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May 1, 2012
The Build-Out
Check out recent shelter construction and renovation projects from the SPCA of Texas, the Randolph County Animal Shelter in North Carolina, and Chicago Animal Care and Control.
March 1, 2012
Helping Animals Find a New Place in the Sun
Find out how a Florida shelter strives to help as many animals as it can through its emergency relief, spay/neuter, and feral cat programs.
March 1, 2012
New Digs and Renovations
Check out recent shelter construction and renovation projects from the Maryland SPCA, the Marin Humane Society, and the Atlanta Humane Society.
January 1, 2012
The Build-Out
Check out recent shelter design projects from Denver Animal Care & Control, the Peninsula Humane Society, and the Ottawa Humane Society.
January 1, 2012
Doing a World of Good
To reflect the significant and growing global scope of the annual initiative known as Spay Day, the program has been renamed World Spay Day.
January 1, 2012
Show Me the Money: Building a Wall
Through the sale of pet photo tiles for the shelter wall and inscribed bricks for the exterior walkway, the Asheville Humane Society raised funds for its shelter and lifted spirits in the community.
January 1, 2012
Q & A: Million-Dollar Ideas
The Michelson Prize and Grants program put up millions of dollars to inspire researchers to devise a nonsurgical alternative to conventional surgery. How do things look so far?
November 1, 2011
Field Trip: Taking the Roads Less Traveled
Started with more determination and resourcefulness than capital, this nonprofit now makes a difference in the battle against pet overpopulation in rural Pennsylvania.
September 1, 2011
Field Trip: Room at the Inn
Doreen and Oliver Bauer not only look after the needs of guests at the Faraway Inn, their 12-unit motel in Cedar Key, Fla.; they also provide care for a group of about 70 community cats in outdoor enclosures behind their own home.
July 1, 2011
Field Trip: Sure, No Problem
An Indiana municipal shelter is always eager to help when pets - and those who protect them - need a hand.


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Inadequate rainfall adds to misery of farmers in Maharashtra
Absence of proper rainfall has risked the farmlands of Aurangabad district in Maharashtra and lack of subsequent effective government intervention is leaving farmers with no option but suicide.
According to climate report of researchers there are high chances of climatic conditions similar to El Nino effect to occur in 14 districts in Maharashtra.
Farmers of Marathwada region in Aurangabad have been experiencing difficult times for the last three years. The first year they experienced extreme drought, in the second year untimely rain destroyed the crops and recently a hail storm added to their misery.
The farmers of Marathwada complained that the government has not intervened at any juncture to assist them and stop farmers from committing suicide.
A farmer, Gopinath, expressed the fear of drought intensifying in the coming years.
"Eminent scientists say that due to global warming drought will be more intense in the coming years, so the government should start working on this issue presciently," said Gopinath.
Till date 95 farmers have resorted to extreme step of giving up their life in despair as they had no option left in front of them to support their families.
Nearly five dozen farmers in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh have committed suicide last month over debt worries, farmers' advocacy groups say.
Millions of small farmers are struggling to survive as erratic weather hits their only source of income. They are seeking government's help to stay afloat until the next harvest, but bureaucrats are moving slowly to record crop losses.
Nevertheless, farmers of Marathwada are preparing to sow seeds in 15 days.
President of Farmer Association of Marathwada, Jayaji Suryavamshi, said the government has to come forward with effective policies to support the families of the farmers who have committed suicide.
"For those farmers who had to resort to suicide due to faulty policies of the government, pension scheme should be provided to their dependents or rupees 10 lakh should be credited in the account of farmers so that at least the future of their children and family is secured. Or else the suicides of farmers will increase. Children of farmers are quitting farming as they understand that it is no more profitable for them, they are running towards cities but in vain," Suryavamshi said.
For years, unpredictable rainfall decided the pace of farm loan defaults in India, where nearly half the arable land is rain-fed. A drought triggers an increase in bank loan defaulters.
In Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, nearly three million hectares of crops have been hit. Crops have been damaged in Rajasthan and Punjab and in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh to a lesser extent.
Meanwhile, in Samba district in Jammu and Kashmir people staged protest following the scarcity of potable water for the last one week in their village Ghagwal.
However, protesters were charged by police personnel upon staging the demonstration.
"We are asking for our rights, police have turned against us. They are not even sparing women. They baton charged us. My sister was also injured. We are united and we will not take this brutality anymore," said a furious protester, Arif.
The protesters blocked the national highway connecting Jammu and Pathankot for two hours.
However, the senior police officials who reached the spot brought the situation under control.
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Dear Kelly,
My father passed away several months ago and, ever since then, his family wants nothing to do with me or my brother. My birthday was in August and no one bothered to call or send a card. Even worse, we weren't invited to Thanksgiving at our uncle's- where we've spent every Thanksgiving our entire lives. Our parents have been divorced for a few years so mom was happy that she had us for Thanksgiving, and she actually seems pleased that his side of the family has blown us off. Although, she does think that we remind them too much of dad so they may just need time before they can see us without getting upset.
What do you think?
Dear Hurting,
I'm so sorry to hear about your father. I'm sure the holidays are going to be tough for you, regardless of whether or not you see his side of the family on Christmas. Some advice from someone who's been in your shoes: just try to keep busy and have fun with friends and close family but don't beat yourself up when you have an emotional day. Time is the only thing that really helps you feel better when you lose someone you love. As for your father's relatives, I think you should write them a letter to tell them you miss them. Don't read into anything that's happened since your dad passed. Maybe they simply forgot your birthday and didn't do the traditional Thanksgiving this year. Write them, and see if you get a response.
