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Eds. note: The Herald's Basketball Player of the Week is tallied by combining the winner of the fan voting along with votes by Herald staffers who attended games last week. Voting ends at 9 p.m. Monday night.
Here's a look at the nominees:
• Arlington's Terry Dawn scored 26 and 20 points in wins over Lynnwood and Monroe, respectively, as the Eagles went 2-0 to remain in first place in 4A North.
• Mountlake Terrace's Blake Fernandez scored 16 and 15 points in wins over Meadowdale and Everett, respectively, as the Hawks remained tied with Shorewood for first place in the 3A South.
• Marysville Getchell's Nathen Grimm scored 33 points in a win over crosstown rival Marysville Pilchuck and also had 17 in a win over Shorecrest as the Chargers tied Oak Harbor for second place in the 3A North.
• Grace Academy's Jeremiah Lee scored 14 and 17 points in wins over Highland Christian and Lopez Island, respectively, as the Eagles went 2-0 last week.
• Archbishop Murphy's Connor Longoria scored 12 points to lead the Wildcats to an upset victory over King's and also had 18 in a win over Granite Falls as Murphy jumped over Sultan into third place in the Cascade Conference.
• La Conner's Spencer Novak scored 14 points in a win over Cedar Park Christian-Mountlake Terrace to remain unbeaten and in first place in the Northwest 1A/2B/1B standings. Novak also had 23 points in a win over South Whidbey and 12 in a win over Darrington.
• Stanwood's Cannen Roberson scored 23 points in a win over Meadowdale and had 14 points and 10 rebounds in a win over Oak Harbor as the Spartans clinched a Wesco 3A North title.
• Glacier Peak's Ramsey Rosales had 13 points (Everett) and 18 (Oak Harbor) as the Grizzlies went 2-0 last week.
• Jackson's Jason Todd scored 30 points in a win over Mount Vernon and had 29 in a three-point win over Edmonds-Woodway as the Timberwolves remained unbeaten.
• Kamiak's Imaan Vicente had 34 points in a win over Lynnwood as the Knights clinched a district berth. Vicente also had 26 points in a loss to Monroe earlier in the week.


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Experience the adventures of the great detective Sherlock Holmes like never before with Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments, the first game in the series designed in Unreal Engine 3 for an evolutionary leap in graphic detail. Environments is more realistic and finely detailed with dynamic lighting and shadows. Powerful new visual systems allow for smooth movement and motion transitions, real-time shaders and a particle system, and advanced post-processing effects.
Unlike the previous adventures of Sherlock Holmes, in Crimes and Punishments you will not be a mere spectator during the detective's investigation. It is now your turn to truly become Sherlock Holmes and lead your own investigation–actually, your investigations, as 8 captivating cases await you! Murders, disappearances, spectacular thefts, and other investigations will bring you to the cutting edge of the detective genre. Each case, written in the pure tradition of Conan Doyle's novels, offers real freedom to players, who will have to make important moral choices instead of simply enforcing justice by the book. All decisions have an influence in the game and affect your character's reputation in addition to having realistic, sometimes unexpected, consequences. You will have to bear the weight of your choices, as Crimes and Punishments offers an exciting system of actions/consequences that forces players to think before acting by giving true depth to every decision they make.
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Release Date: Q4 2013
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Vasil Bilak, hard-line communist leader, dies
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Vasil Bilak, a former hard-line communist leader who paved the way for Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, has died. He was 96.
Slovakia's Communist Party said Bilak died Tuesday in the capital of Slovakia, Bratislava, where he lived. No cause of death was given.
Bilak was among the communists who opposed Alexander Dubcek's attempts at reforming the communist regime in Czechoslovakia in late 1960s that became known as the Prague Spring. Bilak is better remembered as one of five communist leaders who wrote a letter inviting Soviet troops into the country that crushed the movement in 1968.
"The very existence of socialism in our country is threatened," the letter addressed to Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet Communist Party chief, urging him to use "all means you have in your disposal to help."
Bilak was the last living author of the letter.
Vaclav Havel, who led the 1989 Velvet Revolution that ended more than 40 years of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia, was given a copy of the letter by Russian President Boris Yeltsin in 1992.
More than 100 people were killed in 1968 by the Soviet Union-led invasion of armies from five Warsaw Pact countries.
As a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, he played a major role in establishing the hard-line regime following the invasion. In the 1980s, Bilak opposed Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms.
Bilak survived efforts to try him for his role in 1968. In 2011, the Slovak state prosecution dropped the case for lack of evidence.
He was born Aug 11, 1917, in the village of Krajna Bystra in northeastern Slovakia.
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When Dean Kelly was growing up in Chelmsford, he had drawing on his mind. And Disney movies were a major part of pushing him along in putting his pens and pencils to paper.
Kelly now lives in Northern California, where he's living out his dream as a team member at Pixar, and just served as lead story artist on Pixar's newest feature "Coco."
In an interview in Boston to promote the film, Kelly was asked to name an animated film he saw as a kid that got him thinking about doing this as a career and he listed: "Pinocchio," "Peter Pan," "Who Framed Roger Rabbit."
Kelly said he learned about and practiced his craft at Rhode Island School of Design, later landed a job at a commercial animation studio in Minneapolis when his girlfriend (now his wife) wanted to move back there to be close to her family, and finally headed west, where he did character layout on "The Simpsons," then character layout and storyboarding at Nickelodeon on "Avatar: The Last Airbender."
After sending his portfolio to Pixar, he scored a job as a member of the story artist team for them on "Monsters University."
