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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>FYI</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=NShaheen@nfb.org href="mailto:NShaheen@nfb.org">Shaheen, Natalie</A>
</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=NShaheen@nfb.org
href="mailto:NShaheen@nfb.org">Shaheen, Natalie</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Friday, December 04, 2009 1:31 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> BRAL newsletter 1.5</DIV></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
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<H1 style="MARGIN-LEFT: -4.05pt"><B><FONT color=white size=6
face=Verdana><SPAN style="COLOR: white; FONT-SIZE: 24pt">Braille Readers
Are
Leaders
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></H1></TD></TR>
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<P class=MsoDate><FONT color=white><SPAN style="COLOR: white">December 4,
2009</SPAN></FONT><FONT color=white><SPAN
style="COLOR: white"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></TD>
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<P class=Volume><FONT color=white size=1 face=Verdana><SPAN
style="COLOR: white; FONT-SIZE: 8pt">Volume 1, Number
5<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></TD></TR>
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class=Quotation2Numbered><B><FONT color=white><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: normal; COLOR: white; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
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style="TEXT-INDENT: 0in; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 6pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: -5.05pt; mso-list: none; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in"
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style="FONT-STYLE: normal; COLOR: white; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
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class=Quotation2Numbered><B><I><FONT color=white size=1
face=Verdana><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: normal; COLOR: white; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Dates
to Remember<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></I></B></P>
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style="TEXT-INDENT: -12pt; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 6pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 8.1pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: -5.05pt; mso-list: l15 level1 lfo25; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in"
class=Quotation2Numbered><![if !supportLists]><I><FONT color=black
size=1 face=Symbol><SPAN
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style="mso-list: Ignore">·<FONT size=1 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></I><![endif]><FONT
color=white><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: normal; COLOR: white">Reading
Period: November 1, 2009-January 4, 2010<B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P
style="TEXT-INDENT: -12pt; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 6pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 8.1pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: -5.05pt; mso-list: l15 level1 lfo25; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in"
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size=1 face=Symbol><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><SPAN
style="mso-list: Ignore">·<FONT size=1 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></I><![endif]><FONT
color=white><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: normal; COLOR: white">All
contest entries must be submitted before January 22,
2010<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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class=Quotation2Numbered><I><FONT color=white size=1
face=Verdana><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: normal; COLOR: white; FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></I></P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0in; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.15in; mso-list: none"
class=Quotation2Numbered><I><FONT color=#506280 size=1 face=Verdana><SPAN
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<H2><A name=OLE_LINK15></A><A name=OLE_LINK14><B><FONT color=purple size=4
face=Verdana><SPAN style="COLOR: purple; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Breaking
News<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></A></H2>
<H2 style="MARGIN-TOP: 12pt"><B><FONT color=purple size=2
face=Verdana><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-WEIGHT: normal">Due to
technical difficulties many of you have not been receiving the weekly
Braille Readers Are Leaders newsletter. We apologize for this
inconvenience. As of Monday, December 7, all issues of the newsletter will
be available online at www.nfb.org/bral.</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT
color=purple><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple; FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></H2>
<H2><A name=OLE_LINK11></A><A name=OLE_LINK10><B><FONT color=purple size=4
face=Verdana><SPAN style="COLOR: purple; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Ode to the
Code</SPAN></FONT></B></A><FONT color=purple><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></H2>
<P class=MsoNormal><A name=OLE_LINK9></A><A name=OLE_LINK8><FONT
color=purple size=2 face=Verdana><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">By The Sligo Creek Digital
Communications Consortium<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></A></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=purple size=2 face=Verdana><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">(Tune: “Jingle
Bells”)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=purple size=2 face=Verdana><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=purple size=2 face=Verdana><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Going to the school to write an
IEP,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=purple size=2 face=Verdana><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">The teacher says “Use print,
because your child can see.”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=purple size=2 face=Verdana><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">The equipment is too big, and large
print is too rare,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=purple size=2 face=Verdana><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">And fifteen words a minute will not
get you anywhere!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=purple size=2 face=Verdana><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT color=purple size=2 face=Verdana><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Chorus</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT
color=purple size=2><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=purple size=2 face=Verdana><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Braille is here! Braille is here!
Braille is here to stay!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=purple size=2 face=Verdana><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">We will keep on using it, we don’t
care what you say!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=purple size=2 face=Verdana><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Braille is here! Braille is here!
We will sing its praise.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=purple size=2 face=Verdana><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">It’s the system for the blind to
get a job that pays.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=purple size=2 face=Verdana><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=purple size=2 face=Verdana><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">They say that Braille’s too tough
to teach the newly blind.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=purple size=2 face=Verdana><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Its codes and its contractions
discombobulate the mind.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=purple size=2 face=Verdana><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Contractions we’ve learned all, and
codes we’ve mastered, too.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=purple size=2 face=Verdana><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">For blindness has no negative
effect on our IQ!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT color=purple size=2 face=Verdana><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Chorus<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=purple size=2 face=Verdana><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=purple size=2 face=Verdana><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">They say that Braille’s complex.