Keep me posted and hang in there,
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18 people found the following review helpful
Posted by sweetheart on Jul 23, 2012
I use jojoba oil every day. I mix it into facial cleanser, add a drop or two in my hair conditioner, use it as a moisturizer and so on. However I no longer purchase NOW brand because the last bottle I ordered was not good anymore: the oil had a very weird chemical-like smell. I switched to Aura Cacia jojoba oil which also is organic but has no bad smell. I would also like these oils to be stored in glass bottles: plastic dissolves in oil and gets to your skin. Not very happy about that...
Great for skin and hair
36 people found the following review helpful
Posted by Reviewer2884447 on Sep 13, 2012
What makes Jojoba so unique compared to other seed oils is that it is structurally and chemically very similar to the human sebum produced by the sebaceous glands in our skin. In most cases, it can act as a substitute while giving similar or added benefits compared to sebum. It has anti-fungal, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant and anti-bacterial properties and is very easily absorbed by the outer skin. It even helps prevent hair loss and acne! I use it on my skin after showering and massage it into my scalp.
أحبه جداً
12 people found the following review helpful
Posted by 5090016644296564620 on May 22, 2013
هذا الزيت من أفضل الزيوت التي أستخدمتها فهو يجعل بشرتي ناعمه جداً لكن دون أن يترك طبقة دهنية ، بشرتي أصبحت مشرقة وجميله فقط في 3 أيام أنا سعيدة جداً بتجربته الأن أصبح بديل لكريم الليل :)
Quality product
11 people found the following review helpful
Posted by tommix on Nov 13, 2012
I love this item. It's kind a cheap, ORGANIC - so no pesticides or other chemicals in it, so you can apply on skin without fear that you've using GMO or pesticides on your face. My skin NEVER accepted any oils. Cacoa and so on..all oils stayed on skin for long time until i washed them..but hits one..goes really quick in skin... never fell this way with any other oil. This one is really good for keeping skin hydrated.
28 people found the following review helpful
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Im 29 with moderate acne and normal to oily combination skin. In the evening I use this instead of a night cream. It really helps deep condition my skin, eyelashes and brows. Instead of waking up super oily I have soft, smooth and balanced skin. It also helps purge bacteria from existing blackheads and pustules clearing my skin quicker. Does WONDERS when I do an enzyme scrub, slather aloe vera gel, wiping off with cotton pads and moisturize with the jojoba before bed. Just see how your skin will look by morning!


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Speak Easily (1932)Parlor, Bedroom and Bath is a curious mixture of all that was good and everything that was bad in Buster Keaton's talkie features. sidenote: The Movie was completely filmed in Buster Keaton private 10,000- square-foot Mediterranean palazzo in Beverly Hills
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This is a guest post by Angela Artemis of www.PoweredbyIntuition.com.
Pin Down Your Message And Take The Blogging World by Storm!
How many blog posts that you read this week will still stand out by next week?
I bet I can guess your answer.
With so many blogs on the blogosphere - it can be very difficult to differentiate yourself.
The amount of choice available to readers is so vast that, not unlike television, if a reader isn't grabbed by the first few sentences chances are they'll hit "the remote" and move on.
That's why I encourage you to be different.
The secret to taking the blogging world by storm is:
Find your unique point of view on a small slice of the topic you're interested in and really work it!
Broadcasting has evolved.
It is called "broadcasting" because the messages are aimed at one mega audience. In the early days of television the messages had to be "broad" in order to hold the attention of a wide audience.
But then along came cable television and we saw the power of choice with "narrow-casting."
Narrow-casting enabled audiences to find stations and programming that catered directly to their personal interests. Not interested in animals, but like business? You're going to watch CNBC over the Animal Planet network, right?
That's the power of narrow-casting and that's what it means when you're told to, "find your audience."
While narrow casting does attract a smaller audience than "broadcasting," the good thing is that it attracts only those individuals who are passionate about the subject matter you cover. And, that's what you want.
Who wants readers who are only lukewarm about your blog?
They clicked the subscribe button over one article you wrote that appealed to them and now they couldn't care less - unless you cover that same topic again. And, when they get your posts on all the stuff you're "broadcasting" in their in-box they delete them. You don't want that - do you?
The Internet gives us even more choices than cable television.
The point is - we can microcast and slivercast now with our own blogs through the power of the Internet - so why would you want to blend in with everyone else? Why not stand out?
Stop writing what everyone else is writing - because unless you're totally in love with it you'll get bored writing it, and so will your readers.
Find your true passion and write about that! This may sound harsh - but trust me - you'll be much happier when you tap into that sweet spot of creativity within.
Find and attract an audience for your exact message by narrow-casting.
And therein lies the dilemma:
What's your exact message?
Did you start writing self-development because you had a need to better yourself? That's usually how most self-development bloggers start - and that's fine. But after a while - you'll need to find a way to stand out if you're going to stick with it for the long haul.
This can take a while too. It took me nearly a year to understand this which is why I don't advocate becoming a speed racer in the blogging arena.
Finding your message and what you're really about takes time.
It's a process that can't be rushed. If you rush into it and change along the way you'll lose some of your audience. While they might not unsubscribe - they won't read your posts either. So, take your time.
Once you have your message nailed:
If you're all about helping bloggers thrive, then become a top online resource for bloggers.
If you're passionate about inspiring others to live bold, fearless and love-filled lives write only what inspires this in readers and build your audience around that.
If your passionate about teaching people how to release the blocks that are preventing them from living up to their full potential then, make this the focus of your blog.
If you're a coach who thrives on helping people find greater life-satisfaction and emotional well-being then don't hold back, share this passion with the world.
