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Coffee Time Stop-Motion | Gimundo | Good News... Served Daily

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All Things Considered, March 29, 2009 · Beware on your next trip to the bookstore — zombies have invaded a classic. The living dead have come to Longbourn, the land of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Author — make that co-author — Seth Grahame-Smith altered Jane Austen's original text ever so slightly to accommodate brand new scenes of the Bennet girls forming "The Pentagram of Death"

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  MSNBC.comWillie repeatedly yelled ‘Mama, baby’ and flapped wings to alert babysitterThe Associated Pressupdated 8:07 a.m. CT, Tues., March. 24, 2009DENVER - A parrot whose cries of alarm alerted his owner when a little girl choked on her breakfast has been honored as a hero.Willie, a Quaker parrot, has been given the local Red Cross chapter's Animal Lifesaver Award.In November, Willie's owner,

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       February 19th, 2008        by Joel Falconer in Stepcase LifehackI don’t think I’ve read a productivity blog yet that didn’t suggest kicking the coffee habit. I’ve kicked many bad habits in the last few years, something that seemed impossibly hard at first—such as dumping dairy—but coffee is one thing that I never succeeded with. That’s probably because I never really wanted to.While it

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By Garrison KeillorMarch 10, 2009In hard times a man must consider new options, and right now I'm thinking about going on disability. I read in the Washington Post about the wonderful deals that police in Montgomery County, Md., negotiated for themselves way back when, whereby after a few years on the force if you twist your back reaching for a jelly doughnut and are no longer able to dash down

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Dog Daycare and Dog Boarding in south florida that is taken to a new level of animal love and care.Deerfield Beach, FL, March 11, 2009 --(PR.com)-- Despite Sluggish Economy, Passionate Family of Dog-Lovers Create a Unique Canine Campus where pampered pooches flock for Doggie Daycare, Boarding and Training.View the video blogs at www.dogstownuniversity.com to get the real picture.What do you get

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NPR: Planet Money: Job Loss City-- And seriously, the economy could be worse verse. That's what Planet Money editor Jonathan Kern tells us, in his villanelle for the economic crisis.Villanelle for Uncertain Times Though banks are suffering a lack of liquidityAnd teeter on the edge of nationalization,Do not succumb to economic stupidity. Though Congress is demanding more rapidityAnd tugs the

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NPR: Planet Money: Job Loss CityLook, the economy is bad. It's even very bad. But if you gaze across the span of history, says economist Ken Rogoff of Harvard, this particular crisis starts to seem not so unusual after all. Rogoff talks about the ideas behind his paper, "This Time Is Different: A Panoramic View of Eight Centuries of Financial Crises."Click to read it ...

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BY MICHAEL J. WEINGARTH- - - -K-K-K-K-K-KARENNNNNNNNN,This SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY, I'd like you to have all your stuff moved OUT OUT OUT of MY MY MY APARTMENT APARTMENT APARTMENT, because I'm b-b-b-b-b-breaking up with YOU YOU YOU!!! I don't know what to say, really. I feel b-b-b-b-bad about all this, but it's like we're just not c-c-c-c-c-c-communicating like we used to.Let's just be

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by Linda Holmes I learned something new while researching the new Pussycat Dolls version of "Jai Ho," the Oscar-winning song from Slumdog Millionaire. It turns out that everybody and their three-year-old is posting YouTube videos of themselves dancing to "Jai Ho." Up there at the top is an unnamed small child getting his groove on, and believe me, there's much more.Here's "Tyler,"

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Computer-aged Brad Pitt in 'Benjamin Button' You Mustn't Read This: Linda didn't much like Benjamin Button, but there are those who argue the movie's still better than the bookBy Linton WeeksThe literati can't stand to hear it, but sometimes a movie is better than the book it's based on. Even when the book is pretty good: Jaws comes to mind. And, arguably, Forrest Gump.This year theaters are

