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CRYSTAL RIVER, Fla. (CBS Tampa) — Local resident Kristyn Dominy risked her life to save that of another driver on W. Ozello Trail — even though the other driver had made a rude gesture at her just moments before.
According to the Tampa Bay Times, Dominy, 22, was driving home on the windy path with her daughter when a Jeep sped past her, its driver behaving erratically and making crude hand motions at her.
"She did flip me off whenever she passed me," Dominy told the paper about the events preceding the crash, which took place Monday night.
Not long after, Dominy spotted the car on fire, stuck in some trees just off the road.
"My first thought when I came around the corner and saw that her vehicle was on fire, I was thinking karma," Dominy told the Tampa Bay Times. "But the same time, I could never — even though she flipped me off down the road — I could never just sit there and watch that happen."
When she got closer, she allegedly saw the other driver on fire herself, struggling to save her own daughter from the crash.
The girl was reportedly trapped and tangled in her own seatbelt. Dominy helped get the girl out of the burning car before calling 911.
Both mother and child were taken to nearby Tampa General Hospital. The woman was reportedly in good health, but her daughter was still in serious condition as of Wednesday.
Dominy knows she did the right thing.
"The vehicle was up in flames and just the look on the mom and daughter's face," Dominy told the paper. "I could never just drive by and not think about that."
What would be fun to know is if the woman that crashed will offer an apology for being rude and thanking the other lady for the help. Because of the attitude she had before the crash, I bet she will try and blame the lady that saved her for the crash.
Its called the good samaritan. Or as II think of it common sense. Few people left in this world like that. Most would drive by holding onto their karma, because the driver flipped them off.
I don't agree; I believe most people would try to rescue a mother and child from a burning car. Petty things like rude hand gestures would not matter in a life or death situation
I completely agree with your comment about most people driving right on by. I personally helped both cars in a high speed crash, not having any medical training, but i just couldnt drive past. I'm not saying I saved their lives, but I did what I was able to do before the paramedics arrived. Common sense with victims, maybe they just need someone to console them, or as this case pull them out of a burning car. As i was helping i was trying to get other people to help me and at least call 911…yet they all just drove by really slow looking at the accident. not ONE person stopped. State trooper who took my report of the accident shook my hand and said "thank you, you don't realize how many people just drive right by thinking someone else will help." I'd say a vast majority of people will SAY that they would help, but when the situation comes about, they just drive right on by. The girl who stopped did the right thing, and others should learn how to at least make sure people are ok and/or call 911. Don't just drive on by and think, oh, someone else will do it.
Good samaritan these days means a liberal lawsuit waiting to happen. If you're nice to anyone, liberals will file a lawsuit someway, somehow.
beazr, adam, and paul: nonsense..
total nonsense. Your actually saying that most people would let the driver and her little girl burn to death because the driver flipped them off. You've got to be kidding.
I think most states have a good samaratin law that would prevent prosecution or a lawsuit.But there could be limits to the protection. I hope people wouldn't just driive by and let someone else do it but of course my faith in humankind could be misplaced.
In that case, karma kills. That's soooooo hopeful, isn't it?
Laypersons shouldn't render medical aide to nonfamily members, the GSL usually only protects you when acting within "the scope of your training." A non-CPR certified layperson could be sued in many jurisdictions if they accidentally broke a rib when performing CPR in an emergency, which isn't hard to do.
I'm with stephanie. We talk a big lot [ego] but in the end, most will do the right thing [soul]. We cannot help but to be compassionate, it IS who we are.
Most of us would NOT drive by. Good grief. Even if you hunger for karmic revenge, isn't the crash itself good enough for ya?
Most of us would step up and do the right thing.
@Paul (and others)
Most if not all states have the "Good Samaritan" laws that protects persons from lawsuits when trying to help someone else in an accident. Without this; trained first aid persons would NOT help anyone.
My advice to anyone; stop and help! Be the better person.
Paul, risking a lawsuit would be worth it. Don't talk like a wimp.
Sure she did. Much of the news is made up after the coup and cover up. Unelected officials took over Washington and the media. They think you can't handle the truth. Fact of the matter is we have no democracy, president, and freedom of press is an illusion.
Our next election is shaping up to be as big of a sham as the last. Do you know why Sarah Palin's bus tour was really canceled? Do you know why she stayed 30 miles away from the second debate and chose the death of Steve Jobs to announce that she's not running? Know what leaked out? Sarah Palin and Cain aren't in the race for the same reason, the truth leaked out. Search PalinsDirtyLittleSecret for the biggest cover up in history
You are both correct and incorrect. People would definitely NOT stop if there are alot of people or cars around but the reason they would not stop is not because of being flipped off.
They would not stop because of the Bystander Effect. All first responders are taught about it in CPR/First Aide training.
What is the Bystander Effect?
The term bystander effect refers to the phenomenon in which the greater the number of people present, the less likely people are to help a person in distress. When an emergency situation occurs, observers are more likely to take action if there are few or no other witnesses.
In a series of classic studies, researchers Bibb Latane and John Darley (1) found that the amount of time it takes the participant to take action and seek help varies depending on how many other observers are in the room. In one experiment, subjects were placed in one of three treatment conditions: alone in a room, with two other participants or with two confederates who pretended to be normal participants.
As the participants sat filling out questionnaires, smoke began to fill the room. When participants were alone, 75% reported the smoke to the experimenters. In contrast, just 38% of participants in a room with two other people reported the smoke. In the final group, the two confederates in the experiment noted the smoke and then ignored it, which resulted in only 10% of the participants reporting the smoke.
She has no class so you may be right
as to if the woman will thank her
She'll probably sue her for millions.
Exactly my thought. People like that always find someone else to blame their problems on.
yup, to sue would be to flip off the decent citizen again, If the decent citizen would have just kept driving and maybe flipped off the derelict citizen, she could be sued for that to. "…with rights come responsibilities" A quote NOT from president Obama.
Wonder why the woman flipped her off in the first place?
My guess would be that the samaritan was not going fast enough for the other driver. It is good to know that some people can still show love to another.
Probably for not driving fast enought to run off the road and into some trees!
Driving recklessly and like an idiot with a child in her Jeep hope she faces child endangerment charges. What if she had run into another car instead of a tree and killed an innocent mother and her child? Glad they're OK but ticks me off she was behaving like such a fool on the road. Had some jerk cut me off on purpose just yesterday had to slam on my brakes and all the stuff I was hauling in my van flew all over the place. There definitely would have been a wreck involving numerous vehicles if I hadn't who knows how bad the injuries would've been. People that drive like this should receive some sort of punishment or some way to report their erratic behavior on the road. Maybe text their license plate to a special number and if they get enough complaints from enough different drivers something can be done about it.
Is there EVER a good reason to "flip someone off"?
Don't be surprised if she doesn't sue the good samaritan for "not getting there fast enough" or some other rubbish.
There is a "Good Samaritan" law in place to protect those who render aid in situations such as this. Personally, I'd help someone (and have) in any situation and the last thing I'd be thinking, much less, worried about would be whether or not the injured person would sue me. I'd like to assume most people feel the same way.
Am I missing something? The woman who was flipped off has to tell us that she's not the kind of person to abandon a person in mortal peril and we're supposed to think that such a statement is even worth mentioning? The driver was a jerk but let's not pretend that the helping of a jerk facing a death in flames is worth special mention. For normal people coming to the aid of a jerk about to die is just a routine play – or should be.
Will the jerk be humble enough to apologize and show gratitude? Maybe not, but we save the lives of jerks and their children without regard to the thanks we will get, right?
I'll bet the Good Samaritan's quotes merely reflect what questions she was asked, not that she herself was taking credit for being big enough to save someone who'd just flipped her off. ie, She may have been asked to "Tell us what went through your mind from the moment you first saw the other car" or "This woman was a complete stranger to you, right? Or did you know her before?". And then the prelude to the rescue, including the driving erratically and flipping off, could come out. Then some impressed reporter in the media pack might excitedly say, "So even though she FLIPPED YOU OFF moments before, you still found it in your heart to put that behind you and RISK YOUR LIFE to save her and her child from their burning car?!". And so that's how you (probably) got such answers from the Good Samaritan. Agree though, the lack of the preceding questions does risk creating a disconcerting impression.
