Mississippi congregations rally together in a town where a black couple were told they couldn't marry in a "white" church. WLBT's Roslyn Anderson reports.
By NBC News staff
Hundreds of people turned out in?Crystal Springs, Miss., to?support?an African-American couple who says a predominantly white Baptist church where they planned to wed turned them away because of race.
The city of Crystal Springs organized the rally to send a message of unity, NBC affiliate WLBT of Jackson, Miss., reported. People held hands in prayer while First Baptist Church of Crystal Springs pastor Rev. Stan Weatherford and New Zion United Methodist Church pastor Rev. Fitzgerald Lovett embraced.
"I pray that God will take a very difficult situation and that he will turn it into good and that we will move beyond tolerating each other," Weatherford told WLBT.
Charles and Te'Andrea Wilson told WLBT last week they got the news from Weatherford the day before their long-planned nuptials.
A black couple in Mississippi say they were forbidden to wed at the predominantly white church they attend. WLBT's David Kenney reports.
"The church congregation had decided no black could be married at that church, and that if he went on to marry her, then they would vote him out the church," said Charles Wilson.
Couple say Mississippi church blocked wedding because they are black
The Wilsons regularly attend First Baptist but are not members there.
Weatherford performed the wedding at a nearby church.
Weatherford said?he was taken by surprise by what he called a small minority against the black marriage at the church.
"This had never been done before here, so it was setting a new precedent, and there are those who reacted to that because of that,"?Weatherford said.
"I didn't want to have a controversy within the church, and I didn't want a controversy to affect the wedding of Charles and Te' Andrea. I wanted to make sure their wedding day was a special day," he said.
The leader and first African-American president of the Southern Baptist Convention said Monday that the church's decision not to marry a black couple "is unfortunate" and "an isolated incident from which pastors can learn."
"What we can learn from it is that we need to talk to our membership about issues," Luter said in an interview for the Baptist Press. "I think if the pastor would have talked to more members about this ? when this situation occurred ? it probably would not have happened the way it happened."
The Wilsons are apprehensive despite the show of support at the rally.
When First Baptist Church member Greg Duke approached Charles Wilson with an invitation to Sunday School "to get to know the people, not just the ones that created some problems," Wilson revealed his misgivings.
"When you say come to the church, are the same people that put us out of the church still there? How have they changed? Do we know them when we see them, because remember, when I was there last time I was told, 'Welcome,'" Wilson said according to WLBT, as he stood beside his wife.
Baptist leader: Decision not to wed black couple must be a learning experience
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Nothing inspires environmentalism quite like a smog-filled sky or a contaminated river, according to a new study that also indicates that environmentalism isn't just for the prosperous.
People living in China's cities who say they've been exposed to environmental harm are more likely to begreen: re-using their plastic grocery bags or recycling. Moreover, the study, published this week in the international journal AMBIO, indicates that the poor would sacrifice economic gain to protect their environment.
"The human and natural worlds are tightly coupled and we cannot protect the environment without empirical studies on how rich and poor people are understanding and reacting to the natural world around them." said Jianguo "Jack" Liu, a co-author of the AMBIO paper and director of the Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability (CSIS) at Michigan State University.
The paper, "How Perceived Exposure to Environmental Harm Influences Environmental Behavior in Urban China," flies in the face of the conventional wisdom that the poor cannot afford to protect the environment.
"We feel it's a major contribution to provide empirical evidence that environmental harm is one of the most important predictors of environmental behavior," said Xiaodong Chen, who conducted the study while working on his doctorate at CSIS.
"Environmental harm could be more important than economic status in predicting environmental behavior. If people are affected by degraded environmental conditions, then even people with low economic status still may sacrifice some economic benefit in order to protect the environment."
Indeed, the growing environmental consciousness in China has been accompanied by increased involvement by the public in environmental protection. For instance, the paper notes that in 2005 there were some 1,000 protests per week related to environmental pollution in China, a number projected to increase rapidly.
Scientists have studied environmental attitudes for years, but the paper notes that it's behavior that ultimately counts. There is a growing body of literature on environmental attitudes and behavior in China, yet little is known about how people perceive and respond to personal exposure to environmental harm.
Chen and co-authors Liu; Nils Peterson of North Carolina State University and a CSIS alumnus; Vanessa Hull, doctoral candidate in CSIS; Chuntian Lu, MSU sociology doctoral student; and Dayong Hong of Renmin University in China used China's General Social Survey of 2003, which was the first nationwide survey to address this issue.
