Fortunately, James Henry is a not a starter. Unfortunately, his charges are two 3rd degree felonies. The fact that he is the sixth player arrested since last June may reveal a larger, coaching problem, as well.
UPDATE: Sounds bad for Henry, whose playing will be missed. He set up the go-ahead touchdown against TCU.
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No need to wait for Halloween. Just plug in your car and model and watch the horrific crashes. Yech.
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Here’s an idea that deserves a look, especially if you play electric guitar: Turning Mexican pesos into durable guitar picks, for what afficionados say is a unique, deep sound like a harmonic bell. And here.
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The Veterans Administration recently notified me that I have a medical exam in December for the Agent Orange Registry, at their clinic up the road in Temple. Anyone who served in Vietnam during the American war is eligible for the exam. I applied for VA health care a few months ago, though I have private insurance, because I wanted to cover all the bases, plus get the AO exam, just in case. In case of what? Well, prostate cancer for one. It is one of the most common cancers in men, generally, but is considered service-connected in Vietnam veterans because we have a higher-incidence of it than the general male population. The connection is attributed to exposure to the dioxin in the defoliant Agent Orange. A few days after my VA notice, a classmate from OC 504-68 announced on the email list that he’d been diagnosed with it. Then the surprise "I have it, too" emails started coming in. So I’m getting a private physical, a.s.a.p., just in case. Nothing like hearing about the plight of men your age, in your own peer group, to focus on your own health.
UPDATE: I passed. The private doc said my physical inspection and PSA blood test showed prostate cancer was "not an issue," for this year, anyhow.
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Posted in Infantry OCS, Science/Engineering, Viet Nam
Tagged agent orange, dioxin, Infantry Officer's Candidate School, prostate cancer, service-connected disabilities, veteran's administration
What did you learn about in school today, I asked Mr. Boy. Einstein, he said. Einstein? In second grade? What did they say he was famous for? Mr. B. couldn’t remember. No kidding. There are plenty of adults who couldn’t tell you anything about E.’s work, other than that he was a genuis, etc. Well, there is, I said, his Theory of Relativity, but most adults would be hard-pressed to explain it. The only part I know about is this: You can’t fly to the moon in a straight line. Because space is curved. (I hope I got that right. With the ToR, you can never be sure.) Wow, said Mr. B, that is cool. It is, too. And, last month, some astronomers used it to measure some really far away neutron stars.
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Actually, it was rubber cement we used to use when cutting up typewritten pages and pasting whole paragraphs together in the old typewriter newspaper days–which is where the computer’s cut-and-paste commands came from. Long gone. Good riddance. But I do miss the smell of the rubber cement.
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