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Tuesday Topics
by Paul Edwards, American Council of the Blind
Tuesday Topics is a weekly exploration of a single topic from a blindness perspective brought to you by the American Council of the Blind. Co-hosted by Paul Edwards and Rick Morin, this two-hour podcast features panelists and live questions and comments from the zoom audience. We hope to fully explore any topic we cover! Divergent opinions are encouraged!
Episodes
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20261006 Tuesday Topics - The Importance of Affiliates
20261006 Tuesday Topics - The Importance of Affiliates Tuesday Topics continues its exploration of what makes ACB tick! We look at what may well be an endangered species! Some special-interest affiliates are growing but most state affiliates are not! They either remain where they are or get...
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20260629 Tuesday Topics: The Future of the ACB National Conference and Convention
20260629 Tuesday Topics: The Future of the ACB National Convention This episode of Tuesday Topics explores what the ACB convention could be like in 5 years. Topics discussed includes: Will it be totally remote? Will it be shorter or longer? Will special interest affiliates operate differently?…
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20260922 Tuesday Topics - Remembering Terry Pacheco
20260922 Remembering Terry Pacheco Tuesday Topics focuses on remembering Theresa (Terry) Pacheco who has been active in ACB much longer than Paul Edwards, which is really saying something. Terry died in September, 2026 and in this episode of Tuesday Topics, people who knew and loved Terry share...
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20260915 Tuesday Topics on diabetes and ACB Diabetics in Action (ACBDA)
20260915 Tuesday Topics on diabetes and ACB Diabetics in Action (ACBDA) This episode of Tuesday Topics focuses on diabetes and the work of ACB Diabetics in Action (ACBDA), a Special Interest Affiliate of the American Council of the Blind. Over the past three years, ACBDA has made significant...
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20260908 Tuesday Topics revisits Employment of people who are blind or have low vision
20260908 Tuesday Topics revisits Employment of people who are blind or have low vision It was the day after Labor Day in the US and so it's appropriate to talk about the employment of people who are blind or folks with low vision. We explore some history, some recent information and some of our…
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20260901 - Tuesday Topics - The awesome and the awful
Occasionally Topics likes to ask questions with no right answers and our first September show does that! All of us are story tellers whether we know it or not! Most, if not all of the folks who listen to this program have visual impairments! We ask the team and you to think back over your life…
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20260825 - Tuesday Topics - All things Internet Radio
20260825 - Tuesday Topics - All things Internet Radio For the last two episodes of Tuesday Topics, we explored podcasts in great detail. Internet radio is sort of a companion to them. Everybody knows about the ten ACB Media stations but there is a huge number of stations folks can listen to if…
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20260818 - Tuesday topics, Podcasts Part 2 - hit parade of podcasts
20260818 - Tuesday topics, Podcasts Part 2 Topics once more considers podcasts. Last week we described what they are and how they work and explored many of the accessible devices where they can be retrieved. This week we spend some time talking about ACB podcasts: how many people have found them...
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20260811 - Tuesday Topics - All things Podcasts
Within a day or two our podcast will be available which you can access on ACB Link or on any other podcast provider. Many devices make Tuesday Topics available including the Amazon Alexa devices. They take a while, I think, to put our podcasts up but you can say to your device "play Tuesday…
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20260804 Tuesday Topics - 2026 Convention Wrapup
There is a tradition that all the leaders and members of ACB remember! We once more review the convention. We explore what was good, what was bad and we will, of course, make some suggestions about how everything can be improved next year.
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20260707 Tuesday Topics - 2026 ACB Convention - Voting, bylaws, resolutions
20260707 Tuesday Topics - 2026 ACB Convention - Voting, bylaws, resolutions Explore elements of the upcoming convention. We look at how elections will be handled and explore the bylaw amendments that are proposed. Board members are up for election this year as are Board of Publications members.…
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20260630 - Tuesday Topics - Scholarship and Summer Fun!