Kelly spoke about "Coco," a story set in Mexico on The Day of the Dead, in which young Miguel tries to figure a way to share his love of music with his family, none of whom will even allow the sound of any music in their home. "Coco" opens in local theaters Wednesday.
What led up to you getting the job on "Coco?"
I was doing the storyboards on "Monsters University, and when Lee Unkrich ("Toy Story 3"), who had helped us on "Monsters University," got the green light to direct "Coco," he remembered seeing the work I was doing on those storyboards, and how cinematic they were. So, he called me into the story room and pitched me the story of "Coco."
A young boy named Miguel is at the center of the story, but wasn't the original idea quite different from how it turned out?
Oh, yes. It was about his mom, being on her deathbed. They lived in America, but the mom was from Mexico. So, the kid – who was initially named Marco – and his dad went down to Mexico to meet the mom's side of the family. There were some great visuals for it, but the story was just too heavy for Pixar.
Tell me a little more about Miguel.
Miguel is a 12-year-old Mexican boy who grows up in a family of modest shoemakers. He's next in line to become a shoemaker, but he doesn't want to do that. He wants to be a musician, to play guitar. But something happened in his family's past that he knows nothing about. Something involving music affected his great-great-grandmother, and she banned it from the family. Now he feels like he's this black sheep, and doesn't know how to connect to his family.
On The Day of the Dead, when Mexicans who celebrate it believe there's an otherworldly connection you can have with people, Miguel is looking at the holiday as a means to an end to try to try to connect to his great-great-grandfather, who he believes to be a musician.
The film goes for and achieves a great amount of visual detail. Is that part of what falls under your responsibilities?
My main responsibility was to storyboard and draw and shoot the scenes I normally do, but then I would also go to small meetings with the director and writer and supervisor, talking about creating solutions for the film before the other story artists were brought in. There would be other meetings where we would talk about how dirty to make Miguel's pants or how difficult would it be to have him put his hands in his hoodie all the time.
One thing that really stands out is whenever someone is playing guitar in the film, it looks absolutely real; all of the fingerings are exactly right. How did you go about that?
We brought in musicians who could play those chords, and the animators filmed them. That's what animators usually do once a film gets into production. They will study behavior, and that's how they bring stuff to life. With this, they made sure that in the film the fingers were touching and pushing down on the strings. I couldn't believe the amount of detail they got for authenticity and believability.
Getting back to the story being heavy, there's a point, as there have been in many Pixar films before it, where if audience members, of any age, don't start crying, they probably don't have any emotions. Is it a rule of Pixar films to make people cry, even if they're happy tears?
I feel like the emotional aspect is something that we try to really dig deep for. We want to bring in real truths. That's something I feel that cinema should be doing even for movies that mostly kids watch. I want kids to watch films and see the truth in life, and have them laugh and cry.
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Decades after MLK death, Memphis jobs in spotlight
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Decades after Martin Luther King Jr. was shot to death here, some of the striking sanitation workers who marched with him are again fighting for their jobs.
In 1968, wages were so low that some workers had to stand in welfare lines to feed their families. Working conditions were so dangerous men were dying on the job. Today, the divisiveness is over whether the people who pick up the garbage should be government employees or whether the service should be turned over to private contractors.
City council members who favor privatization say the city can't afford to ignore a chance to save $8 million to $15 million in a tight budget.
"It looks like they're trying to take us down again," said 81-year-old Elmore Nickleberry, one of the original strikers who still drives a garbage truck at night. Nickleberry and fellow strikers are expected to take part in a march Thursday to honor King's sacrifice on the 45th anniversary of his death.
The shadow of 1968 still looms over Nickleberry and 1,300 other workers. They were overworked and underpaid, picking up grimy, leaking waste without proper uniforms. They faced the daily risk of severe injury or death while working with malfunctioning garbage trucks.
They took a job no one else wanted, mostly black workers picking up the trash of white people, serving in what some scholars liken to an urban extension of plantation life on the cotton fields. Their demeaning nickname: "walking buzzards."
After two workers were crushed to death in a truck's compactor, the sanitation workers went on strike Feb. 11. They demanded better working conditions, the right to unionize and a raise that would take them off welfare lines. The situation had obvious racial undertones: Most of the workers were black, and city officials standing against the union were white.
With the slogan "I am a man," the workers also wanted the respect and dignity that comes with doing a low-paying, back-breaking job with great pride and effort.
King came to Memphis to support them. He delivered his last public speech April 3, declaring, "I've been to the mountaintop."
The next day, standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel, King was killed by James Earl Ray.
The assassination led to riots in Memphis and several cities. But the strike, stained forever with King's blood, turned to victory when the city agreed to a 10-cent raise and other demands, including unionization.
Labor scholars call it a watershed moment.
"It signified the close relationship between labor relations and civil rights and human rights," said Thomas Kochan, an industrial relations professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. "Dr. King epitomized a leader who recognized that relationship, and that's what brought him to Memphis."
Much has changed since then. Memphis has had a black mayor since the early 1990s, and today's city council is majority black.
But in 2013, the power of unions in America isn't what it was in 1968. And the lure of privatization is strong for cash-strapped public officials.
The move toward privatization began to swell two years ago, when the city council agreed to offer buyouts to retirement age employees. The buyout plan was never implemented, and the money was used elsewhere.
Talk of opening garbage and recycling collection and hauling to private bidders remained mostly dormant until late March, when City Councilman Kemp Conrad asked Mayor A C Wharton Jr.'s administration for an update.
Conrad said the $25 per household solid waste fee is too high.
