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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>I don’t think everyone sees this so I thought I would send it along. There are headlines and then links to full articles. I think there are often things in this that it is good for all of us to read.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Cindy Lou Ray<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> National Federation of the Blind [mailto:webmaster@nfb.org] <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, December 15, 2017 3:28 AM<br><b>To:</b> Cindy Ray <cindyray@gmail.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Understand Our Passion<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;background:#FEFFFF'><tr style='height:15.0pt'><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:15.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:0%'><span style='font-size:1.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=0 style='width:6.25in'><tr><td style='background:#FEFFFF;padding:7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=left width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr style='height:119.25pt'><td width="100%" valign=top style='width:100.0%;background:#FEFFFF;padding:0in 0in 18.75pt 0in;height:119.25pt'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=9835&qid=2070703"><span style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=100 height=100 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:~WRD270.jpg" alt="Image removed by sender. National Federation of the Blind Logo - Go to NFB.org"></span></a><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=left width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr style='height:61.5pt'><td width="100%" valign=top style='width:100.0%;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:61.5pt'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td style='padding:.75pt 3.0pt 0in .75pt'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><img border=0 width=100 height=100 id="_x0000_i1026" src="cid:~WRD270.jpg" alt="Image removed by sender. Imagineering Our Future"></span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><p align=right style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:right;line-height:125%'><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#00005B'>December 2017 </span></strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#00005B'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:center;line-height:155%'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:155%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#F2F0F2'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td style='background:#FEFFFF;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=left width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr style='height:15.0pt'><td width="50%" valign=top style='width:50.0%;background:#FEFFFF;padding:11.25pt 11.25pt 11.25pt 11.25pt;height:15.0pt'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><img border=0 width=100 height=100 id="_x0000_i1027" src="cid:~WRD270.jpg" alt="Image removed by sender. Image of President Mark A. Riccobono in santa hat"></span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:155%'><strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:155%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>A MESSAGE FROM OUR PRESIDENT</span></strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:155%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#A7A7A7'><br></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:155%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>“The season of giving” is always in bloom in the National Federation of the Blind. When people ask me what distinguishes our organization, I always say that our passion is driven by the spirit of giving back... </span><strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:155%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0075C9'><a href="https://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=9836&qid=2070703">more from President Riccobono</a></span></strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:155%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#A7A7A7'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width="50%" valign=top style='width:50.0%;background:#FEFFFF;padding:11.25pt 11.25pt 11.25pt 11.25pt;height:15.0pt'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><img border=0 width=100 height=100 id="_x0000_i1028" src="cid:~WRD270.jpg" alt="Image removed by sender. image of Maureen Nietfield accepting 2017 scholarship"></span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:155%'><strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:155%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>WHY I AM A FEDERATIONIST</span></strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:155%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#A7A7A7'><br></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:155%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>After a difficult few years in my life, I opened a case with vocational rehabilitation and decided on blindness training at one of our NFB training centers. I had no idea that I had irrevocably changed my life... </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:155%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#A7A7A7'><a href="https://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=9837&qid=2070703"><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0075C9;text-decoration:none'>more from Maureen</span></strong></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td style='background:#FEFFFF;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=left width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr style='height:213.75pt'><td width="50%" valign=top style='width:50.0%;background:#FEFFFF;padding:11.25pt 11.25pt 0in 11.25pt;height:213.75pt'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><img border=0 width=100 height=100 id="_x0000_i1029" src="cid:~WRD270.jpg" alt="Image removed by sender. Image of nick and santa"></span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:155%'><strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:155%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:#FEFFFF'>LETTERS FROM SANTA</span></strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:155%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#A7A7A7'><br></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:155%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>The NFB joins the North Pole by sending out letters from Santa in Braille. Imagine what a joy it will be for hundreds of blind children to receive a letter they can read for themselves from Saint Nick...