Some 5,000 urban respondents were asked specifically about their environmental behavior -- if they sorted their garbage to separate recyclables, re-used plastic bags, talked about environmental issues with family or friends, participated in environmental education programs, volunteered in environmental organizations or took part in environmental litigation.
The people taking the survey were allowed to define environmental harm for themselves.
The authors found that actions that resulted in direct results such as environmental litigation were the ones that people most likely turned to after being exposed to environmental harm. Other actions, such as trash recycling programs, may produce indirect results. However, people's views about the environment are most likely to inspire them to participate in environmental behaviors if those behaviors are ones that they can control, such as re-using plastic bags and talking about environmental issues.
"Basically, it means that if people are affected by environmental harm, they feel they should do something positive, and something they themselves can control," Chen said.
The findings, Chen said, can help instruct policy to transform recognition of environmental harm into environmental action.
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The survey was administered jointly by the Survey Research Center of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the Department of Sociology at Renmin University of China.
The research was funded by the National Science Foundation, MSU AgBioResearch, and the Giorgio Ruffolo Fellowship in Sustainability Science at Harvard University. Chen now is an assistant professor of geography at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
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Nothing inspires environmentalism quite like a smog-filled sky or a contaminated river, according to a new study that also indicates that environmentalism isn't just for the prosperous.
People living in China's cities who say they've been exposed to environmental harm are more likely to begreen: re-using their plastic grocery bags or recycling. Moreover, the study, published this week in the international journal AMBIO, indicates that the poor would sacrifice economic gain to protect their environment.
"The human and natural worlds are tightly coupled and we cannot protect the environment without empirical studies on how rich and poor people are understanding and reacting to the natural world around them." said Jianguo "Jack" Liu, a co-author of the AMBIO paper and director of the Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability (CSIS) at Michigan State University.
The paper, "How Perceived Exposure to Environmental Harm Influences Environmental Behavior in Urban China," flies in the face of the conventional wisdom that the poor cannot afford to protect the environment.
"We feel it's a major contribution to provide empirical evidence that environmental harm is one of the most important predictors of environmental behavior," said Xiaodong Chen, who conducted the study while working on his doctorate at CSIS.
"Environmental harm could be more important than economic status in predicting environmental behavior. If people are affected by degraded environmental conditions, then even people with low economic status still may sacrifice some economic benefit in order to protect the environment."
Indeed, the growing environmental consciousness in China has been accompanied by increased involvement by the public in environmental protection. For instance, the paper notes that in 2005 there were some 1,000 protests per week related to environmental pollution in China, a number projected to increase rapidly.
Scientists have studied environmental attitudes for years, but the paper notes that it's behavior that ultimately counts. There is a growing body of literature on environmental attitudes and behavior in China, yet little is known about how people perceive and respond to personal exposure to environmental harm.
Chen and co-authors Liu; Nils Peterson of North Carolina State University and a CSIS alumnus; Vanessa Hull, doctoral candidate in CSIS; Chuntian Lu, MSU sociology doctoral student; and Dayong Hong of Renmin University in China used China's General Social Survey of 2003, which was the first nationwide survey to address this issue.
Some 5,000 urban respondents were asked specifically about their environmental behavior -- if they sorted their garbage to separate recyclables, re-used plastic bags, talked about environmental issues with family or friends, participated in environmental education programs, volunteered in environmental organizations or took part in environmental litigation.
The people taking the survey were allowed to define environmental harm for themselves.
The authors found that actions that resulted in direct results such as environmental litigation were the ones that people most likely turned to after being exposed to environmental harm. Other actions, such as trash recycling programs, may produce indirect results. However, people's views about the environment are most likely to inspire them to participate in environmental behaviors if those behaviors are ones that they can control, such as re-using plastic bags and talking about environmental issues.
"Basically, it means that if people are affected by environmental harm, they feel they should do something positive, and something they themselves can control," Chen said.
The findings, Chen said, can help instruct policy to transform recognition of environmental harm into environmental action.
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The survey was administered jointly by the Survey Research Center of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the Department of Sociology at Renmin University of China.
The research was funded by the National Science Foundation, MSU AgBioResearch, and the Giorgio Ruffolo Fellowship in Sustainability Science at Harvard University. Chen now is an assistant professor of geography at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
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Top o' the morning, folks! It looks like the Sprint HTC EVO 3D has begun getting its update to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. That's according RockLight from ye olde Android Central forums, and other folks are seeing updates as well. We're not quite being inundated with reports of updates yet, so this could just be the initial trickle, or perhaps folks are just sleeping in, or gave up and went the custom ROM route already. Looks like folks are waking up and seeing this one across the board. The timing's right, as Sprint had said to expect it by early August.
