[Nfb-seniors] Nfb-seniors Digest, Vol 18, Issue 8

[pinkhawaii at gmail.com]

Dear Mr. Ricebono.Why do you want to torture our children with Braille just
to limit their communication to other Brailllers??? Let them learn typing on
e-mail and you open the world to them and to get a job later!!! Also get rid
 of the blind folds for computer learning, it makes it harder! I just heard
from the lions club that the law prohibits the distribution of used glasses
and hearing aids and that the glasses go to foreign countries. Just to have
 a better aim at us???. What lies and myths are we distributing??? There is
no such law according to the legislative reference bureau!!! You want to
make money? Get a real job.           pinkhawaii at gmail.com

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>   1. Two Louis Braille Bicentennial Silver Dollars to Go Into
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> Subject: [Nfb-seniors] Two Louis Braille Bicentennial Silver Dollars
>        to Go Into Space Today
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> Two Louis Braille Bicentennial Silver Dollars to Go Into Space Today
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> National Federation of the Blind Launches Program
>  to Sell 50,000 Coins before the Shuttle Returns
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> KENNEDY SPACE CENTER (May 11, 2009): When the
> space shuttle Atlantis takes off today, it will
> carry two Louis Braille Bicentennial Silver
> Dollars.  This unique coin commemorates the birth
> of the inventor of the reading and writing code
> for the blind and is the first United States coin
> to contain tactile, readable Braille.  At the
> same time, the National Federation of the Blind
> will launch a program to sell 50,000 of these
> limited edition coins to raise funds to advance
> Braille literacy in the United States before the
> shuttle returns to earth in eleven days.
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>
>
> Dr. Marc Maurer, President of the National
> Federation of the Blind, said: ?This is an
> exciting moment because the general public has
> the chance to buy a piece of history?a coin that
> not only represents knowledge and empowerment for
> blind people but that also will visit the Hubbell
> Space Telescope.  Just as the Hubbell telescope
> has advanced our knowledge of the universe,
> purchasing the Louis Braille Bicentennial Silver
> Dollar will advance the cause of equality for the blind.?
>
>
>
> Mark Riccobono, executive director of the
> National Federation of the Blind Jernigan
> Institute, said: ?Blind children in America are
> facing a crisis?only 10 percent of them are
> learning Braille, leaving 90 percent
> illiterate.  It is imperative that the general
> public act swiftly to reverse illiteracy among
> blind children.  That is why we are asking
> everyone to purchase a Louis Braille Bicentennial
> Silver Dollar before Atlantis returns to earth.?
>
>
>
> To purchase the Louis Braille Bicentennial Silver
> Dollar, please visit
> <http://www.usmint.gov/>www.usmint.gov or call
> 1-800-USA-MINT (872-6468).  The proof silver
> dollar is $41.95 and the uncirculated silver
> dollar is $33.95.  For more information about the
> National Federation of the Blind and the Braille
> Readers are Leaders campaign, please visit www.braille.org.
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-- 
Dr. Heinz-Guenther Pink
Advocate and program evaluator for the blind, deaf and handicapped.
Member: NFB Communication Council
and ATRC Advisory Council of the State
Member of Senator Chun Oakland's Deaf-Blind Task Force.
Founder: Computer College of Hawaii since 1963,     pinkhawaii at gmail.com
410 Magellan Ave. Apt.1002, Honolulu, HI. 96813 ,   Tel 808: 537-1875