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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Happy Read Across America Day! Please see below for the text of this very informative and timely newsletter. The link I’ve pasted immediately below is to a press
release concerning the Federation’s increased partnership with Amazon to ensure greater content access.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">National Federation of the Blind and Amazon Join Forces to Improve Accessible Reading Experiences for Blind and Low-Vision Students<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><a href="https://nfb.org/national-federation-blind-and-amazon-join-forces-improve-accessible-reading-experiences-blind-and">https://nfb.org/national-federation-blind-and-amazon-join-forces-improve-accessible-reading-experiences-blind-and</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Mark Riccobono, President of the National Federation of the Blind [mailto:IOF@nfb.org]
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 2, 2016 9:22 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Eric Guillory <eguillory@louisianacenter.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> National Federation of the Blind Newsletter - Kicking Glass, Raising the Bar, and Moving Forward<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1 style="margin-right:15.0pt"><strong><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Imagineering Our Future</span></strong><o:p></o:p></h1>
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<p><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:white"> Issue 84</span></strong><span style="color:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">In this issue:</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="#President" title="President's Message">Message from the President</a></span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="#news" target="news" title="What's News at the NFB">What's News at the NFB</a></span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<a href="#Braille"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Braille Certification Training Program</span></a><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<a href="#Education"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Education</span></a><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="#Library" title="Jacobus tenBroek Library">From the tenBroek Library</a></span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="#Market" title="Market">Independence Market</a></span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="#Citation" title="Citation">Citation</a></span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<h2><a name="President"></a><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Message from the President</span><o:p></o:p></h2>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dear Friends:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">How much do low expectations impact our lives? Recently, I have worked with blind people in a couple of states where it is very clear that they are being conditioned by agencies serving the blind to settle for
a bar that is lower than their talent, spirit, and potential should predict. It got me thinking about how strong the barrier is between artificially low expectations and a future full of unimagined opportunities.<span style="color:violet">
</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">During the past few weeks the hashtag #KickingGlass has been making its way around in social media. It struck me that this is also a fitting hashtag for the work of the National Federation of the Blind over the
past month</span>—<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">kicking through the glass ceilings that place artificially low expectations on our participation in society. We secured a landmark victory in Ohio where an employer was artificially limiting people
with disabilities by falsely using an outdated provision of the Fair Labor Standards Act to pay far below minimum wage. In Maryland, the appellate court for the fourth circuit upheld a previous victory giving all people with disabilities in Maryland the right
to a secret, verifiable, absentee ballot. These big glass breaks were accompanied by smaller individual kicks that shattered low expectations faced by individuals. The barriers ranged from the low expectations of internship-placement specialists who denied
a qualified blind dietician access to a required internship slot, to helping a blinded vet get the equal access needed at his university, to assisting newly blind people get connected with blind mentors and quality rehabilitation resources.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Many more blind people have the opportunity to pursue their dreams because of the artificial barriers through which we have already kicked. However, our experience is that there are still far too many barriers
and that the strength, determination, and consistent effort of the National Federation of the Blind is needed to continue #KickingGlass. Please continue to join with us in our quest to knock down all of the artificial barriers on the road to freedom and to
make our understanding of blindness the #RealNormal in today’s society.</span> <o:p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Sincerely,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"><img border="0" width="160" height="40" id="_x0000_i1027" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D1746A.69925C50" alt="Image removed by sender. Graphic: Signature of Mark Riccobono"></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Mark A. Riccobono, President<br>
National Federation of the Blind</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<h2><a name="news"></a><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">What's News at the NFB</span><o:p></o:p></h2>
<p><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Disability Rights Ohio, National Federation of the Blind, and Autistic Self Advocacy Network Celebrate Landmark Decision Ordering Fair Pay from Sheltered Workshop</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">In a <a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4715&qid=1194656" target="_blank" title="Link to the opinion - Fair Pay from Sheltered Workshop">
precedent-setting opinion</a> issued by an administrative law judge from the US Department of Labor (USDOL), three clients have been awarded minimum wage going forward and back pay from Seneca Re-Ad, a sheltered workshop run by the Seneca County Board of Developmental
Disabilities. Follow this link to find out more: <a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4716&qid=1194656" target="_blank" title="Link to the press release in fair pay from sheltered workshop
case">
https://nfb.org/disability-rights-ohio-national-federation-blind-and-autistic-self-advocacy-network-celebrate</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The NFB Applauds Affirmation of Ruling on Access to Absentee Ballots</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The ruling in National Federation of the Blind et al. vs. Linda H. Lamone et al. upheld a lower court ruling requiring the state of Maryland to make an accessible online ballot-marking tool available to blind
voters who wished to vote by absentee ballot. You can read more at this address:
<a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4717&qid=1194656" target="_blank" title="Link to press release of ruling on access to absentee ballots">
https://nfb.org/national-federation-blind-applauds-affirmation-ruling-access-absentee-ballots</a>.
