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Zyrtec is an over-the-counter antihistamine medication used to treat itching and other allergic conditions. If you're looking for a fast way to help your dog with some itchiness or similar symptoms, you might have considered giving them some. It's a good idea you decided to check first.
Many dogs do not process human meds very well, and owners can often exacerbate a problem a dog may have rather than helping. Remember that these sort of medications might not have dire effects in the short term, but could be causing internal damage to your dog's liver and other organs which will create problems down the road.
Don't become complacent about OTC medications and their effects on your dog. These are powerful drugs including Zyrtec. Even though you were able to pick it up at your local retail store, only recently did it become available without a doctor's prescription. Your dog deserves its own medication, specially formulated for canine use. They also deserve to be seen by a professional, a licensed vet, to be sure it's allergies they have. It could be something else that is troubling them!
Can I Give My Dog Zyrtec? No
The main reason why you don't want to give your dog Zyrtec, also known as Cetirizine, is because it's not formulated for a dog's system. This drug will not react the same way it works for a human since it was developed specifically for use in people. Aside from our mammalian similarities, we still digest food and pills fairly differently.
If your dog is experiencing itchy skin for a prolonged period you may want to inquire with your vet regarding a great canine medication called Apoquel instead.
People Medication
It's not hard to find forums where owners and even vets are trading dosages for how much Zyrtec to give a dog. But think about it for a moment: changing the dosage on a medication that was intended for another species is supposed to change how that medication works? It's supposed to make the possible side effects lessen? It's supposed to make up for the fact that no long term studies or testing has been done on dogs?
Also, take into consideration the fact that these owners and vets are not getting all of the facts, and are not seeing the dog's symptoms in real life, they're just going off of what one owner is saying about one dog. It would be a bigger mistake to apply that person's situation to your own. Only a vet that sees a dog and can evaluate it first hand will be able to accurately determine if it is allergies the dog has, or a different condition. From there they can prescribe a direct treatment route that likely won't involve the use of Zyrtec or other human drugs.
Dogs and Allergies
Dogs can suffer from allergies the same way that a human can, but that does not mean that the same medication that works for us will work for them. While us humans don't like to tolerate much in the way of itching or sneezing, a dog will take it as just a part of life and not make a big deal of it.
Most times the condition will pass, but if you notice that they're biting at their own legs, or gnawing at specific parts of their skin, and you can't see any other reason for it, like fleas or ticks, then you might have an allergic dog on your hands.
Natural Remedies
Your dog could be responding to an allergen within the home, or something they picked up from outside if they've recently been outside. Dogs have a knack for getting into places they don't belong, and checking things out with their snout. That's why they tend to get into more allergy trouble than other animals.
Removing suspected allergens from the areas your dog frequents is a big step forward. It could also be that they need to get outside more if they don't already. Dogs like to get outdoors and get some fresh air and shake themselves, ridding their fur of any allergens at that time.
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This is
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I know there are a lot people who read and love the books by
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Anne of Green Gables
Although I haven't read any her books, I thought I'd go ahead and do four titles. (Earlier - a month ago? - I did one of the "Anne" books because a reader asked for one.)
The first
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Emily of New Moon
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Emily's Quest
About the
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"Lucy Maud Montgomery has been beloved by generations of readers for her Anne of Green Gables stories. In the celebrated Emily trilogy, of which Emily of New Moon is the first volume, Montgomery draws a more realistic portrait of a young girl's life on Prince Edward Island. The twin threads of bright and dark, love and cruelty, hope and despair intertwine in a pattern as significant as it is enduring."
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"In the second volume of the celebrated Emily trilogy, Lucy Maud Montgomery traces the often stormy course of Emily Starr's life as she moves from the world of childhood into that of school and adolescence.
"Emily Climbs unsentimentally reveals the world of the young as it really is – with its great moments of unalloyed wonder and joy, as well as its cruelty and suffering.
"Along with Emily of New Moon and Emily's Quest, Emily Climbs is a vivid, heartfelt portrait of youth and the road to maturity."
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"The third and final volume of Lucy Maud Montgomery's celebrated Emily trilogy, Emily's Quest is a vigorously drawn study of a woman coming to terms with love and her own ambition. In no other novel did Montgomery explore more fully the beauty, complexity, and wonder of love. In every detail, this mature novel, by one of the world's best-loved authors, captures the drama and confusion of a young life on the brink.
