Cam Tait

Author : Cam Tait,Jim Taylor
Publisher : Harbour Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781550176988

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Cam Tait by Cam Tait,Jim Taylor Pdf

“I have cerebral palsy much like I have blue eyes and have—or should I say had?—brown hair. It is simply a part of who I am. When I speak to groups about my situation I can even joke about it. ‘Think of CP as Canada Post,’ I tell them. ‘My brain sends out signals, and God knows where they wind up.’” Long-time journalist Cam Tait has seen some interesting times on the sports beat—rolling alongside Rick Hansen in the Man in Motion tour, playing in fundraising golf tournaments, and tipping back some cold ones with Wayne Gretzky, to name a few. His personal life hasn’t lacked excitement either—memorable moments include parasailing, winning a stand-up (or in his case, sit-down) comedy contest, and helping his grandson take his first steps. But he couldn’t have done it without the help of his friends. Tait was born with cerebral palsy, unable to sit up, speak or move his arms and legs. But thanks to a revolutionary form of physical therapy that required a 24/7 commitment from his parents and a team of 116 volunteers, he learned to get around in a wheelchair, move his hands and talk. These turned out to be useful skills for a career of prime interviews, crazy deadlines and pranks. Tait teams up with friend and fellow journalist Jim Taylor, telling his own story with characteristic directness and humour. With a newspaperman’s inveterate sense of timing, Tait moves seamlessly from one-liners and tales of debauched hijinks to candid accounts of his depression, career struggles and loss of loved ones. He speaks with eloquence about the importance of giving disabled people the chance to pursue their ambitions, and the value of all the support he’s received in achieving his own dreams. In both his career and personal life, he’s experienced the power of humour to break down barriers and bring people together—and have a hell of a good time doing it.

Author : Gerald W. Hankins
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003-12-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0888644051

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Rolling On by Gerald W. Hankins Pdf

Gary McPherson contracted life-threatening polio during the epidemic of 1955 which left him a quadriplegic. He retains just enough coarse movement in his left hand to click a mouse and enough strength in his left leg to push his wheelchair backwards a few feet. Gary cannot feed himself or comb his hair. Yet his achievements are amazing. He is a husband and father, has coached championship sporting teams, is past-chairman of the Premier's Council for the Status of People with Disabilities, and is currently both a lecturer in the School of Business at the University of Alberta and executive-director of the Canadian Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. Foreword by Dr. Robert D. Steadward and Garry D. Wheeler.

Author : Angela Sammarco
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780763771614

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Women’s Health Issues Across the Life Cycle by Angela Sammarco Pdf

" ... Explores a wide-variety of health issues and concerns to offer a holistic approach to care. Presented within a quality of life framework, it emphasizes the range of factors that can impact women's health and well-being, including physical, psychological, spiritual, socioeconomic, and family domains. In addition, it features updated content on DSM-V, case studies, research boxes, discussion questions, and Internet resources for more information."--

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555032310

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Tait's Edinburgh magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Cargill Gilston Knott
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015030990488

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Life and Scientific Work of Peter Guthrie Tait by Cargill Gilston Knott Pdf

Author : William Tait,Christian Isobel Johnstone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Periodicals
ISBN : PRNC:32101064478066

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Tait's Edinburgh Magazine by William Tait,Christian Isobel Johnstone Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555074492

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The Clergy directory and parish guide by Anonim Pdf

Author : Frank Barnett
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781439619179

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Fairview Park by Frank Barnett Pdf

Fairview Park is truly a postwar community. Before World War II, it was mainly rural countryside just beginning to see some development. The Rocky River valley had been enough of a barrier to keep Fairview that much more rural until high-level bridges were built in the 1920s. A brochure at the time for the newly developed Coffinberry Estates in northeast Fairview Park refers to “quick access to downtown Cleveland via Hilliard Road, Detroit Avenue, or Lorain Avenue bridges.” The bridges residents now take for granted were then a major selling point. The farmland started to evolve into suburbia as spaces between houses were filled with more houses. Fairview Village became Fairview Park in 1948, and the year before, Cuyahoga County’s first shopping center was built here.

