.
Subject: RE: INTERNET: SEARCH: MEDIA SPECIFIC TOOLS AND RESOURCES : VIDEOS :
BUSINESS: NAMED COMPANIES: GOOGLE, YOUTUBE :
DISABILITIES: DEAFNESS AND HEARING IMPAIRMENT :
SOFTWARE: SPEECH RECOGNITION SOFTWARE:
YouTube Adds Video Captions for Deaf
.
Girl Scouts of the USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_Scouts_of_the_USA>
The Girl Scouts of the United States of America (GSUSA) is a youth organization
for girls in the United States and American girls living abroad. It describes
itself as "the world's preeminent organization dedicated solely to girls".[2]
The Girl Scout program, which developed from the concerns of the progressive
movement in the United States, sought to promote the social welfare of young
women and was formed as a counterpart to the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). It
was founded by Juliette Gordon Low in 1912 and is based on the Scouting
principles developed by Robert Baden-Powell.
<snip>
Girl Scouting in the United States of America began on 12 March 1912 when
Juliette "Daisy" Gordon Low organized the first Girl Scout troop meeting of 18
girls in Savannah, Georgia. Low, who had met Baden-Powell in London while she
was living in the United Kingdom, dreamed of giving the United States
"something for all the girls." She envisioned an organization that would bring
girls out of their cloistered home environments to serve in their communities
and experience the open air. From its inception, the organization has been
controlled by women, unlike the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) or
the Camp Fire Girls.[4]
The Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace, located in Savannah, Georgia in the former
Gordon family home, became a national Girl Scout program center in 1956.[5] It
provides tours to thousands of Scouts yearly. Upon Low's death in 1927, she
willed her carriage house, which would eventually become The Girl Scout First
Headquarters, to the local Savannah Girl Scouts for continued use.[6] The first
National Headquarters was in Washington, DC but it was moved to New York City
in the spring of 1916 and has remained there ever since.
------------------------------
From this limited information, there could have been British influence, or not.
But there also appears to be much that is American about the development of the
Girl Scouts in the United States. Thanks so much for letting me know about the
use of the term Brownies in the United States.
Word histories and the history of phrases are most interesting and critical to
understanding the way we speak today. I recently posted this to my Net-Gold
list as a matter of fact.
LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS: ENGLISH LANGUAGE: WORDS AND VOCABULARY: ETYMOLOGY:
A Selection of Phrase Origin Sources
<http://tinyurl.com/ybxv3z3>
Here are some sources that connect Girl Scouts with disabilities:
Girls with Disabilities Enjoy Outdoor Activities
By working with experts, making adaptations, and most importantly, keeping an
open mind, you can encourage girls with disabilities to scale new heights.
By Helen Orloff
<http://www.girlscouts.org/for_adults/leader_magazine/2005_spring/
girls_with_disabilities_enjoy_outdoor_activities.asp>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/yk2vqe5>
Whether it's playing in the neighborhood playground in San Francisco or rock
climbing in the mountains of North Carolina, girls with disabilities can and do
enjoy Girl Scout experiences in the outdoors. Girls with disabilities want to
be active participants in their chosen outdoor activity, not spectators on the
sidelines. Here are some ways leaders and advisors make it happen.
ERIC #:
A unique accession number assigned to each record in the database; also
referred to as ERIC Document Number (ED Number) and ERIC Journal Number (EJ
Number). EJ054601
Title:
The name assigned to the document by the author. This field may also contain
sub-titles, series names, and report numbers. Disabled Girls Can Be Girl Scouts
Authors:
Personal author, compiler, or editor name(s); click on any author to run a new
search on that name. N/A
Descriptors:
Terms from the Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors; used to tag materials by subject
to aid information search and retrieval. Click on a Descriptor to initiate any
new search using that term. Females; Handicapped Children; National
Organizations; Parent Education; Recreational Programs
Source:
The entity from which ERIC acquires the content, including journal,
organization, and conference names, or by means of online submission from the
author. Exceptional Parent, 1, 5, 19-21, Feb/Mar 72
Summer Camp Opportunity for Daughters of Disabled Military Personnel
<http://www.girlscoutsww.org/news/DisabledMilitaryScholarship>
Inclusion for Girl Scouts
<http://www.girlscoutsofcolorado.org/index.cfm/
fuseaction/content.home/iPageContentCategoryID/279>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/ybk2hsk>
People-First Language
Say Instead of
<snip>
Useful Web sites
Check out our sister council's Including ALL girls Initiative, an initiative to
educate girls about inclusion and how they can include girls with disabilities
in all aspects of Girl Scouts.
