MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'hawk'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:40:16 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4626991&cid=t_295907_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FMCfdTWvn0I0%2F   Annoyingly wet Spring morning, only two days into the season. The trees on the horizon look ever so slightly thicker in their bareness: the sap and the buds doing their stuff, just invisible to us yet, “us” being the largely untrained (okay, I’ve had some ornithology training by people who were just as happy to regard the plants around them if there were no birds to be had in our immediate area) passers-by or rather passers-through. The red-bellied woodpecker is showing off across the gully in someone else’s presumably old and therefore wormy tree. It’s been working on this same tree for days now. I hope it moves soon. The local bird that I hope stays around more is the adult Red-tailed Hawk who took up residence in our neighborhood about four or five y... white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4626991 Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:47:20 +0100 4626991 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4074342&cid=t_295907_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FEwcAJujzgdQ%2F Though I grew up in the countryside and wandered in the woods as I grew up, I knew little about the names of things. I knew oaks from maples and robins from that which was not a robin. I knew pine trees and boxwood bushes. I knew what I thought were hawks but which were really turkey vultures. On spring days after I was old enough to drive myself to school and back home again, driving along the interminably winding road that led to nowhere other than our house, I kept my eye out for hawks in the sky. We lived on top of a great ridge of hills overlooking the Ohio River. Most clear afternoons, I could see the hawks circling the air overhead, riding the thermals all afternoon. Park the car in front of the house and get out of the car and leave the door open to stand there on the warm asphalt ... white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4074342 Thu, 14 Oct 2010 21:38:17 +0100 4074342 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3750022&cid=t_295907_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Fun-eco-friendly-transportation-colorado-town-bans-bicycles%2F photo: Thinkstock Most of the U.S. seems to be moving in the right direction (slowly but surely) as far as eco-friendly transportation goes. Cities are creating Bike-to-Work events and using hybrid buses and taxis. But Black Hawk, Colorado, just took a big step in the opposite direction by banning bike riding. WTF? The town relies heavily on casinos for revenue, and vans containing gamblers drive through the town’s narrow, shoulder-less streets. A Colorado law requires cars to leave three feet of room while passing cyclists, which would mean they’d have to swerve into oncoming traffic. While it doesn’t seem safe for bicyclists to ride on a road with no shoulders alongside buses and trucks, no related accidents have been reported. But lawmakers appear to be acting out of i... Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3750022 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:47:09 +0100 3750022 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3089259&cid=t_295907_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FpOuftlmZ4MI%2F By Chris EdwardsPrompted by my blog on Senator Kent Conrad’s Task Force to reduce the federal deficit, my assistant Amy Mandler dug up some interesting information on the good senator. Conrad has nurtured his image as a “deficit hawk” for decades, but when it comes to subsidies for millionaire farmers he demands that the federal gravy keep flowing. Earlier this year, for example, President Obama proposed cutting one type of farm subsidy (”direct payments”) for farmers earning over $500,000 a year. I suspect that about 95 percent of Americans would support that tiny nod toward fiscal sanity and deficit reduction. But not Senator Conrad, who helped shoot the proposal down. See here and here. (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3089259 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:52:52 +0100 3089259 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2441163&cid=t_295907_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FAjEqW0zgX5g%2F In a hagiographic profile of Obama budget director Peter Orszag, Ryan Lizza of the New Yorker writes of the “pressure” he might get from congressional deficit hawks: The respective heads of the House and Senate Budget Committees, John Spratt, Jr., of South Carolina, and Kent Conrad, of North Dakota, have spent years trying to control the deficit… Kent Conrad, the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, has made eradicating the federal budget deficit his life’s work. Now, you’d think that if the ranking Democrats on the congressional budget committees had made deficit reduction their life’s work, the budget wouldn’t have, you know, skyrocketed over the past decade and more. So let’s go to the tape. The National Taxpayers Union has given Spratt a... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2441163 Fri, 29 May 2009 18:48:39 +0100 2441163 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=757914&cid=t_295907_85_f&fid=34692&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpolitedissent.com%2Farchives%2F1708 Armageddon 2001 was the big DC “event comic” of 1991. There were two bookend comics, Armageddon 2001 #1 and #2, at the beginning and end of the summer. In between, all the annuals (back with every series had an annual) tied into the storyline: in the not too distant future of 2001 (remember, this was written in 1991), the villainous Monarch has taken over the entire world and slaughtered all the super-heroes. The kicker is that he used to be a super-hero himself before becoming evil, but no one knows which hero. One of the citizens of the dystopic future uses experimental equipment to gain time-based superpowers. As “Waverider,” he can travel through time. He can also look into a person’s future just by touching them. He resolves to use his powers to travel ba... Polite Dissent blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=757914 Thu, 26 Jul 2007 00:49:52 +0100 757914 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=655420&cid=t_295907_85_f&fid=34692&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpolitedissent.com%2Farchives%2F1668 This is the final regular issue of Hawk & Dove. It’s an above average issue, and manages to tie together most of the various plot lines of the series. After being tricked by Barter and an unnamed co-conspirator, Hawk is suspected of causing a car crash and trying to kill Senator Tom O’Neill. Hawk is now in hiding and on the run from the police. He’s also mad at being played for a fool, and wants to take it out on Senator O’Neill — or whoever is in his body now. Dawn is looking for Hawk as well. She is visited at home by Mrs. Hall, Hank’s mother, who admits that she has long known that Hank was Hawk, and it didn’t take much to deduce that Dawn is the new Dove. She implores Dawn to find Hank and clear everything up. In the middle of the convers... Polite Dissent blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=655420 Mon, 04 Jun 2007 11:49:47 +0100 655420 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=558306&cid=t_295907_85_f&fid=34692&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpolitedissent.com%2Farchives%2F1631 Instead of the normal writing team of Karl and Barbara Kesel, this issue credits just Barbara as the writer, but there is no discernible change is style. The art is handled by the reliable team of Greg Guler and Al Vey. It’s a fairly dark storyline this issue with the forces behind Don’s “resurrection” finally revealed1. Hawk returns to his apartment to find another message from his deceased brother Don. Hank is informed that there will soon be a fatal car crash at a particular corner. He is to crush the sapphire he stole from the Smithsonian and sprinkle it over the victim of the car crash. This will bring Don back to life. Hank is concerned about the morality of the plan, but Don reminds him that the victim will already be dead, so no harm done. Reluctantly, Hawk... Polite Dissent blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=558306 Sat, 21 Apr 2007 12:15:04 +0100 558306 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=466253&cid=t_295907_85_f&fid=34692&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpolitedissent.com%2Farchives%2F1588 In the midst of Hawk’s crime spree, this issue takes a look back at when Dawn first learned Hawk’s secret identity. Dove swings by Hank’s apartment, but he’s not there. She let’s herself in — he didn’t hide the key well — and sits to wait for him. While she’s waiting, the answering machine picks up a call from Hank’s dead brother Don and she begins to get an idea of what Hawk’s been up to. Dawn fixes a cup of coffee and remembers when she first heard that Don, the original Dove, was dead. She was in England and had just helped capture some crooks when a police officer mentioned how sorry he was to hear that the other Dove had died. With his comment, Dawn realizes that she is the only Dove and decides that she needs to find H... Polite Dissent blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=466253 Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:00:02 +0100 466253