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10/09/2022

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Three year warranty with free app to view on phone. No monthly fees
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12/13/2020

Feeling blessed having our best year ever . Low overhead and quality cameras and installations at half the price of our competitors has pushed us over the top in all word of mouth sales . Thanks Erie for recognizing great customer service and fantastic value with no monthly charge for alerts and viewing on your phone
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10/03/2020

PSS has installed security cameras every week since June we are getting caught up so let us come by and do an on site proposal for your home or business
Now installing 4K cameras and dvr the picture is amazing!
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We are very reasonable and will work with you

03/17/2020

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03/17/2020

FYI
DIRECTV has a great promotion only through us locally!! Free new 32 inch tv and 2 year price lock at 33 a month for 90 stations includes locals !! Free installation and no hidden charges.. if you’re not interested tell your local business owners ! This is a promotion for business owners only with a storefront . Spectrum charges about 100 for same channels !
100 to you for each referral !
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03/16/2020

FYI
DIRECTV has a great promotion only through us locally!! Free new 32 inch tv and 2 year price lock at 33 a month for 90 stations includes locals !! Free installation and no hidden charges.. if you’re not interested tell your local business owners ! This is a promotion for business owners only with a storefront . No credit check !!
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03/05/2020

Hearing the benefits of ‘old’ technology

Hearing the benefits of ‘old’ technology

Hearing the benefits of ‘old’ technology Most industries are aware of the need to create

02/26/2020

MTA Planning For Next-Gen Subway Cars - Railway Age

MTA Planning For Next-Gen Subway Cars - Railway Age

MTA New York City Transit announced plans to develop and purchase up to 949 new R262 subway cars with an open-gangway configuration, designed for the A Division (numbered lines), that would increase passenger flow to allow customers to move freely between cars, and have the potential to improve dwel...

02/21/2020

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Famous Moulin Rouge Adopts Sennheiser MobileConnect
By SVG Staff
Friday, February 14, 2020 - 10:17 am
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A hot spot of Parisian nightlife, Moulin Rouge is the world’s most famous cabaret, known the world over for its French Cancan, undeniable style and authentic Belle Epoque interior. Yet as a place imbibed with history, this listed venue also has its own share of specific technical and conservation requirements. When seeking an assistive listening system that wouldn’t compromise this unique site, video and sound director Bruno Ravary found Sennheiser MobileConnect to be an innovative solution that was perfectly suited to the iconic venue.

A single antenna for the entire auditorium
As someone who already uses several Sennheiser RF wireless systems, Bruno Ravary appreciates the flexibility of the Sennheiser MobileConnect audio streaming solution: “Using a single Wi-Fi antenna, we manage to cover the whole auditorium, which holds 900 people. The installation enables fifty users to connect to our assistive listening service. We don’t need to have someone there to hand out or collect equipment. Anyone using this service can do so independently and they can sit wherever they like in the venue. All they have to do is download the free Sennheiser MobileConnect app to their smartphone and bring along their headphones or earphones. Once connected, users pick up the audio of the show on their headphones with a latency that is hardly noticeable. They can adjust both the volume and the high and low frequencies as they please.”

Searching for the ideal assistive listening solution
Seated at a table between columns decorated with original vintage show posters, Bruno Ravary and his assistant Vanick Kasmi, discuss the issues they faced: “Offering a support solution for the hearing-impaired forms part of the legal obligations of a venue such as Moulin Rouge. We were looking for a system that both performed well and respected the site, since we couldn’t touch the décor of this listed auditorium.”

The two technicians then set about looking for a suitable alternative to conventional solutions: “The magnetic induction loop systems would have meant carrying out works, something we wanted to avoid. Moreover, this kind of technology means seating anyone wishing to use the hearing solution in a specific area, which adds yet more discrimination for the audience concerned…”

A plug-and-play system
Naturally, the success of this kind of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) solution depends on informing the users concerned beforehand. The website therefore advertises that assistive listening support is available, and the message is also posted in the Cabaret foyer and relayed by the head waiters.

