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ANOTHER SET FROM DRAGONBOAT RACES

Sunday, September 7, 2008, 07:03 PM EST [General]

 i moved closer to the finish line after ducking under cover from quick rain showers that were passing by all morning.  Left over from the last hurricane that hit  farther down the coast.

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DRAGONBOAT RACES IN PAWTUCKET RHODE ISLAND

Sunday, September 7, 2008, 01:08 PM EST [General]

 ONE OF A MANY FILMS  AND PICTURES I TOOK  AT THE RACES WITH CAMERAS I MOUNT TO MY POWER CHAIR. WILL ADD MORE LATER.....

www.pawtucketartsfestival.org/   
http://www.pawtucketartsfestival.org/Events-9-RI-Dragonboat-Races-&-Taiwan-Day-Festival
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Sunday, August 24, 2008, 11:25 PM EST [General]

Judge rules city can't stain Staten Island ferry victim's image
By narmer
No one disputes that McMillan, 43, is a quadriplegic who needs round-the-clock care that will cost millions of dollars over his life. But city attorney Wayne Meehan argued Friday that since McMillan is suing for loss of enjoyment in ...
All Bronx News, All the Time ! - http://bronxnews.wordpress.com

Care Factor: 0
By Ms Rachy
As a quadriplegic I'm not entitled to any sort of ongoing financial help to obtain regular physiotherapy for which I am in great need, but were

MY SHOULDER PAIN AND MAGIC WHEELS
By House
Because of my position as medical director of rehabilitation and the fact that I am a C7 quadriplegic, I'm often asked to demo products. Timely for me, the Magic Wheels Company came out with their new version of their four-speed geared ...
Disaboom - http://www.disaboom.com/Blogs/

 

 

AN AMAZING MIRALCE!!
By Recent Updates(Recent Updates)
She was a C-5 quadriplegic and was in very bad shape. I immediately started thinking of my friend Jennifer, this was her injury. I kept watching the show and the young girl went to a rehab center in Atlanta called Shepherds? ...
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Disabled Winnipeg MP visits Canada
Winnipeg-area MP Steven Fletcher joined a group of military brass in Alert, Nunavut, this week, becoming the first quadriplegic to visit Canada's northernmost military station.
Canada News latest RSS headlines... - http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/10/id/71df8d33cd2a30df/

The Funkless Fall
By Angie(Angie)
I don't know whether the little writer in me senses academia looming on the horizon and she is cowering in fear, or if she is just so bored with the fiction she's currently reading that she has become something of a quadriplegic. ...
Once an Artist on the Bench - http://trashpileodoom.livejournal.com/

