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This 102.2-acre natural area, located in the Town of Davie, was formerly owned by the Belcher family and is now surrounded by the Forest Ridge residential community. The overall site, which opened to the public in February 1990, can be described as a sandy ridge rising above former Everglades flatlands. At its highest elevation, 29 feet above sea level, it is also the highest natural point in Broward County.
The gently undulating topography of the ridge serves as a reminder that, although the Atlantic Ocean is now roughly 10 miles away, it once deposited fine sands and created dunes here 100,000 years ago. Sea levels fluctuated greatly during the most recent ice age, approximately 20,000 years ago, but eventually the Florida peninsula emerged and the ancient barrier island that is now Pine Island Ridge became a sandy inland ridge. That ridge became an island once again approximately 5,000 years ago when the Everglades formed – not an island at the edge of the ocean, but an island surrounded by an inland freshwater river of sawgrass.
Archaeological surveys have confirmed sites within Pine Island Ridge as the locations of hunting camps of the ancient Tequesta Indians. More recently, in the 1800s, as the historian Patsy West has written, "The Pine Island complex was probably one of the first permanent habitation sites occupied by the Seminole in southeastern Florida."
West goes on: "During the Second Seminole War [1835-1842], Pine Island became known as the legendary refuge for the Seminole. The Island was in the uncharted Everglades where the military had never set foot, and appeared to be secure." As West points out, Sam Jones, the Miccosukee war chief also known as Abiaka, was closely linked to the series of islands that included Pine Island Ridge and nearby Long Key. One of his primary residences was on Long Key, and Pine Island Ridge is where he was repeatedly besieged by U.S. government forces that wanted to corner and capture him. (The warrior is commemorated with a statue in Tree Tops Park, adjacent to Pine Island Ridge.)
Today Pine Island Ridge is a high hammock forest dominated by live oaks and slash pines. Vegetation includes hackberry, red bay, marlberry, wild coffee, beautyberry, swamp fern, and giant sword fern. Wildlife includes gopher tortoises, great horned owls, migratory warblers, red-bellied and pileated woodpeckers, Cooper's hawks, and atala butterflies. The site is part of the Great Florida Birding Trail, a series of nearly 500 sites throughout the state selected for their excellent bird-watching and bird-education opportunities.
Site amenities include interpretive signage throughout; a paved trail originating in Tree Tops Park and branching out to an interpretive shelter and to the Forest Ridge residential community; and equestrian trails that connect Tree Tops with Westridge, a Town of Davie park.
For more information on Pine Island Ridge, call Tree Tops Park at 954-357-5130.
Wanted: Kayakers to help clean up the shoreline of Deerfield Island Park in Deerfield Beach, from 8:30 to 11 a.m. on Saturday, May 12. To make things interesting, pretend you're on a Kayak Treasure Hunt., complete with "treasure-hunting supplies" you'll retrieve when you arrive at the park's marina. Prizes will be awarded for the most unusual finds. Treasure hunters ages 18 and up are encouraged to bring a hat, gloves, and plenty of drinking water. Preregistration is required by calling Quiet Waters Parkat 954-357-5100. Deerfield Island is accessible via Broward County Transit Routes #48 and #50
Introduce your family to the wonderful world of growing your own herbs when Secret Woods Nature Center in Dania Beach offers a Herbilicious Herb Class, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 10. Participants will learn about cultivating herbs and making tinctures, as well as other modern uses for herbs. They'll also leave with their own starter herb gardens.
Preregistration is required by calling the nature center at 954-357-8884, and a $20 donation to the Friends of Secret Woods volunteer group is requested. Secret Woods is accessible via Broward County Transit Route #6.
The name of the late environmentalist and County Commissioner Anne Kolb lives on not only in the county's largest nature center, in Hollywood, but also in the Anne Kolb Memorial Trail, which traverses re-created plant communities at Plantation Heritage Park such as high and low hammocks, pinelands, a coastal strand forest, and a basin, along with a newly planted meadow/prairie.
The trail will be the subject of a Restoration Project on Saturday, May 5, when volunteers will work from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. to hand-remove unwanted vegetation from the trail and replace it with native species. Participants should bring a hat, gloves, sunscreen, insect repellent, and drinking water. No equipment will be provided, so volunteers are also encouraged to bring such items as shovels. Parking is provided at the park's main building, where you can complete the necessary paperwork at the office and receive a list of do's and don'ts before being directed to the work location.
For more information, call the park at 954-357-5135. Plantation Heritage is accessible via Broward County Transit Route #30.
May is Air Quality Awareness Month, and the Broward County Air Quality Program would like to provide tips on things you can do conserve energy, improve air quality and your health, and reduce your carbon footprint. Here are easy changes everyone can make to help:
· Give your car a break. Take Tri-Rail or the bus, walk, bike, and/or carpool.
· Unplug unused electronics. When electronics are not being used, unplug them from the outlet or keep them plugged into a power strip and switch it off.
· Adjust your thermostat up two degrees.
· Take shorter showers. Showers account for two-thirds of all water heating costs.
· Use reusable cloth shopping bags.
· Reuse a mug or water bottle.
· Wash clothes in cold water.
· Use recycled paper and print on both sides.
· Give your car a break. Take Tri-Rail or the bus, walk, bike, and/or carpool.
· Unplug unused electronics. When electronics are not being used, unplug them from the outlet or keep them plugged into a power strip and switch it off.
· Adjust your thermostat up two degrees.
· Take shorter showers. Showers account for two-thirds of all water heating costs.
· Use reusable cloth shopping bags.
· Reuse a mug or water bottle.
· Wash clothes in cold water.
· Use recycled paper and print on both sides.
If you take all of the above these actions, you can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 2,500 pounds, which is equivalent to the emissions of 127 gallons of gasoline.
Also remember to check the Air Quality Index. This is especially important for children, the elderly, and those with respiratory ailments. Call 954-519-1280 for today's Air Quality Index.
You can also sign up for Enviroflash, which will immediately notify subscribers, via e-mail or pager, when the Air Quality Index falls out of the "good" category. The e-mail provides information on what precautions should be taken. Visit www.broward.org/pollutionprevention to sign up.
Finally, "like" us on Facebook at Broward Environment for environmental updates and events.
Looking for some plants to spruce up your home landscape? Look no further than the Broward County Plant Affair. The popular annual event takes place the weekend of May 5 and 6 at Plantation Heritage Park in Plantation, where you'll find a plant show and sale with up to 30 vendors. Food and beverages will also be available for purchase. Hours are 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. both days. For more information, call the park at 954-357-5135. Plantation Heritage is accessible via Broward County Transit Route #30.
Learn how to identify and attract local butterflies to your own back yard when Butterfly World at Tradewinds Park South in Coconut Creek holds a Butterfly Gardening Workshop. The workshop, which is free with paid admission to the internationally famous attraction, starts at 1 p.m. on Saturday, May 19, and no reservations are required. A free photo guide to butterflies is included, and butterfly-gardening plants will be available for purchase in the garden center. For more information, call Butterfly World at 954-977-4400, or visit www.butterflyworld.com. Tradewinds Park's regular weekend and holiday gate entrance fee of $1.50/person (children 5 and under free) will be in effect. The park is accessible via Broward County Transit Route #34.
If you can't get enough of the colorful insects, head on over to Secret Woods Nature Center in Dania Beach the next day at noon, when the park hosts Delightful Flight. The half-hour program, which costs $1.50 per person, provides an up-close look at some of Florida's butterflies, as well as information on how to attract them to your garden. For more information, call the nature center at 954-357-8884. Secret Woods is accessible via Broward County Transit Route #6.
Broward County Parks now has its own YouTube Channel at www.YouTube.com/BrowardCountyParks. If you've never gone kayaking at West Lake Park in Hollywood, you'll get a glimpse of this urban oasis. Watch our video and be transported to the tranquil mangroves and calm waters that surround the park and see what could be waiting for you next time you visit.
Broward County Parks in now on Twitter! Follow us at @BrowardParks and keep up to date with important information, events, programs, and other happenings. Twitter accounts have also been created for five of our parks including Secret Woods Nature Center (@SecretWoodsNC) in Dania Beach. Visit the Broward County Government Stay Connected Webpage to follow your favorite park.
You can now take a little bit of Broward County nature home with you – thanks to a series of nature posters produced and sold by Broward County Parks. The six posters, all photographed in the county's parks, nature centers, and natural areas, feature American white waterlilies, burrowing owls, a gray fox, live oak trees, a prairie iris, and a queen butterfly. The posters look great either framed or unframed, and they're a distinctive way to bring a taste of nature into your home or office. They also make excellent gifts.
The offices at seven facilities have the posters available for purchase: the Anne Kolb Nature Center at West Lake Park in Hollywood, Fern Forest Nature Center in Coconut Creek, Long Key Natural Area & Nature Center in Davie, Markham Park in Sunrise, Plantation Heritage Park in Plantation, Tree Tops Park in Davie, and T.Y. Park in Hollywood.