This is the kind of thing that happens with politicians all the time. They're just answering a question and, in the context of the question, their response might be perfectly appropriate and reasonable but maybe sound really off in isolation.
I would have let that monkey and her monkey baby burn. N*ggers never learn.
If obama were on fire I would not so much as urinate on him
I was thinking the exact same thing. Seems to be an awful lot of patting herself on the back. I just don't see how this is a story.
We save the lives of jerks every day, Kirk: the government pays for it. I am a medical professional and the law mandates me to save the life of every drug seeking, rude, crass and mindless jerk, in the name of…..? … 'he/she is a human being'. But we don't have to stop to save the life of a jerk. Jerk or not, saving a life in dire situations is almost an obligation we have to one another, it's not a virtue. We don't know if that woman flipped anybody off, but we do know from police reports that the one who was flipped off wound up being a 'better person'.
The point is: let's not make a virtue out of a necessity, unless we all are totally Godless, selfish psychopaths who would just drive by a burning live human being and do NOTHING. The 'jerk' will probably not even apologize or say thank you. Someone had a good point: she might have a hard core liberal lawyer to say the rescuer caused her accident.
It is unfortunate that you will probably never know if the rescuer received an apology. This is due to the incompetent and lazy writing and editorial staff of this, and many other news outlets. When I was a newspaper reporter and staff writer, we got the story, wrote it up, included pics if available and warranted, and submitted followups when necessary for this very reason…the public wants to know, and we owe it to them to get the COMPLETE story out. You don't see that much anymore.
I'm on the highway a lot and have stopped at many accidents and pulled people out of cars while most people have just stood and watched. I don't think it is indifference, I just think people don't know how to react or what to do. I do find that truckers usually also jump right in to help being that they are also on the road much of their lives. Good for the lady who did the right thing but I doubt it will do much to change the flipper off-er.
Yeah, and if you cause them to be paralyzed, because you pulled them out of that car, with out supporting their neck just right, your life is now over. Blame the sue happy country,for the lack of good Samaritans. You know how many people have gotten sued for doing the Heimlich maneuver or CPR????
Agree…I was at a Starbucks and this guy started going into cardiac arrest and we all just stood there in shock as his wife was calling for help. I had taken CPR 20 years prior and was hoping someone would step up as I didn't remember the count. I did end up stepping in and did chest compressions until the EMT's got there, but was hoping someone would come along that knew what they were doing since I was so unsure. Noone did.
Guy ended up living…after flat-lining in the ambulance. He had OD'd on Oxycontin. 6 months later, he and his wife came up to me at the same Starbucks and thanked me for saving his live. Apparently whatever I did was enough to give him oxygen until the pro's got there.
I am not patting myself on the back because I just did what i hope anyone would do…it was automatic. The whole thing was rather upsetting and emotional. What struck me was so many people just froze…no doubt hoping someone would step up. I don't think they were un-caring…they just didn't know what to do.
I've since had training for CPR and had some advanced first aid (for motorcycle crashes specifically as I ride). Hopefully, I won't be paralyzed in the event I come upon an accident. If more folks would have training, I feel more people would get involved.
I do disagree with you on one thing…I would be willing to bet the flipper off-er IS changed after that. Near death has a way of making people re-think their actions and priorities.
Always remember, no good turn goes unpunished.
"Love is friendship set on fire."
– Jeremy Taylor
My thoughts, exactly. I wouldn't risk it. Call 911 and don't touch anything or even stay there. She'll say that she was run off the road!
EXACTLY my thoughts.
The mother and child suffered from the mother's poor choices. Whether they are grateful or ungrateful about the rescuer's actions matters less than the rescuer's peace of mind going forward.
If your are a Christian, you are called by God to do what the rescuer did for others. Her actions were the embodiment of 'Love thy Enemy'. She KNOWS she made the right choice on that fateful day.
It is possible that the mother and child will learn something profound from this incident. If you are Christian, pray for their recovery and enlightenment – and for enlightenment of those on this board who hate. Amen.
Just the opposite. That is the reason for the GSL. To protect Joe Schmoo who stops and tries to do anything right. You can be tried if you go BEYOND your medical training. CPR is not medical training. It is for the public. ACLS is medical and uses CPR as part of the process.
Without the law, you could be found guilty for things. It was enacted so the MEDICAL personnel would stop without fear of prosecution.
Now in the good old USA, anyone can sue for anything, but to my knowledge, only one lawsuit ever made it past the DA or Grand Jury and it as stopped by the judge.
I know what the reason for the GSL is. CPR is most definitely a form of medical training, otherwise, what is the point of taking a test and getting certified when I can just read how to do it online? I received my CPR training in NC and they stress that it is important to be certified so you can provide CPR to strangers in emergency situations to minimize liability. Few states protect those that are not certified. Take a look at a subsection from PA's GSL as proof: (2) In order for any person to receive the benefit of the exemption from civil liability provided for in subsection (a), he shall be, at the time of rendering the emergency care, first aid or rescue or moving the person receiving emergency care, first aid or rescue to a hospital or other place of medical care, the holder of a current certificate evidencing the successful completion of a course in first aid, advanced life saving or basic life support sponsored by the American National Red Cross or the American Heart Association or an equivalent course of instruction approved by the Department of Health.
Depends on her race.
You're and Ass.
I doubt it. I know what you're saying… but the fact that her daughter almost died… 99% of people can be brought to humility if a near-death experience occurs. A crash and fire is one hell of a scary thing, compounded by the fact that her daughter is in severe condition… I think she'll have a change of attitude.
Nice jjob….and there's still hope for American society.
This woman set a great example of decent citizenship: rude gesturing, name calling ans such is a minor infraction compared to negligence toward those in need. It is good news to my ears that the victim's rudeness did not give her a moment's pause to come to her aid. Kudos to her!
I'm with you, Joe!
nay good christian works…
This woman's response to her fellow human beings was a wonderful example of "loving your neighbor as yourself". I am glad there are still some citizens left who can do the right thing, even to people who mistreat them. That is truly "turning the other cheek", in the most positive sense. Stories like this restore my faith in humanity.
The last 'road- rage' incident I had on the road was last summer. A punk got mad when I pulled off to let him pass, so he stops in the road about 300 feet ahead and comes at me in reverse with his F-150 P/U. The deputy who reponded to my 911 call said it was an act of aggression on my part to pull off the road, No Kidding. Then he said I need to stay at home if I don't want to get hit, seriously. It turns out they knew each other and neither one knew me. I won't be stopping for either of them.
You cannot sue someone who rescues you for negligence. Google "Good Samaritan statutes".
In a majority of states, there is no duty to rescue unless there is a special relationship (parent/child, spouse, doctor, emergency worker) OR unless you created the hazard that put them in peril. Also, be aware that if you perform the rescue recklessly, they can sue you for negligence; and if you start to rescue, then you have a duty to continue the rescue.
JP, If you are unable to rescue the victim then there is no duty to continue the rescue.
Judge TJ
The suggestion was that she would be sued not for the rescue but for somehow being a causal element of the accident. It would be ugly and likely not sway a jury but in our litigious society anything is possible.
NOTE – anyone can sue anyone for anything – they may not prevail because of good samaritan statutes but they can still sue. You could sue the Pope for paternity – just pay the legal bills and attorney fees. Of course you would not win but your could still sue.
Yes, you can get sued. You'll likely win, but you'll still have the legal fees and stress to contend with.
But hopefully, either your auto or homeowner's insurance company would defend you on the grounds that if, for example, your rescue of an endangered person resulted in the person suffering something like a dislocated shoulder, this was the unintended consequence of an intentional action. You would not be liable for legal fees, but stress would be a consequence. Hopefully, such a stupid lawsuit would make the local TV news and the person who sued you would look like the horse's backside that they would be.
