Below is the eleventh newsletter of the Blind Computer User Network in Chicago. For
back issues, check out our home page at
http://www.city-net.com/vipace/friends/chicago.
Computer Users Network News
Adaptive Technology
For the Blind and Visually-Impaired
Vol. III No. 1 Jan.-Feb., 1997
Published bimonthly by
Blind Service Association
22 West Monroe Street
Chicago, Illinois 60603
(312) 236-0808
Copyright: 1997
Editor: Cindy Brown
Project Coordinator: Dave Porter
Our mission is to provide a vehicle for our consumers to share information with each
other. This is accomplished by stimulating the pro-active involvement of our readers.
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Contents
Membership/Subscription n Information
So What About the Network? by Dave Porter
Teamwork
Be Connected with Us by E-Mail
On-Line Glossary--Part II
Treasures
Editing: Art or Science? by Cindy Brown and Anna Byrne
Things to Keep in Mind
FYI
Dates to Remember!
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So What About the Network?
by Dave Porter
In December of 1994 we took on the challenge of building and maintaining a computer
users network. Two years later,... What has happened? What hasn't happened? What more
can we make happen? Can we build on the processes, experiences, and interchanges we've
had so far and entice more people to become involved with us and try this approach with
an eye toward shaping their future?
Adaptive technology is providing a great opportunity to bring us into the information
age in style. Mastery of it will be a survival criterion for the majority of us. Most jobs will
depend on our familiarity with and mastery of technology. As for acquiring and
manipulation of information--we're closer to competitive parity then we've ever been.
Nature is a course of gives and takes. Nothing gives without borrowing from its neighbor.
We depend on and shoot for this balance. We're at our best when we're as close to that
balance as possible. I replace what I take; what I give away is replaced; or the whole tenor
of my life becomes unfulfilled and the supply of or quality of all I have and have to offer
becomes compromised.
We all harbor pieces of knowledge. Our knowledge is unique to us, fashioned by our
dreams, shaped by our experiences, carved by our efforts, and refined by our
resourcefulness. The best way to obtain information is to dialogue with its possessors.
The Network provides a great opportunity to obtain that information. The details and
dynamics of adaptive technology have become so sophisticated that we have to use it to
know it. Vicarious experience doesn't cut it. By using it we learn tips, tools, tricks, and
techniques that, combined with our unique spins on things, make it work. The Network
becomes a conduit for sharing what we have learned with each other, making that
knowledge exponential.
A shift to end-user driven determination of what works has had a serious impact on the
adaptive technology industry. With an enlightened consumer base, technology peddlers now
know that they can't simply sell novelty. If it doesn't work it won't fly, and if it doesn't fly
it won't last. If it doesn't last and they don't withdraw, replace, or revamp it, they won't
last. Notice all the adaptive technology companies that are changing hands, restructuring,
merging, reshaping, etc.
Furthermore, salesmen can no longer expect to march into the field armed with glitzy
glosses, patronizing smiles, and flashy brochures targeted at human resources departments,
employers, special need instructors, deans of admissions, etc., and assume things will remain
copacetic. Now the end-user must be consulted, and his/her input must be considered.
Salesmen, in order to succeed, need products that work. Companies have become more
performance driven and look more and more toward functional end-users.
The Network is the natural habitat for enlightened, enlivened, empowered,
self-determined end-users. Becoming fully employed is one of the most difficult aspects of
blindness. Because of society's misguided perceptions about our employability, I believe we
in the Network have a social responsibility to share any skills, tips, tricks, tools, or
techniques that we have with anyone we can to dispel those perceptions. Because
employment requires specialized training and social skills we too often don't refine, we need
to cultivate any outlets we can find to further refine our training and social skills to protect
and expand the context of our work. Because hiring a blind or visually-impaired person
often requires special accommodations which puts us at a disadvantage in competition with
other employable entities, we need to assert ourselves as exceptionally competent.
We can get enmeshed in a system where we are perpetually the recipients of habilitative
or rehabilitative services, or we can take control of our destinies by taking initiative on our
own behalf. The hardest transition that we as blind people may have to make is from being
a subject to being a peer. Peers manage their own affairs no matter how awkward or
inconvenient that may be. Subjects, on the other hand, allow themselves to be passive
recipients because it's the most convenient role for them and their servers. We need to rise
above the societal perceptions of us and replace it with the personal conviction of who we
are and expect others to see us as equals.
