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Peter Korn, Director of Accessibility at Amazon’s Lab 126, Gives Us a Demo on the Alexa equipped Microwave Oven. Peter also goes over the brand new Echo Show 5 which comes with a 5 inch diaganol screen and Voice View built screen reading capabilities as well as Alexa all in one. Full Transcript Below Peter gives us an overview of the Amazon Fire TV Addition Toshiba Smart TV’s now available in 20 different models starting at 24 inches with a HD Screen for $150 and up to a 55 inch, 4K Ultra HD Screen and Dolby for only $450. Yes, the Toshiba comes with Amazon Fire TV technology, Voice View and Magnification Built-In to the Amazon Fire TV Addition TV right out of the box. Peter also goes over the Fire Tablets and the Braille support features as well as the newest feature called Hands Free Alexa.  Join Peter Korn and Simon Bonenfant as they make some popcorn using Alexa commands and talk Amazon devices. You can find out more about all the Amazon devices on the web at www.Amazon.com ***** Contact Your State Services If you reside in Minnesota, and you would like to know more about Transition Services from State Services contact Transition Coordinator Sheila Koenig by email or contact her via phone at 651-539-2361. To find your State Services in your State you can go to www.AFB.org and search the directory for your agency. Contact: Thank you for listening! You can follow us on Twitter @BlindAbilities On the web at www.BlindAbilities.com Send us an email Get the Free Blind Abilities App on the App Storeand Google Play Store. Check out the Blind Abilities Communityon Facebook, the Blind Abilities Page, the Career Resources for the Blind and Visually Impairedand the Assistive Technology Community for the Blind and Visually Impaired.   Full Transcript   While Popping Popcorn with Alexa, Peter Korn and Simon Bonenfant Talk Echo Show 5, Amazon Fire TV Addition Toshiba TVs and the Affordable Fire Tablets with Braille Support. #NFB19   Jeff Thompson: Welcome to Blind Abilities. Here's our teen correspondent, Simon Bonenfant.   Simon Bonenfant: Hello, everyone on Blind Abilities. This is Simon Bonenfant reporting from Las Vegas, Nevada at the 2019 National Federation of the Blind National Convention. I'm in the Exhibit Hall today, and I'm at the Amazon area here. I got a chance to talk to Peter Korn. How's it going, Peter?   Peter Korn: It's going very well. It's wonderful to be here at the NFB Convention in Las Vegas.   Simon Bonenfant: That's great. Can you explain to the listeners your title and a little bit about what you do at Amazon?   Peter Korn: Sure. This is my sixth year with Amazon. I'm the director of accessibility for all of our devices, and this is my 28th year in the field of accessibility, having cut my teeth on the outSPOKEN screen reader for Macintosh and Windows back in the mid-nineties.   Simon Bonenfant: Wow. So you have a lot of good accessibility knowledge. That's great. But what kind of features does Amazon offer for accessibility?   Peter Korn: Well, every device that we make has a host of accessibility features built in. We're standing right now in front of a Toshiba television, but this isn't just any Toshiba television, this is the Amazon Fire TV addition television. So it's got all of our Fire TV technology built into it. That means it has the VoiceView screen reader built in. It has our Magnifier built in. It has Alexa built in.   Peter Korn: Being a streaming television, it also means that I can stream Prime Video, and we have nearly 600 Prime Video titles with audio description. That includes every Amazon original title that we make, plus many things from Warner Brothers and so on.   Peter Korn: You can also watch Netflix or Hulu or Showtime or HBO on this television. And it's a television, so you can plug in an antenna and you can get over the air broadcast TV. If you're in one of the 60 major metropolitan areas, you can even get one of the few hours of audio described broadcast TV and enjoy that with description on this television.   Peter Korn: This is the 50-inch model. We have 20 different models, starting at 24 inches and an HD screen for 150 bucks, all the way up to a 55 inch, 4K Ultra HD, Dolby Vision model for $450.   Simon Bonenfant: Very cool. You have some Alexa enabled devices as well?   Peter Korn: If we come around this way, the newest of our Echo devices, this is the new Echo Show 5. The Show 5 is one of our Echo devices with a screen. It's a five-inch diagonal screen. It's got Amazon Alexa in it. Everything you can do with any other Alexa device, you can do with this one. Plus, if you want... You're sighted. You like the idea of having a little clock by your nightstand. This is the perfect size to display a nice big clock.   Peter Korn: It has a screen, which means it has VoiceView and it has our Magnifier, because we don't make screens and expect that people can use them if they don't have a screen reader on them.   