Previously thought Extinct Turtle Discovered in Vietnam

Researchers from the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo have discovered a rare giant turtle in northern Vietnam — a find that carries great scientific and cultural significance. Swinhoe's soft-shell turtle was previously thought to be extinct in the wild. Three other turtles of the species are in captivity, said experts from the Zoo's Asian turtle program.

Butter vs. Margarine

I got this in one of those pass this email on to as many people as you know things.

Pass The Butter
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Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys. When it killed the turkeys, the people who had put all the money into the research wanted a payback so they put their heads together to figure out what to do with this product to get their money back. It was a white substance with no food appeal so they added the yellow coloring and sold it to people to use in place of butter. How do you like it?

They have come out with some clever new flavorings. Do you know the difference between margarine and butter?

Read on to the end...gets very interesting!

Both have the same amount of calories
Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams compared to 5 grams.
Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% over eating the as me amount of butter, according to a recent Harvard Medical Study.
Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in other foods.
Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few only because they are added.
Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the flavors of other foods.

Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been around for less then 100 years.

And now, for Margarine..
Very high in Trans fatty acids
Triple risk of coronary heart disease.
Increases total cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad cholesterol) and lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol)
Increases the risk of cancers up to five fold.
Lowers quality of breast milk.
Decreases immune response.
Decreases insulin response.
And here's the most disturbing fact....

HERE IS THE PART THAT IS VERY INTERESTING!

Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC.
This fact alone was enough to have me avoiding margarine for life and anything else that is hydrogenated (this means hydrogen is added, changing the molecular structure of the substance).

You can try this yourself: Purchase a tub of margarine and leave it in your garage or shaded Area. Within a couple of days you will note a couple of things: * no flies, not even those pesky fruit flies will go near it (that should tell you something)

* it does not rot or smell differently because it has no nutritional value; nothing will grow on it Even those teeny weeny microorganisms will not a find a home to grow. Why? Because it is nearly plastic. Would you melt your Tupperw are and spread that on your toast?

Environment Issues

I have been told that I'm worse then Al Gore when it comes to the Environment. That's because I was arguing with someone that wants to drill in the Alaskian Wildlife Refuge I said that there should be no drilling in the refuge.

My argument is pretty simple. If its called a wildlife refuge that means unless you're in there for scientific reasons, keep out. If you want to drill there then stop calling it a wildlife refuge. Because once the environment is disturbed with oil rigs(or whatever you call them in case that's only boats), its no longer a refuge. I don't think that's too radical. I'm only opposed to drilling in what's supposed to be a refuge.

Asian emerald ash borer Found

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The Asian emerald ash borer has been found in the area. It has killed 20 million ash trees in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana since 2002. And now Pennsylvania has quarrantined all the trees because of this bug to try to keep its spreading to a minmumn.

I bet this is not good news for Gumpfs. A small tree/plants dealership that I live close to their "warehouse" ie where they grow all their trees. (When I was a kid I often thought what would be wrong with going there and digging up a live Christmas tree. We could put it back and they'd never know. :) )

An interesting mystery

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A five acre lake in the southern Andes in Chile has simply disappeared. No one can figure out what happened. There was no earthquake that could have caused the bottom to open up and swallow the water.

A river that once flowed from the lake has turned into a crick.

Experts are being sent in to investigate.

I wonder what department acts as the Missing Lakes Bureau