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Do you think there should be a really easy and directly accessible way to get any visitors the chance to give feedback about your website? I think this is, for any accessibility related websites, a must-have and should be added to your #2.
Second point from my side: Is there any chance to create a all-time accessible website that is editable by your customer via a CMS? Neither a strict policy nor strict stylesheets can stop them from breaking all standards, i think.
Nice article overall, i think it's really helpful.
During my Industrial Design education, the topics of accessibility, affordances, and universal design were commonly brought up.
It becomes such a hugely philosophical notion, understanding what "Universal" means. There will always need to be a boundary, and I think you highlighted that in your answer to issue #5 (Our target user group doesn't include users with disabilities).
I am definitely of the belief that designing for everyone and everything in the whole wide *infinite* universe is not completely possible for a human to do…
However, I do think it is possible (because we are finite creatures), once we understand what our "universe" is first.
Thanks for the great article!
This is an excellent article, lots of good points here to take in. Accessible forms are always something I need help with, the link was really helpful.
The webaim quick reference guide was a great read as well and is now firmly saved in my favourites.
I found the paragraph about target group extremely interesting. I guess some people always like to try and make sure that everything works for everybody but why take the time if you know a particular group wouldn't never use the website. Or is it just common courtesy to ensure that your website reaches the most people and and is a usable experience for everyone that might come across it?
really good stuff, thanks!
"Nick Day, winner of the UK-based Accessibility in Focus award, got it right with his website English in Chester."
Great article, and I agree completely that accessible design doesn't have to be ugly. Sadly the example you've chosen doesn't really help the argument. I can see a lot of graphic/ web designers looking at English in Chester and holding it up as yet another example of an aesthetically dull, accessible website. After all, it's the designers you need to get on board.
Regarding objection #5, I find it hard to believe that this could apply to people with disabilities. With a word-wide population of around 700 Million people with disabilities, not to mention the ageing factor which generally impacts on abilities in some way or another, etc., etc., odds are that your site will be visited and used (or at least try to be used) by people with various disabilities. Arguing that "our target user group doesn't include users with disabilities" is simply delusional.
I think the point you made that will really strike home with people is the idea that once you start to think of people as "Us" vs. "Them", it is easy to cast off their concerns, because you are focusing on your differences more than your similarities.
For those that need a website to be accessible, they are actually 99% like you are. Should that 1% difference make their concerns less valid?
I acknowledge that my site http://christophermeeks.com is probably not accessible at all. I fault myself for a lack of knowledge on the subject, but will gladly put more effort into it in the future.
Fantastic article about inclusion.
"People do complain—just not to your face."
On the web it's far more likely that people won't complain, they'll just go somewhere else, most likely your competition's site.
Great article!
This article goes together well with http://asktog.com/columns/077InclusiveDesignPart1.html
I sort of agree with Catherine as well. People with disabilities have all sorts of interests, beliefs, and skill sets. I doubt that there are many sites that do not need to strive for universal design.
Just as an amusing, somewhat related anecdote: There's one particular exit at Mississippi State's student union that always gets me (being a wheelchair user myself). It is an automatic door, but the button that activates the door isn't viewable unless you go around this little corner. I can just imagine someone using a walker trying to push the button and then get back around the corner and through the door before it closes. It reminds me of "accessible" bathroom stalls that have transfer rails but no space for a wheelchair.
I guess what I am trying to say is that when someone puts thought in to making something accessible, it is very much appreciated.
i think it was only very recently that i read an article from alistapart on accessibility. i must say that this article was much better. in the other article, it seemed that the author was practically demanding accessibility or else! this one seems to be much more positive and encouraging for developers to work harder to adhere to universal design.
with that said, i do have a concern with how accessibility is approached by some of its supporters. on any website, there may be a very long list of priorities. 1) create interesting content 2) create credibility and trust 3) compel visitors to take an action you want them to 4) have all browsers render the website in a similar way 5) generate search engine traffic 6) stay within budget….the list goes on.
I would consider accessibility just as important as any of the priorities listed above, but I would not consider it more important. We can give our clients our best recommendation, but if they insist on a website consisting of a single 100-page long jpg…then that is what they will get. even as useless as such a site would be, it is still more useful than nothing at all.
I would rather see an article with useful tips on how to improve accessibility, preferably along with other benefits. For example, using h1,h2,h3 tags not only improves accessibility, it also improves search engine rankings. the more reasons we have to support our position, and the easier we make it to achieve, the more it will happen.
If you take the idea of inclusiveness out of web design and into the real world, you run into the same old problems. Should a BMX organisation need to provide the opportunity for an 90 year old, or a quadriplegic, or someone who simply isn't very good at riding BMX, to ride in a BMX race?
As this article states, things like alt attributes, semantic heading tags and associating labels with form elements are all easy enough to implement, and should be included without hesitation by all web designers.
However we need to accept that inclusiveness is not possible, nor desirable, in every single situation. This may be because of a disability, a slow internet connection, or simply a lack of understanding of the content itself (I can read a complex physics report online all I want, it will still mean absolutely nothing to me).
Things such as video captions are a great tool in some circumstances, but who says a website needs to be analogous to a "document", the entirety of which must be accessible to every user?
I reserve the right to create a piece of content on the web, just as I do for anything I create outside the web, as art. I may produce a video containing some audio that I feel is an intrinsic part of the production.
We don't ask musicians to provide descriptive transcriptions of all their songs for the deaf. We don't ask artists to provide a written description of their painting that will give a blind person the same experience as a sighted person.
If a web content creator decides that a particular video is not a "document", but rather (for want of a better term) a work of art consisting of complementary aural and visual components, do we have the right to insist that users who cannot physically experience one of those components be provided with an alternative?
Do we insist that bike manufacturers find a way for a quadriplegic to pedal a BMX?
I appreciate this article. Especially the list of things that us designers can do to ensure a baseline of accessibility. Because there are so many factors out of our control on the web I believe it's important to ensure we have a handle on the factors we can absolutely control. Such and how we write our html.
I was once told that a good accessibility test was to try and use the tab key to go through a website. Is that a sufficient test?
I think this is a well thought through and in-depth analysis, Margit, but I am somewhat fixated on your use of the term "affordance": to the point of it being a minor distraction for me. Mind you I am a bit of a pendant, and certainly no UX engineer or expert — and I'll concede that perhaps it is really not important to your point anyway — still I have always understood affordance to be about the physical relationships between an object and something acting upon that object.
