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		<title>ACB Seminar 2010: A Summary View</title>
		<description><![CDATA[- The below recap was submitted by Mary Ann following Monday’s session of the ACB Legislative Seminar. Sunday: While blind and other print impaired folks in the United States enjoy thousands and thousands of books in accessible format, this is quite untrue for the visually impaired and otherwise print impaired persons in other countries.&#160; For [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mccbonline.org/?p=96</link>
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		<title>ACB Seminar 2010: On Schools for the Blind</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The ACB Legislative Seminar began today with the State Affiliate’s President’s Meeting. One of the most interesting discussions focused on the state of schools for the blind. The closing of the Oregon School for the Blind and other schools that are threatened with extinction, calls out for a need for more advocacy. The position of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mccbonline.org/?p=95</link>
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		<title>ACB Going Back to D.C</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s that time of year again, when ACB members gather in Washington DC. Walking the halls of Congress to present the issues that are impacting people who are blind and visually impaired throughout the country. &#160; An empowering 4 days, where a message of independence is delivered not only to our nation’s representatives, but all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mccbonline.org/?p=94</link>
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		<title>Member Editorial: It Should Be Routine!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following was submitted by a MCCB member. The views and opinions are those solely of the author and may not reflect those of The Monroe County Council of the Blind. I work Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in an office, that&#8217;s routine enough. Well, how I get there and back [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mccbonline.org/?p=92</link>
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		<title>Allow Everyone Access to E-books</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Please consider signing the petition started by the&#160; Reading Rights Coalition. &#160; This organization began after Amazon released their latest version of their E-Book reader, the Kindle 2.0. The product which has built in Text to Speech has been attacked by the Author&#8217;s Guild. The Guild argues that this feature which uses synthetic speech to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mccbonline.org/?p=91</link>
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		<title>Member Editorial: The Trials of Transportation &#8211; Continued</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following was submitted by a MCCB member. The views and opinions are those solely of the author and do not reflect those of The Monroe County Council of the Blind. &#160; In my last entry, when talking about getting to the MCCB meeting, I said, I will get there. Well this is how I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mccbonline.org/?p=90</link>
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		<title>Member Editorial: The Trials of Transportation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following was submitted by a MCCB member. The views and opinions are those solely of the author and do not reflect those of The Monroe County Council of the Blind. &#160; early Monday morning, I called Diakon. To you who are not familiar, this is a service that provides assistance to people who are&#160; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mccbonline.org/?p=89</link>
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		<title>Making the Broadway experience Accessible</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An organization in NYC is working to provide audio description&#160; for Broadway shows. &#160; Similar to the process used in movies and television, the narrators describe the scenes without dialog. &#160; From the article: &#160; &#160; &#34;I try to be very specific about the details I describe,&#34; Day said. &#34;Because you could talk forever, blah [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mccbonline.org/?p=88</link>
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		<title>ACB Legislative Seminar 2009: An Advocacy Play by Play</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; This recent article provides additional information focusing on the “play by play” activities involved in meeting with representatives.&#160; &#160; Monroe County resident lobbies in Washington for the blind &#8211; poconorecord.com &#8211; The Pocono Record]]></description>
		<link>http://mccbonline.org/?p=87</link>
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		<title>ACB Legislative Seminar 2009:A Day on Capitol Hill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, it&#8217;s finally the big day!&#160; It was the culmination of at least two months of preparing in an effort to become familiar with the issues concluding with the Legislative Seminar.&#160; There are 19 representatives serving the interests of Pennsylvania residents, two senators and 17 congressmen and women.&#160; The 19 representatives were divided among the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mccbonline.org/?p=86</link>
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