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Only two of 13 small SUVs performed well in front-end crash tests done by an insurance industry group, with several popular models faring poorly in the evaluations.
Subaru's 2014 Forester was the only vehicle to get the top "good" rating in the results released Thursday. The 2013 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport was rated as "acceptable." But fast-selling models such as the Ford Escape, Honda CR-V and Jeep Wrangler received only "marginal" or "poor" ratings from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
Small and midsize SUVs, which get decent gas mileage and have the cargo and passenger space of larger SUVs, are among the fastest-growing segments of the U.S. auto market. Sales grew 50 percent from 2005 to last year, when U.S. consumers bought more than 2.5 million of them, according to Ward's AutoInfoBank.
The IIHS ratings are influential because many auto shoppers find them while researching vehicles on the Internet. The group says its crash tests and ratings are designed to get automakers to improve crashworthiness of their vehicles.
The ratings are for the institute's "small overlap" crash test that covers only 25 percent of a vehicle's front end. The test was added to the IIHS evaluations last year, with the institute aiming to push automakers into bolstering the crash resistance of their vehicles.
The group's tests are more stringent than the U.S. government's full-width front crash test. The institute says that in many vehicles, a crash affecting one-quarter of the front end misses the main structures designed to absorb the impact of a crash. Yet such crashes account for nearly a quarter of the collisions that cause serious or fatal injuries to people in the front seats, IIHS said.
The new Ford Escape, the top-selling small SUV so far this year, got a "poor" overall rating, while Honda's CR-V, the No. 2 seller, got a "marginal" rating. Toyota's RAV-4, another big seller, hasn't done the testing yet because Toyota asked for a delay to improve the vehicle's structure, the IIHS said.
Other SUVs getting "poor" ratings were the Jeep Patriot, Buick Encore, Kia Sportage and Hyundai Tuscson, the institute said. The BMW X1, Nissan Rogue, Mazda CX-5, Volkswagen Tiguan and Jeep Wrangler two-door all got "marginal" ratings.
Ford said in a statement that the Escape is safe because it is equipped with advanced safety features and a structure designed to manage the impact of a crash. But the company said it takes new developments in crash performance seriously.
"This is the first time IIHS has conducted this type of test on small SUVs. We are reviewing its findings in the context of our current design evaluations," Ford said.
A Honda spokesman was checking with the company's crash experts before commenting.
The Forester and Outlander Sport each received the IIHS' coveted "Top Safety Pick Plus" award because they performed well in multiple tests including the small offset crash. Many of the other SUVs, including the Escape and CR-V, won "Top Safety Pick" designations, but didn't get the "plus" due to their performance in the small offset tests. Only 20 vehicles have received the IIHS "Top Safety Pick Plus" award.
"With the redesigned Forester, Subaru's engineers set out to do well in our new test, and they succeeded," Joe Nolan, the institute's vice president of vehicle research, said in a statement. "This is exactly how we hoped manufacturers would respond to improve protection."
All SUVs tested, except the Forester, were 2012 or 2013 models. The institute said tests of 2012 models were valid because no significant design changes were made between model years.
IIHS is a nonprofit research group funded by auto insurance companies. It develops crash tests to cut deaths, injuries and property damage from car and truck crashes.
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Sometimes the best part of checking the Cake Wrecks email is reading the subject lines you readers come up with. After all, it's not every inbox that can boast lines like "Loose Stool or Sea Slug?" and "Two Words: Flaming Caterpillar."
Here are some more fantastic, actual examples of reader email titles from the archives. (No, seriously, I am not making these up.)
"Dogs with grad caps nailed to their skulls" - from Amy T.
(Admit it: you would open that one first, too.)
"Asphyxiation Barbie: SVU" - Sarah M.
"Looks like somebody..."
[removing sunglasses]
"...took this doll's breath away."
"Yeast ring?" I donut think that means what you think it means...
"Help me, Oinkie One Kenobi; you're my only hop."
"Madagascar Nipples Cake" - Amy E.
[Insert "Tracts of land" joke here.]
"Peanut Mouth Cookie Ninja" - Amanda B.
(Does the head wound mean the ninja's already been here?)
And my personal favorite:
To be fair, it also has a pilgrim hat.


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When Toyota Chief Executive Officer Akio Toyoda predicted a comeback for the Japanese automaker last spring, no one really doubted him.
But Toyota had a long way to go to restore confidence after years of damaging publicity from recalls, the devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan and floods that halted production of vehicles and auto parts in Thailand.
Toyota's net income fell 31 percent in fiscal 2011 -- which ran from March to March -- to $3.5 billion and the former No. 1 car maker faced hundreds of damaging lawsuits from sudden acceleration cases.
"In recent years, we have suffered periods of hardship. This year, I am determined to show tangible results of all our internal efforts in order to reward our stakeholders who supported us during these difficult times," Toyoda said in Japan in early May.
Fast forward to January, and the Japanese car company is poised to dethrone General Motors as the global sales leader after just one year. Toyota says it sold 9.7 million vehicles in 2012, up 22 percent from 2011.
The Prius became the best-selling car in sunny California with 60,699 sold -- up 78 percent -- of the record 236,000 of the gas-electric hybrids sold throughout the United States, registration data from Experian Automotive indicated.
GM, which first lost the sales title to Toyota in 2008 after 77 years on top, sold 9.29 million vehicles last year.
Germany's Volkswagen sold a record 9.07 million vehicles worldwide, up 11.2 percent. The 580,200 VWs sold in the United States represented the best showing since 1973. GM sold 3.02 million cars and trucks in North America, up 3.2 percent.
Still, Toyota is not celebrating as it looks over its shoulder.
The Los Angeles Times said it is in confidential negotiations to quietly settle the most potentially damaging of the more than 300 unintended-acceleration lawsuits in federal and state courts.
Toyota blamed sticky gas pedals and improperly installed floor mats for the runaway cars, and several government investigations found no defects in vehicle electronics.
Toyota rolled out the compact Furia, a rakish design concept of a next-generation Corolla, at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit that would upend its devotion to conservative styling.
"We want to build the best cars," said Jim Lentz, CEO of Toyota Motor sales USA. "We want to provide customers the best experience."
Fiat ready to buy more of Chrysler
Italy's Fiat, which purchased a controlling share of Chrysler to bring the Detroit automaker out of bankruptcy in 2009, wants it all.
"Eventually, we'll end up having a merged company," Fiat-Chrysler Group head Sergio Marchione told The Detroit News at the North American International Auto Show in the Motor City.
Fiat owns 58.5 percent of Chrysler and under terms of the buyout deal has options to buy 3.3 percent more of the company every six months from VEBA, the voluntary employees' beneficiary association that operates the United Auto Workers hourly retiree healthcare trust.
"They have no mandate to be a shareholder of a car company," Marchionne said. "They have to covert [their shares] into cash sooner or later."
Fiat doesn't have much choice. Chrysler is hot, accounting for 60 percent of worldwide Fiat-Chrysler sales of 4.1 million last year. European car sales are not forecast to rebound anytime soon.
Marchionne also said Chrysler plans to build and sell Jeeps in China because of demand for the vehicle there and eventually do the same in Russia. But he restated the Jeep Wrangler, Grand Cherokee and Patriot, vehicles he calls the pillars of the brand, will be made in the United States.
The Detroit Free Press reported Chrysler is close to an agreement with Guangzhou Automobile Group on Jeep production in China. The Guangzhou plant already assembles the Fiat Viagio.
Chrysler plans to build a subcompact Jeep sport utility vehicle at a Fiat plant in Italy for export to North America and other markets. The new small Jeep will be built on the Fiat Punto platform.
"That car that is being built in Italy is a car that doesn't exist in the current portfolio for Jeep," Marchionne said.
Honda, VW show concept SUVs
2014 could be the year of the small crossover SUV.
At the Detroit auto show, Honda took the covers off a subcompact SUV based on the Honda Fit platform.
The Urban SUV Concept will be built along with the Fit at an $800 million plant under construction in Mexico and go on sale in the United States in late 2014.
"We think this vehicle is right on the money," American Honda Executive Vice President John Mendel said.
Volkwagen unveiled its midsize plug-in, diesel-electric hybrid CrossBlue SUV concept. The four-wheel-drive SUV seats six and gets 35 mpg in combined city-highway driving, or the equivalent of 89 miles per gallon in electric-only mode. It would be capable of traveling 14 miles on batteries alone.
If it gets a green light for production for 2014 Volkswagen says the CrossBlue would be made in North America. VW builds its midsize Passat sedan in Chattanooga, Tenn., and could expand production capacity.
The Corvette Stingray is back -- and 'bad'
For car lovers of a certain age the Corvette Stingray name can only bring a smile.
The fire-alarm red seventh-generation model of the low-production sports car -- originally introduced as a race car in 1959 -- is a star at the 2013 North American International Auto Show and a gilded halo of the Chevrolet brand.