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<h3><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Lawsuit Filed against US Department of Health and Human Services through Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services</span></strong><o:p></o:p></h3>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The National Federation of the Blind and individual plaintiffs Juan Figueroa, Derek Manners, and Martti Mallinen announced the filing of a major federal lawsuit today in US District Court, District of Massachusetts,
Western Division. The lawsuit charges the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) through its sub-agency, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and its CMS sub-contractors, with systemically violating the civil rights of blind Medicare
recipients. More information is available in the full press release at <a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4718&qid=1194656" target="_blank" title="Link to press release on
lawsuit filed charging HSS/CMS with violating civil rights">
https://nfb.org/national-federation-blind-and-disability-advocates-charge-federal-health-agency-civil-rights</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<h3><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Marrakesh Treaty Transmitted to US Senate</span></strong><o:p></o:p></h3>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The National Federation of the Blind applauds President Obama's transmission of the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled
to the United States Senate for ratification, and urges the Senate to act immediately to ratify the treaty. For more information on the treaty, please visit
<a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4719&qid=1194656" target="_blank" title="Link to Marrakesh Treaty information">
https://nfb.org/marrakeshfactsheet</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<h2><a name="Braille"></a><strong><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Braille Certification Training Program</span></strong><o:p></o:p></h2>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Under a contract with the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress (NLS), the National Federation of the Blind administers the courses leading to NLS certification
of Braille transcribers and proofreaders. Successful completion of these rigorous courses requires a great deal of time and effort on the part of the students. We congratulate the following individuals who earned certification during the month of December
2015:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<h3><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Literary Braille Transcribing</span></strong><o:p></o:p></h3>
<h4><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Alabama</span></strong><o:p></o:p></h4>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Anna Marguerite Trotman, Birmingham</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<h4><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">California</span></strong><o:p></o:p></h4>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Gregory Kent Bowlan, Nevada City<br>
Mary Elizabeth Bradweill, Newcastle<br>
Rayvaughn Royce Embry, Camarillo<br>
Michael Karl McNeil, Vacaville<br>
Jaimini Bhavin Mehta, Anaheim<br>
Tanisha Shaunte Robinson, Long Beach</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<h4><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Connecticut</span></strong><o:p></o:p></h4>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Patricia Anne Webb, Gales Ferry</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<h4><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Delaware</span></strong><o:p></o:p></h4>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Jillian Hope Queen, Laurel</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<h4><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Florida</span></strong><o:p></o:p></h4>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Taniuska Ramona Dulin, St. Augustine<br>
LaVancy Prince Lawton, Hastings</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<h4><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Georgia</span></strong><o:p></o:p></h4>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Marcellina Leihuanani Andrews, Douglasville</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<h4><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Indiana</span></strong><o:p></o:p></h4>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Kimberly Jean Taylor, Lafayette</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<h4><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Kentucky</span></strong><o:p></o:p></h4>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Li Zhou, Louisville</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<h4><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Massachusetts</span></strong><o:p></o:p></h4>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Frances Renette Way, Teaticket</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<h4><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Michigan</span></strong><o:p></o:p></h4>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Allison Marie Bandy, Saline</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<h4><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Missouri</span></strong><o:p></o:p></h4>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Bethany Anne Fraley, Kansas City</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<h4><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Nebraska</span></strong><o:p></o:p></h4>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Darci F. Welling, Ashland</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<h4><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Nevada</span></strong><o:p></o:p></h4>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Ryan Oshun Moore, Las Vegas</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<h4><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">North Carolina</span></strong><o:p></o:p></h4>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Michael John Horton, Laurinburg</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<h4><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Ohio</span></strong><o:p></o:p></h4>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Daniel S. Barich, Gambier</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<h4><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">South Carolina</span></strong><o:p></o:p></h4>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Carman Jenkins, Greenwood<br>
