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Your monthly newsletter from EverythingBlind.com featuring our World Wide Classifieds For The Blind.

VOL. 2
ISSUE 9
September 2009

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Ad Categories

Connections recognizes the need for a shorter edition of Connections that is les focused on personal growth and includes only the classified ads and a few other interesting tidbits, submitted by Connections readers.

If you wish to view this alternate edition of Connections, please click here
"Limited Classifieds Edition"

And now September's issue! Enjoy!

Here with Connections, we would like to give something to everyone. We want it to be a work of the readers, so remember to keep an open mind and jump in with your own submissions to Connections.

Take some time and find an inspiration , today! Then share who you’ve found

Visit our Personal Growth page at: Personal Growth at EverythingBlind

And go on your own personal journey to find your gifts and strengths. There are many inspirational people and teachers introduced and you should be able to find something that resonates with you.

What You Can Expect

Each month we will share with you stories, and information on the individuals that have set their sights on inspiring!

the people just like us, who have lost their physical sight, but, not their vision. that keep us going and growing as not only blind and visually impaired individuals, but also as able and active individuals.

Please send information on these individuals that you know of, so we can share them here or tell us about yourself and why you are such an inspiration!

Inspirations

As before mentioned in Connections, often it helps to find an inspiration to get us past difficult challenges. Sometimes this is someone who seems to surpass all possibilities and yet is known to be just an ordinary person like you or me.

Such a person is Joyce Kane.

Krafters Korner

By Ann Petrous

Inspiration comes from many different places, and reaches from all walks of life. One might become inspired just by attending an event, hearing a song, or hearing bits of conversations. This was the case for Joyce Kane, President of the NFB Krafters Division, for the National Federation of the Blind. (NFB

)

12 years ago, Joyce lost her vision, due to open-heart bypass surgery. Kane worked two jobs, while her children attended college. A year after surgery, and with time on her hands, Joyce decided to pick up her knitting needles and next was her sewing machine. "I pulled out my old Feather weight sewing machine that was as basic as you can get, just straight stitching, and played with it. I loved sewing, and for 8 years worked the craft shows making dolls while my kids were young and growing up," Joyce explains. "I wanted to start with something I was very familiar with."

After attending the NFB convention two years ago, Kane was inspired to create a division, where blind people can come together, to share creative ideas, and tips on the art of craft.

Joyce contacted the head quarters of the NFB located in Baltimore Maryland, and the rest is history. A month after returning from Georgia the Krafters Korner list was started on the NFB’s official website. In one year, people took interest, and joined the mailing list. With Guidance from Joann Wilson, the first meeting was held in Dallas Texas, to finalize details on a constitution and vote in officers for the division.

Within the next year, classes were developed. All classes are taught by blind Krafters, to folks who were interested in learning. The classes are conducted by conference calling. Classes include jewelry beading projects, beginners, and advance knitting, Origami, Fun Making soap, Beaded Snowflakes, sewing Machine Discussion, with tricks and tools used by other blind folks, etc.

Upcoming classes such as coil basket weaving, how to read knitting patterns, basic hand sewing skills, more jewelry beading, and Origami classes, will be offered. A mini craft show was held in Detroit at this year‘s Convention, where Krafters displayed, and sold their creative, talented work. The NFB Krafters division has also gone internationally, where Krafters from other countries, join via Skypes.

A weekly conference call is held on Monday nights at 8 P.N. Eastern Time. You can join in by calling

610-404-9100 and the code number is 2 7 2 3 8.

To sign up for the Krafters Korner mailing list

To sign up for the Krafters Korner mailing list you can go to : krafters korner Mailing List

For class information and payment for membership go to: krafters korner

For the official website visit : krafterskorner.org

If you would like any further information you can contact Joyce Kane by email at

Blindhands@AOL.com.

There are no limitations, when it comes to blindness. Talent comes upon anyone, regardless, of disability.

Keep on Krafting!

This Month’s Belly Laugh

This month’s belly laugh is inspired by a fun story I have. Once in a hard time in my life, I was given a special gift by someone who cared about me. She gave me a little stuffed animal which was a turtle. When you squeezed the turtle’s belly, a little child’s giggle came out. It never failed to make me laugh. I later, had another friend in my life going through a very difficult time. I in turn passed that turtle on which also never failed to make her laugh. She in turn has passed that giggling turtle on to someone else.

