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The National Disabled Veterans TEE Tournament is the brainchild of several employees of the Iowa City VA Medical Center, along with two visually impaired Iowa Veterans. These visionaries created the TEE Tournament, an acronym standing for TRAINING, EXPOSURE and EXPERIENCE. In 2008, it became one of six VA national rehabilitation programs for Veterans. The event expanded to include not only blind Veterans, but amputees, wheelchairbound Veterans, and those with other life changing disabilities. It takes place each year in Iowa City.
At the 2010 WIPO Assemblies, American pop legend Stevie Wonder made a plea for action by the Organization’s 184 member states to improve access to published works for those living with visual impairment. WIPO supports initiatives in the to facilitate access to information and cultural content to blind and visually impaired persons through its Vision IP Platform.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
The National Disabled Veterans TEE Tournament is the brainchild of several employees of the Iowa City VA Medical Center, along with two visually impaired Iowa Veterans. These visionaries created the TEE Tournament, an acronym standing for TRAINING, EXPOSURE and EXPERIENCE. In 2008, it became one of six VA national rehabilitation programs for Veterans. The event expanded to include not only blind Veterans, but amputees, wheelchairbound Veterans, and those with other life changing disabilities. It takes place each year in Iowa City.
Schopenhauer’s philosophy visually explained (as far as I understand it with my limited knowledge)
The empirical consciousness is like a glass with many facets.
The world of perception – or rather the (human) perception of the world – is like a glass with many facets.
Space, time and causality are properties of the empirical consciousness, not of the world, the world substance, the thing-in-itself. They are the modes of human cognition.
As a glass with many facets divides the object into many separated objects, space, time and causality divide the world substance, the will to life and reproduction, into many separated individuals and many separated individual wills. The causality divides into subject and object.
Space, time and causality are mere illusions caused by human limitation, by the limitation of the empirical consciousness.
Any individual has an object/subject mode.
An object cannot exist without a subject and vice versa.
There is no bridge between the world as representation and the world as idea. Man cannot transcend the glass with the many facets or the Veil of Maya. But he can get a glimpse of the world behind the glass or veil by means of aesthetic contemplation, compassion for the suffering of his neighbor and finally by an ascetic way of living.
A glass with many facets – extract from Schopenhauer’s “The World as Will and representation” where he wonders over the plurality and yet the uniformity of the world:
If we start from the knowledge of the particular, and not from that of the Idea, there is something astonishing, and sometimes even terrible, in the absolute uniformity of the laws of nature. It might astonish us that nature never once forgets her laws; that if, for example, it has once been according to a law of nature that where certain materials are brought together under given conditions, a chemical combination will take place, or gas will be evolved, or they will go on fire; if these conditions are fulfilled, whether by our interposition or entirely by chance (and in this case the accuracy is the more astonishing because unexpected), to-day just as well as a thousand years ago, the determined phenomenon will take place at once and without delay. We are most vividly impressed with the marvellousness of this fact in the case of rare phenomena, which only occur under very complex circumstances, but which we are previously informed will take place if these conditions are fulfilled. For example, when we are told that if certain metals, when arranged alternately in fluid with which an acid has been mixed, are brought into contact, silver leaf brought between the extremities of this combination will suddenly be consumed in a green flame; or that under certain conditions the hard diamond turns into carbonic acid. It is the ghostly omnipresence of natural forces that astonishes us in such cases, and we remark here what in the case of phenomena which happen daily no longer strikes us, how the connection between cause and effect is really as mysterious as that which is imagined between a magic formula and a spirit that must appear when invoked by it. On the other hand, if we have attained to the philosophical knowledge that a force of nature is a definite grade of the objectification of will, that is to say, a definite grade of that which we recognise as our own inmost nature, and that this will, in itself, and distinguished from its phenomena and their forms, lies outside time and space, and that, therefore, the multiplicity, which is conditioned by time and space, does not belong to it, nor directly to the grade of its objectification, i.e., the Idea, but only to the phenomena of the Idea; and if we remember that the law of causality has significance only in relation to time and space, inasmuch as it determines the position of the multitude of phenomena of the different Ideas in which the will reveals itself, governing the order in which they must appear; if, I say, in this knowledge the inner meaning of the great doctrine of Kant has been fully grasped, the doctrine that time, space, and causality do not belong to the thing-in-itself, but merely to the phenomenon, that they are only the forms of our knowledge, not qualities of things in themselves; then we shall understand that this astonishment at the conformity to law and accurate operation of a force of nature, this astonishment at the complete sameness of all its million phenomena and the infallibility of their occurrence, is really like that of a child or a savage who looks for the first time through a glass with many facets at a flower, and marvels at the complete similarity of the innumerable flowers which he sees, and counts the leaves of each of them separately.
