I looked up from the calculator and the computer screen, satisfied that I had done everything I needed to do, that my affairs were all in order, and I closed out the browser with a sigh. One semester down. One semester of getting used to being called Professor, of going to college on the other side of the equation. No longer a student. Now an instructor. And three months after I began it still seems a bit odd, but far less than it did in September.
I got to know the students quickly, playing the name game, having them write about what makes them unique on the very first day of classes. I'm tough that way, expecting something right off the bat, but there really was no other way to show them what they were going to get from me over the course of the next three months. And now that time is over, and I've said my goodbyes, and I have my schedule for spring, for the next four months of my teaching career.
As I looked at that blank computer screen I remembered doing the same thing nearly 11 years ago, when I first entered a high school classroom as a teacher. I felt inadequate back then. Who was I to grade the work of those students? Who was I to say who should pass and who should fail? It was as heavy a weight as I had ever had to bear before, and while this is similar it has even more of an edge to it. Because this is college.
When I was in college I wore jeans and the same four revolving t-shirts, replaced by three revolving sweatshirts in winter and the colder parts of spring and fall. I sat in the back of each one of my classes and made friends with the misfits back there. But I wasn't a misfit, far from it. I was the kid who constantly had his hand in the air, waving it for emphasis or out of frustration. Sure, I got top of the line grades, but I was never satisfied. I realized as this fall semester progressed that I'm the same as a professor, except I expect that drive to do well from each of my students.
But they're not me, and I had to keep wrapping my brain around that, to keep reminding myself that my expectations had to be reined in and shifted to accommodate where they were coming from. I had to remember that this isn't high school, that they needed to learn to be responsible for themselves, that I couldn't hold their hands, call their parents, and bleed out the worries that I had for some of them as the semester moved on like a downhill train.
So I followed some sort of hybrid strategy, emailing them when I was worried, trying to prod them along without mothering them. It was a tight-rope act of which I was proud, but was it enough to instill in them the intrinsic motivation they would need to persevere and pass the course?
I stared at that screen after submitting final semester grades, and I smiled because for the most part they did get it, they did follow my guidelines, and they did pass. Of course there were a few who didn't make it, but overall they were leaps and bounds above where they had been when they began my composition course, and the grades proved it out. But more than that. The work they turned in by the end of the semester was better, more concise, more dynamic than even I could have hoped to see. And I'm looking forward to doing it all over again in the spring… times three.


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Fresno Will Spend 318k For Irrigation Consultants
The City of Fresno's Blair-Church-Flynn contract calls for a complete overhaul of the irrigation systems at Woodward and Roeding and construction would follow council approval of the plan.
The Fresno Parks Department may end up getting something like a Parks Commission, after all. Only it would be more accurately called a "syndicate of consultants."
That was my thought after listening (on video) to a brief and respectful exchange between Council Member Steve Brandau and Parks Director Parvin Neloms Jr. at the Dec. 13 council meeting.
Parks had asked the council to approve a $318,000 contract with Blair, Church and Flynn, a Clovis-based consulting firm, to prepare a comprehensive plan for irrigating Woodward Park and Roeding Park. Both are popular regional parks.
The item was on the consent calendar. Brandau pulled it for more discussion. Neloms represented the Administration at the public microphone.
Said Brandau by way of introduction:
"I think this is very necessary. In the public conversation about parks lately, we've been reminded how desperate some of our parks are. Woodward Park, that's actually in Councilman Bredefeld's district but borders my district; it's the park that I go play Frisbee golf at and stuff like that. I've noticed that the lawn is essentially gone. It's dead. I don't go to Roeding Park as often, but I go by Roeding Park and I see it's also troubled."
Brandau asked Neloms for some of the proposed contract's backstory and timelines for completion of work.
Neloms noted that the recent Parks Master Plan identified $112 million of deferred maintenance throughout the city's system of green space. Of that figure, Neloms said, $48 million involves irrigation deficiencies. The Blair-Church-Flynn contract calls for creation over the next six to nine months of a plan to completely overhaul the irrigation systems at Woodward and Roeding. Construction would follow council approval of the plan.
"What are the true issues? What is actually going on with the irrigation?" Neloms said, referring to the consultant's mission. "I think it's an opportunity for us to do better. I think it's an opportunity for us to see green. Having an irrigation consultant come in and assess what we have and what is actually going on is vital to the city of Fresno."
Brandau said $318,000 "is a lot of money. At the same time, these aren't two little pocket parks. They are big jewels." He said the hiring of Blair-Church-Flynn will "get us what we need to know so that we can get the grass and the trees and the shrubbery in those parks back to a great condition."
Brandau made the motion to approve. Council Member Oliver Baines, whose District 3 includes Roeding, made the second. The motion passed 6-0, with Council Member Clint Olivier absent.
As outlined in the staff report, the two parks face similar problems: Aging irrigation systems, overdue repairs, root damage, rodent infestation, Rude Goldberg-type fixes that only made things worse long term.
What struck me about the contract was Exhibit A as posted on the City Clerk's website. This exhibit contained the scope of services to be provided by Blair-Church-Flynn. The list runs to two-and-a-half pages, single-spaced.
Here's a taste of those services:
Perform a topographic survey of the sites as needed for system assessment and design.
Identify current and future water sources(s) and parameters and points-of-connection.
Identify existing irrigation system management controls, equipment and components.
Identify existing landscape hydro-zones, such as turf grass, mixed shrub/ground cover plantings and vegetative slopes.
Work with city staff in developing standardized management and monitoring equipment and techniques that meet government mandates coming from CalGreen, EPA WaterSense and state/city water use efficiency standards.
Determine the most efficient irrigation approach for each type of hydro-zone and/or special feature.
The list goes on and on. Each item deals with an important aspect of improving or protecting what one might view as the most important asset in a parks department – green space. Fresno's Parks Department provides many services, and does so with skill, compassion and efficiency. But without green space – land and grass – the Parks Department is simply a social services agency.
How is it that the Parks Department, or the department teaming with other city departments such as Public Works and Public Utilities, doesn't already have detailed responses to each item on the Blair-Church-Flynn scope of services? In other words, why doesn't Parks/City Hall have the capacity to do in-house what it's asking Blair-Church-Flynn to do?
An outsider like me assumes that keeping up to speed on the state of the system's geography, even if it's a seemingly futile exercise because of lack of money or Administration support, would be standard operating procedure at Parks.
This is no criticism of Parks Director Neloms and his staff. The challenge of maintenance of green space at Woodward and Roeding parks goes back years, if not decades. The twin droughts of water and money during the years of Mayor Ashley Swearengin merely turned disaster into apocalypse.
But the Blair-Church-Flynn scope of services does suggest that City Hall has decided Parks can't do the analysis. The only solution (as Brandau noted) is the hiring of expensive consultants.
This, in turn, suggests a political challenge for Mayor Lee Brand and his Administration. The Mayor helped defeat Measure P in the November general election. The sales tax measure would have raised millions of dollars annually to totally reform the city's parks system. A parks commission – advisory in principle, almost certainly very powerful in reality – was a key part of the measure.
Brand said Fresno needs to spend more on parks, but not at the expense of unmet public safety needs. He's looking at a sales tax measure that would balance the interests of both sectors.
Since Measure P failed, we'll never know how parks commissioners would have handled the complex issue of green space logistics throughout the Parks Department. Develop the expertise to do everything in-house? Or hire consultants to tell Fresno what to do every time something more complicated than emptying the trash bins pops up?
The new Parks Master Plan is very ambitious. Even a partial implementation of its recommendations will severely test elected officials. Parks advocates, smarting over Measure P's demise, will be keeping a close eye on what City Hall does now.
Permit me to amend an earlier statement. The challenge falls not just on the Mayor and his Administration. It falls on the City Council, as well.
George Hostetter
George Hostetter is The Sun's Fresno Civic contributor – covering the City of Fresno, County of Fresno, and Fresno Council of Governments.
Lee Brand on coronavirus response: "We've never been more united."