I thought if I could pass the same giggle on to all of you, someone might be able to use it. Don't forget to pass it along. smile

Baby laughing

For those who really don’t like babies, well, skip this one … and go to where it was found. You may find something better.

http://funny-stuff.audio4fun.com

This file is assumed to be in the public domain and if you are the owner of this file and wish it removed, please contact info@everythingblind.com

Online Connections Archives

Archives of Connections For EverythingBlind can be viewed at: Connections For EverythingBlind Archives

Please send your feedback!

I’ve received many notes and calls from those enjoying Connections. I’ve also gotten quite a few interesting things about and for the blind, which I always try to include. And I’ve even gotten yet, a few more letters from readers that seemed to want to reprimand me about some of the changes that have taken place. I say only that Connections has become a stockpile of what you, the readers are submitting. That is what I wished it to be. If you don’t contribute, you won’t get what you want and you’ll be stuck with the way that things are getting’ done. smile

The past 18 months of editing Connections has been such a wonderful experience. I’m just loving my work . I’m meeting all kinds of interesting people and learning new things every day. It has been a great blessing how life has changed.

Just in the last 15 months, I also met an incredible partner and now, fiancée and am planning to move to England in February.

Connection’s office is being moved and publication will go on as usual.

We wish many more of you to send in your contributions so Connections can be a real place to Connect with what you want and need.

Also remember to send your links of the sites you most visit so they can be added to EverythingBlind.com. There have been several new additions and I have a whole list of new sites, yet to be added. So, if you haven’t visited in a while check it out!

EverythingBlind.com

Write me at:

HeidiHockman@comcast.net

Warmly,
Heidi Hockman
Chief Editor

From Meagan

I've created a blog over on live journal, so if you want to check out what I’m up to, go to Meag's Place

I wish you all God's blessings for your lives and best of times in 2008 and beyond.

Sincerely,
Meagan Green
Founder of Connections For the Blind

Coaching and Mentoring

Meet our resident coach, Teresa Christian, and be sure to drop her a line from our Coaching and Mentoring page

Contact Teresa, today, to find out more about this month’s free teleseminar.

They’re always a blast!

teresa@DiamondSynergyCoaching.com

Or call 707-444-8200 (Pacific)

Coaching, the conversation that makes a difference!
Teresa Christian is a life coach with Diamond Synergy Coaching

Quotations

Quotes on DISCIPLINE

Martin Luther King Jr

The time is always right to do what is right.

Gandhi

There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.

Elie Wiesel

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Jim Rohn

Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you've got.

Jesse Owens

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

Jim Rohn

We can have more than we've got because we can become more than we are.

Abraham Lincoln

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Aristotle

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Sir Edmund Hillary

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

Clint Eastwood

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

Wayne Dyer

It's never crowded along the extra mile.

Anonymous

It's not the work that's hard, it's the discipline.

William L Shirer

Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul.Admittedly, a good inner life is difficult to achieve, especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline.

Please visit: Inspiration Quotes

How You Can Help

Please forward this to all of your friends and colleagues.

We are bringing the blind community closer together.

Heidi

Experience Personal Growth

One of our goals is to take each of you who are willing and ready to grab a hold of a dream and help you to run with it.

OK, so you may be blind, but who cares. Find what it is that makes you passionate and live it.

Please, visit my personal growth page to find some ways to help you do this

Visit The Mice’s Spectacular Site

About the mice …

“…They opened a store where the blind could shop from the comfort and safety of their homes. There is no getting lost in the mall anymore. There are no rude and impolite salespeople to deal with any longer. There are no flying carving knives either. There are just lots and lots of gifts and collectibles, and things for the garden and home to enhance their beauty that all can be browsed through at your own pace!.

It’s a place where every purchase benefits a scholarship fund to assist visually impaired students earn a college degree.

It’s a place where helping make tomorrow better for everyone is the driving force and not the bottom line.

The place is Blind Mice Mart! It is located conveniently on the Internet and parking is never a problem! Blind Mice Mart—Where you won’t lose your tail!

Attention Blind Parents!

Blind Mice Mart has the Sensesational Talking A B C Books!

These are ideal for parents to teach the A B C?s to their young children!

Read more about the SENSEsational Talking A B C Book and Hear It Here!

Blind Mice Mart

Visit the mice

Blind Mice Mart

Toys and Games For The Blind

Visit Future Aid’s page of toys and games which are all accessible and fun for the blind

Toys and Games for the blind

Advertise in Connections

If you are interested in advertising with us, please submit your ad along with payment by September 22nd to be included in October's issue. Ad submission instructions can be found near the end of this publication or on our home page

Ad Categories

Looking For ...