William Alexander Månesøn. Prince of the Blue Moon.
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this young girl is visually impaired... and that does not restrict her to lead a normal life...she was making bindiya on her forehead while i took this portrait... as a whole she is entirely a great personality... enjoying each and every bits of life...
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2975 Charlotte Ellis (visually impaired) with guide, Cleveland Tri 1:18:01 (sprint)
2862 Mary Campbell, Chichester Westgate Tri 2:15:02
2911 James Smith (T3 paratriathlete) Newcastle (Staffs) Tri 1:17:58 (sprint)
Submitted by: Albino Mahumana
Country: Mozambique
Organisation: Dossiers &facto news leter
Category: Professional
Caption: Together we will win. the picture depicts a visually impaired group cantando.Maputo-Mozambique
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Photo uploaded from the #StrongerTogether Photo Competition website (photocomp.iapb.org)
Harlem, Manhattan
The IRT Broadway Line Viaduct is the most imposing and visually impressive above-ground engineering structure of the IRT subway system. Spanning the deep Manhattan Valley between 122nd Street and 135th Street along Broadway, the viaduct, designed by the engineers of the Board of Rapid Transit Railroad Commissioners, under the direction of chief engineer William Barclay Parsons., is an excellent example of a double-hinged parabolic braced arch structure. Supporting both the tracks and the 125th Street station, the viaduct is a testament to the skill of the engineers and contractors who designed and built New York City's first subway between 1900 and 1904.
Along Section 12 of the subway route on upper Broadway, a deep depression in the topography required the erection of a viaduct between 122nd and 135th Streets over Manhattan Street, now 125th Street. Standard viaduct construction could not be used for the entire length of the valley since the supports would have necessitated a costly realignment of the angled intersection of Broadway and Manhattan Street. For this reason, the center portion of the viaduct was created by using a double-hinged parabolic braced arch to carry the subway lines over Manhattan Street.
The Manhattan Valley Viaduct is actually composed by three different types of structures. The masonry approaches at both ends (from 122nd Street to LaSalle Street on the south and from 133rd Street to 135th Street on the north) are constructed of rough-faced granite piers with brick infill. A dressed stone molding runs along the tops of the piers supporting a stone guard rail holding name plates ornamented with guttae. These name plates were presumably to bear the name Inter-borough Rapid Transit Company, but were never filled in.
As the slope towards Manhattan Street increases, the stone approaches lead to steel structures of standard viaduct construction which support the tracks. This portion of the viaduct consists of impressive single-bent and double-bent steel towers spanned by plate girders. These towers in turn flank the center portion of the viaduct, a three-ribbed, double-hinged parabolic braced arch, spanning 168^ feet. Each rib is divided into fourteen panels, and from each panel joint a vertical post rises to support the floor system. Pins link the arch to the foundations which consist of two parallel rows of three concrete piers each. These arch foundations are carried to a depth of 30 feet below the street surface. The total length of the viaduct from 122nd Street to 135th Street (including the arch) is 2,174 feet, and the maximum height above 125th Street is 54 feet.
The station structure, centered above the arch and serving the 125th Street station, is extremely utilitarian and constructed of steel beams and wooden sheathing. Changes have been periodically made to the station through the years. Decorative iron railings and lamp posts extend along the sides of the station platforms. New escalators have replaced the originals, and these extend beyond the viaduct on both sides of the station.
The Manhattan Valley Viaduct, constructed for a specific purpose, resulted from the unusual topography of this section of Manhattan. The intent of the parabolic arch at the center was "to present lines consonant with an attractive effect, and to avoid unnecessary obstruction to the street or blemish to the landscape."*^ If function was paramount in the minds of the Rapid Transit engineers, the solution was beautiful as well as practical. With its bold masonry and graceful curves, the viaduct is both imposing and visually impressive, and is a major component of the IRT subway system.
- From the 1981 NYCLPC Landmark Designation Report
The National Disabled Veterans TEE Tournament is the brainchild of several employees of the Iowa City VA Medical Center, along with two visually impaired Iowa Veterans. These visionaries created the TEE Tournament, an acronym standing for TRAINING, EXPOSURE and EXPERIENCE. In 2008, it became one of VA's six national rehabilitation programs for Veterans. The event expanded to include not only blind Veterans, but amputees, wheelchairbound Veterans, and those with other life changing disabilities. It takes place each year in Iowa City.