Fresno Mayor Lee Brand issues a statement to Fresnans on the City's current coronavirus response and shelter-in-place order.
Are Fresno's City Council offices a "ghost town?"
While the Fresno City Council seeks to swipe office space from the Brand administration, just how empty are City Council offices?
Esparza heads to court on extortion charge, launches motion to dismiss
The Fresno City Council President is seeking to have his felony charge of extorting an ex-City Attorney thrown out.
Fresno can't seem to keep its highways clean. This is why.
To keep Fresno's highways clean, we need three ingredients: more manpower, more money, and a heaping dose of civic pride.

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News, media releases & advocacy
RACS striving to make a difference through advocacy
Ms Cathy Ferguson, Vice President at the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, says that enabling a more flexible workforce, ensuring the sustainability of healthcare and increasing and strengthening our Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and Māori specialists are just a few of the priorities that the College will be advocating for in the coming year.
News, media releases & advocacyOct 04, 2018
According to Ms Cathy Ferguson, Otolaryngologist Head & Neck Surgeon from Wellington, New Zealand, advocacy in surgery is undertaken on behalf of the wider community we serve as well as on behalf of the Fellows themselves.
"We need to explore ways that we can work together more effectively with both government and the community to enhance RACS' vision of leading surgical performance, professionalism and improving patient care," she said.
Also on RACS' advocacy agenda next year, will be a focus on the management of trauma, national road safety as well as the public perception of surgeons.
Ms Cathy Ferguson will be presenting Advocacy in surgery - how do we make a difference? at this year's ACT Annual Scientific Meeting on Saturday 27 October. The annual event, centred on the role of surgeons in health advocacy, will include a number of presentations from both national and international speakers and will attract more than 100 Fellows, Trainees, and International Medical Graduates.
Joining delegates this year will be ACT Minister for Health Meegan Fitzharris who will share her views on how surgeons can meaningfully progress improvements in healthcare, and better collaboration between administrators and clinicians.
Sponsors include (Gold) Medtronic, and (Silver) Applied Medical, Bank of Queensland, Getinge, KCI Medical, MDA National and Sanofi.
Hosted by the ACT branch of RACS, this event will be held at the Australian National University Medical School in Garran.


I was on an anti-technology soapbox for a while. But I realized something today, and I've since been bubbling with a new appreciation for my generation's enthusiastic use of hip and with-it tech: Having a smartphone is like being in love.
We are reassured by the physical presence of our beloved, by the fact that we can reach out and touch her. So we are reassured by the solid weight of an iPhone on our thigh — we reach down and touch our phone, just to know that it is still there.
We sleep with our phones, as with our spouse. Both are usually the first and last things we see during the day — a final check before we sleep, a morning glance in case anyone texted during the night. The phone does improve on the spouse in this — it can be silenced through the night and wake us up on time in the morning.
To be with the beloved is to enter into a world of spacetime in which the "outside world" melts away. Lovers seem to establish the entirety of the world — we are surprised to find that others are watching. This is the origin of PDA, the feeling that love exonerates us from the "real world" and establishes a private one that no one else can see — so why not make out at Wal-Mart? But PDA with smartphones is even better. No matter the outside situation, we may pause to enter into brief communion with our phones, letting the "real world" dissolve, even as we stand in its midst. Stop Texting and Driving campaigns will have no more effect than Stop Kissing at the Movies campaigns: The world of texting is a secret garden, an affair of person and phone, enclosed against the world of driving, walking, ordering food, and eating dinner, so that we are surprised to look up from our phones and find another world there, a world apart from the I-Thou intimacy of the iPhone 5.
I react to the beloved bodily, with dopamine and seratonin surges. So I react to my phone bodily, responding to each text with a delightful squirt of dopamine.
To own and operate a smartphone is to enter into a unique mode of being, being-in-relation-to-a-smartphone, and this mode of being is not limited to the physical presence of the smartphone. We feel its presence even when it is not in our pocket. If we leave it at home, it haunts our thoughts as the collector of possible texts, emails, and Facebook notifications. Our thighs buzz with phantom-vibrations, and our ears ring with phantom-alerts. Even without the physical presence of the phone, we are in relation to the phone — we miss, expect, and crave our smartphones in our very bodies. In the same way, being in love is not limited to the physical presence of the beloved. We love her and feel her immense value whether she is absent or present, dead or alive. Love inaugurates a mode in which we are always, in the very constitution of our person, with the beloved. The phone, like the beloved, gradually becomes intertwined with us, a partner that cannot be removed or made distant without worry and pain.
There is a way, however, in which the smartphone is clearly superior to the beloved: Love has us touching, worrying over, sleeping and intertwining with a particular person. The smartphone is the possibility of being directed to any person, at any time, and anywhere. Our heart thrills at every text alert, quite before we know who its from, and we'll enter into the "other world" of the smartphone, whoever may be on the other end. The smartphone, then, is the sacramental symbol of the possibility of being loved in general. It's a perfect way to communicate with others whom we wish to be, not themselves, but an instance of general connection and communication — a replaceable, non-unique fulfillment of our general need for love. How neat is that?
So enough with the reactionary rejection of new media and communication technology! It's just a new thing to love, slowly making the world a more loving place. What do you love about your smartphone?


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Does Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. (KPTI) offer a good opportunity for investors?
Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: KPTI) stock fell -3.56% on Monday to $3.25 against a previous-day closing price of $3.37. With 1.93 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 2.69 million shares. During the session, the Biotechnology company that operates in wider Healthcare sector, reached to the highest price of $3.3700 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $3.2300. The 52-week range on KPTI shows that it touched its highest point at $14.73 and its lowest point at $2.45 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $8.80. Beta for the stock currently stands at -0.04.
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of KPTI was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -1.52%, but this was up by 7.62% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -26.64% while six-month performance fell -26.97%. The stock lost -57.96% in the past year, while it has lost -4.41% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for KPTI yields -1.09 with Next year EPS estimates of -1.32. For the next quarter, that number is -0.35. This implies an EPS growth rate of 39.40% for this year and 32.00% for next year.
At present, 80.21 million KPTI shares are outstanding with a float of 74.06 million shares on hand for trading. On Oct 13, 2022, short shares totaled 13.69 million, which was 17.16% higher than short shares on Sep 14, 2022. In addition to Mr. Richard A. Paulson M.B.A. as the firm's Pres, CEO & Director, Dr. Sharon Shacham M.B.A., Ph.D. serves as its Co-Founder & Chairman of Scientific Advisory Board.
Through their ownership of 89.75% of KPTI's outstanding shares, institutional investors have majority control over the company. Other institutions hold 61.20% of KPTI, in contrast to 35.07% held by mutual funds. Shares owned by individuals account for 17.79%. As the largest shareholder in KPTI with 13.99% of the stake, Avidity Partners Management LP holds 11,351,819 shares worth 11,351,819. A second-largest stockholder of KPTI, SSgA Funds Management, Inc., holds 9,010,339 shares, controlling over 11.10% of the firm's shares. BlackRock Fund Advisors is the third largest shareholder in KPTI, holding 5,863,946 shares or 7.23% stake. With a 8.42% stake in KPTI, the SPDR S&P Biotech ETF is the largest stakeholder. A total of 6,835,912 shares are owned by the mutual fund manager. The Vanguard Total Stock Market Index, which owns about 2.69% of KPTI stock, is the second-largest Mutual Fund holder. It holds 2,183,595 shares valued at 7.42 million. iShares Russell 2000 ETF holds 2.15% of the stake in KPTI, owning 1,745,416 shares worth 5.93 million.
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for KPTI since 10 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 4 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 4 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 2 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it's UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With KPTI analysts setting a high price target of $16.00 and a low target of $5.00, the average target price over the next 12 months is $8.80. Based on these targets, KPTI could surge 392.31% to reach the target high and rise by 53.85% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 170.77% from current levels.