"Along with Emily of New Moon and Emily Climbs, Emily's Quest is an honest and poignant portrait of a singular woman"
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Miami Dolphins running back Reggie Bush was on The Dan Patrick Show via SportsRadioInterviews and was asked whether he thinks it's a good or bad idea that his team is featured on HBO's Hard Knocks.
"I don't know if it's good or bad but it is what it is right now," said Bush. "We have it so let's make the best of it. That's our mentality. I think you can make a case for both situations. When I was in New Orleans Coach Payton opted not to do 'Hard Knocks' so I think you can make a case for both. Some coaches may feel that it's more of a distraction, some coaches may use it as fuel to bring back passion to the football team and do it for the fans purposes. So while you have it you make the most of it but you still have a job to do and you still have to focus in and kind of go about your business as if the cameras aren't even there."
Bush was asked if the only place he can escape the cameras is at home.
"Yeah, home. The house. That's where you can go," said Bush. "Your house or the hotel room now obviously because we're in training camp. That's kind of my home away from home for right now and my chance to kind of escape, relax and do whatever it is I need to do whether it's studying, relaxing or catching up on ESPN."
Bush also stated that he's not too happy about having cameras around him.
"I've never been one to welcome cameras around especially in my personal life so I'm a guy, I like my privacy and keep my private things private whether it's friendships, relationships, business or whatever it is I like to keep private and I like to stay there. I feel like there is a time and a place for cameras obviously," Bush Said. "During football games whether you're doing some media stuff after games, postgame, before a game, commercials and stuff like that, there's a time and place for it so I think going back to college I've grown accustomed to it and try to make the most of it while I have it because I feel like obviously for us it's a way for fans to get a chance to see who we are outside of football or just a way for them to connect with some of their favorite athletes and football teams."
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A single person living alone, at home with no business to conduct, has a better email system than this, so I do not believe a word of this explanation by the IRS.
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After every I.T. document expert on the planet came out and said that the "Birth Certificate" was a fake and a badly constructed one, the media assured us that the issue was much too technical for us poor schlubbs to understand and, therefore, would remain a mystery in the fascinating and colorful life of the anointed one.Likewise, this issue will go down the memory hole labeled: "Experts disagree."Last week I had a flat tire on the way home but not having completed my PHD dissertation on tire changing as yet, I thought it best to abandon the vehicle and walk home.
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I thought that the Federal Government had been capturing everything that had ever been sent on the web, the internet, or whatever.Silly me!
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Anyone who does any work for the Federal Government must keep all correspondence in perpetuity. Any IT person with ant sense, keeps a daily back-up, both on site and off.
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This is extreme lying and will only be believed by morons, LoFos and dems, but I repeat myself. Most people today know about backups and how they are automatic. LoLer´s emails were backed up before she read them. It would take at least two but more likely three crashes to take them out.
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The other bombshell is that her assistant has some of her emails.
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This whole scandal has the makings if a good farce. If it weren´t so serious, it would be comical.
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Am I wrong in recollecting that AlGore also had "lost email issues" when he was accepting bribe - I mean - CAMPAIGN donations from Buddhist nuns who´d sworn a pledge to poverty?Anyone else remember that? Wasn´t there a LAW about maintaining emails? (Not that any law ever mattered to Obama, Inc.)The big question is: where is Congress?
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The smirking head of the IRS should be summoned to the next congressional hearing, and he should be told that he is a criminal and enemy of the freedoms that we enjoy under the Constitution. Furthermore, it may take a while, but the people of this country are going to see him and his co-conspirators perp-walked into prison for their crimes. And if they think that they will be pardoned, the charges will be brought after obama leaves the presidency.At least that will make a few of these traitors uncomfortable, and it may solidify some grass roots support for actually carrying this out.
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I must have read this wrong.In my wildest moments my backup design would not have stored selected older, or any emails, back on the users PC or laptop.Properly they made permanent backups of all emails while they were in the email server. But those were kept only six months?
