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		<title>People with disabilities seek to open their own businesses</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Entrepreneurship seen as alternative to bleak job market, but hurdles loom By Sarah E. Needleman in the Wall Street Journal: An increasing number of people with disabilities are exploring entrepreneurship, responding to an competitive job market that offers them few opportunities, experts say. The unemployment rate for workers with disabilities was 14.3 percent in June, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former Sequenom exec pleads guilty</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/06/04/sequenom-exec-pleads-guilty-29679/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 04:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Says she lied to investors about prenatal DS test From a Los Angeles Times blog,  San Diego Union-Tribune, Business Week, Motley Fool: The former head of research and development at Sequenom Corp. has pleaded guilty to lying to investors and analysts about a company effort to develop a noninvasive prenatal screening test for Down syndrome. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sequenom settles lawsuit for $14 million plus stock</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the San Diego Union-Tribune, ABC News, Reuters: Sequenom, a diagnostics testing and genetic analysis company, has announced it will pay $14 million and an undisclosed amount in stock to settle an investor class-action lawsuit over mishandling of data in the development of a potentially lucrative prenatal test for Down syndrome. The company did not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;The hidden business cost of mental illness&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/12/08/cost-mental-illness-26367/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stew Friedman, writing in the Harvard Business Review, says mental illness is often not taken seriously or treated as a legitimate disease by businesses, the health care system, or by society. As a consequence, he says, the business sector faces significant cost in lost productivity because employees feel they must carry this heavy weight of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sequenom fires CEO, research chief after probe of test data</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/09/28/sequenom-fires-ceo-4-others-over-faulty-test-data-23092/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Bloomberg News, Dow Jones Newswires/Wall Street Journal, San Diego Business Journal, Market Watch: San Diego-based Sequenom Inc. today announced the firings of two top executives following a five-month-long independent investigation of alleged mishandling of research data on a first-trimester blood test for Down syndrome. Company executives had touted its SEQureDx test as 100 percent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abercrombie &amp; Fitch fined for bias against girl with autism</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/09/09/abercrombie-fitch-fined-autism-22124/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:58:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[She says store made her feel like a &#8216;misfit&#8217; From Minnesota Public Radio, [Minneapolis-St. Paul] Star Tribune: Minnesota has fined retailer Abercrombie &#38; Fitch $115,264 for discriminating against a person with a disability after store representatives refused to allow a family member to help a girl with autism in a dressing room. The state&#8217;s Department [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK woman wins disability case against Abercrombie</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/08/14/abercrombie-21906/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the [UK] Times, BBC News, Associated Press, and AFP; Riam Dean, 22, was awarded £9,000 by an employment tribunal after alleging that she was harassed and dismissed by the Abercrombie &#38; Fitch clothing chain for reasons related to her disability. Dean sued the clothing giant for discrimination, saying the firm&#8217;s London store banished her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Psycho Donuts TV debate to air</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/07/22/psycho-donuts-2-20461/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the San Jose Mercury News: The owner of a controversial California doughnut shop, &#8220;Psycho Donuts,&#8221; will square off against the head of a leading state mental health organization in a half hour televised debate to be aired on KTVU -TV later this month. The shop in Campbell, CA, features doughnuts dubbed &#8220;Bipolar&#8221; and &#8220;Massive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;He got off the motorcycle and proceeded to show us card tricks&#8230;&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/07/11/motorcycle-card-tricks-20010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the StoryCorps oral history project on National Public Radio: Ricky Boone, a magician and owner of a magic shop in Asheville, NC, tells his friend Patty Barber about the teacher who transformed his life. Boone was born with a rare bone disorder that stunted his growth and limited his mobility. He says he spent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding a job: It&#8217;s getting even harder for folks with disabilities</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/07/02/employment-disabilities-2-19560/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rachel Dornhelm on NPR&#8217;s Morning Edition People with developmental disabilities like autism and Down syndrome always have a hard time finding work. It&#8217;s estimated that two-thirds of them are unemployed. These days things are only getting worse, advocates say, as almost every state is considering deep cuts in funding for programs that help people [...]]]></description>
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