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Cumberland Island Ga. ( maybe the last time)

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Most of the private homes on Cumberland are now the property of the US Federal Govt via eminent domain. The house we have been renting and the one we spent part of our honeymoon in "Nancy's Fancy" is now officially gone. The Government took it this month. We were fortunate to be the last family to stay in it as my sister in law was buying the large kitchen table and taking it back....we were able to stay for a week. My in laws lost their house to the Feds in 1980 but some families were able to make deals and get another 30 years. Never underestimate the power of Washington DC. The older I get the more Libertarian I become....why is Government the largest land owner in the country? anyway , here are some pics of this wonderful place.

Good Samaritans Face Fine After Rescuing Deer From Icy Water « CBS Baltimore – News, Sports, Weather, Traffic and the Best of Baltimore

Good Samaritans Face Fine After Rescuing Deer From Icy Water « CBS Baltimore – News, Sports, Weather, Traffic and the Best of Baltimore

Big snake problem in Guam....innovative solution?

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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

State of the Blogosphere Survey 2010

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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.

Horse hoarder in Naples

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

State of the Blogosphere Survey 2010

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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.

Police horse goes bar hopping through nightclub district

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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

Mystery Seal deaths

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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

Muslim suicide bombers go on strike

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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

Could a Mini Horse Be Bred Small Enough to Fit in Your Palm?

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1889 Pandemic-from wired.com

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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's Vaccine

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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,

Revellers Article

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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.">

Thorium reactors? Fascinating.

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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