'Regulators shut Bradford Bank in Maryland' from Baltimore News - Topix

'Regulators shut Bradford Bank in Maryland' from Baltimore News - Topix

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Something strange is lurking in a Florida lagoon - Topix

Something strange is lurking in a Florida lagoon - Topix

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Bags of cement used to stabilize shorelines and other areas harden after years of rainfall while the bag slowly disintegrates; then they resemble tombstones. Woven polypropylene fabric used to stabilize shorelines greatly resembles seaweed and is also lightweight both near and within shoreline waters.

Lillien Jane Martin - Topix

Lillien Jane Martin - Topix

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Gold-plated Roman horse head found in Germany - Topix

Gold-plated Roman horse head found in Germany - Topix

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Yes...adding my comment to this Topix entry has generated the arcade-response typical when new information/analysis is entered to this Blogger account (equating an included photo with Van Gogh painting).

Yes, Virginia. The January 29, 2009 issue of the Stuart News shows page A2 with a 'The buzz' entry titled 'Director Landis sues Michael Jackson' (Santa Monica, CA) printed directly beside the daily 'Powerball' listing.

being put through the wringer

8/15/2009 -- Intact but dead form of a frog about four inches long beside the small stepway that leads into Cedar Pointe Plaza from SE Ocean Boulevard at Vista Pines through-street. Berry-covered branch gone from Martin County Administrative Offices sidewalk-side grassy shoulder again (this time not in my hand).

Oh no!..front-page Stuart News article describing proposed water-rate cost hike which means a fill-up of my little vinyl pool will be an up-tick of Kcc water-use costs. Boooo!

From the pile of aging household newspapers, Stuart News:

1/13/2009 -- 'Radiography career sheds light on a bright future', describes graduates of the 'new' Indian River State College radiography program "...skilled in x-ray and other imaging technologies..."; plus 'The world according to Anna: Who's in Vogue', which describes New York's Anna Wintour at Conde Naste and loss of three Vogue spin-offs'; plus 'Treasure Coast Youth Summit will be in March', "...eighth annual...". I can't believe that I'm the first to mention the lack of crosswalks at the Palm Beach Road endpoint here in Stuart, FL, not far from multiple schools, plus other disbelief.

1/14/2009 -- Death of Summer Garas, 25, in Oklahoma and "...three kids in El Reno...Canadian County...after a welfare check...were found..."; plus James F. Orr III joins Memorial Board, serving on multiple other boards as well.

12/28/2008 -- Baghdad, "Car Bomb near Shrine kills 24', "... busy road...shrine of Kadhimiya...car bomb...about 100 yards from Bab al-Dirwaza, one of the main gates to the shrine and market...has been a pedestrian-only area for several years..."...and yet, it's really not Old Mexico. Its a wonder whether all-out war between pedestrians and automobile drivers will ever become much more than a potential movie theme.

Death Angel mushrooms appear to be growing in Monterey Commons grass not far from an oak tree; the very visible white 'shrooms are lightweight and spongy rather than fleshy. One on the sidewalk for me? carried then abandoned where the bunny-ear cactus-pad sprouts have been weed-whacked, terminus of KTR.

falls from tall-building windows - Topix

falls from tall-building windows - Topix

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Seems coincidental, but when some people have specific appetites... .

The Stuart News dated 1/14/2009 gives us the story titled, 'Two coaches fall through hotel window' printed up in the 'Sports' section: "...assistant coaches...fell four stories to a concrete sidewalk, leaving one in serious condition. The American Football Coaches Association is holding its annual convention at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville, TN..." .

Man dies in 13-story Downtown fall - Topix

Man dies in 13-story Downtown fall - Topix

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Ooo, another in Pittsburgh, PA, from roof to ledge to pavement.

Destiny Antonio Survives Fall From Seventh-Story Window

Destiny Antonio Survives Fall From Seventh-Story Window

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Greensward she goes, another in New York City.

traffic snafu success

August 13 -- As reported to http://www.stuartfla.com/, a triangle-shaped lot at the southernmost end of Palm Beach Road separates traffic moving northward and southward through that neighborhood zone. A sidewalk, inexplicably, leads pedestrians to one tip of the triangle while exiting and entering vehicular traffic can whiz past in two different directions as the walker is poised without crosswalk protection at the very triangle point. The situation appears to place the pedestrian at the tip of an arrow near 18th Street, without eastward or westward crosswalks that would enable safe movement off the lot. Children frequent the area, which also addresses the Stuart Nursing and Restorative Care Center facility post-hurricanes.

