Newly illegal in Vegas: Sleeping near urine or feces. I've always preferred rose petals and potpourri, myself...
The new ordinance makes it illegal to "knowingly establish" sleeping quarters within 500 feet of defecation unless that "deposit" is made in an appropriate sanitary facility. It was passed unanimously by the Las Vegas City Council as part of a bill making it a misdemeanor to go to the bathroom in public.
But City Attorney Brad Jerbic said the law was a mistake and the council will consider a revised version of the ordinance that shortens the distance between sleeper and deposits. Well, you really don't want to risk someone stealing your s***, now, do you?
"We were reviewing all park rules, including sleeping, camping and a number of other things people associate with parks," Jerbic said Thursday. "It was my mistake that it didn't come out."
A revised ordinance will appear on the Sept. 6 council agenda.
Homeless and civil rights advocates said the ordinance is another attempt by city officials to target the homeless.
"Seriously, are you kidding me?" asked Lee Rowland, public advocate for the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada. "I don't know how on earth a police officer would determine whether someone has knowingly set up shop next to" urine or feces. Well, the ACLU doesn't think there's anything wrong with prisoners tossing it, so why wouldn't they be in favor of sleeping next to it?
A fierce group of raccoons in a west end neighborhood has killed 10 cats, attacked a small dog and bitten at least one pet owner who had to get rabies shots, area residents say. Some have taken to carrying pepper spray to ward off the masked marauders and the woman who was bitten now carries an iron pipe when she goes outside at night. "It's a new breed," said Tamara Keeton, who with Kari Hall started a raccoon watch after an emotional neighborhood meeting drew 40 people. "They're urban raccoons, and they're not afraid."
Tony Benjamins, whose family lost two cats, said he got a big dog a German shepherd-Rottweiler mix to keep the raccoons away. One goal of the patrol is to get residents to stop feeding raccoons and to keep pets and pet food indoors. Keeton and Pam Corwin also have installed cat coops so their pets can spend some time outdoors. One raccoon is especially large, "the biggest raccoon I've ever seen," Benjamins said. "He was a monster."
Lisann Rolle says began carrying an iron pipe when she goes outside at night after being bitten by raccoons when she tried to pull three of them off her cat Lucy. She obtained rabies shots afterward as a precaution. "I was watching her like a hawk, but she snuck out," Rolle said. "Then I heard this hideous sound a coyote-type high pitch ... It was vicious. They were focused on ripping her apart."
The attacks have been especially shocking because raccoons came within five feet of cats without any problem in previous years, Benjamins said. "We used to love the raccoons. They'd have their babies this time of year, and they were so cute. Even though we lived in the city, it was neat to have wildlife around," he said, "but this year, things changed. They went nuts." In one case five raccoons tried to carry off a small dog, which managed to survive. Some residents also have managed to get to their cats in time to save them.
The attacks, all within a three-block area near the Garfield Nature Trail, are highly unusual, said Sean O. Carrell, a problem wildlife coordinator with the state Department of Fish and Wildlife, adding that trappers may be summoned from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to remove problem animals. "I've never heard a report of 10 cats being killed. It's something were going to have to monitor," Carrell said.
Meanwhile, residents have hired Tom Brown, a nuisance wildlife control operator from Rochester, to set traps, but in six weeks he has caught only one raccoon. He and Carrell said raccoons teach their young and each other to avoid traps. Brown said he had seen packs of raccoons this big but none so into killing. "They are in command up there," he said.
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.22 hollow point is nice up close, but I get instant results with the .30 cal round from an M1 carbine at greater distance. Is it cruel to spell out the words "last meal" in dry cat food out in the driveway...
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Raccoons are easy to catch. Put a few hard-boiled eggs in cages, and they will climb in.
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Meanwhile, residents have hired Tom Brown, a nuisance wildlife control operator from Rochester, to set traps, but in six weeks he has caught only one raccoon. He and Carrell said raccoons teach their young and each other to avoid traps.
B.S. I've never had any problems trapping racoons. Some are so stupid they jump into the bottom of garbage cans to get scrap and then can't jump out.
Sorry, .22 has a range of a mile and a half, use a small shotgun with birdshot, much safer for the folks down the road, just as permanent at ten feet or thirty.
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I say we stomp 'em! Then we tattoo 'em! Then we hang 'em! And then we kill 'em!
