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One of our RVTs Emily and her fur baby Archie show us how to properly take care of your pet's teeth!
We remain open to provide care for your pets. We are following the direction of government and regulatory authorities and have implemented hospital and visit protocols to keep both you and our team safe. For regular updates on our hours and visit protocols, please follow our social media platforms.
One of our RVTs Emily and her fur baby Archie show us how to properly take care of your pet's teeth!
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COVID-19: Additional measures we are taking
Dear Clients,
Due to the close contact that our work requires, we have taken additional measures to protect you and our team while providing care for your furry family members.
Last updated: Tuesday, May 19, 2020
1. We are currently operating a "closed reception" policy to protect our clients and staff. Once you arrive, please remain in your vehicle and use your cell phone to call us at 613-567-0500.
2. We can now see all cases by appointment only.
3. We are still OPEN with the following hours: Monday to Thursday 8:00 am - 6:00 pm and Friday 8:00 am - 5:00 pm. We will be closed on Saturday for now.
4. If you are ordering food or medications, please allow 2-4 business days as our suppliers are dealing with increased demand and are trying to fill orders as quickly as possible. We will advise you as soon as your order arrives. Please call us when you arrive to pick up your order, but do not enter the hospital. Our staff will bring your order to your car and take payment over the phone. You can also use our online store and have your food delivered directly to your home. To sign up for the online store, visit our website.
5. For the time being, we are not accepting cash as payment. Credit cards and debit card payments are still available.
6. Online consultations are now available! If you wish to connect with a veterinarian via message, phone or video, visit our website and follow the "Online Consultation" link.
7. Following the recommendations of our government and medical experts, we are doing our best to practice social distancing within the constraints of our roles. As such, we have taken measures to avoid both contracting and facilitating the spread of this virus.
Thank you for helping us be diligent for everyone's safety. As we have heard from all levels of government, the situation is fluid and any updates will be provided as changes occur.
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GOP presidential hopefuls debate economic plans
The top Republicans running for president agree that cutting taxes on individuals and corporations is the best way to jump-start the U.S. economy, even as most Americans oppose that tactic, and analysts say those policies would help the wealthiest Americans and shareholders more than anyone.
Today at 5 p.m. PST on CNBC, eight GOP candidates will debate the finer points of their economic plans in Michigan, a swing state that has an unemployment rate of 11.1 percent - two points higher than the national average.
Public opinion is firmly against more policies favoring the wealthy. A New York Times/CBS News poll taken in late October found that 67 percent of the respondents thought it was "a bad idea to lower taxes for large corporations," and 65 percent said taxes should be raised on households earning more than $1 million a year.
That's not what the Republicans are proposing. "All of these plans would lower taxes on high-income earners," said Alan Auerbach, a professor of economics and law at UC Berkeley.
Three candidates - former CEO Herman Cain, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich - are offering some version of a flat tax.
The politics behind a flat tax, said Duke University law Professor Larry Zelenak, is that "people, with good reason, find the current income tax system to be confusing and difficult to deal with." But while Republicans are selling the flat tax as a benefit, he said, "Its major economic impact will be reducing the tax burden on the wealthy."
Cain has promised a "carve out" break for low-income earners but has provided no details, said Roberton Williams, a senior fellow at the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center.
Many of the candidates also have proposed or suggested dropping the corporate tax rate from 35 percent, which is among the highest in the world.
Other candidates, including Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann and former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, want to give tax breaks to U.S.-based multinational corporations if they repatriate funds they hold overseas.
The last time the United States allowed such a tax holiday, in 2004, firms used their repatriated funds not to create more jobs in the United States but to give dividends and other benefits to their shareholders, according to studies by the Treasury Department, the Congressional Research Service and other agencies.
|Michele Bachmann
|Many criticisms of Obama, few specific ideas. Proposes repealing "radical environmental laws" to allow more oil drilling and mining to jump-start job creation.
|"Zero out" the tax rate through Dec. 31 for corporations that repatriate funds from overseas operations. Few specifics other than lower taxes, lower federal spending.
|Corporate shareholders. After a similar repatriation effort in 2004, studies showed that most money went to stockholders, and few jobs were created.
|Future generations, because repatriation likely would increase future federal deficits.
|Herman Cain
|Lower corporate taxes, which would spur investment and jobs.
|His "9-9-9" plan would replace the current tax system with a 9 percent flat income tax, a 9 percent national sales tax and a 9 percent corporate tax. He also wants to end the IRS "as we know it."
|Upper-income earners and corporations would pay lower taxes.
|Although some lower-income earners would pay less, people who pay no taxes would pay more because of the sales tax.
|Newt Gingrich
|Spur business investment by repealing the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which set standards for public company boards, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, and replacing the EPA with an "Environmental Solutions Agency."
|Phase in a 15 percent flat income tax; drop the corporate rate to 12.5 percent; end the estate tax; and give a $12,000 deduction for every American to offset the effect on poor Americans.
|High-income earners and corporations.
|Everyone except for the wealthiest 1 percent would not be affected by eliminating the estate tax.
|Jon Huntsman
|Broaden free trade, roll back regulations at the Food and Drug Administration, the EPA and federal government oversight of Wall Street to help business.
|Drop individual rates to 8 percent, 14 percent and 23 percent. Cut the corporate tax rate to 25 percent. Eliminate all deductions and loopholes, and end the capital gains tax.
|Business, which would be less regulated, and high-income earners.
|The tax plan is more progressive than other GOP candidates have proposed, but still favors high earners, who would see a one-third cut in their income tax.
|Ron Paul
|Few specifics other than shutting down the Federal Reserve, which "enabled a 95 percent reduction of what our dollar can buy."
|Few specifics, but wants to abolish federal income taxes, estate taxes, capital gains taxes and the IRS.
|The wealthy, who gain the most from lower capital gains taxes.
|Those who depend on government services, which would face huge cuts in revenue.
|Rick Perry
|Would spur investment growth by cutting the corporate rate to 20 percent.
|Keeps the current system but could opt for a 20 percent flat income tax rate. Also, a $12,500 deduction for every family member.
|The wealthiest benefit from income tax cuts; corporations profit from lower taxes.
|Potentially many Americans, because he wants to talk about raising the retirement age and adjust Social Security benefits to help balance a smaller federal budget.
|Mitt Romney
|Wants a temporary reduction in payroll taxes to spur growth.
|He would restore Bush-era tax cuts; cut the corporate rate to 25 percent; cut capital gains taxes for people earning less than $200,000.
|Upper-income earners; corporations.
|Federal entitlement programs would likely be cut because of less revenue.
|Rick Santorum
|Allow tax-free corporate repatriation of funds held overseas, if the money is invested in manufacturing.
|Set income rates at 10, 20 and 30 percent; cut corporate rate in half to 17.5 percent.
|Corporate stockholders, who likely would earn more from repatriation, studies have found.
|While more progressive than most other candidates' plans, it still favors the wealthy.
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New Video Game Releases – March 2013
Look out below for our massive list of new game releases for March 2013! This is going to be a big month in which your wallet will weep, but your body will shake with anticipatory delight whenever you bring home one of those shiny new discs.
Without a doubt, the heavy hitter this month is Bioshock Infinite. This repeatedly delayed game is one of the most anticipated for the whole year. Finally, we wont have to wait much longer to figure out what is plaguing the city of Columbia and find out if this new Bioshock was worth the wait.
Tomb Raider is another one of those games you should be in line at midnight to nab. It is shaping up to be one of the best games of the year and quite possibly a replacement for Uncharted on your shelves. It looks to be gritty, fresh, and brilliant. Welcome back Lara, welcome back.
We also have the "of war" duo. There's a new Gears of War and God of War coming out this month and both look to be solid prequels. Let's hope they don't pull a Star Wars and suck.
