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The dogs are 2 days off of the Diamond and the bloody diarrhea stools are much less already. My little dog and our Pittie mix are acting better. But the bulldog isn't doing as well. She ate the most. The vet said give them 3-4 days off the food. If not much better by then, he wants to do blood work to check for liver and kidney damage or failure.
After researching different pet food brands, I decided to try 4health from Tractor Supply Company. Both my cats & dog looked better after just one day on their grain-free food! I'm never going back to Purina.
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It's easy to get caught up in what we want instead of what we already have.
This time of year can be filled with lots of "I want this!" and "I need that!"
It can be tough on parents to teach kids about being thankful, and sometimes a visual reminder can go a long way.
"Good Morning America" worked with author, caterer and event planner Mary Giuliani to demonstrate how to make a few of these Thanksgiving creations.
(Laurel Wyatt ) Turkey on the Table is a great way to teach kids about gratitude.
The featherless turkey gets "dressed" as Thanksgiving approaches with individual feathers with notes of gratitude on each. On Thanksgiving Day, display the turkey as the centerpiece and read the notes. For each turkey purchased, 10 meals are provided to people in need. So far there have been nearly one million meals provided! Cost: $40. Available at Bed, Bath & Beyond, select Michael's stores and Amazon.
(Genevieve Brown/ABC News) The "thankful jar" is an easy project and centerpiece.
What to do with those pumpkins you never carved this Halloween? Turn it into a gratitude pumpkin! Every day, take your sharpie and write on the pumpkin what the kids are grateful for. Use it as the centerpiece for the Thanksgiving dinner table! Cost: free.
In the days leading up to Thanksgiving, have everyone in the family write down the things they are grateful or thankful for and put them in a jar. Everyone can take the time to write a note about each other person in the family. "I'm thankful for my mom driving me everywhere," or "I'm thankful my sister walks me to my classroom at school." Read them aloud over Thanksgiving dinner and everyone will come away feeling appreciated AND grateful. COST: free.
(Somewhat Simple) This Thanksgiving tablecloth will serve as a keepsake for years to come.
This year, start a tradition sure to become a family favorite for years to come. What starts out as a plain white tablecloth will in a few short years be filled with the memories of what your family was grateful for in years passed. Little kids can draw pictures, bigger kids can write out their thoughts. It's a gratitude lesson, keepsake and family heirloom all in one. We found this one on Somewhat Simple. Cost: about $10.
Immigration New Zealand is investigating how a privacy breach, in which a couple's passports were sent to the wrong person, could have happened.
The agency says the Auckland couple's passports were sent to another client on Wednesday after all three were granted residence visas.
Its Henderson office manager Wayne Levick says the person who received the passports alerted the agency almost immediately and the passports will be back with their rightful owners by Friday.
Mr Levick says he's called the couple to apologise for the mistake, which he says is very rare.
"Over the last nine months or so we've become aware of three incidents in total. None of those incidents are acceptable but in the context of 500,000 transactions it's definitely not a commonplace event."
The California State Capitol Museum will present an all new exhibit, debuting March 20, that looks at the fascinating 150-year history of the Golden State’s Capitol. Entitled “Building a Legacy – One Hundred and Fifty Years of the California State Capitol,” this exciting new exhibit examines both the construction and restoration of one of California’s grandest structures.
“More than a million visitors from around the world come to see our State Capitol every year and now, they’ll get the opportunity to learn about why they should take great pride in the State Capitol building and learn about some of its hidden stories,” said John Fraser, Capital District Superintendent, California State Parks.
The iconic California State Capitol has proudly served as the home to California’s Legislature and Governor since it was first occupied in 1869. Visitors will discover why the Capitol was almost not built at all, some of the major challenges faced during construction, and how it was nearly torn down to make way for a newer structure. The public will also have the opportunity to see never-before-exhibited artifacts and objects connected with the building’s history.
“Building a Legacy – One Hundred and Fifty Years of the California State Capitol” will be open to the general public from March 20, 2019 through March 20, 2020. The exhibit will be accessible to visitors seven-days-a-week between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. (except Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year holidays) and is free of charge. The California State Capitol Museum is located at 1315 – 10th Street in Sacramento; the exhibit is located in the first floor exhibit rooms in the historic west wing.
