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Subject:      Handicap Digest # 2960

                             THE HANDICAP DIGEST

                                 Issue # 2960

                         Wednesday, October 07, 1992

Today's Topics:


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                            SPORTS MEET INFO....
                             Paralympic results
                        SPORTS FOR THE disABLED INFO
                                Re: football
                                Re: football
                           Re: CONTACT SPORTS....
                           Re: CONTACT SPORTS....
                               ABLEnews Brief
               DISABLED TEXAN FIGHTS FAMINE WITH HER COMPUTER
                               Jerry's Orphans


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Subject: SPORTS MEET INFO....
From: Sheila.Fava@f209.n209.z1.fidonet.org (Sheila Fava)
Organization: FidoNet node 1:209/209 - 'dBest' Western Sta, Las Vegas NV


[This is from the Abled Athlete Conference]

 CALENDAR  OF  SPORTS  EVENTS  --

           CURRENT SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES --

                      SPORTS ORGANIZATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS

October 2-3, 1992              |   Oct. 31, Nov. 1-2, 1992
Texas Amputee Golf Tournament  | Senior Amputee Golf Tourn.
Lindale, TX                    | Sun City Center, FL
CONTACT:Bud Sewell,            | CONTACT:  Ed Anshutz
        216 Fairlawn Dr.       |           14305 Bayshore
        Lindale, TX 75711      |           Maderia Beach, FL
        Phone: 214-882-4992    |           813-391-7948
                               |
_______________________________|_______________________________
November 13-15, 1992           |1993  February  21-28, 1993
SoCal Amputee Golf Tournament  |---------------------------
El Cajon, California           | Ski For Light
CONTACT: Charlie DePew         | Brainerd, Minnesota
         11613 Calle Simpson   | CONTACT:  Celeste Lopes
         El Cajon, CA 92020    |           25 Helen Ave.
         619-670-4367          |        Plainview, NY 11803
                               |           516-935-4670
_______________________________|_______________________________
November (No Date Given)       |  November (AGAIN: No Date!)
Arizona Suns CP Bowling Tourn. | Pelican State CP Victory Games
   TUCSON, ARIZONA             | NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA
CONTACT: Bill Crouse           | CONTACT:  UCP of New Orleans
         (602)664-9957 (V/TDD) |           1500 Edwards Ave.
_______________________________|           Harahan. LA 70123
October 15-17, 1992   CHICAGO  |           (504)733-9852
Bowling Tournament F/T Deaf    |_______________________________
CONTACT: Chicago Club O/T Deaf | 1993 -- March 24-28, 1993
         4221 W. Irving Park Rd|  DEAF  GAMES  -- NEW ORLEANS
         Chicago, IL 60641     |  AAAD 49th National Basketball
         (312)545-2669         |               Tournament
_______________________________|  CONTACT: Anthony Aramburo
                               |  3037 Dauphine St.
                               |   New Orleans, LA 70117
                               |_______________________________

               Mentally Impaired Sports Competitions
               -------------------------------------

