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Announcements from the 5th Annual Linux Collaboration Summit
The Linux Foundation kicked off the 5th Annual Linux Collaboration Summit with four announcements: the formation of the new High Availability working group, the release of the Carrier Grade Linux 5.0 specification, Yocto Project Release 1.0 availability, and the 20th Anniversary Video Contest.
20th Anniversary of Linux Video Contest was launched and to help inspire people to produce and submit a video, the Linux Foundation kicked off this celebration with the release of "The Story of Linux" video. Linus Torvalds, Linux creator, will choose the best video and the winner of the 20th Anniversary of Linux Video Contest will be announced at LinuxCon in Vancouver. For those who are interested in submitting a video, the submissions should show and celebrate the impact of Linux on computing, business or culture over the last 20 years.
Yocto Project 1.0 was released. The Yocto Project is an open source collaboration project that provides templates, tools and methods to help you create custom Linux-based systems for embedded products regardless of the hardware architecture. More information about the the 1.0 release can be found in the release notes and on the Yocto Project website.
The release of Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) 5.0 specification announced. Since 2001 The Linux Foundation's CGL workgroup has been collaborating on CGL gaps and requirements, and release of CGL 5.0 covers several specification categories that include Availability, Clustering, Serviceability, Performance, Standards,Hardware, and Security. The Linux Foundation says that currently there are six CGL distributions from major Linux distributors including Novell, MontaVista and Wind River, which are all registered as CGL-compliant.
The full CGL 5.0 specification is available for review on the Linux Foundation Website.
The formation of the new High Availability working group announced. According to the Linux Foundation, the Working Group will bring together projects and stakeholders to collaboratively define the open source HA software stack and prioritize featuresbased on input from developers, vendors, and customers. The projects participating in the forum hosted by The Linux Foundation include: corosync, DRBD, GFS2, hawk, Linux-HA, Linux Virtual Server, luci, OCFS2,Open Clustering Framework, and pacemaker. Enterprise Linux distributions such as as Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, and Ubuntu, are already incorporating this technology and plan to contribute to the working group.
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This week's Halloween Trick-or-Treat Party SundaySupper theme created a quandary for me. While I was enthusiastically looking forward to seeing the undoubtedly fun, and creative treats my foodie friends would bring to the #SundaySupper table for the event, Halloween tends to be kid-centric, so I had second thoughts about offering up wine pairings (by the way, I'm referring to young kids – not the adult kids; you know who you are;-)
I settled on a compromise. I'll offer wine pairings for the Ghoulish Gruel and Haunted Snacks, and skip the Spooky Sweets this week.
If you do happen to have some leftover candy (and if you will..), consider sending it to troops overseas. Groups like Operation Shoebox, which supports our troops, will gladly take donations.
I continue to be amazed at the creativity and passion that manifests itself each week by the #SundaySupper family. And this week, add fun to the mix!
My recommended wines for this week's #SundaySupper Halloween Trick-or-Treat party are italicized below. To find the recommended wines, click on the name of the wine.
Let's this this Halloween Trick-or-Treat Party started!
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- Shrunken Heads in Cider – Girlichef
- Candy Corn Martini – The Messy Baker Blog
Pair these frighteningly delicious bites with a sparkling wine. Look for La Marca Prosecco, a well-balanced and delicate Prosecco that shows a creamy, fruity, mixed citrus and apple character Not only will it be a great match for these great eats, it's the only wine here that's going to be good for before, during and, perhaps most importantly, after your Halloween activities!
- Eggs in Purgatory – My Catholic Kitchen
- Baked Mummy Cheese Dogs – In the Kitchen with KP
- Meat Head – Ruffles & Truffles
- Mummy Hot Dogs – Damn Delicious
- Gory Green Monster Eyeball Dip – Shockingly Delicious
- Eyeball Pinwheels – Home Cooking Memories
Pair with this tasty egg-based treats with a New World Sauvignon Blanc. Look for the 2011 Kim Crawford Sauvignon Blanc from New Zealand. It's bursting with citrus and tropical fruits, accompanied by herbaceous notes and zesty acidity.
- Goblin Eggs – Bobbi's Kozy Kitchen
Pair these hearty treat with Grenache, an underrated wine-lovers wine owing to its lush, juicy character. Look for the 2010 Altovinum Calatayud Evodia Old Vines Garnacha from Spain with a juicy mixed berry and spice character and a great mouthfeel.
- Mini Jack-o'-Lantern Sloppy Joe Pies – Small Wallet Big Appetite
- Pumpkin Chili, Pumpkin Dip, & Wicken Witch's Brew – Daddy Knows Less
- Monster Mash – Cindy's Recipes & Writings
Pair with bloody good treats with Sangiovese (the name derives from the Latin sanguis Jovis, "the blood of Jove – bwahahaha!) One of my favorites is the 2008 Marchesi de'Frescobaldi Nipozzano Riserva a well-balanced and harmonious wine that has a rich, silky cherry, raspberry, dried plum, spice and cocoa powder character.
- Steak Bites with Bloody Mary Dipping Sauce – I Run for Wine
- Spooky Kid Pizzas – Sustainable Dad
- Sloppy Worm Sandwiches – La Cocina de Leslie
- Marinated Mozzarella Eyeballs – Comfy Cuisine
Spooky Sweets:
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- Spooky Ogre Eye Cookies – The Realistic Nutritionist
- Jack O' Lantern Cookies – Magnolia Days
- Spooky Good Popcorn Snack Mix – The Weekend Gourment
- White Chocolate & Coconut Dipped Strawberry Ghosts – Sue's Nutrition Buzz
- Monster Bites – Cravings of a Lunatic
- Vegan Halloween Sugar Cookies – Hezzi-D's Books & Cooks
- Monster Cookies – Dinners, Dishes, and Desserts
- Tunnel of Doom Cake – That Skinny Chick Can Bake
- Candy-Stuffed Rice Crispy Treat Pumpkins – Chocolate Moosey
- Crispy Graham Bones – The Meltaways
- Dulce de Leche Bat Cookies – Crispy Bits & Burnt Ends
- Witch's Fingers – Noshing with The Nolands
- Sweet Intestines with Broken Glass – The Little Ferraro Kitchen
- Graveyard Brownies – The Wimpy Vegetarian
- Boo Candy Corn & Chocolate Chip Cookies – Hip Foodie Mom
- Bleeding Devil Cakes – Momma's Meals
- Pumpkin Halloween Munch – Big Bear's Wife
- Halloween Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Cake Pops – Juanita's Cocina
- Jack-O-Lantern Carrot Cake – Galactosemia in PDX
- Ghostly Chocolate Orange Tarts – Happy Baking Days
- Messy Monster Cookies – MarocMama
- Bewitchingly Delicious Butterscotch Broomstick Cake Pops – Mama.Mommy.Mom.
- Halloween Popcorn Cake – Pippis in the Kitchen Again
- Witches Morning Gruel – In the Kitchen with Audrey
- White Chocolate & Dulce de Leche Ghosts – Vintage Kitchen Notes
- Peanut Butter Candy Bar Cookies – The Cookie A Day Challenge
- Monster Cookie Revel Bars – Baker Street
- Halloween Cereal Bars – Basic N Delicious
- Ossi di Morti (Bones of the Dead Cookies) – Webicurean
- Pumpkin Pie Pinwheels – Midlife Road Trip
Please be sure you join us on Twitter throughout the day today. We'll be meeting up at 7:00 pm (Eastern) for our weekly #SundaySupper live chat where we'll talk about all things Halloween. All you have to do is follow the #SundaySupper hashtag, or you can follow us through TweetChat.
We'd also love to feature your favorite Halloween recipes on our #SundaySupper Pinterest board and share them with all of our followers, too.

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This is my setup with the magnets and sensor. The mounting bracket for the sensor is bolted to the back of the gearbox where there's a couple of tapped but unused bolt holes. 2 minutes in the shed and I found a bolt that did the job. This is how it has come up:
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^ That fits in very well and also makes use of the liberty's cruise cable lever on the throttle body. Works well!
