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Ten Tips for Winterizing Your Pets by Nancy Kay, DVM ?
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Oh, the weather outside is frightful! Winter weather is rapidly approaching and you?ve likely begun layering your clothing and weatherproofing your car. When organizing for winter, don?t forget to think about your pets. They too are deserving of special treatment this time of year. Here are ten tips for keeping your pets cozy, comfortable, and healthy this winter:

1. Just as arthritis can be more problematic for us when the temperature drops, so too does this apply to our animals. If your best buddy appears stiff first thing in the morning or is more tentative when navigating stairs or jumping up and down off the furniture, I encourage you to contact your veterinarian. These days, there are so many beneficial treatment options for soothing arthritis discomfort. For your pet?s sake, make the effort to learn more about them.

2. When the temperature drops, outdoor kitties like to snuggle up against car engines for extra warmth. Be sure to provide plenty of notice before you start up your engine lest a ?kitty squatter? sustain serious injury as a result of moving auto parts. Vocalize and tap the hood a few times. Better yet, lift the hood to alert any slumbering guests of your intentions.

3. Antifreeze is terribly toxic for dogs and cats. Even a few licks of the stuff can cause kidney failure and severe neurological symptoms, usually resulting in death. Unfortunately, most antifreeze products have a sweet flavor making them appealing to dogs. Cats are too discriminating to voluntarily taste the stuff, but should they step in antifreeze, they will ingest enough to be toxic during their grooming process. Please prevent your pets from having any access to antifreeze by checking under your vehicles for leaks and storing antifreeze containers in a safe place.

4. Wintertime is definitely dress-up time for dogs, when the clothing is functional rather than just adorable. Just like us, many dogs are more comfortable outside when wearing an extra layer. Smaller dogs in particular have difficulty maintaining a normal body temperature when exposed to freezing conditions. If the love of your canine life happens to be an arctic breed (Malamute, Husky, Samoyed), no need for canine clothing!

5. Regardless of season, all animals need access to water round-the-clock. If your pet is reliant on an outdoor water bowl, strategize a way to prevent the water from freezing. Water bowl heaters work well. Additionally moving water is more resistant to freezing- consider creating a little ?drinking fountain? for your pets.

6. Sure the weather is cold, but your dogs still need plenty of exercise for their physical as well as their psychological well being. Besides, there?s nothing quite like the feeling of relaxing by the fire with a content and tired dog at your side! If the weather is truly too inclement for both of you to be outdoors, look for an indoor dog park or consider doggie day care, assuming your dog enjoys such venues.

7. I?m all for hiking with dogs off leash, but in winter, be extra cautious around ponds and lakes for fear of thin ice. Not only is falling through the ice life threatening for dogs, it creates a situation that often becomes life threatening for the humans involved in the rescue operation.

8. Salt on sidewalks and roads and even ice that adheres to all of that fuzzy hair between your dogs toes can create irritation and sores. Inspect and rinse your dog?s tootsies as needed.

9. I strongly encourage having dogs and cats live indoors. If your living situation absolutely prevents this, and there are no other viable alternatives, please provide your pet with an enclosed shelter that is warmed by a heating device and contains plenty of clean, dry bedding. Also, remember that your pet needs just as much attention from you in frigid temperatures as during the warmer seasons.

10. ?Tis the time of year when we humans tend to overindulge, eating all kinds of things we shouldn?t. Don?t allow your pets to become a victim of this holiday spirit. In addition to adding unwanted and unhealthy pounds, eating rich and fatty foods predisposes them to gastrointestinal upset and pancreatitis either of which could land your four-legged family member in the hospital for several days (not to mention create some significant rug-cleaning expenses for you).

What steps do you take to ensure your pets will be happy and healthy during the winter?

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Wishing you and your four-legged family members a joyful and healthy holiday season,

Nancy Kay, DVM

Diplomate, American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine
Author of Speaking for Spot: Be the Advocate Your Dog Needs to Live a Happy, Healthy, Longer Life
Author of Your Dog?s Best Health: A Dozen Reasonable Things to Expect From Your Vet
Recipient, Leo K. Bustad Companion Animal Veterinarian of the Year Award
Recipient, American Animal Hospital Association Animal Welfare and Humane Ethics Award
Recipient, Dog Writers Association of America Award for Best Blog
Recipient, Eukanuba Canine Health Award
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We?re getting really excited about next week when Art Basel and myriad satellite fairs hit town. It?s our busiest week of the year, and this one will be the most hectic ever, with the addition of our first cafe at Design Miami/ on Miami Beach and our new beer, Michael?s Genuine Home Brew, popping up all over town. ?To celebrate and say thanks for your support, we?re giving away a selection of special passes to our events. ?To be entered, all you need to do is follow @MGHomeBrew on Twitter or like us on Facebook?by 12 noon tomorrow, Tuesday, November 16 when we?ll pick two Twitter followers and one Facebook fan at random who will each win one of the following:

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Is Visualization Meditation The Most Powerful Self-Improvement Tool?

