…8/29–10: power to the positive

62º in ABQ; 83% humidity at 6A…Olde Towne received the most rain yesterday; the Duke City still battling an ‘urban bear problem’; local woman shot at motorcyclist in a case of road rage; female employee stole fireworks to be used against her boss; dead woman found under a bridge in Los Lunas; the NM AG is investigations of alleged wrongdoings in the SECY of State’s office; whooping cough on the rise in NM, especially in Santa Fe CNTY; Martinez leading in NM GOV poll; most people polled felt NM is on ‘the wrong track’; truancy is a problem across the state; seventeen year old was killed near the intersection of Eubank & Candelaria; man used a fake $100 bill to pay at a local Burger King; man had medical problem, his van crashed into NM ABQ restaurant; two major drug busts near Gallup; using art to boost Bernalillo CNTY revenue through the display of art at the Museum of NM;
One person dead at MD high school reunion; five years later, New Orleans’ residents bury the memory of Katrina; 69 vehicles involved in multiple collisions on downtown Phoenix interstates; NATL Guards will be posted at the AZ/MX border; fire at planned Islamic site in the Bible Belt of American;
After 400 years dormant, an Indonesian volcano shows signs of eruption; TS Earl could become a Category 1 hurricane within the next 24 hours; American wasted billions of dollars while rebuilding Iraq;

…8/30–10: holding on to karma
70º in ABQ; 59% humidity at 6A…GAQ; as the world changes: there was no ABC AM News, and KOAT Morning News began at 4:30A; wrong socks, different shoes; district courthouse in Santa Fe was evacuated due to a threatening call from a cell phone;
Electric outlet shortage in many of the older UNM classrooms; took Central home, arrived about 3:50P; 1:1 meeting with managers at 1P; fixed PC at work to stop prompting;
Wet in: Fargo, Pierre, Panama City, Savannah, Tallahassee, Houston, St. Louis, Billings, ABQ, Chicago, Little Rock, Pensacola, New Orleans, Tampa, Mobile & Bismarck; Hurricane Danielle pounds the E Coast with rip currents; Hurricane Earl has 135 mph winds, heading WNW at 15 mph, threatening that same area latter this week; wet along parts of I-10, I-40, I-55 & I-75; there are still about 100 people who died during Hurricane Katrina, and have yet to be identified;
NYC subway train stopped before striking a passenger who fell on the tracks; rare, calico lobster caught off the ME coast; US birth rate declining; the DOW ended down; final BP oil leak containment has been delayed for several days; mice, maggots & manure found in ‘tainted’ egg farm; AZ man killed five at a B’day party, took his children, then later murdered himself; fire seen from the engine of a US Airways jet as the plane landed at NATL Airport; emerald found in NC farm; the public is afraid to spend;There are many unused & incomplete structures built in Iraq by the US; in Ecuador, a bus crash killed 42 people; nine killed by Russia nursing home blaze; minor tremor rocked Taiwan; plan ‘B’ may rescues Chilean miners earlier than expected; oil is $74.71 per barrel; potential terrorists, who were from Yemen, but legally in the US, were arrested in Amsterdam, after cell phones, box cutters & knives were found in their luggage; less electrical power in Iraq than before the US freed the nation;

…8/23–10: polite politics

68º in ABQ; 75% humidity at 6A…GAQ; two people found dead in a burnt mobile home in SW ABQ; the Duke City is growing in population along its W side; solar panels will be installed on SunPort parking garages; someone stole a hot air balloon from a trailer; PM T’storm above The Beach; hit & run at Montgomery & Moon; Workforce Solutions will now use Wells Fargo as the bank to issue their debit cards; SCHOTT has developed the largest rooftop solar array panel;
Another day with key people on vacation; first day of school at UNM; very crowded PM R/R;
NM storms mentioned on ABC AM News; wet in: Boston, NYC, Tampa, Bismarck, ABQ, Denver, Flagstaff, Buffalo, Providence, Hartford, Miami, Albany, DC, Pittsburgh, Erie, New Orleans & Orlando; rainy weather for parts of I-10, I-90, I-93 & I-95; TS Danielle has 60 mph winds, moving WNW at 14 mph; floods in Philly; temps from the 60s to the 100s
The $578 million dollar school opens in CA; another plane crash in SW AK; FDA ‘scrambling’ for answers to the tainted egg crisis; airport security officers caught smuggling drugs & weapons; NYC dog fashion show, with canine clothing costing $3K; the Grand Canyon is deteriorating, thanks to pollution, caused by man; the DOW ended down; fire in a Long Island R/R switching station delayed commuters; sinkhole in GA swallowed a car wash & restaurant; teens send 3K texts per month; Americans own 610 million credit cards, carrying the highest interest rate in nearly a decade, 14.9%, football players coming down with Compartment Syndrome, some requiring surgery; judge has halted funds for embryonic stem cell research;
After being trapped for two weeks, thirty-three Chilean miners were located, but they may not be rescued until late 2010, or early 2011…they are trapped 2,258 feet below the surface, in a 600 sq. ft. room, with food supplies, 95º temps, and 95% humidity; Iran displayed its ‘ambassador of death’; Kudzu strain may cure alcohol or cocaine addiction; oil is $72.90 per barrel; gold is $1,226.90 an ounce; midriff exposure by Chinese men during hot days is making the country’s leaders upset, bad for ‘public image’;

…8/24–10: desires, and dreams
71º in ABQ; 58% humidity at 6A…GAQ; local family of eight without power for weeks; NM ranks as the number one state per capita in lightning strike deaths; three NM stores are recalling tainted eggs; local child had to hold a rock as punishment: if he dropped it, he was slapped with a belt; no schedule yet from some S Valley students; overnight rain at The Beach;
The last day of my ‘vacation’; downtown detour on AM R/R; we are in Code Purple; very crowded PM R/R; no PSUP Admits; housekeeper was out for five weeks, she gave me a hug;
Wet in: Boston, Tampa, Philly, Raleigh, JAX, OKC, Houston, Tucson, Santa Fe, Des Moines, KC, Wichita, Twin Cities, Phoenix, DC & Richmond; Hurricane Danielle has 100 mph winds, moving W at 20 mph; microburst in TX yesterday; wet along sections of I-4, I-35, I-90 & I-95; temps from the 70s to the 110s;
Alligator seen swimming in the Chicago River; FDA is overwhelmed to inspect all farms; patients exposed to unnecessary radiation during diagnostic testing; today is NATL Waffle Day; Sea World faces a hefty $75K fine; salmonella can last four days on a clean counter; new homes sales have fallen; the median home price in America is $182,600; mouse virus linked to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome; the DOW ended down; investigation of exploding fuel tanks in three million 1993-2004 Jeep Cherokees; 380K lbs. of Wal-Mart deli meat recalled;
Large hail, the size of Ping-Pong balls fell in Poland; Jimmy Carter on humanitarian mission in N Korea; 3–D mapping of the Titanic begins; plane crashed in the Katmandu region, near Mt. Everest; only 50K US troops remain in Iraq; artistic manhole covers across Japan; shock a potato to make it healthier; a sixty mile traffic backup in China that could last for weeks; there are survivors after a plane crashed in NE China; oil is $71.66 per gallon; gold is $1,231.80 an ounce;

