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Saturday, January 5, 2013

Trendal Hubley-Bolivar WINS! 2013 - NS Wheechair Curling Provincials - RESULTS



Team Rosters

  • Brown

    • Skip:Richard Brown
    • Mate:Laughie Rutt
    • Second:Steve Parfitt
    • Lead:Paige Fougere
    • Fifth:George Horning
    • Coach:Laughie Rutt
  • Hubley-Bolivar

    • Skip:Trendal Hubley-Bolivar
    • Mate:Devin Forbes
    • Second:Keith Williams
    • Lead:Debbie Earle
    • Fifth:Terry Cousineau
    • Coach:Bill Fletcher

Scoreboard

Game 1
Status: Final
SHEET 8H123456789TOTAL
Trendal Hubley-BolivarX11316
Richard Brown


11215
Game 2

Status: Final
SHEET 1H123456789TOTAL
Richard BrownX1xx        1
Trendal Hubley-Bolivar

11133xx9


 Game 3

 

Status: Final
SHEET 2H123456789TOTAL
Trendal Hubley-Bolivar1122X6
Richard BrownX111X3

Statistics

 

SkipWinsLossesPoints ForPoints AgainstDiffPoints For(Avg)Points Against(Avg)Ends StolenPoints StolenSteals Allowed (Ends)Steals Allowed (Points)Multiples ForMultiples AgainstMost Points One End ForMost Points One End Against
Trendal Hubley-Bolivar302191273712235132
Richard Brown03921-1237237121523

 

 









Oregon kid caught in the middle -Submitted by Trevor Kerr

How is a curler in a wheelchair ineligible for both able-bodied AND wheelchair curling?

That’s the situation facing a young U.S. rock-tosser who has been left out on the cold by a decision from the United States Curling Association, according to this article in Oregon Live.

Steven Roberts, 17, of the Evergreen Curling Club in Beaverton, Ore., was set to play down for a spot in the U.S. Junior Championship until the ruling from the American governing body.

The United States Curling Association ruled Dec. 28 that Roberts, who uses a wheelchair, violated curling rules with his method of “delivery” — how he projects the curling stone onto the ice.But Roberts also has been deemed too mobile to compete in wheelchair curling competitions. He can walk but has fragile bones and tendons due to a genetic disorder called osteogenesis imperfecta.

 
Roberts’ delivery can be seen in a video in the article but essentially he wheels down the sheet with the rock in his feet and then releases it. He’s quite accurate with his method and has had some success.

Why he falls through the cracks is that the rule for standard curling states that curlers must release the rock with their hands while the wheelchair rule says curlers can use a stick or hands.

 
Obviously this situation is quite unusual, but the situation was made even weirder when play started and Roberts’ Evergreen CC team faced off against a squad from the Denver CC.

In last weekend’s junior competition, Roberts was allowed to participate, but any stones he delivered were taken out of play. Denver won every game and will advance to the national championships in Massachusetts.“It’s very frustrating,” said Roberts, a senior at Hudson’s Bay High School.

So he threw the rocks but they took them out of play? I can’t think of anything more humiliating than that. What would be the point of allowing him to play but not counting his rocks?

Folks at Roberts’ curling club have taken up his cause but with the ruling from the USCA, have essentially been shut down. So there is the possibility of pursuing other ways to plead the case.

“If they were to make a rule change to allow me to curl, it would open the way for possibly hundreds of more junior curlers to be allowed to compete,” he said.Evergreen is considering other avenues to pursue Roberts’ case, Iwanick said.One option is pursuing the case in court as a violation of the Americans With Disabilities Act.“The United States Curling Association is not giving us appropriate solutions to our problem,” Roberts said. Referring to his delivery style, he added, “They are just rejecting it — pointing out everything that’s not legal about it — and basically saying I should not be allowed to compete.”The club may also pursue arbitration through the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland.





Friday, January 4, 2013

A Little off topic but a distrubing article worth reading

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Why Parents with Disabilities Are Losing Custody of their Kids

Read more: http://healthland.time.com/2012/11/27/why-parents-with-disabilities-are-losing-custody-of-their-kids/#ixzz2H0fHN53D


Two years ago, Erika Johnson gave birth to her first child. When she had trouble breast-feeding, a nurse soothed her by saying that many mothers find nursing hard at first. Then the nurse called social services.

Johnson and her husband are both blind, which concerned the nurse and caused a social worker to put their baby Mikaela in foster care for 57 days. “It was sickening that they assumed because we’re blind we can’t take care of her,” says Johnson, who lives in Independence, Mo. “I was angry, upset, sad, frustrated. It was my first child.”

Johnson’s story is just one of many that humanize a 445-page report issued by the National Council on Disability about the myriad ways in which disabled parents encounter discrimination. Nearly 1 in 10 U.S. kids have a parent who is disabled, according to the Council. Of those parents, 4.1 million have children younger than 18. Yet there’s a cultural belief that parents with intellectual or physical disabilities don’t — or shouldn’t — raise kids.

