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		<title>Double-Amputee Oscar Pistorius Eligible to Compete In Olympics&#8230;not the Paralympics</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 19:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
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I have been quietly following this story, about Oscar Pistorius, a double amputee who wishes to compete in the Olympics alongside fully able-bodied competitors. If you&#8217;ve been reading my work, you&#8217;d probably guess that this is exactly what I have wanted: Pistorius is now eligible to attempt to qualify as an Olympic athlete, not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hell On Wheels: A Wheelchair Anthem</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 22:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Treadmarkz
I have spent a lot of time lately listening to Paul McCartney&#8217;s post-Beatles music, and I realized that the song &#8220;Helen Wheels&#8221; is not only one of the greatest pieces of block-rocking boogie that Macca ever recorded, but because of the title, with a complete overhaul of the lyrics, the song would make a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Like Injured Professional Athletes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 19:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Treadmarkz
I&#8217;ve written a bit about my love for the game of baseball. But I just thought of another reason I love baseball season. Because between April and October (football and basketball pick up the slack from November to March) if you watch the news you can be sure to here stories about players who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Example of When It&#8217;s Okay To Help a Disabled Person</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 18:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Treadmarkz
Here is a perfect example of when it is &#8220;acceptable&#8221; to assist a &#8220;disabled&#8221; person, albeit in this example, a temporarily disabled person.
Sara Tucholsky, a Western Oregon University softball player, hit a game-winning home run for her team, but injured her knee after passing first base. If you haven&#8217;t heard the story already, click [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everyday Mind Games to Play with Walkies? No Thanks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:19:08 +0000</pubDate>
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Today as I rolled down the street, at a street corner, a man who was not in a chair was telling me that it would be funny for me to sit on a street corner and when the light was green and cars were passing by, to act as though I were going to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Historical What-If: MLK, JFK, Lennon as Disabled Activists</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
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I am a history major so, as pointless as I know they are, the &#8220;what-if&#8221; questions of history are always irresistible to me. This one is also irresistible to me because I often hear of people who lose the ability to walk and say things like &#8220;I wish I were dead&#8221; or &#8220;my life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do NOT Mess With a Blind Son of a Marine and His Poodle!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Treadmarkz
That is exactly what an intruder found out when attempting to rob Allen Kieta&#8217;s Indiana home the other day.
Kieta, who lost vision in one eye when he was two, and in the other after being the victim of a highway sniper of all things, had Lady Luck on his side when Alvaro Castro broke [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whole Lot a-Shakin&#8217; Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:47:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Treadmarkz
About a week ago I wrote that I had applied for a position at my company which would be a promotion for me. Well I am happy to announce that I have been extended an offer and I have accepted.
I am definitely the only person in the building with a visible disability (aside from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Play Some Earth Day Mind Games!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Treadmarkz
Normally on Earth Day I won&#8217;t go any further out of my way to pick up a piece of garbage laying on the ground than I would on any other day. That was the purpose of Earth Day to begin with, right? To raise awareness that we need to take care of the planet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Baseball Became Wheelchair Accessible To Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
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Today, April 20, 2008, marks the 100th anniversary of the death of Henry Chadwick, sportswriter, statistician, and often called &#8220;The Father of Baseball&#8221;.
Chadwick did not invent baseball, and he was not known to have played the game. But he was one of the first sports journalists to focus on baseball. And it was his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good News For Those with Spinal Cord Injuries Who Hope To Walk Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 02:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Treadmarkz
Many people living with paralysis due to spinal cord injuries hold out hope that one day they will walk again. For many it is a religious faith that drives them to work toward the day they will leave their chair behind.
The other most promising source of the redemption they hope for is science. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bloggers Unite For Human Rights!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
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You may have noticed that I write as often as I can about human rights, equality in society, etc. I have been especially concerned with those with disabilities. In short, I am a proponent of human rights. So when I received an email from BlogCatalog.com, I decided that I was going to post it. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Courtesy Call From Your Friendly Neighborhood Handicapped Lady</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
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This one goes back a few years, but it is something that popped into my mind last night, and I would love to read people&#8217;s thoughts on the subject:
When I was still living at home with my parents, I remember them talking about sales calls they would get from a woman identifying herself only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Whole Lot a-Shakin&#8217; in the Life of Treadmarkz</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
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I haven&#8217;t posted anything in a while because I have had a lot happening in my life. First, I have had a friend review my first draft of a novel, called &#8220;War Is Over&#8221; and now I am planning to hit that hard to get it ready for publication. If you are unfamiliar with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;A World Record Wheelchair Wheelie of My Own&#8221; and &#8220;Move Over, Aaron Fotheringham!&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 04:03:53 +0000</pubDate>
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Robert Hensel of Oswego, NY holds the record for the longest long-distance wheelie in a wheelchair, at just over six miles (that&#8217;s almost a 10K race on a wheelie!). It took him over two hours to cover that distance when I set the record in 2002. Hensel set his record for a worthy cause [...]]]></description>
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Can you imagine an employer going to jail for three years for discriminating against a job applicant based on disability? That appears to be a possibility under the new law in the Republic of Korea. Punishment&#8217;s will start being handed down one year from today after a &#8220;preparation period&#8221;.
The law is supposed to be [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:29:05 +0000</pubDate>
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The answer to the question above is, well&#8230;Mountain Dew of course. It&#8217;s true.
For those of you who have been following this blog, yeah I know I said I was knocking off the soda for the health benefits, but last weekend I got REALLY sick (temperature of 102.4 F) from a bladder infection and a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Further Info on the RatifyNow Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities BlogSwarm</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
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Last week I wrote something about the RatifyNow Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) Blog Swarm. The CRPD is a U.N. treaty first signed in 2006. Now we just need to get as many countries on board to assure that disabled people all over the world are ensured a life of [...]]]></description>
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From the outset of this blog, I promised myself not to make it a forum for complaining about non-disabled people using handicapped bathroom stalls and parking spaces. I still won&#8217;t. I did slip up a bit when I got on about the accessible public transportation, but that is a system that really needs to [...]]]></description>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rick Renstrom]]></category>

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As often as I can, when I am not sharing my own experiences and thoughts, I like to offer stories about other people with disabilities, to show what real people with disabilities are doing, what they are accomplishing, what they can accomplish.
Though I generally don&#8217;t like heavy blazing electric guitar solos, as a lover [...]]]></description>
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