Visually styled after a generic sedan, no make and model in particular. Seats three.
This is one of my favorite angles for it since it nicely shows off the sweep of the front fender.
More details on Brickshelf: www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=404587
The National Disabled Veterans TEE Tournament is the brainchild of several employees of the Iowa City VA Medical Center, along with two visually impaired Iowa Veterans. These visionaries created the TEE Tournament, an acronym standing for TRAINING, EXPOSURE and EXPERIENCE. In 2008, it became one of VA's six national rehabilitation programs for Veterans. The event expanded to include not only blind Veterans, but amputees, wheelchairbound Veterans, and those with other life changing disabilities. It takes place each year in Iowa City.
Today, we look at Figma 387 - Widowmaker, from Overwatch.
Widowmaker is the resident brainwashed Ballerina/Assassin from the Overwatch universe. Her backstory is quite fascinating, as I learned from watch Deathbattle on Youtube, and the resulting character design is visually appealing to say the least, probably my second favourite next to Pharah.
The box comes decently packed. You get the figure, an additional single open eye expression, a "visor down" piece, her signature Sniper rifle, parts to change that to its short range mode, a Venom Mine, a replacement left forearm for her grappling hook, a variety of hands, and of course the standard Figma stand.
Her overall silhouette is effectively what you'd expect from a trained Ballerina - lean. Detailing on the outfit is pretty much bang on what promotional material have shown me. The Figma has a torso that is too slender, as well as too much neck coupled with too small of a head. As a result, she looks kind of stretched vertically, so much so that I think she's really out of scale with Tracer, as from what I've read they're maybe 6 inches of height apart.
Having said that, her overall colour scheme lends itself quite nicely to the type of toy photography I normally like to do - single flash so there are spots of well lit coupled with shadows. Furthermore, her face plates appear to be spot on, and it appears that Good Smile Company has used that digital face painting technology that all the cool kids have rather than decals, which I guess improves the accuracy as well.
From an articulation perspective, Good Smile Company has augmented the standard Figma body to allow Widowmaker to properly wield her Sniper rifle. You get ankles, single jointed knees, hips, mid torso, shoulders, single jointed elbows that permit rotation above the joint, wrists, and neck. Widowmaker was also given pull down hips to improve range of motion there, as well as the ability to pull the shoulders such that, as mentioned above, she can properly pose with her rifle. There is also a point of articulation at the base of her pony tail to allow for the hair to be posed.
Paint is not an issue, as expected, and is sharp all over the body. Smooth consistent paint applications coupled with sharp masking for crisp edges, along with good detail highlights where applicable. Nice use of mixed finishes (glossy for the purple, semi gloss/matte for everything else). The same digital paint technology used for her face seems to be used for the tattoos on her right forearm.
Finally, there's build quality. The only real issue I have is that the visor doesn't always want to stay in its socket, which seems to be an issue I have with Tracer. Otherwise, beautifully finished parts with no visible seams or rough edges, coupled with a well made body featuring strong joints, proper limb lengths, and plastics that allow the aforementioned paintwork to shine.
So overall, another well executed Figma, with proportionality issues that are not exactly unique to this series, or even this product line on the whole.
Should the opportunity arise, I certainly wouldn't mind adding a few more choice Overwatch designs to the collection, most notable being Pharah and Mercy.
Visually witty map of the skills park, but probably not going to last too long in its current incarnation - see notes.
I-5 Colonnade mountain bike skills park in Seattle, WA.
The National Disabled Veterans TEE Tournament is the brainchild of several employees of the Iowa City VA Medical Center, along with two visually impaired Iowa Veterans. These visionaries created the TEE Tournament, an acronym standing for TRAINING, EXPOSURE and EXPERIENCE. In 2008, it became one of six VA national rehabilitation programs for Veterans. The event expanded to include not only blind Veterans, but amputees, wheelchairbound Veterans, and those with other life changing disabilities. It takes place each year in Iowa City.
This work in progress visually explores the rural spaces of the east-west railroad corridor traversing the northern part of Montana called the Hi-Line. I travel these roads during the spring months and am always impressed by the vast open spaces and the small details that show how people live and what they value.
