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Navigating Life with Vision Loss: Journey of Penny Melville Brown | AINC Podcast Kim Wardlow hosts another episode of Navigating Life with Vision Loss, brought to you by AINC. In this episode, renowned blind chef Penny Melville Brown shares her inspiring journey from serving as a Commander in the Royal Navy to becoming an award-winning author and a blind cooking sensation, all while battling her deteriorating eyesight. Penny shares her personal experiences, immense life challenges, and her determination to bring about a positive change in society's perspective towards disabled people. There's a lot to learn from her amazing food adventures across the world. Penny's story stands as a testament to chasing one's ambition despite all odds. 00:09 Introduction and Welcome 00:32 Upcoming Events and Announcements 00:59 Introduction to Guest: Penny Melville Brown 02:24 Penny's Journey: Early Life and Career 06:17 Facing Vision Loss and Adapting 08:43 Continuing Career Despite Vision Loss 18:43 Transitioning to Self-Employment 23:08 The Holman Prize and Cooking Around the World 32:45 Inspiring Stories from the Journey 34:01 Closing Remarks and Thanksgiving Wishes If you would like a transcription of this episode https://share.descript.com/view/ezCg65Yr0p6

Sam catches up with Ainsleigh from Vision Australia for a wrap up of the latest news and campaigns Vision Australia is involved with around the country, including Seeing Eye Dogs, Amazon and more. Then later on this week Sam is joined by another Holman Prize winner, Zimbabwean DJ and radio presenter Tafadzwa Nyamuzihwa, who is excited to fulfill his dream of opening up studios in Zimbabwe and Uganda to train and employ members of the blind and low vision community.Support this Vision Australia Radio program: https://www.visionaustralia.org/donate?src=radio&type=0&_ga=2.182040610.46191917.1644183916-1718358749.1627963141See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this week's episode Dan Casey chats to father of two Darren Moyle in the last of our fortnightly vox pops with dads who are blind or have low vision. Then later on in the show, Sam catches up with Adelaide programmer and Holman Prize winner Cassie Hames. Cassie is the developer of See Me, an app which helps people access their bus route safely and accessibly. And finally this week, Helen joins the show to tell us all about the latest news in Vision Australia's newsletter For Your Information, or FYI for short.Support this Vision Australia Radio program: https://www.visionaustralia.org/donate?src=radio&type=0&_ga=2.182040610.46191917.1644183916-1718358749.1627963141See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of the BOA podcast, host Amy Chavez talks with Maud Rowell about her new book Blind Spot: Exploring and Educating on Blindness (404 Ink, 2021). Maud is a freelance journalist and writer from London. She went blind at 19 while traveling in South Korea. Two months later, she went on to begin a four-year degree in Japanese Studies at University of Cambridge including one year at Doshisha University in Kyoto. She trained in journalism at City, University of London, and over the course of the pandemic, wrote her first book Blind Spot: Exploring and Educating on Blindness published by 404 Ink in November 2021. In the summer of 2021, she won the Holman Prize run by San Francisco Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired and received a grant to travel around Japan and write about her experiences.

Sam is joined on the show this week by Darren Britten from ADCET – the Australian Disability Clearinghouse on Education and Training, who have recently launched a pair of resources aimed at tertiary educators to improve the lives of students who are blind or have low vision. Then later on this week, Stella Glorie catches up with blind cook, author and Holman Prize winner Penny Melville-Brown to talk about her new book A cook's tour: Baking blind goes global, capturing the highs and lows of Penny's life over the past five years while travelling the world, meeting with world class chefs, and overcoming near tragedy and arduous physical recovery to keep doing what she loves.Support this Vision Australia Radio program: https://www.visionaustralia.org/donate?src=radio&type=0&_ga=2.182040610.46191917.1644183916-1718358749.1627963141See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of Eyeway Conversations, George Abraham speaks with Tiffany Brar, founder of Jyothirgamaya Foundation, a non-profit organization based in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala that trains blind people of all ages in Braille, mobility, basic computer use, and life skills. Tiffany, who became blind as an infant due to oxygen toxicity, completed her primary education in England where she found an inclusive setup, doing things like other sighted children with a special resource person dedicated to her. But when her father was posted back to India, Tiffany found school difficult as she experienced segregation and isolation from students and teachers. After completing her Bachelors in English literature from Government College for Women, Thiruvananthapuram, she started working for Braille without Borders as a telephone operator. Later she pursued her B.Ed in special education (visual impairment) after which she began running the Jyothirgamaya (meaning "leading to light") mobile school for the blind. In 2020 Tiffany, became the first Indian to receive Holman Prize from the US-based organization LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired. Tune in to listen to Tiffany's journey and her dream of making the state of Kerala into an accessible space for people with disabilities. To access the podcast transcript, click on link: https://otter.ai/u/hHcfKAcqoHjCYaMjRp2bzM6z9Wc This podcast is brought to you by Score Foundation and supported by Cipla Foundation. To support our work, kindly visit the link: https://scorefoundation.org.in/get-involved/

