A blind Alaskan shares views about health, politics, respect, her business ideas for web accessibility, training on the Americans With Disabilities Act, societal violence of disabled folks and hate crimes, interpersoanl violence against those with disabilities, workshops exploring our ideas of independence vs. interdependence, etc. She welcomes comments from all comers.
Monday, December 31, 2012
How to delete comments?
Steve called a week and a half ago, to tell me when to delete anonymous comments. (Sigh). It was on the 19 on Thursday, no, it was not it was on the 17, actually, when Gary Murphy checkd our crawl space and I was listening to the internet broadcasts for the so-called Bounce back. I bought the Iphone, but I went back to Apple, and I don't find that their customer service at the Mac Store or Straighttalk, which is a division of Tracphone wireless is optimal. It still does not work without wifi, although Siri works. The internet still cannot work very well. I can provide web accessibility consultancy which I will provide in January, write articles, and coach. I am producing webinars. Whether it is web accessibility, entrepreneurship for nontraditional workers, or interdependence and independence, I am the "gal" for you. Cheerleader for life is what I call myself. I will be writing more. I will check out more options for earning money. Thanks, Steve, for telling me about the comments. I have to work on that. More to come. Lynne
Saturday, December 15, 2012
I have been doing some research on the Iphone. I checked AT&T and GCI and ACS.ACS had better rates for a two-year contract. $70 or something $105 or something. $50 fr a phone. Money for insurance. GCI had a better rate for insurance, but more money for roaming, and everything was more expensive. I forget what the phone is. I did not want to pay more and both were 16gigs. My cousin from Israel, who is in the States in Missouri for taking classes mentioned straighttalk.com. I don't remember what At&t said, but here are the things I wrote for the other two. Diana says that a new phone with a two-year contract is $50 (I was looking into a 4S. $115 a month. $9.99 amonth insuarnace, (lost or stolen or water damage). Unlimited text talk, nationwide no roaming. 16gigabyte storage. 5gigabytes a month internet usage. GCI 16gigabytes $150 Insurance $6.49 dataplans 3gigs $19.99 5gigs $29.99 10gigs $59.99 20 gigabytes $99.99 internet unlimited text and picture is another $15 a month. When you get 5gigs, your phone becomes a personal hotspot. You have to add nationwide for some larger amount. Straight Talk 16 gigabytes $59.94 and activate on the website, One gets unlimited text, talk and data with this $45.00 a month. We'll see. These things are so complicated. I will see about getting a refurbished phone. Hmm. I have researched this for a month. Koraling Lynne
webinars and updates
I am taking the second part of the webinar course. This is where we actually do the work on preparing webinars. I have one on "interdependence and Independence" which is about help, and Stephen Covey mentions interdependence as higher than independence. I have to find those quotes. I have found that disability organizations and those able-bodies people are the garget audience I want to present to. Of course, there are other projects that I have interest in, but Koraling Genius Consultants is taking shape. I feel so hopeful.
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Disability Employment Awareness Month
Our panel was great. We hit it out of the park.Holly wanted to hear my song. Victoria asked if Richie still tuned pianos, and she spoke to him. Mr. Pucket came and spoke to me also. I liked the question concerning what we would tell people about disability. Education Verne and I said. People need to educate themselves, I said, and we have to educate them. Attitudes are so important. More stories and our life histories also. Harrison spoke about people's passsion for going to work every orning. Mentoring people is so important. I said I am a non-conformist, and I always felt different. Adults must ask questions. Dearlene from Bartlett spoke to me, and sheis a firebarand. Koraling Lynne
Webinar on Producing webinar
This was the second week of the webinar on webinars, and it was awesome. I feel so mpowered and meeting new people. How great is that? Then, Jill mentioned I could help two people she knows about entreprenruship. For those of us who are nontraditional, where the old tired attitudes do not work fo rus, we have to speak out and up for ourselves. It is painting our own mural of life, not someone's idea of who and what we are. Thanks goes to Trish. I learned what RSS is, and what it isand that's great.Koraling Lynne
compare and contrast
On Monday morning, Joe Campbell mentioned in an odd story with the meteorologist that he thought it was funny that blind people play tennis with an adapted ball, court and racket. The article referenced the California School for the Blind. These are attitudes that lead to the perceptions about blind people being clumsy, stupid, and not able to make decisions. Later in the day, twice I was on our paratransit bus for an hour at 3:20 and then going home. People who are cognitively impaired or have problems with memory or might experience dementia cannot speak up or stand up for themselves. Speaking out and making our own decisions is vpivotal. Cinemark has headsets, but if the employees do not know how to enable what is called audio description which was the case on Saturday, then the money is wasted or squandered by the business Century 16. . Koraling Lynne
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