I have made it here to talk and I am on the out side site lol

O man that sticks. Sorry we missed you. Hope to catch up to you later.

Cori

Sorry we missed you Liz.
I keep forgetting about the chat on the top of the screen,
and kept logging into the other one. LOL
Wish you could've joined us today.
I know I had fun, and I think everyone did.
Willow showed up and as usual tagged and ran.
I'ma gonna get her. So, I'm plotting right now.
Gotta find the perfect pic!

Thanks for calling me bro.
You made me laugh!
(((HUGS))) to all!

there once was a warrior in the SCA,
whom misbehaved in my wifes presence,
to his dismay, my wife did say,
I can have you declared an NBZ for all your days
in the SCA.

He ceased his behavior with a powty face.

Around 10pm my time EST. My father was admitted into hospital.
A surgery he had years ago is infected. It is the mesh in his stomach lining.

I am concerned, and not afraid to say I am scared.
They have to wait for infection to leave, and then remove lining and then redo it again.

When he went though the surgeries the first time I visited him and he looked like Death warmed over, and this is after a "successful " surgery.

I am not afraid to say I am a little scared.

I will keep you posted on his condition.

Peace and Love,
Redd

There once was a boy whom very much wanted to learn.
He went to school, listened to the teachers, and tried to absorb all they had to say.

There once was a boy whom rode the bus to and from that school. His mother and father tried to keep him in clothes, coats, jackets, warm hats to keep him warm in the cold of Kentucky.

There once was a boy whom loved science enjoyed it as his favorite subject. He enjoyed it so much that when he obtained a huge poster of the moon from National Geographic, the brought it to school and placed it on a wall to share with everyone.

There are dark places in the school, blind eyes to activity of children and indifference for private property.

There once was a boy whom learned of all this and became a victim of it first hand.

The coats, jackets and hats soon disappeared. A victim to bullies on the school bus, in the play yard, and around the corner where the teacher could not see, where activities could not be proven without witnesses.

Jo County confirms 3rd critter with rabies
A second rabid fox has been found in Cave Junction area
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February 25, 2010
Bill Kettler
By Bill Kettler
Mail Tribune

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GRANTS PASS — Josephine County public health officials have confirmed that a second fox in the Cave Junction area has tested positive for rabies.

A rabid goat and a rabid fox were found in Cave Junction in January. The first fox and the goat were found to have a strain of rabies found in bats. Belle Shepherd, Josephine County's public health director, said the second fox would be tested to determine which strain of rabies killed it, and test results should be available in three or four weeks.

Rabies is an infectious viral disease that affects the nervous system and is almost always caused by exposure to the saliva of an infected animal. It is nearly always fatal in animals once symptoms begin. Foxes probably acquire it by playing with sick bats that bite them.

Shepherd said there are several strains of rabies, also known as "source types," in the United States, including strains found in skunks, foxes or bats. The strain of rabies is important for public health officials to determine because bat-strain rabies occurs nationally, but other strains of rabies, including those occurring in terrestrial or land-based mammals have not been found in Oregon.

A strain of terrestrial rabies has been found in Northern California animals such as foxes and raccoons over the past two years, but not in Oregon. Shepherd said if terrestrial rabies appeared locally, public health officials would likely encourage livestock owners to increase their rabies precautions because domestic animals have much more interaction with ground animals such as foxes and raccoons than they do with bats.

She cautioned that not all animals that show unusual behavior are sick with rabies. Many have canine distemper, a contagious, often-fatal, viral disease that affects the respiratory, gastrointestinal and central nervous systems. Canine distemper occurs around the world and was a frequent cause of death in dogs until vaccines were developed. It affects only animals in the canine and weasel families.

Shepherd said people who encounter wildlife acting strangely should leave the animals alone in their natural habitat, and report animal deaths to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, 541-826-8774.

Prior to the discovery of the rabid fox in January, the last fox that tested positive for rabies in Oregon was found 10 years ago in Josephine County. There were 107 cases of rabies reported in Oregon in the 10 years from 2000 to 2009. Jackson County had the highest number of reported cases, with 17, followed by Lane County, with 10.