I see The Network as an exponential outlet for much of these exchanges and strategies
to take place. The Network interface provides a resolute testing ground for trying out our
personal convictions on each other. Here among peer professionals reside the most harsh
critics imaginable--peers. It is in the interest of all for each one of us to be at our best. We
know that the better each one of us does, the better we all will do. We know that the
impression one of us makes affects the way people react to all of us.
The safe harbor of this structure provides an opportunity to test strategies, theories, and
tactics on an objective resolute assemblage. Effecting change is a long, hard endeavor,
riddled with many trials and errors. But each time we rotate through the process, we come
out a little stronger, more focused, and more determined. How did I do that? How can that
be better done? How did she do that? How do you do that? The process involves give and
take. To succeed, our livelihood depends on creating and exploiting as many opportunities
as possible.
For the coming year I propose setting the following goals. I see many opportunities to
expand the Network structure and outreach. I want to work with kids and seniors, doing
on-site seminars, job fairs, etc.--you give us a platform, we'll find an interested audience.
Doing in-house seminars, we'll give a platform to companies doing day-long show-and-tell
seminars to a quality audience. We will continue to develop more ways to get more people
involved in the Network: expanding the Posse to a computer tune-shop, developing and
maintaining a community web-site to best get and manage information. What about
expanding the newsletter to a magazine so we can get the right word out right, finding ways
to embrace rehabilitation without threatening new computer users? and using the
cognoscenti as an avenue to shape what the Network does, musing over what would make
this network thing work better?
I'm struck by what my compulsive grandiose picture must look like to people who live
by details. There are detail-oriented people in the cognoscenti to keep me in line. By their
challenging my sometimes crazy ideas, they actually give me space to be more grandiose,
knowing I can afford to risk ideas because they'll shape them to conform to reality. To be
absorbed, ideas must work.
Finally, can we link the process with other networks--help them grow while absorbing
thier ideas?
(Dave Porter is president of Comp-Unique, an adaptive technology development and
consulting firm. He is coordinator of the Computer Network.)
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Teamwork
The Computer Network is made up of teams. The word network, for most of us,
connotes a system of interactive parts. Interaction among peers is meant to be the fuel
that keeps this network alive. The teams are the parts of the Network which address
specific tasks. Become involved by joining one of the teams described below. Outreach.
"You-all come!" is the motto of this team. Its job is to spread the word to youth and adults
in the community-at-large about our activities--Jim Ferneborg, chairperson.
Membership. "We hope you'll stay awhile" is what you'll hear from this team.
Welcoming, orienting, and hooking in new members is this team's raison d'etre, and they
also keep members informed of upcoming events through the phone tree.--Joe and Darlene
DeCourcey, co-chairpersons.
Preview Crew. "What's new?" That's what these computer veterans are asking, as they
are eager to beta-test new technology products.--Dan TeVelde, chairperson.
Posse. "Let's not forget about the old stuff." Hands-on refurbishing of hand-me-down
computers is the focus here. They meet to tinker.--Dave McClain, chairperson.
Lynx Squad. It seems the whole world is talking about the Internet, the World Wide
Web, and e-mail. To join in, sign up with this team. Reasonable word processing and typing
skills are helpful. Meetings are held the second Thursday evening of each month. Note
the change of day.--Kelly Pierce, chairperson.
Peer Training. "Each one teach one." Planning and executing monthly seminars for
novices and the advanced is the focus of this team. Ideas for events as well as volunteers
to help are welcome.--Dave Porter, chairperson.
All-Write! "All I know is what I read in the newsletter." We think this is a cop-out! We
hope you will add what you know to the pages of future newsletters by contributing
technology-related articles. Submit articles (on 3.5-in. diskette in ASCII or WordPerfect 5.1)
to Cindy Brown at Blind Service Association. The deadline for the next issue is Wed.,
March 12, 1997 at noon.
We're looking for editors for FYI and Personal Profiles.--Cindy Brown, editor.
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Be Connected With Us
The electronic mailing list of the Computer Network sizzles with the latest news, articles
and resources. If someone has an e-mail account, he/she can join the list. Network
members share with each other the treasures they have discovered online, offering to others
the best of the Net, making available newspaper and magazine articles, Usenet postings,
web resources, product announcements, and the latest in technology and information access.