Officials have been slashing costs in the sanitation department. It currently has 124 unfilled positions out of about 619 jobs, resulting in $5 million in savings.
Conrad contends a private company likely will use more technically advanced trucks that would require fewer workers and make almost double the number of stops in one day.
Conrad supported a $13 million voluntary buyout plan and blames inaction from the administration for allowing about 35 eligible workers to retire without a buyout option. After buyouts are taken, Conrad says, the city could outsource the remaining jobs.
"It's just another example of not focusing on the basics of city government, the nuts-and-bolts core services, and our employees lose and the taxpayers lose," Conrad said.
San Francisco and Toledo, Ohio, have privatized sanitation services. Other cities have fluctuated between private and public garbage collection. Phoenix and Indianapolis have managed competition, which allows a city or a public agency to make its own bid to compete with offers from private companies.
Chad Johnson is the local point man for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. Johnson's goal is to preserve the jobs of the current sanitation employees, while also shedding light on some current problems within the department: an aging truck fleet, subpar training, insufficient retirement benefits and, once again, problems with worker safety.
"Unfortunately, 45 years later, I have to say, we haven't made as much progress," said Johnson. "We're still talking about sanitation employees being seen as 'less than,' being treated poorly by management, being treated poorly by the citizenry, being treated poorly by the city council, being treated poorly by the administration."
Wharton said he will not be personally involved in the negotiations but could step in if needed. He stressed he is not advocating privatization but has mentioned managed competition as a "feasible" option.
George Little, Memphis' chief administrative officer, plans to update the council in early May.
For now, the uncertainty worries Nickleberry.
"They're trying to take everything (King) did for us, they're trying to take it all back," Moore said. "I don't think it's right."


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Although in March 2015 we achieved our goal of a ban on cosmetics testing on animals, the ban only applies to those products manufactured within New Zealand, not imported. Crude and painful experiments continue to be carried out on thousands of animals to test new cosmetics and household products or their ingredients globally. This is despite the fact that over 8,000 ingredients are proven safe and widely available for commercial application. Find out more about cosmetics testing and what's happening in New Zealand.
You will be pleased to know there are hundreds of products available in New Zealand that are not tested on animals. Even better, they are probably already at the places you usually shop – your local supermarket, pharmacy, department store and online!
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If you're looking for an off-the-beaten-path escape, where days are long and languid and the pace is slow and calm, head to Bocas del Toro, a province of Panama. Close to the Costa Rican border, this island archipelago consists of six forested isles, remote islets and Panama's oldest marine park. The local culture is evident at every turn, making a holiday rental here even more appealing – you'll immediately feel a part of the community in this peaceful haven. The big city atmosphere is left far behind – instead of hassling for taxis and enduring a long ride from the airport into town, you'll feel like you're on holiday the moment you step foot in the islands.
From verdant rain forests to sunny beaches, crystal-clear coral reefs to mangrove islets, Ngobe Indian villages to bird sanctuaries, Bocas del Toro is abundant in its outdoor activities. Active travelers will want to search for the 1,300 types of birds who live and transit through this region, including parrots, hummingbirds and pelicans. Snorkel right from the beach of your waterfront rental. Take a guided jungle walk. Hop into a sea kayak (many holiday rentals even provide watersports equipment) and tour the coastline or paddle out to Bird Island. SCUBA divers and adventurous snorkelers will want to venture out to The Garden, Mangrove Point, Boca del Drago or the Zapatillas Keys, in the Bastimentos Island National Marine Park. Or, consider renting a boat and zipping around the turquoise waters to Admirald Bay, Colon Island, Cristobal village and Carenero Key.
The holiday rental opportunities in Bocas del Toro are tailor-made for families and groups of all sizes, with all the amenities you could wish for and a private atmosphere. Choose a sprawling residence with generously sized bedroom suites, remarkable water views, air conditioning, luxurious rainwater showers and direct beach access. Apartment rentals are available close to town, making it a nice balance of local life and beach life. Some cottage rentals are built right over the water, giving a decidedly romantic and exotic taste to your holiday. Feeling flush? Private island rentals are available, where you'll be catered to from the moment you arrive; meals are even prepared by a full-time staff and provisions are provided from Bocas Town.


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Watch the First Trailer for 'Home,' Featuring Rihanna [VIDEO]by Maggie Malach | PopCrush
Rihanna continues to surprise us with both her bold fashion choices and her career ventures. The singer's latest project? Voicing an animated character!
According to Variety, Rihanna will star alongside Jim Parsons of 'The Big Bang Theory' in DreamWorks' upcoming animated feature, 'Home.' In the movie, RiRi will voice Tip, a teenage girl who teams up with an alien named Oh (Parsons) to save the world.
If that's not enough star power for you, then you're in luck! Jennifer Lopez will be voicing Tip's mom. Excited? Of course you are! The movie doesn't hit theaters until March 27, 2015, but you can check out the first 'Home' trailer right here.
Rihanna first gave fans a sneak peek of the movie when she shared a pic of herself and Jim Parsons in the recording studio. She even tweeted about the movie, joking that it will be appropriate for fans of all ages.
Had a blast today! So weird recording for animation, but I get to keep my accent! AND it's PG, which mom should be happy about! Brrrap!!
— Rihanna (@rihanna) December 15, 2012
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NEW YORK — Travel guidebook writers Arthur Frommer and his daughter Pauline will resume publishing books this fall in a new partnership with Publishers Group West, part of The Perseus Books Group, Perseus announced Monday.
FrommerMedia will launch with 20 titles in a new series, "EasyGuides," and 10 revised and updated new editions from the Frommers' "Day-by-Day" series, previously published by Wiley.
