Saturday, March 31, 2012

Unnatural (IC)

Ash was none to happy to be at a big high school party. As far as he was concerned is was just more preppy bull shit. But his best mates, Jackson Red, better known as Jacks, and Viola Branche, better known as Vi, had dragged him along. Apparently there was a rumor going around that some hotshot underground DJ was gonna be spinning at the party, and there were sure to be plenty of drugs drifting around a party this size. Still, this really wasn't Ash's scene, so after snagging a bottle of Jack Daniels from the kitchen, he clambered up the side of the house to the roof.

He liked it up here. He could feel the music rumbling beneath him, not bad, but he sure didn't get the hype if this was the DJ Vi had been so pumped to see. Below was a see of wavering lights, glowsticks spinning around, and above, a sea of black with stars floating across it. Smiling, Ash popped a handfull of pills into his mouth, and chased them down his throat with a big swig from the bottle of Jack. Then he lit up a cigarette, and lay down against the roof, enjoying the view, and the warm buzzing filling his veins.

Ash was halfway through the bottle, three joints, and four more cigarettes deep, when Vi scrabbled up beside him.

"Jesus Ash!" She exclaimed, "Have you been hiding out here by yourself all night?"

Ash shrugged in response, taking another swig from the bottle, before passing it to her. He was definitely intoxicated, but his tolerance was high enough that his head was still clear enough to think, a problem he was seeking to remedy.

"You know I hate those preppy fucks." Ash said, lighting up another smoke.

"Yeah, but it's not just those preppy fucks down there Ash," Vi complained, "It's me and Jacks, and Danny's get a boatload of pill's, and Jace has some seriously quality opiates. Well, he only has a couple pills, he lost at least half somehow."

Ash ducked his head to hide his grin, but not quickly enough. Vi spotted the smile, and her mouth popped open with a surprised laugh.

"You dick!" She squealed, punching him in the arm. "Where you gonna share?"

Ash smiled again and passed her a pill, as he popped another himself. Jacks rolled over the lip of the roof ledge just as they took their pills, and just let himself continue rolling until he came to a stop against Ash and Vi, then lifted his head, demanding with a drunken smile, "Let'sko, pill me mate!"

For a while the three enjoyed the night sky, the music and revelry around them as they got high off stolen goods, and smoked cigarettes stolen from drugstores. Ash was beginning to think this wasn't such a bad party after all, as long as it was just this private little gathering of theirs. It was like they were laughing at the rest of the school, playing out their stupid pre-ordained, normal lives below them, while Ash and Vi and Jacks got drunk on their booze and high on their drugs. It was like they were shoplifting the preppies party, and taking it for themselves. And Ash loved to take from those he didn't find deserving.

Just then, as the three of them puffed cigarettes, and watched the stars, a meteor lit up the sky. Through the buzz of drugs Ash registered shock. This was a low flying meteor, it should've already burned up in the atmosphere, but it was falling, fast, and close.

"SHIT!" Vi swore, sitting up right behind Ash, who has already on his feet, head upturned, watching as plummeted, near enough that it looked like it might take out the entire part with a bulls eye landing. He heard a couple scared yelps from below, but then the meteor was passed, and from his high vantage point, Ash could see it hit the ground, cratering the earth.

But he was already running, jumping off the roof, smirking at the startled yelps of the kids he soared over before hitting the ground, rolling to prevent damage, and continuing in a sprint as he rolled back to his feet. From behind him he could hear Vi and Jacks swearing at him to wait the fuck up and not be an idiot, but he was already outpacing their voices.

The adrenaline buzzing through his body cleared his mind, sobering him up, speeding him onwards, faster and faster, until-

"Shiiiiiit!" Ash swore as he skidded to a halt as he came upon the crater. But his momentum carried him faster, over the edge of the crater, tumbling down, coming to a stop mere inches away from the strange rock. It was hot, but for some reason that his drug and adrenaline addled brain couldn't figure out, it didn't bother him at all. And despite the sprint and fall, he felt fine.

