Blind News Digest # 1188
Bill McGarry
Issue # 1188
Wednesday, December 06, 1995
Today's Topics:
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New free ASCII texts
Earnings Limit Action Alert
Re: info on blink link
Re: survey
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Subject: New free ASCII texts
From: 7102...@CompuServe.COM (Odile Santiago)
Organization: CompuServe, Inc. (1-800-689-0736)
The following ASCII texts are available free for
reading or downloading at the Spectrum Press website.
Most of these are not available elsewhere.
the URL: http://users.aol.com/specpress/
Bliss by Katherine Mansfield (from Collected Stories)
Souvenirs From the Bog by Christina Starobin (poetry: opening pages)
A Responsible Woman by Kate Chopin (from The Awakening and Other Stories)
Just Looking, We See by Jacob Wachter (fiction: from Nine Stories)
A Blossom in the Sand by Richard McGowan (fiction: from Candlelight Tales)
Molly Bloom Soliloquy by James Joyce (fiction: from Ulysses)
The Dead by James Joyce (from Dubliners: complete)
Lady Chatterly's Lover by D. H. Lawrence (novel: Part I complete)
In Your Face by Jay Marvin (punk noir poetry: opening pages)
Linda Baby by Rachel Perez (lesbian novel: opening pages)
The Lady by Emily James Putnam (feminist nonfiction: opening pages)
The Claws of the Gods by Howard Rawlinson (nonfiction: opening pages)
Democracy, Language, and Literature by A. de Tocqueville (nonfiction: Ch23 DIA)
Case Closed by Daniel Vian (avant-garde novel: opening pages)
The Cage by Daniel Vian (avant-garde novel: opening pages)
Of Age by Michel de Montaigne (nonfiction: from Collected Essays)
Info Japan (nonfiction: information and vital statistics)
Death in Texas by Ann Raney Coleman (nonfiction: journal extract)
Stings of the Flesh by Robert Klein Engler (gay nonfiction: opening pages)
Odile S.
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Spectrum Press
http://users.aol.com/specpress/
7102...@compuserve.com
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Subject: Earnings Limit Action Alert
From: mi...@pacifier.com (Mike Freeman)
Organization: Pacifier, public access Internet site. 360-693-0325
Date: December 1, 1995
EARNINGS LIMIT ACTION ALERT FROM: James Gashel
RE: Floor amendment next week--support needed now!!
The earnings limit bill is expected to be on the House floor next
week, probably Wednesday or Thursday. The bill and the issue concerning
the linkage-retention amendment will probably go to the Rules Committee on
Tuesday--possibly as early as Monday. All members of the House should be
contacted by as many people, and in as many ways, as possible. Faxing
should go forward over the weekend. Calling should be done next week.
Here is the message: support a linkage-retention for blind persons
amendment. Don't support a bill which will let retired people work but
sacrifice work incentives for the blind.
A list of announced House supporters for linkage follows. These are
our friends. They should be contacted and alerted to the absolute need
for their "yes" vote. All other members should also be contacted as well.
To those who say they support linkage, but not on this bill, tell them
that this bill breaks the link between blind people and seniors. Once the
link is broken their support will very likely be of little value.
Senate action, possibly in the Finance committee, may occur next
week, as well. While we should concentrate on the House, contacts of a
similar nature and volume should commence with Senators. Stand by for
more information later about the specific action in the Senate.
Meanwhile, let's all work together to pull out a victory in the House and
do the groundwork in the Senate.
Thanks to all.
ANNOUNCED HOUSE SUPPORTERS OF BLIND PERSONS' LINKAGE RETENTION
REPUBLICANS: Richard H. Baker LA Bill Barrett NE Doug Bereuter NE
Sherwood Boehlert NY Richard M. Burr NC Steve Chabot OH Helen Chenoweth ID
Jay Dickey AR Jennifer Dunn WA Robert Ehrlich MD Bill Emerson MO Jon D.
Fox PA Wayne T. Gilchrest MD Paul E. Gillmor OH Benjamin A. Gilman NY
Lindsey Graham SC Steve Gunderson WI Gil Gutknecht MN James V. Hansen UT
Richard (Doc) Hastings WA J. D. Hayworth AZ Martin R. Hoke OH Tim
Hutchinson AR Bob Inglis SC Nancy L. Johnson CT Sue W. Kelly NY Peter T.