The high-quality posters, which measure 18 inches by 24 inches, retail for $10, including Florida sales tax. You can also purchase posters by mail from Broward County Parks and Recreation, 950 N.W. 38th St., Oakland Park, FL 33309. Mail-order posters are $15 (includes Florida sales tax, shipping, and handling), with checks/money orders payable to Broward County Parks and Recreation. For more information, e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
We'd like to know what you think about our programs and facilities. Please take a moment to tell us how we're doing by filling out this survey.
Anne Kolb Nature Center
751 Sheridan St., Hollywood
Deerfield Island Park
1720 Deerfield Island Park
Deerfield Beach
Fern Forest Nature Center
201 Lyons Rd. South Coconut Creek
Long Key Natural Area & Nature Center
3501 S.W. 130th Ave.
Secret Woods Nature Center
2701 W. State Rd. 84 Dania Beach
For more nature activities, please go to www.broward.org/parks/calendar.
Batting Cages (AllGolf at C.B. Smith Park) – Butterfly World (Tradewinds Park) – Cable Water-Skiing (Ski Rixen USA at Quiet Waters Park) – Campgrounds (C.B. Smith Park, Easterlin Park, Markham Park, Quiet Waters Park, T.Y. Park) – Dog Park (Barkham at Markham Park) – Educational Farm (Tradewinds Park) – Exhibit Halls (Anne Kolb Nature Center at West Lake Park, Fern Forest Nature Center, Long Key Natural Area & Nature Center, Secret Woods Nature Center) – Golf Facilities (AllGolf at C.B. Smith Park) – Softball/Baseball Fields (Brian Piccolo Park, Sunview Park, Tradewinds Park) – Observatory (Markham Park) – Riding Stables (Tradewinds Park, Tree Tops Park) – Skate Parks/Tracks (Brian Piccolo Park, Quiet Waters Park) – Target Range (Markham Park) – Tennis Centers (Brian Piccolo Park, C.B. Smith Park) – Velodrome (Brian Piccolo Park) – Water Playgrounds/ Waterslides/Swimming (C.B. Smith Park, Central Broward Regional Park & Stadium, Quiet Waters Park, T.Y. Park)
The Parks and Recreation Division is dedicated to providing a countywide park system with diverse facilities and recreation opportunities, along with natural area conservation and research-based educational outreach, to enhance the well-being of residents, businesses, and visitors.
Founded in February 1956 and accredited by the Commission for Accreditation of Park and Recreation Agencies, Broward County Parks and Recreation Division manages nearly 6,500 acres, encompassing 18 regional parks and nature centers, six neighborhood parks, and 21 natural areas at various stages of development. Facilities include water parks, campgrounds, a target range, a stadium, skate parks, an observatory, mountain bike trails, an educational farm with stables, and a velodrome and other sports facilities. Hours and fees vary by location. For more information, visit www.broward.org/parks.
Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations in order to participate in County programs, services, and activities must contact the Special Populations Section at 954-357-8170 or TTY 954-537-2844 at least 10 business days prior to the scheduled meeting or event to request an accommodation.
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The Secret World & TXAA
What is TXAA?
Nvidia is still keeping most of the details of TXAA under wraps, but GeForce.com offers this explanation:
TXAA is a combination of hardware anti-aliasing, a custom anti-aliasing resolve, and a temporal filter. To filter pixels, TXAA uses a contribution of samples both inside and outside of the pixel in conjunction with samples from prior frames, to offer the highest quality filtering possible. In motion, TXAA approaches the quality of other high end, professional anti-aliasing algorithms, though the higher quality filtering used by TXAA does result in a softer image compared to the lower quality filtering of traditional MSAA.Despite their similar names, TXAA is not a form of FXAA (AMD calls its version MLAA). Fast approXimate Anti-Aliasing creates an pseudo-anti-aliasing effect by applying a post-processing edge-detection filter that blurs line edges. Intel invented and developed early iterations of what it referred to as morphological anti-aliasing, and Nvidia has improved on these early efforts, but FXAA isn't a true form of anti-aliasing.
The "temporal filter Nvidia refers to is a different way of achieving the goals of standard spatial anti-aliasing.TXAA starts with an MSAA implementation, but then averages edge values across multiple frames rather than blowing them up to ultra-high resolutions. That's why Nvidia states that the technology looks better in motion -- static screenshots can't accurately capture the blending that occurs when a character is on the move.
The only anti-aliasing modes available in The Secret World are FXAA (in regular and high quality flavors) and 2x/4x TXAA. It's possible to force certain anti-aliasing methods through the use of Nvidia Inspector, but we stuck to the basic options available in-game. Because the performance hit from enabling FXAA is virtually nil, we skipped testing the standard mode and went straight to HQ. Screenshots below illustrate the three settings.
Key jagged spots and areas of interest in this first set of images include:
- The bike
- The poster hanging above it
- The red car in the middle-right of the image
4x TXAA significantly improves the scene with only a modest frame rate hit. Here's the bicycle in all three modes, at 300% zoom.
TXAA does introduce a bit of blur, but it's less than what you'd see from a 4x supersampling implementation. Nvidia has stated that one of the benefits of TXAA is that it duplicates how Hollywood films use AA in rendered scenes. The Secret World doesn't exactly jump out and scream Inception, but the new anti-aliasing method is designed to produce more realistic images rather than overly sharp digital scenery.
Nvidia recommends evaluating the technology in motion, so hit next to see a video comparison.

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Thread: New tank - help
08-20-2012, 10:13 AM #1Member Molly
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New tank - help
hello guys,
I got a new tank with 210g.
what you guys telling about this:
* group of 5-7 Discus [when the time comes and the breed will be ill grow up the babys too for a larger group]
* little group of 3-4 Angel fish.
* not sure but maybe 1-2 Motoro Sting Ray
* Self-America spieces:
Geophagus sp. Tapajos "Red Head"
Gymnogeophagus balzanii
Red Hump Eartheater
* I got only 80W of light's so its wont be with live plants, only rocks and roots.
if I bring the String ray ill tie roots from the top and put few rocks in the side's \ middle.
** I got alot of experience with aquarium's, I had nano reef before. **
sounds like it will work, but raising juvies in a tank that large can cause problems. best to use a 30 or 40 gal until the discus reach at least 3 inches. they must be fed 6-8 times per day. a large tank makes it hard for them to find the food plus doing a minimum of 50% wc's every day is going to waste a lot of water. do not try to raise them with the other fish. even angels are more aggressive eaters than discus.
08-20-2012, 10:26 PM #3Member Molly
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I will put the discus in a little tank then this until they grow up but I wanna know more about the fish's.
If this spieces can be together.
I think you should research more about the discus and tank mates. For the time when these discus are adults, there is a lot of debate about angels with discus because of competition for food disease vector and so on. Some say you can others say to avoid. I probably wouldn't mix them if it was my tank. When I get around to discus I will start with bare bottom no angels and if I do a display tank with rocks/wood/substrate I will probably do sand and have some cories and cardinals to mix it up.
I would also question whether you want earth eaters with the sting rays and discus, I think that could be a little competitive on the bottom surface. Also is it your intention to have a substrate and have the earth eaters kick it up and act as cleaners?
Whatever you do your going to have to think about compatibility for food and feeding habits, discus like to take food in the column and to puff there water off the substrate to eat it so thats why I am wondering if the sting ray, discus and eartheater is going to mix well.
How big are you expecting the sting rays to get?Mucky
Unusually I have nothing more to add...
many fish are hit or miss with discus. I had four festivum's with my wilds. everything was fine until the festivum's reached adult size. although there was no aggression they pushed the discus to the rear of the tank. as soon as I removed them the discus were all over the tank again. other people have no problems with the two fish together. personally, I would get a couple of large schools of tertas and a school of cories and add more discus. they should be the center of attention with any tank.
Discus, especially young ones, are so skittish when it comes to tankmates... My personal experience has been that being around other fish [tiny clown loaches] is enough to stress discus into going on a hunger strike. I have read that tetras and corydoras work well though. Never heard of sting rays... severums, in my experience, can be quite nasty and territorial when it comes to feeding. Angels are pretty and work for some discus tanks but the fact remains most sources warn against keeping them with discus. Why not try a tank where the discus are the centerpiece? When you make the effort to seek out each discus for its unique patterns then you will want to proudly display them as kings of their tank.


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There are many kinds of bird foods, but the best foods for wild birds are the kinds that grow on the natural cover or the vegetation in a backyard bird habitat, such as fruits, seeds, nuts and even insects. Therefore, when planning the kinds of cover to plant in your backyard, keep in mind that if the cover also produces food, it will be satisfying two of the three requirements of a successful backyard bird habitat.
Nevertheless, virtually everyone who invites birds to their backyard, does so with bird feeders, the crown jewels of the bird habitat. Bird feeders draw birds out of the natural cover to the foods that are located close to windows or patios where the birds can be seen and enjoyed.