New Video Game Releases – March 2013
March 5
MLB 13: The Show (PS3, PS Vita)
South Park: The Stick of Truth (PS3, Xbox 360, PC)
Sim City: Limited Edition (PC)
MLB 2K13 (PS3, Xbox 360)
The Amazing Spiderman (WiiU)
Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 (PS3, Xbox 360)
The Sims 3: University Life (PC, MAC)
Tomb Raider (PS3, Xbox 360, PC)
Atelier Ayesha: The Alchemist of Dusk (PS3)
Naruto Powerful Shippuden (3DS)
Total War: Shogun 2 Gold (PC)
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow Mirror Of Fate (3DS)
March 12
God of War: Ascension (PS3)
Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm (PC, MAC)
Sniper 2: Ghost Warrior (PS3, Xbox 360, PC)
March 13
Monster High: Skultimate Roller Maze (3DS)
March 15
Sniper Elite V2 (PC)
March 18
Lego City: Undercover (WiiU)
March 19
Dead or Alive 5 Plus (PS Vita)
Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate (WiiU)
The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct (PS3, Xbox 360)
The Croods: Prehistoric Party (Wii, WiiU, DS, 3DS)
Need for Speed: Most Wanted (WiiU)
Gears of War: Judgement (Xbox 360)
March 24
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity (3DS)
Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon (3DS)
March 26
Final Fantasy XI: Seekers of Adoulin (Xbox 360, PC)
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14 (PS3, Xbox 360)
Bioshock Infinite (PS3, Xbox 360, PC)
The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct (WiiU)
Army of Two: The Devil's Cartel (PS3, Xbox 360)
Sniper Elite V2 (PS3, Xbox 360)
Pandora's Tower (Wii)
Dark (Xbox 360, PC)
March 31
Company of Heroes 2 (PC)
Lost Planet 3 (PS3, Xbox 360)
Metro: Last Light (PS3, Xbox 360, PC)
Fuse (PS3, Xbox 360)


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Google verification in TypePad versus WordPress
Have you heard about Google Webmaster Tools? With Google Webmaster Tools, you can view which of your pages are included in Google's index, see any errors encountered while crawling your site, find search queries that list your site as a result, find out which sites link to yours, and much more. In order to take full advantage of these tools you must first verify your site with Google, thus asserting ownership of said site. This is done by a) adding meta tags to your blog's HTML or b) by uploading a certain HTML-file. The former is only possible in Blogger, the latter can be done in TypePad and in WordPress, but how?
Finally – wordpress.com is now an ad-free zone!
I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this announcement today: Go (Even More) Ad-Free. Finally, wordpress.com is doing away with the Google Ads that have plagued my blog for so long. Well, they're not really doing away with them, I have to pay to opt out of them, but it's at a very reasonable price: $30/yr.
WordPress security versus TypePad security
Are you afraid of the Cookie Monster? In clear words: Are you worried that someone could steal your personal data and, potentially, hijack your blog account? WordPress has apparently done something to help you protect yourself: SSL. Now, when you access your blog administration pages, WordPress encrypts your connection and helps prevent data scavengers from stealing your password and other info.
TypePad Support versus WordPress FAQ
When I started this blog about comparing WordPress and Typepad, what I forgot or didn't really think about is that any software is continuously improved, so any comparison is only valid for so long, and soon, many of my posts will be obsolete. Such is the case with my previous observations on TypePad Help versus WordPress Help. Both WordPress and TypePad have now revamped their support functions recently – and I need to make a new post…so what has changed?
Finally: Sticky posts in wordpress.com!
Finally! No more workaround for making "sticky posts". No more laboriously changing the date of a post to make it stick to the top, as I explained in a previous post. WordPress has caught up with TypePad and is now offering sticky posts, too, just announced today. Fantastic! I've been waiting for this….
So, TypePad versus WordPress, now: TypePad-1, WordPress-1.
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Replying to, editing and moving comments in TypePad versus WordPress
Comments are great on a blog. They allow for interaction between you and your readers. I love blogs with comments and I love to have comments on my blog. However, replying to a bunch of comments means that you have to add your answers at the bottom of a long list of comments. With WordPress, not TypePad, you can insert your reply in between every comment, thus creating the illusion of a conversation, even if you are replying at a much later time or date. How is that possible?
Front page customization in TypePad versus WordPress
One area that many bloggers do not always pay attention to is the front or home page. The ability to customize your home page is one of the most important factors in making your blog attractive and thus keeping visitors on your site. How does wordpress,com compare to typepad.com when it comes to front page customization?


text: Seller: hands_of_history (7,149) 100%, Location: Forest Row, East Sussex, Ships to: Worldwide, Item: 312585276631 Here for Sale is a Lovely Hieroglyphic shabti. Shabties Were Placed in the Tomb to Act as Servants in The Afterlife for the Deceased. This Shabti is Complete and Intact, Surface is a Little Worn but in perfect condition with no damage. This Item has Come From a Private 1970s European Collection. This Item Has Not Been Imported and is a UK Purchase, The Amulets Original Origin was Cairo Egypt. Late Period: Circa 664 - 332 BC, Height: 8.9 cm Weight: 30 grams Please Take a Look at My Other Items for Sale. I am Happy to Combine Shipping. Please Message me at the End of Auction and I Will Send You a New Invoice. Please Note Ebay with Automatically Open Unpaid Item Cases on our Behalf After 8 Days of Purchase. Provenance: All Items are Acquired From Legitimate Sources Such as Galleries, International Coin Fairs and Old British and European Collections. Returns Policy - Returns Are Excepted Within 14 Days from When You Have Received Your Item, With Items Being Returned in there Original State. Please Message Me First Before Contacting Ebay to Work Out Any Resoultions Should They Arise. I Aim to Send All Orders Out Within One Working Day of Payment Being Received. Provenance: 1970s Private Collection (see photo)


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Erin Hendricken
Campus Involvement
- Major: Biology
- Minor: Chemistry
- Program: Pre-Med
- Resident Assistant
Hometown? Ashton, MD
Favorite thing about Washington College? How easy it is to get involved with campus groups. All the other students are so friendly and want new students to get involved!
What would you never leave at home for college? I would NEVER leave my iPod or cell phone at home!
What not to bring to college? Too many clothes.
Why are you an RA? I'm an RA because I want to show others how great Washington College is, and I want to help them make the best of their living accommodations.
Where are you an RA? I'm the RA on the 4th floor of Minta Martin.
What is one thing you believe the freshmen should know before coming? Freshmen should really talk and coordinate with their roommates over the summer. Figure out who will bring what appliances, and just try to get to know each other a little bit. Also know that your RA can give you help and suggestions about living in a dorm.


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|The family tree, as of Yuletide 2010.
But, in brighter news, we have a new addition! Lucy, the little human pictured above with our Christmas tree. And so it comes time to sadly trim but joyfully decorate our household's phylogenetic tree:
|Updated for 2011.
EDIT: Whoops, misspelled "silvestris" in the 2011 version.


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Easy Knit Squares
A sampler afghan is a great way to learn new stitches and to build your skill level!
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If you are new to knitting but beyond the basics and looking to stretch your skills, this booklet is for you! It has well-written instructions and the the blocks knit up large so that one can see the pattern emerging as knitting. This would be a great booklet to go through before you take the Master Knitting course! And of course all of those blocks use up stash yarn and you have a lovely blanket at the end of it all!


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Tetsuo: The Iron Man (鉄男: Tetsuo) is a 1989 Japanese cyberpunk Film by cult-film director Shinya Tsukamoto produced by Japan Home Video. This, his third film, is an extremely graphic but also strikingly-filmed fantasy shot in the same low-budget, underground-production style as his first two films. Tetsuo established Tsukamoto internationally and created his worldwide cult following. It was followed by Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992) and Tetsuo: The Bullet Man (2009)
The film opens with a man (called only "the man", or the "Metal Fetishist"), cutting open a massive gash in his leg and then shoving a large threaded steel rod into the wound. Later, upon seeing maggots festering in the wound, he screams, runs out into the street, and is hit by a car. The driver of the car, a Japanese businessman (Tomorowo Taguchi), and his girlfriend (Kei Fujiwara) try to cover up the mess by dumping the body into a ravine, but the dumped man gets revenge by forcing the businessman's body to gradually metamorphose into a walking pile of scrap metal. This process starts when the driver finds a piece of metal stuck in his cheek while shaving. He tries to remove it, but realizes it is growing from the inside.
