack Pride Society Chilliwack, Tri-Cities Pride Society, the Board of Chilliwack Citizens For Change Chilliwack, the Chilliwack Métis Association, and Creating Accessible Neighbourhoods.
“We have come together to write to you to express our disappointment with the space you continue to provide for homophobia and transphobia in your party,” the groups write, in the letter.
A spokesperson for the B.C. Liberal Party said early Thursday that Wilkinson was aware of the letter and that the party would provide a response shortly. Postmedia has also reached out to Throness for comment.
12 a.m. – B.C. NDP leads Liberals by significant margin, early election poll finds
If the provincial election had been held in the days after John Horgan called for a vote, the B.C. NDP would have captured nearly half the popular vote, according to a poll released this morning.
Conducted by Leger, the poll found 47 per cent of election-eligible adults surveyed would vote for the NDP, followed by the Liberals at 31 per cent of decided voters.
As well, half of respondents (49 per cent) opposed the election being called at this time, and even a third (32 per cent) of those who said they would vote NDP were opposed to an election during a pandemic.
Yet, the overall approval for the NDP is a significant improvement for the party and a deterioration for the Liberals compared with the 2017 results, where both parties captured just over 40 per cent of the vote, the poll noted.
12 a.m. – NDP betting Liberals are out of touch on housing, taxes
The B.C. New Democrats are betting that a Liberal promise to scrap the popular Speculation and Vacancy Tax on empty homes will backfire.
A Facebook ad touting the benefits of the tax placed by the NDP over the weekend drew more than 2,500 likes and 1,600-plus comments. Nearly 4,000 people have signed the attached petition, which requires you to supply the party with your email address and phone number.
The tax targets foreign owners of homes in B.C. and Canadians who leave their second homes empty. It may be one of the most popular taxes in history, with 68 to 88 per cent support in polls over the past two years.
“It’s easy to like a tax you don’t have to pay,” said UBC political scientist Richard Johnston. “Most of the people who pay it probably won’t even vote here.”
Vacant homes are subject to a two-per-cent annual tax on the value of the property. The tax has raised about $115 million for affordable housing, according to the government.
12 a.m. – NDP promises to boost wages of long term care workers
Long-term care workers in B.C. will likely keep their wage top-ups and remain assigned to work in only one seniors’ home at a time, after an election promise by NDP Leader John Horgan on Wednesday appeared to garner support from political opponents, workers and private care-home operators.
Horgan said he would make permanent a recommendation from provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry that long-term care aides work only at one facility, to prevent against the spread of COVID-19 within a vulnerable elderly population.
Before the pandemic, full- and part-time workers could pick up shifts at multiple care homes, which paid differing salaries. If re-elected, Horgan said he would continue to spend more than $10 million a month to “level-up” the wages and benefits of long-term care workers, so that they would earn a standard income no matter where they worked.
12 a.m. –REALITY CHECK: Has the NDP’s speculation tax worked?
During the election campaign, Postmedia will fact-check the promises made by politicians. If you read something you think should be checked out, please email Lori Culbert at lculbert@postmedia.com or tweet her @loriculbert. Read our fact checks here.
WHAT THE LEADERS ARE SAYING:
Andrew Wilkinson, Liberal: “I’m very skeptical of NDP visions because they usually turn out to be mirages.”
Sonia Furstenau, Green: “I voted for the speculation tax and I stand by that decision. Housing and the cost of living is still the No. 1 issue for British Columbians. The tax has proved to be an effective tool on this issue, but we need to do more to improve affordability.”
John Horgan, NDP: “The pandemic exposed the true cost of BC Liberal neglect to seniors care. Our new plan takes bold actions to keep fixing problems in long-term care, and provide seniors with better safer care.”
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Another fabulous day on the Lower Mainland. It was such a pleasure to introduce @jervaleriote as the @greenpartybc candidate for West Vancouver Sea to Sky. An engineer, a former municipal councillor, and a father who lives with his young family in Whistler, Jeremy brings a mixture of expertise, life experience, and commitment to his community that is essential in a representative in the legislature. It was a delight to do lengthy interviews with Jen St. Denis, Jocelyn Wang, and Andrew Johns over the course of the day. #bcpoli #bcpolitics #press #bcelection #bcelection2020 #bcelxn2020 #britishcolumbia #bcgreens #beautifulbritishcolumbia #westvancouver #westvancouverseatosky #seatosky #lowermainland
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Today I announced our long-term care plan with care workers and my Surrey @bcndp team. Later in the day, I spoke with UBC students to talk about residential schools & reconciliation. To everyone I spent the day with — thank you for your time and stories. #BCelxn2020 pic.twitter.com/ixM18OmQRM
— John Horgan (@jjhorgan) October 1, 2020
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ProjectLine Rises to Number 280 on the 2017 PROFIT 500 Ranking
Sep 15, 2017 | Technology
Second Year in a Row, SAP Business One Implementation Partner Recognized as One of Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies by PROFIT and Canadian Business
SASKATOON, SK, September 15, 2017 /24-7PressRelease/ — Canadian Business and PROFIT ranked ProjectLine Solutions number 280 on the 29th annual PROFIT 500, the definitive ranking of Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies. Published in the October issue of Maclean’s and at CanadianBusiness.com, the PROFIT 500 ranks Canadian businesses by their five-year revenue growth.
ProjectLine made the 2017 PROFIT 500 list with five-year revenue growth of 214%.
“It is never easy to earn a spot on the PROFIT 500, but this year’s applicant pool was the most competitive yet,” says Deborah Aarts, PROFIT 500 program manager. “This year’s winners demonstrate the resilience, innovation and sheer management smarts it takes to build a thriving business today. Canada–and the world–needs more entrepreneurial success stories like these.”
“We’re thrilled to be on the PROFIT 500 ranking for the second year in a row,” says ProjectLine Vice President, Derin Hildebrandt. “We have worked hard over the past five years to achieve continued growth. Our rise on the list is a testament to the strength of the products and services we provide, the dedication of our team, and the continued loyalty of the customers we serve.”
About the PROFIT 500
For 29 years, the PROFIT 500 has been Canada’s most respectable and influential ranking of entrepreneurial achievement. Developed by PROFIT and now published in Maclean’s magazine and at CanadianBusiness.com, the PROFIT 500 ranks Canadian companies on five-year revenue growth. For more information on the ranking visit PROFIT500.com or CanadianBusiness.com.
About Canadian Business
Founded in 1928, Canadian Business is the longest-serving and most-trusted business publication in the country. It is the country’s premier media brand for executives and senior business leaders. It fuels the success of Canada’s business elite with a focus on the things that matter most: leadership, innovation, business strategy and management tactics. Learn more at CanadianBusiness.com.
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Marianne Williamson Has Some Interesting Positions on Health
Ashley Reese
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Marianne Williamson was the ultimate meme fodder after night two of the Democratic debates, her new age-y ethos and theatrical speaking voice standing out in the sea of suits on the stage. The self-help author, spiritual leader, and activist was the top-searched 2020 candidate of the night, but it’s unclear whether the interest was because her opposition to endless war was inspiring or because everyone just wanted to know what all the healing crystals tweets were about.
Williamson is by far the most unconventional contender in the race for the White House. She most definitely owns a book about fluoride. But some of her politics are actually a refreshing addition to the election cycle: She’s a strong advocate for reducing child poverty in America, reducing our military presence abroad, and allocating reparations for descendants of slaves.
Here’s what she said during a CNN town hall in April:
You know, we don’t adequately fight — we don’t adequately fight climate change because of profits for fossil fuel companies. We don’t have universal health care because of short-term profits for health insurance companies and big pharma. We don’t have wage peace as much as we wage war because of short-term profits for defense contractors. And we don’t have commonsense gun safety legislation because, God forbid, it should cut into the short-term profits of gun manufacturers. That is immoral.
These are the types of positions those on the left can get behind. But once you delve into Williamson’s stances on science, medicine, and health, the glow of an eccentric but harmless woman who you might do an angel card reading with starts to dim.
Here’s a roundup of some of Williamson’s more controversial beliefs in the realm of health and science:
On vaccines:
Williamson recently courted controversy after a campaign event where she compared mandatory vaccines to the struggle for bodily autonomy in the abortion fight. She said, “The U.S. government doesn’t tell any citizen, in my book, what they have to do with their body or their child.”
She attempted to backtrack on Twitter:
When asked to explain her vaccine skeptic stance on The View, Williamson insisted that she’s not against mandatory vaccines, but her disdain for Big Pharma clouds whatever trust she may have toward vaccinations:
[America has a] revolving door policy by which big pharma, the CDC, and the FDA are so cozy so that millions of Americans who are not anti-science and are not anti-vaccine have some deep concern. The days of blind faith in big pharma are over. The days of blind faith in the idea that our government agencies do the proper oversight, the proper advocacy for the American people against at times the overreach of profit-making industries that are putting money before people... that is not an irrational or unreasonable thing. [...]
She later added the following affirmation:
If I were president of the United States—when I’m president of the United States—there would be a commission of scientists learning so that the American people see what’s going on with these vaccines who are not paid by big pharma.
For the record, this scientific consensus already exists.
On weight loss:
In her profile of Williamson, my colleague Esther Wang noted that Williamson’s 2012 book A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever recommends “putting your face ‘atop a picture of a beautiful body’ and then displaying those photos ‘in various places around your home.’” This advice reeks of thinspo, but it’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Williamson’s questionable approaches to weight loss and body image.
A Course in Weight Loss also repeatedly frames eating as a “compulsion” and is littered with principles such as “The cause of your excess weight is in your mind” and “The cause of your excess weight is fear, which is a place in your mind where love is blocked.” The solution? Replacing fear with “an inestimable love” and “surrendering your weight to God.”
Williamson also wrote:
Tragically, however, those who have lost the most are often those who have gained the most back. What has happened is that they’ve been stymied by something their conscious minds could not control: the power of a compulsion that is headquartered not in the conscious but the subconscious mind.
Science journalist Erin Biba offered her own swift takedown of the “fat shaming” that Williamson’s book espouses. In a Twitter thread, Biba claimed that Williamson believes overweight people “lack spiritual intelligence.” Williamson replied, “I never, ever said or wrote such a thing.”
In return, Biba shared a screenshot from A Course in Weight Loss that more or less asserts that “spiritual intelligence” will help the body gain “natural intelligence.”
Screenshot: Twitter/@ErinBiba
Assuming natural intelligence is a body that is better able to shed fat, Biba’s observation conclusion isn’t unfounded.
And for good measure:
On Mental Illness:
Williamson believes depression treatment is too reliant on medication. While Americans have plenty of reasons to sow distrust in greedy pharmaceutical companies, in 2018 Tweets Williamson claimed that depression wasn’t stigmatized until Big Pharma doled out medications to curb it:
This sentiment was echoed in 2018 when Williamson was a guest on Russell Brand’s podcast “Under the Sun.” She insisted that there is “an art to navigating depression.”
Several replies took issue with Williamson’s characterization of depression, but Williamson stood her ground, asserting the benefits of meditation for balancing off-kilter brain chemistry.
She also promotes her book Tears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment with an array of earnest but feeble motivational phrasing.
And don’t get her started on ADHD:
On... radiation:
Basically, Williamson would have stopped Chernobyl.
Despite an otherwise progressive policy platform, it’s hard to ignore the suspicion that Williamson is just a skip and a hop away from a 14-part tweet thread about chemtrails.
Staff writer, mint chocolate hater.
VodkaRocks&aPieceofToast
Ummmm WHAT?!
Depression has always been stigmatized, there was just a time that we didnt have a name for it. We still sent people to asylums and sanatoriums for it though. GTFO with this noise Marianne.
Also depression isn’t just being SAD.
Look I agree there should be evaluation done by mental health professionals for mental health RX’s but that shit isnt always an option for some people. And that isn’t on the FDA!
God i hate everything this woman says
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AT&T TV NOW has 40 channels as part of their service, including sports channels like ACC Network, ACC Network Extra, Big Ten Network, CBS Sports Network, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNEWS, ESPNU, Fox Sports 1, Fox Sports 2, Golf Channel, Longhorn Network, NBC Sports Network, Olympic Channel, SEC Network, TBS, Tennis Channel y TNT.
Every AT&T TV NOW subscriber can record up to 500 hours on their Cloud DVR, while up to 3 subscribers can stream at the same time.
AT&T TV NOW supports a wide-range of devices to stream Tennessee Titans games including Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Google Chromecast, Roku, Web Browsers, iPhone/iPad, Android Phone/Tablet, Samsung Smart TV, and Android TV. AT&T TV NOW is not available to stream on PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo, VIZIO Smart TV, and LG Smart TV.
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Can I watch the Tennessee Titans with AT&T TV?
Yes, you can watch Tennessee Titans games on ESPN, CBS, Fox y NBC as part of their Entertainment package for $69,99 a month. AT&T TV has replaced AT&T TV NOW, which is no longer available to new subscribers.
AT&T TV has 65 channels as part of their service, including sports channels like ACC Network, Big Ten Network, CBS Sports Network, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNEWS, ESPNU, Fox Sports 1, Fox Sports 2, Golf Channel, MLB Network, NBA TV, NBC Sports Network, NHL Network, Olympic Channel, SEC Network, TBS, Tennis Channel y TNT.
Every AT&T TV subscriber can record up to 20 hours on their Cloud DVR, while up to 3 subscribers can stream at the same time. You can upgrade to a 500 hours hour Cloud DVR for $10 a month.
AT&T TV supports a wide-range of devices to stream Tennessee Titans games including Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Google Chromecast, Roku, Web Browsers, iPhone/iPad, Android Phone/Tablet, Samsung Smart TV, and Android TV. AT&T TV is not available to stream on PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo, VIZIO Smart TV, and LG Smart TV.
Can I watch the Tennessee Titans with Sling TV?
Yes, you can watch Tennessee Titans games on ESPN y NFL Network as part of their Sling Orange + Blue package for $45 a month.
You can also add NFL RedZone as part of the Sports Extra ($15) add-on (or $10 if you only subscribe to Sling Orange/Blue).
Sling Orange + Blue has 45 channels as part of their service, including NFL Network, ESPN, ESPN2, Fox Sports 1, NBC Sports Network, TBS y TNT.
Sling TV supports a wide-range of devices to stream Tennessee Titans games including Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Google Chromecast, Roku, iPhone/iPad, Web Browsers, Android Phone/Tablet, Android TV, Xbox, Samsung Smart TV, LG Smart TV, and VIZIO Smart TV. Sling TV is not available to stream on PlayStation and Nintendo.
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The 2015 Homeless Count in Hillsborough County was conducted on Thursday, February 26, 2015, between the hours of 5:30 a.m. and 9 p.m.
More than 350 volunteers canvassed the streets, alleys, wooded areas and places where homeless people are known to gather for meals, services and housings. Data was also obtained from the UNITY Information Network, our CoC’s HMIS system, for persons residing in emergency shelters, safe havens and transitional housing for homeless persons.
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Below are some key data points from the 2015 PIT Homeless Count. Please note that all increase/decrease references are for changes between the 2014 and 2015 data.
Click here to go to the Complete List of 2015 PIT Homeless Count Data Charts/Reports.
Total Overall Homelessness
The number of homeless people decreased by 0.7% between 2014 and 2015 with 1,931 literally homeless men, women and children were counted during the 2015 count compared to the 1,944* counted in 2014
31% decrease in overall street (unsheltered) homeless population
38% increase in the sheltered homeless population**
Overall Homeless Individuals (households without children)
71% of people experiencing homelessness are individuals (households without children)
5.5% decrease in the number of homeless individuals
21% increase in the number of sheltered homeless individuals and a 22% decrease in the number of unsheltered homeless individuals**
Overall Homeless Families (households with at least one adult and one child)
29% of people experiencing homelessness were part of households with at least 1 adult and one child (169 households with 568 people).
89% of homeless people in families were sheltered
68% increase in the number of sheltered homeless families; 69% decrease in the number of unsheltered homeless families**
16% of the homeless population are Veterans
33% increase in number of Veterans experiencing homelessness; 313 compared to 236 in 2014
Chronically Homeless (individuals and families)***
23% decrease in the overall chronically homeless population
227% increase in the sheltered chronic homeless population**
43% decrease in the unsheltered chronic homeless population**
220% increase in sheltered chronically homeless individuals**
85% decrease among chronically homeless families (households with at least 1 dependent child)
Chronically homeless people (individuals and in families) represent 16% percent of the total homeless population
Unaccompanied youth, aged 16 to 24
50 percent decrease from 143 in 2014 to 99 in 2015
38 parenting youth households were counted representing 94 people (parenting youth was not a category required to report in 2014)
No unaccompanied youth or parenting youth under 18 was counted in 2015
2015 Homeless Count Data Reports/Tables
Unless otherwise noted, the data reports are generated from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Homelessness Data Exchange (HDX). The HDX is an on-line tool designed to allow homeless continuums of care to submit required data to HUD.
2015 – Point in Time Count – FL-501 Tampa Hillsborough County CoC
2015 – PIT – Summary – Veterans population
2015 – PIT – Summary – Subpopulations
2015 – PIT – Summary – Youth population
2013 to 2015 PIT Data Comparison (utilizing HDX submitted data for each of the PIT Count years)
2015 Florida DCF PIT Report – Tampa-Hillsborough
*The number of homeless persons previously reported for 2014 was 2,243 and included persons incarcerated in County Jail on the day of the count that would have met HUD’s criteria for homelessness (literally homeless prior to incarceration and incarcerated for 90 days or less) if they were released that day.
While this information is beneficial for some community planning purposes, the ‘jail’ number cannot be included in reporting to HUD. To ensure consistency with the federal and state reporting criteria, THHI will utilized only the data that is reportable to HUD. Based on this, the number of homeless persons counted during the 2014 count was 1,944.
** The increase in the number of shelter persons and decrease in the number of unsheltered person is a direct correlation to an increase in emergency shelter and bridge housing units during the period between the 2014 and 2015 homeless counts.)
***For the purposes of the Point in Time Homeless Count, HUD defines chronically homeless individuals and families as follows (HUD’s HIC/PIT Data Collection Notice, November 2013, page 27):
Chronically Homeless Individual – an individual who:
A. Is homeless and lives in a place not meant for human habitation, a safe haven or in an emergency shelter; AND
B. Has been homeless and living or residing in a place not meant for human habitation, a safe haven or in an emergency shelter continuously for at least 1 year or on at least four separate occasions in the last three years; AND
C. Can be diagnosed with one or more of the following conditions: substance abuse disorder, serious mental illness, development disability, post-traumatic stress disorder, cognitive impairments resulting from brain injury, or chronic physical illness or disability (that is expected to be long-continuing or indefinite duration)
Chronically Homeless Family – a family with an adult head of household (or if there is not adult in the family, a minor head of household) who meets all of the criteria for a chronically homeless individual, including a family whose composition has fluctuated while the head of household has been homeless.
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Why Mass Effect Andromeda Is Going To Be A Great Start To A New Trilogy
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Mass Effect Andromeda is about to release in March yet its almost mysterious as to what is to be expected from the blockbuster title. With more questions surrounding the title than answers, this sets up the start for a great new trilogy. One aspect in Andromeda that makes it a great start to a new trilogy is its setting in a new galaxy. This allows the player to disregard any decision made in Mass Effect 3. It gives all players more freedom to begin from scratch, to build up a new storyline, and allows for potential to build even more on the series for future follow up titles.
The series is also beginning fresh with a new protagonist, Ryder, instead of continuing with Captain Shepard. As Ryder, you begin from the bottom and work your up, from colonist to intergalactic savior. This is different from the previous mass effect story line in that Captain Shepard was already well established as a hero. It also takes place in entirely different galaxy, hundreds of years after the events of Mass Effect 3.
The gameplay characteristics are also a fresh start from the previous games. Players will no longer pick an assigned class for their character. Instead, the player is given the freedom to build the character to their liking, assigning skills as they wish. This newfound freedom in the game is definitely a fresh take from the previous titles.
This enables you to get the best of both worlds; you can build a character with the combination of skill sets from both Soldier and Engineer, or Infiltrator and Sentinel. The possibilities are endless. The struggle of committing to a class and spending the first 45 minutes trying to decide is over.
Little is about the details of Andromeda’s multiplayer. The cool thing about Andromeda is that its multiplayer and single-player are designed to line up together through a “Strike-Team” system that was used in previous titles. While playing through single player campaign, the player can also access the multiplayer. Unlike previous Mass Effects, players will not have to back out and go to a multiplayer screen.
The narratives of both the single and multiplayer are designed to coincide with each other create an almost seamless experience by taking place on an in game planet called Helios. Though it is not necessary for players to play the multiplayer to experience the story line. Players can still experience multiplayer story line that connects to single player campaign without setting foot in multiplayer. Not many games attempt to line up their multiplayer with their campaign. This is a very interesting approach to its multiplayer that seems promising.
Also, the title itself suggests that it may be the beginning of a trilogy. Instead of it being named Mass Effect 4, its called Andromeda. It’s discontinuing the previous story line from the last three games, leaving room for development of more titles if the writers wanted to. I know I know there is denial of Andromeda being a trilogy to begin with. But until we all play the game how do we know it’s for certain?
Remember Bungie said Halo 3 was the last Halo game? We played it, saw the ending. Definitely wasn’t the last game. Master Chief in cryo-sleep on a ship left a cliffhanger for us to nibble on and look at how many Halo titles have been churned out since. Yeah I know Bungie handed the series over to 343 Industries but still. The fact is we don’t know for sure if the possibility of a trilogy can be ruled out until we all play the game to the end for ourselves.
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Developing an effective B2B content marketing strategy
Developing an effective B2B content marketing strategy requires an informed and coordi-nated approach. B2B companies should recognize how they differ from their B2C counterparts, align content investments with objectives at each point in the sales cycle, and invest in the capabilities to execute campaigns effectively.
And insights from subject matter experts (SMEs) can be a differentiator— particularly as B2B companies try to move from providing discrete services to being seen as a strategic partner.
When done well, content marketing can accomplish several objectives simultaneously
B2B content marketing must demonstrate how these products and solutions, as well as the companies providing them, can deliver tangible value. In the B2B sales cycle, evidence, analysis, and trusted relationships take priority over pithy catchphrases or cute commercials. Content marketing enables companies to showcase their indus- try knowledge and insight on the common issues that their customers face. The best content provides new perspectives and analyses, sometimes based on proprietary research and surveys. And it also offers recommendations on how best to manage these issues.
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sales efforts and business development
the profile of its experts
a company's brand
Why content marketing is essential to B2B companies
Unique insights, proprietary research, and material from client engagements that are distributed to a defined audience through content marketing. The tone is objective rather than overtly promotional.
The creation and distribution of content to current and prospective customers with the goals of business development, customer retention, and reputation building. Content marketing comprises various strategies and tactics, from thought leadership to paid brand content.
Before we go on, there’s an important distinction to make between content marketing and thought leadership—and how the two are related.
B2B content marketing: 2016 benchmarks, budgets, and trends—North America, Content Marketing Institute.
Since longer content pieces ask prospective customers to commit a significant amount of time, B2B companies should consider repurposing material into shorter, bite-size content (one-pagers, infographics, and chart-based articles) that provide multiple paths to the lengthier text.
In-person events are high touch but also labor intensive. Webinars, case studies, and white papers can have a long shelf life but often require considerable time and effort to produce. Videos are easily consumed and shared but typically require external vendors to handle production.
Each of these content types has different attributes:
Top five most effective content marketing tactics*
A B2B company’s prospective customers are typically seeking answers and information to specific questions. These issues—and their solutions—are often complex and differ by industry. It’s little wonder, then, that the top B2B marketing tactics all offer the opportunity to go into some detail.
Choosing the right content formats
LinkedIn, for example, may have been created as a networking tool for professionals, but it has become an effective channel for sharing content with like-minded audiences. By contrast, B2B companies that direct a lot of resources to Facebook or Instagram, for example, will typically find that these efforts miss the mark. The reason: people, executives included, go to these channels for social purposes, rather than to conduct business. Their massive numbers of registered users may tempt marketers to rationalize activities as playing the percentages, but B2B content marketing is better suited to other channels.
Businesspeople are deluged with information at every turn, so knowing where they consume content, then, is critical when determining how best to distribute and promote your insights. Instead of lumping all social media channels together, companies must consider the audience and intentions of each to determine which ones would be an effective platform.
Know your distribution channels
Determine the mix of formats and distribution channels
Manage teams and contributors
Create a production framework
Develop the content platform
The following four steps are foundational elements to build an effective B2B content marketing campaign
The growing demand for content puts pressure on B2B companies to publish regularly. But without strategic planning and development, the flurry of activity can amount to wasted effort. Effective content marketing for B2B companies is not solely about regular distribution; it’s about quality content that demonstrates deep knowledge, fresh ideas, and valuable insights.
Measuring the effectiveness of content marketing can be challenging; many B2B companies struggle to connect content with business value. The best way to understand whether content is effective, however, is to establish goals and performance indicators at the outset. Whether it’s generating incremental website traffic or arming sales and marketing teams with pieces that showcase innovative thinking, understanding the goal of thought leadership, and how to measure it, leads to results.
Establishing your audience and understanding their needs and interests will help ensure your ideas resonate with them. Articulate the issues they face and share the ways you approach those challenges. Knowing your audience also informs your format and distribution strategy—consider how they take in thought leadership and where they expect to find it.
Create goals
Identify the target audience
Establish the key ideas, opinions, and expertise that are worth sharing
What distinguishes your B2B brand in the marketplace? If it’s your subject matter experts, tap them for their insights and opinions. If it’s proprietary research, translate the research into actionable insights to create a dialogue unique to your company.
1. Develop the content platform
In the strategy and planning phase, creating an editorial calendar builds a foundation for your efforts. It helps to organize and prioritize content opportunities and aids in aligning content with business strategy and goals.
Identify and fill gaps in the content strategy and process
Prioritize topics and trends, with flexibility to respond to shifts in the marketplace, new research and findings, and news events
Quickly evaluate available resources and align writers and subject matter experts on the most relevant pieces
Manage the process from production to distribution and provide consistent direction for all
Using the calendar as a tool allows you to
Creating and publishing effective content requires a committed approach across your organization. A production framework with a clearly defined editorial mission and content objectives is key to mobilizing your SMEs, writers and editors, designers, and marketing teams.
2. Create a production framework
The editorial calendar is also useful in managing the final stage of content development—revision. Producing high-quality content is an iterative process. Effective content marketing relies on pieces that have gone through rounds of revision to identify gaps, sharpen ideas, and draw out key insights.
Example calendar
Creating a process to work with subject matter experts or interviewees is important. These professionals are extremely busy, so a thoughtful approach is key to maximizing time and resources. A statement of purpose in the editorial calendar will guide the conversation and identify the questions each piece should answer.
3. Manage teams and contributors
Guided by your content strategy, create a mix of formats to distribute your ideas across different channels. We explore this topic in more depth on our website here.
4. Determine the mix of formats and distribution channels
B2B sales cycle
1. How do we know if this content was successful? 2. What impact did the content have?
As stakeholders across the organization use thought leadership content as sales and marketing material, gathering the reactions and conversations can build a store of first-party data that helps refine content strategy.
Subscriptions indicate brand affinity and form a founda- tion for regular interaction between B2B companies and current and potential clients.
As with other engagement metrics, comments are an area where the focus should be on quality over quantity. Quality comments start a virtual dialogue and alert you to challenges in the marketplace.
Shares, whether via social channels or email, demonstrate that your content is adding value to a conversation.
Since the audience is narrowcast, visits or impressions are less valuable than engagement metrics. Monitoring time on site and following a visitor’s path will yield valuable audience data.
Understanding how your audience found your content helps ensure placement of content in effective channels and better budget allocation for paid media.
After B2B companies create and distribute content, there are two question that often arise:
Assessing and refining content strategy
B2B content marketing requires a different approach—one closely aligned with the longer cycle of relationship-based sales. In addition, a company's unique insights and expertise are the fuel for successful campaigns. By developing a comprehensive content development strategy, understanding how to harness the digital ecosystem, and diligently tracking results, B2B companies can ensure that content marketing in-vestments directly support their business goals.
From strategy to action
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“It’s a level of history beyond the homesteaders, trappers, and cowboys. These fossils allow us to dig deeper into the past and discover a very different side of the Great Plains.”
—Mark Harris, Associate Director, University of Nebraska State Museum
The Fossil Freeway is a stretch of highway between Nebraska’s Panhandle and The Black Hills of South Dakota where visitors can stop at multiple sites and experience some of the world’s rarest and most remarkable fossils.
Fossil Freeway sites include: Mammoth Site of Hot Springs, Toadstool Geologic Park, Hudson-Meng Bison Bonebed, the Trailside Museum at Fort Robinson State Park, Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, Scotts Bluff National Monument, and the Wildcat Hills State Recreation Area.
The Northwest Nebraska High Country is a great place to stay and experience the outdoors, it’s also home to more than 25 ranchers and farmers who provide unique opportunities for tourists via guest ranch stays, trail rides, fossil hunting, hiking, birdwatching, photography and more. Several members of the High Country group are also members of the Great Plains Ecotourism Coalition.
263 Sandcreek Rd
Crawford, NE 69339
Driving along a dirt road in the high plains of northwestern Nebraska, High Plains Homestead appears like an oasis. The Old West outpost is located in the middle of the Oglala National Grasslands, an expanse of 90,000+ acres of African-like savannah. Owners Mike and Linda Kesselring are veterans of Nebraska tourism and after 16 years of business have seen a lot of repeat visitors—and for good reason. The couple works hard at it, embodying western hospitality and greeting all guests that come through the screen door like long-lost relatives.
High Plains Homestead includes a school house, saloon, mercantile, post office, jail, and blacksmith shop. Individual lodging is available. At the center of “town” life is the Drifter’s Cookshack, a restaurant featuring high-quality home-cooked meals.
Our Heritage Guest Ranch
Toadstool Rd
Our Heritage Guest Ranch is nestled in the foothills of the picturesque Pine Ridge. Owner Jean Norman is a fourth generation rancher with fifty years of experience and knowledge working in the Nebraska Panhandle. She organizes special experiences for her guests, including guided fossil digs, natural horsemanship training and multi-day horseback journeys. Her six-day Lakota journey is led by a tribal member who introduces groups to the plants and animals of the area as well as Lakota culture, astrology, traditional cooking and storytelling. Jean has shorter horseback expeditions as well, and also the option to participate in everyday ranch activities: fixing fence, haying, lambing and calving. Jean also makes beautiful art incorporating natural materials — ask her to tell you the story of the fence post, now bedpost, that saved her life in a blizzard!
Sheep Wagon Hideouts
61 Country Club Road
In their hay day, sheepwagons were simple mobile homes for sheepherders living amongst their flocks in the open rangelands of the western United States. They’ve all but disappeared from use, but thanks to Jim and Lora O’Rourke — rangeland scientists, ranchers and sheepwagon collectors — you can wake up in one of these Old West wagons, tucked into the hills of Ponderosa pine. The O’Rourkes run RuJoDen Ranch and are international range management experts. They accept a limited number of visitors, providing nature walks, historical land use discussions and demonstrations of sustainable grazing practices.
Know of an ecotourist-friendly place in the Great Plains to see fossils? Email us at cgps@unl.edu
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Double blessings for Comedian Salvador's wife, Daphine Frankstock
January 20, 2019, 10:13 PM @ugandaonline
"If you don't say Yes, I will leave you here," Salvador told Frankstock while proposing
"My graduation falls on my mum's birthday that turned out to be the day he proposed. Thank you lord. What a way to start."
Those were the words used by comedian Patrick Idringi aka Salvador's wife, Daphine Frankstock, who had several reasons to celebrate.
Daphine's mom added another year to her age the day she was graduating, leaving the man from Ombokolo with no choice, but to propose.
He was serious as that was no time for jokes as he waited for her response patiently on a bended knee.
At the time, the Malwede song was playing in the background when Salvador walked to the mother of his two children, Aayden and Abby, to seek her hand in marriage.
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Daphine planted a hot one on his lips as she wiped the tears that were beginning to make their way down her cheeks.
Salvador asked the DJ to reduce the music.
"If you say NO I will leave you here." He then started pouring out his heart;
"Baby will you be the official mother of my children, my wife, the one I wake up to see every day..."
Down on his knee, he went again, leaving Frankstock with no choice, but to give him a tight hug while saying yes!!
The two have been dating since 2013.
This is coming a day after she had graduated with a Master's Degree in Procurement and Supply Chain Management.
"Very proud of you Daphine all I can say is you are a Super woman, juggling raising 2 kids, looking out for me and most importantly studying hasn’t been easy but somehow you’ve managed. I’m lost for words. God bless you," Salvador noted.
These were some of the comments that followed;
"Did he expect her to say no yet she has two kids of his.. Like this was a no choice YES.. she had to say Yes even though he didn’t ask."
"Balwawo dda......so he waited to propose immediately after her graduation? I expected this when she had just gotten preggars for their first baby. Anyways Congs!"
That moment after comedian Patrick Idringi aka Salvador had proposed to Frankstock Daphine
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Ontario moves Windsor, Haldimand-Norfolk and three other regions into stricter COVID-19 restriction levels
Elisabetta Bianchini
27 November 2020, 1:28 pm ·2-min read
COVID-19 in Canada
The Ontario government announced that five regions of the province will be moved into more restrictive measure of the province’s COVID-19 safe opening framework.
The following public health units will be moved into into the following, more restrictive framework level on Monday, Nov. 30:
Red-Control
Windsor-Essex County Health Unit
Orange-Restrict
Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit
Yellow-Protect
Hastings Prince Edward Public Health
Lambton Public Health
Northwestern Health Unit
This comes after the province reported a record-breaking 1,855 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, including 517 cases in Peel, 494 in Toronto, 189 in York Region and 130 in Halton.
“The health and safety of all Ontarians is and will always be our top priority, that's why we are following the advice of the Chief Medical Officer of Health and other health experts and making this adjustment today,” Christine Elliott, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health said in a statement.
“Over the last week we have seen a shift in the trends of key public health indicators in regions across the province, and by moving these five regions to a new level in the framework, we can ensure that the necessary targeted measures are in place to stop the spread of the virus and allow us to keep our schools and businesses open.”
‘Stop acting like a bunch of buffoons’
At a press conference on Friday, Ontario Premier Doug Ford commented on the acts of protesters who are against the existing COVID-19 restrictions, including people who have been showing up to protest in front of Ford’s home.
“This is totally unacceptable that my neighbours are being intimated, being threatened and these people, they need to stop,” Ford said. “You want to protest me come down to Queen’s Park, you can do cartwheels, you can jump up and down.”
“Come after me, don’t come after my neighbours. Stop acting like a bunch of buffoons out there and start respecting the people of Ontario.”
Ford went on to call MPP Randy Hiller “totally irresponsible” for being vocally against and protesting the provincial government’s COVID-19 restrictions and public health rules.
“We’re here to make sure we protect every single person in this province, even the anti-masker folks that believe this is just a big hoax, which again, I’ve never figured that out,” the premier said. “This is a very serious virus.”
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Home Europe European Union forms own 10,000 strong ‘uniformed service’
The European Border and Coast Guard standing corps has been formed by the EU to ‘represent the entity at its borders’.
The force is expected to number 10,000-strong by 2027.
According to a release on precreding the formation of the corps, starting with 5,000 operational staff in 2021, the standing corps will be fully operational by 2027 with 10,000 staff. In addition, a rapid reserve pool will be created for deployment in emergencies.
“The standing corps will consist of border and coast guards employed by the agency as well as staff seconded on a mandatory basis by EU countries.”
For the first time, the European Union has its own uniformed service – the European Border and Coast Guard standing corps. And here’s a sneak peak of the uniform they will be wearing to represent the 🇪🇺 at its borders #StandingCorps pic.twitter.com/3bZrsy16t7
— Frontex (@Frontex) January 11, 2021
Roberta Metsola said:
“This law will transform the way the European Border and Coast Guard Agency deals with migration, including ensuring 10 000 new border guards and staff are in place; boosting the fight against cross-border crime; protecting fundamental rights and aiding the efficient return of those who are not eligible for protection.
Our guiding principle has been to be fair with those in need of protection, firm with those who are not eligible and harsh with those who seek to exploit the most vulnerable people on the planet. Citizens asked and we delivered – in record time.”
The European Parliament say that the new organisation will be able to support return procedures in member states, for example by identifying irregularly staying non-EU nationals and by assisting national authorities to obtain travel documents.
Just for a bit of perspective and balance here, I recommend reading the following tweets.
Perhaps the truth is it’s not an EU Army but could easily lead to one…
— Carry On Strategy (@CarryStrategy) January 11, 2021
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davetrousers
Friends and allies.
Reply to davetrousers
Agree. Totally their own decision to do this!
More legions for the empire.
The question here is, why should people care as the UK is no longer part of the EU? The Brexiters’ will bang on about it being an EU ‘Army’ whilst the Remainers’ will explain how we could have been part of an EU security blanket. Either way now, it’s irrelevant unless we as holiday makers decide to stay in Belgium for longer than 90 days without a visa…
Reply to Stevew
We are part of 5 Eyes, which is not an EU entity, and NATO, which is also not an EU entity. There are other security and intelligence agreements beyond the EU ones. It is all well and good being part of an EU security blanket, which would have benefits, too many millions had no wish to be a part of the EU super state that is slowly forming, bit by bit, year on year, as a price of that blanket. We should be friends and allies with Europe, of which we are a part. Europe and EU are different things.… Read more »
The EU remains one of our most significant international and interlinked partners geographically, politically, economically etc. We should care.
“decide to stay in Belgium for longer than 90 days without a visa”
Good grief, why on earth would anyone want to stay there for more than 90 days!
To be fair, the third Reich tried to offer us the benefits of its security blanket Steve, let’s see if this forms the nucleus of fourth Reich’s…..
Perhaps to keep the inmates in😉😀
Down the rabbit hole to a fully-unified Eurostate.
Reply to DMJ
It does show the mindset doesn’t it. It somewhat proves the point that the EU isn’t thinking about trans-European collaboration, drawing in the EEA, Switzerland or the UK. This is about solidifying statehood. And this is what saddens me. I voted for Brexit reluctantly. I like European collaboration and I could tolerate the red tape and bureaucracy but the trajectory is clear. Harmonise, consolidate, comply, conform become a singular centralised political entity. And, I didn’t want that. If that mindset didn’t reside within the EU I would have voted to stay, but it does and so I feel my hand… Read more »
Dave Wolfy
Reply to Nathan
Spot on, every single key stroke (except the reluctantly bit!)
I’m a Brexiteer but I wouldn’t mind us contributing to a Common European Defence force under joint UK, EEA, EU and NATO control. If everyone in Europe diverted 0.5bn to this from their own defence budgets for European defence it would be large enough to add real clout in this local theatre, some EU states may want to divert more as this is the limit of their need. Moreover it would allow other states like the UK and France to develop their other capabilities. I see this as the future of Global Britain, collaboration and cooperation with friends for mutual… Read more »
Reply to Nath
Half a billlion for some of the smaller states like the Baltics is basically their entire defence budget.
Yep. Why wouldn’t they go all in? If you’ve determined that you are only interested in European defence why wouldn’t you, so long as they DO defend you when the chips are down?
KPB
Lots of advantages and disadvantages to that idea. On the latter: Who controls the budget and decides who-buys-what? How do you maintain a decent all-arms capability per-country without have an imbalance across the whole continent? Could Brussels be trusted to leap to the defence of a small member state if the risks were high? i.e. confrontation with Russia or their domestic gas being switched off? By the time they’d reached a unanimous decision, the problem would have gone away… Over-politicisation of the procurement strategy. There would be a lot of pressure for smaller states to buy expensive German and French… Read more »
Oh No. Just more money to the EU bureaucracy……just like they wanted to tie us to PESCO. No thanks. Let the EU states start paying for their own defence. For the last century (and more) Europe has sponged off the US and UK when it comes to defence. Recall France still has paid its WW1 debts off to the US and UK!
Reply to OldSchool
Not paid.
Thunderbirds are GO !!!!
Another Territorialheer. This only leads in one direction, baby steps…
Looks a smart practical uniform, bit puzzled why they have English on the insignia though.
10’000 strong with a reserve for rapid deployment in emergencies.
Using people ‘Mandatoraly” seconded from their home nations…
4th watch
Reply to Darren hall
How will this go down in ROI?
Reply to 4th watch
True, and what about Italy, Poland and Hungary?
When National vetos have gone the way of the Dodo in the EU regarding security (by 2030 probably), Ireland won’t have a choice, their neutral stance will be voided and they will have little say in the matter.
Interesting development.
What the European migrant crisis over the last decade has shown us that boarder control has fallen on states at the periphery, such as Croatia and Italy, while countries further north and west have had to invest little in defending their own boarders.
Potentially, the development of an EU wide boarder force goes some way to rebalance this.
Smart looking uniform. Presumably, when Scotland rejoins the EU in a few years time, we will see these deployed on the border with wee isolated Engerland.
Reply to Harold
Alba…poor quality budget electrical items….not reliable but ok for those who dont like quality.
Well thats if you do and its a long road to get there if you could, you wouldn’t gain much by leaving the UK either.
Dougman
Not going to happen am Scottish and proud to be British leave one union to join another NO.
David Flandry
And what would the potential army do that NATO does not?
Reply to David Flandry
Man the guard towers and stop the inmates from escaping David…..
I think I might have seen some already at the Larne ferry terminal….
The most interesting part is this is imposed on EU citizens ! They have no say over this nor will get a vote on EU membership. I’m glad we live in a democracy that has allowed the British people to chose their destiny regardless whether one voted out or in. It seems like we have 2 tier democracy in Europe one being Tier 1 UK style free choice and tier 2 EU style imposing no choice for citizens authoritarian. We must not close our eyes to this developments in the EU as this affects NATO role . ✌️
Delabatte
It has been voted by European parlement.. and this one is elected by europeans citizens.. that is democracy as well!
Reply to Delabatte
It is, sort off. Trouble is it’s a restrictive
group democracy, for the common good.
In the UK we have sovereign democracy, totally accountable to the British people.
I’m afraid EU membership means you’ve sadly surrendered this….
EU democracy is more akin to shareholders voting rights in a big corporation….
Reply to John Clark
Phew thank god everyone in the UK gets what they want… I’m sure the Scots dont feel like the UK isnt a “restrictive group democracy for the common good.”
Interesting point Dern, we have Sovereign democracy in Great Britain, accountable entirely to the British people and referendums that are taken as read, unlike the poor citizens of the EU, where an individual members democracy is being increasingly diluted for the common good.
One can quite see why the SNP feel such an affiliation for the EU, they have a similar contempt for ‘the wrong referendum results’.
Love the way you say ‘The Scots’, by the way, reinforcing the illusion that the SNP and Scots people are one and the same thing and they all think the same.
Quite wrong….
While I’ll not comment on whether this is a slippery slope towards an EU army, I do think that a combined border guard/coastguard is a good idea; I can’t help but feel that we have too many agencies and forces involved in what should be a fairly straightforward scope of work.
The current EU Frontier Force is fairly emasculated and can’t do anything with decision making being centralised so I don’t expect this to be any different. They’re certainly not going to be invited into Orban’s Hungary to carry out ‘duties’ there.
Love the International Rescue uniform by the way.
Very, very bad.
We should reach out to certain EU countries that are going to be unhappy with this.
All on the QT you understand, to see if we can help them Euxit. Glad we are out of their prison. Only UK, Norway, Iceland and Switzerland are free.
So do nations get to keep their own coastguard/border patrol or are these subsumed into this EU one?
I would say that the better the EU manages its borders security the better it is for the U.K. Having weak neighbours is not good for you own security.
Billythefish
Confiscating ham sandwiches to keep the good citizens of the EU safe…
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/sandwich-brexit-netherlands-intl-scli-gbr/index.html
The brave Dutch Border Guards who were oddly absent in the 1940s as RAF bombers delivered food and sweets to the starving Dutch populace…
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World-famous restaurant coming to EPCOT’s New Jersey pavilion
Not just any eatery is good enough for Disney’s newest World Showcase country!
E.P.C.O.T., FL — Disney Parks and Resorts and Spas are infamous [Ed.: That means more than famous, right guys?] for their world-renown restaurants, most of them achieving a minimum of 4 Churros on the Uncle Walt’s Insider Scale of Awesomeness. While everyone has been losing their mind over some boring space-themed restaurant coming to EPCOT Centre [Ed.: Guys, remember that time Marty brought that huge hoagie on Space Mountain?], Uncle Walt’s Insider discovered an even better experience coming to Epcot this summer.
Yes, the Disney Parks Blog recently revealed details for a new spaced-themed restaurant to be located in Future World at the Epcot Resort & Spa. While this is exciting news, what they missed was the even bigger announcement — another restaurant coming to the World Showcase’s New Jersey pavilion. And this time, it’s no one-off venture that no one’s ever heard of before!
Disney Parks and Resorts and Spas have announced the first of many Applebee’s locations to be built at all Disney Parks and Resorts and Spas. But this will be no ordinary Applebees! This glorious, full-immersion experience will feature 4K displays instead of windows, that will live stream images direct from some of your favorite locations in New Jersey!
In addition, the restaurant will feature another first within the World Showcase at Epcot Center — the entire staff will be from the state of New Jersey! This marks the first time that actual natives from a country will work as cast members. Guests will be delighted by the accents and mannerisms that only a true native can bring!
Disney spokesperson Jun Disney (no relation) shared a little secret with U.W.I.: “We’re excited to bring Applebee’s to That Park With The Giant Golfball, but frankly, our first choice was Bennigan’s. Turns out, though, not even Disney has enough tchotchkes and knick-knacks in storage to fill even one Bennigan’s location, let alone the 27 we have planned.”
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WIN! VIP night in Abu Dhabi to celebrate opening of McGettigans
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California North Coast wine grape contracts get more stringent on smoke damage in 2021
After the major North Bay wildfires in 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2019, vintners in the region have been increasingly interested in strengthening the fruit-quality clauses and force majeure (calamity) clauses in their grape purchase contracts, while growers want more the contracts to give them more security from rejected fruit blamed on smoke damage, according to… Keep Reading
Clearer air forecast for Sonoma County as wind begins to push smoke east
On a normal day in a normal year, west Petaluma resident Annette Cooperluiz and her retired racehorse, Rocket, wouldn’t be anywhere near Crane Creek Regional Park east of Rohnert Park. Point Reyes National Seashore is her favored spot for rides, Cooperluiz said, but that Marin County destination is on fire and off limits, besieged by… Keep Reading
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Oakmont Senior Living to pay $500,000 to settle state, county investigation into abandonment of seniors during 2017 wildfires
The operator of two elder care homes in Santa Rosa where staff abandoned frail residents during the 2017 October firestorm has agreed to pay $500,000 to settle an unlawful business practices civil lawsuit filed jointly by the state Attorney General and Sonoma County District Attorney’s offices. Sonoma County District Attorney Jill Ravitch and Attorney General… Keep Reading
After the Tubbs Fire in 2017, Anabel Garcia felt on edge every time an ambulance siren blared outside her home in Santa Rosa, California. Sirens reminded her of evacuating during the state’s second-deadliest wildfire, which killed 22 and destroyed 5,000 homes. Flames reached as close as five miles from her family’s house. “It terrified us,” Garcia… Keep Reading
Rebirth begins for Fountaingrove clubhouse destroyed in Tubbs Fire
Work has begun on The Fountaingrove Club’s new clubhouse to replace the building destroyed when the Tubbs Fire swept through north Santa Rosa in October 2017. BHM Construction of Napa is the general contractor on the $16.5 million project. At 22,100 square feet, the new two-story building will be on the site of the burned out club.… Keep Reading
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On the morning of her 34th birthday last July, Katrina Lassen woke up in her new house in Larkfield Estates, a suburban subdivision where all 163 homes had been incinerated by the Tubbs fire in 2017. “It was surreal,” she said. “I just felt at home immediately.” The ranch-style home lost in the blaze was… Keep Reading
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Crews gained the upper hand Sunday on the first large wildfire in Northern California in months — the Quail Fire burning in Solano County and near Winters in Yolo County — ahead of a new forecast in which strong winds could once again fuel its momentum. The wildfire, which doubled in size in less than… Keep Reading
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SiFive raises $50.6 million for licensable custom microprocessors
Dean Takahashi@deantak April 2, 2018 10:51 AM
SiFive is making licensable RISC-V CPUs.
Image Credit: SiFive
SiFive has raised $50.6 million in a third round of funding to further its ambition to create a new licensing model for the semiconductor industry.
San Francisco-based SiFive wants to democratize access to custom silicon chip designs. The company’s founders invented RISC-V, a free and open instruction set architecture for modern microprocessors. SiFive is taking that architecture and making it easy to design the custom variants that companies need.
So far, the RISC-V foundation has dozens of member companies, including Google, HP Enterprise, Microsoft, IBM, Qualcomm, Nvidia, Samsung, Microsemi, and others. SiFive has developed its Coreplex IP (intellectual property) that others can license as they design their own processors and computing systems based on RISC-V.
The investment was led by existing investors Sutter Hill Ventures, Spark Capital, and Osage University Partners. New investors include Chengwei Capital, SK Telecom and Western Digital as well as unnamed strategic investors. To date, SiFive has raised $63.8 million.
Additionally, the company also announced it has signed a multi-year license to its Freedom Platform with Western Digital, which has pledged to produce 1 billion RISC-V cores.
Above: SiFive founders Yunsup Lee (left), Krste Asanovic (middle), Andrew Waterman (right).
“Over the past two years, SiFive has been at the forefront of the RISC-V ecosystem,” said Stefan Dyckerhoff, managing director at Sutter Hill Ventures and member of the SiFive board of directors, in a statement. “Sutter Hill Ventures is confident that SiFive will continue to provide innovative solutions that will fundamentally change the semiconductor industry.”
This investment will enable SiFive to continue to bring its potentially disruptive RISC-V technologies to the marketplace.
In October, SiFive Unveiled its latest core IP, Freedom U54, the industry’s first commercial 64-bit, multicore RISC-V IP with support for Linux. Four months later, the company demonstrated working Freedom U54 silicon and announced the availability of the HiFive Unleashed development board.
Lauterbach also partnered with SiFive to bring TRACE32 support for high-performance RISC-V cores, providing multicore debugging on individual hardware threads of SiFive cores and enabling debugging right from the reset vector.
SiFive previously outlined its DesignShare Model, which gives any company, inventor, or maker the ability to harness the power of custom silicon. DesignShare partners provide low- to- no-cost intellectual property to emerging companies, lowering the upfront costs required to bring a custom chip design based on the SiFive Freedom
platform to realization.
Companies that have joined the DesignShare economy include Analog Bits, eMemory, FlexLogix, Microsemi, Rambus and ThinkSilicon, among others. SiFive hopes to triple its headcount.
“We are honored by the continued partnership with our investors and energized by new engagements with longtime industry leaders,” said Naveed Sherwani, CEO of SiFive. “This funding from our investors and licensing agreements with strategic partners establishes a strong financial foundation which will help us to continue our trailblazing path of engineering innovations and extend our market leadership around the world.”
SiFive founders Krste Asanovic, Yunsup Lee, and Andrew Waterman created RISC-V as a new instruction set architecture (ISA), just as Intel and ARM have their own ISA. But rather than having just one company own the ISA, the RISC-V creators made their ISA open and free to use. The company monetizes it through customization and support, much like Linux companies do with their open source operating systems.
In their first six months of availability, thousands of HiFive1 and HiFive Unleashed software development boards have been purchased by developers in more than 50 countries. Additionally, the company has engaged with multiple customers across its IP and system-on-chip (SoC) products and shipped the industry’s first RISC-V SoC in 2016, as well as the industry’s first RISC-V IP with support for Linux in October 2017.
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6 Weirdest Gaming News Stories of 2016
By Nick Connor , January 31, 2017 10:35 pm January 31, 2017 0 140
2016 was an… Interesting year, to say the least. Both inside the gaming industry and out, one unthinkable news story after another kept breaking. Naturally, we’ll just stick to gaming here and take this time to look back on some of the most surreal news stories that came out in the last twelve months. Granted, there are some major events that didn’t make this list, such as the CS:GO Lotto scandal and the controversial release of No Man’s Sky. While those are undoubtedly important events, they aren’t exactly strange in the same way as these other tales. That being said, these are the…
Weirdest gaming News Stories of 2016
Street Fighter V Gets Flava Flav DLC
Street Fighter V did not go over well. Desperate to get on the stage for EVO 2016, the game was shoved out the door way too early with way too little content. I know the lack of an arcade mode gets brought up a lot, but that’s because an arcade mode is the single most basic form of single player a fighting game can have. If Capcom couldn’t even muster up the bare basics, that should terrify you. Hell, we’re still waiting on it to this day.
Something the game has gotten: Costumes inspired by former Public Enemy hype-man Flava Flav. Believe it or not, this is a picture of Ryu and Chun Li. Drink it in. These were released as a part of a sponsorship deal with Red Bull and my brain still hasn’t fully processed the fact that they exist. Aside from the outfits looking hilariously out-of-character for both fighters… Really? Flava Flav? Tekken Tag Tournament 2 was able to get Snoop Dogg for their surreal rapper cross-promotion. You couldn’t get someone with some relevancy post 2007?
An Anime Fan on Prom Night
Mighty No. 9 hurts my soul on every level. I’ve been a Mega Man fan since childhood and seeing the Kickstarter for Mighty No. 9 seemed like a dream come true at the time. Then, mid-2015 rolled around and things got very depressing very quickly. The point where I knew things had gone off the rails was when Keiji Inafune announced not one, but two new Kickstarters for Mighty No. 9 spinoffs. Now, let me just say that the Mega Man Legends games are two of my personal favorite video games of all time and my heart shattered when the long-awaited third entry was killed off just before it hit the finish line. When a Kickstarter for a spiritual successor was announced, I should have been all over it. Instead, I never put a dime towards it because I just couldn’t trust Red Ash without knowing how Mighty No. 9 turned out first.
Looks like I made the right move, because calling the new blue bomber a disappointment is an understatement. The visuals were bad, the voice-acting was bad, the attempts at reinventing the Mega Man formula were bad, and the PC version launched with a memory-leak that caused the game to lag the longer you played it until your computer eventually crashed. The cherry on the sundae of misery was a trailer that seemed specifically designed to mock its supporters. Now I’m actually excited to see what happens to Mega Man next. As bad as he’s had it in the last few years, it can’t get much worse than the not-so-Mighty No. 9.
Konami Vs Kojima Aftermath
The fallout between gaming auteur Hideo Kojima and his publisher Konami was perhaps the defining story of the gaming industry in 2015 and the aftermath of them parting ways still made for some of the biggest headlines of 2016. Kojima announced the first game his new studio will be developing, Death Stranding, and has so far released two teaser trailers for it. Both trailers were Salvador Dali-levels of crazy and apparently weren’t supposed to represent the actual games.
Meanwhile, Kojima’s former taskmaster proved to have a hard time letting things go by announcing Metal Gear Survive, a game based heavily on Metal Gear Solid V‘s engine and is an open-world zombie survival game, the single most diluted genre in the industry today. With the year ending with gambling being legalized in Japan and Konami’s Japanese stocks being amongst the best in the industry, it looks like the company will survive without Kojima, but it’s doubtful that they’ll thrive.
Greenlight Goes Mad
Steam’s Greenlight program officially reached critical mass in 2016. What started as a gateway for small developers to get their passion-projects into the public eye didn’t take long to be exploited by amateurs. Last year seemed to have an unofficial contest to create the absolute worst Greenlight entry possible.
For example, there was Hyrule: Total War, a mod of Medieval II: Total War based on The Legend of Zelda series that was submitted without the approval of the people who made Total War, Legend of Zelda, or even the mod itself. I’m kind of cheating by including this as this issue dates back to 2015, but UnitZ, a Unity asset pack designed to be a starter kit for developing zombie survival games, has been submitted to Greenlight at least 9 different times by 9 different “developers” who have made little to no changes to the original asset pack. World of Warcraft was submitted to Greenlight by someone completely unassociated with Blizzard. A clip of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver was submitted to Greenlight. No, seriously, someone tried to market a clip of a late-night talkshow as a video game.
The only barrier to entry for Greenlight is a $100 fee and Valve just trusts their user-base to police the service for them. Fortunately, much of the community has been fairly eagle-eyed and most of these attempts were shut down, but there are still plenty of cracks to slip through. The floodgates have been opened wide enough that 40% of all games on Steam were released last year.
Everything About Pokemon Go
Oh, Pokemon Go, you could have easily filled a top 20 list of weirdness all on your own, couldn’t you? Just the game itself was enough of a bizarre phenomenon, drawing millions of otherwise secluded people to wander the wilderness on the hunt for imaginary monsters. That alone sounds like Nostradamus predicting the end of days and it only got weirder from there. People found dead bodies while playing the game, thugs used the game to bait people into muggings, people abandoned their cars en masse to catch a Vaporeon, et cetera.
The folks making the game had their own share of bedlam, as well. A big part of that was that the game didn’t have a dedicated community manager when it launched. When major problems like the three-step glitch happened, there was nothing but radio silence in response. As a result, the surprise hit of the year also saw a massive drop-off in players. I doubt Nintendo was too torn up about it, though, considering they only signed on for a microscopic cut of the profits of one of the most anticipated titles of last year. Everything that Pokemon Go touches becomes wailing insanity one way or another. Are we sure that Niantic isn’t secretly some eldritch incantation?
Digital Homicide Sues Everyone
Digital Homicide will probably go down in history as the single worst video game developer to have ever existed. If anyone is actually able to top them, I will partly be impressed, but mostly terrified. Digital Homicide first garnered infamy as a shovelware developer for Steam. Now, shovelware has been around since the Atari 2600 and Steam in particular gets A LOT of it these days, so that’s not such a big deal on its own. What makes Digital Homicide special is that they were outright psychotic about it.
It all started when Youtuber James Stanton, better known as Jim Sterling, uploaded a first impressions video of one of DH’s earliest games, The Slaughtering Grounds, back in 2014. The developers than released their own video titled Review the Reviewer that openly mocked Stanton for his criticism. Animosity between the two parties continued to grow until it all came to a head in 2016 and Digital Homicide filed a lawsuit against Stanton claiming that his videos were damaging their business. Then it got even crazier and Digital Homicide decided that they would just sue everyone. I think they even tried to sue me around this time and that is not even a joke. My name could very well have been on their litigious hit-list. I honestly don’t know.
What we do know is that a lawsuit was filed against 100 Steam users for the crime of speaking ill of Digital Homicide’s precious garbage heap. We’ll probably never know the full list of names that DH tried to take to court, but it did include such stellar monikers as Demonsword, Toon Vlux, and JDude330#HaeisBACK. That case was ultimately dismissed after Valve pulled DH’s entire catalog from their service and left them without a source of income to fund their court case. At the time of writing, the case against Stanton is still ongoing, but seems to be on the verge of being thrown out as well.
Those were the weirdest gaming news stories of 2016. Got any other bizarre news stories from 2016 that we missed? Can 2017 end up topping last year in terms of insanity? Leave a comment below and let us know what you think.
PS Plus, Games With Gold Freebies For June 2016
By Simon O'Neill , June 2, 2016 9:30 am October 13, 2019 0 95
With May coming to an end, it is once again time to celebrate free games with the latest batch of PlayStation Plus and Games With Gold picks for the month of June. However, I think the celebration this month might be a bit hampered as the offerings are possibly the least interesting that they’ve been in months.
These are your PlayStation freebies for June – this time without a trailer because reasons.
NBA 2K16 – PS4
Gone Home: Console Edition – PS4
Echochrome – PS3
Siren: Blood Curse (Episodes 1-12) – PS3
God of War: Chains of Olympus – PSP, PS Vita
Little Deviants – PS Vita
While I don’t want to come off as overly negative, this month is quite lazy from my perspective. For huge sports fans, most of you will probably already own NBA 2K16, but as it is a very solid game, it’s cool for those who missed it. Gone Home, while entertaining, failed to capture me as it divulged into preachy territory, abandoning what I considered to be the most interesting aspects that it began with.
None of the other titles are bad per se, it’s just that they’re games most of us already have. Little Deviants was one of the only launch titles for Vita, and Echochrome was one of the most interesting PlayStation Network titles when it arrived years ago.
That said, if you missed the boat you should feel entertained with such a diverse offering.
And without further adieu, these are the Games with Gold freebies for June.
Goat Simulator – Xbox One
The Crew – Xbox One
Super Meat Boy – Xbox 360
XCOM Enemy Unknown – Xbox 360
For those of you who felt that Grid 2 from last month lacked a huge open world to explore with friends, The Crew should feel right at home if you don’t already own it. I’ve neglected it for far too long, so this is actually my favourite freebie from Microsoft this month.
Ending the list with a game as phenomenal as XCOM or a game as crushingly difficult as Super Meat Boy, you should be in for a treat if you somehow them thus far.
PS Plus, Games With Gold Freebies For May 2016
By Simon O'Neill , April 30, 2016 10:03 am October 13, 2019 0 99
With May upon us, it is once again time to dust off the PS4 and Xbox One and prepare yourself for a new batch of free games from Microsoft and Sony respectively. PS While last month was a glaring success for Microsoft, it seems they’ve taken a step back with some indies and games that, to be frank, most people already own.
Sony, while still not meeting the expectations set by Microsoft last month, has a few interesting titles for all of us loyalists at least.
Here are the PlayStation freebies for May.
Tropico 5 – PS4
Table Top Racing: World Tour – PS4
Switch Galaxy Ultra – PS4, PS Vita
Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 – PS3
LocoRoco Cocoreccho! – PS3
God Of War Ghost Of Sparta – PS Vita, PSP
You have to hand it to Sony. They’ve been really trying to diversify the offerings of each month. After what felt like a year of nothing but 2D indie platformers, it’s refreshing that we will be getting something like Tropico 5, a fantastic strategy game that I didn’t even know existed on the platform.
It’s also nice to see Switch Galaxy Ultra, which is a game I’ve never heard of. I think my favourite part about PS Plus is the idea that I’m constantly getting free games I’ve never heard of, just to find out that they’re mostly games I enjoy enough to buy them. Whether this is the case with Switch Galaxy Ultra remains to be seen.
For you equally loyal Xbox patrons, here are the games you will receive for the month of May.
Defense Grid 2 – Xbox One
Costume Quest 2 – Xbox One
Grid 2 – Xbox 360
Peggle – Xbox 360
What a random month for Games With Gold. After Microsoft blew it out of the water with the wonderful Sunset Overdrive, it is strange to see the headliner being a little tower defense game from 2014. That said, Defense Grid 2 is really tight and well, despite being a list that is not exactly a home run, every game is solid and well worth the download.
If you somehow neglected Peggle for all of these years, grab it, as it is potentially one of the most addictive arcade games available right now.
Next Call Of Duty To Take Place In Far Future
By Simon O'Neill , April 3, 2016 7:08 am January 9, 2017 0 114
While it is absolutely no surprise that there is another Call of Duty title on the horizon, it is interesting to hear that it might be set in the far future with such features as space combat.
NeoGAF user Shinobi, a trusted industry insider, has shared fragments that might hint at the type of game we will be receiving this fall.
“Very far future.
Space combat.
Full on sci-fi.”
Considering we have nothing as far as what to expect from CoD 2016 beyond this and the Eurogamer report on the matter, this opens the floodgates as far as speculation goes.
Will it be a sequel or spiritual successor to Ghosts? Will we embark on missions set entirely in space, in the vein of Star Wars or Battlestar Galactica? Who knows, but the notion of ‘full on sci-fi’ suggests that this year, Infinity Ward wants to step away from Ghosts, which upon release, received less than brilliant reception from both critics and the community alike.
Despite that reception, I fancied Ghosts quite a bit and was, until this point, anticipating a more polished and creative sequel. I am now not too sure if I want space ships and blaster rifles or more Riley with his adorable military outfit.
I guess it will be up to Infinity Ward to demonstrate why we should get excited again.
PS Plus, Games With Gold Freebies Of April 2016
By Simon O'Neill , April 2, 2016 7:04 am January 9, 2017 0 99
April is nearly here, and with it comes another great batch of free games from both Sony and Microsoft respectively. While Sony seems intent on offering indies and older games that you might’ve missed, Microsoft seemingly wants to demonstrate how you tackle April in style, as their offering might be the best I’ve seen in months.
Before we get to Microsoft though, here are the freebies for April.
Dead Star – PS4
Zombi – PS4
I Am Alive – PS3
Savage Moon – PS3
A Virus Named Tom – PS Vita
Shutshimi – PS Vita
Although there is nothing spectacular here, I’m quite pleased to see Zombi make the cut, as I was debating picking it up a few weeks back. Although it received mix reception, I can’t help but get the urge to jump into a never-ending zombie nightmare.
It’s also great to get another interesting space game, as I refuse to get tired of them. Dead Star eluded me and so I will be going in completely blind, but it certainly looks promising!
For Xbox owners, here are the games you will receive for the month of April.
Sunset Overdrive – Xbox One
The Wolf Among Us – Xbox One
Dead Space – Xbox 360
Saints Row IV – Xbox 360
Wow. One of the biggest games on Xbox One is now free for anybody with a Gold subscription. I have wanted to play Sunset Overdrive for as long as I’ve owned an Xbox so again, this is a fantastic freebie. Ridiculously over the top action in an open-world full of actual colour!
What’s more is, there aren’t any slackers this month, as Dead Space is a phenomenal horror game, Saints Row IV is open-world zany madness, and The Wolf Among Us is Telltale at their absolute best. You really cannot go wrong.
PS Plus, Games With Gold Freebies For March 2016
By Simon O'Neill , February 28, 2016 11:33 am January 9, 2017 0 86
With March swiftly approaching, both Sony and Microsoft have detailed their free games of the month.
From the zany hit that is the original Borderlands, to the excellent Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments, this month is definitely one of variety and a welcomed great change of pace.
Without further adieu, here are the freebies for PlayStation patrons.
Broforce – PS4
Galak-Z – PS4
Super Stardust HD – PS3
The Last Guy – PS3
Flame Over – PS Vita
Reality Fighters – PS Vita
A lot of past PS Plus line-ups consisted of mainly 2D platformers, yet this month we’re graced with not one, but two space shooters! Galak-Z is a game I’ve been eyeing up for a while now, and Super Stardust HD is one of the best shoot-em-ups on PS3. While I personally voted for Assault Android Cactus during last month’s Vote To Play, Broforce seems to be quite fun.
For Xbox owners, here are the games you will receive for March.
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments – Xbox One
Lords of the Fallen – Xbox One
Supreme Commander 2 – Xbox 360
Borderlands – Xbox 360
March is certainly a good month for Xbox users with Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments leading the charge. The game failed to gain the popularity it deserves, so anyone who missed out definitely needs to jump on it, as it is a very polished and consistently entertaining adventure.
And while I can’t say the same about Lords of the Fallen, having an RTS like Supreme Commander 2 is such a breath of fresh air that I think we all might need.
Lastly, don’t forget to check out the video above for the dates of availability, as Microsoft has a tendency to throw off the best of us with their strange schedule.
PS Plus, Games With Gold Freebies For February 2016
By Simon O'Neill , January 29, 2016 5:45 am January 9, 2017 0 96
Now that I own an Xbox One, I feel that I can adequately cover news related to that specific platform, which has, unsurprisingly, opened up many new avenues for me.
I’ve decided to start doing the freebies of the month again, now with the added bonus of Games With Gold to sweeten the deal.
With that said, here are the freebies for PS Plus.
Grid Autosport – PS3
Helldivers: Democracy Strikes Back – PS4, PS3, PS Vita
Lemmings Touch – PS Vita
Nom Nom Galaxy – PS4
Nova-111 – PS Vita
Persona 4 Arena Ultimax – PS3
I’m loving this line-up. While the last few months haven’t been outstanding, receiving the absolutely bonkers Nom Nom Galaxy and the ultra tight Helldivers seems like a pretty good deal. I wanted to spend 20 minutes learning Nom Nom Galaxy, and I ended up playing for twelve hours straight. Seriously. It’s that addictive.
And for Games With Gold, here are the games for the month.
Hand of Fate – Xbox One
Styx: Master of Shadows – Xbox One
Sacred Citadel – Xbox 360
Gears of War 2 – Xbox 360
From the revered Gears of War 2 to the underrated stealth action game Styx, this is probably the best month for Games With Gold that I’ve personally seen in my short time as an Xbox owner.
Remember, you can download the 360 games on your Xbox One via backwards compatibility, so don’t miss out!
Nathan Drake: Hunk Of Hero VS Cunning Villain
By Nicole , January 26, 2016 7:53 pm January 9, 2017 0 323
The typical moral-based fight between good and evil is one that sneaks it’s way into most genres throughout a mass of differing medias. Usually righteousness will prevail, leaving the good guy/ girl triumphant, with their foot on the defeated villain, fist held high and proud. Now, with this stereotypical timeline of events that is used quite commonly, you’d consider it easy to predict a story line in most circumstances and find it much easier to identify good and bad characters, right? Wrong. In Naughty Dog’s widely acclaimed action-adventure series Uncharted, it has become apparent that the ability to distinguish between good and evil isn’t always as easy as it seems and we have Uncharted’s protagonist, Nathan Drake to thank for this.
The Makings Of A Bad Guy
Although Nate partakes in a great deal of saving and other heroics throughout the Uncharted series, he is actually a renowned thief that snatches up historic artifacts and treasures using his seemingly bottomless knowledge of the past. In most cases, the purpose of stealing such objects are for the means of pride or to sell on for money, usually to pay of his companion, Victor Sullivan’s debts. However, it is apparent that right from the start, Nathan had the typical beginning and makings of a bad guy.
Nathan Drake was deprived of his parents from a young age. After his mother committed suicide, his father turned young Nate into an orphanage where he was raised there for a while. Nate eventually ran away from the orphanage and made his way to Columbia where at the age of 14, he managed to acquire Sir Francis Drake’s ring from which point, the story of Uncharted, meeting Sully and all his thieving antics transpires.
Nathan Drake undertook an awful lot of stress during his upbringing; quite rightfully to be fair to the guy and in doing so, had what we can nowadays consider the makings of a villain, hellbent on getting his own back on the world. However, is he truly a fully-fledged villain?
Naughty Dog’s Naughty Boy
It is evident that throughout the proceedings of the three, soon to be four part video game series of Uncharted, our dear Nathan Drake has stacked up a credible list of bad deeds to have him placed quite firmly on Santa’s Naughty List. During the series we see him break into several museums and then proceed to steal numerous historic artifacts from them, steal various vehicles, break into historic sites, steal historic documents, cause unimaginable amounts of damage, not to mention the countless henchmen and mindless mad-men he murders. Fact is, Nathan Drake has done his fair share…well, quite a few people’s fair share of bad things that could easily have him considered a villain. So why given this, is it still relatively difficult to class him solely as a villain within the Uncharted series? Does Nate’s good deeds really outweigh and rectify the many terrible ones he has committed throughout the series?
You’ll Get No Sympathy From Me…Oh Wait.
Granted, Nathan Drake has committed many dark deeds throughout the duration of his adventures however it is difficult to pin him as a distinct villain purely because among all his dark doings, his adventures have entailed a fair share of heroics on his part. He’s saved the damsel in distress on numerous occasions, whether it be Elena Fisher suffering a bullet wound or Chloe Frazer needing an unnecessary rescue from a madman (both having important roles in the series). Regardless of circumstance, the fact remains that nowadays doing such a thing is considered something a good guy would do as opposed to cunning villain. He has overcome his own greed and pride for the better of mankind and in all respect the people he has killed, have been at least somewhat more villainous than him. So is it at all possible to suggest that perhaps Nathan Drake is a hero after all? Furthermore, there is the matter of villains usually being disliked whereas Drake, you can’t help but love. This love for him is unquestionably enhanced during the third installment to the series, Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception in which we experience a small snippet of Drake’s unruly childhood. Although his childhood may have been the beginning of his stealing and wrong doings, it is also what makes him so lovable through means of sympathy. On a final note, as we learn throughout the events of the Uncharted Series, a lot of the time Nate is purely after his own heritage. Yes, he doesn’t go about getting it the right way but regardless, it is his to take surely?
The Better Of Two Evils
So, seeing as Nathan Drake is hard to distinguish as either a hero or a villain maybe it’d be best to consider him as the better of two evils? I mean yeah, he steals, lies and cheats all for his own greed but at least all he is looking for is riches and pride whereas, the more easily identifiable baddies throughout the Uncharted series are after something more sinister and truly evil, world domination. Furthermore, Nathan proceeds to take down these power-hungry lunatics. So yeah, he may be a bit of a bad guy, but he isn’t really the baddest-bad guy or a real villain if you think about it.
We Love You Nate
Good or bad, fans have taken to Nathan Drake over the years, a fact very evident in the sales of the Uncharted series. In the upcoming finale to the series Uncharted: A Thief’s End, i’m sure Naughty Dog will throw in plenty of new red herrings to prevent us fans from distinguishing Nate as either a hero or a villain but regardless, the millions of fans of this series we’ll be eager to have him back, as a hero or a as villain.
Playstation Plus – Games of January 2016
By Simon O'Neill , December 31, 2015 6:40 am January 30, 2017 0 97
As the year comes to a close and we open our arms to welcome 2016 and ultimately fail to meet our New Year’s Resolutions, we can take solace in the fact that Sony will be handing out another batch of free games to those subscribed to their monthly service, Playstation Plus.
While this month isn’t going to blow the pants off most of us, it’s nice to see some of these titles get some much-needed love.
Here are this month’s picks.
Hardware: Rivals (PS4)
Grim Fandango Remastered (PS4)
Dragon Age: Origins (PS3)
Medal Of Honor Warfighter (PS3)
Nihilumbra (PS Vita)
Legends of War: Patton (PS Vita)
Hardware: Rivals in particular, piques my curiosity. It’s almost as if we’re getting access to the baby that Rocket League and Twisted Metal created. And, for those of you who never got the chance to play Dragon Age: Origins or Grim Fandango, you should check both of them out, as they’re excellent games. Can’t say the same about Warfighter, however.
As always, check this link for the full announcement, courtesy of PlayStation Blog.
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Does Tomsula Deserve a Do-over?
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By John Croston
Brace yourselves. Winter is coming. By that, I mean that year two of the Tomsula era could soon become a reality.
I know a lot of 49er fans, myself included, have this wonderful fantasy about an end of season firing bonanza of Tomsula & Co. and having them replaced [insert your fantasy coaching lineup here] for 2016, but based on the last few weeks and what I suspect was the agenda all along, that just isn't going to happen. Maybe … just maybe – to play devil's advocate for just a moment – they deserve a second chance?
Rewind to January 2015. We all knew. Deep in the back of our minds, we all knew who the job was going to. Hell, it had been hinted at back in 2010. Jim Tomsula was going to be the guy. By all accounts, he is a well-liked, highly knowledgeable guy who is in many ways the anti-Harbaugh. He was the front office's main man all along. Maybe the magical, mystery Paraag Marathe formula of excellence told everyone that are odds of winning the Super Bowl with a well-liked and respected position coach were far higher than with an established, proven coach (this sounds really familiar, btw). No matter how many 'experts' tabbed a Mike Shanahan reunion or a Peyton Manning endorsed Adam Gase, somehow, you just knew Tomsula was going to get the job. And get the job he did.
On paper, it had some potential. As the coaching staff was assembled, you had some well-known names sprinkled in the mix, some with prior head coaching experience. Some continuity on the offense (wait – wasn't that the problem in the first place?) for an embattled quarterback. Overall, some wisdom sprinkled in with some continuity rallied around a 'players head coach.' What could go wrong?
Then there was the offseason. I have been watching football and the 49ers specifically for well over 30 years. I have never seen an offseason like that one. It got to a point where I didn't dare tune into ESPN or NFL Network to hear about the next catastrophe. Say what you will about Jim Tomsula and the manner in which he got the job, but there is not a head coach on Earth that deserves to be handed that kind of debacle and then be expected to 'win championships' (Really Jed? You didn't learn from your win the division escapade?). It just isn't fair. It just isn't right. The football gods were clearly wronged and had set out to smite this organization. Even if the head coach was Bill Walsh reincarnate, there was just no way a rookie head coach should be expected to overcome all that loss and still put out a championship contender.
Then there was opening night. What a great tease. Watching the 49ers manhandle the highly touted Vikings, who up until this past week had been playing very high caliber football, was a thing of beauty and a thing of promise. Maybe our front office really was on to something. Alas, all it took was one week for it all to come crashing down to earth. The wheels came off, and now, to make it worse, our coaching staff, filled with wisdom, expertise and leadership, just couldn't adjust. A revolving door at offensive guard/tackle, a quarterback who has clearly lost all confidence and a seemingly interminable stubbornness from our coaching staff regarding personnel and tactical decision making equaled disaster.
Now staring at a second consecutive non-playoff season and with more holes to fill than a Michael Bay movie, it is easy to grab the pitch forks and march on Santa Clara demanding justice be served. The faithful were promised Super Bowls. They were told to hold our CEO accountable. Really Jed, again? Exactly how should we do this? It isn't like we can vote you off the island. So we turn to Jim Tomsula. We say, "give us his head!" While you're at it, those of your entire staff as well – save maybe Tom Rathman.
With all that being said, we have recently witnessed what can happen when we have a revolving coaching situation. So is a complete reset truly the answer? If not for Blaine Gabbert showing a dramatic improvement from his Jaguar days, I would have said yes. While Colin Kaepernick was tanking, all of us were debating what quarterback we would be targeting in the draft with our first round pick. Jared Goff? Connor Cook? Cody Kessler? The truth is, this is not shaping up to be a deep draft for quarterbacks. It feels like 2005 all over again.
But now that Gabbert has demonstrated that he has the potential to be a bridge quarterback to whoever the next great 49er quarterback may be, that gives this team room to help themselves in more ways than one. With the aforementioned issues along the offensive line, and a sparse pass rush coming from the defensive front seven, it has been clear so far that this team is losing the battle in the trenches. So if Gabbert can, at the very least, be a solid starter, the team can take relatively good draft positions and a hefty chunk of salary cap room available. The time is now for the team to use the draft to take a pass rushing specialist, a run stuffing tackle, and perhaps a fourth round flyer on a developmental quarterback. Then use free agency to re-stock the offensive line.
Assuming that this all happens, and a return to health and depth at key positions like running back and tight end – not to mention actual coaching continuity – perhaps we will get a chance to see what this coaching staff is truly all about. And to be honest, as invested as Jed York and Trent Baalke seem to be in Jim Tomsula – firing Harbaugh, passing up established, maybe even better qualified candidates and even demoting Jed's right-hand man Marathe would seem to point in that direction. Throw in Jed's supersized ego and it feels like nothing short of a complete and utter collapse in the final four games would get Tomsula fired. And when those game include Cleveland, Detroit and St. Louis, all winnable games for an improving 49ers team, that too seems really unlikely.
I know these are a lot of assumptions. To me, this coaching staff never should have been hired in the first place, but that was not my call. Year two of the Tomsula era? It might produce playoff football. It might be more of the same as this year – or worse. The question that really has to be answered is ... do they deserve the chance that perhaps they didn't get this season?
They might just be getting it either way.
The views within this article are those of the writer and, while just as important, are not necessarily those of the site as a whole.
Lucky Phil
John, I agree with your prediction that York will keep JT and I believe Baalke as well. And also use your excuse that due to the off-season he deserves another season to work with this team; however, It's the wrong decision. We have been down this road with Sing, Nolan and Erickson. Here's what I recommend York do. Fire Baalke, York needs a fall guy, and also a GM who will evaluate this team with a new set of eyes from top to bottom. We all know the best decision for this team is to draft a QB and I also recommend signing RG3 to three yr. deal, low cost but fully guaranteed. We trade Kap and Gab as well. With a new QB we need a new coach and OC. There is no point keeping Geep and JT around one more year just because we need to show the league we give coaches a chance. That's why we fire Baalke to show the league, Baalke made the mistake to fire JH and replace him with JT. York will look like the savoir and show the league he is turning the page. If he doesn't do this, this franchise falls of the map. The fans will not buy into next season unless big changes are made. York is all about the money, if he doesn't make the change he loses fans like me for good. Best teams r proactive
Response: Its not my excuse... it is just the one that Jed will use to justify bringing Tomsula back. Honestly, I don't think there is anyone in the NFL that will ever believe that Tomsula was Trent Baalke's pick. If anyone is going to be the fall guy, it will be Kaepernick. They set that up long ago with that team friendly deal they got him to sign. And RGIII? No thanks. I'd keep Gabbert first, even if I never believed I would ever say that. No more athlete quarterbacks please. Gabbert is a game manager who happens to be a good athelete... keep him to be the bridge player.
So, If I understand correctly, we have a crap team and because we have a crap team and no one could win these players we should give JT another year. That seems to be the consensus of opinion, why York will give JT another year. Here's the problem with that logic. Our defense was top 5 last yr, and we lost more players and talent last yr. than we have this year. Our defense this year is god awful against both the pass and run. That's coaching. Our offense should have been better; however with the loss of A. Davis and Killgore we have the worst O-Line in football. I can't blame Baalke entirely, the coaching staff needs to coach up or correctly assess the level of talent on the team. Example, Under Coach Sing our team was believed to have average talent and therefore not playoff caliber. During his time we had R. McDonald sitting on the bench and Bowman backing up Spikes. The coaching staff did not identify the talent on the bench and neither did they implement a winning off. and def. scheme. We wasted numerous seasons. Next year we should draft Jared Goff, Jason Spriggs, Sua Cravens, Desmond King and Corey Davis. Trade Kap, and Gab. Sign RG3. Fire coach and GM. Make my picks, York.
Response: Here is the problem. I would absolutley fire this staff if I could. Today, they were outmatched, outplayed and outcoached in just about every facet of the game. By a team that itself isn't sold on bringing back it's coach or GM. Today, the 49ers were a reflection of the coaches - in over their heads. The issue comes right down to Jed York. He handpicked Tomsula to be his head coach. Turned down multiple others, some with a much more extensive resume. Then talked about this team contending for Superbowls. Got rid of a coach who had turned this franchise around as soon as he got the job. If York truly hopes to attract a top flight head coach to this franchise, he almost has to give his handpicked coach another chance. Why in the world would any coach want to come here, if he cans his anointed one after one season, especially after that offseason? So, in this writer's humble opinion, Jed is going to give his boy one more season to turn it around, whether I agree with it or any other 49er fan likes it or not. Even if it is only to give the appearance of stability. Jed York is perilously close to becoming Dan Snyder without the money.
I think Tomsula has done an excellent job this season. Too many are focusing on the wins and not observing the small things. Tomsula startd the season with a subpar offensive line the defining part of any football that wins has a strong line. Then all of the retiremnts of personnel hurt too. Collin Kapernick was never a starting QB and lacked the mind to be one, at best a Jim Harbaugh project. Here is what you need to llok at. The defense has held up admirably with more time on the field due to the offense finding its balance. Notice lately the 9ers alomost beat the Cardinals number 2 ranked team and recently the Bears, Atlanta and Minisota. The coaching staff is making the right half time adjustments and Mangini defense looks good for having second string players.
Response: You are going to be in the minority on this... even if I agree with your points about the offensive line, retirements and Kaepernick. Aren't wins the ultimate measure of success in sports? There have definitely been improvements, but if you think about the little things - not recognizing that Tiller was a much better option than Devey; sticking with Kaepernick probably a week or two longer than you should have; awful 3rd down efficiency coupled with terrible 3rd down play calling; not recognizing that running backs out of the backfield are killing us and adjusting; red zone efficiency etc... these little things quickly add up, become big things and that is usually reflected negatively in the W-L column.
Jed York
I am currently signing Jimmy T to a multi year deal right now. He's been outstanding so far. You fans don't know how lucky it is to have such a great owner as myself
Response: Oh Jed. If only this was really you.
No. He holds himself accountable for a loss, I hold himself responsible to quit.
Response: Be nice if it worked that way. Highly unlikely that he will quit of his own accord. Maybe we see another 'mutual parting'?
AJ Dembroski
I think firing Tomsula would be out of character for York, who kept Erickson, Nolan, and Singletary around long after they'd proven they weren't head coach material. York's concern is money. He parted with 5 mil to get Harbaugh to town, got his stadium, now he'll return to form and pay guys a tenth of that. Tomsula will coach 3/4ths of next year and give way to Mangini or Sparano for the next 2 years before they too are fired.
Response: Pretty much exactly how I see it.
Mninerfan
This season is over of course so we are discussing this subject.And at this time many niners fans myself included are divided between winning meaningless games or losing for a better draft position.Some good news ,BG playing better than Kap and a better defense but after watching every game this season I still don´t believe that Tomsula are the best coach for the 49ers.He should be fired at the end of the season but unfortunately after the last game and winning Browns and Rams his chances for a second year will be good.
Response: Very true. And maybe it's the former football player in me, but I just can't bring myself to root for the team to lose... There's something inherently un-49er about that. No judgement against those that do, I totally understand why.
You know John, management doesn't see it the way I do but other than a brief reprieve with the Harbaugh years, the Niners management has been nothing short of drunk circus clowns running a nuclear facility (Iran has done much better)...it's has been embarrassing at times, disgusting at others, but truly unacceptable all the time...if fans, players, and investors really want proper change, buy out the Yorks and put someone in charge that is dedicated to efficiency and winning (think the Krafts)...
Response: It is like they really have no clue what to do, lucked out with Harbaugh then reverted right back again. It sometimes feel as you can only coach this team if you are going to be very nice to the Yorks and never disagree with them.
ddmur
As for needs, we need a wide receiver who truly is a number one at the position.
Response: That would be nice, but I see that as being further down the needs list. And again, we have Trent Baalke pulling the trigger on that, and that has been by far his weakest draft position.
g49er
Thanks for your reply to my prior comment. There is no answer to Baalke/York problems. Can we win games without a star running back or tight end? I think we can. But can we win games with a poor offensive line? I think not. Even Montana & Brady couldn't win when they're running for their lives. Staley looked bad against the Bears and Boone won't stick around for the usual Baalke offer. So at least the first 2 draft picks have got to be quality offensive lineman. Then maybe draft a QB with good potential. After that, we're stuck with whatever injured players Baalke thinks has potential. Walsh was such a master on draft day.
Response: We can certainly win with a running back committee approach, and if the current trio of tight ends we have could stay healthy, I'd be satisfied with that group as well. The trenches are most certainly the biggest need, seeing has how are inability to block, tackle and get a consistent pass rush going has cost us dearly this year. Draft, Free Agency - doesn't matter too much to me how they do it, as long as they do it.
