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Sunday, August 1st, 2010
Pogo Dave in North Kingstown
Today on Route 4 South in North Kingstown between Oak Hill and West Allenton Road, I observed a guy riding an exercise bike on top of his car. My first thought was that it must be some sort of political stunt, with all the red, white, and blue wrapped around the car and the 20 [...]
No Comments » - Posted in News by Jon Haynes
Friday, July 30th, 2010
Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lighting Thief
Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lighting Thief is a well done, and for the most part family friendly movie. It does however have some scenes that would probably scare younger children, due to intensity. The movie is based largely and pretty accurately on the Greek mythology of the gods and demigods i.e. half gods. [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Reviews,movies by Jon Haynes
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
WikiLeak’s Afghanistan War Logs
As many of you have heard WikiLeaks has Published Afghanistan war logs dating from 2004 all the way up to the beginning of 2010. They claim since everything is submitted anonymously they do not know who sent them the war logs. Not only did Wikileaks publish them, but they published the entire 91,000 logs, well [...]
No Comments » - Posted in News,Political,terrorism by Jon Haynes
Monday, July 26th, 2010
Review of Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
Lone Survivor, is perhaps one of the best books I have come across in a very long time. The book begins like many movies do at the end of the story and back home in the States, with Marcus on a mission to meet with all the families who lost a loved one during Operation [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Reviews by Jon Haynes
Thursday, April 8th, 2010
Disturbing off label marketing by Pfizer
Disturbing what Pfizer did with Bextra, now on American Greed. Sales representatives got financial incentives to push the drug for off label uses: tropical getaways, seats at sporting events, expensive wine, etc all based on marketing. All for a drug that didn’t solve pain any better, but just had extra risk like heart attack, stroke, [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Health,Technology by Jon Haynes
Sunday, May 3rd, 2009
CDC Will Not Rename Swine Flu as the WHO.
Now that the World Health Organization has taken to calling Swine Flu simply influenza A (H1N1), the Centers for Disease Control here in the United States will not follow suit, because they believe changing the name now will only serve to confuse people. They want to be as clear as possible in such an anxious [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Health,News by Jon Haynes
Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
Swine Flu Prevention and High Tech Hopes
Airports are currently trying new high tech detection techniques (actually many installed them back during the SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) and bird flu scares). Still they are fairly new. The only problem with their fancy thermal image scanners is that they can only detect swine flu after the early stages of entry and uncoating, [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Health,News by Jon Haynes
Thursday, April 30th, 2009
New Name for Swine Flu
The WHO and others are now discussing a new name for swine flu because of the adverse affects it is having on the pig markets. As many of you know I mentioned in a previous post that Egypt has ordered the slaughter of all their pigs. Also I imagine this does not help the pigs [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Health,News by Jon Haynes
Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Swine Flu Fears Contiune
Swine Flu continues to spread throughout the world today, and is now confirmed in 13 nations and suspected in up to 27 more nations all over the world. Today we remain at phase 5 alert status out 6 phases on the World Health Organization’s warning system. Below is a chart of their warning system. WHO [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Health,News by Jon Haynes
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
Swine Flu Update
While searching around for swine flu related marital I found this graphic, I apologize for the somewhat ghastly nature of it. Nonetheless I think it sums up Swine Flu well, and the powerful nature of it focuses us to the problem while not overwhelming us too greatly. The graphic was originally created for a video [...]