In this section we will post your requests, for free, of something you need that you have not been able to easily find.

This may range from a product or service that you require, or a resource or just to make new friends to correspond with.

Send your submissions to this category, every 3 months, with looking for ... in the subject line.

looking for used braille copies of the following books and music publications

either for sale or as donations.

e-mail dpmw@pdn.ac.lk

1. Whitemore, C. (ed) The Hundred Best Short Classics (RNIB) all volumes, especially vol. 3 onwards. 2. Montani, N.A. (ed) The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book (APH) vols. 2, 3, 6, 8 and index. 3. Brewer: Popular Tutor for the Harmonium and American Organ (RNIB) 4. Elliott: Sixty Voluntaries (RNIB) 5. Einstein a. Short History of Music (NBP). 6. Grout: History of Western Music (any edition) 7. Herodotus: Histories, tr. by McKaulay. 8. Cicero, Pro Roscio Amerino (original Latin). 9. Sallust, De Coniuratione Catilinae (original Latin) 10. Xenophon, Anabasis (original Greek) 11. Kitson, Counterpoint for Beginners (RNIB) 12. Kitson, Applied Strict Counterpoint (RNIB) 13.Robertson, A. The Church Cantatas of J.S. Bach

Looking For Friend

Hi, My name is Becky

I am looking for a committed friendship with a Christian male, , that may lead to something more. . I am a 54 year old Christian woman. I love to read, walk with my Seeing eye dog, travel, and live life to the fullist.

Email, luv2beasinger@verizon.net

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Looking For Pen Pal

My name is Adrijana Prokopenko and I am a 30-year old totally blind lady. I live in Macedonia and work in a school for blind children teaching English. I love and enjoy my job a lot and like children a lot. I would be happy to exchange messages with people in the teaching profession and to others who may like to write to me. Feel free to write in braille, or tape or via email. My postal address is:

Adrijana Prokopenko

bul. Jane Sandanski

43 5 / 6

1000 - Skopje

Macedonia

and my email address is:

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Just no inmates or people with psychological, mental or gender related issues please.

Looking for help in finding a particular individual

I am in Macedonia. 10 years ago, I studied in the U.S. After coming home, I was in contact with a particular blind individual who was helping me acquire some information about university scholarships for international students. I got his address from Labina and Teona Mitevski, two Macedonian sisters involved with Macedonian movie production, and I believe they got to know about him by a common friend of theirs called Goran. I believe that this blind individual was either English or American and I believe he is in his 30s now. He studied at Oxford 10 years or more ago and that he was pursuing a very unusual degree in history or architecture. If he is reading this magazine, or if anyone thinks they know him, please contact me. I would really like to get back in touch with him.

My e-mail address is:

my Skype ID is adrijana832

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Looking for people to share their links to build Dance With Your Heart

Shirley Cheng, blind and physically disabled 25-year-old award-winning author, is looking for family-friendly sites with which to exchange links.

Her site's info is below. If you are interested in swapping links with her site, please contact her via her site (the e-mail link at the top of her page).

Title: Dance with Your Heart! Inspirational and Fantasy Books and Poems by Child Prodigy Shirley Cheng, Award-Winning Author

Shirley Cheng

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Looking for people to share their links to build EverythingBlind.

If you have a valuable resource for the blind that you would like to share or if you’d like to suggest ideas to make EverythingBlind.com the best place to start your search for everything blind related:

, contact Heidi at:

heidi@everythingblind.com

Looking for volunteers to forward this mailing on to 3 friends

Please ask them to subscribe at: subscribe@everythingblind.com 

Note when responding to any ads, please remember that they are all featured on our pages of EverythingBlind at Products at EverythingBlind.com

And when you go there and find their link to purchase any products, you help support the efforts of EverythingBlind

Helpful Tips

I know summer is almost over, but there’s still a little BBQ weather left and this year. A recent email …

Subject: Zip lock baggie fly control

Worth trying when you are in a fly infested area or on a picnic.

Love the fact that we aren't spraying chemicals to kill the bugs and us

FYI

We went with some out of town friends to Sweety Pies on Sunday for breakfast, and we sat in the enclosed patio section beside the house.