The scene shifts to the businessman at his home having breakfast, with a bandage over his cheek. The businessman receives a phone call, consisting of nothing but him and the other speaker (possibly his girlfriend) continuously saying "Hello?" to each other and thinking back to having sex after dumping the Metal Fetishist.
The first of several highly stylized chase scenes starts with the driver pursued through an underground train station by a woman whose body has been taken over by the Metal Fetishist. The businessman seems to win this encounter by breaking the back of the radically transformed woman (she begins the sequence as a demure office worker and ends it as a wild metal-infected woman) after even more metal has erupted on his ankles and arm.
The next segment is a terrifying dream sequence where the businessman's girlfriend, transformed into an exotic dancer with a snake-like metal probe, terrorizes and rapes the businessman. After waking from this dream, the businessman and his girlfriend have sex at his apartment and eat erotically. As she eats each bite given to her, he hears the sounds of metal scraping. The businessman suddenly discovers his penis has mutated into a gargantuan power drill. A fight ensues where the businessman terrorizes his girlfriend, and acquires more and more metal on his body. She fights back and in the end impales herself on his drill and dies.
Helpless to do anything, the businessman, now the Iron Man, is visited by the Metal Fetishist, who emerges from his dead girlfriend's corpse to show him a vision of a "New World" of nothing but metal and turns his cats into grotesque metal creatures. The Iron Man flees and is followed by the Metal Fetishist into an abandoned building. After the Metal Fetishist explains to the Iron Man how both of them became what they are, a final battle ensues. The Iron Man ends by attempting to merge himself with the Fetishist into a horrific two-headed metal monster. The two agree to turn the whole world into metal and rust it, scattering it into the dust of the universe by claiming "Our love can put an end to this fucking world. Let's Go!" The duo charges through the streets of Japan in a horrific fusion of the two men and the accumulated metal, in a largely phallic form. The film ends with the words "GAME OVER" as opposed to "The End" after the closing credits.
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Norwalk: Yorkshire Terrier Breeders
Below is a sample search of our Yorkshire Terrier breeders with puppies for sale. The search tool above returns a list of breeders located nearest to the zip or postal code you enter. From there you can see photos of their pups, find detailed information on their web page and contact them by email, phone or even get driving directions.
(Detailed contact information has been omitted. Enter your zip or postal code above to access our up-to-date directory).
This is a FREE search tool! Use the form at the top to get complete listings for breeders in your area!
Yorkie Lovers Forever
Services: Puppies,Adult Dogs
AKC purebreds from a loving home breeder. Only the highest quality pups, bred for good health and temperament. Up to date on shots and dew claws removed. Micro chipped AKC papers are ready in hand.
Puppies of Hillside Manor
Services: Puppies
We are a small home breeder. Our Yorkies are tiny toy and occasionally a teacup or two. AKC & CKCWe produce 1-2 litters a year. We currently have two puppies available; a male and female and they are 9 weeks old.
So Cal Paws
Services: Puppies,Stud Service
We're a small in Home Breeder. We are Located in the Inland Empire, North Fontana Area, only 40 mins away from Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego.All of our Puppies come with their 1st Set of
Services: Puppies,Stud Service
We are a home breeder in Ca, my puppies are raised in our home as part of our family,we have tiny, Biewer Yorkie/Traditional/chocolate/parti yorkie terrier Ibc/Ckc/Akc reg,health guarantee on genetics
Yorkie Bear Ranch
Services: Puppies,Stud Service
We are small in home breeders. Our AKC yorkies live among us as family. Our pups mature size is 2 to 6 lbs with babydoll faces. Healthy, happy and adorable. Ragamuchkin, scruffy, Nikko lines.
Sharmin's Tiny Yorkies
Services: Puppies,Adult Dogs
Specializing in adorable babydoll faced pups in all colors 4-7 lbs grown, raised at home with lots of Love & TLC. Tinies available occasionally. Pedigreed & Health Guaranteed!**New babies due in June
Little Luv's Yorkshire Terriers
Services: Puppies,Adult Dogs,Rescue
Adorable,healthy puppies intended for special homes. Excellent pedigrees, confirmation and temperaments. Health guarantee.
Jewel's Yorkie's
Services: Puppies
Raising Top quality Yorkie's in SoCal for over 28 years.Our dogs have been featured in calendars and print.Most puppies priced $1500-2500.2 yr limited health guar,microchipped,vaccinated,registered.
Royal Yorkies
Services: Puppies
APR Certified, parents on site. 5 available, pick of the litter according to order of deposits given. Available on November 10, perfect early Christmas presents!
Services: Puppies,Stud Service
Quality, correct little companions. All pups are home raised, have tails docked and dewclaws removed, current on vaccine and deworm regimen. Handled daily and socialized. AKC registered, health guaran
Lilly Pix
Services: Puppies
Specializing in Yorkshire Terrier Puppies including Biewer "parti". Tiny toys to family-sized toys! Parents on site. puppies are microchipped, health guaranteed, vet checked. Free follow up vet exam
Crystal Wind
Services: Puppies
Hi. I have healthy. Champion sired puppies of show type vet checked befor leaving no slips in kneads vet checked awsome happy one year health Guarantee call email or text for more info
Elvis Blues Yorkshire Terriers
Services: Puppies,Stud Service
05/01 Planing on breeding a couple of females this summer. Stud Services by Edgewood Yam-Kis Maxwell 3 lbs,10oz stud & EDGEWOOD'S ROCK MY WORLD MR. ROCCO. SEE PHOTOS BELOW (510)334-1335
Springkis Yorkies
Services: Puppies,Adult Dogs,Stud Service,Rescue
I have been showing and breeding dogs since 1994. I have 6 Yorkies and 3 I actively show in AKC and IABCA. My pups are raised in my home, not cages. Focus is on health, conformation and soundness.
Momma Terry's Yorkies
Services: Puppies,Stud Service
My AKC registered Parti yorkie STUD Dallas is available to service your female. He is very sweet. He can be used with traditional or parti females
Mirage Yorkies
Services: Puppies,Adult Dogs
Breeder of pure bred AKC Yorkshire Terriers. Our goal is to breed for excellent health and loving temperments. We strive to raise beautiful Yorkies to the AKC breed standard. One year Health guarantee
Jam's Yorkies
Services: Puppies,Adult Dogs,Stud Service
I am a local hobby breeder of 10 years. My Yorkies are not kenneled and live in home. Socialized with cats/dogs. Bayarea Ca. Call/text/visit www.jams-yorkies.com for more details 9253823743
Sonshine Meadows
Services: Puppies,Adult Dogs,Stud Service
We breed cutest, most cuddly little Yorkies you'll ever meet. Our pups & dogs are beautiful & have great temperaments too. When you come by, you'll meet not only the puppies, but their parents as well
Yorkie Kennel Company
Services: Puppies,Stud Service
I have 2 AKC Yorkie studs, both are in the 2-3 lb.range. If your female is in heat, I will start breeding her on day 10 of her cycle through day 16. I also do artificial insemination. AKC Puppies too
SF Yorkies
Services: Puppies,Adult Dogs,Stud Service,Rescue
We are located in Northern California and in the heart of the Bay Area and we specialize in breeding only the best AKC registered Yorkshire Terrier.We have chocolate and Chocolate-parti puppies
Tiny Yorkie Kisses
Services: Puppies
Tiny Yorkie Kisses, Your source for top quality, teacup and toy size Yorkshire terrier yorkie puppies! Parti Yorkies are available! Call Kari 707-720-9042, Yorkshire terrier breeder in California
Cherished Pets
Services: Puppies,Stud Service
Bratpack Babydolls
Services: Puppies
Our goal here at Bratpack Babydolls is to raise beautiful, heathy, puppies with loving dispositions, and to share the joy they bring with wonderful new families. We take great pride in our babies.
4Kings Yorkies
Services: Puppies,Stud Service
We have 2 gorgeous male puppies and one female puppy looking for their forever home just in time for Christmas.They come with a health guarantee, tails, dews done. Both parents are in our home.
Services: Puppies,Adult Dogs
We have absolutely darling puppies yorkies and Frenches for sale.They are raised in a home 4 kids so they will be very pre spoiled and kid friendly.
