From dsmithnfb at gmail.com Sat Sep 4 19:07:54 2010 From: dsmithnfb at gmail.com (Darian Smith) Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2010 12:07:54 -0700 Subject: [Uabs] Nabs membership september conference Call: Scholastic success (for high school, college and graduate students) Message-ID: Hello Fellow Students, Are you in the throws of scholastic rigger? Currently ? pondering on questions about classes you are taking and how to navigate them successfully? ???????????????? Perhaps you are a high school student going through the frustrations of ?lowered expectations?, such as dealing with P.E. teachers that won't let you take part in sports, an English/ math teacher that is not pushing you towards the best of your ability, or any other number of frustrations, while you are working towards your application and attendance in College/University.Maybe, you?are already enrolled in higher education and are trying to figure out how accommodations are?dealt with differently from what you are used to. Potentially this includes issues with navigating campus, as well as the ?red tape? of higher education. Or, on an off chance, you fall into a third group, where you are trying to pursue the seemingly over looked area of how graduate education and expectations- dealing with the GRE?s and other substantive information, is different than navigating through campus as an Undergraduate? If any of the above situations resonate with you, or if you are just a student trying to learn how to be better prepared? This call is for YOU! Call topic- How to navigate and succeed in higher education ?Why?- will give students in the appropriate educational? stage a chance to talk with someone who? is either going through what you are going through, or someone who will have just gone through what you are going through and? will speak to the ability to be successful in school as a blind person. Where?- (712) 775-7100 and entering pass code257963. When?- Sunday, September 12, 6p.m.? EST. This call will be divided intothree mini-topics with three different guest speakers; High school, college/ university and? Graduate School. A question and answer session will follow. The times allotted to each specific ?mini-topic? will be adjusted as ?popularity and need? dictate. part of the call. As always, we? appreciate and look forward to your questions, ideas and participation. Let us work together towards successfully changing what it means to be on terms of equality with other fellow students! Best Wishes, -- Darian Smith Skype: The_Blind_Truth Windows Live: Lightningrod2010 at live.com Follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/goldengateace ?We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.? - Teilhard de Chardin From dsmithnfb at gmail.com Sat Sep 4 20:39:51 2010 From: dsmithnfb at gmail.com (Darian Smith) Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2010 13:39:51 -0700 Subject: [Uabs] nabs membership september conference call: Scholastic success (for non-traditional students) Message-ID: Hello Fellow Students, Are you in the throws of scholastic rigger? Currently ? pondering on questions about classes you are taking and how to navigate them successfully? Do you consider yourself a ?non-traditional? student, and perhaps feel that you deal with a slightly different gambit of issues than other college/ university students? The NABS Membership Committee will be hosting a membership call for non-traditional blind students to get together and discuss issues and get to know each other. The call will feature an individual who self identifies as a non-traditional student, and believes that age is but a number?and is taking their?own path to achieving their academic goals and dreams.? The call is directed at any and all non- traditional nabsters. What? - Successfully Navigating Higher Education as a blind ?non-traditional student? Where? - (712)775-7100 Please enter access code- 257963# When? - Sunday, September 12th. 7:30 EST. The length of the call will depend mainly on the number of participants within the call. The call is scheduled any where from 30 Mins, to an hour.? We look forward to speaking with you at that point. As always, we?appreciate and look forward to your questions, ideas and participation. Let us work together towards successfully changing what it means to be on terms of equality with other fellow students! Best Wishes, NABS Membership Committee -- Darian Smith Skype: The_Blind_Truth Windows Live: Lightningrod2010 at live.com Follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/goldengateace ?We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.? - Teilhard de Chardin From dsmithnfb at gmail.com Thu Sep 9 14:53:09 2010 From: dsmithnfb at gmail.com (Darian Smith) Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 07:53:09 -0700 Subject: [Uabs] Hey... don't forget, we're voting again! Message-ID: Hey fellow nabsters! As you know by now, we are at it again; we are pushing twards that pepsi refresh grant to help us fund youth slam! Many of you have heard of the amazing opportunity this has been for