| In the city, the water and sewer are magical
When we packed up the guitars and guns and dolls and dishes last spring and left our briar farm and ever-expanding pet cemetery for a house smack dab in the middle of town, naysayers insisted that I would never adjust to metropolitan living. "In the city limits, you can't drag nonfunctioning home appliances into the yard, sit in a lawn chair and shoot 'em with a .22 pistol just for the heck of it," someone said. "There comes a time in a man's life when the shooting of non-functioning appliances must stop," I replied. "And you'll have to wear pants when you go outside - every single time." "There comes a time in a man's life when boxer shorts are not considered suitable outdoor attire, even for a quick trip to the car to grab a Johnny Cash CD." "And when you play that CD, you can't crank up "Mean-Eyed Cat" so loud that the storm windows buckle and your fillings hum." "Yeah, I will miss that." But I didn't miss much more than that.
Critics slam federal government's wait-time guarantees deal with ...
VANCOUVER (CP) - The federal government's medical wait-times guarantee agreement with the provinces and territories is a "meaningless" watered-down version of what the Tories promised before they were elected, health critics said Thursday. "It's a cynical gimmick," said Mike McBane, spokesman for the Canadian Health Coalition. He said Prime Minister Stephen Harper's wait-list guarantee is "meaningless and voters should see through it" because the root causes of long waiting lists for treatment haven't been addressed. Under an agreement announced with provinces and territories last week, each jurisdiction has promised to slash wait times by 2010 - but only in one key treatment area. On Thursday, federal Health Minister Tony Clement told a news conference that wait-time guarantees focusing on one treatment area in each jurisdiction will allow provinces to network and share knowledge to strengthen the country's medical system.
Gators seek a repeat, with eye on history
Atlanta - The Florida Gators can kid their coach about a lot of things. Billy Donovan has a real bad haircut, he lives in the South but talks like a New Yawk cab drivah and once served as Rick Pitino's caddie. But his players love getting on him for a Southeastern Conference commercial in which he gets on TV and says, "Live in the moment." Today, it's not so funny anymore. The Gators see his point. They'd better. So much is swirling around the future of the Florida program, so much could happen in the coming days after tonight's 7:18 p.m. MDT national championship game, living for Tuesday won't cut it against Ohio State. Donovan could leave for Kentucky. All those Gators who came back to defend their title could .
Invest for the wider common good
With reference to the article Sleeping on ones laurels: Can we afford such an attitude ? by Rookaya Kasenally in lexpress of 14th March 07), I would like to bring my two-cents worth to the debate.
First, Liberal economics of which we hear more and more these days. The gist of this philosophy is that no one owes anyone anything and everything is left to the caprice of market forces. It thus reduces human society to its raw natural state where dog eats dog and every man for himself.
But, what makes us human beings different from other forms of life is precisely our faculty to empathise with and give a helping hand to the weak. By contrast, in the animal world, the weak is just left behind to perish and die. But, we are human and, as such, expected to behave with humanity towards all living things, including human beings.
Dr. William Rudy Returns to Kent to Join Northeast Ohio Eye Surgeons
From Kent Roosevelt High School all the way to Seattle, Washington and back again, Dr. William Rudys work as an optometrist has taken him across the country. As the next step in his career, he has returned to Kent to join the staff at Northeast Ohio Eye Surgeons.
[ClickPress, Fri Apr 06 2007] From Kent Roosevelt High School all the way to Seattle, Washington and back again, Dr. William Rudys work as an optometrist has taken him across the country. As the next step in his career, he has returned to Kent to join the staff at Northeast Ohio Eye Surgeons.
Dr. Rudys extensive background in refractive surgery, glaucoma treatment, laser vision correction and multi-focal intraocular lens implantation procedures has already proven helpful to several patients at Northeast Ohio Eye Surgeons.
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