LuRene' Kelso, Greenwood<br>
Joshua Cam Truong, Rock Hill</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<h4><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Texas</span></strong><o:p></o:p></h4>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Debbie Lynn Baker, Baytown<br>
Katrina Michelle Hoelscher, Gatesville<br>
Angeline Christine McInnis, Gatesville</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<h4><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Virginia</span></strong><o:p></o:p></h4>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Patricia Lee Droppers, Arlington</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<h4><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Washington</span></strong><o:p></o:p></h4>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Nicole DiFuria McCaslin, Vancouver</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<h2><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></h2>
<h2><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Literary Braille Proofreading</span></strong><o:p></o:p></h2>
<h4><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">South Carolina</span></strong><o:p></o:p></h4>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Denise Edgar Hagan, Greenwood</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<h2> <o:p></o:p></h2>
<h2><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Mathematics (Nemeth) Braille Transcribing</span></strong><o:p></o:p></h2>
<h4><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Indiana</span></strong><o:p></o:p></h4>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Michael Christianson, New Castle</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<h4><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Michigan</span></strong><o:p></o:p></h4>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Edward Nicholas Holtz, Jackson</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<h4><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Ohio</span></strong><o:p></o:p></h4>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Donald T. Sumser, Grafton</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"><img border="0" width="243" height="2" id="_x0000_i1030" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D1746A.69925C50" alt="Image removed by sender. Graphic: section divider"></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<h2><a name="Education" id="Education"><strong><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Education</span></strong></a><o:p></o:p></h2>
<p><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Embrace Your Engineering Quotient (EQ)
</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Are you interested in pursuing work in science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM) after high school? Do you enjoy investing your talent and energy in solving real-world problems? Join the National Federation
of the Blind for one of the 2016 NFB EQ programs</span>—<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">week-long engineering programs for blind and low-vision high school students to be held this summer from June 19-25 and July 31-August 6. At these programs,
you will collaborate with other students to solve problems that exist in developing countries. You will spend the week working on a team to engineer solutions to these problems. Your team will create proposals with accompanying models, which you will pitch
to various stakeholders. After constructing life-size prototypes of your designs, you will test them in authentic settings. You will also have the opportunity to meet and collaborate with a number of engineers from across the country, some of whom happen to
be blind. Throughout the program, students will work to demonstrate mastery of the engineering design processes, as well as engineering concepts such as prototyping, design viability, and data collection and analysis. This program will provide teens with the
opportunity to hone their engineering skills—from technical knowledge, to problem-solving ability, to the understanding that through engineering one can improve other people’s quality of life. The program curriculum was developed by engineering educators and
is aligned with both the Common Core State Standards and the Next Generation Science Standards. To learn more and apply, please visit:
<a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4722&qid=1194656" target="_blank">
http://www.blindscience.org/NFBEQ</a>. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1322855. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s)
and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"><img border="0" width="243" height="2" id="_x0000_i1031" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D1746A.69925C50" alt="Image removed by sender. Graphic: section divider"></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<h2><a name="Library" id="Library"><strong><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">From the tenBroek Library</span></strong></a><o:p></o:p></h2>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Despite the complications caused by a historic blizzard, which dumped about two feet of snow on our nation’s capital, the National Federation of the Blind recently completed another successful Washington Seminar