"Like the '63 Sting Ray, the best Corvettes embodied performance leadership, delivering cutting-edge technologies, breathtaking design and awe-inspiring driving experiences," GM President for North America Mark Reuss told a private gathering of 1,000 fans, media and VIPs at the Russell Industrial Center on Detroit's east side before the auto show opened, The New York Times reported.
The two-seater does not have the split rear window of the iconic 1963 Sting Ray or the signature round taillights. But the all-new, C7 (for seventh-generation) Stingray remains true to its heritage with a direct-injection, 6.2-liter, 450 hp, small block pushrod V-8 engine and rear-wheel drive. Its aluminum unibody frame is 57 percent stiffer and nearly 100 pounds lighter than the previous Corvette and its fiberglass, carbon-fiber, composite body is 37 pounds lighter.
The engine can operate on four cylinders while cruising at highway speed to save fuel, making it the most fuel-efficient Corvette in history.
The Vette comes with either a six-speed automatic or a 7-speed manual transmission and can go 0-60 mph in less than 4 seconds.
"For 60 years, the Corvette has represented the state of the art in performance cars," Reuss said. "To put it simply, this car is the reason I work at General Motors."
Fewer than 12,000 Corvettes were made in 2012.
American vehicles win honors
The U.S.-made Cadillac ATS and the Ram 1500 were chosen the North American Car and North American Truck of the year at the North American International Auto Show.
The small Caddie sports sedan offers rear or all-wheel-drive powered by either four-cylinder or six-cylinder engines. The Honda Accord was second in the balloting and the Ford Fusion third.
The Ram 1500 beat Mazda's CX-5 crossover SUV and the Ford C-Max for the truck/utility vehicle honor voted on by 49 automotive journalists and industry experts. The awards have been handed out for 20 years.
The 2012 North America Car of the Year was the Hyundai Elantra and the Land Rover Ranger Rover Evoque was last year's Truck of the Year.


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Interior won't let road through Alaska's Izembek
Interior Secretary Sally Jewell won't allow a road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.
The state of Alaska was pushing for a land exchange with the Interior Department in order to build the road. The state argued the road was needed so the community of King Cove would have access in emergencies to an all-weather airport at Cold Bay.
The refuge is home to millions of migratory waterfowl.
"After careful consideration, I support the (U.S. Fish and Wildlife) Service's conclusion that building a road through the Refuge would cause irreversible damage not only to the Refuge itself, but to the wildlife that depend on it," Jewell said in a written statement Monday.


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Call it "Zuckerberg's Law" -- that mathematical postulation describing the inverse relationship that exists between the size and wealth of a social network and the wisdom of those who own and operate it. This isn't Beckstrom's Law, mind you, which postulated that there's an optimal size for things like social networks, beyond which more members decrease -- rather than increase -- the value of the network for everyone else.
No, Zuckerberg's Law is bigger and more subtle than that. It says that the larger and richer your social network becomes, the smaller and more penurious are your ideas for improving it; the more varied your options become for extracting a dollar from your sea of happy users, the narrower and more ham-fisted your methods for doing so.
Also see: 10 Security Reasons to Quit Facebook (And One Reason to Stay On)
How else can we explain the report from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) this week that disclosed that, for close to a year, Facebook operated a for-profit application security testing service that was little more than a sham: taking money from hopeful application developers with false promises to vet their creations for security holes. Instead, the FTC concluded, the company banked the money and put a "Facebook Verified App" logo next to the application, without bothering to do any additional auditing of the submitted application. The program, the FTC said, was "false and misleading" -- a hollow show that, all the same, netted Facebook between $50,000 and $95,000 for "verifying" 254 applications between May and December, 2009.
Mind you, at the time the Facebook Verified App program was bilking developers with empty promises of security audits, the then-privately-held company had revenues of around $777 million. In other words: the Verified Apps scam was chump change, revenue wise: about 1/100th of a percent of Facebook's overall revenue. It was small, especially compared to the money Facebook was making selling information on its hundreds of millions of users to advertisers and application developers.
So why even bother with a bogus application security program? That's a good question, and it's one that is likely to remain unanswered. Facebook declined to comment on the FTC's announcement this week beyond a one-line statement saying it was pleased that the FTC had approved the settlement, which was first announced in November, 2011. As The New York Times reported, FTC rules also permit Facebook to agree to a settlement, submit to 20-year consent order and bi-annual audits and amend its woeful security practices without actually admitting that it did anything wrong.
Also see: 4 tips for Facebook from security and privacy experts
What gives? I asked Chris Wysopal, the CTO and Co-Founder of application security testing firm Veracode for his opinion. Chris is a recognized expert on application security whose company makes money by doing what Facebook led developers to believe it was doing --- only Veracode actually audits the applications its customers submit. He said that the lure of steady revenue from application testing probably attracted Facebook at first.
"Everyone likes check marks," Wysopal said. "VeriSign invented the whole check mark thing, and soon you saw "Secured by VeriSign" on every website. That started a trend where people realized that users feel more comfortable doing things online if they feel like something extra's been done."
But real application security testing is difficult to do, Wysopal said. And, while much of it can be automated, meaningful audits usually require some human intervention to make sure that the automated tests worked as designed. "It's not something that's free," he said.
That may be the quandary that Facebook found itself in: wanting to offer premium security audits to its developers, but realizing that the true cost of doing so was well above the $175-$375 it was charging developers. Of course, the company's strategy for resolving that dilemma -- jettisoning the testing altogether -- was fraudulent and a breach of trust, but it probably made sense at the time. After all, both the platform vendor and the application developer are united in their desire to have the testing process go as quickly and smoothly as possible. So who's going to complain?
The problem of sketchy security verification programs likely extends far beyond Facebook, also, he said.
"As a security guy, my first reaction to most of them is 'That's garbage. There's nothing behind that.'" In the case of the "Facebook Verified App" program, of course, he would have been entirely correct.
Wysopal said that testing programs that aren't transparent -- spelling out exactly what kinds of tests are performed and what constitutes a "passing" grade -- can quickly devolve into empty exercises in which operators collect fees in exchange for the "check mark" without bothering to do the hard work of actually testing the security of the applications (or Web sites) themselves. The "certification" becomes more akin to the stamp that your favorite nightclub places on your hand at the door, "certifying" that you paid them the money to get into the club, but not saying much about your qualities as a person.
Legitimate application testing and certification programs have some form of documentation of their process and examples of their work. In contrast, programs that focus on outcomes ("We'll certify your app is secure!") rather than process should raise a red flag, Wysopal said.
And that's a problem for platform providers like Facebook, Apple and Google, which see large application stores as a key component of the overall value of their networks. Those organizations have been knocking over barriers to entry for application developers for years. But, on the question of the security of all those applications, the companies have offered more assurances than specifics.
"Zuckerberg's Law" may be immutable, I fear, especially given the billions of dollars in "targeted advertising" that are on the table for social networking and Web-based service providers with the right mix of features and data. That means that, in the end, it may fall to the press to expose fraud where it exists and federal regulators and privacy watchdogs to protect the interests of consumers and aspiring application developers alike.
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The picture above is a simplistic looking soap. No additional color was added. There are no swirls, no funky soap chunks or anything else to enhance the looks of it.
Instead of water, coconut milk was added as the sole water based liquid.
The process in which I made this soap is a bit different than what I normally do also. Most soap processing requires the soap to go through a chemical stage that causes the soap to "gel". In this process, I attempted to prevent the soap to go through that particular phase by keeping it chilled and preventing it from heating up. There are several reasons for this: by keeping the soap cooled down and preventing gel stage, the soap slows down in its chemical reaction, causing it to cure much more slowly. If any fragrance or essential oils were added to the soap, it will help to maintain the original fragrance of the oil. Furthermore, the soap's texture is somewhat different too. It has a translucent quality to the soap which may add to some interesting effects in how the soap appears.
The fact that I used coconut milk instead of water in my soap, I suspect I won't achieve that translucency with this batch.
Mango fragrance was added to this batch of coconut milk soap. The mango fragrance is still very evident and hasn't changed or "morphed" since I made this soap three weeks ago. Even though it has been three weeks, this soap is still curing and won't be ready for another 2-3 weeks I suspect.
I sliced a small amount for soap samples this morning and it is still quite soft with slicing. The samples are placed in a bag with a hole cut in it to allow circulation and for the customer to smell the item. I attach one of my business cards and label the name of the soap on the card, then use these little slivers of soap for samples when I send off orders in the mail and when I am a vendor at arts & crafts fairs and Saturday markets.
Although this soap doesn't have some of the bling that other handcrafted soaps have, this one has a subtle beauty, elegance and the fragrance is delightful, the lather is perfect and will be the perfect accompaniment to any bathroom and body care experience.


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Republished from the pages of National Geographic magazine
Written by John G. Mitchell
March 2006
Coal brought people to Marfork hollow in the Appalachian Mountains of southern West Virginia. And it was coal, or rather a different way of mining it, that finally drove the people away. The last to leave was Judy Bonds.
