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City worker deflects suspension over 10-minute run to restroom
Admit it or not, we've all been in Richard Dessureau's shoes. "When you gotta go, you gotta go," Dessureau, a Denver city employee, told a hearing officer after he was suspended from work for five days for stopping at a Target store to use the restroom without his supervisor's permission. Dessureau, a semitractor-trailer operator who stopped for less than 10 minutes "to handle a personal emergency caused by the sudden onset of diarrhea," appealed the suspension and won, according to city documents. Dessureau, who works in the field, could not be reached for comment. A message left at the home of a Richard Dessureau was not returned. On July 16, Dessureau left the city's Roslyn asphalt plant in a semi carrying "a full load of waste" to the landfill. "Just before he was to make a left turn onto 49th Street, he felt an urgent need to use the restroom," city documents state.
Intimate relationships: Westport Country Playhouse season explores how ...
Paul Newman will direct, as will John Tillinger, and Timothy Busfield and Mark Shanahan will star in productions scheduled for the revised 2008 season at the Westport Country Playhouse.
The announcement was made Monday in a statement to the press by co-artistic directors Joanne Woodward and Anne Keefe, who stepped in following last month's departure of former artistic director, Tazewell Thompson.
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TV execs dreaming of white title games
With freezing weather forecast for the much-anticipated games in Foxborough and Green Bay, the execs are pining for icing on their cake – snow. There's nothing like sitting in the comfort of your living room while watching games played in snow. It's a mesmerizing guilty pleasure and a viewer magnet. Snow in high def is the pièce de resistance. It's the one graphic that keeps on giving, courtesy of Mother Nature. They moved a hockey game in Buffalo outside on New Year's Day, and it turned into the highest-rated NHL game in memory. The Green Bay mugging of Seattle as heavy snow fell last week was Fox's top-rated Saturday divisional game in six years. .
the has-been
The elephant's new home is a 2,700-acre sanctuary in Tennessee that for all we know may be Fred Thompson's campaign headquarters. To most Republicans these days, the place must sound like heaven. It has a Kaus-like fence to keep out unwanted immigrants. The only people allowed to visit are big donors. According to a Humane Society official, "The Elephant Sanctuary represents the future of enlightened captive elephant management"—a concept very much on the minds of every Republican presidential candidate. The Republican field could learn a great deal from the Tennessee program, especially its "non-invasive research on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder." If only the sanctuary had done some nontraumatic research on post-invasion stress disorder. The sanctuary even has its own YouTube—the Elecam.
Well, That's Done
It had been 99 percent clear Feliz wasn't going to get what he wanted from the Giants: a multiyear deal. And for many fans it has been 100 percent clear that they weren't going to get what they wanted from Feliz: A guy who was more patient at the plate. So ends another disappointing attempt by the Giants to develop a good middle-of-the-lineup hitter. His OBP in eight seasons? .288 But he could field, right? Posted By: The Sporting Green (Email) | January 28 2008 at 02:43 PM .
Joe Cole hopes that history repeats itself
We're still in touch with the leaders, in all the competitions and the lads have taken to him. "We're improving every day. We're trying to employ the new tactics and style the new manager wants. It's about learning and adapting - we're winning games while we're in transition." Cole, whose attacking tendencies were sometimes curbed by Mourinho, has been encouraged to take up a wider position under Grant's new system and he says that the intention is for the whole team to play more expansive, flowing football. He predicts that this reformed style will become more pronounced during the concluding months of the season. "It's probably closer to my own philosophy to playing the game," Cole said. "English players get told a very cautious way of playing - it's inbred in us, taught not to take risks.
Pick ‘n’ roll: Thursday’s best NBA bets
The Pistons are on the verge of their first three-game losing streak of the season, and they'll have to beat the defending NBA champs on the road to avoid that. Detroit is fresh off an 11-game winning streak in which it outscored opponents by an average of 17 points, but it's all gone wrong this week. The Pistons have shot 39.9 percent from the field in the last two games, failing to score more than 86 points in either contest. It's not going to get any easier for the Pistons tonight when they face Spurs star Tim Duncan. He has recorded double-doubles in all 10 regular-season home games against Detroit in his career, leading San Antonio to a 9-1 record. Pick: Spurs Memphis Grizzlies at Sacramento Kings (-4, 203) Three key injuries have contributed to the Kings dropping six of their last eight games overall and four of five at home.
