This HSSV (Humane Society of Silicon Valley) is rare in that it never puts an animal down. It gets all of them adopted. It does so by accepting no government money, which comes with strings about getting rid of animals.
They have a lot of animals now due to unemployment.
I have friends who work at the fine Humane Society of Silicon Valley.
They care about and save many fine animals constantly.
Kathy Griffin and Steve Wozniak served as King and Queen of their Fur Ball last year.
If you click to vote they get a buck. This money goes a long way.
Humane Society of Silicon Valley in Santa Clara, California.
Let’s stuff the ballot box for Humane Society Silicon Valley!
Looks like only one vote per
email address, so pass to your friends:
http://www.care2.com/animalsheltercontest/71541
Here’s my process in making important, life changing decisions. It requires a strong sense of imagination, and the ability to live in that imagination so much as to make it literally real.
For each option or path you have, most people would imagine what would happen if they go down that path, and whichever yields closer to that ultimate goal, is the decision to make. Ok, sounds simple, but in practice, quite difficult. Sometimes when the outcome actually happens, it’s possesses other elements not imagined. You feel different about the situation, which would then make you question your original choice when you took that particular path.
The reason it’s difficult is perhaps we have not pushed this concept of ‘imagining’ far enough. What I’m suggesting is not only to simply imagine the consequences of each option, but to fully embrace each path - to sincerely live it, smell it, breath it, and make it real. One must imagine it to it’s entirely, not just half way, and then look at the ultimate goal from that angle. There are risk/reward ratios associated to every option, and how near or far a goal becomes depending on our decisions.
The kicker is then, while imagining yourself emersed while at the end of each extreme case senario, to then ask:
‘ok, what was the learning lesson here?’
It is the answer from this question here, that will assure the real choice to make from the original list of options.
I found this picture on http://www.dylancolestudio.com and it’s easy to be in awe. But I’m thinking about why we are so impressed. Perhaps it’s because all the pieces required to create such a thing - the engineering, design, capital, how many workers it may have took, etc, all combined put us in an impressed state of mind.
But seen another way, with consideration of nature and mother earth, it does in fact looks quite vile. I wonder what other species of animals think when they see such sites that humans have made. So then I believe when we are in awe, it’s not so much about the splendor and how beautiful it connects with earth - but rather, the capacity of humans.
Perhaps the reason why I write this has something to do with all this financial downturn. Though I’ve always had this idea when I look at cities as a plane starts to land, or going through San Francisco. Events such as these make us all re-evaluate everything.
It’s been millions of years since our human mind have existed. If we are to build and design, we must have a sense of connection, harmony, and beauty with the world we live. Unfortunately, this is an impossibility when attached to every building is a valuation. Is it possible to evolve to make this a more beautiful place? This here feels like anarchy against nature and it’s just so disgusting. Perhaps if we had a monetary system that was more pure, our world would be the same.
So I’m trying to take advantage of the special offer over at: http://mcguireslaw.com/2008/07/16/psst-have-you-heard-about-everything-plus/
This has been the WORST experience in getting a new phone I’ve ever had. Being a sprint member for 3 years now seems to have made no difference. I had placed an order on Sept 22nd. Because of mis information, they asked me to re-order again.
All the while, Metro PCS’s number we’re about to port through has only a couple days to capture the number. We re-order, but now they flag this order as possible fraud because I had used the same SSN as I was supposed to on the previous order. They tell me the fraud department will review it and will take up to 4-6 hours. I call back 6 hours, and they tell me to call back in additional 6 more hours. I am then on the phone for half a day from all the wait they put me through just to get this fraud cleared.
They end up not calling me back all weekend. On monday, I am on the phone with them all day to get the matter cleared and to have the number ported through. They tell me everything looks good and that I should expect my phone Oct 1st (today).
So I wonder when my phone is coming, I call in for a tracking number. Turns out they’ve yet again, canceled my account. When I ask why, they tell me they cannot tell me….
You can imagine the stress I’m going through, the embarrassment of the recipient I’m buying this for, the stress from the recipient as we try to keep that Metro PCS phone number alive to port through, the back and forth of funds in my account, and all the time on the phone, countless representatives wasted just to order this online.
They are now telling me I have to come into a branch and order it. And as you know, it would be impossible then to take advantage of the Everything Plus plan if I did that.
So I contact Russ, the owner of the special sprint offer above, and he refers me to Sharon. She takes care of everything, and it turns out to be a pleasent ending. Nevertheless, getting a phone online shouldn’t have been this hard : T
