Millard
Fillmore (1800-1874): 13th President of the United States,
1850-53. Click
here for more.
Epiphany
January 6; HISTORY OF EPIPHANY January 6 is known in the Christian calendar
as Epiphany. It is sometimes called the "Twelfth Night" being the 12th Day of
Christmas. It signifies the event of the Magi, or Wise Men visiting the baby
Jesus, and is known in certain Latin cultures as Three Kings Day. In the
Eastern (Orthodox and Oriental) churches it is known as the Theophany (God
Manifest), commemorating Jesus' baptism -- recounted in all four Gospels --
with the attendant appearance of the Holy Spirit as a dove and the voice of God
the Father.
Los
Tres Reyes Magos
Fair Deal: newly
reelected president Harry
S. Truman coined the phrase to refer to a 21-point program he had sent to
Congress in 1945, focusing on civil rights and social welfare improvements (
January 5, 1949).
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more.
Floyd
Patterson (January 4, 1935 May 11, 2006) : first two-time
world heavyweight champ. Click
here for more.
Alaska's Flag Eight stars on a field of blue - Alaska's
flag. May it mean to you The blue of the sea, the evening sky, The mountain
lakes, and the flow'rs nearby; The gold of the early sourdough's dreams. The
precious gold of the hills and streams; the brilliant stars in the northern
sky, The 'Bear' - the 'Dipper' - and its steady light, Over land and sea a
beacon bright. Alaska's flag - to Alaskan's dear. The simple flag of a last
frontier. - Marie Drake
Alaska is 50. The
territory once known as Seward's Folly became the 49th and largest US state on
this date ( January 3, ) in 1959.
US Secretary of State
William Seward bought the 587,875 square miles (1,522,595 sq km) in 1867
for $7.2 million. Click here for
more.
Fidel Castro
Cuba
celebrates 50 years of Socialist Revolution
CHRONOLOGY - Fifty years of the
Cuban revolution.
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here for more.
Happy New
Year!
WHAT'S
NEW...  January 2009
Autism Awareness Month. Bath Safety Month. Birth
Defects Prevention Month Sponsored by
The March of Dimes.
Blood Donor Month (National Volunteer). Book Blitz Month (National) Business
& Reference Books. Month Careers in Cosmetology Month (National). Cervical
Health Awareness Month. (National). Crime Stoppers Month. Coffee Gourmet Month
(International). Diet Month, Fat-Free Living Month, Lose Weight & Feel
Great Month. Eye Health Care Month (National). Fiber Focus Month (National).
Glaucoma Awareness Month. Sponsored by Prevent Blindness America. Hobby Month
(US National). Human Resource Month. Letter Writing Month (US National).
Oatmeal Month (US National). Poverty in America Month. Prune Breakfast Month.
Radio Month (US National). Retail Bakers Month. School Board Month (US
National). Soup Month (US National). Stamp Collectors Month (US National). Tea
Month (US National) or Hot Tea Month. Thyroid Disease Awareness Month.
01, Jan. : New Years Day; Circumcision of Christ
(Christian); First Monday Trade Days; Mummers Parade (Pa, US);New Year's
Dishonor List; St. Basil's Day (E. Orthodox); Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God
(Roman Catholic);United Nations International Year of Deserts and
Desertification Z Day; Liberation Day (Cuba); Independence Day (Haiti); New
Year (1st-3rd -Japan); and Independence Day (Sudan ). January 2, ; Georgia
Ratification Day Georgia became the 4th US state on January 2, 1788; and
Science Fiction Day. 03rd January: Congress Assembles Day, Drinking Straw Day,
National Write to Congress Day, J.R.R. Tolkien's Birthday (author), Admission
Day (Alaska), Birth Defects Prevention Month
The March of Dimes(
March of Dimes: fundraising organization was founded by President Franklin D.
Roosevelt to raise funds for the battle against poliomyelitis; it later
expanded its aim to preventing premature birth, birth defects and infant
mortality (1938) ). January 04th January: Dimpled Chad Day, Pop Music Chart
Anniversary, Trivia Day, Admission Day (Utah), Independence Day (Myanmar).
January 05th : Twelfth Night of Christmas. January 6th:
Epiphany Little
Christmas Twelfth Day or Three Kings Day, Carnival Season National Smith Day,
Admission Day (New Mexico), Christmas (Armenian) La Befana (Italy). 07th
January: I'm Not Going To Take It Any More Day, Christmas (Russia), Nanakusa
(Japan). 08th January: National Joygerm Day, Show & Tell Day at Work,
Elvis Presley Birthday, Midwife's
Day/Women's Day (Greece). National Clean Off Your Desk Day National Thank God
Its Monday! Day Organize Your Home Day Word Nerd Day President Richard M.
Nixon's Birthday (37th President) Martyrs' Day (Panama) Plough Monday (UK).
