Email Scares: Worse Than Crazy

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Subject: Navy to deafen 15,900 whales and dolphins? And kill 1,800 more?

Below is an email from Lyndia Storey, a MoveOn member who created a petition on
SignOn.org that's growing rapidly. If you have concerns or feedback about this petition,

click here.

Dear MoveOn member,
According to the U.S. Navy's own estimates,
the use of high-frequency underwater sound for testing in Hawaii, off the California and Atlantic Coasts, and in the Gulf of Mexico will deafen 15,900 whales and dolphins and kill 1,800 more over the next five years.

Whales and dolphins depend on sound to navigate and live. The Navy is required to include comments from the public on their Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), so your signature and comment on my
SignOn.org petition could help stop this naval program and save the lives of these ocean creatures.
My petition says:
Stop the killing of 1,800 whales and dolphins and the deafening of 15,900 more by ceasing the operation of the Navy's underwater sound system in the Hawaiian Islands, the California and Atlantic Coasts, and the Gulf of Mexico.
Will you sign the petition? Click here to add your name, and then pass it along to your friends:

http://www.moveon.org/r?r=276609&id=45292-23289850-nTD9sxx&t=2

Thanks for your help.

–Lyndia Storey
PS: The comments must be in by July 10, 2012, so please

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From AAPD Help People Get Back to Work Click here to contact your Congressional Representatives! Most people receiving assistance from Social Security Disability programs would like to gain economic self sufficiency by going to work. They want to be able to do this without jeopardizing their benefits if the attempt to go to work is ultimately unsuccessful. Due to the complexity of the rules for starting work, while continuing to receive benefits temporarily, the government has established two important programs to aid beneficiaries: The Work Incentives Planning and Assistance Program (WIPA) helps beneficiaries understand their options when they try to enter the workforce, and The Protection and Advocacy for Beneficiaries of Social Security (PABSS) program furnishes advocacy and other legal services to protect the rights of beneficiaries seeking to enter the work force There has been a delay in reauthorization of WIPA and PABBS and funding is about to run out! Unless there is prompt action to continue funding, the programs will have to shut down. While reauthorization is being considered, the Appropriations Committees can allow Social Security general administrative funds to be used to continue the program until October 2012, and then appropriate new funds specifically for WIPA and PABSS Tell them to support prompt Congressional action and help persons on Social Security disability programs achieve employment! You can do this by: urging your Representatives and Senators to support reauthorization of WIPA and PABSS Ask your Representative and Senators to contact members of the House &Senate Appropriations Committee and ask that funds be made available immediately so that WIPA and PABSS will not have to be shut down while reauthorization is being considered!

Hello lovelies,

Just a quick July update to let you know that you can listen to me prattle on about poetry TODAY (Monday) at noon (Eastern) by clicking the “click here to listen live” button on the following link:http://www.wjpd.com/

I’m being interviewed as part of the UP Book Tour (readingtonight as well) and if you listen closely, you may just hear me mention Johnny Cash. Cause that’s how I roll.

Hope all is well,

Andrea

 

Fragile, like memory divided, 

A star’s tail in the leaves of an oak–

A serious and circumspect communique.

 

And the houses, all buttoned up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Because there are poems after my own heart

Now and then I am happy.

Our day, this day, is a resurrection

Like an orange tree

And blue stones under my feet

Speak of ordinary lives that are saved.

If I said more you would not believe me.

If I said more my discoveries 

Would seem nothing 

But talk of gods.

I am happy without answers.

Poems are after my own heart.

They have made me sadly joyful. 

Can you see me, talking to myself in the street? 

 

 

 

 

Ann Taylor Tells Blind Woman Her Guide Dog Isn't Allowed In The Store
(Consumerist)
June 26, 2012

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH– [Excerpt provided by Inclusion Daily Express] Hey, retailers — it's 2012, and if you don't know that a service dog is a completely acceptable animal to be accompanying a customer in a store according to the Americans with Disabilities Act, you really need to update your employees.

And yes, we mean you, Ann Taylor.

Consumerist reader Natalie's mom, Becky, has a condition called Retinitis Pigmentosa. She sees about 5% of what is normal so she uses a guide dog, and as such, is dependent on her service dog, Cricket, to get around, especially when she's on her own. She loves shopping at Ann Taylor, but had an unfortunate experience with an employee who told her she wasn't allowed to be in the store with her dog.

