Nurse Kaci

Nurse Kaci Hickox [worked overseas with Doctors Without Borders] said of her three-hour wait at Newark Airport: “No one seemed to be in charge. No one would tell me what was going on or what would happen to me.” An hour later, with little to eat or drink in the meantime, a forehead-scanning thermometer found her temperature to be 101 degrees but staffers refused to use an oral thermometer.
       

"I am scared about how health care workers will be treated at airports when they declare that they have been fighting Ebola in West Africa. I am scared that, like me, they will arrive and see a frenzy of disorganization, fear and, most frightening, quarantine," she said.
       

She was taken by police escort to an isolation tent outside Newark’s University Hospital, where an oral thermometer found a normal temperature of 98.6 degrees, but a forehead scanner again read 101 degrees — a bad reading she blamed on being flushed from her ordeal. A blood test later tested negative for the virus.
                

Hickox will remain in a mandatory 21-day quarantine as part of new procedures put in place by the governors of NY and NJ after a doctor tested positive for the virus.

So there is more to be done. This courageous woman did the best anyone can do. Then the bad news, two million people using the subway like sardines] on a daily basis . Imagine??

Just a thought.

Subway and the Ebola?

 

 

You may Loose it all.

Texas tycoon Samuel Wyly [Worth a Billion Dollars] has filed for bankruptcy, saying he does not have the assets to pay the nearly $300 million that U.S. regulators are demanding for his role in a fraudulent offshore scheme.

Last month, U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin in New York ordered Wyly and the estate of his late brother Charles to pay damages plus interest to the SEC, after a jury found them liable for fraud in May.

In documents filed with a U.S. bankruptcy court in Dallas, Wyly said he had between $100 million and $500 million of both assets and liabilities. 

But lawyers for the SEC have said in court documents that the Wylys' offshore trusts still hold hundreds of millions of dollars in assets. The SEC accused the brothers of constructing a complex system of trusts in the Isle of Man that netted them $553 million in untaxed profits through more than a decade of hidden trades in four companies they controlled.  Nothing is new.

Just a thought.

Canadian Bacon...

A soldier gunned down while guarding a hallowed war memorial in Ottawa.  A shootout in the halls of Parliament shocked Canada's capital and left parts of the city on lockdown. Authorities haven't ruled out the possibility that an additional shooter could be on the loose.

Michael Bibeau has been identified by Canadian officials as the suspected gunman. The gunman was killed after two shooting incidents, one at the Canada War Memorial, and another just minutes later nearby inside Parliament.

Bibeau, born in 1982, was a convert to Islam and had a history of drug use.

His passport had been confiscated by authorities when he planned to go fight overseas.

Comment:

1- Canada is giving "people of the world" a place to live when they couldn't live in their own Countries.

2- Whoever wants to go and join a certain group to fight, he/she should be released and informed that his citizenship expired due to his new allegiances. He/ she should not be back or benefit of the social services provided to the Canadian Citizens.
So kiss the Canadian Bacon good bye.     Just a thought.

Bentley.

Nina Pham and Bentley.

Follow the money.. Monica .

Monica Lewinsky nearly broke down in tears as she recounted her experience as the first person to have their reputation completely destroyed worldwide via the Internet.”

Lewinsky vowed to “give purpose to my past” by speaking publicly.“Sixteen years ago, fresh out of college, a twenty-two year old intern in the White House  and more than averagely romantic, I fell in love with my boss. It happens, By my boss was the president of the United States.

“There was no Facebook, Twitter or Instagram back then. But there were gossip, news and entertainment websites complete with comment sections and emails could be forwarded,” she said. “Of course it was all done on the excruciatingly slow dial-up.”

Monica is back and so is the coming election.
Watch for the funds against the nominees Hilary Clinton.  Watch as the machine start throwing all that they can against the Clinton. It is not going to work.

Just a thought.

Tang & Fang.

Image is not related.

Two female thieves, named Tang Shuiyan and Fang Yunyun, were caught trying to break into the home of an official in Hefei, Anhui Province.   The duo established their name by stealing from officials only.

Tang had been arrested on a burglary. She fled and later joined Fang [2009] in her stealing rampage. Three days before they were arrested, Fang broke into the home of the deputy director of the banking watchdog in Anhui and made off with pre-paid shopping cards, valued at 1.5 million yuan.

Tang had once worked for a telecoms company, where she stole the information of her desired victims, including home address and phone number. Before her “unannounced visits,” she would call to make sure no one was home or in the office.

For instance, Tang once blew the whistle on her two victims, ex-head of Rural Credit Cooperatives in Guizhou Province, and ex-director of the Transportation Department in Guizhou. Her expose led to the duo’s being investigated for disciplinary violations and later indicted for taking bribes.

The duo would take photos of the stolen items and send them to an accomplice, to be used as a warning to victims against calling the police. Since most of the stolen properties were predictably ill-gotten gains  their value way exceeded the owners’ official salaries most victims had chosen to remain silent.               Just a thought.

All direction.