…8/25–10: dreams, and destinies
63º in ABQ; 48% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Brad can now roll over on his surgery side; Rio Rancho sewage lines broke during recent rainfall, flooding roads; Lowe’s will not add a new store in SW ABQ; this past weekend, a robbery at the Range Café on Menaul; early AM stabbing at Duke City party; NM GOV in Cuba for ‘trade talks’; Farmington officials explode illegal drugs; I saw a roach in the APT this AM, told Nancy; I saw Jean this PM; 21 minute crime spree across ABQ: three people were robbed, two arrests were made; Farmington woman took a nap, while her children were locked in a hot vehicle; NM has run out of its stimulus money;
Not a typical summer, with Code Purple on a daily basis; no CTI Admits; no one from my ‘team’ has told me about a MGR leaving; we remain in Code People;
NM storms mentioned on ANC AM News, ABQ weather mentioned on the Weather Channel; wet in: Boston, Tampa, Cleveland, Dallas, Flagstaff, NYC, Providence, Erie, Miami & Savannah; chance of rain along areas of I-75, I-90 & I-95; floods in AZ & FL; wildfires in OR, CA, UT & AZ; Danielle now has 85 mph winds, moving WNW at 17 mph; San Fran heat wave; temps from the 60s to the 100s;
Thief caught in the act at the US Capitol, thanks to a photo taken by a tourist; NYC cab driver had his throat slashed after a passenger asked if he was Muslim; 25K pot plants found on CA farm; credit card debt at its lowest in eight years; McCain won in AZ primary; a constitutional conservative won the AK primaries; the DOW ended up, but the economy is on shaky grounds; ‘retro soul’ music?;
Fire tornado sighted in Brazil; it make take three years to undo damage caused by PAK floods; man had a bullet in his head under the skin for five years; fat keyboards for Sumo wrestlers; fifty people survived plane crash in China; Asian markets fell, due to the US housing slump; Somalia is recruiting Americans to plan domestic terrorist attacks; Australian teacher gave an assignment to his student: plan a terrorist attack; oil is $72.20 per barrel; gold is $1,239.50 an ounce;

…8/26–10: is reality possible?
63º in ABQ; 48% humidity at 6A…GAQ; eleven children found in ABQ with little food, they have been attending school; may cost $2 million to repair Cumbres & Toltec trestle; two Red Light Cameras will be installed in Rio Rancho; waterline break in the S Valley has been repaired; today is Jean’s B’day; another AM downtown detour; NM jobless rate at 8.2%; picture of a praying mantis drawn by a NM child will appear on the cover of Highlights magazine;
Continue catching up; suddenly, no music; no CTI Admits; we remain in Code Purple; the HSC lost pre-2005 records in recent downtown blaze;
ABQ temp mentioned on ABC AM News; wet in: JAX, Raleigh, ATL, Miami, Orlando & DC; there is Hurricane Danielle with 105 mph winds, followed by TS Earl & Fiona following them; CA wildfires & heat wave; temps from the 60s to the 100s;
Sex & controversy make money…not education; RNC chairman admits he is gay; homeless man started fire which destroyed several homes; hate crime charges against NYC cab driver attack; Buffalo killer turned himself in; the cost of ‘senior citizen medications’ keeps going up; man had to be pulled out of a CA construction hole; are MS oysters safe; tires of a JetBlue plane explode when landing; faith vs. fear: NYC cab driver vs. honor student, incident has been labeled as a ’hate crime’ many INS plans do not provide proper pediatric care; the DOW ended down; more teen nerds needed by the US GOVT to stop foreign computer hackers; parts of the Ninth Precinct in New Orleans are unchanged, home look like it has been only a day after Katrina struck, when it was actually five years ago this weekend; 52% of Americans polled support gay marriages;
Chilean miners have been told they will remain underground for several months; will US aid to PAK help tensions between the two countries; Iraqi insurgents attacking that country’s security forces; red alert issued for Columbian volcano; gold is $1,235.90 per barrel;

…8/27–10: place to place places
63º in ABQ; 39% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; bear caught in Four Hills area; NM SECY of State accused of wrongdoings, questioned by the FBI; car crash on Central and San Pedro resulted in a water main burst; ten month old fell out of an SUV, was then struck & killed by his mother, who was driving the vehicle; EBT: electronic benefit cards which can be used at NM Farmers Markets; Rio Grande High does not need another new principal;
9:30 meeting; left at 12:30P…ate at Owl Café; then climb for comics; is the pseudo code method actually losing money; PEDS has the most duties; people not telling the whole truth to the people above them;
ABQ storms mentioned on ABC AM News; wet in: Orlando, New Orleans, SLC, Flagstaff, Mobile, Tampa, Tallahassee & Miami; five years ago, Katrina, the meteorological monster, rearranged the Gulf Coast, flooded 80% of New Orleans: it was the first time a mandatory evacuation had been issued, and the storm killed 18K people; Danielle has winds from 120–135 mph; Earl has 45 mph winds; temps from the 60s to the 100s;
Blockbuster Video may file for bankruptcy; the DOW is at its lowest since early July; students who are bullied, a term which has taken on a more violent meaning, are usually ignored by teachers; the DOW ended up; double dip decline in the US economy, as progress starts to slow down, and prepares for a ‘unique & painful’ recovery; American Airlines has been fined $24 million dollars;
Jimmy Carter secured the release of an American in N Korea; the 3-D photos may reveal why the Titanic sunk; three Canadians arrested in that country on terrorist charges; message was broadcast by mistake onboard a British Airlines plane that it was about to crash in the sea; cameras show the trapped miners; artificial corneas can potentially grow eye cells;

