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Menlo Park draws fire for quietly exterminating squirrel population
03/21/2011
Submitted By: Shouta
News Source: Mercury News
Though he isn’t convinced Menlo Park made the right call when it ordered a hit on the teeming ground squirrel population at Bedwell Bayfront Park, Mayor Rich Cline is certain better outreach on the city’s part would have stemmed some of the public outrage that followed.
“There probably should have been a more thorough process,” Cline admitted.
The city recently came under fire from park users for killing the squirrels and keeping the details quiet. Officials said the rodents had to go because they posed a threat to an important layer of earth containing the landfill Bayfront sits on top of.
“This action was disguised for months,” Eileen McLaughlin of Citizens for Completing the Refuge, a Palo Alto-based nonprofit that works to protect wetlands, told the city council on Jan. 25. “We have to wonder why and how that decision was made. The park opened in 1984. … squirrels have always been there. What is the squirrels’ actual record of damage …?”
At the same council meeting, Menlo Park Deputy City Manager Kent Steffens called the extermination “unfortunate but necessary.” The squirrels’ burrows were reaching into the decaying garbage and the animals were bringing trash to the surface, he said.
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“One Week” by Whyte Yote
Author: toonces
Some of the best stories are simulations of the more sinful desires, and BDSM certainly falls into this category. While Whyte Yote offers up a story that is absent of the bondage or sado-masochistic aspects, he creates a story with a starkly defined dom/sub binary- and does it with a muted, even disaffected touch that enables vivid imagery. Issues of class and race (as far as they can be somehow projected upon furry animal pseudo fantasy-people, or whatever) give the story a special bite, one that can often cause conflict between writer and reader.
And for those who were looking forward to a little bondage: If I don’t learn to stop futzing with my hoodie zipper during recording session, you can presume in future recording sessions that my hands are cuffed behind my back.
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Get Shareaholic Link to this post!Images of the new Voltron lions
Author: ostin
Nicktoons plans to start a new Voltron animated series called Voltron Force, and has released images of some of the robot lion designs.
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Images of the new Voltron lions
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Finishing Diggera4s unexpectedly epic
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G4 Attack of the Show covers Furry Weekend Atlanta
As mentioned on numerous tweets this weekend, G4′s Attack of the Show (ATOS) came to do videos and interviews at Furry Weekend Atlanta. G4 ATOS has a long history of being fascinated by furries and has often featured them on their show. They even came down to Atlanta to film the Furry/Klingon Bowling event held in 2007 that got national internet attention. The coverage is often very humorous but has never come off as negative.
At this time, we do know they did some brief interviews, and filmed part of the Fursuit Dance competition.
We don’t know when G4 plans to air the footage. If they keep to previous production scheduls, the footage should air sometime in late April. As soon as we have a date, we’ll post it here! We’ll also make sure to post the video as soon as we can after they air it.
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Get Shareaholic Link to this post!Furries probably had more fun this weekend than you did
Via Creative Loafing
Creative Loafing’s coverage of Furry Weekend Atlanta:
Get Shareaholic Link to this post!Ending Soon: T-Shirt Art Contest! Only One Week Left!
this is to let everyone who may be working on a design for our t-shirt
contest that there's only one week remaining. Entries must be turned
into us by February 21st at midnight! See [link] for more
details and information!
WildSpots Survival Minecraft Server: As promised, here it is. 24/7 by furs for furs.
Image of the Spawn Platform from Below
Official Subreddit and discussion: /r/wildspots Alternative url: www.wildspots.co.nr
Connection URL: wildspots.dyndns.org Please read the rules
General information:
- ROLEPLAY Encouraged (Support for /nick)
- PVP ON (Except Spawn)
- Survival
- Deathban (10 minutes)
- Raiding bases allowed with conditions
- Preciousstones allow to secure your base and protect your goods.
- Map limits: 2000 blocks in each direction from spawn.
- No Whitelist
- Local Area chat (150 block radius) and ability to worldwide shout if needed. (Allows you to speak with your allies securely in your base)
Firespread has been deactivated to avoid forest fires and lag. And TNT has been temporarily limited until we've got a good team of moderators to keep an eye on the server.
If you want to become a moderator feel free to send me a message.
Suggestions, feedback are all welcome! I hope you have fun :D
Edit: I don't know what happened. I rebooted the whole VPS and Server. It should work now.
Edit2: It was probably because I need to install a script to automatically reboot it after a few hours to improve performance. I will do so after I come back from Uni. But it should work now.
EDIT3: It was the IP... we wrote a 4 instead of a 2 and I was on the edge of becoming crazy. Thank you for your patience. I'm sorry for the inconvenience.
The IP is: wildspots.dyndns.org
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Germany’s Beloved Polar Bear Knut Dies Suddenly
Knut, the polar bear cub, has its first public appearance with his keeper in the Berlin Zoo in 2007.
The four-year-old cub reportedly collapsed and died Saturday at the Berlin Zoo.The world embraced Knut as our own after his mother rejected him shortly after birth. He beat the odds as the only polar bear ever raised by humans, showing an adorable affection toward his Berlin Zoo trainer – and adoptive father – Thomas Dörflein. But Saturday, Knut passed away of unknown causes while alone in the zoo’s polar bear enclosure.
Read more: Time Article
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Knut the polar bear dies alone in compound
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WGN Radio’s Brian Noonan Talks Furries, Mascots & Dr. Pepper
Not the most informed radio talk show host. He hits on Anthrocon, Furry Weekend Atlanta, Goldie the Gopher and related topics.
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"Your thoughts? I’ll comment at a later date…after I’ve stopped vomiting."
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Fredryk Phox - I'm so thrown out of this Con
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