text stringlengths 13 81.7k |
|---|
This latency in innovation for more affordable ways to access braille has attributed to the drop in literacy. Less than 10 percent of blind children were learning braille in 2009; compare this to the 50 to 60 percent of kids who were taking up braille in the 1960s, according to the National Federation of the Blind. But... |
The developers from Michigan are hoping to offer their braille tablet for less than $1,000 and believe it will be another year and a half before the product comes to market. |
Great for full time living or lake getaway!! 1BR, 1BA, nice screened porch, room addition w/ Ceiling fan, additional sleeping area/office, 40 Gal. hot water heater, Storage building with chest freezer to remain. HP/CA 5 yrs. old. Concrete driveway and parking, near all the great amenities. Must see to appreciate! SELLE... |
Ira Katznelson is a professor of political science and history at Columbia University. He is the author of Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time. |
In the 1930s, the Germans were fascinated by the global leader in codified racism—the United States. |
This Thanksgiving, make our dining room yours. Alongside our full menu, we'll be offering our take on Thanksgiving favorites. Reserve today. |
Posted on December 17, 2017. Brought to you by Citysearch. |
Posted on April 17, 2017. Brought to you by yahoolocal. |
Posted on September 05, 2016. Brought to you by superpages. |
Posted on October 29, 2013. Brought to you by zagat. |
Posted by Bryant Z. on March 02, 2019. Brought to you by yahoolocal. |
Posted by Makeba W. on February 24, 2019. Brought to you by yahoolocal. |
We cordially invite you to set aside the preconceived notion that urbane dining requires an urban setting. Dry Aged Steak au Poivre and Citrus Glazed Salmon are equally at-home in Camden County as Philadelphia. And could 5,000 bottles of world-class wine hope for a more fitting home than a place called Cherry Hill? Cul... |
The Service Engineer will be responsible for the servicing, fault finding and technical support on integrated IP CCTV and Access Control systems for a couple of key Enterprise/Blue-Chip clients around the Reading to Guildford area. |
An excellent opportunity to join a genuinely top-tier security integrator who offer technical, high-end solutions to a range of Global Enterprise and Blue-Chip clients throughout London and Europe. The company have a highly skilled team and offer excellent in-house and external training and support. |
Servicing of integrated IP CCTV and access control systems. |
Providing planned maintenance to key clients, mainly large sites. |
Liaising with clients as necessary and offering professional customer service. |
Offering support to the project and technical team where necessary. |
Working with the service desk team including customer service and remote support engineers. |
Travel around the M4 corridor area as required. Very occasional trips to London. |
2+ years’ experience of IP CCTV and access control servicing. |
Experience in a range of systems. Any experience in higher-level systems would be highly desirable (e.g. Lenel, C-Cure, S2, Janus/Sateon, Cardax/Gallagher, CEM, Genetec, DVTel, Milestone, Avigilon, etc.) but training is provided. |
DURANT, OK -- A Bryan County daycare owner has been arrested for driving under the influence and police say she had children in the car with her at the time. |
Police say Krista Lawson-Peacock, 28, of Calera, got into an accident last Thursday around 3 p.m. at South 9th Ave. and Arkansas in Durant. |
She operates the nearby Wonderland Learning Center. Police say the woman's speech was slurred and she was not able to follow instructions. |
The four children in the car were released to their father. Police say she told them she had taken some prescription medications -- Soma, Narco, and Xanax -- for migraines. |
Worst pharmacy ever. Expect to wait at least 30 min before anyone even talks to you and then your info will be wrong in their computer no matter how many times they try to fix it. |
Posted by Edward N. on September 03, 2015. Brought to you by yahoolocal. |
Posted by Stevie Nicole on July 04, 2014. Brought to you by facebook. |
CHARLESTON, S.C. - Mark Sanford picked up the endorsement of U.S. Sen. Rand Paul in his quest for a vacant South Carolina congressional seat Tuesday, even as House Democrats launched another ad attacking the former governor's personal indiscretions. |
Paul, who has said he is considering a run for the White House, said Sanford has been an advocate for limited government and cutting spending. |
"Mark has proven during his time in office that watching out for taxpayers and holding the line on spending are his top priorities," Paul said in a statement a week before the special congressional election. |
Both Sanford and his Democratic opponent, Elizabeth Colbert Busch, were to appear at events Tuesday, a day after their first campaign debate in which Colbert Busch for the first time raised the issue of Sanford's past. Sanford's political career was derailed after he left the state to visit his mistress in Argentina, t... |
Sanford is trying to rebound from the scandal, which forced him to pay the largest ethics fine ever in South Carolina because of state travel expenses he used for the affair. |
