[Nfbc-info] NFBC-Info Digest, Vol 147, Issue 19
Jordan Mirander
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Thu Aug 24 16:25:48 UTC 2017
I have a question. How and why could Aira help me out? I mean, I am at college student who is attending the Southern California school of interpreting in the fall. However I just don't understand how Aira would help me out? I mean what's the difference betwine aira and orcam My Eye and Orcam my reader?
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> 1. Re: NFBC-Info Digest, Vol 147, Issue 18 (Jordan Mirander)
> 2. Fwd: Access Code Collaborative ? Seeking Members (EverHairston)
> 3. Attention all college students! (Cricket X. Bidleman)
> 4. monthly game night (nancy Lynn)
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> Hello cricket bittleman,
> What is the dial in information for for the nabs membership call? Unfortunately, I am more available at 5 o'clock this Sunday then I am. on September 3 as I may be going to UCLA Bruins football game
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>> 1. Study: Interactions with Healthcare Providers Follow-up
>> (nancy Lynn)
>> 2. San Francisco: the "Patient No More" audio description tour
>> is this Thursday geared toward blind and low vision visitors
>> (Jim Barbour)
>> 3. Longer Article about the MCB Eclipse Event (nancy Lynn)
>> 4. CABS Call Update (Cricket X. Bidleman)
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 13:45:17 -0500
>> From: "nancy Lynn" <seabreeze.stl at gmail.com>
>> To: "mcb chat" <chat at moblind.org>, "nfbmo list" <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>,
>> "NFBC List" <nfbc-info at nfbnet.org>, "Seniors"
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>> Subject: [Nfbc-info] Study: Interactions with Healthcare Providers
>> Follow-up
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>> I?ve been asked to share the following information. Please write to the email address in the message and not to me. Thanks muchly.
>> Hello,
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>> My name is Carmel and i am a research assistant with the Judgement and Decision Making Lab at the University of Texas at El Paso. In about a month the Judgement and Decision Making Lab will be conducting a study in the form of a questionnaire. The PI is a blind doctoral candidate conducting her dissertation research. We will be looking at blind and low vision adults and their experiences with healthcare providers (i.e doctors, pharmacy technicians, health insurance agents). All participants will be entered into a drawing to win an Amazon gift card. If you qualify for this study and are interested please contact the Judgement and Decision Making Lab via email at utep.psyc.hcd at gmail or via phone at 915 747 8659. If you know of anyone that
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>> qualifies and would be interested please share this message with them.
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>> Thank you for your interest.
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>> Best,
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>> Carmel
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>> Message: 2
>> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 14:36:12 -0700
>> From: Jim Barbour <jbar at barcore.com>
>> To: nfbc-info at nfbnet.org
>> Subject: [Nfbc-info] San Francisco: the "Patient No More" audio
>> description tour is this Thursday geared toward blind and low vision
>> visitors
>> Message-ID: <20170822213611.GA3387 at barcore.com>
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>> ----- Forwarded message from Laura Millar <LMillar at lighthouse-sf.org> -----
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>> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 18:10:56 +0000
>> From: Laura Millar
>> Subject: Please help publicize the final "Patient No More" audio description tour this Thursday for blind and low vision visitors
>>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> The "Patient No More" exhibit about the dramatic month-long occupation of San Francisco's Federal Building by over 150 people with disabilities and their allies will close on September 3. Join Catherine Kudlick, the exhibit's creator (and visually impaired herself) for a tour geared specifically to blind and low-vision visitors. Learn about the history and the many decisions that went into creating an exhibit designed to be accessible to more than the usual suspects.