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Andrew Delbanco, director of American studies at Columbia.By PATRICIA COHENPublished: February 24, 2009One idea that elite universities like Yale, sprawling public systems like Wisconsin and smaller private colleges like Lewis and Clark have shared for generations is that a traditional liberal arts education is, by definition, not intended to prepare students for a specific vocation. Rather, the

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Adam Allington, KWMU ST. LOUIS, MO (2009-02-25)The state Department of Agriculture seized over 200 dogs from an unlicensed breeder in southwest Missouri on Wednesday.It case marks the third incident involving Missouri puppy mills in two weeks.The owner of the River Valley Kennel in Ozark County is alleged to have set fire to the facility after officials contacted him about not having a breeder's

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Italian cops were called to catch a poodle that bit off the nose of it's female owner and then ran into the garden with its new snack.Loredana Romano, 34, from Forli in northern Italy said. "My little Vale often climbed into bed with me, I don't know why she suddenly bit off my nose."Cops chased the poodle and managed to prize the well chewed morsel from the dog's 

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By Garrison KeillorFebruary 3, 2009Ten a.m. A phone call from my daughter's school, and instantly the father's mind goes to Dark Foreboding, but no — this is her teacher calling to say that the child scored 96 on the spelling test. The child's instant reward is the phone call home and the words of praise. She sits at her desk pretending not to listen, basking in the acclaim. Well done.Having

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by Linda HolmesI have a long history with romantic movies of all kinds. Goopy musicals, kicky-girl rom-coms, masterpieces of banter -- you name it, and I've probably fallen for it at one time or another. Unfortunately, the older one gets, the more some of these fall apart, and the more others don't work at all. I give you five (of many) Un-Romances. Be warned: all descriptions contain spoilers.1.

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Dec. 21, 2008(CBS) Can you imagine an orphanage that's a happy place? 60 Minutes couldn't, but then we found one. The kids don't arrive here smiling. Like orphans all over the world, they've been abandoned. They're hungry, sad and desperate. But after a few years, they're healthy, well-fed and happy.As correspondent Bob Simon reports, this orphanage is for elephants, located outside Nairobi,

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  Garrison KeillorInner Tranquility and Unread BooksJanuary 27, 2009It is God that has made us and not we ourselves, we are his people and the sheep of his pasture, and George W. Bush is no longer the top sheep. Altogether a cause for rejoicing as we forge ahead in the struggle to achieve inner tranquility, which for me the other morning included misplaced glasses, a madcap dash to the airport,

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Weekend Edition Sunday, January 18, 2009 · Thirty Things I Believeby Tarak McLainI believe life is good.I believe God is in everything.I believe we're all equal.I believe we can help people.I believe everyone is weird in their own way.I believe hate is a cause for love.I believe that when I meditate I feel peaceful.I believe we should be generous.I believe brothers and sisters should be kind to

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January 13, 2009by Garrison KeillorI like this government report saying that more Americans than before are reading novels and short stories, 113 million, in fact. Fiction is my cash crop, and that's good news. Too bad, though, that the report was issued by the National Endowment for the Arts. A deep-down aversion to a-r-t is one big reason half of America stays away from fiction.They're afraid

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   By NICHOLAS BAKALARDrinking coffee may do more than just keep you awake. A new study suggests an intriguing potential link to mental health later in life, as well.A team of Swedish and Danish researchers tracked coffee consumption in a group of 1,409 middle-age men and women for an average of 21 years. During that time, 61 participants developed dementia, 48 with Alzheimer’s disease.After

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By Stanley Coren, Ph.D. on January 16, 2009 in Canine Corner On January 11, 2009 Mickey Rourke won the Golden Globe Award for best actor for his performance in Darren Aronofsky's "The Wrestler." When actors give acceptance speeches for such awards it is quite common for them to thank God and their family for the win, but Mickey Rourke thanked his dogs. If it had not been for the therapeutic

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* 24 January 2009 by Laura Spinney JILL, 19, from Michigan, wants to go to university to read political science. There is just one problem: she keeps failing the mathematics requirement. "I am an exceptional student in all other subjects, so my consistent failure at math made me feel very stupid," she says. In fact, she stopped going to her college mathematics class after a while because, she

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What Is He Thinking? Michael Bader, D.M.H. What Is He Thinking?Decoding the male psyche.By Michael Bader, D.M.H.There are no posts in this blog yet.

