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What a difference a year makes. With the U.S. Postal Service reporting mail volume on the decline to the tune of billions of pieces, it comes as no surprise that the 2009 Top 50 Mailers list is greatly changed from its 2008 counterpart.
One-third of the companies on last year's list were knocked out by the recession's effect on their marketing budgets—and they primarily were replaced by companies that are new to the Top 50. Especially hard-hit was the financial sector, which has dominated the direct mail field with respect to estimated volume for three years straight. But not this time around, as Capital One and Bank of America are the lone banking reps on the file for 2009.
Looking at the list broken down by sector, nonprofits widened their lead even more during the past year. They now account for 44 percent of the file, about a 15 percent increase. At 36 percent, publishers have maintained their perennially strong showing, especially now that they have taken over the top two deciles of the file from a volume perspective. Finally, merchandise marketers muscled in a little further to command 6 percent of the list.
Interestingly, Sprint/Nextel fought its way back into the Top 50, after being absent in 2008, due to its huge, multichannel branding campaign. And DirecTV likely made it into the ranks because of the extra communications it mailed to capitalize on the recent government-mandated switch from analog to digital television service.
The economy might be the main driver of the recent activity in the Top 50 list, but there's no doubt the ongoing shift of marketing dollars from print to digital campaigns has influenced which firms made the list and how high up. With their robust postal databases, publishers and nonprofits continue to get good performance from direct mail while they build their online acquisition strategies. "What we're seeing is that while file sizes are overall diminishing, those companies who are multichannel and keeping direct mail active tend to not be seeing the same file size attrition and also the performance of their files is holding up much, much better," notes Fran Green, chief revenue strategist for American List Counsel, the list and data services firm that helps Target Marketing develop this annual analysis.
It's anyone's guess as to what next year's Top 50 list will look like. Many agree that it's not likely direct mail volumes will rebound to their pre-economy levels when the recession lifts, but that should only create some great opportunities for marketers who know how to succeed in this channel.
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Republican Congressman Francis Rooney of Florida called for a purge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). He also alleged that some officials in the bureau are part of the "deep state."
During a recent interview with MSNBC, Cong. Rooney said the FBI's investigation into Russia's alleged meddling in the presidential elections and possible collusion with the Trump campaign is "off the rails."
Cong. Rooney said, "I am very concerned that the DOJ and the FBI… are off the rails." He suggested that the agencies failed to meet the "very high standards" that the American people expects.
The lawmaker noted that the anti-Trump text messages of FBI agent Strzok during the 2016 presidential campaign. Special Counsel Robert Mueller removed Strzok from his team of investigators after a DOJ internal investigation found his text messages. Cong. Rooney also mentioned the fact that FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe's wife accepted donations for her political campaign from Democrats.
Cong. Rooney thinks the DOJ and FBI don't respect the Constitution
Cong. Rooney said those examples are "nerve racking" for him and "undermine" his confidence on the DOJ and the FBI. He suggested that both agencies "don't respect the Constitution."
When asked if he is trying to discredit the DOJ and the Russia investigation, the lawmaker said, "No, I don't want to discredit them. I would like to see the directors of those agencies purge it."
Additionally, Cong. Rooney said, "And say, look, we've got a lot of great agents, a lot of great lawyers here, those are the people that I want the American people to see and know the good works being done, not these people who are kind of the deep state."
Pres. Trump continues attacks on FBI
The lawmaker's comments came as President Donald Trump continues to attack the FBI and its officials.
In a series on tweets on Saturday, he denounced Deputy Director McCabe. Earlier this month, the President said the bureau's reputation is in "tatters" and the worst in the history of the country.
On Tuesday, Trump tweeted that the FBI "cannot verify claims in dossier of Russia/Trump collusion." He added that the bureau is "tainted."
WOW, @foxandfrlends "Dossier is bogus. Clinton Campaign, DNC funded Dossier. FBI CANNOT (after all of this time) VERIFY CLAIMS IN DOSSIER OF RUSSIA/TRUMP COLLUSION. FBI TAINTED." And they used this Crooked Hillary pile of garbage as the basis for going after the Trump Campaign!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 26, 201

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Even more than we humans, dogs and cats need the benefit of enzymes. Our pets evolved eating raw, fresh, unprocessed foods, which contain the perfect quantity of enzymes to digest all the proteins, carbohydrates and fats within them. Modern day pet foods are devoid of enzyme activity needed for optimum health. We have seen almost miraculous transformations in animals after enzyme supplementation begins, including relief from itchiness, allergies, flea infestation, weepy eyes and ears, dry flaking skin, rashes, hair loss and hot spots. Enzymes also help other supplements work better by increasing their absorption into the body.
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Cooking destroys enzymes starting at about 104° F. Other types of processing and storage destroy them as well. The body must produce its own replacement enzymes or become malnourished. In response to each batch of undigested food that reaches the small intestine, the pancreas manufactures and delivers the right enzymes to do the job. With cooked and packaged pet food, 100% of the enzymes must be supplied all the time.
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Afghanistan hires Pfister as new football coach
Afghanistan hires Pfister as new football coach
KABUL (Pajhwok): The Afghanistan Football Federation (AFF) on Sunday announced appointing German national Otto Pfister as the national football team's new coach.
Kramuddin Karim, AFF head, introduced the new coach at a news conference in capital Kabul.