The books will be published in paper and as e-books in October, November and December.
The company plans to have 80 titles in print by the end of 2014.
The development is just the latest twist for the Frommer guidebook brand, which Wiley sold to Google (GOOG) in 2012. Arthur Frommer reacquired the brand at age 83 in April.


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UEFA approves Nations League
UEFA has approved the new Nations League tournament which will replace most international friendlies from 2018, the governing body has announced.
The new tournament, which will feature promotion and relegation and will allow an extra chance to qualify for European Championships, received unanimous support from UEFA's 54 member associations.
"We accept and respect that all UEFA member associations have agreed to create a new competition," said Wolfgang Niersbach, chairman of UEFA's national teams competition committee.
"This is a big step for national teams in Europe and we hope that fans will support the new format."
UEFA said the key driver behind the Nations League is "sporting integrity", saying there is an increasing feeling in the game that international friendlies do not provide adequate competition.
The governing body also believes the new tournament will help improve the quality and standing of international football, as it will allow all nations to play competitively at their level.
UEFA explained in a statement: " The Nations League and the Euro qualifiers will be linked, with the new competition allowing an extra chance to qualify for Euro final tournaments.
"The competition and proposed amended qualifying formats for the European qualifiers, starting with Euro 2020, came after a thorough consultation process with UEFA's member associations, which began in 2011."
The exact format of the Nations League has yet to be finalised and will be the subject of further discussions between the associations, but the concept is for the 54 national teams to be divided into four large divisions according to coefficient rankings.
The statement continued: " Prior to Euro 2020, each division will be sub-divided into four pools of three or four teams, so each team plays four to six matches between September and November 2018.
"The final four competition, involving the four pool group-winners of group A, will start in 2019, whereas play-offs for the Euros will then take place in March 2020.
"National teams will thus either be competing to become Nations League champions, or be fighting for promotion and to avoid relegation in their groups, as well as to qualify for Euro play-offs."
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After years of general officers arguing for a more robust helicopter to provide security for nuclear missile fields in the U.S., the Air Force Global Strike Command chief says he has shelved a plan to replace aging Bell UH-1Ns for now.
With the funding crunch in Washington, Lt. Gen. James Kowalski has "no expectation of a new helicopter in the next few years." The UH-1Ns are being used to transport security crews in support of nuclear weapons in U.S. missile silos. At issue, however, is that they carry too few people, too little weight and lack the necessary range.
Kowalski says it is a "common malady" at the Pentagon to "lack discipline of execution" on finishing projects "before we are distracted by the next shiny object." He spoke at a Defense Writers' Group breakfast in Washington Feb. 6.
This reprioritization is one of many examples in recent weeks of planned belt tightening at the Pentagon owing to a series of cuts offered by former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, the ongoing funding of operations at fiscal 2012 levels under a continuing resolution, and the threat of another budget cut if sequestration takes effect next month.
"This is the sort of shiny object discussion,c Kowalski said of a new helicopter, despite the shortcomings of the UH-1N. Two years ago, Kowalski said the Air Force was considering bypassing a competition for what was then known as the Common Vertical Lift Support Program (CVLSP), an effort to replace the missile support helicopters as well as the Hueys used for executive lift missions from Andrews AFB, Md. That plan fell flat with Congress.
Since then, however, the service has selected Sikorsky to provide a modified H-60 for the Combat Rescue Helicopter (CRH) program, which is designed to replace aging HH-60Gs. Kowalski said his command is monitoring that program and looking at whether the missile support helo effort can "follow on" to the CRH buy.
His current focus, however, is to maintain the Hueys and incrementally improve their capability where feasible. An example would be the addition of proper night-vision-capable cockpits, which he says can be added at low cost to improve the ability to respond to an emergency on the missile field at night.
Kowalski also says that the fleet can provide more capability with little investment by allowing operators to apply lessons on battlespace awareness and information sharing that have been learned by crews supporting operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Meanwhile, Kowalski also says he is "comfortable at where we are at today … with the weapons we have currently in the pipeline" for the complicated task of destroying buried targets, such as nuclear and chemical weapons facilities in Iran and North Korea." The premier capability for this mission is a B-2 outfitted with the Massive Ordnance Penetrator; Kowalski says inventory is sufficient and the fleet is combat ready.


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In Review - Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
Pete Seeger has been making music for 80 years. It should be impossible to do that justice in 90 minutes, but "Pete Seeger: The Power of Song" does it. This tightly packed, but graceful, documentary tells the story through the voices of musicians, friends, family, and the man himself, along with a rich helping of music.
Seeger's story is full of subplots, all covered here: hoboing with Woody Guthrie, stardom with The Weavers, blacklisting and contempt of Congress, the civil rights movement, Vietnam War activism, Hudson River cleanup, and elder statesman of the folk movement.
But the overarching theme is his unique approach to music. For Seeger, music is a tool to bring people together, and that, as much as the singing, is the point. As we see him leaving the stage of Carnegie Hall at the end of a concert when he was 84, he says in voiceover, "I've never sung anywhere without giving the people listening to me a chance to join in. As a kid, as a lefty, as a man touring the U.S.A. and the world, as an oldster. I guess it's kind of a religion with me. Participation. That's what's going to save the human race."
What comes through most clearly is Seeger's belief in his cause, his optimism, and his joy in living. There is no trace of bitterness as he recalls the years when his blacklisting was so complete that he "traveled from college to college to college" playing for whatever crowds would come to sing with him. His son asks whether he was afraid of going to jail. Seeger replies, "I'm probably very stupid, but I was not fearful. I really believed, and I think I was right, that in the long run, this country doesn't go in for things like that."
