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As I read it , it brought a smile to my lips and tears to my eyes. It is just too sweet a story for me to pass up sharing with all of you. Please forgive me if it is upsetting to you that I would post this rather than PX related news or information. However, I believe that the signs of our humanity are as important , if not more so as we get closer and closer to what is to come.
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Ok, I have reposted in html, in hopes that the photos will load. They are just too precious not to be able to see their beautiful little faces.....:D
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A Duck Story You'll Never Forget!
A True Duck Story
Something really cute happened in downtown San Antonio this week. Michael R. is
an accounting clerk at Frost Bank and works there in a second story
office. Several weeks ago, he watched a mother duck choose the concrete
awning outside his window as the unlikely place to build a nest above
the sidewalk. The mallard laid ten eggs in a nest in the corner of the
planter that is perched over 10 feet in the air. She dutifully kept the
eggs warm for weeks, and Monday afternoon all of her ten ducklings
hatched.
Something really cute happened in downtown San Antonio this week. Michael R. is
an accounting clerk at Frost Bank and works there in a second story
office. Several weeks ago, he watched a mother duck choose the concrete
awning outside his window as the unlikely place to build a nest above
the sidewalk. The mallard laid ten eggs in a nest in the corner of the
planter that is perched over 10 feet in the air. She dutifully kept the
eggs warm for weeks, and Monday afternoon all of her ten ducklings
hatched.
Michael worried all night how the momma duck was going to get those babies safely off
their perch in a busy, downtown, urban environment to take to water,
which typically happens in the first 48 hours of a duck hatching.
Tuesday morning, Michael watched the mother duck encourage her babies
to the edge of the perch with the intent to show them how to jump off.
Office work came to a standstill as everyone gathered to watch.
The mother flew down below and started quacking to her babies above. In
disbelief Michael watched as the first fuzzy newborn trustingly toddled
to the edge and astonishingly leapt into thin air, crashing onto the
cement below. Michael couldn't stand to watch this risky effort nine
more times! He dashed out of his office and ran down the stairs to the
sidewalk where the first obedient duckling, near its mother, was
resting in a stupor after the near-fatal fall. Michael stood out of
sight under the awning-planter, ready to help.
As the second one took the plunge, Michael jumped forward and caught it
with his bare hands before it hit the concrete. Safe and sound, he set
it down it by its momma and the other stunned sibling, still recovering
from that painful leap. (The momma must have sensed that Michael was
trying to help her babies.)
One by one the babies continued to jump. Each time Michael hid under the
awning just to reach out in the nick of time as the duckling made its
free fall. At the scene the busy downtown sidewalk traffic came to a
standstill. Time after time, Michael was able to catch the remaining
eight and set them by their approving mother.
At this point Michael realized the duck family had only made part of its
dangerous journey. They had two full blocks to walk across traffic,
crosswalks, curbs and past pedestrians to get to the closest open
water, the San Antonio River, site of the famed "River Walk." The
on-looking office secretaries and several San Antonio police officers
joined in. An empty copy-paper box was brought to collect the babies.
They carefully corralled them, with the mother's approval, and loaded
them in the container. Michael held the box low enough for the mom to
see her brood. He then slowly navigated through the downtown streets
toward the San Antonio River. The mother waddled behind and kept her
babies in sight, all the way.
As they reached the river, the mother took over and passed him, jumping in
the river and quacking loudly. At the water's edge, Michael tipped the
box and helped shepherd the babies toward the water and to the waiting
mother after their adventurous ride.
All ten darling ducklings safely made it into the water and paddled up
snugly to momma. Michael said the mom swam in circles, looking back
toward the beaming bank bookkeeper, and proudly quacking.
At last, all present and accounted for: "We're all together again. We're here! We're here!"
And here's a family portrait before they head outward to further adventures...
Like all of us in the big times of our life, they never could have made it
alone without lots of helping hands. I think it gives the name of San
Antonio's famous "River Walk" a whole new meaning!
Big Hugs to All of you from me !!
These sinkholes are popping up all over the place and they're usually attributable to a "water main breaK"... I believe that the 'Red Comet' out by Jupiter is behind this..And BTW, Jupiter got hit AGAIN by another Fireball 5 days ago-UNPRECEDENTED.. The 'Red Comet' or 'The Planet of the Crossing' is causing more & mre Earthquakes to occur here, causing more Water lines to break underground, thus creating the Sinkholes.....
Even an OFFICIAL in THE Phillippines has stated this-
Berador said a sinkhole can only occur if a corroded limestone area is disturbed by natural tremors such as earthquakes or by human-induced activities
http://www.boston.com/news/local/connecticut/articles/2010/08/23/sinkhole_swallows_conn_police_suv/
Sheldon Day, Host of 'THE LIGHT OF DAY' Online-Based Radio Show
http://thelightofdayradioshow.com
Saturday nights 9-11 PM, West Coast Time
Devoted to exposing the Inbound Passage of Planet-X & The Ruling Power Elite's preparations for the Cosmic Event...
The term “exo” throughout many different branches of science has come to mean the speculative exploration of what forms science may take “outside” of the boundaries of earth. There are exo-biologists, exo-archaeologists and even ex-musicology (I kid you not). Some of these speculative theories are pretty interesting, especially when exploring what forms life on distant planets could possibly take – a bacteria, a colony of mutant ants, or humans just like us?
