--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 238 VISUAL DISABILIT Ref: DEC00050Date: 10/06/96 From: KATHY NEUFELD Time: 08:03pm \/To: LAURA MULRANEY (Read 2 times) Subj: puppy love Hi! Laura! I'm glad to hear that they are doing that transition support group now. Please write to me and tell me all about your training. Kathy Neufeld and Giggles --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: Vision Information Systems (1:163/266) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 238 VISUAL DISABILIT Ref: DEC00051Date: 10/06/96 From: ANNE PAGE Time: 08:01am \/To: LAURA MULRANEY (Read 2 times) Subj: puppy love I'm glad what I posted was useful to you, Laura. LM>>Thanks for the poem and the Rainbow Bridge piece. They helped a lot. You're welcome. I have more if you want them. Similar thoughts expressed in a variety of ways. LM>>anyway, I am getting better now. I'm glad. Just remember that Ivory is NOT and never will be a replacement for Poppy except in the physical sense of working as a guide dog. She will make her own place in your heart without taking any of the part that belonged to Poppy. That's the way it is with loving dogs. So it is OKAY to let yourself love her unconditionally as she does or will love you and not feel guilty for doing so; it takes nothing away from the relationship you had with Poppy; in fact, eventually, the things Ivory does and the ways she does them will enhance your memories of Poppy because of their similarities or differences to the ways Poppy did them. Soon those memories will come up as ones that make you laugh in celebration of her life instead of crying with grief over her death. Anne Page * SLMR 2.1a * Don't put a question mark, where God put a period. --- QScan/PCB v1.16b / 01-0075 * Origin: PSL Online Houston, TX 713-442-6704 @psl-online.com (1:106/6256) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 238 VISUAL DISABILIT Ref: DEC00052Date: 10/06/96 From: STU TURK Time: 07:35pm \/To: ERIC TROUP (Read 2 times) Subj: Donut maker ET> Hmm. I can tell you how I get around the problem when cooking ET> frozen dinners in the oven. Rather than pre-heat the oven, I just ET> put the dinner into the oven and turn it on, adding ten minutes to ET> the cooking time to allow for preheating. Of course, ten minutes I understand your point Eric, but if I understand the instructions correctly, this device must be preheated in order for it to work properly. Also, since it only does six at a time and you mix more batter than you use on one load, you reload the hot donut maker three or four times in quick succession. Preheated, it only takes three minutes to bake each load. My solution to the frozen dinners problem is to use a microwave oven - no preheating necessary. --- timEd/386 1.10+ * Origin: SoundProof Point, Pittsburgh PA (1:129/26.2) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 238 VISUAL DISABILIT Ref: DEC00053Date: 10/07/96 From: DAVID NORENBERG Time: 04:54pm \/To: ALL (Read 2 times) Subj: WANTED I am looking for a external speech board or a speech card for a laptop that has a pcmciA 2 slot. I am looking for one to buy. Dave email dnorenb@siue.edu or leave me a message her. DAVID NORENBERG ... Silver Xpress!...... Don't Read Mail Without it! * Silver Xpress V4.02B03 SW22980 --- Silver Xpress Mail System 5.4H1 * Origin: GW Micro, Inc. BBS FT. Wayne, IN 219-489-5281 (1:236/55) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 238 VISUAL DISABILIT Ref: DEC00054Date: 10/07/96 From: WALT CONE Time: 09:00am \/To: CAMERON HALL (Read 2 times) Subj: Re: IS FIDONET FATALLY ILL? Hi Cameron, How are you? Saturday, 5 October 1996 13:14:00, Cameron Hall wrote to Walt Cone Subject: Re: IS FIDONET FATALLY ILL? CH> That sounds like an interesting program. If there an FTP CH> address I can grab it from? And is that 70 for Z1 or globally? CH> I carry the full nodelist. Well I use a program that was freeware. The program is called t-stat. It looks at the entire nodelist, shows how many nodes in the list and breaks it down net by net. It also shows the number of nodes in a zone and what the percentage of fidonet that zone contributes. CH> Now they're MO. You are right. many of them are. CH> I've seen entire nets come and go... And magically re-appear. CH> :-) Strange. One thing I have noticed though, this echo has CH> been very consistent since I've been connected from Sept. /94. CH> If this area ever goes quiet, then somethings askew somewhere. Well I agree with you there. I think Fidonet will eventually