…8/28–10: put a little fun in your life
68º in ABQ; 63% humidity at 6A…Santa Fe car thefts up 28%; an enrollment increase at the NM Military Academy; two people in NM have tested positive for the W Nile Virus; Volcano Vista student had an unloaded gun in his car, said he was going to shoot or stab someone; Rio Grande High students will not have a schedule until 9/7/10; gas explosion in N NM injured several people; Bernalillo CNTY workers will receive a 2% pay increase; CNM opens its Rio Rancho campus; started cleaning my closet: so far, it’s been manageable; severe T’storm, heavy downpours & leaks at The Beach; Duke City Rave party busted for having too many people;
NC killed by a real one, while waiting to see the ‘ghost train’; man stole more than $25K worth of eyeglass frames; E Coast may see rip tides from Hurricane Danielle; riots at Folsom State prison in CA; during the past year, many people polled have said they have admitted driving while drunk; the end of the ‘big home’ era; road rage turned deadly on CA highway;Mexicana Airlines has shut down its operations, one of three that have done so today; baby tiger found in suitcase: its purpose was to be smuggled, and then sold; 5.9 earthquake shook Iran;

…8/18–10: chasing reality

72º in ABQ; 59% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Brad’s surgery is improving; man breaks into Santa Fe brewery, steals a TV, and drinks Dr. Pepper; ABQ police shoot & kill a man near Del Norte High; Duke City principals will be relocated to schools that can maximize their abilities; ABQ ‘peeping Tom’ went into ladies’ restroom, looked under women’s dresses; collision at Zuni & San Mateo; local man stole money from the place he used to work, claiming it was for unpaid Annual Leave; one in eight ABQ children do not have the correct closing to attend school; soldier from ABQ was killed in AFG;
I hope to get more notes to complete PICU billing sheets; man in wheelchair on AM R/R; expect more delays on Central near UNM; phone service was ‘scratchy’ today;
Wet in: Philly, DC, Baltimore, Duluth, Charlotte, Nashville, Memphis, San Antonio, Flagstaff, SLC, Chicago, INDY, OKC, Dallas, Roanoke, Richmond, Atlantic City, Orlando & Fargo; ABQ temp mentioned on the ABC AM News; a haboob near Phoenix yesterday; bad weather along parts of I-40, I-44 & I-55; temps from the 70s to the 100s;
Could 3.2 million gallons of oil still be in the Gulf of MX water, a residual located deep below the surface, posing a threat to plankton; the first dog ‘water park’, located in CA; the DOW ended slightly up; mother slapped her child, during a flight that was en route from Dallas to ABQ; to save money, and keep stockholders rich, drug companies are selling incorrect medicine to treat ailments; bed bugs force the temporary closure of NYC theaters; small plane violated Air Force One airspace over Seattle; there are now 228 tainted eggs, they have sickened 300 people, and are caused by sick hens: the symptoms may have a three day incubation period; Obama poll numbers keep dropping; ‘tainted’ results from NC crime lab, some people have been convicted and are in jail because of their findings;
More floods occurring around the world: now, in MX & China; UN asks the global community to help PAK; man’s buttock got him stuck in a window while trying to burglarize a home in England; oil is $75.59 per barrel; gold is $1,229.70 per ounce; US military is starting to pull out of Iraq;

…8/19–10: energetic truth
72º in ABQ; 57% humidity at 6A…GAQ; school crossing guards missing on the first day of school in ABQ; deputy crashed into drainage ditch; the historic First Baptist Church goes up in flames, it was to possibly be renovated to become a school; first gubernatorial debate will be held tonight; truck end up in a ditch near Tingley Beach; three police cars parked opposite the Tingle R/R bus stop; more violence in the workplace, stemming from domestic issues;
UNM PRES has an abdominal tumor; UNMH is the most ‘wired’; got a call from Admitting Office, there were Coders there waiting to be trained; no CTI or PICU Admits; police outside UNMH;
ABQ temp mentioned on ABC AM News; wet in: Fargo, Bismarck, the Twin Cities, Raleigh, Santa Fe, Houston, Denver, Charlotte, Asheville, Roanoke, Baton Rouge, Mobile, Nashville, ATL, Houston & Orlando; yesterday, more rain & floods for DC; temps from 60s to 100s;
American Airlines adds another fee, based on seat location in the plane; two passengers were removed from a plane in handcuffs; 20% of those polled think Obama is Muslim; use Tai Chi to relieve migraine headaches; now, there are 380 million tainted eggs; no more timeline for Gulf cleanup: new BP mediator will handle claim reimbursement; more layoffs: 500K people filed jobless claims last week; OH bank robber left his wallet at the scene of the crime; now, 2K have been sickened by tainted eggs; the DOW ended down; economic growth is weakening;
PAK floods may not recede until late August; final US combat troops are leaving Iraq, heading to Kuwait: but 50K brigades will remain as ‘supportive’ forces; wing fell off plane during Argentine air show, the pilot did survive; girdles for men; to increase teen attendance in church, a priest rode a skateboard; is the moon shrinking in size; Portugal allows same-sex marriages; Operation: Iraqi Freedom is over: Operation: New Dawn has begun; oil is $74.15 per barrel; gold is $1,233.80 an ounce;

…8/20–10: over the weather
70º in ABQ; 47% humidity at 6A…GAQ; NM GOV candidates battle over education issues, with neither actually ‘winning’ the debate; racy adds found in Clovis piñata; Peralta mayor accused of stalking a woman;
Left at 11A, ate at Saggio’s; people will learn that I am a nice person;
NM storms, ABQ temps mentioned on the ABC AM News; another CA wildfire; wet in: Orlando, KC, Des Moines, Madison, Twin Cities, Omaha, New Orleans, JAX, ATL, St. Louis, Little Rock, Green Bay, Chicago, Miami, Wichita, Duluth, Pensacola & Houston; rain along areas of I-10, I-35 & I-70; CO mudslides; temps from the 60s to the 100s;
More people withdrawing from their retirement or 401 [k] accounts; power outages across S MI; ‘less oil’ is coming ashore, and numbers ‘refined’ on how much has spilled into the Gulf of MX; the final escaped AZ inmate caught in an AZ campground near the NM border; a 22 mile ‘invisible’ plume of oil still remains in the Gulf of MX; second IA farm has tainted eggs; HIV transmitted by semen is different than when the virus is in blood; police officer dragged by a suspect’s vehicle on a NH interstate; the DOW ended down; malnourished boy found in the attic of a KC home;
In China, two cars of a passenger train plummet into the water as support columns collapse; Iran could build a nuclear weapon within one year; woman claims to have an electromagnetic body shield; huge S American rats invade estate;

