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Maysoon Zayid : shake all the time เป็น 1 ใน 20 http://www.ted.com/playlists/215/the_most_popular_talks_of_2014
Transcript : Hello, TEDWomen, what’s up.
0:13 (Cheers) 0:15 Not good enough. Hello, TEDWomen, what is up? 0:18 (Cheers) 0:20 My name is Maysoon Zayid, and I am not drunk, but the doctor who delivered me was. He cut my mom six different times in six different directions, suffocating (หอบ, สำลัก) poor little me in the process. As a result, I have cerebral palsy (สมองพิการ), which means I shake all the time. Look. It’s exhausting (ใช้หมด). I’m like Shakira, Shakira meets Muhammad Ali. (Laughter) 0:53 C.P. is not genetic (พันธุกรรม). It’s not a birth defect. You can’t catch it. No one put a curse(คำสาป) on my mother’s uterus (มดลูก), and I didn’t get it because my parents are first cousins (ญาติ), which they are. (Laughter) It only happens from accidents, like what happened to me on my birth day. 1:15 Now, I must warn you, I’m not inspirational (ที่เร้าใจ), and I don’t want anyone in this room to feel bad for me, because at some point in your life, you have dreamt of being disabled. Come on a journey with me. It’s Christmas Eve, you’re at the mall, you’re driving around in circles looking for parking, and what do you see? Sixteen empty handicapped (พิการ) spaces. And you’re like, “God, can’t I just be a little disabled?” (Laughter) Also, I gotta tell you, I got 99 problems, and palsy is just one. If there was an Oppression (การบีบคั้น) Olympics, I would win the gold medal. I’m Palestinian, Muslim, I’m female, I’m disabled, and I live in New Jersey. (Laughter) (Applause) If you don’t feel better about yourself, maybe you should. 2:22 Cliffside Park, New Jersey is my hometown. I have always loved the fact that my hood (ผ้าคลุมหน้า) and my affliction (ความทุกข์) share the same initials. I also love the fact that if I wanted to walk from my house to New York City, I could. 2:36 A lot of people with C.P. don’t walk, but my parents didn’t believe in “can’t.” My father’s mantra was, “You can do it, yes you can can.” (Laughter) So, if my three older sisters were mopping (ถูพื้น), I was mopping. If my three older sisters went to public school, my parents would sue the school system and guarantee that I went too, and if we didn’t all get A’s, we all got my mother’s slipper (รองเท้าแตะ). (Laughter) My father taught me how to walk when I was five years old by placing my heels on his feet and just walking. Another tactic that he used is he would dangle (ห้อย) a dollar bill in front of me and have me chase it. (Laughter) My inner stripper (ผู้เปลื่อง) was very strong, and by — (Laughter) Yeah. No, by the first day of kindergarten, I was walking like a champ who had been punched one too many times. 3:37 Growing up, there were only six Arabs in my town, and they were all my family. Now there are 20 Arabs in town, and they are still all my family. (Laughter) I don’t think anyone even noticed we weren’t Italian. (Laughter) (Applause) This was before 9/11 and before politicians thought it was appropriate to use “I hate Moslems” as a campaign slogan. The people that I grew up with had no problem with my faith. They did, however, seem very concerned that I would starve (อดมื้อกินมื้อ) to death during Ramadan. I would explain to them that I have enough fat to live off of for three whole months, so fasting from sunrise to sunset is a piece of cake. 4:25 I have tap-danced on Broadway. Yeah, on Broadway. It’s crazy. (Applause) My parents couldn’t afford physical therapy (การบำบัดโรค), so they sent me to dancing school. I learned how to dance in heels, which means I can walk in heels. And I’m from Jersey, and we are really concerned with being chic, so if my friends wore (สวม) heels, so did I. 4:47 And when my friends went and spent their summer vacations on the Jersey Shore, I did not. I spent my summers in a war zone, because my parents were afraid that if we didn’t go back to Palestine every single summer, we’d grow up to be Madonna. (Laughter) Summer vacations often consisted of my father trying to heal (รักษา) me, so I drank deer’s milk, I had hot cups on my back, I was dunked in the Dead Sea, and I remember the water burning my eyes and thinking, “It’s working! It’s working!” (Laughter) 5:28 But one miracle cure we did find was yoga. I have to tell you, it’s very boring, but before I did yoga, I was a stand-up comedian (ตัวตลก) who can’t stand up. And now I can stand on my head. My parents reinforced (เสริมสร้าง) this notion (ความคิด) that I could do anything, that no dream was impossible, and my dream was to be on the daytime soap opera “General Hospital.” I went to college during affirmative (ซึ่งยืนยัน) action and got a sweet scholarship to ASU, Arizona State University, because I fit every single quota. I was like the pet lemur (สัตว์จำพวกลิง) of the theater department. Everybody loved me. I did all the less-than-intelligent kids’ homework, I got A’s in all of my classes, A’s in all of their classes. Every time I did a scene from “The Glass Menagerie (โรงละครสัตว์),” my professors would weep (ร้องไห้). But I never got cast (โยน). Finally, my senior year, ASU decided to do a show called “They Dance Real Slow in Jackson.” It’s a play about a girl with C.P. I was a girl with C.P.
