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Wheelchair Vehicles

Wheelchair vehicles have been around for the last 20 years to help those who can not drive normal passenger cars get to work, school, or to the grocery store on their own. Before these came into existence in the late 1970s, persons with disabilities had to rely on their ambulatory friends and family members to get from one place to another. Those that could not be lifted out of their wheelchairs and into passenger seats were often left home.

However, once personal vans and trucks became completely hermes birkin pink copy fitted for wheelchair owners to drive themselves, many people with disabilities began feeling independent once again. They could drive to work or school at any time they wished, and could perform menial tasks, such as picking up the dry cleaning or going to hermes birkin gold fake the grocery store, on a daily basis. Recent technologies, such as powered remote controls for doors and lifts, as well as luxurious interiors and electronically sliding seats, make many of these wheelchair vehicles an honor to own.

The most popular of accessible personal cars are mini vans and fullsize vans. These can be equipped for more than one wheelchair in addition to seating arrangements for able bodied passengers. The driver's and passenger's seating areas can be set up with either regular seats or with power tie down tracks to secure a wheelchair in place.

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There are many mobility programs across the nation dedicated to helping persons with disabilities finance or lease wheelchair vehicles for themselves and their families. These programs work with insurance companies, state health departments and auto dealers to arrive at a workable price solution. You must be consulted and evaluated by a professional to see if you physically and financially qualify for financial aid.
Oct 16 '17 · 0 comments
wielding robber terrorises Dannevirke bar manager

The owner hermes birkin sale fake of Dannevirke's Saigon Restaurant and Bar is traumatised and unable to sleep after an armed robbery.A knife wielding man entered the restaurant about 10.40am on Monday, just before the bar was to open at 11am and demanded manager. Owner Binh Van put money into a bag he was carrying."I'm devastated and we feel very lonely doing business here," Binh told the Dannevirke News."I feel very sad, we lost money and the bar is going to close temporarily."Binh had opened the back door of the premises on the corner of High and Barraud Sts to clear the rubbish when a man came through the door and went into the toilets, changing some of his clothing before entering the bar area again.Binh was just finalising the banking when the robber threatened him with a big, long handled knife, demanding cash."He locked the door between the bar and the restaurant hermès birkin bag cheap so no one could get in," Binh said.When the robber had the cash and left through the back door, Binh chased him, yelling in English and Vietnamese."It was all over in about four and a half minutes and I can't sleep because he's still out there," he said.The man is described as 1.65m tall, of slim build, wearing a light blue rain jacket and blue jeans."It's very hard to prevent hermes birkin pink faux these without a community driven solution and the help of our district council," Binh said."It's been a traumatic shock, but I don't see a solution unless it's driven by our community. This is a very tough period and we want the police to find the culprit, because we're very insecure and business people are worried."A lack of lighting and CCTV cameras along the back alley behind the Saigon premises and the New World car park needs to be addressed, Binh said.Under veranda lighting isn't working on the Barraud St side of the building either."Facing this is enough to wake me up at night," Binh said.It was the second robbery at the Saigon in six months, but this time it's different, the manager said."We've improved security and last time someone entered the premises at 3am, breaking a window as they did so."This is another in a number of aggravated robberies in Dannevirke recently including Caltex Westlow service station, Dannevirke Four Square and a ram raid at BP Connect on May 1, all targeting cigarettes and cash.And in late March thieves caused thousands of dollars worth of damage to DJ's Dairy, in Woodville, when they tried to steal the cigarette cabinet, breaking windows in the process. The dairy's till, Lotto machine and pie warmer were also broken in the raid.Acting Sergeant Gary McKernon told the Dannevirke News there is CCTV security camera footage from the Saigon robbery, with police forensics team and Dannevirke CIB investigating.And with retailers feeling uneasy, McKernon said police will be visiting all likely targets in Dannevirke to discuss crime prevention."We're about to receive a crime prevention app from Counties Manukau Police which has a yes/no answer questionnaire which can help business owners assess their vulnerability," he said.Suresh Patel of Shires Fruit and Vege Market said business owners in Dannevirke are feeling "quite uneasy"."Obviously it's a scary thought when hermès birkin bags fake people can come into your premises armed with a knife," he said."It can happen at any time."Patel, who has been offering support to staff at Saigon, said he thought McKernon's approach to retailers was a good idea, but shop owners need to be more vigilant too.
Oct 16 '17 · 0 comments
Why can't you tickle yourself

If you want to probe some of the great mysteries of the human mind, all you need is a duster and your feet. Sit back, take your shoes and socks off, and gently stroke its feathers against your sole. Now ask a friend, parent or child to do the same for you. If you are like most people, you will be left stony faced by one, but convulsed in a pleasurable agony by the other. How come?

