To laugh or to cry, people who by perfectly natural circumstances, lose there chickens, are compensated within a week. I'm sure the irony isn't lost on the long suffering Gaza expellees. settlers on the wrong side of the green line I implore you catch the flu, or any sort of nose blowing bug. you may just get compensated before they force you from your home, and your employment.

Speedy compensation for poultry farmers

Agriculture ministry agrees to pay farmers affected by bird flu virus 50 percent of compensation for damages within week

Ynet

Farmers that were forced to cull poultry due to the bird flu virus will receive advances for the sum of 50 percent of the compensations for direct financial damages caused to them within one week, the veterinarian services ordered.

The speedy process will be also effective to fowl that has not been exterminated yet.

Director-General of the Agriculture Ministry Yossi Yishai, and Secretary-General of the Poultry Farmers' Association Yaakov Cohen have reached an understanding regarding the compensation system to farmers.

According to the agreement, farmers will receive the remainder of the compensations within 30 days, upon presenting the relevant papers

to the Ministry. The sum of the compensation will be set in accordance with the criteria stipulated in regulations for the culling of fowl.

The Agriculture Ministry, the Egg and Poultry Board and the Poultry Farmers' Association have set up a team to evaluate the damages caused to growers as a result of the closure imposed on farms where birds were not killed. Compensations to farmers will be determined according to the team's decisions.

It has also been agreed that the representatives of chicken hatcheries and slaughterhouses will present before the Agriculture Ministry damages they suffered due to the virus' outbreak. All matters related to indirect damages will be addressed by a committee of ministries' director-generals that has been formed by the government.

Yaakov Cohen of the Poultry Farmer's Association said that this agreement with the Agriculture Ministry is the first step in compensating the farmers for the financial catastrophe they were faced with. According to Cohen, the quick transfer of funds will help growers whose world has collapsed to get back on their feet.

Elon Says He Won’t Sit in Gov’t Without Other Religious Parties

16:05 Mar 21, '06 / 21 Adar 5766
By Scott Shiloh

MK Benny Elon, in a bid to cull votes from Chabad (Lubavich) Hasidim, told the movement’s magazine that he would not join a government coalition unless other religious parties participate. Elon, head of the National Union – NRP [National Religious Party] ticket confirmed his remarks to the magazine, Kfar Chabad, made in an interview to be published later this week. He emphasized that his comments reflected his personal opinion and not that of his party.

Campaigning at Kfar Chabad yesterday, Elon tried to dissuade voters from casting their ballots for the Hazit party headed by Baruch Marzel. Chabad voters, zealous in their opposition to withdrawals from parts of the land of Israel, have traditionally supported parties on the far right of the spectrum. Elon warned voters against supporting a list, which in his opinion will not cross the minimum threshold necessary for Knesset representation. That threshold stands at 2.5% of the popular vote. Elon said Chabad supporters “don’t want to lose their votes again,” and asserted that Chabad rabbinical leaders are worried that votes for Marzel “will go down the drain.”

Regarding his recent bout with throat cancer, Elon said that he expected to finish treatment within a few weeks and after that, the illness “will be behind us.” He attempted to refute rumors that he is planning to resign from politics due to his illness, leaving NRP representative Zvulun Orlev, number two on the ticket, to take his place.

Many of Elon’s supporters in the National Union lack enthusiasm in relation to the NRP candidates who joined Elon’s list last month. In addition to visiting Kfar Chabad, Elon made a campaign stop at the offices of the Emek Lod municipality where he met with the mayor and his assistant.

Canada's growing marijuana problem

By Becky Branford BBC News

Nearly half of Canadians admit to smoking marijuana at least once Frank proudly surveys the large log cabin he constructed himself, on a two-acre plot of aromatic evergreen forest he now owns.
"All this," he says, "was built on marijuana."
Over four years, Frank - not his real name - tended a patch of marijuana plants in a forest clearing about 45 minutes' walk from where his cabin now stands.
He regularly pooled his harvests with those of several other growers in the small British Columbia (BC) town in which he lives, to sell wholesale to young men from just across the border in the US state of Idaho.
Frank says he made hundreds of thousands of Canadian dollars before hurriedly leaving the business when his American buyers were arrested. contiunued

In the summer of 1983, an Israeli F-15 staged a mock dogfight with Skyhawks for training purposes, near Nahal Tzin in the Negev desert. During the exercise, one of the Skyhawks miscalculated and collided forcefully with the F-15's wing root. The F-15's pilot was aware that the wing had been seriously damaged, but decided to try and land in a nearby airbase. It was only after he had landed, when he climbed out of the cockpit and looked backward, that the pilot realized what had happened: the wing had been completely torn off the plane, and he had landed the plane with only one wing attached.


A few months later, the damaged F-15 had been given a new wing, and returned to operational duty in the squadron. The engineers at McDonnell Douglas had a hard time believing the story of the one-winged landing: as far as their planning models were concerned, this was an impossibility.

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