At Moulin Rouge, the quality of the show is to be found both on stage and in the equipment that is carefully selected to be as reliable and easy to use as possible: “The installation only took a few hours. It’s practically plug-and-play. In practice, the stereo programme from our DiGiCo consoles is directly fed as AES signals into the Sennheiser rack. The ConnectStation then handles all audio streaming over Wi-Fi for the whole auditorium. Since installing it a little over a year ago, we have been using our MobileConnect system seven days a week, 365 days a year, for two shows per night.”

02/10/2020

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12/31/2019

Hearing Loss Association of America

American Girl Doll - Joss Hendrick posing with on the beach (HLAA logo and American Girl logo also displayed)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Hearing Loss Association of America Partners with American Girl® to Increase Education and Awareness of Hearing Loss

American Girl Donates $25,000 to Support Hearing Loss Association of America in Honor of its 2020 Girl of the Year™, Joss Kendrick
BETHESDA, MD, December 31, 2019: Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA), the nation’s leading nonprofit organization representing people with hearing loss, is proud to partner with American Girl, the inspiring world of dolls and a subsidiary of Mattel. HLAA and American Girl are teaming up in honor of the company’s 2020 Girl of the Year, Joss Kendrick, to increase education and awareness of hearing loss.

Launching today, Joss—a fierce athlete with a passion for surfing and competitive cheer who wears a hearing aid —joins American Girl’s lineup of inspirational characters who impart meaningful life lessons to help girls learn and grow with confidence. Whether she’s on her surfboard or in the gym, Joss shows girls the importance of trying new things, pushing past stereotypes, and being a good team player.

American Girl is donating $25,000 to support HLAA’s educational programs. American Girl is also supporting the organization’s 2020 Walk4Hearing with a donation of Joss dolls. And, from January 1, 2020, through the end of the year, the company will collect donations for HLAA at americangirl.com and at American Girl stores nationwide.

“What could be more exciting than to have an American Girl doll be a role model for girls with hearing loss?” said HLAA Executive Director Barbara Kelley. “HLAA is proud to partner with American Girl to help girls know that, like Joss, they can be and do anything—an empowering message for girls with or without hearing loss. I hope girls who read Joss’s inspiring story will help create awareness about hearing loss among their friends and family.”

Celebrating its 15th year, HLAA’s Walk4Hearing brings families together in 20 cities across the U.S. to encourage hearing health and hearing protection. With more than 48 million Americans living with hearing loss, the Walk4Hearing is a call to action for everyone to do something about hearing loss. American Girl’s support will shine a light on these efforts, with donations funding HLAA’s educational initiatives that inform families about essential resources and technologies and help people with hearing loss pursue life to the fullest.

About HLAA
The Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA) opens the world of communication to people with hearing loss through information, education, support and advocacy. HLAA produces Walk4Hearing events, holds an annual convention, publishes the magazine, Hearing Life, advocates for the rights of people with hearing loss, and has HLAA Chapters across the country. The national headquarters is located at 7910 Woodmont Avenue, Suite 1200, Bethesda, MD 20814. Phone 301.657.2248 or visit hearingloss.org.
Joss was born with hearing loss and wears a hearing aid in her right ear. Learn more about Joss and her story.

Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA) is the nation’s leading organization representing consumers with hearing loss. Our mission is to open the world of communication to people with hearing loss by providing information, education, support and advocacy.

12/13/2019

Kathy Kopp - Speak Up And Be Heard

Kathy Kopp - Speak Up And Be Heard

Kathy Kopp describes her difficulties with hearing loss and how hearing loops have helped her. She also urges others to speak up about their hearing loss. Ka...

