Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew are taking it on the runway. In “The Fashion Disaster” by Carolyn Keene the girls get to be part of a fashion show. River Heights is having the first ever fashion show for dogs to raise money for the Rollover Rescue animal shelter. All the dogs in the show will be dressed in the latest fashions by a local dog clothing artist and to top it all off, the star of the show is none other than the famous doggy-diva Lola. Lola is a very pampered poodle and when her gourmet treats end up missing she refuses to walk down the runway.

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There are many fascinating mysteries of Tanzania; among them, its surprisingly high level of albinism.  Albinism afflicts roughly 1 in every 3,000 Tanzanians, a far higher rate than in the rest of the world.  (For example, in the United States roughly 1 in every 20,000 people is born with albinism.)

Unfortunately, Tanzania is also the heart of albino murders.  Folk medicine has it that albinos A) are not human, and B) possess magical powers.  This has led to the murder of approximately 25 albino Tanzanians a year.  Their limbs, their bones, their hair, and their organs are sold on the black market for a shockingly high price.


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What advice would you give other people who wish to work in retail?

The number one rule to live by: Short term pain= long term gain. Most people are content to "skate by" doing the minimum to keep their paycheck. If you are motivated to excel, you are probably more motivated than most of your co-workers.

Be very careful in regards to what company you choose to work for. Many care for the work/life balance of their employees and follow labor laws (such as being able to clock out for lunch) and others do not have double coverage leaving you lucky to go to the bathroom.

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SUMMER MADNESS

America, not to be out done by the Europeans, specifically, by the people of Spain and their annual La Tomatina, a food fight festival held for decades on the last Wednesday in August, during which tons of over-ripe tomatoes are thrown by people in the streets at each other for exactly one hour, that great American city, Reno, Nevada, has begun La Tomatina in Reno, an annual festival where America is given the opportunity to demonstrate that American young people know how to tomato fight too. This past Sunday, Reno hosted the second annual tomato fight, with about 2,500 people showing that American young people knows what to do with a 150,000-pound pile of Roma tomatoes. Yes, these tomatoes become missiles that young Americans began to launch at each other -- so reported the Associated Press. See the video.

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Buy.com is offering 82% off the retail price for this little mobile office through their site and Amazon.com for a limited time with FREE shipping! This bag fits up to 15” laptops, and - this is the big thing - considered airport checkpoint friendly, as it is designed so that it will produce a clear and unobstructed image of the laptop when undergoing X-ray screening. It is the ultimate laptop mobile organizer and mobile platform for easy travel whether it is across the street or across the globe. The item has the following dimensions: 5.5” D x 16.5” W x 13” H and weighs in at a little over 4 pounds (4.3 lb).

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Oh the drama! Gmail, Google's free mail provider is now offering free phone calls using VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) and it is doing so for FREE (Us / Canada) - at least through the end of the year. I can think of no other time when the saying (it is a saying, right?) "what a tangled web we weave..." can be be applied any better. The new Google Voice (Chat) feature being offered may literally kill Skype in on fell swoop. Google may take the entire VOIP market right out from under them and anyone else who gets in their way.

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Ramona* is a Personal Care Assistant for a company that specialize in children with special needs. Here are a few insights she has agreed to share about this career.

How did you become a Personal Care Assistant?

I was looking for jobs in the health care industry because I’m interested in that field.

What does your job entail?

There are a lot of things, actually. With the little boys I work with now, I help them become more independent and learn how to do things on their own. I help them with chores, trying to keep their attention spans—they don’t have long attention spans, so we try to focus on one thing at a time. Since they’re young we work with writing, spelling, tying shoes, reading, using proper toilet, shower, and hygiene methods.

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Are you a champion of sexual and reproductive justice? Is freedom of choice one of your key issues? Do you want to help stop the government from placing laws on women’s bodies—and to help make sure every young person has access to accurate information about sex? If so, you might want to apply to become the next Choice USA Field Director.

As the Choice USA Field Director, you will be responsible for organizing important campaigns, planning training operations, managing budgets and staff, and serving as a representative of Choice USA in your everyday life. Applicants should have experience in campaign organizing, as well as ample creativity and a fierce dedication to reproductive and sexual justice.

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A New York advertising executive who, having been asked for spare change by a man who had lost his job and then become homeless, loaned her American Express Platinum card to the man. He spent $25.00 on deoderant, water, and cigarettes (after first checking to see if buying cigarettes would be ok with the card owner), then he returned the card to the executive. You can hear the complete story in the video below.

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Great AmericaWhere have I been?  Out of town.  We brought our daughter's laptop computer, as it's the newest one in the house, not knowing we couldn't post messages from it.  I'm sure if we had taken time to sit down and figure out why, we could have solved the problem.  But we didn't have time to mess with the computer.

We headed down to a place called Angels Camp, CA, just southeast of Sacramento.  My sweet cousin and her husband let us use their timeshare and it was wonderful!  Did I do well at staying on my eating plan?  Well, yes, and no.

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