http://www.IncludingAllKids.org -
Look for the articles "Seeing Abilities" and "Inclusion Mentoring" and download
the "Paths to Inclusion" booklet.
http://www.kidstogether.org
National Organization on Disabilities - Disability etiquette tips
www.wildernessinquiry.org -
Information regarding outdoor adaptations and definitions for more common
disabilities
http://www.adainformation.org/default.asp -
Americans with Disabilities Act
Books
Different & Alike - by Nancy P. McConnell
Kids Explore the Gifts of Children with Special Needs - By Westridge Young
Writers Workshop, ISBN 1-56261-156-9
Basic Manuals for Friends of the Disabled - By Hannah Carlson, M.Ed, C.R.C.
Special needs/disabilities series, Set of 6
The Girl Scout Walk a Mile program kit is available online. The Girl Scout
Disability Awareness Kit is also partially available online or by checkout at
the Denver Service Center.
<snip>
"Inclusion is much more than a place to go. It is a value to be lived."
- Jennifer York
------------------------------
<http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=%22girl%20scouts%
22%20and%20(disabilities%20OR%20disabled)&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=ws>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/yd8pxvl>
<http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&q=%22girl%20scouts%22%
20and%20(disabilities%20OR%20disabled)&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=sp>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/yk7b35k>
<http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=%22girl%20scouts%22%
20and%20(disabilities%20OR%20disabled)&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=pn>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/ylj8ngb>
<http://news.google.com/archivesearch?um=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=
en&q=%22girl+scouts%22+and+%28disabilities+OR+disabled%29&cf=all>
A shorter URL for the above link:
http://tinyurl.com/yezmp9a
<http://images.google.com/images?um=1&ned=us&hl=en&q=%22girl%
20scouts%22%20and%20(disabilities%20OR%20disabled)&cf=all&sa=N&tab=ni>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/yccxmkx>
Disability Awareness
01:06 - 1 year ago youtube.com
Girl Scouts of Victoria learn about physical disabilities in order to increase
awareness. ... girl scouts handicapped disabled Victoria ...
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2rybnfH36A>
2008 Miami-Dade Walk Now for Autism
01:10 - 2 years ago youtube.com
Menendez-Cambo. Students from Gloria Floyd Elementary School and The West Lab
Girl Scouts performed the National Anthem. Entertainment was provided by Gary
Kazoo, who deejayed ... <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8dmpA9calg>
http://www.google.com/unclesam?hl=en&q=%22girl+
scouts%22+and+%28disabilities+OR+disabled%29&btnG=Search>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/yaheh9v>
<http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/search?q=%22girl+scouts%
22+and+%28disabilities+OR+disabled%29&t=all&sort=0&g=s>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/y9crhr6>
Thanks again to John Conway for the feedback on the use in England of the
phrase "brownie points".
WEBBIB0910
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
[log in to unmask]
<http://daviddillard.businesscard2.com>
Net-Gold
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/net-gold>
Index: <http://tinyurl.com/myxb4w>
<http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/net-gold.html>
<http://groups.google.com/group/net-gold?hl=en>
General Internet & Print Resources
<http://guides.temple.edu/general-internet>
COUNTRIES
<http://guides.temple.edu/general-country-info>
EMPLOYMENT
<http://guides.temple.edu/EMPLOYMENT>
TOURISM
<http://guides.temple.edu/tourism>
DISABILITIES
http://guides.temple.edu/DISABILITIES
INDOOR GARDENING
<http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/IndoorGardeningUrban/>
Educator-Gold
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Educator-Gold/>
K12ADMINLIFE
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/K12AdminLIFE/>
RUSSELL CONWELL CENTER SUBJECT GUIDE
http://guides.temple.edu/Russell-Conwell-Center
THE COLLEGE LEARNING CENTER
<http://tinyurl.com/yae7w79>
Nina Dillard's Photographs on Net-Gold
http://tinyurl.com/36qd2o
and also http://gallery.me.com/neemers1
Net-Gold Membership Required to View Photos on Net-Gold
Twitter: davidpdillard
Bushell, R. & Sheldon, P. (eds),
Wellness and Tourism: Mind, Body, Spirit,
Place, New York: Cognizant Communication Books.