…8/21–10: in silence, there is strength
66º in ABQ; 30% humidity at 6A…three year old girl wanders into the street, ends up the victim of a hit & run in SE ABQ; man slightly injured when struck by a Rail Runner; man escapes being caught by the police after he tried to kill roommates with explosives [firebomb] & a blowtorch; a welfare check turns up weapons, ammo & drugs at a local doctor’s home, which also contained rice human feces; Duke City Film Festival this weekend; mother accused of giving narcotics to her sick child; Valencia CNTY woman ticketed for driving too slow, given a $70 fine; disaster declarations declared by NM GOV in N counties, and parts of the Navajo Nation; Santa Fe Indian Market is being held this weekend; trolley ride around the Duke City to view locations where films & TV movies have been made; NM Green Chie Festival is being held in Red River;
So far, 118 US banks have failed during 2010: added to the list are savings institutions in CA, IL, FL & VA; TX child dies after been left in a hot SUV for over two hours; CA is due for another big quake; bedbugs found in the Empire State BLDG; new overdraft fees for debit cards; half a billion eggs have been declared ‘tainted’; there are more people being tested to determine if they have HIV;
Earthworms pull pollutants from the soil; $50 million Van Gogh painting stolen; one person died after gunmen invaded a luxury hotel in Rio;

…8/22–10: someday, my prints will arrive
74º in ABQ; 57% humidity at 6A…INTEL owes Sandoval CNTY $100K in fines, for failing to meet hiring requiring, employing people from outside NM; ‘pole climbing rodeo’ held yesterday in NM; I-40W was shut down by an accident last night near UNIV; man stole prescription pad so he could write order controlled medications for his friends; last night, Neil Patrick Harris won two Emmys; money has been given for a forest restoration project in the Jemez MTN; Rio Rancho school food preparers may go on strike; man threatened to steal a dirt bike, while a child was on it…he failed; suspicious church fire in Farmington;
Two men charged with selling pot via a drive through window, at a store located near a daycare CTR; when will billet trains arrive in the US; America still has a 1950s work policy: moms make less than money than single women, and females still make less money than men; ‘geo tagging’ on digital photos can give thieves the location of a person’s home; female officer now leads a Norfolk naval station; more controversy about the ‘Ground Zero’ mosque;Will camel milk become the latest rage?; we now have a TS Frank; no injuries were reported after a 5.7 quake shook the islands off the coast of W Greece; shootout at the US/MX border, near El Paso; Iran revealed its deadly unmanned bomber; more flooding in China & N Korea;

…8/14–10: live in harmony with nature

70º in ABQ; 41% humidity at 6A…no gas or hot water at Mountain View APT complex in the Duke City, it also had no working fire extinguishers, and toxic carbon monoxide levels for weeks; Santa Fe is holding a ‘shred fest today, for people who want to get rid of old, important documents; twelve arrested in local prostitute ring; Olde Towne ABQ is having a Salsa Festival today; Brad prepared Liver & Onions; Bernalillo CNTY sheriff faced with a ‘no confidence’ vote; illegal immigrants are getting driver’s licenses in NM; Rio Arriba trash bills are piling up; higher education ‘town hall’ meetings will be held across NM;
The BP well is not completely plugged; unruly passenger forced a flight heading to the Dominican Republic to make an emergency landing at Dulles INTL Airport; Patriots won their first pre-season game; eight people shot outside a Buffalo restaurant, four reportedly killed; another judge says the banning of same–sex marriages is unconstitutional; Obama supports the building of a mosque near Ground Zero; Dr. Laura said the “N” word several times during a radio talk show; 110 banks in the US have closed, the latest was in IL; underground transformer fire forces the evacuation of two DC hotels;
The sagebrush around Sydney could destroy the city…all it would take is one fire; deadly riots across Iraq;

…8/15–10: in unity, there is victory
76º in ABQ; 40% humidity at 6A…enjoyed a walk along Tingley Drive, and then to K-Mart; woman tried to set several units in her complex on fire; more casinos to be built on the Navajo Nation; next ABQ police academy training will begin in November, 2010; online system to track crime in ABQ & Santa Fe; Highpointe Solutions Veteran’s CTR needs $160K, or faces foreclosure; the Equine Emergency Fund to help feed horses that belong to NM residents who are have lost their jobs; a Laguna Pueblo artist has become a well-known photographer;
The typical, modern ‘American family’ now consists of more single, divorced [and remarried], with new step-parents & children from several homes, now called ‘multi-families’; remaining escaped inmate last seen in Billings, MT; diabetes can lead to blindness; anti-bullying summit was held in DC; off road race crash in CA killed eight people; the ‘safest’ weather conditions are in S CA;
20% of PAK is flooded: who will rescue the stranded citizens, the US or the insurgents;

…8/16–10: in time, there is equality
68º in ABQ; 70% humidity at 6A…GAQ; overnight rain at The Beach; Los Lunas man firing a gun was shot by a local police officer; ride ABQ buses for free by displaying Rail Runner tickets; will the Duke City public school system purchase a church, in order to transform it into a Magnet School; saw Jean today; hailstorm caused power outages in Roswell;
UNM record enrollment and decreased funding means larger classes; still no notes from one provider; was one of our Coders missing;
Wet in: Denver, DC, NYC, New Orleans, Buffalo, Albany, Boston, Savannah, Charlotte, Mobile, Rapid City, OKC, Pensacola, ABQ, Flagstaff, Syracuse, Hartford, New Bedford, Tallahassee, Houston, Philly, ATL, Roanoke & Orlando; bad weather along sections of I-81, I-90 & I-95; temps from the 70s to the 100s;
Prescriptions by doctors: teach children how to swim; giant lobster caught of the FL coast; bleach spill shut down Times SQ; Gulf shrimp season starts; gay marriages in CA are put on hold again; NATL AVG price of gas is now $2.77 per gallon; the bodies of two children for found inside a car submerged in a SC river; NH man returns an $11K ring he stole, plus he turned himself into the police; an increase in hatred against Muslims across the country: most Americans oppose the construction of an Islamic CTR near Ground Zero, although existing sex stores in that same area are OK; drug recalls on the rise; the DOW ended slightly down; four year old AZ boy has been located; Willard Hotel fire in DC yesterday;
PAK floods have affected twenty million people, and the situation keeps getting worse; gold is $1,224.50 per ounce; Japanese economy may be slowing down, that country is no longer the second place global leader, it has been replaced by China; oil is $75.41 per barrel; bomb threat shut down the shrine at Lourdes, France for five hours; Australia has about 20 million people; Venice has its first female gondolier; plane broke into three pieces while landing on San Andres Island, only one person died, and the death was from a heart attack;

