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Great!!! love to seve giggles!!
Happy Bird!!
New Bridge
Chongqing, China, October 29, 2007—Thousands of spectators crowded the Caiyuanba Bridge over the Yangtze River on the first day the structure opened to traffic.
The bridge cost two billion yuan (about 268 million U.S. dollars) and took four years to build.
A mix of tunnels and flyovers with an unusual arch and cable construction, the bridge spans a record 1,377 feet (420 meters).
Chongqing's location on both the Yangtze and Jialing Rivers has helped
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/11/photogalleries/wip-week53/photo6.html
New Bridge
Chongqing, China, October 29, 2007—Thousands of spectators crowded the Caiyuanba Bridge over the Yangtze River on the first day the structure opened to traffic.
The bridge cost two billion yuan (about 268 million U.S. dollars) and took four years to build.
A mix of tunnels and flyovers with an unusual arch and cable construction, the bridge spans a record 1,377 feet (420 meters).
Chongqing's location on both the Yangtze and Jialing Rivers has helped
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/11/photogalleries/wip-week53/photo6.html
Hi Drummer,
I like his country.... thanks
Joke for thanksgiving
Subject: Jewish Peddler
I hope this makes you laugh!
Yankel
Goldstein, in his late 80s and still
gainfully employed as a ribbon salesman,
has been
trying, unsuccessfully, to sell ribbon to Macy's for
many years.
Last week, he made another attempt to
speak with the anti-Semitic buyer.
"Goldstein," the buyer says, "you've been trying
to sell me ribbon
for at least 25 years. Now is your
chance. Send me enough yellow ribbon to
reach from the
tip of your nose to the tip of your penis."
Three
days later, four tractor trailers full of
yellow ribbon drive up to Macy's
receiving dock. The
ribbon buyer goes ballistic. He calls Goldstein
and
yells, "What's going on??? I only ordered enough
yellow ribbon to
reach from the tip of your nose to
the tip of your penis, and you send me
four truck
loads full of it!"
Goldstein replies calmly: "The tip of my
penis is in Poland
On the first day, God created the dog and said:
'Sit all day by the door of your house and bark at anyone who comes in or walks past. For this, I will give you a life span of twenty years.'
The dog said: 'That's a long time to be barking. How about only ten years and I'll give you back the other ten?'
So God agreed.
On the second day, God created the monkey and said:
'Entertain people, do tricks, and make them laugh. For this, I'll give you a twenty-year life span.'
The monkey said: 'Monkey tricks for twenty years? That's a pretty long time to perform. How about I give you back ten like the dog did?'
And God agreed.
On the third day, God created the cow and said:
'You must go into the field with the farmer all day long and suffer under the sun, have calves and give milk to support the farmer's family For this, I will give you a life span of sixty y ears.'
The cow said: 'That's kind of a tough life you want me to live for sixty years. How about twenty and I'll give back the other forty?'
And God agreed again.
On the fourth day, God created man and said:
'Eat, sleep, play , marry and enjoy your life. For this, I'll give you twenty years.'
But man said: 'Only twenty years? Could you possibly give me my twenty, the forty the cow gave back, the ten the monkey gave back, and the ten the dog gave back; that makes eighty, okay?'
'Okay,' said God, 'You asked for it.'
So that is why for our first twenty years we eat, sleep, play and enjoy ourselves. For the next forty years we slave in the sun to support our family. For the next ten years we do monkey tricks to entertain the grandchildren. And for the last ten years we sit on the front porch and bark at everyone.
Life has now been explained to you...
I wonder if those gals had a green card?
99Dan,
what an awful clip ((Dan,
it never occurs to people that those glasses aren't strilized!!
Makes my car look better.....to sleep in..LOL
Hi Dubi,
the hardest part is realizing powerlessness,
over that first puff.. lol
I know you will succeed!!
Have a sweet weekend...
Life
must have left some brain,
on the road... ROTF
You a smoker Midas???
this is a great time to be a quitter!!
Hang in there. ....you can do it....
Been on the road a bit,,,
this is a great link for boomers...
http://weblogs.newsday.com/news/opinion/walthandelsman/blog/2007/11/animation_baby_boomers.html
wow...
Life
Saw it on TV this morning,
sweet cow got shot...
Retirement Plan
If you had purchased $1000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would
now be worth $49.00.
With Enron, you would have had $16.50 left of the original $1000.00.
With WorldCom, you would have had less than $5.00 left.