On June 30 Tuesday Topics will once more take to the internet waves with what has become a commonplace now. We will have one last scholarship winner and will then turn things over to the team and those present to talk with us about what they are reading during the Summer and what plans are being...
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20260623 Tuesday Topics - Winners and Mentoring
Tuesday Topics welcomes more scholarship winners and Amanda Selm, Chair of the scholarship committee. Then Tuesday Topics explores new plans for one of the most valuable activities of ACB! Kenneth Simien Senior brings some folks who are part of the committee that oversees mentoring for ACB. We…
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20260616 - Tuesday Topics - Scholarships and Gardening with George Holiday
June 6, 2026 - Tuesday Topics - Scholarships and Gardening with George Holiday Two more scholarship winners join us to brighten up the start of the show and then we welcome George Holiday who shares the how's and why's of gardening. It was a rule at my house that Paul did not have anything to do...
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20260609 - Tuesday Topics - Scholarship Winners and Grandparents
Tuesday Topics - Scholarship Winners and Grandparents June 9, 2026 Tuesday Topics once more takes to the internet with a double feature. First, we have some more ACB scholarship winners to get to know. We had our first three and I truly enjoyed exploring in some detail how their experiences had...
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20260602 - Tuesday Topics - Scholarship winners are on Tuesday Topics.
On June 2 Tuesday Topics will try another new thing! As we take to the internet we will create a platform for some of our ACB scholarship winners to tell us a little about who they are and what they are doing. Amanda SELM, current chair of the ACB Scholarship Committee, is the prime mover in this...
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20260526 - Tuesday Topics - Awareness of global accessibility issues.
At a convention of the Florida Council of the Blind a speaker from Vispero mentioned Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) which happens on May 21, I think. It occurred to me that this might represent a good topic for us to look at. There are huge differences in accessibility even among...
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20260519 - Tuesday Topics - Graduates and Graduation.
It is graduation season and we wonder how that goes for people who are blind. When you graduated from high school or college was that a good experience? Were you treated in a special way as a person with visual impairment? Was the experience memorable for you? Were there problems?
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20260512 - Tuesday Topics - autonomous vehicles.
In the past we have done programs on autonomous vehicles. Recently several folks have had the chance to ride in vehicles with no drivers and we thought it would be fun to ask them about their experience and their impressions. We also want to explore where we are in the process of regularizing…
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Tuesday Topics 20260505 - Blindness Nation part two.mp3
We will be continuing the discussion begun on our latest podcast concerning the state of the blindness nation today and tomorrow. We have essentially finished painting what we think is a fairly accurate picture of how the blindness system has changed over the last couple of decades and what some…
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20260428 - Tuesday Topics - The state of the blindness nation now and in the future.
People who are blind have access to more information than they have ever had before! There is more technological choice for this population than there has ever been. Consumer organizations are advocating and so are organizations like the American Foundation for the Blind, the Vision Serve…
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20260421 - Tuesday Topics - An early look at the ACB convention with two novel elements.
On April 21, from 7 to 9 PM Eastern time, Tuesday Topics will once more take to the internet and other devices with a first look at the ACB convention coming up toward the end of July. We will be hearing about a new program aimed to attract young people to our convention. We will hear about a new...
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20260414 - Tuesday Topics - Three new faces at ACB.
We are excited about this program because we will get the chance to have three guests who we will get to know better. All of them are ladies who have recently begun working for the American Council of the Blind. The first of them that I met was Caitlin Lee who was waiting for a shuttle to the…
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20260407 - Tuesday Topics - Grand tech for under a grand Part 2.
Tuesday Topics continues its exploration of devices available to purchase for less than a thousand dollars. We will look at several sets of ear buds and explore what makes them worth talking about. We will look at telephones. Some of them actually have buttons you can use to dial! We will explore...
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20260331 - Tuesday Topics - Grand tech for under a grand.
