While younger people can develop this problem, cataracts usually develop in older adults. Cataracts are cloudy parts on the lens of the eye, normally a clear component in the eye that focuses images on the retina. Cataracts form when the proteins on the lens come together in clumps. These little groupings of protein can grow larger, affecting your vision by blocking some of the light whi
On September 11, 2001, our great nation experienced the unthinkable - a vicious attack on both our first capital, New York City as well as our present – Washington DC. Today, a mere 7 years later, there is little or no mention or memorial from a media obsessed with winning an election – something which our founding fathers agonized over when initially granting freedom of the press lo those ma
Professor Trudie Roberts How Many Students Have to End UpHere Before You Start Listening to them?We continue the featuring material on the late Dr Amir Mahmood. Please take the time to sign the petition listed here.This has been discussed extensively. The material below is a witness statement never seen by the public. It was present at the Inquest and is therefore a public document. This is being
I just realized that Blind Eye Books is having a special on pre-orders of The Archer's Heart by Astrid Amara. Anyone who pre-0rders form their site gets 25% off. That's a good deal if you ask me! The offer ends August 1st, 2008 (sorry about the late notice). Go check it out.Also, if you all could pass the word along that would be great. Help out a small press.Thanks!(Don't click the read more
Buboltz v. Residential Advantages, Inc., decided last week by the 8th Circuit, illustrates the important point that merely because an employee has a disability does not mean that an employer must make a reasonable accommodation. This case also highlights, however, the risks that employers assume when ignoring a potential request.
Buboltz is legally blind. Residential Advantage, Inc. ("RAI") provides residential services to disabled individuals who cannot live independently. It hired Buboltz as a direct service provider ("DSP"), meaning she was responsible for providing services to the residents. Part of a DSP's job is to provide transportation to the residents. As an accommodation for Buboltz's blindness, however, at the time of hire RAI exempted her from that job function. When her supe
Let me see if I get this.So a person who has a hard time seeing should be able to see the Target website regardless of the fact that they can't see! Hold on and let me think about this one as I chug on my cold cup of child and adult proof coffee.
She had resigned herself to the position that one eye was beyond repair and that the blindness was a part of her life. Her one eye with vision could only be corrected to 20/80. As calcium started to form on the front of the eye it lost another twenty feet. The vision was dimming in the only eye that had vision. Then the doctor came with the news; there was on shot at being able to see out of that one eye again: surgery. She knew that she had lost the vision in the first eye that went blind through surgery. Her choice was to risk the only eye that had vision to surgery. It was risk total blindness or keep only limited vision. We are faced with those decisions everyday.Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-Nego faced a situation where they had just about the same odds. King Nebuchadnezzar had set up an idol of gold for everyone to worship (Daniel 2). They faced worse odds than just losing sight: if they did not bow down to the golden image they were to be thrown into the fiery furnace. Yet, there
