[acbny-l] Fw: News notes from the national office
- From: "Frank Casey" <frcasey@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "acbny acbny" <acbny-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 15:55:45 -0400
Greetings,
Below, please find the latest edition of News Notes from the National ACB
Office in Washington, DC, for the week ending June 6, 2003.
Enjoy,
Frank Casey
frcasey@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> NEWS NOTES FROM THE NATIONAL OFFICE
>
> For the week ending June 6, 2003.
>
> * Transpo survey input ends, number crunching begins.
>
> The last of the braille responses to the ACB transportation
> survey has been entered on to the web site and with one last
> print survey to enter; it will be over! Now the business of
> interpreting the thousands of individual responses to the survey
> will begin. The really hard work of this will be done by the ACB
> internet server in terms of aggregating the raw data into
> profiles, but then the transportation task force has some very
> interesting work ahead to be sure in providing ACB conventioneers
> and members with a view of the status of transportation for blind
> folks throughout the nation.
>
> Many thanks to Rebecca Hodson our summer intern and Nicole
> Strong for spending all those hours this week in getting the
> answers to the survey encoded on the web site.
>
> what's that? Who is Nicole Strong? Well she's our ped
> safety coordinator Phil Strong's wife and she has been a big help
> at the national office in doing the survey, some computer work
> and recording the preregistration packets. So if you noticed a
> strong (no pun intended) Canadian accent on your tape, then now
> you know!
>
> * Vendor issue dominates legislative work this week.
>
> Our national office staff and the Randolph-Sheppard Vendors
> of America have been working hand in hand this week to counter
> the threat to the priority for blind vendors at military
> installation food services. More to come on this, but many
> thanks to all involved for a fine effort.
>
> * Surprise, surprise; another intern for the price of one.
>
> Guess we got lucky this year. In addition to our ACB intern
> Rebecca Hodson who will have a whole set of projects to do, it
> turns out that another internship program in Washington had more
> interns than they could handle. So ACB stepped up to the plate
> and offered to take the placement since we have more than enough
> work to be done. Now welcome Carlos Montas to the national
> office for a 10 week internship with a concentration on
> legislative issues.
>
> this of course meant a wild scramble to get a computer all
> set up for his use and we spent two and a half days installing
> and configuring the final XP operating system and applications
> and internet connectivity for his use. Hmm, charlie Crawford
> will now be starting up and after hours computer business.
> Smile.
>
>
> * Convention program at the braille print shop as we speak.
>
> We are pleased to announce that another year of the battle
> of the deadline for getting the convention program to the
> printers has been won! the final electronic file was given to
> Braille International on Tuesday and the camera ready print will
> be picked up by the folks who will be doing the large print
> edition this coming Tuesday. Judging from the contents of the
> program, it looks like folks should sleep a full week before the
> convention since you'll be awake for seven days straight!
>
> * He's making a list; he's checking it twice.
>
> Have you ever considered making a list of the times you take
> the bus or train and whether there were stop announcements along
> the route? We've been doing a bit of this in Washington and
> guess what? It works! Reporting to the transit authority the
> time and bus route number and where you got it from actually
> gives them enough information to improve things. Be sure however
> to compliment them when they do the right thing! Sure there are
> a number of buses where the automated stop announcements were
> suspiciously broken, and other times where the bus drivers acted
> as if they did not have a clue about what they were supposed to
> do, but times are changing and the amount of buses where either
> the announcements are automatic or the drivers are making them is
> on the increase. So pull out the slate and stylus, the notebook,
> or just use your memory until you get to a place to write it down
> and then periodically let the transit company know your
> experience. Now come to think of it, what a great project for
> your chapter?
>
>
> ***
>
> News notes is a compilation of the highlights of the events
> of the preceding week and is not intended to provide a
> comprehensive listing of all activities, or treatment of the
> topics mentioned. For information and more detailed treatment of
> especially legislative concerns, call the Washington Connection
> at 800-424-8666 nights and weekends eastern time. Be sure to
> read the Braille Forum each month and check in with the ACB web
> site and radio at WWW.ACB.ORG and WWW.ACBRADIO.ORG respectively.
>
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