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• Are the Copenhagen climate talks failing?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  In the last few days it has seemed like the only thing everyone can agree on in Copenhagen is that time is running out. The heads of state start arriving today and descend in full force on Thursday. Negotiators say they don’t want their leaders arguing over the placement of a comma or a set of brackets, and so ...
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• Empowering Deaf Online Learners with Video Discussions

  
  21st Century Teaching and Learning — Authority: 114
  Recently, I presented a workshop on my campus titled "Crafting Personalized Online Learning Experiences with VoiceThread." The main objective of my workshop was to showcase the effectiveness of VoiceThread as a "learning space" for students to share thoughts through voice and video comments, rather than text based ...
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• The Deaf Ears - Live Forever (SR)

  
  Austin Sound — Authority: 122
  Live Forever , The Deaf Ears debut album, is proof positive that sometimes when things fall apart, things can actually come together. Case in point, when Joel Mullins’ previous band Tammany Hall Machine – a band that garnered a decent amount of Austin buzz and a slew of nice slots with some great bands – began ...
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• Pop Quiz

  
  Kevin Stilley Dot Com — Authority: 143
  Can you identify the person described below? As did his parents and grandparents, he taught speech and worked with the deaf in several schools in New England. Trying to find away to transmit speech, he invented in 1876 what is now a common household item. Hint, hint: In honor of his accomplishments, several ...
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• Coke says green strategy will win business

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Having an integrated clean technology strategy will be a big part of winning business in the 21st century, a Coca-Cola executive told Reuters.com on Monday, and its investments in refrigeration will likely have the biggest impact on that strategy long-term. The worlds biggest soft drinks maker has hooked up with ...
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• Google Adds Automatic Captions to YouTube

  
  Maine VRC — Authority: 103
  Great news via Able Bodied : Google Adds Automatic Captions to YouTube : "I knew Google Voice would have multiple uses for people who are deaf and hearing impaired, but I didn’t expect this news to come so fast: Google is adding automatic captions to YouTube videos. Google announced the news today on its official ...
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• If Those Little Lights Aren’t Cutting It

  
  Yanko Design — Authority: 763
  So you’re hearing impaired. And the telephone rings. But you aren’t looking at the phone, so you can’t see that little light flashing on it.* Or you’re looking for a new solution for waking up in the morning. Or the doorbell rings. What ever do you do? You come over here and check this right out, right now! ...
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• Obesity And Nutritional Deficits Linked To H1N1 Deaths

  
  Press About — Authority: 458
  For immediate ReleaseNevada, USA. December, 2009: Researchers at the Center for Disease Control’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, report new data linking obesity as playing a role in the severity of H1N1 infections. A study, published in the Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine ...
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• Obesity And Nutritional Deficits Linked To H1N1 Deaths

  
  Press About — Authority: 458
  For immediate ReleaseNevada, USA. December, 2009: Researchers at the Center for Disease Control’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, report new data linking obesity as playing a role in the severity of H1N1 infections. A study, published in the Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine ...
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• Virginia McKinney (1924-2009)

  
  Disability Studies, Temple U. — Authority: 406
  Obituary in the Los Angeles Times today for Virginia McKinney, who founded and ran the Center for Communicative Development in Koreatown. She became deaf in 1957, when she was 33, from an allergic reaction to a vaccine. Her program addressed the needs of adults with hearing loss, especially those for whom few other ...
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• Software For The Deaf Online

  
  Crazy People Work From Home... — Authority: 148
  Software for the deaf is proliferating in the market either online or offline. Manufacturers of these kinds of software saw the need for people hounded by this physical handicap. Thanks to their noble purpose of having to manufacturer software that does not only make lives of the hearing impaired easier but also aides ...
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• Q&A with Dr. T. Alan Hurwitz

  
  DeafNation — Authority: 111
  DeafNation: Congratulations on your selection! Im curious, how has life changed for you since the announcement? Dr. T. Alan Hurwitz: It has been surreal. This is something I never dreamed for, especially after almost 40 wonderful years in Rochester. I expected to finish my career at NTID/RIT until I was contacted ...
  5 days ago

• Solar power mounts in Canada

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Solar power is heating up in the northern reaches of Canada, a country not exactly known for its sunny rays and warm weather. The industry has seen a heap of news from the region this week. US. solar heavyweight First Solar and Canadian pipeline company Enbridge announced that they are quadrupling the size of a ...
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• At Long Last.

  
  Tiptoeing Through The Tulips — Authority: 118
  We had a very nearly perfect day yesterday; Christmasy goodness, new hearing aids, and only one slightly squished finger. Graham had an early release day, so I decided to surprise him by picking him up at school and bringing him to the Enchanted Village before his hearing aid appointment. The very kind people at ...
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• Quote: Not a lack

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 641
  It seems difficult for nondisabled people to write about disability without reflexively imagining what disabled people are missing or how difficult their lives must be. Rod Michalko, a sociologist who is blind, writes that sighted people typically conceive of “blindness in terms of ‘lack’-lack of sight. But this ...
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• Global Deaf Muslims - Dubai Conference 2010

  
  Rolling Rains Report — Authority: 135
  Global Deaf Muslims - Dubai Conference 2010 Date: Feb 14 - 16, 2010 Venue: Dubai - UAE Web: http://globaldeafmuslim.org/conference/ further contact: Global Deaf Muslim, P.O. BOX 46759, Cincinnati, OHIO 45246, USA. Email: contact@globaldeafmuslim.org Interested people can find more detail and can ...
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• The answer could be blowing in the wind

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Well into the first week of the U.N. Conference on Climate Change, the haves and have nots of the world are still divided over who should pay for the cleanup of the planet. Poor countries want rich countries to cough up more ambitious goals for emissions cuts and developing technologies. From emerging wind and ...
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• JohnsonDiversey exec sees CO2 reductions good for businesses

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Some businesses in the United States will have to reinvent themselves as the Obama administration moves to lower greenhouse gas emissions, but theyll be better off in the long run, Pedro Chidichimo, president of JohnsonDiversey EMA, told Reuters.com on Thursday. Despite the inevitable short-term pain, Chidichimo said ...
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• Official Release of An American Rose Christmas And My Story!

  
  The Pink Fuzzy Slipper Writers — Authority: 128
  Our new Christmas Anthology, An American Rose Christmas, officially launches at The Wild Rose Press tomorrow, Dec. 11th!  For those of you awaiting the digital download version, it’s upon us at long last!  This project has been months in the undertaking.  Congrats to my fellow authors in the anthology.   An ...
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• Pak must take decisive action against LeT: Experts

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, Dec. 10 (ANI): The arrest of David Coleman Headley, a US national of Pakistani origin who was apprehended in Chicago in October on terror charges, has highlighted the fact that the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) is closely connected to Al-Qaeda and is part of a global terrorist syndicate that threatens not only ...
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