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A Little Humor for Your Day – “A Memo From One of Our Local Hospitals To Their Staff, oh brother!”

Memo To Hospital Staff

It has come to our attention from several emergency rooms that many EMS narratives have taken a decidedly creative direction lately. Effective immediately, all members are to refrain from using slang and abbreviations to describe patients, such as the following:

  • Cardiac patients should not be referred to with MUH (messed up heart), PBS (pretty bad shape), PCL (pre-code looking) or HIBGIA (had it before, got it again).
  • Stroke patients are not “Charlie Carrots,” nor are rescuers to use CCFCCP (Coo Coo for Cocoa Puffs) to describe their mental state.
  • Trauma patients are not CATS (cut all to shit), FDGB (fall down, go boom), TBC (total body crunch) or “hamburger helper.” Similarly, descriptions of a car crash do not have to include phrases like “negative vehicle to vehicle interface” or “terminal deceleration syndrome.”
  • HAZMAT teams are highly trained professionals, not “glow worms.”
  • Persons with altered mental states as a result of drug use are not considered “pharmaceutically gifted.”
  • Gunshot wounds to the head are not “trans-occipital implants.”
  • The homeless are not “urban outdoorsmen”, nor is endotracheal intubation referred to as a “PVC Challenge”.
  • And finally, do not refer to recently deceased persons as being “paws up,” ART (assuming room temperature), CC (Cancel Christmas), CTD (circling the drain), NLPR (no long playing records), or TSTL (Too Stupid To Live).

 

Courtesy of Turok’s Cabana

Astronomy Picture of the Day – Herschel’s Eagle Nebula

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

2016 July 28

Herschel’s Eagle Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: ESA/Herschel/PACS, SPIRE/Hi-GAL Project
Acknowledgment: G. Li Causi, IAPS/INAF

 

Explanation: A now famous picture from the Hubble Space Telescope featured Pillars of Creation, star forming columns of cold gas and dust light-years long inside M16, the Eagle Nebula. This false-color composite image views the nearby stellar nursery using data from the Herschel Space Observatory’s panoramic exploration of interstellar clouds along the plane of our Milky Way galaxy. Herschel’s far infrared detectors record the emission from the region’s cold dust directly. The famous pillars are included near the center of the scene. While the central group of hot young stars is not apparent at these infrared wavelengths, the stars’ radiation and winds carve the shapes within the interstellar clouds. Scattered white spots are denser knots of gas and dust, clumps of material collapsing to form new stars. The Eagle Nebula is some 6,500 light-years distant, an easy target for binoculars or small telescopes in a nebula rich part of the sky toward the split constellation Serpens Cauda (the tail of the snake).

Earth Sky News for Thursday, July 28th: Moon and Aldebaran before dawn

Moon and Aldebaran before dawn July 29

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Before dawn tomorrow – July 29, 2016 – look east to see the lunar crescent partnering up with Aldebaran, the brightest star in the constellation Taurus the Bull. Our sky chart at top shows the view as seen from mid-northern North American latitudes, where the moon and Aldebaran will be a hair’s-breadth apart on the sky’s dome.

Elsewhere around the world – Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand – the moon and Aldebaran will be farther apart from one another during the predawn hours on July 29. The moon’s illuminated side will be pointing in the direction of Aldebaran, and in the moon’s direction of travel relative to the backdrop stars of the zodiac.

If you live in Texas, Mexico or Central America, you can actually watch the moon occult – cover over – Aldebaran in the predawn hours on July 29, 2016. Aldebaran disappears behind the moon’s illuminated side and reappears on the moon’s dark side.

For your convenience, we give the local times of the lunar occulation of Aldebaran for various cities.