As the film explores the story of the sloop Clearwater and the rehabilitation of the Hudson River, Seeger says, "We've all got to be involved in trying to put this world together. I think if the world is put together, it isn't going to be done by big organizations. It's going to be done by millions upon millions of little organizations, often local."
Watching this moving demonstration of the power of music and personal dedication leaves you believing it can be done.
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Code Clusters is a fond look back at some of the most interesting and outlandish Code violations published in the pages of EC&M magazine over the past 15 years — the item below is the eighth in a series of 10. Questions? Comments? We'd love to hear your feedback! Post your thoughts in the box below.
Master plumber finds leak in electrical conduit
All references are based on the 1999 edition of the NEC.
An electrical system chief of construction took this photo during the electrical construction phase in a school addition. Both the plumbing and electrical system branch circuit raceway were installed in the same area for this drinking water cooler. The electrician drilled through the wall and installed some reduced wall aluminum ½-in. flexible metal conduit to supply a 125V, 20A rated receptacle on the other side for supply to the equipment. This situation went undetected for quite some time.
After numerous complaints by workers who found puddles of frozen water in the unheated hallway during construction, the plumber broke open the wall and discovered the annoying leak was caused by this huge hole in the drinking water cooler's nonmetallic plumbing system. This is a very unusual situation caused by human error. However, the electrician who drilled the hole may have encountered a serious electrocution hazard if the drill bit penetrated an energized circuit conductor in the metal raceway.
Many electrical inspectors have called for or added an ordinance to create a specific rule to require a ground fault circuit interrupter be installed to protect a "drinking water fountain."
Sec. 680-1 (FPN) in the '96 NEC indicates the term "pool" is not intended to include drinking water fountains.
The '99 NEC deleted the FPN and now defines a "fountain" under Sec. 680-4, "As used in this article, the term includes fountains, ornamental pools, display pools, and reflection pools." It does not include "drinking fountains."
Question: Was there a reason for deleting the word "water"? This raises an interesting point because the '99 NEC includes rules that address "drinking water coolers." See Secs. 440-3(c); 440-13; and 440-22(b), Exception No. 2.
I could not find any other reference in the NEC that mentions a "drinking fountain." I believe a proposal for the 2002 NEC is in order to change the term to "drinking water cooler." So now what should we do? I would start calling for GFCI protection for "drinking water coolers!"


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Phnom Penh Now
After the horrors of the Khmer Rouge, a nation and its people respectfully move on. Ian Buruma finds new stories and ancient beauty in the city and beyond.
When the inveterate 19th-century French traveler Xavier Brau de Saint-Pol Lias first saw Phnom Penh, he declared it to be unlike any other place he had ever been: the red-tiled roofs; the white and gold-leafed temple domes; the Phnom pagoda, constructed by a wealthy woman named Penh as a tomb for her husband; the houses on stilts; and the boats bobbing up and down at the confluence of the Mekong, Bassac, and Tonle Sap rivers. What a splendid port this inland city might be, he wrote, for the entire Mekong Delta, from Siam to Indochina.
But it was only a dream. Many centuries ago, he continued, Cambodia had been the seat of one of the greatest civilizations in human history. Now the region seemed dead, a desolate, impoverished place "ravaged by war and piracy." Yet there was hope, for "a country does not simply die; its inhabitants renew themselves, and the eternally fertile land will give up its treasures to those who know how to possess them."
So the traveler observed in 1885, when Cambodia was ruled by the French. He might as well have been describing the same place in 1985, when the Khmer Rouge, after committing genocide on its own people, were still terrorizing the areas near the borders of Thailand, and Phnom Penh had barely been repopulated after being reduced to a ghost town in 1975. At that time, all the city dwellers were forced to march to remote country areas, where they were made slave laborers, and around 2 million people, more than 20 percent of the entire population, were murdered or left to die of starvation. One of the few remaining functioning buildings in the city during the terrible years between 1975 and 1979 was a school that had been turned into a torture center, whose name, Tuol Sleng, still makes Cambodians shiver. Of the approximately 14,000 known inmates, fewer than 12 survived.
Since I have a morbid curiosity about such things, I tried to find traces of the city's recent past as soon as I arrived by plane from Bangkok. The old French colonial–era Hotel Le Royal, where I put up, is on the corner of Monivong Boulevard, along which the Khmer Rouge soldiers, in raggedy black uniforms, mostly peasants and many of them teenagers, entered the city with their mouths agape. The buildings, the stores: they had never seen such urban splendor. A 10-minute walk from the hotel is the wall of the former French Embassy, where more than 800 petrified foreigners were holed up for a month before they were allowed to leave the country. I stared at the spot where French diplomats, forced to hand over the Cambodians who had sought refuge there, did so knowing that they would probably be killed. I tried to imagine the terror that had once hung over this place. But of course it is unimaginable. Monivong Boulevard is now crowded with young people on scooters and motorbikes and lined with hotels and fine restaurants—French, Japanese, Vietnamese, Chinese, and Cambodian. The French Embassy is just an embassy again, and Hotel Le Royal, restored by Raffles International, is one of the most elegant places to stay in Southeast Asia. The city's population now stands at close to 1.39 million.
