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It's a dog's life as fat pets are given obesity warning
Posted: March 16, 2013|
PET owners in Notts are making their dogs and cats too fat to enjoy life, vets have warned.
The stark warning comes after a new survey from the PDSA, the UK's leading veterinary charity, has found that more than 18 million pets in the UK are being fed diets which are putting them at risk of a miserable life and an early grave.
Vets in Nottingham say that it is a problem here too and that they see far too many overweight dogs and fat cats.
"We are a nation of people and animals that are overweight," said senior veterinary nurse Gemma Belton, of Companion Care Vets in Netherfield.
"I think it's because clients see their pets as part of the family. They give their dogs human food such as slices of toast. They also give their dogs treats if they nip to the shop or something and these treats are very fatty."
Sean Murphy, 14, of Hereford Road, Woodthorpe, has put his seven-year-old Chocolate Labrador Buddy on a diet after he reached more than 69kg in November last year. He said: "The process of him losing weight has been difficult.
"He was a terrible thief. Once he stole a chicken that my mum just cooked for dinner.
"He wouldn't take anything when we were there but when we were out we used to have to put a broom on the bin to keep him out."
Buddy has now dropped to 56kg and is on the way to his ideal weight of 35kg.
Sean added: "He had a tumour on his foot last year and had to have two operations.
"The vets tried other avenues because it was such a risk with his weight but in the end we had to take the risk and go ahead with the operations.
"He's had bandages on since December last year so he has lost all this weight without any exercise – just by keeping him on a special diet."
Conducted between March and May 2012, the PDSA Animal Wellbeing (PAW) Report is the biggest assessment of pet wellbeing ever.
Ben Pugh, vet at Byron Clinic in Nuthall Road, Old Basford, says: "One problem is that people's perceptions are often wrong as they're used to seeing dogs being overweight, so when a dog is a healthy weight people often think it is too thin.
"One handful of crisps is not much for us, but for a dog it is a lot."
Gemma Belton added: "Overweight cats are on the increase too.
"Cats are getting overweight because owners aren't letting them out, but are still feeding them the recommended amount of food, which is recommended by manufacturers for cats that are regularly outside.
"Sometimes we see overweight rabbits too. It is a growing problem"


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The world's rapid transition to urbanization contributes greatly to the pressure on water, food security, and energy, as the World Water Week Workshop on Securing Water and Food in an Urbanising World explored. We cannot simply look at urbanization as an urban problem. As Pay Drechsel from the International Water Management Institute stressed in the seminar, urbanization has strong links to rural and peri-urban areas, as urban centers become sinks for both rural-borne water and nutrients.
The informal sector around many rapidly developing cities, such as Chennai, has entered into a highly lucrative business pumping tanks and aquifers dry and selling the water to cities. The water is transported by trucks, adding energy costs to cities' water supply. Through this system, informal water markets supply cities with every drop of water they can get, quickly drying up peri-urban areas. While it requires significant infrastructure costs to redirect water sources from increasing distances towards cities, peri-urban areas are suffering as cities squeeze them dry of water resources.
However, a current case in Bangalore shows that this situation can be partially remediated. Peri-urban areas may be able to swap high quality freshwater satisfying city demand for drinking water with treated wastewater fit for agriculture.
But who really wants wastewater? In Bangalore, the win has apparently been huge. The city constructed a 20km channel that directs wastewater out of the city and into its peri-urban areas. Over time, these areas that had run dry for over a decade began to see water in their tanks and wells again. It turns out that the wastewater, while moving out from the city, underwent different self-cleaning processes, and eventually infiltrated the ground, trickling back into wells and replenishing drinking water in peri-urban communities. These so far unknown opportunities have already resulted in conflicts for a resource whose value was so far underestimated.
