SVCB Meeting Program Segments
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Welcome to the index page for SVCB's meeting program segments. Through links on this page, you can stream or download presentations that occurred during the program segments at monthly meetings of the Silicon Valley Council of the Blind. Roger Petersen, our Program Committee Chair, will announce each program.
Program segments posted here have been approved by their presenters for online availability. Other segments that have not been approved are available to SVCB members by contacting membership@svcb.cc. Feedback is welcomed. Send comments to webmaster@svcb.cc. Thank you.
What is streaming and downloading
Each month in the list below has two links associated with it:
"stream" and "download." Both links let you listen to your selected program but in different ways.
When you select "stream," your media player starts, and you hear the program almost immediately. Problem is, you can only listen to it, you can't move forward or backward easily nor do you have a copy of the program on your computer to listen to later. But if you just want to sit back with your favorite "whatever," selecting "stream" is the right choice. When you need to stop the program, exit you media player (typically with the alt-f4 key combination).
Selecting the download link for a program starts the sequence you use to download a file. After the file is downloaded, you start your media player, open this file and begin listening to your program. The difference is that now you can easily move backward and forward through the program as well as increase the speech rate (on some players). The downside of the download process is that getting the file to your computer can take some time, perhaps two minutes.
Trouble?
Depending on file associations on your operating system, you may have trouble with the audio links. If nothing happens when you click on the "listen" link, try the "download" link as experiments indicate that this may behave like the "listen" link.
If you can only listen to audio, the audio file can still be downloaded. Here's how:
- Do the keystroke to stop the audio. This is control-p in Windows Media Player.
- Pull down the file menu:, typically with alt-f.
- Select the "save as" function.
- The name of the audio file will be highlighted so all you have to do is click the "save" button.
- You will be returned to your media player after the file has downloaded to your computer.
Program List
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2007 programs
- January, 2007:
Kenneth Frasse, Executive Director of the Silicon Valley Lions Blind Center, explains the center's functions and services.
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- February, 2007:
Brian Higgins, who works at the VA hospital in Palo Alto, shares his research into all things robotic to help us get around and his business called Intellisight.
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- March, 2007:
Henty Medrano, President Lupe Medrano's brother, describes how bike-a-thons are organized and we had an interesting brainstorming session.
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April, 2007:
In the first half of this program, Roger Petersen and
Others discuss the spring CCB convention. In the second half,
Dawn Wilcox describes the Unite for Sight
conference held at Stanford University.
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- May, 2007:
Star Keithley directs our group in a fun-filled time of
singing and laughter.
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- June, 2007:
Debee Norling Armstrong, Alternate Media Director at
De Anza college tells us about her life and experiences in
the access technology field.
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- July, 2007:
Tiffany Medina, is an intern at Benetech, where John
works, and he says that she is rather adventuresome, taking part in
triathlon and other non-easy activities.
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- September, 2007:
Susan Shelter told us about her career as a blind English
teacher at San Jose State and West Valley College.
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- October, 2007:
Our speaker at the October 20 meeting was Beth Berenson
from the new Vision Loss Resource Center at the San Francisco LightHouse.
She sketches the history of the LightHouse, explains what the Vision
Resource Center is and how it can serve us here in Santa Clara
County. Some of us already receive the weekly bulletins she sends out with
the described movies and other current entertainment items. She was eager to
talk to us, and you'll find this an engaging presentation.
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- November, 2007:
We celebrated our 20th anniversary. Cathy
Skivers, honorary SVCB member and past-President of CCB,
highlighted the meeting; and past SVCB President's described how it was
during their watches. Introductions are also included--lots of fun!
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2008 programs
- February, 2008:
Sam Chen, our Legislation Committee Chair, tells us about
his adventures at the ACB Legislative Seminar in Washington D.C.
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- March, 2008:
Paul Raskin, Youth Coordinator, Rehab and braille teacher
at the Vista Center talks to us about the youth groups in which he is
involved, and we explore ideas to get SVCB involved.
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- April, 2008:
Debbie Archuleta, from Outreach, give us a lively and
informative explanation of the aspect of the Santa Clara paratransit service.
She answers many questions and adroitly handles passionate responses.