Remember to slice and dice your topic really, really small to find the gem that glitters for you! Don't water down your blog with a pinch of this and a pinch of that. You ruin the flavor when you do that.
The best blogs are those where there is a sharp focus - not a broad net that goes out and brings back every possible thing they can scoop up along the ocean floor. If I only like lobster - I don't care much for the oysters in your net - get it?
When you refine your message you'll also refine your audience and attract attention to your blog.
I was all over the map for a while, but once I narrowed my message and got back on track, it made a tremendous difference.
I was pleasantly surprised to be listed by WE Magazine as one of 101 women bloggers to watch for 2011.
Here's how I was listed: Powered with Intuition by Angela Artemis is all about developing our intuition to increase success in all areas of life by heightening creativity, problem solving skills, and living with passion
That's MY unique point of view.
With my blog, I write about how to develop and use your intuition in order to be more successful in life.
For me, intuition is not about "fortune-telling" but about developing tools for more successful living.
By knowing what I'm about I'm more able to stick to my message and attract an audience who is interested in this as well.
My message is for you to be uniquely YOU - and don't try to be all things to all people.
That doesn't mean you can't mix it up once in a while and go off topic - it does mean though that you should have a specific message and at least 75% of your articles should be focused on this topic.
So, find that "one thing" in the topic you've chosen and define and refine your message around it. Keep hammering away at it in every post and really own that small niche and soon you'll be the "go to" expert in your field.
Please share below in the comments what your blogs unique message is. Are you sure that it's a clear enough message? If not, what can you do to pin down your key message so you too can take the blogging world by storm?
Angela Artemis is an author, blogger, intuitive coach, and clairvoyant from the New York area. She's also a financial salesperson with 25 year background in financial planning, private banking and real estate finance. She blogs at: www.PoweredbyIntuition.com
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CINCINNATI (MarketWatch) — The U.S. markets are back on the offensive this week following an 8% plunge from last week's peak.
Nonetheless, further technical repairs are likely needed before a sustainable trend shift is signaled. The charts below add color:
The S&P 500's hourly chart details the past three weeks.
As illustrated, the S&P has reversed sharply from one-month lows.
From current levels, initial resistance spans from 1,188 to 1,190 and is followed by significant overhead around 1,204.
Meanwhile, the Dow industrials' near-term backdrop is similar.
From current levels, significant resistance holds at the March low of 11,555, matching last week's high of 11,550.
And the Nasdaq Composite's near-term backdrop remains volatile.
With Tuesday's strong start, the index has filled last week's gap, and next resistance spans from 2,555 to 2,568.
Conversely, first support holds around 2,494, matching the bottom of last week's gap.
Widening the view to six months adds perspective.
Three inflection points stand out:
- Initial resistance spanning from 2,555 to 2,568, better illustrated on the hourly chart.
- The Nasdaq's 50-day moving average, currently 2,571.
- Major resistance around the 2,600 mark, matching its breakdown point.
Looking ahead, a sustained break atop these areas would technically neutralize the August breakdown.
Moving to the Dow industrials, its wider view remains weaker.
Two technical areas stand out:
- The Dow's 50-day moving average, currently 11, 491.
- Its breakdown point of 11,555, matching the March low.
Consider that the index topped last week at 11,550 — just under its breakdown point — and subsequently staged a strong-volume plunge to a nominal year-to-date low.
And the S&P 500 continues to whipsaw within a two-month range.
Three technical areas stand out:
- Resistance at 1,204, better illustrated on the hourly chart.
- The S&P's 50-day moving average, currently 1,207.
- The late-August peak of 1,230.
Price action under this band technically represents consolidation within a primary downtrend.
The bigger picture
As detailed above, the major U.S. benchmarks have reversed sharply from major support.
Still, further technical repairs are likely needed before the current upturn qualifies as "legitimate."
The SPDR Trust S&P 500's SPY, -0.63% backdrop adds perspective.
Consider that the S&P has staged two strong-volume plunges into major support at the August low.
By comparison, the rally attempts have been driven by lighter volume, suggesting that buyers lack conviction.
Bearish price action.
Meanwhile, the S&P 500's 11-year chart highlights another technical issue.


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Raptor Inventory Nest Survey (RINS) is offering a fascinating opportunity to learn about birds of prey that inhabit northern and central Utah.
RINS is a nest tracking project that enlists interested volunteers who enjoy traveling to remote or rural areas, walking and sometimes hiking in deserts or higher mountain valleys.
A volunteer training workshop is being offered the next two Saturdays, Feb. 23 and March 2 from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Salt Lake field office of the Bureau of Land Management located at 2370 S. 2300 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84119.
To be a volunteer, no science credentials are needed. Those interested in participating in the project do not need to know how to discover a nest or identify a raptor, complete training is provided. The only qualifications to becoming a volunteer are a pair of binoculars, an email address and the willingness to wear out some shoe leather.
The RINS project was established in 2001 by a volunteer named Dawn Sebesta, who recruited many volunteers to continue monitoring and expanding the BLM nest inventory in the West Desert and Rich County - areas that had not been monitored before.
The nests that belong to the BLM inventory are part of the RINS project and surveyed annually by volunteers. The information RINS volunteers gather serves a vital role in providing pertinent data that would otherwise go unknown to federal, state and local land managers.
For more information regarding the RINS project, visit http://www.rins.org/ or call 801-977-4300.


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Stila Love and Empower Set
The Help, is about twenty-something year old Skeeter a southern girl who returns home after graduating from college in 1962 and proceeds to turn her small town upside down by interviewing the African American women who have spent their lives taking care of rich southern families. What insures is a story about the empowerment of women, both from lower and upper classes.
To celebrate both the book and the film Stila has created the Love and Empower Set.