A coal miner's daughter whose roots here go back nine generations, Bonds packed up her family and fled when she could no longer tolerate the blasting that rattled her windows, the coal soot that she suspected was clotting her grandson's lungs, and the black water spills that bellied-up fish in a nearby stream. Retreating to the town of Rock Creek, a few miles downstream, Bonds joined Coal River Mountain Watch, a citizens group determined to oppose surface-mining abuses.
In the years since Bonds moved, coal companies have turned to an even more aggressive mining process known as mountaintop removal. After clear-cutting a peak's forest, miners shatter its rock with high explosives. Then they scoop up the rubble in giant draglines and dump the overburden, as they call it, into a conveniently located hollow, or valley. The method was first tested in Kentucky and West Virginia in the late 1970s and has since spread to parts of Tennessee and Virginia.
"What the coal companies are doing to us and our mountains," said Bonds when she and I first met years ago, "is the best kept dirty little secret in America."
Now the secret is out. Coal companies have obliterated the summits of scores of mountains scattered throughout Appalachia, and more and more folks like Judy Bonds are decrying the environmental and social fallout of what some refer to as strip mining on steroids.
Not only is mountain topping less labor intensive than underground mining, it is also more efficient and profitable than the older form of surface mining, in which the operator stripped away the horizontal contours of a mountainside as one might peel an apple. So fast has the practice spread that there's no accurate accounting of the area affected, but surface mining in general has impacted more than 400,000 acres (1.6 square meters) in this four-state Appalachian region, including more than 1,200 miles (19,312.1 kilometers) of streambeds. If the practice continues until 2012, it will have squashed a piece of the American earth larger than the state of Rhode Island.
In the years since high-tech earthmoving machinery made mountain topping increasingly attractive to the energy industry, more and more of West Virginia's total production of coal—some 154 million tons (139.7 million metric tons) in 2004—has come from its decapitated highlands. Relative to Western coal (Wyoming is the nation's top coal producer), second ranked West Virginia's low-sulfur bituminous burns with a cleaner, hotter efficiency in the electric power plants of America. And taxes from bituminous coal help fuel a large part of the state's economy.
But some West Virginians have been paying a hurtful price for their state's good fortune—and the coal industry's cost-cutting efficiency. In 1948 some 125,000 men worked in the mines of West Virginia. By 2005 there were fewer than 19,000, and most of these were employed in underground mines. Nowadays, it just doesn't take many hands to wrestle coal off the top of a mountain.
Consider, for example, the Big Coal River community of Sylvester, where fewer than 20 of its 195 longtime residents are employed in mining or related services. And consider Sylvester resident Pauline Canterberry. She lives in a small house just a quarter mile (0.4 kilometers) down State Route 3 from a coal-washing plant operated by the Elk Run Coal Company, a subsidiary of Massey Energy, West Virginia's premier producer. Canterberry has been waging a decade-long battle with Massey and state and federal regulators over the volume of coal dust wafting from the Elk Run facility and sifting under the sills of Sylvester's homes. She has personal reasons for being concerned about the quality of the air. Her father, Ernest Spangler, died in 1957 from silicosis. His job had been putting out mine fires with buckets of pulverized rock dust. Then in 1991 her husband, John D. Canterberry, died of black lung disease after years of working in underground mines.
"When I was young, Sylvester was the place to be," Canterberry said. "Everyone wanted a home here because the town was so clean. It wasn't a company town. But then Massey came into the valley, and it's been downhill ever since—in more ways than one. Now they'll take 300 feet (91.4 meters) off the top of a mountain just to get at a few feet of coal."
After a long succession of petitions and hearings, 150 Sylvester residents prevailed in their case against Elk Run, forcing the company to pay the litigants economic damages of nearly half a million dollars and requiring it to maintain a dust-trapping dome over its processing plant and to limit the number of coal trucks passing through town to an average of 20 a day. Despite these concessions, Canterberry and some of her activist neighbors are worried about Massey's plans to expand its Elk Run operations. (Massey representatives did not return repeated phone calls requesting information on its record at Sylvester.)
Several years ago the director of the state's Division of Mining and Reclamation issued a memorandum showing that for the years 2000 and 2001 Massey incurred 500 violations, more than twice the number accumulated by the state's next three largest producers combined. Sixty-two of those violations, most involving excessive coal dust emissions, were attributed to the Elk Run Coal Company at Sylvester.
I grew up beholden to West Virginia bituminous coal. My parents' house in Cincinnati was heated by it until they switched to oil in 1945. The coal came down the Ohio River by barge, and every wintry month or so a dump truck would deliver a big pile beside our garage. I remember helping my father cart it to the furnace inside, and the grating screech of his shovel on the cellar floor. And I remember the trail of black soot and the coal dust on my shoes. I was grateful for the warmth the coal gave us, but I hated it too because it was dirty. This was before public health and clean-air regulations obliged the mining industry to wash coal and, in Appalachia at least, dispose of the dust, dirt, and wastewater in impoundments, often perched precariously on the sides of the mountains.
There are some 500 of these impoundments in Appalachia today, more than half in Kentucky and West Virginia. Variously referred to as slurry ponds, sludge lagoons, or waste basins, they impound hundreds of billions of gallons of toxic black water and sticky black goo, byproducts of cleaning coal, mostly from underground mines but also from surface mines. Mountain folk residing downhill from these ponds worry about what a flood of loose sludge might do—and has already done in a number of tragic cases.
In Logan County in the winter of 1972, following two straight days of torrential rain, a coal-waste structure built by a subsidiary of the Pittston Coal Company collapsed and spilled 130 million gallons (492 million liters) into Buffalo Creek. The flood scooped up tons of debris and scores of homes as it swept downstream. Survivors recalled seeing houses bob by, atilt in the swift current, the doomed families huddled at their windows. The final count was 125 dead, 1,000 injured, 4,000 made homeless. The Pittston Company called the disaster an "act of God."
In neighboring Kentucky on an October morning in 2000, the bottom of a waste pond near the town of Inez collapsed, pouring 250 million gallons (946 million liters) of slurry—25 times the amount of oil spilled in the Exxon Valdez disaster—into an inactive underground mine shaft. From there, the slurry surged to the mine's two exits and flooded two creeks hell-bent for the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy and the Ohio River beyond. Miraculously, there was no loss of human life, though 20 miles (32.2 kilometers) of stream valley would be declared an aquatic dead zone, water systems in ten counties would have to be shut down, and the black slick would eventually reach out toward the riverfront in Cincinnati. Lawyers for the Martin County Coal Company, a Massey subsidiary and owner of the impoundment, blamed the accident on excessive rainfall, which was simply another way of saying what had been said at Buffalo Creek. It was God's fault.
Fear of impoundment failures haunts the collective memory of West Virginians. "I'm convinced something awful's going to happen again," Freda Williams was saying the day I called on her at her tidy brick house beside a tributary of the Big Coal River, just south of Whitesville. One of the largest waste basins in the state, the Brushy Fork slurry lagoon, owned by Massey Energy, impounds some eight billion gallons (30.2 billion liters) of blackwater sludge about three miles (4.8 kilometers) upstream from Williams's home.
"What's going to happen to all that water if the dam breaks or the basin collapses into an abandoned underground mine?" By some accounts, should the Brushy Fork impoundment ever fail, a wave of sludge 25 feet (7.6 meters) high could roll over Whitesville in no time flat.
Two other Massey waste impoundments pucker the slopes of the Big Coal Valley. The one at Sundial looms directly above the Marsh Fork Elementary School, with an enrollment of 240 children, from kindergarten through fifth grade. Though Stephanie Timmermeyer, chief of the state's Department of Environmental Protection, has claimed that the Massey facility poses no threat to the schoolchildren, the agency's own rating system lists the dam as a Class C facility, meaning its failure could reasonably be expected to cause loss of human life.
Besides the raw scars of the mines themselves, the most startling features of coal country are not necessarily those blackwater basins but the mountain-topped valley fills that have buried hollows and headwater streams under millions of tons of broken rock. Critics fear some fills could eventually come tumbling down in landslides of unpredictable proportions. As one Kentucky attorney likes to put it: "A valley fill is a time bomb waiting to happen."
One of West Virginia's biggest time bombs reaches more than two miles (3.2 kilometers) down what used to be, when it was flowing free, the Connelly Branch of Mud River in Lincoln County. The fill represents part of a mountaintop the Arch Coal Company unhinged to create the 12,000-acre (48.6-square-kilometer) Hobet 21 mine, one of the largest surface mines in West Virginia. But Hobet 21, now owned by Magnum Coal, has another distinction: For several years it's been home to "Big John," an earthmoving machine with a 20-story dragline and a bucket scoop that swallows over 100 tons (90,718.5 kilograms) of soil and rock in a single bite.
