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     The extremely capable people born on August 30 are rock-solid where their strengths are `concerned. Particularly good with money, they usually enjoy dealing with finance and take great joy in the successful management of company, personal or family funds. Whatever their fields of interest, most born on this day seek tangible results in their work and prefer not to venture into speculative or unrealistic areas. Generally, the home of a person born on this day is well-ordered, comfortable and carefully arranged to meet material needs and wants.

     Most August 30 people are confident in their ability to handle most any situation, sometimes overly so. Those born on the 30^th of the month are ruled by the number 3 (3+ 0=3. Since those ruled by the number 3 generally seek to rise to high positions. They are often driven upward in their search for material success. Those ruled by the number 3 love their independence, which makes for a more stressful life, but also of course presents more challenges and opportunities for decisive action.

Advice:  Beware of fostering dependency in others, teach your children to be self-sufficient. Be flexible when it comes to rules, don’t feel you have to control every aspect of your environment. Cultivate our spiritual side and look beyond what this world has to offer.

Strengths:  Financially astute, organized and reliable

Weaknesses: Authoritarian and inflexible

Born On This Day: Mary Godwin Shelley, Ted Williams, Roy Wilkins and Warren Buffet

Invention on This Day:1968 The song "Hey Jude" by John Lennon and Paul McCartney was    copyright registered.
1994 IBM announced it would not oppose Microsoft's attempt to trademark the name "Windows."

This Day In History: Thurgood Marshall confirmed as Supreme Court justice

On this day in 1967, Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African American to be confirmed as a Supreme Court justice. He would remain on the Supreme Court for 24 years before retiring for health reasons, leaving a legacy of upholding the rights of the individual as guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution

Shreveport pastor who shares name with wanted Texas criminal mistakenly arrested

Alison Bath

Shreveport Times

August 28, 2010

What's in a name? Shreveport pastor Gregory Jones can tell you that despite what Shakespeare's Juliet may say, calling a rose by its real name doesn't mean it necessarily will smell sweet. In fact, it just may stink — and include a stay at Caddo Correctional Center.

Jones was late for an appointment Monday when he was pulled over by a Caddo sheriff's deputy for speeding on Colquitt Road. Jones, pastor of Eden Worship Center on Russell Road, readily handed over his driver's license, insurance card and registration when asked.

 

Gregory Jones is pastor of Eden Worship Center on Russell Road

Sunday, August 29th 2010, 4:00 AM

Raymond RosarioAn unidentified woman tumbled onto subway tracks at the Fifth Ave. and 59th St. station early Saturday morning.

Raymond RosarioMotorman Francis Lusk (below) slammed the train's brakes just in time to avoid hitting the fallen woman.

Goldfield for NewsLusk, who stopped the train about 70 feet from the woman's body, said he didn't hesitate to help her.

An eagle-eyed motorman saved a straphanger from almost certain death when he slammed the brakes on a 370-ton train - missing by mere seconds a woman who had fallen on the tracks.

Stunning photographs show the unidentified woman sprawled out on the subway tracks at the Fifth Ave. and 59th St. station about 7 a.m. Saturday.

"The train was rolling into the station and I heard this scream," said Raymond Rosario, a doorman who was on his way home to Queens. "She was moaning. She couldn't get up."

Witnesses along the N train platform waved their arms frantically and screamed for the motorman to stop as the woman lay twisted and helpless. Her body was partially in the drainage trough between the tracks. A black satchel still hung over her left shoulder.

"It seemed like it wasn't going to stop," Rosario told the Daily News. "It came so so close, I never saw anything like that. She was very lucky."

Motorman Francis Lusk had spotted the woman as she plummeted onto the tracks about 300 feet in front of his speeding train.

"She walked right off the platform," Lusk, 36, told the Daily News. "I was shocked. I didn't know what was wrong."

Lusk, the grandson of a motorman, didn't hesitate.

As spectators looked on in disbelief, he immediately hit the brakes and blew his horn to deter straphangers from jumping onto the electrified train bed.

The train came to a halt about 70 feet from the woman's body, Lusk said.

