[Nfbc-info] NFBC-Info Digest, Vol 147, Issue 18
Jordan Mirander
jordanmirander at icloud.com
Wed Aug 23 13:29:05 UTC 2017
Hello cricket bittleman,
What is the dial in information for for the nabs membership call? Unfortunately, I am more available at 5 o'clock this Sunday then I am. on September 3 as I may be going to UCLA Bruins football game
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> 1. Study: Interactions with Healthcare Providers Follow-up
> (nancy Lynn)
> 2. San Francisco: the "Patient No More" audio description tour
> is this Thursday geared toward blind and low vision visitors
> (Jim Barbour)
> 3. Longer Article about the MCB Eclipse Event (nancy Lynn)
> 4. CABS Call Update (Cricket X. Bidleman)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 13:45:17 -0500
> From: "nancy Lynn" <seabreeze.stl at gmail.com>
> To: "mcb chat" <chat at moblind.org>, "nfbmo list" <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>,
> "NFBC List" <nfbc-info at nfbnet.org>, "Seniors"
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> Subject: [Nfbc-info] Study: Interactions with Healthcare Providers
> Follow-up
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> I?ve been asked to share the following information. Please write to the email address in the message and not to me. Thanks muchly.
> Hello,
>
> My name is Carmel and i am a research assistant with the Judgement and Decision Making Lab at the University of Texas at El Paso. In about a month the Judgement and Decision Making Lab will be conducting a study in the form of a questionnaire. The PI is a blind doctoral candidate conducting her dissertation research. We will be looking at blind and low vision adults and their experiences with healthcare providers (i.e doctors, pharmacy technicians, health insurance agents). All participants will be entered into a drawing to win an Amazon gift card. If you qualify for this study and are interested please contact the Judgement and Decision Making Lab via email at utep.psyc.hcd at gmail or via phone at 915 747 8659. If you know of anyone that
>
> qualifies and would be interested please share this message with them.
>
> Thank you for your interest.
>
> Best,
>
> Carmel
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>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 14:36:12 -0700
> From: Jim Barbour <jbar at barcore.com>
> To: nfbc-info at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [Nfbc-info] San Francisco: the "Patient No More" audio
> description tour is this Thursday geared toward blind and low vision
> visitors
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> ----- Forwarded message from Laura Millar <LMillar at lighthouse-sf.org> -----
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> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 18:10:56 +0000
> From: Laura Millar
> Subject: Please help publicize the final "Patient No More" audio description tour this Thursday for blind and low vision visitors
>
> Hello All,
>
> The "Patient No More" exhibit about the dramatic month-long occupation of San Francisco's Federal Building by over 150 people with disabilities and their allies will close on September 3. Join Catherine Kudlick, the exhibit's creator (and visually impaired herself) for a tour geared specifically to blind and low-vision visitors. Learn about the history and the many decisions that went into creating an exhibit designed to be accessible to more than the usual suspects.
>
>
> Date: August 24 at 5:30 PM
>
> Place: San Francisco Main Public Library, 100 Larkin Street (at Grove), Skylight Gallery (6th floor) Free and open to all
>
> I personally found the exhibit so inspiring, and was excited to learn
> more about disability rights and the passing of the ADA! So if you
> have a chance go check it out.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Laura
>
>
>
> Laura Millar
> Sexual Health Services Program Coordinator
> (415) 694-7345
> LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired
> 1155 Market Street, 10th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94103
>
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 18:29:19 -0500
> From: "nancy Lynn" <seabreeze.stl at gmail.com>
> To: "nfbmo list" <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>, "NFBC List"
> <nfbc-info at nfbnet.org>, "Seniors" <NFBNJ-Seniors at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: [Nfbc-info] Longer Article about the MCB Eclipse Event
> Message-ID: <6BCCE952E9D24FFAA39F63AF1C46054B at nancyPC>
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> Metro
> With help of memories, imagination and narration, the visually impaired
> enjoy
> the eclipse
>
> By Doug Moore St. Louis Post-Dispatch
> + 22 hrs ago
> Council of the Blind eclipse
> Bill Wilcox, a volunteer with MindsEye, describes the eclipse at the
> Missouri
> Council of the Blind in south St. Louis.
> Eclipse description for the blind
>
> John Weidlich, a longtime Belleville radio personality listens to an audio
> description of the total solar eclipse outside the Missouri Council of the
> Blind
> office on Aug. 21, 2017. Bill Wilcox, a trained audio describer and
> volunteer
> with MindsEye, gave people a play-by-play of the The Great American Eclipse.
> Photo by Rene Delgadillo/Post-Disatc
>
> Eclipse description for the blind
>
> Leonard Gross, listens to an audio description of the total solar eclipse
> outside the Missouri Council of the Blind office on Aug. 21, 2017. Bill
> Wilcox,
> a trained audio describer and volunteer with MindsEye, gave people a
> play-by-play of the The Great American Eclipse. Photo by Rene
> Delgadillo/Post-Disatc
>
> ST. LOUIS ? An hour before totality, Naomi Soule arrived at the eclipse
> party
> Monday with the help of her dog, Farbee.