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm's growth potential and to determine trading strategy. KPTI will report FY 2022 earnings on 02/06/2024. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of -$1.76 being high and -$2.03 being low. For KPTI, this leads to a yearly average estimate of -$1.94. The earnings surprise of a firm occurs when the actual results change from the consensus earnings estimate. Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. surprised analysts by $0.12 when it reported -$0.45 EPS against a consensus estimate of -$0.57. The surprise factor in the prior quarter was $0.01. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is -$0.24 and the low estimate is -$0.42. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus -$0.35.
Summary of Insider Activity:
Insiders traded KPTI stock several times over the past three months with 0 Buys and 3 Sells. In these transactions, 0 shares were bought while 10,905 shares were sold. The number of buy transactions has increased to 13 while that of sell transactions has risen to 33 over the past year. The total number of shares bought during that period was 872,026 while 647,554 shares were sold.


"I'm just not making the sales I need!"
I'm frustrated. Over and over again, very nice visitors file into my studio at 10:15 - 10:30 AM and ask me "What time do all the other artists show up?" That's such a good question. And when I answer with "some of them will open at 11:00 I think, and then others — who knows?" they sometimes get short with me. I understand that angst. People travel to Asheville and they make their way down to the River Arts District in the morning and they're greeted with what looks like a ghost town. At 10:00, I'm one of just a handful of studios open.
What's frustrating is that some of the artists that are not around are the very ones I hear complaining about sales. "I'm just don't make the sales I need to make it worth it to be here". But…if you're not open, how will you make sales?
So if whoever is reading this is an aspiring artist who would like to do this full time, here's some advice: Look at creating and selling art as a full time job and have regular (and consistent) hours. Then advertise those hours. I know there are lots of artists who are part time in their craft. I totally get that. That was me for many years. So just make it a goal to be "open" as often as you can. And think about finding other part time artists form a co-op and publicize that you're open! Invite people to visit. Advertise! If you go in with other artists, that makes all the shared costs a lot more possible.
I really want to see other artists succeed, and that can't happen if people do not see the artwork they are trying to sell. And if the doors are locked, no one will see the artwork and…hence, no art sales. It's not rocket science.
My wife Joy and I delivered a painting recently to some clients of mine in Austin, Texas. It was so nice to see the home my painting would become a part of (it was magnificent by the way!). After the delivery, we spent the day exploring several of the art galleries in town. The first gallery we visited was amazing. If you have not read my post on that visit, please click here first, then return to read the balance of this post, because that post will have a very different tone than this.
When we left that first gallery, I was really excited about what else Austin had to offer. Granted, we did not see every other art gallery in town, but we did see several and honestly, the rest left me feeling really frustrated. I hope it's okay I say that but it's really the truth. I know a lot of people who just do not visit art galleries any more because they think they obviously just don't "get" art (because of some bad experiences with it in the past). If you are one of those people, I get it. If I could do anything, I'd just want to encourage you to keep exploring the art around you. Art is the voice of the culture, and so it's really important. That said, the voice I heard singing the rest of the day in Austin was pretty off-key, and left me not only discouraged, but really frustrated.
Why frustrated? Well, if you want someone to appreciate your 12" x 18" piece of artwork priced at $8500, don't make it something that looks like anyone could do it. There. I said it. In my opinion, really great art should wield the power of mystery. It should force you to wonder "Oh my gosh, how did they DO that?". Over and over again though, the rest of the day in Austin, I was confronted with a lot of art that honestly left me thinking "If I had two hours and the right materials, I could make this myself". Granted, I am an artist too, but still, if you are going to charge several thousands of dollars for something that I'm pretty sure I could recreate in 120 minutes, something is wrong (isn't it???).
I am an artist in Asheville, North Carolina and I have an open studio there in the River Arts District. People come into and out of my studio all day long and so I hear a lot of comments. There are plenty of people who do not like my artwork (I can hear them making comments since I'm standing right there). So I totally understand that everyone has different taste in art and that's totally fine. And because of that, some people will value types of art that I do not. But if an artist is going to charge several thousand dollars for a painting, whether I like that style or subject matter, I would hope I'd appreciate the skill involved. With any painting, that skill is what you're paying for. I don't like a lot of abstract art. I don't like cubism. I don't care for a lot of Pointillism. But I can appreciate the skill involved in the creation of abstract, cubist and pointtalist art. In other words, you don't need to enjoy ANY type of artwork. But if it's well-crafted artwork, whether you like it or not, you should be able to appreciate the skill involved.
This is just my opinion, but I feel pretty strongly about it. But if you disagree, that's fine. And if you disagree strongly enough, I can spend a couple hours creating a mock art piece and charge you $8500. Hmmmm. This could be the start of a new creative direction for me!
2019 has gone great so far! Even in this "slow" season in Asheville's River Arts District, art is still being sold (THANK YOU!!) and commissions worked on feverishly. And…there's even been time for me to develop my new type of artwork: the SAILS. The above photo is the beginning of my new "sail" art idea. This thin panel is shown begin covered with texture. The texture is important because it not only makes the eventual painting more interesting, it catches light and creates shadows. That's especially important with a piece of artwork that is "abstract" in nature. The challenge with the texture is that it needs to be FLEXIBLE. It's flexible because eventually, this panel will be permanently set in a flexed position as it attaches to the wall. So I can't use my "go to" materials (modeling compound and gesso) because they will crack when flexed. But after some experimenting (and several trips to several art supply stores), I landed on the right material.
Initially, was picturing these panels in flexed positions in a vertical or horizontal row. The three prototype pieces i'm working on now all fit into hardwood track that will mount onto the wall. But there is no reason why the finished piece of artwork would HAVE to mount in a row. They could be mounted individually at angles to each other, some mounted concave, some convex. Why not? It's just a matter of finding the right mounting hardware (which I have by the way). Eventually, I'm seeing this turn into something that would be luminous, undulating and covering a couple dozen feet (or more??) of a wall.
So…between my winter art commission projects, I'm still plodding ahead with this new idea, having a blast, and gratified the idea seems to be working (so far) without a hitch. Fingers crossed…going forward; sailing ahead!
I love my job. I really love it. I'm a painter in Asheville, North Carolina and have an open studio in the River Arts District. I work around 200 other artists (within a square mile) and share a very precious comradery with them. Every day, I walk the three miles to the studio and gear up to the tasks of the day, and then walk three miles home to unwind. My life is awesome right now.
People love to touch my artwork. It's not enough to look at it, they have to touch it. And they don't just touch finished pieces. Every time I step away from my work table, I have to put up several "PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH" signs around my work (because it's wet paint!). Otherwise, I can come back and see foreign fingerprints. I can let this frustrate me (and it has) or insult me (and it does) but my work inspires curiosity and when I remember that fact, it makes it much easier to just deal with the inconvenience of painting over a fingerprint. Inspiring curiosity is an amazing thing and (when my head is in the right place), that makes me smile. That's what this is all about.
Every day, I have to answer exactly the same questions multiple times and honestly, it's exhausting sometimes. The artwork I do is something no one else is doing and while I love that fact, my artwork baffles some people. Before they even look around the studio, some folks have come over to me and almost demanded "So what is that? What's your process? How do you do this?" I want to say "Why are you worried about HOW I do this? DO YOU LIKE IT?" And that's because that's really all I care about. When Joy and I go out to dinner downtown and have an awesome main course, I do not go back to the kitchen and ask the chef "What is this sauce? How did you make it?!" I would never even think of asking. I'm just consumed with "I really love this sauce" or "this doesn't taste right" and that's all. So this area frankly baffles me. But…again, if artwork inspires curiosity and ignites questions in the mind of the viewer, is that a bad thing? I don't think so. It can be exhausting for me as the artist involved here, but I think it's a very good thing. I don't want my artwork to look like everyone else's work. I do want it to be unique. So I've learned to be okay (most of the time anyway) with the hundreds of times a week I'm asked this question and try to answer it with a genuine smile (because when they ask, that means my artwork has done it's job: inspired curiosity).