As a reminder, here's what's new:
A refined, evolved user interface that is simple, beautiful and useful
Face Unlock: use state-of-the-art facial recognition technology to unlock your phone with a smile
Redesigned camera app which introduces Scenes like Panorama, and Effects such as Vignette, Depth of Field, Vintage and Posterize
Web browser now lets you sync Google Chrome™ bookmarks, request full desktop versions of sites, see your open tabs in a new layout
People: browse friends, family and coworkers, see their photos in high-resolution and check their latest status updates from Google+
Improved keyboard with incredibly accurate typing, an inline spell checker and improved copy and paste support
Redesigned Gmail™ app that now lets you swipe between conversations to catch up quickly and search for emails even without a data connection
Google+ integration that lets you hangout and video chat with up to 10 friends using your front-facing camera
So, be on the lookout for a 300-megabyte or so update, and try not to let your HTC Rezound-toting friends see you gloat too much.
Legged landers have the fundamental issue that your rocket engines end up very close to the ground. The rockets can dig a hole in the surface and you can get tremendous winds and turbulence as you're trying to set down very gently. You don't want to end up in a situation where the rover wakes up and it's got an inch of dust over the entire top deck.
If you want to put a 1-ton rover on top of a legged lander and keep those beefier engines from firing directly into the surface, you've got to make the legs longer. Now you have a sort of geometry problem. You've got a 1-ton rover on top of long skinny legs. You're top-heavy, and that's not good. That brings up some stability problems when you're trying to set down on surfaces where you may not know the slope exactly. There could be a rock under a leg. Even if that landing configuration works, then you have to drive the rover off the top of the platform by deploying ramps and without falling off the side. You start to get really nervous.
So then you go to airbags, which we've used on Pathfinder and the Spirit and Opportunity missions. To scale up those airbags for this size rover, you'd need some really big airbags, in which case now you're paying a mass penalty. For something as big as Curiosity, it's very hard to come up with a reliable plan that would get you clear of the giant pile of deflated airbags without getting tangled or causing significant risk to the rover. Instead, you could keep the airbags somewhat reasonably sized but just hit the ground [more slowly]. When you start doing the math and the design, you realize... why not hit the ground a little slower and forget all the airbags, and just land right on the wheels? That's sort of the high-level reasoning that went into the Sky Crane system.
RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's interior minister said on Monday that a prominent anti-government cleric arrested earlier this month was mentally unstable, undermining a figure who has a growing following among disaffected Shi'ite Muslim youths.
Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr was shot in the leg during the arrest which sparked deadly protests among members of the minority Shi'ite community who say they are routinely discriminated against in the Sunni-dominated kingdom.
Three people were killed in the demonstrations in what the Interior Ministry described as exchanges of fire.
Shi'ite activists in the Qatif district of Eastern Province, a center of the Shi'ite population where Nimr has a base of support, said security forces fired on peaceful protesters, a charge authorities deny.
Interior Minister Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz dismissed Nimr, criticized by authorities for rejecting the idea of working with the government to address Shi'ite concerns, as mentally incapable.
"Nimr al-Nimr, the spreader of sedition, is a man of dubious scholarship and dubious mental condition, and the issues he raises and speaks about show a deficiency or imbalance of the mind," the state news agency quoted the minister as saying.
Shi'ites have long complained that no members of the sect are appointed to important government positions and that they struggle to find jobs with state companies and university places. They also say the government closes their religious centers.
Saudi Arabia, dominated by the strict Wahhabi school of Sunni Islam that regards Shi'ism as heretical, denies discrimination. It accuses non-Arab Shi'ite Iran of fomenting unrest among the Shi'ite minority.
Prince Ahmed, who was appointed interior minister in June, said Nimr's children were on government scholarships in the United States and that the cleric's wife had joined them there for cancer treatment paid for by the government.
(Reporting By Angus McDowall; Editing by Robin Pomeroy)
Engadget writes, Ready for another supposed look at the next-gen Apple iPhone? Matching up with previous leaks we've reported on, the elongated iPhone body with a miniaturized docking port and brushed metal back has appeared again, this time courtesy of iLab Factory. While many of its parts look astoundingly similar to what we've already seen, this is the first time we've gotten a solid look at it fully assembled from all angles -- well, aside from the missing SIM card holder. While most of its all-important innards are clearly absent, this assembly does come complete with what appears to be the locking...
