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It's Raining Cats and Dogs Pet Supplies ? Shop Online and Pamper ...

It?s Raining Cats and Dogs Pet Supplies ? Shop Online and Pamper Your Pets

How often do your cats and dogs politely inform you that they have behaved really well for quite some time and are long overdue a new toy or some extra special treats? Well if your pets are anything like mine then the answer would be?all the time!

As wonderful as they are, our pets often don?t realise just how demanding they can be, sending us off to the pet shop on the corner or to the new super deluxe, all singing all dancing pet superstore that just opened on the latest retail outlet in order to bring back their favourite goodies.

Demanding? Check. Let?s add to that fussy and particular! One dog we had, bless her soul, knew exactly how much money we had spent on her and always, without fail rejected and refused the ?bargain? treats and insisted on the top of the range glamour items. What can you do? We love them and they WILL be spoiled and treated like royalty!

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Sometimes though, the pet store can be hard work can?t it? Often some of the goods can be heavy and awkward to carry and transport, no matter how helpful the in store staff try to be, and there are times when you simply wish that all your pet shopping would just appear at your front door without all that hassle.

Well, thanks to the internet and its abundance of online shopping, your wishes and dreams can become reality! There are many online pet stores where you can peruse and browse at your leisure with more than enough discount pet supplies to whet your cats and dogs appetites and have them purring and drooling with anticipation.

Imagine the chased tails of excitement when the courier knocks on the door and the heavenly aromas of new doggy treats are sniffed out from fifty paces! You can rest assured that after just a few visits your pets will know the sound of the delivery van?s engine and will let you know with yelps of delight that they have arrived! It can be like pet Christmas every time a new order is made!

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Summer Arctic melt among worst ever

No obvious weather patterns explain near-record annual ice retreat

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Depending on whom you ask, this year?s annual minimum of Arctic sea ice either broke or came close to breaking the record set in 2007. And that?s without the unusual weather conditions that conspired to melt so much ice that historic year.

Increased melting of the Arctic Ocean?s frozen lid in the last few decades underscores a changing northern reality, scientists say ? that summer sea ice is on a downward spiral. ?The bigger picture here is this is continuing the long-term decline in sea ice cover,? says Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo.

Arctic sea ice melts back in the summer and re-freezes each winter, on average a little less each year in recent decades due in part to warming temperatures.

On September 9, University of Bremen researchers announced that the sea ice had bottomed out the previous day at 4.240 million square kilometers, breaking its 2007 record low of 4.267 million square kilometers.? But another group that uses the same data, from a microwave instrument on board the Aqua satellite, puts 2011 in second place, at least as of September 14.

That estimate, which comes from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, working with the International Arctic Research Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, uses a different algorithm and hence gets slightly different results, says Walt Meier of NSIDC. The discrepancy may stem in part from the Bremen group?s ability to capture more fine-scale details such as small open-water areas atop the ice, of which there were plenty this year.

For its part, the NSIDC uses a different microwave instrument aboard a defense meteorological satellite to study ice cover. On September 13 the center announced that Arctic ice was near its record low: 4.34 million square kilometers on September 10, compared with the 2007 minimum of 4.17 million square kilometers (by its calculations).

?We are sitting at number two and I think we?re going to continue to sit at number two,? Serreze says, noting that summer?s end is already bringing cooler temperatures to the Arctic. The NSIDC doesn?t release final numbers until after the sea-ice skin has grown for several days.

To reach the historic 2007 minimum, high pressure over the Beaufort Sea and low pressure over northeastern Siberia pumped a lot of heat into the Arctic while persistent winds from the south melted and packed the ice together. This year, conditions were neither particularly favorable nor unfavorable for ice loss, Serreze says; instead, the loss might trace back partly to ice conditions this spring. ?The spring ice cover is just so thin now that it can?t take a hit,? he says.

This March, Arctic sea ice cover started out at the second-lowest areal extent seen since satellite measurements began in 1979. Melting got a slow start in the spring but picked up rapidly in early July. Between late March and late July, thick ice that had been around for more than five years declined by 16 percent, while first-year or younger ice declined by 30 percent, the NSIDC says.

That loss of thicker ice worries many scientists. This year, Arctic ice volume ? a combination of areal extent and thickness ? plummeted to the lowest levels yet, according to researchers led by Axel Schweiger of the University of Washington. In a paper to appear in the Journal of Geophysical Research ? Oceans, they report that 2010 Arctic ice volume was lower than that in 2007. And 2011 is lower yet.

Yet even with long-term decline, experts say that sea ice is variable enough to grow and possibly even expand some summers. In a paper published online last month in Geophysical Research Letters, a team led by Jennifer Kay of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder ran computer models suggesting that ice could stabilize or even grow for up to a decade, even in a warming climate.

?If we don?t see records for two, five, 10 years, that doesn?t mean the whole idea of global warming is invalidated,? Schweiger says.

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Law is a system of rules generally enforced through a set of institutions. For the smooth functioning of society, politics, economics there must be a set of rules or laws which tell how things have to be conducted accordingly. The basic principle of Law is that all people are entitled to justice, no one is above the law and the rules laid down should not cause and inconvenience to the large number of people.

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The Judiciary is the final pillar in this three-tier system. The Judiciary is the place where the laws are interpreted and upheld. The Supreme Court and other smaller courts are the example.