Take a look!
Inspired by the best-selling novel, "The Help", Stila Love and Empower Set is universally flattering selection of plums and neutrals. The set includes for eyeshadows, one cheek color, a bronzing color, and a deluxe size of Stila Lipglaze in Apricot.
At $29, I find the price a little offensive considering the palette design and size is the same as the $14 recently released Beach Palettes. The only difference I can see in this palette is the addition of a Lipglaze but that would mean we are paying $15 for the inclusion of the gloss….? Lipglazes are normally $22 each however in sets and kits the deluxe size are normally cheaper than the $15 extra we are paying here, for example, there are trios of Lipglaze available now for $12. The math doesn't add up here. I will, of course, purchase this set, but I don't have to like the strange price range they slapped on it.
The four shades of shadow included are:
- Love
- Empower
- Dignity
- Cherish
Cheek color
- Hope
Bronzing powder
- Joy
Lip Glaze
- Apricot
The set is available now at www.stilacosmetics.com
8/9/11 13:16 JoElla:
The book is fantab! I hope they do a decent job tranlsating it into a movie.
I really like this set. This might be the one that makes me try Stila
8/9/11 13:22 Musebeliever:
I love the eyeshadows ! *o*
But yes the price is a little…
Aish I really need to go to the UK during the sales. u.u
8/9/11 13:25 kimkats:
You *will* of course swatch it when you get it, won't you Muse? Pretty pleeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaseeeee????????
8/9/11 13:34 kimkats:
Oh, I don't know if this is kosher or not, but I was just on temptalia, and if you use the code "temptalia" on stilacosmetics.com, you get free shipping and a free watermelon lip glaze. Feel free to *not* post this muse if it's not appropriate, and my apologies ahead of time if it's not….
8/9/11 13:37 Sarah S.:
Please swatch, Muse! I am so on the fence on this one because I too found the price a Scooby-doo "Hrrrhhhh???"
8/9/11 14:05 Sarah S.:
Thanks ^.^; been my style since 2006, tbh. I forgot about that Temptalia code… might just buy it anyway for the extra lip glaze, heh!
8/9/11 14:19 Sarah S.:
If they make a Stila Girl with a pixie cut you know I'm gonna buy that palette
8/9/11 13:42 Whitney:
Stila always sucks me in with their cute palettes, but the price on this one is a bit much!
8/9/11 14:30 Jayne:
I have never been a fan of the Beach Girl palettes (I've never seen a single one where the color combination strikes the right chord with me), but this looks simple, practical, and in its usefulness for travel alone well worth the $30. I might have to pick it up, but I've never tried the lip glazes so I'm still slightly on the fence about it.
8/9/11 14:54 Jayne:
I've never heard of someone NOT liking them, which makes me feel like I'm missing out on something. I'm just not a huge gloss wearer and would rather spend my money on lipsticks. However, you haven't let me down before (BB creams, Lush Fresh Farmacy, and Philosophy body washes all changed my life) so I may go pick it up, or possibly one of the mini trios.
8/10/11 20:05 Liane:
I'm really not a lip gloss person but even I have to say the Lip Glazes are pretty great.
8/9/11 14:35 2sillybugs:
I agree about the price, Muse. But with names like Love, Hope, Joy and Empower, a lot of us will get "sucked in" to buy this, me included, LOL.
Thanks as always. Hey, did you want the leftover Sephora Instant Moisture Masks and shaker?
8/9/11 16:42 Andrea:
Stila's inconsistent pricing really puts me off. They need to decide what kind of price point their products will have and stick to it.
omg, i had the same reaction! i was alllll over the palette until i saw the price. i mean.. for $14 i can get one of the summer palettes and a free lip glaze from the temptalia code.
8/10/11 0:36 Smirking Valet:
Muse, perhaps the high price is due to a licensing fee with the film? And the theme of the movie makes me think – have their ever been any Stila girls of color?


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The terms of my divorce left me with a great deal of trust issues...the first of which had to do with me questioning EVERYTHING about myself. I tore myself apart and slowly put the pieces back together. Then as I realized I am a good person and I didn't bring the divorce on I found trust in myself. Then I questioned trusting others...it became clear who in my life I trusted. What I struggle with now is how to trust someone new?
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I am a veteran and its not easy hearing stories like this. There is a group out there called the "Patriot Guard Riders" please check out their website http://www.patriotguard.org/ they are there for the asking to prevent this from happening. Let me tell you from experience, anyone in uniform (local and state police, firefighters, ems) called to "monitor" a military funeral service will willingly help these guys "handle" the situation...and they all stick together to put that fire out so the family, friends, and others attending the funeral can do so in peace. Keep talking, this is no small rant.View Thread
I'm wondering if he doesn't understand the benefits of setting boundaries, or maybe he doesn't know how? Is that something you could show him if he's willing to go down that route? Keep in mind even if that were to happen you are still left with his four kids plus your one, all with different needs and wants - the chaos will still be there albeit a happier chaos sort to speak.
It concerns me that he would allow his kids to dictate their scheduled time with him. I can understand re-arranging/switching weekends on occasion but even that should be determined between the mother and the father! The kids need to understand it is not acceptable because the court has decided custody/visitation - its a legal matter to contend with. Even if the ex doesn't have a problem with what's going on, she could document it and take him to court over it if she really wanted to.View Thread
After all that talk of Mom's controlling ways, let me talk a little about how this influenced my behavior. For years I struggled feeling like people just didn't "get" me. I learned to cope with not feeling heard or understood using passive-aggressive behavior...guess who my teacher was? Yup, Mom. In my teens I just didn't care about me anymore - I was empty inside, and no one but me knew it. By then I had thrown up walls and shut my inside down. I was able to make it work because I just kept finding ways to PROVE myself in life...meaning with goals and success. This is why Mom refers to me as being a happy go lucky kid!
