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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A complication of premature birth, blindness has been an ever-present struggle for Sarah Blake LaRose. Though she’s had to endure the great challenges of blindness, and a variety of other physical hardships, she’s also seen clearly the beautiful nuances of life that many with fully functioning eyes may never see. Moreover, her contributions to society, particularly for the blind community, have been astounding. So astounding, in fact, that she was named one of this year’s Dr. Jacob Bolotin Award winners by the National Federation of the Blind. Sarah, who envisioned equal accessibility to scholarly study of the Bible for the blind, has, in many ways, contributed herself to the realization of that dream. <span id="more-7221" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">At the award ceremony earlier this year, Sarah explained that she used to receive e-mails from prospective students asking her if is possible to pursue studies of biblical languages and yet be blind. Reflecting back on the experience that led to this moment of accomplishment, she explains, “What we are doing didn’t become real to me until I stood on the stage and I realized that this project has the power to make the difference in whether a student gets exempted from biblical languages or whether a dean suggests they change their major. These are the things that have actually happened to blind people who have gone to Christian colleges and seminaries.” Concluding her speech that day, she remarked, “There should be no more exemptions for anybody who wants to study these languages!” Thanks to a group she’s partnered with, dubbed the Semitic Scholars, there doesn’t have to be.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Well-suited for the task, Sarah has been using Duxbury-brand translator products since 1993. The Duxbury Translator, software that can turn a standard file, such as a Microsoft Word document, into a format readable by a braille embosser, has been steadily expanding its language base since it was first developed. When Sarah needed the tool for her Greek course at Anderson University, she found it coming up short. Corresponding with a Duxbury employee about the </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">issue, she ended up working with them to update the product, using her own knowledge of the JAWS screen-reader for the blind. Ultimately she began serving as a beta tester for a feature that made multilingual documents accessible to the blind, and helped the team of Semitic Scholars develop a product designed specifically for biblical languages. Much has been done, but there is much left to do.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sarah’s ability to read biblical languages also came in handy for her contribution to these award-winning efforts. Today she not only manages a <a href="http://www.sarahblakelarose.com/" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">blog</a> and <a href="http://night-light.org/" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">website</a> replete with tools for those special needs and helpful resources for the general public, she also serves as an adjunct professor of Hebrew for <a href="http://anderson.edu/theology-christian-ministry" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Anderson University School of Theology and Christian Ministry</a>. Together with her blind husband Kevin, they share an inspirational <a href="http://www.sarahblakelarose.com/home/wedding-page/" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">blog</a> on the ups and downs of married life amid the unique challenges associated with blindness and compounded by other health issues.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When asked about what she wishes more people understood about the blind community, she cites the frequency of people assuming she would want to pastor a church of blind people. “We like to participate in the community, make friends with our neighbors, and do many of the same things you do,” Sarah explains. “Please ask questions about our interests, our jobs, our families, etc. We think about a lot of things and would enjoy talking about them. Also, I would like people to feel less anxious about how to help. Start by just saying hello and giving us a chance to get to know you. Trust us to ask for help if we need it. We aren’t afraid to ask. The most important part of helping is being available, and the best way to do that is just to be a friend and have an open and teachable spirit.”</span></div>
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But when he got his first MacBook Pro on his 14th birthday, he found that the computer's accessibility features allowed him to see things he otherwise wouldn't have been able to see. He could read his schoolbooks and zoom in on software that allowed him to edit video.</div>
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<b style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">Franklin Delano Roosevelt</b><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;"> - (January 30, 1882 - April 12, 1945) Franklin was the 32nd President of the United States of America and played a big role during World War II. Roosevelt eventually aided the poor and un-employed of America and restored order at various times during his Presidency. He was also the only President to ever get elected 4 years in a row mostly because of his help for the recovery of the economy. It has been said that Roosevelt had several disabilities including vision impairment. </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05881045327698383874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523784402779337931.post-15959954712207722062016-02-10T13:14:00.000-08:002016-02-10T13:14:15.192-08:00Marla Runyan<h2 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin: 35px 0px 0.6em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Olympic runner Marla Runyan never let her disability slow her down. Born in 1969 in Santa Maria, California, Runyan has Stargardt’s disease, a degenerative eye condition that caused her to become legally blind. A three-time national champion in the women’s 5000 meter, Runyan competed in the 1500-meter finals at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An avid marathon runner with a master’s degree in special education, Runyan is a professional motivational speaker, encouraging people to look past barriers and reach their full potential. She said she was inspired to succeed as a young child, after a doctor told her that her blindness would prevent her from achieving success in life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Runyan also reaches out to children and families dealing with vision loss. “The future is not written and you have control about how you respond to the vision loss,” she has said. “Your child will show you what he or she wants to do.”</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05881045327698383874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523784402779337931.post-66087096413023889862016-02-09T17:59:00.001-08:002016-02-09T18:02:56.437-08:00The last slave: ‘Blind Tom’ Wiggins’ remarkable tale<p style="margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Black History Month, as the late president Gerald Ford eloquently said in 1976, encourages Americans every February to “seize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history.”</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px;"><a class="alignright post-image" href="https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/u505008inp-copy1.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&strip=all" style="text-decoration: none; display: block; float: none; margin: 13px 0px 32px; position: relative; max-width: 100%; width: 355px; height: auto;"><img src="https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/u505008inp-copy1.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=231&strip=all" alt="" width="231" height="292" class="alignnone size-nypost-small-post wp-image-10059209" style="border-style: none none solid; border-bottom-width: 4px; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 51, 51); vertical-align: middle; position: relative; display: block; padding-bottom: 3px; max-width: 100%; height: auto; width: 355px; float: none; margin: 0px; cursor: default;"></a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Prominent black Americans like Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver often figure prominently in this discussion, whereas pathbreaking but lesser-known figures mostly get overlooked.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Like Thomas “Blind Tom” Wiggins.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Blind Tom may well have been one of America’s greatest musical prodigies, yet remains far too obscure in American culture and history.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Born a slave in Harris County, Ga., in May 1849, Blind Tom was unable to work the plantation owned by Gen. James Neil Bethune. He was therefore allowed to wander around freely and discover the world in a way that other black Americans of the time couldn’t have even dreamed of.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As the story goes, he was intrigued by the piano after listening to Bethune’s daughters play it. He was able to memorize pieces in a flash and, by the age of 5, wrote his first composition, “The Rain Storm.”</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Bethune immediately recognized the young boy’s talent. He was moved into the family home in an adjoining room with a piano, and reportedly played for many hours each day. </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As Blind Tom got older, he was loaned out to concert promoter Perry Oliver and toured the country. He was an immediate sensation, earning more than $100,000 per year and was often compared to great composers like Ludwig van Beethoven and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He astonished audiences, and could apparently play several songs at once. He had memorized somewhere in the neighborhood of 7,000 pieces of music. His magnificent 1861 composition, “The Battle of Manassas,” beautifully fits in with other great music from the Civil War era. </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">His admirers included then-president James Buchanan (he was the first black American to perform at the White House) and Mark Twain.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On the surface, it sounds rather idyllic. Alas, Blind Tom’s life was anything but. </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Blind Tom had several strikes against him: his race, blindness and the fact that he was, most likely, an autistic savant. For all of his natural ability in music, the author Willa Cather once described him as little more than a “human phonograph, a sort of animated memory, with sound producing power.” </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He was unable to take care of himself, couldn’t communicate his own wants and needs and often spoke in the third person. Some have even suggested he wasn’t aware of the fact that he was an African American.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moreover, Blind Tom has been called the last legal slave in America, and there may be some truth to this. He went through a series of custody battles within the Bethune family, and bounced from city to city. He served as little more than a sideshow attraction to an adoring audience, and died a pauper in June 1908.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hence, he was never really a free man.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There’s another sad part to this tale. No original recordings of Blind Tom appear to exist. His sheet music is available, but only a small number of musicians have ever recorded his original songs. The most well-known album, “John Davis Plays Blind Tom,” was brought out in 2000. The irony? Davis, a talented musician and historian, is white. </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Blind Tom’s life was a living hell — there’s no denying this. At the same time, the musical legacy that this incredible (albeit troubled) pianist born into slavery left behind is worthy of greater discussion and, in turn, national recognition.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Indeed, Blind Tom is precisely the figure we should be celebrating during Black History Month (or anytime, of course). Blind Tom Wiggins’ difficult journey and neglected accomplishments mask a classic American tale of genius, talent, determination and inspiration.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px;"><br></p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05881045327698383874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523784402779337931.post-91093390930062683452016-01-12T13:19:00.000-08:002016-01-12T13:19:11.466-08:00Andrea Bocelli He is a famous Italian tenor who had become blind at the age of 12.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Andrea Bocelli had become blind at the age of 12 years old following a football accident in which he was hit in the head. At 6 years old Bocelli was taking piano lessons before also learning the saxophone and the flute. His family would always ask him to sing, bocelli once said "I don't think a singer decides to sing, it is the others who choose that you sing by their reactions". Bocelli has also sung with other great singers such as Pavarotti. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He’s one of the world’s most famous opera singers, and he’s totally blind. Andrea Bocelli is a man that overcame many odds to become a household name worldwide. Born in 1958 in Lajatico, Italy, Bocelli went blind at age 12, when a blow to his head during a soccer game further complicated his congenital glaucoma.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Though he is known for his angelic and soaring opera tenor, Bocelli did not find a career in music until later in life. He worked for years as a lawyer and practiced his “hobby” of singing in piano bars and parties on weekends. A talent scout happened to hear him sing at a party he attended and signed him to a recording deal.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Andrea has worked with the famous Luciano Pavarotti and Sarah Brightman, and has sung for the Pope. He is best known for his sweet songs, such as “Con Te Partirò”, a duet with Sarah Brightman and has released several multi-platinum albums throughout Europe and the United States.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bocelli’s velvety voice and inspiring personality have won him fans worldwide. “All that counts in life is intention,” he is quoted as saying. “You have to persevere, you have to insist.”</span></span></h2>