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- May, 2008:
Roger got it right--the May program was a potpourri of presentations. Kenneth
Frasse from the Silicon Valley Lions Blind Center tells us about a new grant
and what they plan to do with it. He then announces a new technology company
he is involved with--and wants participants. Roger shows us how his
accessible thermostat works. Dawn Wilcox gives us a fast-paced version of
her Blood Pressure 101 seminar which she gave at the spring CCB convention.
Donna Sanchez describes her experiences with the Nokia N85 cellphone she
bought through the AT&T plan. And there is even time for some reports from
the spring convention. Whew!
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- June, 2008:
To begin this program, Cathie Skivers, SVCB's honorary
member, bestows the Distinguished Service Award, over her
cell phone, on Sam Chen for translating Failing Sight and
the Family Plight into Chinese--a wonderful little ceremony.
Next, Jim Bigilo presents aspects of high-speed rail
transportation such as the service between San Jose and San Francisco and
the proposed service between Los Angeles and the SF Bay Area.
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- July, 2008:
To begin this program, Bernice Kandarian describes the
very first Hollis G Ligget Award, granted at the 2008 ACB convention, to the
Blind Californian as the best ACB affiliate newsletter of 2008.
Then Roger Petersen introduces Casey Kohl
from the California Telephone Access Program (CTAP). She tells us about the
products CTAP offers to deaf and visually people as well as showing us how
to apply for the program.
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- September, 2008:
Our September program featured Alice McGrath form the
Vista Center. She is Outreach Coordinator there. We learn about about its
history, the various facilities it now has and the various things
Alice is now doing, such as organize the 2009 Braille Challenge.
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- October, 2008:
For our October program, we had a complex, lively and long presentation from
the League of Women Voters on the State and local propositions and measures
on the November, 2008 ballot.
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- Nevember, 2008
The first part of our November program was a tribute to Barbara Rhodes, who passed away on October 24, 2008.
The second part of the program was a presentation by Nicole Torcorini, who is blind and a going to Stanford. She developed a program in the latex mark-up language to translate Nemeth code into properly formatted Mathematical printouts.
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2009 Programs
- January, 2009
At our Annual Meeting, the program segment was devoted to a brainstorming of ideas for the future course of SVCB. It was led by Susan Schulter, a blind English teacher at West Valley College. She will summarize ideas into an article for the In Touch newsletter.
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- February, 2009
Travis Hyatt, Susan Hyatt's dad, talks to us about sailing
on lake Cunningham in San Jose and the programs for youth and adults.
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- March, 2009
Lyn Saunders, Systems Change Advocate for the Silicon Valley
Independent Living Center, talked to us about her many-faceted career and how
System Change advocates work to improve the lives of disabled
people.
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- April, 2009
In the April program segment, the CCB Publications award was given to
Debee Norling Armstrong for the best issue oriented article
in 2008, and Jane Corcoran received CCB's 2008 Humanitarian
award.
Also, Art Takahara, who was a city council member and mayor
of Mountain View, talked to us about his political career and ongoing
glaucoma.
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- May, 2009
Our May program begins with Kartik
Gopal from Stanford University told us about research he is doing
with cell phone technology for the blind community.
Gretchen Ehlers is a girl scout leader, along with SVCB
member Susan Schulter, and she told us about a Bronze Award Assembly her troop
is doing to relate their experiences with blind and visually impaired
people.
SVCB member Walter Schinke from Gilroy discussed how to get
things done through the ADA in towns and small cities.
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- June, 2009
Our June program featured Bay Area
Association of Disabled Sailors talked to us about how blind and
visually impaired people can learn to sail, even in racing event in the U.S.
Para Olympics!
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- July, 2009
Our July program consisted of a report by Roger
Petersen of his experiences at the 20009 ACB convention. He then
conducted a question and answer session concerning a resolution, to be
considered at the fall CCB convention in Fresno, of whether to continue with
semi-annual CCB conventions or change to annual conventions.
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- September, 2009
Our September program featured James Unitis from VTA and
Katie Heatley from Outreach. We learned about changes to
bus and lite rail routes and what Outreach is doing to help riders deal with
restricted service hours.
