Not you. Your interest in the mob probably predates the Internet .

Surprisingly clever ... for a lawyer!

The man who sued the Guinness Book of Records over 'most lawsuits' claim.

A man who keeps suing people is suing the Guinness Book of World Records for saying that he's sued the most people ever. Jonathan Lee Riches is thought to have filed over 4,000 lawsuits around the world against various people, entities, objects and concepts.

In a boldly ironic move, he has now filed a lawsuit against the Guinness Book of World Records, hoping to get an injunction against them naming him as the world's most litigious man in their 2010 edition. 'The Guinness Book of World Records has no right to publish my work, my legal masterpieces,' he says in the legal filing. He is also unhappy about the nicknames they apparently plan to ascribe to him, including 'Sue-per-man', 'the duke of lawsuits' and 'Johnny Sue-nami'. Previous targets of his legal ire have included George W. Bush, Che Guevara, Perez Hilton, the Eiffel Tower, Britney Spears, Adolf Hitler's Nazi party, Google, the Roman Empire, The Queen, the Magna Carta, the Wu-Tang Clan, Plato, Emilio Estevez and Nordic

Lice could make you scratch your head.

This is a sad story, can't believe they have been unable to find the plane.


Missing jet passengers likely suffocated before plunge

By Reuters, June 28, 2014 | 4:10am

The passengers and crew of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 most likely died from suffocation and coasted lifelessly into the ocean on autopilot, a new report released by Australian officials on Thursday said.

In a 55-page report, the Australian Transport Safety Board outlined how investigators had arrived at this conclusion after comparing the conditions on the flight with previous disasters, although it contained no new evidence from within the jetliner.

The report narrowed down the possible final resting place from thousands of possible routes, while noting the absence of communications and the steady flight path and a number of other key abnormalities in the course of the ill-fated flight.

“Given these observations, the final stages of the unresponsive crew/hypoxia event type appeared to best fit the available evidence for the final period of MH370′s flight when it was heading in a generally southerly direction,” the ATSB report said.

All of that suggested that the plane most likely crashed farther south into the Indian Ocean than previously thought, Australian officials also said, leading them to announce a shift farther south within the prior search area.

The new analysis comes more than 100 days after the Boeing 777, carrying 239 passengers and crew, disappeared on March 8 shortly after taking off from Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing.

Investigators say what little evidence they have to work with suggests the plane was deliberately diverted thousands of kilometers from its scheduled route before eventually plunging into the Indian Ocean.

‘It is highly, highly likely that the aircraft was on autopilot otherwise it could not have followed the orderly path that has been identified through the satellite sightings.’

The search was narrowed in April after a series of acoustic pings thought to be from the plane’s black box recorders were heard along a final arc where analysis of satellite data put its last location.

But a month later, officials conceded the wreckage was not in that concentrated area, some 1,000 miles off the northwest coast of Australia, and the search area would have to be expanded.

“The new priority area is still focused on the seventh arc, where the aircraft last communicated with satellite. We are now shifting our attention to an area further south along the arc,” Australian Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss told reporters in Canberra.

Truss said the area was determined after a review of satellite data, early radar information and aircraft performance limits after the plane diverted across the Malaysian peninsula and headed south into one of the remotest areas of the planet.

“It is highly, highly likely that the aircraft was on autopilot otherwise it could not have followed the orderly path that has been identified through the satellite sightings,” Truss said.

The next phase of the search is expected to start in August and take a year, covering some 60,000 sq km at a cost of $56 million or more. The search is already the most expensive in aviation history.

The new priority search area is around 2,000 km west of Perth, a stretch of isolated ocean frequently lashed by storm force winds and massive swells.

Two vessels, one Chinese and one from Dutch engineering company Fugro, are currently mapping the sea floor along the arc, where depths exceed 5,000 meters in parts.

A tender to find a commercial operator to conduct the sea floor search closes on Monday.

http://nypost.com/2014/06/28/missing-jet-passengers-likely-suffocated-before-plunge/

‘Cannibal Cop’ should be home for dinner after conviction tossed

By Rich Calder, Kevin Sheehan and Bruce Golding

July 1, 2014 | 12:00pm

A​ Manhattan federal judge granted his release on $100,000 bond Tuesday morning in the wake of a blockbuster ruling that tossed his conviction for plotting to kill, cook and eat women.

The former NYPD cop will live with his mom in Queens while prosecutors appeal his acquittal by Manhattan federal Judge Paul Gardephe, a defense lawyer said.

Valle​, who has been behind bars for 21 months including his trial,​ was being processed by federal authorities and still waiting to taste freedom shortly before 1pm.

​His lawyer Julia Gatto said Valle’s mom, who lives in Queens, “is very anxious to cook a meal for him, to sit at the table with him, to hug him.”​

Under terms of his release, the admittedly depraved ex-con will have to wear an electronic monitoring anklet and be barred from using the Internet — where he infamously hatched plans to feast on his wife, along with an array of female friends and acquaintances.

Valle had faced life in prison after a jury found him guilty of kidnapping conspiracy in the grisly schemes, but Gardephe reversed that conviction and conditionally granted him a retrial in a 118-page ruling handed down late Monday.

