Hello everybody: I want to take just a few words and thank you all for your participation in the speakup projects. I think we've had a pretty good year for speakup and hopefully next year will even be better. Sometimes you forget exactly what strides you make over an extended period of time and I do as well. I believe this year we managed to get software synthesis support smoothed out quite a bit. Gene wrote a good users guide and Mike McDonald has us well on our way to continuous reading and highlight tracking. There are probably other accomplishments I'm forgetting but overall those aren't bad. So, I hope everyone has a great holiday season and another good new year coming up. Kirk -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061