[Social-sciences-list] Schedule A hiring Authority

Tue Aug 6 18:52:52 UTC 2013

   I am also remorseful for the wasted potential for war cause it only
serves to destroy not to create anything. For example, my ancestors
are native american and lived threw the Trail of Tears that was ethnic
cleansing in the U.S. For as long as irrationality determines policy
or justifies opression without objectivity that these things will keep
occuring for a indeterminant ending cause war is blooming in Syria,
North Korea and perhaps Venezula just never know about these sorts of
things.

On 8/6/13, Gabias, Paul <paul.gabias at ubc.ca> wrote:
> Hi Vincent,
>
> I'm so sorry about your brother!!!  If I were good with emoticons, I'd
> insert  a sad face here.  So, just hear a sad voice and a sad heart. You
> are right:  "If we did not have useless wars, we would not have so many
> messed up Veterans."  But war is an industry with industrial human fall
> out, and there is reason to cry over the spilt milk. It calls out for
> the milk of human kindness in preventing these atrocities.
>
> All The Best
>
> Paul Gabias
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Martin
> Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2013 9:43 AM
> To: 'Blind Social Scientists List'
> Subject: Re: [Social-sciences-list] Schedule A hiring Authority
>
> Paul,
> That is it.  The name of this center has changed a little bit.  For
> years,
> the actual name was the Center of Excellence for Aging Veterans with
> Low-vision.  There are actually over ten different Centers of Excellence
> for
> Rehabilitation Research for Veterans in the country.  Others deal with
> hearing and mobility impairments, and anything you can think of that
> deals
> with injured or aging veterans.  Much of it is really related to what
> happens to them as they do age, because the vast majority of veterans
> using
> the VA medical system are over the age of fifty. Centers are funded in
> five
> year cycles and can be closed if the research does not seem to be
> relevant
> anymore.   I know one that dealt with medical prosthetics for the eye
> was
> not renewed last year, as the research did not seem to be going anywhere
> in
> over ten years of existence.
> Research budgets have been steadily shrinking as the Federal government
> shrinks its budget.  If it wasn't for the wars the past decade, there
> would
> be less budget to do research.  Congress rarely adds research dollars to
> the
> budget, unless there is something related to a war!  I could make a heck
> of
> a lot more money in the private sector, but I actually want to do
> research
> and can't get the funding to do so at the level that I want in the
> private
> sector or at the academic level.  I only intend to return to work there,
> because the VA spends more money on blindness related research than any
> other Agency in the world.  They spend more money on assistive
> technology
> than any other Agency in the world.  Most of all, they waste more money
> on
> assistive technology than any other Agency in the world as well!  I
> would
> love to do more research into what actually does assist a person to make
> their life more meaningful.  I would like to see a more Social approach
> to
> the Rehabilitation research process.  This is why I still have been
> actively
> advocating for adding a totally blind researcher with a Social
> Psychological
> background.
> In the past, the primary areas of research were in Gerontology and
> Vision
> loss.  With all the years of research, they finally got the VA to
> understand
> that we really don't actually know how people see!  It is definitely
> much
> more Cognitively related than physically related.  A few years ago, five
> researchers moved from the VA research facility in Florida and added the
> Neurological component to the facility.  Adding in the work that is done
> at
> Emory University and all types of research that deals with the things
> related to vision loss are researched.  Dr. Krish Sathian, who is the
> director and who used to just be the Medical director is a renowned
> Neurologist at Emory University and does all types of research related
> to
> blindness and haptic.  John Sanford, who is also the director of the
> Center
> for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access at Georgia Tech, is
> one of
> the nine individuals that created the Universal Design Principles.  He
> has
> degrees in Psychology and in Architecture!  There are currently two
> legally
> blind researchers on staff as well.  I especially love Dr. Madeleine
> Hackney's research into how dance and balance are related, especially
> with
> people that are aging.  She is actually a former Broadway dancer who
> completed her Ph.D. at the University of Washington in St. Louis in just
> four years.  My former supervisor and mentor has degrees in Electrical
> Engineering and in Education.  It was his work with blind researchers
> that
> got him interested in this area about forty years ago.
>
> I will download that book and try and read it before school starts next
> week.  I have a brother that is a decorated Army Ranger from Dessert
> Storm
> who is considered 100 percent disabled.  He still thinks he got gassed
> in
> Iraq back in 1991.  In high school, he outran Herschel Walker of NFF
> fame
> for the 100 yard state championship in Georgia and now I can outrun him
> backwards and blind.  If we did not have useless wars, we would not have
> so
> many messed up Veterans.  All VA research facilities are associated with
> a
> research University and a VA medical center.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Social-sciences-list
> [mailto:social-sciences-list-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On Behalf Of Gabias, Paul
> Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2013 8:00 AM
> To: Blind Social Scientists List
> Subject: Re: [Social-sciences-list] Schedule A hiring Authority
>
> Hi
>
> I googled " center for excellence for Visual and Neurological
> Rehabilitation".  That didn't come up precisely but "Center for Visual
> and
> Neurocognitive Rehabilitation" did.  Is that it?
>
> They have an impressive list of publications.  While perusing the list,
> I
> had a terrible image of returning soldiers as research rats, grist for
> the
> research mill.  Science always advances nicely under these conditions.
> There is no need for producing brain lesions and trauma experimentally.
> With sending young people to war, it's government sponsored, it's legal,
> and
> it's somewhat OK.  And there's always all the "glory" that goes along
> with
> winning wars.
> One major way to treat trauma, is to prevent it.  In this effort, I
> teach a
> course on the Evolution of Aggression in Humans.
> One book I use in the course is:
> Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence 1997 by Richard
> Wrangham and Dale Peterson.  It's available from Learning Ally.
>
> All The Best
>
> Paul Gabias
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:social-sciences-list-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Gabias,
> Paul
> Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2013 4:01 AM
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