Feeders: There are many kinds of bird feeders, and many kinds of foods that go into those feeders. In order to maximize the numbers and kinds of birds that are attracted to your backyard, it is a best to place feeders in all the feeding niches: ground level, eye level, tree hanging, and tree trunk. The feeders in each niche will attract different kinds of birds, though there is some overlap.


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Right, so since the planet has been warm before and man did not cause it, that means that man couldn't cause it now. Great logic.
by the way, someone already was disparaging Dr. Mann earlier in this discussion and I posted a link in his defense which came directly from him.
You do know that Michael Mann was exonerated of any wrong doing... right? Not only by a panel of scientists at Penn State, but also by the OIG and NSF. So, claims that he "lied" or "falisified data" have actually been found to be false. Just an update....
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Right, since the planet has been a little warmer lately, and nature was the cause before, you're convinced man caused it recently. Great logic.
Let me say here that I am also concerned about the environment and was concerned when the theory of man made global warming was put forward. Who in their right mind would not be. The earth and the solar system will destroy itself soon enough without the help of man. The thing that disturbs me the most is that to be consiered a "reputable scientist", you must believe in significant man made global warming. Any who offer their theory as to global warming different from those of Michael Mann's ilk, are dismissed as kooks or "chronies of the Koch brothers". Never mind the significance of their findings.
Personally, I don't think we have the means or ability to determine the impact of man as to global warming. It may be as hard as proving or disproving the existance of God. Scientists can make mistakes. That was SO EVIDENT in the theories put forth when Mt. St. Helens erupted, something that would be far easier than predicting the effect of man on global warming.
What I do know is that without energy, we cannot clothe, and feed the people. We cannot heat and cool our homes and we will not be able to get too work. Anyone who believes energy can be provided with wind and solar, is a believer in a pipe dream. Of course nuclear would help but we even reject that. How much is considered significant man made global warming? How much must we reduce the use of carbon fuel? Questions I never hear answered and knowledge the people should be aware of before energy policy is based on unproven theories.
As to Mann, he withheld data and changed it. He even colluded with Philip Jones as shown by their e-mails to have done so. He violated protocol when he published his findings. You can say he is innocent all you want to but THOSE ARE THE FACTS.
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GMHRCH-III WR North Star's Deuce of Diamonds
MHR WR Pondview's Bar None 1994-2006
I have presented and defended the case that warming is occurring and that humans are the likely cause because I am convinced that:
1) The evidence strongly suggests that humans have caused the increase in CO2 and have presented the evidence here. A reasonable person cannot look at the evidence and deny that CO2 has increased in the atmosphere and that burning centuries worth of stored carbon-based fuels in one century is the most likely cause. If you want to argue that CO2 has not increased or that this will not cause climate change, go ahead, but no one has.
2) CO2 is without a doubt a greenhouse gas and that it is now at levels never seen in many many thousands of years. If you want to argue that is not a greenhouse gas and that is not at record levels, good luck. No one has yet.
3) The vast majority of scientists that study and model climate report that an increase in CO2 will result in a warming of the planet and change the earth's climate. One of the only legitimate scientist arguing against this is Dr. Lindzen from MIT. He accepts the idea that CO2 has and will increase global temperatures but that this will then create a negative feedback loop where water vapor will increase causing increased cloud formations which will reflect enough sunlight to offset any temperature increases caused my increased CO2. This too is a nice theory, but as I mentioned a few posts ago, based on what I have read, there is just as much if not more likelihood that positive feedback will accelerate rather than offset CO2 induced warming. If you want to argue on Mr. Lindzen's theory, go for it. If you want to argue the cosmic ray theory, go for it. Any other theories, let's hear them.
4) The evidence supports the fact that 90+% of climate scientist have concluded that the planet is warming and CO2 is the primary driver. There are published papers on this, not just an online poll. If you want to site the online poll signed by Perry Mason and one of the spice girls, go for it. If you have other evidence, present it
5) The empirical evidence that the earth is warming is irrefutable. Mann's hockey stick graph has been affirmed through multiple different methods. If you want to cite opinion pieces written by conservative bloggers who cherry pick data and lie about the findings of research papers and are called on it by the authors, go for it. If you have some science that shows a cooling trend, please post.
6) The skeptic and denier industry funded largely by the fossil fuel industry has been very successful casting doubt and uncertainty just like the tobacco industry did 40+ years ago.
Congratulations your side is winning. They have the money.
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A little sensitive are we? I was merely responding to you're little rant about logic. Along those lines, I was pointing out to you that you are using the same philosophy for your belief as you used to refute anothers. I really could care less about this issue, why? Because you're not going to change your habits, I'm not going to change mine, the country cannot afford to and won't anyway for the sheer inconvenience of it. And don't give me any talk about how you get 2% of your energy from a electron fairy somewhere. Is there a problem, maybe. If there was, there is a solution. A solution that is as moot as babbling on and on about greenhouse gases.


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Assembly Democratic Leader responds to Act 10 ruling
MADISON, Wis. - A federal appeals court has upheld Gov. Scott Walker's contentious law stripping most public workers of nearly all of their collective bargaining rights.
Assembly Democratic Leader Peter Barca released the following statement on the Act 10 ruling:
"While the Seventh Circuit Court upheld Act 10 on narrow legal grounds, the court did acknowledge that Act 10 appears to be an act of favoritism for 'friends' and punishing enemies. While that approach may be legal, the Judge David Hamilton notes that 'the United States Constitution does not forbid all legislation that rewards friends and punishes opponents.'
"Given the recent focus on bipartisanship, now would be a good opportunity to move away from positions the court acknowledges are likely favoritism and punishment. We must find real solutions the Wisconsin way of sitting down together and rolling up our sleeves to tackle problems with all stakeholders to repair some of the damage that has been done by this law. We are not a state that should have laws in place to settle partisan vendettas."
From the decision written by Judge Flaum:
"As unfortunate as it may be, political favoritism is a frequent aspect of legislative action."
"Hearne v. Board of Education, 185 F.3d 770, 775 (7th Cir. 1999).
The court said, "there is no rule whereby legislation that otherwise passes the proper level of scrutiny . . . becomes constitutionally defective because one of the reasons the legislators voted for it was to punish those who opposed them during an election campaign." Id. at 775. We went further stating,"[i]ndeed one might think that this is what election campaigns are all about: candidates run a certain platform, political promises made in the campaign are kept (sometimes), and the winners get to write the laws."
From the dissent written by Judge Hamilton:
"The United States Constitution does not forbid all legislation that rewards friends and punishes opponents. The principal provisions of Wisconsin's Act 10 may fit that description, but they are still constitutional under the generous standard of rational-basis review."
One Wisconsin Now Executive Director Scot Ross released the following statements on the release of the Act 10 decision by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals:
"The court acknowledged the rationale behind Gov. Walker and the Republicans' attacks on worker rights was to gain partisan political advantage – just like their gerrymandering of legislative districts and restricting voting rights. Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald's boast that Act 10 was designed to prevent President Obama from winning Wisconsin's Electoral College votes were specifically cited as unseemly.
"It is extremely disappointing that the result of this court's majority decision is to continue to allow those with political power to attack the people and their rights to organize for safe working conditions, a more secure economic future and to elect representatives that will fight for them."
A 32-page dissent adds an exclamation point, writing:
"The net effect is that all public employees represented by unions that endorsed Governor Walker continue to enjoy collective bargaining … On the other hand, nearly all members of the public employee unions that did not endorse Governor Walker are categorized general employees. Their bargaining rights have been reduced to a hollow shell..."
Democratic Senator Miller released the following statement regarding the Act 10 decision:
"I am disappointed in the decision. Wisconsin has had a long tradition with freedom of association and was the earliest adopter of collective bargaining rights which resulted in relatively good relations between workers and public employers to the benefit of the people of Wisconsin."
Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chair Mike Tate released this statement on today's Act 10 ruling:
"We continue to believe that Scott Walker's Act 10 is divisive, harmful and polarizing policy that sought to reward Walker's political allies at the expense of working Wisconsin families.
"Even the federal appeals court that today upheld Act 10 on narrow legal grounds noted that the principal provisions of Act 10 fit the description of legislation that 'rewards friends and punishes opponents.'
"Regardless, nothing about Act 10 has created Wisconsin jobs, as evidenced by our recent ranking of 42nd in the nation in job creation. Today's ruling should serve as a reminder that Scott Walker's first priorities in office were acts of political favoritism, and not plans to fulfill his central campaign promise to create 250,000 new Wisconsin jobs."
United Wisconsin Executive Director Lisa Subeck released the following statement regarding the Act 10 decision:
"We are extremely disappointed by the decision of the 7th Court of Appeals which has upheld Scott Walker's anti-worker Act 10 legislation. Act 10 was proposed and passed as a blatantly political maneuver to tip the scales in favor of Republican interests.
"Today's decision tarnishes Wisconsin's proud history as a pioneer of workers' rights.
"It is a slap in the face to our public servants and the workers who fought so hard for the right to collectively bargain. Today our state has taken a giant step backward."
