the largse lake

the beautiful large lake

philippine flooding

Blaming is not quite the solution of the problem. The main reason why manila is always experiencing this kind of calamities it is because the people leaving in this place are already contaminated with different bad doing. Maybe this is the lesson to our ALMIGHTY GOD that people should already repent by their SINS because the second coming of our ALMIGHTY FATHER is past approaching. This calamities is only an alarming to us people. We will not ignore the fact that we are not doing our part as the CHILDREN of GOD. Kaya tayong lahat kung gusto natin na hindi magalit ang ating AMA sa LANGIT magbago at magbalik loob na TAYO sa KANYA. Sana matutu na tayo sa ating mga nagawang MALI.Huwag na tayong magsisihan......Sana Lahat ng government official from PRESIDENT down to lower position of the government will serve sa ating bansa HONESTLY and GOD FEARING SERVANT OF THE PEOPLE.......GOD BLESS US ALL.

Tropical Storm Ketsana locally known as Ondoy causes massive flooding in Northern Philippines.

amazing Banyan Tree

You are looking at the picture of an amazing Banyan Tree. When I did more research into the Banyan Tree I discovered many fascinating things that have supported my thoughts during the past 10 days.

As I have pondered where My Power Mall is going in the months and years ahead, my thoughts and focus kept returning to our ROOTS. It was almost 3 years ago that I was sitting in a small Mexican restaurant, stranded by howling 80 mph winds that made driving impossible. As I ate my lunch I was pondering how to spread the message of Together We Can Change The World. I was pondering how to finance all the things the TWCCTW Founding Members dream of doing in the world. From those ponderings came the creation of My Power Mall.

We have given you everything you need to create financial freedom for yourself if you truly want it. We have created the most powerful mall on the Internet. We have tweaked and perfected a compensation plan that offers success to the average person. Person after person is amazed at the lengths we have gone to in order to provide you so many tools to build your business. I am constantly amazed at how many people don't pick them up and use them. :) However, I've realized I can't be responsible for your life. I can only be responsible for my life and for the direction and focus of My Power Mall & Together We Can Change The World.

It's really quite simple... My Power Mall only exists to spread the message, tools and gifts of Together We Can Change The World across the globe. Sadly, we have gotten away from some of that as we have totally absorbed ourselves in My Power Mall for the last 2 1/2 years. I don't regret it because it has created so many wonderful relationships, wonderful tools, and has developed such an amazing company. But now we have to swing the pendulum back to create balance.

My vision is to spread the free E-books from Together We Can Change The World Publishing to every country in the world - putting them into millions of people's hands.

My vision is to mobilize millions to be involved in Together We Can Change The World Day - putting into use the 1400 ideas we have created for them to use.

My vision is to explode Together We Can Change The World activities all over the globe - spreading our message that TOGETHER we really can CHANGE THE WORLD!

Take a good look at the Banyon Tree above. Are you looking at the tree or roots that have become so thick you can't distinguish between the two? I don't know. That's the magic of the Banyon Tree. There is one in Hawaii that has expanded so much from its roots that it covers 2/3's of an acre! ONE TREE!

Brian Aldiss, in his novel Hothouse, describes a future Earth where a single huge banyan covers half of the globe, because individual trees discover the ability to join together.

Can I repeat that? ...describes a future Earth where a single huge banyan covers half of the globe, because individual trees discover the ability to join together.

Isn't that what we're all about? Together We Can Change The World is all about helping individuals discover what a huge difference they can make if they will just choose to put aside their differences and join TOGETHER to make a difference!

As we move forward in the life of our company you can expect to be challenged more. You can expect to be asked if you made a difference with your life today. Do I want you to make money? YES! The more money you make, the more money we will have to fulfill our purpose. However, the season when 100% of our focus was on creating My Power Mall has ended. We will always continue to work to make it better. We will always be committed to keeping it the best company on the Internet. You have my word on that.

But the time has come to go back to our roots - to remember why we exist. It's time to come together and truly make a difference in the world - not just through our shopping but also through how we live our lives!

As always, we are leading the way...

