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Homosexual behavior is common in nature, and it plays an important role in survival

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:29:07 GMT

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Two penguins native to Antarctica met one spring day in 1998 in a tank at the Central Park Zoo in midtown Manhattan. They perched atop stones and took turns diving in and out of the clear water below. They entwined necks, called to each other and mated. They then built a nest together to prepare for an egg. But no egg was forthcoming: Roy and Silo were both male.

Robert Gramzay, a keeper at the zoo, watched the chinstrap penguin pair roll a rock into their nest and sit on it, according to newspaper reports. Gramzay found an egg from another pair of penguins that was having difficulty hatching it and slipped it into Roy and Silo’s nest. Roy and Silo took turns warming the egg with their blubbery underbellies until, after 34 days, a female chick pecked her way into the world. Roy and Silo kept the gray, fuzzy chick warm and regurgitated food into her tiny black beak.

Bisexual Species: Unorthodox Sex in the Animal Kingdom

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:59:46 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Nevertheless, the study of homosexual activity in diverse species may elucidate the evolutionary origins of such behavior. Researchers are now revealing, for example, that animals may engage in same-sex couplings to diffuse social tensions, to better protect their young or to maintain fecundity when opposite-sex partners are unavailable—or simply because it is fun. These observations suggest to some that bisexuality is a natural state among animals, perhaps Homo sapiens included, despite the sexual-orientation boundaries most people take for granted. “[In humans] the categories of gay and straight are socially constructed,” Anderson says.

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They entwined necks, called to each other and mated. They then built a nest together to prepare for an egg.

But no egg was forthcoming: Roy and Silo were both male.

Like most animal species, penguins tend to pair with the opposite sex, for the obvious reason.

But researchers are finding that same-sex couplings are surprisingly widespread in the animal kingdom.

one of as many as 1,500 species of wild and captive animals that have been observed engaging in homosexual activity.

Rather many species seem to have ingrained homosexual tendencies that are a regular part of their society.

Tags: animal behavior, sex

A blog for chickens (or at least people that keep them!).

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:48:15 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Chicken links & videos

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Raising Chickens : Keeping Chickens in your Backyard

A blog for chickens (or at least people that keep them!). Chicken coops, photos and more news and tips can be found in the free Keeping Chickens Newsletter which is available to subscribe to at the top right-hand corner of this blog.

Tips To Keep Your Chickens Cool
Dog Training with a Chicken - Reducing Prey Drive
Caring for Chicks
Eye Infection
Rehoming a Battery Hen
Winter Tips
Wing Clipping
Poultry Saddles
Dustbathing Chickens
Crop Bound Chicken
Chicken Feed
Natural Hatching
Build your own egg catching nesting box
Laying Hens
Sexing Chicks
Parts of the Chicken
Rats!
Brooding Chicks
Chickens and your cat or dog

Tags: poultry, chickens, coops, hen house, nest box, brooder, pictures of coops

Bisexual or Just Sexual

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:18:13 GMT

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clipper's remarks: There is more confusion in the human sexuality than in other other species.

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Bisexual Species: Unorthodox Sex in the Animal Kingdom

Unlike most humans, however, individual animals generally cannot be classified as gay or straight: an animal that engages in a same-sex flirtation or partnership does not necessarily shun heterosexual encounters. Rather many species seem to have ingrained homosexual tendencies that are a regular part of their society. That is, there are probably no strictly gay critters, just bisexual ones. “Animals don’t do sexual identity. They just do sex,” says sociologist Eric Anderson of the University of Bath in England.

Chicken nests, designs and general Tips

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:00:54 GMT

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clipper's remarks: wow lots of great info on poultry!

Clip Source: www.motherearthnews.com

Nice Nests for (Nearly) Nothing
Making inexpensive nesting boxes for free-range egg production.

How to Hatch Chicks in a Homemade Incubator
Guide to chick raising, including homemade incubator designs and information on types of incubators, heat, humidity, ventilation and hatching.

Reader Tip: Creative Chicken Coops
Gerald Osborne makes his chicken and rabbit houses from phone company reels.

