Basic Description: Warm Personal CRPD Greetings from the 18th convening of the Conference
Basic Description: Warm Personal CRPD Greetings from the 18th convening of the Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy (Yale University May 20-23, 2008). The good news of the 'The Convention on The Rights of Persons With Disabilities' is warmly received, with congratulations back conveyed to the entire multi-stakeholder constituency -- personal greetings from colleagues elsewhere much in support of accessibility and bandwidth for all.
Genre: video/audio -- with streaming subtitles and language translations in contemplation.
Scene: In the environs of Yale University, New Haven, the sentiments of inclusion abound. The Conference brought focus on the future of technology in the context of the coming new Administration in the U.S.A., weaving in universals of communications rights and principals internationally. Elaine Kolb and close colleague Heiwa (Japanese word for Peace) Salovitz here greet the CRPD with enthusiasm. Both are very much active in ADAPT.
Greeting summary in text form: Elaine kindly shares words and song -- both reinforcing that We are everyone. Her song says:
" We are everyone
And we've only just begun
To understand the truth that sets us free -
We are everywhere
Whenever people care
Enough to be the best that we can be --
And we are every way
That people love and pray
On the mountains, deserts and the sea --
And everyone includes you and me ... "
(Also do visit the formal CRPD Celebration at:
http://www.un.org/webcast/2008.html ).
Present Contact: Dr. Linda D. Misek-Falkoff, via respectful.interfaces@gmail.com .
Your comments and inquiries welcome.
Creative Commons license: for non-profit education, with attribution.
copyr. 2008 Respectful Interfaces and Interviewees.
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Will the voters win?
This text is part of an ongoing project and will periodically be
Will the voters win?
This text is part of an ongoing project and will periodically be updated.
A V_TxT Movie
http://www.youtube.com/group/VtxTMovies
Voting Machines Vs Human hand counting
Research at Princeton University has provided that some voting machines can be doctored in under one and a half minutes. Just go to their web site (address given at the end of video) and look at their investigation yourself.
Democracy requires fair elections, elections that people see are impartial.
The recent incidents in Kenya provide an example in what can happen to a society when voters consider their election to be unfair.
While it is true that in elections, human hand counting of paper votes takes a longer time to get a result than the use of
voting machines, however it is more difficult to corrupt the result.
Even if people are slightly unhappy that their candidate didn't win, they accept the result and get on with their lives as has happened over so many paper ballot elections in the past.
Hand voting also gives some extra employment to members of the local community.
Slightly different versions:-
Because you are human in 2008 Part One
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-356228006335661870
- Mozart soundtrack
Because you are human in 2008 Part One
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp84S8wFUj4
- Mozart soundtrack
Because you are human in 2008 Classic Version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_0nuUnAG2M
- Mozart soundtrack
References
The video documentary "Hacking Democracy"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzPXer7946E&feature
Princeton University's Research on voting machines
http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting/videos.html
Black Box Voting
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/
New Hampshire Primary - Sham Chain of Custody
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKQEQ7qHvgM
Ron Paul vs Diebold."Votergate".the Movie(2of4)(A Must See)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEu8Fj1wS34
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- A tale involving kidnapping,air travel, agriculture, wheelchairs and a goddess.
A V
- A tale involving kidnapping,air travel, agriculture, wheelchairs and a goddess.
A V_TxT Movie
http://www.youtube.com/group/VtxTMovies
TRAILER:- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L7bnR74EJg
The latest version of this video can be viewed at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV4CYkp4A54
This text is part of an ongoing project and will periodically be updated.
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The first wheelchair user?
James Frazer tells us in 'The Golden Bough' that the myths of Demeter are substantially identical with stories of Aphrodite and Adonis, Cybele and Attis, and the Egyptian tales of Isis and Osiris. Frazer adds that
'... it was Demeter who first revealed to the Athenians the secret of the corn and diffused the beneficent discovery far and wide through the agency of Triptolemus, whom she sent forth as an itinerant missionary to communicate the boon to all mankind. On monuments of art, especially in vase-paintings, he is constantly represented along with Demeter in this capacity, holding corn-stalks in his hand and sitting in his car, which is sometimes winged and sometimes drawn by dragons, and from which he is said to have sowed the seed down on the whole world as he sped through the air.'
Timothy Gantz writing in his 'Early Greek Myth: A guide to literary and Artistic Sources' states that:
'Sophokles wrote a "Triptolemos" play at the very beginning of his career, and we know that in it Demeter described the places to which the hero would travel ..., but we cannot tell if this was the core of the drama or only a small part of it.'
Representations of Triptolemus can be found in the British Museum, London, the Louvre, Paris, and museums in Greece, Germany and many other countries.
I would like to thank Amy, Karla, Berny and Eva for assistance and Ian Longhurst for putting me in the right direction.
Sources
Ovid's 'Fasti' and 'Tristia'
Ovid wrote a slightly different version in his 'Metamorphoses'.
Apollodorus, 'Bibliotheca'
Athanassakis, Apostolos N., (1976), The Homeric Hymns, Baltimore and London: The John Hopkins University Press.
Frazer , James George, (1922), The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion, London and Basingstoke,
Gantz, Timothy, (1993 ) Early Greek Myth: A guide to literary and Artistic Sources, Vol.1, (Baltimore and London: The John Hopkins University Press)
The Journal of Roman Studies, Vol. 33, Parts 1 and 2. (1943).
Kamenetz, Herman L., (1969) 'The Wheelchair Book: Mobility for the Disabled' Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd.
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Ever wish you could just think of something and it would hap
http://www.viroadshow.com/
Ever wish you could just think of something and it would happen? What if, more importantly, you were unable to speak, but still wanted the ability to communicate?
A group of engineering students at the University of Illinois (http://www.theaudeo.com) have developed an amazing technology that interperets the brain's speech signals using National Instrument's products. They used this technology to create a wheelchair that is controlled only by your thoughts.
You have to see it to believe it.
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This is a video of the mind controlled wheel chair at the keynote from NIWeek 2007.
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