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<p>Ah the Penn Friend. Is that still a thing? What it is is this
penn looking thing that comes with stick on lables. Little round
1s. You stick them to what ever you wana lable and you hold the
little hole part where on an actual penn the point would come out
of to the lable and I think you hold the button on the side down
and you record what you want the lable to be. It also has an MP3
player. There's a USB port on the side of it.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/28/2017 11:56 PM,
Tom_&_MaryAnn_Lally via CT-NFB wrote:<br>
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<div><span>What is a 'friend pen', as you mentioned in your
suggestions, Joanna?</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Wednesday,
September 27, 2017 11:41 PM, Justin Salisbury via
CT-NFB <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ct-nfb@nfbnet.org"><ct-nfb@nfbnet.org></a> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi Deb,<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I'm glad to hear that you are exploring
the possibilities enabled by nonvisual techniques.
These will generally be more dependable once you
practice them. Anything you learn nonvisually is still
useful while you have some residual vision, and the
research and collective experience of Blind people
indicate that sleepshade training can get you the best
results. <br>
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<div dir="ltr">I think, if you want to narrow down what
kinds of things you want to focus on after looking at
general things like cane travel and Braille, it might
be best to start with the areas where you are finding
yourself struggling. It's hard for many of us to just
churn out a list of things to learn, but if you give
us certain activities that matter to you, we could
probably help even more.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Aloha!<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Justin M. Salisbury, MA, NOMC, NCRTB,
NCUEB<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Legislative Committee Chair<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Honolulu Chapter<br>
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<div dir="ltr">National Federation of the Blind of
Hawaii<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Email: <a
href="mailto:President@Alumni.ECU.edu"
ymailto="mailto:President@Alumni.ECU.edu"
moz-do-not-send="true">President@Alumni.ECU.edu</a><br>
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<div dir="ltr">LinkedIn: <a
href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-salisbury"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-salisbury
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<div dir="ltr"> <br>
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<div dir="ltr">“Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.” <br>
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<div dir="ltr">William Butler Yeats<br>
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On Behalf Of stanley torow via CT-NFB<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2017 10:07 AM<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Cc: stanley torow <<a
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<div dir="ltr">Subject: Re: [Ct-nfb] Question<br>
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<div dir="ltr">i have low vision{ still can see , middle
vision blurry}, but i thought that the ideas sent to
you were great. even though I can see some, still have
difficulty with seeing things. thanks to all who send
in suggestions. thanks to Joanna, her tips are great,
use all of them. i just got stick on lights in my
cabinets. helps really good{ if you still have some
sight}.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Eileen Torow<br>
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<div dir="ltr">On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 11:46 AM,
jobo15--- via CT-NFB wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">> Hi Deb,<br>
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<div dir="ltr">> I have RP so I lost my vision
slowly. Here are a few things I did <br>
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<div dir="ltr">> while I had some usable vision left
:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">> 1. Got a cane as soon as I could. It
helped me "see" more than I <br>
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<div dir="ltr">> really did.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">> 2. Streamlined my wardrobe: Black,
Navy, gray and denim for skirts and <br>
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<div dir="ltr">> pants. Got tops that I could use
with any of the bottoms. Also, I <br>
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<div dir="ltr">> can't do braille (I'm told I am a
scrubber, can't pick up dot 3 and 6) <br>
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<div dir="ltr">> So I use safety pins in different
combos to tell me colors.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">> 3. I streamlined the cleaning
products in my house. Each product is in <br>
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<div dir="ltr">> a totally different type of
container that I can pretty much touch the <br>
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<div dir="ltr">> container and know what it is.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">> 4. Got a "friend pen" to label my
spices. I also found a new app <br>
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<div dir="ltr">> called SeeingAI which is free for
now. It can find the bar code on <br>
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<div dir="ltr">> products and tell me what it is and
any cooking directions. It also <br>
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<div dir="ltr">> reads documents and short text
easily.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">> 5. I found the biggest help was to
DE clutter while I could (I wasn't <br>
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<div dir="ltr">> as good as I should have been with
this). Organize as much as you can, <br>
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<div dir="ltr">> it will keep you from being
frustrated with not seeing like you did <br>
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<div dir="ltr">> before.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">> 6.When people offer to help, take
them up on it. If you keep saying <br>
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<div dir="ltr">> no, they will stop offering and we
all need help sometimes.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">> 7. This is the most important! Be
kind to yourself. Find something <br>
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<div dir="ltr">> that you can do alone that gives you
peace.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">> I had the hardest time giving up the
last of my vision. It got to the <br>
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<div dir="ltr">> point that trying to see took up so
much energy that I had no energy <br>
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<div dir="ltr">> left to do things. I gave up trying
to see and decided to "Walk by <br>
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<div dir="ltr">> faith, not by sight".<br>
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<div dir="ltr">> I hope this helps.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">> Good Luck and God Bless.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">> Joanna<br>
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<div dir="ltr">> -----Original Message----- From: Deb
Reed via CT-NFB<br>
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<div dir="ltr">> Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2017
5:59 PM<br>
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<div dir="ltr">> Cc: Deb Reed<br>
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<div dir="ltr">> Subject: [Ct-nfb] Question<br>
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<div dir="ltr">> Hi Everyone,<br>
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<div dir="ltr">> I still have some usable vision, but
have recently lost some. What <br>
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<div dir="ltr">> things that you use as a blind
person, would be advantageous for me to <br>
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<div dir="ltr">> learn while I still have some
vision? Thanks.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">> Deb Reed, President<br>
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<div dir="ltr">> National Federation Of The Blind<br>
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<div dir="ltr">> Central CT Chapter<br>
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<div dir="ltr">> Phone - 860-973-3679<br>
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