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November 1, 2013
Another Myth Bites the Dust
The ASPCA looks into the pets-as-gifts phenomenon and finds little to fear.
November 1, 2013
High Volume, Low Cost, Big Impact
A spay/neuter clinic reduces intake at a Mississippi shelter.
September 1, 2013
Never Mind the Myth
Contrary to the age-old belief that shelters need to be particularly wary about approving adoptions around Halloween, many agencies now regard the spooky holiday as a terrific time for seasonally themed promotions.
September 1, 2013
A Fresh Start for Cats
The Fresh Start program at the Animal Humane Society in Minnesota gives friendly, healthy cats who struggle with litter box issues a second chance at finding a home.
September 1, 2013
Home is Where the Dog Is
Unwilling to give up their pets in order to obtain more secure housing, many homeless people in Oahu rely on a local organization called K9 Kokua to assist them with caring for their dogs and finding pet-friendly housing.
September 1, 2013
Free to Good Home
There was a time when the concept of adopting out "free" cats would prompt a chorus of hisses from cat advocates. Not so much anymore, as many shelters are waiving adoption fees and getting positive results for their felines.
July 1, 2013
Mile-High Aspirations
Proving that "working together works," a Denver-based animal welfare alliance has live-release rates on the rise. Find out how the 25-member group is making a difference for animals in their community.
July 1, 2013
New York's Kindest
New York City Animal Care & Control's "New York's Kindest" campaign encourages the community to help animals in need by adopting a pet or volunteering their time or treasure to the shelter.
July 1, 2013
The Road to Zero
Peter Marsh's latest book questions conventional wisdom in the sheltering world and presents data-driven strategies for eliminating shelter overpopulation.
May 1, 2013
The Placement Conundrum
In this article, we explore adoption policies, and what we in the rescue community can do to ease the adoption process while continuing to place animals into safe and permanent homes.


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Nearly 300 graduates symbolic of New Growth Spurt
TAKOMA PARK, MD (April 30)—Slightly under 300 students passed through WAU's Gateway to service, Sunday, April 29, on their way to demonstrate a special brand of competence and moral leadership to communities across the United States and the world.
Relatives and friends packed Sligo Seventh-day Adventist Church to witness one of the largest graduating classes in the University's history. The numbers are symbolic of a growth spurt that WAU has been experiencing in recent years. The Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Music, and Bachelor of Science degrees were conferred on 237 students while graduates degrees in business administration, counseling psychology, professional counseling psychology, health care administration, public administration, nursing education and nursing and business leadership were conferred on 45 students. Nineteen students received associate of applied science and associate of science degrees.
Keynote speaker, Washington attorney Scott McClure, urged graduates to remain true to the University's commitment to a life of service and to social justice. A WAU education, he said, is about engaging mind and transforming lives which means grasping the information necessary to be competent in one's field or the pursuit of further studies, as well as an action plan that incorporates the values of kindness, respect, honesty, candor, ethics and following the Lord.
A graduate of Southern College and Duke University School of Law, McClure is a partner at Hogan Lovells, focusing on corporate transactions and state tax matters. He is a member of the Bar of the District of Columbia and the Maryland.
Ambassador of India to the United States Nirupama Rao, WAU's distinguished Gateway Service honoree, was recognized for her contribution to liberal arts education, according to WAU's president, Weymouth Spence, Ed.D. Rao holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in English Literature and is a published poet. She joined the diplomatic service in 1973 and, in addition to her Washington posting, has served her country in Sri Lanka, Moscow and Beijing.
In a presentation liberally sprinkled with the wisdom of compatriot, Mahatma Gandhi, the Indian Civil Rights leaders, Rao commended WAU's emphasis on character education, which she said, was critical for preparing young minds to face the challenges of the contemporary world. This kind of education is the greatest wealth of all; it is about empowerment and enlightenment and about training good, honest and committed citizens. Graduates would do well, she said, to be mindful of the even blunders of life as articulated by Gandhi: wealth without work; pleasure without conscience; knowledge without morality; commerce without character; science without humanity; worship without sacrifice; and politics without principles.
Graduation weekend activities began on April 27th with a Consecration Service at Sligo Church. Chair of the psychology department, Grant Leitma, Ph.D., gave the consecration address. On Saturday, April 28, Rear Admiral Barry Black, the 62nd Chaplain of the United States Senate, served as keynote speaker.
Photos by E. Grant Photography.
About Washington Adventist University
Washington Adventist University is a private liberal arts institution located in scenic Takoma Park, Md. Founded in 1904, it is owned by the Seventh Day Adventist Church and offers a Christian education to nearly 1,500 students of all faiths, through eight graduate and 32 undergraduate programs. Its vision is to produce graduates who bring competence and moral leadership to their communities. The 2011 edition of U.S. News & World Report ranked the University among the best regional colleges in the northern region and as one of the most diverse institutions of higher learning in the US.

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What's selfish about it? I don't see it.
She needed a larger magazine.
Guns. Save. Lives.
LOGANVILLE, Ga. — A woman hiding in her attic with children shot an intruder multiple times before fleeing to safety Friday.
The incident happened at a home on Henderson Ridge Lane in Loganville around 1 p.m. The woman was working in an upstairs office when she spotted a strange man outside a window, according to Walton County Sheriff Joe Chapman. He said she took her 9-year-old twins to a crawlspace before the man broke in using a crowbar.
But the man eventually found the family.
"The perpetrator opens that door. Of course, at that time he's staring at her, her two children and a .38 revolver," Chapman told Channel 2's Kerry Kavanaugh.
The woman then shot him five times, but he survived, Chapman said. He said the woman ran out of bullets but threatened to shoot the intruder if he moved.
It was pointing out that after 6 shots (she missed on the first one) the assailant was still a threat to her and her children. The point being, the weapons that have large capacity magazines also have lower knockdown power. 9mm, AR-15, etc won't drop a perp like a .357 or .45. You can't buy a 10 shot .45 or .357. If you have it and don't need to use all of it, that's a hell of a lot better than you don't have it and do need it which was the case with this Lady (almost)
It is just me or does anyone else think these threads about the shootings in Newtown should be closed? Nothing really beneficial is being contributed to what has happened and I think these conversations are pointless and have gone on for too long. Just my 2 cents.
Lines drawn in gun-control debate - The Washington Post
Safe to say this argument does not fall strictly along party lines...
I stand corrected. Thanks.
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About PNW-LAMP
PNW-LAMP is a program of the Institute for Natural Resources - Portland, part of the School of the Environment in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Portland State University.
The largest project PNW-LAMP is currently involved with is the Integrated Landscape Assessment Project. This is a multi-state project funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and has created or maintained more than 50 jobs in four states. The project will assess watershed-level prioritization of land management actions based on fuel conditions, wildlife and aquatic habitats, economic values, and projected climate change across all lands in Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington.
Two other projects described at this site are the Historical Vegetation Mapping Project and the Gap Analysis Project. Products from these projects include shapefiles of historical vegetation for many areas of Oregon, and wildlife models that were used in part to create the Oregon Wildlife Explorer. We continue to improve on these models and are working to create more historical vegetation maps.
PNW-LAMP is located with the Oregon Biodiversity Information Center and the Institute for Natural Resources in Suite 140 of the Science and Education Center, at 2112 SW 5th Ave, Portland, OR.
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Marijuana or Cannabis Sativa
Click on the link if you are interested the self help guide:
Quitting Marijuana- A 30 Day Self Help Guide
Marijuana has been one of the most popular and one of the most controversial drugs throughout modern history. Arguments have existed for years on several topics concerning marijuana use: is it addictive, is it safer to use than alcohol, is it a gateway to other drugs?
