 How can we continue the conversation?
BB: We wrapped everything into a publication because the core team members were moving out of Finland and we wanted to make sure our research was freely available. A great thing about working for the government is that, by nature, the work is in the public domain, so the Brickstarter book is available both as a free download and on-demand. The idea was to spread our ideas in the hopes that someone else will build upon it, or that someone who already has a crowdfunding campaign will take this research and use it as a way to think about their project's next steps.
BB: My research interests have evolved into a Brickstarter-type experiment in my new city. I'm working to bring Makeshift Society to Brooklyn. Makeshift was founded by Rena Tom in San Francisco, and we're now in the pre-launch phase of renovating our second space on the East Coast. Despite being one of the largest, most jam-packed cities in America, New York City can still be a lonely place, and a logistically difficult one to navigate. We’re looking at how can we use this co-working space as a platform to support creative entrepreneurs who either want to start or sustain their business. Makeshift is addressing all of their concerns and needs, of which the workspace is only a part. We will also offer classes, skills training, a library full of visual inspiration and business smarts, meeting space, a residency program, and evening events. The San Francisco experience taught us that having a shared workspace is nice, but that there are all sorts of other needs that come into play, some temporary, some ongoing. Access to equipment, for example, is important, so we've made that another part of our mission – and is what we’re hoping to fund through our Kickstarter campaign. The funds raised in this campaign will help us build a creative tool lending library for rental and onsite usage – in other words, the shared, creative resources for making shifts happen.
Find Bryan on Twitter, and check out Helsinki Design Lab projects' here. Makeshift's campaign is in its final week, click here to back the project or learn more about the space.
Ten years ago, Keli Babcock faced a crisis. A medical condition was affecting her legs and her lungs, requiring that she use a ventilator. She couldn’t walk or even maneuver a manual wheelchair. Mobility had become a difficult challenge.
But Keli wasn’t about to give in, she aspired to accomplish much in life. The Medicare program provided the teenager with a power wheelchair, one that is powered by batteries and includes equipment that allows a ventilator to ride along with her.
Keli is supported by her loving family, but with the power wheelchair she was able to care for herself and not be dependent on others. She can get to the bathroom, prepare meals and perform other daily necessities of life in her home.
What transpired exemplifies the impact that a power wheelchair can have on someone with limited mobility: Medicare helped vastly improve Keli’s quality of life. With the mobility issues mitigated, Keli went on to achieve many of her goals, as well as give back to her community. Keli finished high school, and then earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work from Weber State University.
Around the country, there are thousands of power wheelchair users who are just as thankful to Medicare for providing the mobility assistance they depend on. But in Washington, it certainly seems that the Medicare mobility benefit is undervalued. Far too often, when Congress or the Administration searches for budget cuts, the Medicare mobility benefit is the target. It’s unfair that some of the most vulnerable Americans—senior citizens and people living with disabilities, bear more than their share of sacrifices.
Due to a series of pricing, policy and regulatory changes, there is widespread concern about whether power wheelchairs will continue to be available for Medicare patients after their doctors prescribe mobility assistance. There also could be lengthy delays before wheelchairs are delivered.
These circumstances will result from decisions to eliminate a Medicare patient’s right to have a new power wheelchair purchased for them in the first month that they receive it and a badly flawed procurement “bidding” program that will reduce the number of providers in specific locations rather than create competition. Many home medical equipment providers and consumer advocates have asked Congress to take steps to ensure that these policy changes won’t restrict Medicare patients’ access to power wheelchairs.
If prescriptions for power wheelchairs can’t be filled in a timely fashion, it’s clear that many Medicare beneficiaries, people like Keli Babcock, as well as senior citizens and patients with medical conditions that severely limit their mobility, will suffer in the future. Thousands of Americans depend on their Medicare power wheelchairs. Power wheelchairs can prevent Medicare beneficiaries from suffering injuries from falls, delay placements in expensive nursing homes and allow patients to age gracefully in their homes.
Richard Gaskin, of Montclair, N.J., suffered injuries 23 years ago that limited his mobility. Until a few years ago, Richard was able to maneuver a manual wheelchair. But eventually, he no longer had the strength to do it and constantly needed help from family and friends.
Today, he is grateful that in 2008 Medicare provided him with a power wheelchair that has changed his life.
Just as importantly, Jason is relieved not to be a burden on his family and friends because, with his power wheelchair, he can do things for himself.
Tyler Wilson, president of the American Association for Homecare (AAHomecare), says Washington policymakers should hear the stories of people like Keli, Richard and Jason.
Policymakers, says Wilson, should recognize the value of mobility assistance to those who need it.
To learn more about mobility issues, please visit www.aahomecare.org/mobility.
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Actor Ben Gazzara passed away at the 81 on Friday, new reports reveal, after a long career starting in television in the 1950s and moving onto the big screen with famous films such as the Big Lebowski.
The Huffington Post reports that the Strange One actor died in NYC after struggling through a battle with cancer.
Ben left behind wife Elke Krivat, whom he wed in 1982 after two previous marriages.
Want to stay on top of ben gazzara news? Sign up for OK INSIDER!Q: How to retrieve from Microsoft Graph all users that are members of all 3 groups from my list in a single request? I need to retrieve from Microsoft Graph all users that are members of all 3 groups from my list. How can I do that in a single request?

A: I would use $filter inside $expand of memberOf property on users' endpoint.
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users?$expand=memberOf($filter=id+eq+'{group1-id}' and id+eq+'{group2-id}' and id+eq+'{group3-id}')

But from my testing it looks like $filter is ignored, and all users are returned.
The second option
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users?$expand=memberOf&$filter=memberOf/any(r:r/id eq '{group1-id}' and r/id+eq+'{group2-id}' and r/id+eq+'{group3-id}')&$count=true

with request header ConsistencyLevel:eventual returns
the error Request_UnsupportedQuery with the message Multiple filter clauses are not supported on an 'Any' operation on a simple property.
Currently, there is no