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Feel safe

admin — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 04:19:53 +0000

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Urban Farming success indicators

admin — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:40:44 +0000

Many consider our Urban Farming a success. A few had doubts. The success indicators of Urban Farming are: Urban Farming must establish Urban Green Plans; must reduce the poverty line; must create community participation and social life; must have government connections and support. Our city was a far cry but the team was determined to pass the indicators. We agreed to make Urban Farming work for us.

Meeting of local engineers, herbalists, farmers and city planners were conducted to established for help and support in our programs. Treatments of waste water for irrigation to reduce the spread of disease started. Restoring barren areas contaminated by harmful chemical not conducive for Urban Farming started. With initial experimental research done, we met city officials to make sure we were not going against any local laws or regulation. To our surprise, we got help in terms of added financial support. With materials gathered from many websites advocating Urban Farming we are on the road to success.

Convenience and comfort

admin — Thu, 20 May 2010 00:01:09 +0000

When the natural process of aging suddenly catches up with us, we may find that simply walking can be extremely hard. There’s arthritis and rheumatism that prevents from us doing our usual activities, and there will come a time, that we’ll be using a wheelchair! Growing old is something natural, and we are all heading to that direction anyway, so when we think where heading to that direction, it’s best that we do something about it now!

If our homes have second and third floors, home elevators and wheelchair lifts are best options to be installed and have in our homes! If we take a look at our grandparents, and see how climbing up and going down the stairs is hard for them, not to mention how long, we can then see what will happen in the future. Elevators are installed for convenience and comfort it brings, instead of using the stairs that consumes time, we can just hop inside the elevator, stand there, and in a matter of seconds you’re at the floor where you want! You don’t have to break a singe sweat! Another convenient way of transporting food is dumbwaiters. Having dumbwaiters will save you the time of carrying food the other levels of any building establishment. Hey if you just to deliver food, why carry it yourself when you have a dumbwaiter to carry it for you! If you are decided about having an elevator and dumbwaiter in your home, talk to the professionals and experts! These gadgets are not simple, these involve combinations of simple machines and complex wiring and electric fixtures, and should therefore not to be taken lightly! When it comes to safety it should never be taken for granted! Safety, convenience and comfort should always come first before anything else!

To be safe

admin — Tue, 11 May 2010 13:53:29 +0000

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Casino Games in My Room

admin — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:22:52 +0000

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Sidestepping Common Behavioral Traps

admin — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:23:06 +0000

Another downside of our silence about money is that we become even more likely to make financial decisions based on emotion rather than on logic or research. In Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes (Simon & Schuster, 1999), a terrific book that I recommend to all my friends and clients, journalist Gary Belsky and psychologist Thomas Gilovich summarize a new branch of economic research, called behavioral economics, that examines many of the most common traps that lead us to make poor money decisions.
Let me give you just a few examples. If you tend to treat your hard-earned income differently from the way you treat other money—say a tax refund or a lottery winning—you’re guilty of what behavioral economists call mental accounting. This concept, developed by Richard Thaler of the University of Chicago, describes our tendency to categorize and value our money according to its source or how we spend it. Mental accounting can be dangerous, because in reality one dollar is worth just as much as the next. One hundred dollars that you get from a windfall will buy you just as much as one hundred dollars you’ve saved. Likewise, if you feel much freer spending money when you use a credit card than when you pay in hard cash, you are likely practicing a form of mental accounting.
There’s also what the behaviorists call the “sunk-cost fallacy.” If you’re the type who continues to pour money into an old rattletrap, you should train and discipline yourself to think hard before you throw any more good money after bad. If you wouldn’t want to buy the car today, knowing that it needs repairs, why would you want to waste money fixing it up just because you already own it?

The Color of Money

admin — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:19:08 +0000

What does money represent to you and your loved ones? For some of you it means success. For others it may signify independence, freedom, security, or something else entirely. To find out Dr. James Cottfurch, principal of Psychology of Money Consultants, a Los Angeles—based company, suggests in his workshops that you try and think of a single symbol that encapsulates how you feel about money. It could be anything from a soft, warm, furry bunny to a runaway train. One of my friends sees money as the sun, because of its ability to make
things grow. Actually, the sun s not a bad metaphor, as it can also burn you if not treated with a certain amount of respect and restraint.) This friend even surrounds herself with sun images, from a decorative tile in her kitchen to a copper and brass sculpture on her desk, to remind her of the positive role that money plays in her life. It’s her way of staying focused on what she’s trying to achieve and of keeping some of her more negative and self-defeating money attitudes at bay.
What you adopt as your money symbol may surprise you and may reveal attitudes about money that you didn’t even know you had. Or not. Either way, comparing notes with those close to you, or even brainstorming about financial symbols together, might prove to be very insightful.

UNLIKELY HEROES

admin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:17:36 +0000

It is not only dogs and dolphins who have shown their reverence and devotion to human life by going to enormous lengths to save it. The animal kingdom, it turns out, is fill of remarkable samaritans.
In 1975, a desperate shipwreck victim off the coast of Manila was stupefied to see a giant sea turtle swimming towards her, seemingly offering its aid. The floundering woman climbed aboard the turtle, which then did something turtles supposedly “never do.” Sea turtles spend most of their time underwater, but this one must have somehow known the poor woman needed constant support to survive, and must also have wanted very much to take care of her. It proceeded to stay at the surface for two full days, going without food itself, so it could continue to carry her and keep her alive. When human rescuers finally appeared: “Eyewitnesses thought the woman was floating on an oil drum until she was safely on board—whereupon the ‘oil drum’ circled the area twice and disappeared.”
To be taken for an oil drum might not have surprised the turtle all that much. You see, for many years, turtles were not legally recognized as animals in the U.S. One of the earliest crusaders for animal protection, Henry Bergh, found this out when he tried to stop the torments visited upon green turtles. These great animals, which have been known to live for hundreds of years, and grow to 600 pounds or more, are sought after as a status source of soup and steak for the wealthy, with the children being eaten when they weigh only about 50 pounds. Bergh found that the turtles were transported by ships from the tropics to the Fulton Fish Market in New York. En route, the turtles did not exactly travel first class. They lay on their backs for several weeks, out of the water, with nothing to eat or drink, like so much upside-down luggage. They were held in place by ropes strung through holes punched in their flippers.’6
Bergh did everything he could to halt this activity, but when he brought the perpetrators to court, the judge acquitted them on the grounds that a turtle was “not an animal within the meaning of the law.”” Accordingly, ruled the judge, even the barest minimum of protection against cruelty that was afforded animals by the law at that time could not be applied to turtles.”
Most of us, like that judge, are conditioned by a culture that thinks of animals as mere machinery, and could never imagine that a sea turtle would be capable of saving a human life. Nor would that same type of thinking allow us to believe that a canary, however sweet its song and pretty its feathers, could be much more than a decorative and bright adornment to a house. But the residents of Hermitage, Tennessee, know better.
In 1950, an elderly woman lived in Hermitage, who was known to everyone around simply as Aunt Tess. The old lady lived alone with only her cat and a canary named Bibs. Aunt Tess’s niece and her husband lived a few hundred yards away from her house, and they were concerned lest something happen to the aging woman without anyone knowing.
One night they were awakened by what seemed like a tapping on the window. It wasn’t loud, and they tried to ignore it, but the tapping continued.
Finally, the niece got out of bed and went to the window to investigate. She drew back the curtains, and there, to her amazement, beating frantically against the window pane, was Aunt Tess’s canary, Bibs. The little bird had never before been outside the aunt’s house, but she had somehow managed not oniy to get out, but then to find her way several hundred yards to the niece’s window. The task took all the little bird had, however. Before the niece’s eyes, Bibs literally dropped dead from exhaustion on the windowsill. The niece and her husband immediately rushed over to Aunt Tess’s house and there found the old lady lying unconscious and bleeding on the floor. She had.sufl’ered a bad fall, and may well have died had not help arrived when it did. The canary had given its own life to save that of Aunt Tess.’9
The more I have learned about animals, the more I have realized how conditioned I have been in my attitudes towards them. I never would have imagined a bird capable of this kind .of thing. Nor would I have thought a pig likely to be a lifesaver. But I would have been wrong.
A couple of years ago United Press International carried a photograph and story that was picked up and printed in many of the country’s major newspapers. The photo was of Carol Burk, her 11-year-old son Anthony Melton, and a pig. What made the story newsworthy was that mother and son had gone swimming in a Houston lake. The boy inadvertently strayed too far from shore, panicked, and began to sink. The boy’s pet pig, Priscilla, evidently felt his distress because she rushed into the water and began to swim towards him. While Anthony’s anguished mother watched helplessly, the boy managed to stay afloat until the pig reached him. Then he caught hold of her leash. Anthony’s mother watched awe-struck as Priscilla the pig proceeded to tow her son safely to shore.