The motorman called the radio control center to have the power turned off, hopped out of his train and raced to help the woman.

"I was just going on instinct," said Lusk. "If she was discombobulated, she might not have known where she was and stumbled onto the third rail."

Lusk knelt on the tracks and consoled the woman, but didn't move her because he feared he might exacerbate her injuries. Blood dripped from the woman's face. She was dazed but conscious.

"Ma'am, just relax. Don't move," Lusk told the woman, who appeared to be in her early 30s. "We have police and paramedics on the way."

The woman told Lusk she was feeling dizzy. He handed her tissues, and she blotted the blood running from a cut above her left eye.

In less than five minutes, cops and firefighters appeared on the platform. They hopped onto the railbed, secured the woman on a stretcher and hauled her out of the station, Lusk said.

The mystery woman was taken to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Medical Center.

Meanwhile, Lusk finished his shift and headed to his Valley Stream, L.I., home about 1 p.m.

"I was just doing my job," said the humble motorman, who joined the MTA two years ago.

N train service was suspended from 7:16 a.m. to 7:57 a.m.

"Thanks to the quick thinking and actions of one of our employees this incident - which could have had very tragic consequences - instead had a very happy ending," said Tom Prendergast, president of NYC Transit.

The bespectacled saint in MTA clothing joins a growing list of subway heroes.

Wesley leaped onto the tracks in 2007 and saved Cameron Hollopeter, a stranger who apparently had a seizure and fell from a Harlem platform.

In May, a still-unidentified good Samaritan jumped to the tracks and saved 26-year-old Jessica O<snip>a from being crushed by an L train in the Union Square station after she fainted and tumbled off the platform.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/08/29/2010-08-29_her_hero_woman_lives_as_driver_stops_just_in_time.html#ixzz0y2PZ4o1c

Sisco/PoolBarack Obama speaks at Xavier University in New Orleans on Sunday, the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Five years after the ravaging storm, President Barack Obama celebrated New Orleans's revival from Hurricane Katrina on Sunday and pledged common purpose with residents in the continuing struggle to protect and rebuild the Gulf Coast.

Obama declared to those who dedicated themselves to their city's recovery: "Because of you, New Orleans is coming back."

And he pledged: "My administration is going to stand with you and fight alongside you until the job is done. "

Implicit in his remarks was an indictment of sorts against his predecessor's administration for its handling of the crisis. Obama called Katrina and its aftermath not just a natural disaster but "a manmade catastrophe — a shameful breakdown in government that left countless men, women, and children abandoned and alone."

Obama spoke at Xavier University, an institution wracked with debris and floodwaters in August 2005, but soon back in operation. New Orleans, he said, has become a "symbol of resilience and community."

The storm killed more than 1,800 people along the Gulf coast, most in Louisiana, and flooded 80 percent of New Orleans.

Obama ticked off progress: A fortified levee system set to be finished next year, a dramatic decline in families still living in emergency housing, rising achievement in the city's public schools, a surge in small businesses making New Orleans one of the nation's fastest growing cities.

On the other hand, he said: "I don't have to tell you that there are still too many vacant and overgrown lots. There are still too many students attending classes in trailers. There are still too many people unable to find work. And there are still too many New Orleanians who have not been able to come home."

After years in which halting progress mixed often with setbacks and despair, the city was getting back on its feet when the BP oil spill dealt another blow. The exploded well spewed more than 200 million gallons of crude into the Gulf before it was capped in mid-July.

Obama's challenge was to reassure residents who remain skeptical of government promises after witnessing former President George W. Bush's response to Katrina, which was widely criticized as inept. Although criticism of Obama's response to the Gulf oil spill rarely reached the level of anger directed at Bush, some still saw it as lacking in speed and coordination.