A good place to start is to explore one of the first myths heard during the early years of prevention. For example, in the 1970s, advertisements showed someone jumping out of a second story window after smoking marijuana. In the '80s and '90s, advertisements aimed at prevention continued to show that if someone got high, something bad would immediately happen, or those that smoked marijuana were morally bad. Because addiction to marijuana like other drugs is progressive, nothing bad probably happened the first or second time, or maybe nothing too horrible has happened yet. It than becomes natural to begin to question what everyone has been saying about marijuana. For some people they maybe barely felt anything the first time they smoked, the police didn't show up to arrest them for drug use, and friends still seemed to be the good people they knew. As with alcohol many times something bad doesn't happen for awhile. Or, eventually things may happen but they occur to different degrees for different people. Addiction with substances such as alcohol and marijuana is slow and progressive. As with any substance initially it may feel good, and so use continues to increase and possibly can become more abusive. It can and eventually will make "bad things" happen to "good people." The biggest deterrent that seems to stop students after first use is the anxiety and panic that some may experience with initial use of marijuana.
Second only to alcohol, marijuana is the most popular and widely used drug in the United States. According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 95 million Americans age 12 and older have tried pot at least once. By 2001, the proportion of under-18 users had increased by 67% since the 1960's. Researchers attribute this to the significant increase of pro-drug messages in multimedia venues. Students of all ages today have access to the Internet where they can easily find websites that promote marijuana use, kits for beating drug tests, and can advertise and sell marijuana and paraphernalia. Meanwhile, the prevalence of higher potency marijuana (which is measured by the levels of THC delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol) is increasing.
According to the Office of National Drug Control Policy, marijuana is much more powerful and so are the mind-altering effects associated with use. Average THC levels rose from less than one percent in the mid-1970s to more than six percent in 2002. This means that even what is considered just skunk weed, can be six to ten times more potent than what was available in the 60's and 70's. No marijuana is the same; dealers can mix marijuana with other substances, from oregano to being laced with PCP, which means you can't rely on what you are getting. There are 250 different substances in marijuana smoke. Sinsemilla potency increased in the past two decades from six percent to more than 13 percent, with some samples containing THC levels of up to 33 percent.
Is marijuana addictive? Is marijuana harmful? Is marijuana worse than alcohol?
Myth: Marijuana is not addictive
This manual began by addressing the myth that the first time someone uses they don't usually experience the negative things that they have been told as a youth. This many times leads one to doubt the harmful effects and continue to use the drug. The most popular myth to explore is whether marijuana is addictive. For years it was believed that marijuana could not be addictive and many people today still hold that belief to be true. Current research supports that marijuana is both physically addictive and psychologically addictive.
Marijuana meets the criteria established by the American Psychiatric Association, and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) for substance dependence. A person needs three of the following criteria occurring at any time in the same 12-month period to meet the diagnosis of dependency.
- Tolerance: needing more of the substance to achieve the same effects, or diminished effect with the same amount of the substance. Individuals with heavy use of cannabis are generally not aware of having developed tolerance.
- Withdrawal symptoms: with marijuana use this can be experienced as irritability, restlessness, loss of appetite, trouble with sleeping, weight loss, shaky hands and loss of motivation. Some people have displayed increased verbal and physical aggression after one week of not using marijuana.
- Continuation of use despite the presence of adverse effects: a person continues to use even after they have hurt someone or themselves, have experienced suicidal ideations, relationship problems, etc. related to use.
- Giving up social, occupational, or recreational activities because of the use of marijuana. Due to the progressive nature of these symptoms, the user does not recognize these changes despite comments and concerns of others. As the use of marijuana increases a person slowly changes their social group and activities with peers who use about the same if not more. This tends to normalize use for the person despite the increase in need.
- The individual may withdraw from family activities and hobbies in order to use the substance in private or to spend more time with substance-using friends. Despite recognizing the role of the substance contributing to a psychological or physical problem the person continues use.
- Marijuana is taken in larger amounts or over a longer period of time than intended.
- There is a persistent desire or unsuccessful efforts to cut down or control substance use.
Symptoms of Marijuana Withdrawal
The THC from just one joint takes 7 days to get out of the body, and 42 days if someone is a daily user. Withdrawal starts 3 weeks after someone's last dose.
|Perspiration (sweating)
|Disrupted sleep
|Depressed mood
|Weight loss, decreased appetite
|Aggression (in different degrees)
|Increased body temperature
|Loss of motivation
According to a 2002 study by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, marijuana use has been shown to be three times more likely to lead to dependence among adolescents than among adults. Research by JC Gfroerer, and J.F. Epstein 1999 indicates that the earlier adolescents starts using marijuana, the more likely they are to become dependent on this or other illicit drugs later in life. This does not mean marijuana is a gateway drug, but early use can be one of numerous factors that influence future use.


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Micah's father Jim explained the marks away by saying that Micah had burned himself after finding a curling iron, which Jim's girlfriend had "carelessly left on in the bathroom." Even though this explanation did not really fit with the marks on Micah, Amy wanted to believe it was indeed an accident. But as the weeks went by, other marks and signs were appearing after every visit between Micah and Jim. Not only that, Micah's personality seemed to be changing. He was becoming more withdrawn, and he would cry and become visibly upset when his dad came to pick him up for visits. Amy became convinced that Jim was physically abusing Micah.
Amy called Child Protective Services (CPS) and reported her suspicions. A caseworker came to visit, a young lady who seemed interested and competent and asked thoughtful questions despite having been with the agency less than a year. Shortly afterward, the caseworker visited Jim, who told her that the family had a history of custody disputes and hinted that Amy was likely to say anything to deprive him of access to Micah. The caseworker came away convinced that Amy was overreacting, at the very least, or even trying to manipulate the custody battle by making false claims of abuse. Amy, of course, didn't know that. She kept waiting for help, but days went by… and then weeks. Amy called the CPS worker with more reports of even more marks on Micah's little body, but nothing more ever seemed to happen.
Amy had done what she thought was right. She had reported the abuse, sincerely believing that CPS would protect her little boy. Unfortunately, Jim was able to convince the caseworker that Amy was untrustworthy and so the innocent Micah continued to be abused.
In a last plea for help, Amy reached out to Justice for Children. We listened to Amy and we believed her. We provided guidance to her and took Micah's case, persuading CPS to re-open the investigation. The agency finally recognized that reasonable evidence existed to substantiate the abuse.
We continued to monitor Micah's case and provided free legal counsel where needed, and enlisted the help of the district attorney's office in getting the abuse allegations moved from family court to a criminal venue. At last Micah would have justice, and more importantly, he would be safe from now on.


