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SPCA : Society For The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

2009-06-16T13:35:00.000-07:00

The mission of SPCA International is to raise awareness of the abuse of animals to a global level, to teach and foster good pet parenting practices, and to promote spay and neuter programs around the world with the goal of eradicating the need to euthanize healthy and adoptable companion animals.

We accomplish this mission through both internal and outreach programs, and by supporting shelters already working to achieve these goals.

Some of our programs that achieve our mission:

• Shelter Program: SPCA International shows its support at the local level by awarding multiple cash grants to needy shelters every month. This money goes a long way toward helping the shelters improve their physical conditions, enhance their spay and neuter programs, and ultimately reduce euthanasia rates. The One Dog, One Day effort is also included in the Shelter program. These funds help support shelter dogs worldwide that need more time to find a forever home.

• Operation Baghdad Pups Program: This program helps our troops by safely transporting the animals they befriend in the war zone home to the United States. Operation Baghdad Pups is a logistically challenging program, but it does not just save animals - it also brings comfort, peace of mind, and relief to our U.S. soldiers serving overseas. SPCA International receives at least 3 to 4 new requests from soldiers, sailors and marines every week.

• SPCA International "Answers" Program: This program serves as a hub for information and a referral resource for animal lovers throughout the world. SPCA International Answers connects people with local shelters, helps spur cruelty investigations, assists animal advocates throughout the world in their fights against cruelty, offers individual support for many people dealing with unique situations, and much more. In 2008, SPCA International aided over 8,000 people and pets through this program.

SPCA International programs that are in the works:

• Foster Home Volunteers. Every day, shelters receive animals that, because of a lack of space, special needs, or the potential of contagious disease, can't be kept. If they can't find a temporary home for these animals, the only option is euthanasia. This program will provide these shelters with contact information for potential foster families. It will lessen the daily burden on shelters and help to save countless lives. (Sign up!)

• Disaster Readiness Volunteers. In cases of natural and man-made disasters, this program will serve as a contact database, allowing shelters near the disaster area to efficiently contact and dispatch volunteers. (Sign up!)

MAIN MAILING ADDRESS:

SPCA International
P.O. Box 1230
Washington, DC 20013-1230

SPCA International mail campaign operations are based in Wilton, NH.

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SPCA International is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. US Tax ID #87-0773320

3OH!3

2009-06-16T13:30:00.000-07:00

3OH!3 (pronounced "three oh three") is an American electronic music group from Boulder, Colorado. The band is named after the 303 area code, which includes Boulder as well as the Denver metropolitan area.

The members Sean Foreman and Nathaniel Motte were inspired by the hip-hop/electronic scene and Foreman invited Motte to mix some beats and hang out with him. The two were helped early on by friendships they had made with local acts such as Grace Gale, Signal to Noise and The Blackout Pact. Their self-titled debut album was not a commercial success and debuted in 2007.

After playing the first show in Florida of Warped Tour 2007, 3OH!3 signed on for all venues of Warped Tour 2008 with the exception of Philadelphia on July 25. Their song "Punkbitch" is featured on the Warped Tour 2008 Tour Compilation. The band has also played at national festivals such as Bamboozle Left. 3OH!3 commonly use skits and costumes during their live concerts and are known for their energetic shows.

The band then headlined the 2009 Alternative Press Tour across the U.S. with Family Force 5, The Maine, A Rocket to the Moon, and Hit The Lights. The band performed in Panama City Beach, Florida for MtvU's Spring Break in March 2009.

3OH!3 will again join the Warped Tour in 2009. 3OH!3 also played at EndFest in Sacramento CA with such acts as Lady Gaga, Flo Rida, and The All American Rejects. 3OH!3 will also be apart of Kiss Concert '09 (Kiss 108) at the Comcast Center in Mansfield, MA, Kiss The Summer Hello 2009 @ Coca-Cola Field in Buffalo, NY, June 3rd 2009, along with Kevin Rudolf, The White Tie Affair, The Veronicas, The Ting Tings, & Elliott Yamin.

3OH!3 wrote an anthem for Major League Baseball's Colorado Rockies. The music video was shot at the Ogden Theater in Denver and airs during broadcasts on FSN Rocky Mountain.

3OH!3's sophomore album on Photo Finish Records, Want, was released on July 8, 2008. It reached #44 on the Billboard 200. Their song "Don't Trust Me" became a hit in the U.S. in early 2009, peaking at #7 on the Billboard Hot 100. The refrain "Shush girl, shut your lips/Do the Helen Keller, and talk with your hips" in "Don't Trust Me" has been controversial, as some have accused the band of misogyny.

