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Yesterday, I asked a friend to check on Jean. When she arrived, Jean was dressed to the nines, happy, and looking as if she was headed out.
In fact, she was. On her own. She had convinced a kindly neighbor to jumpstart her car, which not only would likely have killed the battery permanently (hybrids can only be started so many times), but also could have killed herself (or worse, someone else). It's been well over 2 years since Jean has been behind the wheel. Her confusion over receiving her handicapped placard in the mail and believing it to be a driver's license makes clear she is a danger.
My friend explained to the neighbor that he could not start the car for her and that her driver's license had long ago been revoked. He agreed to refrain from doing so. Jean lost it. I mean really lost it. Lost it like she used to when we were kids. Screaming, threatening, saying nasty things. My friend said she really now understood what she was loathe to believe about the kind, spirited, funny, intellectual, lady she knew as my mother. It was not pretty.
The key, wrapped around her wrist, could not be secured. She was not letting go. So, we are (meaning I am) faced with a task I didn't want to do: move the car. This has been tried before. It's going to require, in my estimation, a either a thief that can hot-wire the car, or a cop willing to protect me when I try to wrest the damn key from her and get the tow truck to take in the vehicle. It's not the deal I wanted, but it's the one I have to make.
The photograph above is of Art Rosett, my contracts professor in law school. He was one of my favorites, and he died recently. He was also my Torah study professor. Sometimes he would give us difficult scenarios that involved a contract going off-kilter and, using the Socratic method, he would question us about how to get the contract back on track. Each time we'd make a suggestion, he'd bring up another problem our suggestion would give rise to. It was as if we were in a giant whack-a-mole (but with no stuffed toy at the end)., Finally, he would say, "Listen, you guys aren't looking at the obvious. Sometimes you gotta void the contract."
There's a contract we as children make with our parents. The contract is that they will tell us what to do until we're a certain age, and then we will leave. We'll visit on holidays, bring the grandchildren, and generally "stay in touch." There WILL be good times, a few disagreements, and a lot of tolerance for who we are. We will visit them in the hospital if they go, and we'll remodel their bathroom and pull up the throw rugs so they won't trip. When the time comes, we'll get them the care they need and they will be grateful to have such loving children. We will memorialize them when they are gone, mourning their loss and celebrating their lives.
The contract does not contain a clause that says, in the event of Alzheimer's, surviving parent (hereinafter, "Parent") will grow to hate attendant child (hereinafter "Child"). Child will only have access to Parent through third party intermediaries. Further, Parent may, in the event of Alzheimer's, choose to take no medication, ignore all symptoms, and spend her remaining years angry, frightened, depressed, and confused. Upon death of said Parent, Child will be left with the memory that Parent forgot that once they were close.
Nope, there's no fucking clause like that. Contract: voided.
U.S. Army 1st Lt. Joel Silver discusses a contract with a local leader June 13. When the contract is approved, the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division will hire local contractors and men from the village to build eight buildings for a high school, a well and a water tower. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Robert Hicks)
The Social Contract was a policy by the Labour government of Harold Wilson in 1970s Britain.
In return for the repeal of 1971 Industrial Relations Act, food subsidies, and a freeze on rent increases, the Trade Union Congress ensured that its members would cooperate with a programme of voluntary wage restraint (from Wikipedia).
The graffiti suggests not everyone agreed with it, it was later changed to "smash the social contraceptive" suggesting not everyone agreed with the graffiti.
With the Giant and Safeway contracts coming up (exp. Oct31) we took to the streets to educate the community at the Safeway on L St. in NW D.C. about keeping quality jobs in the city as big box retailers are set to open in the coming year. Customers signed support cards and delivered them to the manager on duty.
“Do you consider yourself spiritual?”
“I do consider myself to be spiritual. Erm, I believe in a greater force. Erm, I think that god or whatever name you want to call it, I think it’s all pointing towards the same thing. Erm, and that there is, definitely non-physical erm forces, that guide and govern the physical reality.”
-Aina Roxx
DavwMac and Juglo
signed a contract for a match Next week for the VAW championship belt.
At the end words were exchanged, Juglo stood up and DaveMac followed suit to only be kicked in the face by Juglo
Contractors play an integral role in the retrograde of equipment from Afghanistan. Here, contractors from the Bagram Airfield Retrosort Yard load a water tank onto a contracted transportation truck Nov. 2, 2012. (U.S. Army photo by 1LT Henry Chan, 18th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion Public Affairs)
I photographed some of my lawn contracts the last couple of days. I'm pretty happy with how nice my lawns are looking. I am also still learning the settings on my camera so not all the photos took as well as I would have liked but all things in time. :D
November 13, 2013 Safeway members authorized the Local 400 union leadership to call a strike if necessary. The contract has been extended until Dec 20th as the company and union sit back down at the bargaining table.
Contracts and the Global Organization of Production
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Interview with Prof. Pol Antràs
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Hundreds of Teamster women marched through Hollywood in support of a fair contract for Teamsters Local 2010.
CSX ES44AH #961 leads a DEEX coal train through Consul Street interlocking, preparing to take it north across the Maumee and towards the Detroit Edison plant in Monroe, Michigan.
Ernestomeda Contract Division partner per il secondo anno consecutivo di MECA, il principale evento dedicato al mercato immobiliare milanese, che si è svolto lo scorso weekend presso il Palazzo della Borsa - Piazza Affari.
Momenti di informazione e incontri di approfondimento dedicati ai principali operatori del Real Estate.
Department of Administrative Services Director Ray Walton (left) and AFSCME 61 President Danny Homan sign the contract
The Stirrup from Alchem. (http://www.alcheminc.com/crossbow.html)
We get the bow irons and stirrups from these folks.
This is a cleaned stirrup on the bottom.
With the Giant and Safeway contracts coming up (exp. Oct31) we took to the streets to educate the community at the Safeway on L St. in NW D.C. about keeping quality jobs in the city as big box retailers are set to open in the coming year. Customers signed support cards and delivered them to the manager on duty.
42. 8th October 2010 Photography of LAPG Annual Conference 2010. Park Plaza Hotel, Leeds, LS1 5NS.
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