Creator of the ReVision Fitness App, Tyler Merren, joins Jeff Thompson in the Blind Abilities Studio to celebrate the release of his multi-platform ReVision Fitness App. Available on the App Store, Google Play Store, and on the web at ReVisionFitness.com. Tyler talks about what inspired the app and how he went about configuring the complexities surrounding an audio based application to provide beginner, intermediate and advance exercise training for the Blind and Visually Impaired as well as the sighted. There's classrooms, fitness studios and Fitness plans for everybody, You can download the ReVision Fitness App and give the 2 week trial a good workout. Accessibility is top notch and you can send feedback directly to Tyler right from the app. The instruction level is 2nd to none. Tyler has been an elite athlete for years and is a 4 time Paralympian. His experience and passion is built into every section of the ReVision Fitness App. As Tyler says, Let's change the way we look at it! About the App: The ReVision Fitness App is an audio based fitness program universally designed to be accessible for both sighted and visually impaired, and encompasses all levels of fitness and goals from beginner to expert, from no equipment to a full training facility. Each exercise lesson in the classroom, workout in the fitness studio, and schedule in the fitness plans, is designed by blind personal trainer and 4 time Paralympic athlete Tyler Merren. Every classroom lesson is meticulously described using clockface directions, reference points, and step by step instructions to teach proper mechanics for any exercise. Each workout includes a beginner and advanced level and options for working out with music and without. The fitness plans include general guides and schedules for various fitness goals such as losing weight and toning up, and provides useful action steps to help you get fit. Not sure how to set proper goals? We walk you through the process. Unsure of how to position yourself for particular exercises? We've got you covered. Looking for a fitness program that is accessible? This is the one for you. As a recipient of the prestigious Holman Prize for blind ambition from the LightHouse of San Francisco, the ReVision Fitness App is a program that will continue to grow to include anything and everything fitness related. This app will be your one stop shop for accessible fitness. There are no hidden charges or in app purchases, a simple monthly subscription of $5.99, or an annual subscription of $59.99 will give you full and unlimited access to every drop of material that we have released and will release as the program grows. Download today and enjoy a free 14 day trial on us. We are so confident you will love the program that we give you 2 weeks free to check it out. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, and here is your first step. Download today and let's change the way we look at it! 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. Contact: 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. Give us a call and leave us some feedback at 612-367-6093 we would love to hear from you! Check out the Blind Abilities Communityon Facebook, the Blind Abilities Page, and the Career Resources for the Blind and Visually Impaired group

In our Activating Enterprise series here on RNIB Connect Radio, we are finding out how sometimes life changing events can become catalysts for positive change when it comes to career opportunities.  In this episode, ex-royal navy commander Penny Melville-Brown talks starting Disability Dynamics training and consultancy, winning the Holman Prize for Blind Ambition in 2017, and getting ready to finally launch her book.  Find out more about Penny and her work here: Penny Melville-Brown | Baking Blind & Disability Dynamics (pennymelvillebrown.com) If you would like to share your own employment journey, the challenges, the successes and everything in between, get in touch. Email: radio@rnib.org.uk Image shows Penny sitting outside in the sun and smiling. 

Attendees joined the American Council of Blind Students; Lee Kumutat from the Lighthouse for the Blind of San Francisco; and several past Holman Prize winners as they explained what the Holman Prize is and how they have shattered misconceptions about blindness. Sponsored by American Council of Blind Students

This week on Talking Vision Sam speaks with executive director of customer operations at Transport for NSW, Lewis Clark, about the new Taxi Transport Subsidy Scheme smartcards and a pair of upcoming information sessions Transport for NSW will be running with Vision Australia. Then later on in the show, Stella is on the program chatting with Maud Rowell, one of three winners of the 2021 Holman Prize, and Lee Kumutat from Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired about the prize and how you can enter. Then finally we wrap up the show this week with some news and information. Support this Vision Australia Radio program: https://www.visionaustralia.org/donate?src=radio&type=0&_ga=2.182040610.46191917.1644183916-1718358749.1627963141 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Do you as a blind or partially sighted person have a project idea or an ambition to do something that will shatter other people's misconceptions about blindness? Well, don't miss your opportunity to get your ideas in for the 2022 Holman Prize for Blind Ambition which has just opened with the deadline for applications on Sunday 20 March 2022.  Now in it's sixth year in 2022, the Holman Prize for Blind Ambition annually awards three blind people from anywhere in the world, up to $25,000 (USD) each to carry out an incredible idea that will shatter misconceptions about blindness.  The Holman Prize is named after James Holman, a 19th century blind explorer who was the most prolific private traveler before the age of modern transportation, blind or sighted. RNIB Connect Radio's Toby Davey was joined all the way from San   Francisco by Lee Kumutat, Vice President of Communications, LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired, San Francisco to find out more about the 2022 Holman Prize for Blind Ambition.  Lee began by giving Toby a bit of background about James Holman and how the Holman Prize for Blind Ambition came about.   Lee also told Toby about some of the past Holman Prize for Blind Ambition winners to share some of the projects that the prize has awarded in the past to blind and partially sighted people along with how the Prize has helped to smash misconceptions around blindness. The deadline to get your applications in for the 2022 Holman Prize for Blind Ambition is Sunday 20 March 2022 and more information about the prize can be found by visiting the Holman Prize website - https://holman.lighthouse-sf.org (Image shows RNIB logo. 'RNIB' written in black capital letters over a white background and underlined with a bold pink line, with the words 'See differently' underneath)

In this episode of Eyeway Conversations, George Abraham speaks with Penny Melville-Brown, a British Royal Navy veteran, blind baker and winner of the Holman Prize. Penny served for 22 years in the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) and Royal Navy, reaching the rank of commander. She was the first woman to hold the position of naval barrister. She was medically discharged from the Royal Navy in 1999 after her eyesight deteriorated and she created Disability Dynamics to help other people with disabilities to start a business. In 2009, she was awarded an OBE for her service to the disabled. In 2017, she was one of the three winners of the 2017 Holman prize for Blind Ambition, an international award for blind people with ambition. In 2018 she was awarded an honorary doctorate by London Middlesex University. She has an online baking project called Baking Blind where she shows people how she cooks and encourages others to test their limits even if they have disabilities. Penny believes that disability should not be the reason to not try adventurous things, new things, or not do what everybody else does. She is in the process of publishing her book next year in which she shares her Holman Prize world tour, interleaved with her experience of blindness and her history. Tune in to listen to her inspiring and splendid journey! To access the podcast transcript, click on link: https://otter.ai/u/rZ5vpThGklggmzpbBDcXL0glza4 This podcast is supported by BarrierBreak Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

