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Texas woman raises $10,000 on Facebook to help dog that was SHOT REPEATEDLY in the face

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A dog that was shot several times in the face with a shotgun and thrown away in a garbage bag is on the road to recovery thanks to the efforts of one Texas woman, who raised more than $10,000 for the canine's medical care.

Tami Augustyn took the 60-to-70 pound dog to an emergency clinic Saturday after a neighbor in Conroe, Texas spotted the garbage bag tied to a fence on a road. The garbage bag was moving.

The clinic was able to stabilize the dog, who doctors say may have suffered some brain damage and permanent loss of his vision. But Buck, as he is now called, is going to get the help he needs.
"Today he's great," Augustyn told the Daily News on Tuesday. "He's very happy when he sees me, when he hears my voice."
Buck may be home with her now, but Augustyn had genuine fears about the dog's future when she realized she did not have the money to cover Buck's medical expenses.

She created a Facebook page in order to raise funds. When the Montgomery County Police Reporter did a story on Buck, the money started pouring in.

Augustyn said the donations reached more than $10,000 the last time she checked on Monday night.

"I was shocked," she said.

Buck will now get all the medical attention he needs. Augustyn plans to take him to an ophthalmologist on Wednesday, something she could only dream of doing a few days ago. She also plans on using the money to create The Buck Foundation, which will focus on helping abused dogs.
Fate may have had a hand in putting them together. When neighbors found Buck, they were not able to reach animal control. If they had been, Augustyn said it's possible Buck might have been put to sleep.

Augustyn has always had a passion for helping animals. She said she recently saved three starving puppies on the side of the road, and helped an ailing horse find a home. But she’s formed a special bond with Buck, and plans on keeping him for herself.

"What I did with Buck was no different than what I did a million times, except this dog was in a garbage bag tied to a t-post," she said.

Spend for growth

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If you think the United States’ policies are to be blamed for the global financial uncertainty, think again.

Nobel laureate in Economics Joseph Stig-litz feels it is the structural shift in the global economy, especially in the developed economies that has caused the crisis and thinks that the governments take lead in finding solution to it.
“The financial crisis represents structural changes taking place in the global economy. The world is shifting from a manufacturing-based economy to that of a services-based one. The Great Depression was also due to structural changes, which were witnessed when there was a shift from agriculture to manufacturing,” Dr Stig-litz said here on Friday.
A staunch critic of self-regulation for markets, Dr Stiglitz said the world was able to get out of the Great Depression due to the World War II, which increased government spending on armaments (also reconstruction) ser-ved as an industrial stimulus to the developed world.
“But now (when the world faces a crisis of similar magnitude), governments are cutting spe-nding, making the pros-pects of recovery bleaker,” the Columbia Univ-ersity Professor said.
Reacting to the calls of spending cuts, Dr Stiglitz said the growth can achi-eved by higher government spending and higher taxes.
“A cut in government spending cannot be solution. It will worsen the situation,” he explained.
“Scandinavian countries — Denmark, Norw-ay and Sweden — are best examples of sustainable growth and welfare economy,” the Columbia Uni-versity Professor said.

Right now it has to be the safest school in America' Parents and students of Sandy Hook Elementary get private tour of new building a day before classes begin

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MONROE, Conn. -- The children who escaped last month's shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., have been welcomed with their parents at a school in a neighboring town that was overhauled specially for them.
And their new school is being renamed for their old one.
Newtown Schools Superintendent Janet Robinson said Wednesday the change is appropriate because "they are the Sandy Hook family." She spoke after a private open house for the families at the former Chalk Hill School in Monroe.
It was the students' first time in a classroom since Dec. 14, when a gunman killed 20 students and six educators. Classes resume Thursday.
Numerous police officers were at their new school Wednesday. Monroe Police Lt. Keith White said, "I think right now it has to be the safest school in America."

The road leading to the school in a rural, largely residential neighborhood was lined with signs greeting the students, saying "Welcome Sandy Hook Elementary School" and "Welcome. You are in our prayers." Several police cars were parked outside the school.
Teams of workers, many of them volunteers, prepared the former Chalk Hill middle school with fresh paint and new furniture and even raised bathroom floors so the smaller elementary school students can reach the toilets. The students' desks, backpacks and other belongings that were left behind following the shooting were taken to the new school to make them feel at home.
Counselors say it's important for children to get back to a normal routine and for teachers and parents to offer sensitive reassurances.