It was probably shock, Ash thought to himself, it's not every day you see a fucking meteor. Standing up and wiping his hands clean on his jeans, he leaned against a boulder sticking out of the side of the crater, and lighting up another smoke.

"Holy fucking meteors Batman." He said, in an awed tone. "I wonder what the hell this thing is?" He voiced his query aloud to the open air. He knew he couldn't have been the only one to see it, hell Jacks and Vi were already on their way after him. He wondered if he should cordon off the area or something, but decided it wasn't his problem, and sank down into his seat again, smoking silently and looking at the massive space junk in awed silence.

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PFT: Payton to buy time with appeal

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The NFLPA largely has been quiet regarding the NFL?s conclusion from four weeks ago today that the Saints maintained a bounty system for three years, administered by defensive coordinator Gregg Williams and funded by and distributed to defensive players who, among other things, knocked opponents out of games.

Executive director DeMaurice Smith, who was elected to a second term last week, addressed the situation in an ?exclusive interview? with ProPlayerInsiders.com, a website that essentially operates as an arm of the NFLPA.

Smith believes that the league should provide all information regarding the investigation to the union.? ?As of yet, they haven?t turned over anything that we would consider to be direct evidence of player involvement in a ?pay to injure? scheme that we could consider for discipline,? Smith said.? ?It?s very hard to have a productive discussion about punishment when one side has kept, to itself, all the information.?

Smith hopes that the information will be provided before discipline is imposed on any players.

?It?s a very, at least from our perspective, a very unfair situation where you have a number of allegations floating back and forth in the press,? Smith said.? ?There certainly appears to be some information that?s been provided to the media about certain individuals? involvement and references to everything from emails to Powerpoints.? It?s difficult for those players to be in a situation where they can hardly defend themselves from unsubstantiated accusations that are being made in the public.?

Smith is right, to an extent.? On one hand, negative information about players like Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma has been leaked by the league.? On the other hand, these aren?t accusations ? these are conclusions that the league has made, based in large part on admissions from members of the Saints organization.

Smith also addressed for the first time last week?s ill-advised decision by NFL Network, which is owned by the league, to permit discussion on its air regarding the identity of the person who blew the whistle in 2011, which allowed the bounty system to finally be exposed.? ?We have an unfortunate circumstance now where someone from the National Football League, or at least an affiliate of the National Football League, accused another player of providing information, or being the so-called ?whistleblower,?? Smith said.? ?There are accusations flying back and forth about who provided the information, and who didn?t provide the information.?

The NFL presumably will provide the information in conjunction with the appeals that the players who are punished inevitably will file.? It?s unclear whether the league has any advance obligation to do so, it should.? This is an unprecedented situation in which the league and the union need to work together.? The NFL?s failure to cooperate now makes it less likely that the NFLPA will do anything other than fight later.

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Will Working At Home Be Hard For You? ? blogpronews

In this article I am going to give you some advice about working at home and how hard it could be for you. This advice comes from 10 years of doing Internet marketing to make money from home. The dream of being your own boss can quickly turn into a nightmare if you are not careful.

The benefits of staying home and making money are many. Just the fact you do not have to get up and drive to work everyday can be a time savings. So are the savings on gas, clothes, meals, and other expenses associated with working outside of your home.

Of course the downside to this can be a loss of income and benefits such as health insurance and paid vacations. You will also lose the comaraderie that comes with working with fellow employees. Can you handle these losses?

Time management is going to be a big key. This is especially true if you are juggling the schedules of your kids and a spouse as well as your own personal commitments.

For these reasons you must establish working hours and stick to those. If at all possible set a schedule that is the same every day regardless of what week it is.

I cannot stress enough how important this is. Otherwise it?s too easy for people to take advantage of you because they feel since you work at home you can take off time anytime you want.

One advantage to working from home in certain types of jobs is you control your own schedule. Even some telecommuting jobs will let you work whenever you want as long as you get the job done.

I know many Internet marketers who are night owls and prefer to work into the wee hours of the morning. They may sleep until noon, but they have found a schedule that works for them.

You should set up a separate area in your home as a home office. If possible convert a spare bedroom into your office and make it comfortable and a place that you want to go work at every day.