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Hidden - Lead rpt - 26/Sep/15
1st Trad Lead :)Ravenonthewire - Lead O/S - 11/Jul/15 with Stuart
Hidden - Lead dnf - Jul/15
Luuuuuke - Lead O/S - 21/Jun/15 with martin
shared lead with tom; tricky getting into the crack; I found a nut placement there then made the off balance move. You can get a rest under the overhang on a good rightward side pull hold.halfwaythere - Lead - 16/Sep/14 with tom
necky startsteve phillips - Lead O/S - 13/Jul/14 with evhall
clams - Lead - Jun/14 with Catherine
CatMc - 2nd dog - Jun/14 with clams
Lazytraveller - 2nd O/S - 24/Mar/14 with Ric Elliot
Took a fall off crux. found it slightly awkward n tricky. I felt the social criticism haha RichyBOYY - Lead dog - 24/Mar/14 with Aaron Martin, Jordan Smith, Jamie
Deviated from the line a bit - groove on the left was damp so moved up past the threads using the two-finger hole and a hold on the arete to the right.will_benfold - Lead O/S - 08/Dec/13 with Sarah Woodrow
Pintsize - 2nd - 08/Dec/13 with Will Benfold
Hidden - 2nd O/S - 07/Sep/13
Anthony Dixon - Lead - 24/Jul/13
Phil PBC - 2nd O/S - 14/Jul/13 with tom rogers, sarah jane d
gb05 - 2nd O/S - 09/Jul/13 with James Matthews
A pretty sustained start, but eases off a lot once established in the hanging groove.Nick Russell - 2nd - 24/Jun/13 with Alastair Begley
one fall at the cruxalastairbegley - Lead - 24/Jun/13 with Nick Russell
andycash - Lead dnf - 23/Jun/13 with Ray Sullivan, Ash
I thought this was a really good route. Definite 2 stars, better of the two E1's on this face. Burly start (didnt faff with thread) and then a nice exposed finish through the mini roof/groove.Kemics - Lead O/S - 23/Jun/13 with Anthony
kelliroberts3 - Lead O/S - 20/Apr/13 with Peter Rigby
Ed morris - Lead O/S - 27/Oct/12 with Jack keo, wildblood, chris irwin
beautifull route, with good powerfull but reasuring climbing and more protection than id have thoughtcwildblood - 2nd O/S - 27/Oct/12
whiting.jp - 2nd - 16/Sep/12 with jamesca
Hidden - Lead - 16/Sep/12
Hidden - 2nd O/S - 26/Aug/12
Hidden - Lead O/S - Aug/12
Thuggy at the bottom, less so at the top but worrying nonthelesschris wyatt - Lead O/S - 29/Jul/12 with rich
jacobjlloyd - Lead O/S - 24/Jul/12 with Tony
Hidden - 2nd - 24/Jul/12
Becky C - 2nd - 27/May/12 with Notsi, Fat Al
Was meant to do Side Effect but got lost and ended up doing this!mikeyg - Lead O/S - 26/May/12 with Phil Pavey
Hidden - 2nd - 26/May/12
Had to rest on the rope whilst trying to gain the main crack at the bottom of the route, plus carelessly slipped off near the top of the route.Big Lee - 2nd dog - 12/May/12 with Richard Ashton
Tough start, had to rest. Rick Ashton - Lead dog - 12/May/12 with Big Lee
Hidden - 2nd β - 18/Oct/11
bpmclimb - Lead rpt - 18/Oct/11 with Helen S
Hidden - Lead O/S - 14/Aug/11
Really nice route. Couldn't free the micro cam at half height. Wouldn't be able to lead it yet. Strenuous start.Dave Ing - TR O/S - 10/Jul/11 with Nick H
nick hawkins - TR dnf - 10/Jul/11
Hidden - Lead O/S - 03/Jul/11
Hidden - Lead dnf - 03/Jul/11
Hidden - TR rpt - 04/Jun/11
Fairly tired before I started. Struggled a bit to get the layback/jamming sequence on the flake, but completely dogged the transation over the bulge due to poor footwork and extreme pump. Great after that - nice routeMariaT - TR dog - 04/Jun/11 with James Carpenter
Lapepina - TR - 04/Jun/11
Hidden - Lead - 23/May/11
marclloyd77 - 2nd rpt - 10/Apr/11 with Dean Bucknall
dean79 - Lead dog - 10/Apr/11 with Marc Lloyd
went back to do a direct clean climb of this route as last time i climbed off onto a ledge to rest.jon_gill1 - Lead rpt - 19/Mar/11 with chris Lyness
marclloyd77 - 2nd - 21/Nov/10 with Simon Crisp
pretty hairy in the moist/wet/dampness. foot slipped off when my waist was level to the thread but hung in there!!! nice routepeaches69 - Lead O/S - 21/Nov/10 with marc lloyd
this is a pumpy little number for the first 10m, rest is fine and good funstvredmond - Lead - 26/Sep/10 with Darren Ross
Run_Ross_Run - 2nd O/S - 26/Sep/10 with Steve
Hidden - Lead O/S - 04/Sep/10
Was supposed to be a warm-up so rested at the crux to save getting pumped out.saz_b - 2nd dog - 04/Sep/10 with Dugald
got pumped out at crux section and down climbed. climbed back up 10 mins later to the gear and got pumped out again, used the piller next to the thread to stand on and rest and then climbed back onto route which was a bloody hard move!good route but you need to be strong!jon_gill1 - Lead RP - 15/Aug/10 with john beardmore
JimBee - Lead O/S - Jun/10 with Ian Whitehead
bpmclimb - 2nd rpt - 27/May/10 with Dave Frost
Had a long rest at the crux before committing to it! Rest of the climb was plain sailing in comparison. 1st E1 this year.Chris Sansum - Lead dog - 03/May/10 with Richard Lade, Gary Lewin
gripped01 - Lead - May/10 with Rob Patchett
My first E1!Pete Rigby - Lead O/S - May/10 with James Austrums
chalkiesurf - 2010
rests and lowered on ropetoasted - Lead dog - 04/Oct/09 with Pete Rogers
Nice climb good jugs on the start just a little pumpy.gingergeorge - Lead O/S - 20/Sep/09 with Wayne
wayne clark - 2nd - 20/Sep/09 with gingergeorge
hash - 2nd - 09/May/09 with Will Jones
First Attempt fell from above the diagonal flake after placing thread. 2nd attempt completed climb no problem!tobyb - Lead dog - 07/May/09
Goofyfoot - 2009
Lots of positive belayer assistance.Fatclimber - 2nd dog - 27/Sep/08 with Jason Garnham
jasclimb - Lead O/S - 27/Sep/08 with Steve Williams
DafSWMC - 2nd O/S - 21/Sep/08 with Gareth
gejones - Lead O/S - 21/Sep/08 with DafSWMC
Hidden - 2nd O/S - 20/Sep/08
chris sm - Lead O/S - 30/Aug/08 with Pippa Froggatt
shoulders - Lead - 03/Aug/08 with dai
Climbed with the mother of all hangovers.Chris Sansum - 2nd O/S - 01/Jun/08 with David Gent
davidgent - Lead dog - 01/Jun/08 with Chris Sansum
I wonder which will happen first - the concretion holds snapping off the overhang or the overhang coming off the cliff!bpmclimb - Lead O/S - 19/Mar/08 with Mark
Hidden - Lead β - 17/Feb/08
Eccentric - Lead rpt - Oct/07 with Sarah (Crumbly Rubbish)
Hidden - Lead O/S - 27/Aug/07
Peg boosted courage on the layback. V groove move felt bold until i did it and grabbed the good little jam. Top overhang a bit hollow but looked quite solid actually. Grabbed its jugs with much pleasure.DrGav - Lead O/S - 15/Oct/06 with Dave
David Martin - 2nd O/S - 14/Oct/06 with DrGav
Morgan Woods - 2nd O/S - 02/Jul/06 with Gareth
gimmer - 2nd - May/05 with Matt Telfer
Dave Reeve - Lead O/S - Apr/05 with Tony Payne
Hidden - Lead O/S - 19/Dec/02
mikej - TR - 15/Jul/00 with Nick Salmon
Took several visits to get past the hard bit. Side Effects is better.alan moore - 2000
Hidden - 2nd - 01/Aug/96
Hidden - Lead - 11/Jul/93
Hidden - 06/Jul/93
3 Names - Lead O/S - 1993
RichardMc - AltLd - 27/May/92 with John Evans
sdht - 1992
Hidden - Lead O/S - 27/Oct/90
nigehughes - Lead - Mar/90 with Gary Clough
GordonHart - TR O/S - 1990
Jelly Mould Surfer - Lead O/S - 16/Jul/89
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Will a Walker mow a 45 Degree hill? If so can it be done in a safe way? Thank you for your input. Getting closer to a ZTR. Hope this machine will meet my mowing needs. Mowman
Mowman, I think you need to refigure your slope. I seriously doubt if there's a mower made that will mow a 45 degree slope. You can't even stand on a slope that severe. In a realistic answer to your question, Walkers are not very good on slopes. There are better machines out there for slope work, MHO, Lynn
I do many properties on a riverbank and the Walker will do slopes but you have to do them in reverse as the weight distribution wont allow you to go foreward too well. If you have a heavier deck 54 or bigger it helps a little but I still use my Toro proline walkbehind for the slopes and the Lawnboy 2 cycle for the 45's. Yes I have them and you are right I can barely stand on them but the damn grass grows there for some reason.