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- October, 2009
This program was dedicated to Employment of People with Disabilities
Awareness month. Several SVCB members, who have main-stream jobs,
spoke on how they keep them and advance their careers.
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- November, 2009
At our November 21 meeting, Scott Blanks, Steve Clark and Silvana
Rainey from Adaptive Technology Services in San Francisco spoke
with us. They do training, scripting and consultation plus run a program to
help blind people prepare for work. They can be reached at
866-564-6650.
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2010 programs
- January, 2010
The January, 2010 annual meeting featured Susan Schulter moderating the
discussion of an amazing spectrum of educational experiences members of our
group have had. From those who attended residential schools for the blind to
people who were mainstreamed, their views are all here! And we even heard
from members who lost their sight in adulthood and how their educational
experiences helped them cope with visual impairment.
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- February, 2010
Julie Lovins moderates a spirited presentation
on what you're putting into the environment and why you should care.
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- March, 2010
April 1 is "Census Day." This is the day when, every ten years, everyone is to be counted according to the US Constitution. Besides the Constitutional purpose of[D[D of apportioning Congressional seats, the Census is important in determining how a lot of federal money is handed out.
Doris Tse, Partnership Specialist in the local office of the Bureau of the
Census, talked with us about how we can best participate in the census and
avoid scams from people who say they are census takers and are not.
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- May, 2010
We have a tradition of inviting members of the League or Women Voters to
tell us about upcoming state propositions. In this case, these are issues in
the June 8, 2010 primary election. This SVCB member Julie
Lovins and Mary Nichols from the League told us
about the Props and measures.
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- June, 2010
Mark Messersmith form The Visual Voice
tells us about audio description for TheatreWorks and his day-time job at
NASA.
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- July, 2010
Dawn Wilcox RN, director of the Health Library at Vista
Center entertains and instructs us on what happens to light as it travels
through the eye.
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- September, 2010
After introductions, where a gremlin kept spilling coffee (which got into
the sound system), Donna Sanchez, Rose Deterding and Naomi
Grubb
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- October, 2010
This program is a presentation from the League of Women
Voters. Unfortunately it starts a little bit into the
program.
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- November, 2010
Rob Turner and Sam Chen told us about
their adventures in Taiwan during a conference they attended.
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2012 programs
- January
Susan Glass presents an informative program on "birding"
along with audio samples.
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Our own Brian Higgins told us us about his on-going
activities in developing a self-driving car.
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- David Strauss and his business group from Sanford
University garnered feedback for a start-up product for their
business. We were in focus groups most of the time, so this program is shorter than
most.
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- At our April meeting, Karina Pikhart from 6dot Innovations, a start-up company in Palo Alto, demonstrated its first assistive-technology product: a labeler that embosses braille on 1/2 inch dymo tape using a 6-dot braille keyboard. It's very close to market, and orders are being taken. No more squeezing and turning a wheel to get fuzzy braille!
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- In the program segment of our May membership meeting, Kari Kelly, once
Kari Fox and receptionist at Telesensory, brought us up-to-date with events
in her life. She's back to school, married and is starting her own business
as a life coach. I'm hoping she'll be an SVCB member soon.
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- Stan Messmer, a former Tech Support worker at Telesensory, described
his new business of mastering CDs with hard-to-find songs, complete with
examples.
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- At out July meeting, Diane Harms, the first visually
impaired court reported in California, described her career in Santa Clara
County.
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- At out September meeting, Peter Stahl and Julie Lovins
of the League of Women Voters presented pros and cons of state and local
propositions in the November elections.
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- At our October meeting, we had an informative program from Abilities United, which has a swim program with free swimming and various kinds of rehabilitation classes. SVCB member Amy Shao goes there and was instrumental in getting the presenters to come and talk to us.
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- November, 2012
At our November meeting, we held a short celebration of SVCB's 25th
anniversary. Also, Michelle Klein and Peter Gordon
from Jasper Ridge Inc., a company that offers small, portable LED lights
that people with low vision can use for reading, talked to us about their
bright, sharply-focused light source, mounted on glasses, for comfortable
reading. Jasper Ridge markets these lights under the name "VisionEdge" from
its base in San Mateo, and its email address is
info@jasperridge.net
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- December, 2012
We had our Christmas party on lieu of this meeting.