10th of Jan.: Asarah B'Tevet (Jewish), Ehd-Al-Adha (Feast of the Sacrifice -
Islamic). National Cut Your Energy Costs Day, Women's Suffrage Amendment
Anniversary, George Washington Carver's Birthday, National Clean Off Your Desk
Day, Day Organize Your Home Day, Plough Monday (UK), and Coming of Age Day
(Japan). January 11th : Anniversary - "Designated Hitter" Rule, Alexander
Hamilton's Birthday (statesman), Independence Day (Morocco), National Unity Day
(Nepal). 12th January: Anniversary - First Woman Senator Elected, Batman TV
Show Premier Anniversary. The 13th of January: Old New Years Eve
(Russia), Liberation Day (Togo), Tyvendedagen (Norway). 14th January: Habitat
For Humanity International's Building on a Dream, Ratification Day, Lee-Jackson
Day (Virginia), and Penguin Awareness Day . 15th January: Bald Eagle
Appreciation Days, Penguin Awareness Day, Martin Luther King, Jr.s
Birthday (actual). 16th January: Appreciate a Dragon Day, National Nothing Day,
Religious Freedom Day, World Religion Day, Haru-No-Yabuiri (Japan), National
Day of Peace (El Salvador). The 16th January:, Customer Service Day, Judgment
Day, PGA of America, Benjamin Franklin's Birthday (statesman), St. Anthony's
Day (Christian), Liberation Day (Poland). The 17th, Bald Eagle Appreciation,
Operation Desert Storm began, 1991, and Prohibition became official in America
in 1920, at 12.01 a.m. on Jan. 17. More on January 17,Customer Service Day,
Judgment Day Niiversary, PGA of America, Benjamin Franklin's Birthday, St.
Anthony's Day, Liberation Day (Poland). Days18th of January: Anniversary -
Lewis & Clark Expedition Commission, Pooh Day, Rid the World of Fad Diets
and Gimmicks Day. On the19th of January: Get To Know Your Customer Day, Tin Can
Anniversary, Women's Healthy Weight Day, Confederate Heroes Day (Texas), Edgar
Allen Poe's Birthday, and General Robert E. Lee's Birthday. Fri, 20th Jan.:
Aquarius Begins, RV Workers and Workampers Day, and Martyrs Day. January 20 is
the Anniversary of the1972 Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing
women's right to abortions, and Buttercrunch Day. Also on January 20: The Iran hostage
crisis was a 444-day period during which the new regime of Iran after the
Iranian Revolution held hostage 66 diplomats and citizens of the United States,
it began on November 4, 1979 and lasted until January 20, 1981. January, 21st:
National Hugging Day, Squirrel Appreciation Day.Martin Luther King Jr Day (observed).
The 22nd of January: Answer Your Cat's Question Day, Celebration of Life Day,
Anniversary - Roe vs Wade, and Saint Vincent's Feast Day. January 23, Holidays
and Observances: "Barnie Miller" premiers, 1975; Elizabeth Blackwell is the
first woman to receive a medical degree in America, January 23, 1849; and Pie
Day (National). January, 24, Holidays and Observances: Beer in cans first sold
on January 24, 1935, California Gold Discovery Day - Gold discovered at Sutters
Mill, 1848, First Heart Transplant, 1964, Ice Cream Bar Day/Eskimo Pie Day
(Anniversary of the patent on the Eskimo Pie, 1922), Square Dance Day, TV Game
Show Day (in observance of Mark Goodman's birthday, January 24, 1915), and
Succeed Day. The 25th of January: A Room of One's Own Day, National Compliment
Day, and Macintosh Computer Anniversary. 26th Jan.: Toad Hollow Day of
Encouragement, Douglas and MacArthur's Birthday Admission Day. January 27th.:
Fun at Work Day, Mozart Day, Thomas Crapper Day, Auschwitz Liberated
Anniversary, Day of Remembrance for Victims of Nazism (Germany), and Holocaust
Memorial Day (UK). The 28th day of January: Challenger Space Shuttle Explosion
Anniversary. The 29th of January : Freethinker's Day. On January 30, the Tet
Offensive began, 1968, during the Viet Nam War..The 31, Holidays &
Observances: Child Labor Day Twist-Off Bottle Cap Invented, 1956
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for the Month
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Crisis --I want to be part of the solution. Click here
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Farewell, John, NCIL Chief to resign
is the cover story of this issue.
Add Your CIL, SILC, or Association to the Searchable CIL
Database |
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111th Congress Convenes With Oaths of Office: Political Page
click here |
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Irene C. Henry, 1917-2008:
Pioneered home care for mentally disabled children--Mrs. Henry
disregarded the doctors and instead helped start a school for her daughter and
other mentally disabled children, which later became part of CARC (formerly
known as the Chicago Association for Retarded Citizens).
Click
here for article. |
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Not in My Back
Yard--Residents in an upscale Carlsbad community are outraged over a
plan to convert a million dollar home into a residence for the developmentally
disabled. Click here for
article. |
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Disability Pride Ball-You
are invited to join the disability community in commemorating the historic
Inauguration of President Barack Obama with the first-ever Disability Power
& Pride Inaugural Ball.Click here for
more. |
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Pills found in cake at home for
disabled--The pills were found Sunday when the cake was served and some
of it eaten, The Hartford (Conn.) Courant reported Monday.