Ask your distributor for a demo to run up and down the hills, thats what I did and it helps alot.Good Luck.

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Mow Ed, I use the same equipment you do. The Walker for easy stuff, the Toro for steep big areas and the Lawnboy and soccer shoes for the small really steep ones. And if all else fails I get out the soccer shoes and weed trimmer and knock it down. I am pricing a couple of steep slope jobs for next year that the Toro will work good on. The current guy uses a 1210 Ford and drive straight up then backs down, he just put a new $3000 rear end in it and says he won't cut it again. The local hero is cutting it with a weed trimmer right now. I'll wait until later in the year and cut it with the Toro to show the Town works guy what it should look like and hopefully next year the job will be mine.
I mow down and back up,either stright or on a diagonal.I just bought a 62" deck for my GHS unit and it is a lot more stable on slops because of the weight and extra width.I go places with my Walker that I couldn't use a wb on. The 62" deck is awasum,(on dry grass),gives the Walker the feel of a big machine with the agiliety that it is known for.
My Walker climbs hills really well. I have the ATV tyres fitted,and they stick like **** to a blanket.I don't know about 45 degrees though. We've had no problems with our Walker on some quite steep hills though.
Karl

Most mowers roll over at 30 degrees. Mix in a construction angle finder.
"Most mowers roll over at 30 degrees."
I think this is too broad a statement I believe a tractor based mower would tip at 30 deg. But a walk behind? I measured my Ferris and the tires are 48 in outside edge to outside edge. The machine is about 28 in high except for the top of the gas tank. If I assume that the weight is centered ½ way up at 14 in (it isn't, the deck is under 14 in so it is lower then that.) Then the machine won't tip sideways until 60 deg. Even higher with a lower center of gravity. I realize that the engine would run out of oil before that and before the engine runs out of oil the machine would slide but it won't tip over. I use a Ferris Procut 22 rider (3 wheel) and it is quite stable on 20 deg hills (measured) with ATV tires. I have a web site tucked away somewhere for a mower that will cut a 37 deg hill.
someone should check out the web site at the top of the page"hustler" make a mower for just this type of work.
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I agree with you Frank, I don't think any mower would tip over on a 30 degree hill, it would slide first. The wider the wheel base the more stable they are. My new DC has a 64" wide wheel base on a 60" cut. Yes those numbers are right, so it is very stable on very steep hills with the bar tires they have. I bet your still wondering about the 64" wheel base with a 60" cut and thinking, this idiot is runing over uncut grass. The tires are 12" wide and start curving up at about 2" in on each side, so there isn't any trompled grass that is smashed down so you can't cut it. They needed the extra width to get the diesel engine and radiator on the side all squeezed in there. I thought it was a mistake on the specs. when I read them, but I measured it, it's 64" and still cuts great.
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North Cape Coastal Drive
Distance: 300 km Detailed Map
College of Piping
Picturesque fishing and farming communities, Summerside's historic architecture, secluded beaches, non-stop festivals and events... these are just some of the highlights awaiting visitors touring Prince Edward Island's North Cape Coastal Drive. Add to this unspoiled natural wonders, fresh seafood and an area rich in Acadian culture and you have a first-rate tour of the Island's northwest region.
To find out more and to download the North Cape Coastal Drive Touring Guide, visit the official website or view the North Cape Coastal Drive: Explore Western Prince Edward Island online.
- Borden-Carleton to Summerside, 28 km (17 miles), 20 minutes
- Summerside to Cap-Egmont, 28 km (17 miles), 20 minutes
- Cap-Egmont to West Point, 63 km (38 miles), 45 minutes
- West Point to North Cape, 76 km (45 miles), 50 minutes
- North Cape to Lennox Island, 79 km (47 miles), 55 minutes
- Lennox Island to Summerside, 46 km (28 miles), 37 minutes
A documentary series consisting of eight short documentaries about the people, places and themes that make Western PEI unique. Visit the coastalstories.ca website to watch these authentic Islander videos!
INSIDER TIPS for the North Cape Coastal Drive
- Go deep sea fishing while in Northport and the Tignish area.
- At Island Traditions Store in Richmond you can buy ash splint basket weaving.
- Explore the West Point lighthouse and stroll the beach to Cedar Dunes.
- Buy moccasins from the gift shop on Lennox Island.
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Watercress & celeriac soup with goat's cheese croutons
By Barney Desmazery
Cooking timePrep: 15 mins Cook: 40 mins
Skill levelEasy
ServingsServes 6
Feed your friends this simple freeze-ahead starter, topped with goat's cheese croutons for added crunch
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- Freezable
- Vegetarian
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Nutrition per serving
- kcalories
- 255
- protein
- 16g
- carbs
- 17g
- fat
- 14g
- saturates
- 7g
- fibre
- 7g
- sugar
- 5g
- salt
- 1.71g
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- 4 leeks, washed and sliced
- 50g butter
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 celeriac, peeled and diced
- 1½ l vegetable stock
- 2 x 100g bags watercress
- 6 slices toasted baguette
- 100g soft vegetarian goat's cheese
- a few sprigs watercress, to serve
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- Gently cook the leeks in the butter and olive oil until soft but not coloured. Add the celeriac and stock, bring to the boil and simmer until the celeriac is soft. Add the bags of watercress and blend until smooth, then season. Cool. Will freeze for up to 3 months.
- To serve, defrost the soup in the fridge overnight, then tip into a saucepan and reheat. Top each toasted baguette slice with some goat's cheese, then add a slice to each bowl with a sprig of watercress.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, November 2010
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I made this in February, and I don't know if the watercress just wasn't tender enough then but I followed the recipe exactly and it did not look like the picture, it did not blend to a beautiful pea green colour, but was green with bits in. Quite bland ( and I love watercress and adore celeriac) not one I will do again, sorry :(


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Spam?Well, maybe. But I agree about the wool gloves. Love 'em. And I'm interested in the water purification tabs, since I use micropur and that's expensive. If I can find a cheaper, just-as-good alternative, I'm grateful.Another cheap, light military article I love is our M-65 jacket liners. 10 oz for a CLO of 1.02 (The MB Polartec 200 Thermawrap Parka is only .77)that dries real fast and compresses well for only $6.98.
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Spam ?For $2 ex-military gloves ?Did Dean buy all the surplus and then sold it back to the various retailers?Dean has 2600 plus posts here...and not about gloves.BTW, there is nothing wrong in saying sorry.Franco
I thought this was all tongue in cheek. Hence the spam wolf.I really do like the insulated pants liners too.
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2600 posts ?!? Christ, I need to get out more...But, yes, there was a post before mine that I was replying to. Evidently it got past my spam filter.But I had forgotten about the M-65 field jacket liners- also decent, cheap surplus gear.And, yes, you can find Chlor-Floc cheap. Just google it- I found it at $7.50 for 30 tablets, whereas AquaMaira tablets are usually pushing $20 for 24 tablets. Some distributor on Amazon has it on sale, too.
Edited by acrosome on 07/25/2011 22:31:02 MDT.