Yes, you can.
I. Sue. U., Esq
Yes, you can.
Bless you, Kristyn Dominy. I sincerely hope your act of kindness and lack of anonymity don't result in a lawsuit against you.
btw; depending on the area of the country the common pronounciation is 'bakketball' or 'bakkaball' but rarely bas-ket-ball.
I've heard it pronounced "basset-ball", too.
The way behave today is disgraceful. That lady who crashed was rude and a jerk with her daughter in the car, and she was the one driving crazy.
Thank goodness for the good people in the world. like this lady who helped her anyway.
I have seen people like the rude driver before, and she will probably blame the rescuer for her crash – " she was making me late "
It makes me happy to read of the rescuer woman brushing off the rude behavior, recognizing the irony, and helping save the rude driver and her daughter – as I would as well.
I flipped the bird to someone about 20 years ago while driving – when I look back on it, he did nothing I haven't done myself, and I was late because of me, not him. Karma is kinder to those that learn from these foolish situations.
Kristyn…What a beautiful gift you gave your daughter…she saw her mother behaving like an angel. Does it get any better than that?
Shame on you, Kristyn Dominy. Lack of consequences for negative behavior is why this country has been in an unrecoverable nosedive for the past 40 years.
The crash was a best case scenario. Now that this waste of space has been saved, she will next time run the risk of destroying the lives of others instead of suffering punishment alone.
And what about the jerk's innocent daughter?
Collateral Damage.
My dad was a rude driver like her. One time he nearly punched me in the face whie shaking his fist at someone who hadn't done a thing to him, but drive the speed limit. More than one time, I thought I was going to die. My Guardian Angel was working hard.
Your callous disregard for the sanctity of human life places you square in the camp of the vile and sub-human. That woman may have waved a middle finger, but your words are a thousand times more reprehensible.
Wow, you would watch a woman and her innocent daughter burn to death over a middle finger?
Shame on you, Jason. Her "consequence" is a burnt out Jeep and hospital bills, if you will. Do you really believe death is a just punishment for a hand gesture? (Are you Saudi, Iraqi, or Pakistani?)
Jason is emblematic of what's morally and sweepingly wrong with this country today. There are way too many cads, creeps, lowlifes, reptiles, etc. like him around. I do remember 40 years ago, and anyone who did what Ms. Dominy did would have been proclaimed as the bona-fide heroine that she is. Jason does not deserve to breathe the same air as people like Ms. Dominy
There's no legal responsibility to risk your life for someone else.
DAVE-O how about moral resposanbility?
Dave-O: That depends how the accident happened. If you have a special relationship to someone, if your job is to render aid like a life guard, if you created the peril the person was in, or if you help a little and then stop helping before that person is safe, you can be criminally and civilly liable for their injury or death.
There's no moral responsibility to risk your life to save an idiot's life.
Hey Jason…have you even been alive for 40 years? And prove that this country has been in an "unrecoverable nosedive" for the past 40 years. Prove it!
And the daughter in the burning car…would karma be served by her dying in a fire because her mother flipped somebody off?
Jason, you are so far over the line with this karma stuff, you can't even see the line anymore!
The rude erratic driver did suffer consequences for her negative behavior: her car crashed and her daughter was seriously injured. Kristyn Dominy did the right thing stopping to help save them from far worse consequences.
Actually, it's attitude like Jason's here that have put this country into its "unrecoverable nosedive." It is people liike Ms. Dominy who can save it.
Spoken like a true conservative. Jason.
This story reminds me of a song Hank Williams under the name Luke the Drifter wrote.
"Be carful of the stones you throw ".Some one should buy that song on ITUNES or Amazon and send to the driver with the road rage problem. as she would relate to Hanks wisdom.
And then she flipped her off again.
Kristyn's brave, compassionate act saved two people from a terrible death. Should the woman in the burning car choose to sue her, she'd be tempting karma, or fate, or as I prefer to put it, divine justice, and her life at that point would be in far greater jeopardy. The Lord may be invisible to our eyes, but He rules the living and the dead.
When the daughter (if she survives) grows up and reads this article, I hope she realizes what a piece of sh!t her mother was.
We never know why she was driving mad..perhaps she was just told some awful news, and was not thinking,or under stress over being late to work..or maybe she just had an awful argument with her husband..perhaps her baby sitter didnt show…when some one is tail gateting me for driveng the limet..I pray..kristie did what was right..I would have donr the same..and I believe most of us would..dont jump to conclutions about the speeding driver. she couls also be by-polar..we are always on road danger so pray before you start your car…ask for GODS protection.
Good insight, GRANMA!
anhyone want to take a bet on the good samaritan being grounded in relgion and possibly a conservatice and the person pulled from the buring vehcile a liberal?
Now maybe if the person had a volt, they would have stalled out on the road, battery life gone, and would not have had an accident.
Oops forgot, the volt is selling so well, that production was halted, with a reported 723 vehciles actually sold to private individuals
What has being a liberal got to do with doing the right thing? Tone it done with your personal peeves, will ya? The world is sad and scary enough without someone blowing bitter smoke over a good deed. …still, I hope your day gets better, that you get to laugh with good friends and feel loved…
While I don't think anyone human would let someone burn to death in a car just because they got flipped off, there is something wickedly ironic about all this. Clearly though, the crazy lady was driving erratically before the crash and likely caused it, with her daughter in the car. Maybe SHE should be investigated.
What would have been due justice is to save her daughters life then proceed to whip her ass for being such an idiot.
You punch first and then she shoots you in the face.
Wait! I thought Americans were rude, selfish, horrible human beings!!! Would an Iraqi do the same? A Russian?
I don't know, but the few people I've met from other countries leave me with serious doubts as to wether they'd help or not.
So long as we continue to be an example for the rest of the world I, for one, will continue to be proud to be American!
I forgot to mention most of us are fat and lazy…yeah, I don't believe that one either!
Wouldn't it serve a greater justice if we could believe that all people were capable of being kind? Look around — heroism, kindness, charity and love is as perennial as the grass…please don't narrow their window of possibilities, but believe in the miracle that all the world's children can hold these traits in their hearts. I have seen it…and it is true.
I think this woman would have burned alive if it had been me.
Spend an HOUR in a burn ward & tell me the same thing.
Good for Krystin. I too would have been tempted to just drive by, but, couldn't live with myself. This sure points out a huge problem though. We have way too many idiot drivers on our roads. Here in California it's epidemic. The only way it will ever stop is to make traffic violations so punitive, no one but a drooling moron would dare violate them. That will never happen though. We'll yawn as 40,000 of us are slaughtered each year and nothing will be done.
Sorry to be so formal, but MOST of you haven't a tiny clue about what karma isl Very simple: kick a dog, dog biites you a year later, NOT "karma". Karma carries over in your spirit from one incarnation to another. Don't believe in reincarnation of the soul, you can't believe in karma. Get it? This is NOT in this life "payback". Stop being so ignorant.
Davey, If I call you a genius then I will be rewarded in the next life. Well said Sir.
hmmm you learn something every day, that i didn't know, i guess now i can stop being helpful to people because i dont believe in reincarnation thus karma doesn't apply.
Thank you! The word "karma" is constantly used, and never used correctly. Along with "mantra," "guru," and "nirvana."
The karma mentioned in the story is the least interesting part of the story, I don't give a flying rip what karma means.
If it turned out that the woman flipping the bird was a secular liberal Obama supporter and the one who rescued her was a conservative Christian – that would make this about a good metaphor for modern America. It will be interesting when the data comes out.
reading the comments here and reading people criticizing the woman driving poorly, not one person here makes those comments ever considering that they drive just as poorly, just as erractically, and are just as rude as the lady in the jeep. 22 years as a police officer has taught me that 99% of people in this country drive poorly and a rude when they drive
go to texas its 100% LOL
But the rudest and most obnoxious are police officers. Well let me correct that – (1) tow truck drivers (2) taxi drivers (3) public transportation bus drivers (4) police officers. That that puts you squarly in the alleged 99%, PJF.
