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<h3><b>October 2017 </b> </h3><br>
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<img src="https://nfb.org/images/nfb/images/images/iof-mar-smith.jpg" width=270 height=130 alt="Image of President Mark A. Riccobono">
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<font color="#333333"><b>A MESSAGE FROM OUR PRESIDENT</b><br>
The long white cane has become more than simply an elegant tool for
independence. It has come to represent the can-do, adventurous
spirit of members of the National Federation of the Blind.
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<b>More from President Riccobono</a></b></font> <br>
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<img src="https://nfb.org/images/nfb/images/images/iof--image-girl-in-museum.jpg" width=270 height=130 alt="Image of girl with white cane in a natural history museum">
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<font color="#333333"><b>CELEBRATE WHITE CANE AWARENESS DAY</b> White
Cane Awareness Day is our way of emphasizing the critical role that this
tool plays in living the lives we want and informing the public about its
true significance.
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<img src="https://nfb.org/images/nfb/images/images/iof--image-stem-walking-in-sanfran.jpg" width=270 height=130 alt="image if students walking in San Francisco with long white cane">
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<b>WHITE CANES MAKE A DIFFERENCE </b><br>
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<font color="#333333">It is great to know there are still people in this
world that care about other people besides themselves. Your gift of a
white cane could not have come at a better time for me!
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<b>More about the NFB Free White Cane program</a></b></font> <br>
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<font color="#333333"><b>GIVE THE GIFT OF INDEPENDENCE</b><br>
Support the NFB on
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White Cane Giving Day</a>, distribute information about our Free White
Cane program, and share our new video about how we use our canes.
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<b>HAPPENINGS</b><br>
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<font color="#333333">National Federation of the Blind Applauds
Introduction of AV START</a></font><br>
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<font color="#333333">Emmitt Smith Works with NFB and Aira to Provide
Play-by-Play Description during Football Game</a></font><br>
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<font color="#333333">NAGDU releases New Mobile App</a></font><br>
<a href="https://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=9548&qid=1954639">
<font color="#333333">Blindness Statistics Resource
Updated</a></font><br>
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<b>CALENDAR</b><br>
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<b>OCTOBER - NOVEMBER:
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<u>Fall State Conventions</a></u></b><br>
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<b>NOVEMBER 6-8,
2017:
<a href="https://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=9595&qid=1954639">
<u>Dare to Be Remarkable Training Conference, Baltimore,
MD</a></u></b><br>
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<b>NOVEMBER 15,
2017:
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<u>2018 Dr. Jacob Bolotin Award Competition Begins, Deadline March
31</a></u></b><br>
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<b>JANUARY 29,
2018:
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<u>The Great Gathering-In, Washington Seminar, Washington,
DC</a></u></b><br>
<b>MARCH 22-23,
2018:
<a href="https://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=9594&qid=1954639">
<u>Jacobus tenBroek Disability Law Symposium, Baltimore,
MD</a></u></b><br>
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<font color="#333333">The National Federation of the Blind knows that
blindness is not the characteristic that defines blind people or their
future. Every day we raise the expectations of and for blind people,
because low expectations create obstacles between blind people and our
dreams. We can live the lives we want; blindness is not what holds us
back. Please join us in our work by becoming a member, attending an
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