Last time I drove her the cruise was surging, not badly but enough to annoy me so I'll have to check that out tomorrow - I think it could be magnets moving on the wire so that they're not 180 degrees apart... Will have to do a troubleshoot tomorrow. I should also get around to tidying up the wiring as I want to put it in some conduit or the like.
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* McKesson ups offer by 0.50 euros/share
* Hedge fund Elliott had said initial 23 euro offer was too low
* Celesio shares trade above revised offer price
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FRANKFURT, Jan 9 (Reuters) - U.S. drugs wholesaler McKesson raised its offer for German peer Celesio to about 6.2 billion euros ($8.4 billion) including debt, mollifying an activist hedge fund that had been blocking the deal.
McKesson increased its bid to 23.50 euros per Celesio share from the 23 euros it offered in October, the San Francisco-based company said on Thursday.
The U.S. firm is seeking to forge a global leader in drugs distribution to boost its bargaining power with big pharmaceutical companies such as Novartis and Teva , in what could be the largest health-sector takeover in Germany in eight years.
McKesson, the largest U.S. drugs distributor and its closest rivals AmerisourceBergen and Cardinal Health, who command a combined 95 percent U.S. market share, have all been looking to team up with pharmacy chains or to grow abroad.
Celesio shares were trading at 24.00 euros at 1443 GMT on Thursday, just above the increased offer price, reflecting investors' speculation that the deal would go through and that McKesson would likely offer a slight premium to buy out any remaining minority shareholders after taking control.
The German company has a drugs wholesale business and owns a network of pharmacies in Europe which trade under the Lloyds brand.
Celesio's majority investor Franz Haniel & Cie backed the original 6.1 billion euro bid. But hedge fund Elliott Management Corp, the German company's second-largest shareholder, said it was too low.
Spokesmen for McKesson and Elliott declined to give a total figure for the revised offer.
Based on the 0.50 euro per share increase and assuming there are about 204 million shares outstanding - including all those from Celesio's two convertible bonds - the new offer is worth at least 100 million euros more than the original.
McKesson's higher offer is contingent on the U.S. firm getting at least 75 percent of Celesio's shares, including those from bonds that convert to shares. Its agreement with Elliott gets McKesson closer to reaching that goal by the deadline of midnight on Thursday.
Elliott, run by U.S. investor Paul Singer, said it has agreed to sell shares equivalent to at least 13 percent of Celesio's equity capital, taking into account the dilutive effect of the convertible bonds.
Overall, convertible bonds would account for 16.7 percent of the company's share capital if they were all converted.
The hedge fund also offered to sell all 4,866 convertible bonds it holds in Celesio, provided that the 75 percent threshold is reached. An Elliott spokesman declined to say how many shares those bonds convert to.
That means McKesson still needs smaller Celesio shareholders to tender their stock for the deal to go through.
Elliott, which could still hold a stake in Celesio even if the deal succeeds, could then as a minority shareholder press MckKesson for an even higher price.
McKesson said it would pay Haniel 23.50 euros a share for its 50.01 percent stake.
Elliott spent roughly 800 million euros ($1.1 billion) on close to a quarter of Celesio's shares after McKesson made its initial offer and then rejected it as too low.
Sources told Reuters on Wednesday that McKesson was looking at concessions to get the deal done.
The new offer would value Celesio including its debt at about 11 times expected earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) for 2013, broadly in line with the multiple its U.S. suitor is trading at.
That compares with a multiple of about 11 times EBITDA that U.S. drugstore chain Walgreens paid for a stake in Alliance Boots in 2012.


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Two mothers of soldiers active in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan spoke to OWU students about the need for peace in America on Oct. 16.
Mary Hladky, vice chair of "Military Families Speak Out," and Rosemary Palmer, cofounder of "Families of the Fallen for Change," shared their experiences in regards to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
Hladky said "Military Families Speak Out" was formed in 2002 to oppose the planned US invasion of Iraq. Since then, the group has become an outlet for military families to protest American wars they do not support. Hladky said that by opposing the Afghanistan war, the group is supporting the troops.
"We believe supporting our troops means that they are never sent into battle without the facts, without the truth and without it being absolutely necessary," she said.
Hladky's son Ryan is currently an Army Infantry Officer fighting in the Afghanistan war, but he began his service in the ROTC. Hladky said she told her son he did not need to sign up for the ROTC in order to pay for college, but he signed up and told her about his decision after.
"This was the beginning of my journey–being very uncomfortable about war, especially when the vast majority of Americans were so certain it was the right thing to do," Hladky said.
She said one particular deployment to Afghanistan was unforgettable.
"They spent 13 months patrolling in 130 degree temperatures–uniforms covered them head to toe–wearing heavy bullet proof vests and carrying 80 pound packs on their backs," she said.
Hladky said the army did not inform the parents of the over 400 injuries in her son's battalion from this deployment. She said 26 men lost their lives in those 13 months.
Hladky said it is important for citizens to be informed about America's longest war: the 12 year and growing war in Afghanistan. She said there are many aspects of this war that separate it from others that have come before. Particularly, Hladky said the percentage of suicides and wounded soldiers has dramatically increased.
"Military suicides have reached epidemic proportions," she said. "More troops die at their own hand than on the battlefield. And for every service person who dies, 10 are wounded."
Hladky also said she thinks the cost of the war is too great and funds are ending up in the wrong hands.
"Four hundred million dollars per year of US security funding ends up in the hands of the Taliban as a bribe for local war lords. Our dollars are funding the enemy," Hladky said.
She said the cost of the war on soldiers is no better.
"By our own military standards, every person returning from combat is entitled to 3 years at home," Hladky said. "This has never happened since we started fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Many troops serve three, four, five or more tours of duty."
Hladky said she remembers the terror she experienced during one of her son's deployments.
"The awful gut wrenching fear that your child might be next," she said. "Being grateful that it wasn't your child who died, and feeling intense pain knowing that some other family has just suffered the most horrendous loss: what all military families fear most."
Palmer said she would stay at work late during her son's deployment during the Iraq War to avoid going home.
"I'd stay at work because if I didn't come home, the call wouldn't be there to tell me my son had been killed," she said.
Palmer suffered what Hladky called "the most horrendous loss," in August 2005 when her son was killed in Hidetha, Iraq, along with 19 other soldiers.
Palmer and her husband immediately began to speak with the media, telling them they had never agreed with the war in Iraq.
"We were sharing our grief quite openly," she said. "We told them that our son was there and said the war was not working. We needed to fight it right or get out."
After speaking with the US media and foreign press, Palmer said she realized they needed an organization to get their ideas out.
"So my husband and I founded 'Families of the Fallen for Change' for the Iraq War and started lobbying Congress," she said.
When she did not see the action she hoped for to end the Iraq War, Palmer ran for Congress herself. Although she did not win (as one of five candidates), she said she hopes she and her husband made a small difference.
"We started from grief and moved on to try to make a difference," she said. "We threw out pebbles into the pool, alongside the others, and we were a piece of ending the war in Iraq."
The war in Afghanistan, however, has not ended, Hladky said.
"The war is not almost over," she said. "We are there until the end of 2014. That's another 27 months, and even then the war is still not over. The Strategic Partnership Agreement between the US and Afghanistan would have military personnel in Afghanistan for another 10 years beyond 2014."
Hladky said there will not be change in the way the war is run and the way future wars are funded, unless Americans begin to pay attention.
"No one pays attention. If you paid attention to where your money was going, you'd be screaming. People would be screaming, 'No; we're not going to war.'"
Hladky said that, by not holding members of Congress responsible for their actions, citizens are not upholding their responsibilities.
"The Congress votes for war, and they cannot tell you why," Hladky said. "That's shameful. We let that happen, but we all have a responsibility."
Palmer said while she also opposes the war, she does not consider herself a pacifist.
"I believe the strongest military is one that's prepared and is not used," she said.
Both women said they would support a draft because it would encourage citizens to pay more attention to what was happening in the war.
"I would support a draft," Palmer said. "The reason these wars go on is that people don't pay attention."
Hladky agreed, saying a draft would make people stay informed.
"If you have a draft, you'd have known everything I told you already. And guess what? After this war there is going to be no one left to fight the next one," she said. "It's you. So you better start asking questions."
