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My fur babies sleeping

Government Snow Plow....Designed by the same people designing healthcare reform

I couldn't help myself...had to share:    Government Snow Plow... This is Priceless...

A Quick Tutorial on Filtering Buzz Conversations from Inbox

1.  Click on “settings” (upper right of window)

2.  Click “Filters

3.  Click on “Create a new filter”

4.  Follow the steps shown below: 1)  put “Buzz” in subject area   2) Click “Test Search” (should find all Buzz conversations)   3)  Click “Next Step” button

5) Now click the steps shown below in order:  1)  Skip inbox (which means it will go straight to filter to be read there)  2)  Click “Apply the label” and then “New label”

6.  Enter label name.  “Buzz” is a reserved word, so  had to modify it.   Then click “OK”

7.  Make sure you check “Also apply filter” if your test above found some conversations.  Then click “Create Filter”

8.  You should see something like this. 

9.  You can then access these conversations from the main Gmail webpage.

Food for thought

 

In my email today: http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/starner.asp   Pictured below is a young physician by the name of Dr. Starner Jones. His short two-paragraph letter to   the White House accurately puts the blame on a   "Culture  Crisis" instead of a "Health Care Crisis".  It's worth a   quick read:                                         Dear Mr. President:          During my shift in the Emergency Room last night, I had   the   pleasure of evaluating a patient whose smile revealed an expensive shiny gold tooth, whose body was adorned with a wide assortment of elaborate and costly tattoos, who wore a very expensive brand of tennis shoes and who chatted on a new cellular telephone equipped with a popular R&B ringtone.         While glancing over her patient chart, I happened to notice that   her payer status was listed as "Medicaid"! During my examination of her, the patient informed me that she smokes more than one costly pack of cigarettes every day and somehow still has money to buy pretzels and beer.         And, you and our Congress expect  me to pay for this woman's health care?  I contend that our nation's "health care crisis" is  not the result of a shortage of quality hospitals, doctors or  nurses. Rather, it is the result of a "crisis   of culture",  a culture in which it is perfectly acceptable to spend money on  luxuries and vices while refusing to take care of one's self or, heaven forbid, purchase health insurance.  It is a culture based in the irresponsible credo that "I can do whatever I want to because someone else will always take care of me".         Once you fix this "culture crisis" that rewards irresponsibility and dependency, you'll be amazed at how quickly our nation's health care difficulties will disappear.         Respectfully,         STARNER JONES,  MD

The day after....

Love the bright sun and shadows....

Snow, again!!

16+ inches of snow and still snowing!

"Mammoth" snowfall

Replica of Noah's Ark

This was sent to me and I thought it very interesting!

Working Replica of Noah's Ark Opened in Schagen, Netherlands

Man Builds Noah's Ark to the exact scale given in the Bible

The ark is 150 cubits long, 30 cubits high and 20 cubits wide. That's two-thirds the length of a football field and as high as a three-story house.

A contractor by trade, Huibers built the ark of cedar and pine. Biblical Scholars debate exactly what the wood used by Noah would have been.

Huibers did the work mostly with his own hands, using modern tools and with occasional help from his son Roy. Construction began in May 2005. On the uncovered top deck - not quite ready in time for the opening - will come a petting zoo, with baby lambs and chickens, and goats, and one camel.

Visitors on the first day were stunned. 'It's past comprehension', said Mary Louise Starosciak, who happened to be bicycling by with her husband while on vacation when they saw the ark looming over the local landscape.

'I knew the story of Noah, but I had no idea the boat would have been so big ' There is enough space near the keel for a 50-seat film theater where kids can watch a video that tells the story of Noah and his ark. Huibers, a Christian man, said he hopes the project will renew interest in Christianity in the Netherlands, where church going has fallen dramatically in the past 50 years.

The Power of Online Communities!!!

 Scenario:

• A message board with folks from all over the world who have Cushing's, are testing for Cushing's, have had Cushing's, suspect Cushing's  or some other endocrine disorder(s) or combination of all the above.
• A question on the Cushing's message boards from a gal who lives in the Netherlands but is testing in India and didn't understand what she was told.
• A tweet from me to a wonderful radiologist in another part of the world from me.
•  A post on the message board for the gal from the Netherlands with the radiologist's IMMEDIATE response.
•  An enlightened gal who can then go back to her physicians, etc. and ask more questions and/or understand more what is going on. 

Result:  A more informed patient who can make better decisions about her choices and care.

Priceless...