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Follow below the Daily Eyeway Alerts: 1. KOCHI: The victory of the Indian Blind Cricket team, the third consecutive victory by the blue shirts including the World T20 2012 and the Blind Cricket World Cup 2014, has given more weight for the demand for recognition by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). The Indian officials and team captain Ajay Reddy hoped that their long time demand for affiliation would get a positive response from the BCCI soon. Former Indian cricketer, Syed Kirmani, who was present at the prize presentation ceremony said that he had urged the BCCI Chief Sashank Manohar for recognition of the blind cricket and hoped that the cricket body would take a favourable decision soon. “You are a great source of inspiration to us all,” Syed Kirmani told the blind cricketers from five Asian countries participated in the Asia Cup T20. The winning team received a cash cheque for Rs 3 lakh while the runners up received a cheque for Rs 2 lakh. Deepak Malik was adjudged the Man of the Match in the finals. Source: http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/Blind-Cricket-Team-Seeks-BCCI-Affiliation/2016/01/25/article3243389.ece. More at http://eyeway.org/?q=blind-cricket-team-seeks-bcci-affiliation 2. Other than the wire running from the chess board, it looked just like the ones used in a normal chess tournament. The board and the pieces were mounted on a wooden box under which was a lining of electromagnets and sensors, said Bhavya Gohil, the co-founder of Infivention.Aatur Mehta, the other founder of Infivention, took the pawn in front of the king in his hand, pressed it on the square it was on and then pressed it on the square two spaces in front of its original position where he had left the piece. What happened next was absolute magic. A weird sort of noise erupted from the box and the black piece in front of the black king out of its own accord moved two squares in front.Aatur and Bhavya had been working for three years on making a chess board in which the pieces move by itself. The two electronics students had no clue about coding or working with electronic boards when they started putting Automated Chess together in their second year of engineering. Source : http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/Black-and-White-Squares-for-the-Visually-Disabled/2016/01/25/article3243046.ece. More at http://eyeway.org/?q=black-and-white-squares-visually-disabled -- With warm regards, Helpdesk Team! Toll free: 1800 300 20469 Working days: Monday-Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Website: www.eyeway.org “There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.”—William Frederick Halsey, Jr. Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