"In cooperation with the new coach, we would have a strong and experienced football team and would achieve good results in international matches, particularly in AFC Asia Cup Qualification," he said.
"After the removal of our former football coach, Petar Segrt, we decided to find a new and experienced coach for building the capacity of our team, fortunately we were able to find one," Karim said.
With appointment of the new coach, problems of Afghanistan national football team players would be assessed and their solutions sought so the team could compete well in future matches, he said.
Otto Pfister expressed his gratitude over his introduction as Afghan football team coach and said he would try to introduce Afghan players with effective techniques and boost their morale.
"We are trying to make a united and responsible team, a team to be not only successful but its members will cooperate with each other and with the coach," he said.
Ali Askar Lali has been appointed as general manager of the team, a former member of Afghanistan football team, Anush Dastgir, as assistant coach and Mansoor Faqiryar as goalkeeper.
AFF officials said Pfister had signed a one-year contract with the national football team, replacing former coach Petar Segrt who was fired for unknown reasons.
Otto Pfister with 48 years of experience has served as football coach in many countries including Tunisia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh, Ruanda and others.
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Living up to their organizations' commitment to "preserve the memories and incidents" of its associations in the Great Wars, the leaders of the American Legion Family placed wreaths at cemeteries containing the graves of nearly 14,000 American military dead in France Friday and Saturday.
American Legion National Commander Brett P. Reistad, a veteran of the Army's famed Old Guard, led the delegation which includes American Legion Auxiliary National President Kathy Dungan and Sons of The American Legion National Commander Greg "Doc" Gibbs. Dungan and Gibbs are eligible for membership in their respective organization's due to the service of their World War II veteran fathers. Dungan, the daughter of Army veteran Wittie Card, and Gibbs, the son of Marine veteran Richard Gibbs, participated in tributes at Normandy American Cemetery and Brittany American Cemetery.
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Have you ever heard a mother say "My children turned me grey!"? It sounds cliché, but I learned the truth of this saying, just in a completely unexpected way.
Before I became one I had no idea what it meant to be a mother, or how the whole process would change me. And by change me I mean tear me apart, redesign me both physically and emotionally, before sticking me back together again.
The day it all changed…
When my eldest daughter was born changed my life forever. Overnight I saw life with both renewed clarity and newfound confusion. Things I had long understood suddenly made no sense or ceased to matter at all. The 'selfish' days of my youth were over; the weight of responsibility parried by the most overwhelming love in constant rebalance.
I wrestled with my thoughts of failure on a daily basis, and wonder just how badly I was fucking this parenting thing up. But we learned and grew together, and as her sisters arrived through the next few years the lessons changed. Some amplified and others faded away to memory, only to return in a different child years later. We didn't give up and we made it through each phase and stage, it wasn't perfect, but it was us.
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I was less defensive, and more self-assured, and that meant I was less confused with trying to negotiate the confusing, ever changing behaviour of my daughters.
In the timeless wisdom of Dr Suess, "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
Honestly, I didn't give this change much thought until my partner turned to me and said "There's no black and white with you, is there? It's all grey…"
And he was right.
I had become every shade of grey between the black and the white, the love and the hate, the naughty and the nice. Not a weird kind of ambivalent purgatory, not indifference, but a conscious thought pattern which enabled me to empathetically assess a situation, the behaviour at hand and how, if necessary, I needed to respond.
It was the voice of all my voices, the balance within.
Taking a brief pause to think it hit me; I replied, "I am every shade of grey…", and not in some suggestive reference to those books or films, but because in that moment I realised where I had arrived, and in fact where I had been travelling for some time. I hadn't applied this to just my children, but my entire life.
Motherhood had turned me grey
And I was not complaining.
Because every tantrum has a reason, every meltdown a cause and each time my children acted out they were trying to tell me something. I didn't always get it right, I still don't, but I try.
I listen. I evolve. I learn.
But most of all I committed to consistently try my best to be the best version of me that I could be. I can forgive the black, and bathe in their light, and one day I hope I'll be able to tell them about how they turned me grey, and absolutely transformed my life.
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I was chatting to a girlfriend recently about the ins and outs of relationships and we realised that sometimes we are guilty of deliberately going about things to set our partners up to fail. I listed a couple of doozies of when I had done this recently, and my friend fessed up to her less than appropriate behavior too.
Why on earth do we do this? It seems like the exact opposite of what you should be doing in caring for your partner, but I guess sometimes love makes us do stupid things? Sometimes we hurt the ones we love the most, and the reason for inflicting that hurt is hard to understand (without the help of psychologist at $200 per hour)?
Is this something you can relate to?
An embarrassing example:
I recently accidentally locked myself out of the house when I was pulling some sheets off the line. It was quickly approaching 5pm on a Melbourne afternoon and even though it's apparently Spring, it's still maxing out at a top of 15 most days here – So it's fair to say it was chilly, getting more so, and I was pissed off about it.
I casually waited by the back door (in between hysterically banging on it) to try and get the attention of my fiancé who I knew was up the front of the house in our home-office. To his credit, he was hanging out a load of washing in front of the heater that I had just finished. Failing to return in what I would have considered ample time to hang out what was in the basket, I slumped in the chair at our outdoor table.