>>
>>
>> Date: August 24 at 5:30 PM
>>
>> Place: San Francisco Main Public Library, 100 Larkin Street (at Grove), Skylight Gallery (6th floor) Free and open to all
>>
>> I personally found the exhibit so inspiring, and was excited to learn
>> more about disability rights and the passing of the ADA! So if you
>> have a chance go check it out.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Laura
>>
>>
>>
>> Laura Millar
>> Sexual Health Services Program Coordinator
>> (415) 694-7345
>> LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired
>> 1155 Market Street, 10th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94103
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>> Message: 3
>> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 18:29:19 -0500
>> From: "nancy Lynn" <seabreeze.stl at gmail.com>
>> To: "nfbmo list" <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>, "NFBC List"
>> <nfbc-info at nfbnet.org>, "Seniors" <NFBNJ-Seniors at nfbnet.org>
>> Subject: [Nfbc-info] Longer Article about the MCB Eclipse Event
>> Message-ID: <6BCCE952E9D24FFAA39F63AF1C46054B at nancyPC>
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>> Metro
>> With help of memories, imagination and narration, the visually impaired
>> enjoy
>> the eclipse
>>
>> By Doug Moore St. Louis Post-Dispatch
>> + 22 hrs ago
>> Council of the Blind eclipse
>> Bill Wilcox, a volunteer with MindsEye, describes the eclipse at the
>> Missouri
>> Council of the Blind in south St. Louis.
>> Eclipse description for the blind
>>
>> John Weidlich, a longtime Belleville radio personality listens to an audio
>> description of the total solar eclipse outside the Missouri Council of the
>> Blind
>> office on Aug. 21, 2017. Bill Wilcox, a trained audio describer and
>> volunteer
>> with MindsEye, gave people a play-by-play of the The Great American Eclipse.
>> Photo by Rene Delgadillo/Post-Disatc
>>
>> Eclipse description for the blind
>>
>> Leonard Gross, listens to an audio description of the total solar eclipse
>> outside the Missouri Council of the Blind office on Aug. 21, 2017. Bill
>> Wilcox,
>> a trained audio describer and volunteer with MindsEye, gave people a
>> play-by-play of the The Great American Eclipse. Photo by Rene
>> Delgadillo/Post-Disatc
>>
>> ST. LOUIS ? An hour before totality, Naomi Soule arrived at the eclipse
>> party
>> Monday with the help of her dog, Farbee.
>>
>> "Who's at this table?" she said, working the community room of the Missouri
>> Council of the Blind in south St. Louis.
>>
>> Soule, 61, was ready to experience the eclipse, although she would not be
>> able
>> to see it. Instead, she would join about 25 other visually impaired and
>> blind
>> people for a "watch and listen" party.
>>
>> The majority of those attending wore headsets as Bill Wilcox, a volunteer
>> with
>> MindsEye, shared trivia about the eclipse, then did a play-by-play of the
>> action
>> in the sky.
>>
>> newsinconebyone
>> How did people experience the eclipse if they're blind?
>> St. Louis Post-Dispatch
>>
>> "The moon is continuing to slide across the sun," Wilcox said, standing on
>> the
>> council's small asphalt parking lot, his voice streaming through MindsEye's
>> website and live on Facebook. "It's now a fairly small crescent. Still kind
>> of
>> an orange and peachy color, which is kind of cool."
>>
>> Soule grew up with some sight in her right eye. But in college, the retina
>> detached, leaving her completely blind. So she planned to use recollections,
>> imagination and the descriptions by Wilcox to experience the eclipse.
>>
>> Inside the Post-Dispatch - Experience the eclipse through an audio
>> description
>>
>> "I have good visual memory," she said.
>>
>> About half of those who attended opted to stay inside, where they could
>> listen
>> to Wilcox and enjoy the air conditioning.
>>
>> Chuck Smith, 53, has limited vision, good enough to see the eclipse through
>> the
>> special glasses passed out to safeguard eyes but not well enough to make out
>> details of a face.
>>
>> "My brother called to tell me about this event and asked if I wanted to
>> come. I
>> told him: 'I'm not going to go and look directly at the sun or I'll go
>> blind.' I
>> was being a smart ass," said Smith, of Crestwood. He came to the party with
>> his
>> life partner, Janet Shobe, 58, who opted to stay inside during the eclipse.
>> Diabetes took her sight about nine years ago. Still, she said it was worth
>> attending.
>>
>> "The description was perfect," Shobe said, as she and others ate Ted Drewes
>> custard as an after-eclipse dessert. "It was amazing," Smith said. "I
>> thought it
>> would be darker. It was more like twilight, which I thought was neat."
