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Welcome to the PowerQuad Disability Support Forum!
PQ is an informational, supportive, and FUN social network, run by people with disabilities, for people with disabilities and the people who care about them. We are not professionals. We're not here to cure, fix, or change anyone. We're just ordinary gimps living life. And we're living it with our disabilities, just doing the best we can, despite the extra challenges we may face.
So, here you will find years of combined disability experience. If you're new to the game, we can help you find your way. If you're an experienced hand, please share your knowledge with us.
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Article Posted On: 05/14/2008 - At: 12:57:40 AM
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Equipment donations
Topic Posted by:
LASHB
- On: 07/28/2010 - At: 7:01:21 PM
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My son's friend is collecting prostheses, braces, crutches, wheelchairs, etc for Haiti. This is his Eagle Scout project. He is working with World Emergency Relief. I am going to check with Mike (the scout) about how we can support his project without costing an arm and leg in shipping. Will get that info to you. But if anyone is interested in donating anything, let me know and I'll get contact info for you.
Thanks, Johnboy, for giving me the idea to collect from other places. :)
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Flap surgery on the docket for Bryan :(
Topic Posted by:
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- On: 07/24/2010 - At: 08:16:59 AM
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Hey Y'all...haven't been here in...a looooong time. Candy H. recommended I give you guys a post about Bryan's current events.
So here's my latest novel...
Probably around a yr ago he started getting a pressure sore..kept and eye on it..tried to keep him off of it(good luck on that one!) finally after a few months I told him I really think he needs to have a dr or nurse look at it. He hates going to the doc so he asked the home health nurse to come out..so she's been treating it with different bandages(duoderm etc) and ointments(ie.santeel(sp))sticking some kind of black strip of stuff inside) etc..thought it was getting better than a couple of mos ago someone decided he needed to see a surgeon..whether it was medicare of whomever cuz they weren't going to keep paying for this without some sort of final treatment..I guess..so anyway..he made an appt with a surgeon..he said he needed flap surgery so he is scheduled for this coming Wed at Newton Medical Center in KS then they will transport him to Via Christi hospital in Wichita(about 30 mins or so away) for a long term stay of 4 weeks recovery. I have had many concerns with his being there, or any hospital, alone, as I have witnessed some horrific things done to him in hospitals since his accident! I am unable to stay with him 24/7 this time because of work....so many concerns as I said. They won't let him use his own vent is one of them..and he's had probs with that in the past. Wondering how they are going to do his bowel care with the surgical area so close to his rectum...worried about that transporting part right after surgery when everything I have read says they want to keep that area totally immobile as much as possible.
Sorry for the ramblings...any thoughts..suggestions...??
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Insider Trading by Wylys
Topic Posted by:
MerryA
- On: 07/30/2010 - At: 08:49:49 AM
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SEC Accuses Sam And Charles Wyly, Billionaire Dallas Investors, Of Insider Trading Yielding $550 MILLION
DALLAS — Sam and Charles Wyly, Dallas billionaire investors known for their support of conservative candidates and causes, made $550 million in undisclosed profits through 13 years of insider trading, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit filed Thursday.
In a 78-page complaint filed in a Manhattan federal court in New York, the SEC said the Wylys held and traded tens of millions of shares in companies on whose boards they served and "defrauded the investing public" by misrepresenting their ownership and trading of those stocks.
"The apparatus of the fraud was an elaborate sham system of trusts and subsidiary companies located in the Isle of Man and the Cayman Islands ... created by and at the direction of the Wylys," the SEC complaint stated. Web Page
These are the guys who financially backed the Swiftboaters - hope they spend years in prision for their lies and deception 
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TeaParty: The new face of Fascism?...
Topic Posted by:
InkBlister
- On: 07/29/2010 - At: 5:32:43 PM
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Interesting article I came across...
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Protofascism Comes| The Rise of the TeaParty
by Ted Rall
SAN DIEGO—Is the Tea Party racist? Democrats who play liberals on TV say it isn't. Vice President Joe Biden says that "at least elements that were involved with some of the Tea Party folks expressed racist views."
Certainly a sizeable minority of tea partiers' "take America back" rhetoric is motivated by resentment that a black guy is president. "Take America back" from whom? You know whom. It ain't white CEOs.
Yes. The Tea Party is racist. But racism is only one facet of a more sinister political strain: a protofascist movement.
Robert O. Paxton defined fascism as "a form of political behavior marked by ... preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion."
Typical Tea Party rants fit the classic fascist mold. America, tea partiers complain, is falling behind. Like Hitler, they blame leftists and liberals for a "stab in the back," treason on the home front. One major component is missing: aggressive militarism. Certainly most tea partiers support America's wars and the troops. But tea partiers focus on domestic issues. The Nazis didn't make much of their aggressive intent until after they seized power.
