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Animal cruelty harms everyone. It harms communities by making them less safe. It harms neighborhoods by instilling fear in families with children and pets. It harms the minds of children by teaching them that abusing and killing animals is acceptable.
Landlord Jennifer Oustrich allegedly poisoned at least two feral (also called community) cats at the property she owns and rents out in Taylor, Pennsylvania, just outside Scranton. When she allegedly killed the cats, she also tainted the values of her community.
Oustrich was reportedly angry about the community cats getting into the garbage of her tenants, and had vented to neighbors of her intent to poison the cats. Necropsy reports, administered by local police with assistance from Cornell University’s Veterinary Medical Center, revealed that industrial rat poison mixed with dog food was set out for the cats, which slowly and painfully killed two cats, and possibly more.
Many options were available to her other than killing. She could have instructed her tenants to animal- proof their garbage or called a nearby animal group, or a Trap-Neuter-Return organization. She could have used deterrents that are inexpensive and effective. Instead, Oustrich considered community cats’ lives worthless and violently killed them.
In the past, if such animal cruelty occurred in Pennsylvania, Oustrich likely would have been charged with a misdemeanor, the same as a parking ticket or a loitering fine. But in June 2017, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf signed Libre’s Law, named after an abused rescue puppy. Libre’s Law increases penalties for animal abuse and creates clear distinctions between misdemeanors and felonies. It also allows for felony charges for aggravated cruelty to animals causing serious bodily injury or death. Prior to this law, felony charges could only be filed for animal fighting offenses or for killing an endangered species. Overall, the law creates stronger protections for animals, including community cats.
Oustrich was arrested on two felony charges of aggravated assault, as well as six other criminal counts. She is awaiting trial. The timing is fortunate now that Pennsylvania has elevated such abuse to felony offenses potentially punishable by a prison term.
Alley Cat Allies urges the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s office to prosecute this case to the full extent of the law. We must ask every state to prosecute abusers so they can never maim, starve, poison, or kill our animals or our justice systems again. It’s what the animals deserve.
I wanted to buy some crystals, but do not know what to purchase. I needed crystal for meditation, and prosperity of children and home. Thank you.
Thank you for contacting HealingCrystals with your questions. First, let me share that I am not a medical professional and cannot diagnose medical issues nor prescribe treatments. Crystals are to be used as a complimentary therapy in additional to treatment by a licensed medical professional.
Personally, I have found most blue, purple or clear crystals can be helpful for meditation. Two nice crystals for beginners to this are Blue Lace Agate and Amethyst. They also have many other benefits and are crystals I would recommend to anyone starting to work with crystals.
Two favorite crystals of mine for prosperity, also called “abundance” in many crystal books are Citrine and Malachite. Placing several pieces of them with some coins and setting your intention on attracting prosperity for your highest good, would be one way to use them.
By prosperity of children, I am thinking you mean you want to have many children? A good crystal to start with for encouraging fertility and conception is Rose Quartz. Perhaps a pendant or pocket stone would be helpful, or placing a larger piece or Rose Quartz near where you sleep.
One more thing I like to make sure people know is that most crystals work best when they are cleansed/cleared regularly and energized for their purpose. Here is a link to some articles on the subject. As a thank you for contacting us with your question.
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Angus & Julia Stone, ARIA nominees for ‘Apple Music Song of the Year’, have covered another ‘Apple Music Song of the Year’ nominee – ‘Youngblood’ by Sydney’s 5 Seconds of Summer (5SOS).
The band has also just released ‘Chateau (Acoustic)’ – download / stream here. The song is a reinterpretation of the triple platinum hit single ‘Chateau’, nominated for ‘Apple Music Song of the Year’.
Angus & Julia have also received ARIA Award nominations for Best Blues & Roots Album and Best Independent Release. This recognition caps off an incredible 12 months for the extraordinarily talented brother sister duo, including the release of their fourth studio album, the Gold-certified ‘Snow’.
‘Snow’ spawned monster hit ‘Chateau’ and the largest tour undertaking of their career, as they played full houses in Australia and right across the US, UK and Europe.
The final chance to see Angus & Julia live this year will be their headline Summersault shows in SA and WA, then as special guests on Paul Kelly’s Making Gravyshows. All dates include an incredible line-up of Australian artists – Summersaultincluding Meg Mac, Gretta Ray (WA), Didirri (SA)and Seaside, and Making Gravyfeaturing Paul Kelly plus Angus & Julia and Alex Lahey (all shows), and D.D Dumbo and Angie McMahon (Syd) and Mojo Juju (Melb & Bris).
New Mexico’s medical cannabis industry is about to get bigger, though it’s unclear by how much.
The state’s health department has chosen 17 finalists out of 86 applicants for new MMJ producer licenses, according to The Associated Press.
There’s no word yet on how many of those 17 will actually be awarded licenses. But Retta Ward, New Mexico’s secretary of health, is expected to make a decision on the matter within the next 30 days, the AP reported.
At the beginning of the year, there were 24 nonprofit dispensaries and 23 licensed producers in the entire state (licensees are allowed to run more than one dispensary).