our youth in the past, many of you have been those youth and many others have been mentors in this exciting program. Well, we have the opportunity to make youth slam 2011 a reality! How; well I?ll tell you!... Vote! Vote! Vote! Actually, it is just that simple, because you can vote in three different ways as mentioned below: 1. Text Message: Simply put the number 101913 into the body of a text, and send that text to 73774. *Standard text-messaging rates apply 2. Go to www.refresheverything.com/nfbyouthslam , click the link to vote, and then choose the log in using Facebook option. Once you?re successfully logged in, click the vote button on our page again and the vote link will disappear and you'll have logged your vote! 3. Go to www.refresheverything.com/nfbyouthslam , click the link to vote, and then choose the sign in directly with Pepsi option. Once you?re successfully logged in, click the vote button on our page again and the vote link will disappear and you'll have logged your vote! I?ve been voting, and I?m going to hand out flyers to people on my campus, and ask friends to get in on the voting too! Thank you all for helping to make this a reality! -- Darian Smith Skype: The_Blind_Truth Windows Live: Lightningrod2010 at live.com Follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/goldengateace ?We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.? - Teilhard de Chardin From dsmithnfb at gmail.com Mon Sep 20 17:52:09 2010 From: dsmithnfb at gmail.com (Darian Smith) Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 10:52:09 -0700 Subject: [Uabs] Let's keep voting! Message-ID: Hey fellow nabsters! ?As you know by now, we are at it again; we are ?pushing twards that pepsi refresh grant ?to help us fund youth slam! ?Many of you have heard of ?the amazing opportunity ?this has been for ?our ?youth in the past, many of you have been those youth and many others have been mentors in this exciting ?program. ?Well, we have ?the opportunity ?to make youth slam 2011 a reality! How; well I'll tell you!... ?Vote! Vote! Vote! ?Actually, it is just that simple, because you can vote in three different ways as mentioned below: 1. Text Message: Simply put the number 101913 into the body of a text, and send that text to 73774. *Standard text-messaging rates apply 2. Go to www.refresheverything.com/nfbyouthslam , click the link to vote, and then choose the log in using Facebook option. Once you're successfully logged in, click the vote button on our page again and the vote link will disappear and you'll have logged your vote! 3. Go to www.refresheverything.com/nfbyouthslam , click the link to vote, and then choose the sign in directly with Pepsi option. Once you're successfully logged in, click the vote button on our page again and the vote link will disappear and you'll have logged your vote! I've been voting, and I?m going to hand out flyers to people on my campus, and ask friends ?to get in on ?the voting too! ?Thank you all for helping to make this a reality! -- Darian Smith Skype: The_Blind_Truth Windows Live: Lightningrod2010 at live.com Follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/goldengateace ?We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.? - Teilhard de Chardin From MRiccobono at nfb.org Thu Sep 23 22:25:20 2010 From: MRiccobono at nfb.org (Riccobono, Mark) Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 17:25:20 -0500 Subject: [Uabs] National Leadership Consortium in Sensory Disabilities - Accepting Applications Message-ID: -----Original Message----- From: NCLVI Public Advisory Discussion List [mailto:NCLVI_ADVISORY at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tina Fitzpatrick Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 4:21 PM To: NCLVI_ADVISORY at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU Subject: Fwd: National Leadership Consortium in Sensory Disabilities - Accepting Applications Dear Colleagues, We are delighted to inform you that we are now accepting applications for entry into the final cohort of the National Leadership Consortium in Sensory Disabilities. This is a four-year doctoral fellowship for students in participating consortium universities. The application will be open until December 31, 2010. Please see the attached announcement and distribute widely. For more information, visit our website: http://www.salus.edu/nlcsd/index.html Sincerely, Brooke Brooke C. Smith, Ph.D. Director, Professional Preparation Program for Teachers of Children with Visual and Multiple Disabilities College of Education and Rehabilitation Salus University 8360 Old York Road Elkins Park, PA 19027-1598 (215) 780-1502 (215) 780-1357 (fax) bsmith at salus.edu -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 2010 NLCSD announcementr.doc Type: application/msword Size: 210432 bytes Desc: not available URL: From JHartle at nfb.org Fri Sep 24 20:12:11 2010 From: JHartle at nfb.org (Hartle, Jesse) Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:12:11 -0500 Subject: [Uabs] Legislative Alert- Urgent Action Needed Related to Modernization of the Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act Message-ID: Fellow Federationists: Shortly before the August recess began, the new Javits-Wagner-O'Day (JWOD) Act of 2010 (H.R. 5983) was introduced in the House of Representatives. This bill has been referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. I am asking that you review the list of Committee members below and, if your member of Congress appears on this list, please contact their office next week and let them know that the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) is opposed to the current draft of this legislation. As you know, the NFB has passed resolutions concerning the practice of paying less than minimum wage to disabled employees in sheltered workshop settings. The introduced bill was written without meaningful representation from the disability community, and does nothing to guarantee that blind employees in the JWOD program receive the minimum wage. We must let members of the Committee know that, if a bill is to be drafted that will impact the lives of blind people, we must be a stakeholder in these discussions; and if this legislation is to be passed, it must include provisions to ensure that the minimum wage will be paid to individuals working in the JWOD program. Below I have included contact information for each member of the Committee. You may be connected with any of these offices by calling the Capitol switchboard at (202) 225-3121. Thank you all for your attention to this important matter. Please contact me with any questions. Jesse M. Hartle Government Programs Specialist NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND Telephone: (410) 659-9314, extension 2233 E-mail: jhartle at nfb.org House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Bilbray, Brian P. (R-CA, 50th) Staffer: Gary Kline Office Phone: (202) 225-0508 Burton, Dan (R-IN, 5th) Staffer: Mary Okeeffe Office Phone: (202) 225-2276 Cao, Joseph (R-LA, 2nd) Staffer: Cassie Alsfeld Office Phone: (202) 225-6636 Chaffetz, Jason (R-UT, 3rd) Staffer: Mike Jerman Office Phone: (202) 225-7751 Chu, Judy (D-CA, 32nd) Staffer: Amelia Wang Office Phone: 225-5464 Clay, William Lacy (D-MO, 1st) Staffer: Marvin Steele Office Phone: (202) 225-2406 Connolly, Gerald E. (D-VA, 11th) Staffer: Zack Fields Office Phone: (202) 225-1492 Cooper, Jim (D-TN, 5th) Staffer: Sam Reed Office Phone: (202) 225-4311 Cuellar, Henry (D-TX, 28th) Staffer: Shelly Amieva Office Phone: (202) 225-1640 Cummings, Elijah E. (D-MD, 7th) Staffer: Blair Hedgepeth Office Phone: (202) 225-4741 Davis, Danny K. (D-IL, 7th) Staffer: Yul Edwards Office Phone: (202) 225-5006 Driehaus, Steve (D-OH, 1st) Staffer: Aaron Wasserman Office Phone: (202) 225-2216 Duncan, John J. Jr. (R-TN, 2nd) Staffer: Scott Fischer Office Phone: (202) 225-5435 Flake, Jeff (R-AZ, 6th) Staffer: Sarah Krug Office Phone: (202) 225-2635 Fortenberry, Jeff (R-NE, 1st) Staffer: Alan Feyerherm Office Phone: (202) 225-4806 Foster, Bill (D-IL, 14th) Staffer: Matt Ploszek Office Phone: (202) 225-2976 Hodes, Paul W. (D-NH, 2nd) Staffer: Sarah Levin Office Phone: (202) 225-5206 Issa, Darrell (R-CA, 49) (Ranking Member) Staffer: Ashley Callen Office Phone: 225-3906 Jordan, James D. (R-OH, 4th) Staffer: Wesley Goodman Office Phone: (202) 225-2676 Kanjorski, Paul E. (D-PA, 11th) Staffer: John Latini Office Phone: (202) 225-6511 Kaptur, Marcy (D-OH, 9th) Staffer: Nathan Facey Office Phone: (202) 225-4146 Kennedy, Patrick (D-RI, 1st) Staffer: Daniel Murphy Office Phone: (202) 225-4911 Kucinich, Dennis (D-OH, 1st) Staffer: Diala Jadallah Office Phone: 225-5871 Luetkemeyer, Blaine (R-MO, 9th) Staffer: Dan Burgess Office Phone: (202) 225-2956 Lynch, Stephen F. (D-MA, 9th) Staffer: Bruce Fernandez Office Phone: (202) 225-8273 Maloney, Carolyn B. (D-NY, 14th) Staffer: Orly Isaacson Office Phone: (202) 225-7944 McHenry, Patrick (R-NC, 10th) Staffer: Alexis Rudakewych Office Phone: (202) 225-2576 Mica, John L. (R-FL, 7th) Staffer: Casey Brinck Office Phone: (202) 225-4035 Murphy, Chris (D-CT, 5th) Staffer: Jesse Young Office Phone: (202) 225-4476 Norton, Eleanor Holmes (D-DC, Delegate) Staffer: Robert White Office Phone: (202) 225-8050 Quigley, Mike (D-IL, 5th) Staffer: Robyn Russell Office Phone: 225-4061 Schock, Aaron (R-IL, 18th) Staffer: Mike Pasko Office Phone: 225-6201 Shuster, Bill (R-PA, 9th) Staffer: Maribeth Collins Office Phone: (202) 225-2431 Speier, Jackie (D-CA, 12th) Staffer: Josh Connolly Office Phone: (202) 225-3531 Tierney, John F. (D-MA, 6th) Staffer: Mckee Floyd Office Phone: (202) 225-8020 Towns, Edolphus (D-NY, 10th) (Chairman) Staffer: James Latoff Office Phone: (202) 225-5936 Turner, Michael R. (R-OH, 3rd) Staffer: Joseph Heaton Office Phone: (202) 225-6465 Van Hollen, Chris Jr. (D-MD, 8th) Staffer: Ken Cummings Office Phone: (202) 225-5341 Watson, Diane E. (D-CA, 33rd) Staffer: Jillian Schlotter Office Phone: (202) 225-7084 Welch, Peter (D-VT, At Large) Staffer: Calvin Garner Office Phone: (202) 225-4115 Westmoreland, Lynn A. (R-GA, 3rd) Staffer: Joe Lillis Office Phone: (202) 225-5901 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: JWOD