>>
>> Jack Meier, 67, came to St. Louis from Fresno, Calif. to experience the
>> eclipse
>> with his longtime friend, Nancy Lynn, 64. It was well worth the trip, he
>> said.
>>
>> "It was really something," he said. Meier, who has about 10 percent of his
>> vision, took photos with a small orange camera while wearing a St. Louis
>> Cardinals cap.
>>
>> As the moon covered the sun, the street lights came on. Wilcox had to take a
>> few
>> short breaks in his sports announcer cadence to let an ambulance pass on
>> Chippewa Street and a trash truck rumble by in the alley. His audience in
>> the
>> parking lot didn't seem to mind.
>>
>> As totality neared, Soule said she could feel the change in the air. "I
>> could
>> tell the temperature dropped a little bit, the heat of the sun disappeared
>> and I
>> could hear the cicadas getting louder and louder," Soule said. She said she
>> would have liked more descriptions of the colors in the sky. Before she lost
>> her
>> sight, she was an artist. Hues and contrasts are important details, she
>> said.
>>
>> Soule's husband, Terry Moses, who is sighted, joined her for the event,
>> which
>> included a fried chicken lunch. But he did not look skyward. Although the
>> glasses given out were certified as safe, Moses said he was too scared to
>> partake, worried that even a glance or two at the sun could damage his
>> vision.
>> But he wanted to be by his wife as she experienced the eclipse. "I'm glad I
>> did
>> it for her."
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> Message: 4
>> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 20:04:07 -0700
>> From: "Cricket X. Bidleman" <cricketbidleman at gmail.com>
>> To: NFB of California List <nfbc-info at nfbnet.org>
>> Subject: [Nfbc-info] CABS Call Update
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>> Hello,
>>
>> Firstly, I'd like to apologize for the short notice. The California
>> Association of Blind Students will still be having our back-to-school
>> membership call. However, since the NABS membership call has been
>> scheduled for Sunday at 5:00 PM Pacific (8:00 PM Eastern), the date of
>> the CABS call has been necessarily changed. I apologize for my lack of
>> communication beforehand. In the future, I will be sure that this kind
>> of conflict does not happen. The new date is Sunday, September 03,
>> 2017, and the time is still 5:00 PM Pacific. All are welcome, and the
>> discussion topics are still the same--anything and everything relevant
>> to the new school year, accommodations, etc. If you can't join us,
>> please share this page with your friends. Thank you for helping us
>> change what it means to be blind.
>>
>> Date: Sunday, September 03, 2017
>> Time: 5:00 PST
>> Call-in Number: (515) 739-1031
>> Access code: 958093
>>
>>
>> https://www.facebook.com/events/723088997878220/
>>
>> All the best,
>> Cricket X. Bidleman
>> Stanford University, Class of '21
>> NCS Pearson, Associate Quality Assurance Engineer
>>
>>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 07:45:11 -0700
> From: EverHairston <ever.hairston at gmail.com>
> To: NFBCaL List <nfbc-info at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: [Nfbc-info] Fwd: Access Code Collaborative ? Seeking Members
> Message-ID: <A5403152-FE38-49D1-A882-DA00F6D06292 at gmail.com>
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> Ever Lee Hairston, President
> National Federation of the Blind of California
> H: 323 654.2975
> C: 323 252.9188
> ever.hairston at gmail.com
>
> You Can Live The Life You Want
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> From: "Xavier, Joe at DOR" <Joe.Xavier at dor.ca.gov>
> Date: August 22, 2017 at 7:22:51 PM PDT
> To: "Xavier, Joe at DOR" <Joe.Xavier at dor.ca.gov>
> Subject: Access Code Collaborative ? Seeking Members
>
>
>
> The Division of the State Architect (DSA) is happy to announce that it is seeking 13 qualified individuals to serve on its new Access Code Collaborative (ACC), a standing body of diverse, representative stakeholders who will assist DSA with the regulatory process related to proposed amendments to the accessibility provisions of the California Building Code.
>
> The ACC will work cooperatively with the DSA to offer input and feedback regarding amendments to the accessibility regulations of the California Building Code; recommend amendments to DSA that address the diverse needs of Code Beneficiaries (people who need an accessible environment) and Code Users (people who design, build, own, operate or regulate the built environments); and identify opportunities to inform stakeholder constituent groups about the code development process and encourage participation in DSA's regulatory activities.