Some time ago, Don Norman made a comment lamenting how when he introduced the term in his book he was not clearer about it, and thus "propagated a misnomer":http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/affordances_and.html . To clarify the very real distinction between what we actually _can_ do with an object, and what we _think that we can_ do with an object, he proposed the term "perceived affordance," a phrase you used in conjunction with another concept. I know these terms are often used interchangeably and even loosely for different concepts, but the confusion over these Latin derivatives render them little more than jargon in the web design world — and, speaking for myself, I do not find that the concepts that they describe map particularly well to what web designers do anyway.
Web designers have no ability to control affordances of networked computers, and generally have quite a limited ability to control the perceived affordances web users have about their machines. Simply put, web designers don't change web users. Now, some very novel and ingenious methods of interaction — I'm thinking of something like "GE's augmented reality":http://ge.ecomagination.com/smartgrid/#/augmented_reality smartgrid campaign — certainly exist online, and arguably they do affect the way that we might think to interact with our computers, but for the most part the visual design of a web site is a matter of semiotics. We ought to barrow terms from conversation rather than the world of refrigerators and teapots to describe what web designers do. Rather than "creating affordance," web designers _suggest_ or _propose_ or _indicate_ interpretations and actions.
I am belaboring a very small point here I know; so why is this pedantry even worth discussing? I think this is an important distinction, because it is the difference between deifying web designers with powers so great as to manipulate the minds of Internet users and the physical world itself with nothing more than the coloration of a pixel, versus viewing web designers as facilitators of a conversation. It's a simple shift in thought that puts emphasis on the role of communication and the necessity for web designers to be mindful of why something is worth putting online. Once we no longer have to appeal to the magnanimity of just and gracious gods to permit people who use computers in a different way to be amongst their audience, the issue becomes one of the articulateness of a communications professional.
In viewing a web designer's role as one that is meant to reach people, rather than as one that is meant to create things from an abyss, the demand for clear and effective communicators makes the objective of accessibility ever more salient.
I agree with Duncan that by choosing a not terribly exciting site as an example that accessible sites don't have to be boring, that you're actually strengthening the opposing argument. A better choice may have been the one that won the 'Best Design Award' from Accessibility in Focus or one from "Accessite's showcase":http://accessites.org/site/category/showcase/ .
I agree with much of the article - having come from a traditional design background before desktop publishing and widespread home computing - learning to develop website over time has meant understanding that a technique I used some years ago may be wrong - and where I can - put it right - back in the latter part of the 1990's and early 2000 - a classic example would be the realisation that creating a website layout using tables was wrong.
If you want to move on - you have to keep learning and improving your skills. No one is born into this business - and not many have the opportunity or support from their own employers to learn about accessibility and inclusion.
But once you know what can be done to make your website more accessible/inclusive - you should try and demonstrate it the best you can.
Not every accessible/inclusive website needs to be ugly - many of the main accessibility features can be invisible to the non-disabled user such as:
- Tabbed browsing WITH a:focus attribute : i.e. as you tab through links there is the same visual change that you would get if you used a mouseover
- Skip links - to jump to key blocks within the web page - so that someone without the ability to use a mouse doesn't have to tab through the whole navigation before getting to a link in the main content. These can be positioned off screen and positioned on screen when brought into focus.
Just a couple of examples there.
On the issue of an 'artistic' website - I think that the publisher should at the very least offer some explanation as to why some content may not be labelled appropriately by the way of a disclaimer - or a link to a page - Help with using this website.
I disagree about the example of the university showing photos of artwork - the artwork is likely to be very subjective - one persons interpretation of the artwork may not be the same as another persons.
For many years people have afforded a lot of time to design with Web Standards and quoted the CSS Zen Garden as a great example of how CSS and web standards can be great.
Maybe we need an Accessibility Garden of links to websites that showcase how accessible website design does not have to be dull. Setting the criteria might be a bit of a challenge - but I'd like to think we could have one all the same.
Thank you for a wonderful article!
The high contrast version on that demo site is horrible. I should sue him for the headache he gave me after just 1 minute of trying to read cyan on black.
thanx for your interessting article and excuse my little school english, i am german and no native writer…so, what i am missing beside alt tags, h1/h2: for me most importent concerning accessibility in praxis is the possibility to increase the font size. I would estimate that minimum 40% of visitors on a company website are people 40+. At this age, your are probably very happy if you are able to zoom the website with one klick!
bq. But what about the art department of a university whose website shows photos of that same artwork? Is there any reason that the university couldn't provide a description of a photo or add captions to a video project?
There is absolutely no reason why that shouldn't happen, I agree with you completely.
However we need to acknowledge that, no matter what our users' abilities, we cannot automatically treat every single piece of content on the web (video, image, page, application, etc) as a document, which is not open for interpretation, and with which the *experience* of viewing/engaging/interacting can be fully reproduced by a text-only equivalent.
Yes, an *alt* tag serves its purpose extremely well in many (most) cases when used correctly. However what would I write as the *alt* text for the _Mona Lisa_? How would I caption _Fantasia_? We must acknowledge that there is some content out there that inherently requires a certain sense or ability to interpret and experience.
I'm playing the devil's advocate a little here, but I believe attempts at universal, across-the-board inclusion actually hamper our efforts to promote accessible web design where it does matter.
Who decided that every single piece of content on the web needs to be accessible to every single user? Are we really at the point where I need to fear litigation if I choose to use the web as a medium for sharing an uncaptioned video?
bq. I found the paragraph about target group extremely interesting. I guess some people always like to try and make sure that everything works for everybody but why take the time if you know a particular group wouldn't never use the website.
How do you know that no-one with a disability would want to use a particular website? "Disability" covers a huge range of conditions, including hearing or vision reduction/loss, poor motor control (eg can't use a mouse), colour-blindness, epilepsy, dyslexia and many, many more. It doesn't just mean someone who uses a wheelchair! If you can find a website where the target audience is guaranteed not to include anyone with any kind of disability, I will be absolutely staggered.
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bq. I was once told that a good accessibility test was to try and use the tab key to go through a website. Is that a sufficient test?
A good test is to disable images, styling and scripting, and put your mouse out of reach. If you can still successfully use the website (imagining you have no prior knowledge of the site), there's a very good chance it is highly accessible.
bq. "Yes, an alt tag serves its purpose extremely well in many (most) cases when used correctly. However what would I write as the alt text for the Mona Lisa? How would I caption Fantasia? We must acknowledge that there is some content out there that inherently requires a certain sense or ability to interpret and experience."
These are good honest questions and good points that are voiced by many people, and the answers are widely available. To find the answers, though, we really must care enough to seek them out. I like Margit's article a lot, because she's explaining why we might want to do so.
