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Hearing Loss Association of Escondido
And
All of San Diego's North County
April
2010
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GENERAL MEETING:
WHERE: Joslyn Senior Center Auditorium
WHEN: Saturday, April 10, 210
TIME: 10 am until noon
PROGRAM: : Chris Vigeant, who is with
CHRISMIX A/V & Assistive Listening Systems and Services.
Chris and his wife are members of the Pasadena HLA
Chapter. He is an audio engineer and is profoundly hard of hearing in his right
ear. He says,
“We all seem to be attracted to looping California
this year. Well, I am now carrying these wonderful Induction Loop Systems for
personal and home use as well as systems for professional and commercial
installation for California. These systems are far superior to FM and IR, easy
to install, requiring no maintenance and much less
expensive.”
Note: Our by-laws say no salesmanship is
permitted at our meetings, but if you are interested in what he has to sell,
well then by all means approach him after the meeting.
ALSO: Mitchell Levy, Product Manager with
Hamilton CapTel is going to give a brief talk about his products before we have
our coffee break. This will be a good time to talk to Mr. Levy if you wish.
Eric will start
the meeting promptly at ten, so please come early to sign in, and also to give
you time to buy the raffle tickets for the 50-50 drawing. Bring your money and
get in on the fun. (Please: No $20 bills!) You are also helping
our Chapter’s treasury this way. Remember, there is parking in the back of the
Senior Center and you can enter through the kitchen.
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We welcomed these visitors who came to our meeting in
March. The ones who signed in were Anna R.
Murcura from Oceanside; Zondra
Hendrix from Carlsbad, Hope
Briggs, from Vista and Velma
Carter from Escondido. Thanks, ladies, for coming and we hope to see
you again. Remember, there is parking in the back of the
Senior Center and you can enter through the kitchen.
Eric will start the
meeting promptly at ten, so please come early to sign in, and also to give you
time to buy the raffle tickets for the two $10 drawings. Bring your money and
get in on the fun. (Please: No $20 bills – unless you want to buy
$10-20 worth of tickets!)
Remember, there is
parking in the back of the Senior Center and you can enter through the
kitchen.
We’ll have our
midmorning coffee break. This is a great time to socialize with one
another.
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After the break and before the program we’ll have the drawing. Our winners last
month were Ellen Petitt, a
visitor, and Joan
Ireland. ___________________________________________
Keep on grinning – it makes people
curious
FROM MY
COMPUTER:
Since Jackie Wistort, our
treasurer and membership chairperson was away on a trip to Israel during our
March HLA meeting, Sylvia Hedlund,
with a little moral support from me, did the honors of signing in the members
and visitors and taking care of the name tags. Phil Denham took care of my job selling the
raffle tickets. Dorothy
We are having a board meeting to decide the fate of our
chapter on April 17, 10 a.m. at our house, 851 Concerto Glen. Everyone is
welcome to attend. Just give us a call at 760-747-3813 so I’ll be sure to make
enough coffee. So far no one has stepped forth yet who is willing to take on
the job of chairmanship, but it’s not over until it’s over.
Good News from
National
(Congress was working on
slapping a hefty tax on hearing aids and listening devices. Well, National came
through for us again! Yay!) Read on:
“We received word late
today (March 18,
2010) that hearing aids were SPECIFICALLY exempted from the proposed device tax
language, which reinforces the Class I exemption which also remains intact even
though a very serious effort was made to remove it to broaden the device tax
base. Of course, we all know it's not over 'til it's over - but it's looking
very good tonight. “Our thanks to those of you who made phone calls or
sent emails to your representatives in Congress. They heard us!”
Toni Barrient
FCC
Announces New Closed Captioning
Complaint
Form
Consumers
can now file complaints directly with the Federal Communication
Commission (FCC), thanks to new closed captioning (CC) complaint rules by the
FCC effective February 19, 2010. These new CC) rules, requested by
Telecommuni-cations for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (TDI), and other consumer
groups in 2004, make it easier for consumers to report CC problems. When you
see a television program that has no captions, missing captions, delayed
captions, captions that are garbled, displayed too fast, or unreadable, please
file a complaint with the FCC.
CC complaints must be
filed within 60 days of the captioning problem. File your complaint with the
FCC. The FCC will send your complaint to your video programming distributor
(the TV station or your cable or satellite TV service.) The distributor must
respond to your complaint within 30 days.