The 1/30/2009 issue of the Hometown News tells us 'Youth summit returning to college', "Workforce Solutions ... a private, nonprofit corporation...will hold its eighth annual Treasure Coast Youth Summit on March 7 at Indian River [suddenly] State College. ...Their mission is...coordination of workforce development activities and services in the four-county area. ..." That local youths should be clamoring to 'fix' this pedestrian access area is implied.

Another Capri-Sun pouch (empty, natch) was seen lying in the grass of the berm alongside northbound traffic on Palm Beach Road, across from Stuart Nursing and Restorative Care Center at 14th Street (different from Palm City Nursing and Rehabilitation facility whose staff members are facing a wrongful death lawsuit with regard to the death of a WWII/Korean War vet who died soon after admittance). An aqua-blue drinking receptacle ('tumbler') also was seen to lie in the berm near by a medical-technology school.

Prior to these discoveries (news to almost no-one except me), the orange PVC-pipe broken to resemble a spear-tip alongside the Dixie Highway's eastside sidewalk was capped with two layers of PET beverage containers (one small and one large) fit over the now-pointed end with its interior wire. Someone's bicycle lay in the slough/ditch nearby the Martin County School District property where the school buses are housed and parked. Glass beer bottles found in the berm all along St. Lucie Boulevard, Old St. Lucie Road and Dixie Highway were placed in a trash receptable at the school district offices; loose newspapers that might be a fire hazard were placed in a discard receptacle at the Cumberland Farms store/gas station, corner of Dixie Highway and Old St. Lucie Road-become-Indian Street. A small dark-colored truck dripped fluid onto the Dixie Highway while all traffic lanes were stopped when a train blocked the street as extended and backed (twice!) into the Aviation Field warehouse zone.

Various small nuts and two small brown oranges fallen from trees were gathered from the sidewalk during the riverside hike, then carried and tossed into small slough and nearby creek flowing southward beneath Old St. Lucie Road toward the St. Lucie Inlet; a large mango was tossed football-style into a yard over some hedges that fronted a pair of canoes. A toadskin was removed from the roadway, that appeared to be smashed because retaining some mouth tissue, near creek and roadway turn-off leading to Sandsprit Park. Different from other walk/hikes, fleshy lizard bodies littered the St. Lucie sidewalks, most of those covered with tiny red ants.

Moving east from Palm Beach Road along 10th Street (officially East Stuart, FL), sidewalk-repair was engaged southside near a Catholic School; as a sort of contrast, a neighboring school features (year after year) a sort of looped collar at the end of a tether affixed to the chain-link fence beneath a sidewalk-side tree that resembles both a very short leash with collar and also a lynch-noose.

Before leaving Kcc that morning, I had taken one snail-in-shell found near the one of the farthest trash receptables, nearest the St. Lucie River, to the slough as a revival effort along with an already dried-out snail found on the sidewalk leading to the slough where its waters mingle with the river waters -- always a sort of sand bar beside the roadway beneath some property-line trees. Small calico mammal pelt removed to grassy yard from SLB roadway.

Ugh, a special supermarket deal to sell off their Hamburger Helper stock showed boxes of multi-cheese varieties, one labeled as 'Classic Cheeseburger'. Actually, the 'Hungarian goulash' version is the classic recipe which inspired the mass-marketing variations and contains no cheese. Truly, the new 'classic' cannot be casually eaten when physically depleted.

Identity theft legal from convicted prisoners? - Topix

Identity theft legal from convicted prisoners? - Topix

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From time to time, married couples emerge from the cultural genetic pool bearing the names of prisoners, with varied motives.

more tallies of the bizarre and mundane

Sometimes when I enter information here at Blogger.com, the screen reacts in the manner of an arcade when I then click 'Sign out' -- always a bunch of tabs containing the same two words, 'connect...' and 'blank...' that pop up continuously without any sign whatsoever that the sequencing will stop. I actually must turn off the entire PC desktop machine.

o No mention whatsoever that giant foreign pythons may have been lurking nearby when teen males grouped together instead found one of their members shot, including one highly publicized death in Okeechobee County, FL.

o August 8 - 9, 2009: Berry-covered branch hand-carried to Eagle's Nest minipark (this is the second time mini is used to describe the park for all the Internet to see) found returned to grassy area near damaged tree and also near Martin County Administrative Center offices -- perhaps a how dare I category of human behavior that demonstrates askance about branch transfer to federal domain. Pieces of broken heavy metal (of the sort found as clips used beneath some automotive vehicles) were also found in the bike lane.

