[nabs-l] [Nfbnet-members-list] Threw Our Eyes interview, Ride into History, Race for Independence, Wed. June 22, 8:00 pm EDT

Josh Gregory joshkart12 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 23 00:39:09 UTC 2011


Explain how each works.  This is why I say it could get offtopic.
  I know the 4th generation IPod touch has a front-facing camera.  
So, I assume one would simply place the bill under the camera and 
the app would tell you what denomination it was?
Best,
Josh

sent from my Apex
Email: joshkart12 at gmail.com

 ----- Original Message -----
From: Kirt Manwaring <kirt.crazydude at gmail.com
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 18:26:52 -0600
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] [Nfbnet-members-list] Threw Our Eyes 
interview,Ride into History, Race for Independence, Wed.  June 
22, 8:00 pm EDT

Na, if we're talking about solutions for accessible currencyk, 
we're
still on topic.  If you're using an iOS device, you can get Inote
which is free or pay 2 dollars and get looktell money reader 
which is
easier to use.

On 6/22/11, Josh Gregory <joshkart12 at gmail.com> wrote:
 Can you explain offlist, please? I'm afraid we might be getting
 too offtopic if we keep it on.
 Best,
 Josh

 sent from my Apex
 Email: joshkart12 at gmail.com

  ----- Original Message -----
 From: Kirt Manwaring <kirt.crazydude at gmail.com
 To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
 <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
 Date sent: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:59:55 -0600
 Subject: Re: [nabs-l] [Nfbnet-members-list] Threw Our Eyes
 interview,Ride into History, Race for Independence, Wed.  June
 22, 8:00 pm EDT

 Yeah, but looktell is better.

 On 6/22/11, Josh Gregory <joshkart12 at gmail.com> wrote:
  Oh, so that's the one I heard about.  The pay one, that is.  So
  EyeNote's free.  Thanks Jessica!
  Best,
  Josh

  sent from my Apex
  Email: joshkart12 at gmail.com

   ----- Original Message -----
  From: Jessica <jessmonsilva2003 at sbcglobal.net
  To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
  <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
  Date sent: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:36:04 -0700
  Subject: Re: [nabs-l] [Nfbnet-members-list] Threw Our Eyes
  interview,Ride into History, Race for Independence, Wed.  June
  22, 8:00 pm EDT

  Josh, eyeNote is free.  The other I speak of is looktell money
  reader.  It is 2 dollars.

  Sent from my iPhone

  On Jun 22, 2011, at 3:07 PM, Josh Gregory <joshkart12 at gmail.com
  wrote:

   Hi, Jessica.  There's another one? EyeNote is what I was
 talking
  about, but I didn't know there was another one.  Do you by any
  chance know it's name?
   Best,
   Josh
   PS: Eyenote's free? Thought you had to pay for it.  Well, we
  learn something new every day.  (smile)

   sent from my Apex
   Email: joshkart12 at gmail.com

   ----- Original Message -----
   From: Jessica Silva <jessmonsilva2003 at sbcglobal.net
   To: nabs-l at nfbnet.org
   Date sent: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:59:27 -0700 (PDT)
   Subject: Re: [nabs-l] [Nfbnet-members-list] Threw Our Eyes
  interview,Ride into History, Race for Independence, Wed.  June
  22, 8:00 pm EDT

   actually there is the one he speaks of but also there is the
 one
  made by the US treasury.  it's called eyeNote and it's free.

