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| Sometimes we need to appreciate what we have. |
Posted by martybarker on May, 16. :: 0 Comments
I work with about 12 people. We are like the typical dysfunctional family. We love each other but get on each others nerves a lot too.
Here is a story about my friend B. B had worked in our department for 27 years. I came on board 9 years ago. B was married to a pshycologically impaired woman. B needed heart valve replacement surgery, but working in the health care field knew how risky the surgery was. He put off the surgery for years with the fear that he would leave his children in his wifes care.
B divorced 1 year ago and has been with a woman who has made him incredibly happy. He finally found a reason to get well and live a happy life.
B's father passed away 1 week ago from bladder cancer, his mother passed away yesterday. B had an 11 hour open heart surgery on wednesday and unfortunately suffered a massive stroke while under anethesia. He will be taken off of life support tomorrow.
I am so happy to know that he died with love in his heart and a wonderful woman who loved him deeply. He will be greatly missed.
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| Annie goes boom |
Posted by boomerang on May, 16. :: 2 Comments
My neighbor "Annie" (I call her that because she reminds me of Texas' Ann Richards) fell down the other day.
Annie was led to believe she had a brain tumor.
Annie went through a lot of tests. A LOT of tests.
Annie has an ear infection, it turns out. (Thank goodness. I LOVE Annie.)
Annie went boom because the infection messed up her balance.
Annie is mid 60s (maybe older, if not, forgive me Annie) and a very wealthy widow.
I think Annie's doctors said "brain tumor" because Annie had good insurance and much money and that pisses me off because I like to believe the best about doctors.
So.
Is it better to be so cautious or is it better to be a suspected ear infection?
(I hope this makes sense.)
Thanks!
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| asbestos exposure cases |
Posted by tintin on May, 16. :: 3 Comments
Citing the legal precedent set by asbestos exposure cases, a state judge agreed to combine a series of workplace disability cases involving repetitive stress injuries to the hands and wrists. The judge's decision to consolidate hundreds of suits by data entry workers, word processors, newspaper employees, and other workers who use computers into one case is likely to prove detrimental for the computer manufacturing companies being sued, notwithstanding the defense's argument that the cases should not be combined because of the different individuals and workplaces involved
I don't understand those bold colored text.
what is "asbestos exposure cases" ?
what is "workplace disability cases" ?
that entire sentence looks complex .
i could not follow up.
can anybody simplify it?
thanks
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| Bush Fails to Win Saudi Help on Gas Prices |
Posted by edgarblythe on May, 16. :: 0 Comments
Bush fails to win Saudi help on gas prices
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia May 16, 2008, 09:10 pm ET · President Bush failed to win the help he sought from Saudi Arabia to relieve skyrocketing American gas prices Friday, a setback for the former Texas oilman who took office predicting he would jawbone oil-producing nations to help the U.S.
(I recall Bush running for pres the first time. He said, "I'd just tell them to turn on the spigot." At least he didn't throw up all over them at the dinner table.) - edgarblythe
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| comma necessary? |
Posted by tanguatlay on May, 16. :: 1 Comment
John, whose father is a lawyer, is my best friend.
Are the commas obligatory?
Thanks in advance.
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| Fusionman flies with jet powered wings |
Posted by littlek on May, 16. :: 1 Comment
He had to jump from a plane and parachute to Earth, but man is this cool!
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Playing to a mesmerized audience, Swiss pilot and adventurer (some might say nutcase) Yves Rossy has soared above the Alps with homemade jet-powered wings strapped to his back.
Rossy, an extreme sports guy who has spent years assembling his wings, casually stepped out of an airplane at 7,500 feet, unfolded the wings and quickly passed from free fall to mellow glide. He then fired up the wings' engines and accelerated to more than 180 mph.
As if that weren't cool enough, Rossy showed off a bit, making a few dives, some figure eights and a 360-degree barrel roll before landing at an airfield near Lake Geneva. |
WIRED
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| 2 partial plots, need titles |
Posted by spikepipsqueak on May, 16. :: 0 Comments
You people are well read and might be able to help me.
There are two books I have been trying to track down for more than forty years, armed only with fragments of plot.
1 SF Begins with the main character standing in a glass crater formed by a nuclear explosion which he has somehow survived, but which has shunted him into another universe and another body.
He was previously a tough-as-nails warrior-type but the new body is of an adolescent wimp. He spends a lot of time with a woman character with (I think) psychic healing abilities and I have a suspicion that sentient cats are involved in the plot. For a long time I thought it was one of Andre Norton's but now not so sure.
2 Historical fiction set in rural England. Opens with a woman being hanged for some crime. She is a singer with strong throat muscles. Three attempts at hanging her are not successful, and she is released.
