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• “Design Revolution” at AIA San Francisco

  
  The San Franista — Authority: 425
  While contemplating whether to become an e-reader user this winter, I bought a softcover book that looks to be well worth the paper it’s printed on: Emily Pilloton’s “Design Revolution: 100 Products that Empower People.” The local American Institute of Architects chapter will be hosting a discussion on ...
  6 hours ago

• Frederick’s Ataxia: The Lesser Known Degenerative Muscle Disease

  
  HealthMad — Authority: 488
  I grew up in a small town in Oregon where everyone knows everyone. At least that was true in the 50s and 60s when I was growing up. I attended a small elementary school and remember seeing a girl a year ahead of me being carried by the teachers to her classes. Sometimes she would walk slowly, tripping over her feet, ...
  15 hours ago

• Initial Costs, Applied To Deductible

  
  Disabilities Unlimited — Authority: 108
  Deductible – This is the amount some plans ask you to pay first before the plan makes any payments. This could be a low dollar amount or it could be high. The deductible is an annual event. Either starting over at the beginning of the calendar year or the beginning of the policy year. While a high deductible sounds ...
  15 hours ago

• Wheelchair accessible hotel in Reykjavik accommodates world record-breaking swimmers

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 545
  The Grand Hotel Reykjavik provided their award winning service to this year’s record-breaking paralympic athletes at the 2009 IPC Swimming European Championships held between 18th-24th October. Collectively, 24 world records and 73 European records were smashed over the course of the seven-day event. This has not ...
  17 hours ago

• Someone should send this 79 year old woman to jail

  
  le craic — Authority: 118
  A snippet from this week’s Bray People newspaper. An elderly woman from Delgany is housebound and in agony, squeezed in to an undersized wheelchair at her home, because there is no funding available for an orthopaedic wheelchair. ‘All I want is a comfortable chair,’ said a tearful Dorothy Leopold of Delgany ...
  18 hours ago

• Exercise #86 – Energizing the Gateway Between Mind and Body 4

  
  Chair Tai Chi — Authority: 106
    Welcome to Healing T’ai Chi …the award-winning blog of seated exercises to balance mind, body and spirit for people of all ages and levels of fitness. ~~~~~~~~~ “The greatest virtue is to follow Tao and Tao alone. The Tao is elusive and intangible Oh, it is intangible and elusive, and yet within is ...
  1 day ago

• Making The Premium Choice

  
  Disabilities Unlimited — Authority: 108
  Today I’m starting a new series about Healthcare. It’s a hot topic! But my purpose, because many people with disabilities need it AND because many don’t understand it, I wanted to give a primer of terms. Currently having a job in the health care industry I see and hear confused people. While this blog is my own ...
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• Why the TSA insists on screening wheelchairs

  
  Gadling — Authority: 699
  Filed under: Airports Screening airline passengers in a wheelchair has often been a bit of a hot topic. For some reason, people get wound up when they see the TSA searching every corner of a wheelchair, as if disabled people should automatically be trusted and allowed to pass through without a search of their ...
  2 days ago

• How to lose weight when almost confined to bed?

  
  Diet Tips — Authority: 140
  My mom had heart & lung failure a few years back. She had to have a tracheotomy tube put in and sleeps on a vent machine at night to assist her lungs under her body’s weight. She also has degenerative osteoarthritis. If she lost some weight she could lose the tube and [...]
  2 days ago

• Access all areas

  
  Taxi Tales — Authority: 118
  One of this weeks fares was two ladies, one was elderly and in a wheelchair and the other was able bodied and in her early 50s. I picked them both up from a house in the Town Centre and took them home where upon asking for the fare of £4.20p I was given a £10 note and told to take £7 out of it. What a generous ...
  2 days ago

• Recommended Reading for November 6

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 645
  Missing in Causation Talk: Actual Austistics : Today I listened in a bit to the IACC conference call on “risks and prevention.” I ended up not listening to the entire thing, partly because I’m quite busy, and partly because the conference call format just does not work very well for me in terms of processing ...
  3 days ago

• Less Pain And Wheelchairs

  
  How to be an Inspiration — Authority: 110
  Those of you who follow such things will be glad to know that I will soon be able to resume my life of adventuring. My rafting trip up the river Amazon to train piranhas in dental hygiene techniques will proceed as planned now that my back is so much better. Dr Toosy popped in to check it wasnt osteoporosis and that ...
  3 days ago

• Let’s talk about the weather

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 645
  As I type this, Halifax is getting its first snowfall of the season. To me, this is “Yay! snow!” To Don, this is “Well, I guess I’m not going out anymore until spring.” We live in a really shite neighbourhood for snow-clearing. Although our landlord is excellent about keeping the snow and ice off the ...
  3 days ago

• Tie Fighter Wheelchair

  
  Super Punch — Authority: 689
  Tie Fighter wheelchair spotted here . Via . While looking to see if there was any video footage, I spotted this - - all of the cutscenes from the PC game Tie Fighter. Warning, watching this might destroy the nostalgia you feel for the game: *Previously: Wheelchair Werewolf . * Buy Thrawn toys at eBay.
  3 days ago

• Access to Dental Care a Human Right

  
  frogblog — Authority: 570
  I am horrified that the Ministry of Health’s mobile dental clinics won’t be wheelchair accessible.  If the vision is to take health out to the people then access is a fundamental issue.  The excuse that a ramp would cost $70,000 must be examined.  What has happened to the DIY approach to practical problems ...
  4 days ago

• Disabled man, elderly woman rescued from SW Side fire

  
  Chicago Breaking News — Authority: 164
  An elderly woman and a wheelchair-using man were rescued from a smoky couch fire tonight on the citys Southwest Side . Fire crews responded to fire at the two-story brick building at 6922 S. Maplewood Ave. at about 7:20 p.m., fire officials said. Upon their arrival, they found a 75-year-old woman in the front ...
  4 days ago

• Go Yankees, AFOs/Braces, Flu Shots, Fawssit Shower Unit,Missing Wallet

  
  Forced to Sit Still and Shut Up -- Life Before, and During ALS — Authority: 106
  The New York Yankees are the World Series Champions! Those of you who know me, know that I am a Mets fan, but when the Mets season ends, I either stop following baseball, or if the Yankees are in the World Series -- which unfortunately happens more to them than the Mets -- I just root for the Yankees, who are the ...
  4 days ago

• Recommended Reading for November 5, 2009

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 645
  Remember, Remember the Fifth of November Gunpowder, treason and plot. I see no reason why gunpowder, treason Should ever be forgot! Happy Guy Fawkes Day, UK-folks! Via SpiralSheep: Feminist Spoons Friends and family are aware enough of my health problems to understand when I have to cancel things, or rearrange ...
  4 days ago

• TAKE TIME TO REMEMBER OUR HEROES

  
  The Ethical Optimist — Authority: 106
  I had an opportunity today to visit a number of facilities at Walter Reed Army Medical Center this week and thought I’d share a bit of the experience. My day started with the tremendous folks at The Fisher House.  If you’re not familiar with the Fisher House Foundation, you should be.  Fisher Houses are built ...
  4 days ago

• Mustached hero Kurt Fearnley captures New York marathon

  
  Asylum Australia — Authority: 443
  Filed under: Sports , News , Mantastic , Health Australian Kurt Fearnley won his fourth straight New York Marathon in the wheelchair division yesterday, after edging out South African Krige Schabort in a photo finish. Wed like to think the razor-thin margin of victory boiled down to the ... Read more   ...
  4 days ago

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