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The IRS broke the law. Failure to secure documents which would be required in a lawsuit is felonious. Remember Oliver North? [You could look him up.]The purported IRS explanation is pathetic.Unfortunately nothing will be done about this criminal conduct. Mr Bonior is not interested in rocking the boat. The establishment wants its power. So to get along, they will go along. Screw the people. It is all about me.Just more of the same. Break the law. No penalty. The law is for others.No national outrage. No street protests. What the **** is it going to take?
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Everyone my age remembers Vietnam. If not vividly, then as a shadow of their youngest youth. I can barely remember the Moon landing, yet Vietnam did not end for another 6 years after that. I remember the crowds of protesters on TV in my years prior to elementary school, it made my old man who was true blue defense industry, rage. "Send all those doped up smart mouthed talking sons of a bitches to another country. Hell send them to Africa! Let them raise hell with them niggers down there!" When the hippies were every where in the early 70's he'd constantly raise hell. "Look at that filth parading around, do you think when shit like that starts running this country that it will survive? You can't have trash like that on the streets! Damned sorry-assed women with their titties all hanging out will take up with anybody!"
I remember those tirades well. He said lots of other things. I always thought the things he said were strange. Even as I grew up to understand why he was like that I thought it was strange. Not so much that someone of his generation and raising would think like that, yet rather that is was overbearing on his complete outlook and daily affected his mood so greatly. Attitudes like that serve negativity, it makes the world a darker place.
I always thought the peace sign was cool. I suppose as a child when it first became mainstream, it reminded me of a seal. As much as all that was "happening" in the 60's and 70's, that war, Vietnam was a defining factor. Later in life I would feel sorry for those forced to fight that war, and I am not talking pity. They were called upon by being told, you will serve. Without going into the political realms of a continuing "fight" against communism, the simple fact is we still had the draft, and it was the law you went and did your service.
As the cold war defined the next decade plus (and had got us there to start, since the end of the last world war) and then the middle eastern and persian conflict periods which are where we are at now, required soldiers to serve, if you're watching, and are not military reliant, you start to notice some things.
War can always be argued, that's what it is, a massive, deadly argument. Yet when you take part in most modern wars, you are serving the needs of a political machine, you're defending whatever it is they/it stands for. You may feel you stand for it too, and feel you protect others by making war, for whatever reasons. It's all political, but most soldiers must be agreeable to the cause, the needs of nations are usually at the core, but more often, it is ideas.
Let me make this clearer. This is hard for people to hear, but it's not my opinion, it's a rather cold hard truth. The Russians, The Chinese, they might do incredibly nasty things, hack me, try and cheat me, if I am stupid enough to have my infrastructure networked, the will try and fuck with that, but they're not going to physically attack me. How do I know this? They never have.
I bet they never will.
My war machine though, spends billions yearly to secretly engage them in types of war, nation against nation posturing. Please don't do this in my name. I'm not interested in helping you do this. In fact, don't de-facto claim to represent me internationally. I am not an overbearing, violent person. If you want to make a stand, a show, that is you, that is not me. The 20th century is over. I can represent myself to the world.
Pissed off yet? No? You will be.
I hear, all the time, as all of you do; That me being able to do that, represent myself to the world, was achieved by others sacrificing for me, fightin' for that right among many, which have been bestowed on me. The world is a dangerous place and I needed this protection for myself, and others, not only in this nation but in many other nations, and this continues, this need, today.
In the past if those sacrifices had not been made, you say, I could not do as I choose today, without your protecting my "right" to do so.
Well, no. I do not need your protection. Many of those you claim probably do. I do not. See, I'd be dead if I lived in China, Russia, some Asian nightmare, or many places, because I wouldn't need their national war machines either, I'd do as I do here, say that in public. They would send people for me. They would attack me, they would make war with me. I am told I can say this in America, and by this just being my opinion, I am safe, or at least "allowed" to do it to begin with and not expect the grim reaper of jack-boot justice - to come upon me quick.
So some time after this has been published, what have you learned? Was I really free to say such. After all I never went and attacked anyone, just said the truth, or at a minimum of what's on my mind. Was I protected? If I was, who was I protected from. If I was not, who enforced whatever went down? Who physically attacked who. Think about it. Quick.
