by Kevin Burton Today we touch on two stories about braille being produced from unexpected sources. NBC Connecticut ran a story about female inmates at York Correctional Facility becoming certified as Braille transcriptionists. Five inmates completed the program Aug. 24. I wish NBC had quoited some of them. But here is part …
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Café Owner To Pay Fine For Discrimination
by Lisa Steacy CTV News The owner of a B.C. café has been ordered to pay a woman, who is legally blind, $12,000 in compensation for discrimination after she was refused service because she had a guide dog. The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal ruled on the case last week and the decision was …
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How Horse Logic Rules The Whole World
by Kevin Burton You have to wonder sometimes, why things are the way they are. Who exactly is running the asylum? Not sure who first came up with the quip that status quo is Latin for “the mess we’s in.” Later in life I have learned to not ask certain things. If …
Volvo’s Unselfish Act Saved Millions Of Lives
by Douglas Bell Forbes Magazine Volvo proudly proclaims that: “few people have saved as many lives as Nils Bohlin.” And they are right. Nils Bohlin is the little-known Volvo engineer who invented the V-type three-point safety belt in 1959, and saw his innovation through to universal adoption across the motor industry. His new …
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It’s All About The Cats At A Cat Café
by Kevin Burton This is a fun story, filled with cute kitties, but with a serious bummer at the end. On the first part of our June vacation, we came across Papa’s Cat Café in Columbia, Missouri. It was easily the most interesting tourist attraction we read about it mid-Missouri. I thought …
Motown’s Move To LA Stifled The Magic
by Kevin Burton There is more than a little irony in the 1971 Jackson 5 song “Going Back To Indiana.” That makes for an easy choice to make Indiana a destination for our summer rock and roll road trip, Coast to Coast. For Coast to Coast we are talking rock and roll history, …
Hope You Relish This Juicy Hot Dog News
by Kevin Burton Some things need a day to call attention to themselves, some things don’t. For instance, today is national Stick Out Your Tongue Day. If for some twisted reason you wanted to draw attention to that, you need to declare a day. The humble, but simultaneously mighty hot dog however, …
Dr. Pepper Is The Choice At My House
by Kevin Burton Finally I am on the right side of the great consumer steamroller. Usually the foods and other products I like exist in the financial fringes. Marginal sales, minimal customer appeal, and a tenuous position in the marketplace; that is usually where my go-to stuff is, always in danger of being …
All The World Is Sick Of Bad News
by Kevin Burton People worldwide are unplugging from the news, according to a Reuters Institute study. We just don’t want to hear it. I grew up with the Dayton Daily News on the doorstep every morning and the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite a regular part of the early evening. Local …
P&O Cruises Humiliates Blind Passengers
by Kevin Burton For blind people, being a second-class citizen would represent an upgrade. The following provides another example that proves, when it comes down to it, blind people aren’t treated as citizens at all. This story was widely reported. My information comes from Insider. “Two blind passengers who were ordered to …
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