Two weeks ago, I had a Sheriff's Deputy pass me on a double yellow line, speeding and without his lights on. So, I'd agree with PJF.
Because we all know flipping while driving is only fun and games.
My thoughts are with the daughter… hope she recovers.
Kinda makes you wonder what an atheist would have done..
That is just plain stupid. I'm a non-believer and would have done the right thing by rescuing the lady in spite of what she did. It annoys me to no end that some people think you have to believe in a god to have morals. By the way, I'm also a Conservative.
Good for your intention, to want to help someone else.
Perhaps you are thinking an atheist would ask what would God do? And do the exact same thing. (hint: nothing) Or maybe being a rational human being the atheist would reason that even though the lady was a rude wench nobody deserves to burn to death especially the daughter.
God works in mysterious ways – maybe even through someone who rejects Him.
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What flames? Did you see flames? Nope!
What an example of applying God's love to another.
A few years ago someone passed me in a huff during a snow storm, when I was driving slowly due to the bad conditions. A mile later I found them sitting in a field, their car having slid off the road. I stopped to make sure they were okay, which they were – but they just waved me off, all huffy and embarrassed. Some people. That woman is lucky to be alive – and let's hope her daughter survives, and is not scarred for life.
What an example of appying God's love to another.
Law suit coming, the victim was obviously distracted after being forced to "flip off" the other driver thereby causing a state of fugue under which the victim lost the ability to make rational defensive driving measures. The insult of being resued by her antagonist will cause a large increase in punitive damages for her loss of self esteem.
Kristyn Dominy. Has anyone considered that name? Just a coincidence? Look at it. Christ the Lord.
I'll bet "flipper" sues her rescuer for injuries sustained in the rescue.
Good for the Samaritan, and I hope the other mother and daughter heal and learn from this.
As to possible reactions from other countries, here's a story from China from October 2011.
Horrifying footage of a 2-year-old girl in China being run over by two separate vehicles and left to die by passersby has stirred outrage throughout the country, with CNN reporting that security footage of the incident has led the nation of 1.3 billion people to do some collective soul-searching.
Others blamed China's compensation culture for the apparent show of callousness, recalling a famous 2006 judgment when a Good Samaritan who helped a woman get to hospital was wrongly ordered to pay her compensation.
My guess is that Dominy would have driven right by if the other driver had been a man driving alone. It would have served him right. Men are such jerks. The more of them we get rid of the better off we'll be.
Nasy divorce, 'eh?
Thank you Kristyn. You are the Guardian Angel. You saved 2 lives. I bet the woman in the hospital will thank you forever. Glad you are all ok and safe.
It would be Karma if she lost that finger due to the accident.
Why aren't all the comments in chronological order?
i wouldn't have stopped, have before, saved a girls life after she rolled her truck on I35 in ok. but this kunt, well i would have drove right on by… laughing all the way home.
May we please know the races of these two woman. Oh, we think we have already figured that out.
Praise that young lady for doing the right thing. If you have to stop & think of the consequences then when confronted with a situation such as this one then you lack the compassion it takes to be a human being .
A point illustrated so well in this story is the glaring fact that no agency can tell you when a set belt will hold you in place to save your life or hold you there to kill you. Since no one keeps stats on how many people die annually as the result of wearing seat belts,(it happens more than you know) I ask you, should we really have laws mandating them or shouldn't we rather arm a free society with knowledge????
Pa. USED to have a commercial (of a State Trooper) when mandatory seat belt wearing was 1st. instituted, that said:
"I never unbuckled a dead person."
Got rid of THAT one PDQ.
The Good Samaritan will not be sued. There is a Good Samaritan law on the books that allows individuals to try to save/help a person in such a situation. Under the law, the person helping may not be sued.
Nonya, such a suit would be thrown out due the the Good Samaritan law.
its always nice to be thanked for a good deed…..a good samaritan doesn't go on a rant about how good she is, however, because then is just becomes another self serving action to get attention or praise and that definately is NOT being "good"…………
why does this lady state "whenever" the other driver passed her?….was there more than one passing?….were these two racing?…were these two being aggressive and one ended up in the ditch?….
me thinks more to the story….
Thats it libturd – blame the woman who saved the lives of the perps. Typical libturd thought process.
I'd have saved the reckless driver just to ensure that she's punished to the full extent of the law for endangering her freaking child. As a matter of fact, I hope child services takes that poor kid away after she recovers, and hopefully she won't grow up to be the terrible self-absorbed person her mother obviously is.
Should have let the evil b*tch and her demon seed offspring burn. Would have done us ALL a favor. She won't get any better after this experience, wait and see. And the kid will grow up in the image of her loser mother.
Why is this a shocker? Every human should try to save another regardless of being given the finger or other rude behavior. C'mon people! You mean to tell me Americans have become so cold that they'd let someone die because they got their feelings hurt?
Good grief what has happened to America?
If I got "flipped-off" I'd still do the best I could for anyone smashed into a tree, Liberal or Red-Neck!
But then… I'm a Red-Neck.
Slow news day Tampa? BTW the woman is thinking about karma, so naturally she is going to stop! She doesn't want bad karma either!
I bet you Kristyn Dominy is part of the religious right freaks, you know like Santorum. I'm sure we will never hear this on msnbc.
Would you save someone with an Obama bumper sticker?
Help the daughter out of the car first, then kick the biatch in the tits.
i hope the woman who flipped her off at least has the decency to thank her rescuer. if not kiss her butt………
I never dug Flipper.
Now if a man had rescued her, he just could have peed on her, put the fire out and walked away!
What's really sad is that thoughts of litigious accountability go through one's mind at times like this just as quickly as do thoughts of rescuing people from harm.
Five years ago, I was taking my daily jog during my lunch break when a stolen pickup ran a four-way stop & T-boned an SUV right in front of me. Two occupants of the pickup died (one at the scene) & another bystander and I pulled the driver of the SUV (now partially ablaze) from her vehicle. As soon as emergency personnel arrived, I quietly slipped away & headed back to my office un-noticed (there were dozens of people on scene by that time).
The moral of this story is that (in a society like ours where damn-near anything can be subject to legal action) one cannot necessarily assume that a "good deed" will be met with gratitude from the recipient of said deed. If the driver of the SUV had suffered a neck injury during the impact, our efforts to extract her from the vehicle almost certainly aggravated it. Sure, she was ALIVE, but who knows whether she was the type of opportunist who's looking for a lucrative payday at someone else's expense (after all, no one could go after the guys who hit her… they were dead). I didn't care to take the chance, so I disappeared. Assuming that the "finger flipping" of the driver in this story is any indication of her personal constitution, I must admit that I'd give careful consideration to all the possibilities before stopping to help her.
Some states now shield Good Samaritans. I don't know about Fla.
I'd say to Dominy, be careful. No good deed goes unpunished. In this world, at least.
Should have left the disrespectful pile of garbage to burn.
"No greater love… " (John, 13:15)
Excuse me, that was: John, 15:13
Should have let the bi….ch… burn
What will happen is that the woman in the accident will sue the woman who rescued her. She will claim that the rescuer was driving in a manner that caused her to crash after she passed. And she will win somehow.
There is a possibility that the 22 years old, Kristyn mistook the gestures to be directed at her, but the other woman may have been waving her hands and yelling at her daughter in the Jeep. Some people can't just talk or yell with their mouth, they also need to use their hand gestures to emphasize their anger or whatever. I think the woman was speeding past and gesturing, yelling at her daughter and lost control of the car from being distracted. She may have been late for an appointment and got stupid. It happens. She's very lucky that Kristyn stopped to help her and the kid. That shows compassion and follows the rules of "love they neighbor as thyself" or "do unto others as you would have them do unto you". Everyone should follow these rules and live by them. The world would be a much better place.
This article is telling me be kind to the drivers on the highways because that person might be your guardian angel.