Once I had kids, things changed - I cared again. My life became chaotic and the passive agressive behavior started coming out...I started tearing down those walls. I was frustrated with myself, and couldn't help but find me to be a victim. People tried to help me, but I really thought I was a lost cause. I had this character flaw and this is just the way I am...walls went up again. I did seek out individual and group therapy on my own after leaving the father of my kids. I learned I did not have a character flaw...I actually looked in the mirror one day and saw my mother staring back at me. It was the strangest wake-up call ever!! I realized there were things about myself I saw in that mirror that I didn't like reflecting back at me. Primarily with my behavior and reactions to people...but I started paying attention to it and opening up about it in therapy. Things are better for me, but it is something I will struggle with for the rest of my life. Its not something you can just "fix", but you can work at unlearning the old ways and replacing with a learned, more positive, behavior/reaction.
I'm sharing my story because I do see this behavior in your wife...no idea where it comes from with her. If she wants to change it, it's possible...but it starts with her.View Thread
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I'm a Patriot, but F*ck our Government.
I'm a patriot, a voter, a taxpaying citizen…and I'm ashamed of the current course of action by our Congress, Justice Department, & President Obama.
We fund our Government. It serves us, not the other way around. I was brought up to love our Constitution, and our Constitution does not allow our Government to spy on citizens without just cause. That's not liberty.
Time to reverse course, President Obama, Congress, and now our Justice Department. Mr. Snowden, the whistleblower, is an All-American hero, not a criminal. NY Times:
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Good for you Waylon.
Always loved Obama, but his "you can't have security *and* privacy" line is bullshit.
You also can't stop the 0.00001% of mad people who want to blow themselves up by compiling decades worth of information stolen, illegally, from the sane.
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Ancient Japanese samurai were known for their sharp blades and distinct fighting style. A select few were so skilled that they took on mythic status, with tales of their deeds passed down through generations. Kengo: Legend of the Nine, the latest game in the series, lets players take on the roles of such historical figures as Musashi Miyamoto and Yagyu Jubei, and attempts to recreate their sword techniques in a series of life or death duels.
Kengo's main mode (which is actually called Main Mode) allows you to select one of nine samurai, following his story as he wanders the land and faces off against the other eight fighters in the game.
The first time you're dropped into a level can be somewhat disorienting. There's no tutorial or objectives given, so if you're going to have any success, you'll need to spend some time reading the manual. Plus, while the winding paths in each stage do make for more interesting arenas, it isn't initially clear that success isn't based on finding your way to the end of a level, which can leave players slashing at the walls in vain.
Before you can face your main rival, you'll have to slay dozens of identical lackeys. The majority of enemies can be mindlessly disposed of, and you'll take most of your hits from cheap shots while your back is turned. Once in a while a few challenging baddies will enter the fray, and they're pretty easy to identify since they actually look different from everyone else. If the guy's wearing a hat, it's time to push the block button.
Once you've killed about 50 soldiers, the samurai you're looking for will finally appear. These duels are far more advanced, as your rivals routinely counterattack and can kill you with just a few blows. This can be extremely frustrating because there are no checkpoints or health bonuses. So if you die, you'll have to go all the way back to the main menu and have to kill the same boring goons again and again just to get another shot at the rival.
When you do complete a level, you are rewarded with spheres to upgrade your character's strength, stamina, attack, and defense. You also gain experience points to purchase new combos, but for no good reason, the game forces you to discard leftover points after each level.
Kengo also features a mission mode, which gives specific goals to fulfill, such as killing a certain number of enemies. Since it's more to the point, it's less tedious, and you can complete the missions in any order and upload the scores to Xbox Live.
The game features a local two-player mode, but it doesn't allow for online play. Instead, Kengo features a weak substitute that allows you to upload a customized AI character so you can watch it fight another character online. Plus, you can't even do that unless you beat the main mode first.
Playing through Kengo is a frustrating experience. Fighting standard enemies feels like a useless chore, and the combination of unforgiving combat with the lack of mid-level checkpoints results in wearisome and tedious repetition.
Even though it takes more of a historic slant, Kengo is a basic fighting game, focused on true-to-life sword techniques and mortal blows. Each character can switch between three different stances for a variety of horizontal and vertical slashes. In groups, you can quickly slash multiple enemies or lock on to focus your attention on a single foe.
In addition to a health bar, each character also has a stamina bar that influences how effectively you can block attacks and how much health you lose when you're hit. If your stamina bar is completely empty, you can be killed with one hit. Unfortunately, the meter lowers with every move you make, whether you're swinging your katana, blocking an attack, or simply walking.
Key to Kengo's combat system are Kumitachi moves that lock your sword with your opponent's, allowing you to lead your rival in one direction, push him to the ground, or shove him into groups of enemies. Ramming your opponent into an obstacle will stun him and leave him open for an instant kill. It feels like a cheap and dirty trick, but it makes it a lot easier to finish duels so good luck trying not to use it.
As in most fighting games, the system is a bit more fun during multiplayer matches, requiring quick thinking and counterattacks. And performing instant kills on a human player is more satisfying since they can more effectively block your attempts. However, since every character uses a sword, there really isn't enough variety to keep players interested for very long.
Despite running at a smooth framerate, there really isn't anything that stands out with Kengo's style, which tries to reproduce the period with flat, stiff backgrounds. Using Japanese voices works well for the game's historical setting, but the text screens before levels are so slow and uninteresting that you'll likely end up skipping them.
