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MyPNW: The Update for 2010.02.03
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Greetings!

A bit of dampness, but nothing even close to what we normally are subjected to... and none of it will hit the Vancouver, BC area, which has begun to truck in snow for the winter Olympics... we're having a very melow and mild winter this year, that's for sure!

A cool graphic... something about the IRS you might not have known... This lady got lucky... A pretty nifty website... Need to blow a few bucks?  here's a good spot to look... More leftist agenda showing up at schools?  Very very sad... the first looks at the inside of a 787...

Hope you have a great day!  Remember... its already Friday eve!

The Trivia Challenge
And the winner was...   RobertG  


The Scramble Challenge Revealed:

M E V O   - MOVE

F A L O F   - OFFAL                  <- I didn't get this one.

T O P I G S   - SPIGOT

L I N T J O Y   - JOINTLY

 

Today's Challenge                                                                                 ANSWER THE CHALLENGE

 

In the book "The little engine that could", what gender is the engine supposed to be?

 

Interesting News Tidbits
Sometimes, a story is too interesting NOT to share...


This picture looks 3d...

Makes you wonder

They've upped the ante once again...

https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=8d3b076bd4de14bbda5aba699e80621d&tab=core&_cview=1&cck=1&au=&ck

Whoa

More: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2835867/Stab-victim-didnt-feel-blade.html?OTC-RSS&ATTR=News

 

Cool site

Got a website you wanted to share in an email, and guarantee that the receiver would see what you saw?  Try this site, which was shown to me by BradyS, a fellow "breaker"...

http://pdfmyurl.com

 

Need to blow a few bucks?

Ever wonder what folks who have too much money spend their money on???

check out the US Submarines website... they build "the world's first personal luxury submarines, capable of taking you and your guests to unseen regions of the deep ocean in perfect comfort and absolute safety. And once there, you are able to view the fascinating denizens of the deep through large, panoramic viewports, while relaxing in an interior replete with luxury and warmth."

Who buys these things??? Paul Allen apparently has one.

http://www.ussubmarines.com

 

More leftist agenda showing up in our schools...

He may be the president who governed during the Civil War, freeing the slaves, but under a new curriculum proposal for North Carolina high schools, U.S. history would begin years after President Lincoln, with the presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes in 1877.

State education leaders say this may help students learn about more recent history in greater depth.

"We are certainly not trying to go away from American history," Rebecca Garland, the chief academic officer for North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, told Fox News. "What we are trying to do is figure out a way to teach it where students are connected to it, where they see the big idea, where they are able to make connections and draw relationships between parts of our history and the present day."

As the North Carolina curriculum stands now, ninth-grade students take world history, 10th-graders study civics and economics and 11th-graders take U.S. history going back to the country's founding.

Under the proposed change, the ninth-graders would take a course called global studies, focusing in part on issues such as the environment. The 10th grade still would study civics and economics, but 11th-graders would take U.S. history only from 1877 onward.

"The answer isn't to throw out fundamental portions of U.S. history," said Mike Belter, a U.S. history teacher and social studies director.  "I'm all for a global outlook, but it should not be at the expense of American history and learning about American institutions and ideas," he told Fox News.

MORE:  http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,584758,00.html

 

 

Very very sad

 A student in New Zealand has auctioned her virginity to a stranger for almost $31,900 to help fund her university tuition fees.

The 19-year-old offered her virginity to the highest bidder in an online auction on the www.ineed.co.nz Web site after she found herself desperate for money.

The student, who called herself "Unigirl," said that she was delighted with the outcome and thanked auction participants who had bid more than she expected.

"Thank you to the more than 30,000 people who viewed my ad and to the more than 1,200 offers made," she said on the auction site yesterday. "I have accepted an offer in excess of $NZ45,000, which is way beyond what I dreamt."

The woman said that she had never been in a sexual relationship. She described herself as attractive, fit and healthy but desperate for money to pay university fees. She offered her virginity to the highest bidder “as long as all personal safety aspects are observed” and with full awareness of "possible consequences." 

MORE:  http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/article7013108.ece

 

First views inside the 787

Boeing let reporters inside its new plane, the 787, which is still undergoing flight testing...

Big windows!

One of the crew cabin sections is filled with electronics to monitor the flight

 

More pictures:  http://www.kirotv.com/slideshow/news/22423242/detail.html

 

Humor is always a good thing
Jokes and funny stuff, plus my favorite comics from Comics.com

 

This was a picture taken yesterday at Building 26 on the Microsoft Campus in Redmond...

 

Don't know if this is true or not... but its funny, anyway.

NICE!

confused?

Our tax dollars at work

apparently we don't need math after all

Now that you mention it...

The ultimate in motivational walking...

 

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