Frau has one game she likes. I bought it for her eons ago. Naturally it doesn’t work on Vista. Argh! Trek back to the developer. It’s site suggested running it in compatibility mode. Works. But now it times out as unregistered. Luckily I have our serial number. Back to the developers site, and download. Install. (Twice. Vista burped.) Register it by typing in a huge serial number. (Darn, I’m good got it right on the first try despite Dell’s pop up in the middle of things. Let see what goes wrong next.
TECHNOLOGY: Getting back Frau’s game
Sunday, September 9, 2007
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PRODUCTIVITY: Power Napping
Sunday, September 9, 2007http://ririanproject.com/2007/09/05/10-benefits-of-power-napping-and-how-to-do-it
10 Benefits of Power Napping, and How to Do It
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How Long Is A Good Nap?
# THE NANO-NAP: 10 to 20 seconds. Sleep studies haven’t yet concluded whether there are benefits to these brief intervals, like when you nod off on someone’s shoulder on the train.
# THE MICRO-NAP: two to five minutes. Shown to be surprisingly effective at shedding sleepiness.
# THE MINI-NAP: five to 20 minutes. Increases alertness, stamina, motor learning, and motor performance.
# THE ORIGINAL POWER NAP: 20 minutes. Includes the benefits of the micro and the mini, but additionally improves muscle memory and clears the brain of useless built-up information, which helps with long-term memory (remembering facts, events, and names).
# THE LAZY MAN’S NAP: 50 to 90 minutes. Includes slow-wave plus REM sleep; good for improving perceptual processing; also when the system is flooded with human growth hormone, great for repairing bones and muscles.
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Always seemed like a smart idea. But not in an american workplace.
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NATIONAL: Putting the gooferment in health care .. ya gotta be kiddin
Sunday, September 9, 2007http://www.telegraphbusinessclub.co.uk/default.asp?p_id=search&showresults=1&showarticle=2261
A helping hand with checking patients
Consultant David Morgan tells Philip Smith why he’s invested in technology to give medical staff instant access to records.
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According to the National Patient Safety Agency, each year tens of thousands of NHS patients are given the wrong treatment or operation because of mistaken identity – and it can be very serious.
“There are the famous stories of people having the wrong kidney removed. As it was their only functioning kidney, the patients died,” said David Morgan, a consultant ENT surgeon at Birmingham Heartlands NHS Trust.
It’s a startling statistic even when placed in the context of a health service providing 49m hospital treatments a year. “The errors are usually the result of both human and system errors. It’s usually down to the operating list being changed at the last minute which can happen for a number of reasons,” he added.
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While doing casual duty while in the USAF waiting for orders in TX in 1970 (i.e., casual duty was making you a gopher while you were idle), I was assigned to the base hospital. (I had both civilian EMT training and the USAF survival schools under my belt.) In this role I was considered more useful than a candy stripper but less than a janitor. It was the first time, while waiting to transport a patient to the OR, that I saw an old full bird colonel surgeon say to a patient: “This leg, right?”. And, he had his crew of junior wanna bees, all agreeing. And, (I was stunned), he whips out this big old black magic marker and proceeds to write on the OTHER leg “wrong leg” all over it. He smiled knowingly and said “just to be sure”. Then to me “airmen, this man is ready for transport. Don’t drop him at the exit.” Everyone laughed at his joke. (He struck me as the kinda guy who didn’t take to mistakes.) Later, in my training, (that I never got to use), I was taught that when giving pain killers in the field to mark foreheads with Ax’s in lipstick and write details in magic marker on the stomach to prevent overdoses. Seems like these bozos in NHS could learn from the good colonel with some X’s and O’s. I think, if I was a patient, I’d have someone mark me as sort of self-help or self-defense. And we laff at witch doctors at least they don’t kill you with their pixie dust. Argh!
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JOBSEARCH: My quote for all my turkeys
Saturday, September 8, 2007http://home.comcast.net/~v2y2r0n27rhj6y/My_generic_survival_pack.htm
I was quoted more than a decade ago in Execunet saying
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“Time has not stood still. Age is not respected. Experience is not valued. And, Education is not revered.”
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More true today than a decade ago.
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USA: Ron Paul’s after the debate report!
Saturday, September 8, 2007FROM RON’S EMAIL TO THE FAITHFUL
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September 7, 2007
Has this been a hectic and encouraging time! First we got almost 17% in the Texas straw poll, an event set-up to represent the establishment, with very restrictive voting rules. That 17% of the Republican hierarchy would support our views, after a full day of pro-war propaganda, is good news. Then we won the more open Maryland Republican straw poll with 28%. In both cases, as usual, hard-working, well-organized volunteers made all the difference.
The Fox debate was a lot of fun as well. It’s true that a few of the network people are not exactly with us on foreign or domestic policy (though one famous guy whispered to me that he is a libertarian), but the audience-with lots of students from the University of New Hampshire-was definitely fair and balanced, as their enthusiastic reaction showed.
My opponents called for more war, more torture, more secret prisons, more eavesdropping, more presidential power. Some seemed to identify the government and the people as if they were one entity. But you and I know that once the government moves beyond its very limited constitutional mandate, it is an opponent of the people, a rip-off operation that takes our money and our freedom and our social peace, and gives us a mess of statist pottage in return.