   On Wed Jun 22nd, 2011 3:39 PM MDT Josh Gregory wrote:

   They've got an ap to help with identifying money for I O S
  devices, that was mentioned on this list before I think.  I 
have
  heard it's only 2 bucks but that it works well.  It might be in
  the ap store, but not having a device to check on, I'm not 
sure.
   Best,
   Josh

   sent from my Apex
   Email: joshkart12 at gmail.com

   ----- Original Message -----
   From: "Humberto Avila" <avila.bert.humberto2 at gmail.com
   To: "'National Association of Blind Students mailing list'"
  <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
   Date sent: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:11:10 -0700
   Subject: Re: [nabs-l] [Nfbnet-members-list] Threw Our Eyes
  interview,Ride into History, Race for Independence, Wed.  June
  22, 8:00 pm EDT

   Hello, but what happens if I have a bill in my hand and I want
  to know what
   it is, but there is not a single sighted soul to tell me what
 it
  is? I know
   is a free alternative but, is it truly worth it? And, what if
  that sighted
   person lies about the amount of money that is on the bill?
   I would probably support ideas like the KNFB reader and the
  iBill identifier
   if they were even cheaper.  If they were so, I would buy one 
or
  the other,
   but so far, I can not afford either one.

   -----Original Message-----
   From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org
  [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
   Of Kirt Manwaring
   Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 2:01 PM
   To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
   Subject: Re: [nabs-l] [Nfbnet-members-list] Threw Our Eyes
  interview, Ride
   into History, Race for Independence, Wed.  June 22, 8:00 pm 
EDT

   Joshua,
   Valid points.  I've got a solution for you that doesn't cost a
   thing.  Get a sighted person you trust to tell you what your
  bills are
   when you get them, and fold them so you can identify them in
 the
   future.  Inconvenient, maybe...but hey, if we're going to fit
 in
  to
   the world we've got to put up with some annoyances.
   BTW, what's wrong with a 20 cell display?  Not ideal maybe 
but,
  hey,
   maybe a rehab counselor would be more willing to get something
  with
   that much of a price reduction as compared to a 40 cell.  I
 used
  a
   20-cell PAC mate all through High School, an 18-cell Apex for
 my
  first
   year of college, and the shorter displays work fine.
   Best,
   Kirt

   On 6/22/11, Joshua Lester <jlester8462 at students.pccua.edu
  wrote:
   This is what Allan Ramos told me.
   He was a trainee at LWSB, when I was there.
   He's a member of the CCB, (California Council of the Blind,)
  (not to
   be confused with Colorado Center for the Blind.)
   I'm going on what he said.
   Paper currency in the US, started with Andrew Jackson.
   Glenn Beck talks about this in great deal, in his book,
  "Growth."
   I've heard, that the debit cards are an alternative, but we
  don't have
   such a system, that is accessible to us, in my small town.
   It's either what I suggested, or we should ask the NFB to push
  the
   companies that make accessible technologies, to make their
  technology
   affordable for all blind citizens, that need it.
   That's my problem with the Blind Driver Challenge, (for
  example.)
   They will make this car, but they have to charge an obseen
  amount of
   money, for it.
   I'm not going to be able to afford it.
   I can't afford a Pac Mate, with a 32 cell Braille display, and
  my
   state won't purchase it, for my schooling.
   I'm bringing this up, because, (back to the currency,) the
 IBill
  costs
   $100.
   The IBill, (I felt of one at convention last year,) is as 
small
  as a
   giga-pet.
   I got one of those, for $5, when I was a child!
   Why would I pay $100 for something that small?
   Make it affordable!
   Blessings, Joshua

   On 6/22/11, Anmol Bhatia <anmolpbhatia at yahoo.com> wrote:
   Josh,
   Your idea to have only coins is a good idea, but not 
realistic.
  Can you
   see
   a 50 dollar coin or even 20 dollar coin? Paper currency has
 been
  and will
   always be a fabric of this country as it is in every country.
  Which
   country
   has only coins and know paper currency?
   I do not believe, but I could be wrong and please correct me,
  but I do
   not
   think that ACB is advocating only braille notes.  From my
  understanding
   they
   have been advocating a form of paper currency which is
  accessible  and
   afordable.  Ovisily braille is not the most afordable means to
  make paper
   currency accessible.