- One month from today I will be in Portland, Maine for the first ever Together We Can Change The World Walk - created to support a local charity and spread the message of TWCCTW. It will just be the first - with every step of the process documented by our T-Day Director, Andrea Corbett, so each of you can duplicate her effort if you want to.

Who will join us in Portland? I would love to meet many of you, but mostly I would just love to Walk with you to make a DIFFERENCE!

- While I'm in Maine I will also be helping launch the first Together We Can Change The World Clubs in schools. Andrea is already creating a National Board of Teachers, Principals and Educators who are eager to help us move this forward. My vision? To see TWCCTW Clubs in every school in America - providing them with every tool they need to make a difference and then mobilizing them on T-Day to get involved in their communities.

- Andrea, who has really been on a roll :), has also been accepted at a local mall for 4 weeks in a row to hold a Bone Marrow Donor Drive. This one is especially near and dear to my heart. Many of you know that Suess Karlsson, one of the SBIY contributing writers, is also my best friend - a relationship spanning 30 years. What you may not know is that she has a form of lukemia that is currently in remission after aggressive chemotherapy, but is also a type of lukemia that is not curable - meaning the odds are that it will return. IF it does she will need to have a Bone Marrow transplant. She has discovered her only living sibling is not a match - meaning that she will have to find her match from a database of donors available. Countless people are waiting for that "magic person" to be found.

TWCCTW is going to hold MANY Bone Marrow Donor Drives across the country - utilizing the model prototype Andrea is working to create in Maine. How many of you would be willing to hold a Drive - make a difference, share TWCCTW, and also have a chance to share how MPM can finance more things like this just by people shopping?

- We will continue our One-Cause-At-A-Time Program; contributing 6% of company profits to designated children and causes.

- We will continue to reach out to every Non-Profit or charitable organization in the world - sharing our tools and resources - along with the message of My Power Mall to all those who want to use it.

- We will continue to educate parents on how to secure their children's future with a My Power Mall membership.

- Most importantly, we will continue to explore every way we can to make a difference in our World - touching and inspiring as many individuals as possible along the way!

source; http://corporatempm.homestead.com/Update9-18-2009.html#anchor_2544

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Animal welfare

The issue of rearing livestock for human benefit raises the issue of the relationship between humans and animals, in terms of the status of animals and obligations of people. Animal welfare is the viewpoint that animals under human care should be treated in such a way that they do not suffer unnecessarily. What is ‘unnecessary’ suffering may vary. Generally though, the animal welfare perspective is based on an interpretation of scientific research on farming practices. By contrast, Animal rights is the viewpoint that using animals for human benefit is, by its nature, generally exploitation regardless of the farming practice used. It is a position based on anthropomorphism, in which individuals seek to place themselves in the position of an animal. Animal rights activists would generally be vegan or vegetarian, whereas it is consistent with the animal welfare perspective to eat meat depending on production processes.

Animal welfare groups generally seek to generate public discussion on livestock rearing practices and secure greater regulation and scrutiny of livestock industry practices. Animal rights groups usually seek the abolition of livestock farming, although some groups may recognise the necessity of achieving more stringent regulation first. Animal welfare groups, such as the RSPCA, are often – in first world countries - given a voice at governmental level in the development of policy. Animal rights groups find it harder to find methods of input, and may go further and advocate civil disobedience or violence.

A number of animal husbandry practices that have led to legislation in some countries have been the subject of campaigns in the 1990s and 2000s. Confinement of livestock in small and unnatural spaces is often done for economic or health reasons. Animals may be kept in the minimum size of cage or pen with little or no space to exercise or engage in normal actions or grooming. Close confinement is most common with chickens, pigs, and calves raised for veal. Unnatural living environments may be used for some animals. Even when allowed to move, animals may be denied a natural environment. For example, ducks may be kept in free-range barns but have no access to water in which to swim. Cattle may be kept in barns with no chance to graze. Overuse of pharmaceuticals and hormones is also an issue in large agricultural operations. Intensive raising of livestock may lead to a health problems and the necessity to use antibiotics to prevent disease. In some cases antibiotics and hormones are also fed to livestock to produce rapid weight gain.

