…8/16-09: the way to be positive

66º in ABQ; 32% humidity at 6A…Byron Morton, and his Salsa Sombrero; NMSU at Carlsbad has seen a 10% enrollment increase; there are about 500K children in NM; seven year old girl drowned near Las Cruces after playing on a sandbar in the middle of the Rio Grande; Brad has a carpet remnant in his studio, the plastic floor protections are too cracked; he is nearly finished another painting; a bus route is needed along Tramway & Paseo; woman stole a credit card from a nursing home patient; billboard in Espanola must be torn down; it has meant money for NM politician, but has not been permitted since 1993; Brad goes ‘gangsta’?; motorcycle crashed into SUV in NE ABQ; NM has the fourth highest suicide rate in the US; ‘starving artists’ being hurt, and are hurting the NM economy; police ID the body found in Belen, but have yet to disclose his name; warped, cracked homes in Los Lunas homes, being repaired by Pulte Homes, who bought out Centex…blame the soil compaction problem; Petroglyphs have won their first game in the Junior League World Series; teens accused of breaking into, and stealing item from school on Indian School & Eubank; inmate stabbed with a pen by another prisoner; so far, very little TV coverage of the city’s new Green Line route; yesterday’s gas leak was caused by a damaged gas meter; Roswell is a place to retire;

do outlet centers really save you money?; there was a nationwide ‘kiss in’, to make people aware of same-sex relationships; the good news: as of today, the Red Sox are in second place…the bad news: they are 7½ games behind the first place Yankees; taser vs. bullet; Milwaukee mayor struck by a metal pipe while trying to calm down a domestic dispute; HI turns fifty years old; District 9 was the number one film the weekend, earning $37 million; the 1,224 cupcake cooked in NH, honored in MI; CA blazes are 50% contained; people of color represent only 1% of the tourists who visit US NATL Parks; TARGET will end its association with Amazon.com; Obamas toured the Grand Canyon; ‘unpaid holiday’ for Chicago city workers, except for essential personnel; phone is the filthiest place in an office; choice & competition needed in health care reform, use health care co-ops?;

fire at Kuwait wedding party killed forty women & children; seven people were injured, and one structure has collapsed when multiple quakes shook Indonesia today, ranging from 4.7 to 6.7; terrorists targeted NATO HG in AFG; ‘District 9’ getting good reviews; MO accidental tourist freed from Myanmar by VA SEN; be careful what you say… Ana is now moving W at 20 mph, TD Bill may become a CAT 3 hurricane, and TD #4 may become a TS Claudette, striking the AL/FL border by tonight: this AM, the storm had 35 mph winds, heading NNW at 16 mph; actor from India detained at NJ airport for 66 minutes, name on terrorist list?;