Quick, that is a relative descriptive term. Ever heard this, "by God the __________________ (communists, terrorists, over all bad guys - insert your fear here) would march in here and take this place over so quick it'd make your head swim". My dad used to say that all the time. He was implying if we did not have our war machine so overwhelming powerful to prevent that, that it'd be sure to happen. No, it would not have, no it didn't. Was it deterred because we were so powerful they knew better? No.
I'll tell you why.
Pearl Harbor, we all know about Pearl Harbor. Surely the Japanese knew better, right? Obviously not, yet there was madness and the angel of war was waging throughout the world. We were already helping their enemies, so maybe they thought......does not really matter what they thought, they were stupid enough to think getting in a war with us would serve a purpose. True, we were not as we are now, the USA. Even then though, we were too strong for any other nation to whip, even an evil axis of 'em.
They were stupid. Their government demanded it though, so their soldiers who served obeyed their masters.
9/11? Conspiracy horseshit aside, those were fanstastically evil people who did those things. 10 years later, supposidly yet with less evidence that it'd take to convict a drunk driver in court we got the "mastermind". Not really, we killed a leader, yet those ideas that led us to 9/11 are still there. War learns overtime, to perpetuate itself, keep the representation to an idea, be it religion, politics, social norms, better yet combine them all, and take over.
What was the war in Iraq about? Was it the same as Afghanistan? No. It was weird. We used to give and sell tons of weaposn to Saddam, we did to Bin Laden also. We fed their war machines, then, they fed ours. The Angel Of War works like that. It does not care why or for what, it just needs and works to keep itself as a master over energies.
So that's where we are today. War says I need it, the War Machines say I must feed it. It is for my benefit. No. I do not want those benefits.
See, I cannot grow a garden, maybe build or buy a small structure to live in and keep to myself. No, I must pay someone for those priviledges. Most of it, I have figured out as I approach the big five-O, is done under guise. I need those things, so I must help provide. So really, I am not free. Though I did not make a choice to be part of those things I am required to support, I need them, so be it by force, I will support, or it, the "provider" of those things, this "freedom", will make war with me. That's not freedom, that is something else, take your pick, there's many things it can be, but it is not freedom.
Freedom is not free you say? Remember, we're not talking about what you have been decided to be provided for me, as freedom. It might be freedom to you, but it might not be to me, so don't represent freedom in my name and say you're insuring I stay free by doing whatever. I can live free or die without your help. It might be hard for you to accept this, but it is the truth. Politics that determine your behavior and mindset aside.
Let's forget politics for a while...
Nevermind, it is prevasive. People try, no one is successful. No matter what your "idea" is, whatever you do, can do, is determined by politics. You ignore it you say, just live your life. You'll still feed it, it will still ask and tell, require you to report, pay and obey. No, you don't do that you say? Then if you truly walk that walk and talk that talk, if not already, it will come for you, in something representing something, yet it will be part of a political machine, which in turn will feed a greater war machine.
Crazy you say. Really? Many of you have decided you like your system so you're fine with it. Cool, fine with me.
Yet perhaps I have not made those decisions. Your problem, and it is yours, is that I have not decided to be you, or have you decide for me, not what has decided for you decide for me. I have not fooled myself, and I serve no machine. And like I said a few paragraphs prior, I'd rather your political machines, from the least which uses violence to force it's will, to the greatest, which uses violence to try and rule the world (The Angel Of War laughs, it rules you stupid motherfuckers along side the Angel Of Death), speak for me. I can speak for myself. Have you noticed I have been doing that?
Free People speak for themselves, we are not represented by factions, if we've decided that others can represent us, does that mean we give up the right to rescind that if things get fucked up and we figure out they really speak for others and things we'd rather not have anything to do with? Hmmmmm.....good question. Let's see.
Don't do things in my name. I don't do them in yours. I have not determined you will be a part of my collective. Your society you say? Sorry. Societies by intelligent animals are complex semi-permanent systems, they're not perpetual systems, because we remove the animals, their society no longer exists. We programmed it that way. You don't like like that you say, don't agree with it. Too bad, reality can be a fuckin' bitch.
Look at me, you say, look at my determinations, crazy as a loon you might say. Shot the fuck out just like the perpetual war machine.....
Yes, I say, a war machine. I am not about war, craziness and violence. Again, you don't represent me. You did not create this perpetual system. You'll control neither it nor me, what can be done with this little animal body aside. Remember, your big bad ass too is but a small little animal, on a very small planet, in a massive universe you did not program, create, or control. Be cool, watch your ass. Some things you do cannot be undone later, and once you start some things, you cannot end them.
Someone else. But you (me) did not you say, and the god didn't either sez you, because that's religious bullshit to the great science and intelligent minds which rule your "society". Along with the mighty specter of war within......
But I will obey your war machine, you say, as you serve it well. For I will, in league with others who are with me, and it, those who are free....
Wait? What did you say?
You're going to do what, you've decided that, you're gonna to quit reading right here, because all this is fucking crazy.....someone needs to shut it up. The madcap laughs, the lunatic is on the grass! Damn it boy!
Really? Well just stay away from me while I am alive and I can guarantee you'll not have real problems from me. See, you're god-damned bat-shit crazy, full of pent up violence, full of your this, your that, when you don't own any of it, are told to think, act only as it allows you to act, and are so brainwashed you think nothing that you cannot walk away from it, that it will still not own you anyway, that you are not a slave.
I'm not. So don't claim to speak for me. Forget I exist. You don't have to know me, read what I write, I'll probably never visit, for all you know, if you want, I never was here. It'll make a difference in your life, yet I will give you that, you are free, to a degree, to make that decision.
To a greater degree though, that, those, and most other, decisions to be made for you; By consensus? Pehaps. Though the determination of others, undoubtfully.
What you want to serve makes no difference, those things are ideas, what you will serve, is hard cold reality, ruled by violence and death. Done in your name. Will you serve those ideas with your life, to do it in the names of others? Remember what I said about the Angel Of War and how it handles "ideas".
But, but but, you're not violent and about death you say......ok, I ask you now, and might even on judgement day, then who and what did you serve.
The greater good you say? Cool. Just don't do that good in my name. I am asking you kindly. If you do violence and death, serve the war machine, in my name and tell me too bad, I must accept that. We'll probably have problems. I don't serve the Angel Of Death. Don't even ask me to.
Humans are not the most arrogant species I've ever encountered, but they are some of the most corrupt. And by corrupt I mean overbearing and seeking to over rule, control, and profit off one another. Some say that's "just" greed. NO, Humans have constructed elaborate systems into survival, stability, and prosperity systems which are far beyond controlling, they are determining. Systems I have studied for a long, long time. I am not talking statistic factualization of data sets compared to social systems involving animals. I am speaking of the programming into perpetual systems which allow factorable variables. The Doctrine Of Creation.
See, humanity upon this earth, for all it's greatness, its science, is primitive. Advanced societies somewhere may be all about wars, yet they are primitive, like animals fighting over turf, who gets to control things in that area. When there are no others to fight, they will fight amongst themselves. That is primitive, where death ultimately rules. Might makes right.
No matter how "smart" you are, as long as the war machine and death are your ultimate masters, you're barbaric primitives. If humanity was not primitive, your economy would be so multi-faceted and based on advanced things you'd be on the moon, mars, and already would have learned to use biological machines and electromagnetic entities to be getting out into your galaxy. How long you think?
Give us 50 you say, 100, we'll be there! No, you won't.
Because the systems you have now not only cannot afford it, those systems cannot even manage the logistics of trying. Are you capable of it, and more, within those time frames. Absolutely.
Coming together, as one, or whatever, under "leadership" derived from politics will not get you there. War will not get you there, knowledge will not get you there. Freedom will.
How do you serve that? First, quit deciding for others, even if they are stupid and don't "understand" how the world works. Give each the right to decide, and the opportunity, or lack thereof, being able to decide for themselves brings. You cannot do it for them, and whatever you do, don't do it for me, you do not have my permission. Again, I can represent myself.
This is called a True Democracy.
Second, don't be so greedy. You're not greedy you say. I see nation after nation saying it has all these natural resources. Over time those nations, all of them, have been established through greed. That is why you have boundaries and billions of people under rule while only an elite few control. Greed. You might say God does not exist, fine, but keep biting the hand that feeds you, the imaginery one might remove its gifts. You can war against it to take those gifts, as you do now. That will not give you colonies out in your own solar system, much less your galaxy. Greed, war and death are ends to themselves. Whatever ideas you may have will not change that fact. Try another Way.
