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Munich, 25 January 2010: Linde Gases, a division of The Linde Group, today announced its partnership with US company, Pulsair® Systems, in Bellevue, Washington state, to enable industries employing mixing and blending systems in the production of liquid products to manage the vital liquid circulation process significantly more efficiently and effectively.
"Linde has historically been a leading provider of compressed air and inert gases helping industries leveraging the liquid circulation process to deliver superlative results," said Shivan Ahamparam, Global Marketing Manager, Chemistry and Energy, Linde. "This important partnership with Pulsair now allows us to extend our gas technology expertise to significantly shorten the time to mix liquid products in tanks."
Linde is already a leading provider of atmospheric gases to global process industries where the addition of compressed air or inert gas is a cornerstone of the liquid mixing process to ensure complete and even blending between heavier and lighter liquids - or to prevent product oxidation. Such markets include the food and beverage industry – for example, utilising nitrogen in food oils or wine to prevent product deterioration by exposure to oxygen – or the oil and gas industry where inert gases such as nitrogen are used to blend lubricants, mixing base stock and additives, or thinning heavy emulsions. In addition to its mixing effectiveness, by using compressed air or inert gas as the primary power source for blending, industries involved in liquid processing can become highly energy efficient.
Pulsair's "pulsed air technology" comprises a process which sequentially releases compressed air or gas from the bottom of the tank or vessel containing a liquid or multiple liquids in order to create circulation and mixing. Measured amounts of high pressure air or gas are injected - or "pulsed" - under flat round discs called "accumulator plates" which are installed on the tank bottom.
The sudden release of air or gas shocks the liquid, setting molecules in motion. As the air or gas forces itself out between the plate and tank floor, it sweeps out heavier liquids and even solids. The air or gas then accumulates above the plate into a very large, single oval shaped bubble. As the bubble rises to the surface, a vacuum is created, pulling heavier bottom liquids and solids up with it. It also pushes the liquid above it up and out towards the tank perimeter. The liquid then moves toward the sides of the tank and travels down the tank wall to the bottom, repeating the process.
Pulsair technology significantly reduces operational costs and downtime. With no moving parts inside the tank, Pulsair mixers have minimal maintenance and can be expected to complete 100,000,000 blending cycles without incident – and with remote programmable capability, Pulsair can be constantly monitored from off-site locations.
About The Linde Group
The Linde Gases Division, part of the Linde Group, is a leader in the international industrial and healthcare gases markets, providing compressed, bulk, specialty and medical gases, as well as chemicals to virtually all fields of industry globally. The company adds value to its customers' businesses through the provision of state-of-the-art application technology, process know-how, services and equipment.
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Traevon Jackson hit a pull-up jumper with 2.1 seconds left for Wisconsin, seconds after Michigan State's Adreian Payne tied it with a 3, and Wisconsin beat the ninth-ranked Spartans 60-58 on Sunday.
The Badgers (19-5, 6-5 Big Ten) committed 14 turnovers, six more than their NCAA-leading 8.3 per game, but gutted out a win over the Spartans (20-4, 9-2).
A desperation 3 by Michigan State from midcourt banged off the rim as time expired, and the Wisconsin faithful erupted with applause. The victory snapped a three-game losing skid at home.
Tied at 58, coach Bo Ryan again put the ball in the hands of Jackson, who has a history of hitting clutch shots.
With a man in his face, Jackson veered left of the lane and pulled up from about 10 feet to give Wisconsin the lead in a frenetic final minute.
Nigel Hayes led Wisconsin with 14 points, while Sam Dekker added 11. Payne had 24 points.
Travis Trice added 13 points for Michigan State, though Big Ten-leading scorer Gary Harris was held to six points on 3-of-20 shooting after being shadowed most of the afternoon by defensive specialist Josh Gasser.
And yet Michigan State still had a chance late, even with guard Keith Appling sitting out a second straight game with a wrist injury.
Harris' long bucket with about 23 seconds left - one of his few bright spots on the afternoon - got the Spartans within three.
Wisconsin had a chance to turn it into a two-possession game, but Ben Brust missed the front end of a 1-and-1. Michigan State secured the rebound and called timeout.
Coach Tom Izzo drew up a play that ended up with Payne holding the ball. He had burned Wisconsin much of the night on the inside.
This time Payne hit from the outside with 10 seconds left and the Badgers faithful thought they were witnessing another late collapse at home. The loss to Ohio State more than a week ago ended up about the same way.
But Jackson, who has struggled much of the last month during Wisconsin's stretch of losing five of six, came up big. He finished with eight assists and seven points, but had five turnovers.
Wisconsin led by double-digits much of the second half. Things got shaky late.
After two empty Wisconsin possessions, the Spartans raced down in transition and Trice hit a 3 from the wing to get within 55-52 with 1:43 left.
They just couldn't break through in the end. A five-game winning streak over Wisconsin came to an end.
Payne finished 9 of 16 from the field in his second game, and first start, since returning from a foot injury.
Gasser finished with 11 points and six rebounds for the Badgers. His straightaway 3 with 6:33 left gave the Badgers a huge lift and a six-point lead that was slowly chipped away by the Spartans.
But Gasser gave his team an ever bigger lift with his defense on the crafty Harris.
The Badgers finished the first half on an 11-0 run to take a 30-22 lead at the break. A crowd overwhelmingly dressed in Wisconsin red groaned after Gasser came up holding his left arm after being whistled for a blocking foul.
Jackson pulled up for a foul-line jumper in transition to get the crowd at the Kohl Center going into a fever pitch and a three-point lead. They eventually got to witness Wisconsin's first home win since beating Illinois by 25 on Jan. 8.


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As the nation remains riveted by the deadly explosion and ongoing environmental catastrophe of a deep-water oil rig accident in the Gulf of Mexico, the need for oversight, public information and disaster-response plans in efforts to extract the Earth's fuel resources has come into sharp focus.
In Pennsylvania, the troubled promise is in the Marcellus Shale, a natural gas-rich geological formation below three-fifths of the state that holds enough recoverable gas to satisfy all of America's gas needs for more than a decade.
A six-month investigation by Times-Shamrock Newspapers, including a review of thousands of pages of Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection documents made available through a Right-to-Know request and interviews with regulators, citizens and scientists, shows the limits of the current regulatory environment to prevent contamination of the state's land and water during deep gas drilling in the shale.
It reveals costly environmental and safety errors made by a growing industry that has become the state's economic hope, and details the often frustrated efforts of regulators to police it using outdated laws and incomplete information.
The investigation found:
- There have been hundreds of spills at natural gas well sites in the commonwealth over the last five years, the vast majority of which have never been publicized by DEP.
- The massive effort to exploit the shale has left an indelible mark on the landscape and communities in the state's Northern Tier and southwestern region, bearing both economic benefits and environmental costs. Experiences in those regions offer a preview of gas development in the seven counties of Northeastern Pennsylvania, where a dozen Marcellus Shale operators hold leases to drill.
- Despite industry claims that it discloses all of the chemicals it uses in the gas-extraction process, DEP documents from a series of spills in Susquehanna County show that the industry's disclosure is incomplete and insufficient for determining contamination in soil and water.
- A growing chorus of scientists is arguing that not enough is known about the effect widespread gas drilling will have on water supplies, air quality and human health to justify the intensive development of the resource already taking place.
"There's a massive industrialization experiment happening in West Virginia and Pennsylvania right now," said Anthony Ingraffea, a Cornell University engineering professor who has studied rock fractures in oil and gas wells for two decades.
"It might sound cruel to say this, but people in New York are very happy to see that West Virginia and Pennsylvania jumped in with both feet, eyes closed, as quickly as they could.
"We're learning from your mistakes. You're the guinea pigs."
Two goals
Among the six states underlain with Marcellus Shale, Pennsylvania has the largest portion of the gas-bearing rock and the most current wells. It will be wedded to the industry for the century and the 380,000 to 760,000 wells the industry estimates it may take to drain the shale's promised reserves.
