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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'>My mom called me from Wichita about this story today. Has NFB had some contact with her? Just curious; I hope Virginia gets ahold of her.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Susan<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><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> home-on-the-range-bounces@nfbnet.org [mailto:home-on-the-range-bounces@nfbnet.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Floyd<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, August 07, 2011 11:25 PM<br><b>To:</b> home-on-the-range@nfbnet.org; eejomes4@wichita.edu<br><b>Subject:</b> [Home-on-the-range] An article from www.kansas.com<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:solid #EFEFEF 6.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><div style='border:solid #666666 1.0pt;padding:4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt 4.0pt;margin-top:3.75pt;margin-bottom:3.75pt'><div style='border:none;border-bottom:solid #CCCCCC 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Floyd has sent you the following story:<br><br>Another sicess story from the NFB of Ks.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.kansas.com?story_link=email_msg"><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 id="_x0000_i1025" src="http://media.kansas.com/images/site_logo_280x75.gif?story_link=email_msg"></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Posted on Sunday, Aug. 07, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Blind West High grad speaks at White House<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><i><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>By ANNIE CALOVICH <o:p></o:p></span></i></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Sighted people may not think they understand Alysha Jeans, blind from birth, but she seems to understand them all right. Jeans, a 2006 West High School graduate, got to speak at the White House last month at a celebration marking the 21st anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act. She followed Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Tina Tchen, chief of staff for the first lady. And she told the audience of government officials and interns that there is a tremendous depth to people that doesn't always meet the eye.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>"I'm totally blind. I was born blind. And I said that I think a lot of people have never even met a person with a disability or interacted with them, so they don't understand the capabilities," Jeans said in a phone call from her home in Vienna, Va., recalling her speech. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>She is 23 years old and one year into a job with the FBI in Quantico, Va., working in forensic audio analysis.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.kansas.com/2011/08/07/1964906/blind-west-high-grad-speaks-at.html?story_link=email_msg">Read More...</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></body></html>