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Dog Nail Trimming - Tips for Clipping a Frightened Pet's Nails
Dogs can get extremely frightened by nail clippers. In fact, many pets get very dramatic during the nail trimming process, with lots of yelping, whining and sometimes, screaming! The vocalizations can be the result of pain, but more often, they're the result of fear and nervous anticipation of pain...

'Eastern Promises,' 'Blindness' Telefilm's top foreign sales earners
"Eastern Promises," "Blindness" and "The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus" are Telefilm's top earners when it comes to foreign sales...

FIVE-DAY WORKSHOP ON BRAILLE BEGINS IN CITY - Star of Mysore

FIVE-DAY WORKSHOP ON BRAILLE BEGINS IN CITY
Star of Mysore
Keshavamurthy, District Disabled Welfare Officer, Mysore District, addressing the differently abled persons at the inauguration of five-day workshop on 'Orientation to Braille' in city this morning. Others seen are PV Srinivasan, Lecturer in Special .

Blindness can't slow Arlington's Paul Parravano
The long road of the man moving arm-in-arm with his trainer to workout stations throughout a cavernous Woburn gym began nearly 60 years ago when he was on vacation in Italy with his parents...

Man Gets 33 Years For Beating Girl, 3
By DAYNA WORCHEL Staff Writer A Smith County jury took 40 minutes to sentence a Winnsboro man to 33 years in prison for beating a 3-year-old girl so severely that she suffered permanent brain damage and blindness...

Burger chain courts blind diners with sesame seed Braille on buns - Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times

Burger chain courts blind diners with sesame seed Braille on buns
Los Angeles Times
By Tiffany Hsu In South Africa, restaurant chain Wimpy is welcoming blind customers -- by serving them burgers with words in Braille spelled out on their buns with sesame seeds. In a viral YouTube video promoting its in-store Braille menus, .
Braille Burger Buns, Or, How to Tap the Blind Social MediaLA Weekly (blog)
Wimpy burgers makes braille bunsBaltimore Sun
Wimpy South Africa reaches out to visually impaired with "Braille Burger"GlobalPost (blog)
Bangstyle -UPI.com -National Post (blog)
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Blind students, families see the world in a new way - Bismarck Tribune

Blind students, families see the world in a new way
Bismarck Tribune
"We've never had to deal with Spanish Braille before or know what the Braille symbol of a triangle looks like." Trom-Anderson's teaching has been repaid in full. She notes several benefits in her job. "You learn to look more at the little things," .

Delhi University's Braille Library overstocked with Hindi books - Deccan Herald

Delhi University's Braille Library overstocked with Hindi books
Deccan Herald
Blind postgraduate students are frustrated by lack of books in subjects other than Hindi at Delhi University's Braille Library. According to these students, though the library has 1254 books and recorded material for courses in the undergraduate level, .
SC's Braille Challenge being held in ColumbiaAiken Standard

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Facebook: The Aftermarket Economy
So Facebook filed its IPO papers, and the numbers are eye-popping .A The company appears to be worth about $100 billion, or a bit more than the GDP of Tunisia.A Others shade it a bit lower, but one thing is certain: it's good to be Facebook...

Elemeno Pea
Molly Smith Metzler makes a minor contribution to American class warfare with "Elemeno Pea." In a profanity-laden variation on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," she has a trio of proles suffer under the chaotic lifestyles of the rich and feckless, then strains after an eleventh hour stab at poignancy...

Dodgers ninth annual Community Caravan set for this Tuesday and Wednesday
Frances Blend School is a special education day school that has served children with legal..

Davis Vision, Visionworks 2011 Award-Winning Outreach Programs Impact Communities Worldwide
Since the programs' inception in 2008, Davis Vision and Visionworks eye care professionals have provided In addition to 60 screening events in 2011, Davis Vision combined a literacy initiative with its vision screenings...

An Event Apart: Hacking Users Brains
In her Hacking Your Users' Brains talk at An Event Apart in Atlanta, GA 2012 Aviva Rosenstein outlined how visual perception and customer research can help manage user expectations in your software applications...