Click
here for article. |
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Device Helps Disabled Gain
Independence--University of South Florida researchers have developed a
technology using cell phones to enable people with brain injuries and other
cognitive disabilities to use public transportation.
Click here for
article. |
Lebanese activists and disabled war victims march towards
the Egyptian embassy in Beirut to protest against Israel's attacks on Gaza
January 2, 2009. The Arabic posters in foreground read: (L) "Gaza is more
important than any regional alliances... Save it" (C) "We are all Gaza".
REUTERS/ Jamal Saidi (LEBANON) |
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Would you have an abortion if
you knew your child would be disabled?
Click
here for short article. |
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Barack Obama's inauguration:
Organizers concerned disabled may have to stay home--According to a
release from the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies -- the
group responsible for the details of Obama's swearing-in -- parking
restrictions near the Capitol include cars with disability plates or tags.
Click
here for article. |
John Travolta's son, Jett, dies
in the Bahamas--According to Reuters, Jett had a a history of seizures
and suffered one at the family's vacation home in Old Bahama Bay Hotel.
Click
here for article. |
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Disabled man left on bus in NYC
leaves hospital-A spokeswoman says Edwin Rivera was discharged from
Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center on Monday, five days after he
was found curled up in a parked bus. Prosecutors say the 22-year-old was stuck
there for more than 17 hours after leaving his special-needs school.
Click
here for article.
'Whole neighborhood loved her,'
say friends of jailed Brooklyn bus matron Linda Hockaday. --Click
here for article.
Mentally disabled young man
spends night in freezing school bus after driver forgets him.--The
22-year-old young man was supposed to be dropped off at his parents Manhattan
home Wednesday afternoon, after having spent the day at a Manhattan program for
the disable, police sources said.
Click
here for article. |
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Services for disabled hit
hard--Any optimism for Florida's economy and the impact on state
services is clouded by years of misman-agement by the Agency for Persons with
Disabilities.
Click
here for article. |
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A costly future for health
care--Health care, says one man, can be "a nation-ruining issue."
Click
here for opinion. |
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Disabled Riders Could See Big
Fare Hikes--When the MTA outlined possible fare hike scenarios earlier
this week, the harshest proposals fell on disabled riders. The fare for
Access-a-Ride vans is now $2, but it could rise sharply in June, unless the
state legislature steps in. WNYC's Matthew Schuerman has more. Click hee for
article. |
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Medics Caught on Tape Allegedly
Decided Disabled Man Not Worth Saving--Two EMT workers in Britain were
arrested after they were heard allegedly discussing whether they should bother
to resuscitate a disabled man who had collapsed at home and subsequently died.
Click here for
article. |
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New transit system is set to
roll for seniors, disabled--A new transportation system for seniors and
disabled persons is scheduled to begin service Friday in western Placer County.
Click here for
article. |
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Disabled man fights for
daughters life.
Click
here for article. |
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Governor's lawyer doesnt
like Executive Mansion--Gov. Rod Blagojevich doesnt like staying
in the Executive Mansion, and his attorney doesnt like it, either.
Click
here for article. |
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Disabled parents don't hinder
student's success.
Click here for
article. |
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Proposed closure of Selah school
upsets many--Local politicians have promised parents and staff members
that they will do everything possible to keep open the Yakima Valley School, a
state home for the profoundly developmentally disabled.
Click
here for article. |
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Proposed NYS budget projects
hard times--- If Gov. David Paterson's current 2009-10 budget proposal
were approved, the Silver Creek school district would be hurt two-fold,
according to district officials.
Click
here for article. |
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VA urges help for disabled,
elderly with DTV conversion --With the nationwide transition to Digital
TV fast approaching, the Veterans Administration is asking the public to stop
for a minute and think about who you know, or who lives in your neighborhood,
who you can help.
Click here for article. |
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Offer vouchers for special
education: It would save money and improve quality.
Click
here for article. |
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Federal Circuit Sides With
Disabled Vets on Excepted Service Positions.
Click here for
article. |
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YOUR OPINION: The right decision
to close state institutions for disabled. Click
here for article. |
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Economy shreds hopes of
disabled--The 10 bills Gov. Bill Ritter signed June 5 were meant to
provide jobs for the disabled, increase oversight of care and reduce by as many
as 700 the number of people on a years-long waiting list for service.
Click
here for article. |
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MAKING A DIFFERENCE: A local center helps disabled
people transition to the workforce.
Click
here for article. |
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Blagojevich: $2 Million In
Grants To Help Disabled--Illinois is investing the money to support the
Home Modification Program, a statewide program that adds ramps, chair lifts and
other features so low-income seniors and residents with disabilities can
continue to live in their communities..Click
here for article. |
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Disabled vet builds
bikes--Brian went to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' Eastern
Blind Rehabilitation Center in West Haven to learn how to read Braille. He even
helped Habitat for Humanity build a house in Hartford. He was going to give up,
but decided he would just learn how to do things in a different way.