In 2008, "Don't Trust Me" was featured on two separate episodes of The Hills, and they performed "Don't Trust Me" on Last Call with Carson Daly on November 13.

Advertisements for the show Candy Girls use the song "Starstrukk".

The band has done remixes of various songs from other artists, the most popular being "I'm Good, I'm Gone", which was originally by Swedish pop singer Lykke Li.

The music video for "Holler Til You Pass Out" takes place at Mesa Elementary and Fairview High School in Boulder. The music video for "Starstrukk" has just been filmed and will debut shorty on AOL Music. On 3OH!3's official Twitter, it has been announced that they are making a song with Lil Jon.

Anti-friz????

2009-06-16T13:27:00.000-07:00

Anti-friz????
so my hair is a few inches longer than shoulder length, naturally wavy, and INSANELY frizzy. im going 2 six flags 2moro and i need some help on how 2 tame the friz!!! but it cant be special hair products cuz i dont have enuf time to get them! HELLLPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know this sounds gross, but try mixing two tsp of olive oil with mayonaise. Then, spread it through your hair and pin it up. Cover your hair with a shower cap or plastic bag and leave it in for about 30 min, then shampoo first with warm water and then with cold. Then blow dry on a low heat setting

Mayonaise is made with eggs and oil and the protein from these ingredients tames frizz fast and leaves your hair super shiny for days.

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mba

2009-06-16T13:19:00.000-07:00

question:
Hi! I am 22, have a work experience of roughly 2 years, 1 year at my dads manufacturing business and another as a translator at a TV network। I want to have a career shift, and I was planning to pursue my MBA next year. Is now a good time? Or do I wait a few more years when I have more experience?

answer:
Hi there,
22 is quite young - you'll probably be one of the youngest students in your MBA class. You will be quite young because it's not easy to achieve the required bachelor or equivalent degree before you are 20, as you did obviously.

But it can be a good idea for you in your current career situation, especially if you want to have a career shift. An MBA will give you a lot of new knowledge and interesting business contacts (be careful to you choose the the right program here) opening opportunities to go in a new direction professionally.

Note that In terms of admission requirements your work experience might not be enough, each program has its own rules here, have a look.

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2009-06-13T04:42:00.000-07:00

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2009-06-13T04:41:00.000-07:00

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PEOPLE'S PHARMACY: Coconut oil can be used as lubricant

2009-06-04T04:48:00.000-07:00

From my experience, coconut oil is best. It is inexpensive and widely available at health-food stores. It comes in a glass jar. Even though it is a bit solid in the jar, when it is allowed to warm to room temperature, it easily dissolves into the skin. It is harmless to the tender tissues of the vagina and has antiviral and antibacterial properties that are very helpful.

I live in a warm, humid climate, and I haven't been able to find a commercial deodorant that keeps odor at bay all day. I tried a deodorant crystal and found that it worked beautifully, but I developed a rash after I'd used it for two weeks.

Mombasa Kenya

2009-06-04T04:35:00.000-07:00

mombassa beach

Jain temple in Mombassa

Kenya: Mombassa Moi Avenue

Mombasa is the second largest city in Kenya, lying on the Indian Ocean. It has a major port and an international airport. The city is the centre of the coastal tourism industry. The original Arabic name is Manbasa; in Swahili it is called Kisiwa Cha Mvita (or Mvita for short), which means "Island of War", due to the many changes in its ownership. The town is also the headquarters of Mombasa District which, like most other districts in Kenya, is named after its chief town.

The city has a population of 727,842 and is located on Mombasa Island, which is separated from the mainland by two creeks: Tudor Creek and Kilindini Harbour. The island is connected to the mainland to the north by the Nyali Bridge, to the south by the Likoni Ferry and to the west by the Makupa Causeway, alongside which runs the Uganda Railway. The port serves both Kenya and countries of the interior, linking them to the Ocean. The town is served by Moi International Airport.

The town is mainly occupied by the Muslim Mijikenda/Swahili people. Over the centuries, there have been many immigrants and traders who settled in Mombasa, particularly from Iran, the Middle East, Somalia and the Indian sub-continent, who came mainly as traders and skilled craftsmen. Even after four or five generations, their descendants continue to contribute highly to the economy of present day Mombasa and Kenya as a whole.

Traditional dress for the Swahili women is a brightly coloured, printed cotton sheet called a kanga, which may have inspirational slogans printed on it. Muslim women wear a covering known as a bui bui, that is traditionally black, along with a head covering called a hijaab, and sometimes wear a veil called a nikab, also known as the "ninja". Men wear a type of sarong, which is coloured in bright bands, called a kikoi.