We happened to notice a couple of zip lock baggies pinned to a post and a wall. The bags were half filled with water, each contained 4 pennies, and they were zipped shut. Naturally we were curious! Ms Sweety told us that these baggies kept the flies away! Sonaturally we were even more curious! We actually watched some flies come in the open window, stand around on the window sill, and then fly out again. And there were no flies in the eating area!

This morning I checked this out on Googgle.

Below are comments on this fly control idea. I'm now a believer! More

Zip-lock water bags

Sue says: Many people swear that a zip-lock bag filled half-way with water and attached over entry-ways will repel flies. No one yet knows how or why it works, but there is speculation that it has something to do with the way the moving water refracts light. If you have tried this please use the comments form at the bottom of the page to share your results with the rest of us. ann Says: October 5th, 2008 at 5:51 pm I did tried the ziplock bag and pennies this weekend. I have a horse trailer with full LQ. The flys were very bad this weekend while I was camping. I put the baggie with pennies above the door of the LQ. NOT ONE FLY came in the trailer. The horse trailer part had many. Not sure why it works but it does!!!!!!! Danielle Martin Says: September 20th, 2008 at 8:43 pm Fill a ziplock bag with water and 5 or 6 pennies and hang it in the problem area. In my case it was a particular window in my home. It had a slight but significant passage way for insects.Every since I have done that, it has kept flies and wasps away. Some say, that wasps and flies mistake the bag for some sort of other insect nest and are threatened by this. maggie Says: June 7th, 2009 at 11:40 am I swear by the plastic bag of water trick I have them on side porch ( our house entry) and all around the basement door. We saw these in Northeast Mo at an Amish grocery store & have used them since. They say it works because a fly sees a reflection & won't come around. Just DJ Says: May 16th, 2009 at 7:25 pm Regarding the science behind zip log bags of water? My research found that each of the millions of molecules of water presents its own prism effect and given that flies have a lot of eyes, to them it's like a zillion disco balls reflecting light, colors and movement in a dizzying manner. When you figure that flies are basically prey for many other bugs, animals, birds, etc., they simply won't take the risk of being around that much perceived action. I moved to a rural area ant thought these "hillbillies" were just yanking my city boy chain but I tried it, worked immediately! We went from hundreds of flies to seeing the occasional one, but he don't hang around long. ------------------------------------------------------------------

Products

R.L. Hume Award Company

A leader in the manufacturing of Braille plaques, signs & tags. We also supply imprinted products to help promote your organization and assist with fund raising.

Everything from full-color vinyl event banners to key tags & drinkware, we’ve got it at very competitive prices.

Phone Rick at

269-329-1115

or visit us at:

award-1.com

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Clearance and Close Out Items

Visit a page with the mice to save $$$!

Discount Close Outs!

health and wellness products

Learn how to detoxify your body of dangerous metals and poisons!

TOXIC METAL exposure is a serious problem in the ecosystem worldwide, and elements such as mercury, uranium, plutonium, cadmium, bismuth, nickel, silver, and even gold, platinum, and palladium are all suspected of being problematic for the immune system and of causing a wide spectrum of disease symptoms.

Go to: And find the line DEtox with Pure, Organic Fossil Shell FlourTo learn more

Items For Sale

desktop video magnifier

Explorer Custom Focus 20" Color Inline System (MSE-AC20-5)

Bought Sept. '08, List Price then, $2,300

Hardly used since then. $1,250

Available Plantation, FL

Seller will discuss help moving after any purchase, Broward, Dade, Palm Beach

carolus6@yahoo.com. 954 593 1560. View this product at: Abledata Product Information

Books

We are Tape Ministries Northwest and record Christian books on tape cassettes; a free lending library

in existence for 28 years.

The books are inspirational. We also record Decision Magazine and Our Daily Bread daily devotional.

Go to:

Tape Ministries Northwest

Or call 206-243-7377 for a free catalog.

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Dance with Your Heart! Inspirational and Fantasy Books and Poems by Child Prodigy

Shirley Cheng, Award-Winning Author

Shirley Cheng

Be empowered, inspired, and motivated through the inspirational writings, radio interviews, and life story of miracle survivor Shirley Cheng, a blind and physically disabled motivational speaker, poet, author and contributing author of seventeen books by age twenty-four.

Despite her multiple physical disabilities, she's living the life she loves and she empowers others to do the same.

Subscribe to her monthly newsletter, Inspiration from a Blind, to receive words of inspiration, news and updates on her books.