Legislative Alert- September 24 2010.doc Type: application/msword Size: 46080 bytes Desc: not available URL: From MRiccobono at nfb.org Tue Sep 28 02:46:17 2010 From: MRiccobono at nfb.org (Riccobono, Mark) Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:46:17 -0500 Subject: [Uabs] Announcing a Unique Travel & Leadership Program for B/VI Youth Message-ID: Announcing a Unique Travel & Leadership Program for B/VI Youth Do you know an exceptional student who would benefit from a unique travel and leadership program? Nominate that student for the Global Explorers Leading the Way program at http://www.globalexplorers.org/programs/forms/nominate/grandcanyon/. Developed in partnership with world-renowned blind athlete Erik Weihenmayer, Leading the Way brings together blind and sighted youth ages 14-21 for a once-in-a-lifetime adventure combining leadership, science, culture, and service. Specifically, the program aims to achieve the following: ? Provide unparalleled leadership skills by learning about and practicing No Barriers Leadership. ? Develop confidence, independence, self-awareness, and curiosity about the world in participants. ? Promote peer relationships am --------- ong youth of different backgrounds and abilities. ? Equip participants with the tools they need to step up and make a difference in the world. ? Prepare participants to act on the passions they discover. ? Spread messages of hope by breaking down barriers between those with and without disabilities. Our summer 2011 Leading the Way destination is one of the 7 Natural Wonders of the World ? the majestic Grand Canyon! To learn more or to apply, please visit www.globalexplorers.org and click "Leading the Way." The application deadline is Monday, November 15. For more information, please contact Laura at laura at globalexplorers.org or 877.627.1425. On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Riccobono, Mark <MRiccobono at nfb.org> wrote: Dear Laura, Please send an e-mail announcement we can send around. Mark ---------- From: Laura Portalupi [mailto:laura at globalexplorers.org] Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 5:24 PM To: Riccobono, Mark Subject: The Global Explorers Leading the Way Program Dear Mark: My colleague Shannon has been in contact with you the past two years about the Global Explorers Leading the Way program. I'd like to introduce myself as the coordinator of Leading the Way for 2010-2011. I am so impressed with the work of the Jernigan Institute and feel our program closely aligns with the Institute's mission. Developed in partnership with world-renowned blind adventurer Erik Weihenmayer, the Global Explorers Leading the Way program joins blind, visually impaired, and sighted individuals between the ages of 14 and 21 for the adventure of a lifetime. Leading the Way integrates science, service, leadership, and culture in a 3-phase program that includes pre-travel preparatory curriculum, a life-changing travel experience, and a follow-up service leadership project. Specifically, the program aims to achieve the following: ? Provide unparalleled leadership skills by learning about and practicing No Barriers Leadership. ? Develop confidence, independence, self-awareness, and curiosity about the world in participants. ? Promote peer relationships among youth of different backgrounds and abilities. ? Equip participants with the tools they need to step up and make a difference in the world. ? Prepare participants to act on the passions they discover. ? Spread messages of hope by breaking down barriers between those with and without disabilities. Our summer 2011 destination is the majestic Grand Canyon. The application deadline is Monday, November 15. Would you be willing to share information about Leading the Way among your network? If so, I can provide you with an announcement for distribution via e-mail. I can also send you informational fliers as an attachment or via snail mail. Braille and large print materials are available upon request. Thank you so much for your time and assistance! I look forward to hearing from you. Kind regards, Laura Portalupi Leading the Way Fellow Global Explorers 420 S. Howes St. Suite B300 Fort Collins, CO 80521 (office) 877.627.1425 (fax) 970.672.1073 www.globalexplorers.org "This is a life-changing trip ... you will walk away as a different person." -Leading the Way Rim to River Participant, 2010 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nabs.president at gmail.com Wed Sep 29 05:01:43 2010 From: nabs.president at gmail.com (Arielle Silverman) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 23:01:43 -0600 Subject: [Uabs] Fall 2010 Student Slate! Message-ID: Greetings NABS members, Attached please find another exciting issue of our quarterly publication, the Student Slate. Arielle -- Arielle Silverman President, National Association of Blind Students Phone: 602-502-2255 Email: nabs.president at gmail.com Website: www.nabslink.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Student Slate Fall 2010.doc Type: application/msword Size: 101888 bytes Desc: not available URL: