| Animal Planet Pet Video to Provide 2 Million Free Training DVDs to New ...
TAMPA, Fla., Feb. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Animal Planet Pet Video (APPV), producer and distributor of award-winning pet-training videos, today announced the launch of its Shelter Helper program, offering 2 million free DVDs to pet parents in conjunction with Bayer Animal Health, the program's major sponsor. The first-of-its-kind program will provide 500,000 free dog- and cat-training DVDs per quarter to new pet parents of adopted pets through participating shelters. "We've developed these family friendly, reward-based training videos for adopters and their newest furry family members," stated Kellyann Conway, APPV trainer and President for the Association of Pet Dog Trainers. "Providing new pet parents with these fun and educational training videos help them develop a fantastic bond from the moment their new pet arrives home." The Animal Planet Pet Video DVDs titled "Training Your Adopted Dog" and "Training Your Adopted Cat," are an essential how-to manual for new pet parents, providing tips on how to care for their new pet as well as how to address common issues that often lead to the return of the pet back to the shelter.
Brain-Reading Headset to Sell for $299
How about controlling games with your thoughts instead? Later this year, Emotiv Systems Inc. plans to start selling the $299 EPOC neuroheadset to let you do just that. The headset's sensors are designed to detect conscious thoughts and expressions as well as "non-conscious emotions" by reading electrical signals around the brain, says the company, which demonstrated the wireless gadget at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. The company, which unveiled a prototype last year, says the headset can detect emotions such as anger, excitement and tension, as well as facial expressions and cognitive actions like pushing and pulling objects. The headset will be sold with a game developed by Emotiv, but it can also be made to work with existing PC games, the company said.
Nuclear Waste: Not a Problem
Six decades ago the birth of nuclear power was praised for lowering the volume of waste products by a factor of 10,000,000. As Petr Beckmann pointed out in his classic The Health Hazards of NOT Going Nuclear, the nuclear wastes for an individual for a year is about the size of an aspirin tablet — a minuscule price to pay for inexpensive, reliable, safe electrical power. Yet when nuclear power is mentioned as a clean alternative today, the problem of wastes invariably arises. .
U.N. troops start firewood patrols to protect women from rape
Most men dont even leave the camps because they risk being killed. But one of the first steps taken by U.N. peacekeepers since they launched their mission in Darfur in January is to restore firewood patrols to protect women on their forays outside Kalma, home to 90,000 refugees and one of the regions largest camps. The women walking out of Kalma one morning in late January were smiling and waving hellos as their leader, Khadidja Abdallah, came up to greet the peacekeepers who had come to escort them. It was a stark contrast to nearly a year ago, in May, when an Associated Press reporter first met Khadidja. Then, the sheikha, or woman chief, was cowering in a mud hut deep inside Kalma, trying to comfort seven refugee women who had been gang-raped while collecting firewood.
Recipient E-mail
There are lots of ways that people try and show who the best is at a variety of topics. You've got the old standby, who can drink the most beer. Then there is who can land the best looking guy/girl, and you can always resort back to who makes more money as a way to prove who's better. In the world of computers and overclocking the way you prove you are better than the rest is with synthetic benchmark scores. Depending on what site you read for your hardware reviews synthetic scores for video cards and computer systems are either a great way to tell how a video card performs or a fat waste of time. Personally I don't care how you measure the performance of a video card in a review, so long as you do it the same way each time so I can get an idea of the parts relative performance.
Morning Report: Dogs, ’roids, cheaters and guns
After that the news goes rapidly downhill. Accusations of steroid use by Roger Clemens were ramped up on the eve of his testimony on Capitol Hill. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell agreed to meet today with Sen. Arlen Specter to discuss the New England Patriots' track record of cheating. And depositions in a promoter's suit against NFL running back Reggie Bush ended when a lawyer's bodyguard flashed a gun. Uno for president! Barking and baying, a beagle named Uno became the first of his breed to win best in show at the Westminster Kennel Club. The nation's new top dog was clearly the fan favorite, and drew a standing ovation from the sold-out crowd at Madison Square Garden. Uno already had earned another title: noisiest in show.
syndicate this blog:
We got a call from Jim Twite of Brewster this morning that the Cumberland Farms near Route 28 and Bank Street, AND the Harwich Gas at 435 Route 28, Harwichport next to the 400 Club, are both selling regular for $2.29. The price is $2.32 on Rte 6 in Wareham, at both Lukoil and with the hippies... who now have a bedsheet hanging up in their office with "There Goes The Neighborhood " written on it. I love those people. 7-11 in Wareham, $2.32.... same with Exxon at the Buzzards Bay rotary.... ya know, the rotary that used to have the tugboat. $2.51 at the Citgo near the Christmas Tree Shop in Sagamore.... $2.65 at the Citgo on 28 South in Bourne.... $2.64 at the Citgo on 28A, Bourne/Falmouth line, with $2.89 diesel for all you mothertruckers.
Pushing PC nonsense
Unless the critics have come up with some way to inform the American people of the details of highly secret intelligence programs — without, in the process, informing our enemies — they owe us an explanation of why they are trying to undermine efforts to identify individuals who may be planning catastrophic terrorist attacks against their fellow Americans.
Further, unless the critics can persuade us that they are absolute idiots, they owe us an explanation of why they are trying so hard to provide massive financial disincentives to other corporations that might be inclined to cooperate with our government in its efforts to protect us from the next attack.
Let's assume for a moment that congressional critics succeed in blocking immunity and AT&T winds up having to compromise our intelligence programs in court and then give the ACLU a windfall profit of a few million dollars — costs that will of course ultimately be passed on to American consumers in the form of higher rates.
Angry shareholders gear up for battle
Most companies have agreed to meet, said Michael Garland, CtW Investment's director of value strategies. If the Washington D.C.-based group doesn't like what it hears, it will urge shareholders to withhold votes for the directors. "We want to make sure the boards, and risk oversight committees in particular, are comprised of qualified, independent directors," Garland said. Calls seeking comment from Citigroup (C, Fortune 500), Merrill Lynch (ML), Bank of America (BAC, Fortune 500) and Beazer (BZH, Fortune 500) were not returned. Withholding votes for directors has become an increasingly popular strategy, according to proxy experts. Many companies have adopted rules in recent years that require directors to win a majority of votes, said Patrick McGurn, special counsel at RiskMetrics, a proxy advisory firm based in Rockville, Md.
News Of The Day
On Monday, Aubertine told an editorial board meeting at The Post-Standard that if the wind project is developed, his farm could host five to 10 wind turbines that could bring in $50,000 to $100,000 a year. " (Syr. Post Standard, 2/22/08) Aubertine backed up the Barclay ad on his wind farm votes with his own words 3 days before it even went up on air. This guy is a fraud and the people of the 48th will be sorely disappointed if theymake the mistake of electing this clown. .
|
