THE PRICE OF THE FRIST-CLASS STAMP IS GOING UP AGAIN! BEGINNING MAY 12TH THE COST WILL BE 42CENTS. THE LAST INCREASE OF 2 CENTS WAS ONLY LAST YEAR MAY 14TH. SO STOCK UP ON THE FOREVER STAMP. FUNNY HOW THE PRICE KEEPS GOING UP, AND THE SERVICE KEEPS GOING DOWN.
CIAO!
Happy Chinese New Year!
Caution will be the watch word for the Year of the Rat,
the new lunar year that begins today, as Chinese fortune teller
predicts financial and political rumblings, tsunamis and epidemics in
the year ahead.
Chinese New Year or Spring Festival is them most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. It is sometimes called the Lunar New Year especially by people outside China. It is an important holiday in east Asia. The festival traditionally begins on the first day of the first lunar month in the Chinese calendar and ends on the 15th; this day is called Lantern Festival.
Goodbye 再见
It's SUPER TUESDAY. So get out and VOTE, make your voice heard.
Ciao!
ROBERT JAMES "BOBBY" FISCHER, KNOWN FOR HIS CHESS PLAYING SKILLS AS A TEENAGER HAS PASSED WAY, HE WAS 65.
Several older residents of Coeurd'alene, Idaho are protesting plans to open a funeral home across the street from a senior center, saying it would be a little too close for comfort.
About 100 people have signed a petition calling on the City Council to deny James Apser and Mary Hansen, partners in Aspen Funeral Home L.L.C., a special use permit giving them the right to lease the building across the street from the Lake City Senior Center as a funeral home. They plan to present the petition at a Feb. 5 hearing on the matter. I think it's a great idea. The people at the senior center can plan ahead. Better safe than sorry.
Ciao!
Call it the cuckoo of butterflies.
Like the well-known birds, the Alcon blue butterfly has found a way to get others to raise its offspring.
Researchers in Denmark report that the large blue butterfly has managed to produce larvae with a chemical coating similar to that of the local Myrmica rubra ants.
The butterflies deposit their larvae on marsh gentian plants where exploring ants find them, identify the chemical coating and take the butterfly larvae back to the ant colony and feed then until they grow up and leave, the researchers reported in Thursday's edition of the journal Science.
The researchers also note that elsewhere in Europe the Alcon butterfly uses a different ant species to raise its young.
If only we could do that with our young. Life would so much easier.
Ciao!
When the Associated Press recently took a survey of which 2008 Presidential candidate would make the scariest Halloween costume, 37% said Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and 14% said former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Dang, I thought I would be the cutest costume this year. I guess I better re-think the costume.
Ciao!
They're back! So get ready for the hot and sexy plastic surgeons Christian Troy and Sean McNamara on Tuesday, OCTOBER 30th on FX. They have moved to Hollywood, CA, home of plastic surgery, they couldn't have picked a better location. I guess you can't keep a good surgeon down or the fans
satisfied. We just wanted more!!
The Maine School district makes King Middle School the first middle school in Maine to make contraceptives available to students in grades six through eight. Middle school students will be able to get birth control pills and patches at their student health center. There are no national figures on how many middle school's, where most students range in age 11 to 13, provide such services. A Portland Oregon school committee recently voted against the proposal, saying they felt that providing the birth control was a parental responsibility. Opponents cited religious and health objections. Another opponent said he felt it violated the rights of parents and puts students at risk of cancer because of the hormones in the pill. A supporter said there are many students who can't discuss these things with their parents. Condoms have been available since 2000 to King students who have parental permission to be treated at it's student health center. About one-fourth of students health centers that serve at least one grade of adolescents 11 and older dispense some form of contraception, said the Washington based organization that represents more than 1,700 school-based centers nationwide. At King Middle School, birth control prescriptions will be given after a student undergoes a physical exam by a physician or nurse practitioner. Students treated at the centers must first get written parental permission, but under state law such treatment is confidential and the students decide for themselves whether to tell parents about the services they receive. WHAT! So why the permission then. Five of the 134 students who visited Kings health center during the 2006-07 school year reported having sexual intercourse. What do you think?
Idon't know how old this is, but I just got it in an e-mail today. The 911 operator was a good sport.
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