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It depends on the house you live in. We live on a 9th floor, don't intend to move so a small dog is best. I also have an allergy to pet hair (when I am around my sister's dog, my sinuses start to hurt so I am limited to the kind of dog I can have (must have hair not fur).

Poodle, Bichon Frise etc are the types that work for me. I had a black miniature poodle when I was young and now we have a black/tan miniature poodle who is almost 14 years old. Contessa would like a standard poodle but probably won't meet criteria of our condo bylaws.
 
TheCountofMonteCristo said:
It depends on the house you live in. We live on a 9th floor, don't intend to move so a small dog is best. I also have an allergy to pet hair (when I am around my sister's dog, my sinuses start to hurt so I am limited to the kind of dog I can have (must have hair not fur).

Poodle, Bichon Frise etc are the types that work for me. I had a black miniature poodle when I was young and now we have a black/tan miniature poodle who is almost 14 years old. Contessa would like a standard poodle but probably won't meet criteria of our condo bylaws.
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I thought you were a big shot lawyer? What are you doing living in a condo?

Also, I'm not surprised about the bolded. In fact, I was going to guess those exact breeds in a previous post.
 
Small dogs are great....I have a pug that is hilarious.
But big dogs are also cool...our second dog is a Great Dane.

This is her at 3 months age (she is now 10 months).

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and at about 7 months....

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JaysCyYoung said:
I thought you were a big shot lawyer? What are you doing living in a condo?

Also, I'm not surprised about the bolded. In fact, I was going to guess those exact breeds in a previous post.
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My choice of residence is based on the fact I don't want to worry about cutting lawns, roofing and stuff like that, I will leave that to people like you. I can also then afford to spend 20000 a year on holidays and put my son in whatever sport he wants without having to worry about the cost.
 
TheCountofMonteCristo said:
My choice of residence is based on the fact I don't want to worry about cutting lawns, roofing and stuff like that, I will leave that to people like you. I can also then afford to spend 20000 a year on holidays and put my son in whatever sport he wants without having to worry about the cost.
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There aren't actually any of those jobs around that are hiring. Construction and landscaping industries have gotten hammered by the recession in this province.
 
I meant home owners or people who like doing that stuff.

Hell with the amount of time I spend at work or taking Count Jr to his various events, I would never find the time to do that home stuff. I know some guys do their own home renos all weekend long, I'm figuring when do they have time to nail their spouses, watch tv etc
 
I like that line of thinking count....built my own house and was spending every weekend fixing or renovating something....never again.
 
my dog is basically the reason i bought a house

stupid expensive thing

i would want a downtown condo like count
 
TheCountofMonteCristo said:
It depends on the house you live in. We live on a 9th floor, don't intend to move so a small dog is best. I also have an allergy to pet hair (when I am around my sister's dog, my sinuses start to hurt so I am limited to the kind of dog I can have (must have hair not fur).

Poodle, Bichon Frise etc are the types that work for me. I had a black miniature poodle when I was young and now we have a black/tan miniature poodle who is almost 14 years old. Contessa would like a standard poodle but probably won't meet criteria of our condo bylaws.
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I certainly understand the rationale behind getting a little dog---especially if you live in a condo. But if I had a choice between a little poodle-like dog or no dog at all...I'd go with no dog. Just my personal preference. Like I said, I've never come across a little dog that I've particularly cared for. To me, they're all invariably too yappy, too needy, too high-strung and I don't enjoy playing with them or petting them like I do with a big dog that you can throw around and wrassle with a bit. But at least they're better than cats, I suppose.
 
Startup Twin Creek Technologies is attacking the cost of solar by getting more bang from a wafer of silicon.

After four years of work, the San Jose, Calif.-based company today is coming out of stealth and introducing its product, a machine designed to slash the cost of solar cell manufacturing. The company claims its Hyperion system cuts the cost of making a solar cell in half and brings total production cost from about 85 cents a watt today to around 50 cents.

Hyperion is now being evaluated by leading solar manufacturers and the company expects to have a number of them operating by next year, according to CEO Siva Sivaram. The machine also allows solar makers to make flexible silicon cells.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-5...sh-solar-power-costs/?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=
 
http://www.nationofchange.org/gas-wars-1329834850

Nothing drives voter sentiment like the price of gas – now averaging $3.56 a gallon, up 30 cents from the start of the year. It’s already hit $4 in some places. The last time gas topped $4 was 2008.