(MORE: Supreme Court Rules Against Benefits for Posthumously Conceived Kids)

Robyn Powell, an attorney at the Council, uses a power wheelchair because the arthrogryposis that affects her joints and muscles limits the use of her arms and legs. At 31, she doesn’t yet have kids. But she hopes she will one day. Yet multiple doctors, aware of her physical impairments, have suggested sterilization. “I have been offered a hysterectomy more times than I can count,” says Powell. “It’s like they’re doing me a favor. I say, I think I’m going to need my uterus. But society as a whole views people with disabilities as incapable of raising kids.”

New parenthood is hard for anyone, but Powell suspects that parents with disabilities — accustomed to adapting — may have an easier time than others with the adjustment. Yet the Council’s report — Rocking the Cradle: Ensuring the Rights of Parents with Disabilities and Their Children notes that parents with disabilities face discrimination when it comes to child welfare, family law, access to fertility treatment and adoption.

In 1990, Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to protect those with disabilities, yet parents with disabilities continue to face legal quicksand everywhere. Two-thirds of state child welfare laws list some type of disability as grounds for removing a child from his home and allowing parental rights to be terminated. That’s a violation of the ADA, concludes the report. Still, parents with psychiatric or intellectual disabilities lose their children at a rate as high as 80%.
“Parents with disabilities continue to be the only distinct community that has to fight to retain — and sometimes gain — custody of their own children,” autism-rights activist Ari Ne’eman told the Associated Press.

(MORE: Alaina Giordano, Mom with Stage 4 Cancer, Speaks Out About Losing Her Kids)
Every state permits disability to be considered as a factor in deciding custody issues. In some cases, disease counts as disability; that was the experience of Alaina Giordano, a N.C. mom who had advanced breast cancer and believed she lost custody of her children to her estranged husband because of her illness. Giordano waged a social-media war to raise awareness of her plight before she died earlier this year:
She was fighting for the right to be with her children, but she was also fighting for the rights of sick mothers everywhere in similar situations. As Peter Kaufmann — her childhood friend who became her spokesman — wrote on her Facebook page: “She realized that she had become the voice for those who were in similar situations — with cancer, with custody battles, with insurmountable struggles. Because she faced her mortality on a regular basis she looked at her life as one that gave strength to those who were less fortunate than she — those whose stories did NOT get public attention…”
For Johnson, who regained custody of her daughter when she was two months old, being a capable parent means adapting to her sighted child’s needs. When Mikaela is sick, Johnson and her husband, Blake Sinnett, rely on a talking thermometer to gauge her temperature. They have labeled puzzle pieces in Braille so that they’re able to help Mikaela learn the names of the animals that make up the puzzle.

At 2 ½, Mikaela is well aware that her parents can’t see. Like them, she has adapted. Because Mikaela was taken away even before she was taken home, Johnson wasn’t able to breast-feed her, which felt like an additional loss on top of being pegged as an incompetent mother. As young as 9 months, Mikaela would guide her parents’ hands to a bottle to indicate she was hungry.
Such adaptation is what the Council says should be appreciated and supported. With wounded warriors coming home from the battlefield, the number of parents with disabilities is expected to grow. That just highlights the importance of figuring out how public and private agencies can do a better job of ensuring parents’ rights and supporting those who need help. “We need to shift the presumption that people with disabilities are unfit to raise families,” says Powell. “We need to assume they are capable and we need to support them.”


Read more: http://healthland.time.com/2012/11/27/why-parents-with-disabilities-are-losing-custody-of-their-kids/#ixzz2H0f0Vwnw

OCA finally release playdown schedule and team list






THE DOMINION WHEELCHAIR PROVINCIALCHAMPIONSHIP
Gananoque Curling Club

January 23 - January 26, 2013

Team

Skip

Club Name

A

Doug Morris

RA Curling Club

B

Ken Gregory

Bradford & District CC

C

Richard Fraser

RA Curling Club

D

Chris Rees

Toronto Cricket Skating & CC

E

Jim Armstrong

Galt Country Club

F

Jamie Eddy

RA Curling Club

Draw #

Sheet 1

Sheet 2

Sheet 3

Sheet 4

1

10:00 a.m.

A vs B

C vs D

E vs F

Wednesday, January 23rd

2

3:00 p.m.

C vs F

B vs E

A vs D

Wednesday, January 23rd

3

10:00 a.m.

E vs D

A vs C

F vs B

Thursday January 24th

4

2:30 p.m.

F vs A

D vs B

C vs E

Thursday January 24th

5

10:00 a.m.

B vs C

E vs A

D vs F

Friday January 25th

2:30 p.m.

Friday January 25th

Tiebreakers OR 2nd vs 3rd Semi-final

7:00 p.m.

2nd Tiebreaker (if nec.)

Friday January 25th

Saturday January 26th

10:00 a.m.

Final or Semi (if Tiebreaker)

Saturday January 26th

2:30 p.m.

Final (if Tiebreaker)

The team listed first, throws top of the scoreboard rock colour (Red).