Recent electronic golden nuggets have included information about such things as an
innovative online training class that allows people to become braille transcribers online,
newsletters from other blind user groups, a guide from the UK that simply explains and
clarifies basic concepts of Microsoft Windows, a Lynx tutorial, and an article on buying a
new Pentium for under $1,000. In addition, minutes of Network cognoscenti meetings are
distributed and you can keep abreast of announcements of CN meetings, technology
seminars, demonstrations, and other meetings that are going on in Chicago. Share and learn
and join the network community online.
To be added to the mailing list, send an e-mail message to Kelly Pierce with your
request. His e-mail address is [log in to unmask]
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Online Glossary--Part II
submitted by Dave Porter
M
--mailing list: A subject-specific automated e-mail system AKA a listproc, listserve or
majordomo. Users subscribe to it and via e-mail they receive information about the subject
of the list and postings about the topic from other list subscribers.
--mediaware (the spectrum of media delivery storage and management products and
services.
--mil (pronounced MILL): A domain name suffix denoting an abbreviation for military.
In Internet addresses, mil indicates a site belonging to a military branch or organization.
modem (pronounced MOE-dim): Shortened form of "modulator-demodulator." A device
that allows computers to communicate with each other via telephone lines, cellular signals
or television cables. To send information from one computer to another, a modem converts
digital signals from a computer into analog signals that can be sent over telephone lines. On
the receiving end, the modem converts the analog signals back into digital ones that can be
understood by the computer.
--morphing: Changing shape or image due to changing conditions.
--MPEG, mpeg, mpg (pronounced EM-peg): A standard for compressing video images
developed by the Motion Picture Experts Group. Video clips on the Web are sometimes
available in MPEG format; however, video clips are more often found in AVI and
QuickTime formats.
--MUD (pronounced like the word "mud"): Multi-User Dungeon. An online role-playing
game similar to Dungeons and Dragons. Normally text-based, Multi-User Dungeons allow
numerous people to play and interact in the same game scenario at the same time.
N
--net: An abbreviation for "network." In Internet addresses,
net indicates a computer network service. When capitalized, Net is used as a slang term for
the Internet.
--netizens: end-users who surf the Net hour after hour looking for hot sites and cool
topics.
--Netscape Navigator: A Web browser that's widely used because of its speed and easy
interface.
--netiquette (pronounced NET-i-ket or -kit): Internet etiquette is sometimes obscure and
usually learned only through experience.
--network: A hardware/software system that allows two or more computers to be
connected so they share resources.
--newbie (pronounced new-be): A new Internet user. As used by
more experienced Internet users, newbie usually carries derogatory connotations. They are
often faulted for not knowing etiquette. --newsgroup: A broad grouping of online
discussion groups--the Internet equivalent of BBS's. Most are distributed through USENET.
--newsreader: A Program used to read through and organize
newsgroup text and information.
O
--org (pronounced ORG): A domain name suffix denoting an
abbreviation for organization. Internet sites which don't fall into any other category are
given the domain name of org. It usually
indicates that the site belongs to a non-profit, non-governmental organization.
P
--plain vanilla format: same as ASCII format. Ensures text to be readable, not affected
by type of soft- or hardware used or rapid changes in computer technology.
--protocol: the way a computer transmits and receives characters.
8-1-n 8bits 1 stopbit no parity dosbased 7-1-5e even parity for unix based systems.
--PPP: Point-to-Point Protocol. A protocol that allows a computer to use a telephone line
and modem to connect to the Internet; an alternative to a SLIP connection.
Q
--QuickTime: A video compression standard developed by Apple. The QuickTime
standard is one of the most popular formats for video clips on the World Wide Web.
S
--screen capture: Communication software opens a file in your
computer and dumps an image of the contents of your screen into it.
--search engine: A mechanism for finding documents on the Internet--e.g WAIS, Yahoo
and Alta Vista are search engines.
--server: A computer system that manages and delivers information to multiple stations.
One server can have several different software programs running on it.
--signature file: A footer added to the bottom of e-mail messages.
--SLIP (pronounced SLIP): A protocol that allows a computer to
use a telephone line and modem to connect to the Internet. It's an
alternative to a PPP connection.
--spam: The act of spewing out large numbers of electronic
messages via e-mail or newsgroups to people who don't want to receive them; considered
a gross breach of etiquette. The term is believed to be derived from a Monty Python skit
in which the word
is repeated over and over again. Its relation to Spam, the much-maligned pork luncheon
meat, is uncertain.