King NY Ray LaHood IL Tom Latham IA Steven C. LaTourette OH Greg Laughlin
TX Jim Leach IA Jim Ross Lightfoot IA James B. Longley ME Bill Martini NJ
Jack Metcalf WA Jan Meyers KS Susan Molinari NY Constance A. Morella MD
George Nethercutt WA Bob Ney OH Ron Packard CA Tom Petri WI Deborah Pryce
OH George P. Radanovich CA Ralph Regula OH Pat Roberts KS F. James
Sensenbrenner WI Christopher Shays CT Joe Skeen NM Linda Smith WA Floyd D.
Spence SC Cliff Stearns FL Bob Stump AZ Peter G. Torkildsen MA Enid Greene
Waldholtz UT James T. Walsh NY Don Young AK Dick Zimmer NJ DEMOCRATS Neil
Abercrombie HI Gary L. Ackerman NY Robert E. Andrews NJ Scotty Baesler KY
John Baldacci ME Thomas M. Barrett WI Tom Bevill AL Sanford D. Bishop GA
Ken Bentsen TX Robert A. Borski PA Rick Boucher VA Bill Brewster OK
Corrine Brown FL George E. Brown CA Sherrod Brown OH John Bryant TX Eva
Clayton NC James E. Clyburn SC Cardiss Collins IL William J. Coyne PA
Nathan Deal GA Peter A. DeFazio OR Rosa DeLauro CT Ronald V. Dellums CA
Peter Deutsch FL Norm Dicks WA Julian C. Dixon CA Richard J. Durbin IL
Chet Edwards TX Eliot L. Engel NY Anna G. Eshoo CA Sam Farr CA Chaka
Fattah PA Vic Fazio CA Cleo Fields LA Bob Filner CA Thomas M. Foglietta PA
Barney Frank MA Martin Frost TX Elizabeth Furse OR Sam Gejdenson CT Gene
Green TX Luis V. Gutierrez IL Tony P. Hall OH Alcee L. Hastings FL Jimmy
Hayes LA W. G. (Bill) Hefner NC Maurice D. Hinchey NY Andrew Jacobs IN
William J. Jefferson LA Tim Johnson SD Marcy Kaptur OH Patrick J. Kennedy
RI Barbara B. Kennelly CT Dale E. Kildee MI Gerald D. Kleczka WI Tom
Lantos CA Sander M. Levin MI John Lewis GA William O. Lipinski IL Zoe
Lofgren CA William P. (Bill) Luther MN Thomas J. Manton NY Matthew G.
Martinez CA Frank R. Mascara PA Jim McDermott WA Cynthia A. McKinney GA
Carrie P. Meek FL Robert Menendez NJ George Miller CA Norman Y. Mineta CA
David Minge MN Alan B. Mollohan WV Joe Moakley MA G. V. (Sonny) Montgomery
MS James P. Moran VA John P. Murtha PA Jerrold Nadler NY Richard E. Neal
MA James L. Oberstar MN John W. Olver MA Bill Orton UT Frank Pallone NJ
Mike Parker MS Ed Pastor AZ Donald M. Payne NJ L. F. Payne VA Collin C.
Peterson MN Nick J. Rahall WV Charles B. Rangel NY Jack Reed RI Mel
Reynolds IL Bill Richardson NM Lynn Nancy Rivers MI Charlie Rose NC
Lucille Roybal-Allard CA Tom Sawyer OH Patricia Schroeder CO Charles E.
Schumer NY Robert C. Scott VA Jose E. Serrano NY Ike Skelton MO John M.
Spratt SC Louis Stokes OH Gerry E. Studds MA Bart Stupak MI John Tanner TN
Gene Taylor MS Frank Tejeda TX Bennie Thompson MS Esteban E. Torres CA
Edolphus Towns NY James A. Traficant OH Robert Anacletus Underwood GU
Nydia M. Velazquez NY Bruce F. Vento MN Harold L. Volkmer MO Mike Ward KY
Melvin Watt NC Henry A. Waxman CA Pat Williams MT Charles Wilson TX Bob
Wise WV Lynn Woolsey CA Ron Wyden OR Sidney R. Yates IL
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Mike Freeman | Internet: mi...@pacifier.com
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Subject: Re: info on blink link
From: mau...@netaxs.com (Maurice Shackelford)
Organization: Net Access - Philadelphia's Internet Connection
On 1 Dec 1995, Louise Peyton 813-871-7190 wrote:
> Index Number: 38556
>
> I also understand there is a web BBS operated by blind users but need the
> correct internet address. I've noted part of this address as GBX.org.