</span><strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:155%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0075C9'> <a href="https://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=9838&qid=2070703">more about Santa letters</a></span></strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:155%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#A7A7A7'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width="50%" valign=top style='width:50.0%;background:#FEFFFF;padding:11.25pt 11.25pt 11.25pt 11.25pt;height:213.75pt'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><img border=0 width=100 height=100 id="_x0000_i1030" src="cid:~WRD270.jpg" alt="Image removed by sender. action item image"></span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:155%'><strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:155%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>ACTION ITEM</span></strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:155%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#A7A7A7'><br></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:155%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Help us to send letters from Santa to children and help blind people like Maureen live the lives they want by <a href="https://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=9839&qid=2070703">contributing to our annual end-of-year campaign</a>... </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:155%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#A7A7A7'><a href="https://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=9840&qid=2070703"><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0075C9;text-decoration:none'>more ways to give</span></strong></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td style='background:#FEFFFF;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=left width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr style='height:15.0pt'><td width="100%" style='width:100.0%;background:#FEFFFF;padding:0in 11.25pt 3.75pt 11.25pt;height:15.0pt'><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:155%'><strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:155%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>HAPPENINGS</span></strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:155%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:155%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:155%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><a href="https://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=9841&qid=2070703">Senators Warren and Hatch Introduce New Higher Education Legislation</a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:155%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:155%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><a href="https://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=9842&qid=2070703">Organization Says Senate Tax Bill Disastrous for Education, Employment of Blind Americans</a><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:155%'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:155%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td style='background:#FEFFFF;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=left width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr style='height:15.0pt'><td width="100%" style='width:100.0%;background:#FEFFFF;padding:0in 11.25pt 0in 11.25pt;height:15.0pt'><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:155%'><strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:155%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>CALENDAR</span></strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:155%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:15.0pt'><td style='background:#0075C9;padding:0in 11.25pt 0in 11.25pt;height:15.0pt'><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:155%;background:#0075C9'><strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:155%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#FEFFFF'>JAN 29, 2018: <a href="https://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=9843&qid=2070703"><span style='color:#F8EFD7'>Great Gathering-In, Washington, DC</span></a></span></strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:155%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#FEFFFF'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:15.0pt'><td style='background:#FEFFFF;padding:0in 11.25pt 0in 11.25pt;height:15.0pt'><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:155%'><strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:155%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>JAN 29-FEB 1, 2018: <a href="https://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=9843&qid=2070703"><span style='color:#1A5632'>Washington Seminar, Washington, DC</span></a></span></strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:155%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:15.0pt'><td style='background:#0075C9;padding:0in 11.25pt 0in 11.25pt;height:15.0pt'><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:155%;background:#0075C9'><strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:155%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#FEFFFF'>MAR 22-23, 2018: <a href="https://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=9844&qid=2070703"><span style='color:#F8EFD7'>Jacobus tenBroek Disability Law Symposium, Baltimore, MD</span></a></span></strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:155%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#FEFFFF'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:15.0pt'><td style='background:#FEFFFF;padding:0in 11.25pt 0in 11.25pt;height:15.0pt'><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:155%'><strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:155%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>MAR 31, 2018: <a href="https://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=9845&qid=2070703"><span style='color:#1A5632'>Deadline for Scholarship Applications</span></a></span></strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:155%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:15.0pt'><td style='background:#0075C9;padding:0in 11.25pt 0in 11.25pt;height:15.0pt'><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:155%'><strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:155%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#FEFFFF'>APR 15, 2018: <a href="https://nfb.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=9846&qid=2070703"><span style='color:#F8EFD7'>Dr. Jacob Bolotin Award Competition Application Deadline</span></a></span></strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:155%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#FEFFFF'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:15.0pt'><td style='background:#FEFFFF;padding:0in 11.25pt 0in 11.25pt;height:15.0pt'><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:155%'><strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:155%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>JUL 3-8, 2018: </span></strong><strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:155%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1A5632'> <u>National Convention, Orlando, FL</u></span></strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:155%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td style='background:#FEFFFF;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=left width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr style='height:15.0pt'><td width="100%" valign=top style='width:100.0%;background:#FEFFFF;padding:18.75pt 11.25pt 18.75pt 11.25pt;height:15.0pt'><p align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:center;line-height:155%'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:155%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>The National Federation of the Blind knows that blindness is not the characteristic that defines blind people or their future. 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