[QUAD-L] WE ALL NEED TO DO THIS!
2009 SPINAL CORD SOCIETY FUND DRIVE I would like to introduce you to the annual membership fund raiser for the Spinal Cord Society (SCS) in it's drive to cure spinal cord injury. I’m extending to you the opportunity to donate to our cause if you so desire. WHO ARE WE-- SCS consists of a national headquarters in Fergus Falls and over 200 chapters around the world. I am a member of the Twin Cities chapter and it is our job to raise the money to fund our research. We are all volunteer so 100% of the money we raise can go to research. Then we monitor our researchers to make sure that OUR goals are being met. After all, unlike many other outfits, we are not trying to make a living out of finding a cure, we are doing it. WHAT RESEARCH DO WE FUND?-- The big difference with us is that we own and operate our own private, independent research lab. No longer are there any outside distractions for our researchers, such as classes to teach and competing agendas to deal with, and no more bureaucratic interference holding up progress. We are free to use and combine the best of all available research, along with our own. This should and has dramatically increased the race to a cure because now OUR researchers have just one thing to do-- find a CURE for spinal cord injuries. WHY AM I ASKING-- In order to remain independent, this research lab is funded solely by the activities of the chapters. Our chapter has run two golf tournaments this year, along with a few other individual efforts, but this Appeal Letter is something all of us, most of whom are in wheelchairs, can participate in. I wish I didn’t have to ask for donations but it’s the best way I can do my part. Besides, this way there are no expenses eating away at your money. Your donation will be added to all the others that I, and the rest of us in our chapter, are asking for and together we can turn whatever you can give into a big number. (See research update on back.) WHAT CAN YOU DO-- If you would like to contribute to our cause, please fill out the form below and send it, along with your donation made out to SCS, to the return address listed. Please accept this as my THANKS for anything and everything you can give. -Please check with your employer to see if they have a matching fund program for charitable donations. This is an easy way to double your contribution. Just get and fill out your part of the form and send it with your donation. Thanks. - PLEASE TRY TO RETURN BEFORE OR ABOUT DEC. 20, 2009 _ Return to _ Name _ I would like to contribute- __$10 __$15 __$20 __$25 __$50 __$100 Other $___ Make check out to- Spinal Cord Society or SCS. All donations are fully tax deductible. Visa __ MasterCard __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ Exp. date ___ ___ “A QUANTUM LEAP CONFIRMED“ Last year our research center made a huge breakthrough where we, for the first time anywhere in the world, produced not just nerve regeneration, but actual refunction to the tune of a solid 20-30% return in the adult, chronic spinal cord injury. SCS has been virtually alone in working solely on the chronic, or long term, injury and now we have truly exceeded what anyone else has done, even on the supposedly easier, freshly made, acutes. Our next task was to see if we could repeat and therefore verify this result, which we successfully accomplished earlier this year. We then brought in a panel of independent experts to review our work. By all accounts, they were amazed and ecstatic over what they saw. In their summation they recommended that we get this work published in the medical journals as soon as possible in order to get it to human trials “in the not too distant future”. Considering the conservative and cautious nature of research scientists, this can be considered nothing less than a ringing endorsement! This June our papers were all submitted to the journals and we are now anxiously awaiting their publication. Once we have this final validation, the path to human trials with a real cure treatment will be wide open. WE DESPERATELY NEED YOUR HELP-- With the shape of the economy right now, fundraising is down everywhere and we are no exception. In fact, it’s worse for us because we don’t take government grants. The work we are doing now is very expensive and it would be terrible to have to slow down because of a lack of money. All of the funding for our research center comes from fundraisers like this. Without your help we may not be able to keep this
Re: [QUAD-L] Hot vs. Cold Quads
