Month: April 2010
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Service Dogs Help War Vets Integrate
Totally awesome: The dogs to whom they credit their improved health are not just pets. Rather, they are psychiatric service dogs specially trained to help traumatized veterans leave the battlefield behind as they reintegrate into society… In dozens of interviews, veterans and their therapists reported drastic reductions in P.T.S.D. symptoms and in reliance on medication […]
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apirocks.com
Nerd alert. Good intro for those of us tracking this. apirocks.com
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100k in CA Lose Unemployment Benefits
Maybe now they’ll stuff living off the nannystate and get a job: (I’m kidding) A modern record in California, no one wanted to see. Friday, our state’s unemployment rate is 12.6 percent. Millions of you are without jobs and tens of thousands of people are about to lose unemployment benefits. While the new unemployment rate is […]
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A Muppet Day
A technician recounts working with the Muppets: When you work with the Muppeteers, they go to great lengths to keep the characters, well, pure. The “deanimated” characters are always kept in a black satin bag, and when the move is made the place the muppet on the hand of the animator, there always seems to […]
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Two Poles, One Knight
Sir David Attenborough is on the badass list: At the age of 83 and with two dodgy knees, Sir David endured blizzards and narrowly avoided calamity on cracking ice to reach the North Pole. Sir David reached the North Pole only six weeks after a gruelling trip to the South Pole, a location he had reached […]