Welcome to the index page for SVCB's meeting program segments. Through links on this page, you can stream or download presentations that occurred during the program segments at monthly meetings of the Silicon Valley Council of the Blind. Roger Petersen, our Program Committee Chair, will announce each program.
Program segments posted here have been approved by their presenters for online availability. Other segments that have not been approved are available to SVCB members by contacting mkeithley@pobox.com. Feedback is welcomed. Send comments to webmaster@svcb.cc. Thank you.
Each month in the list below has two links associated with it: "stream" and "download." Both links let you listen to your selected program but in different ways.
When you select "stream," your media player starts; and you hear the program almost immediately. Problem is, you can only listen to it, you can't move forward or backward nor do you have a copy of the program on your computer to listen to later. But if you just want to sit back with your favorite "whatever," selecting "stream" is the right choice. When you need to stop the program, exit you media player (typically with the alt-f4 key combination).
Selecting the download link for a program starts the sequence you use to download a file. After the file is downloaded, you start your media player, open this file and begin listening to your program. The difference is that now you can move backward and forward through the program as well as increase the speech rate (on some players). The downside of the download process is that getting the file to your computer can take some time, perhaps two minutes.
Depending on file associations on your operating system, you may have trouble with the audio links. If nothing happens when you click on the "listen" link, try the "download" link as experiments indicate that this may behave like the "listen" link.
If you can only listen to audio, the audio file can still be downloaded. Here's how:
Select stream or download on a month below.
The first part of our November program was a tribute to Barbara Rhodes, who passed away on October 24, 2008.
The second part of the program was a presentation by Nicole Torcorini, who is blind and a going to Stanford. She developed a program in the latex mark-up language to translate Nemeth code into properly formatted Mathematical printouts.
stream downloadIn the April program segment, the CCB Publications award was given to
Debee Norling Armstrong for the best issue oriented article
in 2008, and Jane Corcoran received CCB's 2008 Humanitarian
award.
Also, Art Takahara, who was a city council member and mayor
of Mountain View, talked to us about his political career and ongoing
glaucoma.
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