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Services

Braille transcription service

Transcriber certified by Library of Congress in literary Braille transcription.

Contact Laura, Cat's Meow Braille Transcription,

(316) 619-4750

info@catsmeowbraille.com

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Financial Services

WORK AND BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

Envision is hiring!

If you are legally blind and looking for work, consider Envision-Kansas

At Envision you will earn competitive pay and enjoy a generous benefits package.

To learn more please call

888-425-7072

Envision

Choices and resources for people who are blind or low vision.

Mark.benson@envision.com

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Come learn the undeniably lucrative art of telemarketing

and tech and copy advertising so you can sell whatever you have to sell … including yourself.

This affordable, lifetime, money back guaranteed program of study is a recurring, continuous Teleclass, where you can participate as often and openly as you wish to learn the surprisingly fun skill of selling what people want and helping them to understand why your product can help them.

Come check out the program at:: DT Mentor

Travel Services

Legal Services

Entertainment

Like descriptive videos, but, don’t know a quick and easy way to get them?

Well, visit Blind Mice Mart’s movie vault at: Blind Mice Movie Vault where you can immediately download from a list of over 100 popular titles that you can download immediately for free!

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Blind or Visually Impaired? - How You Can Learn to Play Chess!!!

"The Gymnastics of the Brain"or "The Martial Arts of the Mind"

feel the "Thrill of Victory and the Agony of Defeat" or just have fun.

a great hobby, wonderful recreation, playing Blind or sighted people alike.

A great way to meet others, take this games of Kings to whatever level you like!!!

please visit the Web site of the United States Braille Chess Association

A group of Blind or Visually Impaired Chess enthusiasts who enjoy playing Tournaments or just Friendly Games with those of their own strength and knowledge of this wonderful sport!

the U.S. Braille Chess Association has a listserv. To subscribe, send a blank e-mail message to: usbcachess-subscribe@topica.com

To join, or for more information, on how to get your free accessible chess set, contact:

Alan Dicey, President

United States Braille Chess Association - USBCA

adicey@bellsouth.net

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Computers

Great Low Cost Computer Course for the Blind

IT Essentials 1 is an introduction to computer repair and troubleshooting, and is an excellent way to learn both computer maintenance skills and initial helpdesk technique.

Students who undertake this course are expected to have good internet and adaptive technology use skills; we provide advice on how to navigate course material but do not teach accessibility skills as part of the course.

Lectures will be provided online using Ventrilo and will be on Thursday morning at 1 universal each week.

See http://visualinnovations.org  to convert to your local time zone.

Students who can not attend lectures for one reason or another; are able to download the recordings in mp3 format from the website.

Low Cost Computer Course for the Blind http://publicftp.com

Exams, labs and exercises are done online inside a browser and by editing word documents.

Students should be comfortable with accessing pdf files also. Due to accessibility problems with voiceover on the Mac, Skype and Ventrilo have accessibility limitations and flash content will not display. Students are recommended to run Windows on either a separate box or virtually when doing the course.

At course completion students will receive a certificate outlining the skills they have attained. This certificate is an excellent addition to your CV. Please forward this announcement to anyone you think might have an interest in this course.

Visual Innovations and Solutions

Do you have a Brailler collecting dust on a closet shelve?

Do you have a Braille & Speak or type & speak in the desk drawer because you have upgraded?

Are you upgrading your Computers?

Have you thought what to do with the computers, other technology, and adaptive devices that you no longer use?

Visual Innovations and Solutions has the answer for you.

By donating your old computers, technology, and adaptive devices you will be opening the window of opportunity to many through out the country.

Please contact me if you have any computers, technology, or adaptive devices at:

Visual Innovations

875 Derbyshire Road #72AA

Daytona Beach, FL 32117

Phone: 386-898-2954

visualinn@yahoo.com

Check out our Web-site:  http://visualinnovations.org  to find out how you can help.

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Free Information

Braille Brands

Get Yours Now!!

This October is designated Blind Awareness Month in the state of New Jersey.

To help raise awareness to the needs of the visually impaired and blind, Braille Brands is proud to introduce the BLIND AWARENESS RIBBON. This patented white ribbon features raised two-dimensional black dots representing the Braille Code. On the right side of the ribbon is the Braille coded “BRL” which means Braille.

The Blind Awareness Ribbon is now available on our website at:  Ribbons For The Blind  for $4.99.

Please call us at 732-297-2200 for Organization wholesale ordering.