Imminent press conference tomorrow at NASA August 26 to discuss the new discoveries of Kepler?
Although we are all doing needed research, we’re not receiving equal money or access to the affected sites. Those working for BP or the federal government’s Natural Resource Damage Assessment program are being given the bulk of the resources, while independent researchers are shoved aside.
The problem is that researchers for BP and the government are being kept quiet, and their data is unavailable to the rest of the community. When damages to the gulf are assessed in court or Congress, there might not be enough objective data to make a fair judgment.
Transparency is vital to successful science: researchers must subject their proposals to the scrutiny of colleagues, and publications require peer review. When it comes to field research, scientists need equal access to the same sites to test competing hypotheses.
But BP, which controls access to the Deepwater Horizon site and vast stretches of the water around it, seems unconcerned about those principles. Some suspect that the oil company is focusing its research on gathering material to support its legal case; we can’t know for sure, though, because researchers who get money from BP must sign strict three-year confidentiality agreements. In any case, whatever research comes out of BP’s efforts will be tainted by secrecy.
The damage-assessment process isn’t much more accessible. It has amassed enormous amounts of data but offered only vague promises to make it public, and it likewise requires confidentiality agreements from the researchers it finances. This research will probably be used against BP in court; chances are, then, that it will not be subject to outside scrutiny out of fear that a weakness in the government’s case could be exposed.
Independent researchers like me and my team — we study the effect of things like oil and dispersants on insects — have had to rely on the meager discretionary funds provided by our university departments, particularly in the early weeks of the disaster. And, as the weeks have rolled into months, we have found ourselves blocked from a widening list of sites, all of which are integral to completing our investigations.
True, the National Science Foundation has a rapid-response grant program that has been a lifeline to independent researchers, dispersing more than $14 million to 90 short-term research projects associated with the disaster. My team submitted a proposal that was quickly peer-reviewed and approved, allowing us to continue our research. But given the unprecedented nature of the disaster, that’s not nearly enough money.
Instead, we need a unified national research plan administered by the National Science Foundation. It would place a priority on coordinated, independent research, with a finance stream unconnected to BP or the damage-assessment process. Proposals would be peer-reviewed and methods vetted, and all results would be available for public scrutiny.
Moreover, the federal government should require that all credentialed scientists have access to the affected sites. Without such a commitment to independent financing and equal access, the legal process and the rehabilitation of the gulf will be seriously undermined.
Linda Hooper-Bui is a professor of entomology at Louisiana State University.
Mexico City, Mexico (CNN) -- Four people died and at least 30,000 residents were affected in southern Mexico as a result of heavy rain and winds from then-Tropical Storm Frank, which has now intensified into a hurricane, the government-run Notimex news agency said Wednesday.
The deaths and damage occurred in Oaxaca state, on Mexico's Pacific coast, Notimex said.
A mudslide in the municipality Totontepec Villa de Morelos killed two farm workers, Notimex said. A mudslide in another part of Oaxaca caused at least six vehicles to drive off Federal Highway 182, leading to another two deaths, the news service said.
Several rain-swollen rivers -- including the Valle Nacional and the Atoyac -- overflowed their banks, affecting at least 10,000 people and leading to the loss of 4 tons of corn and 50 head of cattle.
Hundreds of people have been evacuated and placed in temporary shelters, officials said.
In the nearby state of Tabasco, also in southern Mexico but on the Gulf of Mexico coast, heavy rain has affected 48 localities and nearly 7,700 people, Notimex said.
Tropical Storm Frank formed Sunday in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico and became the third hurricane of the season Wednesday. It was moving to the west-northwest away from Mexico, the National Hurricane Center said.
THIS MIGHT BE CLOSE TO NORMAL THAT WE GET. SOLAR WIND STORM OVER.
These objects may be comets from the distant reaches of Planet X's force field of gravitationally gripped celestial bodies. The most likely reason for their quasi-straightline formation would be that the Sun is radiating a magnetic field at that sector, which is acting to align the comets, just as electrically charged particles from the solar wind strike Earth's magnetosphere and become aligned along the the invisible "B" magnetic lines of force of the magnetosphere. Let's keep watching to find out if they get drawn into the Sun. Incidentally, we might see these "signs of the cross" more frequently as comets come closer to Earth.
~John DiNardo
http://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/browse/2010/08/24/ahead/cor2/2048/20100824_090935_n7c2A.jpg
don't be alarmed i decided to spruce the posting up a bit by adding logo's or pictures of quakes. there are other things i will be starting to make the group more than just numbers.
KEPULAUAN ARU REGION INDONESIA 5.5
CHANNEL ISLANDS REGION CA 4.0
SOUTH OF THE ALEUTIAN ISLANDS 3.8 (RIGHT ON THE FAULT LINE)
WESTERN MONTANA 2.9
WESTERN INDIAN ANTARCTIC RIDGE 5.0
GOODNIGHT FOLKS.
NASA has scheduled a teleconference on Thursday, to make an announcement on the advancement of its planet-hunting spacecraft, Kepler.
HERE'S ANOTHER WIERD ONE. IT LOOKS LIKE ITS CLIMBING STAIRS.