> However, there is more to that address than what I currently have.
Hello there,
If you have access to a internet site and wish to get on gbx here is what
you should type from your unix prompt:
rlogin -8 gbx.org
or telnet gbx.org
I hope this help?
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Subject: Re: survey
From: ver...@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (vergne johanna)
Hello. I am an architecture graduate student at the University of
Illinois at Urbana Champaign. I am doing my thesis project on a
Museum for the Visually Imp aired. I need just a few minutes of
your time in helping me understand how architecture can be enhance
in order to help visually impaired people. your input now can help
other student, architects and even other visually impaired in the
future. Please, answer the following questionnaire as preceisly as
le. Re member to send the questionnaire together with the answers
to my e-mail address which is ver...@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu Thanks a
lot.
1) Had you been in any museum before?
2) Had you been in a museum specially designed for visually impaired?
3) Will you like to visit a museum specially designed for visually impaired?
4)List at least five things or services that you will like that museum to
have :
5)Had you encountered problems when visiting a museum? If yes, please
explain:
6)What suggestions can you give to improve the design of museums in order to
help visually impaired? List three.
7) Which cues do you look for when you enter a building that is new to you?
List three.
8)What kind of information do you need in order to find a place inside a
building?
9) How does having a model that you can touch can help you understand a
building? [ ]very much [ ]not to much [ ]nothing at all
10)How often do you get lost inside a building?
When is new to you? [ ]very often [ ]often [ ]almost never [ ]never
When you visit it frecuently? [ ]very often [ ]often [ ]almost never [ ]never
11)What makes you get lost inside a building? Put a number at the begining of
each of the following items. Rank them according to a scale of 1 to 5, being
1 an element that makes your traveling inside a building very difficult and
5 an element that does not makes your traveling difficult.
-long corridors, more than 100 feets long
-corners that does not meet at right angles
-non-parallel walls with the same color
-large open spaces with textured paths
-large open spaces without textured paths
-spaces with high ceilings
-spaces with low ceilings
-glass windows
-open ceilings
-revolving doors
-spaces that connect more than two corridors that go on different directions
-stairs with different floor textures at the begining and at the end
-stairs without different floor textures on beginning and at the end
-the absence of hanrails in stairs
-the absence of handrails in walls
-the absence of Braille signs in doors and other spaces
12)If there other elements that make you get lost apart from the ones
disscussed on the previous questions? If yes, please explain.
13)Do you orientate yourself according to the north-south directions?
14) Describe 5 elements of a building that help you orientate?
15)What means a big space for you? How do you manage to travel in big
spaces?
16) How will you like objects ( like sculptures) to be located inside big
spaces in order to help you find them?
17)Can you perceive different spaces or change of form of a space when going fro
m a space to other? If yes, please explain.
18) What other senses do you use to help yourself and how?
19) How do you use your sense of hearing to understand a building?
20) From about what distance can you perceive an object by its echo?
21)Had you use smell cues to find where to go inside a building? If yes,
please explain how.
22) Does sunlight help you? Explain your answer.
23) How does natural elements affects you?
24) How can a museum appeal to the senses other than sight?
25)What can be done in terms of architecture form in order to help visually impa
ired?
26)What can be done in terms of architecture detailing in order to help the
visually impaired?
27) What is a good building for you?
28) What is a bad building for you?
29) Describe three of your favorite places?
30) Describe the characteristics or classification of your visual condition,
years having the condition and type of residual vision if any.
31) What methods do you use to help yourself: long cane, dog guide,
special glasses, or other?
32) Do you read Braille?
33) How old are you?
34) Gender
35)Occupation
Thanks a lot for your help, I am sure it will be very useful for me as well as
for others. Please, do not forget to send the questionnaire with the answer to
my e-mail which is " ver...@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu ". Thanks once again.
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