12/01/2019

Hearing Loop Demonstration - By Juliette Sterkens, AuD

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12/01/2019

Hearing Loop Demonstration - By Juliette Sterkens, AuD

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11/18/2019

A person proudly explained,

My new behind-the-ear (BTE) hearing aids do not have the t-Coil option anymore. I hear that t-Coils are a thing of the past and will be phased out soon as new technology is available. I am now using Bluetooth technology.

I can point you to hundreds, if not thousands, of churches and public buildings that have embraced loop system technology. Can you point me to even one such venue that has bluetooth technology installed so hard of hearing people can hear beautiful, clear speech from the speaker?

The reason you can’t is because Bluetooth technology is not set up to work in such places, whereas Loop Technology works wonderfully well.

The hype and misinformation going around on the demise of the t-coil is just that—hype and misinformation. It is not what is really happening. Actually, just the opposite is happening. For example, the major hearing aid manufacturer in the USA—Starkey—two years ago went on record that all of their hearing aids will contain t-coils. Other manufacturers that thought they’d dump their t-coils found that they were losing out to others that have t-coils.

In addition, more and more manufacturers of personal assistive devices are including t-coils in their devices. I understand that Williams Sound’s new PockeTalker will have a t-coil in it. The new Comfort Duett has a t-coil in it. So does Bellman & Symfon’s Maxi and Mino. These manufacturers know that they need to provide t-coils in order to stay competitive. Williams Sound recently came out with a new loop amplifier whereas they had none before. They are betting on loop systems to become even more popular in the future.

Yes, there are outspoken people that think t-coils are a waste of time and that the latest technology is better—but is it really?

Consider the real limitations of bluetooth. For example, you’ll not be able to use bluetooth in church and theatres, etc. because bluetooth has several limitations.

First, bluetooth is not built into hearing aids (it’s in the remote) because it uses too much power and would drain the hearing aid’s batteries too fast. Thus you HAVE to have a remote with you in order to use bluetooth with your hearing aids. In contrast, t-coils don’t use any extra power, and don’t require any extra stuff to be hung around your neck in order to use them either.

Second, bluetooth was designed to be paired with one other device at a time for privacy issues. Thus no one could connect to, and overhear, your phone call for example. But if you were in a church or meeting hall, if bluetooth were provided only one person in the entire church or meeting could pair to the bluetooth system—leaving all the other hard of hearing people without any help. In contrast, as many people with t-coils in their hearing aids as can pack into the looped room can use a loop system at the same time.

Third, bluetooth has a very limited range. The theoretical limit is 33 feet (10 meters), but in actual practice, I’ve not found a bluetooth device that worked reliably at more than 20 feet, if even that much. Thus, in a large room, unless you sat within 20 feet of the bluetooth transmitter, you’d not be able to hear. In contrast, if you had a loop system installed and t-coils in your hearing aids, you could sit anywhere in the looped room and hear wonderfully well.

I have no problems with the various technologies used in hearing aids today—RF, bluetooth and t-coils, but to throw out the most useful (and cheapest one) is not wise. There is room for all three of these technologies. Each has uses for which it excels, and each has its limitations.

In fact, I am working with a major ALD manufacturer to produce a new device that uses bluetooth and t-coils to make an awesome combination. This device should be in beta testing very soon.

Those that dismiss t-coils out of turn will find that they have just shot themselves in the foot—yet again!

I sure wouldn’t let people talk me out of having t-coils in my hearing aids! Especially since having t-coils in hearing aids doesn’t cost you a penny more than if you purchased hearing aids without t-coils. Why limit the functionality of your hearing aids when you gain so much at no extra cost?

11/17/2019

Not Found - Charlie Rose

The Nederlander Organization, which operates nine Broadway theaters in New York, recently installed hearing loops at its Richard Rodgers Theatre and Gershwin Theatre.

In Lincolnshire, IL, the Marriott Theatre became the state’s first musical Equity theater to have an induction hearing loop. At this theater-in-the-round, people with hearing loss are unable to supplement auditory information with visual cues for three-quarters of the performance.