Hang Your Chicken Feed!
Most chickens waste more mash than they eat, if you let them, but you can put an end to their spendthrift ways with this homemade feeder design.

Reader Tip: Increase Egg Production
For extra eggs, dole out dog food!

Tags: chickens, coop, nest boxes, feed, recycle, eggs

About eggs

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 02:02:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "Eggs have been known to, and enjoyed by, humans for many centuries. Jungle fowl were domesticated in India by 3200 B.C.E. Record from China and Egypt show that fowl were domesticated and laying eggs for human consumption around 1400 B.C.E., and there is archaeoligical evidence for egg consumption dating back to the Neolithic age. The Romans found egg-laying hens in England, Gaul, and among the Germans. The first domesticated fowl reached North America with the second voyage of Columbus in 1493."
---Encyclopedia of Food and Culture, Solomon H. Katz, editor, William Woys Weaver, associate editor [Charles Scribner's Sons:New York] 2003, Volume 1 (p. 558)

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Food Timeline>eggs

About eggs
Egg symbolism
Deviled eggs
Easter eggs
Eggs Benedict
omelettes
souffle
Western sandwiches

When and why did humans begin consuming eggs?
Humans have been consuming eggs since the dawn of human time. The history is complicated and diverse; the culinary applications are innumerable. When, where, and why have people been eating eggs?

"It is likely that female game birds were, at some time in the early history of man, perceived as a source both of meat and of eggs. Men discovered that by removing from the nest eggs that they did not wish to have hatch (or that they simply wished to eat), they could induce the female jungle fowl to lay additional eggs and, indeed, to continue to lay eggs throught an extended laying season." ---The Chicken Book, Page Smith and Charles Daniel [University of Georgia Press:Athens] 1975 (p. 11-12)

Bisexual Species: Unorthodox Sex in the Animal Kingdom

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:13:03 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Having seen drakes in action with chooks, this seems a much more amicable way.

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Bisexual Species: Unorthodox Sex in the Animal Kingdom

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:04:01 GMT

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Like most animal species, penguins tend to pair with the opposite sex, for the obvious reason. But researchers

Tags: sex, animal, penguin

property auctions at cafe royal

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:26:29 GMT

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Hammered: What it is like to see your buy-to-let nest-egg being sold off for less than half you paid for it

By Richard Pendlebury
Last updated at 12:50 AM on 25th June 2008

Want to Know How the Housing Bubble began?

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:46:20 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is an excellent article on the history and origins of the US housing bubble leading to the sub prime mortgage meltdown.

Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

The housing bubble, in four chapters

How homeowners, speculators and Wall Street rode a wave of easy money

The aftershocks of the housing market's collapse still rumble through the economy, with unemployment rising, companies struggling to obtain financing and the stock market more than 10 percent below its peak last fall. The Federal Reserve has taken unprecedented action to stave off a recession, slashing interest rates and intervening to save a storied Wall Street investment bank. Congress and federal agencies have launched investigations into what happened: wrongdoing by mortgage brokers, lax lending standards by banks, failures by watchdogs.

Tags: subprime mortgage meltdown, protect your nest egg, avoid large losses

Baby Boomers will soon become a target for all the Scam Artists out there

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:51:31 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This article is not new but the scams are timeless. Prinit it off and keep it near you for when anyone comes calling offering schemes that sound too good to be true. They probably are.

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Top 10 investing scams

The stock market has picked up steam lately, but for many investors the resurgence isn't enough. Instead, they look for quicker ways to bolster their portfolios. The problem is, some promised high-return opportunities are downright frauds.

Ponzi scammers top the list of scam artists taking return-hungry investors to the cleaners, according to the latest look at the investment industry by the North American Securities Administrators Association. A close second -- investment fraudsters targeting seniors.