I love my business model. Because I work right in the middle of public setting, I get to hear all the comments people make to each other. And this is really helpful. I come up with all sorts of ideas for artwork, but I honestly don't know if they're all good ideas until I hang the artwork on the wall and listen to people. This can be humbling, but so helpful. This is my job, and because of that, I can't afford to be "angsty" and put my artwork up on the wall with the attitude that if people don't appreciate it, there's something wrong with them. That attitude won't fly here. I put up an idea and I know pretty quickly if it was a good idea or not. I can hear some artist say, "Okay, he's a sell-out". I disagree. If I want to make a living selling hot dogs, I'd better make sure people enjoy my hot dogs, right? Get some focus groups together and do blind taste tests and see what sells. I'm not saying that an artist should just abandon the passion inside and paint only what people want. But if a respect for people and their interests and tastes is not part of the equation, that artist will not be able to create full time. Unless it's a hobby, art needs to sell and if it's not, it's either too expensive, or the quality is lacking or it's not executed with the right (popular) color palette, etc. All these things need to be factored into the production of a painting that (hopefully) will one day sell.
That's probably enough for this blog entry. I've got more to say so…this will be continued.
Let me first say that if someone by chance is reading this blog, you probably already know I'm an oil painter in Asheville's River Arts District. I paint some abstract pieces (great therapy!) but mostly I paint local landscapes. For the record, my favorite time of the day to depict in a painting is dawn or dusk, because the light is perfect, and my favorite time of the year to depict is probably autumn, because again…the light. I love trying to capture that moment in a day that may only last a couple minutes and then it's gone — that time when the sun colors the clouds crimson and orange and the world feels like it's holding it's breath, waiting for the first cricket to begin it's song. In short, I love depicting the awesome beauty of this place.
This week though has been really difficult for me and I need to write about it. So this blog entry will really be more like a journal entry. I need to get write this down or I'll pop.
I got a phone call from my 92 year old dad last week and it sounded like he had the flu, so he went to the hospital. As the days of last week slowly ticked by, we found that he has a large tumor in his colon and it's nearly blocking the whole thing. I know what this means, and my dad does too. I knew he wasn't going to live forever but "that day" was (in my mind) always off in the future. Grief and fear are really interesting. Most of the time, I steel my heart and I'm fine. But then there are waves that are too large, and they knock me off my feet. My plan was that my dad would live the end moments in my home. But he's in Dallas and I'm in Asheville and this snuck up on us by surprise. By Tuesday, when they get the biopsy results back, we'll be able to make a plan. For now, we wait.
I was crying but he was encouraged. "I believe that Steve", he said strongly. So do I.
I don't know how long he has. Maybe days or weeks? Maybe months or years? No idea. But this is grief and I guess it's time I become familiar with it and let it become fuel for my creativity as the waves wash over me. What does grief and creating artwork have in common? If done right, I think they are very much connected because they're both real and honest. I found myself painting some pieces of art this week that I'm really proud of and excited about, not as a diversion from the grief and fear but because of it, propelled along by it. Strange thing.
Alright. I feel better now at least getting that much down. I promise I will not regularly use this blog to vent regarding this. But this was therapeutic.
Even before I became a full-time oil painter in Asheville's River Arts District, I was developing a unique way to create a painting using dimension, both in the build-up of the composition and in the finish (which has mostly been using a thick, high-gloss, solar-resistant resin). In fact at this point, I think I'm probably known for that "shiny" resin finish. I like it a lot. It allows me to embed flecks of gold that are essentially "floating" above the surface of the actual painting.
That said, my largest commissions over the last couple of years have been with a satin varnish finish, which leaves all the texture visible (and touchable) and is not nearly as reflective as the high gloss resin. And I'm really liking the results of that finish as well.
Lately, I have more and more people asking about the satin finish and so I'm thinking I need to listen.
So, what do you think? One or the other, some of both? Mostly one, some of the other? I'm really open to listening. If you could leave your opinion below (so they're all consolidated in one place), that would really be appreciated! Thank you!
Most of the time, being artist in the River Arts District in Asheville is a blast. I mean really -- all of us down here are living out our passion, and making a living doing it! Who could ask for a better job than that? And honestly, about 98% of the people who visit us are super nice people. Some of become regular clients and dear friends of mine. The fact that we artists don't create in a vacuum is one of the huge benefits of our "open studio" business model here in the Arts District. This keeps us socialized (which honestly, is really emotionally healthy) and ithe fact that I can see and hear what I do that resonates with visitors helps me make a living as a painter.
"How Ready are you to Sell These?"
"How ready to sell this are you?"
"I have a group in China that copies oil paintings like this for a quarter of these prices."
"Does the city pay your rent?"
"Is this your 'real job'? Can you really make a living doing this?"
"I've paid less for a car!"
"This piece has been on your website for over three months...so...I'm going to offer to pay you 50% of the prices..."
"Does your job give you insurance? I couldn't take a job without insurance."
Woman entering and looking around the studio: "Are all the pretty paintings gone?"
Man looking around at the walls: "this must be the stuff that doesn't sell right?"
"It's so sensitively done! I thought for sure the artist was a woman!".
"Can you give me a break on sales tax?"
"Do you have any 95% off prices?"
"Did your real job not work out, so now you're here?"
Visitor showing the artist photos on his phone: "I wouldn't charge you much if you wanted to use any of these photos. Just pay me a commission if your painting sells."
"Oh, the kids make those."
A few weeks ago, a woman came in the studio with her little high strung, fashionably dressed miniature curly haired dog and after a few minutes of browsing she walked quickly up to me and asked where her dog could pee.
"It's a nice little hobby you have here."
"I would love to just play like this all day but... I have a job."
A man came in to our studios, looked around quickly and then asked me where she could find "fine art".
"I absolutely love your work! I always go to the ***** art auction and I always look to see if I can get one of your paintings at a good price."
As an artist who usually just paints local landscape paintings, I don't usually think about my "world view". Most people don't give their own world view any thought at all but that view affects how we interpret EVERYTHING here on this planet. So, because we want (I assume) to understand art, we really need to consider the world view of the artist so that we can accurately interpret (and maybe even enjoy!) a piece of artwork.
The previous world view we looked at was the "abyss" of Nihilism. Because the ramifications of this view are so dark, it gave way to the next: Existentialism.
I think Existentialism is interesting. In some sense, it is a "softening" of Nihilism. Again, Nihilism asserts that we are all here by chance and in a few billion years when the sun explodes there will be no trace we ever existed and so nothing anyone does ultimately matters at all. In Nihilism, concepts like "fair and unfair", "good and evil", "right and wrong", "meaningful and meaningless" are not based in reality at all and therefore are technically baseless philosophical constructs. The results of a strict nihilistic world view left a lot of people pretty depressed because like it or not, most people intuitively desire some sort of transcendent meaning in life. Human beings like to at least feel like some things really do matter, and nihilism gives no basis for that assertion.
Existentialism showing up on the scene when it did brings to mind an analogy. Imagine the world is at God's funeral -- people everywhere are quiet, weeping, downcast. As the pipe organ is finishing up the dirge, Stephen Colbert steps up to the podium and starts cracking jokes. Soon, everyone is laughing hysterically.
Existentialism is the joke-teller at a funeral.
Existentialism asserts that yes (as per nihilism) there's no God but…good news! We don't NEED a God! We're free! We can do whatever we want! We can be who and what we want.
Existentialism asserts that we're not accountable or dependant on a grumpy deity out there somewhere. Individuals are free to create the meaning and essence of their lives, as opposed to deities or authorities creating it for them.
In existentialism, like it's predecesor Nihilism, there is no true truth. There is no right right or wrong wrong. But existentialism deals with our penchant to at least "feel" like there are propositions that are true and false, right and wrong. This world view deals with that "desire for truth" by asserting that a belief can "become" true to you when you act on it. This allows people to basically come up with "boutique truths", customizable truth for every person on earth.
I've left no time to feel.
or to those close to me.
is somehow going to last.