While asleep, people tried to get dream characters to tickle them that too failed

Once the domain of childhood curiosity, the question of why we can tickle ourselves is exciting neuroscientists. leads to these bigger questions of consciousness and self awareness, who we are, says George Van Doorn at Monash University in Australia. For this reason, they are now going to some often extreme lengths to overcome the brain barriers and to get people to tickle themselves in the lab.

To understand their interest, consider this: every time your body moves, it creates potentially confusing sensations that could lead you astray in all kinds of ways. Just imagine the chaos if you assumed that someone was fondling or attacking you, every time one of your hands brushed your leg, for example. Being able to differentiate between your movements, and the actions of other people, is therefore a central part of our sense of self and agency faux hermes handbags aspects of the psyche that even the most sophisticated robots can replicate. And examining these kinds of traits, you want to find an example that is easily replicated in the lab. is a nice example because the contrast between ticklish sensations produced by others and the inability to tickle oneself is so clear, says Jennifer Windt at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in Germany.

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Sarah Jayne Blakemore, at University College London, was one of the first to investigate the way the brain makes these lightning fast decisions about the self and others. She scanned subjects brains as her colleagues tickled the palms of their hands, and when they attempted to do so themselves. From the resulting brain activity, she concluded that whenever we move our limbs, the brain cerebellum produces precise predictions of the body movements, and then sends a second shadow signal that damps down activity in the somatosensory cortex where tactile feelings are processed. The result is that when we tickle ourselves, we don feel the sensations with the same intensity as if they had come from someone else, and so we remain calm rather than writhing with that familiar mix of discomfort and pleasure that comes when someone else tickles us.

If that was true, hermes top replica she suspected that there could be ways to fool the process, and allow people to tickle themselves. So she designed a machine that allowed her subjects to move a stick that gently stroked a piece of foam over their palm sometimes instantaneously, at others with a delay of up to 200 milliseconds. It turned out that the greater the delay, the more ticklish the foam felt, perhaps because the cerebellum predictions no longer matched what the person was actually feeling.

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Why do we laugh when tickled? The Headsqueeze team explains in the video above

Since Blakemore ground breaking studies, many others have tried to find ways to find ways to trick the brain into tickling itself. Controlling someone foot movements with magnetic brain stimulation, so that their hand tickled their foot against their will, seems to do the trick. But it is one of the few experiments to succeed others have produced puzzling results.

Van Doorn, for example, tried to give his subjects an out of body experience before tickling them. The set up hermes handbags replicas is relatively simple: the participant is fitted with video goggles that allow them to see from the eyes of the experimenter, who is sitting in front of them. By synchronising their movements, they slowly begin to feel like the experimenter body is their own. (For more information on how to swap your body with someone else, read our feature.)

In the midst of the illusion, the participants then had to move a lever that would tickle both bodies at the same time. With the subject confused about which body they were inhabiting, Van Doorn assumed that they would feel the full force of the tickle but they were largely unmoved by the experience. matter if you swap bodies with someone else you can tickle yourself with your own movements, says Van Doorn.

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You can even tickle yourself in your dreams. Windt recently performed a dream experiment that sounds like it came straight out of the movie Inception. She recruited a team of expert lucid dreamers people who know they are dreaming, and can control the actions of their dreams to try it out, but they couldn The subjects also tried to get other dream characters to tickle them; that too failed, sometimes because the other characters simply refused to be of service. of our subjects experienced problems with, let say, dream character compliance, says Windt.