2013 Issues
- January, 2013
The January meeting was not recorded on request of the presenter.
- February, 2013Lauri Rubin, a blind mezzo soprano sang a track of her upcoming CD and described her career.
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- March, 2013
John Glass and Rob Turner, along with Dawn Wilcox and Mike Keithley, present
Amateur (ham) Radio and how blind people participate in it.
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- April, 2013
Dawn's daughter-in-law Wendy presented her book Tight wads an the Loose: a
seven-year sailing adventure around the Pacific Occasion.
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- May, 2013
Our program segment featured interesting discussions of the spring CCB
convention by those who went there.
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- June, 2013
The June program featured disabled realtor Stephen Beard, who discussed with
us how a person with low income like SSI or SSDI can purchase a home with
a very low down payment.
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- July, 2013
Our July program, led by Susan Glass, was a commentary on the ADA in support
of the Silicon Valley Independent Living Center's Disability Pride Parade.
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- September, 2013
Our September program featured Susan Glass discussing the WIPO Treaty, what
it is and what it hopes to do.
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- October, 2013
There was no meeting in October dues to the fall convention.
- November, 2013
To start the program, we had a nice phone call from Cathy Skivers wishing
us well. Next, there were several reports from people who attended the CCB
convention.
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- December, 2013
There was no meeting in December as it was deferred by the Christmas
party.
2014 Programs
- January, 2014
Susan Glass, our new program chair, facilitated an amusing and helpful program discussing the best adaptive technologies people have used in 2013.
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- February, 2014
Our February program was unique: it was done solely over the phone! Speaker Judy Wilkinson couldn't attend our meeting, so Bev Clifford contributed her iPhone in hopes that we could talk to her in her living room. It was connected to the sound system, and we found that not only could everyone hear her, she could hear people talking on the mics. And there was no feedback either. As this experiment was so successful, we'll be doing it again.
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- March, 2014
Our March program featured Dawn Wilcox and Roger Petersen talking about the Health Library at Vista Center, where you can get important information on your eye condition. Lynnette Kursey described the Braille Project at the Silicon Valley Blind Center and what goes on there.
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- April, 2014
Our April program featured a great presentation from Dinesh Desai (a long-time SVCB member), who described walking adventures like trekking in Death Valley in 128 degree heat, and walking from the Oregon border to Baha.
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- May, 2014
We had a nice, relaxing program conducted by Ms. Nancy Portugal Jamello, who helped us through some sitting-down yoga exercises.
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- June, 2014
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- July, 2014
Our July program garnered many experiences and comments about what we're doing for our summer vacatations, especially how we make them good and viable.
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- August, 2014
We didn't have an Ausust meeting--picnic time!
- September, 2015
Our September program speaker came recommended to us by Naomi Grubb. We heard from Ken Pealmon of the American Red Cross, who will talk with us about measures that we can take as blind people to be prepared for emergencies.
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- October, 2015
Our October program speaker was Mr. Riza Ladchartabi, who is designing a navigation system specifically tailored to the needs of blind travelers. The system uses Google Glass technology, and some of our chapter members have already tried it. Mr. Ladchartabi spoke briefly about the navigation system at our June meeting, but this time he'll spend a full hour with us, explaining and demonstrating the navigation technology.
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- November, 2015
One of the realities of growing older, as all of us are, is that we often acquire disabilities in addition to blindness. Not least among these is hearing impairment, and a few of us have been blind and hearing impaired for much of our lives. Our November program will feature a panel discussion led by Roger Petersen, Mike Keithley, and Donna Sanchez on coping with issues faced by those of us who are blind and hearing impaired.