Hired at St. John’s after graduating from its master’s program. Three years later, she was named a dean. 

 Dr. Chang associated with a whirlwind of characters: Catholic priests, Chinese gangsters, American lawmakers, a Taiwanese general and a fantastically corrupt city politician, to name a few.

She had been married three times. One husband was involved in organized crime; another told the police before succumbing to gunshot wounds that she was behind it.  Police suspected her as having a role in the murder of her first husband.

She offered honorary degrees to people of wealth or influence, then soliciting donations. Two such honorees were Taiwanese industrialists who were later charged with multimillion-dollar frauds.

      

Many of the grants, under her control, went to the children of her friends or associates, including one given in 2004 to the granddaughter of Frank H. Murkowski, a former senator and governor of Alaska.

In 2003, in a letter, she congratulated Mr. Murkowski, who was then governor, on his daughter’s election to the Senate and offered them both honorary degrees.
      

Four years later, she asked him to enlist his daughter, Senator Lisa Murkowski, to write a letter supporting the immigration application of “a St. John’s honorary alumni chairman." Wang You-Theng, a Taiwanese businessman under investigation for embezzling millions of dollars, was a fugitive, and remains so today.
      

Federal prosecutors accused her of forcing foreign students to perform household labor in exchange for tuition grants, stealing over $1 million from the university and taking $250,000 from a Saudi prince to organize academic conferences that never occurred.   

As her legal troubles mounted, she found friendship among bartenders and casino bus drivers. She would curry favor by lending money to people from Chinese communities in Flushing and to fellow gamblers at the Foxwoods casino in Connecticut, where she was spending more time. She ended her life.

Let us learn of her ways. Just a thought.             

You'r out...

The Navy Reserve discharged Vice President Joe Biden's son Hunter this year after he tested positive for cocaine, U.S. officials confirmed.

 

The discharge of Biden, a 44-year-old lawyer and managing partner at an investment firm, was first reported by the Wall Street Journal. He confirmed the report.

 

"It was the honor of my life to serve in the U.S. Navy, and I deeply regret and am embarrassed that my actions led to my administrative discharge. I respect the Navy's decision. With the love and support of my family, I'm moving forward," he said.

Biden was commissioned as an ensign in May 2013 and assigned as a public affairs officer in a Norfolk, Virginia-based reserve unit. A month later, he tested positive for cocaine, and he was discharged in February, according to the report.

 

The U.S. official said the Navy never had contact with the vice president's office over the issue, and that standard procedure for failed drug tests is administrative discharge.

The vice president's office didn't comment on the report.

 

Hunter Biden is the younger of Biden's two sons. His older brother, Beau Biden, is Delaware's attorney general and a major in the Delaware Army National Guard. He was deployed for a year in Iraq.  [CNN reported].

 

I am impressed. Just a thought.

A little about E...

The current Ebola outbreak is the most widespread ever recorded.  It is by far the biggest in terms of numbers of people affected and geographical spread.  EVD is a haemorrhagic disease and the mortality rate is 53%.

It is believed the virus resides in animal reservoirs. Outbreaks are thought to be caused by animal-to-human transmission after people consume or come into contact with species of animal harbouring the virus, including monkeys and bats. The disease is transmitted by direct contact with the body fluids of an infected patient or contact with a corpse of a person who has succumbed to disease.

Viral entry is usually via mucus membranes, cuts or abrasions, and the virus can be transmitted from the dried body fluids of an infected individual on an object (e.g. bedsheets). Ebola can be sexually transmitted

The virus can be killed by a variety of disinfectants, including the hypochlorites used in household bleach and swimming pool chlorine. Disinfection of surfaces, therefore, is an important control measure. And as soap will kill the virus, hand washing with soap and water is another important measure. There are no specific treatments for EVD.

There is no risk of transmission during the incubation period, which usually lasts between 4–16 days following infection, with a range of 4–21 days. There is no transmission by air droplets (i.e. sneezing or coughing) and only a low risk of transmission during the early stages of the disease.
In the prodromal phase, it may present with non-specific flu-like symptoms including:

• fever, diarrhea, vomiting, muscle ache, sore throat, headache.

Full symptoms of EVD can develop rapidly. Clinical signs may include:

• vomiting, diarrhea, confusion, haemorrhage, including conjunctival injection (red eye), rash, chest pain and shortness of breath. The condition progresses to serious haemorrhagic complications and organ failure.

Family members or health workers caring for infected patients are at the greatest risk of infection.

To minimize the risk of infection when visiting an Ebola-endemic area travellers should be advised to:

• Avoid contact with symptomatic patients and their body fluids, deceased patients and their body fluids and wild animals (alive and dead);
• Avoid bush meat in endemic areas (i.e., the meat of wild animals that could be a reservoir for the disease);
• Wash hands regularly using soap or an alcohol-based hand sanitiser;
• Consider avoiding unessential travel to affected countries;
• Identify appropriate in-country healthcare resources in advance of travelling;
• Check that medical insurance will cover repatriation in the event of infection. 

Just a thought.