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By Eleanor Haas

For some years, I had six phone lines on each of two instruments and a phone at one ear or the other ? sometimes both ? many hours a day.? I also had a third instrument with my private line to be sure I could call out no matter what and certain key people could always reach me.

Now I?m so rarely on the phone that I often don?t even bother to check for voice mail messages.? It?s easy to manage with merely one land line phone and a cell phone!? Lots of people find all they need is the cell phone.

What happened?? We abandoned synchronous communication and gained control of our time.? We send and receive text and email messages instead of calling.? We also went from long-form to bite-sized messages and, at the same time, to more frequent brief interactions,

Not long after the new communication formats started, social media entered my life ? Facebook about 2002, Linked In a few years later and Twitter after that.? I have what one friend calls ?a robust presence? on all three but spend little time on Facebook, not much more on Twitter and probably the most on Linked In.? On Facebook, it?s fun to interact periodically with distant friends at times we?d typically have no communication.? On Twitter, it?s helpful to discover and share insights.? Linked In has become an invaluable reference tool, only rarely used to communicate, let alone interact, but the only way to reach some people at times.? So all three add value for me in different ways.? They supplement live interaction uniquely.

Sherry Turkle, social scientist, author and MIT professor, argues that our increasing use of email, text messaging and social media has a negative impact on the social fabric and demonstrates evidence of diminished expectations of our relationships with other people and of a personal power-grab for control of interactions.? Bah, humbug!

These new media can of course be used for positive or negative reasons and with varying results.? But, in my experience, contrary to Dr. Turkle?s perception, they enrich the social fabric with an infinite number of contact points that have never existed before, they provide the convenience of communication on demand ? free of interaction ? and they allow each of us to manage our time productively without losing touch

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2012 BECE results ready by July 30 | OMG! Ghana

Accra, May 15, GNA ? Mr Samuel Oppong, National Coordinator of Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS), on Tuesday said results of the 2012 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) would be ready by July 30 for placements in August.?He said the list of all successful candidates and their schools would be submitted to the Regional and District Education Directorates, Senior High Schools (SHS), Technical and Vocational Institutes and Junior High Schools (JHS).

Mr Oppong was briefing the Minister of Education, Mr Lee Ocran, during a familiarisation visit to the Secretariat and inspect on-going projects as well as have a fair idea about how the placements were done.?He said the placement forms for individual candidates would be posted on the internet for each qualified student, adding that candidates would have access to their result slips and placement forms by printing from the internet.

Mr Oppong said the CSSPS since its inception in 2005 had worked to improve upon the manual system of selection and placement of qualified BECE candidates into public and private SHS, technical and vocational institutes, by using the total processed raw scores of six subjects instead of grades, by candidates for selection.

He explained that the Secretariat dealt with three categories of students for selection and placement every year which included qualified candidates who completed BECE that year, re-entry candidates who completed BECE three years ago and foreign students.?According to Mr Oppong, under the system, candidates could choose schools from any of the 10 Regions and that the selection and placement of candidates was more transparent adding, delays in the selection and placement of candidates had been reduced as well as human errors had been eliminated.

However, he said the Secretariat faced some challenges, including the non-acceptance of placement of results, inaccurate data provided by candidates during registration by the West African Examination Council, and lack of parental participation in the registration of their children.?The choice of school without reference to parent?s financial preparedness, and availability of boarding facilities and programmes as well as parents? insistence that their children should be placed in their first choice schools were some of the challenges facing the Secretariat.

He noted that it had however, introduced school digest to advertise all SHS and T/VI , continued training of CSSPS frontline implementers, continued and intensified public education about activities of the CSSPS .?Mr Oppong said:

?We have arranged with WAEC to release results to the general public and CSSPS Secretariat at the same time in 2012?.

He assured the Minister that the Secretariat was working round the clock to ensure that the 2012 selection and placement come out successful and on time.?Mr Ocran commended the Secretariat for their performance over the years to ensure success of the system since its inception in 2005.

He emphasised that the system had been transparent over the years and in the interest of all, and urged parents to understand and accept their children?s placement in schools.?Mr Ocran urged the Secretariat to initiate a programme that would make parents have access and the opportunity to visit the Secretariat and observe how the placements were done, in order for them to clear all forms of misconceptions about their operations.

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Source : GNA

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Sign language translator turns gestures into spoken letters, makes for a better world (video)

By far one of the greatest challenges of sign language has been to translate it for everyday folk that wouldn't know where to begin a conversation with the deaf. Cornell University engineering students Ranjay Krishna, Seonwoo Lee and Si Ping Wang -- along with some help from Jonathan Lang -- used their final project time this past semester to close this gap in one of the more practical solutions we've seen to date. Their prototype glove uses accelerometers, contact sensors and flex sensors to translate complex finger gestures from the American Sign Language alphabet into spoken letters: after converting hand positions to digital signals, the test unit both speaks out the resulting letters and sends them to a computer, where they can be used for anything from a game (shown in the video below) to, presumably, constructing whole sentences. Along with being accurate, the Cornell work is even designed with a mind towards how it would work in the real world, as the glove and its transmitter are both wireless and powered by 9-volt batteries. We hope that the project leads to a real product and an extra bridge between the deaf and the rest of us, but in the meantime, we'll be happy that at least one form of powered glove is being put to the noblest use possible.

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