If all that seems a little esoteric, there could be practical reasons for picking apart the neural processes behind self tickling. interesting that people with schizophrenia can tickle themselves and we think that associated with things like delusional and alien control of limbs, says Van Doorn perhaps because of a more general problem with identifying the origins of their movements. So attempts to break down that process in healthy people could, eventually, shed some light on the way it malfunctions during periods of mental illness.

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Self tickling could even improve artificial intelligence, says Robert Provine, cheap replica hermes handbags at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. inability to tickle yourself suggests neurologically based definitions of self and other, he writes in a playful essay. a similar machine algorithm may lead to robots whose performance is enhanced by their capacity to distinguish touching from being touched, and, provocatively, may provide a computationally based construct of machine personhood. so, a feather duster could provide a delightfully bizarre alternative to the famous Turing test for artificial intelligence in years to come: just aim for its extremities and see if it laughs.
Oct 16 '17 · 0 comments
Will the crisis at Oroville Dam become a catalyst for change

Jeffrey Mount, a leading expert on California water policy, remembers the last time a crisis at the Oroville Dam seemed likely to prompt reform. It was 1997 and the lake risked overflowing, while levees further downstream failed and several people died.

"If this doesn't galvanize action, I don't know what will," Mount said he thought at the time. But spring came, the waters receded and no changes came to hermes bag replica pass.

Now another threat looms in Oroville, where deteriorating spillways forced widespread evacuations, and more heavy rain is around the corner. State officials have remained focused on quick fixes at the dam needed to prevent catastrophic flooding, but some are already thinking about how the crisis could spur long term shifts in policy.

It's a conversation that's gaining momentum in think tanks and government offices from hermes handbags cheap Sacramento to Washington, and it touches on climate change, infrastructure spending and hermes imitation bags statewide water policy.

Wade Crowfoot, a former advisor to Gov. Jerry Brown who now leads the Water Foundation, a nonprofit research organization in Sacramento, compared the situation to the state's years long drought.

"This is a wake up call," he said. "The drought reminded us we need to use water more wisely. Oroville reminds us that we need to upgrade our infrastructure and our management to move water more wisely."

Follow live coverage of the situation at the Oroville Dam 2014, the drought prompted Brown to sign the state's first ever law for managing groundwater, which had been depleted as farmers tried to keep crops alive. Now there are new considerations as California strains under one of its wettest winters on record.

Crowfoot said officials should hermes replicas cut back Southern California's reliance on water delivered from the northern reservoirs including Lake Oroville, reducing pressure on the state's infrastructure by increasing water recycling or stormwater capture. Another step could be focusing on sending more water to aquifers, replenishing groundwater supplies.

With Oroville the subject of round the clock news coverage, state leaders can "treat it as an opportunity to rethink how we're providing water and moving water," Crowfoot said.

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A rescue squad from the Yuba County Sheriff's Department crosses through flooded walnut orchards in 1997.

A rescue squad from the Yuba County Sheriff's Department crosses through flooded walnut orchards in 1997. (Lacy Atkins / Associated Press)

California has always grappled with cycles of drought and deluge Gov. Leland Stanford used a rowboat to reach his inauguration in 1862 but the problems are expected to be exacerbated by climate change.

Environmentalists view Oroville as a reminder of that looming threat.

"This is a dam that was designed in the '50s and built in the '60s," said Adrienne Alvord, a California based director of the Union of Concerned Scientists. "It was built for a climate we no longer have."

Infrastructure needs to be assessed based on the increasing chance of extreme weather, she said, just like buildings near fault lines are constructed to deal with the possibility of strong earthquakes.
Oct 16 '17 · 0 comments
Why he still has a role to play

Wayne replica hermes outlet store Rooney has pledged his future to Manchester United amid speculation linking him with a move to China. The 31 year old has plenty of critics, but the stats suggest he still has an important role to play at Old Trafford.

The headline numbers do not make good reading. Rooney may hold the United and replica hermes mens briefcase England goal records but he has only found the net five times across all competitions this term and scored just once from open play in the past three months.

United's win percentage with and without Rooney in the team doesn't reflect well on the 31 year old, replica hermes outlet online either. Mourinho's side have won 75 per cent of their games when he hasn't played and 59 per cent when he has albeit some were late appearances as a sub.

But do Rooney's personal stats actually reveal a player in decline or one in transition? There is evidence to suggest Rooney has shifted from goal scorer to goal provider and still has plenty to offer in that department.