We met old friend Emily Trepanier, now aka Starfish, as children, at a camp for the blind in Ontario. Kerry met Maxwell Ivey, now known as The Blind Blogger, online, through a LinkedIn community for writers and bloggers in 2014 and this is his full premier on our show. And how did this fellow Ontario friend/now a BC newcomer and a Texan/prior carnival worker and amusement park ride broker connect in the first place? They met, both participating in something along the lines of Shark Tank or Dragon's Den for blind entrepreneurs and dreamers of all kinds. Despite both making it to the semi final round of the Holman Prize competition, they both did not win the ultimate prize. And yet, they may just have found something to be just as beneficial for them both. On this week's episode, we speak with Emily and Max about how they connected and why, more on the What's Your Excuse network and what the hope is with that, and Emily shares more on her new podcast on the network, Shredding For Gold, a show about her journey to compete in the Winter Paralympics as a visually impaired snowboarder. Max has always loved a challenge and some of the things he hopes to do with the WYExcuse network are, for hosts, to give a purpose, to teach marketable employment skills (people with disabilities have barriers to this), and to have a platform or can work to create one, to turn a podcast into a business or tool for one. Emily explains more about Para snowboarding being added in 2014, while her particular classification (visually impaired) is not yet, though she is in for the fight to get it included with the International Paralympic Committee. She hints at more in the works, can't say more right now, but, nonetheless, , swears that exciting things are happening in the sport. Max is already the host of the What's Your Excuse Show and now, Emily is the brand new host of what she's named Shredding For Gold, a podcast on her life and goals and activities while training as a snowboarder. As well, with this show she hopes to highlight the work of others in the adaptive sports arena, along with coaches and trainers from across Canada and internationally and to highlight her sport and its inclusion in the Paralympic Games by featuring the hard work of others, both athletes and supporters, with the ultimate goal of creating more awareness of adaptive sports and her love of snowboarding. So thanks to a blind traveler, adventurer, and dreamer from the distant past, James Holman (1786-1857), the teaming up of Maxwell and Emily is paying off for them both in the 21st century. She may be a Canadian who is not so smooth on skates, but she's a pro, at this point, on skis and her board. Along with Max's help, it's all downhill for Emily now. And that's a good thing. You can find the What's Your Excuse Network and links to both Emily's Shredding For Gold podcast and Max's What's Your Excuse? Show here: https://wyexcuse.com/shows/ (also available on Apple and other podcast platforms) Check out Emily's former appearance on Outlook from back in September of 2019: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/outlook-2019-09-02-team-starfish-feat-future-paralympian/id1527876739?i=1000488226516 And to learn more on who James Holman was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Holman

Do you enjoy baking? Perhaps you have picked up a liking for making tasty treats throughout lockdown or spent the last few months polishing your baking skills. No matter, if a veteran baker or a star-baker-in-the-making, there's a great live online event in which you can bake together with other blind and visually impaired people from the comfort of your own home.The Online bake-in event will take place on Monday April 12th at 10:30 am and you'll get a chance to make lemon Victoria sponges! We spoke with British Royal Navy veteran, blind baker, winner of the Holman Prize and creator of Baking Blind, Penny Melville-Brown to find out how to take part.For more information about the event: Exclusive : Live online bake-in for blind and visually impaired people | Penny Melville-Brown's Blog (disabilitydynamics.co.uk)  For help with signing up call Open Sight Open Sight in Hampshire at 02380 641 244. Image shows Penny sitting in a nice outdoor area with containers of fresh cherries. 

This week I’m joined once again by freelance copy editor, student of accessibility and 2021 candidate for the Holman Prize, Charles Hiser. Charles helps me… The post Latest News, Accessible Comic Books,Library of Smells,Blind Drive on iOS and Interview with Strap Technologies appeared first on Life After Blindness.

2107 Holman Prize (Feb. 10, 2021) Show Notes The Holman Prize was designed to support the growth of adventurous spirits, entrepreneurship and leadership within the blind community. Hosts Nancy and Peter Torpey talk with Caitlin O’Malior, a communications associate at San Francisco’s LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired that sponsors the prize, about this … Continue reading 2107 Holman Prize (Feb. 10, 2021) →

There are some podcast related releases coming from Apple in the near future, and Todd and Mike are here to discuss them. For Apple Watch and Apple iPhone, look out for new content as well as UI. Don't miss the BLK Pod Collective virtual summit next month focused on the Business of Podcasting. Thanks for joining us on this episode of Podcast Insider. Looking to be a guest on the show? Let us know. Recorded live from two well-separated and socially distanced podcast studios in northern and southern Michigan; here’s Podcast Insider. Live Facebook recording. News: Time To Walk comes to Apple Fitness+. Check out their new content specifically for Apple Watches. Ever want to be a newscaster? Daily news podcast host wanted. Apple’s iOS 14.5 coming with some cool updates including a few UI changes for Apple Podcasts. Spotify reports they have 2.2 million podcasts on their platform. BLK Pod Collective and StreamYard putting on “The Business of Podcasting Summit” on March 6th, virtually of course. Blubrry podcaster, Maxwell Ivey Jr. is trying for the Holman Prize. See his pitch video here: https://youtu.be/MXdl396Fr8Q Best Practice: Blog posts (text) and podcast posts: should you keep them together or separate them on your site? We recommend keeping them together. Blubrry News: Phase one of the dashboard update at Blubrry.com is out. Recently on Podcast Insider, Your Podcast Takes Flight with Twitter. Question(s) of the Week  Question: From Joshua on Facebook “Curious - is there any way of knowing what CFNetworks is on our statistics?” Answer: CFNetworks is a Framework for developers of iOS apps.  A lot of podcast apps on iOS use it such as, but not limited to Amazon, NPR One, Skipcast and more. Basically, it’s an iOS app that downloaded your episode but not necessarily the Apple Podcasts app itself. In a lot of cases these apps use a 'user agent' so we can tell you which app. However, some of them do not always use a separate user agent. They are legitimate downloads but we cannot be identified as a particular app, so we report it as CFNetwork in the stats. On Saturday’s Podcast Help Desk episode: What is a 301 redirect? …and why you might need one for your podcast feed. https://www.podcasthelpdesk.com NEW! If you have a question or feedback, click on the “Leave a voicemail” On the sidebar of PodcastInsider.com. Record your question and we may answer it on the show. ______________ Promo code INSIDER for a free month at Blubrry.com Coming at you this week from Blubrry Studios in northern and southern Michigan. Produced by the Blubrry Pro-Production team. Schedule a one-on-one with Todd (hosting customers only). Email todd@blubrry.com Schedule a tech checkup with Mike (hosting customers only). Email mike@blubrry.com Send us your podcast sticker and a self-address stamped envelope (SASE) and we will send you a Blubrry care package. Our mailing address is: Blubrry – MacKenzie 150 E. Campus View Blvd. #180 Columbus, Ohio 43235