So I have a question. What's your reaction to this poem?
Take a look at it. What do you notice? Any thoughts?


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"Ain't That Peculiar" Lyrics by Marvin Gaye
Marvin Gaye wrote the song "Ain't That Peculiar" in 1966. The song was written about a man who is looking for love. The lyrics portray a tragic love story that ends in tragedy. The song's subject is a man who is looking for love. He tells the listener about how he feels lonely and has been betrayed by love in the past. He goes on to say that he hopes that the love in his life will know how to love him back. He hopes that the love in his life will know how to love him back.
"Ain't That Peculiar" by Marvin Gaye – Song Credentials
Song Title Ain't That Peculiar
Artist Marvin Gaye
Music Label Tamla (Motown)
"Ain't That Peculiar" by Marvin Gaye Lyrics
Honey, you do me wrong but still I'm crazy about you
Stay away too long and I can't do without you
Every chance you get you seem to hurt me more and more
But each hurt makes my love stronger than before
I know flowers go through rain
But how can love go through pain?
Ain't that peculiar?
A peculiar-arity
Ain't that peculiar, baby?
Peculiar as can be
Oh, you tell me lies that should be obvious to me
But I'm so much in love with you, baby, 'til I don't want to see
That things you do and say are designed to make me blue
It's a doggone shame my love for you makes all your lies seem true
But if the truth makes love last longer
Why do lies make my love stronger? (Stronger, stronger, stronger)
A peculiar-arity, hey, hey
Ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah, hey, hey (hey, hey)
Ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah
I cried so much just like a child that's lost its home
Maybe, baby, you think these tears I cry are tears of joy
A child can cry so much until you do everything they say
But unlike a child my tears don't help me to get my way
I know love can last through years
But how can love last through tears? (Tears, tears, tears)
Now ain't that peculiar baby?
Peculiar-arity
Ain't it peculiar, honey?
Said I don't understand it baby
It's so strange sometimes
Ain't it peculiar, darling?
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A woman originally from Camden recently had a 2-day run on the long-running game show Jeopardy.
Brianne Barker, who graduated Camden High School in 1998 as the valedictorian of her class, said she's watched Jeopardy with her family for as long as she can remember. She began taking the online test in 2012 and did so every year before finally being invited to an in-person Jeopardy audition.
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Milton wrote of this contemporary: "When by night the glass of" him "observes imagined lands and regions in the moon."
None of the three contestants got the answer correct (Galileo) but Barker made a conservative bet allowing her to win with $11,700.
She told host Ken Jennings that she just came on Jeopardy as a "fun adventure" and never expected to leave as a champion.
The next day, July 28th, Barker returned to face two new contestants. She went into Final Jeopardy in second place with $13,800. The category was "Countries of Europe", and the clue was:
It's the only independent survivor of the Spanish march, buffer states created to protect Christian Europe from the Moors."
The answer was Andora, which Barker answered incorrectly. She wagered all but $5, which resulted in a loss and new Jeopardy champion. Still, a 2-day run on Jeopardy is something Barker can carry with her for the rest of her life.
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My friend Matt went on a rant over the weekend.
He nodded his head in little bobs while staring at the napkin dispenser deep in thought.
I flashed him a thin, understanding smile while silently worrying he was becoming a bit too paranoid. What's next, I wondered – boycotting shoelaces, avoiding escalators, carrying a pocket thermometer to dip into drinks before sipping?
1. Catching a draft. Someone's in front of you so their pushing gets the door moving. Just watch out, though — since they leave the door before you, it'll generally slow down fast before you get out. But be patient and let the door turn slowly, friend. You'll make it.
2. The Invisible Force. Here's where nobody's around but the door is spinning like mad. Clearly some beefy strongman just whipped it into a frenzy while rushing to catch the bus or something. This spinning beauty sort of resembles that big wheel on The Price is Right whenever a guy from the army sent it flying. Careful getting in and then enjoy the speedy ride.
3. The Self-Starter. This one's like The Invisible Force, except the slow speed and deep whirring noise tells you the door's running from a power source. Deeply unsatisfying.
4. Sharing the pie. This is Matt's worst nightmare. Here's where you squeeze into the door right behind one of your friends. While they push you try to awkwardly speedwalk so the door doesn't clip your heels.
Going through a revolving door without having the push feels like catching the rhythm of the universe. Entering, exiting, it doesn't matter — nope, you just rode the wave of life without crashing into mess of bloody foreheads and shattered wrists.
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Kind of like the entering and exciting of a spinning jump rope.
A pediatric therapy clinic I volunteered at had really awesome revolving doors – they turned automatically, but would stop if you got too close to the partitions so you wouldn't hurt yourself. They were great for kids in wheelchairs and such who wanted to go inside without help, but couldn't manage to turn the doors.
There used to be an automatic revolving door in the shape of an elongated circle at the PCL library at the University of Texas at Austin, but they removed it when the remodelled. It was the coolest.
…and then you go around again, and again just for the heck of it. There's a nice automated revolving door in a building nearby. At least, I think it's automated. It's pretty close to silent.
I always have to do ONE complete revolution in revolving doors. I have to. It's awesome. Sometimes OCD has its benefits.
Wait, am i getting the message that your friend doesn't like revolving doors? Sure i always think about 'what would happen if my arm got caught? itd probably rip it off' and stuff. What am i saying always? i dont think there is one revolving door in Bunbury. well there might be, but i havent seen it. Thats why going to the museum in Perth is awesome. Because it has a revolving door. But i cant remember if its automated or not. Nevertheless, revolving doors are an amazing novelty for us 'Country bumpkins'.
A time of love, a time of hate (of revolving doors).
It is awesome when you don't have to push … thank you, door and its users, for preventing me from breaking my stride.
I have a friend whose approach to revolving doors is to go together in one section. The real danger lies with this maneuver; the risk of cracked ankles and smacked faces is at an all-time high.
I haven't really had many times to go through a revolving door….
They have those automatic revolving doors in some buildings in downtown Toronto…but people still insist on pushing those even though they don' t have to.
Or just going through a revolving door… Great post!
They were playing the song on the backs of horses! I can't stop laughing.
I have been a victim of "sharing the pie" far more times that I care to admit. At my previous company, we had a set of revolving doors as the primary entrances/exits to our office building. As you can imagine, with the hustle and bustle of NYC, people are always rushing around, and you would be shocked how many times I'd started to push through, and all of a sudden someone had "hijacked" my private section of the pie. They just hopped on in, leaving us closely mushed together and trying to push our door along without getting an arm chopped off.
Also – I have a bunch of friends to think it's funny to play that prank where they come in behind you (in the next pie slice), and as soon as your door is about to reach the opening and you can exit, they haul back on the handle, putting the breaks on the door, and having your face slam up against the front glass.. Not funny guys. It was never funny.
A minor point, but I'd just like to say that I've been boycotting shoelaces for years and have suffered almost no repercussions other than having a more narrow selection of shoes to pick from while shopping.
I think you missed one. It's where someone going in the opposite direction enters the other side of the pie at the same time as you. Let them do all the work while you coast on through. Awesome.
That just happened to me the other day, but the guy was pushing way too fast, so I had to awkwardly shuffle along. Not a fan of the opposing pie slices.
Most revolving doors I've ever run in to are automated. There's a press to stop button on the outside.
That little line has stuck with me for years & makes me smile the moment I see a revolving door.
The best revolving doors are the ones at zoos. They aren't glass–they are gates and the doors are like ladders. Kids (and I) can jump on and ride through. Feet on the bottom bar, hands high–awesome. Better Grandma pushes for you.
Worse Grandma shakes her finger and tks at you for misbehaving in public.
Mediocre Grandma didn't notice because she was elsewhere putting in her dentures.
Dement grandma's keep pushing while searching you.
I wish my town had revolving doors. There AWSOME! It's like wheeeeee!!! and you just keep spinning and you don't even care who stares at you and just keep spinning. Plus cold air can't pass through those doors. Complete AWSOMNESS!