She has nowhere to go and is given a roof over her head by a pastor/rector/clerical type. They do a number of good works in the village and are both extremely moral people but are shunned and reviled because it is assumed they are "living in sin". There is a character called Mungo who lives wild on the moors.
If either of these rings any bells for anyone I would deeply appreciate potential titles/ authors/ starting points.
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| American refusnik |
Posted by blueflame1 on May, 16. :: 0 Comments
US soldier refuses to serve in 'illegal Iraq war'
Published: Friday May 16, 2008
Matthis Chiroux is the kind of young American US military recruiters love.
"I was from a poor, white family from the south, and I did badly in school," the now 24-year-old told AFP.
"I was 'filet mignon' for recruiters. They started phoning me when I was in 10th grade," or around 16 years old, he added.
Chiroux joined the US army straight out of high school nearly six years ago, and worked his way up from private to sergeant.
He served in Afghanistan, Germany, Japan, and the Philippines and was due to be deployed next month in Iraq.
On Thursday, he refused to go, saying he considers Iraq an illegal war.
"I stand before you today with the strength and clarity and resolve to declare to the military, my government and the world that this soldier will not be deploying to Iraq," Chiroux said in the sun-filled rotunda of a congressional building in Washington.
"My decision is based on my desire to no longer continue violating my core values to support an illegal and unconstitutional occupation... I refuse to participate in the Iraq occupation," he said, as a dozen veterans of the five-year-old Iraq war looked on.
Minutes earlier, Chiroux had cried openly as he listened to former comrades-in-arms testify before members of Congress about the failings of the Iraq war.
The testimonies were the first before Congress by Iraq veterans who have turned against the five-year-old war.
Former army sergeant Kristofer Goldsmith told a half-dozen US lawmakers and scores of people who packed into a small hearing room of "lawless murders, looting and the abuse of countless Iraqis."
He spoke of the psychologically fragile men and women who return from Iraq, to find little help or treatment offered from official circles.
Goldsmith said he had "self-medicated" for several months to treat the wounds of the war.
Another soldier told AFP he had to boost his dosage of medication to treat anxiety and social agoraphobia -- two of many lingering mental wounds he carries since his deployments in Iraq -- before testifying.
Some 300,000 of the 1.6 million US soldiers who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from the psychological traumas of post-traumatic stress disorder, depression or both, an independent study showed last month.
A group of veterans sitting in the hearing room gazed blankly as their comrades' testimonies shattered the official version that the US effort in Iraq is succeeding.
Almost to a man, the soldiers who testified denounced serious flaws in the chain of command in Iraq.
Luis Montalvan, a former army captain, accused high-ranking US officers of numerous failures in Iraq, including turning a blind eye to massive fraud on the part of US contractors.
Ex-Marine Jason Lemieux told how a senior officer had altered a report he had written because it slammed US troops of using excessive force, firing off thousands of rounds of machine gun fire and hundreds of grenades in the face of a feeble four rounds of enemy fire.
Goldsmith accused US officials of censorship.
"Everyone who manages a blog, Facebook or Myspace out of Iraq has to register every video, picture, document of any event they do on mission," Goldsmith told AFP after the hearing.
"You're almost always denied before you are allowed to send them home."
Officials take "hard facts and slice them into small pieces to make them presentable to the secretary of state or the president -- and all with the intent of furthering the occupation of Iraq," Goldsmith added.
Chiroux is one of thousands of US soldiers who have deserted since the Iraq war began in 2003, according to figures issued last year by the US army.
But while many seek refuge in Canada, the young soldier vowed to stay in the United States to fight "whatever charges the army levels at me."
The US army defines a deserter as someone who has been absent without leave for 30 days.
Chiroux stood fast in his resolve to not report for duty on June 15.
"I cannot deploy to Iraq, carry a weapon and not be part of the problem," he told AFP.
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| LOST BOY ? |
Posted by hamburger on May, 16. :: 0 Comments
i bet the boy enjoyed the bus ride .
perhaps he would have liked to stay on a while longer .
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Missing boy took 28-mile bus trip
A three-year-old boy who went missing while out shopping with his mother went on a 28-mile (45km) bus journey before being found by a police officer.
Lee Loram was reported missing at 1240 BST after becoming separated from his mother and brother in Blackburn market.
A major search was launched and extra officers were drafted in from around Lancashire to look for him.
Police said Lee had got on a bus in Blackburn town centre and travelled to Bolton and back before he was spotted.
He was reunited with his mother soon afterwards, having been separated from her for more than three hours.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/england/lancashire/7405284.stm
Published: 2008/05/16 16:34:20 GMT
© BBC MMVIII
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