Offering $25,000 in prize money, the Holman Prize is open to anyone the world over who is blind or legally blind. We chat with LightHouse CEO Bryan Bashin about how to enter and what makes a Holman Prize winner. We also feature the first of a series of interviews from psychologist Courtney McKee, who catches up with a young musician to talk about the way transformed his life after he lost his vision. And we hear from a young writer about her piece in a new anthology Growing Up Disabled in Australia as well as other topics like siblings, the role of humour and navigating life with a disability.  

There are some podcast related releases coming from Apple in the near future, and Todd and Mike are here to discuss them. For Apple Watch and Apple iPhone, look out for new content as well as UI. Don't miss the BLK Pod Collective virtual summit next month focused on the Business of Podcasting. Thanks for joining us on this episode of Podcast Insider. Looking to be a guest on the show? Let us know. Recorded live from two well-separated and socially distanced podcast studios in northern and southern Michigan; here’s Podcast Insider. Live Facebook recording. News: Time To Walk comes to Apple Fitness+. Check out their new content specifically for Apple Watches. Ever want to be a newscaster? Daily news podcast host wanted. Apple’s iOS 14.5 coming with some cool updates including a few UI changes for Apple Podcasts. Spotify reports they have 2.2 million podcasts on their platform. BLK Pod Collective and StreamYard putting on “The Business of Podcasting Summit” on March 6th, virtually of course. Blubrry podcaster, Maxwell Ivey Jr. is trying for the Holman Prize. See his pitch video here: https://youtu.be/MXdl396Fr8Q Best Practice: Blog posts (text) and podcast posts: should you keep them together or separate them on your site? We recommend keeping them together. Blubrry News: Phase one of the dashboard update at Blubrry.com is out. Recently on Podcast Insider, Your Podcast Takes Flight with Twitter. Question(s) of the Week  Question: From Joshua on Facebook “Curious - is there any way of knowing what CFNetworks is on our statistics?” Answer: CFNetworks is a Framework for developers of iOS apps.  A lot of podcast apps on iOS use it such as, but not limited to Amazon, NPR One, Skipcast and more. Basically, it’s an iOS app that downloaded your episode but not necessarily the Apple Podcasts app itself. In a lot of cases these apps use a 'user agent' so we can tell you which app. However, some of them do not always use a separate user agent. They are legitimate downloads but we cannot be identified as a particular app, so we report it as CFNetwork in the stats. On Saturday’s Podcast Help Desk episode: What is a 301 redirect? …and why you might need one for your podcast feed. https://www.podcasthelpdesk.com NEW! If you have a question or feedback, click on the “Leave a voicemail” On the sidebar of PodcastInsider.com. Record your question and we may answer it on the show. ______________ Promo code INSIDER for a free month at Blubrry.com Coming at you this week from Blubrry Studios in northern and southern Michigan. Produced by the Blubrry Pro-Production team. Schedule a one-on-one with Todd (hosting customers only). Email todd@blubrry.com Schedule a tech checkup with Mike (hosting customers only). Email mike@blubrry.com Send us your podcast sticker and a self-address stamped envelope (SASE) and we will send you a Blubrry care package. Our mailing address is: Blubrry – MacKenzie 150 E. Campus View Blvd. #180 Columbus, Ohio 43235

On this week’s episode of Talking Vision, Tess Herbert sits down for a chat with Holman Prize winner and two-time Paralympian Tyler Merren.   Tyler is the creator of the Revision Audio Fitness App, which enables users who are blind or have low vision to access a wide range of exercise and fitness programs in an accessible format on their phone, tablet or computer.  

Episode Notes Planes, Trains, and Canes, Dr. Mona Minkara. (screen share possible) Mona Minkara is one of the only blind professors in the field Bioengineering. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University. Mona lost her vision at the young age of seven as a result of macular degeneration and cone-rod dystrophy. She pursued a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry and Middle Eastern studies at Wellesley college. In 2015, she received her PhD in Chemistry from the University of Florida. Currently, she studies surfactants found within the lungs and leverages that knowledge to conduct research related to COVID-19.   Mona is an advocate for blind and visually impaired individuals. In 2019 she was awarded the Holman Prize along with two other fellow adventurous. Mona created, Planes Trains and Canes, a mini documentary series featured on her YouTube channel. Mona takes you on a journey to five different cities around the world showing people what it's like for a blind person to travel independently using only public transportation.

Ojok Simon is from Uganda. The 2012 kanthari graduate, is a beekeeper, an environmentalist, a human rights activist and also almost blind. At age thirteen, Ojok survived an armed attack to his village that led to his blindness. But also made Hive Uganda possible. Enjoy listening about Ojoks activities and how he has managed to create a sustainable enterprise with wild beekeeping for the blind people in Uganda. We want and need to ask you for a little extra patience today. Internet connection and technical equipment in rural areas is not always as stable and up to the standard as we need it and are used to – but we're sure – if you just slow down a little and let your mind travel with todays' podcast, your conscience will overcome its rather poor audio quality and capture Ojoks message: “I want to leave a legacy, a history on how to change things and move on”.