If you had purchased $1000 of Delta Air Lines stock you would have $49.00 left.
But, if you had purchased $1,000.00 worth of beer one year ago, drank
all the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling
REFUND, you would have had $214.00. Based on the above, the best
current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle.
It's called the 401-Keg Plan.
Blasts clear dikes to restore Oregon marshland
By JEFF BARNARD
The Associated Press
Explosives breached the Williamson River Delta Preserve levees to restore marshland for endangered fish, sacred to the Klamath Tribes, at Agency Lake near Chiloquin, Ore., on Tuesday.
CHILOQUIN, Ore. — Explosives sent clouds of dirt sky-high Tuesday, breaching dikes to restore marshland for endangered fish at the heart of a long, bitter battle over water in the Klamath Basin.
The charges of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil spaced 10 feet apart along two miles of earthen dike allowed water to start dribbling into 2,500 acres of the Williamson River Delta.
By spring, what used to be among the most productive farmland in the region is expected to be flooded.
It marked the culmination of 12 years of work to overcome animosities among farmers, Indians and conservation groups and to improve Upper Klamath Lake for Lost River suckers and shortnose suckers.
The fish are sacred to the Klamath Tribes. As endangered species, their water needs have twice forced shut-offs of irrigation to most of the 1,400 farms on the Klamath Reclamation Project, which covers 180,000 acres of high desert straddling the California-Oregon border east of the Cascade Range.
The most recent shut-off, in 2001, drew national attention again this year when The Washington Post reported that Vice President Dick Cheney took a hand in getting the water turned on for the benefit of farmers.
One of their leaders said Tuesday that farmers hoped all sides would recognize sacrifices being made in the basin.
"This particular site has been viewed by so many as so important [to the ecological restoration of the basin] that the agricultural community was able set aside those feelings that we are losing our foothold here," said John Crawford of Tule Lake, Calif.
"We all recognize that for all of us to coexist here, there have to be sacrifices made on all sides," he said. "As long as we are making the sacrifices on the part of the native species here ... the members of the environmental community and members of the tribal communities have to acknowledge and support the idea that the remaining acres of agriculture have to remain viable."
The Nature Conservancy bought the land, known as Tulana Farms, in 1996 for $5 million with money from corporations and the federal government.
It is part of a series of marshland-restoration projects on the northern end of Upper Klamath Lake that will ultimately approach 20,000 acres. The lake is the primary reservoir of the irrigation system.
In the 1950s, when the suckers still were plentiful in the lake, farmers diked and pumped the water off the delta where the Williamson River flows into Upper Klamath Lake. They grew potatoes, wheat, barley and alfalfa.
Joe Kirk, chairman of the Klamath Tribes, said he remembers being a first-grader in 1950, taking his Radio Flyer wagon to the river and filling it with suckers, known in the Klamath language as "chwam."
Kirk said he was optimistic the many restoration efforts, including those by the tribes, would one day allow the tribe again to harvest the chwam.
The restored marsh will provide 2,500 acres of refuge for hundreds of thousands of larval suckers migrating from spawning beds to feed and hide from predators before moving into Upper Klamath Lake.
The marsh also will filter agricultural waste carried by rain runoff into Upper Klamath Lake and ultimately the Klamath River, benefiting salmon as well as suckers, said Mark Stern, a biologist for the Nature Conservancy.
The lake and river are plagued by algae fed by agricultural runoff.
The expansion of the lake also adds storage capacity that will allow more water for irrigation as well as fish.
The blasts opened the northern half of the delta bordering Agency Lake. The southern half bordering Upper Klamath Lake will be blasted in a year or so, bringing to 5,800 acres the marshland restored. About 700 acres will remain in farmland growing organic alfalfa, said Stern.
The delta restoration was identified by the National Academy of Sciences and local people on a panel created by former Sen. Mark Hatfield as one of the top priorities for restoring natural systems to the Upper Klamath Basin.
Over the past century, 350,000 acres of marsh in the Upper Klamath Basin was reduced to less than 75,000 by farmers and federal agencies building dikes to create rich farmland.
In 1992, biologists realized that few suckers were growing to be adults, and declared them both endangered species due to loss of habitat, poor water quality, and overfishing.
The Klamath Reclamation Project shut off water in 1992 and 2001 to most of the farms. Meanwhile, declining salmon runs in the Klamath River forced huge cutbacks in commercial salmon fishing.
