When deciding on placing your pet in a boarding kennel, it is recommended when possible to visit the location unannounced to see the site and see how things are run. Look for the ABKA (American Boarding Kennel Association) membership plaque, and ask if you do not see one. How close are thedog kennels to the other animals? Ask when they clean and how often? Ask what types of playtime the dogs will receive? And very important to ask if the facility requires that all pets have their most current immunizations, as to not put your trusted pet in harmful situation. So a little homework, and research will help you relax and enjoy your time away knowing that your pet is in good hands.

There are even sites that specifically follow the changes that many reality stars go through from the beginning of their new found fame to where they are today. Fans can follow along through popular sites like Twitter and facebook and then vote on the ones that feel have made the most changes and which ones that have gotten worse. It appears that more and more people are able to obtain their 15 minutes of fame thanks to simple changes in their looks.

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* Medical Staff identification – in hospitals and clinics your id card needs to be visible to other staff and patients as well as protected from fluids that are common place in a hospital or clinic
* Federal and State government identification – staffers and employees of both state and federal government are dealing with sensitive information and having their id’s visible and possibly tagged with various colors to help security and others know who should be in designated areas.
* Conference attendee identification – These id cards are typically used to identify the participants and can help trade show vendors see who is visiting their booth so that they can follow up after the visit with possible prospects id cards at a trade show are more used as a name tag and introduction to who you are. They are widely used as promotional products in order to showcase a larger sponsor or create buzz about an upcoming product launch. This is where conference organizers will order wholesale lanyards that will then be customized with the conference name or the name of the platinum sponsor.

Read in an Italian newspaper that a man called Giuseppe Castro (35) killed his wife Maria Pia Scuto (41) by decapitating her with a Stanley knife whilst she was chatting to her alleged internet lover on the computer.  Apparently she had been spending a lot of time on the internet chatting to people and when he came home on 30th March and found her chatting to her new internet lover, he grabbed a Stanley Knife and decapitated her.

Stanley Knives are used for cutting carpet, cardboard and similar items, with a metal or plastic housing, within which is a very sharp blade.  One wonders how he managed to decapitate her with a Stanley Knife though, because although very sharp, they are not very large knives, and it must have taken some time.  I would have thought it would have taken more than enough time to suddenly step back and think  ’hey what am I doing, this is not right, I must stop right away’ or some similar thought, but apparently his jealous rage lasted long enough to complete the entire process. He was then happy to let his 15-year old son take the blame; apparently the son volunteered to do this, so that his younger sister would not have to grow up without a father.

British Newspapers  reported that Castro stabbed her with a kitchen knife and then decapitated her, allegedly in front of the mother-in-law and his 15 year old son.  Again, the son offered to take the blame for the entire incident, but Castro rang the police and confessed to the murder.

I do not really know why I am so affected by this story. I guess it suddenly brought home to me the absolutely diabolical nature of jealousy.  The fact that it actually absolutely destroys that which it is trying to preserve.  The fact that a young child would want to take the blame for the incident, so that his younger sister would still have a parent (although a parent who killed her mother). The absolute futility of the action, yes, she will stop chatting to her ‘lover’ now, but she will never be your lover again either.

I think that what affected me most is, that when drinking coffee with some acquaintances, who were talking about the story, one of them said ‘that poor man, how he will suffer if he finds out that in fact his wife was not having an affair.’  What? He killed her, and if he finds out that he killed her for the ‘wrong reason’ he will feel bad about it?  Does that mean that if she were having an affair, him killing her would have been somehow acceptable?

Some people think of jealousy as an inevitable side-effect of being in love or loving someone. There is even an old Russian proverb that says that love and jealousy are sisters. I believe nothing is further from the truth. To love someone is not about possessing them, it is about letting them be who they are. Giving that person the freedom to grow, even if that might mean they might grow away from you and grow towards someone else. Of course that is very painful, but it does not justify killing the other person, just so that they cannot be with someone else. Jealousy is the antithesis of love, it is about ownership and control, love is never about either of those two things.

And finally, two children without parents.

All of the television stations will be changing over to a digital broadcast in 2009 and will no longer work with an analog reception. So what does this mean for you? Well maybe nothing and you might not notice it if you currently use a satellite provider like Dish Network or Direct TV or if you’re currently a cable subscriber. Those companies are ahead of the curve and they will have everything in place and ready to go for their customers. The people that will have to change the tv viewing habits, will be the ones that currently use an antenna to get local programming in the area. So if you are watching television via antenna, please be aware of the upcoming changes in February 2009. No television sets will be getting a signal then, so this mean no pictures will be shown on your tv.

This is a move to help everyone get a better television reception and is being led by the government. I currently use satellite television and I will be fine when these new changes take place next year. I do feel bad for the people that live outside of the cities and don’t have a cable service that runs in their area. These folks can still get a satellite dish and they are 2 major companies to choose from, but it doesn’t mean an extra bill coming into the household. In many cases, people that live in these areas and don’t already have a satellite dish, is because they can’t afford it. If you live far away from a big city, I’m sure jobs are scarce and money is probably tight in a lot of these households. So these folks will have 1 of two choices to make; they can get the dish which won’t be easy to afford or they can go without watching television. Television and radio has always been a great value in our country and use to, if you just owned a tv or radio, you could see or listen to what you needed. Now that is no longer the case and television won’t be watched by as many Americans starting next year. Radio will still be free for us to listen to all our favorite tunes, but how long will the music continue to come in for free? Hopefully these changes don’t continue like they appear to be and who would have ever thought that air at a gas station would cost us 75 cents? If they can charge us for air at those prices, take away our television programs; then I’m sure the music coming from our radios is just a little time away.