It was at this point that I knew for certain, my partner must have weakened to the lure of his computer while in the office, and I therefore should not count on seeing him any time soon. {I hold mass-anger towards Apple for their revolutionary advancements in technology. It makes me psychotic that my partner treats his devices like an extra person in our relationship – worthy of love, attention, nurturing, and respect. I might expand on this in a future post, but I'm sure you get the gist of what I mean if you also share a bed with your partner AND their iPad}
Waiting for what seemed like at least half an hour, and a trillion goosebumps over my skin, I began to prepare my response for when he would discover my frostbitten body in the backyard being crawled over by our neighborhood possums (which I expected would be when he finally gets hungry and wanders back to the other end of the house where I was….and where the fridge is).
It goes like this:
Where the hell of you been? What? You just forgot I also lived in the house, and didn't think it was strange that you hadn't seen me the last hour?
No, this won't do. I'm not a baby that he needs to keep 'watch' for. Nor was he expected to 'report back' with the success of the washing-hanging on the off-chance I was locked out of the house to then be able to save me.
Rant option no 2:
Why the hell do you have to leave so much stuff at the back door so there is no way I can go out the back without it slamming shut behind me?
Nah, this won't work either. Most of the stuff there (case of beer, the broom, recycling bin etc) is communal. Probably not an appropriate blame tactic. Plus, I had been aware of this hazard myself for some time, and was clearly too lazy to find them a new home to make it easier to get in/out of the door.
Rant option no. 3
Why the hell do you have to be on your computer at every chance you get?! I could have been out here for hours if you hadn't have decided to stretch your legs!
Yeah. This is pretty good. He never ever wins the 'You're on your gadgets way too much' war – he usually doesn't even turn up for battle.
It must have been because I had recently eaten and my blood-sugar levels were reasonably level (or the fact that I was going numb and starting to not feel my fingers) because I actually started to calm down about the situation (unlike me – I'm an over-reactor from way back). And as such, in my lovely rationale state, I concluded that none of these comments would in fact be fair – after all, it wasn't reeeeaaally his fault that I got locked out of the house. He didn't push the door shut behind me and run away. Really, it was my fault.
BUT, after acknowledging that, this is then how my brain went (and why I possibly need someone to give me a number for a good psychologist):
I wanted to somehow involve him in feeling like he had contributed to the situation, that way I would look less of a complete idiot AND I might also swing some sympathy. So instead, I proceeded to hope that he would leave me outside until dark – a good 2 hours in total – so that when he finally did discover me in the backyard, I would be cold, barely able to say a word, and hopefully he would feel really really sorry for me.
So here it was – I was setting him up to fail. The poor bugger didn't have a chance.
My plan went pear shaped when he walked into the kitchen 2 minutes later carrying the empty washing basket and saw me out the window. He opened the door laughing hysterically when he realised I had obviously locked myself out and had been out there that whole time.
Turns out, it DID take him a whole 30 mins to hang a load of washing (go figure). It turns out he DIDN'T turn on the computer/iPad/iphone/other gadgety thing. Turns out he WAS just being meticulous about hanging everything up because of my strict instructions from a previous washing episode where he dumped everything on the clothes horse and none of it dried for 3 days.
Queue flashback:
You need to hang everything up properly otherwise it won't dry! Geeezzz, how hard is it!!!
He was trying to do his best – to make me happy.
I headed for the shower (tail between my legs) to warm up and he proceeded about the house finishing up the last of the day's jobs – just like how I thought he wouldn't.
Sometimes the universe is telling us to stop and slow down – and being locked in your backyard is a sure way to get you to do it. In the end, I was frustrated at myself for being an idiot locking myself out, for letting my brain get carried away, and also thankful that I have a wonderful partner who not only knows how to hang out washing brilliantly – but is also the one that always comes to my rescue if anything goes wrong.
Lesson learnt today – don't wish to be stuck outside the house for 2 hours just to make your partner feel bad. Swallow your pride and keep banging on the door – or jump the neighbours fence and walk around the front.
Can anyone relate to my ghastly behaviour? Have you ever tested your partner or wished them to fail at something? (Pleeeeease share, it will make me feel better!!!).
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Chores. Everybody in my house hates doing them. We don't like the house to be messy, but we aren't jumping up to offer to clean it either. My house definitely has that 'lived-in' look everyone keeps talking about.
Growing up, my mother believed in chores for her kids. My husband rarely had chores to do. With both perspectives, we agree, that children need to have daily chores.
I have had all types of reactions to the chores I give my children, ranging from admiration of the abilities they have learned to dismay at my robbing them of their childhood. So, how can you tell if your child has too many chores?
To start, if they don't have chores, then they definitely need some. Chores have wonderful benefits to your kids, yourself and your family as a whole. My family sometimes bonds over our hatred of the necessity of chores, or the boys band together against my insistence chores be completed in a certain way (the correct way a.k.a. my way!). It obviously helps me and my husband, because we have many responsibilities and aren't available to do every single task. Having chores gives my kids ownership of the home we live in and knowledge on how to be self sufficient in the future. It also makes them appreciate their free time more. If your child has ever said they are bored, they need more chores!