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Thursday , January 22, 2009Former French President Jacques Chirac was rushed to a hospital after being mauled by his pet dog who is being treated for depression, in a dramatic incident that rattled the ex-president's wife.The couple's white Maltese poodle, called Sumo, has a history of frenzied fits and became increasingly prone to making "vicious, unprovoked attacks" despite receiving treatment

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Posted on Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:05:06 CST | by Luigi LugmayrYou need the absolute cutest Valentine's Day gift available? Look no further; the Teacup Poodle cannot be beaten in cuteness.Little Poodle Puppies apparently like to sleep in small teacups for some reason.If you take the puppy out of the teacup, it will wake up and speak some puppy talk. Put the puppy back in the teacup and it will go back

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The following is a transcript of the inaugural poem recited by Elizabeth Alexander, as provided by CQ transcriptions.Praise song for the day.Each day we go about our business, walking past each other, catching each others' eyes or not, about to speak or speaking. All about us is noise. All about us is noise and bramble, thorn and din, each one of our ancestors on our tongues. Someone is stitching

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By Richard HalicksThe Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionSunday, January 18, 2009JFK was the first president to invite a poet to take part in an inauguration, and you couldn’t argue with his choice. “Every time Robert Frost comes to town,” James Reston wrote for The New York Times, “the Washington Monument stands up a little straighter.” In truth, the poem Frost intended to read was not in his top five,

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LONDON (AP) — Britain's Royal Society of Chemistry says it has perfected the recipe for Oliver Twist's most famous meal — workhouse gruel.Members of the society consulted historical sources and Charles Dickens' beloved novel to recreate the porridge, which is made from water, oats, milk and an onion.They plan to ladle out bowls brimming with the gruel, which they describe as "barely palatable,"

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What To Do the First Morning the Sun Comes Backby Roseann LloydFind a clean cloth for the kitchen table, the red and blue one you made that cold winter in Montana. Spread out your paper and books. Tune the radio to the jazz station. Look at the bright orange safflowers you found last August— how well they've held their color next to the black-spotted cat.

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Fresh Air from WHYY, January 5, 2009 · In her new book, Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals, Temple Grandin examines common notions of animal happiness and concludes that dogs, cats, horses, cows and zoo animals — among other creatures — possess an emotional system akin to that of humans.One of the nation's top designers of livestock facilities, Grandin also happens to be

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Dec. 21, 2008(CBS) Can you imagine an orphanage that's a happy place? 60 Minutes couldn't, but then we found one. The kids don't arrive here smiling. Like orphans all over the world, they've been abandoned. They're hungry, sad and desperate. But after a few years, they're healthy, well-fed and happy.As correspondent Bob Simon reports, this orphanage is for elephants, located outside Nairobi,

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By Raymond ThibodeauxMumbaiIn much of India, compassion for animals, large and small, runs deep -- especially with many of Hindu deities taking on animal form. Last month's terror attack in Mumbai took a wrenching toll on human life. But less well-known is the collateral damage of the attack on many of the city's animals.Many of Mumbai's stray dogs are brought to a kennel, at the city's Bai

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By Emily WaxWashington Post Foreign ServiceSaturday, December 20, 2008; A08MUMBAI -- On a leafy hospital campus in this still-scarred city, one of the victims of last month's terrorist attacks is making a recovery. He's a chubby, cream-colored pooch whom workers have named Sheru -- the Hindi word meaning Lion Heart.Sheru was a stray dog hit by an errant bullet when two gunmen opened fire in a