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- Decomber, 2014
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2015 Programs
- January, 2015
In May of 2014, Ms. Shiloh Curtis, then a junior at Laughing Thunder Academy in Sunnyvale, won first prize in the California State Science Fair. Her project should interest everyone in our chapter. Its official title is Enabling Situational Awareness: A Hat-Based Hands-Free Haptic Navigational Aid for the Visually Impaired. Essentially, it's a hat that vibrates along different parts of the wearer's head to indicate specific positions of obstacles. Ms. Curtis will be the program presenter at our January 17 meeting. She has already tested the hat on at least ten subjects, but she and her advisor, Dr. Youssef Ismail of Schmahl Science Workshop in San Jose, would like feedback from as many blind people as possible in order to improve the device. So they are bringing the hat to our meeting, and those of us who are interested can try it out. Ms. Curtis has a series of tasks that she'd like each tester to complete, such as detecting different obstacles using the hat, shorelining with the hat, etc. After finishing the tasks, each tester will complete a brief questionnaire. The entire process takes around 30 minutes, so not everyone will get to be a guinea pig. Come early if you're super interested; I've told Ms. Curtis that she can start the testing by 9:30. We'll do the hat testing in the Monte Vista Terraces library, and while it's happening, the rest of us will share our latest and greatest tech gadgets and updates in the Monte Vista Terraces dining room. So bring that new iPhone, hearing aid, GPS software, snazzy cane, and latest guide dog training technique. For some of us, our canine pals equal and even surpass technology. You can also bring any tech question that you need to troubleshoot. I hope this two-tiered program will please everyone.
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- February, 2015
Our February program will feature one of our new members, Ms. Abby Tamara. Abby holds Masters Degrees in Print Making and Social Work, and a Bachelors degree in Painting and Drawing. It's no surprise, then, that her recent discovery that she has macular degeneration has given her pause: "My world is visual," she says, "populated with colors and shapes. Losing that will be harder for me than daily, functional issues related to blindness."
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- March, 2015
Our March program speaker will be Ms. Celia McGuiness, ESQ., of the law offices of Paul L. Rein in Oakland, California. Her name will be familiar to you if you heard our February program speaker, Abby Tamara. Ms. McGuiness was the attorney who helped Abby win her lawsuit against a psychiatric ward that refused to allow her service dog Inglis to remain with her while she was being treated there. Ms. McGuiness was recently appointed Governor Brown's advisor on access and disability. She will tell us about her ongoing advocacy work, and share her personal reasons for becoming interested in disability law. She also hopes that she can represent SVCB and CCB concerns in her capacity as an accessibility advisor.
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- April, 2015
Our April program speaker will be Ms. Laura Eberly. A number of our chapter members met her at this year's Braille Challenge where she worked as a sighted volunteer in the scoring room. Then John, Bev, Vic, and I encountered her again at the CSUN conference in San Diego. Laura is a volunteer at Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired, and a participant in LightHouse Labs with The San Francisco LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired. She lives and works in Silicon Valley, and is a native of Pittsburgh, PA. She will be talking about enjoying the many benefits of working with the blind community, including "being warmly welcomed, getting to use cool technology, and receiving awesome directions from her blind friends when she's lost."
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- May, 2015
We didn't have a May meeting because of the VIPTUC conference.
- June, 2015
Our program for the June meeting will feature Casey Koh, an outreach specialist for the California Telephone Access Program (CTAP). This program provides equipment free to California residents who have difficulty hearing, seeing, moving, speaking, or remembering. SVCB had a CTAP presentation some years ago, but technology is always changing, so it will be interesting for us to see what's new. Casey writes, "I'd love to come to one of your meetings and show your members our low vision phones and explain the application process."
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- July, 2015
Our July program featured a report on and discussion of the VTA's proposal to move the 522 bus line to the center lane. Our Transportation Chair Cam Acker will share all the information that she has gleaned from the VTA on this matter, and will try to answer any questions that you may have. You can review the May and June issues of In Touch for Cam's original report, and for a follow-up perspective written by Greg Fowler. Here's a big shout out to both Cam and Greg for your advocacy regarding this issue.
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- August, 2015
We didn't have an Ausust meeting--picnic time!
- September, 2015
Our program for the month of September will probably strike you as unconventional. We're calling the first ten minutes of the program "Three Roses," and it is intended to honor three beloved SVCB members who have passed away this year: Steve Nakagawa, Susan Hyatt, and Rose Deterding. You can see from whence the "Rose" in our title comes. The balance of our program time focuses on employment issues facing blind and visually impaired people.
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- October, 2015
Our October program presenter was Ms. Anat Nulman, OrCam Sales Consultant and Trainer. She discusses the Orcam system, an OCR reader and object recognizer.