Junior Ashley Brown attended the talk as part of her feminist philosophy class. She said she thought both women got their ideas across effectively.
"Hladky was very intense," Brown said. "She was up in your face and accusing. I don't know if this is her general method to get people to listen, or if she is just always that angry, but it worked. Palmer took a very different approach and had different experiences and reasoning, and I found her to be a lot more relatable and engaging as a person."
Senior Alex Crump also attended the talk for the same philosophy class.
She said that, although she found the talk interesting, she did not learn much that she did not already know.
"Hladky really rubbed me the wrong way," Crump said. "She was very accusatory and at times, I felt, hysterical. Palmer was very well spoken and I was able to follow her much better. Both women had a lot of emotion, but Palmer was better at channeling it."
Brown said she will take away from the lecture the statement Hladky made about being passionate about something, not necessarily the military, and working for change.
"I am quite active and strongly believe in women's rights, and have been for some time," Brown said." But having her say that was influential reinforced how I think about activism."


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A variety of factors could have lead to the death of dolphin calves that recently washed up on the Mississippi shore, says a University of Southern Mississippi professor who conducts research on dolphins.
Dr. Stan Kuczaj, a Southern Miss psychology professor and director of the university's Marine Mammal Behavior and Cognition Laboratory, said today's report of more dolphin calves found on the Mississippi and Alabama coastlines is disturbingly high. Nearly 20 have been reported so far this year along the Gulf Coast.
"We may see two or three wash up on shore by this each year, so this is well above normal. And those are just the ones we've found on the beach," he said. A research team from the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies is investigating the situation.
Kuczaj and his graduate students have conducted more than 20 years of cognition and communication research on the popular marine mammal including in the Mississippi Sound and off the coast of Honduras. He has also worked with faculty in the Southern Miss Department of Biology in studying dolphins.
Speculation on the cause of the deaths center on the impact of last year's Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Kuczaj says that is a possibility, but is only one potential cause.
"They could have died because the mother was swimming in the oil, consumed affected fish or breathed oil fumes for an extended period of time, but it could have been caused by cold temperatures," he said. "We won't really know why until we get the results of the necropsies (autopsies)," which he said could take weeks or months, depending on the extent of the lab work needed.
Kuczaj's dolphin research has received support from the Office of Naval Research and the U.S. Department of Commerce, and has been featured on the science television show NOVA and on Japanese Public Television.
His research in Honduras began five years ago through a study abroad program near Utila, sponsored by Southern Miss International Education. The journal Marine Mammal Science published research that his team conducted in examining the mammal's habitat off the Mississippi Gulf Coast following Hurricane Katrina.
For more information on the Southern Miss Marine Mammal Behavior and Cognition Laboratory, online visit http://www.usm.edu/psy-kuczaj/


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My letter to you this month will be mercifully short (well, perhaps not), but before I write anything else I would like to say a special 'thank you' to Hiroshi Kawamura, President of the DAISY Consortium, for writing and submitting the article on the Japan DAISY Consortium for the Planet 15th Anniversary series: Japan DAISY Consortium: DAISY for Critical Life-Saving Information. Almost everyone, everywhere is aware of the multiple disasters that have done so much damage and killed so many people in Japan. Hiroshi has been working at an even more fevered pitch to bring accessible disaster prevention and recovery information to the people of his country. Thank you Hiroshi for making the time to contribute the article for this month's DAISY Planet.
There are six feature articles in this issue of the Planet, two of which tie into the DAISY meetings and Conference that will take place next week in Helsinki, Finland. Thanks to Dr. Alicia Wise for submitting the article Embracing Technology to Close Access Gaps. Alicia will be the special guest speaker at the Consortium's 15th Anniversary celebration on the evening of May 4. She is an advocate for accessible information, and, she is in the publishing industry. Two other special guests will speak that evening, Ingar Beckman Hirschfeldt, one of the founders of the DAISY Consortium and the first president, and Elsebeth Tank, the second president.
The second article which is linked to Finland was submitted by Maria Finström who works with the Finnish Federation of the Visually Impaired. Thank you Maria and congratulations on the implementation of DAISY Online in Finland.
It was a pleasure to speak with Lukasz Osowski, co-founder of IVONA, and John Worsfold of RNIB about synthetic speech and text-to-speech, and the creative development work being done by IVONA. There was so much information I've divided it into three articles: Is it a Computer or a Human 'Speaking'?, IVONA, Passionate About Helping People (Part 1), and "IVONA, Finding a Better Way (PART 2)" which will be published in the May issue of the DAISY Planet.
DAISY tool enthusiasts and developers will want to read the article Obi-Tobi Joint Project Reaches 1st Milestone. Congratulations to the Obi-Tobi development team on reaching their first milestone.
Two sets of guidelines for accessible publishing have been made available this month. EDItEUR launched the Accessible Publishing, Best Practice Guidelines for Publishers and RNIB has created an area on its website called Accessible Publishing. The RNIB site covers topics such as "Why publish accessibly?", "How to publish accessibly", and "Ways of reading". Both sets of guidelines are intended for publishers. Your organization or company may wish to link to these guidelines from your website.
IDPF Digital Book 2011 will be held on May 23 and 24 in New York City, USA. Guest speakers include George Kerscher, Secretary General of the DAISY Consortium and Markus Gylling, CTO for the Consortium.
This month's Story is about an incredible man, John J. Boyer. John has achieved more in his lifetime than many of us might ever hope to achieve. He is both blind and deaf. Please do take a few minutes to read John's story. Thank you John for sharing your story. It has been a pleasure getting to know you, even just a bit.
Thanks to everyone who has provided input, comment, information and/or a suggestion for this issue of the Planet. If there is a topic, article or column that you feel strongly about (positive or negative) please let me know. Also, if you, your organization or company have news to share, please get in touch with me directly by email or by using the Contact Us form (Newsletter category). Articles and suggestions for articles are always welcome, as are Letters to the Editor and Stories.
Lynn Leith
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Hiroshi Kawamura's commitment to digital technology and the developing world was made as early as 1981. He was one of the original founding members of the DAISY Consortium, has been on the Board of Directors since that time, and is in the final year of his term as President of the Consortium. The vastness and intensity of the recent disasters in Japan are deeply woven into the article he has written about the Japan DAISY Consortium as part of the DAISY Planet 15th Anniversary Series.
On 2011 March 11th, the North East Japan Pacific Coast was hit by a magnitude 9 earthquake and giant tsunami which reached as high as 38.9 m above sea level in Miyako City. One of the consequences of this natural disaster was the complete loss of electricity supply for the nuclear plants which require continuous cooling. Several hours without the cooling system the nuclear reactors triggered a partial meltdown of 3 reactors that were working at the time of the earthquake. Thousands of used nuclear rods can be as dangerous as the working reactors if the water in the storage pool is lost either by cooling system power loss or a water leak caused by an earthquake or tsunami. This was a level 7 nuclear accident, the worst.
Between March 11th and April 28th, we had 515 aftershocks larger than magnitude 5. Out of the 515, 75 were larger than magnitude 6, and 5 were larger than magnitude 7. The Japan Meteorological Agency continues their warning on aftershocks that could be magnitude 8. We must therefore remain alert and informed, and prepare for a giant earthquake and tsunami.
The Japan DAISY Consortium (JDC), which is made up of four organizations, is struggling to serve people with print disabilities living in the country which has been hit by the 3 worst disasters: earth quake, tsunami and nuclear accident, all at the same time. As of April 27, 14,517 people were confirmed dead and at least 11,432 people are missing. 130,229 people are living in more than 2,000 shelters. Loss of homes results in loss of all information channels. Recovery and reconstruction of individual life, home and the community should not exclude anyone. All stakeholders need to implement the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities by taking all measures to guarantee access to information throughout the recovery and reconstruction process.