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No one in the world can be unhappy in the presence of a happy dog. Take Tessa, for instance. She is a big, goofy bundle of undiluted joy.My wife, Susan, Wally the Dog and I met Tessa one rainy afternoon at Lemoine Point. Let me rephrase that: We met and were set upon by a wet, muddy and happy dog. Tessa was half poodle, half golden Lab and half yellow Lab. (Mathematically, that sounds like a

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December 11, 2008 | Issue 44•50 SEDONA, AZ—After procrastinating for several hours by watching It's A Wonderful Life and old John Wayne movies, former Republican presidential nominee John McCain finally sat down at the computer to type his annual "Christmas Bulletin" to friends and family early this afternoon, but found himself completely blocked. "They say you're never too old to learn,"

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https://www.keyboardforblondes.com/index.cfmJay Garmon writes on Geekend:  What do you get for the fair-haired girl who has everything? This aggressively pink Keyboard for Blondes. Outfitted with the latest technology and lamest of stereotypes, for a mere $50, you too can own this openly misogynistic input device. Quoth the marketing copy: The all-pink keyboard swaps out standard keys with

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The canine versions of Jimmy Stewart and Rita Hayworth help a Santa Ana psychologist work with children.LORI BASHEDAThe Orange County RegisterThere I sat on psychologist Amy Stark’s couch with her sidekick Jim sitting practically on top of me. I had only known Jim for a couple of minutes and already his face was so close to mine.I could smell his breath as he stared hard into my eyes.Longingly?

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By Jimmy Orr | 12.17.08Oops. Maybe a pound puppy wouldn’t have been so bad after all…Everyone knows by now that Joe Biden’s got a new puppy - we talked about this a couple of days ago and it generated a big, heated discussion over whether the Veep-elect should have gone to an animal shelter rather than a breeder to get the Second Dog.Adopt!Not surprisingly, animal rights advocates are up in paws

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Twin Cities actors versed in the 'Trek' tongue will perform 'Hamlet' scenes for a special discBy Dominic P. Papatoladpapatola@pioneerpress.comCommedia Beauregard — the guys behind the local annual holiday staging of "A Klingon Christmas Carol" — will boldly go where no small St. Paul theater has gone before: to Hollywood.More accurately, Hollywood is coming to the Twin Cities this month to film

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December 13, 2008Op-Ed ColumnistThe Demise of DatingBy CHARLES M. BLOWThe paradigm has shifted. Dating is dated. Hooking up is here to stay.(For those over 30 years old: hooking up is a casual sexual encounter with no expectation of future emotional commitment. Think of it as a one-night stand with someone you know.)According to a report released this spring by Child Trends, a Washington research

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by Nell Greenfieldboyce Morning Edition, December 9, 2008 · Dogs have an intuitive understanding of fair play and become resentful if they feel that another dog is getting a better deal, a new study has found.The study, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, looked at how dogs react when a buddy is rewarded for the same trick in an unequal way.Friederike Range, a researcher at

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Be Lost in the Call Lord, said David, since you do not need us, why did you create these two worlds? Reality replied: O prisoner of time, I was a secret treasure of kindness and generosity, and I wished this treasure to be known, so I created a mirror: its shining face, the heart; its darkened back, the world; The back would please you if you've never seen the face. Has anyone ever produced

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Many kudos to the incomparable Laura Erickson ... who, if ANYONE could find something like this, she could and did .... http://www.much-ado.net/austenbook/

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Taking life seriously: How to preserve your mind, raise intellectual children, be a constructive citizen, and get laid moreBy Stanton Peele on December 07, 2008 in Addiction in Society Practice using your brain cells is now known to extend intellectual life, so that popular programs emphasize cognitive games and memory tasks (e.g., memorize your shopping lists) in order to avoid senioritis. But

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November 29, 2008Wal-Mart Employee Trampled to DeathBy ROBERT D. McFADDEN and ANGELA MACROPOULOSThe throng of Wal-Mart shoppers had been building all night, filling sidewalks and stretching across a vast parking lot at the Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream, N.Y. At 3:30 a.m., the Nassau County police had to be called in for crowd control, and an officer with a bullhorn pleaded for order.Tension

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By MOTOKO RICH For the book industry the question for the forthcoming holiday shopping season may be whether more people are like Francisco Clough or like Jacqueline Belliveau. Both were browsing in the Barnes & Noble on Union Square in Manhattan late last week, but Mr. Clough only looked, while Ms. Belliveau bought her second book in two days. Dressed in a black suit and carrying a zippered

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Rosalie hears her two favorite words: "Go with"!