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For instance, no player to have played more than 600 minutes in the Premier League this season has recorded assists more frequently, with Rooney setting up a team mate, on average, once every two games.

Rooney's Premier League stats Stat (per 90 mins) 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17 Goals 0.38 0.3 0.19 % of Utd shots 15.5% 19.2% 13.7% Assists 0.16 0.22 0.49 Passes in final 1/3 5.76 5.04 6.62

Zlatan Ibrahimovic has particularly been a benefactor, with five 20.8 per cent of his 24 goals across all competitions coming from Rooney assists. No player has teed the Swede up more.

Rooney's frequency of creating clear cut opportunities for his team mates is up, too, while his passes into the final third are also on the rise.

Contrast that with a decline in how often he shoots, compared to his United colleagues, and a drop off in goals scored inside the box, and a picture emerges of a player dropping back from his previously more advanced position to a deeper, creator role.

Wayne Rooney's activity on the pitch has concentrated between the halfway line and the opposition's box

Rooney's touch map from the past three seasons illustrates his play is now more focused between the halfway line and opposition penalty box, rather than the all action approach of the past.

In fact, he's making fewer touches in the opposition box this season per 90 minutes than attacking midfielders Juan Mata and Henrikh Mkhitaryan.

Wayne Rooney adopted the midfield role for England during Euro 2016

Rooney made the positional switch to central midfield under Louis van Gaal and was utilised in that role by England boss Roy Hodgson at Euro 2016.

Mourinho was adamant when he joined United that Rooney would not play "as a number 6" under him but he has continued to take up creative, rather than goal scoring, positions.

Wayne Rooney scores from a free kick against Stoke to become Manchester United's all time top scorer

As a result, comparing Rooney's goal numbers this season with those of previous campaigns is not comparing like for like. As he pledges his future to the club, it's his contributions from other areas which really matter.
Oct 16 '17 · 0 comments
Why you should vote for this social champion

Narayanan Krishnan brought over 1.2 million hot meals to India's homeless and destitute through his non profit organisation. His efforts have replica pink hermes bag now earned him a nomination among top 10 social champions in CNN's Heroes 2010. He gave up his job as a chef at a five star hotel in Bengaluru to feed the needy thrice a day. And he has been at it for over eight years. We present his profile again:

A look into the kitchen reveals a spotlessly clean room. Sparkling vessels stacked neatly, groceries and provisions all lined up in rows rice, dal, vegetables, spices all of the best quality. One would think this was the kitchen of a five star hotel.

Maybe Krishnan achieves that effect because he was once a chef at a five star hotel in Bengaluru.

"Today's lunch is curd rice, with home made pickle, please taste it," he says, serving me on a plate made of dried leaves.

The food is excellent.

"I change the menu for different days of the week. They will get bored if I serve the same food every day," he says with an enthusiastic and infectious smile.

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Krishnan cooks breakfast, lunch and dinner with the help of two cooks. He takes it himself to his wards on the street each day.

"I don't feed beggars. They can look after themselves. The mentally ill won't ask anyone for food or money. They don't move around much too. I find them in replica hermes tote bags the same place every day."

That morning he put the food in a large vessel, the pickle in a smaller one and loaded it into a Maruti van donated by a Madurai philanthropist.

Ten minutes later we stopped near a man lying on the ground by a high wall. Krishnan put the food next to him. The man refused to even look at it, but grabbed the water bottle and drank eagerly. "He will eat the food later, looks like he was very thirsty," said Krishnan.

At the next stop, he laid the dry leaf plate and served the food. He then scooped some food and started feeding the mentally ill man himself. After two morsels, the man started eating on his own.

We then crossed a crowded traffic signal and stopped the vehicle. On seeing Krishnan, four individuals moved slowly towards the Maruti van. They stood out in the crowd with their dirty, tattered clothes and unshaven beards.

They knew this Maruti van meant food. But they did not hurry, knowing that Krishnan would wait for them.

Krishnan served them under a tree and replica hermes handbags outlet carried water for them. "They are not aware enough to get their own water," he explained.

And thus we went around the city till the Akshaya patra was empty. Of course, it would be full again for dinner later in the day.