How are you going to make money? Some people make money working at home for companies through telecommuting. Tjobs.com is one website to look at.

You might start your own home business and make money doing things such as affiliate marketing or network marketing. You can even join get paid to programs and make a supplemental income taking paid surveys or doing data entry.

Providing a service for other Internet marketers or online businesses is another good way to make money working at home. Hot areas that are in demand right now include being a virtual assistant, blog writing, and providing tasks on sites such as fiverr.com.

If you are an entrepreneur by nature working at home will come easy to you. If you?re not used to being your own boss it could be hard for you. Unless you establish good work habits you could be in for a rough time.

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Friday, March 30, 2012

Poverty-stricken Greek town hits new low

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Conservatives' trust in science has fallen dramatically since mid-1970s

Thursday, March 29, 2012

While trust in science remained stable among people who self-identified as moderates and liberals in the United States between 1974 and 2010, trust in science fell among self-identified conservatives by more than 25 percent during the same period, according to new research from Gordon Gauchat, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill's Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research.

"You can see this distrust in science among conservatives reflected in the current Republican primary campaign," said Gauchat, whose study appears in the April issue of the American Sociological Review. "When people want to define themselves as conservatives relative to moderates and liberals, you often hear them raising questions about the validity of global warming and evolution and talking about how 'intellectual elites' and scientists don't necessarily have the whole truth."

Relying on data from the 1974-2010 waves of the nationally representative General Social Survey, the study found that people who self-identified as conservatives began the period with the highest trust in science, relative to self-identified moderates and liberals, and ended the period with the lowest.

In addition to examining how the relationship between political ideology and trust in science changed over almost 40 years, Gauchat also explored how other social and demographic characteristics?including frequency of church attendance?related to trust in science over that same period. Gauchat found that, while trust in science declined between 1974 and 2010 among those who frequently attended church, there was no statistically significant group-specific change in trust in science over that period among any of the other social or demographic factors he examined, including gender, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status.

"This study shows that the public trust in science has not declined since the mid-1970s except among self-identified conservatives and among those who frequently attend church," Gauchat said. "It also provides evidence that, in the United States, there is a tension between religion and science in some contexts. This tension is evident in public controversies such as that over the teaching of evolution."

As for why self-identified conservatives were much less likely to trust science in 2010 than they were in the mid-1970s, Gauchat offered several possibilities. One is the conservative movement itself.

"Over the last several decades, there's been an effort among those who define themselves as conservatives to clearly identify what it means to be a conservative," Gauchat said. "For whatever reason, this appears to involve opposing science and universities and what is perceived as the 'liberal culture.' So, self-identified conservatives seem to lump these groups together and rally around the notion that what makes 'us' conservatives is that we don't agree with 'them.'"

Another possibility, according to Gauchat, is the changing role of science in the United States. "In the past, the scientific community was viewed as concerned primarily with macro structural matters such as winning the space race," Gauchat said. "Today, conservatives perceive the scientific community as more focused on regulatory matters such as stopping industry from producing too much carbon dioxide. Conservatives often oppose government regulation, and they increasingly perceive science as on the side of regulation, especially as scientific evidence is used more frequently in the work of government agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency and in public debates over issues such as climate change."

The study also found that the declining trust in science among conservatives was not attributable to changes among less educated conservatives, but rather to rising distrust among better educated conservatives. "It is a significant finding and the opposite of what many might expect," Gauchat said.

As for the study's implications, Gauchat said it raises important questions about the future role of science in public policy. "In a political climate in which all sides do not share a basic trust in science, scientific evidence no longer is viewed as a politically neutral factor in judging whether a public policy is good or bad," said Gauchat, who is also concerned that the increasingly politicized view of science could turn people away from careers in the field. "I think this would be very detrimental to an advanced economy where you need people with science and engineering backgrounds."

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March 30, 2012 by homeimprovementguru?

