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The March 18 2019 animated Google Doodle celebrates Japanese inventor Seiichi Miyake, the inventor of truncated domes.

Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg (pronounced like "buddha-judge"), born January 19, 1982, is an American politician, serving since 2012 as the 32nd mayor of South Bend, Indiana. Prior to public service, he worked as a consultant at McKinsey and Company, a management strategy consulting firm, from 2007 through 2010. A member of the Democratic Party, Buttigieg is a graduate of Harvard University, a Rhodes Scholar, and a veteran of the War in Afghanistan. He is competing for the party's nomination in the 2020 presidential election, and is the first openly gay Democratic candidate ever to run for President of the United States. If elected, he would be the first openly gay president as well as the youngest.

To support gamers with physical disabilities, an industrious community has for years modified existing controllers or devised new ones altogether. And now those efforts, by organizations like Warfighter Engaged, the AbleGamers Charity and SpecialEffect, have been amplified by Microsoft, which in September released an adaptive controller for the Xbox One.

Self-help books cover a wide range of topics--everything from healing a broken heart to enjoying an active retirement. Self-help sales are strong. After all, millions of people suffer a broken heart every year, while millions more retire and ask themselves, "What's next?"

But what about vision loss? There is no The Joy of I Can't Read Print Anymore, or Low Vision for Dummies. There is, however, a brand new offering from Australia's Maribel Steel called Blindness for Beginners: A Renewed Vision of the Possible. 

In New York city, there are 550,000 residents who have difficulty walking. Two-thirds of them live far from an accessible subway station, a New York Times analysis has found.