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DETROIT (Reuters) - After suffering a string of political setbacks in the U.S. industrial heartland, organized labor hopes Michigan voters will help turn the tide in a November election by supporting a state constitutional amendment for the right to unionize.
The union-backed ballot proposal would make collective bargaining a constitutionally protected right and cripple efforts to pass so-called "right to work" legislation in the state. Critics say the measure, which would cover private as well as public employees, would be a "death warrant" for Michigan's economy because it would discourage businesses from bringing new jobs to Michigan and encourage some already in the state to leave.
Experts say the union push, which included a door-to-door weekend canvassing effort by delegates attending the Detroit convention of the American Federation of Teachers, is likely to increase voter turnout in the fall presidential election in a state that is too close to call.
A poll released last month by Mitchell Research showed President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in a dead heat in Michigan, where Obama easily beat Republican John McCain in 2008.
"It's a critical time and a critical issue," said Marva Boatman, an AFT conference delegate who is a special education teacher from Washington, D.C., as she rang doorbells and knocked on doors outside Detroit on Saturday, asking voters to support the amendment.
Only a handful of states, including Florida and Missouri, have made unionizing an activity protected by the state constitution, according to F. Vincent Vernuccio, director of labor policy at The Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a free-market think tank focused on Michigan.
But the Mackinac Center and other critics, including the Michigan Chamber of Commerce, say the amendment - which supporters call the "Protect Our Jobs Act" - would be a more sweeping measure.
They claim it would allow public-sector unions to use contract negotiations to override acts of the legislature, such as laws limiting how much taxpayers pay for government employee healthcare.
"It is extremely radical and would fundamentally change the power structure in Michigan," Vernuccio said.
CALLED "ECONOMIC DEATH WARRANT"
Greg Mourad, vice president of the National Right to Work Committee, said if voters approve the measure they will be "signing their own economic death warrant.
"It would make it significantly harder for Michigan to create and attract jobs," Mourad said.
Michigan has been hard hit by the decades-long struggle of the Detroit-based automakers and the continuing restructuring of the domestic car business. One measure of just how much that restructuring has realigned politics in the state can be seen in the fact that Romney, who has criticized the 2009 auto bailout backed by the once-dominant United Auto Workers union, is running so close with Obama.
Supporters of the "Protect Our Jobs" measure submitted nearly 700,000 signed petitions - twice the number needed - to have the proposal put on the November ballot.
The Michigan Department of State is expected to certify the petitions next month after the deadline passes for opponents to submit challenges to the signatures.
Vernuccio said recent polling had shown voters equally divided over the measure.
According to documents filed last week with the Michigan Secretary of State, organized labor and others have raised more than $8 million to support pro-union initiatives in the state this fall.
In addition to the constitutional amendment, unions also are asking Michigan voters to repeal a law giving state-appointed emergency managers wide powers to cut spending in municipalities and school districts deemed to be experiencing a "financial emergency."
That law has been used to take over more than half a dozen financially ailing cities and school systems in the state in recent years and to void union contracts.
Since the Republican victory in the 2010 midterm elections, organized labor has taken a beating in the Midwest, a region that was once a union stronghold.
In June, a union effort to oust Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, a Republican who curbed collective bargaining by public employees in his state in 2011, was handily defeated.
Earlier this year, Indiana became the country's 23rd state, and the first in the industrial heartland, to pass "right to work" legislation that bars employers from signing union contracts that require employees to pay fees for representation.
The Raleigh Irish Festival will be held in Moore Square, Raleigh on Saturday, September 29th 11am- 7pm. Admission is FREE
The RALEIGH festival was born from an already established Irish event which has been hosted by Ancient Order of Hibernians Wake County Division over the past 11 years at the Knights of Columbus.
This event started out as an Irish family picnic ? and over the years grew into an Irish music fest. The fest had been outgrowing the space at The Knights hall for quite a while ? so organizers from The AOH sat dwn with Wake & District Pipes & Drums and Tir Na nOg Irish Pub and started talking about hosting the event in the most central place they could find so more people would be able to come and be part of the culture and heritage that these organizations and business?s are all so very proud of.
Please join us . Family Fun, Irish Food, An outdoor irish Pub with a story teller and session players. Live bands and Irish Dancers. The evnt is headlined by two acts from Ireland on tour, Ms Briege Murphy a noted Irish folk singer/strory tellet, and The Sean Keane band from Galway Ireland. The full line up is as follows.
