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most of us overfeed our pets!

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:40:02 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I am guilty at this, as my dog eats, good meats, ice cream, cookies, you name it she wants it, but how do you say "no" to those longing eyes when they look at you!

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Obesity Harms Pets As Much As Humans

Obesity ... We all complain about it, but very few of us like to do anything about it. The endless diet options, television ads for the latest weight loss pills, the newest fitness machines, and even pulsating belly bands that claim to shed the pounds. Obesity is an epidemic in our American culture. But it's not just in people. Our pets are also suffering from the effects of obesity. The American pet owner is literally killing their pet with kindness.

The detrimental health effects of obesity in pets are similar to humans. Dogs and cats both are at risk of diabetes, which is more prevalent than ever before. In addition, diabetes in pets is becoming more of a challenge to treat. Our arsenal of effective insulin is dwindling as the manufacturers of the products follow the human health needs, leaving veterinarians with few products to choose from.

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Google Must Divulge youtube viewers' identities!

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:01:35 GMT

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clipper's remarks: big brother is WATCHING YOU!

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A U.S. court has ruled that google must divulge the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched any video on YouTube.

Google's legal battle with Viacom over allegations of copyright infringement is what has sparked the ruling.

Viacom will be handed a viewing log which contains the log-in ID of users, the computer IP address (online identifier) and video clip details.

Viacom said it had identified about 160,000 unauthorized clips of its programs on the website when it initiated legal action in March 2007.

"We will ask Viacom to respect users' privacy and allow us to anonymize the logs before producing them under the court's order."

The ruling will see the viewing habits of millions of YouTube users given to Viacom, totaling more than 12 terabytes of data.

Privacy campaigners had warned Google for years that IP addresses were personally identifiable information.

Google is to also disclose to Viacom the details of all videos that have been removed from the site for any reason.

couple let thier lawn die to save water!

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:49:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: they should write to schwarzennegger as he was the one that declared the drought!

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The husband and wife bought a home in east Sacramento for easy biking to work and shopping. They installed solar panels and efficient appliances. Their laundry dries on a clothesline.

So when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a statewide drought June 4, Hartridge decided it was only right to let her front lawn die to save water.

But that ethic didn't agree with her neighbors, or with the city.

Before Hartridge could plan new landscaping, a neighbor complained to the city about her brown lawn, and the Code Enforcement Department slapped the family with a citation.

Their small brick home was declared a "public nuisance" in violation of city code section 17.68.010, which states that front yards "shall be irrigated, landscaped and maintained."

A $746 fine will be next unless they correct the violation.

Neighbor Lois Guy, a retiree, thinks the situation is "crazy."

She also called her city councilman, Steve Cohn, who did not respond. Cohn also didn't return a call from The Bee on Tuesday.

woman jailed for living with chinese man back in 1939

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:32:30 GMT

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clipper's remarks: wonder what happened to her baby and if she ever saw it again!

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"Woman of 81 denied an apology for jail ordeal".

The Ontario government acknowledged dark periods in the province's past Monday but refused to apologize to an elderly woman who was jailed more than 60 years ago for living with her Chinese boyfriend. ... On a spring day in 1939, Demerson was eating breakfast in her pjamas with Harry Yip, the man she planned to marry, when two policemen showed up at the door. They were accompanied by her father.

Demerson, who was pregnant, was ultimately imprisoned for about 10 months under the Female Refuges Act of 1897. Hundreds of women were jailed under the act, which stated that "any parent or guardian may bring before a judge any female under the age of 21 years who proves unmanageable or incorrigible" Until it was repealed in 1964, the law allowed women from age 16 to 35 to be jailed for behaviour like public drunkenness, promiscuity, and pregnancy out of wedlock."

Demerson gave birth during her prison term and later had the baby taken away from her.

10 newly discovered species

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:48:10 GMT

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how to earn money with your digital camera!

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:59:14 GMT

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Making a living taking digital snapshots of passers-by

Darryl Cannon, of Killboy.com, takes thousands of pictures a day of drivers and motorcyclists who are touring US route 129 on the Tennessee/North Carolina border. The road is very popular, especially with motorcyclists, and Cannon and three others in his company make full-time livings selling the images they take. There are least three other operations doing the same thing in the area.