Professor Mona Minkara is a recipient of the 2019 Holman Prize and thanks to the prestigious award, she was able to embark on journey around the globe and show everyone what it’s like to travel independently as a blind person.  In her travel show: 'Planes, Trains, and Canes' Mona takes us along as she experiences five cities, faces challenges, overcomes obstacles, and sheds light on issues that blind and visually-impaired individuals face day-to-day in a society that is designed to exclude them. RNIB Connect Radio's Paulina Kuchorew spoke with the Blind Traveller herself to hear why independent travel and discovering public transport all over the world, can be an adventure in itself. For more about Mona and her travels visit: www.planestrainsandcanes.com

Before Pauline Dowell became legally blind in her 40s she was an artist who loved to sail. After her diagnosis, she needed time to get used to things, but she wasn't willing to let go of the things she loved.  In the latest Dangerous Vision episode, Pauline talks with Randy Cohen about her love of sailing.  From a casual sail around Boston Harbor to competitive regattas Pauline shares with Randy her decision to stay in the game.  Since she loved sailing so much she decided to make a life choice that she lives with every day.  She lives in Boston Harbor on her sailboat that she shares with her guide dog Dora. Pauline credits the Carroll Center in Boston and Courage Sailing's Blind sailing instructions for giving her the training and confidence to set sail. Pauline inspires others to sail as well.  In 2019 she was a finalist for the Holman Prize, an international prize created to change perceptions about what blind people are capable of doing. Pauline is creating the first all woman's blind sailing team set to compete in the Newport to Bermuda Regatta.She encourages everyone who may be going through similar challenges to just go out in the world and find what’s out there! Join clubs like Boston Blind Sailing.  Make sure to challenge yourself daily and set up goals even if they are small goals like going outside or seeing a movie in a theater.  Boston Blind SailingCourageous SailingThe Carroll CenterThe Hadley School Books/ Media DiscussedMaiden Voyage Tracy Edwards StoryInfinite Jest David Foster WallaceStrong Motion 

2019 Holman Prize winner, Dr. Mona Minkara along with her Planes Trains & Canes production team join me to talk about the documentary series on YouTube. The series follows Mona traveling alone to five cities around the world using only public transportation. The series highlights many of the challenges those with vision loss experience on a daily basis. Subscribe wherever you get podcasts! Transcripts & more at ReidMyMind.com Follow @tsreid on Twitter

We speak with Tricia Malowney from Women with Disabilities Australia on some of the challenges many disabled women are facing during the Covid-19 crisis. She also offers sage advice on how women can stay connected, Also on the program musician Jordie Howell has entered the Holman Prize – a major award from the lighthouse foundation in San Francisco seeking people who are blind or have low vision with an adventurous project. Jordie needs our help to get her idea to the shortlist.

Talking Vision Now is a best of episode of Talking Vision that you can listen to now. This week, the Holman Prize is a major award from the Lighthouse Foundation worth $25,000, awarded for a project that encompasses a spirit of adventure for those who are blind or have low vision. Singer, musician and Vision Australia braille music transcriber Jordie Howell is entering the Holman Prize with the aim of recording an album, in collaboration with Australian composers and composers who are blind or have low vision. She's in conversation with Tess Herbert and talks about the inspiration and her dream of making the album.  You can help Jordie fulfill a lifelong dream of sharing her voice with the world by going to the link and liking her video on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3bkXe1d More likes for her project proposal will help Jordie progress to the semi-finals, so please 'like' her video on YouTube and share with your friends! 

You can help Jordie with her Holman Prize pitch by going to her Youtube video and clicking like Thank-you so much for your support with this. Rationale My dream is to record a CD featuring works by blind composers, Australian composers, and works that are more familiar. I plan to travel to my pianist Penny Cashman in Adelaide for rehearsals, to the UK later in the year for coachings with specialists in the classical music field, and to record the finished product in Melbourne at Move Records studios. Feature works include First Person Feminine by Ian Cooper who was blind, and mentored me as a young singer. Also a work called Normality by Dindy Vaughan who wrote the work as a commission for soprano, flute, violin and piano. It challenges the concept of “what is normal” in a humourous way. I also plan to record works by Spanish composer Rodrigo who was also blind, and other familiar composers such as Bach, Mozart, Schubert and Duparc. This CD will be a showcase of repertoire to share my voice with a much wider audience. I love to sing works that tell a story. This is a chance to collaborate with Penny and other musicians to express these concepts. I also hope to use this album as a vehicle to audition for conductors and increase my profile as a professional singer. Bio Music is my first love. I also love animals and have worked with three beautiful labrador guide dogs and relish the freedom of movement they bring. Technology is another passion for me and I like to keep abreast with new developments in braille and audio devices. I am a Choral Scholar with Christ Church South Yarra. Other singing endeavours are finalist in the International Competition for Blind and Partially Sighted Musicians in Prague, the 2012 recipient of the Maroondah Singers Memorial Scholarship and a finalist in the 2013 Australian National Liederfest. I also play piano and teach music, braille music and singing to both young children and adults. Alongside my singing, I work as a music transcriber and music teacher. I have chaired the Australian Braille authority for four years, and work with the International Council on English Braille as chair of the music braille committee.   

What would you do with $25,000? That's what the Holman Prize is all about. Any blind or visually impaired adult in the world can apply – and every year, the LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired in San Francisco grants the Holman Prize to three lucky individuals. Initial submissions for this year's prize are about to close, and so in honor of its fourth year, we're sharing exclusive interviews with the three Holman Prizewinners from 2019. Learn more and apply at holmanprize.org.