…8/17–10: time tells
64º in ABQ; 96% humidity at 6A…GAQ; overnight T’storms at The Beach; man walking through ABQ firing a shotgun; Manzano school soccer fields vandalized; late night SWAT situation at Truth or Consequences ended peacefully; police arrest suspects in a PM drive by shooting in SW ABQ; school bus stops have been eliminated, forcing students to cross dangerous intersections;
Corrections from Nephrology; I now have a second monitor;
Wet in: New Orleans, Mobile, Biloxi, KC, JAX, ATL, Raleigh, DC, Wichita, Des Moines, Omaha Lake Charles [Louisiana], Bismarck, ABQ, Tucson, Baton Rouge, Tampa, Orlando, Miami, Tulsa, Fargo & Knoxville; NM storms & ABQ temps mentioned on ABC AM News; wet weather along sections of I-10, I-35 & I-75; the Gulf low pressure that will not go away; temps from the 70s to the 100s;
$14K jobs, $1.3 billion generated by the Gulf shrimp industry; CO boy survived after being struck by lightning; Robert Gates will leave the Pentagon during 2011; Red Velvet Fried Chicken being served in San Fran; Salmonella found in IA eggs; CA same-sex ceremonies are delayed until December; late mortgage payments on the rise again; 20% of teens suffer from hearing loss; heat illness cost a worker his job; the DOW ended up; woman threw a pie in the face of a US SEN from MI; ‘experts’ say over 70% of the Gulf oil remains in the water, lower than the depths where people have been exploring; only the cream of the crop can get house mortgages, or refinance their homes; The Grand Prix of Green Clean express race that will travel around the world, but not produce any carbon emissions; China prepares for ‘electronic warfare’; for now, MX City same-sex couples will be allowed to adopt children; Last night, YouTube would not allow me to subscribe to other websites; oil is $76.27 per barrel; gold is $1,226.60 an ounce; another violent day in Iraq, suicide bomber had nails contained in his explosives;

…8/13–10: peaceful peace

67º in ABQ; 72% humidity at 6A…Sandia Labs testing bombs; Brad’s regular doctor’s visit; Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; Brad’s diabetic risk has been lowered; fewer students are graduating from NM higher education universities & colleges; Sandoval CNTY police officer was pulled over after he was caught speeding at a high risk construction zone on I-25;
Pseudo code meeting at 9:30 at Bradbury: will not start until after the August Closing; have to be trained on creating lists; no PICU Admits; pipe leak on top of the HSC roof flooded the plants on ground level; we are in Code Purple; left at 12:30P;
ABQ temps & NM storms mentioned on the ABC AM News; wet in: Twin Cities, JAX, Baltimore, KC, Asheville, Des Moines, Yellowstone, Pittsburgh, Fargo, Duluth, Omaha, Wichita & Orlando; there is no drinkable water in parts of IA, as rain keeps falling, and water mains keep breaking; wild weather in DC, as creeks flooded during yesterday’s rush hour: storms damaged the White House lawn & fence; wet weather along sections of I-35; temps from the 70s to the 110s;
No AC in INDY schools; CA man attached camera to his surfboard, then filmed a shark swimming near him; serial killer finally caught in ATL: had stabbed eighteen people, killing five of them in MI, OH & VA; bill will allow more money for border security; same-sex marriages get the green light in CA; the DOW ended down; teens killed in high-speed crash on I-75 in OH; are smoothies made in the US linked to typhoid outbreaks; the First Family will go on a ‘working vacation’ in FL; GM gets another new CEO, the fourth in 18 months;The glass bottom hot air balloon; rain finally fell in Moscow; more US military leaks could appear online; Iran nuclear reactor is online; 7.2 quake near the Marianas Islands;

…8/12–10: think of today as a ‘present’

76º in ABQ; 38% humidity at 6A…Brad’s doctor visit for his surgery; Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; sexual assault at Sandia High; seventeen year old boy has broken into six Duke City schools; PM T’storms across ABQ; Brad’s operation is improving; rental home in ABQ gets red tagged; we no longer crave Chinese food;
Trying to get my own work done; no CTI Admits;
Wet in: New Orleans, Fargo, Syracuse, Roanoke, JAX, Philly, Buffalo, Mobile, Denver, Houston, Billings, Baltimore, DC, Duluth & Orlando; NM storms mentioned on ABC AM News; floods across IA, with fifty of its counties are underwater; bad weather along parts of I-10, I-40, I-64 & I-81; temps from the 70s to the 100s;
Denny’s meals are bad for your health; ‘granddad bandit’, who committed 25 robberies in thirteen states, has been arrested; foreclosures on the rise again, nearly one in every 400 homes; relief well is now fifty feet from the broken pipe, but BP has cancelled or rejected orders for booms, saying the items do not meet their quality standards; new salad mix recall due to contamination; a San Fran judge allows same-sex marriages to resume in CA, starting next week; the DOW ended down; jobless claims on the rise; high levels of lead in ‘bounce houses’; one in twelve babies born in the US are from mothers who are illegal immigrants;Jellyfish are attacking Spanish beachgoers; Asian stocks fear another global recession; another ‘superbug’ working its way from India & PAK, to Britain, Canada & the US; global changes: the warmest & the wettest weather has been reported; old is $76.17 a barrel; gold is $1,214.80 an ounce; wildfires in Portugal; 6.9 quake rocked Ecuador;