   Anmol
   I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me
 sad.
  Perhaps
   there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague,
  like a
   breeze
   among flowers.
   Hellen Keller


   --- On Wed, 6/22/11, Joshua Lester
  <jlester8462 at students.pccua.edu
   wrote:

   From: Joshua Lester <jlester8462 at students.pccua.edu
   Subject: Re: [nabs-l] [Nfbnet-members-list] Threw Our Eyes
  interview,
   Ride
   into History, Race for Independence, Wed.  June 22, 8:00 pm 
EDT
   To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list"
   <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
   Date: Wednesday, June 22, 2011, 1:51 PM
   Anmol, it's amazing that you bring up
   accessible currency.
   What the ACB wants, is Brailled currency.
   That isn't going to work.
   I have the answer to the problem.
   First of all, it's political.
   I'm tired of people saying that the conservatives aren't on
   the side
   of the blind.
   When it comes to currency, they are.
   Remember, when Reagan mentioned a return to the gold
   standard?
   Coins are the answer to the problem.
   We can identify the coins, by their texture.
   We can't do this with paper currency.
   That solves the problems with our currency.
   This would help everyone, including us.
   #1.  You can't inflate, or deflate coins.
   #2.  You can't counterfeit coins.
   #3, (Here's the thing that will help blind people,) We can
   identify
   coins by their texture.
   Would there have to be alot of changes made?
   Yes, but is it worth it?
   Yes!
   Blessings, Joshua

   On 6/22/11, Anmol Bhatia <anmolpbhatia at yahoo.com
   wrote:
   Jessica,
   Good point.  In addition, I would much rather a blind
   person to feel mobil
   even if they don't have good mobility skills and
   frankly I would rather have
   audible street lights then to see a blind person get
   killed because they
   could not figure out how the traffic goes.
   Anmol
   I seldom think about my limitations, and they never
   make me sad.  Perhaps
   there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is
   vague, like a breeze
   among flowers.
   Hellen Keller


   --- On Wed, 6/22/11, Jessica <jessmonsilva2003 at sbcglobal.net
   wrote:

   From: Jessica <jessmonsilva2003 at sbcglobal.net
   Subject: Re: [nabs-l] [Nfbnet-members-list] Threw
   Our Eyes interview, Ride
   into History, Race for Independence, Wed.  June 22,
   8:00 pm EDT
   To: "National Association of Blind Students
   mailing list"
   <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
   Date: Wednesday, June 22, 2011, 1:01 PM
   There are certain types of
   intersections where no matter how long you stand
   there and
   listen to traffic you will never hear a good cycle
   so in
   those cases I actually support aps.  Just keep that
   in mind
   when someone talks about every intersection being
   crossable
   by listening to traffic.

   Sent from my iPhone

   On Jun 22, 2011, at 9:57 AM, Kirt Manwaring
   <kirt.crazydude at gmail.com
   wrote:

   Anmol,
   It's a nice thought.  Maybe it'll
   be
   possible, some day.  Never say
   never, ri9ght?
   But here's the thing.  The two
   organizations have evolved two
   separate philosophies and mindsets.  I'm
   doing
   something really bad
   and generalizing.  If anyone who knows
   more than
   I do wants to correct
   me here, feel free.
   The stance the ACB seems to take more
   often than
   not is to make the
   environment more accessible for us.
   This is
   evidenced by their
   support for audible street signals (which
   make a lot
   of sense to me,
   I'm not really convinced one way or the other
   on that
   one yet),
   tactile currency, descriptive movies, the
   provisions
   in the ADA to
   make ATMs accessible, the 21st century
   communications
   act, their
   support for Randolph-Shepherd, universal
   design in
   technology, etc.
   They also use lots of their resources to
   fight
   descrimination, at
   least it seems that way to me.
   The NFB, on the other hand, seems to
   more often
   than not advocate us
   adapting to the environment.  This is
   evidenced
   by the strict
   standards of training centers, pushing
   braille,
   opposition to the
   tactile currency idea, advocacy of relying on
   traffic
   rather than
   audible signals (which makes a lot of sense
   to me),
   our philosophy
   that with the right training and opportunity
   we can
   compete on an
   equal footing, the idea of the blind driver
   challenge,
   etc.  Of course
   the NFB sometimes pushes making changes in
   the
   environment (technology
   bill of rights, Help America Vote Act, and
   the ADA
   which we also
   supported), and the ACB does advocate for
   quality
   independence
   training/O&M.  But, those are the
   rough
   philosophies of the two
   organizations, if we're going by their
   records.
   Is the ACB wrong?
   No, I don't think so, but the NFB is more of
   a fit
   with my vision of
   blindness.  I just think thee two
   separate
   methodoligies willkeep us
   from ever uniting as one group...and that's
   ok.
   We all have the
   right, even the obligation to advocate for
   ourselves
   and those we
   represent.  The ACB does it their way,
   we do it
   ours.  Sometimes there
   is overlap, lots of times our philosophies
   take us in
   different
   directions and put us on opposite sides of
   important
   issues.  When our
   aims are the same (or similar), we need to
   work
   together and present a
   united front.  When we are at odds
   (which we
   often are, the two
   organizations really are very different), we
   both have
   the right to
   push our separate agendas and attempt to get
   our
   policies implimented.
   Sometimes they win, sometimes we win, that's
   politics.  We don't have
   to be bitter about it and, on the personal
   level, we
   can still be good
   friends even when our politics are at odds.
   Just my thoughts,
   Kirt

