Team Ramey Updates (Graduation, Austalia, and Antarctica)

Uncontained Nuts is a tap team in McMurdo station, Antarctica. There is a wide variety of activity in the off hours amongst those who are deployed in Antarctica. Some paint, some play instruments, and some dance. It is not all science down south.

Okay, enough frivolity. Here is the news. Emilia is graduating winter, and not in spring. March is the last month of undergraduate education. Yippeeeeeee! The husband is so proud of her. :-) Don't tell her I said that. ;-) Emilia was going to take the last term of third-year Hebrew in the spring, but they canceled it, and since all of her requirements are done, why not graduate now?

On to the together news. Emilia and I are ramping up for an international excursion. We have a presentation in Gold Coast Australia 11 P.M. on March 14th (Pacific Standard Time-Not Australia time) and six P.M. (Also Pacific Standard time) on the 15th. This is for the Biennial Australian National Autism Conference. Our 11 P.M. presentation is on dating, and our 6 P.M. presentation is on computer-mediated inclusive theater. Emilia will present from Australia, and I will be presenting from home in Vancouver, WA. USA for the dating presentation, and presenting from Portland State University for the theater presentation. We will be using internet videoconferenceing and google chat. In the dating presentation we are going to talk about using what works for you, thinking outside the box, and how to apply this in a society that devalues disabled people at all levels (including romantic) and in the theater presentation, we are going to teach a few excercises to conference participants on both sides of the pacfic, do a "mini performance" and talk about the aplications of computer technology in light of expanding artistic posibilities, and inclusivity for people with and without disabilities. (For example, some one has chemical sensitivities in one room, and another person has to wear topical medication that is detrimental to the MCS gentleman in the first room. They can still dance together via internet videoconferencing, without a major encumberance of wearing oxygen and/or filter masks.

We will give more details on our activities as we progress into our beta test mode. For now, if you have not watched the tap video, do so, and dream of the posibilities of hanging out in Antarctica. Here is a tour of the South Pole Station:



Peace Out

Jody John Ramey