Services: Puppies,Adult Dogs
I raise quality Yorkies in my home and only have a few litters a year. I like babyfaced pretty little Yorkies! I raise traditional, chocolate, parti and gold Yorkies. All purebred and AKC registered!
Elo's Parti
Services: Puppies
AKC registered, yorkies.D.O.B. 04/25/2020. 1-male and 3-frmales.
Hannah's Little Yorkies
Services: Puppies,Adult Dogs,Stud Service,Rescue
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Four Hope players have received All-MIAA softball honors from league coaches.
Junior centerfielder Jessica Regnerus and junior catcher Kylee Brouwer repeated as first team honorees. Regnerus is being honored for a third consecutive year while Brouwer is a second-year pick.
Named to the All-MIAA second team were freshman rightfielder Tara Hamming of Hudsonville, Mich. (Hudsonville HS) and sophomore first baseman Kelli Duimstra.
All four Hope honorees are from Hudsonville, Mich. and graduates of Hudsonville High School.


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Kershaw not afraid to reach for new heights
Left-hander's rise to elite status started in high school
ATLANTA -- How did Clayton Kershaw get so good so fast?
Kershaw, the Dodgers' starter for Game 1 of the National League Division Series in Atlanta on Thursday night (airing live on TBS at 5:30 p.m. PT), is favored to win his second NL Cy Young Award this year at age 25. Sandy Koufax was 29 when he won his second of three Cy Youngs.
At age 18, Kershaw was selected by the Dodgers with the seventh pick in the first round of the 2006 First-Year Player Draft, so he was no secret even then. At age 17, Kershaw was an unpolished junior at Highland Park High School outside of Dallas, Texas. His visibility rose when he made USA Baseball's junior national team that summer.
Entering his senior season, Kershaw was rated the 34th high-school prospect in the nation by Baseball America. He finished that season 12-0 and was the first prep pitcher drafted.
How did that happen?
"Talk to Skip Johnson," said Kershaw.
Johnson is now the pitching coach for Augie Garrido at the University of Texas. In 2005, Johnson was coaching at Navarro Junior College, and he got a call from a friend, J.D. Smart, who was sending a high-school pitcher to Johnson for private lessons.
Smart, whose agency will do the negotiating when and if the Dodgers lock up Kershaw this winter, then was "advisor" to the Kershaw family. He told Kershaw that to maximize his Draft value, he needed to work out some mechanical flaws and improve his consistency.
Kershaw accepted Smart's suggestions and worked with Johnson every Tuesday for almost three months in the winter of 2005-06.
"I'm not the best pitching coach in the world. All I did was give him a structured plan to work on his mechanics," said Johnson, who still records all of Kershaw's starts. "Suddenly, he was throwing 94-96 [mph]. His aptitude and athleticism make him what he is. He has the ability to repeat his delivery, and he makes adjustments fast."
Tale of the Tape: Game 1
|2013 regular season
|Overall: 33 GS, 16-9, 1.83 ERA, 52 BB, 232 K
|Overall: 32 G (31 GS), 15-12, 3.11 ERA, 47 BB, 157 K
|Key stat: 0.92 WHIP led the Major Leagues
|Key stat: 1.00 ERA in five September starts for Atlanta
|At Turner Field
|2013: Did not pitch
Career: 1 GS, 0-0, 2.57 ERA
Career: 79 G (30 GS), 16-11, 2.42 ERA
|Against this opponent
|2013: Did not face
Career: 4 GS, 0-0, 2.45 ERA
Career: 8 G (3 GS), 3-0, 1.23 ERA
|Loves to face: Justin Upton, 3-for-29, 9 K
Hates to face: Freddie Freeman, 1-for-2, 1 HR
|Loves to face: Michael Young, 1-for-10
Hates to face: Hanley Ramirez, 5-for-9
|Game breakdown
|Why he'll win: Has not allowed a run in past 13 innings
|Why he'll win: Did not allow a run in 13 2/3 innings against Dodgers this year
|Pitcher beware: Has not faced the Braves in two years
|Pitcher beware: Lost his only other postseason start
|Bottom line: Set the tone on the road
|Bottom line: Maintain momentum from unbeaten September
Kershaw described the mechanical changes like this:
"Skip changed me from low three-quarters delivery to over the top," he said. "That helped me keep my weight back. That was actually the first real pitching lesson I ever had."
Smart said the improvement in Kershaw was dramatic.
"He used to drift down the mound before his hands broke [separating the ball from the glove]," said Smart. "He hadn't been using his lower half. So his arm was playing catch-up with the body. He was all arm. I knew that if he had the aptitude and was willing to work, he could be something special. Did I dream we'd see what we're seeing today? No.
"But after about six weeks, I got a call from Skip and he told me, 'You need to come to Dallas and see this.' What I saw was basically what you see now. Clayton picked up five miles an hour. He took the instruction and it clicked."
Coming into that season, the top-ranked pitching prospect in Texas was Jordan Walden, now a reliever for the Braves. But Kershaw became the state's dominant pitcher for Highland Park, a school with a legendary sports program in an affluent suburb of Dallas. The Kershaw family, however, was not affluent. Kershaw attended Highland Park because his mother, Marianne, a single mom working as a graphics designer, made sure he did.
"We didn't have a lot of money," said Kershaw, who has no siblings. "I don't know how she did it. I know those years of travel ball, it wasn't cheap. But keeping me in that school district, that was huge."
The only other Major Leaguer produced by Highland Park is pitcher Chris Young. The school is more noted as a football factory, graduating Hall of Famer Bobby Layne, Heisman Trophy winner Doak Walker and current Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford, whose center on the freshman team was Kershaw.
By his senior year, Kershaw was all over the Dodgers' radar.
"We had him as a one-to-three round follow going into the spring, but he showed early he was a certain one," said Logan White, the Dodgers' vice president of scouting. "I saw him three times down the stretch. In one of his last games in May before the Draft, he threw just OK. There were numerous teams there, especially those picking in front of us. This really helped us."
Kershaw had a 0.72 ERA that year, with 139 strikeouts in 64 innings. He was the Gatorade National Player of the Year and the USA Today High School Baseball Player of the Year, and he threw a true perfect game -- 15 batters faced, 15 batters fanned -- in a game shortened to five innings by a 10-run "mercy" rule.
No "mercy" rules don't exist where he pitches now, but maybe they should. Three seasons ago, Kershaw picked up a slider in one bullpen session with Dodgers pitching coach Rick Honeycutt, and a few months later, he won his first Cy Young Award. He's since added a changeup for a four-pitch repertoire that allows him to pitch effectively to both sides of the plate.
"He's come so far," said manager Don Mattingly. "He was a two-pitch pitcher, but in this league, it's tough to get the curveball called. Umpires miss it, and when that happens, hitters eliminate it. So he was a one-pitch guy on one side of the plate dominant. Now, he's just evolved with the slider and changeup to both sides. He's a totally different matchup for a hitter. You wouldn't recognize the pitcher then to now."
This year, Kershaw has been more spectacular than a 16-9 record appears. His 1.83 ERA led the league for a third consecutive season and is the first Dodgers sub-2.00 mark since Sandy Koufax's 1.73 farewell 1966 season. In Kershaw's nine losses, the Dodgers scored a total of 13 runs.
"If he's not the best, you have to sell me on who's better," Mattingly said. "If we had got the guy some runs, he might have won 25 or 26 games this year."
Kershaw pitched in the 2009 playoffs, starting and winning Game 2 of the NLDS, losing Game 1 of the NL Championship Series.
"I've learned how to pitch a little bit," he said of the difference in him from then to now.
Kershaw also has embraced wife Ellen's passion for the children of Zambia, raising funds to build an orphanage and making annual missionary trips there. He won the Roberto Clemente Award last year and the Branch Rickey Award this year, both for contributions off the field.
"He's very diligent and clinical in everything he does," said Smart. "It's been pretty remarkable and fun to watch. It's hard to say he'll improve from where he is, but I wouldn't put it past him."


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My Cousin the Keynesian
I have this cousin, let's call him Giovanni. He is a great guy – industrious, hospitable, great family man. He is my go to source when it comes to information and analysis about sports in general and baseball in particular.
It is an entirely different story when it comes to economics. Oh, he is financially successful, but like most Americans he doesn't understand how the market works.
