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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Hello Fellow Federationists,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Richard and I attended a special conference call this evening with our national president, Mark Riccobono, who updated all affiliate leaders on the status of the Foundation Fighting Blindness (FFB) fundraising campaign called the “How I See It Blindfold Challenge”. As some of you may know, there are videos being produced by sighted people who are blindfolding themselves and attempting to do normal, everyday things. The problem is that they are instilling fear of blindness to the public, in order to get them to donate money to research for a cure. President Riccobono reiterated that, while we support raising money for research, this is not the appropriate way to go about it. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Very shortly, there will be an extension of our original efforts to put more of an emphasis on specific messages to the public as follows: 1. Do not participate in the FFB challenge; 2. Do not donate to the FFB challenge; 3. Educate about the FFB challenge. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>President Riccobono wants to thank everyone who has already participated in our counter-effort, #How EYE See It Campaign. That is with the word “eye” spelled E Y E.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Stay tuned to this list for more information from the NFB national office. We want to show the FFB that we live the life we want.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Sheri Albers, Vice President<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>National Federation of the Blind of Ohio<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>