Encouraged by international support, JDC full member organizations (Japanese Society for Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities (JSRPD), Nippon Lighthouse Information Center (ICC), Assistive Technology Development Organization (ATDO) and the National Association of Institutions of Information Service for Visually Impaired Persons (NAIIV)) jointly launched a website to disseminate critical life-saving information in DAISY multimedia format for everyone, including persons with print disabilities. The site is hosted by JSRPD. The full-text and audio synchronized content and Easy Reader Express DAISY player are zipped for free download and distribution. ATDO offers the Easy Reader Express processing service. ICC joins the shared rapid production and NAIIV distributes the same content to registered members of the SAPIE online library for persons with print disabilities. Microsoft Japan is supporting distribution of the DAISY formatted information to the wider general community through its MSN network.
JDC has a long history of being in the forefront of information services to provide critical life-saving information for persons with print disabilities, including research and development funded by the research grant of the Japanese Government.
JSRPD Information Center has run an excellent bilingual website Disability Information Resources (DINF) since the late '90s. DINF has been a vehicle for the promotion of web accessibility and DAISY in Japan, including the nationwide implementation of the DAISY Talking Books Project from 1998 - 2000. JSRPD was granted US $15 million from the government to introduce DAISY to approximately 100 libraries for the blind across the country, including the provision of a core of 2,650 talking book titles, basic production equipment, 8,600 playback units, and staff training.
JSRPD's DAISY implementation included tool development such as Sigtuna DAR, MyStudio PC, the prototype of the PTR1 and AMIS Version 1. I believe that JSRPD's decision to make Sigtuna DAR, MyStudio PC and AMIS available free of charge is a good example of international collaboration to disseminate DAISY in developing countries. Generous funding from the Nippon Foundation for the DAISY Consortium's "DAISY For All Project" made the most of those tools to implement DAISY in developing countries. JSRPD gave Japanese translation support to international DAISY business partners such as Labyrinten and VisuAide (now HumanWare) to develop Japanese version of their tools.
As the Japanese Disability Community formulated the joint action for copyright change in 1999 to guarantee the access to information and knowledge, in particular critical life-saving information such as disaster preparedness information, JDC member organizations took the initiatives of the copyright revision movement to realize the distribution of full-text and audio synchronized DAISY titles to all persons with print disabilities. In collaboration with the DAISY Consortium, the National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities (NRCD) conducted a research project to develop use cases for accessible multimedia to save the lives of persons with disabilities in a severe disaster such as a massive earthquake and tsunami. NRCD hosted onsite research in Urakawa, Hokkaido, to formulate the Urakawa Project, which successfully contributed to the development of SMIL 3.0 (a W3C standard), plus DAISY 4 and EPUB 3 development.
The DAISY Consortium, NRCD, JSRPD and colleagues in Asia and the Pacific Region jointly contributed to the 2nd United Nations ESCAP Decade of Disabled Persons in particular its ICT accessibility policy development, by co-hosting an ICT accessibility seminar in Bangkok in 2002 and establishing a global link with the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Throughout the WSIS process, JDC contributed to the use case development of DAISY multimedia for a tsunami evacuation manual to be used by 150 people with a psychiatric disability in Urakawa, with actual evacuation drills and feedback. The outcome of the onsite research in Urakawa, which has continued and expanded to include wider communities with support of local government and autonomous community groups, was shared at the international disaster risk reduction seminars held in Phuket, co-hosted by the DAISY Consortium, Senator Monthian Buntan and other partners in 2007 and 2009.
Since the tsunami evacuation manual development team for Urakawa has been transferred from NRCD to ATDO, ATDO has been developing a use case for DAISY multimedia for users with cognitive or psycho-social disabilities. The research conducted in Urakawa by ATDO and NRCD has been focused on preparedness. It is still valid to focus on preparedness for the safety and security of persons with disabilities in a severe disaster situation because the development of a survival strategy is crucial. However, the challenge we are facing in Japan becomes quite complex due to extensive recovery and reconstruction work in addition to the continuing critical battle to control the monstrous nuclear reactors for at least next several months.
What happened to people living within a 30 km radius of the Fukushima No.1 Nuclear Plant was, first, they were hit by the largest earthquake, second, the 14 m tsunami (which reportedly killed more than 1,000 people in the area and destroyed cooling system of nuclear plant) and lastly, they were forced to move out of the area immediately. The nuclear reactor explosions and radioactive water leaks are both fatally dangerous. Tens of hospital patients lost their lives in the evacuation process.
'Free, Prior and Informed Consent' is the guiding principle of the JDC's effort to disseminate critical life-saving information in DAISY format. Everyone, including persons with print disabilities, has the right to make a critical decision with dignity based on equitable access to information and knowledge.
With the release of DAISY4 and EPUB 3, JDC members will take advantage of the new standards to change the workflow of public documents for recovery, reconstruction and disaster risk reduction to guarantee the inclusion of persons with print disabilities.
When I joined Elsevier in April 2010, my job title – Director of Universal Access – raised some eyebrows among family and friends. I saw myself confronted with questions about access to extra-terrestrials and sending journals to Jupiter. Quite amusing associations, but inspiring and ambitious at the same time. Looking back on the past year, I can only conclude that Universal Access is exactly that: inspiring and ambitious, but in a slightly more down-to-earth way though. Enhancing access for people who have a print disability is an important part of that concept. But before getting into Elsevier's access enhancing initiatives for this particular group, let me explain a little bit more what Universal Access actually stands for.
Elsevier is the world's largest publisher of scientific, technical and medical information. We publish over 2,000 journals and close to 20,000 book titles. We have a vision for working with others to ensure access to high quality information is available to anyone regardless of disability, income or geographic location. That's the vision for Universal Access. To shape that vision into concrete initiatives, we have created a dedicated Universal Access team, responsible for Elsevier's access strategy and policies, and aimed at identifying and closing access gaps. We are a small unit that can form internal project teams, so that Elsevier can actively test and learn about new, sustainable access models.
As I mentioned earlier, a substantial part of our Universal Access agenda entails expanding access for people with print disabilities. With 10% of people in the developed world and even 15% of people in the developing countries struggling with some form of print disability, I personally think it's our moral obligation. And by embracing new advances in technology, we can truly make a difference for this group. A concrete example of how we go to work to achieve this objective is Elsevier's Global Digital Books Archive. This archive fulfills over 3,100 requests for digital files from organizations all over the world. In the US, schools are by law required to make reasonable accommodations to help students with print disabilities. Canada, the UK and many other countries have similar legislation. As a result, schools rely on Elsevier to provide alternate formats for use by students with disabilities. Through the Global Digital Book Archive, we are able to fulfill the needs of this group.
Even more excitingly, Elsevier is producing all of its ebook titles in the ePub format, not only making sure our titles can be read on ebook readers, but also allowing readers with dyslexia or a vision disability to apply their own style settings to make reading easier. With our recent decision to enable the text-to-speech option on all of our ePub titles, and to proactively communicate this to all of our ebook retail partners, we are moving access for people who are visually impaired to the next level. Enabling our ebooks to 'read aloud' provides a very powerful form of access for bright and talented people who – despite their print disability – want to pursue an education or a career in science.
These examples are only a few of the access enhancing initiatives that I've had the pleasure of working on, and the real commitment to mainstreaming accessibility features is palpable in the publishing industry. I'm delighted that Elsevier received external recognition for our accessibility efforts by receipt of the first Publisher Lookup Award in April 2010. This sort of recognition is so powerful for motivating positive change. Of course this doesn't mean we're there yet. There is much work to be done in partnership with accessibility experts, software developers and device manufacturers. For example there is still work to be done to improve the accessibility of highly structured and illustrated text books, mathematical formulas and highly specialized and interactive databases. We continue to also closely cooperate with industry bodies such as the International Publishers Association (IPA), the Federation of European Publishers (FEP), the Publishers Association (PA), and the International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers (STM), and with partner organizations such as the DAISY Consortium and the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO).
Closing access gaps for people who have a print disability as well as other users of scientific information remains an ongoing project requiring dedication, innovation, creative ideas and the right partnerships. It is exciting we have been able to achieve results, truly helping people to achieve their objectives. It's even more exciting, however, to stay the course and look to do even more in the future.
Editor's note: On the Elsevier Founding Principles page, information about the history of the logo dating back to 1620, and the principles which are still in place today are described: "...the logo represents, in classical symbolism, the symbiotic relationship between publisher and scholar...Publishers and scholars cannot do it alone. They need each other. This remains as apt a representation of the relationship between Elsevier and its authors today."