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10:40 Wake& District Pipe Band
11:00- 11:40 Ewes? Tree
12:00 ? 12:40 Gerry McCrudden
1:00- 1:40 Barrowburn
2:00- 2:40 Eire Lingus
3:00- 3:40 Breige Murphy
4:00- 4:40 My 3 Kilts
4:40- 5:00 wake & District Pipe Band on the grass
5:00- 5:30 Irish Dancers
5:30-700 Sean Keane Band
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ScienceDaily (July 29, 2012) ? The chronic drought that hit western North America from 2000 to 2004 left dying forests and depleted river basins in its wake and was the strongest in 800 years, scientists have concluded, but they say those conditions will become the "new normal" for most of the coming century.
Such climatic extremes have increased as a result of global warming, a group of 10 researchers reported July 29 in Nature Geoscience. And as bad as conditions were during the 2000-04 drought, they may eventually be seen as the good old days.
Climate models and precipitation projections indicate this period will actually be closer to the "wet end" of a drier hydroclimate during the last half of the 21st century, scientists said.
Aside from its impact on forests, crops, rivers and water tables, the drought also cut carbon sequestration by an average of 51 percent in a massive region of the western United States, Canada and Mexico, although some areas were hit much harder than others. As vegetation withered, this released more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, with the effect of amplifying global warming.
"Climatic extremes such as this will cause more large-scale droughts and forest mortality, and the ability of vegetation to sequester carbon is going to decline," said Beverly Law, a co-author of the study, professor of global change biology and terrestrial systems science at Oregon State University, and former science director of AmeriFlux, an ecosystem observation network.
"During this drought, carbon sequestration from this region was reduced by half," Law said. "That's a huge drop. And if global carbon emissions don't come down, the future will be even worse."
This research was supported by the National Science Foundation, NASA, U.S. Department of Energy, and other agencies. The lead author was Christopher Schwalm at Northern Arizona University. Other collaborators were from the University of Colorado, University of California at Berkeley, University of British Columbia, San Diego State University, and other institutions.
It's not clear whether or not the current drought in the Midwest, now being called one of the worst since the Dust Bowl, is related to these same forces, Law said. This study did not address that, and there are some climate mechanisms in western North America that affect that region more than other parts of the country.
But in the West, this multi-year drought was unlike anything seen in many centuries, based on tree ring data. The last two periods with drought events of similar severity were in the Middle Ages, from 977-981 and 1146-1151. The 2000-04 drought affected precipitation, soil moisture, river levels, crops, forests and grasslands.
Ordinarily, Law said, the land sink in North America is able to sequester the equivalent of about 30 percent of the carbon emitted into the atmosphere by the use of fossil fuels in the same region. However, based on projected changes in precipitation and drought severity, scientists said that this carbon sink, at least in western North America, could disappear by the end of the century.
"Areas that are already dry in the West are expected to get drier," Law said. "We expect more extremes. And it's these extreme periods that can really cause ecosystem damage, lead to climate-induced mortality of forests, and may cause some areas to convert from forest into shrublands or grassland."
During the 2000-04 drought, runoff in the upper Colorado River basin was cut in half. Crop productivity in much of the West fell 5 percent. The productivity of forests and grasslands declined, along with snowpacks. Evapotranspiration decreased the most in evergreen needleleaf forests, about 33 percent.
The effects are driven by human-caused increases in temperature, with associated lower soil moisture and decreased runoff in all major water basins of the western U.S., researchers said in the study.
Although regional precipitations patterns are difficult to forecast, researchers in this report said that climate models are underestimating the extent and severity of drought, compared to actual observations. They say the situation will continue to worsen, and that 80 of the 95 years from 2006 to 2100 will have precipitation levels as low as, or lower than, this "turn of the century" drought from 2000-04.
"Towards the latter half of the 21st century the precipitation regime associated with the turn of the century drought will represent an outlier of extreme wetness," the scientists wrote in this study.
These long-term trends are consistent with a 21st century "megadrought," they said.
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Everyone waits for the UEFA Cup to come as soon as possible in order to see their biggest idols or sportspersons together on a single platform.This is in fact the best time for the vendors that are generating a good amount of shirts for the fans and the teams as well.In case you are looking for some discount football shirts for the favourite team of yours, you can get the same online and in varying colours and sizes.So based on what you actually need,you can visit several online retail stores available these days and get the best of the football shirts to support the best of your team. Though it could not bring any change to the way team would be performing on the field,but it would certainly give them a sort of inspirational and moral support from the audience or the fans.