on January 26-29. This unique and effective event has been going on since the early 1970s and brings Federation members from across the country to speak directly with their elected officials in Congress about important legislative issues. But did you know
that the NFB has had a presence in Washington, DC, almost since its inception in 1940? As early as the spring 1941 session of the Seventy-Sixth Congress, the Federation was sending representatives to lobby for or against bills that could drastically affect
the lives of blind Americans and, in fact, lobbying with the federal government is one of the main reasons that the NFB was founded. The February issue of the
<em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Braille Monitor</span></em> featured an article by the tenBroek Library’s own Anna Kresmer, which details the early efforts of the NFB to lobby for changes in the Social Security Act during our organization’s
first decade. To learn more about the Federation’s early work in Washington, DC, and our first major legislative victory, please read the
<a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4730&qid=1194656" target="_blank" title="Link to Braille Monitor article - Washington Seminar">
<em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Braille Monitor</span></em> article about those efforts</a>. </span> <span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:violet;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"><img border="0" width="243" height="2" id="_x0000_i1032" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D1746A.69925C50" alt="Image removed by sender. Graphic: section divider"></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<h2><a name="Market"></a><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Independence Market</span><o:p></o:p></h2>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The National Federation of the Blind Independence Market has a dual function. It is one of the conduits through which we distribute
<a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4740&qid=1194656" target="_blank" title="Link to NFB literature">
NFB literature</a> to our members and the general public. It is also our <a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4741&qid=1194656" target="_blank" title="Link to NFB Independence Market">
NFB store</a>, which sells mostly low-tech items that enhance the independence of individuals who are blind or have low vision.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">In case the start of daylight saving time on March 13 reminds you that you or someone you know needs a new clock or watch, the NFB Independence Market can help. Many individuals who are new to severe vision loss
or blindness are looking for an independent way to tell the time. Even those of us who have been blind for a long time and use some of the latest smartphones, still frequently prefer having a timepiece independent from our gadget. The Independence Market carries
<a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4742&qid=1194656" target="_blank" title="Link to Braille and talking watches">
a variety of Braille and talking watches</a> as well as <a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4743&qid=1194656" target="_blank" title="Link to talking clocks">
talking clocks</a>. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The advantage of using a <a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4744&qid=1194656" target="_blank" title="Link to Braille watch">
Braille watch</a> is that it gives one a discrete way of telling the time, without being a disruption to others. The term Braille watch is actually a misnomer for a tactile watch. No knowledge of Braille is required to use such a watch; you just have to know
how to interpret an analog watch face. The crystal on a Braille watch typically opens from the six o’clock position, so that the user can touch the hands. The face has tactile markings; usually the twelve o’clock position is labeled with a line or three dots
arranged in a line or pyramid; the three, six, and nine o’clock positions are indicated with two dots; and the other five minute intervals are marked with one dot. The Independence Market carries both men’s and women’s Braille watches with either expansion
or leather bands. The watches range from functional no-name brands to the Seculus (Swiss-made) wrist and pocket watches.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We also carry the <a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4745&qid=1194656" target="_blank" title="Link to Bradley tactile watch">
Bradley tactile watch</a>. This unique timepiece is an innovative fashion watch that was designed with both the sighted and blind in mind. Instead of with traditional watch hands, time is shown by two ball bearings—the one on the face indicating minutes and
the one on the side indicating hours. These two ball bearings are connected by magnets to a watch movement beneath the watch face. The magnets make it so that even if the ball bearings are moved when touched, they spring back to the correct time with a gentle
shake of the wrist. The 1 1/2-inch watch face features distinct tactile markings at five-minute intervals. If you are interested in the Bradley watch, you should contact the Independence Market via phone, as we can offer you a better price than advertised
online.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Many blind people prefer a <a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4746&qid=1194656" target="_blank" title="Link to talking watch">
talking watch</a>, because it can have more features. At the minimum, talking watches give the time at the press of a button. Most also feature an alarm and an optional hourly announcement, which, when turned on, announces the time at the top of each hour.
