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		<title>More Jaylen Arnold!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:37:44 +0000</pubDate>
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Sue Scheff recently interviewed the great Jaylen Arnold for examiner.com.  Their conversation was so engaging (and so important) that we are reprinting it here in its entirety.
Enjoy!
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Why and when did you create www.JaylensChallenge.org ?
My website was created in May of this year. I created [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEATURED ARTICLE: &#8220;Social media – a barrier or tool for inclusion?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8220;Social media has the potential to provide an array of new opportunities to people with disabilties. But when it comes to sites such as Twitter, more needs to be done&#8230;&#8221;
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Quoting Rachel Mulholland, writing on upstart.net.au:
Social media tools such as Twitter and Skype are transforming how we live and socialise. The March 2009 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IMPORTANT OPEN LETTER: Dear members of the American blind community &#8211; your feedback is needed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
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Quoting Lainey Feingold and Linda Dardarian, U.S.-based disability and civil rights lawyers:
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&#8220;Dear members of the blind community:
As we approach the end of the year, we are asking for your help in making sure the settlement agreements negotiated by ACB and its affiliates are working well.  Feedback from individuals about Talking ATMs, accessible credit reports, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flood your ears (and hearts) with Wonder!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Themes, Blind Visionaries, Campaign Watch

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Stevie Wonder is a UN Messenger of Peace!
(And he's got an awesome sense of humour too)
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		<title>InvisiblePeople.tv: spotlighting Mark Horvath</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:12:25 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8220;On the street I saw a small girl cold and shivering in a thin dress, with little hope of a decent meal. I became angry and said to God; &#8216;Why did you permit this? Why don’t you do something about it?&#8217; For a while God said nothing. That night [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MARK YOUR CALENDARS: December 3rd, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>URGENT APPEAL: A Very Important Message from Pete Seeger About the Future of Sing Out!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:39:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Campaign Watch, Irked Videos

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Quoting the legendary, the inimitable, the phenomenal Mr. Pete Seeger:

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&#8220;A little over 59 years ago, I helped to co-found a wonderful little magazine called Sing Out!
From the beginning, it&#8217;s brought music, community and enrichment to tens of thousands of readers, sharing information about our best songs, and honoring the people who [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:32:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Campaign Watch, Themes, Auties &#38; Aspies, Irked Videos
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A provocative new campaign&#8230;after the jump

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The mother of the first actress with Asperger&#8217;s syndrome to play a fictional character with the condition has launched a campaign to stop actors &#8220;playing disabled&#8221;.
Lizzy Clark was 14 when the BBC asked her to play the part of Poppy, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Give a little bit&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8230;.then give a little bit Mo&#8217;

As most of you know by now, Movember is an annual, month-long celebration of the moustache, highlighting men’s health issues, specifically prostate cancer and depression in men.
Philip Patston is certainly doing his part to raise awareness.
Now help him raise the dough.
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		<title>SMACKDOWN: Visually impaired gamer sues Sony under the aegis of the Americans with Disabilities Act</title>
		<link>http://irkedmagazine.com/9790/smackdown-visually-impaired-gamer-sues-sony-under-the-aegis-of-the-americans-with-disabilities-act/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
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According to gamespot.com, it doesn&#8217;t help visually impaired people that some characters in video games &#8220;are actually invisible.&#8221;


It&#8217;s not uncommon for blind gamers to feel invisible in addition to visually impaired. For instance, when gamer Brandon Cole wrote [game developer] THQ a letter suggesting changes to make its Smackdown series of WWE [...]]]></description>
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