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Jimmy at the Crossroads: Cookies, Chaos, and the Call to Faith by Bob Williams [REVIEW]

SYNOPSIS When faith meets folly at the corner of Walk and Don’t Walk, one man must decide what’s worth saving. After a near-fatal accident, Jimmy Goodright wakes up in the ICU with no memory of how he got there—or why the once-charming town of Centerville suddenly feels sanitized. The church he grew up in has been reborn as The Church of Perpetual Sanitation, and the people he trusted most seem…

Jimmy at the Crossroads: Cookies, Chaos, and the Call to Faith by Bob Williams [REVIEW]

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Check This: @BobWilliamsSong - High and Low On this powerful #altcountry cut, the veteran #folk songwriter beautiful details the challenges of his father's cancer battle #BobWilliams #HighandLow #TimeWillTell #newmusic #americana #folkrock

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Let’s be clear. Having or being presumed to have multiple significant disabilities grossly circumscribes the opportunity and agency of millions of people to use reading and writing to define and pursue their lives. Because of the past and current research in the field, this above all is clear. But – and this is important – disability should not continue to be misconstrued to justify consigning those needing AAC, as infants and toddlers, public school students, teenagers, working age persons, and older adults, to having or being treated as having few literacy skills – regardless of when they became disabled.

Literacy is essential to freedom. The costs and consequences of being illiterate are gruesome and are spiraling in the digital age. This is especially true for those who must spell out what we say.

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See Us. Hear Us. - Bob Williams (English) - From CommunicationFirst

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Some Smart People: Views and Lives 6

Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal) Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2024/10/03 Acknowledgements For Some Smart People: Views and Lives 1: Manahel Thabet for being the first in this series and giving a gauge on the feasibility of this project, and to Evangelos Katsioulis, Jason Betts, Marco Ripà, Paul Cooijmans, Rick Rosner; in spite of far more men…

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Presentation from Bob Williams, co-founder and Policy Director of CommunicationFIRST, on literacy and AAC. A transcript can be found here.

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Bob Williams

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Cat makes history in Sydney to Hobart yacht race

Oli is believed to be the first feline seafarer in the famous race's 78-year history.

When Oli queues up on the starting line for the Sydney to Hobart yacht race on Tuesday, he'll be making history.

That's because Oli is a cat.

Since the event began as a casual cruise down the east coast of Australia in 1945, it has attracted all manner of colourful competitors - from media magnate Rupert Murdoch to Australian cricket legend Michael Clarke and former UK Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath.

But there's no record of any feline seafarers in the gruelling regatta. Carrier pigeons - sure: they were once used to send messages back to shore and have graced many a deck during the ocean classic. But cats? No.

Oli's owner Bob Williams says the pair didn't set out to be pioneers. The moggy is simply part of the furniture on Sylph VI and leaving him behind on the boat's jaunt south was out of the question.

"I've done lots of crazy things, but this isn't one of them," Mr Williams told the BBC ahead of the race.

Organisers - while initially bemused - are also on board. 

There are no race rules prohibiting animals, and cats have a long history in maritime travel, the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia pointed out.

"One of the great things about the Sydney Hobart is all the wonderful characters in the race and the diversity of boats," Commodore Arthur Lane said.