I think knowing that her daughter is suffering and may have permanent injuries because of her recklessness should be enough of a negative consequence for the driver. Have to live with the consequences of your mistakes is the best life teacher.
It appears that most everyone is missing an important part of this story. Read this part again;
"The girl was reportedly trapped and tangled in her own seatbelt. Dominy helped get the girl out of the burning car before calling 911."
I've had the horrifying event to see a man burned to death, trapped by his seat belt. That same seat belt that a socialist mindset dictatorship permeating our government made into a mandate against the rights of the people. These two you now know about. How many more died thanks to seat belts? Is it not the right of the individual to choose for themselves? Tell your Congressman and State legislator enough is enough. It's time to repeal.
The hero-lady has a great reward. She have proven to herself that she has integrity and is capable of risking her own life to rescue someone else (even a potential enemy). The vulgar lady (and her daughter) apparently demonstrated their decayed character, and let's hope they show some class and straighten up.
I thought it was a JEEP THING You wouldn't Understand!
Be careful with that ax, Eugene…You wouldn't Understand!
Florida law REQUIRES you to stop and render aid if you witness or come,upon an accident and help has not arrived…so she did the right thing both morally and legally…and I would venture a guess and say the accident victim, judging by her quickness to flip off the other driver, most likely votes the democratic party…just sayin…
what i dont seee nutin ……
It's obvious to me the Flipper was an Obama voter, and the Flippee was a conservative. The mentality and the reaction completely spells out the difference. When Obama produced his forged birth certificate he flipped off the country.
why does everybody say liberal when it comes to lawsuits?do you really think the lawyers that file these suits are liberal? people of all types file frivolous lawsuits not just liberals. and if the lady had just drove by without rendering aid she would have committed a crime but more importantly would have to live with the fact that a child died when she could have helped.treat others as you would like to be treated.
Because liberals protect the legal lobby…conservatives sue, but their platform is personal responsibility, let the buyer beware, free markets, etc.
Doesn't take a polysci major…
What a "BABE"! I think you cured the lady's finger wagging forever.
"Love your enemies" says the Lord who himself gave the greatest deomstration of practicing what he preached when he died on a cross for his enemies. WOW! After being flipped-off, it was tempting for Kristyn Dominy to keep on going and even doing it with a peevish smile…but she didn't. Giving the situation of insults and anger a second thought, she did something that was utterly unhuman…she overcame "herself" and glorified God by helping save an offending person. I believe the Lord is smiling upon Kristyn and so am I.
Fake story…cars don't start on fire.
"She did flip me off whenever she passed me,"
How many times did these cars pass each other? Were they playing 'cat and mouse' on the highway?
Perhaps the 'samaritan" does have some responsibility for the crash.
Hmmmmm. ..I believe all the "Good Books" say you have to love one another but I don't believe I ever read that we have to 'like' each other. This is a classic example. She didn't like what the Jeep driver did but she sure demonstrated the love that we're all supposed to have for one another. Nicely done!
She should have waited for the Government to save her. It's in charge of our lives now isn't it? It knows what's best for us, and what's fair, isn't it? Of course, we would have had to wait to find out if the crash victim was a conservative, THEN we could have let her burn.
my personal policy is that before i rescue people from burning cars i ask them a series of questions to make sure they agree with my politicial, religious and social beliefs and traditions. i mean, if they dont, whats the point?
of course, if i decide to proceed, i make them sign a waiver that they won't sue me for saving their life but leaving them less than 100%. i dont want them bitter at me like Lt. Dan.
I'm sure we'd all chuckle if, a mile down the road from being flipped off, we came across this woman getting a ticket.
But being trapped in a burning car is a different thing altogether, and I think most of us would try to help.
I do notice in many of the replies that there's a lot of ignorance about so-called "Good Samaritan" laws and the underlying legal principles that govern them. It's one of those things that all citizens probably should be more informed about.
I pulled people out of a burning car once and then was warned by the paramedics when they showed that I could be sued if I had made their injuries worse ( broken legs ), I guess it would have been better to let them burn to death ?
I think knowing that her daughter is suffering and may have permanent injuries because of her recklessness should be enough of a negative consequence for the driver. Have to live with the consequences of your mistakes is the best life teacher.
The woman will probably convince herself, with the help of a lawyer, that it was the rescuer's fault, and sue her for a billion dollars
Can't sue! Good Samaritian Laws. Only medical personnel are held to a "higher" standard ( nurse here)
In this situation they can't because no first aid was rendered and the rescuer acted reasonably, however, if she had to perform CPR, she would only be covered if she was certified. GSLs only protect people acting within the scope of their training when it comes to first aid. In addition, if the rescuer had left before further help arrived, she could also be sued for that. GSLs aren't a blanket from all liability when laypersons try to perform a rescue.
Driving recklessly and like and idiot with a child in her Jeep hope she faces child endangerment charges. What if she had run into another car instead of a tree and killed an innocent mother and her child? Glad they're OK but ticks me off she was behaving like such a fool on the road. Had some jckss cut me off on purpose just yesterday had to slam on my brakes and all the stuff I was hauling in my van flew all over the place. People that drive like this should receive some sort of punishment.
I hate to say this but we are rapidly becoming "sheeple" who will just gawk and do nothing for each other in an emergency – for whatever reasons. The evidence of this phenomenon is overwhelming. Kristyn Dominy is the exception. Now ask yourselves, what is driving this lack of empathy for our fellow human being?
WOW! I hope someon puts her up for a Carnegie Award. I'm sure she could use the $. What a woman!
SOMEONE NEEDS TO CALL GLORIA ALLRED – So the litigation can begin
If it's not trail rated and flaming, it's not a Jeep 4×4.
Women drivers are incompetent and rude. they should not be allowed to drive.
Where's my post? Do I need to call the NAACP?
Death by Car-B-Que would be my choice; I'm not stopping for any idiot who thinks they own the road. Time to take responsibility for your actions.
Great story and a moral to us all. The rescuer will have a clear conscience, something worth all the risk even if the other driver may have deserved less. Thank goodness the child was saved, she deserves a better mother than she has.
Watch, the saved woman will sue her and claim she was run off the road.
That's the problem with being a good samaritan, you immediately put yourself at the "alleged" crime scene and become the "one and only suspect"
I wonder if her finger was burned??? It's a shame children are innocent victims of this kind of parental behavior.
This is why we'll never clean-up the gene pool. Karma may have been to send this moron to hell in a ball of fire the kid before it had a chance to breed. Power to Obama, power to the pill, and birth control. If this bad drivers mother aborted as she should have we would not be talking about this.
I would try to save her too – as long as the car did not have an OBAMA bumper sticker on it.
My guess is that the crashed driver did not learn anything from this. The terminally stupid don't learn.
they both deserved to die, have to thin the herd some how…
Tsk tsk, another emotional driver cracks it up.
When will they start taking "DWF" seriously? : )
The great majority of people given the opportunity to help someone in distress will do so without thinking about it that much. Some people will hesitate if the situation is dangerous and a very small minority will not help because they don,t care about anyone else. This last group of people are also known as pychopaths.
Bless her heart, she's a better Christian than I am. I wouldn't have pi**ed on the the b***ch even if I had a keg's worth of beer in me.
How brave and correct many are here and all the time slapping those who might think differently. I will tell you from personal experience if you intentionally put me or my family at risk acting foolishly and I will let you burn! Also I might add I will watch that happen and enjoy. The problem with our society is too many are let off the hook when they steal, cheat or act out. Time to pull that cord tight and get a pair people. Too many fake Christians in the world already, all puffed up and no place to go.
Kristyn, you did the right thing in God's eyes. I lift my hat off to you! It is nice to know that there are some conscience driven, good souls still around on this planet.
I can't believe everyone is just accepting this without question. I've seen no source for this except Dominy herself. No quotes from the highway patrol, or the hospital where this nameless woman & child were supposedly taken. Who called the media in the first place? Kristyn Dominy is listed as an actress & model on several online employment websites. Personally, until I see confirmation from public authorities, I'm considering this a bid for publicity by the 'sainted' Dominy herself.
