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and little breeze. Then, according to Brandolino, 90 by the weekend!

Enquiring minds want to KNOW!

The typo is in the original.

What's the world coming to when AP does a thing like that?

Like in a newspaper, magazine or advertisement. A blogger or comments section, ok, but from a "professional" writer, get the grammar/spelling/meaning right. Grrr.

And I'm not joking. Welcome to globalism. And even though English is an official language in places like India, that doesn't mean proficiency.

You should watch Indian cable TV (as I do at one client's home) to see what they have for English subtitles, and I don't even know if they are translating the idea accurately, since I don't speak the languages. But the English sure is "quaint".

But I see this kind of context mistake in my local paper a lot. "He was in the throws of a dilemma" ARGHH!

I worked for nearly 20 years in high tech marketing communications. I know many, many, many highly qualified and talented technical writers, PR writers, and brochure writers who lost their careers between '99 and '02. Myself included.

Quality went straight into the toilet.

I'm struggling this second writing a manual, technical overview and tutorial for a HUGE medical software project I programmed.

Betcha can't tell I'm avoiding the work any way I can.

and as soon as you've finished the manual, you can write the brochure and the press release. Because writing is writing!

Said the bean counter looking for ways to maximize utilization of resource units with absolutely no idea of what any of the jobs actually entails...

BTW: There's another little side effect. I walk around the house muttering out loud, things that used to take days, take weeks, etc. etc.

And I'm not alone. Ever wonder why our health care system is failing? Wonder no more...

Following the crash of my first career, I drank some kool-aid and went back to school for med lab tech. Took on massive debt and ran myself into the ground training to escape my fill-in job as a customer service rep to become a scient....oh, wait a minute.....I mean, to become a low-paid factory worker who maintains and runs instruments, and does minor detail work like manual differentials or gram stains on infected specimens "on-the-fly" during spare moments.

Trust me...you do NOT want to see this sausage being made.

A new Medicare "performance for pay" law says that hospitals that don't achieve 90% patient satisfaction will not be reimbursed in full. So the healthcare system in which I work sent us all to customer service training where we watched a video that showed, among other things, how one patient felt really specially cared for because the hospital threw him a birthday party. And we were given pins we are required to wear that say "I listen, care, help." And now 2 customer service improvement goals will be part of every performance review, but I'm not sure how that will work as motivation since there haven't been and will not be any raises for years.

So now I'm a combined low-paid factory worker/customer service rep with tens of thousands in student loan debt that will follow me to my grave or until I turn 83, whichever comes first.

Oh, wait a minute. I wrote that they sent all of us to training. That's not quite true, because they didn't send the doctors. Because we all know that all doctors have angelic bedside manners and actual outcomes -- you know, such as actually repairing the problem without causing a host of worse ones -- has no bearing whatsoever on patient satisfaction. Besides, any messes a doctor happens to accidentally make will be cleaned up by dragging the lab techs out of the lab and having us sing happy birthday to a patient who came in with a flesh wound and is being shipped out with systemic mrsa.

ACA won't be able to help. It will just multiply the dysfunction by some factor.

I've posted elsewhere: I watched the WORLD's finest transplant program become one of the WORLD's worst in a matter of, oh, 4-5 years. Best/worst measured by OUTCOMES - not some silly patient satisfaction bullshit.

I've moved on, but the same forces are at work - just not quite as far advanced. A matter of time.

If anyone hears our lonely quiet cries, please give us a call. I'll give you a few names and phone numbers. People who have published more peer-reviewed research than I have books on my bookshelves. And I have a few.

because he took orders.

And I was Radar watching the whole damn thing.

but not more than that. For one thing, reasonable people can disagree about correct spelling, and in most cases you don't know what dictionaries the various spell checks use as their authorities. So when you see spell check light something up, if the problem is simply a typo you can recognize that and fix it right away. If spell check says it's wrong but you see no reason for that, you need to go to a dictionary to get an authoritative opinion.

And then there are cases like this one, where the misspelling is a real word. Spell check has no way to know that's not what you meant.

to wrong ones. If you are going too fast, you might not catch it.

and the science is unsettled.

I went to Whiteface Mountain in July of 1967. Yep, the top was still covered in snow. Very, very long time ago.

Thought you'd have work to do.

On edit: Too soon.

will protect them from that Commie, Fascist, uppity Kenyan with the fake birth certificate from taking their God and Guns and allowing gayo-Americans to get married.

Oh, after I keep telling them that Climate Change is an anti-American, anti-Capitalist plot though up by those Socialist Europeans!

The real climate change is as real as ever though and everything points to a few decades of global cooling.

And I've seen then when flying over Italy a bunch of years ago.

Winter ends in April and summer ends in October. Winter for the most part hasn't been as cold.

Big debate is whether the decline in volume is exponential or gompertz

To which I ask: Does it really matter that much?

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