   On 6/22/11, Anmol Bhatia <anmolpbhatia at yahoo.com
   wrote:
   Kirt,
   You bring some vary valid points, and yes
   we have
   beaten the
   democrats/republicans analogy  to
   death but
   it keeps coming up as a
   comparison, so I will just say one thing
   about
   this.  I may have already said
   this before on the list, but please
   furgive me if
   I have.  The blind
   community is a to small of a community to
   be
   divided on partizen lines like
   democrats and republicans, and our
   challenges are
   to great to be divided
   like democrats and republicans.  Sure
   there will be
   differences between
   members of the ACB and members of the NFB
   on how
   business should be
   conducted, but honestly there differences
   between
   members of each
   organization on how their organization
   should do
   business.
   True there were disagreement on how
   business
   should and leadership issues
   causing the split between the NFB and
   ACB, I
   consider the leadership issues
   to be pitty differences.  Often when one
   candidate
   loses, they and their
   supporters go and form their on
   organization or
   chapter.  This happened at my
   local NFB chapter and as a result we have
   two NFB
   chapters in a small town.
   Now some may consider this to be a good
   thing, but
   think about how much more
   we can achieve if we were one NFB chapter
   in
   Fayetteville in recruiting,
   fund raising and my volunteers for
   events.  In
   addition, these types of
   childish arguements causes many blind
   people who
   otherwise may be involved
   in a blind organization to be a "fense
   sitters".
   Now using this analogy  to
   NFB ACB, ACB does not have near the funds
   that NFB
   has, but they are not
   poor eather.  Their attendence is not as
   large at
   the conventions, but it is
   not small eather.  Think if both of these
   organizations were together how
   much more money we would have to do
   policy that
   each organization does or
   the advocacy work that each
   organization
   does, and think about how much
   larger the convention would be.  We would
   pack two
   hotels full or near full.
   In addition, think about how much venders
   would be
   giving out in prizes
   because now insteading having to spend
   money to
   send their workers to two
   convention, they will only have to send
   their
   workers to one convention.  In
   addition, most venders give out big
   prizes at each
   convention and if there
   was only one convention, they can give
   two
   prizes.
   However, you are right in that
   realistically the
   two organizations will not
   merge any time soon.

   best wishes,
   Anmol
   I seldom think about my limitations, and
   they
   never make me sad.  Perhaps
   there is just a touch of yearning at
   times; but it
   is vague, like a breeze
   among flowers.
   Hellen Keller


   --- On Tue, 6/21/11, Kirt Manwaring
   <kirt.crazydude at gmail.com
   wrote:

   From: Kirt Manwaring <kirt.crazydude at gmail.com
   Subject: Re: [nabs-l]
   [Nfbnet-members-list]
   Threw Our Eyes interview, Ride
   into History, Race for Independence,
   Wed.  June
   22, 8:00 pm EDT
   To: "National Association of Blind
   Students
   mailing list"
   <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
   Date: Tuesday, June 21, 2011, 2:51
   PM
   Anmol,
   I don't really see a
   merger
   happening any time soon,
   nor would I
   want it to.  We've all beaten
   the
   democrat/republican
   analogy to
   death...but imagine Barack Obama and
   Mitt
   Romney in the
   same political
   party.  It just wouldn't work.
   There are huge
   differences.  It
   doesn't make the NFB better for
   everyone, but
   it makes the
   NFB better
   for me.  I have lots of respect
   for my
   friends in the
   ACB who stand up
   and fight for their agenda.
   Lots of the
   times, it's
   the same as mine.
   When it's not, we can talk without
   being
   jackasses to each
   other and,
   in a lot of cases, the disagreement
   actually
   strengthens
   our
   friendship.
   I say diversity is
   good,
   competition is good, we
   need a free market
   of ideas.  I respect ACB and the
   sincere
   people there
   trying to make
   the lives of blind people
   better.  I
   happen to find
   the Federation
   philosophy and method more meaningful
   for
   me.  I want
   to understand
   the split.  From the little bit
   of
   studying I've done,
   I don't really
   think it was petty personal
   differences but
   rather
   differing
   philosophies about methodology and
   leadership
   that drove
   the two
   groups to separate.  We can be
   different
   without being
   petty.  We can
   disagree without being bigots.
   When our
   two
   organizations come down
   on opposite sides of important
   issues, as we
   often do, we
   need not be
   arrogant or self-rightious because we
   think
   we're
   right.  The fact is,
   we disagree.  And I think the
   disagreements are too
   central to our
   respective organizations for us to
   ever become
   one.
   But that doesn't
   mean we can't be friends, especially
   on a
   personal level.
   Best,
   Kirt

   On 6/21/11, Anmol Bhatia <anmolpbhatia at yahoo.com
   wrote:
   Kirt,
   You are bringing up some vary
   good
   points...
   Understanding the history of
   the NFB and ACB is an import part
   in the
   history in
   the blind movement and
   an important part in the history
   of two
   organizations.
   Frankly in it is just
   my oppinion both organizations
   bring value
   and have
   and continue to make a
   difference for blind people
   across America
   on a daily
   bases.  It is a shame
   that this split happened and just
   maybe
   the next
   generation of blind
   individuals our generation or
   those who
   are younger
   then can bring the two
   organizations together once
   again.  Now
   this is just my
   translation and my
   oppinion, but  it seems to
   me that
   the NFB ACB
   split happened over pitty
   differences and two individuals
   with
   different ideas
   fighting for power.  It
   seems to me that the hate the
   two
   organizations have
   towards each other is
   not as strong amongest this
   generation.
   Infact many
   members of NABS of ACB
   and NABS of NFB are friends in
   life and
   attack on the
   other organization is
   usually not
   allow on each
   organization's mailing
   list.
   Dave, you are right that ACB does
   not have
   the same
   amount of people
   attending its' convention, but
   their
   attendence is not
   small eather.  I would
   guess 1500 attend the ACB
   convention and
   all the major
   venders who attend
   the NFB convention attend the
   ACB
   convention.  There
   are also quite a few
   young people who attend the ACB
   convention.
   Yes ACB does its' business
   different then
   NFB, but
   thats why they are a
   different organization.  However,
   this does
   not make
   them any worse or better
   then the NFB.
   Just my thoughts and it would be
   great if
   we keep the
   attacks on each
   organization to as less as
   possible.