As we returned, a startling fact hit me. Not a single mentally challenged person had thanked Krishnan. They did not even smile or acknowledge him. Still Krishnan carried on in a world where most of us get offended if someone doesn't say thank you, sometimes even for doing our jobs.

The food costs Rs 8,000 a day, but that doesn't worry him. "I have donors for 22 days. The remaining days, I manage myself. I am sure I will get donors for that too, people who can afford it are generally generous, particularly when they know that their hard earned money is actually going to the poor. That is why I maintain my accounts correctly and scrupulously."

He then pulled out a bill from the cabinet and showed it to me. It was a bill for groceries he had bought seven years ago. "This bill has sentimental value. It is the first one after I started Akshaya."

Software giants Infosys and TCS were so impressed with his work that they donated three acres of land to him in Madurai. Krishnan hopes to build a home for his wards there. He has built the basement for a woman's block which will house 80 inmates, but work has currently halted due to a lack of funds.

This, however, is not the sum of his good deeds. Krishnan also performs the funerals of unclaimed bodies in Madurai. He collects the body, bathes it and gives it a decent burial or cremation as the need may be.

He gets calls, both from the municipal corporation and general hospital for the funerals.

He recalls with a little prompting how replica hermes mens bags one day he saw a mentally ill man eating his excreta. He rushed to the nearest restaurant and bought the man five idlis. The man ate voraciously, and then smiled at him. The smile made Krishnan want to do it again and again.

Krishnan has not married and wonders if anyone would want to marry a man who spends his days cooking food for others. He is firm that his life partner has to agree to this kind of life.

His parents were initially shocked, but are now very supportive of their son. They advise him about the cuisine and also about how he can streamline the process.

One wonders why he left his job in a five star hotel to bury the dead and feed the mentally ill. To this he just smiles and says, "I like doing it."
Oct 16 '17 · 0 comments
Wheelchair Ramp Vans

The wheelchair ramp vans are inclined planes that may be used rather than stairs by wheelchair users and also people carts or pushing strollers. The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990(ADA) needs that a structure or building be accessible to wheelchair users and hence a wheelchair ramp is required. The wheelchair ramp gives a wheelchair cheap hermes shopping bag user more accessibility where a vertical distance should be traversed.

New buildings are frequently necessary by law to meet the ADA standards utilizing standards such as wheelchair ramps or hand controls. Sometimes it is required to add structures such as elevators or ramps to older buildings so that people with walkers, canes, wheelchairs and even those with walking disabilities not supported by cheap hermes travel bag technology can gain access to a specific entrance.

For public construction, the construction of buses and low floor trams is being inspired by the federal government. Meanwhile, there are various solutions on the private market that integrate wheelchair ramps and hand controls. Vans equipped with wheelchair ramps are commonly seen at schools and seniors where they used to transport people with disabilities to and from public events. Many dealers sell vans with these ramps already attached. As a matter of fact, it might be simpler to buy a new van instead of these ramps already attached. As a matter of fact, it might be simpler to buy a new van instead of changing your old van to accommodate a wheelchair ramp. There are various styles and assortments of cheap hermes hand bags automotive ramps, cheap hermes classic bag including the in floor ramp, the side lift ramp, the rear lift ramp, and the side folding ramp. Moreover, there are vans that lower down to the road while unloading and loading passengers. Pricing for these vans varies by year, model, and various lucky accessories.

There are different types of home starlights or wheelchair ramps which can be used for various purposes. Wheelchair ramps come in portable, semi permanent and permanent versions. Permanent ramps are durable solutions for ADA compliance and are generally cemented or bolted in position. These are best suitable for new halls or buildings. Semi permanent ramps simply rest on top of the padding or ground and are generally utilized for long term solutions. Portable ramps are made of lightweight materials and can be folded for simplicity of transport. The portable or semi permanent ramps can be seen in seasonal buildings their adjacent bathrooms. You may also notice this in construction sites or summer concert halls.

While installing wheelchair ramp vans, you should match the right length of the ramp to its specific use. For residential use, first figure out the amount of incline your wheelchair may tolerate. This static should be listed in your owner manual. Note that ADA necessities and guidelines for a self motivating wheelchair vary. You should look for professional consultation to ensure you are in compliance with regulations.