On the other hand, if your children have no down time or chores are interfering with their ability to get their homework done, you may have ventured into the land of child slave labor, and need to cut back a bit. Some people like to give their children a strict list of daily chores that never changes and other like to assign chores as things need to be done. I prefer a list of daily chores, which can be substituted out. For instance, my 13 year old feeds and walks the dogs, but I've been teaching him about the kitchen and making simple meals, so if he cooks dinner, I'll take care of the dogs. It's only fair if he take one of my tasks, that I take one of his.
It may seem extreme, but as soon as kids can walk, they can have chores. It's important not to let the word "chore" take up too much head space. People balk at my toddler having chores, but he does. We don't call them chores, and the work he does isn't really helpful in the overall scheme of the things I have to do in a day, but they help him learn. He learns a rhythm of everyday life of preparing for an activity, performing an activity and cleaning up after the activity. So, he sees us set the table for dinner, this give him a cue to take his seat at the table, then we have dinner and he knows it's time to eat, then he sees me at the sink, and he knows it is time to cleanup. When I'm using the dishwasher, he takes up his post, moving the utensils back and forth in their little holders. When I saw this behavior, I handed him a spoon I had rinsed off to see what he would do. He put it in the dishwasher! So now, one of his chores is putting the utensils in the dishwasher. Even though this means it takes twice as long to load the dishwasher, and we can't put knives in until we are ready to run it, it's his chore and he is proud when he has completed it. He'll "help" me close the dishwasher door and give himself a round of applause.
The older boys help take care of the younger children. The fact that the kids ages are so spread out, it helps them to bridge that gap and form bonds. The 13 and 16 year old change the baby's diaper, and help the 10 year old with his homework. But even with this team effort mentality, it is inevitable that the kids will feel overburdened and taken advantage of. When they have to pause their video game to take out the trash, or stop chatting with their friends online because the the dogs need water, they can start to imagine that they do EVERYTHING and no one else has to work as hard as they do. They feel it's not fair.
When this happens, it is more than worth it to write down every chore that needs to be done and offer to reassign everyone to new chores. When they see that your time is taken up by grocery shopping, paying bills, replacing shingles on the roof, and cleaning gutters, all of a sudden their small every day tasks seem much more manageable. I don't think kids need to be blind to the work it takes to run a household in order to remain carefree children. It really makes them appreciate that they don't have worry about all that, because you got it!
A word of caution though, don't try to oversell how difficult your tasks are, or let on that you struggle with them. Kids worry about their parents, and fear if we can't hack it, they'll have to step up and do it for us. I learned that lesson when I was a single parent.
Once your kids get into their teen years, you should be able to count on them to get their tasks done in a timely manner and completed correctly. But that doesn't happen unless they grow up with chores. For children 10 and under, don't really expect their help to be useful. In fact, you may have to go behind them and repeat the task, so it is done correctly. But never reassign a task because a kid doesn't do it right. This will obviously lead to them doing all their chores wrong, to get out of them. My older sister perfected this strategy against my mother, so much so that none of my siblings ever used her washer, dryer or dishwasher.
What chores do your kids have? Feel free to share below in the comments.
Notyetsupermom's kids chores:
- 16 year old:
- Clean his room
- His own laundry
- Clean his bathroom (including toilet, sink and bath)
- Mow the lawn/shovel the snow
- Take care of the younger kids
- And, once he gets his license, he'll drive the kids around sometimes.
- 13 year old:
- Clean his room/laundry/bathroom
- Feed and walk the dogs
- Wash dishes
- Take out the trash
- Help with the younger kids
- 10 year old:
- Clean his room/bathroom
- Help with the dogs
- Separate the recylcables
- Fetch items from under beds and behind furniture (He's the only one small enough to do this without having to pull out the furniture!)
- 20 month old:
- Put his toys in his toy box after play time
- Separate laundry colors from whites
- Put the spoons in the dishwasher
- Help me cook by pulling out all the pots and pans, creating tripping hazards and general noise


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New voices: An ecological approach to audio description
At the moment the space is dimly lit and shadowy. Slowly the lights fade to total darkness. There's a shaft of light from an open door as Gloucester walks in, rubbing his face wearily. Kent, glancing nervously over his shoulder, follows.
This is how King Lear begins in a recent production at London's Almeida Theatre. At least, this is how King Lear begins if you are a blind theatre-goer, listening to the audio description (AD).
AD is a verbal commentary providing visual information for those unable to perceive it themselves. AD helps blind and partially sighted people access audiovisual media and is also used in live settings such as theatres, galleries and museums (e.g. Diaz-Cintas et al., 2007). The practice was developed in the US and came to the UK in the late-1980s. I was amongst a small handful of people who were trained by the National Theatre when they first began an audio description service in 1992, and I still regularly describe productions. I was also a pioneer of TV description, working for the BBC as part of a European pilot project called Audetel.
Although AD is now a legal requirement (under the Communications Act 2003 and Equality Act 2010), its methods are largely untested (Gerber, 2007). As I train new describers, I wanted data to back up what I teach. As a discipline, AD is found in departments of audio visual translation (AVT). While there are interesting overlaps between translation and description, for me translation concentrates on the text, missing out the performance element and another crucial factor: the audience. When going to the theatre or watching a film, you immerse yourself in another world, so a mediated experience appears unmediated (Lombard & Ditton, 1997). AD adds yet another level of mediation. Can an AD user experience 'presence', that 'feeling of being there' (Biocca, 1997), in the same way as a sighted person? How do the perceptual experiences of blind or partially sighted people affect how they engage with AD? My quest for answers led me not to a translation department but to the Psychology Department at Goldsmiths, University of London to research for a PhD.