“The evidentiary record is such that it is more likely than not the case that all of Valle’s Internet communications about kidnapping are fantasy role-play,” Gardephe wrote.

However, the judge upheld Valle’s conviction on a second count of illegally using the NYPD’s federal database to compile a list of female targets and information on them.

Valle, who has been in jail since being arrested in late 2012, has already served the maximum one-year sentence for that crime.

Prosecutor Hadassa Waxman said in court that the feds remained convinced Valle posed a “danger to the community.”

“The government certainly respects the court’s decision, but believes the jury got it right, and it’s our intention to appeal,” she said.

Public defender Gatto said of Valle: “He has served his time and then some​. He is guilty of nothing more than very unprofessional thoughts.”

​Gatto said her client “is anxious to get home to his​ ​family who supported him through this whole ordeal. He’s very elated. ​ ​He’s very tired. Prison is very hard … He has to pick up the pieces ​ ​of his life.​”

“He lost a lot in his ​ ​life​ — his wife, his child​ — and he wants to get back to getting his life ​together.”

​She said his jail time was ​like ​being in his “own Twilight Zone.”

Meanwhile, Middle Village neighbors ​of Valle’s mom, Elizabeth had mixed reactions to the pending homecoming.

A next-door neighbor, who gave his name only as Lex, agreed with the judge’s ruling, saying: “It’s crazy to get convicted for your thoughts. He didn’t do anything.”

“I’m happy for him,” the 36-year-old said, adding,”but some of the people on the block are going to flip. The lady who runs the daycare across the street is going to be really pissed. You know she’s going to lose some of her business once word gets out.”

Lex, who’s separated and has custody of his kids for the summer, also said his estranged wife “keeps calling” and demanding they re-locate.

“She’s bugging out. She wants me to take the kids to a hotel,” he said.


http://nypost.com/2014/07/01/cannibal-cop-freed-on-100k-bond-after-judge-vacates-conviction/

That would explain why she looks like a hermaphrodite...

Head lice!!


They will make you scratch your head every time....

Lice can be a good thing. It would have kept you from getting on the titanic.

Silver linings and all that...

This is very sad and disgusting.

Nurse exposes VA hospital: Stolen drugs, tortured veterans

By Valerie Riviello

July 12, 2014 | 10:17am

Registered nurse Valerie Riviello has worked 28 years at the Albany Stratton VA Medical Center, most recently in the psychiatric unit. She teaches at two local nursing schools, and has received many honors for patient care and safety, including the Florence Nightingale Award. Last fall, Riviello challenged the treatment of a female veteran strapped to her bed for hours on end, in violation of VA rules. As a result, she was stripped of her nursing duties. Now she’s one of 37 whistleblowers nationwide whose allegations of retaliation are under investigation by the US Office of Special Counsel. Riviello told her story to The Post’s Susan Edelman.

On November 5 of last year, I started my shift on the psychiatric ward at about 6:30 a.m.

A female Navy veteran, a victim of sexual assault in the military, was locked in a two-point restraint — her right arm and left leg were strapped to the bedposts. She also had a belt tied around her waist to restrict her movement.

She had been restrained that morning because she was “disruptive and agitated.”

By 9 a.m., the veteran pleaded to be freed from the shackles. The nursing team and I made an assessment. We felt that she was ready to come out. She was calm and cooperative and taking her medication.

We reported our assessment to the attending physician, who did not agree. The doctor felt the patient was “unpredictable.” But we concluded she had no intent to harm herself or anyone else. She was in pain and wanted to use the bathroom — to bathe, wash her hair, brush her teeth.

We kept advocating for her release, which was met with resistance from the physician. At 1 p.m., the patient had wet herself, was sweating and aching from being in the same position for so long.

I called my supervisor, saying we planned to remove the patient’s restraints to let her shower and use the bathroom. He said, “It sounds like a plan.”

So, after a total of seven hours, we took off the restraints. The patient was very appreciative. She was trying to hug us, she was so happy.

But 30 minutes later, the attending physician learned about the release and was furious, demanding that we tie the patient down again. We refused, because there was no justification.

She was not imminently a danger to herself or others. Under VA policy, we’re supposed to place patients in the “least restrictive environment” and use restraints only as a last resort. In a case like this, where a woman had a history of sexual trauma and multiple medical problems, restraints would not help — and could even be harmful. It could bring up memories of her trauma, which could range from rape to sexual assault and leave her very vulnerable.

I learned from my nursing staff that the same female veteran was readmitted in February and was kept in restraints for 49 consecutive hours over Presidents Day weekend. They said the doctors didn’t want to come in to evaluate the patient, as required, if she was released and had to be put back on restraints.

Can you imagine being tied down for that many hours? Every minute that someone is restrained seems like an eternity.

I started my nursing career at Albany Medical Center across the street from the VA as a candy striper at age 15. I looked up to the student nurses and dreamed of becoming one. I won the hospital auxiliary scholarship to attend nursing school with my essay “Why I want to become a nurse.” I wanted to take care of people and make a difference in their lives when they were feeling their worst.