Hi Mosen at Largers. Here's a summary of what's on the podcast this week, with the item first followed by its time in the show. Introduction,0:00.000 "Ringtones and texttones, Do you make your own, buy your own or just use the defaults?",0:36.390 Blind parents and potty training. For helpful resources on blind parenting, check out the NFB Blind Parents site,10:47.245 "Neil Young says the MacbookPro's audio quality if ""Fisher Price""",15:10.039 "Listener comment, Buy duplicates of your hearing accessories.",17:42.604 "Listeners questions on the Holman prize, and how did lighthouses in a blindness context get their name?",22:41.537 An innocent-sounding question from the Beatles Twitter account gets an unexpected response,27:27.302 "New iOS, tvOS, watchOS and MacOS betas". Here's a link to the Water Minder app I mentioned in this section,29:05.644 "Listener comment, VoiceOver suddenly just stopped working altogether on iPhone SE",34:49.586 "More listener comments on the Lighthouse name, and how the Lighthouse in FL positively changed a listener's life",39:19.861 Lee Kumutat from the San Francisco Lighthouse talks about the Holman Prize for blind ambition. The Holman Prize for Blind Ambition will be accepting applications until March 15. From traversing the Bosporus Straight via solo kayak, to hosting the first conference in Mexico for blind children and their families led by blind professionals, to creating an app to enable blind citizen scientists to participate in the search for exoplanets by listening to space, the nine winners so far (hailing from five countries on four continents), have each found unique ways to forever change the world’s perception of blindness. Applications and information is available here: https://holman.lighthouse-sf.org/apply/.,42:39.299 Listener question: how easy is it to use Google Sheets efficiently with a screen reader?,57:33.791 More listener feedback on ringtones,1:04:14.489 The Bonnie Bulletin begins with discussion of a threat to RNZ Concert. Please sign the Save RNZ Concert petition,1:09:45.650 We look at the Iowa debacle and long for the days of the good old Iowa scream,1:14:09.327 Listener comments and questions on Overcast and Castro,1:17:30.131 Cash Reader app and a giveaway for Mosen At Large listeners,1:18:53.439 "Listener question, screen time on iOS not behaving as expected",1:22:02.215 "Microsoft Power Toys are back, and a new cool one called Keyboard Shortcut Manager is coming",1:25:03.126 Amazon Echo Show now identifies products via barcodes,1:28:02.126 "Microsoft Teams exploded in some parts of the world this week, because someone forgot to put a virtual coin in a virtual metre",1:29:01.239 Listener feedback about the EchoShow,1:30:20.614 The When Did I app,1:31:13.428 "There's a major rewrite of my favourite iOS calendar app, Fantastical",1:33:19.795 "If you're a podcaster, Squadcast might improve your remote interviews substantially",1:36:04.499 More thoughts on EchoShow,1:39:28.126

Welcome to the 18th EBU Access Cast! Since this is the first podcast for 2020, we wish you all the best in 2020 from the whole team, and we hope that you will get some nice new gadgets which will expand and improve your daily Living. We also made some improvements in our podcast since 2020, and that means from now on our podcast supports chapters Section, which means that if you want to listen something that specifically interests you, you can directly skip to your favorite chapter in your favorite podcast Player. The chapters do not work directly if you are listening the podcast from the web Player, therefore this is another reason why it is better to subscribe to our podcast directly from the podcast players such as Apple podcasts on iPhone or Podcast adict on Android platform. Now let’s jump into the news Section to see what we have prepared for you: This year CES 2020 was occupied by many more assistive technology vendors than on the previous CES events, which is absolutely a positive sign. Therefore we selected a few of the most interesting products which were shown for general public: First Braille tablet shown at CES 2020 While we don’t have too much technical information about the Tactile Pro, it is great to see that such devices are slowly getting into the mainstream and that braille as the most important form of written form for blind people is being updated into new device. Hap2Phone Allows Users to Feel Objects in Photos on Their Touchscreens Hap2U, a haptics developer specialized in integrating sensory intelligence into tactile surfaces, will unveil Hap2Phone, the world’s first haptic smartphone display, at CES 2020. While this device isn’t made for the end consumers, the concept of such a device might be very interesting for System integrators and OEM manufacturers. OrCam Announces New AI Hearing Device and Handheld AI Reader at CES 2020 OrCam is a known vendor from Israel. This time they decided to expand their product line towards the users with Hearing and reading problems with 2 new products. We don’t know what  the price of the products will be yet, however this does not mean that you should not visit their Stand on the upcoming assistive tech events such as the Sight City 2020 where you can try their products directly. W3C Launches an Introduction to Web Accessibility Free Online Course in Cooperation with UNESCO IITE On the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (UNESCO IITE) announced the launch of the online course built on the W3C’s Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) open curricula with international expert trainers from W3C Member organizations. [The MOOC begins on January 20, 2020.] How to make museums more accessible for disabled people? Ask them The Arches project took place in 6 different museums across Europe for the last 3 years and they came up with really interesting results which Pawel represented to us in the podcast. This time we prepared really cool news for visually impaired musicians: Building Raspberry Pi Smart Guitar for Blind, Deaf and Mute Musicians This really cool Instrument combines various tech solutions built into one device, allowing the users with seeing, Hearing or speech problems to use it as they wish. The users can choose to receive the information via built in small Display, read the information via built in braille Display or choose the built in buttons for going through the menus in the guitar, in case the users have speech problems which they can read thru the built in Display or hear it thru the built in Speaker. Avid and Berklee College of Music Team Up to Deliver Innovative Accessibility Features for Visually Impaired Music Creators Musicians who are visually impaired finally can get really excited, because Sibelius will become much more accessible for Jaws, NVDA and Voice over users in the near future. That means that the Level of integration will be much improved for students and musicians who need to utilize Sibelius for composing on the daily bases. For many years visually impaired community was struggling with accessibility of Sibelius which is in todays world one of the main tools used for composing and arranging, and it looks like that this will finally change. VIEWS International published the results of the VIPTech project, and Bart gave us more info about it. EUROPEAN DISABILITY FORUM AND ORACLE E-ACCESSIBILITY SCHOLARSHIP 2019-2020 If you are Student who is studding IT related subjects and if you are visually impaired you may want to apply to the following scolaireship till March 6th. Index Donation Program 2020 If your organisation is envolved with Braille literacy but you think that you are in need for a new braille printer you can apply to the following donation program and see if you wil be one of the winners. Applications are now open for the 2020 Holman Prize If you think that you are the next inventor who will change the future in our community, apply to the Holman Prize and get 25000 dollars. 2019 Holman Prize winner Yuma Decaux software engeneer, specialist in 3d and mixed media creating an app to enable blind citizen scientists to participate in the search for exoplanets by listening to space. Google Assistant Now Has Interpreter Mode on Android and iOS Devices We checked live in the podcast if the feature Works for the smartphones, and the result was very positive. Than we also checked if the same feature is available on the Android smartwatches, but weren’t sucsessful in getting it to work. That means that the smartwatch users will have to wäit a bit longer untill the interpretor arrives. However we were able to talk about another cool feature which allows all the users of Google Assistant to check their local air quality. IN order to activate it, just say “Talk to Air Quality Index”. After that the assistant will ask you for your location permmition, and after a few seconds you will get the results from the closest air quality measuring station. The last information for today Comes from Pawel who presented to us Z5NBY RetroArch 1.8.2 – Accessibility features for blind people. If you are a blind Gamer who likes the old style games like a final Fantasy this will be a great news for you, since you are able to play the game which you could not do it before. As always, we are here for you on our Twitter and e-mail so give us a Feedback about the last Episode, and we are looking forward to be back with you in February.