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Oct 16 '17 · 0 comments
Widow wants to protect her home from aggressive HOA board

Question: I'm an 89 year old widow whose husband took cheap hermes handbags sale care of our finances for 45 years. I don't have homeowners insurance because I don't have a mortgage. Friends share advice for protecting my assets. One says I need a mortgage, another says a trust. Others say I should get a homestead, and my CPA says I should lower my property taxes.

I'm worried because this community is a revolving door of new owners, and our boards have become more aggressive. I've had to forage for thousands of dollars to pay special assessments, which are becoming more frequent. I'm concerned that I may not be adequately protected, let alone have enough money to support myself if I continue to live here. How can I protect my only asset?

Answer: The steps you can take to increase protection for your home include homestead exemptions, insurance, trusts and title transfer instruments. Although it is impossible to insulate your home completely from liability, you can and should minimize the risk.

Homeowners associations can foreclose on property without going to court. This means of foreclosure is the most powerful weapon in an association's debt collection arsenal.

For overdue assessments or dues in excess of $1,800 or more than 12 months delinquent, an association may use judicial or nonjudicial foreclosure.

When using either method of foreclosure, the association records a lien on the owner's property. If the entire lien is not paid, the property may be sold to satisfy the lien. The association may recover assessments, reasonable costs of collection, reasonable attorney's fees, late charges and interest.

Under Dreyfuss vs. Union Bank of California, the property's appraised market value doesn't apply in the forced sale context. Even a great disparity between the sales price and the value of the foreclosed property will not be sufficient ground for setting aside a nonjudicial sale.

A Declaration of Homestead is designed to protect a portion of your home's equity from creditors, but does not protect deed restricted property, cheap hermes clutch bag such as a condominium, from a homeowners association's nonjudicial foreclosure.

Regardless of the relatively small exemption available in California and limitations with regard to nonjudicial foreclosure, claiming a Declaration of Homestead is a simple and inexpensive method of gaining protection for your interest in your home. Forms and instructions for filing are at your county recorder's office or its website.

The Homeowners Exemption aids in reducing your real property taxes. In Los Angeles County, a Homeowners Exemption gives residential property owners a $7,000 deduction from the assessed value before taxes are levied. For Homeowners Exemption forms and information, call (213) 974 3211.

The key to getting the full benefit of the Declaration of Homestead and the Homeowners Exemption is not to procrastinate in completing forms and filing the paperwork.

Your friends may be encouraging you to have a mortgage because in the event of an attempted foreclosure, it serves as another layer for notice to be served. Mortgaged real property located in a common interest development might have an advantage over mortgage free property. Because boards have to abide by legal notice requirements, a mortgage on the owner's title may present an obstacle to those associations seeking nonjudicial foreclosure.

Regardless of whether you have a mortgage, you should carry general liability and property insurance with an additional umbrella policy of a minimum of $1 million.

Special assessments in a common interest development are a way of life. Those who do not have the funds to fulfill their assessment obligations may have to move or lose their property to the association.

One way to minimize potential losses is to purchase loss assessment coverage through your homeowners insurance. Loss assessment coverage typically pays for your share of any special assessments the association imposes, up to the limits of cheap hermes leather handbags the policy and after accounting for the deductible.

Loss assessment coverage is purchased in addition to the individual owner's general liability and property insurance. General loss assessment coverage does not apply to earthquake assessments.

Most trusts are not asset protection vehicles but rather a means of avoiding probate. Typically, the more control you have over assets cheap hermes classic bag placed in a trust, the less protection the trust provides from creditors. A trust also may be individually sued and its property foreclosed on by an association.
Oct 16 '17 · 0 comments
What no one with disability should ever be asked

But, most shocking of all, the Nunawading resident, 41, says it happens "all the time". People will actually wait by the car in order to tell her off for parking in a disabled spot.

"Because of my age, they look at me, andautomatically presume I'm doing the wrong thing. But actually I can't carry my own shopping, can't walk long distance, I have the bladder of an 80 year old."

One of the most galling things, says Ms Van Den Borne, is that getting a disability priority parking badge is a rigorous process. She had to provide two doctor's letters, including one from a specialist.

