Officials say the man was sleeping in a Dumpster early Wednesday morning when the waste management driver deposited the contents of the Dumpster into the truck.
The driver was making his rounds when he heard the man’s call for help, officials say.
The man was pulled from the truck and taken to St. Joseph’s Hospital in Tampa, where he is in stable condition, Tampa Fire Rescue spokesman Jason Penny said.
Not this time.The Daily Show has a pretty good summary of the Senate confirmation hearings in which she was interviewed about her qualifications and ideas. You’d never be hired if you were this unprepared for the interview or provided such evasive non-answers…unless you had some kind of advantage over the hiring organization:
If you like to dig a little deeper — and as a reader of this blog, the odds of that are good — here are videos featuring her being questioned by Senators Elizabeth Warren,Bernie Sanders,Al Franken,Maggie Hassan, and Chris Murphy at her confirmation hearing. Be very worried, because we’re in for more of this over the next four years.
And in case you were wondering: I know what a bad job interview looks like, because I’ve interviewed candidates who performed as badly, and hey, I’ve even been one myself.
Elizabeth Warren’s interview questions
Elizabeth Warren noted at the time of the confirmation hearings, Ms. DeVos had neither yet completed the ethics form nor submitted it to the committee for review. She would sign it two days later, after the hearings.
Warren opened with this statement:
The Secretary of Education is essentially responsible for managing a trillion-dollar student loan bank and distributing 30 billion dollars in Pell grants to students each year. The financial futures of an entire generation of young people depend on your department getting that right.
And followed with these questions:
Do you have any experience running a loan program of the size that’s were talking about (on the order of a trillion dollars), or even one that is one-thousandth the size (on the order of a billion dollars)?
Have you or someone in your family had to take out a student loan?
There are already laws on the books that prevent career colleges from getting federal funds unless they can prove that they’re actually preparing their students for gainful employment and not cheating them. Will you enforce these laws?
If you want to see some of the worst answers I’ve seen in a job interview, you’ll want to watch this:
Bernie Sanders’ interview questions
How much has your family contributed to the Republican Party over the years?
Would you even be considered for this position if those contributions were never made?
Would you work with me and others to make public colleges tuition-free through federal and state efforts?
Would you work with me to make childcare universal for working families?
Al Franken’s interview questions
Where do you stand on the debate on testing for proficiency vs. testing for growth?
Your family has a history of bankrolling groups that have anti-LGBT agendas and supporting widely-discredited gay-to-straight conversion therapy. Do you still believe in conversion therapy?
Do you know how much has student debt increased by in the past 8 years?
Maggie Hassan’s interview questions
When students with disabilities get a publicly-funded voucher to attend a private school, they often don’t receive adequate resources, and in some cases have to sign over their legal rights under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Do you think that families should have a recourse in the courts if their child’s education does not adequately meet their needs?
Will you enforce the laws that require schools to support kids with disabilities?
Christopher Murphy’s interview questions
Do you think that guns have any place in or around schools?
It’s the first time in US history that a vice president has needed to intervene in a cabinet nominee’s confirmation.
While vice presidents have a constitutional duty to break ties in the Senate, rarely are they actually called upon to intercede. Ties are few and far between; the last one took place in 2008, when vice president Dick Cheney broke a 50-50 vote on a matter related to the federal budget. The last time the Senate was tied over any sort of presidential nomination was three decades ago: In 1986, Ronald Reagan appointed a lawyer to a federal appellate court whom Democrats contested (over his lack of qualifications, much as in DeVos’s case), and vice president George Bush had to step in and push the appointee over the line.
The bitter contest over DeVos’s confirmation may be over, but the tight vote portends a tension-riddled atmosphere greeting the new secretary once she takes office.
I know I’m going to everyone who used to listen to this alt-rock classic or who went to my DJ nights at Crazy Go Nuts University’sClark Hall Pub feel old, but I can’t let the 25th anniversary of Ministry’sJesus Built My Hotrod pass without mention. Go ahead: crank up your volume, bang your head, and ding-a-ding-dang your dang-a-long-ling-long!
Here’s the full-length “Redline/Whiteline” version, which used to get the mosh pit (something no longer allowed in the present fun-depleted “Sunday school picnic for Celine Dion fans” version of the pub) going on the dance floor:
The melodica is a wind instrument for keyboard players. It looks like a small piano keyboard with a plastic tube attached to one end, and as a reed instrument, has a sound similar to the harmonica or accordion. If you’ve never heard one before, here’s “Human Jukebox” playing Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody on the melodica:
Some asshole from NYC came to town, slept with my girlfriend and left the most annoying instrument known to man (and/or woman – it’s 2017) at my house. Don’t ask.
So I want it gone. Much like him, the instrument is useless. But here I am letting my personal bias taint the beauty of this air-blown-key-thing known as the Melodica.
It’s got a nice colour design, which I think is pretty sharp – as well as a strap for your hand to keep it steady while you play. Kind of like how that two-timing discounted pair of yoga pants played me.
I digress.
Come grab it for $100 or best offer.
Also I’ll throw in a MacBook charger, because I’m a good guy.
Here’s the Macbook charger:
Click the photo to see the ad.
The melodica he’s selling is a Hohner AIRBOARD37, and you can get it brand new from Amazon for US$99.99 with free shipping. Asking $100 Canadian for a used one is a bit much, but the deal becomes sweeter with the 85W MacBook Pro MagSafe 2 power adapter, which will set you back US$75 at the Apple Store. I assume that the guy who slept with his girlfriend also left it there.
As I write this, the ad has had over 13,500 views. If you’re in the Toronto area and want a melodica with a free MacBook power adapter (or, if you prefer to think it this was, a MacBook power adapter with a free melodica thrown in), contact this guy now!
(And to the seller: Better luck with the next girlfriend, dude. I’ve been there.)
…or, as Jamie Ross (Scotland reporter for Buzzfeed News) tweeted: “Heartfelt congratulations to this guy who must have waited a lifetime for vegetables to become news.”
“Well, they don’t have a choice now, he’s our President,” McConaughey said. “It’s very dynamic and as divisive of an inauguration and time that we’ve ever had. At the same time, it’s time for us to embrace and shake hands with this fact and be constructive with him over the next four years.
Dr. Eileen deVilla — my sister, and Toronto’s new medical officer of health. Photo released by the city of Toronto.
I’ll let Toronto news channel CP24 do the most of the talking, but I’ll say this myself: Congratulations, sis, and well done! I have every confidence that you’ll do a fantastic job.
Dr. Eileen de Villa will take over as the city’s new medical officer of health in March after her appointment was approved by city councillors at Tuesday’s meeting.
In a news release issued by the city, Villa is described as a “distinguished scholar and physician” who studied medicine and public health at the University of Toronto.
She also holds a Master’s degree in Health Science, a Master’s in Business Administration and a certificate in health law from Osgoode Law School.
Dr. de Villa replaces Acting Medical Officer of Health David McKeown, who took over the position after Dr. Barbara Yaffe’s retirement.
Mayor John Tory and Coun. Joe Mihevc, chair of the Board of Health, both issued written statements on Tuesday afternoon expressing their confidence in the city’s new top doctor.
“Throughout the selection panel process, she demonstrated solid leadership and management skills, in-depth understanding of public health issues and a passion for public health promotion that will surely benefit the residents of Toronto,” Mihevc said.
Dr. de Villa will officially start her new position on March 27.
