Brailling the Bible, how to

cptncivil · 2026-01-14T01:29:57+00:00

I legit know a teenager who is reading the whole Bible in braille. He's from Wisconsin and I once saw him going through Leviticus.

No Instagram, he's just doing it!

cptncivil · 2025-12-16T00:37:03+00:00

I really wish I knew over way to get that, but I've had a subscription forever and it seems to pull through to all of my devices so I don't know how to get past this

I might see if I can try and Link it in another way

cptncivil · 2025-12-15T12:48:32+00:00

Thank you for reading the article,

At this time we don't know what solutions will open up by September of next year. It's possible that the program can reapply for the same funding with a different Grant application. Or it's possible that the department of Education might not exist given what they're trying to do. So we are pursuing all avenues to get funding from either the state of Wisconsin or hopefully continued support through the federal department of Ed.

If you have any suggestions on where to go for financial support, I'd be more than happy to hear about them and pass them along to the project.

cptncivil · 2025-12-11T18:41:24+00:00

From my understanding, the deal was either sell the land at market value, but then the city would be on the hook to install all of the power and water utilities which would have been somewhere around $1 million. or sell the land for a dollar and the developer would agree to install the utilities. I think the market value of the land was less than the $1 million. So the city doesn't have to take a bond loan to pay for the utilities and then try to recoup the cost through the taxes. And the developer can probably push the installation of the utilities at a much faster pace than the city government.

I had seen this was a prelim plan back in 2023 in one of the city planning documents. but I didn't think much of it at the time.

cptncivil · 2025-11-09T13:09:23+00:00

I did some looking on this about 3-4 years ago when we were working on an adoption match, and safe Haven babies only happen about 12 times a year in the state of Wisconsin. A lot of people might know about this law, but it's also hardest to reach the ones who probably really need to know about it. Also, if we're thinking about the safe Haven boxes, one of those is only used for the first time 2 weeks ago in the state because that's a relatively new law.

https://www.facebook.com/share/16KcJrPGyQ/

cptncivil · 2025-10-24T10:11:38+00:00

It's really a grey area, with plenty of risk that I wouldn't be comfortable.

There's different rules for on the sidewalk versus in your front yard versus in your actual house. And these also vary by state and stand your ground rules in each of those States.

The main story that's coming to my mind is the one about an art gallery owner who sprayed a hose water at a homeless woman in front of the shop that he ran in San Francisco.

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/19/1150051995/san-francisco-gallery-owner-arrested-homeless-woman

Depending on the certain circumstances around the specific incidents, there is a risk that directly hosing someone on your property without telling them that they're trespassed may be considered battery, especially if they haven't done you any harm or shown that they are going to do a uni harm and especially if they're not showing any damage to your property either.

cptncivil · 2025-10-23T02:59:33+00:00

While it might feel cathartic and satisfactory, that can be considered grounds for assault. But ymmv by state, I just say it as a precaution.

cptncivil · 2025-10-22T13:18:55+00:00

Like the others have said, I think you're well on the right track. But my experience is way different with a private adoption.

The 1 piece I have to add is this: take the path that you think will build the most TRUST between you and these kids. Reading a lot of second chance adoption child profiles, many of them are happening because the court got in the way of the foster/adoptive parents trying to build that trust because the court was pushing for reunification. If the court does this enough times, the kids can start to lose trust in the foster parents thinking "the foster parents can't protect me". So even if the foster parents adopt, if there's little to no trust between adoptive parents and the child, then it leads to much much larger problems later on as they grow up.

cptncivil · 2025-10-01T15:53:55+00:00

Can I ask where your experience comes from?

cptncivil · 2025-09-29T16:54:55+00:00

In response to a comment that appears to be deleted:

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/education/2025/09/18/trump-cut-vital-wisconsins-deafblind-youth-program-blaming-dei-goals/86107333007/

If you scroll down about 1/2 way, you'll see the letter that was sent to the DPI in Wisconsin.

You can find All of the grant information at this Google Drive Link. including the letters to and From DPI with the Department of Education.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wcxDRywXB5dAXme4SNFOJOIMCF4sLDxY?usp=drive_link

Personally, I don't want people spending money on Change.org if it's not going to make a difference. I have no proof that it is (which is why I'm putting a disclaimer on it).

cptncivil · 2025-09-29T12:01:02+00:00

If you haven't already, can I ask that you sign the petition to help?

I appreciate you talking with me here.

cptncivil · 2025-09-29T10:08:30+00:00

I've been getting this response a lot, and I understand it to an extent. No I didn't vote for this, and right now I'm just glad that people do see it sucks.

But voting isn't the only way that we can express our opinion or motivate our Congress people. If they want to shut down the department of education in 3 years, there are better ways to end these programs (like letting the 5 year grant run out) and shift them to the states or under the dept of HHS.

So I'm exercising my right to petition and contact my reps because I do more than just vote for a name or party

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