These photographs are inspired by the New Topographics photography that recorded the changing Western United States landscape in the early 1970s due to human intervention. People alter the land with a design and purpose in mind—the everyday structures they build and let decay through time reflect changing cultural values and economic necessities.
Photographing present-day life can help define it for future generations because what is “factual” now becomes more revealing of human values through the lens of time. What will these images tell us about the changing rural American landscape and culture twenty or forty years from now? That is for future generations to decide.
See more on my website
www.jimkushmanphotography.com/GalleryMain.asp?GalleryID=1...
Poster Design for Campaign Awareness project for the NFB, to call attention to the alarming literacy rate of the blind & visually impaired.
Motion Typography video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NK7w6i9qxU
To view complete project: www.behance.net/gallery/19-Literacy-Crisis/875613
NWA 17502 is visually pleasing, the typical rock found on the lunar surface, itself a capsule reflecting the bombardment the moon has received, smashing rocks together by numerous meteor strikes.
This is a central slice from the single stone, classified as a lunar fragmental breccia. "Electron microprobe analysis confirms a lunar fragmental breccia with plagioclase-rich lithic clasts, mineral clasts of olivine and pigeonite, and shock melt. Major phases are plagioclase, pigeonite, and olivine."
It was found in 2024 in the Sahara desert, where it stuck out against the yellow sands. 6" x 3.5" x 2mm and 69g
Torpedoes are not the most powerful weapons of the fleet (see mass-cannon) but they are cheap to produce and the recent discovery of the fredium greatly help to miniaturize missiles.
The TREBUCHET carries 12 seminuclear class torpedoes, 8 void ones (creating medium size black holes that last 20 seconds) and 4 nano-cloud torpedoes (being able to quickly dismentle ennemy ships or repair minor damages on ally fighters). It's equiped with a high velocity gatling and two rear automatic light laser turrets for self defense.
Prominent footballers, coaches, international experts and representatives from sport organisations and clubs came together for the launch of ‘A Ball for All’ – a project to promote access to the practice of football for blind and visually impaired people.
The launch event, which was organised by Save the Dream, took place at Aspire Zone on the occasion of National Sport Day.
Run in collaboration with the Qatar Financial Centre (QFC), Sasol, under its Definitely Able initiative, Qatar Social & Cultural Centre for the Blind (QSCCB) and Aspire Zone Foundation (AZF), the event featured French ambassador to Qatar Eric Chevallier, Qatar Sports Club and former Inter Milan player Luis Jimenez and legendary international coach Bora Milutinovic.
"與立法會議員暢談"—立法會綜合大樓午間音樂表演（表演學校：心光盲人院暨學校）
"与立法会议员畅谈"—立法会综合大楼午间音乐表演（表演学校：心光盲人院暨学校）
"Meeting with Members"—music performance at the Legislative Council Complex (Performing school: Ebenezer School and Home for the Visually Impaired) (2017.10.20)
This visually poetic short film captures the magical world of New York that fills me with all kinds of childlike wonders. The 'city that never sleeps' is the only place (if any) that could ever keep me living happily for life. I love this fucking city and this film is amazing!
See Sub City New York at vimeo.com/redglass/sub-city-nyc
(Film by Sarah Klein and Tom Mason
Concept by Jennifer McClory
Music by Erik Satie)
A visit to the Schuylkill Mall, 11/8/14
If the quality of this picture wasn't horrendous, you could actually see the slotted wall I was trying to photograph. I really need to get an actual camera.
*This is my very first attempt at documenting a shopping mall. Armed only with a 4th generation iPod Touch, the quality didn't turn out as well as I expected and the general framing and composition of the shots suffered in some areas. I hope to both get better equipment and sensibilities to continue doing this.*
A comment from the Irish Amateur Wrestling Association
"Inclusiveness is key! This was spectacular.
A visually impaired wrestler competing in a main stream championship wrestling tournament. Arron, from Portlaoise Combat Academy Vs Peyton from Mohawk Valley Wrestling Club NY. One of the wrestlers was visually impaired, so to even out abilities, both wrestlers were blind folded.
Well done to Referee John for his experienced approach to this bout.
Great sportsmanship & wrestling from both."
The Irish Open 2022 Freestyle Wrestling Tournament was held on Saturday 15 October 2022 at :-
The National Sports Campus
Snugborough Rd,
Blanchardstown
Dublin
D05 EPN4
More than 160 wrestlers, representing 33 clubs were in action at the Sports Campus Ireland National Indoor Arena in Blanchardstown.