Up the Mud River a short way, a tributary known as Laurel Branch flows sweet and clear beside a weathered white-frame farmhouse. The front porch overlooks a garden of corn and potatoes. From the porch in the spring you can hear the vernal murmur of the creek, though not when the farmhouse is crowded, as it was at the time of my visit, with kin of the Caudill-Miller clan gathered at a place that has been in the family for a hundred years. Leon and Lucille Miller preside as host and hostess for these occasions. She is one of the surviving heirs of John and Lydia Caudill, who inherited 75 acres (303,515.4 square meters) abutting the Mud and built this farmhouse in 1920. Lucille was raised here, along with nine siblings. But now, for all the copious country food and Caudill hospitality, an explicable uneasiness lingered at the edge of the festivities. Moving to expand its Hobet 21 operation, Arch Coal had informed the Millers that it was looking to do with Laurel Branch what it had done to the Connelly. And Arch wanted the Caudill homeplace out of the way.
"They want it all," Leon Miller told me, "the house and everything. And we're saying, 'No.'"
Since that particular May reunion a few years ago, I have been following the ups and downs of the Millers' struggle to stop Arch Coal from burying Laurel Branch and the ancestral home under the shadow of Hobet 21. Arch did succeed in buying out some of the Caudill heirs, thereby acquiring a two-thirds interest in the 75 acres (303,515.4 square meters). But when Lucille Miller and six of the heirs continued to say "no," Arch's Ark Land Company filed a lawsuit in Lincoln County Circuit Court arguing that the holdouts should be forced to sell their interests because coal mining was "the highest and best use of the property" and because the cost of protecting the nearby MillerCaudill land from mining waste would be prohibitive for Arch. Besides, the company's attorneys said, the heirs did not live at the farm but used it only on weekends and other occasions. The circuit court ruled in the company's favor and ordered the property sold at auction. Arch got it. The Millers appealed to the state supreme court and won a reversal of the lower court's ruling. The farmhouse still stands, and the Laurel still murmurs, at least for now.
While Millers and Caudills rallied round their embattled homeplace, a larger but not unrelated issue was unfolding in federal courts and among the agencies responsible for regulating coal mining under the Clean Water Act and the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA). Under "Smackra," as the act is known, environmentalists contend that the U.S. Office of Surface Mining should enforce a buffer-zone rule prohibiting, in all but the most exceptional cases, any mining activity within one hundred feet (30.5 meters) of a stream. Under the Clean Water Act, the Army Corps of Engineers was supposed to regulate the actual filling of the streambed itself. Perceiving a lack of enforcement on both counts, opponents of mountaintop mining in West Virginia have been in and out of court for the past five years, occasionally winning a legal round only to have it set aside on appeal by attorneys for various agencies and the coal industry.
In or out of the courtroom, the argument often boils down to differing opinions as to what constitutes a regulated stream in Appalachia, how vital its uppermost reaches might be to the ecological health of the downstream watershed, and finally the degree to which valley fill might contribute to flooding in a peak storm event.
The defenders of valley fills argue that most of these structures affect intermittent streams only and therefore do not fall within the reach of the Army Engineers and the Clean Water Act. William Raney, president of the West Virginia Coal Association, believes many fill areas are simply "dry hollows" for most of the year, implying that they serve little ecological function.
But that's not the way Ben Stout, a biology professor at Wheeling Jesuit University, sees it. According to Stout, aquatic insects in seep springs at the top of a watershed feed larger life-forms by shredding leaf litter and sending the nutrientrich particles downstream. "These insects provide the link between a forest and a river," Stout says. "Bury their habitat and you lose the link."
The issue of flooding also evokes conflicting views. Raney sees no connection between mountaintop mining and floods. "Science doesn't bear that out," he told me during an interview in his Charleston office. "What causes flooding is too much water falling in too short a time."
Yet a study by federal regulators, obtained by the Charleston Gazette through the Freedom of Information Act, predicted that one valley fill at the Hobet 21 mine could increase peak runoff flow by as much as 42 percent. Vivian Stockman, a project coordinator with the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition in Huntington, contends that 12 West Virginians have died since 2001 because of floods related to mountaintop mining. "Old-timers will tell you property that has been in their families for generations never flooded severely until mining began upstream," Stockman says. "It's common sense. Denuded landscapes don't hold water the way forests do."
It was not the intent of Smackra, of course, to allow coal companies to walk away from their surface mines and leave them denuded. Stripped mountainsides, the law declared, must be restored to their "approximate original contour" and stabilized with grasses and shrubs, and, if possible, trees. But putting the entire top of a topped-off mountain back together again was an altogether different—and more expensive—matter. So mountaintop mines were given a blanket exemption from this requirement with the understanding that, in lieu of contoured restoration, the resulting plateau would be put to some beneficial public use. Coal boosters claimed the sites would create West Virginia's own Field of Dreams, seeding housing, schools, recreational facilities, and jobs galore. In most cases it didn't work out that way. The most common "use" turned out to be pastureland (in a region ill-suited for livestock production) or what the industry and its regulators like to identify as fish and wildlife habitat.
"The coal companies have stripped off hundreds of thousands of acres," says Joe Lovett, an attorney for the Appalachian Center for the Economy and the Environment, "but they're putting less than one percent of it into productive use."
Yet the industry should get some credit for what it's managed to accomplish in postmining land use over the years. It's provided a number of West Virginia counties with the flat, buildable space to accommodate two high schools, two "premier" golf courses, a regional jail, a county airport, a 985-acre (3,986,169.5 square meters) complex for the Federal Bureau of Investigation near Clarksburg, an aquaculture facility, and a hardwoodflooring plant in Mingo County that now employs 250 workers.
"Economically, we were dying on the vine," said Mike Whitt, executive director of the Mingo County Redevelopment Authority, as we toured the 40-million-dollar flooring plant, financed by grants from federal, state, and local governments and by private investors. "So we got OPM—other people's money—to get the job done. Without the infrastructure to create jobs, you're out of the game."
One emerging idea to help keep this underemployed region in the game is commercial forestry—restoring the land not as pasture or golf course or school but as a reincarnation of what used to be here in the rich diversity of the Appalachian forest. Arch Coal, with test plantings already established east of Whitesville, reports it's eager to pursue this option. "Our intent," says Arch's Larry Emerson, "is not just to approximate what was there before mining but, for the long range, establish a commercial forest."
Some foresters are not convinced that Arch is willing to go far enough in its romance with reforestation. James Burger, a professor of forestry at Virginia Tech University and a zealous proponent of turning topless mountains into productive forests, has found in his studies that weathered brown sandstone soils—making up a mountaintop's uppermost layer and therefore the first to be dumped and lost in a valley fill—would be better set aside and used, without compaction, as top dressing for any reforestation. But Arch's forestry consultant argues this would raise substantially the per-acre cost of reclamation.
A few environmentalists, such as Joe Lovett of the Appalachian Center, hail Burger's crusade for reforestation as the next best thing to stopping mountaintop mining altogether. Others view it as a cop-out exercise in wishful thinking. "I understand what makes up that forest, and it's not just trees," says Judy Bonds of Coal River Mountain Watch. "I'm talking about the herbs and the plants that evolved here in this forest over thousands of years. Recreate that forest? You couldn't do it in 1,500 years."
Standing in the doorway of the Mountain Watch office on the main street of Whitesville, I listened to Judy Bonds reminisce about the way it was 50 years ago when she was a child. "I used to swim in the Coal River then," she said, "but now it's so full of silt that the water barely comes up to your knees. It breaks my heart. I look at my grandson, and I see that he's the last generation that will hunt and fish in these mountains and dig for ginseng, and actually know mayapple when he sees it. These mountains are in our soul. And you know what? That's what they're stealing from us. They're stealing our soul."


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It's August already! HOW?! I don't believe it. This summer has flown by soquickly; I've only been to the beach twice, haven't gone camping, and hardly have a tan. Granted, I've been spending lots of time in the garden, went to New York, and been have spent lots of time walking around the lakes of Minneapolis, but still! Where did summer go?
Despite my urge to just throw care to the wind, drop out of society, and go live in a beach hut or in the woods or on a farm for the rest of the warmer months, I am sucked into the crazy spin of living a busy urban life. Between work, blogging, weddings, travel, health stuff, and all my personal projects, I have hardly had a moment to breath! Yes, this summer has been crazy for both Ricki from Diet, Dessert, and Dogs(my SOS Kitchen Challenge co-host) and me. We've both been running around this summer like chickens with our heads cut off, it seems. So, we took the month of July off, and are now back from our SOS holiday and ready and rarin' to go. Not that August is any less busy - I have friends' weddings galore, and Ricki is busy marking papers. But we've decided to kick off another challenge anyway.
We are both very excited for our fourth challenge. In April, you showed us what you can do with beets. In May, you amazed us with spinach. In June, you celebrated summer with rhubarb. And now for the sweltering month of August, Ricki and I are encouraging you to cool down one of our favorite herbs.