   Anmol


   I seldom think about my
   limitations, and
   they never
   make me sad.  Perhaps
   there is just a touch of yearning
   at
   times; but it is
   vague, like a breeze
   among flowers.
   Hellen Keller


   --- On Tue, 6/21/11, Kirt
   Manwaring <kirt.crazydude at gmail.com
   wrote:

   From: Kirt Manwaring <kirt.crazydude at gmail.com
   Subject: Re: [nabs-l]
   [Nfbnet-members-list] Threw
   Our Eyes interview, Ride
   into History, Race for
   Independence,
   Wed.  June 22,
   8:00 pm EDT
   To: "National Association of
   Blind
   Students
   mailing list"
   <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
   Date: Tuesday, June 21, 2011,
   12:25
   PM
   Dave,
   How long ago
   was
   this?  Things could've
   changed
   since you last went
   if it's been a while, maybe?
   And, with respect,
   this
   is a big deal to
   a lot of us.  I know for
   me it's
   a lot more than
   a
   "small
   consideration", I like to
   know the
   past as much as
   I can
   because it
   shaped the here and
   now.  I can
   read the books
   put out
   by each
   organization-they probably
   both have
   lots of the
   truth
   intermingled
   with their respective
   agendas.
   But nothing
   beats
   talking to people
   who have studied the issues
   or,
   preferably, people
   who were
   actually
   there.
   All the
   best,
   Kirt

   On 6/21/11, David Andrews
   <dandrews at visi.com
   wrote:
   The two biggest things I
   noticed
   at an ACB
   national
   convention were
   that the crowd was
   considerably
   smaller than
   that at a
   NFB convention
   -- less exhibits etc.
   too.
   The second
   things was
   that there were few
   young persons -- some
   but
   noticeably not
   very
   many.  One of the major
   things that the ACB has
   pushed in
   the past is
   that it
   is different
   from the NFB, it does
   things
   differently
   etc.
   This doesn't really
   matter to younger people
   though,
   so they have
   little
   reason to join, so
   don't.

   You guys can spend lots
   of time on
   the
   history, and
   differences if
   you want -- but what is
   the
   point.  It
   happened,
   it is over with and
   done.  Yes we can
   and should
   learn from our
   history, but it is just
   one small consideration.

   Dave

   At 11:32 AM 6/20/2011,
   you wrote:
   Dave,
    I do see
   your
   point.  Those
   alive at the time are not,
   and will
   probabluy never be
   friends.  Heck,
   getting
   them to actually talk in
   peace would be the
   achievement
   of the
   century!   if
   such a
   call were
   to hypothetically
   happen, how
   could we
   keep it from
   opening old wounds
   and stoking old
   fires?
    Best,
   Kirt

   On 6/20/11, Chris
   Nusbaum
   <dotkid.nusbaum at gmail.com
   wrote:
   Dave,

   Our joint
   conference call
   isn't
   associated
   whatsoever with the
   proposition of a
   change in
   the NFB
   bylaw.  If I'm setting
   this
   up, which it
   appears I am,
   I didn't
   even have
   the intention of
   mentioning that
   proposition on the
   call.  The call's
   purpose is
   to learn the
   history of
   the NFB/ACB,
   with a
   little emphasis on
   the "civil war"
   period,
   from both
   sides so we
   are informed.  I
   also want this
   call to
   start a
   discussion on
   the history of our
   movement and what
   we can
   learn from
   it, not
   only as
   Federationists,
   but as
   blind
   students.
   Jorge and I have found
   some ways that we
   can hold
   the call
   without
   making it a NABS
   membership call,
   if it is
   entirely
   necessary.  And as to
   your
   comments about
   them not
   being our
   friends,
   then using your
   argument, the
   Republicans
   should not
   hear the
   Democrats point of
   view in meetings
   of
   Congress, but
   the two
   parties should be
   separated from
   each other
   for fear
   of their
   own side being
   attacked.
   We can
   keep our same
   opinions, and probably many
   Federationists
   and Council
   members
   who attend
   this call will.
   This is just a
   way that we
   can be
   more
   informed when forming
   these opinions.


   Chris

   "A loss of sight,
   never a
   loss of
   vision!"
   (Camp Abilities motto)
   To learn more
   about Camp
   Abilities
   and find a
   local camp near
   you, just click
   on this
   link to
   their
   national Web site:

   www.campabilities.org.

