What is on your mind

[Daniela]

I hate the name of Pantone's color of the year for 2015

[Kobi]

Canadian driver jailed for deaths caused by stopping for ducks:

OTTAWA (Reuters) - A Canadian woman was sentenced to 90 days in jail on Thursday for causing two deaths in 2010 when she stopped her car on a Quebec highway to help a group of ducklings crossing the road.

Emma Czornobaj had been convicted in June of two counts each of criminal negligence and dangerous driving causing death.

According to media reports on Thursday, Czornobaj stopped her car abruptly in the passing lane of a highway south of Montreal when she saw the ducklings. The motorcycle behind Czornobaj's car then crashed into her vehicle, killing the 50-year-old man driving the motorcycle and his 16-year-old daughter.

"I just wanted to pick all these ducklings up and put them in my car," Czornobaj had testified during her trial. "I know it was a mistake."

The jail time will be served on the weekends. Czornobaj was also sentenced to 240 hours of community service, probation and banned from driving for 10 years.

Prosecutors had sought a nine-month jail sentence.

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I want to know what happened to the ducks.

[CherryWine]

It is awful that two people were killed, but I don't know a single person who would just plow over a group of ducklings. Most people would instinctively stop. I'm sure the lady would have done differently if she had known it would cause a fatal accident. Seems a bit harsh. And, yes, hopefully the ducklings were okay, too.

[Gemme]

Originally Posted by CherryWine

It is awful that two people were killed, but I don't know a single person who would just plow over a group of ducklings. Most people would instinctively stop. I'm sure the lady would have done differently if she had known it would cause a fatal accident. Seems a bit harsh. And, yes, hopefully the ducklings were okay, too.

I have to disagree with you on this.

She was in the LEFT lane on a busy highway. She could have moved her car to the right lane, parked on the shoulder and then tried to help the ducklings. But she stopped her car. Suddenly. In the LEFT LANE. No warning.

You can't tell me she didn't know the shit storm she was starting. Two innocent people died because of the natural selection moment that should have been hers.

A motorcycle has a better chance of maneuvering around small, fast moving creatures than a four wheeler does anyway.

Even though speed was a factor, I feel hard-pressed to believe that they would have died if her car wasn't there.

I think the 90 day sentence is laughable. I like the 10 year driving ban though.

I'm with Kobi. I want to know what happened to the ducklings.

[girlin2une]

Family....

[girl_dee]

Waking up at exactly 12:34 and being so wide awake

[Smiling]

lol, well I can forget about getting that job. I didn't anticipate being so thrown off by a phone interview; ugh. Mercifully, I was put out of my misery quickly.

Definitely not one of my finest moments.

[Daniela]

Originally Posted by Smiling

lol, well I can forget about getting that job. I didn't anticipate being so thrown off by a phone interview; ugh. Mercifully, I was put out of my misery quickly.

Definitely not one of my finest moments.

Maybe you would've hated working there, so really it's just a blessing in disguise? And this only leaves you available for the job you really want.

[theoddz]

Okay, so I've been a Respiratory Therapist for 26 years now. For all these years, I've worked to help people to breathe better. I've held handswith scared patients and family members, used ventilators as "bridges" to save lives from respiratory and cardiac crisis/disease and as end of life life support. I've educated patients and family members about respiratory and heart disease, held babies as young as 24 weeks in my hands while delivering serfanctant therapy and maintained their ventilators. I've also sat through countless patient care plan meetings and been a part of the discharge planning team. I've been a key member of an Advanced Life Support/Code team, done countless chest compressions, inserted many, many endotracheal tubes, arterial lines and bagged thousands of patients, both young and old. I've been at the deathbeds of adults, children and babies. I've held many a cold hand as the last breath of life escaped a patient's lips. I've lost count of how many "flat lines" I've seen on a monitor. I've been puked on, coughed on, grabbed, kicked and hugged. I've lost a lot of shoes and clothing to everything from chest/pleural fluid, to vomit, feces and urine.

I am now retired from all that. Away from the death, dying and suffering. Away, to, from the joys of seeing folks recover and go back to the business of living. Away from the friends I've worked alongside for so many years and all the smiles, laughter, tears, frustrations......and hugs.

Thing is, I'm not done YET.

Our 9 y/o sweet male blond tabbycat, Henry, has asthma. Looks like I'll be returning to the world of Respiratory Therapy!!! I now have to teach Henry to use a Metered Dose Inhaler, or AeroKat.

This should be very, very interesting, indeed.



~Theo~ .....Retired???? Who's retired????