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Blind Willie McTell was a Piedmont and ragtime blues singer and guitarist. He played with a fluid, syncopated fingerstyle guitar technique, common among many exponents of Piedmont blues, although, unlike his contemporaries, he came to use twelve-string guitars exclusively. McTell was also an adept slide guitarist, unusual among ragtime bluesmen. His vocal style, a smooth and often laid-back tenor, differed greatly from many of the harsher voice types employed by Del...</div>
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Nicole Rasmussen is just like many moms in many ways: she cooks dinner, she loves and cares for her children, she has a supportive husband.</div>
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But the one thing that sets her apart makes her the miraculous and incredible woman she is: she recently went completely blind.</div>
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The health issues started a year after Nicole’s wedding, when she was experiencing frequent headaches and slurred speech. Doctors ultimately discovered a bacteria attacking her brain. She was in a coma for two weeks.</div>
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Six months after her recovery, the bacteria came back, and it was then that she quickly lost her vision.</div>
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Luckily, Nicole has a supportive family, and a loving husband. Sometimes, she video chats her husband during the day and he helps her find things in and around the house.</div>
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Nicole writes about the challenges of cooking, shares recipes, and talks about her experiences “cooking in the dark’ on her blog, <a href="http://www.blindmom.com/" style="-webkit-transition: all, 0.3s, ease-in-out; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: royalblue; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; transition: all, 0.3s, ease-in-out;" target="_blank">blindmom.com</a>.</div>
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<b style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Paterson" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">David Alexander Paterson</a></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">(born May 20, 1954) is an American</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politician" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="Politician">politician</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">. He was the</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> </span>55th<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_New_York" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Governor of New York">Governor of New York</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">, in office from 2008 to 2010. He was the first</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="African American">African American</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">governor of New York and also the second</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindness" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="Blindness">legally blind</a><span style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 11px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">governor of any U.S. state after</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_C._Riley" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="Bob C. 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Riley</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">, who was Acting</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_Arkansas" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="Governor of Arkansas">Governor of Arkansas</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">for 11 days in January 1975.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Since leaving office, Paterson has been a radio talk show host on station</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WOR_(AM)" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="WOR (AM)">WOR</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">in New York City, and was in 2014 appointed Chairman of the</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Democratic_Party" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="New York Democratic Party">New York Democratic Party</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">by his successor as governor,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Cuomo" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="Andrew Cuomo">Andrew Cuomo</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">After graduating from <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstra_Law_School" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Hofstra Law School">Hofstra Law School</a>, Paterson worked in the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_Attorney" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="District Attorney">District Attorney's office</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queens" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Queens">Queens County, New York</a>, and on the staff of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a> <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borough_President" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Borough President">Borough President</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Dinkins" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="David Dinkins">David Dinkins</a>. In 1985, he was elected to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_State_Senate" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="New York State Senate">New York State Senate</a> to a seat that was once held by his father, former <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Secretary_of_State" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="New York Secretary of State">New York Secretary of State</a> <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Paterson" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Basil Paterson">Basil Paterson</a>. In 2003, he rose to the position of <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_Minority_Leader" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Senate Minority Leader">Senate Minority Leader</a>. Paterson was selected as running mate by then-<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Attorney_General" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="New York Attorney General">New York Attorney General</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic Party</a> gubernatorial nominee <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_Spitzer" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Eliot Spitzer">Eliot Spitzer</a> in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_gubernatorial_election,_2006" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="New York gubernatorial election, 2006">2006 New York gubernatorial election</a>.</span><span style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Spitzer and Paterson were elected in November 2006 with 69 percent of the vote, and Paterson took office as Lieutenant Governor on January 1, 2007.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><span style="color: #252525;">When Spitzer resigned in the wake of a </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_Spitzer_prostitution_scandal" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal">prostitution scandal</a><span style="color: #252525;">, Paterson was sworn in as governor of New York on March 17, 2008. Paterson launched a brief campaign for a full term as governor in the </span><span style="color: black;">2010</span><span style="color: #252525;"> gubernatorial election</span><span style="color: #252525;">, but announced on February 26, 2010, that he would not be a candidate in the Democratic primary.</span></span><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 11px; line-height: 11px;"> </span><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">David Paterson was born in </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="Brooklyn">Brooklyn</a><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> to Portia Paterson, a homemaker, and labor law attorney </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Paterson" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="Basil Paterson">Basil Paterson</a><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">. Basil Paterson was later a New York state senator and secretary of state, and served as </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deputy_mayor" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="Deputy mayor">deputy mayor</a><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> of New York City. </span><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">According to a </span><i style="color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">New York Now</i><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> interview, Paterson traces his roots on his mother's side of the family to pre-</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="American Civil War">Civil War</a><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> African American slaves in the states of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="North Carolina">North Carolina</a><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Carolina" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="South Carolina">South Carolina</a><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">. </span><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">His father is half Afro-</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="Jamaica">Jamaican</a><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">. His paternal grandmother, Evangeline Rondon Paterson </span><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">was secretary to Black Nationalist leader </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Garvey" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="Marcus Garvey">Marcus Garvey</a><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">. His paternal grandfather was Leonard James Paterson,</span><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> a native of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carriacou" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="Carriacou">Carriacou</a><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> who arrived in the United States aboard the S.S. </span><i style="color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Vestris</i><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> on May 16, 1917. </span><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Part of his father's ancestry consists of immigrants from England, Ireland, and Scotland, while his mother's side includes European ancestry, as well as ancestors from the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea-Bissau" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="Guinea-Bissau">Guinea-Bissau</a><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> region of West Africa.</span></div>
