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Saturday 04 August 2007  Test BriAdmin op Saturday 04 August 2007 - 07:57:19  Read/Post Comment: 24 | Trackbacks: 198   {PDF=create pdf of this news item^news.1881} Friday 03 August 2007 'Chuck' Norris rescues 26 sailors
Just after 10 a.m., the Coast Guard alerted 771 Search and Rescue Squadron at the Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose in Cornwall. Two Sea King search and rescue helicopters from the 771 Naval Air Squadron were immediately commissioned to the sight.
Lt. Guy "Chuck" Norris, 42, has been enlisted in the Royal Navy for 18 years and has flown more than 200 search and rescue missions. This father of two described the tempestuous oceanic surroundings that day as the worst ever. "It was one of the most challenging missions I have been involved with. The weather on the Napoli job was very, very extreme. The sea state was high and, at times, you would look out the cockpit window and see waves coming towards you at helicopter height. There were also a lot of people to be rescued."
The helicopter crews found the seamen being tossed about in their lifeboats by swells that were 40 to 50 feet high. Petty Officer Aircrewman Jay O'Donnell was lowered and "trawled" through the waves on a rope to the lifeboats. This 33-year-old father of two later described the scene: "It was the worst conditions I have encountered. The seas were mountainous. When you are there, you are very focused about what has to be done. But looking back at some of the footage which was taken, you think, 'Oh my God, I didn't realize it was that bad.'"
After many daring and gallant measures by all these naval crewmen, the 26 seamen were snatched from the jaws of the perilous waves and airlifted to dry land – each Sea King winching up 13 survivors and flying them to safety. [ Read the rest ... ] BriAdmin op Friday 03 August 2007 - 03:49:36 Read/Post Comment: 27 | Trackbacks: 4 {PDF=create pdf of this news item^news.1880}  But Mom! The other 61-year-olds get an allowance!
ROME (Reuters) - A Sicilian mother took away her 61-year-old son's house keys, cut off his allowance and hauled him to the police station because he stayed out late.
Tired of her son's misbehavior, the retiree in the central Sicilian city of Caltagirone turned to the police to "convince this blockhead" to behave properly, La Sicilia, one of Sicily's leading newspapers, reported on Thursday.
The son responded by saying his mother did not give him a big enough weekly allowance and did not know how to cook.
"My son does not respect me, he doesn't tell me where he's going in the evenings and returns home late," the woman was quoted as saying. "He is never happy with the food I make and always complains. This can't go on."
Police helped the squabbling duo make up and the two returned home together, with the son's house keys and daily allowance restored.
Most Italian men still live at home late into their 30s, enjoying their "mamma's" cooking, washing and ironing.BriAdmin op Friday 03 August 2007 - 03:48:33 Read/Post Comment: 24 | Trackbacks: 5 {PDF=create pdf of this news item^news.1879} First, Pants Man Loses Case. Next, His Job.
By the middle of next week, Roy Pearson, the D.C. administrative law judge who sued his neighborhood dry cleaners for $54 million and lost, will receive a letter that starts the process of putting him out of a job.
City sources tell me that a marathon meeting of the commission that reviews the performance of administrative law judges (ALJs) ended last night with unanimous agreement to meet again next Monday to revise and finalize the wording of a letter that will state the panel's doubts about granting Pearson the 10-year reappointment that he has been seeking throughout the last months of his battle against Custom Cleaners and its owners, the Chung family.
The panel had expected to complete work on the Pearson case last night, but discussions were complicated by a series of conflicting recommendations to the Commission on Selection and Tenure of ALJs by the chief ALJ, Tyrone Butler. In rapid succession this spring, Butler told the commission that "I do not oppose" Pearson's reappointment, that "I recommend reappointment," and that "I do not recommend" reappointment, according to sources who have seen the letters.
The first switcheroo came as a result of the commission notifying Butler that he had not complied with the law that requires the chief judge to submit a yes or no recommendation to the commission that decides whether judges' performance merits an extension of their time on the bench. ALJs sit on cases involving disputes between city agencies and between citizens and those agencies.[ Read the rest ... ] BriAdmin op Friday 03 August 2007 - 03:47:09 Read/Post Comment: 25 | Trackbacks: 166 {PDF=create pdf of this news item^news.1878}
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