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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#467886" vlink="#96607D" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Firstly, to knew members, my name is Shane Popplestone, one of the state NFB news line coordinators.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Please distribute the following announcement as appropriate.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’m writing this on my own, after checking services manually myself.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’ll be checking in with newsline myself in the morning to see where services fully stand and I’ll provide an update then.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>You may have noticed over the past week or so that parts of newsline were offline, and not functioning as expected.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On personally checking, the following services seem to be working as of 9:30 PM eastern time, on July 17,, 2024.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The mobile app seems to be back online.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The system responsible for providing newsline to smart displays such as the mantus seems to be functioning.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The after hours support indicates that the alexa service is still offline as of July 15, 2024, it also indicated that sending of braille files to NLS e-readers, etc. was also not functioning but at least my mantus was able to retrieve newsline without a problem so their could be that nobodies updated the status recording.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I do not have my victor stream III connected yet, <span style='font-size:12.0pt'>So I am unable to test this interaction.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I do note that if you access newsline from nfbnewsline.net you will be unable to access this website right now as it seems to still be completely down.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>With nfbnewsline.net being down still, this means I will be unable to retrieve, or modify NFB of Ohio profiles, or add NFB of Ohio members to the system if you need to be added.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’ll write tomorrow with more when I know it.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Shane Popplestone<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="mailto:spopplestone.nfb@gmail.com"><span style='color:blue'>spopplestone.nfb@gmail.com</span></a>s<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>234-716-2208<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>You can live the life you want!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>