"They became apathetic in the morning, then sad in the afternoon, and by night they could be dead," said veterinarian Andrea Saucedo
"We would just be trying to understand what was happening, when – oops – another."
Full Article Here News.com.au
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Aussie Kangaroos die far from home
Violent thunderstorms are said to have contributed to the death of 6 Kangaroos in a Mexican Zoo
Full Article Here News.com.au
Full Article Here News.com.au
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Cats off the street price tag US$258 a month
Source:
http://www.chinadaily.com
New home planned for cats (Shanghai Daily)
2007-07-13 09: Cat lovers in Shanghai are preparing to rent a house in the city's suburbs for the street cats, after more than 800 cats were rescued last week from a truck to Guangdong Province.
http://www.chinadaily.com
New home planned for cats (Shanghai Daily)
2007-07-13 09: Cat lovers in Shanghai are preparing to rent a house in the city's suburbs for the street cats, after more than 800 cats were rescued last week from a truck to Guangdong Province.
The www.movshow.com, a Chinese cat Website, initiated the move and said the house will provide a more spacious home for street cats.
"The house was originally a factory, and the rental is about 2,000 yuan (US$258) a month," said Tao Rongfang, an official with the Shanghai Animal Protection Association.
"Volunteers and vets will go to the house to take care of the cats and sterilize them."
Up to now, more than 30,000 yuan has been collected from net buddies for the rent and for living and medical expenditure for the street cats.
Duo Zirong, last week's cat rescuer, who has more than 1,200 street cats at her home, will visit the house at the weekend, before deciding whether to move her cats there.
Net buddies are also considering building a cat medical center and an adoption center in the downtown area.
Aussie men where the bloody hell are ya?
Interested in taking on a second job? lolol This one may be up your alley Bonus work at home
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22024295-13762,00.html
Condom testers to try out new positions
Article from: AAPhttp://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22024295-13762,00.html
Durex marketing manager Sam White said any Australian over the age of 18 could apply for one of 200 positions as a condom tester.
The position is not paid, but successful applicants will receive a free $60 selection of Durex products and will be required to provide the company with honest feedback about the products' performance.
One of the lucky 200 testers will win a $1000 bonus.
Applicants must explain why they would make an expert condom tester, Mr White said.
“With this job on your CV, it really will be a chance to brag to your mates about the special skills you possess, not to mention that your new role will work wonders with the opposite sex,” he said.
“Who wouldn't want to have a chance with an actual authorised professional?”
One thing's for sure - it's a job where employees won't mind taking their work home and burning the midnight oil.
Fly in the hand is worth more than 2 on the wall
Chinese city pays cash for dead flies
Each fly is worth about seven cents.
The payment scheme is the first of its kind in Luoyang, which is striving to earn the title of "state-level hygienic city".
"I and colleagues believe it is the best way to push residents to do more for their living environment,' office chief Hu Guisheng said.
July 12, 2007 08:41am
Article from: 
Officials in Luoyang, a city of 1.55 million people, paid more than $125 for about 2000 dead flies during the campaign launch on July 1, Xinhau news agency said.Each fly is worth about seven cents.
The payment scheme is the first of its kind in Luoyang, which is striving to earn the title of "state-level hygienic city".
"I and colleagues believe it is the best way to push residents to do more for their living environment,' office chief Hu Guisheng said.
Sunday, July 8, 2007
Heinlein
my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
Ulysses (Tennyson)
Belated Entry
100th aniversary of Robert A Heinleins birth was on the 7 - 7 - 2007
Thanks for the tales read and re-read I still can't resist buying Heinlein when I spy them around the place ;) They find a home here or I pass them on to new acquaintances
Worth a peek here ThespaceReview
and here plus comments discussion
http://science.slashdot.org/article.
Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.
..the meek shall inherit the earth, a 6 foot plot above them
One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
Sex should be friendly. Otherwise, stick to mechanical toys; it's more sanitary.
How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.
Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are and what they can do makes them superior to men, and their proper tactic is to demand special privileges, all the traffic will bear. They should never settle merely for equality. For women, "equality" is a disaster.
Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful---just stupid.)
Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget
Small change can often be found under seat cushions.
Money is a powerful aphrodisiac ... but flowers work almost as well.
An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.
Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.
Never try and teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
There is no conclusive evidence of life after death. But there is not evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know. So why fret about it?
Most "scientists" are bottle washers and button sorters.
A generation which ignores history has no past--and no future.
A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.
No state has an inherent right to survive through conscript troops and, in the long run, no state ever has. Roman matrons used to say to their sons: "Come back with your shield, or on it." Later on, this custom declined. So did Rome.
Of all the strange "crimes" that human beings have legislated out of nothing, "blasphemy" is the most amazing---with "obscenity" and "indecent exposure" fighting it out for the second and third place.
It is better to copulate than never.
When the need arises -- and it does -- you must be able to shoot your own dog. Don't farm it out -- that doesn't make it nicer, it makes it worse.
Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
Never appeal to a man's "better nature". He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be expected -- here and there, now and then -- are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as "bad luck".
In a mature society, "civil servant" is semantically equal to "civil master".
When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
The second best thing about space travel is that the distances involved make war very difficult, usually impractical, and almost always unnecessary. This is probably a loss for most people, since war is our races' most popular diversion, one which gives purpose and color to dull and stupid lives. But it is a great boon to the intelligent man who fights only when he must---never for sport.
Democracy is based upon the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.
Autocracy is based upon the assumption that one man is wiser than a million men. Let's play that over again, too. Who decides?
What are the facts? Again and again and again---what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what "the stars fortell," avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable "verdict of history" -- what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!
Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death, there is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.
People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.
A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" -- find out how he feels about astrology.
You live and you learn. Or you don't live long.
One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Super-natural" is a null word.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
Ulysses (Tennyson)
Belated Entry
100th aniversary of Robert A Heinleins birth was on the 7 - 7 - 2007
Thanks for the tales read and re-read I still can't resist buying Heinlein when I spy them around the place ;) They find a home here or I pass them on to new acquaintances
Worth a peek here ThespaceReview
and here plus comments discussion
http://science.slashdot.org/article.
Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.
..the meek shall inherit the earth, a 6 foot plot above them
One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
Sex should be friendly. Otherwise, stick to mechanical toys; it's more sanitary.
How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.
Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are and what they can do makes them superior to men, and their proper tactic is to demand special privileges, all the traffic will bear. They should never settle merely for equality. For women, "equality" is a disaster.
Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful---just stupid.)
Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget
Small change can often be found under seat cushions.
Money is a powerful aphrodisiac
An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.
Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.
Never try and teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
There is no conclusive evidence of life after death. But there is not evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know. So why fret about it?
Most "scientists" are bottle washers and button sorters.
A generation which ignores history has no past--and no future.
A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.
No state has an inherent right to survive through conscript troops and, in the long run, no state ever has. Roman matrons used to say to their sons: "Come back with your shield, or on it." Later on, this custom declined. So did Rome.
Of all the strange "crimes" that human beings have legislated out of nothing, "blasphemy" is the most amazing---with "obscenity" and "indecent exposure" fighting it out for the second and third place.
It is better to copulate than never.
When the need arises -- and it does -- you must be able to shoot your own dog. Don't farm it out -- that doesn't make it nicer, it makes it worse.
Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
Never appeal to a man's "better nature". He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be expected -- here and there, now and then -- are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as "bad luck".
In a mature society, "civil servant" is semantically equal to "civil master".
When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
The second best thing about space travel is that the distances involved make war very difficult, usually impractical, and almost always unnecessary. This is probably a loss for most people, since war is our races' most popular diversion, one which gives purpose and color to dull and stupid lives. But it is a great boon to the intelligent man who fights only when he must---never for sport.
Democracy is based upon the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.
Autocracy is based upon the assumption that one man is wiser than a million men. Let's play that over again, too. Who decides?
What are the facts? Again and again and again---what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what "the stars fortell," avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable "verdict of history" -- what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!
Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death, there is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.
People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.
A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" -- find out how he feels about astrology.
You live and you learn. Or you don't live long.
One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Super-natural" is a null word.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Thursday, July 5, 2007
Un Australian
Foster's to cut VB alcohol contentMaster brewers to ensure VB 'tastes the same
UnAustralian ... once-glorious brewer Foster's has raised the ire of beer-drinkers the nation over after announcing it will cut the alcohol content in VB by a full 0.1 per cent to save $20 million / Paul Tresize
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Iconic Beer to Lighten up
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
$50 to $65 and your best friend can get that Manhattan fragrance
Austin a 7-year-old dog, has created a line of canine beauty products helped by Beauty Industry Veteran Renee Ryan Full Article
Source: SexyBeastStyle.com
Follow our 3-step system and witness passing dogs go weak in the knees. Each treatment enhances the next and when used together with the Signature Fragrance, ensures that your dog's coat will look and smell utterly fabulous day after day.
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Loopyplus1's fragranceless friends Happy see top right ;) Result of being happy bottom right
Source: SexyBeastStyle.com
Follow our 3-step system and witness passing dogs go weak in the knees. Each treatment enhances the next and when used together with the Signature Fragrance, ensures that your dog's coat will look and smell utterly fabulous day after day.
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Loopyplus1's fragranceless friends Happy see top right ;) Result of being happy bottom right
Sunday, July 1, 2007
5 Things Homeless People Can Teach You About Making Money
Found this while looking for...ah gone right out of my mind what I was looking for.......blue roses maybe any enjoy this link instead
Make Money Online With Blog About Money Online: 5 Things Homeless People Can Teach You About Making Money
Make Money Online With Blog About Money Online: 5 Things Homeless People Can Teach You About Making Money
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