The DAISY Consortium is extremely pleased that Dr. Alicia Wise will be the special guest speaker at the Consortium's 15th Anniversary Celebration on May 4, in Helsinki Finland. Prior to her current position with Elsevier, Alicia held the positions of Chief Executive of the Publishers Licensing Society (a not-for-profit owned by publishing trade bodies to oversee collective licensing arrangements for UK publishers) and Head of Digital Publishing at the Publishers Association (PA). Many thanks to Alicia for submitting this article for publication in the DAISY Planet.
Celia, the National Library for persons with print disabilities in Finland, and the Finnish Federation of the Visually Impaired, in close cooperation with Shinano Kenshi Co., have developed a new DAISY online delivery service for readers who have a print disability. With this service, a user of Celia Library can listen to audio content via the Internet with an easy-to-use listening device – a next generation online DAISY player.
Until now, Celia Library has made a CD-ROM copy of each DAISY talking book borrowed, and then mailed them to the user. The users have signed an agreement stating that they are obliged to dispose of the CDs after reading the books. Now, people who are using the new DAISY Online Delivery service, are given a new listening device, a Plextalk PTX1 Pro, manufactured by Shinano Kenshi. The device is a DAISY player which enables Internet-based listening to DAISY audio content such as books and newspapers. The DAISY player supports the international DAISY Online Protocol, developed by the DAISY Consortium. It is directly connected to Internet – no computer is necessary. The user can arrange for a subscription to receive books by contacting Celia Library. The borrowed content is immediately available for listening with the Plextalk PTX1 Pro DAISY Online player. The books are automatically removed from the player after one month, however the same books may be borrowed again.
The online delivery of DAISY audio content has many benefits as compared to distributing DAISY books on CDs. There is no need to wait for the mail as the books are immediately available for listening. The system has been made so easy to use that people can pick a book from the virtual bookshelf and begin reading it as soon as it is selected. Once the book or other content is chosen, the PTX1 Pro behaves in the same way as a standard DAISY player. PTX1 Pro can also read content from a CD, SD card and USB. Online delivery eliminates waste because there is no need to dispose of the CDs.
For the moment, DAISY Online delivery is available only to specific target areas within Finland. The service is free of charge for Celia's users. The online delivery service is the first DAISY Online service in the world where users can listen to audio content via the internet by using DAISY players instead of computers.
Celia is a Finnish state-owned specialist library which produces and provides literature in accessible formats for people who are unable to read standard printed books due to illness or disability – including people with a visual disability, those who have dyslexia, learning disabilities, developmental disabilities or muscular diseases. Celia's aim is to work towards equality for people with print disabilities in terms of access to literature and information. Celia is also a specialist institution within its field. In 2010, Celia had 15,000 users who took out a total of almost one million loans.
Finnish Federation of the Visually Impaired is the umbrella organization of the Finnish organizations of visually impaired people. The Federation's aim is to advocate for the rights of the blind and partially sighted people. It provides special services and has expertise in the field of vision and sight. There are an estimated 80,000 visually impaired people in Finland. The number people who are blind is estimated to be 10,000.
Both Celia and the Finnish Federation of the Visually Impaired are members of the Finnish DAISY Consortium, which is a Full Member of the DAISY Consortium.
Shinano Kenshi Co., Ltd. is a global leader in providing integrated motion control solutions and assistive technology. With a history dating back to 1918 Shinano Kenshi is well-known for electrical motor production (small precision motors), Plextor (IT-products such as CD/DVD recorders) and Digital talking book players (PLEXTALK). PLEXTALK (Shinano Kenshi Co., Ltd.) is one of the original Friends of the DAISY Consortium. Their DAISY product line includes desktop models such as PTN1 and PTN2 DAISY recorders, PTR1 and PTR2 portable DAISY player/recorder, PLEXTALK Pocket and PTX1 Pro Network player for delivery of DAISY books online.
Within the DAISY community and in a variety of external commercial fields such as the entertainment and communications industries, interest in text-to-speech technology has grown exponentially over the past several years. This is possibly in part due to the fact that the sound or 'voice' quality of synthesized speech for the major languages has improved greatly, which of course opens commercial markets for these systems. However the quality is now so good that people who once turned up their noses, that is would rather have listened to a cow mooing than listen to a recorded book or newspaper with synthetic speech, are realizing that in some cases the sound is so natural, so close to human speech, that it may just be the way of the future (if not the way of the present).
There is a fascinating area on the Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing website called Dennis Klatt's History of Speech Synthesis. It consists of a timeline of the history of synthetic speech, in audio clips, the first recording of synthetic speech dating back to 1938! The samples are divided into five sections, beginning with Highlights and progressing through Sections A to D.
Clips which may be of particular interest are Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two) which was the first song produced with synthetic speech (1961). The song was used it in the climactic scene of the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" – it is also this version of the song that was the inspiration for the name "DAISY" that has become the standard for rich, navigable and accessible publications. The other clip, which, without question, illustrates how far synthetic speech has come, is the clip of the Kurzweil 'reading machine for the blind' from 1976. The Acoustical Society of America retains the copyright to these recordings.
Text-to-Speech systems use synthetic speech to convert electronic text (various formats) into the 'spoken' word.
A reasonably comprehensive explanation of synthetic speech is available on Wikipedia outlining the history and the technology, including two primary technologies used for generating synthetic speech (concatenative synthesis and formant synthesis).
The article Exploring the use of synthetic speech by blind and partially sighted people, published by the RNIB Centre for Accessible Information, provides a clear analysis of the benefits and uses of synthetic speech for people who are blind or partially sighted, an analysis of the subjective acceptance of synthetic speech by that same population and by the general population. It also examines how synthetic speech affects reading performance.
Please also read the article IVONA, Passionate About Helping People (PART 1) in this issue of the DAISY Planet, and IVONA, Finding a Better Way (PART 2) in the May issue of the DAISY Planet to learn about IVONA Software's mission to create TTS for minority and dying languages and their innovative approach to TTS development.
Thanks go to Lukasz Osowski, co-founder of IVONA , and John Worsfold of RNIB for sharing their thoughts about Text-To-Speech and information about the collaborative efforts of IVONA and RNIB.
In their final year at Gdańsk University, two young men, Lukasz Osowski and Michal Kaszczuk, both with a passion for computer technology, decided that they wanted to build a useful product for people and at the same time use the knowledge they had gained to build a company. It was as important to them that the results of their efforts be useful for people as it was to create a business. They were as passionate about helping people as they were about computer technology. Their expectations have changed considerably since 2001 when they could only dream of achieving what they have actually done over the past ten years.
Lukasz and Michal were looking for something relatively new in computer science. They were interested in character recognition and so decided on text-to-speech which required knowledge of linguistics, signal processing, computer science and algorithms. In 2001 TTS was largely used by people who were blind or visually impaired. They met some people who were blind, found out what they really needed to know, and learned it. They started their company in 2001, working from their university dormitory room; they didn't have an office for the first two or so years. After three months they launched their first product which was called "Speaker".
Another factor that pulled them into the field of TTS is that at that time there was no good quality TTS voice for the Polish language. Of the big companies developing TTS, only one or two had what Lukasz and Michal considered to be good TTS, and neither had TTS for Polish. Polish was a minority language even though there were 40 million people speaking it. They decided to build TTS for Polish and make it available to people who were blind or visually impaired. Moving forward, they knew there were people in countries like Poland and even smaller countries in which people did not have TTS for their language; large companies were not investing in 'small languages'. In 2006 they decided to develop TTS for Romanian (approximately 20 million Romanian speakers)
"It is basically human right to have TTS in your own language and listen to books in your own language." [Lukasz Osowski, CEO, IVONA Software]
In 2008 IVONA made the decision to build a TTS engine for a major language. In cooperation with Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB), they developed TTS for British English. There was also discussion between IVONA and RNIB about the needs of people in other countries, to build TTS for minority and dying languages. They agreed that it was a good idea to help people in small countries, with under 10 or 20 million native speakers, but with a high number of people who need TTS to work with computers, access the Internet, etc. As a result they invested in technology that would allow them to build new languages.