I'm a big fan of the surplus wool gloves as well. I use them the entire year. When ski touring, those gloves and a shell are all I usually need in the CO winter.Though I don't use them for backpacking, the liner pants do come in handy for early mornings in my 'truck bivy' camps before I start the actual backpacking trip (thrown them on, make breakfast, slip them off and I am already to go in my hiking shorts)and I do use them for car camping trips when I am, well, hanging out in camp. :)I also use surplus wool pants for ski touring. I find wool pants to be the original soft shell: warm, breathable, and repels snow. And they are cheap! (Not exactly light..but ski touring is a different ball o' wax...or is that stick of wax? :) )The last item I use is mil-spec polypro balaclava bought years ago at Sierra Trading post. It is also an item I use all year: Roll it up for a light hat, makes a nice neck warmer or ear warmer and we it down for all around protection.
Edited by PaulMags on 07/29/2011 18:39:57 MDT.
" I find wool pants to be the original soft shell: warm, breathable, and repels snow." +1 My local army surplus store has piles of wool pants from various military sources. Really nice wool and most of them are very well made. The German six pocket trousers are deluxe. The larger sizes can be scarce but there's usually a good selection for regular people. Bargains can be had as long as you don't mind looking a bit like a Czechoslovakian infantrymen. Personally, as long as I'm warm I don't mind. Good stuff for cooler weather.
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Drusilla, still on the hunt for Pibgorn, takes a detour to succubus2 a university professor who was regaling his class with misconceptions, but the dark magic she works upon his pliable brain shows up as a blip on an unknown someone's monitor, who remarks that he has never seen a signature of that nature before. As the seduction of the professor – delightful in its imagery – climaxes explosively, Lena senses what can only be described as "a disturbance in the force", and she remarks that "something inexpressible beautiful" has just happened. As Drusilla flies off sated, the shadowy figure holding Pibgorn captive remarks that he has just witnessed true magic, and with his computer brings the ghostly Pibgorn sufficiently awake to state the name of Drusilla. Drusilla, for her part, takes note and flies off to try to find Pib again, but is observed by the mysterious man who is planning something unpleasant for her. She is also observed by Lena, who thinks to herself that she finally knows what she wants to be when she grows up.
As Roger looks for Lena, he encounters an older gentleman who seems to be an aged copy of Roger himself – geeky, irascible, and otaku. We cut to a scene of Lena acting out her destructive fantasies for Roger on a voodoo effigy, and Drusilla catches the a sense of consummate evil, young but pure, confirming our suspicions that Lena and Drusilla are cut from the same basic mold and somehow linked together. Back to Roger, we learn that his new acquaintance, who introduces himself as "Digory Spitcock, visionary genius", is involved in some project which is attempting to use magic as a source of power – we see him using brownies (the fairy folk, not the pastry) as a sort of battery for his hand-held magic locator. The effect on the brownies is all-consuming…
A brief interlude shows Pibgorn once again being non-fatally sliced and diced by the pink-haired spitfire, and in spite of being reduced to a fairy jigsaw puzzle, manages to send a commanding thought to Drusilla, who detects it – but they still can't find each other.
Spitcock takes Roger back to his laboratory, which is so full of computers that Roger experiences a sensual thrill. We see the pink-haired girl on all of the monitors, and Roger is thunderstruck by her beauty. Asking Spitcock what he does here, Spitcock replies that he has re-written history, and indicates a program running on his system called "Suzerain", which he describes as "transcendent interactivity", not virtuality, but reality. Roger is insulted that this is all about a game, but as Pibgorn – behind a curtain – groans faintly, Spitcock ejects Roger from his laboratory and returns to his workstation to manage the situation.
Unbeknownst to Spitcock, Roger returns to the laboratory, pilfers a copy of Suzerain, runs back to his own room and installs it on his computer. Lena has been lying in wait, and prepares to destroy Roger's computer with a hoe. In the same moment, Drusilla shows up at Spitcock's laboratory. He shoots her, ineffectually, and is blasted into a pile of roasted bits and bytes by a bolt of plasma. Drusilla then discovers the bound essence of Pibgorn. However, Spitcock did not remain disassembled for long, and with a couple of strokes on his keyboard effectuates a merger of Drusilla with the bound Pibgorn. The combined entity asks him who he is, and he introduces himself, indicating that he is grateful to have captured Drusilla as well.
Back in Roger's room, we see Roger struggling with Lena for possession of the hoe. Lena falls back into the computer screen and is pulled through – leaving only an icon superimposed upon the imaginary girl's image, labelled "Lena".
We next see Drusilla falling out of the sky – but what a Drusilla, decked out in stunning red and black markings (a mixture of Pibgorn's markings and her own), and with huge, bat-like wings. There is also another voice in her head with whom Drusilla is not familiar, but soon discovers is Pibgorn. She enounters the pink-haired fantasy and struggles with her, which unleashes a torrent of energy back in the laboratory which pleases Spitcock immensely. We see Lena pop into the same world, only to be confronted by a rather large knight with a rather large sword – and we are left with the implication is that the little girl is slain.
Roger bursts into Spitcock's laboratory to demand what has happened to his sister, only to find all the monitors displaying the message "You Bastard". He then discovers the captive Pibgorn, and while taking a close look at her "assets", is partially pulled into the virtual realm, but falls back into reality. Awakening back in the alley, he runs back to his room1, and dives headlong into the computer screen, which then displays a second icon next to Lena's.
Roger awakens next to the beautiful girl, who asks him if he's a minion of the queen and threatens to kill him. Roger professes that he's head over heels in love with her, which gives her pause and she departs without killing Roger. Pibgorn/Dru, the combined entity, take stock of their new situation. The pink-haired siren-cum-fighter stabs Drusilla, who falls into a pond and drowns, only to discover that in this world, nobody dies – with Pibgorn's voice telling her, in so many words, "I told you so."
The girl again confronts Roger and demands that he declare himself unallied with the queen – whoever that is – but before she can finish her interrogation, Drusilla takes her up into the sky, drops her from a terrible height, whereupon she crashes in flames and ends up a charred skeleton. And promptly sits back up again in the scorched patch of grass, totally restored. The girl rushes off to attack Drusilla again, but is restrained by Roger, who tries to make her realize that she's up against something more powerful than she is. Roger's devotion and lack of fear - after all, he's been living with Lena for eight years - is beginning to have an effect on the girl.
Pibgorn and Dru figure out how to co-exist in the same body, and fly off together – we can see both of them now – to find the evil queen. Roger tells the girl about his sister and what she's like, and the tale of Lena's wickedness - and Roger's devotion to her in spite of it – plainly touches the girl's heart. Roger tries to explain to the girl that she's only part of a program, but the message doesn't register – the girl finally declares herself to be Satori (the Japanese buddhist term for "enlightenment"), who leads the resistance to defeat the wicked queen and return the land to its rightful suzerain.
Roger and Satori join forces, but not before they are accosted by Pib/Dru, who proceeds to ravish Roger and put him into a dream/game not unlike the one Drusilla played in Hell previously, and still hosted by Tom Torquemada. In this version, however, Roger has to play a demonic version of "The Dating Game" and figure out which of three "Lust-Pumpkins" (Dru, Pib and Satori) is the real Drusilla. The game itself - and its accompanying infomercial - is indescribable and better left to the imagination, but the upshot is that Roger guesses wrong, and is dropped from a great height, splatters on the ground, and is magically restored.
We are shown that Drusilla was unable to ravish Roger properly because in his dream, she became aware of his great grief for his sister Lena, and this echoed her own deep sense of loss when her daughter Henmellyn died. Drusilla joins forces with Roger to defeat the evil queen, in retribution for Roger's pain as well as her own, but at the same time finds Roger's infatuation with Satori annoying, and asks if she can kill Satori as well. Roger tells her no, because he was about to ask her to go steady. Drusilla facilitates a hasty kiss between the two, and asks, "Now can I kill her?" Roger again says no, and asks Drusilla if she's ever been in love, to which Drusilla responds "Never!", despite the fact that we know she once loved Henmellyn and is presently still in love with Geoff.