Natalie directed us to Becky's blog, "Cruisin' with Cricket," where she detailed her recent upsetting experience at a newly-opened Ann Taylor store at her local mall.

Entire article:
Ann Taylor Tells Blind Woman Her Guide Dog Isn't Allowed In The Store
http://con.st/10030335
Related:
Ann Taylor Says Woman's Service Dog Was Without Harness, Except That Isn’t True
http://con.st/10030385
Ann Taylor Says It Was Misinformed The First Time It Issued A Statement On Guide Dogs
http://con.st/10030413
Blind woman's service dog not allowed in Ann Taylor City Creek (ABC News)
http://tinyurl.com/ide0626125
Crusin' with Cricket
http://cruisinwithcricket.blogspot.com

 

First I must say that I’m not disposed to drinking games but I should add that I’m not opposed to them. (Note: on the advice of my attorney, Dagmar Magnus Krapper, I am instructed to say that this blog in no way condones reckless drinking or de-pantsing people in public fountains.) That being saiid, I thought this morning while listening to Romney’s facile and snarly reaction to the Scotus’ decision on the Affordable Health Care Act that if he’s going to repeat “Obamacare” ad nauseum during the presidential campaign, then what better way to get young people involved?

Forget dinner with Barack, how about drinks with Mitt?

 

National Federation of the Blind Files Complaint
Against State Department

Seeks to Stop Distribution of Inaccessible Kindles Abroad

Baltimore, Maryland (June 27, 2012): The National Federation of the Blind, the oldest and largest organization of the blind in the United States and a leader in the struggle for civil and human rights for blind people all over the world, today filed a complaint with the Office of Civil Rights for the United States Department of State, alleging that the State Department’s plan to purchase and deploy 35,000 Amazon Kindles throughout the world violates federal law because blind people cannot independently access and use the devices or their content. Four international organizations representing the blind and dedicated to equal access to books and digital information—the World Blind Union, the South African National Council for the Blind,the DAISY Consortium, andthe DAISY Forum of India—are also named complainants. The State Department has announced plans to purchase 35,000 of Amazon’s dedicated e-reading devices under a sole-source contract, at a cost of $16.5 million, as part of an international learning program being referred to as the Kindle Mobile Learning Initiative. The aim of this program is to create a global e-reader program that introduces aspects of U.S. society and culture directly to young people, students, and international audiences and to expand English- language learning opportunities abroad. The plan will involve deploying the Kindles to embassies, libraries, and other entities around the world. The complaint also alleges that a previous deployment of six thousand Kindles to State Department facilities throughout the world violates the law.

Of the Kindles currently available, not all are capable of speaking the content of books. While the State Department proposal specifically calls for the inclusion of this feature, the contract makes no reference to the department’s obligation to purchase accessible technology under Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act or otherwise require that the devices procured be accessible to the blind. Blind readers cannot independently access the text-to-speech reading and voice-guided menu features of the Kindle, and cannot independently navigate within a book once it is opened, meaning that they must simply read it from beginning to end.

Dr. Marc Maurer, President of the National Federation of the Blind, said: “Access to information is a fundamental human right, and blind Americans, as well as our brothers and sisters throughout the world, insist that this right be upheld. The State Department wants the international community to learn about United States society and culture; people with disabilities are a part of that society and culture, and the protection of our rights is a national priority as clearly expressed in the Rehabilitation Act and other laws. All federal agencies, including the State Department, are bound by these laws. We intend to see that the State Department meets its legal and moral obligations to the blind people of this country and the world.”

Marianne Diamond, president of the World Blind Union (WBU), said: “The WBU represents over 285 million blind people throughout the world and believes strongly that the blind and others who cannot read print must have access to published materials on the same terms as the sighted. It is critical that the United States demonstrate leadership in this area by procuring and providing reading technology that everyone can use independently.”

The complainants are represented in this matter by Scott C. LaBarre of the Denver firm LaBarre Law Offices.

Today I am talking to myself in the street, 

With my poor posture and fading hair, 

My cantankerous soul like a boy’s and my old dog by my side,

Because the face of dawn has laughed openly 

At my half formed ideas. Yes. To make it in this world

You have to think on your feet.