In short, the alt tag is not so much a description as a quick indication of an element's context in the information stream we are delivering. What *is* this thing that's otherwise invisible to my screen reader/phone/handheld device? The Mona Lisa alt tag could be "Mona Lisa, by Leonardo daVinci" ... and that's enough. Chances are, the reason for its inclusion is explained in the surrounding text. Many people with vision loss have heard of the painting, understand it in context, and may have seen it if they once had vision.
If you were diligent about accessibility, you might add a "longdesc" tag pointing to Wikipedia or some other explanation about the Mona Lisa's artistic significance (expanding the context from the specific to the general, providing users this option for better understanding).
That's all. It's as complicated or as simple as we want to make it. And if you're making any sincere effort at all to address accessibility, nobody is going to sue you successfully.
Disney's "Fantasia" ... I don't recall, are there any words at all? If the meaning is conveyed by pictures and music alone, no captioning is needed. Good luck securing the rights to post any part of that particular film online, though!
There's no substitute for common sense in the practice of inclusive web design. You can overdo it and overthink it until it makes you sick. But if we just do it, using solid structure and progressive enhancement, it really isn't a big deal and in some ways it helps everyone. I've found it forces me to order my thinking in a way that helps me when changes need to be made later. And anything that brings order to my thinking is welcome!
@Jeff Seager - Thanks for the thorough response Jeff!
bq. Disney's "Fantasia" "¦ I don't recall, are there any words at all? If the meaning is conveyed by pictures and music alone, no captioning is needed. Good luck securing the rights to post any part of that particular film online, though!
The point I was trying to make here, which you actually clarified for me, is that there may be web content where the meaning is conveyed by pictures and/or audio alone, or by an animation that occurs by physically waving a mouse pointer over an element.
Either of these instances would obviously raise accessibility issues for many users, and would be an awful way of conveying the meaning of the majority of the content most of us put online.
However I think we have a tendency to confuse the Web (*the medium*) with the Web (*the content*).
The web is a medium just like TV or radio or print. Techniques exist which allow us to make the content conveyed over the web more accessible to all users, just as techniques exist for TV (eg captions) or print (eg braille), and in most cases we want to do this!
BUT there will also be times when we want to use the features of the medium itself to create meaning. On TV, we can use the medium's audio and video capabilities to display music videos. There is no underlying content to be transmitted any other way, there is just something that works as a music video and loses it's meaning if you remove either the audio or video.
On the web, this means we can display videos, or sounds, or images, or make something animate crazily when we wave our mouse over it. Not because we have a reducible-to-text message to convey, but purely for the sake of doing so!
What makes me nervous are the legal precedents being set in an environment where the prevailing idea seems to be that, if we tried hard enough, we could make every bit of content on the web completely accessible and meaningful to every user.
_*We can't*_.
bq. What makes me nervous are the legal precedents being set in an environment where the prevailing idea seems to be that, if we tried hard enough, we could make every bit of content on the web completely accessible and meaningful to every user. *We can't.*
That's right. In fact, all your points are right on the mark, except I'm concerned that some people might interpret this as a reason to throw up our hands and dismiss accessibility.
Also, many things are legislated before they are well understood. Legislators are like that!
I think the most important thing to understand about accessibility is that all things, physical or virtual, are accessible in varying degrees. Not either/or, accessible/inaccessible, but HOW accessible is it, and to whom? That's why there's no definitive validator—though there are a few that can point out the most obvious stumbling blocks.
Philosophically and psychologically, separation of structure and style also represents the separation of thought, reason and facts from feelings. Rich media are in the realm of feeling. If they also convey facts, and those are important facts, they should be delivered at a lower level first.
As we "progress" into ever "richer" online media, I'm concerned that many of us are becoming geeks who design only for other geeks. Progressive enhancement and accessible design criteria will allow us to deliver essential information to those who are more conservative by choice or by necessity. I'm idealistic enough to think that's important.
bq. except I'm concerned that some people might interpret this as a reason to throw up our hands and dismiss accessibility.
It's a bit of a tightrope walk. You're absolutely right, if we lean too far one way we do risk undoing all that hard work by providing excuses to dismiss the obligation to address accessibility issues and include all users on the web.
But if we lean too far the other way, we risk creating an environment where content will simply not make it to the web due to the legal risk involved.
This reminds me a lot of what the fear of litigation and the need for public liability insurance has done to public spaces, community events, etc worldwide. Community festivals and events from 10 years ago simply don't happen any more because they can't afford the liability insurance. We have ridiculous warning signs in every public space (eg "beaches":http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=archive&ct=res&cd=0-2&url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200205/s554587.htm&ei=OqNzSvPlF5_sqwPgzMHADA&usg=AFQjCNH3U5XVkvRWE04Up2x60Y0ns5G-FA ) for the sole reason of protecting local government from being sued.
I am definitely for using all the tools we have (including but not limited to progressive enhancement) to make the web a more accessible place for all users, and practicing the Inclusion Principle where possible. But I also love checking out content that is sometimes, by it's very nature, inaccessible to someone with a vision or hearing impairment on "Vimeo":http://www.vimeo.com and "Ffffound":http://www.ffffound.com , and would hate to see our ability to publish content like this disappear for fear of litigation.
So in short @Jeff Seager, I am equally idealistic enough to believe we can
bq. deliver essential information to those who are more conservative by choice or by necessity
...I just don't have faith that the legal system is able to consistently draw the line between essential and non-essential, seeing as I have no idea myself where I would draw it!
I work for a government agency, and there are laws that specifically require us to be duly diligent with accessibility. I also have very little faith in the legal system of this overly litigious society, _*bsmithett*_, but I think my "due diligence" is a pretty darned good defense if anyone drags me into court.
If we want to develop for a major commercial market, or a state or federal government agency, I think we can expect to be held to a higher standard if we REALLY screw up (as Target did, disregarding numerous known accessibility techniques that would have been simple to implement). But for the vast majority of web developers and designers working small niche markets, legal standards for accessibility will never be an issue.
I didn't approve of the "lawsuit against Target":http://webaim.org/blog/target-lawsuit-settled/ or the terms of that 2008 settlement, as it set up the National Foundation for the Blind (the *plaintiffs*, for cryin' out loud) as the sole judges of Target's accessibility compliance. There again, I haven't much faith in the fairness of legal mandates. But a lawsuit was bound to call our attention to the need for accessibility, because so many people disregard it altogether.