die, but not as fast as many think it will. Catch you latter, Walt .!. If you've seen one nuclear war, you've seen 'em all. --- Terminate 4.00/Pro * Origin: Enoc bbs (tacoma Washington) (1:138/317.1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 238 VISUAL DISABILIT Ref: DEC00055Date: 10/07/96 From: HARVEY HEAGY Time: 09:35am \/To: WARREN FIGUEIREDO (Read 2 times) Subj: Get tough In a message Warren Figueiredo typed to Harvey Heagy WF> Just curious. If according to you, Louisiana is one of the worst, what WF> do you consider to be one of the best? Almost every other state. I think Minnesota, Colorado, Texas and California while not perfect by any stretch of the immagination at least offer more extensive vending stand training and do have more blind people in positions of authority in blind related programs than we do. Again, I am not saying that any state is a model of perfection by any means, but we could learn from other states. For starters, we could campaign for a separate commission for the blind which at least would give us our own agency to deal with our concerns and get out of this inifficient umbrella setup we are now in. Harvey --- msged 2.07 * Origin: The Metairie Point -- New Orleans, LA (1:396/1.13) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 238 VISUAL DISABILIT Ref: DEC00056Date: 10/08/96 From: ANNE PAGE Time: 12:25am \/To: TAMMY KLAUS (Read 2 times) Subj: That movie I guess so, Tammy. TK>>Hello Anne. Just a sentimentalist, aren't you? That's what people tell me. I've had some friends describe me as a sentimental optimist. According to them, if someone hands me a glass half filled with water, I will always refer to it as half full rather than half empty. I have to admit that's true. I tend to always look for the good in people rather than the bad and give every benefit of the doubt before writing them off. TK>>Do you know who Joni Erikson-Tada is? No. TK>>She's a quadrapalegic: diving accident when she was 17. But now that you've explained, I'd like to know more. How old is she now? How many books has she written? Is the one to which you are referring a current one that would be in the book stores right now? TK>>"Other peoples' problems are just as big to them, as my problems are TK>>to me." From someone paralyzed from the neck down, that's a pretty TK>>amazing statement. It would seem that way, wouldn't it? But I have found that those who would be justified in complaining the most are usually the ones who complain the least. TK>>BTW, did you get my netmail with my snail mail address? Yes, but we had some problems that delayed us finishing, so the issue is just going to the post office on Wednesday the 9th. That's very late for me. My ad deadline for the next issue is the next day. YUK! Of course one of the "problems" was that I said the hell with it all and ran away Saturday. First I went to a dog show in a nearby town to watch my Chihuahua show at 9:15 a.m. and when he won the breed competition I then stayed all day so I could watch him in the group ring around 4:00 p.m. Then I drove for well over an hour from there to my bridge club on the west side of Houston and played in the Saturday night game. So I left the house before 8:00 a.m. and got home around midnight, worked on the database until 3:00 a.m., and once I fell into the bed I crashed completely and slept until almost noon. As you will see at the end of this message where I say the time I am writing this note, I have got my sleeping habits all topsy turvey now. I'm not sleepy but I have to get up by 7:00 a.m. at the latest to get dressed for the drive to the day job I am working now instead of the night one. Double YUK! I hope Terri Mansfield reads this note so that she will know why the floppy disk with the ASCII text version of the issue has not gotten to her yet for formatting and uploading to Willie's board and mailing to you on disk. Everything is stapled, folded and taped, and just awaits my printing off the mailing labels. I just this minute (at 12:30 a.m. on Tuesday) finished updating and sorting the database and selecting the group of samples to add to the regular mailing list and will print the hundreds of labels off tomorrow night and start putting them on the copies. Hopefully I will get the floppy disk ready tomorrow night also so it can go to the post office on Wednesday with the bulk mailing. How are you and Nina doing these days? Is the situation still status quo at work? The last I read you were still having to tie her up when you