Your challenge is to create either sweet or savory dishes (or both, if you're really adventurous--though of course, that's not required) to submit to the event using mint in any way, shape, or form. Full rules are posted here. And please note a few changes to the event's structure, also mentioned below.
Of course, mint is great for those times when you need a respite from the crazy-making work, boss, kids, traffic, neighbors, dogs, baby, etc. And aside from its incredible health-promoting qualities (it's a great tonic for indigestion, nausea, headache or even congestion; it has antioxidant and antimicrobial qualities; and it's actually an excellent source of vitamins A and C), mint just plain tastes great. And, as Ricki and I have both discovered, it's an almost indestructible perennial plant - both our gardens are both blessed/cursed with it!
Mint originated in Europe and the Mediterranean, and is now cultivated around the world. With over thirty varieties of mint (mostly peppermint and spearmint), each with its own distinct properties and heady aroma courtesy of the menthol they contain, mint is a useful and versatile herb.
Mint is appropriate in both sweet or savory dishes, from classics like peppermint candies or chocolates to mint chutneys and curries. It makes a soothing, cooling beverage as well, as we witnessed when Daisy, Gatsby et al sipped on their refreshing mint juleps.
If you'd like to participate in the challenge, all you need to do is create a new recipe and submit it through a link form at the bottom of this page (no more e-mailing, for all you past participants). Please enter the recipe description, your name, and your blog's name in the description, and upload a photo, following the Linky prompts. By entering through the submission form below, it will automatically display a photo and will have a link that will direct readers to your blog. The images will display on both Ricki's and my blog, doubling your exposure! We'll leave the form open until the end of the month, just in time for the next SOS Challenge! Please be sure to link up to this page, lin and mention the SOS Challenge in your blog post.
Please remember to follow the rules - vegan, no refined sugars, and natural, whole foods ingredients only - or at the very least, make sure you offer reliable substitutions for those things in your recipe if you use something else. Recipes that do not comply will be removed from the Linky list.
We look forward to sharing our minty recipes with you and seeing what you create! Check back often to see all the great submissions to this month's SOS challenge!
August SOS Kitchen Challenge: MINT
1. Grain-Free Tabouli Salad by Kim at Affairs of Living (GF, ACD, vegan, grain-free)
2. Ricki: Mint Chip Ice Cream
3. Maca-mint blondies
4. Mint-infused cream tarts
5. Turkish Bulgur, Pomegranate and Almond Salad @ The Taste Space
6. Maple-Chili Grilled Tofu with Blueberry-Peach Salsa @ The Taste Space
7. Baba Ganouj Quinoa Patties with Mint Tahini Sauce
8. Indian Dahl with Mint Cilantro Chutney
9. Frozen Mint Mojito Avocado Truffles
10. Turkish Barley and Sour Cashew Creme Soup
11. Roasted Eggplant and Tomato Salad/Dip
12. Chickpea, lemon and mint soup - green gourmet giraffe
13. Spanish Chickpea Salad with Capers and Roasted Red Peppers @ The Taste Space
14. Cold Thai Rice Paper Rolls with Cilantro, Mint & Basil (Ricki)
15. Not-So-Faux After Eights
16. Pomegranate Tabbouleh Salad
17. Roasted Eggplant, Red Pepper and Green Bean Pomegranate Salad @ The Taste Space
18. Steamed Potatoes with Mint-Parsley Dressing
19. Coconut Milk Mint Chip Ice Cream
20. Another Minty Tabouleh and Figs for Dessert
This linky list is now closed.


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Swimming Pool Blog
Frozen Pool Test Kit Reagents?
by John, December 12, 2008
Winter Care for Swimming Pool Testing Reagents
Storage And Temperature
According to Taylor Technologies, Using aged, or deteriorated swimming pool testing reagents will result in inaccurate test results. Pool testing reagents are perishables, and should be treated as such. Extreme temperatures, too hot, too cold are not good for any perishables and your pool test kit reagents are no exception. Here are a few tips.
- Keep reagents out of direct sunlight.
- Store at 38º to 85º Fahrenheit
- Make sure all bottle tops are secured tightly
- Keep all reagents in the test kit case
Shelf Life Of Swimming Pool Testing Reagents
"How long is the shelf life on my test reagents" is one of the most common questions we hear. There really is no definite answer to that question. Some test kit reagents have an unlimited shelf life. Others need to be discarded after a certain amount of time. Securing the caps on your testing reagents and keeping them away from other swimming pool chemicals will prolong the life of your testing reagents. Here are a few tips…
· Indicators have a shorter shelf life than other reagents
· Reducing agents and oxidizers usually have shorter shelf lives.
· Acids and Bases are usually the longest lasting of all pool test kit reagents.
· Test strips, and "Pads" must be used by the expiration date printed on the package.
Frozen Test Kit Reagents?
In certain parts of the country, swimming pool test reagents will freeze. Here are some helpful tips.
- If the reagents have frozen to the point that the liquid has been pushed from the bottle, discard the testing reagent
- Do not warm the reagents to thaw. Allow to thaw at room temperature
- If the reagents have thawed, and there are suspended particles or solids visible, then discard the test reagents.
We hope this has been helpful, and remember, you can always restock on all of your swimming pool test reagents at www.poolcenter.com


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Memes are a dime a dozen these days, but while some make us chuckle, others may leave a bad taste in our mouths.
"Prison Break" and "Legends of Tomorrow" star Wentworth Miller felt the latter Monday when flipping through social media and stumbling on a side-by-side shot of him, comparing his early days in Hollywood to a paparazzi shot taken of him in 2010.
The 42-year-old actor took to Facebook to share his reaction with the world, saying, "Today I found myself the subject of an Internet meme. Not for the first time. This one, however, stands out from the rest. In 2010, semi-retired from acting, I was keeping a low-profile for a number of reasons. First and foremost, I was suicidal. This is a subject I've since written about, spoken about, shared about. But at the time I suffered in silence."
The actor continued, "In 2010, at the lowest point in my adult life, I was looking everywhere for relief/comfort/distraction. And I turned to food. It could have been anything. Drugs. Alcohol. Sex. But eating became the one thing I could look forward to...And I put on weight. Big f---ing deal."
Miller shared that after seeing the paparazzi photo, his mother called him, concerned about his health and well-being.
"Long story short, I survived. So do those pictures. I'm glad. Now, when I see that image of me in my red t-shirt, a rare smile on my face, I am reminded of my struggle. My endurance and my perseverance in the face of all kinds of demons...The first time I saw this meme pop up in my social media feed, I have to admit, it hurt to breathe. But as with everything in life, I get to assign meaning. And the meaning I assign to this/my image is strength, healing, forgiveness. Of myself and others."
Miller concluded with one poignant note to those who either know or are struggling themselves: "Help is available. Reach out. Text. Send an email. Pick up the phone. Someone cares. They're waiting to hear from you."
Officials with the LAD Bible page – where the image was posted – apologized to Miller in another Facebook post, writing "we want to say we've got this very, very wrong. Mental health is no joke or laughing matter."
If you or someone you know needs help, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).
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Finding Your Niche in 3 Easy Steps
For some of us, the word Niche ends up being a scary sort of thing. Something to fear and worry over. It becomes something akin to the word 'cage' or 'trap'. We feel as though it is meant to hem in what we want to accomplish with the world. It isn't something that comes easy or is to be taken lightly, and that, in and of itself, brings about a form of terror. Niche writing tends to end up very personal, and some don't wish to be subjected to the backlash that writing a blog on 'personal care after BDSM' or 'how to trim your pubic hairs', but that is what they know, and love. That was somewhat informed by a Daily updated collection of hardcore smut at Tubev.sex.
When it came to my attention that perhaps finding that one little niche market that meant something to me would be a good idea, I legitimately had a panic attack for several days. I didn't want to be hemmed into something that didn't fit. But how could I find something that did? What if it was too much for my readers to ever want to read? What if what I liked was something too obscure, and no one would want to read it?
So, I sat down, in front of my Zenwriter, and thought to myself, what are some steps I can take to make this less terrifying. What are some things I can ask myself about writing in a niche, to find out what exactly my niche was. Now, I already had a niggling thought in the back of my head of what that might be, but I didn't necessarily want to force myself into it.
The first question in my list was: What do I want to share with the world?
This was easy. I want to share fantasy with everyone. I want to share it in a way that makes everyone feel included. Women, men, transgender, genderqueer, gay, straight, bisexual, asexual, aromantic, everyone, everywhere should be able to read a fantasy book and think, "oh wow, I wish that I could experience that." Doing research on websites similar to Free porn 7 would be great if you were writing an erotica novel. You can certainly discover some experiences on those kinds of websites.
The second question was: Okay, but what do you want to share with the world ON YOUR BLOG?
This wasn't so easy. In fact, it's what caused the several day panic attack. I want to share myself with the world. I want to let everyone know who I am and where I come from and why I'm the way I am. But I also want to share with the world the things that are wrong, and the things that are right and the things that are beautiful. I want to teach the world to accept not only itself but everyone else, and to see that we are all the same in that we dream beautiful dreams.