For further information and to learn more about this exhibit as well as other programs offered by the State Capitol Museum, please contact the California State Capitol Museum at (916) 324-0333 or visit CapitolMuseum.ca.gov.
MicroAge announced that revenue is expected to be over $1 billion for the fourth quarter ending November 3, a 30 percent increase over the same quarter last year. Revenue for the fiscal year ending the same day is expected be $3.5 billion. MicroAge is scheduled to officially announce its results on December 12.
Pamela Demarest appealed to the Town Board on March 22 not to change its zoning code, folding AA properties into the A designation that would affect side and front yard setbacks.
It’s back to the drawing board for a resolution aimed at changing AA zoning on Shelter Island to A zoning.
REPORTER FILE PHOTO Shelter Island Presbyterian Church.
I recall Louisville As a half forgotten dream Of old stone front mansions Where horses' hooves clopped Over rough cobblestones And out dusty lanes to the park. Behind wrought iron fences We children rolled hoops, Begged permission to buy pickles From an old wooden barrel At a store where candy In shining jars took us A long time to decide How to spend our pennies. At home there was fried chicken, Mashed potatoes and vegetables Served on silver platters And little tea sandwiches In tasty combinations I have not seen since, Followed by rich chocolates From far away Frankfort. Here and there a fountain or statue Dreams of the past where old mansions, Many now rooming houses, Reflect a haunting splendor. A breath away are concrete highways Lined with shiny cars and motels But here in this quaint court Light shines calmly Through latticed windows And if one listens closely He still can hear The slow clop, clop of the past.
Fol­low­ing yes­ter­day’s favourable rul­ing in the Ap­peal Court, Dr Kei­th Row­ley says once there are no le­gal ram­i­fi­ca­tions in place Petrotrin will pro­ceed with their re­struc­tur­ing plans.
Petrotrin, in fact, sent out no­tices to em­ploy­ees yes­ter­day that the process would be restart­ed.
De­spite this, the Prime Min­is­ter said Petrotrin was open to ne­go­ti­at­ing with the union.
He said the Gov­ern­ment had pur­sued ac­tion in the best in­ter­est of the coun­try.
“The best thing is to try to save some por­tion of the com­pa­ny, change the busi­ness mod­el,” he said.
“The board has looked at what (the OW­TU) put be­fore them on the in­struc­tion of the Gov­ern­ment, what­ev­er they put be­fore you con­sid­er it. It has been con­sid­ered and found not to be lo­gis­ti­cal­ly sound,” Row­ley said.
How­ev­er, the PM as­sured the re­struc­tur­ing would al­so ad­dress Petrotrin’s debts.
CINCINNATI, OH (FOX19) - The Cincinnati Reds showed up some of the newest additions at Great American Ball Park Friday in a special sneak preview.
Of the additions, the Fioptics District highlights one of the more impressive improvements at GABP.
This new entertainment destination located in the left field corner of the View Level includes the GigaBar and Rooftop.
A Fioptics District Ticket gives fans general admission access into sections 408-410, with both traditional ballpark seats as well as standing drink rails.
While the ticket includes the first drink, District ticket holders can enjoy a spacious, rooftop patio that is located on top of the GigaBar. The District Rooftop features lounge furniture, a 15-foot video board and panoramic views of downtown, as well as a ping pong table and corn hole boards.
Reds COO Phil Castellini told media Friday that the District area was his new favorite place of the ballpark. He said the District is meant for millennials who want to socialize and relax during the game.
The Reds have made an improvement to their new All-You-Can-Eat stand. The stand is located on the View Level down the first-base line behind section 530.
For $20 per person, fans can enjoy unlimited hot dogs, sodas, popcorn, peanuts and chips.
The All-You-Can-Eat pass can be purchased in advance or at the game and can be added to any game ticket.
Kids can enjoy a variety of new carnival themed games in the Fan Zone.
Games for kids include: Rosie's Ring Toss, Gapper's Hit-the-Mitt, Mr. Redlegs' Strike Zone and Mr. Red's Bottle Break-Up; Kids games are $2 per play to win Reds-themed prizes. Fans of all ages can also test their basketball shooting skills at the Throw Challenge, for $5 per play with 4 out of 5 baskets winning a custom Reds basketball or other prizes.
Arcade games have been added to the Machine Room Grille. Over a dozen of video and redemption arcade games from Scene75 Entertainment Center have been added to The Machine Room Grille located in the left field corner. Fans can load a game card to win e-tickets that can be redeemed for prizes at the redemption counter.
