Number 85 - To see a tree asmiling.

The segment I saw was several years ago - it took quite some work to unice the plane. There may be a movie about it - not sure........ For some reason they got the plane up and assembled but couldn't get it running - or something like that - they may have run out of money. That would stop the project.

Me too nap.

Thanks all for saving a little bit of our blue space ship.

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Back after quick Google - now I remember, sad time for the old bird..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kee_Bird

Great, they broke it. sigh

Facinated by Egypt and Valley of the Kings. Poor Tut! Removing him from his sarcophagus, they broke him in half! only after removing all the linens...so by the time technology could ascertain what killed him, most of the evidence was left god knows where.

Plus, it's anyones guess where some of Tut's treasures came to rest.

Those people... (laughing) you'd think they'd have been more careful!

James Patterson wrote an interesting book about King Tut...and he's probably gotten as close to the truth as anyone could. An easy read, you might like the dialog btwn the players...including Carter. Patterson talks about his life before Tut's discovery and afterwards as well.

Well, the relic i call the deck, is just about finished! Heats' been a bear, so got more accomplished earlier today before temps began soaring.

Nuther nap, a new novel, paint can wait.

Strat - saw the pics of your deck - looks really good.

Yeah, I think the investigators think Tut died of an infection from a broken leg. He was still only a kid and you know how they like to play !!

I forgot exactly who - maybe Wells or Fargo - but, the man tried to get into the safe in his office - couldn't get it open - kicked it, broke his foot and died of an infection approx two weeks later. Some people.

Good clicking all good Wildclickers.

Really sad about the airplane.

Aw, thanks dan, but i was waving from the porch the wooden deck sits at the back of the house. I should have a photo somewhere.

Speaking of pics, took way to long to post at FB and some of the photos wouldn't transfer. Not certain whats going on there...but the office pic with Fall shining through the window won't post. jeeze

Sounds like the poor guys time was up for all intents and purposes. If he hadn't smacked his foot on the safe, he'd have probably got run over by a bus.

In the case of Tut though, i believe he was done in by the guy in charge of the army. Ya know they never found the remains of Tut's wife either. One of those 'hmmm' thingys. Course, all is speculation. Who knows. Just glad i wasn't living in one of those palaces. Life spans were unpredictable at best.

Have a good night all ~

Good morning all wildclickers. All clicked here.

Went out to work at 6:30 amd fomoshed wheel-barrowing mulch to the garden by 8, In to dry off and cool down, and then out again for a spell. Going to be 100 again today.

July 22, 2010
Democrats Call Off Climate Bill EffortBy CARL HULSE and DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
WASHINGTON — The effort to advance a major climate change bill through the Senate this summer collapsed Thursday even as President Obama signed into law another top Democratic priority — a bill to restore unemployment benefits for millions of Americans who have been out of work for six months or more.

Bowing to political reality, Senator Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat and majority leader, said the Senate would not take up legislation intended to reduce carbon emissions blamed as a cause of climate change, but would instead pursue a more limited measure focused on responding to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and tightening energy efficiency standards.

“We know where we are,” Mr. Reid told reporters after reviewing the state of energy legislation with Senate Democrats and administration officials. “We know that we don’t have the votes.”

The decision was a major disappointment to conservation groups and lawmakers who had invested months in trying to negotiate legislation. The House last year passed its own climate change bill, a proposal that has created a backlash for some politically vulnerable Democrats. The outcome was also viewed as a setback by some utility executives who had hoped that Congress would set predictable rules governing carbon pollution.

Carol M. Browner, director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy, who appeared with Mr. Reid and Senator John Kerry, the Massachusetts Democrat who is a chief author of the climate bill, said the Obama administration was not happy but would support Mr. Reid’s decision.

“Obviously, everyone is disappointed that we do not yet have an agreement on comprehensive legislation,” she said.

Congressional and White House officials said the decision was a pragmatic move that could produce some legislation rather than bogging down the Senate over a bill that had no chance given strong opposition from most Republicans and some Democrats. They noted that the White House had acted on its own to raise fuel efficiency standards and had pushed the development of alternative fuels.

Democrats said the slimmer package would ensure that BP would pay for the cleanup of the gulf oil spill, and would promote further production of natural gas as well as the manufacturing of natural gas vehicles, especially big trucks. They said it would also tighten household energy efficiency requirements and increase financing of the Land and Water Conservation Fund.

But even the Senate’s ability to pass a bill with significant bipartisan elements before its scheduled August recess was in doubt given the intense focus on the November elections.

