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	<description>Empowering Lives</description>
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		<title>Great News for Disabled People around the Country</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 02:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear Arlington ADA case In what could be a major financial blow to the nation&#8217;s cities, the U.S. Supreme Court today declined to hear an appeal by the city of Arlington to block a lawsuit by a quadriplegic suing over the lack of accessible sidewalks and curb cuts. Richard Frame, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fraudulent Use of Disabled Parking Placards on the Rise</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mawillits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[California has 24 million licensed drivers and, according to the Los Angeles Times, will issue 2.1 million permanent placards this year. That’s a significant increase over the 1.2 million placards issued just a decade ago. Furthermore, about 621,000 of nearly 6 million licensed drivers in Los Angeles County have placards. According to state motor vehicle officers, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Excellent Journalism Yields Great Results for Disabled People</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cracking down on parking meter cheaters They use disabled-driver placards that they don&#8217;t deserve. But thanks to the LAPD and DOT, some of them get the hefty fines they really do deserve. As the scoundrels arrived to look for parking, little did the unsuspecting offenders of decency know that an undercover sting had been set [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Company That Scans Books for $1</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mawillits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out this new company that scans books for only $1 per book. Having a book scanned into an electronic copy is something that can be very useful for anyone in a wheelchair. 1Dollarscan.]]></description>
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		<title>Two Great Columns about Handicapped Placard Fraud and Abuse</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mawillits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Lopez at the LA Times just published two great articles about handicapped placard fraud and abuse in Los Angeles. Check them out and see what you think. A peculiar parking pattern: A high number of cars parked at downtown L.A. meters carry disabled placards that let owners park for free. It&#8217;s time for a crackdown [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report disabled parking abuse and support your favorite charity.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mawillits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[www.parkingmobility.com Parking Mobility is a community-based non-profit organization which brings citizens and their cities together to address disabled parking abuse. We believe that the best individuals to report disabled parking abuse are the individuals who need disabled parking for their daily activities. Regardless of how well any one city enforces their disabled parking spaces, their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Awesome New iPad Holder for Wheelchair Users</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:32:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mawillits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Manfrotto Magic Arm + Super Clamp Kit is designed to hold fixtures and devices securely in place in a variety of situations. The rotating elbow arm, with a locking lever control at the pivot allows positioning a fixture at just the right height and angle.  Accepts any fixture up to 6.6 lbs that has a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Body suit may soon enable the paralyzed to walk</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 02:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-brain-machine-20111006,0,7089239.story latimes.com Body suit may soon enable the paralyzed to walk An international research team announces it has taken a key step toward achieving its goal of a &#8216;prosthetic exoskeleton&#8217; that a quadriplegic could command by brain power. By Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times October 6, 2011 advertisement In a busy lab at Duke University, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FREE 5th annual DisAbility Sports Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 22:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The FREE 5th annual DisAbility Sports Festival will be held at Cal State San Bernardino on Saturday, Oct. 1, 2011 from 9a.m. &#8211; 3:30p.m. It is free for people with ANY disability and ANY age. Last year, we had 600 participants ages 8 months to 84 years old. This year, we expect to have 700 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ralph&#8217;s Riders Annual Tropicana Havana Nights Gala</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ralph&#8217;s Riders is hosting our Annual Tropicana Havana Nights Gala, October 29 2011. Date: Saturday, October 29, 2011 6:00pm – 8:00pm: Rum Bar, Blackjack, Silent Auction and Boutique 8:00pm – 11:00pm: Dinner, Awards Presentation, Live Music and Dancing Location: Sony Pictures Plaza, 10000 West Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA 90232 Price: $150/Person (ticket and dinner included, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ralph&#8217;s Riders at the Casa Colina Land Meets Sea Camp</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 04:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ralph&#8217;s Riders was at the Casa Colina Land Meets Sea Camp in Long Beach. Here is a photo of several of our Riders.]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to the Ralph&#8217;s Riders blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 18:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our new website will be very dynamic and very interactive. We plan on updating it several times a week with news from Ralph&#8217;s Riders, events around Southern California and all kinds of information that is useful to people living with spinal cord injury and paralysis. So be sure to check back often. Thanks for stopping [...]]]></description>
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