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I've got a 2 year old little female lab who is as high strung as dogs come when in the house or out in public. She's always been this way and it's just her personality. Typical behavior is pacing, messing with the other dog(s), whining. She is very obedient and oddly enough calm and focused when working.
The best management of her house behavior I have found is to exercise her and lower her energy levels. Unfortunately for her, this requires at least two hours every day of training or hard running/playing. With my schedule I just don't have the time to train more than 3 days a week and the other days get her out for 30mins - 1hr of play or drills. Also, I use "place" and kennel a lot just to have a little peace.
How have others with crazy house dogs managed? Any tips other than what I am already doing?


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Date Posted: January 30, 2009 - 5:13 am by: coffeeboy
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Now that Fox's 24 is in full swing, we get to bask once more in the hotness that is Elisha Cuthbert. She used the 24 downtime to make a few films here and there, and while none of them truly exploded at the box office (My Sassy Girl, Captivity), she still managed to keep her status as one of the sexiest and sought after women in Hollywood. While finishing up 24, she's set to appear in The Six Wives of Henry Lefay alongside Tim Allen, Jenna Elfman, Andie McDowall, and Paz Vega. She's also providing her voice to the animated film Cat Tale set for release next year. Manwhile, have a look at this uber-sexy photo shoot appearing on the pages of Complex Magazine.
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Transportation package to include increased gas tax
SPOKANE, Wash. - Gas prices have been on the rise for 33 straight days but that's not stopping some state lawmakers from proposing a gas-tax hike.
On Wednesday lawmakers will unveil a new transportation package and it will include a 10-cent a gallon, gas tax hike.
If you fill up once a week, this means you could be spending an extra $100 dollars a year on the tax increase. The gas tax hike would be part of a $6-billion dollar plan to improve roads in the state.Transportation package to include increased gas tax
"If the tax stays here and benefits us in Spokane, that's great. A lot of times Spokane doesn't get all the revenue from a state tax, it goes to western Washington's projects," driver Joe Sammons said.
But not all drivers share Sammons' enthusiasm about the proposed tax.
"It sucks because we still have to get gas, everybody already has to get gas," driver Caitlin Sutton said.
Passing the increase would require a two-thirds vote in the Washington House and Senate or would need to be passed by a vote of the people.
If this tax is approved, Washington would have the third highest gas tax in the nation when you combine state and federal taxes.
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For the record:
- The Open Source Writers Group project is officially dead. I would have handed it off to an interested party if such a party existed, but, well, it doesn't.
- I've handed the Linuxchix project off to new maintainers and I now have nothing to do with it at all.
- I've resigned from Zero-Knowledge.
- I'll be moving back to Nova Scotia in the very near future, and have every intention of staying there for the rest of my life.
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Nancy P
"We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare and love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made." M.Facklam
God Bless PFC Jamie Harkness. The US Army's newest PFC, but still our neighbor's little girl!
This is my first read on POTUS in probably three weeks.
For some reason the term "Black Hole" drew my attention.
I have no idea what he's been through and I don't have time to research it. But if I were him, I'd have all the validation that not wasting valuable time and energy posting in threads like this is wise.
UB...I don't get it. He says he's done discussing politics and is going to talk dogs and you blasted him.
DNF, it bums me out that you think personal attacks regarding the POTUS board is "fun".
If you guys want to keep stomping each other's toes in the mosh pit have at it. The POTUS theme is "be civil or be banned". I really don't want to play cop over here.
Please be respectful of each other.
Thanks, Chris
"A smile relieves a heart that grieves"
- Mick Jagger/Keith Richards
I say "fun" in the sense I think we're all playing a game here. I try to sign off with a friendly tag, and not call names or personal insults. When someone wondered about my being busy as a doctor (whatever that has to do with POTUS??) instead of counterattacking, I just said it was "too much fun", as a way of letting it roll off into the bilge. But I much more enjoy exchanging ideas with Hew, Bon or Franco, and learning something along the way.
Despite the nonsense, there is a great group of guys and gals here, who exchange ideas and topics, sometimes spirited, but I've learned much from this group, and want to see it thrive. That's why I've made a concentrated effort to not take insults personally, laugh at them, and respond without personal attack or name calling.
God Bless PFC Jamie Harkness. The US Army's newest PFC, but still our neighbor's little girl!
fairly tough crowd, with emphasis on fair. The folks, some of whom I know personally, are generous in sharing their knowledge. With your limited background you could benefit from exchanges with those here, recognizing that while you are maybe smart the level of real world experience on this board is beyond a student's comprehension. If you only exchange with those with similar views you will go through life missing some of the best stuff .
If your goal in life is to be like some of the lefties on this forum, keep limiting yourself & you will reach it .
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Someday your life will flash before your eyes. It's your responsibility to make sure it's worth watching!
Well, I am glad to see that nothing has changed in my absence.
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"WHAT fun!" said Mother, in the dark, feeling for the matches on the table. "How frightened the poor mice were—I don't believe they were rats at all."
She struck a match and relighted the candle and every one looked at each other by its winky, blinky light.
"Well," she said, "you've often wanted something to happen, and now it has. This is quite an adventure, isn't it? I told Mrs. Viney to get us some bread and butter, and meat and things, and to have supper ready. I suppose she's laid it in the dining room. So let's go and see."
The dining room opened out of the kitchen. It looked much darker than the kitchen when they went in with the one candle. Because the kitchen was whitewashed, but the dining room was dark wood from floor to ceiling, and across the ceiling there were heavy black beams. There was a muddled maze of dusty furniture—the breakfast-room page: 24 furniture from the old home where they had lived all their lives. It seemed a very long time ago, and a very long way off.
There was the table certainly, and there were chairs, but there was no supper.
"Let's look in the other rooms," said Mother; and they looked. And in each room was the same kind of blundering half-arrangement of furniture, and fire-irons and crockery, and all sorts of odd things on the floor, but there was nothing to eat; and even in the pantry there was only a rusty cake-tin and a broken plate with whitening mixed in it.
"What a horrid old woman!" said Mother; "she's just walked off with the money and not got us anything to eat at all."
"Then shan't we have any supper at all?" asked Phyllis, dismayed, stepping back on to a soap-dish that cracked responsively.
"Oh, yes," said Mother, "only it'll mean unpacking one of those big cases that we put in the cellar. Phil, do mind where you're walking to, there's a dear. Peter, hold the light."
The cellar door opened out of the kitchen. There were five wooden steps leading down. It wasn't a proper cellar at all, the children thought, page: 25 because its ceiling went up as high as the kitchen's. A bacon-rack hung under its ceiling. There was wood in it, and coal. Also the big cases.
Peter held the candle, all on one side, while Mother tried to open the great packing-case. It was very securely nailed down.
"Where's the hammer?" asked Peter.
"That's just it," said Mother. "I'm afraid it's inside the box. But there's a coal-shovel—and there's the kitchen poker."
And with these she tried to get the case open.
"Let me do it," said Peter, thinking he could do it better himself. Every one thinks this when he sees another person stirring a fire, or opening a box, or untying a knot in a bit of string.
"You'll hurt your hands, Mammy," said Roberta; "let me."
"I wish Father was here," said Phyllis; "he'd get it open in two shakes. What are you kicking me for, Bobbie?"
"I wasn't," said Roberta.
Just then the first of the long nails in the packing-case began to come out with a scrunch. Then a lath was raised and then another, till all four stood up with the long nails in them shining fiercely like iron teeth in the candle-light.page: 26
"Hooray!" said Mother; "here are some candles—the very first thing! You girls go and light them. You'll find some saucers and things. Just drop a little candle-grease in the saucer and stick the candle upright in it."
"How many shall we light?"
"As many as ever you like," said Mother, gaily. "The great thing is to be cheerful. Nobody can be cheerful in the dark except owls and dormice."
So the girls lighted candles. The head of the first match flew off and stuck to Phyllis's finger; but, as Roberta said, it was only a little burn, and she might have had to be a Roman martyr and be burned whole if she had happened to live in the days when those things were fashionable.
Then when the dining room was lighted by fourteen candles, Roberta fetched coal and wood, and lighted a fire.
"It's very cold for May," she said, feeling what a grown-up thing it was to say.
The fire-light and the candle-light made the dining room look very different, for now you could see that the dark walls were of wood, carved here and there into little wreaths and loops.
The girls hastily "tidied" the room, which page: 27 meant putting the chairs against the wall, and piling all the odds and ends into a corner and partly hiding them with the big leather arm-chair that Father used to sit in after dinner.
"Bravo!" cried Mother, coming in with a tray full of things. "This is something like! I'll just get a table-cloth and then—"
The table-cloth was in a box with a proper lock that was opened with a key and not with a shovel, and when the cloth was spread on the table, a real feast was laid out on it.
Every one was very very tired, but every one cheered up at the sight of the funny and delightful supper. There were biscuits, the Marie and the plain kind, sardines, preserved ginger, cooking raisins, and candied peel and marmalade.
"What a good thing Aunt Emma packed up all the odds and ends out of the Store cupboard," said Mother. "Now, Phil, don't put the marmalade spoon in among the sardines."