Somebody definitely needs to push back the boundaries of what's possible in content delivery, and somebody always will. Yes, some things are inaccessible by nature and somewhat by design. If we understand what is accessible and what's not, at least, we may make better decisions about when and how to use the accessibility tools we have. Having a vast vocabulary shouldn't require us to prove it in every social encounter, and it's the same with the language of multimedia.
Didn't mean to threadjack, but it's obvious that Margit's article has struck a chord in us. I think that's a good thing, _*bsmithett*_, and I appreciate your thoughts on this.
I've been pro accessibility ever since I started working in the web industry. All of the companies that I have worked with to establish accessibility policies (in my opinion some have done a better job than others) have had to draw a line somewhere. As Jeff has discussed, there are varying degrees of accessibility, it's not black and white.
I think as long as we strive for communities and companies working towards accessibility that can only be a good thing. There isn't a definitive guide out there but many great resources out there including the "W3C checklist":url:http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/full-checklist.html , "Vision Australia's resource guide":url:http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=740 and tools such as the "JW open souce accessible video player":url:http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/tutorials/Making-Video-Accessible .
In my experience if accessibility is discussed and planned for up front it can be fairly easy to implement in any web development project (including Flash development).
It's important to say that accessibility is not only for disabled people. It's for everyone. Try websites not using your mouse. Imagine it's broken or out of battery. A lot of sites break completely just because you don't use the mouse. another example is flash. Not everybody has it. Some places, like companies disable flash. That can break a site completely. These are just two examples. And now tell me that those people don't matter, they are not in the target group or whatever excuse.
Thanks to Margit for featuring the site I created for English in Chester in this article. It's very interesting to hear other people's opinions on the site, and I just wanted to make a few comments about the visual design.
The site was developed about 3 or 4 years ago, and at the time the design was considered much more "cutting edge" than it is now. I admit that in 2009 it does look quite outdated, and I will soon be redesigning the site to be consistent with English in Chester's new brand image. I'm aiming to achieve similar levels of accessibility on the new site.


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Wild Earn Win Sunday Despite Lopsided Shot Margin
The Minnesota Wild topped the San Jose Sharks 3-1 Sunday night at the X despite being outshot 38-13 in the game. Goalie Josh Harding made 36 saves to earn the win for the Wild.
The Wild and Sharks were scoreless after one, with San Jose outshooting Minnesota 11-5. The Sharks outshot the Wild 21-6 in the second period, but Minnesota scored the second period's only two goals.
Zach Parise scored his 13th goal of the season on a rebound at 3:55 of the second on a shot off of the stick of Jason Pominville, who was credited with an assist. Mikko Koivu sniped a goal just under the crossbar at 8:11 to give Minnesota a 2-0 lead.
The Sharks got on the board with less than two minutes left in regulation before Parise completed the scoring with an empty net goal.
The Wild are now 18-9-5 on the season and are back in action on Wednesday when they play against the Ducks in Anaheim.

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clarkdj needed a new stationery design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 127 designs submitted by 25 freelance designers.
Unique Full Color Business Card for Specialist Doctor
Dr. David Clark
I want a full color, unique business card. I am specialist in my field. Feel free to go to http://www.northlakechiropractor.com
You'll see I am a chiropractor, yes, but I am also a board certified chiropractic neurologist and vestibular rehabilitation specialist. I treat people neurologically and metabolically.
I treat difficult, chronic and complex cases...just look at the list on the left of the page. Accordingly, I want the design of the card to reflect the "specialist" nature of my practice.
I have my headshot and copy text for the business card. The headshot might need to be tweaked slightly by you for use on the card. Orientation can be vertical or horizontal.The business card should be slightly larger than 'standard' size. I want it to stand out. Can be 1 or 2 sided.
- I want a high-end look that is still warm.
- web address: http://www.northlakechiropractor.com
- URL: http://www.drclark.typepad.com
- "Chiropractic Neurologist"
- "Vestibular Rehabilitation Specialist"
- phone number, address
- Headshot
- the phrase- "Neurological and Metabolic Treatment"
- the phrase- Clark Brain-Based Rehabilitation
- the phrase - Restoring Hope...One person at a time
- the phrase - The place for answers
- A list of conditions: Fibromyalgia
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Autism, Asperger's & PDD
Dyslexia & Learning Disabilities
Vertigo, Dizziness & Balance Problems
Peripheral Neuropathy
Multiple Sclerosis
Low Thyroid
Hashimoto's, Grave's
Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome
Early Stage Alzheimer's
Suffered a Stroke (recent or not)
Lupus, SLE, Scleroderma
Rheumatoid Arthritis, Sjogren's
Hepatitis C
Female Hormone Problems /Menopause
Colitis, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Crohn's
Diabetes, Pre-Diabetes, Syndrome X
Chronic Neck, Back, Hip or Shoulder Pain
- I want the card to stand out
- I want the card to be larger than standard size
- No images of spines
- No "handprint" graphics
- No DaVinci drawings


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The following story of Charles Weston, my uncle, (right) is told in the poignant words of my father.
"Uncle Charles was a POW on the Bridge of the River Kwai — at least it was a bridge when the hundreds of POWs had finished it. Conditions were dreadful, 100s died through lack of food, mostly slops, no solids. Charles had beri-beri, dysentery, ulcers and malaria.
After the atomic bomb fell on Japan, the POWs on the bridge were taken to Singapore and stayed in Changhai jail until shipped home. My Mum and Dad never expected to see him again.
In 1942 they got a card through the Red Cross — from the War Minister which read "Regret to inform you that your son has been posted missing". Dad packed up work and the news broke him — he was never the same again.
It was at Christmas 1943 that Mum got a card from the Red Cross with a few words "I am safe and well" — "Safe" yes….."Well" - Certainly Not.
In August 45, lists of Japanese P.O.W.s were coming out and I was looking for Charles' name."
I" was so sorry for Charles, as he arrived in Liverpool with no-one able to meet him. I was in Burma and my mother could not leave my Dad. You were just a baby and Mum could not go. It was lonely homecoming for a POW".
Charles and my father John Weston were close as brothers and had these nicknames for one another - "Ace" and "Mel". Unfortunately I failed to ask my father about the origin of the names and neither my cousin Janice nor I have been able to find out anything. Were Mel and Ace popular radio characters, for instance? I would love to know, if anyone out there has any idea?
Below is a long letter Charles wrote to my father in November 1945. It starts "Dear Mel" and is signed "Keep batting - Ace".
|Brothers - John and Charles Weston
A year after the war, it was a happier time when Charles married Vera Botell in December 1946.
|I am the shivering little bridesmaid, standing in front of my elegant mother
with my father on her right.
