NYTimes: 4 Killed as Huge Crane Topples at a Houston Refinery »
Texas has some of the loosest regulations in the country regarding cranes. Cranes operate here without state or local oversight, leaving that job solely to federal regulators. Texas is also one of 35 states that do not require crane operators to be licensed.
The state had 26 crane-related deaths in 2005 and 2006, the most in the nation, according to federal statistics.
NYTimes: America Gets to Know Obama, and Vice Versa »
“A place that I’ve come to love, which I did not expect until this campaign, is Texas … I ended up loving Texas! I’ve been struck by how many beautiful places there are in the country that you don’t necessarily think of as beautiful.”Um, thanks?
“I Don’t Want to Lose You”, the Greencards [eMusic].
My mom’s close friend Sunny (also my former boss) passed away this evening. She was always a vibrant person, and her death is still sinking in. She was diagnosed with breast cancer over a year ago and had good days and bad days with it. Her death today was sort of a surprise in that it came on so quickly.
When I first started working regularly in the office, I would check Sunny’s email for her when she was on vacation, and she was on the Greencards’ mailing list. This is back when they didn’t have a mailing list manager and it was all higgledy-piggledy. Someone would reply to the Greencards and it would be sent to the whole list (it was ridiculous).
She loved the band and went to hear them often while they were still in Austin. I waited til the Armadillo Xmas Bazaar before they moved to Nashville to check them out, doh!
So anyway, here is this song.
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