Wednesday, September 2, 2009

…9/2-09: colors of peace

68º in ABQ; 42% humidity at 6ACode Yellow: Moderate Air Quality, for Ozone; toddler found walking alone on a NW Duke City ST; 8.2% jobless rate in Farmington; fraudulent company submitted $1 million in charges to Medicare; ABQ public schools may be forced to cut staff; health care town hall meeting will be held in Clayton; lesser chance for Jimena to affect NM; Fire DEPT rescue vehicles are better equipped to transport patients than ambulances; homicides increasing in Roswell; a wave of not feeling well went across me this PM, then it disappeared; new fire extinguishers for the APT; Brad prepared Caucasus Style Braised Pork Shoulder; our New England meats arrived;
Hell Week, Day Two; never expose weaknesses, or flaws; Julia applied for a job at OSIS; finished Rounds by 7:15A; a locked door prevents me from getting Dr. Susan Miller’s charges; car surfing results in a patient breaking his arm, and hurting his head; worked on revising Hem-Onc form;using Canadian ‘super scoopers’ planes to douse the flames; health warnings from the CA fire as far away as Denver; CA state budget going up in smoke; the biggest blaze is 22% contained; epicenter of the fire in Big Tujunga Canyon; smell of smoke permeates the air; at least 140K acres have burned; eight major fires across CA, 199 sq. miles have been blackened in S CA, flames still threaten Mt. Wilson Observatory; poor air quality across the Los Angeles basin, four times the ‘unacceptable’ level; storms in S TX & S FL; OK & KS rain; Jimena has up to 110 mph winds, moving NNW at 13 mph…but during the day the winds dropped to 85 mph, now heading N at 13 mph; wet in Miami & JAX; temps from 70s to 100s;Obama's popularity has dropped to 53%; health care reform strategy to be unveiled next week by the PRES; American Airlines is laying off 900 flight attendants; the NATL Cougar CONV, where young men & older women meet, but not to have relationships, just one night stands; can playing Tetris make you smarter?; an era of ‘wireless electricity; Ar-nold served the firefighters breakfast; man accused of slapping a child at GA Wal-Mart, because she would not stop crying; Diane Sawyer will replace Charles Gibson on ‘World News; he will be retiring at the end of the year; a Whitney Houston comeback?; the DOW went down; two George Washington Bridge security guards in NYC are fired for sleeping on the job, one was seen napping on three different occasions; expect a widespread outbreak of H1N1, low income families at highest risk; Pfizer pays for faulty advertising: $2.3 billion, the largest fine in history, off label marketing saying arthritis drug could ease any body aches; the company paid $1,500 to doctors who prescribed the drug, also treated them to plus vacations; legal ‘wolf hunt’ returns to ID; Maui Prince Hotel facing foreclosure; man wants to sell his parents, has offers;7.0 quake rocked Java & Indonesia, killing dozens of people; spacewalk removed tank from the INTL Space Station; oil is $67.72 per barrel; bomb shakes Athens stock exchange market; BP has found oil seven miles below the surface in the Gulf of MX; gold is $978.50 an ounce; deviant behavior at US embassy by security company; in Italy, the bank that banks on cheese, Parmesan used as collateral;

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