68 deg John.b. :-) When I lived in the northeast I kept the thermostat at 72 deg in the winter. But also had a HUGE fireplace in one of my homes. Buying the split wood was expensive ON TOP OF winter heating bills. But if I were to forfeit anything in life...I choose warmth 1st every time. If I'm not warm I'm miserable (pain, tense muscles, etc) and being/feeling miserable takes away from enjoying all else. Here we keep our thermostat at 78 yr round. Sometimes it reads 77 or 79 or 80 but it's not hot for sure. No good insulation in these homes to keep out cooler winter days. And, at those temps..it FEELS cooler in the summer with the AC. Sunny and 64 here today outside. And thankful to not be in the storm that's been traveling. Lori Michaelson Age - 45 C4/5 complete quad, 30 years post Tucson, AZ On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 7:51 PM, John S. alcibiat...@yahoo.com wrote: Onne more time, quads lose the ability to regulate their body temp properly. The hypothalmus gland under the brain now functions irregularly if at all. This gland regulates your body temp. The sweating is from mild AD probably caused by pain from someplace, could be uti or bowel, but usually pain. The cold sensation is from poor circulation that also causes the drowsey feeling. A warm hat helps but theres no cure that I'm aware of. 96.5 is a common body temp for me. I keep a space heater by my bed and in my workspace. Everywhere else is 68 degrees. I haven't got that much to pay for heating. john -- *From:* Lissette Whitehead lissw...@hotmail.com *To:* Paul Jacobson pjacob...@san.rr.com; poaj...@sbcglobal.net; quad-list@eskimo.com *Sent:* Tue, December 8, 2009 9:12:12 PM *Subject:* RE: [QUAD-L] Hot vs. Cold Quads Yeah, Im from the same area as Paul, just a bit south of the border, so the climate isn't that extreme but I still get really really cold and the thing is once I get cold, it doesn't matter how much clothes I put on or if I turn up the heat, it takes me a while to stop shivering. I can be sweating and I'll still be shivering, I hate it! I'll take a little extra heat any day, can't wait till spring is here, and to think winter isn't even here yet, ugh! I'll be needing plenty of red wine, lol. [image: lissette,name,sign,flashy,gif,groovie,flower power]http://s157.photobucket.com/albums/t79/LISSW/?action=viewcurrent=lissette-1.gif Lissette Whitehead 1177 Broadway Suite #4 Chula Vista, CA 91911 www.lissettesgoaltowalk.synthasite.com -- From: pjacob...@san.rr.com To: poaj...@sbcglobal.net; quad-list@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Hot vs. Cold Quads Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 17:49:58 -0800 I'm in San Diego and I still keep the heat on! I keep it at 75 minimum.my utility bill was $350 last month! This month could be be worse. Gotta stay warm! And'Stay Thirsty My Friends'. Paul c5/6 - Original Message - *From:* Joan Anglin poaj...@sbcglobal.net *To:* 'Don Price' donpric...@yahoo.com ; quad-list@eskimo.com *Sent:* Tuesday, December 08, 2009 5:32 PM *Subject:* RE: [QUAD-L] Hot vs. Cold Quads Yes drastically. Our house was always known as the cool place-only temperature cool. JMy grandkids always brought their sweatshirts when they came to visit in winter. After my SCI I could never get warm until summer came. However, the last few years have been much better. I thought it was maybe only in my head, but a friend of mine who was around me a lot during the first 4-5 years and then left for 14 years came back and remarked on how much better I tolerate the cold now. I still like it warm, love my wood stove, love the fact the Reno has 325 sunny days per year, but now that he mentioned it I realize that I very seldom wear my heavy-duty poncho anymore. I still prefer warm-up to 90° is perfect. After that temperature I get too hot. No, we lived in Reno before I broke my neck and there is no way I would move away from my sunshine here. My whole house is built around sunshine coming in almost all of the year, only in the middle of summer is the house not flooded with sunshine. I just figure my thermostat doesn’t work well anymore. It takes me a long time to get warm if I do get cold, and sometimes I will complain that my arms or legs are cold when in fact they really are not. I can tolerate the cold quite well as long as I’m sitting in the sun with the sunshine on my face and there’s not any wind-I was outside the other day for two or 3 hours and it was only 50°, but I was sitting in a corner with the sunshine on my face. We have a wood stove with a glass door so one can see the flames, which makes me feel much warmer than just plain heat. My space heater is also a radiant heater and I find that I’m quite comfortable with this setup for 400 watts because of the glow. Mind over matter-or maybe if you don’t mind it doesn’t matter. Good
[QUAD-L] Dragon Dictate for iPhone - FREE! (for now)
