President, swatting a fly?
WASHINGTON (AP) – The group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants the flyswatter in chief to try taking a more humane attitude the next time he’s bedeviled by a fly in the White House.
PETA is sending President Barack Obama a Katcha Bug Humane Bug Catcher, a device that allows users to trap a house fly and then release it outside.
“We support compassion even for the most curious, smallest and least sympathetic animals,” PETA spokesman Bruce Friedrich said Wednesday. “We believe that people, where they can be compassionate, should be, for all animals.”
During an interview for CNBC at the White House on Tuesday, a fly intruded on Obama’s conversation with correspondent John Harwood.
“Get out of here,” the president told the pesky insect. When it didn’t, he waited for the fly to settle, put his hand up and then smacked it dead.
“Now, where were we?” Obama asked Harwood. Then he added: “That was pretty impressive, wasn’t it? I got the sucker.”
Friedrich said that PETA was pleased with Obama’s voting record in the Senate on behalf of animal rights and noted that he has been outspoken against animal abuses.
Still, “swatting a fly on TV indicates he’s not perfect,” Friedrich said, “and we’re happy to say that we wish he hadn’t.”
Deputy press secretary Josh Earnest said the White House has no comment on the matter.
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)First Look: Mickey Rourke As Whiplash In ‘Iron Man 2′
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Paramount has released the first peek at Mickey Rourke as Whiplash, and he’s geared up to wreck havoc for Tony Stark in “Iron Man 2.”
The actor is seen sporting a partial exoskeleton with a power pack on his chest reminiscent of Iron Man’s own.
(1 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)Reason Why You Should Quit Your Job
Time Freedom.
As the saying goes, “Time is Gold”. T. Harv Eker, a self-made millionaire said, Time Freedom is the ability to do anything you want, anywhere you want and anytime you want without having to work.
Can we do anything we want, anywhere we want and anytime we want if:
- We need to report to the office 8-12 hours a day?
- We are tired, stressed and worn out from our work?
- We can’t afford to leave our office at least one week straight?
- Our boss is always demanding us to report when there’s an emergency work?
- Our family demands time from us after a long week work?
How about these:
1. Our boss dictates how many holidays we can only take in a year.
2. We can’t be late and must wake up early everyday for work.
3. If there’s a huge load, we can’t go home at 5 pm. Our boss dictates what time we will go home in fact, even including how many times a year we can only get sick.
4. Our boss determines how much will be our salary, bonus and promotion. This happens year in and year out. And we can’t violate the rules, otherwise it might cost us our salary increase or even worse our job.
Sounds familiar? There’s no time freedom with a JOB. That is why it’s called JOB, it stands for JOURNEY OF THE BROKE. The more we work, the more we realize that we are still with our boss, with a paycheck that is not enough, finding ourselves in debt even before we receive our paycheck. Then only to find out that no matter how hard we worked on our job, the company has a “ceiling” for us. Meaning, no matter how hard we perform, we will only get what is due to us based on the company’s standard salary.
(3 votes, average: 4.33 out of 5)800,000
This bothered my thoughts after reading the front page of newspaper in our front desk office. 800,000 is the number of employees that will lose their jobs in the Philippines within the year 2009.
Right now, you might be asking already, “Will I be part of this 800,000?” If you are employed, chances are you COULD be one of the 800,000. This is truly an era which only shows that job security is no longer in effect. In fact, unemployment increases every month, its not just happening in our country but also all over the world. Everyday we will hear from the news either companies downsizing or closing down here in Manila or in the province. Recently, our Social Security System already announced that it would no longer grant loans to those who lost their jobs.
Most of us would bet our fortune on finding a job abroad. We are willing to leave our family and loved ones. However, due to the global economic depression, jobs available abroad have become limited for the MILLIONS of Filipinos looking for jobs outside the country. To make things even worse, the only region right now that can accommodate a lot of overseas workers is in the Middle East, in fact, the government announced that Iraq will soon be open for Filipino OFWs.
So what can we do now amidst this global crisis? Our formula for success, go to school, get good grades and find a secure job has failed on its promise of a brighter future for us. We can no longer control what is happening around us, we can only control what we have right now and that is ourselves. As Gandhi said, “be the change you want to see in the world”, then it’s just about time that we start to open our eyes with other possibilities. Its just about time that we start allowing ourselves to start learning something new and not continue to hold on to something that is no longer working for us. We must give up our “should” and “should not’s” and accept that life happens the way it DOES. The key now is, what can be done despite of the global “chaos” that’s happening? When we ponder on this, it is best that we go back to what we value most in our life and based from that FOCUS on what could benefit us for the long-term and would allow us to achieve our fullest potential.
Right now, while a lot of us are still on a job, we must take this opportunity to start educating ourselves on what options to take. We must start preparing ourselves for the best and the worst that could happen. The best action we could do is first, start educating ourselves FINANCIALLY. We must accept the fact that our school missed the part of teaching us how to make our money grow and make it last for the long-term. It has missed the part of teaching us to continually look for options despite having a specialization. However, it has taught us one valuable thing and that is DISCIPLINE. Let us use the discipline we have embodied from our schools and start educating ourselves financially. We don’t want to be caught unprepared for the worst that could happen in our jobs. As Oprah Winfrey said, “luck happens to those who are prepared”.