To a region weary of calamity, Obama pledged, too, to "stand with you until the oil is cleaned up, the environment is restored, polluters are held accountable, communities are made whole, and this region is back on its feet. "

The first stop on Obama's visit was the Parkway Bakery and Tavern, a local institution in the once-flooded midcity. Joined by his family, Obama mingled with customers at the midcity landmark, posed with an engaged couple and ordered a shrimp po-boy from the counter of the sandwich shop that was under six feet of water after Katrina hit.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/08/29/2010-08-29_president_obama_hails_progress_in_new_orleans_and_takes_a_thinlyveiled_swipe_at_.html#ixzz0y2NGyPtW

The Billionaires Bankrolling the Tea Party

FRANK RICH

August 28, 2010

ANOTHER weekend, another grass-roots demonstration starring Real Americans who are mad as hell and want to take back their country from you-know-who. Last Sunday the site was Lower Manhattan, where they jeered the “ground zero mosque.” This weekend, the scene shifted to Washington, where the avatars of oppressed white Tea Party America, Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin, were slated to “reclaim the civil rights movement” (Beck’s words) on the same spot where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had his dream exactly 47 years earlier.

Barry Blitt

The New York Times

Vive la révolution!

There’s just one element missing from these snapshots of America’s ostensibly spontaneous and leaderless populist uprising: the sugar daddies who are bankrolling it, and have been doing so since well before the “death panel” warm-up acts of last summer. Three heavy hitters rule. You’ve heard of one of them, Rupert Murdoch. The other two, the brothers David and Charles Koch, are even richer, with a combined wealth exceeded only by that of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett among Americans. But even those carrying the Kochs’ banner may not know who these brothers are.

Their self-interested and at times radical agendas, like Murdoch’s, go well beyond, and sometimes counter to, the interests of those who serve as spear carriers in the political pageants hawked on Fox News. The country will be in for quite a ride should these potentates gain power, and given the recession-battered electorate’s unchecked anger and the Obama White House’s unfocused political strategy, they might.

All three tycoons are the latest incarnation of what the historian Kim Phillips-Fein labeled “Invisible Hands” in her prescient 2009 book of that title: those corporate players who have financed the far right ever since the du Pont brothers spawned the American Liberty League in 1934 to bring down F.D.R. You can draw a straight line from the Liberty League’s crusade against the New Deal “socialism” of Social Security, the Securities and Exchange Commission and child labor laws to the John Birch Society-Barry Goldwater assault on J.F.K. and Medicare to the Koch-Murdoch-backed juggernaut against our “socialist” president.

Only the fat cats change — not their methods and not their pet bugaboos (taxes, corporate regulation, organized labor, and government “handouts” to the poor, unemployed, ill and elderly). Even the sources of their fortunes remain fairly constant. Koch Industries began with oil in the 1930s and now also spews an array of industrial products, from Dixie cups to Lycra, not unlike DuPont’s portfolio of paint and plastics. Sometimes the biological DNA persists as well. The Koch brothers’ father, Fred, was among the select group chosen to serve on the Birch Society’s top governing body. In a recorded 1963 speech that survives in a University of Michigan archive, he can be heard warning of “a takeover” of America in which Communists would “infiltrate the highest offices of government in the U.S. until the president is a Communist, unknown to the rest of us.” That rant could be delivered as is at any Tea Party rally today.

Last week the Kochs were shoved unwillingly into the spotlight by the most comprehensive journalistic portrait of them yet, written by Jane Mayer of The New Yorker. Her article caused a stir among those in Manhattan’s liberal elite who didn’t know that David Koch, widely celebrated for his cultural philanthropy, is not merely another rich conservative Republican but the founder of the Americans for Prosperity Foundation, which, as Mayer writes with some understatement, “has worked closely with the Tea Party since the movement’s inception.” To New Yorkers who associate the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center with the New York City Ballet, it’s startling to learn that the Texas branch of that foundation’s political arm, known simply as Americans for Prosperity, gave its Blogger of the Year Award to an activist who had called President Obama “cokehead in chief.”