Copyright © 2013 · Susan Donaldson. All Rights Reserved


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Gorgeous family alert!
Actors Liev Schreiber and Naomi Watts were spotted with their two beautiful boys – Sasha, 4, and Kai, 2 – out and about in New York City on Monday (September 26). Liev pushed his youngest son in the stroller while Sasha opted for a lift in the Piggyback Rider.
Naomi recently opened up about her dreams for her boys.
I want them to feel connected to me and me to them," the thoughtful mom said. "Always. I want them, above all, to feel sure of who they are. That they are safe in the world and confident and happy people. And of course, connected – to their parents, their friends, their family, the world and themselves. This is the most important goal/dream in my life. Everything else is gravy."


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Spring Awakening
If just the sight of the bright outdoors isn't tempting enough to get you and your baby out and about, consider these great warm-weather ideas
Hello sunshine, I've missed you so. How about these last couple of days? I love how the triumphant return of blue skies, chirping birds, and temperatures above 50 so reliably inspires such giddiness in most everyone. It's spring: Time for cleaning, driving with the windows cracked, and walks. This year the timing couldn't be more impeccable — cutting teeth and learning to crawl is leaving my little one with a short fuse, so being able to get some fresh air has cut off many a meltdown at the pass (both hers and mine).
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George Caleb Bingham
Location: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with George Caleb Bingham, whose paintings of Missouri and the American frontier have earned him a reputation as one of America's greatest genre painters of the 19th century.
Bingham will be portrayed by Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre veteran Robert Gibby Brand, who portrayed Edgar Snow at a previous Meet the Past event. The program takes place on the 200th anniversary of Bingham's birthday.
This presentation is part of the Missouri Valley Speakers Series. Co-sponsored by the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.


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Targeted at photography enthusiasts who aren't afraid of the dark, Leica's new V-Lux 4 superzoom camera features a 24X, 25-600 millimeter (35 millimeter equivalent) lens with an impressive maximum aperture of f2.8 across its entire zoom range. And coupled with an ISO sensitivity that tops out around 6400 and a new 12-megapixel CMOS sensor it seems like it could be the perfect choice for Peeping Toms when it's available come November.
In addition to a three-inch LCD display on the back packing 460,000 pixels, a new electronic viewfinder provides 100 percent coverage and an incredibly sharp image with a resolution of 1.4 megapixels. The viewfinder even has its own zoom capabilities for magnifying the subject and fine tuning the focus. At full resolution the camera is capable of snapping frames at a rate of 12 per second, but it's also got a full HD video mode capturing 1920x1080 clips at up to 60 frames per second.
And for those looking for something a bit more compact but still able to battle low-light conditions, the new Leica D-Lux 6 packs a smaller 24-90 millimeter equivalent lens into a pocketable body. But what it lacks in zoom capabilities, at least when compared to the V-Lux 4, it makes up for with a super fast f1.4-2.3 range which can be set using an aperture wheel on the lens barrel. The camera is essentially a re-worked version of the Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX7, with a new image processor and an ISO range that can be boosted to 12,800.
Out of the box photographers will have to rely on a three-inch LCD display with a resolution of 920,000 pixels, but an optional electronic viewfinder accessory—which will be available alongside the camera come November—can be attached to the V-Lux 4's hot shoe providing the same 1.4 megapixel image as the one on the D-Lux 6. It also shares that camera's video capabilities, with AVCHD clips being captured at a full 1920x1080 HD resolution, maxing out at 60 frames per second. Pricing for both cameras is still to be announced, but given the Leica badge you can assume both will come at a premium. [Leica D-Lux 6 and Leica V-Lux 4]


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It is hard to believe we are almost at the end of the summer break for the schools.
It is hard to believe we are almost at the end of the summer break for the schools.
It seems this summer has flown by. Over the summer my granddaughter, Nevaeh, turned 8, my grandson, Kaden, turned 1 and I was blessed with another beautiful granddaughter, Miss Payton Faithe Tate. Congratulations to my daughter Faithe and Brandon Tate for the beautiful addition to the family.
Reeds Elementary will hold Meet the Teacher night from 4 p.m. – 6 p.m. for grades 1 – 5 on Aug. 22. Meet the Teacher for kindergarten students will be held on Aug. 26, which is also the first day back for students.
Reunion is planned
If you are a member of the 1978 graduating class of West Davidson you have a reunion coming up. The 35th class reunion will be held on Oct. 25 and 26. Oct. 25 will start off with everyone meeting at the Dragons home football game and continue to Oct. 26 at Yarborough's Restaurant beginning at 6 p.m. There is a facebook page for more information: WDHS class of 1978, or you can contact Becky Pullum Mahan at (704) 637-5117 or Kim Morgan at 247-1112. You do need to RSVP for dinner night at Yarborough's.
Chicken pies made, sold by veterans
The Veterans of Reeds American Legion Post No. 162 will be selling chicken pies Saturday mornings beginning Aug. 24 from 9:30 a.m. until noon. The pies are frozen and ready to cook. Mixed meat pies are $9 each and all-white meat pies are $10. Gravy and cooking instructions are included.
To place an advance order or to schedule a pick-up appointment outside regular Saturday hours, call 247-2488, 225-6881 or 853-7212. Proceeds from the sale of the pies go to veterans projects in the West Davidson area and to the state veteran's home in Salisbury.
Methodists will serve up breakfast
The folks at Shiloh United Methodist Church will be serving up another buffet breakfast from 6 to 10 a.m. Sept. 7. The cost remains at $6 for adults and $3 for children. Everyone is invited out for a morning filled with lots of food and fellowship.
Shiloh's fifth annual captain's choice golf tournament will tee off at 2 p.m. on Sept. 8, at Sapona Ridge Country Club. The cost to participate is $240 per team ($60 person), which includes a hot dog meal ticket, door prizes, driving range, one mulligan, green fee, cart, plus snacks and beverages during the round. Prizes will be awarded to low net and low gross teams. Hole sponsorships are $50. Contact Rodney Sink to sign up to play or to sponsor. Proceeds will benefit the family life center building fund.
During these hot and muggy "dog days" of summer, everyone in the community is reminded about Shiloh's shaded playground that is located behind the family life center.
Prayers are needed
Please remember to keep the families of Clifford Canupp, Claude Sink, Troy Caudle and Wade Perry in your thoughts and prayers.