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)“Ken Lee”
The Idol Franchise never fails to discover extraordinary talents in whatever country the contest is being held. Every country has their own version of “William Hung” and let’s just see if they we’re able to match the popularity of him. Like here in Bulgaria. One of the contestant has her own version of Mariah Carey’s famous song, try to guess…
(1 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)Only Heaven Knows
While browsing through my old, old collection of Mp3s, I found this really nice song that I wanted to share with y’all. It’s a song that always reminds me of my past and a song that belongs to present. During the late 90s, I, or should I say, we, used to download songs from the Napster, KaZaa, and even in the IRC! and now Limewire and Torrent. But that’s the thing of the past. Nowadays we don’t download songs anymore, we blog.
Read the rest of this entry »
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Firefox 3.0 Beta 4 Launched
Mozilla has today announced the availability of Firefox 3.0 Beta 4.
This latest Beta includes more than 900 enhancements from the previous beta, and Mozilla says many of these were based on community feedback.
Amongst the improvements are a revised download manager; a full zoom facility; and integration with Vista.
Also – Mozilla has made the browser more Mac-friendly so that the new Firefox theme makes toolbars, icons, and other user interface elements look like a native OS X application.
Firefox also uses OS X widgets and spell-checker in web forms and supports Growl for notifications of completed downloads and available updates. And integration with Linux has also been included.
Mozilla adds that the performance of the browser has been improved so that, compared to Firefox 2, web applications like Google Mail and Zoho Office will run twice as fast in Firefox 3 Beta 4.
Log in now to take part in the Beta test.
>> Link – Beta feedback form
>> Link – Bugzilla
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Are gadgets driving couples apart?
According to a new survey, Brits are choosing their gadgets over their loved ones.
As part of The Great British Bedtime survey, conducted online by tickbox.net, 1408 people were asked about their sleeping habits between 27 February and 3 March 2008.
The survey, run by The Sleep Council, found that our obsession with gadgets such as BlackBerrys, mobile phones, games consoles and laptops, is forcing millions of couples to regularly sleep apart.
It revealed that 40% of people go to bed at a different time to their partner because they are still playing with their toys and 8 out of 10 have admitted to using computers or other gadgets at bedtime.
Some 22% now rely on their Blackberrys and mobile phones for their alarm call, 43% watch television in bed and 26% make phone calls or send/receive texts messages.
Indeed – it has almost become the norm with many sending and receiving emails and checking social networking sites, such as Facebook, in bed before snuggling down.
According to the Sleep Council, our bedrooms have become “communications hubs” instead of a place for sleep.
“Busy night-time routines are driving couples’ bedtimes and even their bedrooms apart”, said Jessica Alexander of The Sleep Council.
And this obsession with keeping on top of things – either answering emails or checking our Facebook profile pages – means that we Brits are going to bed later and later.
According to the survey, 40% of the respondants were in bed between 10pm and 11pm on a workday, while only one in eight hit the sack by about 9pm.
And, unsurprisingly, we’re all tired as a result.
Of the respondants aged between 25- and 3- year- old, 56% described themselves as usually very tired or shattered when they go to bed.
Of course the 3 hours and 16 pints in the pub after work has nothing to do with this.
>> Via – The Telegraph
>> And – Metro
(No Ratings Yet)Tip to get back Page Rank
BerryBlitz asked how to get back his PR2 (his blog now has PR0). Apparently, he is one of the millions affected by the PR sweep as punishment by Google on paid links.
Well, here’s a tip for those who were affected by PR drop:
I was Stumbling a while ago when I found this timely and interesting post from Yaro Starak of Entrepreneurs Journey, one of the successful netrepreneurs and probloggers, on how he has managed to get his page rank back to 6. When the big sweep happened, his blog went down to 3 from his original PR6.
Good for him he has now managed to get back his page rank. He added no follow to all paid links in his blog, then submitted a review request with Google at their Webmaster Tools then patiently waited for Google to give him his original PR. According to him, “Google simply doesn’t tell you whether you have successfully adhered to their requests or you still need to do more to have the penalty removed.”
I was also affected by this PR drop so I might also need to do some cleaning up. Right now, I am making every effort to get my PR back to 4:
1. I removed my LinkWorth Linkads script.
2. I removed my TLA plugin.
3. I am posting more regularly to get more traffic and subscribers.
4. I am exchanging links with relevant blogs.
5. I will also be putting nofollow in all the paid links in this blog. I was a member of BlogToProfit previously but fortunately I backed out because I couldn’t keep up with the deadlines.
(No Ratings Yet)Official 9 Digit Paypal Bank code
In connection with the article I posted yesterday about paypal fund to your peso account. So I tried updating my paypal account that now requires a 9-digit bank code but I don’t know where to get one… Do I have to call my bank?
To complete your PayPal withdrawal, you will need to enter the name of your bank, your bank account number and the corresponding 9-digit bank code, which identifies your bank.
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
