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By Janet Evans
Thursday, Dec 11 2008, 05:37 PM
African and Asian Elephants
You have to wonder...
Does a captive elephant remember? Does he remember his freedom?
When I have ever visited a zoo, there are certain animals that it bothers me to see penned up more than others. Elephants have always been one of those. An elephant is meant to wander for food; not stay sedentary.
A debatable report has come out that states an elephant's lifespan is shortened by living in a zoo. It's not surprising to me.
I enjoy looking at an elephant just as much as the next person, but maybe I should have to be the one who should have to travel to the elephants' environment rather than the elephant having to come to mine. Born free...live free.
"Living in a zoo drastically shortens the lives of Asian and African elephants, possibly because of the effects of stress and obesity, researchers are reporting.
But their work provoked a sharp response from the Association of Zoos and Aquariums.
The researchers are not recommending that zoos abandon elephants, said Georgia J. Mason, a leader of the work and an expert on animal behavior at the University of Guelph, in Ontario. But she said their findings suggested that imports of elephants should be limited to zoos that can identify and treat their problems, that transfers between zoos be minimized and that breeding efforts be limited to zoos with a record of success. "
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By Janet Evans
Wednesday, Dec 10 2008, 12:12 PM
But how will we show we love them back?
It seems the first thing we had better do is start protecting them.
The World Health Organization (WHO) is reporting that accidents, not disease, ACCIDENTS, are causing 830,000 deaths of children worldwide a year. And what's the top accident on the list? That would be deaths from auto accidents. 8,000 U.S. children die annually from auto accidents.
Surprisingly to me, Africa has the most "accidental" deaths of children. I suppose I would be interested in seeing what is classified as an accidental death; but it's just disturbing that there are so many, period. It's just shocking.
Africa has the highest rate overall for accidental deaths. The incidence there is 10 times higher than in high-income countries such as Australia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden and the United Kingdom, which have the lowest rates of child injury, according to the report.
Around 95 percent of the deaths occurred in the developing world, mostly in Africa, but the problem is acute in richer nations as well where deaths from accidents disproportionately affect the poor.
About half of these deaths could be prevented by expanding the use of car seats, covering wells and pools of water in areas where children play, erecting barriers to keep young people from road construction and other proven measures, the joint report from the WHO and the United Nation's Children's Fund found.
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By Janet Evans
Friday, Nov 21 2008, 12:48 PM
This time thanks to the Aussie's.
What can I say, the topic is out there and it’s part of life. It cannot be ignored.
When I heard there was talk of a toilet tax, I wondered if you had heard the poop on that…
And besides that, "experts" dont want "flushing" toilets anymore.
What's the world coming to?
"As the world celebrates World Toilet Day today, sanitation experts have called for the end of the flushing dunny to save water and provide fertilizer for crops.
Leading health advocates have called for the use of "dry" toilets which separate urine from faeces and remove the need to flush. Speaking at the recent World Toilet Summit in Macau, World Toilet Organisation founder Jack Sims said the concept of the flushing toilet was unsustainable."
Enough of that...you'll have to finish reading this article by clicking HERE
And take a look at some "weird" toilet designs
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By Janet Evans
Thursday, Nov 13 2008, 06:45 AM
I'm worried about issues with Obama being president, but this isn't one of them...
Of course, now that Obama is going to be president, he has so-called relatives coming out of the woodwork. It doesn't surprise me and it doesn't suprise me in the least that there would be those who say they are "Arab" relatives. I suppose there will be more of this to come during the next four years....But does it matter? He has been elected president and come on...we know his citizenship has been verified.
"Now Barack Obama is being claimed by not one but as many as 8,000 Beduin tribesmen in northern Israel.
Although the spokesman for the lost tribe of Obama has yet to reveal the documentary evidence that he says he possesses to support his claim, people are flocking from across the region to pay their respects to the “Beduin Obama”, whose social standing has gone through the roof.
“We knew about it years ago but we were afraid to talk about it because we didn’t want to influence the election,” Abdul Rahman Sheikh Abdullah, a 53-year-old local council member, told The Times in the small Beduin village of Bir al-Maksour in the Israeli region of Galilee. “We wrote a letter to him explaining the family connection.”
Read the entire article HERE
Actually, I think many people would be amazed that the origin of their name may come up in the Middle East and Europe with links in one way or another from a very long time ago. People were every transient .
So, as long as a certain guy who has been hiding in the mountains for eight years doesn't start making accusations...I'm sure we'll be okay on this one.
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By Janet Evans
Monday, Oct 6 2008, 11:53 AM
Photo Daily Telegraph UK
Miguel Caballero is called the Armani of armour
It was all the rage in fashion shows this summer…bullet-proof designer clothing..sold to 16 countries.
Why not? If it’s better to be safe than sorry in the crime world, you may as well look good.
South Africa, Columbia..now Mexico….it’s getting closer…
Soon in a department store near you? Probably not, but it will be found somewhere. Maybe it can be found already.
From the International Herald Tribune...
"Tucked on a leafy side street in the Polanco neighborhood is a shop unlike the others, one whose bustling business says much about the dire state of security in this country. At Miguel Caballero, named after its Colombian owner, all the garments are bulletproof.
There are bulletproof leather jackets and bulletproof polo shirts. Armored guayabera shirts hang next to protective windbreakers, parkas and even white ruffled tuxedo shirts. Every member of the sales staff has had to take a turn being shot while wearing one of the products, which range from a few hundred dollars to as much as $7,000, so they can attest to the efficacy of the secret fabric.
"If feels like a punch," a salesman said of the shot to the stomach he received. Just who is willing to fork over thousands of dollars for these chic shields? Customers include Presidents Hugo Chávez of Venezuela and Álvaro Uribe of Colombia, not to mention assorted royalty, movie stars and other VIP's."
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By Janet Evans
Friday, Jul 11 2008, 11:02 PM
Eat your food, there are people starving in__________________
Enter name of country ….
During my childhood the country of choice was “China.”
I cringe when I think of being told that statement.
It was the thing to do during the 60s…
Maybe not everyone went through that, but I know from talking to others, they did too.
So I was supposed to eat more than I really wanted to because there were starving children in China?
My eating and cleaning my plate made it better?
Oh, wait…don’t waste any food on your plate…not when there are starving people in China.
I’m still cringing and would never think to say such a thing.
Then there's "waste not, want not."
That's the new motto of Britain.
Because of the economy and food shortages, they are being encouraged to think back to the time when the did have actual food rationing, during wartime.
"Well, of course, in the war years it was not only immoral to waste food — this was one of our slogans then — it also was illegal," said Marguerite Patten, 92, who worked at the Ministry of Food during World War II and urges a return to those more thrifty days.
"I know it's old fashioned, but some old fashioned things are worth doing," she said. During the war, Nazi Germany's U-boats crippled the flow of ships carrying food to Britain. Diets were tightly controlled by rationing. Bananas and pineapples became exotic treats, and enterprising housewives traded recipes for baked hedgehog and carrot fudge."
Britain Urging Return To Wartime Frugality í here
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