In the Western World, we typically pay to have our wastewater taken away. But as the case in Bangalore shows, wastewater can be a valuable commodity that peri-urban areas may consider paying for in the future. Pay Drechsel is leading a team of researchers to look into the "water-swap" business model, which was recently also promoted by FAO (in its Water Report 35), where peri-urban areas support urban centers' water demand and accept treated wastewater in return for agricultural production. The team will also look into how much peri-urban areas might be willing to pay to have cities redirect safe wastewater into their communities.
About the Author:
Abby Waldorf is a Communications and Engagement Intern for the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems. She has a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and is the Managing Director of wH2O: The Journal on Gender and Water.

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Herbicide Causes City To Give Up Compost Distribution
(Beyond Pesticides, November 11, 2003) The tradional compost
distribution that the Solid Waste Divison of Lawrence, KS holds each
fall is cancelled this year due to herbicide contamination, according
to Lawrence
Waste Reduction & Recycling (WRR). The town's compost was found
to contain unacceptably high levels of the herbicide clopyralid, a chemical
that remains lethal up to 18 months after initial use. "The reason
we wanted to test this year's compost prior to distribution was the
prevalence of clopyralid found in municipal compost facilities in California,
Washington, Oregon, and Pennsylvania. We wanted to know if this particular
herbicide was being used locally on residential lawns - to such an extent
that it could potentially cause plant damage when used as compost for
backyard gardens," says Mollie Mangerich, operations supervisor
for WRR. "We sent a composite sample to a laboratory in Moscow,
Idaho and it came back with the result of clopyralid found at 52 parts
per billion (ppb) in our compost - a level which can be harmful to susceptible
plants such as tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, peas, beans and sunflowers
- plants often grown in backyard gardens and nurseries."
Other states have taken action as well. In March 2002, Washington state
banned use of the chemical on residential turf after studies detected
clopyralid in compost made from recycled grass, straw, and manure in
California, Washington, Pennsylvania, and New Zealand. See the March
6, 2002 edition of Daily News for more information.
Several months later, during July 2002, Dow Chemical Company, manufacturer
of clopyralid-containing herbicides including Confront, actually petitioned
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to delete all residential
use from the label of clopyralid products. Additionally, the new label
requires professional applicators to notify property managers not to
compost clippings from treated grass. Dow's requested action neither
addressed the most significant uses of clopyralid products nor provided
complete warning of all the dangers presented by the product.
The vast majority of product is applied by commercial and agricultural
applicators, and clippings from commercial turf (the majority of turf
in some states) frequently wind up in municipal compost programs. Unless
the herbicide is completely banned, compost and recycling companies
told the Los Angeles Times that their businesses could go bankrupt.
"You cannot have a system that mandates recycling of green waste
and license a garden chemical that makes the waste unrecyclable,"
said Gabriella Uhlar-Heffner, solid waste manager for Seattle's public
utility company.
The label change to clopyralid products is a phase-out, so although
most products will show the new label, there may still be some products
gracing garden store shelves that don't include the new warnings. Therefore,
it is important to act responsibly on the consumer level. Environmentalists
say it is best to avoid toxic herbicides altogether and practice safe
lawn care techniques. A good IPM program combines monitoring, proper
landscape design, mechanical and cultural methods, and includes the
use of heat, herbicidal soaps, and corn gluten meal. Biological control
of weeds, using beneficial insects or pathogens is also an excellent
approach. These techniques add to the health of the soil rather than
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ELIZABETHTOWN - It appears that politics do indeed make for strange bedfellows as a majority of Essex County Republican supervisors are backing a Democrat for the soon-to-be vacant board of supervisors chairmanship, while the Democrats have thrown their support behind a high-profile Republican.
The term of current board Chairwoman Cathy Moses expires Jan. 1, and the board will convene to elect a new leader at the annual organizational meeting on Jan. 4.
Competing for the seat, which comes with a hefty pay raise, are Democratic Jay Supervisor Randy Douglas and the oft-vocal Republican Moriah Supervisor, Tom Scozzafava.