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At the age of three months, Paterson contracted an ear infection which spread to his <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optic_nerve" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Optic nerve">optic nerve</a>, leaving him with no sight in his left eye and severely limited vision in his right. Since New York City public schools would not guarantee him an education without placing him in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_education" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Special education">special education</a> classes, his family bought a home in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Island" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Long Island">Long Island</a> suburb of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Hempstead,_New_York" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="South Hempstead, New York">South Hempstead</a> so that he could attend mainstream classes there. Paterson was the first disabled student in the Hempstead public schools, graduating from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hempstead_High_School_(New_York)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Hempstead High School (New York)">Hempstead High School</a> in 1971.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-NYT-2008-03-15-Paterson_Timeline_20-0" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"></sup></div>
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Paterson received a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Bachelor of Arts">B.A.</a> in History from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_College,_Columbia_University" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Columbia College, Columbia University">Columbia College</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_University" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a> in 1977 and a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juris_Doctor" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Juris Doctor">law degree</a> from <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstra_Law_School" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Hofstra Law School">Hofstra Law School</a> in 1983. After law school, he went to work for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queens" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Queens">Queens</a> <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_Attorney" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="District Attorney">District Attorney</a>'s Office, but did not pass the New York <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_examination" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Bar examination">bar examination</a>, thus not becoming an <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attorney_at_law_(United_States)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Attorney at law (United States)">Attorney at law</a>. He claimed that his failing the New York bar was partially the result of insufficient accommodation for his visual impairment, and has since advocated for changes in bar exam procedures.While he was governor, Paterson's staff read documents to him over voice mail. Paterson was the first governor of New York to be partly blind. Paterson and his wife, Michelle Paige Paterson, separated after 19 years of marriage in September 2012.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">In 1985, Paterson resigned from the Queens District Attorney's office so he could join the campaign of then city clerk <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Dinkins" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="David Dinkins">David Dinkins</a> to win the Democratic nomination for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a> <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borough_President" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Borough President">Borough President</a>. That summer, on August 6, state senator <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Bogues" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Leon Bogues">Leon Bogues</a> died, and Paterson sought and obtained the Democratic party nomination for the seat. In mid-September, a meeting of 648 Democratic committee members on the first ballot gave Paterson 58% of the vote, giving him the party nomination. That October, Paterson won the virtually uncontested special <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_State_Senate" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="New York State Senate">State Senate</a> election. At the time, the 29th Senate district covered the Manhattan neighborhoods of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Harlem">Harlem</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Valley" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Manhattan Valley">Manhattan Valley</a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_West_Side" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Upper West Side">Upper West Side</a>, the same district that Paterson's father had represented. Upon his election, Paterson became the youngest State Senator in Albany. He won the seat again in 1986 for a full term representing the 29th District in the New York State Senate, and served as senator until assuming the office of Lieutenant Governor on January 1, 2007.</span><span style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Paterson briefly ran in the Democratic primary for the office of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Public_Advocate" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="New York City Public Advocate">New York City Public Advocate</a><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> in 1993, but was defeated by </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_J._Green" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="Mark J. Green">Mark J. Green</a><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">.</span></div>
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I found this video on <a href="http://livingblindblog.com/">http://livingblindblog.com</a><br />
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How do you tell the person you love you’re going blind? How do you cook? Clean? Go to work? Dress yourself? Care for your spouse? Run your home? A recently released short video, produced by the<a href="http://www.jubileeproject.org/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0d85cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="the Jubilee Project">Jubilee Project</a>, poses all of these questions about living with a disability, whether you’re the person who has the disability, or you’re a friend, family member, or colleague of someone with a disability. Several friends in the blind community drew my attention to this video recently. It tells of a married couple’s struggle with the realization that the wife (Cecilia) is going blind, and what that means for her identity as a woman, as a professional, and as a wife, as well as her husband’s(Louie) endeavors to support her despite her denial.Curious about the backlash the short provoked amongst many of my friends, I watched (several times) and still find myself sifting through mixed emotions. Intended as a short film about unconditional love and the challenges of marriage, Blind Devotion instead seems to misappropriate disability for a religious agenda and presents a troubling picture of the ways that fear and denial can damage healthy lives and relationships. However, it also offers us some startling realities about the challenges that people with disabilities face—realities that many of us live with day in and day out, but that we wish would go away.</div>
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Firstly, it bears pointing out that this video’s target audience isn’t the disabled, or people who are close to someone with a disability, but that’s all the more reason, in my opinion, that appropriating blindness symbolically to tell a story about marital and life challenges is all the more problematic, because if handled insensitively, such appropriation perpetuates the myths and stereotypes that people with disabilities spend every day of their lives trying to dispel. As for the portrayal of blindness itself, while I disagree with Cecilia’s attempts to hide her disability, I think her story should evoke compassion and concern from the blind community rather than the ridicule I’ve heard from some. To put it bluntly, going blind is scary. Anyone who has gone blind and doesn’t remember the fear has selective amnesia. While those of us who’ve dealt with it know in hindsight (pun intended) that denial isn’t just a river in Egypt, we often forget that we asked many of the questions and wrestled with many of the same fears that Cecilia has expressed. This is a woman who, having lived her entire life with fully functional sight, is now facing the prospect of adjusting to life without it. When she tells us that a disease she can barely pronounce is taking away her vision, many of us can relate to the figurative as well as the literal truth in that statement. The future she’s carefully mapped out for herself is being obliterated. We know, sadly, that despite the ADA, employers still discriminate against people with disabilities, and her career is likely in jeopardy.</div>
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As she admits, her domestic devotion to her husband might seem like a throwback to prefeminist domesticity, but let’s not devalue the work of running the household and caring for one’s family—tasks in which she obviously takes pride and which partially define her identity as woman and wife. Because of her denial, and her fear, she can’t recognize that blind people can, and do, live perfectly productive lives as professionals, parents, spouses, and even as single people. While her denial will ultimately make the road she has to travel much rougher and longer than it might be if she would face the truth, the process of acceptance, in a lot of ways, mirrors the five stages of grief. According to <a href="http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/grieving-acquired-disability/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0d85cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="GoodTherapy.org">GoodTherapy.org</a>,</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05881045327698383874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523784402779337931.post-62787539554599236922015-08-10T18:48:00.000-07:002015-12-16T14:20:04.166-08:00Louis Braille, a French 12-year-old, who was also blind. And his work changed the world of reading and writing, forever.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="font20pt" style="background-color: white; line-height: 29px;"><a href="http://braillebug.afb.org/louis_braille_bio.asp" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Louis Braille </a>(1809-1852) </span><span style="background-color: white;"></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 27px;">Six dots. Six bumps. Six bumps in different patterns, like constellations, spreading out over the page. What are they? Numbers, letters, words. Who made this code? None other than<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Braille" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Louis Braille</a>, a French 12-year-old, who was also <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braille" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">blind</a>. And his work changed the world of reading and writing, forever.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://braillebug.afb.org/clear_pix.gif" height="2" width="15" /></span></td><td><span class="font15pt" style="line-height: 1.65em;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Louis was from a small town called Coupvray, near Paris—he was born on January 4 in 1809. Louis became blind by accident, when he was 3 years old. Deep in his Dad's harness workshop, Louis tried to be like his Dad, but it went very wrong; he grabbed an awl, a sharp tool for making holes, and the tool slid and hurt his eye. The wound got infected, and the infection spread, and soon, Louis was blind in both eyes. </span></span><br />
