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Okay Freepers. Time to play Freeper MD. For three weeks my hip has been killing me. left side. Doesn't hurt when I jabbed with my thumb. Has been hurting when I lay on it. The last three days, it has been hurting when I sit. My vainglorius head is getting bigger but, I discern no deformation or growth in the area of pain. As I sit here typing this out, it is throbbing. Get to guessing. Bursitis? Just the fun of being a bit over 50? Hypochondriac? I'm no longer hip? My guess it bursitis. I am pretty flexible. Can...

Eric Barker, Barking Up The Wrong Tree September 9, 2014Roger Ekrich noticed many old books, including Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales", referenced two periods of sleep being the norm in their era. Via Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep: ...Ekirch somehow rediscovered a fact of life that was once as common as eating breakfast. Every night, people fell asleep not long after the sun went down and stayed that way until sometime after midnight. This was the first sleep that kept popping up in the old tales. Once a person woke up, he or she would stay that way...

Today, at a joint press conference between Barack Obama and Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski in Warsaw, Secretary of State John Kerry pulled the old "dad on the couch" move, testing the limits between what he called "a really long blink" and what looked more like a very short nap. The tell is always in the jerk back to wake up. Twitter: Brian Rie$ ✔ @moneyries Secretary of State @JohnKerry taking a power nap in Warsaw (in his defense...long flight!) http://twitpic.com/e5dtql John Kerry ✔ @JohnKerry Follow .@moneyries just a really long blink! The other dead giveaway is protesting too much.

The average adult requires seven to eight hours' sleep a day to stay healthy. "When you sleep, your organs also rest and secrete much-needed hormones that boost the immune system, suppress excessive drives to eat, and control the emotions," said Han Jin-kyu at the Seoul Sleep Center. A lack of sleep weakens the immune system, impairs memory, dries the skin, shortens tempers, often leading to depression if it becomes a regular pattern, he added. Sleep-deprived people also secrete more cortisol, the so-called stress hormone, which drives them to seek food and can lead to obesity. One of the keys to...

Air Traffic Controllers Caught On Video Updated: Friday, 24 Feb 2012, 6:13 PM EST FOX 5 INVESTIGATIVE REPORT MYFOXNY.COM - Westchester County Airport is a growing destination for seven different commercial airlines, from JetBlue to U.S. Airways and its one of the busiest airports in the country serving the corporate world. Seven days a week, from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m., air traffic controllers guide flights serving nearly 2 million passengers a year. Sometimes 100 planes take off and land in an hour. A source, that Fox 5 News is not identifying, says, "I'm upset and extremely concerned with things...

ATC blunders spur calls for broad FAA reform Posted: April 22nd, 2011 08:56 AM CDT MICHAEL COLLINS, Scripps Howard News Service A series of embarrassing blunders involving an air traffic controllers at airports across the country may have put the Federal Aviation Administration on the spot, but U.S. Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. thinks the revelations point to a much bigger problem. Federal personnel policies make it extremely difficult to fire problem employees, the Knoxville, Tenn., Republican said. They desperately need to be changed, he thinks. "There are too many protections for most federal workers," Duncan said. "It's too hard...

Do you ever fall asleep on the job? Posted by: Jay Kernis - Senior Producer ONLY ON THE BLOG: Answering today's OFF-SET questions is Billie H. Vincent, president an CEO of Aerospace Services International. --------- Based on your experience, will these changes make a difference? "And, is a controller better suited to function alertly if he/she has to work a week of straight mid-shifts, a month of these shifts - or an occasional one every other week? In addition, the FAA Administrator has announced that he will take the head of the Air Traffic Controller’s union along with him on...

WASHINGTON – The best solution to the problem of sleepy air traffic controllers is more sleeping on the job, scientists say. But that would be a radical change for the Federal Aviation Administration. Current regulations forbid sleeping at work, even during breaks. Controllers who are caught can be suspended or fired. Experts say that kind of thinking is outdated.

When Scott Hardy hits the road, he always makes sure to leave room in his suitcase for his stuffed animal. That's right, the 34-year-old businessman always travels with Barkley, a stuffed beagle. No, it's not for his two daughters. No he doesn't sleep with a nightlight and no he isn't smuggling drugs. Seven years ago Hardy's then girlfriend, now wife, gave him the doggie as a reminder of her. "I travel enough that it's a nice reminder of home," said Hardy who runs an online legal notice company, Top Class Actions.

Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) is caught dozing off during Elena Kagan's open statement at her Supreme Court confirmation hearing.