Shot and left for dead in the street, dog starts a new life
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
Only time will tell if Little Lance has suffered any permanent neurological damage as a result of his spinal-cord injury, Carlson said. ...
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Injury doesn't keep him down
The Jackson Citizen Patriot - MLive.com - Jackson,MI,USA
Doctors told him his spinal cord injury meant he would never walk again. They also told him he would never be able to use his hands again, ...
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Baker player broke vertebra
Florida Times-Union - Jacksonville,FL,USA
"He's suffered major trauma to his spinal cord but does not have a severed spinal cord, which gives him a chance to make a recovery." Johnson, a 6-foot-1, ...
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Bakersfield Disabled Man Feeling State's Budget Mess
KGET 17 - Bakersfield,CA,USA
David is a quadriplegic who suffers from Cerebral Palsy. The 42 year old says the help he needs every day will be stripped away if the governor's budget ...
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Vancouver's quadriplegic mayor to carry torch in Paralympic Games
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
RICHMOND, BC-In a bittersweet bookend to his single term as Vancouver's mayor, quadriplegic Sam Sullivan will participate in the torch relay at next month's ...
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Ditka Aims To Help Disabled 'Gridiron Warriors'
NBC5.com - Chicago,IL,USA
Among the athletes benefiting from the partnership is former Eisenhower High School star Rasul "Rocky" Clark, who was rendered a quadriplegic eight years ...
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Tail Regeneration in Xenopus laevis as a Model for Understanding ...
Journal of Dental Research (subscription) - UK
The tadpole tail contains spinal cord, muscle, vasculature, and other terminally differentiated cell types and can fully regenerate itself through tissue ...
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Family, friends rally to help chef fight back from injury
Baltimore Sun - United States
At the hospital, doctors found that the accident had crushed four vertebrae in Hartung's spine and partially severed his spinal cord. ...
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Borehamwood man to swim length of the Channel at The Venue
Borehanwood Times - UK
An Aspire spokeswoman added: "Spinal cord injury has a devastating effect on the 1200 people who become paralysed each year. The individual affected will ...
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Two Oakdale men headed to Beijing for paralympics
Oakdalel Lake Elmo Review - North St. Paul,MN,USA
In that year, Ludwig Guttmann organized a sports competition involving World War II veterans with a spinal cord injury in Stoke Mandeville, England. ...
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National Grammy-nominated, gospel artist will give free concert ...
Myrtle Beach Sun News - Myrtle Beach,SC,USA
According to Wright's MySpace page, he is still recuperating with a severe spinal cord injury. Dyson said Kee's presence in Horry County will help lift ...
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The Science Behind Refrigerated Baby's 'Miracle' Revival
LiveScience.com - New York,NY,USA
... Bills football player Kevin Everett recovered last year from severe spinal cord damage thanks in part to induced hypothermia treatment after his injury. ...
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Wheelchairs, start your engines....
By Jason Siegel
... comparable to those for members of the general public." The lawsuit was brought by a quadriplegic man who missed some of the best parts of races when fans in front of him got up to cheer, blocking his view. Read the full NLJ story.
The National Law Journal's LA Legal Pad - http://www.lalegalpad.com/

Setbacks don't slow Vanderbilt co-captain
My Tennessean.com - Nashville,TN,USA
After taking a redshirt his first year on campus, Smith contracted acute transverse myelitis, an inflammation of the brain and spinal cord. ...
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Despite accident, Ambrose QB has an enthusiasm that can't be sacked
Quad City Times - Davenport,IA,USA
... recuperating from a spinal cord injury he suffered diving down a makeshift slide and ramp into about a foot of Mississippi River water on a beach near ...
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When your back can't bear the wear and tear
Sunday Times.lk - Columbo,Sri Lanka
The spine also has the important function of carrying a column within it, called the spinal canal, which contains within it the spinal cord, which carries ...
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Miracle Michael will walk again
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
Spinal cord injury affects about 12000 Australians, with 300-400 new cases each year. Most are caused by risk-taking behaviour, usually by young males.
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Speed Read
Times and Transcript - Moncton,New Brunswick,Canada
Durepos, who is going to his fourth Paralympic Games, sustained a spinal cord injury in a motorcycle accident in 1988 and began playing wheelchair ...
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Gamez has big day in Yellowstone Downs opener
Billings Gazette - MT, USA
Find Sara, a 7-year-old thoroughbred, likely suffered a spinal cord injury during the accident and died on the MetraPark track, according to Kelly Manzer, ...
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Youth minister adjusts to 'new normal' with spinal injury
Gainesville Times - Gainesville,GA,USA
... who has spent the last three months at the Shepherd Center, an Atlanta hospital that specializes in catastrophic spinal cord injuries. ...
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Blowing away a sniff of a cure
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
As well as following an intensive daily exercise regime, he's also undergone courses of stem cell treatment for the spinal cord injury that has confined him ...
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Essendon doctors to be honoured at **** Reynolds lunch
Melbourne Herald Sun - Australia
Fortunately, Clark escaped with spinal shock rather than the suspected spinal cord damage and was back playing a couple of weeks later. ...
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W.Va. soldier on road to recovery after being shot in neck
Daily Mail - Charleston - Charleston,WV,USA
"There is a great spinal cord injury place there, state-of-the-art equipment," Finney said. "He will probably be there for a year to a year-and-a-half. ...
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Teens lack judgment when driving, trauma study finds
CBC.ca - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Participants toured an intensive care unit and met a young person who had suffered a mild traumatic or spinal cord injury. ...
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Worker thrown from forklift rendered quadriplegic
Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly - Boston,MA,USA
On June 17, 2006, he died from a brain hemorrhage, which the plaintiff's medical expert testified was causally related