Click
here for article. |
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Santa Killer Had Disabled Son,
Escape Plan--Click
here for article. |
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How dyslexia affects
e-shopping. Click here for
video
How limb pain limits web
surfing--Tester Nicola Keary's non-specific arm pain (formerly known as
repetitive strain injury), reduces her ability to use some price comparison
sites.Click here
for story.
Note other articles and videos toward the bottom of
this page. |
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Happy Nevertheless--She
added that she was attending my lecture as a supporter of Not Dead Yet, the
disability rights organization that a year and a half earlier blockaded
Princeton Universitys Nassau Hall in protest against my appointment as a
professor of bioethics.
Click
here for article. |
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Stutterers Lend One Another
Support--CBS) Chances are good you know somebody who stutters. It
appears to run in families - about 50 percent of those who stutter have a
family member who does too. And about one in 30 children stutter, although 75
percent outgrow it.
Click
here for article or video |
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HERO THERAPIST GIVES HOPE TO
AFGHAN DISABLED--KABUL, Afghanistan Alberto Cairo describes
himself as moody, temperamental, impatient and pushy. But to the disabled
patients he has treated for 19 years at the Red Cross Rehabilitation Center
most of them victims of violence in this war-torn country he is
an angel of mercy.
Click
here for story. |
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Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter
Dies--AP) Harold Pinter, praised as the most influential British
playwright of his generation and a longtime voice of political protest, has
died after a long battle with cancer. He was 78.
Click
here for article. |
Snow leaves disabled feeling
left out in the cold--Handicapped spaces fill with snow as plows hurry
to clear parking lots. Curb cuts for wheelchairs go uncleared. Sidewalks are
buried and ice over.
Click
here for article. |
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Rock band of disabled NY
musicians finds success--The three musicians waiting to perform at Fort
Plain's combined junior and senior high school belong to Flame, a rock cover
band born five years ago at the Lexington Center, an agency here in the Mohawk
Valley that serves people with developmental disabilities.
Click here for article. |
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Disabled Marine Finds A Home
--Marine Lance Cpl. John T. Doody was recovering nicely from injuries
sustained when a sniper attacked him in Fallujah, Iraq, in 2007.
Click
here for article. |
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Program advocates for disabled
people--People with disabilities and their family members who want to
help change public policy for disabled people can apply to participate in the
2009 Partners in Policymaking training program. The deadline to apply is Dec.
31.Click here for
article. |
Advocates of disabled taking on
Medicare--An estimated 1.8 million disabled workers are languishing in
Medicare limbo at any given time, captives of a health care system they paid
into for years but which isn't available when they need it most.
Click
here for article. |
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Savings plan for the disabled
deserves praise--A way for parents, siblings, distant relatives, friends
to provide for someone unable to support themselves.
Click
here for article. |
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ACLU sues California's ritzy
Laguna Beach over treatment of disabled homeless--Civil rights attorneys
filed a federal lawsuit against this exclusive coastal town and accused its
leadership of engaging in a campaign of harrassment against the disabled
homeless. Click here
for article. |
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Nine Days Remain for Seniors,
Disabled to Apply for Property Tax, Rent Rebates --Seniors and residents
with disabilities have nine days to submit Property Tax/Rent Rebate program
applications before the Dec. 31 deadline.
Click here for release. |
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Disability shield is about to
expand --Come Jan. 1, in the eyes of the law, the nation's workplaces
will have millions of additional disabled employees.
Click here for
article. |
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Disabled immigration detainees
face obstacles--The number of mentally and developmentally disabled
detainees in South Texas federal immigration detention centers has surged
during the past year, according to area attorneys who call the trend
"alarming."
Click
here for article. |
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Census: More than 54 million
disabled in U.S.--Report finds only 46 percent of adults with a
disability are employed. Click
here for article. |
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SNL owes blind people
apology--By Kathi Wolfe--Though Im legally blind, I love
watching Saturday Night Live, the show that so deftly satirizes
politics and culture. But I was appalled when SNL veered from satire into
cruelty in a skit ridiculing New York Gov. David Patersons blindness
Click here for
article. |
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Housing Authority's Elevator
Safety Official to Resign--Many NYCHA residents, including the elderly
and disabled, have to put up with non-functioning, even dangerous elevators in
their complexes.
Click
here for article. |
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Project:Possibility coders hack
for the disabled--New York Times small business writer James Flanagan
reported on Project: Possibility. Started two years ago by Christopher Leung,
who was working at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, P:P has
birthed Bar Code Reader, a program to let blind people point a cellphone at
grocery store shelves and hear a description and price of products.
Click here for
article. |
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Proposal would extend coverage
to disabled--The proposal, offered by state Sen. Andy Gardiner,
R-Orlando, will make coverage available for persons with retardation, cerebral
palsy, spina bifida, Prader-Willi syndrome, Down syndrome and autism spectrum
disorder.
Click
here for article. |
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Michigan Seniors, Disabled get
help with rising food costs--Thousands of Michigan seniors and adults
with disabilities will get automatic help with their food budgets beginning
next year.