Of course these "things" are complex and multi-faceted within themselves. I could write books here on out about "it". So third, have a realistic identity about yourself, who and what you are, and what represents in your name. Deal with reality, not forced decree. You'll see reality works better. Harder to understand, most certainly, yet truth works better than lies, especially in the long run.
None of that is so hard you say. Well you're no where near "that", so there is a serious disconnect in there, maybe more than one, that is screwing things up. Don't help that along. Serve the needs of freedom, not the masters of war.
Now, on to the next thing......
On their latest release The Spiritual Bat come out strong with the title cut pumping along like something you might hear on The Edge's solo record, very retro dance 'el gothika. That cut also reminds me of something on the last record, which is cool, and even cooler something like that would be the first song. I find it is numbers like "Of Breath and Veils (Battlefield") that The Spiritual Bat hold their best. It's a nice laid back psychedelic jam. Sparse enough in places to be called atmospheric. Being The Spiritual Bat though, you're not going to get too far from the dance floor. "We Are Born We Live We Die" sounds like the best stuff from the golden age of college radio, which thankfully I was right there to hear and see it. Not afraid to tour and coming back to North America late summer as this is written, the entirety of Mosaic will be to cement the band's name and reputation on the scene.
There's probably a good half album of what we used to call darkwave, and before that was called alternative. Folks didn't really start calling anything "gothic" till the late 80's or early 90's. None of this album I'd call filler, and besides for a piece here and there pretty much the whole album is solid original. I think the band has grown and expanded their sound quite a bit since last go round, and as I said they are road workers, so don't be surprised if they get bigger, possibly much bigger. There's at least 3-4 difference flavors on the album, some on the verge of a doom dirge (Hypnotic) other things like "Blown Away" though even more obscure, highlights the trance like effect Rosetta Garri's singing style is known for. "Death March" suitably ends the album, sounding almost like some twisted Sabbath fading out through the high lands. I'd give Mosaic a strong 4 out of a possible 5. It's good work.
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Hey guys ...m banging my head with this issue...i have an ati radeon hd 5850 and samsung syncmaster 2233SW monitor....in the games the resolution being displayed is very low, somewhere in the 1280 x 1024 type of regions...though in the game settings its showing 1920 x 1080 ...please help...drivers are latest...11.12 amd vision engine control center
btw my desktop resolution iv put at 1280 x 800 ...wen i put it at 1920 x 1080 in the desktop d sides of the screen get cut...evn my monitors auto adjustment function doesnt help...
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is it every game? or just specific games? and are those games old?
the reason i ask is older games aspect ratio is 4:3 not the modern widescreen 16:9 so resolutions will always look odd/funny when you set the games to a 16:9 resolution.
what cables are you using to connect the gpu to the monitor, and would you mind filling out your system spec on the left hand side under your post count so we can have a badger (get it??) at anything else that maybe the issue.
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its with new games such as Call of Duty Black Ops and Just Cause 2...they all support 1080p...newayz yesterday i tried by installing old drivers for my gpu and the resolution got better at 1680 x 1050 i think...and fit the screen...at 1920 x 1080 d sides i cudnt see...evn my desktop was stretched too much....and all of this happened suddenly, this whole error...i changed no settings, just 1 morning i launched cod bo...n it happened...i reckon bout 3 days back...i hav an analog cable that connects my monitor to d gpu that came wid d card...and i hav dis pc for 2 yrs nw...worked fine...couple of weeks back removed xp n put 7...workd fine till dis random error...
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I don't have a Macys card but i do believe that they give increase your limit for a certain period of time.
I would wait for other responses or simply just give them a call.
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09-04-2009 06:44 PM - edited 09-04-2009 06:45 PM
Actually it was a year ago last month I think that I also was lured into a new bed purchase at 0%. I went into this also thinking that they'd up my CL to accomodate the bed purchase. We bought one for about $1900 (regret it...not firm enough; not Macy's fault though). They delivered it and set it up within a couple of weeks if I recall.
