CBC Analysis: A Canadian journalist was physically attacked for doing his job. That should be huge news

Double standard much?

The Economist has released its annual list of "most livable cities". The top ten include three in Australia, three in Canada, two in Japan, and one each in Austria and Denmark:
1: Vienna
2: Melbourne
3: Osaka
4: Calgary
5: Sydney
6: Vancouver
7 (tie): Tokyo
7 (tie): Toronto
9: Copenhagen
10: Adelaide

The highest-ranking American city is Honolulu, at #23. NYC placed #57.

Auckland, Perth, Helsinki, and Hamburg all fell off the top ten despite scoring close to where they scored last year... so at least some of the shifts in the list are because other cities are getting better.

But take these rankings with a grain of salt. Puerto Rico as a whole placed at #89 on the list of cities.

Analysis: Forbes and CBC.

So, I realized I was pushing this in my fanfic thread, and hadn't posted it properly, on this board. I'll post it here, then.

To sum it up, I was in a hit-and-run. Got a witness and the guy's plate, filed a police report (image included in campaign). The accident, however, screwed up my neck, my car, and my ability to work. I've been playing catch-up with the bills from pretty much day one, and have repeatedly had my arse handed to me by the ongoing proceedings.

1) Other guy's insurance company, a skeezy outfit named 'Lyndon Southern', officially denied responsibility (image included in campaign). This occurred early on enough that I was forced to raise the donation cap from 2000 to 4000. I am considering another such raise, given my current situation, but feel that it would be premature before the current goal is met and this month's bills successfully warded off.
2) My lawyer has turned to filing a claim against my Uninsured Motorist coverage. There has been no response as of yet that I am aware of.
3) My neck-and-arm injury seemed, at first, to be moderate inflammation of the neck, severe trauma to the rotator cuff, but as time wore on, the arm healed, the neck was...revealed to be significantly worse. I had surgery one week ago, today, to repair a tendon in my neck attached to my right collarbone.
4) Between prescriptions, bills, and groceries, I have no money, and owe the hospital over $10,000 (NOT part of the claim). My lawyer has already advised me that my therapy bill plus his service fee of 34% means I will see little to no monetary remuneration for the injury claim.
5) I have not managed to scrape together the premium required to have my car repaired.
6) My A/C (specifically the fan) recently decided to go on a semi-permanent vacation, in a rather dramatic fashion. After checking the fuses, then the owner's manual, which, to my surprise, revealed the fan motor *has* no fuses, I am at a loss as to the cause apart from 'bad fan motor'. I cannot get down under my dashboard to check connections, nor can I pay a professional to look and see what's what, either.
7) I am either in the middle of, or hopefully getting over, a respiratory infection that may or may not have been caused by the surgery's antibiotics.

For lack of anywhere better to post this (if there is somewhere, please feel free to move it or let me know so I can move it myself), I am including this link.

Please, read all the updates for the full story. Thank you for your time and consideration.

Link: GoFundMe: Hit-and-Run Threatens Livelihood

Needs more websites / chat links / telephone numbers. Also needs to have the entries already on the list checked.

https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Suicide_Prevention

Peg and I are off to a Lindsey Stirling concert at the PNC Arts Center in Holmdel NJ tonight.  Weirdly, she has Evanescence opening for her...

Anyway, if I get any good pics or video out of it, I'll make sure to put them up so those who are interested can check them out.

Twenty-six guests just now.  And about half of them are reading the "3D Modeling" thread. Rob, you been pointing folks from your wiki at us?

We all accept these as stupid, but when you could hire someone to take you up to orbit in their truck for a trip to the moon, it takes some serious stubborn idiocy to hold onto these views.

Do they make nuisances of themselves in Fenspace? And if so, how?

Modern archaeology that is.

AP: Wildfire uncovers lost WWII sign on Bray Head

You may have heard about local governments shutting down kids' lemonade stands for lacking permits and health department approvals, and you probably thought it was an urban legend, a bit of propaganda about governmental overreach and having no sense of humor and whatnot.

Sad to say, it's not an urban legend.

And Country Time Lemonade has established a legal team to help kids who get busted by local authorities for their lemonade stands.

Quote:"Life doesn't always give you lemons, but when it does, you should be able to make and share lemonade with the neighborhood without legal implications," Legal-Ade says on its website. "That's why we're here to take a stand for lemonade stands across the nation."
In a video posted on YouTube, Country Time said the team is "making sure no kid is denied their right to a lemonade stand."

I stumbled across this image on DeviantArt a while ago, found it on my hard drive again today, and wondered how Doug would react to the young lady. (Not Doug's power - she isn't singing - but Doug himself.)

"Fire Within Me", by "AF-studios", © 2010 Ana Fagarazzi