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Rescue dog Albie: A year later, an owner reflects on adopting his best friend

Rescue dog Albie has been with owner Peter Zheutlin and his family for a year now. And in that year, Peter, who didn't know how well he'd take to a dog, has learned a lot about himself ? he likes being licked, for one.?

By Peter Zheutlin,?Guest Blogger / August 1, 2013

Albie the rescue dog sits by a window in the Zheutlin family's living room, July 31.

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Our rescue dog Albie has been with us a little more than a year now.

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Peter Zheutlin is a freelance journalist and author whose work has appeared regularly in the Boston Globe and The Christian Science Monitor. He has also written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and other publications in the US and abroad.?He is the author of "Around the World on Two Wheels: Annie Londonderry?s Extraordinary Ride" and the co-author of three other books.?He lives in Needham, Mass., with his wife and two sons.

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The shy, tentative creature who?d been found wandering alone in central Louisiana, and who was just days away from being euthanized in a kill shelter, is now very much at home.

The dog that didn?t bark for weeks now uses his ?outdoor voice? to engage other dogs we meet on our walks. The dog who wouldn?t even venture upstairs now makes himself at home in our bed. The dog that waited for attention now comes into the office as I type, looks up expectantly with ball in mouth and, if I don?t respond immediately, begins pawing my leg to let me know it?s time for a game.

You learn a lot about a dog in a year. You also learn a lot about yourself. Here are some of the things I?ve learned.

First, my tolerance for dog hair on the carpets and sofas, and mud on the leather seats in my car, is much higher than I thought possible. I still prefer things clean and neat, but there are some things you just have to let go. When you are over the moon for your dog you can overlook a lot.

Second, my capacity for loving an animal is far greater than I knew. When I look into those deep brown pools he has for eyes, when he cocks his head to one side as if to say ?don?t go? when I leave the house, when he rolls over completely onto his back and rests his head in my lap ? one way he says ?belly rub, please? ? I?m all his.

Third, all those cutesy pictures and videos people post on Facebook and YouTube of their dogs, the ones I always thought were for people with too much free time and not enough human contact? Some of them really are worth watching. I saw one the other day of a black lab puppy who goes downstairs by sliding on his belly. Boy, was that ever worth ten seconds of my time. Just adorable.

Fourth, having a dog lick your face isn?t as gross as it sounds.

Fifth, never mind the US Postal Service: neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night, stays a dog from his appointed rounds, though they aren?t always swiftly completed and you have to go with him. There?s just no hiding from the weather when you have a dog.

Sixth, dogs, even wet dogs, smell better than I thought.

Seventh, dogs are great stress reducers. They don?t care that the car needs a new oxygen sensor, that the upstairs sink needs a $400 repair or that you have 26 errands to run in the next hour. If they have a stick or a tennis ball, life is good. A dog helps put things in perspective. I think that explains why my mother-in-law, who was in disbelief when we told her we were adopting a dog, wondering why we?d want to take on that responsibility, now asks if Albie can come with us when we visit.

Finally, I?ve learned that those lyrics from the theme song from ?Toy Story? apply in spades when it comes to a loving dog: You?ve got a friend in me. Isn?t that right, Albie?

Source: http://rss.csmonitor.com/~r/feeds/csm/~3/Aq13sREwwKo/Rescue-dog-Albie-A-year-later-an-owner-reflects-on-adopting-his-best-friend

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FXX named telecast partner for 2013 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards

By Tony Maglio

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced Thursday that it has signed a three-year deal with the new FXX Network to broadcast the Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, which will be produced again by Spike Jones Jr.

"The Creative Arts Awards and Spike Jones, Jr. have become somewhat synonymous and we couldn't be happier to have him back as the producer of this year's awards," said Alan Perris, consultant to the Television Academy's Chairman, Bruce Rosenblum.

"It's not often enough in our business that the spotlight shines on the creative community working on camera and behind-the-scenes of our best and brightest television shows," said Chuck Saftler, president, Program Strategy, FX Networks.

The 2013 awards will be taped on Sunday, Sep. 15 to air on Saturday, Sep. 21 at 9 p.m.

"There have been a lot of changes in TV over the 19 years that I've been privileged to produce these awards," said producer Jones, Jr. "We've gone from 'Living Single' to 'Walking Dead'."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/fxx-named-telecast-partner-2013-primetime-creative-arts-005214389.html

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Obama Nominates Astrophysicist to Head NSF

France Anne Cordova served as president of Purdue University from 2007 to 2012, and oversaw the creation of the Colombia?Purdue Institute for Scientific Research


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France Anne Cordova speaking at Purdue University. Image: Mark Simons, Purdue University

Originally posted on the Nature news blog

Astrophysicist France Anne Cordova has been tapped to head the US National Science Foundation (NSF), which has been run by an acting director since March 2013. President Barack Obama?announced the pick on 31 July. If confirmed, Cordova would fill the gap left by Subra Suresh, who announced his resignation in February, after serving less than half of his six-year term leading the US$7 billion agency.

