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Japan was saddened by the loss of Ling Ling on Wednesay, Tokyo Zoo’s Giant Panda. Here is the Story on MSNBC Ling Ling was the only Panda owned by Japan, although the country has a few on loan from other zoos.
Ling Ling was a superstar at the zoo, and attracted a huge crowd that waited patiently to see him when we were there a few weeks ago. He was old, and having some health issues, but his death still seemed rather sudden.
Our daughter Susie got a back-pack when we visited Ling Ling, which you can see in many of the pitures I took while we were in Japan.
Here are our pictures from visiting the Panda a few weeks ago.
Ling Ling sleeping in his house
The Panda’s Home
The crowd queued up to see Ling Ling… an official made sure they kept moving at a slow walk past the Panda’s home
Our daughter Susie (far right) takes her Ling Ling backback everywhere
Hey Randy,
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http://www.healemru.com/2008/05/thanks-mom-event-free-us-registration.php
(I’m not in any way affiliated with the above blog, but someone passed the link on to me and I thought it was a great cause.)
Not quite spam… just someone who feels this is important.
I checked out the link – it’s basically to admonish you to get screened to get on the bone marrow donor program.
Bone marrow donation is a *lot* less invasive that it use to be – it’s now a simple procedure that will save someone’s life directly.
I’m a mean jerk – and I’ve signed up. This may not be the case anymore, but you don’t have to donate if you don’t like the recipient. If Robert Byrd (Democrat Senator and member of the Klu Klux Klan) needs marrow – he ain’t getting it from me!
Re: Not quite spam… just someone who feels this is important.
Good for you for signing up–and thank you! It’s nice that they’re doing sign-ups for free–when I signed up several years ago, it was $70, I think.