Because it has no central leadership and because it's easier to attract new members if you never say anything specific, ideological vagueness is a defining characteristic of the Tea Party movement. Indeed, ideological imprecision tends to increase as you move from left to right on the political spectrum.
On the left, communists are specific to a fault. Programs, five-year plans and one tract after another are the order of the day under socialism. Moving right, bourgeois organizations such as the two major U.S. political parties have platform planks and principles, but tend to be mushy and flexible. As we move to the far right, as under Hitler, ideas become grand, sweeping, meaningless slogans "Take the nation back!" "Death to the traitors!"
Umberto Eco's 1995 essay "Eternal Fascism" describes the cult of action for its own sake under fascist regimes and movements: "Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation."
Note Republican Sen. John Cornyn's choice of words when he defended tea partiers: "I think it's slanderous to suggest the vast movement of citizens who have gotten off the couch and showed up at town hall meetings and Tea Party events, somehow to smear them with this label, there's just no basis for it."
Eco also discusses fascism's "appeal to a frustrated middle class, a class suffering from an economic crisis or feelings of political humiliation, and frightened by the pressure of lower social groups." Guard the borders! Deport the immigrants! Mexicans are stealing our jobs!
So much anger. It's too bad that the (justifiable) rage of the white male middle-class is directed against their fellow victims. It's worse that they're playing into the blood-soaked hands of their own oppressors.
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Goodbye Google
Topic Posted by:
SteveGIMP
- On: 07/27/2010 - At: 2:04:26 PM
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My Dearest Google,
You've changed. What more need I say? You were once my beloved, simple and straight forward Queen of search providers. You were self-confident and assured. You were unpretentious and had no need to put on airs. You looked good without fancy makeup, and I loved you for it.
But then something happened. New search providers showed up and began to get some attention. Suddenly your confidence was shaken. You began to wonder, are they prettier than me? Do people like them better? You became jealous and started to "make improvements" and to copy other providers. First, it was the addition of the stupid yahoo like sidebar on your search results page. Your fans told you you were perfect the way you were, that you didn't need a sidebar, but you did not listen. And now you've done it again. You've changed your image search results page. You've tried to get fancy and hip by adding rollover and popup affects. But the new page shows too many results and takes too long to load. Again, your loyal fans have tried telling you that you don't need to fix what isn't broken. But still, you won't listen.
So, my Dearest Google, it is with deepest regret that I accept that we simply have developed irreconcilable differences. As a result, I'm leaving you. And I should tell you up front before you hear it from someone else, then I've already found someone new. She reminds me very much of you, and the way you were when we first met. Her name is AOL Search, and so far the relationship looks promising.
I'm very sorry that it's come to this, but I think if you look at this honestly you'll agree that you only have yourself to blame.
With a heavy heart,
Steve
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Hard drives are getting really cheap
Topic Posted by:
matisse
- On: 07/28/2010 - At: 10:42:21 PM
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250GB laptop SATA drive, $35 free shipping, no tax in most states.
http://www.techbargains.com/news_displayItem.cfm/217597
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Watch out for the political quicksand
Topic Posted by:
Paulwa
- On: 07/23/2010 - At: 11:31:41 PM
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Obie
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Comic: Paulwa vs. InkBlister?...
Topic Posted by:
InkBlister
- On: 05/19/2010 - At: 4:12:47 PM
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SinFest
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From Your Religion Sucks! ]
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Did anyone watch Paul McCartney on PBS last night?
Topic Posted by:
Albert-1
- On: 07/29/2010 - At: 4:35:20 PM
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The show was "In Performance at the White House". He received the Gershwin Award for Popular Song. I caught the last fifteen minutes. He sang a lot of Beatles hits, with "Yesterday" as the encore. The whole audience joined him for the finale of "Hey Jude".
The entire show will eventually be put online, but you can watch clips here:
http://www.pbs.org/inperformanceatthewhitehouse/video.php
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KCI Wound VAC Supplies
Topic Posted by:
Kelly4175
- On: 07/28/2010 - At: 2:55:54 PM
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Hi everyone.
My friend finished using her KCI Wound VAC a while ago and we cannot return the leftover supplies they sent us -- you know, the ridiculously expensive ones!
Anyhow, we have a bunch of White Foam, Canisters (for portable unit), and Bridge Dressings that I would like to find a home for. Does anyone need them? Everything is still in the original sealed and sterile packages, but we cannot return them because we took them out of the cardboard box.
Otherwise, if anyone knows where I can possibly donate them -- that would work too. We just don't want the supplies to all go to waste.
Thank you,
Kelly
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