FONTANA VILLAGE, N.C.--If you've got a fancy digital SLR and have been wondering how you could make money with it, I might have just the suggestion for you.

Head on out to the border region between Tennessee and North Carolina, just on the edge of Great Smoky Mountain National Park, and there, you'll find a never-ending supply of people riding their motorcycles and driving their cars along one of the most-famous and beloved stretches of road in the South.

That's what Cannon, his wife, and a couple of friends are doing. Full time, he said.

sex and housework

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:45:00 GMT

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(LifeWire) -- Jen Simmons loves to watch her husband Danny tend to their two little boys, mop the floor or hang a picture. She also finds it sexy.

"I work out of our house so it's easier to be present and I'm somewhat more flexible," says Pillitteri, 52, an information architect, whose spouse works part-time as a school district supervisor. "I think it creates a healthier relationship with my wife and affords me a closer relationship with my kids. They really get to know who their father is."

Simmons' attitude is pretty typical of married women, researchers say. They like it when their spouses share the household chores, but also find that -- paradoxically -- a husband may also create more work for them, or not contribute as much as women would like. In other words, science has once again proven what many people already suspect: Relationships take work, especially when it comes to keeping a happy (and tidy) home.

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unemployment in britain- come to canada!

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:57:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: in Edmonton, we have more jobs then workers, so we can demand the pay we want!

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UK facing rising unemployment threat - report

LONDON (Thomson Financial) - The threat of rising unemployment in Britain will be driven home this week by news that the number of permanent jobs available has fallen for the first time in five years, The Sunday Telegraph reported.

City economists also say that the risk of the current slowdown escalating into Britain's first recession in almost 20 years will be determined by how aggressively companies cut staff to shield profits from a painful mix of slowing demand and rising costs.

This snapshot of the labour market follows hot on the heels of a warning from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development that unemployment in Britain will rise by 100,000 over the next two years.

Last week, Barratt Developments Plc announced plans to cut 1,000 of its 6,700-strong workforce while Pendragon Plc, the country's biggest car dealer, laid off 500 workers.

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how to cool your drinks in this hot weather quickly!

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:16:45 GMT

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Take the temperature of the drink. This step is optional; once you open a can, this method won't be as effective. If this is your first time trying it, though, it may be interesting to record how drastically the temperature can change.

Fill a bowl with water and add ice to it. Add as much ice to the water as you can, but not so much that it prevents the entire beverage container from being submerged into the water. A 50/50 mix of ice and water is a good rule of thumb.

Add table salt to the ice. A small handful should do. Adding salt lowers the freezing temperature of the water.

Place your drinks in the ice water solution and rapidly stir them all around. By stirring, you're using forced convection to speed the transfer of heat out of your drink and into the ice water solution.

Enjoy your cold drink. It should now be about the perfect temperature to quench your thirst.

guess we will never know what happened to this little girl!

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:02:31 GMT

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clipper's remarks: this whole thing feels bad! I only hope that this little girl never suffered before she died! and I am feeling that she IS dead!

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Police consider dropping Madeleine McCann inquiry

Portugal's attorney general today confirmed reports he was considering winding down the investigation over missing Madeleine McCann.

Earlier, Portuguese media reports claimed a lack of evidence had forced officers to abandon the inquiry, nearly 14 months after the three-year-old went missing.

The Correio da Manha paper said sources within Portugal's judicial police said they did "not have sufficient evidence to allow formal charges to be brought against the McCanns in the disappearance of their daughter".

Madeleine, from Rothley, Leicestershire, disappeared from the resort of Praia da Luz in the Algarve during a family holiday on May 3 last year.

Detectives later named her parents, Kate, 40, and Gerry McCann, 39, as well as a local man Robert Murat, 34, as formal suspects or "arguidos" in the abduction.

The McCanns remain classified as "arguidos" in the inquiry but have not been charged by authorities.

so, are they married or not?

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:07:03 GMT

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Virginia same-sex couple not charged in marriage ploy

An enterprising Virginia gay couple, briefly succeeding in circumventing the state's same-sex marriage ban, won't be charged with a crime for posing as a heterosexual pair, officials said.