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By Jeremy Sherman, Ph.D. on November 25, 2008 in Ambigamy This Thanksgiving I’m conscious of my gratitude for a great many things. My gratitude is deeply biased, however. I’m unconscious of the things I should be most grateful for. As I mentioned in a recent article, the things that are going most reliably well in my life, I’m not going to notice at all. (Search Declaration of Co-dependence )

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from wikiHow:You're on the road, and you breathe a sigh of relief when you see that your hotel room has a coffee maker waiting for you. But when you go to brew a cup to enjoy in the privacy of your room, the product is quite...disappointing. Before you speed down to the local coffee shop and squander another fraction of what could be your retirement fund on a latte, try these tips and tricks for

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from ecorazzi:So much has been said over the Obama family’s upcoming decision regarding the “first dog” — but long before his road to the White House was clear, the President-elect had already made up his mind to adopt.Back in 2005, Jana Kohl reached out to Barack Obama regarding dog adoption and her larger campaign to end puppy mills. It was then that the Senator promised Kohl he would adopt if

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By Steven Kotler on November 25, 2008 in The Playing Field In the past twenty years or so there has been a major revolution in zoology. Older Cartesian notions about animal's being bereft of emotions have been supplanted by newer notions like Jaak Panksepp's groundbreaking work in neuroscience, in which he's found that the same pathways associated with the major human emotions are present in all

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A Deer in the Targetby Robert Fanning I only got a ten-second shot, grainy footage of the huge deer caught in the crosshairs of a ceiling security camera, a scene of utter chaos in a strip mall store, shown on the late local news. The beautiful beast clearly scared to death in this fluorescent forest, its once graceful legs giving out on mopped floors, think

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Amelia Glynn for SFGate.comTwo weeks ago, I had an accident that left a series of first and second degree burns on my shins. (Ouch.) I had to elevate my legs for the first few days of my recovery, but as soon as I was mobile again I ditched my Vikodin and scheduled a Doone pickup from my ex. I knew some quality dog time was exactly what I needed to get out of my funk and start feeling better. I

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Ask the Experts - November 12, 2008Is there really such a thing as a dog that won't cause allergies?By Jordan LiteBarack Obama has promised the future First Daughters a dog, and his eldest, 10-year-old Malia, has zeroed in on a so-called hypoallergenic breed to accommodate her allergies. Her top pick is a goldendoodle, a cross between a golden retriever and a poodle, though the future prez has

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By: Dr. Dawn Ruben Overview What is Reverse Sneezing? Reverse sneezing, also known as the "mechanosensitive aspiration reflex" is a common phenomenon in dogs. In a regular sneeze, your dog pushes air out through the nose; however, in a reverse sneeze, air is pulled rapidly in through the nose producing a noisy inspiratory effort. What a Reverse Sneeze Looks Like During a reverse

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Associated PressSALT LAKE CITY -- Georgia, Handsome Dan, Curly and other pit bulls rescued from Michael Vick's dogfighting operation are getting a shot at fame as stars of a line of boutique red wines.The Vicktory Dogs Wine Collection features colorful portraits of 22 dogs confiscated from Vick's Bad Newz Kennels that now live at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in southern Utah."As a signature

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by Paula PoundstoneMorning Edition, November 12, 2008 · People still seem full of hope after the historic election of Barack Obama. This is America, though, it can't last. Pleased and proud as we are, Obama hasn't been on American Idol, so we're bound to lose interest soon.That's why President-elect Obama needs to waste no time in harnessing this feeling and ask something of us. We'll spend.

