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POPSTop 10 New World-Changing Innovations of the Year 2008 Breakthrough Awards /// The Innovators The early 20th century produced a breathtaking succession of innovations—the Wright Flyer, the Model T, the Panama Canal. It was a golden age of engineering. A century hence, observers may well look back at our era in much the same way: Cars are being reimagined from the wheels up. Advances in solar energy show the way past fossil fuels. And space probes explore planets that could become our future homes. These pages salute the innovators who are inventing the future. Welcome to the new golden age.
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POPSClosed Minds Shout Down Disabled Woman in Wheelchair As witness and reporter Brian Donohue said, "There was no discussion, no one listened to anyone." Visit NJ.com to read the report and view the video here: Health Care Reform Town Hall: no room for a centrist by Brian Donohue/The Star-Ledger
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POPSRobotic Exoskeleton Allows a Paralyzed Man to Walk - inspirational! "ReWalk consists of motorised leg supports, body sensors and a back pack that contains a computer and rechargeable batteries. Users still need crutches to help with balance. To move, the user picks a setting with a remote control wrist band – “stand”, “sit”, “walk”, “descend” or “climb” – and then leans forward, activating the body sensors and setting the robotic legs in motion"
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POPSBarbara Ehrenreich on the criminalization of poverty There are a lot of Kafkaesque stories in this piece, like that of wheelchair-bound 62-year-old homeless veteran Al Szekely, who was imprisoned after a nighttime raid on a homeless shelter. His crime? He had an outstanding court summons for criminal trespassing -- he'd gotten a ticket for sleeping on a sidewalk. In other words, " hey arrested a homeless man in a shelter for being homeless." The truancy discussion strikes me as the most vicious part, though.
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POPSWoman in Wheelchair Heckled and Booed at NJ Town Hall Meeting Footage of the meeting at clip source. The word shame isn't a word that I think of or say, but as I watched this footage, my thoughts just kept repeating shame, shame, over and over again. This is a room full of older adults acting worse than badly behaved children. I'm beginning to agree with a comment I read at HuffPo: this anger is not about health care reform. Some people are frightened because the USA that they understand is disappearing and their response is to lash out at any perceived cause. I don't feel sorry for them because I am old enough to know their USA. I grew up in it. I hate it. And I cheer its demise. I wish for a better and healthier USA for young people.
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POPSParalysed Palestinian girl fights for Life "Maria cannot have her mother, brother or grandmother back, she cannot have her body, but there are things we can do to make things better and this is to take care of her for all of her life because she cannot survive outside Israel," Adi Lustigman, her lawyer said. "She needs to live near the hospital, she must be near the emergency room -- things she cannot have in the West Bank" Upset at what he described as foot dragging, Maria's father said he believed the court did not want to set a precedent that would encourage other Palestinians hurt in Israeli attacks to seek long-term medical treatment in Israel. The Defence Ministry maintains that Israeli law does not require the army to compensate Palestinians injured in fighting against militants in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
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POPS'Now you are paralyzed, as we promised' / The twilight zone Throwing up with the vomit entering his nostrils, losing consciousness and being given only salt-water to drink, relieving himself in his pants, not sleeping or resting - all of that for four consecutive days and nights. What does the interrogator Maimon tell his children when he goes home? What do Eldad and Sagiv tell their wives about their daily labors before they turn in? That they tortured another helpless prisoner until they turned him into a cripple? That they beat this charming young man brutally and that at the end of the interrogation he was tried for only marginal offenses? And where is the Supreme Court, which in 1999 prohibited precisely the chain of torture that Luwaii Sati Ashqar, 30, who was married three years ago, underwent in the Kishon detention facility?
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POPSBarack Obama's stepmother: I owe my life to the NHS more: "I was very down at the time but luckily I was here in Britain, in what was then a foreign country to me, where the doctors, nurses and surgeons cared for me like I was their own child." The widow, who attended President Obama's inauguration in January, turned to the NHS again five years ago when she needed two hip replacement operations. "If I'd been asked to pay for my new hips, well, I wouldn't have been able to afford them," she said. "I would have without a doubt ended up confined to a wheelchair."
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POPSThe Next Hacking Frontier: Your Brain? As neural engineering becomes more complex and more widespread, the potential for security breaches will mushroom. For example, the next generation of implantable devices to control prosthetic limbs will likely include wireless controls that allow physicians to remotely adjust settings on the machine. If neural engineers don’t build in security features such as encryption and access control, an attacker could hijack the device and take over the robotic limb.
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POPSUS Brain-Plug Interface Gets Live Human Trials []iInitially the tech will be strictly for medical uses, of course. But if it ever becomes truly safe and convenient to use, it isn't hard to imagine people choosing voluntarily to have a BrainGate interface implanted into their heads simply for convenience. It would confer abilities roughly equivalent to telepathy and clairvoyance right off, particularly if combined with some kind of feedback mechanism - video specs, perhaps, or an equivalent of BrainGate attached to the optic nerve instead. In a sufficiently wired and automated world, it would also be effectively telekinetic: unlocking doors, turning lights or machines on and off, handling computers etc.
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POPSIraq: Another Dirty Secret - South African Mercenaries, former White Apartheid era Veterans
More: The root of that distrust dates to the mid-1990s, when thousands of white officers left South Africa's security agencies during the transition from apartheid to majority black rule. Unemployed soldiers and police joined private security companies that got embroiled in African wars from Angola to Sierra Leone. A wheelchair-bound man who owns an SUV with vanity plates that proclaim "Baghdad," Brink lost a leg and fingers in 2005 to a mine that exploded under his armored vehicle in Baqouba, a hotbed of the Iraqi insurgency. Since returning to South Africa, he has been encouraging wounded colleagues to apply for U.S. worker's compensation under the U.S. Defense Base Act, which applies to all workers, American or foreign, who are subcontracted in war zones by Washington Brink was advising them on how to file for U.S. worker's compensation. I'll buy a farm if I can collect on my claim, said Gouws, 45, But I don't recommend this method of getting a farm to anyone else
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POPSDad says he is "sick of life" I know the war is important news to cover, but I think its equally important to report good news out of Iraq. This is a really touching story of a former civilian contractor in Iraq who decided to start a charity to donate pediatric wheelchairs to the children of Iraqis.
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POPSPixdaus, God Gave Us Pics! This site is one of the best picture sites I have seen with a great variety of excellent quality of pictures that are available to view. The cloud tag attached is only a few of what is available to be seen on pixdaus. ENJOY!
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