Cherry seeds have been chucked into a small burrow beside the retention pond at the end of KTR, causing a visible movement of some secreted creature already alert so near the 'gator hunting season soon to begin. Fish ranging in size from tiny to small to bigger-than-six-inches appeared in the water at the dam near the spillway to receive an apple core around which they arrayed to nibble. The area was very noisy with large loud beetle static from their exoskeletal bodily vibration; if found lying on the ground, a beetle will immediately vibrate noisily when handled.

New tar applied to the Kcc driveways has dried, and only one dinner-plate-sized hole has remained unfilled/uncovered in the lover's lane section of the inner driveways, near Ocean Palms Retirement center.

As an optical illusion, a tall blue heron seemed to appear at one end of the retention pond, as a shade carried by a smaller white bird which then flew away toward the river. Other such optical illusions I have seen include the illusion of a black bear which was seen as a shade carried by a smaller CA 'tuxedo'/panda-type cat roaming around in northwest Pennsylvania. Most recently, a lizard has been seen carrying the shade of a larger yet still-small raccoon near the retention pond. The optical illusions occur when two creatures sojourn together for some length of time and carry the bodily images of each other that suddenly appear as optical illusions in certain atmospheric settings.

A black housefly-sized insect repeatedly stunned me with its mouthparts, necessitating a slap to the ground, as if some other 'creature' was controlling it and using it as an extended viewfinder. Three cactus pads were seen abandoned on cement groundcover that holds trash containers in one phase/section of Kcc that leads to KTR. Fishing line often observed beside pond was removed and pocketed with now-rusting metal hook, placed in a plastic sandwich bag, and cavalierly tossed into a recycling bin.

A mourning dove has been sitting on an electrical wire from day-to-day, awaiting the end of their annual so-called 'harvest'; however, many people do not feed wild birds so as to eat them. Be forewarned, they are given food so they can escape harm. More new tar on the Kcc roadways leaves one lane open; blind directional/motivational footsteps in the new tar are not recommended.

Alongside SE Ocean Boulevard, 'drops' of Capri-Sun pouches plus one heavy-metal envelope-type 'sleeve' have been observed nearby the Chevron station; one shiny metallic pouch and the sleeve were removed from the Vista Pines grassy sidewalk area and the Holy Redeemer Church area and carried away from Chevron across the entry/exitway street that leads into Ocean East Mall and those were set nearby a traffic-signal pole at that intersection.

o August 10-11: Another different Capri-Sun pouch is seen in the grass beside the Vista Pine hedges along Se Ocean Boulevard; the previously removed metallic pouch and heavy-metal sleeve are gone from the corner across the street from the Chevron station at the boundary of Ocean East Mall. And, "they're back", the small white pick-up truck carrying containers bearing the 'baby-over-a-bucket' line drawings have returned to the same Kcc poolside parking space previously occupied near SE Ocean Boulevard entry/exitway.

Some discarded paper napkins were gathered up and removed from dry grass/leaves and newly-tarred roadway at the boundary with Ocean Palms, where the same hole remains open in the westward traffic lane, showing dusty sand -- perhaps a sort of localized speed-bump at the curve where the roadway becomes parallel with the retirement complex parking lot. 'Sport staff' in the form of cross-complex carters sometimes include multi-hundred-pounders (and their diets). My avocado plant placed outside is branching already near clipper-trimmed condo-side foliage.

Don't get swept away! Rip currents expected this weekend Palm Beach County, Treasure Coast

Don't get swept away! Rip currents expected this weekend Palm Beach County, Treasure Coast

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As a visitor to the San Francisco Zoo in northern California's peninsular city of San Francisco, a visit to a new-arrival exhibit showed housed alligators within a special indoor habitat where they swam and lounged in tanks holding two-three feet of water and natural vegetation. However, they could not look outside directly, as the entry/exit doors were doubled (one with a small foyer and the other with a ramp) and the habitat was arrayed alongside one long wall; the windows were semi-opague.

