http://www.examiner.com/x-3118-Boston-Dog-Laws-Examiner~y2009m6d27-HB344-Devocalization-law-could-harm-more-than-it-helps
Beth Coughlin’s Examiner article is relatively short, so please allow me to quote here it in full:
Only July 14th the Massachusetts State House of Representatives will be holding a committee meeting regarding House Bill 344 (HB344): An Act Prohibiting the Devocalization of Dogs and Cats.
On the surface, many dog-lovers may say “good law”.
When you […]

HB 344 in Massachusetts is an encouraging and hopeful bill that would make illegal the cruel practice of devocalization in canines. The following is from Animal Law Coalition:

Debarking robs dogs of one of their main methods of communication. Dogs vocalize to communicate countless feelings—fear, frustration, danger, pain, boredom, and even joy and happiness. Dogs […]

Safaris
I had been finishing a story called Last Night The Werewolf, the title inspired by a Rumi poem, and the synchronicities were running wild. A book fell into my lap called Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, and late one night on a walk, my chocolate lab Lana and […]

Inverter (electrical)
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An inverter is an electrical device that converts direct current (DC) to alternating current (AC); the resulting AC can be at any required voltage and frequency with the use of appropriate transformers, switching, and control circuits.
Highest thanks to my friends at Imagine Weblog who’ve waited patiently for a new article. […]

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-Photo from Sheila Chandra Weaving My Ancestor’s Voices
I heard something about music once and never forgot it. It was about a young Frank Zappa. He had brought a Beach Boys song to his music teacher in grade school and asked a question: Why do I like this so much? […]

Photo by Norbert Rosing

Canada’s cruel, inhumane seal hunt is over. It is not called off forever, only over for this year, but there is something very encouraging and hopeful afoot. As a result of an outpouring across the globe from people like you, there is a high likelihood that the European Union […]

Photo courtesy of Rolf Hicker
If a heavenly creature plucked you from where you are right now and lifted you up to a higher, wider perspective: if you could see the whole world and your own life in it, you would understand beyond a shadow of a doubt that your role in the universe is […]

Photo by Norbert Rosing
Today is a day of pain for me: the Canadian Seal Hunt began this morning. Atrocities like this bring home a painful reality, but it is one we have to face up to in order to move forward: there are generous, luminous, enlightened human beings on this planet, luminaries who […]

Welcome.
I’m Tristan. I grew up in the Berkshires. I was a dreamy kid, unusual, a lover of animals and nature.
I fell in love and felt real heartbreak twice before I started playing music. I […]

If you were mine
If you were mine
I wouldn’t want to go…
to heaven.
-Sade “Cherish The Day”
I was born with a love for the human voice. Sound thrills and delights me, especially the divine phenomenon we call music, and above all else when expressed by a vocalist. Each of us is dialed in […]