So I start shouting (เสียงร้อง) from the rooftops, “I’m finally going to get a part! I have cerebral palsy! Free at last! Free at last! Thank God almighty (ยิ่งใหญ่), I’m free at last!” I didn’t get the part. (Laughter) Sherry Brown got the part. I went racing to the head of the theater department crying hysterically (อย่างบ้าคลั่ง), like someone shot my cat, to ask her why, and she said it was because they didn’t think I could do the stunts (การแสดงความสามารถ). I said, “Excuse me, if I can’t do the stunts, neither can the character.” (Laughter) (Applause) This was a part that I was literally born to play and they gave it, they gave it to a non-palsy actress. College was imitating (เลียนแบบ) life. Hollywood has a sordid (สกปรก) history of casting able-bodied actors to play disabled onscreen. 7:41 Upon graduating, I moved back home, and my first acting gig (เรือพาย) was as an extra on a daytime soap opera. My dream was coming true. And I knew that I would be promoted from “diner diner” to “wacky (แปลกประหลาด) best friend” in no time. But instead, I remained a glorified (สรรเสริญ) piece of furniture that you could only recognize from the back of my head, and it became clear to me that casting directors didn’t hire fluffy (ปุย), ethnic (หลักจริยธรรม), disabled actors. They only hired perfect people. But there were exceptions to the rule. I grew up watching Whoopi Goldberg, Roseanne Barr, Ellen, and all of these women had one thing in common: they were comedians. So I became a comic. (Laughter) (Applause) 8:30 My first gig was driving famous comics from New York City to shows in New Jersey, and I’ll never forget the face of the first comic I ever drove when he realized that he was speeding down the New Jersey Turnpike with a chick (ลูกเจี๊ยบ) with C.P. driving him. I’ve performed in clubs all over America, and I’ve also performed in Arabic in the Middle East, uncensored and uncovered. Some people say I’m the first stand-up comic in the Arab world. I never like to claim first, but I do know that they never heard that nasty (น่ารังเกียจ) little rumor (เล่าลือ) that women aren’t funny, and they find us hysterical. In 2003, my brother from another mother and father Dean Obeidallah and I started the New York Arab-American Comedy Festival, now in its 10th year. Our goal was to change the negative image of Arab-Americans in media, while also reminding casting directors that South Asian and Arab are not synonymous (ตรงกัน).