This works best if you put your fingers to your temple and pretend to move it via telekinesis.
I wonder if this is the same friend who's paranoid about pillows?
I actually got my arm and foot caught in one of those things once. I'm kinda paranoid about them now, but at least there were no broken bones!
NOW, this is a blast from the blast.
When my real sisters and I were very young, seriously, about the year the Byrds sang this song…our bio-mom had sewn us 3 the exact same red and white gingham shift dresses with babooshkas too, to match. She had us hop on a city bus, ALONE, 5, 8, 11, to go meet our daddy at work downtown.
Just so happens the building "he owned had a revolving door!" Everything was far safer in those days…even the doors moved slower by the sound of Matts fear and Neil's story. We all squeezed into one slice of pie, giggled like crazy, maybe a few times too many, until the Marine building "gaurd" said we had to stop and escorted us on shiny marble floors to our daddy's office near the top where the "ice-cream dripped from the top of the building", but miraculously is still there to this day in March 2011!
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First off – I particularly enjoyed reading this one. (Also, I have just finished reading your first book, "The Book of Awesome" … Just throwing that out there.) But in regards to number one, I must day that it isn't always the best tactic to go about it… Coming from an individual who lives in a densely populated city, when people in front of you within the revolving door realize that you're leaving all the grunt work to then so you can walk in without having to do any of the work yourself, they get quite ticked off pretty fast – and suddenly their form of revenge is by catching you off guard whilst strolling on behind and the reviving door suddenly stops… Revolving. And that's when you're hit with some hard, cold truth of reality (both literally and figuratively.) I do admit, I am guilty on both ends; I've been the one to yank the swiveling doors to a sudden halt, and also have been on the receiving end of a door that suddenly has become stationary. Definitely a method for the more stealthy individuals.


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Light from gravitational wave source detected
Mon Oct 16, 2017 2:00pm
The study of gravitational waves continues. The latest leap forward is the detection of light from a source event for the first time.
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Our Moon may once have had an atmosphere
Mon Oct 09, 2017 9:58am
Lunar lava flows may have produced an atmosphere around the Moon some four billion years ago.
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To mark the 60th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik 1, Piers Bizony ranks the 60 most pivotal moments of the Space Age.
Hopes for cosmic 'biomarker' dashed
The organohalogic chemical, methyl chloride, has been found by ALMA and Rosetta in interstellar space for the first time. The discovery dashes hopes of using the chemical for detecting life remotely around other worlds, but could be an important step to understanding how life evolved in the first place.
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Fri Sep 29, 2017 1:32pm
Elon Musk has been revealing his latest spaceflight ambitions to the International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide, Australia.
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Fri Sep 29, 2017 10:45am
Bake the Moon and its craters with this cake-based replica of our lunar companion.
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New gravitational wave detection announced
Thu Sep 28, 2017 8:12am
For the first time, gravitational waves have been detected by three different detectors working in tandem. The collaboration could increase the chances for future detections.
The friendliest star party in the Universe?
Returning once again to the Welsh village of Cwmdu, AstroCamp 11 brought together amateur astronomers from all over the UK to share stargazing, 'scopes and dark skies.
VLT images the Saturn Nebula
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Fast Radio Bursts are mysterious radio pulses originating from distant galaxies. A new study suggests one may be occurring somewhere in the sky every second.
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A pair of asteroids that behave like a comet have been found in the asteroid belt with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The binary system could help planetary scientists understand how water came to Earth and the other planets.
Word of the Month: Trans-Neptunian
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Rumors about two actresses working in the same serial but not sharing cordial relationship is not new. The same has happened with Sonal Vengurlekar when it was reported that she is insecure about her co-star Aishwarya Khare. A leading daily published an article wherein they mentioned that the two actresses who are currently seen in Saam Daam Dand Bhed share cold vibes.
However, when TellyChakkar got in touch with Sonal, she blatantly rubbished the reports and said that both of them bond well on the sets.
Contrary to popular beliefs and conjectures, both Sonal and Aishwarya have gelled up thickly on the sets of this Shakuntalam Production. A brief look at their social media pages will reveal their proximity.
"We've become good friends. We hang out together. In fact, there have been times when we went out for a night out together. Also, many a times, post late night shoots, she had stayed at my place while I had stayed at her place," Sonal adds.
This indeed comes as a good news that both the actress bond so well with each other.


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Access-Ability
Discussing Accessibility and Representation in Video Games
By Laura Dale August 26, 2022 August 26, 2022
Nintendo's Cross-Platform Accessibility Controller, Discussed by Reggie Fils Aime
When it comes to directly comparing all three of the major console manufacturers, and the steps that they're taking with regards to improving accessibility in video games, I think it's fair to say that Nintendo is by quite a wide margin making the slowest progress on standardising accessibility support on their platform.
Where Microsoft has ensured that their first party lineup on Xbox hits a consistent baseline level of accessibility support, releasing the Xbox Adaptive Controller to push hardware accessibility alongside software solutions, and Sony has been pushing forward with ambitious new features such as High Contrast Mode and the addition of audio descriptions to cutscenes in The Last of Us: Part 1 Remake, Nintendo is very much falling behind the pack, in many cases failing to include basic options such as subtitle size alterations in their major tentpole releases.
As such, it came as somewhat of a surprise this past week when former Nintendo of America CEO Reggie Fils-Aimé announced that, back in 2019, Nintendo were actually developing a modular accessibility controller that they were aiming to make work on all of the major consoles, and not just their own.
This was not going to be a Nintendo Switch accessibility controller, it was going to be an accessibility controller inspired by the Xbox Adaptive controller, but not tethered to a single company's games.
One accessible controller players could share across Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo consoles.
So today, on Access-Ability, we're going to be talking about Reggie Fils-Aimé's comments about Nintendo's planned multi-platform accessibility controller.
We're going to discuss what we know about the controller based on his statements,the things we don't know, and how this news fits into how we should view Nintendo's current position on gaming accessibility.
Let's kick off by sharing exactly what Reggie Fils-Aimé said, while talking to a reporter at Inverse.
According to Reggie Fils-Aimé, prior to his departure from Nintendo in 2019, the company were part of an industry wide initiative, though he does not clarify which other companies were involved or not, that looked to the then recently released Xbox Adaptive Controller as "as a jumping-off point to create something that would be platform-agnostic and adaptable by any consumer."
While we do not know for certain which companies were or were not involved in these talks, you do have to wonder whether Microsoft and Sony were part of these discussions or not, regarding the device becoming supported on multiple platforms.
The Xbox Adaptive Controller isn't officially supported for any device outside of Xbox consoles and PC, even if you can somewhat awkwardly jerryrig it, and I would personally be fascinated to learn whether there have ever been any attempts to make the Xbox Adaptive Controller work on a wider range of consoles, or if Nintendo would have needed permission from Microsoft and Sony to pull off getting their controller to market as a multi-platform device.
If Nintendo had been able to pull it off, a multi-platform supported accessibility controller would have been a really big deal.
Right now, the Xbox Adaptive Controller is the main accessible controller in the gaming space, but an alternative that worked for all three major consoles would in theory be a much more attractive product for customers looking to own more than one console, something which would definitely have risked dethroning the Xbox Adaptive Controller from its current position of dominance.
Would Microsoft have been okay with that? I don't know. I'm curious.
While we can't say for certain what the form factor or final functions of this Nintendo controller would have been, the description of the device as "adaptable by any consumer" suggests that, much like the Xbox adaptive controller they were taking inspiration from, it would have been a base unit with ports for additional buttons, switches, and joysticks.
Elaborating on his hope for the future, Reggie continues by explaining:
"I do believe the best solution is an industry solution that can work for all of the dedicated gaming platforms and for PC, and can truly be tailored to the player depending on their physical capabilities and what they can do."
Reggie's statement there is something I agree with, and the concept of a single accessibility controller that supported the games found on all three of the major consoles is an ideal end goal for our industry to reach.