The I.A.W.A' s biggest championship yet! Was organised on 3 mats with wrestlers from clubs around Ireland and the World!
There were wrestlers from Ireland, the UK, the USA and more!.
Blind and low-vision high school students were joined by parents and educators while touring the University of Michigan’s 3D Lab in the Duderstadt Center in Ann Arbor, MI on November 1, 2018.
The tour was part of the program, “21st Century Transportation, Careers for Students Blind and Visually Impaired,” which covered emerging careers in autonomous transportation and what skills and education students would need for a future job in that field. The event was led by Clive D’Souza, an assistant professor of industrial and operations engineering, and also included talks by industry professionals.
Photo: Evan Dougherty/Michigan Engineering
Shawn O'Grady, a fabrication specialist in the University of Michigan 3D Lab, talks to blind and low-vision high school students during a tour of the lab in the Duderstadt Center in Ann Arbor, MI on November 1, 2018.
The tour was part of the program, “21st Century Transportation, Careers for Students Blind and Visually Impaired,” which covered emerging careers in autonomous transportation and what skills and education students would need for a future job in that field. The event was led by Clive D’Souza, an assistant professor of industrial and operations engineering, and also included talks by industry professionals.
Photo: Evan Dougherty/Michigan Engineering
The W212 Mercedes E63 is the perfect family missle machine. Larger than our favorite, the C63, this fourth generation E63 has more room, more comfort, but also packs a huge punch with the V8 engine. The 6.208L engine found in the 2009-2011 puts out 518hp and 460ft/lb of torque. 2011 to 2015 Me...
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Our visually abusive trip to Karim Rashid's POS, Kurve, led us to find greener pastures... back on an a real architects turf at Morimoto (and Ando was never even formally trianed).
The National Disabled Veterans TEE Tournament is the brainchild of several employees of the Iowa City VA Medical Center, along with two visually impaired Iowa Veterans. These visionaries created the TEE Tournament, an acronym standing for TRAINING, EXPOSURE and EXPERIENCE. In 2008, it became one of six VA national rehabilitation programs for Veterans. The event expanded to include not only blind Veterans, but amputees, wheelchairbound Veterans, and those with other life changing disabilities. It takes place each year in Iowa City.
Medieval stained glass in the south nave aisle of York Minster. Most of the nave windows preserve their original 14th century glass, though some scenes are patched and confused visually by the many repairs that have been required over the centuries. Most windows follow the format of two rows of three scenes set within plainer areas of quarries and rich borders.
York Minster is England's largest medieval cathedral and almost impossible to do justice to. It has an awesome presence that cannot fail to impress.
Uniquely the cathedral was spared the ravages of the Civil War that decimated the medieval art of most English cathedrals and churches, and it thus possesses the largest collection of medieval glass in Britain throughout most of it's vast windows.
Sadly this fortune was not matched by the Minster's vulnerability to fire which has ravaged the building in 3 major outbreaks, the worst in 1829 when a madman set fire to the precious medieval furniture of the choir, which was destroyed along with the organ and the high vaulted ceiling of the eastern half of the church. Only 11 years after this tragedy a careless workman accidentally set fire to the nave roof, which also lost it's vault. Both roofs were rebuilt in replica, but a further fire caused by lightning strike in 1984 destroyed the south transept roof (rebuilt 4 years later).
Most medieval cathedrals were provided with stone vaulted ceilings precisely to avoid the problems suffered here, but York's builders found that building on such an unprecedentedly large scale brought limitations, thus all the Minster's high ceilings had to be built of wood in imitation of stone. An Achilles' Heel, but a beautiful one!
Visually appealing chair/tarp combo, 4th of July parade, Telluride, CO.
Take underwater pictures with me at the Evolution Photoganza in the Philippines in September 2013, and enjoy more of my photography & tales of the underwater world in "Sex, Drugs and Scuba Diving".
Potsdamer Strasse, Berlin Mitte.
The visually dramatic Sony Center (2000), by architect Helmut Jahn, is fronted by the 26-floor glass-and-steel Bahn Tower.
With its spectacular roof construction the Sony Center has become an internationally famous landmark of Berlin.
Potsdamer Platz is one of the world’s most interesting and popular city squares.
In the 1990s, it was the focus of the biggest private-sector urban construction project in Europe.
In just five years (1993–1998), 19 buildings, 10 streets and 2 plazas were built and a completely new district emerged in the middle of the city.