Five games were enough. Enough to douse hopes of a division championship. Enough to dull the memory -- was it just two years ago? -- of the miracle comeback in 2004. Enough to bring back all the old pain that some thought had been banished along with the curse.
The World Series win was just a tease, our real Sox have returned
As the mausoleum known as Fenway Park emptied and thousands of dejected fans spilled silently into the streets yesterday after the last of five whippings by the New York Yankees, Joe Morrone put it into words. ``Now we're going back to the old days," said Morrone, 70, of Mansfield, Conn., who came to the game with 19 family members, including nine grandchildren. ``It brings back the previous Red Sox psyche of always being let down."
Why should your grandkids have it any better than I did?
Fans had their ways of coping. Some wrote off the season and looked forward to football. Others turned their ire on Sox management. Memories of the 1978 Boston Massacre, in which the Yankees swept the Sox in four straight, reared in some fans.
F*&%#@*G Yankees!
And there was the fear that this marked the beginning of a new era of frustration for the Red Sox and their faithful.
``I'm depressed," said Jim Donaghey, 51, of Framingham. ``It's like sadness and disappointment. Back in '78, the better team won in an unfortunate perfect storm. Now, I think they're down and they've lost their confidence."
A bevy of Florida fans, many of whom flew up just for yesterday's game, acknowledged their trip was made in vain, but said they still hope for a turnaround. ``They've broken my heart many times, but I won't give up on them," said Beverly Sullivan, 46, of Jacksonville. Added Dan Sayadoff, 36, of Hernando, Fla., ``I've never even heard of a five-day sweep before."
"We suck better than anyone!"
Sayadoff's thoughts were close to the truth. It had been a long while since the Sox were swept at home in such a long series. Yesterday marked the first five-game sweep in the majors since Boston won five straight against Toronto in 2002, and the first time Boston was swept in five straight since losing to Cleveland at Fenway Park in 1954 .
Amid the pain were flickers of hope. ``There are still a lot of games left," said Ken Boyce, 38, a season-ticket holder from Weymouth.
Yeah, and my hair is going to grow back any day now. We're dead, Ken.
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Yes, there's a noticable pall in the cafeteria at work today - just like the bad old days.
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somewhere in the clouds, the Bambino is smiling. Different stadium, same curse.
/ex New Yorker
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It wqas good to see the club doing its thing again. ;-)
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Meh. As a Cubs fan from birth, I look down on your suffering... Although 5 games is pretty bad....
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Kwit yer whinin' bean town and get a life! You won in '04, you have three superbowl trophies this decade, and how many NBA championships?! There are a lot of other cities that wish they could suck as bad as "Bah-ston". I'm from Detroit and other then the pathetic Lions and the pig-sty of an inner city we got, we don't even whine this much. Heck, we had the best regular season hockey & NBA team this year and they both choked - get over it. "Curse" my ass, you just suck like we do. If the Tigers choke as well this year I'll get over it. Plus, do Boston fans really think Ortiz gives a flyin' f*ck about them? Prolly about as much as Johnny Damon did when he got the big paycheck from that asshole steinbrenner and left on the next grey hound. Which, is the same amount "Pudge" Rodriguez gives a rat's ass about my jarhead behind if the chi-sox were willing to bank him. (e.g. see the Ben Wallace trade as proof pos) As the character "Sonny" said in one of my fave movies "a bronx tale" - "joe dimaggio doesn't care about you so why should you give a f*ck about joe dimaggio!?"
A TEENAGER who burnt an Australian flag taken from an RSL club during Sydney's racial unrest will come face to face with club members as part of his punishment. The 17-year-old pleaded guilty to removing the flag from the Brighton-Le-Sands RSL club and burning it in a reprisal attack following the Cronulla riot on December 11 last year.
In Bidura Children's Court today, the teenager from Hurstville, who cannot be named, was ordered into youth conferencing with the club. He is expected to meet with diggers to discuss how the crime affected them and what the flag means to war veterans.
Brighton-Le-Sands RSL president Barry Worling welcomed the punishment and said he would accept an apology from the boy. "I would be quite happy to accept his apology," Mr Worling said to Macquarie Radio. "He would certainly learn the significance of it (burning the flag) by coming up and apologising.
"As a punishment I think it's good. I think it would be humiliating for the lad."
