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Inspirational Speaker

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:31:21 GMT

clipped by: adolphpaul123
clipper's remarks: Daniel R. Davison is a inspirational speaker who provides encouragement, guidance to the people and empowers to let go of beliefs that limit them with the right choices and attitude.

Clip Source: www.danielrdavison.org

Daniel R. Davison is a quad-amputee who reaches and moves his audience to understand that choices and attitude determine results.

Daniel shares his powerful story of adversity — a victim of severe child abuse which led to involvement in drug trafficking and organized crime. Although Daniel was a talented, passionate and successful musician, his life in the fast lane was associated with a heavy appetite for drugs and self-destructive behavior. While under the influence, he had an accident which led to severe frostbite requiring amputation of a portion of all four limbs. Instead of wallowing in self-pity and giving up on life however, Daniel rose above all odds — excelling in music, sailing, horseback riding and most of all, positively influencing others through sharing his story. Daniel's greatest asset and passion is his ability to reach out to others and empower them to make positive choices in their lives.

Prosthetic That Can Sense Touch

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:23:50 GMT

clipped by: ljsdesign

Clip Source: wbztv.com

There is a breakthrough for people who've lost limbs. Swedish scientists say they've developed a robotic hand that can actually sense touch

Amputee Robin af Ekenstam can pick up a water bottle without dropping or crushing it. He gives it just the right amount of pressure because for the first time in years, he can actually FEEL the bottle. "It's a feeling I have not had for a long time," he says.

Robin is the first to try out what's called the Smarthand, a new prosthetic limb dotted with 40 sensors that stimulate nerves in the arm and shoot touch signals back into the brain instantaneously.

The prosthetic hands available now allow patients to perform many tasks but the Smarthand is the first to offer movement control that only comes through feeling.

"It could allow a patient who's married who'd like to hold their spouse's hand again," explains Dr. Heckman. "It could allow someone who could pick up their son and feel that they are holding on."

hope to have it on the market within two years.

Prosthetic That Can Sense Touch

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:21:33 GMT

clipped by: ljsdesign

Clip Source: wbztv.com

There is a breakthrough for people who've lost limbs. Swedish scientists say they've developed a robotic hand that can actually sense touch.

Robin is the first to try out what's called the Smarthand, a new prosthetic limb dotted with 40 sensors that stimulate nerves in the arm and shoot touch signals back into the brain instantaneously

The prosthetic hands available now allow patients to perform many tasks but the Smarthand is the first to offer movement control that only comes through feeling.

"It could allow a patient who's married who'd like to hold their spouse's hand again," explains Dr. Heckman. "It could allow someone who could pick up their son and feel that they are holding on."

hope to have it on the market within two years.

Was using a taser multiple times on double amputee Gregory Williams really necessary?

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:37:01 GMT

clipped by: theophania79
clipper's remarks: It’s the Merced California Police vs. George Williams. Was he a threat despite being sans weapon? Were the police out of line?

Clip Source: www.disaboomlive.com

Was using a taser twice on double amputee Gregory Williams really necessary?

I want to know because honestly (and this isn’t sarcasm), I can’t decide. If you watch this video you’ll see he was out of his wheelchair and plopped on the pavement outside his apartment when the incident occurred. Did I mention he has no legs? And probably more important to note, no prosthetics either? Anyways, check out the video of him recounting his experience and see what you think.

Tags: double amputee, amputee, wheelchair, disabled, police violence, african-americans, taser, california, merced

DOUBLE AMPUTEE ...Tased by POLICE

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 11:32:09 GMT

clipped by: leevardi
clipper's remarks: ......Cops Probably worried he was gonna run em over with his WHEELCHAIR...

Clip Source: www.federaljack.com

Double amputee tased by Police

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds7SeuaEhKE

Legless Man Tased Twice While Sitting in His Wheelchair

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:46:40 GMT

clipped by: BartendingBear
clipper's remarks: I'm speechless.

Clip Source: www.newsobserver.com

MERCED, Calif. -- The Merced Police Department's Internal Affairs Division is investigating whether an officer twice used a Taser on an unarmed, wheelchair-bound man with no legs.

The man who was Tasered, Gregory Williams, 40, a double-leg amputee, spent six days in jail on suspicion of domestic violence and resisting arrest, but the Merced County District Attorney's office hasn't filed any charges.

