Jan. 4 was the 200th anniversary of the birth of Louis Braille

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Jan. 4 was the 200th anniversary of the birth of Louis Braille. National Public Radio observed the date by interviewing Mike Hudson, the director of the Museum for the American Printing House for the Blind in Louisville. The museum is celebrating the life of Braille, who was educated in France which was the only country in the world at the time with a school for the visually impaired.

* The New York Times reports on recruiting Catholic priests from around the world to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Owensboro. "Kentucky Catholics who once did not know Nigeria from Uganda opened their eyes to the conditions in the countries their foreign priests came from -- even raising $6,000 to install wells in the home village of a Nigerian priest serving in Owensboro," according to the story.

* Beginning Jan. 7, Cincinnati performance venues Bogart's and Taft Theater are no longer selling tickets through Ticketmaster. They have switched to a new online ticketing service, Livenation.com, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer. Live Nation is partnering with Blockbuster to sell tickets. Blockbuster will get a block of tickets to sell to people who come into their stores.

* Gibson Laboratories, a company based in Lexington, has been acquired by MicroBiologics, a St. Cloud, Minn., company. Both companies make freeze-dried microorganisms used for quality-control testing in various industries -- including clinical, food-safety, water-quality, pharmaceutical and consumer products, according to the St. Cloud Times.

* The University of Louisville has offered its libraries to the patrons of the Louisville Free Public Library who need library services on Sundays. According to the public library, due to budget shortfalls, all public libraries will be closed on Sundays for the forseeable future. Business First of Louisville reports that the university libraries have always been available to Kentucky residents, but that fact hasn't been widely publicized.
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