On one level, AD seems easy enough. American guidelines provide an acronym: W.Y.S.I.W.Y.S. – 'what you see is what you say' (see www.acb.org/adp/ad.html). Yet if everything in the visual array were described, AD users would be overwhelmed by detail. In their comparison of AD guidelines in different countries, Rai et al. (2010) suggest that the greatest challenge is how to choose 'what not to describe'. So how do sighted people avoid being bombarded by visual information; how do we select from what we see?
My first degree was in anthropology, so my supervisors, Dr Jonathan Freeman and Professor Linda Pring, had to introduce me to key concepts in psychology. I found the ideas of J.J. Gibson particularly illuminating. In the 1970s Gibson took issue with the prevailing model of vision as a series of objects projected on the retina, like pictures projected onto a screen. Instead, he developed what he called 'the ecological approach to visual perception'. We are not, he argues, passive recipients of a static, snapshot view of the world. We look around and move around while we are looking. We compare what we see with what we have seen before, i.e. with what we know. And this varies: the AD audience is diverse. Some, especially those who have recently lost their sight, remain very visual. As they listen to introductions to theatre performances describing characters, costumes and set designs, or to descriptions of objects or paintings in galleries and museums, they build up a picture in their mind's eye. For people who have been blind from birth, however, it is not possible to create a mental representation that matches what a sighted person sees. Even people who have lost their sight later in life may gradually lose their interest in the visual world. As part of my research, I have been conducting interviews with blind and partially sighted people regarding their experiences of AD. One participant, a 70-year-old man who went blind at the age of 60, put it like this:
I don't consciously build pictures in my mind… I'm imagining action... And what I think I imagine is, is what I do in the rest of my life. That is to say I know you're sitting there on the other end of the settee – because I'm intimately acquainted with the settee, I know you're a woman and you're sitting at that end of it and there's just over a metre between us. I know what women are like, therefore I can imagine you. I don't actually have a picture of you… One or two very old friends I can maybe sort of have a sense of he's got craggy features or he's tall and skinny or whatever, but that's gone really, because I don't experience people in that visual way... my reality is a reality without visual images and maybe one of the mistakes that [audio describers] make… is maybe they think we read the notes and listen to the things furiously creating visual pictures that a sighted person would see.
Gibson provides a helpful distinction between qualities of objects and their affordances, i.e. what an object allows us to do with it. A twig, for example, affords us the opportunity to pick it up, to use as a tool or as fuel for a fire. A tree branch may afford grasping but not carrying. The tree itself cannot be carried, nor, if the trunk is wide, can it be grasped. However, it may afford climbing. If it is a fruit tree, the fruit may afford eating. As for qualities, Gibson's list is extensive, including colour, texture, composition, size, shape, mass, elasticity, rigidity and mobility. The list goes beyond what we might consider to be purely visual, and all can be ascertained at a glance. Yet much of that visual information fails to register at a conscious level. If I asked you to describe the chair you are sitting on, you would probably instantly look at it. You saw the chair before you sat on it, yet you almost certainly did not register its colour, its precise form or the materials of its construction. The fact of it being a chair was sufficient for you to enjoy what it affords: the opportunity to sit down. Gibson suggests 'we can discriminate the dimensions of difference if required to do so… but the special combination of qualities by which an object can be analysed is ordinarily not noticed' (1986, p.134).
It is the role of the audio describer to notice what is ordinarily not noticed. But how much detail should they provide? Gibson claims 'however skilled an explicator one may become one will always, I believe, see more than one can say' (1986, p.261). He gives the illustration of a cat on a mat. What we see is a cat obscuring part of the mat; the mat extending on each side of the cat, the mat supporting the cat, the floor supporting the mat and the cat as it extends horizontally in each direction, the rigidity of the floor that affords support. We also see where we are in relation to the cat. We see parts of ourselves, the shadow of our nose, and perhaps a strand of hair, our toes and hands and parts of our forearms. We see whether the cat is sleeping or awake, friendly or twitching its tail. We see what colour the cat is, and perhaps an indication of its age and whether it has been in a fight and is missing part of its left ear... I could go on.
AD during a play or film is limited by time constraints. It must be fitted in between bursts of dialogue. If there is only time for a brief description, it may be better to ask not 'what do we see?' but 'what does the visual information afford?' If the cat is twitching its tail, it is less likely to afford us the opportunity of stroking it. So too if its coat is scabby or crawling with fleas. A cat may afford information about its owner – in the film To Russia with Love the Persian cat stroked by the Bond villain Blofeld indicates his interest in prestige and appearance. That the cat is long-haired, white and wears a jewel-encrusted collar tells us much about Blofeld's circumstances, both financial and environmental. By contrast, in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, the hairless sphynx cat adopted by the spoof villain, Dr Evil, affords comparison with Blofeld in terms of power and over-weaning ambition, and humour in terms of abundant hair versus no hair. Although neither cat affects the plot, the visual information arguably enhances our understanding of a key character and enriches our enjoyment of the film.
