[Capchapohio] Information Regarding the 2011 Washington Seminar

Mon Jan 17 13:53:30 UTC 2011

Hi everyone, although not everyone in our chapter will be going to Washington seminar, it's important all of us keep up on these legislative issues. We will use these at a future chapter meeting, so please take the time to read the attached files.

Beth

--- On Sun, 1/16/11, Dr. JW Smith <jwsmithnfb at frontier.com> wrote:

From: Dr. JW Smith <jwsmithnfb at frontier.com>
Subject: [Ohio-talk] Fw: [NFBAffiliatePresidents] Fwd: RE: Important Information Regarding the 2011 Washington Seminar
To: "NFB of Ohio Announcement and Discussion List" <ohio-talk at nfbnet.org>, "Seifarth, Mark" <Mark.Seifarth at dodd.ohio.gov>, "Sandy Sommers" <snappydog at ameritech.net>
Date: Sunday, January 16, 2011, 11:47 AM

fyi

jw

Dr. J. Webster Smith
President National Federation of the Blind of Ohio
P.O.BOX 458 Athens, Ohio, 45701-0458
Phone Number - 740-592-6326
"Changing What it Means to be Blind"
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Andrews" <dandrews at visi.com>
To: <nfbaffiliatepresidents at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 9:07 PM
Subject: [NFBAffiliatePresidents] Fwd: RE: Important Information Regarding 
the 2011 Washington Seminar

>
>>
>>The following message is from Jesse Hartle (jhartle at nfb.org):
>>
>>Fellow Federationists:
>>
>>I am writing to you to let you know that the fact sheets for the
>>2011 Washington Seminar are now on the NFB Web site.  They can be
>>found on the "NFB 2011 Washington Seminar" page at
>><http://www.nfb.org/nfb/Washington_Seminar.asp>http://www.nfb.org/nfb/Washington_Seminar.asp.
>>For your convenience, the fact sheets are also attached to this
>>e-mail.  The hot issues for the 2011 seminar are:
>>
>>1.  Advocating for the Technology Bill of Rights for the Blind;
>>2.  Advocating for legislation to establish an independent
>>commission to set standards for the education of all blind children
>>in America; and
>>3.  Advocating for the Americans with Disabilities Business Opportunity 
>>Act.
>>
>>Please review these fact sheets in preparation for your appointments
>>during Washington Seminar.  Lauren McLarney and I would like to
>>conduct a series of conference calls in two weeks to discuss these issues.
>>
>>We are scheduling three nights for conference calls and would like
>>one expert from each state, D.C., and Puerto Rico to attend.  As the
>>affiliate president, you should designate who will represent your
>>affiliate--either you or someone else, as you wish.  If you are not
>>attending Washington Seminar this year, we strongly urge your
>>participation in these calls so that you can make sure to bring
>>vital information back to your affiliate about our legislative
>>priorities.  The days and times of the conference calls are:
>>
>>Monday evening: 8:00 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time);
>>Tuesday evening: 10:00 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time); and
>>Wednesday evening: 8:00 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time).
>>
>>We are assigning particular days to each affiliate, but you should
>>feel free to choose a different day if the day assigned does not fit
>>your schedule.  We want a distribution of affiliates that is
>>manageable on a conference call so that everyone can easily
>>participate, but we are absolutely not rigorous about the
>>assignments.  If the time assigned does not work, we only ask that
>>you e-mail Lauren or me, telling us which time you will choose.
>>
>>For Monday, January 24, 2011:  Alabama, Connecticut, District of
>>Columbia, Georgia, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Nebraska, New
>>York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania,  Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South
>>Carolina, and Virginia.
>>
>>For Tuesday, January 25, 2011:  Alaska, Arizona, California,
>>Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana,
>>Massachusetts, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon,
>>Tennessee, Utah, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
>>
>>For Wednesday, January 26, 2011:  Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois,
>>Kansas, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey,
>>North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Texas, Vermont, and Wyoming.
>>
>>The conference call dial-in number is (888) 205-5513, and the
>>participant code is 413146.  Again, if the assigned day will not
>>work for you, feel free to pick among the other two and let us know
>>that you have chosen a different day.
>>
>>Finally, as you confirm Congressional appointments, you are
>>encouraged to e-mail the date, the time, and whether the member of
>>Congress is expected to attend the meeting, so the exceptional
>>Mercury Room team can provide it to our governmental affairs
>>staff.  The e-mail address is
>><mailto:hillappointments at nfb.org>hillappointments at nfb.org.
>>
>>If you have questions, I have included my contact information at the
>>bottom of this message.  I look forward to seeing all of you at
>>Washington Seminar as we work toward passage of these crucial
>>issues.  Once again, thank you in advance for all of your hard work.
>>
>>Jesse M. Hartle
>>Government Programs Specialist
>>NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND
>>Phone:  (410) 659-9314, extension 2233
>>E-mail:  jhartle at nfb.org
>>
>>JMH/kk
>>
>>Attachments
>>
>>Content-Type: application/msword; name="2011-03 Americans with 
>>Disabilities"
>>  Business Opportunity Act Fact Sheet.doc"
>>Content-Description: 2011-03 Americans with Disabilities Business
>>  Opportunity Act Fact Sheet.doc
>>Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="2011-03 Americans with"
>>  Disabilities Business Opportunity Act Fact Sheet.doc"; size=162304;
>>         creation-date="Tue, 11 Jan 2011 08:06:33 GMT";
>>         modification-date="Wed, 12 Jan 2011 06:23:30 GMT"
>>
>>
>>
>>Content-Type: application/msword;
>>         name="2011-02 Ensuring Equal Education for Blind Children
>> Fact Sheet.doc"
>>Content-Description: 2011-02 Ensuring Equal Education for Blind Children
>>  Fact Sheet.doc
>>Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="2011-02 Ensuring Equal 
>>Education"
>>  for Blind Children Fact Sheet.doc"; size=163840;
>>         creation-date="Tue, 11 Jan 2011 07:57:17 GMT";
>>         modification-date="Wed, 12 Jan 2011 06:20:27 GMT"
>

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

> _______________________________________________
> NFBAffiliatePresidents mailing list
> NFBAffiliatePresidents at nfbnet.org
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfbaffiliatepresidents_nfbnet.org
> 

-----Inline Attachment Follows-----

_______________________________________________
Ohio-talk mailing list
Ohio-talk at nfbnet.org
http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/ohio-talk_nfbnet.org
To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for Ohio-talk:
http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/options/ohio-talk_nfbnet.org/mbdebus%40yahoo.com

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://nfbnet.org/pipermail/capchapohio_nfbnet.org/attachments/20110117/81e3c4b9/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: 2011-03 Americans with.doc
Type: application/msword
Size: 162304 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://nfbnet.org/pipermail/capchapohio_nfbnet.org/attachments/20110117/81e3c4b9/attachment.doc>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: 2011-00 Washington Seminar	LegislativeAgenda.doc
Type: application/msword
Size: 171008 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://nfbnet.org/pipermail/capchapohio_nfbnet.org/attachments/20110117/81e3c4b9/attachment-0001.doc>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: 2011-01 Technology Bill of Rights	FactSheet.doc
Type: application/msword
Size: 164864 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://nfbnet.org/pipermail/capchapohio_nfbnet.org/attachments/20110117/81e3c4b9/attachment-0002.doc>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: 2011-02 Ensuring Equal Education.doc
Type: application/msword
Size: 163840 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://nfbnet.org/pipermail/capchapohio_nfbnet.org/attachments/20110117/81e3c4b9/attachment-0003.doc>