Despite $500,000 in federal funds spent on various projects, the level of Upper Klamath lake last summer came within less than an inch of dropping so far that irrigation water again had to be shut off.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003986669_klamathblast01m.html
She is so amazing,,,,
Thanks excel.. :)
I do, in January you say?
Sounds great.... they are awesome
That is a very good point,
i need to think on that!! lol
That is a riot!!!
I think I have heard of him.
Thanks for the news...
That is a great graphic BnB
Thanks..that news is very visual
wonder what is going to happen?
How brave that clown is!!!
mortality, what a concept...
Radiohead is another
great band that has pay what you want for
their new download, and I must say, I like it..
It said lbs., but it is really $$$..
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1666973,00.html
I used to listen to the Corrs, aren't they from England?
Was that to get money from IRS?
What's goin on,
good jokes today!!
Shabbat Shalom everyone
Hi Fred,
Just got it the other day..
how about this silly one..
Miami Hurricane Fan FAN!!!
A Miami Hurricane fan is drinking in a New York bar, when he gets a
call on his cell phone. He hangs up, grinning from ear to ear, and orders a
round of drinks for everybody in the bar, announcing his wife has just given
birth to a typical Miami Hurricane baby boy weighing 25 pounds.
Nobody can believe that any new baby can weigh in at
25 pounds, but the Cane fan just shrugs and replies, "That's about
average back home, folks, like I said, my boy's a typical Miami Hurricane
baby boy. Gonna be a Miami Hurricane football player."
Congratulations showered him from all around, amid many exclamations
of "WOW!" One woman actually fainted due to sympathy
pains.
Two weeks later, he returns to the bar. The bartender says, "Say,
aren't you the father of that typical Miami Hurricane baby that weighed
25 pounds at birth? Everybody's been making bets about how big he'd be
in two weeks. So, how much does he weigh now?"
The proud father answers, "Seventeen pounds." The bartender is
puzzled, concerned and a little suspicious.
"What happened? He already weighed 25 pounds the day he was born!"
The Miami father takes a slow swig of his beer, wipes his lips on his
shirtsleeve, leans into the bartender and proudly says, "Had him
circumcised."
Hi guys,
just got an old joke...
Morty visits the veterinarian in Delray Beach and says, "My dog has a problem."
The doctor replies, "So tell me about the dog's problem."
"First you should know, he's a Jewish dog. His name is Irving and he can talk," says Morty.
"He can talk?", the doubtful doctor asks.
"Watch this!" Morty points to the dog and commands: " Irving , Fetch!"
Irving , the dog, begins to walk toward the door, then turns around and
demands, "So why are you talking to me like
that? You order me around like I'm nothing. And you only call me when you
want something. And then you make me sleep on the floor, with my arthritis. You give me this fahkahkta food with all the salt and fat, and
you tell me it's a special diet. It tastes like dreck! YOU should eat it yourself!
And do you ever take me for a decent walk? NO, it's out of the house, a short pish, and right back home. Maybe if I could stretch out a
little, the sciatica wouldn't kill me so much! I should roll over and play dead for real for all you care!"
The Doctor is amazed. "This is remarkable! What could be the problem?"
Morty says, "Obviously, he has a hearing problem! I said 'Fetch', not
'Kvetch'
Sorry if it is TOO old!!! Lol
The jokes were really great guys!!
thanks for the giggles!
I heard about the superbug
this morning on the radio. That is scarey.
I also know that in other countries, the windows in hospitals
are open and their incident of infections are lower. anyone else hear that?
all our antibacterial stuff is like bugs lifing wieghts!! lol
This drove me crazy
http://members.iinet.net.au/~pontipak/redsquare.html
Horray New Mexico!!!
More options for the uninsured
Jane Phillips/The New Mexican
Christina Armijo, 23, hangs out with her sister, Marisol Ituarte, 8, after school. Armijo rarely went to the doctor because of the cost, but that has changed under the State Coverage Insurance program, one of several state-sponsored health insurance initiatives.
Several state-sponsored initiatives are giving low-income New Mexicans a chance at something many have never experienced — health insurance
By Diana Del Mauro | The New Mexican
10/13/2007
When Christina Armijo turned 19, she awoke to a new reality: life without health insurance.
During her childhood, Armijo was insured through Medicaid, but the state and federally funded program, which is predominantly for pregnant women and children, expired when she became an adult.
Over the past four years, Armijo has managed the best she could on meager income from her job as a home-health aide. But her own health problems worsened and she had to cut back to six hours a week.
