Experience this empowering one day women's workshop

Finding Your Passion: Creatively and Spiritually: Experience this
empowering one day women's workshop with life coach, teacher, counselor,
Quiana Grace Frost and guest speakers, musicians and exhibitors sharing
inspiring presentations and exercises to call forth your sense of passion,
purpose and creativity . Saturday October 24 at the Hilton in Kitty Hawk
from 8am-4pm. For more information and registration form, visit
www.prayerthroughmusic.com or call Kim Kalman 441-2555.

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Peace...

kim kalman
www.kimkalman.com
www.prayerthroughmusic.com
252-441-2555
PO Box 1993
Kill Devil Hills, NC 27948

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Hi Ellen could you pass this on thru your email list? would
appreciate it! thank you!!

Finding Your Passion: Creatively and Spiritually: Experience this
empowering one day women's workshop with life coach, teacher,
counselor, Quiana Grace Frost and guest speakers, musicians and
exhibitors sharing inspiring presentations and exercises to call forth
your sense of passion, purpose and creativity . Saturday October 24
at the Hilton in Kitty Hawk from 8am-4pm. For more information and
registration form, visit www.prayerthroughmusic.com or call Kim Kalman
441-2555.

Peace...

kim kalman
www.kimkalman.com
www.prayerthroughmusic.com
252-441-2555
PO Box 1993
Kill Devil Hills, NC 27948

Digital TV software provides talking menus for the visually impaired

Digital TV software provides talking menus for the visually impaired,
deaf and elderly

It looks like something we've all been looking for may finally be
coming.
Digital TV software provides talking menus for the visually
impaired, deaf and elderly
Tom Scott
NY Disability Examiner, September 2, 2009
Bristol/Hong Kong-based Ocean Blue Software, a specialist digital TV
software house, has developed talking digital TV technology for set top
boxes and televisions that could potentially benefit millions of people
who
are blind, visually impaired, deaf, severely dyslexic, and elderly.
The technology, produced in conjunction with theThe Royal National
Institute
of Blind People (RNIB) and other digital technology companies, works by
converting on-screen based text menus into speech output. Consumers will
be
able to control how the audio information is spoken to them, and have
the
ability to change the level of speech and the language through a
customizable interface. Developers are optimistic that the new
technology
will improve the quality of life of 8 million individuals living with
disabilities in the UK, and even
more around the world.
Ocean Blue Software also recently produced Nexus TVTM, a digital
technology
system with health care features that utilizes a television with a set
top
box and a remote control. The system is capable of providing automatic
alerts reminding users which medication to take, and when. Users will
also
be able to order repeat prescriptions by scanning a barcode with the
remote
control and then forward it to their pharmacist. Individuals with
limited
mobility, will
be able to shop local stores and markets through the Nexus TVTM network
and
have items delivered to their home.
This is about exploiting technology to give the elderly and vulnerable
every possible comfort and security where they most want it - in their
own
homes, said Ken Helps, CEO of Ocean Blue Software, in a company press
release. At the same time, it addresses one of the greatest challenges
for
the British economy how to finance support for an ageing population.
It will be interesting to see how these technologies fare overseas and
if they will eventually be adopted in the US.
For more information, please visit
www.oceanbluesoftware.co.uk

www.accessible-devices.com

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STROKE IDENTIFICATION

STROKE: Remember the 1st Three Letters....S.T.R.

 

If everyone can remember something this simple, we could save some

folks.

Seriously..

Please read:

STROKE IDENTIFICATION:

During a BBQ, a friend stumbled and took a little fall - she assured

everyone that she was fine (they offered to call paramedics).  She

said she had just tripped over a brick because of her new shoes.

They got her cleaned up and got her a new plate of food. While she

appeared a bit shaken up, Ingrid went about enjoying herself the rest

of the evening

Ingrid's husband called later telling everyone that his wife had been

taken to the hospital - (at 6:00 pm Ingrid passed away.) She had

suffered a stroke at the BBQ. Had they known how to identify the signs

of a stroke, perhaps Ingrid would be with us today. Some don't die.

They end up in a helpless, hopeless condition instead.

 

It only takes a minute to read this...

A neurologist says that if he can get to a stroke victim within 3

hours he can totally reverse the effects of a stroke...totally. He

said the trick was getting a stroke recognized, diagnosed, and then

getting the patient medically cared for within 3 hours, which is

tough.