Peter Korn: So I accidentally unplugged it as I pulled it forward. It's plugged back in and it's finishing booting up. It finished booting up and that's the VoiceView turning on sound that we've just heard.   Simon Bonenfant: Very nice.   Peter Korn: It's still finishing its boot up here. Once it's finished booting up, I'm going to ask it to do some stuff.   Peter Korn: I also have right next to it-   Alexa: VoiceView ready. 2:08 PM.   Peter Korn: ... Yes, dear. I have the Amazon Basics Alexa enabled microwave.   Simon Bonenfant: Yeah, I saw that yesterday. That was pretty cool. Yeah, talk about a little about that for us.   Peter Korn: Yeah. So this is $59.99 microwave will pair with Alexa, and I can use my voice to cook. So I'm going to take this little bag of Skinny Girl popcorn, pop it into the microwave, and then say, "Alexa, microwave one ounce of popcorn,"   Alexa: Starting popcorn. One Minute, eight seconds.   Simon Bonenfant: Wow.   Peter Korn: And there she goes.   Simon Bonenfant: And I can-   Peter Korn: And in little under a minute, we're going to have some hot buttered popcorn.   Simon Bonenfant: ... I can kind of hear it and I can kind of smell it too. It's kind of cooking.   Peter Korn: It is.   Simon Bonenfant: Wow. That is really neat. Yeah.   Peter Korn: Some of the newer, well for many years now, microwaves have had the ability to do fairly complex things like defrost a pound and a half of chicken.   Peter Korn: I do this many minutes at this low power setting, and then bring up the power for a few more minutes, and bring up the power again for the last few minutes, right? That little programming there. But typing all of that in on the touch panel is really difficult, but you can just use your voice-   Simon Bonenfant: And Alexa figures out the settings and the modes it needs.   Peter Korn: ... Exactly. So you can reheat your dinner, you can pop popcorn, you can say, "This much ground beef to defrost."   Simon Bonenfant: And it does it. Wow.   Peter Korn: And it just does it. And-   Simon Bonenfant: Really cool.   Peter Korn: ... Well-   Simon Bonenfant: And there it is.   Peter Korn: ... There's my popcorn.   Simon Bonenfant: Look at that. Wow. That's really cool.   Peter Korn: Just open it up here. It's nice and smoking hot.   Simon Bonenfant: It is. Wow. I can feel that. I smell it too. Wow, that's cool.   Peter Korn: If you want some hot popcorn, reach on in.   Simon Bonenfant: I'll try a little bit. Wow.   Peter Korn: And there you go.   Simon Bonenfant: I also noticed yesterday, I was over here and you had some tablets. Talk about them a little bit.   Peter Korn: These are the Fire tablets. We've got the seven-inch model for $49.99. Has VoiceView, has our Magnifier, has large print. You can watch movies, you can read Kindle books, you can play audio books.   Peter Korn: New this year, we have what's called hands-free Alexa, where there's a special chip in this tablet that allows it to be mostly asleep, but just quietly listening with a little bit of power for the wake word. And when you say it, she then responds.   Simon Bonenfant: That's cool.   Peter Korn: And that's again $49. It also has very powerful Braille support-   Simon Bonenfant: Wow.   Peter Korn: ... built in. We've been doing a lot to make a very efficient Braille interface. These Braille displays are fairly expensive. And you pay maybe a few hundred, maybe $700 for a 20-cell display. But for the most part, they're into the thousands of dollars.   Simon Bonenfant: Yeah, that's true.   Peter Korn: So those cells are really precious. So you don't want to waste a ton of space saying, "Checkbox checked," and then the name of the checkbox. That's already off the end of your 20-   Simon Bonenfant: Right. Yeah, yeah.   Peter Korn: ... Right? So we use special non-character Braille glyphs to tell you that it's a checked checkbox. We have-   Simon Bonenfant: So it's not going to take up cells.   Peter Korn: ... It's going to take up three cells.   Simon Bonenfant: Okay.   Peter Korn: To say this-   Simon Bonenfant: So it's a lot less. Wow. Okay.   Peter Korn: ... Exactly.   Simon Bonenfant: That's great. So you're getting more Braille for your space. You're optimizing the space and the Braille.   Peter Korn: Now at the same time, you've probably seen a lot of these tablets. You have a row of icons right on the home screen. And you focus one icon at a time and you put one icon's worth of text on the Braille display.   Peter Korn: Well, if it's Kindle, that's six letters. You still have another 14 characters on that display that you're not using. So we will create a line of multiple things on the same row. Though the same idea, we use as many of those precious cells as we can to make a more efficient interface, where the bottom of the screen, you've got back, home, and app switcher. B-A-C-K, space, H-O-M-E, space, A-P-P, and then the rest of it is off the end.   Peter Korn: I've got touch cursors over each cell. So when I navigate down to back, home, app switcher, I can just touch the button over, back or home-   Simon Bonenfant: And it'll do it.   