Author : Sands & McDougall, Melbourne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 3158 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Melbourne (Vic.)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015443182

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Sands and McDougall's Directory of Victoria ... Melbourne and Suburban Sections ... Country Section by Sands & McDougall, Melbourne Pdf

Author : United States. Patent Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2140 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Patents
ISBN : WISC:89048465140

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Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office by United States. Patent Office Pdf

Author : Richard Cobden,David Urquhart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Eastern question
ISBN : BL:A0022202387

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Reply to Tait's Magazine & Mr. Cobden by Richard Cobden,David Urquhart Pdf

Author : Joint Committee on Invertebrate Paleontology
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Invertebrates, Fossil
ISBN : MSU:31293026855605

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Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology by Joint Committee on Invertebrate Paleontology Pdf

Author : Arthur Willis Colton
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 985 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465613004

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Selected Works of Arthur Willis Colton by Arthur Willis Colton Pdf

IN the Fall of the year when Krakatoa blew its head off in the East Indies, and sent its dust around the world, I fell sick of a fever in the city of Portate, which is on the west coast of South America. Portate had the latest brand of municipal enterprise and the oldest brand of fever. But they call any kind of sickness a fever there, to save trouble, and bury the alien with as little trouble as possible. I started for home, and came as far as Nassau, which is a town in the Bahamas. There, a wasted and dismal shape, I somehow fell into the hands of one Dr. Ulswater, who tended and medicined by back into the world of sunlight and other interesting objects. Nassau runs up the side of a bluff and overlooks a blue and dimpled harbour. Dr. Ulswater at last began to take me with him, to lie on the rocks and watch him search in the harbour shoals for small cuttlefish. He used a three-pronged spear to stir them out of their lairs, and a long knife to put into their vital points with skilful surgery. They waved and slapped their wild blistered arms around his neck and shoulders, while he poked placidly into their vitality. So, being entertained and happy, I recovered from yellow fever. By that time my handsome name, given by parents who recognised my merits, "Christopher Kirby," had come down handily in Dr. Ulswater's usage to "Kit," and we loved each other as two men can who are to each other a perpetual entertainment. Dr. Ulswater was a large, bushy man in the prime of a varied life. Born an American, he had studied in German universities, practised medicine in Italy, and afterward in Ceylon. One of his hobbies was South-American archaeology. He owned a silver mine in Nevada, and kept a sort of residence in New York at this time, and was collecting specimens for a New England museum. So that he was what you might call a distributed man, for he had been in most countries of the globe; yet he was not a "globe-trotter," but rather a floater,—in a manner resembling sea-weed, that drifts from place to place, but, wherever it drifts or clings, is tranquil and accommodating. He seemed to me suitable to the tropics and their seas,—large, easy, and warm of body; his learning like the sea, mysterious and bottomless; his mind luxuriously fertile, but somewhat ungoverned. His idioms were mixed, his conversations opalescent; his criticism of himself was that he had not personality enough. "No, my dear," he said, wrapping a dead cuttlefish up neatly in its own arms, "I am like a cuttlefish whose vital point is loose. You are an ignorant person, with prepossessions beyond belief, and absurd deferences for clothing and cleanliness; but you have personality and entertaining virtues. Therefore I will let you smoke two cigars to-night instead of one, and to-morrow maybe three, for your sickness is becoming an hypocrisy." Then we went over the rocks to our boat and the sulky sleepy negro boatman, the doctor with his flabby bundled cuttlefish, and I with a basket full of coral and conch-shells. The boatman rowed us out over a sea garden with submerged coral grottos; pink and white coral, branching and the "brain" coral, sea-fans and purple sea-feathers, coral shrubs, coral in shelving masses; also sponges, and green hanging moss, and yellow, emerald, and scarlet fish, silver, satin, ringed, fringed, spotted;—all deep beneath in their liquid, deluding atmosphere,—a cold vision, outlandish, brilliant, and grotesque, over which we floated and looked down.

Author : Arthur Colton
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547048831

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Port Argent by Arthur Colton Pdf

"Port Argent" by Arthur Colton is a novel about city and town life. Excerpt: "The growth of Port Argent had the marks of that irregular and corrupt legislation of destiny. It had not grown like an architect-builded house, according to orderly plans. If some thoughtful observer had come to it once every decade of its seventy years, it might have seemed to his mind not so much a mechanic result of men's labours as something living and personal, a creature with blood flowing daily through arteries and veins (trolley cars being devices to assist the flow), with brains working in a thousand cells, and a heart beating foolish emotions. He would note at one decade how it had thrown bridges across the river, steeples and elevator-buildings into the air, with sudden throbs of energy; had gathered a bundle of railroads and a row of factories under one arm, and was imitating speech through a half-articulate daily press; at another decade, it would seem to have slept... "

Author : Nina Danino,Michael Mazière
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 1903364477

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The Undercut Reader by Nina Danino,Michael Mazière Pdf

A collection of writings and visual works from the UK magazine Undercut, together with newly-commissioned articles by leading critics in the field.