On the surface, then, all looks normal in Phnom Penh. At the Russian Market you can buy almost anything, from 12th-century ceramics (if you're very lucky) to a bowl of noodles with chiles and frog's legs. A five-minute taxi ride away from the Russian Market is another, the Central Market. One of the architectural sights of the city, Central Market has a beautiful 1935 Art Deco dome in what's known as "colonial yellow," vaguely modeled after one of the temples near Angkor Wat. Inside, a hive of traders peddles jewelry, clothes, flowers, tropical fruits, vegetables, electronic goods, and more. And the National Museum, next to the Royal Palace, has been restored to a better-kept treasure trove of Buddhist and Hindu sculptures than its shabbier Thai counterpart in Bangkok. Some of the finest freestanding Khmer sculptures from Angkor Wat can be seen there, as well as an eight-armed Vishnu from the seventh century and a ninth-century statue of Shiva, the Destroyer of Evil.
Although they're not quite as raunchy (at least not openly so) as some of the entertainment areas in Bangkok, Phnom Penh also has plenty of places that offer massages, ranging from a pedestrian foot-massage to a more exotic menu. Poverty has boosted a sex industry that was at its height in the 1990's, when the city teemed with UN officials trying to bring some security to a still-fragile society. But even now, as a young British entrepreneur put it to me with brutal frankness, "most people come here to get laid." As he spoke, I spotted a motorized rickshaw with an advertisement written on the back, trumpeting what are presumably the city's three chief attractions: royal palace, killing fields, shooting range. Sex, mass murder, and gun sport, a winning combination.
Many of the bars and restaurants in Phnom Penh bear French colonial–sounding names like Le Deauville or La Croisette, but also more Anglo-Saxon ones like the Hope & Anchor and the Jungle Bar. Instead of men in white linen suits and pith helmets, the typical foreign clientele in these places nowadays adopts a style that might be called Lonely Planet chic: women in Tibetan ankle bracelets and men in ponytails and Indian shirts. The most popular hangout in the evenings is the Sisowath Quay, on the Tonle Sap River, near the National Museum and the Royal Palace (built in 1917 and 1866, respectively, along the same "traditional" lines—with elegant spires, golden roofs, and eaves held up by mythical figures—that were favored at the time by French administrators). One of the more pleasant places to eat on the Quay is the Foreign Correspondents' Club (FCC), a lovely colonial-style building that is neither a club nor a place to find many foreign correspondents. But the service is friendly and the food, Western with a smattering of more local fare, is excellent.
While the tourists sip their drinks at the FCC and other waterfront bars, Cambodians sit in the grass by the river, fanning themselves, loosening their shirts—anything to feel the river breeze as the humid heat stubbornly refuses to relent, even in the late fall. Families picnic in the gloaming. Couples kiss and cuddle in the shadows. Others have their fortunes told by dubious-looking characters installed in front of a shrine enveloped by clouds of sweet incense. Teenagers drink beer and soft drinks and casually toss the empty cans into the lazy river current.
A typical Southeast Asian city, then. And yet, there is a melancholy about the place that still speaks of recent horrors. Phnom Penh is a city of survivors. Everyone has a story. A journalist I spoke to over a cup of coffee told me about his family's forced evacuation, when they were stuck in his father's car on Monivong Boulevard in a sea of human traffic. A young boy at the time, he would never forget the sight of a terrified woman on foot, who offered all of her money and jewelry to his father if only he would let her into the car. The car soon had to be abandoned anyway, and money would be useless in the slave labor camps. He remembers the bloodstained clothes that came back on the empty trucks that had taken away fellow citizens in the morning. Only dumb luck stopped his family from sharing their fate.
I had an introduction to Youk Chhang, director of the Documentation Center of Cambodia, which collects documentary evidence of the Khmer Rouge years, not just for the historical record, but to help surviving victims seek legal redress. Chhang is a handsome man who, after the fall of the Khmer Rouge, studied in the United States and worked for the city of Dallas. I met him in his office, which used to be part of a grand family house, whose owners never returned from the carnage. There are many such houses, now used as offices or restaurants. We talked about the difficulties in getting reliable witnesses; some were too frightened to speak, others wanted compensation. Most of the perpetrators, prison guards and the like, were very poor.
Chhang and his family survived because they were helped by their maid, a poor village woman whom Chhang had treated brattishly as a child, but who loyally shielded her former employers after she had joined the Khmer Rouge. Chhang smiled as he told me this story. I asked him, Did many people still speak of the past?He replied that children born since the 1970's often resented it when their parents told them about their suffering: "They feel that it is used to pick on them." And yet the subject cannot be avoided.
The Hungry Ghost festival, in the fall, is one of the most important holidays in the Cambodian calendar. People leave food and drink at their local pagodas to feed the spirits of their deceased relatives. If there is not enough food or water, the spirits will curse those still alive. "Most of the spirits belong to people who died under the Khmer Rouge," Chhang said. "When people remember starvation, they get very emotional, more so than when they recall torture or even murder. That is why this festival is such an emotional occasion."
He smiled again. And then he told me something even more chilling. On festival days, he said, Phnom Penh is half empty, almost like it was in the 1970's. The majority of people return to their native villages. The citizens who lived in Phnom Penh before the onslaught of the Khmer Rouge are almost all dead.
When his project is finished, Chhang may go back to the United States. Phnom Penh, to him, no longer feels like home.
Unlike the Chinese Red Guard during the Cultural Revolution, the Khmer Rouge did not actually destroy many buildings. Far more have been pulled down by developers in recent years than by the revolutionaries of the 1970's. Some of the most interesting architecture in Phnom Penh, apart from several fine colonial buildings, was built in the 1950's and 1960's in a kind of tropical-Modernist style known as New Khmer Architecture. The clean, unadorned lines of Bauhaus-type design were adapted to the Southeast Asian heat. Vann Molyvann's National Theater, for example, is a masterpiece of this era—an airy gem in concrete and brick. It caught fire, alas, in 1994, but there has been no effort to rebuild, and developers are poised to tear it down. The new Cambodian elite is more interested in copying the grandiose style of contemporary China: big shiny buildings done up with lots of glass and marble, sometimes topped with quasi-traditional roofs.