Gibson's distinction between quality and affordance provides a useful rule of thumb: qualities are nice to know, affordances are what
AD users need to know. Zahorik and Jenison (1998) use the example of a basketball, arguing that it is not best represented by the qualities 'round', 'orange' and 'rubber' but by the fact it can be thrown, rolled or bounced. In AD, the colour of a ball may be less important than the type of ball, e.g. golf ball, cricket ball, tennis ball. From this information we can infer details of size, weight and how bouncy it is so we can anticipate how it might be used.
Affordances draw our attention, even if we are not consciously aware of them. When shown a target with a graspable handle on either the left- or right-hand side, observers respond more quickly and more accurately if the response hand is on the same side as the handle, than if it is on the opposite side (Tucker & Ellis cited in Murphy et al., 2012). This holds true even if participants observe a photograph, rather than an object that could be physically grasped. It suggests that in a play or a film, a sharp knife lying casually on a work surface, for example, calls out to us to expect cookery at one end of the spectrum and violence at the other. Other visually apprehended details may also be relevant: the length of the blade, the keenness of the edge, if the knife is gleaming or bloody. If time is short, however, simply describing the presence of the knife and by implication what it affords (stabbing) may be sufficient. The converse applies too. In mentioning something, that describer sets up an expectation of its importance. Describing every object on a cluttered mantelpiece may convey the impression that each features in the action: the candle in the candlestick will be lit; flowers will be placed in the vase; a photograph will be examined; the clock will be wound or time is crucial to the plot. An AD user may be waiting for the moment these props are brought into the limelight and waste cognitive effort in doing so.
Gibson's approach is not without its limitations. In particular, he ascribes perception of affordances primarily to vision, taking little account of non-visual modalities. Woods and Newell (2004) point out that while vision can successfully identify a glass of water affording the opportunity to drink, it may need touch to confirm whether the water is too cold to drink comfortably. Similarly we can tell much about an object through sound: for example its length (Carello et al., 1998, 2005), its size (Grassi, 2005) and whether or not it is within reach (Rosenblum et al., 1996). We can identify natural sounds such as footsteps, applause, or a can being opened. We recognise voices, the spoken word and emotion in the voice of the speaker (Davis & Johnsrude, 2007). From this we can deduce much about the speaker including whether or not he or she is safe to approach. The affordances of sound have been utilised to improve robotic navigation (Chu et al., 2009). Perceiving affordances through non-visual modalities is important for the describer too, if they are to avoid supplying redundant information (Fryer, 2010).
Gibson's most helpful insight is that the observer is not passive. That brings us back to the focus of my research. How does impairment impact on perception and experience? And how does that affect the user's engagement with AD? So far my studies suggest that the spoken word is as evocative for blind people as non-verbal auditory stimuli (Fryer, Pring et al., 2013a); that navigation involves explicit rather than implicit processing (Fryer, Freeman et al., 2013); and that word–shape associations that are robust in the sighted are significantly less strong for those who are blind (Fryer, Pring et al., 2013b). Most importantly, my research has brought me into contact with many blind and partially sighted people who have reminded me of the pure aesthetic enjoyment that visual qualities can provide, regardless of whether the listener can 'picture' them. As one congenitally blind participant expressed it: 'Because I've never experienced light in all its wonderful forms… I'm entirely fascinated… and I love to hear talk of what light looks like and colours of fireworks and I love it all… it doesn't bother me because I can't see it, I just love hearing about it.'
Louise Fryer is an audio describer and also a PhD student at Goldsmiths College, University of London [email protected]
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The 12 Hottest Home Theater Projectors of the Summer
All of our Top 10 lists are segmented by price categories, but there is no single list to indicate the hottest home theater projectors on ProjectorCentral simply by total reader response. So here it is...
We track the number of times readers access the spec pages and reviews of all models, and we also track when readers click through to resellers or vendors from each model's pages. This gives us excellent visibility into the projectors attracting the most attention in the market. So ignoring price, resolution, make, and so on, the 12 hottest projectors currently on the market are these:
1. Optoma HD143X ($499)
Of the roughly 1600 projectors in current production, the Optoma HD143X tops the list as the projector currently getting the most reader attention. No surprise -- it is priced at $499, and there are simply a lot more people who can afford $499 than there are people with larger budgets. Though the HD143X (a.k.a. the HD144X in Europe), is extremely low in price, Optoma has other aggressively priced models including the HD27 ($549), the HD27e ($579), and the HD29Darbee ($649). For the small incremental expense, you may find one of these to be the better deal for you.
2. ViewSonic PX727-4K ($1299)
In second place and right on the heels of the Optoma 143X is the hottest selling 4K projector on the market, the ViewSonic PX727-4K. Given that it is pricier than the HD143X it is remarkable that they are so close in overall consumer response -- clearly a testament to the power of 4K to inspire the consumer audience. ViewSonic has a brighter version of the PX727-4K, the ViewSonic PX747-4K, also extremely popular and appearing at #4 on this list. The PX727-4K won our Editor's Choice Award, and you can see the review here.
3. Optoma UHD60 ($1799)
The Optoma UHD60 is the best-selling of the 4K projectors featuring the 0.66" DLP chip which lends it some additional lumen muscle and contrast. However, if you want a more refined version of the UHD60, check out the Optoma UHD65 ($2299), which is not quite as bright, but incremently higher in contrast. The UHD65 has an RGBRGB wheel compared to the UHD60's RGBCY. It also offers frame interpolation and a third year of warranty. For the additional $500, it is the better deal for my taste. But money talks and so does a 3000 lumen rating, and a lot of buyers can get by without frame interpolation, so the UHD60 comes in at #3 in the top selling models this summer.