Following Scozzafava's vocal support of District Attorney Julie Garcia in her failed reelection bid against GOP nominee Kristy Sprague, a discernable rift in the party continues to make things unpredictable in Essex County.
"The party is definitely divided after the DA race," Scozzafava said. "But we need to heal the party or die as individuals."
Chair of the BOS finance committee, Scozzafava has publicly butted heads with county manager Dan Palmer.
He noted that according to his count, he has the support of eight or nine supervisors, many of whom are Democrats.
There are 18 towns in Essex County and, if his count is accurate, a tie isn't out of the question. Scozzafava said he has been told by his Republican backers that if a tie were to occur, they would support Douglas.
"I knew that I would probably be a long shot when I decided to seek the seat," Scozzafava said. "I am not good at biting my tongue, so it may be best if I wasn't seated in that chair."
Democratic Westport Supervisor Dan Connell is joining him in the bid as a candidate for vice-chair, while Douglas has tapped North Elba Supervisor Robi Politi, creating an additional geographic dynamic, pitting supervisors from the county's west against supervisors from the county's east.
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CSS: Page Layouts introduces basic layout concepts, gives advice on how to create properly structured HTML based on prototypes and mockups, and goes into critical page layout skills such as floats and positioning. Author James Williamson shows how to combine these techniques to create fixed, fluid, and responsive layouts. Designers are also shown how to enhance their pages through the creative use of CSS techniques like multi-column text, opacity, and the background property. Exercise files are included with this course.
As important as the float property is to creating layouts, it would be practically worthless without the use of the clear property. The clear property allows us to turn floats off and restore normal document flow and together, floating and clearing allows us to exercise precise control over the flow of our layouts. To demonstrate that, I have the clearing.htm file open, and you can find that in 03_02 directory. Now, structurally it's very similar to the file we were using in our last exercise. As a matter of fact, if I scroll down, I can see that the only big difference is that instead of only having three elements, we now have six.
For styling purposes, you'll notice we've got a lot going on just in the regular div rather than installed individually. All of the divs are being floated to the left, and they all have a little bit of margin to the right to give us a little bit of spacing. Okay. So I'm going to save this, and I want to preview this in my browser. Currently, you can see all the elements are floated to the left. Now, they would all appear on one line except for the fact that we have a constraint going on right here with the page. So if the page were a little bit wider, they would all show up on the same line, but because it's constrained at 600 pixels, when we run out of room, the next floated element breaks down to the line and floats resume.
So how does clearing work? Well, let's say that we wanted to have two rows of equal items, so we wanted two rows of three, right? We have a couple of values available to us here when we do clearing: we have left, right, both, inherit, and none. Now, none is turning clearing off. Inherit basically says whatever my parent has, that's what I want, so it's these three that really matter for what we're doing in this exercise. So clear: left, essentially it tells an element nothing can float to my left; clear: right says, all right, nothing is allowed to float to my right; clear: both says nothing is allowed to float to my right or my left.
So if something is cleared, it essentially breaks down to the next line and reestablishes normal document flow. So currently, for example, number two, this two element right here, has one floating to its left, three has two floating to its left, so forth and so on. So if I go back into my code and I go right down here to element number four and I just say, okay, let's go ahead and clear that element to the left. So if I save this, go back in my browser and preview, that is exactly what happens. Four breaks down on the next line and reestablishes normal document flow.
Now, just because normal document flow is reestablished doesn't mean that you can't then at that very moment go ahead and resume floating. We're certainly doing that here. So four is still floated to the left, five and six are still floated to the left, but for just that moment we're clearing those floats and reestablishing that normal document flow on another line. Well, that works great. Right works the same way. I'm sure you can envision and imagine how that works. But what about both? Shouldn't we know whether an element is going to going to float to the right or left; why would we need both? To demonstrate that, I'm going to go back into our code and just modify it slightly.
