| Critical delays for ambulance patients
I was appalled as not only was I in pain but there was also young children and the elderly in pain.. We were told we should have called an ambulance as that would have prioratised us sooner.. The whole system is in shambles! Posted by: Donna of Sydney 8:58am today .
If budget is broken, work now to repair it
So you've blown your budget buying Christmas gifts for family, friends and even the neighbor's dog. That's little surprise. It's the American way to spend and spend. In an October survey by BIGresearch and the National Retail Federation, consumers said they planned to shell out an average of $923.36 during the holidays, a modest 4 percent increase over last year but up a steep
24 percent since 2003. .
Curt Cavin: IRL & Formula One Q&A
The action is much better than either the U.S. open-wheel series and there's American's winning. There has never been a more tense and exciting time in any racing series than the time from the start of the MotoGP race in Portugal until the end of the race in Valencia. Just an absolute blast!
Hopefully, TG and KK figure it out. I'll be at Laguna Seca and Miller Motorsports Park in any event (and maybe IMS if they land a MotoGP race in '08). (Dave Becker, Boise, Idaho)
Answer: Thanks for the note. Unfortunately, I�ve heard this from a lot of people. They�re sick of the split. I am, too.
Question: When are we going to have a Cahill and/or Fernandez announcement? The thought of 23 cars (plus Herb & Roth) at Homestead is pretty exciting! (Matt Converset, Decatur, Ind.)
Answer: You might want to cool your jets.
Defence minister Lekota arrested for speeding
702 Eyewitness News can confirm Defence Minister Mosioua Lekota is out on bail this afternoon, after he was arrested for speeding last night.
While details are still vague, Eyewitness News understands Lekota was caught breaking the speed limit near the Grasmere Toll Plaza.
Metro Police say several motorists were arrested yesterday for speeding, but refused to confirm if Lekota was among them.
A reliable source says the minister was then taken to the Mondeor Police Station, before being released on R1 000 bail. It's unclear as to how fast he was driving.
The Automobile Association says if he indeed paid R1 000 bail, that means he was driving at around 40km/h over the speed limit. The limit on much of the N1 highway is 120km/h.
Lekota's office has been unavailable for comment.
Rojas's Rcrd Lbl: Free Song Downloads and Hold the Ad Clutter
In a FAQ on the site, Rojas and company ask people who syndicate tracks to outside blogs to take the whole widget rather than just host MP3s themselves. "We support the site and pay our artists through advertising and sponsorships, and the only way we can do that is if people visit the site or embed our widgets," the FAQ pleads. Rcrd Lbl isn't the first company to offer music promotion and downloads in a blog format; nor is it the first to offer ad-supported song downloads. Free download service SpiralFrog launched two months ago with a small handful of major labels agreeing to let it represent their catalogs. The company has been heavily criticized however for the Digital Rights Management (DRM) restrictions it places on downloaded tracks, as well as for its incompatibility with Apple's ubiquitous iPod.
The case of the dubious diamond dildo.
L.A. Times--Scooped again? ... 10:15 P.M. Army of Shrums Update: On reflection, homemade YouTube ads seem more potentially subversive than I originally thought. I try to explain here. ... Not only do these amateur ads seem to evade the campaign finance laws, they seem to undermine the whole assumption of those laws, which is that candidates with more money enjoy a proportional advantage. No they won't--at least if they're typically undone by whichever catchy,15-second spot cooked up by a teenager on blogspot gains the most viral exposure (by being re-shown on the TV news in addition to being viewed on the Web). The outcome of a true YouTube election will be more random--but, arguably, more substance-related. ... To Be Sure: I'm not saying we're already past the time when races get determined by what Bob Shrum and Roger Ailes, or their successors, spend donors' millions to tell voters.
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