That lead to the question: But how can I share this with the world?
A friend of mine, Chris Votey, brought up the idea of interviews with other LGBTQA writers, Reviews of other writer's work, and offering myself as a representative of Asexual culture. Which, honestly, I wouldn't find too bad. It would take a lot of time, and energy however. But, I find the more I think about it, the less I mind. Because really, isn't it about what I give, not what it takes from me? Then, I thought about what else I could do to share my dream of representation with the world.
Resources. I could provide resources for things that most people don't think of. I could try to provide a unique look into certain subcultures. I could write about the things that interest me, and hopefully, provide enough information that others would like it. But that won't get me any closer to being like those I admire. That won't bring me the same sort of love that Misha Collins, Andrew Hussie, or Neil Gaiman have. That won't help others to see my words.
Then, I thought that perhaps I could start with lists. With things that I find out, over the course of my journey to become a full-fledged author. Such as this list that you're reading right now. That definitely helped to ease my panic a little. Because lists, lists are small, and easy, and quickly done, so I can definitely work with them. Another thing I could have tried is perhaps snippets of information found throughout the internet like on websites similar to hd porn video if you wanted tips on the adult industry. Or perhaps little anecdotes from my life that help me to focus on what it is I am working on.
But that's all very abstract and not very well thought out. So, I rewrote it.
1) What is it that I want to share with the world?
– Representation for all, and fantasy that everyone can enjoy.
2) What is it that I want to share with those reading my blog?
-Ways to spread Representation, My thoughts on LGBTQA representation, and my progress in my quest for more.
3) How am I to share this?
– Lists
– Personal anecdotes
– Resources found throughout my internet trawling
– Interviews with other LGBTQA writers
– Reviews of websites, blogs and books written for/by other LGBTQA writers
– Snippets of my writing and writing styles
And there you have it. My path to finding my niche, and settling into it. I hope this helps you, because it certainly helped me. If you need any more information, please, leave a comment, or email me, and I'll be happy to help you find your niche too. And please, don't hesitate to speak up.more


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TORONTO, May 12 (UPI) -- Dion Phaneuf and Phil Kessel each scored in the third period Sunday and Toronto forced a Game 7 in its playoff series with 2-1 win over Boston.
Phaneuf netted his first career playoff goal on the redirection of a Nazem Kadri shot from the high slot 1:48 into he final frame, breaking a scoreless tie.
Kessel doubled the Maple Leafs' advantage at the 9-minute mark, backhanding a loose puck in the crease over Boston goalie Tuukka Rask for what turned out to be the game-winner.
James van Riemsdyk assisted on both tallies as Toronto won in a do-or-die Eastern Conference quarterfinal contest, setting up a deciding seventh game Monday in Boston.
James Reimer turned aside 29-of-30 shots in backstopping the Leafs to their first home playoff victory since 2004.
Milan Lucic got one back for the Bruins with 26 seconds remaining, but Boston could get no closer.
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Brockton Police Chief Robert Hayden will return to work this week after being seriously injured in a bicycle accident last month.
BROCKTON – Police Chief Robert Hayden was sedated on morphine and painkillers, in a hospital bed and close to death after a serious bicycle accident in recent weeks.
The 72-year-old Hayden suffered a dozen broken ribs, a broken shoulder, a punctured lung and a concussion after he collided with a moving car while riding his bike in Hingham on June 22. The crash led to emergency surgery for internal bleeding.
He spent about a month in the hospital – including 12 days in the intensive care unit at South Shore Hospital in Weymouth.
Two things helped Hayden, who is also a cancer survivor, to recover from the horrific accident – the love and support of his family and the unwavering support of the people of Brockton, he said Sunday.
"When you suffer something like that, you get called upon to either give up or keep going," he said. "At one point, I said, 'Hey, I'm only halfway through helping the City of Brockton. You can't give up now. This is Brockton. This is Rocky Marciano territory. Don't even think of being a wimp.'"
Hayden, a former Boston Police deputy superintendent and Lawrence police chief, will be sworn in, again, on Tuesday for another 60-day term in Brockton.
"I'm really looking forward to coming back," said Hayden, a Hingham resident. "My plans are to come back and pick up where I left off."
Mayor Bill Carpenter appointed Hayden as police chief in January over the objections of police union officials and several city councilors. Hayden said Sunday he expects to work as police chief through December.
"I promised Brockton, myself and the mayor that I'd do one solid year in trying to make Brockton safer," he said.
The mayor on Sunday said he's excited that Hayden is returning to work this week.
"He is Superman. He's the real-life Clint Eastwood. Clint Eastwood is an actor. This guy is the real thing," Carpenter said. "He's a leader, he's tough, he's compassionate, he's honest. He's just a one-of-a-kind person."
On June 29, Carpenter dedicated his demolition ride at the Brockton Fair to Hayden. Hayden visited the police station last week to meet with police officials, Carpenter said.
"Just the troops seeing him in the station and hearing him on the radio, it will mean a lot to the officers," said Carpenter, whose son is a Brockton police detective. "It will mean a lot to the city."
Brockton Police Lt. John Crowley has been serving as acting police chief in Hayden's absence. Carpenter said Hayden was not paid during his leave of absence. He is to work up to 960 hours per year as stipulated by state pension law.
"He has not earned a cent while he was out, because his deal with us is the 960 hours a year that comes out to $51,000 that is broken down to an hourly rate," Carpenter said.
Hayden "is really fired up to get back to work," said Bob Buckley, Carpenter's chief of staff. "We're just happy to have the chief back."
Among Hayden's goals when he returns to work include his plans to get the top 50 worst criminals off city streets. He said Brockton police are actively working with federal and state authorities to meet that goal.
"We're still targeting them and going after them," he said.
The department's eight-member motorcycle unit, led by Sgt. Michael Damiano, will also continue to patrol city streets, he said.
"It's a special unit that is there to instill pride in the residents and put fear into the bad guys," Hayden said. "The key is just being relentless, never ever relaxing."
Hayden said he'll also see through his initiative to create a stress unit at the Brockton Police Department to help its 174 police officers deal with the tragedies they encounter on the job.
"This is something every (police) department should have," Hayden said. "It's a macho thing, people don't want to admit it, but any modern police department recognizes it."
In March, Hayden fell and broke his nose and suffered two black eyes during a weekend run. After being injured last month, Hayden said he's "officially out of the accident business."
He called his recent injuries "a temporary setback" that won't stop him from working to make Brockton safer.
"I will not walk away from what I said I'm going to try to accomplish there," Hayden said. "I will finish it out and try to make it a safer city for everybody."
Maria Papadopoulos may be reached at email@example.com or follow on Twitter @MariaP_ENT.


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God Siva is among the most mysterious, complex, compassionate and profound conceptions of the one Supreme Being to be found in the religions of mankind. He is looked upon as the Creator, Preserver and Destroyer of all existence, the Cosmic Dancer who animates the universe from within. He is honored as Pure Love, Light, Energy and Consciousness. He is contemplated as the timeless, formless and spaceless Absolute Reality. In all three of these perfections is Siva revered in Kauai's Hindu temple.
In Ways to Siva, curator Joseph Dye Lahendro wrote: "Who is Siva? What is Siva? To His devotees, Siva is everything: He is the root and support of the universe; He is the creative-destructive flow of life that rushes through it. He is motion and calm, male and female, light and dark, ascetic and lover, everything and its opposite. Siva is an ambiguous God who embodies, defines and reconciles within Himself all of life's processes and paradoxes. Siva is existence. He embodies the structure of the universe."
Living with Siva, by Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, explains, "Siva dances in the atoms throughout this universe. Siva dances energetically, eternally. Siva is eternal movement. His mind is all-pervasive, and thus He sees and knows everything in all spheres simultaneously and without effort. Siva is the Self, and He is the energy we put forth to know the Self. He is the mystery which makes us see Him as separate from us. He is the energy of life, the power in the wind. He is the dissolution called death, the peace of motionless air. He is the great force of the ocean and the stillness on a calm lake. Siva is All and in all. Our great God Siva is beyond time, beyond space, beyond form and form's creation, and yet He uses time and causes form. He is in the sky, in the clouds, in the swirling galaxies. Siva's cosmic dance of creation, preservation and dissolution is happening this very moment in every atom of the cosmos. God Siva is immanent, with a beautiful human-like form which can actually be seen and has been seen by many mystics in visions." Twenty centuries ago Rishi Tirumular, a South Indian saint, praised Siva's dance: "In all worlds He is, the Holy Lord. In darkness He is, light He is. In sun He is, in moon He is. Everywhere He is. The Lord is in all creation. None knows His coming and going. He is distant. He is near. Multiple He is. One He is. Water, earth, sky, fire and wind, the spark within the body--all these He is. He is the walking soul here below. Deathless He is."