City worker deflects suspension over 10-minute run to restroom
Admit it or not, we've all been in Richard Dessureau's shoes. "When you gotta go, you gotta go," Dessureau, a Denver city employee, told a hearing officer after he was suspended from work for five days for stopping at a Target store to use the restroom without his supervisor's permission. Dessureau, a semitractor-trailer operator who stopped for less than 10 minutes "to handle a personal emergency caused by the sudden onset of diarrhea," appealed the suspension and won, according to city documents. Dessureau, who works in the field, could not be reached for comment. A message left at the home of a Richard Dessureau was not returned. On July 16, Dessureau left the city's Roslyn asphalt plant in a semi carrying "a full load of waste" to the landfill. "Just before he was to make a left turn onto 49th Street, he felt an urgent need to use the restroom," city documents state.
Intimate relationships: Westport Country Playhouse season explores how ...
Paul Newman will direct, as will John Tillinger, and Timothy Busfield and Mark Shanahan will star in productions scheduled for the revised 2008 season at the Westport Country Playhouse.
The announcement was made Monday in a statement to the press by co-artistic directors Joanne Woodward and Anne Keefe, who stepped in following last month's departure of former artistic director, Tazewell Thompson.
.
TV execs dreaming of white title games
With freezing weather forecast for the much-anticipated games in Foxborough and Green Bay, the execs are pining for icing on their cake – snow. There's nothing like sitting in the comfort of your living room while watching games played in snow. It's a mesmerizing guilty pleasure and a viewer magnet. Snow in high def is the pièce de resistance. It's the one graphic that keeps on giving, courtesy of Mother Nature. They moved a hockey game in Buffalo outside on New Year's Day, and it turned into the highest-rated NHL game in memory. The Green Bay mugging of Seattle as heavy snow fell last week was Fox's top-rated Saturday divisional game in six years. .
the has-been
The elephant's new home is a 2,700-acre sanctuary in Tennessee that for all we know may be Fred Thompson's campaign headquarters. To most Republicans these days, the place must sound like heaven. It has a Kaus-like fence to keep out unwanted immigrants. The only people allowed to visit are big donors. According to a Humane Society official, "The Elephant Sanctuary represents the future of enlightened captive elephant management"—a concept very much on the minds of every Republican presidential candidate. The Republican field could learn a great deal from the Tennessee program, especially its "non-invasive research on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder." If only the sanctuary had done some nontraumatic research on post-invasion stress disorder. The sanctuary even has its own YouTube—the Elecam.
Well, That's Done
It had been 99 percent clear Feliz wasn't going to get what he wanted from the Giants: a multiyear deal. And for many fans it has been 100 percent clear that they weren't going to get what they wanted from Feliz: A guy who was more patient at the plate. So ends another disappointing attempt by the Giants to develop a good middle-of-the-lineup hitter. His OBP in eight seasons? .288 But he could field, right? Posted By: The Sporting Green (Email) | January 28 2008 at 02:43 PM .
Joe Cole hopes that history repeats itself
We're still in touch with the leaders, in all the competitions and the lads have taken to him. "We're improving every day. We're trying to employ the new tactics and style the new manager wants. It's about learning and adapting - we're winning games while we're in transition." Cole, whose attacking tendencies were sometimes curbed by Mourinho, has been encouraged to take up a wider position under Grant's new system and he says that the intention is for the whole team to play more expansive, flowing football. He predicts that this reformed style will become more pronounced during the concluding months of the season. "It's probably closer to my own philosophy to playing the game," Cole said. "English players get told a very cautious way of playing - it's inbred in us, taught not to take risks.
Pick ‘n’ roll: Thursday’s best NBA bets
The Pistons are on the verge of their first three-game losing streak of the season, and they'll have to beat the defending NBA champs on the road to avoid that. Detroit is fresh off an 11-game winning streak in which it outscored opponents by an average of 17 points, but it's all gone wrong this week. The Pistons have shot 39.9 percent from the field in the last two games, failing to score more than 86 points in either contest. It's not going to get any easier for the Pistons tonight when they face Spurs star Tim Duncan. He has recorded double-doubles in all 10 regular-season home games against Detroit in his career, leading San Antonio to a 9-1 record. Pick: Spurs Memphis Grizzlies at Sacramento Kings (-4, 203) Three key injuries have contributed to the Kings dropping six of their last eight games overall and four of five at home.
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