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An energy examination might be a very effective way to find out exactly how your energy is being wasted. This will make it easier to know the best way to cut energy costs and give you the chance to set up a specific plan for saving energy. Several things will be very apparent, such as turning off the coffee maker instead of leaving it on all the time. You will be able to comfortably lower your electricity usage by about 10% by lowering your thermostat ten degrees for a minimum of eight hours each day. Your home could be insulated in the winter by simply pulling the drapes shut. Investigate your home meticulously so you can see if cold air is making its way in through poorly insulated areas. You can lower your energy usage considerably just by having the proper level of insulation in your attic.

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Thursday, March 29, 2012

Paid Surveys Can Earn You Money | Web Article Stacks

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Before you actually spend time taking surveys, though, do your homework. As with all other Internet venture, you?re likely to find genuine offers and ripoffs. The scams will be the deals that appear to good to be true. For anyone who is suspicious, type their name into your beloved search engine and see which kind of results come up.
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

The Open Plan Home | United Bilt Homes Blog

United-Bilt Carlton floorplanUnited-Bilt?s Carlton, shown at left, is a great example of an open plan home. Open plan homes have no walls between the living and dining room or the dining room and kitchen. The result is a large, open space that allows lots of communication among the rooms. Bedrooms have walls, but no hallways, so that one room leads freely into another. The front door open directly into the living room, too.

Compare this with house plans from a century ago and you?ll immediately notice a lack of nooks and crannies. This was one of the reasons for open plan homes: when middle class families quit having household servants, they needed spaces that allowed housewives to get the chores done and also watch the children.

Central heating made it practical to warm large, open spaces, so that new technology allowed open plans. There was also a feeling that having all-purpose rooms gave more freedom than small rooms with specific purposes. The Victorian home with one room where people sat in the morning and a different one for greeting guests and yet another room for children to play in was seen as old-fashioned and restrictive by modern people.

Finally, the efficiency craze made the open plan home appeal to Americans. With less wasted space, less ornamentation, and fewer dust-catching corners, the open plan home was ? and still is ? more efficient to build, furnish, and clean. With new methods of home building and new home building technologies allowing builders to span large spaces safely with roofs, the open plan was possible. With time and motion studies, ?rational living,? and factory techniques brought into the home, the open plan was also desirable.

By the middle of the 20th century, the open plan home was characteristic of American homebuilding and was beginning to influence home design in other countries, as well. The Carlton, a classic open house plan, is great for family life, entertaining,and casual living.

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NASA launches suborbital rockets from Virginia

In this photo provided by NASA, a sounding rocket launches from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va., Tuesday, March 27, 2012, as part of the Anomalous Transport Rocket Experiment (ATREX). Five rockets were launched from the site before dawn Tuesday for the ATREX mission to help scientists understand the upper level jet stream, which is located 60 to 65 miles above Earth's surface. (AP Photo/NASA)

In this photo provided by NASA, a sounding rocket launches from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va., Tuesday, March 27, 2012, as part of the Anomalous Transport Rocket Experiment (ATREX). Five rockets were launched from the site before dawn Tuesday for the ATREX mission to help scientists understand the upper level jet stream, which is located 60 to 65 miles above Earth's surface. (AP Photo/NASA)

This photo provided by NASA shows chemical tracers that were released from five rockets launched from NASA's Wallops Island test flight facility in Atlantic, Va., Tuesday morning March 27, 2012. The tracers form white clouds that allowed scientists and the public to visualize upper level jet stream winds. (AP Photo/NASA)

(AP) ? Milky white chemical clouds were briefly visible in much of the night sky along the Eastern seaboard on Tuesday after NASA launched a series of rockets to study the jet stream at the edge of the earth's atmosphere.

The five sounding rockets began blasting off just before 5 a.m. from NASA's Wallops Island facility on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Each of the rockets was fired about 80 seconds apart and released a chemical cloud so that scientists could 'see' little-understood winds about 65 miles above the earth's surface. Firing multiple rockets allows scientists to track the high-speed winds over hundreds of miles.

NASA said it received reports that the chemical clouds were visible as far south as Wilmington, N.C.; west to Charleston, W.Va.; and north to Buffalo, N.Y. The clouds were also visible above major metropolitan areas like Washington and New York.

