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POPS World Animal Day 2009 World Animal Day started in Florence, Italy in 1931 at a convention of ecologists. On this day, animal life in all its forms is celebrated, and special events are planned on locations all over the globe. 4 October was originally chosen for World Animal Day because it is the feast day of Francis of Assisi, a nature lover and patron saint of animals and the environment. Numerous churches throughout the world observe the Sunday closest to 4 October with a Blessing for the Animals.
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POPSMarin Urban Search & Rescue Team: Ready, willing, and able To paraphrase Firefly , "What's that make them? Big damn heroes! " More: They can't just roll the pipes off because its likely there will be so much debris in a real disaster that rolling will be impossible. Instead they inflate rubber and kevlar bags, sort of ultra-balloons. The bags are attached to an air tank and when inflated, can support a huge amount of weight ranging from two tons with the smaller bag to a mammoth 37 tons using the large bag! It takes about ten minutes to free the 'grateful' dummy. The collaborative training provided by Novato Fire District, Marin USAR and the State of California Office of Emergency Services, mirrors the collaboration in the field. When disaster strikes, multiple agencies respond and they need to work seamlessly together. That's why this type of training is so important.
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POPSWho's in Big Brother's Database? Thus it is possible that the agency scans all the e-mail of both and it may also eavesdrop on the telephone calls of both for targets on its ever-growing watch lists. According to a recent Justice Department report, "As of December 31, 2008, the consolidated terrorist watchlist contained more than 1.1 million known or suspected terrorist identities."
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POPSclimbing the harbour bridge Has anyone on CM ever done the Sydney Bridge Climb? If so, how was it? I got it as a birthday present and am now trying to decide when to do it.....any suggestions? daytime? night time? (unfortunately, twilight and dusk aren't an option)
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POPSCanary Terrace Canary Terrace is one of the areas in the Mammoth Hot Springs region of Yellowstone National Park.
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POPSGiant Puppets to Tell Tale of German Reunification Up to 52 helpers on the ground and in cranes control the movements of the lifelike models via a complex system of pulleys. The giant puppets, made of steel, wood and horse hair can dance, blink, roll their eyes and even breathe. The girl will also carry a post sack containing letters and postcards written during the Cold War that were intercepted and read by the former East German communist secret police. Organizers have been planning the mammoth spectacle for three years. Hundreds of workers will be on hand to help the giants on their way.
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POPSAnd You Thought This Was All About Health Care… by Doug O'Brien 
and to begin to collect on its political debt. Hot on the heels of the inauguration labor sought to cash its first big check and push the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) through Congress to eliminate the secret ballot for union organizing elections and allow strong arm tactics to “recruit” new members by putting a card in front of them and politely asking them to sign it. Poll numbers consistently showed strong opposition among the public to this idea and the administration quickly realized they couldn’t cover this check. But there are always new ways to achieve your objectives when the President is your loyal supplicant. The Service Employees International Union provided an estimated $160 million to the Obama campaign and related political advocacy groups and put thousands of its paid organizers on the streets to stump for Democrats. SEIU’s top recruiting priority is unionizing hundreds of thousands of health care workers across the nation. What better way to get .
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POPSTIME Top 10 scientific discoveries 9. Can You Spell Science? only one in four adults can read and understand the stories in the weekly science section of The New York Times. 10. First Family Researchers in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, found the oldest nuclear family ever uncovered when they excavated 4,600-year-old graves of a group of Stone-Age people who appeared to have been killed together in a raid
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POPSWorld's Biggest Thesaurus Born His team began transcribing information from the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary (OED) on to slips of paper. They plugged away for more than a decade, and disaster almost struck in 1978 when the building housing the only copy of their work caught fire. The entire building was gutted, but the slips remained intact because they were stored in metal filing cabinets. After that the slips were written in triplicate and stored in three different locations. As technology developed, the work in progress was microfilmed, and eventually computers were used.
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POPSUS deficit climbs to 1.3 Trillion dollars The only thing he is stimulating is a mass depression. How is it *good* for our Country to have this monumental debt while on a personal level it's not? These people really, really think we're this dumb?
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POPSAmerica’s Hidden Treasures Been to Glacier Bay, Alaska. Beautiful. Going to Alaska will give you a new perspective on life. In some places, you have to put your sun visor down at 3:00 a.m. Or when it warms up to -35 degrees (Fahrenheit) people are outside in short sleeve shirts washing their cars. At Halloween, your costume has to fit over a snowsuit. And people drive for a mile on square tires on a -65 degree morning.
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POPSThe House Health Care Bill: A Blueprint for Federal Control Democrats are scrambling to maintain of the "Buzz Words" as Americans are reeling away from OBAMA care as the details are SLOOOOOWLY coming to the surface. for something so urgent, they sure do take their own sweet time to let the public know the little "devil" in democratic "Details"
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POPS"The oldest, most spectacular and rare work of art in the Americas" more: Kennedy found the brown and tan bone two years ago and put it under his sink. About two months ago, he took it out for cleaning and spotted unusual lines. He had been considering selling it at a flea market. Instead, he showed it to a fellow collector, William Roddenberry of Vero Beach, who was amazed. They took it to the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville for examination. When Kennedy learned it was so historically valuable, he said, "It blew me away. I was absolutely baffled." The etched bone is being kept in a vault. The site where it was found isn't being disclosed.
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