4. ViewSonic PX747-4K ($1299)
In fourth place is ViewSonic's brighter version 4K UHD projector, the PX747-4K. Since it is also priced at $1299, it is simply a matter of deciding which of the two fits your needs better--the PX727-4K has an RGBRGB wheel and achieves better color saturation, whereas the RGBW wheel on the PX747-4K gives more ANSI lumens and brighter highlights, making it better suited to ambient light situations. Either way it is no surprise that the least expensive of the 4K UHD projectors find their way to the top of the hottest projectors of the summer.
5. LG Electronics HU80KA ($2999)
LG's first 4K projector comes in a tower format with portability as a key design criterion. It can be easily set up and aimed at a wall or screen on a temporary basis, then returned to storage when not in use. It comes with outstanding on-board audio and wi-fi signal enabled to make it all the more suitable for portable or back yard use, and its laser light source renders excellent contrast and eliminates the lamp replacements. It qualifies as the most unique and unusual projector design among all of the 4K projector options. There must be a lot of buyers interested in laser-driven 4K in a portable package, because it ranks #5 in popularity this summer.
6. Epson Home Cinema 2150 ($899)
The Epson 2150 is currently Epson's best-selling home theater projector due to a combination of excellent color brightness along with best in class 3D performance, frame interpolation, geometric correction, and MHL and Miracast compatibility, all for an aggressive retail of $899 with frequently much lower street prices. This high performance fully loaded native 1080p model currently stands at #6 in popularity among the 1600 models currently in production.
7. Optoma UHZ65 ($3999)
Of the 12 hottest home theater projectors, four of them are from Optoma, including the UHZ65, which is #1 on the Top 10 Home Theater projectors priced in the $3000 to $10,000 range. The key to the excitement on this 4K projector is its 20,000 hour laser light engine, combined with a high 3000 lumen rating and high contrast, a 1.6x zoom with lens shift for easy installation, and (for people like me who require it) frame interpolation.
8. Epson Home Cinema 1060 ($649)
Epson's least expensive home theater unit comes in at only $649. Not only that, but it has 6000 hours of lamp life in full power mode, and if you ever need to replace the lamp it is only $49. So when money talks, it shouts on the HC 1060 as one of the most affordable home theater projectors on the market. It is indeed a great value, but for a few bucks more you can step up to the Epson 2150 and get Full HD 3D, a 1.6x zoom lens, MHL and Miracast, and frame interpolation, along with the same cheap $49 replacement lamp. That is a lot more projector for not a lot more investment, so if your budget can swing it that's the one we would want. (On occasion the 2150 is on sale for $699, which is a downright steal when you can find it.)
9. Optoma UHD50 ($1399)
The least expensive of Optoma's large array of 4K projectors is the UHD50, at a mere $1399. The UHD50 has a very similar looking sibling called the Optoma UHD51A at $1699, which as it turns out is currently #13 in the list of most popular home theater models, just slightly behind the UHD50 (and just slightly off our Hottest 12 list because we had to cut it off somewhere). Clearly price is the major driving factor in consumer home theater, so it is not surprising that the aggressively priced UHD50 attracts a bit more click activity and page views. However, for $300 more the UHD51A gives you Full HD 3D capability, an additional year of warranty, and to spice it up a bit, it has Alexa and Google voice command as well a 4K UHD media player and Android OS. Take a look at both -- only you can tell which is the better deal for your needs.
10. Epson Home Cinema 5040UB ($2699)
The Epson 5040UB is a magnificent beast, a more robust and fully featured projector than any of the projectors in this list of 12. It is almost two years old but there are very good reasons it is still among the hottest selling home theater projectors on the market. It is 4K compatible and provides 4K enhanced pixel shifting to not only render native 4K source material in close approximation to native 4K resolution, but it upgrades 1080p source material to much higher apparent resolution as well. Beyond that it has full powered 2.1x all-glass zoom lens and extensive powered lens shift, making easier than just about anything on this list to place and install. Automated Lens Memory lets you automatically reposition the lens to display multiple aspect ratio formats in constant image height on a 2.4:1 screen. It has excellent color brightness that exceeds its lumen rating, Full HD 3D, and frame interpolation. There is a wireless version, the 10. Epson Home Cinema 5040UBe that is available for about $200 more. Pricing varies and you can sometimes find it on sale for as little as $2299, so if you're shopping make sure to check current Epson 5040UB prices here.
11. ViewSonic Pro7827HD ($499)
Price is king in the entry-level home theater game, and Viewsonic is one of the most aggressive price players in the market. The ViewSonic Pro7827HD is priced at $499 with a whopping three year warranty--unheard of at this price level. ViewSonic has been coming on strong in the lower end home theater market with very low pricing and substantially improved performance on many models. This is the first time ViewSonic has had three models in the Top 12 most popular models in the industry for as long as we can remember. In addition to its 4K projectors near the top of this list, ViewSonic also offers the PJD7828HDL which is also pulling excellent popularity numbers (#27 out of 1600 at the moment) at a slightly higher price of $589. The 7828HDL did exceptionally well in our recent sub-$700 Home Theater shootout, so it is well worth a look if you're checking out the Pro7827HD.