Tips on Growing Roses in a Container

2009-06-04T04:33:00.000-07:00

You can grow any rose in a container since confining its roots will have a dwarfing effect. But for the best effect, especially in small containers, choose one of the many patio roses that have been developed especially for this purpose. They are bushy and compact, will bloom steadily all throughout summer, as long as you keep deadheading them and many of them are as fragrant as they are beautiful.

To bring a patio rose up to sniffing distance, try planting it in a table-top container such as the pretty jug so you can enjoy it over tea in the garden. Because patio roses are grown in fields and then transferred to containers for sale—they are containerized, not container grown—this means they have quite a large rootball. If you want to use a small container like this jug, start early with a very young rose which will have a smaller rootball and grow it on.

Patio roses are fully hardy. Plant them in multipurpose compost, scraping off the top inch of compost every six months and top-dress with a slow-release fertilizer. Do this during the spring, summer, autumn and see it through the winter.

Patio roses need pruning in mid March or early April to encourage the new growth that will bear flowers. If you are buying one from a garden center, check whether it has been pruned, otherwise, nip off all the tops; if you buy from a nursery, it will probably have been done already. Like their larger cousins, patio roses are susceptible to mildew and black spot and may need spraying.

Its velvety petals heady with scent, cherished by gardeners and chosen by lovers, the rose represents all the brave beauty of summer.

icosahedron: virus

2009-06-04T04:25:00.001-07:00

A virus icosahedron (20-sided structure) shown in the (left) twofold, (centre) threefold, and (right) fivefold axes of symmetry. Edges of the upper and lower surfaces are drawn in solid and broken lines, respectively.

Many viruses, e.g. herpes virus, have the shape of an icosahedron. Viral structures are built of repeated identical protein subunits and the icosahedron is the easiest shape to assemble using these subunits. A regular polyhedron is used because it can be built from a single basic unit protein used over and over again; this saves space in the viral genome.

In 1904, Ernst Haeckel described a number of species of Radiolaria, including Circogonia icosahedra, whose skeleton is shaped like a regular icosahedron. A copy of Haeckel's illustration for this radiolarian appears in the article on regular polyhedra.

Human adenovirus is a non-enveloped, DNA virus with icosahedral symmetry and a size of 60-90nm. The DNA is linear, double-stranded and non-segmented. The outer structure of the virus is comprised of 240 hexons, and 12 pentons at vertices of the icosahedron (Fig. 1). Adenovirus fibers of species-specific lengths extend from the penton and are associated with hemagglutination properties. Adenovirus serotype is determined by neutralizing serotype-specific antibodies directed against the hypervariable regions of the hexon.

Sulfolobus Icosahedral Turreted Virus (STIV). STIV is one of the newly discovered thermal viruses from YNP. On the right, the unique lattice of this icosahedral virus is shown superimposed upon a cryo reconstruction.

poliovirus are icosahedron too

The Science Behind Drug Use and Addiction

2009-06-04T04:17:00.000-07:00

There are many reasons why some people start taking drugs. Many of these are social. But with the very first use, chemical changes occur in the brain that may lead to addiction. Drug addiction is a disease. And with every additional use, the user increases his or her chance of becoming addicted.

To help people better understand the science and facts about drug addiction, leading scientists in substance abuse at the National Institute on Drug Abuse recently published "Drugs and the Brain."

How do drugs work in the brain?

Drugs are chemicals. They work in the brain by tapping into the brain's communication system and interfering with the way nerve cells normally send, receive, and process information. Some drugs, such as marijuana and heroin, can activate neurons because their chemical structure mimics that of a natural neurotransmitter. This similarity in structure "fools" receptors and allows the drugs to lock onto and activate the nerve cells. Although these drugs mimic brain chemicals, they don't activate nerve cells in the same way as a natural neurotransmitter, and they lead to abnormal messages being transmitted through the network.

Other drugs, such as amphetamine or cocaine, can cause the nerve cells to release abnormally large amounts of natural neurotransmitters or prevent the normal recycling of these brain chemicals, which is needed to shut off the signal between neurons. This disruption produces a greatly amplified message, ultimately disrupting communication channels. The difference in effect can be described as the difference between someone whispering into your ear and someone shouting into a microphone.
How do drugs work in the brain to produce pleasure?

All drugs of abuse directly or indirectly target the brain's reward system by flooding the circuit with dopamine. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter present in regions of the brain that regulate movement, emotion, cognition, motivation, and feelings of pleasure. The overstimulation of this system, which rewards our natural behaviors, produces the euphoric effects sought by people who abuse drugs and teaches them to repeat the behavior.
How does stimulation of the brain's pleasure circuit teach us to keep taking drugs?