Now, I am not talking about the "free" market, just the market, which exists everywhere and in every place. The market is the arena of commerce and whether it is free or not depends on government allowances in the various geographic areas of the world.
So, technology has made it possible for Giovanni and me to rekindle our familial relationship that was forged many years ago through the trading of Matchbox cars. Well, actually, he is so much older than I am that he made and brought them to me when his family visited ours. I told you he was a great guy.
He is also good at chasing me through cyberspace by email, facebook, and on open threads of sites where I post my blog to argue economics with me.
Last Friday, he emailed me an article titled "A Breakthrough Speech on Monetary Policy". The author, Anatole Kaletsky, is an award-winning journalist. The "Breakthrough Speech" in question was delivered by Adair Turner, Chairman of Britain's Financial Services Authority and one of the most influential financial policymakers on the planet.
Clearly both men are dyed-in-the-wool Keynesians because Turner's speech and Kaletsky's article both recommended that politicians and central bankers print up lots of money and dole it out to consumers in order to stimulate the economy to end the economic stagnation that the West currently finds itself in. Specifically, Kaletsky believes the Fed should take the $85 billion it is currently spending to buy government bonds from banks and instead distribute it to every man, woman, and child in America. He believes, "There can be little doubt that this deluge of free money would stimulate consumer spending and revive employment," thus ending the West's economic doldrums. Further, Kaletsky believes this proposal would not cause price inflation because, "links between monetary financing and hyperinflation are theoretically dubious and historically unjustified".
So, after digesting this economically nonsensical article, I owed Giovanni a response.
Firstly, I indicated to him that monetary inflation does lead to price inflation unless perhaps productivity keeps up with increased money supply. Just in the 20th Century, one could look to the Weimar Republic and many Latin American countries from time to time. Zimbabwe is the most recent example. In fact, all of history is littered with societies that attempted to inflate their way out of depression and instead brought about hyperinflation.
Secondly, I told him that personally I would gain greatly from Kaletsky's proposal, but that it would harm the economy in the long-run and further destroy an already disappearing middle class. Given many Americans spendthrift mentality, could you imagine what would happen if they received "free" money each month from the government? First off, Uncle Sam would never be able to rescind the policy. It would be like trying to cut Social Security benefits.
Beyond that, there is no doubt, that unlike the banks, leveraged to the hilt American consumers would spend all of their new found riches on a plethora of consumer goods. The economy would experience another phony boom based on monetary inflation. Employment would improve for a while. The new money would bid up the price of goods and services thereby causing domestic price inflation.
Personally, my real estate investments would increase in value allowing me to sell them to some economically naïve person with free government money in his pockets. The value of my gold holdings would increase exponentially. I would be sitting pretty, protected from the impending economic bust that was made inevitable by the phony inflationary boom.
As prices rise, so would interest rates. All the investments begun at lower interest rates would become more expensive. Many would not be sustainable at the higher cost of money. Sound familiar? It should because this is what happen in the 1990s with the dot.com bubble and what also happened in the 2000s with the housing bubble.
As defaults on loans increase, unemployment picks up and the market is thrust into another downturn. I am sure at that point Giovanni and other Keynesians will blame the free market. But, of course, the only thing that was free in all this was the money the Fed gave to consumers.
Predictably, his response to my response was that I am living in a fantasy world. Unfortunately, he is wrong. The devastation that millions of hard-working Americans would experience if the above plan is enacted wouldn't be a fantasy. It would be a tragedy.
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One of the survivors of the tragic limousine fire on California's San Mateo-Hayward Bridge is telling a heartbreaking story of loss.
Speaking with great difficulty, as if she were shell-shocked, Neila Arrellano, 36, of Oakland, said she lost five of her friends Saturday night after they were trapped by flames inside a stretch limousine on the bridge over the San Francisco Bay.
Watching the interview is painful. Arrellano utters words through tears and gasps. English is not her first language and it is also a bit of a challenge to understand everything that she is saying.
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But she did recount what she remembered, most of all, that there was smoke in the back of the limousine.
"I saw smoke in the back of the car," she said. "There is a smoke, there is smoke... Stop the car, stop the car. I told you, there is smoke...I said, 'Open the door.' But he didn't do anything. He was on the phone."
She also said none of her friends smoked cigarettes, and the fire came from under her seat in the back of the car.
In a separate interview, the limo driver, Orville Brown, told NBC Bay Area that at first he thought when he heard the word "smoke," he thought one of the nine women in the back of the limo wanted a cigarette. It wasn't until a short time later that he realized that smoke meant fire.
That's when he jumped into action, and started to dial 911, which was why he was on the phone. But at that point, he said, the limo was fully engulfed in flames.
Limousine Driver Described Fiery, Fatal Accident
Arrellano was part of a bachelorette party on their way to a Foster City hotel to celebrate their friend's wedding. The bride is among those who died.
Five of the nine women on board were unable to escape from the limo and died when flames and smoke spread through the rear of the passenger compartment.
Only four passengers were able to get out alive. Three remained in the hospital Monday night suffering from smoke inhalation and burns.Arrellano, a nurse who works at the Fruitvale Health Center in Oakland, said she got out by sliding her body through the partitian in the front of the limo. She was the first one who got out safely.
She said she thought all of the women tried to get to the front of the vehicle because the flames were in the back. She wasn't sure if any of them tried to get out either of the back doors.
In three video clips posted below, Arrellano describes through tears how the events surrounding the fire unfolded.
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A new survey reports that most Silicon Valley startups pay their chief executives less than $50,000 a year.
The data, reported by the Next Web, comes from a Compass survey of 11,160 global startups who use the company's data tools. It found that in the Silicon Valley, 75 percent of founders pay themselves less than $75,000, while 66 percent pay less than $50,000. India has the lowest pay at $30,208 with Australia has a high of $72,363.
While it's not known if lower-paid CEOs are good or bad for a company, angel investor Peter Thiel seemed to believe a low-paid CEO meant a more successful startup, according to the Next Web.
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"The CEO's salary sets a cap for everyone else. If it is set at a high level, you end up burning a whole lot more money. It aligns his interest with the equity holders. But [beyond that], it goes to whether the mission of the company is to build something new or just collect paychecks.
The survey does say that when the startup has a mature product, salaries do rise to around $70,000 -- which means at least a decent apartment and car. But let's face it, founders and CEOs are looking for the big payout and that means either the initial public offering or selling to one of the big Silicon Valley (think Apple, Google or Facebook) companies for millions. If the product is a good one, either choice can make its founder at least a millionaire.


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LaKademy — First KDE Event for All of Latin America
Latin America is a big place with many opportunities for KDE; major deployments of KDE software are proof. Over the years, groups of KDE developers have emerged in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, and probably other places. These groups work together to make a better KDE. As we know, meeting and talking in person is important to strengthen the bonds in a community. So we decided to organize a Latin American meeting of KDE contributors following the lead of the first Akademy-br in 2009. Like Akademy-br, the first LaKademy will be similar to a sprint for developers and one for people interested in promoting KDE in this part of the world.
The first LaKademy is taking place in the city of Porto Alegre, Brazil from April 27th to May 1st, 2012. People were invited from Brazil, Argentina, Peru, and Colombia. 12 known KDE contributors have confirmed their presence, along with 6 newcomers. Current KDE contributors recommended newcomers based on their abilities and their potential to become long-time KDE contributors.
During the five days of the event, we will work on the following activities:
We expect this meeting to provide more maturity to Latin American groups and help pave the way for new contributors. It will be a good opportunity for us to share experiences and learn from each other. We plan to have fun and make new friends, because that's very important too.
Thanks to KDE e.V and Claudia Rauch for supporting the event.
Viva La Kademy
Wrong language, but still... Also: Good initiative!
By Anonymous at Mon, 2012/04/23 - 8:42am
Not completely sure if mexico is in the logo or not... more resolution needed, add smaller gears. hehehe :)
By Guillermo Amaral at Mon, 2012/04/23 - 6:09pm
Thank you, and...
Many thanks to the full KDE community of developers! You all are doing a wonderful job, and please know your hard work is very much appreciated.