Separately on Thursday night the Senate rejected a House version of an emergency spending bill that also contained billions of dollars for domestic programs, including $10 billion to help states and local school districts avert teacher layoffs. Instead the Senate sent the House a version focused mainly on financing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

While Senate Democrats revised their energy plans, the House voted 272 to 152 to send Mr. Obama a $34 billion six-month extension of unemployment pay for Americans who had exhausted their standard 26 weeks of aid. Signing the measure hours later, Mr. Obama said it would “restore desperately needed assistance to two and a half million Americans who lost their jobs in the recession.”

The bill had been the subject of a partisan battle, with Democrats saying that the economic crisis was an emergency that justified deficit spending, while Republicans argued that the cost should not be added to the deficit.

“We want to help those who are struggling with the current economic slowdown,” said Representative Charles Boustany Jr., a Louisiana Republican. “But we also agree with the American people that new spending must be paid for.”

In the final vote, 31 Republicans joined 241 Democrats in supporting the measure. Voting against it were 142 Republicans and 10 Democrats.

Democrats called the Republican opposition shameful given the financial struggles of many families. The bill had been stalled since late May, and advanced in the Senate this week only with the arrival of a new Democratic senator to succeed the late Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia.

“It shouldn’t have been so hard,” said the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi of California.


John M. Broder contributed reporting.




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People should not forget when the 'recession' began - during the last year of Pres. G. W. Bush's term in office. And, the fact that the whole banking mess began when during the first three months of his first term in office in 2001. Pres. Bush removed all Congressional oversight from business. I recall thinking that was a surreptitious thing for him to do - considering his business history and that of his father and grandfather.

Oh, well - we still have to pay tax.

Meanwhile, thank you all for making another tree smile.

keeping my head down in the heat and humidity

and clicking


stay safe from those storms that are brewing in the Caribbean

lots of reading to catch up on

Wouldn't it be a wonder, if all the factions playing politics for special interests, just got together and began working for the nation?

Very hot here again, and not much outside work done earlier today. House cleaning instead, and hoping degrees temerate a scouch so i can finally finish painting!

Heard from HS yesterday (hopped from Asia to Europe) and doing well. Making me laugh when she asked "How big is that deck"??? Told her "not very big, just a lot of work replacing planks, and making necessary repairs". I luv the mountains, but the weather plays havoc with anything wood.

Dan, finally was able to transfer two more pics to FB (Hurray!)

Cleaning house today, shopping tomorrow, and by Monday a.m., more outdoor repairs (other stuff) and paint. I found my calling! Home career!

hi ya Beth

Stay cool wildclikcers ~

Tks, that storm moved northwards and hit Taiwan - Japan just had its usual little earthquake, meaning the whole office building I was in had to execute earthquake drill, aka getting on the stairs and climbing to the roof. It does make more sense than the instinctive running downstairs and out the door - if the building does come down, you're better off on the roof than in the lobby - but it still feels strange. In New York for the weekend, have to report 100+ degrees temperatures. Now I can login again, I'm going over to the clicking website do my part

Hi ehBeth, I was watching the heat and rain in your area. Keep safe and cool.

Stradee, more pics --- great!! I could sit here and look at your work all day. Big Grin.

Right about the political situ.

Hi HS, If you're back in NY you must keep cool. Looks like it's hotter up there than it is here in TX. Hope your trip was good and you had fun.

Great clicking all Wildclickers. We do make a difference each time we click. There is a tree asmiling each day we make the effort.

sumac, Thanks for the info. took awhile to read but, interesting stuff.

Slow and Steady Won the Race

July 19, 2010 Imagine for a moment how our earliest ancestors felt when they came down from the trees and stood on two legs.

"Hey, now we can carry stuff!" they might have thought. They paid a price, though: On the ground it was a tiger-eat-monkey world, and two legs were slower than four.

Video: Running With And Without Shoes
But one prominent biologist, Harvard anthropology professor Dan Lieberman, says not so fast. Humans invented something better than speed: endurance running. It allowed us to hunt faster animals, and that changed the course of evolution.

"How long a run do you think you can ..." Lieberman's voice trails off as he examines my "running form." We're standing next to the Charles River as other joggers pass by in the drizzle. "That's about a mile and a half," he offers, pointing down toward a distant bridge.

Lieberman looks like a human greyhound, and he's already run three miles this morning. Lieberman studies running and how it makes humans unique. Even when he's running a marathon, he's thinking about how the body does it.

"Sometimes I do kind of bizarre things when I'm running," he says as we start off at a leisurely trot. "You know, move my arms in funny ways just to think about it, and I get these strange looks and realize I probably should not be doing this in public."

Designed For Endurance, Not Speed

Today, it's his footwear that draws attention. They're like gloves — skintight, no heels, no support. Lieberman studies barefoot runners and finds that they naturally land on the balls of their feet — it's just too painful to land on the heel. And planting your foot on the ball transfers and stores elastic energy in the foot ligaments and Achilles tendon.

