From comicsempower at gmail.com Tue Oct 6 19:22:11 2015 From: comicsempower at gmail.com (Comics Empower) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 21:22:11 +0200 Subject: [Mabs] Announcing: A Competition for Blind or Visually Impaired Comic Book Writers! Message-ID: Comics Empower, the comic book store for the blind and the visually impaired, is proud to announce that we are looking for the next great comic book writers in the blind and visually impaired community! And we?re starting a competition to do it! After all, now that you can listen to comics, there?s no reason you can?t write comics! The top 3 winners will have their comics published by Comics Empower! Check out the rules here: http://comicsempower.com/writing_competition Do you know anyone who would be interested in participating? Please share this email! Have a great day! Guy Hasson From aachase1 at gmail.com Sun Oct 11 21:41:47 2015 From: aachase1 at gmail.com (Alan Chase) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 17:41:47 -0400 Subject: [Mabs] Envisioning Youth Empowerment Retreat 2016 Message-ID: Hi all, Be the first in line to apply for a staff position at the 2016 EYE Retreat. The 2016 EYE Retreat will be Friday, July 22 to Saturday, July 30 in Raleigh, NC. The EYE Retreat is now in its 8th year and provides college preparation and career readiness training for youth with visual impairments. In 2015, we served 51 individuals from 2 countries and 8 states. You can find out more about us at www.eyeretreat.org. Participant applications for students are not yet available, but we generally have a wait list by March of each year. For our staff, there is no cost for you to attend and this equals about a $225.00 value. Who can spend a week somewhere for that bargain of a price? As usual, we will provide all food, housing, and transportation during the week. We are sorry that other compensation isn't available and we can not cover your transportation to and from Raleigh. Interviews will occur in the month of December. Here is a link to the staff application. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1M9P3dKm-F0xQ4RT9jlKIwCSeQbcfIWBjOfeeHtGe4Us/viewform Below you will find descriptions of the approved positions for 2016. We are anticipating increased enrollments for 2016 and are planning for 60 participants this year. 1. College Coordinator (1 position) is responsible for group leaders within their track, class observations, class lesson planning, and participant supervision. This person is on duty from 7am to 6pm and shares in an evening rotation for supervision. 2. Career Coordinator (1 position) is responsible for group leaders within their track, securing work site job experiences, class lesson planning, and participant supervision. This person is on duty from 7am to 6pm and shares in an evening rotation for supervision. 3. Registration, Recreation and Transportation Coordinator (1 position) is responsible for arranging transportation to and from sites, arranging transportation for recreational activities, collecting and reviewing registration documents, completing check in and check out with participants, and arranging and supervising recreation activities. This person is on duty during all registration times, during all check outs, and each evening during the week. 4. Dorm Coordinators (3 positions) are responsible for overnight supervision of participants, ensuring cleanness of dorms, assisting with serving of breakfast, serving as point of contact during overnight hours, and ensuring participants adhere to the schedule. 5. Senior Group Leaders (2 positions) are responsible for assisting track coordinators with supporting group leaders, serving as track leader in the absence of the track coordinator, teaching of assigned classes, supervising participants, serving as a mentor, and assisting with meal duties. These individuals are on duty from 7am to 6pm. Each group would have about 4 participants. 6. Group Leaders (8 positions) are responsible for teaching of assigned classes, supervising participants, serving as a mentor, and assisting with meal duties. These individuals are on duty from 7am to 6pm. Each group would have about 4 participants. Be sure to like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/eyeretreat and follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/eyeretreat. From sharlyn at tbase.com Fri Oct 16 13:29:04 2015 From: sharlyn at tbase.com (Sharlyn) Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 13:29:04 +0000 Subject: [Mabs] Thank you... and tell us more! Message-ID: Thanks to those of you who have completed the survey about the availability of accessible information for products and services. T-Base Communications is one step closer to being able to report the findings to our customers who are keenly interested in this topic and want to know how to improve the user experience. Though we've received a number of responses so far, the truth is we need to hear more. It's only with sufficient participation that we'll have statistically sound results we can share. We've put together a few five-minute questionnaires asking you about your experience receiving accessible information from various service providers as a consumer who is blind, deaf-blind or partially sighted. To view and complete the questionnaires, please click this link: http://www.tbase.com/accessible-communications-calibrating-user-experience Thank you! Sharlyn Ayotte Consumer Engagement Officer T-Base Communications Phone: 613-236-0866 | Toll free: 1-800-563-0668 www.tbase.com | Ogdensburg, NY | Ottawa, ON Have questions? We have answers. Just ask us! #asktbase ALL TOUCH POINTS. ALL ACCESS METHODS. ALL FORMATS.TM Continue to receive the latest updates on accessibility legislation. Opt-in to stay informed This email may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If you have received this communication in error, please delete this email message immediately.