October 3, 1992                 |   October 4-5, 1992
Nebraska Football Tournament    |   Kentucky Fall Games
   Omaha, Nebraska              |     Georgetown, Kentucky
   CONTACT>  Reuben Silva, S.O. |  CONTACT>  Trish Mazzoni, S.O.
             5021 S. 24th St.   |            214 W. Main St.
             POB 7569           |            Frankfort, KY 40601
             Omaha, NE 68107    |            (502)227-7296
             (402)731-7839      |
________________________________|____________________________________
 November 6-7, 1992             | November 22-24, 1992
 Indiana S.O. Vollyball Tourney | Special Olympics Winter Games
     Muncie, INdiana            |        Baytown, Texas
CONTACT:  Mike Furnish, S.O.    | CONTACT:  Pat Downey, S.O.
          5648 W. 74th St.      |           11442 N. Interstate 35
          Indianapolis, IN 46278|           Austin, Texas 78753
          (317)328-2000         |           (No Phone Number Given)
________________________________|____________________________________
December 5, 1992                | October 2-3, 1992
Indiana Bowling Tournament      |      SPINAL CORD INJURY
     Indianapolis, IN           | Nat. Foundation WC Tennis
CONTACT: Mark Scudder, S.O.     | NorCal Sectional Championships
         5648 W. 74th St.       |       Donner Lake, CA
         Indianapolis, IN 46278 | CONTACT:  Bonnie Hickson
         (317)328-2000          |           POB 1681
         (317)328-2000          |           Donner Lake, CA 96160
                                |           (916)587-2108
________________________________|_____________________________________
October 10-18, 1992             | October 11, 1992          SCI
US Open WC Tennis Tournament    | Nat. Triathlon f/t Physically
      Irvine, CA                |      Challenged <Groan!>
CONTACT:  Ron Hastings          | Cupertino, CA
          Nat. WC Tennis        | CONTACT:  Linda Toth
          940 Calle Amanecer    |           POB V-16
          San Clemente, CA 92672| 3801 Miranda Ave.
          (714)361-6811         | Palo Alto, CA 94304
                                | (408)255-8396
________________________________|_____________________________________
(To Be Continued)
                    ---Sheila

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Subject: Paralympic results
From: Neil.Ohlenkamp@f24.n3602.z1.fidonet.org (Neil Ohlenkamp)
Organization: FidoNet node 1:3602/24 - ADAnet One (tm) Net, Pinson AL


[This is from the Abled Athlete Conference]

In case anyone is interested competition results from the
Paralympic Games in Barcelona is available directly from the US
Olympic Committee via their BBS.  Results are updated daily and
other info such as team listings and biographies are available.
The USOC BBS can be reached at 719 632 9885 in Colorado Springs.
The info is in ASCII text files for downloading.

By the way, the blind judo team (my sport is judo) has won 2 silver
medals and a bronze medal.  Excellent for a 6 man team and better
than the single medal won by the US in Judo in the Olympics.

 # Origin: ADAnet(tm) NetHub Birmingham, Alabama (205)854-9074  (94:94/1)

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Subject: SPORTS FOR THE disABLED INFO
From: Sheila.Fava@f68.n382.z1.fidonet.org (Sheila Fava)
Organization: FidoNet node 1:382/68 - Diabetes Discussion, Austin TX


[This is from the Abled Athlete Conference]

 - -  N O V E M B E R  - -  D E C E M B E R    S C H E D U L E    O F

      S P O R T S   C O M P E T I T I O N S   and   S E M I N A R S

           F O R   T H E    d i s A B L E D   A T H L E T E
_____________________________________________________________________
Any competition held before November First is not listed because late
registration would result.
 _____________________________________________________________________
   November 5-7, 1992           |  November 12-15, 1992
   Richardson, Texas            |  Atlanta, Georgia
 Texas State Wheelchair Bowling |  Nat. Handicapped Sports --
 CONTACT:  John Moore           |  Adaptive Fitness Training Workshop
           (214)492-2830        |  CONTACT:  Ann Cody-Morris
 _______________________________|            Shepherd Spinal Center
 November 14-28, 1992           |            2020 Peachtree Road NW
 West Yellowstone, Montana      |            Atlanta, GA 30309
 US disABLED Cross-Country      |  Phone:    (404)350-7789
    Ski Team Training Camp      |_____________________________________
 CONTACT:  Kendall Butts        | Movember 15, 1992
           USDST                | Phoenix, Arizona
           POB 100              | Phoenix _NEW_TIMES_ 10K
           Park City, Utah 84060|   CONTACT:  Dennis Olp
 Phone:    (801)649-9090        |             1704 E. Curry Rd. #101
 _______________________________|             Tempe, AZ 85281
 November 21-22, 1992           |    Phone:   (602)966-2372
 Grayslake, Illinois            |______________________________________
 Wheelchair Basketball Invitational | December 6, 1992
   (Chicago Wheelchair Bulls,       | Anaheim, California
   Fighting Illini, Minnesota       |   Wheelchair International
   Timberwolves, Lafayette Spinners)|     Marathon Relay
 CONTACT: Bill Freitag              |  (and Community Fun 5K)
          disABILITY Awareness Club | CONTACT:  Rochelle Baker
          Oake County College       |           Elite Racing
          19351 W. Washington       |           (714)548-4897
          Grayslake, IL 60030       |__________________________________
          Phone:    (708)223-6601   | December 6-13, 1992
 ___________________________________| Breckenridge, Colorado
                                |  Ski Spectacular For disABLED Skiers
                                |  (Learn To Ski, Learn to Race, Clas-
                                |   sification and Instructor Clinics,
                                |   JUNIOR  Racing  Camp,  Qualifying
                                |   Races in Slalom  and Giant  Slalom
                                |   for '93 National Championships.)
    This Space Available.       |
                                |   CONTACT: Nat. Handicapped Sports
                                |            451 Hungerford Drive #100