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<tr><td><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://braillebug.afb.org/clear_pix.gif" height="2" width="15" /></span></td><td><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="font15pt" style="line-height: 1.65em;">All of a sudden, Louis needed a new way to learn. He stayed at his old school for two more years, but he couldn't learn everything just by listening. Things were looking up when Louis got a scholarship to the Royal Institution for Blind Youth in Paris, when he was 10. But even there, most of the teachers just talked at the students. The library had 14 huge books with raised letters that were very hard to read. Louis was impatient. </span><span style="line-height: 27px;">hen in 1821, a former soldier named Charles Barbier visited the school. Barbier shared his invention called "night writing," a code of 12 raised dots that let soldiers share top-secret information on the battlefield without even having to speak. Unfortunately, the code was too hard for the soldiers, but not for 12-year-old Louis! </span><span style="line-height: 27px;">Louis trimmed Barbier's 12 dots into 6, ironed out the system by the time he was 15, then published the first-ever braille book in 1829. But did he stop there? No way! In 1837, he added symbols for math and music. But since the public was skeptical, blind students had to study braille on their own. Even at the Royal Institution, where Louis taught after he graduated, braille wasn't taught until after his death. Braille began to spread worldwide in 1868, when a group of British men, now known as the Royal National Institute for the Blind, took up the cause. </span><span style="line-height: 27px;">Now practically every country in the world uses braille. Braille books have double-sided pages, which saves a lot of space. Braille signs help blind people get around in public spaces. And, most important, blind people can communicate independently, without needing print. </span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Braille characters are small rectangular blocks called <i>cells</i> that contain tiny palpable bumps called <i>raised dots</i>. The number and arrangement of these dots distinguish one character from another. Since the various braille alphabets originated as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcription_(linguistics)" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Transcription (linguistics)">transcription</a> codes of printed writing systems, the mappings (sets of character designations) vary from language to language. Furthermore, in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Braille" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="English Braille">English Braille</a> there are three levels of encoding: Grade 1, a letter-by-letter transcription used for basic literacy; Grade 2, an addition of abbreviations and contractions; and Grade 3, various non-standardized personal <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shorthand" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Shorthand">shorthands</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Braille cells are not the only thing to appear in embossed text. There may be embossed illustrations and graphs, with the lines either solid or made of series of dots, arrows, bullets that are larger than braille dots, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">In the face of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_reader" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Screen reader">screen-reader</a> software, braille usage has declined. However, braille education remains important for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_to_read" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Learning to read">developing reading skills</a> among blind and visually impaired children, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braille_literacy" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Braille literacy">braille literacy</a> correlates with higher employment rates.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05881045327698383874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523784402779337931.post-31960625802390273192015-08-03T17:54:00.000-07:002015-10-02T12:14:52.710-07:00Claude Monet - also known as Oscar-Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet. He started to go blind.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.claudemonetgallery.org/biography.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Claude Monet</a> - also known as Oscar-Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet (November 14, 1840 - December 5, 1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise. His popularity and fame grew. By 1907 he had painted many well-known paintings, but by then he had his first problem with his eyesight. He started to go blind. He still painted, though his eyes got worse. He wouldn't stop painting until he was nearly blind. In the last decade of his life Monet, nearly blind, painted a group of large water lily murals (Nympheas) for the Musee de l'Orangerie in Paris. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">On the first of April 1851, Monet entered the Le Havre secondary school of the arts. He first became known locally for his charcoal caricatures, which he would sell for ten to twenty francs. Monet also undertook his first drawing lessons from Jacques-François Ochard, a former student of Jacques-Louis David. On the beaches of Normandy in about 1856/1857 he met fellow artist Eugène Boudin who became his mentor and taught him to use oil paints. Boudin taught Monet "en plein air" (outdoor) techniques for painting.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo7_hAftaRLXzf5ZneApHffbakhOW3nazhLga9lIdyaqQmI-_N-JE3TtTuO4EypxDXlFv7bgSfj71DSbTyk1pGAODB3fAjBnlrZBKNSp7uZjJliWiURUXXg15aW1kuVrfaKICOGjkWYWg/s1600/The_Louvre_at_night_by_dealived.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo7_hAftaRLXzf5ZneApHffbakhOW3nazhLga9lIdyaqQmI-_N-JE3TtTuO4EypxDXlFv7bgSfj71DSbTyk1pGAODB3fAjBnlrZBKNSp7uZjJliWiURUXXg15aW1kuVrfaKICOGjkWYWg/s1600/The_Louvre_at_night_by_dealived.jpg" width="320" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">When Monet traveled to <u><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Paris</a></u> to visit<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louvre" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> <u>The Louvre,</u> </a>he witnessed painters copying from the old masters. Monet, having brought his paints and other tools with him, would instead go and sit by a window and paint what he saw. Monet was in Paris for several years and met several painters who would become friends and fellow impressionists. One of those friends was Édouard Manet.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Monet's Camille or The Woman in the Green Dress (La Femme à la Robe Verte), painted in 1866, brought him recognition, and was one of many works featuring his future wife, Camille Doncieux; she was the model for the figures in The Woman in the Garden of the following year, as well as for On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt, 1868, pictured here. Shortly thereafter Doncieux became pregnant and gave birth to their first child, Jean. In 1868, due to financial reasons, Monet attempted suicide by throwing himself into the Seine.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">To learn more go to <span style="background-color: transparent;"><a href="http://www.claudemonetgallery.org/biography.html">http://www.claudemonetgallery.org/biography.html</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">Joseph Pulitzer - (April 10, 1847 - October 29, 1911) Joseph was a Hungarian-American publisher best known for posthumously establishing the Pulitzer Prizes (along with William Randolph Hearst) and for originating yellow journalism. In 1882 Pulitzer purchased the New York World, a newspaper that had been losing $40,000 a year, for $346,000 from Jay Gould. Pulitzer shifted its focus to human-interest stories, scandal, and sensationalism. At the age of 42 Joseph became blind due to retinal detachment leaving him no choice but to retire.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: helvetica, 'arial sans-serif'; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 19px;">Joseph Pulitzer is the namesake for one of the most desired honors, the Pulitzer Prize for literature, music and journalism, and was legally blind. Pulitzer was also a politician with a Missouri state legislature seat. Throughout his career, he had a hard stance against illegal gain as well as corruption. While he acquired multiple newspapers, Pulitzer’s eyes began to fail him leading to him becoming completely blind in 1889. Despite this, he remained a strong watch-dog for injustice and social crimes.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05881045327698383874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523784402779337931.post-87546045087209289212015-07-20T15:15:00.000-07:002015-07-20T15:15:00.786-07:00Ray Charles was responsible for the creation of soul music, which combines blues, rhythm, gospel and jazz. He was allso blind.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.raycharles.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ray Charles</a> - (September 23, 1930) known by his stage name Ray Charles, was an American pianist and musician who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica, 'arial sans-serif';"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Ray Charles is one of the most famous American musical performers. He was allso blind. </span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica, 'arial sans-serif'; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 19px;">He</span><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 19px;"> wasborn with glaucoma and was completely blind by the time he was seven.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">He brought a soulful sound to country music, pop standards, and a rendition of "America the Beautiful" that Ed Bradley of 60 Minutes called the "definitive version of the song, an American anthem. In 1965, Charles was arrested for possession of heroin, a drug to which he had been addicted for nearly 20 years. It was his third arrest for the offence, but he avoided jail time after kicking the habit in a clinic in Los Angeles. He spent a year on parole in 1966. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica, 'arial sans-serif';"><span style="font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 19px;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, 'arial sans-serif';"><span style="font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 19px;"> He left school when he was 15 to pursue his dream of music. </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Charles" rel="nofollow" style="font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 19px;" target="_blank">Ray Charles </a><span style="font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 19px;">was responsible for the creation of soul music, which combines blues, rhythm, gospel and jazz. Charles not only helped eliminate many racial barriers since he was one of the earliest black musicians to be played on the radio. </span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 19px;">Ray Charles Live Show</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica, 'arial sans-serif'; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 22px;">He pioneered the genre of</span><span style="font-family: helvetica, 'arial sans-serif'; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 22px;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_music" style="background-image: none; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="Soul music">soul music</a><span style="font-family: helvetica, 'arial sans-serif'; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span style="font-family: helvetica, 'arial sans-serif'; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 22px;">during the 1950s by combining</span><span style="font-family: helvetica, 'arial sans-serif'; 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text-decoration: none;" title="Blues">blues</a><span style="font-family: helvetica, 'arial sans-serif'; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span style="font-family: helvetica, 'arial sans-serif'; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 22px;">styles into the music he recorded for</span><span style="font-family: helvetica, 'arial sans-serif'; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 22px;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Records" style="background-image: none; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="Atlantic Records">Atlantic Records</a><span style="font-family: helvetica, 'arial sans-serif'; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 22px;">.