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Listen up, puzzle lovers. I've got a site you're going to love.

Today's site features Tangrams, old Chinese puzzles.
You've probably seen them before, even if the name
doesn't sound familiar.

You're presented with a series of geometric shapes –
squares, polygons and triangles. The goal is to fit
them together into different shapes.

It sounds easy, but it can be quite a challenge. If
you get stuck, use the cheat option.

By the way, this is a great site for children. It will
help them with spatial relations. In other words, it
will make them smarty-pants.
This is fun try it!

You just wait for the cat's head to get in position and you "click", hoping for a strike .  The score will accumulate ... you'll have to click the "continue" when it asks.  The cat's head moves very fast. It IS addictive.  Click continue after each frame:

Click here: Hairball Bowling

Two patients limp into two different American Medical clinics with the same complaint.  Both have trouble walking and appear to require a hip replacement.

The first patient is examined within the hour, is x-rayed the same day and has a time booked for surgery the following week.

The second sees the family doctor after waiting a week for an appointment, then waits eighteen weeks to see a specialist, then gets an x-ray, which isn't reviewed for another month and finally has his surgery scheduled for 6 months from then.

Why the different treatment for the two patients?

The first is a Golden Retriever.....

A friend sent us the link to a fascinating website concerning the heavily promoted TeenScreen "mental health" screening program. The website exposes TeenScreen as a tool of the psychiatric-
pharmaceutical industry, a fishing expedition through which drug companies seek new revenue sources by falsely labeling teens as mentally Ill. These kids may simply have physical illnesses, diet-caused imbalances, or even normal teenage thoughts and behaviors. TeenScreen's questionnaire falsely labels up to 84% of
those screened as being "at risk" of suicide. It's no surprise that the kids so labeled are then prescribed mind-altering psychiatric drugs.

Here is the link to the website: http://www.teenscreentruth.com/

Kevin had personal encounters with diet-related "mental" illness as a child. One of his aunts was notoriously "unstable" and considered by many to be something of a "nut-case" due to her swings between depression and unprovoked rage. After suffering from this for a number of years, this aunt read somewhere that such suffering might be caused by hypoglycemia (low blood sugar). She had a medical test and confirmed this to be the case. A simple change in diet completely handled the problem! From then on out, she was a sweet, stable, happy  person. Had this situation occurred nowadays instead of 40 years ago, she would almost certainly have been put on one or more dangerous psych drugs often known to induce suicidal behavior!

We believe that any person, young or old, who suffers from any condition that some may label "mental" illness should first seek competent medical, nutritional and environmental testing and advice ("environmental" referring to testing for allergies, toxins in the home or office and the like). In the vast majority of cases, such factors as previously undiagnosed PHYSICAL illness,
dietary imbalances or environmental factors such as allergies may be found to be causing the "mental" problems. These factors can be then be addressed with safe, non-psychiatric methods, to the great relief of all.

Evan, who a number of years ago ran a small private school, took on some children whose parents had been being "encouraged" to put their kids on psychiatric drugs. She turned them around by getting them off sugar, with lots of affection and understanding and by using thorough, workable study methods. Something can be done about overly wild, depressed (etc.) kids without resorting to
giving them drugs.

Let us know how you like the website and feel free to share with us your views and your own experiences in these areas.

Love, Kevin & Evan

Evan's Garden(tm)
Website: http://www.evansgarden.com/

Lawyers should never ask a Southern grandma a question if they aren't prepared for the answer.  In a trial, a Southern small-town prosecuting attorney called his first witness, a grandmotherly, elderly woman to the stand.  He approached her and asked, "Mrs. Jones, do you know me?"  She responded, "Why, yes, I do know you, Mr. Williams.  I've known you since you were a young boy, and frankly, you've been a big disappointment to me. You lie, you cheat on your wife, and you manipulate people and talk about them behind their backs. You think you're a big shot when you haven't the brains to realize you never will amount to anything more than a two-bit paper pusher. Yes, I know you." 

The lawyer was stunned!  Not knowing what else to do, he pointed across the room and asked, "Mrs. Jones, do you know the defense attorney?"  She again replied, "Why, yes, I do. I've also known Mr. Bradley since he was a youngster.  He's lazy, bigoted, and he has a drinking problem.  He can't build a normal relationship with anyone and his law practice is one of the worst in the entire state.  He has cheated on his wife with three different women.  One of them was your wife.  Yes, I know him."

The defense attorney almost died.  The judge asked both counselors to approach the bench and, in a very quiet voice, said, "If either of you idiots asks her if she knows me, I'll send you to the electric chair."

While I was watching the playoff games last weekend, my wife and I got into a conversation about life and death, and the need for living wills.  During the course of the conversation I told her that I never wanted to exist in a vegetative state, dependent on some machine and taking fluids from a bottle.

She got up, unplugged the TV and threw out all my beer.

Sometimes it's tough being married to a smartass.