On the ground it was a tiger-eat-monkey world, and two legs were slower than four.

"And then they act like rubber bands, they're springs," he says. "They recoil; they push you back up into the air as you start to take your jump."

Lieberman says this is what makes barefoot running — the way our ancestors ran — more efficient than running with shoes.

But even if early humans ran more efficiently, they still couldn't run as fast as a four-legged meal. So, Lieberman says, they evolved into marathon machines.

"Most animals are designed for speed, for power, not for endurance," Lieberman explains, as we make a turn onto the bridge. "And we are a special species in having been selected for endurance, not speed."


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Marathon Machines: Humans evolved to run with endurance, not speed, says biologist Dan Lieberman.


Bella Szandelszky/AP Marathon Machines: Humans evolved to run with endurance, not speed, says biologist Dan Lieberman.

So we grew longer legs and lighter feet; the joints in the legs and pelvis got bigger to absorb a lot of impact; and we grew a bigger butt muscle.

Lieberman says these and other changes allowed us to run down and exhaust prey, like antelopes. He notes that "persistence hunters" in Africa have been known to do that. And the payoff would've been big for early humans: lots of high-calorie meat to feed a bigger brain.

At this point, my brain is oxygen-starved, so we stop. Lieberman says I lack meat motivation.

"In fact, I tell people, you know, when you're in the marathon and you're wondering at mile 16 or 17 what on earth you're doing, remember, you're chasing a kudu [an African antelope], that's what you're doing, you're re-enacting that chase from a million years ago."

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"Does it work?" I ask. "Oh, absolutely," he laughs.

Modeling How We Run

Lieberman has taken his research into running into Harvard's 19th-century Peabody Museum. He's got a graduate student running on a treadmill with electrodes stuck on his body to record muscle contractions, and a dog collar around his forehead with accelerometers to measure head movements.

Lieberman is creating a computer model of how we run. He thinks it will tell him how the earliest humans evolved to run. He believes running made us what we are. To prove it, he sometimes asks his volunteer runners to do some strange things.

"There are no humans out there with faces as large as Neanderthals," he explains as he rummages through a cupboard, "so people wear weights in their mouths, which then changes the center of gravity of their head."

Understanding head control is important. If you don't keep your head still, you can't focus your eyes. Lieberman says modern humans, unlike apes, have a special muscle that connects each arm to the neck and head. As you swing your arms, they become counterweights to stabilize your head.

Born To Run?

Clearly, we're runners. And millions of years ago, we started putting more meat on our menus. That's clear from cut marks on animal bones, and our unique digestive system and our bigger brain. Did endurance running make that happen? Lieberman thinks yes, though the proof is tough to tease out.

"When you find bones, none of them come with labels on them telling you how they ran or how they walked, or why we are the way we are," he says. "But they pose questions about what were the transitions in human evolution, why did those anatomical features change?"

Some scientists say just because modern African hunters run down prey doesn't prove our ancestors did. There's no hard evidence of it. Maybe it was better hunting tools that got us more meat. Maybe what Lieberman sees as the body's "running" adaptations were just for better walking. And some suspect that Lieberman's passion for running colors his conclusions. He says no: "I'm an evolutionary biologist first and a runner second, absolutely. I do love running, but it's not the only thing I love."

Lieberman is passionate about exercise. He says it's fundamental to being human; it's essential to the way our bodies function and keeping them healthy.

And he says running is the purest form of exercise. "Adding information about how we evolved to exercise and how exercise is actually woven into our body's natural selection, in a special way, I think, adds extra relevance," he says.

Especially, he says, as our modern life style threatens to make human exercise obsolete.

Good Sunday morning all wildclickers. Any 100 degree day - I can barely stand it I'm so tired of this heat and humidity.

Good article sumac, interesting.

Reminded me of a good joke I recently received - I'll make it quick.

A little boy was playing with a bottle of vinegar - saying, "this is the most powerful liquid in the world." Over and over he said it.
A priest was passing by and overheard the boy. The priest couldn't resist - he went to the boy and said, "You know Holy Water is much more powerful than any other liquid on earth." The little boy kept on with his line about vinegar. The priest finally said to the boy, "If you rub Holy Water on a new mothers tummy she will pass a great and healthy baby."
The little boy said, "That ain't nothing, it you rub vinegar on a cat's ass he'll pass a Harley Davidson."

Good clicking all.

Thanks

So danged hot outside, i sit indoors and look at the work that isn't done. LOL

Good articles, sue. Thanks

Kindof a low day today...not certain why...could be heat exhaustion. jeeze

Cats are not moving either...gave them flea and tick meds probably why they haven't spoken to me all day. sigh

Ok, nuff of the doldrums. Gonna fix dinner, then sit and read a wonderful book. Thanks HS