The new television ad from the House Majority PAC featured a woman who says that she is a lifelong Republican but that she could not vote for Sanford because his betrayal of South Carolinians "is more than a mile long." |
During the campaign, Colbert Busch had refused to bring up Sanford's personal past. But that changed Monday during their debate in the race for state's vacant 1st Congressional District seat. |
As Sanford stressed his efforts to rein in spending as a three-term holder of the congressional seat and a two-term governor, Colbert Busch reminded him that he once used taxpayer funds to "leave the country for a personal purpose" - referring to the extramarital affair with the Argentine woman, to whom he is now engag... |
Monday's debate took place before a lively audience, whose members frequently erupted in shouts or applause. |
When Colbert Busch first made the remark about Sanford's affair, the former governor said he didn't hear it and asked to have it repeated. Ultimately, he didn't respond. |
Later, he was reminded by a questioner that he voted to impeach President Bill Clinton because of his involvement with Monica Lewinsky and asked if he would vote that way again. |
"I would reverse the question," Sanford said. "Do you think President Clinton should be condemned for the rest of his life for a mistake he made in his life?" |
On the issues, Colbert Busch, who worked for years for a shipping company, criticized Sanford for voting in Congress against money for dredging the Charleston Harbor shipping channel and building a higher bridge so the Port of Charleston can handle a new generation of larger container ships. |
Sanford shot back that if it bothered her so much before, she wouldn't have written him a "$500 check as I left the Congress to run for governor," referring to her contribution to his campaign in 2001. |
He added: "I was against earmarks before being against earmarks was cool." |
Colbert Busch also said that, if elected, she would return 10 percent of her congressional salary to the government. |
The candidates differed over issues such as immigration reform, the federal health care overhaul and abortion during the debate sponsored by the Patch news service, the South Carolina Radio Network and Charleston television station WCBD. |
Sanford repeatedly tried to tie Colbert Busch to House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and labor unions, but she said she would be an independent voice and responsible only to the residents of the district. They also had different takes on the state of affairs. |
"We're at an incredible tipping point as a civilization, and I think if we don't get spending right in Washington, D.C., there will be real consequences," Sanford warned. |
"Here's the fundamental difference," Colbert Busch responded. "This is not the end of our time as we know it. The sky is not falling Henny Penny. In fact our best days are ahead of us." |
The debate was their first joint appearance in the campaign that began after then-U.S. Rep. Tim Scott was appointed to the U.S. Senate seat vacated by fellow Republican Jim DeMint. |
Sanford and Colbert Busch are vying along with Green Party Candidate Eugene Platt in the May 7 special election in the district. |
Polling for all the five Lok Sabha seats in Uttarakhand began at 7 am Thursday, with many people queuing up early in the morning to exercise their franchise. |
The fate of 52 candidates will be decided by over 78 lakh voters of the state, where all the five seats -- Tehri, Pauri, Haridwar, Almora and Nainital -- are being held by the BJP. |
The saffron party is locked in straight contests with the Congress on all seats. |
High-profile candidates in the fray are ex-chief minister Harish Rawat who takes on state BJP chief Ajay Bhatt in Nainital, ex-CM Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank who faces Congress's Ambrish Kumar in Haridwar, BJP national secretary Tirath Singh Rawat is up against B C Khanduri's son Manish in Pauri and sitting MPs Ajay Tamta... |
Polling began at 7 am. Of the 78,56,268 voters in Uttarakhand, 3,71,220 are women and 259 belong to the third gender, Chief Electoral Officer Saujanya said. |
Haridwar has the highest number of 18,40,732 voters, while Almora has the lowest number of voters at 13,37,803, she said. |
The highest percentage of voters are in the age group of 30-39 years who constitute 27.4 per cent of the electorate whereas people above 80 years of age constitute 1.6 per cent of the electorate, the chief electoral officer said. |
A total of 11,229 polling booths have been set up across the state out of which 697 have been identified as sensitive and 656 highly sensitive. |
A total of 45,696 police, provincial armed constabulary, paramilitary force and polling personnel have been deployed for free and fair conduct of polls in the state, IG Police and nodal officer Dipam Seth said. |
On Thursday night, as she closed out the DNC by accepting her party’s nomination, Clinton spoke to many of the issues Sanders has advocated during his hard-fought campaign. Her speech included promises to fight for a higher federal minimum wage, free college tuition, tougher Wall Street regulations, increased gun contr... |
