[stylist] NFb Chapter Name

Tue Feb 17 14:03:22 UTC 2009

Cool, I'm with River City. 

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Behalf Of Shelley J. Alongi
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 8:28 PM
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Orange County chapter.
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updated Dec 7, 2008
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From: "Angela fowler" <fowlers at syix.com>
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> Shellie, which chapter do you belong too? Just curious.
>
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> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Shelley J. Alongi
> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 7:54 PM
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> HI Robert, Thank for putting my response up on the web site. I did not get
> President's Day off. I worked it an eight hour shift at double time. I'll
> take that, chuckles. It's raining crazy here, we had a little break we're
> supposed to get more rain tonight. I got rained on during the commute to
> work but not the commute home. I had a nice weekend I went to my NFB 
> chapter
> meeting on Saturday for the first time in almost a year and then worked on

> a
> transcript for pay on Saturday night. Sunday I took some friends to Disney
> Land. Now I'm working on transcripts again should have them finished by
> Friday. I'll be working on having that great week.
> Shelley J. Alongi
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> http://www.pamperedchef.biz/shellbellskit
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> updated Dec 7, 2008
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> From: "Robert Newman" <newmanrl at cox.net>
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> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 7:17 PM
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>
>
>> Shelley
>>
>> Hi, hope you have had a good 3 day weekend? Did you get Presidents day
>> off?
>>
>> I'm putting your response to my latest TP up tonight. The stylist group
>> were
>> the first to write their take on my latest TP and so those messages were
>> at
>> the bottom of the cue.
>>
>> Have a good week!
>>
>>
>>
>> Robert Leslie Newman
>> Email- newmanrl at cox.net
>> THOUGHT PROVOKER Website-
>> Http://www.thoughtprovoker.info
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Shelley J. Alongi
>> Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 2:26 PM
>> To: NFBnet Writer's Division Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [stylist] New THOUGHT PROVOKER 142- Literacy Nightmare
>>
>> when I was in elementary school I had to spell out words using both
>> contractions and grade one Braille. Where I work now for disney there are
>> several blind people. Two of us use Braille writers, I use mine more
>> extensively than the other lady. I use mine to write notes, covering 
>> pages
>> and pages with all the guest details so I don't have to rely on my
>> overstretched memory. I do calculations with it when it's faster to use
>> the
>> Braille and add up the coluns line by line. At least four other blind
>> people
>> use electronic Braille notetakers with Braille displays. One blind 
>> person,
>> the one who got me the job or reccommended it to me does not know 
>> Braille.
>
>> I
>> don't know how she takes her notes. I always have a slate and stylus 
>> handy
>> in my purse, my bag, my desk. We get lots of brochures from travel 
>> vendors
>> at work and I label them. If I don't I toss them out because I don't want
>> to
>> take the time to sort through them. There is Braille on our time clock 
>> and
>> Braille on the drawers int the kitchen at work that hold napkins and
>> utencils. My biggest beef is they won't label the coffee maker because
>> they
>> dont' want cast members operating it. They operate it all the time. I 
>> push
>> that issue with them. I'm getting ready to push the issue of access to
>> brochures since the blind workers will start booking packages soon. it's
>> funny I brought my Braile writer to work to label bingo cards or to help
>> make one since our team plays booking bingo. I don't know why I didn't
>> bring
>> it two years ago when I gotthe the job. I thought the computer was
>> adequate,
>> I guess. Our training pushed the idea of writing notes. everyone else 
>> uses
>> pen and paper now I'm using Braille ninety-five percent of the time.
>> Shelley J. Alongi
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>> Chef
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>> updated Dec 7, 2008
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Aziza C" <daydreamingncolor at gmail.com>
>> To: "NFBnet Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 10:40 AM
>> Subject: Re: [stylist] New THOUGHT PROVOKER 142- Literacy Nightmare
>>
>>
>>> My spelling was horrible because I relied on contractions. So, my
>>> TVI's when I was younger started testing me on both, braille/spelling
>>> tests. I don't know when I finally figured out the difference, but I
>>> struggled as a kid.
>>>
>>> On 2/8/09, Angela fowler <fowlers at syix.com> wrote:
>>>> I learned Braille when I was a kid, at the same time sighted kids learn
>>>> to
>>>> read print. Its ingrained in my memory, I will always be able to read.
>>>> I'm
>>>> not the fastest reader in the world, however, and I'm an awful speller
>>>> because I have always been mostly dependent on computers and audio 
>>>> tapes
>>>> to
>>>> access information. It is no accident that for the brief time I was at
>>>> the
>>>> Colorado Center for the Blind my Braille skills improved dramatically. 
>>>> I
>>>> had
>>>> a Braille class every day after all, and I also commandeered the
>>>> refreshable
>>>> Braille display as often as I could. My spelling improved too. Now that
>>>> I'm
>>>> in college, and dependant more on audio, that has all gone down hill.
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>>>> Behalf Of Robert Newman
>>>> Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 10:00 AM
>>>> To: 'NFBnet Writer's Division Mailing List'
