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Birthday Honors
by
Donald Morris
Shirley
and Don Morris at Dick Edlund's birthday party
From the Editor: Those
of us who go back a few years know Dick Edlund as one of the most colorful and
hardest-working Federation leaders ever to grace the organization. He has been
California Legislation and Accessibility Issues
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California Legislation
and Accessibility Issues
by
Nancy Burns
From the Editor: Nancy
Burns is president of the NFB of California. Here she reports on the affiliate's
recent legislative activity. Some of the things they have accomplished would
be useful projects for other states. This is what she says:
Federationist
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The Instructional Materials
Accessibility Act:
Reviewing the Long Road to Passage
by
James McCarthy
James
McCarthy
From the Editor: After
four years of devoting much energy during the Washington Seminar to persuading
Congress that it should pass the Instructional Materials Accessibility Act,
[PHOTO/CAPTION: Table Mountain in the heart of Cape Town as seen from Robben
Island]
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Springtime in December
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Barbara Pierce
Table
Mountain in the heart of Cape Town as seen from Robben Island
To some international readers
of the Braille Monitor the above title is nothing more than life as usual,
but for the North Americans who traveled to Cape Town, South Africa, for the
The Sixth Quadrennial Meeting of the World Blind Union:
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The Sixth Quadrennial
Meeting of the World
Blind Union: An Incubator for Democracy
by
Barbara Pierce
What happens when representatives
from organizations of and for the blind from more than a hundred countries gather
to elect officers, report on organizational activities, and set policy? If it
[LEAD PHOTO/CAPTION: The Convention Center meeting room in which the World
Blind Union conducted its sixth quadrennium
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Convention Center meeting room in which the World Blind Union conducted
its sixth quadrennium.
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Vol. 48, No.
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2005
Barbara
Recipes
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Recipes
This month's recipes
come from members of the National Federation of the Blind of Wyoming.
Hot Mulled Cider or
Other Drinks
by
Tamara Kearney
Tammy Kearney is president
of the NFB of Wyoming.
Ingredients:
2 quarts cider or apple
juice (half can be cranberry juice)
2 two-inch cinnamon
sticks, broken
8 whole cloves
For the Blind, a Welcoming Web
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For the
Blind, a Welcoming Web
by
Sarah Lacey
From the Editor: The
following story appeared in Business Week Online on October 27, 2004.
Slowly but surely disability
advocates are gaining ground in their quest to make Internet sites more accessible
to the visually impaired. Lainey Feingold is trying to use the carrot instead
[PHOTO/CAPTION: Dave Hyde]
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I Remember
Alex
by
David Hyde
Dave
Hyde
From the Editor: Dave
Hyde is a frequent contributor to these pages. He is a leader in the Wisconsin
affiliate. Here is a moving profile of a blind man who refused to be conquered
by the blindness system in the first half of the twentieth century, even when