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

Thu Feb 21 20:02:43 CST 2008

H, how could I forget minisota? In response to Sheri's message, I have seen 
both episodes and I see quite a difference in the 2. I too would like to 
know what that lady is doing with herself now, but I guess it is not my 
business. I did see however that the lady in three wishes was given a much 
stronger sense of independence because she received her training from 
qualified blind trainers. She will never forget those days even if for some 
reason she stops using the training.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Donahue" <pdonahue1 at sbcglobal.net>
To: "NFB Talk Mailing List" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 6:37 PM
Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] [Blindtlk] HumanWare, Extreme Makeover Home 
Edition,here we go again


> 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?
>
> Corey Cook
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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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