RNIB has been working with IVONA for approximately two years and together they have developed a range of solutions. From RNIB's perspective there are a few reasons for this partnership but the primary reasons were that IVONA's philosophy of preserving minority and dying languages was an ethical one, and, IVONA wished to raise the bar in respect of the quality of TTS output. RNIB as an organization needed to standardize on the use of TTS for both content production and embedding in products; this has now been achieved. They are currently in a position where they can help sister organizations to achieve a similar goal. RNIB has developed a TTS solution that suits their needs both in terms of audio quality, production/embedding flexibility and also have a licensing model that meets their particular business needs.
"Creation of TTS for a language is a very complicated process…" Please read the article IVONA, Finding a Better Way (PART 2) in the May issue of the DAISY Planet to learn more about IVONA Software's goal to create TTS for minority and dying languages and their innovative approach to TTS development, including BrightVoice and "Rapid Voice Development" (RVD). An extensive list of the awards received by IVONA Software is available on the IVONA website. There is also a page with recordings of comparative audio samples with human voice followed by synthetic speech. Samples are for all of the IVONA languages available, those very recently released and those that will be released in the near future.
The positive results of the decision and investment in merging the code base, and the benefits of collaborative development of the DAISY Consortium production tools, are illustrated with the recent maintenance release of Tobi V126.96.36.199 and the very recent release of the Obi 2.0 alpha. The first part of the joint project that was largely focused on the code base consolidation, resulting in faster, more efficient development of these two DAISY software tools. The common, underlying Urakawa SDK (Software Development Kit) has been dramatically enhanced. Improvements made to the code base for the Obi alpha 2.0 release were immediately reflected in Tobi.
The joint project defines the development path for these two interactive authoring tools – Obi which is an audio-NCX authoring tool, and Tobi which is a full-text, audio authoring tool. One of the goals of this project is to provide support for EPUB multimedia and another is to develop enhanced feature sets such as image/graphics description workflow and audio overlay, while the short term goal has been to prepare Obi and Tobi for future development by consolidating the code base. This consolidation is intended to empower both tools through the sharing of components, while at the same time maintaining the unique user interfaces of each for their specific user bases.
The consolidation of the code base and the release of the Obi 2.0 Alpha mark completion of the first milestone of the joint project. This version of Obi utilizes the upgraded Urakawa SDK 2.0, using the same backend that is being used by Tobi. Milestones and the development cycle for the joint project are identified in the Tobi-Obi Project Charter which was approved by the DAISY Consortium Board of Directors in November 2010.
The primary focus for the Tobi V188.8.131.52 update was performance improvements. Large project files can now be opened and saved much more quickly. In addition, the responsiveness of the document pane in the Tobi user-interface has been greatly improved thanks to optimizations in the audio recording workflow. This results in an overall smoother recording experience, with less lag and potential delays on slower machines.
Tobi can now import Obi projects. This new feature means that already existing DAISY audio-only content can be "upgraded" to DAISY full-text, full-audio projects. Tobi currently only offers basic text editing (no structural modifications of the document are possible), but this is sufficient to author the text labels associated with audio phrases originally recorded from within Obi. The user-manual has updated to explain how to use the Obi import feature and the Tobi FAQ has also been updated to add basic Obi import information.
Tobi, including the most recent releases, can be downloaded from the Tobi area of the DAISY website. The Tobi Forum is available for questions, comments or feedback for the development team.
The Tobi development team has been receiving feedback that the performance is much better in this release, particularly with the recording large text documents. This is good news, but more feedback from users is needed. The Tobi team would like to thank all testers and contributors for their support.
The main features included in the Obi 2.0 Alpha release are:
A complete list of new features and bug fixes is available on the Obi wiki area of the DAISY website. Download links for the two types of available installers and a link for the JAWS script for Obi are also on the same page. Instructions for submitting bug reports are also provided.
Obi 2.0 is an alpha release, and as such is intended for serious users who can provide bug reports and input. It is not a final product. The development team is looking forward to feedback and bug reports from serious Obi users in order to further refine this software.
Both Obi and Tobi can be localized (translated) into multiple languages. The production computer minimum requirements for Obi and Tobi are included in the DAISY Planet Tech Tips column in the February 2011 issue.
Hi Lynn,
I enjoyed the recent article on the CSUN conference, but noted it makes it sound like the DAISY Consortium is an outside player collaborating with DIAGRAM (like the W3C) rather than mentioning that it's one of the three core organizations running DIAGRAM (along with Bookshare and NCAM). The DIAGRAM R&D effort is designed to put better and more efficient tools in the hands of all producers of accessible media. We're delighted to have strong involvement from DAISY to maximize the positive impact of this work.
Editor's note: This letter is from Jim Fruchterman, President of Benetech. Thank you for your input Jim. The article CSUN 2011: New Technologies Breaking Down Boundaries in the March 2010 DAISY Planet has been edited so that it more closely reflects the role of the DAISY Consortium in the DIAGRAM Project.
Lynn Leith,
[This inquiry was posted to the DAISY General Forum. There were two responses.]
Firstly I'd like to say thank you very much for all the works done by anyone linked or associated with DAISY Consortium.
My papa was diagnosed 1-2 years ago with partial to full blindness and has something called macular degeneration and things are getting worse and worse.
He has been using his DAISY player for about 9 months now and he loves it, giving him a little enjoyment in these hard times, as he was a keen reader all his days!
We live in the UK (Scotland to be precise) and he has been using the RNIB site for his Daisy books and he sometimes feels that some of the more recent titles and older books are not available to him.
He has asked me to try and obtain for him three books by Harold Robbins - The Betsy, The Adventurers and The Carpetbaggers.
I am quite good with computers and I can turn my hand to anything really but I was wondering if there are any other sites that I could use to obtain Daisy books, for these titles then burn them to a CD for him.
I noticed you can turn text based ebooks into a Daisy book or even an MP3 audio book into DAISY format?
Is the above easy to do?
Does it ruin the audio enjoyment i.e. computer voice reading book?
Best web-site(s) to obtain all this information?
Any help would be really appreciated.
He is also a keen lover of Football (Soccer) and if anyone had web-sites or information on any audio for these that would be useful - i.e. making an audio podcast into a Daisy CD?
Thank you for your time.
Kind Regards
A loving Grandson
Dear Luke,
Many thanks for the great feedback. You have posted your questions on the right forum and I am sure you will get good suggestions from other users too. Regarding your questions,
• Converting text to a DAISY book is not all that difficult now. The Save As DAISY is a free add-in which can convert Microsoft Word or Open Office documents into synthesized speech narrated DAISY talking books. There are many more tools for doing this like the Tobi & the Dolphin Publisher. You can look up the tools area of the DAISY website for more information.
• Text to speech has come a long way and especially for English there are numerous human-like voices. You can checkout demos of these voices and select the one which feels most comfortable to your grandfather. You could start your search for a good TTS from the Text to Speech page on DAISY website.
• DAISYpedia is a good source of information on reading and creating DAISY books. You are already in contact with RNIB which is a terrific source of accessible reading material. If your grandfather becomes accustomed to the TTS voice then you will have a much wider choice of books from websites like the Bookshare and the Inclusive Planet.
• A new application called Accessible News DAISY has been launched recently which can look up your selected RSS feeds and convert them to a DAISY book. You may use this to help him read newspapers and articles on sports and current affairs.
Regards, Prashant Verma----------------------------
Hello Luke,
Another resource that you may find helpful in providing your grandfather with more reading material in DAISY format is RoboBraille. Information about this service is available in our monthly newsletter, the DAISY Planet, specifically in the January 2011 issue: RoboBraille Web Interface: Easily Transforms Documents into Accessible Formats.
You may find information in the DAISY Planet useful. There is a link to an online subscription form from the DAISY homepage.
DAISY books can also be purchased from ReadHowYouWant.
I hope this additional information is useful to you.