>>>> Subject: [stylist] New THOUGHT PROVOKER 142- Literacy Nightmare
>>>>
>>>> Fellow Writers
>>>> RE:  Literacy Nightmare
>>>>
>>>> This is my newest THOUGHT PROVOKER. It asks educators, who are not
>>>> supporters of Braille, a question that I have always wanted to ask. If
>>>> you
>>>> have not read the PROVOKER, it follows.  Recall that I collect 
>>>> responses
>>>> and
>>>> post them upon my web site for all the WWW to read and learn from and
>>>> that
>>>> URL is- Http://thoughtprovoker.info <http://thoughtprovoker.info/>   If
>>>> you
>>>> wish to receive THOUGHT PROVOKERS sent directly to you, just write me
>>>> and
>>>> ask, at-  newmanrl at cox.net
>>>>
>>>> THOUGHT PROVOKER 142
>>>> Literacy Nightmare
>>>>
>>>> "Give Our Children Literacy! Give Our Children Print!" chanted the
>>>> crowd.
>>>>
>>>> "This is CNN and this is the scene outside Central Elementary School.
>>>> These
>>>> parents are angry and dramatically sending their message to the 
>>>> teachers
>>>> of
>>>> this school and to the State Department of Education." The camera's 
>>>> lens
>>>> shows the front of a school.  A mass of people march back and forth 
>>>> the
>>>> length of the block, waving large labeled placards.
>>>>
>>>> WOMP, WOMP, WOMP! The sound of a helicopter is heard over the audio and
>>>> the
>>>> view zooms up to an aerial shot.  We are looking down from a 
>>>> significant
>>>> height to a view of the school's entire property, which is surrounded 
>>>> by
>>>> a
>>>> shoulder-to-shoulder phalanx of adults. The focus sharpens to the
>>>> teacher's
>>>> parking lot, where police officers negotiate with parents blocking the
>>>> driveway to not allow the drivers of cars penned inside to leave.
>>>>
>>>> The news anchor's face again fills the screen. "You've viewed the 
>>>> scene,
>>>> read the placards, and heard the chants. Now walk with me into this
>>>> throng
>>>> and we will learn the specifics of what this is all about.
>>>>
>>>> "Miss, pardon me." The anchor thrust the microphone at a woman waving a
>>>> placard labeled LITERACY NOW. "Could you tell our viewers what this
>>>> demonstration is about?"
>>>>
>>>> "Literacy! An efficient method of reading and writing. Our children are
>>>> being denied this right."
>>>>
>>>> Seeing the camera, marchers crowd in.
>>>>
>>>>  "My daughter gets one hour of teaching per week to learn to read!"
>>>>
>>>> The man behind her shouts out, "The teacher who instructs my son to 
>>>> read
>>>> and
>>>> write is not certified."
>>>>
>>>> A man in a business suit edges in front of the mike, "They tell us that
>>>> with
>>>> the increasing development of technology, computers reading aloud to us
>>>> is
>>>> good enough.  Good enough!"
>>>>
>>>> The first mother grabs the mike, "In my daughter's class they turned 
>>>> off
>>>> the
>>>> computer monitors!"
>>>>
>>>> "M'am, are you reporting the students are being denied seeing what is
>>>> being
>>>> displayed upon the screen?" asked the shocked anchor.
>>>>
>>>> "Not exactly." interjected another marcher. "My daughter tells me they
>>>> allow
>>>> it to be switched on, but it's out of focus. She comes home with a
>>>> headache."
>>>>
>>>> A man's face fills the screen. "My son tells me, in his class they have
>>>> the
>>>> font programmed to either enlarge up to a ridiculous size, forcing you
>>>> to
>>>> scroll and scroll to read, or the text is so tiny you have to stick 
>>>> your
>>>> nose up to the screen like you are smelling it." With a dramatic 
>>>> gesture
>>>> he
>>>> thrusts forward a sheath of papers. "It goes beyond the computer. Look
>>>> at
>>>> these hardcopy handouts."
>>>>
>>>> First showing what appears to be a worksheet, but is so light in
>>>> contrast
>>>> that its nature is questionable. The second is in very tiny print. A
>>>> third
>>>> is several pages stapled together and is in gigantic bold letters. 
>>>> "They
>>>> tell us it allows our child to function in the print world. But I ask
>>>> you,
>>>> is this adequate in terms of being competitive?"
>>>>
>>>> Another female voice gets the anchor's attention. "Oh, and the books,
>>>> too!
>>>> They are either very large volumes that the average student refuses to
>>>> use
>>>> or they are audio!"
>>>>
>>>>  "Miss, for the sake of the viewers who have just tuned in, could you
>>>> clarify the major point of what your group claims is happening here?"
>>>>
>>>> The most efficient method of reading and writing is being withheld from
>>>> our
>>>> children! They say print is becoming obsolete. Literacy for our 
>>>> children
>>>> is
>>>> being greatly restricted and we are not going to allow it anymore."
>>>>
>>>> The face of the anchor again fills the screen as he gives his closing.
>>>> "Is
>>>> the strongest method for reading and writing for these children being
>>>> systematically taken away? Is literacy being threatened here in this
>>>> school
>>>> system? These parents think so and when you take away the student's
>>>> strongest method of literacy, what do we expect will happen?  This is
>>>> CNN
>>>> action news."  And the screen faded to a last view of the angry,
>>>> marching
>>>> parents.
>>>>
>>>> "AAAHHH!" Marlene, a sighted teacher of blind/VI children, sat bolt
>>>> upright
>>>> in bed, hand to her head. "Oh my God, that was a nightmare! Where did
>>>> that
>>>> come from?" Yesterday's memory of running into Brad, a former VI 
>>>> student
>>>> came to mind. "
>>>>
>>>> Brad had been almost bitter when he said, "I should have learnt Braille
>>>> in
>>>> elementary school; it would have been more efficient for me than print.
>>>> Ever think what parents of normally sighted kids would do if you didn't
>>>> teach their children the most efficient method for reading and 
>>>> writing?"
>>>> He
>>>> said he was learning Braille now as a college student.
>>>>
>>>> Marlene flashed back to the scenes in her nightmare. Surely Brad was 
>>>> the
>>>> exception?  It was just a nightmare, not reality. Surely?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Robert Leslie Newman
>>>> Email- newmanrl at cox.net
>>>> THOUGHT PROVOKER Website-
>>>> Http://www.thoughtprovoker.info
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