Here's a detailed account. Miahmarie went through this and comes to a conclusion at the end on how they report. Be sure to skip to the end:
On mine, they still report all 3 accounts. One is the revolving store charge card. One is a special event account, and one is a major purchase account.
The charge is my normal store card.
The special event carried the pruchase of the bed. They report a CL of $2500 to cover the bed and the initial reported balance was I think $1961 at 0%. EQ and EX both factored the balance and the CL. TU was an odd ball and reported the initial balance as the "high balance" and that was the CL that was factored into scoring. So, I started my first month with a maxed out CC which hurt my TU FICO. Today the balance is $781 w/ the $2500 factored into EQ and EX with TU still at $1961.
The Major Purchase account is exactly like the Special Event account but it report a $0 balance and a $0 CL from day one until now. It annoyed me in the beginning because of the new credit but I'm over it now. It was a couple of months ago that I contacted Macys about this account. The CSR was very knowledgable (and says that she's gonna visit here at myFICO) and said that the Special Event was just that, special. For some reason, Macys added the second account as a Major Purchase account and that I could use it at any time. She said that all I have to do is go to the store and make a major qualifying purchase like a bed, furniture, etc. Once I do so, then Macys will assign a CL. She also offered to have this TL deleted off my CR. I decided to hold off as in a few years, it will still report as open and really help my history and AAoA.
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Glenbrook Resort Villa Rental Photos and Description
4 bedrooms, 3 full bathrooms, sleeps 9
Two superb living rooms -Ideal for two families sharing or just for more space!
Screened in southwest facing sun drenched heated pool and spa NOT OVERLOOKED by other villas.
Free local, national and international calls.
Fabulous games room with aircon.
Fully equipped Dining room, kitchen, and separate laundry room.
Cable TV/DVD in family room.
The formal room is media free for a quiet retreat.
4 bedrooms, 2 Masters which have en-suite facilities
3 bathrooms - all with walk-in showers (two with baths too).
Fully Air-Conditioned with ceiling fans in the living areas plus the master bedrooms.
Free high speed Internet access.
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Location: There are plenty of Restaurants and take-aways within a 10 minute drive – and even some within WALKING distance from our home. You will find menus, contact details and directions for most of these in the villa.
At the entrance to the Glenbrook Resort there is Walgreen's Drug Store plus a CVS on the corner of Glenbrook Boulevard and the US27. There is also a gas station on the US 27 just as you exit Glenbrook. A Publix supermarket is around two miles away just as you turn onto the 192. There is also a Super Wal-Mart which is just one mile away- an experience in itself!!
Glenbrook Club House is there to make your vacation as ENJOYABLE as possible and contains a media room, with two computers and WIFI, games room, fitness room as well as the fabulous community pool, tennis and sand volley ball courts plus a children's play park and a lake you can fish in.
You decide how much you wish to use the facilities on offer. The Club House reception staff are available to answer any queries
- Suitability:
- Long-term Renters Welcome
- children welcome
- non smoking only
- pets not allowed
- suitable for elderly or infirm
- wheelchair accessible
About Sharon Davey
Hi,we are the owner's Sharon and Paul Davey.
We live in a town called Wellingborough in Northant's.
Between us we have 3 grown up children and 4 grandchildren.We look forward to welcoming you as our guest's to our beautiful home.
Sharon Davey purchased this villa in 2011
Why Sharon Davey chose Glenbrook Resort
We have visited Florida many times and purchased our villa as a retirement home,but in the meantime we would like to share the magic with you and hope that you have a fabulous family vacation.
Your vacation is important to us,as it is to you.
Let the magic begin,when you step inside our villa.
What makes this villa unique
Well equipped club house,gym,games room ,communal pool,also with PC and printer.
Guestbook comments from the owner
Thank you very much for the use of your Villa, it was an excellent location and the Villa was great. We had a fantastic time. The Villa is exactly as advertised in your video, the place was very clean and the two girls loved the pool, travel time to Disney was approx. 15-20 minutes which was a big plus for us, Thanks again Jim Edward & Family DIBBERS (June 2011)


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PHOENIX — Federal workers who got time off with pay during the government shutdown won't be double dipping, at least not in Arizona.
The state Department of Economic Security says it will seek repayment from the handful of government employees who got their first unemployment checks before Congress finally agreed to a funding plan. And if the workers don't cough up the money — a maximum of $240 a week — agency spokeswoman Nicole Moon said there are other ways to address the issue.