The winds NASA is studying travel at speeds of up to 300 miles per hour in an area of the atmosphere where there are strong electrical currents.

Data gathered from the experiment should allow scientists to better model the electromagnetic regions of space that can damage satellites and affect radio communications.

Scientists also hope the experiment will help explain how atmospheric disturbances in one part of the globe can be transported to other parts of the globe in a day or two.

NASA had been trying to launch the rockets since March 14, but had a series of delays due to bad weather. NASA needed skies to be clear in Virginia as well as coastal North Carolina and New Jersey, where the space agency had cameras set up to capture images of the clouds.

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Choosing Safe Equipment To Promote Safety And Security In The ...

Learning Different Safety Equipment Used to Increase Safety and Security

You have to know when and how to use the different safety equipment so that you can be ensured of safety and protection. Using of these things though should not make you confident already. There is a need for you to be careful still. The work in the construction is purely different from other working areas. That means you may have differences on the safety equipment.

Of course, when you don?t know which safety equipment are suitable to be used in the workplace is going to endanger your entire employees.

How to Identify Your Gadgets

You can well determine your gadgets for safety when you are already familiar with the harmful things on your area. Therefore, the first step is to determine which things are harmful. It would be best if you are well familiar with all the work being done in the area. If possible, you must not miss anything hazardous.

This is one most effective way to determine how you can be safe and which gadgets shall be the most effective. This will let you be more confident in the workplace.

Types of Protection

The determinant of which type of safety equipment you shall use would be the work nature where you will use the equipment. Below are the examples of the types where you can prepare to have:

1. Head and Skull Gear

Some of the gear which can protect your head include construction solid hats, helmets used for construction safety, industrial firm hats, safety helmets, face shield visors, welding masks and helmets.

2. Gear to Protection Your Vision

Examples of gadgets which can protect your eyes are glasses, spectacles, and goggles. These are eyewear which can protect fully your vision.

3. Protection for Your Ears

Your hearing is an important sense which must not be neglected. You are to protect it using gadgets like ear muffs and also ear plugs.

4. Protecting Your Respiration

There are so many different masks and respirators which can lead to protection of your respiratory functions.

5. How to Protect Your Hands

Protection of hands can be done simply be wearing different kinds and forms of gloves depending on your work.

6. Gear to Protect Your Feet

Your feet can benefit well with the boots and shoes gear.

7. Protection against fall

You are well protected even when you fall if you wear belts and harnesses in your body. You body will be assured of great protection from falling.

8. Detection to Gas

Harmful gasses and the like must be determined to avoid dangers.

9. Additional Protection

Safety signs, safety tapes, protective barriers, knee pads, ventilation equipment, and fire extinguishers are examples of the different gear for protection.

Using these safety equipment is great but you cannot simply rely on them fully since you will never know what can possibly happen. It is also needed that you know which items to eliminate to increase your safety.

A working area in industries and other plants can be potentially dangerous therefore you really have to be sure that you know how to always use the safety equipment in order to protect yourself.

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Source: http://www.businesslistingnow.com/blog/choosing-safe-equipment-to-promote-safety-and-security-in-the-workplace/

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Monday, March 26, 2012

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Lady Gaga, 'Smash' Creators Win GLAAD Media Awards

'Dancing with the Stars' also wins big at 23rd annual show celebrating the LGBT community.
By Gil Kaufman


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Lady Gaga was one of the big winners on Saturday night at the 23rd annual GLAAD Media Awards, taking home the prize for Outstanding Music Artist for her Born This Way
 album. The show honors various branches of the media that represent the LGBT community.

The show was hosted by "Glee" stars Cory Monteith and Naya Rivera and included guest spots from Dakota Fanning, "Jersey Shore" nice guy Vinny Guadagnino,
 talk show host Wendy Williams, "Top Chef" star Padma Lakshmi and Olympic figure skater Johnny Weir.

