Barbara Skolaut, loyal Rantburg reader, has a book now available at Amazon. You can Kindle the sucker for a mere $2.99.
The title is, "10 Quick Craft Fair Bestsellers You Can Sew Using My Home Production Techniques." What's it about? What do you care! You're gonna buy it anyway.
Dig deep into yer wallets, citizens, and help the economy out...
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Sorry.
Not I.
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I "Binged" the author's name for a photograph (thinking she might sign it if I bought her book) and I think GBUSMC might be interested in the result. Could be a background pic for the Rantburg Defender-Scrimitar and Times Picayune.
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I have found hidden chapters on knitting with iron rings, Mail for all, kinda weird actually, I hope towards the expert section there is a knit your own Ladder Truck.
[An Nahar] Lindsay Lohan says this time it's going to be different.
In an interview that aired Sunday with Oprah Winfrey, the trouble-prone actress declared that this, her sixth stint in rehab, has put her on a path of recovery.
Lohan said she's in "a different head space" now and vowed to stay "present and clear-headed and focused."
"I feel whole again," she told Winfrey, "and I have such a desire to want to keep this feeling and stay this way, and I'm willing to do whatever it takes."
Lohan, 27, completed her latest court-ordered stay in rehab in July. She must continue therapy into late next year.
She acknowledged an addiction to alcohol, which "in the past was a gateway to other things for me," but she offered no specifics other than cocaine, which she said she has used no more than 15 times.
Winfrey asked her what she's on these days. Lohan replied, "Vitamins."
"You're not on any prescription drugs?" Winfrey pressed.
"No, no," Lohan insisted, then checked herself: "I take Nexium. Because I have acid reflux."
Clad in a form-fitting orange dress, Lohan said a comfort level with her past chaotic life had fed her much-reported partying and her brushes with the law. But she added that she takes full blame for her mistakes.
When Winfrey asked if she can turn her life around this time, Lohan said with no hesitation, "Yeah."
The interview aired as an episode of "Oprah's Next Chapter" on the Oprah Winfrey Network, which will spotlight Lohan next year in an eight-part docuseries based on her life.
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I have to admit she lookinga alot better than other times.
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Simply reclassify it as a Mexican consulate or since it's only 100 yard in, reroute the fence around the structure. Then for grins, let the cartel know we won't go in 'there'.
[An Nahar] An Australian woman has lived to tell the tale after being brought back to life from being clinically dead for 42 minutes, doctors said on Monday.
Mother-of-two Vanessa Tanasio, 41, was rushed to Monash Medical Centre in Melbourne last week after a major heart attack, with one of her main arteries fully blocked.
She went into cardiac arrest and was declared clinically dead soon after arrival.
Doctors refused to give up and used a compression device called a Lucas 2 -- the only one of its kind in Australia -- to keep blood flowing to her brain while cardiologist Wally Ahmar opened an artery to unblock it.
Once unblocked, Tanasio's heart was shocked back into a normal rhythm.
"(I used) multiple shocks, multiple medications just to resuscitate her," Ahmar said.
"Indeed this is a miracle. I did not expect her to be so well."
Tanasio said she had no history of heart conditions and was grateful to be alive.
"I remember being on my couch, then the floor, then arriving at hospital, and then two days go missing," Tanasio said.
"I was dead for nearly an hour and only a week later I feel great. It's surreal."
The Lucas device physically compresses the chest, like during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), allowing doctors to work non-stop to put a stent into a blocked artery.
It is the first a time a patient has successfully used the device, which was donated to the medical center, for such a length of time in Australia, the hospital said.
Clinical death is a medical term for when someone stops breathing and their blood stops circulating. Trained medical professionals refer to it as "coding" or "kicking the bucket."
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I wonder what the Doctors charged, the machine was free just the electricity to work it, so, ALL PROFIT. (Do Doctors overcharge? Does a Bear shit in the woods.)
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Medical pricing is a horror of incomprehensibility, a wallow for government regulation. Docs charge $450 for a procedure and Medicare allows them $10.77. They have to charge the $450 because there's an entire industry devoted to suing them, which means their insurance rates are through the roof.