The state has already benefited from a tremendous investment, including $1.8 billion in up-front lease bonuses paid to property owners in 2009 alone in exchange for the right to prospect below their land.
But Pennsylvania has never performed a comprehensive study of the accumulated impacts of drilling on a community or a watershed.
It has never declared a high-value watershed - like those around the reservoirs that feed Syracuse and New York City - off limits to gas extraction, as New York state has effectively done.
And Pennsylvania has never attempted to stop or slow the deep drilling since the first Marcellus well was sunk six years ago, unlike New York, which has imposed a moratorium on Marcellus Shale drilling as the state crafts an environmental impact statement, and unlike the interstate commission that regulates water quality in the Delaware River Basin.
Calls for caution have increased after a Marcellus Shale well in Clearfield County blew gas and waste fluids uncontrollably for 16 hours on June 3. State Sen. Jim Ferlo, D-38, Allegheny County, introduced legislation last week to pause drilling on both private and public lands in the state for a year.
Industry groups say calls for a moratorium are misguided. They emphasize that the gas companies' economic interests are naturally aligned with environmental interests.
"The only thing that differentiates you as a corporation is your image, your reputation, your costs and workforce, and innovation," Kathryn Klaber, the head of the Marcellus Shale Coalition, said. "Environmental compliance is a much bigger part of who you are."
Matt Pitzarella, a spokesman for Range Resources, one of the largest Marcellus Shale leaseholders in the state, simplified the equation: "We will make more money if we do it the right way."
But last week, at a hearing about the Clearfield County well accident, DEP Secretary John Hanger said he is "not pleased" with the industry's environmental performance and that his own agency is not yet up to his highest standards.
"This industry's got to be better," he said. "There's too many leaks, there's too many spills, there's too many incidents of gas migrating."
He has a goal for the industry and his regulatory agency to be world class, but added, "We're not there."
The commonwealth's environmental regulator must balance simultaneous aims: "to produce the gas and protect the environment as we do that," Hanger often repeats.
In the field, those directives can become more complicated.
In early 2009, after witnessing a string of diesel spills at Cabot Oil and Gas Corp. drilling sites in her small Susquehanna County township, resident Victoria Switzer appealed to one of the state's environmental regulators to impose stiff fines and stop the accidents before they worsened.
At the time, there were two inspectors to police the proliferating wells being drilled in Northeastern Pennsylvania counties. Then as now, drillers were expected to report any spills to DEP, as required by law.
But as he stood near her home in Dimock Township, the regulator told Switzer the agency had to moderate its penalties or risk being sued by the gas companies - taking inspectors out of the field and into courtrooms to defend their decisions.
Worse, he said, the agency feared that if it was too hard on the gas companies, they might stop reporting their spills.
'Catch our breath'
Difficult decisions about how and when to curb an industry that is acclimating to the state's current and changing laws have become commonplace for the state's environmental oversight agency.
According to Scott Perry, head of DEP's Bureau of Oil and Gas Management, the regulatory agency does not have the legal right to hit the brakes on the whole industry the way New York has done.
Instead, the agency can restrict individual companies that have committed particularly severe violations after the fact - a tool it infrequently uses.
In April 2010, the department selectively halted drilling operations by Cabot in a 9-square-mile area, and stopped issuing permits for it to drill elsewhere, after it found the company failed to correct problems with its wells that caused methane to seep into residents' drinking water in Dimock.
In his testimony last week, Hanger asked legislators to craft a law with "crystal clear language" giving DEP the authority to withhold permits from operators with unsafe practices, since its current authority could be open to challenge by companies.
Even without a law, "we don't hesitate to take those actions when they are required," he said.
But last fall, legal hurdles apparently contributed to DEP officials' decision to reject the most stringent options for stopping Cabot's operations, even as the company experienced its 19th, 20th and 21st spills at its drilling sites in the rural township in less than two years.
Over two days in September, pipes and hoses carrying a water and chemical mixture across a steep hayfield breached three times, dumping about 8,400 gallons of the fluid around a Cabot well site and allowing up to 1,900 gallons of it to leak into a wetland and creek.
In internal e-mails in the days after the spills, Jennifer Means, the oil and gas program manager in DEP's Williamsport office, wrote that she "wholeheartedly endorsed" either revoking drilling permits the company was already issued or halting pending permits "to slow down their future activity."
It "would go a long way with the public" whose "biggest frustration ... is the rate at which they are allowed to continue given all these incidents," she wrote.
"Also - we could certainly stand to catch our breath."
But after the agency's top attorney warned about procedural hurdles to suspending permits under state law, the department decided not to take that step.
It opted instead to issue a narrower order that curtailed - but did not halt - the company's operations, and allowed Cabot to resume full development after three weeks.
Like the offshore oil rigs that have come under national scrutiny, Marcellus Shale drilling operations are regulated by laws and agencies that rely heavily on the industry's cooperation in policing itself.
In Pennsylvania, Marcellus Shale gas producers are responsible not only for reporting their own spills, but for leading their cleanup operations and, with guidance from state regulators, for assessing the damage done by their mistakes.
At the Marcellus Shale Policy Conference in Pittsburgh last month, Hanger called for stronger rules to help prevent drilling from polluting the state's streams and air. "Self-regulation doesn't work," he said.
But even proposed rules to improve the requirements of the cement and steel casing that protects an aquifer from a natural gas well will still rely on the companies to perform their own quarterly inspections of the integrity of their wells.
Shortly before those new regulations were prepared for public comment, Hanger said a mixture of company reporting and department inspection is appropriate.
"We make it very clear to companies that hold permits that filing misinformation or wrong information or deliberately inaccurate information is a very serious matter," he said. "Any company that is sloppy or, even worse, deliberately false, is almost surely going to get itself into very deep and hot water. They don't want to go there."
'Changing lives'
Marcellus Shale gas operators, many of which have national or international operations and are publicly traded companies, frequently surpass the state's safety and environmental requirements - a fact state regulators often mention to calm public concern about the safety of the process.
At twilight on a May evening, George Stark stood wearing a hard hat and safety glasses at the foot of a state-of-the-art drilling rig ablaze with stadium light in a Dimock field.
Cabot's newly hired public relations manager pointed out the safety features on the rig, contracted from Patterson-UTI Drilling Co., including a system of tanks and filtration devices, called a "closed-loop" system, that makes it so used fluids and mud can be reused on site without ever flowing into a lined earthen pit.
The pits are prone to leak, like the one at a Cabot site in the same township that DEP found contaminating groundwater weeks earlier. Pits at 29 of the 364 Marcellus wells drilled in the state this year were improperly constructed or maintained, according to DEP records.
Cabot has been operating in Dimock since 2006, but the series of wells being drilled with the Patterson rig are the first the company developed using a closed-loop system - a best practice that is not required by Pennsylvania law.
Beneath the rig, workers placed a giant mat of black, heavy plastic on the acres of flat earth - a guarantee that most anything spilled on site would not hit the ground. The company had been using that best practice for about eight months.
Earlier in the evening, on a tour of a reclaimed well site where deer nibbled on clover near tanks and a metering station hooked up to a completed well, Stark listed highlights of the investment Cabot has made in Susquehanna County: The company has leased more than a third of the county's total acreage. It paid property owners $75 million in 2009 alone to acquire the right to drill on their land. Between 2006 and 2009, the company spent $500 million on its operations in the county. In 2010, it expects to spend $400 million more.
"We're changing lives," he said, "in a positive way."
Tough love, rules
Not everyone agrees with Stark.
After speaking with Dimock residents who have experienced water contamination from Cabot's drilling, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. drove through the township's winding roads to a barbecue stand in a trailer parked on the side of Route 29 - one of the businesses in the township that has been born or altered to cater to the industry workers.
Kennedy, president of Waterkeeper Alliance and a professor at Pace University School of Law's Environmental Litigation Clinic in New York state, drew a comparison between the confused and apparently insufficient regulation of offshore oil drilling with the regulation of onshore energy extraction, like Marcellus Shale production.
Unfortunately, he said, "I think that's a template for what's happening all across the country."