More than 5,000 people were involved in a race riot at North Cronulla beach, during which people of Middle Eastern appearance were chased and attacked. As retaliatory violence spread through other Sydney suburbs that afternoon, the youth climbed a pole and took an Australian flag from the RSL club. The flag was sprayed with accelerant and set alight amid a crowd of about 150 people.
The teenager and another man, Hadi Khawaja, were charged with burning the Australian flag. Khawaja, 24, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three months' jail in January.
In court today, Magistrate Joan Baptie sentenced the teenager to 12 month's probation for entering the Brighton-Le-Sands club grounds with intent. Two additional charges of demanding property with menaces and detaining a person in company were withdrawn and dismissed.
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That's going to be a futile exercise. The boy and his family are from another country. They hate Australia and Australians. They don't care what the flag means to them, any more than did the Imperial Japanese care, until they were *made* to care.
SUGAR LAND Citing his desire to support the Republican Party in its difficult write-in campaign to hold the congressional seat vacated by Tom DeLay, Sugar Land Mayor David Wallace withdrew from the race Monday. The move leaves Houston Councilwoman Shelley Sekula-Gibbs as the sole Republican write-in candidate a condition, Wallace said, for $3 million in campaign funding from the national GOP. The state party endorsed Sekula-Gibbs' candidacy last week at a meeting of GOP precinct chairs in the 22nd Congressional District. Wallace said he will support her.
"Now is the time for all Republicans to unite around one candidate and preserve our conservative voice in Congress," Wallace said during a news conference at Sugar Land City Hall.
The withdrawal brings some clarity to a contest that has been in flux since DeLay, a Sugar Land Republican, announced in April that he was stepping down after winning the GOP nomination for a 12th term. A federal court, ruling in a suit filed by Democrats, said Republicans could not replace DeLay on the Nov. 7 ballot, forcing the GOP to mount a write-in campaign.
The only candidates on the ballot in November will be Democrat Nick Lampson and Libertarian Bob Smither. Smither has encouraged Republicans to vote for him to keep the Republican-leaning district in conservative hands.
Sekula-Gibbs said Wallace called her to declare his plans. "He called me and said I had his full support, and I'm very happy about that," Sekula-Gibbs said.
Having just one Republican write-in candidate will improve the party's chances of holding the seat, she said. "He expressed his willingness to be a team player and to work with the party. Basically he would work hard to make sure Congressional District 22 stays Republican," she said.
Besides campaigning and voicing her stance on different issues, Sekula-Gibbs said she will have to educate voters on how to vote for a write-in candidate on the electronic or optical scan ballots in use throughout the district. It includes parts of Brazoria, Fort Bend, Galveston and Harris counties. A Republican straight-party vote won't register for Sekula-Gibbs because she is a write-in candidate, so straight party voters still will have to write in her name. Sekula-Gibbs said her campaign speeches and appearances will include a presentation on how to vote for her as well as discussion of issues and qualifications.
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taking one for the team. WTG
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You just know the Dems have to be shaking their heads about now. This Houston Councilwoman is most probably going to win as a write-in candidate. To recap: the Dems have tried desperately to make sure their D is the only one on the ballot and now they are going to get beat by a write-in campaign. They are going to lose because the Republicans have put their differences aside to beat the Democrats. I read their websites and they proclaim on a weekly basis the fragmentation of the republicans. (yeah right)
P.S. After she wins Dean's head will explode.
It's bad politics, it's bad dinner theater, and it's the Dhimmicrats. What more can you want?
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Critics of Sen. Joe Lieberman's independent run to keep his job attacked on two fronts Monday, with one group asking an elections official to throw him out of the Democratic Party and a former rival calling on state officials to keep his name off the November ballot.
A group whose members described themselves as peace activists asked Sharon Ferrucci, New Haven's Democratic registrar of voters, to remove Lieberman from the party, arguing that he cannot be a Democrat while running under another party's banner. The request could lead to a hearing in which Lieberman, the Democrats' vice presidential nominee in 2000, would have to argue that he still adheres to the party's principles. "The law is pretty clear he is no longer a member of the Democratic Party in good standing," said group leader Henry Lowendorf. "There was an open vote and he was voted out. He joined a different party."
I'd actually enjoy being at that hearing.
Ferrucci said she would research the request, the first of its kind in her two decades on the job.
"Why me, Lord," she was heard to mutter.
Lieberman campaign manager Sherry Brown said the effort was "dirty political tricks at its worst." "This kind of ridiculous, partisan game-playing is not going to provide anyone in Connecticut with better jobs, better health care, or better schools," she said.
