[Mn-at-large] Fwd: NFB President’s Notebook - week of 03/ 05/2018

Wed Mar 7 02:26:20 UTC 2018

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>President's Notebook
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>National Federation of the Blind
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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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>March is a busy month in the National Federation 
>of the Blind. We had the Eighty-Sixth Leadership 
>Seminar here at the national headquarters, and 
>we have a number of events coming up later this 
>month. The spring convention season has started 
>and registration is now open for our national convention.
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>A member recently asked me how long our building 
>would be closed for remodeling. I was surprised 
>to get this question. Although the tenBroek Fund 
>has taken on some remodeling projects, we do not 
>expect any of the work to close our building or 
>even disrupt our operations—except for kicking 
>up some dust herre and there. If you hear 
>members wondering about our building being 
>closed, please let them know that we plan to 
>continue to be open for business, with little 
>impact from the construction. On a side note, we 
>did experience several hours without power last 
>Friday due to the wind storm, but the Leadership 
>Seminar was unfazed by the outageâ€”although 
>many of our staff members who work on computers 
>did find some time to take care of Federation 
>business that does not require electricity.
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>I am starting to turn my attention to the 
>national convention, and I am eager to have your 
>suggestions for general session items. Please 
>send them along very soon as the convention will be here before we know it.
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>Do not forget to move your clocks forward an 
>hour this weekend or, since your clock will 
>adjust for you, do not forget that you will lose an hour of sleep this weekend.
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>News:
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>Presidential Release:
>The <https://nfb.org/presidential-releases>March 
>Presidential Release is available in English and 
>Spanish. Transcripts will be posted as soon as they are available.
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>National Convention:
><https://convention.nfb.org/>Preregistration is 
>open for the <https://nfb.org/convention>2018 
>National Federation of the Blind National Convention.
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>Legislative Action:
>Our legislative priorities continue to gain 
>momentum in both the House and Senate. In the 
>House, the Aim High Act has sixty-nine 
>cosponsors, of which the two most recent are 
>Derek Kilmer of Washington and Dwight Evans of 
>Pennsylvania. In the Senate, the Access 
>Technology Affordability Act has a total of ten 
>cosponsors, of which the most recent are Gary 
>Peters of Michigan, Deb Fischer of Nebraska, and 
>James Inhofe of Oklahoma. Special thanks to 
>Nebraska and Oklahoma for securing the support 
>of these two influential senators.
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>Dates to Keep in Mind:
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>    * March 31, 2018: 
> <https://nfb.org/scholarships>Deadline for scholarship applications
>    * March 22-23, 2018: 
> <https://nfb.org/law-symposium>Jacobus tenBroek Disability Law Symposium
>    * April 15, 2018: Deadline for 
> <https://nfb.org/bolotin-award-main>2018 Dr. Jacob Bolotin Award competition
>    * July 3-8, 2018: 
> <https://nfb.org/convention>National Federation 
> of the Blind National Convention, Orlando, Florida
>    * July 29-August 4, 2018: <http://www.blindscience.org/nfbeq>NFB EQ
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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
>200 East Wells Street, Baltimore, MD 21230
>(410) 659-9314 | 
><mailto:officeofthepresident at nfb.org>officeofthepresident at nfb.org
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>The National Federation of the Blind is a 
>community of members and friends who believe in 
>the hopes and dreams of the nationâ€™s blind. 
>Every day we work together to help blind people live the lives they want.
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