Wellness Tourism: Bibliographic and Webliographic Essay
David P. Dillard
<http://tinyurl.com/p63whl>
<http://tinyurl.com/ou53aw>
INDOOR GARDENING
Improve Your Chances for Indoor Gardening Success
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/IndoorGardeningUrban/
http://groups.google.com/group/indoor-gardening-and-urban-gardening
SPORT-MED
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/sport-med.html
http://groups.google.com/group/sport-med
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sports-med/
http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/sport-med.html
Health Diet Fitness Recreation Sports Tourism
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/healthrecsport/
http://groups.google.com/group/healthrecsport
http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/health-recreation-sports-tourism.html
Please Ignore All Links to JIGLU
in search results for Net-Gold and related lists.
The Net-Gold relationship with JIGLU has
been terminated by JIGLU and these are dead links.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/30664
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/healthrecsport/message/145
=============================================
.
On Sun, 7 Mar 2010, John Conway wrote:
> very widely used phrase in the UK
> "brownies" are pre- girl guides over here too ...... in fact, I always
> assumed both organisations originated in the UK???
>
> Dr John S Conway BSc PhD FGS FRGS FHEA MNADP
> Director, MSc International Rural Development
> Chair, Research Committee
> Principal Lecturer : Soil & Earth Science
> Disability Officer
> Royal Agricultural College,
> Cirencester, Glos GL7 6JS
> tel 01285 652531 fax 01285 650219
> http://www.rac.ac.uk/?_id=3201 <http://www.rac.ac.uk/?_id=3201>
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: The Disability-Research Discussion List on behalf of David P. Dillard
> Sent: Sun 07/03/2010 13:35
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: INTERNET: SEARCH: MEDIA SPECIFIC TOOLS AND RESOURCES : VIDEOS :
> BUSINESS: NAMED COMPANIES: GOOGLE, YOUTUBE : DISABILITIES: DEAFNESS AND
> HEARING IMPAIRMENT : SOFTWARE: SPEECH RECOGNITION SOFTWARE: YouTube Adds
> Video Captions for Deaf
>
>
>
> You're post has been a learning experience for me for reasons you would
> least suspect. I do, by the way, agree that there could be more publicity
> than substance in this development from Google and this could create
> rather than solving the problem of these videos for people with hearing
> disabilities. But what caught my attention was your use of the phrase
> brownie points.
>
>
> Brownie points
> From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownie_points>
>
>
> I had always thougnt that this phrase had its origins with the pre-Girl
> Scout group in America called Brownies. I also note that most if not all
> of the suspected origins of this phrase are American. Hence, I was a bit
> suprised to see in used by a person with an email address from England.
> Is that phrase much used in Great Britain. Just curious. By the way, my
> first camera was free for putting money in a Savings and Loan and it was a
> Kodak Brownie camera.
>
>
>
>
> Sincerely,
> David Dillard
> Temple University
> (215) 204 - 4584
> [log in to unmask]
> <http://daviddillard.businesscard2.com
> <http://daviddillard.businesscard2.com/> >
> Net-Gold
> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/net-gold>
> Index: <http://tinyurl.com/myxb4w>
> <http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/net-gold.html>
> <http://groups.google.com/group/net-gold?hl=en>
> General Internet & Print Resources
> <http://guides.temple.edu/general-internet>
> COUNTRIES
> <http://guides.temple.edu/general-country-info>
> EMPLOYMENT
> <http://guides.temple.edu/EMPLOYMENT>
> TOURISM
> <http://guides.temple.edu/tourism>
> DISABILITIES
> http://guides.temple.edu/DISABILITIES
> INDOOR GARDENING
> <http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/IndoorGardeningUrban/>
> Educator-Gold
> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Educator-Gold/>
> K12ADMINLIFE
> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/K12AdminLIFE/>
> RUSSELL CONWELL CENTER SUBJECT GUIDE
> http://guides.temple.edu/Russell-Conwell-Center
> THE COLLEGE LEARNING CENTER
> <http://tinyurl.com/yae7w79>
> Nina Dillard's Photographs on Net-Gold
> http://tinyurl.com/36qd2o
> and also http://gallery.me.com/neemers1
> Net-Gold Membership Required to View Photos on Net-Gold
> Twitter: davidpdillard
>
>
> Bushell, R. & Sheldon, P. (eds),
> Wellness and Tourism: Mind, Body, Spirit,
> Place, New York: Cognizant Communication Books.