</span><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span style="font-family: helvetica, 'arial sans-serif'; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 22px;">He also contributed to the racial integration of</span><span style="font-family: helvetica, 'arial sans-serif'; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 22px;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_music" style="background-image: none; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="Country music">country</a><span style="font-family: helvetica, 'arial sans-serif'; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span style="font-family: helvetica, 'arial sans-serif'; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 22px;">and</span><span style="font-family: helvetica, 'arial sans-serif'; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 22px;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_music" style="background-image: none; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="Pop music">pop music</a><span style="font-family: helvetica, 'arial sans-serif'; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span style="font-family: helvetica, 'arial sans-serif'; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 22px;">during the 1960s with his</span><span style="font-family: helvetica, 'arial sans-serif'; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 22px;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossover_(music)" style="background-image: none; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="Crossover (music)">crossover</a><span style="font-family: helvetica, 'arial sans-serif'; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span style="font-family: helvetica, 'arial sans-serif'; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 22px;">success on</span><span style="font-family: helvetica, 'arial sans-serif'; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 22px;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_Records" style="background-image: none; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="ABC Records">ABC Records</a><span style="font-family: helvetica, 'arial sans-serif'; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 22px;">, most notably with his two</span><span style="font-family: helvetica, 'arial sans-serif'; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 22px;"> </span><i style="font-family: sans-serif; 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<span style="background-color: white;">Charles was blind from the age of seven. Charles cited <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_King_Cole" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Nat King Cole">Nat King Cole</a> as a primary influence, but his music was also influenced by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Jazz">jazz</a>, blues, rhythm and blues, and country artists of the day, including <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Tatum" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Art Tatum">Art Tatum</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Jordan" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Louis Jordan">Louis Jordan</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Brown_(musician)" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Charles Brown (musician)">Charles Brown</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Armstrong" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Louis Armstrong">Louis Armstrong</a>. Charles' playing reflected influences from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_blues" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Country blues">country blues</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juke_joint" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Juke joint">barrelhouse</a> and <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stride_piano" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Stride piano">stride</a> piano styles. He had strong ties to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincy_Jones" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Quincy Jones">Quincy Jones</a>, who often cared for him and showed him the ropes of the "music club industry." <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Sinatra" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Frank Sinatra">Frank Sinatra</a> called him "the only true genius in show business", although Charles downplayed this notion. In 2004, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_Stone" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Rolling Stone">Rolling Stone</a></i> ranked Charles at number ten on their list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time",<span style="font-size: 12px;"> </span>and number two on their November 2008 list of the "100 Greatest Singers of All Time". <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Joel" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Billy Joel">Billy Joel</a>observed: "This may sound like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacrilege" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Sacrilege">sacrilege</a>, but I think Ray Charles was more important than <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Presley" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Elvis Presley">Elvis Presley</a>".</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05881045327698383874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523784402779337931.post-51324529679970751542015-07-13T09:44:00.000-07:002015-07-13T09:44:00.060-07:00Homer A legendary ancient Greek epic poet, traditionally said to be the author of the epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey. He was also said to have been blind.<img alt="Image showing a staute of Homer" class="alignleft wp-image-268" src="http://brailleworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/HomerForUseOnBW.comFamousPeoplePage-150x150.jpg" height="200" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; float: left; font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: auto; line-height: 23px; margin: 5px 20px 20px 0px; max-width: 100%; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: bottom;" title="Image showing a staute of Homer" width="200" /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-transition: all 0.15s ease; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0067ac; font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; text-decoration: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; transition: all 0.15s ease;" target="_blank" title="Homer (opens in new window)"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Homer</strong></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;"> (Unknown): A legendary ancient Greek epic poet, traditionally said to be the author of the epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey. He was also said to have been blind. The ancient Greeks generally believed that Homer was a historical individual, but modern scholars are skeptical because no reliable biographical information has been handed down from classical antiquity, and the poems themselves manifestly represent the culmination of many centuries of oral story-telling and a well-developed “formulaic” system of poetic composition. The date of Homer’s existence was controversial in antiquity and is no less so today. Herodotus said that Homer lived 400 years before his own time, which would place him at around 850 BC; but other ancient sources gave dates much closer to the supposed time of the Trojan War (1194 – 1184 BC). The formative influence of the works of Homer in shaping and influencing the whole development of Greek culture was recognized by many Greeks themselves, who considered him to be their instructor.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05881045327698383874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523784402779337931.post-55518793647420861432015-07-06T18:43:00.000-07:002015-07-06T18:43:00.459-07:00Harriet Tubman <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://brailleworks.com/braille-resources/famous-people-with-visual-impairments/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Harriet Tubman</a></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"> - (c. 1820 - 10 March 1913) Harriet Tubman was a slave throughout her youth, being treated as an animal until she eventually escaped captivity. When she had reached Canada she did not stay to enjoy her freedom. She returned to the lands and brought hundreds of black slaves back to safety, saving them from slavery by escaping from what they then called The Underground Railroad. After a severe wound to the head, which was inflicted by a slave owner before her escape, she became victim to vision impairment and seizures. Which did not keep her from tossing her fears aside and to keep fighting for the freedom of her people.</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05881045327698383874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523784402779337931.post-81912751958951433232015-06-29T18:16:00.000-07:002015-10-02T12:15:20.214-07:00Stevie Wonder - Steveland Hardaway Judkins on name later changed to Steveland Hardaway Morris), is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. Blind from infancy, Wonder signed with Motown Records as a pre-adolescent at age twelve, and continues to perform and record for the label to this day.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.sheetmusicdownload.in/piano/sheets/1885/Stevie_Wonder_Isnt_She_Lovely.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stevie Wonder</a></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"> - (born <a href="http://encyclopedia.org/entry/Stevie_Wonder" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Steveland Hardaway Judkins</a> on May 13, 1950, name later changed to Steveland Hardaway Morris), is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. Blind from infancy, Wonder signed with Motown Records as a pre-adolescent at age twelve, and continues to perform and record for the label to this day. It is thought that he received excessive oxygen in his incubator which led to retinopathy of prematurity, a destructive ocular disorder affecting the retina, characterized by abnormal growth of blood vessels, scarring, and sometimes retinal detachment. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">A prominent figure in popular music during the latter half of the 20th century , Wonder has recorded more than thirty top ten hits, won 26 Grammy Awards (a record for a solo artist), plus one for lifetime achievement, won an Academy Award for Best Song and been inducted into both the Rock and Roll and Songwriters halls of fame. He has also been awarded the Polar Music Prize.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Blind from infancy, Wonder signed with Motown Records as a pre-adolescent at age twelve, and continues to perform and record for the label to this day. He has nine U.S. number-one hits to his name (on the pop Charts, 20 U.S. R&B number one hits), and album sales totaling more than 150 million units. Wonder has recorded several critically acclaimed albums and hit singles, and writes and produces songs for many of his label mates and outside artists as well. Wonder plays the piano, synthesizer, harmonica, congas, drums, bongos, organ, melodica, and clavinet. In his early career, he was best known for his harmonica work, but today he is better known for his keyboard skills and vocals.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">His family moved to Detroit when he was four. Stevie took up</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> </span><a href="http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Piano" style="background-image: none; color: #5a3696; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="Piano">piano</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">the same year and had mastered it by age nine. During his childhood, he was active in his church's</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> </span><a href="http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Choir" style="background-image: none; color: #5a3696; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="Choir">choir</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">. He also taught himself to play the</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> </span><a href="http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Harmonica" style="background-image: none; color: #5a3696; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="Harmonica">harmonica</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">and the drums, and had mastered both by age ten.</span><br />
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At 13, he had a major hit, "Fingertips (Pt. 2)," a 1963 single taken from a live recording of a Motor Town Revue performance, issued on the album, <i>Recorded Live: The 12 Year Old Genius</i>. The song, featuring Wonder on vocals, bongos, and <a href="http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Harmonica" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Harmonica">harmonica</a>, with a young <a href="http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Marvin_Gaye" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Marvin Gaye">Marvin Gaye</a> on drums, was a number-one hit on the US pop and R&B charts and launched Wonder suddenly into the public awareness.</div>
