[Mn-at-large] Fwd: NFB President’s Notebook - week of 10/ 10/2016

[David Andrews]

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>President's Notebook
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>Mark A. Riccobono
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><mailto:officeofthepresident at nfb.org>officeofthepresident at nfb.org
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>(410) 659-9314
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>Dear Fellow Federationists,
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>Happy Meet the Blind Month. I have been on the 
>road for the Federation much of the past ten 
>days. It is good to be back in Baltimore for a 
>little while. There is a lot of exciting 
>Federation work underway, including planning for the future.
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>Prior to the 2017 Washington Seminar, we will 
>plan to have a meeting for all affiliate 
>presidents at the National Federation of the 
>Blind Jernigan Institute. This means that 
>affiliate presidents should expect to be in 
>Baltimore prior to their time in Washington. It 
>also means that we will not have a legislative 
>directors' seminar at our national office in 
>2017. More details regarding the meeting of 
>affiliate presidents will be coming soon. For 
>the sake of your calendar, you should plan to be 
>in Baltimore on the evenings of January 28 and 29.
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>I hope that all of our Federation family members 
>who were in the path of Hurricane Matthew are 
>safe and have not been adversely impacted.
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>News:
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>Presidential Release:
>The October Presidential Release is available at 
><https://nfb.org/images/nfb/audio/pr/pr454.mp3>https://nfb.org/images/nfb/audio/pr/pr454.mp3. 
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>FBB Blog Post:
>As you are all aware, the Foundation Fighting 
>Blindness recently announced the end of the 
>first phase of their campaign that includes the 
>#HowEyeSeeIt video campaign. My most recent blog 
>post, 
><https://nfb.org/blog/vonb-blog/progress-through-telling-our-stories-truth-about-blindness-makes-difference>https://nfb.org/blog/vonb-blog/progress-through-telling-our-stories-truth-about-blindness-makes-difference, 
>was written in response to their announcement.
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>Videos from Marrakesh:
>Last week, leaders of the Federation 
>participated in the first Marrakesh assembly in 
>Geneva. I was there with Fred Schroeder and 
>Scott LaBarre. Below are links to videos that 
>Fred and I recorded for the assembly:
>Tweet and link to my video: 
><https://twitter.com/WIPO/status/781162888841003009>https://twitter.com/WIPO/status/781162888841003009
>Tweet and link to Fred Schroeder's video: 
><https://twitter.com/WIPO/status/781087345399492609>https://twitter.com/WIPO/status/781087345399492609
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>Target Agreement:
>Also, last week we announced that Target Corp. 
>is the first company to 
><https://corporate.target.com/article/2016/09/accessibility-team?>participate 
>in the NFB's new 
><https://nfb.org/national-federation-blind-strategic-nonvisual-access-partner-certification>Strategic 
>Nonvisual Accessibility Partnership (SNAP) 
>initiative. The goal of the SNAP program is to 
>increase the accessibility of technology by 
>developing productive ongoing partnerships with 
>organizations in an effort to assist them with 
>infusing accessibility into their culture.
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>Video:
>The Spanish version of the HAVA video is 
>available on our YouTube channel at 
><https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxlwGbw-CHs>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxlwGbw-CHs.
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>Requests:
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>Recipes for the Braille Monitor Needed:
>Gary Wunder would like you to send him your 
>favorite holiday recipes, not only things that 
>you do for the holidays but party recipes that 
>you would use for New Year's. Please send it to 
><mailto:gwunder at nfb.org>gwunder at nfb.org by November 1.
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>Dates to Keep in Mind:
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>·        <https://nfb.org/state-conventions>Fall Conventions
>·        October 20-23: NFB BELL Academy 
>Training Seminar (Novice/Intermediate) in Baltimore, Maryland
>·        January 30, 2017: Great Gathering-In
>·        January 30-February 2, 2017: 
><https://nfb.org/washington-seminar>Washington Seminar
>·        March 30-31, 2017: Jacobus tenBroek Law Symposium
>·        July 21-29, 2017: Youth Slam, Towson University
>·        September 12-17, 2017: BLAST, Nashville, Tennessee
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>The National Federation of the Blind knows that 
>blindness is not the characteristic that defines 
>you or your future. Every day we raise the 
>expectations of blind people, because low 
>expectations create obstacles between blind 
>people and our dreams. You can live the life you 
>want; blindness is not what holds you back.
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>Mark A. Riccobono, President
>National Federation of the Blind
>200 East Wells Street at Jernigan Place
>Baltimore, Maryland 21230
>Phone: (410) 659-9314
>Fax: (410) 659-5129
>Email: <mailto:officeofthepresident at nfb.org>officeofthepresident at nfb.org
>Twitter: @Riccobono and @NFB_Voice
>Web: <http://www.nfb.org/>www.nfb.org
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