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Sunday, January 31, 2010
Saturday, January 30, 2010
How Are You In Love?
You Are Hesitant in Love |
 You take a while to fall in love with someone. Trust takes time. You give and take equally in relationships. You tend to get very attached when you're with someone. You want to see your love all the time. You love your partner unconditionally and don't try to make them change. You are fickle and tend to fall out of love easily. You bounce from romance to romance. |
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Wordless Wednesday
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Great post from Paw Nation!
Last week's 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Haiti caused severe damage and unthinkable loss of life, and as with Hurricane Katrina and other large-scale disasters, animal-lovers the world over have been left wondering about the fates of Haiti's companion animals and pets.
Humane Society International has already dispatched a team of vets to Port-au-Prince, and is partnering with Veterinary Care & Humane Services, Caribbean Project, a group in the Dominican Republic. The team includes a French-speaking veterinarian and a paramedic trained in disaster response and animal handling, along with veterinary technicians and a translator.
According to the Humane Society's Web site, "The team will provide immediate animal care as it can, and also assess conditions for animals in the capitol city and surrounding areas. As circumstances permit, our experts will also advise emergency and relief workers on extra steps they might take in the coming days to alleviate the suffering of animals while the desperate work to help the island's human population continues."
Best Friends, one of the largest no-kill shelters in the United States, has assisted in such natural disasters as hurricanes Katrina, Ike, and Gustav; floods in Mexico and Iowa; earthquakes in Peru; and the airlifting of dogs from the war zone in Lebanon. In response to the earthquake, the organization has posted the following message on their Web site:
"Best Friends is prepared to help, but our involvement will depend on information as it becomes available. Given the complete collapse of infrastructure in Haiti, transportation problems, and little or no telephone service, any animal rescue operation would be fraught with difficulties, as well as potentially dangerous for the personnel involved.
Each of us can help now, however. The International Fund for Animal Welfare has established a Haiti Emergency Relief Response Fund. From their Web site: "We urgently need your donation to help IFAW's emergency relief team prepare for our Haiti relief mission. Your donation will help us buy the bandages, vaccines, antibiotics and other supplies for our mobile veterinary clinic. We have partnered with WSPA to mount a coordinated animal relief response, and our team will deploy into the devastated country as soon as human relief efforts have taken hold and security is in place."
It remains to be seen how much any of these groups will be able to do on the ground in Haiti. Relief workers have faced serious challenges getting even basic supplies to people due to blocked roads and the one runway airport in Port-au-Prince. But we hope emergency care will increasingly become available to all Haitians, human and animal alike.
Humane Society International has already dispatched a team of vets to Port-au-Prince, and is partnering with Veterinary Care & Humane Services, Caribbean Project, a group in the Dominican Republic. The team includes a French-speaking veterinarian and a paramedic trained in disaster response and animal handling, along with veterinary technicians and a translator.
According to the Humane Society's Web site, "The team will provide immediate animal care as it can, and also assess conditions for animals in the capitol city and surrounding areas. As circumstances permit, our experts will also advise emergency and relief workers on extra steps they might take in the coming days to alleviate the suffering of animals while the desperate work to help the island's human population continues."
Best Friends, one of the largest no-kill shelters in the United States, has assisted in such natural disasters as hurricanes Katrina, Ike, and Gustav; floods in Mexico and Iowa; earthquakes in Peru; and the airlifting of dogs from the war zone in Lebanon. In response to the earthquake, the organization has posted the following message on their Web site:
"Best Friends is prepared to help, but our involvement will depend on information as it becomes available. Given the complete collapse of infrastructure in Haiti, transportation problems, and little or no telephone service, any animal rescue operation would be fraught with difficulties, as well as potentially dangerous for the personnel involved.
Each of us can help now, however. The International Fund for Animal Welfare has established a Haiti Emergency Relief Response Fund. From their Web site: "We urgently need your donation to help IFAW's emergency relief team prepare for our Haiti relief mission. Your donation will help us buy the bandages, vaccines, antibiotics and other supplies for our mobile veterinary clinic. We have partnered with WSPA to mount a coordinated animal relief response, and our team will deploy into the devastated country as soon as human relief efforts have taken hold and security is in place."
