[nfb-talk] Convention in Orlando for 5 years
d m gina
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Sun Jul 10 21:35:59 UTC 2011
We don't have enough folks in Montana to do this wish.
Even to taking a buss.
Now we will pull something together here for the state convention.
That is good.
Original message:
> Brian:
> You and I are on the same wavelength. I can't speak to California but I know
> it's gotten *much* harder to get *any* contract concessions from hotels here
> in the state of Washington in the time between 1996 and now. It's a whole
> different ballgame. But, like you, I wish we had conventions out here.
> Either that or charter an airline. (grin)
> Mike
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Brian Miller
> Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 2:05 PM
> To: 'NFB Talk Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Convention in Orlando for 5 years
> Hi Mike,
> Well, I'm not one to casually quaff poison, but I wonder if there has been
> much effort to secure sub-$100 rooms outside of the south in recent years
> (Detroit notwithstanding)? We got fabulous rates at the Anaheim Hilton in
> 1996, after all.
> I also think that perhaps $80-$90 could be considered, given that many
> conventioneers share rooms, and, that we've shortened the week by one day.
> I very much appreciate the conscientiousness of our leadership and
> convention planners to keep costs as absolutely low as possible given the
> economic hardships too many of our fellow federationists experience, but I
> do wish we would at least make an effort to spread our wings a little
> further... And perhaps we have done so, but to no avail, I simply don't know
> personally.
> Brian M
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Mike Freeman
> Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 3:55 PM
> To: 'NFB Talk Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Convention in Orlando for 5 years
> I don't think 2018 has been set yet. And the emails here point out that one
> person's tea is another person's poison. But I do wish the conventions were
> out here on the Left Coast occasionally. But unless enough people vote to
> allow rates to go up to over $100 a night at a minimum, it ain't a-gonna
> happen.
> Mike
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of bookwormahb at earthlink.net
> Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 12:25 PM
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> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Convention in Orlando for 5 years
> It would be great to have it in FL in 2018! I'd try to make that one! As to
> the east coast, why not?
> Several cities on the east coast could handle the convention size. As I live
> on the east coast, this would be much more convenient to me. I could get a
> ride or take the train.
> It was in Phililidelphia one year and that would be a convenient place to
> have it again.
> Ashley
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Miller
> Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 1:59 PM
> To: 'NFB Talk Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Convention in Orlando for 5 years
> Hi Mike,
> So we will be in Orlando in 2018?
> I seem to recall that our 1996 convention in Anaheim, the last one on the
> west coast, rivaled, but did not beat, our attendance in New Orleans in
> 1997. And New Orleans, I believe, has not been beat for attendance in the
> 14 years since we were there.
> I have to believe that Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Salt Lake,
> and a half dozen other places could easily handle a convention the size of
> ours. I have to think that it helps our bottom line to be on the east
> coast, or no more than a 2.5 hour flight from it, as we send a whole lot of
> people from Baltimore, which could make a west coast venture expensive.
> Brian M
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Mike Freeman
> Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 12:44 PM
> To: 'NFB Talk Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Convention in Orlando for 5 years
> Ray:
> That's also what I remember.
> I don't remember who asked but the 2013 convention may not be at the Rosen
> Shingle Creek Resort but may be at one of the other rosen properties, as,
> for example, the rosen Center which was one of the overflow hotels. One of
> the contract terms for conventions at rosen properties is that Rosen Hotels
> gets to choose the venue from three (I believe) Rosen properties in the
> area.
> I will forbear from entering extensively into the debate about where
> conventions should be held. In fact, I, too, wish conventions could be held
> in the West. For some of us, airfare tends to erase much of the savings we
> get with our wonderfully low hotel rates. However, as David Andrews has
> pointed out, when we were at hotels West of the Mississippi, we had much
> smaller attendance than we do now. We're too big for many of the hotels we
> used to use and not quite large enough for the megahotels that handle
> conventions of ten thousand or more. As Joseph Carter has pointed out, we
> face a Hobson's choice in trying to negotiate convention venues. And we're
> having to eat shuttle costs.
> But even though cost of air travel to Orlando from Portland, Oregon, was
> outrageous, this was one of the best conventions I've been to in many, many
> years.
> Mike Freeman
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Ray Foret Jr
> Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 9:08 AM
> To: NFB Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Convention in Orlando for 5 years
> I believe the dead zone was on TMobile.
> Sincerely,
> The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!!
> Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!!
> Skype name:
> barefootedray
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> On Jul 10, 2011, at 10:49 AM, Mike Freeman wrote:
>> My AT&T phone worked everywhere I tried it.
>> Mike
>> On Jul 10, 2011, at 0:53, Ray Foret Jr <rforetjr at att.net> wrote:
>>> Not to mention which, one of the dead zones just happens to be right
>>> at
> the platform itself. A rather embarrasing fact for one fellow who was going
> to give a demonstration of the Icon 18 or something.
>>> Sincerely,
>>> The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!!
>>> Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!!
>>> Skype name:
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>>> On Jul 9, 2011, at 11:43 PM, T. Joseph Carter wrote:
>>>> Yes, Mr. Rosen was REALLY impressed with the NFB, and Dr. Maurer was
> really impressed with the facility. Hopefully the two of them can work
> something out to reduce the nickel-and-dime effects somewhat. I certainly
> have no objection to the hotel making money-but the incidental fees are both
> too high and too frequent to be comfortable. There isn't even lobby wifi
> access without a fee, and the hotel is full of cellular dead zones.
>>>> Joseph
>>>> On Sat, Jul 09, 2011 at 11:43:17PM -0400, Brian Miller wrote:
>>>>> Did they say if it was to be at the same hotel all those years?
>>>>> Brian M
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org
>>>>> [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Sherri
>>>>> Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2011 8:00 PM
>>>>> To: NFB Talk Mailing List; blindtlk at nfbnet.org
>>>>> Subject: [nfb-talk] Convention in Orlando for 5 years
>>>>> It was announced at the convention that conventions from 2013
>>>>> through 2017 will be held in Orlando. I wish we could extend the
>>>>> length of the convention back to how it was and NFB would organize
> tours for Wednesday afternoon.
>>>>> That way, people could get excited about Orlando and have time to
>>>>> go
> places.
>>>>> I liked the old schedule much better. If we are going to keep
>>>>> people here for five years in a row, we need to give them ample
>>>>> opportunity to take advantage of all there is to do in Orlando.
>>>>> Besides, I like the banquet the night before the last day of
> convention.
>>>>> Sherri Brun
>>>>> "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
>>>>> John Lennon
>>>>> Check out http://www.raceforindependence.org/goto/Sherri.Brun
>>>>> E-mail: flmom2006 at gmail.com
>>>>> NFBF NewslineR chair
>>>>> www.nfbnewsline.org
>>>>> Vice-president NFB Greater Orlando Chapter http://nfbfgoc.org
>>>>> Secretary FDCP INC www.fdcp.org Chair Orange County Disability
>>>>> Advisory Committee
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