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1/23/11: Podcast #70: Meaghan Gallagher – making paralysis funny
Our first podcast of 2011 has landed. Listen now to episode #70 of No Free Rides, featuring paralyzed comedian Meaghan Gallagher (sadly no relation to the watermelon smasher guy).
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1/18/11: Check this – Hip hop wheelchair dance troupe
A must-must-must see if you haven’t yet: The Colours ‘N’ Motion hip-hop wheelchair dance troupe. A trio of fearless females who are redefining dancing, transforming what wheelchairs are capable of.
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12/27/10: Swedish wheelchair thieves tracked in snow
You can not make this stuff up. Two thieves in wheelchairs from Helsingborg, Sweden made the lamest escape attempt ever after stealing merchandise from a storage unit. Their tracks were picked up so easily, “We didn’t even need a police dog,” said local authorities.
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12/3/10: High-profile UK columnist enthralls with life as new quadriplegic
Melanie Reid, 52, a popular columnist for The Times, a newspaper in the United Kingdom, is exposing real life with paralysis – her new life – like no one before her.
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11/19/2010: “Say Yes to the Dress” features gorgeous wheelchair bride
For my entry on the Say Yes To The Dress: Atlanta episode on Lauren Garcia that aired 3/2/12 click here Amazing $4,000 (and over) wedding gowns are standard fare on Say Yes to the Dress, the hugely popular wedding dress shopping reality show. And Kelley Brooks, a gorgeous paraplegic from Tennessee, was the first wheelchair-using bride to be featured on the show.
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11/11/2010: Badass wheelchair dude thwarts robber
Larry Skopnik, a paraplegic from Vancouver, is why you should never underestimate the guy in a wheelchair when robbing a convenience store (if you don’t click on this I don’t know what I’m going to do with you).
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11/4/10: Arizona foundation empowering young women with disabilities with fashion, and Kelly Rowland
The Aurora Foundation is a non-profit after my heart. Their mission – “To empower young women with disabilities to access their inherent leadership capacities.” Their sister foundation, disABLED DIVAZ, has an exciting fashion show coming up. They’ve also launched their first ever fashion design competition.
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10/22/2010: Wheelchair tennis star poses nude on cover of ESPN magazine’s Body Issue
Dutch wheelchair tennis athlete Esther Vergeer, 29, has been chosen to grace the cover of ESPN magazine’s 2010 Body Issue. She’s the first woman in a wheelchair to be featured in the magazine’s anticipated issue (which photographs athletes at the top of their game in artfully nude poses). Read more. – Tiffiny, the fashionista paralyzed blogger (bio)
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10/19/10: Groundbreaking mechanical legs to help paraplegics walk again
This cutting-edge personal exoskeleton developed by Berkley Bionics will truly make you feel like the future is now.
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10/12/10: SCI newbie receives first injection in historic FDA-approved embryonic stem cell study
This time has finally come. An undisclosed newly-injured complete paraplegic has been injected with hESCs (human embryonic stem cells) in the USA’s first FDA approved (yet privately funded) treatment using hESCs. Will it work? Of course it will. The real question is when can I (and you) get the treatment.