Peter Korn: ... and it'll do it. I don't have to navigate through all three. I'm more efficient. I'm more productive.   Simon Bonenfant: Yeah, that is. Wow.   Peter Korn: So that's some of the innovation that's in VoiceView Braille available on all three tablets starting at 49 bucks.   Simon Bonenfant: Wow. That's available right now.   Peter Korn: Available right now. You can go to the Amazon store in the sky from your browser or from your iPhone, from your whatever, and order it. Well, fantastic. Thank you so much for coming by. Is there anything else I can help you with?   Simon Bonenfant: No, that's all for me. That's all for you. We're good. So thank you, Peter, for talking with me today. Thank you for talking to the listeners of the Blind Abilities podcast.   Simon Bonenfant: I'm very grateful for the work that you're doing at Amazon. You're doing a lot of good work for the community, the blindness community. And a lot of good things are coming because of your vast knowledge of accessibility and your drive to make things work well. I appreciate the work you do.   Peter Korn: It's just an utter pleasure to be in this field and to be at a company like Amazon that can have such a huge impact on the lives of our customers with disabilities.   Jeff Thompson: Thank you, Peter Korn. And thank you, Simon Bonenfant. Be sure to check out all of our 2019 Convention coverage right here on Blind Abilities.   Jeff Thompson: Enable the Blind Abilities Skill on your Amazon device just by saying, "Enable Blind Abilities."   Jeff Thompson: You can download the Blind Abilities podcast on to your Victor Stream, on to any of your podcatcher of choice. Downcast, Overcast, the Apple Podcast app in your iDevice. TuneIn radio, IHeartRadio. If you've got Siri, you've got Google, you've got Amazon, then you've got Blind Abilities.   Jeff Thompson: Most importantly, I want to thank you, the listener. I want to thank you for listening. Hope you enjoyed, and until next time, bye-bye.   [Music]  [Transition noise]  -When we share -What we see -Through each other's eyes...   [Multiple voices overlapping, in unison, to form a single sentence]   ...We can then begin to bridge the gap between the limited expectations, and the realities of Blind Abilities.   Jeff Thompson: For more podcasts with the blindness perspective: Check us out on the web at www.BlindAbilities.com On Twitter @BlindAbilities Download our app from the App store:  'Blind Abilities'; that's two words. Or send us an e-mail at: info@blindabilities.com Thanks for listening.

The Bottom Line,  Part 1 The 2nd Coming of Christ By Louie Marsh, 6-16-2019 Pictures – last one 70 AD.   What It Is….           1) The VISIBLE/PHYSICAL return of Jesus to earth.   27  And then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. Luke 21:27 (ESV)   What It Means….           1) God Is In CONTROL.   10  as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth. Ephesians 1:10 (ESV)   9  letting us in on the plans he took such delight in making. He set it all out before us in Christ, 10  a long-range plan in which everything would be brought together and summed up in him, everything in deepest heaven, everything on planet earth. Ephesians 1:9-10 (MSG)             2) I will be held ACCOUNTABLE for everything I do. 27  For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each person according to what he has done. Matthew 16:27 (ESV)             3) God Will REWARD His Children. 4  And when the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory. 1 Peter 5:4 (ESV)   What It Does….             1) Motivates Us To Use Our Resources WISELY.   13  So he called ten of his servants and gave them ten minas. 'Put this money to work,' he said, 'until I come back.' Luke 19:13 (NIV)             2) Motivates Us To Live a HOLY LIFE.   23  Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Thessalonians 5:23 (ESV)             3) Motivates Us to Stay FAITHFUL. 28  And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his coming. 1 John 2:28 (ESV)             4) Gives Us a true and living HOPE. 13  waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, 14  who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works. Titus 2:13-14 (ESV)   2  Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 (ESV)   The Bottom Line!   Jesus Is COMING BACK, but we don’t know WHEN, so we MUST be READY. 44  Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect. Matthew 24:44 (ESV)  

Storyteller and Stand Up Comedian Liv Milano talks about her Hollywood life and it’s sometimes sexy in The Not So Sexy, Sexy Podcast with Liv Milano & special guest Cassidy Milano. Also discussed in Episode #17 Cassidy Milano's Killer Babies, Aliens and Octopi: Colette Lush, Rude Teachers, Gender Stuff, True Crime Shows, Ghosts, Aliens, Octopi, Surfing, Temecula/Murietta Sucks, Fanatical Christians, Shout Out to Pretty Funny Women and Cassidy Gets Possessed and Gives Us a Fortune. https://www.patreon.com/livmilano IG: @livmilano @thenotsosexysexypodcast www.livmilano.com Please Subscribe! Thank you Shane, Tim and everyone supporting the podcast!

