[nfb-talk] [Blindtlk] HumanWare, Extreme Makeover Home Edition, here we go again

[Peter Donahue]

Hello Kay and listers,

Or Minnesota.

Peter Donahue


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "kaye zimpher" <kayezimpher at bellsouth.net>
To: "NFB Talk Mailing List" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 4:44 PM
Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] [Blindtlk] HumanWare, Extreme Makeover Home
Edition,here we go again


I was actually thinking of a way to make the show more positive for us and
for him. Why not invite him to attend one of the nfb center's summer
programs so he will get a real taste of independence. I could tell from
watching the show that he has the right idea about his blindness. He feels
like he is just "a regular guy" living his life and he said a couple of
times that he really did not know what people found so amazing about him. So
since he already has a running start send him off to Louisiana or Colorado
for a couple of weeks where he will truly know what it means to be
independent. One of the tings they talked about in the show is that his
parents are really reluctant to show him how to cook and do for himself
because in their old house it just was not possible. Now with his new house
and maybe a little more accessibility why not learn all he can and help the
parents in the mean time.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Corey Cook" <cooklists at bellsouth.net>
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Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 3:55 PM
Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] [Blindtlk] HumanWare, Extreme Makeover Home
Edition,here we go again


I don't personally get the big deal anyway.
They did something nice for the man and his family.
Who are we to sit and judge this?

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E]
  To: NFB Talk Mailing List
  Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 7:12 AM
  Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] [Blindtlk] HumanWare, Extreme Makeover Home
Edition,here we go again


  I sure must be missing something here.  Why are you bashing HW anyway.
They just anounced that the show was going to be aired and I think they said
they were going to be represented.  I saw the whole show and there was no
mention of HW.  The only thing I can come up with is maybe the controls for
the new wheel chair were actually a GPS.  I think his lack of being able to
walk was emfasized a lot more than his blindness.  That is in our faver.  I
found one extreamly stupid thing they did for him, that was to put that
ability for music to go off, when he went into a spacific room.  Also, HW
might have had something to do with creating the door that would open when
the gentleman would say, open.
  I liked his aditude about looking at what he could do not what he could
not do.  He seamed to always be on the positive side which is a pluss for
him and the NFb.  Many blind with out jobs or the ability to read, are
depressed and dependent on SSI. I think their main goal was to make the home
accessable, because of his wheelchair needs.  They also over did it in the
music area by buying him all that recording equipment.  What did that have
to do with his handicap.  I still saw no sign of HW.  If they were not in
the show, how did they know about the show?  They had to be in the
background someware.

  Terry Powers


  -----Original Message-----
  From: T. Joseph Carter [mailto:tjosephcarter at gmail.com]
  Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 2:36 PM
  To: NFB Talk Mailing List
  Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] [Blindtlk] HumanWare, Extreme Makeover Home
Edition,here we go again

  I don't think a boycott would be effective in the least.  I do think a
more low-key approach generally involving talking to someone in a position
to see to it that this doesn't happen again would probably get far better
results far quicker.

  Joseph

  On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 07:43:01PM -0800, Mike Freeman wrote:
  > One question which hasn't been dealt with here is whether we'd be
effective if we protested to Humanware or attempted a boycott.
  >
  > Do you *really* think that blind persons would stop buying VR Streams
over philosophical concerns? Fanatics would but I fear me greatly that it
would end up a huge bust and would cause us more problems than we would
solve.
  >
  > Mike

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