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Washington Whispers: First Dog Bo Obama Gets PETA Treats
Today, PETA tells us, they delivered a gift basked filled with goodies, all of which were made from non-animal natural ingredients. Among the goodies were vegan treats such as Booda Bones and sweet potato dog chews (as well as a harness, which PETA says is better than a collar when walking dogs).
“Our cruelty-free basket of gifts didn’t cause harm to any animals, and we think that’s how Bo would want it,” says PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk. “Every day should be like Christmas for Bo and all the other dogs and cats who give us so much joy and unconditional love.”
"It may sound calculating to leverage the holiday season to your professional advantage, but it’s smart, too. The holidays are primo networking time. Most people are in a more jovial, giving mood. Many workplaces slow down a little this time of year, so you may have more mental space to think about ways to polish your resume and even set up informational interviews. And the end of the year is a natural time to reevaluate, refocus, and think strategically about your future."
Hubble Supernova Bubble Resembles Holiday Ornament
A delicate sphere of gas, photographed by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, floats serenely in the depths of space. The pristine shell, or bubble, is the result of gas that is being shocked by the expanding blast wave from a supernova. Called SNR 0509-67.5 (or SNR 0509 for short), the bubble is the visible remnant of a powerful stellar explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a small galaxy about 160,000 light-years from Earth.
Ripples in the shell’s surface may be caused by either subtle variations in the density of the ambient interstellar gas, or possibly driven from the interior by pieces of the ejecta. The bubble-shaped shroud of gas is 23 light-years across and is expanding at more than 11 million miles per hour (5,000 kilometers per second).
Astronomers have concluded that the explosion was one of an especially energetic and bright variety of supernovae. Known as Type Ia, such supernova events are thought to result from a white dwarf star in a binary system that robs its partner of material, takes on much more mass than it is able to handle, and eventually explodes.
Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys observed the supernova remnant on Oct. 28, 2006 with a filter that isolates light from glowing hydrogen seen in the expanding shell. These observations were then combined with visible-light images of the surrounding star field that were imaged with Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 on Nov. 4, 2010.
With an age of about 400 years as seen from Earth, the supernova might have been visible to southern hemisphere observers around the year 1600, however, there are no known records of a “new star” in the direction of the LMC near that time. A more recent supernova in the LMC, SN 1987A, did catch the eye of Earth viewers and continues to be studied with ground- and space-based telescopes, including Hubble.
For images and more information about SNR 0509, visit:
http://hubblesite.org/news/2010/27
http://heritage.stsci.edu/2010/27
Source: NASA.
Bring a list and a watch.
You can raise your visibility with professionally important audiences. Because the party puts people at all levels of the company hierarchy together in the same room and commands them to socialize, this is a great opportunity to network, if you choose to use it that way.
Top 10 Gifts for Seniors. Also see The Best Holiday Gifts for Seniors on Philip Moeller’s The Best Life.
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Relative to standard holiday lights, LEDs can reduce energy costs by up to 98 percent. LED lights generate significantly less heat than standard bulbs and are cooler and safer for home use.
Other low-cost options include solar lights, which collect energy from the sun during the day and glow at night.
The holidays magnify everything. They can make folks feel very, very good. They can also make them feel very, very bad.