She will have to begin using a wheelchair in the next few years.

"It's difficult, every day it gets a little bit fake white enamel bracelet harder," she says."I can't do zips up, can't do buttons up, probably won't able to drive soon andlose a bit moreindependence, unfortunately."

People who had suffered faux black enamel bracelet a stroke, hada heart condition or have disabilitiesthat mean they are not able to walk far may be forced to miss important appointments like visiting adoctor Knockoff hermes picotin bag without access to a priority parking spot, said Craig Wallace, from People With Disability Australia.

Mr Wallace drives a car with a mobility hoist at the back for his wheelchair, and needs to park in a priority spot because they are wider.

Ms Van Den Bornelives with herpartner, son James and daughter Annabelle.

"My kids have had to deal with things that kids shouldn't ever have to deal with and all of our futures are forever changed," she wrote on Facebook.

"I didn't want people to feel sorry for me, but just to understand everyone and their own story. You can't judge a book by its cover."

Her emotional Facebook posthas received more than 10,000 likes, messages from people around the world and has restored herfaith in humanity, she says.

Justine's note in full:

"To person that left this on my car last week at Mitcham Shopping fake white enamel jewelry Centre I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis when I was 35. Not just MS but the worst one that never goes away and is slowly crippling my life. My kids have had to deal with things that kids shouldn't ever have to deal with and all of our futures are forever changed. On the day you saw me I was having a good day, I was walking with my daughter unaided having a nice day. Thank you for ruining that. You made me feel like people were looking at me, the exact way I feel when I can't walk properly. I am sick of people like yourself abusing me on my good days for using a facility I am entitled to. A disability doesn't always mean a person has to be wheelchair bound but lucky for you I one day will be. Right now my focus is to walk into my best friends wedding next September and not have to be pushed. I will be 42. Before you ruin another persons day remember you don't know everything and just because you can't see it, it doesn't mean a person isn't struggling to put one foot in front of the other."
Oct 12 '17 · 0 comments
Why bus rapid transit has stalled in Bay Area

Mia Salter, left, and Kevin Newton, 16, right, ride the AC Transit 1R bus line home from school in Oakland, Calif. on Thursday, May 1, 2014. The 1R, which stands for rapid, is the predecessor to the bus rapid transit system that is slated to be built along International Boulevard. The BRT system will run more like a subway and will have dedicated lanes or stations. The new system has stalled due to public resistance to taking away a lane or two of traffic and eliminating parking. Salter said since the bus runs through a high crime area, the bus often has to take detours. "It gets so backed up sometimes, it's ridiculous." Salter said. less

Mia Salter, left, and Kevin Newton, 16, right, ride the AC Transit 1R bus line home from school in Oakland, Calif. on Thursday, May 1, 2014. The 1R, which stands for rapid, is the predecessor to the bus rapid . more

Amian Brewer, 14, holds her nephew Zah'phir Roberts, 8 months, on the AC Transit 1R bus line toward Oakland, Calif. on Thursday, May 1, 2014. The 1R, which stands for rapid, is the predecessor to the bus rapid transit system that is slated to be built along International Boulevard. The BRT system will run more like a subway and will have dedicated lanes or stations. The new system has stalled due to public resistance to taking away a lane or two of traffic and eliminating parking. less

Amian Brewer, 14, holds her nephew Zah'phir Roberts, 8 months, on the AC Transit 1R bus line toward Oakland, Calif. on Thursday, May 1, 2014. The 1R, which stands for rapid, is the predecessor to the bus rapid . more

(05 09) 11:20 PDT SAN FRANCISCO Bus rapid transit was supposed to be the future of public transportation.

A technology combining more efficient buses and relatively simple improvements to streets, BRT, as it's known, has been heralded as a fairly cheap high capacity transit system a subway on tires that can be put on the streets quickly.

But in the Knockoff hermes bag price list Bay Area, the introduction of bus rapid transit is advancing at a pace akin to that of a Muni bus stuck in rush hour traffic. More than a dozen years after the region started talking about the speedy buses, the Bay Area is still waiting for its first one.