It remains to be seen how much any of these groups will be able to do on the ground in Haiti. Relief workers have faced serious challenges getting even basic supplies to people due to blocked roads and the one runway airport in Port-au-Prince. But we hope emergency care will increasingly become available to all Haitians, human and animal alike.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Saturday, January 16, 2010
The Saturday Six At Patrick's Place
1. You’re at an Italian restaurant on a first date: how do you eat your spaghetti: do you cut it with the folk or roll it onto the tines? (And eating something else isn’t an option!)
I cut it. I'm not very neat with rolling my spaghetti.
2. You’ve prepared a nice soup for dinner when you happen to hear a news story that bay leaves, even after being cooked, are sharp enough to tear internal organs when eaten whole. (It’s true.) Do you fish them out of your masterpiece, warn your guests in advance not to eat them, or just assume everyone knows to not eat the extra greenery?
Fish them out.
3. You’re having dinner at a nice restaurant with a group of friends and acquaintances. The sauce of your main course is the best you’ve ever tasted. You’ve eaten most of the dish, but you’ve got part of a roll and some sauce left. Do you sop up a little sauce for one more taste?
Of course!
4. This time, you’re at a seafood restaurant with folks you don’t know as well. Do you order a crab or lobster, a dish that would involve a lot of shell-cracking and a potential minor mess, or do you stick with something cleaner like a nice grilled fillet?
I'm actually quite neat with crab cracking, so I'll have crab.
5. You’re invited to a cookout by a friend, but when you get there, you discover that the main thing being cooked, that everyone else is a big fan of, is something you don’t like. Would you still eat a serving to be neighborly, or try to talk your way out of that one dish?
I'll fill my plate with the sides and just say "no thank you" to the main dish.
6. You’re back at a seafood restaurant with friends. Unknowingly, you order a fish that is served whole, head and all. Do you send it back or just deal with it?
I don't like sending food back because I have this fear the cook will spit in my food. So, I will ask for a small dish, cut the head off and cover it with a napkin or garnish. If it really turns my stomach to see the whole fish, I will have to give in and send it back to have the head chopped off.
I cut it. I'm not very neat with rolling my spaghetti.
2. You’ve prepared a nice soup for dinner when you happen to hear a news story that bay leaves, even after being cooked, are sharp enough to tear internal organs when eaten whole. (It’s true.) Do you fish them out of your masterpiece, warn your guests in advance not to eat them, or just assume everyone knows to not eat the extra greenery?
Fish them out.
3. You’re having dinner at a nice restaurant with a group of friends and acquaintances. The sauce of your main course is the best you’ve ever tasted. You’ve eaten most of the dish, but you’ve got part of a roll and some sauce left. Do you sop up a little sauce for one more taste?
Of course!
4. This time, you’re at a seafood restaurant with folks you don’t know as well. Do you order a crab or lobster, a dish that would involve a lot of shell-cracking and a potential minor mess, or do you stick with something cleaner like a nice grilled fillet?
I'm actually quite neat with crab cracking, so I'll have crab.
5. You’re invited to a cookout by a friend, but when you get there, you discover that the main thing being cooked, that everyone else is a big fan of, is something you don’t like. Would you still eat a serving to be neighborly, or try to talk your way out of that one dish?
I'll fill my plate with the sides and just say "no thank you" to the main dish.
6. You’re back at a seafood restaurant with friends. Unknowingly, you order a fish that is served whole, head and all. Do you send it back or just deal with it?
I don't like sending food back because I have this fear the cook will spit in my food. So, I will ask for a small dish, cut the head off and cover it with a napkin or garnish. If it really turns my stomach to see the whole fish, I will have to give in and send it back to have the head chopped off.
Friday, January 15, 2010
Haiti: How To Help
The U.S. State Department Operations Center said Americans seeking information about family members in Haiti should call 1-888-407-4747. Due to heavy volume, some callers may receive a recording. "Our embassy is still in the early stages of contacting American citizens through our Warden Network," the U.S. State Department said in a statement. "Communications are very difficult within Haiti at this time."