Please no! Tomsula is not head coach material. Niners should be 3-9, if not for the missed field goal. I can think of a few names the Niners should consider, if these coaches become available. Sean Payton, Tom Coughlin, Hue Jackson, and Kyle Shanahan. Unfortunately, management likely will decide to give Tomsula another year. An example of how inept Niner management is.
Response: I would love to see Sean Payton take the reins of this offense... but that's a pipe dream. honestly, when I listened to Jed describe what he was looking for, I really thought Mike Shanahan was who he would end up with, bringing Kyle along with him as his OC/Heir. Boy was I wrong.
TRUNINERFAN
Like it or not, Tomsula will be the coach during the rebuilding process. I expect him to be the coach until we have the talent to actually compete again. When the talent is assembled, he will be fired and a qualified head coach will be hired.
Response: This seems to be the most likely outcome.
Dan Fryk
The premise of the article is worthwhile exploring. I believe it may even happen. During the fiasco that was the Harbaugh firing and all the leaks and nonsense that led up to it, there were numerous reports from around the league that the fraternity of coaches were looking at the once-proud SF franchise like the red-headed step child. IOW, no self-respecting coach wanted nothing to do with it unless it came with a complete change in the FO and a boat load of money. So, for whatever reason, Tomsula accepted the job, and like him or not, he is now a part of that fraternity. If he were to be dumped now after one year at the helm of this foundering ship, the coaching fraternity would only heap more fuel on the fire that is the "Good Ship Jed." I would love to see a change but if Gabbert can continue to play as he has, and the team win another 2 or 3 games, the only changes I expect would be some new position coaches, and that may be only a dream. In today's NFL, ruled by the quest for mediocrity where a loser one year becomes the darling next year, a couple of astute draft picks and some FA repair along the OL could boost this team into a wild card slot.
Response: It is really sad where Jed has taken this team. I would have hoped someone who was raised surrounded by the glory years and who has a sure fire mentor on ownership readily available would show some signs of progression. Doesn't look that way. This just isn't a franchise that top tier coaching talent seems to want to be around, and who can blame them. Hence why we are going to be in for the intermediate haul with Tomsula.
I always liked Tomsula... I liked him in NFL Europe and I liked it when Nolan hired him as an assistant. He was the main reason our front four had been so dominant before the departures. However, i never wanted him as our head coach. I agree, he should never have been hired, because we've seen this all before with Singletary. The main guy that created this whole fiasco in the first place is Baalke. He's the one that should be the slaughtered lamb. He let starting free agents go with no adequate replacements, should have known about players who's hearts weren't in the game anymore and would probably retire, he should have prepared better in the draft. He failed on all counts, but unfortunately, he'll probably be back. Even if we get a high draft pick, I have no faith that he can select the right talent for this team, he just doesn't get it. Reminds me of Terry Donahue; cocky, arrogant, and in complete denial. But what can you do, but continue to watch. Getting this team of holes to 7 and 9 would be quite an accomplishment and deserves a re-do. At least that's what York is thinking.
Response: Indeed. I really hoped they had learned from Singletary that phenomenal position coaches (which I'm not sure Singletary was even that) don't make good head coaches, unless they are surrounded my top tier coordinators. And none of those coordinators wanted to come to the 49ers, clearly. And yes, Baalke should be on notice.
Sylvester Newton
Why does everybody keep blabbering on about Gabbert? He's benefited from Devey being out of the lineup, the same dude who made Tom Brady look incapable & even with all the improvement of Gabbert, the team is putting up the exact same 13-14pts per game through regulation they have all year..through 4 qtrs yesterday Gabbert had 125yrds passing 0 passing TDs, a 44yrd rushing TD & the offense generated a grand total of(drum roll) 14pts!!! The exact same kind of numbers people were KILLING Kapernick over..doesn't matter who the qb is we get the same product on the field..we have one win against a team with a winning record. This team needs to clean house from the very top down starting with Baalke & his putrid drafts & Tomsula who sacrificed his original starting qb, sacrificed chances of trying to win games & chose punting just to keep the score more respectable, who's teams have came out looking completely unprepared throughout this entire season(Steelers, Cards 1st game, both games against Seattle), nobody should be lending any kind of credence to why he should keep his job.
Response: A quarterback with virtually 0 first team snaps came in with the exact same offense (excluding Devey) and with a makeshift running game and a banged up Boldin... And has executed with far better efficiency than Kaepernick. I could show you numbers from Super Bowl winning QB's that you'd think how was that possible. Numbers don't always tell the whole story. Was that Gabberts best game? No. But he shows more pocket presence, more downfield awareness and more confidence than Kaepernick was showing. That is why the change was made. That's why it needed to be made. I think Kaepernick and Gabberts numbers are similar due to the scheme of the offense. Gabberts just seems better equipped to take advantage when that same terrible scheme lets him.
Dallas Niner Fan
Who cares? The real question is leadership at the top. Unfortunately, that is not going to change. This team will never be an elite team for the next 3-5 years at least as long as the current upper management is in place.
Response: I think 3-5 years is optimistic.
Uuuhhh NO...and not just NO but hell NO...I don't know how SF changes for the better but wasting another year on this group isn't the answer...
Response: Don't think 49ers management sees it that way.
Jeb dork
The 49ers barely win a couple of games against inferior teams now you're all on their jock. Shame
Response: Hardly
Good article, and I know you'll get crucified for it but Jimmy T has had a rough first season (I won't go over the retirements and Aldon again) and if he finishes 7-9 (or even 8-8 if the Bengals decide to play backups against us in a fortnight he won't have done much worse than Harbaugh last year. My frustrations this year have been the o-line, the leaks from the FO, Jed being, well, Jed, personnel and inconsistency (great defense one week, swiss cheese the next). The last two should improve in a second season with Tomsula not second guessing himself to change the line-up. If the team finishes 6-10 or 7-9 I'd keep him and see what improvements can be made. However, the OC and STC need replacing. Both are as awful as the right side of the o-line. Oh, and Hayne, we need to see Hayne back on the team.
Response: Thanks! I'm sure I will too. But that's ok, I am just as frustrated with the product on and off the field as anyone else. But Mr. York is going to use all the turmoil at the beginning of the season and the teams improved play over the last few weeks to justify giving Tomsula one more try. For him to fire the staff at seasons end would mean York admitting his mistake, and he has done nothing in his tenure for me to believe that will happen.
Chuckm
Althought I understand your point....the answer is still no!!!
Response: Thanks! And agreed.
Arturo Bradley
49erswebzone writers always complain and cry a river in all of their articles. Considering they cover SF 49ers, they cant even cover positives or at least any silver linings. Its always about how Kap sucks or Tomsula is a potato. At least Gabbert is playing decent and won on the road, how about writing about that?
Response: I did discuss Gabbert's potential to at least be a bridge quarterback for the team... if the team is going to invest a draft pick and develop a young quarterback, having someone on the roster that they can learn from while not having to be rushed onto the field is a good thing - something Gabbert himself might agree with. I have been really surprised by what I have seen from Gabbert and would like to see what he could do with a real offensive line in front of him and a healthy Hyde in the backfield. See - silver lining :)
Please!! Our right offensive line is/was 2 castoff free agents. And what a disaster. Forget about taking any other position for at least the first 2 picks.
Dec 7, 2015 at 11:22 PM
Response: I just don't have faith in Trent Baalke's ability to draft Guards... so if we get a healthy and motivated Anthony Davis back - a really big if, I admit - we could make a free agent splash on a Guard and save at least our first draft pick on an impact pass rusher to pair with Aaron Lynch.
Response: Thanks, I always love getting feedback in the form of punctuation!
God I hope not. He might be a nice guy, he might be a good position coach, but he's no head coach.
He still needs to go
Dan Waterman
No, him and brown nose- dumpster diving, drafting injured player GM Baalke must go. I personally think that Chicago tried very hard to lose the game and they did. They should win the Cleveland Game also. That does not change anything except they are screwing up their draft order. Yorks have done it three possibly four times if you add Erickson deal. However, at Candle Stick they did not have $650 million dollar loan, they got away with it. Here at Levis empty seat would hurt their pocket eventually no matter how many other events they keep in the stadium. Football is their main business. Having said that, Tomsula is Jed York ego hire, he will keep him, this means be ready for another 5-11 season.
Response: I agree, I too am done with Trent Baalke. The man seems incapable of drafting an OG or WR and I am sick and tired of the all ACL squad.
Nooooooooooo!!!!!
ant Chon
Bla bla ..the only real question is if BG is the next Jeff Garcia or the next Shawn Hill...will see
Response: That is a great question. Would really like to see a rebuilt offense around Gabbert given what I have seen in 4 games this season with the disaster surrounding him right now.
49ers glad 2020 season is finally over
By Kirk Larrabee
Like so many around the world, the way the San Francisco 49ers reacted to the end of 2020 can be summed up in one word -- relief. Of course, things got quite unusual for the 49ers towards the end of 2020, given the fact the team had to live in a hotel in Arizona for over a month in order to finish its season after local COVID-19 ordinances in Santa Clara shut down any remaining home games. The 49ers' season came to an end with a 26-23 loss to the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday, which means the players, coaches, and staff will now get the chance to go home -- and in some cases see their families -- for the first time in 32 days. It's understandable then that after that loss to the Seahawks, 49ers players and head coach Kyle Shanahan showed visible happiness that 2020
Seahawks ran unneeded play late in win over 49ers to get WR David Moore $100,000 bonus
There are times when a winning team running an unnecessary play with the game in hand would be something that falls under the category of poor sportsmanship, but it turns out the Seattle Seahawks had a good reason to do so against the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday. The Seahawks had the lead and the ball with 22 seconds to play in their 26-23 win over the 49ers, which is a situation where teams would usually kneel on the ball to run out the clock. But they decided instead to run a short five-yard pass play to wide receiver David Moore, which left some observers confused. After the game, it was revealed the Seahawks ran the play for Moore so he could get a performance bonus of $100,000. Moore's contract stipulates that he gets the bonus for 35 receptions on the
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How our scientists are making Alexa smarter
Amazon's Rohit Prasad, vice president and head scientist of Alexa Machine Learning
Photo by JORDAN STEAD / Amazon
Amazon Alexa head scientist shares how his teams are working to improve customers' experiences with Echo devices.
Rohit Prasad is vice president and head scientist, Amazon Alexa, where he leads research and development in speech recognition, natural language understanding, and machine learning technologies aimed at improving customers’ experiences with Echo devices, powered by Alexa. He answers five questions about technology and Alexa's future.
Q. The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency first began working on speech technology in the early 1970s. Why are we now suddenly experiencing this emergence in conversational AI technologies like Alexa?
A. Conversational AI as a technology has been actively researched for close to 50 years with the goal of interactions with machines becoming as seamless as communication among humans. This is one of the most challenging areas of AI, because machines must be supremely intelligent to understand and communicate in human language be it speech or text, or in combination with touch or visuals.
While speech as a human-machine interface has always been considered advantageous, the biggest barrier to its adoption has been the ability of machines to recognize and understand speech input in a hands- and eyes-free manner. We call this the challenge of far-field or distant speech recognition, where an ambient device like an Echo can recognize words spoken from a distance with high accuracy.
By launching Echo in November 2014, we showed that far-field speech recognition in noisy environments can be done with high accuracy through a combination of machine learning algorithms, data, and immense computing power.
Another important reason for adoption of Alexa is the wide array of intents she can understand and respond to, revolutionizing daily convenience such as accessing and playing music, books, and videos, controlling smart devices in the home, communicating with friends and family, shopping, setting reminders, or getting information you need.
Q. What are the key conversational AI and machine learning technologies behind Alexa?
A. Alexa is designed to take the best action on behalf of the user based on her interpretation of the user’s goal. Unlike search engines, she doesn't simply respond with a set of 10 blue links the user must choose from - instead Alexa acts on behalf of the user asking clarifying questions as needed. There are several key technologies that make Alexa work.
It starts with detecting the “wake word” that triggers Alexa to start listening to the subsequent spoken words from the user. Wake word detection employs deep learning technology running on-device to recognize the wake word the user has chosen. Far-field automatic speech recognition (ASR) in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud then converts into text the audio following the wake word, and determines when the user has stopped talking to Alexa.
The success and adoption of Alexa is extremely satisfying but we have just scratched the surface of what’s possible.
Rohit Prasad - vice president and head scientist, Amazon Alexa
Once the spoken audio has been converted to text, Alexa uses natural language understanding (NLU) to convert the words into a structured interpretation of intent that can be used to respond to the user from the more than 30,000 Alexa skills built by first- and third-party developers.
This structured interpretation is used in combination with different forms of context, such as which type of device the user is interacting with, what the most likely skills are that can provide a response, or who is speaking. This context helps determine the best next action Alexa should take. The possible outcomes are to either respond with the best action from a skill or to ask for more information from the user.
How Alexa responds or sounds is also critical for natural dialog. This is accomplished via text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) which converts arbitrary sequences of words into natural sounding, intelligible audio.
What’s common across all the technologies mentioned above is the emphasis on data-driven machine learning and fast inference at runtime to deliver an accurate response in as short a time as possible. As scientists and engineers we’re always battling this healthy tension between accuracy and latency from when the user stops speaking to Alexa to when she responds.
Q. Like other artificial intelligence technologies, Alexa gets smarter the more you use her and the more she learns about you. What are Amazon scientists and engineers doing to make Alexa smarter?
A. Since Alexa’s brain is mostly in the cloud, she gets smarter with every interaction. Alexa uses a suite of learning techniques: supervised, semi-supervised, and unsupervised learning. While supervised learning is still most powerful, it does not scale since we cannot generate manual labels at the pace required to continually improve Alexa for our customers. Therefore, our scientists and engineers are continually applying and inventing new learning techniques to reduce reliance on manual labels for training our statistical models. For instance, active learning as a class of semi-supervised learning techniques, where the system itself posits which part of the interactions it needs input from a human expert, is pervasive across our technologies. Unsupervised learning without any labeled responses is also being applied to make Alexa smarter, especially for speech recognition. Finally, we also use transfer learning, allowing Alexa to learn from one skill to another or even one language to another.
Q. What’s unique about doing conversational AI research at Amazon?
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A team of Amazon linguists and data scientists makes it easy for you to teach your language or dialect to Alexa.
A. What makes us unique is how we approach research in general. Every research problem starts with a working backwards methodology borrowed from how we approach product development within Amazon. The basic idea is simple. We begin by writing what the research, if successful, would eventually accomplish or revolutionize, and then we work backwards from that goal in how we design our experiments and milestones to check progress. We believe in fast experimentation and proving or disproving our hypothesis as early as possible.
Another unique aspect to conversational AI research within Amazon is that we have a ground-breaking product in the form of Alexa, where we can prove new algorithms and technology at scale. This makes technical advances we publish in conference or journal publications even more credible.
The combination of large quantities of data, near-infinite computing power, deep experience of our team in AI problems to learn from, and the appetite for risk taking makes Amazon arguably the best place in the world to pursue your conversational AI research dreams.
Q. What do you see as the future of conversational AI?
A: I am excited about the future of AI as a whole. AI will have deep societal impact and will help humans learn new skills that we can’t even imagine today. For conversational AI, I still think it is Day 1. The success and adoption of Alexa is extremely satisfying but we have just scratched the surface of what’s possible.
In the next five years, we will see conversational AI get smarter on multiple dimensions as we make further advances with machine learning and reasoning. With these advances, we will see Alexa become more contextually aware in how she recognizes, understands, and responds to requests from users. Alexa will become smarter more quickly as unsupervised learning will dominate how she learns.
Alexa will engage in more natural conversation on every day topics and news events just as humans can. This is our focus with the Alexa Prize, a university competition for building “socialbots” that can coherently and engagingly conduct a 20-minute conversation with a human. Our customers have logged more than 100,000 hours of conversation with the 2017 Alexa Prize socialbots; our 2018 Alexa Prize socialbots will come online in May. It’s fun to try. Just say, “Alexa, Let’s chat.”
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Korean squad embraced by harbour city
With its players already engaged in intensive training after arrival last week, an impressive Korean baseball contingent was today extended a hearty civic reception by the Geelong community as it continues preparations for its debut season in Australian Baseball League – which starts next week.
At least for its inaugural year, the Asian entry will play as Geelong-Korea, although its base will remain as Geelong Baseball Centre for at least two, and up to five years of the new franchise – one of two licences granted by Baseball Australia, with the other being New Zealand Tuatara playing out of Auckland.
Held in pleasant conditions at the Waurn Ponds complex, today’s reception was indeed a positive and uplifting occasion, with a Welcome to Country Ceremony performed by traditional owners of the land preceding a series of formal addresses by state government, baseball and council officials.
The Korean squad was also treated to some eye-opening close encounters with Australian native wildlife – kindly provided by Animals of Oz.
Managed by Dae-Sung Koo – a man with an extraordinary record of baseball playing longevity in Korea, Major League Baseball and more recently with Sydney Blue Sox – the Geelong-Korea team has drawn in the South West Division of Australian Baseball League, which will see it pitted against established clubs in the new South-West Division and play further crossover games against clubs in the North East Division.
While staying at Deakin University, the Korean squad will have access to first-class training and recovery facilities both at the university and in immediate vicinity of the Waurn Ponds complex.
A city with a lengthy and distinguished baseball history dating back to the late nineteen thirties, Geelong boasts one of the outstanding baseball complexes in Australia – including its fully-lit stadium and three other quality fields, one of those fully synthetic.
Geelong Baseball Centre was primarily developed to host the 2002 World Masters Games and it has since played host to Australian Baseball League games, Chiba Lotte Marines training camps, national championships at all levels and Baseball Victoria Winter Championships.
While recent enhancements already have the stadium looking in pristine condition, further works will be conducted over weeks and months to come – a joint effort between the Victorian state government and City of Greater Geelong, who are both acutely aware of the enormous potential benefits to be derived from the Korean presence.
Extending a warm welcome to the Korean squad, Victorian Minister for Tourism and Major Events John Eren spoke of the “trade, sporting and tourism opportunities” that would be delivered through the Geelong/Korea baseball project, especially with games being broadcast live into Asia and the impact that is likely to have on already burgeoning numbers of Korean visitors to Victoria.
Aside from the “cultural links” that would be enhanced, Mr Eren spoke of this being the “perfect time to help build the sport” (of baseball) – especially with readmission to the Olympics for 2020.
Reiterating Mr Eren’s emphasis on the importance of our relationship to Asia through sporting connections, Baseball Australia Chief Executive Officer Cam Vale paid particular credit to the City of Greater Geelong, to the Geelong community, and to the nation of Korea – in this instance led by Winterball Korea.
“This project has been a long time coming,” Vale said. “It has probably been on the agenda for twenty years. It will be a great catalyst for our baseball to actually take the sport – and our league – into Asia.”
Speaking through a translator, Geelong/Korea Manager Dae-Sung Koo and Winterball Korea CEO Jerry Kim both expressed their appreciation of the support they have thus far received in the harbour city. While aware of the playing challenges facing the club in its foray into Australian Baseball League, both are clearly upbeat about their prospects of making a serious and ongoing impact.
More than that, a clearly enthused Mr Kim expressed the view that – with support of the local community – Geelong/Korea will “make this city the face of Australia”.
In again acknowledging the traditional people of this land, City of Greater Geelong Mayor Mr Bruce Harwood welcomed the Korean squad and expressed his anticipation for this new, ground-breaking Australian Baseball League season.
“I’m really looking forward to the season,” Mr Harwood said. “If we can win (the championship) then we we’ll be having a big party. If we lose, we still will!”
Given the welcoming spirit, the excitement and the baseball joy that was palpable at the civic reception, it is clear that Geelong/Korea, its supporters and its host community are in for a fun ride.
Geelong-Korea will play its first series as an away fixture against Sydney Blue Sox (November 15-18) before a first highly-anticipated home opener against Perth Heat (November 22-25).
Scroll down for a selection of images from Geelong Baseball Centre today (credit: Australian Baseball Alumni).
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ANALYSIS: PROVISIONAL TAX
An alternative for remuneration not subject to employees’ tax
The signing of the Tax Administration Laws Amendment Bill 2016 into law on 11 January 2017 extends the ambit of the provisional tax legislation to include remuneration from an employer who is not registered for employees’ tax.
In the global mobility space, it is common practice for foreign national employees to remain on the home country employer’s or on the seconding employer’s payroll. This is to ensure that home country contributions together with home country expenses are adequately taken care of while the individual is assigned to work in a foreign country.
In other cases, a split pay arrangement may apply where a portion of the salary gets paid in the home country and a portion in the host country.
CURRENT TREND FOR SOUTH AFRICANS
Assuming that South Africa has the right to tax the income derived for services rendered in South Africa, that is, a liability for normal tax exists, the tax collection mechanism, either in the form of monthly employees’ tax withholding or provisional tax, needs to be considered.
In regard to foreign nationals working in South Africa, there is often a debate regarding the employees’ tax withholding obligation. Where employees’ tax does not apply, the dilemma extends to whether or not the foreign remuneration should be included for the purpose of determining the provisional tax liability.
This issue was raised in the public comments to the Standing Committee on Finance (SCoF) regarding the proposed legislation dealing with the notification of by the Commissioner of any category of persons that they are provisional taxpayers in the Draft Taxation Laws Amendment Bill 2016 (DTLAB).
THE EMPLOYEES’ TAX CONSIDERATION
If the foreign national is seconded to a group entity in South Africa, such entity does not pay the individual, nor is the local entity liable to pay the individual. In this regard, the provisions of paragraph 2(1) of the Fourth Schedule to the Income Tax Act 58 of 1962 (the Act) do not apply and the local entity therefore does not have an employees’ tax withholding obligation.
Where the home country employer does not have a South African resident entity or is not registered as an external company (that is, a branch) in South Africa, there is no resident employer or resident representative employer as envisaged in paragraph 2(1) of the Fourth Schedule to the Act.
Accordingly, no employees’ tax withholding obligation exists and to the extent a liability for normal tax exists, the tax liability is discharged upon assessment of the foreign national’s annual income tax return.
VOLUNTARY REGISTRATION AS AN EMPLOYER FOR EMPLOYEES’ TAX
Where a liability to contribute toward statutory levies such as the Skills Development Levies (SDL) and unemployment insurance contributions exists for the resident/non-resident employer, given the anomaly associated with the registration process, certain branches of external companies voluntarily register as an employer for the purpose of withholding and remitting employees’ tax.
The anomaly is that the application for registration as an employer for the purpose of withholding and remitting employees’ tax is a precursor and is a requirement for registering the other statutory levies such as SDL. The voluntary registration as an employer facilitates the registration process for these other statutory levies.
ALTERNATIVE TAX COLLECTION MECHANISM: PROVISIONAL TAXPAYER
The amended legislation dealing with paragraph 1 of the Fourth Schedule to the Act, will empower the Commissioner to notify any category of persons that they are provisional taxpayers.
POSITION REGARDING FOREIGN NATIONAL EMPLOYEES
In accordance with current practice, where no employees’ tax withholding obligation exists, foreign nationals either voluntarily register as provisional taxpayers or settle the tax liability upon assessment. Where the tax liability is settled upon assessment, the South African Revenue Service (SARS) issues a retrospective registration as a provisional taxpayer, thereby levying concomitant penalties and interest in respect of the underpayment of provisional tax. This results in various requests being made to SARS to remit the penalties and interest given that the current legislation does not impose a mandatory obligation to settle the tax liability arising from remuneration by way of provisional tax.
The wording of the definition of a ‘provisional taxpayer’ contained in paragraph 1 of the Fourth Schedule to the Act prior to the amendment, made it clear that a person who derives income that constitutes ‘remuneration’ is excluded from such definition. A person who derived ‘remuneration’ that was not subjected to employees’ tax withholding was therefore not required to register as a provisional taxpayer.
However, the amended legislation extends the ambit of the provisional tax collection mechanism to catch remuneration payments that are not subjected to employees’ tax withholding where there is no registered employer for the purpose of withholding and remitting employees’ tax. The wording of the definition of a ‘provisional taxpayer in paragraph 1 of the Fourth Schedule has been amended to include any remuneration from an employer who is not registered in terms of paragraph 15 to the Fourth Schedule.
Furthermore, the part of the definition dealing with exclusions under sub-item (BB) has been amended to extend the provisional tax collection mechanism to employees that receive remuneration that has not been subjected to employees’ tax withholding. The amendment now facilitates the upfront collection of taxes where remuneration is not subject to employees’ tax. The tax position relating to the different categories of employees is detailed below.
The provisional tax treatment for foreign national employees seconded or assigned to work in South Africa but paid by a non-resident employer, and
The provisional tax treatment for local employees who are remunerated by a non-resident employer
Based on the revised legislation contained in the Fourth Schedule dealing with the requirement to register as an employer for the purpose of withholding and remitting employees’ tax, the remuneration paid by a non-resident employer will no longer be excluded from the payment of provisional tax. Registration as a provisional taxpayer by the foreign national is therefore mandatory.
POSITION REGARDING LOCAL EMPLOYEES
Local employees who derive remuneration from a foreign employer, which is not subject to employees’ tax withholding, will have a mandatory obligation to register as a provisional taxpayer to settle the tax liability in respect of the remuneration so derived. The revised legislation requires that such local employees also be included in the provisional tax net.
Author: Shohana Mohan is Director and Head of Individual & Expatriate Tax, BDO South Africa Tax Services (Pty) Ltd
Categories: Articles, Influence February 1, 2017
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With Beer Drinking Down, Jim Beam Targets Consumers Looking for a New ‘Sessionable’ Beverage
The bourbon brand's latest campaign highlights a simple cocktail: the highball
Jim Beam's in-person "Beam Gardens" mimic the atmosphere of beer gardens—but serve bourbon drinks. Jim Beam
By Kathryn Lundstrom
While the craft beer enthusiasts are certainly going strong, Jim Beam is hoping to tap into a different segment of the population with its new campaign: drinkers who are tired of hearing about the latest brewing techniques and just want a refreshing beverage—without the bloat and extra carbs.
The bourbon brand’s new ad, part of a broader “Need a Break From Beer” campaign, plays on craft beer stereotypes, joking about goat milk-aged IPAs, sinister dark brews and traditional German beers. Instead of “another beer,” the bartender offers one disillusioned customer a Jim Beam-and-ginger highball cocktail.
The ad may come off as a little silly or contrived, but industry trends are fueling its message. While craft beer has a loyal following, industry observers have noticed that casual beer drinkers are peeling off in favor of spirits and simple cocktails, even when they’re drinking at home.
Beer’s market share has been slowly declining for years. And while certain segments within beer continue to be strong, the overall numbers indicate that drinkers are looking for something other than a brew. Over the last two years, off-premise beer’s market share has shrunk by 1.2%, according to Nielsen. That’s including the meteoric rise of hard seltzers—many of which fall under the beer category as flavored malt beverages. Given those insights, the marketing team at Jim Beam chose to capitalize on this trend, which coincides with a steady increase in bourbon sales.
“We are seeing, just in general, a push away from beer—and wine, even—in favor of spirits,” said Malini Patel, managing director at James B. Beam Distilling Co.
“But in addition to that, you also see the rise of seltzers and more light refreshing drinks,” Patel said. “I think people are looking to drink things that are interesting, but also could be a bit more sessionable.”
“Sessionability,” which refers to drinkers’ ability and willingness to have more than one of a certain drink in a row, has become something of a buzzword in the alcohol industry. With low-carb, low-ABV drinks like hard seltzer and light beers seeing the biggest success right now, Jim Beam wants folks to think about a simple cocktail with its bourbon as another option in that space.
The highball is exactly that, according to Patel. It’s simple, so folks can make it easily at home while bars are closed or inadvisable to enter due to the pandemic, and it’s versatile. Each person can choose how much sweetness they want by either mixing Jim Beam with ginger soda or highly carbonated water.
But bringing bourbon into the sessionable drinking space does require changing its perception, Patel acknowledged.
“People still seem to think that [bourbon is] relegated to the dark corner armchair, sipping bourbon or sipping whiskey,” Patel said. “From a Jim Beam perspective, it’s just more democratic than that. We believe that it really is about bringing people together.”
The Beam Garden activations will take place later this year, when it is safe to do so.Jim Beam
The campaign will also include Beam Gardens—outdoor activations that mimic the atmosphere of a beer garden, but with Jim Beam Highball on tap instead of beer. While plans for those events have not been finalized yet as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to make in-person gatherings unwise, the brand hopes to announce locations and dates for the Beam Gardens soon.
The “Need a Break From Beer” spot, created by agency adam&eveNYC, began running on national TV this week. It’ll air throughout the year on more than 20 national TV networks, including MLB Network, ESPN2, AMC, Comedy Central, ABC, FOX and NBC.
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Teenager Stabbed To Death Three Hours: Jay Fathers Biography, Wiki, Age, Family, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Fast Facts
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Jay Fathers is a teenager who was stabbed to death only hours into the New Year, has been named by police and a 21-year-old man who has been arrested on suspicion of murder. Jay was stabbed in Walshs Manor, Stantonbury, Buckinghamshire shortly before 3 am on New Year’s Day.
Thames Valley Police said a 21-year-old man from Milton Keynes has been arrested on suspicion of murder and remains in police custody.
Jay Fathers Age
Jay Fathers, from Milton Keynes, was 18 years old at the time of death.
Jay Fathers stabbed to death three hours into New Year’s Day
Today Melanie Fathers, who described herself as Jay’s auntie, claimed on Facebook that her nephew had been stabbed six times.
She wrote: ‘Thinking of my brother and his family after my nephew was stabbed 6 times on New Year’s Day.
‘Sending love, compassion and healing to his friends and family R.I.P.
Police and paramedics who arrived at the Milton Keynes scene found two men with stab injuries. The second victim, 49, survived after receiving emergency treatment from doctors but the 18-year-old was certified dead in hospital.
Detectives said that they had arrested a 21-year-old suspect on suspicion of murder and he remained in police custody.
What we know so far about Jay Fathers
Jay Fathers are believed to have once been an aspiring actor, advertising himself for work on the website ‘starnow’ when he was 15. He then went on to work for JD Sports in Milton Keynes, according to an online LinkedIn page.
A statement from Thames Valley Police said: ‘Officers investigating the murder of an 18-year-old man in Milton Keynes on New Years’ Day (1/1) can now confirm the formal identity of the victim. ‘Officers were called to reports of an altercation in Walshs Manor, Stantonbury, just before 3 am on New Years’ Day and found two men with serious injuries.
‘Sadly, an 18-year-old man died in hospital, despite the best efforts of medical professionals.
‘A Home Office post-mortem examination conducted yesterday (2/1) has ascertained the cause of Jay’s death to be a stab wound to the abdomen.
‘A 21-year-old man from Milton Keynes has been arrested on suspicion of murder and remains in police custody at this time.’
Senior Investigating Officer Detective Chief Inspector Andy Howard from Thames Valley Police’s Major Crime Unit added: ‘We are continuing the investigation into the circumstances surrounding Jay’s death and I would appeal to anybody who has any information that can assist this investigation to please contact police on 101 or online.
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The Windsor Star's photographers and reporters covered the city and county on Friday, Jan. 3, 2014. See the gallery.
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Jason Brimm, left, walks up the hill with his son, Gavin Brimm, 5, where they were tobogganing at Long Park, Friday, January 3, 2014. Environment Canada is forecasting more snow for the region with up to 20 cm coming Sunday afternoon and evening. (DAX MELMER/The Windsor Star)
The Windsor Star’s photographers and reporters covered the city and county on Friday, Jan. 3, 2014. See the gallery.
Windsor’s Papa Oppong drives past Mississauga’s Alex Johnson, left, as the Windsor Express host the Mississauga Power at the WFCU Centre, Friday, January 3, 2014. (DAX MELMER/The Windsor Star)
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Windsor’s Kevin Loiselle takes a shot over Mississauga’s Dwight McCombs, left, as the Windsor Express host the Mississauga Power at the WFCU Centre, Friday, January 3, 2014. (DAX MELMER/The Windsor Star)
Windsor’s Stefan Bonneau pulls up for a jumper as the Windsor Express host the Mississauga Power at the WFCU Centre, Friday, January 3, 2014. (DAX MELMER/The Windsor Star)
Windsor’s Chris Commons and Mississauga’s Kirk Williams Jr., left, get tangled up battling for the ball as the Windsor Express host the Mississauga Power at the WFCU Centre, Friday, January 3, 2014. (DAX MELMER/The Windsor Star)
Windsor’s Chris Commons shoots over Mississauga’s Kirk Williams Jr., left, as the Windsor Express host the Mississauga Power at the WFCU Centre, Friday, January 3, 2014. (DAX MELMER/The Windsor Star)
A small crowd watch the Windsor Express host the Mississauga Power at the WFCU Centre, Friday. (DAX MELMER/The Windsor Star)
Windsor’s Kevin Loiselle, left, takes a shot over Mississauga’s Dwight McCombs at the WFCU Centre. (DAX MELMER/The Windsor Star)
Happy to be in from the cold, Stephanie Law, 26, shares a coffee and bagel with Randy Kaungh, left, at Street Help Homeless Services on Wyandotte Street East Friday, Jan. 3, 2014. (NICK BRANCACCIO/The Windsor Star)
The exterior of the Windsor Jewish Community Centre on Jan. 3, 2014. (Dax Melmer / The Windsor Star)
Kaitlyn Holden, left, and Jesse Hebert push Kaden, 1, along Marentette Avenue as a snow plow waits to plow the neighbourhood streets Friday January 3, 2014. (NICK BRANCACCIO/The Windsor Star)
Mackenzie Marenchin, 7, is escorted down the toboggan hill by her father Brian Marenchin at Malden Park Friday January 3, 2014. (NICK BRANCACCIO/The Windsor Star)
Evan Beadow, left, and his cousin, Max Beadow race down Malden Park toboggan hill Friday January 3, 2014. (NICK BRANCACCIO/The Windsor Star)
Michaela Marenchin, 9, left, and sister Mackenzie Marenchin, 7, get spun around while racing down Malden Park toboggan hill Friday January 3, 2014. (NICK BRANCACCIO/The Windsor Star)
Evan Beadow, front, and his cousin, Max Beadow race down Malden Park toboggan hill Friday January 3, 2014. (NICK BRANCACCIO/The Windsor Star)
Tight corner for this Amico Construction snow plow on Ellis Street East at Marentette Avenue Friday January 3, 2014. (NICK BRANCACCIO/The Windsor Star)
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Whirling and twirling through a pandemic and a derecho, AgArts has landed on its feet during 2020. We’ve been able to maintain our central work—the farm-to-artist residencies—and do even more to imagine and promote healthy food systems through the arts.
In February, AgArts moved into its own home, a storefront in downtown Kalona, IA., the heart of the largest Amish settlement west of the Mississippi River. We are very near the busiest corner in town and have lots of street traffic of both tourists and townspeople. During the first month, many people stopped in to say hello and find out what we were about. We were featured in interviews in local newspapers. The space had been a lawyer’s office who left the place fully furnished with antiques. We blew up frames from Jean Graham’s Farm Art Zine and decorated the walls. (Jean’s Zine is available for download on our website, and images of three of her works are here, above and below.)
In one corner of the office, we fixed up a small sound studio. Through the generous support of the Werner Ellithorp Fund at the Oregon Community Foundation, we launched a podcast series called “AgArts from Horse & Buggy Land.” This bi-monthly program is centered upon the activities of fictitious Freemartin Town. It features stories about the Amish, interviews with farmers, local old-time, bluegrass, jazz and blues music, readings about sustainability from the Amish newspaper Plain Interests, a Call-In Catastrophe show, and recipes from Ruby, the resident grossmomie. Episode #6, a holiday story from Amishland, is now posted and ready for listening.
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This year we adapted our farm residencies to our challenging times. At the end of February, visual artist Buzz Masters set up her easel in the River House at Whiterock Conservancy in western Iowa, isolated and surrounded by restored prairie. Buzz was wildly productive until the pandemic descended, calling her back to Maine. (Images of two of her works are below.) Several residencies had to be cancelled due to travel restrictions and lockdowns, but we were able to reconfigure and rematch other artists to farms. During July, dance artists Emily Climer and Marie Haas arrived at Whiterock from New York City, and later in the month, journalist and playwright Jeff Biggers and his son were able to spend time there learning about the complexities of agriculture.
This year the complexities of reaching our audience were simplified through online teaching. In collaboration with The Land Alliance Folk School, AgArts taught classes in poetry and memoir writing, and cell phone videos, as well as root cellaring and dehydrating food preservation. The Folk School filled out the schedule with botanical drawing, making dyes from plants, canning and a host of other skill-based courses. These classes were quite popular and this winter we will be planning an array of courses for 2021. We also had two interns from Central College in Pella, IA who helped with technical writing and staffing our booth at conferences.
“AgArts needs your help to continue to bridge the urban/rural divide by bringing artists and farmers together, allowing each to better understand the landscape of the other.”
Our artists have gotten to know the farmers and have been able to reflect their agricultural issues in their writing, painting, theatre, and dance. Our podcasts have added entertaining comic relief to a difficult year, all the while educating our audiences about agriculture and the rural environment.
This year we are offering premiums to thank you for your tax-deductible donations to AgArts.
$100 A set of postcards made from visual artist Jean Graham’s Farm Art Zine.
$250 A free signed book by Mary Swander
$500 A set of postcards, free book, and your name announced as a supporter on the “AgArts from Horse & Buggy Land” podcast.
$3000 A set of postcards, free book, and your name on all publicity materials as a contributor who endowed an AgArts Farm-to-Artist residency.
Here are ways you can help:
Click the DONATE button on the AgArts website and make a donation on your credit card. http://www.agarts.org
Or improve both your budget and ours by becoming a regular contributor through our website on Patreon.com. https://www.patreon.com/AgArts
Send a check through snail mail to: AgArts, P.O. Box 516, Kalona, IA 52247.
Tune in and subscribe to “AgArts from Horse & Buggy Land.” Like and follow AgArts on Facebook and Instagram.
I hope you will continue your commitment to agriculture and the arts with a generous gift to AgArts today. We are grateful for your support!
Mary Swander, AgArts Executive Director
319-683-2613, swandermary@gmail.com
Landscapes from farm country: artist Marcia Wegman
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Romania removes the export ban on agri-food products
Suspension of flights to/from NL prolonged by 14 days
New procedure for approval of charter flights for seasonal workers
Update - 17.04.2020
Romania removes the export ban on agri-food products. A new Military Ordinance (no.9) was issued on 16.04.2020. As of today 17.04.2020 the export of cereals, oilseeds, oil, sugar, milling and bakery products etc. is no longer banned. The respective articles of the previous Military Ordinance (no.8) which set the ban one week ago are now completely abolished. The explanation was that following the discussions which took place between the Government and commodity traders, solutions have been found to refill the State reserves, thus ensuring the food security of the population until the next harvest.
Farmers’ markets must stay open, also according to this Military Ordinance, and local authorities must ensure that protection means are used (masks, gloves) and the social distancing measure is respected. These little markets are the only outlet for many small agricultural producers selling seasonal products. Food shopping increased considerably this week before Orthodox Easter.
The suspension of flights to/from the Netherlands is prolonged by 14 days, starting with April 18, 2020. Note: EU citizens can still enter into Romania. However, citizens coming from “red-zone” countries (including the Netherlands) are placed in state quarantine for 14 days.
Farmers are asking the government to take measures to decrease the number of wild boars which are devastating the agricultural fields, and exempt hunters from the current movement restrictions triggered by of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Minister of Agriculture held a press meeting on 15.04.2020. He mentioned that the measure of banning the export of cereals, oilseeds, oil, sugar, milling and bakery products was based on alarming signals related to the current severe drought and the recent export figures which showed that the export of these products in March 2020 doubled compared to the same month of last year. And the population’s food security must come first. However, he did not provide any figures. But he did mention that the list of products banned for export can be completed / updated depending on the evolution of the internal situation, showing that such changes can occur "in the next days or in the next period".
On 15.04.2020, the state of emergency was extended by 30 days. That means that new extraordinary measures related to Covid-19 can continue to be adopted through Military Ordinances.
Romania has just performed a State Budget rectification comprising several changes in Budget allocation. The budget of the Ministry of Agriculture was increased by 100 million RON (approx. 20 million EUR) to be used as state guarantees for loans taken by agricultural companies. Most of the budget was allocated to the Ministry of Labour – 8 billion RON (1.6 billion EUR, mainly for unemployment benefits) and the Ministry of Health – 3.8 billion RON (0.8 billion EUR). Estimates indicate now a GDP decrease of 1.9% and a budget deficit of 6.7% for 2020.
According to Der Spiegel, the first death of a Romanian working on an asparagus farm in Germany occurred on April 11, 2020. Apparently he got infected in Germany. This news refuels the hot debates about the controversial issue of Romanian seasonal workers leaving the country.
Romania: Additional information regarding movement of seasonal workers to other countries
Military Ordinance no. 7/4.04.2020 which allowed the movement of seasonal workers to other countries by means of charter flights did not provide details on how this activity should be organised.
At the end of last week, following the irregularities noticed during the departure of the first charter flights with seasonal workers to Germany, the Romanian Ministry of Transport issued an Order (no. 875 of 10.04.2020) setting the procedure for approval of these flights.
The recruitment agencies are still the ones who must arrange all the ins and outs of this ‘operation’, however the airline companies must fulfil some requirements in order to be allowed to carry out the flight.
The procedure states that an approval for these flights needs to be obtained first from the Civil Aviation Authority (www.caa.ro). The airline operator must send a request to CAA at least 48 hours before the scheduled flight time, accompanied by a set of documents (see attached a rough/summary translation of the order).
CAA then issues the requested approval within maximum 24 hours from the receipt of the complete documentation
However, CAA shall not approve flights which are scheduled at an interval of less than 4 hours between them. This can obviously limit the number of flights which can depart from an airport every day.
Also, the companies which do the transport of workers from their residence areas to the airports, must notify in advance the Road Transport Authority about the respective services. They must also make sure that passengers do not arrive at the airport more than 4 h before the flight.
Also previously planned and arranged charter flights must undergo this new procedure.
Reactions to Romania’s ban on export of cereals, oilseeds and products thereof
On 10.04.2020 Romania decided to ban exports of cereals, oilseeds and products thereof to third countries (during the State of Emergency period – expected to last until mid-May), while conditioning intra-community trade by a proof that the products will not leave the EU. The proof consists in a statement issued by the MS buying company – see exact text https://www.madr.ro/comunicare/download/4073_03168d064562383ca55f32312640e9ab.html
Severe criticisms followed this decision. Internally, these were formulated not only by politicians, but especially by experts and members of professional/branch associations/specialised journalists. Main aspects raised: the private sector has not been consulted before the Military Ordinance was issued, there was no indication that the stock of these raw materials was running out, Romania produces much more such raw materials than needed for domestic consumption, the ones who will suffer are actually Romanian farmers and traders whose contracts are stopped overnight, commercial relations built up during several years are now jeopardized, the inclusion of processed products (including even biscuits!) is a big mistake considering Romania’s effort to shift from raw material export to processed products export.
According to Bloomberg, the European Commission said there are no market-related reasons to limit trade within or outside the single market. Restrictions that place an “undue burden” on agricultural exporters will hurt food security, according to an emailed statement last Saturday. “The Commission does not have any information, which indicates that Romania is facing or will soon face shortages of agricultural products intended for human consumption,” said EU Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski. “The reported measure appears to be not proportionate.”
It is very likely that a new Military Ordinance shall be issued soon to amend the provisions related to these export limitations. However, it is not yet known how big a step-back Romania would take. The ban on processed products might be removed, however the one on raw materials might be kept or reformulated.
Retailer Mega Image (part of Ahold-Delhaize) decided to give a 25% bonus to its “front-line” employees from stores and warehouses, starting with March 9, showing appreciation for the risk they are taking during challenging times.
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AIRSHOW NEWS: NHS Spitfire to headline extended Duxford Battle of Britain Air Show
Sep 1, 2020 | Airshow News, Duxford
This year’s socially distanced three-day Duxford Battle of Britain Air Show, including Friday’s new proms event, will combine nostalgic flying formations with contemporary, awe-inspiring aerobatic displays. Acts will include the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, a Spitfire Balbo, the Red Arrows and the Blades, as well as a unique appearance from the NHS Spitfire.
To mark 80 years since the RAF defeated the Luftwaffe in the 1940 aerial campaign, the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight will be showcasing a new Dowding formation with an Avro Lancaster, a Hawker Hurricane and three Supermarine Spitfires. The Aircraft Restoration Company’s Spitfire Mk.PRXI PL983 ‘L’, a former reconnaissance aircraft which has recently been touring the country’s hospitals in tribute to the NHS, will also be gracing the skies.
Phil Hood, Air Show Event Manager, IWM says: “We’ve been working tirelessly with the local authorities to ensure that we have all the measures in place to make this event COVID-secure and prioritise the safety of visitors, staff and volunteers. We encourage those attending to read our COVID-19 Response Page on our website which outlines all the operational measures in place including test and trace procedures, mandatory mask-wearing when indoors, the appointment of a designated Social Distance team and thorough cleaning in all areas.”
Hood continued, “We’re thrilled to be inviting old favourites back to the Battle of Britain Air Show, and to welcome more modern acts to the skies. Although this is a step away from our usual September format, we see this as an opportunity to support the aviation industry when most of the year’s air shows were sadly cancelled. We would also like to thank all of our flying partners at IWM Duxford for preparing their aircraft especially for the event, which we’re confident won’t disappoint!”
A Battle of Britain air show wouldn’t be complete without a re-enacted dog fight between a Hispano Buchón, Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfires. The flying schedule will feature three of the world’s four remaining Mark 1 Spitfires, including the Dunkirk evacuation veteran, the Spitfire N3200, and culminate with a traditional Spitfire Balbo.
At Friday’s Duxford Battle of Britain Proms, the De Havilland DH-9 E8894 will make a rare appearance following its discovery in an Indian fortress and remarkable restoration by the Historical Aircraft Collection. Other First World War-era aircraft include the Great War Display team, combining perfectly choreographed aerial battles with showstopping pyrotechnics.
For thrill-seeking visitors, the Blades promise to deliver a high-octane performance with close-formation aerobatics. On Friday only, air show favourites the AeroSuperBatic wingwalkers will showcase daring mid-air acrobatics and flying synchronisation, while the Fireflies Aerobatic Display team boast wingtip pyrotechnics and dazzling coloured LED lighting.
On the ground, visitors will be transported back to the 1940s with vintage fairground activities and market stalls, military vehicle displays, bunting workshops, flight line walks and plenty of music and dancing. Duxford Battle of Britain Proms will also host concerts by The D-Day Darlings and the Fly Boys.
Since reopening on 1 August, IWM Duxford has installed a number of social distancing and hygiene measures to ensure the safety of all visitors, staff and volunteers. Please visit IWM Duxford’s Coronavirus FAQs page on the IWM website, or watch the ‘Welcome back’ video on YouTube for more information.
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Ingrid is a scenographer and designer. Since graduating from Central Saint Martins in 2002, Ingrid has designed for theatre, dance and sound performances, as well as exhibitions and installations in the public realm. She worked with Heatherwick Studio for seven years on a wide range of design projects including the Lubetkin-winning UK Pavilion for the 2010 World Expo. Ingrid’s practice is built upon her commitment in exploring contemporary narratives through material experimentation and expression. Her designs often involve transformative elements and a crafted visual language. Originally from Taipei, Taiwan, Ingrid lives and works in London. She is a member of the Society of British Theatre Designers and an associate lecturer at UAL Central St Martins.
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SAEM Clinical Image Series: What Lies Beneath?
A 35-year-old male with a history of diabetes and pericarditis, status post pericardiectomy 3 years ago, presented with a painful lesion on his anterior chest wall. One month prior, the patient reported a bump at his sternotomy scar base which extruded a piece of suture when squeezed and subsequently healed. Two days ago, the patient developed diffuse right-sided chest pain. During the past 24 hours, an enlarging, erythematous, painful, non-draining lesion developed at the base of his scar. He reports subjective fever. He denies shortness of breath, exertional chest pain, nausea, and vomiting.
By Jamie Fried|2021-01-10T20:36:12-08:00Jan 11, 2021|Academic, Infectious Disease, SAEM Clinical Images, Ultrasound|
SAEM Clinical Image Series: Left Ear Mass
A 25-year-old male who was previously healthy presents to the emergency department with a painful left posterior ear mass. The mass began as a “pimple” and has been increasing in size for the last 6 months. He has an associated headache, dizziness, and malaise. He denies fever, trauma, drainage, known insect bite, dysphagia, dyspnea, trismus, and hearing loss. He emigrated to the United States from Honduras 8 months ago. He was seen in the emergency department 4 months prior for a similar complaint, which was diagnosed as lymphadenopathy by point-of-care ultrasound.
By Gabriela Rivera-Camacho, MD|2021-01-10T20:38:47-08:00Jan 11, 2021|Academic, ENT, Infectious Disease, SAEM Clinical Images|
SAEM Clinical Image Series: Blisters, Bullae, and Badness
A 3-year-old female with a history of epilepsy presents with a rash that began one day ago. The patient started becoming fussy four days ago, saying, “I don’t feel good,” and not wanting to play outside with her siblings or finish her meals. Family noticed the patient rubbing her eyes frequently and crying when she went to the bathroom. She felt warm so they gave her Tylenol and Motrin at home. Yesterday, they noticed a rash was starting to develop with itchy, painful red spots. This morning, the rash progressed to involve some blisters on the face, chest, and back.
Medications include Tylenol, Motrin, and lamotrigine, which was started by her neurologist three weeks ago. Family history is significant for epilepsy on the father’s side of the family.
By Amanda Gonzalez, MD|2021-01-05T13:23:34-08:00Jan 4, 2021|Academic, SAEM Clinical Images|
SAEM Clinical Image Series: The Hemorrhaging Bifurcated Tongue
A 26-year-old male with no past medical history presented to the emergency department for tongue bleeding for one day. Five days prior he had an elective cosmetic tongue bifurcation completed out-of-state. About two hours prior to arrival, he had been using a swish-and-spit saltwater rinse when he felt a suture break. Ever since he has had copious bleeding, reportedly filling his sink at home with blood. Additionally, he had about 250 milliliters of blood, including large clots, in a container in the emergency department. He denied using any blood thinners. There was no syncope, dizziness, chest pain, nausea, vomiting, shortness of breath, pain of the tongue, or numbness of the tongue. He had some difficulty speaking but said it was due to needing to retrain his bifurcated tongue.
By Maria Dharini Arulraja, MD|2020-12-20T20:16:29-08:00Dec 21, 2020|Academic, Emergency Medicine, ENT, SAEM Clinical Images|
SAEM Clinical Image Series: Shortness of Breath
A 60-year-old female presented to the emergency department (ED) for respiratory distress. Emergency medical services reports that the patient was in respiratory distress upon arrival, slowly becoming unresponsive en-route. They started the patient on continuous positive airway pressure, but she lost consciousness with oxygen saturation in the thirties and they switched to bag valve mask (BVM) ventilation, which improved saturations up to 100 percent. Narcan was administered without improvement as she was on narcotics following bronchoscopy earlier today at an outside hospital.
By Aurelia Ai-lin Cheng, MD|2020-12-20T20:59:34-08:00Dec 21, 2020|Academic, Emergency Medicine, Pulmonary, SAEM Clinical Images|
SAEM Clinical Image Series: Oral Trauma and Mass
A 38-year-old African American male without a significant past medical history presented with an oral mass. He was struck on the mouth by a wrench handle about two prior. Since then he has had a growing mass originating from the gum of his left front upper teeth. He is no longer able to eat solid foods and has to use a straw for all oral intake. The patient denies fevers, chest pain, shortness of breath, and weight loss.
By Han Wei Zheng, MD|2020-12-11T15:18:37-08:00Dec 14, 2020|Academic, ENT, SAEM Clinical Images|
SAEM Clinical Image Series: Eye Pain After Assault
A 33-year-old male presents with intermittent blurry vision and left eye pain for 3 months, and a left-sided orbital headache for 1 day. He reports getting punched in the left side of the head during an altercation a few months ago. The eye pain is worse with ocular movements and is associated with bilateral conjunctival injection and white/green discharge from the left eye.
The patient was seen at another emergency department 3 months prior for the same symptoms. He was then found to have left-sided proptosis, visual acuity 20/60 in the left eye, no fluorescein uptake, and a normal fundoscopic exam. The patient was instructed to follow up with ophthalmology but did not. The patient denies fevers, chills, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain.
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Ahoy from the Tucker Thompson Despite the howling weather today has been exciting for everyone on board. Our morning started 0730 hrs with a dip in the brisk sea followed by morning duties and Breakfast. After dishes were done…...
Ahoy from the Tucker Thompson
Despite the howling weather today has been exciting for everyone on board.
Our morning started 0730 hrs with a dip in the brisk sea followed by morning duties and Breakfast.
After dishes were done we split into 2 groups and learnt about weather- learning how to predict wind direction and wind strength, anchoring- learning the process and what to take into consideration when anchoring, and tides- learning how the sun, moon and earth help in the process.
After filling some minds with lots of knowledge we decided to go for an excursion ashore on Urupukapuka Island up to some hill tops to observe the gale force weather and even play some shore games that were run by some of the trainees.
Later on we made our way back to the ship for some yummy hot soup which helped prep us for the afternoon’s activities.
We then lifted anchor raised the main sail fore sail and headsails and sailed through the eastern side of the bay and then shot across to the western side towards Waitora Bay. Along our sail everyone gathered on the bowsprit and rode it as we were bouncing up and down on the swells, after everyone was nice and wet we beared away and came into our night anchorage at Waitora bay.
Right now we are learning how to tie knots and warming up with a nice hot chocolate.
Everyone is happy and looking forward to tomorrow’s activities
Ma Te Wa
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If you have secured your funding, please download the full application form
We work hard to get funding assistance to help young people to take part in our youth development voyages and encourage sponsorship for students. We recommend you contact your nearest Lions Club, Rotary Club or Freemasons in your local community. The Fletcher Building Employee Educational Fund also offers their employees’ dependants funding for voyages (please apply direct). Thanks to the generous support of donations received, business sponsors, community groups such as Lions, Zonta and funding organisations such as Lotteries and Gaming Trusts we also have grants available and are able to reduce the cost of the voyages from $995 per child to between $200-$500 and in some instances at no fee, although a koha is expected.
If you wish to apply for a grant or sponsorship from the R. Tucker Thompson, please download the Grant Application form.
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Pauline Moretti
Youth Coordinator
Pauline job shares the youth programmes role with Sophie, responsible for liaising with schools and community groups explaining how our youth development voyages help students to make positive changes in their lives. She’s had wide and varied career in a number of roles but is above all an educator. She has taught Outdoor Education, Tourism and been Project Island Song’s Educator on their Floating Classroom. She’s also worked with the Department of Conservation in a number of community liaison roles as well as run her own adventure kayaking business. Pauline is also a very experienced sailor having spent three years sailing from Borneo to the Caribbean via Cape of Good Hope on board the junk rigged yacht, Zebedee.
Zeran Mackie
Zeran is a keen young sailor whose background in sailing started through his experiences of Waka Hourua (a traditional Polynesian sailing catamaran). Zeran has also been aboard the “Tucker” for two youth voyages and is currently undertaking the role of cadet where he will complete his training to acquire his STCW certificate.
Zeran is a driven young Māori tāne who is passionate about learning tikanga and kaupapa Māori as well as embracing the ways of his tūpuna ancestors.
Jane Hindle
Executive Trustee
Jane has been involved with the R. Tucker Thompson since 1998, initially as a business mentor to Russell Harris when he owned the ship. When she moved to Russell in 2000, she continued working with him assisting with administrative and business management functions. In 2006, she helped Russell transfer the ship into a Trust, and since then has been the Executive Trustee, a title which really means keeping the ship afloat financially and doing whatever needs doing at the time. She has sailed on board for a number of offshore voyages, in 2002 and 2005 down the West coast of Canada and USA and in 2006 from Rarotonga to Tonga. She’s also been cook on a number of adult sailings but these days considers it a treat if she ever manages to get on board for a sail. She and her husband Geoff got married on board and their son did a youth voyage, so the ship holds a special place in her heart.
Ben Willoughby
Bosun/Senior Master
Ben came to us from across the ditch (Australia). He arrived in New Zealand with his young family to buy a cruising yacht with the goal to experience the world with his wife and 2 daughters. Now with borders closed, he is happily living aboard here and spending time with his NZ family.
Ben has 25 years of tall ship experience, having sailed across 3 oceans and to many countries on square riggers. He sailed on 6 square riggers and was master on 2 and mate on the others. He also worked on 3 gaff tops’l schooners and sailed around the SW Pacific and coastal NZ and Australia on a gaff tops’l cutter that he and his wife owned. We welcome his experience that many thousands of sea miles on similar ships gains.
Suz Te Tai
Suz is currently the Pakaiahi (Kaiwhakahaere Matua) of the new and innovative Nga Kaitiaki o te Ahi marae-based programme at Karetu Marae. Prior to this she has worked alongside Pou Herenga Tangata at He Iwi Kotahi Tatou Trust in Moerewa for seven years, initially as a Whanau Ora Navigator.
In 2014 she completed Te Tohu Huanga Maori (PGDipBus Māori Development) at the University of Auckland Business School. She has a wealth of life and work experience across Te Kohanga Reo, Kura Kaupapa Maori, Adult & Community Education, Out of School Care, Moerewa Senior School support and the New Zealand Education Institute.
As a keen outdoors advocate weaving experiences based in, and caring for, the Taiao Suz has been a huge driver in this area for whānau, hapū and community. Suz is a highly respected leader within her hapu, Ngati Manu and at Te Karetu Marae. She is the Chair of the Karetu Maori Committee and a Trustee of Te Mana Moana o Ngati Manu Trust, Te Mana Moana o Ngati Rongo ki Mahurangi Trust and the Ngati Manu Rangatira Trust. She is also the Hikuwai Harawene Tupuna Representative on Te Tāhuhu Nui o Ngāti Manu (PSGE).
Tim Yeates
Tim has spent his entire working life within the marine industry. His first working experiences were on motor ships and and as a Deckhand on board the R. Tucker Thompson. From there, Tim was the Operations Manager of Marine Contractors Limited for eight years, based in the Bay of Islands. Tim then spent two years as Construction Manager for Northland Piling and Contracting (based in Opua). This company, which he now co-owns, now trades as Total Marine Services Limited. Tim can attest to his extensive experience in salvage work and construction knowledge.
Mike Simm
Mike is an experienced company director/trustee. Chair of Northland Youth Development Trust and former Deputy Chair of Top Energy. Former Executive Director Fullers Bay of Islands, member NZ Tourism Board, member of NZ Conservation Authority, Chair of Enterprise Northland and Destination Northland. He is a Kerikeri resident.
Bronwyn Hunt
Bronwyn is of Te Rarawa, Ngapuhi and Te Roroa descent. She is the Area Manager for Bay of Islands, Department of Conservation. Previously she was the Principal Advisor, Strategy & Policy with Te Runanga o Te Rarawa, primarily responsible for Treaty Settlement claims, environmental matters, Iwi and Hapu planning. Community positions include Director with CBEC, and previously on the board of Reconnecting Northland. An avid gardener and keen sailor, Bronwyn is also a proud nana to three grandchildren.
Russell has worn many hats over the years: farmer, crop sprayer, master storyteller, ship and aircraft builder, and along with Tod Thompson, Russell is the original builder, and former owner and Master of the R. Tucker Thompson before transferring the ship into the Trust in 2006. Russell sailed the R. Tucker Thompson around the world and throughout the Pacific. He also sailed the Good Ship to Mururoa with the peace flotilla in 1995.
Kim Borgstrom
Kim has more than 70,000 miles of ocean watch keeping experience on sailing ships including Bounty, Soren Larsen and Rainbow Warrior. Involved with the R Tucker Thompson since 1985, he sailed aboard for the circumnavigation in 1987-1988. He skippered the ship to the Pacific Islands in 1993. He now operates his own sailing tourism business based in the Bay of Islands. Kim is a resident of Opua.
Former stockbroker and merchant banker, Mike has held Directorships with Force Corporation Ltd, Northland Health Ltd, Northpower Limited, SKYCITY Leisure Limited, Elders Norstock Limited (Chair), Northland Port Corporation Limited (Chair) and former Chairman of Airwork Holdings Limited. He is Chair of N3 Limited and FMCTV Limited He is a keen surfer and enjoys golf.
Magnus O’Grady
Relief Deckhand
Magnus has worked as a relief deckhand for the Tucker for the past couple years. He grew up onboard his father’s yacht Balaena, a 42ft Gaff Cutter and over the years he sailed her in Patagonia, the Antarctic, Canada, Europe, Africa and the Pacific. After studying in Christchurch for three years, he sailed her to the Antarctic, and a year later across the Pacific from Chile to NZ. After this first trip to the Antarctic he continued to return to South America and spent the next 8 summers working on two different yachts making many trips in the Antarctic, Patagonia and South Georgia. All Supporting Film Projects, Scientific work and expedition teams. He and his partner welcomed their first child this year.
Ethan King
Ethan has been involved with the Trust since 2015. At the age of 15, he became a trainee on one of the youth development voyages. He discovered a passion for the ocean and sailing. Shortly after his voyage, he applied to volunteer aboard during the summer tourist season. He was a volunteer crew from 2015 to 2017. Ethan was then offered a cadetship and on-going training for 1 year to work towards his skipper’s ticket. This was fully funded by the Trust. In October 2018, he attended his final examinations and gained his Skippers Restricted Limits ticket. He is now working as a skipper for another company but remains as relief crew with the Tucker after spending a year as a member of the core Tucker crew.
Terry Dunn
Relief Master
Terry grew up in Wellington, learning to sail in extreme conditions and spending his formative years in the Sea Scouts rowing around on pitch black nights playing Smugglers and sinking the enemy. He has never lost his love of just “playing around in boats”. He moved to the Bay of Islands in his twenties and purchased the classic gaff cutter Aorere. It was also the start of many years cruising the Bay of Islands, the Northland coast and offshore voyages to the Pacific.
In 1990 he started Great Escape Yacht Charters and Sailing School teaching to provide affordable sailing options in the Bay. Over the years he operated a fleet of 14 yachts, passing on his enthusiasm and love of sailing to Kiwis and international visitors alike.
After he and his wife Cindy sold Great Escape, he joined R Tucker Thompson as a relief skipper and he is a welcome addition for our youth voyages and day sails alike.
Sarianna Crook
Sarianna is a Northland girl, born and bred in Whangarei. She joined the Trust at the end of March 2016, taking her command in June 2016. Sarianna has spent much of her life on the water, attending the Whangarei Young Mariners and then Sea Scouts at a young age. She headed to Tauranga for study but the lure of the sea was too strong, so she spent 2 years as a Cadet on the Spirit of New Zealand where she did her seatime training. She has spent 5 months sailing offshore on board the Robert C Seamans and prior to joining the Trust was working at Fullers in Auckland. She has done 18 months as master in training and is now working at Opua Marina, but is still involved, with the occasional voyage and support for our Cadets.
Michelle Simperingham
Michelle is our latest Cadet to join the Trust. She was raised in Whangarei but also lived across the ditch for a few years in Brisbane. She was always outdoorsy as a child and is keen to try new things. She’s tried almost every sport she’s come across, her favourites being skiing, sea kayaking and rock climbing. Michelle started volunteering onboard at the start of 2020 after being a trainee in 2018 and joining the ship on a Tuia 250 leg in 2019. These experiences spurred her interest in the marine industry. Michelle is now building her sea time both on day sails and youth voyages while she is studying for her Skippers Restricted Limits ticket, which she will sit for at the end of her Cadetship.
Jessica Nadon
Jess hails from Canada, a French Canadian fluent in both French and English. She owns a sea kayak company in the Yukon Territory, Canada, and has guided groups on overnight wilderness experiences making sure that they were operated in a safe environment. In addition, she has formal qualifications in Special Education and has a background of working with young people including teenagers with behavioural disorders. Jessica has also spent time sailing in the Carribean. She brings her positive nature and cheerful enthusiasm to every voyage to ensure that all our trainees have an amazing experiences on board.
Wayne Karauria
Wayne joined the Trust as a trainee in December 2012 and is our longest serving crew member. He completed his Skipper’s training three years ago and has been in the role of Master for 2 years. Of Ngāti Porou descent, he hails from Gisborne. He has previously worked on fishing boats but prefers living in the winterless north with his young family as going to sea is much warmer than in the southern ocean. He has earned the respect of many sail trainees who have benefited from his care; he is a mean cook with boil up corned beef and roast pork as his signature dishes.
Peter Deverell
Peter Deverell was born in Auckland and grew up on a Mid-Northland farm; where he was entirely home educated along with his three siblings. With a love of the ocean Peter was taught to sail from his earliest years and enjoyed Optimist, P-Class and Starling dinghy sailing, as well as sailing on his parents’ boats and his grandfather’s yacht. Passionate about wildlife and conservation Peter has a wonderful knowledge of New Zealand birds and other fauna. He has worked as a horseman for seven years and has his own Equine Hoof Trimming business. He spent three years in Germany working as a joiner; becoming fluent in the German language; dinghy sailing at every opportunity. On his first sailing yacht Peter sailed extensively around Northland and the Bay of Islands coast, honing his sailing skills. In 2015 Peter bought Waka Irie, a Mariner 32ft classic sailing ketch and has spent the past 5 years rebuilding and refurbishing her and has become a skilled joiner/boat builder. In 2018 Peter crewed for his cousin on Sea Wolf, a 42ft Beneteau sailboat, sailing around Australia, from Sydney to Perth via Darwin; a 5,000 mile voyage.
Kyra Crouzat
Sales & Operations Manager
Kyra hails originally from France but is a Canadian citizen who is now a New Zealand resident. She and her husband sailed away from Canada in 2011. After spending 16 months in Mexico, they crossed the Pacific on board their now 62 year old strip-planked yacht Nyon and arrived in New Zealand in November 2013. They continue to live aboard and spend as much time as possible sailing in the Bay and beyond. Like most of us, Kyra is capable of turning her hand to most tasks, she is a “Jill of all Trades”, an asset when working for small not-for-profit organisations back in Canada and now in New Zealand. She joined the Tucker in 2015 and is the Sales and Operations Manager for the Trust. She is a creative individual, artist and writer as well as an avid sailor. Her hashtag is #lifeonasmallboat.
Sophie Camplin
Sophie job-shares our youth programmes with Pauline, and looks after the adminstrative side of the youth development voyages. A young mother of two girls, Sophie started her career with the R. Tucker Thompson as Deckhand. She then progressed to Master, where she was responsible for skippering tourism sailings as well as the youth development voyages. She therefore knows the ship and how the Trust operates extremely well. With two young daughters to look after, Sophie now works mostly from home, juggling a number of roles to ensure that berths are filled with the right students on any given voyage.
Chynna Haney
As a child, Chynna was very adventurous – she spent many days at the beach. She was very in tune with the ocean and grew up doing surf lifesaving club, adventure racing, and many other sports. She even had Moko the dolphin as a swimming companion for many years. He was a huge influence on her career path. In 2014, Chynna took an 8-week trip to Australia, volunteering at the dolphin centre in Bunbury Perth. In 2016 she completed a Marine and Eco-tourism course through Northtec, Kerikeri – this course taught her a lot, including how to sail.
In February 2017, she became one of the core crew aboard the R Tucker Thompson. With the knowledge she has accumulated and her training on the R Tucker Thompson, she and her fiancé have recently purchased a 33 foot yacht in the hopes of one day sailing it offshore.
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The AirLink Cordless Switch is a touch switch designed for use by individuals with upper extremity disabilities. Used without a cord, it can be used to remotely activate appliances, toys, etc. connected to the PowerLink 3 (see separate entry) from a distance of 20 feet. Using the switch with the included cord causes it to function like a Jelly Bean Switch (see separate entry) to activate connected toys, appliances, etc. The switch is contained in a high-impact disk with a connectable base, enabl
Airvoter (Model Ac-0300-Av1V2)
The AirVoter, model AC-0300-AV1V2, is a pneumatic (sip and puff) voting machine control designed for use by voters with upper extremity disabilities or amputation, neurological or severe physical disabilities, spinal cord injury, or cerebral palsy. This system allows the user to vote independently on an accessible voting machine through sips or puffs on a disposable mouthpiece in time with visible or headphone-audible cues. After a voter has completed a ballot, the mouthpiece is discarded and th
Alarm Dock Kit-- Smart Phone Docking Station and Wireless Bed Shaker
The Alarm Dock Kit-- Smart Phone Docking Station and Wireless Bed Shaker is designed for individuals who are deep sleepers or hard of hearing in awakening at a set time. The device has a built-in speaker, when used with the free SilentCall AlarmDock app, turns the user’s smartphone into an Extra Loud Alarm Clock (up to 100 dB) and also provides remarkable sound for streaming music. Features 2-in-1 wireless speaker and phone stand, rich, 360-degree crystal-clear sound, touch-sensitive controls, 2
All Ready for Toddler Time Readiness Kit
The All Ready for Toddler Time Readiness Kit is designed for toddlers ages two to three with learning disabilities to teach them basic skills like colors, shapes, counting and the alphabet. Features activities that support the development of toddler skills. Also includes a sturdy storage box.
All-Turn-It Spinner
The All-Turn-It Spinner is a switch-activated spinner which is meant for individuals, specifically students, who lack the skills ability to manually spin the spinner by allowing it to spun via a switch. It has a built-in external switch jack, it spins as students make random selections. A perfect tool for choosing groups and playing games of chance like bingo, rolling dice and much more.
Aluminum Mounting Rods (Models 2062 & 2063)
The Aluminum Mounting Rods are switch mounting hardware designed to aid in attaching switches to wheelchairs and workstations. All models are aluminum. DIMENSIONS: Model 2062 is 3/8-inch in diameter and 12 inches long and model 2063 is 0.25-inch in diameter per foot.
AMDi Picture Plate Switch
The AMDi Picture Plate Switch is a low profile switch with a slot to add pictures, icons, or another visual cue.
Ameriphone Amsx Alertmaster Motion Sensor (Model 01884)
The Ameriphone AMSX AlertMaster Motion Sensor, model 01884, is a wireless security system designed to indicate the presence of someone in the house for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing. It monitors the entry, hallway, or window and notifies the user of any unusual motion. POWER: Uses one 9-volt battery (included). WARRANTY: One year.
Analog Switch Pad
The Analog Switch Pad is a touch activated buttonswitch designed to control battery operated toys, environmental controls and computer access interfaces. The force adjustable electronic switch features a large activation area that is soft and compliant to the touch. Force sensitivity can be adjusted by a small dial from approximately one ounce to 32 ounces activation pressure, applied over an area ranging from the size of a fingertip to the size of the entire switch surface. A small LED lamp glo
Anchored Joystick And Button Computer Control Input Interface
CUSTOM ADAPTATIONPURPOSE: To provide a child with cerebral palsey with a stable interface to control a computer. A commercially available joystick and large button is used in place of a mouse and keyboard to control a computer. A metal plate and screwed stud is attached to the bottom of the base of the joystick. A hole is drilled in the child's desk, and the stud is screwed into a second plate on the underside of the desk. A nut holds the assembly in place while the joystick is in use. The butto
Angel Fx
The Angel FX E.C.U. is an environmental control unit (ECU) designed for use by individuals with spinal cord injury or severe physical disabilities. This unit offers flexible control capabilities enabling control of a wide variety of equipment within the environment. This system can control table lamps, light fixtures, table fans, ceiling fans, air conditioning and heating systems, TVs, DVD and CD players, digital audio tape players, mini disk players, MP3 players, Blue Ray disc players, VCRs, FM
Animal Switches (Models 16, 17,18, 19, 26, & 35)
The Animal Switches are touch switches designed for use by children with upper extremity disabilities. Available in a Kitty Switch (no.16), a Frog Switch (no. 17), a Fido (dog) Switch (no. 18), a Pig (no. 19), a Cow (no.26),and a Red Head Fish (no.35 ),these switches have detailed animal face on the large contact area. These switches activate with the slightest touch and can be used with any device adapted for single switch use. COLOR: The frog is green, the cat is yellow, the teddy bear is bla
Anti-Contamination Filter (Model 977)
The Anti-Contamination Filter is a pneumatic switch accessory designed for use with most sip-and-puff switches. This filter traps germs, mucous, and saliva, preventing contamination when a switch is used by more than one person. Model 966-F is a single filter and model 977 is a set of six filters.
APPlicator is a Bluetooth Switch Interface that allows children and adults with neurological and mobility disabilities who require simple switch access within apps and simple access to the media player on an iPad. It can be used with up to 4 switches or with a "tap" of a button go into "Quick-Media Mode" and use the same 4 switches to control your audio library. Users can press the Quick Media Mode button for pre-configured access to: play/pause, skip forward, skip back and Timed Play - 10 sec
Armrest Mounting Bracket (Model 3395)
Used in ocnjunction with a standard hand-control clamp for mounting a Model 3185 joystick for hand operation. Consists of a 1/2 inch diamter stainless steel mounting rod fitted to a 3/4 inch diamter mounting shaft to permit a wide range of joystick positioning.
Articulating Arm (Model H-1)
The Articulating Arm is switch mounting hardware designed to enable control switches and communicators to be placed in virtually any position for individuals with upper extremity or severe physical disabilities. The adjustable arm attaches to a table, wheelchair, bed rail, etc. Three knobs permit adjustability and lock the unit in position.
Asl 4 Function Sip & Puff Bed Control (Model Asl704)
The ASL 4 Function Sip & Puff Bed Control, model ASL704, is a pneumatic bed control designed for use by individuals with cerebral palsy, neurological disabilities, or severe physical disabilities. This control interface for a four- function electric bed or semi electric bed comes with a visual four function display and a sip n' puff control.
Asl 6 Function Big Button Bed Control (Model Asl706)
The ASL 6 Function Big Button Bed Control, model ASL706, is a bed control designed for use by individuals with fine motor disabilities, cerebral palsy, or neurological or severe physical disabilities. This control interface for a six-function electric bed has six large push buttons. To operate, this unit interfaces with the ASL 703 Six Function Bed Control (not included; see separate entry). It allows each function to be accessed through the use of large mechanical buttons in place of the small,
The ASL 6 Function Sip & Puff Bed Control, model ASL703, is a pneumatic bed control designed for use by individuals with cerebral palsy, neurological disabilities, or severe physical disabilities. This controller for a six-function electric bed allows full control of a hospital bed through the use of a sip and puff control system. A sip command selects the bed function desired and a puff command activates the choice. The bed control interface comes with a visual six-function display and sip
Asl Adjustable Photo-Electric Sensor With Mono Port (Model Asl209-M)
The ASL Adjustable Photo-Electric Sensor with Mono Port, model ASL209_M, is a photo-electric power wheelchair control switch designed for use by individuals with gross motor disabilities or mobility disabilities. This adjustable photo- electric switch can be used on a power wheelchair with ASL proportional driving controls, or for non-driving purposes. It requires the addition of an appropriate ASL 804 power source cable to receive power from the power wheelchair, and can be used with all power
Asl Adjustable Proximity Sensor With Mono Port (Model Asl208_M)
The ASL Adjustable Proximity Sensor with mono port, model ASL208_M, is a sensor switch designed for use by individuals with upper extremity disabilities, neurological disabilities, or severe physical disabilities. This "no touch" proximity switch has an adjustable "void space" range, which allows the switch to function when mounted under a surface up to a half-inch thick, thus allowing the proximity field to begin above the voided area (for example, the surface of a tray). This switch works with
Asl Button Switch (Model Asl305)
The ASL Button Switch, model ASL305, is a button switch designed for use by individuals with mobility, upper extremity, or severe physical disabilities or spinal cord injury. This light touch button switch has a mono port and can be used on a powered wheelchair or to control a computer or other accessory. OPTIONS: Armrest switch mounting bracket (model ASL 611).
Asl Egg Switch (Model Asl300)
The ASL Egg Switch, model ASL300, is a mechanical button switch designed for use by individuals with cerebral palsy or neurological or upper extremity disabilities. This brightly- colored oval-shaped switch features a seal that prevents liquid or food spillage from entering the switch and interfering with its operation. The base of the switch has screw insets for secure mounting. Each switch comes with a colored cover and a mono port. OPTIONS: Arm rest switch mounting bracket (model ASL 611); fi
Asl Egg Switch Finger Ring Mount (Model Asl300R)
The ASL Egg Switch Finger Ring Mount, model ASL300R, is switch mounting hardware designed for use by individuals with cerebral palsy or neurological or upper extremity disabilities. This mount for the ASL 300 Egg Switch (not included; see separate entry) holds the Egg Switch near the user's finger. Screws for the switch are included. OPTIONS: Egg switch (model ASL 300).
Asl Fiber Optic Sensor With Mono Port (Model Asl202-M)
The ASL Fiber Optic Sensor with Mono Port, model ASL202_M, is a sensor switch designed for use by individuals with mobility, communication, or severe physical disabilities. This single function switch has an adjustable activation range from touch to 2.5 inches, with a round target area. This fiber optic switch can be programmed for either normally open (NO) or normally closed (NC) operation. In the NO mode, switch activation occurs when an object is detected in the adjusted range. In the NC mode
Asl Five Switch Adaptor Interface Box (Model Asl502)
The ASL Five Switch Adaptor Interface Box, model ASL502, is a control switch interface unit designed for use by individuals with neurological or severe physical disabilities or spinal cord injury. This switch interface unit enables an individual to utilize five separate switch sites to control up to five separate functions or devices. The unit can interface with powered seating modules, communication devices, etc., through a D-9 connector. It works with any mono port switch and all power chair t
Asl Lip Switch (Model Asl301)
The ASL Lip Switch, model ASL301, is a light touch mechanical switch for the lip or tongue, designed for use by individuals with spinal cord injury or neurological or severe physical disabilities. This switch can be used for tongue or lip control of a powered wheelchair, computer, or other device. It has a mono port and comes integrated into a pneumatic tube that can be used for incorporation into a Sip n' Puff system.
Asl Microlight Switch (Model Asl312)
The ASL Microlight Switch, model ASL312, is a chin or finger switch designed for use by individuals with neurological or severe physical disabilities or spinal cord injury. This mechanical switch can be activated with an extremely light touch by a finger, chin, or other body part. The switch has a mono port and can be used for computer access or for wheelchair control for all power chair types.
Asl Pneumatic Switch - Sip N Puff (Model Asl308)
The ASL Pneumatic Switch - Sip & Puff, model ASL308, is a pneumatic switch designed for use by individuals with cerebral palsy, neurological disabilities, upper extremity amputation, spinal cord injury, or upper extremity disabilities. This switch has two mono jack outputs that allow breath control of two separate functions. OPTIONS: ASL 607 series of sip n puff tube mounts.
Asl Proximity Sensor With Mono Port (Model Asl204-M)
The ASL Proximity Sensor with Mono Port, model ASL204-M, is a sensor switch designed for use by individuals with upper extremity disabilities. This "no touch" switch can be used with ASL proportional driver controls with power wheelchairs or for non driving purposes such as computer control. This single function switch has an activation range of touch to half inch. Activation occurs when it senses a hand or another part of the body in the activation area. This switch is intended to be used throu
Asl Scanning 6 Function Bed Control With Single Switch Activation (Model Asl702)
The ASL Scanning 6 Function Bed Control with Single Switch Activation, model ASL702, is a bed control designed for use by individuals with cerebral palsy, neurological disabilities, or severe physical disabilities. This scanning six- function bed control for a full electric bed can be operated as a single function. The bed control unit comes with an ASL 300 egg switch and ASL300R ring mount.
Asl Treadlite Switch (Model Asl309)
The ASL Treadlite Switch, model ASL309, is a foot switch designed for use by individuals with cerebral palsy, neurological disabilities, or severe physical disabilities. This medium-force paddle switch has a mono port and enabless gross motor extremity motion activation of a variety of devices.
Asl Wobble Switch - Light Pressure (Model Asl304A)
The ASL Wobble Switch - Light Pressure, model ASL304A, is a rocker switch designed for use by individuals with cerebral palsy or neurological or severe physical disabilities. This wobble switch can be used as a reset or mode switch for a powered wheelchair, computer, or other device, and is activated with light pressure. The switch has a mono port. OPTIONS: Armrest switch mounting bracket (model ASL 611).
Asl Wobble Switch - Medium Pressure (Model Asl304B)
The ASL Wobble Switch - Medium Pressure, ASL 304B, is a rocker switch designed for use by individuals with cerebral palsy or neurological or severe physical disabilities. This robust mechanical switch comes with a mono port and can be used as a reset or mode switch on a power wheelchair, computer, or other device for use by individuals with gross movements and limited control. OPTIONS: Armrest switch mounting bracket (model ASL 611).
Assistive Technology Kit
The Assistive Technology Kit includes an assortment of assistive technology for switch access, computer/tablet access, communication, switch and communication device mounting, and activities.
Attainment Switch
Attainment Switch is a switch emulation program designed for used by individuals with cognitive, fine motor or upper extremity disabilities. This application (or app) allows a person to use their Apple iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch as a wireless accessibility switch. Attainment Switch can be used to communicate with scanning-enabled software running on any computer running the Mac or Windows operating system. The user can select from either one-button or two-button switch mode and use the app's bui
Attendant Call Chime (Model 1499)
The Attendant Call Chime, model 1499, is a call signal designed for use by individuals with mobility and communication disabilities. This unit has a transmitter with a call button; when the button is depressed, a chime sounds at the receiver up to 40 feet away. The unit is adapted for use with a capability switch (not included). POWER: Uses 2 AA and 1 12-volt batteries. DIMENSIONS: 4 x 4 x 1 inches. WEIGHT: 0.05 pounds.
Attention Getter
Attention Getter is a control switch training program designed for use by individuals with communication, learning, and cognitive disabilities. It is specifically designed for teenagers who need powerful input to get their attention. This software program has photos that change (morph) into related photos on the computer screen, accompanied by interesting sounds and music. The photo animations are so engaging that the student is motivated to see and hear the next one. The program can be controll
Attention Teens
Attention Teens is a control switch training program designed for use by individuals with communication, learning, and cognitive disabilities. Like Attention Getter (see separate entry), it features photo images that change (morph) into other images on the computer screen, but this program is more light-hearted and whimsical as it morphs unrelated images to provide laughter and communication. The program works with a mouse, touchscreen, single switch, or IntelliKeys (see entry). OPTIONS: Set of
Away We Ride
Away We Ride is a cognitive skills tutorial program designed for use by young children through pre-teens with cognitive or multiple disabilities. This CD-ROM program offers six familiar songs related to transportation, including "Down by the Station," "Daisy, Daisy," and "Row, Row, Row Your Boat," for learning transportation concepts through activities such as finding the correct picture, sound, associated object, or word. A cause and effect option and a choice of the number of onscreen pictures
Ball Switch (Model 3Tstm)
The Ball Switch, model 3TSTM, is designed for use by individuals with severe physical or upper extremity disabilities.This switch features a large ball with a knobby surface attached to a long tube connected to the switch box. From the other side of the switch box comes a cord which coonects to the switch-adapted toy or appliance. When the ball is squeezed, the switch activates the device.
Ballotcall
The BallotCall is a call signal system designed for use in polling places by voters with disabilities. The system provides a means for voters with disabilities to alert election officials when they need assistance. This temporary alert system can be used in government facilities, permanent polling locations and private facilities or venues that are outside of election officials' control. The BallotCall system includes a BigBell wireless alert system (see separate entry) with an oversized touch p
Base Ten Place Value Frame
The Base Ten Place Value Frame is designed for children ages five to seven with learning disabilities to help them learn early math concepts. A good, hands-on way to demonstrate early place value concepts. Model ones, tens, and a hundred for base ten activities. For use with the standard 1-centimeter base ten blocks (sold separately).
Bass Switch
The BASS Switch is a touch switch designed for use by individuals with upper extremity and severe physical disabilities. This switch can be used to activate switch-adapted toys and appliances and requires three to five ounces of pressure for activation. This switch has a large surface, a low profile, and a non-skid bottom. DIMENSIONS: 6 x 3.75 x 1 inches. COLOR: The switch comes with red, yellow, green, blue, and black plate overlays.
Bathtub Safety Step
The Bathtub Safety Step is a product designed for those individuals with lower extremity disabilities to help them get in and out of the bathtub. Slip-resistant textured top and rubberized feet. Adds almost 4 inches to your step.
Battery Actuval (Model 3090)
Self contained desk top evaluation unit with receptacles for connecting multiple and single switch actuators. Front panel indicator lights display actuator operation. Features power switch with indicator light, scan rate adjustment knob for single switch evaluations, a selector switch for single or multiple switch actuators, and power receptacle. Requires a 3099 battery charger, $20.00.
Battery Actuval Kit (Model 3125)
Kit includes items necessary to conduct switch evaluations. Evaluator is a self contained desk top evaluation unit with receptacles for connecting multiple and single switch activators. Front panel indicator lights display actuator operation. Features power switch with indicator light, scan rate adjustment for single switch evaluations, selector switch for single or multiple switch actuators, and power receptacle. Kit also includes joystick, breath actuator, treadle switch, bib kit for mounting
Battery Adapter (Model 720)
The Battery Adapter, model 720, is a switch adapter interface for single switch activation of any battery operated toy, tape recorder, or other device. Continuous pressure on the switch keeps the device running until the switch is released. The adapter can be used with the Switch Latch/Timer (see separate entry) to set action for a specified time period or to use switch hits for on and off. The disk end is inserted into the battery compartment; the other end plugs into any switch with a standard
Battery Device Adapter
The Battery Device Adapter is a cable which connects to and adapts battery-operated devices for external switch control. The cable is available in two sizes for use with a wide variety of battery-operated toys and devices powered by AA, C, or D batteries. The Battery Device Adapter consists of a circular, flexible copper disc and thin lead wire. A 1/8-inch switch jack permits connection to AbleNet's Big Red switch or Jelly Bean switches (see separate entries), or other compatible switches. A How
The Battery Device Adapter is a switch adapter for toys and other battery-operated devices, designed for use by children and adults with fine motor and upper extremity disabilities. This switch adapter is an interface control that can be used to adapt any battery operated toy or other device, such as a radio or CD player, for switch operation. The user inserts the adapter between the end of the battery and the contact, turns the device on, and plugs a switch into the mini-jack port. The toy or d
The Battery Device Adapter is a switch designed for individuals with neurological disabilities to turn on any battery operated device.
