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July 6, 2014

Day 7 – #Journey2014 is at 194 Miles

Genesis 2:2 – “…He (in this case we) rested on the seventh day.” Week one is complete, and it has been all that we had hoped for and more. I cannot recap the whole week, but I’d like to observe a few things that are much different than last year. This has been an extremely emotional week for us. While last year had emotional ups and downs, this year has been even more powerful for
July 8, 2014

Brutal Day 8 but we Achieve

Day eight- brutal Yesterday we started the day with an event with the ARCs of Onondaga, Madison, Cortland Counties. We started it at Chittenango New York in the Erie Canal Museum. We had a wonderful event with proclamations and discussion of employment and outcomes for people disabilities. We always knew that this day was going to be a longest. On paper, it is 45 miles from Chittenango to Utica-lock 20. We were excited because this
November 14, 2014

Comcast announces ‘talking TV guide’ for vision-impaired

PHILADELPHIA — Comcast Corp.’s blind TV executive Tom Wlodkowski says the company’s “talking TV guide” for the visually impaired will go live on the nation’s largest cable-TV system by Dec. 1. The talking guide, still in its beta phase, can be accessed by Xfinity subscribers on the company’s X1 set-top boxes. There are 5 million X1…
March 10, 2015

Time To Put a Stop to Cyberbullying

Cyberbullying and Disability One day after a football game several years ago, I noticed a young man about 20 years old taking a cell phone movie of me while I was walking around the college campus. In that instance, I realized someone was going to use their anonymity and cell phone technology to entertain themselves. And that stung. Futhermore, this guy was going to “share” this experience with others. And that bothered me. While technology