> Wellness Tourism: Bibliographic and Webliographic Essay
> David P. Dillard
> <http://tinyurl.com/p63whl>
> <http://tinyurl.com/ou53aw>
>
>
> INDOOR GARDENING
> Improve Your Chances for Indoor Gardening Success
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/IndoorGardeningUrban/
> http://groups.google.com/group/indoor-gardening-and-urban-gardening
>
>
> SPORT-MED
> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/sport-med.html
> http://groups.google.com/group/sport-med
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sports-med/
> http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/sport-med.html
>
>
> Health Diet Fitness Recreation Sports Tourism
> http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/healthrecsport/
> http://groups.google.com/group/healthrecsport
> http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/health-recreation-sports-tourism.html
>
>
> .
>
>
> On Sun, 7 Mar 2010, Larry Arnold wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately the technology even the best of it is not up to the task as
>> someone who has used dragon speaking naturally, and indeed the technology
>> supposedly built into adobe's latest editing suite it renders much of my
>> speech, and indeed my contemporaries as garbage, it's not up to regional
>> accent, or unusual stress patterns in speech, and has to be trained on
>> individual speakers to improve accuracy.
>>
>> There is a further danger in automatic subtitling, in that it may in some
>> instances obscure the pre-existing subtitles and text already there thus
>> defeating the object.
>>
>> The problem is that a machine is attempting to do what humans ought to, but
>> I doubt Google cares because all they want is not really clarity but PC
>> brownie points.
>>
>> Larry
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: The Disability-Research Discussion List [mailto:DISABILITY-
>>> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David P. Dillard
>>> Sent: 07 March 2010 00:58
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: INTERNET: SEARCH: MEDIA SPECIFIC TOOLS AND RESOURCES :
>>> VIDEOS : BUSINESS: NAMED COMPANIES: GOOGLE, YOUTUBE :
>>> DISABILITIES: DEAFNESS AND HEARING IMPAIRMENT : SOFTWARE: SPEECH
>>> RECOGNITION SOFTWARE: YouTube Adds Video Captions for Deaf
>>>
>>>
>>> .
>>>
>>>
>>> INTERNET: SEARCH: MEDIA SPECIFIC TOOLS AND RESOURCES :
>>> VIDEOS :
>>> BUSINESS: NAMED COMPANIES: GOOGLE, YOUTUBE :
>>> DISABILITIES: DEAFNESS AND HEARING IMPAIRMENT :
>>> SOFTWARE: SPEECH RECOGNITION SOFTWARE:
>>> YouTube Adds Video Captions for Deaf
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> YouTube Adds Video Captions for Deaf
>>> By Maggie Shiels
>>> Technology reporter
>>> BBC News
>>> Silicon Valley
>>> Page last updated at 01:33 GMT, Friday, 5 March 2010
>>> <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8550830.stm>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> YouTube is making the tens of millions of videos it hosts more accessible
>>> to the deaf and hard of hearing by putting automatic captions on them.
>>>
>>>
>>> The Google-owned company said this use of speech recognition technology is
>>> probably the biggest experiment of its kind online.
>>>
>>>
>>> Previously captions were only on a small amount of content.
>>>
>>>
>>> "A core part of YouTube's DNA is access to content," said the firm's
>>> product manager Hunter Walk.
>>>
>>>
>>> YouTube said by opening all this content to those who have not really been
>>> able to access it in the past should democratise information and "help
>>> foster greater collaboration and understanding".
>>>
>>>
>>> Initially the feature will apply to English language videos, with other
>>> languages being added in the coming months.
>>>
>>>
>>> In November last year, YouTube rolled out automatic captions to a handful
>>> of partners including the University of California, Berkeley, Yale
>>> University and National Geographic.
>>>
>>>
>>> 'Real solution'
>>>
>>>
>>> The technology behind speech recognition has been around for about 50
>>> years, said Google engineer Mike Cohen, and has finally become good enough
>>> to be used on a large scale.
>>>
>>>
>>> "I have been working on speech technology for 25 years," Mr Cohen told the
>>> BBC.
>>>
>>>
>>> "There have been steady improvements and this is the culmination of lots
>>> of work over years and years. We have had to work on a wide variety of
>>> problems like accent variation, background noise, the variation in
>>> language, in pronunciation."