I was told about Molyvann by a remarkable couple, John Shapiro and Sophiline Cheam Shapiro, who live in a village just outside the city. He is an American; she is Cambodian, and a classical dancer. Up to 90 percent of the country's classical dancers died in the 1970's, since the Khmer Rouge associated their art with the ancien régime. Sophiline was one of the few survivors. Across the road from the Shapiros' house is an open-air theater with a backdrop in the shape of an Angkor temple. It was built by the former culture minister, a man of great refinement, who evaded the Khmer Rouge by posing as a cowherd.
Sophiline studied in both Cambodia and the United States after the Khmer Rouge fell from power but returned with her husband to help keep her art alive. We watched her put about two dozen young women in classical costumes through their paces, adopting dance poses that reminded me of both Khmer sculptures and Thai boxers—balanced on one knee, for example, while lifting the other ankle, and similar impossibly graceful movements. They were rehearsing a Cambodian dance, but it had been inspired by Mozart's The Magic Flute. While his wife was rehearsing, I asked John about the state of traditional culture. It had been liveliest in the 1980's, he said, when people were thirsting for a return to beauty and tradition. Dancers would perform in villages, where some people mistook them for divine apparitions, having "never seen anything so beautiful before." On some nights, unknown to the dancers, rogue Khmer Rouge soldiers would come down from their mountain hideouts intending to kill the intruders but become so entranced by the performances that they abandoned their missions.
Now that people have television, however, and DVD's, and karaoke, it is a lot harder to hold on to tradition. To make a living, dancers have to perform in hotels for the tourists, or at official functions for rich politicians, where they are little more than exotic ornaments, part of the opulent décor, like the faux-classical roofs on the flashy postmodern skyscrapers. On some occasions they are not even required to dance, just to pose with trays of party favors. "The problem," John said, "is no longer how to recover from the past, but how to recover from the present."
It is an all-too-common story, of course. The same thing has happened in many parts of the world. Traditional culture is for the poor, who know nothing else, or for the cultivated rich, but it is not to the taste of the newly prosperous. That even those working in textile factories or selling souvenirs to tourists can afford a pirated DVD with the latest movie starring Brad Pitt is progress of a kind. It would be patronizing to deplore such access to the wider world. But I am filled with great admiration for Sophiline and her dancers, struggling against the odds.
I asked our driver, a rather dour man named Vessna, what he thought of the classical dancers. He was born in a village but had moved to the city with his wife, who worked in one of the textile factories along the road to the international airport. He liked the dances well enough, he said, but he preferred more modern entertainments, such as television and MTV. Vessna was a man of few words. He had learned English in the 1990's in order to drive UN personnel around town. When he did speak, he came to the point quickly.
We drove to Tuol Sleng, the former torture prison, now a museum. Vessna had been there countless times but never wanted to go inside. It is located in a posh neighborhood, in what had once been a good high school. Outside the prison, still fortified with barbed wire fences, are several guesthouses and cafés with that Lonely Planet vibe: Eric Clapton songs, fresh fruit juices, silks in time-honored designs. I saw expensive-looking houses behind gold-painted gates. "Government officials," Vessna said. Then, after a short pause: "Many were in the Khmer Rouge before."
The architecture of Tuol Sleng is sober but not unpleasant, an example of the Modernist optimism of the 1960's: four three-story white concrete buildings with balconies, set around a spacious garden with palm trees, plants, and an exercise bar. The old schoolrooms are bare, with brown-and-white checkered floors. Some of the rooms on the third floor were divided into tiny brick cells, not high enough to stand up or wide enough to lie down in. Inside the bare schoolrooms are steel bed frames, rusted around the edges, and enough bolts for shackling several people at a time by their feet. Various instruments of torture are exhibited in these cells: pliers, whips, manacles, hammers, water tanks. On the walls are photographs of corpses, some barely recognizable as human. There are also paintings by the Cambodian artist Vann Nath, showing scenes of torture and killings. These were painted from memory. After being tortured to the brink of death, he was put to work on portraits of Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge leader. His artistic skills were the only reason he survived.
Despite all the photos and grisly exhibits, the mind is unable to conceive what it must have been like to have been a prisoner in Tuol Sleng, being forced to make detailed confessions that corresponded with the paranoid visions of the jailers before being killed. The most haunting images are not the torture pictures, but those of the victims' faces, like passport photographs from hell. Most of the people put before the camera, and subsequently killed, had themselves been in the Khmer Rouge and fallen victim to one of the periodic purges. Many were young, a few of them children, like the vicious guards who were barely 15. Most look numb with terror. Some Khmer Rouge peasant cadres, who had been suddenly accused of spying for the CIA, just look bewildered. And others smile, perhaps to ingratiate themselves, to buy time, or perhaps as a vestigial reflex, smiling for the camera.
As at many of these atrocity sites, tourists go in giggling, or chatting about last night's barhopping adventures. They take souvenir photos of each other. And so on. But by the end of their time there, silence prevails. Even the unimaginable can be difficult to bear. I was certainly not in the mood for visiting a shooting range or a massage parlor. So I went to the Russian Market and bought myself a plain, beautiful bowl with an earthy light-green glaze. It was probably not more than a few hundred years old, if that—not a rare find in this ancient land. But it expressed a human sensibility far removed from bloodlust or fanaticism. In its simplicity it offered comfort.