The Reds say they've also added upgrades to the Triple Play Suites located down the left field line and have added additional charging stations and power outlets for fans who need a little juice for their electronic portable device.
CBO has already warned that the fiscal cliff could throw the U.S. economy back in to recession. Now it has measured how individual provisions could hurt economic output and jobs.
The biggest threat posed by the $7 trillion fiscal cliff is that it could throw the U.S. economy into recession next year.
But how exactly? The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office on Thursday estimated the economic punch of different parts of the cliff -- a series of spending cuts and tax increases that starting taking effect in January.
They include reductions in both defense and non-defense spending; the expiration of the Bush tax cuts; the end of a payroll tax holiday and extended unemployment benefits; and the onset of reimbursement cuts to Medicare doctors.
Congress may choose to avert the cliff in whole or in part after what are expected to be fraught negotiations between President Obama and Congress, particularly House Republicans.
The fiscal cliff as a whole, if it went into effect for all of next year, could result in a drop of 0.5% in real gross domestic product, according to the CBO. And that contraction could push unemployment to 9.1% by the end of 2013.
The report looks at the short-term impact of different policy decisions that Congress may make to avoid parts of the cliff.
For example, Congress could choose to protect 27 million taxpayers from paying the Alternative Minimum Tax and extend the Bush tax cuts along with other expiring tax cuts. Such a move could boost real growth by 1.4% and increase employment by 1.8 million by the end of 2013, while adding $330 billion to the deficit, CBO estimates.
If Congress chose to do the same thing but not extend the Bush tax cuts on income over $200,000 ($250,000 if married), as President Obama has proposed, that could boost output by 1.3% and add 1.6 million jobs. The deficit under such a scenario would be $288 billion higher.
Should lawmakers opt to cancel the non-defense spending cuts and avert the scheduled payment cuts to Medicare doctors, real GDP could be 0.4% higher and employment boosted by 400,000 by the end of 2013. Those policies would add $40 billion to next year's deficit.
If the fiscal cliff were averted altogether -- minus an extension of the payroll tax holiday and expanded unemployment benefits -- real GDP would be 2.2% higher and there would be 2.7 million more jobs next year. The deficit would increase by $395 billion.
At the same time, the country can't afford to put off fiscal tightening for too long. The growth in federal debt, which is already at its highest point since 1950, would continue to rise much faster than the economy -- and that would hurt growth.
"Such a path for federal debt could not be sustained indefinitely, so policy changes would be required at some point," the CBO said.
The cloud office suite gets a little smarter and more helpful with new features using artificial intelligence.
G Suite, Google's rebranded and refurbished set of cloud office tools previously known as Google Apps for Work, is getting a little smarter and more helpful. Google announced Wednesday it's adding a series of new productivity-boosting features to the office suite.
First, Google Docs is getting an upgrade with Action Items, a way to assign tasks to colleagues from within a document. If a user types in a phrase like "Andrea to schedule a weekly check in" on desktop, Docs will use natural language processing to intelligently suggest an Action Item to assign to the right person. A user can also manually assign an Action item from Docs, Sheets, and Slides desktop and mobile apps by mentioning a person's name in a comment and checking the "new Action item" box. The person getting the new assignment receives an email notification and will see the Action item highlighted when they open the file.
Meanwhile, when a user opens Docs, Sheets, Slides, or Drive, they'll see a badge on any items with an Action item assigned or any unresolved suggestions others have made to their files.
Next, Google is using machine-learning and neural networks to help predict the type of question a user should ask in Google Forms and suggest potential responses. For instance, if a user types "What days are you available next week?", Forms will intelligently identify this as a "checkbox" question type and generate potential response options.
This new feature saves users about 25 percent of the time they'd previously spend drafting questions for Forms, Google says. The company was able to build the feature after identifying common patterns in Forms from the more than 1 billion questions that have been asked in the tool since its launch in 2008.
Google is also expanding the functionality of "voice typing" in Docs, allowing users to do things like changing the text color in a document or adding links, all by voice.
Lastly, Google Docs has a new integration with Slack, allowing Slack users to click the "+" button and bring files from Google Drive into a Slack conversation. Users can also create new Docs, Sheets, and Slides files right from Slack.