T
--TCP/IP: Transmission Control Protocol/Internet (working) Protocol. A standard set of
rules which allows computers on
different networks to communicate with one another. The Internet came into being with the
development and adoption of TCP/IP.
--Telnet: The Internet protocol which allows a computer at one location to connect with
and act as a terminal of a computer at another one. Unlike FTP which involves the transfer
of files between computers, Telnet primarily involves the transfer of and response to
commands from the terminal emulator to the host computer, the host to the terminal, and
to the terminal emulation programs which utilize Telnet protocol.
--terminal emulation: computers mimicking emulate the way
information is displayed accept keyboard commands.
--T-1: A phone line connection that can transfer data at 1.5 million bits-per-second. It
is frequently used to connect LANs to the Internet.
--T-3: A phone line connection that can carry data at 45
million bits-per-second--more than enough to do full-screen video.
--thread order: original message in a newsgroup followed by replies.
--tn3270: A Telnet program and protocol used to log into IBM
mainframe computers.
--twitch games: Action games requiring lightning-quick reaction
times, dexterity and caveman intelligence.
U
--UNIX: A computer operating system designed to be used by many people at the same
time; the most widely-used operating system for servers on the Internet.
--upload: process of sending a file from your computer to the net.
--URL (Uniform Resource Locator): protocol for identifying documents on the Web. All
Web addresses have an URL--E.g. The New York Times is http://www.nytimes.com.
--USENET (pronounced USE-net): A world-wide system of thousands of discussion
areas, called newsgroups, with comments from hundreds of thousands of users. Most Usenet
machines are on the Internet.
V
--Veronica: (Very Easy Rodent Oriented Net-wide Index to
Computerized Archives) A frequently updated database with the names of almost every
menu item on the thousands of Gopher servers.
--VMPEG (pronounced VEE EM-peg): application for playing MPEG video files.
--VRML: (Virtual Reality Modeling Language): a computer language that allows users
to create three-dimensional programs. In a VRML
application a user can click on any object to travel to another part of the program or to visit
another Web page.
W
--WAIS (pronounced WAYS) : Wide Area Information Service. A
search engine that indexes large quantities of information and makes the indexes searchable.
--WAV (pronounced WAVE) : An audio file format.
--Webrowser: A program used to navigate and access information on the Web. They
convert raw html coding into a graphical display.
Some are also able to navigate Gopher sites, connect with FTP servers and display different
types of image files. Popular browsers include Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Internet
Explorer and Mosaic.
--webcast: a brodcast on the web; available to users with high bandwidth connections: no
less than a 28.8 kbps modem and
preferably ISDN* or T1* access.
--Web goddess, webgoddess: A female Web master.
--Web master, webmaster: The person in charge of maintaining the content found on a
Web site, or of keeping it up and running.
--Web site: A collection of Web pages, usually consisting of a home page and several
other linked pages.
--WebziS\R~A magazine on the World Wide Web. See zines.
--word: A group of bits, used to designate various
information within a computer. An 8-bit word is called abyte.
--World Wide Web: (www) A system of finding and accessing
Internet files and programs utilizing hypertext. Allows users to navigate the Internet by
following links from documents on one
computer to documents on others. It employs html, allowing files to be viewed in a
graphical format.
Z
--zine: Short for magazine. Generally, has a narrower focus, a stronger personality and
a lower circulation than traditional magazines.
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Treasures!
Planning on upgrading to a Pentium and wishing for a home for your 486?
Got a Braille 'N' Speak classic you aren't using any more? an old synthesizer? an out-
of-
date, beginner-ready copy of a computer tutorial?
List what you've got in the Treasures column, the Computer Network's home for
wonderful things that their current owners have used and loved and don't need any more!
Anna Byrne is your contact person.
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Editing: Art or Science?
By Cindy Brown
and Anna Byrne
(In this article, Cindy describes the process of editing with speech. She uses Jaws for
DOS. Anna describes Braille translation with Duxbury. The need for translation may be
elusive to those who are not familiar with Braille symbols, but we do our best to interpret
the issues involved into English.)
Initial Editing. I would like to think of editing as an art, and I suppose there are basic
elements of artistic endeavor involved.