The other major sponsor of the Tea Party movement is Dick Armey’s FreedomWorks, which, like Americans for Prosperity, is promoting events in Washington this weekend. Under its original name, Citizens for a Sound Economy, FreedomWorks received $12 million of its own from Koch family foundations. Using tax records, Mayer found that Koch-controlled foundations gave out $196 million from 1998 to 2008, much of it to conservative causes and institutions. That figure doesn’t include $50 million in Koch Industries lobbying and $4.8 million in campaign contributions by its political action committee,  putting it first among energy company peers like Exxon Mobil and Chevron. Since tax law permits anonymous personal donations to nonprofit political groups, these figures may understate the case. The Kochs surely match the in-kind donations the Tea Party receives in free promotion 24/7 from Murdoch’s Fox News, where both Beck and Palin are on the payroll.

The New Yorker article stirred up the right, too. Some of Mayer’s blogging detractors unwittingly upheld the premise of her article (titled “Covert Operations”) by conceding that they have been Koch grantees. None of them found any factual errors in her 10,000 words. Many of them tried to change the subject to George Soros, the billionaire backer of liberal causes. But Soros is a publicity hound who is transparent about where he shovels his money. And like many liberals — selflessly or foolishly, depending on your point of view — he supports causes that are unrelated to his business interests and that, if anything, raise his taxes.

This is hardly true of the Kochs. When David Koch ran to the right of Reagan as vice president on the 1980 Libertarian ticket (it polled 1 percent), his campaign called for the abolition not just of Social Security, federal regulatory agencies and welfare but also of the F.B.I., the C.I.A., and public schools — in other words, any government enterprise that would either inhibit his business profits or increase his taxes. He hasn’t changed. As Mayer details, Koch-supported lobbyists, foundations and political operatives are at the center of climate-science denial — a cause that forestalls threats to Koch Industries’ vast fossil fuel business. While Koch foundations donate to cancer hospitals like Memorial Sloan-Kettering in New York, Koch Industries has been lobbying to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from classifying another product important to its bottom line, formaldehyde, as a “known carcinogen” in humans (which it is).

Tea Partiers may share the Kochs’ detestation of taxes, big government and Obama. But there’s a difference between mainstream conservatism and a fringe agenda that tilts completely toward big business, whether on Wall Street or in the Gulf of Mexico, while dismantling fundamental government safety nets designed to protect the unemployed, public health, workplace safety and the subsistence of the elderly.

Yet inexorably the Koch agenda is morphing into the G.O.P. agenda, as articulated by current Republican members of Congress, including the putative next speaker of the House, John Boehner, and Tea Party Senate candidates like Rand Paul, Sharron Angle, and the new kid on the block, Alaska’s anti-Medicaid, anti-unemployment insurance Palin protégé, Joe Miller. Their program opposes a federal deficit, but has no objection to running up trillions in red ink in tax cuts to corporations and the superrich; apologizes to corporate malefactors like BP and derides money put in escrow for oil spill victims as a “slush fund”; opposes the extension of unemployment benefits; and calls for a freeze on federal regulations in an era when abuses in the oil, financial, mining, pharmaceutical and even egg industries (among others) have been outrageous.

The Koch brothers must be laughing all the way to the bank knowing that working Americans are aiding and abetting their selfish interests. And surely Murdoch is snickering at those protesting the “ground zero mosque.” Last week on “Fox and Friends,” the Bush administration flacks Dan Senor and Dana Perino attacked a supposedly terrorism-tainted Saudi prince whose foundation might contribute to the Islamic center. But as “The Daily Show” keeps pointing out, these Fox bloviators never acknowledge that the evil prince they’re bashing, Walid bin Talal, is not only the biggest non-Murdoch shareholder in Fox News’s parent company (he owns 7 percent of News Corporation) and the recipient of Murdoch mammoth investments in Saudi Arabia but also the subject of lionization elsewhere on Fox.

No less a Murdoch factotum than Neil Cavuto slobbered over bin Talal in a Fox Business Channel interview as recently as January, with nary a question about his supposed terrorist ties. Instead, bin Talal praised Obama’s stance on terrorism and even endorsed the Democrats’ goal of universal health insurance. Do any of the Fox-watching protestors at the “ground zero mosque” know that Fox’s profits are flowing to a Obama-sympathizing Saudi billionaire in bed with Murdoch? As Jon Stewart summed it up, the protestors who want “to cut off funding to the ‘terror mosque’ ” are aiding that funding by watching Fox and enhancing bin Talal’s News Corp. holdings.