mean, if you're gonna be paranoid, at least be rational about it. Other one-star reviews come from people pointing out that Dragon Dictation doesn't work on the iPod Touch. True, although Nuance never made any claim that it does, and the app is free, so I'm not sure why the anger. Overall, this is an amazingly fast, impressively accurate 1.0 effort. It has plenty of room to grow; right now, it's bare-bones and simple. (For starters, the company says that it will be adding a checkbox to opt out of the Contacts-uploading thing. Good idea; if privacy nuts want to type out every last name by hand, let them.) Also, at the moment, the app stops listening and presents the text you've dictated so far after every 30 seconds. You can just tap Record again and keep going, but it'd be nice if that 30-second-stopping thing went away. On the other hand, what do you want for free? (The company says the program won't always be.) So if you'd like to see a little real magic on your phone, and you're not privacy-paranoid, now's the time to try it. This time, it's not a hoax. http://www.DavidPogue.com?8ciremc=cirVisit David Pogue on the Web at DavidPogue.com » http://www.nytimes.com/ads/circuitscirc.html?8ciremc=cirGet home delivery of The New York Times for as low as $3.15 a week. Personal Tech http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/technology/personaltech/10basics.html?8ciremc=cirb1 [] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/technology/personaltech/10basics.html?8ciremc=cirb1Cable Freedom Is a Click Away By NICK BILTON A computer, with software upgrades and a wireless keyboard and mouse, can replace cable service. * http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/12/10/technology/personaltech/20091210-basics-slideshow_index.html Photographs http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/12/10/technology/personaltech/20091210-basics-slideshow_index.html Slide Show: Creating a Cableless Living Room * http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/09/viewers-of-the-world-unite-you-have-nothing-to-lose-but-your-cable-bills/Send Your Own Cable-Free Solutions to Gadgetwise » State of the Art http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/technology/personaltech/10pogue.html?8ciremc=cirb1 [] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/technology/personaltech/10pogue.html?8ciremc=cirb1Not Yet the Season for a Nook By DAVID POGUE Every one of the Nooks vaunted distinctions from Amazons Kindle comes fraught with disappointing footnotes. * http://community.nytimes.com/comments/www.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/technology/personaltech/10pogue.html#postComment Comment http://community.nytimes.com/comments/www.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/technology/personaltech/10pogue.html#postComment Post a Comment Q A http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/technology/personaltech/10askk.html?8ciremc=cirb1Safe and Secure Keeping Windows 7 Safe and Secure By J. D BIERSDORFER Microsofts free security programs provide basic protection, but third-party software suites offer features like spam filtering and customizable firewalls. http://www.nytimes.com/pages/technology/personaltech/index.html?8ciremc=cirGo to Personal Tech » Special Holiday Gift Guide http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/03/technology/personaltech/03EBOOK.html?8ciremc=cirb1 [] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/03/technology/personaltech/03EBOOK.html?8ciremc=cirb1Something to Read By DANIELLE BELOPOTOSKY For anyone considering an e-reader purchase this holiday season, heres a roundup of current and soon-to-be-available devices. * http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/03/technology/personaltech/03AUTHORS.htmlE-Reading, in 2 Authors' Eyes | http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/03/technology/personaltech/03APPS.htmlApps That Turn Pages, and Save Money * http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2009/12/03/technology/personaltech/03ebook-chart1.html Graphic http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2009/12/03/technology/personaltech/03ebook-chart1.html E-Book Reader Comparison Chart: A Growing Market http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/03/technology/personaltech/03MUSIC.html?8ciremc=cirb1 [] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/03/technology/personaltech/03MUSIC.html?8ciremc=cirb1Sounds to Fill a Music Lovers Life By ERIC A. TAUB These products are worth considering for an innovative gift this year. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/03/technology/personaltech/03CAMERA.html?8ciremc=cirb1 [] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/03/technology/personaltech/03CAMERA.html?8ciremc=cirb1A Just-Right Camera for Casual Users By RIK FAIRLIE The sensor size is larger in Micro Four Thirds, the camera body is smaller and they tend to be easier to use. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/03/technology/personaltech/03CAMCORDER.html?8ciremc=cirb1 [] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/03/technology/personaltech/03CAMCORDER.html?8ciremc=cirb1Now, Pocket-Sized Video in Motion By RIK FAIRLIE Mini-camcorders now come in small, on-the-go sizes, theyre easy to use