"No, I won't, Mother," said Phyllis, and put it down among the Marie biscuits.
"Let's drink Aunt Emma's health," said Roberta, suddenly; "what should we have done if she hadn't packed up these things? Here's to Aunt Emma!"page: 28
And the toast was drunk in ginger wine and water, out of willow-patterned tea-cups, because the glasses couldn't be found.
They all felt that they had been a little hard on Aunt Emma. She wasn't a nice cuddly person like Mother, but after all it was she who had thought of packing up the odds and ends of things to eat.
It was Aunt Emma, too, who had aired all the sheets ready; and the men who had moved the furniture had put the bedsteads together, so the beds were soon made.
"Good night, chickies," said Mother. "I'm sure there aren't any rats. But I'll leave my door open, and then if a mouse comes, you need only scream, and I'll come and tell it exactly what I think of it."
Then she went to her own room. Roberta woke to hear the little travelling clock chime two. It sounded like a church clock ever so far away, she always thought. And she heard, too, Mother still moving about in her room.
Next morning Roberta woke Phyllis by pulling her hair gently, but quite enough for her purpose.
"Wassermarrer?" asked Phyllis, still almost wholly asleep.page: 29
"Wake up! wake up!" said Roberta. "We're in the new house—don't you remember? No servants or anything. Let's get up and begin to be useful. We'll just creep down mouse-quietly, and have everything beautiful before Mother gets up. I've woke Peter. He'll be dressed as soon as we are."
So they dressed quietly and quickly. Of course there was no water in their room, so when they got down they washed as much as they thought was necessary under the spout of the pump in the yard. One pumped and the other washed. It was splashy but interesting.
"It's much more fun than basiny washing," said Roberta. "How sparkly the weeds are between the stones, and the moss on the roof—oh, and the flowers!"
The roof of the back kitchen sloped down quite low. It was made of thatch and it had moss on it, and house-leeks and stone crop and wall-flowers, and even a clump of purple flag-flowers, at the far corner.
"This is far far farandaway prettier than Edgecombe Villa," said Phyllis. "I wonder what the garden's like."
"We mustn't think of the garden yet," said page: 30 Roberta, with earnest energy. "Let's go in and begin to work."
They lighted the fire and put the kettle on, and they arranged the crockery for breakfast; they could not find all the right things, but a glass ash-tray made an excellent salt-cellar, and a newish baking-tin seemed as if it would do to put bread on, if they had any.
When there seemed to be nothing more that they could do, they went out again into the fresh bright morning.
"We'll go into the garden now," said Peter. But somehow they couldn't find the garden. They went round the house and round the house. The yard occupied the back, and across it were stables and outbuildings. On the other three sides the house stood simply in a field, without a yard of garden to divide it from the short smooth turf. And yet they had certainly seen the garden wall the night before.
It was a hilly country. Down below they could see the line of the railway, and the black yawning mouth of a tunnel. The station was out of sight. There was a great bridge with tall arches running across one end of the valley.
"Never mind the garden," said Peter; "let's page: 31 go down and look at the railway. There might be trains passing."
"We can see them from here," said Roberta, slowly; "let's sit down a bit."
So they all sat down on a great flat gray stone that had pushed itself up out of the grass; it was one of many that lay about on the hillside, and when mother came out to look for them at eight o'clock, she found them deeply asleep in a contented sun-warmed bunch.
They had made an excellent fire, and had set the kettle on it at about half-past five. So that by eight the fire had been out for some time, the water had all boiled away, and the bottom was burned out of the kettle. Also they had not thought of washing the crockery before they set the table.
"But it doesn't matter—the cups and saucers, I mean," said Mother. "Because I've found another room—I'd quite forgotten there was one. And it's magic! And I've boiled the water for tea in a saucepan."
The forgotten room opened out of the kitchen. In the agitation and half darkness the night before its door had been mistaken for a cupboard's. It was a little square room, and on its table, all page: 32 nicely set out, was a joint of cold roast beef, with bread, butter, cheese, and a pie.
"Pie for breakfast!" cried Peter; "how perfectly ripping!"
"It isn't pigeon-pie," said Mother; "it's only apple. Well, this is the supper we ought to have had last night. And there was a note from Mrs. Viney. Her son-in-law has broken his arm, and she had to get home early. She's coming this morning at ten."
That was a wonderful breakfast. It is unusual to begin the day with cold apple pie, but the children all said they would rather have it than meat.
"You see it's more like dinner than breakfast to us," said Peter, passing his plate for more, "because we were up so early."
The day passed in helping Mother to unpack and arrange things. Six small legs quite ached with running about while their owners carried clothes and crockery and all sorts of things to their proper places. It was not till quite late in the afternoon that Mother said:—
"There! That'll do for to-day. I'll lie down for an hour, so as to be as fresh as a lark by supper-time."page: 33
Then they all looked at each other. Each of the three expressive countenances expressed the same thought. That thought was double, and consisted, like the bits of information in the Child's Guide to Knowledge, of a question, and an answer.
Q. Where shall we go?
A. To the railway.
So to the railway they went, and as soon as they started for the railway they saw where the garden had hidden itself. It was right behind the stables, and it had a high wall all round.
"Oh, never mind about the garden now!" cried Peter. "Mother told me this morning where it was. It'll keep till to-morrow. Let's get to the railway."
The way to the railway was all down hill over smooth, short turf with here and there furze bushes and gray and yellow rocks sticking out like candied peel out of the top of a cake.
The way ended in a steep run and a wooden fence,—and there was the railway with the shining metals and the telegraph wires and posts and signals.
They all climbed on to the top of the fence, and then suddenly there was a rumbling sound that page: 34 made them look along the line to the right, where the dark mouth of a tunnel opened itself in the face of a rocky cliff; next moment a train had rushed out of the tunnel with a shriek and a snort, and had slid noisily past them. They felt the rush of its passing, and the pebbles on the line jumped and rattled under it as it went by.
"Oh!" said Roberta, drawing a long breath; "it was like a great dragon tearing by. Did you feel it fan us with its hot wings?"
"I suppose a dragon's lair might look very like that tunnel from the outside," said Phyllis.
But Peter said:—
"I never thought we should ever get as near to a train as this. It's the most ripping sport!"
"Better than toy-engines, isn't it?" said Roberta.
(I am tired of calling Roberta by her name. I don't see why I should. No one else did. Every one else called her Bobbie, and I don't see why I shouldn't.)
"I don't know; it's different," said Peter. "It seems so odd to see all of a train. It's awfully tall, isn't it?"
"We've always seen them cut in half by platforms," said Phyllis.page: 35
"I wonder if that train was going to London," Bobbie said. "London's where Father is."
"Let's go down to the station and find out," said Peter.
So they went.
They walked along the edge of the line, and heard the telegraph wires humming over their heads. When you are in the train, it seems such a little way between post and post, and one after another the posts seem to catch up the wires almost more quickly than you can count them. But when you have to walk, the posts seem few and far between.
But the children got to the station at last.
Never before had any of them been at a station, except for the purpose of catching trains,—or perhaps waiting for them,—and always with grown-ups in attendance, grown-ups who were not themselves interested in stations, except as places from which they wished to get away.
Never before had they passed close enough to a signal box to be able to notice the wires, and to hear the mysterious "ping ping," followed by the strong firm clicking of machinery.
The very sleepers on which the rails lay were a delightful path to travel by—just far enough page: 36 apart to serve as the stepping stones in a game of foaming torrents hastily organised by Bobbie.
Then to arrive at the station, not through the booking office, but in a freebooting sort of way by the sloping end of the platform. This in itself was joy.
Joy, too, it was to peep into the porter's room, where the lamps are, and the Railway almanac on the wall, and one porter half asleep behind Lloyd's Weekly News.
There were a great many crossing lines at the station; some of them just ran into a yard and stopped short, as though they were tired of business and meant to retire for good. Trucks stood on the rails here, and on one side was a great heap of coal—not a loose heap, such as you see in your coal cellar, but a sort of solid building of coals, with large square blocks of coal outside used just as though they were brick, and built up till the heap looked like the picture of the Cities of the Plain in "Bible Stories for Infants." There was a line of whitewash near the top of the coaly wall.
When, presently, the Porter lounged out of his room at the twice-repeated tingling thrill of a gong over the station door, Peter said, "How do page: 37 you do?" in his best manner, and hastened to ask what the white mark was on the coal for.
"To mark how much coal there be," said the Porter, "so as we'll know if any one nicks it. So don't you go off with none in your pockets, young gentleman!"
This seemed, at the time, but a merry jest, and Peter felt at once that the Porter was a friendly sort, with no nonsense about him. But later the words came back to Peter with a new meaning.
Have you ever gone into a farm-house kitchen on a baking day, and seen the great crock of dough set by the fire to rise? If you have, and if you were at that time still young enough to be interested in everything you saw, you will remember that you found yourself quite unable to resist the temptation to poke your finger into the soft round of dough that curved inside the pan like a giant mushroom. And you will remember that your finger made a dent in the dough, and that slowly, but quite surely, the dent disappeared, and the dough looked quite the same as it did before you touched it. Unless, of course, your hand was extra dirty, in page: 38 which case, naturally, there would be a little black mark.