Justin McCain, 18, and Antonio Blount, 31, received a marriage licence in March at a court in Newport News, Virginia. McCain, who court employees said appeared to be a woman, filled out the section of the application for the "bride".

McCain pronounced his first name as "Justine". The two were married later by a Norfolk, Virginia official.

The ploy was uncovered when McCain petitioned the court in May to change his name legally to Penelopsky Aaryonna Goldberry, catching officials' attention. A Newport News judge voided the marriage after a court clerk asked McCain, "are you male or female," and McCain answered male, the Washington Post reported.

ancient ice sheets fell like dominoes

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:52:01 GMT

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July 1, 2008 -- Tens of thousands of years ago, "armadas of ice" crumbled off of the ice sheet covering North America into the Atlantic Ocean. Meanwhile, thousands of miles away on the other side of the continent, icebergs calved off of another ice sheet into the Pacific.

Their synchrony -- just uncovered by new research -- suggests the events might be connected in a long-distance domino effect. The fact that melting at one location may influence ice sheets afar may be useful in understanding the behavior of ice today, according to the study's authors.

"What it is saying is that these ice sheets are connected," said lead author Ingrid Hendy of the University of Michigan. "If we melt Greenland, we could raise sea level and affect Antarctica. Or, if we melt Greenland, we can affect the tidewater glaciers up in Alaska."

"I was anticipating that I'd see the ice sheets responding to the rapid climate events," Hendy said. "What I found was that the ice sheet doesn't really care."

ancient cave dwellers mixed music and art

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:58:16 GMT

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July 1, 2008 -- At least 12,000 years ago, the most popular musical events might have taken place in torch-lit caves next to walls covered in art, according to new archaeological research in France.

Stone Age-era caves there bear paintings located in the most acoustically resonant places, where sound lingers or echoes.

The first cathedrals, theaters and concert halls, researchers now theorize, may have been inspired by musical performances held in caves.

The latter finding suggests cave dwellers first scoped out caves for their musicality before any painting commenced.

"I am a specialist of the resonance of buildings and spaces, particularly of the resonance of Romanesque churches," Reznikoff explained. "The first time I happened to be in a prehistoric cave, I tried the resonance in various parts of the cave, and quickly the question arose: Is there a relation between resonance and locations of the paintings?"

shroom study has lasting effect

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:00:51 GMT

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July 1, 2008 -- Scientists reported Tuesday that when they surveyed volunteers 14 months after they took a psychedelic drug as part of a research project, most said they were still feeling and behaving better because of the experience.

Two-thirds of them also said the drug had produced one of the five most spiritually significant experiences they'd ever had.

The drug, psilocybin, is found in so-called "magic mushrooms." It's illegal, but it has been used in religious ceremonies for centuries.

The study involved 36 men and women during an eight-hour lab visit. It's one of the few such studies of a hallucinogen in the past 40 years, since research was largely shut down after widespread recreational abuse of such drugs in the 1960s.

The project made headlines in 2006 when researchers published their report on how the volunteers felt just two months after taking the drug. The new study followed them up a year after that.

And then, the sensation that her heart was tearing open.

woman dies in hospital waiting room

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:06:38 GMT

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NEW YORK (CNN) -- A 49-year-old woman collapsed and died on the floor of a waiting room at a Brooklyn psychiatric hospital and lay there for more than an hour as employees ignored her, according to the New York Civil Liberties Union, which on Tuesday released surveillance camera video of the incident.

Esmin Green was involuntarily admitted to the psychiatric emergency department of Kings County Hospital Center on June 18 for what the hospital describes as "agitation and psychosis."

Upon her admission, Green waited nearly 24 hours for treatment, said the civil liberties union, which was among the groups filing suit against the facility last year seeking improved conditions for patients.

The surveillance camera video shows the woman rolling off a waiting room chair, landing face-down on the floor and convulsing. Her collapse came at 5:32 a.m. June 19, the NYCLU said, and she stopped moving at 6:07 a.m. During that time, the organization said, workers at the hospital ignored her.