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Good article. Missed it on my daily read of NYT.

I knew very little about Ann Heche before this incident. I don't follow Hollywood people's lives as a rule.I don't go to movies or have a television in my home. So I wasn't aware of her mental issues or drinking. That said, society has to protect itself from people who get intoxicated and then take their high powered cars on public roads where they are a menace to innocent people. The full measure of the law has to be applied but courts are left to apply the remedies in each situation.

I wonder if this will happen in Quebec or Ontario. It wouldn't surprise me. To date the governments have been very liberal in their policy of access to the monkeypox vaccination. Quite different from the early days of covid vaccines when the US hoarded their supplies.

Ontario today said that only about 30 new confirmed cases have been reported in the last week. While not saying it in the news report I heard, that would seem to be a leveling off of new cases. Ontario now leads Quebec in confirmed cases but not by much. The two cities of Toronto and Montreal account for the vast majority of cases. Many others caught it visiting those cities for large events like Pride. Even though I have one vax and two childhood vaxes, I'm definitely going to scale back on hiring until the disease progression becomes more clear.

If I had a young friend asked me specifically for these types of socks, that's what I'd give him. My own taste wouldn't enter into it. I wouldn't be wearing them.

I feel your disappointment. Same thing happened to me last week. A top who couldn't stay hard.

We're now into perfect August weather, warm sunny days and cool nights. Today had lunch at my club, on a verandah overlooking the marina. The view was enhanced by a hunk in his early 20's, dirty blond hair cut short and the body of a tennis player or sailor off one of the boats. His girl friend had her hand on his thigh the odd time, which I couldn't blame her for. Black shorts and a black t-shirt. No tats.

I have noticed that the hair under my armpits has almost disappeared over the last 5 years. Between 70 and 75. I don't use any deodorants.

Unless I learn of extenuating circumstances, I have little sympathy for the situation she finds herself in. She could have killed anyone who had stepped into that street at the speed she was driving. Totally heedless of others safety.

Very low rates. A red flag?

Aren't children or babies still vaccinated for polio?

Wrong. There us no cure for polio but there are treatments, which can improve outcomes. In FDR's case Dr W W Keen, an outstanding neurosurgeon but in his 90's, misdiagnosed the disease and precious weeks were lost by giving the wrong treatments which made matters worse. To give him credit, he was long retired and was vacationing in Bar Harbour Maine, far away from his clinical base in Philadelphia. I only know about him as he operated on my great uncle and have the entire medical record from him about the unsuccessful outcome in that case too.

I'm of the generation that last witnessed large outbreaks of polio. My oldest brother contracted it in 1949 when I was two. Luckily my mother caught it early and rushed him to the hospital from our country home,a three hour trip at the time. He spent 6 weeks in the hospital and suffered no permanent paralysis. Years later reading about FDR, his outcome was much worse as his doctors in the location where he was summer vacationing (Campobello, Canada) missed the diagnosis. He was crippled for the rest of his life.

Here in Canada there is concern about polio being on the resurgence again. This time amongst Afghan refugees who are arriving here without having been vaccinated. Why this was not dealt with at the border before admitting them is beyond me. Sheer incompetence.

I meant breathalyzer, not a blood test.

Typical. Yesterday I got a service rep to fix our problems with the new ac system in our organization's headquarters, a stone building dating from 1854, and overnight the heat wave broke. This morning it was 18c. All we have to do now is open the windows for fresh air.

Just another sign of the breakdown in public health. People are not forced to take polio shots in some jurisdictions and then they travel about. Its a farce.

So I checked again and the Times states it was the first video album to hit the market with video clips of each track on the album. It also won the Grammy award for best video album in 1982.

I always enjoyed her music which was popular in North America and Europe where I lived at the time. Besides that she achieved stardom in films like Grease and Zanadu. The NYT claims her music video of Physical was the first in history. Sad to see her go at a relatively young age.

Another point is that very few of these threads get any replies or even many views.

Can I make a suggestion? The Lounge has recently seen a daily posting pf new threads on This Day in History. Not just one but two it seems. The result is that other topics quickly get pushed off the front page and thus fade into obscurity. I don't mind the topic been raised daily but the way it has been handled. Either it should just be under a generic title This Day in History and thus not be date specific. Or it could be placed in a new forum. I don't know how interesting people find it. I don't find it all that interesting as many of the items seem insignificant in terms of history.

We are now in August and the heat has been gathering strength here in Eastern Ontario. I don't have ac and actually ordered a quote from the firm that installed ac in our headquarters of a group I represent as president. Today I was just there will a rep to try to fix the problem as it has not worked correctly since installation. I never got the quote for my own house as they had spelled my name incorrectly on my email. The expectations of further hot weather above 30C is diminishing daily. I think I'll tough it out at home. But we paid $32k for the office and that cheque has been deposited.

Here in Canada refusal to give a roadside blood test automatically incurs an impaired driving charge. No excuses accepted.

Depressing reading.

And my quick research pointed out a lot of foods are converted into sugar after being eaten. That is natural and doesn' t hurt you as eating too much ADDED sugar to foods. I just happened to see a doc. on CBC this morning by Jamie, the British celebrity chef. In it he is going after added sugar in the British diet.