We play part two of our conversation with Holman Prize winner Yuma Decuax. Yuma hopes to build an online community to make astronomy more accessible to blind people. Also on the program, France Keyland with a Reader Recommended.  

Yuma Decaux is one of the winners, and the first Australian, to win the Holman Prize 2019. He plans to build an online community to make astronomy more accessible to blind people. Stella chats with him and retired scientist and self-confessed astronomy geek, Robert Dorin about their love of astronomy and what motivates them to searching among the stars and planets despite vision loss.

Mona Minkara’s Planes, Trains and Canes is a winning entry to the 2019 Homan Prize  sponsored by the San Fransisco Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired. Mona joins Jeff in the Blind Abilities studio and talks about her upcoming documentary and the adventures she will be embarking upon. Mona  shares her most recent travels that she has been doing since finishing her post-doctorate at the University of Minnesota. Mona has just  started her new position as Professor of Biology Engineering at North Eastern University in Boston  Listen to Mona’s plans and enthusiasm as she maps out her Planes, Trains and Canes documentary. Hear her passion as she talks about her adventures. This is a documentary that was in the works as Mona has always loved to video journal her travels and now she will be able to bring us all along for the ride whether it’s on a plane, a train or her navigating by cane. Check out Mona’s Planes, Trains and Canes Facebook Page. Here is a short bio on Dr. Mona Minkara: Mona Minkara double majored in Chemistry & Middle Eastern Studies at Wellesley College. After graduating, she moved to the University of Florida for her Ph.D in Theoretical Computational Chemistry. Professor J. Ilja Siepmann invited her to join his group at the University of Minnesota to research novel studies of surfactants using Monte Carlo algorithms.  ***** 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.

2018 Holman Prize winner, Stacey Cervenka talks to RNIB Connect Radio's very own Holman Prize winner, Red Szell, about her new website, The Blind Traveler's Network.

Stacy’s Holman Prize ambition is to research, develop and launch a website for travellers who are blind or have low vision. The Blind Travelers Network would give blind individuals crowdsourced knowledge about the accessible places and services that they can’t currently access anywhere else.  The Holman Prize is an international competition that supports the emerging adventurousness and can-do spirit of blind and low vision people worldwide.  The Prize provides financial backing – up to $25,000 – for three individuals to explore the world and push their limits.

We speak with one of the 2018 Holman Prize winners Red Szell. Red’s “Extreme Triathlon” includes a 10-mile ride through a notably hazardous bog-land, a 200-foot abseil followed by a swim through open ocean, and a climb up the 213-foot ocean spire called Am Buachaille. Red plans to document the whole endeavor, a message to other blind people not to give up their passions because of a change in vision. The Holman Prize is an international competition that supports the emerging adventurousness and can-do spirit of blind and low vision people worldwide.  The Prize provides financial backing – up to $25,000 – for three individuals to explore the world and push their limits.

RNIB's Red Szell has recently won the Holman Prize, the international award for blind adventurers seeking to change perceptions of sight loss. Here he chats to a former winner, Penny Melville Brown, who founded Disability Dynamics and whose Holman prize win took her around the world with Baking Blind.

Continuing our check in with the 2017 Holman Prize winners I speak with Ahmet Ustenel. When we last spoke with him he was preparing to kayak the Bosphorus Strait. We cover the technology, pressures lessons learned and more. Subscribe: Apple Podcast, Google Podcast Sound Cloud, Stitcher, Tune In Radio or wherever you get podcasts. Visit www.ReidMyMind.com Follow @tsreid on Twitter

Time to check in with our 2017 Holman Prize winners. Leading off the trio is host of Baking Blind, Penny Melville Brown. Her Holman Prize took her to 6 continents where she did a lot more than cooking. Hear about her highs, lows and lessons learned. Subscribe: Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Sound Cloud, Stitcher, Tune In Radio. http://reidmymind.com/ @tsreid on Twitter

This episode concludes our look at the 2018 Holman Prize recipients. Last up, Red Szell, the host of RNIB's Read ON. Red is an Extreme Sport athlete and Holman Prize winner. We hear about his ambition, his journey through vision loss and more. Subscribe to the podcast: Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Sound Cloud, Stitcher, Tune In Radio www.reidmymind.com @tsreid on Twitter

In part 2 of the 2018 Holman Prize series, we meet Stacy Cervenka. Stacy's creating the Blind Travel Network - a website specifically tailored to people who are blind or low vision. This Holman Prize is the first that can benefit all blind people around the world - even you too! On that note - hear Stacy's story about her encounter with U2's Bono. Subscribe to the podcast on your favorite app. Follow @tsreid on Twitter.

