* CIBC. com is now the first Canadian bank website to receive CNIB Site Check certification for providing barrier-free web access to people who are blind or have vision loss.

During the 1920s, CNIB operated a job placement program with limited success, also creating jobs through its own factories, broom shops and concession stands.

The program requires CNIB members to pay an administration fee of $ 20, which goes to Easter Seals, in order to receive a card good for 5 years.

Regardless of their participation in the program, some theaters will still accept the CNIB ID card.

A number of businesses and government services offer discounted rates for those who are blind or visually impaired upon presentation of a CNIB identification card.

Discounts are available on the cost of admission for select cultural events upon presentation of a CNIB ID card.

The National Library of Congress in the U. S. and the CNIB Library in Canada provide free audiobook library services to the visually impaired ; requested books are mailed out ( at no cost ) to clients.

CNIB ( formerly known as the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, which was officially changed to its current name in 2006 ) is a volunteer agency and charitable organization dedicated to assisting Canadians who are blind or living with vision loss, and to provide information about vision health for all Canadians.

CNIB was incorporated in 1918 to provide food, clothing and sheltered residences for blind veterans returning from World War I.

The chair of each division board sits on a Council of Chairs in order to provide input and advice to CNIB ’ s President and CEO.

CNIB employs approximately 1, 100 professionals, working in the fields of life-skills training, library services, research, advocacy, public education, accessible design consulting, fundraising and administration.

* April 22 – The New Barbarians and The Rolling Stones perform two concerts in Oshawa, Ontario to benefit the CNIB, as part of Keith Richards ' 1978 sentence for heroin possession.

These included the CNIB, the Federation for Community Service ( an ancestor of the United Way ), St. John Ambulance, the Working Boys Home, and the Soldiers Rehabilitation Fund.

's Key Club have volunteered for Epilepsy Toronto, the Canadian Cancer Society, The Liver Foundation, the Heart & Stroke Foundation, Canadian National Institute for the Blind ( CNIB ), the Scotiabank Waterfront Marathon and many other non-profit organisations.

Kerry Fraser ( born May 30, 1952 in Sarnia, Ontario ) is a hockey analyst, spokesman for the CNIB, and former senior referee in the National Hockey League, having joined the National Hockey League Officials Association on September 1, 1973, and officiating his first game in the 1980 – 81 season.

In 1918, he and six others founded the CNIB.

In 2004 and 2005 the station underwent upgrading and renovations to improve safety and access for visually impaired users wishing to access the nearby CNIB facility, and also in preparation for increased usage as work on The Bridges-a major inner city redevelopment project on the north side of the station-progresses.

On April 22, 1979, the Auditorium hosted two benefit concerts for the CNIB by the Rolling Stones, after Keith Richards was charged with possession of heroin.

Founded in 1918 to assist soldiers who had been blinded in the First World War, CNIB originally offered sheltered care and specialized employment to people with vision loss.

By the 1950s, CNIB was serving more than 17, 000 clients, with offices, vocational centres and residences in major Canadian cities.

In the 21st century, CNIB has approximately 1, 100 staff and over 10, 000 volunteers conducting research, personalized rehabilitation support and advocacy for Canadians who are blind or partially sighted.

CNIB operates community-based services for Canadians who are blind or partially sighted.

These services are delivered either at a local CNIB office, within the community, over the phone, online or in an individual ’ s home.

CNIB provides functional assessments of visual abilities, instruction on how to maximize residual vision, and, as required, information and training in the use of low vision devices.

CNIB also receives support from over 10, 000 volunteers working in all regions of the country.

In order to counter the hardware obsolescence, during the mid-90's NATO started the AEGIS Site Emulator ( ASE ) program allowing the NADGE / AEGIS sites to replace the proprietary hardware ( the 5118ME computer and the various operator consoles IDM-2, HMD-22, IDM-80 ) with Commercial-Off-the-Shelf servers and workstations.

The Soviet Union studied nuclear engines for their own moon rockets, notably upper stages of the N-1, although they never entered an extensive testing program like the one the U. S. conducted throughout the 1960s at the Nevada Test Site.