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  By Tara Parker-Pope Even dogs that don’t shed can trigger an allergic reaction. (G.Paul Burnett/The New York Times, Phil Mansfield for The New York Times,Scott Mullin for The New York Times, Tony Cenicola/The New York Times)Few appointments in the new Obama administration are as eagerlyawaited as the choice of first dog. Animal advocacy groups are lobbyingfor a rescue pet.

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  A new study shows that if you're holding something warm, you might like people more than if you're holding something cold (Source: MarkSweep at Wikimedia Commons) A study published in the journal Science suggests that there might be a link between how warm you are and how much you like someone. Jessi Ziegler reports: Click on "Listen Now" to hear the story, view a slideshow and

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New tag monitors dogs and connects pet owners using the latest in social networking technologyBOSTON, Nov 10, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- SNIF Labs has unveiled a pet accessory, the SNIF Tag, that combines wireless sensing and social networking technologies to give dog owners peace of mind to supervise their dog's activities plus a means to socialize and develop relationships online with like-minded

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November 9, 2008Op-Ed ColumnistBy NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Barack Obama’selection is a milestone in more than his pigmentation. The second mostremarkable thing about his election is that American voters have justpicked a president who is an open, out-of-the-closet, practicingintellectual.Maybe, just maybe, the result will be a step away from theanti-intellectualism that has long been a strain

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By Stanley Coren, Ph.D. n Canine Corner Itmay be hard to believe, but you can actually change the physiology ofyour dog's brain. You can make it larger and more efficient simply byproviding certain experiences for your pet. The same process will makeyour dog more intelligent and give his personality an added degree ofstress resistance. The research which supports

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By Jesse Bering, Ph.D. in Quirky Little Things It's a good thing I'm not a clinical psychologist, because try as I might to be nonjudgmental there are a lot of things about other people that make me uneasy. There are a lot of things about myself that make me uneasy too, so don't think I'm being elitist. I'm not talking about any big ticket moral issues like whether someone's had an abortion or

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Seventy stray dogs intended to be killed and sold as meat were recovered by police authorities.At 9 p.m. Sunday, the Quezon City Police Department (QCPD) anti-carnapping unit and non-government organizations (NGO) halted an Asian utility vehicle (AUV) along EDSA-Timog avenue containing 70 stray dogs.The dogs are staying temporarily at the Philippine Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to

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Jennifer Viegas in Born Animal for Discovery NewsBarack Obama made history last night when he was elected as the first African American U.S. president, but he may have also made history in yet another way when he said, "I would not be standing here tonight without the unyielding support of my best friend for the last sixteen years, the rock of our family and the love of my life, our nation's next

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Sydney Morning HeraldThe plop thickens: gelato tests 'inconclusive'Arjun RamachandranNovember 6, 2008 - 9:41AMTests on whether the faeces in gelato served to a family at the Coogee Bay Hotel came from an animal or a human have come back inconclusive, the food safety watchdog says.The results mean the NSW Food Authority must do further tests on a second sample of the ice-cream, prolonging the

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For more information, contact Picket Fence Poodle Rescue What happens when you are incarcerated and no one wants your Poodles?They are also incarcerated until you are released..... And what happens when you are released and you don't want your Poodles?They remain in prison...... until they are rescued and sent to Picket Fence Poodle Rescue.... With help and transportation

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A Pair of Poodles for Pennsylvania Avenue?New York, NY  [ November 5th, 2008 ] - As President-Elect Barack Obama prepares to move into the White Househe will now have to make good on all his campaign promises, includinghis most important vow to his family - to get his daughters a dog.Obama reiterated his promise in last night's acceptance speech, tellinghis daughters "you have earned the new