The reptiles were alert to any outside stimulation, though, and I purposely introduced a bumblebee flitting around a nearby waterfowl-pond exhibit (it was not a busy day at the zoo). Reptiles and insect immediately communicated. When a slight atmospheric wavelength bipped the bee into the water with one of the 'gators, the 'gator moved to lift the bee on snout from the water and place the fuzzy bumbler on the exhibit rock/soil mass.

Whenever I think of rip currents now, I remember the 'gator and the bee--especially after a rip current 'delivered' a water-sogged Portuguese man-of-war jellyfish directly at one of my feet here at a Martin County, FL, beach and I was obliged to lift the tentacled creature to the water's surface as a telekinetic action so it could intake some oxygen; the colorful and unusual floater then rode the waves and perched on the beach sand reconnoitering.

But yes, beachgoers can become lost during ripcurrent action.

Celebrating Woodstock's Anniversary - Topix

Celebrating Woodstock's Anniversary - Topix

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Yep, no truth-in-advertising laws or enforcement then...now 'tia' laws but still no enforcement. Dead performers all over the place, all ages, all the time.

More morning and early afternoon thunderstorms...

...following a SUV smash into heavy-equipment vehicle during very early-morning roadwork (three male teens dead).

Yesterday while walking to various stores in northeast Stuart, FL, shopping plazas/mall, a number of screws and other small metal items, a metal clasp, a rusted clothes hanger, and a small black snakeskin with light-colored ring around its neck area as well as a dragonfly exoskeleton were found and removed from the southside SE Ocean Boulevard bike lane.

After return to Kcc, a loud bumping noise was heard from one of the complex roofs outside; a small pickup truck was parked near the swimming pool nearest the SE Ocean entry/exitway that had a small trailer carrying more containers bearing 'baby-over-a-bucket' line drawings.

Today a similar walk to pick up some $.09 coupon-offer folders at Walgreens revealed the +/-six-inch carcass of the previously-mentioned lizard moved somehow to the sidewalk at KTR and SE Monterey Commons, covered with small red ants carrying bits and pieces away, the creature's skull and other bones with some skin remnants scattered on the concrete until removed to the grass.

More weed-wacking of the cactus-pad plants was evident at the terminus of KTR -- the pads once growing as new sprouts from a handful of pads that had dropped from a large cacti growing within the Kcc private-property grounds and then carried to terminus. Among populations who use cacti as food, the destruction of the thornless sprouts is just senseless.

Three glass beer bottles were observed as scattered beneath bushes beside clearing that adjoins sandy trail extending to/from KTR terminus -- the same place where aluminum cans and other trash had been lying until removed during Coastal Cleanup days not a longtime ago. Handsized pieces of metal flashing have also been observed on the SE Ocean sidewalk southsid, near a Chevron station; and recent journalism described an IED that was constructed using air-conditioner flashing. Another small scattering of green glass beer-bottle shards was found in the same roadway spot as the previous leavings in front of Kcc in SE Ocean Boulevard bike lane not far from a flattened Heineken bottle cap. Topix.net's San Francisco, CA, listings a few weeks ago included an account of a Municipal Railway crash, one streetcar hitting another, in the West Portal area where a young man was witnessed years ago as the thrower of a aluminum can out onto the station platform.

From all of us to all of you making our lives a continuous hell so as to extend Wells Fargo Bank throughout the entire United States without legal lobby actions -- you can be declared foreign.

Does Judge Judy carry John Lennon's shade? - Topix

Does Judge Judy carry John Lennon's shade? - Topix

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Anyone who ever had even the slightest contact with a 'Hinkley' family member became suspect after performer John Lennon's death in NY, including all such females with long blond hair. As a native of Bradford, PA, home of some other Hinkleys, a prejudicial attitude was continually if covertly demonstrated both in social life and in workplace as far away as northern CA -- a sort of pre-judgment that could not, however, easily be applied among non-yacht-builders.

Bradford, PA, is privately known as the place where the Scouts of America 'Sea Scout' program was quite suddenly accorded active impetus, following some mental compulsion to study the effects of limestone funerary monuments upon weather and creature movements. Thought to be a somewhat misguided initiative nevertheless enthusiastically 'backed' within the land-locked state of PA, the program has ignored the real impetus to call Scouts to see a tiny waxlike oracle-bead artifact discovered beneath a limestone roadside-rest/monument in Degolia, PA, a few miles away from Bradford.