Nor will any of the candidates, but that's not the point.
Since losing the primary, Lieberman has referred to himself as an "independent Democrat" and said he plans to remain part of the Democratic caucus in Washington, even though several leading Democrats have called on him to give up his independent run.
As of Monday, about 4,600 of the 7,500 voters' signatures Lieberman collected to petition his way onto the November ballot had been verified, and Secretary of State Susan Bysiewicz said she expects Lieberman will ultimately have enough.
Lamont distanced himself Monday from the peace activists' request. He told reporters that Lieberman should not be removed from the Democratic rolls, and that Lieberman has the right under state law to form the new party. "He's got the right to run. It's not what I would have done," Lamont said.
Thanks for that insight, Mr. Historical-Footnote-for-2006.
John Orman, a Democrat who gave up a challenge to Lieberman last year, argued in complaints filed with the state Monday that Lieberman should be kept off the Nov. 7 ballot. Orman, a Fairfield University political science professor, accused Lieberman of creating "a fake political party," adding: "He's doing anything he can to get his name on the ballot."
Campaign spokesman Dan Gerstein said Lieberman has followed the law in his re-election effort.
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I was so annoyed with the GOP's inattention to our borders and excessive spending I was going to sit out '06. My thanks to the new 'mainstream' in the Democratic party for previewing the alternative. I don't trust the Ned Lamont wing of the Democrats to deal with Iran. I'll be at the polls in November.
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It gets better! Over at DU (yuck) they are floating a conspiracy that Joe will win, Bush will appoint him SecDef, he resigns his seat, and then the Republican Gov gets to appoint a Republican to replace him. They have way too much time on their hands.
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... a conspiracy that Joe will win, Bush will appoint him SecDef, he resigns his seat, and then the Republican Gov gets to appoint a Republican to replace him.
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. . . a conspiracy that Joe will win, Bush will appoint him SecDef, he resigns his seat, and then the Republican Gov gets to appoint a Republican to replace him.
How'd they find out?!
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If I were Joe, that would be my plan, but then I am a vindictive person and that what be vengence. Other than his his run as VP I don't see what he owes the Dems now.
Note to those desperate rational holdouts of the Donks. Even Hitler turned on Ernst Roehm and the SA, and Mao on his Red Guard, cause they knew, they were threat to their power. You created these creatures by not expelling them when it was easy, but your own lust for power blinded you and still blinds you to the destruction you've planted. Why do I get the image of Hindenburg and von Papen thinking they could control Mr. Hitler by bringing him into the government?
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It is possible that if Joe loses Bush might find a place for him. Sec Defence is not likely though.
More likely is Joe wins and he finds himself as the deciding vote, or close to it, in a fairly evenly divided Senate and he finds he has a real opportunity to stick it to some folks that went after him.
Police in India say a woman has burned to death on her husband's funeral pyre, committing the outlawed Hindu practice of "sati".
The incident took place on Monday in Tuslipar village in the central state of Madhya Pradesh.
Sati, or the practice of a widow immolating herself on her husband's funeral pyre, is believed to have originated 700 years ago.
The rare practice mostly happens in parts of northern and central India.
Senior Madhya Pradesh police official Shahid Absar told the BBC that the woman, Janakrani, burnt to death on the funeral pyre of her husband Prem Narayan in Sagar district.
One report said she was in her 40s.
Mr Absar said Janakrani had jumped into the fire when her husband's body was being cremated according to Hindu rites.
The police said early investigations had revealed Janakrani had not been forced or prompted by anybody to commit the act.
Cases of sati are very rare in India.
The last incident, involving a 65-year-old woman, took place in Madhya Pradesh in 2002.
Sati is believed to have originated some 700 years ago among the ruling class or Rajputs in India.
The Rajput women burnt themselves after their men were defeated in battles to avoid being taken by the victors. But it came to be seen as a measure of wifely devotion in later years.
The custom was outlawed by India's British rulers in 1829 following demands by Indian reformers.
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KOLKATA: Islamic clerics in eastern India have ruled that a woman divorced by her husband in a fit of drunkenness can remarry him only after she takes another husband for one day, police said on Monday. Ershad, a rickshaw puller, uttered the word "talaq", or divorce, three times earlier this month while he was drunk and when news leaked out in their village in eastern Orissa state, the clerics said they must separate.
