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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Greetings, <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We are happy to announce the pre-order for our 2022 Snarky
Guide Dog T-Shirts has begun.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">This T-shirt is being sold as a fundraiser for the New York
Association of Guide Dog Users. however, as was the case last year, the shirt
does not contain the logo of the New York Association of Guide Dog Users, the
National Association of Guide Dog Users, the NFB, or any other organization. We
encourage individuals to join organizations such as the NFB, the ACB, etc., or
the specialized divisions within such organizations, such as NAGDU, GDUI, etc.
However, we wanted to provide a T-shirt that would have appealed to, and be
applicable to, guide and service dog handlers, no matter what organization(s) they
choose to belong to and no matter what school their dog is from. Upon request,
we’re happy to provide information about the New York Association of Guide Dog Users,
and we certainly wouldn’t refuse a donation at any time that is not related to
the purchase of a T-shirt. However, this fundraising campaign is purely based
on our annual T-shirt sale. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">This year’s shirt is made of the same material as last year’s
shirt. That is, thin, of medium to high quality, and very soft. This year we
have opted for a shirt that is black, rather than blue. Most of the writing on
the shirt this year is produced in puff ink, just like the writing last year,
although our color is a very light, very bright blue. In addition to the puff
ink there is also some glitter ink in silver. The distribution of the different
inks and colors will be as follows: <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">A black shirt feature’s the following message “It isn’t dog
fur its guide dog GLITTER!” This message is presented on several lines, with a
left alignment, so that it appears as the body of a letter, albeit a very short
letter, where a graphic appears in the positioning, preceded by a dash, such
that it looks like it serves as a signature for the letter. The graphic is a
large paw print, facing with the toes upward, with braille lettering contained
within the paw print, the letters LOVE on the toes from left to right, and the
word DOG inside the heel of the paw print. The paw print, the braille within
it, the – preceding it, and the word GLITTER! are all presented in the silver
glitter ink, with the rest being presented in the light blue puff ink described
above. The format of the shirts makes it look as if the message is being sent
from the guide dog to the general public, having been signed with a paw print
reading love dog, Where dog functions as the sender, and love functions as the
degreeting, such as sincerely, cordially, etc. this T-shirt is a little bit
more flashy than last year, but we have selected colors and formatting that
tend to be quite gender neutral, and could read a little bit on the masculine
side, with the black, blue, and silver color combination. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We strive to use messages that are fun, so that our
purchasers can enjoy wearing the shirt, so that our potential buyers will want
to purchase the shirt in the first place, and so that the public is more likely
to not only enjoy the shirt but be open minded and taken its message. While it
is true that it is not acceptable to bring a truly filthy dog into a public
place, regardless of the ADA and other such laws, it is equally true that a well-groomed
and clean dog, will shed a small amount of fur. This is not the toxic
substance, or menace to society, which some peoples over the top reactions
would seem to indicate. We want to send a message, in a fun and snarky way,
that a few guard hairs from the coat of a dog that is clean, well-behaved, well
groomed, and working hard, should be seen in a neutral, or even perhaps, in a
fun or appreciative way by those who happen to be blessed with a small amount
of guide dog glitter in their life when they encounter a guide dog team.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">This year our shirts will be a little less expensive if you
purchase more than one. A single shirt will be $22, and any additional shirts
will be only $20 apiece. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">If you would like to purchase a shirt, you can use PayPal to
<a href="mailto:NYAGDUDivision@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">NYAGDUDivision@gmail.com</span></a>. If you do not have a
PayPal account, and would like help setting one up, please feel free to reach
out and we will help you with that. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">If you do not have, and would not like to have, a PayPal
account, please contact me at <a href="mailto:heather.l.bird@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Heather.L.Bird@gmail.com</span></a> so
that we can work out an alternative payment arrangement. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">These prices include the price of the shirt, whether you
need an extra small up to a 4X. While we do pay a slight up charge to the
manufacturers of the shirts for plus size shirts, we do not pass this cost
along to the purchasers of our shirts, no matter what size they happen to be.