You can file your
complaint by using the FCC’s online Disability Access Complaint at: https://support.fcc.gov/sform2000/formClinput.action?
Form page=2000C
TDI
Note: Form 2000C on the FCC’s website erroneously states that
if your complaint is about CC, you must first contact the station or video
programming distributor. In accordance with the new rules, the FCC will accept
this web form without your first trying to contact the video programming
distributor. The form will be changed shortly, but in the meantime, contacting
the station is not required.
File your complaint by
Email to: fccinfo@fcc.gov
Fax your
written complaint to: 1-866-418-0232
Or write a snail mail
letter to:
Federal Communications
Commission
Consumer &
Governmental Affairs Bureau
Consumer
Complaints
445 12th
Street, SW, Washington, D.C. 20554
Source: Valley HLA newsletter
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These nice people
brought cookies to our March meeting: Heather Chapman, Audrey Klein and Millie Koenig. We had more than enough but
Syl has a separate freezer to store them in for our future meetings. Many
thanks, ladies
From Dana Mulvany <dmulvany@usa.net>for you Computer Buffs <> March 6,
2010. As I hope most everyone knows, YouTube recently started providing
automatic transcription/captioning for all new videos uploaded to
YouTube.. I just did a search for a new video to double check on how to
make the captions appear. It turns out that there are a couple of steps to take
to turn the automatic captioning on for the first time, and that merely
seeing the "CC" with a red background on the bottom of the video isn't enough to
see captions now. For example, go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtZLvFrl6qk&feature=aso
Click on the "CC" on the bottom part of the video and wait for the
menu to pop up. Click on "Transcribe Audio (Beta)" at the top. This turns
on the automatic transcription/captioning which is done for new videos. (Most
older videos won't have that feature enabled yet.) After activating the
automatic captioning, one can then choose to change the caption settings (the
font and the size of the captions) and one's account settings (if you don't have
an account on YouTube, it's helpful to set one up so you can set captioning
preferences, save your favorites, create playlists, etc.). I just changed my
YouTube account settings so that automatic captioning is always activated.
The captioning is pretty cool! Note that the automatic captioning will
invariably have errors in it if the owner of the video hasn't corrected it. Some
of the captioning will probably be funny when it hasn't been corrected
yet. Dana on E-Chat
Co-Presidents: Eric & Dorothy Wormser 747-3813
Vice President: Philip Denham – 432-6486
Program Chairman: Minier Cusey – 414-1958
Board Member: Bob Broxholme – 746-1929
Board Member: Gil Needle – (858) 485-0300
Secretary: Sylvia Hedlund – 745-5408
Treasurer: Jackie Wistort – (858) 521-8250
Newsletter Editor: Dorothy Wormser – 747-3813
E-mails: ewormser@cox.net Dorothy: dorthi@cox.net
Eric’s fax: (760) 737-9149
Web site: www.hearinglossescondido.org
National’s web site: www.hearingloss.org
Two men got out of their cars after they collided at an intersection. One took
a bottle from his pocket and said to the other, “Here, maybe you’d like a nip to
calm your nerves.”
“Thanks,” the
second man said, and took a long drink from the container. “Here, you have one
too,” he added, handing back the whiskey.
“Well, I’d rather not.
At least not until after the police have been here.”
American Legion Magazine
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the house of
hearing
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CCC-A., FAAA
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760
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We offer nearly every hearing
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Illich, AuD, FAAA
Doctor of
Audiology
Chief of Audiology for the
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Escondido
760 489-6901 Poway 858 451-3277
Oceanside
760 940-0373
AUDITORY
ASSISTANTS
HEARING
AID CENTERS
Longest established owners in North
County
Ken
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Hearing Aids –
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We carry most major
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MEMBERS
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430 North Cedar Street – Suite A,
Escondido
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In-Home Appointments
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Executives Suites 1132
San Marino Dr.
San Marcos, CA
92078
760-632-8000
Hearing
Helpers
P.O. Box
301307
Escondido,
CA 92030
760
747-3813
Experts in FM Systems & Pocket Talkers
to
supplement your hearing aids
Personal
Loop Systems and Infra red for TV enjoyment
Consultant on the needs of the Hard of
Hearing
Leaving
the party late, two friends compare notes. "I can
never
fool my wife" the first says "I turn
off the engine, coast into the
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