Tests of sick or dead bats and foxes in Oregon conducted over a 19-year period (1990- 2009) indicated relatively small numbers of both animals actually had rabies. Of the 72 foxes tested, 19 (26 percent) tested positive for rabies. Of 1,631 bats tested, 160 (9.9 percent) tested positive for rabies.

For more information about rabies in Oregon visit the Web site at www.oregon.gov and type "rabies" in the search box.

Reach reporter Bill Kettler at 541-776-4492, or e-mail bkettler@mailtribune.com.

In 2009, space missions revealed tantalizing signs of water on or near the lunar surface, once thought of as a dry and desolate environment. But researchers are now offering this archival picture as further evidence that humans might one day be able to use the Moon's newly discovered resource to directly quench their thirst. Found in a pile of old Apollo lunar surface photographs, the picture reveals an object at the far left of the frame that appears to be a drinking fountain, surprisingly close to one of the Lunar Module landing struts. When asked why no mention of the object was in their reports, the astronauts replied that they discovered their spacesuit gloves were too bulky to allow them to activate the fountain, so they had simply ignored it during their stay on the lunar surface. Perhaps not coincidentally, this picture was taken exactly 40 years ago, on April Fools Day ...


I thought it was interesting, but it also looks like pic has been tampered with.

You decide, lol

Redd,
It's a hoax but a cute story,lol. Hope your day gets better.

huggers
Cori

LOL It looks very tampered with bro.
I forgot today was April Fools Day.
Kinda neat though...

lol. yea, as long as it says small, you cant see the detail around the "water fountain".

I noticed the "tampered" area around the "fountain" after I posted it.

And was on my way to work, so i was unable to investigate. But it is such a poor job of "copy/paste", I noticed it immediately.

Educator dispels some of the myths that surround bats
By NEIL JOHNSON ( Contact ) Saturday, April 24, 2010 EMAIL


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Dale Smart of the Organization for Bat Conservation shows off Kamila the Malayan flying fox with a 6-foot wing span during the bat program at UW-Rock on Friday.
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Ashley Carroll and her mother Amy get a close-up and personal look at an African straw-colored fruit bat at the Live Bat Encounter program at UW-Rock on Friday.
JANESVILLE — Unfurling a 3-foot wing like a black, rubbery umbrella, Kamila hooked a piece of melon with her thumb claw.

While hanging upside down from a branch, she opened her long, doglike snout and snapped up part of the fruit. She licked her chops and peered around with alert, rust-red eyes the same color as the bristled fur on her neck.

She might look like a 1950’s B movie monster, but Kamila, a Malayan flying fox, is completely docile. Native to tropical Asia, she is of the world’s largest known variety of fruit bat.

Kamila was just one of several types of bats on display at Live Bat Encounter, held Friday afternoon at UW-Rock County’s Kirk Denmark Theatre.

Hosting the show was Dale Smart, an education specialist with the Organization for Bat Conservation. The Bloomfield, Mich., group focuses on bat conservation worldwide and care for wounded bats.

For 14 years, Smart has traveled the country with pet carriers full of bats.

His job: to raise awareness about threatened bat species, to educate the public on bats and to fight negative stereotypes about bats.

“I try to de-myth-ify them as much as I can,” Smart told the Gazette in an interview before the bat show.

Some facts about bats Smart shared Friday:

--Bats make up one-quarter of all mammal life, but nearly half of all bat species are on decline. Contributing factors, Smart said, are disease, habitat loss and, in tropical countries, hunting pressure.

--They don’t carry rabies. Smart said Rabies kills nearly all bats that contract it within a few days. If you see a bat and it’s alive, there’s a less than 1 percent chance it has rabies, Smart said.

--Bats are not flying mice. In fact, they’re more closely related to primates than rodents, Smart said. Want proof? Bats have thumbs, sort of.