[Kenna]

I want to go camping by the lake for several days for my birthday...enjoying a hot spiced apple cider while cuddled up next to a nice fire...watching the eagles scoop fish from the lake, soaking up the sunshine and listening to the water lap at the rocky banks of the lake as I watch the stunning sunset...the sounds and scents of nature and forest around me...and maybe getting to watch fireworks over the water as someone celibrates the new year.

[Daniela]

This makes me so angry:

Someone Wrote 'Erotica' About a Video Game Designer Getting Gang-Raped


http://jezebel.com/someone-wrote-ero...1673233184/all

[grenade]

I'm being a cry baby today. I'm remembering those I've lost.

[Kenna]

I looked at a house today that has soooo much POTENTIAL for being something great!!
13 acres with a barn/stables... detached garage ...FIVE bedrooms/ 3 full bathrooms...HUGE open kitchen with open dinning room/built in china cabinets..at least 3 fireplaces...HUGE living room and "formal" room off the kitchen...a massive, hand-laid brick patio out back, big enough to park a dozen cars...two round, brick firepits and a fenced in back yard...

All for $169,000 !!!! I'm in shock at such a low price!! Too bad it needs so much work. It would make an AWESOME Bed and Breakfast....or Camping Retreat or Equine Therapy Haven for disabled children.

I can think of many possibilities for such a great property.

The kitchen and dinning rooms are so large, they could double as an "underground bistro" or bakery....
Or instead, there's plenty of other space to run a Doggy Daycare and Grooming business.
For the acres in front of the old stables, I can imagine a few "rustic" cabins to run a "Spiritual and Camping Retreat"...

Sigh....hopefully I hit the lottery tonight

[MrSunshine]

So...I didn't register the snow machines because there was no snow. Now that I haven't and cant ride for a while its going to dump snow. Wtf universe!?

[MrSunshine]

Son of a.....

Ok, I really like my iPad but, I am constantly clicking on things I didn't mean too.

Errrrr

[FlaFem84]

I could see why that'd be a hard career to be in. My sister has cystic fibrosis. I worry about her a lot more about her last couple of years. She's 30. She was really healthy until last two years have been rough for her. I'm sure you touched the families though that you helped.

Good luck with your kitty. :-)

Originally Posted by theoddz

Okay, so I've been a Respiratory Therapist for 26 years now. For all these years, I've worked to help people to breathe better. I've held handswith scared patients and family members, used ventilators as "bridges" to save lives from respiratory and cardiac crisis/disease and as end of life life support. I've educated patients and family members about respiratory and heart disease, held babies as young as 24 weeks in my hands while delivering serfanctant therapy and maintained their ventilators. I've also sat through countless patient care plan meetings and been a part of the discharge planning team. I've been a key member of an Advanced Life Support/Code team, done countless chest compressions, inserted many, many endotracheal tubes, arterial lines and bagged thousands of patients, both young and old. I've been at the deathbeds of adults, children and babies. I've held many a cold hand as the last breath of life escaped a patient's lips. I've lost count of how many "flat lines" I've seen on a monitor. I've been puked on, coughed on, grabbed, kicked and hugged. I've lost a lot of shoes and clothing to everything from chest/pleural fluid, to vomit, feces and urine.

I am now retired from all that. Away from the death, dying and suffering. Away, to, from the joys of seeing folks recover and go back to the business of living. Away from the friends I've worked alongside for so many years and all the smiles, laughter, tears, frustrations......and hugs.

Thing is, I'm not done YET.

Our 9 y/o sweet male blond tabbycat, Henry, has asthma. Looks like I'll be returning to the world of Respiratory Therapy!!! I now have to teach Henry to use a Metered Dose Inhaler, or AeroKat.

This should be very, very interesting, indeed.



~Theo~ .....Retired???? Who's retired????

[JDeere]

Why can't I just fall asleep and stay asleep.

[cinnamongrrl]

I have fussed (mostly internally) about the trials and tribulations of my life outside of Asheville.. but I know I will miss having my own little happy, clean, utopic bubble. I just miss socialization more. It's funny how isolation can make a people person out of an introvert.

There's a lesson to be learned in all things. I think I learned several. Sometimes it's more than ok to know what you do and do not want. You don't have to leave your comfort zone to know that other things exist outside of it. And always trust your instincts...they won't steer you wrong in most things. (just not in love..)

[Talon]

This really frightening nightmare that I had last night....it's still hanging around my head....it just seemed so very real.

[Bard]

Watching the snow falling outside and hoping we do not get to much cause I am not really feeling up to going out to shovel it.. Well at least it keeps my mind from other things