I haven’t drawn in years.. but thanks to a new Samsung note phone (ditched the iPhone ) I now have that power.. submitted for approval, some original and probably not so great artwork inspired by things that circulate in my night owl head.. mostly drawn late at night. One drawn at 3am. I just have been lonely.. (matchbox 20 reference for those not from the late 90s)..
This photo was posted to REDDIT on Thursday and shows, at least according to the description, an ER doctor stepping outside after losing a 19-year-old patient..
An EMT worker posted the photo. According to the report, the EMT had permission to share it and wanted to shed light on what it is like to work in the industry..
According to the report, moments after the photo was taken, the doctor went back into the ER to continue his work. But he obviously took a time out to contemplate and become privately emotional about not being able to save a life.
This is a moving picture—a showcase that doctors are good and that the medical profession, though flawed and often littered with bureaucracy and lawsuit fevers, can still be morally just and amazing in professionalism..
The picture can also be and instrument of attraction to get more people into the field.. or a turnoff to some who know, seeing this, they couldn’t handle the emotion of seeing young and old human beings perish in front of them..
There is a deeper meaning to life. A bigger picture. Perhaps that bigger picture is that earth is simply a stepping stone in life and our souls move on.. Maybe the bigger picture is that this brief life is the beginning and the end of our computer systems.. That there’s nothing else, that we are alone in this galaxy and that life just happened without the help of divine love.
To me, that is what this picture symbolizes.. not just the emotion of a doctor losing a patient, but the true and unadulterated humanity that shows itself during intense moments of birth and death.
This doctor, despite his high education and established career, is moved to tears by the same thing humanity itself is.. We don’t know anything. We say we do. We go to Churches with pastors who tell us what to know.. we read self help books about how to know. We listen to vague pluralities that are supposed to define the known.
But we don’t know.
Instead, we wail and cry when we face the end. We are confused by the process.. We are are succumbing, each day, to death. And this doctor couldn’t save a 19-year-old from expiring before his time..
There indeed is a lot of emotion in this photo snapped during a second in time.
But it’s a testament to the goodness that can exist in the hearts of men.
There was a shocking crime reported yesterday by local stations in Colorado.. A grisly crime as well. Michelle Wilkins, 26, was seven months pregnant. She went to a home of a person she found on Craigslist who was selling baby clothes.. Instead, the woman, Dynel Lane, 34, cut the baby out of Wilkins’ stomach. The baby died.. the woman was rushed to the hospital..
The TRIBUNE NEWS WIRE dispatches this graphic information:
Lane is accused of stabbing Wilkins and removing the fetus.
The fetus died, but the mother survived and has a “very optimistic” prognosis, authorities said Thursday.
Authorities’ version of events was unlike anything the local district attorney has seen in his 32 years practicing law.
‘I’m pregnant’
Stabbed in the stomach and bleeding, the victim called 911.
“She cut me,” she told the operator.
“Who cut you?” the operator asked.
“I don’t know,” the victim said.
Then came the revelation.
“She cut you in your stomach?” the operator asked.
“Uh-huh. I’m pregnant,” the victim said.
Even more, again graphic:
Searching the split-level home, police found several bloody towels being laundered in the washing machine.
David Ridley, the 35-year-old husband of Dynel Lane, told police he had returned home earlier after leaving work to meet his wife.
As the husband walked downstairs toward the basement, his wife walked around the corner “covered in blood,” the police report said.
“She told David she just miscarried and the baby was in the bathtub upstairs,” the police report said.
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After Ridley saw his bloody wife, he ran to the bathroom and found “a small baby lying in the bathtub,” the police report said.
“He rubbed the baby slightly then rolled it over to … see it take a gasping breath,” the report said.
Ridley wrapped the baby in a towel, and apparently unaware that its mother was still bleeding inside the house, drove the baby and his wife to the emergency room of Longmont United Hospital, police said.
There is more information.. grisly, graphic.. and disturbing. This is worse than a horror movie.. This is horror on a scale unseen in Colorado before.. Police are now asking for information from anyone else who may have traveled to “D’s” house for baby clothes as a result of the Craigslist ad..
This website has said many times over, true horror is much worse than any works of fiction. The reality of this crime, this Craigslist shocker, is still sinking in..
Another thing worth noting–and let this sink in:
Under Colorado law, essentially, there’s no way murder charges can be brought if it’s not established that the fetus lived as a child outside the body of the mother for some period of time,” Garnett said during the media conference. “I don’t know yet whether that can be established, what our facts are here”
Let that sink in..
