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Navy Bombs Guam With Dead Frozen Mice Published October 01, 2010 | FoxNews.com Print Email Share Comments (160) Text Size U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service The brown tree snake, an invasive species that costs Guam millions and has killed six species of bird to date. In a ploy to rid Guam of its population of invasive brown tree snakes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is bombing the island with drugged frozen mice, military news outlet Stars and Stripes reported. Using Naval Base Guam as a starting point, scientists drop mice packed with acetaminophen from helicopters into the jungle canopy. The drug -- commonly found in Tylenol -- provided a regulatory advantage because it had already undergone extensive testing, Dan Vice, assistant state director of USDA Wildlife Services in Hawaii, Guam and the Pacific Islands, told Stars and Stripes. Guam’s snake problem began in the 1980s, when the creatures...

2010 State of the Blogosphere Survey – please give us 15 minutes. Since 2004, Technorati has been tracking the Blogosphere through our State of the Blogosphere study. The goal of the study is to create a complete snapshot of the activities and interactions that make up the Blogosphere by asking you, the bloggers, to share some information about your habits. The survey includes questions like how, when and why you blog. Is this a side business, full time job or something you do for fun? Please feel free to send this link to other bloggers you know. And be sure to check back on Technorati.com in November for a summary of the results. The 2010 State of the Blogosphere Survey: http://research.opinionguru.com/mrIWeb/mrIWeb.dll?I.Project=A17275 Thank you! To UPDATE your subscription preferences visit this link . If you do not want to receive any more newsletters, visit this link to unsubscribe.

Very sad story from the gulf coast Link here. GOLDEN GATE ESTATES — A Golden Gate Estates woman’s dream of running a horse rescue foundation in Collier County came to a bitter conclusion on Wednesday when a judge barred her from ever owning horses again. Tina Ciancaglini, a self-described horse lover who has been called an “animal hoarder” by county officials, was deemed incapable of caring for horses by a Judge Rob Crown after Collier County Domestic Animal Services reported she has consistently failed to provide for her horses. DAS had been monitoring Ciancaglini’s Estates horse ranch since 2007 when there were reports of neglect. Officers with DAS reported finding consistently thin horses, but worked with her to improve conditions. Ciancaglini was attempting to run a horse rescue organization, which she called Legacy Rescue Foundation. But in July, DAS officials finally decided to shut down her horse ranch when, after a citizen complaint, they found 34 malnourishe...

2010 State of the Blogosphere Survey – please give us 15 minutes. Since 2004, Technorati has been tracking the Blogosphere through our State of the Blogosphere study. The goal of the study is to create a complete snapshot of the activities and interactions that make up the Blogosphere by asking you, the bloggers, to share some information about your habits. The survey includes questions like how, when and why you blog. Is this a side business, full time job or something you do for fun? Please feel free to send this link to other bloggers you know. And be sure to check back on Technorati.com in November for a summary of the results. The 2010 State of the Blogosphere Survey: http://research.opinionguru.com/mrIWeb/mrIWeb.dll?I.Project=A17275 Thank you! To UPDATE your subscription preferences visit this link . If you do not want to receive any more newsletters, visit this link to unsubscribe.

This is pretty funny, we take care of the Jax Sheriff's Dept mounted unit (some really great guys down there) . I would love to see some JSO horses cruisin' thru some of the night spots. What a hoot. " A horse walks into a bar, across the room, up the back wall, across the ceiling, down the front wall and then up to the bar. The bartender gives the horse a beer, he drinks it and leaves. A guy sitting at the bar looks perplexed and asks the bartender "Hey, what's that all about?" The bartender replies, "Don't take it personally, he never says 'Hi' to anyone." Police horse goes bar hopping through nightclub district

Very interesting image of a seal recently killed off Great Britain in The UK Sun. It appears that there is a continuous circular laceration that corkscrews from the head to the tail. They seem to have eliminated a lot of potential causes such as propellers and sharks. the continuous nature of the wound makes you think that they rotated through the blade much like an impeller in a turbine. Sad , but an interesting puzzle. Universal News And Sport Science sleuths have been hunting for the 'murder weapon' since the first seals started dying last year, but they are still clueless? Now they are appealing to Sun readers to see if you can solve the mystery? Horrified scientists have found around 60 carcasses so far? Most of the seals were spotted off the Norfolk coast, but ten more have been discovered at St Andrew's on the east coast of Scotland? The cut goes all the way around the seals' bodies from head to stomach like a CORKSCREW ? Professors have so far eliminated sh...

Very funny...leave it to the Brits to finally hit a home run in the Muslim humor department. Suicide bombers go on strike due to shortage of virgins

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1889 Pandemic Didn’t Need Planes to Circle Globe in 4 Months By Alexis Madrigal April 26, 2010 | 6:25 pm | Categories: Medicine The 1889 Russian flu pandemic circled the globe in just four months, captivating the world, despite the lack of airplanes or hyperventilating cable news stations. If that was possible, closing down air traffic in the event of a new pandemic might not do much, argue the authors led by Alain-Jacques Valleron, an epidemiologist at the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale in Paris. “The rapid progression of the 1889 pandemic demonstrates that slower surface travel, even with much smaller t...

New Alzheimer vaccine to be tested in Europe Print AFP/File – A woman is pictured holding the hand of a person suffering from Alzheimer's disease. A new vaccine … Fri Apr 23, 10:39 am ET VIENNA (AFP) – A new vaccine against Alzheimer's, developed by the Austrian biotechnology firm Affiris, will soon be tested in six European countries, the company announced Friday. Some 420 patients will be recruited to take part in clinical trials in Austria , Croatia , Czech Republic, France,...