However, in a practical sense that could be fairly tricky to pull off, and might go some way to explaining why this controller has not surfaced.
While Microsoft's Xbox controller has a fairly standard layout of buttons and sticks, Sony's PlayStation 5 controller features a touch pad, which some games require access to while playing.
Nintendo and Sony both also include motion sensing capabilities in their default controllers, and to this day no accessibility controller designer has managed to implement an alternate method of inputting motion data in games on consoles, to my knowledge.
Given how many of Nintendo's games have non-optional motion controls, that is kind of a problem to overcome, particularly if this is going to be an official first-party controller.
Beyond that, going forward, Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo would all have to agree to a certain degree of sharing company secrets as later console generations arise, if they wanted to ensure that this controller remained capable of playing games designed for new future controllers from all three of those companies.
Speaking hypothetically, if the PlayStation 6 controller, however many years from now, for example, contained a heartbeat monitor built into the controller that was vital for certain games, would Sony be willing to reveal that feature to Nintendo before it was officially announced to the public? Would they risk Nintendo taking that idea from them, in order to ensure a future accessibility controller revision could support the feature at launch?
Regarding the fate of this controller, unfortunately Reggie doesn't know if the controller is still in development, or whether it was cancelled some time after his departure from the company.
While I find discussing this hypothetical controller pretty interesting, what I find in some ways more important is exploring Nintendo's video game output since 2019 through the lens of knowing that the company at that time had been researching some pretty ambitious accessible hardware plans, because if nothing else, we now have confirmation that Nintendo isn't unaware of the importance of accessibility progress in the games industry, which shines a very different light on the way that the company has been creating its games the last few years.
I am obviously not going to go into detail on EVERY Nintendo first party title released over the past three years, but I will highlight a few here that I think paint a representative picture of the publisher's output the past few years.
Pokémon Sword and Shield hid a basic accessibility setting, the ability to alter the mix of a player's in-game audio, behind an easy to miss optional NPC several hours deep into that game.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons features no visual indicators for certain audio cue only insects, meaning that deaf and hard of hearing players may find completing their museum in game impossible without assistance.
Metroid Dread at launch featured basically zero accessibility settings whatsoever, not even the most basic settings one would expect today from a modern AAA studio title.
Many of Nintendo's games also feature unavoidable motion controls as we mentioned earlier, with only The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword making any serious attempt to provide disabled gamers with an alternative control scheme option.
I want to be clear, Nintendo does sometimes get things right in this space. The Joy-Con controllers are accidentally accessible for many disabled players due to their small size, light weight, and split hand design. The Switch contains a built-in screen magnifier, support for system level button remapping, and a high contrast menu view mode.
There are even occasional games, such as Ring Fit Adventure, which features specific disability focused presets for players who might have trouble moving certain parts of their body, but still want to take part in a fun exercise adventure.
However, at the end of the day, Nintendo is largely failing to do very basic accessibility standards consistently right now in their software. Settings as common as tweaked subtitle sizes, subtitle backgrounds, and colourblind filters, are still nowhere to be seen in most of Nintendo's software, let alone any settings options more in depth than those.
It is wonderful that Nintendo wanted to be ambitious, and release a multi-platform accessibility controller. I really hope that it does release some day, and that it is multi-platform as they'd hoped, but I really think that the company probably needs to also take responsibility for the fact that they've been aware of the importance of accessibility support for at least the past three years, but are still failing to hit basic thresholds that basically every other AAA video game developer is managing to achieve at this point.
I would love to see the world Nintendo apparently dreams of come to fruition, because our industry would be immeasurably better for it. PlayStation's high contrast mode would be hugely beneficial on the Switch's handheld screen. Xbox Co-Pilot mode, where multiple sets of controllers control a single character, could pair really well with the fact that a Joy-Con can be held comfortably one handed. Disabled gamers not needing to buy multiple essentially identical accessibility controllers, such as the Xbox Adaptive Controller for Xbox AND the Hori Flex for Switch, would remove some of the financial burden that exists for disabled players.
I hope we one day reach that world, but until Nintendo manages to usher in an era of unified accessibility support across consoles, they need to focus on getting up to speed with basic software accessibility standards in their own games.
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A team of medical and student Humanity First volunteers will be returning to Guatemala for the second Humanity First Medical Outreach (HFMO) trip from March 2 to 10, 2013. They will participate in a week-long medical mission to provide basic primary care to those in need. The volunteer team includes experienced physicians as well as a pharmacist, and undergraduate students from the Humanity First Student Organization at University of Michigan.
With the support of the Humanity First Guatemala team, the volunteers again plan to open and run a primary care clinic in underserved communities Guatemala to provide free health-care to local citizens. Students are preparing hygiene packs, vitamins, and over-the-counter medicines to patients to distribute to locals. They will also shadow the US and Guatemalan medical professionals as they conduct medical and dental exams.
The HFMO 2013 team will be lead by Dr. Amin Bokhari, who was a member of the first HFMO camp last year. He initially joined Humanity First as a member of the immediate disaster response team for the Haiti Earthquake in early 2010, and has been volunteering with Humanity First since then. He will be joined by Dr. Rafi Malik, who has also been active in providing medical care through Humanity First, and traveled to Haiti three times. This year's dental clinic will be led by Dr. Ahmad Chaudhry, and pharmacist Dr. Zujajah Shaikh will be running the mobile pharmacy with the assistance of students and local translators. Pediatrician Dr. Salma Aftab will also be returning to provide care to local children. This knowledgeable team of health-care professionals will not only be providing medical care to locals, but also teaching students about the basics of their fields through hands-on experience and discussions.
As always, all volunteers are all enthusiastic and excited to join Humanity First to provide basic medical services to underserved individuals. For updates on the Humanity First USA team's work during the trip, you can view their blog updates here. To support their efforts in Guatemala and to make a donation, please visit their fundraising page.


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[b]Time flies, and the shortest month in 2018 has passed. Although February is only a short 28 days, the experience and knowledge I have gained are beyond measure. I do not know if I had mentioned before Have been to Canada's more unique education system (at least with China there is a big gap), in two semesters a year, each semester students will complete four courses in the new semester to start a different course of study, Such an approach to education has greatly reduced the pressure on students' study and given us more time to understand and master everyday learning. Therefore, February is not only the beginning of the new year but also the beginning of the new semester.
So at the beginning of this month, I also ended my previous course and the related final exams, and of course, I am happy to be able to keep the average score of over 90 at the end of the course. I am curious about the new course, of course, but there are also some courses with some challenges, such as calculus 12, as the most difficult level math course offered by high school, it is full of challenges for me, of course There are other courses I like, such as fine arts and woodworking. These courses allow me to use my creativity as much as possible and relax my mood. Several other things that make me very happy and that I want to share with you are: As an international student, if you want to stay in Canada or other countries where English is the official language, IELTS is another challenge we face beside school grades, and the rating, of course, in the good language Environment of Nova Scotia and after my efforts, I also received my IELTS score in February: an average of 6.5, so I also recently received offer letters from four other universities, including the University of Toronto and Dalhousie University. For me to achieve my goal is a step closer.
In addition to learning, this February is also very important to the Chinese because this year's Spring Festival is just this month. The Chinese New Year is a very important holiday for us and the most important and grand occasion for all Chinese holidays. Holiday, although we are in a foreign country we have no way to return home and spend the Spring Festival with our families, but in Halifax also has a different taste of the Spring Festival here, because each year the University of Nova Scotia several well-known universities will jointly hold the Spring Festival Evening, to foreign students who live in the warmth of their homes.
Of course, there are also my most anticipated student activities in February --- skiing. We can ski with foreign students from other countries and from different countries. And if you come to Canada, it is essential to visit Canada in the winter. It is also a pleasure to ski here.
