"Maybe they wouldn't have taken a paraplegic," the protagonist speculates.
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He fitfully discovered life outside the hospital as a paraplegic.
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Take the paraplegic Chip Chase from Transformers of the 1980s.
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Newly paraplegic at the age of 23, I needed answers.
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In fact, he's the greatest paraplegic surfer in the world.
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He was a paraplegic after having contracted polio in the orphanage.
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Next time they think you're making fun of a paraplegic, apologize.
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The paraplegic man tugged at my sleeve whenever I walked by.
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I'm not a paraplegic, so I can't transfer or get on top.
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Pareja has not implicated Moreno, a paraplegic former U.N. envoy on disability.
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In one, Michael Cera plays an abrasive paraplegic who can't get lucky.
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Pareja has not implicated Moreno, a paraplegic former U.N. envoy on disability.
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He was moved in particular by one child, a paraplegic boy named Henry.
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Dustin Kaywood, a paraplegic, said a Domino's employee in Tennessee discriminated against him.
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There seems to be some confusion about what the word "paraplegic" really means.
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Gomez, the paraplegic model, mentioned a Target commercial he had recently appeared in.
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Often times these are injured vets or accident victims whose traumas left them paraplegic.
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Mia adopted Thaddeus -- who was paraplegic due to polio -- in 1994 from Calcutta, India.
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The charges allege that the lawyer embezzled from several clients, including a paraplegic man.
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He was one of 10 children she's adopted, and was also paraplegic due to polio.
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Moreno, 63, became paraplegic after being shot in the back during a robbery in 1998.
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Brown, a paraplegic, and Carr, a Boston firefighter and retired Army Ranger, did it together.
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After a devastating car accident in 1992, an aspiring actor, Gabriel Cordell, became a paraplegic.
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Meet Medha Godbole, 58, whose 1003-year-old husband, Sanjay, is paraplegic, nonverbal and incontinent.
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Editorial Observer Lenín Moreno, Ecuador's president-elect, has described being a paraplegic as a blessing.
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After an emergency cesarean, doctors said the boy was on life support and left a paraplegic.
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Weggemann was left paraplegic, unable to use her legs or move anything from the waist down.
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When this paraplegic veteran surprised his bride by dancing at their wedding without their wheelchair. Sgt.
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But they believe their findings could have a significant impact on how paraplegic patients are rehabilitated.
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And in South Dakota, Democratic nominee Billie Sutton, a paraplegic former cowboy, has hammered GOP Rep.
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Corrales is a paraplegic and uses a wheelchair, and GEO Group forced Corrales to reuse catheter bags.
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They, like almost every other Swiss wheelchair marathoner, have trained for years at the Swiss Paraplegic Center.
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The husband had been left a paraplegic after a work-related injury, according to local news reports.
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He was paraplegic due to polio and the adoption came years after Farrow separated from partner Woody Allen.
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Perhaps you've been puzzled by photos and trailers from the new season that show the paraplegic Bran standing.
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That same study also surveyed 29 paraplegic accident victims, finding them to be less happy than other people.
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Eventually they said, 'You're going to be a paraplegic and then a quadriplegic and then you're going to die.
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Ali Stroker, another woman in the documentary, is paraplegic, which means that she has use of her upper body.
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Ijspeert says that research in this area can help with the development of treatments for paraplegic patients and amputees.
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The movie is about a young man Will (Sam Claflin) who sustains a spinal cord injury and becomes paraplegic.
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In 2007, a paraplegic man was found crawling around Skid Row, clenching a bag of belongings with his teeth.
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Beside him, the paraplegic man searched in vain for his small knapsack, which he had lost during the rescue.
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The project is funded by both the Australian government and the U.S military, which sees potential benefits for paraplegic veterans.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose battle with polio left him a paraplegic, often swam for exercise and as a therapeutic activity.
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Prosecutors said the group of security personnel included a 66-year-old paraplegic woman who sustained injuries during the incident.
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The same year, he asked a paraplegic, wheelchair-using state senator from Missouri to "stand up" at a campaign rally.
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" Mr. Galvani, a paraplegic since a work accident 36 years ago, added: "It's not just about going to the beach.
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His mother was in an accident that left her paraplegic before he was born and raised him as a single mother.
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Three paraplegic cats travelled by plane from Kansas to New Jersey, where two of the kitties have already found forever homes.