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Later dropping the "Little" from his moniker, Wonder went on to have a number of other successes during the mid-1960s, including the smash hit "Uptight (Everything's Alright)," as well as "With a Child's Heart," and "Blowin' in the Wind," a <a href="http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Bob_Dylan" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Bob Dylan">Bob Dylan</a> cover which was one of the first songs to reflect Wonder's social consciousness. He also began to work in the Motown songwriting department, composing songs both for himself and his label-mates, including "Tears of a Clown," a number-one hit by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles.</div>
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By 1970 Wonder had scored more major hits, including "I Was Made to Love Her" (1967), "For Once in My Life" (1968), "Shoo-Be-Do-Be-Do-Da-Day" (1968), "My Cherie Amour" (1969), "Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday" (1969) and "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours" (1970).</div>
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On September 14, 1970, at the age of 20, Wonder married Syreeta Wright, a songwriter and former company secretary for Motown. Wonder and Wright divorced 18 months later, but they continued to collaborate on musical projects.</div>
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Along with Marvin Gaye, Wonder was one of the few Motown stars to contest the label's factory-like operation methods: artists, songwriters, and producers were usually kept in specialized collectives, and artists had little creative control. When Gaye wrested creative control from Motown in order to release his innovative, socially conscious album <i>What's Going On</i>, Wonder was inspired to seek similar creative freedom from the label. Wonder argued with Motown owner Berry Gordy over creative control a number of times, and finally allowed his Motown contract to expire. He left the label on his twenty-first birthday in 1971. His final album before his departure was <i>Where I'm Coming From</i>, which Gordy had strongly opposed releasing. The album produced one top-10 hit, "If You Really Love Me."</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05881045327698383874noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5523784402779337931.post-12529207147811664802015-06-22T17:34:00.000-07:002015-06-22T17:34:00.143-07:00Abraham Nemeth is an American mathematician and inventor. He is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the University of Detroit Mercy in Detroit, Michigan. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Nemeth" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Abraham Nemeth </a>-</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">(born October 16, 1918) is an </span><a class="extiw" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #663366; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="wikipedia:United States">American</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> mathematician and inventor. He is Professor Emeritus of </span><a class="extiw" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #663366; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="wikipedia:Mathematics">Mathematics</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> at the </span><a class="extiw" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Detroit_Mercy" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #663366; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="wikipedia:University of Detroit Mercy">University of Detroit Mercy</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> in </span><a class="extiw" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit,_Michigan" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #663366; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="wikipedia:Detroit, Michigan">Detroit, Michigan</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"> Though his employers were sometimes reluctant to hire him knowing that he was blind, his reputation grew as it became apparent that he was a capable mathematician and teacher. He developed the Nemeth Braille Code for Mathematics and Science Notation in 1952. Nemeth Code has gone through 4 revisions since its initial development and continues in wide use today. Dr. Nemeth is also responsible for the rules of MathSpeak, a system for orally communicating mathematical text. Dr. Nemeth is an active member of the National Federation of the Blind. He has written several short stories and made speeches for the NFB about his life as a blind mathematician. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Dr. Nemeth was born in </span><a class="extiw" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" style="background-image: none; color: #663366; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="wikipedia:New York City">New York City</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">on the</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> </span><a class="extiw" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_East_Side" style="background-image: none; color: #663366; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="wikipedia:Lower East Side">Lower East Side</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">of</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> </span><a class="extiw" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan" style="background-image: none; color: #663366; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="wikipedia:Manhattan">Manhattan</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">into a large family of</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> </span><a class="extiw" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungary" style="background-image: none; color: #663366; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="wikipedia:Hungary">Hungarian</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> </span><a class="extiw" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jew" style="background-image: none; color: #663366; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="wikipedia:Jew">Jewish</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">immigrants who spoke</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> </span><a class="extiw" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiddish" style="background-image: none; color: #663366; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="wikipedia:Yiddish">Yiddish</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">. He is</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> </span><a class="extiw" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindness" style="background-image: none; color: #663366; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="wikipedia:Blindness">blind</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">from</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> </span><a class="extiw" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/birth" style="background-image: none; color: #663366; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="wikipedia:birth">birth</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">.</span><br />
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He attended public schools at first but did most of his primary and secondary education at the Jewish Guild for the Blind school in <a class="extiw" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yonkers,_New_York" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #663366; text-decoration: none;" title="wikipedia:Yonkers, New York">Yonkers, New York</a>. His <a class="extiw" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/undergraduate" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #663366; text-decoration: none;" title="wikipedia:undergraduate">undergraduate</a> studies were at <a class="extiw" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_College" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #663366; text-decoration: none;" title="wikipedia:Brooklyn College">Brooklyn College</a> where he studied <a class="extiw" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/psychology" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #663366; text-decoration: none;" title="wikipedia:psychology">psychology</a>. He earned a Master of Arts degree in Psychology from <a class="extiw" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_University" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #663366; text-decoration: none;" title="wikipedia:Columbia University">Columbia University</a>.</div>
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Dr. Nemeth studied mathematics and physics at <a class="extiw" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_College" style="background-image: none; color: #663366; text-decoration: none;" title="wikipedia:Brooklyn College">Brooklyn College</a>. He did not major in mathematics because his academic advisors discouraged him. However, tired of what he felt were unfulfilling jobs at agencies of the blind, and with the encouragement of his wife, he decided to continue his education in mathematics.</div>
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<span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_H._Bernstein" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Richard H. Bernstein </a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">(born November 9, 1974) is an American lawyer and current Michigan Supreme Court Justice, who, until 2014, was practicing at</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Law_Offices_of_Sam_Bernstein" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="The Law Offices of Sam Bernstein">The Law Offices of Sam Bernstein</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">, located in </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmington_Hills,_Michigan" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="Farmington Hills, Michigan">Farmington Hills, Michigan</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">until his election to the</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Supreme_Court" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="Michigan Supreme Court">Michigan Supreme Court</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">He also was an adjunct professor at the</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Michigan" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="University of Michigan">University of Michigan</a><span style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 11px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">and served on the</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_State_University" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="Wayne State University">Wayne State University</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Board of Governors for one eight-year term, including two years as vice chair and two more as chair, until deciding not to seek re-election in 2010 for a second term beginning in 2011.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 11px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">In November 2014, Bernstein was elected to serve an 8-year term on the Michigan Supreme Court.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 11px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Bernstein has been classified as legally blind</span><span style="background-color: white; 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color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">In 1996, he received his</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="Bachelor of Arts">Bachelor of Arts</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summa_cum_laude" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="Summa cum laude">summa cum laude</a><span style="background-color: white; 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<span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">For the ability to enter <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwestern_University_School_of_Law" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Northwestern University School of Law">Northwestern University School of Law</a>, Bernstein fought the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_School_Admissions_Council" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Law School Admissions Council">Law School Admissions Council</a> against the "visual bias" of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_School_Admission_Test" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Law School Admission Test">Law School Admission Test</a> (<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LSAT" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="LSAT">LSAT</a>), claiming the test discriminates against the blind because of its requirements for interpreting visual material.