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AFTER 40 YEARS, AGE DISCRIMINATION STILL GETS SECOND -CLASS TREATMENT

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:27:30 GMT

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clipper's remarks: IT WAS SIMPLY A"FACT"OF LIFE THE COURT SAID,WITH "NO DISPARAGING UNDERTONES."

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

After 40 Years, Age Discrimination Still Gets Second-Class Treatment

After working for a vending machine company for more than 20 years, James O’Connor was replaced with someone younger. He sued. He testified that his boss had disparaged older workers, including saying — two weeks before he was fired — “O’Connor, you are too damn old for this kind of work.” A federal court was unmoved, ruling in 1995 that he had not connected the bigoted comments to his firing.

When two older supervisors at a light bulb company were fired and sued, their claim of age discrimination was denied. A federal appeals court ruled in 1994 that the statement by the company’s vice president that “there comes a time when we have to make way for younger people” was “irrelevant.” It was simply a “fact of life,” the court said, with “no disparaging undertones.”

Tags: age, second, class, discrimination

10 ways to beat stress

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:54:39 GMT

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Clip Source: lifestyle.ca.msn.com

10 Ways to Beat Stress in 10 Minutes — or Less!

When the world presses down on you, preserve your sanity — and your looks — by taking a few moments to fight back.

5 Seconds: Pop Fish Oil

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A second chance at life, thanks to strangers on a train

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:04:57 GMT

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Mr. Medaglia and Dr. Tolani rode the subway downtown together… He’d missed the 5:13 train and while he was waiting at Penn Station for the 5:59, a woman came up and said, “You did the CPR on that guy, is he really going to live?”

“I said I think so,” recalled Mr. Medaglia. “She blew me a kiss. She said, ‘God bless you — you did a great thing.’ I just sat on the train home, thinking, ‘Holy Jesus.’ ”

…This was Lieutenant Kelly’s fourth CPR call in 13 years. The three other aideds all died. “Best thing I ever did in my life,” he said…

Having gotten a second chance, Mr. Kiernan, a lifelong bachelor, said he is trying to be a better partner to his longtime girlfriend and is trying to eat more carefully, drink less, and seize each day a little more. “I’m not religious,” he said, “but I keep thinking, ‘Who put that cardiologist on the train?’ Coming home tonight, I looked around the subway car — there wasn’t anybody who looked like a cardiologist.”

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

FIVE days a week, Michael Kiernan, 50, a computer network administrator, makes the 90-minute commute home

On Friday, Oct. 16, he was in his usual spot when the doors opened at 125th Street. Two court officers he knows usually get on, but didn’t, and he thought to himself that he must be the only one who’d made his connections just right. Then the doors closed, the train started, and he collapsed.

He appeared to be having a grand mal seizure. He was flailing and foaming from the mouth, fists clenched, body tight. I figured the seizure would pass, but in seconds he turned a deep, deep blue. A frightening blue. Someone shouts, ‘Is there a doctor?’ ”

There was: Dr. Sonia Tolani, 32, a cardiology fellow at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia, fresh from work in green scrubs

The machine said “charging,” then delivered the shock. The body arched and fell. Still no pulse. Two more minutes of CPR, a second shock. Nothing. “I’m thinking, ‘No way he’s coming back,’ ” Dr. Tolani recalled.

Tags: life, death, altruism, cpr

Disney On Ice Tickets Lafayette

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:16:02 GMT

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Clip Source: upcoming.yahoo.com

Disney On Ice Tickets Lafayette

Cajundome in Lafayette, LA

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A century of Disney fun comes to life in Disney On Ice: 100 Years of Magic."Old school favorites Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, and Donald share the ice with their contemporary friends Simba, Aladdin and Buzz in this unforgettable family adventure. Get your Disney On Ice tickets now and catch this amazing event at the Cajundome in Lafayette, LA from November 19 to 22, 2009. Filled with music and memories, you won't want to miss one second of this century. Book a pair of Disney on Ice tickets – Lafayette today to be there!

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Interview with Bishop Bernard Fellay, FSPX

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:53:32 GMT

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Clip Source: www.dici.org

With the lifting of the decree of excommunication, the doctrinal discussions will be taking place between Rome and the Fraternity of St. Pius X. What is the goal of these discussions?
The goal that we wish to achieve with these doctrinal discussions is an important clarification in the teaching of the Church in recent years. Indeed, the Fraternity Saint Pius X, in union with its founder, Archbishop Lefebvre, had serious objections to the Second Vatican Council and we hope that the discussions will help to dispel the errors or the severe ambiguities that have since been spread with full hands throughout the Catholic Church, as John Paul II himself recognized.

