Seen on other sites:

Wink and prayer in N.J. - "Scores of faithful Christians converged on Hoboken, N.J., yesterday to get a firsthand glimpse of a plaster statue of Jesus that enraptured witnesses say opened one of its eyes... Not everyone who gathered around the statue was convinced that its supposed awakening was an act of God. "It's just a sculpture," said Wanda Aldea, 14, shaking her head. "I think somebody just scraped its eyelid off.""

Fabled Lands 3 for £60.00. Fabled Lands 5 is £40.00 and Fabled Lands 6 is £50.00. :(

An empty language for empty-headed executives - "The symptoms of bullshit are familiar. The repetition of stock phrases which can be parroted without thought – change drivers, organisational transformation. Words are given meanings different from their ordinary sense – government spending is called investment. Bullshit creates new words – empowerment, creovation� - but these do not define original ideas, but describe concepts too nebulous to be expressed by terms with known meaning. Bullshit is characterised by prolixity – “serving customers better� becomes “striving for continuous improvement in the customer relationship management space�. ... Proper academic training, which emphasises substance over form, is an antidote, and many universities still provide it: business schools, where both faculty and students must disguise how little they know, sometimes do the opposite."

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CPR question for EMTs, other medicos

"I have taken CPR and AED training through my work. The instructor of the class, who is Red Cross certified and is a former EMT, claims that if we're doing CPR correctly, we will break the person's breast bone. He says you want to avoid breaking ribs, but that there is no avoiding breaking the breast bone if you're doing it right.

Other people I know who have taken CPR classes say their instructors told them you won't necessarily have to break it.

During the refresher training yesterday, I again asked our instructor (same guy from a year ago) about this, and he says that anybody who actually has done CPR will tell you that if you're doing it right, you will break the breast bone, and if they say otherwise, it's because they don't have as much experience as him. [Roll Eyes]

Leaving aside his obvious arrogance, can any of you who have actually performed CPR tell me - did you break the breast bone? Or is this guy full poo?"

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all of us in rgs know cpr.

it's a compulsory course we take in sec one.

You learn something new everyday.