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The world is a poorer place without him.

Rest in peace.

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Signym forgot to give "him" a name. ... Who was "he"?

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Originally posted by 1KIKI:

The world is a poorer place without him.

Rest in peace.

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Signym forgot to give "him" a name. Until now I never read an obituary or eulogy that didn't include the deceased's name. It was easy enough to find the lead battery reclamation site mentioned in the eulogy, but not easy to find "his" name. "He improved the lives of every air-breather in the LA area, and we will be the poorer for his loss," wrote Signym. Who was "he"?

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Signym forgot to give "him" a name. ... Who was "he"?

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His family knows. His friends know. His co-workers know. That's good enough.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

That's an odd time to worry about who "he" was.

4 years of swallowing everything and never once asked who "sources said" were when they said it about Trump.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Today I learned that a former colleague of mine passed away from cancer at a relatively young age.

When he joined the agency, he was the "golden boy"- former HS football player, ChemE from UCLA, loved to party, had a great voice. Nice dad, faithful husband, adept Source Testing professional. But he was serious about our mission: to clean up the air and protect people from sickness, to save lives.

He was a great problem-solver, coming up with clever ways to measure emissions from sources that had never been measured before, and it was the most interesting part of my job to work with him on figuring out how to set up the equipment, recover the sample, and get these analyses right, so they could stand up in court.

But what really impressed me was his willingness to openly engage the bureaucracy and our crazy Director to get things done. The clearest example I can give is a source within our jurisdiction a lead battery recycler, that we long suspected was sprinkling the the neigborhood with lead. But every time our samplers got a "hit" plant management always had an excuse... a car drove thru the parking lot and kicked up dust. Or the sampler was in the wrong place. We danced around like that for two years. Finally, this good man had had enough of trying to convince the chain of command that the facility needed a serious inspection and testing: he went instead toour Legal Department and got a warrant. And took no end of rations of shit for that.

But the tests showed that the facility was poisoning the entire neighborhood and rather than clean up and comply with pollution abatement requirements, the facility was shuttered and became a Superfund site. I have driven past that site several times: This four-story large plant remains wrapped in Tyvek like some malign Xmas gift, a Chernobyl of lead instead of uranium.

I wonder if exposure to all of those toxins for all of those tests led to his cancer.

In his final email to his friends and colleagues, he stressed how proud he was of the work they all had done.

A good man pssed away, but he made a difference. Not by bitching and wailing online, not by making beaucoups buck$, or shilling for TPTB, but by acting with integrity and purpose. He improved the lives of every air-breather in the LA area, and we will be the poorer for his loss.

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Odd that your highly respected colleague sounds like someone who would hate Trump with a passion.

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