One parent, Robert Bazuro, said he is pleased his second- and fourth-graders are going back to school on Thursday.
"We're very happy the kids are going back and we're very thankful for Monroe for everything they've done for us," said Bazuro, who was with his children at a Newtown barbershop.
 When classes start, schools Superintendent Janet Robinson said teachers will try to make it as normal a school day as possible for the children.

"We want to get back to teaching and learning," she said. "We will obviously take time out from the academics for any conversations that need to take place, and there will be a lot of support there. All in all, we want the kids to reconnect with their friends and classroom teachers, and I think that's going to be the healthiest thing."

Now, RSS' Mohan Bhagwat makes derogatory comments against women, says rapes happen in India, not Bharat

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New Delhi Defending Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat's controversial remark that rapes hardly take place in "Bharat", but they occur frequently in "India", RSS spokesperson Ram Madhav on Friday said "we have great respect for women."
"The statement of RSS chief should be taken in proper perspective. He (Bhagwat) has already demanded strict punishment for rapists and even called for death penalty if required," Madhav said.

"All that he said is that in Indian tradition we have great respect for women and we should learn to uphold this tradition. If one goes away from this tradition it will result in rise of crime against women," he added.

Addressing a citizens' meet here on Tuesday during his four-day visit to Silchar, Bhagwat criticized "western" lifestyle of people in urban areas and said, without empirical evidence to back such a claim, that rape is prevalent mainly in cities where Indians are deeply influenced by western values and not by rural India.

"You go to villages and forests of the country and there will be no such incidents of gangrape or sex crimes. They are prevalent in some urban belts. Besides new legislations, Indian ethos and attitude towards women should be revisited in the context of ancient Indian values," he added.

However, Bhagwat said he wanted stringent laws in sexual crimes against women and will favour capital punishment for those convicted of rape.

English education triggers suicides, murders: Mumbai top cop

Mumbai Police Commissioner Satyapal Singh had earlier said that there was a direct link between school and college education and murders and suicides, and students who study in English-medium institutions are especially vulnerable.

“In Mumbai, if there are 150 murders, there are eight times (more) suicides. All of the perpetrators are educated people. I have never seen an uneducated person committing suicide. I have researched this even while I was police commissioner in Pune. There were engineers and IT professionals committing suicide,” Singh had said.

“Most suicides,” Singh had reportedly said, “are committed by those who have studied in the English medium. I have never heard of or seen a Sanskrit-medium educated person committing suicide. And it is a known fact that more and more people are today sending their children to English-medium schools”.

Singh had blamed crime in cities like Mumbai and Delhi on flaws in the education system.

“Jo Delhi ka case hua ya phir Mumbai ke andar jo case hote hain, uske peechhe bhi jo... isko main sanskriti nahin kehta, usko main asanskriti bolta hoon... woh asanskriti ka parinaam hai... Hamare schools aur college ke andar jo shiksha di jaati hai... sanskaarheen shiksha di jaati hai. Jeevangun koi sikhaata nahin hai. (What has happened in Delhi or what happens in Mumbai, it is the consequence of the absence of culture. The education that is imparted in our schools and colleges is devoid of cultural content. Life values are not taught.)”

Happy New Year! Celebrities flock to the surf and slopes to ring in 2013

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From the slopes to the surf, celebs finished off 2012 in the lap of luxury ... "Twilight" beauty Ashley Greene went retro in a high-waisted bikini while vacationing in Puerto Vallerta, Mexico on New Year's Day.

