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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:13pt;color:#000000;">Forwarding this information about the first annual Audio Description Project conference</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:13pt;color:#000000;">"The American Council of the Blind has established the Audio Description Project to promote description throughout the nation in all its formats and to produce description for broadcast media. We will hold our first annual Audio Description Project Conference in conjunction with ACB’s 2009 Convention this summer in Orlando, FL—July 6-8. Immediately following our Conference, from July 9-11, we will convene our first Audio Description Training Institute, a three-day intensive series of interactive, multi-media sessions focused on the fundamentals of audio description.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:13pt;color:#000000;">I’ve attached documents (and appended them below) on both events and several other related initiatives:</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:13pt;color:#000000;">- “The Miracle Worker” on DVD with captions and description provided by ACB’s Audio Description Project—sales through the links indicated benefit ACB!</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:13pt;color:#000000;">- the Young Described Film Critic contest, sponsored by ACB’s ADP and the Described and Captioned Media Program—encourage kids you know to review described video or film!</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:13pt;color:#000000;">- a call for nominations for the first ACB/ADP Awards, including the Barry Levine Memorial Award for Career Achievement in Description as well as description Achievement Awards in Media, Performing Arts, Visual Art, and Research.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:13pt;color:#000000;">I do hope you can join us! Keep in mind that formal registration should begin by the end of next week at the ACB website: </font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:13pt;color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.acb.org" target="_blank">www.acb.org</a></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.audiodescribe.com" target="_blank">www.audiodescribe.com</a></font><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:13pt;color:#000000;">"</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Lisa Yayla</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Huseby Kompetansesenter </font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">lisa.yayla@statped.no</font></div>
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