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Jun 22,2007
Oregon AG to enforce National 'Do Not Call' list
by Bend Weekly News Sources
Governor approves legislation authorizing Attorney General's designation and also approves anti-price gouging legislation and legislation outlawing "live checks"
Attorney General Hardy Myers this week designated the National Do Not Call Registry (national registry) as Oregon's No Call List, restoring the ability of the Oregon Department of Justice (DOJ) to enforce Oregon's No Call Law.
Myers acted immediately after Governor Kulongoski signed Senate Bill 117 which gives the Attorney General the designation authority Myers had unsuccessfully sought from the legislature in 2003 and 2005.
"I thank the Governor and Legislature for a law that will make real a choice many Oregonians have made: the choice to live free from telephone solicitations that disrupt our personal lives," stated Myers. He added, "Today marks a new beginning; violators will be held accountable if they solicit telephone numbers registered with the national registry."
Senate Bill 117 allows the state to adopt the national registry as its own No Call List and authorizes DOJ to enforce against No Call violators in state court. From 1999 to 2003, Oregon administered its own No Call list. In 2003 Congress adopted the national registry administered by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and effectively preempted the Attorney General's ability to enforce Oregon's law because the Attorney General lacked authority under Oregon law to designate the national registry as Oregon's registry.
As a result, since the adoption of the national registry DOJ has not been able to effectively enforce state law against violators. The FTC reports that Oregonians have registered over 1.6 million phone numbers with the federal list and in 2006 over 15,000 complaints were filed by Oregonians. The FTC also reports that since inception of the national registry through September 2006, it has filed only 28 cases nationwide.
Senate Bill 117 authorizes DOJ to pursue violators under the state's Unlawful Trade Practices Act, which carries a maximum penalty of $25,000 per violation. When DOJ enforced Oregon's No Call law from 1999-2003, it completed over 100 cases and sought penalties generally averaging $1,500 to $5,000.
Oregonians interested in registering their phone numbers can do so by going to the DOJ website at www.doj.state.or.us and choosing the National Do Not Call Registry link. Registration is free. Cell phone numbers may also be registered now; when Oregon enforced the state's list from 1999-2003, cell phone numbers were not included. To file a complaint about an alleged violation of the No Call Law, visit the DOJ website to download a consumer complaint form or call the Attorney General's consumer hotline at 1-877-877-9392 (toll-free). Soon, DOJ will offer online filing of No Call complaints.
Other bills signed by Governor Kulongoski were also included in the Attorney General's consumer protection package: Senate Bill 118, which prohibits price gouging in certain circumstances, and SB 122, which outlaws the use of "live" checks.
Senate Bill 118 is Oregon's first ever anti-price gouging law. It authorizes the Governor to declare an abnormal disruption of the marketplace in certain circumstances, such as a natural disaster or an emergency situation. Under the declaration, businesses are prohibited from selling or offering to sell certain essential goods and services, such as food, water or lumber supplies, at excessive prices. The bill accounts for natural fluctuations in the market to accommodate for situations in which increased prices in excess of the limitations are attributable to additional costs imposed on business due to the event, are otherwise the result of market factors unrelated to the declaration, or are the result of internal increased costs related to the declaration.
Senate Bill 122 prohibits the use of "live" or activation checks that, when cashed, act as authorization by the person or entity cashing the check to make any payment. The bill exempts extensions of credit and offers to lend money; rather, it bans the inherently deceptive tactic some direct marketers use by mailing a check accompanied by little or no explanation, therefore misleading the recipient into believing it is a legitimate refund. Once the check is cashed, the person or business discovers that by endorsing and depositing the check, they have entered into a contract to receive a product or service they did not need or want. Many have money taken on their phone bills or out of their bank accounts for months before discovering the charges.
"The consumer protections afforded by passage of these bills are basic, yet important, to Oregonians," said Myers. "My office receives thousands of complaints each year about these unfair and deceptive practices and I am proud that, as of the Governor's signature today, they will be laws my office can enforce," he added.
Violations of the provisions in all three bills are enforceable under Oregon's Unlawful Trade Practices Act. Enforcement actions can result in restitution for victims and payment to consumer education programs and carry a potential penalty of $25,000 per violation.


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Camiguin Hanging-Parrot: a new species from a small Philippine Island
One thing that makes museum collections so valuable is that they bring together specimens from throughout the distributions of species. When comparative series of specimens are available, it becomes possible to see if differences between populations are greater than what is found within the populations being studied. The Field Museum's Bird Division has outstanding collections of Philippine birds made by D. S. Rabor and is colleagues in the 1960s. Because Rabor collected series of specimens of Hanging-Parrots from throughout the Philippines, we were able to make statistical and comparative assessments of the distinctiveness of specimens of Hanging-Parrots from Camiguin Island, a small oceanic island off the coast of Mindanao in the southern Philippines that led us to describe these birds as a new species, Camiguin Hanging-Parrot (Loriculus camiguinsis). This new Hanging-Parrot along with two new species of mammals (Apomys camiguinsis and Bullimus gamay) one of which was described by Curator of Mammals, Larry Heaney, and his colleagues in the same Fieldiana issue.
These new species are endemic to the Island of Camiguin and threatened due to habitat destruction on the island. They highlight the need to conserve the island's remaining forests, and they highlight the value of specimen-based research for conservation.
Tello, J. G., J. F. Degner, J. M. Bates, and D. E. Willard. 2006. A new species of Hanging-Parrot (Loriculus) from Camiguin Island, Philippines, pp. 58-72. In Heaney, L. R., ed., The Mammals and Birds of Camiguin Island, Philippines, a Distinctive Center of Biodiversity. Fieldiana Zoology, n.s., 106:1-72.


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Cronkite died Friday at his home in New York after a long illness, according to CBS Vice President Linda Mason.
As anchor and managing editor of the "CBS Evening News" from 1962 to 1981, Cronkite exhibited a masterful, disciplined stewardship that helped television news come of age. He was arguably the most respected and recognizable media figure of his time.
"Walter was truly the father of television news," Morley Safer, a correspondent for CBS' "60 Minutes," said in a statement. "The trust that viewers placed in him was based on the recognition of his fairness, honesty and strict objectivity."
For two generations of Americans, Cronkite was a witness to history who also helped shaped perceptions of it. Although he rarely displayed emotion on camera, those moments are seared into the nation's collective consciousness -- Cronkite tearing up while announcing the assassination of John F. Kennedy, decrying the "thugs" at the 1968 Democratic National Convention or exclaiming "Go, baby, go!" as Apollo 11 lifted off for the moon 40 years ago this week.
Raised in Missouri and Texas, Cronkite had a comforting Midwestern accent and an everyman likability. He came off as everyone's "Uncle Walter," an image he fostered by leaning back in his chair and fiddling with a pipe at the end of nightly broadcasts. When he signed off the news with "And that's the way it is," many Americans believed him.