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The complete article may be read at the URL above.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>> David Dillard
>>> Temple University
>>> (215) 204 - 4584
>>> [log in to unmask]
>>> <http://daviddillard.businesscard2.com
>>> <http://daviddillard.businesscard2.com/> >
>>> Net-Gold
>>> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/net-gold>
>>> Index: <http://tinyurl.com/myxb4w>
>>> <http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/net-gold.html>
>>> <http://groups.google.com/group/net-gold?hl=en>
>>> General Internet & Print Resources
>>> <http://guides.temple.edu/general-internet>
>>> COUNTRIES
>>> <http://guides.temple.edu/general-country-info>
>>> EMPLOYMENT
>>> <http://guides.temple.edu/EMPLOYMENT>
>>> TOURISM
>>> <http://guides.temple.edu/tourism>
>>> DISABILITIES
>>> http://guides.temple.edu/DISABILITIES
>>> INDOOR GARDENING
>>> <http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/IndoorGardeningUrban/>
>>> Educator-Gold
>>> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Educator-Gold/>
>>> K12ADMINLIFE
>>> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/K12AdminLIFE/>
>>> RUSSELL CONWELL CENTER SUBJECT GUIDE
>>> http://guides.temple.edu/Russell-Conwell-Center
>>> THE COLLEGE LEARNING CENTER
>>> <http://tinyurl.com/yae7w79>
>>> Nina Dillard's Photographs on Net-Gold
>>> http://tinyurl.com/36qd2o
>>> and also http://gallery.me.com/neemers1
>>> Net-Gold Membership Required to View Photos on Net-Gold
>>> Twitter: davidpdillard
>>>
>>>
>>> Bushell, R. & Sheldon, P. (eds),
>>> Wellness and Tourism: Mind, Body, Spirit,
>>> Place, New York: Cognizant Communication Books.
>>> Wellness Tourism: Bibliographic and Webliographic Essay
>>> David P. Dillard
>>> <http://tinyurl.com/p63whl>
>>> <http://tinyurl.com/ou53aw>
>>>
>>>
>>> INDOOR GARDENING
>>> Improve Your Chances for Indoor Gardening Success
>>> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/IndoorGardeningUrban/
>>> http://groups.google.com/group/indoor-gardening-and-urban-gardening
>>>
>>>
>>> SPORT-MED
>>> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/sport-med.html
>>> http://groups.google.com/group/sport-med
>>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sports-med/
>>> http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/sport-med.html
>>>
>>>
>>> Health Diet Fitness Recreation Sports Tourism
>>> http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/healthrecsport/
>>> http://groups.google.com/group/healthrecsport
>>> http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/health-recreation-sports-tourism.html
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Please Ignore All Links to JIGLU
>>> in search results for Net-Gold and related lists.
>>> The Net-Gold relationship with JIGLU has
>>> been terminated by JIGLU and these are dead links.
>>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/30664
>>> http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/healthrecsport/message/145
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> .
>>>
>>> ________________End of message________________
>>>
>>> This Disability-Research Discussion list is managed by the Centre for
>> Disability Studies at
>>> the University of Leeds (www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies).
>>> Enquiries about list administration should be sent to disability-research-
>>> [log in to unmask]
>>>
>>> Archives and tools are located at:
>>> www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html
>>> You can VIEW, POST, JOIN and LEAVE the list by logging in to this web
>> page.
>>
>> ________________End of message________________
>>
>> This Disability-Research Discussion list is managed by the Centre for
>> Disability Studies at the University of Leeds
>> (www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies).
>> Enquiries about list administration should be sent to
>> [log in to unmask]
>>
>> Archives and tools are located at:
>> www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html
>> You can VIEW, POST, JOIN and LEAVE the list by logging in to this web page.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> ________________End of message________________
>
> This Disability-Research Discussion list is managed by the Centre for
> Disability Studies at the University of Leeds
> (www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies).
> Enquiries about list administration should be sent to
> [log in to unmask]
>
> Archives and tools are located at:
> www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html
> You can VIEW, POST, JOIN and LEAVE the list by logging in to this web page.
________________End of message________________
This Disability-Research Discussion list is managed by the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds (www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies).
Enquiries about list administration should be sent to [log in to unmask]
Archives and tools are located at:
www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html
You can VIEW, POST, JOIN and LEAVE the list by logging in to this web page.
|