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Software helps blind surf Net

The blind and the visually impaired will now be able to browse the Internet and work on computers through a new software solution. Sakhr Software Company (SSC) recently introduced its new Reading Machine System that reads computer and Internet-based information aloud.

The SSC and Dubai Press Club are organising a workshop which runs till Wednesday. It trains people to use Sakhr's bilingual Reading Machine System, an adaptive solution that enables the blind and partially sighted people to use computers. Mohammed Omar, Technical Support Manager at SSC, said: "There are 20 representatives of several institutions and centres for the visually impaired participating in the workshop, including the Emirates Society for Rehabilitation, Early Intervention Centre, Red Crescent Authority and UAE University. The workshop was held earlier in Syria, Oman, Qatar, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. We were happy at the participants' level of understanding and the will to learn. Some of them were considered computer illiterates, but after only two days they are working on computers through this unique programme.” At the end of the workshop each participant will receive a certificate in computer and Internet skills.

Luma Adnan Al Azzawi, Information Technology Manager of the Dubai Press Club, said: "The workshop takes forward the club's ongoing commitment to social and community causes. We hope the workshop will be informative and help the visually impaired to make optimum use of computers which have become almost indispensable tools in all spheres of modern life."

Maher Al Junaidy, Media and Editorial Manager of the company, said: "This is a unique workshop that aims at meeting the needs of various associations for the visually impaired. We are happy that the Press Club is sponsoring this event along with two of the biggest IT companies in UAE, HP and DTK Computers."

Mohammed said: "The programme includes the paper reader, the net reader, the screen reader, the e-mail reader as well as a tutorial that enables new visually impaired computer users to learn how to interact efficiently with the system without the help of people with normal sight".

The bilingual Reading Machine System is the first system developed to serve Arabic users.Anis Mansour, Senior Technical Support Executive from SSC, is conducting the workshop. "The advanced technology of Sakhr Company demonstrates its expertise in diverse domains and shows that its solutions are easy and simple for users."

The workshop is free of charge and in the end, each trainee gets a three-month free trial period. Salma Ali Saeed Al Kaabi, a UAE national teacher at the Fujairah Handicapped Centre, thanked the SSC and the club for giving the blind and the visually impaired an excellent opportunity to enhance their computer skills.



Saeed Ali Khalfan, a 32-year-old national employee at the Fujairah Court Department, said: "This new programme is the best chance for the blind and visually impaired to learn how to use the computer and the Internet. "At the Fujairah Courts I work on the Braille system, but today I learned to use the normal computer. This training programme fulfiled my dreams to use the computer and Internet as any normal individual."

A Syrian national, Mazen Mohammed Fawzi, 32, is a telephone operator at Fujairah International Airport. He expressed his gratitude to the SSC and the Dubai Press Club for providing him with the best means to master the computer and Internet, especially in Arabic.







This is another topic my friend Levana and this is my summarize plez check it and edit and organize it to me plez I need it neccessary tommorow plez >

A new device to help blind people listen what is on the net and computers in general has been invented and is subject to a study in Dubai by the Sakhr Software Company. This software can help blind internet users surf in the net and do many different activities related to the computer, reading , listening , interacting through internet as a whole

i wait u plez
i need it tommorow

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المشاركة الأصلية كتبت بواسطة جروح الأيام

والله العظيم اني محرج
واستفدت كثيراً من ملخصك لي
Professor Keith Hampton, an expert in cyber-sociology says that People who spend
time online are not lonely individuals with no social life. He'd mentioned on BBC that
technology is a "social tie" which increase communication. Unlike studies that suggest that
people who spend time on line are un happy and lonely Hamptons research indicates that
it binds a community together. seeing internet as part of people's everyday life is The difference
between Hampton's research and other studies. something something spent two years in
the Netville project, (a community based on a high-speed computer network), where he found that
being wired helped create a more involved society

هل هذا الملخص فقط... لاني اعتقد بانه كافي وجميل ومرتب
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هل تستطيعين كتابة discuss ur opinion
حتى يتسنى لي التعلم في كتابة نقاشات واراء في تلخيصات اخرى؟؟؟

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لا! هذا مجرد مسوده مليانه اخطاء. الملخص تحت ^^

