Wrong person, wrong classification

Suppose someone has been convicted of a crime, served part of the sentence, and then the person is found to be innocent. New DNA testing, or whatever, has shown the person innocent. Person is let out of jail. What happens then? Does Person still have a criminal record (so Person has to say yes on the job applications when it asks if the applicant has a record)? Is Person compensated for lost time by the state, or given training/help in finding a job (how do you hide that gap on a resume?)/ counseling? Of course, any financial compensation doesn't make up for losing one's life for however many years, all the memories not made, the relationships strained or broken, the reputation damaged, but it's a start towards making things just a little bit easier.

I was listening to the news last night (Evening Edition on WBUR), and there are motions to get last month's fire in Providence declared a federal disaster, or something, so victims can get FEMA money, especially since all the likely groups with potential liability are unlikely to have enough cash to compensate. I understand why people are suggesting the federal government step in here, but it feels very strange, too. A fire like that is just not in the same category as a hurricane or a flood. The other part that was extremely distasteful to me was how there were comarisons between the fire and the events of 9/11. Yes, there are many people bereaved after each event. But there is a difference between terrorist acts and a potentially preventable fire. The comparison went on and on, and not one person in the story seemed to find it a bad comparison to make. Ugh.
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"No man has ever looked me in the eye and said. `Michael, give me tassels!' There is only one circumstance I can think of where men like tassels - and we aren't going there!"

--Michael Payne, host of ''Designing for the Sexes" (Apparently a TV show that has him mediating design decisions when married couples are not in agreement about what to do with their space.)


Not dressed for the weather

Yesterday the weather report was sure we were getting an inch of snow today. I am due to go to a sales presentation this afternoon, so had to wear more professional clothes than I usually do in the office, including nice shoes. One inch of snow shouldn't be a problem, right?

And of course, having gotten into the car for the morning commute, I hear that it's now 3 to 5 inches. Glerg. Here I am in actual heels (no socks/nylons/whatever, either), and I'm likely going to have to clear off the car at some point. Ick.

And of course, wearing a suit is just uncomfortable in and of itself. Why didn't I think to bring a spare skirt (or shoes) with me? So I sit in my constraining jacket, the skirt too tight at my waist (making me wonder if today will be the day to pop a button; not a good thing on a wraparound skirt.), and wish I'd planned the day a bit better...

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I still haven't managed to make one of those cool lines go here. I think the code is dl, but when I try that, nothing happens. Feh.

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Thanks to Prog and Queue.

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To day's entertaining spam had a subject line (not a direction line :-), and nothing in the body of the message:

Science vs Esoteric : Turn back time on your body's biological clock up to twenty years with just six months of use!

Well, shoot, use of what? Slinkies? Potato skins? Caffeine? Sacks of dirt?
In what way? Ingesting? Topical application? Inhaled? Bathing in? Exercising with?
Inquiring minds want to know!

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