The success of the Marriott’s loop has had a domino effect for future installations. One example is Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company, which had a temporary loop installed this winter.

INDIVIDUAL VS BOUNDARY MICROPHONES
In March, Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA) hearing loop advocate Juliëtte Sterkens, AuD; Marriott Theater business manager Margaret Newton; and I gave a presentation on induction hearing loops at a theater production managers meeting in Milwaukee, WI.

Dr. Sterkens was summoned by Michael Broh, production manager for American Players Theater outside Spring Green, WI, who stated, “I have noticed that amongst a nationwide group of theatrical production managers there has been an intense interest in exploring hearing loops for their own theaters.”

I then gave a follow-up seminar in a local library’s looped auditorium. (Libraries have federal Library Services and Technology Act funding available that can be tapped for hearing loops in your communities.) Evan Hatfield, director of audience experience for Steppenwolf, attended the seminar. Chicago theaters are a magnet both for suburban visitors and for national and international tourists.

Steppenwolf installed an initial temporary loop for a play already in progress using two shotgun microphones that provided the sound feed for the theater’s FM assistive listening devices.

Since the microphones were aimed at the stage from the back of the balcony—some 35 to 45 feet from the actors—the shotgun microphones failed to provide the necessary audibility enhancement required for people with hearing loss.



The next Steppenwolf play, pictured above, was Tribes by Nina Raine, which is about a deaf man, Billy, who finds himself at odds with his hearing family after his girlfriend, Sylvia, introduces him to deaf culture.

For Tribes, a second temporary loop was installed. It incorporated multiple and more sophisticated boundary microphones placed at strategic positions on the stage periphery, proving to be far superior to the shotgun microphone approach used initially.

Steppenwolf attendees, including cochlear implant users, confirmed that the second loop’s presence enhanced their theater experience, especially when the loop was supplemented by captioning or sign language interpreters. However, the boundary microphone method did not provide the same “wow effect” routinely experienced by telecoil-enabled listeners in looped venues where individual microphones are the norm.

Dramatic theater has numerous reasons, aesthetic and otherwise, for usually not providing a microphone on each performer. If Steppenwolf proceeds with a permanent loop, which is conceivable within the next year, the theater will notify patrons that it might be a different looped experience.

As technology is explored to provide superior amplification that satisfies audience needs, challenges like this will occur. See the innovative sound amplification methods Les Misérables director Tom Hooper undertook for his film: bit.ly/LesMisSound.

PATIENTS ADVOCATE FOR LOOPS
Despite these growing pains that all looping advocates encounter at one time or another, I wonder if audiology’s high attrition of doctoral candidates and current practitioners (Windmill IM, Freeman BA: J Am Acad Audiol 2013;24[5]:407-416) reflects the fact that audiologists are not taught how critical these tools are to the future of our profession and to our own job satisfaction.

Performing diagnostic testing and programming hearing aids can become routine very quickly. Changing the quality of life for a person with hearing loss translates into long-term professional fulfillment, inspiring and motivating audiologists to find other means of enhancing their patients’ ability to cope.

As I educated my patients about induction hearing loops, frustrations about hearing in challenging listening environments shifted from the hearing aid to the environment.

My patients became vocal advocates for induction loops, and loops were installed in houses of worship, senior citizen gathering rooms, library auditoriums, government offices, and theaters, as well as in living rooms and bedrooms for enhanced television reception.

Hearing loops became a legacy, with some families requesting loop installation in memory of their loved one, rather than flowers or other charitable donations.



Other patients wrote the checks for installation themselves. Looped venues, such as houses of worship, started to advertise loop presence to differentiate their outreach in the community.

Hearing loops have constituted a wonderful boost to my patients’ quality of life and to mine as the “patient-centric” manager of their hearing loss, actively pursuing means of enhancing audibility in listening environments specific to them.