Before they can set off to confront the queen, the knight who supposedly killed Lena shows up and skewers Dru/Pib to a tree with a lance, but tree, lance and a good bit of the surrounding terrain are vaporized by a blast of Drusilla's pique-fed plasma. Picking up Roger and Satori by the hair, Drusilla flies off to the queen's castle as night falls.
Before they arrive, we see the queen summon Fortescue, one of her retainers, whereupon she ravishes and then slays him. Watching from a window above the room, the scene is declared bestial and disgusting by Roger and Satori, and "Not bad for an amateur" by Drusilla. Drusilla attacks the queen, but misses with her bolt of plasma, which both Pib and Dru find unusual. The queen retaliates with a blast of her own, which has the side effect of freeing Pibgorn from Dru's body, leaving her able to confront the queen by herself. As the queen interacts with Pibgorn, we notice that she bears a striking resemblance to Lena, but all grown up in the signature McEldowney eye-popping tradition.
Pibgorn unleashes her signature right cross on the queen and asks her what she did with Drusilla. She replies by saying she "zonked" her, and proceeds to do the same to Pibgorn with plasma bolts. We next see Drusilla suspended in the air, wondering why she is caught in a featureless dream that belongs to nobody. We see two simultaneous sequences playing out - one in which the unfazed Pibgorn learns from the Queen that her glasses were taken from the still-warm corpse of a little girl, and a second in which Drusilla is attacked by a dark, unclad male demon who lifts her into the air, drains her blood and drops her empty husk to earth.
Just as Pibgorn is about to slug the Queen once more, she is again merged with the essence of Drusilla, and the Queen inters Dru/Pib deep in the ground. While Drusilla has no problem escaping from premature burial, she discovers that in this world, nobody dies permanently, a fact which Roger demonstrates to Satori by pushing her off a parapet of the castle and jumping after her. They plummet to the earth, Drusilla unleashes a bolt of demonic energy at the Queen, and suddenly it is once again daytime - Satori and Roger are lying in the grass, Drusilla is asking what just happened, and Roger says "We're starting over, and again the sun is up." The game has reset itself.
Cut to an interlude with Geoff, still naked in a wheat field, encountering Luciano the horsefly assassin in his 40-lb incarnation. Luciano explains he had gone to the club to see Pib and Dru sing, and when they weren't there, he flew off in search of them. Geoff mentions that being naked is a slight hindrance to his freedom of movement, and Luciano obliges by attaching himself to Geoff's front in a strategic manner.
Back in the game, Roger is the only one who appears to have a handle on what is happening. Aware that they are all participating in a computer game, Roger explains that every time they reappear from death or destruction, it constitutes a "round" in the game. The objective of the game seems to be to kill the queen with the only weapon at their disposal - Satori's sword. Drusilla doesn't think much of this explanation, and tries to disprove Roger's theory with a magical blast, but before she can, Satori moves in to protect him with her sword. Suddenly Drusilla is gone, Pibgorn is impaled (without injury), and Drusilla is off in another dream sequence with the demon, who appears to be an incubus. This time, the incubus gives her exquisite physical pleasure before draining her blood and leaving her to die in the water, but then begins to wonder if a person can die as a result of what they believe is happening in a dream... and comes back to pull her out.
In the meantime, Pibgorn picks up Roger and Satori and flies them to the castle, but as Drusilla awakens for a moment, Pib (because she is a part of Drusilla's consciousness) blacks out and begins to lose altitude. She re-awakens and catches Satori, but Roger has taken Satori's sword during the fall, and manages to catch himself on a ledge, whereupon he goes to confront the queen with "the sacred scimitar of Satori", a potent weapon of alliteration. The queen commands that he step out of the shadows and mocks him for his youthful sounding voice, declaring that she will enjoy deflowering him before he dies, but instead Roger gives her a slice across the chest, leaving a wound and cutting one of her halter straps.
When Pibgorn came to again, Drusilla returned to her dream, and the incubus tells her he's not through with her yet. Drusilla takes a more active part in the following activity, and asks him, "You promise?", whereupon she gives the incubus a nuclear dose of his own medicine and leaves him drooling with pleasure in the lake. Meanwhile, Pibgorn has acted out the seduction, to the astonishment of Satori, and when Satori rolls the spent Pibgorn over to see if she's OK, suddenly Drusilla is back and declares that she may well be in love. When Satori asks her "With what?", Drusilla - while appreciating her "generous omnisexual broadness of mind" - runs her ten-inch-long Mandarin fingernails through the back of Satori's skull and kills her.
We return to Roger who is about to attack the queen with Satori's saber again, but as Satori collapses, the saber vanishes and Roger realizes - just before the Queen, with her halter top magically restored, decks him with a a hard right - that the game has been reset once again.
While Satori's death was a gruesome one, like all deaths in this episode it is far from permanent, and Satori wakes up to ask Dru why she had been killed. In one of Brooke's less-than-veiled political commentaries, Dru explains that as a demon, she has the right to kill anyone who annoys her. She goes on to say, "I admit, I don't first elect someone to window-dress it with declarations of war and stirring assertions that he's defending our way of life... all the while conscripting others to do the killing for him. I just bump you off. A natural-born demon has as much right to squander life as an elected one." Can't imagine whom he was alluding to... Drusilla then points out that Satori's saber is back in its sheath once again.
The queen, meanwhile, summons an odd-looking toady to strip Roger and chain him up in the dungeon, to await the same fate as befell poor Fortescue, to wit being forcibly taken, tortured and killed. She tells him to light some torches so that she can see him, which lets us know that up until this point, she has never seen Roger clearly in the light. She slips out of her clothes and heads for the dungeon, wondering why there's not more slime around. To her great discomfort, however, she discovers in the torchlight that her prisoner is Roger, who calls her a twerp for taking all the fun out of computer entertainment. Taken aback, she calls for a robe and points her spear at her brother, and in a fit of pique reveals that she is indeed Lena - and she wants her mother.
Back in "real life", we see Geoff walking down the street - still naked but for his horsefly-breechcloth - and nobody paying him a bit of attention. Luciano smells a dumpster and flies off for a snack, but smells something else... Pibgorn. They are in front of Spitcock's laboratory. Entering, they are shocked to see Pibgorn's ghostly essence wired to the frame, and their mutual exclamation of astonishment is percieved as a faint echo by Drusilla, who has Satori by the hair and is flying off with her.
Back in the dungeon, Lena is thoroughly frosted that Roger didn't come get her. Roger is dumbfounded, commenting that she doesn't look like Lena but rather a "randy, incongruously mammiferous Attila the Hun who doesn't believe in underwear" - which Lena takes as a compliment. When Roger complains that she's too old to be Lena, who fell into a computer two days ago, she replies that for her it had been 17 years, and again threatens him with her spear.
While being hoisted along by her ample head of hair, Satori chides Dru for wasting her time killing her, pointing out that she revives to continue her quest each time she's killed. Dru wonders if she should kill her some more, and Satori realizes that it wasn't such a good idea to point this out to a demon who kills just for fun. Drusilla, however, merely has some fun at Satori's expense by dropping her to the ground from the terrifying height of... two feet, and telling her to unsheathe her blade, because it's time to go slaughter the Queen.
As the episode ramps up to its climax, Luciano pilfers a Salvation Army uniform for Geoff, and as they contemplate the best way to get Pibgorn off the frame, a doorway behind them begins glowing brightly. Entering the room, they find a large monitor attached to a wall, above markings which divide the floor into 30-degree zones. The monitor continues to brighten, and they hide just in time to see the dark incubus come out of the room, approach the captive figure (who now looks a lot more like Drusilla than Pibgorn), and proceed to extract what he calls the "vile pollution" from her body - in effect, separating Drusilla and Pibgorn. Not content to have "purified" Drusilla, the incubus rips a leg off a chair and prepares to plunge the jagged stake into Pibgorn's heart - but is stopped by a full frontal attack from Luciano who attaches himself to the dark demon's face.