"DO IT YOURSELF" ENTRY --- PURPOSE: To adapt toys and small appliances for switch use. To make the device, separate the leads approximately one-half inch from both ends of the speaker wire using scissors or a knife. Using wire strippers or scissors, strip approximately one-quarter inch of the protective plastic insulator from each wire lead, being careful not to cut any of the wires. Unscrew the plastic case from the inline phone jack to expose two terminals with holes in them. Run the wire thro
Battery Interrupter
The Battery Interrupter is a battery interface control for toys designed to create switch compatibility for non-adapted toys for individuals with fine motor or physical disabilities. It is a cable that fits between any battery-operated toy or device and a switch, permitting the toy or device to be operated by the switch. It interrupts the power by inserting a disc between on of the batteries and the adjacent anode. There are two models available for battery sizes AA and AAA or C and D batteries.
Battery Interrupter Kit 2
The Battery Interrupter Kit 2 is a control input interface designed to enable individuals to adapt toys and other battery-operated devices for use with capability switches. This kit can be used to adapted battery-powered toys or devices equipped with a simple on/off switch. The kit includes one Jumbo Switch, one Gumball Switch, one Button Click Switch (switches also sold separately; see entries), three double-A battery interrupters, and three C and D battery interrupters. COLOR: The Jumbo Switch
Bci Music
---- PROTOTYPE --------- PURPOSE: To create a prototype of an adapted brain-computer interface (BCI) device which allows individuals with paralysis and/or severe disabilities play music by brain power alone. Developed by Eduardo Miranda at the University of Plymouth Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR) in the United Kingdom, this BCI device allows individuals with neurodegenerative diseases, muscular disorders, and paralysis to participate in creating music. Miranda’s ins
Beeper Box (Model H-12)
The Beeper Box, model H-12, is a switch assessment system designed for use in testing control switches. This unit has two switch inputs that accept any switch with a standard 0.125-inch plug. The interface beeps when activated. Switches can be plugged in for testing or to produce morse code. Using two switches for morse code gives beeps of different pitch and volume. The louder input can be used for switch testing. POWER: Uses 2 triple-A batteries. DIMENSIONS (HxDxW): 1 x 2 x 4 inches.
Bib Kit (Model 3390)
Used for mounting a Model 3185 joystick for chin operation. The bib uses velcro straps to secure the bib around the neck and rib cage, and incorporates adjustable mounting harware to permit a wide range of joystick positioning.
Big Baby Button, The
The BIG Baby Button is a switch interface designed for use by babies and children with fine motor and upper extremity disabilities. This large button-style switch has a built-in switch interface to enable use of a computer with the switch. The large switch surface requires only a light touch for activation. COMPATIBILITY: Versions are available for use with IBM and compatible computers with serial or USB ports or for Macintosh computers with an ADB port. Also available is a cordless version for
Big Beamer Transmitter
The is an adaptive switch designed for people with fine motor and upper extremity disabilities to provide tactile, visual and audible feedback. Long battery life with built-in sleep mode. Wireless codes eliminating cross-talk between devices. Features a 30-foot range with no pointing necessary. External switch jack - makes any switch wireless.
Big Bend Clip
The Big Bend Clip is a bookholder, document holder, or switch mounting hardware designed for use by individuals with upper extremity disabilities. This device consists of an adjustable clamp base with an expandable gooseneck-style flexible arm attached to a large alligator clip. This unit can be clamped to the Convert-Able Table (see separate entry), a wheelchair tray, or other flat surface to hold books, toys, photographs, switches, and other items. Using two clips enables larger, heavier items
Big Bright Plate Switch
The Big Bright Plate Switch is a touch switch designed to activate toys and appliances for individuals with upper extremity disabilities. This switch features a bright plate on a dark base to assist users with visual disabilities. The switch activates with medium pressure on the plate and the sensitivity can be adjusted using the screws on the face plate. The switch can be used with any switch-adapted toy or appliance with a 1/8th-inch jack. DIMENSIONS: 5 x 11 inches. COLOR: Bright yellow plate
Big Buddy Button (Models 56500, 56520, 56540, 56200, 56100, & 56600)
Big Buddy Buttons are touch switches designed to enable individuals with severe physical, motor control, or upper extremity disabilities or spinal cord injury to control switch-adapted devices. Devices connected to the switches can be activated by pressing anywhere on the large top surface. Activation can be accomplished by exerting 5.3 ounces of force on the switch edges or 10.7 ounces of force at the center. A non-slip rubber base is included with each button. COLOR: Raving red (model 56100),
Big Buddy Switch
The Big Buddy Switch is designed for individuals with moderate to severe upper extremity or fine motor disabilities to make an appliance and computing accessible. Made for persons with moderate to severe upper extremity and motor disabilities, this switch features a 4.5 inch target area and can be activated with just 5.3 ounces of force. Auditory and tactile feedback.
Big Button Electric Bed Control
The Big Button Electric Bed Control is a bed control panel designed for use by individuals with fine motor, upper extremity, or severe physical disabilities or spinal cord injury. The control face features six large, heavy-duty buttons to control the head up/down, foot up/down, and bed up/down. Buttons function using the weight of the user's hand and do not require finger dexterity.
Big Button Ipod Remote (Model H-13)
The Big Button iPod Remote, model H-13, is a large button remote control for an Apple iPod player designed for use by individuals with fine motor disabilities. This infra-red (IR) remote is available in two versions. One includes a dock in which the iPod is inserted; and the other use a small IR receiver that does not block the earphone jack. The IR receiver can also be used to connect the remote to the iPod Nano as well as iPhones and iPads. The remote's buttons are raised and slightly convex,
BIG Candy Corn Proximity Sensor Switch
The AbleNet BIG Candy Corn Proximity Sensor Switch is a highly sensitive switch that is designed for users with upper extremity and other physical disabilities. The large wired proximity sensor switch activates with a simple wave of the hand or body movement over the switch top. It features an internal magnet for mounting or use two threaded inserts to mount, and auditory and visual feedback that can be turmed on or off.
Big Grips Slim Frame For iPad
The Big Grips Slim Frame for iPad is a soft, tactile protective frame that is slim enough to fit into a charging station with the Big Grips Slim Frame for iPad. It is designed for individuals with special needs or for people with ataxia and other limited mobility disabilities to give them full control of their iPad. The Big Grips Slim Frame is designed for charging and storage carts and features a thinner profile to accommodate many iPad charging carts.
Big Jack IR-6SP
The Big Jack IR-6SP is designed for users with motor and cognitive disabilities. The device is a programmable IR–transmitter which up to 6 different control switches can be used. The Big Jack can be programed and learn channels from other remote control units such as TV, stereo, and toys. Additionally, it can be used for lamps, telephones, and alarms.
Big Red Switch
The Big Red Switch is a touch switch designed to enable individuals with upper extremity disabilities to control switch-adapted devices, appliances, or toys. Made of shatterproof plastic this switch has a large, bright target for easy access and activation. The entire target surface is responsive, and the switch pad is sensitive to less than three ounces of pressure. This switch provides audible feedback on activation.
Big Red Twist
The Big Red Twist offers an adaptive switch designed for people with neurological disabilities. The Big Red Twist has an activation surface with tactile and auditory feedback, but with a twist.
BigBlu KinderBoard
BigBlu KinderBoard is a large-key computer keyboard that can assist children with vision or motor-skill impairment and is an excellent first keyboard for any child. Big Blu KinderBoard has big 1 inch/2.5 centimeter oversized keys and large, bold, easy-to-read numbers and letters.The keyboard features color-coded consonants, vowels, numbers and punctuation marks to help pre-school children learn their character sets. BigBlu KinderBoard is compatible with a Bluetooth connection and Windows XP or n
Bigmack Communicator
The BIGmack Communicator is a touch switch and direct selection communicator designed for use by people with visual, range of motion and communication disabilities. This single-message communicator offers 75 seconds of recording time. The communicator also has a toy/appliance feature which enables any message in the sequence, or as many messages as desired, to be paired with a reinforcer. To program, the user presses the record button and the top of the BIGmack while speaking into the built-in m
Biomuse
BioMuse is a cursor control interface designed for use by individuals with severe physical or neurological disabilites or spinal cord or brain injury. This bioelectric signal controller is a rack-mountable package that enables users to control computer functions directly from muscle or eye movement or brainwave signals, bypassing standard input hardware, such as a keyboard or mouse. This device receives data from four main sources of electrical activity in the human body: muscles (EMG signals),
Bite Switch
The Bite Switch is a sensitive bite switch designed for use by individuals with severe physical or neurological disabilities, spinal cord injury, or cerebral palsy. The bite switch is an alternative to sip & puff switches for ventilator users and individuals with respiratory disabilities. The user holds the switch between lips or teeth and presses gently to activate. OPTIONS: Dual bite switch mounts requiring 1-inch side-to-side head movement. COLOR: Black with red bite area.
Blob Cd For Windows
Blob CD for Windows is a cause and effect training program designed use by children with learning disabilities, cognitive disabilities, or upper extremity disabilities or spinal cord injury. This program teaches the use of a switch or touchscreen and is a first introduction to computers and switches that features bright, clear graphics, animation, and sound to help switch users to develop their switching and cognitive skills. It can be operated with one or two switches or with a joystick, fire b
Blow Switch.
--- "DO IT YOURSELF" ENTRY ------- PURPOSE: Switch activated by blowing on an index card attached to a battery device, intended to help a child develop breath control and blowing skills. This switch is made with a metal bandaid box, 3/16 inch wood dowel, two large paper clips, 12 inches of 24 gauge stranded wire, four inches of 2 conductor 22 gauge stranded wire and two index cards. Provides instructions and diagrams on cutting slots and holes in the box, soldering wire to the paper clips, and a
Blue2 Bluetooth Switch
The Blue2 Bluetooth Switch is a wireless touch and scanning switch designed for use by individuals with fine motor or neurological disabilities or cerebral palsy. This control switch allows wireless access via Bluetooth technology to certain applications on the Apple iPod, iPhone and iPad. To begin using the Blue2, sync the switch with a selected Apple device and activate an application's switch scanning mode to begin using the app hands-free. For maximum software accessibility, Blue2 supports f
Bluetooth Wireless Switch
The Bluetooth Wireless Switch is a wireless touch switch designed for use by individuals with fine motor or neurological disabilities or cerebral palsy. This control switcch allows wireless access to Prentke Romich communication devices with built-in Bluetooth capabilities, such as ECO-14, Vantage Lite, and SpringBoard Lite (see entries). An external switch jack allows dual switch input and LEDs indicate when pairing is complete and the switch is ready for wireless communication. Other features
The Body is a scale and smartphone application designed for individuals who are unhealthy or disabled due to their weight to help them gain insights and lose weight. Features Patented Position ControlT™ Technology for measurements, fat mass percentage, muscle mass measurements. It also tracks water intake and measures bone mass for the user to get a full picture of their body.
The Bookworm is designed to transform any book in a users library into a switch-adapted audio book useful for individuals with autism. Included SD memory card allows users to create a library of adapted books. Bookworm allows the user to create one's own content-related books to transform any book in their library into a switch-adapted audio book in minutes.Includes one 8-minute re-recordable memory module. Features adjustable volume, removable memory allows for saving recording to build a libra
Brain Cap
---- PROTOTYPE --------- PURPOSE: To design a prototype an Electroencephalography (EEG) “brain cap” technology that allows an individual to transfer one’s thoughts into motion. Researchers at the University of Maryland have created a prototype “brain cap” that can transform thoughts into motion using brain signals captured from the cap’s EEG sensors that are attached to user's scalp. The computer connected to the brain cap reconstructs 3D hand movements so that one can control a computer’s curso
Breath Actuator (Model 3365)
A 4-direction, multiple switch actuator used to convert varying amounts of breath suction and pressure (sip and puff) into the directional commands required by the Multimode Interface for mode selction and oepration. The Model 2422 Breath Tube Kit is used to provide a means of sending these sips and puffs to the Breath Actuator.
Breath Tube Kit (Model 2422-2)
Used for supplying sip and puff directional commands to the breath actuator. The Breath Tube Kit includes a wingaway strap clamp mount for attachment to a standard 7/8 inch diameter wheelchair/power recliner back bar. The mount permits the breath tube to be pivoted away from the user by an attendant and returned to its original position without the need to readjust the flexible breath tube.
Bright Box
The Bright Box is a touch switch designed for use by individuals with upper extremity or severe physical disabilities or spinal cord injury and low vision. This switch has a large-display visual cue that is activated when the user presses the top surface of the switch. The switch can be used to activate communication devices, mouse interfaces, or switch-adapted toys with standard 1/8-inch jacks. The visual display can be used as a visual cue to aid in locating the device for persons with low vis
Bright Box Tactile
The Bright Box Tactile is a touch switch designed for use by individuals with upper extremity or severe physical disabilities or spinal cord injury and low vision. This switch has a large-display visual cue and tactile feedback that are activated when the user presses the top surface of the switch. The visual feedback and tactile feedback (vibration like that of a cell phone or pager) can be employed together or independently. The switch can be used to activate communication devices, mouse inter
Bright Red Switch, The (Model 262)
The Bright Red Switch, model 262, is a touch switch designed for use by individuals with upper extremity disabilities. Pressing gently on the surface of the switch rewards the user with lights and vibration. Plugging the switch into a switch-adapted toy or appliance causes the device to be activated when the switch surface is pressed.
Bubbles is a combination touch switch and motion detection switch designed for use by individuals with upper extremity disabilities. This dome-shaped switch can be used to operate any switch-adapted device and features adjustable sensitivity. The switch can be set to act as a touch-sensitive switch, activated by a light touch on the top or sides, or it can be set so that simply bringing the hand near the switch is sufficient for activation. DIMENSIONS: Three inches across.
Bubcap Home Button Covers
BubCap Pro is a designed to deter users such as toddlers, individuals with autism, ADHD and intellectual disabilities from pressing the home button during an activity on an iPad, iPod Touch and iPod without limiting access by aduts. Parents, teachers, and other adults can activate the home button with a firm press. Sizes: BubCap Regular is the least rigid model, designed for younger children using an iPhone or iPod touch. It doesn't provide significant resistance on an iPad. BubCap Ultra is toug
Bubcap Pro For Ipad
BubCap Pro is a designed to deter users such as toddlers, individuals with autism, ADHD and intellectual disabilities from pressing the home button during an activity on an iPad, iPod Touch and iPod. BubCaps are small aluminum tabs that self-adhere to the cover of the home button on the device. When the aluminum tab is in place, the home button cannot be pressed directly to exit an application. To access the home button, parents, instructors or therapists can use a pen point through the small
Buddy Button Switches
Buddy Buttons are touch switches designed designed to provide computer accessibility or to activate toys and appliances for children who have physical and/or visual disabilities. These single switches are activated by pressing anywhere on the top surface: the force to activate around the edges, 3.5 ounces, almost half the force required in the center, 7.5 ounces. Two threaded inserts on the bottom of the switch to allow for secure mounting on the TASH Mighty Mount (see separate entry) or other m
Bugzi
Bugzi is a powered indoor chair designed for children ages one to five whose mobility has been impaired by physical and neurological disabilities. It offers a unique opportunity for pre-school children with disabilities to experience independent mobility. Bugzi is an ideal introduction to switch and joystick use. It is compact and maneuverable. Each Bugzi is tailored and adapted to the individual child’s needs, with the capacity to adjust seating and controls as he or she grows. Bugzi is a
Build 1 is a control switch training program designed for use with children with physical and cognitive disabilities. Accessible with a mouse or IntelliKeys (see separate entry), the program teaches the use of a single switch while introducing the concept of sequencing. The program presents familiar scenes missing key elements; the click of the switch adds a new element. When the task is successfully completed, the user is rewarded with an animated sequence. The program offers multiple settings
Burgess Joystick Controller.
A line of joystick assemblies which can be used to build interfaces for handicapped persons. 2 or 4 switch version. Momentary or latching. Optional lift to operate can be added. Dimensions: 3 inches square by 1. 6 inches deep. Control shaft 2 inches high.
Button Click Switch (Model 775)
The Button Click Switch, model 775, is a touch switch designed for use by individuals with upper extremity, fine motor, or neurological disabilities. This switch comnsists of a shallow square base with a large, round switch surface that activates with 40 grams of pressure. The unit is equipped with a quarter-inch plug. DIMENSIONS (LxW): 2.5 x 2.5 inches. COLOR: The base is blue and the button comes in a choice of blue, red, yellow, or white.
C-Pen Exam Reader
The C-Pen Exam Reader pen scanner is a pocket-sized pen with a jack for headphones designed for students with dyslexia to allow them to take exams independently by reading and understanding the questions. Reads English, Spanish, French, German or Italian exam questions in a human-like digital voice. No special access arrangements are required. The headphones allow students with learning disabilities to take their exam with their peers.
Cable Assemblies For Switches
Cable assemblies for connecting any switches to Zygo communicators. Mini plugs, open end, slide terminal, mini jack, amp connector or phono plug.
Call Bell (Model 34500)
The Call Bell, model 34500, is a call signal designed for use by individuals with severe physical or mobility disabilities or spinal cord injury. This device that sends out a tone when activated by a single switch connected to the jack on the Call Bell. Momentary contact triggers one tone of pre-determined length. Volume can be increased with the addition of a nine-volt battery. DIMENSIONS: 4 x 2 x 1 inches. WEIGHT: 8 ounces.
Call Buzzer
The Call Buzzer is a call signal designed to gain caregiver attention for individuals with disabilities who need to summon assistance. Depressing the plate on the top of the device causes a buzzer to sound. The device has a bright plate on a dark base for contrast to assist individuals with visual disabilities. POWER: Uses two double-A batteries. DIMENSIONS: 5 x 8 inches.
Call-For-Assistance
Call-For-Assistance produces either auditory or visual output as a signal for assistance. Call-For-Assistance requires .17 grams of force for activation, or may be activated by use of a switch. The device can be mounted to a wheelchair. The price of Call-For-Assistance ranges from $40 to $60, depending on the size, type of activation, and type of output desired--features that need to be specified when ordering. POWER: 9 volt battery. DIMENSIONS: 4.75 x 2.5 x 1.063 inches.
Calm Down Breathing for Kids
Calm Down Breathing for Kids is a blog post for children with sensory processing and anxiety disorders to teach them three simple breathing techniques that help them calm down and regulate their breathing.
The Cameleon is a voice output communication aid and environmental control unit designed for use by individuals with communication or speech disabilities. This dynamic communication aid provides synthesized speech from simple messages to complex sentences, using symbols, text, or both. It has a large, bright screen that can display symbols from a range of communication libraries and languages, as well as pictures from digital cameras and other sources. Input options include a mouse, keyboard, sw
Campbell Ada Compliant Pedestrian Push Buttons (Models 200, 400, 500, 800, 900, 4 Evr 120, 1371-412, & 4960-412)
Campbell ADA Compliant Pedestrian Push Buttons are audible pedestrian control switches designed for use by individuals who are blind or have low vision. Controls include a large round button in a round or rectangular mounting plate of stainless steel, aluminum, or PVC plastic. An audible tone and LED visual signal are momentarily activated when the button is pressed. Available switches include pressure sensitive solid state (model 4 EVR 120), typical movement solid state (model 700, 800, and 900
Candy Corn Proximity Sensory Switch
Candy Corn Proximity Sensor Switch is a highly sensitive switch designed for use by individuals with neurological or severe physical disabilities such as cerebral palsy and spinal cord injuries. This mechanical switch does not require physical touch to activate. The user can wave their hand or another portion of their body within 10 millimeters of the switch to activate. Visual and auditory cues occur when the switch is activated. Orange lights activate for visual cues and a beeping sound is eli
Canning Lid Switch With Light.
--- "DO IT YOURSELF" ENTRY ------- PURPOSE: Light can be turned on with the light pressure of hand on the jar lid. Simple switch to teach cause and effect. Device is constructed from mayonnaise jar lid that is regular mason size, wide mouth canning jar ring, spring from inside a large curler, plastic pill bottle with snap lid, 3 pieces of plastic coated wire, sturdy box turned upside down, 9 volt light bulb with socket, 9 volt battery, and 9 volt snap battery holder. COMMENTS: Good for visually
Cap Switch (Model 58060)
The Cap Switch, model 58060, is a small buttonswitch designed for use by individuals with upper extremity disabilities who have good ability to target smaller surfaces. The small, round single switch is activated using nine ounces of pressure and provides auditory feedback upon activation. The rubber base prevents slipping. DIMENSIONS: 1.8 x 0.6 inches high. WEIGHT: 6 ounces.
Car & Panda Switch (Models 9031 & 9032)
The Car Switch, model 9031 & 9032, is a touch switch designed for use by children with upper extremity or severe physical disabilities. These child-friendly switches have a contoured design for comfort while in use. Pressing the front hood of the toy car, model 9031, activates the switch; pressing on either of the panda’s ears, model 9032, will activate its smiling face. DIMENSIONS (LxW): (car switch) 4 x 2.5 inches; (panda switch) 3.5 x 2 inches.
Cd Switch (Model 90)
The CD Switch, model 90, is a touch switch designed for use by teens with upper extremity disabilities. This age-appropriate switch has a blank CD-ROM on the surface that refracts light in a rainbow pattern. This low-profile switch requires 40 grams of pressure to activate.
Cheek Switch.
--- "DO IT YOURSELF" ENTRY ------- PURPOSE: Sensitive switch that can be activated by slight head movement when mounted or held near child's cheek or chin to operate tape recorder, light, or battery toy. Device is constructed of subminiature SPDT lever switch, earphone with subminiature size plug, large bobby pin, cardboard, glue, tape, and rosin core solder. SKILLS REQUIRED: Soldering. AUTHOR: Burkhart, L J TITLE: Homemade Battery Powered Toys and Educational Devices for Severely Handicapped Ch
Chester Creek KinderBoard Computer Keyboard
The Chester Creek KinderBoard Computer Keyboard is a color-coded keyboard designed for those individuals with low vision and children with motor skill impairment to train them on how to use character sets. The oversized keys have large, bold, easy-to-read letters and numbers. Consonants, vowels, numbers, and punctuation marks are all color-coded. Oval F-keys. Two USB 2.0 ports.
Children's Switch Progressions
Children's Switch Progressions (formerly R.J.'s Switch Progressions) is a control switch training program designed for use by children with upper extremity and cognitive disabilities. This program offers seven activities for training in the use of single switches (or a touch screen). The activities progress from requiring that a switch be activated randomly to requiring that the switch be activated at specifically timed intervals. Skills developed include understanding cause/effect and attending
Chincheeka Dual Switch (Model H-51)
The ChinCheeka Dual Switch, model H-51, is a chin or cheek switch designed for use by individuals with severe physical disabilities, spinal cord injury, or cerebral palsy. This two-switch unit can be used for step-scanning/ control on a computer or for switch-adapted items that require two switches. In step-scanning, one switch is used to step (move) through choices, and the other to select a choice. OPTIONS: Magic Arm, Mini-Arm, or Articulating Arm for mounting.
Choice Switch Latch And Timer (Slat)
The Choice Switch and Latch Timer (SLAT) is a combination switch latch and switch timer designed to enable people with upper extremity disabilities to operate two switch-adapted games, toys or appliances. The unit enables one user to operate two items in sequence. The unit features two switch inputs, a timer, and control mode selection switch. The switch may operate as a latch switch, for timed seconds or minutes, with both appliances operating in the same mode. Once one item has been activated
Cintex4
CINTEX4 is an environmental control unit designed for use by individuals with severe physical disabilities or spinal cord injury. This system enables the user to dial and answer the phone, control infrared devices such as televisions, VCRs, DVD’s, stereos, CD players, etc., and control appliances such as lights, fans, etc. using voice commands or switch input (an input program such as Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional or a switch input program for keyboard emulation required, but not include
Clamp-On Bump Switch
Clamp-On Bump Switch is a button switch activated by 2 ounces of pressure on its tip. This switch is designed to be attached to a bed, chair, table, etc. and activated by any convenient part of the body. Both momentary and toggle models are available.
Clapper Plus With Remote Control
The Clapper Plus with Remote Control is a sound activated switch and radio remote control for lights or appliances designed for use by individuals with mobility disabilities. This unit allows the user to turn one or two appliances on or off by clapping hands or by pressing a button on a remote control. The remote control operates at a distance up to 25 feet away, and can operate through walls from another room or from outside. Operable appliances include lamps, Christmas tree lights, fans, and r
Classic Footswitch (Models 77 Sn-1, 2, 3, 4, & 5)
Foot operated momentary switch. Cast aluminum housing and treadle. Non skid steel baseplate. POWER: 10 or 15 amps, 125 to 250 volt AC, 1/2 horsepower. DIMENSIONS: 5.25 x 3.25 x 1.75 inches.
Classic Ii Medium Duty Footswitch
Footswitch. Cast aluminum foot operated, single stage momentary switch. Steel non skid baseplate. POWER: 20 amps, 125-250 volt AC, one horsepower. DIMENSIONS: 6.5 x 3.5 x 2.25 inches. WEIGHT: 2.75 pounds.
Classic Reed Footswitch (Models 77Sn9O & 77Sn9P)
Foot operated reed switch. Switch encapsulated in thermoplastic material and encased in cast aluminum housing. Spring return aluminum treadle. Steel, nonskid baseplate. DIMENSIONS: 5.5 x 3.25 x 1.75 inches. WEIGHT: 1.5 pounds.
Classic Solid State Footswitch (Models 77Sn8E & 77Sn8F)
Foot operated current sinking solid state switch. Low power device. Spring treadle action. DIMENSIONS: 5.5 x 3.25 x 1.75 inches. WEIGHT: 1.5 pounds.
Classic Variable Control
Footswitch. 5 1/2 by 3 1/4 by 1 3/4 inches, foot operated momentary switch controls small fractional horsepower universal motors. Low speed adjustment. Housing and treadle are cost aluminum. Non skid steel base plate. Long treadle travel. POWER: 6 amps 125 volt AC or 3 amps 250 volt AC. WEIGHT: 1.5 pounds.
Clear View Typing Aid for Right Hand
The Clear View Typing Aid for Right Hand is designed for use by people with limited hand mobility or dexterity who have difficulty using a keyboard, calculators, telephones, and other devices. The device fits securely and offers an unobstructed view of the key board. Additionally the padding protects the dorsal hand surface.
Clearsounds Sw200 Shakeup To Wakeup Alarm Clock
The SW200 ShakeUp to WakeUp Dual Large Display Alarm Clock is an alarm solution for those with hearing impairments or heavy sleepers.
Clickit! For Macintosh & Clickit! For Windows
ClickIt! is a mouse emulator program designed to provide access to Macintosh or Windows programs with IntelliKeys (see separate entry), switches, or the regular keyboard for individuals with physical, cognitive or visual disabilities. The program provides instant mouse-less access to menus, dialog boxes and scroll bars. It also allows custom overlays or switches to click on Hot Spots on the screen. Other features include automatically sending an overlay when launching a new program or when the s
Clinton Folding Parallel Bars
The Clinton Folding Parallel Bars are designed for those individuals with lower extremity disabilities to use in physical therapy sessions. Easy height adjustment with spring loaded plungers and numbered height strip. Heavy duty, square telescoping steel uprights. Width adjustable floor folding parallel bars with double stiffening rails.Second height knob removes side to side play. End bumpers on all handrails. PLEASE NOTE: This product is intended for physical therapy use, not for gymnastic use
Clinton Wall Mounted Folding Parallel Bars
Clinton Wall Mounted Folding Parallel Bars are designed for those individuals with lower extremity disabilities to help them walk. Clinton Wall Mounted Folding Parallel Bars are built to reduce storage space while also offering a safe and sturdy area for physical therapy and gait training. Easy height adjustment with spring-loaded plungers and numbered height strip on front legs. Second height knob removes side to side play in front legs. End bumpers on all handrails. Folds up against the wall w
Clipper Footswitch
Footswitch. Variety of sizes and shapes of foot operated one or two stage momentary or latching switches. Cast aluminum housing. 1, 2, or 3 pedal models. Latching models have push on, push off mechanism. POWER: 20 amps 125-250 volt AC, 3/4 or 1 horsepower, 15 amps 125 volt AC, 1/2 horsepower or 10 amps 250 volt AC, 1/2 horsepower. Optional foot shield, or 10 amps 125 volt DC - volt AC 1/4 h.p. WEIGHT: 2.25 pounds.
Collar & Bridge Assembly (Model 32669)
The Collar & Bridge Assembly, model 32669, is a control switch accessory for mounting hardware designed to secure wheelchair controllers to the chair. The Collar allows a full range of motion while holding controllers such as joysticks and sip-n-puff goosenecks in a stationary position relative to the user. The Bridge Assembly includes plastic spacers to position the control unit at a proper distance from the collar. Pre-drilled holes on the front of the collar enable a variety of height adj
Color Change Switch (Model 3Tspl)
The Color Change Switch, model 3TSPL, is designed for use by individuals with severe physical or upper extremity disabilities. This plate switch has a large translucent plate that changes color each time it is tapped, providing visual reward and reinforcement each time the switch is activated. The switch base is equipped with suction cup feet to keep the switch in place. DIMENSIONS: 14 x 5.5 x 4 inches.
Compact Footswitch
Steel housing foot operated momentary or latching switch. Skid proof base. POWER: 20 amps, 125 to 250 volt AC, 1 horsepower or 5 or 10 amps, 125 to 250 volt AC, 1/2 horsepower. DIMENSIONS: 2 7/8 x 2.5 x 1 1/8 inches. WEIGHT: 7 ounces.
Compact Switches (Model 745)
The Compact Switches, model 745, are touch switches designed for use by individuals with severe physical or upper extremity disabilities or spinal cord injury. These tiny, sensitive switches can be mounted anywhere using the included Velcro. They can be grouped together to enable the user to activate three different devices. DIMENSIONS: The switches are 0.375 inches high and 0.75 inches in diameter. WEIGHT: 0.25 pounds.
Companion Remote Control (Model Hc1800C)
The Companion Remote Control unit, model HC1800C, is a remote environmental control unit designed for use by individuals with mobility or severe physical disabilities or spinal cord injury. Using infrared and radio frequency technology, the unit can control many appliances in the home or workplace, including alarms, intercoms, door locks, door openers, window openers, lifts, telephones with loudspeakers, nurse call, pager, communication aids and computers, power sockets, lights, curtain openers,
Computer Access Package
The Computer Access Package includes an accessible keyboard and a variety of switches from AbleNet, and the interfaces that make it all work.
Computer Interface For Optical Headpointer.
--- "DO IT YOURSELF" ENTRY ------- PURPOSE: Optical headpointer and photodetector circuit designed to be immune to false triggering. Describes a photodetector circuit tuned to respond only to light pulsed at 90 Hertz (from a headpointer beam), ignoring shifts in ambient light level and room lighting. Circuit output feeds directly into a computer. Includes circuit diagrams for a lamp driver and a photodetector. COMMENTS: For further information contact: G L Heseltine, Science Unlimited Research F
Connect Bluetooth Wireless Headphone System for TV
The Connect Bluetooth Wireless Headphone System for TV is designed for use by individuals with fine motor, voice and hearing disabilities. The device assists the user with clear distortion-free digital sound and brings media sound with clear speech and dynamic bass. This device can connect to a TV or other audio devices via RCA, optical TOSLINK or 3.5-millimeter headphone jack. Add another Bluetooth headphone or speaker and stream audio to both simultaneously. Enhanced bass sound brings the user
Connect Universal Dual Bluetooth Wireless Audio Transmitter for TV
The Connect Universal Dual Bluetooth Wireless Audio Transmitter for TV is designed for use by individuals with fine motor, voice and hearing disabilities. The device assists the user clear, distortion-free digital audio to Bluetooth headphones, speakers, and other receivers up to 30 feet away. There is no white noise, no need to tune in for the right frequency. Stream audio up to two Bluetooth headphones or speakers simultaneously and adjust volume levels for each independently, allowing users t
Connector Adapter Ca-1 (Model 4342)
The Connector adapter CA-1, model 4342, is a switch adapter designed to allow users to plug two single switches into a device with a stereo plug for individuals with physical disabilities.
The Connector Adapter CA-6, model 4354, is a switch adapter designed to allow users to use one multiple switch with five devices that are each operated by a single switch for individuals with physical or cognitive disabilities.
Connector Adaptor Ca-2 (Model 4341)
The Connector Adapter CA-2, model 4341, is a switch adapter designed to allow users to use a dual switch with two devices that are each operated by a single switch for individuals with physical or cognitive disabilities.
The Connector Adapter CA-4, model 4358, is a switch adapter designed to allow users to use a dual switch with one device that is operated by a single switch for individuals with a physical or cognitive disability.
Contact Pad Switch
The Contact Pad Switch is a touch switch designed for use by individuals with limited upper extremity strength and mobility. No pressure is required to activate this switch; simply making skin contact with the pad surface activates the switch. This switch is equipped with an 1/8th inch jack. POWER: Uses one 9-volt battery (not included).
Controflex General Purpose Ribbon Switches (Models 101-Bmt131-A, 131-Amt, 121-Bp, & 141-Bph)
The CentroFlex Ribbon Switches are vinyl-coated momentary type switches for pilot, control, or low power duty. The switches offer Press-at-Any-Point control and are self-bottoming. A wide range of pressure sensitivities, sheathing materials, switch lengths, end terminating seals, exterior colors, and lead wire cominations are avaialble. Nominal sensitivies of 40, 12, and 8 ounces are standard. All models are sealed for moisture and chemical resistance. All switches are available adhesive backed.
Controflex Footswitch (Models 111 & 111-B)
The ControFlex Foot Switches are waterproof, sealed vinyl foot-operated momentary switches. They are rated at 100 watts and 5 pounds nominal foot pressure and feature normally open contacts. Model 111 has an operating force of 5 pounds; model 111-B is more sensitive with an operating force of 1.5 pounds. The lead wire for both models is 18 AWG and 6 feet long. The switches will operate at temperatures up to 150 degrees Fahrenheit and to 0 degrees Fahrenheit or below. DIMENSIONS: Switches are 2 x
Control 10
The Control 10 is a voice controller designed for use by individuals with mobility, neurological, or severe physical disabilities or spinal cord injury. The device outdoors, the transmitter can be used to open entrance doors, passage– and garage doors etc. Indoors, the transmitter can be used to operate elevators, apartment doors, unlocking, intercom, lightning, telephone, radio, TV, disposed alarm etc. The transmitter has long range, 10 to 30 meters and it can learn codes from other IR–transmit
The Control 18 is programmable IR–transmitters can be used by users with physical disabilities. Even elderly persons and persons with cognitive disabilities can be helped by an IR– transmitter with bigger and more sensitive keys. To be able to control functions in the surroundings enables more independence and makes living for an individual possible.
Control Medi Easy
The Control Medi Easy is a voice controller designed for use by individuals with mobility, neurological, or severe physical disabilities or spinal cord injury. The device has four (4) buttons and can be set to only two (2) buttons, with the ability to send infrared (IR) signals, and can learn IR signals from virtually all IR remote controls in the world. Additionally, the control has a direct control feature, where the user can use an external control switch to activate one signal on the device.
Control Medi Multi
The Control Medi Multi is designed for users with motor and cognitive disabilities. The device is a programmable IR transmitter with scanning function and GewaRadio. It has 8 buttons and 4 levels (28 functions) with the ability to send both IR and radio (GewaRadio) and can learn IR signals from virtually all remote controls in the world.
Control Prog
The Control Prog is a voice controller designed for use by individuals with mobility, neurological, or severe physical disabilities or spinal cord injury. The device is a programmable IR–transmitter adapted for persons with physical disabilities. The transmitter can store codes from other remote controls such as TV, Video and DVD.
Cookie Sheet Switch.
--- "DO IT YOURSELF" ENTRY ------- PURPOSE: Pressure switch made of cookie sheets which can be used to activate a tape player, battery toy or light. Switch made of 2 aluminum or steel cookie sheets ( or pizza pans), a subminiature size plug, 4 feet of 2 conductor 22 gauge stranded wire, and foam insulation tape. Includes instructions, diagrams and a photograph. Suggests uses. SKILLS REQUIRED: Electronics. Soldering. Assembly. AUTHOR: Burkhart, L J TITLE: More Homemade Battery Devices for Severel
Cooper Rand Puff Controlled Tone Generator Attachment
Puff controlled tone generator attachment for the Cooper-Rand electronic speech aid (see separate entry). The pneumatic switch is mounted to a headband with the tube curving around the side of the head to the mouth. Includes 40 inches of cord and used existing pulse generator.
Creature Chorus Sterling Edition
Creature Chorus Sterling Edition is single switch program designed to introduce the concepts of cause and effect, turn taking, visual tracking, discrete pointing, and use of a single switch for individuals with developmental, physical, or visual disabilities. The program offers nine games for use with a single switch, touch screen, or the space bar. Eight animated characters introduce the concepts of cause and effect, switch use, visual tracking, discrete pointing, and turn taking. Games range f
Credit Card Switch (Model 5580)
The Credit Card Switch, model 5580, is a touch switch designed for use by children and adults with upper extremity disabilities. As thin as a credit card, the switch is extremely sensitive and activates with the slightest touch. It can be used on any flat surface or it can be mounted on a wall and it is equipped with a plastic sleeve to hold a label. The set includes the switch, two plastic sleeves, and a set of labels, double-sided mounting tape, and Velcro for mounting. OPTIONS: A metal mounti
Crick Usb Switch Interface
The Crick USB Switch Interface is a computer switch adapter designed to make computers switch-operable for individuals with upper extremity disabilities or spinal cord injury. This switch interface works with almost all switch accessible software. It plugs directly into the computer's USB port and connecting switches. It will instantly work with Clicker, Cloze Pro, and All My Words 2 (not included) with no set up required. For other switch accessible software, this adapter comes with USB Keys, a
Crystal Clear Switch
The Crystal Clear Switch is a touch switch designed for use by individuals with upper extremity disabilities. This round switch can be activated with the slightest pressure anyone on the surface. A clear screw-off top enables pictures or words to be mounted on the switch surface for cueing.
Cup Switch (Model 58080)
The Cup Switch, model 58080, is a buttonswitch designed for individuals with upper extremity disabilities who have a good ability to target smaller surfaces. This switch is similar to the Cap Switch (see separate entry), but more durable because the switch is encased in a plastic cup. Colored stickers for the target area are included for individuals with low vision. The base provides a surface for mounting on a table, pillow, or wheelchair bracket. The switch is activated using nine ounces of fo
Custom Adaptation Camera
This Camera is a custom adaptation designed for those individuals with quadriplegics to film productions independently. It was designed for Bob Ness, a video producer for 20-plus years, and this adaption allows him to use a physical camera. The team used existing products and components and adapted a camera tripod mounted to a lamp to counterbalance the weight of the camera - that allows him to position his camera anywhere in space. He can now lift up-down, side-to-side, tilt and change the angl
Daessy Mini Bent-Tube Mount (Model M75-Btm)
The DAESSY Mini Bent-Tube Mount, model M75-BTM, is a stand for a tablet computer, switch mounting hardware and a computer and communicator mounting kit for wheelchair designed for use by individuals with use of only one hand, or mobility, lower extremity or upper extremity disabilities, or spinal cord injury. The mount is non-directional and can be installed on either side of the wheelchair. This product also can be removed from the wheelchair when not needed. The frame clamp assembly includes a
Daessy Mini Folding Mount (Model M75-Fm)
The DAESSY Mini Folding Mount, model M75-FM, is a stand for a tablet computer, switch mounting hardware and a computer and communicator mounting kit for wheelchair designed for use by individuals with use of only one hand, or mobility, lower extremity or upper extremity disabilities, or spinal cord injury. The mount is non-directional and can be installed on either side of the wheelchair. The system folds the horizontal tube down to the outside. The folding joint between the two mount tubes brin
Delay Timer.
--- "DO IT YOURSELF" ENTRY ------- PURPOSE: Delay timer allows switch to stay on for one to eleven seconds even if the switch is only activated briefly. A simple electronic circuit is constructed on a micro miniature prepunched perfboard and placed into a small box. Twenty-two gauge stranded wire is arranged on the perfboard and soldered into place. Resistors, 9 volt battery, electrolytic capacitor, audio transistor, potentiometer and mini relays are also soldered into place. The circuit board i
Deluxe Footswitch (Models 81-S, 81-Sc36, 84-S, & 85-S)
Foot operated, 1 or 2 stage momentary, or latching switch. Cast aluminum cover has parabolic curve allowing easy operation with low or high heels. POWER: 10 amps, 125 to 250 volt AC, 1/2 horsepower. DIMENSIONS: 5.5 x 4.75 x 1.75 inches. WEIGHT: 1 pound.
Deluxe Ii Footswitch (Models 68-S2, 68-S3, 68-S3N, & 68-S4N)
Foot operated 2 or 3 pedal momentary switches. High impact plastic cover tapers close to floor and has metal treadle bars at each side. Allows use of up to 4 basic spdt snap switches that can be utilized in a number of combinations. POWER: 10 amps, 125 to 250 volt AC, 1/2 horsepower. DIMENSIONS: 5 5/8 x 6 7/8 x 1.75 inches. WEIGHT: 2 pounds.
Dictaphone Switch For Use By A Paraplegic.
--- "DO IT YOURSELF" ENTRY ------- PURPOSE: Switch adapter to allow operation of a dictaphone with a floor switch by a paraplegic typist. Describes a hand operated push-button switch designed to replace a foot operated rocker switch for a dictaphone machine. The switch includes a push-on push-off button and a single pole double throw momentary push button to control the rewind mode. COMMENTS: For further information contact: The Cerebral Palsy Research Foundation, Rehabilitation Engineering Cent
Digital Home is a voice input and output environmental control unit designed for use by peoples with a a variety of disabilities, including wheelchair users and people with severe physical disabilities. It has built in independent voice recognition, and enables the user to control home lighting and appliances with verbal commands. The system responds to the user's voice by speaking back and confirming the verbal commands over a home theater system or stereo system, if such a system is connected.
Dipsy Switch
The Dipsy Switch is a motion sensitive switch designed for use by individuals with severe physical disabilities or spinal cord injury. This tilt-sensitive switch can be attached to the head, arm, finger or any appropriate object and can be activated by body movements such as tilting the head forward, tilting the head back, or lifting a finger. It can also be attached to objects such as a rocking chair. The switch is activated by a 30-degree tilt to limit false activation. It can also be adjusted
Disc Switch (Model 3265)
A heavy duty single switch type actuator provides both tactile and auditory feedback. The switch is oeprated by applying pressure to its 1 3/4 inch dimater cap. Operating pressure varies between 9 ounces when pressed at its center to 4 ounces when pressed at its edge.
Disco is a cause and effect training program designed for use by individuals with cognitive, learning, or communiction disabilities. It is intended to amuse users while developing switch skills and the understanding of cause and effect. The images and animations in the program are specifically chosen for older children, adolescents, and adults. The activity level ranges from a single press to gain an animated reward, to many key presses to build up a scene. COMPATIBILITY: For use with IBM or com
DIY Key Turning Aid
The DIY Key Turning Aid is a device that helps individuals grip and turn car keys while in the ignition. It is designed for people with fine motor difficulties or arthritis.
Diy Wii-Mote Modification
---- DO IT YOURSELF ENTRY --------- PURPOSE: To create a do-it-yourself rewired Wii remote to function using a switch witbigger buttons for individuals with disabilities. This DIY allows individuals with disabilities to use the Wiimote by not having to press the small buttons on the remote but rather use the buttons that have been rewired—A button, B button, the directional pad (up, down, left, right), and the home button. Step 1: Gather and set up soldering equipment. Step 2: Disassemble the W
Dj Switch Kit (Model B12)
DJ Switch Kit, model B12, is a rocker and touch switch kit designed to provide access to computers, toys and other communication devices for persons with physical disabilities. They are designed to meet a variety of physical and mounting needs. The kit contains the Ellipse 3 (no. 707), the L.T. Switch (no. 705), the BASS Switch (no. 745) and the Mounting Switch (no. 766) (see separate entries). The Ellipse 3 responds to one to three ounces of pressure; the L.T. responds to .75 ounce pressure; th
Door / Window Access Transmitter
The Door/Window Access Transmitter is a security system designed for use by individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing. The system comprises two small magnetic contact bars and a transmitter. When the door or window to which the bars are attached is opened, the bars lose magnetic contact, triggering the transmitter.
Doorbell Fon Door Answering System
The Doorbell Fon is a doorbell signal designed for use by individuals with mobility disabilities, severe physical disabilities, or spinal cord injury. When a visitor presses the button on the door intercom, the telephone rings inside the home with a distinctive ring. The user answers the phone to converse with the visitor. A call waiting tone sounds if the user is on the phone when a visitor arrives. Up to two intercom stations can be attached. The system works with answering machines, most home
Dot Box Switch
Dot Box Switch is a control switch that can be activated by pushing the button with moderate pressure. It is meant for individuals who cannot operate a standard control for a computer of other device. Switch can be used to encourage finger isolation.
Double Cheek Switch.
--- "DO IT YOURSELF" ENTRY ------- PURPOSE: Double cheek switch can activate two toys or other devices at the same time teaching the child to discriminate or make choices between two activities. Touch switch rests on child's chest and is tied in place. One loop of a wire coat hanger is placed on either side of the child's head. By moving the head from side to side, the child can activate one switch or the other with the cheek. Includes diagrams. SKILLS REQUIRED: Soldering. AUTHOR: Burkhart, L J
Double Directional Head Switch.
--- "DO IT YOURSELF" ENTRY ------- PURPOSE: Head operated switch which turns on if head is held upright and off if the head tilts too far forward or back, to encourage a child to keep her/his head in an upright position. Materials include 2 glass mercury switches, 4 feet of 2 conductor, 22 gauge stranded wire, a subminiature size plug, a strip of cardboard, soldering iron, and hot melt glue with applicator gun. Describes and diagrams construction of the switch. The switch may be attatched to the
Double Switch Box.
--- "DO IT YOURSELF" ENTRY ------- PURPOSE: Device to permit two switches to be hooked up to a single toy or tape player so that a child has to do two things at once to turn it on. Instructions for building a double switch box using a small plastic jewel or watch box, 2 subminiature size jacks, one subminiature size plug, 4 feet of two conductor, 22 gauge stranded wire and 3 inches of single conductor, 22 gauge wire. Includes diagrams. SKILLS REQUIRED: Soldering. Electronics. AUTHOR: Burkhart, L
Double Weight Bearing Switch.
--- "DO IT YOURSELF" ENTRY ------- PURPOSE: Weight bearing switch consisting of side by side platforms which must by pressed together to activate a toy or tape player, encouraging a child to bear weight evenly on both sides. Describes construction of the switch, which needs 4 pieces of masonite or hardboard 7 by 10 by 1/8 inch, 2 large disposable aluminum cookie sheets, 1 subminiature size plug, 5 feet of conductor, 22 gauge stranded wire, double sided tape, masking tape, foam mounting tape or f
Dress EZ™
The Dress EZ™ is a shoe horn stick designed for use by individuals with arthritis, lower extremity or mobility disabilities. The device is a two function aid; it can be used as a dressing aid or shoe horn. The Dress EZ is made of soft foam handle with a 1 inch diameter and has a smooth surface with round edges.
Drumkit is a cause and effect training program designed for use by children with learning, cognitive, or upper extremity disabilities or spinal cord injury. This music-making software teaches children switch use as they learn to add rhythm to music. Users select a background tune and then add percussion sounds or tune motifs to complement the music. On-screen animation accompanies the music, with new animations appearing when users add drums or other instruments. Many tunes and settings are pre-
Dual Plate Switch (Model Cm-12)
The Dual Plate Switch, model CM-12, is a touch switch designed for use by individuals with severe physical or upper extremity disabilities or spinal cord injury. This switch is activated by pressing either end of a rocking plate. Pressing one end activates one switch; pressing the other activates the second switch. DIMENSIONS: 2.5 x 4.3 x 1 inches. WEIGHT: 4 ounces.
Dual Pneumatic Switch (Model Cm-14)
Dual Pneumatic Switch is a switching unit activated by sipping or puffing on a tube. Each of the two actions activates a different switch. Any chosen tube may be used; one is available as well from the manufacturer (extra). DIMENSIONS: 2.5 x 4.75 x 1.75 inches. WEIGHT: 7 ounces.
Dual Pushbutton Switch (Model Cm-13)
The Dual Pushbutton Switch is a pair of snap-action button switches housed side-by-side, each in a 1.25-inch diameter recess. Switches are activated by pressing. An audible click is provided when the switch is activated. DIMENSIONS: 2.5 x 4.3 x 1 inches. WEIGHT: 4 ounces.
Dual Switch Latch And Timer
The Dual Switch Latch and Timer is a device that controls the mode of operation of two momentary contact switches. The latching function changes the action of the switch from momentary to latching on/off. The timing function keeps the circuit closed for a preset amount of time for each activation of the switch, and it can set the duration for which the switch must be pressed in order to be activated. The Dual Switch Latch and Timer can be used to control battery operated devices if used with a b
Dual-Lock
Dual-Lock is a surface anchor designed to mount switches and other devices to mounting plates or any other surface. When pressed together, this adhesive-backed strip provides a tough, secure bond. DIMENSIONS(W x L): 2 inches x 1 foot. WARRANTY: A manufacturer's warranty is available on this product.
Duplex Footswitch (Model 476-S)
Dual foot operated momentary rocker switch with mechanical interlock to prevent both circuits from operating at same time. Cast aluminum housing: non skid base. POWER: 15 amps, 125 to 250 volt AC, 1/2 horsepower. DIMENSIONS: 8.5 x 3.5 x 2 inches. WEIGHT: 1.75 pounds.
Dycem Non-Slip Material Roll, 16 Inches x 3-1/4 Feet, Red
The Dycem Non-Slip Material Roll, 16 Inches x 3-1/4 Feet, Red is a product designed for those individuals with upper extremity disabilities to use. Original Dycem anti-slip material is 0.4 millimeters thick. It is non-slip on both sides and flexible. Flexibility allows it to flex and fit around an object. Users cut piece from reel to get the size they need. The material can be used for a variety of applications: gait re-education and balance activities; under hands, feet and knees; to stabilize
Dycem Non-Slip Material Roll, 16 Inches x 6-1/2 Feet, Yellow
Dycem Non-Slip Material Roll, 16 Inches x 6-1/2 Feet, Yellow is a product designed for occupational therapists to use in long term care facilities. The non-slip material is used to help stabilize objects, hold objects firmly in place, or to provide a better grip. Reusable and easy to clean. Good for childcare centers, nursing homes and schools.
Dycem Non-Slip Material Roll, 8 Inches x 10 Yards, Black
The Dycem Non-Slip Material Roll, 8 Inches x 10 Yards, Black is a product designed for those individuals with upper and lower extremity disabilities to use in a variety of applications: gait re-education and balance activities; under hands, feet and knees; to stabilize equipment or limbs in weight bearing exercises; under plates for eating and dining; beneath people's feet and on seats to help improve positioning and posture when standing or sitting. It is non-slip on both sides and flexible. Fl
E-Z Call
E-Z Call is a switch device designed to activate a hospital nurse call system. The pressure sensitive plate is mounted where the patient may apply slight pressure to it with any part of the body to activate it. A 10 foot cord is provided. Technically, E-Z Call is only a switch; it must be connected to a hospital call system to operate. The manufacturer also makes a portable alarm which E-Z Call may be plugged into (see PA-1 Portable Alarm, by Med Labs.).
Ear Boost Bluetooth Wireless Adaptive Audio Enhancement Earphones
The Ear Boost Bluetooth Wireless Adaptive Audio Enhancement Earphones is designed for use by individuals with fine motor, voice and hearing disabilities. The device assists the user with clear distortion-free digital sound and brings media sound with clear speech and dynamic bass. Additionally, the user can take calls and control music playback using the built-in microphone and remote.
Early & Advanced Switch Games
Early and Advanced Switch Games is a control switch training program designed to provide training in the use of single switches for children with upper extremity disabilities. This program includes 19 games and activities ranging from cause and effect through following directions and matching, and up to using the switch to make a funny face and print it out. Examples of games included are Noises, which provides instant positive reinforcement on switch activation; Build-A-Scene, which adds a part
Easel Switch
--- "DO IT YOURSELF" ENTRY ------- A switch mounted to the front surface of a Triwall easel and covered by a square plate of expanded PVC material to enlarge the switch surface.
Easy-Roll Backpack with LED Safety Signal
The Easy-Roll Backpack with LED Safety Signal is designed for individuals with sensory processing and upper extremity disabilities to carry items in for school or work, Durable wheeled backpack with telescoping handle for easy transport of emergency supplies. Easily converts to a regular backpack as needed and includes flashing, high-visibility (up to 2,500 feet) LED signal for safety.
Easy-tech Communication Kit
The Easy-Tech Communication Kit includes an assortment of communication solutions that support engagement and motivation across all instructional activities.
Econo Series Console System
Educational Insights 3-in-1 Portable Easel 20" (1.7 ft) Width x 15" (1.3 ft) Height - Rectangle - Desktop, Tabletop, Floor Standing - 1 Each
The Educational Insights 3-in-1 Portable Easel 20" (1.7 ft) Width x 15" (1.3 ft) Height - Rectangle - Desktop, Tabletop, Floor Standing - 1 Each is a product desined for children with upper extremity disabilities to use. Good or illustrations during storytime. Makes reminders and announcements attention-grabbing. Versatile - set up on floor, table or desk. Slim-fold design and lightweight convenient for on-the-go meetings/presentations. Easily storable.
Educational Insights Dinosaur Construction Company Build & Smash Set
The Educational Insights Dinosaur Construction Company Build & Smash Set is a set of play tools designed for children ages three and up with Autism Spectrum Disorder to stack, smash and crash (wearing a hard hat). This play set comes with break apart boulders (each with embedded fossils), pipes and construction barriers. It is a good add on for the original and new Dinosaur Construction Company trucks. Includes one Action figure (head, arms and legs move), three Break apart boulders (which c
Educational Insights Hot Dots Jr Cards Kit, Numbers and Counting
Educational Insights Hot Dots Jr Cards Kit, Numbers and Counting is an educational game designed for those individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder and learning disabilities to get them ready for school in a fun way Hot Dots Jr. card sets teach children all they need for academic success. Cards can be used alone as traditional flash cards, or when used with Ace the Talking Teaching Dog or Kat the Talking Teaching Kitty (both sold separately), with fun lights and encouraging sounds to guide chil
Edushape Textured Blocks, Set of 80
Edushape Textured Blocks, Set of 80 are designed for children ages two and up with Autism Spectrum Disorder to build and create with. Have a distinctly textured front and back for youngsters’ fine motor skills development and adapt well for use with children with special needs. Make basic flat designs to trace or build more advanced 3-Dimensional designs. Includes storage case.
Eensy & Friends
Eensy & Friends is a control switch training program designed to help users with physical disabilities become familiar with a switch-operated computer environment. The program is both visually and aurally stimulating with colorful graphics and animation and lively sounds and auditory cues. It includes three levels of switch training including: Cause-and-Effect where an action is rewarded with animation; Opposites which introduces the concept of on/off and left/right; and Story Completion whe
Electric Window Opener.
The Electric Window Opener is a remote control switch designed for use by individuals with upper extremity disabilities or spinal cord injury. This remote control switch can operate up to 4 windows from a command center. It features a rain sensor that automatically closes the window. The switch is designed to be used with Andersen awning and venting roof windows. Power operator replaces standard hand crank on window.
Electrical Footswitch, Air Actuated Footswitch
Single pedal footswitch. Steel base and cover with rubber treads. Momentary on. Double action switch and press on, press off switch mechanisms also available.
Electrical Footswitches.
Round footswitch. Polyvinylchloride base sealed to flexible PVC cover. PVC cable attached. Snap action switch, momentary on. Water and dirt proof. Can also be used as hand switch or activated by other part of body.
Electrical Outlet Connector
---- PROTOTYPE --------- PURPOSE: To create a prototype of an electrical outlet connector to assist individuals with cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and Parkinson`s disease to plug in everyday electrical devices. The concept behind this project is to reduce the stress factors that come from the pushing and pulling required to plug in electrical devices into most standard U.S. and Canadian electrical outlets, which is also an easily assembled, manufacturable device. The
DO IT YOURSELF" ENTRY --- PURPOSE: Switches for use by individuals with mobility or neurological disabilities. Mel Nowland, a retired engineer, has designed many types of electrical switches for people with limited mobility, using easily found materials such as soap dishes and Tupperware, including eye-blink, two-handed, voice-operated, and pillow switches. AUTHOR: Wechsler, K. TITLE: Doing It Yourself. JOURNAL: Quest. WEB SITE: http://www.mda.org/publications/Quest/q113diy.html. REF: Vol. 11, N
Ellipse 3 & Ellipse 6
Ellipse Switches are a collection of low-profile touch switches designed for use by individuals with upper extremity disabilities. Shaped to fit the hand, activation is accomplished when the switch is touched anywhere on the surface. The Ellipse 3 requires one to three ounces of pressure and is ideal for mounting on a wheelchair tray next to the joystick control. The Ellipse 6 is designed for users that need a large target but have a light touch. This switch requires five to eight ounces of pre
Emg Switch
The EMG Switch is an electromyographic (EMG) switch designed for use by individuals with severe physical or upper extremity disabilities. The device is operated by small controlled muscle movements and senses muscle activations to provide a switch closure. Features include simple threshold adjustment, built-in digital signal processing that extracts intentional activations from weak muscles, and an audible caregiver call tone. POWER: Uses double-A NiMH rechargeable batteries. A charger is includ
Enabling Devices iPad Wireless Switch
The Enabling Devices iPad Wireless Switch is designed for individuals with severe physical, motor control or upper extremity disabilities. The switch includes six modes for additional functions such as turn pages, control media (e.g. iTunes), and iOS camera. Can be used as a switch interface with ports to connect one or two wired switches. Includes switch cord for use with devices that require a wired switch. Works through Bluetooth 2.1 for simple pairing and has a range of over 50 feet.
Enabling Devices Musical Fan Switch with Lights
Enabling Devices Musical Fan Switch with Lights allows users with visual disabilities to learn cause and effect. Press the textured oval plate to feel, hear, and see multiple stimuli. Activates connected device, turns on fan along with music and lights
Enabling Devices Oval Texture Switches
The Enabling Devices Oval Texture Switches is a switch with a bumpy surface which provides motivation and tactile stimulation and sensory input. The switch works by pressing on the large yellow plate and is angled for easy access and visibility. Includes a nonslip suction-cup feet to secure the switch firmly in place.
Eneighbor Adl
eNeighbor ADL is an emergency alert system with monitoring service designed for use by seniors or individuals with disabilities who live in assisted living facilities. The system includes secure web portal access for staff and family to monitor the individual's activities of daily living (ADL). Each system is configurable and custom- designed to accomodate the needs of institutions. Small, wireless electronic sensors are placed in strategic areas of the assisted living residence. These sensors m
Eneighbor Auto Pers
eNeighbor Auto PERS is an emergency alert system with monitoring service designed for use by seniors or individuals with disabilities who live in assisted living facilities. The system provides around the clock monitoring of assisted living residents. Staff are alerted even if the resident is unable to call for help. Small, wireless electronic sensors are placed in strategic areas of the assisted living residence. These sensors monitor typical daily living activities of the occupant and communic
Environmental Control Unit
The Environmental Control Unit (ECU) allows individuals with mobility impairments to operate electronic devices. Users may operate the unit by touching individual cells, any part of the screen, or external switch. It enables easy user adjustments for volume brightness and scan speeds. The ECU's functionality also extends to the operation of enabling access to the internet, email, electronic media, and desktop applications. It can provide full access to, and control of, communication aids giving
Eschenbach Table Clamp (Model 1600)
The Eschenbach Table Clamp, model 1600, is a gooseneck holder designed for use by individuals with low vision. This table clamp can turn any hand-held magnifier into a hands-free magnifier, or it can be used to position smaller objects for easier viewing. The unit has a flexible metal, gooseneck arm with 2 clamps made from high quality black plastic with sponge rubber disks for firm contact on smooth surfaces.
European Footswitch
Footswitch. 5 European style, square and round, foot operated momentary switches. POWER: 7 amps, 125 to 250 volt AC, or 10 amps, 125 to 250 volt AC, 1/ 2 to 1 horsepower.
Eva-Dry Home Dehumidifier
The Eva-Dry Dehumidifier is a dehumidifier that is designed to help persons who have allergies or for anyone who is adversely affected by the presence of moisture in musty places. This basement dehumidifier is very small but powerful enough to service an area of 250 square feet. Protects homes from growing mold spores and moisture-liking bacteria. Does not need water poured into it because it automatically grabs the moisture out of the air through non-toxic water-glass crystals inside the home d
Executive Footswitch (Models 72, 74, B2S, & B4S)
Dual foot operated momentary rocker switch with mechanical interlock. Die cast metal cover. Nonskid base. Pressure on one side activates circuit independently of other side. Wiring inside. Only single cord exposed. POWER: 10 amps, 125 to 250 volt AC, 1/2 horsepower. DIMENSIONS: 5 5/8 x 4 x 1 1/8 inches. WEIGHT: 1.25 pounds.
Extension Cables (Models 4333, 4335, & 4337)
Switch connector adapter for use with single switch with 1/8 inch miniature jack and plug, 6 feet long (model 4333); dual switch with 5 pin DIN jack and plug, 6 feet long (model 4335); multiple switch with 9 pin D jack and plug, 6 feet long (model 4337).
The Extension Cord is a control switch accessory designed to allow more distance between the switch and the item being controlled. DIMENSIONS: The cord is 6 feet long.
Eye Blink Switch (Model 9008)
The Eye Blink Switch is an eye switch designed for use by individuals with severe physical or upper extremity disabilities or spinal cord injury. Aiming the switch's sensor at the user's eye enables the user to control communication devices, toys, computers, or other connected devices. Built-in controls give momentary, timed, or latched output. Special internal circuitry can be set to activate with each eye blink or with every double eye blink to ignore normal eye blinking. An adjustable holder
Eyegaze Edge
The Eyegaze Edge is an eye-operated communication and control device designed for use by children and adults with cerebral palsy, spinal cord injury, brain injury, ALS, multiple sclerosis, brainstem stroke, muscular dystrophy, and similar disabilities. Users make selections by looking at keys displayed on the screen for a fraction of a second (eye gaze). A small camera mounted under the Eyegaze screen takes 60 pictures per second of the user’s eye. Those images are analyzed by a processor that i
Eyegaze Edge Tablet
The Eyegaze Edge is an eye-operated communication and control device designed for use by children and adults with cerebral palsy, spinal cord injury, brain injury, ALS, multiple sclerosis, brainstem stroke, muscular dystrophy, and similar disabilities. The unit can be transferred from a wheelchair to a table or desk. Users make selections by looking at keys displayed on the screen for a fraction of a second (eye gaze). A small camera mounted under the Eyegaze screen takes 60 pictures per second
Ezcomm
The EzCOMM is a handheld direct selection and symbolic communicator and tablet computer designed for use by individuals with communication, speech, neurological, or severe physical disabilities, autism or spinal cord injury. It has a 12.1-inch touch screen with 1024 x 768 resolution (landscape), and a high density, impact-resistant case. In addition to the touch screen, the user can interface with the EzCOMM using a variety of switches that can connect to the units dual switch ports. Windows 7 P
Fiber Optic Light
The Fiber Optic Light is a sensory integration aid designed for children with emotional disabilities to play with. This classic Fiber Optic Light features white lighted crystal rocks in the bottom and a white lighted fiber optic spray on the top.
Fiber Optic Sensor With 3 Pin Connector (Model Asl 202-3 Pin)
The Fiber Optic Sensor with 3 Pin Connector, model ASL 202-3 PIN, is a sensor switch designed for use by individuals who require a small, fine, no force switch type. This single function fiber optic sensor switch has a round target area with an adjustable activation range from touch to 2.5 inches. It can be programmed for either normally open or normally closed operation. In the normally open (NO) mode, switch activation occurs when an object is detected in the selected range. In the normally c
Fidget Toys Mix Pack
The Fidget Toys Mix Pack is a five-item kit designed for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder to help focus and clam them, relieve their stress and anxiety and feel tactile sensations. Sensory toys are gadgets to pull, bounce, squeeze and squish.
Film Can Pull Switch.
--- "DO IT YOURSELF" ENTRY ------- PURPOSE: Easy to pull switch to allow a child to turn on a tape player, battery toy or light. Switch made from a 35 mm plastic film can, 2 one inch brass washers, sewing elastic, string, 6 feet of two conductor, 22 gauge stranded wire, a subminiature size plug, and a large ring (about 6 inches--available in craft stores). Provides instructions for construction, with diagrams and a photograph. SKILLS REQUIRED: Assembly. Soldering. AUTHOR: Burkhart, L J TITLE: Mo
Finger Flex Switch
Finger Flex Switch is a switch built into a partial glove. Bending a finger activates the switch. The switch uses a 3.5 millimeter mini-phone plug as a connector.
Finger Isolation Button (Model 716)
The Finger Isolation Button is a buttonswitch and fine motor skills training device designed for use by children with fine motor disabilities. This recessed button encourages isolated touch and is designed to help a child gain the motor skills necessary for mastering computer keyboards. DIMENSIONS (LxW): 3 x 1.5 inches. WEIGHT: 3 ounces. COLOR: Yellow.
Finger Switch (Model 717)
The Finger Switch, model 717, is a wearable finger switch designed for use by individuals with severe physical or upper extremity disabilities. This switch is worn like a ring; the relative position of the switch to a mobile finger that controls the switch can be precisely set and maintained. A Velcro strip is included to allow the switch to be mounted to an arm or leg. DIMENSIONS: 1.5 x 0.5 inches. The Velcro strip is 18 inches long. WEIGHT: 1 ounce.
Finger-mounted reading device
The Finger-mounted reading device is a prototype with a built-in camera that converts written text into audio for visually impaired users. The device provides feedback — either tactile or audible — that guides the user’s finger along a line of text, and the system generates the corresponding audio in real time.
Firm Grip Joystick Holder
The Firm Grip Joystick Holder was designed to allow easy use of the joystick for persons with limited or no use of one hand. Two straps hold the joystick in place, while four suction cups on the bottom of the device secure it to a flat surface in front of the computer. An optional plexiglass undersheet ($20.00) provides a workspace and assures a good hold for the suction cups. DIMENSIONS: 6 x 5 inches. WEIGHT: Less than 1 pound.
Fist / Foot Or Wheelchair Bump Switch
The Fist/Foot or Wheelchair Bump Switch is a foot or toe switch designed for use by individuals with fine motor, upper extremity, or neurological disabilities or cerebral palsy. This switch has a large activation surface to hit with a fist, palm, or foot. It can be attached with Velcro to the side of a nightstand or cabinet at toe height, and the user can then activate the switch by bumping it with his or her toe on a wheelchair footrest or by driving the wheelchair carefully up to the switch an
Flex Switch (Model 5855)
The Flex Switch is squeeze switch designed for use by individuals with limited upper limb mobility. It is a single switch operated by bending the flexible rubber tip 0.5 inches in any direction, with an activating force of 6.5 ounces. The switch provides tactile and auditory feedback. The Flex Switch comes mounted on an angled metal rod to facilitate positioning. The rubber tip can be removed and rotated. It can be mounted on a wheelchair or table.
Flexible Switch
The Flexible Switch is a pressure contact switch designed for use by individuals with upper extremity disabilities. This bendable switch can be activated with a light touch at either a direct or shallow angle. It can be plugged into any communication device or battery operated assistive device that has a standard 1/8-inch jack. DIMENSIONS: The flex switch comes with one 2 x 4 inch switch and one 3 x 5 inch switch.
The Fling is a joystick interface for touch screen designed for use with the the Apple iPad tablet computer that can improve access for individuals with neuromuscular disabilities that result in weakness in the hands. It can be used with any game application (or app) that has an on-screen joystick. The Fling should be placed over the game's onscreen joystick. This joystick provides auto-centering and force feedback. It gives the user the feel of an analog joystick, so the iPad games feel even mo
Fling Mini
The Fling Mini is a joystick interface for touch screen designed for use with smartphones or other handheld devices with a touch screen for individuals with neuromuscular disabilities that result in weakness in the hands. Sold in pairs, it can be used with any game that has an on-screen joystick on the Apple iPhone or iPod touch or any Android smartphone. Each unit is made from anodized aluminum and transparent engineering-grade resin that is tough and flexible. The joystick stays in place on a
Flipper Switch.
--- "DO IT YOURSELF" ENTRY ------- PURPOSE: Switch is activated by pressing down gently on the end of plastic spatula to activate toy, light, or tape recorder. Switch turns off when lever is released. Device is made of flexible plastic or nylon spatula, box about 6 inches long, 3 inches high and 3-6 inches wide, spring from inside a large hair curler, subminiature lever switch, masking tape and rosin core solder. SKILLS REQUIRED: Soldering. AUTHOR: Burkhart, L J TITLE: Homemade Battery Powered T
Flying Colors Large Textured Plate Switch
The Flying Colors Large Textured Plate Switch is a touch switch designed for use by individuals with severe physical or upper extremity disabilitie. This oval-shaped unit offers a large textured contact surface, plate-switch action, and an auditory "feedback click." This switch includes a 1/8 inch connector and 0.25 inch adapter. DIMENSIONS(HxLxW): 1 x 5 x 8 inches. COLOR: Yellow touch pad within green case.
Foam Earplugs
Foot Control Bellows (Model B621A)
Foot operated pneumatic bellows connected to plastic tubing which joins remote electrical pressure switch located in appliance. Water, dust and shockproof. Air pressure switch not included. Bellow can be connected to momentary, on/off or sequencing air switches so electrical equipment can be turned on/off or sequenced with no danger of shock.
Foot Operated Air Valve Switch.
Footswitch. 2, 3, or 4 way foot operated momentary switches that control air valves. 1/8 - 27 N.P.T. input and output ports, line pressure up to 150 psi. Filtered and lubricated air supply required for best operation. Housing of iron, steel or aluminum. DIMENSIONS: Sizes vary from 5.25 x 3.25 x 1.75 inches to 2 7/8 x 2.5 x 1 1/8 inches. WEIGHT: Varies from 1/2 to 4.75 pounds.
Foot Switch (6000)
The Foot Switch, model 6000, is a foot switch designed for use by individuals with upper extremity disabilities who have control of a foot. Constructed with non-skid material, this switch activates toys or devices with light foot pressure. DIMENSIONS (LxW): 3.5 x 2.5 inches.
Foot Switch Universal (Model L0902 )
The Foot Switch Universal, model L0902, is a foot switch designed for use by individuals with upper extremity disabilities who have control of a foot. Coated with an industrial strength polymerized cover, this switch activates with a light touch of the foot. DIMENSIONS: Plug is 1/8 inch in diameter.
Forgetful & Friends
Forgetful & Friends is a control switch training program designed to provide switch training for students with cognitive or physical disabilities. The program is both visually and orally stimulating with colorful graphics and animation and lively sounds and auditory cues. It includes three levels of switch training: Cause-and-Effect where an action is rewarded with animation; Opposites which introduces the concept of on/off and left/right; and Story Completion where cause-and-effect activiti
Formboard With A Brain (Model 207)
Formboard with a Brain, model 207, is a puzzle switch, eye hand coordination activity, fine motor training device, and sensory integration activity designed for use by children and adults who have visual memory problems. This teaching device can be customized to the needs and abilities of the user, starting with one or two shapes and building to a sequence of shapes. By gradually increasing the challenge, the user’s memory skills, counting skills, spatial concepts, listening skills, and ability
Four Input Adapter (Model 3315)
Allows the use of four single switch actuators for mode selection and oeration of a Multipmode Interface. Each switch provides one of four directional commands (forward/reverse/left/right) required for system operation. The single switch type actuators used must normally be open, momentary contact switches with minature phone plugs.
Four-Plate Communicator Say It Play It (Model 4055)
The Four-Plate Communicator Say It Play It, model 4055, is a direct selection communicator designed for use by individuals with upper extremity and communication disabilities. This communicator features four large plate switches in a window-pane configuration, each of which activates a message up to five seconds long. Light pressure on a plate activates a message and a toy or appliance (not included) can be plugged into a jack in the unit to be activated along with a message. Messages can be rec
Frankenkindle
---- CUSTOMIZED ADAPTATION --------- PURPOSE: To create a custom adapted electronic book reader for an individual with cerebral palsy. Glenn, an electrical engineer created the "Frankenkindle" for his sister using an Amazon Kindle and a keypad from a children's reader. This e-reader adaptation features controls that are easier for and individuals with cerebral palsy or other types of fine motor and neurological disabilities to use compared to the standard buttons on the Kindle. The device is mou
Freedom Large No Tip Suction Pad Cup Holder
The Freedom Large No Tip Suction Pad Cup Holder is designed for those individuals with hand tremors, paralysis, Parkinson's disease, arthritis, uncontrolled movement and disabilities that restrict hand movement necessary for drinking to help them drink independently. Folds flat for storage. Comes with the Freedom Non Skid, No Spill Vacuum Pad attached to the bottom.
Freehand Starter Kit
The FreeHand Starter Kit is an environmental control device designed for use by individuals with upper extremity or severe physical disabilities. This environmental control unit (ECU) allows any alternating current (AC) appliance such as lamps or fans to be activated wirelessly when used in conjunction with an X-10 transceiver module (included). The FreeHand uses radio frequencies so activation can take place from across a room or down a hall within a range of 75 feet. DIMENSIONS (HxLxW): 2.25 x
Freeswitch Max (Model Fsm-100)
FreeSwitch Max, model FSM-100, is a scanning remote control switch designed for use by individuals with severe physical disabilities or spinal cord injury. It allows wireless activation of nearly any AC (alternating current) appliance, including lamps, blow dryers, fans, and popcorn makers. The system is X-10 compatible. Appliances can be activated through direct selection by touching the keypad or an external switch. For example, by connecting a Pal Pad external switch (see separate entry) to t
Friction Knob Universal Mounting Kit
The Friction Knob Universal Mounting Kit is designed for individuals with upper extremity and fine motor disabilities to allow them to securely place their assistive technology devices quickly and easily.
Frigidaire Window-Mounted Room Air Conditioner (Models Fam186R2A, Fam156R1A, Fac126P1A, Fas296R2A, Fas256R2A, Fas226R2A, Fac106P1A, & Faa086P7A)
The Frigidaire Window-Mounted Room Air Conditioner is a room air conditioner designed for use by individuals with mobility disabilities. This unit has a full function remote control that allows the user to select temperature and fan speed from a distance. A remote thermostat allows the user to set the temperature at the location of the remote. An antibacterial filter reduces bacteria and other airborne particles. In sleep mode, room temperature is increased by two degrees in the first thirty min
Fuelcall
The FuelCall is a call signal system designed for use by gas station customers with disabilities. This system enables customers who need assistance at self-service gas stations to attract the attention of gas station employees. Components include BigBell transmitters (see separate entry) with an oversized touch pads that can be used by customers with limited dexterity; wireless chime receivers; two steel J-shaped mounts for the BigBell transmitters, reinforced to handle abuse; signage for two is
Funny Friend Switch (Model 2245)
The Funny Friend Switch, model 2245, is a touch or wobble switch designed for use by children with severe physical or upper extremity disabilities. Pull one of the two colorful balls or swipe at the happy monkey to hear silly sounds and music, feel a slight vibration, and see multicolored lights flash. The unit also works as a capability switch, activating a connected device. Sound can be turned off for quieter use. DIMENSIONS (LxWxH): 13 x 8 x 9.25 inches. POWER: Uses 2 triple-A and 2 C batteri
Fuzzy Friends & Switches Kit (Model 4064)
The Fuzzy Friends & Switches Kit, model 4064, is a set of switch operated plush toys and touch and finger switches designed for use by children with severe physical or upper extremity disabilities or spinal cord injury. This kit includes five different plush toys along with five different switches (all also sold separately). The switches can be used to work on specific goals. Switch activation causes the animals to walk, talk, and/or make animal sounds. The set includes: Pretty Kitten, Flopp
Gem Footswitch
Foot operated momentary switch with heavy die cast metal housing and nonskid base. Safety feature prevents damage to switch if excessive force used. POWER: 7 amps, 125 volt AC, 1/6 horsepower. DIMENSIONS: 3 3/16 inches diameter x 1 7/32 inches high. WEIGHT: 1 pound.
Gem-K Footswitch (Models Gem-K3 & Gem-K36)
Foot operated momentary switch. Vinyl cover over heavy die cast metal housing. Safety feature prevents damage to switch if excessive force applied, optional lighter spring pressure model. POWER: 7 amps, 125 volt AC, 1/6 horsepower. DIMENSIONS: 4 inches diameter by 1 3/8 inches high. WEIGHT: 1.5 pounds.
Gewa Access Maxi
Gewa Access Maxi is a wireless computer and environmental control keyboard with large keys designed for use by individuals with fine motor disabilities, mobility disabilities, or spinal cord injury. This wireless keyboard controls a computer through remote infrared (IR) using the included mouse interface. The keyboard has two levels, one for the computer and one for environmental control. Input is through direct selection. Macros and multi-function environmental control commands can be recorded
Gewa Access Medi
Gewa Access Medi is a wireless scanning keyboard for computers or environmental controls designed for use by individuals with fine motor disabilities, mobility disabilities, or spinal cord injury. This wireless keyboard controls a computer through remote infrared (IR) using the included mouse interface. The keyboard has two levels, one for the computer and one for environmental control. Input can be made through direct selection or scanning, with 12 different scanning methods. Macros and multi-f
GEWA Connect
The GEWA Connect is a voice controller designed for use by individuals with mobility, neurological, or severe physical disabilities or spinal cord injury. The device assists the user control home appliances while they do their daily tasks. Download the app and the user can control turning the TV on and off or open windows and doors. * Please note that the mobile phone is not included in the package.
Gewa Control Prog
The GEWA Control Prog is a remote controller for an environmental control system designed for use by individuals with mobility disabilities, severe physical disabilities, or spinal cord injury. This hand-held infrared transmitter can learn channels from other remote controls such as TV and video or function within the GEWA Infra-Link system using either direct selection or scanning. This 15-level programmable transmitter can send 241 signals to control environmental devices, including security-c
Gimpgear Pillow Switch
The Gimpgear Pillow Switch can be gently nudged or touched for use when in bed. Place switch next to the head, in a pillowcase, or mounted near the bed for usage when needed.
Gimpgear Roughneck Dual Pushbutton Switches
RoughNeck Dual Pushbutton Switches are touch switches designed for use by individuals with upper extremity disabilities. These feather-touch switches provide auditory feedback, allowing users without sensation in their hands to hear successful activation. The switches are rugged and can be used on wheelchair armrests and other demanding applications. The switches are compact enough to imbed into wheelchair armrest foam. DIMENSIONS: 2.3 x 1.38 x 0.8 inches.
Gimpgear Roughneck Single Button Switch
The GimpGear RoughNeck Single Pushbutton Switch is a buttonswitch designed for use by individuals with severe physical or neurological disabilities or spinal cord injury. This feather-touch switch provides auditory feedback, which allows users without sensation in their hands to hear successful activation. The switch is rugged for use on wheelchair armrests and other demanding locations, and can be imbedded into wheelchair armrest foam. It can also be used as a head switch when properly mounted.
Gimpgear Sip-n-Puff USB Gaming Headset
The Gimpgear Sip-n-Puff USB Gaming Headset is a headset for PS2/PS3/Wii/PC designed specifically for use with sip and puff switches. Solid Motorola NFL-style Headset features unique silver-ion, antimicrobial sip and puff tubing and replaceable anti-contamination mouthpiece. Makes a great addition for use with computer or gaming using sip-n-puff switch. Comfortably wear headset for use with computer or for playing games. Mouthpiece stays in position regardless of movement. Includes on anti-contam
Gimpgear Ultra-Precision Usb Joystick Mouse & Pc Game Controller
The GimpGear Ultra-Precision USB Joystick Mouse and PC Game Controller is a joystick mouse interface designed for use by individuals with upper extremity or neurological disabilities or cerebral palsy. This digital joystick utilizes differential magnetic fields without any mechanical parts to provide smooth operation. A sticky rubber joystick wrap prevents slipping. The user rests a hand passively over the teardrop shaped joystick handle for mouse pointer control. The unit has three large built-
Girder Automation Software (Standard, Pro, & Whp)
Girder Automation Software is a home automation program designed for use by individuals with mobility or severe physical disabilities. This program comes in three versions, Standard, Pro and Whole Home Pro (WHP). Girder Standard is designed solely for controlling applications running on the same PC using an infrared or wireless remote control. It allows the user to control digital media players such as WinAmp or Windows Media Player and play DVDs in home theater programs. Girder Pro and WHP are
GlassOuse Bite Switch
The GlassOuse Bite Switch is a mouth activated switch to be attached to the GlassOuse mousing system. Comes wth 2 silicone bite protectors.
Glitter Gumball Switches
Glitter Gumball Switches are gumball switches with glitter added to add visual interest for users who require an activation switch to operate a computer or other device. These switches provide both audible and tactile feedback and are come with permanent clear plastic covers. Their bases have three holes for easy mounting. Mounting plates are removable.
Glitter Roll Music Box & Switch (Model 696)
The Glitter Roll Music Box and Switch, (model 696), is a rotating cylinder switch and adapted music box designed to provide multi-sensory stimulation for children with physical, cognitive and/or sensory disabilities. The clear cylindrical roller contains a potpourri of sparkling shapes which, when rotated, activates the music box. The cylinder is mounted on a white plastic base with suction cup feet. The device can also be used as an external capability switch without music when connected to a t
Glow Switch
The Glow Switch is a touch switch designed for use for individuals with upper extremity or severe physical disabilities and low vision. The domed shape and the backlit surface aid in locating the switch. The dome remains lit until the switch is pressed. POWER: Uses four double-A batteries. DIMENSIONS: The outer diameter of the dome is 4.5 inches.
Goobi 70 Piece Construction Set Building Toy Active Play Sticks STEM Learning Creativity Imagination Children’s 3D Puzzle Educational Brain Toys for Kids Boys and Girls with Instruction Booklet
The Goobi 70 Piece Construction Set Building Toy Active Play Sticks STEM Learning Creativity Imagination Children’s 3D Puzzle Educational Brain Toys for Kids Boys and Girls with Instruction Booklet is designed for children ages 3 and up with learning disabilities to enhance eye hand coordination and improve problem solving skills in an entertaining way. Induces creativity and helps to develop a sense of proportion in younger children. Creates simple and fun ways to learn the basics of geometry,
Good Vibrations Deluxe Kit
The Good Vibrations Deluxe Kit is designed for users who are elderly, heavy sleepers, hard of hearing, deaf and more. This alerting kit for the hearing impaired will help users to be alerted 24 hours a day to incoming calls, the doorbell ringing, sound monitoring and smoke detection. This alerting system includes Good Vibrations receiver, telephone transmitter, doorbell transmitter with remote button, smoke detector, sound monitor, sleep charger unit and bed vibrator.
Good Vibrations Phone Kit
The Good Vibrations Phone Kit is designed for use with cellular phones by individuals who are hard of hearing. The phone kit works by vibrating while there is an incoming phone call and transmission can be expanded by adding transmitters. Additionally, the kit includes: Good Vibrations Receiver, Telephone Transmitter, Battery Charger.
Gooseneck Feeding Device.
--- "DO IT YOURSELF" ENTRY ------- PURPOSE: Gooseneck holder for spoon to provide resistance against uncontrollable arm movements. A gooseneck with an angle clamp can be purchased. A lock-on accessory with a push button release is attached to the end of the gooseneck and silver brazed to the eating utensil to be used. In the example described a T bar handle was also brazed onto the end of the utensil to provide better support for a person with uncontrolable movement. A commercially available laz
Gooseneck Mounting System (Models 1550 & 1565)
The Gooseneck Mounting System is switch mounting hardware designed to enable control switches to be optimally positioned. Equipped with a flexible, extra-stiff gooseneck, the system can be attached to a table or wheelchair with the one-piece all-surface clamp or the switch (not included) can be attached to the circular plate w3ith the included dual-lock fastening strips. Model 1550 also has a locking swivel balljoint under the mounting plate for more precise angle adjustment. DIMENSIONS: The cir
Gooshy Switch (Models 634, 635, & 636)
The Gooshy Switch is a touch switch designed for us by individuals with severe physical or upper extremity disabilities. This large switch has a durable, squeezable, pillow-like top with a sparkling surface. Model 634 is a momentary switch that activates a connected toy or device while pressed. Model 635 adds vibration when the switch is activated. Model 636 provides lights, music, and vibration and can be used with a connected device or alone as a sensory toy. power: Uses two double-A batteries
Gotalk Button (Model Gt-00W)
The GoTalk Button, model GT-00W, is a single-message communicator with a built-in magnet designed for use by individuals with cognitive, communication or speech disabilities. This portable device records one 10-second message. The user presses the unit's large button to play the message. The built-in magnet holds the button on the refrigerator or any metal surface. POWER: Uses batteries (included). DIMENSIONS: 2 inches in diameter. WEIGHT: Less than one ounce.
The Grabber is a custom prototype grabber designed for those individuals with spinal cord injuries to pick items up that they dropped, such as a phone or television remote control. It could take Chris up to 20 minutes with a DIY hanger hook. With this prototype, it is initiated by wrist extension (flicking the wrist). In addition to grabbing, the grabber is outfitted with magnets and a hook for added functionality and to grab other items that fall. It was invented at a Tikkun Olam Makers make-a-
Grasp Switch
The Grasp Switch is a squeeze switch designed to be activated by pinching or squeezing for individuals with upper extremity disabilities. The tube-shaped switch features a foam hand grip that is soft to the touch while providing firm support. Activation requires 11 ounces of pressure. There is no auditory or tactile feedback provided. DIMENSIONS: The switch is 5.5 inches long and 1.4 inches diameter.
Grasp Switch.
--- "DO IT YOURSELF" ENTRY ------- PURPOSE: Squeeze switch used to activate tape player or battery operated toy can encourage child to develop grasping skills. Switch is constructed using a 3 inch section of 3/8 inch copper pipe, 4 copper U brackets, conductor wire, a subminiature plug and foam rubber strips. Includes diagrams. SKILLS REQUIRED: Soldering. AUTHOR: Burkhart, L J TITLE: More Homemade Battery Devices for Severely Handicapped Children with Suggested Activities REF: Millville, Pennsyl
The Grid2 is a voice output direct selection and symbolic communicator program for creating symbolic or text communicator grids designed for use by individuals with communication, speech, neurological or severe physical disabilities or autism. The Grid 2’s basic function is to allow a person to use a computer as a voice output communication aid, using symbols or text to build sentences; however, it also can access the Windows desktop with its built-in computer control features to operate other p
Grip And Puff Switch (Model 700, 700-X)
The Grip and Puff Switch is both a squeeze switch and a pneumatic puff switch designed for individuals with physical disabilities. The vinyl grip, a rubber cylindrical air bellows is connected by a tube to a switching unit. Grasping the cylinder and exerting slight pressure activates the switching unit, which functions as a regular switch. The grip can also be removed and used as a puff switch. This product comes with a standard 0.25 inch jack and plug and can be ordered with a 1/8 inch jack and
Grip Switch
The Grip Switch is a squeeze switch designed for use by individuals with upper extremity disabilities. This pneumatic switch activates with a slight squeezing pressure on the grip (five grips in different sizes are included to accommodate growth, change in ability, or multiple users). The switch can be used with any switch-adapted toy or appliance equipped with a 1/8th-inch jack. DIMENSIONS: All grips are four inches long. They range in diameter from 3/8 inch to .75 inch. COLOR: The grips are fi
Grip Switch Kit (Model 701)
The Grip Switch Kit is a squeeze switch accessory for individuals who have physical disabilities. It consists of colored tubular grips designed to be interchangeable with the grip on the standard Grip and Puff Switch (model 700, see separate entry). Each kit comes with 5 grips. DIMENSIONS: Approximately 4 inches in length, with varying diameters between 3/8 to 3/4 inches.