Everybody knows there is an unprecedented quantity of access technology out there. At CSUN three major new note takers were announced! They are at the forefront of what is new and innovative but most of them cost an arm and a leg and another arm! We thought it might be fun to explore the…
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20260324 - Tuesday Topics - Literacy.
It may seem to some that the topic we have chosen this week is simplistic and doesn't involve a lot of discussion. We are hoping that the topic of literacy will provide two hours of spirited discussion. Is a blind person who only reads by listening fully literate or not? Is a person who listens...
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20260317 - Tuesday Topics - Daylight Savings Time, St. Patrick's Day, and Spring Cleaning.
All of our topics stem from the time of year. First we will talk about daylight savings time. Is it a good idea? What does research say? Is it different for people who are totally blind because our rhythms are not affected by light? Nevertheless is it a good thing or not? The day of our program…
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20260303 - Tuesday Topics - ACB Opportunities.
ACB has deadlines! These are coming up pretty soon! They relate to things that will happen at the ACB convention. It is a tradition of this program that, at this time each year, we invite folks to tell us about what is on offer. We know we will hear from the Durward K. McDaniel First Timers...
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20260224 - Tuesday Topics - Sports, then and now .
Two weeks ago we spent time looking at new technology that is making sporting events more accessible. How are things now? Are they better than in the past or worse? Do most blind people listen to sports on the radio or use television? How do you think radio sports have cha'nged over the past few...
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20260217 - Tuesday Topics - Romance Beyond Just Dating.
we will explore romance on Tuesday Topics. We have talked about dating before but this time we thought it would be interesting to go a little further. How do most relationships between people who are blind get started? Is it on line? Is it because of meetings locally? How did you celebrate...
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20260210 Tuesday Topics: New technology that make sports more accessible
I think particularly people who are born blind often assume they know a lot more about how sports work than they actually do! I know that I take formations in football for granted and don't have a good understanding of how players are placed in cricket even though these are sports I follow. It…
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20260203 - Tuesday Topics Affiliate initiatives for membership.
Tuesday Topics will take a big risk! Lots of our shows depend on hearing from guests. We sometimes invite several guests to join us! This time we are making a different sort of invitation! We are inviting affiliates to tell us what they do to build membership! Virtually everybody knows about BITS...
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20260127 Tuesday Topics - Membership
This is the time of year when our affiliates are getting ready to send in membership lists so we thought it might be a good thing to talk about the good, the bad and the ugly about how we are doing at the local, state and national level at encouraging new members. It's generally accepted that our...
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20260120 Tuesday Topics - Your bests of the best from 2025.
It is still January so many people will still have a pretty good memory of what happened last year! We thought it would be fun to ask you to think back to last year and tell us about some cool things you found last year. We would like to hear about the best book you read! We want to know about…
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20260113 - Tuesday Topics - the Totals versus the Partials.
Tuesday Topics will encourage folks to consider an issue that could potentially create some interesting disagreements. As we take to the internet and a range of devices too numerous to mention, we will explore together a question that everybody has thought about but many have avoided discussing!...
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20260106 - Tuesday Topics - Looking ahead with outsight.
Usually on Tuesday Topics we attach our predictions to other elements like "how to keep your resolutions" or something similar! This time we are flat out prognosticating! We are gazing blindly into the future with the hope that something from the chaos of what is to be will trickle back to us! I...
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20251216 - Tuesday Topics - The year 2025.
Those of you who have been long time listeners to our show can probably guess what our topic is. At the end of each year we like to review the events that those of us on the team and you think are the most significant things that have happened during this year. We are pretty loose about what can…
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20251209 - Tuesday Topics - Vision With Closed Eyes.
There appears to be a whole range of ways that the brain reacts to picturing something with one's eyes closed. I listened to a recent program where a condition was described that intrigued me. The term I heard was "afantesia" but that appears not to be the correct name of the condition.…
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20251125 - Tuesday Topics - Improv is Tuesday's Topic tonight.