Some of the factors that played into officials’ decision when culling the field of applicants included plans for security, production, quality assurance, sales and distribution, and agricultural experience.
The Swedish cleantech company Ripasso Energy has developed a unique solution to harness energy from flare and industrial residual gas combustion. A solution based on the Stirling technology, a 200-year-old invention with decades of operation service in Swedish submarines, that can cut costs and lower carbon dioxide emissions for the South African mining and processing industry.
Many industrial applications, especially in the metallurgical sector, produce byproducts in the form of gases (residual gas) that are currently burned off (flared) without harnessing the energy. Up to 50% of the energy in a furnace process is lost in form of waste gas. To be able to recycle some of this energy is of course attractive, both from a cost as well as an environmental perspective. For decades different technical solutions have been tested but have in general been unsuccessful of various reasons. Some of them have been too expensive and/or require costly investments that makes the price of the recovered energy significantly higher than the market price of electricity.
Another common problem has been the fact that residual gas is generally of such uneven quality that engines based on internal combustion have a hard time handling it. For example – the gas from a ferro-alloy furnace at some stages have 60 to 65% CO and 10 to 15% H, and in the next moment it switches and have 45 to 50% CO and up to 25 to 30% H. For internal combustion engines this is a major problem as a phenomenon known as “knocking” can occur, which damages the engine.
Fig. 1: Illustration of the Stirling cycle plotted in a diagram which shows the pressure (P) and the volume variations (V).
Ripasso Energy has developed a solution that effectively can turn waste gas into electricity with unrivaled cost efficiency by using Stirling engines, based on Swedish Kockum’s world-class Stirling technology for submarines.
The Stirling engine, which is what is referred to as a gas pressure engine, was invented in the early 19th century. From a historical perspective, its practical applications have been limited compared to, for example, the internal combustion engine, with the result that the technology has never had a major commercial breakthrough. Combined with an overall societal push to reduce the use of fossil fuels, the refinements made to the technology in recent decades may mean that the breakthrough is at hand.
The Stirling technology has several characteristics making it particularly well-suited to the development of cost-effective solutions for climate-friendly power generation. Qualities that other engines and solutions lack completely or are significantly less well-positioned to offer. Among other things, the Stirling engine can be operated using any heat source at all, in principle. The combustion that drives the engine takes place externally – i.e. outside of the engine itself. It is quiet and virtually vibration-free. Above all though, the Stirling engine features very high efficiency, i.e. the ability to convert thermal energy to kinetic energy. In its simplest version, the Stirling engine is a closed system with an expansion cylinder and a compression cylinder filled with a working gas.
The pistons of the cylinders are linked by a connecting rod. When the working gas in the expansion cylinder is heated, pressure increases. This depresses the piston and thus performs work. Part of the power is used to force the hot working gas from the expansion cylinder into the compression cylinder. Once its outward motion in the compression cylinder is arrested, the piston returns by the inertia of the connecting rod, and by the fact that the working gas is compressed at low temperature. The gas is then forced back into the working cylinder. On the whole, the expansion of the hot gas in the expansion cylinder does more work than is needed to compress the cold gas in the compression cylinder. This work can be used to drive an electrical alternator that is directly connected to the engine’s connecting rod.
The Stirling cycle itself is the most efficient thermodynamic cycle for the transformation of heat into mechanical energy. The engine operates without internal combustion and is dependent only on an external heat source. That makes it ideal for use as a converter of thermal energy into mechanical energy. A constant quantity of hydrogen gas is heated in the engine (4 in figure below). Through its expansion when heated (1 in the figure below) and contraction when cooled (2 and 3 in the figure below), the gas sets the pistons in motion. The pistons are linked by a connecting rod that drives an alternator that produces electrical energy. The efficiency of the Stirling engine increases at high temperature differentials between the hot side and the cold side. As there are no internal contaminants caused by combustion, the pistons, bearings and seals have a very long service life.
Fig. 2: Schematic of the Ripaso Energy PWR BLOK.
PWR BLOK is a container-based product is specifically designed to cost-efficient extract energy from residual gases. It contains of 14 Stirling engines arrayed in a 45-ft container and delivers total net output of 400 kW. The Stirling engines remove the risk of dealing with volatile gas because they burn it in a combustion chamber under very low pressure and with no compression, just heat. The engines are, thanks to the external combustion design, practically indifferent to the type of gas burned and to the quality of the gas in question. This also gives low maintenance/service (6000 h) since the fuel don’t contaminate the inside of the engine itself. The PWR BLOK’s pricing gives the customer a payback period of around three to four years. The technology’s service life is at least 25 years.
A clear example of the benefits offered by the PWR BLOK can be seen in the ferrochrome industry in South Africa. This industry produces large amounts of residual gas that are currently flared off. At the same time, electricity costs account for nearly a third of the industry’s total production costs. Ripasso’s solution makes it possible to burn the gas while at the same time using it to generate electricity at a cost of just 20 EUR/MWh, a record low for climate-friendly electricity, and very competitive to the industry’s average price today of 52 EUR/MWh. Since this also reduces the company’s need to purchase electricity from the grid by up to 15-18%, it in turn reduces the companies’ carbon dioxide emissions. South Africa currently generates approx. 87% of all its electricity from fossil fuels, according to figures from Eskom. Ripasso’s technology enables an annual 3500-tonne reduction in carbon dioxide emissions in South Africa per PWR BLOK installed.