The best technologies and enforcement practices necessary to minimize mistakes by natural gas drillers are well known, he said, but they are rarely adopted by governments and imposed on the industry.
"What they need is tough love from the regulators and from themselves," he said as he drove.
"They need restraint. They need tough rules that allow them to make money, and big money, but force them to do it in a way that's not going to penalize the public."
Kennedy said the gas industry's record of mistakes is contributing to a growing public reaction against gas extraction in Pennsylvania and drilling regions across the country. That is unfortunate, he said, because natural gas is a cleaner-burning alternative to traditional fossil fuels and will play a critical role in leading the country away from oil and coal and toward green energy solutions.
"Nobody's going to believe that about them when they're doing these kind of shenanigans," he said.
"Nobody's going to believe that they're good guys when they're blowing up people's houses and poisoning their wells."


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Oct 11, 2009
Mindblowing Welcome - II
Half of us are getting wet when some cold and INCREDIBLY heavy lands on my head. I give a howl of pain and squint up and realise that it was ice. Its raining HAIL!!! Cussing and howling we run into the hall, as big huge hailstones droped from the sky. The echoing sound in the darkness sounded like gunshots. The door refused to stay put and kept banging against the frame. We all wondered what to do next. It looked like we were stranded.
Pratik, Deepak and I try our engineering heads to somehow attach a big spoon used earlier in the night to serve chicken, to hold the door in place. After few miserable attempts we finally manage to shut the door. We all gather near the door, talking excitedly (my head injury all forgotten :P) All too soon, thanks to deepak, a Bollywood like situation was envisioned, with a group of young enthusiastic idiots forced to spend the night in a room togther as it rained (hailed) outside with no escape in sight. Maybe some singing and dancing (again thanks to deepak :P) Maybe some Bhoot ki kahaniyan. Our excitement knew no bounds. So its decided that we gather up some chairs and get cosy.
Deepak in his enthusiasm has gone to the Coke vending machine and finds that it is unlocked. So smartass decides its a awesome thing and grabs a coke and turns to us yelling 'Hey guys look at this!!!' Some of us are overjoyed and step towards the machine.
Then two things happened at the same time.
As our backs are turned towards Deepak, one huge hailstone comes and crashes right on the door glass. And a big crack runs right across it, it dislodges the spoon and with full force the door does a 180, sweeping over where we were standing exactly 2 seconds ago, and bangs on the wall. And large peices of the wall come crashing down.
For a split second noone moves a muscle.
Before we could make some sense of the broken door, the fast crumbling wall and the coke in Deepaks hand, two big burly men, also very drunk, come pushing into the room. They looked like they were the people in charge and boy oh boy, they did NOT look happy at all!
To be continued....
11 comments:
- Soin said...
so it takes a engg to use a spoon as a door stopper?
- October 11, 2009 at 9:29 PM
- IceMaiden said...
:P naahh... we were laughing our head off at some really miserable attempts, and then someone said 'ufff guys we are engineers, we SHOULD get this done :P'
- October 12, 2009 at 8:08 AM
- Destiny's child... said...
Ice maiden, you have me falling off my seat...enough of suspense building, can't wait to read part 3!!! bring it on! :D
- October 12, 2009 at 3:45 PM
- buckingfastard said...
free cold drinks...yipeee....i want it too re!!!
its years since i saw a hail storm...lucky u!!!
phew!!! buildin excitement...nxt post quickly!!!
- October 12, 2009 at 11:15 PM
- The Wanderer said...
Are you like planning to give Ekta Kapoor competition in "Longest Unnecessary Stretching of Story" category???
Khatam kar na ek baar me!
- October 13, 2009 at 12:09 AM
- The Wanderer said...
BTW, I just noticed people are still eagerly waiting for "suspense" and "excitement"... please tell them that the most interesting part of the event is ALREADY OVER!!!
- October 13, 2009 at 12:10 AM
- IceMaiden said...
@Destiny's Child...
Yes yes coming soon! :P
Dekhte rahiye, isi jagah, isi wakt :P
the 'free drinks' play an important part in our crazy adventure :P
coming soon last part III :)
shush!! :P abhi toh best part aana baaki hai :P :D which proved that we indeed ARE engineers :P lolz :P
- October 13, 2009 at 9:17 AM
- muthu said...
when are you gonna post the next part..
eagerly awaiting..
- October 15, 2009 at 12:12 PM
- Crazy Four said...
Lead us on maiden:D
- October 17, 2009 at 4:54 PM
- gul... said...
amazing!!! just relived all of it...with a small technical error.. :P it was ME who opened the door and stole the pepsi...pak just dhaped it from me at the wrong time :P
- October 21, 2009 at 10:26 PM
- IceMaiden said...
@muthu & crazy four,
sorry for taking soooo long.. but I simply dont get d time with office n all :P
OMGGGG!!! really? i never knew that!!!! :O wow.. deepak is srsly one nut!!! :P :D heheheheheh!!!
- October 23, 2009 at 8:49 AM


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Hocking Hills in Ohio. (looks rather exotic though)Worth the trip, if you get the chance.
Here's my "Funky Art piece" of the Day!! Seen at a local estate sale this morning...only $10....(and no, I did not buy it!!)
Fly-fishing at 12,000 feet. Beaver ponds in the Snowy Range of Medicine Bow National Forest, Wyoming.
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- Item must be made from CEY yarn and from the Shawls, Wraps & Scarves book.
- Open to US and Canadian residents only.
- Cast on date for knit-a-long is April 15, bind off date is June 15. You may do a gauge swatch and any other prep work (i.e. winding your yarn, getting copies of your charts, etc.) prior to the cast on date.
- To be considered for the knit-a-long, your project must be listed on Ravelry with the tag SWSKAL. You may enter your project on Ravelry prior to April 15, but please no casting on until then (I know it will be difficult).
- You must upload at least one in-progress photos and a FO photo to be eligible for the prize.
- By entering the knit-a-long, you give permission to Classic Elite Yarns to use your photos, first name and Ravelry project links on their social media sites (Ravelry, Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest).
- There will be 2 categories to enter – Shawl/Wrap (over 600 yards) and Scarf/Cowl (0-600 yards).
- Prizes will be enough yarn (current CEY) to make another project of your choosing from the Shawls, Wraps & Scarves book in the same category you entered.
- Winner will be drawn at random.
- Void where prohibited by law.
There are so many great pieces from Shawls, Wraps &Scarves, the hardest part of this knit-a-long might just be choosing your project. It was a difficult decision for me, but I have settled on making the Cream & Sugar Lace Wrap (of course, I am not eligible to win, but I thought it would be fun to knit-a-long with you guys). I decided to use Vail in Parchment. I am sure this will become an instant classic and something that I reach for time and time again.
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Skelly Archer is a new Windows Phone game that has made it to the Windows Phone Store's "New and Rising" ranks. It is an adventure game where you play the role of Skelly the skeleton, a fallen archer, set on conquering a wide assortment of monsters and discovering magical jewels.
Skelly Archer has two game modes and twenty-six levels spread out across six different lands/scenes. It's a decent game for your Windows Phone that is full of challenges and not a shabby way to pass the time with.
Skelly Archer's main menu offers options to play the game, view your gaming achievements and access the online leaderboard. There is also a gear button in the lower left corner to access the game's settings that include sound and vibration controls.
Jumping into the game you have two game modes; Classic and Survival. Classic is a multi-level campaign while the Survival is an endless play type game. You also have access to your Profile and the game's shop where you can change your profile name (for the leaderboard) and spend your game loot on weapon's enhancements.
Each game mode has six lands to compete in. Each are progressively unlocked as you advance through the game. Survival Mode throws everything but the kitchen sink at you to see how long you can survive. Classic has you competing through the twenty six levels of play.
Game controls have a movement joystick in the lower left corner and your fire/aim button in the lower right. Along the top of the screen you'll find your vital stats and loot plundered from the dead monsters. In the upper right corner you'll see a thumbnail map of your current level and in the bottom center of the screen is your level progress bar.
