Definition #113 TSA

Ma'am, I'm going to have to pat you down........

Ma’am,
I’m going to have to pat you down……..

Homeland Security’s Ten Commandments

1 Honor the travelers. They are not suspects.

2 Assign one agent only to wheelchair travelers. He or she shall face the traveler at all times.

3 If a carry-on needs to be examined, it should be viewed with the traveler seeing all contents with the agent.

4 No medical supplies will be handled by said agent, including all prescription drugs, supplements, dietary supplies, water and whole foods carried on for the journey.

5 The boarding and security pass rendered by the Airlines shall be honored by TSA. There will be no “pat downs”, removal of shoes, or outer garments, emptying of pockets,or other “suspect”treatments, while the carry-on is being examined. No handling of food or medical equipment with sensors or wands.

6 The traveler’s  evidence and statements will have equal weight with the agent’s statements.

7 A wheelchair traveler should have either a handicapped assistant or airlines person to assist her with the TSA pass-through.

8 There should be a way to report an inordinate delay through TSA which affects one’s ability to pre-board the airplane at the gate.

9 On future flights, there should be a recognized status noted on the boarding pass of a traveler who has undergone such intimidating treatment so that it never reoccurs.

10 Travelers will seek out airlines which honor their integrity.

Definition #112 Candle

JeanneMichaelDon

Candle

It’s Birthday month: I’m 74!
The short wicked candle burns.

Between Nor’ Easters,wind and snow
My family comes, adjourns.

The elders bring their rattled bones
And ticklish touching smiles

They know a moment’s all we’ve got
Embrace and touch awhile.
Jeanne Poland

Definition #111 Nor’ Easter

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Boston Down Under

Drifts a plenty sculpt

the steps- the landscape cloaks edges;

shoveler frolics!

Definition #110 Selfie Snow Goggles

Winter Sports Enthusiasts

Winter Sports Enthusiasts-2015

Owen, Annika, Oliver  Winter 2014

Owen, Annika, Oliver
Winter 2014

ATV, skating,

sleds, snowboards, winter warriors:

enthusiastic!

Definition #109 War

Graphics  by Marlyn Exconde

Graphics
by Marlyn Exconde

Barbara Tuchman said, “War is the unfolding of miscalculations.”

It was on this day in 1972 that British army parachutists shot 27 unarmed civil rights demonstrators in Derry, Northern Ireland — an event known as “Bloody Sunday.” The protestors had been marching to oppose the new British policy of imprisoning people without a hearing.

The Northern Irish conflict stemmed from a peace treaty signed in 1923 after Ireland’s successful war for independence from Britain. The treaty partitioned Ireland, designating the largely Catholic south as an independent nation, while leaving six counties of Northern Ireland, which had a Protestant majority, as part of the United Kingdom.

On this day, parachute troopers were given the okay to fire on the protestors. The first person killed was shot in the back. Thirteen people died — half of them were teenagers. All of the protesters were unarmed.

Definition: 108 Poetry and Science

Doctor DeLoca and Daughter

Doctor DeLoca and Daughter

Anton Chekhov considered himself a doctor foremost and a writer by hobby.

There are a great number of medical doctors who also wrote fiction and poetry, among them 19th-century American poet Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sherlock Holmes’ creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Robert Seymour Bridges, who is the only physician to have been Poet Laureate of England.

American writer Walker Percy was a medical doctor, and Michael Crichton completed medical school before he became a full-time writer.

Doctor Arturo Vivante wrote more than 70 stories for The New Yorker magazine.

Mystery writer Robin Cook is a physician and author of the best-selling thrillers Coma (1977) and Mutation (1989).

Dr. Abraham Verghese took a break from hospitals to attend the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in the early 1990s; he returned to medicine and now teaches and practices at Stanford, where he has a secret unmarked writing office on campus.

Definition #107 Fragile

Fragile Jeanne

Fragile Jeanne

fragile-aged-worn

see through woman- pulsing heart

polished diamond edge!

Definition #106 Bat Girl Jeanne

Jeanne as Batgirl

Jeanne as Batgirl

Don put my face-tune

into this flighty cartoon:

it’s a wild web moon!

Definition #105 Silent “T” (tsatske)

"My tsatske"

“My tsatske”

My toy, my trinket

kinky knick-knack ornament

bauble loyal guy!

Definition #104 Go

My brain is a chain

My brain is a chain

I want to go go go
until I go past time and
then I’ll go in God!

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