When wolves of Murdoch’s ingenuity and the Kochs’ stealth have been at the door of our democracy in the past, Democrats have fought back fiercely. Franklin Roosevelt’s triumphant 1936 re-election campaign pummeled the Liberty League as a Republican ally eager to “squeeze the worker dry in his old age and cast him like an orange rind into the refuse pail.” When John Kennedy’s patriotism was assailed by Birchers calling for impeachment, he gave a major speech denouncing their “crusades of suspicion.”

And Obama? So far, sadly, this question answers itself.

     Those born on August 29^th hate chaos above all things and therefore seek to bring structure and clarity to their work. This is by no means to suggest however that they are rigid or dull. On the contrary-they are impelled to action, and in addition may have great fire in their belly, but somehow express themselves in an ordered and organized way.

   Improvisation is a recurring theme in the life of August 29 people.  This means not only they are rarely at a loss for what to do, but will find their way out of a problem situation by thinking up new solutions right on the spot.  In this respect they are positive thinkers and doers, always searching for a more efficient, elegant or consistent function.

         Those born on the 29^th of the month are ruled by the number 2 (2+9=11, 1+1=2 ).  Since those ruled by the number 2 often make good co-workers and partners, rather than leaders, this quality will fit certain group oriented values of August 29^th people.  However, it may also act as a brake on individual initiative and action, producing frustration.

Advice:  lighten up, get to know and like yourself. Go with the flow. Learn to make an easy transition from public to private life, and avoid making impossible demands on yourself. Take frequent vacations with those you love.

Strengths:  Adaptive, imaginative and structured.

Weaknesses:   Escapist, needy and unstable.

Born On This Day:  Charlie Parker, Michael Jackson, Dinah Washington, and Peter Jennings.

This Day in History: Hurricane Katrina slams into Gulf Coast

Hurricane Katrina makes landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana, as a Category 4 hurricane on this day in 2005. Despite being only the third most powerful storm of the 2005 hurricane season, Katrina was the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States. After briefly coming ashore in southern Florida on August 25 as a Category 1 hurricane, Katrina gained strength before slamming into the Gulf Coast on August 29. In addition to bringing devastation to the New Orleans area, the hurricane caused damage along the coasts of Mississippi and Alabama, as well as other parts of Louisiana.

Great Inventions: 1893 Whitcomb Judson received a patent for the zipper.

Pizza deliveries lead to ID theft arrest for Georgia woman

When she realized her credit card was being used by someone on the other side of the country, a California woman called police in Georgia.

“If you order pizzas online or on the phone, they deliver it your house," Shaddix said.

When officers went to the Whitney Lane home of Tawana Bendon, the 41-year-old confessed to identity theft, Shaddix said. Bendon was placed under arrest and transported to the Carroll County jail.

Bendon faces one charge of identity theft, but that number is expected to increase, Shaddix said. The woman is believed to be responsible for using others' identities for many other purchases, he said.

Investigators removed two truckloads of evidence that Bendon was receiving credit card numbers from a person in South Africa, Shaddix said.

The U.S. Secret Service is now assisting Villa Rica police with the investigation, Shaddix said.

http://www.kxan.com/dpps/news/strange/employee-paid-12-years-for-no-work-ob10-jgr_3564111

Craigslist: Man gets prostitute, robbed

Woman and 2 men allegedly take cash

Friday, 27 Aug 2010, 4:25 PM EDT

Pamela Cosel

CEDAR PARK, Texas (KXAN) - In a twist of events unexpected by the buyer, a man who solicited a prostitute via Craigslist didn't get the joy he expected.

When the woman showed up at his apartment, she was flanked by two men -- and the trio allegedly robbed the "buyer" instead.

Cedar Park Police were called to an aggravated robbery at 2201 S. Lakeline Blvd . The unnamed victim, 25, told police he was robbed at knife point by two men and a woman -- then details about how he met them emerged.

The victim told police he was robbed of $480.