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BY DENISE FLAIMdenise.flaim@newsday.com6:31 PM EST, November 5, 2008Some campaign promises are more pressing than others.In his victory speech, President-elect Barack Obama assured daughters Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7, that they "have earned the new puppy that's coming with us to the White House."Details of Pennsylvania Avenue's newest tail-wagger have not been disclosed. But in a May appearance

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Garrison KeillorOctober 28, 2008I was messing around in Tulsa last week and got talking with a big burly man with a McCain/Palin pin on his blue blazer who told me he was descended from yellow-dog Democrats who thought the sun rose and set over FDR and Republicans were people who wore spats and top hats and sailed off Newport. So I told him that my Republican ancestors believed that only lazy

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WHICH presidential candidate will allow your dog to have the best life?McCain/PalinObama/BidenNeither are good for my dogBoth are goodI'm not sure(click on the "vote" button to go to the actual voting website)> View Results

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My guess is that for many of you, this is a day when your minds are elsewhere. Depending on the lines at your polling place, your feet may even be elsewhere. Mine, too. But for your possible diversion, here is a lovely tutorial in touch-screen voting machines, featuring Mr. McFeely of Mr. Rogers Neighborhood fame. My favorite part is where he chooses "Betty Boop, Independent." 7:08 AM ET | 11- 4

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Action star cancels promotional appearances to tend to recently adopted dog who fell ill.Posted: November 4, 2008, 5 a.m. ESTJean-Claude Van Damme, the Belgian martial artist turned actor who gained fame in action flicks like “Bloodsport,” has cancelled several media appearances to promote his new film “JCVD” after his recently adopted dog slipped into a coma in Bangkok, Thailand.Van Damme, known

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By Dominic P. Papatola dpapatola@pioneerpress.com Article Last Updated: 10/31/2008 12:32:48 PM CDT In the past couple of weeks, a few friends in the arts community have confided their doubts about voting for the Legacy Amendment, the proposed change to the state constitution that would provide extra money for outdoors and cultural initiatives throughout Minnesota. This column is a response to

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Can Palin's sentences stand up to a grammarian?By Kitty Burns FloreyThere are plenty of people out there—not only English teachers but also amateur language buffs like me—who believe that diagramming a sentence provides insight into the mind of its perpetrator. The more the diagram is forced to wander around the page, loop back on itself, and generally stretch its capabilities, the more it

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There are nice jokes and naughty jokes, and a new genre of neocon ones - but why exactly do we find them funny? Jim Holt on how philosophers have explained our sense of humour* Jim Holt* The Guardian* Saturday October 25 2008'Do you believe in clubs for small children?' WC Fields was asked. 'Only when kindness fails,' he replied. Photograph: Ralph Crane/Time Life Pictures/GettyA passage in a Bach

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We lost this great man six years ago today, not long after he gave this prescient speech saying why he was voting against going to war with Iraq. I loved Paul Wellstone. When he was killed, I wrote this commentary.

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  By Sam Sommers on October 21, 2008 in Science Of Small Talk "Specifically, I've been thinking about how just as some fish apparently doesn't taste like fish, some Americans apparently aren't really American. Or, at least, that's been part of the implied and explicit campaign rhetoric of the past several days: • Nancy Pfotenhauer, a senior McCain adviser, recently referred to Southern

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  By Stanton Peele on October 22, 2008 in Addiction in Society I explain in Addiction-Proof Your Child that teaching children basic values like responsibility to others -- such as paying debts - lessens their risk of addiction. Step 9 in AA's 12 steps asks recovering alcoholics to make amends to those they've harmed, including paying debts. When people think: "I need to pay back the

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October 21, 2008 | Issue 44•43 FAIRFAX, VA—After nearly 150 years spent unapologetically advocating for a single, unifying issue, the National Rifle Association—one of the nation's most influential special interest groups—momentarily blanked on its entire political agenda Monday. "I am here to tell you today that we really, really care about this subject, and that we'd probably be willing to

