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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Steve and Shannon Cook<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Today I married my best friend. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The one that I laugh with, live for, love.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>October 11, 2003 <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> dan thompson [mailto:dthompson5@mchsi.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 26, 2014 10:15 AM<br><b>To:</b> dan thompson<br><b>Subject:</b> Blind Planet, Dan's tip for February 26 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Blind Planet</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Note: The start of each section in this document is denoted by an asterisk. Using the find/replace feature of a word processer will allow one to move between the sections by inserting an asterisk in the find edit field.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>*Blind Planet labels itself as "Your one-stop resource for anything blindness related," and </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>contains a wealth of technology-related material: </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><a href="http://blind-planet.com/"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>http://blind-planet.com/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>* excerpt from Blind Planet HomePage:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>"<span style='color:#3E3E3E'> Welcome to The Blind Planet! The Blind Planet is a rapidly-growing web site that offers a lot of valuable information for the blind community, and / or for those people who are interested in learning about blindness and how blind people go about their daily lives. Regardless of whether you are blind, sighted, a novice or a professional at technology, or are just searching for help and / or information on a particular topic, you will definitely find the Blind Planet to be one of your favorite web sites very quickly.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#3E3E3E'>I have a variety of material available for you to browse through. You will find many audio podcasts and tutorials on different topics. These can range from software and hardware reviews / tutorials on different software programs and hardware devices that blind people use on a daily basis to sound-seeing tours of places such as museums, parks, etc. You will find audio files from not only myself, but I post audio files that others create as well so you can hear about the experience of other blind individuals in the community. The Blind Planet is a community-driven site, which means that the growth of the site depends heavily on its users and contributions from the blind community. You can even submit your own audio files to the site yourself. There are links to many blindness-related web sites that focus on specific topics related to blindness, as well as links to many blindness-related mailing lists where you can ask questions on certain topics and make new friends with others in the blind community. I have also compiled a constantly-growing list of documents and programs that I’ve found on the internet over time that you may find useful.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#3E3E3E'>I also offer one-on-one training and technical support on many popular computer software programs at very low and reasonable rates. If you are in need of training or support, please check out the training and support area of the site for additional information."</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#3E3E3E'>*Orientation Discription of the Blind Planet HomePage:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#3E3E3E'>From top to bottom, screenreader users can move through the headings by pressing the letter H. These headings include: </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#3E3E3E'>Welcome to the Blind Planet</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#3E3E3E'>Subscribe to the Blind Planet Podcast RSS Feed</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#3E3E3E'>I have an RSS feed that you can put into your podcatching client to get the latest audio content from my site. The link to the audio podcast feed is:<br><br><a href="http://www.blind-planet.com/feed/podcast">http://www.blind-planet.com/feed/podcast</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#3E3E3E'>User Submissions</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#3E3E3E'>If you have always wanted to be able to share your podcasts with others but did not have a place to host them, or if you simply did not know how to do it, you’ve come to the right place! Blind Planet will host your podcast for you for free. I have a very simple process for you to upload your submission so that it can be made available to other site visitors. Simply</span> <a href="http://blind-planet.com/podcast-submissions"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>activate the link that says, "activate this link to visit the podcast submission page</span></a><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#3E3E3E'>", or click on the “Submissions” link in the site’s navigation bar to get there. You will be presented with a form you can use to upload your podcast. Once your upload is complete, your submission must be manually reviewed and approved by a site administrator before it goes live on the site. Once this is done, you will receive an email informing you when it is publicly available on the site for others to listen to.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#3E3E3E'>Audio Podcasts and Tutorials</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#3E3E3E'>My</span> <a href="http://blind-planet.com/audio-postings"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>podcast</span></a><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#3E3E3E'> section found here:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#3E3E3E'><a href="http://blind-planet.com/audio-postings/">http://blind-planet.com/audio-postings/</a> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#3E3E3E'>contains many podcasts and tutorials on many different subjects. These include reviews and demonstrations of many popular software programs and hardware devices that are used in the blind community. You will also find other useful information such as cooking podcasts, sound-seeing tours and more!</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#3E3E3E'>News Aggregator</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#3E3E3E'>The</span> <a href="http://blind-planet.com/aggregator"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>news aggregator</span></a><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#3E3E3E'> is a system that checks various internet sites for blindness-related news every hour, and if new content is available, downloads it to the Blind Planet for you to read in the news aggregator section at your convenience.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#3E3E3E'>The direct link found on my HomePage is:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><a href="http://blind-planet.com/aggregator/"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>http://blind-planet.com/aggregator/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#3E3E3E'> The news aggregator also has it’s own RSS feed which you can add to your RSS reader. The URL to the news aggregator’s RSS feed is<br><br></span><a href="http://www.blind-planet.com/aggregator/rss"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>http://www.blind-planet.com/aggregator/rss</span></a><br><br><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#3E3E3E'>The Blind Planet News Aggregator is your hub to all of the latest news about the blind community.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#3E3E3E'>Web Links</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#3E3E3E'>I’ve compiled a list of</span> <a href="http://blind-planet.com/resources"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>resources</span></a><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#3E3E3E'>, found here:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#3E3E3E'><a href="http://blind-planet.com/resources/">http://blind-planet.com/resources/</a> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#3E3E3E'>which include links to many different places on the internet. These links lead to many useful blindness-related web sites, friends’ sites, blogs, informational web sites, shopping web sites for blindness-related items, screen-reader manufacturers / developer sites, scripts, utilities, accessible games, programming sites, audio-related web sites, podcasts, tutorials and lots of other cool stuff!</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#3E3E3E'>Software Programs</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#3E3E3E'>My</span> <a href="http://blind-planet.com/programs"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>software programs</span></a><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#3E3E3E'> section contains many useful software programs, scripts and utilities. A direct link to these offerings is:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><a href="http://blind-planet.com/programs/"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>http://blind-planet.com/programs/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#3E3E3E'>If you have a program that you would like to see added to this list, please contact me and let me know.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#3E3E3E'>Training and Technical Support</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#3E3E3E'>If you would like customized one-on-one training and / or technical support on almost any PC-related issue, please check out my</span> <a href="http://blind-planet.com/training-and-support"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>training and technical support</span></a><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#3E3E3E'> page, found here:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><a href="http://blind-planet.com/training-and-support/"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>http://blind-planet.com/training-and-support/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#3E3E3E'> I offer training and technical support at a very low and reasonable rate of just $25.00 per hour.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#3E3E3E'>Donations</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#3E3E3E'>If you would like to help by making a contribution to the Blind Planet web site, please visit our donations page found here:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#3E3E3E'><a href="http://blind-planet.com/donations/">http://blind-planet.com/donations/</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong </span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>1 Corinthians 1:25–27</span></b> <a href="http://christianity.about.com/od/faqhelpdesk/p/English-Standard-Version.htm"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#3366CC'>(ESV)</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>To subscribe to Dan's tips or the daily HotSpot devotional, send a message to </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:dthompson5@mchsi.com">dthompson5@mchsi.com</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>with dan's tip or daily devotional in the subject line.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>