Descriptions of the three suspects are as follows:

Suspect #1: black female, approximately 5 feet 9 inches tall, with short dark hair, wearing a red shirt, blue jeans shorts and white sandals.

Suspect #2: black male, approximately 5 feet 11 inches tall, with short braided hair.

Suspect #3: black male -- no additional information provided.

The suspects were seen driving away in a black 4-door Honda Civic with tinted windows.

The case remains under investigation.

Aijalon Gomes, American Imprisoned In North Korea, Returns To Boston

RUSSELL CONTRERAS | 08/27/10 11:57 PM |

 

BOSTON — An American held captive for seven months in North Korea stepped off a plane in his hometown Friday, looking thin but joyful as he hugged the former president who had helped win his release and family and friends surrounded him in a group embrace.

Aijalon Gomes was accompanied by former President Jimmy Carter, who had flown to Pyongyang to negotiate his freedom. Gomes, who had been teaching English in South Korea, was imprisoned and sentenced to eight years' hard labor for crossing into the North from China on Jan. 25 for unknown reasons.

North Korea's state-run news agency reported last month that Gomes had attempted suicide, leading his family to ask for his release on humanitarian grounds. North Korea said this week it would release Gomes to Carter if the former president went to get him.

Gomes hugged Carter and then his mother before his loved ones encircled him, praying and waving their hands skyward. One man gripped a small American flag, and others held a banner behind them that read: "Welcome home! Disciple of the Lord Aijalon Mahli Gomes. Salvation is ours."

The banner also pictured a Christian cross and contained biblical references to Acts, Psalms, and Job, an Old Testament book about a man who survived great tribulation.

Gomes' mother and family members hugged Carter and shook his hand before the group headed inside the terminal, as Gomes smiled and waved at loved ones along the way. A few minutes later, Carter reboarded the plane and left Boston.

In a statement released earlier Friday, the family thanked Carter and said it felt blessed to welcome Gomes home after what it called "a long, dark and difficult period."

"I'm just joyful and grateful that my son is home and thank President Jimmy Carter for making sure that he was home safely," Gomes' mother, Jacqueline McCarthy, said as she left her home for the airport. "I thank God, I thank God, for everything everyone has done for us."

The family also thanked the North Korean government "for caring for Aijalon during his darkest days, then agreeing to release him on humanitarian grounds."

The statement requested privacy so Gomes could recover from the ordeal, saying that although he was returning home, "the journey towards healing really just begins today." The family passed by media microphones at the airport without commenting.

But later outside McCarthy's home, several of Gomes' relatives spoke to the media and said Gomes appeared to be fine physically.

"He looks well, he looks very well," his uncle Michael Farrow said.

His 19-year-old brother, Milton McCarthy Jr., described feeling "an overwhelming amount of joy and happiness" when he hugged Gomes.

"It was just like they said, a prayer being answered," he said. "It was truly a blessing."

Family members said they'd had a limited chance to speak with Gomes and added he wasn't expected back at his mother's home Friday, though they didn't say where he was staying.

"He's just grateful to be home, and he's just thanking God for his safe return," his cousin Ron Odom said.

In Washington, the Department of State welcomed the news of Gomes' release, saying officials are "relieved that he will soon be safely reunited with his family," spokesman P.J. Crowley said.

It was unclear what led Gomes to enter the repressive nation. He may have been emulating fellow Christian Robert Park, who was detained after he crossed into North Korea in December to highlight its human rights record, said Jo Sung-rae, a South Korean human rights advocate who met with Gomes. Park was expelled some 40 days later after issuing an apology carried by North Korean state media.

Gomes attended rallies in Seoul in January calling for Park's release and was arrested in North Korea just two weeks later.

Gomes, whose full name is pronounced EYE'-jah-lahn GOHMZ', grew up the inner-city Boston neighborhood of Mattapan, then headed to college at Bowdoin in Maine before going to South Korea to teach several years after graduating.