Bus rapid transit projects in faux mens gold bracelet San Francisco, the East Bay and the South Bay are still in the works, but they have stalled after running into community skepticism and opposition to the removal of traffic lanes and parking spaces. The opposition from merchants and residents has caused some cities, even progressive bastions like Berkeley, to refuse to allow transit only lanes or to drop out of BRT projects altogether.

"It's been a big challenge," said , spokesman for the , the Bay Area's regional transportation planning and financing agency. "We think of the Bay Area as a world class area, but we are really a group of 100 plus cities all with different concerns and ambitions. That makes it really hard to get BRT projects done."

Bus rapid transit uses long buses with low floors and extra doors. They stop at evenly spaced stations that are bigger and fancier than bus stops. The buses sneak through stoplights using onboard technology that gives them priority. The most efficient BRT systems use exclusive lanes at least on congested stretches.

The Bay Area's first BRT line to start construction and the one likely to be the first to carry passengers is the 's route from Santa Clara to San Jose's Alum Rock neighborhood. Construction of the 7.2 mile line started in March, and the first bus is expected to roll in fall 2015 about 11 years after the idea was conceived.

Compared with the proposal to put a BRT line on Avenue in San Francisco, that's speedy. The notion of taking a lane of traffic in each direction and transforming it into a dedicated lane for fast buses was first discussed in the late 1990s, with planners taking a look in 2001.

Since then, it has languished in a lengthy planning, review and public participation process that has looked at everything from the loss of parking to the preservation of allegedly historic streetlights. San Francisco's first rapid bus isn't scheduled to cruise down Van Ness until early 2018.

"It is certainly longer than anyone would like," said , a planner working on the project. "We would have liked for it to have been done five years ago."

's efforts to bring BRT to the East Bay originally from San Leandro to Berkeley have been equally lengthy and perhaps even more hard fought. The transit agency began planning the route in 2001 but encountered a lot of opposition, especially along Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, where merchants and neighbors attacked the plan to eliminate parking and a lane of traffic with the kind of fervor once reserved for opposing the Vietnam War.

The voted to drop out of the bus rapid transit plan in 2011, shortening faux gold and enamel jewelry the 16.9 mile project to a 9.5 mile route from the to 20th Street in downtown Oakland. The line will take away 237 parking spaces along the stretch and claim a lane of traffic in each direction, mostly along International Boulevard through East Oakland.

New outcry

Even though the project is about 65 percent designed and scheduled to break ground early in 2015, a new outbreak of community opposition is threatening to delay the scheduled 2017 opening. Last week, a group of merchants hired tow trucks to block the two center lanes of traffic on International Boulevard to demonstrate the effect of dedicating lanes to BRT service. For safety reasons, Oakland police blocked the other two lanes, forcing drivers to detour but failing to create gridlock.

Merchants in the area complained that their businesses, many dealing in furniture, automotive parts or services, and items sold in bulk, would suffer if customers couldn't park in front of their stores. And removing a lane of traffic, they said, would create congestion and drive away business.

Worried about access

"I've been here over 36 years," said , who owns an artistic glass studio on the boulevard. "I rely on parking very much for my business. BRT would eliminate my business; trucks have to come to drop off glass, pick up glass."

AC Transit officials say they're working with merchants all along the BRT route to come up with plans for replacement parking and to cope with the change from a street centered on cars to one focused more on transit and pedestrians.

In the South Bay, VTA officials are also having trouble selling that vision. While the Alum Rock BRT project is under construction, plans to build a similar line along El Camino Real the fake white enamel jewelry transit system's busiest corridor have lagged in the face of opposition to about 10 miles of transit only lanes from Santa Clara to Mountain View.

VTA officials still hope to convince them of the merits of a full fledged BRT system with dedicated lanes, but the debate has slowed the project, and the outcome is uncertain.

"We need to meet the demand for what's going to happen in that corridor," said Brandi Childress, a VTA spokeswoman. "But people love their cars, and El Camino has been a commute corridor for decades. It's a back door whenever 101 backs up."

Creating a bus rapid transit system doesn't have to be agonizingly slow. A group of San Francisco politicians and planners learned that last year when they visited Mexico City on a tour hosted by a transportation think tank that promotes BRT. Mexico City's first BRT line took just three years to move from idea to running buses.
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