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Pet dogs are susceptible to parasites and certain diseases that can be easily treated with pet-safe products available in pet stores or from veterinary doctors in urbane scrubs. Before treating your pets, remember to carefully follow the directions indicated in the label and to consult your vet. Pet dog owners should be aware of the common parasites and illnesses that afflict dogs so that they can anticipate what to do in case it happens to their pet.
Fleas
You dog will get fleas at one point or another and it can recur from time to time. The most common symptom is itching but not all itching is caused by fleas. If you think insect bites is the reason why your dog is itching uncontrollably, see your veterinarian before you begin treatment as the itching may be caused by a number of things aside from fleas. The most common dog allergy is flea allergy.
A lot of dogs are allergic to the saliva of fleas and a flea bite can cause intense itching, small red bumps, and redness of the skin. There are dogs that are more allergic to fleas than others and those highly allergic may have a severe reaction to just a few bites. Other common dog allergens aside from insects include pollen, certain plants, and certain foods. The treatment will depend on what caused the allergic reaction in the first place. To combat and help prevent allergies, you can also bathe your pet in Epsom salts or an oatmeal bath, vacuum and clean your home often, place activated charcoal around houseplants, and get a humidifier to decrease mold.
Ear mites
So called because they dwell on the skin lining the dog?s ear canal, ear mites are tiny parasites that pierce the dog?s skin and feeds on the dog?s blood causing discomfort and inflammation. If left untreated, it can lead to bacterial infections which can eventually lead to loss of hearing. Common symptoms of ear mites include head shaking, persistent scratching around the ears, foul-smelling odor, restless behavior, brown particles in the ears, and when the pet?s ears are painful to touch which when done may cause them to wince or cry out in pain. Dogs with long, floppy ears are more at risk of getting ear mite infections since air movement is more restricted and thus promotes bacterial growth and infection. If you have a household with more than one pet and one pet is treated for ear mites, it is likely that the parasite will move to another resident so it is best to treat all your pets for mites when one is afflicted.
Heartworms
Heartworm is a disease transmitted by mosquitoes and can be fatal to dogs, thus preventive measures are recommended. Curing dogs with heartworms can be very expensive and requires powerful drugs or even hospitalization, so the better course is heartworm prevention. You can go to your veterinarian and get an annual test to see if your dog is already carrying the worms. If the test is negative, your pet doctor can recommend a medication for preventing heartworms.
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Losing weight and keeping it off is a difficult process; consequently, most overweight people are always looking for new ways to take weight off. The Cabbage Soup diet plan is known to many people as a popular ?fad diet? that offers a quick way to lose excess weight, but does it really work? The diet is explained here, along with the keys to success for permanent weight loss.
The Cabbage Soup diet calls for, as the name suggests, eating cabbage soup for seven days. During this period, dieters only consume low calorie cabbage soup and a few other specific foods for weight loss. The diet program is not a lifestyle altering plan like many popular diet plans, and requires no long-term lifestyle changes beyond the week-long duration of the diet regimen.
There are several versions of the recipe for cabbage soup. Most contain seasonings, cabbage and other vegetables, such as onions, bell peppers, mushrooms, celery, and tomatoes. Some people like to add spicy seasonings to improve the taste of the soup. Other dieters monitoring their sodium intake want to use a reduced-sodium version of the recipe. Many current versions of the diet incorporate sources of protein, such as protein shakes and tofu to make the diet more balanced.
Besides the soup, there are very specific rules for what other foods are permitted on each day of the diet. As a general guideline, dieters can eat cabbage soup every day, along with fruit on day one, vegetables on day two, vegetables and fruit on day three, skim milk and bananas on the fourth day, beef and tomatoes on the fifth day, beef and vegetables on day six, and vegetables, fruit juice, and brown rice on the seventh, final day. Dieters then switch back to normal eating habits, hopefully now weighing a few pounds less.
Does the Cabbage Soup diet truly offer a fast way to lose weight? Although no formal scientific research has examined the diet conclusively, people who have used the weight loss diet report mixed results. For several dieters, the program resulted in weight loss (up to ten pounds), but only for a limited time, as the weight gradually returned as the individual returned to normal eating habits. Some dieters report lack of focus, light-headedness, and fatigue while following the diet. Other dieters felt no effects whatsoever, experiencing no illness, but no weight loss either.