Williams, who was released from jail on Friday, said he was manhandled and Tasered by police, even though he said he was never physically aggressive toward the officers and didn't resist arrest.

Williams said he was humiliated after his pants fell down during the incident. The officers allegedly left him outdoors in broad daylight, handcuffed on the pavement, nude below the waist. Williams said the Sept. 11 arrest also left him with an injured shoulder, limiting his mobility in his wheelchair.

A handful of residents

witnessed the incident and supported Williams' charges

Absurd Photoshop Disasters

Wed, 06 May 2009 15:06:49 GMT

clipped by: perellicippo

Clip Source: abduzeedo.com

Absurd Photoshop Disasters

Making this post was probably one of the funniest thing I've done in last few hours. Every time I found one of these images, I would just start laughing like crazy. These are some really absurd photoshop disasters and I just can't believe that these were approved to be published.

Other clothes?

Geez, where's that guy's head?

Beyonce's 3rd arm.

That's a new species for sure.

Someone forgot to photoshop those reflections.

Because water is not transparent.

Chubby shadow.

Hmmm... that's hot.... oh, wait.

Amputee

OMG! That guy is a freaking vampire! :O

And yeah. That's one hell of an art director.

That guy is all hands...

Caught!

That's just bad.

Something's wrong...

Giant Steps for a Hero

Mon, 04 May 2009 11:51:16 GMT

clipped by: infidel70
clipper's remarks: Gadson was made an honorary co-captain of the team and credited as a driving force behind Big Blue's success.

And, at the next Super Bowl, he hopes to be jumping for joy -- literally.

"I was in a wheelchair last time," he said. "Next time, hopefully I'll be up there with the team."

Clip Source: www.nypost.com

Meet the Bionic Fan.

LIFE AND LIMB: Double amputee Greg Gadson tries out his new power knees at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington.

Gadson -- whose bravery helped inspire the New York Giants to their last Super Bowl victory -- recently became the first person in the world to land a pair of super-high-tech prosthetic legs that practically think for themselves.

Gadson -- who lost both legs above the knee when his convoy was hit by a roadside bomb two years ago -- has been fitted with the Power Knee, a revolutionary, battery-powered prosthetic developed by Icelandic company Ossur.

"[The prosthetic's] intelligent," Gadson said last week from his home in Virginia. "It gauges my weight, my speed . . . It's the closest thing to normal legs that I've experienced.

"The difference is if you're walking on a normal prosthetic and you step in a pothole in the street, you're going to fall. With this, it's going to accommodate that.

AIG's wawr business draws criticism

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 06:23:45 GMT

clipped by: doodleicious

Clip Source: www.truthdig.com

AIG’s War Business Draws Criticism

At least 30,000 private contractors have been injured in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the vast majority are insured by AIG. According to an investigation by ABC News, ProPublica and the Los Angeles Times, the insurance giant does about as good a job helping wounded contractors as gaming the derivatives market.

A nearly blind amputee who suffered injuries in Iraq says he had to fight AIG tooth and nail with the aid of a congressman just to get a slightly improved artificial limb.

Woodson’s lawyer, Toby Cole, says he sees a pattern of AIG “delaying and denying” claims from contractors injured in Iraq and Afghanistan.

“It’s difficult for me to think it’s anything but a concentrated effort just to ignore these guys,” said Cole.

Tags: wtf?

Effects shop fulfills amputee's mermaid dream

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:21:38 GMT

clipped by: reimers

Clip Source: news.cnet.com

Good: double amputee gets prosthetic legs so she can walk. Better: double amputee gets realistic-looking mermaid tail so she can swim. Awesome: it's developed and built by Weta, the special-effects company that did all the work for the "Lord of the Rings" movies, as well as "King Kong" and "The Chronicles of Narnia" series.

Nadya Vessey's legs were amputated below the knee when she was a child due to illness. At one point, reports Stuff, a child asked her what happened to her legs and she told him she was a mermaid. The idea stuck with her, so she wrote to Weta Workshop in Wellington, New Zealand, two years ago asking for a mermaid tail. To her surprise, they said they'd do it.

