[jaws-uk] Re: Gates Signs Deal On Software For The Blind
- From: "George Bell" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 17:42:36 -0000
Send a message to
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In the subject, just the word
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When you return, send another message to the same address,
but this time the Subject:-
unset vacation
George.
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[mailto:jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael
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Sent: 18 December 2004 17:31
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Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Gates Signs Deal On Software For The
Blind
Hi Nigel,
How do you get to to No Mail to switch this on if you are
going away?
Cheers,
Michael.
----- Original Message -----
From: Nigel <mailto:stoppard@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 7:04 PM
Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Gates Signs Deal On Software
For The Blind
Hi Jane,
I take it you are going no mail while you are away?
Just say hi when you get back after you have turned no mail
off. Or of course you can just leave it and read it all
when you get back.
Hope you have a good holiday,
Nigel P.S. Did you get my off list mail about
Bradford that you were asking about?
----- Original Message -----
From: Jane Sellers
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To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 5:39 PM
Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Gates Signs Deal On
Software For The Blind
Hi Nigel,
I knew that you were only joking, and so was
I in my reply, you never know what may happen!
I hope you have a happy and peaceful
Christmas and I look forward to receiving your mail in the
New Year as I have signed off as from Tomorrow until the
31st so I shall have to wish you a Happy New Year when I
come back on to the list what do yo do when you have
returned from holiday do you still have to put in a message
saying returned from holiday ? I am a little bemused by this
any help appreciated.
kind regards
Love
From
Jane
----- Original Message -----
From: Nigel
<mailto:stoppard@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004
12:38 PM
Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Gates Signs
Deal On Software For The Blind
Jane, Don't worry as with the rest
of that email I was only joking. I am not really into
gambolling!
Hope you have your computer sorted
now?
Happy Christmas,
Nigel
----- Original Message -----
From: Jane Sellers
<mailto:jane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004
12:43 AM
Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Gates Signs
Deal On Software For The Blind
Hi Nigel,
I feel i have to reply to you about
this, no i am not emigrating just yet. But I am going to
Spain for 10 days and yes it was a really interesting
article, I had been drawn to the attrention of this by RNIB
's Lorraine Brown who is a emplioyment person at Judd Street
so i knew a little about the organisation but it would be
nice to go and have a look on their web page and if anyone
has the url to the spanish association it would be
interesting to see if their mobil phone called Oasis is on
the site although that is another matter.
all the best for Christmas and the
new year
all the best
from
Jane
----- Original Message -----
From: Nigel
<mailto:stoppard@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004
12:22 PM
Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Gates Signs
Deal On Software For The Blind
Thanks for this Barry. This
explains why Jane has gone off to Spain for ten days, did
she say anything about emigrating while she was there?
It sounds like we could learn a lot
from this organisation, even if we aren't a nation of
gambolling addicts. Now what's the URL for that Ladbrokes
site again? I want to put a ten a on "Dead Dog" in the
three thirty at New Market.
Nigel
----- Original Message -----
From: Barry
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To: Jaws list
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Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004
7:09 AM
Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Gates Signs
Deal On Software For The Blind
Do you know why Bill Gates is
developing the software in Spain? It might have something to
do with the Spanish association for the blind running a
national lottery and, therefore, being one of the richest
companies in Spain. Bill Gates may give a lot to charity
but he is still a business man and has to look after his
shareholders.
Here's an article from the Spanish
National Federation of the Blind that I wish all governments
would adopt :
SPANISH BLIND GROUP THRIVES ON
LARGESS OF LOTTERY
By: CIARAN GILES
Editor?s Note: The following article
is re-printed from the Associated Press, May 29, 2000.
MADRID, Spain (AP) - The Spanish
Civil War killed and maimed hundreds of thousands of
soldiers and civilians and left much of Spain in ruins. Yet,
for one
disabled group, the war's legacy has
had advantages.