And nothing energizes Republicans like rising energy prices. Last week House Speaker John Boehner told Republicans to take advantage of voters’ looming anger over prices at the pump. On Thursday House Republicans passed a bill to expand offshore drilling and force the White House to issue a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline. The tumult prompted the Interior Department to announce on Friday expanded oil exploration in the Arctic.

If prices at the pump continue to rise, expect more gas wars.

In fact, oil prices are rising for three reasons — none of which has to do with offshore drilling or the XL pipeline.
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The first, on the supply side, is Iran’s decision to cut in oil exports to Britain and France in retaliation for sanctions put in place by the EU and United States. Iran’s threat to do this has been pushing up crude oil prices for weeks
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The second, on the demand side, is rising hopes for a global economic recovery – which would mean increased oil consumption. The American economy is showing faint signs of a recovery.
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Neither of these would have much effect were it not for the third reason — overwhelming bets of hedge funds and other money managers that oil prices will rise on the basis of the first two reasons.

Speculators have pushed crude oil to $105.28 per barrel, up 35 percent since September. Brent crude, Europe’s benchmark, is now $120.37 a barrel – also worrisome because many East Coast refineries use imported oil.

Funny, I don’t hear Republicans rail against speculators. Could that have anything to do with the fact that hedge funds and money managers are bankrolling the GOP as never before?
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http://www.economist.com/node/21549936

THE enormous power tucked away in the atomic nucleus, the chemist Frederick Soddy rhapsodised in 1908, could “transform a desert continent, thaw the frozen poles, and make the whole world one smiling Garden of Eden.” Militarily, that power has threatened the opposite, with its ability to make deserts out of gardens on an unparalleled scale. Idealists hoped that, in civil garb, it might redress the balance, providing a cheap, plentiful, reliable and safe source of electricity for centuries to come. But it has not. Nor does it soon seem likely to.

Looking at nuclear power 26 years ago, this newspaper observed that the way forward for a somewhat moribund nuclear industry was “to get plenty of nuclear plants built, and then to accumulate, year after year, a record of no deaths, no serious accidents—and no dispute that the result is cheaper energy.” It was a fair assessment; but our conclusion that the industry was “safe as a chocolate factory” proved something of a hostage to fortune. Less than a month later one of the reactors at the Chernobyl plant in Ukraine ran out of control and exploded, killing the workers there at the time and some of those sent in to clean up afterwards, spreading contamination far and wide, leaving a swathe of countryside uninhabitable and tens of thousands banished from their homes. The harm done by radiation remains unknown to this day; the stress and anguish of the displaced has been plain to see.
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After four years of work, the San Jose, Calif.-based company today is coming out of stealth and introducing its product, a machine designed to slash the cost of solar cell manufacturing. The company claims its Hyperion system cuts the cost of making a solar cell in half and brings total production cost from about 85 cents a watt today to around 50 cents.
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Wait, that can't be right. Didn't HabsAss already prove that green technology was a money pit that will never improve their cost / performance ratio?
 
Less than a month later one of the reactors at the Chernobyl plant in Ukraine ran out of control and exploded, killing the workers there at the time and some of those sent in to clean up afterwards, spreading contamination far and wide, leaving a swathe of countryside uninhabitable and tens of thousands banished from their homes. The harm done by radiation remains unknown to this day; the stress and anguish of the displaced has been plain to see.
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I've done a lot of research on Chernobyl, and there's plenty more to tell than this.
"Some" of those sent in to clean up died? Incorrect. Every single one of them is dead today from complications relating to their exposure to very high levels of radiation. Not one "bio-bot" lived.
The chopper pilot and photographer who took the very first-ever pictures of the exploded reactor by flying overtop of it - both gone within the month.
The entire population of Pripyat, where Chernobyl was, are now dead. Some 30,000 people.
If you look at a modern map of the area, there's an entire circle of land where nothing is showing on the map. No roads; no towns; nothing. If you actually travel there, all the roads that were on the map almost 30yrs ago are still there - but they've been omitted from the modern map. A giant no-man's land, and will be for generations to come.
And the worst part - the "sarcophagus" they hastily built to entomb what's left of the reactor is full of holes and virtually falling down. Plans for a new one are in place, but monies to build it are not. What happens if it falls apart before a new one is built?
This was the biggest cluster**** mankind has known to date.
 
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