Some talking watches also announce the date, have multiple alarms and feature a stopwatch. The Independence Market carries a variety of talking watches with a combination of features and styles for both women and men.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We also sell a number of different
<a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4743&qid=1194656" target="_blank" title="Link to talking clocks">
talking clocks</a>. As with the talking watches, the clocks announce the time at the touch of a button. Many also feature an alarm and an hourly announcement function. Some also can give the date and may have multiple alarms and a stop watch. Clocks range from
keychain and travel clocks to desktop models. The larger clocks tend to have a bigger visual display. Both digital and analog displays are available.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We have just released our winter 2016 catalog update. You may download a Microsoft Word or BRF version from
<a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4748&qid=1194656" target="_blank" title="Link to the Independence Market website">
our website</a> or request our catalog, or just the supplement, in print or Braille by contacting the Independence Market.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">For more information about any of the clocks and watches, as well as any of the other items available from the NFB Independence Market, please contact us
<a href="mailto:independencemarket@nfb.org?body=javascript%3Avoid(0)" title="Link to Independence Market email">
via email</a> or by phone at (410) 659-9314, extension 2216. Our staff will be glad to assist you during regular business hours.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"><img border="0" width="243" height="2" id="_x0000_i1033" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D1746A.69925C50" alt="Image removed by sender. Graphic: section divider"></span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<h2><a name="Advocacy" id="Advocacy"><strong><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Advocacy</span></strong></a><o:p></o:p></h2>
<p><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Self-Service Kiosks in Healthcare Settings
</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The NFB is investigating the accessibility of self-service healthcare kiosks used at doctors’ offices, pharmacies, hospitals, and urgent care facilities. We are currently seeking feedback from members regarding
kiosks used for check-in purposes, as well as those used to provide basic health screening services, such as monitoring blood pressure and temperature. These kiosks have become prevalent within the healthcare industry and are oftentimes inaccessible, forcing
blind patients to share their private heaIth information with sighted strangers in order to enter the data and receive medical care. If you recently visited a healthcare setting and were prompted to use a healthcare kiosk, the NFB needs to hear from you. Please
contact Valerie Yingling, paralegal, at (410) 659-9314, extension 2440, to share this information.
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"><img border="0" width="243" height="2" id="_x0000_i1034" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D1746A.69925C50" alt="Image removed by sender. Graphic: section divider"></span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<h2><a name="Access"></a><strong><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Access Technology</span></strong><o:p></o:p></h2>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">With five presentations in the works for the Thirty-First Annual International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference (CSUN), the Access Technology Team has been busy doing testing and gathering information
on the topics we will cover. Those topics will be optical character recognition on mobile and desktop, technology for increasing Braille literacy, and mainstream reading platforms for blind and visually impaired students. The team is excited to be working
with co-presenters Yue-Ting Siu from San Francisco State University & tplus educational vision services, and Richard Orme from the DAISY Consortium for those last two presentations. In addition, Anil Lewis, executive director of the NFB Jernigan Institute,
will be co-presenting with Mike May, longtime pioneer in navigation for the blind. Their presentation is titled Facilitating Accessible Indoor Navigation Technology.
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Amid the frantic preparations for the CSUN, the access technology team has also written a review of the Orion TI30XS talking scientific calculator, which you can find at
<a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4747&qid=1194656" target="_blank" title="Link to scientific calculator review">
https://nfb.org/blog/atblog/orion-ti30xs-multiview-talking-scientific-calculator</a>. Testing of the new twenty-cell Transforming Braille Display also continues apace, and we look forward to seeing the final product released later this spring.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"><img border="0" width="243" height="2" id="_x0000_i1035" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D1746A.69925C50" alt="Image removed by sender. Graphic: section divider"></span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<h2><a name="calendar"></a><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">NFB Calendar</span><o:p></o:p></h2>
<h3><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Upcoming Events</span></strong><o:p></o:p></h3>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">March 3-5: NFB STEM2U San Francisco</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">March 31: NFB Scholarship Program application deadline,
<a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4731&qid=1194656" target="_blank" title="Link to scholarship application and information">
https://nfb.org/scholarships</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">March 31-April 1: 2016 Jacobus tenBroek Disability Law Symposium; Diversity in the Disability Rights Movement: Working Together to Achieve the Right to Live in the World,
<a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4732&qid=1194656" target="_blank" title="Link to Jacobus tenBroek Disability Law Symposium information">
https://nfb.org/law-symposium</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">April 15: Dr. Jacob Bolotin Award Program nomination deadline,
<a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4733&qid=1194656" target="_blank" title="Link to Bolotin Award Program">
https://nfb.org/bolotin-award-main</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">April 25: NFB EQ student application deadline,
<a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4734&qid=1194656" target="_blank" title="Link to NFB EQ student application">
https://nfb.org/nfb-eq-form</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">May 1: Distinguished Educator of Blind Students Award application deadline,
<a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4735&qid=1194656" target="_blank" title="Link to Distinguished Educator Award program information">
https://nfb.org/images/nfb/publications/bm/bm15/bm1511/bm151117.htm</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">May 17-20: BLAST, Chicago</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">May 19-21: NFB STEM2U Minneapolis</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">May 21-26: International Council on English Braille 6th General Assembly,
<a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4736&qid=1194656" target="_blank" title="Link to ICEB general assembly information">
http://www.iceb.org/iceb6thga.html</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">June 19-25: NFB EQ (first iteration)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p>J<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">une 30-July 5: National Federation of the Blind Convention, Rosen Shingle Creek, Orlando, Florida,
<a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4737&qid=1194656" target="_blank" title="Link to national convention information">
https://nfb.org/convention</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">July 31-August 6: NFB EQ (second iteration)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">August 18-25: WBU-ICEVI General Assembly, Rosen Centre Hotel, Orlando, Florida,
<a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4738&qid=1194656" target="_blank" title="Link to WBU/ICEVI General Assembly information">
www.wbu-icevi2016.org</a> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"> <span style="border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">
<img border="0" width="243" height="2" id="_x0000_i1036" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D1746A.69925C50" alt="Image removed by sender. Graphic: section divider"></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<h2><a name="citation"></a><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Citation</span><o:p></o:p></h2>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Although our past is filled with the pain of restriction and denial, our future will be constructed according to an expanded and inclusive standard that we will determine. It can and it will offer equal access
to information presented in forms that we can comprehend. It can and it will incorporate employment opportunities commensurate with our innate abilities and training. It can and it will make education available that will take advantage of the fullest range
of our talent. Our future can do these things, and it will do these things because we have the energy, the commitment, the determination, and the love essential to make it happen.
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">— Marc Maurer. "<a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4739&qid=1194656" target="_blank" title="Link to "The Intersection of Law and Love"">The Intersection of Law and Love</a>." 2012
NFB National Convention, Dallas, Texas, July 5, 2012</span>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center;azimuth: center"> <span style="border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">
<img border="0" width="243" height="2" id="_x0000_i1037" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D1746A.69925C50" alt="Image removed by sender. Graphic: section divider"></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Thank you for reading the NFB’s
<em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Imagineering Our Future</span></em>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4053&qid=692780" target="_blank" title="Link to Straight Talk About Vision Loss">Archive of Straight Talk About Vision Loss
videos</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4054&qid=692780" target="_blank" title="Link to National Center for Blind Youth">National Center for Blind Youth in Science</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Support the National Federation of the Blind through the <a href="http://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4059&qid=692780" target="_blank" title="Link to Imagination Fund">Imagination
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