Jacksonville man having a ball planning Ye Mystic Revellers party Riverside's Alan Weldon is captain of annual elaborate event for Ye Mystic Revellers By Mary Maraghy Story updated at 2:00 PM on Friday, Jan. 29, 2010 Photos Photo 2 of 6 Volumes of scrapbooks of the Ye Mystic Revellers fill a table at Alan Weldon's home."> ...

The full text of this article is posted at wire.com. It's well worth the read. Uranium Is So Last Century — Enter Thorium, the New Green Nuke * By Richard Martin Email Author * December 21, 2009 | * 10:00 am | * Wired Jan 2010 Photo: Thomas Hannich Photo: Thomas Hannich The thick hardbound volume was sitting on a shelf in a colleague’s office when Kirk Sorensen spotted it. A rookie NASA engineer at the Marshall Space Flight Center, Sorensen was researching nuclear-powered propulsion, and the book’s title — Fluid Fuel Reactors — jumped out at him. He picked it up and thumbed through it. Hours later, he was still reading, enchanted by the ideas but struggling with the arcane writing. “I took it home that night, but I didn’t understand all the nuclear terminology,” Sorensen says. He pored over it in the coming months, ultimately deciding that he held in his hands the key to the world’s energy future. Published in 1958 under the auspices of the Atomic Energy Commission a...

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! It’s time to get out a magnifying glass and feel good about your life. We are blessed as always but there have definitely been some speed bumps in the road of life this year. Alan's dad's appendix ruptured and he had emergency surgery. His mom's breast cancer recurred and she is undergoing Chemo therapy now as is Robert's wife Elizabeth who was also diagnosed with breast cancer. Mac hit his head playing football(not the real thing but the fooling around after lunch kind) and had an MRI which was fine but his nose continued to bleed daily until he had it cauterized and then it still bled daily for another week or so. Polly and Mac probably had Swine Flu, (Alan thinks this is because their rooms are pig sties). My sister-in-law Pam has a mass on one of her heart vessels and Alan has now forbidden me or the kids to see any doctor for any reason until 2010 (since I'm overdue for both a colonoscopy and a mammogram I am very happy to wa...

I saw this reported yesterday about this bizarre light that appeared over Norway. This would absolutely freak me out. Anyone for some Arctic roll? Mystery as spiral blue light display hovers above Norway By Mail Foreign Service Last updated at 12:53 AM on 10th December 2009 Comments ( 328 ) Add to My Stories What's blue and white, squiggly and suddenly appears in the sky? If you know the answer, pop it on a postcard and send it to the people of Norway, where this mysterious light display baffled residents yesterday. Curiously, it appears to be unconnected with the aurora borealis, or northern lights, the natural magnetic phenomena that can often be viewed in that part of the world. Strange spiral: Residents in northern Norway were left stunned after the lightshow, which almost looked computer-generated, appeared in the skies above them Curious: A blue-green beam of light was reported to have come shooting out the centre of the spiral The mystery began w...

SAN LUIS, Colo. (AP) - A creepy string of calf mutilations in southern Colorado has a rancher and sheriff's officials mystified. Four calves were found dead in a pasture just north of the New Mexico state line in recent weeks. The dead calves had their skins peeled back and organs cleared from the rib cage. One calf had its tongue removed. But rancher Manuel Sanchez has found no signs of human attackers, such as footprints or ATV tracks. And there are no signs of an animal attack by a coyote or mountain lion. Usually predators leave pools of blood or drag marks from carrying away the livestock. Two officers from the Costilla County Sheriff's Office have investigated the mutilations but say they don't know what's killing the calves. "There's nothing really to go by," said Sanchez, who's ranched for nearly 50 years. "I can't figure it out." A spokesman for the sheriff's office told The Pueblo Chieftain that investigators doubt a person ...

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Flatulent pig sparks gas leak scare A suspected gas leak at an Australian farm, which led to 15 firemen in two fire engines to rush to the scene, turned out to be the work of a flatulent pig. By Tom Chivers Published: 11:37AM GMT 27 Nov 2009 Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! Photo: Christopher Jones The farmer in Axedale, a town in Victoria in the south-east of the country, called the emergency services after believing he had smelled gas. But when the fire crews arrived, they found the real culprit – a 260lb sow the family's children kept as a pet. Fire captain Peter Harkins said: "When we got there, as we drove up the driveway, there was this huge sow, about a 120-odd kilo (265-pound) sow, and it was very obvious where the gas was coming from. “We could not only smell it, but we heard it and it was quite funny." He added: "She got very excited when two trucks...

This is a fantastic story that really needs to be told. The Pentagon Parade, from Micheal Yon's website. He is the best war correspondent of our era. Well worth your time. By JOSEPH L. GALLOWAY McClatchy Newspapers Over the last 12 months, 1,042 soldiers, Marines, sailors and Air Force personnel have given their lives in the terrible duty that is war. Thousands more have come home on stretchers, horribly wounded and facing months or years in military hospitals. This week, I'm turning my space over to a good friend and former roommate, Army Lt. Col. Robert Bateman, who recently completed a yearlong tour of duty in Iraq and is now back at the Pentagon. Here's Lt. Col. Bateman's account of a little-known ceremony that fills the halls of the Army corridor of the Pentagon with cheers, applause and many tears every Friday morning. It first appeared on May 17 on the Weblog of media critic and pundit Eric Alterman at the Media Matters for America Websi...