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Our cat is very sick he is not eating throwingup,pain around the exterior and sad eyes. if anyone knows what he may have please email me it would help alot.

Saturday, November 29th 11:04am Dear Diary, I got so caught up in everything going on lately, I forgot to write that we chose a school for Sasha and Malia to go to! We decided that the girls will attend Sidwell Friends, the Quaker school. It’s too bad that they can’t go to a public school, but since the schools in the DC area are notoriously known as the worst in the country, Barack and I recognized that we have to put them in a private school so they can get a good education. Plus, 4 out of 10 children are of color, which we feel is important factor. I think that it’s detrimental for any child to attend a school with children of all one race. Moreover, Chelsea Clinton, Al Gore III, and the Nixon girls all attended this school, which means that the school understands the unique personal and security needs for prominent children. Finally, we agree with the Quaker values, and feel that they will help Sasha and Malia to become socially responsible and spiritually aware adults. The girls are looking forward to the new school, but I know they wish they could attend as completely normal kids. I admit, it must be difficult to have the Secret Service around all the time. Poor Malia, wants to be normal, but that just isn’t possible now that her father is President. Still, I’m hoping that she gets used to have the Secret Service follow her around. Maybe she can talk to Chelsea and see how she coped. I’ll have to mention this to Hillary the next time I see her… Yours always, Michelle Originally posted in The Secret Diary of Michelle Obama

It seems that one of the four remaining Yangtze turtles left in the world was near to becoming someone's next pot of soup.  A few weeks ago, after severe flooding of the Dong Mo lake near Hanoi broke a dam, the rare turtle was swept away.  Cleveland Metroparks Zoo turtle conservationists feared that the trutle might be dead. As it turns out the turtle had been swept away over the dam, and amazingly survived the fall, but was caught in a fishing net. The fisherman to whom the net belonged, took  the turtle home and thus began the bidding for the turtle.  The fisherman was offered thousands of dollars from a local restaurant owner who wanted to make himself some rare turtle soup. Luckily, Doug Hendrie and Tim McCormack, experts from Cleveland Metroparks Zoo's Asian Turtle Program, negotiated with the fisherman for more than eight hours Tuesday before saving the Yangtze's turtle in exchange for a monetary reward. Hendrie, McCormack and others returned the turtle to its lake. "It is truly amazing that this turtle could survive such an ordeal," said Geoff Hall, the Zoo's General Curator who visited the lake earlier this month. "We're very thankful that it's over now and the turtle has been returned to its natural habitat." The Swinhoe's turtle, also known as a Yangtze giant soft-shell turtle, is the largest freshwater turtle in the world and was thought to have been extinct in the wild until the Zoo's discovery earlier this year. Three others of the species remain in captivity, including two at a zoo in China and one in the Hoan Kiem Lake in Hanoi. The Swinhoe's soft-shell turtle is considered by many in Vietnam to be a national treasure. The demise of this revered species is largely due to hunters who captured and killed them for food or to make traditional medicine from their bones. Loss of nesting habitats along major rivers and pollution also are to blame. The Asian Turtle Program is a special conservation program supported by Cleveland Metroparks Zoo and funded by the Cleveland Zoological Society, in partnership with Education for Nature-Vietnam (ENV). Read more here.

Strike a pose! Natural seems to be back in but natural beauty is hard to find. Who has all original parts and is proud of it? Let us know your believes that have kept you unblemished.