I'm going to remove the clear that we just applied to 4. Then I'm going to go up to my just default divs. I'm going to remove float to the left, so go ahead and get rid of that. I'm going to remove the margin-right, and then I'm going to change the width to 150 pixels. So now all of my elements are just stacked, normal document flow, they're 150 pixels wide, and we no longer have any right margin on them. Okay. Now, let me go down to the first two elements, and we're going to modify those slightly as well. We're going to take element number one and I'm going to float that to the right.
I'm also going to set its width to 50 pixels. For element number two, I'm going to float that to the left. So we've got one element floated to the right, we've got another element floated to the left, and I'm going to give it a width of 50 pixels as well. Okay. Now, if I save that and go in and refresh this, it looks weird, but bear with me here. So element number 1 is floating all the way over to the right-hand side. element2 is floating over to the left-hand side. 3, 4, 5, and 6 are in normal document flow. Remember, when I float 1 and 2, I removed them from normal document flow, so the remaining elements move up to occupy that space.
So essentially, two is just sort of overlapping three, and that's one of the reasons why we made those other elements wider, so we could sort of see that overlap. So if I go back into my code--and element3 is who we want to focus on right now. If I tell element3 clear to the right, and check that, now what happens is it says, okay, number one, you can't float to my right, so it's going to go down onto the next line, it's going to reestablish normal document flow, and the page layout just sort of continues. But what if I said instead of clear: right, clear: left, what would happen then? So if I save this and preview it, no change. Okay.
So in this case clear: right and clear: left do exactly the same thing, because three basically had one floating to its right and two floating to its left, so really they're both doing the same thing, so why in the world would I need clear: both? Right now we're working with a very static layout in terms of, we know exactly the element dimensions of both of these, but it isn't always that simple. Now, one thing I want to point out here is, do you notice how we've kind of messed with source order a little bit? The first element that any sort of user agent would encounter in the code would be element number one, but visually we're almost making two look like it comes before one, because we typically read from left to right.
So let me go back into the code. Let's say we go up to element one and we change its height to 200 pixels. So I'm going to go ahead and save that and preview it. And what happens is is now element one, because it is 200 pixels tall, can float to the right of all these elements. These elements are simply going to move up and underneath floated elements, but since we have clear: left applied to three, it's breaking down here and reestablishing normal document flow, but we're not preventing elements from floating to its right, in this case, the number one.
If I went back into my code and I told element three, no, no, no, no, clear to the right please, and save that and test it, okay, now it's clearing to the right, it's reestablishing normal document flow, and it's not letting either of those float left or right of it. But again, this all has to do about the height of the elements. Again, if I come back into element two and I change its height so that it's 250 pixels, save that and test it, and you can see, we get overlap again. So to prevent overlap, when you really don't know, you're not really sure if elements are going to be floated to its left, you're not really sure if elements are going to be floated to the right, you're not really sure in terms of the height of the various elements, you can always come in and say instead clear: both.
And now it doesn't matter who is taller. It's simply going to clear both of them. So right now two is taller than one, so it's clearing that and reestablishing normal document flow. But if I take element two, take its height back to, say, 100 pixels, you can see it's still not going to go above where one is either. That's clearing. It gives us a precise amount of control over which elements we allow to float and when we want to stop floating and resume normal document flow. Clearing also allows us to deal with another very tricky problem related to floats, and that's how containing elements will collapse when child elements are floated.
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Hotel du Cormier is 5 km from the centre of Cholet and offers a bar with an outdoor terrace. Free Wi-Fi access and a flat-screen TV with satellite channels are provided in each en suite room. Puy du Fou amusement park is 21 km away. Each room at Hotel du Cormier has garden views and is soundproofed. All rooms have their own bathroom with shower. A continental breakfast is served daily. The hotel's brasserie is open for lunch and dinner. Château De La Tramblaye is 2.5 km from the hotel. Free private parking is available on site.
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