(Laughter) Mainstreaming Arabs was much, much easier than conquering (พิชิต) the challenge against the stigma (ปาน) gainst disability. 9:49 My big break came in 2010. I was invited to be a guest on the cable news show “Countdown With Keith Olbermann.” I walked in looking like I was going to the prom (พรหม), and they shuffle (สับเปลี่ยน) me into a studio and seat me on a spinning, rolling chair. So I looked at the stage manager and I’m like, “Excuse me, can I have another chair?” And she looked at me and she went, “Five, four, three, two …” And we were live, right? So I had to grip (ด้ามจับ) onto the anchor’s desk so that I wouldn’t roll off the screen during the segment, and when the interview was over, I was livid (ซีด). I had finally gotten my chance and I blew it, and I knew I would never get invited back. But not only did Mr. Olbermann invite me back, he made me a full-time contributor (ผู้สนับสนุน), and he taped down my chair. (Laughter) (Applause) 10:48 One fun fact I learned while on the air with Keith Olbermann was that humans on the Internet are scumbags (ก้าวร้าว). People say children are cruel, but I was never made fun of as a child or an adult. Suddenly, my disability on the world wide web is fair game. I would look at clips online and see comments like, “Yo, why’s she tweakin (บิด)?” “Yo, is she retarded (ชะลอ)?” And my favorite, “Poor Gumby-mouth terrorist (ผู้ก่อการร้าย). What does she suffer from? We should really pray for her.” One commenter even suggested that I add my disability to my credits: screenwriter, comedian (ตัวตลก), palsy. 11:31 Disability is as visual as race. If a wheelchair user can’t play Beyoncé, then Beyoncé can’t play a wheelchair user. The disabled are the largest — Yeah, clap (ตบมือ) for that, man. C’mon. (Applause) People with disabilities are the largest minority (ชนกลุ่มน้อย) in the world, and we are the most underrepresented (บทบาท) in entertainment. 11:57 The doctors said that I wouldn’t walk, but I am here in front of you. However, if I grew up with social media, I don’t think I would be. I hope that together we can create more positive images of disability in the media and in everyday life. Perhaps if there were more positive images, it would foster (อุปภัมภ์) less hate on the Internet. Or maybe not. Maybe it still takes a village to teach our children well. 12:27 My crooked (คด) journey has taken me to some very spectacular (น่าตื่นเต้น) places. I got to walk the red carpet flanked (ขนาบข้าง) by soap diva Susan Lucci and the iconic Lorraine Arbus. I got to act in a movie with Adam Sandler and work with my idol, the amazing Dave Matthews. I toured the world as a headliner on Arabs Gone Wild. I was a delegate (ผู้แทน) representing the great state of New Jersey at the 2008 DNC. And I founded Maysoon’s Kids, a charity (การกุศล) hat hopes to give Palestinian refugee (ผู้ลี้ภัย) children a sliver (เศษไม้) of the chance my parents gave me. But the one moment that stands out the most was when I got — before this moment — (Laughter) (Applause) — but the one moment that stands out the most was when I got to perform for the man who floats (ลอย) like a butterfly and stings (ต่อย) like a bee, has Parkinson’s and shakes just like me, Muhammad Ali. (Applause) 13:42 It was the only time that my father ever saw me perform live, and I dedicate this talk to his memory. (In Arabic) 13:52 My name is Maysoon Zayid, and if I can can, you can can. (Applause) http://www.ted.com/talks/maysoon_zayid_i_got_99_problems_palsy_is_just_one
Web Site Development Process – The life-cycle steps
by Benny Alexander
Like the traditional software development, the process of web site development can also be divided into different life cycle steps. This can help to format the team effectively, and the standards and procedures can be adopted to achieve maximum quality. This article explains the steps of development which can be possibly arranged as a process of web engineering. This is just a guideline to help you, to know, how a process can be done. The steps may vary from application to application. Write me your suggestions and comments on this article to enquiry@macronimous.com.
A system development process can follow a number of standard or company specific frameworks, methodologies, modeling tools and languages. Software development life cycle normally comes with some standards which can fulfill the needs of any development team. Like software, web sites can also be developed with certain methods with some changes and additions with the existing software development process. Let us see the steps involve in any web site development.
1. Analysis:
Once a customer is started discussing his requirements, the team gets into it, towards the preliminary requirement analysis. As the web site is going to be a part of a system, It needs a complete analysis as, how the web site or the web based application is going to help the present system and how the site is going to help the business. Moreover the analysis should cover all the aspects especially on how the web site is going to join the existing system. The first important thing is finding the targeted audience. Then, All the present hardware, software, people and data should be considered during the time of analysis. For example, if a company XYZ corp is in need of a web site to have its human resource details online, the analysis team may try to utilize the existing data about the employees from the present database. The analysis should be done in the way, that it may not be too time consuming or with very less informative. The team should be able to come up with the complete cost- benefit analysis and as the plan for the project will be an output of analysis, it should be realistic. To achieve this the analyst should consult the designers, developers and testers to come up with a realistic plan.
Input:Interviews with the clients, Mails and supporting docs by the client, Discussions Notes, Online chat, recorded telephone conversations,Model sites/applications etc.,
Output: 1. Work plan, 2. Cost involved, 3. Team requirements, 4. Hardware-software requirements, 5. Supporting documents and 6. the approval.
2. Specification Building:
Preliminary specifications are drawn up by covering up each and every element of the requirement. For example if the product is a web site then the modules of the site including general layout, site navigation and dynamic parts of the site should be included in the spec. Larger projects will require further levels of consultation to assess additional business and technical requirements. After reviewing and approving the preliminary document, a written proposal is prepared, outlining the scope of the project including responsibilities, timelines and costs.
