I know I do not speak for the entire editorial staff, but I confess a sense of startlement at reading this post. I really ought to check on the various incidents in this story more thoroughly. If they are largely true as presented, as I suspect they are, it would do me well to wake up and realize that quite real, legal persecution of Christians is not just happening far away across the ocean where everything is strange and exotic. Canada is not so far away.
I have not accumulated a wealth of professional resources, but I know this one is a keeper. Evil HR Lady is the only professional blog I have read for hours at a time, and wished I was clearheaded enough to keep reading. She has one of those blogs that you are sure can explain the Click Here to continue reading.
Johnny Jackson, a 10-year-old American boy from South Carolina, died at home on Sunday from “dry drowning” more than an hour after going swimming and walking home with his mother. The sad event highlights a little known danger that parents and child carers should be aware of, that drowning can kill hours after being submersed in water.
Johnny’s mother, Cassandra Jackson, told NBC News in a story broadcast on the TODAY show on Thursday that:
“I’ve never known a child could walk around, talk, speak and their lungs be filled with water.”
This week’s poem of the week is A.E Housmen’s Here Dead We Lie.
The city of Washington has decided that since they can’t catch criminals they are going to try to control the movements of everyone going into certain neighborhoods. Lawdog lets them have it with both barrels.
Robert Kennedy’s 1948 Reports from Palestine is this week’s essay of the week.
We were building onto a hospital in Anniston, AL. This crane was only at about 200 feet but to me it was pretty high. They sway so much that I actually felt motion sick as I reached the top. Another thing that is about as common is to have the crane operator die in the crane of natural causes. I guess since most operators are usually older men and the cabs of the cranes get very hot, several of them have had heart attacks. By the time anyone knows what is going on and can get to them (it takes about 15-20 minutes to climb to the cab) they are already dead. One we know of died during a concrete pour. A lot of the high rise floors here are poured with a crane and buckets that holds 2-3 yards of concrete. The operator had enough wits about him when he realized what was happening to hit the emergency stop on the crane but he unfortunately, passed away.
You would think that if you where building a crane that could go 200 feet and more into the air you would be able to a afford the extra cost for some air conditioning won’t you? Maybe they don’t want the extra weight?
U.S. grains and oilseed futures markets caught fire on Friday, with corn notching an all-time high above $7 a bushel, caught in a frenzied broad-based commodity rally led by soaring crude oil, traders said.
Further boosting corn and soybean prices were worries about the young U.S. crops. Torrential rains pummeled the American heartland this week, increasing prospects for a yield drag on both.
Companies that make hard goods using raw materials derived from oil, like tires, toiletries, plastic packaging and computer screens, are watching their costs skyrocket, and they find themselves forced into unpleasant choices: Should they raise prices, shift to less costly procedures, cut workers, or all three?
The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company is trying to adapt. Its raw material of choice now is natural rubber rather than synthetic rubber, made from oil. To sustain profits, it is making more high-end tires for consumers willing to pay upwards of $100 to replace each tire on their cars.
These steps have not been enough, however, particularly now that the cost of natural rubber is also rising sharply, along with that of many other commodities. So Goodyear has raised the prices of its tires by 15 percent in just four months.
The article goes on to talk about how other companies are dealing with the high oil prices.