Skelly Archer has ten customizable weapons, eight weapon enhancements and four weapon upgrades that will help improve your chances. Along with the main game, there are five mini-games that become available as you progress through the game and if you earn enough gold, you can try your hand at a slot machine in the Store.
In the upper center of the screen you'll see bonus arrows (poison, freeze, etc.) that you can purchase or collect from slain monsters. Just tap on the icon to start using these arrows but remember, they are limited in supply.
The goal for Skelly Archer is to wipe out all the monsters in each level, collect the loot from their dead bodies and work your way to the Boss level of each land. The game can get a little on the intense side and Skelly really needs to keep moving about as he launches his arrows to avoid dying a second time. The monsters range from those that fall with a single shot and others take multiple hits to take out.
My only nit with Skelly Archer is the controls. You really have to be careful and not let your finger slide around on the screen or you'll lose your footing on the movement or firing control joystick. The game is somewhat fast paced and in the excitement of slaying giant rats, it's easy to lose your finger positioning. Maybe a larger control area would help but it's definitely one aspect of game play you don't want to slip up on.
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Adrienne Rich died this week. Her voice, in her poems, writing, and speaking, was never strident, always insistent that we remember our highest selves and live for them. She wrote about class differences and indifferences and the pain and joy we cause ourselves and others in concise and brilliant language that placed her at the forefront of American letters. She never compromised—and she rued the compromises we make in the pursuit of comfort. Someone, she reminded us again and again, always pays for that untroubled comfort. She was unwilling to settle for comfort.
Diving into the Wreck, a collection of poems written in 1971-72, remains one of my favorite of her books. "…poems taut with pain and intelligence," writes Marge Piercy of this volume. "…nobody else writes quite like this," said Margaret Atwood. The poems are observations, introspections, revelations. They range wide and go deep, skating from social commentary to searing metaphor. Even the early poems never seem dated. It's possible to slip inside every one and experience the life it transcribes as the poet did.
The title poem, "Diving into the Wreck," is a marvel of fact and symbol. I don't know whether Rich was a diver but she gets the precise detail of a scuba dive on a wreck in the shallows exactly right, so I assume she'd been there. She gets the rest right, too. What is the wreck but an image of a life, an emblem for the battered heart, broken against rock or shoal? Rich writes:
I came to explore the wreck.
The words are purposes.
The words are maps.
I came to see the damage that was done
and the treasures that prevail.
I stroke the beam of my lamp
slowly along the flank
of something more permanent
than fish or weed
the thing I came for:
the wreck and not the story of the wreck
the thing itself and not the myth
the drowned face always staring
toward the sun
the evidence of damage
worn by salt and sway into this threadbare beauty
the ribs of the disaster
curving their assertion
among the tentative haunters.
You tend to realize, at the end of a line or a stanza, that you have been holding your breath, loathe to miss a beat or a syllable or the architecture of an unexpected phrase. Adrienne Rich wrote powerful, powerful poetry—poems designed to conjure or, at the very least, agitate for keen personal awareness and social change. Diving into the Wreck won the National Book Award. Rich won nearly every award bestowed on a poet in her long writing life. But she never lost her edge, her discomfort, the pebble in the shoe that leads, inevitably, to the poem.
Diving Into The Wreck: Poems 1971-1972 Adrienne Rich | W. W. Norton & Company 1993


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Book cheap flights to Cambodia with Skiddoo and visit one of Asia's most beautiful and mysterious countries. Choose from our great selection of flights and get to see world icons like the stunning Angkor Wat.
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The Kingdom of Cambodia is a Southeast Asian country filled with destination treasures. It's home to heavenly temples, beautiful coastlines, a sophisticated urban scene, and the unbeatable Cambodian Spirit. Truly, Cambodia is full of wonder.
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Cambodia's other can't-miss destinations are Phnom Penh's Royal Palace and its Silver Pagoda, Angkor Thom, Bayon temple, Banteay Srei, Wat Phnom, and Wat Ounalom. They're the perfect spots for you to get your fill of Cambodian culture and history. Plus they look awesome on film that even the movie Tomb Raider was filmed here.
Cambodia is not just a heaven for temples but for foodies too! Delight your tastebuds and try the fish amok, bai sach chrouk, Khmer red curry, and Khmer noodles. Cambodian restaurants are top-notch quality too and you'll have lots of places to choose from, like the popular Romdeng in Phnom Penh.
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The best time to visit Cambodia weather-wise is during the dry season from November to March. The wet season from May to October does have its advantages too. You'll experience fewer crowds and the greeneries of some areas, like Angkor Wat, are becoming lush again during the "wet and green season" from June to September.
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Halloween Lessons, Activities & Resources, Grades 9-12
Lessons, Activities & Resources Help Your Class Explore Halloween History, Have Fun with Pumpkins, and More
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What Do Halloween Costumes Say?
Students in grades K-12 look critically at the Halloween costumes marketed to them. In schools where Halloween is observed, the activity can be used to develop guidelines for acceptable holiday garb.
Halloween Carnival (Special Event)
Students in grades 6-12 participate in physical fitness activities to promote the acquisition of physical education skills.
The Tell-Tale Hearts of Writers
Students in grades 9-12 use a poem or story by and an article about Edgar Allan Poe to investigate the relationship between word choice and the reader's mood and interpretation of a piece of writing. Each student then selects a favorite writer as the focus of a biography and interpretation of a passage of his or her writing.
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Students in grades 9-12 identify the conventions of the horror genre and analyze films and texts to uncover these conventions in action. Their work culminates in a class celebration of the genre.
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This festival, coming between autumn and winter, marks the Day of the Dead.
Halloween Poisonings
A debunking of the widespread belief that there are documented cases of Halloween poisonings.
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Orson Welles's Halloween broadcast of October 30, 1938.
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Resolution Respecting a Baptist Petition, August 16, 1775
The first shots of the Revolutionary War occurred on April 19, 1775, when British troops marched to capture patriot leaders and weapons. The British met armed opposition from colonists in the Massachusetts towns of Lexington and Concord and there the first blood of the Revolutionary War was spilled. In June 1775, the Continental Congress commissioned George Washington to organize and lead a Continental army, and on July 2, 1776, Congress officially broke from Great Britain. They adopted the formal Declaration of Independence two days later.
As Virginia and the other colonies raised militias for their defense, Baptist leaders petitioned the third Virginia Revolutionary Convention, which met in Richmond from July 17 to August 26, 1775. The petitioners requested permission for Baptist ministers to preach to soldiers who did not wish to attend religious services conducted by the paid chaplains, who were all members of the Church of England. Patrick Henry drafted this resolution to allow "dissenting clergymen" to conduct religious services for soldiers. Thus, this resolution is significant as an early step along the path that Virginia took during the American Revolution that led to greater support for the concept of religious freedom and the separation of church and state.
1. Who were the "dissenting clergymen"?
2. What denomination were the regular chaplains?
Further Discussion
1. How do this resolution and the petition from Prince Edward County on October 11, 1776, to the House of Delegates foreshadow the Act for Establishing Religious Freedom?
Video: Quirks of Old Documents: Spelling, Tildes, Ampersands, and the Long S
This Day in Virginia: August 16
Suggested Reading
Thomas E. Buckley, S.J. Church and State in Revolutionary Virginia, 1776–1787. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1977.
Bland, Henretta. "Patrick Henry and the Fight for Religious Freedom." Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine 119 (November 1985): 780–785.


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Today I experienced two WTF moments while trying to use computers:
1) BrowserID ended up being a total failure for me
2) Accessing people.mozilla.org is next to impossible when trying to share files across computers
I have heard great things about BrowserID, and today was my first real chance at it. I had an account on builder.addons.mozilla.org, and this was with my <me>@mozilla.com email address. It has been a few months since I had been on there and now it uses BrowserID for all access. Great!! I had signed up with BrowserID with my <me>@gmail.com address, but that failed to log me in. So I clicked the 'add another email address', and got a verification email in my inbox. Trying to verify was impossible with some cryptic error messages. 10 minutes later after trying to log in, I finally found my way to #identity and was told to try it again. It magically worked. OK, let me log in to my addons account, no luck. After 15 more minutes of poking around, I found that my @mozilla.com email address worked with BrowserID just fine by testing it on another site, but it still failed on addons.
