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Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the technology summit. We are looking forward to a fantastic day. We are going to start with a demonstration of the wii system. It is an Interactive Gaming system that allows people to play different activities and participate in different fitness activities together. A lot of wii systems, about 40, are being deployed around the city to different Senior Centers and residents facilities to encourage older adults to get more involved with physical activity using technology. Were going to spend the first 30 minutes or so demonstrating the wii. Not only will we ...

Affordable if you have train yourself on some of the equipment that we have and the resources that we have and be able to do that for the various Senior Centers that you live and work in and enjoy yourselves in. Youre going to be able even to read a book online or be able to just have a game and download a game and play with your friends as well. We are all lucky to live in San Francisco, because so many of our Technology Companies have located their headquarters here in San Francisco. [cheers and applause] and because theyre located here, we can always ask them for a favor here and there and ...

Derek lamb, an aging Service Program specialist for the newly reorganized administration for Community Living here in region 9, the department of health and Human Services. He has over 23 years of experience in the field of aging and longterm support services. He served as the aging Service Program specialist since 19, ok. Not a kid would say 1906 and in 2006. 20022005. We asked him to join us here with some wise remarks. [applause] good morning, everyone. Can you hear me . All right. Well, on behalf of the original administrator for the newly created administration for Community Living, i wou...

We use the wii. Questions . The question is, do you have to have a special computer to connect the wii to a television . The answer is no. This box is the council. You plug the cd into it and plug into the tv. Any television will work with the wii. It works well with a big flat screen tv because you can see the action better. Good question. One more question. Allen . The average cost . If you are one of the contract in city Senior Centers, this is part of our Broadband Technology grant, the average cost is zero. [laughter] if you were to buy this for your home, it costs a couple of hundred dol...

She has recently written a book that is very important, both for her but for us, because it really tells the story of her life and all that has gone on in the world she has lived in. My angelo was quoted as saying no people can say they understand the times in which they have lived unless they have read this book. The name of that book is never in my wildest dreams. Belva davis. [applause] [applause] listen, thank you very much for that generous round of applause. I am going to start out by boring you, telling you what my mourning has been like. Because i am is now admitting that i have to do ...