08/15/10 10:10 - 71.ºF - ID#52449

Erie County Fair - animals

There are so many animals at the fair. Every farmer wants to win giray premium. We learned a lot of interesting facts. One was that Americans spend on average only 14% of their income on food. It is one of the lowest rates in the world.

bill writes at 07:21:19 08/16/10 - Comment #57868: What is that in the last picture???

mike writes at 11:21:31 08/15/10 - Comment #57836: it was cool seeing a chicken lay an egg and we saw a cow that just birthed a baby calf and still had the placenta hanging out of it.

metalpeter writes at 12:32:53 08/15/10 - Comment #57821: Nice Pictures seeing that one chicken with the egg is wild, at first. But if you think about it, it is natural just never seen it before........

tinypliny writes at 10:38:06 08/15/10 - Comment #57819: It's fascinating to see what people eat across the world and at what costs: :::link:::

tinypliny writes at 10:35:38 08/15/10 - Comment #57818: Re: the 14% comment. It's about how much subsidized processed food people eat in general. I am sure you must have seen this famous set at some point :::link:::
Commentary: :::link:::

One look at what people eat and how much they spend across the world tells you about the general health of the country.

I just read these insane facts about healthcare costs in US.
- The average cost to visit an urgent care clinic is less than $200, whereas a hospital emergency room visit usually costs at least $600 and often much more.
- Having a baby in the U.S. is expensive. Charges for routine delivery (including doctor?s fees) are about $6,000 â€” often more.
- The daily hospital stay for room and board and doctor's fees can be $2,500 ( and even more at some hospitals!), so an average stay of only three days costs $7,500. That amount does not include medicine, surgery, laboratory costs, and other similar expenses.

I guess the whole system of health is skewed in this country. The major stress - that should be on prevention, is completely non-existent. The entire system encourages bad habits and poor health and then taxes the individual (and the community through ill-advised subsidies) heavily for illnesses that develop due to these habits.

People may criticize social engineering, but the current wide chasm in the healthcare Vs. prevention balance cries out for shifting the stress to education about good eating habits and giving people the time and initiative to think about the well-being of their bodies for a change instead of travelling closer and closer to the sick part of the health spectrum every year.

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08/15/10 10:04 - 72.ºF - ID#52448

Erie County Fair Indian Village

We swung by the Indian village on the way out of the fair. Sadly, we missed the dance show. That is usually my favorite part of the fair. It reminds me of (e:Jacob).

The bead treaty thing is kind of sad. We all know how that ended.

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08/14/10 03:19 - 85.ºF - ID#52445

oysters, clams and crab

The oysters and clams were good as always. This time we got less oysters because they were out of the Fanny Bay ones. Instead we got the crab meat cocktail which was so freaking good. Crab without the inconvenience of the shell is awesome. It costs $9.95 which seems pretty reasonable to me.

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Category: language

08/13/10 07:36 - 76.ºF - ID#52439

translation

These are supposed to be the translated instructions for growing some seeds on a Chia pet type plastic toy, flower box.

What are we really supposed to do. Do they just mean to put them in

warm water? Seriously, what kind of seeds can live through an hour of boiling.

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Category: windows

08/13/10 04:51 - 80.ºF - ID#52437

Getting good at window puttying

I wish I was this good at it when I did the other ones. After taking on these types of windows the square kind are a synch.

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Category: thursday

08/12/10 09:19 - 73.ºF - ID#52433

The Last Thursday in the square

It was the last Thursday in the square. I am kind of sad its over. The music sucked. I got bit by a spider. The worker in the yellow shirt was a jerk to terry last time. He gave him so much attitude trying to get a bracelet.

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Category: food

08/12/10 09:49 - 71.ºF - ID#52420

Braciole at Panaro's

For such a strange, complicated food, it is so delicious. An egg covered in pork and then wrapper in beef. I think my dad's mom made it with something else inside. Maybe salami?

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Category: android

08/10/10 10:42 - 75.ºF - ID#52414

Android App Update

Get your version 1.11 update from the marketplace. Added support for up to 10 images and a category. Does this work on your gphone (e:tinypliny)?

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Category: hiking

08/10/10 09:57 - 76.ºF - ID#52412

Little Rock City - revisited

I freaking love this place. This time we took a long trail way the heck out into the forest. (e:matthew,52408) got some awesome pics with a real camera. We ended up seeing so much more than the time we went over the winter with (e:james).