</span><span style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> He argued the test was no barometer of success in law school. Four universities agreed: </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwestern_University" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="Northwestern University">Northwestern University</a><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">, the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Virginia" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="University of Virginia">University of Virginia</a><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">, the </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Wisconsin" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="University of Wisconsin">University of Wisconsin</a><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanderbilt_University" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Vanderbilt University">Vanderbilt University</a><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">.</span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> At the time he was admitted, he was the only blind person in the law school.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">To complete his studies, Bernstein would memorize lectures and have notes read to him to memorize.</span><span style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">For tests, he memorized test questions and entire fact patterns (the basis for the questions), some of which would be as long as 5 pages. The fact patterns would be repeatedly read to him until he committed the entire question to memory and could then provide an answer.</span><span style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">He reportedly worked seven days a week for 13 hours each day. </span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">He received his</span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juris_doctor" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Juris doctor">juris doctor</a><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">degree from Northwestern University School of Law in 1999.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surdas" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Surdas - (Sant Kavi Surdas)</a> </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">was a 15th-century blind saint, poet and musician, known for his devotional songs dedicated to </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Krishna" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="Lord Krishna">Lord Krishna</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">. Surdas is said to have written and composed a hundred thousand songs in his magnum opus the 'Sur Sagar' (Ocean of Melody), out of which only about 8,000 are extant. He is considered a saguna bhakti poet and so also known as Sant Surdas, a name which literally means the "servant of melody". His most famous work was </span><i style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">charan kamal bando hari rai. </i><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">There is some disagreement regarding the exact birth date of Surdas, some scholars believing it to be 1478 AD, with others claiming it to be 1479 AD. It is the same in the case of the year of his death; it is considered to be either 1581 AD or 1584 AD. According to the limited authentic life history of Surdas, it is said that he was born in 1478/79 in the village of Runakta,Mathura although some say it was Runkta near Agra. He started praising Lord Krishna when he was young. Surdas was born blind and because of this, he was neglected by his family. As a result, he left his home at the age of six. He lived in Braj (or Bhraj), near Mathura.</span></span><br />
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<span class="mw-headline"><span style="background-color: white;">Surdas' lilting music and fine poetry attracted much praise. As his fame spread far and wide, the Mughal emperor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akbar" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Akbar">Akbar</a> (1542–1605) became his patron. Surdas spent the last years of his life in Braj, and lived on the donations which he received in return for his bhajan singing and lecturing on religious topics, until he died in CE 1584.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Surdas also attained fame for his purity of devotion towards Lord Krishna. In one incident, Surdas falls into a well and is rescued by Lord Krishna when he calls him for help. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radha" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Radha">Radha</a> asks Krishna why he helped Surdas, to which Krishna replies it is for Surdas' devotion. Krishna also warns Radha not to go near him. She, however, does go near him, but Surdas, recognizing the divine sounds, pulls her anklets off. Radha tells him who she is but Surdas refuses to return her anklets stating that he cannot believe her as he is blind. Krishna gives Surdas vision and allows him to ask for a boon. Surdas returns the anklets saying he has already got what he wanted (the blessings of Krishna) and asks Krishna to make him blind again as he does not want to see anything else in the world after seeing Krishna. Radha is moved by his devotion and Krishna grants his wish by making him blind again thus giving him everlasting fame.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">Sullivan, was an American </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teacher" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Teacher">teacher</a><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;"> best known as the instructor and companion of </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Keller" rel="nofollow" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Helen Keller">Helen Keller</a><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">When Anne was six her mother, Alice, died; and when she was eight her father, Thomas, left, after which Anne was sent to an almshouse. In 1880 Anne was sent to the Perkins School for the Blind. Anne Sullivan is an integral character in The Miracle Worker, by William Gibson, originally produced for television, where she was portrayed by Teresa Wright. The play then moved to Broadway, and was later produced as a 1962 feature film. Both the Broadway play and 1962 film featured Anne Bancroft in the Anne Sullivan role. Patty Duke, who played Helen Keller in the 1962 film version, later played Anne Sullivan in a 1979 television remake. Alison Elliott recently portrayed her in a 2000 television movie. Alison Pill played Annie Sullivan on Broadway in the 2010 revival of The Miracle Worker, with Abigail Breslin as Helen Keller. Both Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke won Academy Awards for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress for their roles as Sullivan and Keller in the 1962 film version. </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">She contracted trachoma, a highly infectious eye infection, when she was eight years old which left her blind and without reading or writing skills.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">She received her education as a student of the</span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perkins_School_for_the_Blind" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="Perkins School for the Blind">Perkins School for the Blind</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">where upon graduation she became a teacher to Helen.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_2-1" style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"> </sup><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Due to Anne losing her sight at such a young age she had no skills in reading, writing, or sewing and the only work she could find was as a housemaid; however, this position was unsuccessful.</span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> Another blind resident staying at the Tewksbury almshouse told her of schools for the blind. During an 1880 inspection of the almshouse, she convinced an inspector to allow her to leave and enroll in the Perkins School for the Blind in </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="Boston">Boston</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">, where she began her studies on October 7, 1880.</span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 11px;"> </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Although her rough manners made her first years at Perkins humiliating for her, she managed to connect with a few teachers and made progress with her learning.</span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 11px;"> </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">While there, she befriended and learned the manual alphabet from </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Bridgman" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="Laura Bridgman">Laura Bridgman</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">, a graduate of Perkins and the first blind and deaf person to be educated there. Also while there, she had a series of eye operations that significantly improved her vision.</span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> In June 1886, she graduated from there at age 20 as the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valedictorian" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="Valedictorian">valedictorian</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> of her class. She stated “Fellow-graduates: duty bids us go forth into active life. Let us go cheerfully, hopefully, and earnestly, and set ourselves to find our especial part. When we have found it, willingly and faithfully perform it."</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_2-7" style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Sullivan#cite_note-ReferenceA-2" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[2]</a></sup><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">The summer following Anne's graduation, the director of the Perkins Institution, Michael Anagnos, was contacted by Arthur Keller, who was in search of a teacher for his 7-year-old blind and deaf daughter,</span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Keller" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="Helen Keller">Helen</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">.</span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 11px;"> </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Michael immediately recommended Anne for this position and she began her work on March 3, 1887 at the Kellers' home in</span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuscumbia,_Alabama" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="Tuscumbia, Alabama">Tuscumbia, Alabama</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">.</span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">As soon as she arrived there, she argued with Helen's parents about the</span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="American Civil War">Civil War</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">and over the fact that they used to own slaves.</span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">However she also quickly connected with Helen. It was the beginning of a 49-year relationship: Anne evolved from teacher to governess and finally to companion and friend.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Anne's teachings to Helen involved a very strict schedule with constant introduction of new vocabulary words; however, Anne quickly changed her teachings after seeing they did not suit Helen.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_2-10" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Sullivan#cite_note-ReferenceA-2" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[2]</a></sup><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> Instead, she began to teach her vocabulary based on her own interests, where she spelled each word out into Helen's palm; within six months this method proved to be working when Helen had learned 575 words, some multiplication tables, as well as the Braille system.</span><span style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Anne strongly encouraged Helen's parents to send her to the Perkins School where she could have an appropriate teaching. When they agreed, Anne took Helen to </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="Boston">Boston</a><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> in 1888 and stayed with her there. Anne continued to teach her bright protégée, who soon became famous for her remarkable progress. With the help of Michael Anagnos, Helen became a public symbol for the school, helping to increase its funding and donations and making it the most famous and sought-after school for the blind in the country. However, an accusation of plagiarism against Helen was very upsetting to Anne: she left and never returned, but did remain influential to the school.