Quadriplegic Hilary Lister forced to halt solo round British ...
BYM News (press release) - Gibraltar,Spain
... unable to complete her attempt to sail solo around the British Isles this year, aiming to become the first female quadriplegic to complete such a feat. ...
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Documents reveal new details in wheelchair dumping
Daily Comet - Thibodaux,LA,USA
Sterner said he repeatedly told Marshall-Jones he was a quadriplegic and that he was sitting calmly when he felt himself "being lunged forward but at a very ...
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    DRAGONBOAT RACES IN PAWTUCKET RHODE ISLAND SLIDE SHOW

    Sunday, September 7, 2008, 10:48 PM EST [General]

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    Sunday, September 7, 2008, 09:55 PM EST [General]

    Lewiston Man Nominated for Advocacy Work
    RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA
    By Lindsay Tice LEWISTON - A local disability rights advocate has been nominated to the National Spinal Cord Injury Association's hall of fame. ...
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THE REEVES' LEGACY
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com - Newark,NJ,USA
Reeve is the 28-year-old son of Christopher Reeve, and he has taken up the torch for spinal cord research. It's not a torch he sought, but one he says he is ...
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Jackson: Capital Games
NorthJersey.com - Hackensack,NJ,USA
Lautenberg wants the Army Corps of Engineers to investigate whether erosion of beaches is contributing to a spike in spinal cord injuries to Cape May ...
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Review of TWISTED CONSEQUENCES
By Irie Parker
Tyson is a C5 quadriplegic (the result of a severe neck injury in an auto accident ten years prior to the time of this story) who lives well with specially designed computer equipment and assistance devices monitored by hired nurses ...
Disaboom - http://www.disaboom.com/Blogs/
Euthanasia
By Richard
Another similar case is that of Joni Eareckson Tada, a quadriplegic who suffered a spinal-cord injury. She now paints, draws and has a wonderful ministry of encouragement and blessing to perhaps millions. These two girls prove that, ...
Wonders of Creation - http://creation.mightymag.org/
Quadriplegic Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury C5 Walker
By admin
C5 - C7 Incomplete Quadriplegic Re-learning to walk between parallel bars, working on balance and co-ordination. spinal cord injury videos physical therapy and spinal cord injuries incomplete spinal cord lesion quadriplegic paralysis ...
Video Channal : Fun with Video - http://vidchannal.com
Helmet high-tech can prevent athletes are quadriplegic
The technology has brought comfort to the helmets of cyclists. Now an innovation also brings an additional item of security, as has happened recently with the traditional safety helmets. Protection for the column Engineers University of ...
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Chiropractic: Strokes and Class Action
By Am Ang Zhang(Am Ang Zhang)
“After life-saving surgery at the University of Alberta Hospital, Sandy, a senior land administrator in the oil and gas industry, was left almost completely paralysed, a quadriplegic totally dependent on machines, hospital staff and her ...
The Cockroach Catcher - http://cockroachcatcher.blogspot.com/ 

Chris Finn nominated for SCI Hall of Fame
San Leandro Times - CA, United States
By : Julie Barsamian : 9/5/08 San Leandro resident Chris Finn has been nominated to be inducted into the Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Hall of Fame. ...
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Kyle Metcalfe reflects on life-altering injury, personal journey ...
Amador Ledger-Dispatch - Jackson,CA,USA
The devastating spinal cord injury he sustained that afternoon put his energy on a new path - one that included months of hospitalization; a roller coaster ...
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Contemporary Analysis of Descending Thoracic and Thoracoabdominal ...
Cardiosource - Washington,DC,USA
The frequency of spinal cord injury was 4.3% in the ER patients and 7.5% in the SR patients (p = 0.08). The development of spinal cord ischemia correlated ...
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HS Football Player Airlifted From Game
NBC5i.com - Fort Worth,TX,USA
The athlete suffered a concussion and a contusion of his spinal cord and was released from the hospital Friday morning, according to family members. ...
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Life Rolls On contender for best surfer volunteer video...
Global Surf News - USA
They Will Surf Again is an award-winning, bi-coastal series of events that empower young people affected by spinal cord injury with the opportunity to surf ...

