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Norman Coombs
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>Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 22:25:18 -0500
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>Subject: media: AbleTV's webcast of the Garrett Decision . . .
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>I hope that I am posting this message with enough lead time so that as
many of
>you as possible can participate in the webcast on Wednesday night, February
>28. Please be sure that you have the latest version of the Real G2 basic
>player installed on your computer in order to view the webcast. I would
>appreciate any cross postings of this message onto other list serves where
the
>message has not been view yet. Thank you in advance and I am looking forward
>to hearing your voices on the webcast either through email, chat or by
>telephone.
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>jeffrey Pledger
>President, AbleTV.net
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>tvwoRLDWIDE.COM
> PRESS RELEASE
>TVWorldwide.com Studios To Premiere
>“The Able Gang’s Viewpoint” Program
>Where Disabled Journalists Discuss The
>Supreme Court’s Garrett Decision
>Controversial Ruling Galvanizes Community for New Interactive Web Show at
>www.abletv.net on Wednesday, February 28th at 7:30PM EDT
>For Immediate Release
>Monday, February 26, 2001
>Contact: [log in to unmask]
>TV Worldwide.com, Inc.
> www.tvworldwide.com
>(703) 961-9250
>Jeff Pledger
>[log in to unmask]
>www.abletv.net
>(301) 890-5944
>Chantilly, Va. In the first program of its kind ever, TVWorldwide.com will
>premiere a live webcast on its AbleTV.net web-based TV channel for people
with
>disabilities, where journalists with disabilities will discuss major issues
>affecting 54 million Americans with disabilities in the U.S. Supreme Court’s
>Garrett Decision. “The Able Gang’s Viewpoint” will focus on the major
>unemployment issue challenging more than 11 million disabled people in the
>U.S., including the impact of the recent Supreme Court Garrett Decision that
>states should be shielded from lawsuits by individuals seeking money damages
>under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
> The Garrett decision is being interpreted as a back door safety net
>strategy for states who do not want to hire people with disabilities. This is
>especially true among states with poor civil rights records.
> The panel will also discuss the recent New Freedom Initiative program
>launched by President Bush earlier this month. The program involves putting
>additional money into assistive technology development, the purchase of
>assistive technology equipment, providing more money for special education
for
>disabled children and incentives for housing and better treatment for people
>with mental health problems.
> “Disability issues are national issues. The lack of access to jobs,
>education, transportation, public buildings, dwellings, recreational
>facilities, Internet and assistive technology are a tremendous economic drain
>on the country. More devastating to the country is the loss of the
abilities of
>millions of unemployed people with disabilities,” says John Williams, one of
>the journalists on the panel. Williams writes Assistive Technology, a weekly
>column appearing Wednesdays on Business Week.com under Daily Briefing. His
>award-winning column is credited with raising disability issues to a national
>awareness in the media and among politicians, government policy makers,
>employers, consumers and educators.
>The annual cost to keep people with disabilities dependent and out of the
>workforce exceeds a minimum of $150 billion annually, reports the U.S.
>Department of Health and Human Services. This is more money than the GNP
of 85%
>of the countries in the world.
> Williams interviewed George W. Bush, former Democratic vice
>president Al
>Gore and Senator John McCain (R-AR) on where they stand on disability issues
>when they ran for president. He has been writing about disability issues and
>assistive technology products for two decades.
> “We have a great opportunity to offer employers and disabled
>listeners an accessible worldwide forum to discuss critical issues
challenging
>the country. While I am unhappy with the Supreme Court’s decision, I
>understand that it is a legal and valid decision. “ said Jeff Pledger,
>President of AbleTV.net, who is blind and one of the panelists.
>
> “If this show works to inform and build consensus among
>listeners, we can produce similar programs in an ongoing web series that will
>take on these issues from a journalistic perspective,” commented Dave Gardy,
>CEO of TVWorldwide.com, who will be the moderator.
>
>“We are pleased to provide captioned streaming for this live event, just like
>we’ve done for all our live and archived events, “ remarked Pledger. “ The
>disability community is excited about the voice they’ll have in this
program.”
>
>Other panelists include Carmen Jones, President of Solutions Marketing Group
>and Damon Chappie of Roll Call newspaper. “ We have picked experienced,
>knowledgeable and respected individuals in this field to discuss issues of
>national importance,” said Gardy.
>The live event, “The Able Gang’s Viewpoint: Disability” is slated for 7:30 PM
>EDT, Wednesday, Feb. 28, from the Internet TV studios of TVWorldwide.com
and is
>sponsored by Reliacast, Inc which has been selected to deploy its
>state-of-the-art audience-tracking and e-ticketing software solution for the
>webcast.
> “It will be great to have the Reliacast Virtual Turnstile software to get
>feedback on the traffic we expect so we can continue to enhance the
experience
>for online participants,” Gardy said.
> The webcast will feature AbleTV.net’s captioned video
>streaming or “webcapting” process to aid those with disabilities in
>participating via chat, e-mail and phone.
> The program will be archived with the captioning for later
>viewing after the webcast at the same event site link. Participants should
have
>the free Real Player version 8 installed prior to the event and can log on
for
>their free Reliacast e-ticket any time prior to the event on the 28th.
>Questions can be directed to [log in to unmask] before and during the
event.
>
>About TVWorldwide.com and AbleTV.net
>A full-service video streaming application service provider,
TVWorldwide.com is
>currently working with clients and strategic partners on the latest in
live and
>archived state-of-the-art video streaming content applications.
>The TVWorldwide.com network is an affiliation of community-based Internet TV
>channels, each underwritten by a strategic partner, “aimcasting” to targeted
>b2b and professional special interest audiences worldwide. TVWorldwide.com
has
>worked with one of its first aimcast channels, AbleTV.net, to pioneer live
and
>archived video streaming with closed captioning and audio description to
aid in
>web site accessibility for the disabled. With this advance, AbleTV.net
received
>its charter sponsorship from Microsoft Corporation. TVWorldwide.com received
>first round financing from PSINet Ventures, Ltd., the wholly-owned corporate
>unit of PSINet, Inc. (Nasdaq:PSIX)
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