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According to Houston's KHOU, the alleged victim was a 66-year-old paraplegic woman who worked as security at NRG stadium.
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The surgeons saved Harold from becoming a paraplegic, but they couldn't remove the bullet and his recovery was slow and painful.
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Leaders asked each boy to rank which he would rather be: burned over 22002 percent of his body, paraplegic or gay.
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Yes, Hyundai has made a line of robotic suits to help paraplegic patients walk, and to reduce back injuries in manual laborers.
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A former top Microsoft designer, de los Reyes became a paraplegic after a visit to Overlake Hospital Medical Center in Bellevue, Washington.
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Fears: My biggest fear is ending up paraplegic or paralyzed, so I don't go searching to jump from high or dangerous places.
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In 2010, a paraplegic Paralympic athlete, Robert Berger of New Zealand, applied to take metoprolol, a beta-blocker, to address heart disease.
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Spencer was joined by two other models, a paraplegic actor named Danny Gomez and a one-handed makeup artist named Chauntal Lewis.
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Philadelphia Eagles star Michael Bennett was charged a felony after allegedly injuring an elderly paraplegic woman at the Super Bowl last year.
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Cranston plays Philip Lacasse, a rich New York businessman who has been left paraplegic and confined to a wheelchair by a paragliding accident.
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According to docs ... Avenatti allegedly stole millions from a mentally ill paraplegic on disability who had scored a $4M settlement from L.A. County.
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Click here to view original GIFIn 2014, a brain-powered exoskeleton allowed 29-year-old paraplegic Juliano Pinto to kickoff the World Cup.
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The study, which appeared this week in Scientific Reports, looked at a group of paraplegic patients suffering from a chronic spinal cord injury.
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I stepped over an elderly paraplegic man sprawled on the deck so I could wrap blankets around a teenage Egyptian boy battling hypothermia.
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Mikhaylenko, on the other hand comes in with an undefeated record and a touching story of fighting to help support his paraplegic mother.
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One of the clients is a paraplegic man who was granted a $0003 million settlement payment from Los Angeles County in January 2000.
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A paraplegic wearing Phoenix can walk up to 1.1 mph (running is out of the question) for up to four hours on a charge.
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When a stray gunshot left Mariam Paré paraplegic at age 20, she was afraid to miss out on the thing she loved most — painting.
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Three months after a terrorist attack in Afghanistan left Jeremy Haynes a paraplegic, he met with a psychologist from the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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But he's dating Vanya, this super-hot paraplegic woman who wants to be seen, for the ostensibly noble purpose of repping people with disabilities.
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But four months after he met Michelle Johnson at a concert in 2012, Johnson had an accident on his motorcycle that left him a paraplegic.
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For example, a ramp that is suitable for a paraplegic might be a hindrance for a pensioner who can't walk more than a few paces.
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Michael Avenatti's legal troubles continue mounting ... he's now facing a lawsuit from his former paraplegic client who claims Avenatti stole nearly $4 million from him.
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Back in 2012, Courtine used a chemical cocktail to "re-awaken" the damaged spinal cord of paraplegic rats, allowing them to walk, run, and evade obstacles.
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A competitive swimmer since the age of 7, Weggemann was devastated when an epidural injection left her a paraplegic at the age of 18 in 2008.
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Earlier this week, The Trace profiled Tyrone Shoemake, a gunshot survivor and paraplegic in Philadelphia who's hawking his personal brand of motivation to others in wheelchairs.
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Less than a year later, Mr. Hillery did just that, graduating with his class — the first paraplegic to do so in the school's 170-year history.
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Paraplegic shooting victims can languish for weeks in city-owned hospitals without counseling, their public insurance insufficient to get them a bed at a rehabilitation clinic.
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"Extension," created in 2014, brings gas tanks and an excavator to the stage, and revolves around the revenge of a paraplegic performer, the charismatic Rémi Lecocq.
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Emt, a former walk-on basketball player at the University of Connecticut who became a paraplegic from a car accident in 1995, recruits veterans to curling.
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It was like offering an emotional and social paraplegic a drug that would suddenly allow them to hop out of their wheelchairs and walk and run.
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For instance, you probably have not heard of Stephan Farffler, the Nuremberg-based watchmaker and paraplegic who in 1655 created what he called the manumotive carriage.
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For 20 years she could not work as she learned to cope with life as a paraplegic and raise three children with the help of family.