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By Jaideep Varma and Jatin Thakkar
Pakistan 236/9; Bangladesh 234/8 (Pakistan won by 2 runs)
The scorecard of the match is here.
It has become legend to associate choking with post-Apartheid South African cricket teams. But perhaps the country that should be associated with it the most is Bangladesh. Not being able to overcome pressure often enough is the main reason why Bangladeshi teams have not achieved greater things in cricket. Talent they have never lacked, nor the passion to get deeper into a scrap, often not even the discipline required to organise a win. But more often than not, when things got hot in the kitchen, they slipped.
Like on Thursday night when the match was theirs to be won. The bowlers had done a great job in restricting Pakistan to 236 (would have been even better if the last over had not yielded 19 runs). They began well too – it was 68 for no loss in the 17th over. Soon, it was 81-3 with a well-set Tamim Iqbal giving it away. Later, it was 179-4 in the 44th over – when Shakib Al Hasan, in excellent touch otherwise, played the last in a series of inexplicably risky shots and perished. At 190-5, captain Mushfiqur Rahim played an absurdly over-adventurous loft – the shot selection suggested they were too nervous to get the runs the reliable, but harder, way. Meanwhile, at the other end of the spectrum, Nazimuddin made 16 in 52 balls and Nasir Hossain 28 in 63 – paralysed by the fear of losing. They needed just 9 runs in 6 balls, there were overthrows in the middle of the over, and still they couldn't do it. They did not know how to win. Too many emotions came in the way.
The primary IMPACT observation in all this is – Bangladesh never, at any stage of their innings, faced the pressure of falling wickets out-of-proportion to the norm in the match. This suggests that they had the match under control most of the time, and yet somehow they unfathomably lost.
Through so much to admire about Bangladesh's performances right through this tournament, and even this match, the message that came through was that Bangladesh are not ready to be world-beaters yet. But they may be closer than they have ever been before – there have been enough signs of that lately.
Here is the final through the Impact Index prism.
Shakib Al Hasan was the highest impact player in the match. As he is for Bangladesh in ODI cricket history, he was the highest impact batsman as well as bowler in the match. As the 5th-highest impact current ODI player in the world (minimum 75 matches; after Kallis, Dhoni, Watson and Tendulkar), Shakib had everything going for him in this innings when he began to take completely unwarranted risks, and finally perished to a poor shot. When dismissed for 68 in 72 balls (IMPACT 3.88), he would have perhaps hoped for a team effort to see them through. It did come through Mortaza (18 in 9 balls; IMPACT 1.34) and Mahmudullah (17 in 16 balls; IMPACT 0.99) but it just wasn't enough.
Shahid Afridi was the second-highest impact player in the match behind Shakib (but received the Man-of-the-Match award because of this utterly flawed idea that a member of the winning team should receive it). He had an all-round impact in the match (32 off 22, Batting IMPACT 2.87; 1 for 28 in 10 overs, Bowling IMPACT 2.27). He absorbed pressure at 133-6 (Pressure IMPACT 0.70), and overcame it brilliantly with a Strike Rate IMPACT of almost as much (0.67) – not a common occurrence at all. While bowling, he actually had the highest Economy IMPACT in the match – thus affecting the flow of runs decisively both with the bat and the ball.
Tamim Iqbal, the second-highest impact batsman for Bangladesh in the match, yet again (fourth consecutive fifty) gave the much desired start to Bangladesh's innings. His well-paced innings (60 off 68 balls, Strike Rate IMPACT 0.26) ensured that Bangladesh kept the required run-rate in check in the first part of their chase despite Nazimuddin's over-cautious approach.
Saeed Ajmal
was the highest impact bowler for Pakistan in the match. His tight overs (2 for 40 in 10 overs; IMPACT 2.83) kept Bangladesh's run-rate in check. Aizaz Cheema was expensive (3 for 46 in 7 overs; Economy IMPACT - 0.61), but his three wickets came at crucial times and his tension-fraught last over clinched the issue for his team.
Pakistan dealt with pressure outstandingly right through the match – the main reason why they prevailed. While batting too, they were 19-2, then 70-4, then 133-6 but along with Afridi, wicketkeeper Sarfraz Ahmed played a superb innings (46 off 52; IMPACT 3.43) at the end with a Pressure IMPACT of 0.70. Interestingly, Md Hafeez (Pressure IMPACT 0.84), Umar Akmal (Pressure IMPACT 0.89) and Hammad Azam (Pressure IMPACT 0.89) all absorbed considerable pressure before that – if Bangladesh had displayed even a quarter of their combined effectiveness under pressure, they would have made history.
While Abdur Razzak for Bangladesh had the highest Economy IMPACT in the match (0.98), his effort was almost entirely washed off as Shahadat Hossain had a huge negative Economy IMPACT in the match (-0.97), almost entirely attributable to his last over of 19 runs in Pakistan's innings.
In the end, Bangladesh lost the match more due to their poor shot selection while chasing after Shakib Al Hasan and Tamim Iqbal (Bangladesh's highest impact batsmen in the match) had set it up well (both of them were sadly guilty of the same too). Overall, Pakistan's Team IMPACT in the match was 1.95 compared to Bangladesh's 1.75. So near, yet so far.
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"I can see my daughter nodding off over there," Huntsman joked at one point during what CNN.com called a "friendly and subdued conversation" between the rival candidates. "The candidates kept the conversation very friendly," the Los Angeles Times reported, noting often the areas where they agreed while shying away from discussing their disagreements.
"Now news, just snooze," was the verdict of The Guardian of London. The candidates did appear to agree on most issues, most notably the perceived threat posed by a potentially nuclear-armed Iran, with Gingrich warning of a second holocaust and Huntsman calling it "the transcendent threat of this decade." That apocalyptic vision of Iran with the bomb has generally been more associated with the combative Gingrich than with the more low-key Huntsman. As reporter Justin Elliott observed on Tuesday, Gingrich reenforced his own frequent warnings about Iran in last Saturday's ABC-Yahoo debate in Des Moines, Iowa, by paying tribute to rival candidate and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum for repeatedly voicing similar concerns about Iran's nuclear program. In that statement Gingrich implied that Iran might not only pose an existential threat to Israel, but could even put at risk the very survival of the United States.
"Rick Santorum's consistency and courage on Iran has been a hallmark of why, if we do survive, it will be in part because of people like Rick who've had the courage to tell the truth about the Iranians for a long time," Gingrich said. As Elliott noted, "Even the most committed anti-Iran polemicists have not proposed that the country could destroy the entire United States." While political leaders in the U.S. have been warning about Iran and the bomb for years and the U.S. has imposed economic sanctions against Iran because of it, the Tehran government has insisted that its nuclear program is for energy and not weapons production. Reviewing claims made by candidates in the GOP presidential debate held in Ames, Iowa last August 11, Factcheck.org noted:
"Ron Paul said the CIA told him that there is 'no evidence' Iran is 'working on' a nuclear weapon. There's no solid proof, but the International Atomic Energy Agency says there are 'possible military dimensions' to Iran's nuclear program."
Yet Gingrich, Huntsman and other candidates have spoken as though Iran's nuclear weapons program were a certainty. Gingrich at Monday's debate that "we're ideally going to do it non-militarily, but we are not going to tolerate and Iranian nuclear weapon." Huntsman sounded even more hawkish, arguing that additional sanctions on Iran "won't work because the mullahs in Tehran have already decided they want to go nuclear." The former diplomat dismissed the need for a multilateral approach to the problem.
"I think we all need to conclude that this is going to be the United States doing it our way at the end of the day," Huntsman said. "Which isn't all bad. I think we work better when left to our own devices."
Gingrich also warned that Pakistan, already a nuclear power "will use" nuclear weapons. Though he has often warned of the rapidly growing economic and military power of China, Gingrich on Monday conceded that Huntsman, the former ambassador to Beijing, "knows far more about China than I do." Huntsman described a "hubristic, nationalist generation" coming to age in China that would put a strain on the country's relations with the United States for the near future.
