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Puce. Wiki Quote: Santa Claus The Movie: referenced "puce" for the color the magic lollipops that made children fly, including a humorous remark about it: "If this ever takes off, we could make this in liquid form: Puce Juice."

Then why is it illegal?

Nope. Hit: Dudley Moore was in the film. Cured my boredom, I BBQ'd.. Maybe the next boredom spree we could do a favorite self made recipes..

Less common.

Guess my favorite color. It's odd. It had a story.. I'll wait ten posts, and then tell it, if nobody gets it. Funny things kill stress. This is okay for the funny stuff area. Hint: It's the color of a candy, in a Christmas related movie from the 1980's.

Perhaps the husband.. Killed the dog? Murder! I demand an autopsy!

Why is it illegal? Because they're responding into another state? Get a license from Conn. as well.. We do a subscription program. It's actually a plus, because the people that do pay the once a year fee, many can't or won't pay the regular bill anyway. You can't get blood from a stone.

Yeah it is... OMG.. You couldn't use your computer? Did you have to be treated for withdrawal?

No... His vegetative state can't have anything to do with hitting a utility pole and being partially ejected. Maybe they should sue the power company, for the pole being in the path of the vehicle? I'm sure there was a delay, but it doesn't provide distances from the ambulance stations to the scene. That's a fairly rural area, the nearest Trauma Center is nearly sixty miles. I assume it's all paid services, since they appear to have corporate names. I also don't feel that the time between arrival on scene, till he was at the chopper, twenty minutes; is a long time. Head and leg injuries, severe bleeding, only partially ejected; no mention of how they got him out. It may well have taken twenty minutes to safely remove, package and get ready to roll to the chopper. If it only took five, they'd say it was too quick to be thorough and do things properly. Yeah, it's a sucky situation, it happens, I've had it happen in my family. But you don't just say someone's at fault, someone has to pay - literally. Sue the driver of the car, and his insurance company.. But not everyone who tried to help.

Lock her in the car for four hours.. in high heat.

...to the blogs.

HB Scooby!

You'd think he would have at least had the brain to not sleep in front of the doors.

By Scott Malone Scott Malone – 14 mins ago Link to Article BOSTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy, a towering figure in the Democratic Party who took the helm of one of America's most fabled political families after two older brothers were assassinated, has died at age 77, his family said on Wednesday. "Edward M. Kennedy, the husband, father, grandfather, brother and uncle we loved so deeply, died late Tuesday night at home in Hyannis Port (Massachusetts)," the Kennedy family said in a statement. One of the most influential and longest-serving senators in U.S. history -- a liberal standard-bearer who was also known as a consummate congressional dealmaker -- Kennedy had been battling brain cancer, which was diagnosed in May 2008. "We've lost the irreplaceable center of our family and joyous light in our lives, but the inspiration of his faith, optimism, and perseverance will live on in our hearts forever," the family statement added. His death marked the twilight of a political dynasty, and dealt a blow to Democrats as they seek to answer President Barack Obama's call for an overhaul of the healthcare system. Kennedy had made healthcare reform his signature cause. Known as "Teddy," he was the brother of President John Kennedy, assassinated in 1963, Senator Robert Kennedy, fatally shot while campaigning for the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination, and Joe Kennedy, a pilot killed in World War Two. When he first took the Senate seat previously held by John Kennedy in 1962, he was seen as something of a political lightweight who owed his ascent to his famous name. Yet during his nearly half century in the chamber, Kennedy became known as one of Washington's most effective senators, crafting legislation by working with lawmakers and presidents of both parties, and finding unlikely allies. At the same time, he held fast to liberal causes deemed anachronistic by the centrist "New Democrats," and was a lightning rod for conservative ire. He helped enact measures to protect civil and labor rights, expand healthcare, upgrade schools, increase student aid and contain the spread of nuclear weapons. "There's a lot to do," Kennedy told Reuters in 2006. "I think most of all it's the injustice that I continue to see and the opportunity to have some impact on it." After Robert Kennedy's death, Edward was expected to waste little time in vying for the presidency. But in 1969, a young woman drowned after a car Kennedy was driving plunged off a bridge on the Massachusetts resort island of Chappaquiddick after a night of partying. Kennedy's image took a major hit after it emerged he had failed to report the accident to authorities. He pleaded guilty to leaving the scene and received a suspended sentence. Kennedy eventually ran for his party's presidential nomination in 1980 but lost to then-President Jimmy Carter. His presidential ambitions thwarted, Kennedy devoted himself to his Senate career. (Additional reporting by Thomas Ferraro in Washington; (Editing by Peter Cooney)

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A smart, public pool owner, covers all drains.. Lawsuit.