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Twenty-five years later, Blanche is paraplegic, and her caretaker sister has become sadistic and delusional, wearing lacy little-girl frocks and plotting an absurd comeback.
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In the franchise's sixth film, Dourif's real-life daughter Fiona Dourif stars as Nica, a paraplegic woman who anonymously receives a Good Guy doll in the mail.
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Dr. Ali Rezai, director of the Ohio State University's Center for Neuromodulation, is working on something that could result in a breakthrough for paraplegic and quadriplegic people.
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The opening ceremony of the football World Cup in Brazil in 2014 featured a paraplegic man who used a mind-controlled robotic exoskeleton to kick a ball.
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The device is a "soft exoskeleton," designed to help people who have lower limb disability but who have not severed their spinal cord or otherwise become paraplegic.
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In this case, the robot was delivered to the home of a US Army vet who is paraplegic, and, as you can imagine, the results were quite heartwarming.
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Inside, Radha Upasarna, a volunteer, and two nurses looked over the roster of patients they would visit, most of whom had cancer or heart disease or were paraplegic.
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President Franklin Roosevelt, a paraplegic who couldn't walk, used the radio, just coming into its own as a national source of news, to speak directly to the people.
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The Swiss Paraplegic Foundation, established in 1975, counts 1.2 million Swiss households as yearly donation-paying members, according to Dr. Hans Peter Gmünder, the director of the center.
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STATE OF EMERGENCY Moreno, who uses a wheelchair after a 1998 shooting during a robbery left him paraplegic, has declared a 60-day state of emergency across Ecuador.
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A Georgia woman allegedly killed her paraplegic ex-boyfriend last month by dropping him off in the woods and leaving him to die in the freezing cold, PEOPLE confirms.
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THE DAILY SPIKE: TIPS FOR HOUSETRAINING YOUR PUPPY The night before the surgery, I thought about the dozens of procedures that my brother Kyle went through as a paraplegic.
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One of the clients included a man who won a $4 million settlement in 2015 from Los Angeles County after he became paraplegic in an unspecified incident, prosecutors said.
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"An ARA (Anti-Racist Action) contact named Lin Newborn was murdered by Nazis in 1998, my friend Luke Querner was shot by Nazis and is now paraplegic," he said.
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She's just one of several subjects in the film — some of them quadriplegic like Rockwood, some paraplegic (meaning that they have control of their upper bodies), and one amputee.
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A California woman has been charged with the alleged homicide of her paraplegic husband, who died one day after being found alive covered in bedsores and maggots, PEOPLE confirms.
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READ: Paraplegic former Olympian in TSA pat-down Khan is just one of several Indian celebrities and officials who have been singled out at US airports in recent years.
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The charges include embezzlement, wire fraud, tax evasion, bankruptcy fraud and bank fraud connected to his alleged theft of tens of millions of dollars from five clients, one a paraplegic.
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It's amazing he's not a paraplegic or broke his back or he could've hit a stone in the middle of that field and fractured his skull and not been here.
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In the final moments of Sunday's episode, the lumbering, loyal servant died saving Bran Stark, his paraplegic charge, from an army of zombies, which was sad enough on its own.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will move forward with the deportation of an Ohio man who is the only provider and caregiver of a 6-year-old paraplegic boy.
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Tesch, who became an incomplete paraplegic at the age of 19 after a mountain bike accident, won a gold medal in Mixed Two Person Sailing at the 2012 London Paralympic Games.
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In that time, the technology has evolved, but also the ways in which we talk or think about disability, and the ways we talk about being quadriplegic or paraplegic has changed.
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I have been a paraplegic using a wheelchair full time since I was 5, when a car accident left me unable to feel or use my legs from the waist down.
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Moreno, a paraplegic former vice-president, had secured 51.1 percent of the votes compared with Lasso's 48.9 percent, with more than 96 percent of votes counted, according to the electoral council.
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Details: The indictment alleges that Avenatti stole millions of dollars from 5 clients — including a mentally ill paraplegic — and hid the money through an assortment of shell companies and bank accounts.
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Victims of injury or illness who become paraplegic or completely paralyzed, unable to control their hands, are unable to self-administer the lethal cocktails that licensed physicians may not administer legally.
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According to the Harris County district attorney's statement, Bennett injured a 66-year-old paraplegic woman while trying to push his way on to the field from the stands on Feb.
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Tommy's unrepentantly racist father (nicely played by Mr. Doman, of "The Wire"), is a paraplegic who's lifted in and out of chairs and cars by a silent woman in a jumpsuit.