This cost also already includes the shipping, and there will be no additional
shipping cost, whether you purchase one shirt or 10, whether you are a mile
away from us or all the way across the country. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We are utilizing a pre-order. Such as the one we used last
year, which will be three weeks in length this year, as we had many individuals
who found out about the shirts after we had already placed our order with the
manufacturer. Many of which took place within 1 to 7 days after we ended the
pre-order. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The pre-order period begins today, Friday, July 29. Therefore,
will end, with us placing our order for the shirts, on Friday, August 19th. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The turnaround time for the shirts to be completed should be
like last year, or shorter, as some supply chain issues have been improving,
and we will not have winter weather to contend with to impact the shipping of
the shirts to our manufacturer, or our shipping of the shirts out to those who
purchase them. Everyone who purchases a shirt will receive an email when we
order the shirts, another email when we receive the shirts, and an email when
their shirt is shipped. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Last year, we purchased the type of shipping that included
tracking information. Out of around 90 shirts ordered, we had a grand total of
one shirt that did not arrive. And the tracking information for that shirt,
didn’t clarify things for us, as the date and time on which it was delivered,
did not enable the individual to find the shirt which may have been
misdelivered, porch pirated or otherwise gone astray. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">My experience with the blindness community, in particular,
the guide dog using community within the blind community, has been
overwhelmingly positive, so we will be operating on the honor system. This year
we will not be utilizing tracking information, and if you have not received
your shirt within the timeframe of the estimated shipping date we sent you,
please contact us, and we will do what we can to locate the shirt, and if we
cannot, then we will send out a replacement. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">To place an order, please send an email to <a href="mailto:NYAGDUDivision@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">NYAGDUDivision@gmail.com</span></a>
and let us know the following information: <span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Your full name as you would like it
to appear on the shipping address, especially important if you’re purchasing it
as a gift and don’t want someone else living with you to open it and find it
prematurely. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We will need your full shipping
address including ZIP Code so that we send it to the right place. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We need to know how many shirts you
would like to order, and what quantity of each size you need, especially if you
are purchasing multiple shirts, and even more so if you are purchasing multiple
shirts in a variety of sizes. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Please provide us with your email
address that you would like notifications to be sent to, especially if this
email address is not the one from which you are emailing us initially,
otherwise we will simply capture that from your email. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We would also like a phone number,
so that we can reach out to you if we need to update you on anything specific
to your shipment that will not go out in the large, blind, carbon copy email
that will go to all individuals in a particular batch of shirts being shipped. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">You can also send questions to this email address, but if
you need help specifically with arranging a different payment method than
PayPal, please reach out to me at <a href="mailto:heather.l.bird@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Heather.L.Bird@gmail.com</span></a>.
Once you have sent us your information, please send your payment, to PayPal at
the same address to it you sent your email that is <a href="mailto:NYAGDUDivision@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">NYAGDUDivision@gmail.com</span></a>. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Would you like to win a free T-shirt, or, an additional
shirt for free to your order? Then please see below. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">If you would like to be entered into a drawing for one free
T-shirt, in the size of your choice, please answer the following short survey
questions, in an email to <a href="mailto:heather.l.bird@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Heather.L.Bird@gmail.com</span></a>. I
promise, folks, these are not hard, or invasive questions. And if you answer
all of them, your name will be entered into a drawing for a free shirt, and we will
conduct that drawing before we order the shirts, so that we can add to the
order the free shirt in the size of the individual’s choice who has one said
shirt. you do not need to be purchasing one of our shirts this year to fill out
the survey and be entered to receive a free shirt from this year’s order. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>1.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Last year, many people missed out on
ordering a shirt, or have expressed that they wish they had ordered an
additional shirt. If we were to do a re-print of last year shirt, would you be
wanting to purchase one? Just indicate a number from zero to however many you
might want to buy, if we were to do such a reorder of last year shirt, in
addition to this year shirt. Obviously, zero represents that you would not want
a shirt, and whatever number above zero you might indicate would let us know
roughly how many people might be wanting approximately how many shirts from a
re-order.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>2.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">This year shirt is worded in a way
that is very specific to Guide Dogs and Guide Dog handlers. We have an alternative
shirt design, with the same message, and logo, except, that it substitutes the
words Service Dog Sparkle in place of Guide Dog Glitter.<span> </span>You’ve got to love the alliteration. Please
indicate with a number, zero representing no interest, and other numerical values
representing the number of shirts that you might want to purchase, or, the
number of people you know, who are service dog handlers, who might appreciate
an alternative printing of this your shirt, that says service, rather than
Guide, dog on it. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>3.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We will never harvest anyone’s data,
and would not in a million years, dream of asking you to provide us with
anyone’s contact information, however, you should please feel free to forward
this along to anyone who might be interested, not only in a guide dog related
shirt, but also in the service dog related option, so that they may, if they
wish, send us their survey answers especially regarding this question and the
previous question. if you know of, any lists, forums, or other venues, where
advertising is allowed, this is very important, that are open to service dog
handlers of all types, where we might be able to promote an alternative release
of the shirt with the service dog wording, please share the name or names of
such venues with us so that we might post about such an alternative release in
the future. We absolutely will not post any emails advertising this or future
shirts on any lists where it is indicated that either sales, or fundraisers,
are not allowed. We would love to get the word out, but we do not want to cause
any hassle, or extra work, for list or group moderators. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">And there you have it folks, if you have any additional
questions regarding this year’s T-shirt, please feel free to reach out, and
please feel free to share this wherever appropriate, and with whomever you
think might be interested. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Heather Bird<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">President<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">New York Association of Guide Dog Users<span></span></span></p>
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