Gray adds that voters still need to keep Clinton’s “feet to the fire” to make sure she stays on the progressive course envisioned by Sanders. In general, there’s a sense that people are not so much voting for Clinton, but against Trump, as can be seen in Robert Waring’s comments. |
Waring, a Sanders supporter, says: “I will back Bernie’s strategic position to defeat Trump, which is not tacit approval of Clinton, but common sense… Defeating Trump by whatever means possible is what needs to be done.” Clinton gained praise for her repeated swipes at Trump. |
Linda Carpenter, in particular, liked this one: “A man you can bait with a tweet can never be president.” However, the scandal surrounding Debbie Wasserman Schultz – who resigned Sunday as chair of the Democratic National Committee after leaked emails revealed the party organization’s favoritism for Clinton in her prim... |
Tammera Hopkins Callahan was also “impressed with DNC speakers and their strong messages of hope and optimism” compared to those of the RNC. “As a Bernie supporter, reluctant to cast a vote for Hillary, I am feeling a little better about it,” she adds. |
Many were deeply touched by the emotional speech by Khizr Khan, a Muslim immigrant whose son, a captain in the US military, died while fighting in Iraq. From the stage Khan spoke directly to Trump, who has advocated a ban on Muslims entering the country. “Let me ask you, have you even read the United States Constitutio... |
Some people were put off by the audience boos and jeers during the convention. Marcy Dobkin LeLacheur writes that it was “very sad to see the mutual disrespect of Bernie and Hillary supporters.” But she seems to reflect back the dignity portrayed by Michelle Obama in her words, “When they go low, we go high,” delivered... |
A new beta app for Android automatically unlocks your smart phone when within range of your home Wi-Fi network, while also remembering to turn off Wi-Fi when you leave home. |
We suspect Unlock With Wi-Fi is set to join their ranks of Android apps many of our friends and colleagues rave about -- not the spectacular, all-multimedia, guns-blazing pieces of software, but the simple, one-use applications that make your daily life easier. |
"Unlock with Wi-Fi unlocks your device when you're connected to your home Wi-Fi network. What does 'unlock' mean? It means you don't have to enter your password/pattern/PIN when you turn on your phone. When you're at home, or work, you don't need to worry about losing your phone, so why should you have to enter your pa... |
We'll venture an assumption here that Ben doesn't have any toddlers in his household, but never mind. The app does require you to enter your password once, the first time you connect to your Wi-Fi network -- "this is so that if someone steals or finds your phone, they can't just bring it to your house to unlock it," he... |
The app is also capable of turning off your handset's Wi-Fi when you leave your home, turning on its GPS when you leave, and turning off GPS when you get home. Interestingly, the commenters on Ben's forum post seem more excited about the first of those -- the ability to switch Wi-Fi off when leaving home, which could s... |
The beta lasts until 15 April, when it will expire. Ben is planning to make the app available through the Android Market after that, and possibly other app stores too. You'll need a device running Android 2.1 to try it, mind. |
THE cover of Prof. Hamish F. G. Swanston's “In Defence of Opera” is an elegant color photograph of Boris Christoff in the theatrical coronation robes of “Boris Godunov,” but Moussorgsky's opera about that 16th‐century Czar is not even mentioned in passing in the text of the book. The text fulfills the title in exactly ... |
Alfred Frankenstein was for many years music critic of The San Francisco Chronicle and lecturer in the history of opera at the University of California at Berkeley. |
Professor Swanston goes through the history of opera from the point of view suggested by the above quotation. He has witnessed many operas in many places, and his reactions to these works and their performances are lively and generous. He has read much about opera and has been through a large number of opera librettos.... |
Ethan Mordden, on the other hand, would seem to have spent several lifetimes studying the scores of 20th‐century operas. His book discusses hundreds of them, often in detail, and many of his studies, like the one of “Lyubof k Tryem Apyelsinam” (The Love of Three Oranges”), are models of what such studies should be. He ... |
He has missed a few, like Gunther Schuller's “The Visitation” and Jack Beeson's “Lizzie Borden”; he overrates a few, like Douglas Moore's “Ballad of Baby Doe” and all the operas of Hans Werner Henze; he underrates a few, like Roger Sessions’ “Montezuma” and Darius Milhaud's “Christophe Colombe” — but on the whole his v... |
Not many opera companies, to be sure, will at once plan productions of Bernd Alois Zimmermann's “Die Soldaten,” with its “twelve separate stages on the perimeter of a circle surrounding a swivel‐chaired audience,” but that isn't really the point. The point is that people keep saying that opera today is dead, finished, ... |