Here is my take of the problem:
- BrowserID is supposed to make logging in easier, 30 minutes of debugging and I still cannot login.
- There are no useful error and help messages on the BrowserID site, nor AMO. How could my mom figure this out?
- Where in the world is my 'I forgot my username/password' link? Honestly I could have signed up on AMO with a totally random email address and could have been wasting a lot of time.
- I found it easier to signup as a new user with a different BrowserID email, than to figure out how to login with my normal account.
My next problem occurs with accessing people.mozilla.org. I have been using this for 3.5 years on a regular basis. I put log files up there for people to read, zip files when I want to share some code or an build, and sometimes I create a webpage to outline data. I depend on this as a workflow since I know of no other file server at mozilla that I can just scp files up to. Just this past weekend, some work was done on the server and the permissions got messed up. This was fixed, then it wasn't, it was fixed and now it isn't. I can detect patterns and that is a pretty easy pattern to detect. What really gets me is this message when I log in:
Last login: Thu May 17 18:41:20 2012 from zlb1.dmz.scl3.mozilla.com
All files stored on this server are subject to automated scans.
You shouldn't store sensitive information on this server, and you should
avoid having production services depend on data stored here.
Files in ~/public_html may be seen by anyone on the Internet.
[email@example.com ~]$
Who in their right mind would think that putting files in a folder called 'public_html' would not be seen by anyone on the Internet? I expect tomorrow I will have to sign a NDA to access my people.mozilla.org account.
The big problem here is that I wasted 20 minutes doing a task that I normally do in 2 minutes and delayed getting a perma red test fixed because I couldn't find a place to upload a fixed talos.zip to.
Enough complaining and ranting and back to work on reftests for android native!


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Ring Bearer with Whoopee Cushion
They say only fools rush in, but these two clowns are pretty serious about each other.
Patty Kulwicki reeled Bill Tedeski in — literally, with a fishing pole — as the couple tied the knot August 23 at Clownfest 2013, The (Harrisburg, PA) Patriot-News reported.
The bit was one the Pittsburgh couple had performed two years ago at the same festival. When it won first place, Tedeski remembers jokingly suggesting they get married in a similar way.
But this ceremony was no joke — even if the rings were pulled out of a Crack Jack box.
"Clowning just means so much to him," Kulwicki said of Tedeski. "I couldn't think of anything that would make him happier."
Tedeski, who has performed as a clown for 41 years, wore a fake nose, black lipstick, and full clown regalia. Kulwicki wore a flaming red wig and a red dot on her nose, with a lace headband the lone accessory to the same gown she'd worn for the skit.
Tedeski said he's been married before, but Kulwicki is the first wife who has taken part in the clowning with him, and together they are a team. "We mesh so wonderfully," he said.
Guests got in on the act and so did the officiant, a fellow clown.
It was not the first nuptials for Kulwicki and Tedeski, but it was their first clown wedding.
"And the last!" Kulwicki said, laughing.


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For teen, art was a means of survival
When a homeless 12-year-old Inocente Izucar first walked into the studios of Arts: A Reason to Survive, she wore a rainbow tutu and had painted her face.
"I saw her and I'm like, 'This is who I created this organization for,'" said Matt D'Arrigo, who founded the social service-oriented arts center.
The 18-year-old Izucar has given up her tutus and face painting. Now, Izucar relies on her art's hearts and bunnies and bright splashes of color to make an impression.
With a solo exhibition opening at New York's Tribeca Grand Hotel today, multiple New York screenings of "Inocente," a new documentary on her by Oscar-nominated directors Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine, and an MTV telecast of "Inocente" set for Aug. 17, Izucar no longer needs to paint her face.
Her art has not only given her purpose and attention, it's provided an income that's allowed her to escape the shelters and rent an apartment in Golden Hill.
"She's living the dream," said D'Arrigo, who has accompanied her to New York for the exhibit's opening. "We couldn't be happier for her."
Izucar, however, is wide-awake, filled with memories of a difficult, even dangerous childhood. In an interview late last week at Arts' new home next to the National City Community Center, she said she couldn't exactly recall when she was a toddler and her father grabbed her and her brother and took them across the border to San Diego. It took her frantic mother a year to eventually find her broken family.
But Izucar vividly remembers the night not long after she was reunited with her mother when everything fell apart.
"My father told me to tell my mom something and I'm very forgetful, and I forgot," she said. "It just sparked a horrible argument (where she and her mother, who tried to intercede, were beaten by her father). The cops were called, and he was deported. That's when we started going to shelters, because we didn't have a place to live."
Their addresses form a who's who of San Diego's social-service organizations: Saint Vincent de Paul, the Rescue Mission, the YWCA Cortez Hill Family Center and South Bay Community Services.
"I can't remember them all," she said. "We just kept moving and moving. It became normal after a while."
So did hopelessness. Her exhausted, seemingly defeated mother, tells in the documentary "Inocente" of how she considered jumping off the San Diego-Coronado Bridge and taking her daughter and her three young sons with her. She only relented after Inocente pleaded with her to reconsider.
But it was Arts: A Reason to Survive that saved Inocente Izucar's life.
"Rob (Tobin, Arts' creative director) and Matt (D'Arrigo), they saw potential in me, although I didn't really see it myself," said Izucar, who came to Arts while a student at the Monarch School for homeless youth. "I would come to the center and do projects. I felt like I was kind of the same as all the other kids. But they gave me a push and said, 'No, you're different.'"
She started showing up more frequently, taking the bus to the Arts center on her own, using art as a distraction from her daily life and developing the colorful, playful style that has become her trademark.
"I tell people that if I'm sad, I'll try to paint something really happy because it's just better," she said. "Usually people think you would paint something sad if you are sad. But if I paint something sad, it's just going to be more sadder."
When D'Arrigo got an unexpected call in 2009 from Sean Fine, whose previous documentary, "War/Dance," had just won two Emmys and was nominated for an Oscar, asking if he had any possible teenage subjects for a film on art and resilience, it didn't take long for D'Arrigo to answer.
"He said, 'We need a really compelling story, we need somebody visually striking. Do you have anybody like that?' I said, 'Yeah, I've got someone...'"
The then-15-year-old Izucar agreed to be filmed, mostly, she said, to bring attention to the plight of homeless children; Fine's film points out that homelessness affects one out of 45 children. D'Arrigo and Arts, which had already been working with Izucar and her mother on their immigration issues (they are now legal), also provided assistance with the paperwork needed to protect Izucar and make the film.
As the project evolved, the film focused solely on Izucar, who found the process useful as a way to bring attention to homelessness and to identify her friends.
"Some kids would be so mean," said Izucar, who attended at least a half-dozen schools, from Monarch to High Tech High before getting a private tutor and earning a GED earlier this year. But once the cameras started accompanying her, their attitude changed.
"They kind of started to talk to me and were kind of interested," she said. "I was like, 'You are always so mean to me; just because there are cameras following me doesn't mean anything.'"
Even with her recent success, the one-day-at-a-time survival mode developed during nine years of homelessness has been hard for her to leave behind. She is hesitant to talk about the future.
"If you are asking, am I going to college, I try not to think too much about where I'll be in a year," she said. "Because it never goes how you want. So I try to take it day by day."
But she does allow herself a few dreams beyond continuing to have her own place and to make art: She wants to learn sign-language interpretation and she'd like to join the circus, where she could again paint her face and wear those colorful tutus.
"The circus is another form of art," Izucar said. "If I dress up like a circus person out here, people are very judgmental; they make me feel weird. That's why I don't wear my tutus anymore or paint my face. As I've gotten older, I see what people are thinking and it kind of bothers me a little bit.