Peter Korn, Director of Accessibility at Amazon’s Lab 126 Gives Us a Demo on the Toshiba with Amazon Fire TV Built-In and an Overview of the Amazon Fire Cube. On the floor of the exhibit hall at the 2018 NFB Convention we had to check out the Amazon booth. Peter Korn, Director of Accessibility Lab 126, gives us an overview of the Toshiba Smart TV’s now available from Best Buy due to a partnership with Amazon that puts the Fire TV functionality built into the Smart TV. Meaning that  Alexa, Voice View screen reader  and magnification are all built in to the 43 inch, 50 inch and 55 inch, with 4K Ultra HD capability. All 3 models differ only by size. Peter also gives us an overview of the Amazon Fire Cube. A device that will give you voice control of your entire entertainment center. Peter reminds us of Amazon’s Prime Day coming up on July 16 kicking off at noon and most of these items will be discounted along with thousands of other great deals. Check out more about Amazon’s great devices on Amazon.comand check out the Toshiba Fire TV’s at www.BestBuy.com   Be sure to check out our sponsor Aira on the web at www.Aira.ioand find out more about gaining instant access to information. Image of the Aira Logo[/caption] Your Life, Your Schedule, Right Now.   Using augmented reality, Aira connects people who are blind or low vision to a trained professional agent who is dedicated to further enhancing their everyday experience – completely hands-free assistance at the touch of a button.   Thank you for listening! You can follow us on Twitter @BlindAbilities On the web at www.BlindAbilities.com Send us an email Get the Free Blind Abilities App on the App Store. Get the Free blind Abilities App on the Google Play Store      

Epigraph We’re here on episode number 5 with Liberty Hardy, contributing editor at Book Riot and co-host of the All the Books! podcast. In addition to this LibSyn landing page, you can find us on Tumblr or stream the episode on iTunes and Stitcher. Follow us on Twitter at @drunkbookseller for updates, book recs, and general bookish shenanigans. Bitches in Bookshops Our theme music is awesome. Bitches in Bookshops comes to us with permission from Annabelle Quezada. Introduction   [0:30] In Which We Drink PBR and Discuss ALL THE BOOKS Coming Out in October In addition to her Book Riot work, Liberty is a roaming bookseller, former bookseller at RiverRun Bookstore in New Hampshire, judge for Bookspan’s Book of the Month Club, volunteer librarian, and self-proclaimed velocireader. Drink of the Day: Pabst Blue Ribbon. Yes, that PBR. Originally posted by uponfurtherreview-mark Emma’s reading Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science by Charles Wheelan, and A Wild Swan: And Other Tales by Michael Cunningham Kim’s reading Phoebe and her Unicorn by Dana Simpson, My Fight/Your Fight by Ronda Rousey, The Mark and the Void by Paul Murray, and Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert. Liberty’s reading Mrs. Engels by Gavin McCrea, Twain’s End by Lynn Cullen, and Monsters: The Hindenburg Disaster and the Birth of Pathological Technology by Ed Regis. October is a very exciting month for books, amiright? Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor  Slade House by David Mitchell The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff Witches of America by Alex Mar Science of the Magical: From the Holy Grail to Love Potions to Superpowers by Matt Kaplan Plotted: A Literary Atlas by Andrew Degraff and Daniel Harmon  Our Spoons Came from Woolworths by Barbara Comyns Last Night’s Reading: Illustrated Encounters with Extraordinary Authors by Kate Gavino We Five by Mark Dunn The Mare by Mary Gaitskill Avenue of Mysteries by John Irving The Givenness of Things: Essays by Marilynne Robinson Numero Zero by Umberto Eco Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente Also mentioned: The Penguin Book of Witches by Katherine Howe, Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn, various books by Cat Valente (Six-Gun Snow White, Deathless, Speak Easy) Chapter I   [16:45] In Which Liberty Doesn’t Have To Wear Pants, Tells Us Her Secret to Reading ALL the Books, and Gives Us a Tour of Her Library and Cat B&B Liberty’s last official brick-and-mortar bookselling gig was at RiverRun Bookstore in Portsmouth, NH. Now she talks about books on the interwebz at Book Riot and doesn’t have to wear pants, which seems like a pretty sweet deal to me. Originally posted by nevadatrek If you’re not listening to Liberty’s podcast every week, you should. Like, stop reading this and go listen to All the Books! instead. We’ll wait.  