President Johnson was watching CBS News in 1968 when Cronkite followed a report critical of the Vietnam War with rare commentary -- the anchor declared the war unwinnable and said the U.S. should pull out.
Johnson reportedly turned to an aide and said, "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost Middle America." Many observers speculated that this was a major reason Johnson decided not to run for a second term -- and offered to negotiate with the North Vietnamese.
"It was the first time in American history a war had been declared over by an anchorman," David Halberstam wrote in the 1979 book "The Powers That Be."
So entwined was Cronkite with modern U.S. history that a 1981 New Republic commentary seemed to echo the nation's reaction when the magazine compared his retirement to George Washington's face vanishing from the dollar bill.
Recruited by Murrow
He had been at CBS since 1950, when legendary newsman Edward R. Murrow recruited him for the network's young television division. Cronkite had distinguished himself as a daring World War II correspondent for the United Press wire service who accompanied bombing missions and crash-landed in a glider.
The 1952 Republican National Convention launched Cronkite's career and made clear television's new dominance over radio. The broadcast also popularized an industry term -- "anchorman" -- employed to describe Cronkite's central role in the convention coverage. Within hours, his performance sent an "electric excitement" through the Chicago hall, Gary Paul Gates wrote in the 1978 book "Air Time: The Inside Story of CBS News."
Cronkite would go on to anchor more than a dozen political conventions and the elections that followed.
When he saw CBS floor correspondent Dan Rather get punched in the stomach at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, Cronkite's voice shook with rage as he said, "I think we've got a bunch of thugs here, Dan." It was a rare display of undisguised wrath, and Cronkite later said he regretted it because a news anchor should be "above the battle."
At the same convention, Cronkite made what he considered his biggest mistake in television by failing to aggressively interview Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley, whose security force's strong-arm tactics had outraged the press corps.
Clarifying the news
Cronkite's "natural decency and cautiousness" prevented him from being a great interviewer, but he was an excellent editor who could synthesize and clarify the news for the masses, Halberstam wrote.
Because Cronkite usually took such pains to appear objective in his reporting, when he did show emotion it seemed to resonate with viewers.
The most famous TV footage of Cronkite shows him delivering the bulletin on the 1963 presidential assassination. After he is handed a wire report, Cronkite pauses to gaze at it, then says, "From Dallas, Texas, the flash -- apparently official -- President Kennedy died at 1 p.m. Central Standard Time . . . some 38 minutes ago."
Recalling the scene on a 2007 CBS special in honor of his 90th year, Cronkite choked back tears as he said softly, "Anchormen shouldn't cry."
Over four days in November 1963, Cronkite showcased his ability to work without a script as CBS suspended regular programming to cover the aftermath of the assassination. Praise of the coverage invariably cited Cronkite's dignified performance during what is regarded as the nation's first period of electronic mourning.
From that point on, the public largely viewed Cronkite as solid and reassuring as he guided viewers through some of the most tumultuous times in U.S. history, including the 1968 assassinations of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy.
As early as 1966, Time magazine had called the anchor "the single most convincing and authoritative figure in TV news."
Years later, as the Watergate scandal unfolded, CBS was careful to credit Washington Post sources and carry White House denials. But the 14 minutes that Cronkite devoted to "the Watergate caper" on Oct. 27, 1972, made it "a real national story," Halberstam wrote in "The Powers That Be."
In the early 1970s, an opinion poll identified Cronkite as the most trusted public figure in America. Pollsters repeatedly used him as a benchmark to measure public trust in presidential candidates, and he led all contenders for years. His influence was said to rival presidents, and at least twice his name had been floated as a presidential running mate.
More than a decade after Cronkite left the evening news for retirement, a survey named him the "most trusted man in television news."
'Old Ironpants'
Colleagues nicknamed him "Old Ironpants" for his ability to sit in the anchor chair -- the day Apollo 11 landed on the moon in 1969, Cronkite reportedly was on the air for 18 straight hours.
He displayed boyish enthusiasm for the space program, which he called the biggest story of the 20th century and "one of our last great adventures." He also saw it as an upbeat escape.
The 1960s were "the worst decade of our history perhaps, including the Civil War," Cronkite said in a 2001 CNBC interview, yet at "Cape Kennedy, everybody was not looking down despairingly. They were looking up. . . . It made a difference in our country."
Once the Russians had launched Sputnik in 1957, Cronkite was quick to realize space would be an important TV story and schooled himself in astrophysics. His mastery of the subject amused him because he had failed first-year physics at the University of Texas.
From Apollo 11 forward, Cronkite anchored space coverage with Walter Schirra, an original Mercury 7 astronaut with whom he got along famously on camera and off, which gave pause to colleagues who often complained that Cronkite hogged air time.
When the lunar module, the Eagle, touched down on the moon in 1969, Cronkite wiped his brow and reverentially confessed he had nothing to say. He was "overwhelmed, like most of the world," he told Esquire magazine in 2006.
The anchor cut short a vacation to helm coverage of President Nixon's 1974 resignation and anchored a 14-hour celebration of the nation's 1976 bicentennial. Two months after Iran took more than 50 Americans hostage in 1979, Cronkite reflected America's obsession with their plight by closing the newscast with the number of days they had been held.
The hostages' release after 444 days coincided with President Reagan's inauguration on Jan. 20, 1981, and Cronkite called it "one of the great dramatic days in our history."
It was the last overarching public drama over which he would preside. He stepped down from the evening news six weeks later.
Faced with turning 65, Cronkite "thought it was time to ease up," he said in a 2004 Orlando Sentinel story. "I had been fighting deadlines since the age of 16."
Roots of his career
The son and grandson of dentists, he was born Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. on Nov. 4, 1916, in St. Joseph, Mo. His middle name honored Leland Stanford, founder of Stanford University.
An only child, Cronkite spent his first decade in Kansas City, Mo., then moved to Houston, where he became interested in journalism in high school after reading a story about the life of a reporter in American Boy magazine.
By his junior year at the University of Texas in Austin, he had dropped out for a reporting job with the Houston Press.
Returning to Kansas City in 1936, he was hired at radio station KCMO and met Mary Elizabeth "Betsy" Maxwell, who worked in advertising. Writing of their 1940 wedding nearly half a century later, he still called her "my gorgeous bride."
In 1939, he joined the United Press and found that the deadline-pressure reporting appealed to his competitive nature, and he stayed for 11 years. His affinity for fact-focused, straightforward wire service-style reporting would help define the rest of his career.