The clerics have said the man the woman marries temporarily must be 70 years of age...
"The couple had kept it under wraps and continued to stay together but the clerics ruled that since Ershad uttered the word talaq three times, it constituted a divorce," district police chief Shatrughan Parida said over the telephone.
Under the rules, the woman, who is a mother of three, must marry another man and obtain a divorce from him before she can be reunited with Ershad, the clerics in the local mosque said. The clerics have said the man the woman marries temporarily must be 70 years of age, Parida said.
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"Ershad, a rickshaw puller." Must be a real catch in Kolkata.
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The clerics have said the man the woman marries temporarily must be 70 years of age
They gotta be making this stuff up. I can just see all these clerics going into the back of the mosque afters these pronouncements and just laughing their asses off.
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The Indian courts have already ruled that this "divorce" is null and void.
The entire bunch of clerics can be charged with contempt of court and jailed.
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"Ershad, a rickshaw puller."
I read a historical novel that pointed out that Rickshaw Pullers normaly had very short lives, averaging only eight years before being so worn out they simply die, they simply cannot get enough food to sustain their bodies from all the excessive demands put on them, plus they usualy were poor to start with so couldn't afford much food.
It was generaly considered a "last Job" and few survived.
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MIANWALI: An imam of a mosque slit the throat of his student when he refused to fulfil the carnal desire of his teacher. The boy was admitted to the District Headquarters Hospital in a critical condition.
Athar tried to sodomise the boy after bringing him into a deserted mosque. On the boy's resistance, Athar became furious and injured the boy by cutting his throat...
Police said Muhammad Irfan, aged 16 and a resident of Mohallah Haji Alam Khan Kundian, used to visit the mosque of Molvi Athar for Quranic teaching. Athar tried to sodomise the boy after bringing him into a deserted mosque located in Bhatian on Mianwali-Sargodha Road. On the boy's resistance, Athar became furious and injured the boy by cutting his throat and escaped. The injured boy dragged himself on the main road from where the former tehsil nazim, Haji Khurshid Anwar Khan, brought him to hospital. Police inspected the mosque and found the walls and mats of the mosque blood stained.
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Imam teaching rape? hmmm. Nice touch. How loving and peaceful, mooselimb.
You know, Since all Muslims stole Gods Divinity, they all should lose an arm by their own law for stealing, right?
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Does this mean the imam can sell the butchered boy's meat to the village next door but not in the village he lives in?
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I don't see anywhere in here that the "holy man" was arrested. Must've shown the cops the "It's okay for holy men to cut the throats of kids who refuse to allow the holy man to sodomize them" passage from the Koran. And it's in there...
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Under Islamic law the crime was committed by the boy when he tempted imam. This, in fact, is even worse than a girl tempting a boy into raping her because the holy imam was tempted into homosexuality. Therefore the boy needs to be stoned and then hung.
Or maybe hung and then stoned. Some islamic court will need to decide that fine point.
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Goddamn that devious little bastard! If I were that Imam, I would demand justice for being put to so much trouble... and reimbursement for my holy dry-cleaning bill.
SHEIKHUPURA: A girl was allegedly hanged by her brother who suspected that the woman had an affair with a man of the locality on Monday. Yousaf, a resident of Mission, claimed that his 14-year-old sister, Bashiran Bibi, had developed illicit relation with a man. He said that he had seen Bashiran in an "objectionable" condition with her lover, so he hanged her. Factory Area police are investigating the matter.
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The United States first private coal-to-liquids project moved one step further ahead with the announcement on August 14 by Medicine Bow Fuel & Power LLC (MBF&P), a wholly owned subsidiary of DKRW Advanced Fuels LLC (DKRW), SNC-Lavalin GDS Inc., and SNC-Lavalin Constructors Inc. that they have formed an alliance to develop, design and construct a number of coal-to-liquids fuel projects that are valued in excess of a billion dollars.
MBF&P has awarded SNC-Lavalin GDS Inc. and SNC-Lavalin Constructors a contract to execute the feasibility study and to be its engineer and EPC contractor for the future FEED and turnkey portions of the Medicine Bow, Wyoming coal-to-liquids facility project commencing in the 4th Quarter 2006.
This selection now enables us to move forward with the design and permitting of the facility said Robert Kelly, Executive Officer of DKRW and MBF&P. DKRW had previously announced that construction was to begin in 2006, with initial operations to begin in the 2008-2010 timeframe.