Grip Tilt Switch Kit (Model 998-K)
The Grip Tilt Switch Kit , model 998-K, is a grip switch designed for use by individuals with severe physical or upper extremity disabilities. This kit includes four soft tube switches that activate connected devices when held upright. DIMENSIONS: 5/8 inch, 0.75 inch, 7/8 inch, and 1 1/8 inch in diameter.
Gripables Utensils - Pink
Grippity
---- PROTOTYPE --------- PURPOSE: To design a prototype of a transparent display tablet with rear keyboard designed for individuals with grasping difficulties. Grippity tablet is ergonomically designed with 10-finger typing in mind, hinging on the ability to touch the front and rear of the screen simultaneously. The transparent display allows users to view both their fingers tapping from the reverse side and the complete screen from the front. So it can come in handy for activities like pinch-to
Guidecraft Magnification Blocks, Set of 6
Guidecraft Magnification Blocks, Set of 6 are tactile building blocks designed for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder to play with. Guidecraft Magnification Blocks include six stacking squares which feature hardwood frames and smooth, rounded corners and edges with inset magnified acrylic windows. Ideal for exploring natural, tactile and other detailed materials found inside or in nature. Enhance STEM-based activities with the 6-piece set. Good for group play.
Gumball Switch (Models 782B, 782G, 782P, 782R & 782Y)
The Gumball Switch is a touch switch designed for use by individuals with upper extremity or severe physical disabilities or spinal cord injury. Intended for users who can access a smaller target area, this switch has a detachable mounting base and provides audible and tactile feedback. A clear plastic cover is included. DIMENSIONS: The activation surface is 2.5 inches, the base is 3.25 inches, and the switch is 0.75-inch high. COLOR: Available in blue, green, purple, red, or yellow.
H-31 Dual Button Box
The H-31 Dual Button Box is a computer switch control interface designed to enable individuals with severe physical, motor control, neurological or upper extremity disabilities or spinal cord injury to control a 2-switch adapted device. The user plugs the switch input of the device he or she wishes to control into the back of the Dual Button Box. One button on the Dual Button Box will "step scan" through the device's menu or options. When the user reaches the desired option or action, he or she
H-32 Switch Poser
The H-32 Switch Poser is a switch stand designed for use by individuals with neurological, fine motor, or upper extremity disabilities or cerebral palsy. This positioning stand has a base and a mounting surface on a flexible hinge. The base attaches to a smooth flat surface such as a tabletop through bottom suction. The switch (not included) attaches to the flat mounting surface with the included Super Velcro. Once attached, the switch can be adjusted to any angle from horizontal (flat) to verti
H-46 Scanover (Scanning Voiceover Switch Interface)
The H-46 ScanOver (Scanning VoiceOver Switch Interface) is a computer switch control interface designed to enable individuals with severe physical, motor control, neurological or upper extremity disabilities or spinal cord injury to control an Apple iPad with a switch. This unit has a speaker and headphone jack, a front panel showing the status of the Bluetooth module inside, and a rear panel for the scanning options. The user turns VoiceOver on with triple click and starts scanning with either
H-68 Scan-5
The H-68 Scan-5 is a computer switch control interface designed to enable individuals with severe physical, motor control, neurological or upper extremity disabilities or spinal cord injury to control a TV, Apple iPod, voice recorder, MP3 player, DVD player or switch-adapted toy/device with a switch. This stand-alone device can be used by a person that can operate one or two switches. The user plugs a switch-adapted remote control or device that he or she wishes to control into the Scan-5's 9-pi
H-69 Select-5
The H-69 Select-5 is a control input interface designed to enable individuals with severe physical, fine motor control, neurological or upper extremity disabilities or spinal cord injury to control a TV, Apple iPod, voice recorder, DVD player, MP3 player or a switch-adapted toy or appliance. This stand-alone device features 5 large round buttons: Power/play/pause; Advance forward or Channel up; Go backward or Channel down; Volume up; and Volume down. The user connects a device or remote control
H-70 Digital Switch Timer
The H-70 Digital Switch Timer is designed to enable individuals with upper extremity to control electronic switch-adapted devices such as CD/MP3/DVD players or universal TV remotes. The device functions as a connector between a switch and a switch-adapted device. The user hits the switch to start the song, program or video, and the device plays for the amount of time set on the switch timer. When the time on the timer switch expires, the device pauses and can restarted by the user by pressing th
H-87 Ipad Vo (Voiceover) Controller
The H-87 iPad VO (VoiceOver) Controller is a large button remote control interface for an Apple iPad tablet, iPhone or iPod Touch designed for use by individuals with fine motor disabilities or who are blind. The VO Controller connects to the touchscreen device through Bluetooth and uses the keyboard shortcuts built into the Apple iOS VoiceOver accessibility feature (see separate entry) to help the user access the content and functions of the host device. The user can control a screen reader to
HAL 2000 Home Control System
HAL 2000 Home Control System is an environmental control unit program designed for use by individuals with severe physical disabilities, spinal cord injury, and upper extremity disabilities. It enables the user to control any number of lights, appliances, and other devices through a computer using voice input. Lighting and appliances can be turned on and off, and the user can set schedules, with voice commands delivered via telephone or computer-connected microphone. Commands can also be deliver
HAL Basic Home Control System
HAL Basic Home Control System is an environmental control unit program designed for use by individuals with severe physical disabilities, spinal cord injury, and upper extremity disabilities. It allows the user to control lighting, appliances, and other devices through a computer with voice input, which is received by the computer via microphone. Lighting and appliances can be turned on and off by voice command, or the user can set schedules by voice. When commands are carried out, the program p
HAL Deluxe Home Control System
HAL Deluxe is an environmental control unit program designed for use by individuals with severe physical disabilities, spinal cord injury, and upper extremity disabilities. It enables the user to control lights, appliances, and other devices through a computer using voice input. Lighting and appliances can be turned on and off, and the user can set schedules, with voice commands delivered via telephone or a microphone connected to the computer. When commands are carried out, the program provides
Hand Controls For Pilots
---- PROTOTYPE --------- PURPOSE: To provide a hand control system that allows individuals with lower extremity and mobility disabilities to pilot an airplane. A conventional control stick was modified by giving it two handles. The right handle is fixed and moves the entire stick to control pitch and bank as it would in a typical airplane. The left handle can be pushed forward and back to control the rudder. Additionally, there is a button to control the throttle since using the modified control
Hand Switch (Model Tah-180)
The Hand Switch, model TAH-180, is a ribbon switch call signal designed for bed patients to signal for help or assistance by flexing or squeezing. These sealed vinyl switches require an operating force of 0.5 pounds and are normally-open, momentary-contact switches. DIMENSIONS: Switch is 2 x 5 x 0.375 inches. COLOR: White.
Hands-On Buddy Button
The Hands-On Buddy Button is a touch switch designed to provide visual cues for individuals who have difficulty locating the surface of a single switch to press for activation. These switches can be used to operate switch-adapted appliances and toys and include a non-slip rubber base. SIZES: Available in regular and large (comparable to the Buddy Button and the Big Buddies, see separate entries). COLOR: Bright yellow with a black handprint on the surface.
Happ100 Advanced Breath Control For A Pc
The HAPP100 is an Advanced Breath Controller for a PC or Mac. It offers fast, precise and jitter-free cursor control along with scrolling and keyboard shortcuts, giving users full control of a personal computer. It can also enhance head tracking solutions such as (free) Camera Mouse, and provides options to control other assistive aids.
Happy Duck is a cause and effect training program designed for use by children with learning disabilities, cognitive disabilities, or upper extremity disabilities or spinal cord injury. This program is designed for early language development and switch training. The program contains 45 line drawings of everyday objects, animals, and vehicles. Users can choose to color all or some of these images with one switch press or several. Coloring is accompanied with sound effects and a final sound reward
Happy Switch (Model 14)
The Happy Switch, model 14, is a touch switch designed for use by children with upper extremity disabilities. This large-surface switch has a smiling face on the switch surface and requires a light touch for activation.DIMENSIONS (WxH): 4.5 x 1 inches. COLOR: Yellow with black details
Head Control Switch
The Head Control Switch is a head position switch designed for use by children and adults with disabilities. The switch is activated by being tilted and can be mounted on the head or another body part.
Head Mounted Laser Pointer
The Laser Pointer (Head Mounted) is designed for users with speech and mobility impairments, and users with limited movement as a way for them to communicate. The device works by enabling a person with limited movement to directly point to letters, words, and phrases on a communication board.
Head Mounting Kit (Model A72)
The Head Mounting Kit, model A72, is switch mounting hardware designed for mounting the Plate Switch or L.T. Switch (see separate entries) on wheelchairs for use by persons with good head control. The kit includes a mounting plate, a right-angle tube, 13-inch flexible goosneck, push button disconnect, and a wheelchair clamp. The pushbutton disconnect is for quick removal of the unit from the wheelchair. Instructions are also included.
Head Switch Kit
The Head Switch Kit provides all the materials for making a tilt-activated switch. The switch can be mounted on the head or other body parts, and is activated when tilted.
Head Switch Mounted To Existing Head Support
--- "DO IT YOURSELF" ENTRY ------- A head-switch mount which consists of a strip of expanded PVC that is formed so that it hooks around a head support. A Velcro strap connects the end of the head-switch mount. The switch is bolted to the mount. PURPOSE: To stabilize a switch for activation by head movement. MATERIALS USED: Expanded PVC material, 12 inch x 4 inch, Velcro loop tape (non-adhesive), 1 inch x 6 inch strip, Velcro pressure-sensitive hook tape, 1 inch x 4 inch strip, three ½ inch lon
Headband Switch
Headband Switch consists of an adjustable headband equipped with a switch that has a small paddle for a lever. The paddle rests on the forehead; raising the forehead muscles activates the switch. The paddle must be taped to the forehead. The switch has a 3.5 mm plug. WEIGHT: 2 ounces.
Headrest Swing Away Bracket (Sm-Hrsa240)
The Headrest Swing Away Bracket, model SM-HRSA240, is switch mounting hardware designed for use by individuals who use wheelchair headrests. This arm attaches to any Stealth or Otto Bock style headrest (see entries). It is made ready to mount an egg switch or a sensor in a spot pad. Once adjusted in place the user can swing it away when it is not needed and push it back to the same spot when needed.
Headswitch (Model 705)
The Head Switch is a touch switch that can activated with various body parts for individuals with physical disabilities. The switch requires very little pressure and so can be used by the head, knee, elbow, cheek, etc. Contact manufacturer for information on switch mounting kits (not included). DIMENSIONS: The length is 3.75 inches.
Headswitch (Model L1101 )
The Headswitch, model, L1101, is a head position switch designed for use by wheelchair users. The headswitch is activated by very little pressure from the head, but can also be activated by various other body parts. The switch attaches to many switch mounting systems. DIMENSIONS: The plug is 1/8 inches in diameter.
Headswitch Kit 1 (Model 1560)
The Headswitch Kit 1, model 1560, is a touch switch and switch mounting hardware package. HEADSWITCH: (Model 705) this switch (with cord) is activated with very light pressure from the head, but can also be activated by a knee, elbow, cheek, or other body part when mounted on a table or wheelchair. MOUNTING HARDWARE: The mounting hardware in the kit includes all necessary components: 1 universal swivel clamp, one 3/4 - 1/4 inch adapter, one 8-inch rod, one 18-inch rod, and one wheelchair clamp.
The Headswitch Kit 2, model 1570, is a switch mounting hardware and touch switch package that includes all necessary components for the attachment of the switch to a table or flat surface. HEADSWITCH: Headswitch model 705 is a touch switch that can also be activated by very light pressure from the knee, elbow, cheek, or other body part. MOUNTING HARDWARE: 1 universal swivel clamp, one 3/4 - 1/4 inch adapter, one 8-inch rod, one 18-inch rod, and one surface mount clamp.
The Headswitch Kit 3, model 1580, is a touch switch and switch mounting hardware package. HEADSWITCH: Headswitch (model 705) is a touch switch that can be activated with very light pressure from the head, knee, elbow, cheek, or other body part. 2 headswitches and cords are included in this kit. MOUNTING HARDWARE: Two 3/4 - 1/4 inch adapters, 1 flex mount, 8 assorted rods (4 pairs), 2 quick disconnects, 2 surface mount clamps, 2 wheelchair clamps, 4 universal swivel clamps, and 1 sturdy case with
Heavy Duty Grip Switch (Model 6203)
The Heavy Duty Grip Switch, model 6203, is a squeeze switch designed for individuals with physical disabilities. The Astarex-B switch features low voltage and single hand control for use as a call switch or hospital switch. Grasping the cylinder with less than three pounds of nominal actuation force activates the switching unit. DIMENSIONS (LxW): The grip measures 1 x 5 inches. WEIGHT: The switch weighs four ounces. COLOR: Black.
Heavy-Duty Triangular Flange (Model 2002)
The Heavy-duty Triangular Flange, model 2002, is switch mounting hardware designed to aid in attaching switches to wheelchairs and workstations. The flange is a 5/8-inch 27 female connector.
Heavy-Duty Weighted Base (Model 2008)
The Heavy-duty Weighted Base, model 2008, is switch mounting hardware designed to aid in attaching switches to wheelchairs and workstations. DIMENSIONS: Six inches in diameter.
Hercules Heavy Duty Footswitch
Footswitch. 8 7/16 by 4 5/16 by 4 1/2 inch cast iron, heavy duty foot operated 1, 2, or 3 stage momentary or latching switch. Some models have 2 or 3 stage switches built in. 3/4 inch 14 pipe thread conduit opening. Optional: oversized shields. Driptight, dustight, watertight, oiltight. Cast iron. Models available with anti trip treadle mechanism to prevent accidental actuation through unintentionally stepping on foot treadle. POWER: Comes in 20 amps, 125-250 volt AC, one horsepower; 15 amps, 12
Hercules Potentiometer Foot Control
Footswitch. 9 by 5 3/4 by 4 3/4 inches, foot operated momentary switch controls variable speed motor with 2 watt linear model and choice of maximum resistance. Spring loaded treadle returns to up position when foot pressure is removed. Oiltight, watertight models come with or without shield guard which fits over treadle. WEIGHT: 7.5 pounds.
Hit 'n Time
Hit 'N Time is a control switch training program designed to develop visual tracking skills and build reaction time for persons with physical disabilities. Children practice switch, mouse or keyboard skills; cause and effect; choice making and timing. The activities, for this animated computer program, include pressing the switch at the right time to catch floating balloons, tell a parachutist when to jump, and reveal a picture behind a brick wall. There are two levels of difficulty to choose fr
Hitch 2.0
Hitch 2.0 is a plug-and-play USB computer switch interface with inputs for up to five switches or one joystick with a 9-pin D plug. When used with switch accessible software, users are able to control their computer and actively learn. For macOS Sierra, El Capitan, Yosemite, or Mavericks users, turn on Switch Control for full computer access with one or multiple switches. In addition, Hitch 2.0 includes a mouse control mode that enables a user to control the on-screen mouse cursor with a joystic
Hitch Computer Switch Interface
The Hitch Computer Switch interface is a switch adapter for computers designed for use by individuals with severe physical or upper extremity disabilities or spinal cord injury. This plug-and-play switch requires no software setup, making it immediately ready to deliver five sets of functions to as many as five switches at a time. Rows of functions are chosen with a single push of a button. This device can be used with switch-accessible software for single switch access or two-switch scanning. T
Hold-It Down Trainer (Model 7400)
The Hold-It Down Trainer is a control switch training program and direct selection communicator designed for use by individuals with upper extremity or severe physical disabilities and communication disabilities. This trainer switch encourages the user to sustain his/her hand on the textured switch plate using three different methods: recorded verbal direction cues, gentle vibration, and activation of any connected toy. The unit offers 300 seconds of recording time for up to 60 messages of five
The Home Automation Modules are environmental control switch modules or lamp modules designed for individuals with speech or communication disabilities and severe neurological or physical disabilities. Intended for use with ComLink communicators (see separate entries) with integrated environmental control software. These modules communicate with the ComLink to control items in the user's home. For example, appliance modules can be used to turn on or off fans or other appliances. Lamp modules con
Home Thermostat Setting Aid.
--- "DO IT YOURSELF" ENTRY ------- PURPOSE: Modification to home thermostat to make it easier to read and to set for use by those with poor eyesight or limited fine finger dexterity. Shows two standard home thermostats modified with pointers and expanded size temperature scales. Diagram included. COMMENTS: Does not list materials used or provide instructions. For further information contact Leonard Anderson, Cerebral Palsy Research Foundation of Kansas Rehabilitation Engineering Center, 2021 Nor
HoneyBee Proximity Switch
The HoneyBee Proximity Switch is activated when it senses the proximity of a body part or any other object. To activate the HoneyBee, the user places his or her hand, head or other body part over the sensor window. An audible tone is heard when activation has occurred.
Hotel Kit A - ADA Compliant for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
The Hotel Kit A - ADA Compliant for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing is designed for use with cellular phones by individuals who are hard of hearing. The ADA package assists hotels and motels guests who are deaf or hard of hearing. Kit includes: Sidekick II Receiver with Strobe Light, Sound Monitor (for Telephone), Doorbell Transmitter with Bracket, Phone Amplifier, Silent Call Smoke Detector, Bed Vibrator, Heavy Duty Carrying Case and Full instructions attached to inside lid.
Houselinc 2
HouseLinc 2 is an environmental control software program designed for use by individuals with mobility or severe physical disabilities or spinal cord injury. Available in USB and serial port versions, this software enables the user to manage a home network of automated lighting and appliances through a personal computer. The system includes a software CD and a HouseLinc 2-enabled USB or serial port modem with cable, and can be used to create scenes and timed events for lights and appliances cont
I-Switch
The iSwitch is a Bluetooth switch which enables switch access to iDevices. iSwitch provides comprehensive scanning switch access to all switch accessible Apps and Switch Control options in iOS7. Bluetooth 2.1 is most compatible with this device. POWER: Bluetooth 2.1. DIMENSIONS: 3 inches diameter. COLOR: Red, yellow, green or blue. WARRANTY/GUARANTEE: As stated by the manufacturer.
Iarm
The iARM is a robotic arm designed for use by individuals with upper extremity amputation, severe physical or upper extremity disabilities, or spinal cord injury. The iARM is designed to perform the functions of an arm and hand, including grasping objects using a gripper and moving those objects once they are held. Common arm positions may be stored to easily regain frequent positions. The iARM can lift up to 1.5 kilograms (kg). Using the optional bracket, the iARM can be attached to a powered w
Ihip Sound System
iHip Sound System is a lightweight wearable platform for a smart phone for individuals with physical, cognitive or communication disabilities. This system allows the user to mount a smart phone or iTouch on the iHip platform, plug in the speaker and wrap it around the user’s waist to start communicating or listening to music. There are two flexible cords (adjustable from 3¼" to 3¾" apart) to securely hold the device in place. The iHip can also sit on a tabletop or tray with its two adjustable l
Imperium 200H Environmental Control System
The Imperium 200H Environmental Control System is an environmental control unit designed to provide both visual and voice feedback for individuals with disabilities. Engineered for dual capability at either home or a care facility, this unit is designed to control up to 256 lights and appliances, including televisions, video cassette recorders, compact disc players, electronic bed controls, nurse-call systems, and the optional tape recorder. Extra relays for such items as a powered door opener a
Imperium Mobilelink (Model 200Ml)
Imperium MobileLink, model 200ML, is a radio transmission environmental control unit designed for use by individuals with mobility or severe physical disabilities or spinal cord injury. The system communicates through a 2.4 gigahertz radio link, which transmits around corners, through walls, and across significant distances. The system consists of two components, a base unit and a remote unit. The base unit sits atop and plugs into a host environmental control unit, such as the Imperium 200H fro
Indigo Home Automation Software
Indigo Home Automation Software is an environmental control unit program designed for use by individuals with severe physical disabilities and spinal cord injury. The program enables the user to remotely control and monitor lights and appliances from a variety of handheld remote controls, including an X10 ôEntertainment Anywhereö remote control or a Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone and Salling Clicker. To communicate to X10 compatible devices, Indigo interfaces with the PowerLinc USB interface or
Industrial Explosion Proof Footswitch
Footswitch. Foot operated one or two stage momentary switch. Non sparking cast aluminum housing. Single or dual pedal models. POWER: 15 amps, 125 volt AC, 3/4 horsepower; 10 amps 250 volt AC, one horsepower. DIMENSIONS: 10.25 x 11 X 4 3/8 inches. WEIGHT: 7.75 pounds.
Insteon Powerlinc USB With mControl Software
INSTEON PowerLinc USB With mControl Software is an environmental control module designed for use by individuals with spinal cord injury or severe physical disabilities. It enables the user to control lights, appliances, heating and air conditioning systems, and alarm systems through a personal computer or television. This home automation interface module transmits and receives Insteon or X10 signals between home automation devices and a PC via a Universal Serial Bus (USB) port on the computer. C
Integraswitch
The IntegraSwitch is a pneumatic switch designed for use by individuals with neurological, upper extremity, or severe physical disabilities or spinal cord injury. This control unit can be used to operate environment control systems, communication devices, adapted toys, software programs or emergency call systems. Its mouthpiece is exchangeable and latex-free, and can be cleaned in a dishwasher. The unit has two exits for dual function (one exit for sipping and one exit for puffing). Sipping and
Intention Module (Model 565)
The Intention Module, model 565, is a control switch interface unit designed for use by persons with uncontrolled movements. When a capability switch is plugged into this module, sustained pressure is required before it activates a device. The module can be preset for a delay of from 1 to 12 seconds before it activates a device. The unit comes with a 0.13-inch plug. POWER: Uses 1 9-volt battery.
Intention Switch (Model 710, 710-8)
Intention Switch is a single switch activated by pressing on a plastic plate for individuals with uncontrolled movements. The Intention Switch must be pressed for a specific pre-set amount of time before it will activate a device. The required activation time is adjustable (0-12 seconds). It comes with the standard 0.25 inch jack and plug and can be ordered with a 1/8 inch jack and plug. POWER: 9-volt battery. DIMENSIONS: 5 x 8 inches.
Interchangeable Music Puzzle/switch (Model 921)
The Interchangeable Music Puzzle/Switch, model 921, is a puzzle switch, adapted music box, eye hand coordination activity, and spatial orientation activity, designed for use by children and adults with brain injury or cognitive disabilities. This puzzle has removable blocks which allow the user to progressively increase the skill required to complete the task. Start with one shape and any four blank blocks and build up to five distinct shapes. When the task is completed, music plays. If a reward
Interconnecting Adapters (Models 2022, 2023, & 2024)
The Interconnecting Adapters are switch mounting hardware designed to aid in attaching switches to wheelchairs or workstations. Model 2022 is a 0.25-inch 20 stud adapter. Model 2023 is a 5/8-inch internal adapter woth 0.25-inch 20 bushing. Model 2024 is 5/8-inch 27 bushing tube adapter.
Intro To Cause And Effect (Model 115)
Intro to Cause & Effect, model 115, is a cause and effect training program designed for use by individuals with cognitive disabilities. It introduces the user to the computer and the switch. It is also designed to improve tracking ability of objects and increase the user's attention span. Each time the user presses the switch or keyboard, one of 35 animation segments with large, brightly colored geometric shapes appear on the screen accompanied by sounds. Animation segments last for approxim
Invisible Connection, The
The Invisible Connection is an infrared remote control switch designed to allow wireless connection between switches and a variety of devices such as a computer, environmental control unit, or battery operated radio. The connector will accommodate two switches and two devices, or may be used with a switch interface, Adaptive Firmware Card, or Ke:nx (see separate entries) to send signals to a computer. The controller consists of a receiver into which multiple devices may be plugged, and a transmi
iPad Access Kit
The iPad Access Kit includes an assortment of assistive technology solutions designed to make iPad use accessible.
Ipad Cordless Super-Switch
The iPad Cordless Super-Switch is a touch switch designed to enable individuals with severe physical, motor control, or upper extremity disabilities, neurological or spinal cord injury to control an Apple iPad. The circular switch connects to the iPad wirelessly using Bluetooth 2.1 and has a range of over 50 feet. It can be activated by pressing anywhere on the large top surface. COMPATIBILITY: For use with the Apple iPad. DIMENSIONS: The diameter of the switch is 5 inches. POWER: Rechargable li
Ipad Cordless Switch Interface
The iPad Cordless Switch Interface is a computer switch control interface designed to enable individuals with severe physical, motor control, neurological or upper extremity disabilities or spinal cord injury to control an Apple iPad with a switch. This unit has two switch input jacks. When a switch is plugged into one of the unit's jacks, the switch input becomes a tap or touch for any iPad application (app) programmed for switch access. The switch interface connects to the iPad wirelessly usin
Ipad Wireless Two Switch
iPad Wireless Two Switch is a wireless switch interface that allows the user to interact wirelessly with an iPad, iPad Mini, iPhone or iPod Touch. This switch has two large switches, which can be used with children or adults with physical and cognitive disabilities such as cerebral palsy and developmental delays. The iPad Wireless Two Switch can be connected to one or two additional capability switches. The Wireless Two Switch works with any app that has been programmed for switch access. It
IR-1S Micro
The IR-1S Micro is designed for users with motor and cognitive disabilities. The device is a hand–held IR transmitter with one push–button. Can be internally switched by soldering between channel 16-20, 35 and random code (4096). 401930 Battery pack included.
IR-1S Wrist Transmitter
The IR-1S Wrist Transmitter is designed for users with motor and cognitive disabilities. The device can be internally switched between 7 GewaLink channels. Additionally, it includes battery pack for Micro and Wrist transmitters (401930). Battery pack not included.
IR-5SP
The IR-5SP is designed for users with motor and cognitive disabilities. The device is a hand–held programmable IR transmitter with 6 push–buttons. Additionally, it can be externally switched between 25 different GewaLink channels. One channel for strict access control. Four levels can be used. Includes overlay and neck strap.
Iscanmp3
The iScanMP3 is a scanning control for an MP3 player designed for use by individuals with upper extremity or severe physical disabilities or spinal cord injury. Plugging a capability switch (required but not included) into the iScanMP3 adapter and connecting an Apple iPod, iPod Photo, or iPod Mini enables the user to scan through iPod functions: play, pause, forward and back through a play list, and volume up and down. The scanning speed is adjustable. DIMENSIONS(LxWxH): 3 5/8 x 1.75 x 0.5 inche
Izi-Flow
IZI-flow is a hands-free faucet control designed to allow individuals with fine motor, grasping, or upper extremity disabilities to control a faucet. The IZI-flow is a mechanical valve that is connected to the faucet's water input(s) under the sink and controlled by a mechanical foot pedal (included). The flow speed and temperature are still set using the faucet's handle(s) or knob(s). The user turns on the faucet by depressing the foot pedal and turns it off by releasing the pedal. The IZI-flow
J-Pad
J-Pad is a unique, highly intuitive joystick interface providing comprehensive switch access to all iPad functions - including Apps, music & media, iBooks, still & video photography, on-screen keyboard entry and more. Connecting wirelessly to the iPad using Bluetooth 2.1, J-Pad is simple to set-up and easy to use with touch sensitive buttons to launch and close Apps. Provided are two sockets to connect up to two wired switches. POWER: Rechargeable battery (included) + USB. COMPATIBILITY:
JAMES is a portable, switch-activated environmental control unit designed for use by individuals with mobility, severe physical, or neurological disabilities or spinal cord injury. This unit offers direct access or row/column switch scanning to operate lights, appliances, beds, doors, and other X-10 and infrared controlled devices. The unit's liquid crystal display (LCD) allows for visual recognition of the 248 functions, including temporary or permanent programmable macros and telephone access.
James Remind-O-Timer With Braille (Model J143Web)
The James Remind-O-Timer with Braille, model J143WEB, is a tactile alarm clock and timer designed for use by individuals who are deaf blind. This twelve hour analog clock has a buzzer alarm, timers, and a built-in socket for use with a bed shaker (not included). The timer can be set to start and stop electrical equipment and appliances. The buzzer is set by moving a series of small pins around the face. Any combination of quarter hour periods may be set. There are 48 set pins with a 16 minute "o
Jelly Beamer Twist Switch
The Jelly Beamer Twist Switch is a wireless button or touch switch designed to control a wide range of switch-adapted devices and toys for individuals with upper extremity or severe physical disabilities or spinal cord injury. This switch has two components: the Jelly Beamer switch that houses a transmitter and the Jelly Beamer receiver that can be plugged into any switch-adapted device, from battery operated toys and electric appliances to a digital camera or computer. Each switch is uniquely p
Jelly Beamer Twist Transmitter With Original Receiver
The Jelly Beamer Twist Transmitter With Original Receiver is designed for those individuals with fine motor and neurological disabilities to provide them the independence to turn on the computer or in cooking activities. A wireless switch that is rugged, reliable and easy to use. The Jelly Beamer wireless switch features a power-saving sleep mode that dramatically extends its battery life yet is virtually undetectable to users. Tactile, visual and audible feedback.
Jelly Bean Switch
The Jelly Bean Switch is a button or touch switch designed to control a wide range of electrically- or battery-operated devices and toys for people with upper extremity disabilities. The switch is contained in a high-impact disk and the entire surface of the switch is sensitive to pressure, requiring less than two ounces of pressure for activation. The Jelly Bean Switch can be mounted on any surface using readily available adhesives or they can be mounted on AbleNet's Slim Armstrong (see separat
Jelly Bean Twist Switch
The Jelly Bean Twist Switch is a switch that activates no matter where it is pressed on the top. Capability switches allow people with physical and/or cognitive disabilities to interact with technology. The proper switch opens up worlds of access communication devices, environmental controls, computer software, and mobile devices. This switch provides an auditory click and tactile feedback. Users can change the color of the switch top to meet vision or other needs with a choice of red, blue, yel
Joybar
The JoyBar is a powered wheelchair controller designed to enable powered wheelchairs to be controlled using T-bar scooter-style operation. The ReBar utilizes a Center Drive System that consists of mounting hardware and a socket that can be mounted in three positions: in front of the seat on the center line; on the side beneath either armrest; or in the back of the wheelchair. When mounted on the side, the mast with the controller can be placed there to facilitate transfers or better access to de
Joybox
JoyBox is a switch input adaptor designed for use by individuals who use switches. This device enables the user to play arcade-style games or operate a mouse with up to eight switches. This USB switch box works with most switch software, including Writing with Symbols, Clicker 4, and The Grid from Sensory Software (see entries). When this plug-and-play device is connected to the USB port on a personal computer (PC), it is recognized by Microsoft Windows as a Game Controller or Joystick without
Joycable
JoyCable is a switch input interface designed for use by individuals who use switches. This device enables the user to play arcade-style games such as Midtown Madness or Motocross Madness with two switches (for example, a pair of head switches). This USB switch box works with most switch software, including Writing with Symbols, Clicker 4, and The Grid from Sensory Software (see entry). When this plug- and-play device is connected to the USB port on a personal computer (PC), it is recognized by
Joystick (& Mouse) Trainer
The Joystick (& Mouse) Trainer is a wheelchair control switch assessment program designed to enable users to learn the skills necessary to operate a powered wheelchair without the risks associated with operating the chair itself. This program begins at a very early motor and cognitive level with simple exploratory activities for gross movement and cognitive awareness, moves through initial proportional path-oriented tasks, and graduates to maze games for fine control. As the user's skill le
Joystick (Model 3185)
A proportional type joystick used for mdoe selection and operation of a Dufco Multimode Interface. During wheelchair operation, this joystick provides precise control of both speed and direction. May be configured with a chin-cup for chin oeration, or a knob for hand operation.
An 8-direction, heavy duty, multiple switch actuator used for mode selection and operation of a Multimode Interface. Requires moderate operating pressure and is intended for hand operation by those with average strength.
An 8-direction, short throw, multiple switch actuator used for mode selection and oepration of a Multimode Interface. Requires moderate operating pressure and is intended for those with average strength. May be reconfigured with either a knob or chin-cup.
Joystick (Model 720)
The Joystick, model 720, is a joystick designed to act as a four way switch for individuals who have physical disabilities. It has a cylindrical handle with a thin base and activates four different devices depending on the direction that the switch is moved (up, down, right or left). It can be used for teaching directionality as well as other spatial relationships. DIMENSIONS (HxLxW): 4.5 x 7 x 6.25 inches.
Joystick Controller For Sailboat
CUSTOM ADAPTATION PURPOSE: To provide a means for an individual with cerebral palsy to sail independently. The sailboat is equipped with two battery-powered motors to operate the rudder and the mainsheet, which is attached to the boom. A basic joystick was adapted to control these operations by replacing the existing internal spring with a stronger one and extending the handle to six inches long. A wooden base attaches to the floor of the boat with Velcro. The wooden control box at the base of
Joystick for keyboard
The Joystick for keyboard is a do it yourself designed for use by individuals with upper extremity or grasping disabilities. This joystick allows proportional control and is use on the arrow keys of the numeric keypad.
Joystick Light With Fingerplate
The Joystick Light with fingerplate is a joystick designed to provide computer cursor control for individuals with upper extremity disabilities. This device features separate buttons for mouse clicks and drag, and the cursor remains in position when the joystick is released. A light flashes when the drag button is active. This device also has a removablefingerplate that isolates each button and the joystick for better control. COMPATIBILITY: Models are available for use on Macintosh computers an
Joystick Plus
The Joystick Plus is a joystick designed to provide computer cursor control for individuals with upper extremity disabilities. This device features separate buttons for click, double click, horizontal/vertical only, drag, and speed. Five cursor speed settings are accessed simply by touching the speed button. The cursor remains in position when the joystick is released and a red light indicates when the drag button is active. This device also has a fingerplate that isolates each button and the jo
Joystick Pro
The Joystick Pro is designed for use by individuals with upper extremity disabilities. This three-button programmable joystick replaces the mouse and the handle can be adjusted in two different modes: spring loaded so the handle automatically returns to center while leaving the cursor in position or non-spring loaded for relative pointing. COMPATIBILITY: For use with IBM and compatible computers with a serial port.
Joystick Replacer Box
The Joystick Replacer Box is a control input interface that allows up to five switches to act in place of a joystick for a Commodore 64, 128, or VIC-20. If all five switches are used, pressing each one corresponds to up, down, left, right, and "fire" on the joystick. The Joystick replacer box with switches can operate any software designed to be operated with a joystick on these computers. A short program is provided which will control the 64-Talker or the VIC-Talker speech synthesizers. A speci
Jumbo Remote Control (Model 1526)
The Jumbo Remote Control, model 1526, is a remote control for television, DVD players, and VCRs, designed for use by individuals with fine motor, severe physical, or upper extremity disabilities or low vision. This all-in-one remote control allows the user to control TV, VCR, DVD, cable, PVR, and satellite receivers by pressing large buttons that are very sensitive to touch and which have different colors for different group functions. It will also control the latest Flat Screen TV's. The unit a
Jumbo Shape Fit Switch (Model 851, 851-8)
The Jumbo Shape Fit Switch, model 851 and 851-8, is a puzzle switch and visual motor task switch designed to demonstrate simple shape discrimination for individuals who have physical, sensory, or cognitive disabilities. The puzzles introduce basic cognitive concepts, improve fine motor skills and develop order and sequencing skills which are important building blocks for logical thinking and organization. They also teach individuals to distinguish colors, shapes, and sizes. When the puzzle piece
Jumbo Switch (Model 787)
The Jumbo Switch, model 787, is a touch switch designed for use by individyals with severe physical or upper extremity disabilities. This switch is equipped with a removable mounting plate and comes with two clear plastic covers, one with a lip and one without. OPTIONS: Replacement covers. DIMENSIONS (Diameter x H): 5 1/8 x 1 inch. COLOR: Red, blue, purple, yellow, or green.
Junior Footswitch (Models 121S & 124S)
Footswitch. Foot or knee operated momentary switch ideal for office machines or shop equipment. POWER: 20 amps, 125 to 250 volt AC, 1 horsepower or 15 amps, 125 to 250 volt AC, 1/2 horsepower. DIMENSIONS: 5.5 x 3.25 x 1.25 inches. WEIGHT: 1 pound.
JVIGUE Sensory Toys Set- 15 Pack Stress Relief Hand Fidget Toys for Kids and Adults, Sensory Therapy Toys for ADHD Autism Stress Anxiety
The JVIGUE Sensory Toys Set- 15 Pack Stress Relief Hand Fidget Toys for Kids and Adults, Sensory Therapy Toys for ADHD Autism Stress Anxiety is designed for children and adults with sensory processing disorder to use as a set of fidget toys and increase focus. Contains 2xSqueeze Soybean Fidget Toys;2x Silver finger Massage Rings;2x Gold finger Massage Rings;1x Squeeze Grape Ball;3x Mesh And Marble Sensory Toy;2x Fidget Stretchy String;1x World Map Foam Balls;1x Monkey Stringy Balls;1 Pack Large
KLIQ TinyTune Tuner Pedal for Guitar and Bass
The KLIQ TinyTune Tuner Pedal for Guitar and Bass is a musical instrument accessory designed for those individuals with hypersensitivity to sound to reduce noise. Users will experience speedy tuning with A1 precision. Housed in a mini pedal that's designed to fit on any pedalboard, the TinyTune lets them spend less time tuning and more time playing. The color display is large, clear, and has excellent visibility under any lighting. So whether they are playing at home, on a dark stage or outdoors
Koosh Switch (Model 883)
The Koosh Switch, model 883, is a touch switch designed for use by children with physical, cognitive, and neurological disabilities. Touching the soft rubber loops of the Koosh Ball activates lights, music, and vibration. The unit also acts as a single switch when a switch-adapted device is connected (not included). When used as a switch, the lights and music are deactivated. POWER: Uses 2 double-A batteries. DIMENSIONS (HxLxW): 2.5 x 8.5 x 5.25 inches.
Ktp Series Thinline 2X6 With Braille Overlay
The KTP Series Thinline 2x6 with Braille Overlay is a braille control pad designed to make a variety of applications accessible to individuals who are blind or have low vision. This keypad has 12 keys in two columns and six rows, representing the numbers 0-9 and the star and pound signs. Each key is marked in braille and with white numbers or symbols on a black background. This keypad uses piezo technology with no moving parts to wear out. Usage of this keypad is indicated through an LED (light
L.t. Switch
The L.T. Switch is a touch switch designed for use by individuals with upper extremity and severe physical disabilities. This switch can be used to activate switch-adapted toys and appliances and is highly sensitive, requiring only 0.75 ounce of pressure for activation. DIMENSIONS: 3.875 x 2 x 1.125 inches. COLOR: The switch comes with red, yellow, green, blue, and black plate overlays.
Labac Mounting Kit (Model 3515)
Used for mounting a head operated actuator to the back of a Labac recliner. The mounting kit consists of a mounting bar with a stop clamp, a C-mounting rod, and a rod clamp to join the mounting rod to the mounting bar. Permits the actuator to be removed from the recliner, and returned to its original position without the need to readjust the mounting.
Laborius
The Laborius is a portable commode and toileting supply kit for people with moderate incontinence and other disabilities that limit their ability to reach an accessible bathroom when needed. The kit was planned and designed for use in homes, hotels, outdoors and even in the homes of friends and relatives whose toilets are not handicapped-accessible. The kit includes screen walls to ensure privacy of the user, commode, kit for absorbing urine and feces, a button for summoning assistance, cleaning
Lady Bug Switch (Model 729)
The Lady Bug Switch, model 729, is a touch switch designed for use by individuals with severe physical or upper extremity disabilities or spinal cord injury. The slightest touch rewards the user with a choice of lights, vibration and/or music. This item has a special control which allows the user to select any or all of the rewards while activating a connected device. POWER: Uses two double-A batteries. DIMENSIONS (LxWxH): 9 x 6.25 x 4 inches.
Large Area Flap Switch To Control Battery-Operated Toys.
--- "DO IT YOURSELF" ENTRY ------- PURPOSE: Simple to operate switch to modify a battery operated toy so it can be used by a disabled child. Describes a large area push switch as a modification of the on- off switch for a toy. It consists of two pieces of plywood hinged together on one side with a simple contact switch or microswitch between them, and a strip of self-adhesive open cell foam tape keeping the top board from touching the bottom, thus activating the switch, unless it is pressed down
Large In-Line Switch
---- CUSTOMIZED ADAPTATION --------- PURPOSE: To provide a custom adaptation for an individual with fine motor and mobility disabilities. An individual needs to be able to switch a table lamp on and off and is unable to operate the switch built into the table lamp due to limited arm mobility and fine motor skills. A small wooden box (stained and varnished) was made to contain two electrical boxes. One electrical box is for a large rocker switch, the other is for a regular 120 volt receptacle. Th
DO IT YOURSELF ENTRY --- PURPOSE: To enable an individual with upper extremity disabilities to oprate a lamp. A small stained and varnished wooden box was built to contain two electrical boxes. One electrical box is for a large rocker switch and the other box is for a regular 120- volt receptacle. It is connected to a three-wire supply cable complete with plug, recycled from an old refrigerator. The wiring is arranged so that the rocker switch controls the power to the receptacle. The wooden box
Large Touch Pad (Model 3Tstl)
The Large Touch Pad, model 3TSTL, is a touch switch designed for use by individuals with severe physical or upper extremity disabilities. Pressing anywhere on the large top surface of this switch activates a connected switch-adapted toy or appliance. DIMENSIONS: 14 x 5.5 x 4 inches.
Latching Pneumatic Switch Hd
The HD (heavy duty) latching pneumatic switch plugs into a 3-pin grounded power receptacle, allowing control of 120 volt appliances up to 10 amps. The air cushion actuator is operated by sips on the tube and may be mounted with screws, velcro or tape. the Actuator and 6 feet of connector tubing are not in direct contact with electrical power. Can be used in damp areas and washed. Those with sufficient breath- power may prefer a puff version of the switch, available on request. Can be used to tur
Latching Puff Switch Ld
The LD (light duty) Latching Puff Switch is rated for 24 volts up to 3 amps. It latches mechanically to an on or off position. No external power, batteries or adapter boxes are needed to maintain the latching action. A gentle puff of mouth air will set the switch to the on position. Another gentle puff of air will set the switch to off. Comes with a 40 inch detachable cord with a 1/8 inch mini plug. Supported by a light weight over-the-head band. Weight of the switch and headband is 3 ounces. Ca
Latitude Mounting Kit
The Latitude Mounting Kit is designed for people with upper extremity and fine motor disabilities to position assistive technology devices where they need them, No maintenance/adjustment. No tools required. Cord management is pick plate. The base Connection method is super to clamp.
Leaf Switch (Model 58600)
The Leaf Switch, model 58600, is a lever switch designed for individuals with limited upper limb mobility. It is a single switch operated by pressing one side of the leaf. The tip of the leaf requires a quarter-inch of movement for operation and it provides tactile and auditory feedback. This switch has a removable foam pad. Mounting requires additional tubular mounting hardware. DIMENSIONS: The leaf measures 3 inches in diameter by 0.5 inches. The tube measures 13 inches long by 0.5 inches diam
Leaf Switch (Model 730, 730-8)
The Leaf Switch, models 730 and 730-8, is a lever switch designed to develop grasping skills for individuals with physical disabilities. It consists of a vinyl covered flexible spring, which when bent slightly in either direction will activate any adapted toy that it is hooked up to. The deflection angle should not exceed 45 degrees. It comes with the standard 0.25 inch jack and plug and can be ordered with a 1/8 inch jack and plug.
Leaf Switch (Models Cm-2 & Cm-7)
The Leaf Switch, models CM-2 and CM-7, is a lever switch designed for use by individuals with severe physical or upper extremity disabilities or spinal cord injury. This switch has a protruding flat vinyl-covered metal leaf and any flexion of the leaf activates a switch. The base has holes for mounting. Two different leaf lengths are available. DIMENSIONS: 6.5 x 1.75 x 0.5 inches. WEIGHT: 1 ounce.
The Leap Motion is a computer controller controlled by fingers, meant to replace keyboard and mouse designed for individuals with arthritis, carpal tunnel syndrome, cerebral palsy, or fine motor, neurological, or upper extremity disabilities. The Leap Motion Controller contains 2 camera sensors and 3 infrared LEDs. Leap Motion’s software translates the information from the camera sensors into 3-D input. Leap Motion incorporates natural motions and finger tracking. The Leap Motion Controller con
Learning Resources Counting Cows Toy Set, 20 Pieces
Learning Resources Counting Cows Toy Set, 20 Pieces is a set of toys designed for children ages two and up with learning disabilities to learn to count and to learn number identification and more. Color coding on the cows helps children find the correct solutions.
Learning Resources Fishing Set, 11 Pieces
Learning Resources Fishing Set, 11 Pieces is designed for children ages three and up with learning disabilities to build vocabulary while encouraging sorting, fine motor, language, memory and recall skills. Promotes school readiness with activities that support alphabet awareness, letter recognition, early phonics and reading.
Learning Resources Kitchen Set
The Learning Resources Kitchen Set is an educational toy designed for children ages three and up to encourage eye hand coordination, wrist rotation, precision and fine motor skills. 73-piece set includes colorful pots, pans, cups, bowls, dishes, utensils, tea pot, strainer, pitcher, cookie cutters, roller, juicer, dish pan and more.
Learning Resources New Sprouts Hot Cocoa Set
The Learning Resources New Sprouts® Hot Cocoa Set is a product designed for children with learning disabilities to serve their friends and family pretend hot cocoa. Made in China.`
Learning Resources Pretend and Play Calculator Cash Register, 73 Pieces
The Learning Resources Pretend and Play Calculator Cash Register, 73 Pieces is designed for children ages three and up with learning disabilities to work on early money management and fine motor skills. Encourages beginning math and calculator skills while providing opportunities for imaginative play. Features a built-in, solar-powered calculator that helps familiarize children with the use of a calculator. They will also learn currency denominations and how to handle life-sized money. Large bu
Learning Resources Snap n’ Learn Rhyming Pups, Set of 20
Learning Resources Snap n’ Learn Rhyming Pups, Set of 20, is a set of puppy friends that snap together to make rhyming words designed for children ages three and up to enhance vocabulary and improve fine motor skills. Set includes ten puppy heads with beginning letters and ten puppy tails with two letter word endings that can be mixed and matched to make a variety of rhyming words.
Learning Resources Tock The Learning Clock
The Learning Resources Tock The Learning Clock is an educational aid designed for children ages three and up to Introduce them to analog and digital clock skills as well as to promote hands-on learning, with analog clock hands while digital time display functions as a working clock. Two learning modes, classical fun mode rewards right answers with a dance and question mode challenges children to match the hands to the digital display.
Leckey Mygo Stander
The Leckey Mygo Stander is a 3-in-1 supine, prone and upright stander designed for children ages 4 to 14 years old with lower extremity disabilities to provide complete support coverage while engaging in therapeutic standing activities. Also good for those with up to 25 degree contractures. Full adjustable to meet complex positioning needs. Angle adjustable from 0 to 80 degrees horizontal. Machine washable pad covers.
Leckey Squiggles Stander with Pivot Base
Lectro-Lok Footswitch (Models L2S & L4S)
Footswitch. 5 by 2 1/2 by 1 1/4 inches, dual foot operated momentary rocker switch. Pressure on one side, activates circuit independently of other side. All wiring inside housing with single cord exposed. Has mechanical interlock to prevent both circuits from being operated at same time rugged stamped metal housing. Nonskid base options include elimination of mechanical lock, latching switches. Weight 10 ounces. Each side 10 amps, 125 to 250 volt AC, 1/2 horsepower or 5 amps, 250 volt AC.
Left / Right Rocker Switch (Model 710)
The Left/Right Rocker Switch, model 710, is a dual switch activated by pressing the plate on either side. Pressing one end activates one switch; pressing the other end activates a second switch. An auditory click is produced when a switch is activated. A switch cable with a 1/8-inch jack is included. DIMENSIONS: 8 1/8 x 3 5/8 inches. WEIGHT: 5 ounces.
LessonBoard Pro
The LessonBoard is a standard QWERTY keyboard that is color-coded by finger layout to show correct finger placement without letters printed on the keys. The LessonBoard Pro is color-coded by zone to show correct finger placement on a computer keyboard. Color-coding is known to help anyone who may have cognitive or physical differences that restrict learning. Now without letters printed on the keys, the "Pro" helps improve keyboard memorization, accuracy and speed, while requiring students to co
Lets Go Fishing Game
The Lets Go Fishing Game is designed for children ages four and up with Autism Spectrum Disorder to play. The Lets Go Fishing Game is for one to four players and is an action fishing game where players try for the biggest catch.
Lever Switch (Models Cm-8/cm-9)
The Lever is switch is designed for use by individuals with severe physical or upper extremity disabilities or spinal cord injury. The switch is activated by pressing against a padded lever. OPTIONS: Mounting systems are available, including double-sided and quick-adjust swing-away. DIMENSIONS: The lever must travel 0.06 inch for activation. Model CM-8 is 9 inches long; model CM-9 is 7 inches long. WEIGHT: 4 ounces.
Lever Universal Mounting Kit
The Lever Universal Mounting Kit is designed for people with disabilities to securely position any assistive technology device.
Life-Links Communication Suite
The Life-Links Communication Suite is a communicator program and academic and language tutorial designed for use by individuals with communication or speech disabilities and severe nerological or physical disabilities. This suite includes the progressive language development offerings of Language-Links (see separate entry) covering both pragmatic and semantically based approaches to the comprehensive capabilities of the Language-Links, Symbol-Links and Text-Links packages. Also included are the
Lifebreath Switch (Model 1062)
The LifeBreath Switch, model 1062, is a pneumatic switch designed for use by individuals with upper extremity and other physical disabilities. Gently blowing into the switch activates attached external devices. The switch is attached to a gooseneck with a universal clamp. This switch operates in latch, momentary, or timer mode. The timer adjusts from zero to two minutes. POWER: Uses nine-volt direct current. DIMENSIONS: The gooseneck is 19 inches long.
Light Beam Indicator
Light Beam Indicator is a head-mounted pointing system using both a pointing rod and an adjustable padded nylon headset with a light pointer. The rod, which attaches to the nylon headset, projects out over the forehead and downward. The light pointer is positioned over the forehead and projects a concentrated light beam. Contact manufacturer for information on system options. POWER: Three "C" batteries. DIMENSIONS: 22 inches long. WEIGHT: 11.5 ounces.
Light Beam Indicator (Model 1)
Light beam indicator for an alternative pointing method. For individuals with limited neck, trunk mobility or positioning control. On/off switch, rechargeable power pack.
Lightweight flexible plastic headwand with washable forehead felt pad, cushioned chin strap and Velcro elastic band closure. Focused light beam indicator is mounted over forehead. Provides alternative pointing method for individuals with limited neck, trunk mobility or control when used with positioning. Weight 3.5 ounces. Light beam indicator has on, off switch adaptable to individual needs. Rechargeable power pack.
Light Locator Switch (Model 7770)
The Light Locator Switch (LLS), model 7770, is a buttonswitch designed for use by individuals with severe physical or upper extremity disabilities and low vision. This switch provides both a visual and a tactile cue. The red locator light guides the user to the switch. When the switch is pressed, the user feels vibrotactile stimulation and sees multi-colored blinking lights, all while activating any toy or device. POWER: Uses 2 double-A batteries. DIMENSIONS (LxWxH): 5 x 4 x 2 inches.
Light Pointer
The Light Pointer is an optical pointer designed for use by individuals with physical disabilities. This device projects a spot of light and is designed to be mounted on the user's head and pointed toward objects. The Light Pointer can also be used to activate the Light Activated Switch (see separate entry from this manufacturer).
Light Pointer With Headstick (Model Ii)
Model II Light Pointer with Headstick is a head-mounted pointing system using both a pointing rod and a light beam. An adjustable padded nylon headset holds the mountings for both the rod and the light pointer. The rod projects out over the forehead and downward. The light pointer is positioned over the forehead and projects a concentrated light beam. The light beam is visible under normal room lighting. POWER: Three "C" batteries. DIMENSIONS: 22 inches long. WEIGHT: 11.5 ounces.
Light Switch Extender
DO IT YOURSELF ENTRY --- PURPOSE: To enable an individual with limited grasp to toggle wall light switches on and off. Drill a small hole through the end of each of the toggle switch. Fix a split ring, available at bead stores or fishing supply stores, through each hole, then coil one end of a 20-inch length of fencing wire around the ring with a pair of needle-nose pliers. Next, drill a small hole in one side and out the other of a wine bottle cork and thread the wire through the hole. Then, ag
Light Switch Extender (Model 557182)
The Light Switch Extender, model 557182, is an extension for standard wall light switch, designed for use by individuals of short stature and wheelchair users. This handle lowers a regular height light switch to a more convenient height. A rubber cap fits over the light switch knob. Push up on plastic rod to turn light on, pull rod down to turn light off. Latex free. DIMENSIONS: 14 inches long.
Light Switch Extension
The Light Switch Extension is an adaptive tool that provides an alternative way for wheelchair users, individuals of short stature, and people with limited mobility or impaired vision to access light switches. The Light Switch Extension is an unbreakable, clear rod that can be “slipped” over almost any standard light switch. No tools are required for installation. And because of its unobtrusive design and clear color, the Light Switch Extension can blend in with any décor. Moreover, it does not
Light-Activated Switch
The Light-Activated Switch is a photoelectric switch designed for use by individuals with physical disabilities. The switch is activated by directing a light pointer at a light-sensitive panel. POWER: 9-volt battery. DIMENSIONS: 4 x 4 x 2 inches.
Lighted Extra Loud Signalling Buzzer (Model 1360, 1360-8)
Lighted Extra Loud Signalling Buzzer, models 1380 and 1380-8, is a switch operated toy designed to stimulate visual and auditory training for individuals with physical, cognitive or sensory disabilities. When this device is activated by any switch (sold separately) a buzzer sounds and a small light turns on to alert the user that he has activated the switch. This model is similar to model 1350 (see separate entry), but has an exceptionally loud buzzer. It comes with a standard .25 inch jack or 1
Lighted Musical Box Plate Switch & Musical Box Plate Switch (Models 740, 740-8, 770, 770-8)
The Lighted Musical Plate Switch is a touch switch designed to teach cause and effect relationships for individuals with physical, sensory or cognitive disabilities. The switch is a bright yellow plate , that when pressed causes tiny lights to flash in sync with sounds from a built in music box. It can be used alone or as an external switch when connected to a toy. The Music Box Plate Switch is similar but without the lights.
Lighted Plate Switch (Model 750, 750-8)
The Lighted Plate Switch, model 750 and 750-8, is a touch switch designed for persons with hearing and mild visual disabilities. Activation of the switch is achieved by applying light pressure on the plate. Activation is indicated when the face of the plate glows with a bright white light.
Lighted Signal Switch (Model 956)
The Lighted Signal Switch, model 956, is a button switch and visual stimulation activity designed for use by children with cognitive, upper extremity, or severe physical disabilities. When this textured signal switch is activated, a bright light shines to encourage visual attention. POWER: Uses 2 double-A batteries. DIMENSIONS (HxD): 4 x 6.5 inches.
Lighted Signalling Buzzer (Model 1350, 1350-8)
Lighted Signalling Buzzer, models 1350 and 1350-8, is a switch operated toy designed to stimulate visual and auditory training for individuals with physical, cognitive or sensory disabilities. When this device is activated by any switch (sold separately) a buzzer sounds and a small light turns on to alert the user that he has activated the switch. It comes with a standard .25 inch jack or 1/8 inch jack.
Lighted Vibrating Cone (Model 6100)
The Lighted Vibrating Cone, model 6100, is a sensory integration activity and buttonswitch designed for use with children with upper extremity disabilities, cognitive, sensory, or neurological disabilities. Mounted on a conical base, touching the center of the button causes the unit to light and vibrate, providing multisensory stimulation. The unit can also activate any attached, switch-activated toy or appliance.
Lighted Vibrating Signalling Buzzer (Model 1370, 1370-8)
Lighted Vibrating Signalling Buzzer, models 1370 and 1370-8, is a switch operated toy designed to stimulate visual and auditory training for individuals with physical, cognitive or sensory disabilities. This communicator informs the user of activation with a light, a buzzer, and vibration when the switch closure is made. It comes with a standard .25 inch jack or 1/8 inch jack.
Lightwriter (Model Sl40)
The Lightwriter SL40 is a keyboard communicator designed for use by individuals with speech or communication disabilities. This text-to-speech device converts text to speech using the Acapela HQ module, sends and receives text messages (SMS) using Siemens GSM messaging module, and stores notes and contacts. Output can either be voice or text display on a screen that faces away from the user. The text display allows listeners to read messages from the user in noisy environments and when silence i
Linkswitch (Model Dlt-202)
The LinkSwitch, model DLT-202, is a control switch interface designed to activate battery operated assistive devices with additional switches for individuals with limited movement or motor control. The user plugs a Taction Pad (see separate entry) or any other switch into the LinkSwitch using a standard 1/8-inch jack, then touches the Taction Pad to activate adapted toys, keyboard interfaces, tape recorders, battery interrupters, sensory stimulus devices, or any other battery-operated device. Th
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Lite Brite Flatscreen - Red
The Lite Brite is a do it yourself toy designed for children ages 4 and up with upper extremity disabilities to promote wrist extension and improve pencil grasp. Portable and red Lite Brite flat screen. Cordless design and battery-powered. Compartment stores over 200 colorful pegs. Bring it with you on road trips or overnight visits. Choose from picture sheets or use the 2 free-form sheets.
LITTLE Candy Corn Proximity Switch
LITTLE Candy Corn Proximity Switch is a highly sensitive proximity switch and does not require a physical touch from the user to activate. This switch is ideal for users who are not able to activate a standard switch. Simply wave a hand or move your body within 0.5-in/1-cm of Candy Corn and it activates. to activate. Visual and auditory cues occur when the switch is activated.
Little Step-By-Step Communicator (Formerly Step-By-Step)
The LITTLE Step-by-Step communicator is a touch switch and direct selection communicator designed for use by individuals with visual or upper extremity disabilities and communication disabilities. This communicator offers 75 seconds of recording time and is designed to record a series of sequential messages. The initial activation of the communicator plays the first message, the second activation plays the second message, etc. The device has a "repeat" feature which locks in a message until it i
Littlemack Communicator (Formerly One-Step)
The LITTLEmack communicator is a touch switch and direct selection communicator designed for use by individuals with visual or upper extremity and communication disabilities. This single-message communicator offers 75 seconds of recording time. The communicator also has a toy/appliance feature which enables any message in the sequence, or as many messages as desired, to be paired with a reinforcer. This device has an angled surface and a detachable base with a "snap track" extension that allows
Logitech Harmony Elite Remote
The Logitech Harmony Elite Remote is a wireless, universal smart go-to smart-home remote and hub designed for use by individuals who benefit from smart home technology. It is compatible with Amazon’s Alexa for easy voice integration and activation and can control up to 15 devices for seamless control from home to entertainment devices. The device features a color touchscreen, motion sensing, and vibration feedback.
Low Pressure Sip N' Puff Switch
The Low Pressure Sip N’ Puff Switch is a pneumatic switch designed for use by individuals with severe physical or upper extremity disabilities or spinal cord injury. This system allows the user to switch devices, including auxillary communication devices, on and off with a sip or puff. The switch comes with mounting hardware.
Low Profile Switch (Model 3Tslp)
The Low Profile Switch model 3TSLP, is a touch switch designed for use by individuals with severe physical or upper extremity disabilities. This large surface switch has a low profile for easier use by individuals with limited range of motion and is operated by pressing on the surface. DIMENSIONS: 2.5 x 3 inches.
Mac Switch Interface
The Mac Switch Interface is a control input interface designed to permit switch control of a Macintosh computer. This plug-and-play unit plugs directly into the ADB connector on the Macintosh keyboard and enables up to five switches to be connected. No software setup is required and the unit is compatible with any switch-ready program.
The Maestro is a handheld direct selection or scanning communicator designed for use by individuals with significant communication, speech, language and learning disabilities. This device can be used for in-person day-to-day communication and real-time communication, and it supports language and literacy development. It has a magnesium case. The Maestro is available as a Dedicated communication device or in an open configuration that provides the user access to all areas of the fully functioning
Magic Arm Mounting System (Model 1631)
The Magic Arm Mounting System is mounting hardware for control switches to be placed in virtually any position for individuals with physical disabilities. The adjustable arm attaches to a table or wheelchair by means of a one-piece base clamp. The arm can be further adjusted by flipping the lever at the joint of the arm, moving the arm into the desired position, and then flipping the lever back to lock it in place. The Magic Arm Mounting System comes with threaded circular and rectangular platfo
Magic Lighted Ball Switch (Model 895)
The Magic Lighted Ball Switch, model 895, is a touch switch designed for use by individuals with upper extremity or severe physical disabilities. This switch has a ribbed texture which invites the user to touch it. It also provides a multi-colored light show with nine different patterns and plays soft mechanical music while providing gentle vibration while activating a connected device. POWER: Uses 2 double-A and 3 triple-A batteries. DIMENSIONS (DxH): 8.5 x 4.5 inches.
Magical Mystery Switch (Model 1679)
The Magical Mystery Switch, model 1679, is a touch switch designed for use by individuals with upper extremity or severe physical disabilities. This switch operates in two different ways: Multicolored LED lights can be turned on to attract the user's attention and encourage him/her to touch the cloth ball in the center to activate the switch or, to encourage the user to explore independently, the lights can be left off. Once the ball is touched, the lights, vibration, a gentle breeze, and a conn
Magictrol (Model Mtg311A)
Switch has 3 microswitches which may be sequenced through 4 positions. Switch can be activated from up to 30 feet when connected with 1/8 I.D. tubing to pneumatic push button 6431 (see separate entry). Requires impulse pressure of 1 psig to switch from one position to another. Each microswitch is rated at 15 amps, 250 vac, 1/2 hp.
Magnetic Big Wall Words, 1st 100 Words, Level 1
Magnetic Big Wall Words, 1st 100 Words, Level 1 are magnetic puzzle pieces designed for two students with limited fine motor skills to exercise their finger dexterity to build words. The magnets give the activity a bit of added resistance. Students build as many words as they can, and then read them to their station partner. Sight words, often also called high-frequency sight words, are commonly used words that young children are encouraged to memorize as a whole by sight. Students aim to recogn
Magnetic Car Play Set
The Magnetic Car Play Set is a therapeutic occupational therapy (OT) tool designed for kids to develop kinesthetic sense, motor planning, visual motor, and eye-hand coordination. The car can be placed on a piece of cardboard or a manila folder and follow the track with the car, manipulating it with the horseshoe-shaped magnet. For the purpose of getting to know where one’s fingers are in space. There is a choking hazard and this product is not for children under 3 years old. Piece of cardboard a
Magnetic Finger Switch
Magnetic Finger Switch consists of a finger sleeve containing a magnet, plus a small external switch unit. A small movement of the finger toward the switch unit activates the switch. The switch has a 3.5 millimeter plug. DIMENSIONS: Switch is 0.25 x 1.5 inches.
Make It Scan
Make It Scan is a control switch training program designed to build on the visual-motor and timing skills learned in the Make It programs (see separate entries) using scanning options. The program includes six single switch training games including Bowl-A-Rama, Roll-A-Ball, Good Dog, Pinball, Walk About, and Park It. The program is intended to teach choice making and timing skills. Data collection capability is included. COMPATIBILITY: For use on Apple IIe, Apple IIc/c+, and Apple IIGS computers
Makey Makey is a method to turn almost any object into a computer recognized switch. Ideal for individuals with fine motor and upper extremity disabilities. Alligator Clip two objects to the MaKey MaKey board. When the user touches the item the user wants to use as a switch, the computer makes a connection, and MaKey MaKey sends the computer a keyboard message. The computer just thinks MaKey MaKey is a regular keyboard (or mouse). Therefore it works with all programs and webpages, because all p
Male 1/8 To Female 1/4 Adapter & Male 1/4 To Female 1/8 Adapter
The Male 1/8 to Female 1/4 adapter and the Male 1/4 to Female 1/8 Adapter are switch adapters designed to ensure compatibility between switches and switch-adapted toys and appliance. One end features a plug and the other end is equipped with a jack.
Mardi Gras Slime
Mardi Gras Slime is a do it yourself art project for children with sensory processing disorder to offer visual, tactile, and proprioceptive sensory input.
Maze On!
Maze On! is an eye hand coordination activity designed for use with children with upper extremity and neurological disabilities. In this maze game, users manipulate objects such as cars, helicopters, hot air ballons, ghosts, and boats through a maze. Accessible with a mouse, a keyboard, a touch screen, or a switch, the program overs a variety of mazes, including roads, cityscapes, haunted houses, open sky with clouds, and a river; the mazes range from simple to complex, enabling users to advance
Mcm 1.0
MCM 1.0 is a mounting device designed for individuals with limited mobility in their arms due to neurological impairments such as cerebral palsy, stroke or traumatic brain injuries. The MCM1.0 allows users to mount control devices such as buttons or joysticks on either side of the headrests of wheelchairs or other locations. A round frame clamp is not included. Button adapter sold separately.
Mcm 1.0 Qs
MCM 1.0 QS is designed to aid in mounting and positioning switches on wheelchairs and workstations for individuals with limited fine motor or upper extremity disabilities due to spinal cord injuries or neurological impairments such as cerebral palsy, stroke or traumatic brain injuries. The Quickshift (QS) version has “ratchet-style“ handles at its joints to quickly adjust its position without the use of tools. A round frame clamp is included. Button adapter sold separately. COLOR: Black. WARRAN
Medical Explosion Proof Foot Switches
Footswitch. Cast aluminum housing. Foot operated momentary switch. One or two pedal models. POWER: 5 amps, 125-250 volt AC or 3 amps 28 volt DC. DIMENSIONS: 10 x 9.75 x 4 3/8 inches. WEIGHT: 6.5 pounds.
Mercury Switch (Model 3Tsmv)
The Mercury Switch, model 3TSMV, is designed for use by individuals with severe physical or upper extremity disabilities. Mounted on a band, this switch can be worn on the hand, wrist, arm, leg, or head, and the switch is activated by slight body movements.
Mercury Tilt switch is activated by a change in position. This switch comes with a Velcro band for attaching to the wrist, arm, leg, etc. The switch has a 3.5 millimeter plug. DIMENSIONS: 0.38 x 1.25 inches.
"DO IT YOURSELF" ENTRY --- PURPOSE: To enable individuals with severe physical disabilities to operate switch-connected devices. To make this switch, use diagonal wire cutters cut the prongs and some of the rim from the lid of the Bubble Tape gum box to prevent it from closing completely. With a soldering iron burn a small hole in the rear side of the container. Run the stripped ends of the phono plug wire through the hole into the gum box. Hot glue the Styrofoam to the inside center of the bot
Microlight Switch
The MicroLight Switch is a touch switch designed to be activated by a feather light touch for individuals who have upper extremity motor disabilities. This switch requires 0.4 ounces of pressure and 0.25 inch of travel for activation and provides tactile and auditory feedback. The switch features a threaded screw insert for mounting (screw must be purchased separately) or it may be mounted with double-sided tape or Velcro. DIMENSIONS: 1.75 x 0.5 x 0.75 inches.
Microphone Tubing (Series 2000)
The Microphone Tubing, series 2000, is switch mounting hardware designed to aid in attaching switches to wheelchairs and workstations. Available models include 5/8-inch 27 male to male, 5/8-inch 27 male one end, flex tube (gooseneck) 5/8-inch 27 male and female, 45-degree angle tube 5/8-inch 27 male and female, or 90-degree angle tube 5/8-inch 27 male and female. DIMENSIONS: The 5/8-inch 27 male to male is sold in three-, six-, or 12-inch lengths. The 5/8-inch 27 male one end is sold in 21-inch
Microswitches.
Miniature push button snap action low force switches with activation pressure from .03 to 4.3 ounces. Switches have built in hysteresis and high reliability. Momentary or on/off.
Midline Control Bracket
Swingaway mounting bracket for power wheelchair control box. Uses existing control box clamp for mounting to armrest. Aluminum. Round or flat bar stock.
Midline Joystick Mounting Bracket
The Midline Joystick Mounting Bracket is a powered wheelchair controller bracket designed for use by individuals with severe physical or neurological disabilities or spinal cord injury. This bracket enables the user to place a wheelchair joystick from the severe left or right to midline. This mounting bracket also allows the joystick to be flipped out of the way for transfers or when not in use.
Mighty Mount
The Mighty Mount is switch mouting hardware designed to optimally position a single switch for a user with physical disabilities. This unit may be used with most popular switches and includes an anchoring clamp, a telescoping and angling arm, and a full range switch platform. Swiches attach using screws or Velcro and can be positioned for use with the hand, the chin, or the knee.
Mini Beamer Transmitter And Receiver
Mini Beamer Transmitter & Receiver is designed to provide wireless switch access for individuals with physical and cognitive disabilities. The Mini Beamer Transmitter & Receiver includes a rechargeable battery, proximity sensor activation surface and an external switch jack. The proximity sensor of the Mini Beamer Transmitter will activate when an individual is within 10-millimeter of the activation surface. It requires the Mini Beamer, Original or SLAT receiver. The Mini Beamer receiver
Mini Cup Switch
The Mini Cup Switch is a buttonswitch designed for individuals with upper extremity disabilities who have a good ability to target smaller surfaces. It is a smaller version of the Cup switch (see separate entry) which is similar to the Cap Switch (see separate entry), but more durable since it is encased in a plastic cup. It comes with colored stickers for individuals with low vision. The base provides a surface for easy mounting on table, pillow or wheelchair bracket. The switch is operated by
The Mini Fan is a switch adapted appliance designed for use by individuals with upper extremity disabilities. This small one-speed fan is equipped with a 1/8th-inch jack to enable single-switch operation (switch not included). This fan can also be use in training new switch users in cause-and-effect. POWER: Uses batteries.
Mini Joystick With Pad Switch (Model 50120)
The Mini Joystick with Pad Switch, model 50120, is designed for use by individuals with upper extremity disabilities. This switch is a four-position gated joystick designed for individuals who can maneuver a joystick, but need a larger switch. The multiple switch is five switches in one; the joystick has four positions, and the fifth switch is activated by pressing the raised pad beside it. This switch can be used to control any device that requires five single switches, or it can be adapted to
Mini Joystick With Push Switch (Model 50200)
The Mini Joystick with Push Switch, model 5020, is a multiple switch designed to control any device that requires five single switches for operation by individuals who have severe physical or upper extremity disabilities or spinal cord injury. It can also be adapted to form five single or mono switch plugs for controlling any five devices operated by single switches (additional hardware needed). Four switches are activated by moving the hoystick in four directions; the fifth is activated by pres
Mini Plate Switch With Music & Lights (Model 1415)
The Mini Plate Switch with Music & Lights, model 1415, is a touch switch designed for use by individuals with upper extremity or severe physical disabilities. This switch activates a connected toy or device while activating lights and music. A one-eighth to one-eighth inch cord is included. POWER: Uses two double-A batteries. DIMENSIONS (LxWxH): 6 x 5 x 2 inches.
Mini Relax
The Mini Relax is an environmental control unit designed to operate televisions, video cassette recorders, and other infrared operable devices. This scanning infrared transmitter controls the TV, VCR, or any other device that operates using infrared technology. The unit has the capacity to store up to six functions, such as changing channels and volume. Scanning provides auditory and visual feedback with adjustable scan speed and auto scan or hold scan. OPTIONS: Multiple-switch version. POWER: U
Mini-Dome Switch With Lights, Music & Vibration (Model 72-S)
The Mini-Dome Switch with Lights, Music & vibration, model 72-S, is a touch switch designed for use by individuals with upper extremity and severe physical disabilities. A light touch along the rim activates music, lights, and vibration. Particles in the dome spin. A connected toy or device is also activated. The unit can be used on a table or mounted on the wall or door with the optional hanger. POWER: Uses four double-A batteries (not included). OPTIONS: Wall hanger for wall mounting. DIME
Mini-Gumball Switch
The Mini-Gumball Switch is a touch switch designed for use by individuals with upper extremity or severe physical disabilities or spinal cord injury. Intended for users who can access a smaller target area, this switch has a detachable mounting base with three holes and provides audible and tactile feedback. DIMENSIONS: The activation surface is 1.25 inches, the base is 2 inches, and the switch is 0.5-inch high. COLOR: Available in blue, red, green, yellow, or purple.
Mini-Mullion Proximity Reader (Model Sxf1050)
The Mini-Mullion Proximity Reader, model SXF1050, is a keyless door lock and security system. The system uses a credit card size command card, and does not require any contact between card and card reading sensor. The card does not have to be removed from wallet or purse to be read. The sensor is mounted on a mullion or narrow stile and has a reading range of up to 3 inches. The system has a tri-state LED visual indicator (red, green, amber) and provides audio feedback representing status and ac
Mini-Saucer Switch (Model 718-S)
The Mini-Saucer Switch, model 718-S, is a touch switch designed for use by children with upper extremity disabilities. Designed in a compact size for portability, this switch is useful for individuals without the hand or wrist motion necessary to operate traditional plate switches. Actuated by a light touch, this switch is equipped with a 1/8-inch plug. POWER: Uses batteries.
Minimal Motion Splint Switch Kit
The Minimal Motion Splint Switch Kit is a touch switch kit designed for use by individuals with upper extremit disabilities. This kit includes small dome-shaped touch-sensitive switch pads which can be mounted in thermoplastic hand splints or other orthotics or other devices. Equipped with a standard 1/8-inch plug, the switch can be used to activate any switch-adapted device for people with controlled finger motion who lack the range of motion or ability to operate standard touch switches. OPTIO
Modified Foot Pedal.
--- "DO IT YOURSELF" ENTRY ------- PURPOSE: Modification reduces the amount of travel needed to activate a foot pedal. A microswitch activated electric solenoid is attached to the chair operated by foot pedal, so it pulls on the chair in the same way as the pedal. Used to control the foot pedals on several machines in a garment manufacturing factory. SKILLS REQUIRED: Electrical. AUTHOR: Gugerty, J.; Tindall, L. TITLE: Tools, Equipment & Machinery Adapted for the Vocational Education & Em
Modified Pancake Switch (Model 769)
The Modified Pancake Switch, model 769, is a touch switch designed for use by individuals with severe physical or upper extremity disabilities. This large switch has a low rim to make it easier to activate. Touching the sensitive outside rim or anywhere on the top surface activates any connected toy or device. The switch comes with a clear cover for photographs or icons (not included). OPTIONS: Replacement covers. DIMENSIONS: The switch is 5 3/8 inches in diameter and the rim is 3/8 inch high. C
Modularhose.com Assistive Technology Double Kit (Model 90655)
The ModularHose.com Assistive Technology Double Kit, model 90655, is a stand for a tablet computer, a computer or communicator mounting kit for wheelchair, or switch mounting hardware designed for use by individuals with use of only one hand, mobility, lower extremity or upper extremity disabilities, or spinal cord injury. This kit can be used to mount and position a switch, tablet computer, communicator, or a variety of other assistive products. The kit comes preassembled and includes 6 feet of
Modularhose.com Assistive Technology Double Spring Clamp Kit (Model 90674)
The ModularHose.com Assistive Technology Double Spring Clamp Kit, model 90674, is a stand for a tablet computer, a computer or communicator mounting kit for wheelchair, or switch mounting hardware designed for use by individuals with use of only one hand, mobility, lower extremity or upper extremity disabilities, or spinal cord injury. This kit can be used to mount and position a switch, tablet computer, communicator, or a variety of other assistive products. The kit includes a 4 x 6 inch plat
Modularhose.com Assistive Technology Kit (Model 90650)
The ModularHose.com Assistive Technology Kit, model 90650, is a stand for a tablet computer, a computer or communicator mounting kit for wheelchair, or switch mounting hardware designed for use by individuals with use of only one hand, mobility, lower extremity or upper extremity disabilities, or spinal cord injury. This kit can be used to mount and position a switch, tablet computer, communicator, or a variety of other assistive products. The kit comes preassembled and includes 3 feet of Loc-Li
Modularhose.com Assistive Technology Kit Plus (Model 90652)
The ModularHose.com Assistive Technology Kit Plus, model 90652, is a stand for a tablet computer, a computer or communicator mounting kit for wheelchair, or switch mounting hardware designed for use by individuals with use of only one hand, mobility, lower extremity or upper extremity disabilities, or spinal cord injury. This kit can be used to mount and position a switch, tablet computer, communicator, or a variety of other assistive products. The kit comes preassembled and includes 6 feet of L
Modularhose.com Assistive Technology Kit With Two Plates (Model 90654)
The ModularHose.com Assistive Technology Kit with Two Plates, model 90654, is a stand for a tablet computer, a computer or communicator mounting kit for wheelchair, or switch mounting hardware designed for use by individuals with use of only one hand, mobility, lower extremity or upper extremity disabilities, or spinal cord injury. This kit can be used to mount and position a switch, tablet computer, communicator, or a variety of other assistive products. The kit comes preassembled and includes
Modularhose.com Assistive Technology Spring Clamp Kit (Model 90673)
The ModularHose.com Assistive Technology Spring Clamp Kit, model 90673, is a stand for a tablet computer, a computer or communicator mounting kit for wheelchair, or switch mounting hardware designed for use by individuals with use of only one hand, mobility, lower extremity or upper extremity disabilities, or spinal cord injury. This kit can be used to mount and position a switch, tablet computer, communicator, or a variety of other assistive products. The kit includes a 4 x 6 inch plate, 2 5.75
Modularhose.com At Starter Kit (Model 90680)
The ModularHose.com AT Starter Kit, model 90680, is a stand for a tablet computer, a computer or communicator mounting kit for wheelchair, or switch mounting hardware designed for use by individuals with use of only one hand, mobility, lower extremity or upper extremity disabilities, or spinal cord injury. This kit can be used to mount and position a switch, tablet computer, communicator, or a variety of other assistive products. The kit comes with all the common parts used in the assistive tec
Modularhose.com Round Tube Clamp Kit (Model 90750)
The ModularHose.com Round Tube Clamp Kit, model 90750, is a computer or communicator mounting kit for wheelchair or switch mounting hardware designed for use by individuals with use of only one hand, mobility, lower extremity or upper extremity disabilities, or spinal cord injury. The kit is intended to be used with Loc-Line 1-inch or 0.88-inch diameter tubing. Plates are made of stainless steel. The kit includes five-piece round tube clamp with knob, Loc-Line connector, Loc-Line double socket f
Modularhose.com Spring Clamp Kit With Plate 1 Foot (Model 90665)
The ModularHose.com Spring Clamp Kit with Plate 1 Foot, model 90665, is a stand for a tablet computer, a computer or communicator mounting kit for wheelchair, or switch mounting hardware designed for use by individuals with use of only one hand, mobility, lower extremity or upper extremity disabilities, or spinal cord injury. This kit can be used to mount and position a switch, tablet computer, communicator, or a variety of other assistive products. The kit includes a round plate connected to a
Modularhose.com Spring Clamp Kit With Plate 2 Feet (Model 90667)
The ModularHose.com Spring Clamp Kit with Plate 2 Feet, model 90667, is a stand for a tablet computer, a computer or communicator mounting kit for wheelchair, or switch mounting hardware designed for use by individuals with use of only one hand, mobility, lower extremity or upper extremity disabilities, or spinal cord injury. This kit can be used to mount and position a switch, tablet computer, communicator, or a variety of other assistive products. The kit includes a round plate connected to a
Molded Plug Cordsets.
Variety of stock and custom molded plug cordsets for use with a number of electrical products. For use with adapting control switches.
Mother's 3Rd Arm With Pillow Switch
Mother’s Third Arm with Pillow Switch is an adjustable arm with a switch attachment that can be used by children and adults with limited arm strength and mobility. The Mother’s Third Arm can be clapped to any surface up to 2½ inches thick while the Pillow Switch can be adjusted to accommodate the user’s needs. It can be attached to wheelchairs, tabletops, strollers or chairs.
Motivaid
MotivAid is an environmental control system designed for use by individuals with mobility, upper extremity, or severe physical disabilities,blindness or low vision, or spinal cord injury. This personal-computer-based system facilitates phone and email communication and control of the home. Using wireless voice recognition, a touchscreen, auditory scanning, or other controls, users can make and answer phone calls; send or receive email; manage an appointments calendar; access news, weather and ot
Motorized Drape Controller Plc (Model 3142)
The Motorized Drape Controller PLC, model 3142, is an environmental control unit designed for use by individuals with upper extremity disabilities, severe physical disabilities, and spinal cord injury. It works with any drape weighing up to 60 pounds, as well as vertical blinds and many horizontal blinds. Its automatic stops are user-adjustable to fully open, fully closed, and any point in-between. When power is applied, the unit moves the drapes from their current position to one limit position
Motorized Wheelchair Trainer (Model 1520)
Motorized wheelchair trainer is a wheelchair control switch assessment designed to provide assessment of user's perceptual skills prior to purchase of a powered wheelchair. The device contains four directional arrows which light up and sound a beeper in response to the direction of the joystick. In use, the teacher or therapist stands behind the client who is seated in a conventional wheelchair. By watching the indicator arrows on the device, the teacher can push the wheelchair in the direction
Mounting Plates are switch mounting hardware designed to attach AbleNet switches, other control switches, clipboards, craft projects, book stands, cameras, toys and games, and other items to the Universal Switch Mounting System or the Slim Armstrong Mounting System (see separate entries). Available models include the Small Triangular Plate for the Jelly Bean Switch, LITTLEmack/LITTLE Step-by-Step, and Step-by-Step with levels, the Large Triangular Switch for the Big Red Switch, Cordless Big Red
Mounting Switch
The Mounting Switch is a touch switch designed for use by individuals with severe physical disabilities, spinal cord injuries, or upper extremity disabilities. This switch may be mounted in a variety of locations (though used primarily at the head level) and shaped for optimal positioning. The activation pressure of the switch is adjustable from one to three ounces and an audible click is emitted when the switch closes. DIMENSIONS: 6.5 inches long. WEIGHT: 3 ounces.
Mounting Switch Mount (Model A73)
The Mounting Switch Mount, model A73, is switch mounting hardware for the Mounting Switch (see separate entry). This mount is lgihtweight and permanent, designed for placement on a wheelchair for an individual user. The mounting kit includes a 1/4-inch mounting rod, and a wheelchair clamp with a 1/4-inch rod adapter. Instruction included.
Mouse Marker Holder
The Mouse Marker Holder is designed for student's with upper extremity and fine motor disabilities to draw with ease. This one is made from an old computer mouse. I have taken out the insides and inserted a burfab (velcro friendly material) band. The student's hand is placed on the mouse and the band is closed over their hand and velcroed snuggly. Once they have chosen their color of marker, it can be inserted into the holder on the front of the mouse. They can now slide it around the page.
Mouser 3 Switch Box
The Mouser 3 Switch Box is a switch adapter for computer designed for use by individuals with fine motor and upper extremity disabilities. It allows unwanted mouse buttons to be turned off and operated instead from a switch. With this product, mouse-click software can be accessed with a switch. This product has two PS2 mouse sockets allowing the mouse and another device such as a joystick to be used together, with automatic switching between the mouse sockets.
Movement Sensor Switch (Model 655)
The Movement Sensor Switch, model 655, is a motion detection switch designed for use by individuals with upper extremity and other physical disabilities. This switch operates in momentary, latched, or timer mode and activates the attached toy or appliance with the slightest movement in front of the sensor.
Multi-Sensory Centers (Models 725 & 726)
The Multi-Sensory Center are touch switches and sensory integration activities designed for use by individuals with upper extremity, fine motor, sensory, and neurological disabilities. Designed to provide auditory, tactile, and visual stimulation, each center is equipped with ultra-bright lights, vibration, and music. Internal switches allow each type of stimulation to be used individually or they can be used in a variety of combinations. Additional tactile stimulastion is provided by the textur
Multimode Interface (Model 3420)
Permits the use of proportional or switch actuators to operate an Everest & Jennings power wheelchair plus additional devices such as a power recliner, environmental control system, computer and/or communicator. Two wheelchair operating modes include adjustments for speed, acceleration and deceleration. Additional adjustments vary proportional joystick throw (sensitivity), set the veer rate (steering amount) when using a switch actuator, and select momentary and/or latching (continuous) whee
Permits the use of proportional or switch actuators to operate a Quickie power wheelchair plus additional devices such as a power recliner, environmental control system, computer and/or communicator. Two wheelchair operating modes include adjustments for speed, accleration and deceleration. Additional adjustments vary proportional joystick throw (sensitivity), set the veer rate (steering amount) when using a switch actuator, and select momentary and/or latching ( continuous) wheelchair drive. Tw
Multimode Scanner (Model 3370) & Scanner Display (Model 2995)
The Scanner, in conjunction with a single switch actuator, is used for mode selection and operation of a Multimode Interface. The Scanner converts single switch actuator commands into the four directional commands (forward/reverse/left/right) required for system operation.
Multiple Switch Box
The Multiple Switch Box is an alternative game port socket designed to work with the Adaptive Firmware Card or Ke:nx (each sold separately; see entries) to permit connection of up to eight switches to the computer as direct-selection input devices. Each switch is defined as a character, talking word, or special action. This device may be ideal for group activities where each participant has an opportunity to independently activate the computer with a switch. COMPATIBILITY: For use with Apple II
Multiswitch Module (Model 575, 575-8)
The Multiswitch Module is a switch adapter which allows several switches to be connected to the same switch-operated device (such as a toy) designed to encourage group participation for individuals with physical, sensory or cognitive disabilities. Which of the switches controls the toy is determined by the setting of toggle switches on top of the module. The module has four jacks for plugging in switches and one output plug for connecting to the toy. The plug can also be connected to a computer
Music Button (Model 1110)
The Music Button, model 1110, is a button switch and adapted music box designed to encourage fine motor coordination for individuals who have physical, sensory, or neurological disabilities. The device consists of a base with a large round button in the middle. When the button is pressed, the user is treated to 30 seconds of music rewarding clients when therapeutic goals are achieved.