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My favorite resuscitated patient was a fellow who suffered a cardiac arrest while I was at his side conversing with him. I could see this event coming, and had already uncovered his chest, applied conductive material to the paddles of the defibrillator and primed myself to give him the shock of his life. So when he developed an otherwise fatal heart rhythm, I called for help and then shocked him within 8 seconds or so of the event.
He immediately revived and said, "Gee, thanks"
I made the same amount that hour as I did for an hour in the ER when nothing whatsoever needed doing.
I'm sure the hospital billed him out the wazoo.
Docs charge $450 for a procedure and Medicare allows them $10.77. They have to charge the $450 because
It's way more complicated than that. No hospital or medical practice could survive if all they did was collect whatever Medicare paid them. Then there are the patients who pay nothing at all and get the same treatments. The non-payers then return again and again for more free treatment (as long as they survive). The US Gov't in its wisdom has forced EMTALA on nearly all emergency rooms & therefore nearly all hospitals. This unpaid mandate is NEVER discussed by the MSM or pundits. [I have read but can't cite a "fact" that the sum of all US physicians incomes is less than the cost of record-keeping done by their offices and by hospitals: e.g, if physicians worked for nothing, US healthcare would still be extremely expensive] So they charge everyone else extra.
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I wonder what the Doctors charged, the machine was free just the electricity to work it, so, ALL PROFIT.
The machine didn't fix the problem. RTFA. It kept blood flowing to the brain. The docs still had to go in and unblock an artery. That means a surgical team, facility use, after-surgical care and so on.
Average cost for post-myocardial infarction (that's 'heart attack', by the way) treatment in Coachella Valley is $150K. One-hundred-fifty-thousand-dollars. Considering that 10-15% of patients are brought from across the border (and go back without paying), indigent (that means 'poor'), or here illegally, that's a significant chunk of change that doesn't get recouped (that means 'someone eats the costs').
I suppose I could dig up the number of M.I. cases that aren't paid for to get you an accurate amount, but frankly, I know I'd be be wasting my time.
Assuming they found it laying in the street and didn't have to buy or maintain it. Never mind the network of research, engineering and manufacturing that lead to it existing in the first place.
I wonder if people turn away from liberal silliness as they get older because their brains mature enough to understand economics.
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The electricity and machine were simply tools - like a hammer. The cost comes in knowing how to use that hammer - where to place the impact, what angle, how much force. Of course in medicine it's much more complicated.
Do you know how to unblock an artery? Or even make a proper incision. (Well Dr. Steve probably does...) I sure don't.
Basically the 'cost' is for renting the doctor's expertise, experience, practice, and steady hand. As well as that of the nurses and attendants....
[An Nahar] A U.S. judge sentenced the number two leader of the Tijuana narco mob, Eduardo Arellano Felix, to 15 years in prison Monday after he pleaded guilty to money laundering. U.S. District Judge Larry Burns said Arellano's crimes had "terrible effects ... And for that, you should be ashamed."
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... And for that, you should be ashamed.
The judge didn't get the memo. Shame has been officially removed from the culture, except as a means to exploit silly conservatives who think its still exists.
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They won't 'harvest' the organs. They'll 'collect' them instead.
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#2 They won't 'harvest' the organs. They'll 'collect' them instead.
"What we've got to do is spread these organs around a little bit. We can't continue to let the folks who don't have enough organs continue to unfairly bear the burden of the one percent of Chinese who have more organs than they need."
[Dawn] Over five hundred villages were inundated in Multan, Jhang and Kamoke on Sunday as floods started threatening more regions in Punjab.
According to the flood forecasting centre, India has released another 114,000 cusecs of water into the Sutlej and the peak is expected to reach Ganda Singhwala on Monday. It is likely to cause medium flood.
Flood in the Indus, Chenab, Ravi and tributaries of the latter two continued to affect life, property and crops over a vast area in Sialkot Division.
Raging waters of the Indus in Sindh's riverine areas have forced people to shift to safe places after leaving their crops and homes at the mercy of the river.