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_2-12" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Sullivan#cite_note-ReferenceA-2" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[2]</a></sup><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> Anne remained a close companion to Helen and continued to assist in her education, which ultimately included a degree from </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radcliffe_College" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="Radcliffe College">Radcliffe College</a><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">.In 1932 Helen and Anne were each awarded honorary fellowships from the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_Institute_of_Scotland" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="Educational Institute of Scotland">Educational Institute of Scotland</a><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">. They also were awarded honorary degrees from </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_University" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="Temple University">Temple University</a><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">.</span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> In 1955 Anne was awarded an honorary degree from </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">.,</span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> and in 1956 the director's cottage at the Perkins School was named the Keller-Macy Cottage.</span><span style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 11px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Anne had been seriously visually impaired for almost all of her life, but by 1935 she was completely blind in both eyes. On October 15, 1936, she suffered a coronary thrombosis, fell into a coma, and then died five days later on October 20</span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> at age 70, in </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_Hills,_Queens,_New_York" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="Forest Hills, Queens, New York">Forest Hills, Queens, New York</a><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">. She died with Helen holding her hand.</span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> Helen described Anne's last month as being very agitated, but during the last week was said to return to her normal generous self </span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Sullivan was cremated and her ashes were interred in a memorial at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC. She was the first woman to be recognized for her achievements in this way. When Helen died in 1968, her ashes were placed in the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_National_Cathedral" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;" title="Washington National Cathedral">Washington National Cathedral</a><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> next to those of Anne.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> My name is <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Am.CRUSH?ref=ts&fref=ts" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AC Rush</a> and I'm legally blind; or, shall I say "visually impaired" as I often reiterate to some individuals that only hear the word "blind" in conversation. I describe myself as multifaceted: I write poetry, I'm smart and extremely social, I love to dance and I'm even athletic. I love all sports, specifically basketball and swimming.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I didn't lose my vision the way many others did. I wasn't born visually impaired, I didn't experience a traumatic event that impacted my vision, nor have I suffered from any health issues. The cause of my visual impairment is unknown, but, the baffling event that triggered my vision loss is unforgettable, my life has forever changed. </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One day, my family and I went swimming as was our frequent summer activity. This time was different, really different. After I finished swimming, my vision became extremely cloudy for several hours; I couldn't drive myself home. My vision eventually cleared by the end of the day and I continued with my normal life and routine. One day, as I was reading a book, I noticed the vision in my right eye changed. I scheduled an appointment with an ophthalmologist that referred me to a retina specialist. At the age of 27, I was diagnosed with multifocal choriditis, a rare autoimmune disease. </span> It may seem strange, but, at that time in my life I wasn't concerned about the diagnosis. While my physician stated multifocal chordates would “hijack my vision”, he also stated it mainly affects middle aged Caucasian women; I was neither, therefore, no worries and I choose to only pay attention to the later statement and ignore the “hijack” part! I was young; I was a fighter, I was a healthy athlete, I had tons of friends “miss popular” I was also in denial and didn’t believe this could happen to me. I can’t read or see shapes in my right eye; I can only see light and color. In my left eye I can see approximately 4-5 feet in front of me, everything else is a blur or has a mirage effect.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unfortunately, researchers don’t know much about multifocal chorditis, but, what I know is that it’s aggressive in me. In less than three years of diagnosis at the age of 31, I was legally blind. I felt total devastation and my entire life changed and felt over. I had to learn how to deal with my visual impairment and how to live. It seemed like I had to learn how to live life over again. </span>I was offered white cane training (orientation and mobility), but, initially turned it down. I felt that accepting training was like accepting the disease. I refused to accept this disease – still in denial. One day I fell, tripping over an object on the floor. I realized at that point, if I wanted to remain independent, I HAD to have orientation and mobility. The first day of training I cried like a baby, I wanted to back out because this wasn’t how I envisioned my life to be; not me.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I’ve come to realize that some of our greatest life’ achievements aren’t planned and often come from our greatest obstacles. When my orientation and mobility trainer from Mobility Solutions Inc. <a href="http://www.mobility-solutionsinc.com/"> www.mobility-solutionsinc.com</a> arrived, she calmed my soul. She told me that everything would be alright. She said that vision, or, the lack thereof wouldn’t change who I am as a person, to always be myself and be confident in who I am.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I’m blessed to have a very strong support system; my family and friends. I'm grateful to have such an amazing group of people on my side. I strongly believe that everything happens for a reason. Life events often seem overwhelming, but, if we rise to the challenge they can bring good and benefit to others in our situation. I intend to do as such, to bring change and good to the visually impaired community through creating fashionable assistive technology devices for the visually impaired. I plan to start a business, so, be on the lookout for icrush® accessories.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My life’s motto, "Either you let life happen to you, or you MAKE life happen for you! The choice is yours." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Connect with me on Instagram @ac_rush or on </span><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7019607843137254);"><a href="http://facebook.com/Am.Crush" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors="true">Facebook.com/Am.Crush</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The life of a visual storyteller is based on one hard and fast rule: you write to the video you have, not the video you wish you had. Our unscheduled shoot at <a href="https://www.guidedogs.org.au/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Guide Dogs of South Australia and the Northern Territories</a> was a reminder that whether you’re the last reporter on the scene and the police are rolling up the crime scene tape or filming an around-the-world documentary about what it’s like to explore the world in the midst of losing your eyesight, the rule is the same.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The challenges facing my shooting partner and I could hardly have been more daunting. We had been on the ground in<span id="more-399" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span> Adelaide for less than an hour. We hadn’t unpacked our gear or even checked that everything was all in one piece. We had just traveled thirty hours,, in a direction so far around the world that it would have only taken another four hours of travel for us to have been heading back around the other half. </span><span style="font-style: inherit;">There was also the small matter of the fact that the people at Guide Dogs SA/NT didn’t know who we were or what we were doing.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">To me, that last one was the least of our problems. After all, we didn’t know who they were either… we’d get to each other together. I had been a reporter for almost fifteen years before I moved on to the production world. Showing up where I wasn’t expected and somehow coaxing a story out of the people I found when I got there is the particular bicycle I have never forgotten how to ride. What? You say it’s 2 p.m. on a Friday and that nobody is in the office? We can deal with that. You say there’s an awards ceremony that night and anyone who could possibly help is at home to get ready? We can work around that? You say there aren’t any actual clients who use guide dogs comigcoming in today? Totally not a problem.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What you learn as a reporter is when you need to get the story, there really is no such thing as an obstacle. You wear your most patient but persistent and hopefully endearing smile and you never take it off. You solve problems and get the story because… well, you need to get the story. To me, it didn’t matter that until we passed the signage for this organization, we were totally happy with the story we were telling and the places we had chosen to tell it. This was new information, a new angle and it all of the sudden was impossible to tell the story, the <i>real</i> story, without it. We were getting those interviews and our video… whatever interviews and video we could.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Reporting is sometimes about being persistent in the name the greater good. Sometimes the greater good is a story that will make air so that your producer doesn’t throw things. Sometimes the greater good is getting the news out so that people will know what’s going on. Sometimes, as in this case, it’s being able to go home and say we found every story we could while twelve thousand miles from that home. </span><span style="font-style: inherit;">This is part of the story we found in the middle of Adelaide, Australia on a Friday afternoon in March 2015.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The fact this story, in the midst of the larger story, came together is what keeps me going. I’ve found the storytelling gods to be a pretty forgiving bunch, and they seem to know when to lend a hand. The executive director might not have been on hand when we were here, but there was a real, live orientation and mobility instructor right down the hall, which turned out to be even better. It didn’t matter that in a perfect world, the interactive center shown in this story would have been filled with school children. That world, today, was a parallel universe. So our logic… had to be… all the more room for us to wander and play without having to get permission slips from dozens of school children. in the absence of their parents. It certainly didn’t matter that <i>there were no guide dogs anywhere nearby at the guide dog center.</i> That was a problem to be solved later. Which, as you can see in the video, it was. Granted, it was the next day, and we came upon our subject by pure chance and while shooting something else entirely. We were ready for random acts of fortune… and I’ve also found when you’re looking for something, you tend to find it. We set out that next day with the idea that we were going to prioritize locations where people wihtotu cars would likely be on hand. Tram stops, sidewalk markets and the like. In other words, we pushed the odds in our favor… and we got a lucky break.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I can’t fully express how good it felt to be wearing my reporter’s hat again. In a small, little accessed room in my mind, I sometimes wonder if it would even fit if I could find it. I did not expect to find it in Adelaide, Australia, but there it was… sewn right into the fabric of my brand new filmmaking hat. Wonder of wonders, it was just as comfortable as I remembered.</span></div>
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