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Jamie, Ricky and Joe are back for another round of news stories in this week’s podcast. After the news, Buddy Brannan sits down with veteran journalist Art Schreiber to talk about his friendship with the Beatles, the current state of the news industry and his new book Out of Sight – Blind & Doing All Right.
Topics covered in this week’s podcast include:
And the audio version of this story is here.
Microsoft Had To Blindfold Me To See The Future
Cities Unlocked: Lighting up the world through sound – YouTube
: Braille printer leads $62m Intel injection for 16 startups
Listen to Buddy Brannan’s interview with Shubham Banerjee, on SeroTalk Podcast 188.
3 Tips for Teaching Young Children with a Visual Impairment How to Become Strong Readers
Braille and Large Print Menus Bring Dining with Dignity
Spread the word and the holiday cheer – @BraillePress has print/braille holiday cards on sale now.
Skype 6.22 JAWS scripts released, typing indicator fixes and over ten more things.
BBC iPlayer Now withAudio Description
The first phone with Android 5.0 Lollipop is… the 2014 Moto X?!
Amazon Unveils Echo, a Speaker With a Siri-Like Voice Assistant
Office for iPhone Apps: 3 Things to Know
CBS brings a round-the-clock streaming news network to cord cutters
Shaking off Spotify is easy for Taylor Swift; for everyone else, it’s complicated
The top 20 catchiest songs of all time, according to science
Mailbag
From @blind_educator
Good MailBag, good MailBag, you’re back home. YOu were a good MailBag.
Hey there Ms. Enger, Mr. Pauls, and Mr. Steinkamp,
I return MailBag to you nice and clean. I brushed MailBag’s teeth, cleaned behind the ears, and got MailBag ready for the winter. We both had a wonderful time, MailBag tried sharing some Sero Tek secrets, but told MailBag it wasn’t a good thing giving out secrets when someone is trusting MailBag to keep them. We talked about what was good and bad, and MailBag seems to understand. I have no idea why Ms. Enger is the only person that MailBag behaves somewhat. A lot better then Mr. Steinkamp or Mr. Pauls. But I guess MailBag is star stricken because of the Rock Star from EOLShow.
By the way, Mr. Steinkamp if there are some charges on your credit card. MailBag share your card with me. We wanted to see if ApplePay is accessible. So I have it as part of my ApplePay. I have Triple Click Home folks and That Android Show peeps coming over for lunch. Between MailBag and myself, we’re going to see if they can start playing nice and stop the bashing between the 2 shows. I promise not to go over $1,000. Unless MailBag gets really hungry. Please, please, do not over feed MailBag over the holidays, and get all that is on MailBag’s Christmas list. Or wise, MailBag will start acting up again.
Have a good one. Awesome show, keep it up. Really enjoy the trio.
Blog comment from Steven Whiteker:
Thanks again for a wonderful podcast! I agree that when you have a guide dog or a service dog, you need to comply with all laws and also be a responsible person
From Pam Francis:
Hi folks,
As a young child, I was very fortunate to have had a sight-saving teacher take an interest in me & my ability to read as a student of the Missouri school for the blind.
At the time, my vision was considerably less than it is now; yet no one knew the course it would take. Therefore I was taught both braille & print simultaneously. Though I spent most of my school day in a braille atmosphere, I had minimally an hour a day with a sight-saving class working with the print alphabet. I could not read large print at the time. My teacher took a purple crayon to copy stories on to the cream colored paper we had with light green lines.. I was to read that story & come back the next morning explaining what I had read.
I did not realize how valuable that resource would be until I was mainstreamed in the middle of my 4th grade year through the end of my 7th grade year.
I basically did double homework. I learned to type & spell without braille contractions in order to turn my work in to my sighted teachers while making a copy for myself in braille in order to follow along with the class.
My Father spent time in Federal prison. While incarcerated, he took it upon himself to learn braille in order to communicate with me. He initially learned on a slate & stylus. More than once I had to translate many backwards lines of braille in his letters. He finally got a lavender braille writer. We all know how crappy they were.He ultimately got pretty good. He took it upon himself to teach other inmates as a resource they could use on the outside to help break down the communication barriers between the blind & sighted community.
I also had an experience with a pre-school class attempting to explain braille.
I wrote the print letter on a chalkboard with its braille counterpart underneath, explaining how the dots worked. We had a project of baking heart-shaped cookies; as it was near Valentine’s day. As a means for the kids to find their cooky, we used small cinnamon beads to form their names in braille in the cooky dough. They had to pick out their cooky with their names written in braille.
Pam Francis
Roundabout
Why Are Elections on Tuesdays?
Richard Bernstein to Become First Blind State Supreme Court Justice
Titles
Cranky Cortana
Low-vision Ranch
Joe Steinkamp for President
Audible book: The Haunted Empire
Out of sight: Blind but doing all right
blindart@samobile.net
artschreiber.com
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Hi everyone. I just listened to podcast episode 219, and I’d like to comment on the ending segment where Buddy Brannan interviewed Art Schreiber. That segment was fun. I am a huge Beatles fan, and it was cool hearing Art describe his and John Lennon’s monopoly games. Sometime I want to go to the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame, but for now I will just have to dream about it I guess. Art’s book sounds excellent. Anyway, great podcast as always and keep ’em coming! I love iBlink Radio!
Hi guys! I really enjoy the show! You all do a great job presenting in a way that is quite entertaining. Totally agree with the observations of Mr. Whitaker. Remember those dogs are not guide dogs if the harnesses are elsewhere. That is your driver’s licesne equivalent! I was going to put these comments into an I report and voice them, but considering the poor quality of mobile phone connections, I believed it served better if they were written, so there you are! Early happy Turkey day to the team, and please do keep it up!
Regarding the article about the Microsoft device: Look it up, there is scientific research finding that the blind do have enhanced senses and that the visual cortex takes other functions, such as being activated during Braille reading. Beth
I really like this Websight verry much ,and I listen to it all the time so thank you for making it possibol.