Input: Reports from the analysis team.
Output: Complete requirement specifications to the individuals and the customer/customer’s representative.
3. Design and development:
After building the specification, work on the web site is scheduled upon receipt of the signed proposal, a deposit, and any written content materials and graphics you wish to include. Here normally the layouts and navigation will be designed as a prototype.
Some customers may be interested only in a full functional prototype. In this case we may need to show them the interactivity of the application or site. But in most of the cases customer may be interested in viewing two or three design with all images and navigation.
There can be a lot of suggestions and changes from the customer side, and all the changes should be freezed before moving into the next phase. The revisions could be redisplayed via the web for the customer to view.
As needed, customer comments, feedback and approvals can be communicated by
e-mail, fax and telephone.
Throughout the design phase the team should develop test plans and procedures for quality assurance. It is necessary to obtain client approval on design and project plans.
In parallel the Database team will sit and understand the requirements and develop the database with all the data structures and sample data will also be prepared.
Input: Requirement specification.
Output: Site design with templates, Images and prototype.
4. Content writing:
This phase is necessary mainly for the web sites. There are professional content developers who can write industry specific and relevant content for the site. Content writers to add their text can utilize the design templates. The grammatical and spelling check should be over in this phase.
Input: Designed template.
Output: Site with formatted content.
5. Coding:
Now its programmers turn to add his code without disturbing the design. Unlike traditional design the developer must know the interface and the code should not disturb the look and feel of the site or application. So the developer should understand the design and navigation. If the site is dynamic then the code should utilize the template. The developer may need to interact with the designer, in order to understand the design. The designer may need to develop some graphic buttons when ever the developer is in need, especially while using some form buttons. If a team of developers is working they should use a CVS to control their sources. Coding team should generate necessary testing plans as well as technical documentation. For example Java users can use JavaDoc to develop their documents to understand their code flow. The end-user documentation can also be prepared by the coding team, which can be used by a technical writer who can understand them, writes helps and manuals later.
Input: The site with forms and the requirement specification.
Output : Database driven functions with the site, Coding documents.
6. Testing:
Unlike software, web based applications need intensive testing, as the applications will always function as a multi-user system with bandwidth limitations. Some of the testing which should be done are, Integration testing, Stress testing, Scalablity testing, load testing, resolution testing and cross-browser compatibility testing. Both automated testing and manual testing should be done without fail. For example its needed to test fast loading graphics and to calculate their loading time, as they are very important for any web site. There are certain testing tools as well as some online testing tools which can help the testers to test their applications. For example ASP developers can use Microsoft’s Web Application Test Tool to test the ASP applications, which is a free tool available from the Microsoft site to download.
After doing all the testing a live testing is necessary for web sites and web based applications. After uploading the site there should be a complete testing(E.g.. Links test)
Input: The site, Requirement specifications, supporting documents, technical specifications and technical documents.
Output: Completed application/site, testing reports, error logs, frequent interaction with the developers and designers.
7. Promotion:
This phase is applicable only for web sites. Promotion needs preparation of meta tags, constant analysis and submitting the URL to the search engines and directories. There is a details article in this site on site promotion, click here to read it. The site promotion is normally an ongoing process as the strategies of search engine may change quite often. Submitting a site URLs once in 2 months can be an ideal submission policy. If the customer is willing, then paid click and paid submissions can also be done with additional cost.
Input: Site with content, Client mails mentioning the competitors.
Output: Site submission with necessary meta tag preparation.
8. Maintenance and Updating:
Web sites will need quite frequent updations to keep them very fresh. In that case we need to do analysis again, and all the other life cycle steps will repeat. Bug fixes can be done during the time of maintenance. Once your web site is operational, ongoing promotion, technical maintenance, content management & updating, site visit activity reports, staff training and mentoring is needed on a regular basis depend on the complexity of your web site and the needs within your organization.
Input: Site/Application, content/functions to be updated, re-Analysis reports.
Output: Updated application, supporting documents to other life cycle steps and teams.
The above-mentioned steps alone are not strict to web application or web site development. Some steps may not applicable for certain tasks. Its depend on the cost and time involved and the necessity. Sometimes if it is a intranet site, then there will be no site promotion. But even if you are a small development firm, if you adopt certain planning along with this web engineering steps in mind, it will definitely reflects in the Quality of the outcome.