--They aren’t blind, darn it. Smart said some bats, like the Malayan flying fox, can see at night, in color, with far greater acumen than people.

--Vampire bats do exist. They live in South America, but they seldom feed on human blood, Smart said. People, it seems, make them ill.

“Our blood gives them gas and diarrhea. We’re like junk food for vampire bats,” Smart said.

Other bats Smart showed, such as Echo, a big brown bat, eat insects.

Lots of them.

Big brown bats, which are native to southern Wisconsin, can eat up to 6,000 mosquitoes and other bugs a night, Smart explained while feeding Echo a mealworm.

With a special machine, Smart amplified a sub-audible noise Echo was generating. Small bats use echolocation like sonar to find prey and obstacles while in flight.

As Echo clung to Smart’s shirt, he looked around for another mealworm. Smart’s amplifier crackled and sputtered.

“He’s wide awake now,” Smart said.

Dylan Dodd, 5, Janesville, a guest at the bat show, marveled at the creatures. He said he’s not afraid of bats—not even megabats such as Kamila, who is more than 2 feet long with a 6-foot wingspan.

“I would keep it in my closet and feed it frogs,” Dylan said about Kamila.

Too bad for Dylan. Kamila eats only fruit and flowers.

TO LEARN MORE

For more information about the Organization for Bat Conservation’s mission to heal and protect threatened bats worldwide, go to batconservation.org.

http://gazettextra.com/news/2010/apr/24/educator-dispels-some-myths-surround-bats/

Group aims to stop spread of deadly bat disease

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN (AP) – 10 hours ago

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A mysterious disease that has ravaged bat populations in the northeastern United States is threatening to spread West, potentially triggering a mass die-off of the flying mammals, which help control populations of insects that can damage agricultural crops, a conservation group said.

The Center for Biological Diversity sent letters this week to state wildlife officials across the country, urging them to consider closing state-owned caves to the public to prevent the spread of white-nose syndrome.

More than a million hibernating bats have died since the disease was first documented in upstate New York in 2006. It has spread around the Northeast and has been detected as far south as Virginia and now as far west as Missouri.

"We are in the position of potentially finding out what an important role bats play through their loss," said Mollie Matteson, an advocate with the conservation group. "Losing bats is probably going to upset the ecological balance."

The fungus linked to the syndrome appears to thrive in cold, moist caves and affects hibernating bats.

Six bat species are known to be affected by the fungus, including the little brown bat and the federally protected Indiana bat.

In Missouri, officials announced Thursday they were temporarily closing most caves in state parks and historic sites to help contain the disease. Caves are also being closed in Iowa, Indiana, Illinois and Tennessee.

At Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, visitors are warned not to wear gear into the cave that has been used outside the Mammoth area.

No caves have been closed in the western U.S. because of the syndrome.

The Tucson, Ariz.-based group's letter said closing state-owned caves and educating the public about white-nose syndrome could minimize the spread of a fungus associated with the disease.

Humans can transmit the fungus through contaminated boots and clothing or caving equipment, the group said.

New Mexico has implemented restrictions on equipment that has been used in the eastern U.S. as a precaution, said Jim Stuart, a mammalogist with the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish and a member of the Western Bat Working Group.

While there are some hibernating species in New Mexico, the state's most famous bats — the Mexican free-tailed bats of Carlsbad Caverns National Park — migrate south for the winter rather than hibernate.

Carlsbad, one of the more famous cave systems in the Southwest, draws around 430,000 visitors annually, and the bats are one of the park's main draws. Every evening, an enormous cloud of bats emerges from the main cave to go hunting for insects.

No one knows for sure whether the fungus can affect Mexican free-tailed bats, Matteson said.