By 1942, Cronkite was a World War II correspondent in London for the news agency. His poise and professionalism caught the eye of Murrow at CBS Radio, but Cronkite preferred to remain a war correspondent, with future CBS colleague Andy Rooney, in "the Writing 69th," the group of journalists who trained to fly on missions with the Army Air Forces.
After the war, Cronkite covered the Nuremberg war-crime trials of Nazi officers and was given a plum assignment: the Moscow bureau. But he and his wife found the city dreary, and Cronkite returned to the U.S. after two years.
Back in Kansas City in 1948, he essentially cobbled together a job as Washington correspondent for a string of radio stations in the Midwest.
CBS landed Cronkite in 1950 by promising that he could cover the Korean War but first assigned him to fill in at a Washington, D.C., affiliate. He was so good at explaining the war without film, often just using chalk and a blackboard, that network executives quickly decided to keep him at home.
With the 1952 political conventions around the corner, CBS officials saw that Cronkite had two crucial abilities -- he could ad-lib and make the complex sound simple.
His first post-convention showcase was a popular news-entertainment hybrid, "You Are There," that featured reenactments of historical events. The program's closing line -- "and you were there" -- somberly intoned by Cronkite, would reverberate through popular culture. He also hosted "The 20th Century" (1957-70) and other news-based series.
In 1960, Cronkite anchored the first network broadcast of the Olympics from Squaw Valley, Calif., when CBS aired 13 hours of the Winter Games.
Cronkite was 45 in the spring of 1962 when he replaced Douglas Edwards as anchor of the "CBS Evening News."
With Cronkite's urging, the nightly broadcast expanded from 15 minutes to half an hour on Sept. 2, 1963, and featured President Kennedy in one of his last interviews.
Throughout the 1970s, CBS News was at its peak of influence and was consistently No. 1 in the ratings. With Rather sitting in the anchor seat from 1981 to 2005, the broadcast largely languished in third place. Katie Couric took over as full-time anchor in 2006.
Before signing off the evening news for the last time on March 6, 1981, Cronkite said a brief goodbye: "Old anchormen don't go away; they keep coming back for more."
That was not to be the case. CBS rarely let him back on the air but kept renewing his contract.
Some speculated that Cronkite had been forced out to make room for Rather, but Cronkite and others insisted that wasn't true.
"I just wanted to live a little, that's all," Cronkite told the Washington Post in 1986.
His last regularly scheduled assignment with CBS News was a 90-second radio segment called "Walter Cronkite's 20th Century," which ran for five years and ended in 1992.
The year he retired, Cronkite was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. Arizona State University had named its journalism school after him in 1984.
New venture
In the 1990s, Cronkite experienced something of a career renaissance after forming a production company with his son and another partner. He produced dozens of documentary programs for the Discovery Channel, PBS and other networks.
When Sen. John Glenn (D-Ohio) returned to space at 77 in 1998, so did Cronkite, at 82, to co-anchor CNN's coverage. He continued hosting the Vienna Philharmonic's New Year's Eve concert until he was 91.
In retirement at his home in Martha's Vineyard, Mass., Cronkite pursued his lifelong passion for sailing on his ketch named the Wyntje and wrote books, including his well-received 1996 autobiography, "A Reporter's Life."
At home, he was "gregarious," relishing "spinning a one-line joke out into an elaborate shaggy dog story," daughter Kathy Cronkite once recalled.
He expressed regret about being so aloof at work but was known for his hilarious parody of a burlesque queen's striptease -- he ultimately removed no more than his jacket and tie -- at his annual Christmas party for CBS colleagues.
Cronkite often joked that he should have been a song-and-dance man and reveled in his wife's sense of humor. They had been married for 65 years when she died in 2005.
Cronkite's survivors include his son, Walter Cronkite III, who is known as Chip; his daughters, Kathy and Nancy; and four grandsons.
His mother, Helen, lived to be 101 and died in 1993.
Had he known he would age so well, Cronkite would not have given up the anchor job so easily or so early, he often said.
Nearly a decade after retiring, he was asked what news story he wished he could have been in position to cover.
"Every one," he said.


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Warmer temps on the way
A warmer weather pattern is heading this way this weekend.
This, according to WTNH meteorologist Gil Simmons, will ensure plenty of sunshine over the next three days. In that period, temperatures could climb back into 60s.
Highs on Friday will settle in the high-40s to low-50s under mostly sunny skies, thanks to a developing area of high pressure. Still, a chilly wind could make it feel almost 10 degrees colder.
By the evening, temperatures will have fallen into the 30s, Simmons said.
The next shot of rain won't come until Tuesday.
Here is the rest of Simmons' eight-day forecast:
TODAY: Mostly sunny and dry. A chilly wind still with us. Highs 47-51. Dress for 40! Winds: NW 12-28 mph.
TONIGHT: Clear and chilly. Lows 29-36. Some icy patches in the snow cover areas.
SATURDAY: Sun to clouds. Mostly cloudy for the afternoon. Highs 52-55. A sprinkle at night.
SUNDAY: Early fog. Sunny skies & warmer. Highs in the lower 60s.
MONDAY: Mostly sunny. Highs 62-65.
TUESDAY: Clouding up with a little rain possible. Highs around 60.
WEDNESDAY: Rain ending very early. Clearing with sunshine developing. Highs 48-52.
THURSDAY & FRIDAY: Sunny skies. Highs in the lower 50s.
For a more detailed forecast visit http://www.wtnh.com/subindex/weather.


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Dr. Norma Hall, a Scottish dentist, developed a new technique for fixing cavities in young children that doesn't require a drill, using a local anesthetic, or placing a dental filling. The technique, aptly called the Hall technique, involves capping a baby tooth with a stainless-steel crown to seal the decay. The crown then remains on the afflicting tooth until it naturally falls out with the arrival of the permanent tooth. According to recent research, the process is 20 minutes faster than the traditional filling and has a higher success rate.
More importantly, recent research on the technique has found that this drill-free technique can reduce dentist anxiety in young children. Dr. Lyndie Foster Page and Dr. Dorothy Boyd trained ten dentists to use the Hall technique, and then studied its effects on dentist anxiety in about 200 young children versus conventional methods. One hundred of the children had the Hall technique, and approximately 90 children had a traditional filling. The children were aged between 5 and 8.
They found that the children who received the Hall technique reported less dental anxiety than the children who received fillings. Nearly 90% of the children with the Hall technique reported that they enjoyed their dental visit, whereas only 52% of the children who received a filling said the same.[..Read More]


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