Boosting the signal: Blood supply low

I rarely do non-British TV, so this may be all over the news. If so, forgive me. I thought it was worth passing along.

http://www.mydonoradvantage.com/irene.html

Irene Creates Blood Emergency

2,000+ Units of Blood Lost From Shutdowns and Power Outages
Supplies of Several Blood Types Below Minimum Levels

August 29, 2011 / New York, NY -- New York Blood Center (NYBC), serving more than 20 million people in New York City, Long Island, the Hudson Valley, and New Jersey, is following the emergency declarations of Mayor Bloomberg and other tri-state public officials with an emergency appeal for blood donors. The supply of several blood types, including O-negative (“universal donor”) blood, which is normally maintained at the three-to-five-day inventory level, has dropped below the two-day minimum level.

“We anticipated the potential effects of Irene, and delivered extra blood in advance to our 200 partner hospitals,” said NYBC Vice President Rob Purvis. “Our first priority remains getting them whatever they need for the care of trauma and cancer patients.” Due to concerns for the safety of its donors and staff, NYBC closed its donor centers and canceled all blood drives on Sunday, August 28. “With Labor Day right around the corner, we’re between a rock and a hard place,” Purvis added. “We need the help of our communities to replenish the blood supply.”
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So, if you have enough and enough and enough to share....of blood, that is...

Let me out of this office!

Thank gods I never throw any of my preliminary analyses away. The person who edited this manuscript is the most literal-minded demon I have ever encountered. She is asking for all kinds of excess painstaking detail as she carefully edits away every moment of creativity and flow from this manuscript.

*headdesk*

By the time this thing got to her, it had two sad surviving metaphors left. The first made its home in the title, making it a little more exciting than, say, an old dead rat. The editor's first act was to slash that poor thing, rendering the title as blank and bland as humanly possible.

She left the other one alone, but only because it was part of an informant's direct quote. I guess it's OK for study participants to offer up a few flickers of creativity, as long as this deadly threat to the temple of logic is safely contained and kept at a distance from the bulk of the text itself.

Gods. I just want to tie her to a chair and force her to listen to the entire audiobook version of "One Hundred Years of Solitude".