The debate, sponsored by Saint Anselm College Republicans, eschewed the usual one or two-minute statements and rebuttals of most political debates in favor of the "Lincoln-Douglas" style of extended presentations and counter-arguments by the two contenders. Both men hoped to benefit from the exposure, as the debate in the state with the nation's first presidential primaries was covered by both New Hampshire and national media. Gingrich, shown leading in some polls nationally and in the first caucus state of Iowa, still trails former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney in New Hampshire. Huntsman, whose poll numbers show him in the lower tier of candidates, is counting on a breakthrough in New Hampshire to give traction to his campaign. The former Utah governor said on Monday that he has spent so much time campaigning in the Granite State that he has "acquired this real New Hampshire accent." He predicted his grass roots efforts in the state would provide a considerable obstacle to Gingrich and others seeking the GOP presidential nomination.
"For the speaker to become the nominee, he's going to have to overcome our very formidable operation on the ground here in New Hampshire," Huntsman said.
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Some French workers told to disconnect from employers while off work
Thursday, April 17th, 2014
It would be great if bosses would leave us alone at home, during family time and on weekends. But it is not the American way, nor the Brit way, nor the French way.
Recent hyperbolic mis-reporting stated that a new French "law" protected workers from bosses contacting them after 6 pm. Oops.
The real news was the inclusion in two union bargaining agreements covering about 250,000 mid-level managers in tech industries. Those workers are subject to erratic schedules, and up to 78-hour work weeks, unlike other workers (who average 39.5 hour weeks) despite a 35-hour work week limit on the books. And the terms of the agreements have not yet been approved by the Labor Ministry.
So, to reduce stress (a tiny bit), the new agreements with employers "oblige" (not order, not mandate under threat of punishment) workers "to disconnect from remote communications tools" outside of normal working hours, whatever those hours might be — not expressly 6 pm. In other words, the onus is on the worker to turn off the employer when away from work for at least 11 hours (and that includes sleeping).
This gesture is a nod to the European notion that quality of life still can matter. Workaholism is not accepted without complaint. French workers engage in strikes and work stoppages. The French take to the street to protest social injustice. However, one union official made this conciliatory remark to the NY Times
"We also wouldn't like this to squeeze businesses and cause them problems."
The fact that the roots of the workplace bullying movement were sown in the social democratic Scandinavian nations should not be lost on Americans.
Yet, American media scorn the French as if they are lazy and unproductive. As if an overstressed and abused work force is exemplary. I hear the chants now — We're number 1! Americans meekly accept everything their corporate masters shove down their throats. And public sector unions, the last bastion of organized labor, are being gutted by malicious state legislatures and governors hell bent on privatizing America. Few fight back out of fear. Why?
The French are not to be mocked. In fact, French unions are trying to hold on to an eroding leverage themselves. The globalized world dominated by multinational corporations have convinced all governments to step aside and let businesses operate without rules or limits.
In Germany, Volkswagen forbade supervisors from contacting workers after hours and shut down its servers to stop e-mail and phone calls. Deutsche Telekom also invoked a communications-free time ensuring that managers have no right to expect workers to answer supervisors' calls or e-mails while away from work.
It would be far better if Americans voluntarily unplugged themselves from their work-provided phones and devices. They couldn't track us in our bedrooms with remotely launched laptop cameras. The NSA would have no record of our interactions. And we would sleep more peacefully. The trouble is that employers have convinced too many of us to be afraid, very afraid. Oh, well. Maybe someday.
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Tenerife, the jewel in the Canary Islands' crown, boasts year round sunshine and is a firm favourite with holidaymakers looking to catch some winter or summer sun on a fantastic Spanish holiday. With lively nightspots to more sedate sunny villages Tenerife offers something for everyone.
The Canary Islands are a fantastic holiday destination all year round and there has never been a better time to plan a trip to the island. Much of the sights in Tenerife revolve around the island's beautiful and dramatic scenery caused mainly by past volcanic activity. One of the must do activities to add to your list is to take a drive into Mount Teide National Park where the mountain has the highest peak in Spain.
You can take a driving tour around the base of the mountains where you will see stunning volcanic rock formations, colourful lava fields and large craters that sculpt the landscape. You can also take a cable car ride up the mountain and see some of the imposing yet extinct volcanoes that once caused havoc and mayhem in Tenerife. Many visitors to Tenerife plan a trip to the National Park each year so make sure you've packed your camera!
Another truly awe-inspiring sight is Los Gigantes, or The Giants, which are huge sheer black cliffs on the west coast of Tenerife. The scale of these cliffs can only really be appreciated by taking a short boat trip from Puerto Santiago to the foot of the cliffs. Historically the people of Tenerife thought these cliffs were sacred and also that this is where the world ended, and it's easy to understand why! This stunning landscape should certainly be on your list of places to visit whilst on the island so pack your camera and sensible footwear and discover why so many people visit Los Gigantes each year.
Tenerife is also home to some beautiful churches and cathedrals such as the Basílica Nuestra Senora de la Candelaria and many museums such as the Natural and Human History Museum, which is located in the town of Santa Cruz and housed in a magnificent 16th century building.
The famous black pyramids, Pirámides de Guímar, are well worth a visit whilst on holiday in Tenerife. You can take a tour around these huge stone step pyramids and learn about the different theories surrounding their construction. There are also several interesting exhibitions where you can learn about hispanic history.
With so much to see and do on the island, your holiday will certainly be a fun packed break in the sun!
There is so much to do for the fun seeker in Tenerife that it's difficult to fit it all in on one holiday. One of the best times of year to visit Tenerife is in February at it's Carnival month. Every day is filled with people in fancy dress, salsa dancing, street bands and processions and is arguably one of the best carnival scenes after Rio de Janeiro.
If you're not flying to Tenerife in February don't panic, there is still plenty to do! There are a huge amount of water sports to try your hand at in the various coastal resorts. El Medano beach on the east coast of the island is one of the best for surfing and windsurfing. If surfing isn't your thing then all around Tenerife there are facilities for diving, parasailing, sailing, waterskiing, wakeboarding, kayaking, hiring jet skis and of course the traditional banana boat.
Catch the boat from Playa de Las Americas and you can go whale watching, which is sure to thrill everyone as you sail alongside graceful whales and playful dolphins. A holiday to Tenerife is certainly a memorable experience.
There are plenty of great golf courses in Tenerife suitable for all abilities including Golf Las Americas, Gold del Sur and Amarilla Golf. You can also spend a day wine tasting at Casa del Vino in El Sauzal.
If you haven't spent all of your money hiring jet skis and golf clubs then head to the capital of Tenerife, Santa Cruz. It is here that you will find the best shopping districts including Plaza del Espana and Plaza de la Canelaia where you will find large shopping centres and fashion boutiques.
Casino Traoro in Puerto de la Cruz is a grand casino built in 1892 and also houses a fine restaurant. If you're feeling lucky it's a great place to practice your bluffing; just don't forget to save some beer money for later, you'll need it!
Be sure to visit the resorts of Santa Cruz and Playa de las Americas which is where everything happens after dark. You will find every kind of pub, bar and club including many names you will probably know from home such as Yate's and Wetherspoons as well as Irish bars, sports bars and cocktail bars. Playa de las Americas is a mecca for partying with an array of clubs with some of the most popular being Bobby's, Metropolis and Tramps.
As well as great nightlife there is also great food in Playa de las Americas with every style of cuisine on offer including tapas, traditional English, Italian, Canarian, Spanish and Mexican. The list is endless and you may never want to go home!
Tenerife is a popular holiday destination for the whole family and the fun to be is very much focused around the coastal resorts. In Los Cristianos you will find the Aquapark Octopus where it won't be long until you have the kids begging you to let them spend their whole holiday there. There is a dolphin show, a dolphin lake, children's area, water rides, slides, pools, sun beds, restaurants, shops and snack bars, so it's a fantastic place that the whole family will enjoy.