Last year we featured a play with blind actors from our ACB Sacramento chapter. We hope to have them on in the future to share their latest project! On our show this time we feature a group based in Pennsylvania interested in "improv". Sue Lichtenfels from Out of Sight Improv will join us for the...
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20251118 - Tuesday Topics - Communicating when extremes are the rule.
Tuesday Topics will once more tackle an issue that we think deserves atffention. We live in polarizing times! Politically our nation is perhaps more divided than it has ever been. Within our very own organization it sometimes seems that civil discourse is replaced by uncivil recourse to...
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20251111 - Tuesday Topics - Why should we celebrate Assistive Technology Month.
From 7 to 9 PM on November 11 Tuesday Topics will join in the celebration of Assistive Technology Awareness Month. I am not sure that this is its actual title but there have been a number of posts announcing it exists! What is assistive technology? Is it different from access technology? Where…
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20251104 - Tuesday Topics - Fundraising.
From 7 to 9 PM on November 4 Tuesday Topics will consider fund raising as it applies to ACB and other blindness groups. ACB has a range of ways to raise money. Members contribute a lot; sponsors represent a viable option; fees for services is a new potential approach. Every nonprofit in the world...
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20251028 Tuesday Topics - Halloween Experiences.
Tuesday Topics will explore halloween experiences. Did you trick or treat as a child who was blind? Did you like it or not? Did you take your children trick or treating? How was that? How do you handle halloween these days? Have you ever either tricked or been tricked at halloween? How aware are...
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20251021 - Tuesday Topics - Medicare and Medicaid.
We are now on the two hudred and twenty-ninth show in the current series of Tuesday Topics. That is quite a number and I need to thank everybody involved for enabling us to be around as long as we have. It is difficult to come up with topics that are new and exciting and your help deciding on...
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20251014 1900 Tuesday Topics AI and Employment
Tuesday Topics concentrates on employment once more. October is Disability Employment Awareness Month (DEAM), and during this Tuesday Topics program, we consider some of the advantages and disadvantages of having a designated month to focus on this issue! We spend much of our time, however, on…
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20251007 - Tuesday Topics - .
In the past Tuesday Topics has explored the White Cane Laws! It is once more October and White Cane Safety Day is October 15. We would like to explore how the law has operated; what value does White Cane Safety Day have and for whom; and how we might make things better for pedestrians who are...
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20250930 - Tuesday Topics - Unfinished Business, More about Myths.
We have unfinished business! We spent time identifying many of the myths that people who can see have about those of us with visual impairments! We promised to explore what we should do about these myths! Do public service announcements work? Should we do training ourselves at the local level?…
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20250923 - Tuesday Topics - Blindness Myths are explored this week
THIS week we want to explore what you think is the most egregious myth that is out there about people who are blind! There are lots of them but we thought it would be fun to put together a list of our top candidates for the myths that people who are not blind have about people aro are! Some of...
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20250909 - Tuesday Topics - exploring two problems we know exist and ways they can be approached.
It is generally recognized, though it isn't said often enough, that many people who are blind are overweight and sedentary. Recent research and statistics suggest that people with vision loss also experience a range of mental issues which limit their ability to function well in a complex society!...
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20250902 - Tuesday Topics - Job-seeking experiences
We are just past Labor Day as this edition airs! We have devoted lots of programs to employment and it didn't surprise you that we offer another one. I think this one will be different! We have explored in the past what our Employment Committee is doing! We have talked some about the barriers to...
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Tuesday Topics is a weekly exploration of a single topic from a blindness perspective brought to you by the American Council of the Blind. Co-hosted by Paul Edwards and Rick Morin, this two-hour podcast features panelists and live questions and comments from the zoom audience. We hope to fully explore any topic we cover! Divergent opinions are encouraged!
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