so,you go wit the "Australian Pine",the Casuarina,and really create a problem!
Invasive species
C. cunninghamiana, C. glauca and C. equisetifolia have become naturalized in several countries, including Argentina, Bermuda, Cuba, China, Egypt, Israel, Iraq, Mauritius, Kenya, Mexico, Brazil, South Africa, the Bahamas, Uruguay and the southern United States; in the United States it was introduced in the early 1900s, and is now considered an invasive species. The species has nearly quadrupled in southern Florida between 1993 and 2005, where it is known as Australian pine.
C. equisetifolia is widespread in the Hawaiian Islands where it grows both on the seashore in dry, salty, calcareous soils and up in the mountains in high rainfall areas on volcanic soils. It is also an introduced, invasive plant in Bermuda, where it was introduced to replace the Juniperus bermudiana windbreaks killed by juniper blight in the 1940s. Now the ironwoods are growing on cliffs and sandy slopes, competing with surrounding plants; they also erode the cliffs by splitting them apart via root penetration.
94% of teens acknowledge that texting while driving is dangerous 11 teens die everyday as a result of texting while driving. Teen drivers are 4x more likely than adults to get into car accidents while texting or talking on a cell phone. One out of every 4 car accidents in the U.S. is caused by texting and driving. Cell phone use is highest among 16-24 year old drivers.
9 people are killed in automobile accidents due to distracted driving each day. Distracted driving causes 15% of injury crashes. Nearly 400,000 people were injured in distracted driving incidents in 2015. Talking on a cell phone quadruples your risk of an accident, the same risk as driving drunk. Texting increases your risk of an accident by 8 times! The fines for texting and driving vary, with the highest being $10,000 in Alaska. Teen drivers 15 to 19 years old are the age group most at risk for distracted driving accidents. 9% of teen drivers 15 to 19 years old are involved in distracted driving fatalities. Texting while driving increases a teen’s risk for having an auto accident by 400%. Teens who text while driving veer outside of their lane 10% more than if they were not distracted. 40% teens said they have been passengers in a car while the driver was using his or her cell phone while driving, including their parents. 90% of drivers are aware of the risk of distracted driving, but 35% of those do it anyway.
I don't believe Putin tried to kill Sergei Skripal. Investigators said it looked like a private contractor, not a professional. Sergei was tied to Christopher Steele, who compiled that fake dossier on Trump.
...Reminds me of the guy who went into a bar carrying a suitcase and ordered a drink. When the bartender brought it, the man drank it and ordered another. While the bartender was pouring, the man opened the suitcase and a little man, about a foot tall, climbed out. The man then reached into the suitcase and pulled out a miniature piano and sat it on the bar, whereupon the little guy started playing the most beautiful music!
The bartender was astonished and told the man that his drink was on the house. The man gratefully accepted and drank his drink as the little man continued to play. The bartender offered one more drink on the house is the man would explain how he had come by this miniature virtuoso.
The man sighed and said, "Well, it's a long story: Several years ago I was stranded on a desert island. One day I was walking down the beach and found an old bottle in the sand. Thinking I might be able to put a note into it, I opened it and out popped a Genie who said he would grant me three wishes. Obviously, my first was to be rescued and, as you can see, I was. My second wish was to live a long and healthy life - I am 87 years old and don't look a day over 35..."
The bartender interupted "Okay, but that don't explain the little guy playing the piano."
"I'm getting to that." The man continued. "Just as I made my third wish a huge wave broke over the shore and the Genie didn't hear me correctly... He thought I said that I wanted a twelve inch Pianist!"
What is really disturbing here is that a govt employee can retire at 49 with full pension benefits. Does anybody know any company in the private sector that allows this?
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RE: Dear Abby: Man uses security cameras to spy on stay-at-home wife
projecting his own Guilt on his wife?