As the Man Booker Prize short list is announced for another year, visually impaired radio presenter Ian Macrae laments the fact that he still can’t get
hold of accessible books in the United Kingdom.
BBC - Ouch! - Features - We’ve found the solution, now let’s create the problem
Her grandmother is 75 and has found a new partner - a 25-year-old man she met in Gambia. Should Sophie McKimm suspect their motives, she wonders, or be
glad that they have found each other?
Assalamu alaikum / greetings, uh, oh dear, uh, oh my! Well, uh, what to say? Well, honestly the first thought that popped in to my mind when the grandmother said that she had “shared something that she had only shared with her husband”, I thought, “Ewwww!” And then I thought “OK, OK, let’s not be so judgmental, perhaps it is really “love” or whatever.” And then I thought, “Well, what if he watns kids, he’s not going to have them with her.” And then I just gave up. Perhaps it’s a little bit of both. “Love” and the fact taht it seems that both are getting something out of this reltionship, and if the two of htem are happy, well, who am I to judge. Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention, of Anna Nicole Smith can marry an “older man”, then well, who are we to say that anything is “wrong” with this sort of thing? OK, don’t ask me why I even published this, except that I found it to be an interesting article if nothing else.
An unlikely love | Family and relationships | Life and Health
Assalamu alaikum / greetings. When I first saw the word “CATS” in the title, Jaws read it as “cats” as in “meow”. So the first thing that popped into my head was, “How are cats going to be used to train guide dogs? Oh, this I gotta see.” So I felt pretty foolish when I realized, after beginning to read the article, that “CATS” seems to be the acronym for the Charlotte Area Transit Service, aka CATS. Boy did I feel stupid then!
Charlotte Observer | 04/20/2007 | CATS to help train guide dogs on buses
Assalamu alaikum / greetings, I’m only blogging this becuase the other morning, I woke up, and the TV was on in the bedroom. I think it was on the History Channel or something like that, and they were showing an infomerical about this DVD set you could order with all of the performances of “The Midnight Special”. I’d never actually heard of that TV show, but the clips of the performances they showed on the infomercial made me want to be it (smile*. I probably actually wouldn’t though, because well, they probably only showed you the best clips anyway. But I was thinking, these people could actually sing! These people actually had some talent! Maybe I’m just getting old! But they really did have some good performances on there.
The Midnight Special (TV series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Assalamu alaikum / greetings. I definitely *do not* agree with the NFB’s positionon this issue. Personally, I think the only reason why they are against the currency accessible issue is because the American Council of the Blind, their rival organization, as it were, were the ones who filed the suit. And funny tha the NFB wants to talk about frivolity when these were the people who sued over things like Mr. Magoo, etc. Talk about giving blind / visually impaired people a bad image.
And as for “having to adapt everything it work”, etc., well, for many blind people who are in the work force, many many significant adaptations need to be made for the job to be accommodated anyway, so I’m not sure why something like accessible currency would give employers the impression that blind people are not capable. Unless of course you have the opinion that everyone has the latest in technology, or a sighted friend, family member, or coworker at the ready to assist them whenver the need to identify money arises. Personally speaking, I really don’t like having to ask people to assist me in identifying my own money, and no, I don’t have a fancy shmancy currency reader that most likely is going to become obselete every time the US government decides to change the design of their bills.