Securing a patent airway, suctioning of copious amounts of blood, from collared pediatric, with 8" stick apparently impaled through the back of his oropharynx. Had this patient just after I became an EMT. Six year old male, running around the yard, tripped on a post that was driven to tie a dog to. He had a small stick in his right hand. Somehow, he fell onto it, and it went into his mouth, throat, and either through, or just cut the oropharnyx slightly. He was calm as could be, sitting there leaning forward, bleeding from the mouth. Managed to mumble, "if I sit like this, the blood just runs out". He had no labored breathing, good sats, no apparent swelling; on a nasal cannula at 3. The stick was in the corner of his mouth, and off to the side, of the back of the throat. I tried to be serious, but not scare him, about not touching it. He says, it'll come out. No. Bad idea. I had gotten OMC on the way, and asked if I should remove it; and he said only if there's a significant airway compromise. I wasn't in a hurry to remove it, since it didn't appear to affect his respiratory abilities. I had it partially secured, I cut the top off of an adult size guedel airway, put it over the stick, so he could close his mouth, but not bite the stick. Then put an 18FR suction cath in the mouth, and showed him how to control it w/ his thumb. Folded some heavy tape, sticky side out, and put it around the airway top, and went around his head, then taped that in place with silk tape. But, it wouldn't stick. He was collared, boarded, slightly tilted to the left, suctioning his mouth by himself. I reached for some soft tape, when the driver says, no don't do that. The kid pulled the stick out and says, it wasn't stuck. Didn't set off any worse bleeding, didn't swell up. So, I had to wonder if it was ever impaled, maybe just caused a cut? Dunno.. But it was the damnedest thing I ever saw. High on the pucker factor.

Looks more like assisted suicide.

Honestly.... aa said: does anyone know what ak's favorite kind of cake is? I said: Red Velvet? That's mine anyway.

EMTDON970.. They don't do EMS, though. Maybe disaster assistance and first aid. That may actually pay off this time of the year in Florida.

I wouldn't transport an animal in the ambulance, unless it was a seeing-eye-dog; but I would gladly try to help it. Everyone deserves a chance.

Contact your county Office of Emergency Management. Or consider volunteering in an ER. Link to Listing of EMT Jobs in your stated area. Volunteering With Pinellas County Pinellas County Public Safety Services

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All of our Horton rigs had this. Every time I start our 98 Horton, put it in drive, that damn alarm goes off. "Oxygen Warning" the console reads. Any oxygen in the line at all, will set it off. Now on ours, you can cancel it out by pressing one of the two buttons right below the data screen. However, the best way to override it, is to bleed the system completely after you shut off the oxygen. To do this, kill the tank. Shut the rig off, open the manual bypass valve, and run either a demand or a flow meter until opening and closing the bypass doesn't cause the ball (if you have conventional flow meters) to rise and fall. We have a demand valve hooked to the wall over the bench seat, so that's how I bleed the system off. We had a Ford Superior ambulance, similar to a Baltimore Box (yeah - the same people who made the Cadillac Superior) for a few months in 2001. It was set up to run off of three "E" cylinders.. and that just won't work with our time on the road. So, we hooked up it's piped system, an under the bench model. Didn't have an alarm, hell, it's seats were fold down and it had shock lamps (blue light); lucky it had oxygen at all. But I recall doing a few transports.. Getting the patient all ready, slamming my head on the too low to be legal ceiling, and cursing.. Stop.. Open the back door, get out, peer into the dark hole, turn on the oxygen tank, climb back in, hit head on hanging stretcher hardware, curse, slam door shut, it bounces back open, remember that it's a D ring handle, close it again... Okay, go.. Anyhoo. I can tell you how we accidentally disabled the oxygen pressure sensor in our 09 Marque.. Rip the wires out of the regulator. There should, or may be wires hooked directly to the main tank regulator. They go to the sensor and alarm. If they aren't attached, it won't work. As to how they became detached.

Red Velvet? That's mine anyway.