Click here for article. |
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Software That Opens Worlds to
the Disabled --ONE computer program would allow vision-impaired shoppers
to point their cellphones at supermarket shelves and hear descriptions of
products and prices. Another would allow a physically disabled person to guide
a computer mouse using brain waves and eye movements.
Click
here for article. |
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Disabled air passengers to get
more rights--Air passengers with disabilities will soon be more granted
more rights and better access based on an agreement between the European Union
and Switzerland.
Click
here for article. |
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This Shoe's for you, MTA!
Protestor at board meeting inspired by Iraqi who threw shoes at
Bush--"My shoe is a sign of contempt," he told reporters on his way out.
"He (Sander) wants to raise fares on the disabled.
Click
here for article. |
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New incentives to boost
businesses owned by disabled--Businesses owned by people with
disabilities would get an advantage on city contracts, thanks to an ordinance
Mayor Daley plans to introduce at Wednesdays City Council meeting.
Click
here for article. |
MTA
CALLED TO ACCOUNT: Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer will deliver a
petition with 1,600 signatures to the MTA Board on Wednesday in protest of
planned changes to Manhattan bus routes. (Jonathan Weeks/Epoch Times)
MTA Proposal Leaves Disabled New
Yorkers Stranded --The Manhattan Transit Authority (MTA) is planning to
reduce or eliminate 20 bus routes.
Click
here for article. |
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Pair must pay for disabled
access--A Berkshire couple have said they have been "left in limbo"
after being told they must find £70,000 to adapt their council home for
their disabled son.
Click here
for article. |
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Texas House panel doesn't
recommend closing state schools for disabled--But it has called for the
creation of a legislative committee to consider the future of these large
"state schools," which juvenile justice advocates are working to close in favor
of more community-based care.
Click
here for article. |
NY governor says SNL parody
mocked the disabled--Legally blind New York Gov. David Paterson
lambasted a "Saturday Night Live" skit for portraying him as an aimless
bumbler. But those who have watched the sharp-witted Paterson over his two
decades in public service know how he might have deadpanned in the past: I
didn't see it.
Click
here for release. |
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New funding formula for disabled
generates controversy--Budget cuts - especially government budget cuts -
are constantly in the news these days. Some cuts are quite visible: A busy road
doesn't get repaired or widened; some government employees lose their jobs;
universities restrict enrollment.
Click
here for article. |
Tom Muscalino,
chief operating officer of GettingHired, says the Web site is an attempt to
combat unemployment by providing easy access to job postings for those with
disabilities about 37 percent of American adults with a disability are
employed. [Steven J. Dundas]
Web Portal Aims to Find Jobs for
the Disabled--Brings together employers, community service providers
looking to attract specific group.
Click
here for article. More above at GettingHired..Com |
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Landlord Tries To Boot Blind,
Disabled 70-Year-Old--The holidays can be a stressful time of year, even
more so in this year of economic uncertainty. For one senior citizen on Long
Island the season has turned into a fight to stay in her federally subsidized
home for the holidays.
Click
here for article. |
Lewis to get humanitarian
Oscar--Comedian Jerry Lewis will receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian
Award at the Academy Awards ceremony on 22 February.
Click here for
article. |
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That it has taken about a decade to make a really
significant contribution to Web Accessibility for PWD in the form of a usable
technical standard (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0) has been a bit
frustrating, but in the end rewarding
W3C Web Standard Defines
Accessibility for Next Generation Web-Click here for
more. |
Suicide on TV condemned in
Britain-This is an undated handout photo issued Dec. 9, 2008 by British
TV channel Sky Real Lives, of Craig Ewert, 59, whose death in an assisted
suicide in a Swiss clinic will be broadcast on British television-Click
here for article.
TV channel to broadcast assisted
suicide--LONDON, England (CNN) -- A British TV channel was scheduled to
air a controversial documentary Wednesday night showing a terminally ill man
committing assisted suicide.
Click
here for article. |
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Microsoft Improves IE8 for
Disabled Users--A post on the IEBlog by Accessibility Program Manager JP
Gonzalez-Castellan highlights several user-interface features that should
improve the accessibility of IE8, among them Caret Browsing, Adaptive Zoom and
High DPI (Dots Per Inch).
Click
here for article. |
FDA Panel: Restrict Some Top
Asthma Drugs--Outside experts advising the Food and Drug Administration
recommended that Foradil and Serevent no longer be used for asthma. But they
said the benefits of Advair and Symbicort clearly outweigh the risks.
Click
here for article. |
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Group recommends overhaul of
services to the disabled--Called the Blueprint for System Redesign in
Illinois, the plan, according to the ICDD, serves as "a concrete system
redesign action plan" and allows the developmentally disabled to stay in the
community closer to family members who play a critical role in long-term
quality of life.
Click
here for article. |
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Crossgates among subjects of
local disabled access suits--Capital Region businesses are coming under
increasing pressure from disabled New Yorkers who are allegedly encountering
physical barriers that violate the Americans with Disabilities Act in public
accommodation areas.