                                |            Rockville, MD 20850
                                |            1-(800)966-4647 (Voice)
                                |              (301)217-0960 (TDD)
                                |              (301)217-0968 (FAX)
                                |______________________________________
                    ---Sheila

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Subject: Re: football
From: Sheila.Fava@f68.n382.z1.fidonet.org (Sheila Fava)
Organization: FidoNet node 1:382/68 - Diabetes Discussion, Austin TX


[This is from the Abled Athlete Conference]

First things first, Shawn:  Greetings!  Welcome to this
Conference.  If you are interested in Sports For the disABLED, here
we are!

About football for those who are blind:

SK> ...is there a form of blind football. that would be so much fun.

Football is a contact sport, Shawn, and would be very dangerous to
all concerned.  The Athletic Directors have decided that football,
basketball (and other contact sports) will not be offered to blind
athletes.  Safety for the athlete is their first concern.  There
are other sports open to blind athletes -- Golf, Bowling, Tennis,
Swimming, Track and Field, Tandem Bicycle Racing, Sailing, Skiing
(both Cross Counry and Downhill).  The Accuracy Sports (like
Archery and Air Guns) are also sports that are disallowed.

There is more to sports and fun than football....

                    ---Sheila

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Subject: Re: football
From: John.Hargrove@f68.n382.z1.fidonet.org (John Hargrove)
Organization: FidoNet node 1:382/68 - Diabetes Discussion, Austin TX


[This is from the Abled Athlete Conference]

In a message to Shawn Keen <10-01-92 03:05> Sheila Fava wrote:

SF>     Football is a contact sport, Shawn, and would be very dangerous
SF> to all  concerned.  The Athletic Directors have decided that
SF> football, basketball (and  other contact sports) will not be offered
SF> to blind athletes.  Safety for  the athlete is their first concern.

Tx School for the Blind must not of heard.  They have a football
team which plays full contact football.  Uses a base drum to get
their insturction from.

John

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Subject: Re: CONTACT SPORTS....
From: Sheila.Fava@f68.n382.z1.fidonet.org (Sheila Fava)
Organization: FidoNet node 1:382/68 - Diabetes Discussion, Austin TX


[This is from the Abled Athlete Conference]

In a message to Sheila Fava <10-01-92 06:43> John Hargrove wrote:

JH> Tx School for the Blind must not of heard.  They have a football team
JH> which  plays full contact football.  Uses a base drum to get their
JH> insturction from.

When a formalized school has a team with a dedicated adaptive
Coach, Diez, it is possible that a contact sport for blind athletes
is organized.  Question:  Does the TX School compete -outside- the
school system?  Must they travel far to compete with other schools
on an equal basis?  The basic word is 'Safety'.  There are too few
teams that are able to travel to a National or Regional Games.
Tell you what:  The National Games For the Physically disABLED will
be played in Texas (DFW) at one of the Universities either in 1993
or 1994.  If the Texas School f/t Blind -challenges- TWO other
teams, and gets approval in writing, I'll bet there will be a
football competition at the Games.