The religion of Siva: Those who worship Lord Siva are Saivites, and their religion is called Saivite Hinduism. Saivism represents roughly half, perhaps somewhat more, of Hinduism's one billion members. It shares more common ground than differences with other denominations. Scholars tell us Saivite Hinduism is mankind's oldest religion, the venerable Sanatana Dharma. They trace its roots back 6,000 years and more to the Indus Valley civilization. But sacred writings and legend tell us that there never was a time when Saivism did not exist. Its grandeur derives from a sweet tolerance for the views of others, coupled with a practical culture, an emphasis on personal spiritual effort and experience, the perception that God is everywhere present, and therefore no aspect of life may be divided from religion, and a joyous devotion to the one God which all men worship and which it knows as Siva, "the Auspicious One," and the knowledge that Truth lies within man himself.
The four sacred Vedas, mankind's oldest scriptures, intone, "To Rudra [Siva], Lord of sacrifice, of hymns and balmy medicines, we pray for joy and health and strength. He shines in splendor like the sun, refulgent as bright gold is He, the good, the best among the Gods (Rig Veda 43.4?5)." "He is God, hidden in all beings, their inmost soul who is in all. He watches the works of creation, lives in all things, watches all things. He is pure consciousness, beyond the three conditions of nature (Yajur Veda, Svet.U.6.11)." "There the eye goes not, nor words, nor mind. We know not. We cannot understand how He can be explained. He is above the known, and He is above the unknown (Sama Veda, Kena U. 1.3)." "Fire is His head, the sun and moon His eyes, space His ears, the Vedas His speech, the wind His breath, the universe His heart. From His feet the Earth has originated. Verily, He is the inner Self of all beings. (Atharva Veda, Mund.U. 2.1.4)."
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On a slow news day there are some stories that make it to page one that would normally be lost inside with the ads. This is most likely the case with the coverage of President Obama's apology for the burning of Qurans at Bagram Air Base last week. Prompted by riots that broke out across Afghanistan, he tried to head off an escalation of violence. It was inadvertent, he said, we'll implement new training procedures, it won't happen again and we're sorry.
It wasn't too late but apparently it was too little. Nearly three-dozen people now lay dead over the desecration of the religious manifestos. Riots have continued for the better part of the week and our embassy is on lockdown. Not only was the apology spurned, the president also had to take heat for even issuing it in the first place, some on the right claiming this as yet another display of weakness in the face of our enemies. It should all have been a page three story. Except for the death part.
The taking of lives over burnt Qurans is definitely worth pondering. This incident brings to the forefront the tenuous relationship the West holds with the Middle East. Is it relevant whether the books were destroyed accidentally or purposefully? Has not Old Glory been set afire and stomped upon publicly, repeatedly? Have the Muslims not burned in effigy every one of our presidents since Jimmy Carter? Have they not dragged the bodies of our soldiers through the streets? For these acts of disrespect have we rioted and demanded blood? Would we assassinate their dignitaries were they to burn Bibles?
Answering these rhetorical questions puts us in an uncomfortable position as apologists. It was not the burning of Qurans that sparked the outrage. That was merely fuel for Al Qaeda and the Taliban to pour onto the ever smoldering hatred toward all things Western, an opportunity to re-ignite the jihad for the destruction of the United States and Israel. We continue to step into traps such as this, not because of what we have done, but because of who we are in their eyes: The Great Satan, a nation of infidels in league with the Zionists. We can conclude our present campaign, draw down our troops, even withdraw from the battle, but we will never be able to withdraw from this war. Ever.
The Muslim population is the fastest growing on the planet, comprising about 25 percent of the world's population. It's not surprising, then, to learn that Islam is the fastest growing religion with 1.5 billion members. Although many claim only a small percentage of these believers are radicals or extremists, it is irrelevant — on the whole, this is not a peaceful religion. As one hadith declares, "Paradise lies under the shade of swords."
Like Communism, Islam demands world dominance. Unlike Communism, Islam is not godless and, because of its religious mandates, is far more dangerous. Progressivism, with its inherent broad-spectrum tolerances, presents a naivety toward this very real threat that makes it ripe for assimilation. As liberals champion the rights of Muslims in America, tens of thousands of madrassas worldwide indoctrinate their youth to reject the very same ideals. Those who, like Hillary Clinton, would brand "Islamophobes" as outlaws would do well to understand this: 60 percent of Muslims fear the rise of radicals within their own ranks. Yet speaking out against those who want to destroy us may soon be labeled a hate crime. For that we must truly be sorry.
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Rory McIlroy feels there has been an overreaction to news he has an irregular heartbeat.
The 28-year-old endured an injury-plagued 2017 season and said in September he would subject himself to "basically a full health MOT type of thing".
And McIlroy revealed that tests showed he has an irregular heartbeat, but insists it is not a cause for major concern.
McIlroy, who failed to win a tournament last season for just the second time in his professional career, ended his year early due to a rib problem, but that is no longer an issue.
"The rib's fine, no problems whatsoever," he said in his interview with the Telegraph. "I had an MRI scan on my thoracic spine and all was OK.
"But I've got a bit of an irregularity with my heart that I have to keep on top of.
"I have a flat T-wave and I'll have to get an echo (cardiogram) on my heart every six months and an MRI scan every year.
"I suffered a really bad viral infection in China 18 months ago and they told me that's the reason that I have this thickening of my left ventricle and there's a bit of scar tissue.
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FBI Instructs Agents Never 'Shake Hands With An Asian'
When FBI training materials containing anti-Muslim stereotypes leaked to the press last year, FBI Director Robert Mueller called them "isolated incidents." But a subsequent federal investigation, not yet complete, has so far found 876 pages and 392 presentations that are far more offensive than previously imagined.
The findings, which were only shown to the Senate Judiciary Committee, outraged some Democratic senators. Sen. Richard Durbin of Illinois disclosed a few of the more chilling findings, which he said left him "disappointed" and "disturbed."
These included a slide that advised trainees: "Never attempt to shake hands with an Asian," "Never stare at an Asian," and "Never try to speak to an Asian female prior to approaching Arab male first."
Another slide states that the "Western Mind" is "even keel," while in the Arab world, "Outbursts and loss of control are expected" and "What's wrong with frequent Jekyll and Hyde temper tantrums."
Another slide said, "Under certain circumstances, the FBI has the ability to bend or suspend the law and impinge the freedom of others."
"Time and time again when that is done, it has not made us safer," a stunned Durbin told Wired's Danger Room.
Durbin fears that the FBI is trying to keep the findings quiet, which could damage the government's relationships with Muslim and Arab communities, and ultimately harm counterterrorism efforts. The FBI has had longstanding outreach initiatives with Muslim communities in order to recruit sources and gather intelligence.
But the FBI's relationship with Muslim American communities was strained even before the training materials leaked. In February 2009, it emerged that the FBI had planted a covert agent in California mosques, which the FBI neither confirmed nor denied. Ten Muslim groups called it "McCarthy-era tactics" and threatened to stop working with the FBI.
The FBI also severed its relationship with the country's largest Muslim advocacy group, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, around the same time, after an FBI investigation found that it had links to Hamas. The Council on American-Islamic Relations denied the charge, and called it an "unfortunate legacy" of the George W. Bush administration's attempts to marginalize them.
Before that point, representatives of the Council on American-Islamic Relations used to give training sessions to agents.
On Tuesday, the American Civil Liberties Union also released FBI records that showed that the bureau's San Francisco division had used Muslim outreach efforts to collect intelligence. The FBI claims that this information gathering was legitimate. The ACLU says it was illegal.
In a separate case, TheAssociated Press revealed that the New York Police Department conducted extensive surveillance of local Muslim populations.
Mueller has said that the cooperation of Muslim communities is "tremendously important," and that revelations, such as the one about offensive training materials, "set us back."
President Obama's top counterterrorism adviser called the FBI training "substandard and offensive" and "completely counter to our values ... and our broader counterterrorism efforts."
The FBI doesn't plan to produce a written report of the investigation, or release the findings to Congress or the public. Only members of the Senate Judiciary Committee can see them, and even then, only at FBI headquarters. The FBI also hasn't made a public apology.
"I believe that sunlight is the best antiseptic," Durbin wrote to Mueller on Tuesday, "and that making public the results of the FBI's review would be an important step to restoring the trust of the American people, especially American Muslims and Arab Americans."
Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota, whose state has the largest population of Somali Muslims in the U.S., has also hinted at his disapproval of the FBI's response. At the Senate Judiciary Committee's FBI oversight hearing in December, the Democrat asked Mueller: "Has the FBI issued a clear and unequivocal apology to the Muslim American community for the bigoted and inflammatory statements found in those materials?"
Mueller replied that the FBI had apologized to individual Muslim American leaders.
Durbin expressed further concern that no FBI employee has been held accountable or disciplined for the offensive training. He's also worried that the investigation isn't looking into who received the training, writing "there is a real risk that agents will be operating on false assumptions about Arab Americans and American Muslims."