The Cabbage Soup diet program is only one of many popular diets that dieters can use. However, because this plan may not be best for all, for many dieters it just adds to the frustration of not being able to lose weight. A better approach to losing weight does not depend on gimmicks or temporary plans. It takes consistent efforts and lifestyle changes to achieve permanent weight loss. This means eating healthy and getting plenty of physical activity.
Unfortunately, many of us fight to maintain the habits necessary to take weight off. Lots of dieters cannot seem with their weight because of their strong cravings, uncontrollable appetites or eating habits, or a simple lack of motivation. hypnosis therapy is effective for working through these obstacles and supplying the motivation needed for natural weight loss.
Among the reasons weight loss hypnosis is excellent as a tool for weight loss is because weight loss hypnosis may be used for controlling the appetite. A great number of overweight people have out-of-control appetites because have a habit of ?emotional eating? which gives them an unconscious urge to eat and eat even when they aren?t actually hungry. weight loss hypnosis helps re-program the unconscious mind to extinguish the drive to eat too much, resulting in appetite control without the use of pills.
Another way hypnosis works to make you take weight off is by reducing the anxious thoughts that give you the urge to overeat and undermine your motivation to stay on an exercise plan. The moment you start to have negative thoughts, hypnosis taps into your unconscious mind to automatically think positively instead, which allows you to become more relaxed.
Your motivation to exercise can be dramatically enhanced through hypnotherapy and NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming). First, you recognize what the most significant aspects of your life are. Then you use NLP techniques to guide you into believing that the things that mean the most to you will become enhanced if you exercise, or placed at risk if you fail to do so. Thus, it becomes easy to stay motivated to get physically fit and stay physically fit.
Everyone can be able to learn hypnosis and NLP techniques from a good weight loss hypnosis CD program. The techniques in hypnotherapy CDs utilize the power of the unconscious mind to help dieters stop their cravings. By putting a stop to urges and cravings, the appetite is suppressed or eliminated. Hypnotherapy techniques can also assist you in getting motivated to get physically active and shed pounds.
By reprogramming your unconscious mind, hypnosis makes weight loss easy. It is a superb tool to keep you motivated and naturally committed healthy habits. So before taking on a new fad diet, think about a healthier approach to weight loss through exercise, eating right, keeping stress-free, and using hypnosis to make it happen.
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On June 1, 2012, the adage, "after the rain comes the rainbow" transpired in Fredericksburg when a bewitching arc came into view following heavy precipitation. The Fredericksburg Patch reproduced a photo of this bright rainbow. Indeed, the city is no stranger to precipitation and downpours. Dismally, these weather conditions sometimes cause architectural damage to homes, specifically to roofs and windows. To counter this, homeowners ought to commission restoration professionals who can make houses seem as good as new, offering fresh context to the conviction that a color spectrum often supersedes heavy precipitation.
The part of your dwelling most apt to receive the most deterioration in severe weather conditions is your roof. It's always inimitable to employ the services of a roofing builder to ensure quality roof repair. Do-it-yourself roof repair might put you in danger, but roofing firms have the knowledge and appropriate equipment to guarantee that roofing tasks comply with safety standards.
Roof shingles generally become loose or crinkly following a chain of considerable precipitation, so these must be regularly examined for deterioration. If the roof shingles aren't repaired or replaced at once, moisture will most likely creep into the walls and ceilings. Roof shingles likewise tend to arch or bulge when roofs aren't laid appropriately; these will require to be replaced.
