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    The Last Post on Amazon Prime

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    Is anybody else watching this show on Amazon Prime?  It's a BBC produced show about a British army unit in Aden fighting a Yemeni insurgency in the Middle East and the women and childrens who were there with them.

    Lots of fine looking men.

    It only has 6 episodes so far and I can't find any information about future episodes or seasons.

    Check it out.

    IHG Points Stolen - Merry Xmas

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    I really enjoy IHG.  I'm in a Crown Plaza right now.  Every IHG hotel (all the Holiday Inn's are included) has a great internet system for returning members.  Log in once and you're logged in for your whole stay on a faster internet service not available to non IHG guests.   I've never had my points stolen.

    Oh, Netflix

    in The Beer Bar

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    17 hours ago, AdamSmith said:

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    :cheer:

    Yes that was a nice scene.  Elizabeth had been talking with her father the King saying Philip didn't think the King liked him and would he, the king, spend more time with him.

    Seemingly like the next morning Philip is awoken by the King at the crack of dawn with an invitation to go shooting.  He obviously sleeps in the buff and has a fine ass.

    People in Vegetative States may be awake in there

    in The Beer Bar

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    http://digital.olivesoftware.com/Olive/ODN/HoustonChronicle/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=HHC%2F2017%2F12%2F04&entity=Ar00102&sk=360860D3&mode=text

    This front page story in today's Houston Chronicle outlines medical advancements in the understanding of vegetative states and new research suggests that 67 percent of traumatic-brain-injury patients who receive inpatient rehab regain consciousness and that up to 21 percent eventually learn to speak again.

    It's a long article that I recommend reading.  Especially if you know somebody in a vegetative state.

    Here's the Cliff Notes:

    TIRR Memorial Hermann, originally the Texas Institute for Rehabilitation and Research, was established 60 years ago, at the height of the polio epidemic, to help the disabled learn to walk again. By the 1980s, the hospital had become a leader in rehabilitating people who, thanks to advances in trauma medicine, had survived spinal cord and brain injuries. In 2011, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords checked in, three weeks after being shot in the head in Arizona.

    Year after year, TIRR has ranked among the top rehab hospitals in the country, drawing patients from around the world.

    Far less attention, though, has been paid to a small unit on the hospital’s sixth floor. That’s not surprising, perhaps, given the low-key demeanor of Dr. Sunil Kothari, who established TIRR’s disorders-of-consciousness program three years ago. Today, it’s one of only a half-dozen such programs in the country and possibly the busiest, treating more than 50 severely brain-injured patients every year.

    Not long after he welcomed Nick onto his unit last fall, Kothari met in a small conference room with a couple of medical fellows as part of their orientation. He pulled up a PowerPoint presentation on his laptop and began to explain how his team identifies signs of consciousness that other physicians miss.

    He defined what it means to be minimally conscious — a phrase that didn’t even exist when Kothari graduated from medical school in 1995. After joining TIRR’s brain-injury program 17 years ago, Kothari had taken special interest in those patients who could hear, see or feel but could not easily show it.

    Most never get a shot at therapy, Kothari explained, even as new research suggests that 67 percent of traumatic-brain-injury patients who receive inpatient rehab regain consciousness and that up to 21 percent eventually learn to speak again. Instead, those patients often are warehoused at adult care homes and treated like empty vessels. Many go without pain medication, and in some extreme cases are denied anesthesia for medical procedures because it’s assumed they cannot feel. In reality, they are just not able to cry out.

    “It’s truly a nightmare scenario,” said Kothari, an assistant professor of rehabilitation at Baylor College of Medicine.

    At TIRR, he estimates nine out of 10 patients who come to him with a vegetative label turn out to be at least minimally conscious, which means they display subtle but inconsistent signs of awareness. Some are fully conscious but too cognitively damaged to express it. A small number are suffering from a condition known as locked-in syndrome, an extreme form of paralysis that prevents fully aware people from doing anything other than blinking.

     

    Matt Lauer Fired

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    22 hours ago, OneFinger said:

    And his attorneys are trying to get him paid $30M which represents the remainder of this contract!!! But, his contract also has a morals clause. I really hope he doesn't get another dime from the network. From what I've read his actions were horrendous and was known by the network for years.

    The firing, HMOP, was justified. He deserves nothing more than the shame he brought upon himself and his his poor family.

    I agree that he shouldn't be paid but I'll bet there is a partial settlement.  I'll bet there's plenty of dirt that could fall NBC's way.  Note that their 1st statement said they had no idea about any of his behavior and that statement was later revised that "current management" had not idea about any of his behavior.  Sounds to me like dirt has been swept under the rug on his behavior for years and that puts NBC at legal risk.  I feel that NBC wants this to go away as soon as possible and that they will make a confidential settlement with Matt to avoid any future legal action over his contract.

     

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