Around Kcc (sometimes it's Miller time (R))

A Sunday night walk to the mail-box in Ocean East Mall (a medical mall lacking defined pedestrian entry/exitways here in Stuart, FL) was humid and not at all breezy.

A branch was found lying on the roadway entrance to the mall near Walgreens, a somewhat dried-out branch bearing numerous black-purple berries that snapped off the main tree; and that branch taken up, slung over one shoulder and hand-carried to the Eagles Nest mini-park across the street (SE Monterey Road) while a number of SUV-type vehicles reconnoitered (one smallish and grey, a plausible match to some small extent to the description of a redlight-running vehicle reported in Topix.net's San Francisco, CA, section that appeared and caused moving bicycles within close proximity to fall over -- gotta check them all when a specific color is reported).

During the return walk, which usually continues around onto SE Ocean Boulevard sidewalk about the distance of a block before turning in to Kcc once again, a small spattering of green glass-bottle glass was toed to the side of the bicycle path. A slightly-battered red and white pickup truck, empty, was parked alongside the inner Kcc 'lovers lane' section of the newly-tarred driveways that lead from KTR to the SE Ocean entrance/exit.

Later in the night, two police cars with flashing red lights parked in the middle of SE Ocean Boulevard between the Cedar Pointe and Kingswood condo complexes, conducting some kind of surveillance. It's not so unusual to see them in the middle of the road ticketing speed-limit violators at night, because the traffic becomes infrequent.

Recording Industry vs. The People

Recording Industry vs. The People

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Dos: Donations to pay court expenses... .

Recording Industry vs. The People

Recording Industry vs. The People

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Uno: Donations to pay RIAA?

Open the lid on the many uses of mason jars | Features

Open the lid on the many uses of mason jars Features

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The mucousal bead-artifact found in Degolia, PA, really should be contained in some kind of clearview receptacle and housed in a museum -- preferably unbreakable or at least some kind of material that does not break into sharp triangles as ordinary glass invariably does. Until someone comes up with a specialty container, the oracle-bead waxlike 'crystal ball' will no doubt remain as a 'mas[s] on' soil beneath covering limestone roadside-rest/monument base and ground.

We're seeing the chunk-like safety-glass primarily as automotive windows at this time. although uses in table glassware and fire-alarm/extinguisher cabinets will also be appreciated.

pending class action regarding MetLife - Topix

pending class action regarding MetLife - Topix

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As a resident of San Francisco, CA, continuous reply demand-calls received from a business-domain influence-network elicited my personal plan to query different insurance companies other than the Metropolitan Life Insurance operation already contracted. I could never do that, because public-school classroom association with the Knott family in Bradford, PA (yes Virginia, there is a University of Bradford located in UK, Europe) was used to initiated a "demutalization" action within MetLife beginning in the state of California.

The best I could do as a northern California peninsula resident, distracted with repeated information demands, was to sign up and accept insurance from a mail-order company already altered as a result from the influence-network operation (Globe Life Insurance, located in the midwest U. S.).

That the renaming of some public schools to be 'middle' means also a continuous undermining of the entire nation's business community, apparent as seen within day-to-day journalism at this time. That the international-treaty violation Kinzua Dam was a project of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers [not possible without the Navy's help, however] means that inland companies using Army military proxies can expect more shake-ups from international Navy proponents -- unless newly-articulated 'lobby laws' are applied.

Police: Lancaster was hub for drug cartel - Topix

Police: Lancaster was hub for drug cartel - Topix

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Manufacturing interests trump archaeological dicoveries and concerns.

An oracle-bead artifact site in Degolia, PA, near Bradford, PA, remains without formal investigation scheduled. A circa-1900 cistern located in Degolia was described within a Bradford Era article published during the American Refining Group centennial celebrations a few years ago, concurrent with an annual Italian festival and other event planning; attention was directed toward the cistern from far and wide including attentional trajectories extending from other states and Canada, such that a number of deaths resulted.

'How to acquire [or abolish] a pill-making company' apparently has more sociopolitical interest than the reality of a rare but tiny archaeological discovery in McKean County, Pennsylvania.