As I struggled to find funds for larger loop installations, such as for the local five-screen Landmark Theatre Renaissance Place Cinema in Highland Park, IL, my practice, Hearing Associates, approached two audiologists from other local practices—Paul Pessis, AuD, of North Shore Audio–Vestibular Lab, and Ronna Fisher, AuD, of Hearing Health Center—in conjunction with Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rodkin Rotering and the city’s Office of Economic Development.

Together, we made the cinema’s loop installation a community collaboration. The theater’s acknowledgement of the effort is prominently placed on the movie screen prior to the coming attractions for each film shown in any of the five theaters.



The screen display reinforces the fact that audiologists provide a holistic method of hearing loss management, and it inspires questions about looping. Landmark Theatres expanded its cinema loop presence to the newly renovated seven-screen Embarcadero Center Cinema in San Francisco.

HELP FOR CHALLENGING ENVIRONMENTS
When asked on the Brain Series with Charlie Rose why people don’t address their hearing loss, Ruth Bentler, PhD, of the University of Iowa, said that she believes vanity and financial constraints are secondary motives (bit.ly/BrainSeries). The overriding reason, Dr. Bentler said, is that hearing aids fail them in the challenging environments that cause the most distress.

People who seek hearing aids want them to help in background noise—in adverse listening environments with poor acoustics. Induction hearing loops do that, and they do it beautifully.


Dr. Remensnyder is founder and consultant to the private practice Hearing Associates in Libertyville and Gurnee, IL. In 2011, she received the President’s Distinguished Service Medal from the American Academy of Audiology (AAA) for her efforts as a member of the AAA/Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA) Get in the Hearing Loop joint task force.
Posted by Linda S. Remensnyder, AuD at 4:33 PM
Tags: hearing loops, telecoil, theater, Linda S. Remensnyder, Broadway, Steppenwolf, Tribes

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10/31/2019

The Les Misérables Sound Team: Part 1

The Nederlander Organization, which operates nine Broadway theaters in New York, recently installed hearing loops at its Richard Rodgers Theatre and Gershwin Theatre.

In Lincolnshire, IL, the Marriott Theatre became the state’s first musical Equity theater to have an induction hearing loop. At this theater-in-the-round, people with hearing loss are unable to supplement auditory information with visual cues for three-quarters of the performance.

The success of the Marriott’s loop has had a domino effect for future installations. One example is Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company, which had a temporary loop installed this winter.

INDIVIDUAL VS BOUNDARY MICROPHONES
In March, Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA) hearing loop advocate Juliëtte Sterkens, AuD; Marriott Theater business manager Margaret Newton; and I gave a presentation on induction hearing loops at a theater production managers meeting in Milwaukee, WI.

Dr. Sterkens was summoned by Michael Broh, production manager for American Players Theater outside Spring Green, WI, who stated, “I have noticed that amongst a nationwide group of theatrical production managers there has been an intense interest in exploring hearing loops for their own theaters.”

I then gave a follow-up seminar in a local library’s looped auditorium. (Libraries have federal Library Services and Technology Act funding available that can be tapped for hearing loops in your communities.) Evan Hatfield, director of audience experience for Steppenwolf, attended the seminar. Chicago theaters are a magnet both for suburban visitors and for national and international tourists.

Steppenwolf installed an initial temporary loop for a play already in progress using two shotgun microphones that provided the sound feed for the theater’s FM assistive listening devices.

Since the microphones were aimed at the stage from the back of the balcony—some 35 to 45 feet from the actors—the shotgun microphones failed to provide the necessary audibility enhancement required for people with hearing loss.



The next Steppenwolf play, pictured above, was Tribes by Nina Raine, which is about a deaf man, Billy, who finds himself at odds with his hearing family after his girlfriend, Sylvia, introduces him to deaf culture.

For Tribes, a second temporary loop was installed. It incorporated multiple and more sophisticated boundary microphones placed at strategic positions on the stage periphery, proving to be far superior to the shotgun microphone approach used initially.