Meanwhile, back in the game, Satori slices Lena's spear in two, and frees Roger by slicing through his chains. The Queen launches plasma bolts at Satori, who fends them off with her scimitar, but their battle is interrupted by Dru's fainting once again, at the point when Pibgorn is extracted from her essence. Satori remarks that Dru can't even fall down without looking sexy. We then see Roger tackle Satori, steal her scimitar, grab Lena by the hand and rush up a set of stairs with her in tow. When he gets to the top, he hurls the scimitar out a window to buy Lena some time away from Satori's attacks. Lena threatens to zap him, but Roger explains that it will do no good: the game will just reset again and again, and asks Lena if that's what she wants. Lena melts into Rogers arms and says once again that she wants her mother. Roger replies, "Then scare up my clothes, and let's blow this bait shack."
Luciano attacks "Inky", as the Pibgorn forumites have named him, and gives Geoff time to scoop up Pibgorn and get out of the room, only to end up in front of the mysterious glowing monitor. At the same time, Roger and Lena are making their way to an undisclosed location, presumably another portal out of the game that Roger knows about. A very angry incubus, who now looks more and more like Digory Spitcock, hurls Luciano off his face and smack into Geoff and Pib, catapulting them into the monitor. The incubus then tries to zap Luciano with plasma bolts, but has about as much success as a human trying to hit a fly with a squirtgun. Luciano dives for the hat he was wearing (part of the uniform he had acquired for Geoff) and crams it onto the head of the incubus. Furious and blinded by the hat, the incubus lets loose with a random blast of energy which hurtles Luciano away (and magnifies him to the size of a building). Unable to get the hat off in his current form, suspicions become fact as we see the incubus morph into Spitcock. A very awake Drusilla, now alone in Spitcock's clutches, questions the demon about his motives and manhood, whereupon with a click of the keyboard he transports her consciousness back to the game. We see Satori watching her writhe on the ground in either torment or ecstasy; meanwhile, in the laboratory, we see Spitcock morph into the dark demon and blend with the captive Drusilla, whereupon he finds himself not in his own dream but one of Drusilla's making.
While Spitcock and Drusilla are engaging in (literally) burning passion in Drusilla's dream, Roger has found the portal out of Farfallaland, but before he can pass through it, Pibgorn and Geoff tumble out and land on top of Roger. After some hasty and incomplete introductions, Roger exits the portal and finds himself back in Spitcock's laboratory, instead of his own room, and seeing the incubus and Drusilla wreathed in a flaming, passionate embrace, takes off as though all the demons of Pluto were after him. Returning to his room, he realizes that no time has passed since he entered the game, and wonders if he has branched to a secondary reality. Jumping back into the game through his own monitor, he comes between Lena and Satori who are about to have at each other as Dru, Pib and Geoff look on.
Roger explains that everyone not native to the game must leave at once, except Lena who can't return in her present state; Drusilla's job is to go back to sleep and keep Spitcock occupied while the others escape. That's fine by Dru, but she points out that she may be in love with Spitcock, provoking a typical "What?" moment, and giving Pibgorn reason to wonder if her life is in danger should Drusilla switch loyalties from Geoff to the incubus. Geoff and Pib exit the portal and fly out Spitcock's laboratory door into the alley, but back in the game Satori stabs Lena in the back with her scimitar. She hollowly declares that since the queen is dead, "Suzerain" is completed, and fades from existence, leaving Roger to care for Lena who is rapidly losing touch with life. He hurtles through the portal back to the real world once more, gets back to his own computer, and while Drusilla keeps Inky entirely occupied, comes to the realization that before he has the answers, he needs to start asking the right questions. The sight of Lena's hoe lying on the floor starts him down a line of inquiry which may help him know what to do.
Roger comes to the realization that the angle at which you enter the virtual world (as represented by the lines on the floor in Spitcock's laboratory) determines different points in time in the virtual world. Following the line indicated by the hoe Lena dropped, Roger leaps back into Suzerain, arriving just before Lena does, and we see two things happening simultaneously: A large knight approaches Roger and plants a broadsword at his neck; and back in the lab, the dark demon begins to disconnect Drusilla from the power rack, indicating that he is "pulling the plug". In the next moment, Lena pops through as we saw her do the first time, but this time finds Roger held captive by the knight. To Lena's questions, Roger summarizes that they are caught in a virtual world, but Lena's not impressed - pointing out that the moon in the evening sky is pointing the wrong way. This gives Roger enough incentive to turn on his captor, and shatters him with his own sword - finding nothing inside. Lena comments, "He's not a knight, he's a candidacy."
Lena then begins to describe the history of what has happened in Suzerain, without knowing how she knows. Roger realizes that the game is downloading 17 years of false memories into Lena, grabs her by the shirt and pants and hurls her out of the game. Before he can leave himself, however, he is stabbed through the back with a giant sword, while back in the laboratory we see the dark demon severing the wires that held Drusilla bound to the power rack, and everything in Suzerain goes black. Roger realizes the game is shutting down, and leaps for where he thinks the portal should have been, ending up back in his own room this time - Lena had shoved her hoe in the monitor, holding that exit open. Before Roger runs back to the laboratory, he starts to scold Lena, but is interrupted by his little hellion of a sister giving him an unexpected, emphatic hug.
Holding a baseball bat, Roger rushes into the lab, only to find Inky and Drusilla doing... well, that. They tell him to "beat it", so he does - into the computer room, where he takes aim at a monitor. Before he can strike, Spitcock steps out of the shadows and blasts him with plasma. Roger picks up his bat again and starts destroying monitors, but is zapped again before he can destroy a large floor lamp, glowing ominously, that we have never seen before. From behind him, Drusilla asks, "So that's where you stored my mojo? In a floor lamp?" Both Roger and Drusilla have realized that Spitcock was not using Drusilla to power Suzerain, but rather was using Suzerain to steal Drusilla's power.
Explaining that she only pretended to love the demon so that he would release her, Drusilla prepares to zap Spitcock, but discovers that she has no power left. Spitcock sticks his finger into one of the floor lamp's bulb sockets - there are no bulbs, just glowing fields of energy - and absorbs some of Drusilla's stored power, which he had plundered every time Drusilla used them in the game. With an blast of energy, he propels Drusilla high into the sky, where she begins to fall, powerless to stop her descent. She makes peace with her impending demise, but before she can splatter in a cow pasture below, she is grabbed by the hair and rescued in the nick of time by Pibgorn, who is still carrying Geoff. In the strip that appears on Thanksgiving Day 2008, Drusilla expresses her gratitude to Pibgorn in a most enthusiastic manner, leaving a befuddled Pib massaging her hindquarters and saying, "You could have said a simple thank-you." Drusilla responds, "Honey, I'm a succubus. That was a simple thank-you."
Back in the Lab, Inky prepares to crush Roger's head with his foot, but before doing so launches into a long and boring monologue outlining his plans for universal dominion. Roger pleads for mercy by asking him to please hurry up and kill him. Before he can, however, Dru appears and socks Inky solidly back through the monitor into Suzerain. Roger destroys that monitor, and then turns to the original workstation (significantly, the only one in the lab that uses an old CRT - all the others have been LCD monitors), and begins to re-program the game.