Kind regards,
Lynn Leith
The original name "Recording for the Blind" was changed to Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic decades ago. Learning Ally, the new name for the organization which has provided accessible reading materials for over 60 years, is more inclusive of a wider community which can benefit from assistive technology services and accessible educational content. Andrew Friedman, President and CEO of Learning Ally explains some of the reason for the name change, and he states: "It's really about out users." The video in the PR Web press release includes Mr. Friedman, Learning Ally members and volunteers, and celebrity supporters. Learning Ally is a Full Member of the DAISY Consortium.
• The Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind (RNZFB), a Full Member of the DAISY Consortium has developed and posted an extensive resource list of sources of accessible books on their website.
• At the London Book Fair the seminar "Making your e-books Accessible to More Users: Why and How" was presented by Publishers Licensing Society (PLS), Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), EDItEUR, The Right to Read Alliance and the Publishers Association. The seminar addressed the increasingly important issue for publishers to ensure that their e-books are accessible to people with vision problems or with a print disability. It explored why accessibility should be on all publishers' agendas, and why it makes perfect business sense for publishers to ensure that their works are fully accessible to all readers. RNIB recording the seminar which is online on the Publishers Licensing Society website. There is an audio recording of each speaker. Two of the speakers were Alicia Wise of Elsevier and Pete Osborne of RNIB.
• An 'ideas marketplace' for new, open source assistive technology projects has been launched by a group of academics and developers with funding from JISC, which inspires UK colleges and universities in the innovative use of digital technologies. The REALISE project is an open, three-stage tool for creating new software technologies to make it easier for people with disabilities to use the Internet, computers and mobile devices.
• TechAdapt Accessible Media Centre (TAMC) started up in the 2006 in the USA to fill a need to provide easy and effective conversion options for DAISY books and NIMAS file sets. TAMC's primary goal is to provide educational agencies, parents, teachers, and others with a way to quickly and easily convert books into consumer-ready formats. It is now in widespread use by braille transcribers who want to use DAISY or NIMAS file sets as input for braille transcription, by accessible media specialists who need to convert text-only DAISY books to audio format, and by education agencies. Details are available on the TAMC website.
• The two models of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS/BPH, USA) Digital Talking Book Player are explained in the You Tube video – NLS Digital Talking Book Player. Both the advanced and the basic players are discussed. A contact phone number for people not yet registered for the service but who are interested is provided (888-657-7323). (Note: the video is not captioned).
• A recent Bookshare /John Wiley & Sons, Inc., partnership will further expand the Bookshare collection. With the signed agreement, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., a leading publisher serving the professional, consumer, scientific, technical, medical and academic communities worldwide, will provide digital files of professional and trade titles to Bookshare for its accessible DAISY and BRF (Braille Ready Format) file format collection. Additional information is provided in the PR Web press release.
• Michigan's Integration Technology Supports (MITS) website includes groups of videos about topics such as various DAISY players and Bookshare. The videos are captioned.
• The Braille21 - BraillePost 3rd edition newsletter includes a portrait of the Braille21 keynote speaker, Dr. Judith Dixon.
• odt2braille, the free, open source extension for OpenOffice.org Writer and LibreOffice Writer, was named as the SourceForge Project of the Month for April 2011.
Detailed instructions for translating Tobi and links to files which need to be downloaded for the process are provided on the Tobi Wiki on the DAISY website. When the translation is finished, contact the Tobi developers (through the Tobi Forum if you do not have a personal email address for one of the Tobi developers) and they will build a DLL that can be copied into any installed Tobi application.


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A fair playing field
Fair play is a must in the business world as well as in the sports world. A fair workplace is one in which individuals are able to rise through the ranks based on their talent and uninhibited by their gender. But Catalyst research reveals that although women are, on average, as ambitious and as qualified for top jobs as men, systemic barriers in the workplace mean that ambition and talent aren't always enough. Take, for example, the paucity of women at the top of Europe PLC
When Lord Davies published his report on Women on Boards two years ago, he cited a report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission that estimated at the current rate of change it will take the UK over 70 years to achieve gender-balanced boardrooms. While there has been some improvement in these figures, and women currently hold just over 17% of FTSE100 board seats, we're still a long way from gender parity.
This isn't about what women can and can't do. Study after study show that women are ready to lead, and that gender-diverse leadership is better for business. Yet even amongst companies that have implemented programmes to attract, develop, and retain women employees, gender gaps in hiring, promotion, and retention rates persist—with men faring better than women on all counts. How can businesses leverage the rapidly growing and largely untapped leadership pool of women? And why have so many programmes missed the mark?
Why have so many programmes missed the mark?
One reason is that too many programmes focus on changing women's behaviour—from the way they network to the way they lead—rather than changing organisational structures which might be holding women back. Another is the "think-leader-think-male" phenomenon, which means that men are seen as leaders by default, simply because most senior leadership teams are currently composed of men.
Catalyst's aim as a global, nonprofit organisation is to advance opportunities for women and business—and we believe that in order to do so we must enlist the support of men, who are the most powerful stakeholder group in most large companies. We also know that before individuals can support change, they must first be convinced that the status quo is unfair and bad for their companies' bottom lines.
Our Engaging Men research shows that just a small rise in some men's sense that working to improve gender diversity is only fair more than triples the likelihood that those men would actively support company efforts to promote and develop female talent.
But our research also revealed several notions that need to be clarified before we can get men "on board":
● Promoting more women won't leave men at a disadvantage. Some men questioned for our Engaging Men research expressed concern that gains for women could only come at a loss for men. However, in the global race for talent, the organisations best able to attract male and female top talent will be at a considerable advantage.
● The current state of affairs isn't the guys' fault. Our research also showed that men were wary of being blamed for gender disparities and/or being seen as part of the problem. To create a "safe" place for men to air their views on these issues, Catalyst launched Men Advocating Real Change, or MARC, an online community for men to post their thoughts, share views and experiences, and read blogs from experts about gender diversity in the workplace.
● Everyone benefits from more equitable policies. When a workplace is free of gender bias, both men and women gain significant personal benefits, including better health, greater freedom to be themselves, and improved ability to share financial responsibilities with a spouse or partner.
Neither men nor women want to be seen as "uncommitted" or relegated to the "slow track" when they leave work on time due to family obligations or other personal issues. And with Gen Y (and Z) now valuing work-life balance over "playing the game," companies will need to begin putting less emphasis on face time and long hours as a requirement for advancement.
All companies need to dismantle practices that lead to gender bias. Having women be more or less permanently excluded from most companies' top posts is, frankly, not cricket. We look forward to the day when men and women partner together to achieve balanced gender leadership in the UK and globally. It's only fair!
Deborah Gillis is chief operating officer, Catalyst
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As the temperatures dropped outside, Princeton students and staff turned up the heat inside. And it was not just the thermostats. Across campus, Campus Dining chefs and cooks led four sessions for 100 participants on culinary approach and technique.
Campus Dining News
Thursday, Jan 25, 2018
If you step into a dining hall any day on Princeton's campus, you're presented with a vast array of cuisines from around the world. While Campus Dining has had a composting initiative for 20 years as part of its sustainability efforts, there was a communal feeling that the food could go toward a better cause.
Thursday, Dec 28, 2017
The meeting, "Earth in 2050: Boundaries, Obstacles and Opportunities," was sponsored by the Princeton International Fund, the Princeton Environmental Institute and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment.
Wednesday, Dec 13, 2017
With tree branches to light their way, snow people, deer, polar bears and other winter creatures jumped on the Dinky to come see our residential dining halls on Tuesday, December 12 for the annual Holiday dinners.
Tuesday, Dec 12, 2017
This month Princeton University chefs visited local schools to share their knowledge and skills with students from pre-K to grade 5 as part of the Garden State on Your Plate program.
Wednesday, Dec 6, 2017
Head of Rockefeller College, Dr. Clarence Rowley prepared spaghetti carbonara at Rockefeller & Mathey dining halls on Tuesday, December 5 during dinner.
Friday, Dec 1, 2017
Mouthwatering aromas filled the air as students plated up mountains of colorful cranberry sauce, whipped mashed potatoes and as many as three different varieties of stuffing served in each location.