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المشاركة الأصلية كتبت بواسطة جروح الأيام

اختي لافينا
الآن اريد فقرة او فقرتين نقاش حول آرائك ((your opinion about topic ))
انتي اكتبي الفقرة وانا سأرى كيف ستكتبيها وسوف اتعلم منك

Discussion
six marks for expressing and describing a relevant opinion
two marks for relating this to your own life, and/or giving detailed support to your opinion
two marks for considering wider (e.g. global or societal) implications

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I'll write it then post it here,
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خامسا: كتابة الفقرة (البراقراف).
هنا تهتم بالتالي:
1. القواعد. Grammar
2. الإملاء. Spelling
3.الاسلوب. Style
4. علامات الترقيم. Punctuation
5. بناء الفقره.


According to Keith Hampton, an expert in cyber-sociology, being wired creates a more involved society.
He sees internet as part of people's everyday lives, a "social tie". And he disagrees with studies labeling
net users as depressed or lonely individuals. For his doctorate, he spent two years in The Netville Project
(a community based on a high-speed computer network), where he found that being wired allowed people
to form social relationships and solve problems that are faced when moving to a new suburban community.

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A new device to help blind people listen what is on the net and computers in general has been invented and is subject to a study in Dubai by the Sakhr Software Company. This software can help blind internet users surf in the net and do many different activities related to the computer, reading , listening , interacting through internet as a whole

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This draft is much better than the 1st one, your getting better it this
لاكن حاول تغير الكلمات بدون ما تغير المعنى مثلا بالتلخيص انت كتبت device (جهاز) و هو سوفت وير (برنامج).
Here is your draft after editing:

A new software that helps the blind and visually impaired browse the Internet and work on computers
has been developed by Sakhr Software Company (SSC). The software helps the blind by reading computer
and Internet-based information aloud. The (SSC) has been making workshops to teach the blind and visually impaired
how to use their software. There for, giving them a chance to enhance their computer skills and learn how to use it in their workplace.

thank u very much my friend
i have another topic i will summarize it then i want u to check, organize and edit it.

اقتباس:

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المشاركة الأصلية كتبت بواسطة جروح الأيام

thank u very much my friend
i have another topic i will summarize it then i want u to check, organize and edit it.

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your very much welcome,

Opinion for Hamptons research :


I agree with Keith Hampton, I believe that communication technology helps us be more connected with society
and solves all kinds of problems we face in our modern life whether we need help translating a text,
finding surcease for our academic research, or simply wanting to know where is the best French restaurant in town.
I also believe that it's a great tool for to stay connected when we're living faraway from each other, for example, I have
family members that are living abroad, and Internet has offered me the opportunity to communicate with them by e-mail,
webcam and instant massaging, unlike years ago when the only way of communication was the telephone. In edition it gives us
the ability to form new relationships across the glob thus learning more about different societies and sharing information on a global level.

هل تستطيعين كتابة نقاش + رأي كما فعلتي بالضبط في مقال مستر هامبتون لهذا الموضوع
Software helps blind surf ((المشاركة رقم 16))

i need it tommorow or on saturday plez if u can help me to finish
discuss and opinion of Software helps blind surf

this is the third topic and i summarize it plez check, organize and edit it.