Musical Bright Plate Switch
The Musical Bright Plate Switch is a touch switch designed to activate toys and appliances for individuals with upper extremity disabilities. This switch features a bright plate on a dark base to assist users with visual disabilities. The switch activates with slight pressure on the plate and a melody plays at moderate volume on activation. The switch can be used alone for cause-and-effect training or it can be used with any switch-adapted toy or appliance with a 1/8th-inch jack. DIMENSIONS: 5 x
Musical Posture Trainer (Model 1120)
The Musical Posture Trainer, model 1120, is a posture switch designed to provide feedback with soft music for indivudals with little or no muscle control. It attaches to any part of the body with a velcro strap. This positive feedback device plays soft music when the desired position is achieved.
My Own Paint Program
My Own Paint Program is a cognitive skills tutorial program designed for use by young children through adults with cognitive or multiple disabilities. This program offers three painting activities: In the first, when the student activates the switch, the paint brush chooses a color and paints a vehicle. A musical reinforcer sounds when the picture is completed. The second activity enables the student to select the color(s) to paint the vehicle parts any color desired. The third activity enables
Myo Electric Hands
The Myo Electric Hands are electrically operated devices designed to meet the needs ot most upper limb amputees. A powerful mechanism is provided, giving a grip force output suitable for most routine daily tasks. The built-in electronics provide a choice of nine control modes for the hand, selected using the dial feature. The on-board system also includes an electronic "gear change" allowing power to be stored and released on demand. The Myo Electric Hands are controlled with Select Myo electrod
Nautilus Footswitch (Models Wp541S & Wp541D)
Foot operated momentary or latching switch. Aluminum casting piston type actuator. Can operate underwater. Waterproof. POWER: 20 amps 125 to 250 volt AC, 12 amps, 125 volt AC, or 6 amps, 250 volt AC. DIMENSIONS: 8 x 4 x 2.25 inches. WEIGHT 2 pounds, 8.5 ounces.
Ne-At Switch Divider
The NE-AT Switch Divider is a control switch input interface that allows the user to activate up to five devices with a single switch. The Input switch can be any standard special needs switch such as aa Zygo Lever switch, a Spec switch, or a Buddy Button (see separate entries).
Ne-At Switch Multiplier
The NE-AT Switch Multiplier is a control switch input interface designed to allow up to five switches to control a single device. The input switches can be of different types, or they can be the same type. Input switches can be any standard special needs switch such as aa Zygo Lever switch, a Spec switch, or a Buddy Button (see separate entries). Any one of the input switches connected through the Switch Multiplier activates the device. The Switch Multiplier can be used with such devices as a po
Nerf Ball Switch
--- "DO IT YOURSELF" ENTRY ------- PURPOSE: To enable a student to operate a battery-operated toy or battery-operated appliance using a single switch. Some student prefer the textured surface of the Nerf ball, and it requires only gross movements of the arm or hand to activate it.
New Bed Controller
CUSTOM ADAPTATION PURPOSE: To provide a customized adaptation of a bed controller for a person with quadriplegia. Upon receiving a new bed this individual find the new bed controller difficult to use. A controller was adapted from original toggle-style switches and an old control box similar to the device previously used by this individual. The existing cable between the bed and the new controller was built into the controller therefore a new cable was needed for the adapted device. First a cab
New Blue 2
The NEW Blue 2 is a switch designed for individualists with dexterity or mobility issues. The NEW Blue2 switch provides a sleek, modern design with new features that make it compatible with all switch accessible apps. Also new to Blue2 is the ability to toggle the on-screen keyboard on and off for iOS devices and a built-in rechargeable battery.Includes rechargeable battery.Requires 40% less pressure to activate than the original Blue2. Features two external switch jacks. Program custom keystrok
New Magic Arm Mounting System (Model 5050)
The New Magic Arm Mounting System, model 5050, is switch mounting hardware designed to mount switches or communication boards to a wheelchair, table, or bed frame. The adjustable arm attaches to a table or wheelchair by means of a one-piece base clamp. The arm can be further adjusted by flipping the lever at the joint of the arm, moving the arm into the desired position, and then flipping the lever back to lock it in place. The System comes with threaded circular and rectangular platforms that a
Nexgen Encased Linear Switch
The nexGen Encased Linear Switch is a touch switch designed for use by individuals with severe physical, neurological, or upper extremity disabilities or spinal cord injury. This momentary-contact, press-at-any-point linear switch is encased in a rugged Lexan housing to withstand being kicked, hit, or kneed to operate. DIMENSIONS: Available in standard lengths up to 72 inches. OPTIONS: Custom color, graphics, and labels. COLOR: The housing is clear.
Nickle/mercury Head Control Switch.
--- "DO IT YOURSELF" ENTRY ------- PURPOSE: Mercury switch activates device when it is held upright and turns it off when tilted sideways or down. Can be used to encourage a child to hold head up in order to activate a tape recorder, toy, or light. Switch is contructed of glass mercury switch, small plastic pill bottle with snap lid, earphone with subminiature size plug, 2 small pieces of cardboard, tape, glue, and rosin core solder. SKILLS REQUIRED: Soldering. AUTHOR: Burkhart, L J TITLE: Homem
Night Call Switch.
--- "DO IT YOURSELF" ENTRY ------- PURPOSE: Switch suspended over the bed within easy reach to enable a severely disabled person to summon assistance. Extension of a call switch made with a plastic towel holder and cord. Includes drawing. COMMENTS: For information contact: Dr Elmer Hoyer, Cerebral Palsy Research Foundation of Kansas Rehabilitation Engineering Center, 2021 North Old Manor, Wichita, Kansas 67208. SKILLS REQUIRED: Electronics. Assembly. AUTHOR: Call, G; Hoyer, E TITLE: Problem Solv
Nine Volt Battery Adaptor Module (Model 630, 630-8)
Nine Volt Battery Adaptor Module, model 630 and 630-8, is a device that allows a single switch to be used to control any device powered by a nine-volt transistor battery for individuals with a physical disability. The switch is plugged into a jack on the Adaptor Module. A special plug wired to the Adaptor Module connects between the battery contacts in the device and the battery itself. When the switch is activated the battery connection is completed and the device is turned on. When the switch
Nine Volt Toy Adapter.
--- "DO IT YOURSELF" ENTRY ------- PURPOSE: Adapter for use with toys or other devices requiring a 9 volt battery. Adapter is constructed using two volt battery snaps and a subminiature jack. To use adapter, snap battery into one pair of snaps and attach the other side into the toy. Turn the on/off switch on the toy to the on position. Plug any switch into the jack. Switch should activate the toy. SKILLS REQUIRED: Soldering. AUTHOR: Burkhart, L J TITLE: More Homemade Battery Devices for Severely
Nintendo Interface Module & Super Nintendo Interface Module (Model 611, 611-8, 614, 614-8)
The Nintendo and Super Nintendo Interface Modules, model 611 and 611-8, 614, 614-8, are control switch interface units designed for use with the Nintendo or Super Nintendo Entertainment System for individuals who are physically impaired. The units can be used with up to 8 external capability switches. The modules feature top mounted push buttons which can be used to override the actions of the external capability switches (by a teacher or therapist, for example).
Nintendo Joystick Module & Super Nintendo Joystick Module (Model 612, 612-8, 613, 613-8)
The Nintendo and Super Nintendo Joystick Module, models 612, 612-8, 613, 613-8, are modules with a built-in joystick that interfaces with the Nintendo and Super Nintendo Entertainment System for indivudals with physical disabilities. The modules feature top mounted push buttons for override of external capability switches actions (by teacher or therapist, for example). The module's large platform has 4 rubber suction cups to secure it to a table or counter.
No Noise Switch (Model 3Nssw)
The No Noise Switch, model 3NSSW, is a control switch interface unit designed for use with individuals with emotional or cognitive disabilities. This switch activates the connected toy or appliance as a reward for quiet, encouraging those who shout or scream to modify behavior. This unit includes a microphone and a sensitivity control.
NoiseLESS Earphones
These NoiseLESS Earphones are designed for children and adults with auditory sensitivities to reduce the volume and intensity of outside noise. Affordable noise protection.
Normally Open Sensing Cells (Model No-1)
The Normally Open Sensing Cells, models NO-1 is a low-profile, sealed sensing switches in wafer form. It feature 2.5 pounds nominal sensitivity with positive bottoming to withstand continuous body weight, and a water resistant sealed casing. This switch can be mounted using Mastic cement, epoxy, DA-12 tape, or the optional metal holder. OPTIONS: Metal holder. DIMENSIONS: 1.5 inch in diameter. COLOR: Black.
Obi - Robotic Feeder
The Obi is a robotic dinner plate device with a human-like arm that is design to help feed users with impaired movement. The obi includes a rotating serving dish with four compartments for different foods, as well as a robotic-arm fitted with a spoon. The device works by indicating it where to deliver the food by moving its robotic arm. After that, the robot is able to replicate the process, with users able to toggle between the different compartments and tell the arm when to feed. Functions inc
Objects In Container Switch.
--- "DO IT YOURSELF" ENTRY ------- PURPOSE: Switch which will turn on a tape player, battery toy or light when the child drops something into a container. Switch made from a metal cookie or candy tin a 3/4 inch copper U-bracket, 4 3/8 inch, 6-32 bolts with nuts, corregated cardboard and foam rubber. Provides instructions, diagrams and photograph. Suggests uses. SKILLS REQUIRED: Electronics. Soldering. Assembly. AUTHOR: Burkhart, L J TITLE: More Homemade Battery Devices for Severely Handicapped C
Omnitilt Seat Motor Controller
The Omnitilt Seat Motor Controller is a pneumatic switch designed for use by individuals who use wheelchairs and are at risk of pressure sores. This device automatically changes seat positions every set interval to relieve pressure. It automatically levels the chair seat by changes in terrain, and can also be set to manual mode so the user can set permanent seat positions.
On / Off Remote Switch
On/Off Remote Switch is a system consisting of a small hand-held transmitter unit with a button on top and a receiver unit that plugs into a wall outlet. The appliance to be controlled is plugged into the receiver, and the user can turn it on and off at a distance of up to 50 feet by pressing the button on the transmitter unit. Three different frequencies of receivers with corresponding transmitters are available: a lamp model (750 watts max.), an appliance model (1800 watts max.), and a motor a
On / Off Switch (Model 3Tonf)
The On/Off Switch model 3TONF, is a touch switch designed for use by individuals with severe physical or upper extremity disabilities. This large surface switch consists of two plates; tapping the left one turns the connected toy or appliance on and tapping the right one turns the item off. COLOR: The "on" side of the switch is green and the "off" side is red.
On/off Module (Model 581)
The On/Off Module, module 581, is a switch adapter designed for use by individuals with upper extremity disabilities. When this module is connected between a switch-adapted device and two switches (not included), the module enables one switch to turn the device on and the second to turn the device off. The module is equipped with a combination 0.25-inch and 1/8-inch plug.
One Hand Sony
The One Hand Sony is a device designed for those individuals with one hand to hold their gaming remote with one hand. The One Hand Sony is a device to hold the Playstation hand control and play with one hand. The team designed a leg anchor to hold the hand control and adapted the control so the individual can reach all functionality with one hand.
One Recorder With Dividers (Model 1444)
The One Message Recorder with Dividers, model 1444, is a voice output rocker switch designed for use by individuals with upper extremity or communication disabilities. This two-part switch enables messages to be recorded by pressing one side of the switch and played by pressing the other side. Interchangeable center dividers allow a therapist to choose a suitable barrier to physically separate message and record plate. POWER: Uses four double-A batteries (not included). DIMENSIONS (HxLxW): 2.5 x
Ooops! is a cause and effect training program and single control switch game program library designed for use by children with learning, cognitive, or upper extremity disabilities or spinal cord injury. It contains four arcade-style game programs controlled by either a mouse or a single switch. The programs have high quality graphics and animation. Players select from a balloon, a spaceship, a car, or a submarine, then collect as many crystals as possible without crashing into obstacles. The pro
Ornamin Thermo Range: Thermo Mug - Model 210
The Ornamin Thermo Range: Thermo Mug - Model 210 is an ergonomic drinking mug designed for users with restricted movement of the neck to drink easily. These Thermo mugs have large ergonomic sized handles for easy and safe grasp. These mugs also have a hidden Thermo function, which ensures that hot drinks remain hot and cold beverages stay cool for longer. The Thermo Mug Vital has an internal cone that assists the drinking action. The function in the design of the Vital Mug is hidden therefore us
Oval Talking Keychain 2 Pack (Black and White)
The Oval Talking Keychain 2 Pack (Black and White) is a voice output digital alarm clock designed for use by individuals who are blind or have low vision. These Oval Talking Keychains are ¼ inch Black numbers on an LCD display. Female Voice. LCD and audio time report. Alarm. Hourly time announcement. Uses 2 LR44 batteries (included.)
Oval Texture Switch (Models 711-S, 711-M, & 711-X)
The Oval Texture Switch, models 711-S, 711-M, and 711-X, are touch switches designed for use by children with physical or neurological disabilities. Available in two sizes, the switch's bumpy surface invites touch and switch activation. Model 711-X comes with a connector box that allows the switch to operate in momentary, timed, or latch modes. In momentary mode, the toy or device stays on as long as the user maintains pressure on the switch. In latch mode, the toy or device turns on when the sw
Oval Texture Switch With Battery Interrupter (Model 711-I)
The Oval Texture Switch with Battery Interrupter, model 711-I, is a switch adapter and touch switch designed for use by individuals with severe physical or upper extremity disabilities. Two battery interrupters (C, D and double-A) are permanently attached to a medium size Oval Texture Switch (see separate entry). The oval-shaped switch is brightly colored and textured. Slip the thin disk into a battery-operated toy or device and it becomes switch adapted. DIMENSIONS: 9 inch diameter.
Pad Mounts For Sensors (Models Sm-Sp, Sm-Mp, & Sm-Lp)
Mounts for Sensor Pads are switch mounting hardware designed for use by individuals with severe physical disabilities or spinal cord injury. These pad can be used to mount non-adjustable sensors (sold separately) and maintain a range of touch to 0.25-inch above the surface. SIZES: Spot, medium, and long. DIMENSIONS(WxL): The spot pad is 2 x 2 inches, the medium pad is 2 x 4 inches, and the long pad is 2 x 6 inches.
Paddle Panel
The Paddle Panel is a replacement for hand-held game paddle devices designed to allow better control as well as bilateral manipulation activities. Paddle Panel has two buttons and two knob controls, and plugs directly into the game I/O port on the back of the computer. COMPATIBILITY: For use on Apple IIc, Apple IIe, IBM PC, and Atari computers.
Pagebot For Kindle 2
The PageBot for Kindle 2 is a switch interface for the Amazon Kindle 2 electronic book reader designed for use by individuals with neurological disabilities, spinal cord injury, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, spinal muscular atrophy, multiple sclerosis, stroke, arthritis, or repetitive strain injury. This switch interface works with all models of Amazon's 2nd Generation Kindle, including both the domestic (U.S.) wireless and international wireless models
Pagebot For Kindle Dx
The PageBot for Kindle DX is a switch interface for the Amazon Kindle eBook reader, designed for use by individuals with neurological disabilities, spinal cord injury, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, spinal muscular atrophy, multiple sclerosis, stroke, arthritis, or repetitive strain injury. This switch interface works with all models of Amazon’s Kindle DX, including both of the original white models. It enable individuals who cannot hold the Kindle or pr
Pagebot For Kindle Keyboard
The PageBot for Kindle Keyboard is a control switch interface for the Amazon Kindle electronic book reader, designed for use by individuals with neurological disabilities, spinal cord injury, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, spinal muscular atrophy, multiple sclerosis, stroke, arthritis, or repetitive strain injury. This switch interface works with all models of Amazon’s 3rd Generation Kindle, including the international wireless, WiFi, and Special Offer m
Pal Pad
The Pal Pad is a touch switch designed for use by individuals with fine motor and upper extremity disabilities. This pressure-activated membrane switch can be activated with only 1.2 ounces of force, and the activating touch can be applied from directly above or at a shallow angle. The Pal Pad can be plugged into any communication aid or battery operated assistive device that has a standard 1/8-inch jack. The flat membrane switch is very rigid and durable, and it is tolerant of rough usage. It c
Pal Pad Assistive Switches
The Pal Pad Assistive Switches are assistive devices to turn on any switch activated devices by touching them.
Palm Joystick Switch (Models 5153 & 5154)
The Palm Joystick Switch is a joystick designed for use by individuals with upper extremity disabilities.This switch consists of a palm rest base with a large textured switch. Four connected devices are controlled by slight movement forward, backward, right, or left. POWER: Uses double-A batteries (not included). DIMENSIONS (LxWxH): 9 x 4 x 3.5 inches. COLOR: Model 5153 has a black base with a silver switch and model 5154 has a blue base with a yellow switch.
Palmar T Bar Splint
--- "DO IT YOURSELF" ENTRY ------- PURPOSE: Customized T Bar for joystick control. A standard T bar joystick control is difficult for some people to use because their hand keeps slipping off the bar. Thermoplastic splinting materials can be used to mold a support which is attached to the top of the commercially purchased T bar. A palmar arch can be molded in and an ulnar piece for lateral support. It can be attached at an angle if required for better control. Includes drawing. SKILLS REQUIRED: T
Panda Peek-A-Boo Switch (Model 7023)
The Panda Peek-A-Boo Switch is a touch switch designed for use by children with fine motor, grasping, or upper extremity disabilities. Intended to encourage children to increase pincher grasp use, this switch activates a connected toy when the user flips open the panda's paws. This switch has suction cups for attaching to any smooth surface. DIMENSIONS(HxWxD): 3 x 7 x 5 inches.
Panda Switch (Model 9032)
The Panda Switch, model 9032, is a touch switch designed for use by children with severe physical or upper extremity disabilities or spinal cord injury. The switch is designed to fit a child’s hand and pessing on either of the panda’s ears will activate a connected device. DIMENSIONS(LxW): 3.5 x 2 inches.
Papooswitch
The PapooSwitch is a touch switch and buttonswitch designed for use by individuals with fine motor and upper extremity disabilities. This switch connects to a computer or other switch-adapted devices using a 3.5 millimeter (mm) jack (PapooSwitch A) or a USB connection (PapooSwitch B). It has a triangular base with a round button in the center. The PapooSwitch offers four features that can be turned on or off as needed: left or right click; back lighting of the round button; a beep that sounds w
Pass Panic Alarm Signaling Switch
The Pass Panic Alarm Signaling Switch is a call signal designed for use by seniors or individuals with neurological, mobility, or severe physical disabilities or spinal cord injury. This device is designed to be installed where people need to signal for help or assistance. It consists of a press-at-any-point switch strip that can be operated by the touch of a finger, hand, elbow or arm. This switch can be used in hospitals, residential care facilities or public buildings.
Patient Sentinel (Model 3130)
A signaling device to call for attendant assistance. when activated it emits a pulsing electronic tone designed to be effective in moderately noisy envirnments. Three operating modes. In two of these modes the user turns the Sentinel both on and off. The third mode permits the user to turn the Sentinel on, but requires an attendant to turn it off. Powered by an internal 9 volt battery. A flashing light on front of unit indicates when battery needs replacement. May be operated by an independent s
Paw Switch (Model 5586)
The Paw Switch is a touch switch designed for use by individuals with upper extremity disabilities. Designed to encourage bilateral hand usage, this switch offers three-way output. Activating the right or left paw-shaped switch operates one or two connected toys. To operate the third device, both switches must be activated simultaneously. DIMENSIONS(WxD): 11.5 x 5 inches. The paw-shaped plates are 3 inches.
Pc Switch Interface
The PC Switch Interface is a control input interface designed to permit switch control of a personal computer (PC). This plug-and-play unit plugs directly into any unused serial port and enables up to five switches to be connected. Four different configurations are available and can be accessed by pressing a function key. No software setup is required and the unit is compatible with any switch-ready program.
The PC Switch Interface is a control switch interface unit designed to support multiple switches and switch-ready computer programs. The unit allows the user to connect up to five switches and is designed to plug into the computer serial port. Four different configurations are offered; to switch between setups, the user presses a function key. COMPATIBILTY: For use on IBM and compatible computers.
Penny & Giles Wireless Switch
The Penny & Giles Wireless Switch is a cordless remote control switch designed for use by individuals with sever physical disabilities, spinal cord injury, or upper extremity disabilities. This angled, adjustable pressure switch communicates with a receiver without wires or cables. It has 16 available channels to allow it to be used with multiple devices in one room. The receiver can be connected to a battery-operated toy or device, or to a computer switch interface. The switch also comes wi
Penny Pincher Switch.
--- "DO IT YOURSELF" ENTRY ------- PURPOSE: Penny pincher touch switch enables a child to activate a toy or light by pinching two pennies between thumb and forefinger, and is useful in developing pincher grasp and pointing skills. Child activates battery operated toy or other device by pinching two copper pennies; when pressure is released, the switch turns off. The switch is made by soldering a subminiature plug to two strips of 5 inch conductor wire, and soldering a copper penny to the other e
Penta Switch (Model 50240)
The Penta Switch is a multiple buttonswitch designed for use by individuals with upper extremity disabilities. Intended to control any device that requires five single switches for operation, the switch unit is basically a flattened joystick. The five switches are small button switches fitted in a disk-shaped housing; consequently, a small range of motion, a light touch, and good targeting ability are required for operation. The switches require 4.5 ounces of force and 0.03 inches of travel for
Petite Pillow Switch (Model 831)
The Petite Pillow Switch, model 831, is a touch switch designed for use by individuals with severe physical or upper extremity disabilities or spinal cord injury. This switch is encased in foam and covered with a soft bag which can be removed and washed. Hook and loop tape can be sewn to the cover for special mounting situations. OPTIONS: A set of four covers with one of each color or pattern is available. COLOR: The cover is available in green or in floral, plaid, or safari patterns.
Photocell Switch (Model 790, 790-8)
Photo Cell Switch, model 790 and 790-8, is a photoelectric switch designed to be activated by any body movement for individuals with physical diabilties. The switch is activated by interrupting a light beam and creating a shadow over the electronic photocell.
Pictalk
Pictalk is a pre-reading tutorial program, a direct selection communicator and a control switch training program designed as a pre-primer for an alternative communication device for non-readers who have severe physical disabilities. The program includes a fifty-four picture vocabulary in six categories (places, things, people, action, foods, and feelings). Selection is made by scanning rows and then columns within a selected row using a single switch or the keyboard. COMPATIBILITY: For use on Ap
Pigtail Adapter
The PigTail Adapter is a switch adapter designed to allow connections between incompatible switch and appliance plugs. The adapters available include 1/8 to 1/4 or 3/32 inches; 1/4 inch to 1/8 or 3/32 inches; and 3/32 inches to 1/8 or 1/4 inches.
PikoButton 1 inch Switches
PikoButton 1 inch Switches are computer access switches with a max of 200 pounds of pressure. Gentle click and smooth travel, 1 inch activation surface, 4.4-oz. activating force, Auditory click and tactile feedback
PikoButton 1 inch Water Resistant Switches
PikoButton 1 inch Water Resistant Switches is a computer access switch that can tolerate water immersion and up to 200 pounds of force. Can be used in rain or damp areas. Features a gentle click and smooth travel, 1-inch activation surface, 4.4-ounce activating force, and auditory click and tactile feedback.
PikoButton 2 Inch Switches are computer access switches with a max of 200 pounds of pressure. Features a gentle click and smooth travel, 2 inch activation surface, 4.4-ounce activating force, and auditory click and tactile feedback.
PikoDual Switch
The PikoDual Switch is a two button switch made for heavy use. Provides auditory and tactile feedback
Pilot One
The Pilot One is a voice controlled Environmental Control Unit (ECU) designed for use by individuals with limited mobility due to Multiple Sclerosis, Spinal Cord Injuries or Strokes. Pilot One controls any infrared (IR) device in the home or facility, including TV, cable, satellite, DVD, and new technology remotes such as Roku and Apple TV. Features include, pre-programmed menu structure, IR and X-10 interfaces, voice training with no computer required, graphic display, auditory and visual feedb
Pinch Switch (Model 800)
The Pinch Switch is a squeeze switch designed to teach prehension skills for individuals with physical disabilities. The switch is small enough to be held in a child's hand and is activated by the slightest pinching or pressure.
Plastic Notebook Switch.
--- "DO IT YOURSELF" ENTRY ------- PURPOSE: Very flat switch that can be activated by light pressure on most of its surface. Can be used to activate toy or cassette player. Instructions for building a switch using an inexpensive plastic notebook, 2 large foil cookie sheets, 1 subminiature size plug and 4 feet of 2 conductor 22 gauge stranded wire, plus tapes and soldering. Includes drawings and photographs. SKILLS REQUIRED: Soldering. Assembly. AUTHOR: Burkhart, L J TITLE: More Homemade Battery
Plate Switch
The Plate Switch is a touch switch designed for use by individuals with upper extremity disabilities. This switch features a thin membrane and is activated with 1.8 ounces of pressure. A colored circle on the surface marks the pressure sensitive area. The surface is sealed to prevent moisture damage. This low-profile switch enables the finger to slide and does not provide tactile or auditory feedback on activation. DIMENSIONS: 3.5 x 3.5 x 0.2 inches. WEIGHT: 3 ounces. COLOR: Black case with a ch
The Plate Switch is a pressure switch designed to create computer access for individuals with a physical disability. This general purpose switch requires three ounces of pressure to activate and can be used with a chin or head mount. A "click" sound provides auditory feedback. Rubber feet make the switch ideal for desktop use. The switch comes with a black 69 inch cable and 3.5 millimeter plugs at either end. DIMENSIONS: Switch measures 3-7/8 x 2 x 1-1/8 inches. Jack size is 3.5 millimeters. COL
Plate Switch (Model 702A)
The Plate Switch, model 702A, is a touch switch designed for use by individuals with upper extremity disabilities. Activated by three ounces of pressure, the switch clicks on activation for audible feedback.
Plate Switch (Model Cm-10)
The Plate Switch is a touch switch designed for use by individuals with severe physical or upper extremity disabilities or spinal cord injury. This single switch is activated by pressing on the plate on top. An audible click accompanies activation. DIMENSIONS: 2.25 x 4.3 x 1 inches. WEIGHT: 4 ounces.
Plate Switch (Models 810, 820, 830, 821, 822, 823)
Plate Switch, models 810, 820, 830, 821, 822, and 823, is a touch switch designed to respond to the slightest pressure from any part of the body for individuals with physical disabilities. These switches are ergonomically designed so that the client's hand need only make the slightest movement to contact the sloping plate. Suction cups are provieded for ease of attachment to most surfaces. The 5 x 8 inch model is available with a built in latch or timer which allows the user to operate the switc
Plate Switch On Stand (Model 840)
Plate Switch on a Stand, model 840, is a touch switch designed to respond to slight movements from any body part for individuals with physical disabilities. This switch is mounted on a gooseneck with a heavy cast iron base. This switch can be positioned for use by various body parts, such as chin, nose, etc. DIMENSIONS: The switch surface measures 3 x 5 inches and the gooseneck is 19 inches long.
Platform Switch
The Platform Switch is a touch switch designed for use by individuals with upper extremity disabilities. This single switch consists of a square platform with a circular raised pad in the center. Activation requires 3.5 ounces of pressure and 0.1 inch of travel. Tactile and auditory feedback are provided. The rubber base prevents slippage. DIMENSIONS: 4.25 x 4.25 x 1 inches. WEIGHT: 4 ounces. COLOR: Beige base with a brown center pad.
Plug Adapters (Models 1160, 1170, & 1190)
Plug Adapters are switch adapters that allow different sized plugs and jacks to be compatible. There are three different adapters available: model 1160 converts 1/8-inch female to 1/4-inch male; model 1170 converts 1/4-inch female to 1/8-inch male; and model 1190 converts 3/32-inch female to 1/8- inch male.
Plump N' Puff Switch (Model 665)
The Plump N' Puff Switch, model 665, is a pneumatic touch switch designed for use by individuals with upper extremity disabilities.This large, dome-shaped switch has a soft, puffy feel and can be placed on a table or mounted on the Magic Arm System (see separate entry). DIMENSIONS: The hemisphere of the switch is 6 inches in diameter,
Pneumatic Switch
Single switch activated by sipping or puffing into a tube. Tube is attaches to housing where actual switch is located. Gooseneck length 13 inches. Plastic housing. Switch dimensions: 4 1/2 by 2 1/2 by 1 1/2 inches. Used with Hasten system 500-911.
The Pneumatic Switch is a wired multi-switch that allows the special needs user to activate up to two assistive technology devices through breath control, sip or puff.
Pneumatic Switch (Model Cm-3)
The Pneumatic Switch, model CM-3, designed for use by individuals with severe physical or upper extremity disabilities. This single switch is controlled by sipping or puffing. Any small change in air pressure in the tube (caused by pursing the lips, moving the tongue, etc.) causes the switch to be activated. Attaching two switches "piggy back" allows the user to operate two switches with a single mouth tube. DIMENSIONS: 2.25 x 1.5 x 1 inches. WEIGHT: 0.5 ounces.
Pneumatic Switch (Model Cm-3-1)
Pneumatic or sip and puff switch. Ultrasensitive control actuated by slightest mouth air pressure. Tubing connects to high port for puff, and low port for sipping. Allows user dual switch operation with single mouth tube. Four holes to accept mounting screws, adhesive pad for mounting. Operation requires 0.02 psi. DIMENSIONS: 2 x 1.5 x 0.5 inches. WEIGHT: 1/2 ounce.
Pneumatic Switch (Models 51000 & 51010)
The Pneumatic Switch is a dual switch designed to be activated by breathing through a tube for individuals with severe physical disabilities. Sipping on the switch activates one switch; puffing activates the other. This switch has an internal saliva trap which can be easily cleaned and the mouthpiece is a disposable straw. There are two models available: the Pneumatic-short (model 5100); and the Pneumatic-long with an extended tube for swivel clamp mounting (model 5105). DIMENSIONS: The short mo
Pneumatic Switch Kit
The Pneumatic Switch Kit is a pneumatic sip and puff switch designed for use by individuals with severe physical or upper extremity disabilities or spinal cord injury. The switch can be activated by squeezing the included squeeze toy or with other squeeze toys, bottles, or balls. The user also can create his or her own object-based switch. The Pneumatic Switch has a 1/8-inch plug and can be used to activate communication devices, mouse interfaces or switch-adapted toys with standard 1/8-inch jac
Pocket Technician (Model 662)
The Pocket Technician, model 662, is a control switch accessory designed to aid in determining the cause of malfunctions in switch-adapted devices. The unit tests batteries, switches, and devices. Placing an N, triple-A, double-A, C, D, or 9-volt battery in the unit will cause the meter to show the battery condition. To test a switch, the switch is plugged into the female jack; when the switch is activated and working, the unit will buzz. To test a device, the device is connected to the unit; if
Pocketmate Switch Scanning Ecu
PocketMate Switch Scanning ECU is a portable 4.5" x 3" single or dual switch scanning environmental control unit (ECU). PocketMate can be controlled by one or two ability switches. By using two switches, the user is able to navigate through options more quickly by using one switch to navigate and the other to select. PocketMate Switch Scanning ECU also provides both auditory and visual feedback making it usable for a variety of situations. This powerful, compact ECU can control over 256 function
Point It
Point It is a joystick mouse emulator designed for use by individuals with upper extremity or grasping disabilities. This USB joystick allows smooth proportional control of all mouse functions, including left click, double click, right click, drag and drop, and latching. The force required to activate the joystick is 9 ounces. The unit also has external switch jacks for users who require a larger target area for the left and right click. The unit comes with TypeMatic, an on screen keyboard progr
Pointing Training Switch.
--- "DO IT YOURSELF" ENTRY ------- PURPOSE: Board with touch switches which turn on a light, music or toy, used to train a child to point to a picture as a prerequisite to using a language board. Device takes 2 pieces of masonite or hardboard about 18 by 8 by 1/4 inches, 2 sheets of aluminum about 17 1/2 by 7 1/2 inches, 4 feet of two conductor, 22 gauge, stranded wire, 1 subminiature size plug, double sided carpet tape, masking tape and foam mounting tape or strips of foam insulation. Provides
Polytubing Flexible Straws
Polytubing Flexible Straws are products designed for those individuals with swallowing disabilities to use while drinking. This polytubing is a durable, chewable, reusable alternative to traditional straws. It is the same medical grade tubing included with other ARK products. Sold in lengths of 3 feet - trim to the user's desired length. Dishwasher-safe. Made in the USA. Accessories sold separately.
Portable Alarm (Model Pa-1)
The PA-1 Portable Alarm is an alarm unit intended for use with the "E-Z Call" (by Med Labs, see entry) nurse call switch where a central call system is not available. When the is switch plugged in the PA-1 is activated. The PA-1 emits a shrill whistle, similar to a tea kettle. POWER: 9V battery.
Possum Chin Switch
The Possum Chin Switch allows the user to control the computer via chin and head movements. The Chin Switch can be positioned any where around the neck with plastic tubing that can be cut to fit, just like a custom necklace. Multiple Chin Switches can be positioned around the same tube for users who need several access points.
Possum Compact
The Possum Compact is a remote environmental control unit designed for use by individuals with mobility disabilities, severe physical disabilities, or spinal cord injury. This unit's programmable menu functions allow remote control of household electrical appliances and security and access systems. Although most functions are controlled via infrared, a radio transmitter is also provided for emergency functions such as triggering an alarm, pager, or door opener. All programmed functions can be vi
Possum Freeway (Model Hc2000B)
The Possum Freeway, model HC2000B, is a portable environmental control unit designed for use by individuals with mobility or severe physical disabilities or spinal cord injury. This unit provides simple remote control of domestic appliances such as TV, video, stereo, lights, lamps, power sockets, alarms, intercoms, door, window and curtain openers, loud speaking telephones, and pagers. The unit has a large backlit scanning display with the option of icons or text. Functions can be changed by slo
Posture Buzzer (Model 1140)
The Posture Buzzer, model 1140, is a posture switch designed to provide posture training for individuals with physical disabilities. This miniature mercury switch sounds when a body part is tilted beyond pre-set angle. It is the size of quarter and may be worn anywhere on body.
Posture Monitor
The Posture Monitor is a biofeedback device designed to support individuals who have a limited physical control and difficulty maintaining appropriate posture due to neurological deficits. Its purpose is to promote attention given to maintaining proper trunk alignment by individuals seated in wheelchairs, thus encouraging a seated position that offers greater functionality; enhances learning, self esteem, and mobility; and improves physiological factors such as respiration, circulation and diges
Powerhouse Home
The Powerhouse Home is an environmental control system designed for use by individuals with spinal cord injury, severe physical disabilities, or upper extremity disabilities. This system enables the user to control an unlimited number of lights, appliances, heating and cooling systems, infrared devices (home entertainment components), electric beds, home security systems, X10 devices, and countless other devices by voice command. One device or groups of devices can be controlled with a single co
Powerhouse Roommate Plus
The Powerhouse Roommate Plus is an environmental control unit designed for use by individuals with spinal cord injury, severe physical disabilities, or upper extremity disabilities. This system enables the user to control virtually unlimited X-10 devices and infrared devices (home entertainment components) in a single room by voice command. No voice training is required as the sytem is speaker independent. The system also offers the ability to use the included wireless telephone headset as a mic
Powerlinc II
PowerLinc II is an evironmental control unit designed for use by individuals with severe physical disabilities and spinal cord injury. When attached to a personal computer serial port, this unit can be used to send and receive X10 commands, including advanced extended codes, using ASCII. It can also be used to send X10 commands using the original TW523 protocol, but the TW523 protocol cannot receive extended X10 codes. The unit also provides 12 volts direct current (DC) power for applications. A
Powerlink 4 Control Unit
The PowerLink 4 Control Unit is a control switch interface unit designed for use by individuals with upper extremity or neurological disabilities or cerebral palsy. This unit enables switch users to control up to two electrical appliances with single switches. Six modes of control allow the user to define exactly how, and for how long, appliances will be turned on. The unit accepts any single switch, including AbleNet’s Big or Jelly Beamer wireless switches (see separate entries). The unit is se
PowerLink4 Control Unit
The PowerLink®4 Control Unit is a switch designed to turn on up to two devices. The PowerLink® 4 control unit allows switch users to control up to two electrical appliances with single switches. Six unique modes of control allow the user to define exactly how, and for how long, appliances will be turned on. PowerLink® will accept any single switch, including the Big or Jelly Beamer wireless switches.
Prc Dual Rocking Lever Switch (Model Rl-2M)
The PRC Dual Rocking Lever Switch is a dual rocker switch designed for use by individuals with severe physical or upper extremity disabilities or spinal cord injury. This switch is operated by pressing on either end of a plate located on top of the unit, with medium force. One end of the plate activates one switch, the opposite end activates another. The housing is made of plastic and is equipped with rubber feet and a threaded hole for mounting. DIMENSIONS (LxWxH) 3.875 x 2 x 1.5 inches. WEIGHT
Prc Pneumatic Switch (Model Ps-3)
The PRC Pneumatic Switch, model PS-3, is a dual pneumatic (sip/puff) switch designed for use by individuals with severe physical disabilities or spinal cord injury. Sipping on the mouthpiece attached to a tube activates one switch; puffing on the tube activates another. The change in the air pressure in the unit is transferred down the tube to a switching unit, thereby activating the switch. OPTIONS: Set of 10 extra puff tubes. DIMENSIONS: 24 inches long.
Prc Single Rocking Lever Switch (Model Rl-1M)
The PRC Single Rocking Lever Switch is a rocker switch activated by depressing the plate on top of the device. The switch housing is made of plastic, has rubber feet on the bottom, and a threaded hole for mounting. WEIGHT: 3.9 ounces.
Prc Wobble Switch (Model Ws-1)
The PRC Wobble Switch, model WS-1, is a pressure-sensitive joystick single switch designed for use by individuals with severe physical disabilities or spinal cord injury. The switch is activated by pushing against a lever. The lever has a built-in spring and can be pushed in any direction for activation by gross movements. The switch is equipped with a threaded hole for mounting. WEIGHT: 1.8 ounces.
Pre-Writing Switch.
--- "DO IT YOURSELF" ENTRY ------- PURPOSE: A child using a metal bolt as a writing implement can activate a tape player or other device by tracing the appropriate path on a metal cookie sheet. This activity strengthens fine motor and grasping skills. Describes a motion detection switch, constructed by soldering a subminiature plug to one end of a 4 inch conductor wire and wrapping the other end tightly around a 4 inch long metal bolt. Simple paths or letters are cut from paper or cardboard and
Press To Play Zoo, Press To Play Animals, & Press To Play Speedy
Press to Play Zoo, Press to Play Animals, and Press to Play Speedy are control switch training programs designed for use by children with physical or cognitive disabilities. Operating on a cause-and-effect principle, the games can be played in four modes: In Cause-and-effect, the child presses the switch, clicks the mouse, or touches the TouchWindow (the switch and TouchWindow are not included) at any time for action; Simple Scan mode seeks to develop beginning switch training skills; Complex Sc
Pressure Switch is designed to be worn on the upper arm, lower arm, knee, etc. Pressure against the switch activates it. DIMENSIONS: 1.5 x 0.5 inches.
The Pressure Switch is a single touch switch designed for use by children with physical disabilities. The switch is activated by lightly pressing on a large plastic plate attached to a wooden base. The switch is available with a choice of a mini plug or a sub miniplug. DIMENSIONS: 7 x 10 inches.
DO IT YOURSELF ENTRY --- PURPOSE: To manufacture a simple, sturdy, dependable pressure switch in the home workshop with total cost of materials less than three dollars. The switch can be 2 to 8 inches in diameter. Lead wires are soldered to tack heads, a clear silicone is used to laminate all parts, and the switch is connected to a 1/8- or 1/4-inch jack from Radio Shack. TITLE: The Pressure Switch. WEB SITE: Workshop Solutions at http://www.workshopsolutions.com. REF: The originator, Tom Jeary,
Pressure Switch.
--- "DO IT YOURSELF" ENTRY ------- PURPOSE: Switch activated by light pressure on the top surface, sturdy enough to be sat or stood on, with a wide variety of uses, including weight bearing and cause and effect training. Switch, about 7 by 10 by 2 inches, made of masonite or hardboard, two conductor 22 gauge stranded wire, a subminiature plug, a subminiroller lever switch and foam rubber. Includes photograph, instructions and diagrams. Describes a variation (lack of pressure turns on the switch)
Pressure, Vacuum, Differential Switch (Model D1000A)
Pneumatic switch. Momentary on. Activated by low pressure air pulse. Electrical rating of air pulse switch depends on type of air pulse. Fast and large pulse causes contacts to close rapidly and allows larger electrical rating. Molded polypropylene with silicone rubber diaphragm. Gold flashed solid silver contacts. 1.65 inches high by 1.57 inches wide by 1.69 inches deep. Weight 0.9 ounces. Electrical rating: 0.5 amps, 250 volts.
Primo! Touchscreen Controller
Primo! Controller is a touchscreen environmental control module designed for use by individuals with mobility or severe physical disabilities or spinal cord injury. This module for controlling the home environment has a touch-sensitive, dynamic screen in an ergonomically styled, lightweight case. It holds up to 140 captured infrared codes as well as embedded Possum and Gewa codes in multiple menus. A library of 104 generic clear icons and text labels and 18 'get started’ device templates are inc
Profiler-Lite Mounting System
The Profiler-Lite Mounting System is a wheelchair mounting kit for communicators or switch mounting hardware. This system mounts to wheelchairs, walkers, hospital beds, strollers, or tables with square, oblong, or round tubing. This system accommodates lightweight communicators and most switches and supports up to five pounds, including pressure on the device. The unit can be mounted on the right or the left side and the universal base mount can be adjusted 360 degrees from front to back and 180
Programmable Foot Switch
The Programmable Foot Switch is designed for use by individuals with upper extremity disabilities. This programmable switch enables mouse or keyboard functions to be performed with a foot. Keyboard functions such as shift, enter or space can be remapped to and entered by one of the three foot pedals. Each pedal can also be programmed to perform macros or key sequences up to 13 characters in length. Included with the switch is Windows software which enables the unit to perform left, right, or cen
Progress star USB
The Progress star USB is designed for users with motor and cognitive disabilities. The USB transmitter can learn channels from other remote controls such as TV and video (Max 256 functions). Macros can be programmed. Two 1–function switches can be connected. The software 425328 Progress PC is part of the Progress Star and can be downloaded below for free. (The Progress PC software is not included in the product package).
Proportional Head Control
The Proportional Head Control is a powered wheelchair controller designed for use by individuals with mobility or severe physical disabilities or spinal cord injury. This headrest-based joystick enables the user to control a power wheelchair by rotating his or her head on a headrest pad. This controller is available for P&G electronic controls.
Proximity Sensor (Model Prx-101)
The Proximity Sensor, model PRX-101, is a sensor switch designed for use by individuals with severe physical or upper extremity disabilities or spinal cord injury. This single-function switch requires no touch or pressure. This proximity switch can detect something that has an electronic capacitance, such as a hand or finger up to one-quarter inch away. When used with a sensor output and a power supply, this sensor gives the user switch access to a number of components using a 1/8 mono jack. POW
The Proximity Sensor, model PRX-103, is a sensor switch designed for use by individuals with severe physical or upper extremity disabilities or spinal cord injury. This non-adjustable single-function switch requires no touch or pressure. This proximity switch can detect something that has an electronic capacitance, such as a hand or finger up to one-quarter inch away. This sensor ignores non-capacitive materials and is mountable on a headrest or tray. When used with a sensor output and a power s
Proximity Sensor (Prx-104)
The Proximity Sensor, model PRX-104, is a sensor switch designed for use by individuals with severe physical or upper extremity disabilities or spinal cord injury. This adjustable single-function switch requires no touch or pressure. This proximity switch can detect something that has an electronic capacitance, such as a hand or finger up to one-quarter inch away. This sensor ignores non-capacitive materials and is mountable on a headrest or tray. When used with a sensor output and a power suppl
Pull And Play Switch (Model 8042)
The Pull and Play Switch, model 8042, is a pull switch designed for use by individuals with severe physical or upper extremity disabilities or spinal cord injury. This switch mounts to a tabletop, wheelchair tray or bedrail for easy access. It comes with two interchangeable grips: a ball with holes and a T grip. A C-Clamp is included. DIMENSIONS (HxW): 21 x 7 inches.
Pull Switch
The Pull Switch is a single switch designed for use by individuals with physical disabilities. The switch is activated by pulling on a ring attached to a cord. The switch is designed to be suspended above the user with the ring hanging down. DIMENSIONS: 5 inches in diameter.
Pull Switch & Overhead Pull Switch (Model 850, 850-8, 780, 780-8)
Pull Switch and Overhead Pull Switch, models 850, 850-8, 780, and 780-8 are pull switches designed to enhance grasping skills for individuals who are physically disabled. They are activated by a gentle tug on a ring or ball. The Pull Switch, model 850 and 850-8 ($25), comes with suction cups for mounting and a ball. The Overhead Pull Switch, models 780 and 780-8 ($36), is mounted on a flexible gooseneck which can be attached to most surfaces via a 3-way clamp. It comes with an interchangeable ba
Pull Switch.
--- "DO IT YOURSELF" ENTRY ------- PURPOSE: Switch can be operated by a gentle pull but is also sturdy enough for a child who pulls hard. Can be suspended over a child lying on back or semi-reclined to encourage reach and grasp. Switch will activate a battery toy, light or tape recorder. Device is constructed of potato chip can with metal bottom or tennis ball can, jump rope with handle, tennis ball, metal jar lid smaller than diameter of can, rubber band, popsickle stick, 2 pieces of plastic co
Push Button (Model B225)
Button switch. Shock proof push button air actuator for use with momentary, on off and sequencing air switches. Push button is backed with a small, flexible bellow contained in a plastic cylinder and connected by means of a flexible tube to the pressure switch. Pressing the push button sends a low pressure air pulse through the tubing, activating the pressure switch. Push button contains no electrical components. Available in white, chrome, or gold finish.
Push Button Heater Control Aid
CUSTOM ADAPTATION PURPOSE: To enable an individual with rheumatoid arthritis to operate the lighting controls of a space heater. In order to light the space heater, two recessed buttons needed to be depressed simultaneously and held for several seconds. A tool was fashioned from the handles cut from a stroller. A wooden block with a slightly rounded end was glued into each handle. The user blaces the rounded blocks against the buttons while grasping the handles and using her body weight to pres
Push On / Push Off
The Push On / Push Off Switch is a switch latch designed for use by individuals with upper extremity disabilities. Pressing the plate surface once activates the device connected to the switch and it will remain activated until the plate is pressed again. This switch is equipped with a 1/8th-inch jack. DIMENSIONS: 3 x 5 inches.
Push On/push Off Module (Model 580, 580-8)
The Push On/Push Off Module is a switch adapter designed to take momentary input from a single switch and converts it to latched on/off output for a switch operated device. Activating the switch once will turn the toy or device on. It remains on until the switch is activated again. POWER: Two "D" batteries. DIMENSIONS: 6.3 x 3.8 x 2.2 inches. WEIGHT: 14 ounces.
Pushbutton Switch (Model Cm-11)
The Pushbutton Switch, model CM-11, is touch switch designed for use by individuals with severe physical or upper extremity disabilities or spinal cord injury. This switch is a single snap-action switch activated by pressing a round button located in a recess. DIMENSIONS: 2.5 x 4.3 x 1 inches with a 1.25-inch diameter recess. WEIGHT: 4 ounces.
Puzzle Switch
--- "DO IT YOURSELF" ENTRY ------- PURPOSE: When puzzle piece is placed in corresponding hole the switch is turned on. Switch operates with magnet and glass reed switch so there are no wires to get tangled or pulled loose. Switch may be used with tape recorder, battery toy, or light. Switch is made of 6 sheets of corrugated cardboard, wood glue, some type of wooden knob or spool, 2 rectangular magnets, 2 medium size glass reed switches, earphone with subminiature size plug, rosin core solder and
Quad Puff System (Model 988) & Quad Sip System (Model 988-S)
The Quad Puff System, model 988, and the Quad Sip System, model 988-S, are pneumatic switches designed for use by individual with spinal cord injury or severe physical disabilities. These units have four in-line tubes, each of which can activate a separate connected device, including wheelchair controls. Model 988 activates connected devices when the user puffs (breathes out) into the corresponding tube. Model 988-S activates connected devices when the user sips (breathes in) on the correspondin
Quad-Link Retractable Mount.
The Tarsys Quad-Link Retractable Mount is a joystick holder designed to provide wheelchair users with broader access to tables and desks. This link system allows the user to independently retract and move the joystick nine inches back from its normal driving system. It is also designed to maintain correct joystick orientation to allow the user to maneuver the wheelchair with the joystick in a fully retracted position. The link system is adjustable in order to accomodate the strength and ability
Quadjoy
Quadjoy is a mouthstick input interface designed for use by individuals with quadriplegia and other upper extremity disabilities. This four-button mouse replacement is controlled with the mouth or chin. The mouse pointer moves in the direction corresponding to the mouthstick movement, and the speed of the pointer can be adjusted by the user. Button activation can be activated with the built-in sip-and-puff switch, a connected external switch (not included), or manually with the actual joystick b
QuadMouse Mouth, Chin Or Tongue Mouse Controller
The QuadMouse is a chin, lip, or tongue switch designed for use by individuals with severe physical or neurological disabilities, upper extremity amputation, or spinal cord injury. This switch allows access to a computer or other device with a 0.25-inch movement of chin, lips, or tongue. It connects to a device using a USB port. The QuadMouse allows the user to move the pointer and click, double click and right click using the built-in secondary joystick or the included ClickAssist software. It
Quick Connector "and Module" (Model 610)
The Quick Connector "And Module", model 610, is a control switch interface unit designed to connect two switches with a toy or device for individuals with physical disabilities. Both switches must be activated simultaneously for the device to operate. One user may activate both switches, or two users may activate the switches cooperatively. The unit is equipped with a combination 0.25-inch and 1/8-inch plug.
Quick Disconnect (Models 2005, 2006, & 2032)
Quick Disconnects are switch mounting hardware that allows an entire switch mounting assembly to be removed and re-installed on a wheelchair without repositioning it. To use the quick disconnects, the user simply bends the rod to the desired position and then is able to remove and reinstall the switch without having to reposition the rod. With two units, one headswitch assembly can be quickly transferred to another wheelchair. Model 2032 is a clamp and rod assembly. Model 2005 is a push-button 5
R/c Joystick Extension
The R/C Joystick Extension is a handle extension for joystick designed to assist people with grasping or fine motor disabilities to operate any device with a joystick controller. This device consists of a metallic tube that fits over a joystick and is fastened in place using a set screw that is secured using a .0625 inch Allen wrench. SIZES: Available in lengths of 3 and 4 inches. OPTION: The .0625 inch Allen wrench necessary for installation is available with the R/C Joystick Extension for an a
Radio Control Train Set with Real Smoke Switch Toy
Radio Control Train Set with Real Smoke Switch Toy is a customizable train set that is operated by a handheld remote control that attaches to a control switch to allow kids with disabilities to control the movement of the train around the track. Highly detailed steam plastic train set with plastic locomotive that blows out smoke, two coal wagons and one oil carrier. Includes bonus figures that can be propped up and around the tracks to simulate a creative and playful setting for children!
Radio Controlled Car (Model 341)
The Radio Controlled Car, model 341, is radio controlled toy police vehicle designed to provide fun multi-sensory stimulation with its range of motion, flashing lights, and 2 siren sounds. The wireless controller will accept any Toys for Special Children capability switch (see separate entries). When the capability switch is pressed, the car spins in place. When the car is pointed in the desired direction, the switch is released to stop the spin. A second press and the switch activates the toy t
Radsounds
RadSounds is a cause and effect training program designed for use with children and teens with cognitive or upper extremity disabilities. This program causes break dancing and music to be played with switch activations. The program comes with a variety of songs and allows the user to record his or her own songs. The program features three modes to allow cause and effect to be targeted or to enable the user to be the disc jockey. This program can be accessed with a single switch, Mouseclick (see
Rainbow Switches
Rainbow Switches are colorful capability switches that only require a light touch to be activated.
Ralph The Home Assistant
RALPH the Home Assistant is an environmental control unit designed for use by individuals with spinal cord injury and severe physical disabilities. This computerized system automates a variety of home management tasks, enabling users to perform them by voice command or push-button access. The basic package includes a computer system, software, and nine controllers for wall switches, appliances, and lamps. Microphones, speakers, remote control and motion sensors, and actual configuration to be us
REACH (Remote Electronic Access & Control – Hands-Free) is an environmental control unit designed for use by individuals with upper extremity or severe physical disabilities or spinal cord injury. This system enables users to control dozens of products in the home by touching the screen, voice recognition, head mouse, or switch-scanning. For people for whom touch, voice, or head control are not options, the REACH system enables full control with slight movement of any body part. REACH scans
Reacher/Grabber
The Reacher/Grabber is designed for people with fine motors, upper extremity, and grasping disabilities. The reacher is simply operated by a flex of the wrist so no need for finger function or an ability to give a firm squeeze. The device is adjustable to your measurements (no “one-size fits no-one”) and is available in left or right hand variations.
Redlite
Optical pointer produces a focused red target pattern on a wall or any object within three feet of the user. Consists of pointer assembly 3 1/ 2 inches long and 5/8 inch in diameter, elastic handband for mounting the light, and battery pack and cable. Weighs less than a single AA battery. Operates for over 200 hours on two C alkaline cells. Mounts on a cap or on a pair of glasses. PVC construction with solid state optical element.
Reid PikStik TelescoPik Reacher, Model T3044
Reid PikStik TelescoPik Reacher is designer for people with fine motors, upper extremity, and grasping disabilities. It comes with a turn of the locking collar on the shaft. It intended to be durable, safe, and lightweight that makes it an aid to reach objects. It has an adjustable length from 30 inches to 44 inches that adapts to the need of the user.
Rejoy
The ReJoy is a powered wheelchair controller designed to enable powered wheelchairs to be controlled with a joystick positioned in the front of the seat at the midline rather than on the right or left armrest. The ReJoy utilizes a Center Drive System that consists of mounting hardware and a socket that can be mounted in three positions: in front of the seat on the center line; on the side beneath either armrest; or in the back of the wheelchair. When mounted on the side, the mast with the contro
Remote Control Outlet (Set Of 3)
The Remote Control Outlet (Set of 3) is a lighting control system designed for use by individuals with mobility or fine motor disabilities. This system is useful for operating small electrical appliances such as lamps, etc. for instant light at night, or where the electric plug socket is located in a difficult to reach place. It works on virtually any electrical device that can be plugged into a standard outlet. This set includes three plug-in receivers and two hand-held remote controls. With a
Replacement Air Control Valve
Air control valve 2, 3 or 4 way. Has two 1/8 - 27 N.P.T. input port holes and one output hole.
Replogle Globes 39870 Intelliglobe II, 12 inch, Black
Rhythm Generator (Model 590, 590-8)
Rhythm Generator, model 590 and 590-8, is a switch adapter designed to control the rate of the rhythm of switches for individuals with physical disabilities. The Rhythm Generator is connected between the switch and the toy. When the switch is activated, the musical toy turns on and off in a regular rhythm. When the switch is released the toy stays off. The speed of the rhythm is adjustable by simply turning a knob.
Ribbon Switch (Model 1475)
Single switch actuator. Flat, flexible strip switch available in six or twelve inch lengths. Operated by applying pressure at any point along its length. Six foot cable with miniature plug. Attaches to any upholstered surface with plastic adhesive.
Right Hand Crossover Signal Controls
The Right Hand Crossover Signal Control is designed for drivers who have lost either their arm, or the use of it. The signal control allows a person to use a single knob to move the steering wheel and access both control signals on one side of their car. The design is unique compared to traditional crossover, in that the clamping design will not come loose on tapered shaft signal arms, will not cause damage to the arm, and can be moved efficiently from one vehicle to another. Additionally, the c
Righting Device For Juvenile.
--- "DO IT YOURSELF" ENTRY ------- PURPOSE: Device encourages a child with cerebral palsy to hold head upright by turning on a television set or radio when the head is in the desired position, and turning it off when the head tilts forward. Control box with an electrical outlet switchable by a mercury contact switch is attached to a child's head so that holding the head upright or tilting it forward turns a radio or television on or off. Includes photograph. COMMENTS: For further information con
--- "DO IT YOURSELF" ENTRY ------- PURPOSE: Device to provide feedback for person having difficulty keeping head upright. A mercury switch is attached to the user's head in the desired "on" position. The switch is attached to a control box. Any 110 volt appliance such as a radio is plugged into the control box and the device turns off when the head moves from the desired position and the switch is no longer in the on position. SKILLS REQUIRED: Electronics. AUTHOR: TITLE: Cerebral Palsy Research
Rocker Switch (Model 51050)
The Rocker Switch, model 51050, is designed for use by individuals with upper extremity disabilities. This switch is designed to operate devices requiring two switch closures for operation. Activation is accomplished by pressing on any part of the surface on each side; center targeting is not required. Activation requires 4.5 ouncs of pressure and 0.1 inch travel. Tactile and auditory feedback is provided and the rubber base prevents slipping. OPTIONS: Adapters are available separately to enable
Rocket Switch (Model 1676)
The Rocket Switch, model 1676, is a touch or pull switch designed for use by individuals with severe physical or upper extremity disabilities or spinal cord injury. The user pushes the fingerholds or pulls the bead chains and the soft propeller roars into action while the vibrating rocket lights up and plays music. A connected toy or device is also activated. POWER: Uses 4 double-A batteries. DIMENSIONS (LxWxH): 6 x 6 x 9.5 inches.
Rocking Plate Switch (Model 860, 860-8, 870, 870-8)
The Rocking Plate Switch, models 860, 860-8, 870, 870-8, rocker switch designed to be a dual switch for individuals who are physically disabled. Two toys or devices can be independently activated with the see-saw action. Pressing one end activates one switch; pressing the other end activates the second. Suction cup feet are provided for stability. DIMENSIONS: 4 x 12 inches or 3 x 6 inches.
Rod Adapters (Models 2070, 2071, & 2072)
The Rod Adapters are switch mounting hardware designed to aid in attaching switches to wheelchairs or workstations. Model 2070 is 0.25-inch to 3/8-inch rod to 0.25-inch 20 F thread. Model 2071 is 3/8-inch to 0.5-inch rod to 0.25 20 F thread. Model 2072 is 0.5-inch to 5/8-inch rod to 0.25-inch 20 F thread.
Roll And Swipe Switches (Models 3401, 3402, & 3403)
Roll and Swipe Switches (RASS) are touch switches designed for use by individuals with severe physical or upper extremity disabilities or spinal cord injury. These switches can be activated either by slightly rolling the hand half an inch up the edge of the colorful switch or swiping at the animal in the center. These switches are available with a choice of two bees (sting switch, model 3402), a flying insect (flutter switch, model 3401), or a giraffe (long neck switch, model 3403) in the center
Roller Ii Joystick
The Roller II Joystick is a joystick designed for use by individuals with fine motor and upper extremity disabilities. It has three buttons and three switch ports with matched color coding. It has a USB connector with a PS2 adapter. COMPATIBILITY: For use with IBM and compatible and Apple Macintosh computers. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: USB or PS2 port.
Roller Switch Music Box (Model 880)
The Roller Switch Music Box, model 880, is a wooden cylinder switch designed to play music or act as a switch for individuals who are have physcial, cognitive or sensory disabilities. When a toy or appliance is attached, it will turn on when the cylinder is rolled in either direction. The switch will play music when no device is attached. POWER:Uses two double-A batteries. DIMENSIONS (LxWxH): 8.75 x 5.25 x 2 inches.
Round Flange (Model 2003)
Round Flange, model 2003, is switch mounting hardware designed to aid in attaching switches to wheelchairs and workstations. This flange is 5/8-inch 27 female. DIMENSIONS: The base is 1.75 inches in diameter.
Round Pad Switch (Model 58050)
The Round Pad Switch, model 5805, is a touch switch designed to require a large force to activate for individuals who are not able to control their strength. It can be activated by pressing anywhere on the top surface with any part of the body including head, cheek, finger, hand, or foot. Activation requires 6.5 ounces of pressure and 0.6 inches of travel. DIMENSIONS: 3.25 diameter x 0.5 inches. WEIGHT: 4 ounces.
Round Peg Board (Model 852, 852-8)
The Round Peg board, model 852 and 852-8, is a puzzle switch designed enhance visual-motor tasks for individuals who have cognitive, sensory or physical disabilities. The puzzles introduce basic cognitive concepts, improve fine motor skills and develop order and sequencing skills which are important building blocks for logical thinking and organization. The unit consists of a round wooden base with 6 round cutouts, and 6 red, wooden pegs. When all 6 pegs are in place, any device connected to it
Safe-Laser System (Model Sls-100)
The Safe-laser System, model SLS-100, is an optical pointer and keyboard designed for use by individuals with severe physical or neurological disabilities, stroke, or spinal cord injury. The system includes the Safe-laser Keyboard, the uPoint safe-laser, a headband for wearing the laser, USB and audio cables, configuration software, and a charger. The specialized keyboard enables a person to access a computer through head movement when the laser is worn on the head. The laser can also allow the
Safeguard Personal Alert System
The Safeguard Personal Alert System is a call signal designed for use by individuals with mobility, communication, or severe physical disabilities or who are deaf or hard of hearing. The system is for at-home communication by users who require assistance for comfort, food, medication, or other non-emergency situations. This vibrating and chime call system includes a wireless pendant and a monitor which are as small as a credit card and can be used indoors and outdoors. The signal can transmit up
Sam (Switch-Adapted Mouse) Trackball
SAM is designed to provide adapted computer access for individuals with upper extremity disabilities. These modified pointing devices are designed for both "Adaptive" and "Non-Adaptive" software applications. The switch is a substitute for the track ball and can be operated with various parts of the body, such as hands, feet, knees, elbows, head, etc. It serves as a switch interface for special software "looking" for the mouse-click as single switch; and allows cooperative control of conventiona
Saucer Switch, Adjustable Pressure Saucer Switch, & Latch Timer Saucer Switch (Models 718, 718-A, & 718-X)
The Saucer Switch, Adjustable Pressure Saucer Switch, and Latch Timer Saucer Switch, models 718, 718-A, and 718-X, are touch switches designed for use by individuals with fine motor, neurological, upper extremity, or severe physical disabilities. The Saucer Switch (model 718) is activated with just a light touch. The Adjustable Pressure Saucer Switch (model 718-A) allows the user to adjust the pressure from approximately 0.5 to 32 ounces and has a small LED lamp that glows when the switch is act
Say It Play It (Models 1313, 1399, 1399-8, 3056, & 3056-8)
Say It Play It is a touch switch designed for use by individuals with upper extremity and communication disabilities. Model 1313 is a single plate switch which, when pressed, activates a toy or appliance (not included) connected to it, as well as a 20-second message that can be recorded as often as needed. Models 1399 and 1399-8 are two-plate rocker switches that activate a toy or appliance while playing a five-second message. Models 3056 and 3056-8 are Cheap Talk Four Inline (see also separate
Scan It - Switch It
Scan It--Switch It is a scanning symbol communicator program and control switch training program designed to teach horizontal and vertical scanning using a single switch or TouchWindow (see separate entry) to 1 to 4 people with disabilities. Instruction progresses through five levels of difficulty from capturing a single object to using scanning to match objects. Users may select from 10 objects, using 1 to 3 boxes. Boxes may be large or small, and may be vertical or horizontal. The program allo
Scanning Aid.
--- "DO IT YOURSELF" ENTRY ------- PURPOSE: Device to evaluate a person's optimal ability to operate a scanning device. A simple adapter unit provides access to many commercially available switches. The user can compare the use a wide selection of switches. The device can scan in three modes: step scan, directed scan, or latching scan. Speed can be adjusted. the evaluation device has five display panels to scan through during each evaluation session. Plexiglass cover can be removed to change ite
Scanning Ultra 4 (Model 34146)
The Scanning Ultra 4, model 34146, is an environmental control switch module designed to enable individuals with upper extremity disabilities to use four single switches (not included) or a single switch (not included) with scanning to operate up to four devices connected to the Ultra 4 Environmental Control System (see separate entry). This unit provides visual scanning feedback as well as an auditory beep for each activation. The unit can be mounted to suit the user's needs. POWER: Uses batter
Scholastic Counting Money Hands-On Learning Puzzle Set
The Scholastic Counting Money Hands-On Learning Puzzle Set is designed for those individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder to teach and reinforce early math skills. Comes with 20 self-checking five-piece puzzles that feature a center-piece and four matching puzzle pieces. Unique die cuts on each puzzle for self-correction. These puzzles are easy for small hands to manipulate. Includes an activity guide.
School Smart Youth Backpack with Pocket and Hidden Zipper, 14.5 X 9.8 X 6 in, Vinyl, Clear
Sensi-Ball Switch (Models 643 & 643-S)
The Sensi-Ball Switch is a squeeze switch designed for use by individuals with severe physical and upper extremity disabilities. The surface of this squeezable ball switch is covered with bumps to create a somatosensory experience and encourage the user to activate the switch. Model 643 is a switch only and activates a connected toy or device when the ball is squeezed. Model 643-S activates music, lights, and vibrations when the ball is squeezed. POWER: Uses six double-A batteries(not included).
Sensitrac Flat Pad
The Sensitrac Flat Pad is a suction pad mounting system designed for use by individuals with spinal cord injury or neurological disabilities, upper extremity disabilities, or fine motor disabilities. This micro pad can be used to hold ABLENet switches, buttons, touch pads and small communication devices up to 6 inches wide with flat bottoms. It can also be used to stop devices from moving when a user with uncontrolled movement hits the device. The pad consists of a hard plastic cover with Velcro
Sensitrac Flat Pad With 180 Degree Flipper Arm
The Sensitrac Flat Pad with 180 Degree Flipper Arm is a suction pad system with an adjustable angle mounting arm designed for use by individuals with communication, neurological, or upper extremity disabilities or spinal cord injury. This micro suction pad system is designed to hold switches and lightweight devices that require vertical mounting for better access. This mount can accommodate devices up to 6 x 6 inches and weighing up to two pounds. The arm adjusts 180 degrees front to back. The d
Sensitrac Flat Pad With 360 Degree Angle Adjustable Arm
The Sensitrac Flat Pad with 360 Degree Angle Adjustable Arm is a suction pad system with an adjustable-angle mounting arm designed for use by individuals with communication, neurological, or upper extremity disabilities or spinal cord injury. This micro suction pad system is designed for switches and lightweight devices that require multiple positioning angles for better access. It can hold devices measuring up to 6 x 6 inches and weighing up to two pounds. The arm adjusts 360 degrees around and
Senso Dot Switches
Senso Dot Switches are tactile and visually stimulating switches which allows user to have somatosensory experience while using these switches.
Sensor Switch (Model 722)
The Sensor Switch, model 722, is a motion detection switch designed for use by individuals with spinal cord injuries, severe physical disabilities,or upper extremity disabilities. Activated by controlled small muscle movement, the switch consists of a control box with two sensor pads connected to it. The sensors can be placed on the forehead, under fingers, on work surfaces, on a headrest, or wherever the user can best control them. The sensitivity of the switches can be adjusted to increase or
Sensor Switch Kit (Model 1066)
The Sensor Switch Kit, model 1066, is a motion detection switch designed for use by individuals with upper extremity and physical disabilities. This switch can be used to operate one or two devices and allows the sensors to be placed where the user has the most control. The sensitivity of the switch can be adjusted to increase or decrease the amount of movement required for switch activation. A light and audible tone provide feedback when a switch closure is made. This switch operates in momenta
Sensory Autism Toothbrush For Kids
The bA1 Health - Sensory Autism Toothbrush For Kids - Special Needs 3 Sided Toothbrush - 360 Surround Toothbrush (Complete Coverage) - Easy, Fun, and Quick Solution for Sensitive Gums and Teeth is designed for those individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder and upper extremity disabilities to help them brush their teeth thoroughly. Its soft bristles offer an easier, faster and more complete access to all teeth without the struggle. Works with braces and includes a tongue scraper to freshen breat
Sensory Plate & Switch (Model 885, 885-8)
The Sensory Plate and Switch, model 885, is a sensory integration activity, touch switch, and adapted music box designed for individuals who require exceptional sensory input. The base has bead chains across an unbreakable plastic mirror which vibrates and plays music when touched. The unit can also be used as an external switch without vibration and music when connected to a toy or device. It comes with the standard 0.25 inch plug an d jack or with 1/8 inch plug and jack. DIMENSIONS: 5 x 8 inch
Senswitcher
SENSwitcher is a control switch training program designed for use with young children with severe disabilities. Designed to be a progressive teaching and assessment tool, the program offers 132 animated activities which can be accessed using a wide range of input devices. The activities focus on cause and effect, switch building, timed activation, targeting, and row scanning skills. The program includes 18 pages of teacher's notes, assessment records, developmental skills progresion models, and
Series Adapter
The Series Adapter is a double touch switch designed for use by individuals with upper extremity disabilities. This switch requires simultaneous activation of both switches to operate any battery-powered device or electrical appliance. The adapter may be used to encourage cooperative interaction between two individuals; reinforce the simultaneous use of two different motor movements (e.g. bilateral hand activity); or to provide adult-controlled reinforcement. DIMENSIONS: 8 inches long. WEIGHT: 1
Shape Switch (Models 940 & 950)
The Shape Switch is a touch switch designed for use by individuals with upper extremity, cognitive, fine motor, or neurological disabilities. This switch has an impression in the top to accept a specific shape; when the correct shape is placed in the impression, an attached toy or appliance is activated. The sets include the switch and the corresponding shape(s) with a handle on each shape. Model 940 has two shapes and model 950 has three shapes.
Shape Switch/music Box (Model 900, 910 & 920)
The Shape Switch/Music Box (models 900, 910, and 920) are puzzle switches designed to enhance visual-motor tasks for individuals who have cognitive, sensory or physical disabilities. The puzzles introduce basic cognitive concepts, improve fine motor skills and develop order and sequencing skills which are important building blocks for logical thinking and organization. They also teach individuals to distinguish colors, shapes, and sizes. Each can work as a stand-alone device or as an external sw
Short Leaf Switch (Model Cm-7-1)
The Short Leaf Switch, mode CM-7-1, is a lever switch designed for use by individuals with severe physical or upper extremity disabilities or spinal cord injury. The silent, flexible lever is encased in a soft vinyl sleeve. The switch is normally open and is actuated by deflection of the lever. It remains closed until the deflection force is removed. This switch can be operated by any part of body. Operation requires 4 ounces of force and travel of 3/16 inch. DIMENSIONS: 3.75 x 1.75 x 0.5 inch.
Sicare Light Ii
The SiCare Light II is an environmental control unit designed for use by individuals with mobility or severe physical disabilities or spinal cord injury. This portable unit converts spoken commands into infrared (IR) signals to control devices such as television, telephone, lights, doors, and other IR and X-10 devices. The user can also enter commands though dual- or single-switch scanning. The unit has 15 pre-set command menus including television, bed, satellite, light, and device. Voice feedb
Signalling Device.
--- "DO IT YOURSELF" ENTRY ------- PURPOSE: Signalling device, allowing a nonvocal person with limited hand and arm movement to signal for assistance. Can be activated using a headstick. Lists hardware needed and provides diagrams for constructing a signaling device, developed for use in a workshop. It can be made to activate both a full bell and a clatter signal. COMMENTS: For information contact: George Hardman, Vocational Education for the Handicapped, Stevens Point Area Public Schools, 1201
Simple Kitchen Switch
--- "DO IT YOURSELF" ENTRY ------- PURPOSE: Touch switch enables child to activate tape player, toy or other device by pushing against or batting at the egg whipper or metal can. A simple kitchen switch is constructed by suspending an egg whipper in the center of a soup or other metal can that has had both ends removed. Thread a 6 inch piece of conductor wire through the handle of the egg whipper and solder in place. Attach a subminiature plug to the other end of the wire. Suspend the egg whippe
Simplicity All-In-One Voice & Switch Activated Environmental Control Unit (Model 9164)
The Simplicity All-In-One (AIO) Voice & Switch Activated Environmental Control Unit model 9164, is an environmental control unit designed for use by individuals with mobility or severe physical disabilities or spinal cord injury. This unit operates through either voice or switch input, and has features from the Simplicity Switch and Simplicity Voice Environmental Control Units (see separate entries). It can be used to control lights, appliances, beds, infared remote control devices such as T
Simplicity Switch Activated Environmental Control Unit
The Simplicity Switch Activated Environmental Control Unit is an environmental control unit designed for use by individuals with mobility disabilities, severe physical disabilities, or spinal cord injury. It enables users to control their environment with any switch, such as a pneumatic switch or button/key pads. The unit can be used with lights, appliances, bed controls, infrared remote controls, and for control of computer audio output. The unit also provides verbal feedback, calling out the s
Simplicity Voice Activated Environmental Control Unit (Model 9161)
The Simplicity Voice Activated Environmental Control Unit, model 9161, is an environmental control unit designed for use by individuals with mobility or severe physical disabilities or spinal cord injury. This unit operates through voice input and can be used to control lights, appliances, beds, infared remote control devices such as TVs or VCRs, and other devices such as nurse calls, door openers, and page turners. It can also be used to control a voice-input computer mouse or keyboard. POWER:
The SimplyWorks Switch 125 is a low profile, large diameter wireless switch that can be used with any of the SimplyWorks receivers to give switch, mouse or keyboard functions. The large diameter of the SimplyWorks Switch 125 measures 4.9 inches in diameter and is designed so that the switch will operate across the whole area, with minimal operating force. POWER: Wireless receiver. DIMENSIONS: 4.9 inches diameter. COLOR: Red, yellow, green or blue. WARRANTY/GUARANTEE: As stated by the manufacture
Simplyworks For Ipad
SimplyWorks for iPad is a Bluetooth Switch Interface designed for advanced switch users who wish to use the main features of Apple devices and access iBooks. It allows the users to access the home screen, adapted apps and iBooks. Icons or items on the home screen and within most main apps are scanned with a highlight box. Automatic scanning can be conducted with one, two or three switches. Step scanning can be achieved with four switches. There are four scanning speeds. Full access to iBooks req
Single Sensor Switch
The Single Sensor Switch is an motion activated sensor and eyebrow switch designed for use by individuals with severe physical or neurological disabilities or spinal cord injury. This switch's sensor is attached to a person's forehead or eyebrow, elsewhere on the head, or to another part of the body. The user activates the switch by moving the part of body to which the sensor is attached, such as raising the eyebrow. The round sensor responds to slight changes in pressure, including twitches and
Single Switch Assessment Kit (Model 65994)
The Switch Assessment Kit, model 65994, is a control switch assessment system designed for testing and evaluating individuals with physical disabilities. This Assessment Kit includes 17 different single switches, a single switch tester, two toy cables, one SCATIR switch, a carrying case and the Tash Switch Training CD.
Single Switch Latch And Timer (Slat)
The Single Switch Latch and Timer (SLAT) is a combination switch latch and switch timer unit designed to enable individuals with upper extremity disabilities to control one battery-operated toy, game, or appliance. This unit offers a choice of functions: In switch latch mode, one touch activates the device and the next turns it off. In timer mode, the timer can be set to activate the device for a set number of seconds or minutes. When the time on the timer expires, the device turns off.
Sip / Puff Switch
The Puff Switch is a pneumatic switch designed to enable individuals with severe physical or upper extremity disabilities or spinal cord injury to operate switch-adapted devices with breath control. The switch is equipped with two 1/8-inch mono jacks. OPTIONS: Flexible stand with tubing. DIMENSIONS: The cord on the switch is 48 inches long.
Sip / Puff Switch With Headset
The Head Mounted Sip/Puff Switch is a pneumatic switch designed for use by individuals with upper extremity, neurological, or severe physical disabilities or spinal cord injury. The Sip/Puff Switch is a head mounted accessory used to actuate a two-position switch by a simple sip or puff. It can be used directly with the HeadMouse Extreme (see entry), connected to the Wireless Switch Transmitter (see entry), or used with any switch-activated device, such as environmental control systems, communic
Sip And Puff Switch (Model 960, 960-8)
The Sip and Puff Switch, model 960, is a pneumatic switch designed to beused by sipping or puffing for individuals with severe physical disabilities. It consists of a white base and two separate tubes. The switch will activate a toy or other device by either sipping or puffing through the appropriate tube.
Sip And Puff Switch - Double Closure (Model 970)
The Sip and Puff Double Closure Switch, model 970, is a pneumatic switch designed for use by individuals with severe physical disabilities or spinal cord injury. This switch is used to activate two toys or devices with a single switch. Sipping on the tube activates one device, while puffing on the same tube activates a second. The switch is mounted on a gooseneck with a 3-way mounting clamp. OPTIONS: Set of 6 anti-contamination filters (977); package of 20 straws (960-S). DIMENSIONS: Gooseneck i
Sip And Puff System
The Sip & Puff System is a pneumatic control switch interface unit designed for use by individuals with neurological, upper extremity or severe physical disabilities, amputation, cerebral palsy, or quadriplegia. The system has a breath delivery system and a controller. The breath delivery system has a quick disconnect design with a small flexible gooseneck that may be adjusted to any position to be within easy reach of the user's mouth. This system will interface with all wheelchairs and to
Sixpack Switch
The SixPack is a touch switch designed for use by people with fine motor, neurological, severe physical or upper extremity disabilities. The SixPack has a grid of 6 built-in pressure switches, each measuring 2 x 1.75 inches, arranged in 2 rows of 3 switches each. Each pressure switch requires 1.25 ounces of force to be activated. The SixPack can function as an adapted mouse through a computer switch interface, or it can act as six compact external switches to activate a communication aid. The Si
SLAT Receiver
SLAT Receiver is a a Switch Latch and Timer (SLAT) that allows the user to plug the 1/8-inch/3.5-millimeter mono switch plug into a device and pair with a wireless switch transmitter to begin using. Includes four modes of control: Direct, Timed Seconds, Timed Minutes, and Latch.
Sleep Vip Transcend Travel Cpap (Sku 12Nst 100)
The SleepVIP Transcend Travel Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) machine is designed for use by individuals who live with sleep apnea. Small and portable. Universal Hose Adaptor. Portable battery-powered. Vibration-free blower As for compliance reporting, this CPAP system is email-capable. Apnea-Hypopnea Index (AHI) and leak detection. 13 months of data storage on device and downloadable onto Universal Series Bus (USB). E-mail address and prescription required for purchase. Operating pre
Slide Projector Switch.
--- "DO IT YOURSELF" ENTRY ------- PURPOSE: Kodak Carousel projectors have a remote control switch that can be modified for use with severely disabled persons. Switch can be activated be a cheek, chin, or other body part to change pictures on a screen that is positioned within visual range. Device is made from Kodak Carousel projector with remote control switch, round lid from a plastic food container 4 to 5 inches in diameter and a sturdy piece of string. COMMENTS: This projector is not battery
Slide Toy And Plate Switch (Model 1670)
The Slide Toy and Plate Switch, model 1670, is a switch operated toy and touch switch set designed for use by children with upper extremity disabilities. This set includes one of an assortment of slide toys (Penguin Roller Coaster, Jungle Friends, Circus Seals, [see separate entries], or others) adapted for switch use and a Plate Switch. DIMENSIONS: The Plate Switch is 5 x 8 inches.
Small Bright Plate Switch
The Small Bright Plate Switch is a touch switch designed to activate toys and appliances for individuals with upper extremity disabilities. This switch features a bright plate on a dark base to assist users with visual disabilities. The switch activates with slight pressure on the plate and the sensitivity can be adjusted using the screws on the face plate. The switch can be used with any switch-adapted toy or appliance with a 1/8th-inch jack. DIMENSIONS: 3 x 5 inches. COLOR: Bright yellow plate
Small Talk (Model 4201)
The Small Talk is a direct selection communicator designed for use by children and adults with communication disabilities. Pushing the round plate activates a pre-recorded. The device offers 20 seconds of recording time and it is also equipped with a switch jack to enable a connected device to be activated with the message. POWER: Uses four triple-A batteries. DIMENSIONS (LxWxH): 4 x 5 x 3 inches. The activation area is 2.5 inches. COLOR: Black base with a choice of a red, blue, green, yellow, o
Smart Phone Bed Shaker
The Smart Phone Bed Shaker Clock is designed for users who are elderly, heavy sleepers, hard of hearing, deaf and more. The device is a wireless shaker module with power cube that connects to a smart phone. Just download alarm clock application and simply pair to a smartphone or tablet. App controls alarm, timer and clock functions.
Smart Phone Docking Station with Speaker
The Smart Phone Docking Station with Speaker is designed for users who are elderly, heavy sleepers, hard of hearing, deaf and more. This compact quality 2-in-1 Wireless Speaker and Phone Stand has touch-sensitive controls, wireless and audio (port) connections, memory pairing capability, two-way USB port-- plays and charges at same time. Rechargeable Li-ion battery provides up to ten hours of play time with a 5V battery. Battery charging time 3-4 hours. Download the free App for numerous functio
Smart Video Foot Pedal
The Smart Video Foot Pedal is a foot pedal designed for use by individuals with low vision. It enables the user of Beyond Sight's Visionary PC computer-linked desktop CCTV/video magnifiers (see separate entries) to switch between viewing personal computer (PC) output and viewing enlarged text and other magnified images from the CCTV camera.
Smarthome Manager Plus Cd-Rom (Model 1132Cdp)
The Smarthome Manager Plus CD-ROM, model 1132CDP, is a environmental control and home automation program designed for use by individuals with physical or mobility disabilities. It includes a suite of software tools that allow the user to automate, manage, and monitor a home. When coupled with an interface device, such as the Smarthome PowerLinc Controller USB (not included), this software provides total home control. The user can set up time and conditional events for a room or the whole house.
Smoothie 125 Switch
The Smoothie 125 is a low profile, 125mm diameter switch, meant for more comfortable switching. The Smoothie 125 switches are designed so that the switch will operate across the whole area, with minimal operating force and provide tactile feedback. POWER: Examples: USB/Power cord. COLOR: Red, yellow, green or blue. DIMENSIONS: 4.9 inches diameter. WARRANTY/GUARANTEE: As stated by the manufacturer.
Smoothie Switches
The Smoothie Switches is a low profile switch that requires minimal force to activate. It is angled towards the user to allow activating without lifting their hand, making it usable for users with limited movement to press. It operates over the whole switch area (lowest operating point of the switch is only 0.4 inch above the switch base). It provides auditory and tactile feedback. It can mounted with recessed holes for added convenience.
Snap Switch Caps (Models 1-Sjb And 1-Sbr)
Snap Switch Caps are touch switch accessories designed for use by individuals with upper extremity or communication disabilities. These caps allow communication or labeling symbols to be placed and protected on touch switches. The clear, semi-rigid plastic covers enable unobstructed viewng of labels and symbols. Beacause the labels fit under the snap-on lids, no adhesives are required and labels and symbols may be changed as needed. SIZES: Model 1-SJB is small and designed for use with Jelly Be
Snappy Switch
The Snappy Switch is a squeeze switch designed for use by individuals with upper extremity and severe physical disabilities. This switch is a soft foam rubber handle activated by a grasping motion of the hand. An attached elastic loop secures the switch to the hand. The switch requires low activation force and tactile feel.
Sniff Controller
---- PROTOTYPE --------- PURPOSE: To design a prototype of a sniff controller for individuals with paralytis and disabilities ranging from quadriplegia to “locked-in-syndrome.” Individuals who are paralyzed from the neck down may be able to guide their movements by sniffing into tubes. The nerve regions that receives signals from the roof the mouth/soft palate that control the ability to sniff are often unaffected by paralytic injuries and disorders. The scientists at the Weizmann Institute of S
Snug Kids Earmuffs/Hearing Protectors – Adjustable Headband Ear Defenders For Children and Adults (Purple)
Snug Kids Earmuffs/Hearing Protectors – Adjustable Headband Ear Defenders For Children and Adults (Purple) are noise canceling headphones designed for children with sensory processing disorder to help them maintain their behaviors and emotions. Good for blocking noise caused by large crowds, airports, sporting events, garden and household tools or any other troublesome noise or sound. Low profile clam design keeps the muffs safe and secure on little ears. Lightweight and comfortable to suit youn
Soap Dish Switch
"DO IT YOURSELF" ENTRY --- PURPOSE: To enable individuals with severe physical or upper extremity disabilities to operate switch-adapted toys or devices. To make this switch, drill two 3/16-inch diameter holes in the top of the soap dish. Drill matching holes in the Plexiglas or other material to be used for the paddle top of the switch. Drill one 7/16-inch diameter hole in the top of the soap dish for the switch. Drill a quarter-inch diameter hole in the center of one end of the soap dish botto
Soft Shaggy Switch
The Soft Shaggy Switch is a textured computer access switch that only requires slight pressure to activate it.
Soft Switch (Models 58200 & 58210)
The Soft Switch is a touch switch designed for use by individuals with upper extremity disabilities. This single switch is enclosed in foam and covered with a removable, washable velvet bag to cushion the force of activation and prevent switch damage. Activation requires 28 ounces of force and tactile and auditory feedback is provided on activation. DIMENSIONS: 3.5 inches diameter. WEIGHT: 2 ounces. COLOR: Red (model 58200) or green (model 58210).
Softline Collar & Bridge Kit (Model 32685)
The Softline Collar & Bridge Kit, model 32685, is a control switch accessory for mounting hardware designed to secure and position wheelchair controls for the user. The device includes a breastplate with a bridge assembly, including plastic spacers to help position the control unit at the proper distance from the breastplate. The kit is designed to be configured and attached in any way that best suits the user with any or all of the following included pieces: 2 trimable hook-n-loop straps, 4
Softtouch Favorites
SoftTouch Favorites is a cognitive skills tutorial program designed for use by young children through teens with cognitive or multiple disabilities. This CD-ROM program offers verses and animation from a variety of age-appropriate favorite songs for those needing reinforcement for cognitive skills or for those learning to use a switch. A press and hold feature requires students to press and hold a switch for a song to play. If the switch is released, the song will pause until the switch is press
Somatosensory Musical Bead Chain/switch (Model 357)
The Somatosensory Musical Bead Chain/Switch, model 357, is a cause and effect training activity, auditory stimulation activity, and contact switch designed for use by children with severe physical disabilities. This unit works as a switch or as an independent toy. Bead chains hang in front of a metal bar. Moving the beads to make contact with the bar turns on a built-in music box. The music stays on as long as the beads are making contact with the metal bar. Playing with this bead chain switch p
Sound Activated Switch (Model 1051)
The Sound Activated Switch, model 1051, is a voice input control switch designed for use by individuals with severe physical or upper extremity disabilities or spinal cord injury. This ultra-sensitive switch responds to a whisper or a loud clap. The sound threshold level to which the switch will respond can be set for the user, as can the length of time the switch will stay on after the initial activation. In the latching mode, the first sound will activate a switch closure and the second will d
Space-A-Tron (Model 1677)
Space-A-Tron, model 1677, is a battery operated toy designed for use by children with severe physical disabilities. The slightest touch on the clear dome sets lights spinning through space while music plays. The toy can also be used as a switch to activate a connected device. POWER: Uses four C batteries (not included). DIMENSIONS: 8 x 7.5 inches.