Also want to ask that as you are all working on the "Plasma Network Management" feature - which is wonderful BTW! - maybe add a keep alive / auto-Reconnect selection? Especially need in DSL/PPPoE(service) as our ISP here at our university housing disconnects after 2days/48hrs.
Bill Greenwood
By Anonymous at Tue, 2012/04/24 - 3:43am
Y Mexico?
Tambien habemos KDE'eros por aca.
YO soy autor de un theme de Plasma de KDE: Perla Negra.
By Anonymous at Wed, 2012/04/25 - 9:10pm
Mexico is part of the logo
Mexico is the dark yellow shape at the top of the logo. Pieza amarillo más alto.
By Carl Symons at Wed, 2012/04/25 - 11:44pm
¿amarillo oscuro?
¿amarillo oscuro? pensé que era anaranjado.
By Anonymous at Tue, 2012/05/01 - 4:38am


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Experience the magnificence of the Victoria Hall's very own 4 Manual Conacher-Willis Organ with a showcase of the world's finest organists and the very best in organ...Read More
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Experience the magnificence of the Victoria Hall's very own 4 Manual Conacher-Willis Organ with a showcase of the world's finest organists and the very best in organ playing at our renowned Organ Proms as they enter their 26th season in 2019.
Featuring Ian Tracey - Liverpool Cathedral
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Organ Proms October 2019
Experience the magnificence of the Victoria Hall's very own 4 Manual Conacher-Willis Organ with a showcase of the world's finest organists and the very best in organ playing at our renowned Organ Proms as they enter their 26th season in 2019.
Featuring Ian Tracey - Liverpool Cathedral
Organ Proms October 2019
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First, here's Adina's block for the Cottage Quilting Bee. Adina sent lots of Amy Butler prints (yay!) and some coordinates. She asked for a particular block design, and here it is:
I love the way her fabrics all play off of one another. I didn't get the strips to match up (I think I figured out why after the fact) ... but a quick glimpse through the Flickr pool revealed that most people's don't match up. I hope that's OK with Adina! I still think it's going to be a rockin' quilt.
Remember these two boo-boo blocks that I made for Tina, also for the CQB?:
Luckily, I was able to eke out a third block from Tina's remaining fabrics. (It helped that I had a few of the same prints in my stash!) I was thrilled to see that, even though I was working under some constraints, I don't think the block suffered at all. In fact, I quite like how it turned out ... maybe even more so than the first two!
I LOVE these next two blocks. Quilting Barbie, a fellow bee inspired bee, sent some reds and greens drawn from her inspiration fabric (from Heather Bailey's Pop Garden line). She asked for wonky quarter-log cabin blocks, which is one of my favorites. After double-checking (this time!), I saw that we were free to add fabrics from our stash. Here are the two blocks I came up with:
I really can't wait to see Barb's quilt all put together. I was so jazzed about Barb's blocks that I asked for the same thing from my SewConnected 3 peeps. August is my month in that group, and I cut up and sent out all of the Good Folks fat quarters that I've been hoarding for the past few months.
Speaking of SewConnected 3, July was Darci's month over there and wait until you see her blocks! I know I just said that quarter-log cabins are one of my favorite blocks to make, but string blocks are right up there, too! Darci sent strips of fabric from and inspired by the Park Slope line and asked for string blocks. Here are the two I was able to make for her:
Darci asked us to use paper foundations for these blocks and, if you've been reading my blog, you know that I am paper-piecing-averse. I've always used muslin foundations when making string blocks, so taking that leap to paper was HUGE for me! I ripped out pages from my phone book to use because I read somewhere that they tear off pretty easily. I am happy to report that my first time using paper foundations was a success! I think I've been making much ado about nothing.
Over in SewConnected 2, Emily (a local Raleigh quilter and pattern designer) sent all of us some Deer Valley fabrics to play with for her blocks ... and, as a huge fan, you know how happy that made me! Emily didn't have any specific requests, except that she wanted something modern / non-traditional and in any multiple of 5". I decided to feature the bird in this 10" x 15" rectangular block:
I'd be happy just to hang this block in my sewing space ... or anywhere else in my home, for that matter! I hope Emily likes it. I know I am going to be totally envious of her final quilt.
And speaking of non-traditional and modern blocks, Jacquie really threw a challenge out to the SewConnected group. She envisioned a quilt based on this painting by her son and, with some very loose guidelines, sent us all a few solids to interpret it as we saw fit. Here's my take:
You should really go take a quick look at the SewConnected pool and see the blocks that everyone has created for Jacquie so far ... I
think know her quilt is going to be amazing.
I haven't started working on any August blocks yet, but I have been pretty productive the last couple of days. Besides working on a few super-secret projects, I've been on a bit of a bag bender ... 3 bags whipped up in the last few days (pics soon, I hope) ... and have also been dabbling in (gasp!) embroidery. Lots to share in the next couple of days, provided the rain stops and I can get some decent pictures. I really, really need to figure out how to take decent pictures inside of my house ... any tips for me??
Random snippet into my life: lately I've grown addicted to Kings of Leon Radio on Pandora and (surprisingly, because I've never been a coffee drinker) Starbucks Iced Caramel Macchiatos. That's about all that's new here.
Oh, and I was at my local JoAnn's today and the woman cutting my fabric totally recognized me from my blog! Hi Grizelle! Isn't that funny?


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CHICAGO -- An Illinois teen who was injured in a shooting Friday is believed to have shot himself, officials said.
The 17-year-old boy from Elmwood Park was taken to Loyola Hospital in Maywood, Ill., with a gunshot wound to his left groin area when he reportedly told police he was shot by two men wearing ninja masks.
Police investigated, talked to witnesses and reviewed surveillance but found no evidence of the attack. The boy, who has gang ties, confessed that he was driving in a car and playing with a gun when it discharged in his lap, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Medical personnel said the wound reflected self-infliction and officials are working to determine where the incident occurred to determine which police agency has jurisdiction over the case, according to the Tribune.


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Brad Pitt Surprises Fans at 'World War Z' Screening in New Jersey (Exclusive Details!)
Brad Pitt surprises his fans at a screening of his new film World War Z on Wednesday (May 22) at the Clearview Cinemas in Hoboken, N.J.
The 49-year-old actor entered the theater before the screening started to surprise everyone and intro the film, which started at 10:45pm.
"Brad wanted to make sure that the screening was for the fans, the people that he made the film for," a source told JustJared.com exclusively about the screening. "The crowd went wild when he showed up and he had t-shirts to hand out to his fans. He made sure to give New Jersey a big shout out before the movie started!"
In case you missed it, check out Brad on the cover of Esquire's latest issue and catch World War Z when it hits theaters on June 21!
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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Saturday permanently banned the slaughter of cows too sick or weak to stand on their own, seeking to further minimize the chance that mad cow disease could enter the food supply.
The Agriculture Department proposed the ban last year after the biggest beef recall in U.S. history. The recall involved a Chino, Calif., slaughterhouse and "downer" cows. The Obama administration finalized the ban on Saturday.
"As part of our commitment to public health, our Agriculture Department is closing a loophole in the system to ensure that diseased cows don't find their way into the food supply," President Barack Obama said in his weekly radio and video address.
Those kind of cows pose a higher risk of having mad cow disease. Because they wallow in feces, they also are susceptible to infections from bacteria that cause food poisoning, such as E. coli.
The recall also raised concerns about the treatment of cattle and came after an investigator for the Humane Society of the United States videotaped workers abusing downer cows to force them to slaughter.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said the ban was "a step forward for both food safety and the standards for humane treatment of animals."
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The Humane Society's president and chief executive, Wayne Pacelle, said he was pleased that the government "is putting a stop to the inhumane and reckless practice of dragging and otherwise abusing downer cows in order to slaughter them for human consumption."
A partial ban on downer cows was already in place; it resulted from the nation's first case of mad cow disease, in 2003.
But there was a loophole. If a cow collapsed after passing inspection, government inspectors allowed the animal into the food supply if it had an acute injury, such as a broken leg, but showed no signs of central nervous disorder that might indicate the presence of mad cow disease.
