HA, 5/17/06

http://hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060517/NEWS01/605170327/1002

Thames hospitalized for allergic reaction

University of Southern Mississippi President Shelby Thames has been hospitalized after having an allergic reaction to medication,...

...Grimes will stand in for him at today's state College Board meeting in Jackson. Thames hopes to make it to Jackson for the Thursday meeting...

...Thames suffers from seasonal allergies "like clockwork" every year, she said. But the usual symptoms escalated into an infection aggravated by asthma - a condition that can lead to pneumonia if not properly treated....

..."I'm told he's fit to be tied," Grimes said. "But he fully understands that if he doesn't take care of himself, he's not going to recuperate quickly, so he's going to stay down this time until he's ready."

Admitted Monday afternoon???  If this is true, then some important people were lied to on Tuesday of this week.  Not a good way to establish credibility.

When those that should know and actually do know but say they don't know to those with a right to know, then it's a no-no.

HA, 5/17/06 (2nd update)

http://hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060517/NEWS01/60517008

Thames released from hospital

University of Southern Mississippi President Shelby Thames was released from Wesley Medical Center on Wednesday, university spokeswoman Margie Jepson said.

Doctors at Wesley Medical Center had been monitoring him since Monday after he suffered an allergic reaction to an antibiotic he was taking to treat an upper respiratory infection aggravated by asthma.

The condition was brought on by regular allergies.

Thames is likely to return to work before week’s end, Jepson said, but Provost Jay Grimes represented him at Wednesday’s meeting of the state College Board in Jackson.

Invictus wrote:

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LVN wrote: "Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by a screw-up." Or words to that effect. I believe the quote was "Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." I always heard it attributed to Occam, of razor fame.

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Actually "Hanlon's Razor". Bob Hanlon submitted this to the Murphey's Laws publishers.

William of Ockham put down his thoughts as "entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem", and given the age in which he lived and occupation, malice probably would have been the major cause.

Jameela

Thanks, I have belied my heritage and must be careful with the New World punctuation.

Actually, CC, the year I taught in Britain I noticed that many students were using US-style punctuation. I think it's just a matter of texts from either country being more available in the other. The "Pond" (Atlantic) is smaller than ever.

JL

Jameela Lares wrote:

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Nitpicker, also note that in the US, the closing quotation mark always goes after a period or comma. Since the rule is reversed in the UK, and since we typically read books printed in both places, most people just do what looks "right," which only further muddies the waters. JL

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Well, Jameela, I try to compramize. For example, to quote you,''Since the rule is reversed in the UK...'.' 

Jameela Lares wrote:

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Actually, CC, the year I taught in Britain I noticed that many students were using US-style punctuation. I think it's just a matter of texts from either country being more available in the other. The "Pond" (Atlantic) is smaller than ever.

JL

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Although I was schooled in the USofA, I find myself using the "comma after closing quote" style frequently. In fact, I'd heard that it was the mark of a computer programmer. (Many coders I know make a special effort to be correct in the "US style" when they write ordinary prose.)

Reason: A comma is a field delimiter in "comma delimited ASCII", while a quote is a text delimiter (as opposed to numeric). Thus, the text string:

"I","defer to","Jameela","on matters of grammar"

... would parse as ...

I
defer to
Jameela
on matters of grammer

... while the text string ...

"I," "defer to," "Jameela," "on matters of grammar"

... would be un-parse-able (without a proper "escape" for the quotes), but in some loosely enforced scheme would be barfed back as:

I, defer to, Jameela, on matters of grammar


Jeez. I need a life...

Wow, Invictus, that's interesting. The computer angle might ultimately change the punctuation conventions for American prose. Those conventions are certainly not set in stone. JL

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HA, 5/17/06 (update)

http://hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060517/NEWS01/60517002

Thames released from hospital

University of Southern Mississippi President Shelby Thames was released today from Wesley Medical Center, school spokeswoman Margie Jepson said.

Thames, 69, was admitted to the hospital on Monday afternoon for monitoring after an allergic response to an antibiotic he was taking to treat an upper respiratory infection and asthma.

He will be unable to attend today’s College Board meeting in Jackson, Jepson said.

See details in Thursday’s edition of the Hattiesburg American.

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I know this is weird, but how long has Thames been 69?
Amy Young

I know this is weird, but how long has Thames been 69? Amy Young

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a little over 11 months

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This is the least of our concerns.

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You would say so!

SFT was a college freshman in 1955. If he was 18 at the time, he could have been born in 1937 and could indeed be 69 now.

I would just like to add that I have had no respiratory problems since leaving USM two years ago. I suppose SFT could be thanked for that, although I have no intention of ever thanking him for anything.