I had an insight about living in a cage today. It wasn’t fun. I got the dreaded jury duty summons. I was apprehensive, yet excited to learn more about the judicial process. So, at 8:30 a.m. I, along with possibly 200 other people, entered the court house to serve my county. We all were funneled into [...]
Thursday, July 30, 2009
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Straight from January 21, 2009 Telegraph.co.uk “A football match between Hatfield Town and Hertford Heath fell into chaos, we report, when a parrot that a woman in the crowd had brought along imitated the referee’s whistle, with devastating accuracy. Fortunately, the smooth running of the sport as a whole is not threatened, since the proportion of [...]
Thursday, July 30, 2009
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PAT MCCOID; pat.mccoid@thenewstribune.com Published: November 9th, 2008 12:30 AM Mira Tweti heaps so much praise on parrots in “Of Parrots and People” that readers might want to bring one home. That’s exactly what she hopes to prevent. Tweti reveals parrots to be human-like in their intelligence, vocabulary skills and social sensibilities – traits that have doomed them to [...]
Thursday, July 30, 2009
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