Now she has a fully functional mermaid tail with an attached suit, making her look practically just like a real mermaid (if, you know, mermaids were real).

She can swim well and says the prosthesis feels quite comfortable.

"Real" Mermaid.

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:52:57 GMT

clipped by: Abra Miles
clipper's remarks: It's great that she'll be able to enjoy swimming now. ^_^

Clip Source: news.cnet.com

Effects shop fulfills amputee's mermaid dream

Now she has a fully functional mermaid tail with an attached suit, making her look practically just like a real mermaid (if, you know, mermaids were real).

ordinary illness turned into a life-and-death

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 03:21:20 GMT

clipped by: ikino22

Clip Source: www.nydailynews.com

Brazilian amputee model, Miss World finalist Mariana Bridi da Costa, age 20, dies of rare infection

A Brazilian model who had her hands and feet amputated after being ravaged by a drug-resistant infection died Saturday, her family said.

The model's ordeal made international news after an ordinary illness turned into a life-and-death battle with a bacteria, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, that raced through her veins.

Bridi da Costa first visited doctors in late December and, like Mullings, was initially diagnosed with kidney stones.

She was transferred to a hospital on Jan. 3 in what is known as septic shock, during which the infection caused irreparable tissue damage.

Wow

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:45:11 GMT

clipped by: dmccluredvm

Clip Source: news.aol.com

The year 2008 saw a number of important medical breakthroughs, from a 14-year-old girl who survived nearly four months with no heart to a 70-year-old woman who gave birth to her first child.

A man covered in so many bark-like warts that he was dubbed the "Tree Man" got a whole new lease on life. Pioneering procedures gave a woman a new trachea made with her own tissue and a double-amputee two new arms. And a woman who was so terribly disfigured that the sight of her made children scream got a new face.

Tags: medical breakthroughs

Amputees Can Experience Prosthetic Hand As Their Own

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:23:26 GMT

clipped by: balthazarus
clipper's remarks: Cool!
maybe next we can add organs... i could have used more that 2 hands sometimes...

Clip Source: www.sciencedaily.com

Amputees Can Experience Prosthetic Hand As Their Own

succeeded in inducing people with an amputated arm to experience a prosthetic rubber hand as belonging to their own body. The results can lead to the development of a new type of touch-sensitive prosthetic hands

The illusion of having a rubber hand was achieved by the scientists by touching the stump of the amputated arm out of sight of the subject while simultaneously touching the rubber hand in full view of the same subject.

created the illusion that the sensory input was coming from the prosthetic hand

The effect was confirmed by the subjects’ own descriptions of the experience and by their tendency to point to the hand when asked to localise the point of stimulation

That they experienced the rubber hand as their own was also substantiated physiologically in that they started to sweat when the hand was pricked with a needle

“If this makes it possible to make a prosthetic sensitive by cheating the brain

important step towards better

Tags: amputee, sensation, neuroscience, illusion

Bomber and Roy unassuming unpayed Heros

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 03:17:17 GMT

clipped by: chedare
clipper's remarks: 6000 000 bombs dropped by the US there now these guys trained Cambodians to fight Polpot then we pulled out abandoning them to their fate.
The scars of war motivated this pair of grumpy old men to return to help this country and themselves heal past wounds and sorrows from fate of those they feel they abandoned.

Clip Source: www.abc.net.au

Bomber And Roy

Brisbane grandparents Tony ‘Bomber’ Bower-Miles and Roy Chamberlain are not living out their golden years quietly.

Instead they’re making peace with their past lives by detonating Cambodian landmines with nothing but the bare basics: dental probes, pliers, skill and the help of former boy soldier and local mine clearer extraordinaire, Aki Ra.

Like many Vietnam veterans, Bomber and Roy were traumatised by their experiences. After a chance meeting in a psychiatric ward three years ago, they teamed up to help deactivate landmines in one of the most heavily mined countries in the world.

Spurred on by the thanks of amputee children, the men are now going strong. Roy says, ‘I feel worth something now. It’s completed a circle for me. I can actually give something back.’

Clip Source: members.optushome.com.au

Each of the Mine Detectors purchased for the de-mining operation in Cambodia is named in Honour of one of the Engineers killed during the war in Vietnam.

Tags: after the war, daily deaths and maiming continue, power of 2 strong hearts