28 October 2009

Cucumbers to the rescue!!!


The Amazing Cucumber This information was in The New York Times several weeks ago as part of their "Spotlight on the Home" series that highlighted creative and fanciful ways to solve common problems.

23 October 2009

Financial Planning ... Keep it to your Self

Dan was a single guy living at home with his father and working in the family business.  
When he found out he was going to inherit a fortune when his sickly father died, he decided he needed a wife with which to share his fortune.
One evening at an investment meeting he spotted the most beautiful woman he had ever seen.
Her natural beauty took his breath away. 'I may look like just an ordinary man,' he said to her, but in just a few years, my father will die, and I'll inherit $20 million.'
Impressed, the woman obtained his business card and three months later, she became his stepmother.
Women are so much better at financial planning than men.

VERY IMPORTANT FACT from your Financial Advisor!!

Abu Dhabi Air Crew Crashes New A380


Anyone know if this story is True...???

There seems to be news blackout on this.

This brand spanking  new Airbus 340-600, the largest passenger airplane ever  built, sits just outside its hangar in Toulouse ,   France without a  single hour of airtime.

Enter the Arab flight  crew of Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technologies ( ADAT ) on 15th November 2007, to conduct  pre-delivery tests on the  ground, such  as engine run-ups prior to  delivery to Etihad Airways in Abu  Dhabi  .
The ADAT crew taxied the  A340-600 to the run-up area.

Then they took all Four engines to takeoff power with  a virtually empty aircraft. Not having Read the  run-up
manuals, they had no clue just how light an  empty A340-600 Really  is.

The takeoff warning horn  was blaring away in the  cockpit  because they had All 4 engines at full  power.
The aircraft computers  thought they were trying to take off, but it had not been  configured properly (flaps/slats, etc..)

Then one of the ADAT crew decided to pull the circuit breaker on the Ground Proximity Sensor to silence the  alarm. This fools the aircraft into thinking it is in the  air.

The computers automatically released all the  Brakes and set the aircraft rocketing  forward.
The ADAT crew had no  idea that this is a  safety feature so that pilots can't  land with the brakes on.

Not one member of the seven-man Arab crew was smart  enough to throttle  back the engines  from their max power  setting, so the $200 million brand-new Aircraft crashed into a  blast
barrier, totaling it.



The extent of injuries to the crew is unknown due to the news blackout in the major media in France and elsewhere.

 Finally, the photos are starting to leak out.

A French Airbus:  $200 million dollars
Untrained Arab Flight Crew:  $300,000 Yearly Salary

Unread Operating Manual: $300
AIRCRAFT MEETS RETAINING WALL --  WALL WINS