Thursday, June 18, 2009

…6/18-09: the energy of culture

68º in ABQ; 27% humidity at 6A…GAQ; one day later, still like Saggio’s; internal investigation on why 911 calls by missing hiker were misdirected, was it human error?; man dropped a seven month old child on his head, killing the boy; village of Los Ranchos says couple cannot allow movie companies to film scenes at their home; NM food banks will be helped by NATL stimulus package; focus on the Duke City’s Rattlesnake Museum; a Wal-Mart will be built on Cerillos RD in Santa Fe; audit reveals errors in activity funds of ABQ schools; rode PM Central; human remains found in Cochiti Lake; the convoluted story about a former UNM football player, who was involved in a robbery, was injured, taken to UNMH, escaped, and was captured again near the UNM Duck Pond; $16.1 million stimulus dollars for NM road projects; two astronauts visited NM Summer Camp;
walked through the campus to the B’day lunch; AM security clearance for PATH TES edits; did UNM screw up our ID cards again?; KOAT on UNM hill; Upper MGMT wants to start pseudo codes in another area next Monday, two weeks before final Closing, no one appears to be concerned about entering charges; sorted list in different ways; another Hanta Virus patient; things are back to normal; finished Rounds before 7:45A; Pavilion packed with patients;

tornadoes sighted in Pittsburgh?; rain from N Dakota to W PA; train derailment in NE; T’storms from S Dakota to IL; wet Atlantic coast from DC to Boston; MS, AL, TX need moisture; ABQ mentioned on Weather Channel, with its below AVG temps; cool, raw E Coast; more Midwest twisters; temps from 60s to 100s; more sever storms predicted from the Dakotas to the Atlantic coast;
how close were we to an economic collapse?; Hillary Clinton fractured her R elbow, will require surgery; some Chrysler employees will be returning to work; Jane Fonda had knee replacement; Iranian protests took to the streets of DC; PETA says Obama should not have swatted & killed the fly during his interview; cocaine found in frozen pieces of shark; people are getting worried about the price tags for Obama’s projects, stop spending money for the wrong reasons; a shift in American shopping styles; in the US, there have been 17,855 cases, and 44 deaths from the H1N1 virus; the DOW ended up; 100 year old man in Falmouth, MA is still a ‘senior’ tennis pro, and still winning awards; raising chickens in NYC backyards, yield healthier eggs; NATL AVG price of gas is now $2.68 per gallon; 33K Macy’s children’s sweaters & sweatshirts recalled due to drawstring choking boys & girls; woman fined nearly $2 million for illegally downloading music;
US interfering in Iranian affairs, considered ‘intolerable’: citizens have a thirst for democracy; the opposition protest ended quietly, more rallies expected after Friday religious ceremonies; the Canadian knife wielding gorilla; the return of supersonic plane travel?; painted 3-D hole on European sidewalk, try to make cyclists slow down; N Korea may launch long-range missiles towards HI, sometime during July, ship being watched as it travels through Pacific waters; Continental Airlines pilot dies from natural causes during a flight from Brussels to Newark, passengers never were aware of his death; H1N1 virus confines CA residents in China; oil is $71.20 per barrel; gold is $937.50 per ounce;

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