"But in the circus, you are encouraged to dress like that. People clap because you are dressed up and have painted your face."


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|The lighthouse is in Maine, I took the picture to use as our logo.
Sharing some recent photos of Londonderry, to give you an idea of the town.
Below photos taken last week in Londonderry.
|This smiling face will greet you on Saturday.
|Vincent Rojo on the left, will also greet you, he is with my husband.


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January 03, 2018
13 Appliance Tips & Hacks for Household Chores
Posted in The Home Depot and Living by Donna Smallin Kuper
Modern home appliances make our lives so much easier: They tackle dreaded household chores, saving us time and effort. There are lots of ways to use them, however, that you may not have thought of before. From cleaning your ceiling fixtures in the dishwasher to vacuuming your pet, here are 13 little-known tricks for getting more than your money's worth from your appliances.
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December 20, 2017
New Year's Tips for Buying and Selling
Posted in Buying, Selling, and Living by Marilou Ubungen
Now that the end of the year is upon us, it's time to start thinking about some New Year resolutions. If your 2018 resolution is to buy or sell a home, here are some suggestions to help you along the way. For everyone else, we've added some tips about building equity and investing in updates to your home.
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December 13, 2017
Preparing Your Home for the Winter
Posted in Living by Marilou Ubungen
During the winter, it is tempting to curl up and hibernate in bed for the next few months. However, you shouldn't put off these important home maintenance duties.
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December 11, 2017
Stage Your Home to Impress Holiday Guests
Posted in Long & Foster and Living by Novelda Sommers
A few tricks used by professional home stagers can make your home holiday-guest-ready, even if you're preparing for a visit from your in-laws, not potential buyers.
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November 27, 2017
Personalize Your Home with Christmas Tree Centerpieces
Posted in The Home Depot and Living by Merri Cvetan
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November Home Maintenance Checklist
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November brings a transition to shorter days, colder weather and spending more time indoors. It also brings anticipation, planning and preparation for Thanksgiving and the upcoming winter holidays. Our checklist this month includes small, quick and easy tasks you can do now to get a jump start on your holiday hosting preparation so you can enjoy friends and family when they arrive.
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Posted in Living by Marilou Ubungen
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How an Investment in Green Technology Can Pay off for Today's Homeowner
Posted in Buying, Selling, and Living by Tara Sharp
Studies continue to show that real estate buyers are willing to pay a substantial premium for homes that feature highly efficient, environmentally friendly "green energy" technology. While the added value depends on the location of the home, its age, and whether it's certified or not, three separate studies all found that newly constructed, Energy Star- or LEED-certified homes typically sell...
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Posted in Living by Tara Sharp
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By Brian M. Rosenthal
Campaign signs dot yards and roads around this town of 6,600 -- professional red ones urging residents to "save our city" and "recall Cy Sun" and homemade white ones screaming "RECALL NO!" a message as direct as the mayor hoping to preserve his unusual political career.
On Tuesday, voters in the King-Pierce County border town of Pacific will decide whether to retain Sun, an 83-year-old Korean War veteran who took office as a write-in candidate last year and immediately turned everything upside down.
Mayor Sun has forced out almost all of his department heads, including three police chiefs, was arrested while trying to enter the city's clerk office and has triggered some $11 million in lawsuits against the town, which has a budget of $15 million.
To supporters, he is a war hero who won an insurgent election campaign and has since taken tough steps to clean up corruption. To opponents, he is a cantankerous old man who gained power on a fluke and has used it to bring the town to the brink of collapse.
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"He's been destructive," said Don Thomson, 67, a retired mechanic and 23-year resident who is organizing the recall effort. "He has nearly destroyed Pacific in just 18 months." Sun declined to comment.
The recall specifically asks residents to consider two allegations -- that the mayor used police as a personal investigation squad and that he jeopardized the town's insurance by not filling department-head vacancies.
Voters have until 8 p.m. Tuesday to either mail their ballots or put them in a ballot box. The election will be certified July 9; if a majority were to vote yes, Sun would leave office that day.
About 3,000 are eligible to vote. As of early last week, King County Elections had received nearly 1,000 ballots, according to spokeswoman Barbara Ramey.
The election is King County's first recall since 2004, when voters ousted a suburban sewer-district commissioner, Ramey said.
Anti-corruption platform
Located south of Auburn, between Highway 167 and East Valley Highway, the 2.6-square-mile town is centered in King County but dips into Pierce.
It's a diverse, young and working-class town, with a median age of about 33 and median household income of $52,500, according to the U.S. Census.
A California land developer founded it in 1909, choosing the name Pacific to reflect the area's peaceful nature, according to a city website.
It's been anything but peaceful since Cy Sun ran for mayor.
The Hawaii native, son of an American mother and Korean father, earned a Silver Star in the U.S. Army and worked an Oregon farm before coming north, according to fellow officials and news reports.
Sun ran in 2011 on an anti-corruption platform, pledging to address long-standing issues and forfeit the mayoral salary.
His 471 write-in votes topped the eight-year incumbent, Richard Hildreth, who got 401 votes, and city councilman John Jones, who got 306.
"He kind of swept in, and he had good ideas, but he did them in the wrong way," said Bruce Butts, a 52-year-old janitorial supervisor, waiting for a bus outside City Hall. "He came in and bulldozed everything."
Sun's style led to the quick firings or departures of the city clerk, city engineer, finance director, public-works director and community-services director.
The mayor nominated replacements, but the council found some of them unqualified.
Sun's style agitated many, who criticized and mocked him, including for leaving meetings because of hearing problems, and accused him of lying about his war record.
Last spring opponents distributed "Who is the Real Cy Sun?" a pamphlet of attacks that included photos of Sun's Oregon farm.
It was in trying to investigate the pamphlet that Sun allegedly used his police as an investigation squad.
Sun contends that he was only asking the chief to investigate a Pacific officer who he believed had taken the photos in Oregon while on the clock.
Regardless, the chief refused to comply and was promptly fired.
That was far from the only fight between Sun and police.
In the most high-profile incident, local television cameras caught Sun being handcuffed last July, while trying to push past officers guarding the clerk's office out of fear the mayor was going to destroy city records.
Soon after that spectacle, Thomson filed the recall.
Most recall efforts don't make the ballot because judges rule there isn't sufficient evidence for the claims, but last October, a King County judge allowed this one to proceed.
As Sun appealed that decision, the town faced a new crisis: its insurance provider, worried about all of the vacancies, decided to drop its coverage.
The council considered disincorporating but last December found a new insurance provider with higher deductibles and less coverage.
The mayor and council blamed each other for the crisis.
The state Supreme Court approved the recall in April. Supporters gathered the 415 required signatures within three days.
Evenly divided
It's hard to predict what will happen Tuesday.
Richard Kim, the clerk at Giu's Market, across from City Hall, said his customers are evenly divided.
But of nearly two dozen residents interviewed for this story, none said they would vote to retain Sun.
Still, nobody expected him to win in 2011, and he did.
If Sun is recalled, the council will appoint a replacement for the remainder of his term, until 2015. Two are already vying for that job: Jones, who placed third in 2011, and City Council president Leanne Guier.
Regardless of what happens, Guier said she's ready for Pacific's days in the limelight to end.
"I'm just looking forward to the day when we become that little tiny black dot on the map again," she said.
(c)2013 The Seattle Times


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THERE IS NO EXCUSE for the continuation of fox hunting. The only argument for it that you can believe is sincere, from its supporters, is that they enjoy it. But they will put up all kinds of smoke screens – essentially bogus defences. This fox lovers' guide provides definitive answers to the hunter's lame claims.
This is a fox lovers' handbook designed to answer the lame claims of hunters who believe it's acceptable to torture foxes to death.
Fourteen of the hunt supporters' best shots detailed here, along with the answers which expose them as false.
The file begins with the stock gripe about the Hunting Act 2004 which made it illegal to kill foxes, stags, hares, mink, etc. by running them down using packs of dogs.
Lame Claim 1: "It's a BAD law - Baa-aad! Unenforceable... confusing... we don't understand it."
