The City of Opelika will have two table top demonstration areas set up inside city hall for interested citizens to view all day long on Tuesday, August 3rd.

The first demonstration focuses on the cable TV offering.  It will be doing a demo of Microsoft Media room’s IPTV Middleware platform.  This can be described as a “truly unique cable TV offering,” showing the community the advanced technology Opelika could deliver in the cable TV platform if allowed to deploy the cable service.  It would be an advanced product offering that the citizens of Opelika could never expect to get from any of the existing providers. 

The second demonstration will show bandwidth utilization.  This demo will show consumers typical use of video and data products and how the use of them consume bandwidth capacity in the home.  It will highlight the huge pipe Opelika could have available to its customers to deliver truly unique and technically advanced products to our community.  For example, if someone is trying to download a movie from Netflix on one PC or blue-ray player while someone else in the home is trying to surf the internet, the person surfing the internet sees the slowdown from the impact of downloading the movie.  This demonstration will show how this will not happen with the proposed system. 

There will also be a video that highlights another community that has benefitted tremendously from the building of a very similar system Opelika is now considering.

Opelika City Hall is located at 204 South 7th Street in downtown Opelika.  If you enter the building from the 7th street location, simply go through the front doors; you will see the displays in the front hall area.  If you enter city hall through the Avenue A entrance, go past the Utilities customer service area, Revenue Department area and Purchasing area and go through the double doors.  You will be right at the display tables.

“The Auburn/Opelika Parkinson’s Disease Support Group has an upcoming meeting scheduled for Sunday June 13th from 2 to 4 p.m.  The meeting will be held in the Eagle’s Nest Meeting Room in the back side of Monarch Estates located at 1550 East University Drive in Auburn.  Those with PD, their family members or friends are invited and urged to attend. The speaker will be Dr. Amy Amara from UAB.  Her topic will be “Sleep disorders in Parkinson’s Disease.”  Dr. Amara was appointed as the Francis and Ingeborg Heide Schumann Fellow in Parkinson’s Disease Research in July 2009 after completing a neurology residency at UAB.  For more information contact Linda Drummond at 334.444.2836 or Tom Bonniol at 334-887-1891.”

The Auburn/Opelika Parkinson’s Disease Support Group has an upcoming meeting scheduled for Sunday May 16th from 2 to 4 p.m..  The meeting will be held in the Eagle’s Nest Meeting Room in the back side of Monarch Estates located at 1550 East University Drive in Auburn.  Those with PD, their family members or friends are invited and urged to attend. The speaker will be Dan Phillips, Assistant Professor with the Department of Communication Disorders at Auburn University.  His topic will be “Speaking Effectively-What to do when people don’t understand.”  The presentation will focus on tips for both those with Parkinson’s Disease and Care Givers to improve communication.  May is Better Hearing and Speech Month so this is a good time to emphasize being understood more effectively.  For more information contact Linda Drummond at 334.444.2836 or Tom Bonniol at 334-887-1891.

The newly formed Lee County Area Parkinson’s Disease Support Group has upcoming meetings scheduled for Sunday November 8th and Sunday December 13th from 2 to 4 p.m. The meetings will be held in Eagle’s Nest meeting room in the back side of Monarch Estates located at 1550 East University Drive in Auburn.  Those with PD, their family members or friends are invited and urged to attend. There will be speakers on each date.  For more information contact Linda Drummond at 334.444.2836 or Tom Bonniol at 334.887.1891.  (Note: These events and this information is also posted on the Upcoming Events calendar.)