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- November, 2015
Our guest speaker for November was Ms. Erin Foley, Director of the Hatlen Center for the Blind. Started in 1972 as the Living Skills Center for the Blind located in San Pablo, Hatlen is a residential program where students live in a two-bedroom apartment with a roommate. The program teaches independent living skills including cooking, cleaning, money management, shopping, mobility, etc. Come learn all about this unique program and all it has to offer.
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- Decomber, 2015
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2016 programs
- January, 2016
Our January 16 program was exciting, as our own Brian Higgins updated us on progress that he's making on his guide robot. Who knows! Maybe some of us will even get a chance to try it out. I hope the dogs won't be too jealous!
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- February, 2016
Many of you are already familiar with our February program speaker, Ms. Cathy Cassetta, Artistic Director of the Tabard Theatre in San Jose. Ms. Cassetta founded Tabard 15 years ago, and she describes it as a performing arts family that embraces audience participation. Speaking to a newspaper reporter back in 2011, Ms. Cassetta said, "I wanted a name for the company that had history and depth, something that had substance. Nothing that sounded trendy or fly-by-night. Tabard resonated with me because it was the name of the inn where pilgrims gathered on their way to Canterbury, and aren't we all on a journey? Together? And at the Tabard Inn, the innkeeper gave a free meal to whomever told the best story. What an inspired innkeeper he was!" Come to our February 20 program and let Cathy Cassetta entertain you with stories of Tabard's rich history and journey.
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- March, 2016
Sorry, no program!
- April, 2016
Our April Program speaker was Janet Ghanem, director of Seniors Breathe Easy at Breathe California. She talked about the benefits of Exercise and how it motivate us to move more and maintain independence as we age.
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- May, 2016
SVCB member Julie Lovins from the league of Women Voters told us about the state and local propositions on the June primary ballot.
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- June, 2016
Our June program featured SVCB member Sudha Rajagopalan, who introduced her space with a Katha chant.
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- July, 2016
We held a forum on the hobbies we like.
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- August, 2016
We didn't have an August meeting--picnic time!
- September, 2016
We spent the entire hour in groups discussing what SVCB ought to be doing.
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- October, 2016
Are you ready for the November 8 election? No? Well, check out SVCB's October program to hear a summary of all state (and some local) propositions on the ballot.
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- November, 2016
Our November program featured new member Mark Elinsky, who works at the Lawrence Livermore labs. He's written a book about his journey with RP.
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- Decomber, 2016
Holiday party time!
2017 programs
- January, 2017
Our January program speaker was Mr. Jeff Thom, CCB's Director of Governmental Affairs. Jeff joined us by phone to fill us in on pending state and Federal legislation that's relevant to the blind and visually impaired community, and suggested ways in which we can advocate for the passage of that legislation. He also told us about ACB's midyear legislative seminar and Capitol Hill activities. And there was plenty time for questions and dialog.
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- February, 2017
The February meeting was dogs, dogs, and a few cats. Ken Becker, our inveterate storyteller from the Silicon Valley Blind Center, was there, and many of us had at least one pet story to share.
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- March, 2017
Ms. Contessa Lunn was the March program speaker, and she talked about the California Telephone Access Program, sometimes known as CTAP or California Phones. She had some new phone gadgets to show us. Contessa was 45 minutes late so we conducted part of the business meeting. So this file is the complete March meeting.
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- April, 2017
Most of you may know that our own Dawn Wilcox is a sailor, and she's passed her love of sailing down to her son Garth and daughter-in-law Wendy. Wendy has written two books about sailing: Tightwads on the Loose (2012), and now, Sea Trials Around the World with Duct Tape and Bailing Wire. She was our April speaker and shared parts of Sea Trials with us.
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- May, 2017
Ms. Jennifer Garten, representative from Breathe California (which has given several talks at the Blind Center), talked to us about the importance of air quality and how you can protect your home. She also led us in deep-breathing exercises.
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- June, 2017
The speakers from Project Hire for the June program didn't show, so we had our normal chapter business meeting.
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- July, 2017
The speakers from Project Hire for the July program didn't show again, so we had our normal chapter business meeting.
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- August, 2017
We didn't have an August meeting--picnic time!
- September, 2017
Sorry, recording wasn't available.
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