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AWESOME!

THE WIDER VIEW: Taking shape, the new bridge at the Hoover Dam

Creeping closer inch by inch, 900 feet above the mighty Colorado River, the two sides of a $160 million bridge at the Hoover Dam slowly takes shape.

The bridge will carry a new section of US Route 93 past the bottleneck of the old road which can be twisting and winding around and across the dam itself.

When complete, it will provide a new link between the states of Nevada and Arizona.

In an incredible feat of engineering, the road will be supported on the two massive concrete arches which jut out of the rock face.

The arches are made up of 53 individual sections each 24 feet long which have been cast on-site and are being lifted into place using an improvised high-wire crane strung between temporary steel pylons.

The arches will eventually measure more than 1,000 feet across. At the moment, the structure looks like a traditional suspension bridge. But once the arches are complete, the suspending cables on each side will be removed. Extra vertical columns will then be installed on the arches to carry the road.

The Mike O’Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge

The bridge has become known as the Hoover Dam bypass, although it is officially called the Mike O’Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge, after a former governor of Nevada and an American Football player from Arizona who joined the US Army and was killed in Afghanistan. Work on the bridge started in 2005 and should finish next year. An estimated 17,000 cars and trucks will cross it every day.

The Hoover Dam

The dam was started in 1931 and used enough concrete to build a road from New York to San Francisco. The stretch of water it created, Lake Mead, is 110 miles long and took six years to fill. The original road was opened at the same time as the famous dam in 1936.

An extra note: The top of the white band of rock in Lake Mead is the old waterline prior to the drought and development in the Las Vegas area. It is over 100 feet above the current water level.

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LAKE MEAD NRA, NV – JUNE 12: An aerial view of the Hoover Dam and the Hoover Dam bypass under construction June 12, 2009 in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

Update: October 2009

Drive by construction progress photo from the Nevada side of the Mike O’Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge, the major component of the Hoover Dam Bypass project. In this photo the temporary towers that were holding the arch spans and associated cables have been removed. Also, work has begun on the vertical piers that will support the road deck over the arch.

- Wikipedia

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Okay .. So, I received these FWD’ed to me … from a person who it was probably Mass-FWD’ed .. from a person who probably found it on feels.ru (which is a cool russian site) ..who probably got it from TheHornyRabbit.com (some greeting card site or script?) .. which carries eCards from NobleWorksCards.com .. or something .. and .. I dunno //

.. these are still “Funny Cartoons” ~ Enjoy!

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… ACT NOW!

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN OCTOBER 31, 2006

Pictures of Halloween Past (2005)

Happy Halloween Pictures

Happy Halloween Pictures II

Happy Halloween Pictures III

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Oh right … he logged onto his laptop and saw the arrest being made .. live !
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Image made Sept 7 and released by by police on Thursday Sept 14 2006 of thieves raiding a 600,000 pound ($1.1 million) home in Lancaster, northern England as the owner watched on his laptop while on holiday in Spain. John Ellison, 52, was alerted to the intruders by an automatic call from an alarm to his mobile phone while on holiday in Spain. He logged on to his CCTV system via his laptop and saw the men in his home over the internet – before calling police and watching the arrests live.

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This could have gone either way .. “crazy” … or just plain “crappy” .. but, it was fun to play with …

SEE HOW I MADE THIS …. artpad.art.com/gallery/?j0e67d771jg

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Wednesdays are shopping days, and my wife prefers to shop at Superstore. But, my tank of gas is getting to be about a quarter of a tank now, so I popped over to Safeway and purchased over $50.00 CDN of more groceries .. just to get an extra 3-1/2cent discount at the pump. Everybody gets 3-1/2cent discount with the Club Safeway Card (I just enter my phone number into the pump itself) .. but the coupon doubles it to a 7cent discount.

I bought needed cat litter, new toothbrush, sandwich meat, blueberry NYC bagels, batteries … crap like that! It doesn’t take much to reach $50 at the grocers today .. just like it was reaching that amount May 5th when I last filled my gas tank.

Found: From the blog … I like Cameras …. OVER HERE

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That’s a lot of crazy pumpkins at the “Halloween Pumpkin Pool at Flickr”

Like this one:

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words …. Worth1000 – Photoshop Contest – Are You Worthy?

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There’s some interesting pictures in THIS gallery! This is just one of the 61 entrants (at time of posting) … of the Modern Monster Gallery