Our brains are wired to ensure that we will repeat life-sustaining activities by associating those activities with pleasure or reward. Whenever this reward circuit is activated, the brain notes that something important is happening that needs to be remembered, and teaches us to do it again and again, without thinking about it. Because drugs of abuse stimulate the same circuit, we learn to abuse drugs in the same way.
Why are drugs more addictive than natural rewards?

When some drugs of abuse are taken, they can release 2 to 10 times the amount of dopamine that natural rewards do. In some cases, this occurs almost immediately (as when drugs are smoked or injected), and the effects can last much longer than those produced by natural rewards. The resulting effects on the brain's pleasure circuit dwarfs those produced by naturally rewarding behaviors such as eating. The effect of such a powerful reward strongly motivates people to take drugs again and again.
What happens to your brain if you keep taking drugs?

Just as we turn down the volume on a radio that is too loud, the brain adjusts to the overwhelming surges in dopamine (and other neurotransmitters) by producing less dopamine or by reducing the number of receptors that can receive and transmit signals. As a result, dopamine's impact on the reward circuit of a drug abuser's brain can become abnormally low, and the ability to experience any pleasure is reduced. This is why the abuser eventually feels flat, lifeless, and depressed, and is unable to enjoy things that previously brought them pleasure. Now, they need to take drugs just to bring their dopamine function back up to normal. And, they must take larger amounts of the drug than they first did to create the dopamine high - an effect known as tolerance.
How does long-term drug taking affect brain circuits?

We know that the same sort of mechanisms involved in the development of tolerance can eventually lead to profound changes in neurons and brain circuits, with the potential to severely compromise the long-term health of the brain. For example, glutamate is another neurotransmitter that influences the reward circuit and the ability to learn. When the optimal concentration of glutamate is altered by drug abuse, the brain attempts to compensate for this change, which can cause impairment in cognitive function. Similarly, long-term drug abuse can trigger adaptations in habit or nonconscious memory systems. Conditioning is one example of this type of learning, whereby environmental cues become associated with the drug experience and can trigger uncontrollable cravings if the individual is later exposed to these cues, even without the drug itself being available. This learned "reflex" is extremely robust and can emerge even after many years of abstinence.
What other brain changes occur with abuse?

Chronic exposure to drugs of abuse disrupts the way critical brain structures interact to control behavior - behavior specifically related to drug abuse. Just as continued abuse may lead to tolerance or the need for higher drug dosages to produce an effect, it may also lead to addiction, which can drive an abuser to seek out and take drugs compulsively. Drug addiction erodes a person's self-control and ability to make sound decisions, while sending intense impulses to take drugs.

COMPONENTS OF PHYSICAL FITNESS

2009-06-04T04:11:00.001-07:00

Health Related components: Those factors that are related to how well the systems of your body work

1. Cardiovascular Fitness: The ability of the circulatory system (heart and blood vessels) to supply oxygen to working muscles during exercise.
2. Body Composition: The relative percentage of body fat compared to lean body mass (muscle, bone, water,etc)
3. Flexibility: The range of movement possible at various joints.
4. Muscular strength: The amount of force that can be produced by a single contraction of a muscle
5. Muscular endurance: The ability of a muscle group to continue muscle movement over a length of time.

Skill Related Components: Those aspects of fitness which form the basis for successful sports participation.

1. Speed: The ability to move quickly from one point to another
2. Agility: The ability of the body to change direction quickly
3. Balance: The ability to maintain an upright posture while still or moving
4. Coordination: Integration with hand and/or foot movements with the input of the senses.
5. Reaction Time: Amount of time it takes to get moving.
6. Power: The ability to do strength work at an explosive pace.

A700 firmware in α - Sony Alpha DSLR Cameras

2009-06-04T04:07:00.000-07:00

What I found immediately is that if I turned the NR off in v4, the noise looked more like film grain and was removed very effectively in post processing with Neat Image. In camera noise reduction, even in v4, softens the overall result. I am sure that this is why original reviews of the a700 said it was a bit soft. With NR turned off, I have much better sharpness. The resulting noise is easier to remove and I have no color blotches on the image.

Since I did not take before and after pictures, I could be wrong...but I did seem to find that all of my pictures are exposed just a touch more also. Perhaps it's not a higher exposure, but better contrast? Something seems just a touch brighter on the v4 pics I have been taking over the last four weeks.