Visualization meditation may be the single most powerful self-improvement tool you have. Use it to relax, relieve pain, create new thought habits, empower yourself, achieve goals, heal your body, clear up past emotional issues and more.

If you can imagine it, you can live it!

Why is visualization so powerful? Because the mind does not operate using words. Self-talk is very important but the mind instantly translates and processes every word that is thought, heard or read into an image.

?Purple notebook.?

You read a bunch of black squiggles on a white page, but your mind painted a picture. It?s like this with any thought you have.

Unfortunately, most of the images we habitually hold in our heads are not positive, empowering or healing. They are typically not loving, peaceful or happy (if they were, you would be living your ideal healthy, happy and fulfilled life). Unless you are an exceptionally self-aware and self-controlled person, your thoughts will center around:

• Worry about the future
• Regrets about the past
• Problems

That?s not to say that positive-thinking people have their heads in the sand and are in denial about reality! You want to be aware of your problems, but when you focus on the problem (the fact that the problem exists) you cannot be focused on the solution.

Visualization meditation helps you become solution-oriented rather than problem-oriented. That means, when you think about the future, you will do so with a focus on how you want it. When you think about the past, you will see it as a chapter in your personal history book, but you won?t remain caught up in it (wishing you could undo, redo, relive or fix anything that happened). You?ll see the past as a series of essential lessons.

And, you will immediately set your mind to work in creating a solution.

Use the Silva Method visualization techniques to harness the creative energy of your imagination. The Mental Screen exercise is a way to paint a mental picture of what you want that is not based on ?what is.?

The best time to do visualization meditation is just before you go to sleep. When you direct your imagination to what you want, you give your mind a very clear command. When you do this just before you go to sleep, you will set the wheels of manifesting in motion! Your mind will have all night to ponder the situation, weigh the options, come up with solutions? and when you do this consistently (to make your mind aware that this is really important and you want this!) you will become hyper-aware of your surroundings. You?ll start noticing that what you need is right there in front of you, and now your mind has brought it to your attention. You?ll notice resources. People. Events. Opportunities. And when you take action on these, you?ll quickly move away from the problem to a solution.

How To Practice Visualization Meditation

Sit comfortably (avoid lying in bed because you might fall asleep before you?ve had a chance to clarify and enhance your mental images), eyes closed.

Focus on your breath and allow your body to relax. Your thoughts will slow down as you enter the alert-yet-relaxed alpha brainwave state.

Think about a problem you?re having, but keep your emotions out of it as much as possible. Be very clinical about it: ?this is the problem.?

Fire up your imagination and visualize the end result you want. Don?t give a moment?s thought to how you?re going to achieve this. Forget all the intermediate stuff. That?s your mind?s job and it will do its job if you give it the right command! Always visualize in the present tense, as though what you want is already yours.

The next step is to create positive emotions about your desired end result. Feel happy, elated, relieved, excited and confident that what you want is coming to you and that you are enjoying it (present tense).

Think of it this way:

You go to a restaurant because you have a problem: you?re hungry. Your mind comes up with mental images of various dishes as they are described on the menu. You order your dish, and you visualize yourself eating and enjoying it! You don?t care how your dish is going to be prepared, you only care THAT it will come to you (hopefully soon, before you fill up on too much bread). You sit and enjoy pleasant conversation with your dining partner, all the while confidently anticipating that your dish will arrive, and holding in your mind the feeling of satisfaction of eating your food.

So take that same attitude with any problem you have. Give the visual command, and then release it. Allow your mind to get to work and take immediate action on the information and inspirations you receive, and let go of worry. It?s being handled!

Another way of using visualization meditation is to release negativity. This can be particularly useful when you?re holding onto a grudge. Many of us hold grudges ? and these are destructive energies, a total waste of mental space, and a huge negative energetic burden. Use a technique called the ?pink bubble? (or another color if you prefer). Place an unwanted thought into the bubble, release it and watch it float away from you.

Acknowledge the thought and the accompanying feeling, and use your imagination to place the thought/feeling into a bubble where it can?t get to you and you can?t get to it. You don?t own it anymore. You don?t have to live with the burden anymore. You can still remember the event, but without the emotional attachment to it.

