…11/6-09: in pride, we are

48º in ABQ; 46% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Brad’s AM Chiro visit; motorcycle crash near the ‘Big I’, neither passenger was wearing a helmet; 23% of NM residents are uninsured, second only to TX; roller rink reopens in the Duke City; how did a child get on the wrong bus after school?; NMAS fundraiser will be held at the El Rey Theatre tomorrow, a Salsa Dancing Night; BioPark bypassed building permits?; Brad made Beef Stew;

left at noon; took the Blue, then the Green Line, ate lunch at Cecilia’s: food was better than other places, will make a return visit; the ‘Boy Scout’ of the team; finished Rounds by 7:30A; Code Purple at 8:40A; did UNM ‘improperly handle sexual harassment investigation’?; a sixteen month old girl with less than one year to live; arrived home by 4:15P; UNMH is energy efficient;

Pacific storm bringing wind & high surf to the NW US coast; up to three feet of snow could fall in the Cascades; TD Ida: 35 mph winds, moving N at 6 mph, will regain strength as it re-emerges in the Gulf of MX; most of the US will be sunny; clear skies along I-95; wet for Seattle & Portland, OR; light snow in N NY; temps from 40s to 80s;

Ft. Hood sniper has survived, in military custody; he is an Army psychiatrist, born in Arlington, VA, went to VA Tech, a devoted Muslim who opposed the wars in Iraq & AFG, hired a lawyer to prevent him from being deployed overseas, he shot at unarmed soldiers; man stole a truck with 900 doses of H1N1 vaccine; an inflatable seat belt?; ice chunk fell on Chicago home; Black Friday arrives earlier this year; stolen VW van recovered 35 years later; is there a link between obesity & cancer?; unemployment has risen to 10.2%; one person was killed, and I-4 was closed after shots were fired in Orlando office BLDG by a man who had been fired two years ago, and was deep in debt; SUV struck an elephant near Enid, OK, only minor injuries & damage to the vehicle & animal; female NV inmates training abandoned dogs to become house pets; the highest jobless rate in 26 years; 15.7 million people are out of work, and 35% of them have not been employed for at least six months; a plane’s jet cone fell onto a NY home’s lawn; the TX sniper, who is in a coma, sold his worldly goods, and said his goodbyes; dog treats may contain salmonella; banks in GA, MI, MN & MO fail, bringing the total in 2009 to 119;

British Airways will cut 3K jobs; oil is $77.43 per barrel; gold reached $1,100 an ounce, but closed at $1,095.70;