Daily Dose - 020403 - naming the towers, Rotten News, for Bid on Ebay, DDL, Hey Martha
Good old Dr. Mark passed along an excerpt from an article written by Jonah Goldberg about naming the towers that will replace the World Trade Center:
"My favorite suggestion came from one reader who said we should rebuild the Towers with the names Freedom and Unity, and let the terrorists figure out what the initials stand for."
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Rotten News... (true)
Missing man found dead in hospital after a month
Subject of lengthy search, elderly man suffering from dementia, found inside VGH
Yvonne Zacharias
Vancouver Sun
Tuesday, January 29, 2002
Exactly one month to the day after an 80-year-old man with dementia disappeared from Vancouver Hospital, shaken medical staff said Monday that his body had been located inside the building.
The body of Allen Goulding, a lifelong Vancouver resident, was found in an isolated room at about 4:30 Monday during a second sweep of the hospital. The first search last month didn't find the body in an area off-limits to patients. The senior had wandered off from a stretcher in the hallway of the emergency department, not to be seen again.
"We are saddened that this event has occurred," Dr. John Shepherd, executive-director of medical affairs at the hospital, said in an interview Monday evening. He added the hospital will be conducting a thorough assessment of all policies and procedures as a result of the tragedy.
Police and the coroner's office were at the scene conducting their own investigation.
Goulding had arrived by ambulance on the morning of Dec. 28. The charge nurse noticed he was missing about two hours later. The police were called in and the family was notified that evening.
Shepherd said a massive search for the missing senior was launched and continued through to Jan. 3. After a meeting between hospital staff and the family four days ago, a second search was held over the past weekend, concluding Monday with the terrible discovery.
Shepherd couldn't explain how Goulding had slipped into the area or how the discovery wasn't made in the first search. He would only say that "the body was well away from an area where it would have been visible. This is an area where someone might not go for weeks and weeks at a time."
The day he disappeared, Goulding had been brought to the emergency department from a seniors' home where staff found he had been aggressive.
Goulding's daughter, Marie Vogel, has publicly questioned why her father, who also suffered from pneumonia, was allowed to wander away.
© Copyright 2002 Vancouver Sun
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Actor sues over alleged dangerous dust in 'Apes' shoot
By ANTHONY BREZNICAN AP Entertainment Writer
Published 3:10 p.m. PST Thursday, Jan. 31, 2002
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A background actor from last summer's "Planet of the Apes" movie accused the filmmakers of harming him and hundreds of others with dust used in a climactic desert fight scene.
Jeffrey Clark seeks unspecified damages from studio Fox Entertainment Group for alleged fraud, battery, conspiracy and negligence, according to the proposed class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday.
About 80,000 pounds of Fuller's Earth, a sedimentary clay used for absorbing chemicals and oils, were tossed into the air with giant wind machines during the production, the lawsuit said.
Extras involved in the scene - a battle between human slaves and their ape rulers - were exposed to the dust for hours at a time without breathing masks, according to the lawsuit.
As a result, Clark said he suffered lingering eye irritation and respiratory problems.
It is unclear, however, whether other background performers have joined the lawsuit. Clark's attorney did not immediately return calls for comment. Fuller's Earth is routinely used to produce dust effects in movies. The International Cinematographers Guild recommends limited use of the product and only in well-ventilated areas. The guild also suggests that crews wear proper breathing protection.
Limited exposure to the clay is not dangerous except for those with chronic asthma or other respiratory ailments. Fuller's Earth is also used in some cat litter and oily skin health treatments, and the dust is not toxic unless previously used to soak up a poison.
Clark alleges he was exposed to the dust for 10 to 12 days at six or eight hours at a time. He and other extras were paid about $8 an hour.
Fox officials did not immediately return calls for comment.
The 2001 movie, a remake of the 1968 Charlton Heston thriller, chronicled the adventures of an Earth astronaut (Mark Wahlberg) who lands on a planet populated by intelligent primates who enslaved a race of humans.
Directed by Tim Burton, best known for 1988's "Batman," the $100-million sci-fi adventure earned about $180 million domestically.
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DDL
A pathetic old maid of Bordeaux
Fell in love with a dashing young beau.
To entice his regard
She would squat in his yard
And appealingly piss in the snow.
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"The word 'aerobics' came about when the gym instructors got together and said: If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it Jumping up and down."
-Rita Rudner
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"I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of child birth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper."
-Emo Philips
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"All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific."
- Lily Tomlin
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Hey Martha (true)
Friday, December 21, 2001
Woman tried to escape in police's car
MIAMI (AP) -- A woman who allegedly stole $900 worth of clothing from a mall department store chose the wrong place to hide when she slipped away from security guards, police said.
According to police, Marsha Reid, 19, jumped into the parked car of two off-duty police officers in an ill-fated attempt to evade capture.
Reid, of suburban Lauderhill, was charged Thursday with retail theft, resisting arrest without violence and escaping from police.
Security guards at Dadeland Mall stopped Reid and her teen-age friend as they tried to leave a store with bags full of clothes they hadn't paid for, according to police reports.
Reid slipped out of her handcuffs, ran to the parking lot and climbed inside a parked car that had its front door open. The Ford Taurus belonged to two Miami-Dade Police officers, Maj. Grace O'Donnell and her husband, Lt. James O'Donnell, who were putting purchases in the trunk.
A security guard ran to the lot and the officers directed him to the suspect inside the car.