'The Great Flushoff'
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Posted:Dec 21, 2005 3:05 pm
Last Updated:Mar 5, 2006 9:29 pm 947 Views
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If I were there I would do it if they paid me, God only knows what was put and went into there.
La. Stadium to Host La. Stadium to Host 'Great Flushoff'
From Associated Press
December 21, 2005 10:34 AM EST
LAFAYETTE, Louisiana - The Cajundome is seeking volunteers to flush more than 200 toilets in the arena.
About 70 volunteers are needed to participate in the "Great Cajundome Flushoff" set for Dec. 27.
The Cajundome and Convention Center served as a refugee center for hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Use by thousands of evacuees for weeks took a toll on the arena's plumbing system.
"We don't know what ended up in the (sewer) system," Cajundome Director Greg Davis said.
Operations manager Phil Ashurst said officials have already found pieces of brick wrapped in a towel, a T-shirt and diapers in the pipes.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency denied a request to inspect the sewer system with a camera, Davis said. So to test the plumbing before holding an event in January, a minimum of 70 volunteers are needed to spend 15 to 20 minutes flushing toilet paper down 220 or so toilets and testing urinals, he said.
"We can't afford to find out we have a problem at a sold-out concert," Davis said
From Associated Press
December 21, 2005 10:34 AM EST
LAFAYETTE, Louisiana - The Cajundome is seeking volunteers to flush more than 200 toilets in the arena.
About 70 volunteers are needed to participate in the "Great Cajundome Flushoff" set for Dec. 27.
The Cajundome and Convention Center served as a refugee center for hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Use by thousands of evacuees for weeks took a toll on the arena's plumbing system.
"We don't know what ended up in the (sewer) system," Cajundome Director Greg Davis said.
Operations manager Phil Ashurst said officials have already found pieces of brick wrapped in a towel, a T-shirt and diapers in the pipes.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency denied a request to inspect the sewer system with a camera, Davis said. So to test the plumbing before holding an event in January, a minimum of 70 volunteers are needed to spend 15 to 20 minutes flushing toilet paper down 220 or so toilets and testing urinals, he said.
"We can't afford to find out we have a problem at a sold-out concert," Davis said
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There's not enough forgiveness in the world
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Posted:Dec 21, 2005 10:57 am
Last Updated:Mar 5, 2006 9:29 pm 969 Views
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I read articles in books and magazines I hope you liked the last one here is another one
Pleads Guilty After Blog Confession
From Associated Press
December 21, 2005 6:27 AM EST
TAVARES, Fla. - An 18-year-old passenger who caused a fatal crash by pulling on the steering wheel pleaded guilty to DUI manslaughter after prosecutors discovered a confession on his online blog.
Blake Ranking wrote "I did it" on his blurty.com journal three days after the October 2004 crash that caused a friend's death and left another seriously injured. He had previously told investigators he remembered nothing of the crash and little of its aftermath.
Blake was sitting in the back seat as he and then-17-year-old friends Jason Coker and Nicole Robinette left a party when he pulled the steering wheel as a prank, causing the car to somersault off the road.
His blood alcohol content after the crash measured 0.185, more than double the legal limit.
Robinette, who was driving and had no traces of drugs or alcohol in her system, was seriously injured. Coker lay in a coma at Orlando Regional Medical Center until he died Jan. 11.
"It was me who caused it. I turned the wheel. I turned the wheel that sent us off the road, into the concrete drain ..." Ranking wrote in the blog. "How can I be fine when everyone else is so messed up?"
Ranking later retracted his words, deleting them from the blog and penning an explanation.
"People say I 'contradict' myself since I 'already admitting pulling the wheel.' I didn't 'ADMIT' anything. I went on a guilt trip, and I posted the story that I WAS TOLD . . . Nicole told me I pulled the wheel, I believed her," he wrote.
Still, the confession forced him to lead guilty Monday to manslaughter charges. He could have gotten 15 years in prison, but defense lawyer John Spivey and Assistant State Attorney Julie Greenberg recommended five years in prison, 10 years of probation and a permanent license suspension.
Circuit Judge Mark Hill agreed to impose the sentence Dec. 28.
Greenberg said she had planned to use the blog as evidence, a first for the office covering Lake, Citrus, Hernando, Marion and Sumter counties, but almost certainly not the last.
"Anytime a defendant confesses, that is very relevant and important," she said.
Ranking posted the lyrics to Eric Clapton's "Tears in Heaven" the day of Coker's funeral, but prosecutors said his remorse was not always apparent in his blogs, which included entries railing at Coker's mother because she asked him to stop calling and coming to the hospital.
"He lost the best friend he ever had," Spivey said in Ranking's defense.
Ken Coker, Jason's father, said his family never wanted prison time for Ranking, but they wished Ranking would stop writing about them because they felt the blog was insensitive. He said Ranking would benefit more from psychiatric counseling.
"There's not enough forgiveness in the world," he said.
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Christmas baskets
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Posted:Dec 20, 2005 9:20 pm
Last Updated:Mar 5, 2006 9:29 pm 1122 Views
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Woman, 99, Is Secret Santa at Nursing Home
December 20, 2005 9:11 PM EST
ODESSA, Texas - Residents at the Deerings Nursing Home have a very special secret Santa - 99-year-old Sybil Rice. Rice, who lives on her own, makes gift baskets for the residents. On Monday, she and her family delivered 70 baskets to residents.
"I think it's quite unusual - she's doing it for people younger than she is," Nina Rice, her 72-year-old -in-law, said in a story in Tuesday's Odessa American. "She shops on her walker and makes these sacks (for residents). She buys sugar-free things (for diabetics) and until this year, she has also baked sugar-free cakes."
Nina Rice said she doesn't do it for attention.
"There are so many wonderful people in the nursing homes. I wish more people would come visit," she said.
This year's gift bags look like snowmen with shoe-button eyes and contain cookies, candies and even fresh bananas.
Stephanie Lane, Deerings activities director, said the baskets are always creative.
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