For those interesting in helping immediately there are 2 ways people can donate via their cell phones:
Text "HAITI" to "90999" and a donation of $10 will be given automatically to the Red Cross to help with relief efforts, charged to your cell phone bill.
Text "YELE" to "501501" and a donation of $5 will be made automatically to the Yele organization (Wyclef Jean's Haiti relief organization)
Below is a collection of charitable organizations also accepting donations towards the relief effort in Haiti. We will update this list as more charity information becomes available
Action Against Hunger
American Red Cross
American Jewish World Service
Americares
Beyond Borders
CARE
CarmaFoundation
Catholic Relief Services
Childcare Worldwide
Church World Service
Direct Relief International
Doctors Without Borders
Episcopal Relief & Development Haiti Fund
Feed My Starving Children
Food for the Poor
Friends of WFP
Haiti Children
Haiti Marycare
Haitian Health Foundation
Hope for Haiti
International Medical Corps
International Relief Teams
International Rescue Committee
Medical Teams International
Meds and Food for Kids
Mennonite Central Committee
Mercy Corps
Operation Blessing
Operation USA
Oxfam International
Partners in Health
Rural Haiti Project
The Salvation Army
Samaritan's Purse
Save the Children
UNICEF
World Concern
World Relief
World Vision
Yele Haiti
The FBI urges people who are looking for ways to help with earthquake relief to be wary of solicitations that could be from scam artists.
"Past tragedies and natural disasters have prompted individuals with criminal intent to solicit contributions purportedly for a charitable organization or a good cause," the FBI says today, in passing along these tips:
-Ignore unsolicited e-mails, and do not click on links within those messages.
-Be skeptical of individuals representing themselves as surviving victims or officials asking for donations via e-mail or social networking sites.
-Be cautious of e-mails that claim to show pictures of the disaster areas in attached files, because the files may contain computer viruses. Open attachments only from know senders.
-Decline to give personal or financial information to anyone who solicits contributions.
-Make contributions directly to known organizations, rather than relying on others who claim in e-mails that they will channel the donation to established groups.
The FBI says anyone receipting an e-mail that appears to be a scam should forward it to this website: www.ic3.gov
For those interesting in helping immediately there are 2 ways people can donate via their cell phones:
Text "HAITI" to "90999" and a donation of $10 will be given automatically to the Red Cross to help with relief efforts, charged to your cell phone bill.
Text "YELE" to "501501" and a donation of $5 will be made automatically to the Yele organization (Wyclef Jean's Haiti relief organization)
Below is a collection of charitable organizations also accepting donations towards the relief effort in Haiti. We will update this list as more charity information becomes available
Action Against Hunger
American Red Cross
American Jewish World Service
Americares
Beyond Borders
CARE
CarmaFoundation
Catholic Relief Services
Childcare Worldwide
Church World Service
Direct Relief International
Doctors Without Borders
Episcopal Relief & Development Haiti Fund
Feed My Starving Children
Food for the Poor
Friends of WFP
Haiti Children
Haiti Marycare
Haitian Health Foundation
Hope for Haiti
International Medical Corps
International Relief Teams
International Rescue Committee
Medical Teams International
Meds and Food for Kids
Mennonite Central Committee
Mercy Corps
Operation Blessing
Operation USA
Oxfam International
Partners in Health
Rural Haiti Project
The Salvation Army
Samaritan's Purse
Save the Children
UNICEF
World Concern
World Relief
World Vision
Yele Haiti
The FBI urges people who are looking for ways to help with earthquake relief to be wary of solicitations that could be from scam artists.
"Past tragedies and natural disasters have prompted individuals with criminal intent to solicit contributions purportedly for a charitable organization or a good cause," the FBI says today, in passing along these tips:
-Ignore unsolicited e-mails, and do not click on links within those messages.
-Be skeptical of individuals representing themselves as surviving victims or officials asking for donations via e-mail or social networking sites.