12. Sony VPL-HW45ES ($1799)
Sony has a well-deserved and very strong following as the company has been making elegant home theater projectors for some time now. The most popular model at the moment is the HW45ES, a native 1080p projector with pristine color and contrast, now priced below $1800. Just below it in popularity is the native 4K Sony VW285ES, priced at $4999 and coming in at position #15 in the ranks of the most popular models of the summer.
We could go on forever as we've got all 1600 models currently in production ranked by reader interest, but this is enough to give you a thumbnail look at what is catching the attention and imagination of our readers this summer.
To save you the time of emailing, yes we also noticed that BenQ is notably absent from the top 12, but they are not far behind. In case you're wondering where BenQ's models are ranking, the BenQ HT2050A ($749) is at # 14, the 4K UHD resolution HT2550 ($1499) is at # 17, and the HT2150ST ($899), which won our Editor's Choice Award two years ago, comes in at # 21.
One thing is certain -- there is a lot of terrific home theater happening out there at a wide range of price levels. There is a huge array of models to choose from. Which projector is right for you?
Evan Powell


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'Unmasked' Review: Andrew Lloyd Webber Reveals and Remembers
MILLBURN, N.J. — Sometimes, Andrew Lloyd Webber says from a video screen onstage, a production doesn't come together the way its creators hope.
"Which doesn't actually mean the show is appalling," he continues, sensibly. "It just means that it didn't work because the whole thing didn't sort of coalesce."
"Unmasked: The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber" — a multimedia concert and career retrospective, making its world premiere at the Paper Mill Playhouse here — is a far cry from appalling. Unless of course you are allergic to Lloyd Webber's music, in which case you might run screaming the instant an usher hands you a souvenir paper mask.
But even if "The Phantom of the Opera," "Evita," "Cats" and the rest of his shows are your jam, this one runs the risk of underwhelming, despite the technical excellence of the singing and the rich sound of the onstage orchestra. At a presumably somewhat larval stage in its development, this would-be fan pleaser of an evening is weighed down by seriousness.
Directed and choreographed by JoAnn M. Hunter, with music direction by Michael Patrick Walker, "Unmasked" is larded with earworm hits and the occasional oddity. Nothing wrong with that. But the live portion of the proceedings, carried out by a cast of 13 on an almost utilitarian set (by Alexander Dodge), makes the mistake of reverence when what's needed is fun. The best way to honor Lloyd Webber's music is to have a good time with it.
More peculiar is the glaringly unpolished recorded video of Lloyd Webber in which he narrates his history, popping up between numbers on a screen that descends to conceal the orchestra.
From the moment he gives the preshow announcement, threatening to strangle anyone who records the performance (he, at any rate, gets points for irreverence), this device has huge potential to charm. As with the video of Stephen Sondheim a decade ago in his own stage anthology, "Sondheim on Sondheim," Lloyd Webber's stories about the making of his musicals function as the connective tissue of the show, written and devised with Richard Curtis ("Notting Hill" and the contentious classic "Love Actually").
Though it is uncredited in the program, Curtis also did the video for the show, which reads like a rehearsal tape, not a finished product: terrible lighting, and shaky camera work that goes in and out of focus. More fundamentally, bizarre editing gets in the way of Lloyd Webber speaking straight to the audience, by cutting at random to a second camera for distancing profile views.
Let him look us in the eye. But also — and I realize this is tough because he is the boss, and he is not an actor — please get him to relax so he can regale us more comfortably, not race through anecdotes and step on his own punch lines. (He does get in a good joke about the recent "Cats" film debacle, though.)
The context Lloyd Webber provides is informative, if only glancingly personal; for childhood stories and the like, his entertaining 70th-birthday memoir from 2018, also titled "Unmasked," is on sale at the concession stand. So are CDs of its compilation album, "Unmasked," whose song list is not the same as this medley-heavy concert's.
Vocally, the evening is a showcase for Lloyd Webber veterans, including Mamie Parris, with both "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" and "Memory"; Mauricio Martinez, scaling the heights of "Gethsemane (I Only Want to Say)," from "Jesus Christ Superstar"; and Alyssa Giannetti, with a particularly pretty "Love Never Dies," from the ill-fated sequel to "Phantom."
Rarer, though, are numbers that feel connected to a character, given an actor's spin. Alex Finke accomplishes that with "Another Suitcase in Another Hall," from "Evita"; Jeremy Landon Hays with "Sunset Boulevard"; and Andrew Kober, playfully, with "Skimbleshanks the Railway Cat."
You can feel the rush of oxygen each time a song gets an interpretation rather than a recitation. If "Unmasked" is going to do justice to its material, it needs much more of that vitality.
Through March 1 at Paper Mill Playhouse, Millburn, N.J.; 973-376-4343, papermill.org. Running time: 2 hours 20 minutes.


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Property Location
With a stay at this apartment in Venice (Castello), you'll be within a 5-minute drive of St. Mark's Basilica and Bridge of Sighs. This apartment is 0.6 mi (1 km) from Doge's Palace and 0.6 mi (1 km) from St Mark's Campanile.
Make yourself comfortable in this air-conditioned apartment, featuring a kitchen with a refrigerator and an oven. Complimentary wireless Internet access is available to keep you connected.