Beginning today, I'll introduce you to each of the three 2018 Holman Prize winners. You'll get to know a bit about them and their plans for the $25K Holman Prize. First up, Maria Conchita Hernandez organizing blind empowerment in Mexico. Subscribe to the podcast: Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Sound Cloud, Stitcher, Tune In Radio... http:reidmymind.com/ @tsreid on Twitter

Interview with NFB president Mark Riccobono and Holman Prize winner Stacy Cervenka.

In this episode Jonathan and Rachel discuss the accessibility possibilities and ethical questions around the Google Duplex feature announced at Google I/O. Rachel gives an update on her submission to the Holman Prize.

This third segment features Ojok Simon. Attacked as a boy in Uganda by the infamous army of Joseph Kony, hear his journey to becoming one of the first three Holman Prize winners as an Entrepreneur who is about more than just bizzzzness! Subscribe using Apple Podcast, Google Play, Stitcher, Tune In & Follow on Sound Cloud. @tsreid on Twitter

Chef Penny Melville Brown is the creator of Baking Blind a YouTube series that features Penny cooking with a range of different people from all walks of life. Her aim is to connect people through the “universal language of food and cooking”. Penny is Holman Prize winner and is using her prize money to travel Penny will travel to Costa Rica, Malawi, Australia, China and the United States, all over the course of a year. Along the way, she will meet chefs, teach blind people and community leaders the techniques and panache of blind baking, and film these encounters to ensure that people change their assumptions about the capabilities of blind chefs. She chats with Stella on the eve of her departure date about the thrill of winning the prize, her own vision loss and what a chef takes with her when packing her bags. Also on the program Nemoy Malcolm, Peer Support coordinator at Vision Australia discusses how the Peer Support program can assist people through life's challenges.  

With the announcement of the inaugural Holman Prize this week it seems fitting to replay an interview with CEO of The Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired based in San Francisco, Bryan Bashin. The prize, which funds the ambitions of blind people worldwide, is an initiative of The Lighthouse and in this interview from February 2017 Bryan discusses the history of the organisation, its main philosophy and also the exciting news about the Holman Prize.

Want 25G's? That question was posed to all legally blind people brave enough to submit their video to YouTube explaining exactly how they would use the money. It's a contest sponsored by the San Francisco Lighthouse called The Holman Prize. In this 3 part series mmeet the winners and learn the answers and see how it's more than what you may think. Subscribe to RMMRadio: Apple Podcast, Google Play, Stitcher, Tune IN & Sound Cloud. http://reidmymind.com/ Twitter: @tsreid|@ reidmymindradio

Mel starts out the podcast by thanking listeners for voting for her Holman Prize entry. We’ll be sure to let you know when we have any additional results. Mel and Jennifer Kern talk about the new Barre Method Level One workout: who it’s for, what it’s like, and many more. If you would like to contact Jennifer, you can visit her website for more information. Peggy is back with “Let’s Eat,” and this time she’s talking about cauliflower, which is much more versatile than you might think. Lisa closes out the podcast by sharing some helpful tips for finding older episodes and playing podcasts online. Cauliflower recipes shared by Peggy: Miracle Mashies One 12-oz. russet potato 3 cups cauliflower florets 3 tbsp. fat-free half & half 1 tbsp. light whipped butter or light buttery spread 1/4 tsp. salt, or more to taste Optional seasoning: black pepper 2 tbsp. sour cream Directions Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Meanwhile, peel and cube potato. Add cauliflower and cubed potato to boiling water. Once returned to a boil, reduce heat to medium. Cook until potatoes and cauliflower are very tender, 15 to 20 minutes, (or microwave for five to six minutes.) Drain and transfer cauliflower and potato to a large bowl. Add half & half, sour cream, butter, and salt. Thoroughly mash and mix. You can mix in a blender. Enjoy 5-Ingredient Cauliflower “Fried Rice” Prep Time: 15 min Cook Time: 10 min Yield: 4 servings Recipe by: Christina from The Blissful Balance This healthy spin on "Fried Rice" is the perfect side dish to any meal. INGREDIENTS 1 head cauliflower 1 bag frozen mixed vegetables 3 Eggland’s Best eggs (large), scrambled 2 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil ¼ cup low-sodium soy sauce, or more as you need PREPARATION Clean and chop cauliflower head into florets. In batches, using your food processor, pulse until ‘rice’ is formed. In a large saute pan over medium heat, add olive oil. Add in cauliflower and vegetables. Cook for about ten minutes, or until fragrant. Add in eggs and cook, stirring together until well-combined. When eggs are cooked, turn off the heat. Serve topped with sesame seeds, fresh cilantro, or chopped scallions. Cauliflower pizza Ingredients 1 head cauliflower, stalk removed 1/2 cup shredded mozzarella 1/4 cup grated Parmesan 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder 2 eggs, lightly beaten Directions Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Break the cauliflower into florets and pulse in a food processor until fine. Steam in a steamer basket and drain well. (I like to put it on a towel to get all the moisture out.) Let cool. In a bowl, combine the cauliflower with the mozzarella, Parmesan, oregano, salt, garlic powder and eggs. Transfer to the center of the baking sheet and spread into a circle, resembling a pizza crust. Bake for 20 minutes. Add desired toppings and bake an additional 10 minutes. Recipe courtesy of Katie Lee We welcome your feedback or questions! Find us on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn and our BlindAlive Community on Facebook. Be the first to know of new and exclusive promotions by Subscribing to our Newsletter. For more information on Eyes-Free Fitness® Workouts go to www.BlindAlive.com

In this podcast extra, Lisa talks about Mel’s entry for the Holman Prize, and briefly explains how to cast your vote. You can click the Candidates’ Blog Pages to view and vote on the entries. And you can click this link to go directly to Mel’s entry Voting closes March 7, 2017. We welcome your feedback or questions! Find us on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn and our BlindAlive Community on Facebook. Be the first to know of new and exclusive promotions by Subscribing to our Newsletter. For more information on Eyes-Free Fitness® Workouts go to www.BlindAlive.com