 

RECOGNIZING A STROKE

Thank God for the sense to remember the '3' steps, STR . Read and

Learn!

Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify.

Unfortunately, the lack of awareness spells disaster. The stroke

victim may suffer severe brain damage when people nearby fail to

recognize the symptoms of a stroke.

Now doctors say a bystander can recognize a stroke by asking three

simple questions:

S *Ask the individual to SMILE.

T *Ask the person to TALK, speak a simple sentence (Coherently---

i.e...It is sunny out today.)

R *Ask individual to RAISE both arms

If he or she has trouble with ANY ONE of these tasks, call emergency

number immediately and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher.

 

New Sign of a Stroke -------- Stick out Tongue

NOTE: Another 'sign' of a stroke is this: Ask the person to STICK his

TONGUE out... If the tongue is 'crooked', if it goes to one side or

the other,  that is also an indication of a stroke.

I guess this could go under "S" and/or under "T"!!!

Sock Hop At October's Harmony Cafe

Sock Hop At October's Harmony Cafe
 Date: October 9th, 2009 at  St. Andrews by the Sea, Nags Head , 6pm- 9pm. Cost: $5.00
 
Remember when the sock hop was the place to be? GEM and the Nags Head Lions Club are offering a trip down memory lane with a sock hop at St. Andrews by the Sea on Friday October 9th from 6 -9pm. We will be serving refreshments at 50's prices: Hot dogs, Cokes- cherry and vanilla; Egg creams - chocolate and vanilla, Malteds & Shakes, Ice cream sodas & sundaes, plus coffee and cake. 
 
We will offer a mix of entertainment provided by The Atlantic School of Dance, and Angelo and the SUNSETS. Join in and sing or bring your own group; we will also have DJ Magic Mike for your twisting pleasure, a dance contest, and a best /most ... .costume contest - wear your poodle skirt!
 
Please call Gail at 252.480.3354 if you would like to perform or for information about tickets. 

Fw: Sock Hop at October's Harmony Café - Friday the 9th at 6pm St Andrews by the Sea

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Gail E Sonnesso

To: asonnesso@gmail.com

Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 8:31 AM

Subject: Sock Hop at October's Harmony Café - Friday the 9th at 6pm St Andrews by the Sea

For Community Calendar

Date: September 24, 09

Contact: Gail Sonnesso

Phone: 252.480-3354

 

 

Sock Hop at October's Harmony Café 

Date: October 9^th, 2009

Location St. Andrews by the Sea, Nags Head

Time: 6pm- 9pm

Cost: $5.00

 

Remember when the sock hop was the place to be? GEM and the Nags Head Lions Club are offering a trip down memory lane with a sock hop at St. Andrews by the Sea on Friday October 9^th from 6 -9pm. We will be serving refreshments at 50's prices: Hot dogs, Cokes- cherry and vanilla; Egg creams – chocolate and vanilla, Malteds & Shakes, Ice cream sodas & sundaes, plus coffee and cake. 

 

We will offer a mix of entertainment provided by The Atlantic School of Dance, and Angelo and the SUNSETS. Join in and sing or bring your own group; we will also have DJ Magic Mike for your twisting pleasure, a dance contest, and a best /most … .costume contest – wear your poodle skirt!

 

Please call Gail at 252.480.3354 if you would like to perform or for information about tickets.

 

 

 

 

 

Gail E Sonnesso M.S.

Executive Director

GEM Adult Day Services Inc.

Where group Respite is therapeutic for both our participants, and their families.

(252) 480-3354

http://www.gemdayservices.org

A Treaty to restrict Copywrighted material

 

USA, Canada and the EU attempt to kill treaty to protect blind people's access to written material
Posted by Cory Doctorow, May 29, 2009 1:52 AM | permalink

Update: Victory! -- the treaty proposal survived this meeting and will be back on the agenda at the next one. We've got a couple months to lobby our governments and make sure that the next time they show up, they don't embarrass us by opposing this.

Right now, in Geneva, at the UN's World Intellectual Property Organization, history is being made. For the first time in WIPO history, the body that creates the world's copyright treaties is attempting to write a copyright treaty dedicated to protecting the interests of copyright users, not just copyright owners.

At issue is a treaty to protect the rights of blind people and people with other disabilities that affect reading (people with dyslexia, people who are paralyzed or lack arms or hands for turning pages), introduced by Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay. This should be a slam dunk: who wouldn't want a harmonized system of copyright exceptions that ensure that it's possible for disabled people to get access to the written word?