Thursday, Nov 2, 2017
Princeton University welcomed Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, president of Mauritius, on Oct. 5 for a day of discussion with students, faculty and staff about the state of global food systems.
Thursday, Oct 26, 2017
The residential dining halls and the Graduate College hosted Princeton University's annual Halloween dinners on Wednesday, October 25.
Monday, Oct 16, 2017
As part of a celebration of World Food Day, local farmers and Campus Dining staff met in Rockefeller College to discuss the state of local and domestic food systems as well as opportunities for collaboration.


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Andy Coulson played it brilliantly at the Leveson inquiry today.
He managed, under oath, to address coded messages to three constituencies quite separate from Lord Justice Leveson's team – News Corporation, No 10 and the public.
It struck me that in all three instances he wanted to be seen as a stand-up guy. And it worked. There was no hint of sour grapes.
He was careful not to be in the least bit critical of his former employers, including Rupert Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks. (He is, of course, engaged in a legal action to pressure the company to fund his legal fees).
He was also cautious in answering every question relating to David Cameron and George Osborne, wishing to underline that he remains loyal to the Tory party he served so well as director of communications.
As for the wider public, he came across as a straightforward man of the people. As one tweeting journalist pointed out, he was one of the only people to appear at the inquiry who did not have a posh accent.
Like many a previous witness, he appeared a little nervous at first. But he relaxed once he got the measure of the questions from the inquiry's lead counsel, Robert Jay QC.
Nor did he appear ruffled by occasional interventions by Leveson, who appeared unhappy with Coulson's apparent reluctance to offer less than candid explanations for his motive in taking the job as the Conservative party spin doctor.
It was a masterly display of stonewalling by Coulson, offering no hostages to fortune that I could detect. He exuded calm, from his dapper, well-groomed appearance to his measured, sometimes staccato, replies to questions. There were occasional moments of humour too.
Here was a man who appeared comfortable in his skin, almost the epitome of cool. He maintained that he wasn't particularly close to Murdoch even when editing the News of the World.
Indeed, when he resigned from the paper in 2007, he talked only to Les Hinton, the then head of News International, rather than Murdoch. That was one of the few surprises in his evidence.
He treated the inquiry to a sort of lesson in the art of spin-doctoring. Television was more "crucial" in influencing the public than newspapers in the run-up to the general election, he suggested.
The twin message could not have been more obvious: don't believe that Murdoch is a political string-puller and don't think that Cameron depended on relationships with newspaper editors.
Again, those were views that will have pleased his ex-bosses. Aside from that, he was lining up beside other publishers and editors who have given evidence in suggesting that newspapers are not as influential and importance to the political process as people, and some politicians, might think.
Overall, Coulson acquitted himself very well. He came across as clever, but without any sign of being a big head. He may be out of work just now, but he will have done his career prospects no harm by his calculated performance.
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Vata Balancing Soup0
7 C. Purified Water
1 Small baking Pumpkin – peeled, seeded and cubed
1 Winter Squash (acorn or butternut squash) – peeled, seeded and cubed
3 Sweet Potatoes – peeled and cubed
2 tsp. Mineral Salt
3 Tbls. Ghee
½ tsp. Black Mustard seeds – whole
½ tsp. Cumin seeds – whole
1 tsp. Turmeric – ground
½ tsp. Coriander – ground
½ tsp. Cinnamon – ground
¼ tsp. Cardamom – ground
pch. Nutmeg – ground
pch. Hing (Asafoetida) – ground
1 in. Ginger root, fresh – peeled and minced
2 Garlic cloves – minced
2 Leeks, white part – finely sliced
1 lb. Tofu, extra-firm – cubed
1 Tbls. Bragg's Liquid Aminos
½ C. Almond Butter
1 C. Cashews – chopped
1 Tbls. Pure Maple Syrup
1. Place water, pumpkin, winter squash, sweet potatoes and salt in a 5-quart pot – bring to a boil over high heat – reduce heat to medium, cover and simmer for about 15 minutes or until the ingredients are tender
2. Melt ghee over medium heat in a medium skillet – sauté black mustard seeds until they pop – add the cumin seeds, sauté – add the remaining ground spices, sauté – add the ginger, garlic and leeks, sauté – add tofu and Bragg's, sauté until golden brown
3. Remove 2 cups of broth and 2 cups of tender vegetables from pot and place in a blender – add almond butter – blend until smooth – pour back into the pot of vegetables, stir
4. Add sautéed ingredients to soup pot, stir – add cashews and maple syrup, stir
Makes 1 large pot of soup
Dosha Options – once soup is in bowl:
Vata – add a teaspoon of ghee, garnish with grated fresh ginger
Pitta – garnish with grated coconut
Kapha – add a dash of ground clove, garnish with grated fresh ginger


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Happen to have one of this Universal Remote bought from Gaint few months back at about $15 or so to replace my TV/DVD/VCR remotes all at the same time.
Learnt from the web that the infra-code of the D50 remote is similar to Sony and JVC devices.
Confirm & chopped. Now I have a TV/DVD/VCR/D50 remote that could fire my D50 across the room
Here are the Details:
Brand/Model: PowerPac RM-1001 Universal Remote
Code to program: 298 or Sony VCR
Activation Button: Play
I am happy now, I got another use for my remote.
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North Yarmouth is a town in Cumberland county, Maine. It was formed in 1732?. North Yarmouth began keeping vital records in 1720* and town records in 1732*. For more information, contact the county at 10 Village Sq. Rd., North Yarmouth 04097. On the attached map, North Yarmouth is shown as 19 in Cumberland county.
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Mississauga Auto Repair and Their Benefits
A car goes through a lot of wear and tear. This is because a car is subjected to a lot of harsh conditions like inclement weather or bad road conditions. It does not matter whether you drive your car on a regular basis or occasionally, your car will face some kind of problem at some point of their life. Hence, in order to fix the things, it's best to take the help of a professional Mississauga auto repair shop. The auto repair shop has with them a team of experienced mechanics who can investigate your vehicle and can ensure that it is in proper condition. In fact, they can get any minor issues fixed before it leads to any major problems.
What An Auto Repair Shop Can Do For You?
An auto repair shop has with them a team of experts who can diagnose and fix issues with your car. Moreover, having years of experience in repairing and restoring vehicles they can easily carry out any kind of repairing task on any models. Most importantly they can help clients by diagnosing any issues with the engine and getting it replaced. In fact, the auto repair shops will try to ensure that a vehicle receives high quality care. So it can be said that getting a car serviced or repaired by a skilled Mississauga auto repair shop can be of great benefit. Now let's check out the benefits.
Bigger Savings
If you plan to get your vehicle repaired from auto repair providers, you can take it to a local shop that provides auto repairing services instead of taking it to repairing services provided by dealership. This can help you to save a lot of money as the local shops have low overhead costs. A good auto repair shop will provide vehicle repair services for various models.
High Level of Expertise
A car needs to be repaired only by a skilled person. Skilled technicians of an auto repair shop have the necessary certification for carrying out extensive repairs. Being skilled they will be able to provide high-quality repairing services. The technicians having years of experience and training can carry out any kind of repairs. Moreover, the Mississauga auto repair shops have the necessary tools that can help to carry out repairs.
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Stop pursuing enlightenment and discover the direct path to God today!
David Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D, has traveled along the outermost edges of spiritual evolution for more than four decades. From calling on God when he was on the brink of death to living as a hermit for 12 years to focus on spiritual study and meditation, Dr. Hawkins is a true spiritual warrior.
Now, Dr. Hawkins, the creator of the spiritual power breakthrough that allows you to reach enlightened states using the well-established science of muscle-testing, has created his most transformational program yet.
In The Discovery: Revealing the Presence of God in Your Life, Dr. Hawkins reveals critical "insider" information that provides a simple clarity for "being" and "living" the reality of the mystic in your daily life. He provides an instruction manual for the serious spiritual devotee for learning how to:
The Discovery lifts a veil in your consciousness to reveal a world of magical divine realities that are happening to you every day of your life. By practicing Dr. Hawkins' ideas, you won't merely "know about" spiritual realities by reading the works of great spiritual mystics, you will "know" that such spiritual realities exist.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio.
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