Inky finds himself in Suzerain, being attacked by Satori. As her Suzerain, he commands her to stand down, which she does not, and he zaps her with plasma and drains her blood, only to find a second copy coming at him from behind. He zaps that one as well, and as Roger at the computer says, "Will the real Satori please stand up?" suddenly finds himself encircled in a ring of 36 Satoris. Although he zaps these as well, he finds that like the broomsticks of the Sorcerer's Apprentice, they continue to multiply - and dives through the portal out of Suzerain, only to be confronted by Lena and her hoe. He tries to zap her, but his power fizzles, and Lena unleashes a mighty swing to the nether regions of the demon from the nether world.
Back at the lab, Drusilla jams her fingers into all four sockets of the Mojo lamp, absorbing all the stored power of both herself and the incubus in a cataclysmic, flaming blast which melts the lamp and transforms her into a dark, shiny obsidian-like state; as she awakens from the injection of energy with madness in her eyes, she attacks Roger to feed upon him. His mention of his "innocence", however, returns Drusilla to her senses, and once again she turns her attention to Spitcock. Roger tells her where to find him, and she flies off, returning briefly to hurl the wilted floor lamp (a Dali Lampa, if you will) into outer space to join the haunted piano, the hunter's gun, and the [unseen] Borgia Cantus which she has stored in orbit.
Recovering from having been skewered by Lena, Spitcock runs off, only to be descended upon by an enraged Drusilla - the force of the impact drives them both to Hell, where they find themselves in a demonic game of "What's My Fatal Flaw", hosted once again by everyone's favorite Hell-host, Tom Torquemada. The panelists include Marzipan O'Rourke in a return appearance; Grüner Ladrone, Diesel Stuhlgang and Curly Harries (legendary product shill and rotting corpse).
The game proceeds in its usual unfair way: Drusilla is tortured for giving the wrong answers, Spitcock is rewarded for giving nonsensical answers, and Pibgorn is brought into the game for the "St. Sebastian Round", where an incorrect response would result in her being shot through with arrows. By this time Drusilla has had her fill of the nonsense, frees herself and takes the arrows for Pib. She falls to the floor, is engulfed with white-hot lava, and explodes back into the real world through a manhole. Landing in an alley, she lies unconscious as Spitcock - once again appearing as the dark succubus - prepares to claim her. To Spitcock's surprise, however, he is suddenly grabbed from above by a skyscraper-sized Luciano, who proceeds to devour him in the trademark manner of flies. Drusilla thanks Luciano with a kiss and magically reduces him to normal size, in exchange for which Luciano promises to name his first 400 maggots after her.
Drusilla "changes" into a red-hot red dress, finds Geoff back in the alley and proceeds to ravish him, but is distracted by Geoff's reminding her that Pib is still in Hell. Drusilla comes to her senses and flies off, entering Hell through a volcano, where she proceeds to reward Tom Torquemada with a 100-megaton body slam. Untying Pib from the tree to which she was bound, she bores upward through Hell's roof and comes out in the middle of a large body of water, flooding Hell and sealing the rift with a blast from her new, magnified powers.
Turning her attention to Pibgorn, she encases her in a crystalline form of energy, with the likely intent to destroy her. Pib reveals that while they shared bodies, she became aware of the depth and magnitude of Drusilla's love for Geoff, and wonders why Dru doesn't vaporize her and take Geoff for herself. Dru confesses that she doesn't know why. Meanwhile, a host of fighter jets have converged on Dru's position, attracted by the energy burst she unleashed to re-seal Hell - Pibgorn falls from the sky, losing her crystalline cocoon in the process, and Drusilla girds herself to unleash a bolt of demonic energy that propels all the jets back to their bases.
As Roger and Lena watch the unearthly pyrotechnics from the ground, Lena wonders (joyfully) whether they are about to be destroyed by a nuclear blast, but Drusilla interrupts her reverie and takes her aside for a Succubus to apprentice-demon chat. She thanks Lena for sidelining Spitcock and being indirectly responsible for her obtaining her new powers. She tells Lena not to be in any rush to become a succubus - after all, she's been at it for 800-plus years - and after giving her a plasma-laced kiss on the forehead, flies off, leaving Lena to wonder why her stuffed bear, Igor, is now able to talk to her. His personality could be described as a cross between George Carlin and Don Rickles... in other words, all sweetness and light.
Pib confronts Geoff and explains to him that things are different for them now: she can never feel for him what Drusilla does, nor has she ever experienced that level of all-consuming ardor. Geoff finds Drusilla curled up on the ground, tormented by her own inability to have destroyed the fighter jets - she wonders what kind of demon she has become... a demon nobbled by a soul. With a passionate embrace, Geoff responds by showing her that even though she's not compelling him to do so, he still loves her; Pibgorn flies off, resigned to the knowledge that there are some things she will never understand.
Back at the Egg residence, Roger has made a few improvements to Suzerain. Together, he and Lena jump through his monitor and reappear, Lena looking like her old queenly self and Roger looking very like Inigo Montoya. Roger finds Satori, and they finally get to embrace. And embrace. And embrace. Interrupting whatever "activities" they are involved in, Lena asks Roger if Suzerain now allows for the passage of real time... because she left Igor at home. We hear Mrs. Egg, calling the children to dinner, and the episode ends with Igor going to supper instead of Roger and Lena, and wondering if Mrs. Egg expects him to eat "this sludge."
Many questions remain unresolved or left to the imagination in this arc. Among them,
Does Roger return to the real world with Satori?
What is Lena doing in Suzerain?
Why isn't mother Egg freaking out over a walking, talking Teddy bear?
What is Pib never going to be able to do?
What happens with the Pib - Geoff - Dru triad?
In answer to some of these questions, Brooke posted in his blog at http://officialpibgorn.livejournal.com,
"Questions have also arisen about the plight of the characters as I left them in the previous story. I left them where they were (Roger has thanked me often and sincerely) until such time in the future when they might become active (Roger disputes the suggestion that he is not active) and ready to participate in a new story. I liked the idea of leaving off where Igor strides into the kitchen and speaks his curtain line. It will just have to rest that way. Allowing some characters to vanish into the mists is rather like putting sourdough in a container atop the fridge. It will only grow."
And now, Pib and Dru are off on a new adventure, "Pibgorn and the Volcano on 77th Street and Park Avenue."
1. See Pibgorn, March 19, 2008 - Thanks to Fearciuil for finding the reference.
2. Drusilla's own verb. See Pibgorn, January 6, 2006


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Smith, a fourth-grader at Edgewood Elementary School in Fruitport — along with staff and students at Fruitport Community Schools — crunched into apples in an attempt to break the world record for "most people biting into an apple at the same time." The group joined forces with schools throughout Muskegon, Oceana, Van Buren and Washtenaw counties for "The Big Crunch."
Muskegon County previously held the record with 9,329 people taking bites at the same time, but schools in New Zeeland beat that record in May with 17,064 people.
Kelly Lively, the school liaison and special projects for Cherry Capital Foods, said about 70,000 individuals signed up to participate in Thursday's event in Michigan.
Smith described taking a bite of an apple simultaneously with thousands of other people as "awesome." The 9-year-old said he enjoyed the fresh, crisp taste.
"I love apples," he said. "They're tasty."
Gavin Orchards in Coopersville and NJ Fox and Sons Farms in New Era supplied the West Michigan schools with apples for the attempt at breaking the world record. Mike Gavin, co-owner of Gavin Orchards, said the event is great because it encourages children to make healthy eating choices and it supports Michigan's apple industry.
Gavin said schools received empire apples, which are the same ones used in apple slices at McDonald's restaurants.
Kelly Miller, director of food services for Fruitport Community Schools, said she wanted the district's students to participate because it brings awareness to local produce and highlights Michigan's apple production.
Fourth-grade teacher Lisa Dirkse said it was exciting participating with her students and others throughout West Michigan.
To read more of this story, see today's print or e-edition of the Grand Haven Tribune.