Overwork and exhaustion of animals: Where livestock are used as a source of power they may be pushed beyond their limits to the point of exhaustion. The public visibility of this abuse meant it was one of the first areas to receive legislation in the nineteenth century in European countries but it still goes on in parts of Asia. Modification to the bodies of living animals: Broiler hens may be de-beaked, pigs have deciduous teeth pulled, cattle de-horned and branded, dairy cows and sheep have tails cropped, merino sheep mulesed, many types of male animals castrated. Long distance transportation of livestock: Animals may be transported long distances to market and slaughter. Overcrowded conditions, heat from tropical-area shipping and lack of food, water and rest breaks have been subject to legislation and protest. (See Live Export) Slaughter of livestock: Slaughter was an early target for legislation. Campaigns continue to target Halal and Kosher religious ritual slaughter.

Livestock

Livestock is the term used to refer (singularly or plurally) to a domesticated animal intentionally reared in an agricultural setting to produce things such as food or fibre, or for its labour. The term as used in this article does not include poultry or farmed fish; however the inclusion of these, especially poultry, within the meaning of 'livestock' is common.

Livestock may be raised for subsistence or for profit. Raising animals (animal husbandry) is an important component of modern agriculture. It has been practiced

Origins

Animal-rearing has its origins in the transition of societies to settled farming communities rather than hunter-gatherer lifestyles. Animals are ‘domesticated’ when their breeding and living conditions are controlled by humans. Over time, the collective behaviour, life cycle, and physiology of livestock have changed radically. Many modern farm animals are unsuited to life in the wild. Dogs were domesticated in East Asia about 15,000 years ago, Goats and sheep were domesticated around 8000 BCE in Asia.[citation needed] Swine or pigs were domesticated by 7000 BCE in the Middle East and China . The earliest evidence of horse domestication dates to around 4000 BCE
Types

The term "livestock" is nebulous and may be defined narrowly or broadly. On a broader view, livestock refers to any breed or population of animal kept by humans for a useful, commercial purpose. This can mean domestic animals, semi-domestic animals, or captive wild animals. Semi-domesticated refers to animals which are only lightly domesticated or of disputed status. These populations may also be in the process of domestication. Some people may use the term livestock to refer just to domestic animals or even just to red meat animals.

Animal rearing
A Brown Swiss cow in the Swiss Alps

‘Livestock’ are defined, in part, by their end purpose as the production of food or fiber, or labour.

The economic value of livestock includes:

Meat the production of a useful form of dietary protein and energy.
Dairy products
Mammalian livestock can be used as a source of milk, which can in turn easily be processed into other dairy products such as yogurt, cheese, butter, ice cream, kefir, and kumis. Using livestock for this purpose can often yield several times the food energy of slaughtering the animal outright.
Fiber
Livestock produce a range of fiber/textiles. For example, sheep and goats produce wool and mohair; cows, deer, and sheep can make leather; and bones, hooves and horns of livestock can be used.
Fertilizer
Manure can be spread on fields to increase crop yields. This is an important reason why historically, plant and animal domestication have been intimately linked. Manure is also used to make plaster for walls and floors and can be used as a fuel for fires. The blood and bone of animals are also used as fertilizer.
Labour
Animals such as horses, donkey, and yaks can be used for mechanical energy. Prior to steam power livestock were the only available source of non-human labour. They are still used for this purpose in many places of the world, including ploughing fields, transporting goods, and military functions.
Land management
The grazing of livestock is sometimes used as a way to control weeds and undergrowth. For example, in areas prone to wild fires, goats and sheep are set to graze on dry scrub which removes combustible material and reduces the risk of fires.

During the history of animal husbandry many secondary products have arisen in an attempt to increase carcass utilization and reduce waste. For example, animal offal and non-edible parts may be transformed into products such as pet food and fertilizer. In the past such waste products were sometimes also fed to livestock as well. However, intra-species recycling poses a disease risk, threatening animal and even human health (see bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), scrapie and prion). Due primarily to BSE (mad cow disease), feeding animal scraps to animals has been banned in many countries, at least in regards to ruminants and pigs.