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        Blah blah blah: "Please send money, etc. etc. etc." iStockphoto.com         It's always extraordinarily hazardous to make a specific attempt to be edgily humorous, especially when you aren't well-positioned to pull it off credibly. Just ask the fundraisers at Framingham State College, who recently sent out an appeal for donations that included 137 uses

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By Gwynne Dyer on Wed, 1 Oct 2008Opinion | Climate changeScientists have their own way of putting things.This is how Dr Oerjan Gustafsson, of Stockholm University, announced the approach of a climate apocalypse in an email sent last week from the Russian research ship Jakob Smirnitskyi in the Arctic Ocean."We had a hectic finishing of the sampling programme yesterday and this past night. An

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Families are being asked to open their doors to pets in an attempt to tackle domestic abuse in Wales. Abusers are said to often intimidate their victims by threatening pets with violence or injuring or killing them. But the RSPCA's PetRetreat scheme finds pets safe homes away from this abuse and in the

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By Keith ErvinSeattle Times staff reporter It's dogs like Gus -- and their potential victims -- the Metropolitan King County Council had in mind when it took the first step Monday toward a possible prohibition on chaining dogs or holding them in small enclosures for long periods. Gus, a 4-year-old German shepherd mix who was chained to his doghouse every day, was euthanized in 2005

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Dr, Jon writes in the Dog Crazy Newsletter: Move over Max. Americans are putting more and more thought into their pet names and coming up with unusual names. Interesting names. Not just the ordinary Max, Buffy, Cody, etc. (although there is nothing wrong with these names either). According to Veterinary Pet Insurance (VPI), the nation's oldest and largest provider of pet health insurance, not

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An evolving approach to the science of pleasure suggests that each of us contains multiple selves—all with different desires, and all fighting for control. If this is right, the pursuit of happiness becomes even trickier. Can one self bind” another self if the two want different things? Are you always better off when a Good Self wins? And should outsiders, such as employers and policy makers, get

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Jessica Marshall, Discovery News Oct. 20, 2008 -- It sounds a little like snake charming. You drive a wooden stake into the ground and draw a flat metal rod across the top, creating an bullfrog-like grunting sound. Within minutes, hundreds of earthworms come to the surface, where they meet their doom in the buckets of fishing bait collectors. Now, researcher Ken Catania of Vanderbilt

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  Discovering Heathcliff's E-Mail Address And More From Famous Lovers Computer love: What would Princess Leia write to Han Solo? iStockphoto.com by Glenn McDonald Word is getting around about Google's new Mail Goggles add-on, which is designed to prevent the drunken late night phenomenon known as the Instantly Regretted E-Mail. When activated, the Mail Goggles program requires users

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  Adult Poodles Available Updated: 10/18/2008 What happens when you are incarcerated and no one wants your Poodles? They are also incarcerated until you are released..... And what happens when you are released and you don't want your Poodles? They remain in prison...... until they are rescued and sent to Picket Fence Poodle Rescue....  More information soon!

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I’m not a dog person. In fact, our family always seems to head for pets that have a certain allure to them. Just like any inquiring minds we are interested in the more unusual pets, and I’m talking beyond sea -monkeys. And electronic pets.A Buyer's Guide to Geeky Pets, Oct 2008 Read the whole article.

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By Jeremy Sherman, Ph.D. on October 15, 2008 in Ambigamy Last week New Yorker columnist George Packer noted that while Sarah Palin's syntax is mangled, more significantly it lacks verbs. It's mostly nouns. Maverick, hockey mom, Joe sixpack, elitist, terrorist, small-town people--lots of heavily loaded nouns.Loaded nouns and the adjectives that modify them are part of everyone's vocabulary, but in

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By BOB HERBERTSara Rimer of The Times wrote an article last week that gave us a startling glimpse of just how mindless and self-destructive the U.S. is becoming.Consider the lead paragraph:“The United States is failing to develop the math skills of both girls and boys, especially among those who could excel at the highest levels, a new study asserts, and girls who do succeed in the field are

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