Monroe Cty 911 :.Chuck Simmins | February 28, 2006
Man has sex change surgery at the age of 70.
What the heck is the point?
Modbee
EAGLESWOOD TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) - To students at Eagleswood Elementary School, she used to be Mr. McBeth. Now, after undergoing a sex change, 71-year-old Lily McBeth is ready to return to teaching as Miss McBeth.
Despite criticism from parents, the school board [...]
Chuck Simmins | February 28, 2006
Red Cross
Wednesday, February 15, 2006 — NEW ORLEANS, LA – The haunting strains of “Amazing Grace” played by Red Cross volunteer Terry Cooney on his bagpipes filled the sanctuary of the Calvary Baptist Church in New Orleans as Red Cross and Southern Baptist volunteers from Kitchen 44 gathered for an emotional ceremony to close a [...]
Chuck Simmins | February 28, 2006
WHO
Since the beginning of February 2006, the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus has spread to affect wild or domestic birds in 17 new countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
The World Health Organization reconfirms that, when poultry products are safely handled and properly cooked, humans are not at risk of acquiring [...]
Chuck Simmins | February 28, 2006
This is cool. Not that old media will notice.
Eucom
NAPLES, Italy — As part of a larger U.S. interagency effort towards greater stability in Africa, about 1,400 Sailors and Marines aboard the submarine tender USS Emory S. Land deployed to the Gulf of Guinea region in late February 2006.
Navy Vice Admiral J. Boomer Stufflebeem, U.S. 6th [...]
Chuck Simmins | February 27, 2006
Know why Chester had a limp?
“Golly, Miss Kitty!”
RIP Dennis Weaver.
Chuck Simmins | February 27, 2006
Red Cross
Food and Shelter – $227 million
When hurricanes threatened the Gulf Coast, Red Cross disaster relief workers were preparing hundreds of evacuation shelters. The organization prepositioned supplies, including kitchens, prepackaged meals and emergency response vehicles (ERVs). Nearly 500,000 survivors of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma stayed in Red Cross shelters.
At the height of the relief [...]
Chuck Simmins | February 27, 2006
My EMS pager, last week, showed a call for a finger amputation.
While running duty yesterday, I got the scoop.
Patient saw train. Patient tried to touch train. Train going 70 mph.
Patient had a life-enhancing learning experience.
Chuck Simmins | February 26, 2006
The third report to Congress about security and stability in Iraq has been submitted. It is in PDF format.Political Stability.
The Iraqis have now met all of the political benchmarks established by the Transitional Administrative Law and endorsed by United Nations Security Council Resolution1546, awaiting only the seating of the new Iraqi government. These milestones were [...]
Chuck Simmins | February 24, 2006
I thought they might be too optimistic. This guy is in serious doo doo.
WNBC
Diomande, 44, had been listed in stable condition at Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre, Pa., just south of the New York border. But in a statement issued Friday, the hospital said the patient had “experienced increased difficulty breathing during the course of [...]
Chuck Simmins | February 24, 2006
Marine Corps News
Most Marines strive to be the best at what they do, but only a select few can claim they were the “first” in history to accomplish something. Like Samuel Nicholas who became the first Marine officer in 1775, Opha Mae Johnson who became the first female Marine in 1918 or Carol A. Mutter [...]
Chuck Simmins | February 24, 2006
What’s in a People McNugget?
Chuck Simmins | February 23, 2006
The Los Angeles Times has a good piece about the Dubai Port situation, that spells out reality. Not that this will change the fevered minds of most opponents of the P&O purchase.
Before getting the approval of the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States, Dubai Ports World agreed to enforce the existing security standards [...]
Chuck Simmins | February 23, 2006
This is where the universe was born:
photo copyright Michael Totten
Michael Totten continues his reporting from the Kurdish north of Iraq.
In Northern Iraq there is a place called Lalish where the Yezidis say the universe was born. I drove south from Dohok on snowy roads through an empty land, seemingly to the ends of the earth, [...]