True horror hits Colorado. And it’s a town that may never get over the shock of the Craigslist Killer.
Spring time comes later today.. Right now as I write this post, a snowstorm (yes, snow) is falling outside on my Pennsylvania USA sidewalk.. Meanwhile, there’s a celestial event of epic proportions taking place in the NORTH ATLANTIC, the total eclipse of the sun is in progress at press time..
8000 visitors have voyaged to the Faroe islands to witness the amazing event..
CBC news reported it this way for the historical accounts:
People shouted, cheered and applauded as Longyearbyen, the main town in Svalbard, plunged into darkness. The skies were clear, offering a full view of the sun’s corona — a faint ring of rays surrounding the moon — that is only visible during a total solar eclipse.
A few hundred people had gathered on a flat frozen valley overlooking the mountains, and people shouted and yelled as the sudden darkness came. A group of people opened bottles of champagne, saying it was in keeping with a total solar eclipse tradition.
People are ‘blown away’ by the event.. As the darkness shrouded the existence, eyes on the sky were perplexed and fixated on the rare event–so many times in history, human beings had the same reaction. Despite the time and place, we are always amazed when the source of life and light vanishes behind a cloak of darkness.. Many people, as we know, see it as a harbinger.. a time when darkness invades the land. That belief goes back a long way. But it still exists today as much as it did then, despite scientific explanations as to why and how solar eclipses happen in the first place. I think we are programmed through evolution and the development of the brain to be apprehensive of darkness.. and when our senses see dark skies on what should be a sunny day, it throws the mind for a loop.
Coming later on top of the darkness, a blood moon at night. Spring, too.. the equinox to remember.
A few weeks ago, I had a dream that was bizarre.. In the night terror, it was 4am and it was sunny. People were confused as to why the sun had risen so early, and it was as bright as noon at 4am.. People were waking early to come out from their comfort zone and look to the a frightening sky.. It reminded me a bit of the MIDNIGHT SUN Twilight Zone episode..
And that is why eclipses rattle us. They make the unexpected occur.. They turn off the lights.. they let the darkness enter. And the fear begins..
Happy viewing to those who see it.
Happy shoveling to anyone else getting the snow today.
Happy spring to all who are reading.
Katie Couric’s newest documentary called FED UP had a profound effect on my.. I was left ringing my hands in anger, checking all of the products in my home, and becoming astounded at just how much hidden sugar was in stuff I was heating. Healthy stuff, at that.. things I never suspected.. I told all my friends, co-workers, and family to download the COURIC hit, and I promised, their lives would change to..
So you’d imagine my face after reading the secrets of a 104-year-old woman’s key to living past the century mark: Dr. Pepper..
Forth Worth’s CBS’ Kaley O’Kelley profiled Elizabeth Sullivan as she turned 104.. The local story running on the CBS website shows the party.. interviews Sullivan. And the keys to life, the secrets of longevity, were revealed:
“People try to give me coffee for breakfast. Well, I’d rather have a Dr. Pepper.” Sullivan fell in love with the soft drink’s trademark “23 flavors” when she was in her 60’s. “I started drinking them about 40 years ago. Three a day. Every doctor that sees me says they’ll kill you, but they die and I don’t. So there must be a mistake somewhere.”
For her birthday she got a very big surprise. A beautiful cake shaped like what else, Dr. Pepper.
Commenting on her special day she said, “When you live to be 104 and still can talk to nice people, you deserve some Dr. Pepper, but I never expected this.”
I think, right now, the fine corporate suits at Dr. Pepper better get on the ball and trademark these statements.. They should get this woman into a Super Bowl commercial for 2016.. They need to strike while the iron is hot..
Who needs Katie Couric and her warnings that sugar is slowly killing all of us!? We have someone who’s been drinking Dr. Pepper for over 50 years and is still going strong.. even asking for me.
But the real secret?
She was asked if she has a secret for living past 100. She said she really doesn’t, other than, “you just keep living”.
And that may be the point..
How often do you see younger people–younger as in the early to mid 60s and retiring–just dwindle and rescind all bits of fun and frivolity? How many times did you know of someone or heard the story of someone else who retired, and immediately afterwards die or succumb to some horrid disease or affliction that prevented them from enjoying the years after work..
While I do not believe someone should be defined by the work they do wholly, there is something to be said for working. For doing something, something anything. For having a daily mission, or a profound reason for being..
I am striving to find answers to the meaning of life. I am desiring ‘signs’ or mile markets from the gods, God, or aliens that created us.. and I am attempting my best–so far a futile exercise–to find the reason for existence. Maybe it’s quite simple.