Slideshow: Get a taste of food safety Mad cow disease is the common name for bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE. In people, eating meat contaminated with BSE is linked to variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, a rare and deadly nerve disease. A massive outbreak of mad cow disease in the United Kingdom that peaked in 1993 was blamed for the deaths of 180,000 cattle and more than 150 people.
There have been three confirmed cases of BSE in the United states, in a Canadian-born cow in 2003 in Washington state, in 2005 in Texas and in 2006 in Alabama. The Bush administration in 2006 dramatically scaled back testing for mad cow disease.
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No illnesses have been linked to those cows in the United States. There have been three cases of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease confirmed in people living in the U.S., but those were linked to meat products in the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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In his weekly address, Obama called the country's food inspection system "a hazard to public health," citing outbreaks of deadly food poisoning in peanuts this year, peppers and possibly tomatoes last year and spinach in 2006.
Obama also announced the nomination of former New York City Health Commissioner Margaret Hamburg as Food and Drug Administration commissioner, and his choice of Baltimore Health Commissioner Joshua Sharfstein as her deputy.
The president said he was creating a Food Safety Working Group to coordinate food safety laws throughout government and advise him on how to update them. Many of these laws, essential to safeguarding the public from disease, haven't been touched since they were written in the time of President Theodore Roosevelt, he said.
He also blamed recent underfunding and understaffing at FDA that has left the agency unable to conduct annual inspections of more than a fraction of the 150,000 food-processing plants and warehouses in the country.
Hamburg, 53, is a well-known bioterrorism expert. She was an assistant health secretary under President Bill Clinton and helped lay the groundwork for the government's bioterrorism and flu pandemic preparations.
As New York City's top health official in the early 1990s, she created a program that cut high rates of drug-resistant tuberculosis.
She is the daughter of two doctors. Her mother was the first black woman to earn a medical degree from Yale University, and she credits her Jewish father for instilling in her a passion for public health.
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Twenty-four people were killed and 150 injured in Cairo yesterday during the most violent scenes to hit the country since February's revolution ousted ex-President Hosni Mubarak. Reports said trouble escalated after Christians, protesting an attack on a church, threw rocks and petrol bombs and set cars on fire as they clashed with military police.
Gunshots and the sound of exploding tear-gas canisters rang out across the centre of the capital amid chaotic scenes. Thousands of people, some hurling stones and petrol bombs, charged through Tahrir Square as protesters fought battles with soldiers and riot police.
The violence started after demonstrators from Egypt's Christian community headed towards the state television building in central Cairo late yesterday afternoon.
The protesters, who began their rally from the Shubra district of northern Cairo, were hoping to start a sit-in outside the riverside TV complex to highlight grievances within their community – something Egypt's Copts have done numerous times in the past without trouble. But, according to witnesses, they came under attack from men in plain clothes who started hurling stones at them. Not long afterwards gunshots rang out at the scene.
By around 7pm central Cairo was boiling over with angry protesters as thousands of youths fought running battles with the police and gangs of regime loyalists.
At the northern side of Tahrir Square, close to the Egyptian Museum, the road was littered with rocks and broken glass as young men launched missiles at scores of plain-clothed thugs standing about 200 yards away near the Ramses Hilton Hotel.
One man, his head tied with a ribbon in the colours of the Egyptian flag, used an axe to bang metal railings like a war drum as more and more activists arrived at the scene.
Nearby, beneath a motorway overpass close to the Egyptian Museum, three teenagers scrambled to extinguish their burning T-shirts after being hit by a petrol bomb. "The army are filthy," cried out Hassan Asius, 24, as he limped through the square after being hit by a rubber bullet. "People have died. The army are no good." Amir Shabrawy, a 32-year-old producer, said: "This will be the end of the revolution."
By about 9pm a tense stand-off was taking place near the state TV building as hundreds of protesters faced scores of baton-wielding riot police and soldiers.
Nearby, on 6th October bridge, which spans the Nile close to the Ramses Hilton Hotel, scores of onlookers had gathered to watch.
The sudden explosion of violence will raise fears that Egypt's uprising – already labouring under the weight of myriad concerns – has foundered.
Last month the ruling military council, which took power after Hosni Mubarak was toppled in February, said it would be reintroducing the much-hated Emergency Law following an attack on the Israeli embassy.
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Libertarianism: A Primer Goes Global
I'm delighted to report that just this week I have received copies of Libertarianism: A Primer published in Italian and Korean, the latter delivered to me personally by the president of the Korea Economic Research Institute. I now count the following translations:
- Japanese
- Russian
- Czech
- Polish
- Serbian
- Bulgarian
- Cambodian
- Mongolian
- Kurdish
- Persian
- Spanish
- Korean
- Italian
- Chinese
and of course
You might notice a couple of things about that list. First, it includes a lot of communist or ex-communist countries, where perhaps they are especially attuned to the conflict between freedom and statism. And second, it has not yet been translated into of the languages of Northwest Europe -- German, French, Dutch, Scandinavian languages. Perhaps those countries have achieved the end of history and have no need of further ideological debates. Perhaps. I wrote the following in the preface to the Italian edition:
The publication of a primer on libertarianism in Italy is another sign of two heartening developments: the continuing process of the world's people being drawn closer together, and the worldwide spread of the ideas of peace and freedom after a century of war and statism.
This book may seem to be reaching Italy at an inopportune moment, a time when people from the president of France to Nobel Prize-winning economists are proclaiming that "laissez-faire is finished." One American pundit of the center-left even exulted in "the end of libertarianism." These critics are short-sighted. The idea of libertarianism, of liberty under law, is needed now more than ever....
Libertarianism is sometimes perceived as a radical philosophy. And in some ways it is: It rejects and has fought in turn absolutism, communism, fascism, national socialism, corporate statism, theocracy, and every form of tyranny over the mind of man. Libertarians advance a radical and consistent vision of individual rights and strictly limited government that would eliminate the great bulk of the modern state, even in mixed-economy democracies. But in a broader sense libertarianism is the fundamental philosophy of the modern world: liberty, equality, enterprise, the rule of law, constitutional government. These ideas have become so commonplace that we forget how radical they were at one time. Libertarians want to apply those principles more consistently than do the adherents of other ideologies. But few people in the modern world would want to reject libertarian ideas wholesale.
The largest trends in the world reflect libertarian values. Communism is virtually gone, and few people still defend state socialism. Eastern Europe is struggling to achieve societies based on property rights, markets, and the rule of law. Honest observers throughout the developed world understand that the middle-class welfare states are unsustainable and will have to be radically reformed. The information revolution is empowering individuals and small groups and undermining the authority of centralized power.
Perhaps most importantly, the increasing globalization of the world economy means that countries that want to prosper will have to adopt a decentralized, deregulated, market-oriented economic model. You can't avoid world markets in the 21st century; or if you do, you will be left out of the phenomenal economic growth that global markets and technological development will deliver.
So one reason that Italian readers should be interested in libertarianism is very simple and practical: these are the ideas that drive the modern world, and you need to know about them. The other reason is that libertarianism offers to every country the promise of peace, economic growth, and social harmony. I hope Italian readers will join libertarians around the world in working to restrain state power and liberate individuals, families, associations, and enterprises.


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GENEVA (AP) — Syria's government handed an ultimatum to a U.N. mediator hoping to broker peace in the country's civil war, vowing to leave if "serious talks" do not begin by Saturday.
GENEVA (AP) — Syria's government handed an ultimatum to a U.N. mediator hoping to broker peace in the country's civil war, vowing to leave if "serious talks" do not begin by Saturday.
The delegation chosen by President Bashar Assad met for less than 90 minutes Friday with U.N. mediator Lakhdar Brahimi as part of a peace conference with the Western-backed opposition. The meeting has been on the verge of falling apart ever since it was conceived.
In Geneva, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem told Brahimi that if "serious talks don't begin Saturday, the official Syrian delegation will have to leave because the other party is not serious or ready," according to Syrian state television.
Direct talks planned for Friday between the Syrian government and the Syrian National Coalition were scrapped, and the opposition was to meet separately with Brahimi later at the U.N. European headquarters.
The Syrian government blamed the coalition for the lack of direct negotiations, which were seen as the best hope for an eventual end to the three-year civil war that has killed at least 130,000 people.
