Recipes 10/97
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Linda Mentink
Mary Brunoli
Recipes
This month's recipes come from the
National Federation of the Blind's Music Division.
Skillet Beef and Noodle Dinner
by Linda Mentink
Linda Mentink lives in Wisconsin and
serves as President of the NFB Music Division. She is a singer with several
albums to her credit.
Ingredients:
2 cups (1/4 pound) wide noodles, cooked and drained
Monitor Miniatures 97/10
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Monitor
Miniatures
New Audio-Described Tour:
We have been asked to carry the following
announcement:
Opened in late July, 1997, at the Smithsonian's
National Museum of Natural History, an audio-described tour of the permanent
marine exhibit--Exploring Marine Ecosystems. This exhibit explores two marine
ecosystems, a tropical coral reef and a temperate rocky shore--how you affect
Victory In The Sember Case
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Barbara Pierce
He Can't Buy An Island:
Total Victory in the Sember Case
by Barbara Pierce
The word "libel" has a nasty
sound. It means publishing written untruths. In almost forty years of publishing,
the Braille Monitor had never been sued for libel--never, that is, until
Mary Ann and Tom Sember decided to do it in 1993. Many who have had reason to
Insights
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Denise Mackenstadt
Insights from an Instructional
Assistant
by Denise Mackenstadt
From the Editor: One of the most puzzling
figures in the educational landscape of blind children in public schools today
is the instructional aide. Parents and teachers are often uncertain what the
role of these aides should be. Denise Mackenstadt has been doing this job intelligently
Beyond The Mall
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Cody Greiser
Kyle Neddo
Amanda Jones
Brett Boyer
Around the Block, to
the Mall, and Beyond
From the Editor: At the seminar
for parents and educators of blind children sponsored by the National Organization
of Parents of Blind Children at the 1997 NFB convention in New Orleans, one
of the most delightful and inspiring presentations was a panel of blind youngsters
Too Familiar Story
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An All Too Familiar
Story
From the Editor: The two previous
articles provide a ray of hope for parents of blind children and the advocates
committed to improving the educational opportunities available to blind youngsters.
Aides like Denise Mackenstadt and teachers like the distinguished educators
honored by the NFB each year provide their students the chance to make everything
Braille Illiteracy Crisis
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Jim Omvig
From Bad Philosophy
to Bad Policy:
The American Braille Illiteracy Crisis
by James H. Omvig
From the Editor: Jim Omvig is the
former director of both the Orientation and Adjustment Center operated by the
Iowa Commission for the Blind, Des Moines, Iowa, and the Alaska Center for Blind
and Deaf Adults, Anchorage, Alaska. He has been involved in one way or another
Shared Creativity
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Tina Blatter
Blind Artist Sees Ways
to Share Her Creativity
by Barbara Tomovick
From the Editor: Tina Blatter is a
member of the Board of Directors of the National Federation of the Blind of
South Dakota. She lives in Sioux Falls, where her work was displayed at the
Civic Fine Arts Center on September 7. The following article about her and her
Numbers And Independence
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Of Numbers And Independence
by Suzanne Rowell
From the Editor: What does it take
to make a Federationist? Sometimes the chemistry is such that a person knows
that he or she belongs in this movement as soon as the philosophy is explained.
Sometimes it takes a personal crisis and powerful injustice. This is a story
of such an experience. Suzanne Rowell is now an active member of the National
CCTV Funding
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Greg Trapp
Funding Closed Circuit
Televisions Through
Medical Insurance
by Greg Trapp
From the Editor: Greg Trapp has been
a staff attorney with the Protection and Advocacy System of New Mexico since
1992. In 1993 he taught disability law as an adjunct professor at the University
of New Mexico School of Law. Closed Circuit Television Systems (CCTV's) can