[Nfbf-l] Nfbf-l Digest, Vol 95, Issue 10
Yasen Angelov
collegeflorida at gmail.com
Wed Mar 12 14:03:20 UTC 2014
Dear Darlene:
I am a Florida CPA and if you have any questions please email me at
protaxexpert at gmail.com
Kind Regards,
Yasen Angelov, CPA
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> 1. Accountant info (Darlene Laibl-Crowe)
> 2. Fw: Conference call information: 888-670-3525; Password:
> 855-645-6287 (Patricia A. Lipovsky)
> 3. Blind can 'hear' colors and shapes, show Hebrew U.
> researchers. (Alan Dicey)
> 4. free webinar - vision -- in school and the doctors offices
> (Doreen Franklin)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 10:17:20 -0400
> From: "Darlene Laibl-Crowe" <dlaiblcrowe at att.net>
> To: "'NFB of Florida Internet Mailing List'" <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: [Nfbf-l] Accountant info
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> Hello!
>
> I am researching accounting services in Florida and need some advice. Is
> there anyone on here who has accounting experience? I am also planning to
> contact some who are locally. Does anyone have any suggestions of good
> accounting services in Florida? If anyone is interested in answering a few
> questions, please contact me personally at dlaiblcrowe at att.net.
>
> Thank you!
>
> (smile)
> Darlene
>
> One step at a time...Accept, Adapt, and Move on!
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 10:31:37 -0400
> From: "Patricia A. Lipovsky" <plipovsky at cfl.rr.com>
> To: "NFBF List" <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: [Nfbf-l] Fw: Conference call information: 888-670-3525;
> Password: 855-645-6287
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> Forwarding for your information
> Review of Draft State Plan Goals
>
> Antionette Williams
>
> Bureau Chief of Client Services
>
>
> Review of Draft State Plan Goals
> Antionette Williams
>
> Bureau Chief of Client Services
>
>
>
> Goal 1.0 Create an environment that provides job opportunities for
> visually impaired and blind Floridians.
>
> Goal 2.0 Create a service delivery system that provides comprehensive
> services to visually impaired and blind Floridians
>
> Goal 3.0 Create an environment that fosters an exemplary division
> workforce.
>
> Goal 4.0 Create a well-managed and accountable organization that
> ensures high quality.
>
>
>
> Stakeholders Input & Comments
>
> Facilitated by Antionette Williams
>
> Bureau Chief of Client Services
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>
>
> Closing Remarks
>
> Robert L. Doyle III
>
> Division Director
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>
>
> March 13th--6pm to 8pm The following District offices will be open
>
> The Florida Department of Education, Division of Blind Services announces
> a series of public meetings to which all persons are invited to participate
> via phone or at identified area offices.
>
> Dates: March 6, 13 and 20, 2014
>
> See locations for each date below.
>
> Time: 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Eastern Standard Time
>
> Conference call information: 888-670-3525; Password: 855-645-6287
>
> General subject matter to be considered: Consumer input on State Plan
> Goals.
>
> A copy of the agenda may be obtained by contacting: Gayle Newton at
> Gayle.Newton at dbs.fldoe.org or 800-342-1828
>
> Pursuant to the provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act, any
> persons requiring special accommodations to participate in this conference
> call meeting is asked to advise the agency at least 10 days before the
> meeting by contacting your local DBS Office. If you are hearing or speech
> impaired, please contact the agency using the Florida Relay Services,
> 800-955-8771 (TDD) or 800-955-8770 (Voice)
>
> For more information, you may contact:
>
> Antionette Williams, Bureau Chief of Client Services, 325 West Gaines
> Street, Room. 1114, Tallahassee, FL 32399, 850-245-0322,
> Antionette.Williams at dbs.fldoe.org
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>
>
>
>
> District 5
>
> 1185 Dunn Avenue
>
> Daytona, Fl 32114
>
> Antionette Williams, Bureau Chief of Client Services, 325 West Gaines
> Street, Room. 1114, Tallahassee, FL 32399, 850-245-0322,
> Antionette.Williams at dbs.fldoe.org
>
>
>
> March 13th--6pm to 8pm The following District offices will be open
>
>
>
>
>
> District 5
>
> 1185 Dunn Avenue
>
> Daytona, Fl 32114
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>
> Ronee Silverman
>
> President/CEO
>
> Center for the Visually Impaired, Inc.
>
> 1187 Dunn Avenue
>
> Daytona Beach, FL 32114
>
> (386) 253-8879
>
> (386) 253-9178 FAX
>
> rsilverman at cvicentralflorida.org
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> www.cvicentralflorida.org
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> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 12:16:05 -0400
> From: "Alan Dicey" <adicey at bellsouth.net>
> To: "NFB Florida List Group" <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: [Nfbf-l] Blind can 'hear' colors and shapes, show Hebrew U.
> researchers.
> Message-ID: <99FC09217DBE497B827E567D69735250 at alanpc>
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> Dear Friends,
> I found this in my "In Box", and I am just passing it along.
> With Best Regards,
> God Bless,
> Alan
> Plantation, Florida
>
> Blind can 'hear' colors and shapes, show Hebrew U. researchers.