The FBI has a tarnished history when it comes to its dealings with Muslims. In the 1960s, the FBI's covert and often illegal counterintelligence program COINTELPRO targeted black Muslim groups, like the Nation of Islam. In documents, the FBI explicitly advised the discrediting and "destruction of the organization."
In his letter, Durbin advises Mueller to develop a detailed training curriculum on Islam. The steps the FBI has taken so far to rectify this incident, he writes, aren't "clear," and certainly aren't "adequate."
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During most of his 40-plus-year career, Marques Haynes, one of the world's finest ballhandlers, flashed his style on court with both the Harlem Globetrotters (from 1947-53 and 1972-79) and the Magicians (from 1953-72 and 1983-92). Haynes started as a collegiate star at Langston University (1942-46) where he was a four-time All-State, All-Conference, and team MVP selection. He led Langston in scoring all four years and led the University to a 112-3 record, a mark that included a 59-game winning streak. With the Globetrotters and the Magicians, Haynes became an internationally famous athlete and basketball entertainer. Haynes played in more than 12,000 games, traveled more than four million miles, and captivated fans in 97 countries around the globe. His dribbling style confused and confounded opponents and became one of the Globetrotters' most potent offensive weapons.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- Time Warner Cable no longer will show commercials for semiautomatic weapons, the company said Friday.
In a statement, TWC said the ban includes ads that show guns being pointed at people, MultiChannel News reported.
"We stand by this policy. If it's essential to a business owner to show this kind of imagery in their commercials, there are other advertising options in the marketplace," TWC said.
The mass killing of 20 children and six staffers at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in December has sparked a new debate on gun control.
A recent commercial sponsored by the National Rifle Association on the Sportsman Channel called President Obama "an elitist hypocrite." The ad suggested Obama should not oppose the NRA's proposal for armed guards in all schools when his own daughters are guarded by armed Secret Service agents.


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- How Will Toney Douglas Fare in Game 2? He was incredibly frustrating in game 1 against Boston, taking 19 shots and failing to distribute the basketball efficiently. Tonight is a game, with Steph Curry probably out, that Douglas should do well in. This game could potentially be a track meet and Douglas should be able to prosper in that type of game. It will be interesting to see what happens tonight.
- How Will Amar'e be Used Tonight? Lets face it. David Lee is a nice player but his defense may be worse than Stoudemire's. STAT should see plenty of touches tonight. He dominated last season against the Warriors and I expect him to be dominant tonight. The Knicks did not run pick and roll with STAT in game 1 and thats something I want to see tonight. I know Douglas is sub-par as a point but I've seen him run pick and roll efficiently. Amar'e should get about 15-20 shot attempts tonight against a smaller, less-athletic David Lee.
- How Will the Knicks Defend Tonight? The Knicks need to continue to improve defensively as the season goes on. With the exception of the 3rd quarter, the Knicks were good defensively versus the Celtics on Christmas. The Warriors can score the basketball. Even if Curry does not play, they still have Dorrell Wright, David Lee and Monta Ellis. It will be interesting to see how the Knicks perimeter defense does tonight. As Jared Dubin of Outside the Arc has pointed out, the Knicks perimeter defense is the true weakness of this defense. With Chandler down low, the interior defense is gonna be solid but the Knicks tonight need to close out on shooters and D up people on the wings.


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Grey's Anatomy will have something in common with Glee next season!
The ABC medical drama, which has been set at Seattle Grace since the show's first season, will split its time between two locations in Season 9.
Eric Dane leaving Grey's Anatomy
The harrowing and tragic season finale saw the Stranded Six — Meredith (Ellen Pompeo), Derek (Patrick Dempsey), Cristina (Sandra Oh), Mark (Eric Dane), Arizona (Jessica Capshaw) and Lexie (Chyler Leigh) — crash-land in the mountains, with Lexie subsequently succumbing to her injuries. (Apparently, she might not be the only one to die since Eric Dane is also exiting the series sometime next season). Even though there seemed to be no hope on the horizon in the closing moments of the finale, the doctors will eventually get rescued since the Season 9 premiere will jump ahead two to three months, executive producer Shonda Rhimes tells TVGuide.com. But that doesn't mean we won't see what transpired in those mountains. Get the scoop from Rhimes below, including Derek's new troubles, Bailey's wedding (!) and Calzona's fate:
You left the doctors in the woods without rescue! Will there be a time jump next season or are you picking up right where you left off?
Shonda Rhimes: We're doing something really interesting that we've never really done before. As you know, I try to reinvent every season. When we start the season, we're two to three months in the future and we're well settled into the year for these doctors. We're watching them do what they're going to do. They're located where they're going to be located, things are happening. You see the aftermath of what happened. You're left with some questions as to how this happened and "Why is this the way it is?" and "Why is that the way it is?" Then, in the second episode of the season, we start back in the woods. We go from there and you see what happens. Then ensuing episodes, you're back to regular time and we're back on our timeline.
What can you talk about in regards to the structure of this season? At the end of last season, the doctors planned to take jobs elsewhere, so are we seeing a show that's just set at Seattle Grace or are we seeing a show that is set at many hospitals?
Rhimes: We're seeing a show set at Seattle Grace and someplace else. What's interesting to me is that I didn't want us to feel like you're coming back and magically everyone is back home. You understand why some people stayed and why some people left. There are some very clear reasons what happened. It's very challenging playing an entirely separate story line in another location.
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Can you tell us where this location is?
Rhimes: I don't want to say where the location is because that would be too spoilery. It's a hospital. When we come back at the beginning of the season, some of our doctors are in different locations, more than one of them, and some of our doctors are preparing to leave for different locations.
We've seen the doctors deal with PTSD after the shooting. How will this be different from what we saw before?
Rhimes: What's interesting to me about what we're doing this time is that it's not that we've traumatized them by having a plane crash like when they were shot. There are real physical aftereffects for all of our people that they're dealing with. More importantly, we're not coming back to a bunch of traumatized people, though flying is pretty much out of the question for any of them. I would say Meredith is an ultimate survivor. She's been through the shooting, and now she's been through the plane crash. Their attitudes are very different. They already have the coping mechanisms in place, so it's just a very different attitude.
Still, Meredith is dealing with the loss of her sister Lexie. How has Meredith changed?
Rhimes: You're going to find a very different person. We really talked about it a lot and really worked to figure out what she would be like when we came back to her. As importantly, they've gone from being residents to being Attendings. Now they're in charge. They're absolutely in charge of their own destinies and in charge of their own people. They're now on a footing with all these doctors who they used to work under so you're watching what that means for them, all of them.
Surgeons need their hands! We saw Derek severely injure his hand in the accident. How will we see him dealing with that?
Rhimes: Any of the people we saw injured are not going to be A-OK when we come back, that's not what we're doing. What's interesting for me is we really planned the idea that we're going to watch what happens to a doctor who can temporarily no longer perform surgery...When Burke injured his hand, it was very much about keeping it a secret. It's not about that. This is really, very clearly who you blame when your hand is injured like this. And what do you do and how do you overcome this? Derek is being pretty heroic about it, which is interesting.
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What can you tell us about Cristina's journey next season? Are she and Owen (Kevin McKidd) really over or are there attempts to reconcile?
Rhimes: I've dubbed this the season of romance purposefully. I feel like one of the things we're going to be seeing this season is Cristina and Owen finding their way back to each other. It's not going to be easy and it's not going to be quick, but I think it's going to be really beautiful. I'm happy because I love them, so I'm excited.
Will Alex (Justin Chambers) feel any sort of guilt over Arizona taking his place on the plane?
Rhimes: Yes, there is some very dark stuff happening for him in terms of that idea. He's trying not to feel guilty and trying not to feel a sense of responsibility, but he does.
You're saying it's the season of romance, so does that mean we'll see more Callie (Sara Ramirez) and Arizona romance? Just hoping Jessica Capshaw is coming back.
Rhimes: I don't want to say anything about that yet. The first episode would have to air and then I'm happy to talk about it, but I don't want to say anything yet.
What can you tell us about the state of Ben and Bailey's (Chandra Wilson) relationship next season since Jason George is on Mistresses?
Rhimes: We're still using Ben. Jason George is still showing up for work. We're very grateful to Mistresses for the loan. They're letting us continue to tell stories about Ben and Bailey. They're having a great deal of fun. A happy Bailey is delightful and very funny. It's interesting because in the finale, we originally shot a scene in which Ben showed up and said, "We're going to City Hall right now and getting married." We played it out, but I cut it from the show because there was something about it that I felt like denied the audience. They're not technically married at this moment, but we'll probably see that happen and really enjoy it.
How does April (Sarah Drew) fit into the world of Grey's Anatomy now?
Rhimes: You won't see April Kepner bartending at Joe's bar. She has a part to play in the world and there are some surprising moments to show us how that happens. April Kepner goes home. How she comes back is pretty charming and interesting and it happens in the first episode.
Grey's Anatomy returns Thursday, Sept. 27 at 9/8c on ABC.