…8/11–10: indulge your cravings

71º in ABQ; 40% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; the sound of a motorcycle at The Beach in the early AM hours; five year old tested positive for methadone; ABQ has a new school for the deaf; NM teachers having a bake sale to raise money; my unofficial last chat with Jean; Brad’s Chiro visit; Rio Rancho schools start tomorrow; two ABQ teens arrested for smuggling pot from MX to NM; two women arrested for growing marijuana in their NE Duke City home; oil leaked from a truck near the Rio Grande;
Yesterday, there were no buses to be found to get home; no PICU Admits;
Wet in: Quad Cities, Tampa, NYC, St. Louis, Yellowstone, Green Bay, Madison, Chicago, INDY, New Orleans, Baltimore, Pensacola, Miami & Detroit; bad weather along parts of I-10, I-40, I-70 & I-95; TD five in the Gulf of MX: 35 mph winds, moving NW at 6 mph; NM storms mentioned on the ABC AM News; temps from the 70s to the 100s;
There have been 950 plane crashes in AK over the past decade, it is the most common vehicle for that state, but took the life of a former, prominent SEN: fog & rugged terrain also hampered a safe landing, four people survived, but not the man who had served AK for forty years; an evolving still life art on a road in ME; San Fran parking meters will accept credit cards; copter crashed while trying to rescue stranded tourists in AK, no one onboard was seriously hurt; angry customer attacked fast food take out window when she was told they were not serving chicken nuggets yet; when road rage takes to the sky: many people support the frustrated flight attendant who was struck by a passenger, then screamed at the people on the plane via the intercom, and finally made a grand exit on an emergency slide; the third escaped AZ prisoner may be in W MT or Canada…or, AR?; the DOW ended way down; ER staff afraid of being attacked by patients; baby was born at 11:12 on 8/9//10; man had a pea plant growing in his lungs;

Second spacewalk scheduled to repair the INTL Space Station; 6.0 quake shook Vanuatu; gold is $1,197.50 an ounce; oil is $78.49 per barrel; massive floods across PAK;

…8/9–10: the digital pad

68º in ABQ; 65% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Brad’s Nutrition Visit; 90% of NM school budgets are for salaries; Durango dentist died in AFG attack; a Valencia CNTY woman was abducted, beaten, robbed, and stripped of her clothing; car crash ruptured gas main in the Duke City; several movies are bring filmed across ABQ;
UNM has a professor shortage; PEDS Coding restructures meeting this AM [cancelled], billing sheets returned last Friday, rescheduled to this Friday; Bruce does not know about pseudo-codes; no new monitor yet; nobody noticed that I had not signed in last Wednesday;
Wet in: Des Moines, Green Bay, Chicago, Miami, Rapid City, Boston, Buffalo, Orlando, Billings, New Orleans, Little Rock, Quad Cities, Denver, ABQ, Milwaukee, KC, Twin Cities, Omaha, Erie, NYC & Detroit; TS Colin, fading away but TS Estelle grows in the Pacific; bad weather along sections of I-10, I-35, I-80, I-90 & I-94; weekend twisters in the Great Plains & FL; temps from the 70s to the 100s;
Fourteen year old started CA wildfire just N of Los Angeles; PA has wine vending machines; the $25K pudding in a NYC pastry shop; the House returns to the Hill; actress Patricia Neal has died from lung cancer at the age of 84; the NM murders, linked to AZ inmates [who may be in Yellowstone NATL Park] still makes world news, one of the men was captured in WY, there is now an INTL manhunt for the remaining prisoner, and his female accomplice ; over 25 million Americans are either working part-time, or unemployed; one million pounds of ground beef recalled, could contain E Coli; the DOW ended up; states looking to casinos for added revenue; woman has been battling a flesh eating disease for five years; now, an environmental recovery continues at the Gulf oil spill; pet food may contain salmonella; the US is sinking in the ranks of how many graduate from college: common educational standards are needed;
Russian fires have killed at least fifty people; Queen Latifah has come out of the closet; Honda is recalling some Accord & Civic models; another outside repair needed to the INTL Space Station; man in China arrested after jumping in front of a train, then laying flat after it passed over him; it was 65 years ago when bombs dropped on Nagasaki; oil is $81.11 per barrel; gold is $1,200.70 an ounce; ferry sank off E Indonesia; man walks the entire length of the Amazon River;

…8/10–10: pleasing words
70º in ABQ; 45% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; health inspector scams at ABQ restaurants; murder suspect bonded out of Duke City prison; youngsters in vehicles whose drivers were charged with road rage, the chase covered much of ABQ, those adults face child abuse charges; Sunflower Market has better bran muffins than Trader Joe’s; charity fundraiser tonight to benefit the Rio Grande Zoo & BioPark;
I have a different attitude towards work; it’s Duran Duran Day at the PEDS Clinic; during the PM, servers across the UNIV & HOSP started crashing; could not access my work calendar, not even with Brent’s help; the wards were full today; children abandoned at the PEDS Clinic…for various reasons, per the adult’s several stories;
Wet in: NYC, Miami, Fargo, Chicago, Des Moines, Butte, JAX, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Bismarck, Roswell [NM], the Fl Keys, the Twin Cities, Boston, Albany, St. Louis, CO Springs, Sioux Falls, Orlando, Baton Rouge & Denver; this past weekend, hail fell on Lake Tahoe, NV; bad weather along sections of I-4, I-10, I-35, I-65 & I-90; eighteen states under extreme heat advisories; temps from the 70s to the 100s;
The Pentagon may cut 5K jobs; BP has spent $6.1 billion to clean the Gulf of MX; four states are holding their primaries today; the final fugitive may be in Glacier NATL Park, MT; American charged with selling military secrets to China; tourists stuck on AK glacier; the House has passed a jobs bill; the DOW ended down; NC Krispy Kreme MGR put the day’s receipts into a doughnut box, that was accidentally used by a clerk, and given to a customer…who is now $5K richer; storms shut down the Gulf oil drilling; the US recovery may be slowing down;Cliff Diving Contests in Italy; oil is $79.86 per barrel; robot who display emotions of a one year old child, and can bond with a human; small tsunami after 7.5 quake shook Vanuatu; gold is $1,196.20 an ounce; YouTube problems again; oil spill off the W coast of India after two ships collided;