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Polls suggest ruling party candidate, paraplegic former Vice President Lenin Moreno, 63, will win on Sunday but fall just short of enough votes to avoid an April runoff against Lasso, 61.
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Famously, a 29-year-old paraplegic man, fully paralyzed from the waist down, kicked a soccer ball to start the 2014 World Cup; he was using a mind-controlled exoskeleton suit.
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A paraplegic adamant that he wanted to die at home, he was discharged from a hospital in 2012 and enrolled in hospice care, because he was not expected to survive long.
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But for the last decade, brain implants have only dealt with movements, and have typically only been used in paraplegic people beyond experimental medical trials and stimulation devices for conditions like epilepsy.
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After Robert Wickens shocked fans by saying he is "paraplegic" in the caption of a video of himself in physical therapy, the IndyCar driver is setting the record straight about his condition.
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Moreno, a paraplegic former vice president, secured 51.17 percent of the votes, compared with Lasso's 48.83 percent, with over 99 percent of votes counted, the electoral council tally showed on Monday afternoon.
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He previously won Academy Awards for his roles as a paraplegic Irish writer in "My Left Foot" (1989) and a greedy early 20th century oil baron in "There Will Be Blood" (2007).
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In 2014 a Polish man who was stabbed repeatedly in the neck and had been paraplegic for four years had stem cells taken from his nose seeded at his spinal cord junction.
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Before becoming a paraplegic, Barbara was extremely skilled in martial arts, but abilities that stayed with her even after she was attacked include a photographic memory, genius-level IQ, and coding skills.
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Beginning in 2015, Avenatti executed a scheme to defraud five clients, according to the indictment, one of whom was a paraplegic from whom Avenatti allegedly withheld a settlement payment of $4 million.
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"He laughed at me like he didn't believe I was paraplegic…He said, 'If you can't walk in and get it, we're not bringing it out to you,'" Kaywood said in his video.
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The startup's technology might not be the sort of miracle technology that can help paraplegic users walk, but the kind of increased mobility it promises has the potential to transform millions of lives.
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Mr. Biden's blunders can seem almost quaint now: cursing near a live microphone; asking a paraplegic to stand and be recognized; mistakenly suggesting that the mother of Ireland's prime minister had passed away.
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I would regale my friends with tales of cross-eyed cats perpetually on the verge of death, ailing chickens convalescing in the house or a paraplegic possum that fancied scrambled eggs for dinner.
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Critic's Pick In the South African crime thriller "Number 37," a desperate paraplegic and a pair of binoculars propel a plot cribbed from Hitchcock's "Rear Window" yet crackling with its own lowlife energy.
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MELBOURNE, Australia — It can take a long time for Dylan Alcott, a paraplegic 228-year-old from a nearby suburb, to maneuver his wheelchair from one place to another around the Australian Open.
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A paraplegic friend of mine told me recently that he purposely broadened his viewpoint on this issue, using a wheelchair to get around and more efficiently do the workouts and activities he loves.
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Cops claimed Bennett -- who was on his way to celebrate his brother's Super Bowl win over the Falcons -- shoved a paraplegic woman's wheelchair as she tried to prevent him from getting to the field.
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Philadelphia Eagles star Michael Bennett has just arrived for his first court appearance in Houston ... 3 days after he was charged with injuring a 66-year-old paraplegic woman at the 133 Super Bowl.
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When I gave him a quick head's up that I was excited about our date, but I thought he should know I'm a paraplegic, his reaction was simply, "Gross, no," before he deleted me.
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After an officer shot Edward Brown, leaving him a paraplegic, the police said it was self-defense: Mr. Brown had charged at an officer and tried to get his gun, even touching the barrel.
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The LA Times identified the paraplegic man whom Avenatti allegedly kept the $4 million settlement from as Geoffrey Ernest Johnson, who sued Los Angeles County over his treatment at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility.
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Most of the money for the paraplegic client, Geoffrey Ernest Johnson, allegedly was funnelled to a company that managed Avenatti's race-car team, and to his coffee company, Global Baristas, which operated the Tully's chain.
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Directed by Robert Aldrich, it was a surprise hit in a Hollywood being slowly subsumed by the counterculture, featuring a sadistic Ms. Davis in Kabuki makeup mentally torturing her paraplegic sister, played by Ms. Crawford.