A Michigan woman who fell asleep on a Philadelphia-bound flight and awoke to find herself trapped in the cabin more than three hours after it landed sued the airline Thursday, alleging false imprisonment. Ginger McGuire, 36, boarded a Trans States shuttle Monday night at Dulles International Airport outside Washington. During the one-hour journey she fell asleep. The aircraft landed about 12:30 a.m. at Philadelphia International Airport, but McGuire said the flight crew hadn't bothered to rouse her. She awoke at 4 a.m., alone on the 50-seat plane with all the doors locked, she said. "Waking up to an empty airplane...

Sleeping passenger left on plane at YVR British passenger discovered by mechanic at YVR 1½ hours later; airline apologizes for gaff, saying flight attendant was preoccupied with wheelchairs By Damian Inwood, The ProvinceApril 6, 2010 Kris Lines says he was left alone on a plane for 90 minutes after landing in Vancouver. A British law professor is slamming Air Canada after the airline left him asleep on a plane for 90 minutes after it landed -- and he woke up in a hangar at Vancouver International Airport. He says he's not satisfied with the airline's explanation that the flight attendant...

Some argue that DUI laws have gone too far (joe.ruiz, Flickr).It seems like it could be a storyline out Steven Spielberg's 2002 movie, Minority Report: a Minnesota man was convicted of a DUI offense in a car that wasn't moving. What's even more surprising: the car wouldn't start at all. As it turns out, getting a bit tipsy and stumbling out of the house to sleep it off in the car may make you a felon. It happened to Daryl Fleck. That he'd consumed about twelve beers is not in dispute. His felony conviction for drunk driving, even though his...

LYRICS Im rigged to fire, and Im set to blow. I cannot live in this state, break down the doors, smash every window, to help the orphans escape. What would Jesus do? I think illuminate. You know whats unbiblical? Thats Jesus sitting in some blackened room. These people live so violated and were concerned with church agendas. Oh My God. Pure religion says I fight this war. The hidden millions in our own backyard, exploited masses. These kids are all alone, waiting for someone. I tell you whats biblical. The Master came to set the captives free, and we...

For that or some other reason, as President Obama spoke to reporters inside the White House Thursday following a meeting with credit card company executives, Summers was photographed clearly asleep at the end of a table in the Roosevelt Room. Here's a link to a gallery that has some of these images. This isn't the first time this has happened. Summers reportedly fell asleep during an economic summit at the White House in February, but there were no cameras at that event.

Remember the good old days? Back during the Dem primaries? When Barack Obama was such an electrifying speaker that women were regularly fainting at his rallies? Ah, how times have changed. Instead of knocking them out with his other-worldly aura, Obama's now . . . putting them to sleep. Check out the woman in the lower-right hand corner of the screencap, seen on CNN today during a live broadcast of Obama on the stump in Virginia. No, I didn't catch her in mid-blink. She actually dozed off just as Obama was ventilating on the horrors of the Bush economy. View...

BERKELEY — University officials say people living and sleeping in the wide street median outside the UC Berkeley tree-sit are creating a messy, dangerous and noisy situation with their tents, litter and drumming circles. But the people in the tents — who act as ground support for a handful of people still living in a university oak grove — say their small encampment is there to protect the grove, help those still perched in the trees and keep a watchful eye on university police, with whom they've sparred in the past. "It's dangerous. We are getting complaints from people who...

“Not Dead But Sleeping” (Matt. 9:18-26)Things die in November. Now I say this as one who comes from the Midwest, where leaves fall off trees and flowers wither and frost appears. That stuff apparently doesn’t happen out here in this paradise on the Pacific, where, like the new Jerusalem, the trees yield their fruit twelve months of the year. But back in the Midwest, where I come from, things die in November. And it was like that back in Europe, where many of the traditions of the church year developed. In November, things die. And so it was only natural,...

Cats are championship sleepers. They spend a lot of time practicing sleep and have perfected the art of the catnap. A sleeping cat can be a soothing, comforting sight. Or an extremely silly sight. Because some cats sleep in poses and positions that simply cannot be believed, poses that would make a contortionist wince. Therefore I inaugurate... THE SILLY SLEEPING POSE OLYMPICS! The prize is laughter for the humans, an affectionate scritching of the ears for the moggy. May the best snoozing contortionist win!

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Paris Hilton has not eaten or slept since arriving at the medical ward of a Los Angeles jail and is being given psychoactive drugs, celebrity Web site TMZ.com reported on Saturday, citing law enforcement sources. The socialite and hotel heiress was ordered back to jail on Friday after a judge overruled a sheriff's decision to place her under house arrest for psychological problems after she had spent three days of an expected three-week term behind bars. The 26-year-old "has been crying a lot, praying" and is "extremely withdrawn," TMZ reported. Hilton was visited by her psychiatrist,...