> Jerusalem, March 9, 2014 -- What if you could "hear" colors? Or shapes?
> These features are normally perceived visually, but using sensory
> substitution devices (SSDs) they can now be conveyed to the brain
> noninvasively through other senses.
>
> At the Center for Human Perception and Cognition, headed by Prof. Amir
> Amedi of the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences and the
> Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada at the Hebrew University of
> Jerusalem Faculty of Medicine, the blind and visually impaired are being
> offered tools, via training with SSDs, to receive environmental visual
> information and interact with it in ways otherwise unimaginable. The work
> of Prof. Amedi and his colleagues is patented by Yissum, the Hebrew
> University's Technology Transfer Company .
> SSDs are non-invasive sensory aids that provide visual information to the
> blind via their existing senses. For example, using a visual-to-auditory
> SSD in a clinical or everyday setting, users wear a miniature camera
> connected to a small computer (or smart phone) and stereo headphones. The
> images are converted into "soundscapes," using a predictable algorithm,
> allowing the user to listen to and then interpret the visual information
> coming from the camera.
>
> With the EyeMusic SSD (available free at the Apple App store at
> http://tinyurl.com/oe8d4p4),
> one hears pleasant musical notes to convey information about colors,
> shapes and location of objects in the world.
>
> Using this SSD equipment and a unique training program, the blind are able
> to achieve various complex. visual-linked abilities. In recent articles in
> Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience and Scientific Reports, blind and
> blindfolded-sighted users of the EyeMusic were shown to correctly perceive
> and interact with objects, such as recognizing different shapes and colors
> or reaching for a beverage (A live demonstration can be seen at
> http://youtu.be/r6bz1pOEJWg).
>
> In another use of EyeMusic, it was shown that other fast and accurate
> movements can be guided by the EyeMusic and visuo-motor learning. In
> studies published in two prestigious scientific journals, Neuron and
> Current Biology, it was demonstrated that the blind can characterize
> sound-conveyed images into complex object categories (such as faces, houses
> and outdoor scenes, plus everyday objects) and could locate people's
> positions, identify facial expressions and read letters and words, (See
> YouTube channel
> http://www.youtube.com/amiramedilab
> for demonstrations.)
>
> Despite these encouraging behavioral demonstrations, SSDs are currently
> not widely used by the blind population. However, in a recent review
> published in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, the reasons that have
> prevented their adoption have changed for the better over the past few
> years. For instance, new technological advances enable SSDs to be much
> cheaper, much smaller and lighter, and they can run using a standard Smart
> phone. Additionally, new computerized training methods and environments
> boost training and performance.
>
> The Hebrew University research has shown that contrary to the long-held
> conception of the cortex being divided into separate vision-processing
> areas, auditory areas, etc., new findings over the past decade demonstrate
> that many brain areas are characterized by their computational task, and
> can be activated using senses other than the one commonly used for this
> task, even for people who were never exposed to "original" sensory
> information at all (such as a person born blind that never saw one photon
> of light in his life).
>
> When processing "visual' information" conveyed through SSD, it was shown
> by the researchers that congenitally blind people who learned to read by
> touch using the Braille script or through their ears with sensory
> substitution devices use the same areas in the visual cortex as those used
> by sighted readers. A recent example of this approach was just published in
> Current Biology, showing thatblind subjects "see" body shapes via their
> ears using SSD equipment and training.
>
> There is a whole network of regions in the human brain dedicated to
> processing and perceiving of body shapes, starting from the areas
> processing vision in the cortex, leading to the "Extrastriate Body Area,"
> or EBA, and further connecting to multiple brain areas deciphering people's
> motion in space, their feelings and intents.
>
> In tests with the blind, it was found that their EBA was functionally
> connected to the whole network of body-processing found in the sighted.
> This lends strength to the researchers' new theory of the brain as a
> sensory-independent task machine, rather than as a pure sensory (vision,
> audition, touch) machine.
>
> "The human brain is more flexible than we thought," says Prof. Amedi.
> "These results give a lot of hope for the successful regaining of visual
> functions using cheap non-invasive SSDs or other invasive sight restoration
> approaches.
> They suggest that in the blind, brain areas have the potential to be
> 'awakened' to processing visual properties and tasks even after years or
> maybe even lifelong blindness, if the proper technologies and training
> approaches are used."
>
> Source URL:
> http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-03/thuo-bc030914.php
> http://new.huji.ac.il/en/article/19856
>
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 12:27:41 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Doreen Franklin <doreenproverbs3 at bellsouth.net>
> To: NFB of Florida Internet Mailing List <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>, Blindkid
> List <blindkid at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Anna CFL <Anna at CFLparents.org>, Doreen CFL <Doreen at CFLparents.org>
> Subject: [Nfbf-l] free webinar - vision -- in school and the doctors
> offices
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> Hello all,
>
> I am forwarding the flyer for a free webinar on vision, 20/20 Hindsight -
> Clearing the Air on Vision. It is good information and resources that will
> be beneficial to all. There are 2 dates/times for the webinar.
>
> Please feel free to forward this to other families and professionals.
>
> Thank you and see you at the webinar!
>
> Doreen Franklin
> Secretary, St Lucie Chapter
> NFB - FL
> 772-284-4458?
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