Many of our veterans are returning from combat with lost limbs, shattered bones, brain injuries and sexual assaults. Others who served years ago are aging and face health complications. I have a passion for psychiatric nursing because I want to take care of “invisible wounds,” or psychological suffering.

In recent years, it’s been very discouraging to watch the level of care given to veterans deteriorate. Their ability to make choices and be involved in their treatment is disregarded. There’s no oversight of the local leadership and no accountability for how they treat employees and veterans. That has harmed patient care and staff morale.

The Albany VA hospital is now part of a national scandal involving veterans who have died while waiting for care, the falsification of appointment schedules, and retaliation against whistleblowers. My case is one of dozens under investigation.

Since my removal, other nurse managers have told me what is going on in the hospice and geriatric units.

Last month, they found that a nurse had been diverting morphine. He was withdrawing the drug from vials and replacing it with water or some other unknown substance.

Over the past year, this had occurred more than 5,000 times.

This means our hospice patients were not getting their pain medication. The veterans were dying in pain. That’s appalling.

The medicine comes out of a machine that records what is removed and put back. Someone should have spotted the pattern and asked, “What is this traffic going in and out, in and out?”

Finally, a new night nurse reported that her colleague seemed under the influence of something. The nurse taking the morphine admitted that he had an addiction problem and was fired. The VA’s inspector general is investigating.

Other co-workers throughout the hospital have asked me to spread the word about a variety of problems:

A kitchen employee complained the kitchen is skimping on patient meals. If a tray comes back with an unopened milk carton, the patient will no longer be served milk with his or her meal. Special diets are frequently not adhered to, and staff is instructed to give less food to patients.

The pharmacy often runs out of medications and gives patients an IOU note stapled to an empty bag. The pharmacy is falling behind and has many undelivered prescriptions.

Nurses have complained about brown tap water on the seventh floor. The bathrooms are filthy, and often have no toilet paper, particularly in the Veterans Service Center.

In March, my supervisor served me with a reprimand for the incident with the female veteran, citing a “failure to follow the patient’s plan of care.”

I turned to a private law firm that works with federal employees, Tully Rinckey, to fight the disciplinary action.

Two weeks later, I was served with a 30-day suspension without pay because I had given my lawyer patient information to defend my actions. But the hospital had already turned over 250 pages of this patient’s records. There was no breach of privacy.

They gave me a desk job to develop a nurse residency program all by myself. At other VA hospitals, it took a team of nurse-educators and leaders to create such a program.

When veterans I’ve known for years visited my office or stopped me in the lobby to chat, they were later questioned by my supervisors as to why they were talking to me. One veteran became irate at the grilling. It’s an example of the hostile environment and bullying I have endured.

I have been proud to serve the veterans and their families. I have also adopted and raised two boys who are now successful in the Marines and Army. I care for all of my veteran patients the exact way I would want my two sons cared for if needed some day.

I feel betrayed and humiliated the way the VA has tried to silence me, tarnish my career and hide what happened. Since I have come forward, data on the use of restraints, which we are required to keep, has gone missing from the electronic files. I’ve worked really hard for 28 years and don’t want to end my career this way.

I want to make sure veterans get the care they deserve with respect and dignity. I also want to leave a legacy for future nurses to feel free to speak out without retaliation.

http://nypost.com/2014/07/12/nurse-exposes-va-hospital-stolen-drugs-tortured-veterans/

NNY78:

I request a favor. While your posts are appreciated, they are hugely long because you type out an entire (or nearly entire) article. Why do I cite that? Here's why. Those hugely long posts of yours take up the entire screen. Thus, a post that immediately precedes your post or comes immediately after tends to end up on the prior screen or on the next screen. Thus, those prior or following posts don't get the exposure that the posters probably desire.

Consider doing this: summarize the article and then post a link to the full article. That's what I do and what most Board members do.

Olivant, My apologies to you and the other great folks on here. Will do and thanks for the tip.

The article was excellent. How horrible that this is the way we are treating those that made such sacrifices so that we could go on living our comfortable lives. Thank you for sharing!

Supermarket check outs that are called "Express" because they limit you to 10 or 15 items. They are usually anything but express. They should have "Efficient" check outs that require you to have your items organized, barcodes facing the front, money/check/or credit card ready to pay, NO COUPONS, no cellphones, no kids or babies, bag your own, no food stamps, no government checks, if there are two people, one must bag while the other one pays, no challenging the price. That's just for starters.

Marycas,

I Agree 100%, if I could add one, no digging for exact change in those weekend bags the ladies call purses nowadays either.

Why would someone go on vacation on a beach when they already live on a beach? My daughter is planing one. I don't get it.

I have a big pool. I have gone in it maybe 4 times. I have it for the kids, and grand children to use.

Also for my kids to invite their friends over for BBQ's and parties.

I was a soccer coach spent a lot of time outside on the practice field.

I hardly ever go out side in the back yard. I rather be inside the house then outside.

So Foot, if your pool is lonely, I could work up to a cannonball....provided there is a cold drink as a reward.