The floodwater from Nullah Dek entered Kamoke after playing havoc in Narowal, Pasrur and Gujranwala, inundating 100 villages.
The water level in the Chenab at Jhang was rising, affecting 300 villages and damaging crops and structures.
According to an official of the Meteorological Department, any further strong monsoon system can generate massive river and urban flooding because almost all dams in Pakistain and India have filled to their capacity.
The official told Dawn that the land in Punjab was saturated because of the current six-day rain spell. "This means more rainwater would flow over the soil causing urban flooding. Let's pray there is no stronger monsoon system," he said.
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They bitched about not enough water last week.
Enough?
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Filed under Israel as there is currently no category for irrelevant, old British hippies. Few surprises he's partnered with the Red Arch [Desmond Tutu]. The BDS site is informative however, if you're seeking a legitimate example of apartheid.
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Don't blame it on dope. He's just a turd, born that way....
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Meanwhile Christian Copt Churches burn in Egypt in a ethnic cleansing war by the MB. The man has no concept of 'apartheid', particularly the 'one drop' rule, right Mr. Zimmerman.
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How many Jews live in Iraq, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, or any of other Arab/Muslim countries? In contrast, how many Muslim Arabs live (and prosper) in Israel?
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What do people admire about Waters?
Is it the clever and 'innovative' way he makes pig grunts come out of his organ?
Is it because this monstrous ego has been able to sell his senseless drivel to millions of pimply-faced, depressed suburban adolescents?
Or the complete lack of any soul he imparts to his sound-effect making?
Or maybe they admire his ability to make a vast fortune, performing the above.
The mindless sit in a mind-numbing concrete football stadium with 80,000 like them in a swooning admiration that allows themselves to vicariously experience his financial and ego-satisfying success?
Perhaps it's a homoerotic thing? Waters does have large biceps.
I've always wondered what made such narcissistic noise men so self-righteous, especially this piece of hypocritical arrogant British Eurotrash.
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Saw him last year in San Francisco. He sucked. Depressing, preachy music and lyrics with equally depressing, preachy video show. Did I say he sucked??, cause he really sucked.
[GWU National Security Archive] Possibly one of the first of many interventions to follow. Certainly worked out well over the long-term. Point of trivia and link to current events, Issa was also born in 1953, obviously he'd have no frame of reference of this event.
[CNN] -- Four State Department workers who were put on leave after last year's attack on a U.S. mission in Libya will be allowed to resume work, but in different positions, a senior State Department official told CNN on Tuesday. Different positions for what purpose
The official said Secretary of State John Kerry has affirmed an earlier report's findings that no one should be fired for the Benghazi mission attack in September, which killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. Stern lectures ?
But the sanctioned State employees -- put on leave after an Accountability Review Board report in December found bureaucratic failures at State in the run-up to the attack -- will be reassigned to different jobs in the department, the official said.
The employees' fate has been a point of interest for lawmakers who've accused the Obama administration of not bolstering security before the attack and of botching the response to it. Lawmaker's who are now conveniently on recess. Highlighting fixed. AoS.
[An Nahar] U.S. military prosecutors demanded Monday that Private Bradley Manning spend at least 60 years in jail for handing a vast trove of secret files to anti-secrecy site WikiLeaks.
Captain Joe Morrow urged trial judge Colonel Denise Lind to impose a tough sentence to "send a message to any soldier contemplating stealing classified information."
The 25-year-old former army intelligence analyst has been convicted on a raft of espionage and theft charges that could see him placed in durance vile Please don't kill me! for more than a century.
But Lind is conducting a sentencing at Fort Meade, a military base just outside Washington, to decide how long the young man, who has apologized, should serve.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[An Nahar] Lindsay Lohan says this time it's going to be different.
[An Nahar] An Australian woman has lived to tell the tale after being brought back to life from being clinically dead for 42 minutes, doctors said on Monday.
[Dawn] Over five hundred villages were inundated in Multan, Jhang and Kamoke on Sunday as floods started threatening more regions in Punjab.