Moon said 2,144 federal employees in Arizona filed for unemployment benefits between Oct. 1 and Oct. 21.
The state does not pay for the first week of unemployment. Even at that, Moon said 75 federal workers did manage to get claims processed and checks issued beginning the second week, with the state paying out $18,470 in benefits.
Moon said the payments are not a hit to the trust fund that finances jobless benefits, a fund financed by a tax on all private employers. That's because jobless benefits for public employees are a "pass through," eventually repaid to the state by the government itself.
But the state still wants the money back.
Moon said if the worker balks, DES will contact the federal agency which employs the person and ask that their wages be attached.
"The ability to seek the wage garnishment was provided by the federal government in a policy broadcast to state agencies regarding any overpayment which resulted from the federal shutdown and the subsequent payment of back wages," she said.
The other federal workers who applied for benefits won't be getting checks in the mail.
"The remaining 2,069 claims filed are being processed and will subsequently be denied due to the shutdown no longer being in effect and workers receiving back pay," Moon said.


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How long will the Wall Street party last?March 17,2013Wall Street was recently abuzz with news that the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed to its highest levels ever.
Turns out that, so far, the market advance is not a fluke. It continued to hover around the historic high and closed out last week at 14,490.
The previous closing record for the market was set in October 2007, when the market topped out at 14,164. Shortly after mid-fall in 2007, the housing crash came home to roost and then the financial abyss commonly known as the financial meltdown took hold, crushing the Dow to 6,547 by March 2009.
Since that time we have had a long haul back to the 2007 high. Not only has the Dow reached a new record but the Standard & Poors 500 is not far behind, within a short distance of its own record of 1,565 set in 2007.
Why is the market doing so well these days?
In general, the market advances for two reasons: strong corporate earnings and low interest rates. We have had the latter for some time, but not so much the former.
Over the past couple of quarters, the former has turned around and good earnings abound in some companies.
While investors react to good news, they stay positive only as long as the news continues to be positive.
The second reason is the continued good news out of the Federal Reserve. They have kept rates so low that money is a bargain to corporations so they can borrow and invest in their future.
Again, for investors, its not what have you done for me today? Its what are you going to do for me tomorrow?
Stocks are bought based on future earnings expectations and the more that companies invest, the greater the positive outlook for expansion and profits.
Another plus to the Feds move is the rebirth of the housing market. Its on a real upswing.
Another mild positive is the improvement in the global economy and the U.S. economy. Europe appears to be on the mend and on other continents both South America and Asia are improving.
Keep in mind that most of the players in the Dow and S&P 500 derive a good chunk of their profits from overseas activities.
We all know that the U.S. economic recovery had been spotty at best and even in the good spots the recovery has hardly been anything to write home about.
Nevertheless, corporations have pulled back in this economy, spending only what they need to. They are now seeing the fruits of their prudence and are getting profits and revenues from around the world.
Of course, all the cutbacks in corporate America back in 2009 and earlier have helped bottom lines.
If home sales are back on the rise and car sales are also up, it would seem our economy isnt too badly off.
That being said, we are still a long way from being completely nursed back to the picture of economic health. House prices are still about 25 percent below their peak. So that is still having a negative impact on peoples financial households.
All in all, its important to remember that the stock market is a leading economic indicator. And the stock market loves low interest rates especially prolonged periods of low interest rates.
And the stock market also loves good corporate earnings. As a leading indicator, future projections carry a lot of weight on Wall Street.
How long will the party last? Tough to say. An accommodating Fed plus good corporate earnings equal a rising stock market. How long will both last? Right now, Wall Street appears to be saying awhile.
Please remember that stocks should only be a part of your entire investment portfolio no matter where the Dow is. As we have all learned, what goes up can go down.
Note: In my last column, I wrote that Medicare premiums are directly linked to your adjusted gross income. I said that when your income rises, the premiums not only rise but the increase is permanent. A loyal reader called me about this and I have since found out that despite my best efforts to check while writing the column, Medicare premiums are adjusted annually. I wish to thank this reader for taking the time to get in touch with me and point out the error. My apologies to all.
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