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

Chris Nusbaum dotkid.nusbaum at gmail.com
Thu Jun 23 21:05:56 UTC 2011


You are correct!

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 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: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 19:31:07 -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

Someone can help me here, but looktell's pretty much 
instantaneous and
I think iNote's about 10 seconds or so.

On 6/22/11, Josh Gregory <joshkart12 at gmail.com> wrote:
 What is the time difference for each ap?

 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 19:03:15 -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

 No.  When looktell announces the bill, it's certain.  Probably
 even
 more so than it would be with a picture.

 On 6/22/11, Josh Gregory <joshkart12 at gmail.com> wrote:
  But, wouldn't having a picture be better because it could be
  certain of what the bill was?

  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 18:43:56 -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

  Josh,
    That's right-excpet the 4th generation Touch has a camera on
  the
  front and the back so it's more convenient to use the back, at
  least
  that's what I've found.  Looktell will just read out the
  denomination,
  iNote has to take a picture and takes longer.

  On 6/22/11, Josh Gregory <joshkart12 at gmail.com> wrote:
   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:
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      Ride
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       Date
      sent:
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      19:26:45 -0500


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