1/21/2010 New Summerfield, TX
Worker had entered a soil hopper system while the auger was rotating. Worker’s clothes were caught in the rotating auger, pulling the worker’s body into the auger.

2/12/2010 East Rochester, OH
Worker was emptying rock salt out of the back of his dump truck with a spreader.  His arm was caught in the rotating auger distribution system.

2/17/2010 Beggs, OK
Worker was draining an oil tank; one of the employees climbed to the top of the tank and lit a cigarette and waved it over the opening in the tank.  The tank exploded, killing the worker.

2/17/2010 Rochester, MN
Worker found unconscious in a hog barn.

2/17/2010 Shepherdstown, WV
Worker was working in the kitchen area and fainted / fell to the floor, grabbing hold of a deep fryer, spilling hot grease out onto her and burning 30 percent of her body.

2/20/2010 Follansbee, WV
Worker was traveling underneath a coal transfer belt.  A large icicle broke away from the belt structure and fell onto the worker.

2/21/2010 Celina, OH
Worker was troubleshooting a Makino, multi-axis, computer numerical controlled (CNC) machine; the machine activated and the worker’s head was impaled by the tooling spindle.

2/22/2010 Blue Island, IL
Worker was attempting to find the problem of a hydraulic flatbed truck.  He rose up the flatbed and positioned himself beneath the raised flatbed and the frame.  The hydraulics gave way and the worker was crushed.

2/16/2010 Utuado, PR
Worker caught by the garbage truck compactor.

2/27/2010 Lajas, PR 00667
Bakery worker, was using a home-made elevator to hoist material from the first level to the second level on a two story building. Upon entering  the elevator at the second floor, the chain sling supporting the elevator failed. The elevator in free fall caught the employee in/between the floor edge. He was found dead by a fellow worker.

2/28/2010 Smithtown, NY
Worker fell in a sewage pit.

3/4/2010 Rochester, NY
Worker was using a “Better Spreader” to apply glue to the rubber membrane, walking backwards.  He backed off the roof and fell 27 feet to the ground below.

3/17/2010 Pocahontas, AR
Worker was in the process of transferring grain from one bin to another, and was found in a grain bin covered by a few feet of corn, 20 to 25 feet away from the door.

3/19/2010 Plaquemine, LA
Worker was directing the driver of an 18-wheeler truck backwards into a Poly A Unit.  Worker ended up in a position where the 18-wheeler tires rolled over and crushed his head.

3/23/2010 Miles City, MT
Worker was trampled by a bull.

3/27/2010 Firebaugh, CA
Worker was driving a JackRunner chipper. He left the cab of the chipper and got caught in the auger of the JackRabbit bank-out car.

3/30/2010 Bryson City, NC
Worker complained about not feeling well. He went to the basement of the store where he was running a gasoline powered generator. He was found at the bottom of the stairs. It was reported that carbon monoxide levels in the basement measured greater than 900 parts per million.

4/1/2010 Midland, TX
Worker was on a twelve-foot ladder and tapped on a valve connection from a pump union.  The union struck and destroyed the ladder.  Worker fell and was impaled on debris.

4/6/2010 Livingston, TN
Sheriff Deputy was walking through the woods, working a cold case, and fell 161 feet into a sink hole.

4/7/2010 Centertown, KY
Logger was attempting to dislodge a tree that did not fall after it was cut. He attempted to cut another tree to hit the lodged tree. The second tree fell on him. He had worked for the company for one week.

4/9/2010 Wilkes Barre, PA
Worker was kicked by an elephant.

4/19/2010 Westmont, IL
Worker was welding on a 55-gallon drum of what might have been methanol and a explosion/fire occurred.

2/22/2010 Wilson, AR
Worker was riding on a freight elevator; placed his head over the elevator’s gate before it stopped and was caught in a pinch point between the gate and the second floor.

4/22/2010 Woodland Park, CO
Worker was performing some welding of conduit pipe.   The worker was welding on a floor next to a fryer. The wheel of the fryer rolled into a drain, causing the fryer to tip.  Hot oil at 325 degrees was dumped on the worker.

5/2/2010 Honolulu, HI
A tree trimmer died after becoming inverted in his harness and being unable to free himself.

5/6/2010 Cynthiana, KY
Worker was electrocuted by static electricity built up on a plastic film roll line.

5/8/2010 Carmel, IN
Maintenance worker was fatally injured when the riding lawn mower he was using exploded.

5/10/2010 New Pot Richey, FL
Worker was on a roof performing an estimate for a re-roofing job and was stung by a wasp.

5/13/2010 Gainesville, TX
Worker was running alongside a forklift to jump on, slipped, fell, and was run over by the forklift.

5/19/2010 Wartburg, TN
Worker died after being struck by a tree during a logging operation.  The tree was supposed to fall in the opposite direction.