Kengo's biggest problem is the lack of variety among character models. The majority of enemies look exactly the same, adding to the sense that these flunkies are completely disposable.
Kengo: Legend of the Nine alternates between boring players and murdering them. There is some satisfaction to be gained from multiplayer matches, but there's not really enough variety to make it worth the price of entry.
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Tone Bell stars in the NBC multi-camera comedy "Whitney" as RJ, a former high school friend of Alex (Chris D'Elia) who now tends bar while offering sage advice to the gang at Low Bar.
Born and raised in Atlanta, Bell began his career in Dallas, where he was voted one of the Funniest Comics in Texas. His real-life brand of comedy has seen him succeed on the festival circuit and garner accolades at NBC as the winner of the Stand-Up For Diversity program.
Most recently, Bell was featured on VH1's "Single Ladies," in commercials for Miller Lite, Verizon NFL Mobile and on his "Watch the Tone" college tour. In addition, he was featured in the docu-style Dodge Dart commercial for Spike TV's tribute to Eddie Murphy.
Bell now resides in Los Angeles and continues to perform stand-up across the country.
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I had a horrible night of sleep on Saturday, suddenly realizing that I do always bite off more than I can chew, and realizing that even this term, where I turned down jobs in order to prevent these sleepless nights, I managed to still some how find other obligations to overwhelm me. And that was before I decided to host Thanksgiving for both Scott's and my families. Needless to say, I gave myself a "Cara Day" on Sunday, watching cheesy movies and knitting in my jammies (Yeah for Netflix finally coming to Canada!!). As luxurious as that felt, that means getting dressed today took twice the effort. In fact, most of this post was written while still in my pajamas.
You would think being limited in colour would make getting dressed easier. Not so: I'm finding pink very difficult to pair with other colours! Last Friday's outfit made me feel like a muppet in a more conservative environment. My go to colour is always black, but I'm tired of my bright pink and black pairings. And while Melissa definitely rocks the pink and red today, I can't say I'm quite ready to make that jump yet.
Oh, and you know how I said I didn't have any pink in my wardrobe? Turns out I have 22 pieces. How many blogging days this month? 21! Keeping in mind I'm trying to wear the cotton jersey dress from Friday a different way each week, and murmurings of an upcoming capsule wardrobe challenge, I probably won't get to wear all of them unless I start pairing them together!
Monday, October 4, 2010
Thinking Pink
Posted by Cara at 12:07 PM
Labels: black scarf, gap stripe shirt, Joe Jeans, outfit
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Awww...despite the sleep...you look great in this Cara.....way to go on the challenge:)ReplyDelete
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What about blue and pink? I also adore pink and green together.
Pink and purple. Pink and yellow. Black and white and pink! :) You look great, don't fret about it. I feel like I've gotten a little bit boring but that's okay. I can't win 'em all!ReplyDelete
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All the histories of America are mere fragments or dreams.
—Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
The Commonwealth of Kentucky is shaped like an alligator's head. It is also shaped like the Commonwealth of Virginia, as if the latter were advancing westward by generation of mature clones. In a way this is so. The southern borders of these states are keyed to the same horizontal projection, one surveyed by the frontier planter William Byrd in 1728, while the rivers forming their northern extents fall back just opposite each other from the flanks of the Appalachian massif. There's a mirroring there.
In 1818 one of the few people able to give even a semi-coherent accounting of the ancient processes responsible for it neared Louisville, Kentucky, aboard a long covered flatboat, which, following local custom, he called an ark. It was summer. He traveled down the Ohio, along the alligator's eye. For a full ten years he'd gone by his mother's name, Schmaltz—he'd spent them in British-ruled Sicily; one didn't need to sound overly French—but by the time he reached Kentucky, on a botanical trip financed with a hundred dollars he'd wrung from some Pittsburgh bookmongers as advance on a "New and More Accurate Map of the Ohio's Tributaries" (a map he actually drew, but which they never published), he had resumed the name of Rafinesque.
"Who is Rafinesque, and what is his character?" once asked John Jacob Astor. Rafinesque himself grew dizzy before the complexity of the answer. "Versatility of talents," he wrote,
is not uncommon in America, but those which I have exhibited . . . may appear to exceed belief: and yet it is a positive fact that in knowledge I have been a Botanist, Naturalist, Geologist, Geographer, Historian, Poet, Philosopher, Philologist, Economist, Philanthropist . . .
The river arks only moved downstream. The owners broke them and sold the lumber once they'd made their destinations. They were more like floating islands, often lashed together (as during Rafinesque's trip) into caravans. An 1810 document says they were shaped like "parallelograms." Some were as long as seventy feet. You lived in a cabin or out on deck, other times in a tent, with an open cooking fire. There were animals. To go ashore and come back, which you did whenever you wanted, you took your own, smaller boat, kept tied to the gunwale. Arks went slow when the water was slow, fast when it was fast, and crashed when it was very fast. Typically there were only three rowers. This distinctly American mode of travel sufficed throughout the interior for over a century and is now so gone we struggle to reconstitute its crudest features. It had no Twain. Rafinesque liked the arks because he could botanize as they drifted. He felt the vegetable pulse of the continent shuddering down its veins. The green world whispered to him. He tells us—in his short, hectic, wounded memoir, written near the end—precisely what it said: "You are a conqueror."
The New World had a way of never being new. Ever notice this? I don't mean the Native Americans—that part's obvious. In European terms, somebody was always already there. The first person De Soto met in Florida spoke Spanish. Was in fact a Spaniard! Is it the Plymouth voyage that had aboard a group of Indians coming back from a visit to London? Just so, Rafinesque, that first, famous time he crossed the mountains, had a whole prior American career, a kind of prologue. From 1802 to 1805 he was all through New England, in the fields, at the high tables, driven in jolting carriages by Revolutionary veterans desperate to talk plants. Most places they received him as a boy genius—nineteen when he arrived and recognized internationally for the bold precocity of his juvenile publications. One or two better-known naturalists squinted at his "mania" for discovery. It was said he attempted to rename and reclassify the first common weed he spotted on American soil. (True.)