   The I C.A.N.
   Foundation helps
   visually
   impaired youth in
   Maryland have the
   ability
   to
   confidently say
   "I can!" How? Click
   on this link to
   learn more
   and to
   contribute:

   www.icanfoundation.info.


   Sent from
   my BrailleNote


   -----
   Original Message -----
   From: David
   Andrews <dandrews at visi.com
   To: National
   Association
   of Blind
   Students
   mailing list
   <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
   Date sent: Sun,
   19 Jun
   2011 20:39:01
   -0500
   Subject: Re:
   [nabs-l]
   [Nfbnet-members-list]
   Threw Our Eyes
   interview,Ride
   into
   History, Race
   for
   Independence, Wed.
   June
   22, 8:00 pm EDT

   Chris:

   I don't want to
   friend
   anyone -- but
   I think
   this is a terrible
   idea!
   Remember the
   ACB split off
   from
   the NFB because they
   thought
   that we were all
   wrong,
   did our
   business in
   the wrong way etc.  I
   am
   not going to say
   that we
   can't learn
   anything
   from the ACB, but
   not a
   history
   lesson.  I
   was at a ACb
   National
   Convention a few years
   ago
   -- and heard the
   NFB
   attacked openly
   and
   indirectly.  These
   folks
   are
   not our
   friends.  We
   can work
   jointly at
   times, and should, and I
   don't think we
   should be
   against
   them, for
   the sake of it, as
   some of
   my old-timer
   friends are
   -- but a
   joint
   conference call on
   consideration of
   a change
   to a NFB
   division
   bylaw is going to
   far!

   Dave

   At 12:53 PM
   6/19/2011, you
   wrote:
   Kirt,

   I have a friend
   in the
   Council that
   I will
   see Monday night, so I
   plan to give this
   idea to
   him and
   ask if he
   knows someone in the
   Council that
   would be
   knowledgeable
   enough
   and willing to attend
   this call on
   behalf of the
   Council
   as an
   expert on their history.
   Maybe it would be
   better
   if someone
   like me
   moderated.  Keep in
   mind
   that I did
   volunteer, but
   I'm not
   degrading
   anyone else, I'm just
   using myself as
   an example
   here.
   I'm a
   member of the Federation,
   but I'm not a
   hard-line
   "NFB is
   good, ACB
   bad" person, so I
   wouldn't
   show any bias to
   NFB or
   ACB.  I
   also am
   not currently a
   contributing
   (due-paying)
   member of
   NABS, so I'm
   not a
   leader in it of
   course.
   That way, we
   wouldn't have
   any
   bias.
   I think it would
   be easy
   to have it
   jointly
   attended even if it's
   an
   official NABS
   call.
   If we have a
   representative of ACB on the
   call,
   we could probably
   easily
   get other
   members of
   ACB on the call to
   kind of back up
   or add to
   that
   guest
   speaker's information.
   Thoughts?

   Chris

   "A loss of sight,
   never a
   loss of
   vision!"
   (Camp Abilities motto)
   To learn more
   about Camp
   Abilities
   and find a
   local camp near
   you,
   just click on
   this link to
   their
   national Web
   site:

   www.campabilities.org.

   The I C.A.N.
   Foundation helps
   visually
   impaired youth in
   Maryland
   have the ability
   to
   confidently say
   "I can!"
   How? Click on this
   link
   to learn more and
   to
   contribute:
   www.icanfoundation.info.

   Sent from my
   BrailleNote

   ----- Original
   Message
   -----
   From: Kirt
   Manwaring
   <kirt.crazydude at gmail.com
   To: National
   Association
   of Blind
   Students
   mailing list
   <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
   Date sent: Sun,
   19 Jun
   2011 00:45:08
   -0600
   Subject: Re:
   [nabs-l]
   [Nfbnet-members-list]
   Threw Our Eyes
   interview,Ride
   into
   History, Race
   for
   Independence, Wed.
   June
   22, 8:00 pm EDT

   Carley,
    The
   two
   organizations don't
   really claim to be "friends"
   as
   such-it
   seems like now
   they just
   mostly
   ignore each
   other, work jointly
   when
   their agendas
   converge and
   play
   politics when
   they don't.  Maybe
   they
   aren't enemies,
   but the
   official
   organizations don't really
   advertise
   themselves as
   friends.