During the medieval period, there was no significant difference between the legislature, the executive and the judiciary. The King was the legislature as he used to make laws, the king?s men used to execute them, and the King himself was the judiciary as he used to decide whether something was right or not. During the period, the Church got involved in the political scenario so much so that, the clergymen used to interfere with the smooth functioning of the legal system. So, clearly a new system had to evolve. And? with the rise of? democracy and the downfall of the monarchy started in the Europe and the rapid colonization of the Americas, the Africa, the Asia and the Australia, many newly formed nations decided to separate the legal system and the present three-tier system of separate Legislature, Executive and the Judiciary came into being.

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Artists Create Amazing Building-Sized Stencil [Video]

Italian artists Sten and Lex have created a building-sized mural using a stencil method they call "hole school." The duo apply a series of stencils to their canvas—in this case a building—then slice out and paint strips to create amazingly life-like images. More »

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Samsung pushes Galaxy Tab 10.1 through FCC with T-Mobile AWS bands

Sure, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is great when using Verizon's LTE network, but what if you're looking for something in more of a GSM, magenta-colored flavor? You might be in luck, if a new tablet pushed through the FCC makes its way to store shelves. The device, identified only as the Samsung SGH-T859, comes complete with 1700MHz AWS for T-Mobile as well as 850 / 1900 GSM / EDGE / WCDMA / HSPA, and has the same dimensions as the WiFi-only version we saw in May. We can't say with a surety that it'll use the Galaxy Tab branding, but we think it's unlikely this would be anything else. And of course there's no guarantee it'll become a subsidized device on T-Mobile, but we know there's more than a handful of diehards that'd be willing to fork out a couple extra Benjamins for the privilege of using this beauty on their own carrier. So if your day is now a little bit brighter because of the news, feel free to check out the device in the gallery below.

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At U.K. terror inquiry, Rep. King defends I.R.A. terror

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Rep. Peter King (R-NY) stood by his past support for Irish terrorism during an appearance today before a British parliamentary inquiry into the roots of Muslim terrorism.

King, the chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, came under fire as a hypocrite earlier this year when he launched his own hearings into "domestic radicalization" in the American Muslim community. Critics, including a civilian survivor of a 1990 Irish Republican Army bombing in London, called out King for being an unrepentant supporter of the I.R.A. King built his career in the Irish Catholic community of Nassau County as a pro-I.R.A. firebrand in the 1980s, and was even involved with a fundraising organization suspected of providing the militant group with money and weapons.

So it was a bit of surprise when the Home Affairs Committee of the British House of Commons invited King to testify in its "Roots of violent radicalisation" inquiry. Inevitably, King's I.R.A.-supporting past came up.

It was the longtime Labour MP David Winnick, who was first elected to the House of Commons in 1966, who confronted King.

"There's been some surprise in the United States but also in Britain that you have a job looking into and investigating into terrorism," said Winnick. King, the MP added, "seems to be an apologist for terrorism."

Winnick cited a King quote from 1982:

We must pledge ourselves to support those brave men and women who this very moment are carrying forth the struggle against British imperialism in the streets of Belfast and Derry.

And another from 1985:

If civilians are killed in an attack on a military installation, it is certainly regrettable, but I will not morally blame the I.R.A. for it.

"Do you stand by that?" Winnick asked King.

"I stand by it in the context of when it was said," King responded, without hesitation.

He later added that those quotes were designed to "put [the conflict] in a perspective" for an American audience that was too often exposed to anti-I.R.A. points of view.

He then offered this lengthy defense of the role he played during the conflict in Ireland. Conspicuously missing from it is any denunciation of, or expression of regret for, I.R.A. terrorism.

I stand by it in the context of when it was said. ... I can cite you Tony Blair, as recently as March of this year, put out a long statement defending my record both in the 1980s and throughout the Irish peace process. I was just out in the hallway and Baroness Kennedy came up to me to thank me for the work I did in the Irish peace process. Paul Murphy came by last evening.

What I was saying -- and I stand by it -- is that the situation in northern Ireland -- there were loyalist paramilitaries and obviously Republican paramilitaries -- and I believe that, I had gotten to know Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness. And I was very confident that if the Republican movement could get to the table, you would see a peace process. And I believe the United States had a very significant role to play as an honest mediator, as an honest broker. And I worked very closely with Bill Clinton, I was very much involved in the Good Friday agreements, I was very involved in getting Gerry Adams' visa, but also involved in getting loyalists into the United States. I felt that when it was on the table, that Adams and McGuinness would be able to, if you will, control the republican movement. And it's worked. Tony Blair said I made invaluable contribution to peace, Bill Clinton has cited me in his memoirs as a person who was very much involved.

It was never my position as an Irish-American, whether or not Ireland was united, to me there were injustices in the north. There were good people on both sides. I spent a lot of time meeting with the loyalist community, the unionist community, at the same time, and I came away from that convinced that there was a role for the U.S. to play. What I was saying with those quotes, I was also trying to put in perspective. All of the quotes were anti-I.R.A. in the United States, no mention [ever] made of the UVF or the UDA or the Red Hand Commandos or whatever. I was trying to put it in a perspective to show that there were people -- that this is not just the terrorist mayhem it was made out to be -- that there were significant leaders on the Republican side.

It's also worth noting here that this year King defended his support for the I.R.A. to the New York Times by claiming that the group had "never attacked the United States. And my loyalty is to the United States." He did not repeat that explanation to the parliamentary committee.

Winnick followed up on the exchange by asking about British use of torture against the I.R.A. being used as a recruiting tool, and whether there is a parallel to post-9/11 U.S. torture policies. King said he did not believe there was.

Watch the exchange, beginning at the 10:18:50 mark.

Source: http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2011/09/13/peter_king_ira_terrorism/index.html

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