The pink bubble technique takes practice, but you?ll find that it?s a great way to help release the past.

And anytime you find yourself worrying, use visualization meditation to see the result you want and give it increasing levels of mental energy until it becomes a ?no options? command to your mind.

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Crisis over president's powers exposes Egypt divisions

CAIRO (Reuters) - Youths clashed with police in Cairo on Saturday as protests at new powers assumed by President Mohamed Mursi stretched into a second day, confronting Egypt with a crisis that has exposed the split between newly empowered Islamists and their opponents.

A handful of hardcore activists hurling rocks battled riot police in the streets near Tahrir Square, where several thousand protesters massed on Friday to demonstrate against a decree that has rallied opposition ranks against Mursi.

Following a day of violence in Cairo, Alexandria, Port Said and Suez, the smell of teargas hung over the square, the heart of the uprising that swept Hosni Mubarak from power in February 2011.

More than 300 people were injured on Friday. Offices of the Muslim Brotherhood, which propelled Mursi to power, were attacked in at least three cities.

Egypt's highest judicial authority said the decree marked an "unprecedented attack" on the independence of the judiciary, the state news agency reported.

Leftist, liberal and socialist parties have called for an open-ended sit-in with the aim of "toppling" the decree which has also drawn statements of concern from the United States and the European Union. A few dozen activists manning makeshift barricades kept traffic out of the square on Saturday.

Calling the decree "fascist and despotic", Mursi's critics called for a big protest on Tuesday against a move they say has revealed the autocratic impulses of a man jailed by Mubarak, who outlawed Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood.

"We are facing a historic moment in which we either complete our revolution or we abandon it to become prey for a group that has put its narrow party interests above the national interest," the liberal Dustour Party said in a statement.

Issued late on Thursday, the decree marks an effort by the Mursi administration to consolidate its influence after it successfully sidelined Mubarak-era generals in August.

The decree reflects the Muslim Brotherhood's suspicion towards sections of a judiciary unreformed from Mubarak's days: it guards from judicial review decisions taken by Mursi until a new parliament is elected in a vote expected early next year.

It also shields the assembly writing Egypt's new constitution from a raft of legal challenges that have threatened the Islamist-dominated assembly with dissolution.

The Mursi administration has defended the decree on the grounds that it aims to speed up a protracted transition from Mubarak's rule to a new system of democratic government.

"It aims to sideline Mursi's enemies in the judiciary and ultimately to impose and head off any legal challenges to the constitution," said Elijah Zarwan, a fellow with The European Council on Foreign Relations.

"We are in a situation now where both sides are escalating and its getting harder and harder to see how either side can gracefully climb down," Zarwan said.

"INTIFADA"

A central element of Egypt's transition, the drafting of the constitution has been plagued by divisions between Islamists and their more secular-minded opponents, nearly all of whom have withdrawn from the body writing the document.

Mursi's new powers allowed him to replace the prosecutor general - a Mubarak holdover who the new president had tried to replace in October only to kick up a storm of protest from the judiciary, which said he had exceeded his authorities.

At an emergency meeting called to discuss the decree, the Supreme Judicial Council, Egypt's highest judicial authority, urged "the president of the republic to distance this decree from everything that violates the judicial authority".

Al-Masry Al-Youm, one of Egypt's most widely read dailies, hailed Friday's protest as "The November 23 Intifada", invoking the Arabic word for uprising. "The people support the president's decisions," declared Freedom and Justice, the newspaper run by the Brotherhood's political party.

The ultraorthodox Salafi Islamist groups that have been pushing for tighter application of Islamic law in the new constitution have rallied behind the decree.

The Nour Party, one such group, stated its support for the Mursi decree. Al-Gama'a al-Islamiya, which carried arms against the state in the 1990s, said it would save the revolution from what it described as remnants of the Mubarak regime.

Facing the biggest storm of criticism since he won the presidential election in June, Mursi addressed his supporters outside the presidential palace on Friday. He said opposition did not worry him, but it had to be "real and strong".

Candidates defeated by Mursi in the presidential vote joined the protests against his decision on Friday. Former Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa was photographed linking arms with leftist Hamdeen Sabahi, liberal Mohamed ElBaradei and others.

Mursi is now confronted with a domestic crisis just as his administration won international praise for mediating an end to the eight-day war between Israel and Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

"The decisions and declarations announced on November 22 raise concerns for many Egyptians and for the international community," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said in a statement.

The European Union urged Mursi to respect the democratic process, while the United Nations expressed fears about human rights.

(Additional reporting by Omar Fahmy and Reuters TV; Editing by Alison Williams)

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