-Be cautious of e-mails that claim to show pictures of the disaster areas in attached files, because the files may contain computer viruses. Open attachments only from know senders.
-Decline to give personal or financial information to anyone who solicits contributions.
-Make contributions directly to known organizations, rather than relying on others who claim in e-mails that they will channel the donation to established groups.
The FBI says anyone receipting an e-mail that appears to be a scam should forward it to this website: www.ic3.gov
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Saturday, January 09, 2010
The Saturday Six At Patrick's Place
1. From the scenario described above, would you press the button if the stranger claimed that you’d immediately receive $10 million, but a total stranger elsewhere would die: would you press the button? Yes
2. What if the offer were increased to $50 million, but the catch was that someone you know personally — either family, a friend, a co-worker, or an acquaintance — would die, and you’d have no control of who it was: would you press the button? No
3. What if he told you that pushing the button would give you $10 million, but that an inmate on death row would die of natural causes: would you press the button? No
4. What if, in addition to the scenario in #2, he confirmed that the death row inmate had genuinely committed the crime of which he was convicted, so there was no chance of killing an “innocent” man: would you then press the button? Yes
5. What if, instead of any of those scenarios, the stranger said pressing the button would give you $1 million dollars and the knowledge of exactly what day and what time you would die: would you still press the button? No
6. And what if, instead of any other scenario, the stranger told you that pressing the button would give you just $10,000, but that you’d also have a one-hour, one-on-one encounter with God, removing all doubt that He exists, but that you’d then have to live a life that reflected your newly-found knowledge. Would you press the button? No, I already know in my heart that God exists.
2. What if the offer were increased to $50 million, but the catch was that someone you know personally — either family, a friend, a co-worker, or an acquaintance — would die, and you’d have no control of who it was: would you press the button? No
3. What if he told you that pushing the button would give you $10 million, but that an inmate on death row would die of natural causes: would you press the button? No
4. What if, in addition to the scenario in #2, he confirmed that the death row inmate had genuinely committed the crime of which he was convicted, so there was no chance of killing an “innocent” man: would you then press the button? Yes
5. What if, instead of any of those scenarios, the stranger said pressing the button would give you $1 million dollars and the knowledge of exactly what day and what time you would die: would you still press the button? No
6. And what if, instead of any other scenario, the stranger told you that pressing the button would give you just $10,000, but that you’d also have a one-hour, one-on-one encounter with God, removing all doubt that He exists, but that you’d then have to live a life that reflected your newly-found knowledge. Would you press the button? No, I already know in my heart that God exists.
Thursday, January 07, 2010
Sky Watch Friday
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Monday, January 04, 2010
Sunday, January 03, 2010
Camera Critters
Ok, this is a king-sized bed and there isn't any room for me to sleep!
Saturday, January 02, 2010
The Saturday Six At Patrick's Place
1. What is your favorite holiday of the year?
2. What are the three things that makes this your favorite?
3. What is your least favorite holiday of the year?
4. Considering days that are celebrated but that are not holidays, like St. Patrick’s Day and Valentine’s Day, for example, which one would you make into a national holiday if you had the chance?
5. Take the quiz: What Should You Celebrate?
6. If there were a holiday created to celebrate the specific thing listed as the answer in #5, would you willingly celebrate it?
Christmas
2. What are the three things that makes this your favorite?
Decorations, Music, festivities
3. What is your least favorite holiday of the year?
Valentine's Day: it's all a bunch of hype.
4. Considering days that are celebrated but that are not holidays, like St. Patrick’s Day and Valentine’s Day, for example, which one would you make into a national holiday if you had the chance?
None of them.
5. Take the quiz: What Should You Celebrate?
You Should Celebrate Love |
 You may or may not be deeply in love, but it doesn't really matter on New Year's Eve. If you can't kiss the one you love, kiss the one you're with! You can't help but get swept away by the romance of this special night. Of course, drinking lot of champagne doesn't hurt make everyone else seem a little more appealing. |
6. If there were a holiday created to celebrate the specific thing listed as the answer in #5, would you willingly celebrate it?
I don't know...maybe.
Friday, January 01, 2010
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