Benjamin Rush, a Declaration signer and the first great American physician, offered Rafinesque an apprenticeship in his practice, medicine and botany being closer together then. Rafinesque refused. His destiny had been revealed to him and did not lie in the city. Think about when he was here. From 1803 to 1805 was Lewis and Clark; Jefferson's Corps of Discovery had reached the Far West. Later expeditions might look to the South, at Louisiana and Arkansas, or toward "the Apalachian mountains, the least known of all our mountains, and which," wrote Rafinesque, "I pant to explore." He was taken to meet Jefferson, and they started to correspond. The earth, which Rafinesque believed was an "organized animal rolling in space," had arranged for him to be present and correctly positioned at that moment, as a continent of taxonomically pristine vastnesses offered itself to science. He would gladly, messer. le president, serve as official corps naturalist, being supremely and, though it gave him small pleasure to say so, uniquely qualified for the role. The New World, which Rafinesque called the Fourth World, had long ago been found; now it would be known. He alone possessed a mind of like measure.
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Evidence shows that CNBC manipulated its online poll following a debate and that its action is part of CBS policy to ignore certain candidates and prop up others. This has placed CBS and CNBC under harsh scrutiny. However, according to Murray Sabrin — professor of finance in the Anisfield School of Business at Ramapo College in New Jersey, 2008 Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate, and regular writer for LewRockwell.com — the main motivation behind the media's bias against Ron Paul has been Paul's harsh criticism of the Federal Reserve.
In his Forbes magazine article published Thursday, Nathan Lewis makes it sound easy to get back to a gold standard. After all, it has been accomplished numerous times in history around the world, including in America following the Civil War.
The first way is a "return to prior parity," which would mean making a dollar redeemable in gold at $35 an ounce. Lewis points out that this would be impossible as it would entail a huge shrinkage in the money supply and a consequent depression. So option one is out.
The second way is to make a dollar redeemable in gold at a figure close to gold's current price at between $1,500 and $1,700 an ounce. Lewis notes that this would also require a major restructuring — "a long price adjustment" — in his words, and "would probably cause a recession." Not such a good option.
Lewis says there is a third option: Simply replace the currency with another one and make it redeemable in gold at some arbitrary value that the present gold supply would support. He points out that although the dollar is weak and getting weaker, few are ready for this. This option would apply only after the complete destruction of the dollar, something similar to what happened in the German Weimar Republic in the early 1920s. So that option isn't feasible either. At least not yet.
It remains unclear exactly why or how the Gadhafi regime went from "a model" and an "important ally" to the next target for regime change in a period of just a few years. But after claims of "genocide" as the justification for NATO intervention were disputed by experts, several other theories have been floated.
Oil, of course, has been mentioned frequently — Libya is Africa's largest oil producer. But one possible reason in particular for Gadhafi's fall from grace has gained significant traction among analysts and segments of the non-Western media: central banking and the global monetary system.
According to more than a few observers, Gadhafi's plan to quit selling Libyan oil in U.S. dollars — demanding payment instead in gold-backed "dinars" (a single African currency made from gold) — was the real cause. The regime, sitting on massive amounts of gold, estimated at close to 150 tons, was also pushing other African and Middle Eastern governments to follow suit.
And it literally had the potential to bring down the dollar and the world monetary system by extension, according to analysts. French President Nicolas Sarkozy reportedly went so far as to call Libya a "threat" to the financial security of the world. The "Insiders" were apparently panicking over Gadhafi's plan.
"I think that the Zionist Jews who are running these big banks and our Federal Reserve, which is not run by the federal government — they need to be run out of this country," declared Patricia McAllister from the speaker's platform at Occupy Los Angeles. It's a timeworn message, the myth of the almighty Jews behind the curtain, pulling the strings to exploit humanity and drain economies.
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's news conference on November 2 included the admission that the Fed is depending on hope and patience to see if its continuing strategies of Operation Twist and zero interest rates will grow the economy out of recession. In his session with reporters, Bernanke defended Fed actions in the face of increasing criticism from both the left and the right.
Three years after the Federal Reserve's massive and continuing interventions in the financial markets, Bernanke was forced to admit that "recent indicators point to continuing weakness in overall labor market conditions and the unemployment rate remains elevated ... and consequently [the Fed] anticipates that the unemployment rate will decline only gradually.... Moreover, there are significant downside risks to the economic outlook." He added that "we did underestimate the pace of recovery for some fundamental reasons," including the continuing declines in the real estate markets and "a certain amount of bad luck."
Bernanke was forced to reduce further his estimates about the rate of economic growth, now predicting that the U.S. economy will grow at only 1.6 percent to 1.7 percent in 2011, and that 2012 growth will range between 2.5 percent and 2.9 percent, nearly a full percentage point below his previous estimates. He also sees unemployment remaining sticky at between 8.5 percent and 8.7 percent, higher than the 7.8 percent predicted in June. What little growth he has seen in the last month amounts to nothing more than consumers' reaction to the decrease in gasoline prices and Japan's recovery from the earthquake and tsunami last spring.
The Occupy Wall Street demonstrators are continuing their march toward globalism as they have now endorsed a global tax system, to be instituted and monitored by a new global government. With the G20 summit set to take place November 3 in France, the directors of the Wall Street protests are now setting their sights on the implementation of the "Robin Hood tax" on all transactions involving shares, bonds, and derivatives, and possibly other items as well.