Spacing is an important element of editing--i.e., imagining how the finished product will
be laid out in a reasonably comfortable-to-look-at layout on the page. I confess, however,
that our first consideration has been to save space, not being as concerned about the
optimal visual presentation. Nonetheless, spacing has been a much larger occupation than
the reader might initially imagine. I'll describe this in greater detail below.
I would suggest that punctuation is a part of the art. Changing punctuation to help the
language flow more readily for the reader, helping the reader focus on the ideas and
information being expressed, not the syntax, is an essential aspect of editing.
In a publication such as ours, the mission is to convey information without critiquing
particular products, politicians, or institutions. Occasionally the editor needs to edit out
vituperations which would draw us into political or legal battles. Accomplishing this without
altering the overall thrust of the piece, at times, takes some creativity on the part of the
editor. But the science of editing takes by far the most time and energy. Much of it is
mindless but time-consuming.
For some reason that has not been explained to me, when material is downloaded from
e-mail, it is often filled with spaces--lots and lots of spaces. These spaces can appear
seemingly anywhere--at the beginning of lines, in the middle of lines, at the end of lines,
in between lines. So one of my first jobs is to find the spaces and then to close them up.
With the use of a speech synthesizer, this is not easy. It takes more than just listening to the
words and the flow, because the screenreader skips the spaces to bring a flow to the
reading. This is terrific when you're trying to make sense of what you are reading, but not
so convenient when you're editing. So, I need to go through line by line, and if the line
seems unusually short, this is the first alert that something is wrong. Then I erase space by
space. It had been suggested to me that I use the "search" function in WordPerfect to find
these spaces. But this doesn't do the whole job. In many cases, when only a few words occur
at the beginning of the line, the line break, as far as the computer is concerned, has taken
place only a space after the last letter of the previous word, so the "search" function doesn't
pick it up.
Additionally, when materials have been downloaded, they sometimes appear with strange
combinations of letters or letters missing. If I cannot make sense of it, I need to phone the
author for assistance.
Then to conserve space and conserve paper, the printer expert and I agreed that
paragraphs should be indented only three spaces rather than the customary five spaces, and
that there should be only one space between sentences rather than the customary two. So
this means that I need to go through and eliminate all the extra spaces. In this case, the
"search" function does work. We acknowledge that this conservation of space undoubtedly
has been more noticeable to the readers of the print edition than readers of the Braille, but,
again, our primary mission is to communicate the information.
Past editions have contained numerous editing problems, and the quality could be
enhanced if I can get a Braille copy for proofreading. But in the paragraphs below, you will
learn why this is too time-consuming to be practical.
Brailling with Duxbury Braille Translator. The newsletter comes to me as a WordPerfect
document on a disk. In order to translate it into Braille one must first convert the disk file
to a document type that the translator can read with a file name it will accept. Microsoft
Word for Windows can convert a WordPerfect file to a text file, to a Word file, to a text file
with line breaks, to a windows Write file... MSWord also includes a status line with column,
line, and page number information. Care is required, though, when the conversion is made.
Word gives you a message telling you that converting the document to text might cause the
loss of some formatting information. Are you with me so far? Well--then it replaces all the
page break symbols with blank lines! Experience teaches you things like that.
Before setting up the title page, one must determine how page numbering should be
done. There are of course choices--top of page, bottom of page, odd-numbered pages, all
pages... A Duxbury command does this.
Next--centering and spacing lines. Duxbury is well-documented. He (all programs are
male) believes that all centered lines are headers, and I just allow him to think so. Placing
the header-start command ($hds) before the text on the line and the header-end ($hde)
following the text centers the line. There is a skip-line command ($sl1, for one line, $sl2 for
two lines, etc.). The new-page command ($pg) allows for ending a page without filling it
completely so that titles don't end up on page bottoms without their related texts.
The table of contents is done with Duxbury "tab" commands. You tell him which column
should be the last on the line, what kind of fill characters you want before the page number,
and he takes care of everything--except, of course, determining the page number where each
article begins. I tell him that all articles begin on page 2, and when I find out where they
really begin I go back and change the copy.
Once the text is formatted, Duxbury's "Braille" command translates text into Grade II
braille, and the proofreading begins. "The Computer Users Network" becomes"! -put{ us{s
net'W," and the newsletter is "edited by Cindy Brown," $it$ by c9dy Br[n.
The next step, then, is to braille the newsletter a page at a time, proofread and correct
each page, braille it again, proofread and correct again, and go on to the next page. I use
low-quality light weight paper that I can throw away, so that it isn't so painful to discard
page after page.