Answer: Read it more carefully! Improve it, tighten it up, monitor violations more rigorously, enforce it more diligently. If the law against child molestation was found to be unenforceable, what would we do? Repeal the law? I don't think so!
Lame Claim 2: "It took up too much parliamentary time."
Answer: No, it didn't. This law was introduced by a proper parliamentary process - in accordance with the will of the majority of the British public who consider hunting with dogs barbaric and unacceptable. The public support this law, as a flagship move towards better treatment of ALL animals - wild animals, farm animals, and laboratory animals. The fact that Tim Bonner of the Countryside Alliance boasts that the Tories could smash this law "in a day" is proof that these people care nothing for the will of the people. God help us all if they seize power.
Lame Claim 3: "Foxes are vermin - if we didn't hunt them we'd be overrun with them."
Answer: So... how come the hunts construct artificial earths to encourage the breeding of foxes? And when foxes become scarce in a particular area, the hunts reintroduce them? Hunt supporters have elsewhere actually claimed that if there were no fox hunting, foxes would have been extinct by now. Surely there must be more humane ways to save an endangered species? By the way, DEFRA defines which animals are classed as vermin in the UK. The fox is not among them. Foxes are NOT vermin. This is, in fact, a very old argument – only now heard from hunting advocates who have not kept up.
Lame Claim 4: "We don't persecute foxes - we love them... we conserve them... we preserve a balance... we even 'ennoble' them by hunting them and we strengthen the breed by picking off the weakest."
Answer: Well, make up your minds - just now they were "vermin" - pests - to be controlled. Now, suddenly, they are precious, and I bet they enjoy being 'ennobled' by being pursued and dismembered alive by dogs. Yes, folks - if there were no foxes - the fox hunters would have no fun. So they make sure there are enough to hunt and if the numbers go down in a particular area, they import them. (Oh, by the way, if being hunted is good for the species... perhaps we'd better instigate the hunting of humans... it'll improve the strength of our species too... goody!) If we really want to get technical, my ecology advisor adds, "This whole 'savannah' theory of maintaining balance by removing predators only applies when those species have co-evolved together and are in fact in a delicate balance. We did not co-evolve predating foxes in this manner so this argument is ecologically unsound."
Lame Claim 5: "It's traditional and traditions are good - they are our birthright."
Answer: Oh really? So the traditions of wife beating, bear baiting, slave whipping, burning of supposed witches, birching of schoolchildren (and so many more atrocities) were all traditions that ought to have been preserved... right?! Just because something has been done for years does not make it right. If traditions were always upheld, women would still not have a vote. Traditions my ass!
The humane replacement for fox-hunting is Drag hunting. This now well-developed pastime doesn't involve hunting an animal; instead, the hounds follow an artificial scent - the drag - laid a few minutes earlier. In Drag Hunting, horse riders are able to enjoy all the old traditional exhilaration of a chase. The only thing missing is the sadistic end of the chase. In another version, Hunting the Clean Boot, bloodhounds are used to follow a human runner – and again there is no cruelty involved.
Lame Claim 6: "Foxes are vicious and cruel - haven't you seen what they do to a chicken coop if they get in? They kill all the birds for pleasure."
Answer: Not true - it's another bit of outdated propaganda. If a hungry animal suddenly finds food, it will eat it... just like we do... but the foxes kill extra chickens with the purpose of burying them for future use when the pickings are slim. Left to themselves they will come back and bury those chickens... but they are not completely stupid - if there is a farmer with a gun waiting to shoot him, Mr. Fox is not going to come back and collect the food supplies. Killing for pleasure?... make no mistake... there is only one animal that does this… MAN.
Lame Claim 7: "Foxes are dirty."
Answer: Nope - they're not... Our rescued foxes spend at least as much time grooming themselves as the average domestic cat; in fact, they are very cat-like in many ways… This is something I never realised until I spent time with these delightful animals. They don't cover up their poo, but neither do any of our domestic dogs. It's not the end of the world and certainly not a good enough reason to persecute them.
Lame Claim 8: "It's NATURAL for men to hunt foxes - just like lions hunt antelope."
Answer: Well the flaw in this argument is blindingly obvious! Lions kill for food... but humans do not eat foxes. There is only one reason to hunt down and murder a fox... for fun... for 'sport'. It's not in any way justifiable. It's barbaric and it's cruel - it's also clearly a crime as defined by the 1909 Cruelty to Animals Act. By the way, have we not noticed that it is NOT the hunters who manage to pull off this great 'sporting achievement' - it's the hounds? Pro-hunters claim that hunting and other blood sports are inevitable because of our biological make-up. To them, death and suffering are an unavoidable part of life and the foxes would die anyway. Fox hunting became popular in the 18th century. Before that, hunting hares, wild deer, and wild boars were the main blood sports in Britain, but the extinction of the wild boars and the almost extinction of wild deer turned attention to foxes instead.
Lame Claim 9: "Ah well, yes - it's natural for DOGS to kill foxes."
Answer: Rubbish - It is in no way natural! I've already published pictures of our local dogs playing with the rescued foxes along with deer and various birds. The fox is a natural delightfully gentle creature – timid and built for running. The average dog, when decently looked after, is also playful, gentle and peaceful. The only way to make dogs vicious and ready to tear apart foxes, stags, hares or even humans - is to brutalise them - half-starve them - deprive them of affection and house them in such wretched conditions that they go berserk when allowed out to run. The hunts test the hound puppies on fox cubs - It's the charming practice of 'cubbing', wherein, once the parent fox has been slaughtered, the tiny fox cubs are poked or dug out from their homes and forced into the path of the young hounds - already 'toughened up' and ready to mutilate. The young hounds eat the fox pups alive. If the young hounds are not vicious enough - the huntsmen shoot them. A nice piece of 'natural selection' designed to make the pack not only healthy but as vicious as possible. Even leaving aside this abhorrent cruelty to foxes; in a decent society, it ought to be illegal to raise a dog for the sole purpose of killing (in fact, as noted in LC 11 - currently it IS illegal to breed dogs for dogfighting)… Logically, we need to bring things into line… so that what is a law for the "yobs" is also a law for the "toffs" too.
It's interesting that perhaps the fox hunting community of people have been in a sense brutalised too, brought up in a way that has desensitised them to the cruelty around them. Cubbing is described in an extract from Fox Hunting by the late Duke of Beaufort, Master of Fox Hounds, published by David & Charles 1980. He wrote: "Never lose sight of the fact that one really well-beaten cub killed fair and square is worth half a dozen fresh ones killed the moment they are found without hounds having to set themselves to the task. It is essential that hounds should have their blood up and learn to be savage with their fox before he is killed."
Lame Claim 10: "By hunting, we eliminate the weakest animals, so we strengthen the species. The foxes are either killed or get away if they are strong. Just like in Africa."
Answer: Good try. But this is just another sly (yes - it's the humans who are sly – not the dear old foxes) attempt to bend the truth. In fact, the appallingly cruel methods used in the hunt ensure that the chances of survival for a fox, in no way depend on its natural strength. Foxes are routinely imported; kept in bags so they are weakened and disoriented before they are let out in front of a pack of hounds. And the truth is that the occasional fox who actually does manage to elude the dogs is usually 'accounted for' by digging out and being shot anyway. No one should be allowed to treat animals this way.
Lame Claim 11: "It's all about class! The middle and working classes are jealous of the toffs and want to deprive them of their rights - among them, the right to treat any animal on their land any way they see fit."
Answer: Nonsense! It is nothing to do with class. Decent people are equally outraged if a young thug in Yorkshire goes out with his pit-bull terrier and encourages it to savage wild animals, or if a rich landowner in Berkshire goes out with HIS dogs and commits an atrocity on a fox, rabbit, or otter. None of this is about class - we care about animals. Brutal behaviour is brutal behaviour - there is no excuse!
Lame Claim 12: "You people who live in towns don't understand the ways of the countryside. Leave us alone and mind your own business!"