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He writes of going from "someone recognized on the streets of New York City as a journalist, author, and advocate for people with disabilities" — he is a paraplegic — to a man terrified of public reproach.
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Investigators initially believed Gypsy — known by the community as a terminally ill paraplegic in the constant care of her mother — to be a potential kidnap victim of the incident, since she was nowhere to be found.
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Lenin Moreno, 16, a paraplegic former vice-president, just missed the minimum threshold to win the presidency in the first round in February, and latest polls show him narrowly beating conservative rival Guillermo Lasso this time around.
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The men then stole both women's bikes and "just rode off into the park," recalled Tesch, who is still able to cycle despite a mountain bike accident when she was 19 that left her an incomplete paraplegic.
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Lenin Moreno, 64, a paraplegic former vice-president, just missed the minimum threshold to win the presidency in the first round in February, and latest polls show him narrowly beating conservative rival Guillermo Lasso this time around.
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The Philadelphia Eagles defensive end Michael Bennett had recently been indicted, in Houston, for allegedly injuring an elderly paraplegic woman in the moments after his brother's team, the New England Patriots, won the Super Bowl, in 22.
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Bennett was told to use a different field entrance, but he pushed through the security detail, which included a 66-year-old paraplegic woman in a wheelchair, Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said at a news conference.
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When he spotted an employee walking by in the parking lot, Kaywood told him he was a paraplegic and asked if he could bring the pizza to his car because he couldn't walk in and get it himself.
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"If a paraplegic wants to control a computer or a robotic arm, you would just implant this electrode in the brain and it would last essentially a lifetime," said Ryan Neely, a neuroscience graduate student at UC Berkeley.
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People with spinal-cord injuries have become far better integrated into society—these days, no one expects a paraplegic to just disappear, and motorized wheelchairs can now be directed by breathing into a tube or by eye movement.
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When I visited him in his hallway, he had a handwritten letter on his counter from a paraplegic who was hoping to be among the next set of patients for the treatment that he had pioneered in Poland.
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Kylee, 36, rushed Eden to the hospital, where doctors informed her and husband Nicholas Hoelscher, 37, that the gymnastic bridge (a backbend where you push yourself off the floor) had turned their spirited, active young daughter into a paraplegic.
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Fando and Lis, Jodorowsky's first full-length feature, is a black-and-white film in which Fando pushes Lis in a cart (she is a paraplegic) down into a strip mine, looking for the city of Tar, where wishes come true.
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PARAPLEGIC MAN SAYS DOMINO&aposS WORKER DISCRIMINATED AGAINST HIM: &aposIT HURTS, IT HURTS BAD&apos This consolation prize of sorts is said to have possibly been suggested by Kim as a way to gain favor with the burger-loving president.
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Never Say Can t: The Bruce Cook Story follows Cook's extraordinary life, from reaching the height of his field to his devastating accident to his tireless efforts to set a world record by becoming the first paraplegic to backflip a dirt bike.
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But her youthful protestations hardly took priority at the time: A couple of years prior, her father, Jean-François Lemoine, a newspaper publisher who had fostered the local contemporary arts scene in Bordeaux, had been in a car accident that left him paraplegic.
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In one case, prosecutors said that Avenatti concealed a $4 million settlement won by a client in 2015 from Los Angeles County after he became paraplegic in an unspecified incident, instead giving the man periodic advances of $1,900 and paying the rent at his assisted living facility.
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In a separate proof-of-concept study, published last year in the Journal of Neuroengineering and Rehabilitation, scientists in California demonstrated that a brain-computer interface system could be used to allow a paraplegic patient to take steps using nothing but a brain-controlled muscle stimulator.
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In my experience, the other slots were reserved for different types of sex workers: I attended a film lecture given by a very skilled paraplegic porn star who showed us some of her work and an art performance given by a woman who masturbated behind a curtain.
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PARIS — A 14-year-old girl, described as a paraplegic by her father, was so badly bitten by rats as she slept one night this month that her family says she was bleeding from her ears as well as her fingers, toes and much of her body.
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So the ad moves from images of civil strife to scenes of Americans helping one another and overcoming adversity: police officers embracing; American soldiers returning from battle in Afghanistan; a father running behind his paraplegic son in the last Olympics triathlon; a Hurricane Katrina rescue mission.
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Many of them are severely underestimated — Fernando is paraplegic, Joana is a sour street thief nobody likes, and Rafael only succeeds by bending the rules — and by the end, all of them have been rudely awakened by the dark reality of the dream they've worked so relentlessly to achieve.