"It's just one of those things where the consequences are so dire, why not take at least some measures to reduce the risk," she said.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gDCDYKTl0MZ9VyO7Tib0OjmrL0lAD9FI6GMG0

Anatomical ridicule raises body-scanning concerns
By Marnie Hunter, CNN
May 7, 2010 3:29 p.m. EDT
A TSA employee is shown from the back in this body scan taken in Atlanta, Georgia.
A TSA employee is shown from the back in this body scan taken in Atlanta, Georgia.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS

* TSA worker allegedly assaulted a co-worker in response to insults about his body
* A full-body scan taken during a training exercise prompted the comments
* Privacy advocate says incident shows invasive nature of screening, potential for abuse

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* Transportation Security Administration

(CNN) -- Full-body scanning machines may reveal a little too much, if an incident of workplace violence this week among Transportation Security Administration screeners is any indication.

A TSA worker at Miami International Airport in Florida was arrested for allegedly assaulting a co-worker who had repeatedly teased him about the size of his genitals.

The insults stemmed from an X-ray of the accused captured during a training exercise with the airport's full-body scanning machines, the report said.

Rolando Negrin "stated he could not take the jokes anymore and lost his mind," allegedly striking the victim with a police baton. According to the report, a witness heard Negrin say in Spanish, "get on your knees or I will kill you and you better apoligise [sic]."

In response to the incident, TSA said it has a zero-tolerance policy for workplace violence. "At the same time, we are investigating to determine whether other officers may have violated procedures in a training session with coworkers and committed professional misconduct," the agency said in a statement.

The incident puts the spotlight back on technology some privacy advocates liken to a virtual strip search.

"As far as I'm concerned, this really demonstrates exactly how detailed the images are, exactly how invasive the search is," said John Verdi, senior counsel with the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a Washington-based research center specializing in civil liberties and privacy issues. It receives much of its funding from private foundations.

Verdi said the Miami incident "... also demonstrates that this technology, and the way it's being implemented by TSA, is ripe for abuse."

The TSA screener scuffle is not the only recent case of workplace tension involving the technology. A security worker at London's Heathrow Airport allegedly made lewd comments about a female colleague who mistakenly entered a scanner, according to the UK's Press Association. The accused worker was given a police warning for harassment.

TSA officials stressed that the incident in Miami was internal and did not involve any member of the traveling public. When the technology is used in airports, one screener views the scan in a remote location and does not come into contact with passengers being screened. The images are permanently deleted and never stored, according to the TSA.

EPIC has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security under the Freedom of Information Act seeking details about the government's use of advanced imaging technology.

In April, DHS revealed in a letter to EPIC that it has 2,000 full-body scanning test images, "using TSA models, not members of the public," stored at its test facility. The agency is withholding the images, citing exemptions to the Freedom of Information Act for information pertaining only to internal personnel rules and practices and records that might "benefit those attempting to violate the law."

Verdi finds the idea that the images might be used to evade security "highly problematic."

"Because if merely publishing examples of the images that the TSA has generated during testing would harm security, that really calls into question the effectiveness of the machines," he said.

Examples the TSA says are consistent with what screening officers see in airports are available on the agency's website.

Aviation security expert Douglas Laird said it is "perfectly logical" for the TSA to withhold the 2,000 test images.

"If they were available to the public, then if you were trying to defeat the machine you would study the images to find the weak link, so to speak. I would think they would be crazy to release them," said Laird, who is president of aviation security consulting firm Laird & Associates.

There are shortcomings for any technology, Laird said.

Still, Laird said he believes body-scanning technology would have given officials at Amsterdam's Schipol Airport a much better chance of catching a Nigerian man who boarded a Detroit, Michigan-bound flight on Christmas Day with explosives concealed in his groin area.

The alternative pat-down, which U.S. passengers may opt for instead of body scanning, has to be very intrusive to be effective, and studies show people are less tolerant of physical intrusion than of intrusive technology, Laird said.

While advanced imaging technology doesn't involve direct physical contact, the screener training incident in Miami highlights some travelers' reservations about full-body scans.

"I really think it would give a lot of folks pause if they thought that TSA employees were mocking naked body scans of American air travelers," Verdi said.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/05/06/tsa.scanner.assault/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn

holy shyt is about all i can say