Answer: This is a good one... so glib... so ALMOST convincing. The Countryside Alliance is very keen to tell the 'townie' politicians how to run the whole of Britain and has managed to make farming the most heavily subsidised industry in the land. Yet these same people deny the townspeople the right to protect animals in the countryside... as if 'country people' OWNED our wildlife? Imagine landowners insisting that if child-abuse happened on their land, nobody in town had the right to try to stop it. We'd all say… "These children might be on your land - but they still have rights. We reserve the right to monitor your behaviour and stop the cruelty where we find it." Yet the Countryside Alliance stalwarts would have us accept that wild animals straying onto their land legitimately become subject to their every whim. It's a vile conceit.
Lame Claim 13: "You are taking away our human right to socialise in our traditional way."
Answer: Not at all. We absolutely defend your right to meet up on a crisp country morning, dressed up in pinks and scamper about on your horses. What we dispute is your right to trample everything in your path, endangering other people's property, children, pets, and livestock. And we dispute your right to kill animals for your pleasure in a hideously cruel manner. Drag hunting, with the hounds following a scent other than fox, gives you all the socialising you need and all the exercise; it has the huge advantage that the path of the hunt can be pre-planned so that your neighbours are not threatened by invasion. If you refuse to accept this as a decent alternative it can only be that you need the thrill of killing and that you actually crave the feeling of wanton disregard for anyone around you… That feeling of superiority perhaps – "Lords of the Manor" and all that? It's time to come into the 21st century.
Lame Claim 14: "If we are prevented from killing foxes using dogs, farmers have to control these pests by shooting them. Farmers are poor marksmen so many foxes die a lingering death from gunshot wounds - which is inhumane."
Answer: Inhumane? Excuse me?!!! Given the choice of being pursued until your muscles are paralysed and then ripped apart by hounds, or shot with a bullet, or the chance of an instant death, which would you choose? I put this question to the head of DEFRA (the Department of the Environment and Farming and Rural Affairs). He at least had the decency to say he wasn't entirely sure. But many of the Countryside Alliance propagandists continue to insist that being killed by hounds is a desirable option. Sorry, but... simply not believable! We always come back to the same conclusion... the only reason to be indulging in this filthy bloodsport is that you enjoy causing unnecessary pain to animals. Dogs and horses also die on hunts.


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Clifton Haitian relief benefit
On February 4 the Clifton Inn will host a benefit dinner for the earthquake victims of Haiti. The dinner is $45 per person and all proceeds will go toward the Oxfam America-Haiti Relief Fund. In addition, if you decide to spend the night, all proceeds will go to Haiti, too. All Clifton employees are donating their time, effort, and gratuities to the cause as well. The special "comfort food" menu includes roasted free range chicken with truffle butter, smoked bacon and onion braised greens, jalapeno cornbread, and coconut cršme brulee with raspberries, to name a few items. Call 434-971-1800 for reservations.


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The Hollywood Exes are split up this week. Drea Kelly is in Chicago, Mayte Garcia is in Los Angeles, and Nicole Murphy is in New York City. Sheree Fletcher and Jessica Canseco meet Nicole in NYC after a chat in the park.
Sheree asks Jessica why she hightailed it out of her birthday dinner. Jess explains, Josie invited a boy over, and she wanted to spy and/or surprise them by returning home earlier than expected. Sheree doesn't believe her. She pushes the issue, asking if Drea made her feel uncomfortable, but Jessica stands by her story. You mean the world doesn't revolve around Drea? Woah. Somebody better check her email. In all seriousness, I don't believe Jessica either, but I also can't blame her for fleeing from that restaurant.
Sheree pretty much tells Jessica that they all talked about her after she left. Sheree reminds Jessica of the comments she made about Gia's birth mother, adding, "We all came to the consensus that your timing was off." Jessica plays dumb. Sheree chastises Jessica for ruining Mayte's celebratory moment. And Jessica plays dumber. Sheree urges Jessica to reach out to Mayte, adding, "You don't have to be wrong to offer an apology." Jessica says she wants to make things right. Mayte's keeper will stop this from happening.


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Jenn Sterger's reluctance to cooperate with the NFL regarding the investigation regarding whether Vikings quarterback Brett Favre violated the league's Personal Conduct Policy via his communications with her possibly during their mutual employment with the Jets arises from the fact that she can't truthfully say his conduct was unwelcome.
Comments from one of Sterger's friends seem to lend credence to that perspective.
Per the New York Post, Allison Torres told Steppin' Out magazine that Sterger "regularly texted" with Favre "for some time."
That two-way line of communication would make it very difficult for Sterger to show that she was offended by Favre's comments, or that his conduct (whatever it may have been) was unwelcome.
Torres also said that she saw the photos that have taken this case to an even higher level of bizarre. "I actually saw it when he sent it," Torres said. "We just laughed when he did it."
The notion that Sterger "laughed" when receiving the photos would tend to suggest that she wasn't appalled or offended or scarred because of his actions. In turn, it would tend to show that he didn't commit sexual harassment. In turn, it would tend to show that he didn't violate the Personal Conduct Policy.
The fact that, according to Torres, Sterger apparently had a collection of naked photos from celebrities would undermine the notion that a middle-aged quarterback was preying upon a young, innocent girl who was merely trying to make a living.


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Yalumba Shiraz Viognier the Y Series 2014
The Yalumba Wine Company:
Yalumba was founded in 1849 by Samuel Smith, British migrant and English brewer, who had brought his family to Angaston seeking a new life. After purchasing a 30-acre parcel of land just beyond the southern-eastern boundary of Angaston, Smith and his son began planting the first vines by moonlight. Samuel named his patch "Yalumba" – aboriginal for "all the land around&qu... Read more
Yalumba was founded in 1849 by Samuel Smith, British migrant and English brewer, who had brought his family to Angaston seeking a new life. After purchasing a 30-acre parcel of land just beyond the southern-eastern boundary of Angaston, Smith and his son began planting the first vines by moonlight. Samuel named his patch "Yalumba" – aboriginal for "all the land around". Six generations and more than 150 years later Yalumba, Australia's oldest family owned winery, has grown in size and stature, embodying all that has made the Australian wine success story the envy of winemakers the world over. Yalumba wines have a style all of their own and each have been influenced by a diverse range of elements. Elements Yalumba likes to call 'the controllables', such as the Yalumba Vine Nursery and on-site cooperage – as well as other factors that cannot be emulated by any other winery. Yalumba's history and tradition combined with a reputation for innovation. Yalumba Announced Winestate Magazine Wine Company of the Year 2007 "Tradition, Loyalty and the spirit of Progress" Click here to download presenter. 'Our driving emotion is a responsibility to leave a legacy and a desire to make a difference' ROBERT HILL SMITH - Fifth generation Yalumba proprietor 'The Hill Smith family has always had a good eye for an exceptional vineyard site' ROBIN NETTELBECK - Viticulturist 'At Yalumba, no aspect of winegrowing or winemaking is left to chance' ALAN HOEY - Winemaker 'A winemaker's challenge is to add an individual element to each wine. We hope to provide enjoyable, multi-dimensional wines' BRIAN WALSH - Winemaker 'Articulating which wine style Yalumba does best is almost as difficult as asking a parent to name a favourite child' SAM HILL SMITH - Joint proprietor, gallery owner 'The journey of 'Rare & Fine' has been one of trial, error and learning and certainly a rewarding one' ROBERT HILL SMITH 'I am proud to be the 7th master cooper at Yalumba; it's a longstanding tradition and unique amongst today's winemakers' ANDREW BROAD - Master Cooper 'Admiration not imitation - this is undoubtedly the catch-cry of the Yalumba winemaker' ROBERT HILL SMITH 'Our work with Viognier is testament to our willingness and confidence to look to the future' LOUISA ROSE - Winemaker 'We are committed to minimising environmental impact for a sustainable, successful future' CECIL CAMILLERI - Environmental Manager 'Our goal is to be the finest independent Australian Winemaker and Wine Ambassador' ROBERT HILL SMITH Read less
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