Spend a day visiting one of the fantastic wildlife parks which will certainly keep the kids entertained for a few hours. Loro Parque is a wildlife park and a definite place to visit as it is home to some of the finest exotic animals in the world. Located in Puerto de la Cruz it contains the largest penguin populated iceberg outside of Antarctica, one of the best dolphinariums in Europe and a vast array of different animals, birds and fish including the largest parrot collection in the world.
Another animal park that is well worth visiting is Las Aguilas Park. The vast majority of the park is made to recreate a jungle and you can see animals roaming freely including many different birds of prey. The park has a large number of exotic birds and animals including the white lion which is critically endangered with estimates of only 300 left world-wide.
Of course the beaches all along the coast of Tenerife are great for family fun. Mum and Dad can relax on a sun lounger with a book or join the kids as they build sandcastles and frolic in the waves. You can also take advantage of the numerous water sports facilities that are located on most of the major resorts. The Canary Islands are certainly a popular destination for year run sunshine and fun for the entire family.
The landscape of Tenerife provides the perfect backdrop to a romantic break with your loved one. Why not treat your loved one to a holiday to the Canary Islands this year? With many types of accommodation to choose from you can stay in luxurious and charming surroundings with views of the island's mountains or ocean.
For a day of total pampering and relaxation together you can visit one of the many spas in Tenerife such as Aequor Spa which boasts a Jacuzzi, sauna, steam room and mud bath, as well as many treatments and massages that will leave you feeling simply gorgeous. Why not try a chocolate relaxation massage? From start to finish, your entire trip could be so relaxing. With a wide choice of pampering treatments on offer, a holiday to Tenerife could be the perfect destination for you and your loved one.
In the evening you can stroll hand in hand along one of Tenerife's famous black volcanic sandy beaches and stop off in a bar or restaurant for a romantic meal by candle light. For a quiet and more intimate break away from the hustle a bustle of the main clubbing resorts you could stay in Los Cristianos. It is the location of the aptly named restaurant Restaurante Romantico where you can enjoy beautiful cuisine with after dinner liquors and a rose for the ladies. If it's romance you seek, Tenerife is the perfect destination.
Italian restaurant Bianco is fantastic, as is the Banana Garden which is great for after dinner cocktails and dancing; both are in Playa de las Americas.
Don't forget to go shopping, Tenerife enjoys duty free tax status so get spending!
Visit the Sunday market in Santa Cruz on Avda for some great souvenirs.
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Atomic core and packages
Posted 15 August 2011 - 09:30 PM
If it has grown too large? Yes, it has, most of users do not know all classes and features it provides.
A core package is good. There are many projects like crawlers or daemons where I don't have any web or something, but I would use the CComponent and like.
PEAR is close to death. It has a complex configuration managed by console commands, and can't live without it due to its complexity. It has a rigid structure as well. Check it to avoid its problems please.
The packages subject is related to the namespaces discussion. Do you plan to separate packages to their own namespaces?
I don't belive a package should have a configuration. Packages are not modules, they are plug-ins that you extract to the source, declare in main.php and use its API in your code.
Posted 01 September 2011 - 06:22 PM
grigori, on 15 August 2011 - 09:30 PM, said:
Agree - a module or component may require configuration, but a package would not.
A package should come with some sort of manifest though, as discussed - this probably shouldn't contain any functional configuration as such, though.
Posted 01 September 2011 - 07:32 PM
I may be missing something on the discussion about configuration, but my two cents:
I believe that every packaged item (extension, module, component etc) should provide its configuration (at least the default one) to be added by the package manager to the application's configuration file(s).
There could be hooks for package installation and uninstallation, too.
Using these hooks, the packaged item will be able to automatically install itself to the filesystem and to the database.
The package metadata (meta file) could have also the version(s) of the framework for wich it is compatible.
Posted 06 September 2011 - 08:28 AM
mentel, on 01 September 2011 - 07:32 PM, said:
If the framework core itself is distributed as a package with a metadata file, like any other package, a package manager would be able to check/update the core itself, the same way any other package is checked/updated.
It would be useful if the package repository provides a compatibility matrix based on feedback from developers, and this should of course take version numbers into account - when package X defines a dependency, it should specify the version number of the dependent package Y it was tested with, but when that dependent package Y receives an upgrade, you don't know for certain if package X is forward compatible with those changes. The package manager can build a compatibility matrix by collecting this information from developers.
Another useful feature would be to provide a release-date in the package metadata - that way, you can put up a candidate release package, for example two weeks before it's official release date. It's a simple communication tool: the vendor has indicated that the release may be superseded by another RC within those two weeks - and the consumer understands that they're using a brand new release which has not yet been widely tested.
One last thought: let's have a web-based package manager interface. Of course, it needs to be accessible from the command-line, for automation purposes, but a web-interface could have a richer user interface - for example, it could collect and display information from the compatibility matrix, render a dependency graph, etc.
Posted 06 September 2011 - 08:37 AM
Might make a useful starting point?
Posted 14 September 2011 - 06:21 AM
- search repo,
- find the package,
- check and display dependencies,
- download package,
- install package
CLI mode or HTTP (GUI) mode?
Perhaps separate module like Gii?
Looks like pretty big thing, uff.
But may bring the framework to completely new level of interaction during development - big step ahead.
Thumb up that you decided to keep modules - they are very powerful and useful.
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Posted 10 October 2011 - 03:29 AM
I've a question regarding cli vs. GUI.
As far as I can tell there's currently no other way to run console command from within a web application than exec?!
Do you plan to add a component which works as a link between web app and cli app?
I played around with exec, but the problem is, that you often have different values for yiic on different systems (Win, Mac, Linux).
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Posted 14 October 2011 - 08:22 PM
At the moment, Yii flexibility allows to create anything and plug it into the system by just set its alias/pàth and import them automatically when required. Any ideas on how those packages should be coded?
This could be a great feature, but nobody has talked about its format... ideas to work with package manager?
By following a pattern we could ensure the creation of top quality extensions... dont you agree?
Posted 15 October 2011 - 03:08 PM
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Posted 15 October 2011 - 05:17 PM
cause it is scary sometimes to use others extensions cause you cant be sure they 100% correct without bugs ...
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Posted 17 October 2011 - 04:52 AM
Moreover they should provide a default configuration, often the main application configuration is affected by an extension (such as setting params, loginUrl, etc.). This is another thing to think about ... can we simply merge any package configuration with the application configuration or do we have to implement boundaries?
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Posted 17 October 2011 - 01:42 PM
Depends on what's inside the package. If it's a module then yes, most of your proposals are looking good but if it's a widget then there's no need to configure anything. I guess we'll just write a guide on extensions to encourage best practice.
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Posted 02 November 2011 - 07:39 PM
I would avoid adding complication where it's not necessary, or at least make the default download contain everything.
Never forget the newbies. A seasoned Yii user can trim where necessary.
Posted 06 November 2011 - 02:08 PM
Going further with maven spirit building and installing packages into repository would be also great feature - putting common reusable extensions development into separate projects seems reasonable for large teams.
I also agree with db migrations support on package level. There should be possible adding optional information of migration objects existence, thus installing package can do necessary database schema modifications easily. I can even treat this as "must-have" feature.
Posted 08 November 2011 - 11:16 AM
Posted 08 November 2011 - 04:34 PM
I've checked these about two months ago. Did't like:
1. Lack of simple end user docs.
2. Symfony2 dependencies.
but now, as I can see, everything is in a PHAR and there are some docs. Will check/try it again. Thanks.
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Posted 15 December 2011 - 02:08 AM
maybe it is a bit stupid because i do not know many examples you mentioned.. but could the Wordpress plugin system be somehow interesting as a reference?
the idea is that you can download a plugin from the Wordpress site, from the author site or install it directly from Wp admin area + eventually configure it (plugin developers can add an admin page to configure the plugin).
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