…8/4–10: humorous interlude

68º in ABQ; 59% humidity at 6A…overnight rain at The Beach; I am a VJ; Los Alamos father charged with abuse after hitting his child with a fly swatter; a tornado may have touched ground near Chinle, three earthen dams in that area have broken;
Hell Week, Day 2.5; picked up free UNM bus pass;
The Weather Channel has been ‘frozen’ for nearly an hour, just showing the same scene; wet in NYC, DC & Charlotte; mandatory evacuation of the area from Chinle to Many Farms, especially Canyon de Chelly NATL Park in AZ; temps from the 70s to the 100s;
Malicious computer code is being created to access our aging power plants, in order to open & close security doors, and pollutes water supplies; there are six employee homicides per month: all that is needed is a man with a grudge, and a gun, who reached his breaking point; was the same–sex marriage ban overturned in CA…yes!; the static kill is currently working; though it may take years, a mosque will be built near Ground Zero in NYC, why not build it a few blocks away from the 9– 11 site; Three Lakes, WI is the ‘best’ town in America; was the CT killer a thief, or a victim of racial discrimination; the DOW ended up; Obama turned 49 today; boy is missing from his AZ home; there are 50 million gun owners, and there are these types of weapons in about half the households in the US: people want to bear arms in public, and put the control in their hands, not the GOVT; malnutrition could cause asthma; the safety of supplemental vitamins has not been approved by the FDA; Alex Rodriguez hit home run number 600! while Prop Eight has been considered unconstitutional, gays & lesbians cannot get married in CA; AZ sheriff has a bounty on his head from a MX drug cartel leader; one person killed when a plane slammed into a warehouse near Phoenix; some billionaires want to give half of their money to charity;
Somewhere, there is an ice toilet; another school in China has been a victim of a knife attack, the person killed three students and a teacher; Chinese buses are built such that cars can drive under them; thick smog blankets Moscow; oil is $82.55 per barrel; gold is $1,193.70 per ounce; did someone try to kill the Iran leader;

…8/5–10: a reality relationship
73º in ABQ; 47% humidity at 6A…lightning in the AM sky; local puppy thief is in custody; Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; the Duke City wants to limit the distance that officers can drive police cars to their homes, based on how far they live from the ‘Big I’; power outage at Second & Montano; boy shot & killed in Roswell; PM severe storm, complete with hail & downpours, got splashed on Central, which cleaned the dirt off my pants; minor power outage at The Beach; solar companies are leaving NM, laying off workers, or backing off business contracts to build in this state; one diverted flight per day lands at SunPort; we had a tiny power outage at The Beach; can lesbians who were one of the few couples who got married in NM, now get a divorce; trapped in a house under construction for an hour; borrowed an umbrella from a family on NY AVE;
now, what is Step Two; all billing sheets taken away, and everything gets pseudo coded until we can fill in the blanks; I do have hundreds of hours of Sick Leave; people don’t know the jobs I do, they’re too busy rushing off to their meetings; no CTI Admits;
Wet weather for: Richmond, Denver, NYC, DC, Gainesville [FL], Nashville, St. Louis, ABQ, OKC, Amarillo, Albany & along the Outer Banks; extreme heat evaporating pesticides; more roads buckling from the high temps; TX power grid pushed to its limit; the heat wave covers twenty states; Memphis has seen several days in the 100s; ABQ high temp mentioned on the ABC AM News;
One step closer to ‘killing’ the oil well; boy attempts to become the Grand Master Champion of Tetris; man called 911 so he could get a ride to a liquor store; will same–sex marriages become a win for the justice system, or showdown at the US Supreme Court: teachers jobs may be saved by a bill working its way through Congress; man lit a match on a cross-country flight, then ran to the bathroom, the plane was diverted to ABQ, which prompted an FBI investigation; the DOW ended down; fourteen American accused of having ties to al Qaeda; jobless claims are up; collision on I-44 in MO with an SUV, semi & two school buses; Kagan has been voted as the newest US Supreme Court judge; 100K people in DC are in the dark tonight; no end in sight for cleaning up after the oil spill;
Man threw a brick into a washing machine, and it kept working; are British eating beef from cloned cows?;

…8/6–10: major, positive outlook
64º in ABQ; 69% humidity at 6A…my doctor visit at 11:30A; Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; NM tax free weekend on school supplies; plane crashed in N NM; charred remains found on a ranch near Santa Rosa; more storms & flash flood warnings for NM this weekend; forgot to lock the door last night; more police cars will be parked at local substations; more people stealing construction tools, and selling them to pawn shops; more border agents for S NM;
Left at 11A; so far, I have not angered MGMT; people on the rush to other meetings; empty AM R/R; no CTI Admits;
Wet in: Myrtle, Beach, Charlotte, ATL, Billings, Tampa, Memphis, Cheyenne, Tucson, Nashville, JAX, Little Rock, Miami, New Orleans & Orlando; bad weathers along sections of I-10, I-20 & I-95; GW Parkway in Alexandria shut down after storms caused trees & power poles to fall onto the road; TS Colin has 45 mph winds, moving NW at 14 mph; Richmond floods; NM storms & ABQ temps mentioned on ABC AM News; temps from the 70s to the 110s;
BP has finished the cement process; but will the company sell its Gulf oil rights, CT killer says he was racially motivated, and had smuggled guns in his lunch box; US jobless rate rose to 9.6%; Amtrak services delayed S of DC because of a coal train derailment in VA; the DOW ended down; is the judge who overruled Prop 8 a homosexual; two adults & two children found dead in suburban DC home; health inspectors shut down OR girl’s lemonade stand, then apologized for their actions; the CA GOV wants to allow gay marriages in his state; Star Trek convention in ‘the’ Las Vegas;
65 years ago, atomic bombs fell on Hiroshima: posting comments problems on YouTube; fires in Russia could spread radioactive remnants from Chernobyl; US, Britain & France attended the memorial ceremony;

…8/7–10: help heal your heart
66º in ABQ; 72% humidity at 6A…minor power ‘blip’ last night; an ABQ man was shot in the face on Friday; Disney movie being filmed in NM; crime in Olde Towne ABQ is on the rise; disease carrying feral hogs are roaming the Rio Grande River Valley; the economy is good at NM Science & Tech Park; and, amazingly, my blood pressure was normal; bomb scare at the FED BLDG on Fifth & Gold, but no one inside was informed what was happening; Los Alamos pastor accused of distributing child porn; three car crash on I-25 near the Hard Rock Casino; scammers are targeting the unemployed in ABQ, mailing them fake money orders to cash; fewer sites are searching for oil & natural gas in NM; Brad has resumed painting; a Goa video made for me by one of my online friends; man stabbed in SE ABQ APT; button got stuck in the dryer rim, ingenuity paid off in fixing the problem, but losing a shirt; Brad met Jean;
French tourist survived after falling 75 feet into the Grand Canyon; serial killer on the loose near Flint, MI; plane struck PA home, killing two people; seventy person brawl at the L’Enfant Plaza METRO stop; 3-D TV for less than $1K; Kagan is US Supreme Court Judge number 112: the is the youngest, is from NY, an Ivy Leaguer…but does not change the conservative position of the bench;
‘Ice Island’ breaks apart from Greenland glacier;