Click here
for article. |
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Survey shows disabled Chinese
earn less, need more assistance --Despite improvements in housing
conditions and income, the life of disabled people in China remains substandard
compared to that of others, a national survey revealed on Thursday.
Click
here for article. |
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Siblings of mentally disabled at
risk--Siblings of the mentally disabled face their own lifelong
challenges, putting them at higher risk for depression, U.S. researchers say.
Click
here for article. |
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Protesters disrupt Austin
meeting on state schools for disabled --AUSTIN Advocates for
closing Texas' state schools for the disabled disrupted a state board meeting
Wednesday morning to protest mistreatment at the facilities, which a recent
federal report blamed in part for the deaths of more than 50 people in the last
year.
Click
here for article. |
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Teachers union puts disabled
kids on trial--The union argues that the program benefits schools rather
than students. I wish they could see the progress our students have made thanks
to these scholarships!
Click here for
article. |
FDA Cancelling The Registration
Of Handgun For The Disabled--The US Food and Drug Administration has
revoked the registration for the single-bullet Palm Pistol designed for people
disabled by arthritis. The FDA has determined the product is not a
medical device, the agency said in a statement.
Click here for article. |
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Perimeter Mall, Norcross hotel
sued over disabled access--A group that has sued dozens of Atlanta area
businesses in the last five years has filed two federal lawsuits alleging that
Perimeter Mall and a Norcross hotel violated the Americans with Disabilities
Act and the Americans with Disabilities Accessibility Guidelines.
Click here for article. |
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Ninth Circuit Overturns Ruling
on Disabled Seating at Movie Theaters--The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals overturned a ruling that would have required a major movie theater
chain to retrofit auditoriums at 96 multiplexes containing nearly 2,000
auditoria around the country to comply with the Americans With Disabilities
Act. Click here
for article. |
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Texas has a moral obligation to
serve the disabled in its care--The U.S. Department of Justice has
warned the state of systemic failures and abominably inappropriate care in
Texas' state schools.
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Helping Elderly And Disabled
Return Home --Innovative state program is aimed at moving Medicaid
clients from nursing homes to community living and saving money in the
process.
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All disabled have a right to be
considered--I am writing about something important to freedom, privacy
and our right to independence.
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article. |
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Police seek gifts for needy
elderly and disabled--An Angel Tree to benefit needy elderly and
disabled this Christmas season has been set up at the police department's West
Side Regional Command Center, according to a police news release. Click here for
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Audible traffic lights helping
the disabled--One of the major 2008 projects completed last month by the
Mayor's Advisory Committee for Persons with Disabilities aims to keep the
visually impaired safe from motorists. It installed the last of its 16 audible
components to traffic lights in November.
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Montana Judge Endorses Right to
Assisted Suicide--A Montana judge has ruled that doctor-assisted suicide
is legal in the state, but the decision is likely to be appealed.
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Sunny von Bulow dies after 28
years in coma--Martha "Sunny" von Bulow, the heiress who spent the last
28 years of her life in a coma after what prosecutors alleged in a pair of
sensational trials were two murder attempts by her husband, died Saturday at
age 76. Click here for
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Rebecca
Novinger, program support assistant, talks to a friend via the Sorenson Video
Phone at the Marion Downs Hearing Center Dec. 2 on the Anschutz Medical Campus
in Aurora. (Heather A. Longway/The Aurora Sentinel)
Signs of things to
come--Specialists at the Marion Downs Hearing Center want people to
listen closely: There are more options now than ever for people with hearing
loss.
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Texas time warp? State
criticized for mental care-- For more than a century, thousands of
mentally disabled Americans were isolated from society, sometimes for life, by
being confined to huge state institutions. In at least one place, they still
are. Click here
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Social Networking For Medical
Patients--(CBS) A vivacious grandmother, Sheila Engedahl, has always
been the life of the party. But 10 months ago, she was diagnosed with ALS, also
known as Lou Gehrig's Disease...Click
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Can You Trust Online Doctor
Rankings?--(CBS) For years, Ved Kawatra had excruciating pain in her
shoulder: arthritis had taken its toll. Medications, therapy, nothing worked.
She needed a total shoulder replacement. To choose an M.D., she and her husband
turned to their PC.
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The
author says he plans to "dance through life until hell freezes over."
50 Years in a Wheelchair: No
Time for Pity--This month I began my 50th year of riding a wheelchair
through life. In case you're wondering, everything is all right down here.
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Activists for Va. disabled urge
shift in funding --Members of the disabled community today urged Gov.
Timothy M. Kaine to redirect $43 million earmarked for renovation of buildings
at Central Virginia Training Center in Lynchburg to smaller, community-based
group homes.
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How To Steer Clear Of Medical
Traps Online--CBS Evening News: As More Patients Turn To The Internet
For A Second Opinion, How Do You Know What's Bogus?