Well, it was just like that with the sorrow the children had felt at Father's going away, and at Mother's being so unhappy. It made a deep impression, but the impression did not last long.
They soon got used to being without Father, though they did not forget him; and they got used to not going to school, and to seeing very little of Mother, who was now almost all day shut up in her upstairs room writing, writing, writing. She used to come down at tea-tine and read aloud the stories she had written. They were lovely stories.
The rocks and hills and valleys and trees, the canal, and above all, the railway, were so new and so perfectly pleasing that the remembrance of the old life in the villa grew to seem almost like a dream.
Mother had told them more than once that they were "quite poor now," but this did not seem to be anything but a way of speaking. Grown-up people, even Mothers, often make remarks that don't seem to mean anything in particular, just for the sake of saying something, seemingly. There was always enough to eat, and page: 39 they wore the same kind of nice clothes they had always worn.
But in June came three wet days; the rain came down, straight as lances, and it was very very cold. Nobody could go out, and everybody shivered. They all went up to the door of Mother's room and knocked.
"Well, what is it?" asked Mother from inside.
"Mother," said Bobbie, "mayn't I light a fire? I do know how."
And Mother said: "No, my ducky-love. We mustn't have fires in June—coal is so dear. If you're cold, go and have a good romp in the attic. That'll warm you."
"But, Mother, it only takes such a very little coal to make a fire."
"It's more than we can afford, chickeny-love," said Mother, cheerfully. "Now run away, there's darlings—I'm madly busy!"
"Mother's always busy now," said Phyllis, in a whisper to Peter. Peter did not answer. He shrugged his shoulders. He was thinking.
Thought, however, could not long keep itself from the suitable furnishing of a bandit's lair in the attic. Peter was the bandit, of course. page: 40 Bobbie was his lieutenant, his band of trusty robbers, and, in due course, the parent of Phyllis, who was the captured maiden for whom a magnificent ransom—in horse-beans—was unhesitatingly paid.
They all went down to tea flushed and joyous as any mountain brigands.
But when Phyllis was going to add jam to her bread and butter, Mother said:—
"Jam or butter, dear—not jam and butter. We can't afford that sort of reckless luxury nowadays."
Phyllis finished the slice of bread and butter in silence, and followed it up by bread and jam. Peter mingled thought and weak tea.
After tea they went back to the attic and he said to his sisters:—
"I have an idea."
"What's that?" they asked politely.
"I shan't tell you," was Peter's unexpected rejoinder.
"Oh, very well," said Bobbie; and Phil said, "Don't, then."
"Girls," said Peter, "are always so hasty tempered."
"I should like to know what boys are," said page: 41 Bobbie, with fine disdain. "I don't want to know about your silly ideas."
"You'll know some day," said Peter, keeping his own temper by what looked exactly like a miracle; "if you hadn't been so keen on a row, I might have told you about it being only noble-heartedness that made me not tell you my idea. But now I shan't tell you anything at all about it—so there!"
And it was, indeed, some time before he could be induced to say anything, and when he did it wasn't much. He said:—
"The only reason why I won't tell you my idea that I'm going to do is because it may be wrong, and I don't want to drag you into it."
"Don't you do it if it's wrong, Peter," said Bobbie; "let me do it." But Phyllis said:—
"I should like to do wrong if you're going to!"
"No," said Peter, rather touched by this devotion; "it's a forlorn hope, and I'm going to lead it. All I ask is that if Mother asks where I am, you won't blab."
"We haven't got anything to blab," said Bobbie, indignantly.
"Oh, yes, you have!" said Peter, dropping horsebeans through his fingers. "I've trusted you to page: 42 the death. You know I'm going to do a lone adventure—and some people might think it wrong—I don't. And if Mother asks where I am, say I'm playing at mines."
"What sort of mines?"
"You just say mines."
"You might tell us, Pete."
"Well, then, coal-mines. But don't you let the word pass your lips on pain of torture."
"You needn't threaten," said Bobbie, "and I do think you might let us help."
"If I find a coal-mine, you shall help cart the coal," Peter condescended to promise.
"Keep your secret if you like," said Phyllis.
"Keep it if you can," said Bobbie.
"I'll keep it, right enough," said Peter.
Between tea and supper there is an interval even in the most greedily regulated families. At this time Mother was usually writing, and Mrs. Viney had gone home.
Two nights after the dawning of Peter's idea he beckoned the girls mysteriously at the twilight hour.
"Come hither with me," he said, "and bring the Roman Chariot."
The Roman Chariot was a very old perambula- perambulator page: 43 tor that had spent years of retirement in the loft over the coach-house. The children had oiled its works till it glided noiseless as a pneumatic bicycle, and answered to the helm as it had probably never done in its best days.
"Follow your dauntless leader," said Peter, and led the way down the hill towards the station.
Just above the station many rocks have pushed their heads out through the turf as though they, like the children, were interested in the railway.
In a little hollow between three rocks lay a heap of dried brambles and heather.
Peter halted, turned over the brushwood with a well-scarred boot, and said:—
"Here's the first coal from the St. Peter's Mine. We'll take it home in the chariot. Punctuality and despatch. All orders carefully attended to. Any shaped lump cut to suit regular customers."
The chariot was packed full of coal. And when it was packed it had to be unpacked again because it was so heavy that it couldn't be got up the hill by the three children, not even when Peter harnessed himself to the handle with his braces, and firmly grasping his waistband in one hand pulled while the girls pushed behind.
Three journeys had to be made before the coal page: 44 from Peter's mine was added to the heap of Mother's coal in the cellar.
Afterwards Peter went out alone, and came back very black and mysterious.
"I've been to my coal-mine," he said; "tomorrow evening we'll bring home the black diamonds in the chariot."
It was a week later that Mrs. Viney remarked to Mother how well this last lot of coal was holding out.
The children hugged themselves and each other in complicated wriggles of silent laughter as they listened on the stairs. They had all forgotten by now that there had ever been any doubt in Peter's mind as to whether coal-mining was wrong.
But there came a dreadful night when the Station Master put on a pair of old sand shoes that he had worn at the seaside in his summer holiday, and crept out very quietly to the yard where the Sodom and Gomorrah heap of coal was, with the whitewashed line round it. He crept out there, and he waited like a cat by a mousehole. On the top of the heap something small and dark was scrabbling and rattling furtively among the coal.
"So I've caught you at last, have I, you young thief?" said the Station Master.
"I'm not a thief," said Peter, as firmly as ha could. "I'm a coal-miner."
"Tell that to the Marines," said the Station Master.
"It would be just as true whoever I told it to," said Peter.
"You're right there," said the man, who held him. "Stow your jaw, you young rip, and come along to the station."
"Oh, no," cried in the darkness an agonized voice that was not Peter's.page: 46
"Not the police station!" said another voice from the darkness.
"Not yet," said the Station Master. "The Railway Station first. Why, it's a regular gang. Any more of you?"
"Only us," said Bobbie and Phyllis, coming out of the shadow of another truck labelled Staveley Colliery, and bearing on it the legend in white chalk, "Wanted in No. 1 Road."
"What do you mean by spying on a fellow like this?" said Peter, angrily.
"Time some one did spy on you, I think," said the Station Master. "Come along to the station."
"Oh, don't!" said Bobbie. "Can't you decide now what you'll do to us? It's our fault just as much as Peter's. We helped to carry the coal away—and we knew where he got it."
"No, you didn't," said Peter.
"Yes, we did," said Bobbie. "We knew all the time. We only pretended we didn't just to humour you."
Peter's cup was full. He had mined for coal, he had struck coal, he had been caught, and now he learned that his sisters had "humoured" him.
"Don't hold me!" he said. "I won't run away."page: 47
The Station Master loosed Peter's collar, struck a match, and looked at them by its flickering light.
"Why," said he, "you're the children from the Three Chimneys up yonder. So nicely dressed, too. Tell me now, what made you do such a thing? Haven't you ever been to church or learned your catechisms or anything, not to know it's wicked to steal?" He spoke much more gently now, and Peter said:—
"I didn't think it was stealing. I was almost sure it wasn't. I thought if I took it from the outside part of the heap, perhaps it would be. But in the middle I thought I could fairly count it only mining. It'll take thousands of years for you to burn up all that coal and get to the middle parts."
"Not quite. But did you do it for a lark or what?"
"Not much lark carting that beastly heavy stuff up the hill," said Peter, indignantly.
"Then why did you?" The Station Master's voice was so much kinder now that Peter replied:—
"You know that wet day? Well, Mother said we were too poor to have a fire. We always page: 48 had fires when it was cold at our other house, and—"
"Don't!" interrupted Bobbie, in a whisper.
"Well," said the Station Master, rubbing his chin thoughtfully. "I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll look over it this once. But you remember, young gentleman, stealing is stealing, and what's mine isn't yours, whether you call it mining or whether you don't. Run along home."
