Hi,
Firstly, thank you to all those who sent greetings to the AGM. These are up
on the display board at the moment, and I'm many positive comments from
people. So thank you, your contributions really helped, although there are
too many to thank individually.
For those of you who are interested, here are some brief highlights of the
two days.
- The World Health Organisation has agreed that April 11th (James Parkinson's
birthday) will be World Parkinson's Disease day. What this means in the
individual countries I don't know, but I guess those of us on the list
will have a really good time working it out :-)
- Brian Hills, a list member, is here. David Langridge isn't, but lots of
people seem to know him and have come up to the stand to say hello :-)
- Emma Bennion (newly elected member of PDS council :-) from YAPP&Rs has
found the Microsoft trackball (cost UKP 14.95) which is designed for
children from 3 years upwards, is excellent for people with PD.
It has 1 button, and the ball is big enough for the palm of yourhand.
You can slow it down, speed it up, etc.
- The Disability Equipment Register, a clearing house for second hand
disability aids, has a web site at
http://dsplace.dial.pipex.com/town/square/ae208/
- Normal stuff happened about accounts, articles of association, etc.
- "The Internet" got a couple of mentions in some of the speeches, including
a favourable mention by Mark Baker, the PDS's National and International
development consultant. I hope this is a good sign for the PDS's future
attitude to the Internet.
So in all, quite a successful event. Thank you again for your collective help.
Simon
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