He was the fourth American in a year arrested for trespassing in North Korea, which fought the U.S. during the 1950-53 Korean War and does not have diplomatic relations with Washington. Journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee were arrested last March and released only after former President Bill Clinton made a similar trip to Pyongyang to plead for their freedom.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed Gomes' release and commended Carter. He took the occasion to appeal to donors for emergency humanitarian aid to North Korea, which has been affected by recent flooding, U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said at U.N. headquarters in New York.

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2013683,00.html

9:10 p.m. Friday, August 27, 2010

Cops nab man after finding cocaine in bologna

The Associated Press

HOLYOKE, Mass. — A Massachusetts man was arrested after a kilogram of cocaine hidden inside a hollowed-out chunk of bologna was delivered to his home. Holyoke police said they were tipped off by postal inspectors in Puerto Rico who had been investigating similar shipments. A dog confirmed the presence of drugs and the bologna was cut open.

The meat was then repackaged and an undercover postal inspector delivered it to a Holyoke address at about 4:45 p.m. Thursday. A woman sitting on the front steps signed for it.

Police then executed a search warrant and arrested a 30-year-old man on a cocaine trafficking charge.

Police said the cocaine had a street value of $100,000. The investigation is ongoing.

This Aug. 26, 2010 booking photo released by the Holyoke, Mass., police shows Juan Rodriguez, arrested when he received a package shipped from Puerto Rico to his Holyoke home that contained a kilogram of cocaine hidden inside a chunk of bologna. (AP Photo/Holyoke Police Department)

 

In this Aug. 26, 2010 photo released by the Holyoke, Mass., police, an official reveals a package containing a kilogram of cocaine hidden inside a hollowed out chunk of bologna. Police arrested Juan Rodriguez Thursday when he received a package shipped from Puerto Rico to his Holyoke home that contained the cocaine and bologna. (AP Photo/Holyoke Police Department)

   Those born on August 28^th are masters at the use of language. Normally the word language refers to the use of written and spoken word, and indeed many people born on this day are good enough at that. But in a larger sense, the meaning intended here is the language of craft, a kind of technical facility, and people born on this day who are less verbally oriented usually master the technical aspects of what they do in their profession down to the last detail. In addition, August 28 people are convincing –they know how to get others to think about what they say, admire what they do and perhaps agree with them.

     August 28 people can quietly overwhelm others with the persuasiveness of their knowledge and ideas, which are deep and wide-ranging. They can also readily back up they say with fistful of facts. Too often, however, they are so convinced of the rightness of what they are doing that they misjudge their audience, its needs and desires, thus family, friends and the general public may agree with them at the time of discussion only to change their minds later, or worse yet just forget about the matter entirely. Many born on this day have an aptitude for foreign language.

   It is only natural that family and friends come to the August 28 people for advice, as those born on this day often make excellent counselors, clergyman, social workers, politicians and the like. Therefore, an August 28^th person’s social, family or civic responsibility is very high and great care must be taken in bringing influential opinions to bear on the problems of others.

     Those born on the 28^th of the month are ruled by the number 1 (2+8=10, 1+0=1). Those ruled by the number 1 like to be first, are opinionated and eager to rise to the top. 

Advice:   Don’t always be so sure that your answer is the only right one, learn to listen to other points of view. Avoid drowning those around you in endless facts and examples, while missing the big picture. Stay on the straight and true path.

Strengths: Convincing, articulate intellectual

Weakness: Inflexible, puritanical and unaccepting

Born On This Day: Janet Evans, Scott Hamilton, Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman

Inventions:   1951 Oral B (the famous line of dental products) was trademark registered.

This Day In History:   Charles and Diana Divorce

After four years of separation, Charles, Prince of Wales and heir to the British throne, and his wife, Princess Diana, formally divorce.

On July 29, 1981, nearly one billion television viewers in 74 countries tuned in to witness the marriage of Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, to Lady Diana Spencer, a young English schoolteacher. Married in a grand ceremony at St. Paul's Cathedral in the presence of 2,650 guests, the couple's romance was, for the moment, the envy of the world. Their first child, Prince William, was born in 1982, and their second, Prince Harry, in 1984.

Meditation

Wittgenstein’s, opening sentence, ‘The world is everything which is the case,’ serves as a beginning.