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City helps residents prepare for
digital TV switch--New York Citys Department of Information
Technology and Telecommunications, the citys Department of Consumer
Affairs and the citys Department for the Aging outlined how they are
preparing residents for the nationwide switch from analog TV transmission to
digital...Click
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New taxes, tolls to meet
protest, boycott--The fee for Access-A-Ride, an MTA van service provided
for the elderly and physically disabled, could more than double and reach $4.
And express bus riders, who already shell out $5 per ride, could see an
increase in the fare that would reach $7.50.
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December 3: International day
for persons with disabilities-- December 3rd marks the International Day
of Disabled Persons, adopted by the United Nations in 1992. The day is aimed at
bringing attention to the situation of people with disabilities, with a view to
securing their equal dignity and participation in society.
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UN Convention On The Rights Of
Persons With Disabilities --The newsletter - released on the
International Day of Disabled Persons - is part of a Commission effort to
ensure monitoring and support for the first international rights convention of
the 21st century, the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
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My Farm housing plan gains
support in U.F. -- More than 50 people attended the third and final
joint meeting of the Township Committee and Planning Board regarding the town's
Council on Affordable Housing (COAH) obligation.
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The Accessible Channel announces
broadcasting partners. The vision impaired will finally be included in
everything that is television.
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Feds fault Texas' treatment of
mentally disabled. More than 50 mentally disabled patients in the large
state-run homes of Texas died in the past year from preventable conditions
often related to poor care, a federal investigation revealed .
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Examine the Disabled and Elderly
Assistive Technologies in the U.S--Assistive technology products are
products designed to assist people who, because of specific disabilities or the
general infirmities that often accompany old age, would otherwise be unable to
participate meaningfully in economic, social, political, cultural, and other
forms of human activity in their communities.
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Accessible Taxi Service for
Passengers who use Wheelchairs--The NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission
(TLC) has launched an Accessible Dispatch Program. It is a temporary pilot
project to try out a central dispatch system that matches passengers who use
wheelchairs with accessible taxis. Click here for more. |
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Robots that fetch: Device could
help disabled at home--It took Norma Margeson a few minutes to learn to
control the skinny metal robot. But instead of viewing it as a machine, she
soon warmed up to it as a companion.Click here
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Opening Doors for the Disabled
--In todays market, she said, when we identify a
house that fits our residents needs, we face little competition, and
scant opposition. On one of the purchases in Berkeley Heights in a
well-established neighborhood of homes valued at $1 million and up Our
House was the only bidder. For $700,000, it scored a five-bedroom ranch with a
large yard and a new kitchen.
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Berkeley quadriplegic helps
empower disabled Iraqis--With his long gray ponytail and progressive
politics, Bruce Curtis is one of many Berkeley activists working to help heal
the problems wrought by the Iraq war. What sets Curtis apart is that he does it
in Iraq from a wheelchair.
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artricle. |
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Jobs drying up for the
disabled--Australia's poor record in accepting disabled people into the
mainstream workforce will be put under the spotlight at a national conference
on education in Melbourne this week.
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Jersey's disabled wait years for
homes--Seven years ago, she and her husband put their son Matt's name on
the community housing waiting list for people with developmental disabilities.
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Simple courtesy makes shopping
easier for disabled--While the holidays bring a lot of joy, they also
bring pressure to get more done in a shorter period of time. Additional
errands, shopping and appointments challenge us all to become masters of time
management.
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Agencies seek improved transit
for disabled riders--Social-service and transit agencies are looking for
ways to expand transportation options for disabled riders without driving up
costs.
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Device helps disabled teen
communicate--Born with sensorineural hearing loss, cochlear implants
have offered some help but not enough for the Wichita Falls teen to develop
practical language. He learned sign language, but his signing style can be
difficult to follow.
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S.F. considers congestion tolls
on cars--Low-income and disabled drivers and residents of the toll zone
would pay half, and drivers who paid bridge tolls would get a $1 discount.
Commercial vehicles, rental cars and car-sharing vehicles would pay a lower
fleet rate.
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Husband Retains Guardianship Of
Disabled Wife--A man seeking to protect his disabled wife from having
her nutrition and hydration removed by his sister-in-law succeeded in having
the court name him as guardian when the sister-in-law withdrew her application
for guardianship.
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Death of 48-pound disabled woman
prompts NJ probe--The state is investigating the death of a 28-year-old
woman who had dwindled to 48 pounds in a state-licensed home for
developmentally disabled adults, officials said .
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Citation-Writing Volunteers
Leading to Fewer Disabled Parking Space Abusers--Gina Schuh of Mesa, (at
right), reigning Ms. Wheelchair Arizona, has made disabled parking one of her
priorities. If you can't figure out why it's important to leave these spaces
empty for the people who need them,..Click
here for article. |
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Disabled and severely obese
travelers to get extra seats for free in CanadaClick
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Iraqi bomber was mentally
disabled woman--One of two bombers who struck in Baghdad Monday was a
mentally disabled woman whose explosives were detonated by remote control,
officials said.