No one knows how many people were
blinded in the 1936-39 conflict, but eager to rid himself of
the problem, dictator Francisco Franco ordered them to form
a national organization and take
care of themselves. To encourage them, he granted the right
to create a national lottery. Six decades later, with Franco
long dead and democracy fully
restored, the National Organization of Blind Spaniards has
blossomed into one of Spain's most successful businesses and
one
of the world's most dynamic disabled
support groups.
"There's no doubt about it, if
you're going to be blind, be Spanish," quips Miguel
Callejas, a blind man who has sold lottery tickets the past
28 years
for ONCE, the Spanish acronym for
the organization. Lottery drawings, staged every day except
Saturday, bring in the equivalent of dlrs 2.3 billion a
year.
Profits enable the organization to
guarantee employment for nearly all of Spain's 60,000 blind.
"I know of nothing even comparable
to the ONCE in the entire world," said Edwin Vaughan, a
blind sociology professor at the University of Missouri who
has
studied how countries view and treat
blind people. "In nearly every country, the United States
included, blindness is associated with begging and the blind
are virtually totally dependent on
welfare assistance with employment opportunities severely
limited," he said. "In Spain, it's the opposite."
In the United States, unemployment
among the blind rarely falls below 70 percent, while in
Spain, it's hardly ever above 5 percent, Vaughan said. The
European
Blind Union says its latest figures,
for 1995, showed that out of 41,000 blind adults available
for work in Germany, only 9,000 had a job. In France, only
7,000 of the 18,000 working age
blind were employed. ONCE receives no government subsidy and
its board is independent and elected every four years by its
members, all blind or
sight-impaired. The growth of the lottery allowed ONCE to
gradually build up a business empire with stakes in
everything from hotels
to construction. In the 1980s, it
branched into the media, founding a private national TV
channel, a national daily newspaper and a popular radio
chain.
But sensing expansion was tarnishing
its more-important image as a caring group for the disabled,
ONCE sold off its principal media holdings -- at a profit.
Nowadays, ONCE is as Spanish as
bullfighting, sidewalk cafes and soccer. Vendors wearing
dark glasses and carrying canes pace the streets in nearly
every
village, barking out, "Lucky numbers
for today!" In the cities, single vendors sit in enclosed
ONCE kiosks, selling tickets through glass windows.
The lottery has thrived not only
because Spaniards love to gamble, but because of clever
marketing and slick advertising. Midweek coupons sell for
200 pesetas
(dlrs 1.25), offering a chance at
500 daily top prizes of 5 million pesetas (dlrs 33,000) each
and thousands of smaller winnings. The No. 1 prize for the
Sunday lottery pays dlrs 58,000 a
year for 25 years.
Totally independent since 1982, ONCE
plows its profits into serving its members. It runs Europe's
biggest guide dog school, a factory whose products include
canes, children's Braille sets and
portable speech-activated computers and social
rehabilitation centers. It also works with other companies,
such as Microsoft,
to develop systems and technical
innovations for the blind. On a more public level, ONCE runs
a touch-and-feel art Museum for the Blind. In 1998, it
organized
an international competition in
Madrid for blind athletes. In recent years, ONCE has
supported projects for the blind abroad, including in
several Latin
American nations, notably Chile and
Argentina.
ONCE estimates there are 150 million
blind people in the world, but many poor countries do not
keep records on who and where they are. "The ONCE's idea
is that the blind should care for
the blind. In most countries, nobody looks after them at
all," said Rafael Mondaca, the organization's director of
international
relations. ONCE recognizes that even
though it is private, it has a privileged position and the
government could withdraw its lottery rights or grant
licenses
to other causes. "Fortunately, it
wouldn't make business sense for the Spanish government to
do so because it knows that if ONCE crumbled it would then
be responsible for looking after the
blind itself," said Pedro Zurrita, who heads the World Blind
Organization, which is based in Madrid.
"For the Civil War authorities, it
was a load off their mind," he said. "Back then no one
thought the lottery was ever going to be so successful. It's
unlikely
that any government would do it
today."
Barry H
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