Alert! A cannula (Plural is cannulae) is a tube, inserted into the body that allows for the transport of fluid, like blood. If you are in the medical profession or have a child who may need a heart operation, read this:
Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Issues Urgent, Nationwide/Worldwide Recall of Pediatric Arterial Cannulae
Contact: Sharon Ryan (734) 741- 6104
[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE –Ann Arbor, Mich. — December 1, 2008 — Terumo Cardiovascular Systems (Terumo CVS) is issuing an urgent, nationwide/worldwide recall of its Tenderflow™ Pediatric Arterial Cannulae involving 21 lot codes (see information below). Terumo received five reports of difficulty retracting the introducer from the cannula. When the introducer cannot be retracted from the cannula, the cannula must be removed and replaced, a process that may lead to aortic damage, blood loss and/or death.
There have been no reports of patient injury or death associated with the product…..]
Hmm. I wonder if the media will be next up at Congress? Just in case you didn’t see the scope of the problem take a look at all the businesses Frank Zell had control of HERE.
Tribune Co. Files for Bankruptcy
Cash Flow May Not Be Enough to Cover Tribune’s Nearly $1B in Interest Payments
The Associated Press
CHICAGO
[NEW YORK (AP) — Media conglomerate Tribune Co. filed for bankruptcy protection Monday, as the owner of the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Cubs and other properties tries to deal with $13 billion in debt….]
http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=6413876
The NYT reported:
[…Rating agencies say Tribune’s short-term problem is not in making payments on its debt. Instead, the company is struggling to comply with a requirement that its main debt from its acquisition of the company not exceed nine times its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization…]
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/08/business/media/08tribune.html?ref=business
And we know it’s not just about newspapers, it’s also about baseball teams and possible insider trading, TV and the economic crisis. The Buscho mess at the FCC that let all this happen by allowing TV radio and paper to commingle are just as responsible. Bill Richardson, fix this debacle! Let’s spend less time trying to blacklist Bill Moyers, David Branchuccio, and purple puppets.
This contains a vintage video produced in 2005, along with the article, but it’s short and bearable on dial up. I never worked in the mine industry, but I worked in construction. Women in labor look good, but they look better when they have the muscle and height to use the jackhammer they are barely holding up. Plus, what about all those health and safety infractions, GE promoted, like getting your scalp ripped off because your loose flowing locks got caught in the machinery? I can’t believe GE ever put out an ad like this. GE is the parent company of MSNBC and NBC, so wait a minute, maybe I can.
Grabbed my shovel and I went to the mine
Rob Inglis | Dec 01, 2008 04:13 PM
Here’s one more addition to the list of Western industries being affected by the economic downturn: coal. Peabody Energy — the world’s biggest coal company, made famous as the villain in the John Prine song “Paradise” — has announced that it is freezing all hiring at its three Wyoming coal mines. The company said in an letter to its employees that it plans to reevaluate all its capital projects and defer or cancel many of them.
http://www.hcn.org/blogs/goat/grabbed-my-shovel-and-i-went-to-the-mine
I didn’t vote for President Elect Obama, but here is where we are. This will either be an interesting, or depressing read for you:
Liar, Liar!! Barack Obama’s Secretary of War
by BAR managing editor Bruce Dixon
“with less than 5% of the world’s population, the US outspends the other 95% of the planet combined on things military”
Until 1947, the United States habitually told the truth about at least one thing. The job title of the Pentagon’s highest ranking civilian was the Secretary of War. But the recent slaughter of tens of millions in the Second World War had given the Pentagon’s real function a bad name. So Democrat Harry Truman rebranded the Department of War, naming it the Department of Defense. From that day, the Secretary of War became the Secretary of Defense. War plants, war expenditures and bloodthirsty war industries became more benign-sounding defense plants, the defense expenditures and the patriotic defense industry.
http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=911&Itemid=1
Have they no shame? No more editorial cartoons? This smells like a reprise of the 60’s and 70’s, when big business shed those folk in the last one or two years of a long company career, so they didn’t have to pay promised retirement benefits. Surely it’s didn’t take them 20 years to figure out he was a bad employee? I know the register has laid off a lot of folks recently, but this stinks! It’s bad for a lot of us out there, but this kind of thing bears investigation:
Duffy speaks out on Register layoffs
By JASON HANCOCK 12/8/08 11:27 AM
Fired Des Moines Register cartoonist Brian Duffy is talking to the media about his dismissal from the paper he’s worked at for a quarter century.
Duffy, whose job was one of 71 eliminated last week, spoke with Des Moines NBC affiliate WHO and CBS affiliate KCCI about his departure from the Register.…
…Duffy’s departure ends a century-long tradition at the Register of a front-page editorial cartoon. Three of the paper’s Pulitzers were for editorial cartoons.]
http://iowaindependent.com/9373/duffy-speaks-out-on-register-layoffs
We must treasure every good thing that happens, even when we are tired from the fight. This battle started in 1991, when the Rose brothers, a couple of local boys went fishing at Mitchell Slough back in 1991, with Bitterroot Star publisher Michael Howell.
Stream access wins decisively in Montana
ESSAY – December 08, 2008
By Rob Breeding
[The long slog is over. The Montana Supreme Court has finally settled a dispute over who controls access to a side channel of the Bitterroot River known as the Mitchell Slough.
The verdict: The public does; Mitchell Slough is a natural waterway, and that means access is guaranteed for the people of Montana.
You may think that means I’m rigging up the fly rod and making plans to go wet a line in the backyard of rock singer Huey Lewis. Then I can thumb my nose at him and all the other wealthy landowners who have tried to bar people like me from the slough since the early 1990s….]
http://www.hcn.org/wotr/stream-access-wins-decisively-in-montana
I Own My Vote, PUMA, The Denver Group, Just Say No Deal
Grab and Keel 
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