Speak4Use
Speak4Use is an environmental control system and voice input and environmental control program designed for people who are blind or have low vision or who have mobility disabilities. It is designed to provide wireless voice control of a person's computer as well as environmental, communications and entertainment systems that are connected to the computer. After installing the Speak4Use (S4U) software on a computer, the user adds the S4U Environment Controller (included) which provides the voice
Special Switch Mounting Kit (Model 2100)
The Special Switch Mounting Kit, model 2100, is switch mounting hardware designed to aid in mounting and positioning switches on workstations and wheelchairs. This kit includes a Wheelchair Mounting Clamp with Rod, two microphone tubes, a Circular Switch Mounting Plate, a Rectangular Switch Mounting Plate, and three lengths of gooseneck (see separate entry). DIMENSIONS: The Rod is 3/8 inch in diameter x 18 inches long. The microphone tubes are 5/8 inch in diameter x 6 inches long. The gooseneck
Specs Switch
The Specs Switch is a button or touch switch designed to control battery- or electrically-powered devices, appliances, or toys for individuals with upper extremity disabilities. This switch three interchangeable bases for flexible mounting. Included are the flange base, the flush base, and the strap adaptable base.OPTIONS: A round mounting plate is available for AbleNet's Slim Armstrong and Universal Switch Mounting System (see separate entries). DIMENSIONS: The switch is 1-3/8 inch in diameter.
Sphero BOLT App-Enabled Educational Coding Robot Ball
The Sphero BOLT App-Enabled Educational Coding Robot Ball is an educational product designed for children with learning disabilities to learn how to code. Children can code this app-enabled robotic ball and take it for a spin. Experience the endless opportunities to be creative and have fun while learning. BOLT is Sphero’s most advanced app-enabled robotic ball to date, providing more tools to express the user’s creative ideas and has more ways to experience the power of programming. BOLT’s 8 x
Sphero BOLT App-Enabled Educational Coding Robot Ball, Pack of 15
The Sphero BOLT App-Enabled Educational Coding Robot Ball, Pack of 15 is a set of educational aids designed for children with learning disabilities to experience creative learning. Children can code this app-enabled robotic ball and take it for a spin. BOLT is Sphero’s most advanced app-enabled robotic ball to date, providing more tools to express the child’s creative ideas, more ways to experience the power of programming, and endless potential. BOLT’s 8 x 8 LED light matrix allows you to progr
Sphero Darkside Ollie App-Controlled Coding Robot
The Sphero Darkside Ollie App-Controlled Coding Robot is an educational product designed for children with learning disabilities to practice problem solving skills. Children can command this app-enabled racing robot to execute tricks and dominate every inch of turf, trail and track. It rolls at speeds of up to 14 miles-per-hour and connects instantly to the device via Bluetooth SMART with a range of up to 100 feet. The Ollie app gives the child the power to control the bot’s speed, acceleration,
Spinning Wheel Switch (Model 2044)
The Spinning Wheel Switch, model 2044, is a momentary switch designed for use by children with upper extremity and neurological disabilities. When the wheel is spun, the large red lens in the center lights up, music plays, and the unit vibrates. When a toy or appliance is connected, the unit acts as an on/off switch.
Square Pad Switch
The Square Pad Switch is a touch switch designed for use by individuals with upper extremity disabilities. This switch features a large target area for people who have difficulty targeting a small switch. It is activated by exerting 21 ounces of pressure anywhere on the top surface and it provides both tactile and auditory feedback. DIMENSIONS: 5.5 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches. WEIGHT: 8 ounces.
Squeeze Switch Kit
Squeeze Switch Kit are access switches that are activated by a user squeezing the switch. The kit includes three different switches of diverse shapes and textures. Each connects to any device, is activated with a gentle squeeze, provides a satisfying tactile experience and helps the user to practice important skills
Squish Switch (Model 3Tsso)
The Squish Switch, model 3TSSO, is a touch switch designed for use by individuals with severe physical or upper extremity disabilities. Shaped like a large pillbox, this cloth-covered, cushioned switch is activated by squeezing and applying pressure with the hands or the elbows.
Ss-Access!
The SS-ACCESS! is a single switch keyboard modification program designed for individuals with little or no hand mobility or strength. Simply plug the interface cable into the PC's serial port, plug the switch into the interface, run the support software and run the single switch software. A user-defined keyboard character is sent to the single switch application each time the user presses the switch. The package includes the switch interface, the support software, SS-DEMO game and an easy to fol
Sspt (Single Switch Performance Test)
SSPT (Single Switch Performance Test) is a control switch assessment program designed with use by individuals who use a single switch control with an alternative and augmentative communication (AAC) device. This software facilitates measurement of the ability to activate a single switch, including the average time required to activate or release the switch (following visual and/or audio prompts) and the speed of repetitive activations. The switch under test is connected to the computer as a mous
Staircase Storage Island With 2 Doors
The Staircase Storage Island With 2 Doors is designed for those individuals with lower extremity disabilities to train on stairs. The Staircase Storage Island With 2 Doors requires a minimum 9 foot ceiling. 2 full width safety treads on each step.
Staircase Storage Island With 3 Sides
The Staircase Storage Island With 3 Sides is a mobility training device designed for those individuals with lower extremity disabilities to train on stairs, Small corner staircase for limited space. The Staircase Storage Island With 3 Sides feature an all laminate band rand rack, adjustable cuff weight strips, and dumbbell storage. Requires a minimum 9 foot ceiling. Clinton Staircase Storage Island With 3 Sides features all laminate band rack, dumbbell storage and adjustable cuff weight strips.
Star Switch (Model 50260)
The Star Switch, model 50260, is a touch switch designed for use byindividuals with severe physical or upper extremity disabilities or spinal cord injury. This switch can be used with any device that requires five single switches for operation, or it can be adapted to form five single or mono switch plugs for controlling any five devices operated by a single switch (additional hardware is required). The Star switch contains five mechanical switches arranged in the shape of a plus sign. Five colo
Stay Put Easel (Model 1484)
The Stay Put Easel, model 1484, is an easel designed for use with individuals with emotional or neurological disabilities. A switch, communicator, toy, or other device is secured to the easel or plate with duolock (extra-strong Velcro) and the easel is clamped to a lap tray or table to prevent the user from throwing the device. OPTIONS: Sets of C-clamps are available separately. DIMENSIONS (LxWxH): 13 x 12 x 10.5 inches.
Stealth Ultra Headrest (Model Sm-Su200)
The Stealth Ultra Headrest, model SM-SU200, is a combination wheelchair headrest and switch mounting hardware designed for use by individuals with severe physical or neurological disabilities or spinal cord injury. The sub occipital component aids the user in finding the midline. The two lateral swing-away components can be used for sensor mounting and a sensor can also be mounted in the backpad.
Step by Step is a cause and effect training program designed for use by children with learning or cognitive disabilities or upper extremity disabilities or spinal cord injury. This program teaches the use of a switch. Pressing the switch reveals images and when they are completely revealed, the progrsm causes them to animate. The program has realistic graphics, animnations, and sound effects, and is suitable for all ages. COMPATIBILITY: For use on IBM and compatible computers. SYSTEM REQUIREMENT
Street Sight
Street Sight is a mobile application and GoPro interface designed for those individuals with visual impairments to use. It was designed for Darcy, a woman with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis who is blind in one eye and visually impaired in the other. The application uses her GPS location that lets Darcy know what street, intersection or address she is approaching. The GoPro interface that takes photos to her phone every 2-3 seconds so she can discretely zoom in on street signs, car plates, bus sc
String Switch
The String Switch is a pull switch designed for use by people with very limited upper extremity range of motion or minimal strength. The switch consists of a pull cord attached to a microswitch box. To activate the switch, the user pulls on a string or strand of yarn attached to the pull cord. The switch is equipped with a 1/8-inch mono plug. The string/yarn may be wrapped around any moveable body part. Less than 1 ounce of pressure is required for activation. The switch box can be mounted with
String Switch (Model 1080, 1080-8)
The String Switch, model 1080 and 1080-8, is a pull switch that is easily activated by persons with limited movement. It requires less than 1/2 oz. of tension to activate the switch. The switch has a small platform with 4 suction cups for convenient attachment to most surfaces.
Sunny Sunshine Switch (Model 892)
The Sunny Sunshine Switch, model 892, is a touch-activated toy or touch switch designed for use by children with severe physical or upper extremity disabilities. This large sun-like switch features bendable rays to encourage touch. When used as a toy, the slightest touch rewards the child with colored lights, vibration, and three different soothing tunes in sync with 8 different colored blinking lights. If a toy or device is plugged into the switch, the unit will activate the connected device wh
Super Bumpy Switch (Model 736)
The Super Bumpy Switch, model 736, is a touch switch designed for use by individuals with severe physical or upper extremity disabilities or spinal cord injury. This large switch has a tactile bumpy surface to provide tactile stimulation while activating any connected toy or device. DIMENSIONS (LxWxH): 8 x 4.5 x 1/8 inch.
Superremote Home Automation Kit
The SuperRemote Home Automation Kit is a cordless remote control switch system for lights, television, VCR, and other appliances, designed for use by individuals with mobility disabilities. This three-piece home automation kit can control lights and appliances through an X10 remote control. The kit includes one Universal UltimateREMOTE (model UR19A), one Transceiver Module (model TM751), one Lamp Module (model LM465), and an instruction manual.
Surelock Midline Swingaway System (Model 32691)
The Surelock Midline Swingaway System, model 32691, is a lightweight control switch accessory for mounting hardware designed to secure and position wheelchair controls for the user. The entire system is can be mounted to either the right or left vertical bar of a wheelchair with 7/8-inch frame tubing, or it can be mounted on either the back post or armrest of a wheelchair or connected to a multimount chair with a multimount adaptor clamp. An inner extension bar and outer extension tube allow fo
Surface Mounting Clamp (Model 1610)
The Surface Mounting Clamp (model 1610) is switch mounting hardware designed to allow devices with 3/4-inch diameters to be clamped to flat surfaces such as wheelchair trays, table tops, etc.
Swifty Usb Switch Interface
The Swifty USB Switch Interface is a switch interface designed to provide mouse or keyboard emulation for people with severe physical, neurological, or upper extremity disabilities or spinal cord injury. This device can output mouse clicks, joystick button actions, or keyboard functions. This device It accepts standard 3.5-millimeter (mm) stereo or mono plugs for directly connecting up to two adaptive switches. When used with Beam (not included; see separate entry), the device supports three inp
Swing Away Mount (Model Sm-Sam230)
The Swing Away Mount, model SM-SAM230, is switch mounting hardware designed for use by individuals with severe physical or neurological disabilities or spinal cord injury. This mount attaches directly to a wheelchair armrest. With the pull of a lever the arm swings away for removal when not in use. This mount can be used with proximity sensors or mechanical switches (not included).
Swingaway Joystick Bracket
The Swing-Away Joystick Bracket is a joystick holder designed for midline and other special positioning needs. The bracket swings out of the way when transferring or pulling up to a table or desk. Five styles are available. The pull-pin release styles use the Miller's Swing Away Mounting Block (see separate entry). The push button styles operate with just a light to medium touch when strength or hand function is limited.
Swingaway Mounting Kit (Model 3150-1)
Mounting system for the 3185 joystick for chin oepration. Includes a 12 by 18 inch right angle mounting rod, custom sizes or bends can be provided. A 1/2 inch stainless steel mounting rod fits into a 3/4 inch vertical shaft and a swingaway strap clamp for attachemnt to a standard 7/8 inch diameter wheelchair/power recliner back bar. Permits the joystick to be moved away from the user by an attendant and returned to its original position without the need to readjust the mounting apparatus.
Unsed for mid-line mounting of a hand oeprated joystick. this mounting kit may also be used for mid-line mounting of other devices if the device accepts a 1/4-20 threaded bolt for attachment. Consists of a 1/2 inch diameter stainless steel mounting rod fitted to a 3/4 inch vertical shaft and a swingaway strap clamp for attachment to a standard 7/8 inch diamter armrest frame. A rod clamp is also included for mounting those joysticks which are not furnished with a rod clamp. permits the joystick t
Swingaway Mounting Kit (Model 3514)
Used for mounting a head operated actuator to the wheelchair back bar or push handle. The mounting kit consists of two right angle mounting rods joined by a double rod clamp and fitted to a pivot shaft, and a strap clamp for attachment to 7/8 inch diameter wheelchair tubing. Permits the actuator to be moved away from the user by an attendant and returned to its original position without the need to readjust the mounting.
Switch Activated Vibrating Snake
The Switch Activated Vibrating Snake is an adapted toy designed for children with physical disabilities to play with during therapeutic recreation. Adaptive switches allow the physically challenged and special needs user to activate assistive technology devices in their environment. This Switch Activated Vibrating Snake can be wrapped around the back, waist, arms or whatever to stimulate with soothing vibrations. To activate hold the switch down, to deactivate release the switch.
Switch Adapted Linkimals Smooth Moves Sloth | Special Needs
Switch Adapted Linkimals Smooth Moves Sloth | Special Needs is a switch adapted toy sloth for children who need a switch to use a battery operated toy. Interactive sloth claps its hands and bobs its head along to fun lights, songs and music. Press an attached switch for songs and phrases about the alphabet, numbers, opposites and colors. Colorful lights on belly and soft arms for baby to explore
Switch Adapted Penguin Race
The Switch Adapted Penguin Race is a switch adapted toy that allows the penguins to walk up the stairs and shoot down the slide.
Switch Adaptor Box
The Switch Adaptor Box is a switch adapter for computer designed for use by individuals with upper extremity and fine motor disabilities. When connected to the Penny and Giles Roller Trackball Plus or Joystick Plus (see separate entries), it allows their buttons to be replaced with switches. Connection is made via the switch port on the track ball or joystick. Five jacks on the switch adapter then allow external switches to be used in place of the right/left mouse buttons, drag, double click, an
Switch And Glow
The Switch and Glow is a neon stretchy noodle switch. The lightest touch on the switch turns on a glowing light while activating any toy or device. POWER: 2 AA batteries. COLOR: Variety. WARRANTY/GUARANTEE: As stated by the manufacturer.
Switch Assessment Kit #1 (Model 7750) & Switch Assessment Kit #2 (Model 7755)
The Switch Kits are a collection of touch switches, pneumatic switches, and squeeze switches designed for use by individuals with upper extremity disabilities. Kit #1, model 7750, includes a Grip & Puff Switch, a Grip Kit, a Plate Switch, a Tilt Switch Kit, an Ultimate Switch, an Adjustable Pinch Switch, a Button Click Switch, and a Petite Pillow Switch. Kit #2, model 7755, is designed for more involved users and includes the same elements as Kit #1, plus a voice-activated switch and a Life
Switch Basics By Softtouch
Switch Basics by SoftTouch is a control switch training program designed for use by children and adults with severe or multiple disabilities. The program may be accessed by a mouse, a single switch, a touch screen, or Intellikeys (see separate entry), and offers nine different programs for a variety of switch operations, including cause and effect, automatic scanning, step scanning, and row and column scanning. With activities for one or two programs, a variety of learning options are available
Switch Click USB
The Switch Click USB is designed for individuals with upper extremity and fine motor disabilities to allow them to simulate a range of mouse clicks on their computer and access iDevice apps with the Switch Click USB single switch computer access aid.
Switch Driver
Switch Driver is an alternative computer control switch program for people with fine motor, neurological or upper extremity disabilities and others who use one or more switches to access a computer. Switch Driver allows the user to configure each switch connected to a computer through a serial or USB port. For each switch, the user can direct that it press a key on the keyboard (with shift, alt or control); press a button on the mouse or move the mouse; press a button on the joystick or move th
Switch Games For Preschoolers
Switch Games for Preschoolers is a control switch training program designed for use by young children with uppper extremity or multiple disabilities. Games include Frog & Fly, Switch Kids, and Match 1, 2, & 3. These games aid in the development of such basic switch skills as cause and effect and press and hold, as well as more advanced skills such as linear scanning and two switch step scanning. COMPATIBILITY: The hybrid CD-ROM offers versions for use on Macintosh and IBM and compatible
Switch Games For Teens
Switch Games for Teens is a control switch training program designed for use by teens and preteens with uppper extremity or multiple disabilities. Games include Arcade, Switch Wars, and Scan & Match 4, 5, & 6. Arcade's options include simple cause and effect and linear scanning. The Scan & Match activities encourage visual discrimination while focusing on the pictorial categories of food, clothing, grooming items, people, places, and signs. A variety of skill levels is offered. COMPA
Switch Interface Pro
The Switch Interface Pro is a control input interface designed to enable individulas with upper extremity disabilities to operate computers using switches. This unit moves easily between Macintosh and personal computers (PC) and enables up to five single switches (not included) to be connected to control computer functions. The unit is preprogrammed with mouse clicks and keyboard functions. Macintosh users can access a mouse click and the numeric keys 0,1, 2, and 3. PC users can access arrow key
Switch Intro
Switch Intro is a control switch training program designed to develop switch use capabilites and to build cause and effect skills for persons with cognitive and physical disabilities. This program includes animated activities such as (1) Colors; (2) Piece-by-Piece; (3) Hidden Pictures; (4) Step-by-Step; (5) Willy the Worm; (6) Make It Sound; (7) Start to Scan; and (8) Match Scan. The activities are designed to offer varying difficulty levels. Options are available for changing scan speeds, choic
Switch It Playstation Adapter
The Switch It Play Station Adapter is a switch adapter designed for use by individuals with physical or mobility disabilities. This device enables a Play Station to be operated using different types of switched joysticks and button switches.
Switch Latch (Model 4388)
The Switch Latch, model 4388, is switch adapter designed to take momentary input from a single switch and converts it to latched on/off output for individuals with physical disabilities. Activating the switch once will turn the toy or device on. Activating the switch again shuts the device off. Alternatively, two single switches can be plugged in so that one switch can act as the "on" switch and the other as the "off". The Switch Latch is designed to be used with battery operated devices such as
Switch Latch / Timer (Model 771)
The Switch Latch/Timer is a switch adapter designed to turn a single switch into an on/off switch or one that turns on a toy or other device for a set period of time. The Switch Latch/Timer works with battery-operated devices such as toys or the Dial Scan (see separate entry). Two switches can be used to operate two differenct devices. In Latch mode, pressing the switch once starts action; pressing it a second time stops the action. In Time mode, action is turned on for a specified amount of tim
Switch Latch And Timer
The Switch Latch and Timer is a switch module providing timed, latched, or momentary switch activation to enable individuals with upper extremity disabilities to operate switch adapted toys, appliances, and other devices. The unit offers a choice of modes, including timed use, switch latching, or momentary switching, and it can accommodate two switches and devices. The package includes the timer unit and a toy cable. POWER: Batteries (included).
Switch Modifier (Model 605)
The Switch Modifier, model 605, is a control switch accessory designed to enable a momentary switch to function as an on/off switch or a timed switch. When the momentary switch (not included) is connected to the unit, it can be used in the dedired mode. The unit features both quarter-inch and 1/8-inch plugs and jacks.
Switch Module (Model 1394,1394-8, 1411, 1411-R, 1411-8, & 1411-8R)
The Switch Module is a switch adapter designed to function as a communicator for individuals with communication disabilities. These self-contained modules accept one or more switches for activation and the messages can be recorded as often as needed. Model 1394 provides four, five-second messages and has .25-inch jacks; model 1394-8 has 1/8-inch jacks. Model 1411R offers eight, 2.5-second messages and is equipped with .25-inch jacks; model 1411-8R has 1/8-inch jacks. Model 1411 offers eight, fiv
Switch Mount
The Switch Mount is switch mounting hardware designed for use by individuals with fine motor or upper extremity disabilities. It enables the switch to be secured in two positions, sloping and right angle. A Velcro-style fixing pack is included. SIZES: Small (for Specs (not included; see entry) type switches or any small hand-switch), medium (for Jelly Bean switches, not included; see entry), and large (for Big Red or BigMack switches, not included; see entry). DIMENSIONS (HxW): Sloping surface i
Switch Mounting Assessment Kit (Model 65992)
The Switch Mounting Assessment Kit, model 65992, is a control switch mounting hardware assessment kit designed for evaluating individuals who use switches. The complete kit includes a 13-inch Gooseneck,a one-inch pinch clamp, a platform clamp, one 7/8-inch pinch clamp, one 12-inch switch clamp tube with bushing, one 16-inch tube, one 12-inch 30-degree bend tube, tube clamps,U clamp, Universal Table Mount, Universal Swivel Clamp, Wheelchair Swivel Clamp, Mighty Mount, Tash Mounting Arm, Tash Moun
Switch Mounting Kit (Models Smt & Smw-1)
The Switch Mounting Kit for Tables, model SMT, and Switch Mounting Kit for Wheelchairs SMW-1, are control switch accessories for mounting switches in a variety of locations. Model SMT is designed for use on tables or table-like surface, and model SMW-1 is designed for use with wheelchairs. The Switch Mounting Kit for Tables includes a gooseneck, tilt-top switch mounts, and an adapter bracket to fasten it to tables or shelves. The Switch Mounting Kit for Wheelchairs has a tubular bracket for clam
Switch Mounting Plates (Models 2030, 2080, 2081, & 2082)
The Switch Mounting Plates are switch mounting hardware designed to aid in mounting and positioning switches on wheelchairs and workstations. Model 2030 is a ball joint, model 2080 is a circular plate, model 2081 is a triangular plate, and model 2082 is a rectangular plate. All plates have a 0.25-inch 20 threaded stud back. DIMENSIONS: The circular plate is 3 inches in diameter, the triangular plate has three-inch sides, and the rectangular plate is 3 x 5 inches.
Switch Output Cable (Model 3329)
Used to expand the capability of a Multimode Interface by providing four isloated and independent switch closure outputs controlled by the Multimode's auxiliary operating mode. These outputs (minature phone plugs) may be used to operate various devices if the device is designed for oeration by one to four indpendent switches.
Switch Output Controller (Model 3340)
Used to expand the capbility of a Multimode Interface by providing four isolated and independent switch closure outputs controlled by the Multimode's auxillary operating mode. These outputs (miniature phone jacks) may be used to operate various devices if the device is designed for oepration by one to four independent switches. Includes additional circuitry to inhibit the Multimode's automatic reset function to allow uninterrupted operation.
Switch Radio-Link
The Switch Radio-Link is a switch interface unit designed for use by individuals with severe physical disabilities or spinal cord injury. This interface allows wireless connection of switches to computers, communication aids, toys, environmental controls, and other devices. The interface enables switches to be operated from anywhere within 12 feet, even through obstacles such as people and furniture. It works with all personal computer (PC) switch software that uses a standard switch interface,
Switch Stand (Model Pvc-S)
The Switch Stand, model PVC-S, is a switch holder designed for use by children or adults with neurological or upper extremity disabilities. Velcro is used to attach a switch to the stand so the switch can be accessed using a forward or sideways motion. The stand is compatible with AbleNet Big Red and BIC Mack switches (not included; see entries).
Switch Tray
The Switch Tray is a switch stand designed for use by individuals with fine motor or upper extremity disabilities. Velcro holds switches and switch mounts firmly in place in almost any position. It can be used in assessment situations where a wide variety of secure switch positions need to be tried. The tray is cushioned for comfort. SIZES: Desktop, medium, and small. DIMENSIONS: The Desktop model is 540 x 290 millimeters (mm), the medium model is 350 x 350 mm to fit many wheelchair trays, and t
Switch-Adapted Call Chime (Model H-27)
The Switch-Adapted Cordless Call Chime, model H-27, is a call signal designed for use by individuals with communication or speech disabilities. This system has a receiver and two transmitters. Each transmitter has a different chime. The system has a 75-foot range (200 feet when in line-of-sight). POWER: Uses 3 triple-A and 3 C batteries (included).
Switch2Scan For Ipad
Switch2Scan for iPad is a Bluetooth Switch Interface designed for advanced switch users who wish to use the main features of Apple devices and access iBooks. It allows the users to access the home screen, adapted apps and iBooks. Icons or items on the home screen and within most main apps are scanned with a highlight box. Automatic scanning can be conducted with one, two or three switches. Step scanning can be achieved with four switches. There are four scanning speeds. Full access to iBooks req
Switchamajig
Switchamajig is a switch emulation program designed for use by individuals with cognitive, fine motor or upper extremity disabilities. This application (or app) allows a person to use their Apple iPad as a wireless accessibility switch. Switchamajig is designed to be used with the Switchamajig Controller (see separate entry), which can control up to six switch ports on switch-adapted toys or appliances. When the app is opened, the iPad connects to the controller using a WiFi connection. The iPad
Switchamajig Controller
The Switchamajig Controller is a control switch input interface that allows a person to use an Apple iPad to control remotely up to six switch ports on switch-adapted toys or appliances. The user connects the controller to the adapted item(s) using the included cables, and the Controller connects to an Apple iPad running the Switchamajig app (see separate entry) via WiFi. POWER: Requires 2 AA batteries (not included).
The SwitchBoard is a portable touch switch designed for use with communication devices. The SwitchBoard has six built-in pressure switches with clear overlay pockets in which pictures or symbols can be placed. Objects also can be used as visual cues on each switch area. To use, plug the cords from the SwitchBoard into the external switch jacks of any communication aid. When a switch on the SwitchBoard is touched, the communication aid is activated. DIMENSIONS: 16 x 12 x 0.156 inches. WEIGHT: 1.5
The SwitchBoard is a switch adapter for computer designed for use by individuals with fine motor and upper extremity disabilities. This product is a modified keyboard with switch ports to replicate the most commonly used keyboard presses for switches. Switches are plugged into the appropriate ports as needed. There are jacks for enter and space, which are used by most available switch software; 0, 1, 2, and 3, which are used by Don Johnston software; left, up, down, and right, which are used by
The SwitchBox is a switch adapter for computer designed for use by individuals with upper extremity and fine motor disabilities. The switch adapter plugs into the keyboard port on the computer, and the user can then plug up to eight switches into the switch adapter. Its eight switch ports default to the most commonly used key presses for switch software (Space, Enter, up arrow, left arrow, 0, 1, 2, 3). Software is included that allows the user to program the ports to send alternative key presses
Switchit! Arcade Adventure
Switchit! Arcade Adventure is a control switch training program designed for use by children with upper extremity and multiple disabilities. Users also build eye-hand coordination as they help Ziko the robot accomplish a series of tasks. Five levels of play allow students to steer a helicopter to rescue Ziko from a tropical island, reload his fuel tank, fly off in his rocket, and maneuver through a series of springs and levers. Users not only click switches to move Ziko, they must also be sensit
Switchit! Patterns
SwitchIt! Patterns is a control switch training program designed for use with children with physical and cognitive disabilities. Accessible with a mouse or IntelliKeys (see separate entry), the program teaches the use of a single switch while introducing the concept of patterns. The program enables users to build bold geometric patterns with the click of the switch. Ten distinct patterns and three levels of complexity are offered. Animation or color cycling can be selected as a visual reward. Th
Switchit! Pictures
SwitchIt! Pictures is a control switch training program designed for use by children with physical or cognitive disabilities. Accessible with a mouse or Intellikeys (see separate entry), the program teaches the use of a single switch while introducing picture concepts. The program enables users to create pictures with the click of the switch. The program offers multiple settings that allow users to practice at their own pace and level of difficulty and settings can be saved and loaded for later
Switchit! Scenes
SwitchIt! Scenes is a control switch training program designed for use by children with physical or cognitive disabilities. Players use a switch to build the elements of an action scene. A final press results in an animated reward. The program includes configurable options for the number of key presses, switch settings, and activity choices. A two switch option allows for turn taking. COMPATIBILITY: For use on IBM and compatible or Apple Macintosh computers.
Tabletapper Switch
The TableTapper Switch is a vibration detection switch for use by people with fine motor and upper extremity disabilities. The TableTapper is placed on a hard surface, such as a tabletop or counter, and when the user taps on the surface, the switch activates the connect device. This switch has a standard 0.125-inch plug, and can be used with a variety of communication or other battery-operated devices. It has two modes of control (latch and timing) and a variable sensitivity ranging from a light
Tactile Sensory Kit
The Tactile Sensory Kit is a touch switch accessory designed to provide tactile identification and appeal for touch switches for individuals with visual or neurological disabilities. The kit includes rubber bumpers, self-adhesive hook-and-loop, and bead chains with self-adhesive plastic holders.
Taction Pads
The Taction Pads are touch switches designed to adhere to any surface or object for individuals who have limited upper mobility or movement. These pads are clear, touch-sensitive plastic patches that have an adhesive back and are designed to activate any device that it is plugged into them simply by touching them. When the Taction Pad is plugged into one of Adaptivation's assistive devices (see separate entries), it activates that device by touch (moisture) or by the use of conductive foam (sold
Tail Light Switch And Say It Play It (Model 464)
The Tail Light Switch and Say It Play It, model 464, is a touch switch and direct selection communicator designed for use by individuals with upper extremity and severe physical disabilities and communication disabilities. A light touch along the rim activates lights, vibration, and a recorded message. A connected toy or device is also activated. The surface is textured in a way similar to a car tail light. The unit can be used on a table or mounted on the wall or door with the optional hanger.
Tail Light Switch With Vibration And Music (Model 463 & 465)
The Tail Light Switch is a touch switch designed for use by individuals with upper extremity and severe physical disabilities. A light touch along the rim activates music, lights, and vibration. A connected toy or device is also activated. Model 465 plays teen/adult music and model 463 plays children's music. The surface is textured in a way similar to a car tail light. The unit can be used on a table or mounted on the wall or door with the optional hanger. POWER: Uses four double-A batteries (n
Tall Tablet Stand
The Tall Tablet Stand is a product designed for people with upper extremity disabilities to use while using a tablet. It features a very heavy base and rubber feet so it does not move. It is 360-degree adjustable, as well as height adjustable. The Adjustable Tablet Holder (ATH) is included, and is available in three sizes: Tall, Standard, and Tall & Thick.
Tas (Totally Active Surface) Switch
The TAS Switch is a touch switch designed to be activated by pressing any point on its surface for individuals with severe upper mobility disabilities. The momentary contact switch is not hinged and so its entire surface is sensitive. When pressed, the switch responds with both an auditory and tactile click so that users know contact has been made. The switch is designed to be used with battery operated devices but is not meant ot operate line-powered devices such as household appliances. Actuat
Tash Lever Switch
The Tash Lever Switch is a lever switch designed for use by individuals with severe physical disabilities or spinal cord injury. These switches provide auditory and tactile feedback and require 1.75 ounces of force to activate. DIMENSIONS: 4.75 x 2 x 1 inch. WEIGHT: 2 ounces. COLOR: Black, red, green, yellow, or blue.
Tash Micro Lever Switch
The Tash Micro Lever Switch is a lever switch designed for use by individuals with severe physical disabilities or spinal cord injury. These switches provide auditory and tactile feedback when activated and require 1.4 ounces of force to activate. DIMENSIONS: 1.6 x 1.5 x 0.7 inch. WEIGHT: 1 ounce. COLOR: Black, red, green, yellow, or blue.
Tash Mini Lever Switch
The Tash Mini Lever Switch is a lever switch designed for use by individuals with severe physical disabilities or spinal cord injury. These switches provide auditory and tactile feedback and require 1.4 ounces of force to activate. DIMENSIONS: 4 x 1.5 x 0.75 inch. WEIGHT: 1.5 ounces. COLOR: Black, red, green, yellow, or blue.
Tash Mounting Arm System (Model 66000)
The Tash Mounting Arm System, model 66000, is switch mounting hardware designed for use by individuals with upper extremity, neurological, or severe physical disabilities or spinal cord injury. This three-part modular system mounts most Tash switches (not included) and consists of a mounting arm that adjusts with one large knob, the mounting connection appropriate for the specific switch selected, and the base clamp most suited to the environment in which the switch is to be used. Switch connect
Tash Mounting Parts
Tash Mounting Parts are switch mounting hardware pieces designed to enable a switch to be mounted in a desired location for indiviudals who use a switch or communication device. A variety of mounting pieces allow any Tash switch (see separate entries) to be mounted on a wheelchair arm or back, table, or bed rail. The clamps come in the following styles: pinch clamp, platform clamp, switch clamp, tube clamp, U clamp, universal swivel clamp, wheelchair bracket, and a wheelchair clamp.
Tash Sip 'n' Puff Adaptor (Model 32676), 1555 Adaptor (Model 32677), Joystick Adaptor (Model 32678), Mk2 Adaptor (Model 32679), & Adaptor Clamp Bushing (Model 32687)
Adaptor Clamps are switch mounting hardware designed to secure controls to wheelchairs. All models are made of steel and coated with black baked epoxy. The TASH/Sip-N-Puff Adaptor, Model 32676, is designed to hold the TASH joystick and other controls. The unit is equipped with a metal loop which allows the electrical cord to be slipped through without removing the end plug. Model 32677, the 1555 Adaptor, is a clamp designed to hold the Invacare 1555 remote joystick by utilizing existing joystick
Teaching Emotions Toolkit
The Teaching Emotions Toolkit is a bundle designed for children with disabilities to learn about emotions as well as regulation. It contains all the resources users need to give children an emotion vocabulary, help them to better understand what they are feeling and what to do with those feelings. This toolkit gives intentional teaching of emotional intelligence. These resources are a non-threatening and fun way to improve their emotional IQ skills in the home or in the classroom. These activiti
Tecla Access
Tecla Access is an alternative computer and cell phone control switch program and a scanning control switch program designed for use by individuals with fine motor or upper extremity disabilities. This application (or app) allows a person to use adapted switches or the driving controls of their powered wheelchair as wireless accessibility switches. Tecla Access is designed to be used with the Tecla Shield (see separate entry), which interfaces with a variety of switch inputs and transmits via Bl
Tecla Shield
The Tecla Shield gives those with limited upper body mobility (due to disability or disease) access to their touchscreen devices. Tecla makes it possible to use iOS and Android smartphones and tablets, as well as computers. All are accessible via assistive buttons, switches or wheelchair driving controls.
Tecla Shield Dos
The Tecla Shield DOS is a control switch input interface designed for people with fine motor control or upper extremity disabilities. The system allows a person to use adapted switches or the driving controls of their powered wheelchair to control remotely an Apple iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad or an Android tablet or smartphone. The Tecla Access app (see separate entry) is required to use the Tecla Shield DOS with an Android device. The switches or driving controls connect to the system using the
Tecla Shield For Iphone & Ipad
The Tecla Shield for iPhone & iPad is a control switch input interface designed for people with fine motor control or upper extremity disabilities. The system allows a person to use adapted switches or the driving controls of their powered wheelchair to control remotely an Apple iPhone or iPad. The switches or driving controls connect to the system using the included cables through the device’s six ports. The ports include 2 3.5-millimeter mono sockets, a D-Sub 9-pin male connector ECU port,
Teen Tunes Plus
Teen Tunes Plus is a cognitive skills tutorial and a control switch training program designed for use by pre-teens and teens with severe cognitive or physical disabilities and adults learning to use a switch. This program combines a variety of musical interludes with large, interesting graphics, beautiful pictures, and surprising animations. It enciourages intentional use of the switch, improvies visual or auditory attention, enables choice making, and gives the student control over the environm
Teenage Switch Progressions
Teenage Switch Progressions is a control switch training program designed for use by teenagers with upper extremity disabilities. This program includes five simulation activities designed for those making the transition from randomly activating a single switch to activating a switch with specific timing. The skills taught include cause and effect (level 0) and attending to extended tasks (level 1), following directions (level 2), and responding to visual or auditory computer information (levels
Telecom 4000
Telecom 4000 is an emergency alert, call signal, or wandering patient system designed for use by individuals with Alzheimer's disease or by seniors or individuals with disabilities who are at risk for medical emergencies. Used in conjunction with a wirless pendant transmitter, this automatic dialer enables the user to summon help by pressing a button. Used in conjunction with motion sensors, it can monitor activity in the residence and send an alarm when the resident has been inactive for either
Telephone Management System
The Telephone Management System is a control switch interface unit and speakerphone designed to allow the user full use of telephone functions with a single switch. The user activates a switch twice to answer calls, and then once to end the call. When the user wants to make a call, the device cycles through types of functions, such as dial and redial, allowing the user time to select from these. Then the product cycles through the numbers, also allowing time for the user to make selections. If t
Television (Model 452)
The Television is designed to be switch adaptable for individuals with physical disabilities. It is designed to safely interrupt the power supply so that the user does not have to use batteries. However, if portability is desired, the TV will operate from internal batteries. If no switch is added, the set will play like an unadapted set. When it is adapted with a switch, added circuitry allows the TV to stay on or off each time the switch is activated.
TetraMouse XA
The TetraMouse XA is mouth-operated dual joystick mouse designed for individuals with spinal cord injury or upper extremity amputation disabilities. The device is a lip-, chin-, tongue- or finger-operated 8-button mouse with scroll, left, right, and middle button click and hold. The TetraMouse XA uses an analog joystick for moving the mouse pointer.
Tetramouse XS
The TetraMouse XS is a lip-, tongue-, chin- or mouth-operated mouse designed for individuals with spinal cord injury or upper extremity amputation or disability. It works with any computer or device (including AAC devices) that have a USB port and an operating system or internal firmware that can use a standard USB mouse as an input device. The TetraMouse XS features side-by-side joysticks that require little or no head movement using the lips, tongue or chin for smooth pointer movement. The joy
Textured Roller Switch (Models 642 & 639)
The Textured Roller Switch is a rotating cylinder switch designed for use by individuals with severe physical and upper extremity disabilities. The surface of this switch is covered with small bumps to create a somatosensory experience and encourage the user to activate the switch. Model 642 is a switch only and activates a connected toy or device when the drum is spun. Model 639 can be used as a switch and/or a sensory toy. When th drum is spun, it activates music, lights, and vibrations. POWER
Textured Saucer Switch (Models 722R, 722B, & 722S)
The Textured Saucer Switch is a touch switch designed for use by individuals with upper extremity or severe physical disabilities. This large-surface switch comes in a choice of textures and activates a connected device with a slight touch. Model 722R has a ringed surface, model 722B has a bumpy surface, and model 722S has a smooth surface. POWER: Uses two double-A batteries (not included). DIMENSIONS: Seven inches in diameter.
The Control Omni
The Control Omni voice controller is designed for use by individuals with mobility, neurological, or severe physical disabilities or spinal cord injury. Control Omni which allows the user to control their home with just a click of a button and be able to communicate with the outside world using a built in mobile phone Emfit Epilepsy Alarm which is a device developed to register epileptic attacks and alert someone to help.
The Sleep Machine
The Sleep Machine is a dome-shaped sound conditioner designed to help people with arthritis rest and relax. It can also be used for users with other disabilities or sleep disorders. The user can turn it on to tune out sounds in their environment and relax, listening to the soothing sound of rushing air, also known as "white noise." The Sleep Machine blocks noises at a broad range of frequencies. A uniform blanket of smooth sound masks disruptive noises. It also features dual speeds, high and low
Thermostat Adaptation
"DO IT YOURSELF" ENTRY --- PURPOSE: To enable people with low vision or who use wheelchairs to see where a thermostat is set. To adapt a round, dial-style thermostat, set the thermostat to a temperature that is normally comfortable. Put glue at the 12 o'clock and six o'clock positions on the thermostat and place the dowel on the glue so the top of the dowel is at the 12 o'clock position. Tape in place. When the glue dries, remove the tape. To further adapt the thermostat, put numbers on the wal
Thermostat Control Arm
DO IT YOURSELF ENTRY --- PURPOSE: To enable an individual with upper extremity disabilities and who uses a wheelchair to adjust the thermostat in her apartment. A frame of copper tubing was already mounted on the wall near the thermostat in order to mount an Adjustable Telephone Support. The frame has spare space, and additional items can easily be attached to it using small, narrow hose clips. A new bracket, complete with a lever, was assembled and attached to the frame. The user is able get to
Thinking Home
Thinking Home 2 is a home automation program designed for use by individuals with mobility disabilities or spinal cord injury. It supports both PowerLinc V2 models, ActiveHome Pro (model CM-15A), and more than 100 other models of gadgets and scores of USB serial adapters. In many cases, it can store the user's schedule in a controller so devices can be operated without the computer. The system has built-in speech recognition for voice commands, and provides spoken announcements. A Setup Assista
Thought Controlled Wheelchair-Mounted Robotic Arm
---- PROTOTYPE --------- PURPOSE: Scientists at the University of South Florida have created a prototype of a wheelchair-mounted robotic arm controlled by thought to be used by individuals with ALS or full body paralysis. This device will allow those with severely limited mobility to perform simple daily activities for him- herself. EEG scans have allowed patients with ALS to communicate through monitored electronic brain impulses (P300 brain waves). Using these EEG-related technologies with the
Thumb Switch (Model 802)
The Thumb Switch, model 802, is a designed to develop fine motor skills for individuals with physical or neurological disabilities. Mounted on a cylindrical base, the switch is activated by pressing a button similar to a doorbell. COLOR: The base is yellow and the button is red.
Thumb Switch (Model Cm-5)
Thumb Switch is a conical housing with a button switch located at one end. The switch is held in the palm of the hand, and the button is pressed with the thumb. The switch is styled as a traditional nursing call alarm switch. DIMENSIONS: 3.5 x 1.25 x 0.75 inches. WEIGHT: 1 ounce.
TidyTop Dignified Dining Wear Red
The TidyTop Dignified Dining Wear Red is an apron designed for those individuals with upper extremity disabilities to help them protect their clothing while dining. Reversible stain, waterproof fabric. Velcro neck closure. Machine wash, air dry. Includes One TidyTop with fabric storage bag tote.?
Tilt Switch (Model 990, 990-8)
The Tilt Switch is a mercury switch designed to activate a toy or device at the slightest mivement for individuals with physical disabilities. When the unit is tilted, the switch is activated. The unit is mounted on a band which can be strapped to the desired part of the body. DIMENSIONS: 0.5 x 1 inches.
Tilt Switch Kit (Model 999)
The Tilt Switch Kit, model 999, is a squeeze switch kit designed for use by individuals with upper extremity and other physical disabilities. This kit includes a tilt switch, a finger band, a headband, two tilt tubes for grasping skill development, and Velcro for attachment.
Timer Module (Model 600, 600-8)
The Timer Module, model 600 and 600-8, is a switch adapter designed to set the amount of time a switch-operated device will remain on after the switch is activated for individuals with physical disabilities. The amount of time that the Module activates the device is adjustable from 0 to 30 seconds. Contact manufacturer for information on types of switches and connectors applicable for the Timer Module. POWER: 9-volt battery. DIMENSIONS: 2 x 3 x 1 inches.
Timer Switch
Timer Switch is a switch latch designed for use by individuals with upper extremity disabilities. Pressing the plate surface once activates the device connected to the switch and it will remain activated for the amount of time indicated on the timer, up to 30 seconds. The timer can be readjusted as needed using the control knob. This switch is equipped with a 1/8th-inch jack. POWER: Uses one 9-volt battery (not included).
Timing Switch
The Timing Switch is designed for automatically turning electric appliances or lights on and off.
Tip Switch
The Tip Switch is a mercury switch designed for use by individuals with upper extremity disabilities. Designed to be activated by tipping the switch five degrees from the horizontal position, no activation force is required and only a very small range of motion is required. It has a smooth surface to allow easy mounting/positioning on a finger, hand, arm, headband, eyeglasses, etc. The switch provides no tactile or auditory feedback. It comes with a 1/8-inch mono plug and a 5-foot cable. DIMENSI
Tobii S32 Scan
The Tobii S32 Scan is a direct selection or scanning communicator and environmental control unit designed for use by individuals with communication, speech, or severe physical disabilities and autism. The user plays pre-recorded, digitized speech messages through direct selection by touching pictures or symbols in a grid or scene. The S32 Scan also supports linear step scanning, row/column/row scanning and random scanning at eight speeds. The case is made of plastic with rubber edges. The unit
Tobii S32 Touch
The Tobii S32 Touch is a direct selection communicator and environmental control unit designed for use by individuals with communication, speech, or severe physical disabilities and autism. The user plays pre-recorded, digitized speech messages through direct selection by touching pictures or symbols in a grid or scene. The case is made of plastic with rubber edges. The unit comes with six grids (keyguards) with 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 or 32 keys. Up to 192 overlays can be recorded with over 60 hours of
Toggle Switch (Model 10-4)
Toggle control switch for powered reclining wheelchair. Available for either fixed or variable speed. Has 3 1/2 inch lever. Wire length allows switch to be mounted in a variety of locations.
Toggle Tv Controller
---- CUSTOMIZED ADAPTATION --------- PURPOSE: To provide a custom adaptation of a TV remote for an individual with extreme mobility disabilities can use to change TV channels independently. A universal TV controller is opened and lead wires were carefully soldered to the appropriate contact points for the “channel up”. The wires were then lead to a standard buddy switch (can be a DYI). The controller is mounted on a universal swivel joint so it can be pointed at the TV. The joint is can be place
Tongue Drive System
---- PROTOTYPE --------- PURPOSE: To create a prototype of a powered wheelchair contol system operated by a tongue switch in dental retainer for individuals with upper and lower extremity, mobility or neurological disabilities or quadriplegia to navigate a powered wheelchair. The newest version of the Tongue Drive System uses a dental retainer with sensors to help control the system. The embedded sensors within the retainer track the movements of a small magnet attached to the tongue. The wirele
Tongue Switch
The Tongue Switch is designed for use by individuals with severe physical or neurological disabilities, spinal cord injury, or cerebral palsy. The user holds the switch between the teeth and pushes the button with the tongue. COLOR: Black with red switch.
Touch Drive
The Touch Drive is a control switch designed for use by individuals with physical or mobility disabilities and those who use powered wheelchairs. Similar to a mouse pad on a laptop computer, the Touch Drive allows the user to drive the chair with a touch of a finger. The farther the finger touches from the center of the switch the faster the chair goes in that direction. The device is also incorporated with a mode switch. This device is available for P&G electronics.
Touch Fun Fair
Touch Fun Fair is a control switch training program designed for use by young children with cognitive or multiple disabilities. The activities include Ghost Train, Coconut Shy, Darts, Ring Toss, Grab Bag, and Bumper Cars and develop cause and effect, visual discrimination, matching, and mouse skills. The program can be accessed with a mouse or a touch screen. COMPATIBILITY: Versions are available for use on Macintosh and IBM and compatible computers. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: The Macintosh version re
Touch Games 1
Touch Games 1 is a control switch training program designed for use by young children with cognitive or multiple disabilities. The activities include Pin Wheel, Rockets, Dasher Dog and Annabel, Honey Bee, Memory Doors, and Hectic Highways and develop cause and effect, visual discrimination, matching, and mouse skills. The program can be accessed with a mouse or a touch screen. COMPATIBILITY: Versions are available for use on Macintosh and IBM and compatible computers. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: The Ma
Touch Games 2 is a control switch training program designed for use by young children with cognitive or multiple disabilities. The activities include Buzz Off, Wake Up, Brian's Bus, Magic Painting, and Sort and See, and develop cause and effect and mouse skills. The program can be accessed with a mouse or a touch screen. COMPATIBILITY: Versions are available for use on Macintosh and IBM and compatible computers. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: The Macintosh version requires an LC III or faster processor, 8
Touch N Talk
Security system allows door to be answered through intercom at door using telephone at home, or remotely from telephones at other locations. Touch N Talk control switch is connected to your phone and to a speaker at your door. Easy installation directions included. Life time warranty.
Touch On / Touch Off Switch
The Touch On/Touch Off Switch is a touch switch designed for use by individuals with upper extremity disabilities. Pressing the plate once will activate a connected toy or appliance once and pressing it a second time will turn the device off, allowing continuous play or operation. DIMENSIONS: Available in 3 x 5 inches or 5 x 8 inches.
Touch Screen -Serial Port, Black or White
Touch Screen -Serial Port, Black or White, is a device for users with physical impairments that is intended to prevent arthritis from repetitive mouse clicking by converting a computer monitor into a touch screen. It can be used as a writing/drawing tablet. Can be activated by a finger, fingernail, gloved hand, or stylus. User can click, double click, and drag across the screen. Use the Touch screen with or without a mouse. Easy to Clean Scratch-resistant surface.
Touch Switch (Model Cm-4)
Touch Switch is a single switch activated by very light pressure on a plastic plate. DIMENSIONS: 3.75 x 1.5 x 0.5 inches. WEIGHT: 1 ounce.
Touch-Activated Ornament On/off Switch (Model C0129)
The Touch-Activated Ornament On/Off Switch, model C0129, is a touch switch for controlling Christmas tree lights, designed for use by individuals with upper extremity disabilities. Each switch is a brass Christmas tree ornament shaped like a bell. Touching the ornament turns Christmas tree lights on and off. The system controls up to 1200 miniature light bulbs (600 watts maximum).
Toy Adapter
Toy Adapter is a battery interface control for toys that allows a single switch to control the operation of a battery-powered device such as a toy. A switch is plugged into one end of the adapter, and a small plate at the other end is inserted between the battery and the battery contacts in the toy. The switch will then turn the toy on and off. Toy Adapters come in three sizes, depending on the size of battery in the toy. The Adapter is available with a choice of a mini plug or a submini plug. P
Toy Adapter Cables (Models Ca-9, Ca-12, & Ca-16)
Toy Adapter Cables allow battery operated toys or devices to be turned on using most single switches (switches not included). The device consists of a cable with a jack for a single switch at one end, and a small metal plate at the other. The plate is inserted between two batteries in a battery-operated device, such as a toy, or between a battery and a battery contact. When a switch is plugged into the jack, the switch will turn the toy on and off. Toy Adapter Cables are available for "C," "AA,"
Toy Cable (Model 4379)
Toy Cable allows a battery operated device such as a toy to be turned on using most single switches (switches not included). It is a cable with a small metal plate at one end and a jack for a single switch at the other. The plate is inserted between two batteries in a battery- operated device or toy, or between a battery and a battery contact. When a switch is plugged into the jack, the switch will turn the toy on and off. POWER: D batteries. DIMENSIONS: 6 feet long.
Toy Cables
The Toy Cables are control switch accessories designed to convert battery operated toys to switch operated toys. Models are available to adapt toys using double-A or C batteries or to adapt toys using D batteries. A switch is required, but not included. DIMENSIONS: The cables are six feet long.
Toy Cables (Models 4378 & 4379)
Toy cables, models 4378 and 4379, are battery interface controls for toys designed to turn battery operated toys and appliances into switch activated toys and appliances for individuals with physical and cognitive disabilities. One end of the cable is placed between the battery and the battery connector in the battery compartment. The other end of the cable has a 1/8 inch miniature jack for single switch. There are two types: Model 4378 is 6 feet long for AA and C size batteries; Model 4379 is 6
Toy Modification Note: Build It Yourself Battery Interrupter: Revised 1986.
--- "DO IT YOURSELF" ENTRY ------- PURPOSE: Describes the use of battery interrupters for toys for disabled children and provides instructions for building three types of battery interrupters. Information on construction and use of battery interrupters, or switches, for regular cylindrical batteries, for 9 volt transistor radio type batteries and for use with cassette tape recorders and other devices with a "remote" jack. Includes drawings, a list of sources of information on switches, and a lis
Toyshop is a control switch training program designed for use by for children with learning disabilities and cognitive disabilities. It is designed for switch users who are progressing from cause and effect to making choices. The program also includes a memory game for those who have mastered primary switching skills. The program includes toy, vehicle, and animal pictures. Users can choose one or two switch operation. COMPATIBILITY: For IBM and compatible computers. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Windows
Transistor Radio Cheek Switch.
--- "DO IT YOURSELF" ENTRY ------- PURPOSE: Simple cheek switch may be attached to transistor radio to enable child to turn it on with a slight movement of the head. Device is constructed of transistor radio, subminiature lever switch, large bobby pin, plastic coated wire, plastic lid from food container or tennis ball can, cardboard and rosin core solder. COMMENTS: Can be used to teach simple cause and effect relationships to child who has very limited movement. SKILLS REQUIRED: Soldering. AUTH
Trapeze Pull Switch.
--- "DO IT YOURSELF" ENTRY ------- PURPOSE: Trapeze switch which can be suspended above a child to encourage working on grasping or pulling skills; pulling the switch activates a toy, tape player or light. Pull switch requires 3 feet of sturdy chain, 15 inches of 3/4 inch dowel, 2 metal rings to go through holes drilled in dowel, 6 inches of conductor wire, a subminiature size plug, 3 "quick links" size 2, sewing elastic and masking tape. Explains how to build the trapeze, including soldering th
Trauma Reaction Cards for Children & Adolescents
Trauma Reaction Cards for Children & Adolescents are flashcards design for children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder to help them understand their reactions to trauma and stress. Good theraputic tool to assist children and adolescent. Easy to read cards are colorful and illustrated. Addresses the four domains of trauma reactions: Emotional, Cognitive, Behavioral and Physiological. To be used by qualified professionals.
Tread Switch (Model Cm-1)
Tread Switch is a single switch operated by depressing a treadle type lever. An audible click accompanies activation. The lever and the bottom of the switch are foam rubber coated. A tapped mounting hole is provided on the bottom of the switch. DIMENSIONS: 2.75 x 3.5 x 1 inches. WEIGHT: 7 ounces.
Treadle Switch (Model 1474)
Small, light pressure single switch actuator with padded touch surface. May be mounted for head, arm, hand, knee or foot operation of powered wheelchair or other device. For chin operation it can be mounted with bib or attached to wheelchair with swingaway mount. Six foot cable with miniature plug and tapped mounting hole (1/4, 20) in the base.
Treadle Switch (Model 58800)
The Treadle Switch, model 58800, is a rocker switch designed for use by individuals with upper extremity disabilities. The switch can be used as a floor/foot switch or on a tabletop and is activated by pressing the hinged top surface from a specific angle. This switch enables the user to rest the body part used for activation on the switch's surface between activations. Activation requires 25 ounces of force and 0.2 inch of travel. Tactile and auditory feedback are provided. DIMENSIONS: 3.5 x 2
Treadlite Footswitch
Steel housing foot operated 1 or 2 stage momentary switches. Heavy tread on treadle and skid proof base. Light pressure to activate. POWER: 7 amps, can put two together. DIMENSIONS: 3.5 x 2.5 x 1.25 inches. WEIGHT: 7 to 10 ounces.
Trend Enterprises Community Helpers Puzzle Set
The Trend Enterprises Community Helpers Puzzle Set is designed for children ages three and up with Autism Spectrum Disorder to match everyday helpers to the common tools they use. Format adapts to abilities and features interlocking pieces with photographs for easy recognition and retention. Sturdy, durable pieces with self-checking design.
Trigger Switch
The Trigger Switch is a wired single switch designed for wheelchair users to meet the rugged special needs of wheelchair users in their environment. The wired single switch is waterproof, dustproof and tough enough for use in any environment. The assistive technology includes five color choices and all of the mounting solutions to accommodate mounting on a flat surface.
Triswitch Input Controller (Model 3450) & Varibrite Triswitch Display (Model 3460)
The Triswitch, in conjunction with three single-switch actuators, is used for mode selection and oepration of a Multimode Interface. Two of the switch actuators provide left and right actuator commands, while the third switch provides both forward and reverse commands. The display incorporates forward and reverse directional lights with corresponding arrows to provide a visual indication of forward/reverse switch selection. Five additional mode display light are provided to indicate when the Mul
Tryone Gooseneck Tablet Stand
The Tryone Gooseneck Tablet Stand is designed for use by individuals with upper or lower extremity, grasping, and mobility disabilities. The gooseneck is built to be strong and sturdy while it supports the weight of iPads, phones, and game devices.
Twin Talk & Twin Talk And Play (Models 1401 & 1402)
Twin Talk, model 1401 is a direct selection communicator designed for use by individuals with upper extremity, cognitive, and communication disabilities. Designed as a precursor and trainer before more complicated communicators are introduced, this unit enables two 10-second messages to be recorded, played back, and re recorded by pressing either of the two plates. Pictures, words, or symbols (not included) can be attached to the plate switches to identify the messages. The unit features a remov
Twitch Switch (Model 1061)
The Twitch Switch, model 1061, is an eyebrow switch designed for use by individuals with severe physical, neurological, or upper extremity disabilities or spinal cord injury. This switch is activated by a small muscle movement such as wrinkling the forehead or raising an eyebrow; the amount of muscle movement required for activation can be adjusted for increased or decreased movement. This switch operates in latching, momentary, or timed mode. The latch mode operates an attached device until the
Two Directional Rocking Switch.
--- "DO IT YOURSELF" ENTRY ------- PURPOSE: Two directional rocker switch can be used to make a toy go forward or backward, or operate two devices at the same time. Rocker switch is constructed using 2 pieces of conductor wire, 2 subminiature plugs and 2 brass or copper squares soldered on to a piece of wood. Includes diagrams. SKILLS REQUIRED: Soldering. AUTHOR: Burkhart, L J TITLE: More Homemade Battery Devices for Severely Handicapped Children with Suggested Activities REF: Millville, Pennsyl
Two Function Box.
--- "DO IT YOURSELF" ENTRY ------- PURPOSE: Device to allow one switch to turn on two toys with similar voltage requirements. Switch made with a small plastic jewelry or watch box, 1 subminiature size jack, 2 subminiature size plugs and 2 pieces of two conductor 22 gauge stranded wire, 4 feet long. Includes instructions, diagrams, a photograph and possible uses. SKILLS REQUIRED: Soldering. Electronics. AUTHOR: Burkhart, L J TITLE: More Homemade Devices for Severely Handicapped Children With Sugg
Two Pedal Footswitch Actuated Footswitch
Two pedal footswitch. Aluminum base with snap action switch on each side, footrest in center. Switches rated 10 amps, 240 volts AC. 2 meters grey cable included. Can be wired to users specifications.
The Typing Aid is designed for use by people with limited hand mobility or dexterity who have difficulty using a keyboard, calculators, telephones, and other devices. The Typing Aid is a hand clip that is attached to a soft plastic key depressor. The Clip may be rebent to provide a customized fit for each user, including both left and right hand.
UCS INC Urban Adventure Complete Set
The UCS INC Urban Adventure Complete Set is a physical therapy product designed for those individuals with lower extremity disabilities to expand and create challenging obstacles geared for your specific needs.Designed for competition in a safe environment, this product helps athletes develop agility, balance, speed and body awareness with a variety of challenging and rearrangeable obstacles. A hook-n-loop fastening system secures obstacles. Use for track and field events. Good to use as a agili
Ufo Push Switch (Model 1702)
The UFO Push Switch, model 1702, is a touch switch designed for use by individuals with severe physical or upper extremity disabilities. Appropriate for teenagers, the unit activates with the slightest touch on the cosmic surface. The user is rewarded with music, lights and vibration. When used as a switch, the stimuli are automatically disconnected. The music appeals to an older age group. POWER: Uses 4 double-A batteries. DIMENSIONS (DxH): 7 x 1 inch high.
Ultimate Switch With Quick Disconnect (Model 1072)
The Ultimate Switch, model 1072, is a touch switch designed for use by individuals with physical disabilities. The switch can be activated by the chin, head, any part of an arm or leg. Only one gram of force is needed for activation, but it is sturdy enough to withstand severe blows. If the switch is struck too hard, the spring will absorb the blow and return to the prepositioned station within the user's reach. This model also includes Quick Disconnect mounting hardware which enables the switc
Ultimate Switch, The (Model 1671, 1671-8)
The Universal Switch, models 1671 and 1671-8, is a versatile, multi-faceted touch switch that can be activated by use of the chin, head, any part of the arms or legs for individuals with severe physical disabilities. Only one gram of force is needed for activation, but it is sturdy enough to withstand severe blows. If the switch is struck too hard, the spring will absorb the blow and return to the prepositioned station within the user's reach. The Universal Switch has various mounting capabiliti
Ultra 4L
The Ultra 4L is an environmental control switch module designed to allow individuals with limited hand movement or finger dexterity to operate the Ultra 4 Environmental Control System (see separate entry) using a mouth stick or head pointer. The unit has four control buttons, each a different color to correspond with the appropriate module. The unit can be mounted to suit the user's needs. POWER: Uses batteries (included). DIMENSIONS: 8.25 x 5 x 1.5 inches. WEIGHT: One pound. COLOR: Black with r
Ultra 4S (Model 34140)
The Ultra 4S, model 34140, is an environmental control switch module designed to enable individuals with limited range of hand movement or finger dexterity to operate the Ultra 4 Environmental Control System (see separate entry). This portable unit has four small, closely grouped control buttons, each a different color to correspond with the appropriate module. The buttons provide tactile feedback. The unit can be mounted to suit the user's needs. POWER: Uses batteries (included). DIMENSIONS: 4
Ultra One Receiver (Models 341131 & 34136)
The Ultra One Receiver is an environmental control switch designed to enable individulas with severe physical disabilities or spinal cord injury to operate electrical appliances using Ultra One transmitters (see also separate entry). Designed for use with battery- or switch-adapted devices, this receiver is equipped with a 1/8-inch mono switch plug that connects to the device to be controlled. This non-latching receiver is color coded to receive the ultrasound signal from the corresponding trans
Ultra One Red Button Transmitter (Model 34130) & Ultra One Yellow Button Transmitter (Model 34135)
The Ultra One Red Button Transmitter, model 34130, and the Ultra One Yellow Button Transmitter, model 34135, are environmental control switches designed to enable individuals with upper extremity or severe physical disabilities or spinal cord injury to operate electrical appliances. Once an appliance is connected to the corresponding Power Module (see also separate entry) or Ultra One Receiver (see also separate entry), pressing anywhere on the surface of this large button will activate the devi
Ultrastik
UltraStik is a surface anchor designed to anchor switches and other items to flat surfaces. This adhesive is reusable, extra tough and sticky, and easy to see. Stickiness can be restored with soap and water. UltraStik is available in packages of three custom cut circles (one to fit a Jelly Bean Switch and two for the Specs switch; see separate entries), a package of two custom-cut circles for the Jelly Bean Switch), or one rectangle to enable he user to cut adhesive to individual needs. DIMENSIO
Undercover Buddy Button
The Undercover Buddy Button is a buttonswitch designed for use by children with upper extremity disabilities. Similar in design to the Buddy Button (see separate entry), the Undercover Buddy comes with a sheet of colorful, removable and reusable stickers that enable the user to change the switch's appearance whenever the mood strikes. This switch has a slight indent on its surface to accept the round stickers. DIMENSIONS: The stickers are 1.5 inches in diameter. COLOR: The switch surface is yell
Universal Adaptive Switch
The Universal Adaptive Switch (UAS) is a multi input switch selector designed to combine features of many popular switches in one unit for individuals who depend on the use of single switches. It can adapt to an individual user's changing needs or accomodate the varied needs of multiple users in group setting. It is a low voltage DC switch with remote control capability and three modes: momentary mode for scanning controls and computer interfaces; latching mode for turning devices on and off; an
Universal Control Panel
The Universal Control Panel is a control input interface for electronic devices used by powered wheelchair users with physical or neurological disabilities. The control panel can be used on any powered wheelchair, and it can control almost any device on the chair, including MP3 players, CD players, radios, fans, and heaters. It also interfaces with all of the manufacturer's products, such as the IllumiRay Lighting System and the HydroFlush Mini (see separate entries). It has 3 powered 12-volt In
Universal Module (Model 615, 616, 616-8)
The Universal Module, model 615, 616 and 616-8, is a control switch interface unit that increases the flexibility of switch controls by providing alternate actions, intention delays and timed outputs for children with physical disabilities. There are 6 output possibilities that can be modified with or without intention delays: Alternate On/Off; Momentary; and Timed (can be used with one or two switches). With Alternate on/off, the initial switch closure turns on a connected device, the secondary
Universal Switch Mounting System
The Universal Switch Mounting System is switch mounting hardware designed to allow quick and easy placement of a switch in any position. The hardware, including a large triangular base plate, clamps onto a wheelchair or tableand holds up to five pounds. The system offers a choice of a single-lever control or a knob control to lock all joints in place. OPTIONS: An Extension Package for the Universal Switch Mounting System is also available; this package includes three sturdy extension rods and a
Universal Swivel Clamp (Model 1620)
The Universal Swivel Clamp is switch mounting hardware that allows adjustment of both the length and angular relationship of two 1/4-inch mounting rods. This permits more flexibility of use of a switch, depending on the individual's position and needs.
Universal Table Mount (Model 59400)
The Universal Table Mount, model59400, is switch mounting hardware designed for use by individulas who uses switches to operate assistive devices. This sturdy mount includes a universal swivel clamp, table mount base, and a straight tube and enables a straignt tube to be directly attached to a table. This mount can be used in conjunction with other Tash mounting hardware (see separate entry) to mount a variety of switches and devices.
Universal Tv Large Button Remote
The Universal TV Large Button Remote is a television remote designed for use by individuals with fine motor or upper extremity disabilities, or low vision. This large button remote can be operated with six buttons; on/off, channel up/down, volume up/down, and mute, and works with most brands of televisions. DIMENSIONS (HxLxW): 4.25 x 1.25 x 0.50 inches.
Universal TV Remote Control
The Universal TV Remote Control is a television remote control designed to enable children and adults with upper extremity disabilities to operate television functions independently. This unit is equipped with separate rocking plate switches to control the on/off, volume, and channel up/channel down functions. This infrared unit is compatible with most remote-control televisions and cable boxes and includes easy-to-follow programming instructions. POWER: Uses three triple A batteries. DIMENSIONS
Up/down Switch (Model 854, 854-8)
The Up/Down Switch, model 854, is a puzzle switch designed to encourages depth perception training and enhance visual-motor tasks for individuals who have cognitive, sensory or physical disabilities. The puzzles introduce basic cognitive concepts, improve fine motor skills and develop order and sequencing skills which are important building blocks for logical thinking and organization. The switch consists of a wooden base with 5 round slots, each of different depths, and 5 multi-colored cylindri
Usb Switch Interface
The USB Switch Interface is a switch adapter for computer designed for use by individuals with fine motor and upper extremity disabilities. This switch adapter connects from one to five single switch input devices to a computer. It supports industry standard single switch software applications written for one to five single switches. Switches that have a standard 1/8-inch mini-plug fit directly in the jacks on the interface. Switches with plug sizes other than 1/8 inch can be used with an adapte
Usb-Uirt
The USB-UIRT is a computer input interface designed for use by individuals with mobility or severe physical disabilities. This infrared (IR) receiver and transmitter connect to a computer through a USB port. Together with a software package like Girder (not included), this unit allows the computer to be controlled by any infrard remote control, such as a TV remote, with a reception range of eight meters. The unit can also send infrared signals to control audio/video equipment, such as a DVD play
Vacuum Wand
The Vacuum Wand is a mouthstick designed for use by individuals with upper extremity disabilities, spinal cord injury, and severe physical disabilities. Made of aluminum and plastic, this device is designed for turning book or magazine pages. Features include a suction cup tip and two interchangeable ends that can be cut to the desired length. DIMENSIONS: The shaft is 18 inches long.
Vanguard Pneumatic Footswitch (Models 81Sa1 & 81Sa2)
Remote control pneumatic foot operated momentary switch. PVC air bulb with bellows; PVC tubing and Micro V3C series snap switch. Bulb can be up to 30 feet from switch so can isolate electrically live switch. POWER: 15 amps, 125 to 250 volt AC, 1/2 horsepower. DIMENSIONS: 4.5 x 1.25 x 1 1/8 inches.
Varibrite Mode Display (Model 2775-4)
A remote display used in conjuction with a Multimode interface to indicate when the system is in standby, or in one of four oeprating modes. The display is mounted on a flexible gooseneck to position the display for optimum viewing, and to help protect the display from impact damage. The gooseneck is fitted to a mounting tube for attachment to an armrest using a standard hand-control clamp.
Varior Potentiometer Foot Control
Footswitch 4 by 9 by 2 inches, foot operated switch for variable speed motors. Momentary models has spring return pedal; latching model has adjustable friction pads. Available in 2 watt linear only. Specify maximum resistance. Steel housing. Non slip treadle pad and base. WEIGHT: 4 pounds.
Vertical Plate Switch (Model 1030 & 1030-8)
Vertical Plate Switch, models 1030 and 1030-8, is a switch designed to be positioned vertically for children who can only produce side-swiping or mid-line movements. The switch is activated by pushing a big circular plate that can be positioned either vertically or at a 45 degree angle. The bracket can be attached to a horizontal surface with the provided suction cups, screws, or double-sided tape. DIMENSIONS: 3 x 5 inches.
Vertical Wobble Switch
The Vertical Wobble Switch is a touch switch designed for use by individuals with upper extremity disabilities. This switch is activated using a swiping motion or other gross motor movement, enabling it to be activated by many parts of the body. The swiping contact activates the device attached to the switch and, once activated, the vertical stem returns to its original position. This switch is equipped with a 1/8 inch jack.
Vertical Wobble Switch (Model 1070, 1070-8)
Vertical Wobble Switch, models 1070 and 1070-8, is a single switch activated by bending a flexible rod for individuals with severe physical disabilities. The switch is designed to be activated by any action or gross body movement. It will activate any device attached to it and then will return to its original position. The switch is mounted vertically on a base and secured with four rubber suction cups. DIMENSIONS: 6 x 6 inches with a 5-inch long shaft.
Vibrating Mirror Plate Switch
The Vibrating Mirror Plate Switch is a touch switch designed to activate toys and appliances for individuals with upper extremity disabilities. This switch features an unbreakable mirror plate on a dark base and activates with slight pressure on the plate. The switch vibrates when activated and additional reinforcement is provided by the audible and tactile switch closure. The switch can be used alone or with any switch-adapted toy or appliance with a 1/8th-inch jack. POWER: Uses 2 C batteries.
Vibrating Plate Switch (Model 1040, 1040-8)
The Vibrating Plate Switch, models 1040 and 1040-8, is a touch switch designed to provide vibrotactile stimulation for low functioning children with physical or sensory disabilities. When the switch is connected, the plate vibrates. It can be used alone or as an external switch.
Vibration Switch / Latch / Timer (Model 633)
The Vibration Switch/Latch/Timer is designed for use by individuals with limited movement or motor control. The unit offers switch, latch, or timer modes and, when placed on a flat surface, will activate a connected toy or device with a light tapping of one finger on that flat surface. In the timer mode, the timer output will end at the set time even with continuous input.
Video Sentry & Master Sentry
The Video Sentry and Master Sentry are closed circuit television security systems for homes and offices designed to allow the occupants to see who is at the door by means of a video display on a telephone console. This feature may be particularly useful to individuals who are deaf, hard of hearing, or who have speech disabilities and cannot use an intercom system. Cameras installed at the door(s) use infrared technology to capture images in bright daylight or complete darkness. These images are
Virtual Butler
The Virtual Butler is an environmental control unit designed for use by individuals with mobility or several physical disabilities. It is a computer server that connects to most home electronics and is compatible with nearly all existing home automation and security systems. It alerts the user whenever there is a change in the environment, such as an arriving guest, departing car, or opened pool gate. The "butler" appears as a face in a mirror and speaks through the home speaker system, disappea
Visually Impaired Programmable Talking Thermostat (Model Vip 1000)
The Visually Impaired Programmable Talking Thermostat, model VIP 1000, is a voice output thermostat designed for use by individuals who are blind or have low vision. This programmable thermostat has voice output to guide the user through set-up and temperature options. It also includes a display with oversized LCD (liquid crystal display) characters. Verbal guidance is provided for every step of the programming process. Dirty filter and low battery warnings and temperature and settings reports a
Vivo! Controller
The Vivo! Controller is an environmental control unit designed for use by individuals with mobility or severe physical disabilities or spinal cord injury. This wheelchair-mountable unit is configurable to control the environment, make telephone calls, answer and unlock the door, or contact caregivers. It has more than 1,000 functions, and can operate as a remote control with infrared or radio control output, or as a wired switch control with one or two switch scanning methods. It has a full colo
Voice Activated Remote Control (Model 5180)
The Voice Activated Remote Control, model 5180, is a voice input remote control for television, video recorder, or DVD player designed for use by individuals with mobility, upper extremity, or severe physical disabilities or spinal cord injury. This voice-activated remote control uses the sound of the user's voice to control TV, VCR, DVD, cable, satellite, and AUX functions. It recognizes up to 50 commands and can perform complex multi-step operations from a single spoken command. POWER: Uses 4
Voice Activated Switch
The Voice Activated Switch can operate battery driven devices and toys. The switch can be operated by talking, whistling, blowing, or making any sound into the microphone built-in to the top of the switch casing. After receiving sound input, the switch activates the device to which its one eighth inch cord is attached. The switch comes with an adjustable neck strap. POWER: Rechargeable 9 volt battery and 115 volt charger (both included).
Voice Controlled Switch.
--- "DO IT YOURSELF" ENTRY ------- PURPOSE: Switch activated by the child's voice to turn on a tape player, battery toy or light, intended to encourage vocalization; when the child is quiet, the switch is off. Adaptation of a 150 in 1 Electronic Project Kit from Radio Shack, also requiring 5 feet of 2 conductor 22 gauge stranded wire and 1 subminiature size plug. Includes instructions, diagrams, uses and photograph. SKILLS REQUIRED: Electronics. Soldering. Assembly. AUTHOR: Burkhart, L J TITLE:
Voice Switch
The Voice Switch is a sound-based control switch designed for use by individuals with neurological or severe physical disabilities, and a sound production training device designed for use by individuals with speech disabilities. This device provides a switch closure to control connected assistive technology in response to sound production, and it can be used to train sound production capability by persons with speech disabilities, including persons who have limited ability to produce sounds with
Voiceir Environmental Voice Controller
The VoiceIR Infrared Environmental Voice Controller is a voice input remote environmental control designed for use by individuals with mobility, neurological, or severe physical disabilities or spinal cord injury. This unit allows the user to voice control a TV, DVD, stereo, or any device controlled with an infrared remote, with options and accessories to control lights, electric bed, landline telephone, cell phone, thermostat, air-conditioner, space heater, ceiling fan, or power door opener. Th
Volume Control Adapter (Model 1480)
The Volume Control Adapter (no. 1480) is a computer auditory output amplification accessory that enables the user to control the volume level of computer auditory output when working in a noisy environment or whenever the monitor sound must be adjusted. COMPATIBILITY: The Volume Control Adapter connects between any Apple computer and any monitor which has an 1/8-inch audio input jack.
Wafer Switch (Model 50180)
The Wafer Switch, model 50180, is a touch switch designed with five membrane switches in one low-profile housing designed for use by individuals with gross motor skill use and a large range of motion. This switch is a multiple switch used to control any device that requires five single switches for operation, such a as a wheelchair or a communication aid. It may also be used to control up to five separate devices which are operated with a single switch. This switch has five large, slightly reces
Wakershaker
The WakerShaker is a control switch training program designed for use with children with cognitive disabilities. Designed to teach cause and effect and switch use, the device is a switch-modified vibrational device (massager) and is designed to operate with any single switch (not included).
Wall Switch Extension Handle
The Wall Switch Extension Handle, model F754141000, is a plastic device designed to assist wheelchair users or persons with limited arm movement to operate standard height light switches. The handle attaches to the any standard toggle-type wall switch, and allows it to be flipped by pushing or pulling on the unit.
Wedge Plate Switch (Model 3Tswp)
The Wedge Plate Switch, model 3TSWP, is a touch switch designed for use by individuals with severe physical or upper extremity disabilities. This switch offers a switch latch mode and a timer mode and the extremely sensitive large surface requires merely a touch to activate and no physical pressure.
Weeble Switches (Model 1023)
The Weeble Switches, model 1023, are touch switch designed for use by individuals with severe physical or upper upper extremity disabilities. These vibrating switches are extremely sensitive to the slightest touch and the wide base provides stability. The switch base comes with three randomly-selected Weebles. POWER: Uses 1 N-cell battery. DIMENSIONS (LxWxH): 8.5 x 10 x 2 inches.
WeMo App
WeMo is an environmental control and home automation program designed for use by people with cognitive or memory disabilities or parents or caregivers of adults or children with developmental or other disabilities that may result in forgetting to turn lights or appliances on or off. This application (or app) allows a person to use an Android or iOS device to control remotely any number of lights, appliances, and other devices in their house that is plugged into a WeMo Switch (see separate entry)
Wemo Motion
The WeMo Motion is a motion detection switch designed for use by people with cognitive or memory disabilities or parents or caregivers of adults or children with developmental or other disabilities that may result in their failing to turn lights or appliances on or off. This switch is designed to be used with the WeMo app (see separate entry) which connects to the WeMo Motion though a WiFi network in the user's home. A home WiFi network is required for operation of this product. The WeMo Motion
Wemo Switch
The WeMo Switch is a remote control switch and an environmental control unit designed for use by people with cognitive or memory disabilities or parents or caregivers of adults or children with developmental or other disabilities that may result in their failing to turn lights or appliances on or off. This switch is designed to be used with the WeMo app (see separate entry) which connects to the WeMo Switch though a WiFi network in the user's home. A home WiFi network is required for operation.
Wheeled Mobility is a custom prototype designed for children with Quadriplegia Cerebral Palsy to move around on their own. The team explored many crawling and walking design ideas - but after discussing with both Han’s parents and physical therapist, they realized that mobility was the key and they needed to make a motorized chair for him. The chair has interchangeable parts, velcroed down, depending on Han’s abilities and his size - with options for him to sit in a tumble form chair or on his p
Wheels! is a video game designed for use by children with cognitive, sensory, or motor disabilities. This game can be played as a game or it can be used to teach wheelchair control skills. This three-dimensional video game has players fight evil clowns and mad robots with pie guns that "cream" the monsters with lemon meringue pies; the monsters fight back with pie guns that fire blueberry pies. The game uses easy-to-follow mazes set in a familiar school setting with familiar objects. Each maze o
Whisper-Lite Swingaway Sip-N-Puff (Model 32651)
The Whisper-Lite Swingaway Sip-N-Puff, model 32651, is a pneumatic switch designed to enable people with severe physical disabilities to propel powered wheelchairs using breath control. The system is designed to be a swingaway unit, but it can be placed in a fixed position. Once the optimal air tube-to mouth position is set, the unit can swing out of the way by using the Pinned Split Collar with the Notched Step Collar so the user can get into or out of the chair. A plastic-coated gooseneck tub
WinSCAN is a single switch control interface designed to provide independent control access to programs for individuals who are single switch users. This product allows the user to navigate through Windows, choose program icons and run application programs and games. WinSCAN works by superimposing a scanning control display window in front of an application program. The display contains words or icons to represent the functions needed to navigate and operate the software. The display can be posi
Wireless Gumball Switch
The Wireless Gumball Switch is a wireless touch switch designed for use by individuals with severe physical or upper extremity disabilities or spinal cord injuries. Intended for users who can access a smaller target area, when the switch is pressed, it transmits a signal to the receiver (included), which activates a connected toy, device, or a computer switch interface system. This switch can be used as far away as 20 feet from the item. POWER: The receiver uses two double-A batteries and the sw
Wireless Oval Texture Switch (Model 727)
The Wireless Oval Texture Switch, model 727, is a touch switch designed for use by individuals with severe physical or upper extremity disabilities. The surface of this switch is covered with small bumps for tactile feedback. The wireless switch transmits to a receiver to activate a connected toy or device. POWER: Uses 2 double-A batteries and 1 nine-volt battery. DIMENSIONS: 10 x 6 x 3.5 inches.
Wireless Pal Pad
The Wireless Pal Pad is an environmental control unit designed for use by individuals with upper extremity or severe physical disabilities or fine motor disabilities. This unit enables the user to control remotely an alternating current (AC) appliance when used along with an X-10 transceiver module (included). It is slim and lightweight for uncomplicated mounting. The Wireless Pal Pad utilizes radio frequency so activation to take place within a 25-foot range without direct line-of-sight. The Wi
Wireless Remote Control System (Model Rc5000)
The RC5000 Wireless Remote Control System is a radio-operated appliance control system. The RC5000 broadcasts a signal strong enough that the user can operate appliances (turn on lights, for instance) even from outside the house. The user presses a button on a hand-held transmitter. This transmitter broadcasts to a transceiver (transmitter/receiver) unit which has an electrical device plugged into it. This one device can be turned on or off, plus up to eight additional X-10 appliance control mod
Wireless Saucer Switch (Models 719)
The Wireless Saucer Switch, model 719, is a touch switch designed for use by individuals with severe physical and upper extremity disabilities. The wireless switch transmits a signal to a receiver to activate a connected toy or device. POWER: Uses two double A batteries and one nine-volt battery.
Wireless Super Bed Shaker Bluetooth Alarm Clock
The Wireless Super Bed Shaker Bluetooth Alarm Clock is designed for users who are elderly, heavy sleepers, hard of hearing, deaf and more. The device allows the user to set alarms or smart phone notifications for calls, texts, messages and social media using the included App. Sleek unit slides under a pillow and attaches with a clip to keep stationary while sleeping. Internal memory retains time and preset alarms independent. Set up to 8 individual alarms for multiple days and times. Battery las
Wireless Switch Link
The Wireless Switch Link is a control input interface designed for use by individuals with upper extremity disabilities. This unit is an infrared two-switch interface for remote computer operation. The device comprises a receiver that plugs into the serial port of a computer and a transmitter into which switches (not included) are plugged for use at a remote location.
Wireless Tv Remote (Model 1521)
The Wireless TV Remote, model 1521, is a television remote control designed for use by individuals with fine motor, neurological, or upper extremity disabilities. This oversized wireless TV remote control features a large striking area with large push buttons. The buttons are labeled with words and symbols for Channel, Sound and On/Off functions. The remote uses infrared technology compatible with most remote-controlled TVs. Five input jacks allow the user to control the remote with an external
Wireless Ultimate Switch, The (Model 2700)
The Wireless Ultimate Switch, model 2700, is a radio remote control switch designed for use by individuals with severe disabilities. The wobble-style switch requires only 10 grams of force to activate but can withstand gross body motion activation or severe blows. This cordless switch transmits up to 50 feet through the air using radio waves to activate a device connected to the receiver. The unit comes complete with a combination 0.25-inch and 1/8-inch plug, transmitter, receiver, gooseneck, an
Wisp 2000
WISP 2000 is a control switch interface designed for use by individuals with upper extremity disabilities. This wireless device has built-in sip/puff capability and it can be used with any other ability switch connected to the built-in three millimeter stero jack to create wireless control. This switch can transmit two switch closures, and can be used as a remote switch interface for single switch scanning software or for any device controlled by a single or dual switch. WISP 2000 can also be us
Wobble Switch
The Wobble Switch is a touch switch designed to be activated by any body part for individuals who have physical disabilities. Through swiping action or any gross body movement, this switch will activate any switch adapted device and then return to its original position when released. It is mounted on a gooseneck an a cast iron base.
X-10 Powerflash Interface (Model Pf284)
Burglar alarm interface. Connects to standard burglar alarm. When set off will flash lights or blast stereo or television to frighten intruder. Must be used in combination with X-10 modules.
X-10 Powerhouse System
X-10 Powerhouse System (formerly called X-10 System and BSR X-10 System) is a flexible remote appliance control system. A central control panel is plugged into a wall socket, and the desired appliances are plugged into appliance control modules around the house. The user selects which appliance he wants controlled on the central control panel, and a signal is broadcast through the house wiring to the appropriate control module. The module then turns the appliance on, off, up, down, etc. Many dif
X-10 Thermostat Setback Controller (Model Th2807)
Thermostat controller for use with The Thermostat Set-Back Controller, model TH2807, is an electronic thermostat controller that allows the user to automate and control all the thermostats in the house, making it possible to schedule heating or air conditioning to turn on only for the hours when it is needed.
X-10 Wall Receptacle Module (Model Sr227)
Wall receptacle module for use with X-10 Control Consoles. Replaces existing wall receptacles, two 3 prong outlets, one controlled, one a regular outlet. Allows lights and appliances to be turned on/off from anywhere inside or outside of the house.
X-Keys Controller (Usb)
The X-Keys Controller (USB) is a keyboard interface designed for use by individuals with upper extremity or fine motor disabilities. This unit is a compound programmable keyboard and joystick designed to provide access to custom or stock software and can be used in conjunction with the standard keyboard or as a stand-alone keyboard for applications not requiring a standard keyboard. The patented built-in joystick offers precise control with little movement and the design permits additional contr
X-Keys Desktop
X-Keys Desktop is a keyboard interface designed for use by individuals with upper extremity or fine motor disabilities. This unit is a keypad with 20 user-programmable keys that provide one-button access to shortcuts such as macros and hotkeys. Users can create their own macros with keystroke programming. The keyboard comes in USB or PS/2 versions. COMPATIBILITY: For use on IBM and compatible or Macintosh computers. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: For PC, 2000, XP, or Vista operating system. For Mac, OSX o
X-Keys Foot Pedal
The X-Keys Foot Pedal is a keyboard interface designed for use by individuals with upper extremity or fine motor disabilities. This unit is a programmable keyboard designed to provide access to custom or stock software and can be used in conjunction with the standard keyboard or as a stand-alone keyboard for applications not requiring a standard keyboard. The unit provides three foot pedals that can be programmed to replace keyboard commands; a separate command can be programmed with the pedal
X-Keys Pro
The X-Keys Pro is a keyboard interface designed for use by individuals with upper extremity or fine motor disabilities. This unit is a programmable keyboard designed to provide access to custom or stock software and can be used in conjunction with the standard keyboard or as a stand-alone keyboard for applications not requiring a standard keyboard. The unit provides 58 user-programmable keys that accept multiple keystrokes, enabling multiple keystrokes to be programmed to a single key. Informati
X-Keys Usb Switch Interface
The X-Keys USB Switch Interface is a computer control input interface designed for use by individuals with upper extremity disabilities. This unit enables up to 12 single switches (not included) to be connected to a computer to activate standard or onscreen keyboard and mouse commands. The unit is programmable by flipping a switch on the side of the unit, pressing a switch, and keying the desired function or sequence from the main keyboard. COMPATIBILITY: For use with IBM and compatible computer
X10 2-Way Appliance Module (Model Am14A)
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Highway tunnel box jacking in Boston, USA Apr 1997
When roads and railways cross on the same plane, one eventually has to give way. In Boston, Massachusetts on the Central Artery/Tunnel (CA/T) Project, it is the new highway that has given way to the sets of rail tracks that have been serving Boston's South Station railway terminal for more than 100 years. Engineers on the mega CA/T project have achieved the necessary gradient separation by going underneath and using a truly innovative solution.