"Do you mean you aren't going to do anything to us? Well, you are a brick," said Peter, with enthusiasm.
"You're a dear," said Bobbie.
"You're a darling," said Phyllis.
"That's all right," said the Station Master.
And on this they parted.
"Don't speak to me," said Peter, as the three went up the hill. "You're spies and traitors,—that's what you are."
But the girls were too glad to have Peter between them, safe and free, and on the way to Three Chimneys and not to the Police Station, to mind much what he said.
"We did say it was us as much as you," said Bobbie, gently.
"Well—and it wasn't."page: 49
"It would have come to the same thing in Courts with judges," said Phyllis. "Don't be snarky, Peter. It isn't our fault your secrets are so jolly easy to find out." She took his arm, and he let her.
"There's an awful lot of coal in the cellar, anyhow," he went on.
"Oh, don't!" said Bobbie. "I don't think we ought to be glad about that."
"I don't know," said Peter, plucking up a spirit. "I'm not at all sure, even now, that mining is a crime."
But the girls were quite sure. And they were also quite sure that he was quite sure, however little he cared to own it.


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Pleural fluid smear is a laboratory test to check for bacteria, fungi, or abnormal cells in a sample of the fluid that has collected in the pleural space. This is the space between the lining of the outside of the lungs (pleura) and the wall of the chest. When fluid collects in the pleural space, the condition is called pleural effusion.
A procedure called thoracentesis is used to get a sample of pleural fluid. The health care provider examines a sample of pleural fluid under the microscope. If bacteria or fungi are found, other methods may be used to further identify those organisms.
No special preparation is needed before the test. A chest x-ray will be performed before and after the test.
Do not cough, breathe deeply, or move during the test to avoid injury to the lung.
For thoracentesis, you sit on the edge of a chair or bed with your head and arms resting on a table. The health care provider cleans the skin around the insertion site. Numbing medicine (anesthetic) is injected into the skin.
A needle is placed through the skin and muscles of the chest wall into the space around the lungs, called the pleural space. As fluid drains into a collection bottle, you may cough a bit. This is because your lung re-expands to fill the space where fluid had been. This sensation lasts for a few hours after the test.
The test is performed if you have a pleural effusion and its cause is not known, especially if the health care provider suspects an infection or cancer.
Normally, no bacteria, fungi, or cancer cells are present in the pleural fluid.
Normal value ranges may vary slightly among different laboratories. Talk to your doctor about the meaning of your specific test results.
Positive results may indicate that infection, or cancer cells, are present. Other tests can help identify the specific type of infection or cancer. Sometimes, the test may show abnormalities from conditions such as systemic lupus erythematosus.
Risks of thoracentesis are:
Broaddus VC, Light RW. Pleural effusion. In: Mason RJ, Martin TR, Broaddus VC, et al., eds. Murray and Nadel's Textbook of Respiratory Medicine. 5th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Saunders; 2010:chap 73.
Karcher DS. McPherson RA. Cerebrospinal, synovial, serous body fluids, and alternative specimens. In: McPherson RA, Pincus MR, eds. Henry's Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods. 22nd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Saunders; 2011:chap 29.
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Chapter 9: Circles
Difficulty Level: At Grade Created by: CK-12
Finally, we dive into a different shape, circles. First, we will define all the parts of circles and then explore the properties of tangent lines, arcs, inscribed angles, and chords. Next, we will learn about the properties of angles within circles that are formed by chords, tangents and secants. Lastly, we will place circles in the coordinate plane, find the equations of, and graph circles.
Chapter Outline
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Parts of Circles & Tangent Lines
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Properties of Arcs
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Properties of Chords
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Inscribed Angles
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Angles of Chords, Secants, and Tangents
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Segments of Chords, Secants, and Tangents
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Extension: Writing and Graphing the Equations of Circles
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Hal Leonard Instrumental Play-Along: 12 Smash Hits (Trombone) is a sheet music/CD pack jam packed with solo arrangements of 12 smash hits from recent artists such as Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift, Bruno Mars and more.
Read the music from the book, and play along with the professionally recorded accompaniment on the CD, to songs such as Skyfall, Live While We're Young, Some Nights, and many others.


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In "Decision Time," Editor Brian Lovett will share a scenario from his 20-plus years hunting turkeys. Each hinges on a critical decision. Post what choice you would have made, and then see how things actually turned out.
Dread and the Fugitive Mind
It had already been one of those days.
First, the alarm hadn't gone off, so my two friends and I were late. Then there was a truck parked where we'd wanted to hunt. Oh, and did I mention it was raining? On a good note, we were in Missouri, so we could quit at 1 p.m.
Not expecting much, we hit a back-up spot and set up. Lo and behold, our first yelps were met with raucous gobbling from deep in a timbered hollow just off the property. We were in business.
We continued calling, and the birds kept gobbling. In fact, they seemed to be getting closer. Soon, drumming filled the air, and we readied for the end of the hunt.
But where was the bird? We couldn't see it, and the gobbling from the hollow -- albeit closer -- seemed too distant to be from the same turkey.
"To the right," my buddy whispered.
I glanced to the right. Nothing.
"No, to the right," he hissed. "Way right."
I cut my eyes as far right as I could, and there he was -- a gobbler sprinting to our setup. The longbeard came so fast, in fact, that he was soon 15 steps away, staring at three dorky-looking blobs huddled next to a locust tree.
Stuck! The bird knew something wasn't right and was preparing to high-tail it out of there. To shoot him, however, I'd have to move forward and shift my gun 90 degrees to my right. If I tried to quick-draw the turkey, he might flush. But if I moved too slowly, I wouldn't get on him in time.
Panic started to set in.
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YOLO Curve Lipo Laser Overview
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The YOLO Curve is a 100% Non-invasive, laser-based, inch loss and body contouring system. Rather than a painful incision, The YOLO Curve uses laser energy to safely (and painlessly) penetrate the skin and target specific adipose (or fat) cells. It is through this targeted process that The YOLO Curve is able to in fact stimulate the cell itself into releasing water, free fatty acids, and glycerol. Having released these primary constituents, water, free fatty acids, and glycerol (often referred to as Triglycerides), the fat cells reduce their overall size significantly, resulting in inch loss for patients!
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Power data for the trail.
When you combine SRM's proven power measuring technology with SRAM's Truvativ X0 carbon crankset, the result is a sophisticated system that provides the most accurate power readings available on the market today. With many XC and enduro courses remaining the same from year to year, SRAM and SRM knew that riders would benefit from being able to record specific aspects of course layouts and structure their training schedules accordingly. Knowing exactly how many accelerations, lengths, and durations of key climbs, as well as average power data for a certain race, work to an athlete's advantage while preparing for these events.
The SRM unit that's been mated to the Truvativ X0 crankset relies on the recently-improved eight strain gauge design for measuring data. These eight strain gauges for the powermeter are a system of sensors that detect any resistance and vary their output when experiencing applied force. The next step is for the strain gauges to convert this data into electrical resistance so that it's able to be measured. The refinements to the system provide stellar results. The SRM X0 2x10 expresses an accuracy of +/- 1.5% between 30 and 255 rpm with a wattage range between 0 and 4096 watts. The unit was rigorously tested to ensure maximum weatherproofing and durability both on the trail and race course, and it provides around 700 hours of battery life before needing to be replaced.
This Truvativ X0 10-Speed crankset uses carbon fiber much like the top-end XX crank, but there are a few differences worth noting. Unlike the XX crank, there's no alloy spine connecting the threaded pedal insert and the crank/spindle connection. SRAM engineers figured out a way to eliminate it, instead using a stiff structural foam core inside the composite skin. Don't think for a second that it's weaker -- part of SRAM's goal for X0 was to make it burly enough to handle the rigors of all-mountain riding. This 2x10 setup has a bolt circle diameter of 80/120mm. Of course, it's an exclusive measurement, but for the chainring tooth combinations SRAM wanted to provide, it optimizes the stiffness of the rings. And stiffer chainrings mean quicker, more precise shifts.
Not only did SRAM design its own optimized bolt circle diameters, but it also re-engineered the shift ramps, pins, and cutouts on the outer-chainring. On most chainrings these days, there are two sets of ramps and two drop points where the chain gets either lifted or dropped quickly under pressure. This means that you'll hit these spots twice on each pedal revolution. So, the shifting tends to be iffy if you shift at any other time. You've probably experienced this with the pause, clunk, and sometimes smooth movement on other crank systems. SRAM's X0 outer-ring allows perfect shifts just about all the way around the crank. SRAM calls this X-Glide. Another improvement stems from having only two rings. From the small ring, the chain is only able to go up, and from the big ring, only down. With this in mind, each ring was shaped specifically for its direct purpose.