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State budget cuts hurt mentally
disabled on South Shore--Geralyn Hughes is devastated that shes
losing the job she loves on Wednesday. Its no ordinary layoff for Hughes,
45, who has a learning disability. She represents the face of a unique group of
jobless adults grappling with a shaky economy people with developmental
and intellectual disabilities or mental illness whose jobs rely on state
funding.
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Disabled woman feels she has no
one left to turn to--So when she realized she needed help this holiday
season, she turned to the Brighter Christmas Fund. At 59, Rita is permanently
disabled and really needs to live in an assisted living facility.
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Rex: A Musical Savant's
Remarkable Strides--(CBS) Five years ago, 60 Minutes correspondent
Lesley Stahl met an 8-year-old boy named Rex, who seemed to embody in one small
person some of the most intriguing mysteries of the human mind - how it is that
stunning ability and profound disability can coexist within the same person.
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Celebrity 'blindness' down to
brain wiring --People who develop the condition later in life have
usually suffered a stroke or an injury in a brain region important for facial
recognition called the fusiform gyrus...Click
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Florida Teen's Suicide Streamed
Live On Internet --A Florida teen who intentionally overdosed streamed
his death on the Internet while it occurred Wednesday.
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Elderly, disabled lose housing
assistance from state--Low income senior citizens, the blind and
disabled will not be receiving their annual check for homeowner or renter
assistance in the mail this year. Click here for
article. |
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States Cut Services for Elderly,
Disabled--As Budget Shortfalls Force Reductions in Home Care,
Low-Income People May Face Nursing Homes, Advocates Say--At least 15
states, including Alabama, Virginia and Massachusetts, are targeting such
funding, mostly for programs that allow low-income shut-ins to receive personal
care -- like cooking, cleaning and basic health services.
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Transportation and services for
mentally disabled may take hit--Proposed cuts in Fairfax Countys
mental health services would shunt more than 300 mentally disabled riders off
the countys trusted transportation service, as well as squeeze other
support services for a highly vulnerable population.
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Court ruling means airlines must
make room for disabled--The Supreme Court of Canada cleared the way for
the move Thursday, rejecting an application by Air Canada, Air Canada Jazz and
WestJet for permission to appeal the new policy imposed by the Canadian
Transportation Agency.
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Airway Transplant Aided by Stem
Cells a Medical First--Woman gets historic procedure in which her stem
cells were combined with donated organ tissue to replace diseased organ,
scientists report.
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Iowa: Woman seeks limits on
mentally disabled voters--A Deep River woman wants to change a state law
to require that mentally disabled voters be supervised when they cast a ballot.
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article. |
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Artificial Heart Never Skipped A
Beat--CBS) Fourteen-year-old D'Zhana Simmons has a newfound appreciation
for machines - and in her case its due to the artificial heart that saved
her life.
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Affordable housing for disabled
is needed--According to Carol Lashnits, co-founder and former executive
director of Island Elderly Housing (IEH), there is a critical need for more
housing for very low-income physically and mentally challenged residents.
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'Dear Noel, is life really not
worth living?'--Paralysed after being attacked by neo-Nazis, Noel Martin
is planning a trip to Switzerland to commit suicide. Here, disabled broadcaster
Liz Carr, who met Noel for a BBC Radio 5 Live report, writes an open letter
urging him to think again.
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GettingHired.com Launches Fully
Accessible Online Career Center & Social Networking Community for People
With Disabilities.
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After more than 400 lawsuits,
disabled man can sue no more--U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear Jarek
Molski's appeal, letting stand a federal judge's ruling barring the disabled
man from filing any further litigation.
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Loss of contract may doom
Garland agency for the mentally disabled--Dozens of disabled workers sit
at their usual tables in a no-frills Garland warehouse, waiting for something
to do.
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here for article. |
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Sonnenschein Secures Pro Bono
Class Action Victory for Disabled Clients--Represented by a team of
lawyers from Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal and several nonprofits, a class
of 6,600 developmentally disabled residents of state-owned facilities in
Illinois will now be able to choose their own living arrangements thanks to a
November 13 consent decree filed in U.S. district court in Chicago.
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Changes Proposed for Tax-Relief
Program Targeting Seniors, Disabled--County Manager Ron Carlee has
proposed revamping qualification rules for homeowner tax relief, a proposal
that could trim 10 percent of those who currently qualify for one of the
governments relief programs.
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Illinois Guv to Pick Obama
Replacement--Illinois Veterans Affairs Director
Tammy
Duckworth , a disabled woman veteran is on the short list.
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here for article.
Duckworth a Leading Contender
for VA Secretary--Click
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Napolitano urges increase in
federal Medicaid match-- Gov. Janet Napolitano urged the federal
government Thursday to increase its share of Medicaid spending, warning that
Arizona might have to cut the health insurance program for the poor and
disabled or raid other programs and services to shore up Medicaid.
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Campaign to end 2-year insurance
gap for disabled--Congress and the Obama administration should end the
two-year wait that people deemed too sick to work by the government face before
qualifying for Medicare, lawmakers and leading advocacy groups said Wednesday.
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UK; Disabled bay laws to win
backing --Proposed legislation which would see people fined for wrongly
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