The Project will transport diesel and other fuels via pipeline to major energy companies in the region. During the initial phase, it is anticipated that power (45 MW) not utilized in the CTL project will be sold to regional electricity providers. Carbon dioxide will be stripped, sold via pipeline and sequestered in regional enhanced oil recovery operations. Sulfur will be removed from the process, solidified, and sold into the agricultural market. The Medicine Bow projects power will be produced in gas turbines in combined cycle mode from the synthetic gas and by steam turbines using the steam generated by the gasification and the FT processes. The end result is that the Project's power is produced with very low carbon dioxide and SOx emissions.
In previous announcements, MBF&P announced it has selected GE (NYSE:GE) to provide its coal gasification technology and Rentech, Inc. (AMEX:RTK) to provide their proprietary Fischer-Tropsch technology for the project that will initially make about 11,000 bbl/day of transport diesel and other fuels using high Btu, low sulfur coal of the Carbon Basin Coal Reserve from a mine being developed and operated by Arch Coal (NYSE:ACI). Diesel and other transport fuels will be sold to regional customers and the power, carbon dioxide and other products will be sold from the Project.
DKRW Advanced Fuels LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of DKRW Energy LLC, is engaged in developing, managing, and owning projects that utilize coal gasification technology, utilizing coal-to-liquids, methanation and integrated coal gasification combined cycle (IGCC) technologies. The Medicine Bow Project employs coal gasification, coal-to-liquids and IGCC technologies.
SNC-Lavalin (TSX: SNC) is one of the leading groups of engineering and construction companies in the world, a global leader in the ownership of infrastructure, and in operations and maintenance services.
EIGHTEEN prisoners busted out of an Indonesian jail by spraying guards in the face with water mixed with fiery chillis, police said today.
Armed with plastic bottles filled with the improvised weapon, the convicts temporarily disabled two guards before fleeing the state jail in North Sumatra's Pematang Siantar district. "They overpowered two wardens by squirting them with chilli water and fled," district police chief detective Den Martin told AFP.
Ten of the group were caught soon after the weekend jail-break, including one who was shot in the leg as he resisted arrest, while six others were nabbed by early today, Mr Martin said. "Two remain on the loose and we are continuing our search," he said.
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Life imitating art is all very well. Unless, that is, it's a movie about deadly snakes on the rampage.
Movie chain AMC Entertainment Inc. said pranksters at one of its Phoenix theaters released two live diamondback rattlesnakes during a showing of the film "Snakes on a Plane" last Friday. No one was injured.
AMC spokeswoman Melanie Bell said, "One was found in the parking lot during the show, and the other in the movie theater. They were both removed, and no one was harmed."
The snakes were later released in the desert.
Bell had no further details.
The movie stars Samuel L. Jackson, and spins a yarn about a crate-load of escaped snakes that run amok on an airline flight, attacking passengers and crew.
"There were kids at the show, and it was actually very reckless," Russ Johnson, the president of the Phoenix Herpetological Society told Reuters.
"The snakes' bite carries a powerful venom that could have seriously injured someone," he added.
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How did they know "pranksters" were responsible? Phoenix is hot this time of year, maybe the snakes just wanted to enjoy some A/C.
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Maybe they just wanted to see the show?
According to this page,Snakes on a Plane is showing at drive-ins in Glendale and Scottsdale, Arizona. They could just slither-in, but unless they can climb, getting near the speakers could be tough.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Five games were enough. Enough to douse hopes of a division championship. Enough to dull the memory -- was it just two years ago? -- of the miracle comeback in 2004. Enough to bring back all the old pain that some thought had been banished along with the curse. 
MIANWALI: An imam of a mosque slit the throat of his student when he refused to fulfil the carnal desire of his teacher. The boy was admitted to the District Headquarters Hospital in a critical condition. 
SHEIKHUPURA: A girl was allegedly hanged by her brother who suspected that the woman had an affair with a man of the locality on Monday. Yousaf, a resident of Mission, claimed that his 14-year-old sister, Bashiran Bibi, had developed illicit relation with a man. He said that he had seen Bashiran in an "objectionable" condition with her lover, so he hanged her. Factory Area police are investigating the matter.
EIGHTEEN prisoners busted out of an Indonesian jail by spraying guards in the face with water mixed with fiery chillis, police said today.