Cordova, who earned her doctorate from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, served as president of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, from 2007 to 2012. In 2010, she oversaw the creation of the Colombia-Purdue Institute for Scientific Research, which aims to foster scientific collaboration between the Colombia and the United States.

Earlier in her career, Cordova worked in the Earth and Space Sciences Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, and went on to lead the department of astronomy and astrophysics at Pennsylvania State University in University Park. In September 1993, Cordova was named NASA?s first female chief scientist.

?She?s a very accomplished academic researcher,? says?Umar Mohideen, chairman of the physics and astronomy department at the University of California, Riverside, where Cordova served as chancellor from 2002-2007. ?She?s managed academia, and those are qualities that would make her a good choice.?

Cordova now begins the sometimes lengthy process of winning confirmation from the ?US Senate?? normally an easy process for candidates to lead NSF. But her nomination comes at a time when Republican lawmakers in the Senate have used procedural tactics to slow consideration of Obama administration picks. EPA chief Gina McCarthy was confirmed on 18 July after a historic delay caused by political infighting, and?Obama has struggled to fill several other top science positions.

This article is reproduced with permission from the Nature news blog. The article was first published on July 31, 2013.

Source: http://rss.sciam.com/~r/sciam/biology/~3/Yx45QRv-REQ/article.cfm

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বৃহস্পতিবার, ১ আগস্ট, ২০১৩

Taiwanese pet owners rush to inoculate animals as rabies strain ...

By Agence France-Presse
Wednesday, July 31, 2013 11:35 EDT

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Pet owners in Taiwan were rushing to inoculate their animals on Wednesday after the first case of rabies in a shrew was confirmed, fuelling fears that an outbreak of the disease is spreading between species.

Health authorities on the island have been battling to contain a rabies outbreak among so-called ferret-badgers, with at least 18 cases among the weasel-like animals confirmed so far.

On Wednesday officials confirmed the disease had spread to a shrew, fuelling fears that it could mutate further to affect domestic pets ? greatly increasing the risk to humans.

In an area of Kaohsiung, the biggest city in the island?s south, more than 500 people took their pets to be vaccinated ? though only 380 doses were available, according to the Taipei-based China Times.

The newspaper also reported that a group of villagers found two masked palm civets ? small, nocturnal carnivores related to the mongoose ? and beat them to death on Tuesday.

In northern Keelung city, police said they had received nearly 100 phone calls from residents following the discovery of a dead ferret-badger.

Yen Shen-horng, a biology professor at Sun Yat-sen University in Kaohsiung, said there was ?no need to panic? ? but added it was the first known instance of a shrew contracting rabies and indicated that the virus may have mutated.

The infected shrew was caught in a home in Taitung county on July 25.

Chang Shu-hsien, the chief for the Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine, told reporters that the shrew could have been bitten by an infected ferret-badger.

Taiwan is now listed as a rabies-affected area by the Paris-headquartered World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) after the island confirmed its first outbreak since 1959 on July 17.

The Taipei city government has set up a contingent unit tasked with monitoring rabies outbreaks, with plans to purchase more than 50,000 doses of vaccines before the end of August.

Only 10 countries and regions in the world are listed as rabies-free. Some 55,000 people die of the disease worldwide every year.

Symptoms in humans include seizures, partial paralysis, fever and brain inflammation, or encephalitis.

There is no known treatment to cure rabies once the infection has taken hold.

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Source: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/31/taiwanese-pet-owners-rush-to-inoculate-animals-as-rabies-strain-jumps-species/

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মঙ্গলবার, ৩০ জুলাই, ২০১৩

Jak je to s kompatibilitou aplikac? ve Windows 8?

Kolega Joey Snow b?hem konference TechEd North America 2013 v r?mci Edge show pozval p?ed kameru a vyzpov?dal Principal architekta & app-compat guru Chrise Jacksona. T?matem hovoru byla kompatibilita aplikac? ve Windows 8 a n?kter? ??sti jsou v?ce ne? zaj?mav?, ostatn? posu?te sami:

Rozhovor za??n? v ?ase [05:31] a mimo jin? se dozv?te:

  • Pro? by jeho prezentace o kompatibilit? aplikac? na leto?n?m TechEdu mohla b?t jeho posledn?
  • Zamy?len? nad budoucnost? vysoce dostupn? aplika?n? infrastruktury
  • [11:17] M?te probl?my s aplikacemi, kter? jsou podporov?ny pouze na Windows XP?
  • [14:47] Cena podpory star??ch verz? aplikac? vs. upgrade ?i p?epis aplikace
  • [16:29] Jak se zm?nilo testov?n? kompatibility aplikac??
  • [19:35] Jakou roli hraje matematika a statistika p?i tvorb? pl?nu?
  • [21:53] Kde naj?t v?c informac? o kompatibilit? aplikac??
  • [21:22] Pro? lid? st?le vol? Windows 7 pro upgrade a pro? se v n?kter?ch p??padech vyplat? p?echod na Windows 8 (z pohledu aplikac?)