Tensions between the U.S. and China flared again on Sunday as two U.S. Navy warships cruised near South China Sea islands claimed by Beijing.
The guided-missile destroyer Higgins and the guided-missile cruiser Antietam sailed within 12 nautical miles of the disputed Paracel Islands during a scheduled freedom of navigation operation, Reuters reported.
The Pentagon criticized what it called China’s “continued militarization” of island outposts in the disputed South China Sea, where the Chinese air force landed long-range bombers for the first time, putting entire Southeast Asia within their range.
The move angered Chinese officials, who claim the island group as sovereign territory.
China’s Defense Ministry said it sent ships and aircraft to warn the U.S. vessels to leave the area. The U.S. military did not directly comment on the incident, but maintained its right to conduct routine and regular FONOPS in the region.
During a stop in Hawaii to mark a change in leadership at U.S. Pacific Command, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Tuesday that the U.S. will continue to confront China's militarization of manmade islands in the South China Sea.
Mattis said Beijing hasn’t abided by its promise not to put weapons on the Spratly Islands.
He said American ships are maintaining a “steady drumbeat” of naval operations around disputed islands, and “only one country” seems to be bothered by the vessels’ activities.
China has controlled the Paracels entirely since violently seizing Vietnam's holdings in the area in 1974. Called "Xisha" in Chinese, the islands have been incorporated into the southern province of Hainan and are being developed for tourism, as well as being equipped with weapon systems meant to enforce China's claim to virtually the entire South China Sea.
How far can China’s long-range missiles reach in the South China Sea?
China’s deployment of long-range missiles to its artificial islands in the disputed South China Sea could further consolidate and enhance the country’s physical control over the region.
The Chinese air force announced two months ago that it had landed long-range H-6K bombers on islands in the South China Sea.
That announcement came not long after China deployed advanced fighter jets to the contested region for the first time on public record.
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German drugs and lab supplies maker Merck KGaA offered $5.9 billion, including debt, for Versum Materials, in a cash deal that tops an offer from U.S. rival Entegris, as both seek to boost their electrochemicals operations.
Shares in electronic materials maker Versum soared 18.7 percent to close at $49.13 on Wednesday, while shares in Merck lost 4.2 percent and Entegris fell 2.7 percent.
Merck said it planned to buy Versum for $48 per share - or $5.2 billion excluding debt - for a premium of 16 percent to Tuesday’s closing price and of 52 percent to the share price before Entegris’ offer.
Entegris announced a $4 billion all-stock deal in January, saying it wanted to create a big chemical supplier to the semiconductor market at a time when the industry is under pressure.
Versum said in a statement on Wednesday that it “continues to believe in the strategic and financial rationale of the proposed merger of equals with Entegris,” but its advisers will also thoroughly review the Merck proposal.
Entegris’ combination with Versum “is highly complementary and strategically compelling”, Entegris Chief Executive Bertrand Loy said in a statement.
Shares in Versum, spun off from Air Products in 2016, fell 27 percent in 2018 as demand for microchips used in smartphones and other personal devices plateaued and a decade-long rally in U.S. stock markets wobbled.
Merck is building a high-tech chemicals division, called Performance Materials, that caters to the electronics industry and will complement its shrinking liquid crystals business.
The liquid crystals business used to enjoy operating income margins of 40-50 percent but is now under pressure from Chinese rivals.
Merck has said Performance Materials would return to growth in 2020, thanks to restructuring measures.
Family controlled Merck is diversified across three separate businesses, including a healthcare unit, which stems from a collaboration deal with GSK, and a life science division that makes supplies and gear for biotech labs.
To bolster its Performance Materials division, Merck in 2014 bought Britain’s AZ Electronic Materials for 1.9 billion euros.
Merck said it was ready to proceed immediately to due diligence and to quickly agree a deal, adding it did not need its own shareholders to approve a transaction.
“The transaction that Versum recently disclosed significantly undervalues Versum,” Merck Chief Executive Stefan Oschmann said in a letter to Versum’s board of directors.
“Instead of the speculative value offered by the Entegris transaction, the all-cash proposal would deliver immediate and certain cash value to Versum stockholders and employees”, he added.
The proposed deal would value Versum at 13.3 times its 2018 earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization, Oschmann said, adding he anticipated no regulatory problems.
Merck expects the deal, which it said will reap cost synergies of about 60 million euros annually, to close in the second half of 2019.