Mr. Mordden looks at this extraordinary phenomenon from many points of view: its relationship to various phases of the modern musical idiom as it appears in forms other than opera ; its dependence on contemporary developments in the spoken theater and in literature, politics, technology and so on. (Nothing, though, abo... |
A fatal boating accident in Martin County last week is a reminder to shore up your safety knowledge. |
Last week there was a tragic boating accident in Martin County waters. Sadly, a passenger in a boat lost his life when there was a collision. |
Annual boating fatality statistics have shown that a large percentage of boating accidents occur when at least one of the boat operators has had no safe boating education. Get educated. Save a life. It may be yours. |
Saturday-Sunday: America's Boating Course will be presented by the St. Lucie River Power Squadron. Included will be training for rules of the road, seamanship, piloting, navigation and more. Time: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. Where: St. Joseph Parish Life Center, Room 7, 1300 E. 10th Street, Stuart. Cost: $50 includes in... |
April 21: About Boating Safely course will be presented by U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary 59 Stuart at its headquarters at Sandsprit Park, 3443 S.E. St. Lucie Blvd. Stuart. Time: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Cost: $25. Information: Go to USCG Stuart or call 772-288-0509 or 772-342-0971 or email rjjvm@comcast.net. |
April 21: About Boating Safely course will be presented by U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary 58 Fort Pierce at its headquarters at 1400 Seaway Drive, Fort Pierce. Time: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Cost: $25. Information: Go to USCG Fort Pierce or call 772-418-1142 or 704-564-9992 or email uscgaux058@comcast.net. |
“Don’t fall for it!” Trump continued tweeted from the 60’s. |
Trump was referencing a Thursday incident in which Utah’s GOP Sen. Orrin Hatch waved dismissively at a group of female protesters, telling them to “grow up” as he got on an elevator on Capitol Hill. |
“When you grow up I’ll be glad to,” Hatch said dismissively, waving, as he got on the elevator. |
The exchange happened shortly after Hatch participated in a presser, saying both the Senate Judiciary Committee and the FBI had found nothing to corroborate allegations of sexual misconduct against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. One of the 11 people the FBI reached out to interview refused to be interviewed. |
WASHINGTON, May 15, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Generations United and The Eisner Foundation will release survey findings in the new report I Need You, You Need Me: The Young, the Old, and What We Can Achieve Together on May 16 at the National Press Club in the Holeman Lounge, 9:00am to 10:30am in Washington, DC. T... |
Ninety-three percent of U.S. adults agree that children and youth benefit from building relationships with elders in their communities; 91 percent agree that elders benefit from these relationships as well, according to the new survey and report from Generations United and The Eisner Foundation. The survey, conducted o... |
"When the generations don't mix, they're less likely to care and invest in each other," Donna Butts, executive director of Generations United. "We're proud to partner with The Eisner Foundation, which through its grant-making builds stronger communities that bridge the generations." |
The report highlights this year's Eisner Prize for Intergenerational Excellence-winner DOROT and others as national examples of pioneers reuniting the generations and making their communities better places to live. For four decades, DOROT has provided services to seniors in New York City to combat isolation and the ass... |
"It is such an incredible honor to receive the 2017 Eisner Prize for Intergenerational Excellence," said Mark Meridy, Executive Director of DOROT. "We are passionate about our mission of addressing social isolation by bringing the generations together in a meaningful and impactful manner. Everyone at DOROT is grateful ... |
"The Eisner Prize for Intergenerational Excellence allows us to shine a light on exceptional organizations that bring together the older and younger generations," said Michael Eisner, founder of The Eisner Foundation. "DOROT's intergenerational programs designed to alleviate social isolation in older adults are compass... |
The full report is available at https://goo.gl/N59ive. |
About The Eisner Foundation: The Eisner Foundation identifies, advocates for, and invests in high-quality and innovative programs that unite multiple generations for the betterment of our communities. The Eisner Foundation was started in 1996 by Michael D. Eisner, then-Chairman and CEO of The Walt Disney Company, and h... |
The Generations United/Eisner Foundation survey was conducted online by Harris Poll February 15-17 among 2,171 U.S. adults ages 18 and older. This online survey is not based on a probability sample and therefore no estimate of theoretical sampling error can be calculated. For complete survey methodology, including weig... |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.