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July 29, 2006


Families In The Dark With HIPAA Rules

Filed under: — Marsha James @ 8:47 am

A 17 year old girl was pregnant and although her parents suspected she lied and said she wasn’t even after she gave birth. She gave birth in the shower and then put the child in a cabinet where it suffocated.

Cheyenne Corbett is now on trial for the murder of her child and her parents are rightfully upset. They had went with their daughter to the doctor but could get no information due to the fact that Corbett signed a form saying she did not want her parents to get anything medical information on her.

The most puzzling part is the fact that these were not parents that threatened or would have thrown her out. She had seen for herself the loving and care her parents exhibited towards her older sister who had also become pregnant in her mid teens but for whatever reason she was afraid to tell them and now faces a long time in prison.

July 18, 2006

Shy Bladder Syndrome

Filed under: — Marsha James @ 1:09 am

Funny name, but their is nothing funny about this medical condition to the ones that have it. Shy bladder or bashful bladder syndrome is a mental condition more than physical really. Someone with this disorder is unable to urinate if someone is in close proximity. That means that they can’t use a public restroom especially if it has a number of stalls and are occupied.

Vicki White has this problem and has only discovered that it not only has a name but that more than 10 million people suffer from it. Men and women alike, young and old and it can even be passed on to your children.

Ms. White needed to give a urine drug test but was unable to do so because she could not use the bathroom even after downing a few bottles of water. She called the bank where she was trying to get hired but they informed her that they were taking back her job offer and like that she’s back at square one.

People shouldn’t have to deal with this when applying for a jobs, not in a time when saliva, blood, hair and even sweat can be and is used in some places instead of urine tests. Even for people who don’t suffer this problem it is a bit of an embarressment to walk around with a cup of your pee which is of course always in a clear jar.

July 13, 2006

Best of Niner Niner July 06

Niner Niner, a collaborative weblog network, has over 25 great blogs and this “Best Of” highlights just a few of the posts that were written by some of the Niner authors, in topics that range from High Heels, Ajax, HIPAA Privacy Regulation to gadgets, books and health. 

     

In Ajax Blog, Sreejith introduces us to a few new things. First is Vox a new blogging service from Six Apart that uses WYSIWYG with a taste of web 2.0. After that we learn about Krun.ch and Wishlistr.

   

Blogging Naked: Scarification and lip plates are shown to be some of the newest and more popular form of “self-expression” in recent years.

Bookadoodle: Nancy Callahan posted more in her series “Getting Published” and this latest edition was part 5.

Boomer 2.0 had posts that pointed out that boomers can still have that second career and another that shows many are not even planning retirement anytime soon.

In Class Action Questions find out about lawsuits involving pyramid scams, hair raising beauty product claims and why State Farm was penalized.

Credit Cardenza: Unfortunately, millions of people are drowning in  credit card debt, have to worry about credit scams and fraud, and let’s not even talk about the international fees.

  

Dealsneak managed to sneak more than a few deals pass us this summer including, the Samsonite laptop case, a gorgeous leather bench, and a sweet looking Thermaltake Tsunami computer case.

Feed Money discusses the fact the Ebay has jumped on the contextual ad bandwagon as well as blog feeds and a program called RSS To Blog.

If you need to Fix Your Finances one of the first steps is learning how to save your money. After that you can check out Mvelopes to learn all about budgets.

At Games For Money you can find places to play free online gambling games and also learn some card counting tricks and tips.

  

The High Heels Blogs show us which killer heels are on sale including boots, sandals, slides and mules. Also take a look at some killer wedding heels for this summers nuptials.

 

A few notable gadgets that were blogged in the HyperGadget blog were the Kurzweil-National Federation of the Blind Reader, and the jumbled and messy looking organizer.

Over at the Medcare Forum, Kathleen Milazzo tells us more about that scary mad cow disease and our medical privacy laws.

Find out just how much house you can afford before you go running off to get that mortgage. And is the housing bubble really ready to blow? All this and more in Mortgage Updates.

At My Secret Side Biz learn how to make a profit, how to get your own powerwash, and simple business and Ebay tips.

On Healthy Living: Sarah White tells us all about a new study that could help with asthma reduction when it comes to do light exercise that involves stead breathing like yoga.

On Movies has a decade of super heroes list that includes recent and unreleased movies. Leafworks reviewed The Omen and we got to see the trailer for the new Ghost Rider movie.

Powersellers Blog: Ebay has done it. They finally reached 200 million members and they are also expanding into new ideas. Also people are fed up with Paypal while crooks are finding more ways to defraud your account.

Seo Updates: Yahoo one of the biggest email services was hit with a worm and Google expanded into real estate but won’t be making a browser, at least not anytime soon.

Get some free exercise tips from The Diet Logs. You will certainly need them if you plan to take a bite of this $100 burger.

Living the Single life? Well take a look at some great break up lines and if your looking to meet people Leafworks posted a great review of club La Rumba.

Thumb Gods: Nintendo is no, no to the name Wii for their new console a game system that is at the end of this long list containing The Evolution of Video Game Consoles.

Las Vegas Revealed that it was ill prepared for a massive disaster, but til then you can still get married and get comp’d in Vegas.

 

Wander the World, well the State of Colorado with Leafworks. He takes us to the Cherry Blossom Festival, Gothnic in Denver, Old Colorado City, Plaza del Arte Festival in Downtown Denver and Garden of the Gods.