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In a separate indictment filed in California this spring, Mr. Avenatti was accused of stealing millions of dollars from five other clients, one of them a paraplegic man who had won a $4 million settlement but received only a fraction of that in periodic payments that never exceeded $1,900.
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Jason Street, the quarterback turned paraplegic, centralized the storyline of a disabled athlete in a way that didn't tokenize him, which Ellis says hadn't been done before on television—though she also noted that Friday Night Lights has been criticized for making their groundbreaking disabled character a straight white man.
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If you're not familiar with Avatar, it's the heartwarming story of a paraplegic soldier who regains the ability to walk, thanks to the wonders of futuristic technology — all at the expense of an entire co-opted indigenous alien culture whose homes are burned to the ground in the name of capitalism.
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Paraplegic people with spinal cord injuries spent a year training on brain-machine interfaces, such as virtual reality systems and robotic exoskeletons, which allowed them to use their own brain activity to simulate control of their legs, according to a small study published in the journal Scientific Reports on Thursday.
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The findings suggest that long-term training on such interfaces that utilize the virtual world could help paraplegic patients regain some sensations and possibly mobility in the real world, said Dr. Miguel Nicolelis, a neuroscientist at Duke University who led the study as part of the Walk Again Project in São Paulo, Brazil.
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That day, federal prosecutors in Los Angeles also charged him with wire and bank fraud, and he has since been indicted on 36 counts in that case, including embezzlement, wire fraud, tax evasion, bankruptcy fraud and bank fraud connected to his alleged theft of tens of millions of dollars from five clients, one a paraplegic.
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Now, the candidate has publicly mocked reporters with disabilities at least twice: first Charles Krauthammer in June 2015 for being "a guy that can't buy a pair of pants" because he's a paraplegic, and then a few months later, grossly mocking the mannerisms of New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski, who has a chronic condition.
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Celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti was slammed Thursday with a 229-count indictment by a federal grand jury in California that accuses him of ripping off clients— including a mentally ill paraplegic — for millions of dollars, shorting the IRS of millions more, swiping millions of dollars in employment taxes from his coffee company, and perjury.
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But you have to have done research or maybe have seen Mr. Jones's 2016 work "Analogy/Lance" to know that Lance Briggs started out as a scholarship student with the San Francisco Ballet School and found success as a model and songwriter before getting caught up in drugs and prostitution, contracting AIDS and becoming paraplegic.
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The amputee game is just taking off in Ecuador, and it has gotten a big boost from the country&aposs president, Lenin Moreno, a paraplegic who uses a wheelchair and was a major force for the rights of the disabled around the world while service as the United Nations&apos envoy on disability and accessibility in 2013-2016.
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It's a bit of a jolt as you come to a stop even from the Gorge line's slower top speed of 35 mph, but it's nothing your average tourist can't handle, and Terra-Nova founder Eric Cylvick explained to me that the commercial system on which it's based is designed so that it's accessible to all – including paraplegic and event quadriplegic riders.
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In the case of the paraplegic client, for example, Avenatti, after having pocketed the client's $4 million settlement from a lawsuit against the county of Los Angeles, directed a small portion of what the client was owed, $124,53, to be paid to the client and made some payments to assisted living facilities to cover the client's rent, according to the indictment.
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Prosecutors claimed at the time that Avenatti hid and then spent a $4 million legal settlement obtained in January 1503 in favor of a mentally ill paraplegic client, and hid a $2.75 million settlement for another client that Avenatti allegedly used to help pay for his share of the purchase of a private jet valued at up to $5 million.
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Hyundai exoskeleton Hyundai exoskeleton At the end of the spectrum where these robots could restore mobility to paraplegic users and others who've lost the ability to walk, these exoskeletons could provide standing and walking capabilities; they are a light-enough design (at around 40 lbs) to be transported and put on without any extra help, and with transportation possible even on a user's existing wheelchair.
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In the indictment released by the Department of Justice Thursday and first reported by the Los Angeles Times, federal prosecutors and investigators with the Internal Revenue Service detailed how Avenatti hid a $4 million settlement from his client, Geoffrey Ernest Johnson, a mentally ill paraplegic on disability, who was supposed to receive the money in 2015 after he settled a lawsuit over his treatment at a correctional facility, according to the Los Angeles Times.
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