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June 30, 2009

Taking Apart the $819 billion Stimulus Package
Read 1,000’s of books online
44 Presidents of the United States (Few weird looking dudes)
Great Photographer out of Ohio
World Clock
Noah’s Ark Replica Completed in the Netherlands.

Last thought. The First Woman on the Moon
Alice

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1,474 megapixels

May 13, 2009

Thought you’d find this technology interesting. Go to this web site and click on some person’s face to see what amazing results you get. Each time you double click, it moves in closer, absolutely incredible detail. I would never have thought this was possible with a camera of any sort. This picture was taken with a robotic camera and weighs in at 1,474 megapixels (295 times the standard 5 megapixel camera).

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Atheist Holiday

April 1, 2009

In Florida , an atheist became incensed over the preparation of Easter and Passover holidays. He decided to contact his lawyer about the discrimination inflicted on atheists by the constant
celebrations afforded to Christians and Jews with all their holidays while atheist had no holiday to celebrate.

The case was brought before a judge. After listening to the long passionate presentation by the lawyer, the Judge banged his gavel and declared, ‘Case dismissed!’

The lawyer immediately stood and objected to the ruling and said, ‘Your honor, how can you possibly dismiss this case? The Christians have Christmas, Easter and many other observances. Jews have
Passover, Yom Kippur and Hanukkah… yet my client and all other atheists have no such holiday!’

The judge leaned forward in his chair and simply said, ‘Obviously your client is too confused to even know about, much less celebrate his own atheists’ holiday!’

The lawyer pompously said, ‘Your Honor, we are unaware of any such holiday for atheists. Just when might that holiday be, your Honor?’

The judge said , ‘Well it comes every year on exactly the same date – April 1st! Since our calendar sets April 1st as ‘April Fools Day,’ consider that Psalm 14:1 states, ‘The fool says in his heart,
there is no God.’ Thus, in my opinion, if your client says there is no God, then by scripture, he is a fool, and April 1st is his holiday!

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18 foot snake attacks child in Las Vegas

February 18, 2009

A three-year-old boy and his mother are recovering from an attack by an eighteen foot snake in Las Vegas.

18 foot snake

The family was taking care of the snake for some friends who were remodeling their business, where it is normally an attraction.

They are calling the attack a freak accident, because they do not know how the snake got loose.

Authorites agree, and credit the mom’s quick thinking for stopping that accident from being a lot worse. Read more about the family’s account of what happened by clicking here.

“It took all six of us to get that snake into custody. It made just a little loop on my hand while we were wrestling with it, and it felt like a vice. I’ve never felt anything like that,” says Metro Sergeant, Steve Custer.

Custer and officer, Jerry Ybarra, have almost half a century of law enforcement experience between them, but even that could not prepare them for the snake attack they rushed to Tuesday.

“We go into bars after bad guys all the time, guns, never blink an eye, but we looked at that snake, and there was a lot of dancing and screaming going on,” says Custer.

“Once animal control got there, we’d try to grasp him with her little tool that she has, and he would just hiss at us, and that was pretty terrifying,” adds Ybarra.

The Reticulated Python was about eighteen feet long, far bigger than the three-year-old boy it had wrapped itself around.

But, maternal instinct proved to be far stronger than eighteen feet of muscle.

“The mom said that he was initially crying, then she came out and went for the knife. At one point, he did stop crying and was turning blue. Then, she was able to get the baby away from the snake,” says Ybarra.

The knife wounds were so severe, the snake had had to be euthanized at Lied Animal Shelter, where the family’s five other, much smaller, snakes were taken.

Fortunately, though, mother and child will be just fine.

“This was definitely a first for me,” says Ybarra.

“I’ve seen and done some amazing things in my 36 years of being here, never come across this, ever,” adds Custer.

Large snakes are allowed to be kept privately in Clark County, as long as they are not poisonous.

Metro says that no laws were broken, and that the attack can be likened to any other by a family pet, like a dog, for example.

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Credit Scores

February 16, 2009

The most common credit score used today is the FICO (Fair Isaac Corporation) score and it ranges from a low of 350 to a high of 850. The ideal number to be above is 720. If you are lower than 720, interest rates start to go up and the more difficult it is to obtain a loan. Five critical credit criteria that make up your credit score are the following:

1. Payment History: Paying your bills on time accounts for 35% of your credit score. Be sure to avoid late fees.
2. Credit Ratio: The amount of debt you have accounts for 30% of your credit score.
3. Credit Type: The type of accounts you have applies to 10% of your score.
4. Credit Maturity: The length of time you have had your individual credit accounts makes up 15% of your score.
5. New Credit: Recent credit history makes up 10% of your score.

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