   While it
   would be great to
   have people from both
   organizations
   participate in a
   joint
   call, I don't
   see it
   happening.  Here's
   hoping
   though, I
   guess  It's
   certainly a
   nice
   thought-although, if the
   call
   were to have
   presentations
   from
   members of
   both organizations, it
   probably should
   be jointly
   moderated
   and
   attended.  The NFB (or
   probably even
   NABS) would,
   I'm
   betting, not
   be inclined to go
   there.
   So maybe we'll
   have better
   luck
   going through
   unnoficial channels
   and
   setting this up
   on our
   own?  No
   need to
   make it an official event
   for
   either the
   Federation or
   the
   Council-I think
   it's safe to say
   that
   idea was doomed
   to fail
   before it
   was brought
   up.

   Best,
   Kirt

   On 6/18/11, Chris
   Nusbaum
   <dotkid.nusbaum at gmail.com
   wrote:
   And, as I said
   before, I
   would be
   very
   willing to moderate this
   call.
   Please keep me
   posted!


   Chris

   "A loss of sight,
   never a
   loss of
   vision!"
   (Camp Abilities motto)
   To learn more
   about Camp
   Abilities
   and find a
   local camp near
   you, just click
   on this
   link to
   their
   national Web site:

   www.campabilities.org.

   The I C.A.N.
   Foundation helps
   visually
   impaired youth in
   Maryland have the
   ability
   to
   confidently say
   "I can!" How? Click
   on this link to
   learn more
   and to
   contribute:

   www.icanfoundation.info.

    Sent
   from my
   BrailleNote


   -----
   Original Message
   -----
   From: Ignasi
   Cambra <ignasicambra at gmail.com
   To: National
   Association
   of Blind
   Students
   mailing list
   <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
   Date sent: Sat,
   18 Jun
   2011 18:51:04
   -0400
   Subject: Re:
   [nabs-l]
   [Nfbnet-members-list]
   Threw Our Eyes
   interview,Ride
   into
   History, Race
   for
   Independence, Wed.
   June
   22, 8:00 pm EDT

   This call would
   be very
   interesting
   indeed.  If
   representatives
   from both
   organizations
   are willing
   to
   participate, it can really
   be productive in
   many
   ways.
   On Jun 18, 2011,
   at 1:46
   PM, Carly
   Mihalakis
   wrote:



    Good
   morning,
   list,

    A
   few days
   ago, someone on
   the NABS list  suggested
   a
   conference
   call bringing
   clarity to a
   younger
   generation.  What,
   exactly, is
   the history of
   the
   ideological
   parting of
   ways, between the
   Federation and
   the
   Council? Does
   anybody know
   today, the history
   of this division
   or is it
   a product
   of sheer
   habit as is the case
   with Republicans
   and
   Democrats? If
   such a
   meeting of both
   entities were to
   take
   place, There
   ought to
   be representation of
   both
   organizations
   so that a
   wholistic
   portrait of this issue
   can be
   exercised.

    and
   its split
   from the
   ACB.  This seems like a
   productive and
   enlightening
   discussion
   but I
   wonder, if the
   Federation and the
   council claim to
   be
   friends, should
   there not
   be representation
   from
   both   sides, identifying
   their position and
   whereabouts
   they stand, in
   this? At
    ----
   Original
   Message
   ------

   From: "Joe
   Ruffalo" <nfbnj at yahoo.com
   (by way of David
   Andrews<dandrews at visi.com>)

   Subject:
   [Nfbnet-members-list] Thru
   Our Eyes
   interview,
   Ride
   into History,Race
   for
   Independence,
   Wed.  June 22, 8:00 pm
   EDT
    Date
   sent:
   Fri, 17 Jun 2011
   19:26:45 -0500


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