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

[Carly Mihalakis]

Hi, Kurt,

What's more, my memory, unlike most blinks is excseptionally shity! 
6/26/2011, you wrote:


>Hi, Kurt,
>
>For your information, I was bienucleated as a result of retinal 
>blastoma at age 18 months. Yet, we are all very total and cannot 
>readily identify which bill we happen to be holding, without too 
>much of a production.
>
>It may do you well to remember  that, There is a store of strength 
>if people, in this case totals, can unite as a forward thinking 
>army, with whose strength,  mountains can be pressed forward.
>So, we must get together and begin moving mountains with our unity!
>Car At 02:47 PM 6/26/2011, you wrote:
>>Carley,
>>   I'll agree that the line depends on personal circumstances-I will
>>disagree that the amount of vision is the decisive factor.  I'm
>>totally blind, have been all my life.  I tend to be a little bit more
>>on the Conservative side of these issues-in other words, what many
>>blind people see as a necessity I see as a luxury.  So, at least for
>>me, there's a lot more to it than the amount of vision someone has.  A
>>lot probably has to do with the way we were all raised, our wider
>>political idioligies, the values stressed by our particular religions
>>or belief systems, etc.
>>   Best,
>>Kirt
>>
>>On 6/26/11, Liz Bottner <liziswhatis at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> > I will agree that the iBill works amazingly well.
>> >
>> > Liz Bottner
>> > Guiding Eyes Graduate Council
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>> > e-mail:
>> > liziswhatis at hotmail.com
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>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org 
>> [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
>> > Of David Andrews
>> > Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 11:50 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
>> >
>> > That is your experience -- mine is that the iBill works quite well --
>> > and I think others have found this to be true too.
>> >
>> > Dave
>> >
>> > At 05:08 PM 6/22/2011, you wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >>Hi, Hamberto and all interested folks,
>> >>
>> >>Truth be known, my common law husband and I had the I bill, courtesy
>> >>of rehab but, after repeated attempts to make the thing identify
>> >>paper currency, we ascertained it a genuine piece of shit and is not
>> >>worth anything, so I submit that the manufacturers must be well
>> >>aware of their having themselves a niche market, in blind people and
>> >>the deep pocketed agencies who tend to support them, so are totally
>> >>exploiting it in the manner of any Capitalist aware of the
>> >>exisstance of a small and needy marketplace.
>> >>So, in essence, don't waste your's or rehab's  time with the I bill!
>> >>02:11 PM 6/22/2011, you wrote:
>> >>>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.
>> >
>> >
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