5/23/2010 Blaine, MN
Worker was refueling trucks used to refuel airplanes.  Worker was found dead on top of a truck with his head in the refueling hole.

5/26/2010 Abington, PA
Worker was not wearing a harness, 20 feet in the air, cutting a tree limb, the limb broke, swung around and knocked the worker from the ladder he was working from.

6/1/2010 Fremont, CA
Farm worker climbed onto stack of hay and fell into the hay baling machine.

6/14/2010 Stockton, CA
Worker was electrocuted while working on a high voltage panel; was entrapped on the panel for one hour.

6/15/2010 Caddo, OK
Worker was engaged in cutting an 8,000-lb boiler in sections with a cutting torch. The section being cut, fell off allowing the remaining section, 5000 lbs., to flip over onto its bottom and land on the worker.

6/16/2010 Zachow, WI
Worker was in a grain bin breaking loose bridged grain that was not flowing and was buried in the corn.

6/16/2010 Rome, GA
Worker was working at an unstacker, went under a catwalk, and failed to lockout the equipment. Worker raised her arm up toward the roller and was caught and pulled into the roller.

6/17/2010 Alexandria, LA
Worker was found inside the plant on the side of a ditch with a four-wheeler on top of him.

6/21/2010 Encinal, TX
Worker was removing a frozen bolt from the track of a catepiller front end loader and was struck by a bolt that entered his forehead.

6/26/2010 Carol Stream, IL
Worker was found crushed in the paper baler.

GO.

Erich: “The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire. Discuss”

I’m verklempt. Twalk amongst yourselves.

This ‘Coffee Talk” quote was loosely based on a quote from Voltaire, “Ce corps qui s’appelait et qui s’appelle encore le saint empire romain n’était en aucune manière ni saint, ni romain, ni empire.” There is no way more than ten percent of the SNL audience had any idea of that, however watching the clip reveals raucous laughter nonetheless. I’m guessing it’s because they tell people when to laugh, how hard and for how long. It would make sense too because SNL has really sucked for the pas few years and yet the laughter quotient of the audience has stayed the same. Perhaps there’s a sort of emptiness to it that the early (funny) years of SNL didn’t have. How long will it be before they just switch to a laugh track?  ‘Coffee Talk’, however, will always be funny.

Jaime: “science.”

Did you know that there’s a really good chance there are anywhere from four to an infinite number of other dimensions? That one-sixteenth of an ounce of neutron star would weigh one hundred million tons? That we’re all made out of stars and that eventually, we’ll be stars again? That there was once a shark big enough to eat whales? That every human has millions of symbiotes? If you put a pizza on the surface of Venus it will cook in nine seconds. The Haiti earthquake was so strong it changed the axis of the planet. Every day, I read about a new theory or discovery that sends chills down my spine. Sometimes I’m pissed I’m not immortal because I won’t get to see our first Mars base, or the first human clone. Or the first dinosaur clone! Science is awesome.

Juno: “Death by tickling”

Being a forensics-minded person when it comes to anything related to human death, the first thing I thought about when introduced to the concept of death-by-tickling was “how on earth would the medical examiner come to that as the cause of death?” Assuming that someone wouldn’t willingly be tickled to the point that they died, one must assume that the victim was bound somehow. Perhaps there would be other post mortem signs of tickling – light cutaneous reddening on the torso or feet suggestive of finger tracks, maybe. But the most unsettling thought is this: what if, at the moment the victim dies, their faces are frozen into a massive, open-mouthed wide eyed expression of simultaneous elation and sheer terror? It doesn’t seem like it would be possible because of the onset and eventual release of rigor mortis but…you never know.

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

— John Hancock

New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton

Massachusetts:
John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry

Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery

Connecticut:
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott

New York:
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris

New Jersey:
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark

Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross

Delaware:
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean

Maryland:
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Virginia:
George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton

North Carolina:
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn

South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton

Georgia:
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton

The full set in their custom case

The 7 Deadly Glasses set is designed by Kacper Hamilton. The design of each glass represents one of the seven sins. The only way you can drink out of Lust, for instance, is to have someone hold the glass over you by its chain while you lick from the bottom:

Obviously, my favorite.

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]]> http://sarahbohr.com/?feed=rss2&p=100 0 http://sarahbohr.com/?p=94 http://sarahbohr.com/?p=94#comments Fri, 02 Apr 2010 22:47:13 +0000 Sarah http://sarahbohr.com/?p=94 These pictures may not be the most flattering, tourist-brochure perfect ones but they represent thing aspects of these places that I really want to experience.

Japan

France

Czech Republic

Spain

Scotland

Botswana

There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;

And frogs in the pool singing at night,
And wild plum trees in tremulous white;

Robins will wear their feathery fire,
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;

And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree,
If mankind perished utterly;

And Spring herself when she woke at dawn
Would scarcely know that we were gone.

- Sara Teasdale, 1920

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