They say that it’s too slow.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=purple size=2 face=Verdana><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">They say that new technology’s the
only way to go.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=purple size=2 face=Verdana><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">But we’ll keep using Braille,
because it is the key<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=purple size=2 face=Verdana><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">To making sure that blind folks
will be literate and free.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT color=purple size=2 face=Verdana><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Chorus<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT color=purple size=2 face=Verdana><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT color=purple size=2 face=Verdana><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">National
Federation of the Blind Song Book 1991<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<H2><B><FONT color=purple size=4 face=Verdana><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Help
Needed<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></H2>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-TOP: 12pt" class=Text><A
name=OLE_LINK13></A><A name=OLE_LINK12><FONT color=purple size=2
face=Verdana><SPAN style="COLOR: purple; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">In commemoration
of the two hundredth anniversary of Louis Braille’s birth, the National
Federation of the Blind has started a Braille Readers are Leaders Campaign
to address the Braille literacy crisis. To help us address this crisis we
need information from adult Braille readers. You can help us by
filling out a very short, seventeen</SPAN></FONT></A><FONT color=purple
size=2><SPAN style="COLOR: purple; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">-question, <A
href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=JniU4_2fJTbPt5IN3_2fTN5sPA_3d_3d">survey</A>
online. This survey is completely confidential and will not affect your
participation in the Braille Readers Are Leaders contest. Donate five
minutes of your time to help change the state of Braille literacy in this
country. <B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Note: this survey is designed
for blind Braille readers; thus the sighted teachers and parents competing
in the contest do not need to fill it
out.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></SPAN></FONT></P>
<H2><B><FONT color=purple size=4 face=Verdana><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">The Leader
Board<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></H2>
<P
style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 2pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 12.0pt"
class=Text><FONT color=purple size=2 face=Verdana><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">The Braille Readers Are Leaders
Leader Board has been updated for the second time. Data was pulled on
Wednesday, November 25. The leaders in each category are burning up the
pages: beginner Pam Schnurr has read 558 pages, intermediate Doug Smith
has read 1777 pages, advanced Tracy Bundy has read 2903, expert Nicholas
Wilcox has read 4705 pages, and sighted Gail Wagner has read 68 pages.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P
style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 2pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: 12.0pt"
class=Text><FONT color=purple size=2 face=Verdana><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">If you didn’t make the Leader Board
this round, you have two more opportunities. We will pull the data
two more times at undisclosed dates. So, keep reading and entering
your data by following the “<A
href="http://www.nfb.org/Forms.asp?MODE=NEW&SnID=470242638&Forms_FormTypeID=-153">Update
your Reading Log for the Leader Board</A>!” link on our Web
site.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<H2><A name=OLE_LINK76></A><A name=OLE_LINK75><B><FONT color=purple size=4
face=Verdana><SPAN style="COLOR: purple; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Peaking after
the Plateau<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></A></H2>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-TOP: 12pt" class=Text><FONT
color=purple size=2 face=Verdana><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Athlete know that after many years
of practice and steady improvement in their sport they will eventually
reach a plateau. Plateaus in performance are frustrating but surmountable.
With good coaching athletes can continue to improve their skills after a
plateau. Like athletes Braille readers reach plateaus in their reading
careers; but with good coaching a Braille readers can also conquer their
stunted skills! John Bailey offers some great coaching to Braille readers
who wish to improve their skills in his 2003 <I><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Braille Monitor </SPAN></I>Article “<A
href="http://nfb.org/legacy/bm/bm03/bm0305/bm030508.htm">Surmounting the
Braille Reading Speed Plateau</A>.”<B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></SPAN></FONT></P>
<H2><A name=OLE_LINK7></A><A name=OLE_LINK6><B><FONT color=purple size=4
face=Verdana><SPAN style="COLOR: purple; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Frequently Asked
Questions<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></A></H2>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 12pt" class=MsoNormal><B><FONT color=purple size=2
face=Verdana><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Do I need to do
anything special to make sure I get my prize for earning a spot on the
Leader Board?</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT color=purple size=2><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> NO. You will receive a
package after the completion of the contest which will include your
T-shirt, a certificate of participation, and any other awards/prizes you
won through the contest.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 12pt" class=MsoNormal><B><FONT color=purple size=2
face=Verdana><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">When will we
find out who won the Braille Readers Are Leaders
contest?</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT color=purple size=2><SPAN
style="COLOR: purple; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> The winners will be
announced in the spring!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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