Hello everyone! My name is Phatcharida Thonglat (Mindy). I'm from Thailand and I'm also in Foreign Corresponding Nova Scotia International Students program (nsispfc). And today I would like to share my experience in Canada. This year is my 2nd year in Canada now, but this is my first writing in travel blog, so at first I want to talk about my 1st year it was nice to meet new people, but sometimes it such a really hard time to get friend because my english was very bad but when my english getting better I have got friends from other countries and we just talk about are counties,it was fun to hear something new and something that I don't have in my country.
Time to live without parents, it's sad when you have to leave your parents, but it's also a good thing to learn how to stay without parents and how to help yourself with so many things, for example, you have to know how to use your money, how to adapt yourself to other people, and of cause you have your English skill. For me I have to change my thought a lots, because the culture, food, language, and friends everything is different from my country. It was a hard time to change but it not too bad to do it.
New place new activities! Yes like what I said new place new activities, in Canada have so many activities to do and it's fun, for example go to watch ice-hockey, going out to the beach so often, enjoy my time with snow, halloween, and go to skiing. It's fun because those are new for me , and in Thailand we don't have snow, so I really like snow. For skiing at first I didn't it at all because I just played once, but when I tried it in the second time I became to like it, it was very fun to try something new. And don't think that you can't do it, while you never try it.
Last but not least, I just want to tell you that I very enjoyed to spend my time in Canada to learn new things and have some new experiences. Let's go out and have fun with your life.
New Semester, New exciting things.
The fun time for the last months was really great, now let's continue to enjoy it with new friends and new fun.
For the past six months in Canada, I has experienced lots of things that I'd never have in my home country. From the first snow to experienced my first Christmas with my host family. I was so excited like little kid, it was the most wonderful time that I get the chance to know how real Christmas is. The things that I know about Christmas was not much to describe, cause we don't have actual Christmas in my home country. I was surprised that on Christmas, families went out together to find the perfect Christmas tree for their house, and that's what my family have. A big and tall 6 foot 8 Christmas tree, it was quite fascinate for me cause, my host mom said that the tree has a quite unique smells to it. After we bought it and placed in the living room, we started to decorate the tree with whole lots of Christmas decorates, there's a snowman, an angel, Santa clause with his reindeers. The tree was lighted with our star on top of it, it was so beautiful, and I was really enjoy decorate it with my host family, doing this tradition for the first time. Also we putted on our cats with Christmas clothes, it was so funny to see their face when we putted on them.
There was some of my host family's relatives came to stay for Christmas, we were having a traditional Christmas meal, a big turkey dinner, it was so delicious, after that we were playing our family traditional game Monopoly. I was really hate that game cause I was always the second one that came broke, but I also enjoy played it with my host family. The day I woke up, got out of bed, went to the living room. First thing I saw was a lot of presents putted under the tree, me and my host brothers opened our gifts, it was that feeling that I felt really happy to received such gifts that from my host family. It makes me now knowing the important that Christmas bring family together, the happiest time, talking and laughing, it was really an amazing time for me to get to experience this time of the year.
After Christmas time, I went to a trip that my school board organized, go skiing and skate boarding on Wentworth Skiing Hill. Me and my friends was so excited, this is also my first time go skiing on a real skiing hill. After 45 minutes on the bus, we arrived. I was mind blowing when I see the hill covered with white snow on it, it just like a real life painting in my eye. We went to the building where we gonna put our bags behind, then we continue went on to the other building, where we ask for the gear for the type sports that we're gonna have on the trip. I chose skiing because that is basic for everyone, beginners must have some lessons and practice on the small before you can go to the top of the big hill. The first lessons i was taught how to stop. Me and my friends try our first time, it went well. Next, we get on to the top of the small hill to practice how to ski and stop while skiing. I myself, fail for the first try, I was going too fast and ended up smashed myself to the big tube that protect the escalator. I went on to the second, it was fine on the second try, I finally know how to control my speed when skiing down the hill. After the lessons, we went to practiced in our own. I was practiced myself until lunch time, I was sweating and tired. After having lunch and enjoying break time, the bus came to pick us up and drive us back to school. The trip was fun, I felt great having to know how to play a new kinds of sports that I've never experience it before.
The time I spent with my family on Christmas was really wonderful, also the trip to Wentworth hill. I backed to school, met my friends, each of them was really happy to have their first Christmas together with their host family in Canada. But it also means that it's the time to say farewell to some of my friends. They all gonna go back to their home country to continue their education and working on their future career. There was lots of drama, cries and tears and hugs, but in the end, it was really happy to met those great people, to know them and to be friends with them, as long that we still have connection together, this is not the goodbye, it's just to say: " I'll see you again, it's a promise".
The new semester has begin, and my school has some new international students come here, in CEC to study in the second semester. All 15 students, come from Germany, Japan, Columbia, Slovakia, Spain, Brazil, China and India. They all has the same feeling of shyness just like me and my friends the first time we came here, now we're gonna make them happy and comfortable, teach them about new things and the experiences we learned in Canada.
Canada has brought lots of new experiences, new friends from all over the world, new cultures and traditions. It's really hard to describe the word, cause I myself had never have this kind of fun before, but now, I can say that I'm happy to be here. Thank you Canada.


This is the butterfly motif we will be using. We're going to start by printing out the motif and tracing it with a Sharpie. Use your pencil to trace Betsy onto your fabric.
Begin with the light yellow thread.
This project is made (almost) entirely with the Split Stitch.
This was my first time using the Split Stitch, and I'm not so sure about it. Continue with the light yellow and finish stitching the antennae. Continue with the light yellow thread.
Part of why I don't like this stitch is that it's not clean. The threads were going everywhere and I wasn't pleased. Use the light aqua thread to stitch Betsy's head and body. Continue with the light aqua thread. Now, were going to move on to the dark aqua thread. Do you see what I mean about the stitch not being clean? The loose threads drive me crazy! I apologize for the blurry picture. My camera wouldn't focus.
We're going to Satin Stitch the dots on each wing. Before we do that though, we're going to outline the dot first. Now, Satin Stitch over the outline. Do the same for the other dot. Now, use the dark yellow for the larger wing section. Continue on with the dark yellow thread and finish up the wings. Betsy the Butterfly is complete!
I love this motif but not the Split Stitch! I won't be using it again for quite some time!
What do you think about the Split Stitch?


What a lovely book, bits of it were so funny that it had me laughing out loud. I am sure that God has a sense of humour and He has given Adrian the ability to see the funny side of everyday things.
It is also so nice to have good comedy that is essentially not rude or plan nasty, as so often portrayed on the TV. One sketch in the book that was oh so real for anyone who has dealt recently with a solicitor about a house, is the questionnaire from "Umbrage, Hubris and Strop" - Than answers that Adrian gives are ones we would all love to give, but probably feel that he is being just a bit to honest, in pointing out all the faults with the house.
Adrian is very clever at exploring the heart of life, especially Christian life, and then letting humour, bring out all the more profound points.


I knew something was strange about the small circular lake in A7 of the Manchuria map, right from the moment I saw it. It's just too round.
Now it's clear to me that some sort of interstellar object has punched a hole through the earths crust in Manchuria and by doing so has created a portal to the space/time continuum.
I was so naive and unaware back then.
Here I am just coming in for a landing by a fresh water aircraft carrier. Those bubbling hot springs looked so inviting.
I became somewhat disoriented as I landed but I just put it down to having felt somewhat fragile when I woke up that morning.
But then I looked down and at first I thought it was a midget aircraft carrier! That was until I saw my planes shadow on the water.
And then the forces of the universe reached up to capture my vital fluids.
And I was drawn away from this universe.
Just came back for a bit to tell everybody.
Oh Manchuria, Burma, the difference is of such little consequence to me with what I now know about the space/time continuum.
With the recent realizations about dark matter I think I can safely reveal that I am about to commit to battle with the forces of chaos.
Kali, your end is nigh.
jetsetsam is gone. In fact he never existed. You imagined him, just as you imagined this thread.
You are tired. Go and lay down. When you awake all be as it was before.
I came into this thread expecting a raaaid-esque post but found something much, much better.


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