…8/8–10: musical dreams
66º in ABQ; 67% humidity at 6A…no sales tax when purchasing school supplies this weekend in for NM; AM fog in N NM; Chimayo couple are victims of mortgage meltdown, with home payments they cannot afford; new Four Corners Monument has opened; ‘Ghost Bike’ movie being filmed in NM, a story about cyclists who have been killed by collisions with vehicles; NM has a 8.2% jobless rate; another power ‘blip’ in the PM; iodine leak from a vehicle at the Route 66 Truck Stop;
City official found a dead goat placed in front of his Rehoboth, MA house; escaped AZ prisons may be linked to deaths in Santa Rosa, NM; is the Gulf of MX seafood safe; Sarah Palin: the American ‘Olympic Octopus’; one million illegal Asians live in the US; castle for sale in Hope, ID: needs some work, selling price is $575K; AZ inmates may be in the Yellowstone area;Is the term ‘video game’ outdated; deadly landslides in china; more flooding in PAK; an increasing number of wildfires are occurring across Russia; US medical group attacked & killed by Taliban forces in AFG; N Korea seized S Korean fishing vessel; now, floods being reported in parts of E Europe; sauna championship turns deadly for one competitor; floods also occurring in S Korea; Iraqi forces are ready to take control of patrolling that country; earthquake shook Crete;

…8/1–10: the myth of reality

66º in ABQ; 87% humidity at 6A…overnight storms at The Beach, and across NM; parts of Coors in SW ABQ were closed because of flooded streets; bridge collapsed by heavy rains that fell on Church Rock, NM; Santa Fe is not a ‘sanctuary city’; the Duke City may hire a private recycling company; while ABQ may be using too much water, it has had above average rainfall for the month of July, and for the year 2010; plane crashed in an empty field near Santa Fe, both passengers survived; ‘In Plain Sight’ will continue to be filmed in NM for its next two seasons
Disney is selling Miramax for $660 million; now, was too much chemical dispersant used by BP, and approved by the US Coast Guard; ‘static kill’ process will probably start by this Tuesday;
BLDG collapsed in Italy, killing three people; repressing negative emotions is unnatural, and can be hazardous to a person’s health; power spike triggered alarms at the INTL Space Station, but none of the astronauts were in any danger: however, several spacewalks may be needed to repair the problem; the Netherlands pull out their troops from AFG; blackberry service may be blocked in both Saudi Arabia & the UAE;

…8/2–10: reward yourself
68º in ABQ; 75% humidity at 6A…GAQ;
Hell Week, Day One; UNM cover-up based on race discrimination, First Amendment retaliation, and the school is facing a civil rights lawsuit; will job duties be reassigned, will pseudo code system go into effect, how will that impact our productivity; two pages of GPU Admits this weekend; the Duke City is using Facebook to fight property crime; Native American tribal college will be located in Santa Fe;
Wet in: Des Moines, the Twin Cities, the Quad Cities, NYC, Miami, Omaha, ABQ, Denver, Sioux City, Chicago, Flagstaff, Orlando, KC, Green Bay & Rapid City; fifteen states under heat advisories; bad weather along sections of I-35 & I-90; temps from the 70s to the 100s;
Surface water near the oil spill looks clean; a Wendy’s robber could the restaurant twice, saying there wasn’t enough money in the cashier as he expected; Chatham, MA beaches closed due to shark sightings; a second cargo plane has crashed in AK: this time, in the Denali NATL Forest; FL condos for less than $30K; the DOW ended up; Mitch Miller has died at the age of 99; per our PRES, the war in Iraq will end by the close of this August: combat troops will be coming home; ‘minor’ leaks, or plumes, have appeared near the oil spill; oil is still ‘choking’ the Louisiana shore; there is a 95% chance that the ‘static kill’ plan will work, but will take between 31–63 hours to completely fill the leak with cement: is this project being ‘whitewashed’; AK comic book collector wants to sell his copy of Batman #1; SEN Obama had opposed the Iraqi surge; AZ prison where three men escaped had major security problems;
Israeli–Palestine tensions on the rise again; oil is $81.44 per barrel; cooling system still a problem on the INTL Space Station; Swedish policemen dance while working; the day YouTube didn’t work; Bali has seen a severe outbreak of rabies; artist makes portraits out of corn chips; gold is $1,134 an ounce; Iraq still does not have a fully, functional GOVT; PAK residents do not trust the US;

…8/3–10: the global magnetic field
67º in ABQ; 70% humidity at 6A…GAQ; keep questions to a minimum; Santa Fe ‘nude ban’ gets voted down; 75% of NM schools fail to make the grade, but are the standards getting tougher, because one miss in one category means one failure; jailer took an inmate out of prison, and to lunch last week; local man accused of making false bomb threat via phone calls; NATL Might Out in ABQ tonight, when people can get to know each other, and help prevent property crime; overnight rain at The Beach;
Hell Week, Day Two; worked with Dr. Waldman yesterday to help a mother get heart treatment for her child; ran & caught the PM Blue Line at UNM; no PICU Admits; no PICN book;
Wet in: Chicago, Rapid City, INDY, Charlotte, KC, Tampa, Santa Fe, Casper, Orlando, Denver, Miami, Detroit, ABQ, Cleveland, Billings, Flagstaff, Louisville, ATL & Roanoke; TS Colin has 40 mph winds, moving WNW at 23 mph; bad weather along parts of I-20, I-80, I-81 & I-95; temps from the 70s to the 100s;
Six teens died in the Red River in Louisiana, none of them knew how to swim; an hydraulic leak problem has delayed the BP cleanup, it appears that 206 million gallons of oil have leaked into the Gulf of MX, making it the largest oil accident in the world; the DOW ended down; there may be a baby boom in the DC area; Boy Scouts held a campout in Times Square; PRES freezes GOVT bonuses; for political appointees; KY boy found in a mobile meth lab; [R] want to amend the constitution such that a baby can only become a US citizen if one of his parents is a US citizen; nine dead in CT workplace shooting; by this evening, the ‘static kill’ process had begun;Cholera is the next crisis facing PAK; wasp nest found in the attic of a British pub that was the size of a small car; Russian forest fires are out of control, Moscow is polluted by smoke from the flames; N Korean threatens retaliation against S Korea; oil is $82.10 per barrel; gold is $1,185.20 an ounce; an earthquake of 6.3 magnitude shook Indonesia, its epicenter was 26.6 miles below the surface;