The government failed miserably on 911 to protect us, despite spending trillions. So the answer was supposed to be the giant, socialist Department of Homeland Security, protecting you and me from taking our toothpaste on the airplane. I was ridiculed for saying that the airlines, which know best how to protect their property, should have been allowed to arm their pilots. But then, you and I really believe in the Second Amendment. It is not just a political slogan for us.
When I discussed the blowback that came from us intervening on the Arabian peninsula, Chris Wallace asked me if I wanted to follow the marching orders of al-Qaeda. I responded that I wanted to follow the marching orders of the Constitution, and not wage undeclared, aggressive wars that cause us only trouble. This is a mystifying to some, of course, but not to more and more Americans.
There was much talk of taxes, and a pledge not to raise rates. But as usual, I was not allowed to discuss my lifelong pledge to abolish the income tax. Just holding the line, when the government takes such vast sums through an illegitimate guilty-until-proven-innocent system, is hardly enough. We need to slash taxes and spending if we are to have a future of prosperity for ourselves and our families.
After the debate, many young people gathered around the stage to discuss our ideas and ask questions about them (and to have me sign their badges). My colleagues got no such response, and after a few moments, “security” ordered me off the stage. Can’t have any such demonstration of interest in liberty.
But the young are with us, and so are Americans of every stripe. Even party officials. When one of my opponent said it was OK to lose elections through supporting the Iraq war, that set party people’s teeth on edge, and rightly so. The Republican party is shrinking. We need new people. It’s either our ideas or President Hillary, and more and more people recognize it.
But the media, and everyone else, will be looking at fundraising totals at the end of this month. They’ll judge us by how we do. And we need help to wage what we hope will be a full-scale, 50-state campaign. Please help me head into the next quarter fully armed to do battle for freedom, peace and prosperity. Make your most generous contribution https://www.ronpaul2008.com/donate/. This Revolution is on the move, but it very much needs your support.
Sincerely,
Ron
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Go Ron Paul!
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PRODUCTIVITY: Put a little Zen in your daily reading
Saturday, September 8, 2007May I suggest that this site is worth the investment of your attention?
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TECHNOLOGY: Not recommended for airline travel CVS glucose syrup
Saturday, September 8, 2007NOT RECOMMENDED
For those of you who are a diabetic or travel with one, CVS produces a small 2 ounce glucose syrup for low blood sugar reactions. (A liquid that can be drizzled into the mouth carefully to avoid choking is ideal. There is a paste, a little like tooth paste, that you administer similarly. It’s a little harder to work with than the syrup. Clearly, a glycogen injection syringe is the gold standard, but the TSA might take a dim view of it.)
Anyway, this is not recommended for airline travel. The change in cabin pressure causes seepage. (It was in a plastic bag. But everything in the bag with it was sticky.)
Imagine if you had it in your pocket? Yuck!
By extension, I would suggest that all liquids, even those sealed might be subject to the same effect.
Forewarned is “four armed”!
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USA: What a small DOD should do
Saturday, September 8, 2007http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance119.html
DOD 101
by Laurence M. Vance
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The purpose of the U.S. military should be to defend the United States. That’s it. Nothing more. Using the military for anything else perverts the purpose of the military. It is not the purpose of the U.S. military to spread democracy or goodwill, remove dictators, change a regime, fight communism or Islam, train foreign armies, open foreign markets, protect U.S. commercial interests, provide disaster relief, or provide humanitarian aid. The U.S. military should be engaged exclusively in defending the United States, not defending other countries, and certainly not attacking them. Now that is real DOD 101.
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I would quibble ever so slightly that providing disaster relief is a good training exercise. With a vastly reduced military necessary to defend the Constitutional US of A, they may need “stuff” to do to keep them from being “flabby”. So helping in a NOLA or a forest fire might be good “exercise”. A small quibble.
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GUNS: You never hear about the “good” use of guns in the news
Friday, September 7, 2007http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/viewpoints/articles/0902korwin0902.html
Guns vital to our freedom, but schools demonize them
Alan Korwin
Special for The Republic
Sept. 2, 2007 12:00 AM
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Guns save lives. Guns stop crime. Guns protect people. Guns are good. Guns are actually fun when you go to a range and practice. You never hear about that in the news, though, because, like the education establishment, the news media basically has a zero-tolerance policy for stories that show the truth about guns. This is linked directly to student suspensions for gun sketches.
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Seems simple.
The police CAN NEVER stop crime. They just clean up. The people, the militia, are the the thing that stops crime.
The gooferment FEARS an armed citizenry since you can’t control an armed populace.
And, genocide requires disarmed people!
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INTERESTING: Alongside; not under!
Friday, September 7, 2007http://www.greatdreams.com/earthquake-survival.htm
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9) People inside of their vehicles are crushed when the road above falls in an earthquake and crushes their vehicles; which is exactly what happened with the slabs between the decks of the Nimitz Freeway. The victims of the San Francisco earthquake all stayed inside of their vehicles. They were all killed.
They could have easily survived by getting out and sitting or lying next to their vehicles, says the author. Everyone killed would have survived if they had been able to get out of their cars and sit or lie next to them. All the crushed cars had voids 3 feet high next to them, except for the cars that had columns fall directly across them.
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Alongside; not under!
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