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Come to the Mayfield Autumn Festival this 13 to 28 April 2019 and enjoy the beautiful Autumn colours.
A particularly beautiful Blue Mountains orchid.
The Xanthorrhoea or grass tree is a genus of 30 species endemic to Australia.
The Blue Mountains and Great Dividing Range were formed about 50 million years ago when the area was uplifted. More recently, volcanic flows covered large areas of the mountains in basalt. These have largely worn away, leaving only occasional outcrops on the high peaks.
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For the second week of BM # 50 I have picked Methi recipes. Methi or fenugreek is a winter green which is one of the greens that is my favorite, next to sarso or mustard. Spinach is one green that I am not really fond of , though I eat it mixed with some other veggie . As always Valli put a clause to these methi dishes, three days and three categories. So I begin with Methi Gota which is a very popular snack of Gujarat.
The gotas have a little bit of sugar, which is added to kill the bitterness of the fenugreek. These gotas were my father in laws favorite and we used to make them very often. Times have changed and deep fried food is avoided but still we do make them once in a while.These gotas are a part of the Gujrati Thali that I made. I had cooked for 100 people at the hotel and I still need to post that Thali.
Sieve the chick pea flour.
Add these and rest of the ingredients to the chick pea flour.
Slowly add water to make a semi soft batter, make sure the batter is not very soft.
Heat oil and make balls of this batter and deep fry to a golden.
Serve with either sweet chutney or ketchup.
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D-Link has announced two wireless network cameras with 180 field of view.
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Police in Northern Ireland say two police officers narrowly escaped being killed in a landmine attack in Co Fermanagh at the weekend.
Details of the incident, which happened on Saturday, were only released by the PSNI this afternoon.
A landmine containing a substantial amount of home-made explosives was planted under a bridge near the village of Rosslea.
Police say the two officers sustained minor injuries because only part of the device exploded. The landmine was later defused by British Army bomb experts.
The attack is being blamed on dissident republicans.
The PSNI have condemned those who planted the bomb, saying their depraved actions have nothing to offer anyone in the community.
The PSNI says a number of police officers narrowly escaped being murdered in a landmine attack in Co Fermanagh at the weekend.
WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Colin Powell (search) has been evasive about his future, skirting questions about the timing of his widely expected departure after four rough-and-tumble years as America's chief diplomat.
In dozens of interviews, Powell has dismissed questions about his plans by saying with a smile, "I serve at the pleasure of the president."
Powell has long been considered to be a one-term secretary of state, irrespective of whether Bush was re-elected. Speculation has been rife for months about possible successors in a second Bush term. Among those mentioned are national security adviser Condoleezza Rice (search) and U.N. Ambassador John Danforth (search).
Last July, Bush suggested during an appearance in Philadelphia that he would be happy if Powell were to remain on. The remark went virtually unnoticed by the media but caught the attention of Powell aides.
During a September interview with The Associated Press, Powell was asked whether he considered Bush's comment to be an invitation for him to stay on.
"Time will tell. We will see," Powell replied.
When asked Wednesday about Powell's plans, his spokesman, Richard Boucher, reverted to the usual language about "serving at the pleasure of the president."
One possibility would be for Powell to stay on for a brief period until after the national elections in Iraq, which are supposed to be held before the end of January 2005.
As analysts see it, a post-Iraq election departure for Powell would make more sense than one that could occur just days before the balloting in Iraq but after Bush's second term begins.
At a minimum, Bush's re-election means a series of foreign trips Powell plans will take on a more serious cast than they would have if Sen. John Kerry had prevailed Tuesday.
And the Bush victory means that his own trip to an Asia-Pacific summit meeting in Chile before Thanksgiving will involve substantive exchanges rather than farewell handshakes and polite banter.
The 20 or so Asia-Pacific leaders invited there will be eager to hear what Bush has in mind for the region in his second term.
For his part, Powell will travel to Mexico on Monday for an overnight visit. The following week, he plans to spend four days in Chile as part of the U.S. summit entourage. He then will fly to Egypt for a major international conference on Iraq's future, a meeting Powell hopes to use to expand international cooperation for Iraq.
He also will attend a NATO meeting in Brussels in December and possibly meetings of other trans-Atlantic groups in Europe. In addition, Powell will attend a meeting in Morocco next month to push the Bush administration's pro-democracy agenda for Arab countries.
In the coming days, Powell will be boning up on issues involving Mexico ahead of his Monday visit. Mexican officials will be eager to hear more about Bush's proposal to provide legal status — at least on a temporary basis — for millions of undocumented aliens in the United States. Mexico is the principal source of such migrants.
Renewable three-year work permits would be available for them if they can prove that they have a job and meet other criteria. Mexico strongly supports the initiative.
Bush proposed it last January but little has been heard about it since.
If Congress approves, officials say the new rules will make America safer by helping for the first time to document migrants who have no legal standing in the United States.
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