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Technology. I talked to my mother about this all the time. My mother hates technology, and she has had to learn so much. I had a conversation with her the other day, and she was naming all the things she has had to learn, all the things she owns, all the things she hates. Things like her dvd player, her vcr, or microwave, herself phone, her cordless phone there are so many things she has had to learn. In the Senior Center where she lives, she said the most commonly used assisted technology is a twoinchlong piece of black ls will take, used to cover the flashing light on the vcr and the dvd pla...

Heavy. But on a friday morning and especially with the week that weve had i think its going to be light for a little while longer. No issues to report on 270 still all green from frederick down to the point where the lanes divide. Were in great shape on the beltway. Across the American Legion bridge. Lets take a live look on the other side of town in college park over at route 1. And traffic volumes are very light here as well on the eastern stretch of 495. Back over to the maps, this time coming in from the west. Sterling on the toll road. Gainesville on 66. Were in great shape. And were goin...

The other believe that we have is that it is important to step back from what we know at listen to our clients. Has to stop putting our beliefs on them. We have to look at where people are coming from with technology. And figure out what the issues are that they are having. The big question that we often asked is, when someone is struggling, is that a disability issue or a learning curve issue . We find that the disability issues are the easy fixes. The small print, hard to use a mouse, all of that is very easy to fix. The learning curve issues are really the hard ones for most people. Most se...

This have a really important role. We have to be able to provide the tools for the technology in ways that the people can hear. I am happy to be your speaking with you because i think this is an incredibly important topic. This afternoon, there is a workshop on addressing multiple barriers for accessing technology, and it will be a brainstorming session where someone from my office and a couple of other people will be leading a discussion of what issues people run into and how you deal with them. I think it is a really important topic and i think it is probably one of the most important things...

This morning at 4 00 a. M. That tells you how dedicated people were to be able to produce it and have it here today. I wanted to thank paul grant, who has worked with the project with the Family Services Agency Senior Community Services employment program. You will see his good work here also john boswell, who came in at the last minute and help us pull this together. He did it in exchange for tyne bank hours with the Bay Area Community Exchange Time bank. If you want to know about that, you can learn about that across the hall after lunch. Finally, from the Broadband Technology opportunity pr...