Tags: 'investing scam', 'avoid large losses', 'protect your nest egg'

The wasp that walks cockroaches

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:17:50 GMT

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clipper's remarks: More icky wasp science

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yet another demonstration of the amazing tactics used by these macabre parents to provision their young with food

the jewel wasp

grubs feed on the bodies of cockroaches supplied by their mother. When a female wasp finds a roach, she stings it twice - once in its mid-section to immobilise its front legs, and the second directly into its brain. There, she pumps in a venom that stupefies the roach and changes its behaviour.

not paralysed but it moves sluggishly and shows no desire to flee from danger. In this befuddled state, the jewel wasp can grab the roach by its antennae and walk it around like a dog on a leash. The wasp leads its roach to its nest, where it seals it up and lays an egg on its belly. Even as the larva hatches and starts to eat the roach alive, the hapless insect doesn't struggle or fight

have discovered how the wasp's venom keeps its victim so sedate but otherwise mobile and healthy

cockroaches can be restored to their active ways by injecting

octopamine (see video

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Baby Boomer Nest Egg results 2000-2002

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:44:22 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This articel shows yet again the dangers Baby Boomers face if they use the do not protect themselves against losses in the stock market when they are in retirement

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Investing During Retirement

Gary did a great job in his April 22 E-Letter that highlighted both common and lesser-known risks associated with investing. His risk analysis discussion is especially important for those who are investing during retirement, since the negative consequences of taking on too much investment risk can be far greater during retirement than while accumulating a nest egg.

Tags: avoid large losses, retirement income, protect your nest egg, nest egg distribution

Target Date Funds Not Good in Retirement

Sun, 18 May 2008 00:25:27 GMT

clipped by: wandav22
clipper's remarks: Professor Zvi Bodie says Target Date Funds make sense during your working life. Such Funds should move more and more of your assets out of equities as you get closer to retirement.
In retirement some of those assets should be converted into inflation protected annuities. The aim being to create a guaranteed income for life.

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Wise pension strategy up until retirement

A TDF is a fund of funds diversified among equities, bonds and cash that includes a feature that automatically reduces the proportion invested in equities as time passes. TDFs may be a good choice for many during their working years but not after they retire. Government policy should recognise this fundamental point.

What is needed is guaranteed lifetime income that is protected against inflation. As they approach retirement employees should convert part of their retirement assets into inflation-linked life annuities. The US Department of Labor ought to make such annuities a “qualified default payout alternative” at retirement. In the UK, the government is still in the process of deciding on rules for its “national pension saving plan”. It is likely to include TDFs among the qualified investment alternatives. It should also include inflation-protected life annuities among the qualified payout alternatives at retirement.

Tags: lifetime income, protect your nest egg, avoid large losses, inflation protected annuities

Watch this very funny cartoon video about us Baby Boomers

Mon, 12 May 2008 07:39:54 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Baby Boomers take a look and enjoy.

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Baby Boomer Song

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Tags: baby boomers in retirement, protect your nest egg

Clipmarks | Nest egg Clips

Homosexual behavior is common in nature, and it plays an important role in survival

Bisexual Species: Unorthodox Sex in the Animal Kingdom

A blog for chickens (or at least people that keep them!).

Raising Chickens : Keeping Chickens in your Backyard

Raising Chickens Links

Bisexual or Just Sexual

Bisexual Species: Unorthodox Sex in the Animal Kingdom

Chicken nests, designs and general Tips

About eggs

Bisexual Species: Unorthodox Sex in the Animal Kingdom

Bisexual Species: Unorthodox Sex in the Animal Kingdom

property auctions at cafe royal

Hammered: What it is like to see your buy-to-let nest-egg being sold off for less than half you paid for it

Hammered: What it is like to see your buy-to-let nest-egg being sold off for less than half you paid for it

Want to Know How the Housing Bubble began?

The housing bubble, in four chapters

How homeowners, speculators and Wall Street rode a wave of easy money

Baby Boomers will soon become a target for all the Scam Artists out there

Top 10 investing scams

The wasp that walks cockroaches

Baby Boomer Nest Egg results 2000-2002

Investing During Retirement

Target Date Funds Not Good in Retirement

Wise pension strategy up until retirement

Watch this very funny cartoon video about us Baby Boomers