…8/13-09: stand behind those we serve

72º in ABQ; 44% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality, for Ozone; Valencia CNTY couple charged with molesting & torturing their 2½ old infant, these attacks started when the child was two weeks old; the NATL AVG of children to school nurses is 750: in NM, it’s 780…and it’s much higher in other states; ABQ police may be making house calls where children have been charged with a crime; Brad making Pasta & Pesto Sauce; teens stealing guns from homes; thirteen month old baby boy died in bathtub, uncle tries to kill himself because he had left the child unattended for ten minutes; fourteen year old stabbed a sixteen year old at the Curry CNTY Fair; ABQ under a Flash Flood advisory this evening; ‘identify trance energy source, scanning language diversity’; a 70 year old Eddy CNTY man has a serious form of W Nile Virus; where does the Green Line stop, or go; filming a movie scene at Lomas where the train tracks are located;

discussed T-Cell count with Dr. Miller; Code Purple at 6:30A; finished Rounds by 7:30A; no CTI Admits; another ABQ snakebite; received 2010 ICD revisions; MGR wants me to buy her a wolf?;

1K acre wildfire burning in N CA; NC floods & power outages after up to eight inches of rain; NYC to DC T’storms, along most of I-95; wet in Amarillo; storms in IA, IL, SD, & N TX; Austin had record heat, followed by record rainfall; soggy S New England; temps from 60s to 100s;

another recall: this time, 1.6 million toys that can pose safety problems for children; electric guitar pioneer Les Paul has died at the age of 94 from pneumonia; the American consumers do not believe the hard times are over; bear walks into clothing store, and stands at the window; man paints pictures on windshields by using dirt, these works of art can last as long as one month; the $599 deal, ‘all you can fly’ during one month, on Jet Blue; one in 355 homes facing foreclosures, numbers are up by 30% from last year, 360K properties; key interest rates remain stable; who knew?: the current recession started in 2007?; people have lost faith & trust in politicians, mostly caused by the health care reform bill, which most Americans say they can’t afford to change; Secret Service detain a protester in Hagerstown, MD for carrying a ‘Death to Obama, his wife & children’ sign; more newspapers are seeing more job losses; St. George, UT newspaper will not print a photo of two men who are getting married; weird: baby locked inside RI daycare CTR for an hour after closing; retail sales dropped in July; former dean of an exclusive boys’ school has been accused of molesting students; suicide hotline funds are shrinking; FORD recalls workers, overtime is in demand, more customers want hybrid vehicles; man is paid to wear a T-shirt with a company’s logo for a day; 49% of those polled do not approve of how Obama is handling health care reform; the ‘birth’ of the ‘new’ penny; town hall rage;Lockerbie bomber may be released, suffering from terminal cancer; the UK ice cream called ‘sex pistol’; recession nearing its end in Germany & France?; oil is $71.08 per gallon; gold is $959 an ounce; NASA asteroid detection device budget running low; Julia Child cookbook sales increase after release of recent movie;