Facebook's Poke app can't beat rival in race to lure sexting teens

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Facebook’s latest app, Poke, can’t compete with rival Snapchat, despite proof the messages taken with both apps aren’t so self-destructing after all.
Snapchat’s allure is the ability to send photos and videos that exist just a few seconds before they supposedly vanish from the recipient’s phone — making the app popular among sexting teens who don’t want to leave behind any evidence of their X-rated pics.
Snapchat is the fourth most popular app on the iTunes charts.
Smartphone users haven’t been so keen on Poke, Facebook’s recent attempt to match the popular app.
Introduced two weeks ago, it’s yet to break into iTunes top 100.
The apps are similar. Both allow users to take photos or videos that disappear between one and ten seconds after they’re sent to friends.
If a recipient tries to take a screengrab of the secret message, both apps shoot an alert to the sender.
Once the self-selected time runs out, the photo or video is gone from both phones — unless the sender chose to save it before sending.
But recent reports highlight how users can out-smart the apps.
By plugging their phone into a computer and using a file manager program like iFunBox, anyone can search for a file they were sent and save it before it’s even opened.
Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel told Buzzfeed that “there will always be a way to reverse engineer technology products,” but says the company is working on a way to fix the glitch.
Facebook encouraged Poke users to be aware of what they’re sending through the app, as “there are still ways that people can potentially save them.”

SEE Channing Tatum and wife show off buff bods on St. Barts beach

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The 32-year-old actor showed off the abs that received top billing in this summer's "Magic Mike" Thursday while on a romantic St. Barts getaway with his pregnant wife, Jenna Dewan-Tatum.
Dewan-Tatum, 32, wasn't exactly chopped liver, looking bewitching in a purple sarong and an orange bikini that showed off a slight swell of her emerging baby bump. The child, which reportedly came as a bit of a surprise to the Hollywood hotties, will be the couple's first.
Jenna Dewan-Tatum and Channing Tatum are pleased to announce that they are expecting the birth of their first child next year," a rep for the actor told Us Weekly on Dec. 17.
On Christmas Day, Tatum posted a picture of himself caressing his wife's stomach, After starring in four movies this year — including "Haywire" and "The Vow" — and with another four scheduled for release in 2013, he has also said he will take an extended break around the birth of his child.
"I'm ready; I think she's ready (for a baby)," Tatum told People when the magazine named him "The Sexiest Man Alive" earlier this year. "The first number that pops into my head is three, but I just want one to be healthy and then we'll see where we go after that.
But on their tropical vacation at least, the couple, who met on the set of 2006’s "Step Up" playing on-screen lovers and married in 2009, only had eyes for each other.
Photographers captured the tender side of the "21 Jump Street" star as he cradled Dewan-Tatum in an embrace on the white-sand beach.

$500 million in checks found at Jerusalem’s Western Wall

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Holy Powerball.
For centuries, worshippers have been tucking slips containing written prayers into the cracks of Jerusalem’s Western Wall. On Wednesday, one man found an answer he wasn’t expecting.
The man came to the wall to pray for financial security, according to the Jerusalem Post. He found an envelope at the site stuffed with checks that added up to $500 million dollars.
There were 507 checks total, signed and written for about $1 million each. Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, who oversees the Wall, said most of them were Nigerian, but some came from the United States, Europe, and Asia.
The checks weren’t addressed to anyone and they probably can’t be cashed in
The man, working through a lawyer, took the envelope to the police. A spokesperson said the police were investigating whether the checks were forged.
This isn’t the first time such holy checks have surfaced. Rabinovitch said he has found checks in the Wall’s charity boxes before, mostly written by worshippers from Africa. All of those checks bounced.
Rabinovitch said he believes the check writers had good intentions. He thinks they “wanted to give all they had to the Creator of the Universe.”

Facebook named ‘best place to work’ by its employees

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Forget “like” — most Facebook employees absolutely love working for the company, a new survey found.
The social media network topped this year’s list of the 50 best places to work in jobs and careers site Glassdoor.com’s fifth annual Employees’ Choice Awards.
Facebook earned an average score of 4.7 out of a maximum of 5, with employees lauding the company for its “fun” and challenging work environment, its global impact on society — and their admiration for CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
“Facebook is really thriving as a place to work, and much of that can be attributed to Mark Zuckerberg, whose approval rating among employees is up to 99% this year,” Glassdoor spokeswoman Samantha Zupan told the Daily News.
“You see they all talk about the great culture there and certainly the perks also, but it’s a unique atmosphere when you know your work is impacting nearly a billion people.”
It was the second time in the past three years the California company was rated No. 1.
Starbucks came in last in Glassdoor’s survey, which has workers rate the pros and cons of their companies anonymously.
Among the most common Starbucks cons: low pay, bad managers — and dealing with rude customers.