Along with his brothers, a soldier goes off to war leaving behind his wife and two sons. Six years later he returns to his family after losing both his brothers in action. Something is different though. His wife suspects something, but can’t put her finger on it. She just knows that something is different about her husband. Over the next two years, the family grows by twins (a boy and a girl) and then another girl. Then, in an auto accident, the husband dies and his widow decides that she can now investigate a hunch she has had for some time without upsetting her husband.
That month, she takes all of her children in for their annual checkup and vaccines, and also asks the doctor to check her blood type along with all of the children.
The results, mailed to her (see below) later that week, give her a start as she realizes her hunch was correct.
What was her hunch? How did she arrive at her conclusion?
I’ve been working for an intellectual property firm now for three months and I thought it might be time to update my impressions of the field.
In the past, my writing had always been of the sort that presented data and built a story around that data in a way that was essentially persuasive in nature. Patent Applications do present data, and they can tell something of a story, but they are not meant to be persuasive documents. No one reads them for the purpose of evaluating the data to see if you’ve missed something, forgotten some important principle, or are making an invalid argument. You simply show what you have, make claims based on both the data and your ideas about it and determine if it’s:
For most people Zika is not all that harmful. the symptoms are often described as similar to a mild case of the flu. But, like rubella, the major risk may be to women who contract the disease while pregnant. It has been found that a rise in 
Guinea worm disease is caused by a parasitic worm found in stagnant waters of Africa. It has been known since early recorded history with possible mentions in the Bible and a definite reference (along with a treatment method for removing the worm that is still used today) in the Ebers Papyrus, an ancient scroll written around 1500B.C.
I would no sooner vote for Donald Trump to be President of the United States than I would the world’s best actor, Keanu Reeves. Sorry, Keanu, you’re just not Presidential material. But I did think you did a good job in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure.
I have to admit that I was shocked when I heard him repeating his oath to put 82,000 government employees out of work ASAP. I’m sure it would save the government money to not have all those extra employees, which might be why he thinks his ‘flat tax’ solution wouldn’t bankrupt the country. Although, I have to wonder if he’s also considering the impact that 1.2 million out of work tax preparers who won’t be paying any personal income tax might have. (IBISWorld estimates a much smaller industry in its report saying that only 290,000 employees work in tax prep). On March 15 of 2015, Cruz suggested that we deport the 82,000 IRS employees to Mexico. Perhaps including the 1.2 million tax preparers might help offset the rise in unemployment and the $10,000,000,000 hole in the GDP.
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