>
> Applications for individuals interested in serving on the ACC, or nominations for individuals to serve on the ACC, are being accepted until 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, September 6, 2017. Information regarding desired stakeholder representation, expectations, and qualifications can be found on the DSA's Access Code Collaborative webpage. Qualified individuals can submit an application, or be nominated for a position by another, by completing the online form: Access Code Collaborative Application/Nomination Form. Those who are selected to serve on the ACC will be required to attend a two-day orientation and training on Oct 30-31, 2017. The ACC will meet for regular business for the first time in December, 2017. More information about the schedule is provided in the UCDE summary report and the application/nomination form.
>
> Selection of individuals for the ACC will occur in mid-September. DSA has asked the Department of Rehabilitation and the California Commission on Disability Access to assist in the selection process. Once selected individuals are confirmed, DSA will announce the new ACC members, share individual biographies, and provide other useful information about the ACC.
>
> DSA announced its intentions for the creation of the ACC in June 2017 with an email that invited input through an online survey. UC Davis Extension Collaboration Center (UCDE), hired to assist DSA in this process, conducted the online survey in June 2017 and received 250 completed surveys. Additionally, UCDE conducted 26 telephone interviews involving 29 individuals in June and July, 2017. Both the survey and the interviews invited individual reaction to and advice about creating the ACC. We are grateful to everyone who completed our survey or participated in an interview. The information gathered was rich and has helped DSA shape its plans for the ACC. This formation will continue to be useful as we move forward.
>
> Results of the online survey and the interviews are summarized in the report titled UCDE Summary of Online Survey and Interview Findings, available online. We encourage you to take a look at UCDE's summary report of the survey and interview results.
>
> Thank you for your continuing interest in DSA?s efforts to engage the public in regulatory process to improve the accessibility regulations of the California Building Code.
>
> If you know of a person or organization that may be interested in this announcement, please share our email with them.
> Communications and Policy Unit
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> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 14:40:21 -0700
> From: "Cricket X. Bidleman" <cricketbidleman at gmail.com>
> To: NFB of California List <nfbc-info at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: [Nfbc-info] Attention all college students!
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> Are you in any year of college? Are you interested in working with
> truly innovative technology that will be sure to help you both in and
> out of school? If the answer to both of those questions is yes, then
> you should apply for this amazing opportunity. It is sponsored by
> AIRA, which has come up with software that revolutionizes travel and
> all other aspects of life for visually impaired students. All you have
> to do is fill out this incredibly brief application, and you will win
> the opportunity of a lifetime! The deadline is this Friday, so make
> sure to apply while you still can! (You never know what you're missing
> out on until you actually miss it, so embrace this chance with open
> arms!) Just click the link below to fill out the application.
>
> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe6rdcdqc5JB1S4qNuI6F7GlGS1uvrlH1s9h3VKBcO-YNg2eg/viewform
>
> Best,
> Cricket X. Bidleman
> Stanford University, Class of '21
> NCS Pearson, Associate Quality Assurance Engineer
>
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> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 05:25:11 -0500
> From: "nancy Lynn" <seabreeze.stl at gmail.com>
> To: "mcb chat" <chat at moblind.org>, "nfbmo list" <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>,
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> Subject: [Nfbc-info] monthly game night
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> sIt?s that time of the month again, time to have fun playing a game where you answer thought-provoking questions that Bonnie found on Bookshare. Participants can also bring a few questions to throw out to the group. These are feeling or opinion questions with no wrong answers, and we play in a safe and nonjudgmental environment. We also play a modified version of the old game To Tell the Truth. In this version, each person presents 3 statements about themselves, 2 true and 1 false or partly false. Then everyone else in the group takes a turn at guessing the false one. That?s always lots of fun, so, even if you don?t have questions, bring those 3 statements about yourself.
> If you?d like to join us, we?re playing again this wednesday at 9pm eastern time and 6pm pacific time. Just call 7128328330 and enter 6201340 when asked for an access code. You can come with or without questions, but come on and join the fun. You never know what you?ll learn about your fellow listers.
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