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Check this out. Here is an AP article:

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/news/nation/14056497.htm
Man who weighed 1,000 pounds down to 400
Associated Press

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Patrick Deuel, who once weighed more than 1,000 pounds, has lost another 81 pounds in a surgery that removed a mass of fat and skin hanging from his midsection.

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When Deuel came to Sioux Falls for gastric bypass surgery in 2004, he weighed 1,072 pounds.

He was so large his bedroom wall had to be cut out to extract him from his home. He was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance with extra-wide doors and a ramp-and-winch system that had to be dispatched from Denver.

Gastric bypass surgery, a stomach stapling procedure, was thought to be his best chance for permanent weight loss.

And here is an article by All Headline News "staff writer" Denise Royal...
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7002711408

Former 1,000 Pound Man Has Surgery
March 9, 2006 8:00 a.m. EST
Denise Royal - All Headline News Staff Writer

Sioux Falls, SD (AHN) - A man who once weighed more than a thousand pounds continues to lose weight. Patrick Deuel now weighs about 400 pounds after losing another 81 through surgery.

He underwent surgery Tuesday in South Dakota to remove a mass of fat and skin that was hanging from his midsection, making it hard for him to walk. His surgeon says the Nebraska man is doing well.

When Deuel first underwent gastric bypass surgery in 2004, he weighed 1,072 pounds. He was so large his bedroom wall had to be cut out to extract him from his home. He was taken to the hospital in a special ambulance with extra-wide doors and a ramp-and-winch system.

What do you think? I emailed the AP to ask about it. Could it have just been a press release? Or is it full-blown plagairism?

Probably taken from the same report or PR release. I don't think it's plagiarism.

Probably taken from the same report or PR release. I don't think it's plagiarism.

I'm going with Press Release. Bolded parts sound like the stuff that would be placed in a Press Report about the operation.

Press Release.

Ever been in a newsroom for a medium sized paper?
They live and thrive on working over storylines submitted by major newsagencies.

And said newsagencies make their living selling the raw material, since they hardly produce their own papers.

And there is only so many stockphrases you can use.

One example that I relished went something like this:

Liner ( name ) lost of ( location ) no survivors, owners report : impossible happened.


Every paper that reported the story had to say something about screaming women and children. ( obviously, no mention of that ih the story, and no one had a reporter to report in ).

*shrug* its just how that business works.

Ummm, OP. I think your name might be flamebait. Calling Atheists 'Sinners' is rather a flame-baitish statement and I'm not sure the Mods look too kindly on that. Maybe you could make another nation with a more neutral name?

Ummm, OP. I think your name might be flamebait. Calling Atheists 'Sinners' is rather a flame-baitish statement and I'm not sure the Mods look too kindly on that. Maybe you could make another nation with a more neutral name?


A NationState, yes, but not another JOLT-account, unless you first create another email to work with.