The SRM X0 2x10 Powermeter Crankset is available with 175mm crankarms in the color Black. Additionally, SRM is providing this crankset with either a 42/28t or 39/26t chainring configuration. It is compatible with Standard Threaded BSA, BB92, and BB95 bottom brackets. It's also worth noting that it's compatible with BB30 frames only with BB30 adapters for 24mm spindles. The powermeter operates wirelessly with ANT+ Sport, but it does not include a CPU. However, it is compatible with PowerControl 7 or any other ANT+ Sport-compatible device.


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Family: Boidae, Boas view all from this family
Description Brown. Yellowish underside. Skin looks rubbery. Broad snout and blunt tail make it appear two headed. Head has large scales. Vertical pupils on eyes. 32-53 rows of scales. Single anal plate. Males have spurs.
Dimensions 35.6-83.8cm. (14-22")
Subspecies Northern Rubber Boa - Olive-green/brown dorsal color. Over 40cm (16"). British Columbia, Washington, Oregon & California. Also Nevada, Utah, Wyoming and Montana.
Southern Rubber Boa - Smaller than Northern, less than 40cm (16"). Tan in color with larger scales. California, San Bernardino & San Jacinto mountains.
In some areas of s. California there may be some examples with traits from both subspecies.
Breeding Born August-September. Live young. 2-8 per litter.
Habitat Grassland, meadows and chaparral to deciduous and conifer forests, to high alpine settings.
Range British Columbia through California. Also Montana, Utah & Wyoming.
Discussion Active at twilight or at night. Burrows under rocks or rotting logs and sand. Able swimmer and can climb small trees. Small mammals and birds form its diet, kills them by suffocating them with their body. Lives up to 11 years in captivity.


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Chris Drake, an Avista energy efficiency expert, joined KHQ during its noon NewsBreak, a live web stream, on Monday Sept. 19. He provides some great tips for energy efficiency in the winter.
To watch the video, click on the picture to the right, select the video"6 ways to save on your electricity bill this winter." The video is four minutes and 30 seconds long. Sorry to send you to another website to view the video, but I can't embed the video in its current You format.
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April 2 through May 1, 2008, various times · Various locations
Posted March 27, 2008; 12:56 p.m.
A series of lectures scheduled through May 1 will investigate the influence of religion and religious beliefs in the conduct of diplomacy, politics, crisis and conflict management, and other international affairs.
The lectures are sponsored by the Program on Religion, Diplomacy and International Relations in the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination. The series includes:
- "What's Faith Got to Do With It?: Perspectives on Religion and Development" by Katherine Marshall, senior fellow and visiting professor at Georgetown University's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs, at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 2, in 1 Robertson Hall.
- "What's Special About Religious Disputes?" by Kwame Anthony Appiah, the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton, at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 10, in 1 Robertson Hall.
- "Religion and Human Rights: When Are Rights Not Right?" by Alison Boden, dean of religious life and the chapel at Princeton, at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 17, in 1 Robertson Hall.
- "Women, Religion and Diplomacy" by Ursula Plassnik, Austria's minister of foreign affairs, at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 1, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.


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This editorial originally appeared in the February 20, 1998 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
It's ironic that Mayor Thomas Menino's administration, which fought hard to win approval for a convention center in order to bolster Boston's status as a major-league metropolis, has proven to be so inhospitable to the city's hospitality business. There is, after all, more to this town than the Freedom Trail and the Citgo sign.
Every industry of any size likes to think of itself as indispensable to the city's fabric. Over the past 30 years, the city's restaurants, clubs, and bars have multiplied and matured, helping to transform Boston from a placid provincial hub into a vital, sophisticated, but still very livable city.
Talk to the people who orchestrate Boston's nightlife, and many will say they feel anything but appreciated. Though self-interest may fuel their furor, they nevertheless make a compelling case that City Hall seems bent on squeezing the life out of Boston after dark. The complaints: inadequate parking coupled with a zealous brigade of parking police; cops and bureaucrats who enforce admittedly important operating and alcohol regulations with Kafkaesque intensity; and the threat of stricter regulations for 18-plus club shows, which are already too few in this college town.
No one doubts the mayor's commitment to an orderly and safe city. But this is the stuff of tinhorn puritanism, not a world-class municipal administration. Now comes a sweeping proposal from the mayor himself: a plan requiring eating and drinking establishments to provide a physically separate area for smokers — or ban smoking altogether. As it now stands, the plan would literally require construction of a wall between patrons.
The initiative appears to come out of nowhere. City councilors were surprised, as were restaurant and bar owners. There has been no public clamor for a ban. But those close to Menino say that he is a committed nonsmoker who, together with his public health commissioner, David Mulligan, has been contemplating such a move for some time.
There is no compelling reason for this kind of far-reaching change. The ratio of smoking seats to nonsmoking ones already tilts heavily in favor of those who don't smoke. Some establishments ban smoking entirely. And the few that do cater to more tobacco-loving crowds still obey government guidelines. Choices abound for diners. The market has done a good job of adjusting itself to the needs and wants of Bostonians.
At the heart of the mayor's plan is a concern for the well-being of food and beverage workers. Exposure to secondhand smoke endangers their health, he argues. Yet the evidence is questionable. Several years ago the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) declared that secondhand smoke causes cancer. Reputable congressional investigators questioned those results. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which polices the nation's workplaces, has yet to take a stand.
In the years since the Surgeon General issued his report declaring smoking a health hazard, the number of places that allow smoking has been shrinking. Smokers may now be in a minority, but they still represent a sizable minority. And that rankles those who want to tell others how to live their lives.
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"The building, the views,its ..."The building, the views,its location and its position on a working farm made it feel special. Great location as within 1 hour drive north or south were very many points of interest,attractions and fantastic scenery. A short interesting walk to Ravenglass with 3 licensed establishments and a fascinating land locked estuary.
- Off road parking
- Ground floor accommodation
- Ground floor bedroom
- Open fire
- Smoke-free
- Garden / Patio
- Pub/shop < 1 mile
- Washing machine
Cumblands Farm Cottages
Ravenglass 1 mile. Three delightful cottages near Ravenglass, converted from old stone farm buildings on a working arable and livestock farm in the hamlet of Carleton, a mile from Ravenglass in the Lake District National Park. Completed and finished to a good standard, these elegant Ravenglass cottages provide first-class accommodation, ideal for a warm and cosy romantic retreat or for a family holiday amongst the finest countryside that Lakeland has to offer. Features in two of these lovely Ravenglass cottages include open plan living areas located on the first floor to take advantage of the stunning views, and delightful welcoming bedrooms with their own en-suite facilities. The other Ravenglass cottage has a double bedroom with en-suite on the first floor and an open plan living area on the ground floor. With lovely styling throughout, two of these Ravenglass cottages offer original character including old beams, combined with modern comfort, whilst all three provide an ideal country holiday destination. The high level walking and climbing available from the doorstep of these cottages near Ravenglass is unrivalled, and there is a vast variety of walks and climbs to suit all skill levels. Add this to the fantastic bike trails in the area, a welcoming local pub serving excellent food, a lovely local tea room, Muncaster Castle, an 18-hole golf course and miniature railway in nearby Eskdale and you have all the ingredients for a memorable Ravenglass cottage holiday, whatever the time of year.
The property
A charming terraced cottage near Ravenglass.
Stylish and welcoming accommodation, an ideal romantic Ravenglass cottage retreat.
Note: Cottage is next to Refs 9863 and 13766, together they sleep 10.
One ground floor super king-size double bedroom (zip/link, can be twin on request) with double sofa bed (suitable for 1 adult or 2 small children) and en-suite shower, basin and WC. First floor open plan living area with kitchen, dining area and sitting area with woodburner.
- Electric heaters with woodburner in sitting area
- Electric cooker, microwave, fridge/freezer, washer/dryer, flat screen TV with Freeview, DVD, CD
- Fuel, power and starter pack for woodburner inc. in rent, additional wood available to purchase from owners
- Bed linen and towels inc. in rent
- Off road parking for two cars
- Shared mature gardens with furniture
- Sorry, no smoking
- One well-behaved pet welcome
- Shop 10 mins walk, pub 1 mile.
About the location
Eskdale 4 miles; Wasdale Head 6 miles.
Ravenglass is a small village on the west coast of Cumbria, which made its living from fishing, and in the 18th Century the harbour was also used for smuggling tobacco and other contraband from the Isle of Man. A popular attraction of western Lakeland, the famous Ravenglass to Eskdale Railway, a narrow gauge steam railway known as "L'al Ratty" runs daily from the station through some of the finest and most scenic country in Britain. Just minutes from Ravenglass and easily accessible by a new cycle track is Muncaster Castle, with magnificent gardens and views up to Scafell Pike, and home of the World Owl Trust. This great location boasts a skyline dominated by towering peaks including Scafell - England's highest peak, whilst the nearby stunning valleys of Eskdale, Wasdale and Dunnerdale provide breathtaking scenery to be enjoyed throughout the year. With beautiful Wastwater - the deepest lake in the country, and St Olaf's - one of the smallest churches in England amongst the many landmarks in this beautiful area, this stunning location will have visitors returning time and time again.
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This property offers the following short breaks:
- Winter
- Off-season
- Last minute