While normal daylight pictures and well-lit interior pictures look incredible right out of the camera at high ISO, I think the new version really shines in long exposure low light conditions. The resulting noise with NR off is just so easy to remove, the picture can be cleaned up to very acceptable without the normal loss of sharpness.

White blood cells (WBCs), or leukocytes

2009-06-04T03:53:00.000-07:00

White blood cells (WBCs), or leukocytes (also spelled "leucocytes"), are cells of the immune system defending the body against both infectious disease and foreign materials. Five different and diverse types of leukocytes exist, but they are all produced and derived from a multipotent cell in the bone marrow known as a hematopoietic stem cell. Leukocytes are found throughout the body, including the blood and lymphatic system.

The number of leukocytes in the blood is often an indicator of disease. There are normally between 4×109 and 1.1×1010 white blood cells in a litre of blood, making up approximately 1% of blood in a healthy adult. An increase in the number of leukocytes over the upper limits is called leukocytosis, and in leukopenia, this number is much lower than the lower limit. The physical properties of leukocytes, such as volume, conductivity, and granularity, may change due to activation, the presence of immature cells, or the presence of malignant leukocytes in leukemia.

type:
Neutrophil
Eosinophil
Basophil
Lymphocyte
Monocyte

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Television network

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A television network is a distribution network for television content whereby a central operation provides programming for many television stations. Until the mid-1980s, television programming in most countries of the world was dominated by a small number of broadcast networks. Many early television networks (e.g. the BBC, NBC or CBS) evolved from earlier radio networks. It may be confused with a television channel.

A network may or may not produce its own prime time programmes. If not, production houses such as Warner Bros. and Sony Pictures can distribute their content to the different networks and it is common that a certain production house may have programmes on two or more rival networks.

Within the industry, a tiering is sometimes created among groups of networks based on whether their programming is simultaneously originated from a central point, and whether the network master control has the technical and administrative capability to take over the programming of their affiliates in real-time when it deems this necessary—the most common example being breaking national news events.

In countries where most networks broadcast identical, centrally originated content to all their stations and where most individual transmitters therefore operate only as large "repeater stations", the terms television network, television channel and television station have become interchangeable in everyday language, with only professionals in TV-related occupations continuing to make a difference between them.

However, in North America in particular, many television channels available via cable and satellite television are branded as "networks" but are not truly networks in the sense defined above, as they are singular operations – they have no affiliates or component stations. Such channels are more precisely referred to by terms such as "specialty channels" (Canada) or "cable networks" (U.S.), although the latter term is somewhat of a misnomer (however, it may be judged otherwise because cable channels are networked across the country by various cable and satellite systems).

Cable television

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Cable television is a system of providing television to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through fixed optical fibers or coaxial cables as opposed to the over-the-air method used in traditional television broadcasting (via radio waves) in which a television antenna is required. FM radio programming, high-speed Internet, telephony, and similar non-television services may also be provided.

The abbreviation CATV is often used to mean "Cable TV". It originally stood for Community Antenna Television, from cable television's origins in 1948: in areas where over-the-air reception was limited by mountainous terrain, large "community antennas" were constructed, and cable was run from them to individual homes.

It is most commonplace in North America, Europe, Australia and East Asia, though it is present in many other countries, mainly in South America and the Middle East. Cable TV has had little success in Africa, as it is not cost-effective to lay cables in sparsely populated areas. So-called "wireless cable" or microwave-based systems are used instead.

Kingdom of Morocco - North Africa

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Morocco (Arabic: المغرب‎ al-Maġrib), officially the Kingdom of Morocco (Arabic: المملكة المغربية‎), is a country located in North Africa with a population of nearly 32 million and an area just under 447,000 km2. The capital is Rabat, and the largest city is Casablanca. It has a coast on the Atlantic Ocean that reaches past the Strait of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean Sea. Morocco has international borders with Algeria to the east, Spain to the north (a water border through the Strait and land borders with two small Spanish autonomous cities, Ceuta and Melilla), and Mauritania to the south via its Western Saharan territories.

Morocco is the only country in Africa that is not currently a member of the African Union. However, it is a member of the Arab League, Arab Maghreb Union, Francophonie, Organisation of the Islamic Conference, Mediterranean Dialogue group, and Group of 77. It is also a major non-NATO ally of the United States.

Modern architecture

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Modern architecture is a set of building styles with similar characteristics, primarily the simplification of form and the elimination of ornament. The first variants were conceived early in the 20th century. Modern architecture was adopted by many influential architects and architectural educators, however very few "Modern buildings" were built in the first half of the century. It gained popularity after the Second World War and became the dominant architectural style for institutional and corporate buildings for three decades.