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The following questions were asked recently on the Wonderline: Q: Regarding insurance policies for tax-paid entities, I wascurious to see if any of the other government subdivisions haveresponded. I appreciated seeing what different school districts,villages, etc., have for insurance policies for their employees.Just wondering to see if there s any more information available. A: Since that story ran, there are further responses. For employees of the Village of Bradshaw, this was the response: For the last 10 years and more, this village has paid each workera monthly sum equal to what the local school district pays for thesingle health and dental insurance they provide their workers. Ithas increased every year and is currently about $527. The individuals purchase their own insurance and it is classifiedas an insurance reimbursement or if not, it is regular income ontheir W-2. For the Upper Big Blue Natural Resource District: The Upper BigBlue NRD is a member of the Nebraska Association of ResourceDistricts Intergovernmental Risk Pool Association. That association has a self-insurance health plan for all 23 NRDsin the state. The plan is approved and overseen by the NebraskaDepartment of Insurance. The plan covers 700 individual NRD employees and family membersacross the state. The premiums are the same for each NRD. All districts pay for theindividual employee premium. The family coverage paid for by theNRD is determined by each individual NRD Board of Directors. Somepay 80 percent of family coverage, however the association goal isthat each NRD pay for all of the employee premium and 2/3 of thefamily coverage. About 1/3 of the NRDs do not contribute towardsfamily coverage. The Upper Big Blue NRD pays for the employee health insurance.Any family coverage is at the expense of the employee through apayroll deduction. There is a $1,000 deductible for the healthinsurance. The NRD pays for employee and family dental insurance. Commissioner Kurt Bulgrin also provided information regarding thefamily insurance policy information for employees of the State ofNebraska. He said the figures include: the first amount is what the employeepays per pay period (semi-monthly) and the second amount is whatthe state pays per pay period (also semi-monthly). Medical United Health Care Part Time RegularPlan (family): $221.08/$665 Dental Ameritas Premium Option (employee andspouse): $23.70/$0 Vision - EyeMed Premium Option (employee andspouse): $6.39/$0 Q: I heard the most unbelievable story this week, on television,about people going crazy because of their addiction to bathsalts. What on earth? I ve had bath salts in my house, used them foryears, and have no idea what they are talking about. Is using bathsalts safe or not? A: Go ahead and put the bath salts in your bath, as they aresupposed to be used. The issue that was publicized this week is that apparently peopleare actually ingesting bath salts as they would a drug. Itallegedly produces a high and as we are seeing, both temporaryand permanent insanity. Users, say a number of sources, smoke orsnort the bath salts and as you ve seen, it has horribleconsequences. Q: Has the city chosen a keno operating company yet? I haven tseen anything happening with that. A: No, the city hasn t chosen an operator yet. The financecommittee will review the proposals from three keno companies (whohave submitted bids ) and bring forward a recommendation to thecity council for its next meeting. Q: I was hoping to get more information regarding the contactnumbers for the lady who wanted to get rid of some canning jars.Can we have that information? A: There have been so many people given the contact informationthat we stopped calling the others who inquired, as we are underthe assumption that the jars have already been distributed. Q: Has Mitt Romney or any of his family ever served in themilitary? A: It appears not. In biographical material about Romney it says he spent 30 months in France as a Mormon missionary, starting in1966 this was the traditional rite of passage that his fatherand many other relatives had volunteered for. He did not serve in the U.S. military. Q: Why is it that old barns were always painted red? A: That s a really interesting question. According to the Farmers Almanac (which has trivia such as this), red was a popular color for barns, not due to its color shade butrather for its usefulness. Many years ago, choices for paints, sealers and other buildingmaterials did not exist. Farmers had to be resourceful in findingor making a paint that would protect and seal the wood on theirbarns. Hundreds of years ago, many farmers would seal their barnswith linseed oil, which is an orange-colored oil derived from theseeds of the flax plant. To this oil, they would add a variety of things, most often milkand lime, but also ferrous oxide, or rust. Rust was plentiful onfarms and because it killed fungi and mosses that might grow onbarns, was very effective as a sealant. It turned the mixture redin color. When paint became more available, many people chose red paint fortheir barns in honor of tradition. Q: Is it true that the Titanic was more than half-way on itsjourney when it sank? Where exactly in the Atlantic Ocean did it godown? A: Yes, the Titanic was more than half-way to its destination, NewYork City, when it sank. The closest land mass to the ship slocation was New Foundland. Q: What makes popcorn pop? And when was it discovered that popcorncould be popped and eaten? A: No one knows exactly where popcorn came from or when it wasfirst popped, but archaeologists have found popcorn in some mostunusual places. One such place was the tombs on the east coast ofPeru where they found grains of popcorn that were a 1,000 yearsold. These grains were so well preserved that they still popped! Ears of popcorn were also found in the Bat Cave of west central NewMexico that were nearly 5,600 years old. One of the oldest finds ofpopcorn was made in Mexico City where 80,000-year-old fossilizedcorn pollen was found buried 200 feet below the city! Archaeologists believe that popcorn originated in Mexico, but theyknow that it was grown in China, Sumatra and India years beforeColumbus visited America. By the time Columbus arrived in 1492, popcorn was widespreadthroughout North and South America and was enjoyed by most NativeAmerican tribes. The natives of the West Indies even tried to sell popcorn toColumbus and his crew, but it wasn t until the first Thanksgivingfeast at Plymouth, Mass., that the English colonists wereintroduced to popcorn. As a gift for the celebration, Quadequina, brother of the Wampanoagchief Massasoit brought a deerskin bag of popped corn. So just how does popcorn pop? Only popcorn kernels can pop, and thesecret is water. Each kernel contains a small amount of waterstored in a circle of soft starch inside the hard outer casing.When heated to around 450 degrees, the moisture turns to steam,creating pressure within. As the pressure builds, the casingeventually gives way, and the kernel explodes and pops, allowingthe water to escape as steam and turning the kernel inside out. I am an expert from childrenswallsticker.com, while we provides the quality product, such as China butterfly wall stickers , remove wall sticker, 3D wall stickers,and more.
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