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Source: http://blogs.technet.com/b/technetczsk/archive/2013/07/30/jak-je-to-s-kompatibilitou-aplikaci-ve-windows-8.aspx

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An iPad for every La Crosse middle school student?

LA CROSSE, WI -

Students are no longer looking for the coolest trapper keeper to bring to school. They want the next generation of gadgets.

The La Crosse School District is working on getting an iPad in the hands of all middle school students.

A 7th grade teacher at Longfellow Middle School says it's the latest and greatest gadget for students, especially because it keeps everything in one place.

Students have access to assignments, lectures, and videos both in class and after they go home.

And a perk for parents is it cuts down on school supply costs. "And so the trapper keepers and all the pencils and the folders and all those calculators, all those materials parents used to have to go and buy, they no longer have to do that because it's all encased in one spot," said Longfellow teacher Jeanne Halderson.

One report says the cost of school supplies is going up nearly 7.5%.

Source: http://www.news8000.com/news/an-ipad-for-every-la-crosse-middle-school-student/-/326/21174170/-/dkert6z/-/index.html

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Small community grieves loss of six in crash

Accident

Kiowa County Emergency Services Manager Chris Sorensen is interviewed during a press conference Thursday afternoon at the Eads, Colorado School. Sorensen answered questions related to the van vs. semi collision Thursday morning on Hwy 287 near Kit Carson. One adult and five children died in the accident. All of the children were students at Eads, where there are about 170 students in grades kindergarten through 12th grade. (Mary Breslin)

A crash in which a passenger van collided with the rear of an empty livestock trailer at about 7:30 a.m. Thursday on U.S. Highway 287 about two miles south of Kit Carson, has left six people dead, according to Chris Sorensen Kiowa County emergency services manager.
Sorensen said the van was carrying 12 children, ranging in age from four years to 17 years and one adult, who was driving the vehicle. The driver and five of the children suffered fatal injuries.
A total of 10 patients were transported to Keefe Memorial Hospital in Cheyenne Wells. Several patients were flown out to front range hospitals. The driver of the semi also received serious injuries and after initial treatment at Weisbrod Memorial Hospital in Eads, was transported to Memorial Hospital in Colorado Springs.
Sorensen said the accident occurred just north of the area where crews were working on a crack sealing project and where crews were flagging traffic. Sorensen said it is not known at this time what the speed of the van was in relation to the reduced speed limit along that section of the highway. It is also not clear at this time, he said, if the livestock trailer was completely stopped when it was hit by the passenger van.
Eads Superintendent Glenn Smith said all five of the children who died were students at Eads, crossing all grade levels. The oldest victim, aged 17, was an Eads High School student.?

The driver of the Dodge Ram was identified as 57-year-old Howard Mitchell of Kit Carson. Mitchell was not wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash.

The following passengers in the van died as a result of the crash and were not wearing a seatbelt.

11-year-old Austyn Atkinson of Kit Carson

4-Year-old Tony Mitchell of Kit Carson

10-year-old Tayla Mitchell of Kit Carson

13-year-old Andrew Dawson of Kit Carson

17-year-old Jeremy Franks of Kit Carson.

The following passengers in the van sustained injuries and tehy were not wearing a seatbelt:

13-year-old Brandon Rollis of Kit Carson, who was transported to Children's Hospital in Denver

16-year-old Daniel Ortega of Kit Carson, who was trasnsported to Swedish Hospital in Denver

15-year-old Robert Miller of Kit Carson, who was transported to Swedish Hospital in Denver

18-year-old TJ Mitchell of Kit Carson, who was transported to Swedish Hospital in Denver

17-year-old Scott Fua of Kit Carson, who was transported to Swedish Hospital in Denver.

14-year-old William Palmer of Kit Carson was transported to Keefe Memorial Hospital in Cheyenne Wells with minor injuries. He was wearing his seatbelt.

3-year-old Beau McMillen of Eads was transported to Children's Hospital in Denver and had been in a child safety seat.

The driver of the 2001 Peterbilt was identified as 26-year-old Jared Kauffman of Cheyenne, Wyo. He was transported to Memorial Hospital in Colorado Springs and was released with minor injuries.

Smith said counselors were brought in immediately to help the children understand and work through the devastating loss of the their fellow students.
Sorensen said it was a tough day for the small community. "It will take some time for everyone to fully understand what has happened," he said, adding that the tragedy will have an impact for many years to come.
Sorensen said that the Colorado State Patrol accident reconstruction team was still working to understand how and why the accident happened. It does not appear, he said, that alcohol was involved, but there are still many questions to be answered. It is unclear at this time whether there are any eyewitnesses to the accident who might help to explain what happened.
The emergency services manager praised the first responders for their performance at the scene. "We practice for these things," he said, "and unfortunately today we had to use those skills."
This story will be updated as more details become available.

Source: http://www.lamarledger.com/ci_19104441?source=rss_viewed

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