We must be realistic. The return, the restoration of the church will take time. The crisis in the Church has affected all aspects of Christian life. To come out of this situation will take more than a generation of constant effort in the right direction – perhaps a century.

Tags: fraternity saint pius x, fspx, roman catholic church, traditionalists, vaticanum ii

Aion Veteran Rewards Coming Soon! | EpicToon Blog

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:43:38 GMT

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Clip Source: blog.epictoon.com

Aion Veteran Rewards Coming Soon!

Starting November 4, those of you who have played Aion for a month or more will benefit with the various treats presented by the Veteran Rewards. Now the concept behind the new system is pretty simple: the longer you play the game, the cooler stuff you get!

Available on the first day of each subscription month starting with the second month, the first Veteran Rewards package consists of the following: an Expand Cube Ticket to expand your inventory space, a Pop Legend dance emote to get funky with, four Lodas Amulets to boost your experience gain, and four Revival Stones to bring life and light when things look grim.

Learn more about Aion with EpicToon.com’s Aion Guides and get ahead of the competition with Aion Kinah.

Tags: aion, veteran, rewards

Getting out of a bad relationship

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:46:32 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Everybody commits mistakes and sometimes, those mistakes involve entering into the wrong kind of relationships or ending up entering into romantic relationships with the wrong person.

Clip Source: gaysextoys2.pbworks.com

Getting out of a bad relationship

Everybody commits mistakes and sometimes, those mistakes involve entering into the wrong kind of relationships or ending up entering into romantic relationships with the wrong person. At the very least we end up being unhappy and staying so by remaining in these relationships and at the worst, we can get physically and emotionally hurt and scarred for life.

It should however be kept in mind, that should you be experiencing any abuse from your partner or are in an abusive relationship then there should be no second thoughts about walking out on the abusive partner at the soonest possible time.

You can try using adult sex toys such as dildos and classic vibrators if these urges overwhelm you.

Tags: bad-relationship

Galilean Nights In Argentina

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:15:38 GMT

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Clip Source: www.skyandtelescope.com

The first Galilean Night (Thursday, Oct. 22) was a total success at the planetarium in Buenos Aires. Five hundred people gathered here to look at the Moon and Jupiter with our two biggest scopes (11- and 12-inch SCTs, and to learn something about Galileo´s life and contributions to the modern astronomy. Half of them had never seen the sky with a big telescope, including more than 100 children, who observed the Moon and Jupiter shouting "Wow," "Wonderful," "Incredible"!

On Friday it was cloudy. But our second Galilean Night, on Saturday, was even better, with 700 visitors.

For us these Galilean Nights are very, very special, because our planetarium´s name is... Galileo Galilei!

Flu Attack! How A Virus Invades Your Body

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:29:18 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Watch the movie

Clip Source: www.npr.org

It starts very simply. A virus, just one, latches on to one of your cells and fools that cell into making lots more. Lots, lots more, like a million new viruses. This animation shows you how viruses trick healthy cells to join the dark side.

Credit: Robert Krulwich; Jason Orfanon; David Bolinsky; Animation courtesy Zirus/XVIVO

David Bolinsky and his team at XVIVO designed this animation for a research company called Zirus (and we thank Zirus for letting us play with their pictures). Bolinsky says what you see in the video actually happens much, much faster in real life — in a fraction of a fraction of a second. So this is a very slow motion version of cellular activity.

And for those of you who were wondering, yes, the designers did add color. Proteins, DNA, organelles, and the teeny things inside a human cell are so small, and the insides of cells are so dark, that for all practical purposes, they are colorless.

One Last Thing

In our video we ask, if a flu virus inside your body can

Millennium Technology Prize

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:04:01 GMT

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Clip Source: www.millenniumprize.fi

The Millennium Technology Prize is Finland's tribute to life-enhancing technological innovations. The prize has been established to steer the course of technological development to a more humane direction. In particular, the prize seeks to highlight innovations that assist and enrich our everyday lives today as well as in the future.

The prize is awarded every second year. Nominations for the prize can be made by academies, universities, research institutes and industrial organizations. Candidates are sought from across the world and all fields of technology.