Not quite 5 feet tall, Armijo weighs 270 pounds. With a body mass index of 56, she is considered morbidly obese. She uses oxygen at night and takes medication for swelling in her legs, high blood pressure and pain.
She rarely went to the doctor because of the cost.
But this year, Armijo's aunt told her about the State Coverage Insurance program, one of several state-sponsored health insurance initiatives. And she began seeing a doctor regularly again.
After a slow start, these new plans are starting to catch on with people who have lived for long periods of time without health insurance, often foregoing timely medical care.
'A cultural change'
New Mexico has the second highest rate of uninsured people in the nation. In 2004, Gov. Bill Richardson set out to increase the number of insured in the state. He established the Insure New Mexico Council, a group of problem-solvers from state government, the private insurance industry and business, and charged them with figuring out how to provide working adults with affordable health care coverage, and how to persuade small businesses and nonprofits to offer it.
Over a two-year period, the council lobbied for new insurance laws and designed products such as SCI for small employers and low-income U.S. citizens living in the state.
The cost of the new products is shared by the federal government, the state, the employer and the employee. But several factors kept them from being an overnight success.
People who never had health insurance do not always understand the value. Those who are busy don't want to fill out forms and stand in line at a government office every year to prove their qualifications. And people in the medical community accept patients without really understanding how the plans work.
Also, some of the products had to be fine-tuned before they could become attractive, and the state had to find effective ways to market them.
Now enrollment in SCI, the product Armijo uses, is growing steadily — in part because of a price cut the Legislature approved and in part because insurance agents have been trained to promote SCI to small businesses and are traveling around the state to explain it.
Both changes are new this year.
SCI is available to people who earn up to 200 percent of the federal poverty level. It covers preventive care as well as diagnostics, doctor visits, hospital visits, behavior health care and prescriptions.
Hundreds of new people are enrolling monthly. According to the New Mexico Human Services Department, 8,622 people are participating in SCI.
Armijo said she liked the price — $75 a month — and the choice of three insurance companies. In January, she signed up with Presbyterian Health Plan.
The deal got even sweeter in August, when the state lowered the cost for people with incomes less than 100 percent of the federal poverty level. Now Armijo pays no monthly fee. Prescriptions are just $3, and doctor office visits are free.
Enrollees can share the monthly cost with their employer — or apply for SCI benefits as an individual. Small employers, with 50 or fewer workers, pay a monthly premium up to $75 per worker; each worker pitches in up to $35 per month.
But there's more selling to be done. The Human Services Department estimates 84,000 adults would be eligible for the new premium discount — the bulk of them in the 18 to 34 age group. The challenge is to get them signed up.
"Granted, the system is not perfect yet because it is new," said Debbie Righter, an insurance agent based in Albuquerque. "It's just now getting what we would call take up, where people are actually enrolling. And they're beginning to use it and they like it, and they're telling their friends and neighbors and everybody about it. This is a cultural change, and it's starting to move."
Righter, who argues that SCI is even a better deal than depending on indigent funds, added, "Once you've had insurance and you've seen the benefit of it, you'll never go back to being without. But if you've never had something, you don't know what you're missing."
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local%20News/More_options_for_the_uninsured
That sucks.. only the wealthy get to play there...
I can;t stand how affluence and arrogance will ruin the planet...
Thanks Dubi,
I just watched a movie named "The Black Book".
It is a story about a girl named Rachel Stein, and how she served her people in Holland in 1935.. really great
story about courage,and strength.
Thanks Dubi,
I just watched a movie named "The Black Book".
It is a story about a girl named Rachel Stein, and how she served her people in Holland in 1935.. really great
story about courage, and strength. I can't imagine.
I don't know
how to think about this..
so many defective products lately...
Space Currency-- let's ruin Space
A model holds a Quid—or Quasi Universal Intergalalatic Denomination—the world's first space currency in this undated photo released on October 4.
Designed for the foreign exchange company Travelex by scientists from Britain's National Space Centre and the University of Leicester, the currency can withstand the stresses and extreme environments of space.
The coins are made of a polymer, like that used in nonstick pans, and have no sharp edges or chemicals that could harm space travelers.
"None of the existing payment systems we use on earth—like cash, credit or debit cards—could be used in space," said Professor George Fraser from the University of Leicester, told the BBC.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/10/photogalleries/wip-week49/photo2.html
Thanks excel,
you are so right, health IS everything!!
He was really a good senator,Again thanks,
Love ya' Life
so true, heads are definately gonna bleed!!!!