Ms Hodges is registered blind with nystagmus, which causes involuntary movement of the eyes.
Until we get serious about this, we will continue to be driving blind with many of our drug policies.
They had made chewing motions with their mouths and produced blissful sounds, sometimes half opening eyes blind with sleep and then closing them again, stirring a little, and moaning because of the sweetness of their own existence.
For example: parents with crying babies, blind people with guide dogs, or even people with unpleasant body odor.
Then Woo, because girls who look like Jada and run around in nighties can't meet men, gets fixed up on a blind date with that most hee-larious of all blind dates -- the clumsy nerd.
And in pregnant women it can result in the baby being born blind or with brain damage.
Company executives make their pitches and submit blind bids with no promise of an opportunity to raise their offers.
The case also has integrated apps attuned for the blind, with Braille entry possible using all those multiple touchpanels.
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Giffords was left partially blind, with a paralyzed right arm and brain injury.
Two blind people with guide dogs also helped with the trial to prepare staff to help passengers with visual impairments.
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All wines were tasted and ranked blind, with panelists knowing only the color and the fact that different grape varietals were in each flight.
Jordan, who is bidding to represent the UK at the Eurovision Song Contest, has a two-year-old son, who was born blind, with footballer Dwight Yorke.
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I've since found that to be true in blind tastings with winemakers around the world, but it is not something you are going to hear many of them admit.
Sure, there's plenty that needs to change: Protectionism remains rife and the EU went down a blind alley with its social agenda, which piled new costs on business just when it needed greater flexibility.
Argus II is intended to provide electrical stimulation of the retina to induce visual perception in blind individuals with retinitis pigmentosa and has the capacity to offer life-changing visual capabilities to those currently unable to see anything except, at best, extremely bright lights.
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The civil unrest of the previous decade had finally settled down, the student body was growing larger and more diverse, the university had changed its applications process to a double-blind procedure with no special consideration for gender, race, or ethnicity, and research in medicine and the physical sciences shared space in the curriculum with philosophy and art.
Ceri Jackson, director of Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) Cymru, said the charity "regularly comes into contact with blind and partially sighted people living in abject poverty".
In a recent paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Ms Peleg describes filming 21 interviews with people who have been blind since birth, and 30 interviews with normal-sighted people, all of whom were genetically related to her blind subjects.
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Would that have been a problem with blind trust rules and working in government versus the private sector?
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They might screw themselves twice, alienating loyal fans, and not swaying COD players with blind loyalty to their franchise.
The overwhelming success of movies like Passion of the Christ and The Blind Side, with their Christian themes, stunned Hollywood and movie critics.
"Gayle was working to help little children with disabilities - some blind, some deaf, some with no limbs - including victims of the many landmines from the many wars in Afghanistan, " she said.
At the same course a month or so earlier, I was blind-dated with a slick-talking lawyer from the west side of Los Angeles and, unfortunately, we even had to share an electric cart.
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As a matter of fact, this project was really not a demonstration of the cutting-edge technology we have developed, but rather a true demonstration of what the blind can achieve with just a little bit of help from technology.
Under the settlement agreement, the library will not acquire any additional e-readers for patron use that exclude persons who are blind or others with disabilities who need accessible features such as text-to-speech functions or the ability to access menus through audio or tactile options.
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The 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act will make it easier for people who are deaf, blind or live with a visual impairment to do what many of us take for granted -- from navigating a TV or DVD menu to sending an email on a smart phone.
The best reason to stick with it is the scene in which Cameron Diaz reads an Elizabeth Bishop poem to an elderly blind man, played with curt charm by Norman Lloyd.
In the 25th minute Lee Jarvis increased Ponty's lead with a penalty in front of the posts and minutes later Ponty struck again, Jarvis switching to the blind side to link with Matthew Lloyd, who let in Richard Field at the corner.
The director recently talked about working with a deaf actor, learning from a blind father and sharing the stage with a three-legged dog.
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"My songwriting ability probably started with my blind father and intellectually disabled sister, " he said.
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