tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12216036584681453662024-02-20T19:28:43.436-06:00Voila!Anything and EverythingKansas City Observerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17476897368516656564noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221603658468145366.post-73450108317018048472008-08-11T07:54:00.005-05:002008-08-11T08:00:30.826-05:00U. S. Foreign Service<div style="MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/opinion/10kristof.html?ex=1376107200&en=8985336523c12450&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink"><img alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXEi9olddpUVLfYoEnOKI_iWSQAGk2MN8q4p4l6GqBN_KpYAlYZzvUd2thEBZxmpEseEd5a4rb8Z8DYYSVeCyYYiSr2WFUUx2Dt5A1XTzlb4UEYO1C0I2tHUokxkm0hj8bdCkSrznfKve-/s400/DSC_0002.JPG" border="0" /></a> </div>My friend in the United States Foreign Service is urging everyone to read this article by Nicholas D. Kristof about the greatly underfunded U.S. Foreign Service. We need diplomats, as well as soldiers. <br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/opinion/10kristof.html?ex=1376107200&en=8985336523c12450&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/opinion/10kristof.html?ex=1376107200&en=8985336523c12450&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink</a> <div style="CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /></a></div>Kansas City Observerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17476897368516656564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221603658468145366.post-84597409538997425322007-10-05T20:38:00.000-05:002008-12-12T01:40:49.945-06:00Butterfly and bees<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIw6fvotuN_DmvAqEKsSn8d_07CLCYqz_K3teLj2bPTOUkf68qMr9rJPWEcyX3PIa5AnL5mzE0TMvMlEJNjG-pi3gOQ0bnvjdPAg6Czq7HBOqXmyPyErclg2UkU2XDRF84l1YVIs01BrdW/s1600-h/DSC_0392-1.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_" style="CLEAR: both; FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIw6fvotuN_DmvAqEKsSn8d_07CLCYqz_K3teLj2bPTOUkf68qMr9rJPWEcyX3PIa5AnL5mzE0TMvMlEJNjG-pi3gOQ0bnvjdPAg6Czq7HBOqXmyPyErclg2UkU2XDRF84l1YVIs01BrdW/s400/DSC_0392-1.JPG" border="0" /></a><br />Monarch butterfly and honey bee on aster blossoms at Deanna Rose Farmstead, Overland Park, KS; Carpenter bee on basil blossom in Johnson County, KS, garden<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvx_xVOvegA14TEyFzq42Cd7RMFb1jL2lbmdcTKxgIUzku8m_uavLgPDUsRQcsQtnStAe1jEW7ZGcZaWQubJerBHlctVU1shBfkMRNSTYNtplJ8eciTzSIO-qhpGqt30teyyKd4HhwLQ5Y/s1600-h/DSC_0402-1.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_" style="CLEAR: both; FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvx_xVOvegA14TEyFzq42Cd7RMFb1jL2lbmdcTKxgIUzku8m_uavLgPDUsRQcsQtnStAe1jEW7ZGcZaWQubJerBHlctVU1shBfkMRNSTYNtplJ8eciTzSIO-qhpGqt30teyyKd4HhwLQ5Y/s400/DSC_0402-1.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDOJemx_RuYa4n4AfJA_Bg3HoM4fpS_rJEj6-3_9F40M1eN7UJOCIL8iqqDCHsaWyJFfowov9rq9VcDtgHTtAKscM19XYHUuODAP-cP6QmQgq-bGAO6NEw9IgI3U_kBk6MlVogtq0efiu8/s1600-h/DSC_0284-1.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_" style="CLEAR: both; 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padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /></a></div>Kansas City Observerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17476897368516656564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221603658468145366.post-58882772707036445352007-09-22T08:14:00.000-05:002008-12-12T01:40:51.464-06:00Pollinator Garden at KU<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5DDWS3kI3lFd72vVg48x76O0V9KrPU02rYZDsWORW2B-VJUnMStUUotHFzJ_xlQziC53VqTgMzQc4uYIoGgf4tkOjZQMzqwr0SEMQJb21Dm2fIc6ycnrIXqoLkf_f-Z5_GbaFW9e8hxMu/s1600-h/DSC_0941.