The bloodshed has destabilized the entire region and turned Syria into a magnet for al-Qaida-inspired militants. The two sides blame each other for the descent into chaos.
"Transition to a free Syria is the key to fighting terror," said Oubai Shahbandar, a senior adviser to the Syrian opposition, which has demanded Assad's departure.
As the peace conference faltered, fighting raged throughout parts of Syria, including near Damascus. Government forces bombed rebel-held areas in the northern city of Aleppo, according to the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and local activists.
Underscoring the extent of foreign involvement in the conflict, Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah fighters fought alongside forces loyal to Assad around the area of eastern Ghuta, the British-based Syrian Observatory said. The rebels clashing against them included extremists from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, a hardline group dominated by foreign jihadis, the Observatory reported.
In Switzerland, Bouthaina Shaaban, an adviser to Assad who traveled to Geneva for the talks, questioned whether the opposition coalition — made up largely of exiles based in Turkey — was prepared to negotiate an end to the violence.
"We came here with Syria and the Syrian people on our mind, only while they came here with positions and posts on their mind," she said.
The coalition's head, Ahmad al-Jarba, said late Thursday that he was committed to the talks and would give his negotiators full authority on their pace and scope. But on Friday, his chief of staff said the negotiations were never expected to be easy or quick, insisting that the coalition was simply not yet prepared to meet directly with the government.
"Everyone knows that these are proximity negotiations," said the aide, Monzer Akbik. "And for the time being, that's the way it is going to be."
Both sides have spent their time so far in Switzerland affirming positions hardened after nearly three years of fighting. They blamed each other for turning a once-thriving country into ruin and called each other terrorists.
But their willingness to meet with Brahimi — even separately — gave the first sense that the negotiations might bear some fruit. Brahimi himself has said both sides had shown willingness to bend on humanitarian corridors, prisoner exchanges and local cease-fires — even if the terms were still murky.
A senior U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the talks are sensitive, said the peace conference had not collapsed and that Brahimi "still plans to meet with the regime and the opposition together."
Haitham al-Maleh, a senior member of the opposition, told The Associated Press there was not enough common ground for direct talks on Friday.
The Syrian National Coalition, which is made up largely of exiles, lacks influence with an increasingly radicalized rebellion, which has been pulled apart by an influx of militants. Infighting among rebels has left 1,400 people dead in the past 20 days, according to activists, who have counted more than 130,000 deaths since the rebellion began in 2011.
Associated Press reporters Desmond Butler in Istanbul, Turkey; Bassem Mroue in Beirut, Lebanon; and Matthew Lee in Davos, Switzerland, contributed.


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Elusive tunz: Gorillaz sing, but don't exist
When last we heard from Gorillaz, the group had just topped every indie chart in the country with an album and video so unusual that it had most people wondering What exactly are the Gorillaz?
The group is presented as four cartoon characters, each representing in some way a counterculture interest group. In the videos, the cartoons run around performing the songs. Because of the eclectic music on the album, it's easy to accept these characters as representing actual members of the band.
But they don't. In actuality, the Gorillaz don't exist. The music itself is the creative output of former Blur frontman Damon Albarn and whomever he decides to invite to join his cross-cultural parade.
Last time I wrote about Gorillaz, Albarn had enlisted weirdo producer Dan the Automator as his co-conspirator. However, this time around for Demon Dayz, the infamous Danger Mouse, producer of The Grey Album (see Jay-z's Black Album remixed with the Beatles' White Album), has been summoned from his quiet home in Atlanta to pick up where Automator left off.
The album intro sounds like the music one might hear behind a Scooby Doo cartoon. This creates the perfect link between the visuals of the album cover and what you're about to hear. The oboes of the intro slide nicely into the opening song, "Last Living Souls," a ditty stylistically close to the music heard on the last Gorillaz album. That song features Albarn singing in a very Bob Dylan-esque fashion.
Things start to change for the better with "Kids With Guns," an '80s post-punk/electro groove reminiscent of Talking Heads, and "Dirty Harry," a soulful serenade featuring the San Fernandez Youth Choir. "Dirty Harry" is one of the better cuts on the album. Most impressive is the string arrangement that takes the soulful portion of the song into a much harder early '90s hip-hop drum cadence in the same vein as The Bomb Squad (see Public Enemy). Bootie Brown of The Pharcyde even gets a verse.
The album continues to mix '80s post-punk and electro vibes with more contemporary styles such as drum n bass, hip-hop and even gospel. All the while Albarn lends his vocals to various hooks and chorus while selecting a random array of guest artists. Neneh Cherry, Ike Turner, Trugoy of De La Soul (note: that's Yogurt spelled backward), MF Doom, Dennis Hopper, and UK bad-boy Roots Manuva all add a little something to the Gorillaz formula.
Albarn and Danger Mouse really hit a home run with the tracks "El Manana" and "Every Planet We Reach Is Dead," as well as the trio of songs that end that album. Gorillaz falls short on the pointless interlude "White Light," and the sometimes confusing way the songs run together.
However, the sweet far outweighs the bitter here. Danger Mouse deserves an award for most versatile producer of the year, and Damon Albarn deserves the "Way To Reinvent Yourself" award. Demon Dayz is a class-A record for all you looking to bend the mold a bit.
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Mohamed Salah Shrugs Off Injury To Join Egypt Training
Egypt's Mohamed Salah gave his countrymen a World Cup boost on Wednesday as he joined a squad training session at their Grozny base.
The Pharaohs' superstar has been sidelined since suffering a shoulder injury in Liverpool's Champions League final loss to Real Madrid on May 26.
However, an AFP reporter saw the forward take part in his first training session since the injury, going through a range of warm-up exercises with his teammates.
Team director Ihab Lahita was cagey about Salah's progress, saying there was no guarantee he would play in Egypt's Group A opener against Uruguay on Friday.
"There's a good degree of progress but no definitive decision on whether he takes part, as we are following his case day by day," he told reporters.
Salah arrived in Russia with serious doubts about his participation due to the shoulder injury, which occurred when Sergio Ramos wrestled him to the ground in the final.
But such has been his form for Liverpool, with 44 goals in all competitions this season, that he was included in the Egypt squad simply on the off-chance he could play.
On May 30, Egypt officials said Salah would be out for "not more" than three weeks, which would rule him out of the Uruguay match but put him in the frame for Russia on June 19 and Saudi Arabia on June 25.
Team doctor Mohamed Abou al-Ela said over the weekend that Salah would not play "unless he has totally recovered".
The player sat out Egypt's first training session after arriving in Russia but was optimistic about his prospects.
"I'm excited. God willing I'm well-prepared and things are going well and my morale is high," he told AFP on Sunday.
Uruguay goalkeeper Fernando Muslera has expressed hope that Salah will play against the South Americans, saying he wants to play against the best at football's showpiece tournament.
"I like the best players to play, I train with the best and I want the best players to play," he said.
Salah is regarded as a contender for the Ballon d'Or, alongside Argentina's Lionel Messi, Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo and Neymar of Brazil.
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Just wanted to let you know that Destination Zero by John Bannon is now out of print. Didn't take long!
I would like to hear your opinions about the book. Please discuss the book here. What are your favorite effects? Compare and contrast it to High Caliber. Anything else you can share would be appreciated.
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It was reviewed in a recent issue of Genii by Will Houston. If you still haven't purchased this, you should. If it has Bannnon's name on it--get it. A great card magic book without knuckle busting moves. Here is a thread on the Café discussing this book:
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High Caliber is terrific, filled with really fun, practical, material, including many of Bannon's marketed "fractal" effects.
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Debra Messing of "Smash" (or if you're still in the '90s, you'll recognize her from the hit series "Will & Grace") has sold her Bel-Air home for $11.4 million after listing it only a month ago, reports the LA Times.
Located in one of the most sought out areas in Bel-Air, the traditional Paul Williams design was built in 1937. Messing bought the property from actress Renee Zellweger in 2003 for $7 million.
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The home has a private master bedroom with his and hers baths and large walk-in closets. There are also bay windows, a den, a bar, a gym, four fireplaces, six bedrooms and eight bathrooms.
The more than half-acre lot is gated and features a pool and cabana with rolling lawn and offers total privacy behind tall hedges.
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