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Back to the roots:

Tired of conveyor-belt medicine, a growing number of physicians are finding a viable market — and better results — in old-fashioned home visits

Wouldn’t it be nice if many other businesses would get back to their roots and do business the way they used to?

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So finally we get to see a doctor this past Tuesday. Long questionnaire, short exam. Everything is fine. So far so good.

Then Wednesday the call that he can’t see us anymore - because it is a “high risk” pregnancy.

So now the only doctor being paid for by the insurance and willing to take a “high risk” pregnancy is 125 miles away. Country roads, not interstate. 2 and a half hour drive - one way. Luckily the insurance will provide transportation.

You wonder why “high risk” in quotes? This past doctor based his decision of “high risk” on the fact that my wife has a thyroid disease.

According to the new doctor my wife is only high risk because she was in pre-term labor with both pregnancies before. Now - that I can understand. But a thyroid disease you are being treated for?

You know, when I am stuck professionally—I see that as a challenge. I will do research, ask others for help and will stay in the loop - so I can learn!

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What better way to save some money?!

Of course - how do I explain THAT (The shopping site was tossing up “Http/1.1 Service Unavailable” messages to users in the US throughout Monday.) to my kids?

And it goes on:
Amazon’s ‘morning nightmare’ lasts 11 days, and counting

Can we expect more of those outages from others?

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Update to this post:

After a week of well-deserved criticism, Lycos is abandoning its scheme to launch denial-of-service attacks against spammy websites. Did the company reform in time to avoid criminal prosecution?

Personally, I liked the idea - was it really that bad?

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In the German-speaking countries and Holland and Belgium as well December 6th is the most distinctive children’s festival of the year. St. Nikolaus Eve is a time of festive stir, it is a time of whispers and giggles, and of heavy steps on the stairs.

When evening comes, St. Nikolaus, a reverend grey-haired figure with flowing beard, bishop’s raiment, gold embroidered cope, mitre and pastoral staff, will knock on doors and enquire about the behavior of the children. The custom of examining the children, where they will deliver a verse, sing, or otherwise show their skills, is still widespread in German- speaking countries.

His best known companion is Knecht Ruprecht (poem), “Knecht” meaning servant. Historically, Ruprecht was a dark and sinister figure clad in a tattered robe with a big sack on his back in which, legend has it, he will place all naughty children.

Here the full story.

In the area I grew up the customs is to put a boot outside the bedroom which Santa then fills in the night from the 5th to the 6th…

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CBS has a TV show named “The Amazing Race”. A few teams travel around the world and have to perform tasks. Most weeks one team gets eliminated and in the last episode the winning team gets $1,000,000.00.

Episode 3 had as task to find a clue in a haystack:
… Lena continued unrolling bales, hoping that this was a non-elimination leg. After darkness fell, the exhausted sisters, still toiling away, received a visitor in the field. Phil [the host of the show] arrived to inform the pair, who had spent over eight hours at the Roadblock with no success, that they were eliminated from THE AMAZING RACE.

How many of us would have given up way earlier then that?

Lena - you did an outstanding job!

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Found this article on BB Technology:

Internet portal Lycos has made a screensaver that endlessly requests data from sites that sell the goods and services mentioned in spam e-mail.

Lycos hopes it will make the monthly bandwidth bills of spammers soar by keeping their servers running flat out.

Interesting idea!

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Early in the afternoon my wife told me that we had to go to the hospital. Contracting too much.

I actually don’t dislike it too much. First it’s a one and a half hour drive to get to the hospital and secondly it gives always some time to talk.

If you wonder why a hospital so far—that’s where the doc works who delivered the two other ones. Both he and wife are now out of the military and my wife found him via a web search.

Anyway, her doc was not there, but another doc. Boy, was she out of it: “We can’t find the heart beat because the baby is too small”. Mind you my wife is 22 weeks far.
Talk about creating a disaster: You have a contracting female and you tell her the baby is too small? You can’t find the heartbeat but do not even ask where the baby lays? You tell the patient with a long history of difficult pregnancies that there is no such thing as an incompetence cervix? (Only 12,200 search results from Google). She actually said that the other doctors had no idea what they were talking about.

Don’t worry; neither my wife nor I took her serious. The contractions went down and the baby is doing fine. And I have another day to admire the strength of my wife! Any pregnant female for that matter.

So anyway, I think that over the past few years too many people have become too addicted to machines and what machines can do. Humans and their feelings and/or knowledge get ignored, because a machine knows better.

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