GA: Not to bring actual reality into this but if Meredith were really that close to a bomb that exploded, wouldn't she have had (at minimum) hearing problems?

Don't bomb squads have robots to handle explosive devices?

For those with back/related pain experience: this weekend I did something to my body that has resulted in pain waaaay low in my back - like where the pelvis attaches - and down my right leg. Ideas what to google? Suggestions what to do? It hurt a lot right at first but is just annyoing now, when I move, walk, etc.

Lumbar pain and sciatica for starters.

Flea- sciatica

So, I have been given an impossible task at work. I need to find high resololution photographs of overweight kids. Without paying any money for them! Previously, they just did a google image search, right clicked and saved, and used them for their brochures!!!! Are these people insane in the brain!?! So now we are producing DVD's of a talk about Kids, School and Overweight, and I need to find images-- but I can't pay any money. I am at a loss.

LeN, I think that's Hollywood bomb physics. I expected her to be getting medical care, lying in a bed somewhere, but they run from these things successfully all the time, I guess.

flea--don't google. Get someone to look at it. Sounds like a nerve's been entrapped and it may drop anywhere on a severity scale, or at the very least something that can recur with aplomb if you don't get at it right away.

I'd take anti-inflammatories, but I take three Aleve with my vitamins every morning, so I'm skewed.

Sophia, if you are not seeling the DVDs and you are using them for an academic purpose, you *might* be able to get away with using copyrighted images under the fair use doctrine. Have your bosses even *heard* of copyright? Actually, if there is a press office or news service at your school they might have some images that the school already owns copyright on, or at least be able to give you ideas about where to look (or if it's even possible, which my instinct is, like yours, not so much.)

Thanks flea! I can call public relations, although I think they sell their photographs, too (but, for , like $10 a pop, rather than $639.00)

And to make it more ridiculous, we are selling the DVD's! For, like $300.00 each.

Have your bosses even *heard* of copyright?

No kidding! This is the big boss, but my direct boss was using images from corbis, with the corbis logo imprinted on them on her marketing brochures! And she swears she didn't know that she couldn't until I told her!

Well, since large numbers of people don't know where France is, I suppose this shouldn't be such a surprise.

ita, you scare me. I am a healthy person, goddamnit!

And yet, I am realizing that my moral code (or lack of wanting to be prosecuted for copywright infringement) has actually made my life harder, as I am now the one looking for these images!

Emily reminds me of Allyson Hannigan.

Even my husband commented on this and he doens't even watch Buffy.

ION, curling is such a weird sport.