FINEST KIND CLINIC AND FISHMARKET.... Discussing medicine, culture, and the joys of cooking Pansit.
all the reviewers hated the film:| |
Agricultural Research Service (ARS) researchers have identified a new strain of swine influenza -- H2N3 -- that belongs to the group of H2 influenza viruses that last infected humans during the 1957 pandemic. This new strain has a molecular twist: It is composed of avian and swine influenza genes.
Bird flu is also bad news for poutry farms in Asia...Poultry is about 1% of the economy, but farmers who have to cull their poultry can end up bankrupt...not to mention the anguish in being forced to kill one's favorite fighting cock....and in the UK, turkey culls to prevent spread have made the traditional Turkey dinner expensive..
It's a cat bum pencil sharpener!
Insert your pencil where the sun doesn’t normally shine and it meeeeeows. Well, you would too!
heh....you could've fooled me...
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The next health fad: The Medieval Diet...
"If you put this together with the incredible work load, medieval man was at much less risk of coronary heart disease and diabetes than we are today," said Dr Henderson.
On the other hand:"...Many, especially adult women who had entered menstruation, given birth to babies and so lost considerable amounts of blood on a regular basis, were anemic. An unbalanced diet low in iodine led to goiter, thyroid malfunctions, and contributed to a high percentage of miscarriages and birth defects. Lack of vitamin-rich vegetables during much of the year led to bad teeth and crooked legs (rickets), as well as a host of skin diseases such as beri-beri and scurvy. A diet low in protein resulted in weak bones and muscles...."
I know they say that Jesus is always with us, but this is ridiculous! Whenever my car gets foggy and the defogger hasn't kicked in yet, Jesus appears on my back window... I guess just to make sure I'm not driving recklessly...
Cartalk podcast HERE
along with other NPR podcasts
A Zeus letter opener...
"...A cloned Turkish Angola kitten, left, gives off a red fluorescence glow while an ordinary one appears to be green in this picture taken under ultraviolet light at a laboratory of Gyeongsang National University in Jinju, South Gyeongsang Province, Wednesday. The cloned cat’s genes were modified with a fluorescent protein. / Yonhap"
Hassan Askari (r.) came to the rescue of a Jewish girl who was attacked by ten thugs.
Amazon.com Product Description
The company has about 755,000 customers at retail, which means that 31 percent of their customers are freezing in the dark.
Their current estimate for full restoration is "between 7 and 10 days," which, considering the sheer massiveness of the storm, is possibly a shade optimistic, even with a thousand people working in the field. I've pretty much decided that if mine goes out, I'm going to think seriously about leaving town for a week. I'm not expecting it to, though: next door has about half a foot of tree-induced deflection in their line, and they've still got the lights on.
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Tick tick tick tick...92nd death from bird flu in Indonesia...Boyd said a member of the church who volunteers as a security guard shot and killed the gunman. The guard was identified Monday by Colorado Springs police asJeanne Assam, 42.
"When the shots were fired, she rushed toward the scene and encountered the attacker there in a hallway. He never got more than 50 feet inside our building," Boyd said. "There could have been a great loss of life yesterday, and she probably saved over 100 lives."
the American Red Cross, and the Pitney Bowes Corporation, will accept such mail for the Christmas season, assign a name to it, and get it delivered. Such mail should be sent (and arrive no later than December 27th) to:
We Support You During Your Recovery!
c/o American Red Cross
P.O. Box 419
Savage, MD 20763-0419
31% of China’s 1.05 billion adults consider themselves religious
200m of them are Buddhists or Taoists
40m the estimated population of Christians in China
1-2% are Muslims