leave your office for a few minutes to go somewhere that you don't need her to guide you (like across the hall to the photocopy machine). Anne Page * SLMR 2.1a * Desk: A *very* large wastebasket with drawers. --- QScan/PCB v1.16b / 01-0075 * Origin: PSL Online Houston, TX 713-442-6704 @psl-online.com (1:106/6256) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 238 VISUAL DISABILIT Ref: DEC00057Date: 10/08/96 From: HARVEY HEAGY Time: 04:52am \/To: ANNE PAGE (Read 2 times) Subj: Get tough In a message Anne Page typed to Henry Kasten AP> Your kind words are deeply appreciated. I tried very hard to make AP> my points in a clear well-reasoned out way. It's nice to know from AP> reading your post that I succeeded. It doesn't matter to me that Harvey AP> still doesn't understand what I was trying to say, but it does mean a AP> lot to me to know that people with a good understanding of employment AP> procedures such as you and Willie did. I fully understand what you were trying to say. Once and for all, I know what you were saying. it is just that the specific job was and is not the issue I was addressing. It amazes me how you can condone Henry's insulting language toward me in being so judgemental about my life long work situations and saying that I keep getting fired from every job I have had which is not true, but when I address an issue you are not familiar with you say I am negative. He does not know my specific work situations; he does not know broadcasting and as such he has no right to make judgement calls and neither do you when you are not familiar with an issue. But Henry Casten can be negative and insulting and engage in character assassination because he agrees with you. Harvey --- msged 2.07 * Origin: The Metairie Point -- New Orleans, LA (1:396/1.13) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 238 VISUAL DISABILIT Ref: DEC00058Date: 10/08/96 From: HARVEY HEAGY Time: 04:53am \/To: ANNE PAGE (Read 2 times) Subj: Get tough In a message Anne Page typed to Harvey Heagy AP> Harvey, you have absolutely no idea what I know or don't know about AP> blindness issues in the workplace, sheltered or otherwise, but I will AP> not dignify this additional insult to my intelligence with any comment Whatever you know or don't know about blindness you can't possibly know as much as someone who has dealt with it all their life. we know my friend could not be a forklift operator; we all conceeded that point. This just happened to be the particular job open at the time. But it showed up a more underlying discrimination that blind people for whatever job cannot be hired on the basis of an interview while sighted people can. The specific job could have been for a secretary a P.B.X. operator a warehouse worker anything you want to name and a sighted person otherwise qualified for it could have been hired immediately while a blind person otherwise qualified for the same job would have had to submit to all that meaningless garbage just because they happened to be blind. in some lighthouses sighted people do exactly the same work that blind people do, but they can be hired at the federal minimum wage on the spot if they meet the qualifications while a blind person must undergo a series of evaluations, tests and whatever before he or she can even be considered for hire. That is wrong and unfair. You would be crying foul if you and a man were applying for the same type of work and the man got the job on the basis of his qualifications and on his interview performance while you as a woman who were equally qualified and performed just as well in your interview had to submit to additional evaluations before you might be hired. Henry and Willie do not have good understanding of the job market and even if they do, broadcasting is different than most job situations and they have no right to make judgement calls upon what they don't know about. Harvey --- msged 2.07 * Origin: The Metairie Point -- New Orleans, LA (1:396/1.13) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 238 VISUAL DISABILIT Ref: DEC00059Date: 10/06/96 From: DANNY CRONE Time: 10:34am \/To: MARK SENK (Read 2 times) Subj: Re: os2 warp Hello. I would like to hear more about the way you use this IBM screen-reader. What operating systems are you able to access? How well does it work for you? I have not yet used OS2. What's it like? You may reply here, or write me via internet at the following address. Dannyboy@netten.net --- Platinum Xpress/Win/Wildcat5! v2.0GI * Origin: Mr Zip BBS (1:123/17)