Steppenwolf attendees, including cochlear implant users, confirmed that the second loop’s presence enhanced their theater experience, especially when the loop was supplemented by captioning or sign language interpreters. However, the boundary microphone method did not provide the same “wow effect” routinely experienced by telecoil-enabled listeners in looped venues where individual microphones are the norm.

Dramatic theater has numerous reasons, aesthetic and otherwise, for usually not providing a microphone on each performer. If Steppenwolf proceeds with a permanent loop, which is conceivable within the next year, the theater will notify patrons that it might be a different looped experience.

As technology is explored to provide superior amplification that satisfies audience needs, challenges like this will occur. See the innovative sound amplification methods Les Misérables director Tom Hooper undertook for his film: bit.ly/LesMisSound.

PATIENTS ADVOCATE FOR LOOPS
Despite these growing pains that all looping advocates encounter at one time or another, I wonder if audiology’s high attrition of doctoral candidates and current practitioners (Windmill IM, Freeman BA: J Am Acad Audiol 2013;24[5]:407-416) reflects the fact that audiologists are not taught how critical these tools are to the future of our profession and to our own job satisfaction.

Performing diagnostic testing and programming hearing aids can become routine very quickly. Changing the quality of life for a person with hearing loss translates into long-term professional fulfillment, inspiring and motivating audiologists to find other means of enhancing their patients’ ability to cope.

As I educated my patients about induction hearing loops, frustrations about hearing in challenging listening environments shifted from the hearing aid to the environment.

My patients became vocal advocates for induction loops, and loops were installed in houses of worship, senior citizen gathering rooms, library auditoriums, government offices, and theaters, as well as in living rooms and bedrooms for enhanced television reception.

Hearing loops became a legacy, with some families requesting loop installation in memory of their loved one, rather than flowers or other charitable donations.



Other patients wrote the checks for installation themselves. Looped venues, such as houses of worship, started to advertise loop presence to differentiate their outreach in the community.

Hearing loops have constituted a wonderful boost to my patients’ quality of life and to mine as the “patient-centric” manager of their hearing loss, actively pursuing means of enhancing audibility in listening environments specific to them.

As I struggled to find funds for larger loop installations, such as for the local five-screen Landmark Theatre Renaissance Place Cinema in Highland Park, IL, my practice, Hearing Associates, approached two audiologists from other local practices—Paul Pessis, AuD, of North Shore Audio–Vestibular Lab, and Ronna Fisher, AuD, of Hearing Health Center—in conjunction with Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rodkin Rotering and the city’s Office of Economic Development.

Together, we made the cinema’s loop installation a community collaboration. The theater’s acknowledgement of the effort is prominently placed on the movie screen prior to the coming attractions for each film shown in any of the five theaters.



The screen display reinforces the fact that audiologists provide a holistic method of hearing loss management, and it inspires questions about looping. Landmark Theatres expanded its cinema loop presence to the newly renovated seven-screen Embarcadero Center Cinema in San Francisco.

HELP FOR CHALLENGING ENVIRONMENTS
When asked on the Brain Series with Charlie Rose why people don’t address their hearing loss, Ruth Bentler, PhD, of the University of Iowa, said that she believes vanity and financial constraints are secondary motives (bit.ly/BrainSeries). The overriding reason, Dr. Bentler said, is that hearing aids fail them in the challenging environments that cause the most distress.

People who seek hearing aids want them to help in background noise—in adverse listening environments with poor acoustics. Induction hearing loops do that, and they do it beautifully.


Dr. Remensnyder is founder and consultant to the private practice Hearing Associates in Libertyville and Gurnee, IL. In 2011, she received the President’s Distinguished Service Medal from the American Academy of Audiology (AAA) for her efforts as a member of the AAA/Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA) Get in the Hearing Loop joint task force.
Posted by Linda S. Remensnyder, AuD at 4:33 PM
Tags: hearing loops, telecoil, theater, Linda S. Remensnyder, Broadway, Steppenwolf, Tribes