Want to read like a bookseller? You can score advanced digital copies of books from NetGalley and Edelweiss. Learn more about Edelweiss here. Fun Fact: The average person reads 215 words per minute. Liberty reads 536 words a minute. How do you match up? Liberty only sleeps 3 to 4 hours a night. So, that’s a thing. Originally posted by redbullmediahouse Chapter II   [31:30] In Which Gary Shteyngart Writes a Successful Blurb, A Giant Crate of Books Washes Up On Liberty’s Desert Island,  Liberty’s fav local bookstore haunt is Water Street Bookstore in Exeter, NH. She also “accidentally” bought a bunch of books from Small Beer Press in the middle of the night (including The Liminial War by Ayize Jama-Everett and Kalpa Imperial by Angélica Gorodischer, translated byUrsula K. Le Guin). And she gives a big shout out to Sherman’s Books in Portland, ME and their store manager Josh Christie who, spoiler alert, is our next guess on Drunk Booksellers! Liberty’s a judge for Bookspan’s Book of the Month Club. Sounds rad. Liberty’s wheelhouse: anything compared to Kurt Vonnegut or The Secret History by Donna Tartt We talk blurbs. Gary Shteyngart blurbs everything, including this gem about Sloane Crosley’s new novel: “The Clasp reads like The Goonieswritten by Lorrie Moore.” It’s kinda brilliant. Liberty’s Desert Island Books: The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin, The Giant’s House by Elizabeth McCracken, The Known World by Edward P. Jones, The Secret History by Donna Tartt, The Sorrows of a Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, My Name is Asher Levby Chaim Potok  Station Eleven Books: Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy, Pat the Bunny by Dorothy Kunhardt, a Charles Portis book other than True Grit Wild Book: Calvin & Hobbes by Bill Watterson. Possibly on an iPad? With an external charger? That’s probably cheating… Originally posted by gifsboom Chapter III   [42:45] In Which We Make Authors Awkward with Our Literary Tattoos Go to Handsell: Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn, The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America Trade Book by Erik Larson Impossible Handsell: The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith,Tampa by Alissa Nutting Liberty’s Literary Tattoos include:  “What a punishing business it is simply being alive.” -from The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters “Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart.” -from ”In the Desert” Stephen Crane Goodbye Blue Monday Bomb from Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Baba Yaga Chicken Leg House from Hellboy Juice Box w/ Drink Umbrella from The Tick Last Book Gifted: M Train by Patti Smith Liberty has very literary cats. Their names are Steinbeck (instead of Spork from Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway) & Millay Emma’s cat’s name is Link. As in Kelly Link, not this Link: Originally posted by themaverickk Literary media for your immediate consumption: Lit Hub The Scofield Flavorwire Buzzfeed The Millions Electric Literature Publishers Weekly Shelf Awareness Epilogue   [56:45] In Which You Can Find Liberty on the Interwebz and She Explains Frampton Comes Alive to Your Hosts Twitter: @MissLiberty Tiny Letter: Franzen Comes Alive Website: FranzenComesAlive.com Tumblr: franzencomesalive.tumblr.com/ posts on Book Riot Originally posted by richardsmanuel Find Emma on Twitter @thebibliot and writing nerdy bookish things for Book Riot. Kim occasionally tweets at @finaleofseem. And you can follow both of us [as a podcast] on Twitter @drunkbookseller! Don’t forget to subscribe to Drunk Booksellers from your podcatcher of choice. Do you love our show? Tell the world! Rate/review us on iTunes so that we can become rich and famous from this podcast. [Editor’s Note: There is a 0% chance that anyone will get either rich or famous from this podcast. But you should rate/review us anyway.]