The USA, that's who. The Obama administration's negotiators have joined with a rogue's gallery of rich country trade representatives to oppose protection for blind people. Other nations and regions opposing the rights of blind people include Canada and the EU.

Update: Also opposing rights for disabled people: Australia, New Zealand, the Vatican and Norway.

Update 2: Countries that are on the right side of this include, "Latin American and Caribbean region including (Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Jamaica) as well as Asia and Africa."

Update 3: Canada is upset with me. That's fine, I'm upset with Canada.

Activists at WIPO are desperate to get the word out. They're tweeting madly from the negotiation (technically called the 18th session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights) publishing editorials on the Huffington Post, etc.

Here's where you come in: this has to get wide exposure, to get cast as broadly as possible, so that it will find its way into the ears of the obscure power-brokers who control national trade-negotiators.

I don't often ask readers to do things like this, but please, forward this post to people you know in the US, Canada and the EU, and ask them to reblog, tweet, and spread the word, especially to government officials and activists who work on disabled rights. We know that WIPO negotiations can be overwhelmed by citizen activists -- that's how we killed the Broadcast Treaty negotiation a few years back -- and with your help, we can make history, and create a world where copyright law protects the public interest.

I am attending a meeting in Geneva of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). This evening the United States government, in combination with other high income countries in "Group B" is seeking to block an agreement to discuss a treaty for persons who are blind or have other reading disabilities.

The proposal for a treaty is supported by a large number of civil society NGOs, the World Blind Union, the National Federation of the Blind in the US, the International DAISY Consortium, Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic (RFB&D), Bookshare.Org, and groups representing persons with reading disabilities all around the world.

The main aim of the treaty is to allow the cross-border import and export of digital copies of books and other copyrighted works in formats that are accessible to persons who are blind, visually impaired, dyslexic or have other reading disabilities, using special devices that present text as refreshable braille, computer generated text to speech, or large type. These works, which are expensive to make, are typically created under national exceptions to copyright law that are specifically written to benefit persons with disabilities...

The opposition from the United States and other high income countries is due to intense lobbying from a large group of publishers that oppose a "paradigm shift," where treaties would protect consumer interests, rather than expand rights for copyright owners.

The Obama Administration was lobbied heavily on this issue, including meetings with high level White House officials. Assurances coming into the negotiations this week that things were going in the right direction have turned out to be false, as the United States delegation has basically read from a script written by lobbyists for publishers, extolling the virtues of market based solutions, ignoring mountains of evidence of a "book famine" and the insane legal barriers to share works.

Obama Joins Group to Block Treaty for Blind and Other Reading Disabilities

COPYRIGHT EXCEPTIONS AND LIMITATIONS

Twitter feed for #sccr18

PROPOSAL BY BRAZIL, ECUADOR AND PARAGUAY, RELATING TO LIMITATIONS AND EXCEPTIONS: TREATY PROPOSED BY THE WORLD BLIND UNION (WBU)

Pedro Paranaguá's notes in English and Brazilian Portuguese

posted in: Civlib , Copyfight

http://boingboing.net/2009/05/29/usa-canada-and-the-e.html

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Fw: A great big thank you to all!

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Gail E Sonnesso

To: asonnesso@gmail.com

Cc: 'MaryEllen'

Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 8:25 PM

Subject: A great big thank you to all!

     The First Annual Walk for the Mind was undoubtedly a huge success!  People from all over Dare County, Virginia, and even Ohio participated!  With all the hard work and dedication from the Dare County Center Staff, GEM,  and the event sponsors, we were able to raise over $3,000!  A big thanks to everyone who walked and donated because together we've increased awareness and touched the lives of local families effected by dementia or Alzheimer's disease.

     A special thanks to all of our sponsors who made this wonderful event a truly rewarding reality:

Roanoke Island Festival Park, Beach 104.1 & Water Country 94.5, Gallop Funeral Services, Dunkin Donuts, Harris Teeter, Food Lion, COA, Manteo High School, Dixie 105.7, Town of Manteo, Dare County Parks & Recreation,

Gail E Sonnesso M.S.

Executive Director

GEM Adult Day Services Inc.

Where group Respite is therapeutic for both our participants, and their families.

(252) 480-3354

http://www.gemdayservices.org