“Computers harm young,” US group says
WASHINGTON Tuesday September 12 (Reuters) - Early exposure to computers stops healthy development in children such technology should only be introduced after elementary school, a group of U.S. educators and psychologists said on Tuesday.
The Alliance for Childhood, a group that focuses on child development, said in a report that computers and the Internet prevent preschool children from interacting with each other and adults.
"Children need a healthy education, and computers cannot provide them with a healthy education because children need a living education -- with live people," said Joan Almon, a former preschool teacher and U.S. coordinator for the organization.
The U.S. government has spent billions of dollars a year on new technology for elementary schools. In 1994, the Clinton administration said it would work with public schools to have them hooked up to the Internet by the end of this year. According to the report, in the last five years public schools have spent more than $27 billion in computer technology and related costs.
`'Children are not getting warmth, artistic inspiration and understanding. Only a teacher can do that," Kim John Payne, a Massachusetts child psychologist, told Reuters in a phone interview.
As of late 1999, 95 percent of schools were connected, said a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Education.
Almon said some schools have cut back on teachers, library books, music and arts programs, and field trips to parks, while spending millions on computer hardware and software.
Studies show that introduction to computers at an early age does not increase children's creativity and can cause eye strain, repetitive stress injuries and obesity.
Those who frequently draw on a computer are reluctant to create hand drawings, and are extremely critical of their handwritten art work because it is not "sophisticated enough," she said.
The effects go beyond that, Payne said. She said that increased computer lab time and shorter breaks make it difficult for children to develop their social skills. Early exposure makes children unaware of other children's emotions, she added. It is particularly damaging at a young age because the brain is most active in terms of the socialization process.
"When children are playing with a computer they are not playing with each other," Payne said. "It's a virtual world not a real world."
But not everyone agreed with the report. Alan Delamater, a child psychologist at the University of Miami, agreed about the risks such as posture problems and obesity, but said this was outweighed by benefits such as educational games.
"It's an inactive activity, but so is reading," Delamater said. He said children need to learn to use computers at an early age because they are part of modern life, but stressed that parents need to monitor things like computer games.
While Almon and her peers encouraged parents and teachers to keep young children away from computers, they favored their use in the education of older children.
"They are wonderful tools," she said. "Let's be really careful about how we use them
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my summarize :
Computers cannot replace teachers and adults in the education of children
children need the warmth of human contact. Computers can cause health problems such as eye strain and obesity and cannot develop creativity during the early childhood
further more computer addiction may hinder healthy social life.

اسال الله ان يرزقك الجنة من غير حساب اختي في الله ليفانا
والله اني ممنون لك بالفضل الكبير

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المشاركة الأصلية كتبت بواسطة جروح الأيام

اسال الله ان يرزقك الجنة من غير حساب اختي في الله ليفانا
والله اني ممنون لك بالفضل الكبير

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Amen, thank you ^^
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Opinion for topic2:

I’m quite convinced that this software will change many lives in the Arab world. Now that there is a way
for blind Arabs to learn and use computers and Internet the possibilities are somehow endless. This can
open more job opportunities for the blind and visually impaired in our Arab world. We live in a modern
- wired - world; our day life forces us to use the computer and internet frequently; checking our phone bill,
our bank account and the list goes on. This software enables the blind
to be more independent - not needing the help of people with normal sight.

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Topic3:
The Alliance for Childhood, a group that focuses on child development, encourage parents and teachers to keep
children away from computers. The group believes that early exposure to computers has many negative effects on
Children development. Using computers in early age expose children to eye strain, posture problems, obesity, and
computer addiction; which may hinder their healthy social life in future. But not everyone agrees with the group.
Alan Delamater, a child psychologist, agreed on the risks such as obesity, but said it was outweighed by benefits.

Opinion for topic3:
I believe that everything in moderation; we can't keep our children away from computers. Our modern life depends
on computers and technology that is changing everyday; thus we need to keep out children up-to-date with these
changes. But at the same time we must not rely on computers to do everything for us. Human interaction is irreplaceable
its important for children to socialize with their peers and improve their social skills.


Best of luck
:D

Thank u very much my firend ...
أنا جداً محرجة لأني اتعبتك معي ... اخاف اقول لك عندي topic 4 اتعصبين خخخ
سوف اقوم بتلخيصه ثم سأريكي اياه

من اي دولة انتي اختي؟ لم نتعرف على بعض ....

In space, water, water everywhere
Dr Nidhal Guessom
Images from Nasa's Moon Mineralogy Mapper aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter shows parts of the Moon's surface that absord a very specific colour of light identified previously only with water. NASA / AFP
It always comes as a surprise for my students (and for most other people) to learn that we have found water on the Sun and on the Moon and on most other planets in the solar system and in nebulae (giant gas clouds) outside of the solar system.
But how could the Sun, with a surface temperature of close to 6,000°C, have any water? And haven’t we always been told that the Moon is totally dry, and that is why there is no life to be found there?