Even though the Khmer Rouge left most of the buildings in Phnom Penh intact, there were other places that were destroyed in a kind of class rage. There is a seaside resort, a few hours' drive from the capital, very close to the Vietnamese border, called Krong Kep. From the early 1900's through the 1960's it was where the Phnom Penh elite, including the royal family, built their holiday retreats, often in interesting modern designs. The main attractions are the empty beach, the beautiful sunsets, and, above all, the juicy crabs plucked straight from bamboo traps in the surf and prepared for picnic lunches. Kep was not left untouched by the Khmer Rouge—who maintained control of the resort town well into the 1990's—after they had wrecked the holiday homes.
I decided I wanted to see this place. So Vessna drove me out there one morning, past the textile factories, through many villages, past emerald-green rice fields dotted with white bullocks, past temples and spirit shrines, past a river where farmers bathed their horses, until we reached the hills beyond which lay the Gulf of Thailand. "Khmer Rouge," said Vessna, pointing at the densely wooded hills, "Khmer Rouge were all around here."
There is a pretty hotel in the hills overlooking the sea called the Veranda Natural Resort, where you can stay in a thatched-roof villa. Nearer the coast, once you enter Kep, you see the concrete shells of Bauhaus and Art Deco houses. Some are more ruined than others, but altogether they leave the impression of a Modernist ghost town—except that the ruins are all inhabited. Inside the shells live peasant families, with tethered goats, people cooking food, and children sleeping in the shade. A small urban enclave has been reclaimed by rural Cambodia. But reflecting on this sight, as I ate my lunch of fresh grilled crab (for a few U.S. dollars) at one of the little restaurants built on the beach, I did not find it depressing. The image was no longer one of violence, but of human survival and renewal. I thought of Xavier Brau de Saint-Pol Lias, the French traveler. He was right: countries don't die, they keep on being reborn.
Getting There There are no direct flights to the Phnom Penh International Airport from the United States. Your best bet is to fly on Thai Airways via Bangkok or on Singapore Airlines via Singapore. Visas are required; obtain them at a local consulate or the airport—and bring a passport-size photo.
When to Go The best time to visit is from November to February, when Phnom Penh has temperatures between 80 degrees and 95 degrees.
Where to Stay
Beach House Kep Beach, Krong Kep; 855-12/240-090; thebeach housekep.com; doubles from $30.
Raffles Hotel Le Royal The French restaurant here is as fine as the restored hotel. 92 Rukhak Vithei Daun Penh, off Monivong Blvd.; 855-23/981-888; phnompenh.raffles.com; doubles from $320.
Veranda Natural Resort A peaceful coastal hideaway with thatched-roof villas. Kep Mountain Hillside Rd., Krong Kep; 855-92/948-093; veranda-resort.com; doubles from $20.
Where to Eat
Foreign Correspondents' Club 363 Sisowath Quay; 855-23/724-014; dinner for two $27.
Le Nouveau Pho de Paris A reliable choice for Sino-Vietnamese food. 26 Monivong Blvd.; 855-23/723-076; dinner for two $16.
Romdeng Restaurant This Cambodian restaurant has excellent local cuisine. It's staffed by former street kids and is run as a charity. 21 St. 278; 855-92/219-565; dinner for two $20.
What to Do
Central Market Corner of Sts. 67 and 136.
Documentation Center of Cambodia 66 Sihanouk Blvd.; 855-23/211-875; dccam.org.
National Museum Corner of Sts. 178 and 13; 855-23/211-753.
National Theater Sisowath Quay and Sihanouk Blvd.
Royal Palace Samdech Sothearos Blvd., between Sts. 184 and 240.
Russian Market Corner of Sts. 163 and 444, south of Mao Tse Toung Blvd.
Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum Corner of Sts. 113 and 350; 855-23/216-045.
Wat Phnom (Phnom pagoda) The ancient tomb, atop the only hill in town. Corner of St. 96 and Norodom Blvd.


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Ken Griffey Jr. and Babe Ruth were different men from different era's but share a few things,one of which is the date they chose to retire : June 2nd. Babe Ruth considered to be the greatest player of all-time retired on June 2,1935 and Ken Griffey Jr. The "Yankee Killer" retired on June 2nd 2010, 75 years apart both at the age of 40. Babe Ruth is credited with saving the game of baseball after the "Black Sox scandal" and Griffey is credited with saving baseball in Seattle. Both men had a presence at the plate and in the eyes of the nation that cannot be measured in statistics alone, though with 714 and 630 home runs respectively the numbers were awesome. I never got to see Babe Ruth play but my Grandfather Gordon Dusty Rhodes played with Ruth from 1929-32 while he was with the Yankees which is how I obtained this original photo of the "Babe"
I did however get to see Ken Griffey Jr. in action many times both at the old Kingdome and at Safeco field. Both of these players were and will always remain bigger than life and represent the timeless game of baseball in the minds and hearts of fans across the nation and world. Griffey played the outfield with a lot more ability and daring than Ruth, but Ruth also was an excellent pitcher when he started out with the Boston Red Sox.
Both men are legends who specialized in a flair for the dramatic, First Ruth with his famous home run in the 1932 World Series against Chicago where he pointed to centerfield then hit a home run to the spot he pointed to. Griffey of course will be best known for the five home runs he hit against the same Yankees in the 1995 division play-offs, capped off by his mad dash from first to score the winning run in game five of that series.
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