>
> "Who's at this table?" she said, working the community room of the Missouri
> Council of the Blind in south St. Louis.
>
> Soule, 61, was ready to experience the eclipse, although she would not be
> able
> to see it. Instead, she would join about 25 other visually impaired and
> blind
> people for a "watch and listen" party.
>
> The majority of those attending wore headsets as Bill Wilcox, a volunteer
> with
> MindsEye, shared trivia about the eclipse, then did a play-by-play of the
> action
> in the sky.
>
> newsinconebyone
> How did people experience the eclipse if they're blind?
> St. Louis Post-Dispatch
>
> "The moon is continuing to slide across the sun," Wilcox said, standing on
> the
> council's small asphalt parking lot, his voice streaming through MindsEye's
> website and live on Facebook. "It's now a fairly small crescent. Still kind
> of
> an orange and peachy color, which is kind of cool."
>
> Soule grew up with some sight in her right eye. But in college, the retina
> detached, leaving her completely blind. So she planned to use recollections,
> imagination and the descriptions by Wilcox to experience the eclipse.
>
> Inside the Post-Dispatch - Experience the eclipse through an audio
> description
>
> "I have good visual memory," she said.
>
> About half of those who attended opted to stay inside, where they could
> listen
> to Wilcox and enjoy the air conditioning.
>
> Chuck Smith, 53, has limited vision, good enough to see the eclipse through
> the
> special glasses passed out to safeguard eyes but not well enough to make out
> details of a face.
>
> "My brother called to tell me about this event and asked if I wanted to
> come. I
> told him: 'I'm not going to go and look directly at the sun or I'll go
> blind.' I
> was being a smart ass," said Smith, of Crestwood. He came to the party with
> his
> life partner, Janet Shobe, 58, who opted to stay inside during the eclipse.
> Diabetes took her sight about nine years ago. Still, she said it was worth
> attending.
>
> "The description was perfect," Shobe said, as she and others ate Ted Drewes
> custard as an after-eclipse dessert. "It was amazing," Smith said. "I
> thought it
> would be darker. It was more like twilight, which I thought was neat."
>
> Jack Meier, 67, came to St. Louis from Fresno, Calif. to experience the
> eclipse
> with his longtime friend, Nancy Lynn, 64. It was well worth the trip, he
> said.
>
> "It was really something," he said. Meier, who has about 10 percent of his
> vision, took photos with a small orange camera while wearing a St. Louis
> Cardinals cap.
>
> As the moon covered the sun, the street lights came on. Wilcox had to take a
> few
> short breaks in his sports announcer cadence to let an ambulance pass on
> Chippewa Street and a trash truck rumble by in the alley. His audience in
> the
> parking lot didn't seem to mind.
>
> As totality neared, Soule said she could feel the change in the air. "I
> could
> tell the temperature dropped a little bit, the heat of the sun disappeared
> and I
> could hear the cicadas getting louder and louder," Soule said. She said she
> would have liked more descriptions of the colors in the sky. Before she lost
> her
> sight, she was an artist. Hues and contrasts are important details, she
> said.
>
> Soule's husband, Terry Moses, who is sighted, joined her for the event,
> which
> included a fried chicken lunch. But he did not look skyward. Although the
> glasses given out were certified as safe, Moses said he was too scared to
> partake, worried that even a glance or two at the sun could damage his
> vision.
> But he wanted to be by his wife as she experienced the eclipse. "I'm glad I
> did
> it for her."
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 20:04:07 -0700
> From: "Cricket X. Bidleman" <cricketbidleman at gmail.com>
> To: NFB of California List <nfbc-info at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: [Nfbc-info] CABS Call Update
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> Hello,
>
> Firstly, I'd like to apologize for the short notice. The California
> Association of Blind Students will still be having our back-to-school
> membership call. However, since the NABS membership call has been
> scheduled for Sunday at 5:00 PM Pacific (8:00 PM Eastern), the date of
> the CABS call has been necessarily changed. I apologize for my lack of
> communication beforehand. In the future, I will be sure that this kind
> of conflict does not happen. The new date is Sunday, September 03,
> 2017, and the time is still 5:00 PM Pacific. All are welcome, and the
> discussion topics are still the same--anything and everything relevant
> to the new school year, accommodations, etc. If you can't join us,
> please share this page with your friends. Thank you for helping us
> change what it means to be blind.
>
> Date: Sunday, September 03, 2017
> Time: 5:00 PST
> Call-in Number: (515) 739-1031
> Access code: 958093
>
>
> https://www.facebook.com/events/723088997878220/
>
> All the best,
> Cricket X. Bidleman
> Stanford University, Class of '21
> NCS Pearson, Associate Quality Assurance Engineer
>
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