MAN’S BEST FRIEND AT HIS BEST

admin — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:14:33 +0000

Human contact with dolphins is limited. In recent years, the animal with whom most of us have had the greatest contact is the dog. One doesn’t have to be a “dog-lover” to recognize that these beings have provided enormous amounts of companionship, devotion and loyalty to people over the years.
Television shows like “Lassie” and “Rin Tin Tin” were not wholly contrived fantasies. They were dramatic representations of the loyalty, devotion, and intelligence of dogs. There are actually thousands of filly-documented and independently verified incidents that make the adventures of Lassie and Rin Tin Tin pale by comparison.
One day in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, in 1955, a man named Ken Wilson was trying to teach a horse to accept a saddle in his corral. Ken wasn’t at all concerned about his three-year-old son, Stevie, who he thought was playing at a neighbor’s. But what he didn’t know was that little Stevie had wandered off alone, fallen into a pond, and sunk to the bottom. The boy’s dog, Tafl’, however, saw the disaster and immediately raced to the corral, barking uproariously, and demanding Mr. Wilson’s attention. When the man ignored him, TailS’ made a big show of charging into the pond, all the while continuing to bark at the top of his lungs. Then he raced back and nipped at the horse’s legs. Finally Mr. Wilson realized the dog was trying to tell him something, and dismounted. Immediately, Taffy bolted to the pond, barking for the bewildered man to follow him. When Wilson got to the pond, he saw his little son’s red jacket floating on the surface of the water. Finally realizing what had happened, he instantly dove headlong into the four- foot-deep water, found his unconscious son, and lifted him from the bottom. It was six hours before Stevie regained consciousness. But when he did, the first thing he saw was his little dog Taffy, sitting prayerfully beside his bed.’3
Tafl’ is not the only dog that has saved the lives of children. There are thousands of such cases, filly documented and verified.
One such child was two-year-old Randy Saleh, of Euless, Texas. Little Randy wandered away from home one day. When his parents noticed his absence and couldn’t find him anywhere, they called the police. But even a two-hour police search did not locate young Randy. The parents were becoming extremely alarmed, and when they noticed that the boy’s dog, a St. Bernard named Bingo, was also missing, they found themselves praying that the big dog was with their little son, and was somehow protecting him.
Meanwhile, a man named Harley Jones had to stop his car for a traffic jam on a highway about three quarters of a mile from Randy’s home. Getting out of his car, he asked other stopped motorists if they knew what was the problem. They told him the trouble was “caused by a mad dog in the road ahead.” Curious, Jones walked toward the head of the line of stopped cars to see for himself what was going on. What he saw was a St. Bernard, stationed resolutely in the center of the highway, barking wildly, and letting no car move by in either direction. Jones saw the dog was protecting a little boy who was merrily playing in the center of the heavily-traveled thoroughfare. The dog would stop any car that dared attempt to drive through the area, and then would immediately rush back to the little boy, and nudge him toward the side of the road. But the little fellow, thinking the whole thing was just a game, would return to the center of the highway.
Jones spoke soothingly to the St. Bernard, and managed to calm him down. But the dog would not let a single car move by until little Randy was safely off the road. I think you’d have a hard time convincing little Randy’s parents that animals are lust mechanical contraptions.
Now, if you are like me, you may get a little choked up when you learn of these incidents. These are not just cases of dogs waking up their masters because they are panicking in the midst of a fire, and then later getting credit. These are not the work of machines without feeling, driven only by instincts and reflexes. They are demonstrations of courage and devotion and selfless love. They are intelligent and brave responses to emergencies.

DOLPHINS TO THE RESCUE

admin — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:12:32 +0000

The official position of the Catholic Church has long been that animals don’t have souls. During a Church council in the Middle Ages a vote was taken on whether women and animals have souls. Women squeaked by. Animals lost.
One thing is sure. Yvonne Vladislavich would give you quite an argument if you tried to tell her animals don’t have souls. In June, 1971, Yvonne was aboard a yacht that exploded and sank in the Indian Ocean. Utterly terrified, she was thrown into shark-infested waters. Then she saw three dolphins approach her. One of them proceeded to buoy her up, while the other two swam in circles around her and guarded her from the sharks. The dolphins continued to take care of Yvonne, and protect her, until she finally drifted to a marker in the sea and climbed up onto it. When she was rescued from this marker, it was determined that the dolphins had stayed with her, kept her afloat, and protected her across more than 200 miles of open sea. And there’s more. On May 28, 1978, four fishermen became lost in a fog off the coast of Dassen Island, South Africa. They knew there were dangerous rocks in the vicinity, and they feared running into them because the fog had become so thick they couldn’t see where they were going. Then they became aware of a group of dolphins nudging and pushing the boat, and forcing them to change course. Suddenly, through the fog, they saw sharp rocks protruding through the water. The rocks only became visible as they floated by them, and the fishermen realized at once that the dolphins had saved their lives. Meanwhile, the dolphins continued to push the boat along a course known only to them, until it reached calm waters. Then they swam away, evidently feeling their job was done. When the fog lifted, the men were flabbergasted to find themselves in the very bay from which they had originally set out early that morning.