David Galland's article for the Daily Reckoning painted a picture of imminent collapse of America's monetary system, which was followed four days later by Clive Maund's possible scenario of bank failures following on the heels of a eurozone collapse. Mamta Badkar raised the specter of hyperinflation in his Business Insider article by reviewing the "10 Worst Hyper-Inflation Horror-Stories of the Past Century," reflecting interest in whether, or how, the economic disaster of hyperinflation would affect the United States.
According to Badkar, the runaway inflation of Germany in the early 1920s is one of the worst cases in history, where, at its nadir, the monthly inflation rate reached 29,500 percent in October 1923. In post-World War II Greece, inflation peaked at 20.9 percent a month in October 1944, while in July 1946, inflation in Hungary hit 207 percent daily. In China, following the Second World War, inflation reached 2,178 percent in May 1949, equivalent to a daily rate of 11 percent.
In the mid-1970s, Chile suffered from an inflation rate of 746 percent annually, while Argentina's inflation rate in 1989 hit 12,000 percent. Bolivia's inflation between May and August 1985 hit 60,000 percent on an annual basis. Nicaragua's inflation rate in 1987 exceeded 30,000 percent; Yugoslavia's daily rate of inflation reached 64.6 percent between 1989 and 1994; and in perhaps the most famous hyperinflation of all time, the purchasing power of Zimbabwean dollars was virtually obliterated, with inflation reaching 416 quintillion percent annually.
A "global political authority" and a "central world bank": These are the solutions that the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace recommends for the worldwide financial crisis. "Towards Reforming the International Financial and Monetary Systems in the Context of Global Public Authority," the document outlining the council's recommendations, is, in the words of author and Roman Catholic Thomas E. Woods, Jr., "deeply confused," at once recognizing that central bank-driven inflation and easy credit are at the root of the world's financial woes and prescribing even bigger government and more highly centralized banking as the cure.
There is some debate over whether the document presents the church's official position on the matter. While press accounts have often referred to it as if it were a papal pronouncement, National Review's George Weigel insists that such attribution is "rubbish, rubbish, rubbish." "The document is a 'Note' from a rather small office in the Roman Curia," Weigel maintains, adding that it "doesn't speak for the Pope, it doesn't speak for 'the Vatican,' and it doesn't speak for the Catholic Church."
Woods, responding to similar criticism from a reader of his blog, argued: "I'm supposed to distinguish between the Pontifical Council and the Pope, you say. Fair enough. But did those people appoint themselves? Is Rome consistently surprised by how liberal its appointees turn out to be? Fewer and fewer people believe this anymore." Indeed, the council's recommendations mirror those of Pope Benedict XVI, who in a 2009 encyclical called for "a true world political authority" to, among other things, "manage the global economy."
Oh happy day! A check from the government! No, not a welfare check or a "stimulus" check, but a refund check to your editor from the U.S. Department of the Treasury — for tax year 2007. Seems the IRS — a division of the Treasury — with which this scribbler has had a running feud, has surrendered. After years of dunning me with claims that I owe thousands in back taxes and penalties, the good folks at the IRS have shown mercy; they have agreed with me that I overpaid my taxes. And they have generously deigned to return several thousand dollars of my meager salary that they had previously confiscated — with interest, no less!
What's not to love about a government so kind, and munificent? Of course, in order to obtain the refund (of my own money), yours truly was forced to spend a couple hundred hours of indentured servitude researching, copying, and documenting records and receipts. Not to mention hundreds of dollars in accounting fees. Even worse though is the incredible invasion of privacy one faces for the decision to itemize deductions and business expenses, in the hope of retaining a fraction more of one's hard-earned income. But after all, Big Brother must know of, and approve of, every penny earned and spent by the taxpayer — to keep us all honest, and keep us all paying our "fair share," so that the government can keep doing all the wonderful things it does for us, right? That's the "American way," yes?
Washington Post reporter Karen Tumulty tried to get Republican presidential candidates in the October 11 New Hampshire debate to agree with the left-wing consensus that Wall Street suddenly and inexplicably went insane and greedy all at once during the 2008 housing and financial crash. Republicans were also asked to echo leftist calls for jailing stockbrokers, but if Tumulty hoped for ideological consensus, she left the Dartmouth College debate table disappointed.
Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann began with an attack on the federal government for creating the sub-prime market crisis through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac subsidies, the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) regulations, and "artificially low interest rates" through the Federal Reserve Bank.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich followed, launching into a vitriolic attack on the Federal Reserve Bank, and referring to "Occupy" protesters in various cities across the nation:
If they want to really change things, the first person to fire is Bernanke, who is a disaster as a Chairman of the Federal Reserve.... Bernanke has in secret spent hundreds of billions of dollars bailing out one group and not bailing out another group. I don't see anybody in the news media demanding the kind of transparency at the Fed that you would demand in every other aspect of the Federal government. And I think it is corrupt and it wrong for one man to have that kind of secret power.


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DailyOperating time: 09.00 - 17.00
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San Kamphaeng San Kamphaeng
Amphoe San Kamphaeng, Chiang Mai
Category : Villages et communautés
Attraction Details :
San Kamphaeng is a village in Chiang Mai, located 13 kilometres east of Chiang Mai town, best known for its Lanna-style silk and cotton products. A visit to San Kamphang lets you explore an array of beautiful handmade textiles, as well as woodcrafts, play pottery and silverware, which are perfect as souvenirs. The village also demonstrates a weaving process that requires several steps before it becomes finished products.
Opening hours: 9.00 am - 5.00 pm
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