Blind File Sharing is a service designed for visually impaired people

who want to share files or need a way to send files to people that are too large to be accomodated by an email client as an attachment.

The site does not incorporate graphics or capchas.

The content within the site explains all the aspects of how to use the service.

BFS supports m3u playlist files for streaming audio.

Currently, the Sound Prints radio show, which is broadcast by the Kentucy ACB is hosted on Blind File Sharing for those who want to download or stream the audio over the Internet.

Blind File Sharing http://publicftp.com

Visit a website for the blind!

We have put together a site where all VIPs their friends, family, and anyone else that wants to find something pertaining to vision or vision loss, can come to interact and learn.

Check it out!

EverythingBlind.com

How Can I Get Connections?

To get your free subscription to Connections, send a blank email to:

subscribe@everythingblind.com

Ad Submission Rates and Instructions

Do you have something you want to buy, sell or trade?

Send only $5 for an ad of 50 words or less .

All ads run for one month.

For new advertisers, a 50 word ad will run free for one month.

At this time, there are no limits on how many ads you may place, but no two ads may be related to each other.

The deadline for submission of all ads is the fifteenth of the previous month. For example, if you want your ad to appear in the October issue, the deadline is September 15.

Just include a brief, but detailed description of what you would like to sell or what service you wish to provide.

General Ads

50 words One month: $5 per ad

One year placement: $50.00 ($10 savings)

100 Words: $10.00 per ad.

One year ad placement: $100.00 ($20 savings)

Sponsor Ads (top placement in Connections.)

200 Words $20.00 per ad.

One year ad placement: $200.00 ($40 savings)

400 Words: $35.00 per ad.

One year ad placement $375.00 ($45 savings)

500 Words: $50.00 per ad.

One year $500.00 ($75.00 savings)

Send your ads to:

ConnectionsAds@EverythingBlind.com

You may use PayPal for payment.

Just click on the link below and enter the amount and indicate the length of your ad and time you would like it to run.

If you wish to pay by check, US dollars, only, please … you may send it payable to:

Connections For EverythingBlind

At:

Connections For EverythingBlind

c/o Heidi Hockman

4135 Vasco St

Punta Gorda, FL 33950

Be sure to submit your name, your advertisement name, email address, optional phone number and address, to properly credit your account.

Feel free to pass the word! This will benefit you as an advertiser, as well as make others aware of Connections.)!

Note: You do not have to be blind to advertise in Connections.), however, we do ask that all blind and visually impaired readers can benefit from your product and/or service and that all material, web content and sites be accessible to screen readers.

ConnectionsAdvertising And Literary Submissions Guidelines

Here are a few guidelines to keep in mind when sending in your ads and literary pieces.

1. When sending an ad by email, please place a before and after your ad in the message. This will ensure that only the ad itself is included in Connections. If you have a personal phone number or email address in your signature you do not wish to share with the readers, please protect your own privacy.

2. Before sending in your ad, please read the information that appears at the end of every Connections.)issue. You will then be more aware of the types of ads you may place and the costs for each.

3. When contacting Connections please make a note in the subject line pertaining to your inquiry or submission. This will ensure that your message is not deleted as spam.

Submissions

1. Contest submissions should be no longer than 700 words.

2. When submitting literary pieces, please keep in mind that the readership of Connections is world wide and general in nature. Please, no adult or explicit material.

3. Please send your submission in the body of an email, along with the attached document, preferably in Microsoft Word format. Double spacing is not necessary.

4. Please be aware that in print, there are two spaces between sentences. This is because print is much smaller than Braille and therefore needs the extra space for ease in reading.

Submit Your Literary Work To Connections!

Do you write poetry? How about short stories or articles on varying subjects of general interest? Do

Do you travel to out of the way places? Do you enjoy writing jokes and humorous pieces? Many small publishers cannot pay large sums of money, and some do not pay at all, but this doesn't make them less useful to begin building up your portfolio of published works. When the time comes to submit your piece for paid publication, you'll have lots of clips from various publications to present to editors.

Connections is one of those small non paying publications at the moment. The copyright remains your own, so you can publish any of your works elsewhere. I am especially interested in blind and visually impaired writers, but not exclusively. I hope to hear from you soon.

Email Addresses For Connections

To submit a literary piece:

submissions@everythingblind.com

To subscribe:

subscribe@everythingblind.com

To unsubscribe:

subscribe@everythingblind.com

For general questions:

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