Then again...Who wants to play feetsball in Texas in -JULY-?  NOVEMBER, yes.

                    ---Sheila

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Subject: Re: CONTACT SPORTS....
From: John.Hargrove@f68.n382.z1.fidonet.org (John Hargrove)
Organization: FidoNet node 1:382/68 - Diabetes Discussion, Austin TX


[This is from the Abled Athlete Conference]

In a message to John Hargrove <10-02-92 00:26> Sheila Fava wrote:

SF> organized.  Question:  Does the TX School compete -outside- the
SF> school system?  Must they travel far  to compete with other schools
SF> on an equal basis?  The basic word is 'Safety'.  There are too few

Yes...they play both nonhearing and hearing schools.  They are in
their own region which has about 14 schools in it in a class AAA
(schools under a certain size).  They've been state champs a couple
of times.

John

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Subject: ABLEnews Brief
From: Earl.Appleby@p4.f429.n275.z1.fidonet.org (Earl Appleby)
Organization: FidoNet node 1:275/429.4 - HandiNet B B S, Virginia Beach VA


[This is from the AbleNews Conference]

ABLEnews Briefs                                         August, 1992

                        Soar Like An Eagle

"I couldn't ask for a better example of an Eagle," proclaims Scout
commissioner John Gezelius.  The role model Eagle is Randy Fortune of
Glendale, California. At 31, Randy is a bit older than the customary
11 to 18 years of age but the Boy Scouts of America makes reasonable
accomodations for those with developmental disabilities such as Randy,
who performs at the 6-year-old level on academic tests and can neither
read or write.  But there was out of the ordinary about the way Randy
became an Eagle Scout, except the grit and determination he
demonstrated in his 13 year quest. "He did it the old-fashioned way,"
confirms Gezelius, "just like anyone else who earns an Eagle."
Congratulations, from the ABLEnews gang, Randy! We think your
achievement is the Scouts' good Fortune!

                        Surf's Up!

A recent Associated Press Laserphoto features a lifeguard from the Windy
City, that's Chicago, for you outlanders, displaying the new "Surf
Chair" at the North Avenue beach. Invented by another lifeguard, this
one from Daytona Beach, Florida, the Surf Chair sports large ballon-like
tires that allows it to move easily over the sand and is designed to
make beaches more accessible to wheelchair users.  The Chicago Park
Authority has installed two each at each of the city's 7, count-'em,
beaches. Good for you, Shy Town (as phonetically spelled).

                        School Daze

Lance Goetz, M.D. is the first student to receive a medical degree
from the University of Iowa while using a wheelchair. Dr. Goetz was
paralyzed from the chest down in a car accident in 1984.

But while Jim Post graduated with a 3.92 grade point average, the second
highest in his pre-med major, 6 of Pennsylvania's 7 medical schools have
rejected him. Post thinks it because he is a quadriplegic. Shane
VerVoort, M.D., a quadriplegic practicing rehabilitative medicine in
Fort Walton Beach, FL wrote the colleges on Post's behalf.

...For further information, contact CURE, 812 Stephen Street, Berkeley
Springs, West Virginia 254511 (304-258-LIFE/5433).

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Subject: DISABLED TEXAN FIGHTS FAMINE WITH HER COMPUTER
From: Randy.Edwards@f105.n128.z1.fidonet.org (Randy Edwards)
Organization: FidoNet node 1:128/105 - Socialism OnLine!, Colorado Springs CO


[This is from the AbleNews Conference]

 Via The NY Transfer News Service 718-448-2358, 718-448-2683
 Subject: DISABLED TEXAN FIGHTS FAMINE WITH HER COMPUTER
  From: Steve Askin <saskin@igc.apc.org>
  Date: 31 Aug 92 19:55 PDT

           DISABLED TEXAN FIGHTS FAMINE IN AFRICA WITH HER COMPUTER

                    By Carole Collins, U.N. Correspondent
                     National Catholic Reporter (c) 1992

For National Catholic Reporter subscription information call
800-444-8910.