Maybe it’s Dr. Pepper.
Or better yet, maybe you just keep living.
And never start dying.
Happy birthday Elizabeth Sullivan. May carbonated beverage be cold and strong.
Avian cholera is suspected in the deaths of at least 2,000 snow geese that fell dead from the sky in Idaho while migrating to nesting grounds on the northern coast of Alaska, wildlife managers said Monday.
The founder of Sirius satellite radio is eager for a future where many of our chores are handled by sentient robots
Oh but there’s so much more than just robots taking out the trash.. try this:
At the keynote, Rothblatt described how the inevitable emergence of cyber consciousness – when machines act with a sophistication and thought level equal to that of humans – will not be overnight but a more subtle evolution.
“Every company will try to out-Siri Siri until we have consciousness,” she said, referring to the Apple/iOS application that works as a personal assistant and navigator. “It will be like water that rises and rises and rises and, before we know it, we’re in an ocean of cyber consciousness.”
And then what?
Lots of choices are coming for humanity. Lots of choices will not have to be made—and actually a lot of misery and heartache may occur as advancements become cruel to people trying to live out out their lives.
Progress.. The future. It’s all good. Until it goes bad.. Until one of those thinking machines thinks too much..
And I wonder, sometime about 1000 years from now, will robots ponder ‘who created me? Why am I here? What happens when I turn off?” We do. And we think. Or so we are told we think..
Rick Jervis in USA TODAY goes on to report:
Artificial intelligence and robotics have been key – and controversial – themes at this year’s SXSW. A slew of panel discussions and keynote speeches on the topic have drawn thousands of attendees, while films screening at the film festival portion of SXSW, such as Ex Machina and Creative Control, have addressed it in their plot lines.
The themes have also prompted protests outside the conference warning of an over-reliance on artificial intelligence to the detriment of humans. In one, a group of protestors held signs reading “Stop the Robots” while chanting “A-I Say Goodbye!”
Rothblatt said robots and humans don’t have to choose sides – such as in the plotlines seen in popular Hollywood movies – but will live in a peaceful co-existence that will make them virtually indistinguishable from one another.
“It’s not us versus cyberspace,” she said. “We’re merging together.”
She added: “We don’t want to create a new slave-versus-free motif. I’m all for merging everyone together. On the level of consciousness, we’re all one.”
We are all one.
Skin and bones. Gear and bytes.. We are the world.
We are the future..
All the world’s a stage.. Vladimir Putin may have just payed the entire world..
After being gone from the scene for ten days, and internet rage took over Twitter with #putinIsDead tags and rumors that Vlad was either abducted by aliens or a coup was taking place and new leadership was on the way.. Near hysteria took over last night when, for a bit, UVB-76 went down..
But today, as planned (and as reported by Russian state TV on Friday by accident when a script reader ill-timed the reading of news that wouldn’t take place for three days), Putin emerged..
It was official business and a photo op worth a great caption: The meeting with the leader of Kyrgyzstan was Putin’s first public outing since a March 5 press conference with the Italian prime minister…
Putin even made light of the rumors, saying that things would be ‘boring’ without gossip..And things are never boring with Vladimir Putin..
He is alive and well.
Vlad living to impale another day.
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This is the video of the long lasting blue meteor over Austria and Switzerland..
I received reports earlier Sunday that the famed UVB-76 numbers station was down. Various people were also reporting they were not able to hear the live feed..
..then..
UVB-76 Station Live Internet Stream and Blog about The Buzzer, Number Stations, Shortwave Listening and Software Radio.
I think the buzzer is buzzing again. I am able to hear UVB-76 again on the live feed page.. It’s back to ‘normal,’ whatever that normal may be.
Meanwhile, I am on the Earthcam Moscow site. Traffic is moving as normal. I think.. “normal,” again..
I got a message earlier from someone asking why it would even matter if UVB-76 was down, or up, or broadcasting eerie messages. You can read some background from this January story on the HUFFINGTON POST UK page..
I also wrote a few bits about the numbers station and my intrigue and love for them during the history of this site.. one four months ago, another here showcasing one of the creepier numbers stations broadcasts I have ever heard, one a year ago when I celebrated the Clyde Lewis show where he played recordings of creepy media hijacks..
However, the best article I may have ever read on the UVB-76 story was by James Cook in THE KERNEL..
Lots of reading to do.. Lots of weird beeps and buzzing, oddities and frequencies.. Strange frequencies during the night. While you sleep, the numbers stations don’t.. And isn’t that the creepy part? Trying to relax while these strange messages beam around the planet?