Broadway veteran Bernadette Peters and TV star John Stamos presented the Vito Russo Award to Craig Zadan and Neil Meron for their work on the NBC musical series "Smash." The Russo award is presented annually to openly LGBT media professionals who have made a difference in promoting equality. In accepting the award, Meron said the pair, who were also behind the Oscar-winning movie musical "Chicago" and "Hairspray," have spent a long time trying to "fight, persuade and manipulate" Hollywood into including LGB characters in their work.

Also on hand was openly gay 17-year-old high school student Katy Butler, who received a special award from Weinstein Company co-chairman Harvey Weinstein for her work in launching a Change.org campaign last month to argue for a PG-13 rating for the upcoming documentary, "Bully."

Other winners included: "Dancing With the Stars" (Outstanding Reality Program), for including the story line of transgender dancer Chaz Bono last season, the HBO film "Cinema Verite" (Outstanding TV Movie or Mini Series), a film focused on the life of a black lesbian teenager, "Pariah" (Outstanding Film -- Limited Release), "Battle Against Bullying" from ABC World News with Diane Sawyer (Outstanding TV Journalism Segment) and the "Batwoman" comic book by J.H. Williams III and W. Haden Blackman (Outstanding Comic Book).

More awards will be handed out on April 21 in Los Angeles and June 2 in San Francisco.

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Sunday, March 25, 2012

Top Pet Tweeters Aren't Just For The Birds

Remembering Ella Fitzgerald classic tune "Let's Do It," back in the 50s, an updated version of that song might in today's Internet world focus on how the various species on this planet are just as attracted to "Twitter" as they are to "falling in love." Based on the number of pets that have taken to tweeting out 140 characters or less, it can definitely be said that Twitter is an all-inclusive ecosystem.

And while the Twitter logo is a bluebird, it's become clear that Twitter is not just for the birds, nor Homo Sapiens for that matter. Here is a list of some of the top pet tweeters in the world, categorized in order of the number of followers they've been able to attract.

1,442,120 Followers: @Sockington (aka Sockamillion) could be considered the "Ashton Kutcher" of the pet world. Truly a rags-to-riches story, "Socks was first spotted homeless on the streets of Boston meowing for food, when Jason Scott took it upon himself to provide him with food and shelter. Today, According to his blog, Sock's bio admits to living "a life of luxury" complete with a copious amount of "tuna and cat toys" and over a million Twitter fans to boot, commonly referred to as 'Sock's Army' amongst his friends!

10,378 Followers: Stanley Pinkerton (aka @Mr_Pinkerton) hails from Myrtle Beach, SC. He is a "Basset Hound y'all: purveyor of fine naps & delectable treats. Lord of the 3Cats, and President of the Sneaky Dog Club, liven' large on the couch." You can also find Stanley on Facebook at http://facebook.com/PinkertonSouth

8,684 Followers: @EricasFish (aka Robert Jove Merton "Merty" for short)? - who states on their blog, that "yes, Erica owns a fish who became an Internet superstar by tweeting about life inside her apartment from the vantage point of her fish's bowl."

4,020 Followers: Karma (aka @TruckindogKarma)- In the soon-to-be-released documentary "Twittamentary," one of our top pet tweeters is about to receive some attention on the big screen. Owner Desiree Wood (aka @TruckerDesiree) who is also featured in the film, rescued the dog who she cured of heartworms, thanks to what she describes as the "kindness of Twitter' (more on Desiree's and Karma's back-story can be found on my previous post, here).

3,936 Followers: @RudyTheParrot - residing in Arlington, VA says, "I fly, therefore, I am" and gives credit for his Twitter voice to his human spokesman,@Pavahotti - who, by the way, has a lot less followers than his fair-feathered friend.

3,748 Followers: @CaplinROUS - found in Buda, near Austin, TX claimed to be "a ROUS (Rodent of Unusual Size)"- but unfortunately passed away on January 4, 2011 - underscoring how Twitter can be also used as a digital sanctuary for folks to go and remember one's beloved pets, after they're gone.

3,490 Followers: Pecan (aka @LilPecan) - located somewhere within the Boston environs, Pecan's bio indicates that she is "Twitter's exotic rodent strategist" who is " opinionated, irreverent" and doesn't require anyone to "clean (his) cage." As she "gradually spreads his paws outward to the rest of the Internet," Pecan also maintains a blog where she communicates to her followers regularly.