REHAB Hospital to create new gait and wheelchair clinic
Honolulu Advertiser - Honolulu,HI,USA
Each year, the organization treats nearly 8000 patients recovering from strokes, brain injury, spinal cord injury, orthopedic injuries, sports injuries and ...
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Experts Provide Insights Into Emerging Field of Brain and Spine Repair
Journal of American Medical Association (subscription) - Chicago,IL,USA
The ability of neural stem cells to generate new neurons in adults is not spread evenly throughout the brain and spinal cord. For example, as far as we know ...
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Coming in from the Cold: Did Hypothermia Therapy Allow Kevin ...
Scientific American - USA
Everett's doctors would later confirm that a spinal cord injury had left the young player paralyzed from the neck down. The prognosis: that he would be ...
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Back Disorders
Canada.com - Don Mills,Ontario,Canada
The spinal bones are connected by the facet joints at the back and by the discs at the front. The nerves of the spinal cord run through the spinal canal, ...
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Swimmer to go the distance
Wokingham Times - Wokingham,England,UK
Deborah Lamont, 19, from Eversley

 Yuma Marine's wife blogs to update friends, family on injured ...

Yuma Sun - Yuma,AZ,USA
A neurosurgeon eventually performed an upper-spine fusion because the bones were getting too close to the spinal cord. Then, in April, a blood clot formed ...
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Turning disability into ability
KING5.com - Seattle,WA,USA
It's too soon to know how much movement Jerold will regain, but he's working hard in rehab, getting stronger every day. Sixty percent of spinal cord injury ...
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Paraplegic woman found in pool, dies
The Rolla Daily News - MO, United States
... Phelps County Sheriff’s Department. “She’s been known to swim alone,” Davis said. Memorials are suggested to the Rusk Rehab-Spinal Cord Injury in Columbia.
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Woman Protects Service Dog From Pit Bull Attack
By The WillaWoman(The WillaWoman)
Wirtjes, who is a quadriplegic, said she thought the pit bulls might kill Rue, her golden retriever. Rue is a service dog for Wirtjes. Whatever she can't do... Rue can. But on Monday night, it was Wirtjes who came to Rue's aid. ...
www.TheWillaWoman.com - http://willawoman.blogspot.com/

Interview of Congressman James Langevin on Stem Cell Research
By Disabled Politico
Langevin is known for being the only quadriplegic ever to serve in Congress so far, he also is a strong advocate of stem cell research and spoke on that topic at the DNC in 2004. Langevin became a quadriplegic at the age of 16, ...
Disaboom - http://www.disaboom.com/Blogs/

Encountering Someone Different
By Laura(Laura)
seen a fellow human, a quadriplegic who in fact has a great deal in common with her. And one other thing about those of us who look or act different. My grandson Sam, who is on the autism spectrum, is almost 8 years old. He is ...
As The World Spinns

 November Could Be Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Month in Norfolk

CD98.9 - Simcoe,Canada
November 2008 is one step closer to being named 'Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Month' in Norfolk County. Council members received and approved a motion ...
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John Cena: WWE wrestler undergoes neck surgery after injury
Pressemeldungen.at (Pressemitteilung) - Wien,Austria
... by other WWE wrestlers (Edge, Steve Austin, Chris Benoit), Maroon removed a fragment from Cena’s spinal cord, which had been blocking a nerve. ...
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Soon, bank on menstrual blood to treat diseases
Times of India - India
... neurological disorders like spinal cord injury, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, in addition to cosmetic applications such as anti-aging therapy. ...
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Adding spinal cord stimulation to treatment plan gives best ...
The Virtual Medical Centre - Perth,Australia
They showed that spinal cord stimulation (SCS) therapy significantly enhances pain relief and improves quality of life in patients with failed back surgery ...
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