Although Duxbury is excellent it still makes mistakes. The period at the end of a
sentence, for example, is the same symbol used in Nemmeth Braille mathematic code for
the number 4. In the sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.", the final
word is "dog4" which in Braille looks just right; but Internet addresses--ripco.com,
eskimo.com--are translated "ripco4com and "eskimo4com." And every time the document
is corrected and translation is done again, the addresses must be corrected again.
In order to be sure that the print and Braille copies hold identical information, another
necessary step is to translate the Braille file into an "ink" file. When this is done, lines are
skipped between paragraphs, five spaces are indented at the beginning of the line instead
of three, appropriate margins are set, and the result is a document almost ready to print.
The last thing is to undo any special changes--making a Braille asterisk into a "ch" sign,
for example--that made the Braille copy more readable.
(Note: In computer Braille code, the "ch" sign is used to denote the asterisk.)
Now both the Braille and print files are ready for production. The Braille printer must
be instructed about line length, page length, top and bottom margins, interpoint (i.e., two-
sided Braille page) "yes" or "no". It takes about fifteen minutes to print a 37-page, interpoint
newsletter. And of course if you forget to instruct it otherwise, while doing two copies, the
printer will put page 37 on one side of the paper and page 1 on the other side of the same
paper, with pages 2 and 3 together, and so on.
Print newsletters are photo-copied and stapled; Braille newsletters are punched and
bound. From disk to posted document requires many hours of work--sometimes wonderfully
entertaining and sometimes slow and tedious. That we can do it ourselves is not only the
result of ever-improving technology but requires ingenuity, determination, and sheer
cussedness of the people whose privilege it is to do it. So it was a wonderfully ambitious
goal to produce this newsletter in the Braille medium, and those of us who love Braille and
believe knowledge of Braille to be essential for the literate blind person, have greatly
appreciated the efforts of Marie Porter, Anna Byrne, and Chuck Slavick who have made
the Braille newsletters available. But the project has been too labor intensive to be practical
for an organization of this size. We will continue to produce print and audio cassette
editions, and to do this, the initial editing is just as crucial. For this edition, we are grateful
for the services of BSA volunteer Doris Sayed-Ahmed for her excellent profreading.
(Anna Byrne is a senior systems analyst at ComEd. She and her husband, Pat, have four
children and three grandchildren.)
(Cindy Brown is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and supervisor at the Community
Counseling Centers of Chicago. She also has a private practice in psychotherapy.)
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Things to Keep in Mind
Submitted by Anna Byrne
Dedicated to the Editors:
Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice.
Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.
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FYI
The following radio and TV shows may be of interest to our members:
Sundays--11:00 AM, "TV.com," ABC, channel 7 in Chicago;
Tuesdays--9:00 PM, "Real Computing," WDCB, 90.5-FM, Glen Ellyn;
Saturdays--2:00 PM, "CNN Computer Connection," CNN (Cable News
Network).
Saturdays--9:00-11:00 PM, "Kim Komando's Komputer Klinic," WJJD, 1160-AM.
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Dates to Remember!
Note: All meetings regularly scheduled for Tuesdays in the past will now meet on
Thursdays instead.
Sat., Feb. 1, 1997, 10:00-12:30--Bona fide Beginners' Seminar; ninth floor.
Wed., Feb. 12, 1997, 5:30-7:30--board (cognoscenti) meeting, open to all; ninth floor.
Thurs., Feb. 13, 1997, 6:00-8:00--Lynx Squad; ninth floor.
Thurs., Feb. 27, 1997, 6:00-7:30--newcomers' openhouse and orientation; ninth floor.
Sat., March 1, 1997, 10:00-12:30--seminar, TBA; ninth floor.
Wed., March 12, 1997, 5:30-7:30---board (cognoscenti) meeting, all are welcome; ninth
floor.
Wed., Mardch 12, 1997, noon--deadline for newsletter articles; eleventh floor, will-
call drawer (see All-Write! in Teamwork article above for more details).
Thurs., March 13, 1997 6:00-8:00--Lynx Squad; ninth floor.
Thurs., Apr. 3, 1997, 6:00-7:30--newcomers' openhouse and orientation; ninth floor.
Sat., Apr. 5, 1997, 10:00-12:30--seminar TBA.
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