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Chances are, when you?re reading this article, you?ve typed this particular set of keywords in the search box: free debt consolidation. And without a doubt, a number of articles came out as a result, this being one of them, or else you just happened to stumble upon this accidentally.No matter, the next thing I?m sure of is that as you sum up the articles made available for your convenience, the range of content varies, mainly because of the ambiguous term ?free?. One article could be talking about free debt consolidation with free pertaining to no service fee needed. Another article could see that as free information being given out about debt consolidation.But this article has the foresight of predicting that happening in advance so we?ll be discussing both possibilities in the following paragraphs.Debt Consolidation ? Free = No Payment Needed!Although everything comes with a price, some organizations or companies do make free debt consolidation possible.. in a way. If you reckon, debt consolidation is having a person or a company assist you in taking care of your bills. This service usually does not come for free but there are credit counseling agencies that are non-profitable who do give you free debt consolidation, but only within reason, of course. And sadly, that?s all there is to it.Debt Consolidation ? Free Consultations and Information!Now this one, I can say more about. Most debt consolidation companies, if not all, offer free consultations. In those free consultations, you can ask about everything that confuses you, from A-Z and they would answer your questions patiently. After all, what?s a few pints of saliva if ultimately, you find you like the debt consolidation program they?re offering? And there are all those free information over the Internet that you can read. Some websites provide information regarding the debt consolidation companies to watch out for and tips to get yourself out of a debt consolidation contract. There was even one article that I came across that was adamantly against debt consolidation companies in general. Furthermore, he goes ahead to warn readers from companies that supposedly provide people with debt settlement and debt negotiation. Those companies are reputedly worse because the tactics and means they use are, say, paralegal.In any case, whether you may be searching information about free information or free fees for debt consolidation, it?s better to think things about a thousand times over before making a decision. It?s a sad fact of life that only a few things in life come for free and information and debt consolidation are not excluded. Information that is free may be erroneous or lacking in evidential support. Debt consolidation that is free, on the other hand, may not be free at all and may simply add on to your financial worries.Therefore, it?s better to be wary than sorry. Don?t trust what comes to you for free right away. It?s better to trust debt consolidation programs that have clear cut costs and fees rather than debt consolidation programs that, albeit free of charge, have terms too ambiguous for one?s sake. At least, with debt consolidation programs that have charges, you know exactly what you?re getting into. The terms and conditions are clear so you know what you?re giving up and what you?ll be receiving in return.
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A package came in the mail yesterday. It held the exciting promise of travel to Serbia. My passport! I've been itching to post an update but it hasn't been time, until now.
I'm excited to say that God is continuing to unfold his plans to show compassion to his dear ones in Veternik, Serbia's?mental institution.?I want to invite you to partner with me. Won't you lean in close and see Jesus in the midst of the broken?
I'm thrilled to tell you that I'm at the make it happen stage of this trip and it's time for action. As I said before, I have my passport. I also have my travel companion. ?I haven't gotten permission from her to share her name?publicly?yet, so I'll have to tell you that later. But I can say that I see God's finger prints all over this partnership. We've been friends for many years and I'm thrilled to share this experience with her. I believe we complement each other well and her gifts will be excellent for this trip. Her experience working with disabled children weekly in her job will be invaluable.
We will travel sometime in October and stay for up to two weeks. During our time at Dom Veternik we will meet with the staff to discuss their needs and how we can help. We anticipate touring their facility and spending time with the disabled children and adults residing there. I'm also praying for good opportunities to make contact with other Christians in the area who would be willing to partner with us long term.
When we arrive at the institution my desire is for us to not show up empty handed. Ultimately this trip, and any future ministry, is about showing Jesus' great love for them personally. I believe the best way to do this is to represent him well by showing joy, affection, humility, hope, kindness, and generosity. One of the ways to do this is by helping them with the needs they are facing. Serbia is a country still recovering from war not too many years past. The lack of resources affects the vulnerable of their society most.
Material Needs:
I asked a staff member for a list of things they are in need of. Here are some of the items they listed:
Hygiene?products; toothpaste, tooth brushes, deodorant, soap, shampoo, diapers, etc. Linens; sheets and towels Clothes and shoes of various sizes Non-English Educational materials; educational toys such as puzzles or blocks, paper, pencils, craft supplies
If your church or family is interested in putting together a box of some of these items to send to the institution please let me know and I can provide further details for you.
What you can do:
If God has laid it on your heart to respond to these needs there are a few ways you can do that.
* You can pray.? Pray that God would prepare hearts to hear his message of grace and receive his love, both the staff and residents. Pray that he would empower us as we go to show that love. Pray that he will provide for every detail as we travel and for our families still at home.
* Send a box. As mentioned above you can help provide material resources for this institution, a tangible expression of love to the staff and residents alike.
* You can give. If you feel God leading you to contribute financially to this trip you can give through the chip in box on the side bar of this blog or if you prefer you can contact me and send a check personally. Expenses include airfare,?accommodation?and food, an interpreter, and travel in country.
* Spread the word. You can share this post with others that you feel would be blessed by hearing what God is doing in Serbia or would like to join in by praying and supporting.
Thank you friends for your encouragement and prayers as we prepare to walk by faith and respond to God's call to care for the helpless!
It excites me that God invites us to participate in the reconciling of the world to himself. You may not be heading to Serbia any time soon but you can certainly display the mercy of Jesus to those hungry for his love in your community. I pray that he will give us all eyes to see and hearts to respond.
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A package came in the mail yesterday. It held the exciting promise of travel to Serbia. My passport! I've been itching to post an update but it hasn't been time, until now.