The master plan was developed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano, who worked together with Christoph Kohlbecker, Arata Isozaki, Hans Kollhoff, Ulrike Lauber, Wolfgang Wöhr, Josè Raphael Moneo and Richard Rogers.
Today, Potsdamer Platz attracts more than 70,000 visitors every day.
@berlin @potsdamer_platz
The National Disabled Veterans TEE Tournament is the brainchild of several employees of the Iowa City VA Medical Center, along with two visually impaired Iowa Veterans. These visionaries created the TEE Tournament, an acronym standing for TRAINING, EXPOSURE and EXPERIENCE. In 2008, it became one of six VA national rehabilitation programs for Veterans. The event expanded to include not only blind Veterans, but amputees, wheelchairbound Veterans, and those with other life changing disabilities. It takes place each year in Iowa City.
Blind and low-vision high school students were joined by parents and educators while touring the University of Michiganâs 3D Lab in the Duderstadt Center in Ann Arbor, MI on November 1, 2018.
The tour was part of the program, â21st Century Transportation, Careers for Students Blind and Visually Impaired,â which covered emerging careers in autonomous transportation and what skills and education students would need for a future job in that field. The event was led by Clive DâSouza, an assistant professor of industrial and operations engineering, and also included talks by industry professionals.
Photo: Evan Dougherty/Michigan Engineering
The coffee table wedding book was divided between two 12x12-inch books, because there was so much to visually tell. In total, there was 200+ pages, 5 chapters documenting the Indian wedding process that took place over 3 days, and a custom cover design that nods to Indian culture, but still being contemporary for our young couple.
With a little manipulation in Photoshop, sensitivity for typography, an eye for layout structure, and a few words of dedication written by me, I must say these books are another great addition to the Design With Chon portfolio of custom books.
Technique: Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator/InDesign, Digital Printing on Premium Satin 100lb.Text Paper
Credits: Cover, book layout, retouching and written copy was produced by Chon
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Marilyn Rushton, a well-known Burnaby citizen, is awarded with the province’s newest honour, the Medal of Good Citizenship.
Rushton is honoured for her for inspirational life of service to the visually impaired community, her contributions to families with blind and visually impaired children, and her energetic support for the musical community.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2016IGR0025-001407
This visually impaired young man was don in bright red windbreaker and crossing the street with confidence to his own road-side stall selling small items. In Quanzhou, i see a strong sense of independence and entrepreneurship in almost everyone, very different from the people in the northern China.
Daniel Fessahazion, manager of the University of Michigan Library Emerging Technologies Group, listens in as Shawn O'Grady, a fabrication specialist in the U-M 3D Lab, talks to blind and low-vision high school students during a tour of the lab in the Duderstadt Center in Ann Arbor, MI on November 1, 2018.
The tour was part of the program, “21st Century Transportation, Careers for Students Blind and Visually Impaired,” which covered emerging careers in autonomous transportation and what skills and education students would need for a future job in that field. The event was led by Clive D’Souza, an assistant professor of industrial and operations engineering, and also included talks by industry professionals.
Photo: Evan Dougherty/Michigan Engineering
Mark Riccobono, president of National Federation of the Blind, and Clive D'Souza, assistant professor of industrial and operations engineering at the University of Michigan pose in the 3D Lab of the Duderstadt Center in Ann Arbor, MI on November 1, 2018.
A tour of the 3D Lab was part of the program, “21st Century Transportation, Careers for Students Blind and Visually Impaired,” which covered emerging careers in autonomous transportation and what skills and education students would need for a future job in that field. The event was led by D’Souza and included talks by Riccobono and industry professionals.
Photo: Evan Dougherty/Michigan Engineering
INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY HARD WARE AND SOFTWARE TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT OF VISUALLY CHALLENGED / IMPAIRED - JAWS (SCREEN READER), MAGIC (SCREEN MAGNIFIER), KURZWEIL 1000, OPENBOOK, ABBYFINE READER (OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION SOFTWARES), SPELL WELL, DRAGON NATURALLY SPEAKING, VICTOR READER, ANGEL EBOOK READER, BRAILLE HARDWARE & BRAILLE TRANSCRIPION SOFTWARE, STATE OF ART RESOURCE CENTRE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED 2010 2011- SATHYASEELAN.S- COORDINATOR CUM SOCIAL WORKER, MODEL RESOURCE CENTRE OF DISABILITY SERVICES 2010 2011 (NIVH (GOV.OF.INDIA)-LOYOLA COLLEGE)