1,101 Followers: @KarmaFerret - literally 'found' in NW Illinois, Karma is one of 22 very fortunate ferrets residing at the the Critter Camp Exotic Pet Sanctuary. For those that think the 'pet rescue' efforts in the US are limited only to dogs and cats, Critter Camp is here to show you that all the pet species on this planet deserve to be rescued as well.

So, as you can see, the Twitterverse could also be considered the Critterverse - as there are lots of opportunities for your pets to use the microblogging platform to communicate about their own special interests and needs, in addition to just being a place for them to post their daily musings.

And who knows, someday, perhaps Ella's prophetic lyrics might even lead to others species to join in, where? "bees (will be) doing it / even educated fleas (will be found) doing it (and if) Cold Cape Cod clams, 'gainst their wish, (might) do it, (perhaps) even lazy jellyfish could (eventually) do it."

Now, I would like to hear from our readers to find out what pets I may have missed in my TOP PET TWEETER listing? When you comment, please note the URL or @TwitterHandle so all of our readers can enjoy communicating with your pets - and perhaps following them as well.

Source: http://petslady.com/articles/top_pet_tweeters_arent_just_birds

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Response : Trayvon, pal I do tend to write long post but am keeping this short and to the point for you.

If you?ve ever found yourself alone in the car in the middle of nowhere, and you?ve thought about just how scary it would be if your vehicle broke down and stranded you there ? then you?ll understand why towing coverage is such an important part of a US auto insurance policy. Even if you?re only 30 miles or so out of the nearest town, once you?ve called a tow truck you?ll be looking at an easy $200+ to get your car back to a repair facility. That?s because the tow truck operator has an expensive vehicle to pay for, a skilled workman to compensate and a profit to earn.

Towing coverage is a relatively inexpensive part of an auto insurance policy in the US, it?s just a few dollars a month and in an emergency it can make all the difference in the world. Normally your insurer will give you a number for a central service, that you can call from your cellphone and access round the clock support to find a local tow truck operator who can come and rescue you and your vehicle quickly and easily.

You?ll need to take a close look at your insurance policy to determine just what your towing coverage applies to. In some cases it may cover all possible eventualities, such as lost keys, being locked out of your vehicle, running out of fuel, or tire blowouts as well as major accidents and incidents. In other cases it may be limited to major emergencies only ? so you?ll want to dig into the specifics of what your coverage is exactly, and if you find that the coverage you currently have for towing your vehicle is inadequate to your perceived needs ? then you should contact your insurance agent or insurance broker immediately to arrange additional cover.

One particular item of towing coverage to consider is how far the maximum towing distance permitted under the policy is. If you normally only drive in the city then a short distance might be just fine, but if you regularly make longer journeys you could sometimes find yourself over 100 miles from a towing station and a short distance towing coverage will require you to pay for all the extra mileage yourself. If you don?t want to end up stuck in the middle of nowhere with a broken down vehicle it pays to get towing coverage.

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Judge: EPA overreached in vetoing WV mine permit

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Saturday, March 24, 2012

Nikon COOLPIX S9100 12.1 MP CMOS Digital Camera with 18x ...

The Nikon Coolpix S9100 features innovative Nikon technology like a 12.1 megapixel CMOS sensor that delivers great image quality even in low light conditions. Adding to its distinctive appeal is the ability to compose and view images on the three-inch, 921,000 dot ultra-high resolution monitor. It boasts an astonishing 18x wide-angle optical Zoom-NIKKOR ED glass lens-providing flexibility for wide-angle coverage shots to a telephoto with ease.

Integrated Scene Modes including Easy Panorama, Advanced Night Portrait Mode and Night Landscape help nighttime photos shine with brilliance. Full 1080p HD movie recording in a single touch adds real life excitement to expeditions. Special effects modes like Selective Color, Monotone and Sepia lets your jet-setting customers get creative for more dramatic results. The Nikon Coolpix S910 is the ideal solution for those who want to travel lightly and capture brilliantly.

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