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_" style="CLEAR: both; FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5DDWS3kI3lFd72vVg48x76O0V9KrPU02rYZDsWORW2B-VJUnMStUUotHFzJ_xlQziC53VqTgMzQc4uYIoGgf4tkOjZQMzqwr0SEMQJb21Dm2fIc6ycnrIXqoLkf_f-Z5_GbaFW9e8hxMu/s400/DSC_0941.JPG" border="0" /></a> <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuG9gb07nEdBL-r_BPUhkN4zwOtp1hUCDUV1ELHjOjM-kT7lSPs-zlW09WuiHyk6uWCcq8ParNp_-VlbmhAzCI9BXLQiptyp9b2eBfeQSC0Mfk1zT2206IC1P5TT8zz_IlFWJoAgsXqemf/s1600-h/DSC_0946.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_" style="CLEAR: both; 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FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXGTjiPkZ8AM4hVWLqxGuN6mIIffVZSM5uvoww00Sz0YUjPc1IwnkRuYB3TTvbgYuuaPUuBMveDBXxD2J-m1syHf72WZvvCPwmSXiCNUDexkaHlARL9kWbrQu85BogN9zFoZP6oWQniDPX/s400/DSC_1012.JPG" border="0" /></a><div style='clear:both; text-align:RIGHT'><a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'><img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /></a></div>Kansas City Observerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17476897368516656564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221603658468145366.post-82772004338028630432007-09-12T18:59:00.000-05:002008-12-12T01:40:52.220-06:00Natural Trap Cave, Big Horn Mountains, Wyoming<div align="left"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj5UBo73atBmYjOY253yJL42umiPbRWA1vXAy7hNqYFNw2eXwz3LcR8lukAiRZy-7ve7WuE_LTTtlTMxNUVUmnlHgwso_Yc9u4ZljfALvR7AWFL9qjkpaHMqvtCmaghfscZanbZeDJFKfd/s1600-h/image.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_" style="CLEAR: both; FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj5UBo73atBmYjOY253yJL42umiPbRWA1vXAy7hNqYFNw2eXwz3LcR8lukAiRZy-7ve7WuE_LTTtlTMxNUVUmnlHgwso_Yc9u4ZljfALvR7AWFL9qjkpaHMqvtCmaghfscZanbZeDJFKfd/s400/image.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><strong>In the Pleistocene Epoch, thousands of mammals fell into this cave, an 85-foot-deep karst limestone sinkhole on the western slope of the Big Horn Mountains in north-central Wyoming. Larry Martin, a vertebrate paleontologist from the University of Kansas, was one of the scientists leading this dig in the mid-1970s. Among the more than 30,000 specimens recovered were the bones from animals now extinct, such as mammoths, camels, American lions, woodland musk oxen, cheetahs, dire wolves, short-faced bears and four kinds of horses.</strong><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinT6PDKxCog1Y_cEXYbVVtz_VnaFmqQHfhPlu0xQytlUnuBF-Dy7ppZEooPtdk9bpKQ1tSPd8gDyIV3lPor041diqwvF-9SMX9F8KbzXVu4Y4xc7IZ799NUseIpqKG8FUwWKox73y0Nxaj/s1600-h/image.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_" style="CLEAR: both; FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinT6PDKxCog1Y_cEXYbVVtz_VnaFmqQHfhPlu0xQytlUnuBF-Dy7ppZEooPtdk9bpKQ1tSPd8gDyIV3lPor041diqwvF-9SMX9F8KbzXVu4Y4xc7IZ799NUseIpqKG8FUwWKox73y0Nxaj/s400/image.jpg" border="0" /></a> <strong>The dining tent at Armpit Camp was the gathering spot for lectures, meals, job assignments and for work on sorting the vast number of tiny bones from the dig.</strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8qOvja4K5HmkLzBmzCMZH9-XQABuyTKL7_1tcro0WF_zVTuCbHAVEujvbpZFb08Z-GaJF5PukFodny1mJ9mr3PVeIbeZoh-bHTF1A1Z0iP0JDmttF_fE0ngDKaItMUP4A2jkt_yWNtF2u/s1600-h/image.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_" style="CLEAR: both; FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8qOvja4K5HmkLzBmzCMZH9-XQABuyTKL7_1tcro0WF_zVTuCbHAVEujvbpZFb08Z-GaJF5PukFodny1mJ9mr3PVeIbeZoh-bHTF1A1Z0iP0JDmttF_fE0ngDKaItMUP4A2jkt_yWNtF2u/s400/image.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><strong>Larry Martin, in a hard hat, digs in a pit in the Natural Trap.</strong> <a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /></a></div>Kansas City Observerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17476897368516656564noreply@blogger.com0