The Millennium Technology Prize is the world's biggest technology prize and it is awarded by the Technology Academy Foundation, an independent fund established by Finnish industry and the Finnish state in partnership.

Clip Source: www.millenniumprize.fi

The three winners of the Millennium Technology Prize talked about their current research at a technology symposium held in the Finnish Embassy in Washington.

Tags: technology, finland, millennium, prize

StableInterest.com

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:59:35 GMT

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clipper's remarks: StableInterest.com
http://www.stfmonitor.com/?a=details&lid=1534

Clip Source: www.stableinterest.com

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Pardon Me, but Your Sycophancy Is Showing

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:47:42 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Commentary on how some people make statements without knowing the facts. Also some good info on U.S. Grants memoirs and Teddy Roosevelt.

Clip Source: www.commentarymagazine.com

Pardon Me, but Your Sycophancy Is Showing

It’s amazing how many people seem not to know where to look information up, or perhaps don’t care, as they have things other than accuracy on their agenda. Take Rocco Landesman, the new head of the National Endowment of the Arts. In a speech in Brooklyn last week, he said of Barack Obama, “This is the first president that actually writes his own books since Teddy Roosevelt and arguably the first to write them really well since Lincoln.”

Third, Landesman implicitly accuses Theodore Roosevelt of being, unlike Barack Obama, a second-rate writer. Roosevelt wrote a total of 38 books in his life (not to mention countless magazine articles and thousands of letters, all while holding a day job and living only sixty years). His first, The Naval War of 1812, written when he was 23, is considered a basic historical text on that subject and is still both highly readable and in print. Will The Audacity of Hope be in print a 125 years after it was published?

Rural Banking

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:58:08 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Rural Banks in the Philippines traces its beginnings with the enactment of the Republic Act 720 in June 1952.

Clip Source: www.philippine-trivia.com

Rural Banking

The establishment of rural banks in the Philippines traces its beginnings with the enactment of Republic Act 720 in June 1952. The Act envisioned the rural banks "to promote and expand the rural economy in an orderly and effective manner by providing the people of the rural communities with the means of facilitating and improving their productive activities and to encourage cooperatives. "

The enactment was done at the time when the country was reeling from the devastation of the Second World War and the rural areas, home to 85% of the population then, were truly underdeveloped. The rural banks, under the rules, regulation and supervision of the Central Bank of the Philippines, continuously provide credit and other banking services to farmers, fisherfolks and rural businesspeople to improve the quality of life in the countryside.

Stamp Commemoration

To commemorate the 50 years of Rural Banking

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Tags: banking, history, philippines, institutions, society, stamps, commemoration, trivia

NASA: "Calling Planet Earth" -Life is Not Going to End in 2012!

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:07:53 GMT

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Clip Source: www.dailygalaxy.com

It's official: the same wingnut segment of American society that brought you "intelligent design" is now so ignorant rocket scientists have to interrupt exploring the universe to tell them to pack it in. NASA's "Ask an astrobiologist" expert has been inundated with inquiries about the world ending in 2012, forcing Presidential-award-winning scientist Dr David Morrison to write an article explaining how "Hollywood sometimes makes things up."

The doomsday theories are as numerous as they are idiotic, i.e. astoundingly, but three main contenders dominate the common cretin's consternation. The first is the idea that the Mayan calendar ends in 2012. First, no it doesn't - there's just a synchronization of a few of the many calendars they used for various religious, agricultural and social functions. Second, this coincidence of calendars did reset the numbers they used to describe the cycles, but it's about as apocalyptic as ending your Dilbert office calendar - the

A Virtual Clinic to Treat the Stresses of War

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:34:59 GMT

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Clip Source: bits.blogs.nytimes.com

By Claire Cain Miller

Many veterans are coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan with serious problems, like post-traumatic stress disorder, but only one-third get medical help. One researcher has built a healing center for veterans in a virtual world, where she hopes they will be more comfortable seeking care.

Jacquelyn Ford Morie is a senior researcher at the Institute for Creative Technologies at the University of Southern California. She formerly did animation for Disney. She calls her current project, which she presented at the Web 2.0 Summit on Thursday, Coming Home.

The healing center is in Second Life, a virtual world. It has a big lodge, where people can spend time and talk with each other, anonymously if they prefer. They can sit around a fireplace, play games in the game room or relax on a deck next to a waterfall. They can climb a tower, where they will meet a historical warrior who tells them stories about his life.