To make sense of this, one must recall that “water” does not necessarily mean liquid water, it simply means H2O. This could be found in the form of vapour (as on the Sun) or ice (in polar craters on the Moon and in many other places of the solar system).
And when we say “we have found water”, we do not mean that it is contained in seas or oceans, except perhaps on one of Jupiter’s moons (Europa). Water is often found in tiny amounts but water is ubiquitous.

In fact, for astrophysicists, there is no surprise to finding water so easily.

Indeed, H2O is a very easy molecule for nature to make since oxygen has a strong “affinity” for hydrogen, and they are two of the most abundant elements in the universe. But what we are really looking for is liquid water since this is the key for the existence, or even the emergence, of life.
We have yet to find a way, theoretically or experimentally, for complex molecules, which make up the essential bricks of any living organism, to assemble, organise and metabolise without liquid water. This is because water is an exceptional medium. It is a unique conductor and regulator of heat, a universal solvent, its molecules can form weak bonds with other molecules, very important for the stability of molecules critical to life.
More practically, for the space travellers that we are, or at least intend to be, finding water on the Moon or on planets such as Mars may mean that we can one day use that for drinking (after filtering) or breathing (after converting it to O2) and as a fuel, turning these places into refuelling ports. Indeed, we should recall that rocket fuel consists of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, which get mixed during the propulsion process to produce energy.
There are other places in our solar system where we have found water: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and its moon Europa, Saturn and its moon Titan, Uranus and its satellites, Neptune and its moon Triton, and Pluto and its moon Charon, which consists mostly of ice. Interestingly, Mars, although mostly too cold for liquid-water seas to exist, does have regions and seasons when the temperature goes above zero. Moreover, it has been shown that with the planet’s very low atmospheric pressure, water could exist in liquid form – although in small amounts – even at temperatures below zero Celsius.
In June 2000, Nasa’s Mars Global Surveyor found puzzling gullies and gaps in the Martian surface perhaps from water seeping through from underground, estimated to be 100 to 400 metres below the surface. Those spots show up on hundreds of different images from more than 120 locations on Mars. Needless to say, such discoveries have profound implications for the possibility of finding past or present life on Mars.
Europa and Titan also deserve special attention for their aqueous environments. Europa is very cold (minus 160°C) and it is entirely covered with a smooth layer of ice, but images taken by spacecrafts over the past 15 years have shown gigantic ice rafts. Scientists have concluded that the moon’s internal heat must be melting part of the ice under the surface, producing an underground ocean, similar to those seen on Earth’s polar seas. Beneath its icy crust, Europa could harbour the solar system’s largest ocean.
The mere possibility of oceans of water on Europa raises even more the fascinating prospect of extraterrestrial life, whether in the form of simple microbes, bacteria, algae, or even fish. Here on Earth, undersea environments near volcanoes and hydrothermal vents have been found to be rich in living organisms. As one researcher has put it: “Can an ocean of liquid water persist for 4.5 billion years and not have life?”

Nidhal Guessoum is a professor of physics and astronomy at the American University of Sharjah

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المشاركة الأصلية كتبت بواسطة جروح الأيام

Thank u very much my firend ...
أنا جداً محرجة لأني اتعبتك معي ... اخاف اقول لك عندي topic 4 اتعصبين خخخ
سوف اقوم بتلخيصه ثم سأريكي اياه

من اي دولة انتي اختي؟ لم نتعرف على بعض ....

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your welcome ^^. LOLz don't worry about it, glad to help :D.
I'm from Saudi Arabia ^^. I have a Q too^^", are you a boy or a girl? o
I'll be waiting for your summ.

hi levana
i am a girl
my nick name is grooo7
فعلاً لا استغرب الكرم والطيبة منكي
لانكي من اطهر بقاع الارض المملكة العربية السعودية ... ومن بلاد بو متعب حفظه الله
انا من الامارات

summarize of topic 4
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and plez do not forget to write discuss and ur opinion for this topic plez

The water (H 2O), the key for the existence has been found in many places in the universe, under many forms: liquid (on Jupiter’s moon (Europa)), vapor (on the Sun), or ice (in polar craters on the Moon. These surprising and important discovers will give many possibilities to use this water in drinking (after filtering), or breathing (after converting it to O 2, and as fuel or energy by turning these places into refueling ports.

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