You see these things around you all the time. Some of them, you even use. The least you could do is know their names!
1. Punt, or Kick
The small indentation at the bottom or a wine bottle, designed to give the bottle extra strength, and also, to make it look like it has more wine than it really does.
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What is a lay person, such as myself, suppose to do with this conflicting information?
“Hackers broke into the electronic files of one of the world's foremost climate research centers this week and posted an array of e-mails in which prominent scientists engaged in a blunt discussion of global warming research and disparaged climate-change skeptics.”
Go to this Washington Post article via MSNBC
Eleven 7-11s in the United States and two in Canada have been converted into Kwik-E-Marts as part of the promotion.DCist has their very own Kwik-E-Mart in Bladensburg, MD.
Go to what’s the crack? for more information and some more cool pictures.
Warning: I’m not sure how old this news is.
I think this program has some merit, but I’m concerned it might take funds that could be used to treat the thousands of troops that need help right now.
While there is an awareness of PTSD (unlike when I was serving)it doesn’t change the fact the VA is overwhelmed with disability claims and doctors to treat the condition.
In my opinion you put the fire out first, then you go back and try to figure out a way to keep it from happening again.
"Right now, we can't determine with certainty who will and who won't develop PTSD," said Paula Schnurr, deputy executive director of the Department of Veterans Affairs' National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. "Perhaps with better measures, we can get closer."
Go to AP News Via Yahoo News to read the whole story.
I have, years ago. He was living with some pot belly pigs right here in McKinleyville.
But I digress.
Don’t miss this Sunday’s Opinion Page in the Times-Standard.
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While slurping my first (or was it my second?) cup of Joe this morning I ran across this interesting tidbit about Sea Lions and Dolphins being used for security.
I have a few questions to ask the Navy about this arrangement.
1.Did you properly vet the Sea Lions and Dolphins to make sure they’re not terrorist sympathizers?
2.How much are you paying them? They better be getting combat pay!
3.Do they understand the rules of engagement? For example, are they going to attack ANY SWIMMER in their immediate area? Or are they just going to attack swimmers that wear turbans and have long beards?
4.Will they be volunteers or draftees?
5.How long will their tour of duty be? Will they be subject to repeated tours like the men and women in the military? And what about R&R?
I’m just saying…
“The Navy says it has decided to use teams of security officers and specially trained bottlenose dolphins and California sea lions to help protect Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor.
The Navy said Wednesday the system is designed to counter threats from swimmers or divers, and will be implemented in 2010.
An environmental-impact statement evaluated the potential effects temperature, noise, water quality, toxins and the presence of other marine mammals might have on the dolphins and sea lions. It concluded that the creatures are not expected to be harmed by being transferred to and living at Bangor on Washington's Hood Canal.”
AP News
How sad is that? What a sick society we live in now.
“ Starry-eyed children writing letters to the jolly man at the North Pole this holiday season likely won't get a response from Santa Claus or his helpers.”
Read the whole story at USA Today.
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