Permission is hereby granted for electronic republication on
non-profit communications systems only. All other uses, print or
electronic, require permission. (Contact saskin@igc.org or call the
author c/o the National Catholic Reporter.)

New York, 4 Sept. 1992 -- Somalis that do survive the current
famine will have people like Dorothy Morse, a disabled but feisty
Texan in her late 50s, to thank for moving Western governments to
action.

"I'm pretty badly disabled by rheumatoid arthritis," Morse told
NCR, "and if it weren't for computers and 'the kindness of
strangers,' I would probably be dead under a bridge."

Morse works 40 hours a week as a typesetter for the Texas State
Bar. She uses a special transit service for the disabled to go to
and from work. It only costs her "$15 a month. Obviously some damn
liberals thought it up. Hooray for them," she said.

A self-confessed "grudger/hater of technology," ("I learned word
processing at age 45, got my first modem at age 54"), Morse has
become an electronic activist, using her home computer to mobilize
people to demand more food aid for Somalia.

She recalled first hearing of the Somalia famine on the radio: "I
was just lying there when I heard on June 25 the story of the
boatful of Somalians in 120 temperature unable to land at Yemen,
many of them jumping into the sea, many dying. The story ended up
'Most were women and children.' I'm a mother."

"I wrote a check to Oxfam," she said. "That's in general how I deal
with the unspeakable - I try to do a little positive something
about it every day, then go on about my business. But I also
listened for more news and never heard any."

"So one day I called Oxfam. They told me the overall story, said
they'd had to pull out, and gave me the phone number of Doctors
Without Borders, to whom I talked, and who referred me to the Red
Cross, who faxed me a press release that made my hair stand on
end."

It was then that Morse turned her computer on. "There are local
electronic bulletin boards aplenty here in Austin," she said. "I
uploaded an appeal there."

Her appeals for information and action sparked lively electronic
mail (or 'e-mail') responses from near and far. An Arizona student
'messaged' Morse for help locating information for a leaflet. A
Swedish academic offered to forward faxes - urging more aid for
Somalia - for free from the University of Uppsala via an electronic
network. Ghanaian Peter Mwaniki asked 'conference' readers to
please provide addresses of African ambassadors at the U.N.

Morse updates her electronic correspondents almost daily on the
relief effort, and advises how best to reach a "live person" at the
U.N. or State Department, how to word appeals ("use an earnest
tone, since some will be looking for a chance to call us 'Somalia
wackos'"), and whom to press for action.

Morse "has gotten a lot of people galvanized around this issue,"
MSN's Leah Arnold told NCR, "and around making sure that government
people don't forget this issue."

Morse is angry at the media's earlier failure to cover the tragedy.
"I feel like the government and media people who have power and do
nothing are committing 'negligent genocide with malice,'" she said,
"and 'with wanton and reckless disregard of human life.' And I do
mean the New York Times."

Given her limited mobility, said Morse, if it weren't for computer
networks, "my work for Somalia would be much less, and my anguish
much greater." But she keeps going because, "as the International
Red Cross said in July, 'millions of lives depend on our capacity
to care.'"

   (END)

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Subject: Jerry's Orphans
From: Melissa.Mead@f136.n267.z1.fidonet.org (Melissa Mead)
Organization: FidoNet node 1:267/136 - Access BBS, Ballston Spa NY


[This is from the AbleNews Conference]

Hey, I don't like the pity approach either. Unfortunatly, that's
what a lot of people respond to. So don't be too hard on Jerry
Lewis. He's trying to do a good thing the most effective way how.
If Jerry's Orphans want to chande the public conception of the
disabled (which is wonderful), they'd do more good with
constructive actions rather than Jerry-bashing.  Missy ;)

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