As Heard Today: Germs in everyday places
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Lightening Safety Tops from Tony Jackson
Personal Lightning Safety Tips
1. PLAN in advance your evacuation and safety measures. When you first see lightning or hear thunder, activate your emergency plan. Now is the time to go to a building or a vehicle. Lightning often precedes rain, so don’t wait for the rain to begin before suspending activities.
2. IF OUTDOORS…Avoid water. Avoid the high ground. Avoid open spaces. Avoid all metal objects including electric wires, fences, machinery, motors, power tools, etc. Unsafe places include underneath canopies, small picnic or rain shelters, or near trees. Where possible, find shelter in a substantial building or in a fully enclosed metal vehicle such as a car, truck or a van with the windows completely shut. If lightning is striking nearby when you are outside, you should:
A. Crouch down. Put feet together. Place hands over ears to minimize hearing damage from thunder.
B. Avoid proximity (minimum of 15 ft.) to other people.
3. IF INDOORS… Avoid water. Stay away from doors and windows. Do not use the telephone. Take off head sets. Turn off, unplug, and stay away from appliances, computers, power tools, & TV sets. Lightning may strike exterior electric and phone lines, inducing shocks to inside equipment.
4. SUSPEND ACTIVITIES for 30 minutes after the last observed lightning or thunder.
5. INJURED PERSONS do not carry an electrical charge and can be handled safely. Apply First Aid procedures to a lightning victim if you are qualified to do so. Call 911 or send for help immediately.
6. KNOW YOUR EMERGENCY TELEPHONE NUMBERS. (But be careful in using the phone!)
United Breaks Guitars Video
A musician from Canada on a United flight watched a baggage handler toss around his $3500 guitar, damaging it severely. His complaints and requests fro compensation were ignored for over a year, even though their were witnesses and video of the event. United refused responsibility for the damage. In frustration, the musician wrote a song and recorded a video which has become a You Tube sensation! Click here to watch.
The Ghost of Michael Jackson?
During a Larry King Live Interview at Neverland, cameras caught a shadow of what “seems to be” Michael himself pass quickly across his bedroom.
(Nearly) Impossible Question
Q. THESE are responsible for at least 2500 emergency room visits every year?
A. CELLPHONES—not paying attention getting in an accident—Talking on the phone and walking in front of a car—bike- another person
Amy Lyons was our winner!
Meet the controversial Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona
Sheriff Joe is the Maricopa Arizona County Sheriff who keeps getting re-elected over and over again.
Here are some of the reasons why:
He started chain gangs, which contribute thousands of dollars of free labor to the community. The male chain gang, and the world’s first-ever female and juvenile chain gangs, clean streets, paint over graffiti, and bury the indigent in the county cemetery. (He started chain gangs for women so he wouldn’t get sued for discrimination after starting chain gangs for men).
He started a tent city and makes the inmates sleep in them when out working. When inmates complain about the heat in the tents and out in the fields Sheriff Joe says “It’s 120 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers are living in tents too, and they have to wear full battle gear, but they didn’t commit any crimes, so shut your mouths!”
After learning of the calming, psychological effects of the color pink—he had prison cells painted pink and the inmates now use pink sheets, towels, & socks— in fact, everything the inmates wear, except for the old-fashioned black and white striped uniform, were dyed pink.
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He has jail meals down to 40 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them.
He stopped smoking and porno magazines in the jails.
Took away their weights.
He took away cable TV until he found out there was a federal court order that required cable TV for jails, so he hooked up the cable TV again…..BUT only let in the Disney channel and the Weather channel.
When asked why the weather channel, he replied, “So they will know how hot it’s gonna be while they are working on my chain gangs.”
Cut off all but ‘G’ movies.
He cut off coffee since it has zero nutritional value.
When the inmates complained, he told them, “This isn’t The Ritz/Carlton…… If you don’t like it, don’t come back.”
Finally, Maricopa County was spending approx. $18 million dollars a year on stray animals, like cats and dogs. Not anymore.
Sheriff Joe offered to take the department over, and the County Supervisors said okay. The animal shelters are now all staffed and operated by prisoners. They feed and care for the strays. Every animal in his care is taken out and walked twice daily. He now has prisoners who are experts in animal nutrition and behavior. They give great classes for anyone who’d like to adopt an animal. He has literally taken stray dog s off the street, given them to the care of prisoners, and had them place in dog shows. The best part? His budget for the entire department is now under $3 million. The prisoners get the benefit of about $0.28 an hour for working, but most would work for free, just to be out of their cells for the day.
Most of his budget is for utilities, building maintenance, etc.
Makes you think: Maybe if all prisons were like this one there would be a lot less crime and/or repeat offenders. Criminals should not live in luxury until it’s time for their parole, only to go out and commit another crime so they can get back in to live on taxpayers’ money and enjoy things taxpayers can’t afford to have for themselves.