Lunar occultation of Aldebaran on July 29, 2019:

Austin, Texas
Occultation begins (Aldebaran disappears): 4:40 a.m. local time
Occultation ends (Aldebaran reappears): 5:20 a.m. local time

Mexico City, Mexico
Occultation begins (Aldebaran disappears): 4:18 a.m. local time
Occultation ends (Aldebaran reappears): 5:16 a.m. local time

Managua, Nicaragua
Occultation begins (Aldebaran disappears): 3:16 a.m. local time
Occultation ends (Aldebaran reappears): 4:17 a.m. local time

More information on the lunar occulation of Aldebaran on July 29, 2016

We refer you to the worldwide map below via the International Occultation Timing Association (IOTA). Given clear skies, everyplace within the solid white lines can see the occultation of Aldebaran during the predawn hours on July 29, 2016. The short blue lines to the right of the solid white lines indicate the occultation happening at dawn. The area in between the dotted red lines represents a daytime occultation.

Click here to find out the occultation times for numerous localities around the world. Remember that you must translate Universal Time to your local time.

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Or look at the chart below for the local times of the occultation on the morning of Friday, July 29, 2016.

Bottom line: For you early birds, enjoy the close pairing of the waning crescent moon and the star Aldebaran in the predawn sky on July 29, 2016. From Texas, Mexico or Central America, the moon will occult, or cover, Aldebaran.

 

BRUCE MCCLURE

Bruce McClure has served as lead writer for EarthSky’s popular Tonight pages since 2004. He’s a sundial aficionado, whose love for the heavens has taken him to Lake Titicaca in Bolivia and sailing in the North Atlantic, where he earned his celestial navigation certificate through the School of Ocean Sailing and Navigation. He also writes and hosts public astronomy programs and planetarium programs in and around his home in upstate New York.

Article originally published on EarthSky

Your Charm for July 28th is Capricornus the Goat

Your Charm for Today

Today’s Meaning:
This aspect of your life will be strongly influenced by a person who is practical, prudent, ambitious, disciplined, patient, careful, humorous and reserved. They could be someone you know in the medical field–a nurse or doctor perhaps.

General Description:
Tenth sign of the Zodiac, Dec 22nd to Jan 19th. Ruling planet, Saturn; correct metal, lead. Those born under Capricornus influence were believed to be prudent, deep thinkers, prosperous in financial affairs, generous, with strong and forcible tempers. The Capricorn stone is the Ruby. The Ruby was a favorite talisman in the Orient. In India it was worn to guard against attacks of enemies, foretell danger, supposed to change color in presence of poison, and attract friends and good fortune; China and Japan health, Happiness and long life. The Romans believed that the Ruby preserved health and strength, averted danger, plague and fevers.

Your Ancient Symbol Card for July 28th is The Cat

Your Ancient Symbol Card for Today

The Cat



The Cat represents the need for stealth and the freedom to act without restrictions. Acting stealthily in no way implies the need for underhanded behavior. Instead the suggestion here is to move quietly towards your goals and reach out for them when they are within range. It also denotes a need to free yourself from restrictions imposed by others.

As a daily card, The Cat suggests that the opportunity to attain your goals is very strong at the moment. However, you need to keep your intentions to yourself and shed whatever limitations have been put on you by others.

Your Daily Witches Rune for July 28th is Romance

 

Witches Rune RomanaceToday’s Witches Rune

Romance

Meaning: The Romance rune is also a symbol of connection, just like the Rings rune. But differently from the latter, the former implies a deeper sort of connection. While in the Rings we have two (or more) people joining to reach a similar goal, here we have two people joining for reasons they can’t quite explain.

Hence this rune is related to love, passion, emotional bonds, sexual chemistry and sudden attraction. Any strong bond can be symbolized by this rune, including the unconditional parental love or a very strong friendship. And it’s not limited to the emotions that sparkle between individuals – the love can be also directed to an object, a subject or even a work.

It’s important to not limit this rune to the emotional field. It can be quite physical, representing sexual relations, arousal and irresistible magnetism. This rune is powerful, and often gives an extra impulse to any rune that is close it. Charismatic and seductive people are represented by the Romance rune as well.

Outside from the field of romance and sex, this rune is concerned with any act of creation. If you have any ongoing projects, you can be sure an extra impulse will come and spur you on. The Romance rune can also represent the reconciliation of opposite forces or tendencies, and the resolution of conflicts. Obsessive thoughts, stubbornness in pursuing a person or a goal and lack of objectivity are the downfalls of this rune.

Additional information about Today’s Witches Rune, Romance, courtesy of Your Spiritual Journey Australia