The United States tested twenty different sizes and designs during Project Rover and NASA's NERVA program from 1959 through 1972 at the Nevada Test Site, designated Kiwi, Phoebus, NRX / EST, NRX / XE, Pewee, Pewee 2 and the Nuclear Furnace, with progressively higher power densities culminating in the Pewee ( 1970 ) and Pewee 2.

It began a program of regular nuclear testing both in the Pacific Proving Grounds and at the continental Nevada Test Site.

The most famous of these is the Villa d ' Este, a World Heritage Site, whose construction was started in 1549 by Pirro Ligorio for Cardinal Ippolito II d ' Este and which was richly decorated with an ambitious program of frescoes by famous painters of late Roman Mannerism, such Livio Agresti ( a member of the " Forlì painting school ") or the Zuccari brothers.

NASA's SOFIA program relocated its operation to this hangar at Site 9 from Edwards Air Force Base.

Secondary payloads: IMAX Cargo Bay Camera ( ICBC ) to document operations outside crew cabin and hand-held IMAX camera for use inside crew cabin ; Ascent Particle Monitor ( APM ) to detect particulate matter in payload bay ; Protein Crystal Growth ( PCG ) to provide data on growing protein crystals in microgravity ; Radiation Monitoring Equipment III ( RME III ) to measure gamma ray levels in crew cabin ; Investigations into Polymer Membrane Processing ( IPMP ) to determine porosity control in microgravity environment ; Shuttle Student involvement program ( SSIP ) experiment to study effects of near-weightlessness on electrical arcs, and Air Force Maui Optical Site ( AMOS ) experiment.

Lumbini, as of 1997, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site specifically nominated for the international World Heritage program.

In June 2002, the Mahabodhi Temple became a UNESCO World Heritage Site, specifically nominated for the international World heritage program.

The Department of Energy ( DOE ) decided that direct experimentation was the best way to settle the issue, and between 1978 and 1988 ran a series of underground experiments at the Nevada Test Site ( now known as Nevada National Security Site ), that used small nuclear bombs to directly illuminate ICF fuel components with high-energy X-rays ; LLNL ran its program under the name " Halite ", while LANL ran its as " Centurion ".

In addition to the Teacher Preparation program, students can obtain a Master's of Science in Counseling and Guidance or Educational Psychology, and a Master's of Arts in a wide variety of education-related administrative career fields, including Educational Technology, Educational Leadership, or School Site Leadership.

On Harkin's recommendation, the government created the Advisory Board for Historic Site Preservation ( later called the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada ) in 1919 in order to advise the Minister on a new program of National Historic Sites.

The first place designated and plaqued under the new program was the " Cliff Site " in Port Dover, Ontario, where two priests claimed sovereignty over the Lake Erie region for Louis XIV of France in 1670.

When an Advanced Client is within another location ( SMS Site ), it may use a local distribution point to download or run a program which can conserve bandwidth across a WAN.

O ' Brien then anchored MSNBC's weekend morning show and the cable network's award-winning technology program The Site, which aired weeknights from the Spring of 1996 to November 1997.

It has not been proposed as a World Heritage Site since the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ), which oversees that program, limits nations to submitting sites within their own borders.

The concept of using PNEs to create artificial lakes, harbors and canals was modeled after a United States program, Operation Plowshare, which conducted the first peaceful nuclear explosion ( the 104 kt Sedan shallow cratering test ) at the Nevada Test Site in July 1962.

The Hövsgöl ( Khövsgöl ) Long-term Ecological Research Site ( LTERS ) was established in 1997 and an extensive research program began soon thereafter.

" 7 Live " was reminiscent of " The Site ," a program on the MSNBC cable network in 1996.

Storax Sedan was a shallow underground nuclear test conducted in Area 10 of Yucca Flat at the Nevada National Security Site on 6 July 1962 as part of Operation Plowshare, a program to investigate the use of nuclear weapons for mining, cratering, and other civilian purposes.

The Site, hosted by Soledad O ' Brien, was an hour-long TV program devoted to the Internet revolution.

One reviewer hailed The Site as the best program on the fledgling MSNBC.

In March 2009 it was nominated as a tentative site for UNESCO's World Heritage Site program.