In situ casting and jacking of the tunnel elements with trains passing above and anti-drag cables for the top deck anchored to the jacking pit headwall and hanging from brackets inside the jacked element
Tunnel box jacking is not a new idea, nor that complex in concept, but on the scale used in Boston, that is new. It took a visit to the site to appreciate the undertaking and realise how and why the project measures up to something special.
Other less expensive and less massive methods for achieving the same end result, including other bored tunnel alternatives, were considered during the preliminary planning and design phases, but all things considered - ground conditions, location, logistics - the selected tunnel jacking method is meeting the widest range of criteria in Boston. One of the most important of these has been to promote and maintain a high degree of confidence in third party owners throughout the planning, design, construction and life-time of the facility. The third party owner and operator in this case is the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) that owns the railway facilities, and AMTRAK which maintains the tracks outside South Station on which pass several hundred trains daily.
Jacking alternative
The jacking concept is being applied in Boston to create three separate sections on the new subsurface I-90 highway and as part of the overall $13.8 billion CA/T project. Each jacked section carries two highway traffic lanes with an emergency breakdown lane, and each has an internal clearance of about 7m high x 20m wide. Two of the tunnel jacks take the eastbound and westbound carriageways of the I-90 highway under the rail tracks while the third is a two-lane I-90 westbound off ramp passing under the tracks.
The tunnel jacking application in Boston is one of the largest uses of the technique in the world and one of the first applications of the method in the United States. The three tunnel sections comprise eight separate precast concrete elements of between 20m to 50m long, 11.5m high, and up to 24m wide, with heavily reinforced concrete floors and roof decks of 2m thick and walls of 1.8m thick.
The off-ramp tunnel is 51m long and comprises two precast jacked elements, while the two carriageway tunnels are 79m and 116m long and comprise three elements each. Each element for the tunnel crossings is cast in large slurry wall supported jacking pits, a major construction undertaking in itself, and is being jacked into position some 2.5m to 9m beneath the rail tracks. At all times the tracks must remain in service. Any interruption to train services would result in heavy penalties to the designers, contractors and highway project owners.
Fig 1. Plan of the CA/T project in Boston
In preliminary planning and design, the rail underpass was envisaged as a staged cut-and-cover operation moving each set of rail tracks one-by-one and building the highway beneath in short increments. The non-disruptive tunnel jacking alternative proposed by Hatch Mott MacDonald was approved by CA/T project designers Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff, and it was on this proposal that contract documents were released.
In early 1997, the Slattery Skanska/Interbeton/J F White/Perini Corp JV was awarded Contract C09A4 as the lowest of three bids at $398 million. "In addition to the jacked tunnels, the contract includes extensive cut-and-cover tunnels, boat sections and elevated structures which comprise the huge I-90/I-93 highway interchange," explained Gary Almeraris, Operations Manager for the JV. "This is the largest contract on the CA/T project, and all its construction activity must be managed and undertaken within the confines of a very restricted project site. The site is hemmed in on each side by the existing I-90 and I-93 highways, the Fort Point Channel, South Station and its railway tracks, as well as within close proximity to seven neighbouring CA/T construction contracts. It is a very challenging project."
Construction programme
After gaining access to the sites, the first task in the tunnel jacking section was to excavate the three large casting and jacking pits adjacent to the rail tracks. These pits are 15m to 18m deep, and are supported by slurry walls. A massive reinforced concrete slab of up to 1.5m thick provides a base to the pits and a suitable foundation on which to cast and then jack the elements of each tunnel section. A 6mm thick steel base plate provides the interface between the concrete of the base slab and the underside of the element to be moved. The back walls of the pits are designed to withstand thrust forces of 11,000 tonne to 12,000 tonne needed to push each element forward and ultimate loads of 18,000 tonne to 19,000 tonne.
Excavation of the pits gave the JV immediate experience of the geological conditions expected ahead of the tunnel jacking. Historical records and preliminary site investigation data in the contract documents had already predicted complex, mixed and unpredictable conditions. The rail tracks are built on reclaimed land under which are buried the granite blocks of the original sea front retaining wall and other timber pile-supported structures. The fill is primarily granular but contains various debris including chunks of concrete, steel, wood and abandoned rail track.
Below the fill are extensive continuous deposits of organic silt with fine sand and some peat. Underlying this, and comprising the thickest soil deposit at tunnel alignment, is marine clay with a section of softer clay beneath a deposit of stronger and less compressible clay at the top. The groundwater level is within 3m and 1.8m of the surface.
Outline of the jacked tunnels beneath the rail tracks
A major concern during design was stabilisation of these weak soils. Excavation of the material ahead of the elements was not a problem, but controlling the loss of ground at the 278m2 tunnel faces was critical, not only to limit surface settlement under the tracks, but also to maintain line and level accuracy during jacking.
Initially, the baseline design anticipated soil stabilisation using chemical grouting and dewatering in the fill materials, horizontal jet grouting in the organic deposits, and soil nailing in the marine clay. The JV, however, was concerned about the risks associated with these methods and suggested ground freezing as a value engineering alternative.
"It took about a year to progress from impossible to approval," said Peter van Dijk, Tunnel Manager for the JV, "but the advantages in the end were convincing. Ground freezing provided a complete treatment of the soil mass prior to the start of tunnel excavation, it lowered significantly the risk of ground losses through 'windows' in the original treatment methods, and it improved stability measures by encapsulating large obstructions until cut up and removed. Freezing was therefore approved, and permission was granted by the railway authorities to gain access to the track areas for installation of freeze-pipes and brine-circulation systems well ahead of excavation activity."
Specialist sub-consultant Mueser Rutledge of New York designed the freeze programme, and ground freezing subcontractor Freezewall was engaged to undertake the installation. More than 1,700 freeze pipes were installed vertically and between the rail tracks. Calcium chloride (brine) at -30°C maintained the freeze. Being so close to Boston Harbor and the Fort Point Channel, the ground water is salty and -1°C is its freeze temperature. Once established, the frozen ground was at about -10°C and had an in-situ ground strength of about 5N/mm2 to 10N/mm2, about the same strength as lean concrete. It took about 3 to 4 months to establish the freeze and about 6 months to thaw completely once the freeze is discontinued.
Project: The Central Artery/Tunnel (CA/T) relocation highway project, Boston, Massachusetts. Contract: C09A4
Contract tender value: $398 million
Client: The Massachusetts Turnpike Authority
Overall project construction management/design and supervision: Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff JV
Section designer: Maguire/Fredrick R Harris JV
Specialist tunnel designer: Hatch Mott MacDonald
Contractor: Slattery Skanska (New York)/Interbeton (The Netherlands)/ J F White and Perini Corp (Massachusetts) and with specialist advisors Edmund Nuttall and John Ropkins Ltd of the UK
Ground freezing consultant: Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers
Ground freezing subcontractor: Freezewall, a division of Moretrench American Corporation
The freeze pipes are installed on a 2m to 2.5m grid, and the frozen zones extend to about 2m beyond the side walls of the tunnel elements, to about 1m below ground surface, and about a meter above the base of the elements. "We left it above the tunnel invert because we didn't want to alter the properties of the clay," explained van Dijk. "Freezing followed by a thaw would induce clay degradation, and the clay in its natural state is a favourable foundation for the heavy tunnel elements once pushed into place."
Expansion of these particular ground conditions when frozen is about 120mm on all sides, or about 1% to 2% by volume, and beneath the rail tracks a maximum heave of 175mm was specified.
"During the planning and design stage, many of the concerns put forward by the track owners and service operators (MBTA and AMTRAK) hinged on how the freeze has to be installed, what are the consequences of a freeze operation, and the presentation of an acceptable contingency plan, should one be needed to slow down the freeze," explained Phil Rice, Resident Engineer on the contract for Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff. "Together with MBTA and AMTRAK engineers and managers, in what has become a successful partnering relationship, these concerns were thoroughly investigated and managed to the acceptance of both the highway and the railway authorities."
"In fact," Rice continued, "jet grouting is being used extensively on other parts of the CA/T project and it has been noted that grouting can cause heave much more rapidly than freezing. Heave caused by grout injection can be 50mm in minutes, and there is little control on where the grout will go. With freezing, the change in level is about 2-3mm/day and the area of influence is well defined. There are a total of 1,200 survey points in the project area, including across the railway tracks. About 300 of these are read daily and the data is analysed by computer, held in the overall project database, and printed out as readily appreciated information. Crews of experienced railway maintenance workers are on 24h duty to undertake any necessary tamping of the ballast to correct rail tolerances."
Jacking programme
Meanwhile, the two elements of the shortest of the three tunnels were cast at the same time in its jacking pit and these were ready to start jacking in October 1999.
Ground freezing used to stabilise water-bearing material beneath the rail tracks and support the 278m2 face of each tunnel heading
Within the JV, a considerable degree of experience and technical know-how was contributed by Edmund Nuttall Ltd of the UK, a sister company of Interbeton within the HBG Group of the Netherlands. Edmond Nuttall has completed five tunnel jacking projects in the UK working in close co-operation with John Ropkins, a consulting engineer in the UK. The most recent of the five projects was the 50m long x 23m wide x 9.5m high culvert under the main railway near Maidenhead. This is believed to be the first tunnel jacking operation to include ground freezing for stabilisation. Through various agreements, Edmund Nuttall and John Ropkins are working to promote and execute tunnel box jacking world-wide through the HBG Group. Technical input at tender stage by Nuttall Ropkins to develop the freezing technique, the excavation methods and the open-face shield concept and design, in conjunction with box jacking experience, secured the contract for the JV and, through an ongoing commitment, has contributed to its success.
A major contribution to the project was the innovative anti-drag system (ADS) developed and patented by Ropkins. The concept is based on creating a 'carpet' of closely spaced, 19mm diameter steel cables across the top and bottom of the boxes to create a stationary separation layer between the moving box and the overlying and underlying ground. These cables, about 1,000 across the top and another 1,000 across the bottom, are anchored using crimped-on copper sleeves to plates attached to the thrust pit headwall bracing beams, and are paid out from inside the element as the tunnel is jacked forward. The free end lengths of the cables are stored on the inside of the tunnel elements, on spools for the bottom cables and in brackets in the ceiling for the top sets. It is via slots cast into the leading edges of the shield at the front of each tunnel box that the cables are freely paid out as the boxes move forward. Grease is fed continuously to the cables through lubrication ducts cast into the concrete, to prevent snagging and further reduce drag.
Enough steel cable to see the tunnel boxes through to their final positions is needed in the cable reserves at the start of each jacking operation. A total of more than 400km, or 1.5 million feet, of steel cable is needed to complete the three tunnel lengths. Once the tunnels are in position, the steel cable will be left in place and sacrificed. It would be a difficult, time-consuming and uneconomical operation to retrieve the buried cables.
As well as preventing drag, the carpet of cables on the underside of the elements prevents the ground being compacted and produces the effect of 'tracks' on which the box can slide. The cables across the top deck are designed in addition to transfer friction forces between the roof concrete surface and the greased cables to the cable anchors. The exact load on these upper cables is difficult to predict, but based on past experience and a conservative calculation, the load was estimated to be a maximum of 1.7 tonne/cable for the shorter ramp tunnel and 2.7 and 3.4 tonne/cable for the two I-90 carriageway tunnels.
Internal setup and principle of the tunnel jacking system being applied in Boston
Excavation sequence
To excavate the 278m2 face of the tunnels, the leading element of each is preceded by a 3.3m long concrete shield which is fitted with a steel cutting edge and is divided into 12 excavation 'cells' by vertical walls and a temporary mezzanine working deck.
The frozen ground is excavated for the most part by four high-powered purpose-designed Webster Schaeff roadheaders from the UK, two working on the invert and two on the mezzanine. A Brokk hydraulic jack hammer unit is available on both levels to break up granite boulders and harder obstacles. Excavated material falls from the mezzanine to the invert, where a Gradall excavator and a CAT 906 loader gather excavated material into a central muck pile. From here a 42yd3 Wagner scoop tram transfers muck to a 4m3 skip at the back of the thrust pit which, when full, is lifted by crane for discharge on the surface.
"It is a machinery intensive operation," said Steve Leius, Tunnel Superintendent for the JV, "and the fleet also includes a man lift on each deck and a 15 tonne cherry picker on the lower deck. With the machinery we have 28 miners, operators and electricians in each tunnelling shift and work progresses on a two 10hr shift/day, 6 day/week schedule. Progress is based on completing one 3ft cycle/day, excavating a 3ft round out ahead of the face first, and then jacking the box forward before starting the next excavation sequence at the beginning of the next day."
Webster Schaeff roadheaders excavated the frozen face in 12 cells in the shield of the leading element
As excavation advances, individual circuits in the freezing regime are decommissioned, and the vertical freeze pipes are cut out using thermic lances as they are encountered.
Jacking forces to push the tunnel boxes forward are applied only at the invert, with a main jacking station at the rear in the jacking pit, and an intermediate jacking station between the elements in each two-or three-element string. The jacks used on the job have the same capacity of 485 tonne each at 42 MPa working pressure and 808 tonne each at the maximum allowable 70 MPa pressure. The thrust cylinders are 520mm diameter and have a maximum stroke of 1,067mm for the 25 jacks in the rear jacking station, and 419mm for those in the 28 to 32 jacks in the intermediate jacking stations. All the jacks are grouped together in clusters of two or four with manifolds and one set of hydraulic hoses from the hydraulic pump set to each cluster. Jacking forces of up to 15,000 tonne total are transmitted from the base slab into the post-tensioned slurry walls of each pit.
Each jacking station is activated in sequence, caterpillar style, pushing each element forward at a barely perceivable rate of about 30min/900mm stroke. After each 900mm stroke, spacers are inserted at the rear jacking station and are replaced with 3,600mm permanent spaces as the jacking progresses. The maximum 12,000 tonne pushing force available in the 25 jacks in the rear jacking station is sufficient to push the two or three-element strings for about the first 50m without engaging the intermediate jacks. This helps maintain alignment, as do the guidewalls. The elements are cast within 1.2m high guidewalls cast into the jacking pits with foam filling of only about 25mm in the very tight tolerance gap between the wall and the moving box. Friction on the side-walls during the jacking process can be reduced using a polymer gel lubricant. Heating elements cast into the concrete walls prevent the gel freezing when in contact with the frozen ground. Jacking is a delicate balance of keeping the ground frozen and the lubricant liquid.
A Brokk jack hammer breaks out harder obstacles, top ADS cables disappear through slots to the outside of the moving element
Having started in mid-October 1999, the ramp tunnel jacking was completed in December 1999. At the end of the process, survey measurements indicated that the leading edge of the two elements of the tunnel came to rest within 80mm of their nominal vertical alignment, and within 60mm from their nominal horizontal location, well within the ±150mm tolerance specified. Tests of the anti-drag system cables in the roof revealed that at the end of the 41m push, maximum load on a single cable was 1 tonne, or 60% of the design value.
It was agreed during the TunnelTalk site visit that the tunnel jacking alternative is an expensive option but that in urban areas; under very shallow cover; beneath vital infrastructure which must be kept in operation throughout the construction period; and through soft, non-homogeneous ground conditions where dewatering is unacceptable and settlement a major concern; the method, in association with ground freezing for soil stabilisation, was the best method. After the Boston success, and supported by successes elsewhere in the world, several similar projects were said to be on the drawing board for other rail and road underpasses in the United States. At a presentation about the technique to the British Tunnelling Society in January 2000, Doug Allenby of Edmund Nuttall and John Ropkins suggested that the future could see jacks of longer boxes with larger cross section areas; jacks for single radius curved tunnels; and jacks through a greater variety of ground conditions including rock. The future looks bright for tunnel jacking.
The June 2016 meeting of the British Tunnelling Society by Andrew Robinson, Christopher Howe and James Thomson of Jacked Structure Ltd provided an update of recent developments in the jacked-concept of urban shallow tunnels with potential for using jacked concepts for creating large underground structures and caverns in soft soils and possible application of the jacked concept on planned projects in the UK including the High-Speed 2 railway project and the proposed Hammersmith Flyunder highway project in West London.
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The best time of year to visit Cairo in Egypt
The best months to go to Cairo are from mid September through to March. The weather not so hot in these months.
Here are some average weather facts we collected from our historical climate data:
During the month of February, March, November and December you are most likely to experience good weather with pleasant average temperatures that fall between 20 degrees Celsius (68°F) and 25 degrees Celsius (77°F).
The hottest season / summer is in April, May, June, July, August, September and October.
Cairo has dry periods in January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November and December.
The warmest month is July with an average maximum temperature of 34°C (93°F).
The coldest month is January with an average maximum temperature of 18°C (64°F).
January is the most wet month. This month should be avoided if you are not a big fan of rain.
August is the driest month.
July is the most sunny month.
No idea where to travel to this year? We now have a tool which suggests which destination suits your ideal climate conditions. Find out where to go here.
Latest Corona news
Museums and historic places in Egypt to re-open in September
The ministry of tourism and antiquities declared that museums and historic places are to re-open as of the beginning of September according to the rules and regulations approved by the ministry.
From September travelers must show test results in Egypt
Egypt will require all visitors to the country to present Polymerase Chain Reaction test results for the new coronavirus on arrival from Sept. 1, the prime minister said in a televised address on Wednesday.Egypt will also allow Friday prayers to resume in mosques from Aug. 28 under strict health and safety protocols to be issued by the Ministry of Endowments, Mostafa Madbouly added. BREAKING: Egypt to require all travelers to present negative PCR test ahead of entry starting September https://t.co/PLgm3lI70S pic.twitter.com/VSJx101sYz— Ahram Online (@ahramonline) August 19, 2020
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The Pyramids of Giza are impressive and absolutely worth a visit
The pyramids are considered to be one of the seven wonders of the world in ancient times and they are the only one that still exist and can be visited today.
Visit Kruger Park
Are you going to South Africa, then you cannot skip the Kruger Park. The Kruger Park is one of the most beautiful and largest safari parks in the world.
The largest private wildlife reserve in South Africa
Tswalu Kalahari is the largest private wildlife reserve in South Africa and now protects more than 110,000 hectares of spectacular grasslands and mountains. The vision of the reserve is to "let the Kalahari restore itself."
You will never forget this unique sustainable hotel in Mauritius
This hotel is leading the way in terms of sustainability. Salt truly offers a new approach and shows how the future of travel could look like.
Tsavo National Park in Kenia
From mid-July to September and December to mid-March are the best months to visit both Tsavo National Parks. This park is a must see. The park is mountainous and green.
The Atlas Mountains in Morocco
This mountain range is the second highest mountains in the world and is certainly one of the most natural and wonderful mountains you could ever visit. One for the bucket list for sure.
Climb the Kilimanjaro
The Kilimanjaro with its 5895 meters is the roof of Africa. Climbing Kilimanjaro is a crazy experience and if you like adventure it’s an absolute must for the bucket list.
The Serengeti
The Serengeti area consists of vast and endless grass plains and the park has the largest wildlife population in Africa. One for on your bucket list for sure!
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RGPlan
MCT Brattberg
MCT Brattberg´s origins reach back to 1759, a time when Lyckeåborg, in southern Sweden was designated the site for the construction of a copper hammer. The Lyckeby River waterfall was the ideal location for powering the hammer.
The company’s modern history started after World War II when it was given the name Lyckeåborgs Bruk. The mechanical workshop made a variety of products, among them the well-known cut nail.
The 1950s Lyckeåborg became the manufacturer of a new product, the MCT Brattberg cable and pipe transit, named after its inventor Nils Brattberg. The MCT Brattberg System is a modular multi cable and pipe transit used mainly by shipyards and construction industries. Indeed, the product has brought the company global renown.
MCT Brattberg is a world leader in the design, development and manufacture of cable and pipe transits. It has evolved to become stronger over the years in response to meeting the ever tougher demands on product quality and certification.
The round RGP frame was introduced in the 1970s. At first it was designed for core-drilled holes in concrete. Today it is even installed in the decks and bulkheads of ships.
The early 1980s signalled the end of nail manufacture and resources were then focused on MCT Brattberg products.
In 1986 Lyckeåborgs Bruk became Lycab and from 1999, MCT Brattberg AB.
Lycron rubber for our insert blocks was introduced in 1986. The same year saw the launch of the composite compression plate with integrated compression bolt. Pre-lubricated blocks, a long awaited feature that saves a great deal of time during installation, arrived in 1994.
In 1997 we introduced AddBlock, the universal block, which soon became a success. In certain markets today AddBlock dominates. U-blocks and Plugs arrived in 1999. These together with AddBlocks provide cable and pipe transits with increased flexibility for solving problems in the best and easiest way.
Today, the company is a modern industrial business with the MCT Brattberg System as main product. An extensive global dealer network ensures the product's availability in most markets. Exports from Sweden constitute roughly 95% of sales.
The Original MCT Designer
The first version of RGPlan came 1985.
Today RGPlan have evolved to be more advanced than ever!
Our Business Idea
MCT Brattberg endeavourers to protect people and property through the design, development and manufacture of high-performance cable and pipe transits.
Every product in our system is manufactured according to a tried and tested quality control system that is fully documented.
A ship’s structure is subject to constant and varying motions due to wave action and propulsion. Furthermore, it may expand and contract when subject to temperature variation.
SE-37 192 Karlskrona, Sweden
info@mctbrattberg.se
MCT Brattberg is your global partner and manufacturer of high-performance cable and pipe transits represented by more than 200 offices in the world.
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«alpha»-Phellandrene
Formula: C10H16
Molecular weight: 136.2340
IUPAC Standard InChI:
InChI=1S/C10H16/c1-8(2)10-6-4-9(3)5-7-10/h4-6,8,10H,7H2,1-3H3
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IUPAC Standard InChIKey: OGLDWXZKYODSOB-UHFFFAOYSA-N
CAS Registry Number: 99-83-2
Chemical structure:
This structure is also available as a 2d Mol file or as a computed 3d SD file
The 3d structure may be viewed using Java or Javascript.
Stereoisomers:
(+)-«alpha»-phellandrene
(+)-(4S)-«alpha»-phellandrene
Other names: 1,3-Cyclohexadiene, 2-methyl-5-(1-methylethyl)-; «alpha»-Fellandrene; p-Mentha-1,5-diene; 5-Isopropyl-2-methyl-1,3-cyclohexadiene; 2-methyl-5-(1-methylethyl)-1,3-cyclohexadiene; 4-Isopropyl-1-methyl-1,5-cyclohexadiene; 2-Methyl-5-isopropyl-1,3-cyclohexadiene; alpha-Phellandrene; 5-Isopropyl-2-methyl-cyclohexa-1,3-diene; Menthadiene; Phellandrene; L-Phellandrene; 5-isopropyl-2-methylcyclohexa-1,3-diene («alpha»-phellandrene); (-)-«alpha»-phellandrene; «alpha»-phellanderene
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Data compiled by: NIST Mass Spectrometry Data Center, William E. Wallace, director
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Make the licensing information for your images visible on Google Images
hétfő, augusztus 31, 2020
; in February 2020 we announced a new metadata framework through Schema.org and IPTC for licensable images. Since then, we’ve seen widespread adoption of this new standard by websites, image platforms and agencies of all sizes. Today, we’re launching new features on Google Images which will highlight licensing information for images, and make it easier for users to understand how to use images responsibly.
Images that include licensing information will be labeled with a “Licensable” badge on the results page. When a user opens the image viewer (the window that appears when they select an image), we will show a link to the license details and/or terms page provided by the content owner or licensor. If available, we’ll also show an additional link that directs users to a page from the content owner or licensor where the user can acquire the image.
Left: Images result page with the Licensable badge
Right: Images Viewer showing licensable image, with the new fields Get the image on and License details
We’re also making it easier to find images with licensing metadata. We’ve enhanced the usage rights drop-down menu in Google Images to support filtering for Creative Commons licenses, as well as those that have commercial or other licenses.
Updated Usage Rights filter
What are the benefits to image licensors?
As noted earlier, if licensing metadata is provided from the image licensor, then the licensable badge, license details page and image acquisition page will be surfaced in the images viewer, making it easier for users to purchase or license the image from the licensor
If an image resides on a page that isn’t set up to let a user acquire it (e.g. a portfolio, article, or gallery page), image licensors can link to a new URL from Google Images which takes the user directly to the page where they can purchase or license the image
For image licensors, the metadata can also be applied by publishers who have purchased your images, enabling your licensing details to be visible with your images when they’re used by your customers. (This requires your customers to not remove or alter the IPTC metadata that you provide them.)
We believe this is a step towards helping people better understand the nature of the content they’re looking at on Google Images and how they can use it responsibly.
To learn more about these features, how you can implement them and troubleshoot issues, visit the Google developer help page and our common FAQs page.
To provide feedback on these features, please use the feedback tools available on the developer page for the licensable images features, the Google Webmaster Forum, and stay tuned for upcoming virtual office hours where we will review common questions.
What do image licensors say about these features?
“A collaboration between Google and CEPIC, which started some four years ago, has ensured that authors and rights holders are identified on Google Images. Now, the last link of the chain, determining which images are licensable, has been implemented thanks to our fruitful collaboration with Google. We are thrilled at the window of opportunities that are opening up for photography agencies and the wider image industry due to this collaboration. Thanks, Google.”
- Alfonso Gutierrez, President of CEPIC
“As a result of a multi-year collaboration between IPTC and Google, when an image containing embedded IPTC Photo Metadata is re-used on a popular website, Google Images will now direct an interested user back to the supplier of the image,” said Michael Steidl, Lead of the IPTC Photo Metadata Working Group. “This is a huge benefit for image suppliers and an incentive to add IPTC metadata to image files.”
- Michael Steidl, Lead of the IPTC Photo Metadata Working Group
“Google's licensable image features are a great step forward in making it easier for users to quickly identify and license visual content. Google has worked closely with DMLA and its members during the features' development, sharing tools and details while simultaneously gathering feedback and addressing our members' questions or concerns. We look forward to continuing this collaboration as the features deploy globally.”
- Leslie Hughes, President of the Digital Media Licensing Association
“We live in a dynamic and changing media landscape where imagery is an integral component of online storytelling and communication for more and more people. This means that it is crucial that people understand the importance of licensing their images from proper sources for their own protection, and to ensure the investment required to create these images continues. We are hopeful Google’s approach will bring more visibility to the intrinsic value of licensed images and the rights required to use them.”
- Ken Mainardis, SVP, Content, Getty Images & iStock by Getty Images
“With Google’s licensable images features, users can now find high-quality images on Google Images and more easily navigate to purchase or license images in accordance with the image copyright. This is a significant milestone for the professional photography industry, in that it's now easier for users to identify images that they can acquire safely and responsibly. EyeEm was founded on the idea that technology will revolutionise the way companies find and buy images. Hence, we were thrilled to participate in Google’s licensable images project from the very beginning, and are now more than excited to see these features being released."
- Ramzi Rizk, Co-founder, EyeEm
"As the world's largest network of professional providers and users of digital images, we at picturemaxx welcome Google's licensable images features. For our customers as creators and rights managers, not only is the visibility in a search engine very important, but also the display of copyright and licensing information. To take advantage of this feature, picturemaxx will be making it possible for customers to provide their images for Google Images in the near future. The developments are already under way."
- Marcin Czyzewski, CTO, picturemaxx
“Google has consulted and collaborated closely with Alamy and other key figures in the photo industry on this project. Licensable tags will reduce confusion for consumers and help inform the wider public of the value of high quality creative and editorial images.”
- James Hall, Product Director, Alamy
“Google Images’ new features help both image creators and image consumers by bringing visibility to how creators' content can be licensed properly. We are pleased to have worked closely with Google on this feature, by advocating for protections that result in fair compensation for our global community of over 1 million contributors. In developing this feature, Google has clearly demonstrated its commitment to supporting the content creation ecosystem.
- Paul Brennan, VP of Content Operations, Shutterstock
"Google Images’ new licensable images features will provide expanded options for creative teams to discover unique content. By establishing Google Images as a reliable way to identify licensable content, Google will drive discovery opportunities for all agencies and independent photographers, creating an efficient process to quickly find and acquire the most relevant, licensable content."
- Andrew Fingerman, CEO of PhotoShelter
Posted by Francois Spies, Product Manager, Google Images
For the last few years, we’ve collaborated with the image licensing industry to raise awareness of licensing requirements for content found through Google Images. In 2018, we began supporting IPTC Image Rights metadata; in February 2020 we announced a new metadata framework through Schema.org and IPTC for licensable images. Since then, we’ve seen widespread adoption of this new standard by websites, image platforms and agencies of all sizes. Today, we’re launching new features on Google Images which will highlight licensing information for images, and make it easier for users to understand how to use images responsibly.
Options for retailers to control how their crawled product information appears on Google
péntek, augusztus 21, 2020
in the U.S. and recently announced that free retail listings are coming to product knowledge panels on Google Search. These new types of experiences on Google Search, along with the global availability of rich results for products, enable retailers to make information about their products visible to millions of Google users, for free.
The best way for retailers and brands to participate in this experience is by annotating the product information on their websites using schema.org markup or by submitting this information directly to Google Merchant Center. Retailers can refer to our documentation to learn more about showing products for free on surfaces across Google or adding schema.org markup to a website.
While the processes above are the best way to ensure that product information will appear in this Search experience, Google may also include content that has not been marked up using schema.org or submitted through Merchant Center when the content has been crawled and is related to retail. Google does this to ensure that users see a wide variety of products from a broad group of retailers when they search for information on Google.
While we believe that this approach positively benefits the retail ecosystem, we recognize that some retailers may prefer to control how their product information appears in this experience. This can be done by using existing mechanisms for Google Search, as covered below.
Controlling your preview preferences
There are a number of ways that retailers can control what data is displayed on Google. These are consistent with changes announced last year that allow website owners and retailers specifically to provide preferences on which information from their website can be shown as a preview on Google. This is done through a set of robots meta tags and an HTML attribute.
Here are some ways you can implement these controls to limit your products and product data from being displayed on Google:
"nosnippet" robots meta tag
Using this meta tag you can specify that no snippet should be shown for this page in search results. It completely removes the textual, image and rich snippet for this page on Google and removes the page from any free listing experience.
"max-snippet:[number]" robots meta tag
This meta tag allows you to specify a maximum snippet length, in characters, of a snippet for your page to be displayed on Google results. If the structured data (e.g. product name, description, price, availability) is greater than the maximum snippet length, the page will be removed from any free listing experience.
"max-image-preview:[setting]" robots meta tag
This meta tag allows you to specify a maximum size of image preview to be shown for images on this page, using either "none", "standard", or "large".
“data-nosnippet” HTML attribute
This attribute allows you to specify a section on your webpage that should not be included in a snippet preview on Google. When applied to relevant attributes for offers (price, availability, ratings, image) removes the textual, image and rich snippet for this page on Google and removes the listing from any free listing experiences.
Additional notes on these preferences:
The above preferences do not apply to information supplied via schema.org markup on the page itself. The schema.org markup needs to be removed first, before these opt-out mechanisms can become active.
The opt-out preferences do not apply to product data submitted through Google Merchant Center, which offers specific mechanisms to opt-out products from appearing on surfaces across Google.
Use of mechanisms like nosnippet and data-nosnippet only affect the display of data and eligibility for certain experiences. Display restrictions don’t affect the ranking of these pages in Search. The exclusion of some parts of product data from display may prevent the product from being shown in rich results and other product results on Google.
We hope these options make it easier for you to maximize the value you get from Search and achieve your business goals. These options are available to retailers worldwide and will operate the same for results we display globally. For more information, check out our developer documentation on meta tags.
Should you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us, or drop by our webmaster help forums.
Posted by Bernhard Schindlholzer, Product Manager
Earlier this year Google launched a new way for shoppers to find clothes, shoes and other retail products on Search in the U.S. and recently announced that free retail listings are coming to product knowledge panels on Google Search. These new types of experiences on Google Search, along with the global availability of rich results for products, enable retailers to make information about their products visible to millions of Google users, for free.
Identify and fix AMP Signed Exchange errors in Search Console
kedd, augusztus 18, 2020
, which enables publishers to safely make their content portable, while still keeping the publisher’s integrity and attribution. In 2019, Google Search started linking to signed AMP pages served from Google’s cache when available. This feature allows the content to be prefetched without loss of privacy, while attributing the content to the right origin.
Today we are happy to announce that sites implementing SXG for their AMP pages will be able to understand if there are any issues preventing Google from serving the SXG version of their page using the Google AMP Cache.
Use the AMP report to check if your site has any SXG related issues - look for issues with 'signed exchange' in their name. We will also send emails to alert you of new issues as we detect them.
To help with debugging and to verify a specific page is served using SXG, you can inspect a URL using the URL Inspection Tool to find if any SXG related issues appear on the AMP section of the analysis.
You can diagnose issues affecting the indexed version of the page or use the “live” option which will check validity for the live version currently served by your site.
To learn more about the types of SXG issues we can report on, check out this Help Center Article on SXG issues. If you have any questions, feel free to ask in the Webmasters community or the Google Webmasters Twitter handle.
Posted by Amir Rachum, Search Console Software Engineer & Jeffrey Jose, Google Search Product Manager.
Signed Exchanges (SXG) is a subset of the emerging family of specifications called Web Packaging, which enables publishers to safely make their content portable, while still keeping the publisher’s integrity and attribution. In 2019, Google Search started linking to signed AMP pages served from Google’s cache when available. This feature allows the content to be prefetched without loss of privacy, while attributing the content to the right origin.
Join our first Virtual Webmaster Unconference
szerda, augusztus 12, 2020
While the in-person Webmaster Conference events are still on hold, we continue to share insights and information with you in the Webmaster Conference Lightning Talks series on our YouTube channel. But we understand that you might be missing the connection during live events, so we’d like to invite you to join a new event format: the first Virtual Webmaster Unconference, on August 26th, at 8AM PDT!
What is the Virtual Webmaster Unconference?
Because we want you to actively participate in the event, this is neither a normal Webmaster Conference nor a typical online conference. This event isn't just for you - it's your event. In particular, the word "Unconference" means that you get to choose which sessions you want to attend and become an active part of. You will shape the event by taking part in discussions, feedback sessions and similar formats that need your input.
It's your chance to collaborate with other webmasters, SEOs, developers, digital marketers, publishers and Google product teams, such as Search Console and Google Search, and help us to deliver more value to you and the community.
We have opened the registration for a few more spots in the event again. If you're seeing "registration is closed", the spots have filled up already. We may run more events in the future, so keep an eye on our Twitter feed and this blog.
As part of the registration process, we will ask you to select two sessions you would like to participate in. Only the sessions that receive the most votes will be scheduled to take place on the event day, so make sure you pick your favorite ones before August 19th!
As we have limited spots, we might have to select attendees based on background and demographics to get a good mix of perspectives in the event. We will let you know by August 20th if your registration is confirmed. Once your registration is confirmed, you will receive the invitation for the Google Meet call on August 26th with all the other participants, the MC and the session leads. You can expect to actively participate in the sessions you're interested in via voice and/or video call through Google Meet. Please note that the sessions will not be recorded; we will publish a blog post with some of the top learnings after the event.
We have very interesting proposals lined up for you to vote on, as well as other fun surprises. Save your spot before August 19th and join the first ever Virtual Webmaster Unconference!
Posted by Martin Splitt, Search Relations Team & Aurora Morales, Publisher Policy
Címkék: events , hangout , product experts , seo , webmaster community , webmasters
Rich Results & Search Console Webmaster Conference Lightning Talk
, this time about Rich Results and Search Console. During the talk we hosted a live chat and a lot of viewers asked questions - we tried to answer all we could, but our typing skills didn’t match the challenge… so we thought we’d follow up on the questions posed in this blog post.
If you missed the video, you can watch it below: it discusses how to get started with rich results and use Search Console to optimize your search appearance in Google Search.
Rich Results & Search Console FAQs
Will a site rank higher against competitors if it implements structured data?
Structured data by itself is not a generic ranking factor. However, it can help Google to understand what the page is about, which can make it easier for us to show it where relevant and make it eligible for additional search experiences.
Which structured data would you recommend to use in Ecommerce category pages?
You don't need to mark up the products on a category page, a Product should only be marked up when they are the primary element on a page.
How much content should be included in my structured data? Can there be too much?
There is no limit to how much structured data you can implement on your pages, but make sure you’re sticking to the general guidelines. For example the markup should always be visible to users and representative of the main content of the page.
What exactly are FAQ clicks and impressions based on?
A Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) page contains a list of questions and answers pertaining to a particular topic. Properly marked up FAQ pages may be eligible to have a rich result on Search and an Action on the Google Assistant, which can help site owners reach the right users. These rich results include snippets with frequently asked questions, allowing users to expand and collapse answers to them. Every time such a result appears in Search results for an user it will be counted as an impression on Search Console, and if the user clicks to visit the website it will be counted as a click. Clicks to expand and collapse the search result will not be counted as clicks on Search Console as they do not lead the user to the website. You can check impressions and clicks on your FAQ rich results using the ‘Search appearance’ tab in the Search Performance report.
Will Google show rich results for reviews made by the review host site?
Reviews must not be written or provided by the business or content provider. According to our review snippets guidelines: “Ratings must be sourced directly from users” - publishing reviews written by the business itself are against the guidelines and might trigger a Manual Action.
There are schema types that are not used by Google, why should we use them?
Google supports a number of schema types, but other search engines can use different types to surface rich results, so you might want to implement it for them.
Why do rich results that previously appeared in Search sometimes disappear?
The Google algorithm tailors search results to create what it thinks is the best search experience for each user, depending on many variables, including search history, location, and device type. In some cases, it may determine that one feature is more appropriate than another, or even that a plain blue link is best. Check the Rich Results Status report, If you don’t see a drop in the number of valid items, or a spike in errors, your implementation should be fine.
How can I verify my dynamically generated structured data?
The safest way to check your structured data implementation is to inspect the URL on Search Console. This will provide information about Google's indexed version of a specific page. You can also use the Rich Results Test public tool to get a verdict. If you don’t see the structured data through those tools, your markup is not valid.
How can I add structured data in WordPress?
There are a number of WordPress plugins available that could help with adding structured data. Also check your theme settings, it might also support some types of markup.
With the deprecation of the Structured Data Testing Tool, will the Rich Results Test support structured data that is not supported by Google Search?
The Rich Results Test supports all structured data that triggers a rich result on Google Search, and as Google creates new experiences for more structured data types we’ll add support for them in this test. While we prepare to deprecate the Structured Data Testing Tool, we’ll be investigating how a generic tool can be supported outside of Google.
If you missed our previous lightning talks, check the WMConf Lightning Talk playlist. Also make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel for more videos to come! We definitely recommend joining the premieres on YouTube to participate in the live chat and Q&A session for each episode!
Posted by Daniel Waisberg, Search Advocate
A few weeks ago we held another Webmaster Conference Lightning Talk, this time about Rich Results and Search Console. During the talk we hosted a live chat and a lot of viewers asked questions - we tried to answer all we could, but our typing skills didn’t match the challenge… so we thought we’d follow up on the questions posed in this blog post.
Search Console API announcements
csütörtök, augusztus 06, 2020
, and we are happy to let you know that we’re almost there. You might have already noticed some minor changes, but in general, our goal was to make the migration as invisible as possible. This change will help Google to improve the performance of the API as demand grows.
Note that if you’re not querying the API yourself you don't need to take action. If you are querying the API for your own data or if you maintain a tool which uses that data (e.g. a WordPress plugin), read on. Below is a summary of the changes:
Changes on Google Cloud Platform dashboard: you’ll see is a drop in the old API usage report and an increase in the new one.
API key restriction changes: if you have previously set API key restrictions, you might need to change them.
Discovery document changes: if you’re querying the API using a third-party API library or querying the Webmasters Discovery Document directly, you will need to update it by the end of the year.
Please note that other than these changes, the API is backward compatible and there are currently no changes in scope or functionality.
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) changes
In the Google Cloud Console dashboards, you will notice a traffic drop for the legacy API and an increase in calls to the new one. This is the same API, just under the new name.
Image: Search Console API changes in Google Cloud Console
You can monitor your API usage on the new Google Search Console API page.
API key restriction changes
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WHAT FELT? REMARKS ON THE ONTOLOGY OF COMMUNISM
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Ana Bazac
Politehnica University
The paper, only an introduction to the theme, intends to make out some different discourses about communism in order to suggest its ontology. But this one means a structure of concepts related to both the static and dynamic (principles) of communism, as well as to its position in space and time, and to its realisation. Ontology of communism appears in this way to be challenged by the intertwined and complex levels of practice.
However, ontology itself is a discourse: concepts as possibility, readiness, necessity, conjunctures, identity, forms, essence, transformation, accidents, universals and particulars, factors and forces of communism issue from discourses as active positions of the transmitters (including from their desire to form reality according to theirs representations about it). Thusly, the relationship between discourses and existence is not one of exteriority, but of inclusion of the former into the given reality. Even the given character of reality is the result of interferences between discourses (and the intertwining of many types of discourses) and existence: in this way, discourses could exclude elements of the existence, or construct new ones, generally alternative virtual existences.
The remarks in this paper are made in a traditional philosophical view: not starting from practice which does criticise itself, so deducing ontological properties of communism from this critique (as I should be tempted to do), but going from some concepts to reality, for grasping how and if they are reciprocally fit. In other words: I suggest the questioning of the theoretical representation that the concepts would be a Procrustean bed for the communist ‘reality’ (as process and discourses), just researching the framework of concepts and somehow postponing the problem of the pressure of ‘reality’, issuing from its ontological essence, for new interpretations (discourses).
The rhetorical lecture of some discourses about communism sends to an ideological one. The paper gives some definitions of the presuppositions used here: rhetorical lecture, ideology, ideological lecture. The discursive theory appears to be not an alternative to the ideological one, but a part, also an antecedent of this one.
Therefore, after an introduction about the above-mentioned aspects, the paper summarises the logic of Marx’s and Lenin’s theory on communism from the standpoint of some of the above-mentioned concepts of ontology. The same outlook is affected to the concept of communism as revolution in Lenin and Trotsky and some Trotskyites. By this token, the problems: the correspondence of the discursive properties of communism and the real process, and the essential and accidental features of ‘communism’ remain open. As a consequence, a non-conformist opinion concerning what felt is suggested.
Especially when one comes nearer to a ticklish problem like communism one is somehow embarrassed in front of so many viewpoints. Could these ones arrive at the ontos every philosopher, if not every man, desire to “touch” on?
For this reason, a first necessary moment of the research is to uncover its standpoint. A manner is to assert that the rhetorical lecture of the theories about communism does not remain as neutral as some ones think.
But what is a rhetorical lecture? It is a study about “the use of discourse, either spoken or written, to inform or persuade or motivate an audience”1. If rhetoric is the art of persuasion, the rhetorical lecture offers an explanation of the means used by a discourse for persuade. For the discourse about communism is about a political phenomenon – that has valences of a total phenomenon, because of the becoming of the social system, i.e. because of the new criteria of this becoming –, this discourse is situated in different positions toward the phenomenon of communism. Assuming these positions is necessary, not only for the theory corresponds to the rationalist requirements – as that of transparency – put and presumed by the entire tradition of the Western philosophy, that of zoon logon echon, but also in order to allow the comparative examination of the criteria of the chosen theory and of those of the phenomenon of communism. In fact one must have the guarantee that the reading of these ones does not take place by the prism of a vulgar parti pris, but really permit to clear the phenomenon and its characteristics.
That means that the rhetorical lecture ought to has au fond a transparent attitude toward its own presumptions, videlicet, before analysing if and how (on the basis of which formal and material suppositions) and toward which direction has a discourse a persuasive role, this lecture ought to declare and justify these presumptions. Thus if it is crucial to grasp the intended purpose of a text (so what is the author attempting to do with his work), it is also important to understand from which viewpoint is the entire research undertaken.
Therefore if the rhetorical lecture implies to emphasize the significances of the discourse had in view for the receivers but also for the person who analyses the discourse and its trajectory, it’s hard to make an absolute separation between the rhetorical and the ideological lecture. The features of the rhetorical lecture are the proof of the intimate relationship between the rhetorical lecture and the ideological one. These features are: to show the theses of the discourse about the subject/the problem raised; so how the discourse interprets the problem: what are the arguments, how are they arranged, what they are driving at, how they fit together, what is the main idea these lines of reasoning serve. But for evaluate the impact of the discourse, one has to research the political culture and values of both people that would produce this discourse and people meant for its audience.
In many texts about communism the controversial character of the subject would not only lead to the enlarging of the rhetorical analysis, but also to the need to consider the circumstances, times, and audience and how and if the discourses are fit to them. What is the historical occasion that would give rise to the composition of the texts, as well as to the need for persuasion?
But what is more obvious is that a political text could not be understood without taking into account the responses of historical or contemporary audiences. Who are and/or who represent all these audiences, means already to transcend the frame of the rhetorical lecture. As well as the values held by the audience and that the author appeals. The rhetorical reading, or rhetorical criticism, is thereby “that mode of internal criticism which considers the interaction between the work, the author and the audience”2.
Just for there is a pluralism of discourses over communism, they have to be analysed in a rhetorical key, according to the same criteria. Between these ones, the rationalist argumentation seems to be the most important; but anyway the texts concerning communism involve a strong emotional component.
However, as we already saw, not (only) this pathos is related to the ideological lecture of the texts about communism. The above-mentioned interaction between the author, the work and the audience is in fact a complex relation between the conjunctures and the human actions, and these relations, conjunctures, and human actions and relations require the concrete analysis. The rhetorical lecture leads to an ideological one.
What is, at its turn, the ideological lecture? It is the making of visibility of the ideology the texts behave and support3, i.e. the fact that the ideas about society reflect the social positions of the authors, or some social positions the authors support. As it was already mentioned, this lecture also implies that the researcher makes visible his own ideology. In this respect, a consistent ideological reading does not emphasise only the dominant ideology within the text, but the game of ideologies which confront each other as response of the text to the complex ideological milieu.
Concerning this paper, it only sketches some philosophical concepts that could be deduced from the texts, concepts as designing the ontology of communism. The texts were written for a rationalist, intellectual reading: thus supplying arguments in a rationalist, scientific manner. Here not the author is important, his psychology, conditions and evolution, but the discourse as such, that is an appeal to logos, and only in subsidiary to pathos (emotion) and ethos (ethical credibility).
(If ontology spokes about existence qua existence, what exists is given by the means of discourses about it. At their turn, discourses are not a neutral situating in front of a neutral existence, but active positions issued from the desire to form reality upon the representations of those emitting discourses. The relationship between discourses and existence involves the inclusion of the former in the given reality. This given character of reality is thus the result of interferences between many types of discourses and existence: but it’s possible that discourses could exclude elements of existence from the images they draw).
Ontology…of communism
If one could define ontology as a coherent structure of categories concerning the being and its becoming – or the ontological as the theoretical level of interpretation of the ontos –, the result would be the ontological order: that which has to be following the interpretation of existence. The stake of philosophy as ontology is just this ontological order. If so, the problem is related not only to the theory of knowledge but at the same time to the researches uncovering society.
Consequently, ontology appears to be no more a static collection of concepts corresponding to an ideal status quo of the existence: it presupposes intended contextual assumptions and implications taken over by and within already dynamic notions. Ontology configures an appropriate hypothesis about an implicit content declared or not by the philosopher.
The attitude toward length is itself depending on the social position and worldview shared by the philosopher. For his/her reasoning is not about a flat, motionless, neutral object, but just about the most ardent one for a living being: existence. And for existence is always “here”4, i.e. is the one of a particular historic man, it is a concrete historical social existence, be this one consciously assumed, or not, by the philosopher. So albeit the traditional philosophical ideal has had in view an impartial inquiry of the universal a-temporal being, this inquiry belongs to the man (Dasein) thrown into the world and manifesting his care (Heidegger).
But the man and his care reflect and answer not only the time they have/exist within, but also the concrete conditions of the human existential. To respond to these problems issued from the social character of the relation of man to the time seems to be a more provocative object of ontology: the one of the social space where the man is part of. And if it is about a specific and extraordinary period – i.e. time –, a specific and extraordinary social historical period like communism, the challenge of ontology and that made to ontology is greater than ever before.
The problem posed by this paper is thus ontology of a new (social) object, a level of the ontology of the social being but also something more than that. What kind of social object? It is a political one, and a new political one: a purpose being to be realised (in the manner of Derrida’s la démocratie à venir) – or not –, a purpose joining together the intellectual and emotional levels of existence (to use Nicolai Harmann’s notions) with the objective material (that meaning also institutional) domain where determinism seems to be the strongest characteristic and where this determinism seems to be the most inimical toward the expectations and representations of an absolutely new social alternative.
What kind of ontology could thus be imagined – for theory is always imagination, irrespective of the scientific tools used and of the scientific results – in order to grasp this specific, contradictory and mobile juncture of positive intentions, relative intellectual instruments and powerful emotions with a mostly lack of conditions for the communist social transformation?
This ontology could obviously prefer the concept of beginning5, describing the intention to construct – first of all, in mente – an alternative, a political course even though there are not yet “aged” the objective conditions of the realisation of these intentions. Could the interpretation of this contradiction be resumed only as voluntarism6? At a philosophical level, the new intention and the above-mentioned contradiction constitute only the deviation, the clinamen (Epicurus, Lucretius) that would change the “normal” trajectory of the social facts forming the social order; or, because there already are some objective trends and especially the intellectual construction as well as the popular ideal of emancipation (as the sole positive anticipation of the movement), the clinamen could be understood as “the original determination of the direction of movement, the synthesis of movement and its direction which relates one atom to another”7.
Letting apart the bifurcation role8 of the/especially some human acts, just these acts – thus the concrete social human being – become the new political subject of the social practice, and thus of ontology. For the problem is just to articulate and assemble the acts, wills, intentions, conditions. This assemblage is the practice and theory of communism, and a philosophical reflection on this practice and theory would be a (mobile) ontology of communism. Indeed, (the concept of) communism as change of the social order whose relations of power are not normally questioned but considered as constitutive represents, as clinamen, a “subterraneous stream of materialism of the encounter”9: the concept of communism does not confirm the fait accompli (the accomplished fact/fact already done), but interrogates the teleology and the “Necessity”10. “On the contrary, this accomplishment of the fact is only a pure effect of contingency since it depends on the accidental encounter of atoms generated by the deviation of clinamen. Before the accomplishment of the fact, before the world, there is only the non-accomplishment of the fact, the non-world that is but the unreal existence of atoms”11. As deviation from the ‘Necessity” and “Reason” supposed by the intellectuals who have the privileges generated and given to them by the relations of power – and who deny the ideological character of the concepts they use (as Necessity and Reason) – communism appears as unnecessary and irrational accident. But as accidental encounter of elements which at the beginning had no connection each other, as nothing pre-established – “it is in the political vacuum where the encounter has to be realised”12 – , thus “where nothing ever warrants that the reality of the fait accompli would be the guarantee of its perennial”13, communism appears just as possibility of the encounter of conjunctures and wills (conscience), as freedom.
The conjuncture – favourable for a human project – is not a univocal determinism of the objective conditions (in the manner where the result would be that of these conditions only), but a contradictory complex of these conditions and of the subjective positions of people, from all the social categories, point that complicates the things. Then, the conjuncture always changes.
The motif of fortuna labilis, never used by the communist writers, is nevertheless different from that of the decline (corruption, in Aristotle’s meaning). The decay of communism is constitutive in the process of communism not as in every thing that born, lives and then declines (as Gibbon explained the ancient era), but as constitutive feature even for its constitution. Thus, at the first hand, in the communist texts opposing Stalinism, communism appears thereby not as simple necessity – as in the Stalinist dogma – but as a consequence of the unique freedom of the fitting of the objective and subjective conditions, therefore as an attempt toward the mass social emancipation. At the second hand, the importance of the conjuncture leads to the understanding of the events, of the radical contingency. And from this standpoint, communism does not differ from the other systems, from the entire history: the hazard is at the origin of society, the association of the always new historical elements, necessary and unpredictable at the same time.
Ontology of communism is thus rather a theory of the subject constituting itself through the “praxis constructing the political object, and collective action as force of liberation. It is the effective truth of the thing…that can introduce us in a new movement…”14
At the same time, ontology of communism is not only the theoretical description of the constitution of communism – where the beginning is so important – but the standpoint, new in principle, about society/history. Its truth is given by the permanent ontology of the process (with its zigzags, springs and decays), and not only by the truth of the beginning.
The concept of communism
The discourses chosen for the problem of “what is communism” are Marx’s Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, chapter Private Property and Communism15, and Marx and Engels’ The German Ideology, 1845. Briefly here, the texts were not written for an audience, but for the author/authors himself/themselves as a draft of his/their early social critical representation, although he/they should have wanted to publish them in, let’s say, Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher. For this reason, no one can deny that the texts are very sincere: they contain only arguments, as deductions not only from the philosophical concepts taken over from Hegel – as the self-estrangement – but also from the economic analysis, and, though the idea of communism winged at that time the soul of young rebels in front of the crisis preceding the 1848 year, it is described as a long and difficult process, with phases and possible avatars. Therefore, although an intellectual construction first of all, communism already appears in the young Marx as distant phenomenon from the utopian tradition.
Communism is a form of organisation of society. It appears first of all as a consequence of the development of the structural – i.e. economic and social – relations of capitalism as these ones are understood from the analysis of the economists and philosophers (Mill, Ricardo, Proudhon, Sismondi, Fourier, Saint-Simon etc.). According to Marx, the constitutive relation of the (modern) social system is that between capital and labour, or private property and labour, not as “indifferent antithesis”, but as “internal active relation”, as “contradiction”16.
Marx (still) mixes the analysis in a Hegelian philosophical manner with the facts the political economy emphasised: the above-mentioned contradiction could be seen either from the point of view of the realisation of capital (as “greed, war amongst the greedy and competition”17) or the one of the realisation of the labour force (which in capitalism manifests through the estranged labour, through the objectification-estrangement dialectics). The realisation of the labour force takes part through the “clash of mutual contradictions” and therefore leads to a social organisation that tends to annul private property. But, just for capital “in its objective aspect” and labour are so intertwined, the cancellation of the private property is not a simple negation of it, but a transformation of the entire relation, the more so this transformation is not an abstract moment of the dialectical cycle but the entire upstream and the results of labour are involved into it. These upstream and results are the productive forces, and, for “individuals have always built on themselves, but naturally on themselves within their given historical conditions and relationships, not on the “pure” individual in the sense of the ideologists”18, just the productive forces are in a mutual influence with the relations of production and intercourse and form together the ground of society, its evolution and its understanding.
The conception of history sketched by Marx considers every social system, including capitalism, as historical. “In the development of productive forces there comes a stage when productive forces and means of intercourse are brought into being, which, under the existing relationships, only cause mischief, and are no longer productive but destructive forces (machinery and money); and connected with this a class is called forth, which has to bear all the burdens of society without enjoying its advantages, which, ousted from society, is forced into the most decided antagonism to all other classes; a class which forms the majority of all members of society, and from which emanates the consciousness of the necessity of a fundamental revolution, the communist consciousness, which may, of course, arise among the other classes too through the contemplation of the situation of this class”19.
This is the historical and, at the same time, theoretical frame of communism. The “development of productive forces (which itself implies the actual empirical existence of men in their world-historical, instead of local, being) is an absolutely necessary practical premise because without it want is merely made general, and with destitution the struggle for necessities and all the old filthy business would necessarily be reproduced”20.
But the development of both productive forces and intercourses of the logic of capitalism (competition) is global, as capitalism is the first world system, and its evolution through the reciprocal negations of labour and capital involves obviously a global interdependency. For this reason, communism cannot be established on a local level, if not but temporarily and generating its own defeat. And, if “each extension of intercourse would abolish local communism”21, this process is grievous.
But for capitalism is felt as growing estrangement, as „intolerable power”22, people try to change it without the above-mentioned objective conditions exist. For this reason, the effort to innovate within the social field transposes into some phases before “the positive expression of annulled private property”23. The first is “only a generalisation and consummation of” the capitalist relations (i.e. between capital and the labour force). As Marx describes it, this phase rather looks like capitalism itself and, also, like Stalinism (the first practical attempt to change capitalism). “As such it appears in a two-fold form: on the one hand, the dominion of material property bulks so large that it wants to destroy everything which is not capable of being possessed by all as private property. It wants to disregard talent, etc., in an arbitrary manner. For it the sole purpose of life and existence is direct, physical possession. The category of the worker is not done away with, but extended to all men. The relationship of private property persists as the relationship of the community to the world of things… This type of communism – since it negates the personality of man in every sphere – is but the logical expression of private property, which is this negation. General envy constituting itself as a power is the disguise in which greed re-establishes itself and satisfies itself, only in another way. The thought of every piece of private property as such is at least turned against wealthier private property in the form of envy and the urge to reduce things to a common level, so that this envy and urge even constitute the essence of competition. Crude communism is only the culmination of this envy and of this levelling-down proceeding from the preconceived minimum. It has a definite, limited standard. How little this annulment of private property is really an appropriation is in fact proved by the abstract negation of the entire world of culture and civilisation, the regression to the unnatural simplicity of the poor and crude man who has few needs and who has not only failed to go beyond private property, but has not yet even reached it… The community is only a community of labour, and equality of wages paid out by communal capital – by the community as the universal capitalist. Both sides of the relationship are raised to an imagined universality – labour as the category in which every person is placed, and capital as the acknowledged universality and power of the community”24.
This long quote nevertheless summarises the features of this first attempt of communism, obviously “in a single country”, as Trotsky characterised it later.
It is important to note that this phase is a result of the political will, certainly in propitious conditions. Thus the political regime could be “democratic or despotic”25, with a relative/lesser repressive character of the state towards the labour force than in the explicit capitalism (Marx names this disappearance of the individual private property, or the lesser repressive character of the state towards the labour force because of the disappearance of the individual private property – “abolition of the state, yet still incomplete”. In fact, Marx separates the first moment of revolution, certainly political, from the next one, when the repressive character of the state could diminish. But these moments reflect the same persistence of the private property.) Thus even though this abolition took place, in fact there still are “private property, i.e., by the estrangement of man”.
At the same time, the situation is complex (as Stalinism was): there is a coexistence of these political and economical features with the communist legitimating values, thus the conscience of “return of man to himself, the transcendence of human self-estrangement”. From this coexistence so obvious antagonisms follow that Marx, interested about the explanation of the historical character of capitalism and objective possibility of communism, formulates this stage of the transition to communism as having grasped the concept, but not the essence of the “human nature” of communism.
Only the next phase is the one of communism as such: “as the positive transcendence of private property as human self-estrangement, and therefore as the real appropriation of the human essence by and for man; communism therefore as the complete return of man to himself as a social (i.e., human) being – a return accomplished consciously and embracing the entire wealth of previous development”26.
Therefore, in these texts communism is a logical result of the internal functioning of capitalism. It is not an ethical concept, so it no more abbreviates the expectations of the oppressed. “Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence”27.
The concept is not a Procrustean bed for reality, but it reflects the tendencies of reality. Thus it bunches the notions of necessity and possibility: it collects information concerning the objective conditions that in principle leads to communism, so concerning a realist, and not fictive determinism but, at the same time, information concerning the subjective conditions that only they realise (this last word – in its philosophical, Hegelian sense) the determinism. Marx resumes here the novelty given by one of the founding fathers of the “subterraneous stream of materialism” (Althusser), Machiavelli: the event (transition to communism/revolution) is the encounter of the objective conjunctures and the subjective virtù (ability to realise the ends had in view); for this reason, communism is not a mere accident within history, but an encounter of precise factors and social forces. Communism describes in this way a process of transformation that is philosophically transposable with the notions of form and essence, stage and core.
Communism is considered from the standpoint of social philosophy, i.e. of the “connected whole” through the interrelationships of separate parts, the “interconnection between political economy and the state, law, ethics, civil life, etc.”28, mainly between political economy and philosophy. The method is thusly new, as the image itself29 is: they both are supporting the theoretical observation concerning the “beginning”30 as philosophical concept and significance. The constitution of communism is not only a temporal process, thus a beginning, but a new standpoint about society. For this reason, the theoretical constitution is so important: but related to the practical evolution, thus depending on the concrete practical manner where the logic, arguments, reasons constitute this new standpoint.
In Marx, ontology of communism is the result of the synthesis and, at the same time, radical critique of Hegel and Feuerbach, of their speculative and abstract character. This critique issues from the “encounter of Marx with the political economy”31, “encounter of philosophy with the political economy”32. From this viewpoint, the phenomenological levels of the subjectivity, referring to objectification and alienation, are transformed: this entire transformation is coming to pass in the light of the concrete social contradictions of modernity. The key concept that rules this process is the aliened labour. The apparently speculative Hegelian problems get a huge practical significance.
As possibility generated by the (theoretical) solving of the contradictions of capitalism, the making of communism requires certainly the encounter of objective and subjective conditions. If this encounter is missing, communism cannot be. More, the attempts could generate phases, full of contradictions and thus only temporary. Only these phases felt/could fall. But these phases themselves are not accidents – for there always are specific conjunctures – but attempts to quicken the encounters facilitating the realisation of a human society for all.
The concept of communism is emphasised by practice. In this respect, the ‘essence” of communism realises itself within the process of attempts, phases, critiques, struggles: including the ideological battles.
Starting from Marx, we already can grasp the problem of difference between aspiration (desire) and action, reality.
Lenin: communism as revolution
What could say a discourse written in the same spirit but in new historical conjunctures? It could question these conjunctures as well as the possibility of encounters of the subjective will and ability to change these conjunctures, the virtù – as named it Machiavelli, with these conjunctures.
The next theoretical moment of communism is Lenin and the texts I chose are The State and Revolution, September 1917, chapter The economic basis of the withering away of the state, “The April Theses” – i.e. The Tasks of the Proletariat in the Present Revolution – April 1917, and How to Organise Competition?, December 1917. They are written for the main social and political force of the anti-capitalist and communist movement in Russia, the advanced workers, the nucleus of the proletariat, as it is considered by Lenin. Certainly, the texts serve also as instruments of self-clarification, but what is important is that they are not simple works of propaganda, but a supply of theoretical arguments.
These ones respond to the new historical conditions and complexity of practice. Communism is thusly a concrete task assumed by the advanced workers in the concrete class struggle. Is it not a utopia, not an illusionary confidence in the power of the oppressed, but a step by step movement of concrete conquest of political and economic power. The time when communism appeared as a consequence of the logical treatment of the Hegelian concepts stricken by the real economic contradictions resumed by the aliened labour had already passed. Not from the concepts – as the young Marx had at the beginning begun to do – is communism resulting, but from the analysis of the social practice. Assumed as urgent political project, communism is drawn out from an improbable distant future and this drawing out becomes at the same time a positive act: that to give a topos to the utopian dream.
When one reads the works of Lenin, one wonders about the logical consistence of the theoretical theses in front of a so difficult and changing social reality. And once theory begins – theory in the communist key –, it could no more be left for practice has inimical turns. Communism is a task allowed by some real tendencies, and all the theoretical and practical efforts are subordinated to this task.
This task is that questions the conjunctures and the subjective data (and shortcomings): could these ones meet? Could these objective and subjective conditions encounter as a beginning of a radical social transformation? The name of the encounter is again revolution, the long but politically and economically coherent transition to communism. Thus communism tout court signifies the goal, involved in every step and aspect of the process, of the revolution.
Communism or rather the Bolshevik revolution appears to be the result of the choice of this goal – the choice of the leaders and of a certain majority of the people33 – but also of the situation of the social conscience of this certain majority. For this reason, Lenin arrives at the idea of necessity of the revolution (for not disappoint people, for not lost the revolutionary situation: “It would be a mistake to think that the revolutionary classes are invariably strong enough to effect a revolution whenever such a revolution has fully matured by virtue of the conditions of social and economic development. No, human society is not constituted so rationally or so “conveniently” for progressive elements. A revolution may be ripe, and yet the forces of its creators may prove insufficient to carry it out, in which case society decays, and this process of decay sometimes drags on for very many years”)34.
The April Theses (after more than 20 years when Lenin has participated to the debates on the kinds of way of modernisation of Russia, thus analysing the objective and subjective conditions of this process) expose the historical moment Russia lied in: “The specific feature of the present situation in Russia is that the country is passing from the first stage of the revolution—which, owing to the insufficient class-consciousness and organisation of the proletariat, placed power in the hands of the bourgeoisie — to its second stage, which must place power in the hands of the proletariat and the poorest sections of the peasants”. Consequently, the main problem now is related to the subjective conditions. And, in order to politically educate the broad layers of masses, Lenin insists on a fundamental aspect, raised before by Marx: that politics – concretely, the political regime –must not be seen as autonomous from the economic relations, but intertwined35. “The masses must be made to see that the Soviets of Workers’ Deputies are the only possible form of revolutionary government, and that therefore our task is, as long as this government yields to the influence of the bourgeoisie, to present a patient, systematic, and persistent explanation… especially adapted to the practical needs of the masses”36.
The image of the goal has in view not a far off social organisation, but an immediate one. “It is not our immediate task to “introduce” socialism, but only to bring social production and the distribution of products at once under the control of the Soviets of Workers’ Deputies”. Here “the salaries of all officials, all of whom are elective and displaceable at any time, not to exceed the average wage of a competent worker”37, and, together with the nationalisation of all lands in the country and the immediate next step of nationalisation of industry, these radical reforms are the ground of a specific political regime. “The dictatorship of the proletariat, the period of transition to communism, will for the first time create democracy for the people, for the majority, along with the necessary suppression of the exploiters, of the minority”38.
Interpreting Marx’s Critique of the Gotha Programme, Lenin gives the representation of communism as two phases process/social organisation. “Democracy for the vast majority of the people, and suppression by force, i.e., exclusion from democracy, of the exploiters and oppressors of the people — this is the change democracy undergoes during the transition from capitalism to communism”. While “only in communist society, when the resistance of the capitalists have disappeared, when there are no classes (i.e., when there is no distinction between the members of society as regards their relation to the social means of production)… will a truly complete democracy become possible and be realized, a democracy without any exceptions whatever”. That means that “people will gradually become accustomed to observing the elementary rules of social intercourse that have been known for centuries and repeated for thousands of years in all copy-book maxims. They will become accustomed to observing them without force, without coercion, without subordination, without the special apparatus for coercion called the state”.
Insisting that the process as a whole will last long time, Lenin shows that “the fundamental social cause of excesses, which consist in the violation of the rules of social intercourse, is the exploitation of the people, their want and their poverty. With the removal of this chief cause, excesses will inevitably begin to ‘wither away’. We do not know how quickly and in what succession, but we do know they will wither away”.
By anticipating the social state based on the destruction of the individual capitalist private property, Lenin deduces from the already existing capitalist technological progress that “the expropriation of the capitalists will inevitably result in an enormous development of the productive forces of human society. But how rapidly this development will proceed, how soon it will reach the point of breaking away from the division of labour, of doing away with the antithesis between mental and physical labour, of transforming labour into ‘life’s prime want’ – we do not and cannot know”.
Revolution is not an abstract intellectual dream: it is a question of distribution, organisation, and efficient management. If so, it supposes a new political power and the control of the bureaucratic strata (whose occupation is just distribution etc.) by this new political power: “Until the “higher” phase of communism arrives, the socialists demand the strictest control by society and by the state over the measure of labour and the measure of consumption; but this control must start with the expropriation of the capitalists, with the establishment of workers’ control over the capitalists, and must be exercised not by a state of bureaucrats, but by a state of armed workers”.
Thus virtù is certainly created by the new type of education, but perhaps as a first instance by the objective milieu now re-formed. For people make the favourable conjunctures, they have to be conscious that they have to transform the material conditions as well as the institutions toward their own end. This transformation is prosaic, and philosophy can but retain that social practice has to not be separated from theory39.
The main part of Lenin’s works is devoted just to the prosaic character of the revolution. Perhaps for this reason some ones say that Lenin could not be philosophically analysed and that he did not make any philosophy at all. In fact, if we reflect only on the huge problem of the encounter never accomplished, as well as on the backward virtù, we can conclude that the above-mentioned opinion is rash.
The relations of power had generated/framed the attitudes toward labour and, generally, toward life. If one speaks about the social transformation, then one has to know – by differentiating – the main purposes, as well as the main aspects and steps of this process. Everything seems to be too prosaic, but just this everything is the flesh of philosophy. “Accounting and control — that is mainly what is needed for the “smooth working”, for the proper functioning, of the first phase of communist society. All citizens are transformed into hired employees of the state, which consists of the armed workers. All citizens become employees and workers of a single countrywide state “syndicate”. All that is required is that they should work equally, do their proper share of work, and get equal pay; the accounting and control necessary for this have been simplified by capitalism to the utmost and reduced to the extraordinarily simple operations — which any literate person can perform — of supervising and recording, knowledge of the four rules of arithmetic, and issuing appropriate receipts”.
Yes, there are many contradictions within this prosaic purpose and programme of action. People have to be conscious of them. But Lenin, following Marx, shows that they are the only alternative for the liberation of the aliened labour. “For there is enough bread, iron, timber, wool, cotton and flax in Russia to satisfy the needs of everyone, if only labour and its products are properly distributed, if only a business-like, practical control over this distribution by the entire people is established…The whole of society will have become a single office and a single factory, with equality of labour and pay.
But this “factory” discipline, which the proletariat, after defeating the capitalists, after overthrowing the exploiters, will extend to the whole of society, is by no means our ideal, or our ultimate goal. It is only a necessary step for thoroughly cleansing society of all the infamies and abominations of capitalist exploitation, and for further progress.
From the moment all members of society, or at least the vast majority, have learned to administer the state themselves, have taken this work into their own hands, have organized control over the insignificant capitalist minority… from this moment the need for government of any kind begins to disappear altogether”40. Governing means relations of power, i.e. of domination, and certainly not only administration, technical management.
The communist – or revolutionary – programme begins with the primary, and human, needs of man: “The programme of this accounting and control is simple, clear and intelligible to all — everyone to have bread; everyone to have sound footwear and good clothing; everyone to have warm dwellings; everyone to work conscientiously; not a single rogue (including those who shirk their work) to be allowed to be at liberty, but kept in prison, or serve his sentence of compulsory labour of the hardest kind”41. Just the presence of these primary (and, generally, human) needs is difficult to be transfigured within philosophy: these needs are rather missing from philosophy.
The new prosaic construction42 of the social environment is at the same the construction of the human behaviour, just for now is so habitual “this slovenliness, this carelessness, untidiness, unpunctuality, nervous haste, the inclination to substitute discussion for action, talk for work, the inclination to undertake everything under the sun without finishing anything… due to all their habits of life, the conditions of their work, to fatigue, to the abnormal separation of mental from manual labour, and so on, and so forth”. The construction of the social behaviour appears thus as necessary and realised through “the great change from working under compulsion to working for oneself, to labour planned and organised on a gigantic, national (and to a certain extent international, world) scale”.
The new type of competition is understood as between the workers working for themselves. “Competition must be arranged between practical organisers from among the workers and peasants. Every attempt to establish stereotyped forms and to impose uniformity from above, as intellectuals are so inclined to do, must be combated. Stereotyped forms and uniformity imposed from above have nothing in common with democratic and socialist centralism. The unity of essentials, of fundamentals, of the substance, is not disturbed but ensured by variety in details, in specific local features, in methods of approach, in methods of exercising control, in ways of exterminating and rendering harmless the parasites”. Competition puts together “the advice, the instruction of educated people, of intellectuals and specialists” and the “leading role of the practical organisers from among the ‘people’, from among the factory workers and working peasants”: au fond, they have to learn from each other, and never transform into dogma the political requirements or the intellectual presuppositions. But certainly from this mutual learning has to issue the “independent initiative of the workers, and of all the working and exploited people generally” developed “as widely as possible in creative organisational work”. Here the communist programme meets philosophy halfway: is there not the autonomy of the subject, its essence as individual, one of the main problems of this one?
Finally here, already in the moments preparing revolution the deep preoccupation of Lenin is for the length of revolution. As for Machiavelli who was obsessed by the duration of the desirable new state of the unified Italy, the problem of resistance of the new proletarian organisation of the Russian state is for Lenin the organising factor of its entire theory about communism. The beginning itself, the steps, the intertwining between the objective and the subjective conditions, the importance of the will, of the mass spontaneous initiative and enthusiasm as well as of the cold reasoning are all of them debated from the standpoint to not transform communism into an adventure, to make it a victorious attempt to realise mass social emancipation.
The texts discussed here are not academic papers. They offer only the logic of the revolution in a simple language, understandable by their presumed audience. This logic seems to be persuasive, but the real life seemed also to deny it. And still remaining a little bit at the level of discourse, it is important to note that, if a big part of the constitutive antagonisms of communism is mentioned within the works of Lenin, at the same time the preoccupation for these antagonisms is subordinated to the one of the defence and promotion of ‘communism’, so of the new worker state. The discourse is put versus the real existence. But it is not the single case: philosophy itself should be more self-reflexive from this standpoint.
Trotsky as critique of Stalinism and defender of USSR, and some alternatives of “Trotskyism”
Trotsky is situated in the same pattern as Lenin. The philosophical concept he develops is that of event. Events as encounters, but also as causes – as ground of desirable and undesirable events –, events as signs of the human freedom and of the human dependence, events as obstacles and as stimuli, all of these constitute the favourite object of Trotsky’s thinking.
At the same time, Trotsky develops the tragic aspect of the theory of communism: that which insists on the “disfigured”43 encounter of the revolutionary conjunctures with the lack of virtù (so a typical Machiavellian theme). Communism or revolution is thus “betrayed” by the party and state bureaucracy and, for everything is a question of relation of forces, communism could be reversed if this bureaucracy proves to be strongest than the “proletariat”, although this one is profoundly “differentiated”44.
This evolution of communism is not the inherent result of the “human nature”, but of the phase of capitalism on international level and of the evolution of bureaucracy on the internal level. Analysing the relation of forces, Trotsky arrives at the conclusion that a new revolution would be inevitable. For this reason, he defends the former socialist state for its values of a worker state: those of liberation of the workers from exploitation, with all the brakes put against this liberation.
Therefore, Trotsky emphasises the difference between the socialist/communist values – which have to be defended – and the degeneration induced by the political bureaucracy that has confiscated, for its own sake, the direction of the revolution. He asserts that the constitutive processes of revolution – nationalisation and the collective property in the countryside – would have been socialist in their own nature, as he presumes about the party as such. The fact that Trotsky does not insist on the contradictory nature of the above-mentioned means to construct communism could be explained by pointing out the historical moment he had to answer. The urgency is for him to save the elements of socialism/communism existing in USSR, at the same time saving the future of the Soviet revolution: through a possible new revolution of the betrayed proletariat against the Stalinist bureaucracy. But he warns against the same possibility of a capitalist restoration if the relation of forces would be favourable to bureaucracy: this one is to restore (the explicit) capitalism and to become bourgeoisie.
A main theoretical element in Trotsky is also the accent on the responsibility of the leaders in this entire process of bureaucratisation, betrayal of revolution and restoration of capitalism. Although the treachery of the leaders toward the revolution has a historical determination within the objective conditions of scarcity and the level of productive forces45, this aspect – the betrayal of the leaders – has a strong relevance, including today.
The discursive properties of communism are not denied by the existence as such: rather they are realised together with theirs own contradictions. Communism does not appear as a beautiful ideal – so impossible to be blamed – nor as a malign political regime and organisation, since it is the contradictory mixture/encounter between the communist expectations and the communist theory, with the inherent Stalinist turn because of the objective level of the productive forces (the level of rarity, Sartre) and the objective social structure and functions of the party and state bureaucracy.
For this reason, the research of ontology of communism helps us to precise the object of our discourse. If we equate communism only with the non-democratic political regime, we omit at least the values that stimulate the communitarian behaviour for the sake of society as a whole and of every and all the individuals. If we equate communism only with these values, we show an intolerable blindness not only toward the consequences of the Stalinist totalitarianism, but also toward the nature of communism (as well as even of Stalinism): that to frontally fight the complex contradictions of totality. It seems rather that communism contains all these aspects, so theirs multiple manifestations of complexity and intertwining. Therefore, a unique characterisation of communism has to be regarded more attentively than nowadays is.
If so, and if communism was an unaccomplished encounter of the objective and subjective conditions it needs, and if this un-accomplishment manifested in the historical forms mixing the sublime and the abjection in the 20th century, one can assert that what felt are just these historical forms. Consequently, communism is not only a ghost of the past: it still remains in front of us.
The nature of the first attempt to realise a mass social emancipation was ardently questioned by left-wing communist dissidents contemporary with Trotsky or by his different type successors. The intention, the presumption of the beginning was to construct the means of this social emancipation: but the worker state proved to be the old model of the organisation of a community in the framework of an inimical environment. Trotsky observed that the Stalinist worker state was a deviation from the Marxian genuine outlook concerning an international revolution – capitalism being a world system – and an internationalist system of relations between different communities: instead of being socialism in the world (so revolutionising the world capitalism, or at least its core), Stalinism was “socialism in a single country”. Indeed, it was the epoch of the national capital and the nation-state, and Stalinism could not be an exception.
But in a single country being, was it socialism at all? Ernest Mandel considered the “transitional societies in conditions of socio-economic underdevelopment (with an insufficient degree of development of the productive forces), which therefore show, in various ways, severe or extreme forms of bureaucratic deformation and degeneration”46. He criticised an entire school of thinking about the capitalist character of the system issued from the October revolution (“the Russian Mensheviks, Western European social-democratic Marxists such as Otto Bauer, the adherents of the state capitalism theory who broke with Trotskyist and other oppositional communist movements, and lately the Bettleheim school among the Maoists”47)
At his turn, Yvan Craipeau48 thought that the nature of the Stalinist state was that of bureaucratic collectivism, and not of an, even degenerated, worker state. Amadeo Bordiga49, as well as Karl Korsch50 explained that it was a state capitalism – it’s true, after the first years of the revolution, while Paul Mattick, from the standpoint of the communism of the councils51, insisted that it was not an involution from the beginning of the revolution toward the Stalinist years, but a bureaucratic regime already strengthened by Lenin to rise the efficiency of bureaucracy within a state capitalism52. Thusly, “it is only possible to speak about ‘really existing socialism’ at present”53.
Therefore, the intellectual experience to criticise the practical communism was and is larger than that of the right-wing type. While this one considers that the communist values (social equality as condition of freedom, dignity and recognition of everyone and all the human beings) have to be repudiated, the critique from the left challenges the simple cancellation of the idea of communism54.
The fall of the first lasting attempt to create a more human social organisation for all and everyone does shut neither the dream concerning the communist values nor the effort to critique and innovate within society. The temporary avatars only challenge us. On the ground of the present world crisis, the scientific research of elements somehow related to the communist values illustrates this fact55.
Instead of conclusion
The above-mentioned theoretical pages send to more reflect about the instruments we use for grasping the human existence. These instruments are, among other ones, the concepts through which we do explain it. As we know, the cultural (historical and social) pattern is forged by these concepts, at the same time framing and determining them. And for the cultural pattern is contradictory, there is also a game of the concepts, marked by recessivity56, as named the Romanian philosopher Mircea Florian the unequal coexistence of a couple of concepts in a cultural pattern where the explaining paradigm is now one of them then the other, they do not annulling each other: on the contrary, they obtain from their dissymmetry a biggest capacity to point out the complexity. They form a balance between autonomous anti-theses, the dependency of each of them being just their connection57.
The ontology of communism contains at least couples as: individual – society, interest – altruism, macro-planning – micro-planning, macro-planning – spontaneity, social equality – freedom, democracy – administrative efficiency, compulsion of the labour force – incentive of the labour force, state/nationwide welfare – worldwide welfare, which are always treated on the basis of some tacit suppositions. These ones are uncovered by an ideological lecture58.
Ontology of communism poses some philosophical problems related to the novelty of its idea and fact: from this point of view, the novelty itself, opposed to the usual, the common, the ordinary that constituted the habit of thinking, appears as the unexpected that hits not only the usual relations of domination but also the human conscience. The novelty concerns all the tacit suppositions as well as the reflections on the causes and consequences of the novelty: thus not only on the upturn and beginning of communism but also on its downturn. Consequently, the analysis of communism is made from the viewpoint of the tasks and emphasises its unfinished being.
Finally here, ontology of communism, by raising problems as continuity/discontinuity and similarities/differences between capitalism and communism, in fact between the idea of capitalism and the idea of communism, sends to the questioning of the concept of (social) normalcy. What are the features of a “normal” capitalist society and how can philosophy to unveil the attitudes toward institutions, traditions and non-conformism?
1 Edward P.J. Corbett, Robert J. Connors, Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student (1965), fourth edition, Oxford, New York.., Oxford University Press, 1999, p. 1.
2 Edward P. J. Corbett, “Introduction”, to Edward P. J. Corbett (ed.), Rhetorical Analyses of Litterary Works, New York, Oxford University Press, 1969, p. XXII.
3 Sonja K. Foss, Rhetorical criticism: exploration and practice, Long Grove, Illinois, Waveland Press, 2004, 295-296.
4 Karl Marx, Ökonomisch-philosophische Manuskripte [Privateigentum und Kommunismus], http://www.marxists.org/deutsch/archiv/marx-engels/1844/oek-phil/3-2_prkm.htm: „In diesem Verhältnis zeigt sich auch, in[wie]weit das Bedürfnis des Menschen zum menschlichen Bedürfnis, inwieweit ihm also der andre Mensch als Mensch zum Bedürfnis geworden ist, inwieweit er in seinem individuellsten Dasein zugleich Gemeinwesen ist… denn erst hier ist sie für ihn da als Band mit dem Menschen, als Dasein seiner für den andren und des <538>andren für ihn, wie als Lebenselement der menschlichen Wirklichkeit, erst hier ist sie da als Grundlage seines eignen menschlichen Daseins. Erst hier ist ihm sein natürliches Dasein sein menschliches Dasein und die Natur für ihn zum Menschen geworden“.
Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, 3, Private Property and Communism, http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/comm.htm: „This relationship also reveals the extent to which man’s need has become a human need; the extent to which, therefore, the other person as a person has become for him a need – the extent to which he in his individual existence is at the same time a social being…The human aspect of nature exists only for social man; for only then does nature exist for him as a bond with man – as his existence for the other and the other’s existence for him – and as the life-element of human reality. Only then does nature exist as the foundation of his own human existence. Only here has what is to him his natural existence become his human existence, and nature become man for him”.
5 This concept was theorised in Louis Althusser, « Machiavel et nous », in Louis Althusser, Écrits philosophiques et politiques, Tome II, Textes réunis et présentés par François Matheron, Paris, Stock / Imec, 1995, 1997.
6 Voluntarism is a political concept referring to the opposition between the interests/views of a certain majority and the ones of the leaders, thus referring rather to the will of the later. Therefore, this concept reflects the relations of power issued from the social hierarchy; from this standpoint, there are different types of majorities – within the political elite, within the dominant class, within the people as such –. As we know and letting aside the slogans/discourses as such, the leaders ordinarily reflect first of all some interests of the dominant class, thus they represent a part of the political class; in this manner they could manifest voluntarism toward the other parts of the political elite, and also of the dominant class as such. When the political relationships arrive at this situation, the respective leaders are changed. (Sometimes, the leaders represent correctly the lasting of class domination but, for they disturb the specific interests of a part or another of the dominant class, they are accused to be tyrants and changed too. Concerning the will of the people, the mainstream political science considers that it could be imposed through the periodical voting within the representative system. The mainstream political science assumes Karl Popper’s standpoint (not to question “who should rule” but “how could we minimise misrule” through representative democracy procedures). Obviously, this standpoint is ideological and is criticised by the praxis of representative democracy as such.
7 Gilles Deleuze, Différence et Répétition, Paris, PUF, 1968, p. 232.
8 The concept is from the chaos theory.
9 Louis Althusser, « Le courrant souterrain du matérialisme de la rencontre » (1982), in Louis Althusser, Écrits philosophiques et politiques, Tome I, Textes réunis et présentés par François Matheron, Paris, Stock / Imec, 1994.
10 Ibidem, p. 554: „in these interpretations a certain logocentrical philosophy and history of philosophy triumphs …, for it identifies philosophy with a function of Logos charged with the thinking of the antecedence of the Sense over the entire reality”.
11 Ibidem, p. 556.
14 Toni Negri, Machiavel selon Althusser, avril 1997, http://multitudes.samizdat.net/article.php3?id_article=1144
15 http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/comm.htm
16 Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, Private Property and Communism, http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/comm.htm
17 Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, Estranged Labour, http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm
18 Karl Marx, The German Ideology, I Part I: Feuerbach. Opposition of the Materialist and Idealist Outlook. D. Proletarians and Communism, http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch01d.htm#d1
19 Ibidem, The Necessity of the Communist Revolution.
20 Ibidem, 5. Development of the Productive Forces as a Material Premise of Communism, http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch01a.htm#a4
21 Ibidem.
27 Karl Marx, The German Ideology, 5. Development of the Productive Forces as a Material Premise of Communism, http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch01a.htm#a4
28 Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, Preface, http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/preface.htm#Preface
29 „Communism differs from all previous movements in that it overturns the basis of all earlier relations of production and intercourse, and for the first time consciously treats all natural premises as the creatures of hitherto existing men, strips them of their natural character and subjugates them to the power of the united individuals. Its organisation is, therefore, essentially economic, the material production of the conditions of this unity; it turns existing conditions into conditions of unity”, Karl Marx, The German Ideology, I Part I: Feuerbach. Opposition of the Materialist and Idealist Outlook. D. Proletarians and Communism, Forms of intercourse, http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch01d.htm#d1. „In all revolutions up till now the mode of activity always remained unscathed and it was only a question of a different distribution of this activity, a new distribution of labour to other persons, whilst the communist revolution is directed against the preceding mode of activity”, ibidem, The necessity of the Communist Revolution.
30 Louis Althusser, “La transformation de la philosophie” (1976), in Louis Althusser, Sur la philosophie, Paris, Gallimard, 1994, p. 155, 161, 173.
31 Louis Althusser, Pour Marx, Paris, Fr. Maspero, 1973, p. 56.
32 Ibidem, p. 57-58.
33 See the victory of The Red in the Civil War.
34 Lenin, „The Latest in Iskra Tactics, or Mock Elections as a New Incentive to an Uprising”, (October 17 (4), 19O5), Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1972, Moscow, Volume 9, pages 356-373, http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1905/oct/17b.htm.
35 See also Lenin, The State and Revolution, September 1917, chapter The economic basis of the withering away of the state, http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch05.htm#s2: “in the first phase of communist society (usually called socialism) “bourgeois law” is not abolished in its entirety, but only in part, only in proportion to the economic revolution so far attained, i.e., only in respect of the means of production. “Bourgeois law” recognizes them as the private property of individuals. Socialism converts them into common property. To that extent — and to that extent alone — “bourgeois law” disappears”.
36 Quotes from Lenin, The Tasks of the Proletariat in the Present Revolution (The April theses), April 1917, http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/apr/04.htm
37 This is the famous Lenin’s „partmaximum”.
Lenin, The Tasks of the Proletariat in the Present Revolution, ibidem.
38 Lenin, The State and Revolution, September 1917, chapter The economic basis of the withering away of the state, http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch05.htm#s2
39 See Lenin’s quote from Dietzgen, about the “integral people, people who do not separate theory from practice”, Materialism and Empirio-Criticism. Critical Comments on a Reactionary Philosophy, 1909, ( Chapter Six: Empirio-Criticism and Historical Materialism), 4. Parties in Philosophy and Philosophical Blockheads, http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1908/mec/six4.htm#v14pp72h-335.
40 Quotes from Lenin, The State and Revolution, September 1917, chapter The economic basis of the withering away of the state, http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch05.htm#s2
41 Lenin, How to Organise Competition?, December 1917, http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/dec/25.htm
42 Ibidem: „In order to render these parasites harmless to socialist society we must organise the accounting and control of the amount of work done and of production and distribution by the entire people, by millions and millions of workers and peasants, participating voluntarily, energetically and with revolutionary enthusiasm. And in order to organise this accounting and control, which is fully within the ability of every honest, intelligent and efficient worker and peasant, we must rouse their organising talent, the talent that is to be found in their midst; we must rouse among them—and organise on a national scale – competition in the sphere of organisational achievement”.
43 Léon Trotsky, La révolution défigurée, Paris, Rieder, 1929.
44 Leon Trotsky, The Revolution Betrayed, 1936, Chapter 6
The Growth of Inequality and Social Antagonisms, 2. The Differentiation of the Proletariat, http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1936/revbet/ch06.htm#ch06-2
45 Ana Bazac, “The historical crisis of the left”, B S C, vol. 2nd Conference, Athens, March 15-19, 2001, p. 37-48.
46 Ernest Mandel, Ten Theses on the Social and Economic Laws Governing the Society Transitional Between Capitalism and Socialism, 1973, http://www.marxists.org/archive/mandel/1973/xx/10theses.htm, and he added: “It is, therefore, at least possible, if not probable, that what today seem to be “general” features of this transitional society are in reality peculiarities having less to do with the internal logic of such a society than with the conditions of socio-economic underdevelopment”.
48 http://www.democratie-socialisme.org/spip.php?article27
49 See Amadeo Bordiga: in Letter from Amadeo Bordiga to Karl Korsch, 1926, http://www.sinistra.net/lib/upt/comlef/cota/cotascucae.html, he pointed out that in USSR “the Stalinists renounced to the communist programme…and that the party could lead to a restoration of capitalism, while in La Russia sovietica dalla rivoluzione a oggi, 1946, (see the chapter La involuzione dei caratteri proletari del regime russo, http://www.sinistra.net/lib/bas/promet/veje/vejeibeboi.html#u7), he said: “the definition of the Russian economy is not the one of socialism, but of a large and powerful state capitalism…the degenerative process of the transformation of the Soviet Russia from the proletarian regime from the first years to the present state was a long involution, not a sudden one, because of some specific historical factors as the collaboration with the international bourgeoisie…”
50 Karl Korsch, Position on Russia and the Communist Party, 1935, http://www.marxists.org/archive/korsch/1935/position.htm: “Everything that the workers are told about the state-capitalist continuation, restoration and sharpening of already developed forms of capitalist oppression and exploitation in Russia, comes either from the mouths of their old well-known enemies, capitalists, fascists, and social democrats or it unavoidably remains extremely vague, abstract, incomprehensible, and unsympathetic. All these critiques do not contain and cannot at this time contain any sort of call to action for revolutionary workers. For all these reasons it is unavoidable that up until the rise of a new, independent class movement of the international proletariat, even the working class itself and precisely its most revolutionary components can look at today’s Soviet Russia as the real and thence revolutionary rational implementation of the posited goals that are today still not implemented in their own countries”.
51 See Herman Gorter, Lettre ouverte au camarade Lénine, 1920, http://www.marxists.org/francais/gorter/works/1920/00/gorter_19200000_4.html, where he insist son the strong tendency of opportunism even within the communist parties and the III International, as Roberto Michels wrote before about even the social-democratic parties (Zur Soziologie des Parteiwesens in der modernen Demokratie. Untersuchungen über die oligarchischen Tendenzen des Gruppenlebens, 1911, translated, as Sociologia del partito politico nella democrazia moderna : studi sulle tendenze oligarchiche degli aggregati politici, revised and expanded, 1912).
52 Paul Mattick, Stalinisme et bolchévisme, 1947, http://infokiosques.net/imprimersans2.php?id_article=12: “the concrete result of the 1917 revolution was neither socialist nor bourgeois but a state capitalism…socialism is not equal with state capitalism”.
I myself sketched a theory about communism as an isotope of capitalism: Ana Bazac, “Nehány gondolat az álamszocializmus-vitához (A few ideas to the state socialism debate)”, Eszmélet, Hungary, nr. 62, iunie 2004, p. 27-46, also on http://eszmelet.freeweb.hu/62/bazac62.html, when I united some presumptions from Mandel and the representatives of the state capitalism theory.
53 Ernest Mandel, Communism, 1990, http://www.marxists.org/archive/mandel/19xx/xx/communism.htm
54 From this standpoint, Venezuela’s experiment has to not be obscured.
55 See the 2009 Nobel Prize in economy, Elisabeth Ostrom, Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990.
56 From the Latin verb recedo –ere –essi –essum, to go back, to fall back, to withdraw, and noun recessus –us, recession, return, withdrawal. And recido -ere –idi –asum, to re-fall, to belonging to, to re-come, to become.
57 Mircea Florian, Recesivitatea ca structură a lumii, vol. 1, Bucureşti, Editura Eminescu, 1983, p. 71.
58 See, for example, the concept of revolution that reflects different tacit suppositions (as the one that revolution would be a malign phenomenon, resulting from the Masonic conspiracy or for Germany paid Lenin to begin it etc.). The ideological lecture shows the covered motives of these tacit suppositions and the ground of their reasoning.
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Change of the Seasons
An issue of a magazine, like a theatrical season, is a menu of options reflecting our tastes, affinities, and priorities.
By Rob Weinert-Kendt
We’ve been thinking about seasons a lot lately at American Theatre, and not the astronomical kind. No, what have been on our minds are the menus of options theatres offer patrons each year, most following a school-year, fall-to-spring calendar (though a handful root their programming around the summer, offering “seasons” that are essentially calendar years). These all-you-can-see buffets—often announced, even in our web-centric age, via printed brochures—are an essential measure of what kinds of plays and artists theatres values, or imagine that their patrons will show up for.
In this, our annual season preview issue, in which we publish the season offerings of 376 member theatres, as well as our popular Top 10 list, we can see, in black and white, exactly who values which artists and what kinds of plays. As usual, if you’re tallying playwrights’ names, you’ll find a disproportionate number of men—white men—represented, even though next season’s most-produced play, Disgraced, is by a Pakistani-American man, Ayad Akhtar. If you’re measuring it by directors’ credits, the trends aren’t much better (even if many of Disgraced’s productions have been/will be directed by a woman, Kimberly Senior). Each year these statistics draw their share of criticism and commentary, as well they should. But this year, in addition to being the bearers of this mixed news, we decided to parse our own data for more illuminating details, and to report on some of the underlying forces behind this persistent disparity—as well as some encouraging countervailing trends.
Like a season, an issue of this magazine is also a menu of options reflecting our editors’ and contributors’ range of interests and affinities. If I may say so myself, this is an especially rich smorgasbord. I’m pleased to continue the legacy of my predecessor, Jim O’Quinn, in printing Part 2 of Todd London’s 20-years-later check-in with 15 Harvard actors he first wrote about for AT in 1997. It’s a sobering, fascinating, moving look at the passage of time and roads not taken—not only by these individual artists but by our field writ large.
I’m also proud to renew another legacy I share with the magazine: My feature on Bill Rauch’s inspirational tenure at Oregon Shakespeare Festival is at least the third I’ve written about him for American Theatre, the first being my reckoning with Cornerstone Theater Co.’s faith cycle in October 2001, the second being a Q&A covering his move from that company to OSF in October 2006. Like many people, I’m sure I first read about Rauch in this magazine, in Robert Coe’s great cover story about Cornerstone’s interracial Romeo and Juliet in Port Gibson, Mo. (AT, May ’89). Through all of these pieces, Rauch’s fierce, career-long commitment to diversity of every kind—racial, certainly, but also aesthetic, generational, regional, etc.—has shone as a beacon for the American theatre field. I know it’s a guiding light for me.
Rauch’s inclusive vision reminds me of a quote in these pages from playwright Lisa Kron (from whom, incidentally, OSF has commissioned an American Revolutions play), in which the Fun Home librettist/lyricist makes the point that diversity isn’t simply an ethical imperative; differences of perspective, in fact, are at the very heart of drama. Diversity, seen this way, is literally theatre’s lifeblood. We hope you can feel it coursing through these pages.
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Douglas H. Fernald and Christine W. Duclos
The Annals of Family Medicine July 2005, 3 (4) 360-364; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.290
Douglas H. Fernald
Christine W. Duclos
PURPOSE Qualitative research projects often involve the collaborative efforts of a research team. Challenges inherent in teamwork include changes in membership and differences in analytical style, philosophy, training, experience, and skill. This article discusses teamwork issues and tools and techniques used to improve team-based qualitative research.
METHODS We drew on our experiences in working on numerous projects of varying, size, duration, and purpose. Through trials of different tools and techniques, expert consultation, and review of the literature, we learned to improve how we build teams, manage information, and disseminate results.
RESULTS Attention given to team members and team processes is as important as choosing appropriate analytical tools and techniques. Attentive team leadership, commitment to early and regular team meetings, and discussion of roles, responsibilities, and expectations all help build more effective teams and establish clear norms. As data are collected and analyzed, it is important to anticipate potential problems from differing skills and styles, and how information and files are managed. Discuss analytical preferences and biases and set clear guidelines and practices for how data will be analyzed and handled. As emerging ideas and findings disperse across team members, common tools (such as summary forms and data grids), coding conventions, intermediate goals or products, and regular documentation help capture essential ideas and insights.
CONCLUSIONS In a team setting, little should be left to chance. This article identifies ways to improve team-based qualitative research with more a considered and systematic approach. Qualitative researchers will benefit from further examination and discussion of effective, field-tested, team-based strategies.
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When conducting qualitative research—especially large, multi-year projects—working in teams has some advantages. Projects benefit from the collective labor, thought, skill, and energy that team members bring. Teams also advance the academic goals of learning from others and transferring knowledge across disciplines and institutions. Teams can be especially good for gathering and analyzing large amounts of qualitative data. The challenge comes in sustaining the effort to the end of a project and into the next project. Some of the challenges come from the nature of qualitative inquiry: because understanding comes iteratively at all phases of the project, essential ideas, insights, and connections can come from different members of a team at different points in time. Keeping good records and processes become essential. Unfortunately, we often do not realize avoidable problems until we are in the midst of them.
Despite published accounts of team-based qualitative research,1–11 there are few concise, concrete, practical suggestions for how a team goes about improving the team and its work. Furthermore, investigators must be confident that processes and findings will stand up to peer scrutiny,12–15 which can be more difficult as data, analysis, and results are spread across team members, computers, departments, or institutions. Teams must find ways to manage and analyze large amounts of data, deal with subtle change that occurs with time, and reduce the competing demands and crises that may disrupt the effort. We do not propose a specific qualitative method; instead, we discuss issues we have encountered and synthesize the tools and techniques we used to improve our team-based qualitative research.
We drew on a decade of experience working on team projects of varying size, duration, methodology, and purpose. Our work has spanned departments, institutions, disciplines, and cultures, including multimethod research in family medicine, evaluation of statewide health education and health promotion programs, and research and analysis in nutrition, patient safety, medical education, mental health, criminal justice, sexual health, health policy, and participatory research with tribal communities. In each of these undertakings, the collaborative efforts ranged from design and planning, to implementation and data collection, to analysis and reporting. Through trials and refinement of different tools and techniques, expert consultation, and review of the literature, we learned to improve how we build teams, manage information, and disseminate results. In this article, we illustrate some of our methods using a more etic approach (based on the researcher’s concepts and research questions) to qualitative research; however, we feel that our lessons learned can be helpful for other approaches, including more naturalistic or emic approaches (deriving from the conceptual framework of those being studied).
Issues In Teamwork
Teams: People and Processes
Challenges inherent in teamwork include changes in membership, along with differences in analytical style, philosophy, training, experience, language, and skill. Teamwork suffers when the right people work on the wrong things at the wrong time, or when roles, expectations, or responsibilities shift quickly and unexpectedly. With longer periods of time, the team effort can drift, miss deadlines, or become sidetracked by other work. As projects progress and team members get busy with their tasks or other projects, memory about assignments, deadlines, and operations can fade. Projects often begin with regular meetings, but those meetings become irregular, disrupting the pace and flow of work, conversation, and ideas. Without frequent communication, team members can be unintentionally blindsided by new information, expectations, or changes in direction.
As projects grow in size and length, data and thinking are spread across time, space, and people, resulting in potential threats of losing track of data, good ideas, and assignments. As the volume of data builds, finding relevant information and managing the different items, such as transcripts, notes, and early ideas, becomes more difficult. Also, there are potential technical challenges of working across institutions in terms of computer hardware and software.
Analytically, details like definitions and uses of codes can drift or change altogether. Analysts may begin work with incomplete or outdated data, duplicate efforts, or lose keen insights and connections if they do not have clear guidelines for managing files and notes. Biases or differences in analytical styles can impede analytical progress when output does not match expectations. In our own experience, for example, some analysts prefer to work with paper copies, while others prefer electronic copies. We have to determine how to accommodate these 2 approaches to have a single, perpetual record of analysis that can be easily accessed for future iterations of the analysis. Finally, lack of early planning for writing up results can lead to delays and hard feelings about contributions and authorship.
Strategies to Improve Teamwork
Team leadership.
Early in a project a team leader—often the principal investigator (PI)—sets the tone for how the team can work together. These messages should be clear and can start with a discussion about the project’s purpose and any unwritten hopes or expectations for the project. One technique is to craft a 1- or 2-sentence sound bite that captures the essence of the project; repeat it often until the team adopts it as a common description of the project. The PI is responsible for making sure that the team has a common understanding of the project throughout the life of the project. To ensure a common focus, the PI should be involved from the beginning and be able to hear all voices, which he or she can meld into one. A team leader must also watch for signs that the team is not working well (silence, outbursts, missing deadlines, etc) and restore its function. Essentially, a team leader needs excellent management skills or assistance from others who can help manage people, time, and information.
Team timing.
Convene the team as soon as possible. Even members who may not seem central to the project will benefit from early discussions. For instance, if the project entails a participatory style of research, it is important to include representatives of the communities, participants, agencies, or others at this early stage. Early discussions help build an overall clearer sense of project purpose, possible roles, and details of the project that will inform and guide work to come. Importantly, discussion starts orienting team members to the vocabulary of project—technical language, medical terms, context, names, and acronyms.
Regular team meetings.
Regular team meetings have been among our most effective methods for keeping members engaged and on track. Begin these meetings early in a project and schedule them in advance so they are on all the team members’ calendars. When it seems there is little to justify a meeting, the team should still meet, if only to avoid getting out of the habit of meeting. Consider changing the format and focus of meetings to reenergize the team: focus a meeting on emerging ideas or engage in an open forum on ideas for publications. The team leader sets the tone of meetings, which should be comfortable. Establish norms for conducting open, respectful meetings. Have the team members agree to a few ground rules for listening, speaking, and handling disagreements.
Roles, responsibilities, and expectations.
Early in a project ask each team member (do not assume) what specifically interests them about the project and any particular parts they feel strongly about. Ask again later in the project as members acquire more skill or better understand the goals and the remaining work, which may have changed.
Data Management and Analysis Strategies
Analytical Biases and Work Styles
Spend a sufficient amount of time talking about these differences and troubleshoot how to accommodate them. The following are some major considerations to discuss: theoretical approaches to analysis (eg, phenomenology, hermeneutics, grounded theory), analytical style, (eg, lots of codes vs few codes, structured vs unstructured), and use of computers (eg, e-mail, electronic data vs paper). An analyst who is accustomed to unstructured coding, for example, may find a highly structured coding scheme difficult to work with, especially if coming into a project at an intermediate phase. These discussions are helpful for understanding how to structure data collection and analysis and where talents and methods can be put to their best use.
At the start of a project, think through how and where notes and files will be kept, who will be oversee them, and how they will be safeguarded. One of our most effective tactics is to appoint one person as a data manager. Almost all files, whether computer or paper, pass through him or her. The data manager cleans, compiles, and merges files for analyses and updates all team members on file status and accessibility. Early in a project, it is also worth a quick inventory of computers and software to determine members’ preferences, training needs, software version compatibility, and data security.
Common forms.
Regularly use simple, familiar, and common forms at all phases of the analysis. Miles and Huberman8 describe a number of ideas, but we have found a simple 3-question summary form invaluable for all types of qualitative data collection: (1) What were the main issues or themes? (2) What are your impressions, concerns, ideas, or reflections? (3) What new or remaining questions do you have? Without consistent use of such forms, retrieving certain information can become a time-consuming search for data or ideas embedded in detailed notes or codes.
Coding conventions.
If coding data is a major part of analysis, remind the team to routinely write down code definitions, annotate them, and revisit them. This recommendation sounds obvious, but it is especially important to update codes as the analysis progresses and discuss them periodically to identify inconsistencies, changes in meaning or use, and emerging sets of new codes. We found it helpful to agree on a few common coding conventions (using punctuation or specific naming conventions) to find codes or data of a certain type quickly. We often use a code called “Quotables,” alone or in combination with other codes, to quickly retrieve segments of text that are particularly illustrative or potentially useful in a report.
Trim as you go.
As the data grow and ideas emerge, the team needs to document these ideas and continue documenting as the process flows and decisions are made as to what to keep, discard, or reserve for later review. To keep members focused on the right tasks, revisit the original research question or project goals, and trim the ideas that might be important but are not within the scope of the project. Data grids have helped us identify major ideas and themes or major gaps in our analysis across data sources or team members (Figure 1⇓). Sometimes we assign scores or symbols to themes to identify essential ones easily; or we use 0s and 1s for quick calculations to count the presence or absence of themes across cases or within cases.
Sample theme grid.
Intermediate goals or products.
Intermediate products keep the team from putting off important tasks and help make midcourse corrections to data collection, analysis, and interpretation. One tactic is to ask team members to prepare 1 or 2 overhead slides with what they think are the 2 or 3 most important ideas emerging from the data, what evidence they have to support those ideas, and specifically where to find them in the data. Additionally, inviting outside experts to join a meeting can help team members get serious about moving the analysis along or address stuck positions. Negotiate reasonable deadlines to give a specific goal- or product-oriented target to keep the analysis on track.
Regular documentation.
At team meetings, keep notes about project administration, decisions, task assignments, and the analytical process. For example, document why specific codes were used instead of others, how merging specific codes came about and what they include, or who is responsible for the next data collection or analytical steps. Keep track of the smaller tasks that might get assigned and forgotten because they seem less important. During more-intensive analytical meetings, consider tape recording and transcribing conversations. Send a meeting summary to members and keep summaries in an easily accessible place.
Writing up results.
Books have been written as guides to writing up qualitative research16–21; however, these guides do not address the process of collaborative writing. Writing collaboratively mentors inexperienced writers, alleviates blank-page anxiety,17 and provides a good check on the accuracy of the reporting. It saves time in the long run to start brainstorming and outlining potential manuscripts and writing tasks early in the process of qualitative analyses. Establish author guidelines, roles, and expectations early in the process to avoid misunderstandings later. We have had the unfortunate experience of routing a manuscript to coauthors to find that we had inadvertently left a substantive contributor out of the loop. As ideas for manuscripts start, ask of the whole team which members would like to contribute to the written report and which members would like to lead; then route early drafts of an abstract to those team members, and ask whether there are others who should contribute. Simultaneously, be extremely clear about what contributions meet the guidelines for authorship.
Good qualitative research requires systematic methods by researchers who can account for the methodological and the analytical paths that led to the reported findings. In a team-based research setting, little should be left to chance. Processes and documentation become critical elements of teamwork. The goal is to foster team processes for efficient, rigorous, and thoughtful analysis; team members can then be confident in their analyses and products. The tools and strategies do not need to be rigid or highly structured, but they do need to be systematic and able to be audited. Qualitative researchers will benefit from further examination and discussion of effective, field-tested, team-based strategies.
We would like to thank our many team members, analysts, and participants who have contributed greatly to our efforts and learning.
Conflicts of interest: none reported
Received for publication May 4, 2004.
Revision received January 21, 2005.
Accepted for publication January 30, 2005.
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This site was originally started in July 2009 as an independent endeavor to monitor conditions in Arizona's criminal justice system, as well as offer some critical analysis of the prison industrial complex from a prison abolitionist/anarchist's perspective. It was begun in the aftermath of the death of Marcia Powell, a 48 year old AZ state prisoner who was left in an outdoor cage in the desert sun for over four hours while on a 10-minute suicide watch. That was at ASPC-Perryville, in Goodyear, AZ, in May 2009.
Marcia, a seriously mentally ill woman with a meth habit sentenced to the minimum mandatory 27 months in prison for prostitution was already deemed by society as disposable. She was therefore easily ignored by numerous prison officers as she pleaded for water and relief from the sun for four hours. She was ultimately found collapsed in her own feces, with second degree burns on her body, her organs failing, and her body exceeding the 108 degrees the thermometer would record. 16 officers and staff were disciplined for her death, but no one was ever prosecuted for her homicide. Her story is here.
Marcia's death and this blog compelled me to work for the next 5 1/2 years to document and challenge the prison industrial complex in AZ, most specifically as manifested in the Arizona Department of Corrections. I corresponded with over 1,000 prisoners in that time, as well as many of their loved ones, offering all what resources I could find for fighting the AZ DOC themselves - most regarding their health or matters of personal safety.
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Arizona prison sentences among toughest for many crimes
Bob Ortega
Oct. 9, 2011 12:00 AM
Whether it's putting a shoplifter behind bars for three years or a child-porn user away for 200 years, Arizona imposes among the longest, harshest sentences of any state in the country for a wide variety of crimes.
Politically, that has been popular, but the practice carries a hefty price tag. This year, the state will spend more than $1 billion to keep prisoners behind bars, and that figure will balloon if Arizona carries out plans to build or contract for as many as 6,500 new prison beds over the next five years.
Many other states, to cut costs as budget deficits have soared, have adopted sentencing alternatives over the past decade that have slashed their prison populations.
They diverted non-violent offenders into drug- or alcohol-treatment programs, increased tightly supervised probation, and took other steps that experts say save money while helping cut the likelihood that convicts will reoffend.
Nationally, crime rates have been falling for decades. Even with more convicted criminals on the street, many of these states have seen their crime rates fall as far or farther than in Arizona, where the prison population has climbed 50 percent over the past decade.
But those calling for similar reforms here have been unable to persuade Arizona's political leaders to give up their tough-on-crime stance.
"We incarcerate 40,000 people; Washington has a slightly larger population than Arizona and it has 18,000 prisoners," says Rep. Cecil Ash, a Mesa Republican and sentencing-reform advocate. "Bottom line, we're spending a huge amount of money when we have better alternatives."
But Ash has found almost no support in his own party for changing sentencing.
Former House Speaker Kirk Adams says he and most other legislators agree with prosecutors that Arizona's tough sentencing laws are the reason for the state's falling crime rate.
"If we're talking about having some people not go to prison, or letting some out earlier, it's natural lawmakers would want to proceed very, very carefully," he said.
Over the past three decades, Arizona's population has leapt one and a half times to just under 6.4 million people. The state's prison population has grown five times as fast.
In 1980, one out of every 749 people in Arizona was behind bars. Today, it's one out of 159, based on U.S. Census and Arizona Department of Corrections data. Arizona has the highest proportion of people in prison of any state in the West and ranks sixth in the country. The U.S. has the highest rate of incarceration in the world.
One big reason for the high rate across the country, and especially in Arizona, is a series of "tough on crime" and "truth in sentencing" measures that lawmakers began adopting in the 1970s and continue to enact. Those laws have sent more people to prison for longer periods of time.
Arizona politicians from former Gov. Fife Symington to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio have campaigned on the belief that putting more bad guys away for longer keeps communities safer.
But the numbers don't back that up. Despite a high incarceration rate, Arizona also has had some of the highest crime rates in the country, averaging between sixth and seventh among all states and the District of Columbia over the past decade, according to FBI data. A study soon to be released by the Arizona Criminal Justice Commission will report that Arizona's murder rate rose last year, and that rape has risen over the last decade, even though both those rates have fallen nationally.
Over the past few years, some two dozen states - including the traditionally punitive state of Texas - have passed sentencing and other criminal-justice reforms, many specifically aimed at cutting prison populations.
Reforms include scaling back or eliminating mandatory sentences, giving judges more discretion in sentencing, creating commissions to study sentencing practices, and adopting so-called "evidence-based practices." These policies encourage probation for non-violent offenders, electronic monitoring and community-based rehabilitation programs. Criminologists credit such reforms for reducing crime and prison populations.
But the Arizona Legislature has moved mostly in the opposite direction, rejecting efforts at sentencing reform. Last session, after being lobbied by Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery and other prosecutors, leaders buried bills by Ash and another member of their own Republican majority who proposed reforms - creating a sentencing commission, expanding rehabilitation practices - similar to those adopted in Texas, Michigan, Kansas and New York. They also rejected a bill for a study of sentencing reforms. Arizona prosecutors and most Republican lawmakers insist that tough sentencing laws are essential to fighting crime by ensuring violent criminals get long sentences that keep them out of society.
Lawmakers did pass bills that increased sentences for child prostitution and sex crimes involving children, and created new crimes relating to human smuggling. Sponsors said the public supports tough measures for such crimes.
Spending on prisons rises
But putting more people in prison for longer is costly. Last year, as the state slashed spending on education, health care and almost every other area, the Department of Corrections was the only agency to see a budget increase.
In 1979, the state spent 4.3 percent of its annual budget on Corrections; this fiscal year, Corrections will take 11.2 percent of the budget. By contrast, over that time period, Arizona's spending on higher education dropped from 19.1 percent of the state budget to 10.5 percent.
The Corrections Department plans shortly to award one or more contracts for up to 5,000 more private-prison beds. The state's auditor general projects that those contracts will cost an additional $585 million over the next five years. And if further planned expansions to add 1,500 more prison beds go ahead, those would add nearly $400 million more in spending over the next five years, according to the auditor general.
Those kinds of mounting costs have led leaders in other states to push for sentencing reforms, saying it isn't a question of being soft or hard on crime but of being smart on crime.
"We recognize the need to have public safety, but at the same time we have to make the best use of our money," said Texas state Rep. Jerry Madden, who spearheaded a series of bills in his state that diverted people from prisons into mental-health, alcohol- and drug-treatment programs, increased community supervision and the use of electronic monitoring for non-violent offenders. Those changes are credited with reducing the need for thousands of prison beds.
"When I arrived at the Legislature, I had one message from my speaker: 'Don't build new prisons; they cost too much,' " Madden said.
The new treatment programs and other measures cost $241 million but saved far more. Texas scrapped plans to spend $523 million on new prisons in 2008 and 2009, and saved $36 million a year it had been paying to house prisoners in county jails. The changes also helped cut the recidivism rate. Madden notes that treating underlying mental-health, drug- and alcohol-addiction issues helps remove some of the triggers that lead to crime.
Shifting priorities
Travis Pratt, a criminologist and criminal-justice professor at Arizona State University, believes cost issues will eventually drive change in Arizona, too.
"Most states that have started to back off from the get-tough approach haven't done so because of some ideological shift; they've done so because they're broke," Pratt said. "They don't want to be less punitive, but they recognize that they've hit the fiscal limits of that agenda.
"Arizona will eventually hit that. It will become too expensive to maintain one of the highest incarceration rates in the nation."
While "policy makers found long ago that there's political capital to be gained by being tough on crime - the same philosophy that gets Arpaio elected and re-elected - that's not at the top of the political agenda anymore," Pratt said. "Now it's all about the economy, jobs, health care. Crime is slipping down the list, and policy makers won't get the same political capital out of the issue as they did in the past."
Others aren't so sure.
"We see a lot of pushback, even against things we know will work here, because right now the system is very favorable to prosecutors . . . and the benefits of sentencing reform are more difficult to see, so politically it's a tough sell," said ASU law professor Carissa Byrne Hessick, who has worked on sentencing-reform proposals.
"The prosecutors in this state seem to be well-organized, and they're very opposed to any sentencing changes," agreed Donna Hamm, a prison-reform activist and former state judge. "Judges don't have a lot of power over the length of sentences . . . there are a lot of mandatory minimums that have to be imposed. So the prosecutors are really driving that engine, because they decide which charges will be filed and which ones won't be."
Kim MacEachern, staff attorney for the Arizona Prosecuting Attorneys' Advisory Council, agrees with Hamm on one point: Prosecutors see no need for change.
"When we look at who is in prison, we believe the right people are there," she said. "And that has to be playing a role in the decrease in the crime rate."
Most criminologists, however, don't agree with that assessment.
"The research shows that incarceration is way overrated in terms of its ability to control crime. The ups and downs in the crime rate have a low correlation with incarceration rates," said Mona Lynch, director of the Center in Law, Society and Culture at the University of California-Irvine. Five other criminologists interviewed for this story agreed with Lynch, saying that scores of studies have shown that it's possible to lock up fewer people while still cutting crime.
A 2010 analysis of more than 400 studies for the National Institute of Corrections found not only that the longer the sentence, the more likely a convict is to reoffend, but that rehabilitation succeeds far more often in a community rather than prison.
Tougher penalties
Arizona has had a well-deserved reputation for handing down tough sentences since territorial days. But beginning in 1978, state lawmakers began to adopt an ever-wider variety of laws that increased the number of crimes, imposed harsher penalties and reduced the ability of judges to use their own discretion in handing down sentences or revoking probation.
Much of this coincided with nationwide sentencing trends, but as Lynch, the criminologist, describes in her book, "Sunbelt Justice," Arizona led rather than followed in tightening the screws.
These changes included, in 1978, presumptive sentencing, which imposed specific ranges of sentences for each type of crime. The idea was to make sentencing more consistent, but the change also put more power in the hands of prosecutors, who decide what violations to charge. Another change, mandatory sentencing, imposed specific longer sentences and eliminated the option of probation for violent crimes, sex offenses, repeat offenses and certain drug and DUI crimes.
Under those laws, in 1988, Jay Martin Jonas of Bisbee was sentenced to 25 years in prison for selling a marijuana cigarette, for a dollar, to a 14-year-old juvenile delinquent. He got 22 1/2 years more tacked on for agreeing to fence a handgun the boy had stolen. Jonas, then 21, had a prior felony, so the two sentences were imposed consecutively without any possibility of parole.
On appeal, Arizona Supreme Court Justice Robert Corcoran, writing for the majority, noted that Jonas' sentence "is among the harshest in the nation," but he upheld it. In his dissent, Justice Stanley Feldman replied, "Actually, it's the harshest. Arizona is the only state that would or could incarcerate a first-time seller of one marijuana cigarette to twenty-five years in prison without parole to be served consecutively to any other sentence imposed."
Jonas' attorney eventually won him some relief. He was released last year, after serving 22 1/2 years in prison.
"Sometimes," said Feldman, now in private practice, "common sense tells you a thing is so unjust it violates the Eighth Amendment," which bans cruel and unusual punishment. He said Arizona's criminal code can and does result in sentences that are "counterproductive, unjust and create too much expense."
Prosecutors wield more power
In 1993, Arizona adopted "truth in sentencing" laws. These abolished the ability of parole boards to award early release for new crimes. They required offenders to serve at least 85 percent of their sentence before being eligible for community supervision; and required serving 100 percent of the sentence for many felonies. Before, inmates typically had been eligible for parole after serving from half to two-thirds of their sentences. While most states adopted "truth in sentencing" laws for violent crimes, Arizona was one of only four to impose the rules on non-violent crimes.
Another change greatly reduced the option to let sentences run concurrently, as most states allow, when someone is convicted on more than one charge. It made consecutive sentences the default option and mandated them for certain crimes, including most crimes against children.
For Phoenix teacher Milton Berger, who was convicted in state court in 2003 on 20 counts of possession of child pornography, each with a mandatory minimum of 10 years, the consecutive-sentencing rule put him behind bars for 200 years with no parole. If Berger, now 61, reaches the median life expectancy for a man his age - 81 - Arizona taxpayers will spend more than half a million dollars to keep him in prison. Berger took his chances at trial because the plea bargain he was offered - 40 years with no parole - would essentially have been a life sentence.
In contrast, Deewayne Bowdoin of Willcox was prosecuted in U.S. District Court in Phoenix for possession of child pornography last year. He received five years in federal prison, "a just sentence for his role in the sexual exploitation of children," said then-U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke.
Critics say Arizona's mandatory-sentencing laws, meant to provide consistency, instead have moved discretion out of the hands of judges and into the hands of prosecutors, giving them enormous leverage to pry plea bargains from those accused and resulting in huge disparities.In the last fiscal year, plea bargains accounted for 95.6 percent of all felony criminal convictions in Maricopa County; only 1.6% of felony criminal cases filed went to trial, according to court records.
"Sentencing is nearly all done by plea bargaining instead of before a judge in open court," said Pima County Public Defender Robert Hirsh. "The deal is always driven by the risk of a higher sentence."
In 2009, William Johnson was charged in Maricopa County with felony shoplifting. To avoid a sentence of 10 years at trial, he agreed to plead guilty and received three years in prison for stealing a $3 bottle of wine. The plea bargain was considerably longer than the norm for similar crimes in most states, say defense attorneys.
States cut costs, decrease crime
While many states went down the same sentencing path as Arizona, in recent years most have walked back from such practices. Even the few states with higher incarceration rates than Arizona, such as Mississippi and Texas, saved money by cutting prison populations while also seeing deep drops in crime.
New York cut its prison population by 20 percent over the past decade, and New Jersey by 19 percent, while both states saw overall crime rates fall by similar rates as in Arizona and violent crime rates fall farther. Both states scaled back mandatory sentences for drug offenses and gave judges more discretion to send offenders into drug-treatment programs.
Mississippi, in 2008, brought back parole and scaled back mandatory sentences for a variety of non-violent offenses, retroactive to 1995. Over the next year, the state released more than 3,000 prisoners on parole an average of 13 months sooner, saving more than $40 million. Mississippi also saved roughly $12 million a year by expanding the use of home arrest with electronic monitoring. Its crime rate fell nearly 7 percent.
Many other states, including Georgia, Kansas, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina and South Carolina, have taken similar measures. Across the country, crime rates have been dropping for years, even as "we see an increasing trend of states turning to alternative sentencing measures and reforms," said Judith Greene, director of Justice Strategies, a non-profit group that studies incarceration policies. Like ASU's Pratt, she said the budget crisis has been an impetus; but with the declines in crime "people are a little less ready for the kinds of old, knee-jerk solutions proposed when crime was rising and people were feeling a desperation about what to do about it."
After peaking in October 2009 at just under 40,800, Arizona's prison population has dropped by about 700 inmates; officials say changes in probation practices are sending fewer people back to prison for minor infringements of probation.
Arizona's auditor general, in an audit last year, said the state could cut its prison growth by adopting sentencing reforms other states have put in place, and by expanding who is eligible for the diversion program voters created in 1996 through Proposition 200. Except for methamphetamine users, who are excluded, that proposition requires first- or second-time non-violent drug offenders to be put on probation and sent to a treatment program instead of prison. A 2006 Arizona Supreme Court study estimated this measure keeps more than 1,000 people a year out of prison, at an annual savings of about $11.7 million. ASU's Hessick said extending the program to meth possession could save $6 million a year more.
State legislator Ash said he plans to propose sentencing reforms again next session, for the fourth year in a row.
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as a working mom and housewife,I never anticipated that getting in a car accident would be a problem, but I was involved in a car accident with and Arizona Highway patrol car that cost me 2 1/2 years of my life, and took me away from my children..then 19, 18, 15 & 13!!!!I had consumed 1 beer prior to this accident, and I was not charged with DUI but instead, since "alcohol was involved", got aggravated assault on a police officer and was taken away from my teenage children, and with no previous record, spent time in an Arizona state prison!!! Yavapai County is a very inconsistent place to be sentenced, and one person guilty of the same "crime" may be sentenced to up to 4 time as another sentenced to the same (or even worse) crime. It all depends on how much money you (or your parents) have,or if you are willing to implicate other people in anything you have ever even heard of .
my husband has been in a az prison now for 3 yrs and his sentence was a yr and a half never getting in any trouble. I ask why wont they release him, getting the run around getting different answers. well i want some answers. no one to help . there should b a class action suit for this this is a violation of human rights help me help them yvette wood 8013477779
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Lil Rick and RPB join Machel Montano for ‘RISE: Soca Kingdom’
by Bajan Reporter / July 22nd, 2018
Preparations for RISE featuring Machel Montano and Super Blue on July 31st at the Kensington Oval are moving full steam ahead, with the addition of recently crowned International Bashment Soca Monarch and reigning Party Monarch King, Lil Rick, and reigning Sweet Soca Monarch Red Plastic Bag to the line-up.
This from local producers Mastermind Creative Productions, who are joining forces with international promoter Jay Upscale Marketing and Promotions, with support from the Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc. to bring one of the Caribbean’s biggest soca acts back to Barbados for this year’s Crop Over festival, as a stop on his worldwide Soca Kingdom Tour.
Mastermind Creative Productions, comprised of three local entertainment veterans, Alain Hinds, Kirk Brown and Lester Brathwaite , are no strangers to the business. The three have hefty resumes among them. Hinds has produced several successful events including the Naniki Music Festival, while Brathwaite has staged regional and international events in New York and Guyana. Kirk Brown is a household name in local entertainment. In addition to being an artiste, accomplished entrepreneur, DJ and actor, Brown also has the unique advantage of being the only radio personality with shows on four of the major radio stations during the Crop Over season.
“We are ready for an event of this magnitude; in fact we are eagerly looking forward to it,” Hinds said. “We have been fine tuning our strategy and our plans as it relates RISE and each of our skill sets will be brought to bear to create an extraordinary experience. It is our pleasure to bring Machel, Super Blue and the Best of Crop Over 2018 together on one stage for a splendid display of Caribbean unity through music.”
Brown echoed similar sentiments, noting that the event will be unparalleled in its delivery.
“We know Machel and the rest of the cast will deliver a fantastic show – of that there is no doubt. What we as the organisers are working on is ensuring that the event experience matches that high energy and class. Patrons will get the value they deserve from this production and we are really excited to see all that we have been working on for the people of Barbados and the Caribbean, unfold,” he said.
The team also mentioned that fans of the Caribbean superstar are already taking no chances and have stormed ticket box offices in anticipation of the show. Early bird tickets are already gone and ticket sales continue at a steady pace.
“We expect the trend to continue and encourage persons to get their tickets as soon as possible to avoid disappointment,” Hinds stressed.
VIP tickets are also on sale for those who wish to capitalize on the experience. The package includes drinks, with a signature beer garden and cocktails bars, food and a special vantage point from which to take in all the action.
Several more artists are set to be named in the coming weeks. They will be joined by a full line-up of the island’s top deejays including Ras, Chris Gayle, Bill Gates, Salt and Don.
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CubexCursedxCurious:Volume1 Chapter3
From Baka-Tsuki
1 Chapter 3 - Antinomy of Each Other's Body Temperatures / "Cold curse, Warm curse"
1.1 Part 1
Chapter 3 - Antinomy of Each Other's Body Temperatures / "Cold curse, Warm curse"[edit]
Part 1[edit]
Rusted industrial machinery stood upright like some kind of monster. The air was rife with the smell of rust and mold. On the other side of the high ceiling, the sound of countless raindrops dancing could be heard.
In the corner of an abandoned factory, Peavey's silhouette could be found. Her upper torso naked, she was covered below the waist by a brand new blanket. Nevertheless, the bleeding from her shoulder made newness irrelevant.
"...«Chupacabra Bandage»."
That thing—the dangling bandage moved and inexplicably wrapped itself around Peavey's shoulder.
"Oooh? Aaaaaaaah...?"
Peavey's body twisted in suffering as a result of the extreme intensity of the pain. The portion of the bandage in contact with the wound was writhing restlessly. Contracting, sucking away. No mistake, it acted as if it were alive—sucking blood. As if struck by electrical shock, Peavey's body jumped. But seconds later, she endured the pain as she breathed irregularly, peering through her blonde hair to glare at the figure standing before her.
"What joke is this... What are you do—"
"...Yes, it should have sucked to its fill now."
Unintimidated by her anger, the girl responded without hostility. Stopping herself from pouncing forward, Peavey glanced at her own shoulder. She could tell that the shoulder's pain was subsiding. Not only the pain caused by the strange bandage but also the pain intrinsic to the amputation wound.
"No matter what kind of critical wound, Chupacabra Bandage can stop the bleeding. But because this thing is alive, it feeds on blood the instant it wraps around the wound, accompanied by intense pain. Simply stated, one has to endure suffering while it sucks its fill. Once it is full, the pain will disappear temporarily. For the sake of closing a critical wound, one is forced to savor pain—that is this bandage's..."
The strip of fabric extending toward Peavey severed itself, and the remainder retracted.
"...Curse."
"Auxiliary..."
The figure nodded in acknowledgement and murmured softly:
"This place is one of the hiding places we arranged. In your current state, there was no way to send you to the hotel, but left alone you would have died. Hence you were taken here for emergency treatment. I apologize for lacking the opportunity to explain until now."
Who knew if Peavey was actually listening as she used her remaining iron arm to punch the bloodstained blanket as she stood up unsteadily.
"...It's better if you stay still. Although the bleeding has stopped, your physical energy has yet to recover."
"You must be joking! Why act without my consent! I can still fight! That stinking rubbish of a tool! I must defeat her at all costs..."
"Certainly, because that is the mission, its destruction is imperative. Nevertheless, at that particular point in time, I judged you as incapable of achieving it."
Chupacabra Bandage once again extended out from the mantle, its front end striking Peavey's bare chest. Knocked out of balance, Peavey fell and sat down on the dirty blanket once more.
"Tsk..."
"The job of an auxiliary is to provide full support to the knights on the front lines. From this standpoint, that is all I can do. I firmly believe I made the right decision."
Peavey glared at the girl's eye beneath the depths of the hood. The girl remained calmly composed, completely unfazed.
"Fighting under conditions of uncertain victory would simply result in a wasteful sacrifice—that would be troublesome for me, for it would be seen as my failure as an auxiliary to judge the situation properly."
The aloof attitude persisted for minutes with no signs of changing, causing Peavey to give up in the end. She sighed and sat down properly, dangled her arm to the floor and took off her armor. Then using her exposed hand to open a retractable compartment on the armor, she took out a cigarette and lit it, inhaling the smoke deeply into her lungs—slowly, slowly, as if performing deep breathing.
As she inhaled and exhaled, her abandoned emotions began to return slowly. Her sanity defrosting, light returned to her soulless eyes as a sardonic smile appeared on her lips.
Raising her head up to examine the figure before her, she scooped up her blonde hair and spoke with displeasure.
"Hoo... And here I was, wondering what kind of auxiliary I had, who could have expected a single little child like this. Far I have truly fallen, to be lectured by this kind of child."
"Regarding the description of 'little child,' I must voice my objections. As for 'a single,' that I can only explain to you thus: it is inevitable given the circumstances. Due to the suddenness of the mission, there was no time to organize an army."
"Yes yes, I know. In any case, I was the only one free to be sent to this place, and you are the only one to support me. The Knights Dominion lacks in manpower, this cannot be helped. I have not a single complaint for our lord... By the way, girl, can you tell me your name?"
In that instant, as if she were struck by an unexpected impact, her hood began to sway lightly from side to side.
"...Hmm, there is no need. Just call me 'Mummy Maker.'"
"How utilitarian a child you are. Fine. My name is—"
"I already know."
Mummy Maker's hand began rustle as it moved beneath the mantle. After a long while, a bandaged hand emerged from under the mantle, holding out an object resembling a small stack of flashcards. She spoke as she flipped through them:
"Peavey Barowoi. Female. Twenty-one years old. Unmarried. Blonde-haired. Rank: Orthodox Knight, First Class. A rare knight who does not rely on Wathes to fight on the frontlines. Likes: cigarettes, black pepper steak, white wine..."
"Are my three-sizes written there?"
"Three-sizes are... Yes..."
"I didn't ask you to read them out. I was being sarcastic."
Peavey puffed out smoke. The reason of her displeasure was not because she was forcefully withdrawn from the fight.
"If 'Hates' or 'Special Characteristics' are written there, why don't you read it out?"
"Note: her hatred and revulsion towards Wathes is especially outstanding amongst the knights. Hates: all Wathes."
"Especially long and slender Wathes, they repulse me so much it makes me shudder!"
Peavey glared with revulsion at the bandage wrapped around her shoulder.
"...Are you blaming me for using Chupacabra Bandage?"
"That's only half the reason."
"And the other half is...? Other than this I had no other recourse. Had I explained to you first, surely you would have refused. I already considered it beforehand."
"That is not the reason. I understand very well this was the only way to close this wound, so I'll concede and overlook the fact. Besides, it's already bandaged, this is all in the past. However—the problem is the present."
The present? Mummy Maker inclined her head in puzzlement, her movements as girl-like as her voice. Peavey's sharp glare persisted.
"Take that thing off and show me your appearance."
"...Only if there is such a need."
Mummy Maker pulled her mantle back and the hood fell on her shoulders to reveal herself as a white-haired girl, age fifteen or so. Instead of wearing clothes, her entire body was wrapped in bandages, even one of her eyes.
"Oh my, isn't that an adorable face?"
"...Hmm, no such thing..."
"In any case, those things wrapped around your body, which ones belong to Chupacabra Bandage?"
"Almost all of them. Except for the face."
Almost all of them eh—Peavey's face expressed mockery.
"Then take them off."
"!!!"
"Did you hear me? Take them off. This thing on my shoulder cannot be helped, but as much as possible, I do not want any Wathe to enter my sight. Even if a Wathe exists nearby I will feel uncomfortable. Take them off and throw them away as far as you can, somewhere out of my sight. Treat this as your obligation, at least when you're speaking with me."
"...What if I refuse?"
"Then you have failed as an auxiliary to accommodate and support the knight. That would be my conclusion. From then on, I will neither accept nor permit your assistance. You could return to the Knights Dominion."
"Underneath this... Nothing is worn..."
"It does not matter."
"My body... Is very ugly, with burn scars..."
Finding Peavey's serious expression unchanged, the girl sighed briefly. Slowly she went to work, directing the ends of the bandages to move behind the nearby abandoned machinery. The sound of wrapping around some kind of object could be heard. At the same time, the bandages around her started to wind towards that direction with a rustling sound.
After that, what remained was the pale white body of a girl of whiteness.
She continued to maintain her sense of aloofness that matched neither her voice nor her age. Expressionless, she stood there—just as she had claimed, her body was covered with large patches of burn scars, now completely laid bare. But apparently she was not without emotion, for faint blushing appeared on her cheeks.
"...Hmm. Like this, is it okay...?"
"Yes, this is fine."
"So embarrassing."
"There is nothing to be embarrassed about. Isn't my chest exposed too? Besides—"
Peavey held a cigarette in her mouth as she walked over to the girl's side, staring at her body tactlessly.
"Yes, I knew it. What were you saying... Very ugly? Nonsense!"
"—Eh?"
Mummy Maker raised her head with surprise. Peavey easily deduced that she must have some kind of mental trauma and sad past. Hence, rather than jeering she was smiling. Amongst the Knights Dominion, there were many who regarded Peavey as a mad dog.
Seeing the girl display the mettle to express her opinion directly to someone of such a reputation, Peavey was greatly pleased.
"In my view, Wathes are what are truly ugly. In that case, having removed that kind of thing, how could your body be ugly? Burn scars are insignificant."
"...Liar."
"I'm not lying. This aspect of yours is rather fitting for your age."
Peavey spoke as she extended a hand to caress the girl's head. This act caused Mummy Maker to act even stranger. As her eyes flashed and turned upwards, her body shuddered slightly.
"What's wrong? Ah yes, you dislike having your head touched, is that it? My apologies..."
Just as Peavey was about to withdraw her hand, Mummy Maker shook her head hurriedly.
"No... No! It is... The opposite...!"
"Opposite?"
"Up until now, no one had ever touched my head, so... I, am very happy..."
"Don't parents usually rub their child's head?"
"—No. My parents never did..."
The girl gloomily looked down at her burns and did not finish her sentence.
Peavey narrowed her eyes. She also recalled—her own parents who had died from Wathes.
"Well, there are many kinds of parents after all... Fine, what should I do? If you wish, I can continue rubbing?"
Although she meant it as a joke, the girl seemed to have taken it seriously. Shyly she lowered her head and drew in her shoulders, hesitating for quite a while before finally murmuring:
"If you don't find it troublesome... Then... A little longer..."
Peavey was quite surprised but since she had made the offer, there was no other choice but to continue caressing the girl's head. This sort of intimacy, which did not suit a first encounter, gave her a rather incredible feeling.
As she continued to rub, Peavey rested the girl's forehead against her stomach. The girl's face was out of sight.
(A surrogate mother... That doesn't really suit my style... But fine, once in a while feels not bad at all.)
At this time she suddenly recalled:
"Even though I asked you to take off the bandages, you are not required to continue showing me your naked body, you know? If you feel embarrassed, feel free to wear your mantle."
"...Yes."
By pure coincidence, Ueno Kirika met the girl in front of the cram school. After lessons ended, she walked out of the building and immediately saw her—just as she was frowning at the rain falling from the night sky as she opened her umbrella, a silver figure walked past before her.
The girl's appearance was quite strange. Still wearing her school uniform, she did not carry an umbrella and allowed her silver hair to be completely drenched. Her gaze directed towards her feet, she walked listlessly.
Even though she only took care of the girl for one day, being the class rep—no, regardless of her identity, she could not leave her alone.
She hated rain and, in particular, being drenched by it. Whenever she saw boys getting excited to see wet uniforms turning transparent, she wished she could eliminate them all from the world. Running in the rain was suicidal, but she had no choice but to abandon this principle of hers. Simply using her umbrella to prevent rain from splattering on her directly, she broke into a light run in pursuit of the figure.
"Fear-kun...! Hey, Fear-kun! What is going on? Why are you here?"
The girl did not respond to her calls and simply continued walking in a daze—judging the situation to be abnormal, Kirika forcefully pulled her into an small alley. Only then did she look up with a blank expression—
"...Ki-ri-ka...?"
"...Yes, Ueno Kirika, the class representative of Yachi's class. Didn't we meet during the day? Seriously, what happened? Walking in the rain without an umbrella, that is absolutely ridiculous! Where are you going?"
"Where am I going... Yes, I have to go where..."
She murmured with her eyes out of focus. Just as Kirika frowned in surprise—
"Oh? Hey girls, you're completely drenched!"
"Where are you girls going? How about we share umbrellas? Or why don't we simply find a place to shelter from the rain? We'll treat you!"
A bunch of frivolous men. Now was not the time to get involved with them.
"Please don't interfere, this is none of your business!"
"...Huh? We are just offering our kindness, what is with that attitude?"
Kirika's original manner of speaking was already different from most girls. Combined with her impatient tone of voice, her words sounded especially offensive. As a result, the two men's attitude instantly changed.
Troublesome things again—Kirika frowned, causing the men to be even more displeased. By this point, apologizing would only make things worse.
As Kirika began to ponder, whether it would be faster to simply run away and drag Fear along, at this moment—
"...Too noisy..."
A voice came from behind her.
"Too noisy... The only noise needed are screams... Screams...? Yes, screams..."
"Too noisy? Girl, you think we're too noisy?"
Before Kirika could interfere, one of the men reached out towards Fear.
Then Kirika saw it. The Rubik's Cube held in the silver-haired girl's hand.
The toy instantly transformed into a long-shafted tool. With merely a light sweep, Fear sent the man flying away. Smashing into the wall with a frightful sound, the man fainted.
"What...! F-Fear-kun, what on earth is this...?"
"Y-You girl... What have you done?"
As Kirika watched in shock, Fear moved past her and came before the other man. Without any pretense she made a forward thrust with the spiral weapon. The man tried to escape but slipped and fell on his butt—the spiral weapon embedded itself into the wall, mere centimeters above his head. As it dug through the steel-reinforced concrete, debris fell onto the man's head.
"Eek..?"
"Behold, Mechanism No.19 gouging type, spiral form: «Human-Perforator». This is me. Another me. This form measures 178.7cm. Number of times used: 357 or 358. In one case, a person died from shock at the very sight of this, a very young boy..."
Fear's gaze remained extremely hollow all this time. She was having a dream. A nightmare that could not be called a dream. While mutters continually came from her throat, her arm moved as if heeding the calls from a sea of darkness. Retracting her weapon from the concrete, she lowered the tip slightly, pointing it at the man sitting on the ground.
"...What is the purpose of my existence? Why do I exist? To gouge, to drill, to perforate! Hence, I-I..."
"Fear-kun! This is going too far!"
Kirika hugged Fear's arm tightly. As if she had been hoping to be restrained from the very start, the girl instantly stood motionless.
"You there—Run! Hurry and run!"
"Eh! Ah! Yaaah..."
Leaving behind his friend and umbrella, the man scrambled and scurried away.
Kirika felt a chill along her spine, even colder than the rainwater. She saw at this time that the vicious weapon had transformed back to a cube shape. Noticing Fear relaxing, Kirika let her go, but Fear began to look lifeless once again.
"Fear...-kun?"
"Ah, haha... Useless, I knew it..."
Slowly she turned her gaze up towards the dark sky, her expression obscured by the silver hair over her face.
"This is my first experience of rain. Yet all I can think about are memories from the past. Someone like me, where should I go... Haha, right, of course there is only that place. Ending things at the place I saw for the first time... Would not be bad. Not bad..."
The silver-haired girl started walking again, leaving behind Kirika who was powerless to do anything.
As the sight of her back was lost in the dark streets, her mutterings gradually faded into the distance.
Suddenly no longer hearing that weak voice, Kirika instantly became confused.
Were the girl's shoulders trembling because she was laughing, or was it—
"Any sign of her?"
"No good... Can't find her anywhere."
At the meeting place—the plaza before the station, Haruaki and Konoha were looking at each other, out of breath. The sky had completely darkened and pedestrians walking before the station were sparse and few in between. In contrast, only the rain poured harder and harder, rendering the vinyl umbrellas they had bought at a convenience store useless.
Parks, alleys, gaming centers, department stores, behind buildings... They checked place after place for where Fear could be but failed to find any trace of her.
"Damn it, where did she go? She has no money so trains and buses are out of the question. She couldn't have gone far."
"It's not like there are no channels of obtaining money... But I don't really think she would go that far?"
"I'm quite sure her mind is not messed up enough to rob money from pedestrians. No, more fundamentally, she probably doesn't even know how to take a bus or a train. There shouldn't be any problems there. Anyway, let's continue searching—"
Just as they were about to start walking again—
A lively ringtone was heard from the cellphone in the chest pocket. Who could it be at such a busy time? Haruaki was planning to ignore it but—the ringing continued nostop. Glancing at the caller's ID, he gave up and took the call.
"Class Rep? Sorry, I'm really busy right now, could we talk next time—"
'I saw Fear-kun!'
Haruaki frantically withdrew his finger that was about to press the end call button. Motioning to Konoha with a glance, he indicated it was an important call.
"W-Where? Please tell me, we are trying to find her!"
'—Just as I expected. No... Sorry, she was with me a short while ago but I lost her. Because she looked very strange, I decided to contact you to let you know.'
"I see... Wait, did anything happen to you? That girl is a little emotionally unstable right now—"
A moment of silence. Then—
'I myself am fine.'
Catching the implication of her words, Haruaki's spine stiffened.
'No... Nothing serious. Even the people apart from me. However, how should I put it... She is very confused. Yes, I don't know how I should explain it—perhaps you might think I am absolutely ridiculous, that... I saw something unbelievable! Fear-kun, Fear-kun was holding this Rubik's Cube—'
"Class Rep."
Haruaki swallowed hard. Amongst the acquaintances of his father, there were people who knew about the existence of cursed tools. The school superintendent was one such person, which was how a special case like Konoha was able to obtain a student's identity—But this was the first time Haruaki met someone in his own circle who had encountered cursed tools.
"I am sorry, but I will explain once everything settles. Can you forget this incident for now?"
'What are you saying?'
"I know this is unreasonable of me, but it is hard to explain right now..."
'...'
"I beg you, Class Rep, now is not the time for explanations, I must find Fear!"
After a period which felt like forever to him, Haruaki finally heard a sigh.
'...It can't be helped, you seem to facing difficulties of your own.'
"T-Thank you! Also, please don't tell anyone else—"
As soon as Haruaki finished, he heard a clearly angry response.
'Absolutely ridiculous! Do you really believe I am the type of idiotic woman who goes around spilling other people's secrets for fun?! Besides, I already know you have your difficulties!'
"Owah... S-Sorry! That's not what I meant!"
'Never mind. So, where would Fear-kun go, do you have some idea?'
"That's exactly why I'm in a bind. Class Rep, did that girl say anything?"
'I wasn't able to converse with her much... Hmm? No, she did say something towards the end...'
"What did she say? Tell me!"
'Right! I recall she said... "Ending things at the place I saw for the first time... Would not be bad"... Something like that.'
The first time? Ending things? The place... She saw for the first time, and for ending things?
Haruaki's mental circuits connected instantly, recalling what happened this morning. While watching television, Fear had expressed dramatic interest towards a certain place.
"—The sea!"
Kirika was still talking but Haruaki shut his phone, tossed his umbrella and broke into a run. Watching him splashing as he ran, Konoha silently sighed and also threw away her umbrella.
The night sea seemed far darker than what she had seen earlier on television, and far more terrifying. As countless raindrops splattered across the surface of the sea, the continued noise filled the air.
The wave breaker stretched ahead into the distant sea. The faraway beach was littered with rocky shores. No matter how curious, no one would probably come here for a swim. Even fishermen would have no way of seeing to the depths of the sea. For years, decades, or even eternity—a vast secret room lay beneath where people's gazes would not venture.
Fear walked towards the furthest end of the wave breaker. Accompanied by the rhythm of the rain, the complex sounds of mingling waves felt even more intimidating. Taking a deep breath, the fishy smell of the rocks filled her lungs. The sensation was fresh and novel, was this the taste of saltwater? Was this the taste of fish? Questions suddenly surfaced. She felt the urge to ask the person who appeared in her mind, however... That person was not by her side, and they will likely never meet again.
Fear smiled lightly—she still could not sever her attachments.
Gazing at the darkness extending before her eyes, it really looked limitless. The horizon which should be there was not visible, for the sky and the sea were equally pitch black. Why would she feel this sense of longing? But she knew the reason.
As she stood on the edge of the wave breaker, she was completely drenched by the splashing waves and the rainwater.
"Don't be impatient, I will go now..."
Muttering to herself, she prepared to take the last step—But just at this very moment.
She heard a voice. A voice calling her name.
Not Fear-in-Cube but the name she had taken provisionally, the one whose meaning she did not even understand, her name here.
"Ho... Idiot. Seriously, what an idiot. Why did he have to come..."
Smiling wryly she turned her head.
There was no one.
All she could see was the wave breaker, splattered by the rain. Only the icy-cold water stretching into the distance.
It must be her feelings of attachment.
A hallucination.
Unable to suppress the urge, Fear began to laugh in her current posture with her head still turned back.
"Ha... Ha... Aha... Ahahaha... How I wish to defy fate! But I did try to kill that guy! I almost added another to my crimes! He couldn't possibly have come after me! Haha... Even if he really chased behind me, the gods could not possibly allow him to arrive here! Because—I am—cursed! Ahahahahahahaha!"
Then her laughter stopped suddenly. She was truly pathetic, hence she resolved herself.
She was cursed. Hence, it was not allowed.
As she murmured softly, she leaned her weight backwards, slowly reclining her body.
She could see the sky as rain poured down from it. There was a comfortable sense of floating. Embraced by water from all directions, her body gradually sank. Keeping her arms and legs spread out, she let gravity guide her to the bed prepared for her at the bottom of the sea.
Her back could feel the sensation of sand. This was the place of her eternal slumber—she thought.
Nothing could be seen. So very dark.
There was nothing in the surroundings. So very cold.
Ah—expelling her last breath as a bubble, Fear closed her eyes.
Nothing to see. A cold, dark place. This was exactly the same as the underground dungeon beneath that castle.
I ended up there again? How fitting. If only I never left in the first place. Only because I went out, did something like this happen. Only because I tasted the edges of warmth, did something like this happen.
I am just returning to where I was originally, clearly when that is all this is, but for some reason—
—Compared to before, it felt even more lonely.
Staying in the cold abandoned factory was no help in recovering one's energy. Through the use of a rather unsightly manner—namely, using Chupacabra Bandage as a rope, Mummy Maker returned to her base—the room at the hotel.
Fortunately, the one who objected to this method of transport was currently sleeping behind her. As the embarrassing act continued, she left the message "I will rest for a while, I leave things to you" and simply went to sleep. Due to the difference in body size, moving her did take quite a bit of work.
Mummy Maker lightly laid Peavey down on the soft bed in the hotel suite. Although she felt that the armor worn on Peavey's arm was in the way, she had no idea how to remove it and could only leave it there.
As the covers were pulled over Peavey, seductive breathing noises could be heard from her sleep.
She must be quite relieved now—Mummy Maker felt a mysterious sense of warmth in her heart as if a fire had been lit. At the same time, she recalled the weight of the hand rubbing her head dozens of minutes earlier.
That was her first time. Not beaten but to have her head rubbed by someone. Not pulled roughly but to have her hair gently caressed. Standing so close together, hearing voices that were not scolds. Experiencing for the very first time, that all this could be so pleasurable.
Asking a woman she met the first time to spoil her, even Mummy Maker was surprised at her own behavior. However—why? —She could not restrain herself, as soon as she wondered whether or not she would have such a chance in the future.
Simply recalling the memory filled her heart with happiness. Dreamily, dreamily. It was as if her memories were washing away. The memories of her parents locking her in a closet, setting fire to it in hopes of obtaining insurance money, thus resulting in her near-fatal wounds and the loss of one eye.
She watched Peavey's sleeping face. The face of someone who should simply be a colleague.
Was she looking for a surrogate mother here?
Never experienced an ideal mother's touch, was she projecting her desires onto Peavey now?
It must be. That blonde hair, those heavily scarred hands which could not be called beautiful, that smell of tobacco... All these were identical to the mother who had tried to kill her. Hence, this person who was not her mother resembled her mother all the same. This was mistaken escapism, an act of substitution, she understood. Even though she understood—she could not suppress her feelings of tenderness. All she wanted to do now was continue watching that sleeping face forever.
But sooner or later, Peavey was heading towards death. Having lost an arm, her combat ability was severely compromised. But she did not care about that and intended to fight with nothing but pride as her weapon. How worrying.
Mummy Maker noticed the notions surfacing in her mind.
—Wishing Peavey could stay.
—Hoping she would not die.
—Wanting her to stay longer.
—Well then, what could be done?
A knight like her would definitely not listen to pleas asking her not to fight. As her auxiliary, such a suggestion was not permitted either. Even if a plan was come up to prevent her from fighting—such as asking the Knights Dominion to send reinforcements or a substitute candidate, Peavey would probably ignore orders and go forth to fight alone. Hence, rather than trying to stop her from fighting, Mummy Maker needed a way to allow her to fight in safer manner.
Assist Peavey in battle? Rejected. She would only be a hindrance. That was why she became an auxiliary in the first place.
Then what other ways were there—she thought to herself—and finally an idea occurred to her.
The orders issued by the Knights Dominion were to "Destroy Fear-in-Cube," nothing more.
Exterminating the Japanese sword and Yachi's family was not part of the mission. Even though letting them go would surely result in a scolding, it would not be grounds for punishment. If necessary, they could simply send another knight.
In that case, there were options open to her.
Even though it might prove futile, it was better than doing nothing—
Plans crystallized in her mind. The only condition was it had to be carried out in secret. Surely, even a plan of this level would incur the displeasure of Peavey? After all, this was merely her own willfulness.
If it were to be done, it had to be put into action while Peavey was asleep.
Once again, Mummy Maker turned to watch Peavey's sleeping face. Suddenly, a mischievous urge occurred to her as she tried to caress that blonde hair. Then—
"Hoho, are you trying to take revenge on me?"
Half opening her eyes, Peavey teased. Mummy Maker frantically withdrew her hand.
"...No, nothing much, I just... Felt like trying once... That's all."
Pulling her hood tight she hid her face. How embarrassing.
"Continue and sleep peacefully. I will go out to scout for a bit."
"Oh my, how diligent in your work."
Mummy Maker turned around. Just as she was about to step out of the room, she heard a voice from behind:
"Beware and take care."
These were also words she had never heard before.
Without noticing, she began to break into a light run.
As soon as Mummy Maker left the room, Peavey entered light sleep once more.
Her first priority was to rest and recover her body and spirit.
Her spirit was fine. It was always fine at any given moment. She will definitely destroy those stinking tools. Definitely, definitely, definitely.
What about the body, then? —She pondered.
An injured body, an exhausted body, and unfortunately, a body whose bleeding had been staunched by a contemptible Wathe.
Then she realized. Truly, it was too contemptible.
Having lost an arm, prevailing against two Wathes without a plan would pose quite a challenge.
What could she do? She no longer cared about image. Trash must be cleaned out as soon as possible. Although a minimum amount of rest was necessary, staying out for too long would be akin to forfeiting the match. She was still about to fight, even alone she could still fight. The dishonor of losing to a mere tool would be an insult amongst insults. She had to think of a plan, she had no choice but to come up with a plan—
Even if it meant resorting to a method that disgusted her so much she would vomit—a plan that her earlier self would have mocked and ridiculed a few hours ago. Had someone suggested this to her, she would have instantly considered them fallen to the level of lowly insects, but now, even such a way of doing things—
That is right, she had already thought of the way. The question was whether she would actually choose to use it.
Motion. Rejected. Motion. Rejected. Motion. Rejected—motions with identical content and their rejection. Every member of support personnel had their own pride and mission. Risking everything at their disposal, they repeatedly made decisions of tradeoff.
Once she reached her conclusion, she fell into deep sleep.
To replace the arm she had lost, a most contemptible arm finally reached out towards the most despicable solution.
Bathed under the pouring rain that flew sideways from the wind, Haruaki and Konoha finally arrived at the shore on the south side of town. Nevertheless there were still no signs of Fear. Trying to ward off ominous premonitions, they ran along the road which followed the shoreline. From ahead, a car slowly approached with its headlights lit up. One would have expected it to simply pass by but—
"Hey wait, you two... Are you searching for someone? If not, then never mind."
"Did you see anyone? Uh, we... Yes—we are searching for someone, a foreign girl with silver hair!"
As expected—the man in the driver's seat and the woman beside him looked at each other.
"You did see her?"
"Ah yes. Roughly ten minutes ago... She was walking ahead of here listlessly as we passed her by. She wasn't even carrying an umbrella and looked quite strange. We felt concerned so we turned back to look for her just now... But couldn't find her."
"Ahead of here... If I remember right, it's a dead end...?"
"That's why we felt troubled. What should we do? Should we call the police?"
"A-Ah yes—No no, there's no need! We were just playing some sort of punishment game... I think she probably went to hide somewhere! Really, that child, always acting out excessively... That's right, acting out excessively! Ahahahaha..."
Behind Haruaki, Konoha made a fake diplomatic smile and tried to smooth things over. What, it turns out to be something like this—the man forced a smile.
"That's right! How could something so terrible happen in real life... Really, this kind of shock is bad for the heart. You guys shouldn't play such dangerous punishment games. We almost called the police!"
"Yes, that's true, you are completely right... Sorry! Then we'll be on our way!"
They were finally near their goal. Haruaki and Konoha ran towards the direction where the car came from. Beside them, the beach gave way to a rocky shore. As they passed through the windbreak plantation, they quickened their pace as they made sure there were no signs of people. The road narrowed and as they ran, the paved path disappeared. At the end of that small path, the endpoint—was a vast space with only minimal street lighting.
The sea lay ahead with tall cliffs on the right. On the left, the rocky shore ended here with the wave breaker extending perpendicularly towards the sea.
This was all there was. All that could be seen was this.
"...Not here..."
Haruaki walked unsteadily onto the wave breaker. No one, there was no one there, only the sea.
"...Why...?"
The answer was simple, but he refused to believe it. If there was only the sea here—then it meant she was somewhere in the sea.
Somewhere in this vast expanse of water.
At the front end of the wave breaker, Haruaki collapsed on the ground.
The rain was so noisy. The sounds around him suddenly changed.
"Haruaki..."
He was unable to respond to this voice. Clenching his fist, he gritted his teeth. Clearly his body still had strength, but a sense of emptiness filled him. The sounds from all around penetrated his hollow body.
Rain. Rain. Rain. Rain. Rain. Rain. Rain. Rain. Rain. Rain. Rain. Rain.
Clink.
Haruaki raised his head with surprise. Crawling over to the limits of the front edge of the wave breaker, he extended half his torso over the sea. Then he saw a certain object.
"Ha... Haha..."
"Haruaki...?"
His shoulders trembling, Haruaki took out his cellphone and wallet from his pockets, tossing them to Konoha who was puzzled by his actions.
"...I forgot the most important thing. First of all, that girl is heavy. Secondly, she is very stupid, a fool, and very naive. Therefore—she definitely did not give much thought to where she jumped into the sea. Her first choice must be a spot that resembles the sea the most, this place. Yes, definitely. And there's evidence... The people just now said, she was seen roughly ten minutes ago, so this thing couldn't have drifted far."
The corners of his lips rising into a smile, he said lightly:
"I'll be right back."
"Eh? Umm, wait!"
Haruaki jumped into the sea.
The little toy cube struck the wave breaker as it bobbed up and down from the splash.
Was it because he had been splattered by rain all this time? Unbelievably, the seawater felt warm to Haruaki. The saltwater made his emergency bandaged hand hurt, and even though he had prepared himself, it was unexpectedly painful. Within his virtually dark view, he could only dive deeper by using the faint light above to orient himself. As his arm strokes plowed through the water, his fingers suddenly struck sand, surprising him slightly. But now was not the time to be surprised. He proceeded to search his surroundings.
The current situation was, that "thing" should have fallen from the wave breaker like a cannonball, a human-sized cannonball which could neither turn nor swim—surely he could find it. Based on logic, the probabilitiy could not be low. Haruaki persuaded himself in this manner. After a while, his fingertips suddenly touched seaweed. Seaweed? —Searching further, at the root of the seaweed was a hard yet soft and round object—hair and a head! Found her!
Next all he needed to do was float back to the surface. Embracing what appeared to be her shoulders, he kicked his legs with all his strength.
(Not good... So heavy!)
Anxiety consumed his oxygen. Was that direction really the surface of the sea? He could not be certain. Perhaps he was advancing towards the seabed. In fact, was he really advancing? Could his legs be kicking emptily at the bottom of the sea?
Just as he felt himself in a crisis, an unexpected water current could be sensed all around him. The body he held in his arms felt lighter and his kicking legs seemed to be propelling harder. Several seconds later—
"Puwaaah! Guh, cough... Oooh..."
"Huff... Huff... You... You are way too reckless! Seriously!"
"Sorry... Thanks for saving me."
The one floating beside him was of course Konoha. Haruaki thanked her from the bottom of his heart as he examined the tiny body they embraced between them.
"Our kind shouldn't be able to drown. She should wake up if you leave her for a while."
"Hoo... Honestly, I was really worried. Goodness knows what would happen if this evolved into a drowning incident of another victim! This girl is super heavy, if you hadn't helped it would have been dire."
"Seriously, what if you drowned! If it's heavy then at least come up for air first. This child is not human. Leaving her there a few more minutes would not have mattered."
"Now that you mention it, you're right... I forgot. All I could think of was getting her out from the sea as quickly as possible."
"You forgot? ...Sigh~~"
Konoha sighed in amazement.
"Seriously, if you say it that way, I can't even get angry anymore. Haruaki-kun is really Haruaki-kun... Sigh. Though this does count as one of your good points too..."
As he listened to Konoha's murmurs, Haruaki decided they had to move over to the wave breaker first. However, there did not seem to be any spot to use as a foothold. As he grabbed the Rubik's Cube floating before him, he wondered how to climb back up—Suddenly, someone extended a hand.
"You couldn't have possibly thought... You could get away with things just by offering me an explanation tomorrow, right?"
"Class Rep..."
Extending herself from the wave breaker was Kirika, who looked both angry and relieved. Sweat and rainwater slid down her face—she was holding an umbrella with one hand, and her clothes were not particularly drenched, so it was probably sweat. This meant she must have run all the way here.
"You have to explain properly, Yachi... And Konoha-kun."
"Aww..."
Konoha turned her gaze away, greatly troubled.
"I don't think this is an interesting topic... Could you pretend you didn't see anything?"
"No way. Even though it has only been a day, Fear-kun is already a classmate. I have the right to worry about her, right?"
Troubled—Haruaki shook his head.
He grabbed onto Kirika's outstretched hand.
In any case, they should enter the windbreak plantation for shelter first. Although the trees could not block the rain completely, it was still much better than being fully exposed to the wind and rain out on the wave breaker.
Late night diving was quite exhausting after all. Laying Fear down to let her sleep, Haruaki sat down on the ground.
"Hey, is Fear-kun okay?"
"Yes... Nothing to worry about, I think."
"If you say so, I'll believe it... But you are really useless, you know, look how energetic Konoha-kun is."
"Eh! Uh, I, umm..."
Because I am not human—it was impossible to tell her that directly, hence Konoha tried to dodge the issue ambiguously.
"Achoo! Ah, I feel terrible. Is this my punishment for not exercising regularly enough..."
"You suddenly jumped into the sea, that is too reckless! This is not an issue of regular exercise!"
"...Sorry."
Suddenly hearing the sound of swaying branches, Haruaki frantically turned around—
"Uwah!"
Before his eyes, a figure was suspended upside down from the branches, giving Haruaki quite a shock.
Like some sort of bizarre and strange entrance scene in a horror movie, it turned out to be a bizarre and strange human after all. It was a tiny figure shrouded entirely in black fabric. A rope-like object extended out from the figure's waist. Tied to and suspended from the branches, the sight resembled a bagworm.
"...I am an auxiliary belonging to the Frontline Gathering Knights Dominion. Mummy Maker."
"You two, please step back!"
Konoha nimbly stepped forward. However, the bagworm who called herself Mummy Maker slowly shook her head.
"I am an auxiliary, with virtually no combat ability. My purpose here is not for battle."
"...Then why are you here...?"
Haruaki positioned Fear and Kirika behind him and questioned. The girl answered simply:
"A proposal."
"Proposal?"
"The matter of our mission being 'Destroy Fear-in-Cube.' Hence I have a proposal."
A bandaged hand extended out from the mantle and raised a single finger:
"One, you people can destroy Fear-in-Cube yourself. Or two, you can incapacitate her and hand her over to me. Three, you can promise me you will not protect Fear-in-Cube and not hinder us. As long as you agree to one of the three, I will swear that we will not harm any unrelated humans and Wathes in exchange."
"That's completely stupid... If such a proposal was acceptable, I wouldn't have interfered in the first place. Isn't it so obvious you don't even need to ask?"
"Wait a minute, Haruaki-kun... I am very concerned why she still came to ask at this stage."
Konoha glared sharply at Mummy Maker.
"What you mean is—If we were to refuse you, you will target the lives of Haruaki-kun and me? Not simply because our protecting Fear leaves you no choice... But as part of your purpose, even if we do not stand before Fear, you will attack us?"
"...You are free to interpret as you wish."
Seeing Konoha's severe gaze unfazed, Mummy Maker softly supplemented:
"As a further note, this is a friendly offer."
"Friendly? Don't make me laugh... Are these the words of the companion of the lunatic who appeared during the day? Unbelievable. And the proposal itself is so stupid, it is impossible not to be suspicious whether there is a trap."
"I have no conspiracy. This offer comes from me alone. I think it is advantageous to both sides."
In response to Haruaki's voice, her answer sounded slightly guilty. But she immediately went "Sorry I have misspoken" and shook her head.
"I will give you a day's time to consider. Use it to think it through carefully. As for the method of contact..."
Taking out from beneath her mantle something that resembled flashcards, she flipped through it. However—
"...Hmm, method of contact, I seem to have forgotten to prepare..."
Apparently she failed to find what she was looking for. Instead, she searched the inside of her mantle, took out a cellphone, then started operating it with unfamiliarity, producing a noisy series of tones. Then using an adorable voice that did not quite match the scene, she read out the numbers "090..." and copied them on a card.
Having finished her task, she nodded with satisfaction and tossed the card towards Haruaki.
"Telephone number. Please contact this."
"I'm sorry you spent the effort, but like I just said, I won't accept the proposal."
"...Even if your personal safety is at risk?"
"I will permit no one to harm him. Absolutely no one."
Konoha lightly brandished her hand in a karate chop, splitting cleanly in half a leaf that had fallen from a branch.
"Hmm... Well, I am just a nuisance here. It is plain to see, there is a very reliable glasses girl right here. I have no intention of getting taken out right here."
Mummy Maker sighed with disappointment. As if on cue, her body began to rise as well.
"...I have communicated what I intended. I hope you will make a rational decision."
The black-clad figure disappeared amongst the leaves and branches. With a rustle and heavy shaking of a tree trunk—only the sound of rain remained.
"Yachi, just now that was...?"
"Ah— ...Let's leave this for the explanation later as well. I still have many things I haven't figured out yet."
Haruaki casually picked up the card at his feet. It was not something he would ever use. However—
(This is the only method of contacting those unidentified people. Even though simply knowing a telephone number isn't going to be of much use... Throwing it away would be a shame.)
That's right, that was the only reason.
The enemy's proposal was absolutely meaningless. Completely unnecessary.
Abandoning Fear as an unneeded tool, was definitely impossible...
Suddenly, he felt someone's gaze. Konoha was looking at the card. As Haruaki looked up, she laughed as if trying to hide the seriousness in her eyes:
"...So, let's go home?"
"Ah, yes. That's right. I'm going to catch a cold unless I take a warm bath as soon as possible. As for Class Rep—"
"Naturally, I will have to take advantage of your hospitality. The questions keep piling up."
Looks like things were getting more troublesome—Haruaki slumped his shoulders dejectedly and placed the card into his pocket.
"How should I put this... She's super heavy. Is it related to the mass of her true form?"
"Well... I guess it can't be unrelated... Let's take turns?"
"I'm still okay. I'll rely on you later."
Haruaki walked as he carried Fear on his back. Although he considered taking a taxi, carrying an unconcious young girl would be far too suspicious. Not long after they started walking, the rain gradually ceased. In the end, they took a shortcut home. Since it was late at night, there were few pedestrians naturally, and there was less worry of being stopped by others.
Still, Haruaki could hear people whispering away about misbehavior. Walking slightly ahead, Kirika turned her head back and asked:
"...True form?"
"Umm, uh... Let's talk about that later as well."
"Oh? Very well—By the way, Konoha-kun, I don't know the way, so walking in front is rather difficult for me, you know?"
"Ah, sorry about that. By the way, since it's so late now, what about your family?"
"I live alone, so there's no problem. So don't even try to drive me away with that reason."
"T-That's not what I meant..."
"Just kidding."
Konoha and Kirika walked side by side as Haruaki followed slowly behind them. Suddenly feeling the sensation of Fear's nose on his neck vanish, he hurriedly tried to shift her back into position. This time, he felt something smooth and soft. That's her cheek, right? He thought. But just as he intended to start walking again—that skin of hers shuddered.
"You called me heavy... A second time already..."
In that instant, Haruaki deliberated on whether he should turn his head and look back, but decided to keep going like this.
"It is the truth. Seriously, I can't even stand steadily now."
"Towards a lady... How could you speak so rudely! I'm going to get angry, you know? I'll curse you!"
"What a coincidence, I am angry too. I'll curse you!"
Konoha and Kirika glanced back but did not say a word.
"...Put me down. Also, why... No, I..."
"Let me say this again, I'll curse you! My curse is very powerful, you know, so—please shut up unless you want to be cursed. If you dare ask me to put you down or to leave you alone, you will instantly suffer tragedy."
"...What will happen to me?"
"Your bust won't grow."
"What did you say?!"
Her voice showed some measure of willpower. She looked like she was recovering her usual ways.
"Besides, your curses are useless against me, don't waste your energy."
"Because they are useless, you cannot threaten me with them and I won't listen to your willfulness. To run away from home, how dare you—do remember that you are the guest my father entrusted me to look after! No matter how many times you run away from home, I will always bring you back, prepare yourself!"
Fear seemed like she had intended to say something, but in the end, her voice was stuck in her throat. From her thighs he was holding under his arms, Haruaki could feel Fear relaxing all of a sudden. With a trembling voice, she said:
"...How conceited, when clearly you're just a shameless brat."
"Oh my, so I owe you an apology?"
"Don't think you can look down on me just because you can't be cursed. If you don't reconsider that mindset of yours... I will apply a curse on you in a more direct manner, you got that?"
How? —Just as Haruaki wondered, he felt movement from Fear's arms which had been resting on his shoulder. As if crossing her arms, she tightened her hold on Haruaki's neck. Her drenched hair, soft face, flat chest and pale white legs were all tightly pressed against Haruaki.
"...How about that? Feel that cold? You deserve it! Why don't you go and suffer the curse known as the cold..."
"How terrifying, truly, this is a curse that everyone suffers at least once a year!"
Indeed, Fear's body that was embracing him tightly felt rather cold.
But precisely because of that—Haruaki thought.
If he could feel his warmth escaping so quickly, then definitely—
Fear must surely be feeling quite warm now.
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Yves Zurstrassen, 18 07 25 Fond Rouge, 2018 Oil on canvas, 150 × 150 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Xippas
Yves Zurstrassen. Something Else
27 Oct 2018 – 8 Dec 2018
Tuesday – Saturday, 10 AM – 1 PM / 2 PM – 7 PM
Xippas Paris
Île-de-France, France
108, rue Vieille du Temple
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Xippas Gallery presents a major exhibition of Yves Zurstrassen, that plays out to the rhythm of free jazz and explores the potential of abstract painting. The exhibition reunites, on the both floors of the gallery, a body of work carried out since 2014 till today.
Although Yves Zurstrassen’s painting, forever in motion, has evolved throughout the years, there is something that remains intact: the desire to combine the expressive painterly gesture, which is intuitive and free, with calculated, precise, mathematical forms. The latter re-emerge on the surface of the paintings, giving structure and introducing a regular or syncopated rhythm to the lyrical sum of the compositions. To say that these forms “re-emerge” is not merely a poetic turn of phrase. The creative process requires, or rather unfolds during, this very step. But before reaching the promised culmination, the paintings are built, stage by stage, act after act, while combining several techniques and revisiting those artistic practices — always with a view of deconstructing them — that wrote the history of abstraction in the 20th century.
The pictorial adventure begins with the application of paint on the canvas, in order to create a unified background — a stable point, a monochrome, which functions as a stage that will only stay empty a short time, before the curtains open and the theatrical performance begins. Next, using collage, the real action starts. Stencils of blank newsprint, produced by a cutting machine connected to a computer, are disposed directly onto the fresh, wet paint of the background. These extremely fine membranes partially cover it in ornamental and repetitive shapes, labyrinthine yet precise, while multiplying rhythmic lines, narrative trajectories or, we might say, carefully arranged accidents, indispensable to reinforce the dramatic tension. What follows is a pause — a sort of intermission — which lasts until the paint has dried. This moment in the painterly construction is essential for the colours to remain pure and luminous, without being altered by coming into contact too quickly.
We then move on to the second act, where the whole surface is covered over again, but this time with paint, until there are no empty spaces remaining. And yet this time, it is no longer a question of creating something uniform, or of returning to the monochromatic stage which the painting has already gone through. On the contrary, the paintbrush wanders freely over the surface, already covered in paint and rhythmed by the collages of fine paper, and covers it for a second time with rich pictorial matter, leaving behind the visible traces of its passage. The expressive gestures topple the previously meditated structure and hide it from view with thick, unpredictable lines. In theatre, such a scene, where everything is mixed up and nothing is clear, would be called a knot: the culminating point of the intrigue. We can therefore already predict that what will follow next is a final resolution of conflict which restores harmonious order to things. This all takes place thanks to a final incident: the stencils, first attached, then covered over with paint, are finally taken off from the surface, revealing the original colour beneath — red, black, white — like a window which, the moment it opens, discloses a fragmented view of what lies behind the facade. This stage is crucial: it not only brings to the surface the rhythmic forms of the background by inverting the relationship between “back” and “fore”, but also bears witness to the very process of creation of each piece. It becomes possible to infer all of the stages by which the painting has passed before it has stabilised itself in its current form, and thereby to undertake its archeological reading.
The more recent works — and especially the small and medium-sized pieces, which Yves Zurstrassen considers to be “research areas” — result from this exact procedure, and bring ornamental and vertiginous motifs to the surface of the paintings. The bigger recent canvases are part of a logic of evolution which only becomes visible in retrospect. However, this exploration of the past is not that of art history but of the artist’s own vocabulary which he often revisits. In these canvases, the use of stencils creates lyrical and expressive forms drawn from earlier paintings. The latter, carefully filed in the artist’s personal archives, were first photographed, then their images were digitally treated before reappearing on new canvases, in different media and with different gestures: from paintings, they have been transformed into collages, whilst the expressivity of their forms has been deconstructed. And yet, this change of medium is only temporary, because for Yves Zurstrassen, collage remains a stage to be overcome. Literally — the stencils are only applied in order to later be taken off. Hence, old melodic motifs take on a second life in paint, exploring their own limits by way of these new rhythmic interpretations.
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